code/transformercode/news_data/data/json/dev_clean_aligned.json

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    [
        "Some analysts argue that the negative effects of such an outcome would only last for “months.”",
        "某些分析家认为军事行动的负面效果只会持续短短“几个月”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed apparently could not stomach the sell-off in global financial markets in January and February, which was driven largely by concerns about further tightening.",
        "美联储显然无法消化1月和2月的全球金融市场抛售，而这一抛售潮主要是因为对美联储进一步紧缩的担忧导致的。"
    ],
    [
        "Renewing the South Korean Miracle",
        "再造韩国奇迹"
    ],
    [
        "He had no doubt about which vision would win out: “Yearly one nation after another would drop into the union which best suited it; and looking to the commercial activity of the Teutonic races, and the comparative torpor of the Latin races, no doubt the Teutonic money would be most frequently preferred.”",
        "他对哪种货币会胜出坚信不疑：“假以时日，一个有一个国家会进入最适合它的联盟； 看看条顿竞赛中的商业活动，再看看拉丁竞赛中的死气沉沉，毫无疑问条顿货币将是最受欢迎的。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, however, the US military is more likely to be used to stabilize and rebuild failed states, assist partners in countering insurgency and terrorism, control nuclear weapons when regimes collapse, or directly eradicate terrorist organizations and their supporters.",
        "但现在，美国的军力更可能会被用来稳定和重建战败国，帮助伙伴国对抗叛乱和恐怖主义，在政权崩溃时控制核武器，或直接铲除恐怖组织及其支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "With each approach, Palestinian leaders, believing Arab states’ hollow proclamations of solidarity with their cause, have failed to measure accurately their own powers vis-à-vis the Israelis.",
        "在运用一个策略的时候，由于相信阿拉伯国家对它们事业团结一致的空洞的宣言，巴勒斯坦领导人没能准确的判断他们在面对以色列时的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is adjusting structurally and generating real (inflation-adjusted) GDP growth (though well below its potential annual rate of 3-3.5%).",
        "美国在经历结构性调整，真实（经通胀调整的）GDP处于正增长（尽管显著低于3—3. 5%的潜在年增长率）。"
    ],
    [
        "More than half of this amount was already emitted by 2011.",
        "到2011年，我们已经排放了一大半的碳量。"
    ],
    [
        "But it should do this fully only once the economy has completely recovered.",
        "但这只能在经济完全复苏的情况下实行。"
    ],
    [
        "Changing much-cherished bank-secrecy laws is worth the effort.",
        "改革顽固的银行保密法也值得尝试。"
    ],
    [
        "This will not only delay the restoration of economic growth, but will also have dire political consequences.",
        "而这不仅会延缓经济增长恢复的时间，还会产生可怕的政治后果。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to dilute the global impact of local politicians pursuing non‑energy agendas, or simply their own limited interests.",
        "削弱追求能源以外、或者自身狭隘目的的地方政治所产生的全球影响是非常重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, despite the low returns on foreign assets, this is not yet a major problem for China, owing to the low costs of the corresponding PBOC liabilities.",
        "幸运的是，尽管国外资产的回报较低，但由于对应的中国人民银行借贷成本也不高，所以对中国来说还不算是个重大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "She says that the snow and ice have been melting. She knows what our researcher means by “global warming.”",
        "她说山上的冰雪都在融化，所以她能够理解我们所说的“全球变暖”。"
    ],
    [
        "As Saudi officials have observed, Iranian militias fighting the Islamic State in predominantly Sunni regions north and west of Baghdad hope to reinforce their country’s control over Iraq.",
        "沙特官员观察到，在以逊尼派为主题的北部和巴格达以西为伊斯兰国战斗的伊朗民间武装希望加强伊朗对伊拉克的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "This points to the problem of forging goals through consensus: they can end up being a wish list for everything short of heaven on Earth.",
        "这就引出了通过共识制定目标的问题：到头来，这些目标就成了一份建设人间天堂的清单。"
    ],
    [
        "We are more connected than at any point in human history, and more and more people come into contact with those who are different from them.",
        "如今，我们比人类历史上任何一个时候互相联系都要紧密，并且越来越多的人和与他们不同的人发生了联系。"
    ],
    [
        "And foreign governments, including that of the United States, are averting their eyes.",
        "而包括美国在内的外国政府也对暴力行为视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "It needs organized state-building in Tripoli – and realistic policymaking in Western capitals.",
        "利比亚需要有组织的建国计划，西方各国也要拿出现实的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Making prices “just” nullifies this function, leaving the economy in perpetual shortage.",
        "让价格“公平”会导致这一功能丧失，让经济陷入持续短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "Little in China today speaks of moderation.",
        "今天的中国很少谈及“克制”二字。"
    ],
    [
        "The irony, of course, was that most of the 15 old member states had refused to give the new members full and immediate access to the Western job markets.",
        "当然，具有讽刺意味的是：欧盟15个老成员国中的绝大多数都拒绝让新成员国立即全面地进入西欧劳务市场。"
    ],
    [
        "A second important feature of the drafting process was the extent to which the National Assembly complied with the requirements of Iraq’s interim constitution, the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL).",
        "宪法起草进程的第二个重要特征是国民会议遵守伊拉克过渡宪法即过渡行政法要求的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as the possibility of Brexit was initially dismissed, few political elites, Republican and Democratic alike, took seriously Trump’s bid for the Republican nomination.",
        "正如英国退出的可能性在一开始没有引起重视，美国共和党和民主党的政治精英们也极少有人从一开始就认真对待特朗普要争取共和党提名的企图。"
    ],
    [
        "That means helping countries to assess their trade-facilitation needs on a case-by-case basis, match those needs with the resources required, and broker partnerships between recipient countries and development allies to ensure that support is provided quickly and efficiently.",
        "这意味着帮助它们根据具体情况进行贸易便利需求分析，将需求和要求的资源匹配起来，并协调受助国和开发协议国之间的伙伴关系，以保证援助能够快速高效地获得。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest ceasefire agreement, concluded in Minsk in February, has contained, but not stopped, Russian military aggression.",
        "2月达成的最新的明斯克停火协议遏制但并未停止俄罗斯的入侵行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact has become impossible to ignore.",
        "所造成的影响是无法忽略的。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, key European states remain just as captured by financial interests as the American state ever was.",
        "换句话说，重要欧洲国家仍与美国一样被金融利益所俘虏。"
    ],
    [
        "And the budget deficit has reached 7% of GDP.",
        "而预算赤字已经达到GDP的7%。"
    ],
    [
        "The winning approach, from Elastec American Marine, was three times as efficient as the industry’s previous best rate.",
        "获胜方案来自Elastec American Marine公司，其效率是此前石油业最佳水平的三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher and pro-cyclical equity-capital requirements on banks, combined with a requirement to raise contingent long-term debt – debt that converts into equity in a crisis – is a better way forward.",
        "对银行的更高和顺周期的股权资本的要求，以及后备长期债券的要求 —— 在危机发生时债权将转换为股权 —— 就是一个更好的解决方式。"
    ],
    [
        "A majority of Americans already recognize that the tax law is deeply flawed and full of false promises.",
        "大多数美国人已经认识到该税法存在缺陷且充满虚假的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "But, having gone too far in deregulating markets, we must resist a natural tendency to overcompensate.",
        "但是，我们不能因此矫枉过正，对金融市场的过分监管是不可取的。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, such an option has been around for years – and in several rounds of negotiations.",
        "事实上，这一选择已经出现了好几年了，谈判也进行了好几轮。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Ukraine Deserves a Haircut",
        "为何乌克兰债券需要减值"
    ],
    [
        "Today, developing countries and emerging markets say to the US and others: If you will not live up to your promises, at least get out of the way and let us create an international architecture for a global economy that works for the poor, too.",
        "如今，发展中国家和新兴市场对美国和其他国家说：如果你不兑现你的承诺，也至少不要碍事，让我们为全球经济建立一套国际制度为穷人服务。"
    ],
    [
        "And in virtually every member state, this political gap – the EU’s so-called democratic deficit – has given rise to populist, Euroskeptical political parties.",
        "实际上在每一个成员国里，这个政治上的差距——也就是欧盟所谓的民主赤字——正是民粹主义和欧洲怀疑论政党兴起的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though employment has increased during Merkel’s tenure, job creation has not succeeded in reducing the low-income segment of the labor market.",
        "而尽管就业率在默克尔执政期间有所增加，但就业岗位创造并没有成功地缩小劳动力市场中的低薪比例。"
    ],
    [
        "Warren has worked hard on financial-sector issues over many years.",
        "沃伦在金融部门上鞠躬尽瘁多年。"
    ],
    [
        "From 2008 to 2013, Gülenists in the police, judiciary, and media concocted a series of fictitious conspiracies and plots against Erdoğan, each more gory than the last.",
        "从2008年到2013年，在警界，司法和媒体的葛兰主义者们炮制了一系列据称针对埃尔多安的虚构阴谋事件，而且描绘得一个比一个更绘声绘色。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond that, the FSB should be given legal capacity through proper incorporation – an institutionally intermediate point between its purely political status now and the extreme of a treaty organization.",
        "然后，金融稳定性委员会应该通过适当的结构获得法律地位——介于其纯粹政治性机构的现状与条约组织的另一个极端之间。"
    ],
    [
        "Where the Obama administration went wrong was in how it bailed out the banking system: it helped banks earn their way out of a hole by purchasing some of their bad assets and supplying them with cheap money.",
        "奥巴马政府错在救援银行体系的方式上。 它所采取的措施是买入银行的一部分不良资产，同时向它们提供低成本资金。"
    ],
    [
        "None of these challenges sits easily with elected politicians.",
        "上述挑战对当选政治家而言都绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "Open, informed discussion of the HIV epidemic, education into HIV prevention, distribution of condoms, and other strategies are the only known way of preventing new infections.",
        "公开和知情的对HIV病毒流行的讨论、预防艾滋病感染的教育、安全套的发放以及其它的战略是目前唯一的已知的预防新的感染的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Hayekians have nothing sensible to contribute.",
        "哈耶克主义者则没有任何有价值的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "Why are they attracted to radical ideas?",
        "他们为什么会接受极端思想？"
    ],
    [
        "Prior to the current crisis, US government revenue was roughly 60% federal and 40% state and local.",
        "危机爆发之前，美国政府收入中约有 60% 流向联邦政府，州和地方政府分得 40% 。"
    ],
    [
        "They claim that it would improve the US trade balance, while boosting domestic production, investment, and employment.",
        "据说它能改善美国的贸易平衡，同时刺激国内生产、投资和就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Indian cities have air pollution that is just as bad – and in some cases far worse.",
        "许多印度城市空气污染与北京差不多，有的甚至远远过之。"
    ],
    [
        "Global turbulence, by contrast, has given the Republicans more room to attack Obama and the Democrats.",
        "相比之下，全球动荡让共和党更有理由攻击民主党和奥巴马总统。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in many ways, Hu Jintao’s tenure as the head of the fourth generation of Communist leaders, which began when he became party secretary in 2002, differs sharply from that of his mentor.",
        "但是，胡锦涛从2002年成为总书记、第四代共产领导人首领以来的所作所为在许多方面与其导师大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "When they do bring it up – to employers, for example – they use apologetic, self-defeating language.",
        "当她们不得不与别人（比如雇主）谈及这个问题时，她们的言词往往会变得笨拙甚至对自己不利。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Modi has not kept his vow of “minimal government, maximum governance”; on the contrary, he has created the most centralized, top-down, bureaucracy-driven, personality-cult-dominated central government since Indira Gandhi’s emergency rule in the mid-1970s.",
        "类似地，莫迪没有兑现其“最小政府、最大治理”的承诺； 相反，他创造了一个自20世纪70年代英迪拉·甘地的紧急状态以来最集中、最自上而下、最官僚主义、最讲裙带关系的中央政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The genocide could not therefore be imputed to Serbia, even if the Serbian government was paying salaries to Mladic and his colleagues, as well as providing them with financial and military assistance.",
        "因此这次种族灭绝并不能归罪于塞尔维亚，即便塞尔维亚政府为马尔维奇和他的同僚们支付薪水，同时也给他们提供财政和军事援助。"
    ],
    [
        "In implementing these policies, both central banks are pursuing domestic objectives mandated by their governing legislation.",
        "实施这些政策的两家央行都是在执政立法机关的授权下追求国内目标。"
    ],
    [
        "All this came in the context of a US economy that continues to be a powerful engine of job creation.",
        "所有这一切都发生在美国经济仍然是强大就业增长引擎的大背景下。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico Breaking Good?",
        "墨西哥状况改善？"
    ],
    [
        "But many voters now feel that mainstream policies have failed.",
        "但如今，许多选民感到主流政策是失败的。"
    ],
    [
        "Without NATO intervention, they probably would have remained second-class citizens within Serbia.",
        "没有北约的干预，他们或许还会是塞尔维亚的二等公民。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, harmful mutations would quickly die out.",
        "因此，有害的基因突变会迅速消亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Officials must be at least as vigilant about reducing expenditure and withdrawing stimulus measures during periods of growth as they are inclined to introduce such policies during downturns.",
        "官员对于在增长时期减支和退出刺激措施的警惕性至少不能亚于在衰退时期引入这些政策。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why America’s entry into the fray was only a matter of time.",
        "因此，美国加入战团只是时间问题。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, we are witnessing the dissolution of the old Middle East created by France and Britain after World War I, when Europe’s two great colonial powers created territorial mandates in Palestine, Syria (including present-day Lebanon), Transjordan, and Iraq.",
        "同时，我们正在见证一战后英法缔造的中东格局的土崩瓦解，当时欧洲这两大殖民强国在巴勒斯坦、叙利亚（包括今天的黎巴嫩）、约旦河外和伊拉克都凭空创造出领土要求。"
    ],
    [
        "But the attacks in Madrid – and in London in July 2005 – showed that Europe is one of their prime targets, prompting European governments to respond by bolstering their defenses, including at the level of the European Union.",
        "但是对马德里的袭击以及2005年7月对伦敦的袭击表明，欧洲是他们的主要目标之一，从而促使欧洲国家政府通过包括在欧盟的层面上加强防备予以应对。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier in the day, we’d witnessed a hundred capuchin and squirrel monkeys rush down from the Amazon jungle canopy and were now relaxing beside Lake Chalalan while her cousin, a shaman, blessed coca leaves as the evening’s traditional drumming and dancing began.",
        "” 那天一早，我们就看见了上百只僧帽猴和松鼠猴从亚马逊遮天蔽日的丛林中一路冲下来，跑到查拉澜湖（Lake Chalalan）边休憩，而那位特迦拿印第安妇女的萨满表姐，在夜幕降临，传统鼓声响起、人们又开始跳舞的时候，虔诚地颂扬着神圣的古柯叶。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet some of Europe’s best-performing countries, such as Sweden and Norway, have the strongest welfare states and labor-market protections.",
        "然而一些欧洲表现最佳的国家（如瑞典和挪威）却拥有最完善的福利国家和劳动力市场保护体制。"
    ],
    [
        "Without this short-time allowance, the average number of unemployed in 2009 would be 300,000 higher than it is now.",
        "如果德国没有这种短期补贴，德国2009年的平均失业人数要比现在的多300,000人。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is not money that America’s poor can spend, so some downward adjustment should be applied.",
        "CBO将这些计划的增加全部计为美国穷人家庭真实税后收入的增长。 但美国穷人无法花这笔钱，因此在计算的时候应该打个折扣。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s success has been driven by cheap exports based on cheap labor, infrastructure built by state enterprises with low-cost bank funding, and government budgets funded by land sales.",
        "中国的成功一直是由基于廉价劳动力的廉价出口、廉价银行资金支持的国有企业建设的基础设施以及土地销售提供资金的政府预算推动的。"
    ],
    [
        "Free trade and free international capital flows go together.",
        "自由贸易和国际资本的自由流动相辅相成。"
    ],
    [
        "Inequality has not fallen; but, contrary to what some critics claim, it has not increased either.",
        "不平等性没有下降，但与一些批评者所宣称的不同，也没有上升。"
    ],
    [
        "The two-thirds decline in aggregate imports from 1929 to 1933 was only partly a result of falling incomes, and hence import demand; retaliatory trade and exchange-rate policies also played a major role in bringing about the global trade collapse.",
        "从1929年到1933年，2/3总进口量的下跌仅是收入和进口需求下降的部分结果； 报复性贸易和汇率政策也对全球贸易崩溃产生了重要影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 400 and 600 grams, it has no further effect, but when it exceeds 600 grams, it acts as a shield against the sun, and slows down melting.",
        "每平方米 400 克至 600 克之间，无明显效应。 高于每平方米 600 克，则仿佛给冰舌盖上了一层抵挡阳光的罩子，从而使融化速度放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "And the security situation in the eastern part of the country is deteriorating.",
        "该国东部的安全局势正在恶化中。"
    ],
    [
        "Reared as part of a human family, he learned to use more than 100 signs from American Sign Language, the language used by Deaf Americans.",
        "在一个人类家庭中养大的尼姆学会了使用100个美式聋哑人手语的手势。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is likely to be a temporary bounce, not the start of a sustained recovery.",
        "这很可能是一个临时性的反弹，而非可持续复苏的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "The economist Barry Eichengreen once explored the imposition of capital levies in the aftermath of World Wars I and II.",
        "经济学家巴里·艾肯格林（Barry Eichengreen）曾探索过两次世界大战后资本税的构成。"
    ],
    [
        "On perception, it fares much worse than Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Greece, while it fares better – or at least not worse – on indicators of actual corruption.",
        "在想像中，腐败形式要比斯洛文尼亚、捷克共和国、匈牙利和希腊糟糕很多。 而在实际腐败指标上，它好很多，至少不会更差。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite controlling the world’s largest gas reserves, Russia’s state-owned monopoly Gazprom is not producing enough for an economy growing at 6% a year.",
        "尽管掌握了世界上最大的天然气储备，俄罗斯的国有垄断企业俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司出产的天然气并不能满足6%的年经济增长的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that the original objective of central banks was not consumer-price stability; consumer-price indices did not even exist when most of them were founded.",
        "事实上，央行的最初目标并非消费物价稳定； 消费物价指数在大部分央行成立时根本不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "As the economist Nicholas Kaldor pointed out long ago, because manufacturing has higher returns to scale than services, manufacturing exporters tend to beat service exporters.",
        "正如经济学家尼古拉斯·卡尔多（Nicholas Kaldor）在很早以前指出的那样，由于制造业比服务业的规模收益更高，制造业出口商往往会比服务出口商表现更佳。"
    ],
    [
        "There is, and they reflect the fact that general economic tendencies will be accompanied by multi-speed dynamics at many levels.",
        "改变的空间是有的，这反映出一个事实：总体经济趋势将伴随多重水平不同速度的动态。"
    ],
    [
        "But Dagan went further, describing the principle of “defensible borders” as a canard that ignores the intentions and capabilities of the party on the other side of the border.",
        "但德甘更进一步，将“有险可守”原则描述为无视边境另一边的意图和能力的务虚原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Two decades ago, the US pressed the Japanese to allow the yen to strengthen against the dollar, claiming that Japan’s unfair exchange-rate policies were responsible for America’s ballooning bilateral trade deficit.",
        "二十年前，美国向日本施压，要求后者允许日元对美元升值，声称日本不公平的汇率政策是美国双边贸易赤字激增的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The dispute over Kashmir had occupied the minds of military planners throughout Pakistan’s history, and war had been the raison d’etre for maintaining the world’s eighth-largest standing army.",
        "在巴基斯坦的整个历史上，克什米尔争端占据了军事规划者们的头脑。 这一战争也是该国维持世界第八大常规部队的初衷。"
    ],
    [
        "So Cline attempts to calculate where the optimal balance might lie, recognizing that to reduce the risk of bank failure to zero might carry irrationally high costs.",
        "因此克莱恩试图在认识到将银行破产风险降低到零可能带来非理性高成本的情况下计算出最佳平衡点在哪里。"
    ],
    [
        "If it did not contribute much to the crisis, keeping risky trading away from commercial banks’ deposit base may still be desirable, but not something that the financial crisis “proved” is necessary.",
        "如果其废除与危机关系不大，那么将高风险交易活动与商业银行的基础存款相隔离也许仍值得一试，但并不是因为金融危机才“证实”了它的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, capital charges should account for the degree of friction and rivalry in the banking sector, with tighter requirements in more competitive contexts.",
        "比如，资本费用应该体现银行部门的摩擦和竞争，竞争性越强的部门，资本要求应该收得越紧。"
    ],
    [
        "Emanating from this new situation is the threat of disintegration of the whole Anglo-French system of states in the Middle East.",
        "这种新情况所放射出的威胁是整个英法国家体系在中东的解体。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the government’s proven capacity to intervene, the default option during a crisis has been to rely on administrative measures rather than on market forces.",
        "鉴于政府历史上显示出的干预市场及社会的能力，危机发生时，中国的上下阶层往往默认应依赖政府措施而非市场力量来应对，而不是容忍市场自身无序的自查自纠。"
    ],
    [
        "The BoE has given an explicit answer, and the other major central banks implicit answers, to that question. They do not think so.",
        "英国央行已经给出明确答复，其他主要中央银行也都回答了这个问题：他们可不这么认为。"
    ],
    [
        "We should keep this in mind as we assess the current US presidential debates, with their constant reference to American decline.",
        "在考察当前美国总统竞选辩论时，我们应该时刻铭记这一点。 当前总统辩论三句话不离美国的衰落。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not a unique situation.",
        "这不是一个特例。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a remarkable outcome, given that the risks have been so well known and understood.",
        "这是一个值得注意的结果，因为风险早已被明白和了解。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Arab interlocutors are unimpressed: they want Europe to stop talking like a Great Power and start acting like one.",
        "而那些参与对欧会谈的阿拉伯人也早就心灰意冷：他们期望欧洲能成为一个行动上的强权，而不仅只是个语言上的巨人。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the EU made a few bureaucratic tweaks to its asylum system and consumed itself with debates about non-issues, such as migrant “welfare cheats.\"",
        "相反，欧盟对其庇护制度做了一些官僚主义修改，讨论一些不痛不痒的问题，比如移民的“福利欺诈”问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The two sides were never in danger of going to war, but Chinese officials allowed nationalist protests to develop into boycotts of Japanese products and acts of vandalism against Japanese companies.",
        "双方距离开战为时尚早，但中国官员放任国内爆发民族主义游行、抵制日货和针对日企的破坏活动。 日本对华汽车出口下降了44."
    ],
    [
        "Some Venezuelans cannot speak freely to their fellow citizens, because each and every television station that would carry their words has been muzzled or driven off the air.",
        "一些委内瑞拉人无法自由地向同胞讲话，因为任何一个播放了他们的声音的电视台都会被封杀和扼杀。"
    ],
    [
        "That may require innovative approaches, quite different from intellectual property regimes based on privatization and monopolization of knowledge, with the high prices and restricted benefits that follow.",
        "这些措施与建立在私有化和知识垄断基础之上的知识产权体系大为不同，与这一体制随之而来的是奇高的价格和利益受到限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Advanced countries, with their adverse demographic trends, need migrants, as do developing countries – not only for migrants’ economic contributions, but also for the social and cultural diversity that they bring.",
        "发达国家人口日渐萎缩需要移民，发展中国家也同样如此——这不仅是因为移民的经济贡献，还因为社会文化多样性同样是移民的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent paper, Mark Kamstra and I proposed that governments issue shares in their GDP, with each share amounting to a trillionth of GDP.",
        "我和卡姆斯塔最近发表论文建议，政府发行GDP的股份，每一股的价值为GDP的一万亿分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s proposal is an important, honest, and politically courageous document.",
        "奥巴马的草案是一份重要、诚实和充满了政治勇气的文件。"
    ],
    [
        "In California, every decade or two, proposals surface to split the state into a North and South California.",
        "每隔10年20年，加利福尼亚州就有提案分成南北两个加利福利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the US-based political scientist Pierre Landry and his colleagues have observed, economic growth is key, particularly among officials at the county and municipal levels, where much of the government’s growth-enhancing activities – such as infrastructure investment – take place.",
        "但是，美国政治学家皮埃尔·拉迪（Pierre Landry）及其同事观察到，经济增长才是关键，特别是在市级层次。 政府的增长强化措施——如基础设施投资——大部分在市级层次展开。"
    ],
    [
        "If it is supported by excessive leverage, effectively shifting future consumption to the present, China could face a significant slowdown – or even a major crisis.",
        "如果这一增长是由过度杠杆支撑的，那其实是在将未来的消费挪到现在，中国就将面对一场严重经济减速——甚至可能是一场重大危机。"
    ],
    [
        "This is clearly not sustainable – a point that former Director of the International Monetary Fund's Europe Department Reza Moghadam recognized when he recently called for writing off half of Greece's debt, provided an agreement can be reached on credible growth-enhancing structural reforms.",
        "这显然是不可持续的——前国际货币基金组织（IMF）欧洲部门主管莫哈丹（Reza Hoghadam）认识到了这一点，他最近呼吁减记一半希腊债务，只要能够形成可信的促增长结构性改革协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Emotions are raw in the aftermath of Bhutto’s death.",
        "贝·布托去世后国内的情绪非常激动。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a major recession could break this cycle; otherwise, we are headed for an energy crisis.",
        "否则我们就将面对越来越高的油价。"
    ],
    [
        "One estimate suggests that a 50% reduction in the value of peripheral countries’ sovereign debt (reasonable for Greece, but high for the others) would cause about $3 trillion in losses, overwhelming the capital of European banks.",
        "有一项数据估计如果欧洲边缘国家的主权债券价值下跌50%的话（这对希腊来说很合理，对其他国家则较过分）就将带来3万亿美元的损失，比全欧洲银行资本的总和还高。"
    ],
    [
        "How Americans Became Vulnerable to Russian Disinformation",
        "为何美国人容易接受俄罗斯伪信息"
    ],
    [
        "But continuing support for the war on terror makes it no less self-defeating.",
        "但是继续支持反恐战争却无法减弱这场战争弄巧成拙的色彩。"
    ],
    [
        "Non-governmental and non-profit civil contracts bind people together for communal, religious, social, and political activities.",
        "民间合约 通过非政府或非盈利的机构将人们联系在一起，参与社区、宗教、社会与政治活动。"
    ],
    [
        "After the financial crisis of 2008 erupted, we got the Great Recession instead.",
        "2008年金融危机爆发后，我们迎来的是大衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Recent violence in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, following civil strife in Kyrgyzstan in 2010, has intensified international concern about Central Asia’s security as the region becomes increasingly important for delivering NATO supplies to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.",
        "华盛顿—继2010年哈萨克斯坦内乱后，最近的哈萨克斯坦和塔吉克斯坦暴力事件加剧了国际社会对中亚安全的忧虑。 作为北约向阿富汗国际维和部队（ISAF）补给线，该地区的重要性正变得越来越显著。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in some cases, historical legacies can gain excessive influence, overwhelming leaders’ capacity to make rational policy choices.",
        "但是，在某些例子中，历史遗留问题影响力过大，超越了领导人做出理性政策选择的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1980, 9% of Japan’s population was 65 or older; now the ratio is more than 23%, one of the highest in the world.",
        "1980年，9%的日本人为65岁及以上人口； 如今，这一比例达到了23%以上，为世界最高之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Only Silva’s initial proposal included calls for institutional reform of monetary policy and financial regulation; and it is far from certain that her endorsement of Neves in the run-off will sway his view should he win.",
        "只有席尔瓦最初的方案要求采取货币政策和金融监管的制度改革； 而她对内维斯的支持是否能在后者获胜后改变他的观点还远未可知。"
    ],
    [
        "For others, the number of immigrants over the last few years has simply been too high.",
        "也有人认为过去五年中的移民数量实在是太大了。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Europe’s leaders, unlike former US President George H. W. Bush, have never had trouble with the “vision thing.”",
        "发自伯克利——不像美国前总统小布什，欧洲的领导人们从来不曾遇到过所谓“愿景问题”。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1800s, the American dairy industry spearheaded a similar misinformation campaign about margarine, claiming that it caused sterility, stunted growth, and male baldness.",
        "19世纪，美国乳制品行业掀起了一场针对人造黄油的类似的抹黑运动，称人造黄油导致不孕不育、男性秃顶和发育不良。"
    ],
    [
        "As ECB President Mario Draghi has put it, “There aren’t many public investments with a high rate of return.”",
        "正如欧洲央行行长马里奥·德拉吉（Mario Draghi）所说：“公共投资没几个是高回报的”。"
    ],
    [
        "Waiting is not part of the solution.",
        "等待是不能解决问题的。"
    ],
    [
        "Cook and I share many of the same attitudes about our LGBT identity.",
        "库克和我在许多关于我们的LGBT身份方面的态度都是相同的。"
    ],
    [
        "In our market-driven times, we tend to think about the price of everything and the value of nothing, as Oscar Wilde put it.",
        "恰如奥斯卡·王尔德所说，在以市场为导向的年代，价格而非价值是我们考虑的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "So the government will prefer to muddle through the crisis, rather than risk any decisive reform.",
        "因此政府会想方设法在危机中蒙混过关，而不是冒险去做出决定性的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "In many ways, chess was Russia’s national sport.",
        "从多种角度看，国际象棋是俄罗斯的国技。"
    ],
    [
        "To do this, his administration will seek to increase taxes on others, and now we are beginning to see what this will look like.",
        "要这样做，他的政府需要找到办法增加其他人的税收，现在我们已经开始看到特朗普会怎么干。"
    ],
    [
        "Outside of Asia, most developing economies are principally commodity exporters, and thus are highly exposed to price shocks.",
        "在亚洲之外，大部分发展中经济体大多为大宗商品出口国，因此极易受到价格冲击影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Moldova Comes in From the Cold",
        "绝处逢生的摩尔多瓦"
    ],
    [
        "More cereals were produced annually in the last quarter of the twentieth century than in any preceding period, and more grain will be harvested this year than at any time in history.",
        "二十世纪最后四分之一的谷物年产量要比此前任何一个时期都要高，而今年的谷物产量更是要高于历史上任何一年。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the IPCC, keeping the global temperature increase from pre-industrial levels below this threshold – the recognized tipping point beyond which climate change is likely to get seriously out of control – requires that the world emit only about 1,000 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC).",
        "据IPCC的数据，将全球气温在前工业化水平基础上升高幅度限制在这一阈值之下意味着全世界只能排放大约1 000十亿吨碳（GtC）。 超过这一阈值，气候变化就可能大大超过控制能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider that apathy, excessive shopping, and overuse of the Internet are all serious contenders for inclusion in the next edition of the DSM, due to appear in 2012.",
        "想想看，冷漠、过度购物和过度使用因特网都极有可能被收入将在2012年出版的下一版 DSM 中。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, according to the Swiss Re report, “monetary policy and central bank asset purchases have aggravated economic inequality via equity price inflation.”",
        "此外，据瑞士再保险公司报告，“货币政策和央行资产购买操作通过股价通胀放大了经济不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, America needs to save more and consume less, while China needs to save less and consume more.",
        "简言之，美国需要增加储蓄，减少消费，而中国需要减少储蓄，增加消费。"
    ],
    [
        "We found only one solution: reduce the fiscal deficit.",
        "我们只找到一个解决办法：减少财政赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "And, whether it comes in the form of a capital strike by foreign bondholders, or of domestic labor strikes and wider social and political unrest, France’s leaders remain entirely unprepared for the inevitable.",
        "不论最后的结局是外国债权人发动资本袭击，还是国内劳动者开展罢工和更广泛的社会和政治动荡，法国领导人都对不可避免的结果完全没有准备。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time, therefore, for India to consider introducing a presidential system of government, which would reduce the scope for “horse trading” and allow the country’s leader to select competent people for cabinet positions.",
        "因此，印度是时候考虑引入政府总统制，这样可以缩小“讨价还价”的范畴，让国家领导人选择有能力的人进入内阁任职。"
    ],
    [
        "To that end, it must revive productivity growth, expand exports, open its economy to international competition, and forge new bilateral and regional trade deals with major economic players.",
        "在这方面，巴西必须重振生产率增长，扩大出口，向国际竞争开放经济，并与主要经济大国签订新的双边和地区贸易协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Not so in 2017.",
        "但在2017年可不是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "The continent's Euroskeptic political parties, on both the left and the right, are holding up Putin's authoritarian nationalism as a model for the type of illiberal regime they would seek to establish should the EU dissolve.",
        "欧洲大陆的欧洲怀疑派政党，不论左翼还是右翼，都把普京的集权民族主义视为他们寻求在欧盟解体后建立的不自由政权的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Such exchange offers can limit private creditors’ losses if they are done early.",
        "如果做得够早，互换要约可以限制私人债权人的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, all the international community can really do is continue to leverage a combination of economic sanctions, military pressures, and diplomacy to try to get the Kim regime to the negotiating table.",
        "目前，整个国际社会确实能够做的，无非是继续利用经济制裁、军事压力和外交斡旋多管齐下，让金氏政权回到谈判桌前。"
    ],
    [
        "Skeptics, however, warn that the mass media dictate the voices we hear and are less interested in reasoned debate than in catering to popular prejudices.",
        "但持怀疑态度的人警告说大众传媒决定着我们能听到些什么，与进行逻辑辩论相比，它们更愿意迎合大众固有的偏见。"
    ],
    [
        "We know what these cost and how much they add to the total nominal value of GDP.",
        "我们知道购置这些东西要花多少钱以及它们对名义GDP总值的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "And there are not many problems in India’s governance that state funding of politics could not solve.",
        "解决印度执政的许多问题都可以依靠国家投资政治。"
    ],
    [
        "In many ways, Bo personified the Chinese concept of “meritocracy” – well-educated, intelligent, sophisticated, and charming (mainly to Western executives).",
        "薄熙来在许多方面都符合中国人对“政治精英”的定义——受过良好教育，聪明睿智，行事老练，而且富有个人魅力（主要在西方政商界人士看来）。"
    ],
    [
        "One is the management of natural resources and the environment.",
        "其中之一是自然资源和环境管理。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, middle-income countries are not short of companies with significant financial and managerial resources and plenty of market power.",
        "从更广义的角度看，中等收入国家并不缺乏手握大量金融和管理资源及市场权力的企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, exports to the EU, at 13% of GDP, matter more to the UK than exports to Britain (just 3% of GDP) do to the EU.",
        "此外，英国对欧盟的出口占了自身GDP的13％，显然比欧盟对英国的出口（占GDP的3％）更要紧。"
    ],
    [
        "Portraying negative coverage as “fake news” has helped Trump to distract from scandals big and small: his family’s conflicts of interest, his dodgy business deals around the world, white supremacists among his senior staff, the rejection of ethics training for senior White House staff, and much else.",
        "将负面报道冠之以“假消息”帮助特朗普分散了民众对大大小小丑闻的注意力：关于其家族利益冲突、他在世界各地狡猾的商业交易、其高级职员信奉白人至上主义、拒绝接受白宫高级职员道德培训，还有很多很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the upswing was marked by super-abundant credit.",
        "当然，增长的标志就是大量过剩的信贷。"
    ],
    [
        "Politically and psychologically, however, the method, let alone the timing and implementation of the withdrawals, raises many questions about the ongoing viability of the US-Korean security alliance, for the alliance now seems adrift, without a common purpose and with little direction from either side.",
        "但从政治和心理的角度，这次撤军的方式，更不用说具体的日程和安排，都给美韩安全联盟今后的可行性带来了不少问题。 美韩联盟似乎飘浮不定，既缺乏共同的目标，也不知要去往何处。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the world economy is vastly larger than in the past, so that demand for key commodities and energy inputs is also vastly larger.",
        "第二，全球经济比过去大很多，因此对关键商品和能源要素的需求也比过去大很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that there are 400 million female farmers, such findings suggest the high global costs – measured in terms of lost productivity and unrealized economic potential – of insecure land rights for women.",
        "女性农民数量高达4亿，因此，这些发现表明，从生产率损失和经济潜力无法实现的角度，女性土地权利得不到保障会带来高昂的全球代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Deeply concerned.",
        "深深的忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Exercising it will require EU member states to maintain a common position, supporting the efforts of the United Nations special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, to work with all relevant players – including the EU, the United States, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia – to achieve peace in Syria.",
        "行使领导权要求欧盟成员国达成相同立场，支持联合国叙利亚问题特使斯塔凡·德·米斯特拉与所有相关方——包括欧盟、美国、俄罗斯、伊朗和沙特阿拉伯——合作实现叙利亚和平的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The charge that international law is",
        "指责国际法"
    ],
    [
        "General Buyukanit said in April that the country’s new president must be secular “not just in words, but in essence.”",
        "克阿纳特将军四月份说国家的新总统必须“不仅仅是在口头上是世俗主义的，而且在本质上也是世俗主义的。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Putin had looked us in the eye and lied, almost certainly aware that we knew he was lying.",
        "普京直视着我们的眼睛说了谎，他几乎肯定知道我们明白他说的不是真话。"
    ],
    [
        "His novel Autumn of the Patriarch captures perfectly the moral squalor, political paralysis, and savage ennui that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long-term dictator.",
        "他的小说《族长的秋天》完美地刻画了围裹着一个等待一位长期独裁者死亡的社会的道德贫困、政治麻痹和极度倦怠。"
    ],
    [
        "Both houses of Parliament had approved the law, and President Hamid Karzai signed it.",
        "议会上下两院都已经通过了这部法律，哈米德·卡尔扎伊总统也已经签字批准。"
    ],
    [
        "That progress began in 2007, when a group of lawyers initiated a mass protest movement in response to an unconstitutional decision by Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s fourth military president, to suspend the chief justice of the Supreme Court.",
        "进展开始于2007年，当时一批律师针对巴基斯坦第四任军人总统佩尔韦兹·穆沙拉夫撤职最高法院首席法官的违宪裁决发起了大规模抗议运动。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank lead the chorus of traditional players eager to help, offering debt write-offs and concessionary finance.",
        "以IMF和世界银行为首的传统资金提供者急切地想施以援手，提供债务减记和优惠贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "They viewed history as offering concrete lessons about the necessity of escaping from the past.",
        "他们把历史当作一种切实的教训，从中学习摆脱过去的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "They need to work with boards and senior management to ensure that major reforms are implemented and then consistently applied.",
        "他们需要与董事会和高管层合作确保重大改革得到实施，并一以贯之。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it really better to postpone global warming by seven hours?",
        "让全球变暖停止7小时真的是更好的选择吗？"
    ],
    [
        "True, America’s intervention in the Middle East also strengthened extremist Islam, breeding on the resentment that the US presence arouses.",
        "没错，美国对中东地区的干涉同时也助长了伊斯兰极端势力，因为他们借着民众对美国存在的不满而不断发展壮大。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the US, Japan has many concerns about the parallel institutions – including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the BRICS countries’ New Development Bank – that China is creating.",
        "与美国一样，日本也非常担心中国所建立的对立机构——包括亚洲基础设施投资银行和金砖国家的新开发银行。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, two of the Obama administration’s recent wins – the passage of so-called trade promotion authority (fast-track negotiating authority to conclude the Trans-Pacific Partnership) and the reauthorization of the small but vital Export-Import Bank – were the result of dedicated outreach, education, and, yes, cajoling of lawmakers.",
        "而事实上，奥巴马政府的两次最近的胜利——通过所谓的贸易促进授权（快车道谈判授权以完成跨太平洋合作伙伴关系）和对规模较小但至关重要的进出口银行的重新授权——便是不遗余力的广泛接触、教育以及，是的，诱导立法者的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Pay More?",
        "为什么多花钱？"
    ],
    [
        "While implementing energy-efficiency measures may require heavy initial investments, these outlays will be offset by future productivity growth, which is the only way developed countries can sustainably improve living standards over time.",
        "尽管实施能源效率措施需要大量初始投资，但这些支出可以由未来生产率增加弥补，这也是发达国家可持续地改善生活水平的唯一办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Shades of Gray",
        "阴影下的老人"
    ],
    [
        "No amount of material prosperity can make China a healthy society without this necessary reckoning with the past.",
        "如果不会过去的历史进行必要的反思，无论创造多少物质财富，都无法使中国成为一个健康的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it really true that new technologies are necessarily riskier?",
        "他们奉行所谓的“预防性原则”，要求新事物承担比旧事物更多的举证责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The general perception is that the government leaves companies alone and that the returns from investing in the US stock market reflect the fundamental forces of a strong capitalist economy.",
        "流行的看法认为：政府不干涉公司运转，美国股市的投资收益反映了强大资本主义经济的根本活力。"
    ],
    [
        "The final – and possibly most important – insight that I took away from the Forum concerned the quality of China’s new leaders.",
        "我从论坛上得到的最终——也或许是最重要的观点涉及到中国的新任领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the assumptions about market economies are based on acceptance of the competitive model, with marginal returns commensurate with social contributions.",
        "关于市场经济的假设有许多建立在接受竞争模型的基础上，认为边际回报总是与社会贡献相称。"
    ],
    [
        "But the dollar’s decline has more recently been reversed by the global flight to safety by investors abandoning the euro.",
        "但最近，美元的下跌势头因投资者抛弃欧元、逃向安全资产而发生了逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "But the new unilateralism was based on a profound misunderstanding of the nature of power in world politics.",
        "但新单边主义是基于对世界政治实力特点的深刻误解。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only are their military, or “hard power,” resources growing; there are signs that their soft-power resources are increasing, too.",
        "不仅其军力，或曰“刚性力量”资源在提高，而且有迹象表明其柔性力量也在提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Musk has been engaged in the large-scale production of “an existing, pretty powerful battery technology.”",
        "马斯克一直着迷于大规模生产“令人振奋的强力电池技术”。"
    ],
    [
        "To begin with, several significant fiscal/taxation reforms are now underway or in the pipeline, such as an increase in the collection of state-owned companies’ dividends and a hike in the resource tax on industries such as oil and coal mining, in order to reduce corporate savings.",
        "首先，数项重大财政/税收改革现正在进行或是筹划中，比如增加国有企业的利润提取，或是提高石油和采矿等行业的资源税，以达到减少企业储蓄的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "Another possibility, while Greek banks are still open for business, might be for the government to unilaterally implement some of its radical plans on wages and public spending, defying protests from Brussels, Frankfurt, and Berlin.",
        "另一个可能性——尽管希腊银行仍能开张营业——是政府单方面实施一些关于工资和公共支出的激进政策，无视来自布鲁塞尔、法兰克福和柏林的反对。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, a shift to currency depreciation could inflame anti-China sentiment among the country's major trading partners – especially the United States, where Congress has flirted for years with the prospect of imposing trade sanctions on Chinese exporters.",
        "其次，转向货币贬值可能在中国主要贸易伙伴中间点燃反华情绪——特别是美国，美国国会多年来一直想对中国出口商进行贸易制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "They have simply made us more aware that different circumstances call for different models.",
        "它们只是让我们能够更好地认识不同环境需要不同模型。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a guest list that says to an anxious electorate: I respect you, wherever you are on the socioeconomic scale.",
        "这是一份向焦急的选民传达出如下信息的客人名单：我尊敬你，不管你处于什么社会经济水平。"
    ],
    [
        "In Romania, with its roughly 50,000 Ukrainians, there is only one Ukrainian-language school.",
        "在罗马尼亚大约有5万乌克兰人，却只有一所乌克兰语学校。"
    ],
    [
        "The Trump White House claims that re-designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism is a “critical step.”",
        "特朗普的白宫宣称，重新将朝鲜列为支持恐怖主义国家是一个“关键动作”。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the country barely met the official target of 7.5% annual GDP growth in the second quarter of this year – generating significant anxiety worldwide – China’s government seemingly remains calm, showing no indication that it plans to launch yet another stimulus package.",
        "而在该国今年第二季度勉强实现官方订立的7. 5%年度GDP增长指标之时——这令全球各界一片恐慌——中国政府却表现平静，并未出现计划实施另一轮经济刺激计划的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "We must not allow that to happen again.",
        "我们决不能重蹈覆辙。"
    ],
    [
        "Shell, the largest foreign operator in the Niger Delta, has been criticized repeatedly for its egregious practices and its unwillingness to be held to account.",
        "壳牌——尼日尔三角洲最大的国外营运商——就屡次因其恶名昭彰的行为及不愿承担责任的态度而遭到外界批评。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the leaks from these closed-door coalition talks were so well managed that they created the illusion that the “Sondierungsgespräche” – that is, the preparatory talks among party officials – were politically rather harmless.",
        "就连这些闭门结盟谈判所泄露的消息也被小心翼翼地管理，以营造出一种“Sondierungsgespräche”（政党官员间的预谈判）在政治上基本无害的幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "You can only keep trying, keep pushing.",
        "你只能不断努力推动。"
    ],
    [
        "Del Ponte is pressing Serbia’s government to cooperate in the still unresolved cases of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, who ordered, implemented, and oversaw the massacre of 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.",
        "迪旁蒂曾向塞尔维亚政府施加压力，迫使他们在拉多万•卡拉季奇和拉特科·姆拉迪奇的审判中合作，正是这两个人下令执行并监督了1995年发生在斯雷布雷尼察的屠杀7000名穆斯林成年男子和男孩的暴行。"
    ],
    [
        "The region now produces about 40% of the world’s GDP, measured according to purchasing power parity.",
        "根据购买力平价计算，该地区目前生产了全球GDP中的约40%。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has three broad options.",
        "欧洲有三个广义选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Power-sharing among coalition partners will be an intricate affair, including behind-the-scenes deals with the military, which will insist on measures to safeguard its interests.",
        "联盟伙伴之间的权力分割错综复杂，包括与军方的幕后交易——后者肯定会坚持采取捍卫其自身利益的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank, tightly focused on price stability, has been raising interest rates, and the US Federal Reserve may soon follow suit.",
        "欧洲央行紧密关注价格稳定，已经提高了利率。 美联储或许也会效仿。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1996, military police shot and killed two Roma conscripts.",
        "1996年，军队警察射杀了两名罗马族应召士兵。"
    ],
    [
        "While praising the virtues of the free market, Bush has been only too willing to give huge handouts to the energy industry, even as the country faces soaring deficits.",
        "布什一方面赞扬自由市场的优点，一方面又过于慷慨大度地给予能源工业巨额的施舍，即便在美国面临财政赤字攀升的情况下也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when bank capital is scarce, that impediment carries significant economic costs.",
        "在银行资本匮乏之时，这种阻碍就将承担着极大的经济成本。"
    ],
    [
        "But amidst this uncertainty, there are some things we do know.",
        "但在所有这些不确定性中，有些事情我们是确定知道的。"
    ],
    [
        "I have never attended a concert at the Manchester Arena, but it appears to be a great venue for the city.",
        "我从来没有参加过曼彻斯特体育馆的音乐会，但体育馆似乎是这座城市的名胜。"
    ],
    [
        "That means a decisive shift from carbon-emitting energy sources like coal, oil, and gas, toward wind, solar, nuclear, and hydroelectric power, as well as the adoption of carbon capture and storage technologies when fossil fuels continue to be used.",
        "这意味着一个决定性转变，从排碳能源资源（如煤炭、石油、天然气）转变为风能、太阳能、核能和水电，若要继续使用化石燃料，也要采取碳捕捉和储存技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Each situation needs to be judged on its merits.",
        "所有状况都必须进行评估。"
    ],
    [
        "The value of fiscal multipliers depends on how the economy is performing.",
        "财政乘数的数值取决于经济的实际表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Responding to Giavazzi and Tabellini, Roberto Perotti (also of Bocconi) has argued that the gradualist strategy simply would not be credible.",
        "罗伯特·佩罗蒂（Roberto Perotti，同样来自博科尼大学）批评加瓦齐和塔贝里尼，指出渐进战略根本不可信。"
    ],
    [
        "Other holdouts (6.6% of total creditors) would receive $15 billion.",
        "其他坚持抵制的债权人（占债权人数量的6."
    ],
    [
        "Most Southeast Asian countries are busily modernizing their armed forces.",
        "大多数的东南亚国家都正忙于武装军队的现代化。"
    ],
    [
        "Or are continued problems inevitable?",
        "还是会遇到难以避免的持续问题？"
    ],
    [
        "Identifying the share of residential real estate that goes to private developers in the dozen or so first-tier cities (which account for most of the Chinese property market’s fizz) suggests that less than 1% of GDP would be at risk in the event of a housing-market collapse – not exactly a recipe for a hard landing.",
        "清理十几座一线城市（占中国房地产市场泡沫的绝大部分）私营开发商开发的住宅地产表明，如果房地产市场陷入崩溃，仅有GDP的百分之一将会受到威胁——这并不会切实导致经济硬着陆。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s world, countries should not fear that coercion and threats will replace rules and laws.",
        "当今世界，各国不应该害怕吞并和威胁将取代规则和法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Though China’s financial system is fraught with worrying vulnerabilities, many Chinese economists believe that the country has at last entered a period of stable annual growth of about 6.5% – a level that is in line with potential.",
        "尽管中国金融体系表现出令人担忧的脆弱性，但许多中国经济学家相信中国终于进入了年增长保持在6. 5%左右的稳定期——这一增长率与其增长潜力相符。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowhere is this more evident than in the oil markets, where prices have collapsed, with both Brent and Crude now hovering around the $30-per-barrel level.",
        "最明显的要数石油市场了，石油价格出现了崩盘，布伦特和纽约原油都徘徊在每桶30美元上下。"
    ],
    [
        "Bringing the Chinese Consumer to Life",
        "激活中国消费者"
    ],
    [
        "Eastern Europe’s Authoritarian Return",
        "东欧极权主义的回归"
    ],
    [
        "Not only does Europe lack a federal government, but there is no desire to create one.",
        "欧洲不但缺少联邦政府，而且也没有创造一个的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Here is where the revised meaning of Solzhenitsyn’s “preservation of the people” comes in.",
        "这正是索尔仁尼琴的“保护人类” 经过改良后意义恰到好处的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "What Europe needs in this serious crisis are statesmen and women of Kohl’s caliber, not domestic politicians!",
        "在严峻的危机面前，欧洲需要的是像科尔一样有能力的治国贤才，而不是擅于搞国内政治的政客！"
    ],
    [
        "It will take some time before the full meaning of this new paradigm comes into focus.",
        "这一新范式的全部意义成为人们关注的焦点还需要一些时间。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with longer-term interest rates now creeping up slightly, the BOJ seems to be pausing.",
        "但随着长期利率的缓慢上行，日本央行似乎又停手了。"
    ],
    [
        "His worldview was shaped by the fact that he spent part of his youth in Indonesia and had an African father.",
        "他的世界观的形成受到他在印尼的青年时代以及他的非洲父亲的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The US stance could further restrict farmers’ access to productive resources, thus affecting the right to food.",
        "美国的立场有可能进一步限制农民获得高产资源，进而影响到粮食权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important signal will be the EU’s pledge that these agreements will take effect.",
        "最重要的信号将是欧盟承诺这些协定将生效。"
    ],
    [
        "OECD countries like Germany counter that the problem is the lack of investment-worthy assets; there are simply not enough bankable projects available.",
        "德国等经合组织国家反驳说问题在于缺少值得投资的资产； 即这只不过是可获得银行可接受的项目太少的缘故。"
    ],
    [
        "I, too, am fond of metaphors.",
        "我对隐喻也感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "In July, Vienna hosted the 18th International AIDS Conference, attracting nearly 20,000 people.",
        "去年7月在维也纳召开的第18届国际艾滋病大会吸引了约2万名与会者。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign investors hope to use large mechanized farms to produce output for export, leaving little or nothing for the local populations.",
        "外国投资者只希望用高度机械化的农场去生产粮食并出口，根本不在意当地民众的福祉。"
    ],
    [
        "I once wrote that an Indian without a horoscope is like an American without a credit card.",
        "我曾写道印度人没有星象就像美国人没有信用卡。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though the Syriza party’s victory sent Greek equities and bonds plummeting, there is little sign of contagion to other distressed countries on the eurozone periphery.",
        "但是，尽管左翼联盟（Syriza）的胜利导致希腊股票和债券跳水，但没有迹象表明暴跌会传染给欧元区其他受困外围国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, populations in the eurozone’s stagnant economies are increasingly demanding that Germany change its policies, increasing wages and implementing measures aimed at boosting consumption and discouraging savings.",
        "此外，欧元区停滞经济体的人民日益需要德国改变其政策，提高工资并实施旨在提振消费、抑制储蓄的过时。"
    ],
    [
        "Children with high-risk cancers who receive dose-intensive chemotherapy have a greater than 80% chance of experiencing at least one severe, life-threatening, or fatal drug-related toxic event over the course of their treatment.",
        "罹患高风险癌症并接受高剂量化疗的儿童在治疗期间有超过80%概率会遭受一次以上危及生命或致命的严重药物毒性损伤。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone seeking to compare a public-service job with the private sector in negotiating an employment contract should simply seek work in the private sector rather than for the public good.",
        "如果有人试图在谈判雇佣合同时拿公共服务职务的薪酬与私有部门比较，那么他不该来当公务员，而应当直接去私有部门找工作。"
    ],
    [
        "ISIL probably knows that Japan has historically placed the safety of its own citizens above all other considerations – even if it meant bowing to terrorists’ demands.",
        "伊斯兰国也许知道，历史上日本将本国公民的安全置于高于一切的地位——即使这意味着向恐怖分子低头。"
    ],
    [
        "On the economic front, Haiti can become a profitable exporter of tropical crops such as groundnuts, mangos, cut flowers, string beans, and bamboo – a source of progress among Haiti’s Caribbean-basin neighbors.",
        "经济方面，海地可以出口落花生、芒果、鲜切花、四季豆和竹子等热带作物——海地的加勒比海邻国就是靠这些产品取得进步的——，从中盈利。"
    ],
    [
        "If Anwar were to marry his leadership and charisma to the opposition’s newfound heft in the federal legislature – 82 MPs, compared with 20 in the last parliament – serious policy alternatives to the government’s might be expected.",
        "如果Anwar能将自己的领导力与个人魅力和反对派新获得的在联邦立法机构中实力—82名议员，较之上一届议会的20名—结合起来，就完全有可能推动与政府不同的政策主张。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, McKinsey and the Carbon Trust have estimated that 30-40% of the value of fossil-fuel companies could be endangered because of a so-called “carbon bubble,” an overvaluation of fossil-fuel reserves.",
        "与此同时，麦肯锡公司和碳信托基金估计化石燃料公司市值的30-40％可能会因为所谓“碳泡沫”——对化石燃料储量的高估——而受损。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – More details about the European Commission’s €315 billion ($390 billion) investment plan for 2015-2017 have finally come to light.",
        "慕尼黑——有关2015-2017年欧盟委员会3150亿欧元（合3900亿美元）投资计划的更多细节终于水落石出。"
    ],
    [
        "When faced with the next Ebola-like challenge, our ability to meet it will depend on the strength of local institutions and our ability to develop the right tools with which to fight it.",
        "在面临下一场埃博拉式的挑战时，我们的应对能力取决于地方机构的强度和我们开发正确的斗争工具的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Congress created the Fed in 1913 as an independent agency removed from partisan politics, tasked with ensuring domestic price stability and maximizing domestic employment.",
        "1913年，美国国会建立了美联储，它是一个从党派政治中分离出来的独立机构，其任务是保证国内物价稳定和国内就业最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "With bank accounts, budding entrepreneurs can establish their creditworthiness and tap responsible, formal lenders.",
        "有了银行账户，处在创业阶段的企业家可以建立自己的信用，并享受负责任的正规贷款商所提供的服务。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in 1976, the FAO admitted in a new plan that forest and watershed management activities had “turned out to be quite limited.”",
        "但是1976年FAO在一项新计划中承认森林和水流域的管理行动“十分有限”。"
    ],
    [
        "One day, the US will turn the page on Donald Trump.",
        "总有一天，美国会将特朗普的那一页翻篇。"
    ],
    [
        "Each will undoubtedly pursue – and find the means to secure – its own interests.",
        "各国无疑都将追求——并想方设法确保自身的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority demanding its own state, and with Russia refusing to recognize UN mediator Martti Ahtisaari’s plan for conditional independence, the US is preparing to go it alone.",
        "然而，随着科索沃的阿尔巴尼亚族大多数要求建立自己的国家，及俄罗斯拒绝承认联合国斡旋者Martti Ahtisaari提出的有条件独立计划，美国决定单独采取行动了。"
    ],
    [
        "Low-income families (and those whose income and assets are depleted by high medical costs) are covered by the Medicaid program, which is financed jointly by the states and federal government.",
        "低收入家庭（以及收入和财产被高额医疗费用耗尽的人）可以参与由各州及联邦政府共同出资的Medicaid计划。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a senior Pakistani military official, India, in pursuit of its “Cold Start” military doctrine, is constructing eight bases at which heavy armor would be stationed.",
        "据一名巴基斯坦高级军官透露，印度为实现其“冷启动”军事策略正在进行八大重武器 基地的建设工作。"
    ],
    [
        "In their recent bestselling economic history, Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson cite many past and current cases in which powerful individuals attain control over the state and use this power to enrich themselves.",
        "在最新畅销经济史著作《国家衰落探源》（Why Nations Fail）中，达伦·阿西莫格鲁（Daron Acemoglu）和詹姆斯·罗宾逊（James Robinson）举了大量过去和现在的例子，在这些例子中，权势个人把持了国家，用手中的权力为自己攫取财富。"
    ],
    [
        "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced its birth while rejecting an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon.",
        "国务卿康多莉扎·赖斯在宣布该计划诞生的同时，否决了黎巴嫩立即停火的提案。"
    ],
    [
        "Entrepreneurs will start new companies, and they will fund their risk-taking with equity investments provided by venture capital funds.",
        "企业家仍在创办新公司，它们将通过风险资本基金提供的股权投资为他们的冒险融资。"
    ],
    [
        "That would help to ensure that three decades of legal reform is more bone and sinew than running water.",
        "这将有助于确保这三十年的法律改革有骨有筋，而不是付之东流。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also no reason to believe (contrary to the regime’s insistence) that the Brotherhood would emerge victorious from a democratic transition.",
        "我们同样没有理由相信（与独裁政权反复强调的观点相反）穆斯林兄弟会能够窃取民主转型的胜利果实。"
    ],
    [
        "As a young sovereign (imperial regent at age 20; emperor at 25), he had to assume contradictory roles: divine pater familias of the Japanese state and Supreme Commander of the imperial armed forces that were colonizing Japan’s Asian neighbors.",
        "作为年轻的君主（20岁摄政，25岁即位天皇），他必须扮演互相矛盾的角色：日本国的神主兼正在殖民亚洲邻国的帝国皇军总司令。"
    ],
    [
        "In other cases, protection periods would rise considerably.",
        "在其他例子中，保护期可以大幅延长。"
    ],
    [
        "What is the Deficit Endgame?",
        "财政赤字何去何从？"
    ],
    [
        "Sedition was thus explicitly intended as an instrument to terrorize Indian nationalists; indeed, Mahatma Gandhi was among its prominent victims, though far from its last.",
        "于是，暴动被明确用作恫吓印度民族主主义者的工具； 事实上，圣雄甘地就是这一法律的主要受害者之一，但绝不是最后一个。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Fillon Beat Le Pen?",
        "菲永能击败勒庞吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It is not that the end of European Monetary Union is on the agenda; it is merely that people have begun thinking about possible low-probability futures in which the end of EMU might be placed on the agenda.",
        "这并不是因为终结欧洲货币联盟已经提上了议事日程，而仅仅是因为人们开始考虑欧洲货币联盟的终结可能会催生低概率的期货。"
    ],
    [
        "We found out many years ago, to the world’s great regret, what happens when a financial epidemic is allowed to run its course.",
        "凭着前人的教训，我们多年前已经知道如果对金融传染性危机不加制止的话会有何种后果。"
    ],
    [
        "“How are they going to pay it back?” my friend asked.",
        "“这么大笔钱该如何去偿还啊？"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the commitment of the five nuclear-weapon states to disarm has had very limited results.",
        "但五大有核国家的裁军承诺成果极为有限。"
    ],
    [
        "From humble beginnings at the turn of the century, Chinese wind and solar companies have grown into some of the world’s largest and most efficient.",
        "自世纪之交崛起以来，中国的风能和太阳能公司已跻身全球规模最大、效率最高的行列。"
    ],
    [
        "Alexander Hamilton, the first US treasury secretary, argued that allowing lower-cost imports would impede the development of domestic “infant” industry, which needed time to scale up enough to reduce costs to a competitive level.",
        "美国第一任财政部长亚历山大·汉密尔顿认为，允许成本更低的进口品涌入会阻碍国内“婴儿”产业的发展，后者需要时间扩大规模从而将成本削减至有竞争力的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "While the “Leave” camp certainly included many hard Brexiteers whose primary motivation was to end free movement, it also comprised people who believed Boris Johnson, the former London mayor and current foreign secretary, when he promised (as he still does) that the UK could have its cake and eat it.",
        "“退欧”阵营显然包括了许多硬退欧派，他们的主要动机是结束自由迁徙，但同时也包括一些相信前伦敦市长、现任外交大臣鲍里斯·约翰逊（Boris Johnson）所承诺的（他现在仍然做着这个承诺）英国将获得自己的蛋糕并吃下去的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the perpetuation of extreme violence contrasts starkly with Africa’s favorable demographic profile, and its economic – and even political and social – progress in recent years.",
        "事实上，极端暴力的持久存在与非洲有利的人口结构及其近几年来的经济——甚至政治和社会——进步形成了鲜明的对比。"
    ],
    [
        "The ability of prosecutors to investigate payment irregularities reaching into the highest ranks of Brazilian society and government without political interference – or the process turning into a witch hunt – would be exemplary in many advanced countries.",
        "检察官有能力在不受政府政治干扰——或确保不将调查过程演变为政治迫害的情况下深入巴西社会和政府的最高层级对支付违规行为展开调查。 巴西的这种能力甚至为许多发达国家树立了榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is in the history and course of that revolution that a fuller and more compelling explanation of recent events is to be found.",
        "而对最近的进展的更全面也更令人信服的解释要从历史和革命进程中去寻找。"
    ],
    [
        "Temer’s government has declared its intention to present to Congress a pension reform plan for precisely this reason.",
        "特梅尔政府已宣布准备以此为由向国会提交养老金改革计划。"
    ],
    [
        "While the continent shows great diversity in the socioeconomic trajectories, growth rates have generally masked an underlying lack of structural transformation.",
        "尽管非洲大陆在社会经济的发展路径方面表现出极大的多样性，但增长率往往掩盖了背后结构转型的缺失。"
    ],
    [
        "To meet these goals, the objective of peace should prevail over that of development if the two come into conflict.",
        "要实现这些远景，在和平与发展目标产生矛盾的情况下，前者就应重于后者。"
    ],
    [
        "Bleed the Foreigner",
        "谁把外债当回事"
    ],
    [
        "The government is making special efforts to develop these areas in the framework of its “Great Western Development Strategy,” including by building modern infrastructure, promoting high-quality education, supporting science and technology (all key determinants of the location of production), and encouraging investment there.",
        "中国政府正在“西部大开发战略”的框架下推出特别措施开发这些地区，包括建设现代基础设施、推进高质量教育、支持科学技术（均为生产区位的关键决定因素）以及鼓励投资。"
    ],
    [
        "So the antidumping regime has a political logic.",
        "因此，反倾销机制属于政治逻辑。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the US bears responsibility both for trade imbalances and the policies that might quickly be adopted to address them.",
        "简而言之，美国担负着贸易不平衡的责任以及迅速采取政策予以解决的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Networks are not directed and controlled as much as they are managed and orchestrated.",
        "网络并不像它们原先管理和设想那样容易被引导和控制。"
    ],
    [
        "A hike, in other words, would indicate that good things are happening.",
        "换句话讲，升息意味着好的形势已经开端。"
    ],
    [
        "The two other polio-endemic countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan, missed their 2015 eradication target and have had to extend it by another year, at a cost of $1.5 billion.",
        "另外两个脊髓灰质炎流行的国家，阿富汗和巴基斯坦，未能完成其2015年根除脊髓灰质炎的目标，于是被迫延期一年，并因此付出了15亿美元的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain nationalizes its banks.",
        "英国对银行实行国有化。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for the Gulf states – and also possibly for Israel – this scenario is viewed as opening the door to stronger Iranian influence throughout the region.",
        "但是，海湾国家——可能也包括以色列——认为这不啻于开启了增加伊朗地区影响力的大门。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are far better uses of the public’s money, including another round of stimulus.",
        "但是公众的财产可以用在更加有益的地方，包括又一轮的激励措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The Climate Imperative",
        "气候变化下的责任"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, while Saudi Arabia opposes elected Islamists in Egypt, it supports insurgent Islamists in Syria, owing entirely to Iran’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.",
        "事实上，沙特尽管反对伊斯兰教在埃及获得选举胜利，但却支持伊斯兰教在叙利亚的反抗，这完全是因为伊朗支持叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德政权。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU must map out a new approach.",
        "欧洲必须谋划新的解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "More than five years ago, China’s President Hu Jintao proclaimed that, “the trend toward a multipolar world is irreversible and dominant.”",
        "五年多前，中国国家主席胡锦涛宣称，“世界多极化的趋势是不可逆转的，并已取得支配地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Many believe that rapid growth can act as a virtual panacea for countries’ political and social woes, including the rise of populism and nationalism.",
        "许多人相信高增长是国家解决政治和社会混乱局面的虚拟灵丹，包括民粹主义和民族主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the net export deficit – the broadest measure of a country’s trade imbalance – has been 4% of GDP since 2000, versus an average of 1.1% over the final three decades of the twentieth century.",
        "类似地，净出口赤字——一国贸易失衡程度最广泛的指标——自2000年以来为GDP的4%，而二十世纪最后三十年间的平均水平为1. 1%。"
    ],
    [
        "With slower growth and more normal interest rates, the debt ratio could easily rise to more than 100% in 2021, and exceed 150% by 2030.",
        "如果增长率没有那么高，名义利率没有那么低，则债务比率将在2021年突破100%，在2030年超过150%。"
    ],
    [
        "But citizens now doubt both these points.",
        "但是对于这两点，他们现在均表示出怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "More than two million people were dying from tuberculosis, because they lacked access to low-cost, first-line treatment.",
        "因肺结核而死的人数超过两百万，因为他们得不到廉价的优质治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "And the gap is continuing to widen – services activity grew 8.4% year on year in the first half of 2015, far outstripping the 6.1% growth in manufacturing and construction.",
        "并且差距在继续扩大——2015年上半年服务业活动同比增长8. 4%，远超制造业和建筑业的6."
    ],
    [
        "The measures taken were only partially successful, as the data above show.",
        "但正如上述数据显示，这些措施只取得了部分成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberal democracy has been at a disadvantage in the battle for the narrative because it tends to treat the collective self as if it were just a rational median voter in search of a better job.",
        "自由民主在叙事之争中处于劣势，因为它总是将集体自我视为一个寻找更好的工作的理性的普通选民。"
    ],
    [
        "Among US presidents, John F. Kennedy is often described as charismatic, but obviously not for everyone, given that he failed to capture a majority of the popular vote, and his ratings varied during his presidency.",
        "在历届美国总统中约翰·肯尼迪（John F. Kennedy）常常被认为是最有魅力的，但这显然无法得到所有人的同意，因为他当时只是以微弱优势赢得选举，而且在任期内的民望也高低不定。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, too often, development organizations that could provide refugees with a hand up face insufficient funding and stiff regulations that prevent them from addressing refugees’ needs.",
        "但很多时候，本可以为难民提供帮助的发展组织面临经费不足和规定僵化的困扰，导致难民的需求无法得到满足。"
    ],
    [
        "I need to face my addiction – and so do all women like me.",
        "我已经购衣成瘾，我必须与之对抗——跟所有女性一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Either the government or the entire system will be overturned.",
        "要么政府被推翻，要么整个制度被颠覆。"
    ],
    [
        "Nature, as we have learned from the tsunami, has its own timetable.",
        "这次海啸告诉我们，大自然有它自身的时间表。"
    ],
    [
        "But that demonstration also spurred a major change in China’s policy towards Hong Kong.",
        "但这场示威也引发了中国对香港政策的重大改变。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though Erdoğan may well be able to force the protest genie back into the bottle, he will be significantly weakened until the next Turkish election.",
        "而尽管埃尔多安极有可能迫使示威的幽灵回到瓶中，他的权力将在下一次大选前大大削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The double burden of malnutrition – with hunger existing alongside obesity, diabetes, and other diseases of overconsumption – clearly shows the increasing importance of global dietary rebalancing.",
        "营养不良带来双重负担 ，即饥饿与肥胖和因过度消费造成的另一种疾病糖尿病并存，这清楚地说明重新平衡全球饮食的重要性日益增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has not yet articulated a coherent position on the topic, but his views often come down remarkably close to those of Sanders.",
        "推定的共和党提名人唐纳德·特朗普尚未就这一问题提出一致的立场，但他的观点常常和桑德斯惊人地相似。"
    ],
    [
        "From Bangkok, the line will run east through Cambodia and north through Vietnam to Hanoi, then through Laos and back to Kunming.",
        "从曼谷看是，这条铁路又将向东经过柬埔寨、向北经过越南到达河内，然后再穿越老挝回到昆明。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic performance of Brazil and Russia, in particular, has been very disappointing so far this decade, to the point that many now perceive those countries as unworthy of the status the acronym afforded them.",
        "巴西和俄罗斯近十年间的经济表现尤其是令人失望，以致许多人如今都觉得应该把这两个国家从缩写中剔除。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, it should shift the intermediate target of monetary policy from expanding the money supply to lowering the benchmark interest rate.",
        "具体来说，应该将货币政策的中期目标从扩大货币供应量转为降低基准利率。"
    ],
    [
        "The traditional Fed response, expressed eloquently by former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke at the 2015 IMF Research Conference, is simple: Float your currency.",
        "传统的美联储反应，美联储前主席本·伯南克（Ben Bernanke）在2015年IMF研究会议上明确指出，十分简单：让你的货币浮动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Some regard race-based medical treatment as necessary to reduce health disparities, while others view it as downright discriminatory.",
        "有人提出为了缩小健康差异医学治疗有必要区分种族，但也有人认为这是彻头彻尾的歧视。"
    ],
    [
        "No constant memoranda dictate content.",
        "更没有规定内容的备忘录。"
    ],
    [
        "For me as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Europe has a meaning that goes far beyond geography.",
        "对于现任捷克共和国总理的我来说，欧洲的意义远远超过其地理范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "So, for Hamas as well as for America, the West, and Israel, it is futile to look back in anger and frustration.",
        "因此，对于哈马斯以及美国、西方和以色列而言，带着愤怒和挫伤抱着过去不放是于事无补的。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, as a result of the private-sector deleveraging and an increase in household savings, the US economy, driven by debt and consumption, slid into recession.",
        "但不幸的是，随着私人部门去杠杆化以及家庭储蓄的增加，由负债和消费驱动的美国经济陷入了衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Why give him another chance?",
        "为什么再给他一次机会呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting market distortion is a major factor behind the chronic mismanagement of the world’s fisheries, which the World Bank calculates to have cost the global economy $83 billion in 2012.",
        "由此导致的市场扭曲是世界渔业长期管理失调的主要因素，据世界银行估计，渔业管理失调2012年给全球经济造成83亿美元的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short run, the US current-account deficit will remain, regardless of which country runs bilateral surpluses.",
        "无论对其拥有双边贸易顺差的是哪一个国家，美国的经常账户赤字将在短期内继续存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Greece’s collapsing economy and growing humanitarian crisis, the government will have no choice, absent an agreement, but to print money to fund basic social services.",
        "希腊经济正在崩溃，人道主义危机日益严重，若无法达成协议，其政府将别无选择，只能印钱提供基本社会服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond growing international credibility, two major changes to the Italian political landscape have shaped the election campaign.",
        "除国际信誉逐步恢复外，意大利政治格局的两大变化也决定了竞选活动的走势。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Clinton supporters ought to focus on new ways to appeal to the interests of Trump supporters, while resolutely defending the rights of minorities who feel threatened by Trump’s agenda.",
        "相反，克林顿支持者应该聚焦于用新方法吸引特朗普支持者的兴趣，同时坚决捍卫感到受到特朗普日程威胁的少数人的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Barghouti advocated and was trying to implement internal Fatah elections when the Israelis arrested him.",
        "以色列人逮捕巴库提时，他正宣扬和全力组织法塔赫的内部选举。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, this is possible only if the United States pushes Israel much harder than it has so far to give Palestine viable borders.",
        "诚然，只有当美国用甚于向巴勒斯坦给出可行边界划定的压力来更用力地推动以色列，这才会成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Rand portrays innovative industrialists as akin to Atlas in Greek mythology, carrying on his back a dystopian world of growing and overbearing collectivist government.",
        "兰德描绘了一批类似希腊神话中的阿特拉斯的创新性实业家，在他们背上背负着一个不断膨胀的傲慢的集体主义政府的反乌托邦世界。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, many thousands of tonnes of helium have simply been vented into the atmosphere at source or when the natural gas has been burned.",
        "结果，数千吨氦在生产地或随天然气的燃烧而排入了大气。"
    ],
    [
        "The old guard’s efforts largely backfired and served only to augment Erdoğan’s popularity.",
        "但这帮老看门人的努力在很大程度上都事与愿违，反而增强了埃尔多安的人气。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of Syria, the West has repeatedly called for diplomacy while ruling out any military action, with predictably bad results.",
        "具体到叙利亚问题，西方国家曾多次在排除军事行动可能性的前提下呼吁外交解决，这样做显然不会取得太好的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the appeal of war has ruled out the prospect of serious negotiations between Israel, Syria, and Lebanon.",
        "同样，战争的诉求也排除了以色列、叙利亚和黎巴嫩之间进行严肃谈判的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "A futures market for the complete market basket that consumers buy certainly rings with importance.",
        "消费者购买的完全为市场篮子的期货交易市场必定非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But the new liberal wave in the Arab world is reflected in media coverage that praised Iraq’s election and suggested that it might make a good model for other Arab countries.",
        "但是，各大媒体对伊拉克选举的褒扬之辞反映出阿拉伯世界内的新自由主义浪潮，并暗示这也许会为其他阿拉伯国家树立一个好榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet in 2012, land developers convinced the state legislature to bar the use of scientific evidence on rising sea levels in the state's coastal management policies, at least until 2016.",
        "但在2012年，土地开发商说服州立法者至少在2016年前的州海岸管理政策制定中排除使用科学证据。"
    ],
    [
        "Their motivating fear is the prospect of inflation.",
        "德国这一举动的背后是对通胀前景的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who advocate leaving globalization exclusively in the hands of the private sector may resent the idea of vesting tax-raising authority in a global agency.",
        "那些鼓吹仅在私有领域实行全球化的人可能会憎恶将征税的权力赋予一个全球性机构的理念。"
    ],
    [
        "Chapter 40 states, concisely, another powerful principle: “To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay, right or justice.”",
        "”第40章简洁地表述了另一项强大的原则：“余等不得向任何人出售、拒绝或延搁其应享之权利和公正裁判。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – There is no doubt that Earth is undergoing the sixth mass extinction in its history – the first since the cataclysm that wiped out the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.",
        "斯坦福—毫无疑问，地球正在经历历史上第六次大灭绝——也是大约6,500万年前恐龙灭绝巨灾以来的首次。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet ideological “bubbles” are not the only problem.",
        "但意识形态“泡沫”不是唯一的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, gridlock in the national capital is often accompanied by political cooperation and innovation at the state and municipal levels, leading citizens to view state and local governments, as well as many government agencies, much more favorably than the federal government.",
        "事实上，华盛顿的僵局通常伴随着州和市政层面的政治合作和创新，让公民对州和地方政府——以及许多政府机构——刮目相看，给出远高于联邦政府的评价。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse yet, other than the ephemeral pleasure that it provides, there is not a single biochemical process that requires dietary fructose; it is a vestigial nutrient, left over from the evolutionary differentiation between plants and animals.",
        "更糟糕的是，除了给你带来短暂快感之外，果糖不能为任何一个新陈代谢过程所用； 它是一种退化的营养物，是植物和动物进化分歧的遗留产物。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of them – not least the IMF, but also the EBRD and the European Investment Bank – eventually showed that they could respond flexibly and, as a result, have gained expanded mandates and more capital.",
        "许多机构——不仅包括IMF，也包括EBRD和欧洲投资银行——最终证明了它们可以灵活应对，并因此赢得了更多的权限和更多的资本。"
    ],
    [
        "I am betting that some high-flying glamour cities will continue to see decelerating growth in home prices - and eventually decreases.",
        "我相信，一些耀眼的魅力都市会不断见证房价上涨的速度在减弱，并且最终回落。"
    ],
    [
        "That distinction between state and people has long defined Western policy toward Russia.",
        "这种国家和民众之间的差异一直决定着西方的对俄政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Now Europe needs to follow through and make it work.",
        "如今，欧洲需要再接再厉，落实这一方针。"
    ],
    [
        "So, by raising questions about Mueller’s integrity and that of the FBI, Trump and his allies are trying to set the stage for a widespread public dismissal of whatever Mueller reports.",
        "）因此，特朗普及其盟友对穆勒和FBI的诚信提出质疑，这是在营造气氛让公众不认可穆勒的报告。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a statement is essential to support democratic forces in Ukraine at a time when they stand a realistic chance of shaping Ukraine's future.",
        "上述声明对支持乌克兰内部的民主力量至关重要，它们拥有现实的机遇，真正决定国家的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "American law denies patients a property right in their tissue for reasons of economic policy.",
        "由于经济政策方面的原因，美国法律也否认患者对自身组织的所有者权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran currently applies the same policy considerations to Iraq and Afghanistan, despite its opposition to the US-led invasions of these countries.",
        "尽管伊朗反对美国领导下的对伊拉克和阿富汗的侵略，但它目前仍对上述国家采取同样的政策考量。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration may not care that deficit reduction is the right policy for America, but it might care far more if the issue were framed as a prerequisite for policy changes abroad that diminish pressure from imports on domestic manufacturing employment.",
        "布什政府可能不屑于削减赤字是美国应该实行的政策的观点，但如果把这一问题作为他国改变政策并由此减小进口对美国国内制造业就业的压力的前提条件，那么布什政府就会对其关注得多。"
    ],
    [
        "While we cannot know for certain what the next 10-20 years will bring, we have a few important clues.",
        "虽然我们无法确切知道未来10 ~20年将如何发展，但我们手里有一些重要的线索。"
    ],
    [
        "This would be an extremely dangerous scenario: All things being equal, more nuclear-weapon states implies a higher risk of nuclear war, nuclear terrorism, and nuclear accidents.",
        "这将是一个极其危险的状况：在其他条件不变的情况下，更多的核武器国家必定意味着更高的核战争，核恐怖主义和核事故风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Syria’s bloody civil war, the rise to power of Islamist forces through free elections, the ever-deepening political and economic crises in Egypt and Tunisia, increasing instability in Iraq, uncertainty about the future of Jordan and Lebanon, and the threat of war over Iran’s nuclear program, the bright hope of a new Middle East has vanished.",
        "叙利亚血腥内战、伊斯兰通过自由选举上台、埃及和突尼斯不断加深的政治和经济危机、伊拉克的日渐动荡、约旦和黎巴嫩未来的不确定性以及伊朗核计划头上的战争阴影，这些因素让新中东的美好前景消失殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "The rhetoric of energy independence in the oil-consuming countries makes the situation even worse: the oil-producing countries are building energy-intensive industries to guarantee a market for their oil once consuming nations wean themselves of imported oil.",
        "石油进口国的能源自主呼声使得这一情况更加恶化：产油国正在建设一整套能源密集型工业体系，以便在进口国摆脱进口石油依赖后消化自身产能。"
    ],
    [
        "The large and widely recognized EU electoral observation mission on the ground should issue a strong and timely final report that comes down clearly on whether the vote represented the will of the people of South Sudan.",
        "欧盟派驻当地的选举观察团不但数目庞大，而且拥有极佳公信力，因此也应当在选举结束后及时发布一份有说服力的最终报告，表明这场投票是否真实地反映了苏丹南部人民的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "It should be at least as effective in protecting the Yezidis (and Kurds and others in nearby Erbil) as was the intervention in Libya in 2011 to stop the threatened massacre by Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces of the people of Benghazi.",
        "此次行动保护雅兹迪人（还有附近埃尔比勒的库尔德人和其他民族）的效果至少可以和2011年阻止卡扎菲部队屠杀班加西民众的利比亚干预行动相媲美。"
    ],
    [
        "Such policies spurred firms to adopt capital-intensive technologies, obscuring labor’s natural comparative advantages.",
        "这些政策促使企业采用资本密集型技术，进一步淡化了劳动力的自然比较优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, strong domestic demand has failed to materialize; consumption growth was weak in the first quarter, and capital spending and residential investment were even weaker.",
        "此外，强劲的内需没有成为现实； 一季度消费增长十分疲软，资本支出和住房投资更是萎靡不堪。"
    ],
    [
        "Why do we, suddenly, feel the need to prioritize the national over the European?",
        "为何我们突然之间觉得需要把国家置于欧洲之上？"
    ],
    [
        "The concrete consequences of this enthusiasm were the creation of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), born out of the ashes of the Financial Stability Forum, at the G20’s London summit in April 2009, and inclusion of representatives of all G20 members among the key rule makers in Basel and elsewhere.",
        "这一热情的具体结果就是金融稳定委员会（FSB），它脱胎于金融稳定论坛，于2009年4月在G20伦敦峰会上成立，其成员包括所有G20成员国的代表以及巴塞尔委员会和其他机构的规则制定者。"
    ],
    [
        "In America, liberals turn for political commentary to television comedians like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who are now more trusted than traditional news broadcasters.",
        "美国人认为乔恩·斯图尔特和斯蒂芬·科尔伯特等电视喜剧演员比新闻主播的传统政治评论更值得信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland has nothing like the mendacious, jingoistic gutter press that thrives in the UK.",
        "爱尔兰没有遍布于英国的撒谎成性的狭隘沙文主义三流小报。"
    ],
    [
        "It is likely that continued rapid increases in prosperity are possible.",
        "看起来繁荣的持续快速增长有望。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the region’s overall economic growth over the past two decades, life for many Roma is worse now than ever.",
        "尽管东欧地区 20 年来经济发展迅速，但许多罗姆人的生活却比过去更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Immigrants are seen as arriving on a journey of continual reinvention, driven to exceed their opportunities in their countries of origin.",
        "移民来到美国视为一种持续创新的历程。 他们受到驱动，要超越在其原住国家的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "One site was still operating 24 hours a day; in others production had been temporarily halted until the deadline passed.",
        "一间企业依然在 24 小时开工生产； 其他企业则暂时停工，只等限期过后再次恢复生产；"
    ],
    [
        "This has apparently consumed virtually all of their attention.",
        "显然，这几乎耗尽了它们的全部注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "Li must ensure that China’s economy, which still boasts significant growth potential, does not sink into lethargy and fall into the so-called “middle-income trap.”",
        "李克强必须确保仍以巨大增长潜力自豪的中国经济不会陷于沉寂并跌落所谓的“中等收入陷阱”。"
    ],
    [
        "This institutional innovation enabled the reconstruction of hundreds of Chinese cities, connected by airports, highways, high-speed rail, and advanced telecommunication systems.",
        "这一制度创新使数百个中国城市得以复兴，并通过机场、高速公路、高速铁路和先进的通讯系统连接在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from a small number of good stories in the business press, it is difficult to argue that anyone who read or listened to English-language media coverage of the campaign could have learned anything interesting or relevant to the question of whose economic policy was likely to be better for America.",
        "除了商业新闻界还有几篇值得一读的报道外，很难说谁看了或听了英文媒体对此次大选的报道后能了解到任何有趣的、或与谁的经济政策可能对美国更有利这样的问题有关的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "The supply of African professionals and skilled workers, meanwhile, is tight; shortages also drive up wages.",
        "同时，非洲的专业人才和熟练工人的缺乏也推动工资上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "A famous player of the 1990’s said at the time, “I’d make a racist comment every week if I thought it would help win the game.”",
        "一名1990年代的著名运动员曾说：“如果能对赢得比赛有利的话，我每周都会发表种族主义言论。"
    ],
    [
        "A Second Chance for European Reform",
        "欧洲改革的第二次机会"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, policymakers must take a deeper look at the system, and make vital changes.",
        "与此同时，决策者必须更深刻地看待制度，并做出重要改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But the number of job seekers exceeded the number of openings in every industry.",
        "但在所有行业，找工作者的数字都超过了职位空缺数。"
    ],
    [
        "All countries must play their part.",
        "所有国家都必须做好分内之事。"
    ],
    [
        "They are a better measure of the threats posed by climate change than heat sequestered underwater.",
        "它们更适合作为气候变化所带来的危机的衡量指标，而非隐匿于水下的热量的衡量指标。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is Europe that has consistently criticized these policies – often harshly.",
        "欧洲一直对这些政策持批评态度——往往言辞还非常激烈。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where delusion arises.",
        "错觉就产生在这里。"
    ],
    [
        "Even to contemplate such a possibility is proof of diplomatic failure, not a triumph of real leadership.",
        "即使只是考虑朝鲜半岛战争的可能性，也是外交失败的证据，而不是真正的领导力的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "After the government clamped down on lending for residential and commercial projects, risky shadow banking activity surged.",
        "政府打压住宅和商用项目贷款后，高风险影子银行活动激增。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, concessions on either side appear to leave no impression on the other.",
        "更糟的是，任何一方的让步似乎都得不到对方的认可。"
    ],
    [
        "In the West, the concept of sovereignty and the limited use of power is likely to make a comeback, while national leaders who have traditionally called for restraint will become increasingly bold in unleashing their troops.",
        "在西方，主权的概念和有限使用武力可能卷土重来，而传统上总是呼吁克制的国家领导人越来越热衷于派遣军队。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia is completely dependent, economically and politically, on its commodity and energy exports, which go primarily to Europe.",
        "俄罗斯在经济上和政治上完全依赖于其大宗商品和能源出口，而主要出口地就是欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Its successor, the National Development and Reform Commission, will probably function more as a think tank – providing ideas and ensuring policy coherence, but with no power to allocate.",
        "其继任机构国家发展和改革委员会（National Development and Reform Commission）可能更加接近于智库——提供观点和确保政策一致性，但不再拥有配置权。"
    ],
    [
        "China is the exception, claiming the second-largest share of flows (after the United States).",
        "中国是个例外，占知识密集型流比重第二位（仅次于美国）。"
    ],
    [
        "The adverse consequences of greatest concern include more marijuana-related road traffic accidents and deaths; more psychoses and other serious mental health problems among heavy users; and heavier marijuana use by young people, negatively affecting their life chances.",
        "后果主要集中在更多与大麻有关的交通事故和伤亡； 大麻滥用者患上精神病以及其他精神疾病的概率增加；"
    ],
    [
        "Despite wars in Lebanon and Gaza, and the intifadas in the occupied West Bank, these parameters have proven surprisingly stable for decades, anchored by the peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan and the Oslo accords with the Palestinians.",
        "在以色列与埃及和约旦两国签署的和平协议，以及与巴勒斯坦人签订的《奥斯陆协议》的基础上，不管经历了黎巴嫩和加沙地区的战争还是西岸占领区的巴勒斯坦人起义，数十年里来这些因素都出人意料地保持了稳定"
    ],
    [
        "Today, this grievance sits at the heart of popular frustration, particularly among disaffected urban youth, who helped ignite the latest round of unrest.",
        "如今，这一怨气成为群众不满的核心，特别是愤愤不平的城市青年，他们点燃了最近的骚乱。"
    ],
    [
        "We live in a multipolar world where neither the US nor China is large enough to exercise global economic leadership on its own.",
        "我们生活在一个多极化的世界中，不论是美国还是中国，都没有足够的力量独自领导全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies, among other things, a fair tax system that is more progressive and eliminates the distortions and loopholes that allow speculators to pay taxes at a lower effective rate than those who work for a living, and that enable the rich to use the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share.",
        "这意味着（包括但不限于）更加累进的公平税收制度、消除让投机者得以以比努力工作讨生活者更低的有效税率纳税，从而让富人得以利用开曼群岛避免缴纳合理税负的税制扭曲和漏洞。"
    ],
    [
        "In emerging markets in 2014, only about 55% of adults had a bank or financial-services account, but nearly 80% had a mobile phone.",
        "在2014年的新兴市场，仅有约55%的成年人开立了银行或金融服务账户，却有近80%的成年人拥有移动电话。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the American alternative is viable.",
        "只有美国式选择才是可行的。"
    ],
    [
        "So, even though potential usefulness is the reason why governments devote so much money to scientific research, people really expect more from science than that.",
        "因此，就算潜在的实用性是政府投入巨资进行科研的原因所在，人们对科学的实际期待却有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this is meant to suggest that the Pacific region does not need America.",
        "这绝不是要暗示太平洋地区不需要美国。"
    ],
    [
        "So the battle is not lost.",
        "因此我们并未输掉这场战争。"
    ],
    [
        "But overfishing and pollution are causing tremendous damage.",
        "但过度捕捞和污染正在造成严重伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "It has submitted comments on health-insurer mergers for proceedings in California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin; it has testified at hearings in California, Delaware, Florida, Missouri, New York, Virginia, and Wisconsin; and it has armed consumer groups and unions with relevant facts and figures.",
        "它已就医疗保险企业兼并议案向加利福尼亚州、特拉华州、佛罗里达州、佐治亚州、伊利诺伊州、爱荷华州、印第安纳州、密苏里州、纽约州、俄亥俄州、弗吉尼亚州和威斯康星州的法律诉讼提交了评议报告； 它还在加利福尼亚州、特拉华州、佛罗里达州、密苏里州、纽约州、弗吉尼亚州和威斯康星州承担了作证工作；"
    ],
    [
        "Milton Friedman and other critics often asked if it was the business of businesses to practice corporate altruism.",
        "米尔顿·弗里德曼以及其他一些批评家一直都质疑企业是否应开展利他主义行为。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to note, however, that meeting “all existing criteria” does not place the renminbi on par with, say, the US dollar – or, indeed, with any of the other SDR currencies (the euro, the British pound, or the Japanese yen) – in terms of international usage.",
        "但是，必须指出，满足“所有现有条件”并不能让人民币在国际使用方面与（比如）美元等量齐观——事实上，所有与其他SDR货币（欧元、英镑和日元）也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Paradoxically, the discerning Palestinian observer may find comfort in America’s failure to stop Israel from expanding its settlements (and thus effectively annexing a growing share of Palestinian land), for it ends the charade on which the peace process has been based.",
        "矛盾的是，敏锐的巴勒斯坦观察者可能会因为美国没能阻止以色列扩张其定居点（从而日益蚕食巴勒斯坦领土）而舒一口气，因为这结束了已成为和平进程基础的猜谜游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "Economizing Life and Death",
        "更有效地筹划生与死"
    ],
    [
        "Reactionary French anti-Semitism, however, reflected a wider trend in twentieth-century Europe.",
        "但是，反动的法国反犹主义反映了二十世纪欧洲的一个更加广泛的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Cautious parents seek agents to select their employees and technology to monitor them as they work.",
        "小心谨慎的父母找到专业甄别员工和技术的代理来负责监管他们的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "There are also more recent cases of the same effect. In late-1980’s Yugoslavia, as the socialist regime disintegrated, the monetary authorities in Belgrade were inevitably closest to Serbian politicians such as Slobodan Milošević and to Serbian business interests.",
        "关于类似效应还有更近的例子：在1980年代末的南斯拉夫，随着整个社会主义统治分崩离析，贝尔格莱德的货币当局不可避免地偏袒斯洛博丹·米洛舍维奇这样的塞族政治家以及塞族的经济利益，导致克罗地亚族和斯洛文尼亚族希望脱离联邦。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the raw appeal of pornography, it seems, is that the product itself be raw, and conspicuously illicit.",
        "似乎色情产品的原始吸引部分来自于产品自身制作的粗糙简陋，以及在法律中被明文禁止所带来的偷食禁果的刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "He will be sorely missed.",
        "他的逝世是巨大的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "In some recent cases, the issue has been not much more than an irritating sideshow, as when Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded an apology from the United States late last year for causing unintended civilian deaths – at the price, bizarrely, of allowing the Americans to continue defending him and his country (the US understandably refused).",
        "近期的某些事件中，道歉问题不过是恼人的插曲，比方说阿富汗总统卡尔扎伊要求美国为去年底意外造成平民伤亡道歉——之后才能，这一点非常奇怪，允许美国继续为阿富汗和他本人提供保护（不难理解，美国拒绝了他的要求）。"
    ],
    [
        "With 26% of people under the age of 30 not in school, employment, or training – the second-highest rate in the EU, behind only Greece – structural youth unemployment will prove difficult to correct.",
        "26%的30岁以下年轻人不上学，不工作，也不接受培训——为欧盟第二高，仅次于希腊——结构性青年失业问题解决起来非常困难。"
    ],
    [
        "The normally conservative International Monetary Fund has given the idea surprisingly emphatic support.",
        "通常较为保守的国际货币基金组织（IMF）出人意料地非常支持这一看法。"
    ],
    [
        "It was these interactions, rather than the individual on his or her own, that created value and set in motion a dynamic process.",
        "正是这些互动，而不是个人自身才创造了价值，并开启了一个充满活力的进程。"
    ],
    [
        "The conventional argument asserts that wary CEOs have come to see long-term risks as “just not worth it.”",
        "传统观点认为，忧心忡忡的CEO们认为长期风险“不值得冒”。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the most pressing immediate question, but America’s leaders should also be thinking ahead.",
        "这是目前最迫切需要解决的问题，但美国领导人还需要预先考虑未来。"
    ],
    [
        "While “humanitarian aid” cannot be neglected, it should be recognized that such aid promotes consumption rather than investment, creating price distortions and work disincentives.",
        "虽然不能忽视“人道主义援助”，但应该承认的是，这种援助促进的是消费，而不是投资，并会引起价格扭曲和不愿工作的懒惰情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Invoking Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s long dictatorship – now four decades in the past – is a feeble attempt to disguise the separatists’ economic pretensions and overblown sense of cultural superiority.",
        "借口弗朗西斯科·弗朗哥已经过去40年的长期独裁很难掩盖住分离主义者在经济上的自负和过于夸大的文化自豪。"
    ],
    [
        "In the midst of this turmoil came the assassination of the Afghan government’s chief peace negotiator with the Taliban, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani.",
        "乱上加乱的是阿富汗政府与塔利班的首席和平谈判员、前总统拉巴尼的遇刺。"
    ],
    [
        "Can we achieve this technological miracle over the next 20 to 40 years?",
        "那么我们究竟能不能在未来20至40年间实现这一科技奇迹呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This is already happening in the United States, where exports are above their previous peak while imports remain subdued; the current-account deficit is declining; and even net employment in the tradable sector is increasing (for the first time in two decades).",
        "在美国，这一幕正在发生，出口已高于前期峰值，而进口仍然受到抑制； 经常项目赤字在减少；"
    ],
    [
        "Larangan subsidi impor dari WTO tidak mempunyai alasan ekonomi yang jelas, seperti yang telah dijelaskan diatas.",
        "如我所指出的，世贸组织禁止出口补贴就没有真正的经济逻辑。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a discussion of how much of the burden to pass on to future generations. In this war, there was no such discussion.",
        "还有人讨论应该把多少负担转嫁到后人身上。 在这一战争中，没有人讨论这些。"
    ],
    [
        "Western countries, and the US in particular, must provide firm backing and support to the South Caucasus to prevent Russia from realizing its destabilizing and dangerous neo-imperial dream.",
        "西方国家、特别是美国必须向南高加索提供坚定的支持，以防止俄罗斯实现其破坏稳定以及危险的新帝国主义梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "When one controls for income, increasing a population’s access to sanitation by 50% is correlated with more than nine years of additional life expectancy.",
        "如果控制收入变量，让卫生设施在人口中的普及率提高50%可以带来寿命预期增加九年。"
    ],
    [
        "It is doubtful that the lesson is lost on Kim Jong-un.",
        "金正恩是否忘记了这个教训颇可怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush made serious economic- and foreign-policy mistakes during his presidency, beginning in its early years, with predictable consequences for the economy, the federal budget, and national security.",
        "小布什在上任头几年就犯下了一系列严重经济和外交政策失误，为经济、联邦预算和国家安全引发了可预见的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "A South Asian Grand Bargain",
        "南亚的宏伟协议"
    ],
    [
        "So what, exactly, will Europe do?",
        "所以，到底欧洲会怎么做呢？"
    ],
    [
        "There is nothing inevitable or God-given about suffering, injustice, and inequality.",
        "苦难、不公和不平等绝不是不可避免的，也不是注定的。"
    ],
    [
        "While this admiration stems partly from Germany’s current economic success, the sentiment runs deeper – and extends beyond Europe.",
        "虽然这种崇拜部分源于德国目前的经济成就，但这种感情却有着更深的渊源，甚至延伸到欧洲以外地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The last time that many read a news story about the Fund may have been when then-Managing Director Dominique Strauss Kahn was forced out in May 2011, following accusations that he sexually assaulted an employee in a New York hotel.",
        "很多人上次读到国际货币基金的报道或许还是2011年5月时任总裁多米尼克·斯特劳斯卡恩被迫离职，当时有人指责他在纽约一家酒店对一名员工进行性侵犯。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, their domestic problems threaten to turn uncertainty into peril.",
        "相反，它们的国内问题只能把不确定性变成危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Conflict prevention and human-rights protection are primarily the responsibility of states, and it is increasingly recognized that businesses must play their part as well.",
        "冲突预防和人权保护主要是国家的责任，并且人们日渐认识到企业也必须有所贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems appropriate to assign the term “Anthropocene” to the current, in many ways human-dominated, geological epoch, supplementing the Holocene – the warm period of the past 10–12 millennia.",
        "看来，引入“人类世”的概念来描述现在的人类主宰的时代比较合适，作为一个地质时代，它是“全新世”的下一代。"
    ],
    [
        "But, so far, it has not shown a capacity for real global leadership.",
        "但到目前为止，它还没有表现出真正的全球领导力。"
    ],
    [
        "Exceptional times require the freedom to experiment in economic policy.",
        "特殊的时代需要有在经济政策上进行试验的自由空间。"
    ],
    [
        "This cost will be modest relative to the size of their economies, and any successful climate-change agreement will require similar commitments.",
        "这一成本与他们的经济规模比起来十分微小，而任何成功的气候变化协定都需要一样的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The next few weeks will see the resolution, one way or another, of the last territorial issues remaining in the Balkans, where the wars of the 1990’s ended with NATO interventions in Bosnia (1995) and Kosovo (1999).",
        "接下来几周将会最终解决巴尔干半岛留下的最后的领土问题，不管是以哪种方式。 二十世纪九十年代在那里发生的战争最终导致了北约1995年在波斯尼亚、1999年在科索沃的介入。"
    ],
    [
        "Free trade is a Mexican invention to take away American jobs.",
        "自由贸易是抢夺美国就业岗位的墨西哥图谋。"
    ],
    [
        "In the fighting that ensued, the US grabbed Guantánamo as a naval base and asserted (in the now infamous Platt Amendment) a future right to intervene in Cuba.",
        "在随后的战斗中，美国夺取了关塔那摩，将之作为海军基地，并主张（根据现在闻名天下的普拉特修正案）拥有干涉古巴的未来权利。"
    ],
    [
        "There was nothing inevitable about this outcome.",
        "这一结果绝不是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, there have been strikes, marches, and growing anger at political leaders, but protests have been largely peaceful.",
        "虽然工人罢工、群众游行、民众对政治领袖的愤怒越来越强烈，但抗议活动基本都采用和平的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "China has expressed concerns, and the head of its central bank has joined the UN Commission in calling for a new global reserve system.",
        "中国已经表示了关注，它的央行领导人加入了联合国委员会，号召采用新的全球储备机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Next year will also mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. From that moment until the present, Europe has both endured the worst and enjoyed the best of its history.",
        "明年还是第一次世界大战爆发100周年纪念。 从那时到现在，欧洲经历了历史上最坏的时代和最好的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "The country needs a deeper commitment to reform that will come only when its institutions engage the Russian public in the sort of open debate that we have lacked.",
        "俄国需要积极投身的民主能使国内公众真正参与到以前所缺乏的公开辩论中来。"
    ],
    [
        "The Paris agreement recognizes these basic facts.",
        "巴黎协议承认这些基本事实。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009, police raided her house and confiscated documents in an investigation that linked her to an alleged terrorist group, called “Ergenekon,” supposedly bent on destabilizing Turkey in order to precipitate a military coup.",
        "2009年，警方突击搜查了她的住处，没收了一批文档。 此次调查的原因是她被指与恐怖组织“土耳其右翼组织”（Ergenekon）有涉，该组织意欲在土耳其制造混乱，以便实施军事政变。"
    ],
    [
        "Amid much talk of a “post-American world,” many observers see a shift from a US-dominated international order toward a multipolar system, in which countries like China, Russia, and several others compete for global leadership on a range of common challenges and risks.",
        "许多观察家在大谈“后美国世界”的时候，他们认为由美国主导的国际秩序正在向多极化体系转变，在这一体系中，如中国、俄罗斯和其它几个国家在一系列共同面临的挑战和风险上，互相竞争以谋求对全球的领导。"
    ],
    [
        "India, with which Pakistan shares a similar background, went through 40 years of dysfunctional democracy with a one-party system.",
        "印度和巴基斯坦具有类似的背景，经历了40年一党专制的运转不良的民主。"
    ],
    [
        "However, it took nearly two centuries of wars, political and social disasters, and decolonization before this idea became globally accepted, at least in theory.",
        "然而，在经过了将近两个世纪的战争、政治和社会灾难以及非殖民化后，这种观念才至少是在理论上为全球所接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 60,000 refugees who sought to register have been put into detention facilities where conditions are inhumane. Migrants who do not register and live on the street are attacked by the hooligans of the neo-fascist Golden Dawn party.",
        "大约60,000名寻求注册的难民被投入条件很不人道的拘留中心，没有注册的移民则露宿街头，成为新法西斯金色黎明党流氓的袭击对象。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, we have shown that it is possible to reverse the forces that had driven away our most talented young people.",
        "现在，我们已经证明扭转赶走我们最有才华年轻人的因素是完全可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the message of two recent books that, together, tell you everything you need to know about the 2008 financial crisis: what caused it, what can be done to prevent it from recurring, and why those things have yet to be done.",
        "这就是两本新书一起告诉你的信息。 这两本新书讲述了你需要知道的关于2008年金融危机的一切：什么引起了金融危机，可以做什么防止它再次发生，以及为何这些事情还没有人去做。"
    ],
    [
        "The groups responsible for the violence in Charlottesville reveled in US President Donald Trump’s election last November.",
        "制造夏洛茨维尔暴力事件的团体去年11月曾狂欢庆祝美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的当选。"
    ],
    [
        "This creates the impression that North Korea may still be holding some kidnap victims to use as bargaining chips in discussions on economic cooperation.",
        "日本据此认为朝鲜可能仍然扣押着某些被绑架者，并打算以此为筹码进行经济合作谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the familiar benefit of diversity confronts the downside risk of a loss of social cohesion.",
        "在这方面，我们所熟悉的多元化的好处要碰上社会凝聚力损失的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But the more important issue is to identify the preachers of hate and stop their murderous incitement.",
        "但是更重要的问题是，找出仇恨鼓吹者并制止他们的致命性煽动。"
    ],
    [
        "Dealing with their restlessness and frustration within the context of immigration will only alienate them further.",
        "以移民标准处理他们的不安定和不满只能进一步疏离他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments have reason to be confident that the reserve-currency country will make servicing debt held by its allies a high priority.",
        "政府有理由相信，储备货币国会将履行盟国所持债务的义务列为重点。"
    ],
    [
        "A Silver Lining for a Hard Brexit",
        "硬脱欧的一线希望"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the phrase “Anglo-Saxon” is not often heard any more in the US, where the majority of the population has not been of Anglo-Saxon origin for a long time (which is also true of Britain’s largest cities).",
        "其实，“盎格鲁－萨克逊”这个短语在美国已很少听到，很久以前美国的大部分人就已经不再有盎格鲁－萨克逊血统了（英国大城市也同样如此）。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not new, but it has only recently started to sink in, and it hurts.",
        "这并不新鲜，但是这却是最近才开始被了解，这对法国是个伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not difficult to see where the blame lies.",
        "不难看出罪魁何在。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most revealing aspect of Hu’s rule is his failure to reform the government’s outmoded institutions.",
        "最能够昭示胡锦涛统制的莫过于其不改革过时的政府机制。"
    ],
    [
        "The benchmark builds on recommendations made in the May 2016 final report of the British government’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, which I chaired, and on the important work being done by Chatham House, Drive-AB, the Global Union for Antibiotic Research and Development, the Pew Trusts, and the World Health Organization.",
        "”制定这套标准的基础是2016年5月由我本人主持的英国政府抗菌素耐药性最终评估报告所提出的建议，以及由查塔姆研究所、 Drive-AB、全球抗菌药物研发联盟、皮尤信托和世界卫生组织等机构所取得的重要成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Allowing unlimited immigration would seem to violate this contract.",
        "放任无限量移民涌入似乎与这一期约相悖。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2016 – that is, very soon – we can expect eurozone GDP in terms of purchasing power parity to be below that of China.",
        "到2016年——也就是不久之后——我们预计以购买力平价计算的欧元区GDP将低于中国。"
    ],
    [
        "LIMA – Governments often see climate change as too costly to address.",
        "利马——政府往往认为气候变化的解决成本太过昂贵。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent non-partisan report by the Public Diplomacy Council called for a new Agency for Public Diplomacy within the State Department, 24-hour English-language broadcasts by the Voice of America, and a fourfold budget increase over the next five years.",
        "最近由“公共外交协会”发表的一份非党派的报告呼吁在国务院内设立一个负责公共外交的新机构，“美国之音”开辟24小时的英语广播，及未来五年预算增长四倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Interest payments, which consume more than 10% of Germany’s federal budget, will grow along with the mounting debt burden – and even faster if interest rates rise.",
        "其中占联邦预算超过10%的利息支付额将随着债务的不断堆积而增加——如果利率升高的话，递增的速度还会更快。"
    ],
    [
        "For populists, the EU represents significant added constraints that are even harder to push past than domestic checks.",
        "对于民粹主义者来说，欧盟代表了极大的附加约束，甚至比国内制衡更难超越。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve these reforms, a new decision-making procedure is required to ensure that EU-wide, not national interests, dominate the process.",
        "要完成这些改革，必须要有一个全新的决策程序来保证处于此过程中主导地位的是欧盟利益而并非国家利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Viewed from this perspective, the additional protection afforded by the exemption is highly surprising.",
        "从这个角度看，将其剔除这一附加保护着实令人震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Will war break out in the seas of East Asia?",
        "剑桥——东亚海域会不会爆发战争？"
    ],
    [
        "But India’s national politics has long been skewed toward the Hindi-speaking northern heartland, and Uttar Pradesh has far more voters than the other four states combined.",
        "但印度的国家政治长期偏向于说北印度语的北部核心地带，而北方邦选民人数远高于其他四个邦的总和。"
    ],
    [
        "It commenced work on a solution in 2008.",
        "于是它于2008年开始寻找解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "As a consequence of all the talk about withdrawing from NAFTA, the Mexican peso has lost about 14% of its value since the election results were announced.",
        "退出NAFTA的传言的一个后果是，自选举结果出台以来墨西哥比索已经贬值了14%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments already hold some administrative data, but their use for statistical purposes often requires legislative changes.",
        "政府已经掌握了一些管理数据，但它们的统计用途常常需要立法变化。 解放这一信息宝藏能扩大统计样本，达到接近普查的规模；"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, at least, the mini-revaluation hardly seems to have compromised China’s ability to bend exchange markets to its will.",
        "至少从表面上看，汇率的微调似乎还没有削弱中国按照自己的意愿操纵外汇市场的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But the proposal, even if discarded (though Orbán has hinted that he may bring it back in another form), remains worrisome, because it is part of a disturbing trend.",
        "但是，该计划即使被放弃（尽管奥班暗示会以另一种形式卷土重来），也仍然令人担忧，因为它是令人不安的趋势的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Latin America, Africa, and the Arab world also must see an increase in their influence.",
        "拉丁美洲、非洲和阿拉伯世界也必须增加各自的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "She also understands the value of “smart power” – that bombs aren’t always the most valuable tools to use in pursuit of one’s goals.",
        "她还理解“巧实力”——即炸弹并不总是实现目标的最有效的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas participated in the 2006 legislative elections, which followed Israel’s military withdrawal from Gaza.",
        "哈马斯参与了2006年以军撤离加沙后举行的立法选举。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, al-Ahmar’s dismal performance in spearheading the war against the Houthi-led sectarian rebellion in the north made him a convenient scapegoat for the regime’s failures.",
        "与此同时，阿赫玛尔在北部打击以胡锡为首的宗教反抗势力时的作战不力又使他经常被用作掩饰该政权种种弊端的替罪羊。"
    ],
    [
        "But too often it is easier to keep the theory and change the facts – or so German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other pro-austerity European leaders appear to believe.",
        "但往往保持理论改变事实才更容易——或者说，德国总理默克尔和其他支持紧缩的欧洲领导人是这么认为的。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, an increasing proportion of this population began to demand the creation of an Islamic state in the areas that were now Pakistan.",
        "随着时间的推移，越来越多的人口比例开始要求在今天的巴基斯坦地区建立伊斯兰国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe's political systems are being shaken by the rise of populist parties, many of which are winning support with an anti-European platform.",
        "民粹主义政党崛起动摇了欧洲的政治制度，其中不少已经赢得了反欧洲平台的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Its neighbors include countries – most notably on the eurozone’s periphery – that are struggling.",
        "它的四周皆是苦苦挣扎的国家，特别是那些欧元区外围国。"
    ],
    [
        "They all failed.",
        "他们均失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "Campaigning and governing are two very different activities, and there is no reason to assume that how Trump conducted the former will dictate how he approaches the latter.",
        "竞选和执政是两种完全不同的行为，没有理由以特朗普处理前者的方式来确定后者。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the Spratly Islands dispute should be resolved through international adjudication.",
        "此外，南沙群岛争端应通过国际管辖权加以解决。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamists could also impose the veil and later on the niqab.",
        "伊斯兰主义者还可能把面纱强加给妇女。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, today’s urban areas are huge, diverse, and pluralistic, so it may seem strange to say that a modern city has an ethos that informs its residents’ collective life.",
        "当然，如今的城市区域已经变得巨大，分散以及多元化，因此如果说一座城市拥有一种足以影响其居民集体生活的精神气质，那未免会令人生疑了。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the sovereign debt is now held by the official sector, which traditionally does not allow any haircut.",
        "大多数政府债务现由政府部门持有，按照传统这些债务不允许任何扣减。"
    ],
    [
        "John Maynard Keynes wanted to force surplus countries to either spend or lend.",
        "约翰 · 梅纳德 · 凯恩斯（ John Maynard Keynes ）曾希望迫使顺差国家增加消费或提高贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a so-called Tobin tax on financial transactions is a frequently proposed solution, but it is not a policy solution that could be implemented by corporate-law judges.",
        "比如，一个对金融交易征收的所谓托宾税（Tobin tax）是一个被经常提出的方案，但这并不是一个可以由公司法法官实施的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "There was no mistaking the power and symbolism of the opening ceremonies for the Beijing Olympic Games on August 8.",
        "人们不会误解8月8日北京奥运会开幕式的象征意义和震撼力。"
    ],
    [
        "If the success of a TV pundit with a red rubber nose is a rebuke to the dull and fawning anchormen, the political success in recent years of entertainers, demagogues, and public figures who make a virtue of their indiscretion is a slap in the face of the professional political class which they profess to despise.",
        "如果戴着红鼻子的电视批评家的成功是对乏味和阿谀奉承的主持人的反讽，那么近年来娱乐人、煽动者和把轻率言行引以为荣的公众人物所取得的政治成功可以说是打在公开抨击这些人的职业政客脸上的一记耳光。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a system is as unsuited to the future as Mao’s system was to the past.",
        "正如毛的制度不适合于过去一样，这样的制度也与未来格格不入。"
    ],
    [
        "But in today's European Union, Groucho need not apply.",
        "但在今天的欧盟，格罗克不需要申请。"
    ],
    [
        "And financial stability is again a central-bank responsibility, including for the more conservative European Central Bank.",
        "金融稳定性也再次成为央行的责任，包括较为保守的欧洲央行。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a rule that applies to the medicines used by patients worldwide many billions of times a day.",
        "”这是每天都要在全球患者身上适用多达成百上千亿次的药理规则。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, the world should celebrate the fact that Bolivia has a democratically elected leader attempting to represent the interests of the poor people of his country.",
        "目前，世界应当为玻利维亚有了一个经过民主程序当选的、力图代表该国穷人利益的领导人而庆贺。"
    ],
    [
        "Some observers see this as an act of faith (presumably in the virtues of the unfettered market).",
        "一些观察家将其视为一种信念（大概是对不受束缚的自由市场的优点的信仰）。"
    ],
    [
        "Only if wages adjust downward to accommodate the new international environment can German workers become competitive again, so that the country returns to a higher employment level, exploiting its human capital up to the capacity constraint.",
        "只有调低工资、适应全新国际环境的需要，德国工人才能重拾竞争力，国内的就业水平才能回升，人力资源也才能得到充分的利用。"
    ],
    [
        "Others believe that the only useful analogy is to Europe’s old balance-of-power games.",
        "其他人相信，唯一有用的相似点就是欧洲古老的大国平衡游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "The myriad rulings that have resulted from this process have left the exercise of national defense without any clear position under the Constitution and impede Japan from exercising its “collective self-defense” rights and treaty obligations with its allies (principally the United States).",
        "这个过程所产生的无数条规定使得国防行动在宪法框架下毫无明确立场可言，并阻止日本使用“集体自卫”权利以及实施同盟之间（尤其是美国）履行条约规定的义务。"
    ],
    [
        "Their sample included countries in Latin America and Asian countries beyond Japan.",
        "他们中的代表包括日本之外的拉丁美洲国家和亚洲国家。"
    ],
    [
        "US President Barack Obama would be wrong to think so as he prepares for his first official visit.",
        "忙于准备首次正式出访的奥巴马总统这样想难免会误入歧途。"
    ],
    [
        "If domestic tensions, above all within Iran’s restive middle class, ease as a result, the government will receive the credit, while the Iranian Republican Guard and other hardliners will be weakened.",
        "如果伊朗国内紧张局面（主要来自伊朗难以驾驭的中产阶级）能够有所缓和，伊朗政府就能得到信用，而伊朗国民卫队（Iranian Republican Guard）和其他强硬派也将有所削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "While Thein Sein would undoubtedly wish to see the myriad economic and political sanctions imposed on Burma quickly lifted, it is too soon for a general easing of such measures.",
        "毫无疑问，登盛愿意看见施加于缅甸的大量经济和政治制裁迅速被取消，但现在就放松制裁还为时过早。"
    ],
    [
        "During his campaign, Morales made clear his intention to increase state control over national gas and oil.",
        "在竞选过程中，莫拉莱斯明确表明，他打算提高对国家天然气和石油的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "This may simply reflect a dearth of international legal expertise in this field or the state of China’s segmented, stove-piped policy communities.",
        "这或许只是反映出该领域国际法知识的缺失，或者中国条块分割的政策现状。"
    ],
    [
        "If not, we should stop discussing an “exit strategy.”",
        "如果不能，我们就别再为讨论什么“推出战略”而白费唇舌了。"
    ],
    [
        "What corporations wanted was cheaper labor, however they could get it.",
        "企业想要的是更便宜的劳动力，而它们也已经得到了。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu may be a dismal prime minister; but he is also a formidable campaigner.",
        "内塔尼亚胡或许是个乏味的总理； 但同时也是令人敬畏的活动家。"
    ],
    [
        "In revolutionary times, events can go from impossible to inevitable without ever passing through improbable.",
        "在革命年代，事件可以从不可能跨越未必能，直接变成不可免。"
    ],
    [
        "Distinguishing between enhancement and treatment requires defining normality and disease, which is notoriously difficult.",
        "区分“强化”和“治疗”需要定义正常和疾病，而定义这两个概念的难度尽人皆知。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Christian churches, Islam can also change, and Indonesia and Turkey could well be examples for such a possibility.",
        "因此伊斯兰教也可以发生像天主教那样的转变，而印尼和土耳其则很可能成为其中的成功例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The great majority of Egyptians were not in Tahrir Square, and many of them lack not only access to online social networks, but also electricity and safe drinking water.",
        "埃及人的大多数并不在解放广场，他们许多人不仅上不了社交网络，连用电和获取安全的饮用水的机会都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "The gap with 1.6% average annual growth rate for per capita GDP is small, isn’t it?",
        "1%，差距看起来并不大吧？ 人均GDP平均年增长率为1."
    ],
    [
        "But while their mutual enmity is longstanding, it is far from age-old, as it is sometimes portrayed.",
        "但尽管它们的敌意由来已久，却并不像有时所描绘的那样古老。"
    ],
    [
        "The @AP Twitter hoax represents systemic risk that cannot be eliminated, for it arises from the interaction of highly integrated financial markets and increasingly democratized news delivery.",
        "@AP推特骗局表现出无法消除的系统风险，上述风险来自高度一体化的金融市场和日益民主化的新闻发布。"
    ],
    [
        "And the United Nations Security Council has called for an inclusive constitution with the broadest possible support.",
        "联合国安理会也呼吁制定赢得最广泛支持的包容性宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies that Britain’s budget contributions must also continue until new global agreements are finalized.",
        "这意味着英国的预算贡献也必须一直保持到新全球协定完成。"
    ],
    [
        "We started with the National Food Authority, a government corporation tasked with ensuring an adequate supply of rice.",
        "我们从国家食品管理局这家以确保大米供应的国营机构开始着手。"
    ],
    [
        "But the clock has been creeping forward again.",
        "不过，这个时钟又在缓缓地向前走了。"
    ],
    [
        "Though that would have been eminently affordable, representing less than 0.5% of international health assistance, the WHO failed to establish it.",
        "虽然只占国际医疗援助不到0. 5%的数额在经济上完全可以承受，但世卫组织最终还是没能实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But Israel’s current passivity – with all of its negative long-term consequences for the country – is likely to continue as long as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu considers his coalition’s survival more important than a decisive peace initiative.",
        "但只要总理内塔尼亚胡继续认为自己执政联盟的生存比一个决定性和平方案更重要的话，以色列目前的消极——以及所有将对这个国家造成的长期后果——都将依然存在下去。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s recent failure to champion the international financial institutions represents a reversal of its approach during the latter half of the twentieth century, when it invested heavily in securing and maintaining their effectiveness.",
        "美国最近在捍卫国际金融机构方面的失败体现了其二十世纪下半叶以来的方针转变。 此前，美国投入重金确保和维持这些金融机构的效率。"
    ],
    [
        "The New Bogeymen of Financial Capitalism",
        "金融资本主义的新魔怪"
    ],
    [
        "But if separatist groups, with support from Russia, believe that they can control Donbas and the Black Sea coast, efforts to rebuild Ukraine's society and economy will amount to little.",
        "但如果分裂组织在俄罗斯的支持下认为他们可以控制顿巴斯和黑海沿岸，重塑乌克兰社会和经济的努力就会毫无意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Although violent extremists are an ultra-minority in the Muslim population, their actions have fueled a growing distrust in French society.",
        "尽管暴力极端分子只是穆斯林人口中的极少数，但他们的行为助长了法国社会日益严重的不信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Berlusconi’s policy platforms, even his fundamental ideology, have always lacked consistency.",
        "贝卢斯科尼的政策平台、甚至连他的基本思想从来就没有一致过。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s technocrats understand what adoption of “policies to restore European growth” means.",
        "欧洲受过专业训练的管理者理解采取“政策恢复欧洲经济增长”意味着什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Stanley Sue, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, has studied suicide, which is particularly common among Asian-American women (in other ethnic groups, more males commit suicide than females).",
        "美国加州大学戴维斯分校的心理学教授司徒永振（Stanley Sue）研究了亚裔美国妇女中尤其多发的自杀行为（其他族裔中男性自杀数目高于女性）。"
    ],
    [
        "The more governments are prepared to step in, and the greater the resources of those governments, the more big banks and big countries will be favored.",
        "政府越是出手干预，干预的能力越是强，就越是有利于大银行和大国。"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring financial stability and managing immigration would be much more difficult as well.",
        "确保金融稳定和管理移民也将变得更加困难。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as one is not too attached to one’s dignity, there is little to lose and a lot to be gained from running.",
        "只要不太纠结于个人的尊严，竞选没有什么可以失去，却能得到很多好处。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because cash transfers are universal, rather than targeted at the poor, the overall effect is not progressive but neutral, another paper finds.",
        "但是，另一篇文章发现，由于这些现金转移支付为全民性质而非专门面向穷人，其总体效应不是累进的，而是中性的。"
    ],
    [
        "A Crisis in Full Flight",
        "大逃亡危机"
    ],
    [
        "From the regime’s point of view, the legacy of the 1979 Islamic revolution is at stake.",
        "在该政权看来，1979年伊斯兰革命斗争得来的成果危在旦夕。"
    ],
    [
        "A few months later, when China and Japan were working to normalize relations, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka asked Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai about the islets; Zhou responded that the dispute should be left to later generations, in order to avoid any delay of normalization.",
        "几个月后，当中日两国实现关系正常化时，日本首相田中角荣曾询问中国总理周恩来这些岛屿的归属问题； 周回应为避免延误关系正常化，所有争议应留给后代解决。"
    ],
    [
        "This challenge has been particularly difficult because of the nature of the virus, particularly its ability to integrate itself into the genome of host cells, to readily mutate, and to conceal that part of its outer coat that would induce protective antibodies.",
        "因为病毒的性质而使得这一挑战变得特别困难，尤其是因为它有能力把自己融进寄主细胞的基因组中，随时准备进行变异，以及隐藏其会诱发保护性抗体的外壳部分。"
    ],
    [
        "We have separate equations for four forces: strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravitational.",
        "我们有不同的方程组，可以分别描述 4 种基本力：强作用力、弱作用力、电磁力和万有引力。"
    ],
    [
        "We need much more of this kind of thinking in the year ahead, as governments negotiate new global agreements on financing for sustainable development (in Addis Ababa in July 2015); Sustainable Development Goals (at the United Nations in September 2015), and climate change (in Paris in December 2015).",
        "在未来几年中，各国政府将商谈新的可持续发展融资全球协议（2015年亚的斯亚贝巴会议）、可持续发展目标（2015年9月联合国大会）和气候变化（2015年12月巴黎会议），我们需要更多的类似思维。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to get to zero-emission vehicles, not more efficient gas-burning vehicles, especially given that the number of vehicles worldwide could easily double by mid-century.",
        "我们需要的是零排放汽车，而不是更高效的燃气汽车，尤其当考虑到全球车辆数很可能在本世纪中叶轻松翻番。"
    ],
    [
        "In the not-too-distant future, politicians of the reforming center could reach power in two of Latin America’s larger countries.",
        "过不了多久，改革中间派政客就可能在拉丁美洲的两个大国执掌权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Ancient Greek had two words for the people: the “demos” of democracy and the “laos” of the mob.",
        "古希腊人用两个词描述人：民主的“demo”和乌合之众的“lao”。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the ECB risks painting itself into a corner, for the logic behind this week’s interest-rate hike implies that more increases will follow – a series of policy mistakes that will cost the Eurozone economies heavily.",
        "其结果是，欧洲央行面临将自己逼入绝境的风险，因为本周利率提升的背后隐藏的逻辑暗示今后利率还将多次提升——一连串会让欧元区经济体付出沉重代价的政策错误。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is Bush's war, and he ought to be held responsible for it.",
        "可这是布什的战争，他应该为此负责。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community will likely be affected by Syria’s civil war more than it was by Lebanon’s, owing to its greater global impact.",
        "叙利亚内战对国际社会的影响也许比黎巴嫩内战更大，因为它的全球冲击力更强。"
    ],
    [
        "REDD+, which has been around in various forms for nearly a decade, provides a payment structure for preservation and restoration efforts.",
        "“减少因森林砍伐和退化而造成的碳排放计划”已经以各种形式执行了近十年，并为森林的保护和抢救工作提供了兑现方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, time is lost on secondary issues largely rooted in domestic policy concerns.",
        "反之，大把的时间都被浪费在国内政策等次要问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF assumes that its loans will be substituted by private-sector loans at even higher interest rates (over 6%).",
        "国际货币基金组织假设其贷款将被利率更高（6％以上）的私营部门贷款所取代。"
    ],
    [
        "Hosting the Olympics boosts performance before the hosted Games, and has effects that outlast them.",
        "主办奥运会在奥运会开始前就能提振运动表现，而且这一效果是持久的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Argentina, traditionally a tranquil country, drug-linked crimes have been on the rise.",
        "阿根廷传统上是个平静的国家，但其与毒品相关的犯罪活动也在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "The root of the crisis remains the fall in purchasing power on the part of the middle and lower classes, and the collapse of speculative bubbles created by the wealthy classes’ greed for more.",
        "危机的根本性原因在于社会中下阶层购买力的下降，源于那些贪婪的富裕阶级所创造的投机泡沫的破灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike conventional antidepressants – which are used to elevate concentrations of the neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine, or noradrenaline – ketamine influences the glutamate system.",
        "传统抗抑郁药物用来提高血清素、多巴胺或去甲肾上腺素等神经递质的浓度，与此不同，克他命影响谷氨酸系统。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the legislature has become dramatically more effective, and its approval rating has gone from just 14% seven years ago to 57% today – its highest level since 1988.",
        "结果，加州立法机关效率大大加强，满意度从七年前的14%上升到今天的57%——是1988年以来的最高水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Frustrated with a bureaucracy reluctant to implement his political vision, Qaddafi bypassed traditional institutions and claimed a direct dialogue with the country’s population.",
        "由于不满官僚机构不愿执行其政治理想，卡扎菲摒弃了传统的国家机构，要求直接与国内民众对话。"
    ],
    [
        "There were many people who lost out during this transformation, and the democratic revolution’s organizers were not necessarily those who could push through the democratic and economic development.",
        "许多人成为了转型的受害者，而那些民主革命的组织者们也不一定能胜任民主和经济发展推动者的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "As recent months have shown, he will consider a compromise with the West only when he loses his certainty that all is under control internally.",
        "正如最近几个月所见，他只有在觉得对国内局势失去控制的时候才会尝试与西方妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "The ruble’s depreciation is bound to fuel inflation, already around 11% and far above the CBR’s 5% target.",
        "卢布贬值眼看就要助长通胀——目前通胀应达到了11%，远超俄罗斯央行5%的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Written more than 600 years before the birth of Isaac Newton, al-Haytham’s work is widely regarded as one of the earliest examples of the modern scientific method.",
        "写于牛顿诞生600多年前，海赛姆的著作被广泛视为现代科学方法最早期的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The presumption was that the outcome of such a process almost surely would be a managing director from an emerging-market country.",
        "有人推测说这一程序将催生一位来自新兴市场国家的总裁。"
    ],
    [
        "But maintaining this economic revival will require greater reluctance to intervene in foreign conflicts or engage in new wars.",
        "但维持其经济活力要求其更少地干预国外冲突或卷入新战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Cutting the umbilical cord in a relationship of aid dependency is never easy, and there is no reason to expect that it will be any different with Greece.",
        "切断援助依赖中的输血带向来不易，没有理由认为希腊会有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "If Hamas comes out ahead, Abbas’s allies in other Palestinian factions will press him to accept Hamas and Islamic Jihad within the PLO.",
        "如果哈马斯提前发表观点，阿巴斯在其他巴勒斯坦派别中的盟友就会向其施加压力，迫使其在巴勒斯坦解放组织内部接受哈马斯和伊斯兰圣战组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiation is necessary, and it must be sufficient, but progress will be impossible if North Korea is allowed to turn its mere participation in the six-party talks into a bargaining chip.",
        "谈判是必要的，也必须进行充分的谈判，但如果允许北朝鲜将参加六国会谈变成讨价还价的资本，那么就不可能取得任何进步。"
    ],
    [
        "These states also tended to have the largest rise in unemployment rates between 2006 and 2009.",
        "这些州在2006－2009年失业率的变化也最剧烈。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Another Debt Crisis On the Way?",
        "下一场债务危机即将到来？"
    ],
    [
        "These countries have expressed concerns about the new powers conferred on the ECB.",
        "这些国家已经表达了被授予欧洲央行的新权力的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "This will certainly have long-term consequences as the working-age population declines and the elderly population soars.",
        "9个。 劳动年龄人口下降和老龄人口激增必将产生长期后果。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a recent study by Tamma A. Carleton of the University of California, Berkeley, suicides among Indian farmers have increased with the temperature, such that an increase of 1º Celsius above the average temperature on a given day is associated with approximately 70 additional suicides, on average.",
        "根据加州大学伯克利分校的塔玛·卡尔利顿（Tamma A. Carleton）的最新研究，印度农民自杀数量随温度的上升而增加，在给定的日子中，温度较平均水平每上升1℃，平均而言会导致自杀事件增加大约70起。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, whaling is unethical.",
        "因此，捕鲸是不符合伦理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Such \"private\" billboards kept appearing for about a year with varying themes.",
        "这样不同主题的\"私人\"公告牌连续出现了大约一年。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Big Oil Should Kill Itself",
        "为何石油巨头应该自杀"
    ],
    [
        "The funding can be direct, through institutions like the Defense Department or the National Institutes of Health (NIH), or indirect, via tax breaks, procurement practices, and subsidies to academic labs or research centers.",
        "具体形式既可以是由美国国防部或美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）等机构直接出资，也可以采用税收减免、采购及学术实验室或研究中心补贴等间接形式。"
    ],
    [
        "With the help of a major agency that rates corporate social responsibility, we were able to provide investors with solid information – and an accountability process – about the portfolio’s direct impact on greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "在一家公司社会责任评级机构的帮助下，我们得以向投资者提供关于投资组合对温室气体排放的直接影响的具体信息和问责程序。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld faced the question of which charity would make the best use of their money.",
        "在2006年，卡诺夫斯基和海森菲尔德面临着哪一家慈善组织可以最大程度利用他们的捐款的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It was playful, allusive, and edgy – in short, post-modern.",
        "它玩世不恭，言辞闪烁，喜欢游走于边缘地带——一句话，整个就是一后现代。"
    ],
    [
        "Until relatively recently, environmental protection and consumer safety were secondary issues in the United States and Europe.",
        "直到不久前，环境保护和消费安全在美国和欧洲都还是相对次要的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "India should seek to play the role of honest broker to defuse the threat of military hostilities, which would most likely shut down the world’s most important oil-export route, the Strait of Hormuz (a danger that Iran has said is also implicit in an oil-export embargo against it).",
        "印度应当试图扮演一个真诚协调人角色来消除军事敌意所带来的威胁，因为这一威胁很可能会切断世界上最重要的石油出口通道——霍尔木兹海峡（伊朗声称如果对其执行石油禁运的话显然也会引发这一危机）。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, today’s plunging oil prices will benefit a few.",
        "类似地，今天石油价格的暴跌也会让一些人受益。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike Europe, where Germany overcame World War II’s legacy through its integration into the European Union, Northeast Asia remains burdened by history.",
        "与德国通过加入欧盟克服二战的遗存影响不同，东北亚仍然背负着沉重的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Filling in death certificates is not an exact science, and doctors focus on causes with which they are familiar.",
        "填写死亡报告不是精确科学，医生总是专注于他们所熟悉的死因。"
    ],
    [
        "The government may also need to consider injecting funds more directly into the mortgage sector while the private sector reconstitutes itself.",
        "政府可能还需要考虑更直接地注资到抵押贷款业界，而让私营业界进行自我恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States has made it clear that developing countries must sign up to substantial reductions in carbon emissions in Copenhagen.",
        "美国已经明确表示，在哥本哈根会议中，发展中国家必须承诺对碳排放进行实质性的减排。"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, the succession has proceeded as expected, with Crown Prince Abdullah becoming king now that Fahad has died.",
        "表面来看，王位继承如预期般进行，皇储阿卜杜拉在法赫德去世后成为国王。"
    ],
    [
        "A key element would be universal free university education, modeled on European systems.",
        "一个关键点是效仿欧洲体制的全民免费大学教育。"
    ],
    [
        "That leaves Russia vulnerable.",
        "这使俄罗斯变得很脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "While in office, she has established a minimum wage, lowered the retirement age to 63 (for those with 45 years of contributions), and legalized same-sex marriage – policies that are anathema to traditional conservatism, but that now have broad popular support.",
        "执政期间，她制定了最低工资制度，将退休年龄下调到63岁（对工龄超过45年者），实现了同性恋婚姻合法化——这些政策对于传统保守派而言是不可接受的，但受到广泛的群众支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey has met these conditions: the legal reform entered into force on June 1, and the Protocol was signed on July 29.",
        "该《协议》将欧盟的关税同盟扩大到包括塞浦路斯共和国在内的所有新成员国。 土耳其满足了这些条件：法制改革在6月1日正式实施，该《协议》也在7月29日签署。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, during most of the Cold War, Pakistan was seen as a friendly country, whereas its great rival, India, was viewed as difficult.",
        "尽管如此，在冷战的大部分时间里，巴基斯坦被视为友邦，而它的劲敌印度被视为一个难点。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – Gabriel García Márquez’s great novel One Hundred Years of Solitude starts with a colonel who “started 32 civil wars and lost them all” facing the firing squad.",
        "圣地亚哥——加夫列尔·加西亚·马尔克斯的伟大小说《百年孤独》始于一位“挑起32场内战并全部失利”的上校面对行刑队的一幕。"
    ],
    [
        "To do so, they have relied on near-zero interest rates and unconventional measures like quantitative easing to stimulate growth and job creation.",
        "为了完成这一目标，它们依靠近零利率和量化宽松等非常规手段刺激增长和就业创造。"
    ],
    [
        "But what most Western commentators refuse to acknowledge is that the champion of competition nowadays is Saudi Arabia, while the freedom-loving oilmen of Texas are praying for OPEC to reassert its monopoly power.",
        "但大部分西方评论者拒绝承认的是，如今最支持竞争的沙特阿拉伯，而热爱自由的德克萨斯州石油商却在日夜期盼欧佩克举起垄断大旗。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast, there has been only one such bubble in the United States’ housing market in the last hundred years, that of the 2000’s.",
        "相比之下美国的住宅市场在过去这100年只有一次泡沫，那是在21世纪的第一个十年。"
    ],
    [
        "On merit, some of the obvious candidates for the Fund job, such as Brazilian Arminio Fraga, and Egyptian-born Mohamed El-Erian, are not European.",
        "从资质上来讲，有些显而易见的基金组织领袖候选人，比如巴西的阿米尼奥·弗拉格（Arminio Fraga）和出生在埃及的穆罕默德·埃尔-埃利安（Mohamed El-Erian）都不是来自欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "It will be important to remember that the central bank’s role is not to boost stock prices, but to ensure that the economy’s underlying fundamentals and its financial system enable sustainable growth.",
        "重要的是记住央行的作用不是提振股价，而要确保经济基本面和金融系统实现可持续增长。"
    ],
    [
        "This month, the value of bitcoin reached $4,483, with a market cap of $74.5 billion, more than five times larger than at the beginning of 2017.",
        "本月，比特币币值达到了4,483美元，总市值达到了745亿美元，比2017年年初增加了五倍多。"
    ],
    [
        "But business activity remains bogged down by myriad restrictions and a frustratingly slow judicial system, which, together with a complex system of price subsidies, encourage widespread corruption at every level of government.",
        "但商业活动仍因为各种限制和动作迟缓的司法体系而大受掣肘，后两者加上复杂的价格补贴，成了各级政府腐败的温床。"
    ],
    [
        "Who is providing the Taliban with guns and money?",
        "是谁在向塔利班供应武器与资金？"
    ],
    [
        "Governments can play an important role in promoting such innovation.",
        "政府可以在推动这类创新方面扮演一个重要角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Machines, it is true, are already more efficient than legal associates at searching for precedents.",
        "机器无疑在查找过往法院判例时比律所工作人员更高效。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, this will be impossible.",
        "现实是这根本不可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly all Americans, apart from the richest and poorest, define themselves as “middle class.”",
        "几乎所有美国人（除极穷与极富者外）都将自己定义为“中产阶级”。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID ‒ He came from Algeria seeking a better life, anticipating an escape from poverty, oppression, and hopelessness.",
        "马德里——他来自阿尔及利亚，想要过上更好的生活，憧憬着从贫困、压迫和绝望中摆脱。"
    ],
    [
        "The implication is that potential borrowers are not absorbing as many imports as they could and not relying, as they should, on the multilateral pooling of reserves that the Fund is meant to use to “give confidence” to its members.",
        "这意味着，潜在的借款国没能充分吸收它们可以吸收的进口商品，并且没有按照应该的那样，依靠国际货币基金组织打算使用的为其成员国“提供信心”的多边资金储备积累。"
    ],
    [
        "Thirty years ago, Harvard professor Ezra Vogel published Japan as Number 1: Lessons for America, a book that celebrated Japan’s manufacturing-fueled rise to become the world’s second-largest economy.",
        "30年前，哈佛大学教授傅高义（Ezra Vogel）出版了《日本后来居上：美国应当吸取的教训》一书，这本书纪念日本在制造业的推动下崛起，并最终发展为世界第二大经济体的过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors, it seems, have begun to appreciate the risk of doing business in an economic and business environment that they cannot fully understand.",
        "投资者似乎开始认识到在他们不能完全理解的经济和商业环境中营商的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "By reviving the TPP without US involvement, Japan and other Asia-Pacific countries are already on the right track.",
        "日本和其他亚太国家已经抛开美国重新启动了TPP，开始往正确的方向努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as they are becoming ever more litigious, many Chinese believe that they have no hope of securing justice against the powerful.",
        "即便是在人们越来越习惯于诉诸法律的情况下，许多中国人也认为面对权势他们不可能获得司法公正。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Axel Kicillof, Argentina’s Peronist economy minister, is echoing this sentiment.",
        "”阿根廷奉行庇隆主义的经济部长阿克塞尔·基奇洛夫现在和尼克松的看法如出一辙。"
    ],
    [
        "Asian countries will have significantly less time than advanced economies have had to prepare for the transition to an aged society.",
        "亚洲国家可以用来准备向老龄化社会转型的时间远远短于发达经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "Some critics are now wondering if all this talking is too much of a good thing.",
        "以至于有些评论家无法确定这样的讲话力度是不是件好事情。"
    ],
    [
        "And, although Abbas might be tempted by cosmetic changes to the status quo, most Palestinians probably would reject them as fraudulent.",
        "此外，尽管阿巴斯或许会被粉饰现状的方案诱惑，但大部分巴勒斯坦人也许会认为这是赤裸裸的欺骗，断然拒绝。"
    ],
    [
        "Just a week after Trump’s UN speech, French President Emmanuel Macron presented his vision of Europe’s future in an address at the Sorbonne.",
        "特朗普在联合国发表演讲短短一周后，法国总统伊曼纽尔·马克龙就在索邦大学的一次演讲中描绘了他对欧洲未来的愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the state is the target of political entrepreneurs who strive to capture it in order to capture the rents that it controls.",
        "这仍然远远低于2. 1的替代率，但是较高的生育率以及减少男婴死亡率的成功措施已经使人口萎缩的速度放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, overall economic performance in Brazil masks an important fact: growth rates have been substantially higher among the country’s poorer citizens, and unemployment is declining.",
        "此外，该国的总体经济表现掩盖了一个重要的事实：与贫穷市民有关的经济增长率较高，而失业率也正在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, whatever resemblance events on Cairo’s Tahrir Square bear to May 1968 in Paris and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it would be premature to proclaim that freedom has prevailed.",
        "事实上，不管开罗解放广场上发生的事件与1968年5月巴黎学生运动以及1989年柏林墙倒塌的事件如何相似，现在依然不是宣布自由已经实现的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Pastoralists, small producers, and independent farmers simply cannot compete with low retail prices that fail to account for the industry’s true environmental and health costs.",
        "牧民、小生产商和独立农民根本无法与低廉的零售价格竞争——这样的价格无法覆盖该行业真正的环境和健康成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Structural change is, by definition, innovative.",
        "很明显，结构改变具有创新性。"
    ],
    [
        "The price of iron ore is down, too.",
        "铁矿石价格也在下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, when the US, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom signed the Potsdam Agreement in August 1945, they agreed on the “reduction or destruction of all civilian heavy-industry with war potential” and on “restructuring the German economy toward agriculture and light industry.”",
        "事实上，1945年8月，当美国、苏联和英国签署《波茨坦协议》时，它们同意“减少或摧毁所有有战争潜力的民用重工业”以及“以农业和轻工业为重点重组德国经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever one thinks of him, in international affairs Blair was a leader of consequence.",
        "不管人们对布莱尔怎么看，在国际事务中，他是一个举足轻重的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "Missile tests, PLA military exercises and threatening rhetoric have been sufficient deterrents until now.",
        "在此以前，导弹试验、解放军军事演习和威胁性的措辞一直是有效的威慑手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Will it still be the capital of a country whose citizens view the future bleakly and whose politicians have totally lost touch with the electorate?",
        "它是否仍会是那个国民对未来彻底绝望，政治家与选民彻底绝缘的国家的首都？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, empirical data suggest the significance of this danger.",
        "事实上，根据以往的经验我们可以认识到这种危险是非常大的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank’s staff is highly professional, and would accomplish much more if freed from the dominance of narrow US interests and viewpoints.",
        "世行的工作人员是高度职业化的，只要摆脱狭隘的美国利益和视角的束缚，他们能够取得更大的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "She has publicly expressed her disdain for both large national parties; she would much rather lead a coalition than join one.",
        "她曾公开表示对两个全国性大党不屑一顾;她宁愿领导一个联合政府，而不是加入一个大党。"
    ],
    [
        "His abysmal human rights record remains, but the flamboyant “Guide of the Revolution” ceased flirting with weapons of mass destruction and global terrorism in exchange for the end of sanctions and international rehabilitation.",
        "他恶劣的人权记录并没有消除，但是这位奢华的“革命向导”停止不严肃地对待大规模杀伤性武器和全球恐怖主义问题以换取结束制裁和回到国际大家庭中来。"
    ],
    [
        "Since each issuer represented a small fraction of their revenues, rating agencies were unwilling to compromise their reputation for the sake of any single issuer.",
        "因为各发行方只占评级机构收入的一小部分，因此信用评级机构不愿为迁就某个发行方而有损自己的信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "It will also need to intensify its fight against endemic corruption, which represents a tax on all businesses.",
        "政府还要加紧打击腐败，腐败相当于加重所有企业的税收负荷。"
    ],
    [
        "For someone with a 15% marginal tax rate, a 2%-of-AGI cap would limit total deductions and exclusions to about 13% of AGI.",
        "对边际税率为15%的个人来说，2%-AGI上限相当于扣减和豁免项占AGI的13%。"
    ],
    [
        "By allowing private-sector participation in debt-equity swaps, China could kill three birds with one stone: advance SOE deleveraging, strengthen corporate governance in the state sector, and enhance economic efficiency.",
        "对中国来说，允许债转股公私合作可谓一石三鸟：推进国有企业去杠杆； 强化国有部门公司治理；"
    ],
    [
        "This phrase – “No to everything” – is how Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank president, recently described the standard German response to all economic initiatives aimed at strengthening Europe.",
        "这句话——“什么都不行”——便是欧洲央行行长德拉吉最近用来描述德国对一切旨在强化欧洲的经济措施的反应的用语。"
    ],
    [
        "In the view of Admiral Mike McConnell, America’s former director of national intelligence, “Sooner or later, terror groups will achieve cyber-sophistication.",
        "在美国前国家情报总监、海军上将迈克·麦康奈尔看来，“恐怖组织迟早将掌握复杂的网络技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Attempts to reconcile the parties began in Gaza, before moving to Cairo, Damascus, and finally Mecca under the supervision of Saudi King Abdullah, whose country has been a financial backer of the Palestinians for decades.",
        "让双方和解的努力开始于加沙，随后转移到开罗和大马士革，最后到麦迦在沙特国王阿卜杜拉的监督下进行。 沙特几十年来一直为巴勒斯坦提供资金支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Because we both believe in power, it is easy for the two of us to understand each other.",
        "因为我们都相信强权，所以我们容易相互理解。"
    ],
    [
        "The power of this process arises not from raw individual intelligence, but from the reinterpretation of the serendipitous insights and mistakes that our intelligence produces.",
        "上述进程的力量并不来源于原始的个人智力，而是来源于对人类智力所产生的偶发的见解和失误的重新解读。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is the critics’ claim that below-target inflation is needed to restore competitiveness.",
        "批评者还说，低于目标的通胀是重塑竞争力的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The results – a 43% reduction in mortality and a 39% decrease in hospital visits among patients who received BiDil – were so striking that the study was concluded early.",
        "试验因服用BiDil患者取得了死亡率下降43%、就诊率下降39%的显著结果而提前结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than expending significant political capital trying to press an unreceptive Israeli government and a fractured Palestinian establishment to pursue peace, Obama used his visit to shift the discourse – and the responsibility for achieving a peace agreement – to the Israeli (and Palestinian) public.",
        "奥巴马并没有花政治血本敦促不情愿的以色列政府和支离破碎的巴勒斯坦立国计划追求和平，而是借此次访问的机会向以色列（和巴勒斯坦）公众传达这层意思——以及实现和平协定的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite strong exports, South Korea and Japan rank 20th and 21st out of 85 countries, because they lag on immigration and cross-border Internet traffic.",
        "尽管出口强劲，但韩国和日本在85个国家中分别只名列第20名和第21名，因为它们在接受移民和跨境互联网流量上落后了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if we increasingly associate ourselves with the world at large, our loyalties will expand, too.",
        "而一旦我们逐步将自己与整个世界结合起来，我们的忠诚也将因此获得延伸。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan and Canada have said they plan to do so.",
        "日本和加拿大也宣称计划加入。"
    ],
    [
        "One danger inherent in pushing for high growth is that it is always possible to juice an economy with short-term measures that encourage a lot of risk-taking and leverage in the financial system.",
        "推动高增长的一个固有危险是，永远有可能采取鼓励金融系统大量冒险和负债的短期措施去压榨经济。"
    ],
    [
        "While positive, the correlation between one decade’s total inflation and the next decade’s total inflation is only 2%.",
        "某十年期的总通货膨胀和下一个十年期的总通货膨胀呈现正相关，但相关性只有2%。"
    ],
    [
        "The expanding hunger crisis reflects a lethal combination of growing rural populations and inadequate food yields.",
        "不断扩大的饥荒反映了农村人口不断增加和粮食产量不足的致命结合。"
    ],
    [
        "These factors are sending the global economy into the final quarter of the year encumbered by profound uncertainty in several areas.",
        "这些因素都正把全球经济带入一个被多领域深刻不确定性所困扰着的第四季度。"
    ],
    [
        "To increase breastfeeding rates, governments need to ensure that mothers receive the guidance and help they need.",
        "要提高母乳喂养率，政府需要确保母亲获得所需的指导和帮助。 这意味着培训卫生工作者；"
    ],
    [
        "Italy, Spain, and France all have current-account deficits equal to 2% or more of their GDP.",
        "意大利、西班牙和法国均存在相当于GDP的2%或以上的经常项目赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "But policymakers should not be so distracted by it that they fail to prepare for the other two possible storms – and, much more worrisome, the possibility that they merge into a single more devastating one.",
        "但决策者不应该因此而忽略其他东西，乃至无法为其他两起可能的风暴——以及更加令人担心的，为它们汇聚形成灾难性完美风暴的可能性做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "All signatories to our new Declaration agreed that incitement to violence that is motivated by race or gender or sexual orientation constitutes a serious violation of the right to equality.",
        "我们这项新宣言所有的签署者都同意，因种族、性别或性倾向而煽动暴力的行为，严重侵犯了平等权。"
    ],
    [
        "Only rapid government action to substitute goods currently imported with domestically produced goods will do the trick.",
        "只有政府迅速采取行动来用国产货物替代进口的货物才会奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "One vote on one day subsumes complex matters with one ballot question, which in any event is frequently not the question that many people actually answer.",
        "在某一天投一票将复杂问题归结为公民投票问题，而这往往不是许多人实际所回答的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN was not responsible for the failure in Copenhagen, and it should not act as if it was.",
        "联合国不应为哥本哈根的失败负责，但也不能沿着从前的旧路重蹈覆辙。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s current policies allow drugs to be sold at a small fraction of the monopoly prices commanded by patent holders.",
        "印度的现行政策允许药物以专利所有者所要求垄断价格的一小部分进行销售。"
    ],
    [
        "They fail to see that American officials regard Syria as complicit in the activities of Islamist terrorist groups in the Palestinian territories, Iraq, and Lebanon.",
        "他们没能看出美国官员认为叙利亚与巴勒斯坦、伊拉克和黎巴嫩领土上的伊斯兰恐怖组织串通一气，大搞恐怖活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Mercosur Blues",
        "令人忧虑的南方共同市场"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, many on the business side of the Chinese media regard critical reports on crime and official corruption as a powerful weapon in the fight for greater market share and profitability.",
        "在这些环境下，很多站在中国媒体商业角度上的人把对犯罪和政府腐败的批评性报道看作争取更大市场份额和收益的有力武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Galileo is now known to have committed what we now call “research fraud” in his famed physical experiments. Assuming he conducted them at all, they very probably did not produce the neat results that he used to assail his opponents.",
        "同样地，我们知道伽利略的一些著名物理实验的结果是虚构的，如今我们称之为“研究欺诈”，然而假设他严格执行了这些实验，那也很有可能不会有这些恰到好处的结果，他也无法利用它们来攻击反对者了。"
    ],
    [
        "Elections do occur in the Arab world, and they vary in frequency and significance.",
        "阿拉伯世界也举行选举，其频率和重要性各有不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, despite past growth, the Kingdom’s real national wealth has declined.",
        "此外，尽管有过去的经济增长，但王国真实的国民财富仍呈下降之势。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s Coming Political Earthquake",
        "即将来临的日本政坛地震"
    ],
    [
        "These groups argue that if the regime is not planning to rig the vote, then domestic as well as foreign observation of the polling process should not be a problem.",
        "这些社团认为，如果现政权无意操纵投票，那么国内外对选举过程的观察就不应成为问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Los Angeles gets the Oscar, with Soviet-style queues through security.",
        "如果要评最差的，那么洛杉矶机场堪称独占鳌头，比如通过安检时人们排成的长队简直跟苏联时期有得一比。"
    ],
    [
        "Responsibility for that lies, first and foremost, with the FDP.",
        "之所以如此，首要原因在于FDP。"
    ],
    [
        "Opposition leaders and democracy watchdogs say Moldova’s election process was fundamentally flawed.",
        "反对党领袖和民主监督人士说摩尔多瓦的选举过程存在着根本性的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "A gentler Fed also means less risk of dollar appreciation – an unambiguous benefit for commodity markets and dollar-indebted emerging economies.",
        "更加温和的美联储也意味着美元升值风险降低——毫无疑问，这对于大宗商品市场和负有美元债务的新兴经济体来说是好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "An alternative minimum tax was established, along with a slight increase in gasoline taxes, but both were so watered down that they barely add up to anything.",
        "另一种可选择的最低税务标准被建立起来，同时汽油税也略有上调。 但这两项税制改革都被冲淡得几乎起不到什么实质性的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, future changes to its relationship with the EU, especially a future re-entry, if desirable, would be difficult to negotiate (perhaps especially given European leaders’ desire to deter other member states from following the UK’s example).",
        "特别是，如果未来英国渴望改变其与欧盟的关系，特别是重新入盟的话，谈判将十分困难（考虑到欧洲领导人想威慑其他意欲效仿英国的成员国，将特别困难）。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran must decide whether it wants to follow the North Korean route to international isolation, or some variation on the Chinese route to integration into the global economy.",
        "伊朗必须决定是否要追随朝鲜的国际孤立线路，还是采取某种类似于中国的方式融入全球经济的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "So when economists shade their arguments, they effectively favor one set of barbarians over another.",
        "因此，当经济学家遮掩观点时，他们实际上是为了躲避一群野蛮人而便利了另一群野蛮人。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, many who are seduced by the romance of organic farming ignore its human consequences.",
        "最后，很多受到有机耕作浪漫诱惑的人忽略了它给人类带来的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "China is plainly bullying its southern neighbors by using the menacing term “core interests” (in pursuit of which a country would resort to the use of force) to have its way in various disputes.",
        "中国显然正在利用“核心利益”（为确保核心利益一国将不惜动用武力）这个来势汹汹的词来欺侮它的南部邻国，在一系列争端中保障自己的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Our longer-term goal is to strengthen these systems enough to reach all children in Mozambique with basic vaccines and other forms of health care.",
        "我们的长期目标是强化常规免疫系统，使其覆盖莫桑比克所有儿童，让他们获得基本疫苗和其他医疗服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Another possibility could be to eradicate prion diseases in livestock by removing the host’s prion gene.",
        "另一种可行之道是通过消灭宿主朊病毒基因根除牲畜朊病毒疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "But goals without actionable strategies are just good intentions.",
        "但没有可行战略支撑的目标仅仅是良好的愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "So I believe that the future for political parties is to develop a culture of debate, dialogue, and critical understanding of issues, where people can help set a nation’s priorities and are not simply told by experts or their leaders what is right and wrong for them.",
        "因此，我相信政党的未来应该发展辩论、对话以及批判性理解政治事件的风尚，这样国民就能帮助确立国家重点，而不是仅仅由专家或他们的领导人来告诉他们对错。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a Big Three bankruptcy will bankrupt other companies, risking a cascade of financial damage as their bonds and equities fall in value and further CDS events are triggered. This is the nightmare outcome that risks replicating the Crash of 1929.",
        "此外，三巨头的破产将导致其它公司的破产，当其债券和股票贬值以及更多的CDS事件被触发时，就会冒一连串的经济损失的风险，这种恶梦般的结果，会冒重演1929年大萧条历史的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "In the UK, reversing obesity trends could save the National Health Service about $1.2 billion a year.",
        "在英国，扭转肥胖趋势可以让全国医保（National Health Service）每年节约约12亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The air in the sheds is high in ammonia from bird feces, which are usually allowed to pile up for months – and in some cases for a year or more – before being cleaned out.",
        "鸡棚内的空气充斥着氨气和鸡屎的味道，几个月都得不到清理，有时会堆上一年甚至更长。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot survive without fire; we just need it in the right ways.",
        "没有火，人类就难以生存； 我们需要的只是正确的使用火。"
    ],
    [
        "There are now calls for improved tsunami early warning systems.",
        "人们呼吁改善海啸的早期预警系统。"
    ],
    [
        "The Great Global Bargain Hunt",
        "全球捡便宜货大行动"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not only a shortage of capable public servants that hamstrings the NTC. Just as pressing are the time constraints under which it is operating.",
        "但削弱过渡委员会权威的可不仅仅是得力公务人员的缺乏，还有自己日渐减少的施政时间。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, consumer protection in the US is considerably better and stricter than in the EU, where, following the European Court of Justice’s Cassis de Dijon decision, the minimum standard applicable to all countries is set by the country with the lowest standard in each case.",
        "现实是美国消费者保护较欧盟更加严格完善，因为欧洲法院的卡西斯第戎决议生效后，所有国家适用的最低标准由特定情况下国家的最低标准决定。"
    ],
    [
        "If they do, will the West withdraw its support for Egyptian democracy in the name of “stability”?",
        "如果他们获胜，则西方会不会以“稳定”的名义撤回其对埃及民主的支持？"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, self-destructive national behavior is not new. But, more often than not, leaders have managed to pull back from the brink.",
        "当然，自我毁灭的国家行为并不是今天才有，但更多的是领导者成功把自己的国家从悬崖边缘拉了回来。"
    ],
    [
        "If implemented fully, the current round of reforms would have a far-reaching impact on China’s political economy, because they shift the balance of power from officials to markets.",
        "如果能够充分实施，当前的改革措施将对中国政治经济产生深远影响，因为它们改变了权力平衡，让它从官员手中转移到市场手中。"
    ],
    [
        "But the most shocking aspect of the move is that arts and humanities departments will be targeted more aggressively than science and engineering, which are supposedly better for business.",
        "但此举最令人震惊之处，莫过于对艺术和人文学科的削减力度将大于科学和工程学科——即便后者总能触摸到那些商界大财主的钱袋。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon, Indian political parties began to break up, giving rise to a large number of regional and caste-based parties.",
        "很快，印度政党就开始分裂，进而诞生了大批以地区和种姓为基础的党派。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, many projects are completed toward the end of the budgetary cycle, generating a backlog of unpaid bills in the MFF’s later years.",
        "比如，许多项目在预算周期末尾才完成，造成MFF后期应付款项积压。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixteen years later, Trump stood in the White House Rose Garden and announced, with equal sophistry, that the Paris climate agreement would devastate the US economy and cost America some 2.7 million jobs, mostly in the construction industry, by 2025.",
        "六年后，特朗普在白宫玫瑰园用同样的诡辩宣布，巴黎气候协定将破坏美国经济，而且截止2025年将令美国损失约270万个工作岗位，其中多数是建筑业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "The alarm bells should be ringing loud and clear across Asia – an export-led region that cannot afford to ignore repeated shocks to its two largest sources of external demand.",
        "亚洲人应该清晰地听到了警钟——出口导向地区不能对其最大的两个外部需求源的反复震荡无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, governments can no longer afford to drain precious time and money that could be better spent elsewhere by locking up people for drug-related offenses.",
        "简言之，政府已经无法承受由于对吸毒人员实施监禁而耗费时间和金钱，而这些资源本来可以被更有效地用在别处。"
    ],
    [
        "But let’s not rule out so quickly at least modest robot taxes during the transition to a different world of work. Such a tax should be part of a broader plan to manage the consequences of the robotics revolution.",
        "但在过渡到另一个职业世界的过程中，我们可不能那么快就将机器人税排除在外，而是应该将其归入针对机器人革命所产生后果的更宏大应对方案中。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists who pretend that this would be anything less than an economic and political catastrophe for Greece should look closely at the structure of Greek trade, the anemic response of exports to the already huge internal devaluation, and company and household balance sheets.",
        "）假装这一情形不会给希腊带来经济和政治灾难的经济学家应该仔细看看希腊贸易的结构，看看已经进行了巨大的内部贬值的希腊出口并没有得到提振，看看希腊公司和家庭的资产负债表。"
    ],
    [
        "The following month, the IAEA reported the Islamic Republic to the Security Council for its failure to be forthright about its nuclear program.",
        "2月，IAEA向安理会报告伊朗没有坦白其核计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Deficient and deteriorating transit systems impose another $90 billion in annual economic costs.",
        "有缺陷又维护不力的交通体系每年也会带来900亿美元的经济成本。"
    ],
    [
        "A government that kept its nose out of people’s economic business.",
        "政府不干涉人民的经济活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Japanese, South Koreans, Dutch, Canadians, and Russians score consistently higher.",
        "日本、韩国、荷兰和俄罗斯的得分比美国高很多。"
    ],
    [
        "After a series of showdowns, in which one company, Daewoo, threatened to default, and political forces rallied to its assistance, the government won; the hugely powerful Daewoo group underwent bankruptcy and restructuring.",
        "在一系列争锋相对后——在此期间，大宇公司威胁要违约，各政治势力联手挽救——政府取得了胜利； 炙手可热的大宇集团破产并被重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, some that escaped pro-cyclicality in the last decade have since been backsliding.",
        "不幸的是，一些在过去十年中一度摆脱了顺周期政策的国家又故态复萌。"
    ],
    [
        "Proponents only discredit themselves by deriding the skeptics as protectionists.",
        "如果那些支持者们只是一味将怀疑的声音诬为保护主义者的话，最终受害的还会是他们自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Perdagangan adalah suatu hal yang baik dan kita harus menghilangkan hambatan atas perdagangan demi kebaikan kita sendiri – bukan demi membantu negara lain.",
        "贸易对我们有利，我们也应该为了自己的利益——而不是为了帮助其他国家——而排除贸易障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "To begin with, it would entail putting together a diplomatic package that offered Iran access to nuclear energy but not physical control over nuclear materials.",
        "首先，必须采取一整套外交努力使伊朗能够获取核能但是却不能实际控制核材料。"
    ],
    [
        "Several months later, only 4%-6% of the funds have been spent, and the federal government is brow-beating state governments – for example, demanding that California rescind a small pay cut for some unionized workers or lose $7 billion in stimulus funds.",
        "几个月过后这笔巨资只花掉了4-6%，联邦政府因此把一腔怒火统统发向州政府——比如要求加利福尼亚取消对某些工会工人的小幅工资削减，或者放弃价值70亿美元的刺激资金。"
    ],
    [
        "In consenting to become prime minister, Putin is well aware of what to expect.",
        "在同意接任总理职位时，普京显然很清楚等待他的会是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB, protected by statutory independence and a price-stability mandate, has shown no inclination to accede to pressure from French President Nicolas Sarkozy or anyone else.",
        "欧洲中央银行在法律上保持独立，其使命是维持价格稳定。 它还没有表明愿意屈从于来自法国总统萨尔科奇或者其他任何人的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "There are gruesome tales of young people who have been forced to sell their kidneys and other organs simply to survive.",
        "更有大量可怕的传闻说有年轻人被迫为了生存而卖肾和其他器官。"
    ],
    [
        "The plan was broadly endorsed, but no action was taken.",
        "该计划得到了广泛支持，但并没有拿出行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The play ends with the Rolling Stones’ historic concert in Prague in 1990.",
        "该剧以滚石乐队1990年历史性的布拉格音乐会为结尾。"
    ],
    [
        "Attracting young people with the promise of jobs, and older voters with the prospect of reform and growth, Modi won a mandate that stunned the country’s pollsters.",
        "莫迪用就业承诺吸引年轻人，用改革和增长前景吸引年纪较大的选民，他获得的支持率让印度民意专家大跌眼镜。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, renminbi internationalization should be encouraged rather than resisted.",
        "类似地，人民币国际化应该受到鼓励而不是阻止。"
    ],
    [
        "But we are also fundamentally social creatures.",
        "但我们从根本上也是社会生物。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor would the size of the tax be tied to the damage that major bank failures do to the rest of the economy.",
        "税收的规模也与大银行倒闭对经济所造成的伤害无关。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, they should bear in mind that even during past periods of rapid technological change, far more people benefited from free and open trade than from protectionist barriers.",
        "最重要的是，他们应该铭记，即便在过去的几次快速技术变革时期，人们从自由和开放贸易中所获得的好处也远大于保护主义壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that India still has almost as many Muslims as Pakistan, it is possible that religious tensions could have been mitigated within the confines of a single country.",
        "鉴于印度与巴基斯坦的穆斯林人口数目几乎相当，那么把这些人归于单一国家的范围内可能会有助于缓解宗教紧张局势。"
    ],
    [
        "The index each month was the total number of articles with those three words, divided by the total number of articles in the targeted newspapers each month.",
        "该指数的月度读数为包含这三个词的文章总数，除以目标报纸每月文章总数。"
    ],
    [
        "Had Clinton tried to send US troops, he would have encountered stiff resistance in Congress.",
        "如果克林顿试图派遣美军他将遭遇国会的顽强抵抗。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first stage, beginning in the spring of 2008, the locus of the North Atlantic crisis moved from the United States to the eurozone.",
        "第一阶段始于2008年春，北大西洋危机从美国转移到了欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "Many foreign leaders quickly switched from schadenfreude to fear – and to the security of US treasury bills.",
        "许多外国领导人迅速从幸灾乐祸转向担忧——以及对美国国库券安全的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that the EU’s “passporting” system, which enables London-based banks to sell their services directly throughout the EU, and the growth of the city’s financial-services sector makes perfect sense – as does the fact that citizens of London voted overwhelmingly against Brexit.",
        "此外还要归功于欧盟的“护照”制度，该制度使得位于伦敦的银行能够直接在整个欧盟销售服务，而伦敦金融城金融服务业的增长则是水到渠成——伦敦公民压倒性地反对英国脱欧亦是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, there is the relationship between oil prices and the need for income diversification in the oil-producing countries.",
        "其二，油价和产油国对收入多样化的需求中也存在着联系。"
    ],
    [
        "That doctrine, by imposing austerity in a period of rising unemployment, threatens to push the eurozone into a vicious deflationary debt spiral from which it will be difficult to escape.",
        "峰会提出的思想是在失业率上升的时期采取财政紧缩，这可能会导致欧元区陷入难以摆脱的恶性通缩债务循环。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher government spending could stimulate the economy further, assuming that it generates a level of inspiration like that of the Interstate Highway System.",
        "提高政府支出可以进一步刺激经济，如果能够产生与州际高速公路系统相当的鼓舞效果的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Come next year, everyone in Washington, DC, had better be nice to Trump, lest they be subjected to nasty tweets, hate mail, and online attacks.",
        "即将到来的一年，首都华盛顿的每个人最好都迎合特朗普，否则就有可能面对下流的推特、仇恨邮件和网络攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, we see a different pattern.",
        "在欧洲，我们看到的是不同的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Peace negotiators understandably fear that criminal accountability for past crimes will threaten their side’s leaders and supporters.",
        "和平谈判代表担心追究过去罪行的刑事责任会威胁本方领导人和支持者的安全是有道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach limits gains from trade.",
        "这一方针制约了贸易所带来的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "The second peace process at stake is the new attempt to unify Cyprus, which has been divided since its constitutional breakdown in 1963 and Turkey’s invasion in 1974.",
        "第二个重要的和平进程是统一塞浦路斯的新尝试。 自1963年在宪法崩溃以及1974年土耳其入侵以来，塞浦路斯一直处于分裂状态。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is that overdraft credits to the Greek central bank have grown by nearly €1 billion a day in recent months.",
        "结果是近几个月来希腊央行的透支信用每天都要增加近10亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the best case arises from a general sense that financial institutions have become too complicated to regulate and too big to fail even when staying within their traditional businesses.",
        "最佳例证在于总体图景：金融机构变得太复杂而无法监管，太庞大而无法倒闭，即使它们仍从事着自己的传统业务。"
    ],
    [
        "However, this tax structure’s impact would vary over time, as interest rates rise and fall.",
        "但是，这一税收结构的影响会因为时间而随利率波动而改变。"
    ],
    [
        "At some point, emerging-market demand for US assets would be sated.",
        "在某个时点，新兴市场对美国资产的需求会得到满足。"
    ],
    [
        "First, markets need clear rules.",
        "首先，市场需要明确的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Or it may be that the greatest happiness of all comes from not having to worry about stuff like this.",
        "或者，说到底，最大的幸福来自不再担心这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia needs Ukraine if it is to build the so-called Eurasian Union, the economic bloc that Putin is seeking with Kazakhstan and Belarus.",
        "欧亚联盟是普京着力和哈萨克斯坦及白俄罗斯打造的经济集团，而乌克兰的参与是所谓欧亚联盟所不可或缺的。"
    ],
    [
        "It became clearer that the problem lay with instability in the global financial system itself – the bouts of euphoria and bubbles, followed by the sudden stops and sharp reversals that are endemic to unsupervised and unregulated financial markets.",
        "显然，问题在于全球金融体系本身的不稳定性——层出不穷的狂热和泡沫以及随之而来的不受监管和监督的金融市场常见的突然停止和急剧逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "Another risk is that reform attempts could provoke a political backlash that would be harmful to long-term investment.",
        "另一项风险在于改革尝试可能会引发一场不利于长期性投资的政治反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Those of us who believe that invading Iraq was a mistake, and that Bush is guilty of hubris in his failure to plan adequately for the aftermath, face a dilemma: if America withdraws too precipitously, it may compound these mistakes.",
        "我们当中坚持侵略伊拉克是错误的，并且坚持布什应该对缺乏战后规划负责的人现在面临着一个两难的境地：如果美国撤军过于仓促，可能又会错上加错。"
    ],
    [
        "Other decisions have dealt with taxation, social legislation, or electoral laws.",
        "其他决定涉及税收、社会立法或选举法等领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing that there is more to heredity than DNA has implications for medicine and agriculture, as well as for evolutionary theory.",
        "承认除DNA以外更多的物质遗传，对医药和农业以及进化论具有重要意义。"
    ],
    [
        "What I do know is that the way the issue is usually posed is wrong.",
        "我知道的只是，这个问题往往以一种错误的方式被提出。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, as in the two previous risk-off episodes, central-bank liquidity backstopped markets and economies.",
        "事实上，在前两次避险事件中，正是央行流动性支撑了市场和经济。"
    ],
    [
        "MOSCOW – During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and, in a milder way, the United States imposed external limits on the activities of states and societies, causing longstanding conflicts among smaller countries to be “frozen.”",
        "莫斯科—冷战期间，苏联和美国（手段相对较温和）为国家和社会的活动设定了外部限制，这让小国之间的长期冲突都“冻结”起来了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the pundits have a point: if the current economic near-stagnation in Siberia persists, the world will witness a second, epic edition of Finlandization, this time in the east.",
        "事实上，专家认为，如果西伯利亚维持当前近于停顿的经济趋势，那么世界将再一次经历大规模的芬兰化，这一次将发生在东方。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – The protest movements that have flared up across the West, from Chile to Germany, have remained curiously undefined and under-analyzed.",
        "普林斯顿——从智利到德国，西方各国燃起的抗议活动既缺乏思考又缺乏定义，这一点令人感觉十分怪异。"
    ],
    [
        "I grew up with Malthus’s ideas brought up-to-date in apocalyptic books like The Population Bomb .",
        "我是读着将马尔萨斯理论现代化了的 《人口爆炸》 等灾难预警作品长大的。"
    ],
    [
        "A more adventurous plant diet is possible.",
        "我们也许可以找到更丰盛的植物大餐。"
    ],
    [
        "The archipelago will always be in the path of tropical storms.",
        "这个群岛国家永远位于热带风暴的路径上。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditionally Asian Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have resumed the tribal forms of autocracy they practiced throughout the centuries.",
        "传统的亚洲国家乌兹别克斯坦和土库曼斯坦恢复了实行数个世纪的部落式独裁政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, Iraq has vast oil and natural-gas reserves, to which all of the major oil companies wanted access.",
        "不过，伊拉克仍拥有丰富的石油和天然气储备，让所有大型石油企业都垂涎欲滴。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – China may be just a few years away from becoming the world’s leading economic power, and America’s strategic centrality may be on the wane (certainly, no one speaks of the United States today as the world’s “hyperpower”).",
        "巴黎—也许不出几年，中国就将成为世界第一大经济强国，而美国的战略核心地位可能正在丢失（显然，没人再把如今的美国称为世界“超级大国”了）。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that those who understand the economics of debt and austerity, and who believe in democracy and humane values, will prevail.",
        "我们希望理解债务和紧缩经济学，并且相信民主和人道价值的人能够胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s defense of the JCPOA may be helping Netanyahu in this regard, thanks to some historical claims that may be even more dubious than his arguments regarding Iran’s nuclear policies.",
        "因为有些历史要求甚至比伊朗核政策提法更令人怀疑，奥巴马对联合综合行动计划的辩护可能会对内塔尼亚胡有所助益。"
    ],
    [
        "Faced with a collapsing economy and approaching elections, the temptation for Morsi to stoke nationalist, anti-Israel sentiment will become stronger.",
        "面临经济崩溃局面和即将到来的选举的穆尔西面临着极大的诱惑点燃民族主义反以色列情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy is incurring the inflationary costs of the Bank’s policy while missing out on the intended benefit of growth.",
        "整个经济正承受着央行政策所带来的通胀成本，但同时又无法得到原本预计的增长实惠。"
    ],
    [
        "Reaching out was an important component of establishing the rule of law, and it also sent a message that Iraq had truly turned a corner – that no single party sought to dominate Iraq.",
        "集思广益是建立法治的重要组成部分，而且表明伊拉克的确已经转变，那就是，没有一个单一的政党寻求统治伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "This will also allow companies to gain valuable insights into their own potential for change, reflecting a time-honored principle: what gets measured, gets managed.",
        "这还将让公司能够获得关于自身变革潜力的宝贵洞见，体现一个经过时间考验的原则：可测量方可管理。"
    ],
    [
        "If ratings are not backed by the force of law, so the argument goes, regulators need not worry about rating quality and can leave the monitoring of raters to the market.",
        "这种说法认为，如果评级失去了法律的支持，监管机构就不必担心评级质量，可以让市场承担起监管评级机构的职责。"
    ],
    [
        "I am one of those who believe that recovery from the crisis requires fiscal stimulus.",
        "我也认为要从危机中恢复需要财政刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor can we simply allow free riders to weaken intellectual property.",
        "我们也绝不能做事免费搭车者削弱知识产权。"
    ],
    [
        "It is part of the everyday life of many citizens – even part of their identities – that they suffer from an expensive health problem.",
        "很多人饱受费用高昂的健康问题困扰，这成了他们日常生活、甚至是自身特点的组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, its sluggishness has confounded even the experts.",
        "按IMF的预计，世界经济应该在2011年增长4. 4%，在2012年增长4."
    ],
    [
        "Some of the debt does not even appear in the official statistics of borrowing countries, because it was often taken on not by domestically-based firms, but by their offshore subsidiaries.",
        "一些债务甚至根本不出现在借款国的官方统计数字中，因为它们由本国企业通过离岸分支借入。"
    ],
    [
        "If this is right, the sociopolitical impact of a change in the ethnic composition of a population is neutral, or even beneficial.",
        "果真如此的话，人口民族构成的社会政治影响应该是中立甚至积极的。"
    ],
    [
        "But mass movements can take a country only so far; establishing a credible representative government requires political parties organized around clearly defined principles.",
        "但群众运动充其量也只能将一国推动到这一步，建立可信的代议制政府要求围绕明确指导原则组织起来的政党。"
    ],
    [
        "Events like the Holocaust or the genocides in Ukraine (1932-1933), Cambodia (1975-1979), or Rwanda (1994) have been based either on secrecy or on the dissemination of a distorted worldview designed to make evil appear good.",
        "大屠杀和乌克兰（1932—1933）、柬埔寨（1975—1976）以及卢旺达（1994）种族灭绝要么是秘密进行的，要么是在传播扭曲的世界观、让恶魔看起来十分善良的情况下发生的。"
    ],
    [
        "The open economic space and the principle of solidarity helped ensure that economically less developed countries that joined the European Economic Community and, later, the European Union, progressed at an astonishing pace, enhancing the living standards of their peoples.",
        "开放的经济空间和团结的原则确保了那些加入欧共体，而后再加入欧盟的经济较不发达的欧洲国家飞速发展，不断提高其人民的生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging-market economies came under intense pressure, with inflows to investment funds falling sharply, asset prices declining, and many currencies losing value against the dollar.",
        "新兴市场经济体承受了巨大的压力，投资资金流入剧减，资产价格下跌，许多货币兑美元汇率也纷纷贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama and his top advisers have spoken regularly about the need to address the underlying sources of conflict, including poverty and unemployment.",
        "奥巴马和他的高级顾问们时常提到有必要解决冲突的深层根源，其中包括贫穷和失业。"
    ],
    [
        "But this figure is not reported widely because it is much less alarming.",
        "但这一数字并没有被广泛报道，因为它没什么可大惊小怪的。"
    ],
    [
        "SAN FRANCISCO – Rwanda has achieved some of the most dramatic gains in health and poverty-reduction in the world.",
        "旧金山—卢旺达取得了全世界医疗和减贫方面最重大的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Multilateral development institutions such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have a role to play in providing support to ensure that systems, capacity, and market-access initiatives are undertaken in ways that improve compliance.",
        "多边发展机构，如亚洲开发银行能够帮助提供支持以确保制度、能力和市场进入方案能够以改善遵守情况的方式推行。"
    ],
    [
        "So, although they won’t succeed in raising saving on the scale that Singapore has, they can make real progress.",
        "所以，尽管它们无法把储蓄水平提高到新加坡那样的高度，但是它们还是可以取得实际的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "The second reason why such studies should not deter regulators from continued intelligent action is that the research focuses on long-term debt.",
        "研究不应该让监管者停止思考的第二个原因是这些研究集中在长期债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearing your name can be difficult.",
        "证明清白可能会非常困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in the United States and France, there are even alternative female candidates for the presidency (Condoleezza Rice in America, Michelle Alliot-Marie in France).",
        "事实上，在美国和法国，甚至还有另外一些女性的总统候选人，美国有赖斯，法国有阿里奥马里 。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, granting explicit lender-of-last-resort powers to the Bank of England would mean that the “millennium of the paper-mongers would be at hand.”",
        "事实上，给予英格兰银行明确的最后贷款人权力将意味着“票据贩子的黄金时代”。"
    ],
    [
        "At the Hawaii summit, Obama must orchestrate the first steps toward constructing an effective multilateral framework within which the complications posed by China’s rise can be addressed.",
        "在夏威夷的峰会上，奥巴马必须就构建有效的多边框架做出初步的安排，好让中国崛起所引发的各种复杂问题能够在这个框架内得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Building on the work of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, they had discovered DNA’s double-helix structure, providing the first glimpse into how organisms inherit and store biological information.",
        "克里克和沃森在富兰克林（Rosalind Franklin）和威尔金斯（Maurice Wilkins）工作的基础上发现了DNA的双螺旋结构，第一次窥探了生命体如何继承和储存生物信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU is truly “convincing” only when it can use the seductive power of a membership card.",
        "欧盟只有运用其成员国资格这一张有诱惑力牌的时候才真正“有说服力”。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the US spends as much on arms as the rest of the world combined.",
        "换句话说，美国的军费开支等于世界其他国家军事开支的总和。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, European integration has largely been a process of “falling forward,” with each stumble serving as a lesson from which a stronger union emerges.",
        "目前，欧洲一体化大体上是一个“掉向前”（falling forward）的过程，每一次跌倒都会成为形成更坚固的联盟的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us bring the TPP to a successful conclusion through our joint leadership.",
        "让我们通过我们的联合领导实现TPP的圆满成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump will probably have more instinctive sympathy for Australia than he will for many other US allies.",
        "特朗普可能从本能上同情澳大利亚甚于其他许多美国盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "But simplistic free-market optimism is misplaced for at least four reasons.",
        "但是至少由于四方面的原因，过于单纯化的自由市场乐观主义被放错了位置。"
    ],
    [
        "But this demand for political moderation impedes the search for the radical and painful solutions that Britain needs.",
        "然而，这种一味求稳的政治气候会妨碍英国寻找大刀阔斧的改革之道，而那才是英国所急需的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, with the advanced economies facing budgetary pressures, foreign aid may be severely constrained for some time to come.",
        "此外，由于发达国家面临着预算压力，在未来数年中，对外援助力度将大大减小。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, free-trade negotiations seem to ignore historical trends.",
        "同时，自由贸易谈判似乎忽视了历史趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Detecting a “graviton\" – the hypothetical particle making up part of a gravitational field – would require a particle collider the size of the Milky Way or a detector with a mass of the planet Jupiter.",
        "检测“引力子”——形成部分引力场的假象粒子——需要银河系那么大的粒子对撞机或质量与木星相当的检测器。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The last few weeks have been the most amazing – and important – period of the euro’s 11-year existence.",
        "伯克利——最近几周是欧元问世11年来最刺激也最重要的一段日子。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is what their next step will be.",
        "现在问题就在于，这帮人下一步将怎么走？"
    ],
    [
        "We believed that economic development would solve all our problems.",
        "我们相信经济发展可以解决所有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest banks were badly run in the years leading up to the crisis of 2008 – exhibiting a toxic mixture of hubris, incompetence, and excessive leverage – and their governance problems today are worse than they were in 2005 or 2007.",
        "在2008年危机之前，大银行经营不善——表现为狂妄、无能、过度负债的危险组合——二如今，它们的治理问题更要重于2005或2007年。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, the historical occurrence of the Armenian genocide is enshrined in law, and denial of its occurrence is regarded in the same way as Holocaust denial.",
        "在法国，亚美尼亚屠杀被神圣地写进了法律，否认它的发生就像否认纳粹的种族大屠杀曾经发生过一样。"
    ],
    [
        "The paper went on to warn that, “In their own hearts, we are afraid that Chu and Locke put their priorities in exactly the opposite order.”",
        "不过在这两位心里，恐怕是恰恰相反的一种排序。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "We have gone from managerial to stockowner capitalism, from economies with large doses of state direction to far more deregulated markets, from the active and expansive social policies of the 1960s’ and 1970’s to a world in which such spending is constantly shrinking.",
        "我们从以管理层为核心的资本主义过渡到以股东制为核心的资本主义，从经济在很大程度上由国家控制过渡到逐步解除对市场的管制，从20世纪60、70年代广泛实行积极的社会政策过渡到目前的不断缩减社会开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Because stronger demand means less slack in product and labor markets, the recent growth acceleration in the advanced economies would be expected to bring with it a pickup in inflation.",
        "由于强劲的需求意味着产品和劳动力市场将有所回暖，人们寄望近期发达经济体的增长加速能带来通胀的回升。"
    ],
    [
        "· The government’s success in building up Afghanistan’s multi-ethnic security forces.",
        "· 阿富汗政府成功地建立多种族的阿富汗安全部队。"
    ],
    [
        "But it has always been clear that much more is needed to improve the efficacy of such actions.",
        "但很明显需要采取进一步措施来改进上述行动的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "This contributed to record-low voter turnout of 52% – the one real blemish on the LDP’s victory.",
        "这导致了创纪录的低投票率（52%），成为自民党胜利中的一个名副其实的瑕疵。"
    ],
    [
        "The US cannot impose its will unilaterally, and trying to do so has merely arrayed other powerful countries, including China and Russia, against it.",
        "美国不能单方面强加自己的意志，这样做只能让其他有实力的国家（包括中国和俄罗斯）一起反对它。"
    ],
    [
        "For instance, the immediate risks of breathing polluted air could be described in terms of the “micromort,” the unit representing a one-in-a-million chance of dying.",
        "比方说，可以用“微死亡率”（micromort）为单位来描述呼吸受污染空气的直接风险，它所代表的是死亡概率的百万分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are poised to hold their annual meetings, but the big news in global economic governance will not be made in Washington DC in the coming days.",
        "发自纽约——国际货币基金组织和世界银行即将分别召开其年度会议，但有关全球经济治理的大新闻并非来自几天后的华盛顿特区。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that efforts to facilitate foreign trade, and Brazil’s “animal spirits” of entrepreneurship could be unleashed, enabling Brazil to escape the current crisis and move toward a more prosperous future.",
        "除此之外还要采取便利对外贸易的措施，巴西的企业家“动物精神”也要得到释放，以使巴西摆脱当前危机，走向更加繁荣的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Given recent immigration trends and, more important, Muslims’ above-average fertility rate (three children per family versus the British average of 1.8), the Muslim share of the UK population is bound to grow for decades to come.",
        "从当前移民趋势以及更重要的穆斯林高于平均值的生育率（每户人家有三个孩子，英国平均水平为1. 8个），穆斯林占英国人口比重在未来几十年中必然会不断增加。"
    ],
    [
        "In the important work of adapting educational institutions for the future, we must not lose sight of their core mission as articulated in the past.",
        "在调整教育机构以适应未来的重要工作中，我们决不能忘记已在过去得到充分阐明的教育机构的核心任务。"
    ],
    [
        "It is about choice and proactively deciding how people’s data are used and how people use their own data.",
        "这实际是一种选择，主动决定数据应如何利用及人们如何利用数据。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the fusion reactions produce alpha particles, which pollute the plasma, one has to insert a “divertor” inside the flame at 100 million degrees in order to clean it.",
        "因为核聚变反应产生α粒子，后者会污染等离子体。 因此必须在1亿度的火焰中塞入一个“偏滤器”来清洁它。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the US to be a kind of hectoring NGO, lecturing friends and detractors alike for not being more like Americans?",
        "美国是否想要扮演恃强凌弱的非政府组织，喋喋不休地指责朋友和批评者他们为什么不更像美国？"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the issue became the focus of a vigorous campaign by discontented Kuwaitis, who gathered in front of the National Assembly building and in universities to voice their criticisms.",
        "他们在国民大会大厦和大学集会表达他们的不满。 这个问题成为了这场运动的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "SNAP is already in their sights.",
        "SNAP是一项低收入家庭提供食物的计划，目前已经被国会共和党盯上。"
    ],
    [
        "The world has come full circle.",
        "又回到原来的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The result has been a surge of commentary about the “two Europes” – one welcoming, one forbidding.",
        "结果是“两个欧洲”的说法甚嚣尘上——一个善意友好、另一个严峻可怕。"
    ],
    [
        "It has depended, perhaps excessively, on American influence to balance its rivalries.",
        "它或许过于依赖美国的势力来平衡对手。"
    ],
    [
        "MELBOURNE – One spring evening in 1997, when I was a mental-health researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra, I was discussing with my wife, Betty Kitchener, a registered nurse who taught first-aid courses for the Red Cross in her spare time, the inadequacy of conventional first-aid training.",
        "墨尔本—1997年春天的一个傍晚，当时我还是堪培拉澳大利亚国立大学的一名心理健康研究员，我和我的妻子贝蒂·基齐纳（Betty Kitchener，她是一位注册护士，业余时间在红十字会教急救课程）讨论常规急救训练不足的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The net result of all these calculations?",
        "所有这些计算的最终结果如何呢？"
    ],
    [
        "A worse outcome – and all too plausible – is further deterioration in the political and social cohesion that forms the foundation for vigorous policy responses.",
        "更坏结果（而且发生的可能性很大）是造成政治和社会凝聚力进一步恶化，从而破坏制定有效对策的根基。"
    ],
    [
        "Such shortcuts help us navigate the complexities of our social existence. They help us form expectations about the consequences of our and others’ actions, and thereby facilitate decision-making.",
        "这些捷径帮助我们游弋于自身社会存在的复杂性之中,协助我们对自己和他人的行为后果进行预测，从而促进决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Though complaints about the “bloated” acquis communitaire (the body of EU law) are often unfounded, the EU legislative process is not without its shortcomings, as recent attempts at harmonization clearly demonstrate.",
        "尽管关于欧盟现行法（acquis communitaire）“臃肿”的抱怨常常毫无道理，但欧盟立法程序也不是没有缺点，最近的协调努力就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "It is like looking through a telescope: a lot of detail, no perspective.",
        "这就像是用望远镜观看，只有细节，没有整体。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this would be a recipe for global anarchy.",
        "当然，这将会是全球无政府主义状态的温床。"
    ],
    [
        "And, theoretically, they are right.",
        "理论上，他们是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Europeans, facing uncertain environmental consequences while receiving none of the revenues, tend to oppose fracking nearby.",
        "因此，欧洲人既担心环境后果，有得不到任何开采的好处，故而会反对在自家附近开采页岩气。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is a comparatively small problem.",
        "但这相对而言只是一个小问题。"
    ],
    [
        "MAYNOOTH, IRELAND – For months, the European Union has been battered by economic storms that now seriously threaten a protracted Europe-wide recession.",
        "爱尔兰梅努斯—好几个月以来，欧洲联盟都遭受着经济风暴的打击，这一场风暴现在正使得欧洲可能会面临长时间遍布全洲的严重衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "When released into a person’s circulatory system, hemoglobin in these higher oxidation states eventually self-destructs, damaging molecules in surrounding tissue.",
        "当血红蛋白被释放到人的循环系统中时，高价铁形式最终会自我毁灭，伤害周围组织的分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Though US tactics were debated and shifted from administration to administration, the overarching approach remained consistent, because it was broadly supported by Republicans and Democrats alike.",
        "尽管在策略上一直存在争论，并且随着政府的变换而改变着，但总体方针一直没有变化，因为这受到了共和党和民主党的广泛支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Well aware of this “danger,” China is implementing five policies.",
        "而大陆方面对这一“危险”也有充分认识，并采取了五项应对政策。"
    ],
    [
        "With the first two requirements dependent on Italy’s turbulent domestic politics, investors are increasingly unwilling to bet on the relatively favorable scenario, which means that Italy does not have time.",
        "前两大要求依赖于意大利一团糟的国内政治，因此越来越多的投资者不愿意下注于出现有利情景，而这意味着意大利来时无多。"
    ],
    [
        "In the late 1990s, it was estimated that the economic burden of anxiety totaled more than $40 billion.",
        "20世纪90年代末，据估计焦虑所造成的经济负担高达400亿美元以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet little changes.",
        "但情况毫无改观。"
    ],
    [
        "It is extremely important that Iraq held elections to a constitutional assembly.",
        "伊拉克制宪会议的选举至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – The economics profession has not had a good crisis.",
        "东京—经济学这个职业还从未有过好危机。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unlike his White House predecessors, Obama’s National Security Strategy recognizes the value of partnerships; attaches greater importance to the civilian dimension as opposed to the military; and stresses the value of dialogue and the need to reinforce international institutions.",
        "但与他那些前任不同的是，奥巴马的国家安全战略承认伙伴关系的价值； 把更多的重点放在民间而不是军事上；"
    ],
    [
        "Some avid environmentalists were disappointed that the agreement did not commit firmly to limiting global warming to 1.5º Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2050.",
        "一些热情的环保主义者对协定感到失望，因为它没有坚决要求将2050年全球变暖幅度限制在前工业化水平以上1. 5℃以内。"
    ],
    [
        "The final element of the world’s collective bet is rooted in the belief that excessive market risk-taking has been tamed.",
        "世界集体赌注的最后一项是认为市场的过度冒险行为可以得到遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "We need a Europe that is more concrete, less rhetorical, and better suited to the current global economy.",
        "我们需要一个多点行动、少点口号、并能更好契合全球经济的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the culture of physical violence and verbal provocation that is gaining ground in Putin’s Russia is deeply disturbing, whereas we tend to judge Chinese misdeeds with a greater sense of distance, if not indifference.",
        "结果，身体上的暴力以及言语上的挑衅文化在普京统治下的俄国扎根，非常令人担忧，而我们却对中国的不良行为即使不是无动于衷，也是怀有更大的距离感。"
    ],
    [
        "But savings will need to be allocated far more efficiently than in the past.",
        "但储蓄需要得到比从前更有效地配置。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the problem is the emergence of China, whose ultra-low wages provide tough competition for Mexico, where wages are merely very low.",
        "部分的原因在于中国的崛起，它极低的工资水平给墨西哥带来了严重的威胁，尽管后者的工资已经很低了。"
    ],
    [
        "The message from Morocco – and from our report – is that, with smart water policies and interventions, countries can ensure a climate-resilient, water-secure future.",
        "来自摩洛哥——和我们报告——的信息显示，借助明智的水资源政策和干预手段，各国能够保证实现适应气候变化的安全的水资源未来。"
    ],
    [
        "According to WEF Chairman Klaus Schwab, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is beginning now, “characterized by a much more ubiquitous and mobile Internet, by smaller and more powerful sensors that have become cheaper, and by artificial intelligence and machine learning.”",
        "世界经济论坛主席施瓦布认为，现在正在启动第四次工业革命，“其标志是互联网更加普及和机动； 价格低廉的传感器更加小巧和高效；"
    ],
    [
        "This idea of monetary financing of fiscal deficits (borrowing from the central bank, rather than from the bond markets) has a reputable pedigree.",
        "这一用货币给财政赤字融资的想法（从央行而不是债券市场借钱）由来已久。"
    ],
    [
        "That failure placed the world on the path to the negative watershed posed by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.",
        "由于美国的坐失良机，世界走上了通往消极分水岭的道路——纳粹主义德国和帝国主义日本崛起了。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to rescue morality from the claims of science.",
        "我们需要从科学角度拯救道德。"
    ],
    [
        "Using hit-and-run guerilla tactics and suicide bombers, Boko Haram has attacked police stations, government buildings, and churches, killing thousands.",
        "博科圣地采用打一枪换一地的游击战术和自杀式人肉炸弹袭击过警局、政府大楼和教堂，造成数千人丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "About 14.5% of the American population as a whole is poor, but 19.9% of children – some 15 million individuals – live in poverty.",
        "5%的美国总人口属于穷人，但19. 9%的儿童——大概相当于1,500万人——生活在贫困中。"
    ],
    [
        "So why is the Bush administration spending time and energy proposing radical changes to the Social Security System as its signature domestic policy initiative – indeed, as virtually its only policy initiative?",
        "那么布什政府为什么要花时间和精力把社会保障体制的根本转变作为首要的、而且实际上就是唯一的国内政策举措呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Russia was doubtless freer than ever before, in virtually all respects, good and bad.",
        "无疑，无论是好是坏，这时的俄罗斯实际上在各方面比以往更为自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Our understanding of how public institutions should adapt and reform is still evolving. As such, a complete solution is yet to emerge.",
        "我们对于公共机构如何调整适应以及改革的认识仍在不断演化，尚不能产生一个完整的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "But neither Breivik, nor the terrorists of September 11, 2001, killed without reason, in the way some nihilistic American shooters do.",
        "但不像美国某些虚无主义杀手那样，无论是布雷维克还是那些“9·11”恐怖分子，他们都杀戮都是有目的的。"
    ],
    [
        "No Agnostics in the Climate Foxhole",
        "在气候避弹坑中没有不可知论者"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, China needs a new energy strategy.",
        "最后，中国需要一个新的能源战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with cutting-edge technology, the landfill has been turned into a green zone.",
        "现在，随着尖端技术的引入，曾经的垃圾填埋场已经变身成为绿化带。"
    ],
    [
        "We shook hands at the end.",
        "我们最后握了手。"
    ],
    [
        "I moved to mainland China in 1979, when the country's per capita income was less than one-third of Sub-Saharan Africa's.",
        "1979年我来到中国大陆，当时，中国大陆人均收入只有撒哈拉以南非洲的不到三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "That should not stop the West from making the offer.",
        "这不应该阻止西方抛出橄榄枝。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a recent paper by Francesco Aiello, Graziella Bonanno, and Alessia Via of the European Trade Study Group finds that “the long-run level of exports appears to be unrelated to the real exchange rate for the UK.”",
        "例如最近由智库机构欧洲贸易研究组（European Trade Study Group）研究员法兰切斯科·埃罗（Francesco Aiello），格兹埃拉·布南诺（Graziella Bonanno）和阿列西亚·维阿（Alessia Via）共同发表的一篇论文就显示“长期出口水平似乎与英国的实际汇率无关”。"
    ],
    [
        "According to data released by the China Electricity Council, the amount of power that China generated from fossil fuels in 2014 decreased by 0.7% year on year, the first drop in recent memory.",
        "中国电力企业联合会发布的数据显示，中国的化石燃料发电量2014年有史以来首次同比下降了0. 7%。"
    ],
    [
        "But even if the intellectual objection to extra revenue can be overcome in this way, the practical political problem is that every large tax expenditure – the home mortgage interest deduction, the exclusion of employer payments for health insurance, etc. – has its fervent defenders.",
        "但即使对开源的理论反对可以用这种办法克服，还存在现实政治问题：所有大型税收开支项目——住房按揭利息减免、员工健康保险雇主支付部分税前扣减等——都有狂热的捍卫者。"
    ],
    [
        "This did not go unnoticed in Russia.",
        "这一举动没有逃过俄罗斯的眼睛。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no small irony in the fact that on November 15, America’s lame duck president, the unilateralist George W. Bush, is hosting a multilateral conference to discuss reshaping the global economic system.",
        "11月15日，美国的瘸鸭总统，单边主义的信奉者乔治·W·布什将主持一次多边会议，探讨重塑全球经济体系的问题，这实在是个天大的讽刺。"
    ],
    [
        "A central bank, it was argued, never runs out of options for stimulating aggregate demand and stoking inflation, provided it is willing to resort to radical measures.",
        "该思想认为，央行永远不会计穷于刺激总需求和抬高通胀，只要它愿意采取极端措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries with the resources to do so are making resistance plans against pandemics – limited strategies that would protect their own citizens.",
        "拥有资源支持的国家都制定了对抗这些流行病的方案—可以保护其公民的有限战略。"
    ],
    [
        "The scientists at the Vatican meeting took extra care to emphasize that climate science and policy reflect fundamental principles of physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy, engineering, economics, and sociology, key parts of which have been well understood for more than 100 years.",
        "前往梵蒂冈与会的科学家格外关注强调了气候科学和政策反映了物理学、化学、地质学、天文学、工程学、经济学和社会学的基本原理，其中的关键部分一百多年前便已被人们很好地认识到了。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s administration has been keen to take advantage of this favorable environment.",
        "普京政府非常愿意利用如此有利的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Andy Haldane, one of the lieutenants Carney inherited at the BoE, has questioned the financial sector’s economic contribution, pointing to “its ability to both invigorate and incapacitate large parts of the non-financial economy.”",
        "卡尼履新英格兰银行后留任的副手之一的安迪·哈达恩（Andy Haldane）质疑过金融部门的经济贡献，认为“它可能让相当一部分非金融经济获得或失去活力。 ”他认为（在一篇标题十分吸引眼球的文章《金融部门的贡献：奇迹还是幻象？"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the challenge posed by Russia does not allow any further procrastination.",
        "然而，俄罗斯带来的挑战不允许进行进一步的拖延。"
    ],
    [
        "But inflation remains high or rising, so more tightening is imposed.",
        "但通货膨胀率依然居高不下，甚至仍在上涨，所以需要强制实施更多的紧缩政策。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Last April, the International Monetary Fund projected that the world economy would grow by 3.5% in 2015.",
        "华盛顿—去年4月，国际货币基金组织（IMF）预测2015年世界经济将增长3. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "The trouble is that these experiences have not proved as informative for other countries as one might have wished.",
        "麻烦在于，这些经验并没有如人们所愿那样为其他国家起到榜样性的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "This adaptation improved the plague’s biological fitness, which, for rodents – and the humans who live near them – has proven to be a nightmare.",
        "这种适应能力提高了瘟疫的生物适应性，而这对啮齿动物——以及生活在啮齿动物周围的人来说——已经被证明是一场噩梦。"
    ],
    [
        "A former member of Iran’s parliament, Javad Ettaat, argues that the “government is contravening the principles of Islam by using an iron fist against protesters.”",
        "前伊朗议会议员 Javad Ettaat 就指出 “ 政府重拳打击反对派的行为是违反伊斯兰原则的 ” 。"
    ],
    [
        "Nokia’s board resisted change, making it impossible for the company to adapt to rapid shifts in the industry.",
        "诺基亚的董事会拒绝改变，导致公司无法跟上行业的变化节奏。"
    ],
    [
        "But it seems that Abe’s Middle East tour presented a greater opportunity for ISIL to make the most of its Japanese hostages.",
        "但似乎安倍的中东之行给了伊斯兰国更好的机会利用其手中的日本人质。"
    ],
    [
        "The strain of trying to meet this impossible standard of cool curiosity about one’s own fate imposes an unbearable distance between the scientist of the body and mind, and the body and mind of the scientist.",
        "试图达到这种对自身命运冷静的好奇心的不可实现的标准所带来的压力，使得这些研究身体和精神的科学家和他们自己的身体及精神之间的距离变得难以承受。"
    ],
    [
        "First, how do you reach an accommodation with a regime that seemingly needs you as an adversary?",
        "首先，如果有一个政权将反美作为自己立国之本的话，你又如何能与之达成和解呢？"
    ],
    [
        "And it should boost innovation and break new ground for climate action, including novel ways for the public and private sectors to work together, such as projects on carbon capture and storage.",
        "它还应该刺激创新、为气候行动创造新空间，包括公私合作新方法（如碳捕捉和储藏项目）。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet WHO officials continue to defend their actions.",
        "但世卫组织的官员们却继续维护自己的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, when the situation required war fighters, peacekeepers were dispatched; and when the situation called for peacekeepers, war fighters were sent.",
        "换句话说，当形势需要战斗人员时派出了维和人员； 当形势要求维和人员时却派出了战斗人员。"
    ],
    [
        "In Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s former subjects braved threats and voted for the first time with ballots that offered a choice of 70 political parties, rather than only one.",
        "在伊拉克，曾在萨达姆·侯赛因统治下的人们不畏威胁，第一次为一场由70个政党平均享有机会而非一个政党独霸大权的选举投票。"
    ],
    [
        "That was why monetary policy could be managed with greater flexibility.",
        "这样一来，它才能够以更大的灵活性来管理其货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sense, Westerners who choose to embrace fanatical Islamist ideology are an extreme manifestation of a much wider phenomenon.",
        "从某种程度上讲，选择皈依狂热伊斯兰意识形态的西方人是一个极端的例子，体现的是一个广泛得多的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a common belief among religious believers, be they conservative Catholics, Protestants, Jews, or Muslims.",
        "这是信教者的共同信念，不管是保守天主徒、新教徒、犹太人还是穆斯林。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the role of technology in displacing workers, protectionism – tearing up trade agreements and imposing tariffs on Chinese and Mexican goods – won’t bring back high-paying manufacturing jobs, and Trump has no plan B. That means the polarization of America that brought Trump to power will only become far more severe.",
        "鉴于技术在替代工人中所发挥的作用，保护主义——撕毁贸易协议和对中国和墨西哥货物征收关税 ——将无从带来高薪制造业工作，对此特朗普也没有制定第二套方案。 这意味着在特朗普坐上总统宝座后，美国的两极分化只会变得更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, they have more in common than meets the eye, for each speaks of a rupture with the past while incarnating a form of continuity.",
        "实际上，他们除了引人注目之外还有其他共同之处，那就是两个人都提出要与过去决裂，但同时要体现出某种形式的继承。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the recidivism rate is shockingly high: according to a recent US Department of Justice report, more than one-third of released prisoners were rearrested within six months, and more than two-thirds were rearrested within three years.",
        "此外，再犯率畸高：据美国司法部的最新报告，获释囚犯中有三分之一强在六个月内再次被捕，三分之二强在三年内再次被捕。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, it clearly determined that the ongoing Japanese-US joint technical research to develop and produce the SM-3 sea-based ballistic missile defense system is an exception.",
        "例如，它明确规定，为发展并生产SM-3海域弹道导弹防卫体系而进行的日-美联合技术研究是个例外。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a Chinese proverb, “To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm.”",
        "中国有句谚语，培养野心就像养虎为患。"
    ],
    [
        "Some large firms, such as Apple, hold virtually no debt at all.",
        "苹果等大公司几乎一分钱债务都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "That logic is what led Bill Clinton’s administration, following the failure of US intervention in Somalia in 1993, to fail to act the following year to prevent the genocide in Rwanda, which in retrospect could have been halted with quite limited action.",
        "正是这样的逻辑导致比尔·克林顿政府1993年介入索马里失败后，未能于第二年采取行动制止发生在卢旺达的种族大屠杀，现在回想起来，制止那次种族大屠杀本来可以只要非常有限的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasing the retirement age by just a half-year for each of the next ten years would more than compensate for the annual decline in the labor force, which is projected to be 2.5 million workers during this period.",
        "只需在未来每十年将退休年龄提高半年就足以补偿每年约250万劳动力的流失。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the brutality of the apartheid era, that would have never worked in my homeland.",
        "种族隔离时期的残忍暴行使得这种做法永远也不可能在我的国家获得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "For many Indians, the temptation to identify with Israel was strengthened by the terrorists’ seizure of Mumbai’s Jewish Center (the Lubavitcher Chabad house) and the painful awareness that India and Israel share many of the same enemies.",
        "对于许多印度人而言，恐怖分子占领孟买的犹太人运动社区，同时他们痛苦地意识到印度和以色列具有许多共同的敌人，因此他们对以色列更为同情。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas the MDGs focus on reducing extreme poverty, the SDGs will focus on all three pillars of sustainable development: ending extreme poverty, sharing the benefits of economic development for all of society, and protecting the Earth.",
        "MDG专注于削减极端贫困，而SDG将专注于可持续发展的三大支柱：终结极端贫困、让全社会分享到经济发展的好处，以及保护地球。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for Europe to step into the fray.",
        "欧洲应该站出来解决争端。"
    ],
    [
        "Once banks offer new assets denominated in renminbi, more customers will be drawn into the market, thereby adding liquidity and reducing transaction costs for purchases of renminbi in European currencies.",
        "一旦银行提供以人民币计价的新资产，就会有更多客户被吸引到市场中，从而增加流动性，降低用欧洲货币买入人民币的交易成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, acknowledging Stalin is a way for Russians to recall a time of great deeds and perhaps even greater sacrifices.",
        "相反，认可斯大林是俄罗斯人追念过去时代的一种方式，在那个时代，取得过伟大成就，而付出的牺牲可能更大。"
    ],
    [
        "The cooling of the Ifo World Economic Climate index was particularly marked in Western Europe and Asia.",
        "Ifo世界经济景气指数的降温在西欧和亚洲表现得特别显著。"
    ],
    [
        "Beijing's ongoing battle with smog – a problem that has become known as the “airpocalypse\" – provides a potent reminder of coal's impact on air quality.",
        "北京正在进行的治霾之战——这一问题被称为“空气启示录\"——强有力地证明了煤炭对空气质量的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "They urge America’s president-elect Barack Obama to pursue a “green revolution” with big investments in renewable energy, arguing that this could create millions of new “green collar” jobs and open huge new markets.",
        "他们敦促美国当选总统奥巴马实施“绿色革命”，在再生能源进行巨额投资，因为他们认为这可以创造数百万个新的“绿领”职位并且打开巨大的新市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Amid this new testing reality now dawning in Asia, we must not lose sight of the deep, and long term, structural challenges facing the region.",
        "在亚洲面临新现实的考验时，我们不能忽视该地区面临的深刻而长期的结构性挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "It did not matter that the catch-up countries’ economic “miracles” were produced in part by illiberal policies guided by government bureaucracies.",
        "后发展的国家的“经济奇迹”是否在一定程度上得益于政府官僚机构引导下的非自由政策其实并不重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Philosophically, the debt-forgiveness approach rests on the belief that creditors share culpability for defaults with debtors, since they made the bad loans in the first place.",
        "从原理上说，债务豁免方法的基础是人们相信债权人将和债务人分担违约责任，因为当初给出不良贷款的乃是债权人。"
    ],
    [
        "But it does illustrate how rapidly in early twenty-first-century Europe democracy has been undermined through the endless application of the economics of austerity, and by the failure of political leadership at home and abroad.",
        "但它确实说明了由于无休止地实施经济紧缩以及政治领导在国内外的失败，欧洲民主制度在21世纪初是如何迅速被破坏的。"
    ],
    [
        "And, of course, the US has had a standing immigration agreement since 1965 with a country most Americans would not imagine: Fidel Castro’s Cuba.",
        "当然，美国自1965年以来与一个大多数美国人难以想像的国家即卡斯特罗统治下的古巴一直保持一项移民协议。"
    ],
    [
        "These then are the roots of America fiscal impasse, which has produced passionate constituencies viscerally opposed to compromise.",
        "这些就是美国财政僵局的根源，而财政僵局造成了选民发自内心的对妥协的强烈的反对。"
    ],
    [
        "Another 1.1 billion people live in countries where a single barrier – especially a lack of awareness of the Internet, weak purchasing power, or low levels of digital literacy – dominates.",
        "还有11亿人生活在单一障碍占主导地位的国家——特别是对网络缺乏认识、购买力弱或数字文化水平低。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States military, appropriately and of necessity, took the time needed to ensure that it had the facts before responding that the charges were untrue.",
        "美国军队恰如其分而且出于必要沉着确保掌握了事件真相才反应指出指控是虚假的。"
    ],
    [
        "This national characteristic is not limited to individuals.",
        "这一国民特性不仅仅体现在个人身上。"
    ],
    [
        "More interesting in view of the current situation in the eurozone is what followed roughly a half-century after Hamilton acted.",
        "对于如何看待欧元区现状这个问题，更有意思的办法是看看汉密尔顿方案出台后五十年发生了什么。"
    ],
    [
        "The Americans do recognize the importance of courting those Taliban leaders they believe to be motivated by tribal loyalties rather than religious ideology, but they oppose the latest Afghan policy of negotiating directly and officially with the Taliban.",
        "美国确实认识到与那些他们认为更多地受部族忠诚而非宗教意识形态所驱动的塔利班领导人示好的重要性，他们只是反对阿富汗最近直接与塔利班举行正式谈判的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "By sharing the knowledge and expertise that we have developed over decades of diarrheal disease management and research, we are playing a leading role in global efforts to tackle outbreaks.",
        "通过分享我们在几十年中所积累的腹泻疾病管理和研究的知识和经验，我们在全球应对疾病爆发方面起着领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In what became northern Iraq, the Kurds, like the country’s Assyrian Christians, were for decades denied recognition of their distinct language and culture by hegemonic Arab rulers in Baghdad.",
        "在伊拉克北部地区，库尔德人就跟该国的亚述裔基督徒一样，长期无法得到巴格达的阿拉伯霸权统治者对自身独特语言和文化的认可。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only are there considerable differences in how markets work in different regions and sectors; the interaction between the state and these markets will undergo major changes.",
        "不但市场在不同地区和部门的运行状况大相径庭，政府与市场的互动也会经历重大变化。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – China has undoubtedly benefited from the world system created and supported by the United States.",
        "北京—毫无疑问，中国从美国所建立和支持的世界体系中获益良多。"
    ],
    [
        "But economies may prove to be easier to mend than today’s dysfunctional politics, which may be part and parcel of the “new normal.”",
        "但经济也许比今天混乱的政治更容易治愈，而政治混乱也许将是“新常态”的重要部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The DDPP shows that deep decarbonization is technically feasible and affordable, and it has identified pathways to 2050 that avoid the traps and temptations of low-hanging fruit and put the major economies on track to full decarbonization by around 2070.",
        "深度脱碳方案计划显示深度脱碳既经济实惠又具备技术可行性，并已指明到2050年避开低垂果实的诱惑和陷阱及让主要经济体走上2070年脱碳正轨的途径。 方案全部依赖于三大支柱：能效方面的重大进步、采用智能材料和智能（信息化）系统；"
    ],
    [
        "The model for this approach is Denmark’s attainment of legal opt-outs in defined areas.",
        "这种方式效仿了丹麦有权在指定领域从法律上退出的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, suffering for more than four years from siege and isolation, are apathetic to the UN bid.",
        "加沙地带的巴勒斯坦人已经承受了4年多的包围和孤立，但他们对入联动议无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast, Obama expanded the war in Afghanistan – which he considered to be a war of necessity – and put the Taliban on the defensive.",
        "与之相对的是，奥巴马扩大了阿富汗战争（他认为这是一场必要之仗），并迫使塔利班采取了守势。"
    ],
    [
        "The board would be allowed to base its choices on raters’ past performance.",
        "委员会将根据评级机构过往的评级准确度来进行选择。"
    ],
    [
        "It was fine to gaze at the breasts of a painted nude Marianne or Venus; but for a real, living woman to expose even part of her ankle was considered highly improper.",
        "盯着画作中裸体的玛利安或维纳斯的乳房看完全合法； 但真正活生生的女性即使裸露部分脚踝都被认为是非常不合适的。"
    ],
    [
        "China, as the leading promoter of the “one belt, one road” initiative, must take steps to ensure that businesses act responsibly.",
        "中国作为“一带一路”战略的主要推进方，必须采取措施确保企业负责任地行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Even mummies are mobile.",
        "就连木乃伊都可以活动。"
    ],
    [
        "If South Korea or Japan ever concluded that North Korea was in a position to deter American involvement in a war on the Peninsula, they would lose confidence in US security assurances, raising the possibility that they would develop nuclear weapons of their own.",
        "如果韩国或日本有朝一日认定朝鲜能够威慑美国不卷入朝鲜半岛战争，它们将失去对美国安全保证的信心，它们发展自身核武器的可能性也会随之提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Last week, China finally enshrined private property by passing the long-awaited property rights law, in what the government called “significant progress in promoting rule of law in the country.”",
        "上个星期，中国最终通过了期待已久的物权法，从而确立了私有财产的地位，对此政府称之为“国家推动法治建设的重要进展”。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, implicit subsidies to too-big-to-fail banks must be dropped.",
        "另一方面，对太大而不能倒银行的暗补必须取消。"
    ],
    [
        "These conflicts are inbuilt, because firms that engage in commercial banking, investment banking, proprietary trading, market making and dealing, insurance, asset management, private equity, hedge-fund activities, and other services are on every side of every deal (the recent case of Goldman Sachs was just the tip of the iceberg).",
        "这些利益冲突成了金融体系的内在顽疾，因为那些同时从事商业银行、投资银行、私募股权、对冲基金和其他种种业务的公司，在所有的交易中都多方下注。 最近高盛的案子只不过是冰山一角。"
    ],
    [
        "I was born in Indonesia in the early 1950’s, a time when most families in my country lacked access to health care.",
        "我出生于20世纪50年代初的印尼，当时的印尼大部分家庭无法获得医疗服务。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for now, it is a highly welcome development, and may indicate that policies aimed at boosting the northern economy have had some effect.",
        "但就目前而言，这一发展趋势令人鼓舞，并可能表明了旨在提振北部经济的政策产生了一些效果。"
    ],
    [
        "European leaders should boldly show that they are committed to an ambitious outcome in Paris, and that Europe will enhance its support of CELAC climate actions.",
        "欧洲领导人应该果断证明他们有决心在巴黎取得宏大结果，并且欧洲将增加其对CELAC气候行动的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, bonus compensation should be redesigned to reward long-term performance.",
        "同理，奖金也应该用来奖励高管的长期业绩。"
    ],
    [
        "The US then backed Saddam Hussein in his attack on Iran, until the US ended up attacking Saddam himself.",
        "美国在那时支持萨达姆攻打伊朗，直到调转枪头对准萨达姆本人。"
    ],
    [
        "After a decade that saw wages grow faster than productivity, unit labor costs (and the real exchange rate based on those costs) appreciated sharply.",
        "过去10年中，它们的工资增长又快于生产率的提升，单位劳动成本（它是实际汇率的基础）急剧升高。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Roman philosopher Cicero, “In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods, as in giving health to men.”",
        "罗马哲学家西塞罗说：“没有什么比与人健康更接近神了。"
    ],
    [
        "Microfinance can also help SMEs transition to low-carbon business models, by financing their efforts to adopt renewable energy sources and shift to sustainable production and supply chains.",
        "小额信贷还可以帮助中小企业过渡到低碳商业模式，为他们采用可再生能源和转向可持续生产及供应链建设提供融资支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Repeal of Obama’s signature health-care reform will have a severe impact on many lower-income people as they lose affordable insurance coverage.",
        "废除奥巴马医保改革将对许多低收入人群产生严重影响，令他们失去了可负担得起的保险。"
    ],
    [
        "It would not require a headline deficit of below 3% of GDP in each and every year, in each and every country.",
        "它不要求每一年每一国标题赤字（headline deficit）都低于GDP的3%。"
    ],
    [
        "“We will turn away the migrants who are suppressing your wages, and redirect millions of pounds from the EU to public services.”",
        "“我们将赶走压低工资的移民，并将本来交给欧盟的成百上千万英镑转移到公共服务当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Who could say to Hamas that unless they accept certain rules, their election is not valid?",
        "由谁出面告诉哈马斯，除非他们接受特定的规则，否则选举结果将被判无效？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Security Strategy is almost a “National” Strategy.",
        "事实上，这份安全战略报告几乎就体现了美国的整个国家战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Some compare the Iranian regime to Nazi Germany.",
        "有人将伊朗政权与纳粹德国相比较。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters are the actions of those who don’t want fascism in Russia and instead simply want Russia to be free.",
        "重要的是那些不希望俄罗斯出现法西斯主义而希望俄罗斯自由的人们会采取什么行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The year of Mohammed’s hijra also became the first year of the Islamic calendar.",
        "默罕默德迁徙那年也因此成为伊斯兰历元年。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East Awakening",
        "中东的觉醒"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these highly indebted governments have large stocks of gold, which they may decide to dump to reduce their debts.",
        "许多这类高负债政府都拥有大量黄金储备，而它们也决定去出售这些储备以减少债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Aquino’s approach to the negotiations reflected his recognition that the MILF had twice used peace talks – once brokered by Libya’s Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi – as a cynical ploy to buy time to regroup and raise funds (including from Al Qaeda). With freshly restocked arsenals, they would relaunch their campaign to seize Mindanao by force.",
        "阿基诺三世在谈判中所采取的方针反映出他对MILF的清醒认识——MILF两次利用和平谈判的机会——其中一次是由利比亚的卡扎菲撮合的——获得喘息，重新组织人手和筹集资金（包括来自基地组织的资金），接着再凭借重新获得的武装重新试图武力夺取棉兰老岛。"
    ],
    [
        "A policy that has large positive effects for a big economy might have small negative effects for the rest of the world and yet still be positive overall for global welfare.",
        "一项政策可能给一个大型经济体带来巨大的正面影响，但对世界其他地区带来微小的负面影响，但对全球福利的影响总体为正面。"
    ],
    [
        "Other governments have already spent tens of millions on vaccines and other preventive measures.",
        "其它政府也已花费了几千亿美元购买疫苗，采取其它预防措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Taiwan is an independent state but is officially part of China.",
        "台湾是一个独立的国家，但是却正式是中国的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Bringing a halt to the fighting will require the United States, the European Union, Russia, Iran, and possibly Saudi Arabia and Qatar to work together toward a common goal.",
        "停止战斗需要美国、欧盟、俄罗斯、伊朗——也许还有沙特阿拉伯和卡塔尔——向共同目标一起努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Rajapaksa government, and the majority Sinhalese, must understand that the political and economic reforms needed to achieve a lasting peace are inextricably intertwined.",
        "事实上，拉贾帕克萨政府以及人口占多数的僧伽罗族必须明白，获得持久和平所需的政治和经济改革是完全交织在一起的。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, forest and agricultural lands would have to be restored, so that they could capture and sequester greater amounts of carbon dioxide.",
        "与此同时，我们必须恢复森林和耕地，以便捕获和隔离更多的二氧化碳排放。"
    ],
    [
        "We live in an age of simultaneous fear of inflation and deflation; of unprecedented prosperity amid growing inequality; and of technological advancement and resource depletion.",
        "既有前所未有的繁荣，又有不断扩大的不平等； 一方面科技进步，另一方面则存在资源枯竭。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the use of force is costly in terms of lives, money, and leaders’ energy and attention.",
        "首先，使用武力会消耗大量的生命、金钱和领导人的能量和注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowhere is this more apparent than in analyses of emerging economies’ prospects.",
        "最明显的莫过于对新兴经济体前景的分析了。"
    ],
    [
        "Debt Without Drowning",
        "不会致溺的债务"
    ],
    [
        "More than ever before, we are producing commodities that contribute to social welfare through use value rather than market value.",
        "更重要的是我们正在生产一些通过使用价值而非市场价值来促进社会福祉的商品。"
    ],
    [
        "And much is still on paper, or in scanned images, insurance company records, and pharmacy transactions.",
        "还有许多信息仍然以纸为载体，或者存在于扫描影像、保险公司记录和药房交易。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran is also internally divided.",
        "伊朗的国内意见同样并不统一。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that unusually low volatility – in the US, 2017 so far has shown the lowest daily loss in the entire history of the S&P 500 index – and there has been little to keep investors up at night.",
        "再加上异乎寻常的低波动性——在美国，标普500指数在2017年（至当日为止）呈现了历史上的最低单日损失——让投资者几乎可以在夜里睡个好觉了。"
    ],
    [
        "Sitting on the sidelines, emerging-market economies in general, and the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) in particular, may feel fortunate to be spared this financial maelstrom.",
        "身处外围的新兴市场经济体大体上（特别是所谓的金砖国家，即巴西、俄罗斯、印度和中国）都深感幸运，没有被卷进这个金融大漩涡。"
    ],
    [
        "As increasingly extreme weather reshapes migration patterns, the number of displaced people (already at record highs worldwide) will rise, and competition for essential resources (such as water, food, and energy) will increase.",
        "随着越来越频繁的极端天气改变迁移模式，流离失所者（已经达到有史以来创纪录的高位）的数量和对基本资源（如水、粮食和能源）的争夺将持续增加。"
    ],
    [
        "For nationalists, it is a threat, undermining British sovereignty and control over the country’s borders.",
        "而在民族主义者眼中这东西是一个威胁，破坏了英国的主权以及对边界的控制力。"
    ],
    [
        "And scientists in the field remain puzzled by the fact that most identical twins (who share 100% of their genes) do not die from the same diseases.",
        "该领域的科学家仍被一个事实所困扰：同卵双胞胎（基因100%相同）并不因同样的疾病而死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for Asia’s leaders to step up.",
        "亚洲领导人应该行动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "The search for additional and more stable funding to meet the MDG’s has led to various proposals for innovative financing mechanisms and debt relief, in particular by British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown.",
        "为实现MDG寻求额外的和更稳定的财政支持的努力促成了在创新的财政机制和减免债务方面的不同提案。 英国财政大臣戈登·布朗在提议方面尤为积极。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless Europe is willing to make those reforms, it may have to let the euro die to save itself.",
        "除非欧洲愿意进行这样的改革，否则它也许只能让欧元消失才能拯救自己了。"
    ],
    [
        "Is there any merit to such forecasts?",
        "这样的预测有合理性吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Such courses typically neglect mental-health emergencies, leaving participants poorly equipped to help people who are struggling with suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, the effects of alcohol or drug abuse, or a diminishing grip on reality.",
        "这些课程通常都忽略心理健康紧急状况，参与者很难帮助陷于自杀念头、无端恐惧、创伤后压力、酒精和药物滥用后果以及深感无力抓住现实而难以自拔的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Changing that will require not merely confronting a new ideological outlook, but also deciding which policies reflect what is best about the American political tradition.",
        "要改变它需要的不仅仅是面对一个新的思想观点，还需要决定那种政策最能体现美国的政治传统。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran remains unmoved.",
        "但伊朗仍旧不为所动。"
    ],
    [
        "This could increase the bargaining power of the international community in the Middle East, and might strengthen those social forces in countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Russia that seriously wish to promote political and economic reform from within.",
        "这将会提高国际社会在中东的讨价还价的实力，而且可能加强像沙特、伊朗以及俄罗斯等国的那些确实愿意从内部促进政治和经济改革的社会力量。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer, human-rights activist, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the restrictions are part of a government policy to limit women’s opportunities outside the home.",
        "在伊朗律师、人权活动家、诺贝尔和平奖获得者伊巴迪（Shirin Ebadi）看来，这项限制是伊朗政府制约女性走出家门机会的政策的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us begin with the relevant economic developments.",
        "让我们从相关经济发展开始谈。"
    ],
    [
        "With a trillion-dollar economy, world-class technology, a 500,000-strong military, and a vibrant, well-educated society, the country is capable of planning, manning, and paying for the aftermath of a peaceful end to the Kim regime.",
        "韩国拥有万亿美元规模的经济、世界级的技术、500,000大军和充满活力、教育程度优良的社会，它有能力计划、操作和提供资金以实现金氏王朝的和平下台。"
    ],
    [
        "But the biggest change in Earth’s energy budget by far over the past hundred years is due to the accumulation in our atmosphere of greenhouse gases, which limit the exit of heat into space.",
        "但过去几百年来地球能量总量中最大的变化推动力其实是大气中积累的温室气体，因为他们限制了热量向外太空散失。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the debt was highly rated, how could anyone objectively assess unsecured and virtually unenforceable obligations?",
        "但当这些债券被评级机构捧到天上的时候，为何没有人去客观地评价这些高风险且无法强制履行的还款责任呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The CFPB was designed, above all, to bring greater transparency to consumers’ financial transactions – actually a very pro-market contribution.",
        "消费者金融保护局的构建首先就是为了给消费者的金融交易带来更大透明度——这实际上是一个非常有利于市场的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "By turning his back on the Paris agreement, he is increasing Americans’ exposure to the devastating effects of climate change – many of which they are already experiencing.",
        "背弃巴黎协定的他增加了美国暴露于气候变化的毁灭性后果的风险——其中不少后果他们已经开始体验到了。"
    ],
    [
        "That legacy is now reasserting itself.",
        "俾斯麦的这一遗产正在卷土重来。"
    ],
    [
        "The global economy’s high degree of interconnectivity, interdependence, and complex feedback mechanisms imply that one weak hub can bring down the entire system.",
        "新兴市场还面临着快速变化的外部环境和日益迫切的有效管理资本流的需要，后者需要央行和金融监管者之间的更紧密的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN Security Council is charged with addressing breaches or threats to international peace, a criterion that is now clearly met.",
        "联合国安理会有责任惩罚违约者及消除国际和平威胁，目前这两项标准显然已经满足。"
    ],
    [
        "They were intimately involved in this plot.”",
        "他们密切参与了这项阴谋。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The two men were a mismatch made in White House hell.",
        "这两个人堪称是白宫地狱里的一对错配冤家。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Much of the world’s attention is understandably focused on developments in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.",
        "纽约—不难理解，世界的大部分目光集中在中东、欧洲和亚洲的发展态势上。"
    ],
    [
        "American commentators – and, increasingly, US judges – want to insulate CEOs and boards further from their firms’ trading shareholders.",
        "而美国评论员——以及越来越多的法官——都想把企业的首席执行官和董事会与其公司的交易股东进一步隔离开来。"
    ],
    [
        "So, too, are renewable forms of power, such as solar and wind.",
        "而太阳能和风能这类可再生能源也值得关注。"
    ],
    [
        "By using the dollar to anchor prices and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate as the benchmark for the cost of capital, invoicing, payments, clearing, liquidity, and central-bank reserves all became more stable and reliable.",
        "通过用美元锚定价格并以美联储利率作为资金成本的基准价格，定价、支付、清算、流动性和央行储备都变得更加稳定和可靠。"
    ],
    [
        "Only occasionally do we get uplifting, things-are-getting-better stories.",
        "偶尔（只是偶尔）我们也可以遇到一些正能量的越变越好的故事。"
    ],
    [
        "The Pasteur Institute is constructing a new facility about 30 kilometers from Dakar, in Diamniadio, that is expected to triple production by 2019.",
        "巴斯德研究所正在距离达喀尔30公里的迪亚姆尼亚迪奥（Diamniadio）建造新产能，预计可以在2019年将产量增加两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact of strong IP protection on social welfare has long been considered ambiguous.",
        "长期以来，强大的知识产权保护对社会福利的冲击被认为是模糊不清的。"
    ],
    [
        "Everything since – enlargement to 27 member states and the creation of the 16-member eurozone – has widened the gap between rhetoric and reality. Euroland has gone on promising far more than its history enables it to deliver.",
        "欧盟引起世界关注的时刻少之又少，这正是欧洲在经济和地缘政治上江河日下的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Bretton Woods institutions, the emerging economies are right that their increased economic weight should correlate with larger capital contributions and more weight in decision-making.",
        "在布雷顿森林体系机构中，新兴经济体不断增大的经济体量应当与更大的出资比重和决策权重相关联。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the case of other important leaders – China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi, Argentina’s Mauricio Macri, Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto – it is still early days.",
        "但是，对于其他重要领导人——中国的习近平、印度的莫迪、阿根廷的马克里、墨西哥的涅托——目前仍然言之尚早。"
    ],
    [
        "Victims had to be rescued in boats by India’s army and air force.",
        "印度陆军和空军派遣救援船只救援受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Asia could come to be characterized by several resurgent powers, including Japan, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and a reunified Korea.",
        "最后一种情况则是亚洲将被定义为一连串重新复兴的地区势力，包括日本、印度、越南，印尼以及一个重新统一的朝鲜半岛国家。"
    ],
    [
        "And even when there are revenues to be earned, as there could be from airports, businesses might be deterred by the need to rely on long-term pricing agreements.",
        "即使有收入可图——比如机场就可能带来收入——企业也有可能因为必须依赖长期定价协议而退缩。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they are approaching negotiations skeptically, rather than emphasizing the sense of mutual obligation that should characterize the alliance.",
        "因此，他们对谈判抱有怀疑的态度，对本应成为联盟标志的相互义务并不怎样看重。"
    ],
    [
        "As the riots in France fade, French politicians are agonizing about how to proceed.",
        "随着暴乱在法国的逐渐平息，法国的政治家们又开始为何去何从而苦恼。"
    ],
    [
        "G-20 communiqués have repeatedly pledged to secure “adjustment” and “rebalancing” in the world economy, but those promises have come to nothing.",
        "而一系列G20会议公报也不断重申要确保对世界经济进行“调整”和“再平衡”，但最后却都无法兑现。"
    ],
    [
        "A few dozen emergency workers who battled the fire at the reactor succumbed to acute radiation sickness.",
        "几十个扑灭反应堆大火的紧急灭火工人死于急性放射性疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "With two years remaining in his term, and with his Liberal Democratic Party enjoying comfortable majorities in the Diet’s upper and lower houses, Abe has called a snap general election for December.",
        "在还有两年任期、且自民党占国会上下院多数席位的情况下，安倍要求在12月提前举行大选。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of the next day, there had also been thuggish violence.",
        "游行第二天结束时发生了暴力事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush then claimed that America went to war to liberate Iraq.",
        "于是布什又声称美国发动战争是为了解放伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "Conditional cash transfers, text-message-based initiatives, school-based food programs, vitamin-fortification schemes, and local leadership have all proved effective in improving maternal nutrition.",
        "有条件的现金转移、基于短信的项目、校园餐计划、维生素强化制度和地方领导力都被证明能够有效改善母亲营养。"
    ],
    [
        "Yar’Adua’s deputy, Goodluck Jonathan, from the oil-rich Niger Delta in the south, overcame resistance from members of the late president’s cabinet and was sworn in as Yar’Adua’s successor, as stipulated by the constitution.",
        "而古得勒克·乔纳森，这位来自石油资源丰富的南部尼日尔三角洲的总统副手，则成功地压制住了已故总统内阁的反对之声，依照宪法的规定宣誓成为接班人。"
    ],
    [
        "We have mapped the MGI CompanyScope to Cityscope, our database of the world’s cities, giving us a detailed picture of where large companies locate their head offices and foreign subsidiaries.",
        "为了详细了解大企业的总部及海外子公司都设在哪里，我们已经把MGI CompanyScope标注在我们的Cityscope世界城市库中。"
    ],
    [
        "That, of course, is one of the few things he could not control, beyond offering his teachings to future generations.",
        "除对子孙后代勤加教导外，这无疑是少数他无法控制的问题之一。"
    ],
    [
        "All successful rescues of countries in financial distress – Mexico, Korea, Thailand, Brazil, Turkey – require two conditions: the country’s credible willingness to impose the fiscal austerity and structural reforms needed to restore sustainability and growth; and massive amounts of front-loaded official support to avoid a self-fulfilling rollover crisis of maturing public and/or private short-term debts.",
        "解救陷入金融危机的国家，一切成功的案例，如墨西哥、韩国、泰国、巴西和土耳其，都必须具备两个条件：该国有意愿加强财政约束，实施结构改革且这种意愿具有公信力； 大规模官方资金援助及早到位，以免到期公私债务的雪球越滚越大，把自己压垮。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, such people often struggle to find employment, and even when they do find a job, their work environment may not be able to support them adequately.",
        "结果，这些人常常很难找到工作，即便真的找到了工作，工作环境也往往无法给予他们充分的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "First, all political parties agree that welfare-state arrangements should remain tax-financed, although possibly with a stronger application of insurance principles in the social insurance systems.",
        "首先，所有的政党都同意，尽管在社会保险体制中可能会更大地采用保险原则，但是福利国家体系应当维持由税收资助。"
    ],
    [
        "Somalia’s Endless Hell",
        "无尽炼狱索马里"
    ],
    [
        "Japanese conservatives view their country’s post-war pacifist constitution, written by Americans in 1946, as a humiliating assault on Japanese sovereignty.",
        "日本保守派把战后的和平宪法——由美国人于1946年撰写——视为对日本主权的羞辱。"
    ],
    [
        "Upending the status quo will be no easy feat.",
        "颠覆现状绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "When greater income inequality is a fait accompli, principled discussion may give way to naked class struggle between the new super-rich and those who have only their misery to lose.",
        "一旦更大的收入不平等成为现实，原则性的讨论可能就要让位于新兴的富豪和困苦的穷人之间赤裸裸的阶级斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump will probably be unable to fulfill his promise to increase the US economy’s export share.",
        "特朗普可能无法实现增加美国经济中的出口比例的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "While China has not responded to these overtures with the degree of enthusiasm that accompanied them, the Chinese would be happy to fill the strategic vacuum likely to be created by America’s accelerated departure from AfPak.",
        "尽管中国尚未对围绕他们的热情提议做出反应，但他们非常乐于填补美国加速撤离阿富汗巴基斯坦后留下的战略真空。"
    ],
    [
        "Minority rights, institutional checks on government power, human rights – the liberal aspects of democracy – are entirely absent.",
        "少数人的权利、对政府权力的制度化约束、人权等等民主的自由面向，在其意识中完全缺失。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this suggests that, in responding to the coup attempt, Erdoğan and his supporters must think beyond punishing the military faction that carried it out, though that is, of course, critical.",
        "所有这一切表明在应对政变企图时，埃尔多安及其支持者不应仅局限于惩罚策动政变的军事派别，尽管这当然也非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But in a country like China, where capital flight is illegal and investors attempt to evade capital controls, transactions might not be recorded at all.",
        "但在中国这样的国家，资本外逃是非法行为，而投资者试图规避资本管制，因此交易可能根本不会被记录。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the Commission should reverse the decline in assistance and spend more money though local governments and the PRTs.",
        "此外，欧盟应该改变援助下降的状况，向地方政府和省级重建队注入更多的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "These leaders’ profound ambivalence toward the goal of a world free of illegal drugs is shared by the European Union, where restrictions on narcotics consumption have slackened over the past decade.",
        "与这些领袖一样对无非法毒品世界目标抱有矛盾心理的还有欧盟，它过去几十年来已经放松了对毒品消费的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of them will also be desirable: longer, healthier, and higher quality lives as we learn more about the details of human biology.",
        "其中很多对人类大有益处：随着我们对人类生物细节了解的不断深入，能给我们带来更长寿、更健康、更高质量的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that endangered plant species tend to be concentrated geographically raises the stakes for conservation efforts in those areas.",
        "濒危植物往往在地理上相对集中的现实提升了保护工作在那些地区的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Vietnam, which restored diplomatic relations with the United States only in 1995, is now considering allowing the US Navy to use its Cam Ranh Naval Base – which was built and used by the US Air Force during the Vietnam War (and then by the Soviet and Russian navies).",
        "1995年才与美国恢复邦交的越南目前增在考虑允许美国海军使用其金兰海军基地。 该基地由美国空军在越南战争期间建设和使用（后来苏联和俄罗斯海军也使用过）。"
    ],
    [
        "Some will object to the description of a person with advanced dementia as an “empty husk.”",
        "有些人可能反对将晚期老年痴呆症患者说成是一具“空壳”。"
    ],
    [
        "This reflects the fact that the market in dollar-denominated assets is exceptionally deep and liquid, which limits transaction costs.",
        "这反映出一个事实，即美元计价资产市场具有相当的深度和流动性，从而能够限制交易成本。"
    ],
    [
        "As a sociologist, he chose this tiny town to study how people relate to each other and influence each other, just as biologists study tiny worms with only a few hundred cells so that they can study how each cell relates to an organism as a whole.",
        "作为社会学家，他选择这个小镇来研究人与人之间的联系和影响，如同生物学家研究小虫子时用几百个巢室来研究每个巢室与整体的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia’s productivity growth has lagged behind that of most other G-20 countries, rising by just 0.8% in the past decade.",
        "沙特阿拉伯的生产率增长一直落后于其他多数G-20国家，过去十年仅仅增长了0."
    ],
    [
        "But this merely threatens to substitute one form of political influence for another.",
        "但这仅仅是威胁用替代一种形式的政治影响力去取代另一种而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany is the EU’s most populous state and its economic powerhouse, accounting for over 20% of the bloc’s GDP.",
        "德国是欧盟人口最多的国家，也是经济最强大的国家，其GDP占整个欧盟的20%多。"
    ],
    [
        "First, demography: for the last 50 years France has had much higher fertility rates than the rest of Europe – 1.9 children per woman, compared to the European average of 1.6 and the German or Spanish rates of 1.3.",
        "首先是人口统计领域：过去50年来，法国的人口出生率远远高于其它欧洲国家¾女性的平均生育数字达到19，而欧洲国家平均为1. 6，德国或西班牙则只有1."
    ],
    [
        "Initially, Blair attempted to force through detention without charge for up to 90 days. Parliament settled on 28 days – still the longest such period in the Western world.",
        "原本布莱尔打算将拘留期设定为90天，最终议会将其定在28天——但这依然是西方世界中最长的拘留期。"
    ],
    [
        "There is nothing really new about a commitment to hunger eradication.",
        "消除饥饿并不是一个全新的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "By the early 1990’s, Bulgaria had changed.",
        "到了20世纪90年代初，保加利亚发生了巨变。"
    ],
    [
        "The political struggle between red states and blue cities will continue to play out in judicial and legislative battles, while giving rise to new citizen-led initiatives.",
        "红色州和蓝色城市之间的政治斗争将继续在司法和立法层面上延续，同时也会催生新公民主导型动议的兴起。"
    ],
    [
        "The appreciation of the dollar exacerbates the situation for US markets, because it creates headwinds for exporters and causes companies’ foreign earnings, reported in dollars, to decline.",
        "美元升值恶化了美国市场的局面，因为这不利于出口商，也导致公司以美元计价的海外盈利下降。"
    ],
    [
        "We recommend a low inflation objective as the anchor for monetary policy in China.",
        "我们建议采用低通货膨胀目标作为中国货币政策的出发点。"
    ],
    [
        "Magnificent sums of money, backed by Wahhabi dogma, will be deployed to ensure popular submission and silence.",
        "银弹加上瓦哈比派教义将确保民众顺服和安静。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the out-of-towners have the option of buying from somewhere else.",
        "当然，外地人有权从别处进口。"
    ],
    [
        "So, for now, East Asians should be very pragmatic about institutionalizing regional affairs.",
        "因此如今东亚人应当对区域事务制度化方面抱有谨慎务实的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Most economists in China seem to support the PBOC’s stance, citing the potential benefits of capital-account liberalization.",
        "大部分中国经济学家似乎都支持中国人民银行的立场，并列举出资本账户自由化的各种潜在好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet these five industries combined employ only 14 million people out of a total labor force of 770 million and fewer people than they did a decade ago.",
        "但在中国的7. 7亿劳动力大军中，这五种行业合计来也只雇用了1400万人而已，少于他们十年前的雇用人数。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, both Japan and the US face a common challenge from China’s rise and have a strong interest in ensuring that it does not become a threat.",
        "此外，因为中国的崛起，日美面临着共同的挑战，并且都强烈希望它不会成为一个威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is these rules that have fostered the trade deficits that have destabilized and undermined the American economy.",
        "但是，正是这些规则造成了贸易赤字，并损害了美国经济和造成美国经济的不稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "The bill originates from a statistical recalculation by Eurostat, the EU statistical office, of the UK’s economic performance over the past 20 years.",
        "这张账单源于欧盟统计局（Eurostat）对英国过去20年经济表现的重新统计结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Most countries in post-conflict situations suffer from weak fiscal positions, rendering the provision of internally financed subsidies impractical in most cases.",
        "大多数后冲突国家受到财政紧张之苦，从而在大多数情况下无法提供本国自己资助的补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "At least three opposition parties – Isa Gambar’s “Mussavat,” Ala Keremela’s “The National Front, and the Social Democratic Party – have maintained support and political influence since Ilham succeeded his late father, Heydar Aliyev, in 2003.",
        "伊萨·甘巴尔的穆萨瓦特党、克瑞姆里的人民阵线党以及阿塞拜疆的民族独立党等至少三个反对派政党从伊尔哈姆2003年接替他已故的父亲盖达尔·阿利耶夫担任总统后就一直保持着自己的支持力量和政治影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet in Europe and North America, there is growing concern about the ethics of the way meat and eggs are produced.",
        "然而，在欧洲和南美，人们越来越担心肉蛋生产方式中的伦理问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, paranoia about US imperialism is part of the cult of independence.",
        "事实上，对美帝国主义的偏执态度正是独立崇拜的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Suppose that – as seems to be the case – the simple Keynesian government-expenditure multiplier on this spending is only two.",
        "假设——目前看来正是如此——简单凯恩斯政府支出乘数 为2。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the misbehavior of democrats can do that.",
        "只有民主人士的错误行为才能够挑战民主主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Hopeless people do not vote.",
        "失去希望的人当然不会参与投票。"
    ],
    [
        "As the new risk-management industry develops, its components will gradually boost each other.",
        "在新的风险管理业发展过程当中，其不同门类之间也会相辅相成。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, I don’t think they will succeed.",
        "但我不认为他们会最终成功。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the lesson of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which celebrates its 20th birthday this year.",
        "这是今年迎来20周年纪念的北美自由贸易协定（North American Free Trade Agreement，NAFTA）给我们的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "A century earlier, in 1821, as Europeans and Americans debated whether to intervene in Greece’s struggle for independence, President John Quincy Adams warned his fellow Americans about “going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”",
        "就在一个世纪前的1821年，当时欧美双方正在就是否干涉希腊独立运动进行辩论，美国总统约翰·昆西·亚当斯（John Quincy Adams）就警告自己的同胞不要去“远赴国外消灭恶人”。"
    ],
    [
        "Safeguarding Europe’s interests today means establishing a strong link – indeed an unbreakable bond – with Turkey as a cornerstone of regional security.",
        "保障欧洲今天的利益意味着要和土耳其建立牢固的联系——应该说是一种牢不可破的纽带，作为地区安全的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "Any central banker will tell you that he or she gets 99 requests for interest-rate cuts for every request for a hike, almost regardless of the situation.",
        "所有央行行长会告诉你，无论在何种情况下，他/她每收到一个加息请求就会同时收到99个降息请求。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, with its recent decision to pursue QE3, the Fed is focusing once again on the mortgage-backed securities market; but, given that the market is much healthier now, it is unclear how much good this will do.",
        "事实上，在最近决定推出的QE3中，美联储的焦点再次集中在了按揭支持证券市场； 但是，如今该市场健康状况已有重大改善，因此QE3能起到多少作用还不好说。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of 2014, with Greece’s second bailout running out of time and cash, and the government nursing another €22 billion of unfunded debt repayments for 2015, Troika officials were in no doubt.",
        "到2014年底，随着希腊第二轮救助计划的时间和现金双双告急，而希腊政府眼看要在2015年偿付的另一笔220亿欧元资金也没有着落，三驾马车的官员们也明白了过来。"
    ],
    [
        "Big data can multiply our options while filtering out things we don’t want to see, but there is something to be said for discovering that 11th book through pure serendipity.",
        "大数据可以过滤掉我们不想看的事物并同时成倍增加我们的选择，但纯粹通过意外发现第十一本书其实非常值得一提。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, there are now “social entrepreneurs.”",
        "诚然，现在有一些“社会企业家”。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent major study by Majid Ezzati and colleagues from Imperial College London and Harvard University found that the number of adults with type 2 diabetes increased from an estimated 153 million in 1980 to 347 million in 2008.",
        "最近由马吉德·伊扎蒂与其伦敦帝国理工学院和哈佛大学的同僚们共同进行的一项重要研究显示：患有二型糖尿病鸟的成年人数量已经从1980年的约1. 53亿上升到2008年的约3."
    ],
    [
        "By seeking to cling to power by hook or by crook, Yanukovych is likely to bring on the deluge.",
        "为了不择手段地保住权力，亚努科维奇很可能带来一场大洪水。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the court-ordered airing of “corrective statements” in American media does represent a victory for truth.",
        "可以肯定，法庭命令在美国媒体上发布“修正声明”的确代表了真相的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Durkheim contrasts this phenomenon with the more progressive “organic solidarity” that evolves in modern societies according to people’s professional and functional relationships.",
        "涂尔干把这种现象与更具进步意味的“有机团结”进行了对比，后者依托个人的专业和职能关系成为现代社会的主流。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor unions should negotiate with management about providing appropriate risk management to their employees in financial forms: the right kinds of insurance, options, and other investments to protect them realistically without guaranteeing their employment and without jeopardizing the productivity of the firm.",
        "工会应该同管理层磋商，通过一些金融形式为员工提供适当的风险管理：适当的保险，分得股票期权以及做一些其他的投资来实际地保障员工利益，而不是为了保证他们不失业不顾危害到公司的生产力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, he is likely to achieve the kind of immortality that he always believed he deserved.",
        "事实上，他有可能获得他认为自己该得的不朽。"
    ],
    [
        "While war often unites countries, peace tends to divide them, because it inevitably requires concessions and sacrifices.",
        "战争往往能让国家团结在一起，而和平则因为不可避免地需要做出让步和牺牲而起到分裂作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Previous signs of exhaustion in the Concertación have worsened after the electoral defeat.",
        "执政联盟早已存在的衰竭迹象在选举失败后进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "In North America, where, for ethical reasons, randomization requires informed consent, only two such trials have been conducted.",
        "北美地区因道德原因开展随机抽样需要知情同意书，因此上述试验只进行过两次。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in its heyday, the Soviet Union was a one-track superpower.",
        "即使在全盛期，苏联也不过是瘸腿的超级大国。"
    ],
    [
        "This was viewed as powerful evidence of their new economic might.",
        "这被视为它们新经济实力的有力证据。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, however, they have drawn praise from observers who believe that Xi is leading the way to the fulfillment of the “Chinese dream” to rejuvenate the country.",
        "但在中国，这些手段受到了观察者的赞美，他们认为习近平是实现国家复兴的“中国梦”的领路人。"
    ],
    [
        "To rein in rising house prices and pre-empt the inflationary impact of the strongly expansionary fiscal and monetary policies implemented during the global financial crisis, China’s monetary authorities began to tighten financial conditions in January 2010.",
        "为了在遏制房价的上升的同时预先控制全球金融危机时实施的大幅度扩张性财政和货币政策造成的通胀影响，中国的金融监管当局已经在2010年1月开始逐步对金融环境进行收紧。"
    ],
    [
        "Deforestation also leads to reduced absorption of rainfall, which increases the volume of standing water.",
        "森林采伐还导致降雨吸收能力下降，从而让积水增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Development policies and programs must also take gender imbalances into consideration.",
        "发展政策和计划还必须考虑性别失衡问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The world community seems to be losing its strategic bearings. Instead of focusing on the real problem, namely the increasingly unstable international order, it is trying to apply Cold War-era concepts of disarmament.",
        "目前国际社会似乎也失去了战略指导方向，除了关注某些现实问题之外（也就是逐渐不稳定的国际秩序），它们还试图将冷战的裁军思维应用于今时今日。"
    ],
    [
        "It is too late to agree on issuing SDRs at the upcoming G-20 meeting, but if it were proposed by President Barack Obama and endorsed in principle by the majority of participants, it would be sufficient to give heart to the markets and make the meeting a resounding success.",
        "在即将来临的G-20峰会上就发行特别提款权达成共识已经太迟，但如果能获得总统巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）的提议，以及大体上获得多数参会国的赞同，就能给市场带来足够鼓舞，就足以使得这次大会获得圆满成功。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, Moscow’s elite – who fear that their assets may be expropriated by a future government – wants to avoid international pariah status so that they can see out their sun-set years in the safety of the West if the need arises.",
        "在另一方面，莫斯科的精英阶层担心未来的政府会将他们的资产收归国有，想要避免成为国际贱民，这般就可以在需要的时候在西方安度晚年。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, helicopter drops would arrive in the form of lump-sum payments to households or consumption vouchers for everybody, funded exclusively by central banks.",
        "在实践中，直升机撒钱的形式将是一次性一家庭为单位支付或全民发放消费券，钱全部由央行出。"
    ],
    [
        "Is anything like this politically possible?",
        "这在政治方面能否做到？"
    ],
    [
        "Though the IMF is supposed to have seniority over other creditors, there will be demands to write down a share of the loans that it has issued.",
        "尽管IMF的地位高于债权人，但也有不少人要求其减记它所发出的贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, these events don’t really explain why prices of other commodities often followed that of oil.",
        "毕竟，这些事件不能真正地解释为什么其它商品的价格经常追随着油价。"
    ],
    [
        "Cornelius Osgood, an American anthropologist, attributed Korean extremism to the peninsula’s weather.",
        "美国人类学者奥斯古德将朝鲜族人的极端主义归因于半岛气候。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, service-sector liberalization will be essential to promoting productivity and creating jobs.",
        "同样，服务业自由化对促进生产力和创造工作岗位至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The Brotherhood’s offshoot, the Palestinian movement Hamas, has established in the Gaza Strip a brutal, intolerant dictatorship.",
        "该组织在巴勒斯坦的分支哈马斯已经在加沙地区建立起了一个残酷而狭隘的专制政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The big innovation of that time was that my classes were broadcast around the San Francisco Bay Area.",
        "当时的重大创新是我的课通过广电信号送到旧金山湾区周边。"
    ],
    [
        "First, America and the world were victims of their own success.",
        "首先，美国和全世界成了自身成功的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, five million foreign immigrants have arrived, constituting 8.3% of all residents (and not including undocumented immigrants).",
        "3％（还不包括非法移民）。"
    ],
    [
        "Billions of dollars are said to be missing from the government investment fund 1MDB, which Najib controlled.",
        "据称有数十亿美元从由纳吉布控制的政府投资基金1MDB中不翼而飞。"
    ],
    [
        "Several TV channels had been extremely critical of the Taliban’s assaults on Pakistani society.",
        "不少电视台严厉地抨击塔里本对巴基斯坦社会造成的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Nationalism is often fed by a sense of impotence.",
        "民族主义通常都由软弱无力的感受所激发。"
    ],
    [
        "An even more visible change is the sudden increase in criminal charges – ranging from corruption to sexual offenses – being filed against members of the old elite.",
        "更加显眼的变化是针对旧精英成员的刑事指控的猛增，从腐败到性侵无所不包。"
    ],
    [
        "A Trump New Year",
        "特朗普新年"
    ],
    [
        "Let us all commit to achieving it in our lifetimes – for the benefit of everyone.",
        "让我们所有人致力于在有生之年实现——这对我们每个人都有好处。"
    ],
    [
        "These funds would operate on market principles and have to provide periodic accounting to political authorities (especially when their overall rate of return falls below a specified threshold), but would be otherwise autonomous.",
        "这些基金将根据市场原则运营，必须向政治当局提供定期会计报告（特别是当它们的总回报率下降至特定阈值之下时），除此之外，运营完全是自主的。"
    ],
    [
        "Or interest rates could rise if people expect a much weaker global economy – and, in a weaker global economy with no inflation, investors should be holding more US Treasuries, not fewer.",
        "如果人们预期全球经济会进一步疲软，那么利率也可能会上升，而如果此时没有通胀之忧，那么投资者会更多（而不是更少）地持有美国国债。"
    ],
    [
        "A new split up and down the hemisphere, engineered by a leader awash in oil money, would prove far more disastrous.",
        "一位坐拥大量石油财富的领导人在西半球所挑起的分裂将会远远更为具有灾难性。"
    ],
    [
        "Giving lectures about fiscal prudence is beside the point.",
        "大谈审慎财政可谓使错了力。"
    ],
    [
        "Should we postpone action until we learn about what works?",
        "我们应该暂停行动，直到学习到什么行动能起作用吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Most economists advocate rich countries’ replacing their complex and antiquated tax codes with a simple low flat tax, and they bemoan the fact that so few countries have tried it.",
        "多数经济学家都倡议富国废除复杂、过时的税法，代之以简便易行的统一低税收制度，他们哀叹如此有效的税收制度，却没有几个国家真正愿意尝试。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is what happened, with the endorsement – complete with deliver-by date – buried in the conclusions of the Council’s June 25-26 meeting.",
        "但事实却的确如此，理事会6月25-26日会议的决议当中就包含上述批准决定——还有明确的提交日期。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, neuroeconomists like him conduct research that is well beyond their conventional colleagues’ intellectual comfort zone, for they seek to advance some of the core concepts of economics by linking them to specific brain structures.",
        "此外，像他这样的神经经济学家，他们所采取的研究方法与他们的正统同行的知识舒适域格格不入。 他们试图将经济学的核心概念与大脑的具体结构联系起来，以此推动经济学的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "It builds nearly two new coal-fired electricity plants each week.",
        "它每周几乎都兴建两个新的火力发电厂。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether the debacle reflected the BJP’s unfortunate choice of coalition partners or its emphasis on growth when too many Indians had not benefited from it, the lesson for politicians was that growth did not provide electoral rewards.",
        "不管人民党的失败是因为选错了合作伙伴，还是因为在太多印度人没有从中获益时过早地强调发展，政客们得到的教训都是一样的——增长带不来选举胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, European citizens' elected representatives will be better able to scrutinize the work of the Commission.",
        "因此，欧洲人民选出的代表们将更好地审查委员会的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, we have to work, with caution and good sense, to reach a reasonable and detailed agreement for a lasting ceasefire that has within it the perspective that Hamas can change .",
        "相反，我们应该通过审慎而明智的努力达成一个合理而详细的持久停火协议，其中也考虑到哈马斯可以改变的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s rise will continue, and the world – including the US – will have to find principled ways of peacefully accommodating it.",
        "中国将继续崛起，而世界——包括美国——必须找到和平适应这一变化的原则性方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Implosion: This likelihood of political disintegration, economic collapse, and social disorder may be no higher than that of re-equilibration.",
        "内部分裂：政治分裂、经济崩溃、是社会失序。 这种情况的发生可能性不会高于再平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Why would the system work better with a larger share of gold reserves?",
        "那为何这一体系在增大黄金储备份额的情况下才能运作得更为顺畅？"
    ],
    [
        "Free-market ideologues don’t want governments to think at all; and Keynesians want governments to think only about the short run, because they take to an extreme John Maynard Keynes’ famous quip, “In the long run we are all dead.”",
        "自由市场思想家希望政府什么都不要想； 凯恩斯主义者希望政府只思考短期，因为他们原因凯恩斯的著名评论，认为“长期看，我们都死了。"
    ],
    [
        "And Japan is already slipping back into recession because of the earthquake.",
        "而日本震后已重新陷入衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "A Japanese Metamorphosis?",
        "日本的转型？"
    ],
    [
        "Leave Afghanistan to the Taliban, hoping against hope that they will become better-behaved global citizens, and what is the effect likely to be on Pakistan?",
        "如果西方把阿富汗丢回到塔利班手里，然后寄希望于这些人能逐渐成长为负责任的世界公民，那么此举会对巴斯斯坦人有什么影响？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, firms in China’s export-dependent coastal regions have been burdened by renminbi appreciation since 2004.",
        "比方说，人民币升值从2004年起就开始影响以出口为主的中国沿海地区。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the Middle East is sinking into deeper turmoil, and we are farther away from finding a solution in Syria, Egypt, and other key sources of regional instability.",
        "简言之，中东正在走向更深层次的动荡，而我们距离找到埃及、叙利亚和其他地区动荡之源的解决方案更加遥远了。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when every component of private demand was collapsing, the boost from higher government spending and lower taxes stopped the global economy’s free-fall and created the basis for recovery.",
        "在构成私人需求的所有元素都溃不成军的时刻，来自加大政府开支和降低税收的推动政策成功阻止了全球经济自由落体，并由此创造了复苏的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "At the current pace of recovery, that is more than eight years away.",
        "以当前复苏速度计算，这意味着八年时间。"
    ],
    [
        "They entail the replacement of low- and medium-skilled workers with machines operated by a much smaller number of highly skilled workers.",
        "它们将用由一小撮高技能工人操纵的机器取代中低技能工人。"
    ],
    [
        "Like recent reports about many Americans’ deteriorating health, this difference in life expectancy seems to reflect not just income and wealth inequality, but also unequal access to health care.",
        "与关于许多美国人健康状况恶化的最新报告一样，这一寿命预期的差异不仅仅反映了收入和财富不平等上，也反映了获得医疗资源的不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "They will worry – and they are right to worry – that a situation of extreme peril, a veritable threat to the nation, was required before the French recovered their senses and took the path of reason.",
        "他们会担心——应该担心——法国人非要等到极端危险情形、不折不扣的国家威胁来临时才会恢复理智，选择理性之路。"
    ],
    [
        "The second analogy, to the old balance-of-power system in Europe, is especially popular among Israeli and American diplomats.",
        "第二个相似点比较，也就是欧洲古老的大国力量平衡在以色列和美国的外交官之中尤其津津乐道。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, while economic power is not a prerequisite to Olympic power, multipolarity in sports remains positively correlated with it.",
        "因此，尽管经济实力并非奥运实力的先决条件，但体育多极化仍与之具有正相关性。"
    ],
    [
        "Two asymmetries, however, favored Al Qaeda in September 2001.",
        "然而有两种不对称状况却在2001年9月推了基地组织一把。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the first, more developed proposal, banks would undertake large obligations via long-term bonds, which would be paid only if their operations are sound.",
        "第一个方案比较成熟，在这个方案下，银行将大量发行长期债券，只有在经营情况良好时，这些债券才会被偿付。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, this indicator paints a somewhat less alarming picture than that created by the headline youth-unemployment rate of more than 50% in Spain, or even the 62.5% rate recently reached in Greece.",
        "事实上，这一数据并不像报纸标题上的年轻人失业率在西班牙超过50%、在希腊（最新数据）超过62. 5%那样触目惊心。"
    ],
    [
        "Much depends on Egypt, which is best placed to broker an agreement.",
        "这在很大程度上取决于埃及，该国是最佳的协议调停人选。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that America’s role in the country can be settled only after the new Afghan president assumes office in May.",
        "这意味着美国在阿富汗的角色只有在5月阿富汗新总统履新后才能敲定。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the final agreement must include an effective and ambitious plan for de-carbonization over the next 50 years.",
        "此外，最终协议还必须包括关于未来50年的有效而宏大的去碳化计划。"
    ],
    [
        "We will make promises.",
        "我们将会做出承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Merkel will play the central role in deciding how Europe positions itself, not only because she is the leader of the EU’s largest economy, but also because she wants to be re-elected in September.",
        "默克尔将在决定欧洲立场时发挥核心作用，这不仅因为她是欧盟最大经济体的领导人，还因为她想在9月竞选中谋求连任。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to ensure a credible process, Cambodia and the UN must select judges of the highest caliber, not those that toe a party line.",
        "为了确保审讯程序的可靠性，柬埔寨和联合国必须甄选素质最高的法官而不是那些听命于某个党派的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany likes to blame the victim, pointing to Greece’s profligacy and the debt and deficits elsewhere.",
        "德国喜欢责怪受害者，指责希腊挥霍无度以及其他国家的债务和赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "All the factors that encourage high growth remain in place: low labor costs, education, high savings, improving infrastructure, and rapid urbanization.",
        "所有的促进高增长的因素还在：劳动力成本低、教育、高储蓄率、基础设施的改善以及快速的城市化。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an argument similar to those being made by euroskeptics in the United Kingdom and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the United States.",
        "这一观点和英国的欧元怀疑派和美国的共和党总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）类似。"
    ],
    [
        "Public spending had to rise before it could fall, in order to provide some slack while renegotiating parts of the social contract.",
        "公共支出必须在可以下降之前升高，以提供空间重新商定部分社会契约。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the country’s household savings rate will decrease dramatically, making it increasingly difficult for the private sector to finance budget deficits.",
        "因此家庭储蓄率将急剧下降，令私人部门逐渐难以支撑预算赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "Kissinger, a shrewd practitioner of Realpolitik, saw the potential in this approach, which he readily implemented.",
        "基辛格是个精明的实力政治信奉者，他看到了这个方法所蕴含的潜力，并心甘情愿地予以执行。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, at the individual level, greater flexibility could also be built in at the pump, through the promotion of flex-fuel vehicles of the type already in use in Brazil.",
        "最后，在个人层面，可以在加油站体现灵活因素——通过推广（比如）已经在巴西投入使用的灵活燃料（flex-fuel）汽车。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Trilemma",
        "中国的三角困境"
    ],
    [
        "By these criteria, Argentina became an upper-middle-income country all the way back in 1970, and then spent 40 years stuck in that category before reaching high-income status in 2010.",
        "根据这些标准，阿根廷在1970年便已成为中上收入国家，此后花了40年直到2010年才打到高收入标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if we limit the rise in global temperatures, climate change is here to stay.",
        "即使我们能限制住全球气温的升高，气候变化也会继续发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Several EU leaders have claimed that Turkish membership would spark a wave of migration and strain the European economy.",
        "几位欧盟领导人宣称土耳其加入欧盟会引发一股移民潮，从而给欧洲的经济发展造成压力。"
    ],
    [
        "CALGARY – When Harvey Cushing and William Bovie introduced electrocautery (which uses a high-frequency current to seal blood vessels or make incisions) in 1926, their innovation transformed neurosurgery.",
        "卡尔加里—当哈维·库欣（Harvey Cushing）和威廉·博威（William Bovie）于1926年引入电灼（用高频电流封闭血管或制造切口），他们的创新改变了神经外科学。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it uses a new phrase drawn from the recent agreement between the US and China: countries’ responsibilities will be based on “common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities in light of different national circumstances.”",
        "它使用了来自最近的中美协议的方法：各国的责任将基于“体现共同但有区别的责任和各自能力原则”。"
    ],
    [
        "The extended detention of dozens of individuals in Guantanamo—without charge and without trial—is a basic abrogation of this right.",
        "许多人在关塔纳摩（Guatanamo）被延长扣留——没有控诉也没有审判——这就是对这一权力的根本性破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone who believes in the rights of all children to quality education should be troubled by a decision so myopic.",
        "任何相信所有孩子都有权接受高质量教育的人都会为这种短视的决定而不安。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese leaders may have believed that inducing the North to adopt the Chinese model of economic opening would create a better political environment for denuclearization.",
        "中国领导人或许认为让朝鲜采取中国的经济开放模式能为去核化创造更好的政治环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Even two of the region’s great democracies, Japan and South Korea, which have nearly identical strategic interests, have allowed an old territorial dispute – itself reflecting older unresolved animosities – to block closer cooperation.",
        "即使两个战略利益几乎相同的亚洲民主大国——日本和韩国——也陷入了由来已久的领土争端——反映了由来更久的冲突——无法进行紧密合作。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, it was possible to address the first generation of global development problems with straightforward transfers of capital and solutions from rich to poor countries.",
        "可以肯定，靠从富国到穷国的直接资本和方案转移解决第一代全球发展问题是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "The case for improving education systems is urgent.",
        "改善教育体系的任务是紧迫的。"
    ],
    [
        "That would reinforce the deflationary pressure from globalization for years to come.",
        "这将强化今后多年内来自全球化的通缩压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans wanted additional demand for their goods and higher prices, while the Germans and Japanese defended their export industries.",
        "美国人希望为其商品创造更高需求和更高价格； 而德国人和日本人想捍卫出口行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging Markets’ Nirvana Lost",
        "新兴市场失去的涅槃"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, as that stimulus wanes, the impact of inadequate advanced-country demand on Chinese growth is becoming increasingly apparent.",
        "而事实上，随着这一刺激因素的消失，发达国家需求不足对中国增长的影响已经越来越明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Four days prior to Uganda’s presidential vote in February, President Yoweri Museveni cut access to mobile payment services and social media sites.",
        "2月份乌干达总统选举投票前四天，总统穆塞韦尼切断了移动支付服务和社交媒体网站。"
    ],
    [
        "But I also could live with, “We are worried that if we wait too long, we will have to tighten too hard and too fast.”",
        "”但我同时也可以忍受他们说“我们担心如果我们等待太久，我们将不得不过快过剧烈地收紧（货币政策）。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "With the involvement of the AIIB and the New Development Bank, China has developed what amounts to a multinational development strategy.",
        "在亚投行和新开发银行的参与下，中国已经有了跨国发展战略。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no wonder that more and more governments are worried about exchange-rate appreciation.",
        "难怪越来越多的政府担心汇率升值。"
    ],
    [
        "And, most important from the standpoint of national interest, the US has built its strongest partnerships in Asia with other democracies.",
        "而且，从国家利益的角度看，最重要的是亚洲其他民主国家与美国的合作关系最为牢固。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the budget is a model for all developing countries.",
        "简而言之，这份预算为所有发展中国家做出了榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, it seemed sensible to assume that our happiness was determined by factors such as luck, fate, or genes that are beyond our control.",
        "直到不久前，由运气、命数或我们无法控制的基因等因素决定我们幸福与否还貌似是合理的假设。"
    ],
    [
        "Will he be a stand-in for his more radical brother (and designated successor), Adán?",
        "他会成为其更加激进的兄弟（和指定继承人）阿丹的替身吗？"
    ],
    [
        "While it would be a mistake to prohibit Chinese soft-power efforts just because they sometimes shade into sharp power, it is also important to monitor the dividing line carefully.",
        "只因中国的软实力举措有时会变成锐实力而对此加以禁止这是错误的，但仔细监测两者的分界线也极为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Fracking is not yet a mature technology, and thus it is very likely to improve over time.",
        "液压致裂法还不是成熟的技术，因此很有可能会随时间的推移而改善。"
    ],
    [
        "In most countries, the retail sector has typically developed in three stages: first, local or regional players dominate, before a smaller number of national companies takes over, with e-tailers ultimately challenging traditional businesses.",
        "在大部分国家，零售业的发展通常分三步走：首先是本地和地区零售商主导，随后崛起一小撮全国性公司，最后电子零售上挑战全国零售商。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 1960 and today, for example, average life expectancy in the US increased from 70 to 79 years, whereas in Italy it increased from 69 to 83 years.",
        "比如，1960年至今，美国平均寿命预期从70岁增加到79岁，而意大利从69岁增加到83岁。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the opacity surrounding admission to these highly selective institutions (where the acceptance rate typically is as low as around 8%), it is impossible to tell whether princelings get in on the basis of merit or family background.",
        "鉴于上述具有高度选择性的院校招生缺乏透明度（录取率通常低至8%左右），因此很难分辨太子党被录取是因为自身优势还是家庭背景。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s refugee relocation scheme has proved to be particularly divisive.",
        "欧盟难民安置机制是一个特别巨大的分歧因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Does this mean the end of the Rhineland model?",
        "这是否意味着\"莱茵兰模式\"结束了？"
    ],
    [
        "The rumor spread through social media, and a right-wing talk show host named Alex Jones repeatedly stated that she was involved in child abuse and that her campaign chairman, John Podesta, took part in satanic rituals.",
        "有人通过社交媒体不断散播谣言，还有一位右翼脱口秀节目主持人亚历克斯·琼斯反复指控她参与虐待儿童，还指控她的竞选主席约翰·波德斯塔参与撒旦的邪恶仪式。"
    ],
    [
        "To some extent, this is already occurring, with Iraq and Syria splintering into sectarian or tribal units.",
        "从某种程度上说，这一情形正在发生，伊拉克和叙利亚正在分裂为宗派或部落区域。"
    ],
    [
        "That credibility has allowed the Fed to be aggressive: it is difficult to imagine that it could have expanded its balance sheet to the extent that it has if the public thought that it could not be trusted on inflation.",
        "这一立场的可信度是美联储采取积极举措的基础：很难想象，美联储将其资产负债表扩张到让公众不再相信其通胀目标的程度会怎么样。"
    ],
    [
        "That approach needs to be abandoned once and for all, before it does any more damage to China’s quest for long-term stability and prosperity.",
        "这条老路需要彻底抛弃，决不能让它对中国的长期稳定与繁荣造成更大伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Runs by panicked investors have required central banks to undertake unprecedented lender-of-last-resort operations.",
        "恐慌不已的投资者撤走资金，迫使各国央行采取前所未有的最后借贷者的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, broader access to financial services would help the estimated 400 million micro, small, and medium-size enterprises in developing countries to prosper, while enabling the 2.5 billion people worldwide who currently lack access to such services to build their assets.",
        "事实上，金融服务的普及有助于发展中国家约4亿家（估计值）微型、小型和中型企业繁荣，同时让全世界25亿目前无法获得金融服务的人建立自己的资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, aside from matters of domestic policy and the issue of internal freedom, the choice between the major candidates hinges on the question of whether Iran should seek greater international integration.",
        "实际除了国内政策和内部自由问题以外，主要竞选者的选择围绕伊朗是否应寻求更多的国际融合展开。"
    ],
    [
        "Once universally revered as a hotbed of innovation, the world’s premier technology hub is increasingly viewed with suspicion and resentment.",
        "这里曾经是举世公认的创新发源地，而如今，这座全球首屈一指的科技枢纽正在日益受到质疑和怨恨。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth will not be restored easily or quickly.",
        "要恢复经济增长不容易也不会很快做到。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond improving the provision of public goods, his promotion of the so-called China Dream of national rejuvenation has been aimed, in part, at encouraging people to seek fulfillment beyond material wealth.",
        "除了改善公共产品的供给，他所推动的 “中华民族复兴之梦”，其部分目的也是为了鼓励人们超越对物质财富的追求。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that a Brexit that has yet to unfold and the eurozone’s still-lackluster economic performance, and the survival of the common currency is far from guaranteed.",
        "此外英国脱欧进程尚未展开，欧元区经济表现依旧疲软，共同货币的生存也难有定局。"
    ],
    [
        "After decades of autocracy, this vast archipelago of a country just concluded a presidential election that has solidified its transition to democracy.",
        "在数十年独裁统治后，这个大面积岛国刚刚结束了一次总统选举，巩固了其向民主的过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The Obama administration’s decision to withdraw the bulk of United Sates troops from Iraq over the next 19 months has sparked fears that Iraq will once again plunge into the wide-scale and debilitating violence that it endured from 2004 to 2007.",
        "华盛顿特区-奥巴马政府决定在今后19个月内撤离在伊拉克的大部分驻军，这一决定引发了人们对伊拉克重现大规模破坏性暴力事件的担忧，这样的暴力事件从2004年至2007年间一直困扰着伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "A prerequisite of effective control of the media is that the controlled accept the controller’s ideology.",
        "对媒体有效控制的前提之一是被控制者接受控制者的意识形态。"
    ],
    [
        "These types of spectacles used to be reserved for the nomination of Supreme Court justices – a lifetime appointment to a nine-member body that can overturn laws passed by Congress and signed by the president.",
        "往常，这些意见通常在最高法院法官任命中才会冒出来。 最高法院法官共九人，为终身制，可以推翻国会通过、总统签字的法案。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Bashir, with little to lose, will no doubt take the opportunity to attack his enemies.",
        "与此同时，巴希尔也几乎毫发不伤，而且毫无疑问他将抓住这个机会攻击他的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "So, after all the celebrations of European enlargement, we are left with a predictable set of problems: a \"union\" of countries with very different views on everything (from foreign policy to labor market policies) and different economic interests; widespread disillusionment among voters in the new member states; a constitutional process whose future is uncertain; and all the usual political wrangling in Brussels between countries seeking to get as much power as possible.",
        "因此，在欧洲扩大的欢庆之余，我们所要面对的是一系列意料之中的问题：一个由对所有事物（从外交政策到劳务市场政策）的观点和经济利益都不相同的国家所组成的\"联盟\"； 新成员国的选民中普遍存在的幻灭感；"
    ],
    [
        "Public opinion on the ACA is difficult to discern.",
        "公众对ACA的态度很难观察。"
    ],
    [
        "As early as 1993, China’s chief negotiator on Hong Kong, Lu Ping, told the newspaper People’s Daily, “The [method of universal suffrage] should be reported to [China’s Parliament] for the record, whereas the central government’s agreement is not necessary.",
        "早在1993年，中国香港问题首席谈判官员鲁平告诉《人民日报》，“[普选路线]应该报[中国人大]备案，尽管不必获得中央政府同意。"
    ],
    [
        "To reverse the trend, French republicanism must, like English multiculturalism, contradict itself in order to fulfil itself.",
        "要逆转这种趋势，法国的共和主义必须像英国的多元文化主义一样站起来驳斥它自己以便实现它自己。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, Brazil, Malaysia, and Mexico, foreign direct investment (FDI) accounts for 8% to 12% of gross fixed capital formation – without generating debt.",
        "在中国、巴西、马来西亚和墨西哥，国外直接投资（FDI）占到了固定资产构成总额的8%到12%¾而且不增加任何债务负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of its prospects, CAFTA is far from a done deal, and it at least opens the way for more discussion and debate.",
        "不论前景如何，CAFTA还远非铁板钉钉。 但它至少为进一步的磋商和争论开创了局面。"
    ],
    [
        "The reasoning seems to be that Trump is a businessman, and, to paraphrase US President Calvin Coolidge, the business of China is business.",
        "原因似乎在于特朗普是一位商人，并且，借用美国总统柯立芝的话说，中国事务就是生意。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the current Commission, led by President Jean-Claude Juncker, was divided on whether to enforce them, with some commissioners favoring leniency.",
        "但以主席容克为首的现任委员会就是否要执行规则产生了分歧，一些委员支持宽大处理。"
    ],
    [
        "Others, however, are useless and only complicate further an already complex and problematic situation.",
        "而其他的一部分则是无用的，甚至可以说是激化了原本就矛盾重重的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems likely that the replacement of neurons in the adult brain did not evolve to make up losses due to illness or lesion, but as a process of constant renewal, a few cells being replaced every day.",
        "看起来似乎成年大脑内神经细胞的替代并不会弥补因为疾病或损伤而产生的损失，而只是一个持续的更新过程——每天都有一些细胞被替代。"
    ],
    [
        "The fighting between liberals and conservatives came to an end with the advent of the bloody dictatorship of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in 1953.",
        "自由派和保守派之间的战争随着1953年古斯塔沃·罗哈斯·皮尼利亚的血腥专政诞生而结束。"
    ],
    [
        "They expect to be net financial beneficiaries, which would help them modernize.",
        "他们希望成为纯粹的财政受惠者，这将有助于他们的现代化。"
    ],
    [
        "If China is to succeed, its leaders will need to think beyond their traditional top-down approach.",
        "中国要想成功，其决策层可能需要跳出中国传统的自上而下的施政习惯。"
    ],
    [
        "People are used to paying for the electricity that they actually use.",
        "人们习惯于为他们实际所使用的电力来付费。"
    ],
    [
        "Re-Repairing Bosnia",
        "重整波斯尼亚"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers seem convinced that the time is not right for a meaningful initiative to address inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity.",
        "决策者似乎认为，采取有意义的措施解决收入、财富和机会不平等时机未到。"
    ],
    [
        "A ten-year Treasury has a nominal interest rate of less than 2%.",
        "十年期美国国债的名义利率还不到2%。"
    ],
    [
        "To top it all off, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, ostensibly Turkey’s closest new ally, emerged as the most oppressive and bloody regional tyrant.",
        "最糟糕的是，土耳其表面上的新紧密盟友、叙利亚总统阿萨德露出了他中东地区最反动、最血腥暴君的真实面目。"
    ],
    [
        "While Shimon Peres made a gesture of reconciliation by choosing Ankara as the setting for the first speech by an Israeli president to the parliament of a predominantly Muslim country, Israel’s concerns about Iran are far more serious than are Turkey’s.",
        "当希蒙·佩雷斯通过选择安卡拉作为一个以色列总统访问这个有重大影响的穆斯林国家议会演讲第一站的方式传达和解的信号时，以色列对伊朗的关注的严重程度远远超过了土耳其对其的关注程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it was only toward the end of the war that action was taken to stop the slaughter.",
        "事实上，直到战争末期国际社会才为阻止屠杀采取了行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, general education and TVET systems need to be restructured.",
        "此外，普通教育和技术职业教育与培训体系需要进行重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Major increases in water demand, however, are being driven not merely by economic and demographic growth, or by the additional energy, manufacturing, and food production to meet rising consumption levels, but also by the fact that the global population is getting fatter.",
        "但是，水需求的大量增加并不仅仅是由经济和人口增长推动的，也不仅仅是由于满足消费水平升高而增加能源、制造品和食品产量导致的，全球人口越来越胖也是原因之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Its resolution via coordinated policy action (or a failure to resolve it through such action) will have a huge impact (for good or ill) on the multinational incentive structure surrounding the global economy – and hence on its likely growth.",
        "通过采取相互合作的政策，不管是否有效，都将对全球经济的多国激励结构产生巨大影响，从而对未来的发展产生影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But it remains the case that there are no obvious takers for a military role, partly because of the scale, difficulty, and risk of the commitment required, and partly because of the likely political and legal costs, given the minimal prospect of Security Council endorsement.",
        "但有一点仍然正确：没有显而易见的军事角色承担者，这部分是因为这一角色的规模、困难和风险所致，部分是因为潜在成本和法律成本，因为安理会很难支持这样的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Now comes the supposed news that the Himalayan glaciers are not, in fact, retreating, and will therefore not disappear by 2035.",
        "后又出来一条想当然的新闻，说喜马拉雅山冰川并不像科学家描述的那样正在退化，因而不会在 2035 年之前融化殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "This will not change.",
        "这一点不会改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But tax hikes alone with not close Japan’s fiscal black hole.",
        "但如果仅仅是靠加税的话，是不足以填补日本的财政黑洞的。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump had no compunction to speak clearly about class, and to embrace – however deceitfully – those too poor to buy a car, let alone send their children to Harvard.",
        "特朗普面不改色心不跳地高举阶级大旗并吸引——不管多么伪善——穷得买不起车、更不用说把孩子送进哈佛的阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries in the region, and beyond, should embrace the Arab Spring.",
        "该地区内外的其他国家应该欢迎阿拉伯之春。"
    ],
    [
        "One human gene out of approximately every five is now the subject of a patent, the majority of which are held by private firms.",
        "约有五分之一的人类基因现在成了专利的保护对象，而这些专利中的绝大部分都属于私人企业。"
    ],
    [
        "They certainly know better.",
        "他们显然知道得更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Fred Hoyle, one of the twentieth century’s greatest astrophysicists, provided a perfect example of such a “brilliant blunder.”",
        "二十世纪最伟大的天体物理学家之一弗雷德·霍伊尔（Fred Hoyle）提供了这一“杰出的错误”的完美例子。"
    ],
    [
        "“Ideological and political prejudices deeply rooted in history will have to be overcome to end the current stagnation,” Eichengreen concludes. “If an extended period of depressed growth following a crisis isn’t the right moment to challenge them, then when is?”",
        "“必须克服深深植根于历史的思想和政治偏见才能结束当前的停滞，”艾肯格林推论说，“危机之后出现长期增长萧条，此时不挑战这些偏见更待何时？"
    ],
    [
        "The expenditure cuts mandated by the outcome of the debt-ceiling debate will reduce economic activity, thereby undermining growth and making debt reduction even more difficult.",
        "债务上限辩论结果授权的开支削减将压缩经济活动，进而破坏增长，进一步增加减债的难度。"
    ],
    [
        "In high-income countries, maternal and infant mortality is now rare, owing to a century of improvements in hygiene and infection control.",
        "在高收入国家，经过一个世纪的卫生和感染控制改进，孕产妇和婴儿死亡目前已经非常罕见了。"
    ],
    [
        "So the old partners need new ones.",
        "为此，旧同盟需要补充新鲜的血液。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestine has more elements of a vigorous civil society than virtually any other country in the Arab world, including an active human rights movement, which initially focused only on Israeli abuses, but that has increasingly criticized violations by the Palestinian Authority itself.",
        "比起任何阿拉伯世界的其他国家，巴勒斯坦具有更多一个生机勃勃的公民社会所需的元素，包括积极的人权运动。 这原本仅仅针对以色列攻击，但是现在该运动正越来越多地批评巴勒斯坦政权本身的暴力行动。"
    ],
    [
        "As a presidential candidate, however, he joined the deniers – a switch made clear when he accepted the party’s nomination in Tampa, Florida, in August.",
        "但是，作为总统候选人，他加入了否认阵营——这是他8月份在佛罗里达州坦帕接受党内提名后做出的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Marshall’s economics – the equilibrium economics of comparative statics, of shifts in supply and demand curves, and of accommodating responses – is of almost no help in accounting for this.",
        "马歇尔的经济理论——由相对静态、供求曲线变换、以及随和反应构成的平衡经济学——几乎无力解释这个现象。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Groucho Marxists",
        "美国的“格鲁乔”马克思主义者"
    ],
    [
        "There is no perfect methodology, and practice will always differ from theory.",
        "现实中不存在完美无缺的方法，而且实践往往会与理论不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 36% of Chinese doctors think the effectiveness of acupuncture remains uncertain, perhaps because the scientific basis for it remains so new.",
        "大约36%的中国医生认为针灸的作用机制还不太为人所知的原因可能在于其科学依据依然属于一种全新的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "But, to be effective, goals should operate like turnpikes, which allow you to make progress toward a specific destination much faster than if you had taken the scenic route.",
        "但要想有效，目标应该像是高速公路，让你抵达具体目的地的速度大大快于观光小径。"
    ],
    [
        "The appeal of populists is that they give voice to the anger of the excluded.",
        "民粹主义分子的吸引力在于他们为被社会排斥的人提供了表达愤怒的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center found that Romney’s plan would cut overall taxes for households with incomes above $200,000, but would require an average annual tax increase of at least $2,000 for households with incomes between $100,000 and $200,000.",
        "这就是无党派立场的税收政策中心（Tax Policy Center）发现罗姆尼的计划将减少收入在200000美元以上家庭的总体税率，但会让收入在100000至200000美元的家庭年税负增加至少2000美元的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments must make bold policy choices that not only level the playing field, but also tilt it toward environmental sustainability.",
        "政府必须做出重大政策选择，不但要实现平等竞争，更要使其向环境可持续性倾斜。"
    ],
    [
        "Shouldn’t that cleaner’s drudgery to support her family, children, and her own survival be taken equally into account?",
        "那位清洁工为了她的家庭、孩子以及她自己的生存而去做苦工难道不应该同样考虑进去吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In just 42 countries do women hold more than 30% of seats in the national legislature, and girls still do not have the same educational opportunities as boys in Sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, and western Asia.",
        "只有42个国家妇女赢得了30% 以上的国民立法机关席位，而在撒哈拉以南非洲、大洋洲和西部非洲，女孩仍然没有获得与男孩同等的受教育权。"
    ],
    [
        "The Unbearable Lightness of BMI",
        "体重指数不可承受之轻"
    ],
    [
        "This is true, because the poor are the most vulnerable and have the least resources with which to adapt.",
        "”他说的是事实，因为穷人最脆弱，也缺少资源去适应和调整。"
    ],
    [
        "She has no illusions that history turns out the way reason tells you it should.",
        "她坚信历史将按照理性的方向发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The larger the differences have become during the euro’s first decade, the more the ECB’s policy could be described as “one size fits none.”",
        "各国差距在欧元第一个 10 年不断拉大，欧洲央行的政策不断被调侃为 “ 一无是处 ” 。"
    ],
    [
        "Wage costs in the ten new EU member countries are still only one-seventh their level in western Germany; wage costs in Rumania and Bulgaria are one-tenth.",
        "新欧盟成员国的工资仅占西德水平的七分之一； 罗马尼亚和保加利亚仅为十分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "This is true, but only for as far as the netting process goes.",
        "这固然是正确的，但得能够相互抵消才行。"
    ],
    [
        "This recognition raised expectations for the G-20 and granted it the prestige that it deserved: it is the only forum in which world powers and emerging countries sit as equals at the same table.",
        "这种承认使人们对G20的期望大增，并赋予其应有的地位：这是唯一一个世界强国和新兴国家能平等对话的论坛。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, countries can get into business with fewer letters and add letters more parsimoniously.",
        "如今，各国可以凭借更少的字母参与拼字游戏，并且更加小心地新增字母。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever his motives, Netanyahu has achieved what no Israeli leader ever has: not only infuriating the US president (who was already quite angry with him), but also earning the public rebuke of people who would normally have supported any Israeli leader, whatever they might have thought in private.",
        "不管动机如何，内塔尼亚胡实现了以色列领导人从未实现的东西：不但激怒了美国总统（奥巴马此前对他便已相当不忿），还收获了公众的千夫所指——许多人不管私下里想法如何，通常情况下总是会支持以色列领导人的。"
    ],
    [
        "But they proved far from safe, despite the prior conventional wisdom.",
        "但它们根本就不安全，尽管传统智慧认为它们安全。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not sustainable.",
        "这样的行为是不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "Energy-hungry America has long depended on the global market to meet domestic demand.",
        "渴望能源的美国长期以来一直依靠全球市场满足国内需求。"
    ],
    [
        "But a broad framework for determining the timing of each policy step, based on rigorous cost-benefit analysis, is essential.",
        "但基于严格的成本效益分析，用于决定每个策略步骤时机的大框架是很有必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the full scope of the tsunamis’ environmental impact remains under-reported, despite its obvious importance for the recovery of the affected areas and the well being of the survivors.",
        "尽管受灾地区的重整工作和幸存者的生活条件明显更为重要，但是海啸对环境的总体影响还是被低估了。"
    ],
    [
        "The panel concluded that the least-effective use of resources would come from simply cutting CO2 emissions.",
        "这个专门研究小组的结论是，对资源使用最无效的方法就是仅仅减少二氧化的排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "Exploration is proceeding only hesitantly and shale-gas production has not even started, prompting many observers to lament that Europe is about to miss the next energy revolution.",
        "勘探工作进行得犹犹豫豫，页岩气的生产更是八字都没有一撇，这让许多观察者哀叹，欧洲就要输掉下一场能源革命了。"
    ],
    [
        "And the impact of its people’s creative activities is increasingly visible worldwide, with, for example, the fashion designer Elie Saab dressing Hollywood stars and Lamia Joreige’s art being exhibited in the permanent collection of London’s Tate Modern.",
        "同时民众创造性活动对世界的影响越来越明显，比方说时装设计师艾莉·萨博为好莱坞明星设计礼服，而Lamia Joreige的艺术品被伦敦泰特现代美术馆永久收藏。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the only people not suddenly depressed are those immersed in the negotiations.",
        "不过也许那些深陷于谈判之中的人不会对此感到意外。"
    ],
    [
        "The agenda for next month’s G20 summit in China includes discussion of concrete measures to reduce inequality.",
        "下月将在中国举行的G20峰会议程包括探讨减少不平等现象的具体举措。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Reagan White House, Don Regan, who succeeded James Baker as Chief of Staff, fancied himself the prime minister: he inserted himself into photos of Reagan with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, was rude to lesser beings (including reporters), and made the fatal mistake of hanging up on Nancy Reagan, who was dedicated to looking after her Ronny.",
        "在里根治下的白宫，接替詹姆斯·贝克（James Baker）担任幕僚长的唐·雷根（Don Regan）把自己当成了总理。 他让自己出现在了里根总统和苏联领导人米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫的合影中，对下属（包括记者）举止粗暴，而他的致命错误则是将千方百计想照顾自己丈夫的南希·里根拒之门外。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush Repression",
        "布什的压迫"
    ],
    [
        "Let us get to work – together.",
        "让我们开始工作——齐心协力工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Greater financial regulation in the US means consumers will not be able to borrow so easily to rack up huge mortgage and credit card debt.",
        "对金融体系的严格监管可以使得美国人不那么容易地获得巨额房贷，大量进行信用卡消费。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, EU policy has sidelined clear southern priorities, like opening up Europe’s agriculture and textile markets.",
        "同时，欧盟政策并不关心南部邻国的意愿，比方说开放农业和纺织市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Now a unique conjuncture of economic and political developments has created an opportunity for Eurasia to emerge from its historical slumbers.",
        "如今，一个独特的经济和政治发展趋势给欧亚创造了一次从历史休眠中醒来的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But do these new rules really matter?",
        "然而，有了这些新规则是不是就万事大吉了？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the new consensus is shared by most of Labour and the main opposition within Likud.",
        "实际上，新共识被工党的多数成员和利库德集团内的主要反对人士所广泛接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the Arab peoples have finally experienced genuine empowerment, and have crossed the threshold of fear.",
        "但阿拉伯人民终于体验到真正的天赋权利，成功跨过了恐惧的门槛。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, rising gasoline prices have called attention to the shortcomings of the Bush administration’s energy policy, which includes recently passed legislation that contains inadequate requirements for energy conservation. The press, meanwhile, has reported on speculation about the relationship between warmer ocean waters and the frequency of severe hurricanes, thus highlighting the low priority that the administration has given to environmental problems in general and global climate change in particular.",
        "不仅如此，汽油价格的飙升使人们注意到布什政府能源政策的缺陷，其中包括最近通过的法案，它在能源保护方面的规定还非常欠缺。 与此同时，媒体报导了对海水变暖和严重飓风灾害间关系的推测，使人们认识到政府对环境问题，特别是全球气候变化总的来讲缺乏重视。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of the way she amplifies the lives of others, hers is one of the most successful “careers” I know – and one pursued while exuding calm, serenity, and peace.",
        "通过这些行为，她扩大了其他人的生活，而这也是我所知道最为成功的“事业”之一，但我姑妈却是怀着冷静，安详和平和的心去追寻这一事业的。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is no longer the case.",
        "但今非昔比 。"
    ],
    [
        "They include a shift in economic power from the West to the East, the weakening of formal institutions, and widespread disaffection in Western democracies.",
        "包括经济实力从西方向东方转移、正规机构的削弱以及西方民主国家不满情绪越来越严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether Hamas can claim a victory – and whether Palestinians will believe them will be determined by the type of ceasefire that is eventually agreed, if a formal one is eventually agreed.",
        "哈马斯是否能获胜，以及巴勒斯坦人是否信任他们要取决于最终达成的停火的种类——如果最终达成了正式停火协议的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Although China has become Japan’s largest partner in trade and foreign direct investment, nationalists in the two countries have fueled each other’s extremism, while their governments play with fire.",
        "尽管中国已经成为日本在贸易和外国直接投资方面的最大伙伴，但是两国的民族主义者不断挑动着双方的极端情绪，而它们的政府不断地在玩火。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps a depleted country – one that has sold off all of its assets, and whose bright young people have emigrated – might finally get debt forgiveness; perhaps, having shriveled into a middle-income economy, Greece might finally be able to get assistance from the World Bank.",
        "也许等到国家被榨干——卖掉它的所有资产，有才华的年轻人都移民国外——才能得到最终的债务豁免； 也许倒退回中等收入经济的希腊才能够最终得到世界银行的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "After three decades of spectacular economic growth, many Malays have become prosperous and content not only through secular capitalism, but through the country’s renewed sense of Islamic identity, one which – for the most part – embraced modernization.",
        "经历了长达30年令人叹为观止的经济增长，很多马来人都更加富裕和满足，他们的满足不仅来自世俗的资本主义，还来自国家对伊斯兰特质再一次的认可和接纳。 这些伊斯兰特征中绝大部分都能与现代化水乳交融。"
    ],
    [
        "In November, citizen protests against the construction of an incinerator in Guangzhou became a widely Tweeted event.",
        "11 月，广州市民反对建造焚化炉的抗议活动成为推特的热门事件。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Putin’s Russia appears headed for the Latin American model of self-inflicted stagflation.",
        "结果，普京治理下的俄罗斯似乎正朝着经济停滞、自作自受的拉丁美洲模式迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "The risks posed by increasing nationalism and militarism to regional peace have already been highlighted by the rise of a new Chinese dynasty of “princelings,” or sons of revolutionary heroes who have widespread contacts in the military.",
        "中国“太子党”——开国元勋之后，他们在军方有广泛的人脉——王朝的出现本已为地区和平蒙上了一层阴影，民族主义和军国主义的兴起则是火上浇油。"
    ],
    [
        "The resounding success of the Africa-China summit, which was attended by more African leaders than purely African gatherings; the diplomatic rapprochement between India and Japan; and the democratic alliance in the making between India, Japan, and Australia can only be interpreted as signs of China’s newly regained position.",
        "中非峰会取得了令人惊异的成功，来参加的非洲领导人比纯粹的非洲峰会上的还要多、印度和日本修好、与印度、日本和澳大利亚正在酝酿中的民主联盟只能被解释为中国新获得的地位的标志。"
    ],
    [
        "So far this year, real wages for non-supervisory workers fell by nearly 0.5%.",
        "截至目前，今年非管理岗位工人的真实工资下降了近0. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as clever as the speech was, it is unlikely to succeed in beating back UKIP – and it leaves the British debate about EU membership focused on the wrong issue.",
        "但是，尽管这次演讲相当聪明，却无法成功地回击英国独立党——也导致英国关于欧盟成员地位的争论搞错了关注点。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, its members include about 45% of the world’s population, and 28% of the landmass ranging across the Eurasian continent.",
        "实际上，上合组织的成员包含全球45％的人口以及欧亚大陆28％的陆地面积。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps because what came over the radio was so predictable, people sought alternative news from the BBC Swahili Service.",
        "或许以为早已对电台里的说辞滚瓜烂熟了，人们转而收听英国广播公司（BBC）的斯瓦西里语频道。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, the US Senate approved spending $8 billion to stockpile vaccines and other drugs to help prevent a possible bird flu epidemic.",
        "最近，美国参议院批准花费80亿美元储存疫苗和其它药品，帮助预防可能的禽流感爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also essential to underscore that Trump did not withdraw from the JCPOA itself.",
        "同样重要的是要注意到特朗普并没有从JCPOA本身退出。"
    ],
    [
        "Hensarling’s off-ramp proposal builds on that tradeoff, giving banks more leeway to decide whether they want less risk or more capital.",
        "亨萨林的“匝道”提议就构建于这一权衡之上，给银行更多的回旋余地以决定自身是否想少风险或更多的资本。"
    ],
    [
        "As this becomes apparent, Russia’s leaders could start to envisage a UNTAES-type solution for the region.",
        "如果出现这种状况，俄国领导人可能效仿UNTAES解决地区问题。"
    ],
    [
        "So don’t bury France just yet.",
        "法国的人口出生率比欧洲其他国家都要高，同时也是唯一新老交替正常的国家。 三十年前，没有一个法国企业进入世界100强，现在有15家。"
    ],
    [
        "The policy would become one of defense (deploying additional anti-missile systems) and deterrence, with North Korea understanding that any use or spread of nuclear weapons would lead to the end of the regime and possibly nuclear retaliation.",
        "对朝政策变为防御（部署更多反导系统）和威慑，让朝鲜知道一旦使用或传播核武器就将导致政权的末日乃至核报复。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is something more fundamental underlying diplomats’ natural diffidence.",
        "但在外交官们与生俱来的胆怯背后却有某种更为本质的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "We can have our cake, it seems, and eat it, too.",
        "看起来我们可以鱼与熊掌兼得。"
    ],
    [
        "The Reform Game",
        "改革游戏"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, European assurances that arms sales to China could be controlled and threats to an ally avoided do appear unconvincing.",
        "事实上，欧洲在对华军售在掌控之中和对盟国的威胁可以被避免方面的保证确实不令人信服。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF reform would have been an important step in updating the allocations of quotas, which determine member states’ monetary contributions and voting power.",
        "国际货币基金组织的改革本是更新配额分配的重要一步，它决定了成员国货币的赞助额和投票权。"
    ],
    [
        "The second scenario – which was foreseeable from the outset – has now become a reality.",
        "后一种情况从战争一开始就可以预见，现在果然变成了现实。"
    ],
    [
        "All countries – both developed and developing – have been losing billions of dollars in tax revenues.",
        "所有国家——包括发达和发展中国家——所损失的税收收入以十亿美元计。"
    ],
    [
        "The combination of a young population and a crumbling economy is a combustible mix, one that amounts to an existential threat to the regime – and the regime knows it.",
        "年轻的人口和蹒跚的经济的组合是危险的，会给政权带来生存威胁——政权也知道这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Life expectancy at birth ranks 153rd in the world, just behind Honduras and Kazakhstan.",
        "预期寿命排在全球第153位，排在洪都拉斯和哈萨克斯坦后面。"
    ],
    [
        "Spying on Eros",
        "窥觑性爱"
    ],
    [
        "The expectation was that Russia would join the United States in putting pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions.",
        "他的期望是俄罗斯会和美国一同向伊朗施压令其放弃核野心。"
    ],
    [
        "The global financial crisis of 2008 bears this out.",
        "2008年全球金融危机证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "· Implement general European training schemes. Large facilities have trained a few generations of genuinely European scientists.",
        "u 实施普遍的欧洲培训计划 。 大型的科研设施已经培训出了几代真正的欧洲科学家。"
    ],
    [
        "Some specialist cities could also do well in this world.",
        "某些专业性城市可以在这个世界上取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, arguably they have been factors behind the political upheavals in the US and the UK already.",
        "事实上，这可能就是美国和英国政治动荡背后的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Parliamentary supremacy, one of the key issues in any country’s democratization, appears to be at hand in Kuwait.",
        "议会的最高地位是任何国家民主化中的关键问题，看起来在科威特实现了。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixth, rising government debt ratios will eventually lead to increases in real interest rates that may crowd out private spending and even lead to sovereign refinancing risk.",
        "第六，政府负债率的上升会最终导致实际利率的上升，而实际利率的上升会压缩私人开支，甚至会导致国家再融资的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "So, which binding constraints in the Greek economy should be targeted?",
        "那么，希腊经济需要对准的绑定约束是哪些？"
    ],
    [
        "While India facilitated the highly publicized visit by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, to the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala last month, it almost simultaneously canceled a scheduled meeting between him and Indian Vice-President Mohammed Hamid Ansari.",
        "美国众议院领袖佩鲁希上个月高调造访在达兰萨拉的达赖喇嘛、印度予以便利之时，它也几乎同时撤销了原定副总统安萨里和达赖喇嘛的会见。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite more than two decades of talk, the Security Council’s permanent membership (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) still reflects the geopolitical realities of 1945, not 2015.",
        "尽管经历了二十多年的谈判，但安理会常任理事国（中法俄英美）反映的仍是1945年而非2015年的地缘政治现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it really possible to escape from history?",
        "摆脱历史真的可行吗？"
    ],
    [
        "More often than not, this work is done in far-flung countries, where direct US involvement would be unpalatable to many American politicians’ constituents.",
        "通常情况下，这项工作是在遥远的国家完成的，且美国的直接参与又是令许多美国政治家的选民难以接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, market optimism about US growth could lead to ever-larger imbalances and possibly disrupt the international monetary system.",
        "在这样的背景下，市场对美国增长保持乐观可能会导致比以往更严重的贸易及资本流动失衡，冲击并动摇国际货币体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Smartphone apps and even government-issued cards (doubling as, say, social security ID) will make the transactions easy, fast, and virtually indistinguishable from other transactions involving central bank money.",
        "智能手机应用，甚至政府发行的卡片（数量将比（比如）社会福利ID翻倍），将让这些交易十分容易、快捷，事实上与涉及央行货币的其他交易没有什么两样。"
    ],
    [
        "In Western economies in particular, non-residential fixed investment is precisely the factor that was missing in previous, short-lived cycles of acceleration.",
        "特别是西方经济体，非住宅固定投资正是此前短暂的加速周期中所缺失的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Both countries, along with others, have much more to gain from cooperation.",
        "而如果两国，加上世界其他国，都能开展合作的话，必将获益更多。"
    ],
    [
        "The modulatory systems, however, act on multiple neuronal circuits and brain areas.",
        "但是，调节系统在众多神经元回路和大脑区域上行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The daughter of a government clerk, Mayawati studied law and worked as a teacher before being spotted by the BSP’s founder, the late Kanshi Ram, and groomed for political leadership.",
        "作为一个政府办事员的女儿，玛雅瓦提曾攻读法律并做过教师，后来被社会报党（ BSP ）的创始人，已故的Kanshi RAM 发现，并培养了她的政治领导才能。"
    ],
    [
        "The advanced countries have a choice.",
        "发达国家有的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – These are times of trial – literally in the courts – for a growing number of Asia’s democracies.",
        "东京—这是对越来越多的亚洲民主国进行审判的时刻——在法庭上的真正审判。"
    ],
    [
        "Partisan disagreement about the proper scope of government remains, but there is no overall rejection of state intervention.",
        "关于政府的合适规模的党派分歧依然存在，但对于国家干预已不存在总体拒绝情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "ISTANBUL – Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has taken on a daunting challenge.",
        "伊斯坦布尔 —— 土耳其总理雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安已经开始了一项艰巨的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "When these policies fail, citizens hold mayors responsible.",
        "当这些警察无计可施的时候，公民们也就拿市长们试问。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that Ukraine’s participation would significantly enhance the union’s legitimacy, Russia is using all available tactics – from lower gas prices to trade sanctions – to persuade its leaders to join.",
        "乌克兰的加入将极大增强欧亚经济联盟的合法性，因此俄罗斯竭尽一切策略——从降低天然气价格到贸易制裁——说服其领导人加入其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy has taken root in almost every corner of Europe, and Europeans now have far greater freedom to live, work, and study where and how they wish.",
        "民主已经几乎遍布欧洲的每一个角落，欧洲人现在有了多得多的自由，他们可以任意选择在哪里生活、工作和学习。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Access Now, an international advocacy group for digital rights, people typically feel less secure without the Internet, because they cannot access information or connect with friends and family in times of uncertainty.",
        "据推动数字权利的国际团体“马上连通”（Access Now）组织的数据，断网通常让人感到更不安全，因为人们无法在不确定时获得信息或与亲朋取得联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Impoverished populations desperately require lighting, fuel for cooking, affordable and accessible health care, clean water, elementary education, and financial services.",
        "贫困人口急需照明、烹饪用燃料、可负担且易获得的医疗、清洁水源、基础教育以及金融服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, in a transparent world, culture, as opposed to laws, becomes more important than ever as a guide to behavior.",
        "最后，在一个透明的世界中，文化（而不是法律）会变成前所未有地重要的行为指南。"
    ],
    [
        "This arrangement remained intact until 1973, when Nigeria adopted a new currency, the naira. The exchange rate remained unchanged: one naira was equivalent to one British pound.",
        "如所预测的那样，除津巴布韦外，现有两个货币联盟的18个国家比其他非洲国家在降低通货膨胀率方面受益较多。"
    ],
    [
        "American actions were “unilateral,” “illegitimate,” and had forged a “hotbed of further conflicts.”",
        "他称美国的行为是“单边主义的”、“非法的”，并且已经营造了“未来冲突的温床”。"
    ],
    [
        "Such concerns have found resonance in the seeming incongruity of the Bank’s tough talk on corruption and simultaneous plans to expand lending to Iraq.",
        "世行大谈反腐，与此同时计划扩大对伊拉克的贷款看似互不合宜。 这些关切在此找到了共鸣。"
    ],
    [
        "But helicopter money is particularly dangerous; indeed, there is no realistic scenario in which such a policy would not go awry.",
        "但直升机撒钱尤其危险； 事实上，这一政策不“走歪”的现实情景从未发生过。"
    ],
    [
        "Many argued that the government should have focused on rescuing homeowners; instead, the government chose to support the banks – a policy from which the financial elite benefited the most.",
        "许多人指出政府应该专注于拯救屋主； 但政府选择了支持银行——金融精英在这一政策中获益最大。"
    ],
    [
        "The compact, signed by all European Union member states except the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic, obliges governments among other things to reduce their (smoothed) debt/GDP ratio annually by one-twentieth of the difference between the actual debt/GDP ratio and the Maastricht limit of 60%.",
        "这份由所有欧盟成员国（英国和捷克除外）签署的契约要求政府承担每年降低（经平滑后的）债务/GDP比率，降低幅度为实际债务/GDP比率与马斯特里赫特条约所规定的60%上限差额的二十分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent events in the Middle East and Central Asia, for example, clearly reflect the decline of US influence.",
        "最近在中东和中亚地区发生的事件则明显反映出美国影响力的衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Initially, it did not condemn cow vigilantism.",
        "最初，它并未谴责这些神牛纠察队。"
    ],
    [
        "As Azerbaijan gears up for parliamentary elections on November 6, the main question is whether the country is about to undergo its own “color” revolution, along the lines of those that have overthrown post-Soviet elites in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan in the last two years.",
        "随着阿塞拜疆为11月6日举行的议会选举做好了准备，主要的问题集中在该国是否也会步过去两年间推翻了后苏联高层人物的格鲁吉亚、乌克兰和吉尔吉斯斯坦的后尘爆发“色彩”革命。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this recognition is now increasingly in doubt.",
        "然而这种认识如今却越来越遭到怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "This can occur in a number of ways, such as the erection of non-tariff barriers that favor domestic incumbents at the expense of lower-priced potential imports that would benefit consumers.",
        "这可以以多种方式进行，如建立有利于国内已有机构的非关税壁垒，代价则是不再有惠及消费者的潜在低价进口商品。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is several years ahead of the US in implementing policies intended to mitigate global warming.",
        "欧洲先于美国数年执行旨在缓解全球变暖的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The appeal of “national identity” must not be turned into a collective smokescreen behind which inclusion becomes a disembodied dream coexisting with the communitarianism that is now emerging from its failure.",
        "他说语言是现实最大的敌人。 对“国家身份”的呼唤绝对不能转变成一种集体的烟幕，在其背后包容变成了一种与现在从其失败中浮现出来的社群主义共存的脱离现实的梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "Now is an ideal time to begin that effort.",
        "现在就是开始这一努力的绝佳时机。"
    ],
    [
        "Uber has since withdrawn UberPOP from France, at least temporarily – though not before two of its top managers were arrested for ignoring the government’s injunction to suspend UberPOP.",
        "从那以后UberPOP就退出了法国市场，至少是暂时退出——但在此之前法国政府还是以无视政府暂停UberPOP运营的禁令为由逮捕了两位高层管理者。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, Web advertisers and publishers say that their businesses depend on their ability to track people and collect and resell the data that they gather.",
        "目前，网络广告商及出版商表示其业务有赖于个人信息的追踪、搜集及转售。"
    ],
    [
        "The Developing World’s Health Innovators",
        "发展中世界的健康创新者"
    ],
    [
        "Most Israelis share this view, including even Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who has reluctantly stated his own commitment to a two-state solution.",
        "大多数以色列人也赞同这一观点，甚至连总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡也不情愿地表达了自己对两国方案的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The final decision, of course, rests with European heads of state and government.",
        "当然最后的决定还是要由欧洲各国首脑做出。"
    ],
    [
        "She was her usual self: cheerful, full of plans for her children, her bird watching, her consulting work.",
        "她还是跟往常一样：兴致很高，满脑子都是对自己小孩的培养计划，观鸟的兴趣，还有自己的顾问工作。"
    ],
    [
        "How would India’s government view the future if Pakistan falls into the hands of fundamentalists?",
        "试想如果巴基斯坦被极端分子所控制，印度政府又对自己国家的未来又将作何感想呢？"
    ],
    [
        "China’s economic success has generated both hard and soft power, but within limits.",
        "中国的经济成就既造就了其软/硬实力，也带来了局限。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that there is much less innovation coming out of America than there once was – and hardly any coming out of Europe.",
        "事实是，美国的创新数量已经大不如前——而欧洲的创新更是凤毛麟角。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason ultra-low inflation remains a problem is that the traditional causal link between the money supply and prices has been broken.",
        "极低利率仍然是个问题的原因在于货币供给和价格之间的传统因果关系已经破裂。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a mistake, because military approaches alone cannot make America safe.",
        "这是一个错误，因为仅靠军备不足以确保美国安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Vaccines protecting against Helicobacter pylori and hepC are in development (although the latter is proving particularly challenging).",
        "针对幽门螺旋杆菌和丙肝的疫苗正在研发中（尽管后者的困难很大）。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the outcome when voters head to the polls on May 7, the next government will have to deal with reality.",
        "无论5月7日选民投票的结果如何，下一届政府将不得不面对现实。"
    ],
    [
        "This insight should have been common knowledge; it was, after all, a major lesson of the austerity policies of President Herbert Hoover in the United States and Chancellor Heinrich Brüning in Weimar Germany in the early 1930’s.",
        "这一洞见本应该是常识； 毕竟，20世纪30年代美国总统胡佛和魏玛德国首相布吕宁都为我们提供了这方面的前车之鉴。"
    ],
    [
        "In their study, “Sexual Frequency Predicts Greater Well-Being, But More is Not Always Better,” Amy Muise, Ulrich Schimmack, and Emily Impett revealed that there is, in fact, a precise rate of sex that, for the average couple, optimally benefits the partners’ wellbeing: once per week.",
        "在他们的研究中，“性爱的频率预示着更美满的生活，但越多并不总是意味着越好,” 艾米·穆斯（Amy Muise），乌利希·施马克（Ulrich Schimmack），和艾米莉·因佩特（Emily Impett）发现，事实上对那些普通夫妇来说存在一个精确的频率可以为生活带来正面影响：那就是每周一次。"
    ],
    [
        "We have launched a program worth more than $60 billion for highway and railway concessions, to be followed by a similar program for ports and airports.",
        "我们推出了价值600亿美元以上的高速公路和铁路网计划，后续还有类似规模的港口和机场计划。"
    ],
    [
        "In an era where yesterday has become almost irrelevant and we can hardly predict tomorrow, the role of education must allow all children to reach their highest potential.",
        "在一个过去几乎毫无关联、未来几乎无法预测的时代，并需通过教育让所有孩子获得充分的潜能开发。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was right when he spoke of the treaty as a set of “footnotes.”",
        "比利时前首相伏思达将该条约称为一套“注脚”是言之有理的。"
    ],
    [
        "The anti-dumping measures imposed by the EU therefore hit European companies in an unintentional way.",
        "因此，欧盟实行的反倾销措施在无意之中打击了欧洲公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the last year, the Israeli, Saudi, and Indian governments have decided to offer incentives ranging from lifelong health insurance for the donor to a cash benefit.",
        "过去一年中，以色列、沙特和印度政府已经决定提供奖励，范围涉及捐赠者的终生健康保险到现金收益。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – There is now near-unanimity that the United States’ Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, enacted in 2010, did not end the problems associated with some banks being “too big to fail.”",
        "华盛顿—现在，人们几乎形成了一致，认为美国2010年实施的多德-弗兰克（Dodd-Frank）金融改革立法并没有结束与某些银行“太大而不能倒”有关的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Bizarrely, the American rock singer Cyndi Lauper’s concerts were just about the only events that weren’t called off.",
        "奇怪的是，美国摇滚歌手辛迪·劳博尔的演唱会或许是唯一一个没被取消的活动。"
    ],
    [
        "There are those who believe that technology will help to overcome such disruptions, by spurring enough growth to generate the resources needed to mitigate their impact.",
        "有些人认为技术将有助于克服这类负面干扰，通过刺激增长创造资源来缓解这类负面影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, a third of pregnant women – a highly AIDS-prone demographic – have been diagnosed with the virus, which can be passed on to their babies during childbirth.",
        "更可怕的是，三分之一的孕妇（艾滋病毒的高度易感群体）被确诊为病毒感染，而病毒可以在分娩过程中传染给新生儿。"
    ],
    [
        "In the time of the Soviet Union, the KGB would have indicted these anti-Putin dissidents for mental disorders.",
        "如果是在苏联时代，克格勃甚至会以精神障碍为由起诉这些反对普京的持不同证见人士。"
    ],
    [
        "First, in both countries, the challenge is not one of state versus market, but about finding complementarities between the two.",
        "首先，两国面临的挑战不是政府与市场之争，而是要实现两者之间互补。"
    ],
    [
        "European security is hinged on Serbian integration, just as Serbian aspirations hinge on the EU.",
        "欧洲的安全有赖于塞尔维亚与欧洲并轨，正如同塞尔维亚的目标也有赖于欧盟得以实现。"
    ],
    [
        "This is because if they have to move and sell their house, there may be no buyers who can afford higher interest payments, unless the home's price also falls.",
        "这是因为如果他们不得不搬迁并出售住房，却可能没有买家能够负担得起更高的利息，除非房价也下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s high approval ratings suggest he may well be succeeding.",
        "普京的高支持率表明他很有可能成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Phelps was also 10 to 20 years ahead of the profession when he developed the theories of wage efficiency and inflation targeting, which are now considered to be the state of the art concerning the labour market and monetary management.",
        "菲尔普斯在发展工资效力和通货膨胀指标的理论也比他的同行超前了10到20年时间，这些理论现在被认为是有关劳动力市场和货币管理方面最先进的理论。"
    ],
    [
        "To regain the more than 200,000 hectares of irrigated land that is lost to cultivation annually, scientists have enhanced the salt tolerance of crops as diverse as tomatoes and canola.",
        "为夺回每年因耕作而丧失的超过200,000公顷灌溉土地，科学家强化了从西红柿到油菜等各种作物对盐的耐受。"
    ],
    [
        "The equally outraged Prime Minister Manuel Valls has called bare breasts a symbol of French republican liberty.",
        "同样愤怒的法国总理曼努埃尔·瓦尔斯称裸露乳房是法国共和自由的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "They contacted organizations and received lots of attractive marketing material, but nothing that answered basic questions: what do the charities do with their money, and what evidence do they have that their activities help?",
        "他们联络了不同的组织并且收到了大量吸引人的营销材料，但是没有一样可以回答他们的问题，也就是，慈善组织花钱做什么事情？ 它们有何证据表明它们的活动有所帮助？"
    ],
    [
        "The government knew monitors would turn up improprieties, but believes that it has nothing to hide, and much to gain, from honest criticism.",
        "政府知道监察员会举报不正当行为，但却相信在诚实的批评面前，自己不仅不需要隐藏，还能够从中获益匪浅。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate change has been called the moral challenge of our age.",
        "气候变化被称为现时代的道德挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, these effects are likely to be larger than expected compared to conventional multiplier estimates, which rest on two assumptions: the economy is close to full employment; and the contraction in demand caused by a cut in government spending will be offset by a drop in interest rates.",
        "事实上，与传统乘数估计相比，这些效应可能比预计的更大。 传统乘数估计基于两个假设：经济接近充分就业、因政府支出削减导致的需求下降会被利率下降抵消。"
    ],
    [
        "And should you quench your thirst with the famous water drawn from Évian-les-Bains, you may wish to reflect on the craven failure of a conference that could have saved so many lives – and on what it can still teach us today.",
        "而当你们打开来自埃维昂莱班的依云矿泉水解渴时，你们应该想一想，这里曾经举行过一次可耻地失败的会议，这个会议原本可以拯救无数人的生命，它能给今天的我们带来什么教训？"
    ],
    [
        "A similar story can be told about tourism.",
        "旅游业也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Although accounting rules often permit banks to price these assets at face value, it is generally believed that the fundamental value of many toxic assets has fallen significantly below face value.",
        "虽然根据会计准则，银行可以将资产按照帐面价格来统计。 实际上，很多有毒资产的实际价格已经远远不是帐面价格了。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are to end poverty, reduce unemployment, and stem rising economic inequality, we must find new, better, and cheaper ways to teach – and on a vast scale.",
        "如果我们想终结贫困、减少失业、阻止经济不平等性升高，我们就需要找到更新、更好、更便宜并且是大规模庞的教学方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite statements to the contrary, no central bank, including the ECB, can simply focus on inflation and ignore what happens to economic activity.",
        "尽管嘴上不说，但实际上没有一家中央银行，包括欧洲央行在内，能够单纯地集中解决通胀，而忽视对经济活动的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But time is working against them: two-speed Europe is driving member countries further apart.",
        "但时间并不与他们站在同一条战壕里：两种速度的欧洲正在使成员之间的距离国越拉越大。"
    ],
    [
        "The election reminded many Americans that the US is a country committed to and capable of progress – of moving forward toward an ideal vision.",
        "大选让许多美国人觉得，美国有能力进步，也在进步——朝着理想状态进步。"
    ],
    [
        "But rarely does this knowledge allow us to control outcomes – prevention rather than cure.",
        "但是，就目前所掌握的知识而言，我们还不能控制结果——即不能治疗只能预防。"
    ],
    [
        "The world could continue to close its eyes to global warming and hope for the best: a slightly warmer climate that produces as many winners (on the Siberian, Northern European, and Canadian prairies) as losers (in already-hot regions that become hotter and dryer), and that the Gulf Stream continues warming Europe, the monsoons are not disrupted, and that the Ganges delta is not drowned by stronger typhoons.",
        "世界可以对全球气候变暖视而不见并且指望出现最好的结果，那就是气候略微暖和，既产生受益者（西伯利亚、北欧以及加拿大中部省份），也产生受害者（已经炎热的地区将更为炎热和干燥）； 海湾暖流继续温暖欧洲，季风不受破坏，而且恒河三角洲不被更为猛烈的台风淹没。"
    ],
    [
        "Global warming is one of those rare instances where the scientific community is more fearful of what may be happening than the population at large.",
        "全球变暖是少数几个令科学界比令大众更担心的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Fidelity to America’s motto, e pluribus unum (“out of many, one”), has made the country one of the greatest success stories in world history.",
        "对美国座右铭“合众为一”（e pluribus unum）的忠诚已经使这个国家成为世界史上一个最伟大的成功榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor force participation is lower - and a substantial part of that lower labor force participation is not the result of untrammeled choice but of discouraged workers and institutions that make it very difficult for households that have every adult at work.",
        "劳动力的参与率也比美国低-其原因在很大程度上并不是人们的自愿选择而是气馁的工人和机构使家庭很难让所有成年成员都外出就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s government has been unwilling or unable to cut back its bloated public sector, has been mired in vast corruption scandals, and yet its president Dilma Rousseff continues to evince a fondness for just the sort of state-led capitalism that leads to exactly these problems.",
        "巴西政府一直不愿或无法裁减臃肿的公共部门、深陷各种腐败丑闻，而其总统罗塞夫一直表现出对导致这些问题出现的国家领导资本主义情有独钟。"
    ],
    [
        "It turns out that our estimates then, if applied to subsequent data, predicted long-term rates extremely well for the 20 years after we published; but then, in the mid-1990s, our theory started to overpredict.",
        "情况表明，如果用后来的数据，我们当时的估计在我们的成果发表后20年内都能很好地起作用； 但从20世纪90年代中期开始，我们的理论开始失准。"
    ],
    [
        "Normally, revolutions are followed by dangerous times.",
        "通常，随革命而来的是危机四伏的岁月。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, as the harsh reality of the continent’s vulnerability to challenging external conditions has set in, sustaining that growth has proved difficult.",
        "现在，随着非洲大陆在充满挑战的外部环境面前的脆弱性逐渐显现，现有的增长速度已经很难保持。"
    ],
    [
        "Summers told me that he knew he was unlikely to change anyone’s mind, but that he wanted to be sure that Japanese officials recognized their mistake when they went ahead with the increase.",
        "萨默斯回答说他知道自己无法改变任何人的想法，但他想确保日本官员能在上调行动中意识到自己的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "One easily gets the sense, when trying to take seriously what little is known about the Trump platform, of a country turning in on itself, walling itself off, and ultimately impoverishing itself by chasing away the Chinese, Muslims, Mexicans, and others who have contributed to the vast melting pot that the most globalized country on the planet has alchemized, in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, into prodigious wealth.",
        "如果我们试图正视对特朗普平台哪怕仅有的那一点点理解，就不难看到我们的国家正在自我背叛、自我封闭，并最终因为赶走曾为这个大熔炉作出贡献的中国人、穆斯林、墨西哥人和其他族裔而陷入贫困，在硅谷和其他地方，我们这个曾经引导全球化的国家成功锻造了这座熔炉，将多民族的创造力转化为巨大的财富。"
    ],
    [
        "As for integration, some of the practical hurdles can be overcome through more local investment and more coherent policies across government departments.",
        "至于融合，一些实际操作上的障碍可以通过更多的本地投资和各政府部门间更加团结的政策克服。"
    ],
    [
        "But Serbia claims that the province remains an essential part of its historical and cultural tradition.",
        "但是塞尔维亚宣称，这个省从历史和文化传统上都是它的一个重要部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Its hegemony is challenged by the more radical Islamic Jihad (which remains allied with Iran) and a host of Salafi and jihadi groups, some connected to radical elements in Sinai, which complicates Hamas’s relations with Egypt.",
        "其霸权受到了更激进的伊斯兰圣战组织（Islamic Jihad，仍是伊朗的盟友）和其他一系列沙拉菲派和其他圣战组织的挑战，其中一些与西奈的激进分子有关联，这使得哈马斯与埃及的关系复杂化了。"
    ],
    [
        "Chile Stays the Course",
        "智利决定路线方针"
    ],
    [
        "Acknowledging that the core institutional infrastructure of the global economy must be built at the national level frees countries to develop the institutions that suit them best.",
        "承认全球经济的核心制度基础必须存在于国家层面让各国得以放手发展最适合自己的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Rage Against the Machine?",
        "机器所引发的愤怒？"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s opposition to the TTIP also reflects the recent surge in populist and nationalist sentiment in much of the Western world.",
        "德国反对TTIP也反映了最近民粹主义和民族主义情绪在西方世界大部的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "And collaboration and exchange of people make for profitable businesses and higher standards of living.",
        "而人员的协作和交流有助于提高商业利润和人们的生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Hamdan recognizes the legitimacy of confining enemy combatants until the end of hostilities, doing so is untenable.",
        "虽然哈姆丹判决认可了在敌对状态结束前拘禁敌方战斗人员的合法性，但是这样做却是站不住脚的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody really cares much about economic data except as a guide to policy: economic phenomena do not have the same intrinsic fascination for us as the internal resonances of the atom or the functioning of the vesicles and other organelles of a living cell.",
        "除了用来指导政策之外，没有人真正关心经济数据：对我们来说，经济现象并没有像原子内部共振或活细胞囊泡及其他细胞器功能那般具有内在魅力。"
    ],
    [
        "One in four people in China is overweight, more than 60 million are obese, and the rate of overweight children has increased almost 30-fold since 1985.",
        "中国四分之一的人口体重超标，6，000多万人患有肥胖症，1985年以来超重儿童的比率增加了近30倍。"
    ],
    [
        "They are not just illegal, but also immoral, because they keep poor people poor.",
        "它们不仅仅是非法的，也是不道德的，因为它们让穷人一直穷下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, California’s crisis is more than an economic one.",
        "此外，加州的危机不仅仅是经济上的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Liikanen is not a one-size-fits-all approach, as it explicitly proposes powers to require wider separation, if needed, to ensure resolvability.",
        "此外，利卡宁并不是包治百病的方案，比如，它明确建议，在必要时应有更大范围分离的权力以确保可破产性。"
    ],
    [
        "This was, he said, “tempting God.\"",
        "他说这是在“诱惑上帝”。"
    ],
    [
        "Cynics might add that even if Aung San Suu Kyi is pardoned, she may yet still be detained on political grounds or face other barriers aimed at preventing her from competing in the elections promised in Myanmar for 2010.",
        "愤世嫉俗者可能还要加上一句，即使昂山素姬真的被赦免，她可能仍然出于政治原因而遭到扣押，或者面临着其他种种障碍，其目的就是阻止她参与定于2010年举行的缅甸大选。"
    ],
    [
        "This is likely to run afoul of anti-discrimination principles and constitutional provisions in countries like the United States.",
        "在美国等国家，这可能有违反歧视原则和宪法相关规定。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Arab nationalist governments feel justified in resisting serious political reform and vindicated in repressing all domestic opposition, particularly the swelling Islamist movements.",
        "有鉴于此，阿拉伯的国家主义政府们认为抗拒严肃的政治改革是完全必要的，而压制国内的反对派，特别是日长夜大的伊斯兰主义运动也是合情合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "So do cross-border borrowing and lending through stock and bond markets.",
        "通过股票和债券市场实现的跨境借贷亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "But, to get the most out of Rodrik’s concept, it is necessary to account for another dimension: the many levels of governance that exist in today’s world.",
        "但要想充分发掘罗德里克的概念，就有必要考虑另外一种维度：那就是当今世界存在的多层次治理结构。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, anger among younger members has become so acute that the Brotherhood has allegedly changed some 65% of its leadership, according to Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, the head of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Administrative Office Abroad (a new body that organizes the thousands of Brotherhood members now in exile).",
        "事实上，年轻成员中的愤怒情绪已经十分尖锐，据埃及穆斯林兄弟会海外行政办公室（Administrative Office Abroad，组织数千名目前处于流亡状态的穆兄会成员的新机构）主管阿卜杜尔-拉曼（Ahmed Abdel-Rahman）透露，穆兄会因此换掉了65%的领导层。"
    ],
    [
        "Others – the existence of guarantees or collateral, lending to small companies (instead of the companies’ owners), and lending to borrowers who are geographically farther away – were less so.",
        "其他因素，例如有担保或抵押、贷款给小公司（而不是公司所有人）以及贷款给距离遥远的人，则不那么显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "The demarcation of the India-Pakistan border by the British was a slapdash affair, concocted by a collapsing empire in headlong retreat from its responsibilities.",
        "英国所划定的印巴边界十分草率，是衰落帝国匆忙甩掉责任的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Such advice is always tough to sell – all the more so in the face of the worst economic outlook in 70 years.",
        "这类建议总是很难推销——在70年来最差的经济前景面前，尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Or even better, many people will submit a saliva sample to a consumer genomics company, which will analyze all of their pharmacogenomic data and perform an extensive panel of genotypes, updated every month, and store the data on their smart phones.",
        "在理想状况下，很多人都会向消费基因公司递交唾液样本，后者将分析他们的基因药理数据并成立基因类型专家组负责每月更新数据，并将其存储在智能手机上。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there are many cases in which the attacks have originated directly from China.",
        "于是，在许多情况下，黑客直接从中国发动袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "But how can you make up for the headache they had all day from lack of sleep?",
        "但对于他们因缺乏睡眠而导致的整天头痛，你又该如何弥补？"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, China’s major systemic reforms await the country’s leadership transition, now expected in November.",
        "众所周知，中国的重大系统性改革需要等到领导班子交接完毕之后才能启动，这意味着要在11月才能有所作为。"
    ],
    [
        "Sharon had once again broken the basic rules of warfare, yet won total victory.",
        "沙龙又一次打破了战争的基本法则，但依然大获全胜。"
    ],
    [
        "As in real life, fans can be torn between their hopes for victory and their fear of defeat.",
        "和在现实生活中一样，球迷在对胜利的渴望和对失败的恐惧之间挣扎。"
    ],
    [
        "While many analysts in a wide variety of nations, especially in Europe, have concluded that such an event could not occur there in the foreseeable future, India is an exception.",
        "虽然各国的尤其是在欧洲的众多分析家们已经得出结论，认为这类事件在可预见的将来不可能发生，但印度却是个例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Access to better infrastructure will enable millions more entrepreneurs, especially women, to benefit from the country’s urban awakening.",
        "使用更好的基础设施将使数百万企业家，尤其是女性，从该国的城市觉醒中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "That this should be so has of course much to do with America’s traditional policy of sustaining the Arab world’s pro-Western dictators.",
        "美国一旦发现阿拉伯民主并不与前者联系，而是与后者联系就从其民主规划中后退了。"
    ],
    [
        "First, if you have to travel from city to city in the United States, you would do yourself a favor if you could find a way of journeying by train.",
        "首先，如果你不得不在美国各个城市间旅行，那么最好选择坐火车。"
    ],
    [
        "His selection of Sarah Palin, a charismatic but spectacularly unqualified candidate, as his running mate, is just the most glaring of many examples of the real McCain.",
        "他选择拥有超凡魅力却根本达不到候选人要求的萨拉·佩林作为自己的竞选伙伴，这一突出例证恰好能够反映出麦凯恩的真实个性。"
    ],
    [
        "Will these fears fuel enough economic hesitation to bring on another worldwide recession?",
        "这些担忧会产生足够的经济犹豫导致世界再次陷入衰退吗？"
    ],
    [
        "This inequity long rankled in Britain.",
        "这种不平等长久以来就遭到英国人的怨恨。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no glory on either side of the Israel-Palestine debacle.",
        "以巴任何一方的溃败都毫无荣誉可言。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany has only been indirectly affected – by the decline in worldwide demand for German products – which explains an important timing difference in the business cycle.",
        "德国只是由于全球对德国产品需求下降而间接受到影响。 这也就是为何商业周期中存在重要的时间差。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is, most employees do not fully understand options or stocks and do not know how to evaluate them.",
        "问题在于，大多数雇员并不充分理解股票期权的概念，而且不知道如何评估手中的股票。"
    ],
    [
        "So let us end genocide as we know it – by stopping genocides, but also by abandoning the crime of genocide.",
        "让我们结束种族灭绝的概念——这意味着停止种族灭绝，也意味着放弃种族灭绝的定罪。"
    ],
    [
        "President Dilma Rousseff, chastened by her near loss in the recent presidential election, has signaled a willingness to improve macroeconomic management, including by resisting a relapse into statism, the potential benefits of which now pale in comparison to its collateral damage and unintended consequences.",
        "险些输掉最近的选举的总统罗塞夫以释放出信号表示愿意改进宏观经济管理，包括阻止国家主义复萌。 眼下，国家主义复萌的潜在好处与其所造成的附带伤害和意外后果比起来不值一提。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone can produce a wish list, but effective visions combine inspiration with feasibility.",
        "谁都能发出一大堆宏愿，但有效的远景是前瞻性和可行性相结合的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Rico’s predicament is similar, but again with a twist that makes it more serious.",
        "波多黎各的困境相似，但有些问题进一步增加其严重程度。"
    ],
    [
        "The private projects will include the provision of infrastructure, the cost of which is to be repaid through tolls or user fees collected by a private operator.",
        "私人项目将包括提供基础设施，通过私人运营商收取过路费或使用费来偿还债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Jordan, a US ally and one of the two Arab countries with a peace agreement with Israel, previously failed to secure the release of its 30 prisoners.",
        "约旦是美国的盟国，也是和以色列签定和平协议的两个阿拉伯国家之一。 它先前未能使其30名囚犯获得释放。"
    ],
    [
        "It was subject to UN sanctions until 2002.",
        "该国在2002年遭到联合国制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "This tension is at the root of some of the most threatening problems facing the world economy today.",
        "这一矛盾是当今世界经济所面临的一些最大的威胁的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "How is this trick accomplished?",
        "这一把戏是怎么做到的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "If the company cannot make its interest payments, its assets will need to be sold or its activities otherwise scaled back.",
        "如果公司无法偿付利息，其资产就需要甩卖，或者被迫收缩其活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Zetas’ star recruits in recent years have come from the Guatemalan military’s special forces, whose infamous induction technique involved biting off the head of a live chicken.",
        "近年来齐塔人招募的明星新锐大多具有危地马拉军队的特种部队背景，这支部队一种臭名昭著的入门技术是咬掉一只活鸡的头颅。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the credit for this goes to the Japanese themselves and to the idealistic, left-leaning New Dealers in MacArthur’s government who supported them.",
        "取得这样的成就大都归功于日本人民自己的力量，还有麦克阿瑟政府中支持日本民主、崇尚理想、拥护日本新政的左翼人士。"
    ],
    [
        "The globalization of value chains has made it easier for more countries and regions to participate in international trade, because each country needs to assemble less complex teams; but it has been bad for places like Detroit, where fully integrated industries used to cluster.",
        "价值链的全球化使得更多国家和地区更容易参与国际贸易，因为每个国家只需要配备不那么复杂的团队就可以实现这一目标； 但这样的现象对底特律这样的地区却并非利好，因为那里曾经聚集着完全一体化的行业。"
    ],
    [
        "But in today’s global world, what happens in Iran is more than Iran’s affair.",
        "但在当今这个全球化的世界上，伊朗的问题影响的早已不仅仅是伊朗本身。"
    ],
    [
        "Which measures can ensure the EU’s global competitiveness?",
        "何种措施才能保证欧盟的全球竞争力？"
    ],
    [
        "But Barak skipped a cruelly candid paragraph in Dayan’s speech that evoked the imposing magnitude of the Palestinian plight: “Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today….For eight years, they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages where they and their fathers dwelt into our estate.",
        "但巴拉克跳过了达杨悼词中的一个残酷而坦率的段落，正是这一段落导致了巴勒斯坦沦入如此困境：“我们不应该把矛头指向今天的谋杀犯……八年来，他们一直藏在加沙难民营之后，在他们眼皮底下，我们一直在转移他们和他们的父辈居住的土地和村庄——居住在我们的房子里。"
    ],
    [
        "If we continue on our current path, the mean temperature over the Asian landmass could soar by more than 6°C (10.8°F), relative to pre-industrial levels, by 2100.",
        "如果我们继续延续目前的做法，到2100年，亚洲大陆的平均气温可能比前工业化阶段飙升超过6℃（10. 8华氏度）。"
    ],
    [
        "But Iran has resources that Cambodia and Laos could never muster; indeed, its ability to retaliate could set the entire region ablaze.",
        "但是，伊朗却拥有柬埔寨和老挝所从来没有掌握的资源； 实际上，其报复的能力可以让整个地区陷于火海之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Another, equally important challenge is cooperation between NATO and Russia, which agreed at NATO’s Lisbon summit in November to collaborate on the Alliance’s anti-missile defenses.",
        "另一个同样重要的挑战则是北约与俄罗斯之间的合作，双方于今年11月的北约里斯本峰会上同意在导弹防御系统上展开合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than allowing vital data to gather dust, as has occurred in the past, we must augment it, update it, and share it widely, so that it can be put to use.",
        "不能如过去那样将关键数据束之高阁，而必须扩大、更新和广泛分享它们，以使它们能够起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "It suggests support for agriculture and agribusiness development and linking them with other sectors, as well as measures to boost resilience to price shocks.",
        "报告提出要为农业和农商企业发展提供支持，让它们与其他部门形成连接，并采取措施加强对价格冲击的恢复力。"
    ],
    [
        "When such actions are self-serving, as in cases of corruption or narcissistic ego gratification, moral censure is easy and appropriate.",
        "当这些行为属于自利行为时，比如腐败或自恋式的自我陶醉，你很容易做出道德批判，并且这也是合适的。"
    ],
    [
        "He wrote for white men who knew their nationality, knew what caste membership meant, and knew the privileges such membership brought.",
        "他为知道自己的国籍、知道等级成员资格意味着什么、知道这一资格能带来什么特权的白人男性写作。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, the preference has been for transfers, which, until the 2008 financial crash, took the form of cross-border private-sector lending to governments and banks.",
        "不出所料，人们一直都倾向于实施转移支付，在2008年金融危机之前以跨国私人部门给政府和银行贷款的形式进行。"
    ],
    [
        "“It has always been that way,” they say.",
        "他们说“情况一直就是这个样子的”。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, Europe needs conviction.",
        "最重要的是，欧洲需要信念。"
    ],
    [
        "Impact investors’ support eventually led to flows of commercial capital – both VC funding and IPO investors – into Compartamos, SKS, and many other microfinance institutions.",
        "影响投资者的支持最终吸引了商业资本（包括风险投资基金和IPO投资者）流入康帕多、SKS和其他许多小额信贷机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is fortunate that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has behaved as a true European with regard to the threat posed by Russia.",
        "欧洲是幸运的，德国总理默克尔在面对俄罗斯的威胁时表现得像一个真正的欧洲人。"
    ],
    [
        "This may not be ideal, but it is better than prolonging a fight that cannot be won.",
        "虽然这不算是个理想的方法，但总比继续一场不可能获胜的战争要强得多。"
    ],
    [
        "For many years, high public debt and macroeconomic mismanagement forced Turkey to pay a huge interest-rate premium in international financial markets – money that might have otherwise been invested in schools.",
        "多年来，公债高企和宏观经济管理失当迫使土耳其需要在国际金融市场上支付高昂的利率溢价——这笔钱本可以投资于学校。"
    ],
    [
        "Proctor appealed, and the USPTO issues its final rejection of the patent in April 2005.",
        "Proctor就此提出上诉，而美国专利商标局于2005年4月发布终审取消公告。"
    ],
    [
        "It got an appeal for a “No” vote that no one understood; the details of the proposals that Greek voters were supposed to reject were not even disclosed to them.",
        "它号召一个没人理解的“不”选项； 希腊选民准备拒绝的方案的细节并未向他们披露。"
    ],
    [
        "The first purpose is, of course, to persuade the country in question to come around to others’ views.",
        "第一个目的当然是说服问题国家按另一方的要求行事。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by improving clinical standards and returning results to participants can human genome sequencing truly serve its purpose – to help humanity.",
        "只有改善临床标准并向参与者返回结果才能让人类基因组测序活动服务于它的目的——帮助人类。"
    ],
    [
        "To them, cochlear implants are an enhancement beyond normal functioning.",
        "对他们来讲，人工耳蜗是一种在正常功能以外的强化功能。"
    ],
    [
        "But the value of a house is determined in a similar manner: according to the rent it is expected to generate, capitalized at the current nominal interest rate.",
        "但住宅的价值也是以类似的方式来确定的：根据预计将产生的租金来以当前名义利率为其估值。"
    ],
    [
        "When these expectations are disappointed, public opinion will change.",
        "当这些期望落空时，民意也会改变。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposed changes also would make the US a magnet for talent and creativity from around the world.",
        "这一变化也将让美股成为吸引全球人才和创造力的磁石。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s LBW",
        "印度的LBW"
    ],
    [
        "Or is it a phoenix, about to rise (yet again) from its ashes?",
        "还是一只即将（再次）涅槃的凤凰？"
    ],
    [
        "Have these countries a discovered a new growth model?",
        "这些国家是否又发现了一套新的增长模式？"
    ],
    [
        "Without India, it is hard to imagine a successful conclusion to the 2009 Copenhagen conference to draft a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol.",
        "没有印度，很难想象2009年哥本哈根会议能成功起草《京都议定书》的后续协议。"
    ],
    [
        "But seizing this opportunity is possible only on the basis of the rule of law, not of force, and must be guided by the principles of democracy and national self-determination, not great-power politics.",
        "但要抓住这一机会必须建立在法治精神而不是武力的基础上，并且必须以民主原则和国家自决权而不是实力政治为指导。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the Global Fund proved the doubters wrong: More money prevented millions of deaths from AIDS, TB, and malaria.",
        "但全球基金用事实证明了怀疑论者的错误：追加投资防止了成百上千万人死于结核、疟疾和艾滋病。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal would be to ensure that developing countries can employ the kind of trade and industrial policies needed to restructure and diversify their economies and set the stage for economic growth.",
        "这样做的目的是，保证发展中国家能够利用调整和多样化其经济以及确定经济增长阶段所需的贸易和工业政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar trends are observable in other countries.",
        "类似的趋势也能在其他国家观察到。"
    ],
    [
        "There are gray areas in which important targets (say, a free political process) are not strategically vital in the same way as the electrical grid or the financial system.",
        "其中存在一些灰色地带，比如某些目标（例如自由的政治程序）虽然重要，但其战略重要性的表现方式却与电网或金融系统不一样。"
    ],
    [
        "The detailed nature of the relation between cells, the modifiable synapses, was the software.",
        "而细胞之间具体的联系性质以及可以改变的突触是软件。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the required skills acquired through formal education have become relatively scarcer, the education premium has risen, underpinning a more uneven distribution of income and wealth.",
        "由于通过正式教育获得的必要技能便得相对稀少，教育加付上升，进而加固了收入和财富的不均衡分配。"
    ],
    [
        "In liberal democracies, national elections are intended to provide the winning side with a popular mandate to govern and to set policy priorities until the next election.",
        "在自由民主国家，全国选举旨在授权获胜方在下一次选举前执政及确定优先政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Major regional powers like Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar now support an emboldened Hamas, whose paramount objectives are now to consolidate its increased international legitimacy and sideline the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA).",
        "主要地区势力——如埃及、土耳其和卡塔尔等——现在都支持信心高涨的哈马斯，如今，后者的最高目标是巩固其改善的国际合法性、逼宫约旦河西岸的巴勒斯坦权力机构。"
    ],
    [
        "The choice that Americans will make in November now comes into clearer focus.",
        "如今，11月美国所要做出的选择焦点更加明确了。"
    ],
    [
        "The French plan looks more like a Gallic version of the Volcker rule than Vickers “à la française.”",
        "法国的计划看起来更像高卢版沃尔克规则，而不是“法国式”维克斯方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Groups of angry marauding young men armed with stones and slingshots ran amok, setting up roadblocks and torching buildings.",
        "成群的年轻人怒气冲冲、四处劫掠，他们手持石块和弹弓，设置路障并焚烧房屋。"
    ],
    [
        "The capacity for such adjustments is the hallmark of the flexible exchange-rate system; indeed, for more than four decades, it has proved time and again to be the key to global macroeconomic stability.",
        "能做出这样的调整是浮动汇率制度的特点； 事实上，四十多年来，这一再证明是全球宏观经济稳定的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone over 40 will recall images of AIDS activists performing “die-ins” at scientific meetings around the world.",
        "40岁以上的人都能想起艾滋病活跃分子在全球科学会议上的“装死示威”。"
    ],
    [
        "On average, 500 people will have the cancer.",
        "其中平均有500人会得癌症。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Crisis of Values",
        "欧洲的价值观危机"
    ],
    [
        "The great virtue of capitalism is that it adapts to ruinous conditions and even finds ways of turning them to advantage.",
        "资本主义的一大优点是它能适应破坏性条件甚至找到办法把它们转化为优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Decrease?",
        "下跌？"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Europe has a strong tradition as a leader in the fight against climate change.",
        "伦敦—欧洲有充当遏制气候变化领导者的强大传统。"
    ],
    [
        "This week in Abu Dhabi, Mohamed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi – in partnership with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Bill Gates – is hosting the world’s first global summit dedicated to ensuring that all children everywhere have access to the full benefits of vaccines.",
        "本周，阿布扎比太子阿勒纳哈扬（Mohamed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi）将和联合国秘书长潘基文和比尔·盖茨一起在阿布扎比举办首届致力于确保世界各地每名儿童都能获得疫苗的完全好处的全球峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "The US “pivot” to Asia is built on economic opportunities there; a conflict with unpredictable fallout does not fit the scheme.",
        "美国以亚洲为“支点”源于那里的经济机会； 无法预测最终结果的冲突不符合美国外交计划的精神。"
    ],
    [
        "Geithner also established a tangled web of connections between the New York Fed and JPMorgan Chase, some of which linger to this day.",
        "盖特纳还建立了一个纽约联储和摩根大通之间的复杂网络，其中一部分至今仍然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Citizens, unsurprisingly, complained about the declining legitimacy of EU institutions.",
        "而公民们则不出意外地抱怨欧盟机构合法性的衰落。"
    ],
    [
        "And some women’s rights advocates have supported laws that criminalize transmitting HIV, arguing that these laws would punish men who concealed their HIV-positive status from their sexual partners, including their wives and girlfriends.",
        "一些妇女权利倡导者支持将传播艾滋病毒刑事化的法律，认为这些法律将严惩向性伴侣包括他们的妻子和女朋友隐瞒自己感染了艾滋病毒的男子。"
    ],
    [
        "What is worse, the argument goes, the expectation of monetary financing would drive governments to borrow excessively.",
        "该观点认为，更糟糕的是，这种货币融资的预期将推动政府过度借贷。"
    ],
    [
        "But much of this discussion is merely a form of \"political correctness.\" It is more reassuring - and \"feels better\" - to tell Europeans that growth is sluggish because society is not sufficiently knowledge-based, rather than pointing to the trade-off between vacations and growth.",
        "但这样的争论大都只停留在\"政治上正确与否\"的简单层面，毕竟，让欧洲人认为增长缓慢的原因是社会知识不够丰富比直接指出假期和增长的反比例关系更令人安心，\"感觉也更好\"。"
    ],
    [
        "The third point is more diagnostic: The shockingly anemic pattern of post-crisis US consumer demand has resulted from a deep Japan-like balance-sheet recession.",
        "第三点是关于诊断的：美国消费者需求在危机后增长如此无力是因为类似于日本的深度资产负债表衰退导致的。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are still many diseases for which vaccines do not yet exist.",
        "但仍有许多疾病我们没有疫苗可用。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, the notion that emerging economies will recapture the growth levels of the bubble years seems farfetched.",
        "在这样的情况下，新兴经济体能恢复泡沫年代的增长水平的概念令人难以相信。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, China would no longer be a net buyer of foreign bonds and other assets.",
        "在这种情况下，中国将不再是一个外国债券以及其它资产的净买家。"
    ],
    [
        "Poland has announced that it will grant Belarusians visas at no cost, while denying visas to a long list of regime officials that it says were involved in the recent electoral fraud.",
        "波兰已经宣布将向白俄罗斯申请者免费颁发签证，但同时也拒绝颁发签证给（据波兰官方宣称）参与了最近大选舞弊的一大批白俄罗斯官员。"
    ],
    [
        "His KGB background dictates his leadership style, which includes the abolition of free and fair elections, the persecution of opponents, and the promotion of conservative values that he, like Pétain before him, juxtaposes with the corrupting influence of an “immoral” and “decadent” West.",
        "他的克格勃背景决定了他的领导风格，包括取消自由公正选举，迫害反对派以及宣传保守的价值观。 就像曾经的贝当一样，“非道德”和“颓废”的西方腐败深深影响着普京。"
    ],
    [
        "They also see a country that truly does reflect the world, attracting immigrants from every nation and giving them an equal chance to succeed as Americans.",
        "他们还看到了一个真正反映世界、吸引着世界各国移民并给予他们作为美国人的平等成功机会的美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Its sole comfort, it seems, is that it has not yet withered away.",
        "现在看来，没有彻底瓦解已经是它唯一的安慰了。"
    ],
    [
        "For the Alliance of Civilizations to have any chance of success, the emphasis must be on reciprocity.",
        "如果文明联盟想要取得成功，它关注的焦点必须是互惠。"
    ],
    [
        "The debt-to-GDP ratio for 2015 is expected to stand at 46.9% – well below the Latin American average of 55.6% – and should stabilize at 47.8% in the coming year.",
        "2015年债务-GDP之比预计将在46. 9%——远低于拉丁美洲平均水平55."
    ],
    [
        "And they have provided only about $250 million in aid over the last decade – a paltry sum, given the potential consequences of Afghan instability for China’s $6 trillion economy.",
        "5亿美元的援助——这相对阿富汗的动荡可能对中国6万亿美元的经济规模所造成的潜在影响来说，实在是微不足道。"
    ],
    [
        "The tax office and Luke would end up clashing over impossible estimates of the extent to which Ken’s salary would have risen, or fallen, had he still been employed.",
        "税收当局和卢克最后将陷入无法解决的扯皮：如果肯仍在开收割机的话，他的薪水究竟应该提高或降低多少"
    ],
    [
        "The statistics showing the enormous proportion of Roma children in those schools are hard to ignore, and the suspicion of discrimination is difficult to avoid.",
        "显示这些学校存在大量比例的罗姆孩子的数据不容忽视，难以避免歧视嫌疑。"
    ],
    [
        "But both Olmert and Peretz have declared that, despite the Commission’s conclusions, they would not quit: instead, they have vowed to implement the report’s many far-reaching substantive recommendations about policy, strategy, and decision-making processes.",
        "但是奥尔默特和佩雷茨二人都宣称，尽管委员会作出了这些结论，他们都不会辞职。 相反，他们发誓要落实该报告提出的许多有关政策、战略以及决策过程的范围广泛的实质性建议。"
    ],
    [
        "The interest-rate increase decided this week will soon appear insufficient, and will have to be followed by further hikes and a large increase in unemployment.",
        "本周决定的提高利率的政策很快就会变得力有不逮，接下来就不得不一次又一次地提高利率，从而引起失业率的猛增。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, anatomically modern populations shared a number of these innovations with Neanderthals, which many anthropologists and geneticists consider a different species, or a human type inherently incapable of reaching our cognitive level.",
        "另外，解剖学上的现代人与穴居人有一些共同的行为创新。 而许多人类学家和遗传学家都认为穴居人是一个不同的种群，或是一种在先天就达不到我们的认知能力的人类。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing this, several African countries are already making plans to roll out meningitis – and other – vaccines into routine immunization systems this year.",
        "认识到这一点，若干非洲国家已经在制定计划以期年内将脑膜炎——和其他——疫苗纳入到常规免疫系统。"
    ],
    [
        "The Ottomans won by a small margin, ultimately securing control over Iraq.",
        "最终结果是奥斯曼帝国险胜，最终捍卫了对伊拉克的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "After failing to moderate Bashir into accepting a secular decentralized or confederate Sudan, Egypt, a key Arab player concerned about the stability of its southern border, has come to accept the inevitability of secession – so long as the new state lines up with it on the issue of the Nile’s waters.",
        "在无法说服巴希尔接受世俗分权或联邦制苏丹后，埃及这个重要的阿拉伯国家出于对其南部边境稳定的关注，已经慢慢接受了南苏丹独立不可避免的理念——只要新独立的国家在尼罗河问题上能与埃及达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the EU summit in December was an important step forward in terms of deepening political union and strengthening governance among the eurozone’s member states.",
        "在这方面，12月份召开的欧盟峰会在欧元区成员国深化政治联盟和加强治理方面向前迈出了重要一步。"
    ],
    [
        "If exchange rates were fixed but capital could move freely, capital flight from the country would generate pressures to end loose monetary policies.",
        "如果汇率固定但资金可以自由流动，那么资金从该国外逃就会产生终止松散货币政策的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "In April 2010, the leader of this school, Harvard University’s Alberto Alesina, assured European finance ministers that “even sharp reductions of budget deficits have been accompanied and immediately followed by sustained growth rather than recessions even in the very short run.”",
        "”2010年四月，这个学派的领袖，哈佛大学的阿尔贝托·阿尔塞纳（Alberto Alesina），就向欧洲的财政部长们保证“长期而言，即使是大幅度的预算赤字削减后也马上会有持续的经济增长而不是衰退。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe Buffett’s past investing style can be captured in a trading algorithm today.",
        "或许巴菲特过去的投资风格可以被当今一个交易算法所模仿。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The last time the atmosphere held as much carbon dioxide as it does today was about three million years ago – a time when sea levels were 10-30 meters higher than they are now.",
        "坎布里奇—大气层上一次含二氧化碳量与今天一样多大约出现在三百万年前——当时的海平面比今天高10—30米。"
    ],
    [
        "As US support waivers, African and European governments, foundations, institutional donors, and practitioners must be ready to step in to help African farmers build long-term resiliency.",
        "随着美国支持的动摇，非洲和欧洲政府、基金会、捐助机构和从业人员必须随时准备协助非洲农户建设长期适应性。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, proximity to a vast pool of low-wage workers would allow Japan to construct a regional division of labor that took full advantage of its high-paid, well-educated workforce and outsourced low-skill, low-wage, and hence low-productivity jobs to continental Asia.",
        "此外，毗邻存在拥有大规模低工资工人储备的国家仍日本能够实现地区劳动分工，既能充分利用其收入高、教育层次高的劳动力，也能将低技能、低工资因而也是低生产率的岗位外包给亚洲大陆国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But Clinton held forth eloquently on how new technologies could help to solve age-old social ills.",
        "但克林顿发表了关于新技术如何有助于解决旧时代社会弊端的雄辩的长篇演讲。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if America’s protective power has receded, its power to inspire remains unique and can still redound to its benefit in the most spectacular way.",
        "但是，虽然美国的保护力量有所削弱，但其鼓舞士气的力量仍是独一无二的，仍然能够以最壮观的方式迸发出能量。"
    ],
    [
        "Cheney's answer was jarring: he said that because the detainees were captured in Afghanistan where they had been trying to kill US troops, the rules regarding prisoners of war did not apply.",
        "切尼的回答非常刺耳：他说由于被羁押者来自阿富汗，他们试图在那里杀害美国军队，因此战俘法对他们根本就不适用。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, so strident has he become that he refused to accept a message from Japan’s prime minister about his island visit.",
        "他的任期将于2013年2月结束。 事实上，他强硬到了无视日本首相关于他登岛的意见的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "This fact on its own suggests that bringing back the drachma might not help Greece much.",
        "这一事实本身表明回归德拉克马也许并不能给希腊带来多少裨益。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s victory, despite America’s economic travails, clears the way for cooperation based on a sympathetic ear to others and on negotiations in which the US does not deny the legitimacy of a global public interest (as it has done, unfortunately, on the issue of climate change).",
        "尽管美国的经济劫难依然没有过去，但奥巴马的获胜却用充满同情的聆听和美国对全球公共利益合法性的认可开辟了合作的光明大道（美国在气候变化问题上就遗憾地对全球公共利益采取视而不见的态度）。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries and regions are already under severe water stress, which will only intensify as climate change causes natural disasters and extreme weather events like droughts to become increasingly common.",
        "许多国家和地区面临着严重的水资源紧缺压力，而随着气候变化导致自然灾害和干旱等极端天气事件日益频繁，缺水的压力还会继续恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the midst of a protracted currency crisis, European governments can surely sign on to an agenda that prioritizes transfers of know-how over cash infusions.",
        "即使是身处持久货币危机而在注资方面存在的欧洲，也可以替之以知识转移协议。"
    ],
    [
        "No country can deliver long-term prosperity to its people on its own.",
        "没有国家可以单枪匹马为人民提供长期繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "And, when some of the IMF’s largest debtors (Brazil and Argentina) began to prepay their debts a few years ago with no new borrowers in sight, it looked like the final nail in the coffin had been struck.",
        "而且，当该组织一些最大的债务人（巴西与阿根廷）开始在几年前预付其债务而没有新的借款人出现时，一切看似就像棺木的最后一颗钢钉也被敲上。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – If you chase two rabbits at once, the old saying goes, both will escape.",
        "首尔—老话说得好，如果你想同时抓住两只兔子，最后你一只都抓不到。"
    ],
    [
        "Diplomacy cannot play a large role at this point.",
        "此时，外交无法起到很大作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Even without the prospect of faster inflation and a declining yen, fundamental conditions in Japan point to higher interest rates.",
        "即使不存在通胀加速和日元贬值预期，日本的基本条件也表明利率将上升。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, when the PBOC cut its benchmark interest rate last November, in order to help reduce private-sector borrowing costs, it triggered a speculative stock-market boom.",
        "比如，去年11月，当央行降低基准利率以减轻民营部门借贷成本时，却引起了投机性的股市暴涨。"
    ],
    [
        "The core issue is taxes.",
        "其中的核心问题就是税收。"
    ],
    [
        "Like it or not, humanity will remain globally connected, facing common problems like climate change and the threat of terrorism.",
        "不管你喜不喜欢，人类仍保持着全球连通性，面临着气候变化和保护主义威胁等共同问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, green-economy advocates promise a surfeit of green jobs.",
        "最后，绿色经济支持者承诺了过多的绿色就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Bankers also claim that higher equity requirements would restrict credit and hinder economic growth.",
        "银行家们还宣称更高的资本要求会限制信贷及阻碍经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The net result would be higher interest rates on US and other bonds around the world.",
        "这一新举措的后果则是更高的美国以及世界各国债券利率。"
    ],
    [
        "A Strategy to Unite and Safeguard Europe",
        "一个统一和捍卫欧洲的战略"
    ],
    [
        "Legal activism in China is not unprecedented.",
        "中国的法制行动主义并非没有先例。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The first time I went to Washington, DC, as an adult was in 1993, when I arrived to work for President Bill Clinton in the Treasury Department.",
        "伯克利—我长大成人后第一次来到华盛顿是在1993年，为克林顿总统的财政部做事。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe turned diversity into one of its constitutional traits, and this is why it has had such an impact on the world.",
        "欧洲将多元化变成了其固有的特征载入宪法，这也是它在全世界产生了巨大影响的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Both subjectively and objectively, the US is no longer willing or able to play that role.",
        "无论从主观还是客观方面，美国都不愿也不能再发挥这样的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the end of World War II, the middle class has provided the backbone of democracy, civil engagement, and stability; those who did not belong to the middle class could realistically aspire to join it, or even believe that they were part of it, when that was not the case.",
        "自二战结束后，中产阶级逐渐成为民主、公民参与和稳定的中坚力量； 中产阶级以外的人能够切实期望加入中产阶级，甚至误以为自己已经是中产阶级的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Europeans have raised serious questions about US intelligence practices. These range from the lack of professionalism implied by allowing contractors to conduct such sensitive work to America’s hands-off approach toward certain allies, like the United Kingdom and New Zealand, while relegating many of its other allies – including most of the European Union – to surveillance-worthy status.",
        "事实上，欧洲就美国情报行为提出过严重质疑，包括让合同工从事如此敏感的工作所体现的不专业性、对某些盟友（如英国和新西兰）采取不干涉方针而将其他盟友（包括大部分欧盟国家）降格为有必要监视的国家，等等。"
    ],
    [
        "Contracts, too, should be transparent, and should ensure that if prices soar – as they have repeatedly – the windfall gain does not go only to the company.",
        "契约也应该透明化，并应该确保万一价格上涨——一再发生的事情——飞来横财不会完全流入公司的腰包。"
    ],
    [
        "Following an assassination attempt by an aide-de-camp, Dadis Camara fled the country, and the interim junta leader, General Sékouba Konaté, allowed the opposition political parties to appoint a civilian prime minister.",
        "在侍从军官行刺企图失败后，达迪斯·卡马拉逃往国外，接替他的临时军政府领袖赛古巴·科纳特将军允许反对党任命一位平民总理。"
    ],
    [
        "The forthcoming Routledge Handbook of the Resource Nexus, which I co-edited, defines the term as the relationship between two or more naturally occurring materials that are used as inputs in a system that provides services to humans.",
        "我参与编辑的即将出版的《劳特利奇资源联系手册》（Routledge Handbook of the Resource Nexus）将“联系”一词定义为两种或多种自然形成、作为服务人类的系统的投入品的材料之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, the task of completing such difficult reforms just before crossing the \"finish line\" fell to socialist parties, forcing them to betray their socialist identity in the eyes of leftist voters.",
        "在捷克、匈牙利和波兰，在最后日期前完成如此艰难的改革任务，对社会主义政党来说，意味着他们不得不背叛他们在左翼选民眼里的社会主义者身份。"
    ],
    [
        "America has now suffered around 30 shooting massacres over the past 30 years, including this year’s deadly dozen; each is a gut-wrenching tragedy for many families.",
        "过去30年来，美国已经经历了30次大规模枪击，包括今年所发生的12次； 每一次惨案都会让许多家庭陷入悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "A solution to the eurozone crisis that relies on Germany has always been politically uncertain.",
        "依靠德国的欧元区危机解决方案永远是政治上不确定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with her children grown, she has gone off to Tibet for months to realize her dream of becoming a practitioner of Tibetan medicine.",
        "现在她的孩子们已经长大，而她也终于可以赴西藏几个月去实现自己做一个藏医的梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be a mistake to accept the Conservative narrative as the last word.",
        "但接受保守党的说辞为定音是一个错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, despite some initial hiccups, the positive effects of economic reform quickly became apparent.",
        "其实，虽然开始时有些困难，但经济改革的积极效应很快就开始显露。"
    ],
    [
        "We are now back to the starting point: the Camp David and Taba talks – flippantly abandoned in January 2001 – are to be taken up again.",
        "我们现在又回到了出发点，也就是2001年1月轻率放弃的戴维营和塔巴会谈将会重新开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Forest communities must be provided with assistance in managing their resources and maintaining their livelihoods.",
        "必须为森林部落提供资源管理和生计维持方面的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "How could a eurozone supervisor be based outside the eurozone?",
        "欧元区监管机构怎么能设在欧元区之外呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Economy’s Tale Risks",
        "全球经济的故事风险"
    ],
    [
        "China may well be on a path to a New Normal or a New Era.",
        "中国或许已经走上了一个迈向新常态或新时代的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Mercantilist theorists such as Thomas Mun were in fact strong proponents of capitalism; they just propounded a different model than liberalism.",
        "重商主义理论家，比如托马斯·曼（Thomas Mun），实际上是资本主义的强烈支持者； 他们只是提出了一个不同于自由主义的模型。"
    ],
    [
        "At least rhetorically speaking, government parties or leaders with a strong anti-US tilt are gaining ground, from Mexico City's Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the Frente Amplio party in Uruguay, from Schaddick Handal in the old FMLN in El Salvador to Evo Morales in Bolivia, not to mention governments like Hugo Chávez's in Venezuela and Nestor Kirchner's in Argentina.",
        "至少从讲话上看，带有强烈反美情绪的政党和领袖占据了上风。 从墨西哥城市长Andrés Manuel López Obrador到乌拉圭Frente Amplio党，从萨尔瓦多老马蒂民族解放阵线（FMLN）的Schaddick Handal到玻利维亚的Evo Morales，更不用说委内瑞拉的查韦斯政府和阿根廷总统基什内尔。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when faced with calamitous death tolls, the Saudi establishment is unlikely to change its approach.",
        "就算面对灾难性的死亡人数，沙特政府也不太可能改变自己的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "According to this metric, in 2012, India ranked 56th out of 86 countries for gender equality, lower than other major emerging markets like Brazil, China, Indonesia, and South Africa.",
        "根据这一指数，2012年印度在性别平等排行榜上位居86个国家的第56位，低于巴西、中国、印尼和南非等其他主要新兴市场国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But the kingdom’s social contract, like Egypt’s, has become unsustainable, owing to falling oil prices and a population that has grown by more than 25% in the last decade alone.",
        "但由于石油价格下跌以及人口暴增（光是在过去的十年就增加了25%），沙特王国的社会契约——和埃及一样——已经难以为继。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the quota system is still a matter of constitutional debate in South Korea, years of effort by women’s groups have made a significant contribution to boosting women’s role in policymaking.",
        "尽管配额制仍处于宪法争论阶段，女性团体多年来的努力在提升女性在决策过程中的作用方面居功至伟。"
    ],
    [
        "They can affect public policy far more profoundly and rapidly than detractors can imagine.",
        "它们能远比批评者所想象的更加深远和迅速地影响公共政策。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet happiness about the headline numbers should not be allowed to obscure opportunities to channel these funds more effectively.",
        "但我们不能让整体数据所带来的幸福感抢走资金有效利用的风头。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists’ failure to provide the full picture on trade, with all of the necessary distinctions and caveats, has made it easier to tar trade, often wrongly, with all sorts of ill effects.",
        "经济学家没有提供完整的贸易图景，没有说明白必不可少的区分和警告，这让贸易的各种副作用更加容易被错误地渲染。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – Is the Chinese economy about to implode?",
        "纽黑文—中国经济快要崩溃了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "More important, financial repression is contributing to a widening disparity between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), with the former enjoying artificially low interest rates from commercial banks and the latter forced to pay extremely high interest rates in the shadow-banking system (or unable to access external financing at all).",
        "更重要的是，金融抑制造成国有企业（SOEs）和中小企业（SMEs）差距越拉越大，前者享受商业银行人为的低利率，而后者则迫不得已向影子银行系统支付超高利率（或根本无法获取外部融资）。"
    ],
    [
        "The housing sector seems to be finding a tentative bottom (though housing finance remains incoherent).",
        "房地产部门似乎摘到了暂时的底部（尽管住房融资情况仍然惨不忍睹）。"
    ],
    [
        "Key causes of the accident have been identified.",
        "此次事故的关键起因也已被查明。"
    ],
    [
        "But when we stifle, step by step, all that remains of a free press, when even small television channels that provide uncensored information seem dangerous, we are keeping the lid firmly on the pot.",
        "但是，当我们一步一步扼杀自由新闻舆论残余时，甚至当小规模电视频道提供未经审查的信息时都面临危险时，我们正紧紧地捂住茶壶的盖子。"
    ],
    [
        "China is now Latin America’s second-largest trading partner and rapidly closing the gap with the US.",
        "如今，中国是拉美第二大贸易伙伴，并且与美国的差距在迅速缩小。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders have free will.",
        "那些国家的领袖们有选择的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "To provide short-term financing to a bank during any restructuring, the Commission’s plan would create a European Fund, putting all banks on an equal footing.",
        "该方案提出成立一个欧洲基金（European Fund），向重组过程中的银行提供短期融资，并对所有银行一视同仁。"
    ],
    [
        "More than a billion people around the world today do not.",
        "目前，全世界10多亿人都无法得到清洁的用水。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China is on the precipice of becoming an environmental wasteland.",
        "生活在北京或上海的人甚至常常几个星期看不到太阳。 事实上，中国正处于成为生态废墟的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "It did not examine whether parthenogenesis constituted “a process for the cloning of a human being,” which would not be patentable under EU law.",
        "法院并未就单性生殖是否构成“对人类的克隆过程”展开调查，如果构成克隆则按照欧盟立法不允许授予专利。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission on Growth and Development, chaired by the Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence, reached a similar conclusion in its 2008 report, The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development.",
        "以诺贝尔经济学奖获得者迈克尔·斯宾塞（Michael Spence）为首的增长与发展委员会（The Commission on Growth and Development）也在其2008年的报告《增长报告：可持续增长和包容性发展战略》（The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development）中得出了类似结论。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Planning Addiction",
        "中国的规划癖好"
    ],
    [
        "Both Trump and Berlusconi are intimately familiar with the insides of courtrooms; Trump has moved fast since the election to settle fraud lawsuits against Trump University, but has about 70 other suits outstanding against him and his businesses.",
        "特朗普和贝卢斯科尼都非常熟悉法庭内部事务； 参选以来，特朗普迅速采取措施解决了针对特朗普大学的欺诈诉讼，但仍有针对他本人及其企业的其他七十宗诉讼处在审理过程之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Drugs such as Erbitux and Vectibix work only in tumors containing the normal version of a gene called KRAS.",
        "像爱必妥（Erbitux）和维克替比（Vectibix）这样的药物，它们只对具有常规种类KRAS基因的肿瘤有效。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany rarely expects solidarity from its European partners.",
        "德国几乎不抱希望能获得其欧洲伙伴国的团结。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it clear that the West is capable of compensating the Kurds with full-fledged statehood.",
        "西方能否以全面建国来补偿库尔德人目前也尚不明确。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the lack of a strong, unified government capable of shaping a consensus could make it impossible even for Khamenei to change course, leaving Iran no choice but to persist in its diplomatic standoff with the West.",
        "事实上，缺少能达成共识的强大统一的政府可能导致连哈梅内伊都无法改变方向，并因此导致伊朗别无选择只能延续与西方的外交僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, reforms announced by Blair increasingly sound like empty promises, because the apparently inevitable has happened: the Prime Minister has lost touch with the public.",
        "的确，由于明显不可避免的事情发生了，那就是布莱尔脱离了公众，因此，他宣布的改革越发看起来像空洞的许诺。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this free-market economy, which rewards useful innovation and purposeful risk-taking, that we should honor and recognize.",
        "正是这种奖励实用创新和有目的冒险的自由市场经济，应当得到我们的表彰和嘉奖。"
    ],
    [
        "A somewhat haphazard sub-set of potential products can, with the right business model, be profitable – say, through advertising or by selling the information that they passively collect from users.",
        "一个潜在产品某种程度上任意的一部分，只要采取了正确的商业模式，就可以赚钱——比如说出售从用户那里顺便收集的信息或是拿来做广告。 。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, many countries are struggling with a mismatch between the skills that employers seek and those that workers have.",
        "结果很多国家都出现了雇主所需技能与工人掌握技能之间不匹配的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "However, that has now backfired, since the Sadrists are the only group other than Maliki’s coalition of Shia parties that supports him.",
        "而如今看来，这无异于搬石头砸自己的脚，因为除了马利基自己的什叶派政党联盟之外，就只有萨德尔派支持马利基了。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, other emerging economies tied to perceptions about China’s economic health should also stabilize.",
        "果真如此的话，仰仗对中国经济健康程度看法的其他新兴经济体也应该稳定下来。"
    ],
    [
        "WARSAW – It was a hot day and a tense moment.",
        "华沙——炎热的一天，紧张的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is no longer the case in the age of Trump, at least not when it comes to taxes.",
        "但在特朗普时代不再如此，至少在税收问题上不再如此。"
    ],
    [
        "While reducing such capabilities might seem like an expedient way to cut costs, European governments must not lose sight of their long-term security priorities.",
        "当裁剪这些力量看上去似乎是削减开支的捷径之时，欧洲各国政府切不可无视自身的长远安全重点。"
    ],
    [
        "One can only hope that this crack of freedom will widen in time.",
        "我们希望这个自由的缝隙在今后能够开得更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, human travel in general should become increasingly limited to tourism and pleasure trips.",
        "确实，人类的旅行应该越来越限于以旅游和休闲为目的。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-7’s Sustainability Mission",
        "G-7的可持续性使命"
    ],
    [
        "Its leaders are cooperating in an effort to bring about real reform in a way that was unthinkable a few months ago.",
        "该组织的领导人正在推动实现真正的改革，而这些改革在几个月前还是无法想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "“As we all know, those are two separate things.”",
        "”他说，“我们都知道这是两个不同的东西。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "And with one of its younger members currently in the White House, and others at Downing Street, the Élysée Palace, and the German Chancellery, it will continue to do so for years to come.",
        "现在入主白宫的就是婴儿潮一代相对年轻的成员，而唐宁街、爱丽舍宫和德国总理府同样也是这代人入主。 婴儿潮一代仍将影响我们未来的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "As many other Pakistani leaders have done before before him, Zardari has relied on American support to stay where he is.",
        "与许多前任巴基斯坦领导人此前所做的一样，扎尔达里也依靠美国的支持保持自己的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "Thai politics has thus reached an impasse.",
        "泰国政治现在进退维谷。"
    ],
    [
        "In my view, the G20 is the best forum for increased and inclusive cooperation.",
        "在我看来，G20是增进合作与包容的最佳论坛。"
    ],
    [
        "What if the North Korean regime collapses, and China does intervene militarily?",
        "朝鲜政权倒台、中国果真实施军事干预又怎样应对？"
    ],
    [
        "But it remains to be seen if the uranium mining in this country can indeed increase further to 18,000 tons in 2010 and to 30,000 tons by 2018.",
        "但该国铀矿产量是否能在2010年和2018年分别达到1. 8万和3万当量吨？"
    ],
    [
        "The House Republicans propose to fix that by amending the bankruptcy code.",
        "众议院共和党提出通过修订破产法来解决这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, a new approach is needed – one that is based on a deeper understanding of the dangers inherent in China’s banking system.",
        "显然，中国需要新方针——基于对中国银行体系内部风险更深认识的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "The diplomatic package could be made more attractive if the US would add more positive incentives.",
        "如果美国愿意增加积极的鼓励政策，外交解决办法的吸引力可能会有所提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain Votes and Reality Waits",
        "大选在前，现实在后"
    ],
    [
        "Second, Diamond apparently thought that he could take on the British establishment.",
        "其次，博达文显然认为，他可以挑战英国的权势集团。"
    ],
    [
        "While the market today has no serious challenger, it is morally vulnerable.",
        "尽管今天的市场并没有受到严峻的挑战，但是它在道义上却是脆弱的。"
    ],
    [
        "But so long as the state frames or seeks to legitimize its policies in religious terms, the violence will not stop.",
        "但只要国家框定于或寻求在宗教条例中实现政策合法化，暴力就不会停止。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East’s individual states won’t be able to manage this without regional cooperation.",
        "没有区域合作，中东的各分散的国家将无法做到上述这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, it could affect current plans for a “banking union,” which needs three elements: a single supervisor, a common resolution authority, and a credible system of deposit insurance.",
        "尤其是它能影响目前的“银行业联盟”计划，该计划需要三个要素：一个单一的监督机构、一个共同的决议机构以及一个可靠的存款保险系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has admitted that the United States lacks a clear picture of the situation in Syria.",
        "美国参谋长联席会议主席邓普希（Martin Dempsey）承认，对于叙利亚局势，美国缺少明确的路线图。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be nice to understand those numbers better.",
        "更好的理解这些数字是大有裨益的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even the military, which in many Third World countries is the strongest state institution, was marginalized under Qaddafi.",
        "实际上，就连军队这个在很多第三世界国家最强势的国家机构也被卡扎菲边缘化。"
    ],
    [
        "Any loosening of monetary policy should be aimed directly at accommodating fiscal policy.",
        "任何放松货币政策的措施都应该直接着眼于配合财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "They have not been slow to claim that they are being singled out unfairly.",
        "法国银行纷纷忙不迭宣布，它们正在受到不公正待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "The only practical implication of adding the renminbi to the SDR basket is that it now becomes a currency that countries can draw, along with the SDR’s other four constituent currencies, when they borrow from the IMF.",
        "将人民币加入特别提款权篮子的唯一实际意义是，人民币与特别提款权的其他四种货币一样，当各国向国际货币基金组织借款时，它们可以借人民币。"
    ],
    [
        "The New Middle East’s New Problems",
        "新中东的新问题"
    ],
    [
        "· The population makes clear that it strongly favors a new and separate political status.",
        "· 其人民明确表现出强烈希望获得新的、不同的政治地位。"
    ],
    [
        "A successful outcome in the nuclear negotiations and resolution or even containment of the main regional conflicts will be difficult to achieve.",
        "成功达成核谈判协议甚至成功控制主要地区冲突都是艰巨的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, the price trajectory is likely to be determined by a new player in the energy game: shale oil.",
        "如今，油价的运行轨道很可能由能源博弈的一个新参与者所决定——页岩油。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, the PBOC could engineer a transition during which the renminbi is pegged to a basket of currencies, with an adjustable central parity rate and a wide fluctuation band of 7.5% or even 15%.",
        "因此，中国人民银行可以实施转型，在此期间，人民币盯住一揽子货币，围绕可调整的中间价波动，波动幅度可以放得很大，比如7."
    ],
    [
        "In early April, a funeral at St. Mark’s Cathedral (the seat of the Coptic Church in Cairo) for four Christians killed in sectarian riots days earlier descended into chaos, with thousands of mourners attacked as they tried to leave after the service.",
        "Mark’s Cathedral，开罗科普特教会所在地）为四名基督徒举行了葬礼。 这四人在几天前发生的宗派骚乱中丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "One could criticize the Chinese regulator on the grounds that the effect of its moves to increase margin requirements did not last long; or one could criticize it on the grounds that its moves caused the recent crash.",
        "你可以批评中国监管者他们提高保证金要求的动作的效果没有维持多少时间，你也可以批评他们的动作导致了最近的崩盘。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, given its abundance of natural resources, Australia should have far greater equality than it does.",
        "平心而论，考虑到丰富的自然资源，到达利亚的平等性应该更加出色。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when private income has shrunk, public resources are scarce, and debt burdens are heavy, plans to stimulate investment should be carefully scrutinized.",
        "如今，私人收入节节下降，公共资源非常稀缺，债务负担仍然沉重，刺激投资的计划应该谨慎审核。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to the use of chemical weapons, the United Nations estimates that 2.5 million civilians lack food, water, and medicines, because some towns and villages are too hard to reach, with an estimated 250,000 people completely cut off from outside help.",
        "除了使用化学武器外，联合国估计有250万平民缺少食品、水和药品，因为一些村镇实在难以进入，有约25万人完全得不到外部援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of our participants reported having forgotten episodes of nonviolent sexual abuse perpetrated by a trusted adult.",
        "有一些参与者报告说曾经忘记了一些由他们所信任的成年人实施的非暴力的性虐待经历。"
    ],
    [
        "But the relentless march of new initiatives to meet the perceived “China threat” will require the region’s political leaders, including the Chinese, to address their disputes in new and more creative ways if that outcome is to be avoided.",
        "但不断地采取新措施以至于产生“中国威胁”论需要地区政治领导人（包括中国）用更新、更有创造力的方式解决争端，否则难以避免直接冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "For anti-communists everywhere, the Polish election was extraordinarily encouraging.",
        "对于各地反共势力来说，波兰的选举结果尤其令人鼓舞。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Since the financial crisis erupted in 2008, governments in advanced countries have been under significant pressure.",
        "巴黎—2008年金融危机爆发以来，发达国家政府承受了巨大的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "His health-care reform plan, as the Massachusetts vote demonstrated, is perceived as a personal obsession and an entirely unnecessary distraction from much more urgent and vital concerns, such as the financial crisis and unemployment.",
        "正如马萨诸塞州投票所表明的那样，他的医疗改革计划被普遍看成是一种个人化的迷恋，将人们的注意力从金融危机和失业等急迫而重要得多的问题上毫无必要地转移开去。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the European Union’s enlargement since 2004 was preceded by NATO’s eastward expansion.",
        "是的，2004年以来的欧盟扩大不及北约东扩。 但这并没有造成真正的区别；"
    ],
    [
        "Many businesses are no better.",
        "许多企业也好不到哪里去。"
    ],
    [
        "Without subsidies, it would not pay for Americans to produce much cotton; with them, the US is the world’s largest cotton exporter.",
        "如果没有补贴，美国人种棉花根本得不偿失。 而有了补贴，美国就成了全世界最大的棉花出口国。"
    ],
    [
        "In August, Abe should reiterate – and go beyond – his predecessors’ statements.",
        "今年八月，安倍应该重申——并且超越——前任首相的声明。"
    ],
    [
        "Addressing the complex roots of current economic and social challenges – the UK and France, for example, suffer substantially from hereditary privilege and frozen class systems – is a lot harder than decrying the EU as a villainous behemoth.",
        "解决目前经济和社会挑战的复杂根源比单纯谴责欧盟这头恶毒巨兽难度大得多——举例来讲，世袭特权和阶级体系固化导致英法两国遭受到巨大损失。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a strategic illusion of the large member states that they can defend their own status without this stolid entity called Europe.",
        "就算没有欧洲这个有名无实的实体也能捍卫其自身的地位—这是大成员国们的一种战略幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists have identified six pitfalls that can afflict natural-resource exporters: commodity-price volatility, crowding out of manufacturing, “Dutch disease” (a booming export industry causes rapid currency appreciation, which undermines other exporters’ competitiveness), inhibited institutional development, civil war, and excessively rapid resource depletion (with insufficient saving).",
        "经济学家辨识出自然资源出口国常常陷入的六个陷阱：商品价格波动、制造业挤出、“荷兰病”（某一出口行业的繁荣导致货币迅速升值，瓦解了其他出口行业的竞争力）、制度发展滞后、内战以及资源的过早耗竭（因为不够节约）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, when US President Donald Trump appointed former American Enterprise Institute economist Kevin Hassett to lead the White House Council of Economic Advisers, many expected that Hassett would be a “normal” CEA chairman.",
        "此外，当特朗普总统任命前美国企业研究所经济学家凯文·哈塞特（Kevin Hassett）领导白宫经济顾问委员会时，许多人都预计哈塞特将成为一位“正常的”顾问委员会主席。"
    ],
    [
        "The AIIB offers a chance to test that idea in development finance itself.",
        "而亚投行则提供了一个测试发展援助自身理念的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Bush apparently did not know of these concerns, even days after the hurricane destroyed the levees and flooded the city.",
        "但是，布什显然并不知道这些担忧，在飓风摧毁堤坝、淹没城市之后几天后依然不知道。"
    ],
    [
        "Why do hundreds of Muslims, many of them educated and from middle-class backgrounds, leave comfortable Western democracies to join a brutally barbaric movement?",
        "为何数以百计的穆斯林——其中许多人受过教育、来自中产阶级家庭——离开舒适的西方民主国家加入这个残忍的野蛮运动？"
    ],
    [
        "First observed by John Maynard Keynes during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the liquidity trap describes a situation in which policy interest rates, having reached the zero bound, are unable to stimulate chronically deficient aggregate demand.",
        "正如约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯（John Maynard Keynes）在1930年代大萧条时首先观察到的那样，流动性陷阱描述了一个政策利率已达零点，却依旧无法刺激长期缺乏的总需求的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2000, global onshore wind-power generation has averaged 27% annual growth, while the growth rate for solar photovoltaics has been a staggering 42%.",
        "自2000年以来，全球离岸风电发电量平均每年以27%的速度增长，而太阳能光伏发电增长率更是达到了惊人的42%。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the Bush administration must ratify the Kyoto Protocol, in order to allow both global firms and Bolivian community entrepreneurs to create yet more rainforest ranches and other creative initiatives that reduce poverty, harbor biodiversity, and cool a warming world.",
        "最后，我想说的是：为了让全球公司和玻利维亚国内企业家能开辟更多的雨林农场，并提出其它可以减少贫困、庇护多样化物种、遏制全球变暖的创造性提议，布什政府必须签署《京都议定书》。"
    ],
    [
        "Issues confronting Europe, Japan, and to a lesser extent the United States and some middle-income countries concerning aging populations are manageable.",
        "因为欧洲、日本、美国一小部分地区、以及一些中等收入国家面临的老龄化问题是可以想办法解决的。"
    ],
    [
        "But this might achieve little beyond pushing Kim Jong-un’s cloistered regime to look for support from its other neighbor, Russia.",
        "但这除了把失道寡助的金正恩推向另一个邻国——俄罗斯寻求支持之外，没有其他效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The residents of this newly conjured state were never actually asked if they wanted to live in a country with an overwhelming Shia majority and large Kurdish and Christian minorities.",
        "当地民众被划入了这个凭空建立的新国家，却没有人问过他们是否想要住在一个什叶派穆斯林人口占压倒性多数同时却有着大量库尔德和基督教少数族裔的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "It is true that productivity growth and labor-force growth have slowed since 1975.",
        "诚然，生产率增长和劳动力增长自1975年以来有所放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia today presents a completely new and unique set of circumstances.",
        "今天的亚洲给我们出了一道全新而独特的难题。"
    ],
    [
        "His bravura diplomatic performances sometimes give the impression that a self-confident Japan has been a normal feature of the global landscape.",
        "他的大胆的外交举措有时会给人造成一种印象，认为自信的日本已经成为全球图景中的常规元素。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet by spending just $10 billion annually, the United Nations estimates that we could help 229 million hungry people today .",
        "然而，据联合国估计，每年仅花费100亿美元就可以立刻帮到2. 29亿的饥饿人口。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinians initiated a zero-sum game that has given him the upper hand.",
        "由巴勒斯坦人发起的这场零和游戏让他占尽了先手。"
    ],
    [
        "While a lot may happen in the campaign’s remaining three weeks, the US could be heading toward another wave election.",
        "尽管在余下三周的竞选活动中可能出现很多变数，但美国可能正面临着又一次选举波。"
    ],
    [
        "There have been two main approaches to meeting modern regional-security challenges: traditional alliances of the NATO type, which prepare for any potential threat to members, and comprehensive multilateral frameworks of the OSCE type, which include all relevant players within a region.",
        "有两种主要方法来应对现代区域安全的挑战：其一是北约式的传统结盟制，为应对针对盟国的任何潜在威胁做准备； 其二是欧安组织式的综合性多边框架，将一个区域内所有相关的参与者都涵盖在内。"
    ],
    [
        "Its rebirth was underway, facilitated by the Marshall Plan, the US-sponsored 1953 debt write-down, and by the infusion of migrant labor from Italy, Yugoslavia, and Greece.",
        "在美国赞助的1953年债券减记计划——马歇尔计划以及来自意大利、南斯拉夫和希腊的移民劳动力的助推下，德国开始重生。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s major industrial economies, meanwhile, are maintaining very low interest rates.",
        "与此同时，世界各大工业化国家都维持着很低的利率。"
    ],
    [
        "As if that were not enough, the new law, in a reversal of previous legislation, could lead to reduced sentences for offenders, and even allow them to operate with impunity for three years.",
        "雪上加霜的是，新法律逆转了此前的立法，可能减轻违规者受到的刑罚，甚至可以缓期三年。"
    ],
    [
        "Most economists agree that in the absence of advanced fiscal-policy coordination and a real banking union, Europe’s monetary union cannot succeed.",
        "大部分经济学家都同意，没有高级财政政策协作和真正的银行联盟，欧洲的货币联盟就不可能成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Yellen, like Bernanke before her, used the Fed’s tools with a combination of clear communication and policy flexibility, shifting course as data revealed subtle changes in economic conditions.",
        "和她之前的伯南克一样，耶伦通过清晰的沟通和政策灵活性使用美联储的工具，在数据表明经济状况已经发生微妙变化后，改变了政策方向。"
    ],
    [
        "Shopping malls crop up in newly built suburbs, and Facebook has made it to the smallest Andean village.",
        "购物中心在新建市郊地区大量出现，Facebook已经走进安第斯山脉最偏远的小村庄。"
    ],
    [
        "One well-tested method for storing energy is to use excess capacity to pump water into reservoirs, so that it can be used later to power turbines when demand is high.",
        "一种久经考验的储能办法是利用超额能力将水泵入水库，以便在需求高峰时可以用它来驱动涡轮机。"
    ],
    [
        "They have also achieved high standards of governance.",
        "它们还实现了高标准的管理。"
    ],
    [
        "Hollande’s predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, tried to address this problem.",
        "奥朗德的前任萨科齐试图纠正这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasing youth involvement in politics will require sustained commitment and hard work.",
        "提高青年的政治参与度需要持续的努力和艰苦奋斗。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – According to two pro-government newspapers in Turkey, Star and Yeni Akit, as well as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan himself, those who denounce the state of press freedom in Turkey are “terrorists.”",
        "巴黎—据两份土耳其亲政府报纸《星报》（Star）和《新瓦基特报》（Yeni Akit）报道及土耳其总理埃尔多安本人的说法，谴责土耳其言论自由状况者属于“恐怖分子”。"
    ],
    [
        "Four key changes are needed to ensure that the industry’s greening trend continues.",
        "需要四个关键性转变来确保矿业的绿化趋势得以维持。"
    ],
    [
        "Institutions matter, especially in a period of economic, political, and social fluidity.",
        "机构很重要，特别是在经济、政治和社会瞬息万变的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not because the migrants deserve Europeans’ sympathy, but because Europe needs them.",
        "这绝非因为移民应该得到欧洲人的同情，而是因为欧洲自身的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Right now, ending investment in the coal industry is the right thing to do.",
        "眼下，不再投资于煤产业是正确的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first half of this year, construction surged by 24%, and retail sales increased by 8%.",
        "今年上半年，建筑业飙升24％，零售额增长了8％。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Bush reinforced both trends, but their real causes lie in objective historical factors, namely America’s being the sole world power since 1989 and Europe’s self-inflicted weakness.",
        "确切地说，布什强化了这两种趋势，但究其原因还在于客观的历史因素，也就是自1989年以来美国在世界上的一家独大和欧洲自作自受的软弱。"
    ],
    [
        "And the International Monetary Fund must agree with the Eurogroup on how to restore debt sustainability in Greece, a precondition for the country to regain access to capital markets.",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）必须同意欧元集团关于如何重建希腊债务可持续性（这是希腊重回资本市场的先决条件）的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "JOHANNESBURG – Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative neurological disorder that affects around seven million people globally, and one million in the United States alone, usually afflicting people older than 50.",
        "约翰内斯堡—帕金森病是一种退行性精神障碍，影响着全球七百万人，其中美国就有一百万人，患者年龄通常高于50岁。"
    ],
    [
        "The Northern industrial world was not yet ready to recognize the new weight of the emerging powers and the need to strike a new balance between North and South, East and West.",
        "北方工业国还没有认识到新兴国家的力量，也没有意识到在南北、东西间达成新平衡格局的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the difficult years of the Bush presidency, Obama has duly sought to restore transatlantic harmony as well, visiting Europe in April and extending the hand of partnership there, too.",
        "而在小布什执政的艰难岁月过去后，奥巴马也适时地尝试重建大西洋两岸关系的和谐，他还在4月访问了欧洲并伸出了伙伴关系之手。"
    ],
    [
        "Lula also enacted critically important social policies.",
        "卢拉还推行了至关重要的社会政策。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – This month, I completed a two-week, six-stop tour of the Pacific, beginning with a visit to the United States Army’s 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii.",
        "华盛顿——本月，从驻扎在夏威夷的美国陆军第25步兵师开始，我完成了一次历时两周、途经六站的太平洋视察之旅。"
    ],
    [
        "We must also strengthen food safety from production to consumption, including improvements in our understanding of the interaction between the food system and human health, particularly zoonotic diseases and the effects of pesticides.",
        "同时我们必须加强从生产到消费的食品安全，包括提高对食品体系和人类健康相互作用关系的认识，尤其是动物传染性疾病和农药的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The last thing we want to do or could do is to run things.",
        "我们最不希望做、也最没有能力做的便是运营。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a clash within Islam, which, if the violence in Iraq spreads to neighboring countries, risks causing regional destabilization.",
        "伊斯兰内部存在冲突，如果伊拉克暴力蔓延到邻国，这种冲突就会造成区域动荡的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "The former approach tries to add up the number of positive moments that people have, and then to subtract the negative ones.",
        "前一种方法将普通人的积极感受次数加总求和，减去消极感受次数得到的一个结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Another complication is political: the rise of nationalism in Scotland and the effect of Brexit on the survival of the United Kingdom.",
        "另一个复杂问题是政治：苏格兰民族主义的兴起以及英国退出对英国生存的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Tory MPs are unlikely to vote against their party leadership if the absence of Labour opposition allows the government to win anyway.",
        "如果因为工党不高举反对大旗而导致政府无论如何都会胜出，那么保守党议员就不可能反对本党领导层。"
    ],
    [
        "At that time, Angela Merkel rejected a Europe-wide guarantee, insisting that each country should guarantee its own institutions.",
        "当时德国总理默克尔拒绝为全欧洲的金融机构担保，声称各国的烂摊子该由各国自己内部处理。"
    ],
    [
        "The monarchists are hoping for a return to absolutism.",
        "君主制拥护者希望回归专制。"
    ],
    [
        "It is easy to blame people for lack of foresight, but none of the nine hardest hit countries had developed one. They can’t all be bunglers.",
        "但是九个受灾最重国家无一拥有此系统，他们不可能都如此冒失吧！"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, cities of stateless people under the protection of international organizations could provide their citizens with the tools for a better life.",
        "相反，获得国际组织保护的流民城市能够为其人民提供创造更好的生活的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not resolve the late imperial dilemma of how to reduce dependency on the hegemon without causing more tyranny and violence.",
        "这并没有解决帝国末期难题：如何减少对霸权的依赖又不导致更多的暴政与暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Change is inevitable.",
        "改变是不可阻挡的。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, rapid economic growth lies at the heart of the CCP’s raison d’état, so it embraces economic nationalism, whether in disputes with Japan, the Southeast Asian countries, or the United States.",
        "毕竟迅速的经济增长就是中共的统治合法性基础，所以它采用了经济民族主义，哪怕这会与日本，东南亚国家或是美国产生争端。"
    ],
    [
        "HERZLIYA – The Sixth Fatah Congress, held recently in Bethlehem, was an important event for the future of the Arab-Israeli conflict and for the Palestinian movement.",
        "发自赫兹利亚（以色列港口城市）——近日在伯利恒召开的法塔赫第六次代表大会是关乎阿以冲突及巴勒斯坦民族运动未来的重要事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the legend is almost invariably the mystery surrounding the circumstances of the leader’s death.",
        "传奇中有一部分几乎永远不会改变，它们是围绕在领袖之死周围的神秘感。"
    ],
    [
        "Hu once said that the twenty-first century should be a century of peace, development, and cooperation.",
        "胡主席曾说，21世纪应该是和平、发展和合作的世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "He ordered the Education Ministry to revise school textbooks to promote the idea that the Taiwanese people were fundamentally different, practically a different race from the Chinese.",
        "他命令教育部修改学校的课本以推行关于台湾人本质上是与中国人不同的、实际上是另一个种族的言论。"
    ],
    [
        "In theory, such practices run counter to regulations promulgated by the Chinese commerce ministry in August 2006, in response to a backlash against Chinese businesses in Zambia following the death of 51 Zambian workers in an explosion at a Chinese-owned copper mine.",
        "按理说，这样的做法与中国商务部2006年8月颁布的法规不符，之所以颁布这项法规是因为当时赞比亚的中国国有铜矿发生爆炸，51名赞比亚工人丧生导致爆发了针对中国企业的集体抗议活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Depending on the dose, a patient may experience altered physical, spatial, and temporal states; larger quantities may induce hallucinations and dissolution of the self.",
        "根据剂量不同，患者的身体、空间和时间感可能会发生改变，较大的剂量可能造成幻觉和自体分解（dissolution of the self）。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank, which have gone along with the extend-and-pretend approach, have placed their credibility at risk.",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）和欧洲央行都采取了延期和假装方针，这是在拿信誉冒险。"
    ],
    [
        "Its leaders should heed three broad lessons from other countries’ experience.",
        "该国领导人也应该从其他国家的经验中吸取以下三大经验教训："
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone’s performance has not met any of these criteria.",
        "欧元区的表现没有达到这些标准中的任何一个。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet national political support for the Bretton Woods institutions – the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank – seems to have reached an all-time low, undermining the global economy’s ability to meet its potential and contributing to geopolitical insecurity.",
        "但对布雷顿森林机构——国际货币基金组织（International Monetary Fund，IMF）和世界银行（World Bank）——的国家支持似乎滑落到历史最低水平，制约了全球经济实现潜力，也导致了地缘政治不安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Zuma’s political acumen, he could well prolong the process for many months.",
        "祖玛是政坛老手，肯定会将这个过程拖延多月。"
    ],
    [
        "The prospect of a grand accord for South Asia is before us.",
        "南亚的宏伟协议前景就摆在我们面前。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, “wetland mitigation banking” in the United States is one of the older such markets.",
        "例如，美国的“湿地缓和银行”就是最早出现的此类市场。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach is not about “picking winners and losers.”",
        "这一方法并非“挑选赢家和输家”。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Is Europe’s crisis over?",
        "伦敦—欧洲的危机结束了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Most states nowadays lie within borders that are widely accepted as legitimate, and they increasingly abide by international norms of behavior in times of war.",
        "现今大多数国家都有被广泛认可的合法边界，它们在战争时期也越来越遵守国际规范和行为准则。"
    ],
    [
        "Agriculture, which in the 1800’s accounted for more than half of national income, has shrunk to just a few percent.",
        "农业在19世纪占国民收入的一半以上，现在已经缩减到只剩几个百分点了。"
    ],
    [
        "To survive and thrive, societies need to pay special attention to those activities that produce goods and services they can sell to non-residents.",
        "为了谋求生存和发展，社会需要特别关注那些以非居民群体为销售对象的商品和服务。"
    ],
    [
        "African dictators might do dreadful things but somehow they did not meet with condemnation from many European intellectuals, for criticism implied cultural arrogance.",
        "非洲的独裁者可能做出天怒人怨的事，但他们却没有遭到众多欧洲知识分子的谴责，因为批评意味着文化傲慢。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits of a post-Arab Spring and post-European world are not lost on its dictators, who can now rest easier.",
        "独裁者们现在可以放心，因为他们并未错过后阿拉伯之春以及后欧洲时代世界的各种利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Only in December 2003 did the USPTO announce its first “non-final” rejection of the patent.",
        "直到2003年12月，美国专利商标局才首次“非终审”宣布取消专利。"
    ],
    [
        "Universities have a special role to play in the new UN knowledge network.",
        "大学在这一新的联合国知识网中起着特殊的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But a hardening of the mood there, and a brokered armistice between its disenchanted youth and older but vastly more experienced political war horses, will not only present PRONACO with a formidable opponent, but could throw West Africa into turmoil if matters degenerate into a frontal clash.",
        "可一旦他们下定了决心，一旦失望的年轻人和年纪大不了多少，但却更有经验的政治老兵之间的休战协议最终达成，那就不仅是国民会议组织面对着一个强大的对手，而且一旦局势演变为前沿冲突，还可能使整个西非陷入混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "And if significant progress could be made on the refugee issue, it would make the other issues – from the continuing Greek debt crisis to the fallout from Brexit to the challenge posed by Russia – easier to tackle.",
        "如果难民问题可以取得重大进展，就能够降低其他问题——从持续不断的希腊债务危机到英国脱欧所造成的动荡局势再到俄罗斯所带来的挑战——的解决难度。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the absence of an IMF insurance facility with acceptable terms has been a major gap in the global financial architecture, especially for the more dynamic emerging-market economies.",
        "此外，我们还缺乏一个IMF的保险机制，这个机制附带可接受的条款。 缺乏这一机制已经成了全球金融架构中的主要缺陷，对于更加生气勃勃的新兴市场经济来说尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "There is nothing strange in this.",
        "这里没有什么奇怪的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the political risk of doing nothing if we stumble into another recession (as seems quite likely) is worse.",
        "但袖手旁观而导致我们再次陷入另一次衰退（如今看起来很可能）的政治风险显然更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the US and Chinese economies are underpinned by societies that remain dynamic, vibrant, and hopeful.",
        "幸运的是，美国和中国的经济仍有充满活力、能量和希望的社会的支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese authorities, for example, would be delighted if Apple complied with the FBI’s request.",
        "比方说，如果苹果接受了联邦调查局的要求中国政府会很高兴。"
    ],
    [
        "The Facebook Furor",
        "对Facebook的激愤"
    ],
    [
        "So the questions that dominate national campaigns have little impact on European elections.",
        "各自国家的选举和欧洲议会选举似乎没什么关联"
    ],
    [
        "Ranking exercises, like the things they rank, are not all the same; different approaches fit different situations.",
        "打分操作与被打分的东西一样，不是一成不变的； 不同的方法适合不同的情形。"
    ],
    [
        "And we are seeing a growing appetite for this kind of expertise, from within governments and the private sector.",
        "我们看到，对这类专业知识的偏好越来越大，不但来自政府内部，也来自私人部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the “surge” charge will automatically penalize speculative, herd-like capital inflows or outflows, without increasing bureaucrats’ discretionary power or introducing inflexible capital controls.",
        "类似地，“激增”费用将自动惩罚投机性跟风资本流入或流出，而不会增加官僚的自由裁量权力或引入僵化的资本管制。"
    ],
    [
        "They gave greater weight to investments in people, launching innovative initiatives to bring health care and access to finance to more of their citizens, and creating social funds to help develop local communities.",
        "它们更为重视对人力的投资，实行了创新性的项目来为本国人们带来医疗和信贷，并且建立社会基金来帮助发展地方社区。"
    ],
    [
        "The simplest way of doing this is to restrict advertising. This would prune the role of greed and envy in the operation of markets, and create room for the flourishing of other motives.",
        "对此，限制广告是最简单的方式，它会削弱贪婪和嫉妒在市场运转中的作用，并且为其他动机的繁荣创造空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Even worse, after the Socialist Party denied a young deputy, Marco Enríquez-Ominami, the possibility to compete in a primary against Frei, Enríquez launched a quite successful independent candidacy, which split the Concertación vote in the first round.",
        "）更糟糕的是，在社会党否决了年轻代表马克·恩里克斯－大南与弗雷在初选中的竞争资格后，恩里克斯以独立候选人身份启动了相当成功的竞选活动，从第一轮开始就分流了执政联盟的票数。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, like hospitals, schools concentrate one of the most vulnerable populations in any society.",
        "事实上，和医院一样，在任何一个社会里，学校集中了最脆弱的人群之一。"
    ],
    [
        "That has left the government locked into a reactive and often misguided approach to unexpected problems.",
        "长此以往导致政府在处理突发问题时被动且时常受到误导。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Israel is now on an equal footing with all of the rising new powers of an increasingly globalized world.",
        "事实上，以色列现在已经与全球化世界所有的新兴势力平起平坐。"
    ],
    [
        "But bad news is emerging from the smaller countries as well, including the Baltic states.",
        "但从包括巴尔干诸国在内的较小国家里也传来了坏消息。"
    ],
    [
        "But this will only be a consolation prize for Abe.",
        "但这对安倍来说只是一个安慰奖。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Energy Agency estimates that by 2040, the annual investment required in energy-supply infrastructure alone will total $2 trillion, up 20% from current levels.",
        "国际原子能机构测算，到2040年，光是能源供给基础设施一项每年所需要的总投资额就高达2万亿美元，较目前增加20%。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Commission thus risks losing its authority from the very start of its mandate.",
        "因此，新欧盟委员会有可能从上任的第一天就失去其权威性。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinian officials were at first suspicious of the initiative.",
        "巴勒斯坦官员起先也对这一计划持怀疑态度。"
    ],
    [
        "The government seems to come down in the middle.",
        "政府的观点似乎是两者的折中。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a depressing picture.",
        "结论让人颇为失望。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Very soon after the magnitude of the 2008 financial crisis became clear, a lively debate began about whether central banks and regulators could – and should – have done more to head it off.",
        "发自伦敦——在2008年金融危机的严重性逐渐明晰了之后，针对央行和监管者是否可以——以及应当——有更多举措去以阻止危机的辩论也逐渐升温。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, we need similar initiatives with regard to the digital world.",
        "如今，我们需要在数字世界做同样的安排。"
    ],
    [
        "But 12 years of arrogant autarchy under Néstor and Cristina Kirchner have just ended in Argentina.",
        "在阿根廷，内斯托和克里斯蒂娜·基什内尔夫妇12年的傲慢独裁刚刚结束。"
    ],
    [
        "But if NATO is – for better or worse – in command on the ground in Libya, it is the UN that has given the necessary green light to French action there.",
        "但无论怎样如果北约在利比亚战场处于领导地位，为法国行动打开必要绿灯的却是联合国。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for our leaders to recognize new systemic risks and work together to mitigate them.",
        "我们的领导人应该认清新的系统风险，并合力遏制它们。"
    ],
    [
        "And it will not help Europe manage the dramatic shift now underway in Africa, which will be home to 40% of the world’s working-age population in a few decades.",
        "它也无助于欧洲管理非洲正在发生的剧变。 几十年后，世界40%的工作年龄人口都将来自非洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the annual interest charged on the extra $1 trillion per year that Americans borrow from the rest of the world is about $50 billion – just one-eighth of annual economic growth, while the trade deficit is financed out of the growth of the value of capital.",
        "另外，每年从美国人向其他国家借款10,000亿美元所收取的年利息为大约5000亿美元—仅占年度经济增长的八分之一，而资本价值的增长就完全能平衡贸易赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "New and traditional outlets alike must ensure that they portray the facts accurately and dispassionately, in order to foster a constructive, fair-minded discussion.",
        "传统和新兴渠道都必须确保冷静准确地描述事实，以促进建设性的公正探讨。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1960s, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing famously condemned the “exorbitant privilege” that the dollar’s status bestowed upon the United States.",
        "20世纪60年代，法国财政部长德斯坦（Valéry Giscard d’Estaing）就有过著名的批评，他称美元的地位让美国拥有了“过度特权”。"
    ],
    [
        "In Iraq’s second largest city, Basra, a stronghold of conservative Shia groups, as many as 133 women were killed last year for violating “Islamic teachings” and in so-called “honor killings,” according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.",
        "伊拉克第二大城市巴士拉是保守派什叶派团体的据点。 根据联合国人道主义事务协调办公室的报告，去年在那里有133名妇女由于违反“伊斯兰教义”和在所谓的“荣誉杀生”中被杀害。"
    ],
    [
        "Health, nutrition, and education may seem like obvious choices; more surprisingly, there is a strong case for making broadband access a top priority.",
        "健康、营养和教育都是显而易见的选择； 比较意外的是，实现宽带普及也应该作为最优先事项。"
    ],
    [
        "And, like it or not, it must be said not only to the FN’s leaders, but also to its voters.",
        "不管你喜不喜欢，不仅必须对国民阵线领导人这样说，还必须对国民阵线的选民这样说。"
    ],
    [
        "The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard put his finger on one of the more fundamental problems: “Life must be lived forwards – but can only be understood backwards”.",
        "丹麦哲学家祈克果（Soren Kierkegaard）指出了更为根本的问题之一：生命必须在前进中延续—但却只能在回顾中明了。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, leaks from Chinese think tanks have suggested that if the North Korean regime collapses, China could well send troops to preserve the country’s stability.",
        "与此同时，来自中国智库的风声表明，如果朝鲜政权倒台，中国可能会出兵维持朝鲜稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "But Israel’s margin for strategic error will shrink even further.",
        "但留给以色列的战略回旋余地也更加狭小了。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, even at the zero bound of nominal interest rates, it is argued, central banks still have weapons in their arsenal.",
        "因此，即使名义利率处于零下限，央行手里仍有武器。"
    ],
    [
        "In early August, an algal bloom in Lake Erie, the result of agricultural runoff, contaminated drinking water in Toledo, Ohio.",
        "8月初，农田排水导致伊利湖赤潮爆发，污染了俄亥俄州托莱多的饮用水。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, when it comes to safeguarding the health of populations, there is a fine line between protecting the public and impinging on individual rights.",
        "当然，在捍卫人口健康的问题上，存在一条保护公众和侵犯个人权利的界线。"
    ],
    [
        "The next step will be forced exit from the euro and reintroduction of the drachma, implying a dramatic drop in living standards, owing in part to immediate devaluation of the new currency and high inflation.",
        "下一步将是被迫退出欧元区，重新使用德拉克马，这意味着生活水平的大幅下降，因为新货币将会立即贬值，通胀将会很高。"
    ],
    [
        "Two birds would be wounded with one stone.",
        "正所谓一石可伤二鸟。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, CFIUS has defined national security broadly to encompass not only defense activities and dual-use technologies, but also critical infrastructure, including telecommunications, energy, and transport – areas of particular interest to Chinese companies.",
        "近几年来，CFIUS把国家安全定义得相当广泛，不但包括防务行为和军民两用技术，还包括关键性基础设施（如通信、能源和交通），而后者正是中国公司最感兴趣的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet considerable uncertainty remains about the magnitude of the impact of rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases on temperatures and climate.",
        "但是大气中不断升高的温室气体对温度和气候的影响程度还存在很大的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "As Merkel correctly foresaw, the migration crisis has the potential to destroy the EU.",
        "就像默克尔所准确预见到的那样，难民危机有可能摧毁欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, the late Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, describing his discovery of new laws of physics, declared, “You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.”",
        "”更晚近一些，已故诺贝尔物理学奖获得者费曼这样描述他所发现的物理学新定律：“你可以从它的美和简单中认识真理。"
    ],
    [
        "Restoring growth requires structural changes.",
        "重塑增长需要结构性变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But the key to China’s success has been constant experimentation, and the pursuit of that credo appears to have intensified.",
        "但中国成功的关键是持续改革实验，并且这方面的执着似乎还在增强。"
    ],
    [
        "At one point his face suddenly darkened as if overtaken by an unexplained anxiety.",
        "有一会儿他的脸色突然变得阴沉，就像因为某种不明的原因而感到焦虑那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Supporting the new Ukraine in 2015 and beyond is the most cost-effective investment the EU could make.",
        "在2015年及其后支持新乌克兰是欧盟所能做的最有性价比的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "That statement, which originally appeared in the Catechism of the Catholic Church issued by Pope John Paul II in 1992, calls it “contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly.”",
        "这一表述脱胎自在1992年教皇若望·保禄二世《天主教教理问答》中，它说，“让动物受苦或毫无必要地死去有悖于人类尊严。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argue that the solution is to return to the simpler economic models of the past, which yielded policy prescriptions that evidently sufficed to prevent comparable crises.",
        "有人认为，解决办法是回归过去比较简单的经济模型，这类模型所产生的政策药方显然足以阻止可以比较的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Over 90% of Somalia’s debt burden is accounted for by arrears on credit advanced in the early 1980s, well before two-thirds of today’s Somali population was born.",
        "索马里90%以上的债务负担产生自20世纪80年代早期所获信贷的拖欠，当时，三分之二的索马里现今人口还没有出生。"
    ],
    [
        "Any train accident or airplane crash is now at first suspected of being an act of terrorism.",
        "任何一个火车事故或者飞机坠毁现在都首先被怀疑是恐怖主义行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The gargantuan US trade deficit?",
        "庞大的贸易赤字？"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the US soldiered on with its own poorly formulated agenda, supplying weapons to virtually unknown combatants on the ground before properly vetting them.",
        "尽管如此，美国一意孤行地推行自身相当拙劣的日程，在没有进行合理评估的情况下就为当地它几乎毫无所知的战斗力量提供武器。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the populist victories that worry investors do not in fact happen, a surge of business and consumer confidence will send waves of investment flowing into the eurozone.",
        "但如果投资者所担心的民粹主义胜利实际上没有发生，那么商业和消费者信心的大反弹将给欧元区带来巨大的投资流。"
    ],
    [
        "(In that case, he would have had to leave office without a valuable pension.)",
        "（如果被弹劾，他下台后将不会获得优厚的退休金）。"
    ],
    [
        "Barely a decade ago, the US was beginning to feel marginalized in Asia, owing to several developments, including China’s “charm offensive.”",
        "但如今美国显然已经回到了中心舞台。 韩国加强了与美国的军事同盟关系；"
    ],
    [
        "Blowouts were not infrequent, but most occurred on land or in shallow water, and most could be stopped relatively easily.",
        "井喷事故也屡见不鲜，但绝大多数都发生在陆地或浅水区域，可以比较容易地加以遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "David and Charles Koch, America’s biggest campaign financiers, are simply oilmen out to multiply their gargantuan wealth, despite the costs to the rest of humanity.",
        "美国最大的政治献金者大卫和查尔斯·科奇（David and Charles Koch）兄弟是石油商，他们只顾让自己的巨额财富翻倍，丝毫不顾其他人类。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Ever since Donald Trump won the US presidential election, the press and financial markets have focused on his proposal to cut taxes and to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure over the next decade.",
        "坎布里奇—自唐纳德·特朗普赢得美国总统竞选以来，媒体和金融市场便聚焦于他减税和未来十年支出1万亿美元用于基础设施的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet in most countries, the generational dimension is remarkably absent from the political debate.",
        "但在多数国家，代际问题却在政治辩论中踪影不见。"
    ],
    [
        "By one measure, returns to private capital are now at a higher point than any time in recent decades.",
        "从某种程度上讲，私人资本回报率目前比最近几十年中的任何时候都要高。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why China’s equity limits for foreign investment in Chinese financial institutions are costly to the Chinese economy, and why raising these limits is important.",
        "这就是为何中国对外国在华投资中国的金融机构设立资本限额对于中国经济代价很高，以及提高这些限额是重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Agribusiness development can stimulate broader economic growth, boost regional trade, and at the same time enhance food security, and reduce poverty.",
        "发展农业综合企业可以刺激经济增长、推动地区贸易、并同时减轻贫困和改善食品安全。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though the Fed is independent of the White House, it is not independent of Congress.",
        "尽管美联储独立于白宫，但它不是独立于国会。"
    ],
    [
        "But that raises two more questions: How much of an adjustment has Greece already made?",
        "”但这引出了另外两个问题：希腊做出了多大的调整？"
    ],
    [
        "As such, it is only a matter of time until weakness in one part migrates to other parts.",
        "如此，疲软从其中一部分蔓延到其他部分只是时间问题。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, journalists have been imprisoned for producing articles and books at the behest of an alleged terrorist organization called “Ergenekon,” whose existence has yet to be confirmed, despite years of investigation.",
        "例如有些记者遭到逮捕，罪名是在“Ergenekon”组织的授意下撰写文章和书籍，但问题是官方在多年调查之后连这个所谓的恐怖组织是否存在都尚未弄清"
    ],
    [
        "There can be no doubt that growing foreign-policy activism, especially in relation to the Middle East, has begun to enhance Turkey’s role and influence in its own region.",
        "毫无疑问，日益积极的、尤其是在中东地区的外交政策，已开始在其本地区加强了土耳其的作用和影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, there have been some important recent steps in that direction.",
        "幸运的是，最近在这方面我们已经取得了一些重要进步。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if America leaves too soon, the elected Iraqi government may be unable to cope with the insurgency, sending Iraq the way of Lebanon in the 1980’s or Afghanistan in the 1990’s.",
        "但是如果美国过早撤离，当选的伊拉克政府又可能无力应付叛乱局面，从而使伊拉克陷入上世纪80年代黎巴嫩、或者90年代阿富汗的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "· Fourth, all 196 countries in the United Nations Climate Convention must formulate an emissions pathway consistent with deep decarbonization, with richer countries taking the lead.",
        "· 第四，联合国气候公约的196个缔约国必须制定于深度去碳化相符的排放路径，其中富裕国家应该起到领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The world should continue to flood the Chinese market, and those of other countries that restrict freedom of expression, with cutting-edge technology.",
        "世界应当继续用尖端技术冲击中国和其他限制言论自由国家的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "There are some exceptions to this pattern.",
        "这一模式也有例外。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, failure is more likely, because government agencies often invest in the areas of highest uncertainty, where private capital is reluctant to enter.",
        "事实上，失败可能性更大，因为政府机构常常投资于不确定性最大的领域，因为私人资本不愿意进入这些领域。"
    ],
    [
        "But the two countries’ situations include fundamental differences, as do political Islam’s prospects for renewal.",
        "但这两国家的局势存在根本性的不同，政治伊斯兰的复兴前景亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Activist lawyers in China pursue their cases with little explicit support from the legal academy or the profession.",
        "中国的维权律师们在接手处理案件时，很少从法学院或法律界获得明确支持。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the most obvious signs of systemic cheating is that many Chinese officials use fake or dubiously acquired academic credentials to burnish their resumes.",
        "而其中一个最明显的系统性欺骗行为，就是许多中国官员都利用假冒或者循不正常途径取得的学历文凭来粉饰自己的简历。"
    ],
    [
        "Further geo-political implications for the region and the world follow from three key changes in China.",
        "对亚太地区乃至整个世界来说，更深入的地缘政治影响将取决于发生在中国身上的三个关键变化。"
    ],
    [
        "High expectations for private-sector financing of infrastructure have gone largely unmet.",
        "人们对私企参与基础设施的融资有着很高的期盼，但这些期盼大都落了空。"
    ],
    [
        "It is one thing to ignore European Commission President José Manuel Barroso’s call for a more flexible economic policy, and quite another to dismiss out of hand the powerful message coming from French and Greek voters.",
        "忽视欧盟委员会主席巴罗佐关于加强经济政策灵活性的呼吁是一回事，不管不顾法国和希腊选民的声音则是完全不同的另一回事。"
    ],
    [
        "It is governments’ task to address the rise in inequality resulting from QE, and they have an instrument for that: taxation.",
        "解决因量化宽松导致的不平等是政府的任务，而它们也拥有完成这一任务的工具：税收。"
    ],
    [
        "The first creates a permanent dependence on transfers, which, by sustaining relative prices, prevents the economy from regaining competitiveness.",
        "第一种可能将导致永久性转移依赖症，通过维持相对价格阻止经济重获竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "So Crimea was just the first target; the next will be eastern Ukraine and persistent destabilization of the country as a whole.",
        "因此克里米亚只是第一个目标； 下一个将是乌克兰东部以及乌克兰作为一个整体国家的永久动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "While there is still some uncertainty as to the best assessment approach, we recommend that clinicians use a standardized, validated method.",
        "鉴于在最佳评估方法上还有一些不确定性，我们推荐医生们采用标准化的、经过验证的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the decline in unemployment largely reflects persistently grim labor-market conditions, which have discouraged many workers from remaining in the labor force.",
        "此外，失业的减少大体上反映了劳动力市场的萧条状况，这让许多工人退出了劳动力市场。"
    ],
    [
        "First, these countries must do more to ensure that their citizens get the full value of the resources.",
        "首先，这些国家必须在确保公民获得资源的完全价值方面做得更多。"
    ],
    [
        "If Obama is looking for an opportunity to negotiate a bipartisan deal that would strengthen the US economy and increase employment, he should seriously consider such a package of reforms.",
        "如果奥巴马想寻找机会促成跨党派协议，以增强美国经济、增加就业，那么他应该认真考虑这一改革计划。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – In difficult economic times like these, one principle should be given the same prominence as the headline-grabbing issues of high deficits and austerity packages. That principle can be captured in just a few words: “Everyone must play by the rules.”",
        "发自巴黎——在如今这种艰难时世，有一条原则必须和那些占据媒体头条的高赤字和缩减计划摆在同等重要的位置，而这条原则可以浓缩成一句话：“每个人都必须遵守规则。"
    ],
    [
        "She should get it.",
        "她应该留任。"
    ],
    [
        "The maestros, it appears, are back, and their repertoire hasn’t changed.",
        "大师似乎已经回归，而且他们的主张没有改变。"
    ],
    [
        "In this scenario, budget cuts create room for interest rates to fall.",
        "在这种情形下，预算削减将创造降息空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, inflation has shot up from 7% last spring to 11% currently, and may reach 15% in the spring.",
        "于是毫不惊讶地，通货膨胀率从去年春季的7%暴涨到了现在的11%，并且可能会在明天春季达到15%。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, figuring out how to do one thing often makes it easier to do other things.",
        "简言之，学会做一件事情往往可以让做其他事情变得更容易。"
    ],
    [
        "The Treaty’s objective was widely thought to be laudable – but realizable only in the indefinite future.",
        "《条约》的目标受到人们的普遍赞同¾但只有在遥远的未来才有可能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "We have to put in place rules and procedures, safeguards, a system of due process, to make it more likely that justice is done; and in times of stress it is all the more important that we respect these safeguards.",
        "我们必须制定规则和程序，保护措施，特定的程序体系，增大公平处理的可能，预防措施在压力之下尤其应该遵守。"
    ],
    [
        "That happened precisely because they reformed their Judaism in the light of Western values.",
        "之所以会成为这样，正是他们将西方的价值观融入犹太教进行改革的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "While it may seem hard to imagine that the speculative tide might ever turn against China, exchange-rate pressures can turn in an instant.",
        "虽然投机风潮转为不利于中国的情况似乎难以想象，汇率压力却可能在刹那间转向。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, both the US team and the US audience for soccer derive their growing strength from immigrants – many from countries where the sport is a national passion.",
        "首先，美国队和美国足球观众受移民推动很大——其中许多移民来自全民热爱体育的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The second is to increase voters’ spending power through populist subsidies and transfers, which typically tend to be directed toward the politically influential rather than the truly needy.",
        "第二个办法是通过民粹主义补贴和转移支付增加选民的消费力，但补贴和转移通常会流向影响力较大而不是真正需要的地方和人群。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it is important to realize that a strong and overly volatile currency is not just the central bank’s problem to fix.",
        "首先，非常重要的一点是认识到一种强势且波动性过大的货币不光是央行要解决的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s largest dictatorship is preparing to crush and occupy the first Chinese democracy in history – Taiwan.",
        "世界上最大的独裁国家正准备击溃并占领历史上的第一个华人民主国家—台湾。"
    ],
    [
        "Preventing Qaddafi from rebuilding the wall of fear that fell in Tunisia and Egypt is essential if the “Arab spring” is not to be succeeded by a new winter of discontent.",
        "防止卡扎菲重建在突尼斯和埃及已经倒塌的恐惧之墙是防止已经到来的“阿拉伯春天”继之以不满的严冬的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "With virtually no usable macroeconomic tools, the default position is “structural reform.”",
        "在几乎没有可用的宏观经济工具的情况下，默认的选项是“结构性改革”。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the most popular theory, the only reason for replacing her is PiS’s desire to mollify the European Union (which is poised to impose unprecedented sanctions on a Union member because of Poland’s failure to uphold EU norms) and attract investors.",
        "最被人广为接受的理论认为替换她的唯一原因是法律与正义党想要安抚欧盟的情绪（由于波兰未能遵守欧盟规则，欧盟正准备出台前所未有的针对欧盟成员国的制裁措施）并同时吸引投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, one historical irony is that it wasn’t American hard power – as applied, for example, in the Iraq war – that furthered this democratic revolution, but rather its soft power – Twitter and Facebook – which was much maligned under George W. Bush and his neocon advisers.",
        "如果将来回顾历史的话，估计最讽刺的一点莫过于助推这场民主革命的并非美国的硬实力——比如施加于伊拉克身上的一切——而是软实力——Twitter（推特）和facebook（脸谱）网站——而这些东西恰好是小布什和他手下那帮准保守主义顾问最为痛恨的。"
    ],
    [
        "The PBOC frequently does this by selling bonds to commercial banks or raising their reserve requirements.",
        "人行频繁做这样的操作——将债券出售给商业银行或提高准备金率。"
    ],
    [
        "The central bank, however, was not pleased, and decided to assert its monopoly over currency issuance, forcing Unterguggenberger to scrap the local public money and causing Wörgl to fall back into depression.",
        "但是，央行很不高兴，并决定捍卫其对货币发行的垄断，强迫温特古根伯格废除地方公共货币，而沃格尔也再次陷入萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "And the next wave of technology, including driverless vehicles, will have a major negative impact on the incomes and opportunities of everyone who currently delivers goods or transports passengers by car.",
        "而下一波技术，包括无人驾驶车辆，将对那些客货运输从业者的收入和就业机会产生重大的负面影响。"
    ],
    [
        "One of my childhood memories is asking my mother about a curious custom. Women who were about to give birth would gaze at their simple rubber shoes, which were kept by the back door.",
        "我的其中一个童年记忆就是问妈妈为什么快要临盆的妇女都会死死盯着她们放在门后的胶鞋，这是我们那一个奇怪的习俗。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU is keen to link into India’s boom.",
        "欧盟很愿意参与到印度的繁荣当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Violence must give way to security for inhabitants; lawlessness and political exclusion must give way to the rule of law and participatory government; ethnic, religious, or class/caste polarization must give way to national reconciliation; and ruined war economies must be transformed into functioning market economies that enable ordinary people to support themselves.",
        "种族、宗教或社会阶级/等级分化必须由民族和解取代； 千疮百孔的战争经济必须转型为健全的市场经济，从而让普通民众能够安身立命。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan is in no position to address Russia’s concerns.",
        "日本没有为俄罗斯解决担忧的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Outsiders watching these shifts, and the Pakistani government’s handling of them, have been unable to discern a consistent pattern that would explain Pakistani policy.",
        "但即便是那些观察这类结盟行为以及巴基斯坦当局对这些结盟的掌控手段的局外人，也难以说清楚巴基斯坦的政策是否有延续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Worker Protection in the Gig Economy",
        "零工经济中的劳动者保护"
    ],
    [
        "The war did not bring forth a real decision.",
        "这一战争并未带来实质性的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits – for both the US and our partners – are enormous.",
        "不管是对美国还是对我们的合作伙伴，好处都是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is unlikely that voters in any other member state will envy the British experience.",
        "任何其他成员国的选民都不太可能羡慕现在的英国。"
    ],
    [
        "But the economy was not bouncing back.",
        "但经济没有恢复原状。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of whether it charts a course toward a brighter or darker future, a country’s political leadership by definition plays the central role at the helm.",
        "无论是沿着一个更加光辉或者黑暗的进程航行，一个国家的政治领导人在定义上都是掌舵人。"
    ],
    [
        "His generation confronted the scourge of domestic terrorism and witnessed revolution in Iran, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the rise of Solidarity in Poland.",
        "他那代人不得不面对国内恐怖主义灾难，并亲眼目睹了伊朗革命、苏联入侵阿富汗和波兰团结工会的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "“The military establishment receives $1.3 billion from the US….They are very sensitive to US requests,” according to Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who lobbied the Obama administration to support the revolution in January 2011.",
        "”萨德•埃丁•易卜拉欣说。 2011年1月，他曾游说奥巴马政府支持革命。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent decades, Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders failed to speak out early and effectively against the genocide in Rwanda.",
        "近几十年来，罗马天主教和基督教领袖均未能及时有效制止发生在卢旺达的种族灭绝行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The history of nuclear weapons since 1945 is studded with near misses – both before and after the Cuban missile crisis.",
        "1945年后的核武器史——无论在古巴导弹危机之前还是之后—— 随处可见侥幸逃脱的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Such activities are not just unjust; they are a violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, adopted nearly unanimously last year (the US, then led by Barack Obama, abstained).",
        "而且违反了联合国安理会第2334号决议，该决议去年曾获得安理会所有成员国的几乎一致通过（当时巴拉克·奥巴马总统领导下的美国投了弃权票）。"
    ],
    [
        "It could even pay for a substantial share of the cost for a war like that in Iraq!",
        "甚至它可以支付打一场像伊拉克战争那样的费用！"
    ],
    [
        "Capital owners also reap major benefits from technological progress.",
        "资本所有者还攫取了技术进步的大部分收益。"
    ],
    [
        "In fairness, given Krugman’s strong and public positions, he has been subject to immense personal criticism by many on the right.",
        "公平地说，克鲁格曼有着很强的公共地位，他也受到了来自右翼的猛烈个人批评。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not, as one benighted analyst suggested, “A 20% improvement (reduction) in heart attacks plus a 30% improvement (reduction) in diabetes incidence equals a 50% improvement.”",
        "某位愚昧的分析师说：“20%的心脏病改善（减少）加上30%的糖尿病发病率改善（减少）等于50%的改善。 ”这是不对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the tragic impact of this compulsory removal, the islanders never gave up their campaign to win the right to return home.",
        "虽然身负英国强制性移民的悲惨苦难，但查戈斯人却从未放弃重回家园的抗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Can it afford a life-threatening crisis of the euro, a common market endangered by growing protectionism, or Russia pushing into the EU’s Eastern neighborhood?",
        "它能面对一场事关欧元生死的危机，一个被日渐抬头的贸易保护主义威胁的共同市场，或俄罗斯的势力逼近欧盟的东欧邻国而无动于衷么？"
    ],
    [
        "So, too, on the other side, did Hans van Delden, a Dutch nursing home physician and bioethicist who for the past 20 years has been involved in all of the major empirical studies of end-of-life decisions in his country. Peggy Battin, the most prominent American bioethicist working on assisted dying and euthanasia, also took the stand.",
        "而在另一方面，在过去20年中参与了本国所有重大终结生命决定观察研究的荷兰护理院医生兼生物伦理学家汉斯·范德尔登（Hans van Delden），还有美国在协助死亡和安乐死方面最负盛名的生物伦理学家佩吉·巴丁（Peggy Battin），都持有相反的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Take, for example, ICANN, the body that sets policy for the Domain Name System.",
        "例如， ICANN，一个为域名系统制定政策的机构，我是其创办的主席。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with little influence, much less control, over what comes next, emerging economies are still struggling to figure out how to protect themselves from the impact of a Fed policy reversal.",
        "但是，新兴经济体对于下一步会发生什么缺少控制力和影响力，它们仍在苦苦寻找如何保护自己免受美联储政策反复的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Potential GDP, however, is supposed to be more stable, as it does not depend on demand-side developments.",
        "但是，潜在GDP应该更加稳定，因为它不依赖需求端发展趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Emergency shelters and evacuation routes must be planned and established using risk assessments and actual simulations.",
        "必须利用风险评估和事实模拟提前规划和建立紧急住所和疏散路径。"
    ],
    [
        "If actual appreciation does not reduce China’s trade surplus, pressure to appreciate the yuan further would only continue, as was true for Japan before 1995.",
        "如果实际的升值没有减少中国的贸易顺差，那么人民币进一步升值的压力只会继续，就如同日本在1995年以前的情况一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Extremist groups in South Asia have also threatened to attack water infrastructure.",
        "南亚极端势力团体同样威胁要袭击水利设施。"
    ],
    [
        "How much supervision will be required not just to verify compliance but also to detect any possible attempt at a breakout?",
        "如何监管才能确保伊朗遵守协议规定，并发现可能突破的蛛丝马迹？"
    ],
    [
        "The SED meeting next week in Beijing will focus on five areas: integrity of trade and product safety; balanced economic development, including financial sector reform; energy efficiency and security; environmental sustainability; and bilateral investment.",
        "下周在北京举行的战略经济对话会议将会集中讨论五大议题。 它们是贸易完整性和产品安全、平衡的经济发展包括金融部门改革、能源效率和安全、环境可持续性以及双边投资。"
    ],
    [
        "But too much control would almost certainly stifle innovation, increase costs, and probably exclude important anti-establishment voices.",
        "但控制过严几乎肯定会扼杀创新、增加成本、并且可能排除反体制要求。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, much more aggressive policy action (massive and unconventional monetary easing, larger fiscal-stimulus packages, bailouts of financial firms, individual mortgage-debt relief, and increased financial support for troubled emerging markets) in many countries in the last few months has reduced the risk of a near depression.",
        "有一点可以肯定，那就是过去几个月内许多国家更为积极的政策行动（超越传统的巨额货币放松和对困难重重的新兴市场增加财政援助）已经减轻了很快陷入经济衰退的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Who can attract the most talented people, educate them and their children, and give as many individuals as possible the opportunity to work productively?",
        "谁能吸引最有才华的人，教育他们和他们的孩子，并给予尽量多的人产生工作成果的机会？"
    ],
    [
        "You learn a lot about a country’s underlying stability by how it responds to a crisis.",
        "人们可以通过观察一个国家如何应付危机来了解该国的基本稳定程度。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, as Joseph Schumpeter famously observed, market-based systems have long had an uncanny knack for self-healing.",
        "毕竟，正如约瑟夫·熊彼特（Joseph Schumpeter）的著名论断，市场制度早就有一种神秘的自我修复功能。"
    ],
    [
        "The government of Hollande and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has strong majorities at all executive and legislative levels, giving it a rare opportunity to act.",
        "奥朗德和总理埃罗的政府在所有行政和立法层面都拥有绝对多数，因此掌握着千载难逢的行动时机。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany too, the coalition agreement between the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats includes a provision that extends from six months to two years the trial period during which an employee can be dismissed without explanation – the same duration contemplated in the Villepin’s CFE law.",
        "德国也是这样。 社民党和基民党联合政府协议所包含的一项条款把雇员可以不经解释而遭解雇的试用期限由六个月延长到两年，同得维尔潘的法案规定的期限一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the Gulf States, Turkey, and Iran should be pressed to negotiate face to face on a regional framework that can ensure lasting peace.",
        "最后，应该向海湾国家、土耳其和伊朗施压，让它们面对面地就能够确保持续和平的地区框架展开谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "On a similar scale, a vaccine to prevent human papilloma virus infection and cervical cancer was tested in almost 30,000 young women.",
        "另一种用于预防人类乳突淋瘤病毒传染和宫颈癌的疫苗也进行了规模相当的试验，在近30 000名年轻女性身上进行了试用。"
    ],
    [
        "Money-supply growth has been well above target levels for some time now, indicating excess liquidity.",
        "一段时间以来，货币供应的增长远远超过了目标水准，这是流动能力过强的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "The country was worse prepared for disaster than most others.",
        "英国对危机的准备工作也做得比大多数其他国家要差。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran hints that it wants to have a high-level dialogue with the US in the not-too-distant future.",
        "伊朗暗示它想在不远的将来和美国进行高层对话。"
    ],
    [
        "Those in the prosperous middle class were becoming much more interested in communicating, seeking out information, and trying to acquire the right stuff to allow them to live their lives as they wished.",
        "繁荣的中产阶级对于沟通、寻找信息和试图获得正确的东西实现想要的生活的兴趣要大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, reducing current spending and increasing capital spending should be carried out in lock step.",
        "事实上，削减经常性支出并增加资本支出必须双管齐下。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an army, separatist leaders hope, will enable them – at the very least – to secure control over the Donbas region.",
        "分裂主义领导者希望，这样一支军队可以让他们至少能够确保控制顿巴斯地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is Enrique, who is “willing to donate my kidney for an exchange.",
        "”此外还有“希望互换捐肾的恩里克，21岁，身体健康。"
    ],
    [
        "This complicates the FBI’s argument about public safety.",
        "这让联邦调查局公共安全观点变得错综复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "The energy sector and air and rail transport are still dominated by state-owned near-monopolies, whose balance sheets are in trouble amid rapidly rising costs.",
        "能源和空运/铁路运输仍然由近乎垄断的国有企业所主导，而这些企业的资产负债表正面临着成本迅速上涨的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, such a policy requires significant investment in research and development.",
        "显然，这样的政策需要在研发方面大量投资。"
    ],
    [
        "And today’s macro mood is shared pessimism.",
        "而今天的宏观情绪是普遍悲观。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Germany’s rapid ascent prior to World War I spurred a “triple entente” among France, Russia, and the United Kingdom, China’s increasingly assertive behavior is creating strong impetus for the Asia-Pacific democracies to build a more powerful coalition.",
        "正如德国在一战前的迅速崛起出城了法国、俄罗斯和英国之间的“三方友好”，中国日益侵略性的行动也在强力刺激亚太民主国家构建更加强大的联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans’ current crisis of confidence concerning Europe is far more dangerous than renewed market anxiety, because it cannot be overcome with another liquidity injection by the ECB.",
        "欧洲人目前对欧洲的信心危机远比市场忧虑重燃更为危险，因为单靠欧洲央行注入流动性已经无法解决这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "While imperial in origin, the rationale behind the Currency Board was sound.",
        "尽管来源不乏帝国主义色彩，但货币局背后的理论基础却非常扎实。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s income inequality has soared in the past 30 years, with the Gini coefficient at 41.1, the second highest among high-income economies, just behind Israel (at 42.8).",
        "过去30年来美国的收入不平等呈快速上升之势，基尼系数为41. 1，在高收入经济体中仅次于以色列（42."
    ],
    [
        "One key indicator is South Korea’s monthly trade data.",
        "一项关键指标是韩国月度贸易数据。"
    ],
    [
        "By structural transformation, I mean the process by which countries climb the industrial ladder – their workforces move into higher value-added manufacturing sectors as their sources of production advance.",
        "我所指的结构转型是各国通过这个过程在工业阶梯上往上爬——它们的劳动力进入附加值更高的制造业，这些制造业成为它们生产发展的源泉。"
    ],
    [
        "One prevailing myth is that cancer is primarily a developed-country problem.",
        "一个流行的传说是癌症主要是发达国家的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "To people who lived through World War I, the thought of a sequel must have seemed nightmarish.",
        "对于活过第一次世界大战的人来说，再来一次大战的想法简直是一场噩梦。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits of gender equity are also apparent when women have access to basic financial services, like credit and savings accounts, which enable them to start businesses and save money for family essentials.",
        "当妇女能获得基本的金融服务，如开立信贷和储蓄账户时，性别平等的好处也是显而易见的。 这使得她们能够开办企业，并存钱用于家庭生活必需品的采购。"
    ],
    [
        "Speculative pressures are likely to have been at work, influencing the decisions of OPEC and many others.",
        "这很可能是投机的压力在发挥作用，影响了欧佩克和其他产油国。"
    ],
    [
        "So, whether it was the governor of the Bank of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the President of the United States, their advice counted for nothing.",
        "因此，无论英格兰银行行长、坎特伯雷大主教还是美国总统，他们的建议都是一文不值的。"
    ],
    [
        "It has been, and is, playing a vital role in post-conflict reconstruction around the world.",
        "在世界各地的战后重建方面，世界银行不管是过去，还是现在都一直发挥了至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone watching the IPL, however, might be tempted to conclude that Twenty20 cricket, the “instant” form of the game, is actually an American game deliberately rediscovered by the Indians.",
        "”但是，每个IPL观众都会认为，Twenty20板球，即“即时”模式板球，其实是一项印度人有意重新发现的美国运动。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the communiqué released after the meeting includes a pledge to use “all policy tools – monetary, fiscal, and structural – individually and collectively” to “foster confidence and preserve and strengthen the recovery.”",
        "诚然，上海会议之后发布的公报中包括了承诺“分别和集体使用所有政策工具——不管是货币工具、财政工具还是结构性工具”以“提振信心和保持复苏势头”。"
    ],
    [
        "The two key ingredients seem to be education and values.",
        "其中的两大关键要素是教育和价值。"
    ],
    [
        "(Bannon was believed to be behind the recent push to force out McMaster, mainly by suggesting that he is “anti-Israel.”)",
        "McMaster）和约翰·凯利（John Kelly，现任幕僚长）将他解职。 （据信班农在幕后推动了近期迫使麦克马斯特下台的动作，主要是声称他“反以色列”）"
    ],
    [
        "With several key African elections coming up, Internet shutdowns are again on the horizon.",
        "随着多个非洲国家重要选举的临近，断网也再次走进人们的视野。"
    ],
    [
        "The cut in corporate taxes that the Republicans are likely to support will not boost wages significantly.",
        "共和党可能支持的公司税减税方案不会大幅提振工资。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, from the very bastion of the right, came Benjamin Netanyahu.",
        "现在轮到了来自右翼集团大本营的本雅明·内塔尼亚胡。"
    ],
    [
        "Every financial crisis is inherently unknowable – before it occurs, and as it occurs.",
        "每一次经济危机天生就是不可知的——在发生之前以及过程之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Griesa found that this was reasonable.",
        "葛里萨认为这是合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "The spread of nuclear technology and the growing risk of nuclear terrorism make it imperative that we get it right this time.",
        "如今，核技术的散播与核恐怖主义风险的不断增长使得我们必须在这一次将它导向正轨。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, his initiative to counter the Soviet deployment of SS-20 intermediate-range nuclear missiles, a plan he set out in a major speech in 1977, was motivated above all by concerns about a potential decoupling of Europe and its US ally.",
        "事实上，1977年他曾在一次重要讲话中提出反对苏联部署SS-20中程核导弹的计划，其背后的主要原因是害怕造成欧洲及其美国盟友的不和。"
    ],
    [
        "Employers, for their part, will need to learn when to rely on internal talent and when to turn to independent workers.",
        "至于雇主，他们需要学会在何时依靠内部人才，何时应该雇用独立工作者。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan now spends more than $40 billion a year on defense and maintains one of the world’s most diverse and modern militaries.",
        "如今，日本每年的国防开销在400亿美元以上，并且依然是世界上兵种最多、装备最现代化的国家之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has the right idea, with negotiating objectives that cover labor issues and wages, transparency, corruption, and some aspects of human rights.",
        "美国贸易代表（USTR）办公室提出了正确的概念，它的谈判目标覆盖了劳工问题和工资、透明度、腐败，以及一些人权问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, shareholders and senior executives should tie performance goals to incentives.",
        "最后，股东和高管应该将业绩目标与激励挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past 25 years, an average of 38% have said they are doing better, while 32% have said they are doing worse.",
        "在过去25年中，平均有38%的人说情况更好了，有32%的人说情况更糟了。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, we need to recognize that it’s already too late to stop all of the impacts of hotter temperatures.",
        "与此同时，我们需要认识到，阻止所有气温上升带来的影响已经太晚了。"
    ],
    [
        "Remembering the impact of Willy Brandt’s Kniefall at the Jewish ghetto site in Warsaw in 1970, I will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II by visiting Nanjing and accepting Japanese responsibility for the terrible massacre of 1937-1938.",
        "我还记得1970年勃兰特在华沙犹太纪念碑前的下跪，我将以访问南京、承认日本对1937—1938年骇人听闻的大屠杀的责任的方式纪念第二次世界大战结束70周年。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the data from early 2015 suggest that urban hiring remains near the impressive pace of recent years – hardly the labor-market stress normally associated with economic hard landings or recessions.",
        "此外，2015年初的数据显示城镇就业在近几年中形势喜人——与经济硬着陆或衰退时常见的劳动力市场吃紧的情况大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "The spread of infectious disease, global trade and finance, climate change, nuclear non-proliferation, counterterrorism, and cyber security are just some of the issues that require broad international cooperation and global governance.",
        "流行病、全球贸易金融、气候变化、核不扩散，反恐以及网络安全都是一些需要进行广泛国际合作以及全球治理的事务。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is preoccupied with its attempt to save the eurozone, and has no common foreign or defense policy.",
        "欧洲的当务之急是拯救欧元区，并且缺乏共同的外交和防务政策。"
    ],
    [
        "PALO ALTO – Today’s huge global energy problems in no small measure reflect the essentially nineteenth-century business plans that three of the world’s largest industries are still pursuing.",
        "帕洛阿托——当今世界巨大的全球能源问题在很大程度上反映了三大工业仍然沿用的十九世纪经营方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The setting is a downtown restaurant to which the editor Tina Brown has invited Hillary Clinton and a handful of notables, including Caroline Kennedy, filmmaker Michael Moore, and former Senator George McGovern.",
        "市中心的一家餐馆，编辑蒂娜·布朗邀请了希拉里·克林顿和其他几位知名人士，包括卡罗琳·肯尼迪、导演迈克尔·摩尔和前任参议员乔治·麦戈文。"
    ],
    [
        "There is something fundamentally wrong with EU policy.",
        "欧盟的政策中有根本性错误。"
    ],
    [
        "The stability of the Great Lakes region of Africa, perhaps that continent’s most violent area, will depend on the success of its transition and reconstruction.",
        "在非洲大湖区（可能是这片大陆上最暴力的地区）的稳定将依赖与其过渡和重建的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing countries in the early stages of growth need to understand these trends.",
        "位于增长早期阶段的发展中国家需要理解这些趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "The institutions and policies established by the European Union are a vivid example of the unobtrusive benefits of modern cross-border integration.",
        "而欧盟为此建立的一系列机构和政策则生动体现出当代跨国整合政策所带来的实际益处。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2012, ECB President Mario Draghi cemented this responsibility, pledging to do “whatever it takes” to preserve the euro.",
        "2012年，欧洲央行行长马里奥·德拉吉（Mario Draghi）巩固了这一责任，承诺会“用尽一切手段”以保全欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas India is not yet nearly the factor in global trade that China has become, its 1.2 billion people are pushing inexorably onto the scene.",
        "尽管印度在全球贸易中的地位还远远赶不上中国，但它的12亿人口正在毫不留情地挤到前台。"
    ],
    [
        "NEWPORT BEACH – Facing a turbulent political situation and recurrent street protests, Egypt’s political elite would be well advised to focus on the economic implications of the current turmoil, whether they are in government or in opposition.",
        "发自纽波特滩——面对政治局面动荡和街头抗议频发，埃及的政治精英们（不管是执政还是在野党）的稳妥做法应是关注当前动荡的经济含义。"
    ],
    [
        "We need a deal by the end of 2009 in order to institute more ambitious cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.",
        "我们需要在2009年结束前达成协议，制定更大幅度削减温室气体排放的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, many Chinese officials perceive that to be the current American strategy.",
        "事实上许多中国官员也认为这就是美国的现行战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Gates raised this issue during his recent talks with his Chinese counterpart, Liang Guanglie, proposing a mechanism for “strategic dialogue” between US and Chinese military forces, aimed at avoiding potential conflicts that might be caused by mutual misunderstanding and mistrust.",
        "盖茨在与中国国防部长梁光烈的谈话中谈到了这个问题，提议建立美中军方的“战略对话”机制，以避免双方因互相误解和互不信任而导致冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the NAIRU is a purely theoretical construct, the Fed’s economists can simply change their estimates of this magic number.",
        "由于自然失业率是一个纯粹的理论建构，美联储的经济学家们可以直接更改对这个神奇的数字的估算。"
    ],
    [
        "On Facebook, of all places, I experienced the amazing potential of posting an item and then inviting my “community” to continue the research as well as the debate.",
        "在Facebook以及所有网络社区里，我通过发出一篇帖子并邀请“好友团”继续深入调查和讨论体验到了这种模式令人惊叹的巨大潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, by transferring its Pacific Fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, the US encouraged the Japanese understanding that the US fully anticipated war with Japan.",
        "而且，美国将太平洋舰队从圣地亚哥转移到珍珠港，促使日本认为美国完全打算与日本开战。"
    ],
    [
        "Some analysts – most prominently Jeffrey Sachs – have argued that the best way forward is to cut the yield on Greek debt to that of German public debt. Germany currently pays a little over 3% nominal interest on 10-year debt, half of what Greece is being charged for emergency loans – and far less than Greece would pay if it attempted to raise money in private markets.",
        "以哥伦比亚大学经济学教授杰弗里•沙斯为代表的一些分析家认为最佳处置方式就是将希腊债务的利率降到德国公债的利率水平——目前德国10年期公债的名义利率稍高于3%，只相当于希腊为紧急贷款所支付利率的1/2，更远远低于希腊在私人市场筹款的利率。"
    ],
    [
        "So grim has Japan’s fiscal position become that bond issuance has exceeded tax revenue since 2009.",
        "日本的财政状况非常严峻，以致于从2009年起发债额就已经超过了税收。"
    ],
    [
        "“Third, we must have a special prosecutor to prosecute the culpable.",
        "第三，我们必须有一位特别公诉人来起诉那些该负责任的人。"
    ],
    [
        "He points out that property prices in Shenzhen, in particular, jumped 76% since the start of 2015, bringing a typical home to $800,000, just below the average home price in Silicon Valley.",
        "他特别指出，深圳楼价自2015年初以来上涨了76%，使得当地典型住宅价格已高达800,000美元，仅比硅谷平均房价略低。"
    ],
    [
        "There is little dialogue about how industrial country issuances can be staggered to minimize the impact on global markets, and what alternatives can be developed for countries that are shut out.",
        "有关工业国家在发行债券的同时，如何把对世界经济造成影响化解到最小，以及其他被波及的国家如何采取应对措施等话题，目前都还没有非常良好的沟通渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "The BRICS recently announced plans for a New Development Bank (NDB) for infrastructure and sustainable development.",
        "金砖国家最近宣布了成立新开发银行为基础设施和可持续发展服务的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Completing a single financial market would boost economic growth and prosperity in every member state.",
        "构建完成一个单一的金融市场会促进所有成员国的经济增长和繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Welfare states are fundamentally incompatible with the free movement of people between countries if the newcomers have immediate and full access to public benefits in their host countries.",
        "福利国家与国家间人口自由流动之间存在根本性不相容，如果新来者马上就能在东道国获得完全的公共福利的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Paradoxically, in the pessimistic scenario, Iran’s new government, controlled by conservatives and hardliners, actually fits into the region better than the current one.",
        "矛盾的是，在悲观情景中，将由保守派和强硬派控制的伊朗新政府实际上比当前政府更加适合该地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The policies that preceded theirs were said to be pro-rich, because the governments that pursued them were subservient to the rich.",
        "他们称前任实行所谓“亲富政策”，因为实行这些政策的政府屈从于富人。"
    ],
    [
        "Cells in laboratory cultures that are resistant to chemotherapies typically lose their resistance when the chemicals are removed.",
        "在实验室环境中对化疗产生抗药性的细胞一般会在化疗解除后失去抗药性。"
    ],
    [
        "The people of Scotland voted by a comfortable margin of about 10% to remain part of the United Kingdom – not least because of the campaigning of three Labour politicians, Alastair Darling, Gordon Brown, and Jim Murphy.",
        "苏格兰人民以令人舒心的10%优势继续成为英国的一部分——这是三位工党政治家阿拉斯代尔·达令（Alastair Darling）、戈登·布朗（Gordon Brown）和吉姆·墨菲（Jim Murphy）活动的功劳。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s free-market carnival, nothing seems visible unless it is scandalous and nothing is scandalous enough to be memorable.",
        "在当今自由市场的狂欢声中，人们只看得到丑闻，只有够耸人听闻才会令人难忘。"
    ],
    [
        "No peace treaty ended the Cold War, so it remains unfinished.",
        "没有哪项和平协议宣布冷战结束，因此冷战仍在进行中。"
    ],
    [
        "One solution is to create a market-like mechanism within the government.",
        "一个解决办法是在政府内部建立类似市场的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "The plight of the Palestinians – the victims of Zionism’s triumph – touches another neuralgic point in the European mind.",
        "巴勒斯坦人的苦难——锡安主义胜利的受害者——则触动了欧洲神经的另一个痛点。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the main problems today is too much debt in the global financial system – among sovereigns, banks, and households, and especially among the advanced economies.",
        "今日的主要问题是全球金融体系债务过多——国家、银行和家庭都是如此，发达经济体尤是。"
    ],
    [
        "Women also play a somewhat greater role.",
        "有些还获得了国外学位。 妇女的作用也多少有所增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Four years ago, a 30-year trend of decreasing food prices rapidly reversed course.",
        "四年前，长达三十年之久的粮食价格下降趋势迅速扭转。"
    ],
    [
        "In the advanced economies, recession had brought back earlier in 2008 fears of 1970’s-style stagflation (a combination of economic stagnation and inflation).",
        "而在发达经济体中，早在2008年初人们就担心衰退会引发二十世纪七十年代出现的那种经济滞胀（经济停滞和通货膨胀的合称）。"
    ],
    [
        "By and large, experience supports this method.",
        "迄今为止的经验支持这一办法。"
    ],
    [
        "By implication, if nothing else, global energy, food, and mineral prices will continue to be buoyed by seemingly insatiable emerging-market demand, which commands much higher reserve prices.",
        "不出意外的话，全球能源、食品和矿产价格将因新兴市场永不满足的需求（因而保留价格会高得多）而继续上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "The arrests of numerous terrorist suspects last month by French and German authorities made clear that no one nation can do the critical work necessary to win the struggle against extremists.",
        "上个月法国与德国逮捕大量恐怖主义分子嫌疑犯的举动清楚地表明，单靠一个国家难以在反恐怖主义斗争中做到制胜的关键一步。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korean parents are willing to invest heavily in giving their few children the best chance of prospering.",
        "韩国家长愿意投入重金为仅有的孩子提供最好的发展机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher political considerations, as well as the interests of the banking system, militated against an exit.",
        "更高的政治考虑，以及银行系统的利益扼杀了退出选项。"
    ],
    [
        "On-the-surface political stability and favourable investment laws may be in place, but in the absence of an effective judiciary or reliable security forces, committing capital to promising projects becomes that much more difficult.",
        "表面上政治稳定和有利的投资法律可能已经到位，但缺少了高效的司法或可靠的安全力量，把资金投入前景看好的项目变得困难得多。"
    ],
    [
        "One solution is to enforce secular modernization by oppressing the poor and their religious organizations.",
        "方案之一是通过压迫穷人及其宗教团体的方式实现世俗现代化。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, if Europeans target social expenditure better, they might achieve a greater reduction in inequality with a lower level of social transfers.",
        "而且，如果欧洲人提高社会支出的针对性，那么，他们就可能会用较低的社会转移水平较大地减少社会不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is the prospect of a massive stimulus, featuring a huge expansion of badly needed infrastructure spending.",
        "然后是大规模刺激前景，其特征是急需的基础设施支出大幅扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "The saga of Corporatism cautions economists against dismissing ethical concerns about markets.",
        "社团主义传奇警示经济学家不应无视市场的伦理问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, given that the non-tradable sector is constrained by its reliance on domestic demand, recovery – if it comes – will depend on the tradable sector’s growth potential.",
        "此外，由于不可贸易部门受其对内需的依赖，复苏——即使到来——将取决于可贸易部门的增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require not just an investigation into region-wide challenges, such as Sunni radicalism, but also a careful consideration of bilateral policies.",
        "这不但要求研究整个地区所面临的挑战，如逊尼派的激进化，也要求仔细考虑自由主义政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But the current high level of oil prices has led forecasters to start reining in their expectations for economic growth.",
        "但油价的居高不下却促使预言家们开始对经济增长充满了渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "As with many privatizations elsewhere, there are questions as to whether the foreign investors have kept their side of the bargain.",
        "正如其他地方的私有化一样，外国投资者是否遵守了他们应当遵守的协议部分还是个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This gap between rhetoric and action left a vacuum; Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and private donors subsequently filled it by channeling support to extremist elements of the opposition, strengthening their hand at the expense of those being called moderates.",
        "言论和行动的巨大差距留下了一段真空； 沙特阿拉伯、卡塔尔和私人捐助者随后通过支持反对派极端势力填补了这段真空，并在巩固自己势力的同时削弱了温和派的势力。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, President Barack Obama’s election campaigns recognized this opportunity, using social media extensively to communicate political messages, and to energize and mobilize supporters.",
        "在美国，总统奥巴马的竞选活动就认识到了这一机会，利用社交媒体全面地传播政治消息以及激发和动员支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in the few recorded statements that have been released, he displays a mastery of classical Arabic.",
        "而在目前公布的为数极少的有记录文件中，他表现出对阿拉伯古语的精通。"
    ],
    [
        "Defenders of the Bush doctrine claim that this is impossible when they operate out of failed states that cannot police their borders.",
        "布什教条的捍卫者声称自顾不暇、一片混乱的宗主国不能再给恐怖活动以任何的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "With little recourse to legal means, an increasing number of frustrated victims of graft resort to extra-legal measures such as strikes, demonstrations, and sit-ins in order to gain media and public attention.",
        "由于缺乏司法手段，越来越多的行贿受贿的受害者寻求法律外的手段，如罢工、游行、静坐以得到媒体和公众的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Americans started 2013 with high hopes that congressional leaders would overcome, even if only partly, the polarization and political dysfunction that had slowed recovery.",
        "许多美国人带着希望进入2013年，认为国会领袖们将克服——至少部分地克服——抑制复苏的党派分化和政治瘫痪。"
    ],
    [
        "When growth is strong, people urge governments not to derail the gravy train.",
        "增长强劲时，人们敦促政府不要放走发财的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "If he succeeds as a super Keynes, no one will have had to take any risks with their own political future.",
        "如果他成功地成为超级凯恩斯主义者，那么就没有人需要用自己的政治前途作为赌注。"
    ],
    [
        "The new bank’s governance structure has yet to be worked out, but it promises to be more consistent with contemporary best practices.",
        "新开发银行的治理结构尚有待制定，但已承诺将更符合当代最优方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks have been saved, but the underlying problems were left to fester – no surprise there, given that, in both Europe and America, the task of fixing them was assigned to the policymakers who had caused them.",
        "银行虽然得到了救助，但内在问题却被放任不管，任其恶化——这没什么好奇怪的，因为在欧洲和美国，解决内在问题的任务被分配给了决策者，而正是这些人引发了这些问题。"
    ],
    [
        "On one hand, it is important to resist Putin’s challenge to the fundamental principle that states should not use force to violate one another’s territorial integrity.",
        "一方面必须顶住普京对基本原则的挑战，明确国家不应用武力侵犯别国领土完整。"
    ],
    [
        "Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is a model of the modern global enterprise.",
        "默多克的传媒帝国是现代全球企业的一个样板。"
    ],
    [
        "But Abe also confronts a security environment in Asia that is every bit as brittle as Japan’s economy was before his government took office last December.",
        "但安倍还面临着亚洲安全环境问题，这一问题之棘手一点都不亚于安倍去年12月成为首相时面临的经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear of “China bashing” has made it difficult for so-called “friends of China” to discuss its darker side openly.",
        "因为害怕受到“中国的抨击”，使所谓的“中国的朋友”很难公开谈论它的黑暗面。"
    ],
    [
        "President Jonathan’s announcement triggered furious protests from his northern rivals, including Ibrahim Babangida, a former military dictator who reminded him that Olusegun Obasanjo, a southerner, had served as president from 1999, when military rule ended, to 2007, with northern support.",
        "新总统的这一声明激起了其北方政敌的强烈反对，其中包括易卜拉欣·巴班吉达。 这位前军事独裁者提醒乔纳森：当年自南方的奥卢塞贡·奥巴桑乔在北方派系的支持下，在1999年军事独裁结束时当选为总统，一直干到2007年任满结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether it will undertake the reforms it needs now or wait until a costly crisis leaves it no choice.",
        "问题在于它能否立刻进行所需的改革，还是等待一场巨大的危机将其逼到墙角。"
    ],
    [
        "As control over population flows become a currency of power, states that follow the M-7’s lead will have the opportunity to boost their geopolitical heft.",
        "随着对人口流动的控制权逐渐成为一种权力货币，接受M7领导的国家将有机会提升自己的地缘政治分量。"
    ],
    [
        "The Political Consequences of Financial Crises",
        "金融危机的政治后果"
    ],
    [
        "A direct attack on poverty can yield a double dividend: in reducing human misery, it could spark growth, thereby creating more political space for direct poverty reduction.",
        "实施具体扶贫措施可以收到一箭双雕之效：通过减少人们的苦难进而刺激增长，最终为更多的具体扶贫措施赢得政治空间。"
    ],
    [
        "But whoever wins the German election this September will be a moderate, not an extreme nationalist, and will understand the importance of working with Macron to restart the Franco-German engine of European progress.",
        "但今年9月赢得德国大选的人一定会是温和派，而不是极端民族主义者，而且这位获胜者必须理解与马克龙合作，重新启动法德欧洲发展引擎有多重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Closer cooperation with the EU is the most obvious way to make this possible.",
        "而与欧盟之间更紧密的联系很显然是实现这一目标的最佳路径。"
    ],
    [
        "That should not be surprising: ensuring a more equitable distribution of income is not a central bank’s job.",
        "这不足为奇：确保更加平等的收入分配不是中央银行的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, why not pay commenters who accumulate “likes” or whose comments on issuers turn out to be valuable in light of evidence of those enterprises’ subsequent success?",
        "事实上，如果评论者获得多次“赞”，或者其对发行人的评论经这些企业随后的成功证明颇有价值，那么为什么不付给他们报酬呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But that will be impossible without a settlement in Syria and a decision by Iran to stop supporting Hezbollah.",
        "但如果叙利亚问题得不到解决、伊朗不停止对真主党的支持上述目标是不可能实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "(Much more could be said, if it inspires Spanish citizens to take the risky decision of electing a government led by their own anti-austerity party, Podemos.)",
        "（如果这促使西班牙公民铤而走险，将西班牙反紧缩政党社会民主党（Podemos）选上台，那么就更加可以这样说了。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "This activism comes mainly in response to the latest alarming figures on youth unemployment in southern Europe, with sky-high rates of joblessness widely regarded as politically unacceptable.",
        "如此积极的主要原因是南欧年轻人失业的最新警示信号，极高的无业率被广泛认为是政治上不可接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "Cars are driving themselves.",
        "汽车自己会驾驶。"
    ],
    [
        "There is nothing we can do now to compensate for failures to manage risks in the past.",
        "如今的我们显然无法补偿前人在风险管理上所造成的失误。"
    ],
    [
        "Social rejection has not turned young French and British Muslims into mass murderers, and the infatuation of many with al-Qaeda has not overwhelmed their desire to fit in.",
        "社会的排斥并不能使年轻的法国和英国穆斯林变成杀人机器，而且对基底组织的迷恋并没有将他们渴望融入社会的愿望彻底泯灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, for the first time, we are in a position to deliver on this promise.",
        "现在，我们能够兑现这一承诺，这的确是有史以来第一次。"
    ],
    [
        "China is now the world’s largest investor in clean energy, with a record $68 billion channeled toward renewable-energy development in 2012 and another $54 billion last year.",
        "目前中国是世界最大的清洁能源投资者，2012年投入可再生能源开发的资金达到了创纪录的680亿美元，去年也达到了540亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "We must reach across old dividing lines – both within economies and between them – and work together to build a stronger, more resilient global economy.",
        "我们必须跨越旧有的分界线——不管是经济体内部还是之间的——并共同合作去建立一个更强健，复原能力更强的世界经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump and his trade advisers believe that by reducing or even eliminating those deficits, they can create well-paid jobs for American workers.",
        "特朗普及其贸易顾问们相信，通过降低乃至消除这些赤字，他们就能为美国工人创造薪酬优渥的岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as Diageo’s trade reach extends beyond Europe and North America, the EU’s ability to push for free trade and common standards around the world will become “even more important, especially in the emerging markets where we and other consumer goods companies tend to face more significant market access issues.”",
        "而且因为帝亚吉欧的贸易范围超出欧洲和北美，欧盟推动全球自由贸易和共同标准的能力“特别在我们和其他消费品企业面临更多准入问题的新兴市场将变得尤为重要。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "ZANZIBAR – Here’s an odd prediction for the coming year: 2013 will be a watershed for financial reform.",
        "桑给巴尔—新一年有老预言：2013年将是金融改革的分水岭之年。"
    ],
    [
        "But the \"war on terror\" has also provided this government with an excuse to arrest and detain suspects without charge.",
        "但\"反恐战争\"也为这届政府无需罪名就逮捕和拘押嫌疑犯提供了借口。"
    ],
    [
        "That skepticism is justified.",
        "这一怀疑不无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, this military capability is tied to a worldview, rather than just to the defense of economic interests.",
        "此外，其军力与其世界观相联系，而不仅仅为了捍卫其经济利益。"
    ],
    [
        "If all developing countries with shared river basins embraced transboundary cooperation, their GDP growth easily could rise by a percentage point.",
        "如果所有共享河流流域的发展中国家都能实施跨界合作，就可以轻易提高GDP增长一个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "The government is experimenting with carbon pricing, and investing heavily in low-carbon wind, solar, and nuclear energy.",
        "政府正在尝试碳定价，并大量投资于低碳的风能、太阳能和核能。"
    ],
    [
        "For most of that summer, Mexico, with a projected fiscal deficit of around 11% of GDP, was still borrowing on international financial markets, though at an increasing premium.",
        "当年夏天，尽管墨西哥的财政赤字估计在GDP的11%上下，它仍然在国际金融市场上举债，只是溢价更高了。"
    ],
    [
        "It should also positively respond to offers from the US to establish confidence-building measures between the two countries’ military forces, particularly their navies.",
        "它也应该对美国提出的在两国军队，特别是海军之间实施信心建立措施的提议作出积极地反应。"
    ],
    [
        "And less spending means less upward pressure on prices – which is the last thing Europe needs in a deflationary environment.",
        "而减少支出意味着减小价格上涨压力——在通缩环境下，欧洲最不愿看到的就是这一情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Our statistical analysis of the entry and exit patterns of entrepreneurs in the Brazilian ethanol industry shows that the more efficient acquired the less efficient.",
        "我们掌握的巴西乙醇业进入及退出模式的分析统计结果表明，低效企业被高效企业所兼并。"
    ],
    [
        "I am counting on people around the world to back us in ending this silent scandal.",
        "我正致力于争取世界各地的人们支持来终结这一鲜为人知的阴暗面。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its popularity, however, Al Jazeera has not succeeded financially.",
        "但是尽管广受欢迎，半岛电视台在财政上并未成功。"
    ],
    [
        "There are plenty of areas in which common action at the EU level is both appropriate and efficient.",
        "在众多领域，欧盟层面的共同行动既合理又高效。"
    ],
    [
        "The revival of extreme nationalism in East Asia is both worrisome and understandable.",
        "东亚极端民族主义的复兴既令人担忧但又在情理之中。"
    ],
    [
        "How predictable: schadenfreude almost always follows bad news about the BRICS, whose members were once hailed as the world’s up-and-coming economic powerhouses and next major political force.",
        "多么准确：幸灾乐祸总是出现在金砖国家传出噩耗之后，金砖国家曾一度被誉为世界未来的经济强国和今后主要的政治力量。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the People’s Bank of China has raised interest rates substantially and increased banks’ reserve requirements.",
        "3%，对中国的社会稳定构成了威胁。 因此，中国人民银行已经大幅度提高利率和各银行的储备金水平。"
    ],
    [
        "For several eurozone economies, the additional borrowing would simply be too expensive.",
        "对不少欧元区经济体来说，要提高借债数量将变得极其昂贵。"
    ],
    [
        "Have we given sufficient consideration to the potential cost of all of this comfort and ease, and asked ourselves if the price is worth it?",
        "我们是否考虑过这种轻松舒适的潜在代价，并询问自己付出这样的代价到底值不值？"
    ],
    [
        "Now information technology is coming to the rescue.",
        "如今信息科技则伸出了援手。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the rungs of the ladder are farther apart than elsewhere, and the distance from the top to the bottom is greater.",
        "在美国，阶梯各级之间的差异远远大于其他发达国家，顶端和底端的距离更是无比遥远。"
    ],
    [
        "[T]he [tax] multiplier is around minus 1.1....",
        "。 ”税收的系数 1."
    ],
    [
        "One, certainly, is that Europe – or, more precisely, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France – has been engaged in the talks with Iran for more than a decade.",
        "当然，其中之一是欧洲——或者准确地说是英国、德国和法国——与伊朗谈判已逾十年。"
    ],
    [
        "Excess capacity has been a priority for the State Council since 2005, when it issued industry-by-industry restrictions on new projects and targets for shutting down inefficient production.",
        "其实国务院自 2005 年以来就把解决产能过剩列为优先处理的问题，在各个行业都出台了一些限制来阻止新项目上马，并关停那些效率低下的生产企业。"
    ],
    [
        "No wonder they are losing the battle for citizens’ hearts and minds.",
        "无怪乎他们正在失去民心和思想之战。"
    ],
    [
        "But if robots can actually replace, not just displace, humans, it is hard to see an equilibrium point until the human race itself becomes redundant.",
        "但如果机器人真的能够取代人类（replace humans）——而不仅仅是让人换岗（displace humans）——那么在人类本身变得过多之前，很难看到均衡点。"
    ],
    [
        "Or would it be better off joining existing mega-regional free-trade agreements, while working to strengthen the global multilateral system under the World Trade Organization?",
        "还是加入现成的大区域自贸协定，同时致力于强化世贸组织框架下的全球多边贸易体系更好？"
    ],
    [
        "Cooperation on security matters is desirable for America, and indispensable for the countries of the region.",
        "在安全事务上进行合作是美国渴望的，也是拉丁美洲国家所需要的。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s asset quality review and bank stress tests are expected to bring some clarity to the first question.",
        "欧洲央行的资产质量检查和银行压力测试有望澄清第一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The key difference between these international assets and liquid assets in general, then, is that only the former are accepted in a large number of different countries and regularly used in transactions between them.",
        "总体来说，这些国际资产和流动资产之间的关键区别就是只有前者能被多个不同国家所接受并经常在彼此之间的交易中使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite China’s lack of a comparative advantage for steel production, it has built approximately one thousand mills, with output accounting for roughly half of the global total.",
        "尽管中国在钢生产方面并无比较优势，但仍建设了大约一千家钢铁厂，产出占了全球总产量的半壁江山。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher interest rates will undercut construction jobs and increase the value of the dollar, leading to larger trade deficits and fewer manufacturing jobs – just the opposite of what Trump promised.",
        "提高利率将影响就业岗位的创造、令美元升值，导致更大的贸易赤字和更少的制造业岗位——这与特朗普的承诺正好相反。"
    ],
    [
        "It tied the local currency to the British Pound, giving local authorities no discretion in monetary policy.",
        "这种机制把当地货币与英镑挂钩，当地政府无权自行决定货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "As China’s economic deceleration exposes its structural vulnerabilities and flawed policies, the much-hyped notion of “Chinese exceptionalism” – that China can continue to grow without the rule of law and the other essential institutions that a modern market economy presupposes – is proving to be nothing but a delusion.",
        "随着中国经济的减速暴露了其结构性脆弱性和政策缺陷，如日中天的“中国例外”论——中国可以在不追求法治精神和其他作为市场经济先决条件的关键制度的情况下继续增长——正在露出幻象本质。"
    ],
    [
        "Critical to this strategy is propaganda conflating the West today with the Germans who invaded Russia in 1941, while painting Ukrainian government officials as “fascists” and “neo-Nazis.”",
        "上述战略的关键是将今天的西方与1941年入侵俄国的德国混为一谈，同时把乌克兰政府官员描绘成“法西斯”和“新纳粹分子”。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is the Chinese property market about to implode.",
        "中国房地产市场也不会走向崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "If a phone has a backdoor, it can be opened by anyone with enough motivation – criminals, extremists, and governments alike.",
        "如果手机里存在后门程序，只要有足够的动机任何人都可以打开——包括不法分子、极端分子和政府。"
    ],
    [
        "In Hungary, the proposed tax would have been particularly onerous, because it would raise the cost of mobile data by 5-15% and have an even bigger impact on fixed broadband subscriptions.",
        "匈牙利的互联网税计划尤其苛刻，因为它将把移动数据成本提升5—15%，并且给固定宽带订户带来更大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In all four countries, employment growth will remain constrained for some time to come.",
        "在所有四个国家中，就业增长在未来一段时间内仍将饱受掣肘。"
    ],
    [
        "China is now in a mode of saving absorption; its domestic saving rate has declined from a peak of 52% in 2010 to 46% in 2016, and appears headed to 42%, or lower, over the next five years.",
        "中国现正处于储蓄吸收模式：其国内储蓄率从2010年52％的高峰下降到了2016年的46％，并可能在未来五年内达到42％甚至更低。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – “Out of ammo?” The Economist recently asked of monetary policymakers.",
        "华盛顿——《经济学家》杂志最近询问货币政策决策者，“你们是不是没有弹药了？"
    ],
    [
        "It is no surprise, then, that China’s current-account surplus has shrunk rapidly, from its 2007 peak of more than 10% of GDP to about 2% of GDP today.",
        "因此中国的经常账户顺差从2007年占GDP超过10%的顶峰迅速下跌如今大概2%的情况也就不出所料了，"
    ],
    [
        "Similar work is underway in Africa, led by the World Bank and in Central America various countries’ governments are collaborating with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration.",
        "由世界银行领导的类似工作也正在非洲展开，而在中美洲，各国政府也正在和美洲间发展银行和中美洲经济一体化银行进行合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The Next Battle in China’s War on Corruption",
        "反腐下一程"
    ],
    [
        "The Responsibility to Protect Migrants",
        "保护移民的责任"
    ],
    [
        "After all, “availability” can be interpreted according to many criteria and thus in myriad ways: How much water?",
        "毕竟，“获得”一词可以用多种标准来进行数不清的解读：多少水？"
    ],
    [
        "Opposition leader Leopoldo López spent months in a military prison before recently being put on trial.",
        "反对派领导人莱奥波尔多·洛佩斯在军事监狱里待了几个月才开始受审。"
    ],
    [
        "While respecting individual countries’ sovereignty is vital, so is accountability – and that requires some international authority to monitor and punish crimes.",
        "问责与尊重各国主权同样重要——这就需要某些国际机构监督和惩戒违法行为。"
    ],
    [
        "First, big public sector action is needed. Second, such action is complicated because in a globalized world the need for assistance spans borders.",
        "首先是需要大规模的公营部门行动。 第二，由于在全球化的世界中协助需求跨越国界，因此这样的行动复杂多变。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rise of India and China means that the time-tested posture of Western democracies toward emerging states to “do as we say, not as we do” will become less tenable.",
        "但是印度和中国的崛起意味着西方民主对新兴国家受到时间验证的姿态，即“按照我们说的去做，不要按照我们做的去做”，已经不再那么站得住脚了。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s meager growth is surprising.",
        "法国微弱的增长令人吃惊。"
    ],
    [
        "After three years of slowing growth and rising debt, China once again finds itself at a crossroads.",
        "在经历了三年的增长放缓和债务增加后，中国再一次站在了十字路口。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the two countries’ argument merely about who will develop the South China Sea’s untapped energy resources, or are we dealing with the beginning of a struggle for spheres of influence?",
        "中印两国的争论仅仅是关于谁来开发南中国海无尽的能源资源吗？ 还是说，我们已经开始了势力范围的争夺？"
    ],
    [
        "And comprehensive family and sick leave policies would help Americans achieve a less stressful work/life balance.",
        "而全面的探亲假和病假政策有助于美国实现压力较小的工作/生活平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "If they do this, the government would not collect the additional revenue from the insurance companies, employers, or employees.",
        "如果他们真的这样做，政府就无法从保险公司、雇主或雇员那里得到额外的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, government forces have devolved into a sectarian army, motivated by the fear that, if the largely Sunni rebels are victorious, they will annihilate the Shia-affiliated Alawite minority that has ruled Syria for decades.",
        "事实上，政府军已经演化为宗派部队，其作战动机是担心一旦逊尼派占多数的反对派获胜，他们就会清除统治叙利亚几十年之久的、人数占少数地位的、属于什叶派的阿拉维派。"
    ],
    [
        "The Monti government has restored market confidence and Italy’s international credibility.",
        "蒙蒂政府已经重塑了市场信心和意大利的国际信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "The key is to have the right policy framework in place to facilitate private-sector alignment with the country’s comparative advantages, and to benefit from latecomer advantages in the process of structural change.",
        "关键是要有正确的政策框架，促进私营企业与国家的比较优势相一致，在结构变化的过程中受益于后发优势。"
    ],
    [
        "These measures restored peace.",
        "这些措施重塑了和平。"
    ],
    [
        "They get trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty and, sometimes, crime.",
        "他们深陷于贫穷，有时甚至是犯罪的恶性循环中。"
    ],
    [
        "To deal with such situations, we developed immediate, emotionally based intuitive responses to the infliction of personal violence on others.",
        "为了应对这样的情况，我们发展出一套即时的、以情感为基础的直觉反应，专门针对施加于他人的人身暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Alas, the revolution soon bogged down.",
        "无奈这场革命却很快陷入了低潮。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – On December 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia.",
        "马德里—2010年12月17日，穆罕默德·博阿齐齐（Mohamed Bouazizi）在突尼斯西迪布吉德（Sidi Bouzid）自焚。"
    ],
    [
        "German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been a favorite target of opponents of austerity for some time now, and it is understandable that, after months of being a bystander to the EU’s painful inability to govern, Germany has reluctantly – indeed, insufficiently – taken charge.",
        "近段时间以来，德国总理默克尔一直是紧缩反对者最大的攻击目标，不难理解，几个月以来德国一直对欧盟治理无力之痛袖手旁观，而不愿——事实上是无能为力——接过指挥棒。"
    ],
    [
        "A bigger challenge came with the protracted stock market slowdown, the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.",
        "更大的挑战来自于股市持续下降，2001年美国遭到恐怖袭击，以及阿富汗和伊拉克战争的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the more ironic consequences is that many such people in the US have chosen as their president a narcissistic billionaire who brags about his wealth, personal success, and genius.",
        "其中一个更具讽刺意味的结果是许多这样失败者选择吹嘘财富、个人成功和天才的自恋的亿万富翁来担任他们的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "United Russia is little more than a bunch of state officials.",
        "统一俄罗斯只不过是一群国家官员而已。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short run, it is unlikely that Germany (and Northern Europe more generally) will put up more money for the others.",
        "从短期看，德国（以及北欧）不会再为其他国家掏腰包了。"
    ],
    [
        "That must be the ultimate goal, and step one in the long, winding battle to save Pakistan.",
        "那才是最终的目标，这是漫长而曲折的挽救巴基斯坦的战斗中迈出的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the IAS responds to the information needs of financial investors, but it does not provide a reliable definition of income for tax purposes.",
        "首先，IAS回应的是金融投资者的信息需求，但却并没有为税收目的而提供一个公司收入的定义。"
    ],
    [
        "The American might have been the ultimate chess genius, but the Russian was the class act.",
        "费舍尔也许是国际象棋的终极天才，而斯帕斯基与他等量齐观。"
    ],
    [
        "The share of Americans who say that they are in the lower-middle or lower class has risen from a quarter of the adult population in 2008 to around a third today.",
        "自称属于中低阶级或低级阶级的成年美国人比例从2008年的四分之一上升到现在的三分之一左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Time is a luxury that Europe does not have.",
        "对今天的欧洲来说，时间才是最宝贵的奢侈品。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, whether the overall risk to our environment has been reduced by the pause remains an open question.",
        "与此同时，对我们的环境所造成的总风险是否因为升温暂停而降低仍是一个开放性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The British government already must borrow £112 billion ($172 billion) more than it had planned when it announced its deficit-reduction plan in June 2010.",
        "英国政府于2010年6月宣布赤字削减计划，但现在，它所必须借入的资金规模比计划中多了1120亿英镑。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution, however, lies not in replacing the dollar with the renminbi, but in strengthening the role of the world’s only truly global currency: the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights.",
        "但是，解决方案并不在于用人民币取代美元，而在于强化世界唯一的全球货币——IMF的特别提款权（Special Drawing Rights，SDR）的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern economies rely not on monopolies, but on competition.",
        "现代经济所依赖的并非是垄断，而是竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "That resentment remains, sustained in part by historical grievances, but the Japanese have now come to perceive themselves as Asians, helped by their realization that the economic miracle that they initiated in the region has gone well beyond them.",
        "那种憎恨依然存在，部分是因为历史上日本人所带给他们的痛苦，但是现在日本人因为认识到由他们在这一地区所开创的经济奇迹已经远远超出了本国的范围而重新把自己看成是亚洲人了。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Russians have long assumed that he is also the eyes and ears of the KGB’s successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB), in the natural-resource sector, which forms the core of Russia’s economy and is the hub of the country’s corrupt power networks.",
        "许多俄国人一直认为他也是克格勃继任机构联邦安全局（FSB）在自然资源领域的耳目，而俄罗斯经济核心以及该国腐败权力网络的枢纽恰恰是自然资源领域。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is an imperative for all of the 193 governments that have signed up to the SDGs.",
        "这也是所有193个签署SDG的政府的当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the head of state – whether the president or the monarch – has other critical duties as well, including acting as guarantor of the constitution and a symbol of national unity.",
        "当然，国家首脑——不管是总统还是君主——都有其他关键职责，包括作为先发捍卫者和国家统一的象征等。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, two of history’s most terrifying ideologies, fascism and communism, were devised and embraced in continental Europe.",
        "事实上，历史上最可怕的两种意识形态——法西斯主义和共产主义——都产生和兴盛于欧洲大陆。"
    ],
    [
        "Although some argue that America has no choice but to curtail its outlays in these areas, this is not the case.",
        "尽管一些人认为美国别无选择，只能削减这方面的支出，但事实并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this creates significant downside risks for the EU economy and, ultimately, the entire European political experiment.",
        "所有这些给欧盟经济以及整个欧洲政治实验造成了巨大的失败风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The migrant crisis will have far-reaching ramifications, including the potential destruction of the Schengen zone.",
        "移民危机的后果将十分深远，可能摧毁申根协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, low interest rates are leading to high and rising home prices – possibly real-estate bubbles – in advanced economies and emerging markets alike, including Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brazil, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.",
        "此外，低利率会导致房价不断拉高——可能导致房地产泡沫——无论发达经济体和新兴市场都是一样，包括瑞士、瑞典、挪威、德国、法国、香港、新加坡、巴西、中国、澳大利亚，新西兰以及加拿大。"
    ],
    [
        "The case, Carter v. Canada, could serve as a textbook on the facts, law, and ethics of assistance in dying.",
        "这个卡特诉加拿大（Carter v. Canada）的案子也足以在协助死亡的事实，法律和道德方面被写入教科书。"
    ],
    [
        "The draft constitution completed last month has raised serious concerns, as it places excessive checks on political parties and politicians, while giving appointed bureaucrats and judges the power to overrule policy decisions by elected officials.",
        "上月完成的宪法草案在民众中引发严重关切，因其过度限制政党及政客，并授权官僚和法官否决民选官员决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Worldwide, $184 billion is being allocated in public stimulus investments to promote clean energy, led by the United States ($67 billion) and China ($47 billion).",
        "在全球范围内，用于推动洁净能源发展的公共刺激计划投资高达1840亿美元，其中美国居于首位（670亿美元），中国紧随其后（470亿美元）。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, this yearning for change is why Mockus, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, may reach the presidency in a country that experienced only a scant influx of foreigners in the twentieth century.",
        "事实上，正是这种求变心理导致莫卡斯这个立陶宛移民的儿子在哥伦比亚这样一个二十世纪移民寥寥无几的国家能够争夺总统宝座。"
    ],
    [
        "A transition period would thus hit international businesses based in Britain with a regulatory double-whammy: they would be subject to the whims of UK and EU bureaucracies at the same time.",
        "因此，过渡期将用监管双击打击位于英国的跨国企业：它们将同时受到英国和欧盟官僚的管理。"
    ],
    [
        "But we will need more than that to convince nearly 200 million young Muslims that extremism is, quite literally, a dead end.",
        "但我们还需要其他手段让近2亿穆斯林青年相信，极端主义绝对是一条死路。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreigners make up less than 2% of Japan’s population, and a United Nations report from 2001 found that Japan would need inflows averaging 609,000 immigrants per year until 2050 to maintain the percentage of its working-age population.",
        "移民占日本总人口的不到2%，而2001年联合国的一项报告显示，日本要想在2050维持工作年龄人口比重不变，就必须平均每年接受609000移民."
    ],
    [
        "France needs a debate on European Union affairs, but only as long as it does not degenerate – as is common in Europe – into self-flagellation.",
        "法国需要有关欧洲事务的辩论，但条件是这一辩论不要沦为自我鞭挞。 而这正是欧洲常有的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "This reflects two factors: too little ambition in carrying out essential balance-sheet corrections, and slow progress – negligible in France and Italy – in restructuring Europe’s national economies.",
        "这反映出两个因素：实施关键性资产负债表修正的决定不够，以及欧洲各国政府重组进展缓慢（法国和意大利就是明证）。"
    ],
    [
        "Several developments and forces are now shaping this arena.",
        "目前，决定伊朗核问题的是多方发展形势和力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan has never learned to interact with its Asian neighbors the way that Germany after World War II learned to cooperate with its future European partners, partly because its apologies have appeared formalistic and half-hearted, when they have taken place at all.",
        "德国在二战后学会了如何与未来的欧洲伙伴进行合作，而日本与自己的亚洲邻居之间却未能实现这一点，这在某种程度上是因为该国的道歉总是像一场口是心非的表演。"
    ],
    [
        "Generous but targeted and performance-oriented social transfers, conditional on participation in health and basic education programs, will have to replace the old, largely untargeted subsidies.",
        "慷慨而定向的以表现为导向的社会转移支付（以参与健康和基本教育计划为条件）必须取代旧的非定向的补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "Usually, bailouts calm markets; but this one recalled early post-Soviet experiments, when the CBR issued direct loans to enterprises – invariably fueling higher inflation.",
        "通常援助会安抚市场； 但这一回援助让人想起了后苏联时代初期的实验——CBR向企业直接提供贷款，导致通胀急速升高。"
    ],
    [
        "From 2007 to 2011, China’s money supply increased by 116%, whereas its foreign-exchange reserves grew by 180%.",
        "从2007年到2011年，中国货币供给增加了116%，而其外汇储备增加了180%。"
    ],
    [
        "A Dayton-like agreement can be achieved only if the UN Security Council backs it.",
        "一份与戴顿和平协议类似的协议只有在联合国安理会支持的情况下才能达成。"
    ],
    [
        "But the vicious racist attacks on the justice minister, Christiane Taubira, who is black, would have been unthinkable in past decades.",
        "但对黑人司法部长托比拉（Christiane Taubira）的恶毒的种族主义攻击在过去几十年是不可想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an aspiration that should be renewed for every generation.",
        "事实上，也应该是所有学习的大目标和终点。 ”每一代人都应该有这样的抱负。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet many economists are as ambivalent about “global” rules and institutions as ordinary people are.",
        "但许多经济学家也和普通民众一样对“全球”规则和机构又爱又恨。"
    ],
    [
        "If we go by the most widely used six-digit tariff lines, Bangladesh exported 409 tariff lines to the US in 2004, from which it earned about $2.3 billion.",
        "如果我们采用最为常用的六位数稅则编码，孟加拉国在2004年向美国出口了409个税则编码产品，收入为23亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Highlights included a new typhoid vaccine, shown to improve protection for infants and young children, and a new shingles vaccine.",
        "亮点包括一种新型伤寒疫苗，它能够改善对婴儿和幼童的防护。 此外还有一种新型带状疱疹疫苗。"
    ],
    [
        "Living in History",
        "生活在历史中"
    ],
    [
        "The other thing both films share is a fascination with mythical stories, the Book of Job in Leviathan, and martial-arts fiction in A Touch of Sin.",
        "两部电影另一个共同点是迷恋神话故事，《利维坦》片中的《约伯记》和《天注定》片中的武侠小说就是实例。"
    ],
    [
        "The steep and sustained drop in tobacco consumption in recent decades shows that public information and prevention campaigns can work when based on messages that are consistent with the experience of those whom they target.",
        "近几十年烟草消费量的持续暴跌表明公共信息发布和预防吸烟运动是有效的，只要能使目标受众所接受的信息和自身的体验相一致就行。"
    ],
    [
        "One might say that by compromising with capitalism too much, the third-way leaders compromised themselves.",
        "你也许会说，第三条路领导人向资本主义妥协得太多，以至于把自己也妥协掉了。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem can be summed up in one word: exports (or, rather, lack of export growth).",
        "问题总结起来就是两个字：出口（或者说是出口增长乏力）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Right to Health Is Universal",
        "健康权属于每个人"
    ],
    [
        "Fear of radioactive contamination has stoked strong opposition from residents in areas that would need to accept rubble – even when the rubble is from areas nowhere near Fukushima.",
        "担心放射性污染导致必须接受废墟地区居民的强烈反对，即使废墟来自原理福岛的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "This year is likely to be no different.",
        "今年预计也不会有什么不同。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – I just spent a week in China, where I participated in the Boao Asia Forum, a conference similar to the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos.",
        "香港—我刚刚在中国度过了一周时间，参加了类似于达沃斯世界经济论坛的一年一度的博鳌亚洲论坛。"
    ],
    [
        "But those countries endured their post-communist hardships, because their leaders and enough of their people believed in the promise of free-market capitalism.",
        "但这些国家渡过了后共产主义难关，因为它们的领导人和足够多的人民相信自由市场资本主义带来的憧憬。"
    ],
    [
        "Voting budgets in parliament – a representative institution – ensured that the people as a whole were liable for the obligations incurred by their government.",
        "议会——代议制机构——对预算进行投票，这保证了作为一个整体的人民需要为其政府产生的债务承担责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Not every individual or company stands to gain from the TTIP, but the net effect on Germany’s economy and citizens would be clearly positive.",
        "并非所有个人或公司都能从TTIP中获益，但其对德国经济和公民的净影响显然是积极的。"
    ],
    [
        "But if a Trump trade war is in the offing, they – and other countries – will need to double down on that approach.",
        "但如果特朗普的贸易战马上就会打响，它们——以及其他国家——需要采取更大的力度。"
    ],
    [
        "In pricing stock markets, people don’t seem to be relying on any good forecast of the next ten years’ earnings.",
        "在为股市定价时，人们似乎并不依赖于对未来十年盈利的优良预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Those on the left also shared a deep aversion to nationalism, born of two disastrous European wars.",
        "左翼还深深地厌恶民族主义——两次灾难性的欧洲大战的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s economic system, which developed from the institutions of central planning, must have had some merits during this period.",
        "高速发展期内，从中央计划体制演变而来的中国经济体制无疑有其过人之处。"
    ],
    [
        "Ordinary Chinese generally support the anti-corruption drive; it is they who usually initiate protests and point fingers at dishonest officials.",
        "普通中国人大多支持反腐运动； 经常发起示威和指责不诚实官员的也正是他们。"
    ],
    [
        "One clear way that Europe can demonstrate that its association agreement with Ukraine remains alive is to encourage investment in my country.",
        "欧洲能清楚表明上述联合协议依然有效的方式是积极鼓励对乌克兰投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Most people are creatures of habit; they crave predictability.",
        "人们大多是习惯动物，他们渴望按部就班。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply focusing on the positive – America’s classic approach to alliance diplomacy – is no longer enough.",
        "简单地聚焦于积极面——美国的经典联盟外交方针——已不在足够。"
    ],
    [
        "One option would be to construct seawalls and/or rock revetments high enough to prevent shoreward inundation.",
        "一个选择是建设足够高的海塘和/或石质海岸以防止海水倒灌。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries have kept power and water prices too low and have ended up with shortages.",
        "许多国家都把电力和水的价格控制得太低，最终导致能源短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "Annual growth fell to about 0.5%, and inflation remained in double digits.",
        "年GDP增长率下降为越0. 5%，而通胀率维持在两位数。"
    ],
    [
        "An independent committee of experts convened by the World Health Organization found that the tobacco industry used creative, secretive, and effective tactics to divert the WHO’s focus from NCDs for years.",
        "世界卫生组织组织（WHO）的一个独立专家委员会发现，多年来，烟草业利用创新、秘密而有效的计谋把WHO的注意力从NCD上引开。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, most public services have no prices, there is not supposed to be a profit motive in their provision, and capital markets are not supposed to choose what to fund: the money funds whatever is in the budget.",
        "相反，大部分公共服务没有价格，其供给也不应该有利润动机，资本市场也不是为了选择为哪些公共服务提供资金：只要进入了预算，就能获得资金。"
    ],
    [
        "One word for all of this would be “presidential,” in the sense of competent, seasoned, and sobered by reality.",
        "所有这些用一个词来概括，就是“总统范”，给人一种胜任、老练、清醒于现实的感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Mubarak has already called for a resumption of inter-Palestinian dialogue, which might lead to yet another attempt at a national unity government, the same kind of government with which both Israel and the US refused to do business.",
        "事实上，穆巴拉克已经呼吁巴勒斯坦内部重开对话，这样的努力可能会带来再次成立民族联合政府，也就是以色列和美国拒绝与之打交道的同样类型的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The same can be said of various forms of hunting in other countries, not to mention the vast amount of animal suffering caused by factory farms.",
        "同样地其他国家也进行着各种形式的捕杀活动，更别提养种场给动物造成的大量的巨大痛苦了。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the two projects are commonly viewed as rivals, owing to China’s absence from the TPP, the initiatives could be complementary.",
        "尽管这两项工程被普遍看成是竞争关系——因为中国未加入TPP，但也可以形成互补的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Creating this awareness would be a long-term process, but it is essential.",
        "建立这种意识将是一种长期的过程，但所起的作用却非常关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Authoritarianism, in other words, served no necessary modernizing role.",
        "换句话说，极权主义绝非现代化的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Deposits would be replaced by mutual funds, which, as we know, are also immune to runs, and the risk of structured investment vehicles (SIV’s) would be assessed accurately by rating agencies.",
        "存款会被共同基金取代，而后者如我们所知，也不会出现挤兑。 结构性投资工具(SIV) 会被评级机构精确评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Though much remains to be accomplished and consolidated, his achievements as leader of the international development community are noteworthy and provide a strong foundation upon which to build.",
        "尽管还有很多事情尚待完成和巩固，作为国际发展团体领导人，他所取得的成就非凡卓越，为以后的工作奠定了强有力的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone’s inflation target is not a magic number, and it is irrational to let it determine the overall macroeconomic framework.",
        "欧元区通胀目标并不是神奇数字，用它来决定整体宏观经济框架也是不理性的。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is a mistake to count too much on hard or soft power alone.",
        "但是，仅仅指望钢性力量或者柔性力量都是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important for Pakistan is to expand and reform its public education system and improve basic services so that radical groups cannot lure young people into their educational and welfare networks.",
        "拓展并改革公共教育系统并改善基础服务对巴基斯坦来讲同样重要，这样极端团体就无法引诱青年加入他们的教育和福利网络。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, as Arvind Subramanian has argued, China’s share of global GDP and trade is what makes the renminbi likely to become a global reserve currency.",
        "事实上，阿文德·萨布拉曼尼安（Arvind Subramanian）指出，中国GDP和贸易占世界之比才是让人民可能成为全球储备货币的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The accession of Spain and Portugal was a vivid example of that in the 1980’s, and it is an argument that should be considered with respect to such a populous country as Turkey.",
        "20世纪80年代西班牙和葡萄牙的加入就是一个生动的例子，它也是对土耳其这样一个人口众多的国家加入欧盟这个问题应该考虑观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the United States, which has fared better than most since the crisis, has recorded GDP growth of little more than 10% since the start of 2008; over the same period, China’s economy grew by about 66%.",
        "即便是美国这个自危机爆发以来比大多地区都发展得好的地方，自2008年开始记录的GDP增长很少超过10 %； 而在同一时期，中国的经济增长达到66%。"
    ],
    [
        "It is possible that highly metastasized breast tumors might have acquired additional genetic changes causing resistance to treatment with PARP inhibitors.",
        "高度转移的胸壁肿瘤可能已经获得能抵抗PARP抑制剂治疗的额外遗传性改变。"
    ],
    [
        "This should allay Israeli fears that the right of return would end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.",
        "这应该可以减轻以色列关于回家权利可能导致作为犹太国家的以色列的末日的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Saving Refugees to Save Europe",
        "挽救难民、挽救欧洲"
    ],
    [
        "After initial allocations in 1970-1972, more were issued to increase global liquidity during major international crises: in 1979-1981, in 1997, and, in particular, in 2009, when the largest issue – the equivalent of $250 billion – was made.",
        "1970—1972年首次分配后又多次在主要国际危机期间增发以提高全球流动性：1979—1981年、1997年、2009年莫不如此，特别是2009年，增发量高达2,500亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The record level of abstention in the recent European Parliament elections is further proof of that growing cynicism and alienation.",
        "看看近期欧洲议会的选举，参与投票的人数又创新低。 这更加证明了欧洲悲观和孤立的情绪正在不断攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of a global war that claimed more than 50 million lives, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the world’s two major powers.",
        "在夺走5000多万人生命的世界大战结束时，美国和苏联成为世界两大超级大国。"
    ],
    [
        "That belief lay behind Bush’s denial of federal government funds for stem-cell research that could encourage the destruction of human embryos.",
        "这一信念促使布什否决了为可能鼓励摧毁人类胚胎的干细胞研究提供联邦资助。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s Russia is anything but shy when it comes to ethnic unity.",
        "普京的俄罗斯在种族团结问题上毫不含糊。"
    ],
    [
        "And the reason we know that is that we’ve been up the blind alley with another company; but that experience remains unreported for commercial reasons.”",
        "我们之所以清楚这一点是因为在接受另一家公司委托时已经走进过死胡同； 但由于商业原因上述结果并未公之于众。"
    ],
    [
        "The central human character, Will Rodman (played by James Franco), is a scientist seeking a cure for Alzheimer’s disease who experiments on apes.",
        "片中最重要的人类角色威尔·罗德曼（由詹姆斯·弗朗克扮演）是一位用人猿作实验品来寻找老年痴呆症疗法的科学家。"
    ],
    [
        "European countries should also pursue more focused pro-growth measures at the national level, while supporting stronger regional efforts, facilitated by a reinvigorated reform-minded Franco-German leadership and a relatively orderly Brexit process.",
        "欧洲国家还应在国家一级实施更为聚焦的促进增长措施，同时支持更强有力的区域性举措，这得由心怀重振改革思想的法德领导层和相对有序的英国脱欧进程来推动。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in many cases, the regulators actually believe that there is nothing wrong with the behavior in question – either because they have been persuaded by lobbyists or because they themselves used to work in the industry (or could go work there soon.)",
        "但是，在许多情况中，监管者其实认为问题行为没有问题——要么是因为他们被游说集团说服，要么是因为他们自身曾经在业内工作过（或者可能很快就要去业内工作）。"
    ],
    [
        "Why was a cow preserved in formaldehyde a great cultural achievement?",
        "为什么用甲醛保存的一头母牛称得上一项伟大的文化成就？"
    ],
    [
        "All traditional individual rights are already covered in the Declaration of Human Rights, which will continue to be enforced by the court in Strasbourg.",
        "所有传统的个人权利都已经被写入《人权宣言》，并会继续由斯特拉斯堡的法院执行。"
    ],
    [
        "Newly emboldened, the government pledged to crackdown on groups that engage in violence, and announced plans to empower authorities to disband organizations that threaten ‘security and order.’",
        "受到支持的政府发誓将镇压那些进行暴力活动的团体，并宣布计划赋予执法机关权力使他们有权解散威胁“安全和社会秩序”的组织。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – South Asia is riddled with multiple antagonisms and mutual suspicions.",
        "新德里—南亚充斥着多边对抗和相互怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, China is set to take some more world-shaping decisions at this month’s Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee.",
        "即将在本月召开的中共十八届五中全会将做出更多的影响世界的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey – locked in conflict with Russia, estranged from Egypt and Iran, and pursuing policies on Syria, the Islamic State (ISIS), and the Kurds that clash with those of its NATO allies – has lately found itself increasingly isolated in a sea of chaos.",
        "土耳其陷入了与俄罗斯的冲突，与埃及和伊朗对立，在叙利亚、伊斯兰国和库尔德人等问题上的政策又与其北约盟国相悖，正在日益被孤立于一片混乱之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Non-Russian Europe should thank the Almighty for the presence of energy-rich Russia at its borders, while Russia should be thankful for having such wealthy customers.",
        "俄国以外的欧洲应该感谢上帝，因为后者安排能源丰富的俄罗斯与它为邻； 而俄国也应为拥有这样一批富有的主顾而心存感激。"
    ],
    [
        "With strong and prudent action, governments around the world can cope effectively with the natural limitations and uncertainties affecting water resources, ensuring that their people and economies are prepared for what might lie ahead.",
        "世界各国政府可以采取谨慎有力的行动有效应对影响水资源安全的自然限制和不确定性，确保本国民众和国内经济为应对未来的形势做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "ATHENS – European integration implies successive transfers of national sovereignty to the Union.",
        "雅典——欧洲一体化意味着国家主权陆陆续续向欧盟的转移。"
    ],
    [
        "In October, Secretary of Labor Tom Perez revised existing rules to allow pension fund managers to consider the social impact of investments as long as doing so does not compromise the managers’ fiduciary obligations.",
        "10月，劳工部长佩雷兹（Tom Perez）修订了现有规则，允许退休基金经理考虑社会影响力投资，只要这种投资不与基金经理的信托义务相悖。"
    ],
    [
        "But a chance to achieve real, lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians has clearly arrived.",
        "但在巴以之间达成真正、持久和平的机会就在眼前。"
    ],
    [
        "But that historical pattern, in my view, depended crucially on the small size of the immigrant population and its cultural closeness to the home population.",
        "但在我看来，这一历史模式有一个关键前提，即移民规模小，并且在文化上与母国人口切断联系。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called ALBA countries (the Spanish acronym for the so-called Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas), which includes Cuba, Venezuela, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Dominica, and Ecuador, were able partly to outwit – and partly to “out-blackmail” – Canada, the United States, and the Latin American democracies in getting Cuba rehabilitated.",
        "而这要归功于由古巴、委内瑞拉、洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜、玻利维亚、多米尼加和厄瓜多尔等国组成的所谓ALBA国家集团（名称取自西班牙语“玻利瓦尔美洲国家替代计划”的首字母缩写），是他们成功地使用了威逼利诱之策，促使加拿大，美国和其它拉美民主国家为古巴恢复了名誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Apart from the decisive role that it played in Libya alongside France, Britain is becoming increasingly marginal in European foreign policymaking.",
        "除了与法国一起在利比亚发挥了决定性的作用，英国在欧洲外交决策中变得日益边缘化。"
    ],
    [
        "While Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon defined the most important hot spots in the old Middle East, regional power and politics in the wake of the Iraq war is now centered in the Persian Gulf.",
        "以色列、巴勒斯坦和黎巴嫩是旧中东最重要的热点地区，而伊拉克战争之后的地区权力和政治现在是波斯湾的中心议题。"
    ],
    [
        "A small but significant example of this is the United Kingdom’s recent debate in Parliament of a bill recognizing the right to same-sex marriage, which follows a decision taken in France this spring to legalize same-sex marriage.",
        "一个见微知著的例子是英国国会最近围绕承认同性婚姻权利的法案所进行的争论。 在英国的这个法案之前，法国于今年春天决定将同性婚姻合法化。"
    ],
    [
        "While the euro has not caused France’s economic problems, its politicians’ commitment to the single currency represents an insurmountable barrier to solving them.",
        "欧元并没有造成法国的经济问题，但法国政客对单一货币的承诺却给解决问题造成了不可逾越的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Decision Time for the Global Economy",
        "全球经济的决策时刻"
    ],
    [
        "The problem with today’s ambiguity is that it is not particularly strategic.",
        "今天的含糊性的问题是它并不特别具有战略性。"
    ],
    [
        "The G20 Embraces Green Finance",
        "G20采纳绿色金融"
    ],
    [
        "The Stoics understood this.",
        "斯多葛派理解这种状况。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even for South Korea’s most highly educated and capable female workers, child rearing is a major career obstacle.",
        "但是，即使对韩国教育程度最好、工作能力最强的女性来说，育儿也是主要职业障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings us back to Trump.",
        "这让我们回到了特朗普。"
    ],
    [
        "The Inequality Trap",
        "不平等性陷阱"
    ],
    [
        "Besides skipping town, one can mitigate at least some of the risks by limiting one’s exposure on particularly hazardous days.",
        "除了逃离城市，还可以通过限制特别危险日的空气吸入来控制某些风险因素。"
    ],
    [
        "It includes actors as diverse as bankers electronically transferring sums larger than most national budgets, as well as terrorists transferring weapons or hackers disrupting Internet operations.",
        "这一领域包括了用电子转账转移比许多国家的预算还要多的钱的银行家，以及转移武器的恐怖分子或者破坏因特网运行的电脑黑客等各种各样的参与者。"
    ],
    [
        "You might, for example, have extra checkups to detect early signs of the diseases that you are most at risk of contracting, or you could alter your diet to reduce that risk.",
        "例如，如果你知道自己最有可能患什么病，就可以多做一些体检，发现这些疾病的早期迹象，或者可以改变饮食习惯，降低患病风险。"
    ],
    [
        "I recently debated this point with Krugman at a New York Review of Books event.",
        "我最近在一次《纽约书评》（New York Review of Books）活动中与克鲁格曼辩论了这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "New HIV infections have dropped by as much as 50% in some countries in Africa, with AIDS-related deaths down by 30-48%; TB cases have declined by 40%, and malaria cases by 30%.",
        "新增艾滋病毒感染病例在非洲某些国家已经降低了近50%，艾滋病致死率降低30-48%； 肺结核病例降低40%，疟疾病例也出现了30%的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "A Great Breakdown?",
        "大崩溃？"
    ],
    [
        "For 21 years, the fence around the Aberdares was painstakingly built, supported mainly by Kenya’s corporate sector, individual donors, and innovative fundraising exercises such as the Rhino Charge, an off-road motor event that has captured the Kenyan public’s imagination and annually raises more than $1 million.",
        "21年来，环绕亚伯达的电网的建设可谓费尽心思，其资金主要来自肯尼亚企业、个人捐赠和创新性筹资活动。 后者包括一项名为“犀牛冲锋”（Rhino Charge）的筹资运动，这次越野车比赛吸引了肯尼亚公众的想象力，每年筹资超过100万美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, there is general agreement that the government should take more active responsibility for environmental issues, although policies in this area increasingly rely on market instruments (prices for environmental disturbances) rather than on quantitative regulations",
        "第二，人们大多认为，尽管环境问题上的政策越来越多地依靠市场手段（为破坏环境付费）而不是在数量上的法规，政府应当在这一问题上承担更大的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "A decade of running and hiding from unrelenting surveillance and targeted drone attacks has caused the movement to splinter.",
        "十年来一刻不停地与监控和定向无人机攻击捉迷藏已经造成了塔利班内部的裂痕。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, consumers have gained an array of free services and conveniences.",
        "恰恰相反，消费者们已经获得了一系列的免费便利措施和服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Its 50,000 kilometers of new roads are built to handle even large aircraft, which is more than one can say about some of the runways at India’s shambolic airports.",
        "它正在修建5万公里甚至可以应付大型飞机的马路，这些马路比印度破旧不堪的机场的跑道还要好。"
    ],
    [
        "Their surpluses have turned into deficits, and their sovereign wealth funds and currency reserves have suffered major losses.",
        "它们的盈余变成了赤字，而国家主权基金和外汇储备损失惨重。"
    ],
    [
        "A drop of one percentage point in China’s investment rate is estimated to reduce Taiwan’s GDP growth rate by 0.9 percentage points and Korea’s by 0.6 percentage points.",
        "预计中国的投资率每下降1个百分点将使台湾GDP增长率下降0. 9个百分点，韩国的GDP增长率下降0."
    ],
    [
        "American regulators jumped the gun.",
        "综上所述，美国药物管理局的官员在此事上有点神经过敏了。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, whatever happens on one side of the Mediterranean has had a direct impact on the other; given today’s high level of global interdependence, there is every reason to believe that this will remain true.",
        "历史上地中海一侧发生的状况会对另一侧造成直接的影响； 鉴于当前全球高度的相互依赖性，我们完全有理由相信这一规律仍将发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor will it ease the suffering of the city’s population, much of which has been displaced.",
        "阿勒颇市民的苦难也得不到缓解——其中许多人已经流离失所。 阿勒颇围城赢得了什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The tragedy is that these deaths are almost entirely preventable.",
        "悲剧在于这些死亡几乎完全可以防止。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters more, though, are the rules governing the real economy.",
        "而更重要的则是管理实体经济的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Rico in Crisis",
        "危机中的波多黎各"
    ],
    [
        "They are spreading the news that, for the first time in history, people can quit smoking without giving up the pleasure they derive from nicotine.",
        "他们在历史上第一次散播人们可以戒除吸烟又不失去尼古丁带来的乐趣的消息。"
    ],
    [
        "Military Transparency and Asian Security",
        "军事透明与亚洲安全"
    ],
    [
        "An age-old, no-cost intervention, breastfeeding exclusively for the first six months of a baby’s life is one of the easiest ways to prevent both diarrhea and pneumonia.",
        "作为古老的无成本干预手段，新生儿前六个月纯母乳喂养是预防腹泻和肺炎最简单的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Another difference with past financial downturns in emerging markets is that investments in the EBRD region – Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, Turkey, and the former Soviet Union – have turned out to be long term, rather than short-term or speculative.",
        "新兴市场与先前金融衰退时期的另一点不同则体现在对欧洲复兴开发银行运作的地区——即东欧，东南欧，土耳其与前苏联国家——的投资已经转变为长期投资，而非往日的短期投资或投机行为 。"
    ],
    [
        "But it had to be ratified by each of Mexico’s 31 states, and only the more liberal states did so.",
        "但它必须得到墨西哥所有31个州的批准，但只有比较自由的州才会这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Senate Republicans have pushed forward confirmation hearings for Trump’s cabinet picks, even though proper vetting and financial disclosures have not yet taken place.",
        "参议院共和党积极推进特朗普内阁人选的确认听证，尽管适当审查和财务披露都还尚未进行。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 9/11, more and more freedoms are being restricted in the name of defending liberty.",
        "自9/11以来，越来越多的自由被以维护自由的名义受到限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Bhutan is also asking how economic growth can be combined with environmental sustainability – a question that it has answered in part through a massive effort to protect the country’s vast forest cover and its unique biodiversity.",
        "不丹也在思考如何将经济发展与环境可持续性联系起来——该国在大规模森林保护和特有物种多样性保育方面的举措已经部分回答了这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, America trumpeted its continuing support for Turkish membership in the EU, notably in President Bush's speech in June at Istanbul's Galatasaray University - at a bridge that joins Asia and Europe.",
        "于是，布什总统6月在伊斯坦布尔加拉塔萨雷大学的讲话中再次重申了支持土耳其加入欧盟的立场，布什这次讲话的地点被安排在一座连接亚欧大陆的桥上。"
    ],
    [
        "Piped water, sewerage, and electricity are seen as essential in the Americas, but not in India.",
        "自来水、下水道和电力在美洲被认为是基本条件，但在印度则不是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "Renewable Energy and Middle East Economic Renewal",
        "可再生能源和中东经济再生"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, China has a large bilateral trade surplus with the US; but it also constitutes an expanding export market for US companies.",
        "可以肯定的是，中国与美国之间存在巨大的双边贸易顺差； 但它也构成了美国企业不断扩大的出口市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In effect, Trump has challenged the US Congress to do what is normally the executive branch’s responsibility: create foreign policy.",
        "事实上，特朗普已经迫使美国国会完成制定外交政策这项本应由行政部门担负的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the factors that will shape our lives appear to tug in different directions.",
        "确定我们生活的某些因素似乎朝不同的方向拉动。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this is a great exaggeration.",
        "不幸的是，这又是一种夸张之辞。"
    ],
    [
        "In a longer historical perspective, this policy paralysis may not be surprising.",
        "从更长的历史视角来看，出现这种政策僵局也没什么好大惊小怪的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the world receives an astounding return on its investments in the UN, and member countries should be investing far more, not less, in its organizations and programs.",
        "但投资于联合国给世界所带来的回报是巨大的，其成员国应该加大而不是减少对联合国组织和计划的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, coal plants, if they are to remain a major part of the energy mix, will need to capture and store their CO2, a process called “carbon capture and sequestration,” or CCS for short. Yet this technology remains unproved.",
        "举例来说，如果那些燃煤发电厂希望自己能继续作为能源供给结构的重要组成部分存在的话，那么就要应用捕获并储存二氧化碳的技术，这个技术过程被称为“碳捕捉和封存”（简称CCS），但却还未经研究证明有效。"
    ],
    [
        "Parents in poor countries, who have been flocking to private schools, may beg to differ.",
        "涌向私立学校的贫穷国家的家长也许无法苟同。"
    ],
    [
        "Lower oil prices and job creation, it was thought, would boost disposable income and consumption.",
        "人们认为，油价下跌和就业创造将提高可支配收入和消费。"
    ],
    [
        "So three cheers for Keating, right or wrong.",
        "所以我们应该为基廷大声喝彩，不管他是对还是错。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a third and new factor now in play, one that does not measure power in the same way as the military and the Brotherhood.",
        "但现在有了第三个、也是新出现的因素的作用，它衡量权力的方式不同于军队和穆兄会。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the fiscal nirvana long promised by supply siders never materialized.",
        "相反，供给派所许诺的财政涅槃从未实现过。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, the Thai people, buffeted by domestic polarization and regional challenges, will have to muster their once-famous negotiation skills to achieve a workable compromise based on their shared interests.",
        "真到那时，与国内极化和地区挑战英勇斗争的泰国人民将不得不利用他们曾经著名的谈判技巧，在共同利益基础上实现某种可以接受的折衷。"
    ],
    [
        "In the medium term, modernity is indivisible: you can have all of it or none.",
        "从中期角度看，现代化是不可分的：你要么全部拥有，要么就什么也没有。"
    ],
    [
        "In the area of Daulat Beg Oldie, near Depsang Plains, in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, a patrol of about 15 People’s Liberation Army soldiers crossed into Indian-held territory and set up camp for an extended stay.",
        "在查谟和克什米尔（Jammu and Kashmir）的拉达克（Ladakh）地区的达普桑盆地（Depsang Plains）附近的道拉伯格玉尔地（Daulat Beg Oldie），解放军的一支15人规模的巡逻队越境进入印控领土并安营扎寨，停留多日。"
    ],
    [
        "Then we fell into the usual British trap.",
        "但随后我们却一如既往地陷入了英国式困境当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Before enlargement, it was politically incorrect to discuss possible waves of migration to the West, as EU politicians saw this as an obstacle to the enlargement process.",
        "欧盟东扩前，谈论可能涌向西欧的移民潮在政治上是错误的，因为欧盟的政治人物认为这是对欧盟扩大进程的阻碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom’s vote in June to leave the European Union – against the advice of experts and allies – appears to validate this concern.",
        "英国6月不顾专家和盟友的反对投票退出欧盟似乎证实了这种担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "While the country should be able to avoid a hard landing, it can expect annual growth to remain at 6-7% over the next decade.",
        "尽管中国应能避免硬着陆，但可以预期未来十年年增长率保持在6—7%。"
    ],
    [
        "Giving Europeans the time and space to choose more Europe would reinforce the core values upon which integration has rested for more than six decades.",
        "给欧洲人时间和空间去选择更欧洲有助于强化六十多年来作为欧洲一体化基石的核心价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Continuing uncertainty made capital planning very difficult. So bankers favored a deal, and will live with the outcome, if it is genuinely the end of the program.",
        "由于持续的不确定性使得资本规划变得非常困难，所以银行家们希望能达成一个协议，也接受协议的结果——只求这确实是整个进程的终结。"
    ],
    [
        "Unimpressed with what others saw as the beginning of an era of democracy in the Arab world, he preferred not to budge on any front, including Palestine.",
        "其他人认为现在是阿拉伯世界开始走向民主的时代，而内塔尼亚胡并不这么看，他不会在任何方面让步，包括巴勒斯坦问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Communists needed the vote of just one MP in order to perpetuate their domination of Moldovan politics for another term by electing their president in parliament.",
        "共产党只需在投票中再赢得一个议员席位就能在在国会选举出自己的总统，从而继续把持着对摩尔多瓦政治的主导权。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifth, the international community, spearheaded by the United Nations Security Council, has more often than not been paralyzed in the face of challenges to international security and ineffectual in responding to suspected cases of nuclear proliferation.",
        "问题之五在于，以联合国安理会为首的国际社会往往在国际安全面临挑战的情况下陷入瘫痪，对于疑似的核扩散事件也无法做出有效的回应。"
    ],
    [
        "Tellingly, their promises were to “take back control” and “make America great again” – in other words, to turn back the clock.",
        "说实话，他们的承诺是“收回控制权”和“让美国再次伟大”——换句话讲，就是拨回历史的时钟。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – At the start of the Industrial Revolution, textile workers in the Midlands and the North of England, mainly weavers, staged a spontaneous revolt, smashing machinery and burning factories.",
        "伦敦—工业革命伊始，英格兰中部和北部的纺织工人（以织布工为主）发动了一场自发的抵抗运动，砸毁机器、烧毁工厂。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic benefits include job creation in the short term, “re-shoring” of some manufacturing activities in the medium term, and, lower macroeconomic vulnerability to global oil shocks in the long term.",
        "经济利益包括短期内创造就业机会，中期支撑生产活动，以及长期降低宏观经济在全球石油危机面前的脆弱性。"
    ],
    [
        "Borrowing from the IMF may be humiliating for government officials.",
        "向IMF借钱或许会令政府官员感到蒙羞。"
    ],
    [
        "More often it is the politics of protectionism that are the crucial factor behind trade defenses.",
        "更多的时候，在保护贸易的措施的背后，保护主义的政治学是至关重要的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a Human Rights Watch analysis of satellite images, still more Rohingya villages were destroyed over the course of nine days in November, bringing the number of buildings razed to 1,250; meanwhile, 30,000 people have reportedly been displaced.",
        "据人权观察组织对卫星图像的分析，在11月的九天时间里，有更多的罗兴亚村庄被毁，被毁建筑数量达到了1,250座； 与此同时，30,000人报告失踪。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, making the transition requires investments in human capital that individuals often cannot afford.",
        "此外，做这样的转变需要对人力资本进行投资，而个人通常难以负担相关支出。"
    ],
    [
        "At the risk of hyperbole, it’s wise to remember that you don’t have to be a nice guy to get the economy going.",
        "冒着夸张的风险，一个明智之举是记住让经济向前并不是只有聪明人才能做到。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, this portrayal implies that little can be done to mitigate, or even prevent, such occurrences.",
        "更糟的是，这样的描述意味着没有办法能够缓解、甚至避免这样的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the current pace of change in the Middle East, we might not have to wait long for answers – or for more questions.",
        "依照中东地区目前的变革轨迹，我们可能不需要等待太久就能看到答案——或者是更多的麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "But I do think there is sustainable value of the kind that no corporation or financially driven investor could ever justify.",
        "但我的确认为企业或金融投资者永远无法理解的长期价值是切实存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "France did not vote, so Great Britain and Denmark won by default.",
        "对此法国没有投票，结果英国和丹麦的提议自动通过。"
    ],
    [
        "A historical wave beyond his control had lifted the former KGB lieutenant colonel from out of the shadows to the pinnacle of power. But fate might also just as suddenly wash him away.",
        "无法掌控的历史大潮将前这位前克格勃陆军中校从不知名的角落席卷出来，带到了权力的顶峰，但命运也可能以同样的速度将他再次冲走。"
    ],
    [
        "What provoked Swaraj’s outburst was a Twitter user’s complaint to her that the Amazon Canada website offered for sale doormats depicting the Indian flag.",
        "让斯瓦拉伊突然爆发的是一位Twitter用户像她投诉亚马逊加拿大网站贩卖印度国旗图案的门垫。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Middle East game of thrones, Obama is playing his hand as well as he can.",
        "在中东的权力游戏中，奥巴马已经尽力而为。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, if the US withdraws its largely nominal tactical nuclear weapons from Europe, US-Europe strategic ties would weaken.",
        "同样，如果美国撤回了象征性部署在欧洲的战术核武器，美欧之间的战略纽带就会遭到削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The diversion of land to bio-fuels production has reduced the land available to produce agricultural commodities.",
        "将土地用于生物燃料的生产减少了可用于生产农产品的土地的数量。"
    ],
    [
        "But the situation in the US Congress is more dubious.",
        "但美国国会的状况并不那么确定。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while some contagion will be unavoidable – whatever happens to Greece is likely to spread to Portugal, and Ireland’s financial position, too, could become unsustainable – the rest of the eurozone needs to be ring-fenced.",
        "希腊违约必然会造成某种程度的传染——希腊发生的一切都可能在葡萄牙再度出现，和爱尔兰的财政状况也可能变得不可持续——因此其他欧元区国家必须筑起高墙。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is acting because its European partners have not.",
        "美国正在采取行动，而欧洲盟国却没有。"
    ],
    [
        "What is at stake is less the election’s outcome than the margin between President Nicolas Sarkozy and the far-right National Front leader, Marine Le Pen – and whether she overtakes him to qualify for the second-round run-off against the Socialist candidate.",
        "真正使法国总统萨科奇处于危险的并不是总统选举的结果，而是他和极右派民族阵线领导人勒庞之间的隔阂，以及是否她会代替萨科奇参加第二轮对抗社会主义代表的决定性竞选。"
    ],
    [
        "A growth slowdown is hardly shocking for an export-led economy.",
        "对出口导向型经济来说，减速并不令人震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "Ministers at the conference in Buenos Aires should thus be prepared to have an honest discussion about S&D.",
        "因此布宜诺斯艾利斯会议的部长们应该准备针对优待条款展开诚布公的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are rapidly catching up as the rate of antibiotics consumption outstrips the pace of economic growth.",
        "但它们正在快速赶超，因为抗生素消费率的增加比经济增长更快。"
    ],
    [
        "The time for any old kind of public spending simply to support aggregate demand, if not already over, soon will be.",
        "按照老派的做法，扩大公共开支以扩张总需求的阶段，即使还未过去，也快走到头了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, treating China as an enemy would ensure that it became one, thus unnecessarily ignoring the possibility of benign outcomes.",
        "另外，如果把中国当作敌人看待那么它肯定就会成为一个敌人，由此不必要地忽略了可能有利的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "This fundamental problem has now manifested itself in these countries’ unsustainable debt dynamics.",
        "这些根本性问题如今在这些国家无以为继的债务循环上暴露无疑。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the application of digital technology, introduced after a ferocious struggle with the powerful print unions, brought substantial cost savings and allowed a new era of journalism.",
        "具体而言，在克服了印刷业工会的强力阻挠之后，数字技术全面引入，大大节约了成本，并把新闻行业带入了一个新纪元。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that democracy is unimportant.",
        "这并不意味着民主无足轻重。"
    ],
    [
        "The American political system, at least, appears incapable of setting out the central fiscal policy issues in ways that give voters a chance to make informed judgments and distinguish between candidates-even between candidates whose programs are serious and those whose programs are mathematically impossible jokes.",
        "看起来美国的政治制度至少不能公开列出核心的财政问题，以便选民们有机会做出明智的判断，区分候选人——甚至是区分提出严肃计划的候选人和其计划只是数学上不可完成的笑话的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "To salvage the bilateral relationship, Trump would have to sacrifice America’s partnership with the Kurds, whose militias in Syria and Iraq have been America’s most reliable allies in the battles for Mosul and Raqqa.",
        "为了挽救双边关系，特朗普必须牺牲与库尔德人的合作。 叙利亚和伊拉克的库尔德武装是美国在摩苏尔和拉卡战事中最可靠的盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, most of the economic gains in the US in recent years have gone to the rich, while the middle class has fallen behind in relative terms.",
        "其次，美国近些年来所获得的经济效益大部分进了富人的腰包，而中产阶级的相对收入大大落后了。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve their objectives, China’s leaders will need to strike a delicate balance between a muscular, disciplined, and ubiquitous Party, setting standards and protecting the public interest, and innovative, empowered, and potent markets, driving the economy into the future.",
        "要达到目标，中国领导人将需要在一个负责制定标准和保护公众利益的强有力，富有纪律性且无所不在的党与推动经济进入未来的创新性，被赋予权利和充满潜力的市场之间实现精巧的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has a particular need for effective international cooperation now, when it is stretched militarily, economically, and politically owing to its policies toward Iraq and Afghanistan.",
        "现在当美国因为它对伊拉克和阿富汗的政策而在军事、经济和政治上战线拉得很长的时候，它尤其需要有效的国际合作。"
    ],
    [
        "This is no small order at the level of international relations and cooperation.",
        "在国际关系和合作上，这些都绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "At the crossroads of this question stands NATO, an organization perceived as American by Europeans and international (i.e., not American) by the average US citizen.",
        "北约实际处在问题的核心，该组织被欧洲人视为归属美国而被普通美国人视为归属国际（即非美）。"
    ],
    [
        "So it should be no surprise that the Saudi regime was the first to condemn Shi’a Hezbollah at the start of the war with Israel, and that it announced in December that it would support Iraq’s Sunnis militarily should a precipitate US withdrawal incite a Sunni/Shi’a civil war there.",
        "因此，沙特政权在什叶派真主党与以色列交战伊始就第一个予以谴责、并在十二月份宣布，如果美国匆忙撤军导致伊拉克什叶派和逊尼派的内战，它将在军事上支持逊尼派也就不足为奇了。"
    ],
    [
        "Much opinion poll evidence shows that the presidency is the only institution that Russians accept as legitimate (in contrast to the legislature and judiciary, which are perceived as corrupt and ineffective).",
        "大多数的民意调查结果显示总统职位是俄罗斯人认为唯一合法的机构（这与立法机关和司法系统形成鲜明对比，它们被看成是腐败和低效率的）。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in order to succeed, Turkey must firmly pursue a pledge from all the region’s players to repudiate the use of force in settling their disputes.",
        "但是，为了成功，土耳其必须紧紧寻求本地区所有国家的承诺，在解决争端中放弃使用武力。"
    ],
    [
        "The failure of elected politicians to act appropriately – particularly in some eurozone countries – has turned central banks into the “only game in town.”",
        "由于民选政治家未能采取适当行动——特别是在一些欧元区国家，中央银行因此成为了“唯一的选项”。"
    ],
    [
        "We are encountering, not without irony, a kind of grotesque reverse of the “national pride” seen when cultural and sporting stars are appropriated by the state and presented as part of the collective patrimony.",
        "不无讽刺的是，我们正遭遇着一种怪异的“民族自豪感”的逆转：正如文化和体育明星们被国家利用，作为集体的世袭财产。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on published research papers, the country accounts for 64% of all research undertaken in Africa.",
        "发表研究论文的统计显示，南非占非洲所有研究项目的64%。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Trump is far from the only corporate boss who prefers to keep leadership “all in the family.”",
        "此外，喜欢把“领导权完全掌控在家人手里”的企业老板也并非只有特朗普一个。"
    ],
    [
        "These policies are, in essence, the latest in a string of attempts by the ECB to address the fallout of the collapse of the massive bubble that formed in southern Europe in the early years of the euro.",
        "欧洲央行一直都尝试收拾南欧地区在推行欧元的最初一段时期形成的大量泡沫崩溃的残局，而这些政策只是这一系列尝试中的最新一项。"
    ],
    [
        "All governments must take seriously their responsibility to educate young people to accept and respect people of different faiths and cultures.",
        "所有政府都必须严肃滴承担起教育年轻人接受和尊重与自己不同信仰和文化的人的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Existing policies to achieve social cohesion are based on the belief that, if uncorrected, the free play of market forces will lead to wide disparities in income and thus intensify social conflict.",
        "现有实现社会凝聚的政策建立在这一信念基础之上，那就是，市场力量如果不加以调节就会导致巨大的收入差距，从而激化社会冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "I should have stifled myself: Eddie, figuring he had a live one, sent the missing attachment with a note saying “We are so glad someone of your stature might be interested and, by the way, if you have any friends or colleagues who might be interested, could you please forward this email to them also?”",
        "埃迪，看到有一个人中计了，寄来了那份忘记发的附件，同时告知我“我们非常高兴一位有你这样身份的人会对我们感兴趣。 顺便问一句，你是否有其他朋友或同事也对此感兴趣呢，你可以把这份邮件也转发给他们吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Fifth, external financial assistance cannot postpone the day of reckoning forever.",
        "第五，外部经济援助并不能永久地推迟算总账的日子。"
    ],
    [
        "Start with the proposal made by Martin Feldstein, who recommends a trade: the government should reduce the value of mortgages when they are sufficiently underwater, with the government and the banks splitting the losses; in exchange, the borrower must agree that the new loan becomes “full recourse.”",
        "让我们从马丁·菲尔德斯坦（Martin Feldstein）的方案开始。 他建议做一笔买卖：政府减记深度资不抵债抵押贷款的价值，损失由政府和银行分担；"
    ],
    [
        "This is the context of our current peculiar vulnerability.",
        "这就是我们当前特有的脆弱的总体环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, Xi should make the case that development done right benefits everyone, and he should launch discussions on a multilateral investment agreement to be developed in the next year.",
        "具体而言，习近平应该证明正确的发展能让所有人受益。 他还应该发起关于明年制定多边投资协定的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "But the protesters are ingenious: they echoed what I said through the crowd, so that all could hear.",
        "但抗议者可谓别出心裁：他们回应着我急匆匆穿越人群时所说的话，这样，所有人都能听见我说什么了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Commission report sets out to identify the main obstacles to financing such infrastructure and to create an agenda to overcome them.",
        "全球委员会报告的主旨是指出此类基础设施融资的主要障碍，并制定克服这些障碍的议程。"
    ],
    [
        "The real worry, however, is not just falling commodity prices, but also massive capital outflows.",
        "但真正让人担心不只是商品价格的下跌，还有大规模的资本外流。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time that mistake was recognized, the damage was done, needlessly sacrificing security.",
        "当所犯的错误得到承认时，损害已经造成，安全被无谓地牺牲了。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, developing countries are rapidly increasing their contributions to green finance, with domestic clean-energy financing in non-OECD countries having surpassed OECD-country levels in 2008.",
        "与此同时，发展中国家对绿色金融的贡献正在快速增加，非经合组织国家的国内清洁能源融资规模在2008年便已超过经合组织国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Some qualified voters didn't get their bar codes; others feared that employers might use them to learn how they voted.",
        "有些有投票资格的人没领到条形码，而另外一些人则担心条形码会被老板利用来查询自己的投票结果。"
    ],
    [
        "China has already laid the foundation for playing its part: its policy of xiaokang (reducing poverty and expanding the middle class) should create a market for billions of dollars of Western goods and services.",
        "中国在这方面已经开始为其所扮演的角色打下基础：小康政策（减少贫困并扩大中产阶级）将为西方商品和服务创造一个价值数十亿美元的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In Saudi Arabia, employment increased almost nine-fold.",
        "沙特的就业职位则增长了几乎九倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Strangely, despite being a candidate of change, Obama has not taken the approach of presenting real plans of action for change.",
        "令人感到奇怪的是，尽管是变化的拥护者，奥巴马还一直没有采取措施提出真正的行动计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Muslim, Hindu, and Jewish relief groups are active the world over in combating poverty and disease.",
        "大量的穆斯林，印度教和犹太教团体活跃在全球扶贫抗病阵线上。"
    ],
    [
        "For far too long, the region’s post-secondary institutions have operated without having to prove that the education they provide aligns with global quality standards and expectations.",
        "长久以来，地区高等教育机构不必向外界证明其所提供的教育服务符合国际质量标准和要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Combine this with China’s bullying of Japan, by blocking the export of rare-earth metals vital for Japanese industry, over a few uninhabited islands between Taiwan and Okinawa, and its refusal to let the renminbi appreciate, and one must wonder why China is being so heavy-handed in its foreign relations.",
        "把这件事与在台湾和冲绳之间几个无人小岛的主权问题上以禁止作为日本工业命脉的稀土出口来要挟日本，以及拒绝人民币升值等事件放在一起来看，人们一定会疑惑中国为什么突然采取如此笨拙的外交手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics of neoliberalism cannot consistently exempt population movements from regulation.",
        "新自由主义的批评者无法一直让人口流动免于管制。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, some in Europe believe that America’s interest in Asia is a recent development.",
        "比如，一些欧洲人认为美国对亚洲的兴趣是最近才发展起来的。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Congressional Budget Office, infrastructure spending is one of the most cost-effective forms of federal government spending in terms of the number of jobs created per dollar allocated.",
        "根据国会预算办公室的数据，从每一美元所创造的的就业数量衡量，基础设施支出是联邦政府性价比最高的支出形式。"
    ],
    [
        "In practical terms, the February 20 Eurogroup agreement, which provided a four-month extension for loan repayments, offers an important opportunity for progress.",
        "从务实角度讲，2月20日的欧元集团协议给了贷款偿付四个月的宽限期，提供了取得进展的重要机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, for example, noting that he is “not a big media press access person,” flies around the world without a press entourage – unsurprising for a former CEO of a multinational oil company, but highly unusual for the top US diplomat.",
        "例如国务卿雷克斯·蒂勒森公开表示他“不善于和媒体接触。 ”蒂勒森在没有新闻界陪同的情况下进行环球访问——这对一位前国际石油公司首席执行官而言并不值得大惊小怪，但对美国最高外交官而言却实在非同寻常。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Metaweb/Freebase has an extensive structured database of movies, actors who appear in them, and their directors.",
        "比方说， Metaweb/Freebase拥有结构化数据库，广泛收录电影、演员和导演信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The ultimate test of any nation’s character is to look inside itself at moments of great challenge. Swept up in the blame game, the US is doing the opposite.",
        "不管是什么国家，其国民性格的终极考验都是能否在面临重大挑战是躬身自省。"
    ],
    [
        "One possible explanation for the mysterious combination of stronger growth and low inflation is that, in addition to stronger aggregate demand, developed economies have been experiencing positive supply shocks.",
        "对高增长-低通胀这一神秘组合的一个可能解释是，除了更强劲的总需求外，发达经济体还面对着一波起正面作用的供应冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Nicolas II gained the status of saintly martyr.",
        "尼古拉斯二世也获得了殉难圣徒的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "A strong civil society that monitors and demands more of its leaders is vital to improving Africa’s governance.",
        "对领导人监督更强、要求更高的强大的民间团体在改善非洲治理中的作用至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The statement announcing the new caliphate, entitled “This is the Promise of Allah,” was issued on the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, and lays out a radical vision for reconfiguring the Arab world.",
        "题为《这是真主的承诺》（“This is the Promise of Allah”）的新哈里发帝国建国宣言发布于伊斯兰神圣的斋月的第一天，并提出了重组阿拉伯世界的激进愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "The resultingamp Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015amp was a watershed moment in establishing disaster-risk reduction and climate-change adaptation as hallmarks of good governance.",
        "兵库2005年-2015年行动框架的结果是一个分水岭，它建立了减灾和应对环境变化措施，将其作为国家良好治理的准则。"
    ],
    [
        "The editor-in-chief of Ukraine’s leading independent news website, Ukrainska Pravda, told CPJ that in the months before his death, Sheremet and his partner, Olena Prytula, the site’s co-founder, had been under surveillance.",
        "乌克兰最重要的独立新闻网站Ukrainska Pravda的总编辑告诉CPJ，在谢里梅特死前几个月里，他和他的搭档、该网站的联合创始人奥伦纳·普里图拉（Olena Prytula）一直受到监视。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1911, the diplomatic crisis over Morocco was accompanied by a French speculative attack on German financial markets.",
        "在1911年，摩洛哥外交危机伴随着法国对德国金融市场的投机性攻击而发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumers would respond to the tax-induced increase in the cost of the emissions-intensive products by reducing their consumption of those goods and services in favor of goods and services that create smaller amounts of CO2 emissions.",
        "而由于产品价格的升高，消费者自然也会因此减少购买这些产品，转而购买那些排放二氧化碳较少的产品和服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Drug control and development assistance must therefore go hand in hand.",
        "毒品控制和发展援助必须齐头并进。"
    ],
    [
        "Some states have delivered automatic weapons, ammunition, and rocket-propelled grenades.",
        "一些国家提供了自动化武器、弹药和火箭弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the enormous uncertainties involved, the new cyber dimensions of security must be high on every government’s agenda.",
        "基于涉及到巨大的不确定性，解决网络安全出现的新问题必须列在每个政府重要的议程上。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, slower private-sector deleveraging – given the fiscal stimulus from the extension of unemployment benefits for 13 months, the payroll-tax cut, and maintenance of current income-tax rates for another two years – could lull policymakers into assuming that relatively large fiscal and current-account imbalances can continue indefinitely.",
        "在美国，缓慢的私人部门去杠杆化过程——考虑到失业补助期延长到13个月，工资税削减以及维持现行所得税率两年不变等一系列财政刺激政策——将导致政策制定者们以为相对较大的财政和经常账户不平衡状况可以无限期地持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "The bailout decision in 2010 transformed a normal commercial dispute between creditors and debtors – one that always arises when debtors fail to repay – into a dispute among sovereign states.",
        "2010年的援助决定改变了债权人和债务人之间的普通商业纠纷——当债务人无法偿付时总会引起这类纠纷——使其演变为主权国家之间的纠纷。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister Theresa May’s attempt to strengthen her negotiating position by holding a snap election badly misfired: she lost her parliamentary majority and created a hung parliament (no single party has a majority).",
        "首相梅试图通过举行提前大选来加强她在谈判中的地位，但结果适得其反：她失去了议会多数地位，造成了一个悬浮议会（没有一个政党能够单独赢得多数）。"
    ],
    [
        "With this in mind, the G-20 leaders set out an ambitious agenda for an inclusive and wide-ranging response.",
        "为了达成这个目的，G20的领导人设立了具有宏大抱负的议程，来对问题制定具有包容性和范围广泛的应对措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Because regulations often shut out non-bank competitors, governments should consider a tiered approach, whereby businesses without a full banking license can provide basic financial products to customers with smaller accounts.",
        "因为法规往往排斥非银行竞争对手，政府应当采用分层的方法，允许没有拿到完全银行牌照的企业面对小额账户客户提供基本的金融服务。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – A year ago the eurozone was in serious trouble.",
        "巴黎—一年前，欧洲陷入了严重麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, who is the state for?",
        "毕竟，谁才是国家？"
    ],
    [
        "One-third of children under five in the region are stunted (too short for their age), a condition with irreversible effects on cognitive development.",
        "该地区三分之一的五岁以下儿童身高与年龄不匹配，这将给认知发育带来不可逆的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In Latin America, the Andean Development Bank lends more to its members for infrastructure projects than the World Bank – at higher cost, but with less hassle.",
        "在拉丁美洲，安第斯山开发银行向其成员国发放的基础设施项目贷款超过了世界银行——虽然成本更高一些，但麻烦更少。"
    ],
    [
        "Two weeks later, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) announced the establishment of the New Development Bank.",
        "两周后，金砖国家（巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非）宣布成立新开发银行。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamic State is now employing a similar strategy, mixing ruthless military operations with an incendiary social-media campaign, punctuated by photos and videos of brutal executions, including the beheading of US and other Western citizens.",
        "伊斯兰国现在也在使用相似的战略，以残忍的军事行动与煽风点火的社交媒体攻势相结合，以残忍行刑的照片和视频——包括将美国和其他西方公民斩首的画面——为武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless the ECB picks up the pace of interest-rate increases now, the goal of interest-rate neutrality may not be politically feasible, jeopardizing achievement of the bank’s price stability goals.",
        "除非欧洲央行加快其提升利率的步伐，否则，利率中立的目标也许在政治上不大可能，进而危及其实现物价稳定的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, we might have had a more informed public discussion about social dumping if economists had been willing to recognize that imports from countries where labor rights are not protected do raise serious questions about distributive justice.",
        "类似地，如果经济学家愿意承认来自劳动者权利不受保护的国家的进口品确实严重影响了分配正义，我们也可以获得信息更加充分的关于社会倾销（social dumping）的公共讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s not exciting territory for venture capitalists and private-equity investors, but it is in keeping with the expectations of institutional investors, such as pension funds, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds.",
        "对于风险资本家和私募股权投资者来说，这算不上令人振奋的东西，但这符合机构投资者（如退休基金、捐赠基金和主权财富基金）的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Overcoming these challenges will require, first and foremost, that governments improve access, including by investing in the necessary digital infrastructure.",
        "克服这些挑战首先需要政府改善可接入性，包括通过投资于必要的数字基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Finland boasts more than 200 gaming startups, which export 90% of their products.",
        "今天，芬兰拥有超过200家的游戏创业企业，其中90%的产品用于出口。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, vaccines exist to protect against pneumococcal disease, which accounts for a half-million pneumonia-related deaths annually.",
        "类似地还有肺炎球菌疫苗，肺炎球菌疾病每年造成一半的肺炎相关疾病死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout his career, he was known to play all sides, at times threatening his resignation, only to stay on – or accusing enemies of assassination plots, only to stay alive.",
        "他在整个政治生涯中游走于各派之间，有时甚至为了继续当政而威胁辞职——还有时为了活下去而指控对手阴谋施行暗杀企图。"
    ],
    [
        "As the markets were battered repeatedly in the years to follow – from the savings-and-loan crisis (late 1980s) and the Gulf War (1990-1991) to the Asian Financial Crisis (1997-1998) and terrorist attacks (September 11, 2001) – the Greenspan put became an essential element of the Fed’s market-driven tactics.",
        "随后十几年中，市场反复遭遇重创——如储贷银行危机（80年代末）、海湾战争（1990—1991年）、亚洲金融危机（1997—1998年）、恐怖袭击（2001年9月11日）——格林斯潘期权也成为美联储随市场而动策略的关键要素。"
    ],
    [
        "And we should do so under no illusion that the transformative outcome we need will be a smooth, incremental process.",
        "而且我们不应幻想所需要的转型是个平稳、渐进的过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "It need only seize the G-Zero moment.",
        "它所需要的，只是抓住G0时刻的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Policies to promote investment in infrastructure, housing, alternative energy, and care for the young and the aging can boost economic competitiveness and inclusive growth, while creating millions of jobs in occupations likely to be augmented, rather than displaced, by automation.",
        "促进基础设施、住房建设、替代能源和儿童及老人看护服务的投资可以加强经济竞争力及促进包容性增长，同时还可以在自动化可能拓展、而非替代的职业领域创造数以百万计的就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Much else is happening.",
        "期间会发生很多其他的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "But, above all, there was his extraordinary, almost unbelievable, lack of bitterness toward his Afrikaner jailers.",
        "但最令我赞叹的是他对南非白人狱卒令人难以置信的宽容态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, young people have the option of continuing their education, thus adding to future earnings power, whereas continuing education is a much less viable alternative for their elders.",
        "此外，年轻人可以选择继续深造从而增加未来赚钱能力，而深造对于年龄更大人群来说可行性要低得多。"
    ],
    [
        "But only 5% of customers currently have an account with a foreign bank.",
        "但目前只有5%的顾客拥有外国银行的账户。"
    ],
    [
        "Increased interdependence has not led to better understandings on even some of the most basic issues.",
        "不断提升的相互依存度仍然无法令双方在某些最基本问题上达成更深的了解。"
    ],
    [
        "Its report on the inability of the intelligence services, notably the CIA and the FBI, to prevent the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks also contained a series of recommendations for restructuring these services to render them more effective.",
        "参议院在有关情报部门，特别是中央情报局和联邦调查局，未能阻止2001年9月11日恐怖袭击事件的报告之中还提出了一系列的重组建议，旨在提高情报部门的效率。"
    ],
    [
        "In this view, Milton Friedman’s dream of using strategic monetary interventions to offset economic shocks remains just that: a dream.",
        "根据这一观点，米尔顿·弗里德曼（Milton Friedman）的梦想——用战略性货币干预抵消经济冲击终究只是一个梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal is not to enlist Japan in any anti-Chinese coalition, but rather to increase the depth and breadth of US-Japanese cooperation.",
        "美日联盟的目的不是使日本加入反华联盟，而是加深美日合作的深度和广度。"
    ],
    [
        "But the UN has become the “general operator” for global conferences, acting as administrator and furnisher of services and facilities (such as locations and interpreters) for events that are not officially part of its core operations.",
        "但联合国已经成为全球会议的“总体运作者”，并为实际不属于其核心任务的各式会议扮演着管理者及服务和设施（如会议地点和口译人员）提供者的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Prices should pass on to end users the full cost not only of production and acquisition, but also of the damage – including air pollution and climate change – caused by intensive reliance on fossil fuels.",
        "定价必须将所有成本都转嫁给最终用户，不仅包括生产和购买成本，也包括密集依赖化石燃料所导致的伤害成本——如空气污染和气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The imbalances were reduced temporarily as the global financial crisis caused private demand to drop in the US, the UK, and elsewhere.",
        "虽然在全球金融危机的影响下英美等国的私人消费需求急跌，使这一不平衡状况得以短暂缓解。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, student debt, now in excess of $1.2 trillion (more than all credit-card debt), is becoming a burden for graduates and the economy.",
        "在美国，学生债务目前已超1. 2万亿美元（比信用卡债务还要高），成为毕业生和经济的一大负担。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that, in 2000, there was neither enough evidence about migration’s effects on development nor sufficient political support to secure its addition to the agenda.",
        "问题在于，2000年时既没有足够的证据证明移民对发展的积极影响，也没有足够的政治支持确保它被纳入日程。"
    ],
    [
        "While experts are busy trying to explain the Maoists’ unprecedented triumph, much hope rests on the newly elected members of the 601-seat Constituent Assembly.",
        "当专家们忙着试图解释毛派主义者史无前例的胜利的时候，人民把希望寄托在了新近当选的有601个席位的议会成员上。"
    ],
    [
        "This will depend on whether the United States conditions its generous aid to cash-strapped Pakistan on noninterference in Afghanistan.",
        "这将取决于美国是否会用慷慨援助为条件换取急需现金的阿富汗人不干预阿富汗。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is imperative that strong safeguards are put in place to protect minorities, particularly the Serbs.",
        "因此必须有强大的安全保障来保护少数民族，特别是塞族。"
    ],
    [
        "It is crucial that representatives at the NPT review conference work together to bring the rule of law to nuclear disarmament and close the gap in the NPT that has permitted the most inhumane of all weapons of mass destruction to continue to exist.",
        "关键是核不扩散审查会议的代表要共同努力为核裁军建立法治规则，并填补核不扩散条约的空白，使所有大规模杀伤性武器中最不人道的武器再无容身之地。"
    ],
    [
        "But that wasn’t Kris, fleeing some kind of sad life.",
        "有张更好的 http://www. flickr."
    ],
    [
        "A considerate investor will never speculate recklessly with his clients’ life savings, despite the potential gain for himself.",
        "即使自己有可能从中受益，负责任的投资者也绝不会轻率地利用客户一生攒下的积蓄进行投机操作。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that oil prices have plateaued, private investment is falling, domestic firms are idling, and unemployment is rising.",
        "如今，随着石油价格进入稳定期，私人投资节节下降，国内企业闲置，失业率节节攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, women are over-represented in informal, temporary, and part-time jobs, most of which are low-productivity positions with low pay, no benefits, and limited opportunities for advancement.",
        "此外，女性过多从事非正式、临时和兼职工作，其中大部分岗位低效率、低工资、无福利，且晋升机会有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain, Argentina, and Germany, to name but a few countries, have put forward very young teams that have played an impressive game.",
        "西班牙、阿根廷以及德国推出了非常年轻的球队，令人印象深刻。 这些只是其中一些队伍。"
    ],
    [
        "No amount of interdiction will suffice if we do not explain clearly what, precisely, is wrong with using performance enhancing drugs in sport.",
        "如果我们不能解释清楚为什么在体育运动中服用兴奋剂是错误的这个问题，那么再多的禁令也无济于事。"
    ],
    [
        "That may be the case with the idea of happiness as the goal of national policy.",
        "把幸福感作为国家政策目标可能就属于这种情况。"
    ],
    [
        "The traditional statistical distinction between productive firms and consuming households leaves little room to account for households as value creators.",
        "生产性企业和消费性家庭之间的传统统计区别很难将家庭视为价值创造者。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas most of the “stimulus” legislation to date has been short-term and inward-looking, increased funding for sustainable infrastructure in poor countries would provide a powerful boost to rich-world economies.",
        "鉴于目前多数的“刺激方案”的立法都是短期措施，并针对内需的发展，加强对贫穷国家的可持续基建的资金投入将能对富裕国家的经济起到非常大的推动作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Compensation would take the form of retraining programs for personnel, and maybe refinancing of loans taken to finance specialized machinery.",
        "补偿的形式可以是员工再培训计划，或许还可以包括针对专业化机器设备的再融资贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, it would provide a much-needed boost to these countries’ struggling economies.",
        "如此，OMT可以对这些深陷麻烦的国家提供急需的提振。"
    ],
    [
        "The bank would be closed on Friday evening, unburdened of pre-positioned evaporating debts over the weekend, and reopened on Monday morning, without (in the best-case scenario) needing a government bailout.",
        "银行将在星期五晚上关门，在周末期间卸下预先确定的缩水债务，然后在星期一早上重新开张，而不必（在最佳情景中）需要政府援助。"
    ],
    [
        "People still remember the Cultural Revolution and view themselves as survivors of a shared traumatic experience, underpinning a commitment to collective sacrifice in order to rebuild the country.",
        "文化大革命让人们记忆犹新，民众把自己看作这次共同劫难的幸存者，愿意为国家重建集体做出牺牲。"
    ],
    [
        "Health-care financing remains a mess, even if we have considerable reason to hope that Obamacare has started to address the problem.",
        "医疗融资仍是一团乱麻，尽管我们有相当多的理由希望“奥巴马医保”已经开始纠正问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Could it help us to appreciate that many things are more central to our happiness than our ability to spend money on fashion, expensive watches, and fine dining?",
        "它是否能有助于我们体会到，对我们的幸福感来说，很多事情比我们把钱花在时装、昂贵的手表和美食上的能力更重要？"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a domestic dimension to policy.",
        "国内政策也大有可为。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest risk to both US and Chinese prosperity is that China’s growth stalls, or that it pulls back from further global integration and reforms too slowly.",
        "美中两国繁荣最大的风险是中国的增长停缓或者从进一步的全球融合中退让以及改革过慢。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever is preventing these countries from becoming richer, it is not lack of education.",
        "妨碍这些国家富裕起来不是教育而是其他因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Then again, perhaps the Bush administration is worried that if the oil currencies strengthen too much against the dollar, it will start becoming too expensive for the US to scale up its military operations in the Middle East.",
        "再一次的，或许布什政府担心如果石油货币对美元过于强势，相应提高美国在中东的军事行动就开始变得太昂贵了。"
    ],
    [
        "That process is now coming to an end as employment rises.",
        "而这个逻辑过程目前正随着就业增加而面临终结。"
    ],
    [
        "But, more frequently, the big problems are internal – the regime cannot deliver growth, its legitimacy fades, and people start to head for the exits (or at least get their money out).",
        "但更频繁出现的情况时是国家内部出现了大的变故——政权无法实现经济增长，失去其合法性，人民开始设法转移到其他国家（或至少将资金转移出国）。"
    ],
    [
        "Pre-Fukushima, a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), “The Future of Nuclear Power, 2003,” as well as a study by researchers at the University of Chicago, established that nuclear energy was 50-100% more expensive than energy from coal or gas.",
        "福岛核事故发生前，麻省理工学院报告“核能的未来，2003”以及芝加哥大学研究报告认为，核能比煤炭或天然气能源贵50-100%。"
    ],
    [
        "To skirt climate responsibility, the meat and dairy industries have long argued that expanding production is necessary for food security.",
        "为了回避气候责任，肉奶行业长期以来一直在宣传，为了食品安全必须扩大产量。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet failure to reach the 80% coverage mark means that 50,000 American girls alive today will develop cervical cancer, as will another 4,400 girls with each year of delay.",
        "但未能实现接种率80%的目标意味着今天活着的50,000名美国女孩今后将患上宫颈癌，每拖一年还要增加4,400人。"
    ],
    [
        "But it will still run, and people will still adopt new technologies, and the world economy will still grow.",
        "但它仍然会继续运行，人们仍然会采用新技术，世界经济仍将增长。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, businesses get access to a larger market, and consumers benefit from lower prices, but regulations are less attuned to their liking.",
        "比如，企业得以进入更大的市场，消费者享受到更低的价格，但监管不再那么遂自己的意。"
    ],
    [
        "The unemployed comprise not only construction workers, but also ancillary workers, such as real-estate brokers and bankers, as well as all those who work on houses, such as plumbers and electricians.",
        "失业大军中不仅包括建筑工人，还包括水暖工和电工等房地产附属工种，以及房地产中介和银行职员等辅助性行业。"
    ],
    [
        "The unemployment rate has been halved since 2005, reaching a record low of 4.6% today, and its current-account surplus has soared to a staggering 8% of GDP.",
        "自2005年以来，失业率下降了一半，目前达到了4. 6%的创纪录低位，经常项目盈余飙升至令人咋舌的GDP的8%。"
    ],
    [
        "The humanitarian component of this strategy could be implemented regardless of political and security considerations.",
        "上述战略人道主义部分的实现可以与政治和安全因素无关。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic returns will depend on the quality of firms’ business decisions.",
        "经济回报将取决于企业经营决策的质量。"
    ],
    [
        "Using restrictions on cross-border trade or finance to uphold values and regulations at home must be distinguished from using them to impose these values and regulations on other countries.",
        "必须严格区分利用跨境贸易和融资限制捍卫国内法律价值观及将自身法律和价值观强加给别国的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Breaking the Ice in the South China Sea",
        "破冰南海"
    ],
    [
        "In June 1871, just after the war ended, the French statesman Léon Gambetta declaimed: “Our adversaries have won, because they rallied to their side foresight, discipline, and science.”",
        "1871年6月，战争刚刚结束，法国政治家列昂·甘贝塔就慷慨陈词：“我们的敌人赢了，因为他们拥有远见、纪律和科学。"
    ],
    [
        "The end of the Cold War bequeathed our leaders with a new set of governance challenges, which promptly grew in magnitude, in large part owing to faster globalization, the consequences of the 1980’s economic liberalization, and the 1990’s revolution in information technology.",
        "冷战结束后留给领导人一套全新的执政挑战，全球化速度加快、20世纪80年代经济自由化后遗症和20世纪90年代信息技术革命导致执政挑战不断加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama and the Republicans agreed to continue those tax cuts for at least two years (they will now probably continue beyond that), thereby lowering tax revenue by $350 billion this year and again in 2012.",
        "奥巴马和共和党人同意将上述减税政策延长至少两年（现在看来两年后继续延长的可能性极大），也因此造成今年税收收入降低3500亿美元，且2012年还会进一步降低。"
    ],
    [
        "The focus is no longer on what is environmentally desirable or on the measures needed to keep climate change in check; rather, it is on what is politically feasible – the possibilities and constraints of the negotiating process, especially with a view to securing broad participation.",
        "现在的焦点已不再是确保理想环境或哪些措施能限制气候变化； 相反，人们开始关注哪些措施在政治上是可行的——即谈判过程中可能的目标和限制因素，特别是着眼于实现广泛参与的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But how do you weight diabetes versus heart attacks, life extension versus quality of life?",
        "但你如何在糖尿病和心脏病之间、寿命延长和生活质量之间分配权重？"
    ],
    [
        "The precision of the numbers underpinning the deal is a façade, if not a reflection of an alternate reality.",
        "作为该方案基础的数字的准确度和拍脑袋无异，要么反映的是异次元空间的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "That makes it a problem.",
        "这也使欧盟成为了他们的眼中钉。"
    ],
    [
        "So, with emerging market economies from Russia to Brazil mired in recession, will the bubble burst?",
        "因此，随着从俄罗斯到巴西的各新兴市场经济体纷纷陷入衰退，这个泡沫会破裂吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Girls in the poorest 20% of the global population are more than twice as likely as those in the wealthiest 20% to be married young.",
        "全球人口中最穷的20%中的女孩，比最富裕的20%的人口中的女孩发生童婚的可能性高一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, we will need renewed public confidence in a new generation of nuclear power, with plants that are safe and reliably monitored.",
        "同样，我们需要公众对新一代的核电厂重新树立信心并安全可靠地监控其核反应堆的运作。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers need to bear in mind two lessons from Mexico’s frustrating encounter with globalization to date.",
        "决策者需要注意墨西哥在全球化时期中的两次挫折的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "After three years, he was released even from this form of detention.",
        "在三年之后，甚至对卡雷的这种软禁方式都被解除了。"
    ],
    [
        "In September of last year, in a speech at Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University, Xi announced the so-called “Silk Road Economic Belt,” a new foreign-policy initiative aimed at boosting international cooperation and joint development throughout Eurasia.",
        "去年9月，在哈萨克斯坦巴扎尔巴耶夫大学（Nazarbayev University）的演讲中，习近平提出了所谓的“丝绸之路经济带”，这是一项旨在增进欧亚地区国际合作和联合开发的新外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the corporate sector has two faces.",
        "如今，公司部门有着两副面孔。"
    ],
    [
        "With debt burdens elevated and housing prices significantly above levels warranted by their historical relation to income, the business cycle of the last two decades appears exhausted.",
        "债务负担提高，房地产价格大大高于与收入相关的历史水平，过去二十年的商业周期看起来已经山穷水尽了。"
    ],
    [
        "The ambitions of such a Russia will not stop at the Dnieper River.",
        "如此俄罗斯的野心不会止于第聂伯河。"
    ],
    [
        "If not as dark as 15 years ago, China’s human rights record remains abysmal.",
        "虽然中国已不再如15年前般黑暗，但是中国人权记录依然糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Ethnic cleansing perpetuated by the Islamic State has reversed centuries of religious, ethnic, and cultural intermingling, and pushed close to two million people from their homes.",
        "伊斯兰国所施加的种族清洗颠覆了几百年来的宗教、种族和文化结合，将近两百万人赶出家园。"
    ],
    [
        "After tumbling sharply in 2008-2009, the export share of emerging Asia is back up to its earlier high of around 44% of GDP – leaving the region just as exposed to an external-demand shock today as it was heading into the subprime crisis three years ago.",
        "新兴亚洲的出口占GDP比重在2008—2009年间出现了剧减，但现在又回到了早前44%的高度，也就是说，该地区对外部需求冲击的暴露在今天与在3年前次贷危机即将发生时一样大。"
    ],
    [
        "Scorned by Bush administration hardliners, the agreement collapsed in mutual recrimination in 2002.",
        "小布什政府中的强硬派对该协定嗤之以鼻，结果，在互相指责之中，该协定在2002年崩溃了。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes and no.",
        "既会又不会。"
    ],
    [
        "While much of Washington and its press corps were discussing the latest revelations, the Department of Justice, which is supposed to be somewhat independent of the White House, was being turned into a partisan instrument for pursuing the president’s grudges.",
        "华盛顿及其媒体圈大部分都在谈论最新被曝光的材料，与此同时，司法部——它理应具有一定的脱离白宫的独立性——正在演变为追逐总统怨气的党派工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, not only are active “alpha” strategies often worse than beta ones; some are actually disguised beta strategies (because they follow market trends) – just with more leverage and thus more risk and volatility.",
        "事实上，不但积极的“阿尔法”策略常常不敌贝塔策略，其中一些实际上根本就是伪装的贝塔策略（因为它们跟踪市场趋势），只不过杠杆更大，因此风险和波动也更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the rapid pace of urbanization, and the technology base that a well-resourced city requires, the risk of “synchronous failure” is growing constantly, as the Great East Japan Earthquake demonstrated.",
        "由于城市化进程的步伐迅猛，打造一个资源城市就需要技术来支撑，因此“同步失败”的风险就会持续增加。 东日本大地震就是一个例子。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not a solution to the privacy challenge faced by refugees and their advocates, but it is an important step in the right direction.",
        "这并非难民及其支持者所面临隐私挑战一劳永逸的解决办法，但却是朝着正确方向迈出的重要一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Research has shown that inclusion is good for business.",
        "研究表明，包容性对商业是一个有利因素。"
    ],
    [
        "These agreements go well beyond trade, governing investment and intellectual property as well, imposing fundamental changes to countries’ legal, judicial, and regulatory frameworks, without input or accountability through democratic institutions.",
        "这些协定范围远远超过了贸易，涉及到投资和知识产权的等问题，给各国的法律、司法和监管框架造成根本性影响，却没有民主机构的介入或问责。"
    ],
    [
        "What about the solutions?",
        "那么解决办法呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Most key issues that are vital for national wellbeing – trade, finance, the rule of law, security, and the physical environment – depend at least as much on the presence of effective regional and global institutions.",
        "大部分决定国民福利的关键问题——贸易、金融、法治精神、安全和环境——至少在很大程度上取决于高效的地区和全球机构的存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Yanukovych has leaned towards Russia in the short term, but has already reached the point that he needs other powers to balance Russia.",
        "亚努科维奇在短期内已经向俄罗斯倾斜，但也已经达到了需要其他势力来平衡俄罗斯的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "For reasons of its own, the Bush administration has found it advantageous to nurture the fear that September 11 engendered.",
        "究其自身的原因，布什政府发现扩大911造成的恐惧非常有效。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the lending was denominated primarily in US dollars, it is subject to currency risk, adding another dimension of vulnerability to emerging-economy balance sheets.",
        "这些贷款主要用美元计价，因此存在货币风险，从而给新兴经济体资产负债表增添了新的脆弱性。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2007, Nelson Mandela founded The Elders to address just such risks, mandating this independent group of former leaders to “speak truth unto power.”",
        "2007，曼德拉成立长者会来化解上述风险，要求这一由前领导人组成的独立团体“向当权者说真话。"
    ],
    [
        "For, at the moment of Ceausescu’s speech, it became in effect two revolutions – one that played out publicly in the streets, and the other a deep and behind-the-scenes struggle for power among elites.",
        "因为从齐奥塞斯库讲话那一刻起，革命就分成了两条支线 —— 一条在街道上公开上演，另一条则是精英人士为争权夺利上演的一场不为人知的深层次战斗。"
    ],
    [
        "His sectarian, authoritarian behavior polarized his country to such a degree that even the army’s chief, General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, known for his Islamist sympathies, withdrew his support from the man who had appointed him.",
        "他的宗派主义独裁行为导致了埃及的极化，以至于以同情伊斯兰教著称的军队首脑西西（Abdul Fattah al-Sisi）将军也不再支持任命了他的穆尔西。"
    ],
    [
        "Ahmedinejad’s election two years ago came with great expectations, with the new president pledging to “bring oil prices to the dining table of all households in Iran,” and to crack down on corruption.",
        "两年前内贾德当选总统，人们寄予厚望。 他保证“把石油价格下降到每个伊朗家庭都能承受的水平”，而且要打击腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "The second is ideological: to move Scotland toward a Scandinavian-style social democracy.",
        "第二是意识形态：让苏格兰向斯堪的纳维亚式社会民主靠拢。"
    ],
    [
        "The rule requiring at least two adults to taste meals before they are served to children has often been ignored, as it was in the Chhapra tragedy.",
        "按规定，在把午餐送到儿童跟前之前，至少应该先由两名成人试吃，但这一规定经常被忽视，在Chhapra悲剧中便是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In my nearly 40 years as an oncologist at Harvard University, I have cared for thousands of patients who would have had little chance of survival were it not for chemotherapy.",
        "我在哈佛大学做了近40年肿瘤专家，医治过数千名患者，如果不是化疗，他们生存机会渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "The deal’s subsequent approval should have been a no-brainer for Congress, as it neither increased America’s financial obligations nor took away its voting dominance.",
        "该协议随后在国会通过应该是理所当然，因为它既没有增加美国的金融义务，也没有影响到美国的投票主宰地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The task for Western policymakers is to recognize the interconnection of foreign and domestic policies.",
        "西方的决策者们的任务是认识到外交政策和国内政策的相互关联。"
    ],
    [
        "Private charities, which have been instrumental in promoting innovation in fields such as health care, the environment, and education, could provide valuable insight into channeling aid more effectively.",
        "私人慈善机构——它们一直是刺激卫生、环境和教育等领域创新的有力工具——能提供关于如何更高效地使用援助的宝贵洞见。"
    ],
    [
        "So a company that fires all its workers and then ships from stock can look very productive – until it runs outs of stock.",
        "所以，一个解雇其所有工人然后运输库存的公司可以看起来很多产——直到它将库存用尽。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the EU must immediately start building a single EU Asylum and Migration Agency and eventually a single EU Border Guard.",
        "第三，欧盟必须立刻开始建设单一的欧盟庇护和移民局（Asylum and Migration Agency），并最终组建单一的欧盟边防队（Border Guard）。"
    ],
    [
        "International supervision of Kosovo’s independence by a strong international civilian and military presence will be critical to ensure that it fulfills its obligations under the settlement proposal.",
        "国际社会以平民和军事存在来监督科索沃的独立将非常关键，这可以保证其履行解决提案里所承担的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "For Blair, there is a moral unity between the interventions in Kosovo and Iraq, both of which he presents as examples of a post-Westphalian idea that powerful states are called upon to defend suffering communities globally, including by military means.",
        "对布莱尔来说，科索沃和伊拉克干预有道德上的一致性，他把两者都列为后威斯特法思想的典例，即应该号召强国在全球范围内捍卫受难地区，包括以军事方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, nationalists can look either to Europe to protect them against their own states or to their states to protect them against the European empire.",
        "因此，民族主义者要么打着欧洲的旗号反对祖国，要么打着祖国的旗号反对欧洲帝国。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in areas outside the zone or nature reserves, populations of elk and wild boar underwent steep declines, as major socioeconomic changes after the fall of the Soviet Union worsened rural poverty and crippled wildlife management.",
        "事实上，在无人区和自然保护区之外，因为苏联解体后的重大社会经济变化加剧了农村贫困并破坏了野生动物管理，麋鹿和野猪种群出现了大幅减少的势头。"
    ],
    [
        "I continue to believe, very deeply, that Europe is the solution, particularly for societies that need to deepen – if not establish – a democratic tradition.",
        "尤其是对需要深化乃至建立民主传统的社会，我仍然深信欧洲就是解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "And Norway was able to help mitigate global carbon dioxide emissions.",
        "而挪威则协助缓解了全球二氧化碳排放。"
    ],
    [
        "Discussion must start by agreeing on regulatory principles .",
        "改革全球金融体系的讨论应该以同意监管原则为开端。"
    ],
    [
        "Yemen emerged in 1990 from the reunification of South Yemen and North Yemen, which fought bitter wars in 1972 and 1979.",
        "1990年，1972—1979年间打过苦仗的南也门和北也门重新统一为也门。"
    ],
    [
        "Episodic muddling through may be the best that can be hoped for.",
        "阶段性的得过且过或许是人们最希望的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "And, like de Gaulle, Putin has sought to rescue his country from humiliation and defeat by carving out a role consonant with popular feelings of national mission and pride, with national interest interpreted as “sovereignty.”",
        "而且，像戴高乐一样，普京通过确立符合国家使命和尊严的大众感觉，以及被解释为“主权”的国家利益的作用寻求把他的国家从屈辱和失败中解救出来。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, European institutions and the Spanish government have succeeded in containing the flow of migrants across the Strait of Gibraltar.",
        "例如，欧洲机构和西班牙政府成功地控制了直布罗陀海峡两岸的移民流动。"
    ],
    [
        "As the classic sources of early comparative advantage dwindle, countries – particularly earlier-stage developing countries – will need to implement policies that feature services (including tradable services) more prominently; they will also need to adjust their investment in human capital.",
        "由于早期比较优势的经典来源出现萎缩，各国——尤其处于较初级阶段的发展中国家——将需要实施以服务业（包括交易类服务）为重点的政策； 它们还需要调整自身对人力资本的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Iran’s support of terrorist organizations, such as Hezbollah, could bring violence to other countries.",
        "此外，伊朗对黎巴嫩真主党等恐怖组织的支持可能给别的国家带来暴力侵害。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, from 1996 to 2001, it supported the vaccination effort, and indeed it continues to do so; a recent Taliban statement urged its Mujahedeen to provide polio workers with “all necessary support.”",
        "1996至2001年塔利班统治阿富汗时支持疫苗接种工作，现在态度也并未改变； 最新的塔利班声明敦促圣战者为小儿麻痹工作人员提供“一切必要的支持”。"
    ],
    [
        "The selection process is constrained further by an informal – but, after 43 years, essentially requisite – agreement to rotate through regions every two terms.",
        "推选过程还需要每两届进行地区轮换，这虽然是一项非正式条件，但43年的具体执行已使其几乎成了必须的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "The approach taken by Obamacare was proposed in conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and enacted in Massachusetts by Republican Governor Mitt Romney.",
        "而奥巴马医改所采用的方案是当年由美国传统基金会这类保守智库所提议，并由时任州长的共和党人米特·罗姆尼在马萨诸塞州推广应用。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, the US needs to stop retrying the past – and start focusing on how it can compete in the next era of globalization.",
        "总之，美国必须停止重复过去——并开始专注于如何在新的全球化时代竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "When Russia faced its worst crisis, aid was given to the corrupt Yeltsin regime.",
        "当俄罗斯遭遇其最严重的危机时，经济援助却被给予了腐败的叶利钦政权。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the economist Nora Lustig, between 2000 and 2010, “income inequality…declined in all 17 Latin American countries for which comparable data exist.”",
        "据经济学家拉斯蒂格（Nora Lustig）的数据，2000—2010年间“在所有17个可获得可比数据的拉美国家，收入不平等性……都有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "But such socio-biological explanations of leadership are of only limited value.",
        "但是，对领导人这样的社会生物学解释的价值是有限的。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, they are transforming their country in a slow but irreversible way.",
        "他们这么做，是在以一种缓慢但又不可逆转的方式改变着他们的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "These two chapters have their modern echo in the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which decrees that no state shall deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property “without due process of law” or deny anyone “the equal protection of the laws.”",
        "美国宪法第14修正案是这两章的现代回音——规定“如未经法律程序”各州不得剥夺任何人的生命、自由或财产， 或拒绝任何人“获得法律的平等保护”。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the next four years, annual US spending on information technology equipment and software roared upward, from $281 billion to $446 billion, the US unemployment rate dropped from 5.6% to 4%, and the economy grew at a 4.3% real annual rate as the high-tech spending boom pulled extra workers out of unemployment and into jobs.",
        "6%，此时商人和投资者发现了互联网，在随后的四年中，投资在信息技术设备和软件的支出直线上升，从2810亿美元增加到4460亿美元。 高科技的兴起给更多的人提供了就业机会，美国的失业率从5."
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, the mantra of President Umar Yar’Adua, who took power in June 2007, following controversial elections, is to transform the country into one of the world’s 20 largest economies by 2020.",
        "现今，在颇具争议的大选后于2007年6月掌权的Umar Yar’Adua总统誓愿在2020年将让尼日利亚跻身全球前20大经济体的行列。 Yar’Adua和他的人民民主党(PDP)正努力地在这个拥有1."
    ],
    [
        "His bellicose behavior in 2013, for example, worsened his relationships with China, South Korea, and the United States simultaneously; and in the recent crisis, all he earned was a halt to mocking loudspeaker broadcasts.",
        "比如，他在2013年的好战行为同时恶化了他与中国、韩国和美国的关系； 而在最近的危机中，他所获得的只不过是韩国暂停了嘲弄性的广播喊话。"
    ],
    [
        "Regional economies would benefit from the same networks of high-paying research jobs, entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers that traditional life-sciences innovation hubs create.",
        "地区经济体也能够从传统生命科学创新枢纽所形成的高薪研究岗位、企业家、投资者和服务提供商网络中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans cannot do anything they want, but little can be done without US leadership or active participation.",
        "美国不能为所欲为，但没有美国的领导和积极参与，我们也只能停滞不前。"
    ],
    [
        "The domestic hostility towards the regime that erupted in the aftermath of the disputed presidential elections last June has not died away, but has become stronger and more determined.",
        "由去年 6 月那场充满争议的总统大选所引爆的国内反政府暴动不仅没有消退的迹象，反而愈演愈烈，坚定不移。"
    ],
    [
        "His hope is that some EU members’ interest in securing Russian gas supplies during the winter will cause them to forget their allies’ security interests – a classic divide-and-rule strategy, served chilled.",
        "他希望当寒冬到来，某些欧盟成员国对俄罗斯天然气供应的兴趣会致使他们将盟国的安全利益抛在脑后——这是经典的分而治之策略，再一次被俄国冷冻上桌。"
    ],
    [
        "While it meant that American banks were not hit as hard as they would otherwise, America’s bad lending practices have had global effects.",
        "尽管这意味着美国的银行所遭受的打击还不算最坏，但美国的不良贷款方式却已经产生了全球性的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Nordic model shows, high employment is good for the economy because it ensures adequate tax revenues to finance high levels of social investment, which creates a virtuous cycle.",
        "正如北欧模式所展现的那样，高就业率是有益于经济的，因为它能创造足够的税收来资助高水平的社会投资，最终创建一个良性的循环。"
    ],
    [
        "There is considerable regional and international agreement on what would count as a just solution: an independent state of Palestine, roughly around the 1967 borders, a resolution of the refugee problem, and an arrangement to share Jerusalem.",
        "关于协议的公正地区和国际社会有着广泛的共识：即大致以1967年边界为限成立独立的巴勒斯坦国、解决难民问题、并签署协议分享耶路撒冷。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Iran’s citizens – including clergy in the holy city of Qom, near the Fordow nuclear facility – are deeply concerned about the consequences of an attack.",
        "与此同时，伊朗人民——包括位于富尔道（Fordow）核设施附近的圣城库姆（Qom）的神职人员——十分担心袭击的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, experts might estimate with 90% confidence, based on available data and their own experience, that farmers’ average maize yields in a given region are 0.5-2 tons per hectare.",
        "比如，基于可获得的数据和自身经验，专家可能以90%的置信度估算出某给定区域的农民平均玉米收成为每英亩0. 5—2吨。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Sunnis in Iraq’s Anbar province, inspired by their brethren in neighboring Syria, are organizing “tribal armies” to do battle with the Iraq national army – a challenge to central authority that no leader could ignore.",
        "今天，在邻国叙利亚兄弟们的激励下，伊拉克安巴尔省的逊尼民众正组建“部落军”与伊拉克政府军交战，没有任何领导人会对这样的挑战视若无睹。"
    ],
    [
        "Macron combined big ideas with many concrete proposals for closer cooperation on defense, migration, the environment, innovation, education, and much else.",
        "马克龙将宏大概念与许多具体的方案结合起来，包括加强防务合作、移民、环境、创新、教育等。"
    ],
    [
        "Rouhani has had some success in lowering inflation, which is now down to 13%.",
        "鲁哈尼在降低通胀方面取得了一些成功，目前的通胀率下降到了13%。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, uranium mining in Kazakhstan has increased roughly as expected, from 4,357 tons in 2005 to 8,521 tons in 2008 to 14,000 tons in 2009.",
        "而迄今为止该地的铀矿产量增长都与预期相符，从2005年的4357当量吨到2008年的8521当量吨，再到2009年的1. 4万当量吨。"
    ],
    [
        "(Wealthy Greeks, of course, had already shifted their deposits to financial centers like Frankfurt and London.)",
        "（当然，希腊富人早已将存款转移到了法兰克福和伦敦等金融中心。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "The old boy system of choosing the head of the World Bank must go.",
        "挑选世界银行行长的老伙计体制必须废除。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians became income-maximizing suppliers of policy favors; citizens became rent-seeking lobbies and special interests; and political systems became marketplaces in which votes and political influence are traded for economic benefits.",
        "人民成为寻租游说者和特殊利益者； 而政治制度成为为了经济目的交易选票和政治影响的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes the public understandably more cautious.",
        "因此公众的态度谨慎不难理解。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet reliance on external demand remains fundamentally unchanged, even as the contribution of net exports to GDP growth has turned negative.",
        "但即便净出口对 GDP 的贡献已经降到了负数，中国对外部需求的依赖性也并未得到根本性改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Charging banks for the privilege of holding reserves raises their cost of doing business.",
        "要求银行付钱换取持有准备金的特权增加了它们的营商成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Immediately after the announcement, Sudan’s government and its allies began a diplomatic campaign aimed at securing a Security Council deferral of the investigations for 12 months.",
        "此项宣布之后，，苏丹政府和其盟国立即开始了外交活动，目的是让安理会的调查推迟12个月。"
    ],
    [
        "And the fourth is economic: to lay claim to a larger share of North Sea oil and gas.",
        "第四是经济：获得北海石油和天然气的更大比例。"
    ],
    [
        "The world relies on international organizations to coordinate the global response to a host of critical threats, from pandemics to financial crises.",
        "世界需要依靠国际组织协调应对从传染病到金融危机的一系列关键威胁的全球响应。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no chance in either country that domestic demand alone will support sustained growth in the short to medium term.",
        "两国在中短期内都不可能单靠国内需求来支撑持续增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Lacking faith in a Labour Party that is melting down under its left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn, many members of this group fell prey to the populist promises of the Brexiteers.",
        "由于对左翼领导人杰里米·科尔宾所领导的工党缺乏信心，蓝领工人群体的诸多成员最终沦为退欧派民粹主义承诺的猎物。"
    ],
    [
        "Education may not provide humanitarian support in exactly the same way that the provision of medical care, food, or shelter does, but the risks facing children out of school during crises – including labor, marriage, human trafficking, and recruitment as soldiers – can be as grim as any other type of suffering.",
        "教育或许不能以像医疗、食品或住房那样提供人道主义援助，但危机期间失学儿童所面临的童工、早婚、人口拐卖和士兵招募等风险其严酷程度丝毫不亚于其他类型的苦难。"
    ],
    [
        "This would be bad news for the German economy, which could delay possible ECB interest rate hikes.",
        "这对德国经济是个坏消息，因为它可能延迟欧洲央行利率的迅速飙升。"
    ],
    [
        "Following Chile’s example, governments also could redefine the tax system in terms of the units of account rather than currency.",
        "其他政府可以仿效智利的先例，重新以帐户单位而不是货币来重新确定税收制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the accident, global use of nuclear power looks set to grow steadily in the next 20 years, although at a slower rate than previously forecast.",
        "尽管发生了福岛事故，但全球核电用量将在2未来20年中稳步增长，只是增长速度比先前预计的有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The same lack of cohesion is found among journalists.",
        "凝聚力的缺乏也同样存在于新闻工作者之中。"
    ],
    [
        "It left no monuments to human invention, only piles of financial ruin.",
        "它对人类发明并没有做出什么贡献，只是留下了一大堆金融烂摊子。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, significant segments of the population saw the agreement as Lee selling out or kowtowing to the Americans.",
        "而且，相当多的韩国民众将这个协议看作是李明博出卖韩国或者讨好美国的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "This essay, more than anything else, defined Putin’s second term.",
        "这一文章要比任何东西都要确定普京的第二任期的性质。"
    ],
    [
        "But even this reduced level is not sustainable.",
        "然而，就是这种削弱的级别还是不可持续。 未来30年，由于每年0."
    ],
    [
        "Woodrow Wilson, asking for a declaration of war against Germany, said, “We have no quarrel with the German people.",
        "伍德罗·威尔逊要求对德国宣战时说，“我们与德国人民无怨无仇。"
    ],
    [
        "Merely moving the problem to the back burner will not prevent it from boiling over.",
        "仅仅把问题移至次要地位是无法防止它爆发的。"
    ],
    [
        "About half of all people covered by Medicaid are children.",
        "而这一医疗补助计划覆盖的人群有一半是儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "Seen in this light, inequality is an uneven distribution not only of wealth, but also of liberty.",
        "从这个角度讲，不平等性不但是财富分配不公，也是自由分配不公。"
    ],
    [
        "(For the technical details, I recommend a recent paper by Edwin M. Truman, my colleague at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.)",
        "（在技术细节方面，我推荐我在彼得森国际经济研究所同事埃德温·M·杜鲁门近期发表的一篇论文。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "After all, if the necessary breakthroughs in France, Germany, Britain, and Brussels were each a 50-50 coin-toss, the probability of all four coins landing “heads” would be only 6.25%.",
        "毕竟，如果法国、德国、英国和布鲁塞尔取得必要突破的概率都是掷硬币式的50%对50%，那么所有四个硬币都正面朝上的概率应当仅有6. 25%。"
    ],
    [
        "So the 40% who voted did so for emotional reasons, not as a clear political choice.",
        "因此即便那40%的投票者也是出于个人的感情因素，而不是做出了明确的政治选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last year, the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has struck four health facilities supported by the non-governmental organization Doctors Without Borders.",
        "去年一年，以沙特为首的也门联军就袭击了非政府机构无国界医生组织所支持的四所医疗机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Pressure was already growing to introduce trade sanctions in response to China’s refusal to allow its currency to rise to a natural level against the dollar.",
        "事实上，已经有越来越多的压力要求对中国拒绝令其货币兑美元升值到一个合理水平的做法实施贸易制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "But what about the political process?",
        "但政治程序又如何呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Among the most promising are toll roads built with private money, a model that began in South Africa.",
        "其中最有前景的当属最早出现在南非的由私人投资兴建的收费公路。"
    ],
    [
        "These words are often uttered when politicians and central banks want to bail out some troubled segment of the economy.",
        "每当那些政客和中央银行试图拯救某些陷入麻烦的经济部门时，类似的说辞就会从他们嘴里蹦出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa and Europe have a very old relationship, marked by complexity and pain.",
        "非洲和欧洲的关系由来已久，充满了复杂性和阵痛。"
    ],
    [
        "With the local authority effectively issuing money for work performed, the local economy boomed.",
        "这实际上等于是地方当局有效地为完成的工作发行货币，地方经济也因此繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to do so, however, South Korea will need to invest in its capabilities to stabilize North Korea and manage its transition.",
        "但是，要实现这一目标，韩国需要投资于稳定朝鲜、管理朝鲜转型的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Its demise reflects the destructive power of the narrative about the peace process that the right succeeded in persuading many Israelis to accept.",
        "和平阵营的坠落表明，右派成功地说服许多以色列人接受了其关于和平进程的看法，右派的说辞极具破坏力。"
    ],
    [
        "India can advance with the confidence that it can cope with the world from a very secure base.",
        "印度满怀信心，因为我们能倚赖自身雄厚的基础去和世界打交道。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s be frank: Iraq is going the way of Yugoslavia as it disintegrated in the early 1990’s.",
        "开诚布公地说，在1990年代早期分裂以后，伊拉克就在步南斯拉夫的后尘。"
    ],
    [
        "It is here that the good may have been the enemy of the perfect.",
        "正是在这里，得过且过限制了对完美的追求。"
    ],
    [
        "The bilateral relationship has grown closer in recent decades, owing to active exploration of the Chinese market by South Korea’s large industrial conglomerates.",
        "由于韩国大型工业集团积极开拓中国市场，近几十年来中韩双边关系日趋密切。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – It seems that practically no Western democracy nowadays is immune to right-wing populism.",
        "马德里——现在看来，几乎没有哪个西方民主国家能够对右翼民粹主义免疫。"
    ],
    [
        "Extravagant promises to behave better at some future point are not completely credible, although they often have a short-term impact.",
        "夸海口说未来怎么怎么做得更好，其实是不能全信的，不过这种承诺往往具有一定的短期效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Even those tribal peoples extolled by anthropologists as especially “gentle” – for example, the Semai of Malaysia, the Kung of the Kalahari, and the Central Arctic Inuit – turn out to have murder rates that are, relative to population, comparable to Detroit, which has one of the highest murder rates in the United States. In Europe, your chance of being murdered is now less than one-tenth, and in some countries only one-fiftieth, of what it would have been had you lived 500 years ago.",
        "甚至连那些被考古学家称赞为尤其“温和”的部族族群——比如马来西亚的瑟买人（Semai），非洲卡拉哈里（Kalahari）沙漠地区的坤族人（Kung）以及生活在北极圈中部地区的因纽特人——其谋杀数量相对于人口总量的比率来说都可以跟底特律——美国谋杀率最高的城市之一——不相上下。"
    ],
    [
        "So, yes, let the upcoming climate negotiations spell out shared actions by the US, China, Europe, and others.",
        "因此，诚然，让即将到来的气候谈判使美国、中国、欧洲和其他地区精诚合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, TV and print advertising revenue are also growing, at 8% and 4.5%, respectively.",
        "与此同时，电视和纸媒广告收入也在增长，增长率分别达到了8%和4. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Could it be that a willingness to flout the law and circumvent the Constitution tends to produce not nimbleness, but obduracy and intransigence?",
        "是否有人愿意蔑视法律、绕开宪法将会产生顽固和不妥协、而不是灵活性呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Success in these areas would further enhance America’s appeal as an industrial center.",
        "在这些领域取得成功将进一步增加美国作为产业中心的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "As economic crisis engulfs France and most of the world, the French are not reassured by their young and energetic president.",
        "当经济危机席卷了法国和世界上大多数国家的时候，法国年轻而精力充沛的总统萨科齐没有打消法国人的疑虑。"
    ],
    [
        "That sounds a lot like India nowadays.",
        "这听起来与印度何其相像。"
    ],
    [
        "Such incremental steps gave rise to a loose system of debt restructuring.",
        "这些实质步骤促成了宽松的债务重组制度。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, sons represent income and daughters an expense.",
        "简言之，儿子代表收入而女儿代表支出。"
    ],
    [
        "While Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently toned down his rhetoric, violence persists – a clear indication of the challenge that lies ahead.",
        "尽管俄罗斯总统普京最近的语气有所缓和，但暴力仍在持续——清楚地表明了未来的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The ongoing opening in Myanmar (Burma) shows that potentially significant political change does not need to be accompanied by regional instability.",
        "缅甸的逐渐开放表明，重大政治变革并不一定伴随着地区不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings us to the second lesson of the British ruling.",
        "这就引出了英国裁决的第二个教训。"
    ],
    [
        "How much inflation a society finds desirable or tolerable (taking into account other important variables, such as employment, GDP growth, or poverty) is an inherently political question that should be debated in parliament.",
        "一个社会的通胀水平多少才是理想或者说可以接受（这里考虑其它变量，比如就业、GDP增长，或者贫困水平）本质上是一个政治问题——应该在议会上进行讨论的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The National Transitional Council refuses to make difficult decisions, instead palming them off to a future elected government.",
        "全国过渡委员会（NTC）很难作出抉择，只是假装要成立一个民选政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the rating agencies, whose malfunctions contributed to the crisis, must be regulated.",
        "的确，职能不当而导致危机的评级机构必须进行调整。"
    ],
    [
        "True, commerce ministry officials recently declared their wish to see a further fall of China’s trade surplus in 2010.",
        "没错，商务部官员最近宣布希望能看到2010年中国的贸易顺差进一步缩小。"
    ],
    [
        "They may struggle to find proper nutrition and work long hours in factories and fields until the day they go into labor. They give birth at home, perhaps with the help of a midwife who most likely has no medical training.",
        "孕妇们必须辛苦工作挣钱给自己补充营养，即便在临近分娩之际，她们还得在工厂和田间长时间劳作，且一般只能在没受过正规医疗训练的接生婆的帮助下在家分娩。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, Japan is not ready for this, because it still strongly adheres to “self-imposed restraints” against “influence over other countries in security and defense,” including weapons exports.",
        "而实际上，日本还没有为此做好准备，因为它仍然固执地恪守着防止“在安全和防务方面影响他国”的“自我施加的制约”。 其中也包括在武器出口方面的制约。"
    ],
    [
        "Insecure land tenure acts as a disincentive for smallholder farmers to commit to productivity-enhancing investments; water extraction rates are depleting aquifers as a result of permissive policies; and food security remains out of reach for millions of people, despite rapid economic growth in urban areas.",
        "得不到保障的土地所有权导致小农无法进行改进生产率的投资； 放任的政策导致水开采率过快，含水层流失严重；"
    ],
    [
        "It has also led the way in creating international criminal tribunals that prosecute and punish those who commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.",
        "在最近格鲁吉亚和俄国的战争中，这些人权运动让国际社会关注违反保护非作战人员的武装冲突法的事例。"
    ],
    [
        "But many crucial decisions have yet to be taken, such as how much overall debt relief will be provided, and how the “haircut” will be distributed among holders of different types of bonds.",
        "但许多关键决策仍有待作出，如需要提供多少债务总额减免以及如何在不同类型债券的持有者之间分配“估值折扣”。"
    ],
    [
        "Women and girls around the world know the alternative – and it is terrifying.",
        "全世界妇女和女孩都知道否则的话会怎样——令人颤抖。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps even more importantly, economic policy should not break a society’s confidence in itself; what economists call “animal spirits” must be able to reflect hope for the future.",
        "也许，更重要的是，经济政策不应该破坏社会信心； 经济学家所谓的“动物精神”必须能够反映人们对未来的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is that they are feeling less French or German, creating greater political room, on both the left and the right, for nationalist ressentiment.",
        "结果，它们感到它们不再是原来的法国或德国，这为民族主义愤恨之情在左、右翼都创造了更大的政治空间。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Sugar is sweet, but the ethics of its production is anything but appealing.",
        "普林斯顿—糖是甜的，但糖产品的伦理学一点也不吸引人。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s why Robert Kagan’s 2003 neo-conservative proposition, “Americans are from Mars, Europeans from Venus,” offered such a misleading guide.",
        "因此，2003年罗伯特·卡甘（Robert Kagan）的新保守主义命题“美国来自火星，欧洲来自金星”提供了完全错误的指导原则。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom, a large group of immigrants thus share with native Britons the right to participate in public debates on all matters of general interest, whether local or national.",
        "在英国，巨大的移民团体与土生土长的英国人共享着参与公共事务的权利，在与大众利益相关的所有问题上——不管是地方性的还是国家层面的——进行辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "However, aside from a few countries – including China, of course, but also Spain – low infrastructure spending is epidemic.",
        "然而，除了少数几个国家—包括中国，当然还有西班牙—基础设施投资不足的问题普遍存在。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to warn his fellow villagers, who are busy with festival preparations, Gohē uses a torch to set fire to his recently cut sheaves of rice.",
        "为了警告忙于准备过节的的乡亲们，村长用火炬点燃了刚刚割下的稻草。"
    ],
    [
        "The techniques are known, but Africa’s farmers are too poor to get started.",
        "技术是现成的，但非洲的农民却往往因为贫穷而无力负担。"
    ],
    [
        "How can the Bank and the Fund continue to go around lecturing developing economies on good governance and transparency but fail to allow change in their own houses?",
        "世界银行和国际货币基金组织如何能够继续向发展中经济体讲授良好管理和透明而又不在其自身机构中允许改革呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Nigeria's labor force is expected to triple from 2014 to 2064, and many other economies in Sub-Saharan Africa will experience similar levels of growth.",
        "尼日利亚的劳动人口有望在2014到2064年间达到目前的三倍，而其他许多撒哈拉以南非洲的经济体也将出现类似规模的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland and the UK both have housing shortages, especially around metropolitan centers such as Dublin and London.",
        "爱尔兰和英国都存在住房短缺，特别是在都柏林和伦敦等大都会中心周边。"
    ],
    [
        "Defeating drug gangs was one of Macri’s three campaign mantras (zero poverty and ending corruption being the other two).",
        "打击贩毒集团是马克里的三大竞选口号之一（其他两个是零贫困和结束腐败）。"
    ],
    [
        "Forget, or try to forget, the quarter-million deaths for which Bashar al-Assad is responsible, directly or indirectly, since choosing to respond with violence to a peaceful uprising of the Syrian people.",
        "忘记、抑或尽量忘记因为选择暴力应对叙利亚人民的和平起义，25万人的死亡必须由巴沙尔·阿萨德直接或间接负责。"
    ],
    [
        "Next, no doubt, we will have the prospect of a bilateral free-trade agreement between the EU and the US.",
        "其次，毫无疑问，我们将看到欧盟和美国之间的双边贸易协议。"
    ],
    [
        "The Profitability of Trust",
        "信任的盈利能力"
    ],
    [
        "Second, some employers are being incented to reduce the number of working hours for individual employees, because, above a specified number, Obamacare imposes a larger burden on them.",
        "其次，一些雇主获得激励减少个体雇员的工作时长，因为超过一定时常，奥巴马医改就会给它们带来更大的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "When Chinese-style capitalism met American-style capitalism, with few safety valves in place, it gave rise to an explosive mix.",
        "当中国模式的资本主义遇到美国模式的资本主义的时候，由于没有什么保障体系，就会导致爆炸性的混合。"
    ],
    [
        "Prepared over three years by more than 550 experts from some 100 countries, these expert assessments will cover four world regions: the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, and Europe and Central Asia.",
        "这些报告由100个国家的550多位专家经三年多时间酝酿，评估范围涵盖了四个世界地区：美洲、亚洲和太平洋、非洲以及欧洲和中亚。"
    ],
    [
        "Large buffers of saving (53% of GDP) and foreign-exchange reserves ($3.3 trillion) are at the top of the list.",
        "大量储蓄（GDP的53%）所构成的缓冲区以及外汇储备（3. 3万亿美元）是其最重要的力量来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Shanghai – Tight media control of the unrest in Tibet has been followed by what, to some, looks like far more open coverage of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province.",
        "上海--西藏骚乱时媒体受到严加管束，而接下来在四川毁灭性地震中，媒体对于有些人而言好像放开了报导。"
    ],
    [
        "Improvement on all counts is vital for America’s competitive revival.",
        "全方位的改善对美国竞争力的复苏至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first few days of the standoff, China’s psywar blitz helped it dominate the narrative.",
        "在僵持一开始的几天中，中国的心理闪击战让它赢得了话语权。"
    ],
    [
        "The reform plan was supposed to improve the situation by allowing migrants in towns and small cities to acquire local residency permits more freely, while easing the requirements in medium-sized cities.",
        "这一改革计划正是为了改善上述状况，允许小型城镇的流动人口更容易获得当地居留资格，同时放宽中型城市的相关限制条件。"
    ],
    [
        "European competition law in particular allows policymakers to intervene at will, increasing uncertainty, damaging wealth creation and consumer well-being.",
        "欧洲的竞争法尤其允许政策制定者随意干涉，从而增加了不确定性，破坏了财富的创造并且损害了消费者的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "So should we expect to see much bigger currency moves in China anytime soon?",
        "那么，近期内我们会看到中国更加强有力的货币调整吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Bailouts become more expensive and – as in the case of Iceland – may actually be unaffordable.",
        "援助会变得更昂贵，甚至——从冰岛的情形看——实际上无法负担。"
    ],
    [
        "So it exploits China’s goodwill and national-security concerns, and even regards Chinese patronage as its due.",
        "因此它利用着中国的良好意图和国家安全需要，甚至把中国的赞助当成理所当然。"
    ],
    [
        "And one should not forget Andrew William Mellon’s infamous and reckless advice to former US President Herbert Hoover on the eve of the Great Depression: “liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate.”",
        "你想必也没有忘记安德鲁·威廉·梅隆（Andrew William Mellon）的鲁莽的著名建议：在大萧条前夕，他建议美国总统胡佛“出清劳动力，出清存货，出清农民，出清房地产。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The new European Commission, Council, and Parliament should be able to uphold the EU’s humanitarian obligations by reducing the number of deaths at sea, thereby setting the stage for a more reasonable public debate about migration, while improving strained relations with Africa.",
        "新一届欧盟委员会、理事会及议会应该通过减少死亡人数履行欧盟的人道主义义务，借此为有关移民的理性辩论做好准备，并改善与非洲的紧张关系。"
    ],
    [
        "So were the Russians.",
        "苏联也同样遭到了失败。"
    ],
    [
        "But, at the same time, our greater knowledge surely forces us to acknowledge that our place in the universe is not particularly significant.",
        "但是，同时，我们越多地了解星空，就越发感觉到我们自身在宇宙中的地位并不是那么特别。"
    ],
    [
        "Its natural resources have been greedily usurped, and it was a theater for proxy wars during the Cold War.",
        "这里的自然资源遭到贪婪的掠夺，而且在冷战期间曾经是代理战争的演武场。"
    ],
    [
        "That strategy saddled Japan with the world’s highest debt/GDP ratio, to little benefit.",
        "这一策略让日本背上了世界最高的债务/GDP比率，而几乎没有得到好处。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that employment and income in the new services can be easily recorded, this change implies an increase in measurable economic wealth and output, because unpaid household services are ignored in GDP calculations.",
        "如果新型服务的雇佣关系和收入可以成功记录，这一改变就意味着可度量经济财富及产出的增加，因为GDP计算往往忽略不付费的家庭服务。"
    ],
    [
        "It follows, then, that prudential regulation and competition policy in banking should be coordinated.",
        "其次，银行业的审慎监管和竞争政策必须相互协调。"
    ],
    [
        "So, what will they do – and, perhaps more important, what will economic forces do to them?",
        "那么，他们会有何作为——或者更重要的是，经济力量会对他们产生什何种影响？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the global economic order has worked remarkably well since 2008.",
        "事实上，全球经济秩序在2008年以来运转的相当良好。"
    ],
    [
        "A Google Ngrams search of books shows that use of the term “inflation-targeting” began growing exponentially in the early 1990s, when the target was typically far below actual inflation.",
        "图书搜索引擎Google Ngrams显示，“通胀目标”一词的搜索量自20世纪90年代以来呈现指数增长趋势，当时，这一目标往往远低于实际通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argue that Europe needs to follow the example of its agricultural policy and introduce a CAP-style defense budget so that free-rider EU countries start to pay their way.",
        "有些人提出欧洲应当参照自己的农业政策，引入一个类似共同农业政策这样的防御预算，让那些搭便车的欧洲国家也负起责任来。"
    ],
    [
        "Two of the volunteers nearly died.",
        "两名志愿者死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "General IQ tests measure dimensions of intelligence such as verbal and spatial dexterity, but IQ scores generally predict only about 10-20% of success in life.",
        "一般的智商测试会依据语言和三维空间敏捷性等某些智力维度来得出结果。 但智商分数一般只能预示人生中10~20%的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Leviathan, by contrast, has been submitted as the official Russian entry for the Oscars.",
        "相比之下，《利维坦》已正式代表俄罗斯参与对奥斯卡奖的角逐。"
    ],
    [
        "Gender, therefore, must become a focus of NCDs prevention efforts.",
        "因此，性别应该成为NCD预防的重点。"
    ],
    [
        "So some of the stars have come into alignment for Bush.",
        "所以，布什可能已经有了某些好运。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, data collected on a project-by-project basis by the Global Economic Governance Initiative and the Inter-American Dialog could provide some insight into Chinese lending to several Latin American economies.",
        "比如，全球经济治理计划（Global Economic Governance Initiative）和泛美对话（Inter-American Dialog）逐项目（project-by-project）收集的数据可以为中国对某些拉美经济提的贷款提供一些洞见。"
    ],
    [
        "Although investors believe that the backstop is unlikely to be used, its mere presence dissuades them from betting against Italy.",
        "尽管投资者认为这一支持不可能成为实际动作，但仅仅是有支持存在便足以促使他们不再看空意大利。"
    ],
    [
        "But he could not, and he knew it.",
        "但是他很清楚他做不到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, they should have paid greater attention to the sustainability of US mortgage and consumer debt.",
        "他们尤其应当对美国抵押贷款和消费者债务的可持续性给予更多的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "To address it, China must reform its investment and financial systems, so that low- or negative-return investments are screened out more reliably.",
        "为了解决这一问题，中国必须改革其投资和金融体系，以便尽可能其筛选掉那些低/负回报投资。"
    ],
    [
        "That concern for popular legitimacy is incompatible with the politics of the eurozone, which was never a very democratic project.",
        "这一公众合法性顾虑与欧元区政治格格不入。 欧元区从来不是一项民主工程。"
    ],
    [
        "These are not far-fetched ideas.",
        "这些都不是牵强附会。"
    ],
    [
        "What Israel planned as a preemptive attack on Iran might then be presented as an act of self-defense .",
        "以色列抢先对伊朗发动攻击可能会被视为必要的自我防御。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF does have up-to-date guidelines that define and seek to prevent currency manipulation.",
        "IMF确实有与时俱进的指引，定义并试图防止货币操纵。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – With inflation in the eurozone stubbornly remaining on a downward trajectory, pressure on the European Central Bank to do “something” to prevent outright deflation is growing.",
        "布鲁塞尔— 欧元区通货膨胀难以摆脱下降之势，这给欧洲央行造成了极大的压力，它必须得做“一些事”防止日益严重的通缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the refugee crisis has far more serious implications.",
        "当然，难民危机的影响远不止于此。"
    ],
    [
        "World foreign reserves tripled from $2.1 trillion in December 2001 to an unprecedented $6.5 trillion in early 2008, according to IMF data.",
        "按照国际货币基金的统计数据，从2001至2008年，世界外汇储备从2万一千亿美元上升到6万5千亿美元，翻了三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "While annual trade between the countries has soared during this period, from $20 billion to more than $100 billion, annual US-China trade is worth six times more, and the political relationship has had ups and downs.",
        "在此期间，两国年贸易量急剧增长，从200亿美元增加到1,000多亿美元，但中美年贸易量比印美年贸易量高出五倍多； 此外，政治关系也有起有落。"
    ],
    [
        "Ideally, Asian currencies would rise much more than 15% while European currencies would rise less.",
        "在理想状态下，亚洲货币会升值15%以上，而欧洲货币升值幅度较小。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, industrialization and export expansion alone cannot absorb China’s massive labor force.",
        "显然，工业化和出口扩张无法吸收中国巨大的劳动力。"
    ],
    [
        "RBS and Fortis failed soon after and had to be rescued.",
        "RBS和富通银行随后很快倒闭，不得不接受救助。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Yeltsin era, sacked officials often took revenge by publishing their memoirs and “telling all” about their ex-boss.",
        "在叶利钦时代，被解雇的官员常常会通过出版回忆录和把他们以前的上司的事“全抖露出来”来进行报复。"
    ],
    [
        "If Obama improves America’s global standing with support from political heavyweights such as Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, National Security Adviser James Jones (a former NATO Supreme Commander), and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki (a former United States Army Chief), he should be able to ask more from America’s allies, particularly for NATO to send more troops to Afghanistan.",
        "如果奥巴马在政治重量级人物的支持下改善美国的全球地位，这些人物包括副总统乔·拜登、国务卿希拉里·克林顿、国防部长鲍勃·盖茨、国家安全顾问詹姆斯·琼斯（前北约最高指挥官）和退伍军人事务部长埃里克·辛塞奇（美国前陆军参谋长），他应该能对美国的盟国提出更多的要求，特别是对北约提出增派部队前往阿富汗的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "This seems to be why, although it has only a small lead of 2-4 percentage points in the polls, the center-left Labour Party has had the best of the campaign.",
        "这似乎也是为何中左翼的工党似乎更占优势的原因，虽然在当前民调中他们仅仅领先2~4个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2014 oil-price shock hit several African economies especially hard, and played a role in pushing aggregate growth down from 5-6% in 2004-2014 to just 2.5% in 2015-2017 – a rate that barely keeps up with population growth.",
        "2014年石油价格冲击给一些非洲经济体造成了非常严重的影响，也让总体增长率从2004—2014年间的5—6%下降到2015—2017年的2. 5%——这一增长率还赶不上人口增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "This keeps the top dog in check.",
        "这使得领头者必须受到约束。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then can one hope for full implementation of reforms and the virtuous circle of improved expectations and economic performance that should have been set in motion by the European Council’s Lisbon summit seven years ago.",
        "只有那时，人们才有希望看到在本应在七年前的欧洲理事会里斯本峰会就开始实行的全面改革以及更高的期望和更好的经济形势的良性循环的实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Through online videos, he delivered fiery speeches in the local vernacular against government corruption and Morocco’s “dictatorship.”",
        "通过在线视频，他用方言猛烈抨击政府腐败和摩洛哥的“独裁”。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, such accusations are especially common in autocracies whose rulers, and their apologists, view the idea of universal human rights as a threat to their monopoly on power.",
        "这种批评在那些专制国家尤其常见，他们的统治者和为它们的体制极力辩护的人把普遍人权看成是对他们专制统治的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "She owed her power to a divided opposition and a first-past-the-post electoral system.",
        "她之所以能够掌权，是因为英国采取赢者通吃的选举制度，而当时反对者阵营也存在分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "But, far from making Europeans safer, rolling back Schengen would actually hinder the fight against terrorism, because countries would be forced to devote valuable resources – thousands of police officers, if the agreement were to be abolished altogether – to checking documents at borders.",
        "但是，退出申根协议绝不可能让欧洲变得更安全，实际上，这会妨碍打击恐怖主义，因为各国不得不将宝贵的资源——成千上万警官，如果申根协议被完全取消的话——用于在边境检查证件。"
    ],
    [
        "One need look no further than the current turmoil in Ukraine or Iraq to understand what can happen in the absence of credible multilateral structures capable of shaping developments in crisis situations.",
        "只需要看一看当前乌克兰和伊拉克的乱象就可以明白，没有可信得的多边结构在危机情形中充当发展的定海神针会带来什么后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, regulating or prohibiting certain transactions is a second-best strategy in a world where the ideal may be unattainable.",
        "在这两个案例中，监管或禁止某些交易是次优策略，而理想状态是难以达到的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Westminster, every parliamentary sitting begins with Christian prayers presided over by Speakers who could be Christians or Jews or non-believers.",
        "在威斯敏斯特大教堂，每一位新议会成员都要进行基督教的祈祷仪式，作为主持的议长可能是基督教徒、犹太教徒甚至是无神论者。"
    ],
    [
        "When an irate British writer, E.E. Williams, wrote a protest entitled “Made in Germany,” he began by recording his discomfort that the pencil he was using was a German product as well.",
        "E. Williams在撰写一篇题为“德国制造”的抗议文章时，他以记录自己的不快来开头：他正使用的铅笔也是德国制造的。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only do fewer cases occur, but the NCD cases that do tend to be less severe, and to progress more slowly than was previously the case.",
        "不但NCD的发病率下降了，而且即使发生了NCD，发病程度和势头也不像以前那样严重和迅猛。"
    ],
    [
        "The independent workforce is also diverse in terms of income level, education, gender, occupation, and industry.",
        "独立工作者的收入水平、教育程度、性别、职业和行业也呈现出多样化。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who have been playing with mismatches may be about to get burned.",
        "那些一直在玩货币错配的人很可能将引火烧身。"
    ],
    [
        "Mortgage debts, too, must be written down.",
        "按揭债也必须减记。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, since the fall of communism, the percentage decline in German industrial employment has been larger than in any other OECD country.",
        "实际上，共产主义垮台以来，德国产业就业率降低的比率大于其他任何经合组织国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The Jewish heritage is part of Europe’s heritage. It should be protected, not restricted.",
        "犹太传统是欧洲传统的一部分，应该得到保护而不是限制。"
    ],
    [
        "These private assurances calmed relations with Indonesia.",
        "这些私下的承诺缓和了中国与印尼的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, throughout the former Soviet bloc, there is a disturbing trend in using outdated, conservative, and heavy-handed policies to address drug abuse.",
        "实际上，在整个前苏联集团，使用过时、保守而又严厉的政策对待毒品滥用已经成为一种令人不安的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are growing signs that the rest of the world is gaining ground fast – building new universities, improving existing ones, competing hard for the best students, and recruiting US-trained PhDs to return home to work in university and industry labs.",
        "但如今，越来越多的迹象显示出其他国家的同行们也正奋起直追——他们兴建新的大学，提高原有院校的素质，争夺最优秀的学生，并征召那些在美国拿到博士学位的学者们回到国内高校和科研院所效力。"
    ],
    [
        "What lies behind the apparent paradox is the phenomenon of “the two Mexicos,” the McKinsey Global Institute’s evocative term for the extreme dualism that characterizes Mexico’s economy.",
        "这一突出的悖论背后是“双面墨西哥”现象。 “双面墨西哥”是麦肯锡全球研究所（McKinsey Global Institute）发明的词汇，形容墨西哥经济的极端两面性。"
    ],
    [
        "This scientific road has rarely been traveled.",
        "这样的科学道路很少有人走过。"
    ],
    [
        "No, what happened is that, largely as a result of the space race, the United States government poured lots of money into R&D for solid-state physics and electronics engineering. The resulting breakthroughs not only got Neil Armstrong to the moon in 1969, but also made it possible for Apple to introduce the first Mac in 1976 and IBM to debut the first PC five years later.",
        "而事实上，由于太空竞赛的缘故，美国政府投入巨资到固态物理和电子工程领域，结果不仅仅是尼尔·阿姆斯特朗1969年登月成功，同时还催生了苹果公司于1976年推出的第一台苹果电脑，以及5年之后IBM个人电脑的诞生。"
    ],
    [
        "Without her help, I might not have farmed at all.",
        "如果没有她的帮助，我也许根本无法进行耕作。"
    ],
    [
        "Before long, however, the US had to turn its attention to Russia, which under President Vladimir Putin’s leadership has been seeking to recapture the Cold War-era Soviet Union’s geopolitical status.",
        "但是，没过多久，美国就不得不把注意力转向了俄罗斯。 在总统普京的领导下，俄罗斯一直在寻求恢复冷战时期苏丽安娜的地缘政治地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the housing market remains in bad shape.",
        "此外，房地产市场疲软依旧。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters most is the transparency of the decision-making process and its aftermath.",
        "最重要的是决策过程的透明度及其后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, discovery was often considered the main goal of medical science.",
        "迄今为止，新的发现经常被当作是医学的主要目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan the Peacemaker?",
        "埃尔多安是和平缔造者吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Direct-to-consumer advertisements that refer individuals to screening questionnaires can result in patients suggesting to their doctors that they have bipolar disorder.",
        "那些让个人使用筛查问卷的直接以消费者为对象的广告可能使病人在面对医生时暗示自己患了双相障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Hollande also supports a tough line on Iran and, regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, his book indicates that he subscribes to the “Clinton parameters” – two states with secure borders and a status for Jerusalem that is acceptable to both sides.",
        "在伊朗和以巴冲突方面，奥朗德也支持采取强硬路线，他的书表明，他支持“克林顿参数”——以安全线分割的两个国家以及双方都能接受的耶路撒冷地位。"
    ],
    [
        "They find that they can stay in touch with the present moment without having to ruminate about the past or worry about the future.",
        "他们发现自己可以关注现在，而不必思考过去或忧心未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Lee may have been skeptical about the benefits of democracy, but he was not viscerally hostile to it; he understood its usefulness.",
        "李光耀也许质疑民主的好处，但他内心并不敌视民主； 他知道民主的用处。"
    ],
    [
        "He could “never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”",
        "他绝不会“让他们认为他们应该承担个人责任，看好自己的生活。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The Trials of Asian Democracy",
        "亚洲民主的审判"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the ubiquitous efforts of Fox News, President Barack Obama dominates, enthralls, and enthuses the audience of American voters – consumers, workers, investors, one and all.",
        "尽管福克斯电视台对他的攻击无处不在，但总统巴拉克·奥巴马却已经实实在在地占据、迷倒并激发了选民的狂热——所有的消费者、工人、投资者都为他着迷。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, an individual hacker using malicious software can cause chaos in far-away places at little cost to himself.",
        "如今，一个黑客使用恶意软件就可以造成遥远的地方的混乱，而他又几乎不需任何成本。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Solitary Development Model",
        "中国的孤独发展模式"
    ],
    [
        "And it is difficult to detect which banks are not complying and to what extent.",
        "但同时也无法去探测哪些银行没有服从以及违规到何种程度。"
    ],
    [
        "So developing CCS or an alternative that allows coal to become clean energy is essential for meeting the 2050 goal.",
        "看来，我们要大力发展碳捕获及存储技术（CCS）或是找到煤炭的替代品，这样才会使碳变得更加清洁。"
    ],
    [
        "Only 37.5% of those polled favor such action.",
        "仅有37. 5%的被调查者赞成这项行动。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a difficult task, given that some of our systems have been in place for many years, often entrenched in law.",
        "这一任务相当艰巨，因为我们的一些制度已经存在了多年，且多有法律保证。"
    ],
    [
        "Four months later, however, the siege has not been lifted, and the Hamas ministers (such as former Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahhar and Interior Minster Said Siyam) who were forced out now feel betrayed and are demanding their jobs back.",
        "然而，四个月以后，围困仍未解除，被迫下台的哈马斯的部长们（如前外交部长Mahmoud Zahhar和内政部长Said Siyam）深感受骗，正要求官复原职。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK would also pay special attention to maintaining the City of London’s role as a global financial center – a status that a Switzerland-type arrangement could undermine, as UK trade in financial services with the single market would plummet.",
        "英国也将特别关注维持伦敦金融城作为全球金融中心的地位——瑞士式的安排可能威胁到这一地位，因为英国与欧盟单一市场的金融服务贸易将暴跌。"
    ],
    [
        "No matter how irksome American dominance might have been, or how much people deplored some of the destructive wars that the US unleashed, criticism of US policies, presidents, and even cultural practices was not only permissible, but seen as a healthy sign of liberal democracy.",
        "无论美国的主导地位多么令人生厌，也无论人们如何谴责美国发动的某些破坏性战争，但对美国政策、总统甚至文化习俗的批判不仅能够被允许，甚至被视为标志着自由民主的健康。"
    ],
    [
        "That disjunction explains a lot about the cynicism and disaffection with politics that characterizes much of the world nowadays.",
        "这一差别能够解释为什么当今世界人们会对政治如此愤怒和不满。"
    ],
    [
        "The initiative faces a culture in which violence is so deeply embedded that children once learned arithmetic by counting numbers of dead Soviet soldiers.",
        "暴力对这项计划的影响是如此根深蒂固，以致于阿富汗儿童曾一度通过数苏联士兵的尸体来学习算术。"
    ],
    [
        "A surplus in one part of Europe means a deficit in another.",
        "欧元区虽然成立了，但没有财政转移支付机制援助陷入麻烦的成员；"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the massive tax cuts of 2001 and the increase in military and security spending, the US experienced a prolonged jobless recovery.",
        "尽管2001年大规模减税以及增加军费和国土安全开支，美国经历了长久的低就业复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "At the local level, Conservatives and Liberals tend to be at daggers drawn.",
        "在地方层面上，保守党人和自由党人往往势不两立。"
    ],
    [
        "But I am not convinced that “catch-up” opportunities will remain diminished – not least because it will always be easier to imitate than to invent.",
        "但我不确定“赶超”机会会一直减少下去——因为模仿总是比发明容易。"
    ],
    [
        "And this is not only because many coaches of the national teams are, like in the good old days, “foreign mercenaries,” with this Cup’s Swiss guards including the Brazilian coaches of Japan and Portugal, the Swedish coach of England, and the French coach of Tunisia.",
        "而且，这并不仅仅因为许多国家队的教练用美好的老时光的话来讲是“外国雇佣军”，包括日本和葡萄牙队的巴西教练、英格兰的瑞典教练以及突尼斯的法国教练。"
    ],
    [
        "A central aim for climate financing should be to establish and implement the policies, regulations, and frameworks that will create the appropriate incentives for investors.",
        "气候金融的一个核心目标应该放在制定和实施能创造合理的投资者激励的政策、监管和框架上。"
    ],
    [
        "This year promises to be very different.",
        "今年的形势却似乎大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, while developing countries must take responsibility for rooting out corruption, there is much that the West can do to help.",
        "最后，尽管发展中国家必须承担铲除腐败的责任，西方国家也需要做很多事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, in the closing decades of the twentieth century, a counter-revolution swept the world, pushing for just the opposite: disperse capital as widely as possible by getting everybody involved as owners.",
        "于是，在二十世纪的最后几十年中，目的截然相反的反改革浪潮席卷全球，推崇将资本尽可能地分散以使每个人都能成为所有者。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Since 2016 began, the prospect of a major devaluation of China’s renminbi has been hanging over global markets like the Sword of Damocles.",
        "发自剑桥—— 自今年年初以来，人民币大幅贬值的预期已经成为了高悬于全球市场头上的达摩克利斯之剑。"
    ],
    [
        "The Swiss economist Silvio Gesell, who originally proposed a scheme of “stamped money” at the start of the last century, added a stipulation that balances unspent after a month should be taxed, to discourage hoarding.",
        "在上世纪初首先提出“盖戳钱（stamped money）”方案的瑞士经济学家西尔维奥·格塞尔（Silvio Gesell）补充说未花掉的金额应当在一个月后征税以防囤积。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, the response is not voluntary.",
        "最重要的是，上述对策不是自愿的。"
    ],
    [
        "Another difference between IT in US health care and in other industries is the former’s lack of interoperability.",
        "IT在美国医疗卫生业和其他行业的另一个区别是，前者缺少互操作性。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in the United States, lessons from the Katrina experience appear to have strengthened response capacity, as shown by the rapid and effective intervention following Hurricane Sandy.",
        "事实上，在美国，卡特里娜飓风的教训似乎增强了响应能力——飓风桑迪过境后的快速而高效的干预就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Within a few months, cases began appearing throughout the country.",
        "几个月之内，这种病开始在全英国出现。"
    ],
    [
        "It is worth recalling that more than one-third of employment growth in the US since 1990 has come from jobs that did not exist, or barely existed, 25 years ago.",
        "值得注意的是美国自1990年代以来超过三分之一的就业增长都来自于25年前根本或几乎不存在的工作岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Falling prices mean a rise in the real value of existing debts and an increase in the debt-service burden, owing to higher real interest rates.",
        "物价下跌意味着现有债务实际值的增加和债务维持负担的增加，因为实际利率升高了。"
    ],
    [
        "His father, Xi Zhongxun, was one of the top leaders of the Communist revolution.",
        "其父习仲勋是共产主义革命的最高领导人之一。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in order to secure the long-term survival of China’s one-party system, he must reform state and Party institutions; indeed, political reform is, for Xi, a prerequisite for economic reform.",
        "他充分意识到，为了保证中国一党制的长期生存，必须改善国家和党组织的管理，此外别无他法。 对于习近平主席而言，政治改革是经济改革的先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "But Xi’s nationalism, too, has a history.",
        "但习的民族主义诉求同样根深蒂固。"
    ],
    [
        "Capital tends to flow to places where rules are clear and stable.",
        "资本总是流向规则清晰稳定的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the significance of the reconciliation agreement signed last May by Hamas and Fatah, the secular nationalist movement that controls the Palestinian Authority, remains uncertain.",
        "与此同时，去年5月哈马斯和法塔赫（控制着巴勒斯坦权力机构的世俗民族主义运动）和解协议的重要性依然充满了不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "A group of farsighted statesmen, inspired by the vision of a United States of Europe, recognized that this ideal could be approached only gradually, by setting limited objectives, mobilizing the political will needed to achieve them, and concluding treaties that required states to surrender only as much sovereignty as they could bear politically.",
        "一群具有远见卓识的政治家在“欧洲合众国”思想的启发下认定，通过设定有限目标、动员达到这些目标所需的政治意愿并最终缔结要求各国牺牲在政治上能够容忍的最大限度的主权的条约，这一目的可以逐步达到。"
    ],
    [
        "Though its problems are more acute for some countries and financial institutions, the sector runs on a level of profitability that is, on average, lower than its cost of equity and maintains a stock of non-performing loans and hard-to-value assets large enough to undermine its capitalization for years to come.",
        "它的问题在某些国家和金融机构中尤其尖锐，但这一行业的盈利水平平均而言要低于其股权成本，并且其手中的不良贷款和难以估值的资产的存量之大足以威胁到未来多年的市值。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is not individual error.",
        "关键问题不在个人之错。"
    ],
    [
        "The Pandemic That Wasn’t",
        "算不上流行病的流行病"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, in that context, we should ensure that various activities by “shadow banks” (structures that operate with bank-like features, as Lehman Brothers did) are properly regulated.",
        "当然在这个背景下，我们应该确保那些“影子银行”（那些与银行类似的特征来操作的架构，比如雷曼兄弟）的各项活动能得到妥善规管。"
    ],
    [
        "In his latest book, Days of Power, the former agriculture minister, Bruno Le Maire, writes condescendingly of the building that houses his Danish counterpart in Copenhagen, which he compares to low-income housing.",
        "前农业部长布鲁诺·勒梅尔在其新著《任职的日子》中不屑地描述其丹麦同行在哥本哈根的住所，并将其比喻成低收入住房。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve this shared identity, all citizens have to speak the one official language and be educated according to a common curriculum.",
        "为了实现这一共同特征，所有的公民都必须讲唯一的官方语言并按照相同的课程接受教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries, by contrast, face ruinously high borrowing costs, which are simultaneously increasing the scale of their reform challenges and narrowing their political scope to address them.",
        "与此相反，其他国家面临着畸高的借贷成本，这同时导致了改革挑战的规模、挤压了纠正问题的政治空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the Chinese, hampered by a vastly inferior legal system, will not be able to compete easily.",
        "在这一方面，由于受到大为低下的法律制度的阻碍，中国无法轻而易举地竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Grand Bargaining with Iran",
        "与伊朗的隆重谈判"
    ],
    [
        "These begin with rewriting the rules of the market economy to ensure greater equality, more long-term thinking, and reining in the financial market with effective regulation and appropriate incentive structures.",
        "这些政策首先由改写市场经济的规则开始，以确保更高程度的平等，更长远考虑，并用有效的监管和适当的激励机制来管理金融市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the tourism industry, which has great potential in the beautiful Patagonia region of southern Argentina and Chile.",
        "以旅游业为例。 在阿根廷和智利南部美丽的巴塔哥尼亚地区，旅游业大有可为。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the fusion process has produced some power (16 million watts of it, to be specific), scientists have yet to create a self-sustaining fusion “burn.”",
        "不过，虽然聚变过程产生了一定能量（具体来讲是1，600万瓦特），科学家们还没有成功完成能自我持续的核聚变“燃烧”过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the “century of biology” turn out to be little more than a fantasy?",
        "“生物学的世纪”最后会成为镜花水月吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The Constitutional Treaty is a reflection of our wish to continue in the same vein, to carry on working together.",
        "宪法条约反映了我们渴望继续合作的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "· Continued large liquidity injections from three big central banks – the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the European Central Bank (ECB), the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) – which, together with cash-rich corporate balance sheets, have served to lower funding costs for a significant set of households and corporates.",
        "· 来自三大央行——日本央行，欧洲央行和中国人民银行——的巨额流动性注入，连同现金充裕的企业资产负债表，令大量家庭和企业的融资成本进一步降低。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a reasonable awareness of their socio-cultural environment, students may view universities merely as a place to pursue private goals, make useful connections, enjoy student life, and perhaps pick up a superficial sense of diversity.",
        "学生如果不能合理地理解社会文化环境，就可能把大学仅仅当作追求个人目标、打造有用人际关系网、享受学生生活和（也许）肤浅地体验多样性的场所。"
    ],
    [
        "The sectarian strains that are now rending societies across the Middle East are likely to change the regional map.",
        "如今困扰整个中东社会的宗派之争可能会改变地区版图。"
    ],
    [
        "Zionism was not yet regarded as a noxious form of racism, along with apartheid in South Africa.",
        "犹太复国主义并没有被当作堪与南非种族隔离相提并论的恶劣的种族主义的一种形式。"
    ],
    [
        "By blurring the borders between Israel and the Palestinian territories, Israel has created the conditions for permanent civil war.",
        "通过混淆以色列和巴勒斯坦间的领土界限，以色列已经为永久内战创造了条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Choosing the latter option would have devastating consequences.",
        "选择后一个选项将导致灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is much more – dangerously more – than that.",
        "但事实上这可不仅仅是门生意，而且情况也更加凶险。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps more important has been a profound mismatch with fiscal policy.",
        "也许更重要的是财政政策的大幅错配。"
    ],
    [
        "It should come as no surprise that Big Tech firms tend to move much faster than governments and regulators.",
        "大型科技企业往往会走在政府和监管机构前面，这不足为奇。"
    ],
    [
        "Trembling politicians then usually acquiesce and put their taxpayers on the hook.",
        "接着，胆战心惊的政客往往会默认这一点，让纳税人上钩。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, we find ourselves at an equally exciting moment, no less critical to the future of humankind.",
        "今天，我们发现自己正面临同样激动人心的时刻，现在对人类未来的关键意义不亚于战后秩序重建。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that climate action is now the worlds’ biggest economic opportunity has certainly helped.",
        "气候行动是现今世界最大的经济机会，这一事实显然大有助益。"
    ],
    [
        "But New Power, New Responsibility suggests a different path, arguing for the reform of the Security Council in a way that would merge the French and British seats into a permanent European seat in a “slightly enlarged circle of permanent members,” while also ensuring European representation among the non-permanent members.",
        "但《新大国、新责任》指出了一条不同的路径，提出了新的安理会改革方案，将英国和法国的席位合并为永久的欧洲席位，从而“略微扩大常任理事国数量”，同时确保欧洲的非常任理事国数量。"
    ],
    [
        "So macroeconomic mistakes are costly – in terms of growth, jobs, and income distribution.",
        "因此宏观经济政策失误能让经济增长、就业和收入分配付出沉重的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why it finds itself currently backing the opponents of revolutionary Islam: Bashar al-Assad against the Islamists in Syria and the Houthis against al-Qaeda in Yemen.",
        "因此，如今它支持革命伊斯兰的反对者：在叙利亚与伊斯兰教徒对抗的巴沙尔·阿萨德以及在也门与基地组织对抗的胡塞叛军。"
    ],
    [
        "Revealing the EU’s capacity to act effectively would help to confirm the necessity of its existence.",
        "显示出欧洲具备采取有效行动的能力将有助于肯定其存在的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Careful observers have always noted that it is strictly confined to the public sphere, to life in those parts of the city that are shared by all.",
        "细心的观察家一直注意到，这种积极面仅存在于公共领域，仅限于那些城市中所有人都共享的一部分生活。"
    ],
    [
        "A democratic Ukraine, closely cooperating with Poland within the framework of the European community, will open new possibilities for developing and strengthening partnership with Russia.",
        "民主的乌克兰与波兰在欧盟框架内密切合作，将为发展和加强与俄国的伙伴关系开辟新的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "The emergence of the crisis in and around Ukraine has only made these challenges more profound, and the search for a solution more urgent.",
        "乌克兰国内和周边危机的爆发只是让这些挑战变得更加深远，让寻找解决方案变得更加紧迫。"
    ],
    [
        "Its fraught negotiations with its creditors should spur other countries to take action to address their own debt overhangs.",
        "希腊与债权国令人忧心忡忡的谈判理当刺激其他国家解决好自己的债务问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico has yet to say what it wants, but it should move in the same direction.",
        "墨西哥仍然没有提出它想要什么，但方向应该是一样的。"
    ],
    [
        "The new service economy extends market relations to areas of life in which, previously, informal assistance and guidance within family units prevailed.",
        "新兴服务经济使市场关系延伸到此前主要靠家庭内部提供非正式协助及引导的生活领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Austria has sidestepped their advance, but Italy may not.",
        "虽然奥地利已经避开了这些思潮的锋芒，但意大利则可能无法幸免。"
    ],
    [
        "Most are committed to reducing emissions by 8% by 2010.",
        "其中大多数的目标是到2010年减少8%的排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "“But given the enormous costs that would be associated with another financial crisis and the lack of certainty about whether these new tools would be effective in dealing with one,” he argues, “I believe we must seriously consider bolder, transformational options.”",
        "“但考虑到另一场金融危机可能引发的庞大成本，同时这些新工具能否有效应对危机的不确定性，”他指出，“我认为我们必须认真考虑一些更大胆的，转型性的选项。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The 2004 elections were won by the Congress party, led by a woman political leader of Roman Catholic faith and Italian descent (Sonia Gandhi), who made way for a Sikh prime minister (Manmohan Singh) to be sworn by a Muslim (President Abdul Kalam) in a country that is 81% Hindu.",
        "04年的政权落入了一名女性政治家索尼娅·甘地之手，她是意大利后裔，信奉罗马天主教。 她的内阁总理辛格是西克教徒，而总统阿卜杜勒·卡拉姆则是一个穆斯林。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s Aid Addiction",
        "希腊的援助瘾"
    ],
    [
        "Most of these parties tend to be socially conservative.",
        "在社会政策上，这些政党大部分都倾向于保守。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, Rezz.it is unlikely to replace current real-estate rental sites, but its software may provide enabling technology for some of them.",
        "总的来说，Rezz. it无意取代现有房产租赁网站，不过它的软件可以为部分网站提供可行的技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Both countries have massive surpluses of savings over investment and huge trade surpluses.",
        "德国与中国都存在储蓄相对于投资过剩以及贸易顺差庞大的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi’s self-confidence reflected not only the Chinese leadership’s contempt for Putin’s mismanagement of the Russian economy, but also the fact that China’s energy worries have lessened considerably of late.",
        "习近平的自信不但反映出中国领导层对普京治理俄罗斯经济不力的不屑，也体现了中国能源顾虑最近已大为缓解的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "The original launch of the Mediterranean Union almost sank the whole enterprise.",
        "他在最初启动地中海联盟时几乎使整个计划覆没。"
    ],
    [
        "How does something work?",
        "它是怎么工作的？"
    ],
    [
        "And my own research (with Stanford University’s Lawrence J. Lau) on growth in G7 countries suggests that the realized rate of technical progress rises with more capital.",
        "我自己与斯坦福大学的刘遵义教授对G7集团国家增长的研究表明，技术进步的实现率会随着资本的增加而上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Do citizens and their leaders want to work with others toward greater security and prosperity, or do they think that they are better served by isolating themselves behind real or virtual walls?",
        "民众及其领袖是愿意相信合作将会带来更多的安全与繁荣，还是认定躲在有形或虚拟的高墙之后就能让自己的生活变得更好？"
    ],
    [
        "Editorials in Zaman, the Gülen network’s Turkish-language daily newspaper, no longer mince words: a new Turkey is being created; those who stand in the way are getting what they deserve.",
        "对此隶属于谷兰主义网络的土耳其语日报《时代报》在社论中直言不讳：一个新的土耳其正在诞生； 而那些逆流而动的人都将受到应有的惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "Average floor space per capita is 32.9 square meters, while median floor space per family in Hong Kong is just 48 square meters.",
        "人均住房面积为32. 9平米，而香港中位家庭住房面积才刚刚达到48平米。"
    ],
    [
        "As 60 others scrambled to escape, the human traffickers carrying them to Europe stabbed them and threw them into the sea off the coast of Lampedusa.",
        "另外60人仓促逃离时，将他们运往欧洲的人贩用刀刺向他们，并把他们丢到兰佩杜萨岛沿岸的海里。"
    ],
    [
        "That demand brought the quest for peace back to its fundamentals, where the question of the refugees is bound to play a central role.",
        "内塔尼亚胡的要求致令对和平的探索向本质问题回归，而难民问题注定要成为其中的核心事务。"
    ],
    [
        "The transition to a safe, low-carbon future requires all parts of society to act responsibly and with foresight.",
        "向安全、低碳未来的转型需要社会各部分都采取负责任、有远见的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there are several objective reasons why the current friction between Europe and the US is unlikely to lead to divorce.",
        "此外，若干客观原因使目前的欧美摩擦不会导致分离。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Oil Becoming Stranded?",
        "石油正在搁浅吗"
    ],
    [
        "But that raises a new problem.",
        "但这又引发了一个新问题。"
    ],
    [
        "His fellow-surfers paddled out into the ocean and formed a circle, sitting on their boards, while his ashes were scattered over the surface.",
        "曾和他一道冲浪的伙伴们划向大海，围成一个圆圈坐在冲浪板上，静静注视着他的骨灰撒在海面上。"
    ],
    [
        "To understand why, we should look back to October 2014, when the European Banking Authority began balance-sheet stress tests for the eurozone’s largest 123 banks and found a capital shortfall of €25 billion ($28 billion) in all of them.",
        "要理解个中原因，可以回顾2014年10月欧洲银行局（European Banking Authority，EBA）对欧元区123家大银行所做的资产负债表压力测试，该测试发现所有银行存在250亿欧元的资本短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "The error is in neither their prize-winning 2009 book nor in a subsequent widely read paper responding to the academic debate about their work.",
        "这个错误既不在他们2009年的获奖著作中，也不再后来被广泛传阅的、回应对他们工作的学术争论的论文中。"
    ],
    [
        "As the sad reports about those affected indicate, attendees came from many parts of northern England (and beyond).",
        "有关受影响人士令人悲伤的报告表明，参与者来自英格兰北部（乃至更远）的许多地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits are between 28 and 220 times higher than the costs.",
        "收益要高出成本28倍到220倍。"
    ],
    [
        "While voluntary Iranian renunciation of nuclear weapons would be the best outcome for the West, there is no reason to believe that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a danger to the world.",
        "虽然伊朗自愿放弃核武器对西方来说是最好的结果，但是也没有理由认为拥有核武器的伊朗会成为世界的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "From all appearances, development strategies have been transformed wholesale as a result.",
        "这些现象说明发展战略的思路已经出现了整体转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only does it advocate an Israeli presence in the West Bank (the Biblical homeland of Judea and Samaria); it also links territorial concessions to the Palestinians to the neutralization of existential threats emanating from the outer circle of the region.",
        "他不但支持以色列在约旦河西岸（《圣经》中犹大和撒玛利亚的故乡）的占领； 还将对巴勒斯坦人的领土让步与将来自中东地区外围的威胁的中立化联系起来。"
    ],
    [
        "The problems with the ECB’s current policy approach are serious.",
        "欧洲央行现行政策方针的问题极为严重的。"
    ],
    [
        "Debt-equity swaps have been used successfully in many cases, and they follow from normal bankruptcy procedures.",
        "债务-股权交换已有大量成功应用，可以在常规破产程序后进行。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Lapse of Reason",
        "欠缺理性的欧洲"
    ],
    [
        "Under today’s precarious conditions, demand could certainly be better supported through strategies other than quantitative easing and ultra-low interest rates.",
        "在眼下的危险情况中，需求显然更应该通过战略而不是量化宽松和极低利率来支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Western commentators continue to over-simplify this debate, framing it in terms of the proverbial China hard-landing scenarios that have been off the mark for 20 years.",
        "大部分西方评论家一直将这一争论过度简化，将其组织为众所周知的中国硬着陆论。 这一论调至少已经存在了20年。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Just when the notion that Western economies are settling into a “new normal” of low growth gained mainstream acceptance, doubts about its continued relevance have begun to emerge.",
        "华盛顿—在西方经济体正在进入低增长“新常态”的概念获得主流意见接受的同时，其现实意义已经开始受到质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "A growing number of savvy business people are also starting to wonder whether the United States will be able to right its economy anytime soon.",
        "越来越多精明老练的商界人士也开始想知道美国能否很快恢复经济。"
    ],
    [
        "He is the arbiter at the top and the trouble-shooter in social conflicts below.",
        "他既是最高层的仲裁者，又是下层社会纠纷的调停人。"
    ],
    [
        "Upaya untuk menurunkan kemiskinan dan ketimpangan berisiko akan tertunda atau bahkan terhenti.",
        "减少贫困和不平等性的措施有可能陷入停滞——甚至有可能让来之不易的进步流失。"
    ],
    [
        "In view of the huge credit bubble that preceded the crisis in Japan, the United States, and southern Europe, and the aggressive policies pursued by central banks over the last few years, I doubt that this theory is correct.",
        "据我对危机前日本、美国和南欧的巨大信用泡沫以及央行在过去几年中所采取的激进政策的观察，我怀疑这一理论的正确性。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, discussions should start with the features of the permanent regime to be established in the longer run.",
        "在现实中，讨论应该从长期来看应该建立具备什么特征的永久性机制开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Amazon’s Alexa can communicate.",
        "亚马逊的Alexa语音助手系统已经实现了人机沟通。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, shale-gas extraction is so economically favorable that even American gas exported to Europe would cost 30% less than what the Russian energy giant Gazprom currently charges.",
        "事实上，页岩气开采在经济上极为有利可图，以至于美国向欧洲出口的天然气成本将比俄罗斯能源巨头Gazprom的当前价格低三成。"
    ],
    [
        "It was called securitized mortgages.",
        "这一发明叫做证券化房屋贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "At other times, the police simply did not want to betray their precious agent.",
        "另一方面，警方不愿意背叛他们宝贵的间谍。"
    ],
    [
        "To date, Iran’s nuclear program and regional policies have been run by the IRGC and the country’s hard-liners.",
        "到目前为止，伊朗核计划和地区政策仍由IRGC和国内强硬派把持。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why it is left-wing populist parties that are winning the most support there, with promises of, say, tax credits for low-paid workers.",
        "左翼民粹主义政党因此在那里赢得了最大规模的支持，比方说承诺为低收入工人抵免税收。"
    ],
    [
        "But it does not view Ukraine as a candidate for EU membership, at least not in the foreseeable future.",
        "但该战略却没有把乌克兰作为欧盟成员的候选国，至少没有在可以预见的将来。"
    ],
    [
        "If it did, Glass-Steagall’s repeal should be revisited, and quickly.",
        "如果答案是肯定的，那么格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法案的废除就要被重新看待，而且必须尽快。"
    ],
    [
        "All of that money could have been used to improve health care, hire more teachers, build better roads, or lower taxes.",
        "这些钱本来可以用来改善医疗条件、增聘师资、修建更好的道路或者是降低税收。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, such views undermine many other important principles – namely, those needed to create and sustain an inclusive, tolerant, and peaceful society.",
        "毕竟，这些观点有损于其他许多重要原则——即那些创造和维持包容、容忍和和平的社会所需要的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "The distinction capitalized on long-standing cultural associations of right- and left-handedness with, respectively, trust and suspicion – in this case, of the status quo.",
        "在民俗文化中人们总是把右撇子跟信任联系在一起，而左撇子则一直代表着怀疑——当然在大选中则代表了对现状的不同态度，而这一区分也从中不断得到了强化。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is striking that the TPP currently does essentially nothing to discourage currency manipulation – sustained one-way intervention in the foreign-exchange market, aimed at devaluing a currency and gaining a competitive advantage.",
        "一个引人注目之处是TPP最近其实对于遏制货币操纵毫无效果。 货币操作是指持续的货币市场单向干预，旨在货币贬值和获得竞争优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Though each poses a considerable threat, Europe, aided by the recent cyclical pickup, is in a position to address them individually, without risking more than a temporary set of disruptions.",
        "尽管每个风暴都是一个巨大的威胁，但借助最近的周期性东风，欧洲有望各个击破三大危机，不会引起比暂时性扰动更严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Few competent economists have failed to conclude that the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom have large enough fiscal multipliers, strong enough spillovers of infrastructure, investment, and other demand-boosting programs, and sufficient financial space to make substantially more expansionary policies optimal.",
        "足够强的基础设施、投资和其他需求提振措施的溢出效应； 以及让大幅扩张性政策成为最优选择的充足的金融空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the really pressing task facing many developing economies is to pursue policies that promote economic opportunities by accelerating growth.",
        "事实上，许多发展中国家所面临的真正紧要的任务是实施通过加快增长扩大经济机会的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "China, Europe, and even the Gulf region will not be swayed by Trump’s moves.",
        "中国、欧洲甚至海湾地区都不会被特朗普的举所作所为所动摇。"
    ],
    [
        "That has been sufficient to convince markets that any stimulus will be withdrawn before significant inflationary forces gather.",
        "这足以让市场认为所有刺激手段都会在大通胀发威前退出。"
    ],
    [
        "With imports still growing strongly and commodity prices beginning to fall as a result of the world slowdown, Argentina’s large trade surplus is disappearing quickly.",
        "一方面进口依然强劲，一方面商品价格由于全球增长放缓而下跌，阿根廷的大规模贸易顺差正在迅速缩水。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifth, let us hope that the eurozone can avoid a currency crisis.",
        "第五，希望欧元区能避免货币危机。"
    ],
    [
        "America not only took the lead role in building the institutions of a globalizing world – the United Nations, World Bank, IMF, NATO– it also became the model that many other countries looked to for inspiration.",
        "美国不仅在建立联合国、世界银行、国际货币基金组织以及北约等全球化世界的机制中发挥了主导作用，而且，其他许多国家也寻求美国模式的灵感。"
    ],
    [
        "We are simultaneously witnessing the re-emergence of the multigenerational extended family, with as many as 22% of American adults in the 25-35 age group living with parents or relatives.",
        "我们同时也见证了几代同堂家庭的重新兴起：在25-35年龄段的美国人中有22%都与父母或者亲戚住在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "EXETER – Many people ask how sure we are about the science of climate change.",
        "埃克塞特-许多人问我们对气候变化这门科学有多大的把握。"
    ],
    [
        "But there has also been a recognition of reality – especially economic reality – along the way.",
        "但与此同时，中国也承认现实——特别是经济现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, falling marginal production costs and the rise of platforms that aggregate and concentrate activity in multiple sectors augment returns to scale.",
        "首先，创新的发展和传播比以往任何时候都要快。 其次，边际生产成本的下降和汇聚和集中各行业活动的平台的崛起增加了规模报酬。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, although Kim identified “food for the people” as one of his regime’s top three priorities for 2015, little investment in this effort was actually made.",
        "事实上，尽管金正恩将“保障人民粮食供应”列为2015年政府三件大事之一，但在这方面实际投资却并不多见。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, he will use Russia to help him manage the Middle East.",
        "相反，他将利用俄罗斯帮助他管理中东。"
    ],
    [
        "And it would gradually have to phase out treasury subsidies to BNDES – the country’s development bank – and increase the use of market-based references for BNDES’s lending rates, thereby helping to restore fiscal health and eliminate distortions in financial intermediation.",
        "此外，该计划还必须逐渐取消对BNDES（巴西开发银行）的财政补贴——并更多地使用市场利率作为BNDES贷款的参考利率，从而协助重塑财政健康、去除金融中介的扭曲。"
    ],
    [
        "A successful education teaches us to treat others with dignity, regardless of religion, race, origin, or gender.",
        "成功的教育教会我们在对待他人时不论宗教、种族、出身和性别而一视同仁。"
    ],
    [
        "The final text of the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty, which ended WWII in the Pacific, makes no mention of Dokdo.",
        "1951年旧金山和平条约（该条约标志着第二次世界大战太平洋战事的结束）最终文本没有提到独岛。"
    ],
    [
        "So spending more is not the remedy for Greece’s plight, just as spending less was not the cause.",
        "因此，增加支出并不是解决希腊困境的妙方，正如减少支出并非其根源。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has the potential to play a leading role in the world, but lacks the self-confidence and dedication to make it happen.",
        "欧洲有能力在全球发挥领导作用，但缺乏实现目标所需的自信和专注。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, China has pulled ahead, with per capita income last year standing at $11,850 – more than double India’s $5,350.",
        "结果是中国跑在了印度前面，去年中国人均收入达到了11,850美元，是印度的5,350美元的两倍多。"
    ],
    [
        "An evaluation of whether the goals are being attained can be carried out only on a global level, and thus no country can be held responsible if the target is missed.",
        "对目标是否达成的评估只能在全球层面进行，因此如果目标没有达成，你也不可能要求哪个国家来负责。"
    ],
    [
        "STOCKHOLM – The world is fundamentally different after the “Brexit” referendum in the United Kingdom.",
        "发自斯德哥尔摩——这个世界是在英国“脱欧”公投之后发生了根本性的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "A comely brunette who sings is perfect for a Bollywood makeover.",
        "一个漂亮的褐色头发歌唱女郎对于宝莱坞化妆而言是再好不过的了。"
    ],
    [
        "He is the man whom many American presidents would like to emulate, not because of any racial affinities, but because of his allure as a wartime leader.",
        "他是很多美国总统希望仿效的前辈，但这并不是因为什么种族亲和力，而是因为他作为战时领导人的光环。"
    ],
    [
        "Falling prices for its commodity exports haven’t helped, but Brazil’s economy was supposed to be about far more than just harvests and extractive industries.",
        "大宗商品出口价格的下跌绝非福音，但巴西经济应该绝不仅限于收成和炼制产业。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, in the Philippines, a half-million dollars provided to support tax reform generated well over $1 billion in additional tax receipts.",
        "同样，在菲律宾，支持税收改革的50万美元带来了超过十亿美元的增量税收。 但今天仅有0."
    ],
    [
        "Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq has effectively established de facto autonomy vis-à-vis the central government in Baghdad.",
        "自萨达姆·侯赛因倒台以来，伊拉克北部的库尔德斯坦地区政府（KRG）实际上已经建立了与巴格达中央政府针锋相对的自治区。"
    ],
    [
        "International goodwill will probably be the key to his success, if not in re-establishing American hegemony, then at least in making America the “indispensable nation” once more.",
        "而国际上的善意的支持可能是他是否能取得成功的关键，这种成功如果不是在重新建立美国霸权方面，那么至少是在使美国重新成为一个“不可或缺的国家”。"
    ],
    [
        "There can be no liberal order without political democracy, but today we are frequently reminded that political democracy alone does not guarantee a liberal order.",
        "没有政治民主就谈不上自由秩序，但今天的事实却常常让我们警醒：单纯的政治民主也并非自由秩序的保证。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the ECB’s legal mandate would allow such a re-ordering of priorities, as, with reference to the ECB, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states that “The primary (emphasis added) objective of the European System of Central Banks…shall be to maintain price stability,” and there is another part of the Treaty dealing with general eurozone economic policies that emphasizes employment.",
        "与传统智慧相反，欧洲央行的法定权力允许这样的任务优先顺序重排，因为对于欧洲央行，《欧盟运行条约》规定“欧洲中央银行体系的主要（特别强调）目标是……保持价格稳定”，而对于强调就业的欧元区总体经济政策，该条约另有条文规定。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation is intractable.",
        "由此可见，情况相当棘手。"
    ],
    [
        "After calling on the General Assembly to do its part to implement and then enforce sanctions against North Korea, Trump said, “Let’s see how they do.”",
        "在呼吁大会发挥自身作用去实施并强制执行对朝鲜的制裁后，特朗普说了一句：“让我们看看他们会怎么做。"
    ],
    [
        "But what Europe actually faces is three distinct challenges: protecting refugees, as required by European and international law; developing an effective and sustainable immigration policy that will benefit the EU; and responding to the discontent of second- and third-generation immigrant communities in Europe.",
        "但欧洲实际上面临的是三个不同的挑战：保护难民，这是欧洲和国际法律的要求； 制定有效、可持续的移民政策以惠及欧盟；"
    ],
    [
        "The point can be shown by occurrences of the phrase “demise of the dollar” in all English-language publications catalogued by Google.",
        "通过谷歌对所有英语出版物中所含的“美元的坠落”一次的统计，便可一窥端倪。"
    ],
    [
        "What threatens America’s global leadership is, rather, some of the most divided and disruptive domestic politics in its history.",
        "真正威胁美国在全球领导地位的，其实是这个国家在国内政治上出现的各种史无前例的分歧和争议。 美国人民一直以来都是勇于实践的人民。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel has denounced the Palestinian strategy as a unilateral initiative, and has threatened the Palestinians with severe reprisals.",
        "以色列谴责巴勒斯坦的这一策略属于单方面行动，并威胁将对巴勒斯坦人施加严厉报复。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to the ICTY, anyone can read the transcripts of intercepted calls to deliver more “packages” to the killing fields.",
        "多亏有了前南法庭，人们可以看到那些要求“送更多‘包裹’到屠杀现场”的电话录音内容。"
    ],
    [
        "US diplomats – indeed, all countries’ diplomats – might want to consider that, rather than chasing record numbers of social media “followers,” they should be building trust on all sides in conflict-prone societies and looking for more leaders willing to take chances for peace.",
        "美国外交官——事实上是所有国家的外交官或许应当思考这个问题，而不是以社交媒体“追随者”创纪录为目标。 他们应当在冲突各方间建立信任，寻找更多愿意为和平而冒险的领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "If those who lack the skills that today’s economy demands refuse redistribution, it is hard to see how Trump will make them better off.",
        "如果不具备当今经济所要求的技能的群体拒绝再分配，特朗普很难让他们的境况变好。"
    ],
    [
        "Telecommunication companies are also pioneering new services.",
        "通讯公司也在创新新服务。"
    ],
    [
        "The AKP received 44% of the national vote and now controls 49 of Turkey’s 81 metropolitan municipalities, including Istanbul and the capital, Ankara.",
        "AKP获得了44%的全国选票，并已控制了包括伊斯坦布尔和首都安卡拉在内的81个大自治市中的49个。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure would expose future generations to catastrophic climate risks, while trapping millions of people in poverty as a result of more frequent, intense, and protracted droughts, floods, and storms.",
        "失败将让子孙后代面临灾难性气候风险，让几百万人因为更频繁、剧烈和长期的干旱、洪水和风暴而陷入贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "When a country defaults, the economic damage swells the number of poor people and worsens their living conditions.",
        "当一国违约时，经济伤害将让穷人数量增加，并使他们的生活条件恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the Kingdom’s official denunciation of Hezbollah, the Saudi state called on its official Wahhabi clerics to issue fatwas condemning Hezbollah as Shiite deviants and heretics.",
        "在王国正式谴责真主党之后，沙特国家呼吁其官方瓦哈比教士们发布伊斯兰法令，谴责真主党是什叶派离经叛道之徒和异教徒。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the new agreements are symbolic, but some are substantive, including deals worth $2.5 billion and an agreement to set up a $1 billion bilateral-investment fund.",
        "新协议中不少是象征性的，但也有一些是实质性的，包括一份价值25亿美元、成立一个10亿美元双边投资基金的协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, ensure integration – rather than merely coordination – of economic factors into the political and security agenda.",
        "其二，确保将经济因素整合——而不仅仅是并列——到政治与安全议程当中。"
    ],
    [
        "A race for UN Secretary-General, which is usually fought so discreetly that it seems almost clandestine, bears little resemblance to the razzmatazz of an American presidential campaign.",
        "联合国秘书长竞选往往低调到令人感到神秘，与美国总统竞选时令人眼花缭乱的景象形成鲜明的对比。"
    ],
    [
        "Others point out that the US Fed’s “quantitative easing” efforts have been modestly successful, at best.",
        "也有人指出，美联储的“量化宽松”措施最多只能说是取得了一定的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is rightly concerned about the negative impact of such pilgrimages on Japan’s relations with its neighbors, particularly China and South Korea.",
        "美国担心惨败靖国神社会妨碍日本与邻国（特别是中国和韩国）的关系，这是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the agreements have been used to challenge government actions ranging from debt restructuring to affirmative action.",
        "事实上，这些协定被利用来制约从债务重组到平权行动的各种政府行为。"
    ],
    [
        "With China’s mortgage lending equal to only 10% of GDP, compared to 60-70% in the Anglo-Saxon countries, there is huge opportunity for growth.",
        "由于中国的按揭贷款仅相当于GDP的10%，远低于英美国家的60-70%，因此增长的潜力非常巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "No wonder global growth keeps on disappointing.",
        "毫不奇怪全球增长一直令人失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Genetic research, in particular, must be free to find new models to explain, and enhance, twenty-first-century scientific discovery.",
        "我们的研究，尤其是在基因研究方面，必须让人可以自由寻找新的模型去解释，并提升21世纪的科学发现。"
    ],
    [
        "All voters know is that they cannot get a job when they want one, and they blame the politician for this.",
        "所有选民都知道在需要工作时无法找到工作，而他们将这个问题归咎于政治家。"
    ],
    [
        "The characteristics of a Chinese hard landing are well known from the Great Recession of 2008-2009.",
        "中国硬着陆的特征因2008—2009年大衰退期间而众人皆知。"
    ],
    [
        "More fundamentally, where, exactly, does one draw the line between advanced economies and emerging markets?",
        "更重要的是，在哪里，确切地说，有谁为发达经济体和新兴市场之间划出了界线？"
    ],
    [
        "All three of these issues are crucial to the fight against corruption.",
        "所有这三个问题都是反腐斗争的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "It is in this context that the historic compromise between the religious (Hamas) and the secular (Fatah) to form a national unity government for Palestine might have established a new paradigm for the future of regime change in the Arab world.",
        "正是在这一背景下，宗教的哈马斯和世俗的法塔赫之间历史性的妥协建立巴勒斯坦民族团结政府可能为阿拉伯世界政权更迭的未来建立了一个新的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fragmentation of Bretton Woods",
        "布雷顿森林的崩溃"
    ],
    [
        "Having invaded an oil-rich Arab country that played no role in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, the United States has imprudently allowed itself to be sucked into its attackers’ primitive logic of collective punishment and group revenge.",
        "美国入侵了与2001年9月11日恐怖主义攻击毫无干系、石油储量丰富的阿拉伯国家，这样就鲁莽地让自己也陷入攻击者原始的集体惩罚和报复的逻辑。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the tax change left around 60% of households worse off, even as average household income grew, driven by gains at the top.",
        "因此即便家庭平均收入因顶层富人的收入增加而实现了增长，但这一税收变化令大概60％家庭的生活状况变得更糟。"
    ],
    [
        "The relative silence about China in the US these days may be due merely to the news dominance of the Iraq War.",
        "这些日子以来中国问题在美国大选中的相对静默也许只是出于对伊战争的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "In retrospect, it is remarkable that this distinction managed to define partisan political allegiances for more than 200 years, absorbing both the great reactionary and radical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.",
        "回顾过去，很显然这种区分在其诞生后的200多年间都成功对党派政治忠诚进行了界定，并贯穿了19到20世纪的所有大规模极端保守或激进政治运动。"
    ],
    [
        "I recall the Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson – alongside John Maynard Keynes, arguably the greatest economist of his time – remarking that anti-Japanese propaganda had gone so far that Japan’s critics would argue that the Japanese bow in greeting Westerners to make it easier to cut them off at the knees.",
        "我记得诺贝尔奖得主萨缪尔森和凯恩斯（当时公认的最伟大经济学家）评论说，反日宣传是如此深入，以至于日本批评家告诉人们，日本人对西方人点头哈腰是为了出其不意斩断西方人的膝盖。"
    ],
    [
        "All this need not end horribly, but policymakers in most regions have to start pressing hard on the brakes, not the accelerator.",
        "虽然所有这些不一定会有一个可怕的结局，但是大多数地区的政策制定者将不得不开始踩刹车，而不是去揿加速器。"
    ],
    [
        "Mockus was mayor of Bogota and Fajardo mayor of Medellin, and both want to shift the government’s main priority from internal security to strengthening the rule of law, education, science and technology, productivity, and SOUND public finances.",
        "莫卡斯曾任波哥大市市长，法哈多也曾掌管麦德林市。 他们两人都希望将政府的执政重点从国内安全转向增强法治、教育、科技、生产率，以及改善公共财政。"
    ],
    [
        "Previously, gas markets were geographically restricted by dependence on pipelines.",
        "此前，在地理上对管道的依赖曾经限制了天然气市场。"
    ],
    [
        "International conventions still limit governments’ leeway, and the US government remains opposed to any backtracking from the punitive, prohibitionist strategy that it has pursued since 1981.",
        "国际公约仍然限制着政府动作的余地，美国政府仍然反对任何退出1981年以来所实施的惩罚性禁止战略。"
    ],
    [
        "It is one thing for governments to allow small anonymous transactions with virtual currencies; indeed, this would be desirable.",
        "政府允许用虚拟货币进行小型匿名交易，这是一回事，事实上，这是值得追求的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere calling for immediate and substantial cuts in carbon emissions, the IPCC’s director even declared that he hoped the IPCC report would “shock people, governments into taking more serious action.”",
        "委员会的主任在其他场合呼吁立即采取实质性的行动来降低碳排放，甚至还宣布他希望这一报告将会“震撼世人和各国政府，从而采取更为严肃的行动”。"
    ],
    [
        "But managing competition in a market that has three major players – state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and domestic and foreign private companies – is a complex task.",
        "但监管拥有三个主要参与者（国有企业、民营企业与外资企业）的市场竞争是一个复杂的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Zhu’s reforms two decades ago laid the foundation for today’s growth, whether Li succeeds may well determine China’s economic trajectory for the next 20 years.",
        "正如朱镕基二十年前的改革奠定了今日增长的基础，李克强是否能够成功在很大程度上决定了未来20年中国经济的轨迹。"
    ],
    [
        "They are debating, for example, whether the INDCs add up to a 25% or 30% reduction by 2030, and whether we need a 25%, 30%, or 40% reduction by then to be on track.",
        "比方说，他们正在讨论INDC到2030年合计完成减排25%还是30%，而此后我们需要25%、30%还是40%的减排才能完成目标。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s working-age consumers, as children of the digital age, are driving innovation by interacting directly with companies to help reinvent products and services.",
        "中国的工作年龄消费者是数字时代的孩子，他们通过直接与公司互动助其重新发明产品和服务来推动创新。"
    ],
    [
        "More research on the environmental risks and benefits of shale energy, and the development of new standards and regulations to control these risks are required.",
        "”我们需要更进一步地研究页岩能源的环境风险和收益，并开发新标准和监管以控制这些风险。"
    ],
    [
        "All in all, despite all the focus on the US, Europe, or Japan, China continues to hold the trump card in today’s weakened global economy.",
        "总而言之，尽管所有的焦点都集中在美国、欧洲和日本身上，但中国仍然是当今疲软的全球经济的王牌。"
    ],
    [
        "The patent conferred Proctor exclusive rights over a bean variety he called “Enola.”",
        "那项专利授予Proctor对一种名叫“Enola”的黄豆品种的独家所有权。"
    ],
    [
        "The Silent Death of Eurozone Governance",
        "欧元区治理静在沉默中死亡"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, not all commodities are equal.",
        "当然，并非所有商品都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But the biodiversity on which all of us depend is under threat, as human activity devastates forests and other plant-rich habitats.",
        "但人类破坏森林及其他植物品类富集之所的活动正逐步威胁到我们所有人赖以生存的生物多样性。"
    ],
    [
        "This is at least partly the result of leaving education too much to the market: those with money are highly educated, and those with insufficient means are not educated enough.",
        "这至少部分是因为教育过于依赖市场：有钱的人受到更好的教育，没有门路的受教育不足。"
    ],
    [
        "An independent expert panel would review the national plans to verify their scientific and managerial coherence.",
        "将由独立的专家小组对国家计划的科学性和管理的连贯性进行评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Before reversing herself under fire, Theresa May – the home secretary, who is now the leading candidate to succeed Cameron as Prime Minister – implicitly threatened the future status of EU nationals living in the UK by promising only that they would be “part of the negotiation” for Britain’s exit.",
        "在遭到攻击并扭转口风前，最有可能接替卡梅伦出任首相的内政大臣特雷莎·梅含蓄地威胁了生活在英国欧盟民众，仅仅承诺他们将成为英国退欧“谈判的部分内容”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese economist Jin Liqun has been selected to lead the AIIB’s Multilateral Interim Secretariat, charged with overseeing the bank’s establishment.",
        "中国经济学家金立群被推选带领亚投行多边临时秘书处，负责监督亚洲投资银行的建立。"
    ],
    [
        "The US and UK governments have a long-standing policy of refusing to pay ransoms to terrorist organizations.",
        "美国和英国政府一直拒绝向恐怖组织支付赎金。"
    ],
    [
        "Plato would reject this view.",
        "柏拉图将拒绝这一观点。"
    ],
    [
        "In China and other emerging-market economies, delays in policy tightening could fuel a rise in inflation that forces a tougher clampdown later, with China, in particular, risking a hard landing.",
        "在中国以及其他新兴市场经济体，未能及时收紧的财政政策将导致通货膨胀以及随之而来的铁腕降温政策，特别是中国的“硬着陆”风险较大。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran defended its own interests and those of the Shia minority in the west of the country.",
        "为了本国利益，也为了保护阿富汗西部地区的少数派——什叶派穆斯林，伊朗也介入了阿富汗。"
    ],
    [
        "If the European periphery countries had their own currencies, it is likely that debt problems would morph right back into elevated inflation.",
        "如果欧洲外围国家有自己的货币，那么债务问题将很有可能会引发通胀上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "But even if it is one of the smaller countries, it might be a serious threat because it could be seen as the beginning of the end.",
        "但是，即便是欧洲经济与货币联盟中的一个小国，这也可能是一个严重的威胁，因为它会被看成是结束的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Stalin was of course notorious for persecuting Jews, or “rootless cosmopolitans” as he called them, whom he regarded as natural agents of capitalism and traitors to the Soviet Union.",
        "当然，斯大林在迫害犹太人——他称之为“无根的国际主义者”，是资本主义的天然代理人、苏联的叛徒——方面臭名卓著。"
    ],
    [
        "At the anti-corruption summit in London on May 12, world leaders – together with representatives from business and civil society – will have a critical opportunity to act on this recognition.",
        "在5月12日的伦敦反腐败峰会上，世界领导人以及来自商界和公民社会的代表将迎来对这一认识有所行动的关键机会。"
    ],
    [
        "When he speaks of “modernization,” or of “bringing things into the twenty-first century,” he manages to suggest a strange but appealing mixture of change and stability.",
        "当他说到“现代化”或“把事情带到二十一世纪”时，他设法暗示了一个陌生但具有吸引力的变化与平稳混合体。"
    ],
    [
        "Boom and doom pundits are the most reliable over-claimers.",
        "那些声称能够预知未来兴衰的专家最有可能是在夸大其辞。"
    ],
    [
        "China is also losing long-term growth momentum, as falling fertility rates and returns on investment weaken labor-force expansion and capital accumulation.",
        "中国还在失去长期增长动力，生育率和投资回报率的下降抑制了劳动力扩张和资本积累。"
    ],
    [
        "In many cases, these missiles could eventually threaten Europe’s populations and territories.",
        "但此时此地，我们仍必须做好准备以防御一些负面影响。"
    ],
    [
        "However, this Sputnik moment – actually a “Dragon moment” – delivers a somewhat different message.",
        "不过，这一卫星时刻——实际应该称为“龙飞船时刻”——传递了有些不同的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments at the recent meeting in Doha of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted for a trade ban on Iranian Kaisers, alongside tougher protection for a host of land-living creatures.",
        "在不久前多哈召开的濒危物种国际贸易公约（CITES）会议上，各国政府投票禁止伊朗恺撒蝾螈贸易，对其他多种陆生生物的严格保护措施也同时获得通过。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, there has been little progress on either front.",
        "不幸的是，这两个方面都没有什么进步。"
    ],
    [
        "The strategy worked; Argentina has avoided making any payments to its creditors.",
        "这一战略起效了； 阿根廷避免了向债权人支付任何款项。"
    ],
    [
        "The selected adjustments might then be made to, say, the parents of a new Monsanto or DuPont Pioneer maize hybrid.",
        "选中的调整接着可以用于制作（比如）孟山都公司或杜邦先锋公司的新杂交玉米亲本。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an alternative way of financing and incentivizing research that, at least in some instances, could do a far better job than patents, both in directing innovation and ensuring that the benefits of that knowledge are enjoyed as widely as possible: a medical prize fund that would reward those who discover cures and vaccines.",
        "我们可以为投资和激励研究找到一种替代方法，它至少在某些方面可以比专利要做得好得多，不管是引导创新还是确保知识的利益可以被尽可能多的人享受到。 这就是一个用来奖励发现治疗方法和疫苗的人的医疗奖励基金。"
    ],
    [
        "While Qaddafi delivered terrorists to Mubarak, the Egyptian president declined American requests to do the same. After Palestinians in 1985 hijacked the Italian ship Achille Lauro, killed an American, and berthed in Egypt, the US asked Mubarak to extradite them. But Mubarak refused, saying that Secretary of State George Shultz was “crazy” if he believed that Egypt would betray the Palestinian cause.",
        "在巴勒斯坦武装分子于1985年劫持了意大利邮轮“阿齐利·劳罗”号，杀死一名美国人并将船停泊在埃及港口时，美国要求穆巴拉克引渡这些人。 但穆巴拉克却拒绝了这一要求，还声称如果美国国务卿乔治·舒尔茨认为埃及会背叛巴勒斯坦斗争事业的话就一定是“疯了”。"
    ],
    [
        "One might also ask why we should develop energy-intensive robots to work in one of the few areas – care for children or elderly people – in which people with little education can find employment.",
        "有人可能还会问，为什么我们要在照顾老人或小孩这些工作领域里引进高能耗的机器人——这可是那些低教育程度人群的饭碗啊。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the world’s ten most densely populated cities, seven are in India.",
        "在世界十大人口密集城市中，有七个位于印度。"
    ],
    [
        "It was not until 1501 that the Safavid dynasty established Shi’ism as the official religion of Persia, thereby distinguishing itself from its Sunni Ottoman neighbors, which were occupying part of their territory.",
        "直到1501年，萨非王朝才将什叶派立为波斯国教，从而将自己与占领部分土地的逊尼派奥斯曼诸邻邦区分开来。"
    ],
    [
        "There, private economists are back enjoying their favorite pastime during periods of economic stress, namely trying to construct their own indices for GDP growth as at such times they do not believe the official statistics.",
        "中国的私人经济学家又回到了过去他们最喜欢的经济压力期，也就是推算自己的GDP增长指标而不信任官方统计数字的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "Having received its smallest share of the popular vote since World War II, the SPD is severely weakened, and may be unable to pursue anything but the least controversial items on its domestic agenda.",
        "SPD的支持率降到了二战以来最低点，它已经严重削弱，可能无法追求其自身的哪怕是争议最少的国内日程。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not so much the Polish plumber as it is the Slovak 19% flat tax that is the challenge to the older West European social model and welfare state.",
        "比起波兰水电工，斯洛伐克19%的单一税率才是对老的西欧国家的社会模式和福利国家制度的真正挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, environmentalism was born with a call to preserve the forests.",
        "”其实，保护森林是环保主义与生俱来的诉求。"
    ],
    [
        "The oceans provide at least half of the oxygen we breathe.",
        "我们所呼吸的氧气中至少有一半来自海洋。"
    ],
    [
        "For the Chinese, in particular, the talks have been an opportunity to get to know some of their neighbors better – and they have certainly helped Sino-US relations.",
        "尤其对中国人而言，六方会谈是对邻国增进了解的好机会，而且无疑有益于中美关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But sovereign states are no longer the only actors on the scene.",
        "但主权国家已不再是舞台上唯一的选手。"
    ],
    [
        "That $5 trillion dollars is not money invested in building roads, schools, and other long-term projects, but is directly transferred from the American economy to the personal accounts of bank executives and employees.",
        "这5万亿美元不会投资于公路、学校和其他长期项目，而是将直接从美国经济转入银行高管和职员的个人账户。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, they have half the level of cancer-protective vitamin D as whites, and they are much more likely to live in polluted neighborhoods.",
        "另外，他们体内可预防癌症的维生素D水平只有白人的一半，并且还更有可能居住在受到污染的社区。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom, reported hate crimes against immigrants surged 42% year on year in the run-up to and aftermath of June’s Brexit referendum.",
        "在英国，6月份英国脱欧公投前后针对移民的报道仇恨犯罪同比激增42%。"
    ],
    [
        "So the blind alley of gene therapy has sent biotechnology heading full throttle down the road of drug development, based on the new genomics.",
        "基因疗法的失败加速了以基因图谱为基础的生物药品的研制过程。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, electrical interactions take place between closely apposed neuronal elements without obvious membrane specializations.",
        "除此之外，电互动发生于紧密并列的神经元素（neuronal element）之间，不需要明显的细胞膜专业化。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2004, a paper published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis showed that US senators who traded stocks beat the market by 12% per year.",
        "在2004年，一篇发表在《金融和统计分析学报》上的论文显示那些投资股票的美国参议员年回报率都比市场高12%。"
    ],
    [
        "China correctly declared that it was within its sovereign rights to dredge, and that it was merely following the lead of its neighbors, whose governments had also been creating structures to bolster their claims.",
        "中国正确地宣布疏浚活动属于其主权范围，它只是在效仿邻国——邻国政府早已开始进行建设以巩固主权。"
    ],
    [
        "Education, where the power of modern disruptive technologies has barely been felt, would be a good place to start.",
        "教育这个不怎么能感觉得到现代颠覆性技术力量的领域，有可能是一个尝试的好领域。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference is that, in general, many developing countries have more restrictive immigration and foreign employment policies than the US does.",
        "区别在于，一般而言，许多发展中国家的移民和外国就业政策比美国更加严格。"
    ],
    [
        "They worry that Abe’s defense moves will make it more likely that Japan will be dragged into war, putting an end to its post-war pacifism.",
        "他们担心安倍的防御举措更有可能将日本拖入战争，结束其战后奉行的和平主义原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries will be torn between retaining their security ties to the US and building new economic linkages with China.",
        "各国将在维持与美国的安全联系以及构建与中国的新经济联系之间权衡。"
    ],
    [
        "People need to believe that the money represents something more lasting than stimulus measures, which may eventually end in failure.",
        "如果只依靠政府的经济救助方案，最终不能达到恢复经济的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even with only a banking union, the pressure toward political union will grow.",
        "但即便只成立一个银行联盟，向一个政治联盟推进的压力也将不断增大，"
    ],
    [
        "In typical business cycles, countries are usually left to manage the recovery largely on their own.",
        "在典型的商业周期中，国家通常主要是独自处理经济复苏问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The world needs a well-designed and far-reaching strategy to stimulate industrialization, modeled after the European Recovery Program – the American initiative that enabled Europe to rebuild after World War II.",
        "世界需要一套设计良好、意义深远的战略刺激工业化。 二战后美国帮助欧洲重建所实施的欧洲复兴计划（European Recovery Program）是一个榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "And if elected officials have failed to take necessary precautions or demonstrated a sense of resignation, voters will let them know at the ballot box.",
        "而如果当选官员不能采取必要的预防措施，或表现出任命的感觉，选民就会让他领教投票箱的厉害。"
    ],
    [
        "The most popular functional foods are soft drinks, sports drinks, breakfast cereals, snacks, energy bars, and juice drinks.",
        "最受欢迎的功能性食品是软饮料、运动饮料、快餐麦片、小食品、能量条和果汁类。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that many voters in Europe and the US feel battered by globalization, a populist party that aggressively puts the nation first has a head start against its rivals.",
        "考虑到欧洲和美国的许多选民感到受到了全球化的重创，激进地要求国家第一的民粹主义政党赢得了起跑线。"
    ],
    [
        "The frequency of such mentions, adjusted for the number of printed pages per year, first jumped in 1969, following the collapse of the London Gold Pool, an arrangement in which eight central banks cooperated to support the dollar’s peg to gold.",
        "这种说法被频繁提及，（根据每年出版物页数进行调整后）首见于1969年伦敦黄金总库（London Gold Pool）崩溃之后。 伦敦黄金总库是由八家央行组成的联合支持美元盯住黄金的安排。"
    ],
    [
        "Failures of rainfall contribute not only to famines and chronic hunger, but also to the onset of violence when hungry people clash over scarce food and water.",
        "降雨量的不足不仅导致了连年饥荒，还引发了暴力活动，饥饿的人们为争夺稀少的食物和水源而冲突不断。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestically, too, the nine-dotted line may cause problems for the government by presenting critics with a useful weapon.",
        "在中国国内，“九段线”也为当局带来了问题，因为这将成为批评政府的有用武器。"
    ],
    [
        "But the alternative – relaxing evidentiary standards – would undermine values such as legality and reasonable doubt, which are essential to a fair trial.",
        "但放松证据标准将可能有损合法性及合理怀疑等价值观，这些在公正的审判过程中又必不可少。"
    ],
    [
        "It also has highlighted the importance to development of protecting migrant rights and of fighting illegal migration.",
        "它同时也强调维护移民权益和打击非法移民的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "This division is complicating matters enormously, because close international cooperation is needed to correct the global imbalances that remain at the root of the crisis.",
        "这一分歧让事态大大地恶化了，因为紧密的国际合作是纠正全球失衡这一仍未解决的危机根源所不必可少的。"
    ],
    [
        "The democratic opposition can address the flaws of the existing order only if it recognizes the need for very different forms of mobilization from those of the past.",
        "民主反对可以纠正现有秩序的缺陷，但这只有在从历史中学到截然不同的动员形式的必要性的情况下才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "And other advanced economies – such as Canada, Australia, Norway – face headwinds from low commodity prices.",
        "而其他发达经济体——如加拿大、澳大利亚和挪威——面临大宗商品价格低迷的不利局面。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, today the region cannot even come together to publish a new report.",
        "事实上，今天该地区合作发布新报告已不太可能了。"
    ],
    [
        "When Mubarak became president in 1981, parliament granted him the right to control all military contracts without legislative oversight.",
        "穆巴拉克在1981年成为总统后，就从议会得到了在没有任何立法监督情况下控制所有军事合同的生杀大权。"
    ],
    [
        "Newborn infections, for example, could be further reduced by encouraging more pregnant mothers to visit health clinics for early monitoring and for checkups after delivery.",
        "比方说，可以通过鼓励更多怀孕妈妈到诊所进行早期检测及分娩后检查来进一步降低新生儿感染率。"
    ],
    [
        "For center-left parties, the task is even more daunting.",
        "至于中左翼政党，任务更加艰巨。"
    ],
    [
        "And, if the bets don’t pay off, the cost to the American taxpayer will be even larger.",
        "而且，如果这些投机不能赢利，美国纳税人付出的代价将会更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourteen percent of the population is aged 65 or older, a figure that is expected to reach 28% by 2035.",
        "百分之十四的人口年龄达到了65岁（含），到2035年，这一比例预计将升高到28%。"
    ],
    [
        "Building on the Global Recovery",
        "在全球复苏的基础上再接再励"
    ],
    [
        "Third, Greece’s eurozone partners wield a massive stick that is typically absent in sovereign-debt negotiations.",
        "第三，希腊的欧元区伙伴国在主权债务谈判时动用了罕见的大棒。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU, in particular, should engage the region with clearer, more coordinated, and more effective policies.",
        "特别是欧盟，它应该以更明确、更协调、更有效的政策介入该地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly a year ago, Moldova, a country few know about, seemed to confirm this.",
        "而就在大概一年之前，摩尔多瓦这个不起眼的小国恰好印证了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, even with optimal outcomes, like the avoidance of recession, the economic arguments for large-scale immigration are hardly conclusive.",
        "因此，即使在最优结果中——比如避免了衰退——大规模移民流入的经济学论据也很难令人信服。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea Makes History",
        "北朝鲜制造了历史"
    ],
    [
        "Many left-leaning polemicists point to Japan, where net debt is about 140% of GDP, as proof that much higher debt is a great idea, despite the country’s anemic growth record.",
        "许多左倾辩论家拿出日本的例子——日本债务目前大约为GDP的140%——来论证大幅增加债务是一个好主意，丝毫不顾日本萎靡的增长纪录。"
    ],
    [
        "By pursuing cooperation, the Indo-Pacific’s democratic powers can shore up an inclusive, rules-based order that underpins peace, prosperity, stability, and freedom of navigation in the region.",
        "通过寻求合作，印度-太平洋民主力量能够巩固一个基于规则的包容性秩序，成为域内和平、繁荣、稳定和航行自由的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "We need each other, and in many areas we can make a difference only if we act together.",
        "我们相互需要，而且只有通过密切合作才能在许多领域中取得进展。"
    ],
    [
        "For the time being, Khodorkovsky's love remains unrequited.",
        "而克多科夫斯基的爱暂时还没有得到回应。"
    ],
    [
        "But the nuclear weapons states should continue to reduce the role of nuclear weapons, and refrain from new programs that suggest the prospect of their use.",
        "但是拥有核武器的国家应该继续减少核武器的作用，并且禁止那些有可能使用核武器的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, if Geneva II fails, Geneva III will not be about Syria alone.",
        "毕竟，如果第二次日内瓦会议失败，第三次日内瓦会议就不会只涉及叙利亚问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Kaplan argues that modern leaders must respond in kind, and that modern leadership will demand a pagan ethos rooted in the past.",
        "卡普兰认为现代的领袖们必须用同样的方式对这些人进行回应，现代领导人要求具有源自过去的异教道德精神。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of operating in an environment with little influence or room for maneuver, pushing the peace process now could help endear the Arab public to the West and give the US more sway in the new Middle East.",
        "与其在影响力或参与余地都极其有限的环境中操作，现在推动和平进程可以密切西方与阿拉伯民众的关系，增强美国在新中东地区的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "What went wrong in Greece was not the fiscal adjustment.",
        "希腊的问题不在于财政调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Manufacturing has lost 1.8 million jobs.",
        "制造业已经损失了180万个工作岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Islam Versus Islam",
        "伊斯兰对伊斯兰的战斗"
    ],
    [
        "When the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers endangered the credit of financial institutions, private credit was replaced by the credit of the state, revealing an unrecognized flaw in the euro.",
        "雷曼兄弟破产危及金融机构信贷导致国家信贷挤出私人信贷，进而彰显了欧元不为人知的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the biggest problem we face – the unforeseen result of increased economic activity and prosperity.",
        "这就是我们面对的最严峻问题——也是逐渐增加的经济活动以及繁荣所带来的意想不到的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with so many unanswered questions about what took place, the emergence of many strange twists and turns in the coming weeks would be no surprise.",
        "但是，所发生的事情存在如此多的问题有待查清，在接下来的几周内出现许多奇怪的转折也不足为奇。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, for the past two years, Pakistan has been suffering as much or perhaps more than Afghanistan has suffered.",
        "不幸的是，在过去的两年中，巴基斯坦所遭受的苦难和阿富汗一样多，甚至更多。"
    ],
    [
        "We share these concerns.",
        "我们也持有同样的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "The meaning and vitality of life in a democracy cannot be allowed to fade.",
        "民主国家的生活的意义和活力绝不容削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "In the same tweet justifying his phone call with Tsai, he repeated a false charge that China is devaluing its currency to gain export advantages vis-à-vis the US.",
        "在为自己和蔡英文通话辩解的同一条tweet中，他又重申了一次子虚乌有的指控——中国让人民币贬值来获得对美国的出口优势。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Ankara Protocol was agreed, the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan achieved something that, until then, had been considered impossible: he shattered the decades-old opposition of Turkish Cypriots to a compromise between the two parts of the divided island.",
        "安卡拉协议的签订标志着土耳其总理雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安领导的政府取得了之前被认为不可能取得的成就：他打破了数十年来土耳其族塞浦路斯不肯在这个岛屿分裂的双方之间接受妥协的固执。"
    ],
    [
        "It is already the dominant source of power generation in some very important energy-consuming nations.",
        "在某些十分重要的能源消费国家中，煤炭已经统领电力来源。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this is true, but there are a few important caveats.",
        "这些都是真事，但需要做一些重要的警告。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s national security adviser recently complained that his office was targeted yet again by hackers.",
        "印度国家安全顾问于近日抱怨道，其办公室的电脑又一次成为了黑客的目标，他指出：“人们看起来很确信，攻击者是中国方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Al-Baghdadi has managed to strike numerous deals with the Sunni tribes of Iraq, without whom he could not have conquered so much territory so quickly.",
        "巴格达迪成功地与伊拉克逊尼派部落达成了大量协议，没有他们的支持，他就无法如此迅速地征服如此广袤的领土。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing less than a united position against the despot of Belarus is necessary if Lukashenka – and his Russian backers – are to be forced to change their ways.",
        "除了采取统一的立场，没有任何其它方法能够迫使卢卡申科及其俄罗斯支持者改变他们的行为方式。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite an amendment to exempt accounts containing less than €20,000, the Cypriot parliament overwhelmingly rejected the plan, leaving Cyprus – and Europe – in limbo.",
        "但是，尽管这一方案带有20000欧元以下存款豁免的修正案，塞浦路斯议会仍以压倒性优势否决了它，让塞浦路斯——以及欧洲——陷入乱局。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – Many of the recent tributes for Margaret Thatcher following her death celebrated her as a “transformational” leader who brought about great changes.",
        "牛津—玛格丽特·撒切尔去世后，很多最新纪念文章称赞她是带来伟大变革的“转型”领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "And much attention has been devoted, often in nearby opinion pieces, to the view that hyperactive equities markets, particularly in the US and the United Kingdom, push large corporations to focus disproportionately on short-term financial results at the expense of long-term investments in their countries’ economies.",
        "而最近的一些评论文章则聚焦到极度活跃的股票市场之上——尤其是在美国和英国——认为这会促使大型企业过分关注短期财务业绩，并是以牺牲本国经济的长期投资为代价的。"
    ],
    [
        "Actually, the answer is quite simple.",
        "答案其实很简单。"
    ],
    [
        "How else, in the end, to explain America’s useless and hugely costly entanglements in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and many other conflicts?",
        "要不然的话，如何解释美国代价沉重又徒劳无功地卷入越南、阿富汗、伊拉克、叙利亚、利比亚、也门和其他许多冲突？"
    ],
    [
        "This model has proven its viability in Europe over a period of centuries, and its advantages are evident in the US even now with Bank of America’s purchase of Merrill Lynch.",
        "这种模式在欧洲的几个世纪中证明了其生命力，即使是现在，在美国银行购买美林的活动中，其在美国的优势也是很明显的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, on this occasion, there is reason to believe that economic concerns were a major driver of political change, as evidenced by the massive turnout at the electoral booths.",
        "但是，在此次选举中，有理由认为经济问题是政治变化的一大主要推动力，投票箱前人头攒动的景象就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it is clear that European defense is now struggling mightily with public financing.",
        "但欧洲防务目前只能在恶劣的财政状况下挣扎求存。"
    ],
    [
        "The majority of the community and its institutions must be enthusiastic.",
        "社区的大部分人及其机构必须热情参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Malaria can be prevented to a significant extent, and can be treated with nearly 100% success, through available low-cost technologies.",
        "疟疾在很大程度上是可以避免的，采用现有的低成本技术也百分之百地能够治愈。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Global Times, “China cherishes the Sino-Indian friendship, but this does not mean China values it above all else.”",
        "”《环球时报》指出，“中国珍视中印友好，但这并不意味着中国将中印关系置于最高地位。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Voters overwhelmingly returned Thaksin to office in February 2005.",
        "2005年1月，泰国选民压倒性地再次选举他信担任总理。"
    ],
    [
        "Stanisław Piotrowicz, the state prosecutor under martial law (which remained in effect until 1983), is currently leading the PiS government’s campaign to seize control of the Polish judiciary.",
        "时任军事管制状态下（戒严令一直持续到1983年）国家检察官的彼得罗维奇目前是法律与正义党政府夺取波兰司法控制权运动的领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time, the military’s leaders claimed that the attack was part of an effort to locate unidentified insurgents who were thought to be responsible for the slayings on October 9 of nine policemen at three border posts in the district of Maungdaw.",
        "当时，军方领导人宣布这次袭击是定位身份不明的叛乱分子的行动的一部分，据称这些叛乱分子10月9日在孟都县的三个边防站杀害了九名警察。"
    ],
    [
        "In a global economy with deficient aggregate demand, current-account surpluses are a problem.",
        "同样，沙特也有着双边和多边的贸易顺差：美国想要它的石油，而沙特人不怎么想要美国货。"
    ],
    [
        "The seemingly realistic option of starting with immediate problems before addressing longer-term issues is only superficially attractive.",
        "看似现实的选择是在解决长期问题之前先从解决眼前的问题开始，但这一选择只是表面上具有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "When confronted with anarchy, this eagerness to secure stability by whatever means necessary is understandable.",
        "面对无政府状态时，这种不惜采取任何必要手段确保稳定的急切愿望是可以理解的。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless these conditions are fulfilled, the International Olympic Committee should seriously reconsider whether holding this summer’s Olympic Games in a country that includes a peaceful graveyard remains a good idea.",
        "与西藏人民的代表进行有意义的对话。 除非这些条件得到满足，否则，国际奥委会应该认真考虑在一个包含和平墓地的国家举行奥运会是否还是可行。"
    ],
    [
        "But the US was not particularly interested in a larger World Bank; instead of using its considerable influence – reflected in its power to appoint the Bank’s president – to create a stronger institution capable of responding to new demands, it went along with what became a modest Bank recapitalization.",
        "但美国对扩大世界银行并没有特别大的兴趣，它并没有利用其巨大的影响力——表现在其任命世行行长的权力上——建立更强大、有能力响应新需求的机构，结果世行只是进行了少许资本结构调整。"
    ],
    [
        "The “bulldozer” had become the grandfather of most Israelis and the last card of Western diplomacy, for Americans and, surprisingly, for Europeans, too.",
        "这部“推土机”已经成为大多数以色列人的祖父，和西方外交的最后一张牌—对于意料之外的美国人和意料之中的欧洲人都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Accordingly, designing and manufacturing an airplane is many times more demanding and thorough than designing and assembling a bicycle is.",
        "因此，设计和制造一架飞机的要求要比设计和组装一辆自行车严苛和周到得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Open societies are incompatible with closed economies.",
        "社会开放与经济封闭格格不入。"
    ],
    [
        "But this lethal brew has a history, which needs to be explained.",
        "但这颗致命的种子有其历史来源值得细究。"
    ],
    [
        "Suddenly, the eurozone had become a straightjacket.",
        "突然，欧元区已经成为一件令人难受的紧身衣。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic performance in several Latin American countries was relatively weak in this period, with Uruguay’s real GDP per capita actually recording a fall by a fraction of a percent.",
        "这一期间几个拉美国家的经济表现也不尽如人意，其中乌拉圭的人均实际国内生产总值下降了不到百分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The pattern is clear: this sort of transition away from labor-intensive manufacturing happened before in today’s developed countries, when firms headquartered in Europe, Japan, and the United States moved production to developing countries.",
        "其中的模式是显而易见的：当今的发达国家以前也发生过迁离劳动密集型制造业的情况，总部设在欧洲、日本和美国的公司将生产线迁往发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Aware of these potential risks, Dubai’s leadership has just approved a comprehensive plan to overhaul education aimed at developing indigenous human capital.",
        "正因为意识到这些潜在风险，迪拜领导层全面计划彻底改革教育以开发本土人力资本。"
    ],
    [
        "Have central banks been given too many powers for their own good?",
        "央行是否被授予过多的权力自说自话？"
    ],
    [
        "But it has been a while since Indians and Chinese had much to do with each other.",
        "但是中国和印度有很长一段时间互不来往。"
    ],
    [
        "And if he is, to what extent will his policies be responsible, and will faster growth entail grave long-term costs to the environment and income inequality?",
        "如果是这样的话，那么有多大程度上要归功于他的政策？ 更快的经济增长是否意味着环境和收入不平等等方面的巨大的长期代价？"
    ],
    [
        "SINGAPORE – Japan’s nuclear crisis is a nightmare, but it is not an anomaly.",
        "发自新加坡——日本的核危机是一场噩梦，但它并非孤例。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, it is reasonable to expect the oil supply to remain plentiful, and prices to remain moderate, through 2016 – a trend that will boost global growth by an estimated 0.5 percentage points over this period.",
        "基于这一情况，预计石油供应将在2016年间保持充足，而价格也将维持保持平稳——而这一趋势预计会将该时期的全球增长推高0. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "The Alliance for Financial Inclusion, a network of central bankers and financial policymakers from more than 80 developing countries, is already contributing to more effective and proportionate global regulation by facilitating increased engagement with SSBs. This September, Malaysia’s central bank will advance the process by hosting AFI’s Global Policy Forum.",
        "金融包容联盟（Alliance for Financial Inclusion，由80多个发展中国家央行行长和金融决策者组成的网络）已在通过协助进一步参与SSB促进更有效、更适度的全球监管。"
    ],
    [
        "Another source of uncertainty concerns the point at which AI is no longer controlled by a guild of technicians and managers.",
        "另一个不确定性来源是AI发展到什么程度后将不再受到技师和管理者的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Lula survived those scandals and did not move to amend the constitution in order to seek a third term, though some in Brazil pressed him to do so.",
        "卢拉在那场丑闻中幸免于难，而且也顶住了来自巴西某些势力的压力，并未修改宪法谋求第三次连任。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, China is promoting a major domestic expansion.",
        "幸运的是，中国正在推进一个重大的国内经济扩张计划。"
    ],
    [
        "China has made great strides in recent years in implementing reforms that boost domestic private consumption.",
        "近几年来，中国在实施提振国内私人消费的改革方面取得了巨大进展。"
    ],
    [
        "More strikingly, both Bolivia and Ecuador are governed by presidents who suffered directly from the collateral insensitivities of the war on drugs.",
        "更令人惊奇的是，玻利维亚和厄瓜多尔两国总统都是禁毒战争所忽略问题的直接受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "A century ago, this would have been a community of more than 50 people.",
        "在一个世纪之前，这是个有着50位居民的社区。"
    ],
    [
        "“Safe Among the Germans” proclaimed the title of an important book by the historian Ruth Gay about these 250,000 survivors.",
        "历史学家鲁斯·盖伊（Ruth Gay）写过一本名为《在德国人中间寻找安全》（Safe Among the Germans）的重要著作，描写的就是这250,000名幸存者。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the participation of so many heads of state overshadowed that of African business leaders.",
        "此外，如此多国家元首的参与掩盖了非洲商界领袖的风头。"
    ],
    [
        "Even with policy changes, it takes time for governments to restore their credibility.",
        "即使政策有所转变，政府也需要时间来重塑信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "To join in Macron’s European project, she would have to assume an entirely new role and expose herself to substantial political risks.",
        "要加入马克龙的欧洲工程，她必须接受一个全新的角色，承担巨大的政治风险。"
    ],
    [
        "When your neurons are replaced, they change.",
        "当你的神经元被替换时，它们会改变。"
    ],
    [
        "All booms are different, but every major financial crisis has at its heart the same issue: major banks get into trouble and teeter on the brink of collapse.",
        "所有的繁荣都是不同的，但每一次大型金融危机本质上都是同一个问题：大银行陷入麻烦，在悬崖边摇摇欲坠。"
    ],
    [
        "This shift has changed the nature of activism and collective action.",
        "这一趋势彻底改变了行动主义和集体行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Does this mean that negative interest rates embody a new perspective on money – that it has gone “bad”?",
        "这意味着负利率隐含着一个新的看待货币的角度——它已经“坏了”吗？"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – As the economic crisis deepens and widens, the world has been searching for historical analogies to help us understand what has been happening.",
        "巴黎-随着经济危机不断加深和蔓延，整个世界一直在寻找历史上的类似事件希望有助于我们了解目前正在发生的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Hollande, too, will have to make concessions.",
        "奥朗德也必须做出让步。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe Needs a Plan B",
        "欧洲需要B计划"
    ],
    [
        "And its return is indispensable for global stability and prosperity.",
        "它的归来是全球稳定与繁荣不可或缺的。"
    ],
    [
        "Republicans also worry that Trump could be defeated badly enough to cost them control of the Senate and cut their majority in the House of Representatives.",
        "共和党人还担心特朗普会输得很惨，导致他们失去参议院控制权和众议院多数席位。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the IMF inevitably makes mistakes, partly because the questions and issues it must address are constantly changing, so that it never knows whether the current state of thinking is adequate to new challenges.",
        "诚然，IMF难免会犯错，这部分是因为它必须解决的问题和状况总是在变化，因此它永远不知道现有思维是否足以应对新挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But it spent 18 years deceiving inspectors from the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency, leading some countries to argue that Iran destroyed its credibility and forfeited its rights to enrichment on its own soil.",
        "然而该国花了18年的时间来迷惑监督机构“国际原子能组织”派出的调查员，以致有的国家认为伊朗已经自毁信誉，放弃了在本国土地上发展铀浓缩的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chiang Mai network is even larger than the CRA.",
        "清迈倡议涉及的国家甚至比“应急储备安排”更广。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be unwise to call this election over before it is.",
        "在此之前就宣布选举结束是不明智的。"
    ],
    [
        "The economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart estimate that public debt/GDP ratios of 90% are associated with sharply diminished growth prospects.",
        "据经济学家罗格夫（Ken Rogoff）和莱因哈特（Carmen Reinhart）估算，如果一国债务-GDP比率达到90%，那么该国增长前景就相当堪忧了。"
    ],
    [
        "They might have to abolish mis-targeted subsidies to free up resources for more targeted and efficient anti-poverty and job-creation programs.",
        "他们可能需要取消错误的补贴，以节省更多资源用于更有针对性、更加高效的扶贫和就业创造计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The US could take the lead, as it has done with SEZs in Egypt and Jordan.",
        "美国可以带头，正如它在在埃及和约旦建立经济特区那样。"
    ],
    [
        "The presidential campaign of US Senator Bernie Sanders, which dominates the intellectual debate in the Democratic Party, has argued for a broad-based tax covering stocks, bonds, and derivatives (which include a vast array of more complex instruments such as options and swaps).",
        "美国参议员伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）总统竞选阵营主宰者民主党内部的知识辩论，他们支持一项宽税基税收，对象覆盖了股票、债券和衍生品（包括期权和互换等大量更加复杂的工具）等。"
    ],
    [
        "We need a new contract among European nations, generations, and social classes, which implies difficult choices.",
        "我们需要在欧洲国家、几代人和社会各阶层之间订立新的契约，而这就意味着做出艰难的抉择。"
    ],
    [
        "Clodius had always been eccentric and unpredictable in ways that both shocked and amused the Roman populace.",
        "克劳狄乌斯一贯剑走偏锋，不可捉摸，令罗马民众又惊又喜。"
    ],
    [
        "In Tatiana’s words, the BAM was “a labor of love and heroic sacrifice built by the dedicated workers, for the sake of their children and grandchildren.”",
        "以塔蒂亚娜的话来说，贝阿铁路是“勇于奉献的工人们为了子孙孙而付出的充满爱与英雄般牺牲的心血”。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, we need a comprehensive, commonly agreed reform agenda that will underpin that consolidation path and inspire the confidence of Greek society.",
        "其次，我们需要一个全面的、互相同意的改革日程，以此作为整合路径的基础并激发希腊社会的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "But is revenge a worthy motive for a state’s actions, especially toward its own citizens?",
        "但复仇是不是国家行动的有效动机，特别当面对的是自己的公民？"
    ],
    [
        "Every global recession since 1970 has been preceded by a big increase in oil prices, while almost every decline greater than 30% has been followed by accelerating growth and higher equity prices.",
        "自1970年以来，每一次全球衰退之前都会发生石油价格大幅攀升，而每次超过30%的油价下跌之后都会发生增长加速和股价上扬。"
    ],
    [
        "What steps are needed to produce a viable, mutually agreed reform agenda?",
        "产生可行的、互相同意的改革日程需要什么措施？"
    ],
    [
        "Third, a burgeoning migration crisis is raising questions about European values and identity.",
        "第三，正在兴起的移民危机就欧洲的价值观和身份提出了质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "The Philippines reopened for business under new management only a little more than a year ago. It is faring very well – and is set to become increasingly profitable.",
        "虽然菲律宾在新政府管理团队的领导下重新向商业世界开放还不到一年时间，而一切都进展得很顺利——也必将变得日益富强。"
    ],
    [
        "The price Hamas would have to pay is complete disarmament and demilitarization of Gaza under international supervision, with Abbas’s Palestinian Authority controlling the border crossings into Israel and Egypt.",
        "哈马斯必须付出的代价是彻底取出武装，在国际监督下实现加沙的去军事化，由阿巴斯的巴勒斯坦权力机构控制加沙与以色列和埃及的边界。"
    ],
    [
        "Particular cases, such as the elimination of German meat processing and packing jobs, or casual workers in France, were widely discussed as evidence of a new threat.",
        "诸如德国肉类加工和包装工作岗位或法国散工的消失等特别案例正被作为新威胁的证据广泛讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, its veto of a WTO compromise has derailed the most important progress in multilateral trade negotiations of the last ten years.",
        "事实上，莫迪政府否决世贸组织妥协让过去十年多边贸易谈判最重要的进展毁于一旦。"
    ],
    [
        "But one question has largely escaped thorough examination: what Russia’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine indicates about the European Union’s foreign policy.",
        "但有一个问题几乎没人研究：俄罗斯吞并克里米亚和入侵东乌克兰对欧洲外交政策意味着什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Valuing care means valuing it enough to expect men to take on caregiving responsibilities to the same extent that we now expect women to take on breadwinning.",
        "重视照顾工作意味着要求男性像现在女性承担养家糊口责任一样同等程度地承担起照顾职责。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Few Americans cast their ballot in the recent mid-term elections on the basis of foreign policy.",
        "发自纽约——在本次中期选举中，只有为数不多的美国人是基于外交政策的原因而投票的。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU flag has draped the caskets of Ukrainians killed in that fight.",
        "在这场战斗中死去的乌克兰人棺木上都覆盖着欧盟旗帜。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of impoverished, unemployed young people now seek an alternative, which Boko Haram, with its incendiary rhetoric blaming the country’s leaders for the population’s troubles, can provide.",
        "服务部门也得不到发展。 数百万穷困失业年轻人正在寻求另类活路，而这正是猛烈抨击国家领导人乃是全人口麻烦的罪魁的博科圣地可以提供的。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese critics of the government, or even those who simply wish to report mistakes or wrongdoing, are silenced with a heavy hand: beatings in police stations, draconian jail sentences, or even murder.",
        "中国政府的批评者——即便是那些只愿意报道错误和失误的批评者——都在高压之下噤了声：或者在警署被殴打，或者被判处严厉徒刑，有的甚至惨遭谋杀。"
    ],
    [
        "This, indeed, is the language of Hamas’s 1988 covenant.",
        "而摧毁以色列的确是哈马斯1988年章程的语言。"
    ],
    [
        "What Mr. Greenspan chose to overlook, however, is that most experts are extremely – and rightly – skeptical of the Bush plan, which leaves out big-ticket items such as the cost of the Iraq War, and uses an unrealistic benchmark from which to measure the alleged 50% cutback.",
        "大部分专家对布什计划持极度质疑的态度，他们是正确的，因为该计划遗漏了开销巨大的项目，诸如伊拉克战争费用，以及据称将费用减少了50%的不切实际的计算基准，然而，格林斯潘先生选择要忽略的正是这些质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision on Kosovo may not imply the prospect of renewed large-scale conflict, but it does raise serious questions for Europe’s relations with Russia and the United States, as well as for stability throughout the Balkans.",
        "有关科索沃的决定并不一定预示着重新开始大规模的冲突，但是这却针对欧洲与俄国和美国的关系以及整个巴尔干的稳定提出了严肃的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent G-20 summit occurred with virtually no real preliminary work.",
        "而最近的G-20峰会是在几乎没有任何真正意义上的前期准备的情况下召开的。"
    ],
    [
        "The regime uses food as the currency of its domestic power and foreign policy.",
        "朝鲜当局将粮食作为国内权力和对外政策的通货。"
    ],
    [
        "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad may be gaining support across the Muslim world for his fervent criticism of the United States, but inside Iran, he is losing strength.",
        "伊朗总统内贾德或许由于其对美国的强烈批评而在整个穆斯林世界赢得支持，但是在伊朗国内，他却在丧失实力。"
    ],
    [
        "If administration officials acknowledge that a 3% annual rate is not feasible, they would need to face the reality that their forecasts for tax revenues are too high, and that their proposed tax cuts, if enacted, would dramatically increase the budget deficit and the national debt.",
        "如果政府官员承认，3%的年增长率根本不可行，他们就需要面对一个事实：他们对税收收入的预测太高了，而他们想要实施的减税政策将大大增加预算赤字和国民债务。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, discussion of the eurozone’s future should not be framed as necessarily leading to further integration.",
        "首先，关于欧元区未来的决定并不一定要带来进一步一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "So when the Islamist government’s credibility collapsed, the military was Egypt’s only remaining option.",
        "因此，当伊斯兰政府信誉扫地时，军队成了埃及唯一的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the Republicans also control both houses of Congress – and will soon make many judicial appointments – there is virtually no effective constraint on the executive branch.",
        "考虑到共和党同时还控制着国会两院——并且很快还会拥有多个司法席位——行政权将进入几乎不存在有效约束的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "The real effects of the dual-currency regime on Greece’s economy and society can be gleaned only from the pernicious interaction between the capital controls and the “reforms” (essentially tax hikes, pension reductions, and other contractionary measures) imposed on the country by the eurozone authorities.",
        "双货币制度对希腊的经济和社会的实际影响可以通过对这个国家实行的资本管制与欧元区当局强加在希腊身上的“改革”（基本上是增税，削减养老金及其他紧缩措施）之间的恶性互动中观察到。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 10,000 people are killed every year by gun violence in the US – all but a handful for reasons having nothing to do with Islam.",
        "在美国，每年有10,000多人死于枪支暴力——其中只有极少数与伊斯兰教有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Violence, displacement, human-rights abuses, and poverty had clearly taken a huge toll.",
        "暴力、流离失所、践踏人权和贫困显然已经造成了巨大的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Fearing that elections might bring an Islamist majority to Parliament and to the assembly that will write a new constitution, most secularists demanded supra-constitutional principles (akin to a bill of rights, with a few twists) or a constitution to be enforced by the SCAF before elections.",
        "由于担心选举结果会产生一个伊斯兰主义者占多数地位的议会和新宪法起草委员会，大多数世俗派要求制定最高宪法原则（类似于人权法案，但有所不同），或是由SCAF在选举前修订宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the German economy’s output gap remains negative, the government should be implementing expansionary fiscal policy that targets the country’s infrastructure weaknesses.",
        "考虑到德国经济的产出缺口依然为负，政府应当实施扩张性财政政策以补足本国的基础设施缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of us in Africa’s private sector are keen to make a difference in meeting these goals.",
        "许多非洲私营部门的业者都迫切地想为实现这些目标尽一份力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as climate change causes sea levels to rise, extreme storms’ destructive potential is being significantly enhanced.",
        "此外，随着气候变化导致海平面上升，极端风暴的破坏力也被大大加强了。"
    ],
    [
        "Making Space for China",
        "为中国创造空间"
    ],
    [
        "But, at the end of 2014, public debt amounted to 175% of GDP, having increased from its 2009 level of 127%.",
        "但是到2014年底，公共债务从2009年的相当于GDP的127%上升到175%。"
    ],
    [
        "The first, multi-stakeholder approach, originated organically from the community that developed the Internet, which ensured technical proficiency but not international legitimacy, because it was heavily dominated by American technocrats.",
        "首先是多利益相关方方案，由互联网的开发群体自发提出，因为很大程度上受美国技术专家的主导，由此在确保技术领先的同时却缺乏国际合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Polio’s Last Stand",
        "与脊髓灰质炎背水一战"
    ],
    [
        "One complication is that capital punishment may make a murderer fight harder to avoid being captured, which could lead to more deaths.",
        "其中的一个复杂情况是，死刑可能会让杀人犯更加凶残来逃避被捕，也就会造成更多的死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "When the global crisis erupted in 2008, there was no regulatory framework to protect the cross-border networks, and large vulnerabilities, in the form of excessive leverage and foreign exchange, were exposed.",
        "2008年全球危机爆发时，我们还没有保护跨国银行业务网的监管框架，因此暴露出了极大的脆弱性，比如杠杆率过高和外汇风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Businesses and households alike should monitor where and how they waste food and take corrective steps, because prevention of wastage is even more important than recycling or composting.",
        "企业和家庭应该监控他们在哪些环节浪费了那些粮食，并采取矫正措施，因为预防浪费甚至比回收或堆肥更重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 2015 fiscal year, India was allocated 11.5% percent of the $14.6 billion provided by the IDA program, leaving the other 77 recipients to divide the remaining 88.5%.",
        "2015财年，印度获得了IDA所提供的146亿美元援助的11. 5%，这意味着其他77个受助国只能分享剩下的88."
    ],
    [
        "The current trend implies deteriorating conditions for their teachers as well, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, as academics face tighter restrictions on scholarly exchanges with the West.",
        "当前趋势意味着他们的老师也将面临日益恶化的环境，特别是社会科学和人文科学领域，因为学界与西方的交流将面临更严格的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "This “closeness” has led the police to investigate claims that some Labour Party donors have been rewarded with political honors.",
        "这一“紧密联系”让警方调查有关某些工党的捐助者获得了政治荣誉的指控。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are indications that the process is being driven by regulatory change, and in some cases by regulatory protectionism.",
        "但有迹象表明，之所以如此是受监管变化推动，其中不乏监管保护主义。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, two illusions have been important recently in financial markets.",
        "在美国，最近金融市场中有两股重要的幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "The question for the European elite is whether we believe in the work of the past 20 years, whether we believe in an integrated European market and an ever-widening European Community.",
        "目前欧洲精英们面临问题,就在于能否坚信过去20年来所付出的努力，能否坚信一体化的欧洲市场和不断扩大的欧洲共同体。"
    ],
    [
        "While the proposed remedies vary considerably, there seems to be a broad consensus that the illness is structural.",
        "各人提出的方案不尽相同，但似乎都有一个广泛的共识，即中国经济病在结构。"
    ],
    [
        "In Jordan, Iraqi children cannot go to public schools.",
        "在约旦，伊拉克儿童不能在公立学校就读。"
    ],
    [
        "In the UK, the first suggestion is to ensure economy-wide investment and growth, which will require government intervention.",
        "在英国，第一项建议是确保整个经济的投资和增长，而这需要政府干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Hidden Stimulus",
        "欧洲的隐藏刺激"
    ],
    [
        "But, whatever the merits of the claim that genetic patents benefit research and treatment, that is a practical, rather than a legal, argument.",
        "但无论基因专利惠及研究和治疗的说法有多少理由，这些都只是基于现实、而非法律的论证。"
    ],
    [
        "At the moment, countries holding 85% of IMF voting power must agree before SDRs can be issued, which is no recipe for liquidity.",
        "如果还需要有85%以上的成员国同意，特别提款权才可以发放的话，市场的流动性就不可能增加了。"
    ],
    [
        "One can only hope that now Netanyahu will be Churchillian in a more profound sense, by using his empowered position to make the bold decisions needed to lead his country out of its current predicament and paralysis.",
        "我们只能希望内塔尼亚胡比丘吉尔还要丘吉尔，用其权力地位做出果断决定，让他的国家走出当前的困境和僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "But achieving it is not – in no small part because Europe's heavy reliance on bank finance stems from structural and cultural factors.",
        "但实现目标则并非如此——在很大程度上是因为欧洲对银行融资的严重依赖来源于结构和文化因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro itself would be finished; after all, its primary task was to break the Bundesbank’s dominance in monetary policy.",
        "欧元本身将会迎来末日； 毕竟，其主要目的是打破德国央行在货币政策上的主导权。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet another significant development is the emerging “Internet of Things,” which will continue to grow as more gadgets, home appliances, wearable devices, and publicly-sited sensors become connected and begin to broadcast messages around the clock.",
        "这项游戏需要结合一般知识和横向思考。 另一项更加重大的发展是“物联网”的出现，随着更多装置、家用电器、可穿戴设备和公共场合传感器连入网络、开始随时传播消息，物联网还将继续成长。"
    ],
    [
        "Many people in many countries interpreted a crisis that unambiguously began in the United States, but affected some other countries more harshly, as evidence of a fundamentally malign US plan.",
        "许多国家冒出不少阴谋论者，他们说，一场完全是美国搞出来的金融危机，为什么对其他国家的打击更大呢？ 这背后一定包藏着美国的邪恶大阴谋。"
    ],
    [
        "Create Growth-Linked Bonds",
        "创建增长连动式债券"
    ],
    [
        "Greater pay regulation will drive the most talented away from regulated banks and towards hedge funds, private equity funds, boutique investment banks, and other unregulated investment firms.",
        "限制薪酬法案显然挫伤那些有才能的银行业者，从而让他们转向对冲基金，私人股权基金，业务更加专注的小型投行或是其他不限薪的行业。"
    ],
    [
        "The French still expect greater things from their government than from an integrated Europe or the boundless world.",
        "法国人依然对他们的政府比一体化的欧洲或者没有国界的世界更有所期待。"
    ],
    [
        "But, until this shift occurs, we will ask individual philanthropists, corporations and charities – as well as new and old aid donors – to come together to catalyze the venture.",
        "但在上述转变实现之前，我们请求个人慈善家、企业和慈善机构——以及新老捐助者——齐心协力推动这次创业。"
    ],
    [
        "A Meeting of Minds on HIV/AIDS",
        "艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究殊途同归"
    ],
    [
        "The European Commission’s failure to champion the $50 billion merger of the Franco-German European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), owner of Airbus, and the United Kingdom’s BAE Systems is being seen as a crucial factor in the deal’s collapse.",
        "欧盟委员会未能支持空客所有者法德欧洲航空防务及航天公司（EADS）及英国BAE系统公司案值500亿美元的合并，这被外界普遍视为此次交易失败的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, studies suggest that fast-growing low-income economies are also likely to become fast-growing middle-income economies, and ultimately to graduate to high-income status.",
        "相反，研究表明，高速增长的低收入国家也有可能成为高速增长的中等收入国家，并最终成为高收入国家。"
    ],
    [
        "It would finance the purchases by issuing European Treasury bills – joint and several obligations of the member countries – and pass on the benefit of cheap financing to the countries concerned.",
        "购买资金可以通过发行欧洲债券（European Treasury bill，即成员国共同承担的各种义务）筹集，而廉价融资的好处则由受助国接受。"
    ],
    [
        "In so doing, they should aim not only for big state-owned companies, but also for the rising number of vibrant, private small and medium-size enterprises in China that can be found in all sectors of the economy.",
        "在这样做的时候不应该把目标局限于国有企业，中国还有越来越多的活跃中小私人企业，范围涉及经济的所有部门。"
    ],
    [
        "But that painful and risky process will have to be launched eventually, and it will be better served by Obama’s brand of caution than by the tough talk of his critics.",
        "但这一痛苦又危险的过程最终总会发生，用奥巴马的招牌式谨慎来应对总比用他的批评者的强硬声音来应对好。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short run, the US shale-energy revolution has replaced high-polluting coal with cheaper, cleaner natural gas.",
        "从短期看，美国页岩能源革命已经用更便宜清洁的天然气取代了高污染煤炭。"
    ],
    [
        "For a while, tales of corruption in the schools’ construction dominated even the official news.",
        "有一段时间，官方新闻也充斥着关于学校建设腐败问题的报道。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an area where the concepts are clear but the facts remain murky.",
        "这是一个概念明晰但是实施模糊的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that a shrinking pool of workers capable of meeting the needs of Germany’s labor market – the country’s population is aging, and the arriving refugees lack the needed skills – and the German economy seems set for a protracted period of sluggish performance.",
        "除此之外，有能力满足德国劳动力市场需要的工人数量越来越少——德国人口正在老龄化，新来的难民则缺少必要的技能——德国经济似乎即将进入长时间停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "As the recent Kok report reviewing the Strategy makes clear, \"The disappointing delivery is due to an overloaded agenda, poor coordination, and conflicting priorities.\"",
        "正如最近评估《战略》的科克报告（Kok report）所清楚表明的那样，“令人失望的实施情况主要是由于过于繁重的议程，协调不力和主次冲突造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest is a question of economic blackmail.",
        "剩下的就是一个经济讹诈的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "ROME – It is becoming increasingly clear that if Europe is to overcome its crisis, business as usual will not suffice.",
        "罗马—欧洲要想克服危机，按常规出牌是不够的，这一点正变得日益清晰。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as South Korean officials have suggested, it may not be the last test of this year.",
        "而且，韩国官员提出这或许并不是本年度的最后一次测试。"
    ],
    [
        "But they were undertaken long before Merkel came to power, and few meaningful economic reforms have been implemented during her 12-year tenure.",
        "但这些改革在默克尔掌权之前早已开始，而在默克尔12年的执政生涯中，她基本上没有实施什么有意义的经济改革。"
    ],
    [
        "What was supposed to be a major international effort at mediation is deteriorating into an apocalyptic Israeli-Iranian showdown.",
        "应该是一个重大的国际调停努力事件，现在正在沦为一场预示灾难的以色列－伊朗大摊牌。"
    ],
    [
        "This was a glaring contradiction of the 2013 Third Plenum reforms, which focused on the seemingly inconsistent combination of a “decisive role” for markets and steadfast support for state ownership.",
        "在2013年十八届三中全会改革中曾提到过一个明显矛盾，重点在于市场的“决定性作用”和对国家所有权的坚定支持这两者看似不协调的组合。"
    ],
    [
        "Lagarde is, after all, the 11th consecutive European to hold the post, a privilege that has become hard to justify in today’s world.",
        "毕竟，拉加德已是连续11位担任此职的欧洲人，欧洲拥有如此特权，在当今世界已经难以服众。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders like Trump make things much worse, because they undermine the rules-based system that has delivered untold prosperity and security over the last seven decades.",
        "特朗普这样的领导人将让事情变得糟之又糟，因为他们破坏了在过去七十年中带来数不清的繁荣和安全的基于规则的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "An impeccable Communist career, one might think, giving his son no need to distance himself or to complete a frustrated ambition.",
        "习仲勋无可挑剔的共产主义生涯令其子既无需有意疏远也没有未竞的事业需要完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientists have even given a name to our era, the Anthropocene, in which humanity (“anthropos” in Greek) is having a large-scale impact on the planet’s ecosystems.",
        "科学家们甚至以“人类纪”来命名我们所处的时代，因为人类（希腊语词汇是“anthropos”）正在对地球生态系统造成严重的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, there are limits to what economic sanctions can be expected to accomplish.",
        "第三，经济制裁可以打到的效果有限。"
    ],
    [
        "The reasons behind this remarkable turnaround are instructive, illustrating the challenges facing public-health workers and the best ways to overcome them.",
        "这一令人瞩目的转机背后的原因很具有说明性，它告诉了我们公共卫生工作者面临着怎样的挑战，克服这些挑战的最佳方法呢又在哪里。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, more donor finance for education is only part of the equation.",
        "当然，更多的教育捐助融资只是一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "As I explained in January 2015, the Brent crude oil spot price is less subject to speculative fluctuations, and is thus a purer approximation of underlying commercial supply and demand factors.",
        "正如我在2015年1月所解释的那样，布伦特原油现货价格较少受到投机性波动的影响，因此也是一个更为纯粹地反映基本商业供求因素的近似指标。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The 2008 financial crisis marked the end of the global order as we knew it.",
        "纽约—2008年的金融危机宣告了我们所熟悉的全球秩序寿终正寝。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1961 Vienna Convention, ratified by the US, codifies the international law of diplomacy and diplomatic missions.",
        "经美国批准，在1961年《维也纳公约》规定了关于外交和外交任务的国家法。"
    ],
    [
        "Controls on immigration became widespread after World War I. All countries developed population policies.",
        "对移民的控制在一战后变得日益普遍。 所有国家都制定了人口政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Killing innocent people in order to bring a kind of rough justice to “Chemical Ali” – a particularly nasty member of Saddam’s military elite, but one who at the time of the raid was no longer in command of military forces – is wrong.",
        "“化学阿里”是萨达姆军事精英中的一个特别邪恶的成员，但是他在袭击的时候已经不再指挥军队了。 为了将其草草绳之以法而滥杀无辜是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not a substitute for higher energy efficiency, which is essential to making the switch to a new and resilient path for economic growth and employment.",
        "但这不能替代更高的节能标准，后者才是促使向新的更具弹性的经济增长和就业之路转变的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Trees are one of the most effective tools we have for fighting climate change, and they also make economic sense for small farmers.",
        "树木是我们应对气候变化最有效的工具之一，而他们对小型农户也具有经济意义。"
    ],
    [
        "A dramatic cost-cutting goal was set, scientists went to work, and the targeted breakthrough was achieved on time.",
        "此过程设立了一个巨幅削减成本的目标，科学家们孜孜以求并按时实现了预定的突破。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also time to start thinking about a new way of organizing Central Europe.",
        "现在也是思考组织中欧的新方略的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "That, together with the Kingdom’s deepening distrust of the US, is fueling a growing sense of isolation.",
        "这与沙特王国日渐不信任美国一起，助长着日益严重的孤立感。"
    ],
    [
        "The government doesn’t just spend it, but seems always to favor tangible things like skyscrapers, fancy government buildings, highways, and big industrial projects.",
        "中国政府不仅仅是花掉钱，而且似乎总是喜欢像摩天大楼，华丽的政府建筑物，公路以及大工业项目这样有形的东西。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Even the United Kingdom’s monthly PMI surveys are showing momentum, though not as much as in other Western countries, most likely owing to the Brexit effect.",
        "就连英国月度PMI调查也表现得动力十足，尽管与其他西方国家仍有差距，这最有可能是英国退欧的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In economic development, as in life, there’s no free lunch: Without high rates of investment in know-how, skills, machinery, and sustainable infrastructure, productivity tends to decline (mainly through depreciation), dragging down living standards.",
        "经济发展和日常生活一样，没有免费的午餐：不提高在知识、技能、机械和可持续基础设施方面的投资率，生产率就会下降（主要是因为折旧），降低生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the World Bank, Africa must spend a staggering $93 billion annually to upgrade its current infrastructure; the vast majority of these funds – some 87% – are needed for improvements to basic services like energy, water, sanitation, and transportation.",
        "据世界银行统计，非洲必须每年花费惊人的930亿美元用于升级其现有基础设施； 而这些资金中的绝大多数——约占87%——将用于改善能源、饮用水、卫生和交通运输等基础服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain’s unemployment, which had been near 20% since the beginning of the recession, crept even higher.",
        "自从积极危机爆发以来，西班牙的失业率一直处在20%左右，随着副作用的蔓延，这一数字甚至在不断上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "Although maintaining stable global energy prices and its alliance with Israel means that the US cannot cut itself off completely from the Middle East’s troubles, the shift in focus to Asia began early in Obama’s first administration, with Clinton announcing America’s strategic reorientation even before US troops began withdrawing from Iraq.",
        "尽管保持全球能源价格稳定和与以色列联盟的需要意味着美国无法从中东烦恼中彻底脱身， 但战略重点向亚洲的转移早在奥巴马的首届任期内已经开始，克林顿甚至早在美国从伊拉克撤军前就宣布了美国战略重点的转移。"
    ],
    [
        "Only when the combatants can envision the post-war future can a ceasefire work.",
        "只有战斗各方能够想象到战后未来的模样，停火才有可能可行。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment is high, but further investment growth risks misallocating money, so reductions in China’s trade imbalance may be hard to achieve.",
        "中国的投资是高额的，但进一步投资增加了资金错误分配的风险，因此降低中国贸易不平衡也许并非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "I have argued for several years that India should emphasize investment spending, so I welcome this shift.",
        "多年来，我一直认为印度应该着重投资支出，因此我欢迎这一变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The model is clearly revealed in the nature of Raúl’s proposed reforms.",
        "这一模式在劳尔提出的改革的本质中清晰地反映了出来。"
    ],
    [
        "So what are the eurozone’s heads of government waiting for?",
        "那么欧元区政府首脑们还在等些什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Of the two views, Harrison’s was the more sophisticated.",
        "在两种观点中，哈里森的观点更加成熟。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, in Scotland today there are none of the conditions that fomented rebellion in Ireland and led to Irish independence in 1922, the last great rupture in the political union of the British Isles.",
        "因此，在当今的苏格兰不存在爱尔兰酝酿起义并导致爱尔兰1922年独立的条件，而这一事件是英伦群岛政治联盟最近的重大决裂。"
    ],
    [
        "The era of low interest rates that followed the decision in 1995 to introduce the euro inflated a massive credit bubble in southern eurozone countries, which was sustained until the end of 2013.",
        "1995年引入欧元的决定带来了低利率时代，也给欧元区南部国家带来了巨大的信用泡沫，一直维持到2013年末。"
    ],
    [
        "At direct stake today is Pakistan’s future, but its future may determine the political fates of neighboring countries that are also struggling with violent Islamic fundamentalism.",
        "如今，巴基斯坦的未来息息相关，但是其前途可能决定其邻国的政治命运。 这些国家正在与暴力伊斯兰极端主义做斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Despite what many are saying – especially those who do not have to bear the consequences of their words – Greek voters’ rejection on Sunday of the latest bailout offer from their country’s creditors did not represent a “victory for democracy.”",
        "巴黎—不管很多人怎么说——特别是那些不需要为言论承担后果的人——希腊选民星期日拒绝希腊债权人最新的援助方案并不代表“民主的胜利”。"
    ],
    [
        "In Argentina, Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri’s party, once conservative and strong only in the capital, has moved both to the political center and the provinces through its alliance with the center-left Radical Party.",
        "在阿根廷，布宜诺斯艾利斯市长马克里（Mauricio Macri）所属政党（曾经属于保守派，只在首都拥有优势）通过与中左翼的激进党（Radical Party）结盟而转向政治中间派并向各省渗透。"
    ],
    [
        "Can US-Iran Relations Be Revived?",
        "美国伊朗关系还能复苏吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, the longer-term cost-benefit analysis for would-be investors is clouded by legitimate questions about certain operating environments.",
        "第四，潜在投资者的长期成本效益分析受某些经营环境的合法性问题的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "An earlier set of studies, for instance, showed that aid does make a difference in countries with good governance and sound macro-economic policies.",
        "例如，一组早些时候完成的报告显示，援助 的确 在有着良好的治理和健全的宏观经济政策的国家取得了积极的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Income per capita almost tripled.",
        "人均收入增长近两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "If the US and other member states join the IDB and take on the responsibility to improve conditions in the Americas, they cannot then use their membership to undermine the basic rights of the people they claim to serve simply to advance their own political agenda.",
        "如果美国和其他成员国加入泛美开发银行，承担起改善美洲各国状况的责任，那么，他们就不能仅仅为了推进自己的政治议程，而利用其成员资格去破坏他们声称要去服务的人们的基本权利，"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, a political crisis can bring the coalition down, but this can happen only if Poland’s “wandering” electorate decides that the PiS has let it down.",
        "当然，一场政治危险将会使这个联盟垮台，但是这只有在波兰摇摆不定的选民认为是法律和公正党让他们的生活变得艰难时才会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, states should not use force or coercion in trying to realize their claims.",
        "其次，各国不应该试图使用武力或吞并手段来实现它们的主张。"
    ],
    [
        "MOGADISHU -- Somalia’s internal conflict is propelled by a combustible mix of religion, politics, and clan rivalry.",
        "摩加迪沙—索马里的内乱是在宗教、政治和部族冲突等不稳定因素的混合作用下发生的。"
    ],
    [
        "These fragile areas now need the global community’s support.",
        "上述脆弱地区现在需要国际社会的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "So the security question is straightforward: Can such destructive actions be deterred?",
        "因此安全问题再简单不过：我们能否遏制这样的破坏行动？"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, industrialism has become obsolete.",
        "首先，工业化成了陈词滥调。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a well-known phenomenon; indeed the study of the market for automotive “lemons” won George Akerlof the Nobel Prize.",
        "事实上，乔治·阿克罗夫（George Akerlof）因为对汽车“柠檬（在美国口语中意为次品）”市场的研究，获得了诺贝尔奖。"
    ],
    [
        "But many authoritarian regimes are funded by the export of natural resources.",
        "但许多极权政权的资金来自自然资源出口。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the report, even if the temperature target is met, the cost of adaptation will reach 2-3 times the previously anticipated $70-100 billion per year by 2050 (an increase of as much as fivefold is possible, though less likely).",
        "根据该报告，即使气温目标实现，适应成本仍将比此前所预计的至2050年供700—1,000亿美元高1—2倍（甚至有可能高四倍，但可能性较低）。"
    ],
    [
        "As I have argued elsewhere, American presidential candidate Donald Trump owes his rise to many of the same factors that are driving Le Pen’s growing popularity.",
        "我在其他文章中指出，美国总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）之所以能崛起，背后的许多因素与勒庞越来越受到欢迎是一样的。"
    ],
    [
        "Berlusconi claims that statistics are unreliable, for they conceal a much rosier reality for today’s well-off Italians.",
        "贝鲁斯科尼宣称这些数字并不可靠，因为它们掩盖了当今富裕的意大利人的实际情况。"
    ],
    [
        "But Japan’s problems are not unique.",
        "但日本的问题并不是独一无二的。"
    ],
    [
        "It would “issue a fully collateralized bond on the international capital markets” to raise €30-40 billion ($32-43 billion), which, “taking into account the present value of assets,” would “be invested in modernizing and restructuring the assets under its management.”",
        "它将“向国际资本市场发行有充分抵押的债券”以筹集300—400亿欧元，这笔钱在“考虑资产现值”的情况下“投入到旗下管理资产的现代化和重组中。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the impact of co-ethnic networks may well be as important as ever.",
        "但跨种族网络的影响仍与以往一样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "There are some 2.7 billion people in over 60 developing countries that are home to the world’s tropical forests. Cutting down the hardwood forests – even when they presently receive just 5% of the final price in, say, New York – is the only way people can make ends meet.",
        "以现在森林消失的速度，仅由巴西和印度尼西亚两国所造成的温室气体集中就会抵消《京都议定书》所带来的排放削减量的近80%。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to overstate the risks were North Korea, the world’s most militarized and closed society, to cross this threshold.",
        "如果朝鲜迈过这个门槛，那么这个全世界最军事化、最封闭社会的危险怎么高估都不过分。"
    ],
    [
        "From an economic standpoint, the priorities that should guide Brexit negotiations are clear.",
        "从经济角度来看，指导脱欧谈判的优先事项是相当明确的。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Constitutional Declaration, the Revolution Protection Law, and the new presidential decrees have several aims:",
        "新宪法宣言、革命保护法（Revolution Protection Law）和新总统令的目标包括："
    ],
    [
        "But these complaints miss the point.",
        "但这些指摘并没有抓住重点。"
    ],
    [
        "We filed a civil action against the prosecutor, and the judge imposed a fine for every day the information was withheld.",
        "我们对检察长提出了民事诉讼，法官对其扣留信息的行为按天加以罚款。"
    ],
    [
        "But Tony Blair lost one of his best and most loyal cabinet friends, Alan Milburn, because he genuinely wanted to spend more time with his family.",
        "但托尼·布莱尔失去最出色、也最忠诚的内阁友人Alan Milburn，则纯粹是因为后者希望有更多时间陪伴家人。"
    ],
    [
        "I do not know many businessmen who would not take advantage of this; to be honest, I do not know any.",
        "我认识的生意人中没有几个不利用这样的环境牟利； 老实说，一个也没有。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Council and Commission should bear this in mind as the June 2016 deadline to submit the strategy approaches.",
        "随着2016年截止期的临近，欧洲理事会和欧盟委员会应该时刻牢记职业点。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the international financing that Ukraine has received, though invaluable, remains insufficient to support genuine recovery and reform.",
        "尽管如此，乌克兰所收到的国际融资虽然重要，但仍不足以支持真正的复苏和改革。"
    ],
    [
        "These sound more like the arguments of green campaigners – and they are most likely wrong.",
        "听上去这更像是环保人士的观点——而这些人很有可能是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "And, third, there would be a positive national income multiplier, almost surely greater than one, from changes in government spending and taxation.",
        "第三，政府支出和税收的变化会产生正面的国民收入乘数，而且该数字基本上一定会大于1。"
    ],
    [
        "We Costa Ricans are striving toward “un país sin muflas” – a country without exhaust pipes.",
        "我们哥斯达黎加人正在努力向“一个没有排气管的国家”迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "Hurricane Katrina is a wakeup call, not only for the US but for the world.",
        "卡特林娜飓风对于美国和全世界而言都是警示之钟。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinians are already in the midst of a civil war.",
        "巴勒斯坦人已经身处内战。"
    ],
    [
        "That would help to show the world that the coal industry truly understands the scientific implications of current energy-use patterns, and that it is willing to assume more responsibility for combating climate change.",
        "这将有助于向世界表明煤炭业真正了解了当前能源使用模式的科学影响，并愿意在气候变化斗争中承担更大的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "But taxes increased for two-thirds of households.",
        "但2/3的家庭的交税额也增多了。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun recently lamented the shortcomings of the Kan government’s response, emphasizing the poor lines of command running from the cabinet to officials carrying out rescue and supply operations.",
        "比如说《日本经济新闻》最近就不断批评菅直人政府救灾反应的不足之处，重点着墨于内阁和负责营救和供应行动的官员之间的指挥不通畅。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet if we compare ourselves to the more exclusive group of developed countries, the truth is that we still have much to learn from them.",
        "但如果与独特的发达国家集团相比，现实情况是需要我们学习的东西仍有很多。"
    ],
    [
        "And the private sector, too, needs to show leadership on this front.",
        "而私人部门也需要在这方面表现出领导力。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the potential to control malaria was actually improving, thanks to several newly emerging technologies: long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets to prevent the mosquitos from biting, better diagnostics to identify infections, and a new generation of highly effective medicines.",
        "然而人们控制虐疾的潜在能力实际上在不断改善，因为一系列新型科技：用长效杀虫剂处理过的蚊帐可以防止蚊虫叮咬； 更优良的诊断技术去确诊感染疟疾；"
    ],
    [
        "They have found that the body’s first line of defense against hemoglobin oxidation is a process of reduction, in which molecules like uric acid or ascorbic acid (vitamin C) impede oxidation by reducing the iron to a less oxidizing species.",
        "他们发现，肢体的第一道血红蛋白氧化作用防线是一个还原过程，在这个过程中，尿酸分子和抗坏血酸（维生素C）分子通过将铁还原为较难氧化的形式来阻止氧化。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar campaigns of naming and shaming have affected the investment and employment patterns of Mattel, Nike, and a host of other companies.",
        "类似的\"点名并羞辱\"行动还影响了Mattel、Nike和其它几家公司的投资和雇用方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Arguing that it could increase Europe’s annual economic growth rate by half a percentage point, they declared that formal negotiations would start quickly.",
        "5个百分点，两人还宣称很快就会对此展开正式谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite deep divisions among the rebels, the cost of Western indifference is probably higher than the risk of intervention.",
        "然而尽管反对派之间分歧很深，西方世界隔岸观火的代价恐怕要比出手干涉的代价要大。"
    ],
    [
        "JOHANNESBURG – It has been said, correctly, that Sudan is a microcosm of Africa.",
        "发自约翰内斯堡——有人说苏丹就是整个非洲的缩影。"
    ],
    [
        "This “imagined history” – “a mixture of fact and fiction, or sometimes only fiction” – becomes “symbolically true.”",
        "”这一“想象的历史”——“事实和虚构的混合，有时候只有虚构”——成为“象征性的真实”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed prefers to measure inflation by the price index for personal consumption expenditure.",
        "美联储更喜欢用个人消费支出（PCE）物价指数衡量通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Others, especially many in Silicon Valley’s technology world and some in the labor movement, are concerned that technology will outpace job creation and leave many out of work.",
        "其他人，特别是许多硅谷科技界人士以及一些劳工运动人士，担心科技发展超过就业创造速度，造成大量人员失业。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU must get it right.",
        "欧盟必须做好这件事。"
    ],
    [
        "So if Villalobos and Dieterich are right about the FARC’s imminent collapse, it would be a veritable milestone for the region, and a vindication of a strategy – Uribe’s – of which many of us were wary.",
        "所以如果维拉洛布思（Villalobos）和迪特里奇关于哥伦比亚革命武装力量即将溃败的论断是正确的，那么这将成为该地区的一个里程碑式的事件，同时也为乌里韦的策略作出了辩护－我们中的许多人对这个策略保持警惕。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, simple projections of economic growth trends can mislead.",
        "此外，单纯预测经济增长走势会起误导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "And, without that, all it has is a recession strategy that makes austerity and reform self-defeating, because, if output continues to contract, deficit and debt ratios will continue to rise to unsustainable levels.",
        "而没有增长战略，就意味着紧缩战略是一种衰退战略，紧缩和改革都将弄巧成拙。 这是因为，如果产出继续萎缩，赤字和债务比率就会继续上升，达到不可持续的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Monti attempted to address this, but moving from the current equilibrium to a better one, in which tax evasion is the exception rather than the norm, is a long-term project.",
        "蒙蒂之前试图解决这个问题，但要把目前的均衡状态转化为另一个更好的均衡——即避税是例外而不是常态——是一项长期的工程。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan has even argued that, in Turkey’s view, the PKK and the Islamic State are the same – mirroring Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s statement that Hamas and the Islamic State were branches of the same tree.",
        "埃尔多安甚至指出，在土耳其看来，PKK和伊斯兰国是一样的——这与以色列总理内塔尼亚胡声称哈马斯和伊斯兰国是同一棵树上的两根树枝的说法如出一辙。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the policy mix under a pragmatic Trump administration would be ideologically inconsistent and moderately bad for growth.",
        "诚然，务实的特朗普征服的政策组合在意识形态上可能会出现不一致，并对增长略微不利。"
    ],
    [
        "Investing in irrigation and water management would boost productivity.",
        "灌溉和水管理投资能够提高生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "Centuries later, Burma remains central, not only in matters of Asian security, but also for the country’s vast and still mostly untapped natural wealth.",
        "在几个世纪之后，这个换了一种叫法（Burma）的国家依然处于各方的中心，不仅事关亚洲的安全事务，还与该国巨大且尚未成分开发的自然资源有关。"
    ],
    [
        "The variant proposed by Warren, and followed by FDR in 1933, was to raise the price at which the government bought gold from the mint.",
        "而1933年沃伦给罗斯福的建议则是上述方案的变种，做法是提高政府向铸币厂购买黄金的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the meantime, governments can call upon the European Central Bank, which the eurozone member states already fully guarantee on a pro rata basis.",
        "但是，在此期间，各国政府可以要求欧洲央行有所动作——欧洲央行正是由欧元区成员国按比例提供完全担保的。"
    ],
    [
        "That dialogue, which countries should approach in good faith, must be a springboard for further action.",
        "各国应该怀着良好的意愿参加此次对话，务必使其成为更进一步行动的跳板。"
    ],
    [
        "Don’t look to central banks; most are likely to manage the near-term risks to inflation and growth reasonably well.",
        "不要考虑各国中央银行，它们大多数都会相对妥善地管理通货膨胀和经济增长的近期风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Calls for attendance in a foreign school - if possible for at least one year - as part of a future European curriculum should be heard and seriously considered.",
        "到国外留学的倡议-如果可能至少为期一年-作为未来欧洲课程的一部分应该得到大力宣传和认真考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "And there is a “moral” perspective, which focuses on the nature of debt and on the long-term economic consequences of failing to honor it.",
        "其二则是一种“道德”视角，将目光放在债务的本质以及不尊重这一本质所造成的长期经济后果之上。"
    ],
    [
        "My father-in-law was the alleged mastermind of the Sledgehammer plot, so my wife and I found ourselves moonlighting as forensic detectives and political activists.",
        "因为岳父被控为大锤案的主谋，我和夫人当上了兼职法医侦探和政治活动家。"
    ],
    [
        "Everything in this new China – where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still rules, but the ideas of Karl Marx are as dead as they are in Russia – is for sale, even the trappings of its Maoist past.",
        "片中虽依然是中国共产党统治，但马克思主义思想却已像在俄国一样没有立足之地，这个新中国的一切，甚至就连毛泽东时代的标志性服饰都可以用来出售。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal is to enable qualified Syrian professionals to treat refugee patients, thus mitigating the language and logistical barriers to effective, accessible, and dignified care.",
        "其目标是让合格的叙利亚医生去医治难民患者，从而消除获得有效、易得和有尊严的看护的语言和物流壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, this memory problem concerns ordinary absentmindedness that emerges in the wake of trauma; it does not refer to an inability to remember the trauma itself.",
        "而实际上，这种记忆问题与遭受创伤之后出现的一般性注意力分散有关，而并不意味着受害人不能回忆起创伤本身。"
    ],
    [
        "In this environment, the Chinese perceived a routine decision to send US marines to train in Australia as another link in the chain meant to hold China down.",
        "在这样的大前提下，中国将美国派遣海军陆战队到澳洲训练的例行决策视为打压中国系列行动的一个步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "They preferred to be paid without working.",
        "他们更愿意不劳而获。"
    ],
    [
        "With this move, the military leaders are putting their sham vote aimed at tightening their repressive grip on power ahead of the well being of the Burmese people.",
        "随着这一活动的进行，军事领导人把他们用来增强其压迫权力的虚假投票放在了缅甸人民的健康福祉之前的位置上了。"
    ],
    [
        "But now the nationalist bug has infected the EU itself.",
        "但现在连欧盟自己也受到了民族主义病毒的感染。"
    ],
    [
        "But recent US behavior has caused some Asian countries to begin to question America’s commitment to supporting regional security and prosperity.",
        "但美国最近的行为让一些亚洲国家开始质疑美国关于支持地区安全与繁荣的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Like most social science, measurement of these dynamics is conducted indirectly.",
        "和多数社会科学一样，对这种变量的测量是间接进行的。"
    ],
    [
        "Many households still need to reduce their debt further and will be hit with higher interest rates as they attempt to do so.",
        "许多家庭依然需要进一步降低其债务，并将在这一过程中遭受高利率的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be transparent, simple, and easy to administer.",
        "它将会是透明、简单和易于管理的。"
    ],
    [
        "1930’s appeasement – a word that elides diplomatic engagement and the rejection of military options – was said to remind us of what would happen if South Vietnam was not defended and Iraq not invaded. We know what happened in both countries.",
        "1930年代的绥靖政策——即放弃外交干预以及反对武力解决的做法——当年都被用来说服人们：如果他们不保卫南越以及不入侵伊拉克的话，就会吞下什么样的苦果。 但而今我们也早已明白，自己被蒙骗了。"
    ],
    [
        "In other cases, children are under attack from both state and non-state actors.",
        "在其他情况下，儿童受到来自国家和非国家主体的攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "But Sarkozy and Hollande saw their public opinion ratings drop precipitously after their embrace of austerity.",
        "但萨科齐和奥朗德在接受紧缩之前，他们的公众支持度就已经开始下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The attendees made some progress toward creating a European Defense Union, which should be welcomed, and toward admitting that the EU’s current organizational framework is unsustainable; but there was scant talk of meaningful institutional or economic reform.",
        "与会者在构建欧洲防御联盟方面取得了一些进展——这令人欣喜，并且朝着承认欧盟当前组织框架不可持续迈进了一步； 但对有意义的机构和经济改革几乎只字未提。"
    ],
    [
        "The continued seductive power of the Cold War logic and language of nuclear deterrence is the primary reason, though for some states it is clear that the testosterone factor – perceived status and prestige – also plays a role.",
        "冷战逻辑和核威慑逻辑仍有着迷人的魅力，成为主要理由，尽管对一些国家来说，睾丸素——对地位和特权的要求——也起着作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise in inequality is the product of a vicious spiral: the rich rent-seekers use their wealth to shape legislation in order to protect and increase their wealth – and their influence.",
        "不平等情况的恶化是一个恶性循环的结果：富有的寻租者用他们的财富左右立法，以保护和增加他们的财富以及势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future results, and two cases do not constitute a statistically significant sample.",
        "当然，过去的表现绝不意味着未来的结果，两次例子也绝不构成有统计意义的样本。"
    ],
    [
        "Favorable borrowing costs have fueled an enormous increase in the issuance of corporate bonds, many of which are held in bond mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).",
        "有利的借贷成本促使公司债券发行量猛增，其中有许多持有于债券共同基金和交易所交易基金（ETF）。"
    ],
    [
        "Providing universal Internet access is a project on a scale similar to sequencing the human genome, and, like the human-genome project, it will raise new risks and sensitive ethical issues.",
        "提供普遍的互联网接入是一项规模堪与人类基因组测序相媲美的工程； 此外，与人类基因组工程类似，它将带来新的风险和伦理问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It is already clear that achieving sustainable development is not possible without sustainable energy.",
        "可以明确的是，没有可持续能源，就无法获得可持续发展。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, protesters’ grievances vary greatly according to local circumstances (though there is surprising consistency across regions and even continents when it comes to issues like housing, unemployment, inequality, and the frustration of young people who have studied hard and cannot find jobs).",
        "可以肯定的是，抗议者的不满情绪会随当地的具体情况出现极大的变化（尽管不同地区甚至大洲在涉及如住房、失业、不平等和年轻人勤奋苦读却找不到工作所导致的挫折感方面是惊人的一致）。"
    ],
    [
        "With advanced-country populations aging rapidly, saving for old age is more important than ever.",
        "随着发达国家人口的迅速老化，为晚年储蓄比变得比以往更加重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Another reason to scrap income and move to presumptive taxation of corporate activities stems from the EU’s decentralized nature.",
        "另一个废止收入税基，转向针对公司经营活动的假定税基的理由来自欧盟分散化的特点。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this represented an important step forward.",
        "所有这些意味着我们向前迈出了重要的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "George W. Bush had earlier noted that Americans “had no quarrel with the people of Afghanistan,” only with Al Queda and their Taliban supporters.",
        "”乔治·W·布什早先还曾说过美国人民“与阿富汗人民无怨无仇”，我们所针对的只有基地组织及其塔利班支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "That is no more than one would expect from a doctor who is true to the ethics of the profession, my medical friends tell me.",
        "医学界的朋友告诉我说，对于一个忠于其职业道德的医生来说，上述事情是再正常不过的了。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, however, the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent invasion – without UN authority – of Iraq underscore the primacy of military solutions in the strategic thinking of affluent nations.",
        "不幸的是，美国带头入侵阿富汗及其后未经联合国授权擅自侵入伊拉克越发突显了军事解决在富裕国家战略思想中所占的主导位置。"
    ],
    [
        "The Americans are unlikely to agree to this, and South Korea would not want them to.",
        "美国人不可能同意这一点，韩国也不希望看到这一幕。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1739, the Kohinoor fell into the hands of the Persian invader Nadir Shah, whose loot from his conquest of Delhi (and decimation of its inhabitants) also included the priceless Peacock Throne.",
        "1739年，克西努尔落到了入侵的波斯奈迪尔沙（Nadir Shah）手中，奈迪尔沙征服德里（和大量屠杀其居民）的战利品还包括无价之宝孔雀王座。"
    ],
    [
        "Many are now radically changing their business models to reduce risk.",
        "很多银行如今正在彻底改变业务模式以降低风险。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe that Putin understands this, which is an important fact for future diplomacy.",
        "我相信普京明白这一点，这也是未来外交的一个重要事实。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States – which faced considerable public debt, but had lost little in the way of physical assets – naturally assumed a leadership role in this process.",
        "美国——它面临着巨大的公共债务，但实体资产基本安然无恙——自然在这一过程中起到了领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, we are aware of the mounting problem, worried about its consequences, and have a good sense of how to bring about the much-needed pivot.",
        "幸运的是，我们意识到了问题的严重性、对这种情况所带来的后果深感忧虑并完全了解解决问题的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "The Environment Fights Back",
        "环境的报复"
    ],
    [
        "The directive on free movement implies a new era of direct migration into West European welfare states.",
        "人员自由流动的指令意味着西欧福利国家进入了直接移民的新时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting to Yes (Again) with Germany",
        "让德国人（再次）点头"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging economies’ leaders fear spillover effects in commodity markets and distortions of exchange rates and capital flows that may compromise their own focus on financial stability.",
        "新兴国家领导人担心商品市场的溢出效应、汇率的扭曲，以及干扰他们对金融稳定性专注度的资本流动。"
    ],
    [
        "If governments continue to dither and bicker, the most that it can do is delay the war for a while.",
        "如果政府继续萎靡和争吵，欧洲央行行动充其量也只能延长些许时间。"
    ],
    [
        "America and China now live with a kind of mutually assured economic destruction, and both presidents know it.",
        "中美双方目前无疑正处于一种相互毁灭的经济关系之下，而双方领导人对此也都心知肚明。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to question one of them: the independence of central banks from elected governments.",
        "在这里，我们要质疑硕果仅存的几个神圣理论之一：央行独立于民选政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, they could devote their energies to governance, rather than just to politics.",
        "最重要的是，他们可以将精力全部投入执政，而不是耗散在政治扯皮之中。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that private insurance markets do not work well when the buyer knows much more about what is being insured than the seller.",
        "但问题是当买家对投保对象的了解远远超过卖家的时候，私人保险市场就会运转不畅。"
    ],
    [
        "As for foreign policy, it is Obama who has rightly said that America needs to switch the focus of its military operations from Iraq to Afghanistan.",
        "至 于外交政策方面，正是奥巴马正确地指出了，美国需要把军事行动的重点从伊拉克转到阿富汗。"
    ],
    [
        "Survival times can thus appear longer, even if the earlier diagnosis had no real effect on survival.",
        "于是在早期诊断对病人的生存并无实质影响的情况下，存活期似乎却变得更长了。"
    ],
    [
        "One American politician who understands how to work with the Iranian power structure is former Congressman Lee Hamilton, now head of the Woodrow Wilson Center.",
        "一位知道如何同伊朗的权力层打交道的美国政客就是前国会议员，现任伍德罗•威尔逊中心主任的Lee Hamilton。"
    ],
    [
        "Would the Deutschemark have been overvalued?",
        "德国马克还会高估吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The United States has long had programs enabling visits by young foreign leaders, and now China is successfully following suit.",
        "美国长期以来有计划地邀请年轻的外国青年领袖前来访问，现在中国已经成功继承了其衣钵。"
    ],
    [
        "But Kenya’s newfound oil stock will complicate these plans, given that massive capital inflows will cause Kenya’s overall price level to rise relative to that of its neighbors.",
        "但肯尼亚新发现的石油储量将让这一计划变得复杂，因为巨量资本流入将导致肯尼亚总体价格水平相对邻国上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "If a trilateral Northeast Asian FTA can be concluded, the three countries would be able to generate more market demand domestically at a time of weak demand from the West, and would gain greater influence in the global political economy.",
        "如果东北亚三边自贸协议能达成的话，中日韩三国就可以在西方需求疲软的情况下创造更多的国内市场需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Water immersion in a tub could last up to 12 seconds, no more than two hours a day, for up to thirty days in a row.",
        "溺水最多可持续12秒，每天不超过2小时，最多连续30天。"
    ],
    [
        "In the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, Italy’s then-finance minister Giulio Tremonti famously endorsed the health of the country’s banking system.",
        "2008年9月雷曼兄弟公司（Lehman Brothers）倒闭后，意大利时任财政部长朱利奥·特里蒙蒂（Giulio Tremonti）还为该国银行体系的健康背书。"
    ],
    [
        "Some believe that we will ultimately find a compromise, some ruse to make the Irish succumb, that gives the EU a treaty.",
        "有人相信我们最终会找到一种妥协、某种策略让爱尔兰人屈服，从而给欧盟一个皆大欢喜的条约。"
    ],
    [
        "Marijuana policy involves a choice between the evils of current repressive policies and the evils of increased use under a legal market.",
        "加利福尼亚州其实正面临着一个两难困境：一面是当前过分严厉的政策带来的巨大政府开支和社会犯罪，二是合法交易后吸食者增加所带来的负面影响，而大麻政策则试图两害相权取其轻。"
    ],
    [
        "As political reform achieves results, Israel will no longer be able to claim that it is the only democracy in the Middle East; with conditions changing on the ground, it will be increasingly difficult to ignore Palestinians’ demand for independence.",
        "随着政治改革取得进展，以色列将无法继续以中东唯一的民主国家自居，随着局势的发展变化，对巴勒斯坦独立呼声充耳不闻的难度将越来越大。"
    ],
    [
        "Respondents were nearly evenly split on the question of arranged marriages, with half supporting the idea that marriage should be based on parental consent, while 48% preferred love as the basis of matrimony.",
        "包办婚姻问题上，受试者几乎是一半一半，半数人认为婚姻理应遵从父母之命，另外48%则认为爱情才是婚姻的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Globally, the slowdown in economic convergence has similar implications, as richer countries maintain their outsize influence around the world – leading to disaffection and radicalization among the poor.",
        "全球而言，经济趋同的放缓具有类似的影响，富裕国家保持其在全世界的巨大影响力——导致穷国的不满和激进化。"
    ],
    [
        "To allay such concerns, the Obama administration committed to a multi-year increase in the budgets of the US military’s nuclear-weapons laboratories.",
        "为了安抚这些忧虑，奥巴马承诺逐年增加对美军核武器研究所的经费支持。"
    ],
    [
        "To build on this, consumers and markets also need to send signals to companies that directly or indirectly support slash-and-burn farming.",
        "在此基础上，消费者和市场还需要向直接或间接支持刀耕火种式农业的公司释放信号。"
    ],
    [
        "The main purpose of his new constitution is its preamble, which enshrines Kosovo as an inalienable part of Serbia.",
        "他的新宪法的主要目的就是其序言，这一序言宣布科索沃是塞尔维亚不可分割的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the European Council on Foreign Relations, 32 referenda are being demanded in 18 countries across the EU.",
        "据欧洲外交关系委员会数据，整个欧盟由18个国家存在32项全民公决要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Skepticism about China’s development intentions will no doubt emerge, given China’s political and ideological differences with the West.",
        "鉴于中国与西方国家有着不同的政治和意识形态，出现对中国发展意图的怀疑情绪几乎是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "In most cases, the laws for skies mirror those governing the world’s oceans.",
        "在大多数情况下，天空的规则与那些管制世界上海洋的规则相似。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2005, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies looked closely at government-funded research addressing the environmental, health, and safety impact of nanotechnology.",
        "2005年，伍德罗威尔逊国际学者中心新兴纳米技术计划考察了由政府资助的对于纳米技术的环境、健康和安全影响的研究项目。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, signed by 193 countries, which emphasized education as a critical element of the international response.",
        "其成果便是有193个国家签署的难民和移民问题纽约宣言，宣言强调教育应该作为全球应对措施的关键要素。"
    ],
    [
        "Another Lesson from Japan",
        "日本的另一个教训"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the sustainable prosperity that would result from that adjustment would create a much healthier long-term foundation for continuing the quest for an “ever closer union” in Europe.",
        "相反，由于这种调整导致的可持续繁荣将会为继续在欧洲寻求一个“更紧密的联盟”创造一个更加健康的长期基础。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the world could avoid famines by mid-century.",
        "结果是世界能够在世纪中叶消灭饥荒。"
    ],
    [
        "That could mean bringing back older IMF proposals for a sovereign bankruptcy mechanism, or finding ways to institutionalize the Fund’s recent stance on Greek debt.",
        "这可能意味着迎回IMF主权破产机制的就方案，也可能意味着寻求将IMF最近的希腊债务立场制度化。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – As the world enters yet another year in the shadow of continued financial and economic crisis, a broader view of the contours of the future global economy is required.",
        "华盛顿——随着世界在持续金融和经济危机的阴影下进入新的一年，我们必须以更广阔的视野去看待全球经济的未来轮廓。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a Princeton University study found that when people were shown images of two candidates in unfamiliar elections, they could predict the winners seven times out of ten.",
        "比如普林斯顿大学的一项研究发现当向被试者展示一场陌生选举的两位候选人照片时，他们有70%的概率选到获胜者。"
    ],
    [
        "As in post-World War II West Germany, much of the current prosperity in Cyprus today is an outcome of the boost the economy received from the absorption of refugees.",
        "就像二战后的德国一样，塞浦路斯今天的繁荣很大程度上是吸收难民、推动经济发展的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be a true disaster for the world if America, in an act of self-destructive decadence, tossed this noble, practical, and inspiring creation into the dustbin of history.",
        "如果美国采取自我破坏的颓废行为，将这项高贵、实用和鼓舞人心的创造扔进历史的垃圾堆对世界而言将会是真正灾难性的。"
    ],
    [
        "A better alternative would be to develop new strategies to improve antibiotic treatments that are provided through informal channels.",
        "替代方法是制定通过非正式渠道改善抗生素治疗的新策略。"
    ],
    [
        "This, it is argued, is only a dress rehearsal for what can be expected in a post-Assad Syria.",
        "有人认为这不过是后阿萨德时代叙利亚局面的一次预演。"
    ],
    [
        "The dissolutions of parliament in 1999 and 2006 were carried out according to the law, and elections were called in a timely fashion.",
        "1999年和2006年议会解散都完全符合法律，选举也得以及时进行。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost one-quarter of the coral in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area – one of the world’s richest and most complex ecosystems – has died this year, in the worst mass coral bleaching in recorded history.",
        "今年，世界上最丰富、最复杂的生态系统之一、澳大利亚大堡礁世界遗产区死去近四分之一的珊瑚，是有记录以来规模最严重的珊瑚漂白。"
    ],
    [
        "But such off-balance-sheet loans involve a larger number of intermediaries, increasing transaction costs.",
        "但这些表外贷款涉及到更多数量的中介，增加了交易成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Chancellor Angela Merkel has bravely asserted “the fundamental right to asylum for the politically persecuted with no upper limit; and that goes for refugees who come to us from the hell of civil war.”",
        "事实上，德国总理默克尔勇敢地提出“受政治迫害者的避难的基本权利没有上限； 从内战地狱中来到我们中间的难民亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "The Antarctic environment is now effectively protected by the international community, which is the de facto owner of this continent, without any national differentiations.",
        "目前，国际社会有效地保护了南极洲的环境，国际社会是此大陆事实上的拥有者，没有任何国家存在差异。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The Greek government needs to escape from an otherwise impossible situation.",
        "发自剑桥——希腊政府需要摆脱的是一个完全没有其他活路可走的困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Her second term in office (1993-96) was longer and better, but her government again fell early, owing to charges of mismanagement and corruption.",
        "她的第二个任期(1993-96)稍长，局面也更好，但其政府却因为治理不善和腐败的指控而再次夭亡。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the Greek referendum delivered an insult to 18 countries, including some that are in situations no less difficult than Greece’s, and yet have made considerable sacrifices to grant the country, in 2012 alone, €105 billion ($116 billion) in debt relief while remaining accountable to their own populations.",
        "从这个角度讲，希腊公投是对18个国家的侮辱，其中一些国家情况不比希腊好，但它们做出了巨大的牺牲，光是在2012年，在仍然接受本国人民问责的情况下实现的债务减免就高达1,050亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "True, parents are generally not selfish.",
        "诚然，父母一般都非常无私。"
    ],
    [
        "Another element of the propaganda campaign has been to twist the meaning of “open society.”",
        "这场宣传运动的另外一个目的是扭曲“开放社会”的含义。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the leading candidates to be the IMF’s next managing director has turned out to be a Frenchwoman, Christine Lagarde, who, as France’s finance minister, helped lead her country through the Great Recession. She has been an outspoken advocate of financial-sector reforms, and has won the respect of all of those with whom she has worked.",
        "其中一个呼声最高的下届IMF总裁候选人是一位法国女性，克里斯蒂娜·拉加德，作为法国财政部长她成功带领国家渡过了衰退，而她本人也是位金融部门改革的大力鼓吹者，在同僚中也久负盛名。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe at last, the next World Bank or IMF president will come from outside their usual domains.",
        "可能最终下一任国际货币基金组织或者世界银行的总裁会来自通常的领地以外。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, many people in Eastern Europe felt a sense of lost control during the harsh socialist experiments of the post-war era, as did many Chinese during the Cultural Revolution, and these societies had minimal visible income inequality.",
        "事实上，许多东欧人在战后的残酷社会主义实验时期也有一种失控感，许多中国人在文化大革命时期亦然，而这些社会的收入不平等性可以忽略不计。"
    ],
    [
        "But Blair inexplicably chose to compound the mistake he had made with Brown, by announcing publicly, after having defeated the Tories for the third straight time, that he would not stand again.",
        "但是，当布莱儿在连续第三次击败保守党后公开宣布他将不会再担任一届首相的时候，他令人费解地选择了加剧他在布朗身上所犯的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "The P5 have obligations under the UN Charter, as well as international humanitarian and human rights law, not to undermine the effectiveness of the UN or that body of law.",
        "根据联合国宪章和国际人道主义和人权法，“五常”有义务不阻挠联合国或其他法律机构的效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Tighter money and a looser fiscal stance in the US almost surely would mean a stronger dollar.",
        "美国的紧货币和宽财政立场几乎肯定会让美元升值。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin may try to portray his actions in Ukraine as a fight against fascism.",
        "普京可能想把乌克兰行动描绘成一场反法西斯斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer depends on whether one considers the time women in Europe spend on domestic work.",
        "答案取决于人们是否考虑欧洲妇女花在家务上的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "He still boasts that he defeated all of his Republican opponents, though, given how the primary process works, it’s easier to beat 16 rivals than one or two.",
        "他仍在吹嘘他击败了所有共和党对手，但鉴于初选程序的运作方式，击败16名对手并不比一名或两名更难。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush has been taunting John Kerry to explain how he would do things differently.",
        "布什一直嘲笑约翰·凯利，让他说说能带来哪些变化。"
    ],
    [
        "This entails new opportunities, no doubt, but also new risks.",
        "这无疑会带来新的机遇，但同时也会催生新的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Dilma does not.",
        "迪尔马没有。"
    ],
    [
        "That is government in the age of transparency.",
        "这就是透明时代的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "While Ifo`s World Economic Climate indicator, generated from quarterly surveys of 1,200 experts in 90 countries, worsened slightly during the first three quarters of 2005, it rose again in the last quarter, indicating a continuation of the boom.",
        "Ifo的世界经济景气指标来源于对90个国家的1200名专家进行季度调查。 尽管这一指标在2005年的头三个季度稍微有所恶化，但是在最后一个季度中再次上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, EU members are sovereign states, and they negotiate among themselves as such.",
        "当然，欧盟成员国都是主权国家，各自有着独立的谈判地位。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the cosmological term that has been “reinstated” to account for the new observations is not quite the one that Einstein proposed and retracted.",
        "结果“重新引入”来解释这些新观测的宇宙项已经与爱因斯坦当年提出又撤销的那个有所不同了。"
    ],
    [
        "It doesn’t help that applying German or EU proposals on refugee policy would not exactly strengthen his re-election chances in 2017.",
        "这无济于事，应用德国或欧盟的难民政策方案根本不会增加他2017年连任的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "By winning Crimea the way that it did, Russia may well have lost Ukraine.",
        "虽然俄罗斯赢得了克里米亚，但却很可能失去了乌克兰。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the more independent a central bank is, the greater the role of fiscal policy in determining the quantity of money in an economy.",
        "事实上，央行越独立，财政政策对经济中货币数量的决定性就越大。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody will be caught unawares if the Fed acts next month, as many investors were in February 1994 and June 2004, the only previous occasions remotely comparable to the current one.",
        "如果美联储下个月升息，没有人会感到意外，一如1994年2月和2004年6月（仅有的两次与此次升息略有可比性的先例）的许多投资者。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, how the Chinese receive Park may turn out to be less a reflection of change in South Korea than a reflection of change in the People’s Republic – an issue that goes to the heart of China’s identity and mission in the modern world.",
        "因此，中国人如何对待朴槿惠可能更多反映了中国而不是韩国的变化——这涉及到现代世界中国身份和使命等核心问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Bashar may lack his father’s acumen, but he, too, knows a simple truth: peace with Israel is the price to pay.",
        "Bashar也许缺乏他父亲那样的敏锐，但他也明白一个简单的道理：与以色列和解是它必须付出的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "True, cities cannot provide the rich sense of community that often characterizes villages and small towns. But a different form of community evolves in cities.",
        "诚然，城市无法提供乡村或者小城镇中特有的那种浓郁的社区感，但它却孕育着另一种不同的社区形式。"
    ],
    [
        "Tax cuts: One of the most consistent findings in American public opinion polling for decades is that people want higher taxes, not lower, on the rich and corporations.",
        "减税：几十年来，美国民调中观点最为一致的其中之一是人民希望对富人和公司课以更高而不是更低的税收。"
    ],
    [
        "If there is a response to such blackmail that could preserve Japan’s dignity, the Kan government is unlikely to find it.",
        "怪只怪菅直人政府无能，面对着中国的百般敲诈勒索，却找不到一个能维护日本国家尊严的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would have to accommodate the quirky sex lives of what we include in it.",
        "但首先需要调整我们希望在大餐中看到的植物的诡异性生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Mapping the Future of AI",
        "勾勒人工智能的未来"
    ],
    [
        "By misappropriating public funds for personal use, franc-zone leaders serve as accomplices to France’s institutionalized exploitation of CFA countries and citizens.",
        "法郎区领导人挪用公共资金作私人用途，他们好比是法国对FCA国家和人民的制度性剥削的共谋。"
    ],
    [
        "The government needs to encourage conservation, and intervening in the price system – namely, through taxes on energy – is an efficient way to do it.",
        "政府需要鼓励节能，并干预价格体系—即通过征收能源税—是行之有效的。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, hip replacement patients don’t get super-human speed, strength, and vision – at least not yet.",
        "当然，髋部更换病人并不会有超人的速度、力量和视力，至少目前还没有。"
    ],
    [
        "Competition authorities, on the other hand, tend to believe that the more competition, the better.",
        "另一方面，竞争当局则认为竞争越多越好。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – Nowadays there is ample evidence that financial systems, whether in Asia in the 1990’s or a decade later in the United States and Europe, are vulnerable to breakdowns.",
        "香港—时至今日，已有充分的证据表明，不管是20世纪90年代的亚洲，还是十年后的美国和欧洲，金融系统都难逃崩溃的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "But such an institutional outcome is not inevitable (and it probably no longer endures even in contemporary Britain).",
        "然而，这种制度后果并不一定会出现（哪怕在当今的英国，它大概也维持不了多久了）。"
    ],
    [
        "But whether a slowdown is the start of a trend or a temporary part of a complex transition, will not be apparent from the start.",
        "但减速究竟是趋势的开端还是一个复杂转型的暂时部门，这很难在进程的开端显现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s move toward renewable energy is likely to have a much broader positive impact.",
        "德国的向可再生能源转型可能具有诸多积极意义。"
    ],
    [
        "“[W]e should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death,” he wrote, “unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.”",
        "“[我]们永远警惕抑制被我们讨厌、认为充满了死亡的观点的表达的图谋，”他写道，“除非这些表达构成了紧迫的威胁，立即与法律规定的合法和紧要目的相违背，让我们不得不立刻予以抑制以拯救国家。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Their proposal went unheeded.",
        "但是他们的提议并未得到理会。"
    ],
    [
        "All this is not only fostered by the state, but also requires the kind of uniformity that only a centralized state can impose.",
        "这一切不仅由国家予以扶持，而且要求一种只有中央集权国家才能施行的统一。"
    ],
    [
        "Good econometric studies examine secondary effects to persuade readers that the main effect is what it is.",
        "优秀的计量经济学研究还考察了次级效应，以说服读者主要效应确有其事。"
    ],
    [
        "So long as other ways are available for Muslim women to cover their heads, agreeing not to wear the nijab is a way of signifying one’s membership in a liberal society at minimal cost to one’s religious commitments.",
        "只要有其他方式能让穆斯林女人遮盖住她们的头部，同意不戴阿拉伯头巾是一种以对宗教忠诚度最小代价的让步来换取强调个人在一个自由社会的成员资格的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Kris was smart but unpretentious.",
        "克里斯是那种聪明但不招摇的人。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, impoverished countries have huge needs for infrastructure, especially roads, rail, renewable energy, water and sanitation, and for improved current delivery of vital life-saving services, including health care and support for food production.",
        "与此同时，贫困国家亟需基础设施，尤其是公路，铁路，可再生能源，用水和卫生事业，还需要改进生命拯救服务的现存传送方式，这些服务极为重要，包括保健和食品生产。"
    ],
    [
        "To figure out how to achieve that, it is worth considering the efforts of another major emerging economy: China.",
        "要弄清楚如何实现这一点，就得参考另一个主要新兴经济体——中国——所做出的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of global trade negotiations desperately needs to be concluded, and the EU has made a number of positive moves in this direction by proposing vast changes to its export subsidies regime.",
        "此外世界贸易组织多哈回合谈判必须取得成果，而欧盟对此也提议改革其内部出口补贴制度，为推动回合圆满完成贡献了一系列积极举动。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in that case, why all the fuss?",
        "但是，既然如此，为何这一问题会引发如此关注？"
    ],
    [
        "Their hope is evolutionary, not revolutionary.",
        "他们的愿望是渐近性的，不是革命性的。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2015, China launched the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which some saw as an alternative to the World Bank; but the new institution adheres to international rules and cooperates with the World Bank.",
        "2015年，中国发起成立了亚洲基础设施投资银行，有人认为这是世界银行的替代性选择； 但新体系依然遵守国际法，并与世界银行展开合作。"
    ],
    [
        "On January 1, 2014, the United States will partly implement a law – the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – that will not establish national health insurance, but that will, according to projections by the Congressional Budget Office, reduce by almost one-half the number of people in the US without health insurance.",
        "2014年1月1日，美国将部分完成一项法律——平价医疗法（Affordable Care Act，ACA），该法不建立国民健康保险，但据国会预算办公室测算，将会让美国没有健康保险的人数下降近一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as political democracy need not wait for incomes to rise, strong labor standards need not lag behind economic development.",
        "正如政治民主必须要等待收入上升才能开始，提高劳动标准也不一定要落后于经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Existing debt agreements are not sufficient without a decade of strong growth, which appears unlikely, to say the least.",
        "若无十年的强劲增长（最低条件，但可能性很低），现有债务协定是不足够的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor do they mention the costs imposed on the rest of the economy – a cumulative output loss in Europe and the US that is well in excess of $5 trillion.",
        "他们也不会提到强加在其他经济部门身上的成本——欧美两地不断累积的社会产能损失已经合计超过5万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "At the supra-national level, legitimacy remains highly questionable, as the experience of the eurozone amply demonstrates.",
        "在超国家层面，合法性仍大有问题，欧元区的经验充分地证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Legislative complexity is growing exponentially in parallel.",
        "立法复杂性也在显著增加。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, President François Hollande looks like damaged goods as he prepares for next spring’s election.",
        "在法国，总统奥朗德正在准备明年春天的大选，他看起来就像是一件损坏了的商品。"
    ],
    [
        "Even with the best political leadership, governing India is no easy task.",
        "即便拥有最好的政治领袖，治理印度也绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "To combat corruption effectively, people need to oust corrupt leaders, which is why democracy is vital.",
        "要有效地打击腐败，人们需要罢免腐败的领导人，而这正是民主的重要之处。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called “special relationship” between Britain and the US, certainly prized by Churchill, was not so much racial as it was a product of World War II – and a rather complicated one at that.",
        "” 所谓英美“特殊关系”确实也曾被丘吉尔所看重，但它其实是没有多少种族意味的二战产物——而且是在极其复杂的背景下产生的。"
    ],
    [
        "And the shortage of bills – caused in part by the difficulty of supplying so much low-value currency – upset Venezuelans to the point that the government finally took action.",
        "而钞票短缺——部分原因是供应价值如此低的货币非常困难——让委内瑞拉人深感不安，以至于政府终于采取了行动。"
    ],
    [
        "US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke provided his own by pledging that US short-term interest rates would remain very low, and the Bank of Japan’s new chairman, Haruhiko Kuroda, has just provided another by saying that he will double the money supply so that inflation reaches 2%.",
        "美联储主席伯南克也这么做了——他承诺美国短期利率将维持极低水平； 日本银行新行长黑田东彦最近也如法炮制了一次——他宣布会将货币供应量扩大一倍，让通胀达到2%。"
    ],
    [
        "Political reforms, privatization, anti-corruption measures, a search for new leaders untainted by compromise with the former regime, and implementation of a pro-European foreign policy met no resistance.",
        "政治改革、私有化、反腐败措施、寻找没有与前政权妥协而有污点的新领导人以及实施亲欧洲的外交政策并没有遇到抵抗。"
    ],
    [
        "And, for good or bad, where Pakistan goes other Muslim countries could follow.",
        "不管好坏，巴基斯坦的去向都将有其他穆斯林国家亦步亦趋。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi and Putin may have little to worry about.",
        "习近平和普京没什么好担忧的。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies should meet with LGBT groups at other organizations, both locally and globally, and implement policies from the more progressive regions in which they do business (say, Europe and the US).",
        "公司应该与地方和全球层面的LGBT群体和其他组织会晤，实施来自它们有业务的更进步的地区(如欧洲和美国)所采取的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the outcome will tell whether it can survive.",
        "只有选举结果才能告诉我们国大党是否能够幸存下来。"
    ],
    [
        "AXA and UBS, together with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), and the EU’s Climate-KIC (Knowledge and Information Community) recently organized a conference in Berlin.",
        "AXA和UBS，再加上波茨坦气候影响研究所（Potstam Institute for Climate Impact Research）、CDP（碳披露计划）以及欧盟气候-KIC（知识和情报协会）最近在柏林召开了一次会议。"
    ],
    [
        "When adjustments are needed, they generally take the form of fiscal cuts, rather than structural reforms.",
        "当需要调整时，它们一般采取财政紧缩而不是结构改革。"
    ],
    [
        "A complete collapse, fueled by efforts to impose a political solution by military means, would most likely lead to catastrophic consequences for decades to come, with Turkey among the worst affected.",
        "试图通过军事手段实施政治解决方案而导致的全盘崩溃极有可能给未来数十年带来灾难性后果，而土耳其将是首当其冲者之一。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not imply that every vulnerable migrant must be accepted.",
        "这并不意味着必须接受每一位脆弱的移民。"
    ],
    [
        "Each has the prerequisites for open and lively online communities: decent Internet penetration and democratic, plural political systems.",
        "各国都具备开放活跃网络社区的先决条件：不错的互联网普及率及民主、多元的政治制度。"
    ],
    [
        "In Elop’s case, the familiar just happened to be another sinking company.",
        "但具体到埃洛普而言，他所熟悉的恰恰是另一家行将就木的企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, by providing detailed information on biodiversity and the interactions within ecosystems, genomics is driving the development of innovative environmental-protection strategies.",
        "此外，基因组学还能提供关于生态系统中生物多样性和互动作用的详细信息，从而推动了创新环境保护战略的开发。"
    ],
    [
        "Our organization, Mayors for Peace, was created in 1982 as a way to transcend national borders and work together toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.",
        "我们所在组织和平市长会议成立于1982年，目的是超越国界的束缚，共同向着销毁核武器的目标努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite austerity, the forecast of this year’s UK structural deficit has increased from 6.5% to 8% – requiring an extra £22 billion ($34.6 billion) in cuts a year.",
        "即使采取了紧缩政策，今年英国结构性赤字预计仍将上升6. 5%—6."
    ],
    [
        "With every turn of the circle, both parties, terrorists and security forces, grow closer to each other.",
        "每循环一次，双方，恐怖分子和安全保障人员，都彼此更加亲密。"
    ],
    [
        "JFK told Americans that they should never negotiate out of fear, but never fear to negotiate.",
        "肯尼迪告诉美国人，决不能因为害怕而谈判，但也决不能害怕谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "A producer in Indonesia, Malaysia, or the Philippines can easily take advantage of the local currency’s depreciation to sell more electronic components to an assembly plant in China with which it has a long-standing and well-developed supply relationship.",
        "印尼、马来西亚或菲律宾的生产商可以容易地利用本币贬值把更多的电子元件卖给与之有着长期、完善的供应关系的中国组装厂。"
    ],
    [
        "Capital stopped flowing out of southern Europe and speculation eased.",
        "资本不再流出南欧，流言蜚语也有所消退。"
    ],
    [
        "We’re just at the beginning of this process, which will take many years.",
        "这一过程不过才刚刚开始，可能要持续多年才会结束。"
    ],
    [
        "What will become of the Korean Peninsula?",
        "朝鲜半岛局势将会如何发展？"
    ],
    [
        "So, can we head off the impending collision between the energy systems driving the global economy and our planet’s ecological limits?",
        "那么，我们可以避免推动全球经济的能源体系和地球的生态极限之间的即将到来的碰撞吗？"
    ],
    [
        "While Africa’s needs are relatively well known, there are challenges in scaling up aid to tackle them.",
        "人们通常比较熟悉非洲的需求，但是增加援助解决这些需求还存在挑战。 这反映在宏观经济管理、依赖援助综合症、吸收能力以及交易成本等问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "And, according to Goldman Sachs, about 85% of the world’s middle class will be living in the BRICS and other developing countries by 2030.",
        "而根据高盛的数据，到2030年，大约85%的全球中产阶级将生活在金砖国家和其他发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Under pressure from an unyielding and revanchist China, India urgently needs to craft a prudent and carefully calibrated counter-strategy.",
        "在顽固地想要恢复失地的中国的压力下，印度迫切地需要一个审慎的、精心调整的遏制战略。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB has not departed from this standard.",
        "欧洲央行也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "It is as if a new wave of counter-enlightenment is sweeping the world, with the most restrictive views dominating the scene.",
        "新一轮的反文明浪潮似乎席卷了整个世界，限制最多的观点却似乎稳稳占据了上风。"
    ],
    [
        "In the framework developed by the development economist Dani Rodrik, a shortage of capital can be a binding “growth constraint”: the place where “the biggest bang for the [policy] reform buck can be obtained.”",
        "在由发展经济学家丹尼·罗德瑞克研究的框架中，在“可能进行突破性的〔政策〕改革”的地方，缺乏资本可以成为一个有效的“增长制约”。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet a new vaccine remains many years away, especially given that funding for TB vaccine research has declined in recent years.",
        "但新疫苗研发还需多年的艰苦努力，尤其鉴于结核病疫苗研制经费近年来有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that physiological processes underlying depression - the ones that may also lead to structural changes in the brain - are not being completely arrested, and thus that a new generation of anti-depressant medications is urgently needed.",
        "这意味着抑郁症背后的生理过程--那些可能同时引起大脑组织变化的生理过程--没有被完全抑制，因此，我们急需新一代的抗抑郁药。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this figure covers a wide diversity of industries, and also some geographical differences across the continent.",
        "当然，这一数字包含各式各样的行业，而且欧洲大陆的不同国家也存在一些地理上的差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Some economists worry that negative second-quarter data will dampen inflation expectations, thereby undermining Abe’s plan for boosting growth.",
        "有些经济学家担心第二季度的不利数据将抑制通胀预期，从而不利于安倍的提振增长计划。"
    ],
    [
        "And they did, but only for the top 1%.",
        "确实如此，但只是顶层1%的繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite court rulings ordering reform, Roma are regularly denied equal access to housing, education, and healthcare, creating a vicious cycle of poverty and marginalization.",
        "尽管法庭判决要求改革，但罗姆人经常被剥夺平等的住房、教育和医疗保健权，从而形成了贫困和边缘化的恶性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "Austerity Politics, Then and Now",
        "巩固财政：大萧条与今天"
    ],
    [
        "In the process, the larger public – those not involved in the original production of new knowledge – benefit through classroom instruction.",
        "在这一过程中，那些并未参与新知识原始创造过程的广大公众却从课堂教学中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "Manafort may be gone from the Trump campaign, but his Ukrainian ties will be a matter of press interest for some time to come.",
        "马纳福特或许已经离开了特朗普的竞选队伍，但在未来一段时间内他与乌克兰方面的关系将会成为媒体的兴趣点。"
    ],
    [
        "This should not come at the expense of similar links with others, such as China and India, but these ties must not be acquired at the price of isolating Japan.",
        "对日合作不应损害与其它国家，比如与中国和印度的类似关系，但与其它国家的关系也不应以孤立日本为代价来加以维持。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, Trump has made his three oldest children – who are supposed to run his business during his presidency – key players in his campaign and transition.",
        "特朗普已经安排他年龄最大的三个子女——他们本应在他竞选总统期间经营他的企业——成为他竞选和过渡时期的关键力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU treaties could be amended to enshrine the right of regional governments and city councils, like Catalonia’s and Barcelona’s, to fiscal autonomy and even to their own fiscal money.",
        "可以修订欧盟条约，将地区政府和市议会（如加泰罗尼亚和巴塞罗那）的财政自主乃至拥有自身财政货币（fiscal money）的权利写入其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian military expenditures have increased by double-digit figures in recent years.",
        "近年来，俄罗斯军队开支以两位数的增幅上升。"
    ],
    [
        "This highlights the final crucial feature of the new global governance model exemplified by the Paris agreement: The deal reached earlier this month, like the Conference of the Parties itself, is not only for governments.",
        "这突显出巴黎协定所表现的全球治理新模式的最后一个关键特征：本月初所达成的这一协定，以及巴黎大会本身，不仅仅面向政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Defense transformation is a key aspect of burden-sharing.",
        "防卫改革是责任分担的一个重要方面。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – For five decades, developing countries that managed to develop competitive export industries have been rewarded with astonishing growth rates: Taiwan and South Korea in the 1960’s, Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore in the 1970’s, China in the 1980’s, and eventually India in the 1990’s.",
        "剑桥--过去五十年以来，某些发展中国家发展竞争性出口产业取得了令人瞩目的经济增长率。 二十世纪六十年代的台湾和韩国，七十年代的马来西亚、泰国和新加坡等国，八十年代的中国以及最后九十年代的印度都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Trashing the ASEAN Brand",
        "破坏东盟名声"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, regaining the exchange rate as an instrument for competitive devaluation could help overcome competitiveness losses due to soaring unit-labor costs.",
        "当然，重新获得用作竞争性贬值工具的汇率能够有助于克服因为高涨的单位劳动产本而产生的竞争力损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Koons answered: “With Reaganism, social mobility is collapsing, and instead of a structure composed of low, middle, and high income levels, we’re down to low and high only...",
        "库恩斯回答说：“里根主义导致社会流动性崩坏，我们没有形成由高中低收入水平构成的结构，直接退化到只有高和低两级……我的作品反对这一趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "An American scholar reacted angrily when I merely mentioned the word, as if it were an obscenity.",
        "我只是提到了这个词，就遭到一位美国学者的愤怒反驳，好像我在说什么淫词秽语似的。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK long benefited from an open policy on acquisitions by foreign banks, which allowed, for example, the Spanish Santander Group to bid for Britain’s Abbey National in 2001.",
        "英国长期得益于对外资银行收购的开放政策，比如，2001年英国允许西班牙国际集团（Santander Group）出价收购英国阿比国民银行（Abbey National）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iraq War Ten Years Later",
        "十年后的伊拉克战争"
    ],
    [
        "The science of robotics is revolutionizing manufacturing; every year, an additional 200,000 industrial robots come into use.",
        "机器人科学正在掀起制造革命； 每一年，都有200 000个新增工业机器人投入使用。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is an excuse. It may not be true.",
        "当然，我们也有理由说，他们并不是真的。"
    ],
    [
        "A China implosion could easily knock at least one percentage point off their combined growth rate.",
        "中国崩溃至少会让它们的总增长率下降一个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "· The quality of Islamic financial services is improving, and these services are not limited to particular clients.",
        "· 伊斯兰金融服务的质量在改善，服务对象也不再局限于特定客户。"
    ],
    [
        "What are the alternatives, if any?",
        "如果有替代方案的话，这个方案又该是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "For Marx, the historic role of capitalism was to reorganize production.",
        "对马克思来说，资本主义的历史作用是再组织生产。"
    ],
    [
        "But Tymoshenko’s party successfully submitted its list in the very same format at the March 2006 election, which demonstrates the glaringly partisan nature of the election commission’s ruling.",
        "然而季莫申科的政党曾在2006年3月的选举中成功地提交名单，格式一模一样，这说明选举委员会的政治偏向有多么明显。"
    ],
    [
        "When regimes lose legitimacy in the eyes of their citizens, it is not reasonable to derive one’s information mainly from that regime’s servants and sycophants.",
        "当政权在民众眼中丧失合法性的时候，单纯从政府的仆役和谄媚者那里了解信息就成为不智之举。"
    ],
    [
        "Others may follow soon.",
        "其他的受害者会很快出现。"
    ],
    [
        "The attic of the presidential residence was designed as a belly of the seventeenth-century ship.",
        "总统宅邸的阁楼修成了17世纪舰船的模样。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The dire economic situation in which most of the rich world found itself in 2011 was not merely the result of impersonal economic forces, but was largely created by the policies pursued, or not pursued, by world leaders.",
        "纽约——2011年，大部分发达国家的经济状况可谓悲惨，造成这一状况的原因并不只有客观经济动力，大部分要归咎于全球领导人有意或无意追求的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Efforts are being made to improve access to clean water and sanitation, and ORT sachets are being stockpiled.",
        "我们改善了清洁水和卫生设施的普及，ORT药包也正在积累。"
    ],
    [
        "Through “rendition,” a captured suspect can be handed over to a friendly government to be tortured, and, on the basis of the information thus gathered, “kill lists” can be compiled.",
        "通过“引渡”，被抓获的嫌疑人可以转送至友邦政府进行拷问，再根据获得情报完善“刺杀名单”。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks might have been able to attain the technocratic ideal of macroeconomic business-cycle management that Summers hoped for back in 1991, but they failed to do so.",
        "央行也许能够实现萨默斯在1991年所希望看到的宏观经济商业周期管理的技术官僚理想，但并没有如此。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that one should disregard what can be learned from others; but imitation without adaptation is a recipe for ineffectiveness, if not worse.",
        "这并不意味着应该否认从他人的经验中学习； 但照搬的模仿必然导致低效甚至更加糟糕的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "But if our goal is to learn, that is a feature, not a bug.",
        "但如果我们的目标是学习，那么这是利而不是弊。"
    ],
    [
        "But while better CACs certainly would complicate life for vulture funds, they are not a comprehensive solution.",
        "但同时更好的集体行动条款肯定会使得秃鹫基金更难以行事，但前者也不能算是一个全面的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Compromise would smack of weakness.",
        "妥协将意味着软弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Only 20 of the 198 countries on Earth have reached that age.",
        "全世界的198个国家中，只有20个已经独立了如此之久。"
    ],
    [
        "You gather data, do experiments, read, and write.",
        "你收集数据，进行试验，阅读和写作。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU cannot simply proclaim “solidarity” as a core value and then do nothing to foster it among those who feel marginalized.",
        "欧盟不能仅仅空谈“团结”作为核心价值观的重要，却不采取行动团结那些身处社会边缘的移民。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, sovereignty is no longer as absolute and impenetrable as it once seemed.",
        "因此，主权已不再像从前那样绝对和不可逾越。"
    ],
    [
        "That question looms large in many conversations these days.",
        "这些问题近来已经成为多场对话中的热门话题了。"
    ],
    [
        "A saving element in British politics is that such appeals are usually considered embarrassing.",
        "英国政治中的一个补救性因素就是，此类吁请通常被认为是令人尴尬的。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, everyone really should learn to swim.",
        "换句话说，每个人都应该学会游泳。"
    ],
    [
        "In Mexico, about one in three are.",
        "在墨西哥，这一比例为三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "(There have also been far too many counter-examples.)",
        "（但同时还存在太多的反例。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "I finally made up for that omission when I was in my fifties – too old ever to become good at it, but young enough for surfing to give me a decade of fun and a sense of accomplishment.",
        "年过半百时我终于弥补了这一缺憾——虽然这么大年纪使我很难自如掌握，但却不妨碍冲浪给我带来10多年的乐趣和成就感。"
    ],
    [
        "If that is indeed the case, the episode should not be regarded as yet another incident in a region fraught by conflict and violence.",
        "果真如此的话，此事就不能视作这个冲突和暴力多发地区的又一次事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, European integration had to be created by real policies and institutions, not by decree.",
        "因此，欧洲一体化必须通过切实的政策和制度，而不能通过法令实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The Good Samaritan, she said, was to be admired because he helped himself before helping the poor.",
        "她说，撒玛利亚善人之所以值得崇拜，是因为他先自助而后助人。"
    ],
    [
        "A certain degree of violence inevitably accompanies human progress.",
        "人类的进步也不可避免地伴随着一定程度的暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "John Kerry’s Tricky Bid",
        "克里的机智条件"
    ],
    [
        "The soldiers are portrayed as being manipulated by their leaders – through vicious racism and religious derision – into brutal action against the non-aggressive “hostiles.”",
        "电影里，这些士兵被描述为是受他们的领导人 —— 这些人运用恶毒的种族主义和宗教嘲讽 —— 所指挥而对当地毫无侵略性的“敌人”展开无情的攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Chinese international engagement is now occurring on a scale and at a rate never seen before.",
        "事实上，如今中国的国际参与幅度之广、速度之快可谓前所未见。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, we have long since outgrown our domestic agricultural land, so now we “import” it on a grand scale from the global South.",
        "在欧洲，人口数量早已超出了本地农业用地，因此如今我们大量从南方国家“进口”农业用地。"
    ],
    [
        "The big changes are in hurricanes’ intensity and duration.",
        "飓风的强度和持续时间则变化明显。"
    ],
    [
        "This unwitting comparison usually comes out in favor of Chinese officials, who are, as a group, better educated, more cosmopolitan, and more focused on business (because the ruling Communist Party uses economic growth and foreign investment as criteria for promoting officials).",
        "这种无意中的比较通常是对中国官员有利的。 作为一个群体，中国官员受教育程度更高、更国际化、更专注于商业（因为执政的共产党利用经济增长和国外投资来作为官员升迁的标准）。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though the Congress prime minister, Sushil Koirala, and his Communist deputy, K.P. Oli, have presided over a more stable country, they have been unable to forge consensus on a new constitution.",
        "P. Oli）带来了更稳定的国家，但仍不能形成关于新宪法的共识。"
    ],
    [
        "The time to invest in the fight against climate change is now.",
        "投资对抗气候变化的时机就是现在。"
    ],
    [
        "Beneath the Arab political revolutions lies a deeper and longer process of radical change that is sometimes called the information revolution.",
        "在阿拉伯政治革命之下是程度更深、为时更长的彻底变革，有时这种变革被称为信息革命。"
    ],
    [
        "St. Francis is among the most popular Catholic saints because of his reputation as a friend of animals.",
        "圣方济各是最受欢迎的天主教圣徒之一，这是因为他有动物之友的名声。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these new “homebrew health” people meet at so-called Quantified Self Meetups, where some people demonstrate their software and others come to learn or compare data with others.",
        "而许多新涌现的“自制健康软件”人才都会在所谓的“健康测量小组”里碰头，一些人会展示自己设计的软件，而其他人则前来取经，或者和别人的软件相比较。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, this has meant blaming the EU for everything that goes wrong.",
        "在欧洲，这意味着将一切问题归咎于欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "While Israel’s non-victory in Lebanon and the Palestinians’ bloody divisions mean that both sides have been humbled, a breakthrough, though possible, remains unlikely.",
        "尽管以色列在黎巴嫩无功而返，巴勒斯坦流血内讧意味着双方都受挫了，然而，实现突破尽管可能，但依旧是不大可能。"
    ],
    [
        "It has lifted 400 million people out of poverty since 1990, but another 400 million live on less that $2 per day.",
        "尽管自1990年以来已经有4亿人脱贫，但是依然还有4亿人每天的收入不足2美元。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, her rival, Bernie Sanders, has become a serious contender because he brilliantly composed a persuasive message for his campaign: The system is rigged and a corrupt campaign-finance regime is holding it in place.",
        "相反，她的对手伯尔尼·桑德斯已经成为厉害的竞争者，因为他聪明地为他的选战制定了颇具说服力的口号：制度被操纵，腐败的选战金融机制把持了它。"
    ],
    [
        "Around 12 million children under five years old died in 1990.",
        "1990年，有1200万不到5岁的儿童夭折。"
    ],
    [
        "Its successors are radically different in how they work, as is the regulatory framework, which sets astonishing new benchmarks for the care and quality required at every stage of the process.",
        "后来的核电站从工作机理到规章制度都与福岛有了巨大的不同，养护标准和建设过程每一步的质量要求都有了极大的提高。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal is not simply to highlight the lost opportunities associated with such an outcome; those would clearly be sizable, especially if the currency union had to be untied.",
        "这样做的目标不仅仅是强调与这一结果有关的机会损失； 这些损失显然是巨大儿，特别是如果货币联盟不得不解体的话。"
    ],
    [
        "His comeback has given the country a rather odd feeling of déjà vu.",
        "他的回归让日本民众有一种奇怪的昨日重现的感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s China lacks that pool.",
        "而今天的中国还远未实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Fed normalizes its monetary policy and the ECB doubles down on extraordinary measures, we certainly should hope for the best.",
        "在美联储货币政策正常化和欧洲央行加码非常规措施之际，我们当然应该报以最大的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom, with its contrived rationale for fiscal austerity, was not much better.",
        "英国为其财政紧缩所找的勉强理由也好不到哪里去。"
    ],
    [
        "Just like people all around the world, the Sudanese are determined to build a better life for their children and grandchildren.",
        "就像全世界人民一样，苏丹人民也决心为子女和孙辈建设更美好的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "These events are not without precedent.",
        "这些事件并不是没有先兆的。"
    ],
    [
        "But his party is as close to Cuba and Venezuela as one can get.",
        "但他所属的党派却与古巴以及委内瑞拉的关系极端密切。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is Israel’s legitimacy that is being challenged in international institutions and Western public opinion for its mistreatment of the Palestinians.",
        "如今，以色列的合法性因其压迫巴勒斯坦人而受到了国际机构和西方民意的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the city refused to give its votes to a president who exploited its disaster for political gain.",
        "不仅如此，这座城市拒绝再次为从这次灾难中牟取政治利益的美国总统投票。"
    ],
    [
        "Reforms targeting labor policy, the investment climate, social insurance, competition, education, and infrastructure created a more inclusive and more sustainable growth model by spreading purchasing power, which supported aggregate demand and reduced vulnerability to investment-driven booms and busts.",
        "以劳动力政策、投资气候、社会保险、竞争、教育和基础设施为目标的改革通过传播购买力（它支持了总需求、使经济不再容易受到投资驱动的枯荣循环的影响）创造了更包容、更可持续的增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Our cricketers have come close to being considered the best in the world, but cricket is not an Olympic sport.",
        "我们的板球运动员几乎被认为是世界上最好的，但是，板球不是奥运会比赛项目。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro crisis pushed the financial system to the verge of bankruptcy, which has been avoided by imposing strict austerity and lending countries like Greece just enough money to avoid default.",
        "欧元危机将金融体系推向了破产的边缘，而解决方法是向希腊等国提供刚够避免违约的借款并强制其采取严格的紧缩政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in some areas, reform has been painfully slow.",
        "但是，在某些领域，改革进展极为缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, political discourse, even in democratic societies, does not necessarily lead to a better understanding of reality.",
        "结果，政治对话即使在民主社会中也并不一定会引向对现实更好的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the newest studies, by Gabriel Demombynes and Sofia Trommlerova, shows that Kenya’s infant mortality (deaths under the age of one year) has plummeted in recent years, and attributes a significant part of the gain to the massive uptake of anti-malaria bed nets.",
        "德莫姆比尼斯（Gabriel Demombynes）和特罗穆勒洛瓦（Sofia Trommlerova）的最新研究表明，近几年来，肯尼亚婴儿（1岁以下）死亡率显著下降，其中很大一部分原因在于防疟疾床帐的大规模使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Reversing the declining trend in contributions to the Global Environment Facility would be a good start.",
        "扭转它们对全球环境基金的贡献下降的趋势就是一个良好的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "We must recognize that and understand that it emerges not only when the public is apathetic or frightened, but also when there is no apparent stable advanced guard, such as powerful political parties, which choose the leaders and control them.",
        "我们必须对目前的弊病有所认识，并且了解造成现状的原因不仅仅包括公众的冷漠和恐惧，还包括缺乏像强有力政党那样明确稳定的先进战士，有能力选择领袖并控制他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps initially Europeans should be cautious.",
        "也许一开始欧洲人应该谨慎一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most pressing constraint on agricultural production is the impending labor shortage, as rural young people, who traditionally comprise the agricultural labor force, flock to cities.",
        "也许对农业生产最紧迫的约束是严峻的劳动力短缺问题，因为农村年轻人口——传统上他们组成了农业劳动大军——纷纷涌向城市。"
    ],
    [
        "People have different reasons.",
        "人们的原因各有不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, it could help members cope better with volatility and, therefore, be more open to inflows of short-tern capital, but this need not result in bad policies.",
        "诚然，它可以帮助成员国更好地应对波动性，并因此使它们对短期资本的流入持更开放的态度，但是这不是必然会导致很坏的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Abruptly, some $130 billion was added to spending projections over the next five years.",
        "价值1300亿美元的支出项目被迅速列入未来五年的预算之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s Economic House Divided",
        "难以维系的非洲经济"
    ],
    [
        "Austria will repeat its presidential election in September, the previous one having ended in a virtual tie, giving another chance to the far-right Freedom Party’s Norbert Hofer.",
        "奥地利将在9月重新举行总统选举，上一次的结果基本上是平手，这意味着极右翼自由党（Freedom Party）的诺伯特·霍福尔（Norbert Hofer）又有了机会。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Hezbollah is no longer the widely popular movement that it once was across the Arab and Muslim worlds, but it remains a highly effective and heavily armed force.",
        "因此，在阿拉伯以及穆斯林世界，真主党并不像过去一样广泛受到人们的欢迎，但是它仍然是一支效率极高的武装势力。"
    ],
    [
        "The group also called for an “independent, transparent safety audit” of all nuclear facilities, to be undertaken with the “involvement of civil-society organizations and experts outside the Department of Atomic Energy.”",
        "这些人还呼吁在有民间组织和非原子能部隶属专家参与的情况下，对所有核设施开展“独立、透明的安全审核”。"
    ],
    [
        "This dramatically reduces financial-service providers’ costs, and makes their services more convenient and accessible for users – especially low-income users in remote locations.",
        "这大大降低了金融服务提供商的成本，从而使他们的服务更为便利且能被更多用户——尤其是偏远地区的低收入用户——接触到。"
    ],
    [
        "She now lives one block from S-21.",
        "她现在居住的地方离S-21监狱只有一个街区。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditionally, NATO applied a policy of “costs lie where they fall”: each member picked up all the costs for the operational contribution that it made to an Alliance operation.",
        "传统上，北约使用“费用自负”政策：每个成员承担其在同盟行动中自己行动的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "In many cases, lifesaving medicines can be cheaply mass-produced, but are sold at prices that block access to those who need them.",
        "在很多情形中，救命药可以以低廉的成本大量生产，但售价却让需要者望而却步。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, new players can emerge suddenly to challenge long-established institutions.",
        "因此，新来者可能一夜之间对老牌长青机构构成挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Global Warnings",
        "全球警告"
    ],
    [
        "On April 1, household gas prices were quadrupled, taking them to half the market price, with offsetting compensation provided to the poor.",
        "4月1日，家庭天然气价格提高了四倍，达到了市场价格的一半，穷人可以获得抵价补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "Some are even willing to undergo preventive measures or modify their behavior to decrease or control this risk.",
        "一些人甚至愿意接受预防性措施或改变自身行为以降低或控制这一风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Wilfried Martens, President of the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament and former Prime Minister of Belgium, recently made a similar point: “The West is not at war with Islam.",
        "欧洲议会欧洲人民党（EPP）主席兼比利时前总理威尔弗利德·马尔腾斯前不久也提出过相似的观点：“西方不是在和伊斯兰交战。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in a growing number of digital markets where a few giant firms hold commanding shares, there is little evidence that market power is leading to higher prices.",
        "事实上，在越来越多由少数几家巨型企业掌握主导份额的数字化市场，鲜有证据表明市场力量正在导致价格上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the answer is that economics is an inexact science, with exceptions to almost every pattern of behavior that economists take for granted.",
        "部分答案在于经济学是一门不精确的科学，几乎所有经济学家视为理所当然的行为模式都存在例外。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rise and Fall of Middle Eastern Health Systems",
        "中东医疗卫生体系的兴衰沉浮"
    ],
    [
        "Watching the celebration of patriotism behind the raising of the French flag and the singing of the national anthem during the first round of the campaign, one can easily believe that the British vision of a Europe of independent nation states has won already, if only by default.",
        "当人们看到在第一轮竞选中法国国旗升起、高唱国歌之际所表现出的爱国主义，就会轻易相信英国的由独立民族国家组成的欧洲愿景已经不战而胜。"
    ],
    [
        "The other approach, first analyzed by Fed economists in the mid-1990s, would be to raise the target inflation rate from 2% to 4%.",
        "另一种方针首先由美联储经济学家在20世纪90年代中期进行了分析，即将目标通胀率从2%提高到4%。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, Dixon continued, “When the government does something to [Khan] that they say is classified, they have disclosed to him classified information.",
        "但另一方面，迪克松接着说，“当政府对玛吉德做了一些‘机密’行为之时，那就意味着政府对玛吉德泄露了机密。"
    ],
    [
        "The first centers on monetary easing by the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan.",
        "第一种解释的核心是欧洲央行和日本银行的货币宽松。 但负利率和平坦收益率曲线伤害了银行利润；"
    ],
    [
        "Iran, with its nuclear and hegemonic ambitions, is the current center, while the old center – the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – has been marginalized, giving rise to entirely new alliances of interests.",
        "拥有核野心及霸权抱负的伊朗成为当前的核心，而以巴冲突代表的原有核心已经边缘化，缔造出全新的利益联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "And they refused to raise employees’ wages.",
        "它们也拒绝提高雇员的工资。"
    ],
    [
        "For that, Brazilians must take a hard look at the attitudes and expectations that have placed them in this situation.",
        "在这方面，巴西必须认真审视让它陷入这一境地的看法和预期。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011, SWFs invested $35.2 billion in financial services, $13.4 billion in property, $13.2 billion in fossil-fuel resources (mainly oil and gas), $6.5 billion in infrastructure and utilities, and $3.4 billion in aircraft, car, ship, and train manufacturers.",
        "2011年，主权财富基金在金融服务领域投资352亿美元，在房地产领域投资134亿美元，在化石燃料资源领域（主要是石油和天然气）投资132亿美元，在基础设施和公用事业领域投资65亿美元，在飞机、汽车、轮船和火车制造领域投资34亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "This concept of risk builds on a neglected insight of John Maynard Keynes, who was keenly aware of the centrality of imperfect knowledge for understanding price fluctuations in asset markets.",
        "这一风险概念建立在被人忽略的凯恩斯的洞察之上。 凯恩斯十分清楚理解资本市场价格波动的不完善知识的中心地位。"
    ],
    [
        "By deterring threats to national sovereignty, military power supports peace; and, in Brazil’s case, it underpins our country’s constructive role in the pursuit of global stability.",
        "军队通过遏制对国家主权的威胁来保障和平。 以巴西为例，支撑其在全球稳定中发挥建设性作用的还是硬实力。"
    ],
    [
        "And Putin has struck up a good working relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping, based on their shared domestic illiberalism and desire to counter American ideology and influence.",
        "普京也与中国国家主席习近平建立了良好的工作关系，这一关系的基础是共同的国内不自由以及对制衡美国意识形态和影响的渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "Bringing It Back Home",
        "让利润回家"
    ],
    [
        "Yet today the ANC stands accused of both fecklessness and moral decay, and it suffered unprecedented losses to the opposition Democratic Alliance in urban areas in local elections in 2016.",
        "但如今，非国大党被指执政无能、道德败坏，在2016年的地方选举中，反对党民主联盟（Democratic Alliance）在城市地区赢得前所未有的大胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Eurobonds would not cure disparities in competitiveness; eurozone countries would still need to undertake their own structural reforms.",
        "欧元债券无法解决竞争力不同的顽疾； 欧元区国家仍需要实施各自的结构性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The country has progressed from the sugar-based monoculture of 50 years ago to a diversified economy that includes tourism, finance, textiles, and, if current plans bear fruit, advanced technology.",
        "该国从50年前以制糖为主的单一经济转化成为一个涵盖旅游、金融，纺织以及高科技（如果最近的相关计划成功的话）的多元化经济结构。"
    ],
    [
        "The fundamental problem is that a large number of people feel unrepresented.",
        "最根本的问题是很多人觉得没有人代表自己。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it has often been pointed out that austerity can be self-defeating, because a reduction in the fiscal deficit can lead in the short run to an increase in the debt/GDP ratio if both the debt level and the multiplier are large.",
        "首先，人们经常指出紧缩可能会弄巧成拙，因为如果债务水平和乘数都很大，减少财政赤字会导致短期内债务对GDP比率上升。"
    ],
    [
        "The emergence of the nation-state in the eighteenth century, and the extreme level of barbarism reached in the twentieth century, may have created the impression that an ethical politics was an unrealizable dream, or that it was a dream growing ever more distant as it receded into the future.",
        "单一民族国家在18世纪的出现和暴虐在20世纪的登峰造极可能使人们认为伦理政治是一个无法实现的或日渐迷失在未来之中的梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "But growth is also slowing in China and India, which together account for more than one-third of the world’s population.",
        "但人口总和相当于世界总数三分之一强的中国和印度也在减速。"
    ],
    [
        "My amendment to Section 377 would have decriminalized sex between consenting adults of any gender or orientation.",
        "我对377条的修正案规定，不管性别和性取向如何，自愿的成年人之间的性行为无罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its reluctance to change, the Saudi royal family is obviously yielding to these multiple pressures from within, from neighbors, and from the wider world, although the extent of change is still nominal and obviously leaves much to be desired.",
        "尽管沙特皇室不愿改革，但面对来自国内、邻国和世界的多重压力，他们不得不让步，当然变革的程度还仅停留在表层，有待加深。"
    ],
    [
        "So we must treat this issue with exceptional urgency and seriousness of purpose.",
        "因此我们必须以异乎寻常的紧迫感和严肃性来看待这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of performing these household jobs themselves, Americans pay other people to do them.",
        "美国人并不自己做这些家务，而是花钱让别人来做。"
    ],
    [
        "Optimists counter that smart phones, Big Data, and expected advances in nanotechnology, robotics, and biosciences are harbingers of a new era of technology-driven productivity improvements.",
        "而乐观主义者则认为，智能手机、大数据、纳米技术进步，机器人技术和生物科学预示着一个科技推动生产力提升的新时代即将到来。"
    ],
    [
        "The author of The Art of the Deal had accepted the Democrats’ opening position.",
        "这位《交易的艺术》的作者（The Art of the Deal）接受了民主党的抛来的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The message needs to be sent not only by individual consumers, but also by organizations with the capacity to encourage and amplify the message: “We will not buy products and services defying the sustainability agenda, and we will give preference to quality products and brands that respect and promote sustainability.”",
        "这一信息不但要通过个体消费者释放，也要通过有能力鼓动和放大这一信息的组织释放：“我们不不买与可持续性日程相悖的产品和服务，我们优先购买尊重和促进可持续性的高品质产品和品牌。"
    ],
    [
        "The first step is exposure.",
        "首先是要把问题揭露出来。"
    ],
    [
        "That a German ex-chancellor is going to lead the company that could provide Russia with a means to manipulate the EU economy is testimony to Europe’s dangerous complacency in the face of Putin’s neo-imperialist ambitions.",
        "一位德国前总理将领衔一家可以为俄罗斯提供手段操纵欧盟经济的公司本身就表明，在普京的新帝国主义野心面前，欧洲危险地自满。"
    ],
    [
        "TEL AVIV – It has been more than six years since the start of the Arab Spring, and life for most Arabs is worse than it was in 2011.",
        "特拉维夫—阿拉伯之春爆发已经过去六年多了，而大部分阿拉伯人的生活水平要比2011年时更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Overnight, the foreign euro liabilities of Greece’s government, banks, and companies would surge.",
        "希腊政府、银行和公司的外国欧元债务将在一夜之间风起云涌。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there is a conservative argument for social-democratic principles.",
        "的确，对于社会民主原则而言有一种保守的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "If we keep our promises, 2006 can be a year of hope for those who have little else than the dream of a better life.",
        "如果我们遵守诺言，2006年将成为那些除了对较好生活报有梦想外别无其他的人的希望之年。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU is Turkey’s leading trade partner and one of its largest investors, and has long considered Turkey to be a stable ally in a volatile region.",
        "欧盟是土耳其主要贸易伙伴，也是其最大投资者之一，长期以来一直将土耳其视为动荡地区中的稳定盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the SNP’s dream of social democracy in one country would fall afoul of the larger interdependencies that bind together the components of the UK, and that tie the UK to the EU and the EU to the rest of the globalized world.",
        "简言之，SNP的一国社会民主之梦与将英国的各部分、英国与欧盟、以及欧盟与全球化世界的其他部分联系起来的互相依存性相冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider sectarian struggle between Sunni and Shia Muslims – now the prime mover of events in the Middle East.",
        "以现在推动中东事态发展的主要因素即逊尼和什叶派穆斯林的教派斗争为例。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel wants – indeed, desperately needs – peace and stability in the Middle East, and we will continue to do everything in our power to achieve it.",
        "以色列非常非常希望看到中东地区的和平与稳定，而我们将继续尽我们的一切努力去实现这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Some took legal action against the alleged perpetrators, often their elderly parents.",
        "一些人对所谓的施暴者采取了法律行动，被指控的通常都是年迈的父母。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution is a version of the deal that Clinton sought: two sovereign states based on the 1967 borders, with negotiated land swaps to reflect existing settlement patterns.",
        "这一安排包括一个联系加沙和约旦河西岸的陆上走廊； 将耶路撒冷一分为二，保证所有人都能前往宗教场所；"
    ],
    [
        "The international community has so far pursued policies of destruction, rather than the promised reconstruction.",
        "国际社会到目前为止推行的是摧毁政策，而不是所承诺的重建。"
    ],
    [
        "Carnegie’s treatise, an American classic, provides a moral justification for the concentration of wealth that capitalism tends to create by arguing that immense wealth leads to well-spent charitable contributions and support of the arts and sciences.",
        "卡内基的这篇论文是美国经典之作。 它认为大量财富可以导向慈善捐款的善举以及对艺术和科学的支持，因而为资本主义所趋向创造的财富集中提供道义上的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "The key point here is joint recognition that a fundamental transatlantic community of values exists, and that both sides need each other.",
        "其中的关键是双方都要认识到大西洋地区国家有着共同的基本价值观，而且双方都需要得到对方的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "OSAKA – Japan is now confronting challenges at home and abroad that are as serious as any it has had to face since World War II’s end.",
        "大阪—日本正面临自二战以来最严重的内忧外患。"
    ],
    [
        "A debt crisis that erupted in Greece, the eurozone’s outer periphery, has migrated with a vengeance towards the core, so much so that the survival of the eurozone itself is at stake.",
        "欧元区外围国希腊所爆发的债务危机复仇般地朝核心国蔓延，以至于威胁到欧元区自身的生存。"
    ],
    [
        "The same law indeed forbids commerce in organs, but offers living donors reimbursement of expenses that contains fixed-sum elements.",
        "同样一部法律事实上禁止器官贸易，但规定可以为活体捐赠者提供固定数额的开支补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil companies still drill for and refine petroleum, and principally sell gasoline and diesel fuel.",
        "石油公司仍然开采石油，并主要提炼为汽柴油出售。"
    ],
    [
        "Digital Globalization and the Developing World",
        "数字全球化与发展中世界"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas trade growth during those heady years far exceeded that of world GDP, which averaged 4.5%, lately, trade and GDP growth rates have been about the same.",
        "这几年中，贸易增长远远高于世界GDP（平均增长率为4. 5%），但最近贸易和GDP增长大致相当。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s stated approach to climate change is just as problematic.",
        "特朗普明确提出的气候变化政策也同样问题重重。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, given the war in the eastern Donbas region, the shattering of so much of our economy, and the precarious nature of our government’s finances, the International Monetary Fund and others are clearly asking too much of Ukrainians.",
        "但鉴于顿巴斯东部战争、如此大规模的经济破坏和政府财政的岌岌可危，国际货币基金组织和其他人所提的要求乌克兰民众显然无法满足。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Hamilton Project calculations, if this share were at its 1980-2012 average of about 9.6% (it was actually higher between 2001 and 2007), there would be about 1.4 million more public-sector jobs and the unemployment rate would be around 6.9%.",
        "据汉密尔顿计划（Hamilton Project）的计算，若这一比例达到1980—2012年的平均水平9. 6%（事实上，2001—2007年的水平比较高），则公共部门就业可以增加140万个左右，失业率将降至6."
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The International Monetary Fund is an immensely useful organization, able to deliver substantial amounts of financial and technical assistance at short notice to almost any place in the world.",
        "华盛顿——国际货币基金是一家极其有用的组织，它能在短时间内为全世界几乎所有国家提供大量的资金和技术援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever since the European powers set sail at the end of the fifteenth century to conquer the world, historiography and international politics have become accustomed to a certain pattern: military, economic, and technological power is translated into the exercise of influence over other countries, conquest, and even global dominance and empire.",
        "然而，“超大号”强国再度登场并不意味着中印等新角儿会延续老一代西方列强的做派，超级大国的内涵也在发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "In our eyes, America will never be the same – and Trump’s term hasn’t even begun.",
        "在我们看来，美国再也不是原来的美国了——而特朗普的任期甚至还没有开始。"
    ],
    [
        "General IQ tests measure such dimensions of intelligence as verbal comprehension and perceptual reasoning, but IQ scores predict only about 10-20% of variation in life success. The 80% that remains unexplained is the product of hundreds of factors playing out over time.",
        "常规的智商测试则用言语理解和知觉推理这类智力维度来进行测量，但一个人的成功中智商变量只占10~20％，剩下80％的不明变量则是数百项随时间流逝不断涌现的因素的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "The real goal is to restrict governments’ ability to regulate and tax corporations – that is, to restrict their ability to impose responsibilities, not just uphold rights.",
        "他们的真正目标是限制政府对公司进行监管和课税的能力——也就是说，不仅要保护权利，还要限制政府施加义务的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Ehrlich and Simon should have made a wider array of predictions, on metal prices, food production, air quality, and other factors.",
        "欧利希应该扩大预测的范围，使之包括金属价格、粮食产量、空气质量和其他因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, not even Fatah, Arafat’s own party, can claim to be a coherent organization.",
        "现今，甚至连阿拉法特自己的政党“法塔赫”也不能自称为一个团结一心的组织了。"
    ],
    [
        "These factors make a good argument for coal as a cheap alternative source of Africa's power.",
        "这些因素使得人们可以提出使用煤炭作为便宜的非洲电力替代资源。"
    ],
    [
        "One course of action must be to help impoverished African regions to “adapt” to climate change and to escape the poverty trap.",
        "该行动必须要有一个能帮助贫瘠的非洲地区“适应”气候变化并脱离贫穷陷阱的过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments will hesitate to recommend re-profiling for fear, justified or not, of destabilizing the international system, and will encourage the IMF to lend large amounts instead.",
        "政府将因为担忧动摇国际系统（不管这种担忧是否合理）而不愿意建议继续拧重新规划，反过来鼓励IMF发放大规模贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "China now has a larger economy in absolute terms than the US, though still only around one-fourth the size in per capita terms.",
        "中国经济的绝对规模已经超过美国，尽管人均规模仍然只有美国的四分之一左右。"
    ],
    [
        "This kind of frontal attack on political elites has been surprisingly successful in Britain, judging by the latest Brexit polling.",
        "最近的脱盟民意调查显示这种对政治精英的迎面袭击在英国出人意料地大受欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "The result of a “Brexit election,” which took place once voters knew that Brexit really could happen, would have turned into a re-run of the referendum and could have been highly unpredictable.",
        "一旦选民知道英国脱欧真的会发生，那么“脱欧选举”可能会演变成再一次全民公投，而且结果高度不可预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Quantitative data will be necessary to monitor Greece’s progress on carrying out the agreed reforms, as well as to determine the extent of further debt relief.",
        "要监督希腊在实施协议改革方面的进展，要决定后续债务纾困的程度，都需要定量数据。"
    ],
    [
        "Al-Qaeda succeeded in luring the US into Afghanistan in 2001.",
        "2001年基地组织成功地引诱美国侵入阿富汗。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term time-series data indicate that the socioeconomic mortality gap narrowed before the 1950’s, but has grown substantially since then.",
        "长期时间序列数据表明，社会经济死亡率差异在20世纪50年代以前有所缩小，但此后显著增大。"
    ],
    [
        "Reform of the Southern African Customs Union is long overdue.",
        "可见非洲南部关税联盟的改革早该进行了。"
    ],
    [
        "If it goes too slow, the ECB has earned sufficient credibility as an inflation fighter to make up for it in the future with little if any economic or political cost.",
        "如果加息过慢，欧洲央行也就赢得了将来弥补通货膨胀斗士的足够的信誉度，而经济和政治代价则几乎没有。"
    ],
    [
        "Heavens, no!",
        "不！"
    ],
    [
        "Among Jews and other minorities, another historical memory may also play a part: the protection of the imperial state.",
        "昨天是“人民的民主”，今天是“自由民主”。 在犹太人和其他少数族裔中，另一个历史记忆可能也发挥了作用， 那就是帝国的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "It is entirely possible that US inflation, measured over 12 months, will become negative by mid-2009..",
        "美国以12个月为基础测算的通货膨胀率到2009年年中之前，完全有可能为负值。"
    ],
    [
        "And now there is the hearing, currently underway in London, into the murder of Alexander Litvenenko, a dissident ex-KGB officer.",
        "而最近伦敦进行了持异见的前克格勃官员利特维年科（Alexander Litvenenko） 谋杀案的听证会。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank estimates that one billion people still live on less than $1.25 a day, while more than 800 million do not have enough to eat.",
        "世界银行估算仍有十亿人每天的生活费不足1. 25美元，更有8亿多人吃不饱饭。"
    ],
    [
        "Job creation, where it has taken place, has followed a different path than history suggests it should.",
        "在发生就业创造的地方，并没有遵循历史路径。"
    ],
    [
        "So, to avoid prolonged local slumps, it is critical that national fiscal policies can perform their stabilization role.",
        "因此，为了避免长期地方崩溃，国家财政政策可以起到稳定作用至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2001, then President Jiang Zemin hoped the Games would herald China’s arrival as an industrialized power.",
        "在2001年时，当时的国家主席江泽民希望奥运会能够展现中国已经成为一个工业化强国。"
    ],
    [
        "The Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time Republicans",
        "共和党还未做好主宰准备"
    ],
    [
        "The players often do not think they are playing the same game.",
        "行动方常常并不认为他们在进行同样的博弈。"
    ],
    [
        "But the League’s unanimity requirement effectively gave all members veto power, and the United States Senate’s refusal to ratify its Covenant condemned the effort to a premature death.",
        "但国联的一致性要求实际赋予了所有成员国否决权，而美国参议院拒绝批准其《公约》导致那次努力过早陷入夭折。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s commitment to substantial nuclear disarmament bodes well for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Renewal Conference in 2010.",
        "奥巴马对于实质性核裁军的承诺，为2010年核不扩散条约审议大会带来了福音。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the rest of the region’s experiences – which involve a long history of autocratic governance and neglect of long-simmering grievances – have fanned the flames of conflict.",
        "相比之下，其他地区经验——涉及长期专制统治以及忽视长期存在的不满——一直在煽动冲突的烈火。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate over Memon’s hanging was often emotional, with media interviewing survivors of the Mumbai blasts.",
        "就梅蒙绞刑的争论往往充斥着感情色彩，比如媒体采访孟买爆炸案的幸存者。"
    ],
    [
        "We see a European system of crisis management that is fraught with ineptitude, extreme politicization, gamesmanship, and unprofessionalism.",
        "我们看到，欧洲危机管理体系充斥着无能、极端政治化、小算盘和外行。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider this hypothetical situation: Developments in computer power, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence enable the creation of self-aware beings whose “world” is, from our perspective, a programmed simulation.",
        "考虑以下假想情形：计算机能力、虚拟现实和人工智能的发展让我们得以创造出一种有自我意识的物种，它们的“世界”在我们看来是一种编程仿真。"
    ],
    [
        "In Mexico, boosting the share of modern retailers by 10% would yield a 25% increase in the sector's total productivity.",
        "在墨西哥，将现代零售商的市场份额提升10%将令该部门的整体生产力提升25%。"
    ],
    [
        "Does anyone really believe consumers are holding back on spending —and businessmen postponing their investments—in anticipation of that next drop in interest rates?",
        "有谁真的相信在预料到利率下调后，消费者们会对开销支出缩手缩脚——商人们会延缓他们的投资呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Tackling Non-Inclusive Growth",
        "应对非包容性增长"
    ],
    [
        "And other better-off countries could join them.",
        "其他富裕国家也可以助他们一臂之力。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1965, France had a labor force that averaged less than five years of schooling and a per capita income of $14,000 (at 2005 prices).",
        "1965年，法国劳动力所受平均教育不满五年，大致有14，000美元的人均收入（按2005年价格计算）。"
    ],
    [
        "But this “greening” is the result of hard work, innovation, and a complex understanding of the resource nexus. Whatever America’s coal-happy president may believe, it is not the result of political platitudes.",
        "但这一“绿化”是艰苦工作、创新和对资源联系的复杂理解的结果，而不是政治陈词滥调的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "At the top was creating an open, innovative, and dynamic market-driven global economy, in which all countries can (in principal) thrive and grow.",
        "最顶端是创造一个开放、创新和充满活力的以市场为导向的全球经济，（原则上）所有国家都可以茁壮成长。"
    ],
    [
        "But America's swing back toward protectionism started long before, with President George W. Bush's steel tariff of 2001.",
        "但这次保护主义在美国卷土重来早在2001年乔治·W·布什总统征收钢铁关税时就开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "The result has been a sharp fall in consumer confidence: the German index of consumer sentiment was small but positive in November 2000; it has since fallen to -20, the sharpest decline in the euro area.",
        "其导致的结果就是消费者信心急剧下滑：2000年11月德国的消费者情绪指数虽然不高却成积极态势，自那以后，却急落至-20，创了欧洲下滑最快纪录。"
    ],
    [
        "No political consideration can compete with that.",
        "没有任何政治考量能够与之竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "And, at a minimum, it could break today’s diplomatic stalemate and give the parties involved more reason to refrain from further provocations.",
        "至少也可以打破今天的外交僵局，给予有关各方更多的理由以避免进一步的挑衅行为。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, emphasis on boosting domestic demand – long the focus of China’s consumer-led rebalancing strategy – was downgraded to third place on the so-called work agenda.",
        "相反，对提振内需的强调——长期以来一直是中国消费拉动再平衡战略的重点——在所谓的工作议程中排位下降到第三。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 80,000 Syrian refugees now in school in Lebanon are at risk of losing their places.",
        "如今，超过80,000在黎巴嫩学校上学的叙利亚难民有可能失去学习机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The question, of course, is what will happen after the Gaza disengagement.",
        "当然，问题是在加沙撤离之后会发生什么。"
    ],
    [
        "These questions apply most pointedly – indeed, they cannot be avoided – in the case of Turkey’s possible accession to the EU.",
        "这些问题不可避免地集中出现在土耳其可能的入盟问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US-China relationship, the RMB exchange rate has become a touchstone for broader anxieties about competition from China.",
        "在美中关系中，人民币汇率问题已经成为中国竞争更多担忧的基点。"
    ],
    [
        "Predictably, the embrace of the working class by Trump and the Brexiteers was always going to arm them with electoral power that, sooner or later, would be deployed against working-class interests and, of course, minorities – always the penchant of populism in power, from the 1930s to today.",
        "可以预言，特朗普和英国退欧派吸引工作阶级的策略会不断地用选举的权力武装他们，迟早，这些权力将用来针对工作阶级，当然还有少数群体的利益——这是民粹主义掌权后的一贯嗜好，从20世纪30年代至今一直是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Direct military intervention to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime would never win Security Council approval, and has no volunteers anyway among capable military powers – albeit in most cases because of the political and military risks involved, rather than the legal indefensibility of acting outside the UN Charter.",
        "直接军事干预推翻叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德政权不可能赢得安理会批准，有能力进行军事干预的大国也不会站出来充当志愿军——尽管原因大多是政治性和军事风险性的，而不是因为在联合国宪章之外采取行动的非法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Such indecisiveness was not a problem for Corbyn, whose principal distinction in more than three decades in parliament has been voting against his own party more than 500 times on the grounds that its proposals were not socialist enough.",
        "对柯比来说优柔寡断不是问题，他30多年议会生涯最主要的与众不同之处就在于因为提案不够社会化而投票反对自己的政党。"
    ],
    [
        "With the eurozone tumbling from crisis to crisis, salvation will not come from abroad.",
        "欧元区在没完没了的危机中苦苦挣扎，因此英国不用指望外部援手。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies have traditionally taken a box-ticking approach to addressing harassment, using written policies and trainings in a feeble bid to encourage respect.",
        "企业传统上一直采用打勾的方式来应对骚扰，利用书面政策和培训来徒劳地试图鼓励尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as OPEC’s output restrictions and expansion of cheap Middle Eastern oilfields sheltered Western oil companies from marginal-cost pricing, such complacency was understandable.",
        "只要欧佩克限产和中东廉价油田扩张使西方石油公司不必采用边际成本定价，这样的自满就不难理解。"
    ],
    [
        "“Today, drama is in the Middle East, growth is in Asia, hope is in Africa, and proximity to the United States is in Latin America.",
        "“如今，好戏在中东，增长在亚洲，希望在非洲，抱紧美国看拉美。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, almost three-quarters of young voters backed the UK’s “Remain” campaign.",
        "没错，支持英国“留欧”运动的年轻选民占到近3/4。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, the political opposition to such debt mutualization was intense.",
        "毫不奇怪，此类债务共同化的政治阻力是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier reforms are now bearing fruit, and this has helped to sustain economic growth.",
        "早先的改革现在正在结果，这有助于保持经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Jimmy Carter Obama",
        "吉米·卡特·奥巴马"
    ],
    [
        "Resources are the available volumes of hydrocarbon without reference to constraints as to their accessibility and/or cost.",
        "须知“资源”是指在不考虑可开采性和/或成本限制情况下，碳氢化合物的可利用量。"
    ],
    [
        "Ambiguity and subjectivity have no place in matters of life and death.",
        "在事关生死的问题上容不得模糊和主观性。"
    ],
    [
        "Without high-quality education, there is little prospect for economic prosperity and political stability anywhere.",
        "没有高质量的教育，任何地方都不太可能实现政治稳定和经济繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "The pre-1967 boundaries are the inevitable focal point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.",
        "1967年以前的边界在巴以冲突中是不可避免的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing Business has been a leader in synthesizing subjective and quantitative data to create understandable metrics.",
        "《营商环境报告》是整合主观量化数据形成易明白指标的方面的领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "If invested in infrastructure, education, and external financial assets, natural-resource revenues can accelerate growth. But, too often, such revenues distort economic incentives, which come to favor rent-seeking and interfere with the diversification that is essential for growth.",
        "如果将自然资源收入投资于基础设施、教育和外部金融资产等方面，则能加速增长，但是，跟多情况下，自然资源收入会扭曲经济激励，朝着有利于寻租的方向发展，而不利于增长所要求的多元化。"
    ],
    [
        "Blair made the fatal mistake of setting his own limit to his tenure of office by saying that he would not contest a fourth election as leader of the Labour Party.",
        "布莱尔宣布他不会作为工党领导人参加第四次选举，给自己的职务限定了期限，因而犯下了致命错误。"
    ],
    [
        "If an international agreement to protect the world’s climate is to be reached, much greater action to reduce CO2 emissions will be needed on the part of the US, as well as binding commitments on China’s part to reduce its carbon burden.",
        "若一项旨在维护全球气候公约的国际协议达成，美国方面须采取更大行动削减二氧化碳排放量，而中国方面也应履行承诺削减其碳排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "In developing a strategy for pooling government debt, Europe’s leaders must address the possibility of moral hazard (the temptation for weaker countries to relax their debt- and deficit-reduction efforts in response to the increased credibility conferred by stronger countries).",
        "在开发集中政府债务的战略时，欧洲领导人必须克服道德风险的可能性（即疲软国会受诱惑放松其债务和赤字削减行为，因为坚挺国会为它们提供更高的信誉）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Renminbi’s Grand Tour",
        "人民币的壮游"
    ],
    [
        "When children contract diarrhea, they need access to the right treatments.",
        "当儿童患上腹泻时，他们需要正确的治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "John Maynard Keynes pointed out the advantages of fiscal stimulus in circumstances like the Great Depression.",
        "约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯（John Maynard Keynes）指出在大萧条这类情况下财政刺激手段是有优势的。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, thanks to IMF involvement, even less advanced countries would be able to take advantage of the best international expertise to address the problem.",
        "最后，有了世界货币基金组织的介入，即便是那些不怎么发达的国家都有机会借助国际智囊来解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other side stand the established democracies, hesitant and ambivalent in their support of the rebels.",
        "另一边则是犹豫而矛盾地支持反对派的民主国家。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that we should ignore climate change.",
        "这并不是说我们应当忽视气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a 2010 study in Vietnam found that commercial farming of the Southeast Asian porcupine, a popular meat source, had not dramatically reduced the hunting of wild porcupines.",
        "举例来讲，一项2010年在越南进行的研究表明商业养殖作为普遍受欢迎肉源的东南亚豪猪并没有显著减少人们偷猎野生豪猪的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "It is disheartening, however, that none of the reporters assembled in front of McConnell so much as tried to call him out on his position.",
        "但围聚在麦康奈尔跟前的记者们却没有要求他改变这一立场，这令人心碎。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies have a responsibility to their shareholders, but they also have a responsibility to the societies that grant them the right to operate.",
        "公司需要对股东负责，但也需要对给予它们经营活动权利的社会负责。"
    ],
    [
        "So it seems fair to conclude that both countries are still caught in the middle-income trap.",
        "因此极有可能两国至今仍陷在中等收入陷阱中。"
    ],
    [
        "But are they really able and willing to achieve that goal?",
        "但他们是否真的愿意并有能力实现这一目标？"
    ],
    [
        "In the Scandinavian countries, as in the US, foreign competition intensified sharply during the past decade.",
        "在斯堪的纳维亚国家，和像在美国一样，在过去十年里外国竞争急剧加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether they realize it or not, leaders always convey signals.",
        "不管他们是否意识到这一点，领袖们经常会传达一些信号。"
    ],
    [
        "Chiang Kaishek had no choice but to return good for evil by abjuring compensation claims on Japan, as well as by secretly arranging for the Kwantung Army’s ex-Chief of Staff to join Taiwan’s efforts in confronting the Communists.",
        "蒋介石（Chiang Kaishek）无从选择而不得不以德报怨，放弃要求日本赔偿并秘密安排关东军的前主要人物加入台湾与共产党的对抗活动。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, when hard times hit, spending on health is often among the first things to be cut.",
        "但当困难袭来的时候，健康投资通常会首先受到威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite being the country that has paid the highest cost in the war on drugs – a war that has proven impossible to win – we are still the world’s leading exporter of cocaine.",
        "尽管哥伦比亚是世界上为缉毒战争付出最高昂代价的国家——这场战争不可能打赢——但我们仍然是世界上最大的可卡因出口国。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Chile, one of Latin America’s richest and arguably most successful countries, which likes to compare itself to Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, well-run countries that are rich in natural resources.",
        "以智利为例。 智利是拉丁美洲最富裕、也许也是最成功的国家之一，总是喜欢自比于澳大利亚、新西兰和加拿大等治理良好的资源富裕国。"
    ],
    [
        "And there is every reason to hope, and believe, that our experience is gradually becoming universal.",
        "我们有理由去希望和相信：这种经历将在全世界推广开来。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Ireland, the champion of economic liberalization, has now turned to a more selective approach.",
        "即便是经济自由化之王爱尔兰现在也开始更有选择地进行吸收。"
    ],
    [
        "These words are enshrined in Bangladesh’s constitution, which simultaneously declares the Republic to be an Islamic State.",
        "这些词汇都写在孟加拉国宪法中，宪法还宣布孟加拉共和国是伊斯兰国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, India would be back to square one.",
        "简言之，印度将会退回原点。"
    ],
    [
        "When Western media sought quotes from the women, they frequently heard a Western-style feminist refrain: “These laws would make women into a kind of property.”",
        "当西方媒体采访游行妇女的时候，他们经常会听到与西方式女权主义类似的观点：“这部法律会把女人变成一种财产。"
    ],
    [
        "Aging rails, tired coaches, old-fashioned signals, and level crossings dating back to the nineteenth century combine with human error to take dozens of lives every year.",
        "老化的铁轨、超负荷的车厢、老掉牙的信号、可以回溯到十九世纪的平交道口和人为失误每年都会夺走数十条生命。"
    ],
    [
        "By substituting imports with domestic production, relying on government planning to target priority sectors, and implementing selective trade protection (for example, by imposing tariffs, quotas, and import licensing), they attempted to accelerate their transitions from raw-materials suppliers to manufacturing-based economies.",
        "通过以国内生产替代进口，依靠政府计划来聚焦优先领域，实施选择性贸易保护（例如，征收关税、配额、进口许可），它们试图加快从原材料供应商到制造业经济的转型进程。"
    ],
    [
        "It was able to direct the synthesis of viral proteins in the absence of a natural template.",
        "这说明即使在缺少天然模板的情况下，我们也能直接合成病毒的蛋白质。"
    ],
    [
        "Hong Kong’s Independence Trap",
        "香港的独立陷阱"
    ],
    [
        "The American founders wrestled with the dilemma of how powerful we want our leaders to be.",
        "美国开国元勋着力解决了我们希望我们的领导人多么强力的困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, some past appointees turned out to be far better than anticipated; they rose to the occasion, despite qualifications that, in any open and objective selection process, would never even have left them on the short list.",
        "当然，过去指定的一些人员结果表现得比预期的要好得多。 他们能得体应付突如其来的情况，尽管如果按公开的、客观的选举程序，他们的资历根本不足以让他们进入决选名单。"
    ],
    [
        "What this line of research explicitly does not tell us is that deleveraging will restore growth by itself.",
        "这一系列研究没有明确告诉我们的是去杠杆化本身就能实现经济增长的恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "These regions, including Sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia, are suffering harshly from the global crisis, owing to falling export earnings, remittances, and capital inflows.",
        "这些地区包括撒哈拉以南的非洲地区和中亚在内，由于出口收入，订单和资本流入出现下降，它们正在备受全球危机的折磨。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic situation in Greece is deteriorating quickly.",
        "希腊的经济状况正在迅速恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Bucking the resource curse requires, first and foremost, strong, legitimate domestic political leadership, underpinned by effective institutional arrangements.",
        "说到底，阻止资源魔咒要求强大、合法的国内政治领导力，并辅之以有效的制度安排。"
    ],
    [
        "British banks have made less progress with tangible common equity, rising from just under 3% to a little over 4%, but they have significantly reduced their reliance on wholesale funding, from almost 45% in 2008 to less than 35% now.",
        "5%，对批发融资的依赖从30%降到了25%。 英国银行在有形普通股权益方面稍差，从近3%提高到4%多，但对批发融资的依赖大大下降了，从2008年的近45%降到了现在的不到35%。"
    ],
    [
        "Now all of the choices that Egypt faces are ugly.",
        "现在埃及面临的所有选择都非常凶险。"
    ],
    [
        "During the record-breaking 2003 heat wave in France, operations at 17 commercial nuclear reactors had to be scaled back or stopped because of rapidly rising temperatures in rivers and lake.",
        "比如在法国破纪录的2003年酷热期间，有17座商业核反应堆因河流和湖泊温度迅速上升而被迫降低发电功率或者停止运作。"
    ],
    [
        "American workers and voters are more anxious about job security and more willing to blame anything for job insecurity because they have seen the most profound deterioration in labor market conditions in the memory of anyone younger than eighty-five.",
        "让美国的工人和选举人更为焦虑的是工作保障。 由于目睹了85年来最为严重的劳动力市场衰退，他们更愿意将工作没有保障的情况归罪于任何事。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of proposing an overall ranking of institutions based on some composite measure of key indicators, the database offers detailed data covering five broad categories: costs, student debt and repayment, degree completion rates, post-enrollment earnings, and access for disadvantaged students.",
        "该数据库不是根据某些关键指标测算提供院校的总体排名，而是收录了五大类的详细数据供使用者查阅：包括收费、学生债务与还款、学位完成率、入学后收入和弱势学生的入学状况。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1920’s, Germany ended up having to pay only a small fraction of its reparation bill, but the long time it took to get to that point prevented the full recovery of Europe, made Germany itself the most conspicuous victim of the Great Depression, and bred widespread resentment, with dire political consequences.",
        "在20世纪20年代，最终的结果是德国只偿还了战争赔款的一小部分，但由于达到这一点耗费了太长的时间，欧洲的完全复苏不得不推迟，这使得德国成为大萧条最显而易见的受害者，其国内出现了大规模不满，最终造成了灾难性的整治后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But the decisive question of political modernization remains unanswered.",
        "但有关政治现代化的决定性问题依然未能得到解答。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Qutb was executed by an Arab Nationalist Muslim leader, whereas Bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seals.",
        "此外，库特布被阿拉伯民族主义穆斯林领袖处决，而杀死本·拉登的则是美国的海豹突击队。"
    ],
    [
        "With no industrial good that still requires a large-scale labor force – and the communications and services industries unable to fill the gap – employment is shrinking and economic growth is stagnating.",
        "不再有工业品还需要大规模劳动力——而通信和服务业又无法跟上弥补缺口——因此失业每况愈下，经济增长停滞不前。"
    ],
    [
        "If businesspeople don’t know what regulations, taxes, or worse, nationalizations, will be coming, they may dither.",
        "如果商界人士不知道将面临何种规则、税收或更糟糕的国有化，他们就有可能出现犹豫。"
    ],
    [
        "London Business School’s Hélène Rey has argued that US monetary-policy shocks affect risk premia, and that this channel operates internationally as well as domestically.",
        "伦敦商学院的伊莲·雷（Hélène Rey）指出，美国货币政策冲击影响风险溢价，并且这一渠道对国际和国内都有效。"
    ],
    [
        "As we go about the process of reform, we should bear in mind that the only thing worse than fighting the last war is fighting the wrong last war.",
        "我们即将进入改革程序，此时应该牢记，唯一比上一场战争更糟糕的事情是打了一场错误的上一场战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Using satellite data for major US cities, the economist Albert Saiz of MIT confirmed that tighter physical constraints – such as surrounding bodies of water or land gradients that make properties unsuitable for extensive building – tend to correlate with higher home prices.",
        "麻省理工学院的阿尔伯特·赛兹（Albert Saiz）用美国各大城市的卫星数据确认，较严格的物理限制——有水体环绕或土地存在梯度导致无法大量建房——与更高的房价之间存在相关性。"
    ],
    [
        "Now you have to publish your entire theory right away, before someone else gets the credit. It nearly kills you, but you get the book out – only an abstract of the magnum opus that you had planned – by the end of the next year.",
        "现在你就不得不在被人得到荣誉之前马上发表你的整个理论。 这把你搞得很惨，但是你还是在第二年年底以前出版了书，但只不过是你所计划的巨著的摘要。"
    ],
    [
        "“Twenty billion dollars doesn’t make a dent in that: one million homes at $20,000 loan forgiveness is it.”",
        "“两百亿美金扔下去连响都不会响一声：100万套房子，每套贷款2万，就把这笔钱给吞了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Humala comes to power in a regional environment of moderation and growing economic integration, which he would disturb at his peril.",
        "乌马拉在地区环境日渐温和及经济一体化持续发展的背景下开始执政，如果不顺应这样的趋势，他的执政肯定不会长久。"
    ],
    [
        "Six years after the crisis, some prominent economists are asking whether insufficient investment and/or waning gains from technological innovation have pushed the global economy into a “new normal” of lower growth and slow, if any, gains in living standards.",
        "在危机过去六年后，一些知名经济学家开始思索是否投资不足和/或科技创新的红利缩减已把全球经济推入一个更低增长以及生活水平的提高（如有的话）放缓的“新常态”中。"
    ],
    [
        "The choice of food was great, a sort of post-modern typical Russian kasha: sushi, salad, borsht, meat, and cabbage.",
        "那里有很丰富的食物，所谓后现代的俄罗斯麦片粥，寿司、色拉、罗宋汤、肉和卷心菜。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the push for better education is an experiment that has already been carried out globally.",
        "事实上，推动更好教育的试验已经在全球范围内进行。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a recent US Census report, the median full-time male worker earned $50,033 in 2013, barely distinguishable from the comparable (inflation-adjusted) figure of $49,678 in 1973.",
        "根据最新的美国人口普查报告，2013年中位全职男性工人工资收入是50,033美元，和1973年的可比（经通胀调整）数字49,678美元相差无几。"
    ],
    [
        "While the average American lived one year longer than the average Italian in 1960, the average Italian now lives four years longer than the average American.",
        "1960年，普通美国人要比普通意大利人多活一年，而如今，普通意大利人要比普通美国人多活四年。"
    ],
    [
        "As each year passes, China’s markets expand worldwide, and its domestic market comes to represent a greater percentage of its own GDP.",
        "年复一年，中国市场日益向全球拓展，其国内市场也在国内生产总值中开始占据越来越大的百分比。"
    ],
    [
        "At just 43% of GDP, China’s services sector is relatively tiny.",
        "中国服务部门贡献的GDP只占总量的43%，相对来说相当弱小。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting Prices Right",
        "如何建立一个好的资本价格发现机制？"
    ],
    [
        "But, to be effective, any new deal to promote trade must involve more than a new set of international institutions.",
        "但是，为了取得成效，任何促进贸易的新政都必须包括比一套新的国际机构更广泛的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is important to note that jihadists in Syria and Afghanistan have been largely supportive of polio vaccination campaigns.",
        "但必须强调叙利亚和阿富汗的圣战者在很大程度上支持小儿麻痹疫苗的接种工作。"
    ],
    [
        "We should heed their call.",
        "我们应该听从他们的召唤。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditionally, sovereign risk has been concentrated in emerging-market economies.",
        "以前，说起主权风险，人们主要想到新兴市场经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "Politically, America is deeply polarized.",
        "政治上，美国陷入了深度极化。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of how they handle their current difficulties, Europe and America will emerge with high debt, low growth rates, and contentious domestic politics.",
        "无论欧洲和美国如何解决它们当前的困境，它们注定会陷入高负债、低增长率和国内政治争议不休的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "It winds up borrowing “temporarily” with short-term debt; then, as borrowing accumulates, it is refinanced with longer-term securities. Spending is temporarily reduced and taxes raised, but the long-run structural deficit remains, a pattern now repeated in many state capitals and the primary reason for the current political turmoil over budgets and public sector unions.",
        "它一方面借下大笔“临时”短期债务，等这些债务积累到一定程度了，它又用发行长期政府债券的方式来筹钱还债，支出暂时被压低而税率进一步升高，但长期的结构性赤字却依然存在，而这一模式在许多州的财政上都有出现，并成为了当前由预算和公共部门公会所引发的政治海啸的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "This new infrastructure will boost property values in Barra da Tijuca, while doing nothing to improve Rio’s horrendous street traffic.",
        "它将提振Barra da Tijuca的房价，但对改善里约可怕的道路交通状况无济于事。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN Charter, initially negotiated by the US, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom during World War II, established a Security Council containing five permanent members, including France and the Republic of China.",
        "联合国宪章最初由美国、苏联和英国在二战期间谈判确定，成立了包括五个常任理事国的安理会，其他两个是法国和中华民国。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of drawing up a new constitution, the Lebanese principle of government by power sharing must be a central pillar.",
        "至于新宪法的起草，黎巴嫩的政府分权原则必须是首要原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the case of the US and Japan.",
        "以美国和日本为例。"
    ],
    [
        "Fighting climate change can be a sound investment, even though neither mitigation nor adaptation alone will be enough to “solve” the problem.",
        "对抗气候变化是一项很有益的投资，尽管无论是减弱还是适应气候变化本身都不足以“解决”这一难题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the impact of the Global Fund extends far beyond lives saved.",
        "但全球基金的影响力远不止于拯救生命。"
    ],
    [
        "But the determination of countries that have historically been centers of commercial surrogacy to stop the practice underscores the naiveté of that position.",
        "但历史上一直作为商业代孕中心的国家停止代孕的决策凸显了上述立场是多么幼稚。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, many of these countries are reeling from a veritable tsunami of returning money.",
        "时至今日，上述国家又都面临着同样海量的回流资金。"
    ],
    [
        "This is only a partial list of what must be done if governments are serious about building a stronger, inclusive European security order, one where the roles and risks of nuclear weapons are reduced, and ultimately eliminated.",
        "如果政府的确希望建设更有力、更兼容并蓄的欧洲安全秩序，缓解并最终消除核武器的后果和威胁，这只是部分必须要做的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Grozny was totally destroyed during the first Chechen war; both Russian and foreign observers compared it with WWII Stalingrad and assumed that it would be impossible to restore the city.",
        "这个城市在第一次车臣战争中被炸成了废墟，以致俄罗斯和其他外国观察家都将其喻为二战中的斯大林格勒，认定这个城市已经无法重建并建议车臣另立新都。"
    ],
    [
        "The AfDB will choose a new president in May, and it has not only defined the job clearly; it has also identified eight candidates and asked each to set out their strategy in advance of the election.",
        "非开行将在5月遴选新行长，它不但明确定义了这个岗位； 还确定了八名候选人并要求每人在选举之前提出他们的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "As it turns out, people’s posts shifted to reflect the tone of their friends’ posts.",
        "事实证明，人们发帖的语气受到了朋友帖子的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In their exhaustive historical review of financial crises, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff write: “Again and again, countries, banks, individuals, and firms take on excessive debt in good times without enough awareness of the risks that will follow when the inevitable recession hits.”",
        "经济学家卡梅隆·莱因哈特和肯尼思·罗格夫在他们全面回顾经济危机的著作中写到：“一次又一次，国家、银行，个人和企业都在年景好的时候过度负债，却没有意识到这些债务在无法避免的危机降临时所带来的风险。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Berkeley – While the new Obama administration is commanding global attention, America’s future may be written – as so many times before – in and by its largest state.",
        "伯克利-虽然奥巴马新政府统领着全球注意力，美国的未来却可能-正如以前曾多次出现的那样-由其最大州决定。"
    ],
    [
        "It does not take long for voters to discover that the promises of populists were empty.",
        "选民们用不了多久就会发现民粹主义者的许诺空空如也。"
    ],
    [
        "But even debt financing would be better than no investment at all, given the deadweight losses.",
        "但由于无谓损失的存在，即便是债务融资也比完全不投资要好。"
    ],
    [
        "When it first appeared, the new satellite channel broadcast from Qatar reflected its own name.",
        "当半岛电视台刚刚面世的时候，这一来自卡塔尔的全新卫星频道名副其实。"
    ],
    [
        "While product markets have held center stage in the creation of the single European market, services continue to be fragmented by national regulatory, anti-competitive practices.",
        "尽管产品市场在建立欧洲单一市场中占据中心地位，但是服务业继续由于各国的管制以及反竞争的做法而条块分割。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many lessons for America, and the rest of the world; but among them is the need for greater financial sector regulation, especially better protection against predatory lending, and more transparency.",
        "美国和世界其他国家都应该从中汲取许多教训； 其中最重要的是对金融行业更严格的监管，特别是针对掠夺性的贷方提供更好的保护和更高的透明度。"
    ],
    [
        "As we saw in the postcommunist world, changing attitudes is often the hardest problem of all.",
        "正如我们在共产主义后期的世界所看到的那样，心态的变革通常是最困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "For a day (and sometimes only for a few hours), financial markets rally euphorically.",
        "于是金融市场在一种狂喜中反弹一天（有时甚至只有几小时）。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, while one in eight Americans is black, one in three is employed in sanitation or other blue-collar jobs.",
        "例如，尽管美国人口中有八分之一是黑人，但他们当中的三分之一从事着保洁或其他的蓝领工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Before anyone starts slashing travel budgets, let’s try to understand why we need to move people rather than information.",
        "在开始削减差旅预算前，让我们试着理解一下为何我们需要让人移动，而不是信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Milosevic’s Trial Was Not in Vain",
        "审判米洛塞维奇并非徒劳"
    ],
    [
        "But, even as they propose new measures to court foreign investors, many members of Congress in both parties harbor deep concerns about FDI from China, on both national-security and economic grounds.",
        "但是，尽管他们提出了新的措施吸引外国投资者，许多国会议员（两党都有）仍对来自中国的FDI忧虑重重，其中既有国家安全方面的顾虑，也有经济方面的担心。"
    ],
    [
        "World GDP growth is viewed as increasingly strong, synchronous, and inflation-free.",
        "世界GDP增长看似日益强劲，同步且不引发通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "But cultural concerns allowed him to recruit quite a few unlikely allies.",
        "但文化因素却让他赢得了一些意想不到的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 demonstrated, capital-account liberalization could lead to financial meltdowns – a danger that opponents of internationalizing the renminbi often cite.",
        "正如1997—1998年亚洲金融危机所标明的，资本账户自由化可能导致金融崩溃——这也是人民币国际化的反对者经常提到的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, for two new reasons that lie at the heart of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s launch of the “Education First” initiative, education has returned to its rightful place atop the global policy agenda.",
        "如今，出于联合国秘书长潘基文之所以推出“教育第一”（Education First）计划的两个核心原因，教育回到了它应有的全球政策日程最优先事项的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its close links to the invasion, Saddam’s trial is expected somehow to represent an independent Iraqi judgment, thereby constituting local accountability without exacerbating tensions and destabilizing the country further.",
        "尽管与侵略联系紧密，对萨达姆的审判还是被冀望于在一定程度上代表独立的伊拉克判断，从而在建立地方的公信力的同时又不会进一步加剧国内的紧张和不安定局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Self-empowering technological innovation is all around us, affecting a growing number of people, sectors, and activities worldwide.",
        "这类自我赋权的技术创新已经充斥着我们周围，影响着全球越来越多的人口，经济部门以及人类活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China’s relationship with the United States is deteriorating, owing to conflict over America’s foreign-policy “pivot” toward Asia and disputes over cyber security.",
        "此外，由于美国的外交政策“轴心”向亚洲移动以及网络安全方面的纷争，中美关系正在恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "The move is expected to be followed by others, as South Korea puts an end to cooperation across the board.",
        "预计这一动作之后还有其他后续动作，韩国将终止南北合作。"
    ],
    [
        "If the claim were true it is a rebirth that is coming about in an extraordinary way.",
        "如果这一说法正确，那也是以一种特别的方式产生的国家复生。"
    ],
    [
        "These statements of faith are both historic and timely, as the world’s countries seek to implement global agreements in areas ranging from climate change to the Sustainable Development Goals and the establishment of marine reserves on the high seas.",
        "上述声明及时且具有历史意义，因为世界各国正致力于从控制气候变化、实现可持续发展目标到建立公海海洋保护区等领域全球协议的落实工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the middle three quintiles, the effective rate in 2013 was 13.8%, down from an average of 16.6% over the three previous decades.",
        "对中间五分之三的家庭，2013年有效税率为13. 8%，而此前30年平均水平为16."
    ],
    [
        "The Partnership for Polio Eradication Project in Nigeria and Pakistan – launched in 2003 by the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary International, and the United Nations Foundation – is a prime example of how a buy-down program can concentrate global efforts on a single issue and yield benefits for all parties.",
        "2003年，世界银行、比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会（Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation）、扶轮国际（Rotary International）和联合国基金会一起发布了尼日利亚和巴基斯坦消灭脊髓灰质炎合作计划（Partnership for Polio Eradication Project），这是一个贷款补贴计划能够在单一问题上集中全球力量并产生令各方都获益的结果的显例。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, Japan should take the sovereign act of designating the Senkaku Islands as an international maritime preserve free of habitation or military use.",
        "此外，日本应行使主权将尖阁群岛划为不允许居住或军事用途的国际海上保护区。"
    ],
    [
        "But since parliamentary elections in October, Ukraine has begun to pull itself together.",
        "但自去年10月的议会选举后，乌克兰已经开始振作起来。"
    ],
    [
        "But what if there is no money to offer?",
        "但没钱进行外交会怎么样呢？"
    ],
    [
        "“It might have been worse,” is the common retort of the counter-factualists.",
        "“本来可能更糟糕的，”反事实主义者常用这句话来反驳。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Cold War era, there was a mechanism for such trade. From 1949 until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Consultative Group Coordinating Committee (Cocom) monitored and controlled the export of Western technology to the Soviet Union.",
        "在冷战时期曾有这样一个贸易机制：在1949年到柏林墙拆除期间，咨询小组统筹委员会(Cocom)在一个君子协议框架下，监控着西方世界向苏联的技术出口，可谓卓有成效。"
    ],
    [
        "Global Imbalances without Tears",
        "简单易懂的全球不平衡"
    ],
    [
        "Of the two approaches, Germany’s is the more unusual bet.",
        "在这两条路中，德国之路更加非常。"
    ],
    [
        "In the more tech-oriented economies, like the US, the United Kingdom, and the Nordic countries, there is a risk that traditional macroeconomic models will overestimate the cost pressure from labor.",
        "在更加技术导向的经济体，如美国、英国和北欧国家，一个风险是传统宏观经济模型将高估来自劳动力的成本压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The first approach reduces the cost of anarchy and makes better use of all available information.",
        "第一种方式降低了无秩序主义的代价，并充分利用了一切可用的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, when Linda Bilmes and I calculated America’s war costs three years ago, the conservative tally was $3-5 trillion.",
        "事实上，3年前我和比尔梅斯（Linda Bilmes）计算美国战争成本的时候，我们得出的保守答案是3—5万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "That consensus was rooted in an economic paradigm that aimed to promote win-win interactions among countries, emphasizing trade liberalization, relatively unrestricted cross-border capital flows, free-market pricing, and domestic deregulation.",
        "这一共识植根于一个旨在促进各国间双赢互动的经济范式，它强调贸易自由化、相对不受限制的跨境资本流、自由市场定价以及国内去监管化。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone’s flaws reflect its conceptual distance from the US, which is the only model of a well-functioning monetary union.",
        "欧元区的缺陷反映了其在概念上与美国的差距，后者才是唯一的成功运行的货币联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "In many ways, his approach was a great success.",
        "从很多方面来说，他的措施确实取得了巨大的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Bank for International Settlements, Chinese corporate debt has increased rapidly in recent years, from 99% of GDP in 2008 to 166% in 2015, with more than half of the debt owed by poorly performing state-owned enterprises (SOEs).",
        "按照国际清算银行的数据，中国企业债务额近年出现了快速膨胀，从2008年相当于GDP的99％上升至2015年的166％，在2015年，其中一半以上债务由经营不善的国有企业（国有企业）所欠。"
    ],
    [
        "Was it to do what Democrats do, but do it better?",
        "是继承民主党的衣钵，在原有基础上发扬光大？"
    ],
    [
        "Tax cuts and spending increases may spur economic growth in the near term, but they will increase the government’s debt, raising further doubts about America’s long-term willingness or ability to meet its commitments.",
        "减税和增支在短期内也许能刺激经济增长，但也会增加政府债务，进一步增加关于美国兑现长期义务的意愿和能力的质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "We may even find that that is the best resolution to make, for our own benefit and that of others.",
        "我们甚至可以发现，出于对自己和其他人的利益考虑，这可是最该制定的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But securities regulators also need to start thinking along the same lines – and this is where Kara Stein wants them to go.",
        "但证券监管者也需要开始考虑同样的问题——这也是卡拉·斯坦希望它们做的。"
    ],
    [
        "With depressed markets in the developed world, intra-regional trade in the future will depend more on exports to satisfy Chinese domestic demand.",
        "随着发达世界市场的萎缩，未来的地区内贸易将更多地依赖满足中国内需的出口。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it defined by geography.",
        "它也无法以地理归类。"
    ],
    [
        "Microscopic pigment granules produced by skin pigment cells aggregate around the cell's nucleus to shield the DNA from the marauding rays and prevent mutation.",
        "皮肤色素细胞产生的微小色素颗粒聚集在细胞核旁，保护DNA免受紫外线侵袭，防止细胞发生变异。"
    ],
    [
        "Poland’s parliamentary and presidential elections this month saw the death of a left-leaning postcommunist party that mostly dominated the country since 1995.",
        "在这个月的波兰国会与总统选举中，从1995年以来就基本上统治着这个国家的左倾后共产主义党派落选。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK — As Pakistan atrophies in its existential crisis, a fundamental question about the nature of the country is coming to the fore: Are the country’s citizens Pakistanis who happen to be Muslims, or are they Muslims who happen to be Pakistanis?",
        "纽约-当巴基斯坦在国家存在的危机中萎缩的时候，一个关于该国家性质的基本问题浮上了水面：这个国家的公民是恰巧为穆斯林的巴基斯坦公民呢，还是恰巧为巴基斯坦人的穆斯林呢？"
    ],
    [
        "From the Arab Spring to the violent food riots that have erupted in recent years across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, populations are reacting to the cumulative effects of pervasive unemployment, high food prices, and deteriorating living conditions.",
        "从阿拉伯之春到近几年在亚洲、非洲和中东发生的暴力食品动乱，民众正在对普遍失业、食品价格高企和生活条件恶化的累积效应产生反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization has fueled ever-widening disparities among its members – just compare Colombia with Afghanistan, or Chile with Sudan – that make it difficult to transform sheer numbers into coherent influence.",
        "全球化让不结盟运动成员国之间的差异越来越大——比较一下哥伦比亚和阿富汗或者智利和苏丹便可一窥端倪——这使得将成员数字转化为显而易见的影响力变得十分困难。"
    ],
    [
        "If not, the conflict will continue to rage, accelerating the breakdown of regional order we now see.",
        "如果不行冲突仍将继续下去，并加速我们现在所看到的地区秩序崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "So we will stand firm in the cold and the snow to see that our democratic choices are respected.",
        "因此，我们会在冰雪和严寒中坚持到底，看着我们的民主选择得到应有的尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "It has a history and a telos.",
        "它拥有一个历史和一个telos。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes her efforts were heavy-handed, as when she embraced AIDS victims physically as a metaphor for social inclusion; sometimes they backfired, as when her shared intimacies with servants provided fodder for a flood of posthumous tell-all books.",
        "有时候她的努力是很拙劣的，例如她将拥抱艾滋病受害者作为社会包容的隐喻； 有时候她的努力是事与愿违的，例如她为人所知的和仆人的亲密关系，在其死后为泛滥成灾的揭秘书籍提供了素材。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent scientific insights have made us better equipped than ever to strike that balance.",
        "最近的科研发现让我们能更好地把握这种平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "With independence, the extremists would gain a territorial base from which to undermine Macedonia, southern Montenegro, and southern Serbia, jeopardizing stability in the entire region.",
        "”一旦获得独立，极端分子们就有了一个领土基地，并能够从这里对马其顿、南黑山和南塞尔维亚构成威胁，从而破坏整个地区的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond their environmental consequences, such efforts would generate major economic gains, boosting the middle class in developed countries and pulling hundreds of millions out of poverty in the developing world, including by fueling job creation.",
        "除环境后果外，这样的努力也将带来巨大的经济效益，其中包括通过促进创造就业机会帮助发达国家中产阶级并促使发展中国家数亿人摆脱贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "The consumption share of China’s economy, at less than 35% of GDP, is the lowest of any major country.",
        "消费占中国GDP的比例还不够35%，在世界几大国之间是最低的。"
    ],
    [
        "Chants of “islamiyya, islamiyya” (Islamic, Islamic) were enough.",
        "高喊“伊斯兰、伊斯兰”足矣。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, a country riddled with regulatory shortcomings will find its arteries of commerce clogged and foreign investors spooked by unpredictable quality and unfair competition from unscrupulous producers.",
        "相反，一国如果监管漏洞百出，其商业血脉就会不畅，外国投资者因为不可预测的质量和来自阴险生产商的不公平竞争而却步。"
    ],
    [
        "\"America and Israel are the outsiders - just as Jews have been all the way into the 21st century,\" Joffe says.",
        "\"美国和以色列是外人¾正如犹太人在21世纪前所处的地位一样，\"Joffe如是说。"
    ],
    [
        "I reach this conclusion even though I am sympathetic to the Bush administration’s desire to catalyze change at the Bank.",
        "尽管我同情布什政府促进世界银行变革的愿望，但是我还是得出这一结论。"
    ],
    [
        "International sport is, of course, an exercise in national chauvinism by other means.",
        "当然，国际体育赛事是通过其它方式进行的国家沙文主义。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because the total climate benefit was a paltry $1.4 billion, the subsidies essentially wasted $58.6 billion.",
        "而且因为这笔钱带来的总的气候利益只有区区14亿美元，另外586亿美元的补贴基本都成了沉落成本。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of such institutions, distributive conflict can easily spill over into protests, riots, and civil disorder.",
        "若没有这些制度，分配冲突很容易便演化成抗议、暴动和内乱。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it is essential for the European Union to develop a unified policy, reconciling these divergent national interests and attitudes.",
        "但是欧盟制定一项统一的政策，协调不同的国家利益和态度十分关键。"
    ],
    [
        "With over 80% home ownership, the epic boom in housing prices of the last ten years has spread deep into the American middle class.",
        "随着置业率超过80%，房价在过去十年里的历史性成长的事实已经广泛深入美国中产阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "Does this kind of ignorance and contempt for the Jewish people persist among Iran’s current leadership, coloring their approach to Israel?",
        "伊朗的现任领导层是否仍然存在对犹太人的这种无知和蔑视，并因此影响他们对以色列的态度？"
    ],
    [
        "The priority for Africa and the international community must be to ensure that the continent weathers the global financial storm, preserves the significant achievements of the past decade, and continues to make decisive progress in combating poverty.",
        "非洲和国际社会的当务之急就是确保非洲大陆可以挺过全球金融风暴，保持过去十年中取得的巨大成就，并且继续在消除贫困上做出决定性进展。"
    ],
    [
        "While elections are relatively easy to stage, liberty is far more difficult to establish and sustain, for it requires institutions – such as a legal system with impartial courts – that Egypt lacks, and that take years to build.",
        "虽然选举的实施相对容易，但自由却更难以建立和维持，因为后者需要相关机制——比如一个拥有中立法庭的司法系统，但这些机制却是埃及目前所不具备，并要花费多年才能建立的。"
    ],
    [
        "There will be enough problems in negotiating the creation of a Palestinian state, so we should avoid adding other, gratuitous obstacles.",
        "在建立巴勒斯坦国的问题上，目前已经是麻烦不断，我们不能再节外生枝，人为制造障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "These reforms reflected an overwhelming consensus that the Fed had been derelict in fulfilling its duties.",
        "这些改革反映了一个压倒性共识，即美联储在履行职责方面令人十分不满。"
    ],
    [
        "China was reducing its global imports, potentially reducing demand for exports from the US.",
        "中国正在降低其全球进口，有可能削弱对美国出口的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "From this technocratic perspective, Brussels today maintains functions that even within nation states are often delegated to institutions that are not democratically elected.",
        "从这一技术官僚观点来看，今天的布鲁塞尔维持了某些功能，而即使在某些民族国家内部，这些功能都经常被分派到不是民主选举产生的机构中。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, constant innovation in medical science over the last 100 years has left us with the impression that our health-care systems can never regress.",
        "比如，在过去100年中，医学不断地产生着创新，这让我们感觉卫生系统永远不会退步。"
    ],
    [
        "AMSTERDAM – The latest economic data suggests that recession is returning to most advanced economies, with financial markets now reaching levels of stress unseen since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.",
        "阿姆斯特丹—最新的经济数据表明，大多数发达经济体正在重新陷入衰退，金融市场正在承受自2008年雷曼兄弟倒闭以来最大的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, she espoused a rigorous philosophy about borrowing: “The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.”",
        "”事实上，她支持严格的借贷观：“幸福的秘密在于量入为出，及时付清账单。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But, rather than allowing ourselves to be swept up in the regressive tide of nostalgia, we need to engage one another in a constructive conversation about the challenges that we actually face and propose new ideas for addressing them.",
        "但与其陷在怀旧的倒退潮流里，还不如就世界所面临的挑战进行积极对话并提出新的解决思路。"
    ],
    [
        "This scenario is not as far-fetched as some might believe.",
        "这一情景并不像有些人想象的那样遥远。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is also worth noting that the government is well aware of the problems, and has begun to take measures to put structural adjustment back at the top of the policy agenda.",
        "但也必须指出政府对这个问题也已经有了清晰的认识，并开始着手将结构调整问题放到优先议程当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine a race of intelligent fish that start to think deeply about the world.",
        "试想有一种具有智慧的鱼类开始对世界进行深刻的思考。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the course of preparations, profound attitudinal differences have surfaced, particularly between the US and Germany.",
        "但在准备的过程中，各国，尤其是美国与德国之间深刻的态度差异已经显现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a global structure has the potential to encourage better medium-term alignments to reduce trade barriers, set proper standards, and enhance mutually beneficial cooperation.",
        "这样的全球结构有可能催生更好的中期联盟来减少贸易壁垒，设定适当的标准并加强互利合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Just the other day, I came across critiques of expansionary fiscal and monetary policy made by the Canadian economist Jacob Viner and the French economist Étienne Mantoux.",
        "几天前我读到了加拿大经济学家雅各布·维纳（Jacob Viner）和法国经济学家艾蒂尼·芒图（Étienne Mantoux）对扩张性财政和货币政策的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "The results showed very clearly that a dog’s “guilty looks” came about solely because it was being scolded: the look had nothing to do with whether the dog had really committed an offense.",
        "结果表明犬类之所以表现出“愧疚之情”完全是因为它遭到了训斥：那种表情与狗狗是否真的做了错事没有一点关系。"
    ],
    [
        "They certainly will not feel motivated to turn out to support President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign if their voices are not heard in the White House as they were in Zuccotti Park and other public spaces from Oakland to Madison.",
        "如果白宫没有听到抗议者从祖科提公园和奥克兰到麦迪逊的其他公开场合所发出的心声，他们肯定没有动力去支持奥巴马总统的竞选连任。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, economics can help us determine how to do the most good with the resources we have.",
        "幸运的是，经济学能够帮助我们决定如何用我们所拥有的资源做最多的益事。"
    ],
    [
        "But raising below-target inflation to 2% leaves people worse off, as it causes their savings to lose value continuously, thereby undermining their prosperity.",
        "但将低于目标的通胀率提高到2％会使人们的生活变得更糟，因为这会导致他们的储蓄持续贬值，从而影响其兴旺发展。"
    ],
    [
        "We should look instead at whether their policies are driven by a desire for equity and social inclusion, or by nativist and racist impulses; whether they want to enhance or weaken the rule of law and democratic deliberation; and whether they are trying to save the open world economy – albeit with different ground rules – rather than undermine it.",
        "相反，我们应当关注他们政策的驱动因素是平等和社会包容的愿望，还是本土主义和种族主义的本能； 他们是想加强还是削弱法治和民主审议；"
    ],
    [
        "On August 23, East Germany’s House of Representatives, the Volkskammer, voted for unilateral adherence by the East German Länder to West Germany’s Constitution.",
        "1990年10月3日，一个震惊世人的决议正式生效的日子，此之前的8月23日，东德人民议院投票决定，单方面将东德各州并入西德。"
    ],
    [
        "Already eyeing a third term, he can count on political longevity on the order of Mahathir’s 22-year rule.",
        "在再度连任指日可待的情况下，他信还可依恃其政治寿命的优势，这点与马哈蒂尔22年的统治优势类似。"
    ],
    [
        "If the political appeal of anti-trade policies proves durable, it will mark a historic turning point in global economic affairs, one that bodes ill for the future of American leadership.",
        "如果反贸易政策的政治诉求能最终站稳脚跟的话，这将标志着全球经济事务中的一个历史性转折，并为美国未来领导角色的衰败埋下祸根。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the AKP’s parliamentary election victory in July, and now with the election of Gül, many observers predicted military intervention.",
        "在AKP七月的国会选举胜利和现在的居尔当选总统之后，许多观察家都预测了军方的干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Herbert Spencer used the phrase “survival of the fittest” to explain how societies evolve.",
        "赫伯特·斯宾塞用“适者生存”来解释社会演化。"
    ],
    [
        "But if that same money were used for gas electrification, we could lift almost 100 million people out of darkness and poverty.",
        "但如果同样数量的钱用于燃气电气化，我们可以让近1亿人告别黑暗和贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "The devastation caused there last week by Hurricane Maria has only exacerbated severe longer-term problems resulting from deferred maintenance on the island’s critical infrastructure.",
        "上周的玛利亚飓风给波多黎各带来的灾难让波多黎各严重的长期问题——重要基础设施维护不力雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "Another issue with the potential to undermine the PD’s standing is the party’s advocacy of a new wealth tax.",
        "鼓吹新征财产税是可能影响民主党选举的另一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Often this social “divide” intersects with the Sunni-Alevi cleavage, as the Alevis have increasingly aligned themselves with the political left.",
        "这一社会“分歧”往往与逊尼派-阿拉维派分裂交相辉映，而阿拉维正日渐与政治左翼结盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Some parties’ interests in the war are well known: Assad wants to remain in power; Russia wants to demonstrate its status as a great power capable of resisting the US; and Iran wants to increase its regional influence and secure access to the Mediterranean.",
        "一些行动方的利益众所周知：巴沙尔想保住权力； 俄罗斯想证明其作为有能力拒绝美国的强国地位；"
    ],
    [
        "It is not that Islam suppresses sexuality, but that it embodies a strongly developed sense of its appropriate channeling – toward marriage, the bonds that sustain family life, and the attachment that secures a home.",
        "穆斯林并不压抑性，而是它体现了对性行为进行合理引导的高度智慧。 穆斯林把性行为向婚姻内引导，而婚姻则是维持家庭生活的纽带和稳固家庭的感情寄托。"
    ],
    [
        "For developed countries, increasing resilience and flexibility over time by building public assets should be a long-term priority.",
        "对发达国家来说，通过构建公共资产来提升复原能力和灵活性应该是长期的优先选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, however, these shortcomings can be overcome.",
        "但是，幸运的是，这些短处是可以克服的。"
    ],
    [
        "To put it bluntly, killing, maiming, and terrorizing children has become a cost-free enterprise.",
        "坦白地讲，杀戮、残害和恐吓儿童已经成为一项没有任何代价的事业。"
    ],
    [
        "Jordan is not outside the peace process, but an essential part of it.",
        "在和平进程中，约旦并非置身事外，而是其中必不可少的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany was more obliging in the face of US pressure, mainly because its security relied on America’s military presence.",
        "面对美国的压力，德国当年表现得比较听话，主要是因为它依赖美国的军事保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Bank executives who hold large numbers of these bonds would have an incentive to lobby to dilute the bonds’ guarantee.",
        "持有大量这类债券的银行高管将有激励游说稀释债券的担保力。"
    ],
    [
        "It was an agenda written by and for large multinational companies, at the expense of workers and ordinary citizens everywhere.",
        "这是一个由大型跨国公司撰写的议程，而付出代价的则是全世界的劳动者和普通公民。"
    ],
    [
        "What Does Xi Jinping Want?",
        "新时代的新型强人"
    ],
    [
        "The Andean Engagé",
        "安第斯的参政"
    ],
    [
        "It means that the benefits of openness and specialization are being squandered.",
        "这意味着开放和专业化的收益正在被浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "Impoverished farmers should receive a free package of seeds, fertilizers, and low-cost equipment (such as pumps for irrigation).",
        "应该向贫困农民免费发放种子、化肥和低成本的器械（比如灌溉用的水泵）。"
    ],
    [
        "The private sector, too, built up debt, with its limited access to equity capital driving firms to the shadow banking sector. The result is a debt overhang of 282% of GDP.",
        "不仅新增大量国有企业和地方政府债务，民营企业债务也通过影子银行大增，因为中国企业很难进入股权形式的资本市场，导致中国的债务上升到占 GDP之比达 282%。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the current strategy of kicking the can down the road will soon reach its limits, and a different plan will be needed to save the eurozone.",
        "所以，眼下得过且过的办法很快会撞上南墙，到时候就需要另一套方案来拯救欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "The new approach is suspicious of universal remedies.",
        "新方法对通用的解决方法持怀疑态度。"
    ],
    [
        "For its part, China repeatedly violated the eight-year pact, ultimately mounting the trans-Himalayan invasion of 1962.",
        "而中国一再违反八年契约，最终在1962年跨过喜马拉雅山入侵印度。"
    ],
    [
        "Many generations of Poles dreamt of the day when Europe's postwar division would be undone.",
        "几代波兰人都梦想着欧洲战后的分裂状态有一天能够改变。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s capacity to maintain alliances and create cooperative networks will be an important dimension of its hard and soft power.",
        "美国维持联盟和创造合作网的能力将是其硬实力和软实力的重要组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of the millions of people like my mother – and, more important, for the sake of their children and grandchildren – we must fulfill the promise that attracts the poor to cities in the first place.",
        "为了千百万我母亲这样的人民的命运——以及更重要的，为了他们的子孙后代的命运——我们必须实现一开始吸引穷人来到城市的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The majority of street protests have occurred in the most deprived and neglected areas, and the primary demands have been economic: better jobs, housing, health-care services, and infrastructure.",
        "街头游行主要发生在权利受侵害最严重、最受忽视的地区，基本需求也都是经济方面的需求：更好的工作、住房、医疗服务和基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is the so-called “beta”: banks represent a large share of the S&P 500, and managers need to be invested in them.",
        "但就在于所谓的“贝塔”：银行代表着标普500的大头，投资经理必须投资银行股。"
    ],
    [
        "In Mexico alone, there are ten million urban homes, 137 million hectares of land, and six million businesses whose owners’ rights are poorly protected.",
        "光是在墨西哥，就有1,000万城市住房、1. 37亿英亩土地和六百万企业，它们的所有权得不到有效保护。"
    ],
    [
        "First elections, in particular, are almost inevitably of limited value as foundations of democracy, because they take place in an emotionally charged atmosphere and largely without substantive debate.",
        "特别是首次选举，对于建立民主基础来讲几乎无一例外地没有太多意义。 因为首次选举往往受到情绪的严重影响，而且没有进行过真正的辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a challenge to meet, a reason to pull together.",
        "这是一个必须面对的挑战，也是大家齐心协力的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s calling is not – and has never been – that of a peacemaker.",
        "俄罗斯的使命不是——也从未是——和平缔造者。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this benefits elected leaders, who win the support of voters who feel wealthier, the formerly unemployed who find jobs, and the homeowners whose houses are rising in value.",
        "所有这些又都有利于当选领导人，感到变富了的选民、找到工作的失业者和房屋价值节节攀升的业主们都支持他们。"
    ],
    [
        "It finally did so in 1898, when the US intervened in a Cuban rebellion against Spain to assert effective US economic and political hegemony over the island.",
        "”1898年，美国终于这么做了——干预古巴反叛西班牙，从而主张美国对古巴岛的经济和政治的事实霸权。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of focusing on picking individual technologies or firms, public organizations should act like investors, betting on a diversified “portfolio” of choices.",
        "公共组织不应该只专注于挑选个别技术或企业，而应该像投资人那样行动，下注于多样化的选择“投资组合”。"
    ],
    [
        "The bilateral approach would demand a huge amount of time and resources, with UK negotiators engaging in a series of discussions with each and every country with which they wanted to do business.",
        "双边方针需要巨大的时间和资源，英国谈判员要逐一与其想做生意的各个国家进行一系列讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Skeptics also noted that instead of making an irrevocable legal commitment, the couple had only pledged to donate “most of their wealth” to the fund.",
        "质疑者还指出，扎克伯格夫妇并没有订立不可撤销的法律承诺，而只是说要向该基金捐出“大部分财富”。"
    ],
    [
        "The women, facing a crowd of furious men calling them “whores” and other epithets, marched two miles under a rain of abuse and delivered their petition against the law to legislators.",
        "这些妇女面对着用“妓女”和其他侮辱性绰号辱骂她们的愤怒的男人，在一片谩骂声中游行了两英里，向议员们表达了她们对这部法律的不满。"
    ],
    [
        "Economist Simon Kuznets proposed the existence of a sharp rise in inequality upon industrialization, followed by a decline to social-democratic levels.",
        "经济学家库兹涅茨提出工业化会带来的不平等的急剧上升，随之带来社会民主水平的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by combining the two will we succeed.",
        "只有把民众的觉悟和领袖的认知结合起来，我们才能取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "As President Calvin Coolidge supposedly said of the American loans to the World War I allies, “They hired the money, didn’t they?”",
        "据说美国总统柯立芝这样评价美国对一战协约国的贷款：“它们租用了钱，不是吗？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "The Pakistani army would rather be seen as the country’s savior than own up to its own shortsightedness and make clear whether it has decided to change course by obeying the constitution.",
        "巴基斯坦军方则宁愿被视为国家的救星，而不愿坦率承认其短视，并就其是否已决定遵从宪法改变路线一事表明态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Things are only going to get worse.",
        "情况还在变坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to the fiscal rules of the Stability and Growth Pact, the euro area achieved its soundest budgetary position in 2007, bringing deficits to their lowest levels in 25 years.",
        "由于“稳定和增长公约”下的财政规则，欧元区在2007年取得了最良好的财政预算状况，使赤字降到了25年的最低水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks must bring down the curtain on zero and, especially, negative interest rates.",
        "央行必须结束零利率以及（尤其是）负利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Welcome back to the Capitol.",
        "欢迎回到国会大厦。"
    ],
    [
        "This application of technological capacity to store what is called “big data” raises a new set of issues about intrusion into citizens’ privacy.",
        "利用技术能力存储所谓的“大数据”带来了一组关于侵入公民隐私的新问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Total capital inflows to developing countries increased from about $20 billion in 2008 to over $600 billion in 2010.",
        "流入发展中国家的总资本从2008年的约2000亿美元增加到2010年的超过6000亿。"
    ],
    [
        "And now, in the wake of Palestine’s resoundingly successful bid for observer-state status at the United Nations, Israel’s conundrum has become particularly acute.",
        "而如今，巴勒斯坦获得联合国观察员国资格的尝试获得了空前的成功，以色列的难题也随之变得极为棘手。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the stimulus will strengthen America’s economy, but it is probably not enough to restore robust growth. This is bad news for the rest of the world, too, for a strong global recovery requires a strong American economy.",
        "简而言之，经济刺激方案可能改善美国现有的经济，但还不足以重振美国经济，对其他国家来说，也不是一个好的消息，毕竟，全球的复兴需要的是一个强健的美国经济。"
    ],
    [
        "India and China are fellow members of the BRICS (along with Brazil, Russia, and South Africa).",
        "印度和中国都是金砖国家成员（此外还有巴西、俄罗斯和南非）。"
    ],
    [
        "The calculation assumes that over 100 years, politicians everywhere in the world will consistently enact the most efficient, effective laws imaginable to reduce carbon emissions.",
        "因为该计算假设在100年以内，全世界的政治家都能推动通过最高效率且最有效的法律来减少碳排放。"
    ],
    [
        "While the European Union’s national parliaments must still decide on the scheme, they essentially have no option but to assent, because to do otherwise would severely harm the ECB.",
        "欧盟各国议会仍需要就该机制做出表决，但实际上它们除了赞成之外别无选择，因为不这么做将严重伤害欧洲央行。"
    ],
    [
        "Government investment in infrastructure, both alone and in partnership with private firms, will also directly benefit growth and attract larger inflows of foreign investment.",
        "政府基础设施投资——不管是独资还是与私人企业合资——也能直接有利于增长，吸引更多的外国投资流入。"
    ],
    [
        "So the idea that what the world needs now is more fixed rules will not do.",
        "所以严格遵循一些规则在目前来看不是一个好的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in 1936, when King Edward VIII of Britain declared that “something must be done” about unemployment, he was criticized for overstepping his brief.",
        "1936年英国国王爱德华八世宣布“必须做些什么”对付通胀时，即使是这样的话也令他被批评越了界。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of this, it is assumed that free economic migration within the EU will produce little net movement of populations.",
        "在没有这个转移机制的情况下，欧盟假设其内部的自由经济移民不会带来多少人口的净流动。"
    ],
    [
        "When words are formulated with the clear intention of causing harm and violence on national, racial or religious grounds, freedom of expression becomes incitement to hatred, which is prohibited by law.",
        "当人们带着明确的目的性使用导致民族、种族和宗教伤害和暴力的词汇时，言论自由就成了仇恨的催化剂，而这是法律不允许的。"
    ],
    [
        "For 62 years, from 1945-2007, with some sharp but temporary and regionalized interruptions, entrepreneurs and enterprisers could bet that the demand would be there if they created the supply.",
        "在1945年到2007年这62年里，尽管受到了一些强烈（但是短期且且仅限于某些区域）的冲击，企业家和创业者依然相信只要他们能创造出供给，需求就会出现。"
    ],
    [
        "The bulk of this research has not been conducted in university labs or corporate R&D facilities, but spontaneously by teenagers, who use it to share copyrighted music with one another without paying for it.",
        "这项研究的大量工作不是在大学实验室或公司研发机构进行的，而是一帮十几岁的青少年同时进行的，他们运用这种技术相互之间免费分享受到版权保护的音乐。"
    ],
    [
        "The persecution of the Rohingya can no longer be described as merely a domestic problem for Myanmar.",
        "对罗兴亚人的迫害不能再认为是缅甸的内政。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet effective chronic disease surveillance can save lives.",
        "但有效的慢性病监测是可以拯救生命的。"
    ],
    [
        "And there is a growing recognition that development funds and climate finance can be used to spur and catalyze investment from public and private sources.",
        "而且人们越来越清醒地认识到发展和气候资金可以用来刺激和促进公共和私营部门的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasing the proportion of re-used plastics is a crucial step toward more sustainable plastics consumption.",
        "提高再利用塑料是迈向可持续塑料消费的关键一步。"
    ],
    [
        "In early 2003, its onsite presence in Iraq established that Saddam did not have a nuclear weapons program, contrary to the Bush administration’s representations.",
        "在2003年早些时候，与布什当局的说法相反的是，其在伊拉克的现场检查员确认萨达姆并没有核子武器项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Herein lies the great paradox.",
        "这里存在一个大悖论。"
    ],
    [
        "Why should anyone in Pakistan believe that the West is serious in wanting to sustain that country as a Muslim democratic state?",
        "为什么不让巴基斯坦人相信，西方确实有志于保全一个穆斯林民主国家？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, all too often, events move too quickly to be measured accurately.",
        "再者，事件的急速发展往往使得准确量化的工作难以为继。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it has offered several times to accept IAEA monitoring and has suggested that its civil nuclear program would be carried out with international cooperation.",
        "实际上，它几次表示接受国际原子能机构的监督并且表明在国际合作下实施其民用核子计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, we will be able to figure out which people, based on their genotype, will be helped or harmed by a particular drug, or how children can learn best with personalized feedback, or how to produce furniture and clothing in a world of 3D printers and real-time modeling.",
        "我们逐步可以根据基因类型确定某种药品对哪些人有益抑或有害、个性化反馈能对孩子的学习起到何种帮助，以及在3D打印、实时建模时代如何生产家具和服饰。"
    ],
    [
        "In December, US officials, seeking to better their understanding of North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs – and enable commanders to react swiftly if potential threats materialize – announced a new information-sharing agreement with South Korea and Japan.",
        "12月，美国官员为了更好地了解朝鲜导弹和核计划——以使其指挥官能在潜在威胁具体化时采取快速行动——而宣布了与韩国和日本的新情报共享协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Krugman’s heavy pounding of Chicago School economics goaded Cochrane, a professor of finance, into some bad-tempered counter-punching on the university’s Web site, much of which consisted of a personal attack on Krugman’s scientific integrity.",
        "原因在于：“经济学家，成为了这么一种团体，他们用具有迷惑力的数学来包装自己，给我们一个美丽的错觉，让我们看不清事情的本质。 ”同时，他们提供一个“理想化的经济模型，即市场是完美的，每个参与者都是理性的。"
    ],
    [
        "So what options does Egypt now have?",
        "那么，如今埃及的观点如何？"
    ],
    [
        "Sanders’s main advantage is that he comes off as authentic – a candidate, who, like the billionaire businessman Ross Perot in 1992, “tells it like it is” – while Clinton very much does not.",
        "桑德斯的主要优势在于他的真实——像1992年的亿万富翁罗斯·佩罗一样，“直言不讳不加掩饰”——而克林顿则完全反其道而行之。"
    ],
    [
        "But the nuclear accord reached last month is the product of a different political context: President Barack Obama was eager to make a deal with Iran part of his legacy, and this time, Rouhani, as President, was able to negotiate with the full backing of Khamenei, with whom (unlike Khatami) he has worked closely.",
        "但上个月所达成的核协议是不同的政治环境的产物：奥巴马总统急切地想与伊朗达成协议，并将此作为自己的政治遗产，同时，身为伊朗总统的鲁哈尼也得以在哈梅内伊的全力支持下参与谈判。 与哈塔米不同，鲁哈尼与哈梅内伊进行了紧密合作。"
    ],
    [
        "That is grossly inadequate.",
        "这根本无济于事。"
    ],
    [
        "If China is to avoid the debt-deflation trap, its leaders must make some adjustments.",
        "如果中国想避免债务-通缩陷阱，其宏观政策必须做出一些调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Tilly had been involved in two previous human deaths.",
        "在这桩事件之前， Tilly 还牵涉到另外两起人员死亡事件。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also an intermediation problem.",
        "还有一个中介问题。"
    ],
    [
        "While Abe has maintained his position on Yasukuni, his summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao was a promising step forward.",
        "尽管安倍维持其在靖国神社问题上的立场不变，但是，他与中国国家主席胡锦涛的会见就是一个令人鼓舞的举动。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the statistics on the duration of unemployment.",
        "就拿事业持续时间的数字来说吧。"
    ],
    [
        "This was certainly Jean Monnet’s hope.",
        "这显然是让·莫奈的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia Adrift",
        "亚洲随波逐流"
    ],
    [
        "Encouraged by the Kremlin’s anti-gay stance (the Russian minister of health has described gays as mentally ill) and alliance with the Orthodox Church, groups of citizens trap gays, humiliate them, force them to drink urine, openly beat them, and sometimes kill them.",
        "受克里姆林宫反同性恋立场的鼓励（俄罗斯卫生部将同性恋者定义为精神疾病）下，公民组织与东正教会合作给同性恋者挖陷阱，羞辱他们，强迫他们喝尿，公开殴打他们，有时候还杀害他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone who has ever wanted to figure out just how and why footballers get paid as much as they do can sign up for the Valoración de Futbolistas MOOC offered by the University of Valencia.",
        "任何人想要弄明白足球选手为何收入如此之高都可以的登陆巴伦西亚大学（University of Valencia）提供的Valoración de Futbolistas MOOC。"
    ],
    [
        "In the aftermath of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Americans simply could not envisage sharing their security responsibilities with others.",
        "2001年9月11日恐怖袭击后，美国已无法想象与他人共担安全责任。"
    ],
    [
        "While al-Qaeda and extremist movements have used this forum for many years, further poisoning the Muslim public’s view of the West, we in the West have barely even begun to compete.",
        "当基地组织和极端分子运动多年来使用这一论坛、进一步毒化穆斯林公众对西方的见解之时，我们在西方的人还基本上没有开始与之竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Where Did Market Volatility Go?",
        "市场波动到哪里去了?"
    ],
    [
        "Cherished by the donor community, Kenya received almost $1 billion of official development assistance in 2006 – up by 250% since 2002.",
        "得益于捐助者的慷慨，肯尼亚在2006年获得大约10亿美元的官方发展援助，比2002年大幅增长了250%。"
    ],
    [
        "The list of countries where press freedom is limited or under threat goes on, from Africa and the Middle East to Russia and most of the other ex-Soviet republics.",
        "新闻自由被限制或受到威胁的国家还有很多，从非洲和中东到俄罗斯和大部分其他前苏联国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Many in the financial-services industry are concerned about the costs of new regulations.",
        "金融服务业很多人关注新法规的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "That evolution will accelerate in the coming months and years, as NATO’s strengthens its role in shaping and delivering transatlantic security cooperation in the 21st century.",
        "箬北约在21世纪能促成跨大西洋两岸安全合作的达成，加强它在这方面的影响时，这一进程将在不久的未来大大加速。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the European core is obsessed with transcending history, with working out institutional mechanisms for overcoming the conflicts that scarred Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.",
        "相反，欧洲核心则热衷于超越历史，致力于建立制度性机制克服在20世纪上半叶摧残欧洲的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Oily Dirt",
        "油砂"
    ],
    [
        "But I used to be able to switch off from the world when on holiday, cut off from the intrusions of technology.",
        "但我往常都习惯在假期中把那些国家大事抛于脑后，把那些高科技产品丢在一边。"
    ],
    [
        "In that position, to the consternation of many former Wall Street colleagues, Gensler spent five years working vigorously to implement financial-reform legislation, including pursuing the aggressive regulation of derivatives.",
        "桑德斯曾在2009年试图（失败地）阻挠这一任命。 出乎许多前华尔街同事的意料，詹斯勒上任后花了五年时间大力实施金融监管立法，包括对衍生品进行激进监管。"
    ],
    [
        "When we cannot be sure how to improve the world, prudence becomes an important virtue, and grandiose visions can pose grave dangers.",
        "当我们不确定应该如何改善世界时，审慎就成了重要的美德，而宏伟蓝图可能给世界带来重大隐患。"
    ],
    [
        "France has a privacy law that explicitly defines both the scope of privacy and the circumstances in which the law applies.",
        "法国有一个隐私法明确定义了隐私的范围和该法适用的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as that earlier gradualism set the stage for a devastating financial crisis and a horrific recession in 2008-2009, there is mounting risk of yet another accident on what promises to be an even longer road to normalization.",
        "前一次渐进主义为2008—2009年的灾难性金融危机和可怕衰退奠定了条件，而现在，再次发生可能导致更加漫长的正常化过程的事故的风险正在积累。"
    ],
    [
        "Those investments will drain most of the country’s domestic savings and sustain high demand for imports.",
        "这些投资将消耗中国大部分国内储蓄并维持对进口的高需求。"
    ],
    [
        "In America and the West, many will probably regard Rowhani as the friendly face of the Islamic Republic, whereas Ahmadinejad was its true – because more radical – embodiment.",
        "美国和西方很多人将鲁哈尼视为伊斯兰共和国的温和派，因为艾哈迈迪内贾德更加激进而把他视作伊朗人的本来面目。"
    ],
    [
        "Denial of gay couples’ legal right to call themselves married is – has become – intolerably discriminatory.",
        "否认同性夫妻自称已婚的法定权利是——或者说变成了——不可忍受的歧视。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone’s economy contracted in the last three months of 2011; even Germany’s shrank.",
        "欧元区在2011年第四季度出现了收缩，就连德国也未能幸免。"
    ],
    [
        "STONY BROOK – The nuclear deal reached in July by Iran and its international interlocutors marks an obvious turning point in the Islamic Republic’s relations with the outside world, particularly with the United States.",
        "石溪—7月，伊朗与其国际谈判对手达成了核协议，该协议标志着伊斯兰共和国与外部世界（尤其是美国）关系的一个显而易见的转折点。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary stimulus in one country may even have a beneficial effect on the rest of the world, as its own restored income growth boosts imports from its trading partners.",
        "一国的货币刺激甚至有可能有利于世界其他国家，如果该国收入增长恢复刺激了从贸易伙伴国的进口的话。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community must now match its rhetoric with action.",
        "国际社会必须拿出行动来落实承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Riding on the plan’s success, its architect, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a former economy minister, was twice elected President (in 1994 and 1998), underscoring voter concern about price stability.",
        "凭借该计划成功的东风，其提出者、前经济部长卡多佐连续两次当选总统（1994年和1998年），彰显出选民对价格稳定的重视。"
    ],
    [
        "He was commendably humble to admit that he was wrong “to have raised expectations so high.”",
        "他虚心地承认“把期望值定得太高”是自己的错误，这种谦虚的态度是值得表扬的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, Europeans have talked about allowing “variable speeds” toward the implied goal of “ever closer union.”",
        "过去，欧洲人曾说过允许在实现“越来越紧密联盟”的过程中允许各成员国采取“不同的速度”。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa must ensure that its industrial-development strategy includes effective environmental safeguards.",
        "非洲必须确保其工业发展战略中包括有效的环境保护措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the key will be to bridge the gulf between Pakistan’s government and the forces of northern Afghanistan.",
        "在这个问题上，关键在于沟通巴基斯坦政府和北方联盟力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Because development-provoked erosion has brought the Gulf of Mexico 20 miles closer to land than it was in 1965, hurricanes are able to retain more strength, and their winds and waves pack more speed and destructive power.",
        "由于发展造成的侵蚀已经使墨西哥湾与陆地的距离比1965年拉近了20英里，从而使飓风能够积累更多的能量，也使狂风和波涛速度更快、破坏力更强。"
    ],
    [
        "The fallout from nuclear waste is one; humans’ contribution to global warming through greenhouse-gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, and its impact on rising sea levels, is another.",
        "核废料的影响仅是其中之一； 人类燃烧化石燃料释放温室气体造成海平面上升所导致的全球变暖则是另外一种可能的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Though I am, by nature, an optimist, I have to admit that it is very difficult not to be pessimistic as 2014 comes to a close.",
        "我是个天生的乐观主义者，但我得承认，在2014年行将尾声之际，不感到悲观很难。"
    ],
    [
        "Farmers near Beijing, for example, have been paid to convert croplands from rice to corn.",
        "比方说北京附近的农民已经得到补偿，让他们从水稻改种玉米。"
    ],
    [
        "Where do the European Union, the eurozone, and the EU’s highly indebted countries go from here?",
        "欧盟、欧元区以及债务沉重的欧元区成员国将何去何从？"
    ],
    [
        "And, by combating the culture of aid dependency in economically weaker states, India’s poorer regions might benefit in the long run as well.",
        "此外，通过解决经济疲软邦依赖援助的文化，从长期看印度贫困地区也可以获利。"
    ],
    [
        "Relations between the EU and Ukraine have always been complex.",
        "欧盟与乌克兰之间的关系一直非常复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "One wonders why euro bills are adorned with indistinct motifs, rather than with figures of universal appeal – da Vinci, Newton, Voltaire, Rembrandt, Cervantes, Chopin, or Beethoven – who best represent Europe’s cultural patrimony.",
        "你也许会奇怪为何欧元钞票上印的是朦胧的花纹，而不是人人敬仰的人物——达芬奇、牛顿、伏尔泰、伦勃朗、塞万提斯、肖邦或贝多芬这些欧洲文化遗产的最佳代表。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone, not just policymakers, needs to understand the consequences of our individual and collective choices.",
        "所有人（不光是决策者）需要理解个体和集体选择的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, renewables’ share of investment reached no less than 59%.",
        "2013年，不低于总投资额的59%流入到可再生能源投资。"
    ],
    [
        "That is welcome, because too often politicians, driven by the momentum of their own thoughts, make decisions that have serious adverse consequences in the long term.",
        "这是值得欢迎的变化，因为政客总是受到自身思维的推动，做出长期来看有严重消极后果的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "To most Chinese, the Japanese are paradigmatic “devils,” not only because of the brutality of Japanese imperialism and the sheer number of Chinese killed by Japanese troops.",
        "对多数中国人而言，日本人是魔鬼的象征，不仅因为日本侵略中国的残忍暴行以及被日本军队杀害的中国人人数之多，还有更早渊源的民族仇恨。"
    ],
    [
        "They are lucky that hostility to competition in what purports to be the homeland of free-market capitalism has kept Asian airlines out of their domestic marketplace.",
        "而他们之所以如此幸运的原因，则是因为在这个自我标榜为自由市场资本主义老家的国度里，对市场竞争的敌视竟能将所有亚洲航空公司隔绝在国门之外。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the Bush administration, as its officials repeatedly insist, placed the installation of democratic, human-rights-oriented regimes, by force if necessary, at the core of US foreign policy, those who see only aggressive imperialism in America’s interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq view human rights in a more skeptical light.",
        "由于布什政府的官员一再强调建立民主、以人权为导向的政治制度是美国外交政策的核心，并且为确保上述核心在必要时甚至不惜使用武力，更使得那些只在美国入侵阿富汗和伊拉克的行动中看到了侵略性帝国主义的人们对所谓的人权事业疑心重重。"
    ],
    [
        "This would be a tragedy.",
        "这将是个悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider how gangsters in crime movies talk when they know that the police are listening.",
        "想想犯罪电影中的黑帮在得知被警察监听时的对话吧。"
    ],
    [
        "An international elite of Olympic officials arose, living in a self-contained bubble of wealth and privilege.",
        "奥林匹克官员成了国际精英，他们生活在自成体系的财富和地位泡沫中。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, it has lost none of its relevance.",
        "悲哀的是，今天它的意义一点也没有减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Our model must be based on refugees’ full inclusion, as soon as possible, in labor markets and schools.",
        "我们的模式必须基于难民的尽快及充分融入，无论是在学校还是在劳动力市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Another challenge is the CMIM’s limited capacity for economic surveillance and monitoring.",
        "另一个挑战就是清迈协议有限的金融监控能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Our report also suggested that organizations should look to provide support to those who needed it, bearing in mind that individuals respond to and recover from trauma in different ways.",
        "”我们的报告还建议各媒体机构应该为那些需要的人提供支持，同时考虑到每个人都会对创伤有着不同的回应和复原方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Adherence to the principle of non-default produced the French Revolution, the lesson being that political systems will collapse if they take on too much debt and try to pay at any cost.",
        "坚持不违约原则催生了法国大革命，其教训是如果债务太重或不惜一切代价偿还债务，政治制度就会崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Both threats to America’s future can, in no small measure, be traced to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.",
        "这两个对美国未来的大威胁都可以追本溯源到阿富汗战争和伊拉克战争。"
    ],
    [
        "He later argued that Danone should be considered “French” because its “milk collection and its water sources are in France.”",
        "他接下来提出达能应该算作“法国”的企业，因为该公司“奶源和水源均取自法国”。"
    ],
    [
        "Two methods can give us a rough estimate how much digital economic activity we are failing to capture in our measurements.",
        "两种方法可以让我们粗略地估计有多少数字经济活动没能体现在我们的衡量指标中。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to policy innovations, more well-funded collaborations between governments and private institutions are needed.",
        "除了政策创新，政府和私人机构之间还需要更多资金充裕的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But until that happens, more US states should be encouraged to choose gun sanity for themselves.",
        "但在此之前，应该鼓励更多的州选择自己的明智的控枪之道。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the company’s software acts as a mediator between the driver and the consumer, in exchange for a fee.",
        "相反，该公司软件充当司机和消费者的中间人，并因此收取一定的费用。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has succeeded in part because it recognizes that the rights of individuals are inalienable and universal, and because it created institutions to protect those rights.",
        "欧洲在某些程度上取得了成功，因为它认识到个人的权利是不可分割和普世的，而且是因为它建立了保护这些权利的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "The logical answer would be to reduce equally the degree of job security enjoyed by the entire labor force.",
        "合理的解决方案是一视同仁地降低所有就业群体所享受的就业保障。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, democracy demands a degree of showmanship and pizzazz; politicians need to appeal to the mass of voters, and not just to an elite, which can afford to ignore hoi polloi.",
        "事实上，民主需要一定的演技和魅力； 政治家需要迎合广大选民，而不能仅仅具有脱离大众的精英情趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Letters from Indian soldiers in Europe to their families back home bespeak cultural dislocation and tragedy.",
        "印度士兵从欧洲写给家人的信显示出文化上的错位和悲情。"
    ],
    [
        "In some areas, however, PPPs can offer substantial value.",
        "但在一些领域，PPP可以巨大的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Inflation will then force even Janet Yellen’s dovish Federal Reserve to hike up interest rates sooner and faster than it otherwise would have done, which will drive up long-term interest rates and the value of the dollar still more.",
        "通胀反过来将迫使持鸽派态度的耶伦的美联储更早更快地提高利率，而提高利率将推高长期利率，进一步使美元升值。"
    ],
    [
        "It starts with completing the banking union.",
        "这将从完善银行联盟开始。"
    ],
    [
        "This was not the original goal of the “universal credit” system, but a government seeking to cut spending found slashing welfare to be irresistible.",
        "这可不是“通用福利”制度的最初目标，但一个试图削减支出的政府总是忍不住去压缩福利。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, even some “techno-libertarians,” who believe that government should not regulate new developments in biotechnology, have supported the US Food and Drug Administration’s decision – outlined in a scathing letter to 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki last November – to prevent the firm from marketing its tests pending further scientific analysis.",
        "事实上，即使在认为政府不应该监管生物技术的新发展的“技术自由主义者”（techno-libertarians）中也有不少支持美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的决定——FDA给23andMe公司CEO安妮·沃伊西奇（Anne Wojcicki）寄了一封措辞严厉的公函，阻止该公司在后续科学分析期间推销其遗传测试服务。"
    ],
    [
        "But while other large online platforms such as Facebook are taking steps to address the problem, Reddit remains defiant.",
        "但尽管Facebook等其他大型在线平台正在采取措施解决这个问题，Reddit却仍然无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "Egyptians are already wary of token reforms à la Tunisia, where longstanding President Zine El Abidin Bin Ali created a caricature of a constitutional amendment that appeared to open the door for competitive presidential elections, but then staged a sham contest with a few handpicked “opponents.”",
        "埃及人早已对突尼斯象征性的改革有所警觉，在那儿，在位多年的总统本·阿里自己绘制了一幅关于修改宪法的漫画。 他似乎对公开的总统选举敞开大门，然而却在之后精心挑选了几位“对手”，上演了一次伪装竞选。"
    ],
    [
        "If, on the other hand, the European Parliament’s members follow through on the logic of my case – if my shunning becomes the basis for a consistent policy – the EU will be on its way to creating a kind of morality police and launching a modern-day inquisition, one that crassly violates both freedom of religion and freedom of conscience.",
        "另一方面，如果欧洲议会成员顺势遵循我的案例逻辑，如果我的回避为一贯的政策提供了依据，欧盟就会走上一条建立道德警察、重设现代宗教法庭之路，那将会彻底毁掉宗教自由和信仰自由。"
    ],
    [
        "A third group, led by the US, has not yet made an explicit de-leveraging choice.",
        "以美国为首的第三类国家则尚未找到清晰的去杠杆化选项。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 2010 and 2016, the annual rate of population contraction exceeded 1%, and reached 1.8% in 2016.",
        "在2010到2016年间，波多黎各人口以每年超过1%的比例收缩，并在2016年扩大到1."
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that those fears persist, additional monetary easing can be expected.",
        "由于这一担忧是持久的，可以预期还会有更多的货币宽松。"
    ],
    [
        "It will provide space for generations of health professionals to learn how to heal patients, comprehend the sociology of disease, and build the health systems that make a strong society.",
        "它将为一代又一代医疗专业人士提供空间学习如何治愈患者、理解疾病的社会学，以及构建能造就强大社会的卫生体系。"
    ],
    [
        "There are hopeful signs: more than 160 countries have signed the World Health Organization’s global tobacco control treaty, and the Caribbean heads of state have recently declared they want to tackle tobacco together.",
        "现在出现了希望的迹象。 超过160个国家已经签署世界卫生组织全球烟草控制条约，而加勒比各国领导人最近宣布他们将联合一致对付烟草问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to a series of sham trials targeting secularist officers, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had managed to reconfigure the military hierarchy and place his own people at the top.",
        "拜一系列针对世俗论官员的虚伪神牌所赐，土耳其总统埃尔多安成功地重塑了军队层级，将自己人安插在最高层。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Chinese media also played an ignominious role, publishing slanted articles on Japan that helped to fan the fire.",
        "但是中国媒体却通过刊登煽动群众怒火的反日本的文章，扮演了一个不光彩的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Mujahedin factions and later the Taliban exported stands of fine-grained cedar by the truckload from Nangahar and surrounding provinces to Pakistan, often in return for arms.",
        "圣战组织的派系以及后来的塔利班用货车从楠阿哈省及周边地区向巴基斯坦出口品种优良的杉木，经常以此交换武器。"
    ],
    [
        "The West, particularly the United States, has lived through such a moment of recognition before, when the USSR launched Sputnik in 1957.",
        "西方社会，尤其是美国，在苏联于1957年发射人造卫星的那一段时间曾经对这一问题有很好的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "Populism means a politics of the people, juxtaposed against a politics of the elites.",
        "民粹主义意味着人民政治，其针对的是精英政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Such rhetoric resonates powerfully in former Soviet satellites that have only recently regained their sovereignty.",
        "这种说法引起了最近才重新赢得主权的前苏维埃人造卫星的强烈共鸣。"
    ],
    [
        "Acknowledging the importance of how economic benefits are distributed is of course not new.",
        "承认经济收益如何分配的重要性当然不是新鲜事。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite considerable data and analysis, productivity’s role in the current malaise has been difficult to pin down – and, in fact, seems not to be as pivotal as many think.",
        "但是，尽管我们拥有大量数据和分析，但生产率在当前经济萎靡中的角色仍然难以定论——事实上，它似乎不如许多人所认为的那样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "These developments put us at the edge of a global energy transformation – as long as we get the next steps right.",
        "这些变化将我们带到全球能源转型边缘——前提是我们下一步的举措相对合理。"
    ],
    [
        "A nuclear Iran might even threaten America’s capacity to project conventional military force in the Gulf in times of crisis.",
        "拥有核武器的伊朗甚至可能在危机的时候威胁美国在海湾地区部署常规军力的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the war, the bitter enmities between Al Qaeda and other Salafist and Sunni Arab nationalist groups have given way to cooperation or even mergers.",
        "战后“基地”组织和其他萨拉菲斯特和逊尼派阿拉伯民族主义团体间苦涩的仇恨已经被合作、甚至兼并所取代。"
    ],
    [
        "Sovereigns with high and/or rising debt levels may find them sustainable now, given aggressively accommodative monetary policy.",
        "那些负债水平较高并/或正在上升的主权国家现在可能绝大情况是可以维持的，因为实施了积极宽松的货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "I am a philosopher, so you would be justified in suspecting bias in my view.",
        "我是哲学家，因此你大有理由质疑我的观点有失偏颇。"
    ],
    [
        "This type of enhanced cooperation and diplomacy could pay large dividends.",
        "如此加强合作和外交能够带来巨大的红利。"
    ],
    [
        "ROME – Recently, I was on a road in the Southern Choma District of Zambia to meet with Rosemary Pisani, a smallholder farmer and mother of eight who struggled to feed her children prior to joining a farmer’s cooperative to raise goats.",
        "发自罗马——我最近一直都在赞比亚的佐马区南部奔波，与罗丝玛丽·皮萨尼会面，她是一位小佃农，也是8个孩子的母亲，她过去总要为填饱孩子们的肚皮犯愁，甚至连加入农业合作社养羊的事都无暇顾及。"
    ],
    [
        "But they also engaged in a broad range of industrial policies to ensure that these firms were growing and diversifying into new product lines.",
        "但它们也采取了广泛的产业政策以确保这些企业的增长和向新生产线进军。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2012, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi were gunned down in Toulouse.",
        "2012年，三名犹太学生和一位犹太教士在图卢兹被枪杀。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades, his personal rule imposed a false unity on Yugoslavia.",
        "数十年以来，他的个人统治将一种团结的假象强加于南斯拉夫。"
    ],
    [
        "For one thing, all economic reasoning is contextual, with as many conclusions as potential real-world circumstances.",
        "一来所有经济推理都属于情境推理，真实世界有多少种可能情况就会推演出多少种结论。"
    ],
    [
        "More than half of the 43 members of the Association of Small Island States believe that the decision to do nothing, to let ocean waters rise, can be considered tantamount to approval of murder.",
        "而在小型岛国联合体的 43 个成员国中，有超过一半相信上述决议根本毫无作用，坐视海平面上升，实际就上就是赞成谋杀。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Fed decides to raise interest rates this year, which emerging markets are most vulnerable to a capital-flow reversal?",
        "如果美联储今年决定加息，哪些新兴经济体最容易受到资本流出的打击？"
    ],
    [
        "His patience, civility, and politics of reconciliation provided me a better example of democracy and good governance than any civics class could have done.",
        "他的耐心，文雅以及和解政治都为我提供了一个民主和优秀治理和的绝佳范本，比所有公民教育都要更加生动和深刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalisation produced its own domino effect. The dominoes toppled; GDP rose; millions were lifted out of poverty; literacy rates soared; child mortality figures fell.",
        "全球化效应创造了自己独有的一套多米诺骨牌。 随着骨牌不断倒下，GDP上升，数百万人脱离了贫困，受教育程度飞升，婴儿死亡率也随之下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The social return on investment may be high, but private returns are low, owing to externalities, high taxes, poor institutions, or any of a wide array of other factors.",
        "投资的社会回报也许很高，但由于外部性、高税收、制度和机构不健全或以上因素的综合作用，其私人回报很低。"
    ],
    [
        "I have in mind the extraordinary image of Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand at Verdun in 1984, two old leaders, standing hand in hand, remembering the victims of World War I.",
        "1984年的凡尔登给我留下了深刻的印象，两名老一辈领导人科尔（Helmut Kohl）和密特朗手牵手纪念第一次世界大战的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "But any Allied victory would have required the large-scale use of nuclear weapons, and a death toll in Europe that would most likely have been twice the actual World War II death toll of perhaps 40 million.",
        "但盟军的胜利必将大规模使用核武器，欧洲死亡人数极有可能达到第二次世界大战实际死亡人数（可能超过4000万）的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, Temer must tackle pension reform.",
        "第三，特梅尔必须实施退休金改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that poor-quality services, and social mobility ground to a halt.",
        "此外服务质量低下，社会流动也近乎停止。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite his relative inexperience in international affairs, Obama showed a similar skill in reacting to a complex set of foreign-policy challenges.",
        "尽管他在国际事务上相对缺乏经验，但奥巴马仍显露了类似的应对一系列复杂外交政策挑战的技巧。"
    ],
    [
        "No wonder the impressive premier is thought to favor some political loosening.",
        "难怪这位给人印象深刻的总理似乎也打算给国内政治松绑了。"
    ],
    [
        "Among others, Larry Fink, the Center for American Progress, and Hillary Clinton propose this approach.",
        "拉里·芬克、美国进步中心（Center for American Progress）和希拉里·克林顿都建议采取这一方针。"
    ],
    [
        "In a 5-4 majority, the Court ruled that corporations are “associations of individuals,” and thus that any limits on the amount of money corporations could spend on political campaigns violated their First Amendment right to freedom of expression.",
        "最高法院以5比4多数裁定公司是“个体组成的联合体”，因此对公司为政治竞选花多少钱施加任何限制都违反了宪法第一修正案的言论自由权。"
    ],
    [
        "If they try to clamp down by raising domestic interest rates, they will only attract greater capital inflows.",
        "如果它们为了紧缩经济而加息，只会吸引更多的资本流入。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, it makes relative wages (of, say, manufacturing versus services employees) more rigid, because wage contracts are generally set in euro terms.",
        "其次，它让相对工资（比如制造业相对服务业的工资）更加刚性，因为工资合同常常根据欧元确定。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the two leaders and their administrations must overcome monumental challenges as their countries strive to reach the next stage of their development.",
        "随着两国向着下一个发展阶段奋力迈进，两位领导人及其政府都必须克服巨大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Trade found that only 7% of 153 EU companies refer to a due-diligence policy for conflict minerals in their annual reports or on their Web sites.",
        "类似地，欧盟委员会贸易总司（Directorate General for Trade）发现，在153家欧盟公司中，只有7%在年报或网站中提到了对冲突矿产的尽职调查。"
    ],
    [
        "Mainstream economics offers a straightforward analysis of and policy response to such a transformation.",
        "主流经济学对这样的转型提供了直白的分析和政策应对。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time of the December 1971 Smithsonian Agreement, 308 yen to the dollar was supposed to do the trick.",
        "在1971年12月达成“史密斯协定”时，308日元兑1美元被认为就可以产生预期的效果了。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first quarter of 2015, governments should declare their countries’ intended contributions to that effort, thereby boosting confidence and accelerating progress en route to Paris.",
        "2015年第一季度，各国政府应该宣布各自计划为这一责任做出什么贡献，以提振信心，加快通往巴黎的进程。"
    ],
    [
        "For several decades, growth has served as a substitute for sensible social cohesion policies.",
        "几十年来，经济增长一直被当作合理社会凝聚政策的替代品。"
    ],
    [
        "Suicide bombers have struck repeatedly at military installations and personnel around the army’s headquarters in Rawalpindi.",
        "自杀炸弹已经多次袭击位于拉瓦尔品第军队总部周围的军事设施和人员。"
    ],
    [
        "Strikingly, Outside the Law is a Franco-Algerian production, and it has already caused political controversy: it was denounced by Lionnel Luca, a French deputy who is, as one French periodical put it, “nostalgic for a French Algeria.”",
        "出乎意料的是，《法外之徒》这部电影是法国和阿尔及利亚联合制作的； 而预料之中的是，这部片引起了政治上的争议：正如一本法国刊物写道，“怀念法属阿尔及利亚”的法国议员里欧内·吕卡对该片大加指责。"
    ],
    [
        "But even that spike was dwarfed by the increase in mentions and corresponding worries about the dollar starting in 2001, reflecting the shock of the terrorist attacks that September, the mushrooming growth of the US trade deficit, and then the global financial crisis of 2008.",
        "但与2001年以来对美元坠落论的提及和相关的担忧相比，20世纪70年代的高峰也只能感叹一山更比一山高。 2001年后的美元坠落论与当年9月的恐怖袭击冲击、美国贸易赤字激增以及随后的2008年全球金融危机有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama is still fighting back home for his healthcare initiative, and is hamstrung from acting on climate change in time for the Copenhagen summit, which is to agree on a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol.",
        "就目前而言，奥巴马依然深陷在美国国内卫生法案的政治斗争当中难以自拔，而且也难以及时地为即将给京都议定书制定后续协议的哥本哈根峰会做点什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s vow to tear up the rules is a recipe for another Great Depression, with massive unemployment and millions of people unable to pay their mortgages, student loans, and other debts.",
        "特朗普信誓旦旦要撕毁这些规则，这将导致又一场大萧条，带来大规模失业，让数百万人无法偿还按揭、学生贷款和其他债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The center of fiscal conservatism is Germany, while Anglo-Saxon countries are still drawn to John Maynard Keynes.",
        "德国是财政保守主义的核心，而盎格鲁-撒克逊国家则抱定了凯恩斯的大腿。"
    ],
    [
        "They have been grappling with the need to create effective administrative institutions and foster an independent judiciary.",
        "他们竭力建立有效的行政机构并培育独立的司法体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Mexico’s NAFTA experience should make us extremely cautious about such prognostications.",
        "但从墨西哥的NAFTA经验看，我们应该非常谨慎地对待这样的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, to this day, wines are made there.",
        "因此，时至今日，那里一直是葡萄酒产地。"
    ],
    [
        "Political solidarity must be underpinned by effective financial solidarity.",
        "政治上的团结一致必须先得到有效的财政团结的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the equanimity of its response to North Korea’s military attacks against South Korea in 2010 left South Koreans, who are also China’s neighbors, in despair about bilateral relations.",
        "中国对2010年朝鲜炮击韩国延坪岛事件视若无睹，让许多同为邻居的韩国人对两国关系大感绝望。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the Great Recession began, this process operated in reverse, unwinding the excesses.",
        "而一旦大衰退拉开序幕，这一过程也被逆转，开始消灭过剩。"
    ],
    [
        "By forming partnerships with governments and international and local organizations, companies can help reduce the impact of devastating and costly diseases.",
        "通过与政府和国际及地方组织结成合作关系，公司可以助减轻昂贵的灾难性疾病的影响一臂之力。"
    ],
    [
        "The claim is to exclusive representation.",
        "他们宣扬绝对代表。"
    ],
    [
        "Could the crisis remind us that we buy luxury items more because of the status they bring than because of their intrinsic value?",
        "危机是否可能提醒我们，我们购买奢侈品更多的是因为它们所带来的身份，而不是其内在的价值？"
    ],
    [
        "The expanding scope and diminishing costs of automation and additive manufacturing may affect labor-intensive functions globally, including in earlier-stage developing countries.",
        "自动化和快速成型制造业领域的扩张和成本的下降将影响全球劳动密集型产业，包括位于早期发展阶段国家者。"
    ],
    [
        "But even that has not worked out as planned, partly because the world of 2013 bears little resemblance to that of 1945.",
        "但即便是这个安排，也没有按计划展开，部分是因为2013年的世界与1945年已经毫无相似之处。"
    ],
    [
        "By appearing dignified, defiant, and forceful, Bo evidently sought to preserve his image among his allies and supporters as a strong leader.",
        "通过展示有尊严、反抗、坚强的一面，薄显然试图维护其在盟友和支持者中间强有力领导形象。"
    ],
    [
        "One sure way of doing so is to use financial leverage, typically by selling land or using land as collateral to borrow large sums of money from often-obliging state-owned banks, to finance massive infrastructure projects, as Bo did in Chongqing.",
        "对此一个屡试不爽的手段就是利用金融杠杆，一般通过出售土地或者以土地作为抵押品来从“乐善好施”的国有银行处搞到大笔贷款，以此资助大规模基础设施项目，正如薄熙来在重庆的所作所为。"
    ],
    [
        "Outside the Law, directed by Rachid Bouchareb, narrates the story of the massacre at Setif, Algeria, in May 1945.",
        "拉契得·波查拉导演的《法外之徒》讲述的是1945年5月在阿尔及利亚的塞提夫所发生的大屠杀。"
    ],
    [
        "But if we can’t compete, can we co-operate?",
        "但是如果我们不能竞争，那么我们可以合作吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But, unfortunately, doing so is still a country-by-country decision – the collective mechanisms for recapitalizing European banks remain partial and far too weak.",
        "但不幸的是，这仍然是一个各国各自做出的决定——重组欧洲银行的集体机制仍然只是局部性质，并且远远不够强大。"
    ],
    [
        "Bombing Libya did not bring Muammar Qadaffi “in from the cold.”",
        "轰炸利比亚并没有使卡扎菲“就范”。"
    ],
    [
        "The only appropriate response is the one chosen by the US Embassy in Cairo, which denounced the film and said that the American government condemns those who offend others’ religious beliefs.",
        "唯一正确的反应是美国驻开罗大使的选择：谴责这部影片，声明美国政府谴责冒犯他人宗教信仰的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "It pays to think before acting.",
        "三思而后行，必有福焉。"
    ],
    [
        "These expanded equations, which incorporate an idea called supersymmetry, predict many new effects.",
        "这些扩展方程组包涵着一种理念，叫做“超对称”，这种理念预言了许多新现象的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Since last year, prices have declined in the US.",
        "从去年以来，美国的房地产价格已经下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, in a country where capitalism has historically been very weak, there is something to be said for the incentive-driven logic behind the move.",
        "但法国的资本主义从来都非常孱弱，对于这一动作背后的激励驱动逻辑还是可以说出一些门道。"
    ],
    [
        "But I doubt whether anything tougher than strongly worded communiqués will ever be employed.",
        "但是，我怀疑除了措辞强烈的声明之外，欧洲不会采取更严厉的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Those actors that successfully capitalize on this shift are likely to be large enough to influence the global digital landscape, inspiring digital entrepreneurs far beyond China’s borders.",
        "那些成功抓住这一商机的企业，很可能将快速发展壮大，其规模将足以大到影响全球数字版图，并激励更多在海外的数字创业者。"
    ],
    [
        "According to one recent study, if artemisinin resistance is allowed to spread, malaria will kill at least 116,000 more people every year.",
        "根据一份最新研究，如果放任青蒿素耐药性扩散，疟疾每年至少要多杀死116,000人。"
    ],
    [
        "Vietnamese deaths and casualties outnumbered American deaths and casualties by perhaps 20 to one, but the US still could not subdue the nationalist adversary that they faced.",
        "在越战中，越南的人员伤亡与美国相比大约是20比1，但即便如此，美国也未能征服其面对的民族主义敌手。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as globalization generates aggregate growth, it produces winners and losers.",
        "尽管全球化创造了总体增长，但也产生了 赢家和输家。"
    ],
    [
        "And, so far, we have neither.",
        "可是，到目前为止，我们两样都没能做到。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rousseff administration has kept the reported inflation rate artificially low by suppressing prices for state-run services.",
        "4%，穷人受到的冲击尤其严重。 罗塞夫政府通过压制国家服务价格人为压低报告通胀率。"
    ],
    [
        "After a three-month journey through the mountains, the British reached Magdala, released the hostages, and burned the capital to the ground.",
        "在山区行进了三个月后，英国人才到达抹大拉，解救了人质，将阿比西尼亚首都焚为焦土。"
    ],
    [
        "Combined, the TPP economies account for some 40% of world GDP, outstripping the largest existing free-trade area, the European Union.",
        "TPP经济体总共占了世界GDP的40%左右，超过了现有最大自由贸易区欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, inflation targeting was once essential to limit runaway price growth.",
        "诚然，通胀目标曾经对于遏制物价增长失控至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Innovation and Its Discontents",
        "创新及其引发的不满情绪"
    ],
    [
        "Most developing nations have opened themselves significantly to foreign trade and no longer employ the most damaging policies of the past (such as quantitative restrictions on imports).",
        "多数发展中国家已经在很大程度上实现了向对外贸易开放，放弃了过去那种最为有害的贸易政策（比如对进口采取数量限制）。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s actions have had the reverse effect to what was presumably intended; the invasion of Georgia has made a powerful case for further NATO enlargement.",
        "而俄罗斯所采取的行动却对其想要达到的目的产生了反效果； 而俄罗斯对格鲁吉亚的入侵，更是成为了继续扩展北约的一个强大的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "One evening, I listened to my parents and my grandmother talking about the past.",
        "一天傍晚，我听到父母和祖母在谈论过去。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the US has stated that it has no immediate interest in negotiating a trade deal with Britain.",
        "事实上美国已表示自身不存在与英国谈判贸易协定的迫切意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "One in every nine people on the planet – 795 million in all – still goes to sleep hungry.",
        "地球上有九分之一的人口——总数高达7. 95亿——仍然每天饿着肚子睡觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Subsidies to US oil producers have often been sold on national-security grounds; in fact, a policy to “drain America first” reduces self-sufficiency in the longer run.",
        "美国石油生产商的补贴常常打着国家安全旗号； 事实上，“先耗尽美国”的政策从长期看降低了能源自给率。"
    ],
    [
        "The figure is 11% in Cairo, Egypt, and 17% in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.",
        "在埃及的开罗是 11%，在沙特阿拉伯的利雅得是17%。"
    ],
    [
        "If India is to maintain its competitiveness, a focus on dramatically improving the nation’s urban areas is imperative.",
        "如果印度要维持其竞争力，那么专注于答复改善其城市区是必不可少的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the run-up to the pre-election debates between Obama and Romney, both sides should agree to submit detailed budget proposals in the correct format for CBO assessment.",
        "奥巴马和罗姆尼就要进入选前辩论了，双方应该都会投以提交格式正确的详细预算方案让国会预算办公室评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Former members of several of the guerrilla groups that arose during the 1960’s and 1970’s have been reintegrated into Colombian society following peace agreements.",
        "二十世纪六七十年代崛起的若干前游击组织成员在订立和平协议后已经重新融入了哥伦比亚社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Reports of yellow fever infection in non-immunized travelers returning from a country where vaccination against the disease is mandatory highlights the need to reinforce the implementation of vaccination requirements.",
        "报告有从强制性接种黄热病疫苗的国家归来的未免疫旅行者黄热病传染病例突显出强制实施接种要求的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "An example of successful waste management is the reprocessing of PET bottles (made of polyethylene terephthalate) into polyester fibers.",
        "成功废物管理的一个例子是将PET瓶子（聚对苯二甲酸乙二醇酯制品）处理成聚酯纤维。"
    ],
    [
        "Another risk is that, while the emirate has enjoyed a long period of political and economic stability, a significant regional upheaval could cause foreign workers, whatever their skill level, to take flight, regardless of the promise of high salaries and an attractive lifestyle.",
        "另外一个危险因素是尽管阿拉伯联合酋长国政治和经济长期稳定，但重大的地区动荡却可能导致外国工人，无论其技术水平如何，不顾高薪承诺和引人入胜的生活方式匆忙逃离。"
    ],
    [
        "With a development plan by the Port of Singapore Authority having fallen through, the China Overseas Ports Holding Company has taken over, raising strategic concerns in India, Japan, and the US.",
        "新加坡港务局对瓜达尔港的开发计划失败，中国海外港口控股公司接手，这引起了印度、日本和美国的战略担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "When confronted with this exodus of high-value service jobs and businesses, Britain would surely balk and accept the intrusive regulations entailed by Swiss and Norwegian-style EU association agreements.",
        "面临如此巨大的高价值服务业就业岗位和企业的流失，英国显然只能屈服，接受瑞士和挪威的欧盟合作协议中的侵略性监管条款。"
    ],
    [
        "If a lack of skills or experience is not preventing women from reaching the summit of monetary policymaking, what is?",
        "如果不是技能和经验的缺乏阻止了女性问鼎货币决策巅峰，那是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "The current movement in many developed countries towards electronic medical records will improve health care directly, but it will also lead to much improved information liquidity to help genetic and other medical research.",
        "当前许多发达国家建立电子病案的行动将直接改进医疗卫生状况，此外还能大大提高信息流动性，从而为基因和其他医学研究提供帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the coming decades, the total benefit would reach about $22 trillion.",
        "在未来十年中，总收益将达到约22万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "It is sheer fantasy to believe that the threat of an aid cutoff would enable the US and Europe to influence the course of Ethiopia’s complex internal politics.",
        "如果认为威胁取消援助就能改变目前埃塞俄比亚国内复杂的政治走向，简直纯属是天方夜谭。"
    ],
    [
        "But it requires major investments to develop both traditional energy means and renewable ones.",
        "但发展传统和可再生能源都需要进行巨大的投入。"
    ],
    [
        "A dark cloud, in the form of a possible referendum on whether the UK will remain in the European Union hangs over the outcome, but no one talks about it much.",
        "虽然人们都小心翼翼地三缄其口，但决定英国是否留在欧盟的全民公决的阴云自始至终从未散去。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month alone, 54,000 Yemeni workers were expelled from Saudi Arabia.",
        "仅上月一月，就有 54,000 名也门劳工被从沙特驱逐。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to imagine that higher interest rates and reduced credit availability will not lead to distress for Europe’s overall economy.",
        "很难想象越来越高的利率以及信用可获得性的减少不会给欧洲整体的经济带来危机。"
    ],
    [
        "This year’s report focuses on the nature of work: how the way we earn a living is being transformed by economic globalization, new technologies, and innovations in social organization.",
        "今年的报告关注焦点是工作的性质：我们讨生活的方式如何被经济全球化、新科技和社会组织方面的创新所改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But all public actors, not just the police, must respond to urban problems.",
        "但是，不仅仅是警察，而且是所有的公共机关都必须对城市问题作出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite horrific twentieth-century backsliding in Europe, secularism has served to blunt the edge of bigotry, because secular reasoning, unlike divine revelation, is never conclusive.",
        "尽管二十世纪的欧洲发生了可怕的倒退，但世俗化仍有助于钝化偏执，因为世俗理性不同于神启，不具有一锤定音的效力。"
    ],
    [
        "In a global world, what happens within one country can all too easily affect others.",
        "在全球化社会里，一个国家发生的事情很容易影响到其它国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, the Fed’s mere announcement that it would gradually wind down its monthly purchases of long-term financial assets triggered a “taper” tantrum in global financial markets and emerging markets.",
        "去年，美联储仅仅宣布将逐渐减少其月度长期金融资产购买量便在全球金融市场和新兴市场引发了“取消”之怒。"
    ],
    [
        "The most successful tend to be those that find a clear niche and stick to it.",
        "最成功的INGO总是那些找到明确利基并坚持不懈者。"
    ],
    [
        "For its part, the AFM will calculate its benchmark separately for the eight major pharmaceutical companies that currently appear to be working on replacement drugs, generic producers, and firms focused solely on research and development.",
        "就药品获取基金会而言，它将针对目前似乎正在从事替代药、仿制药生产和专注研发工作的八大药企分别展开基准运算工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2008, however, few aspiring entrepreneurs have been able to borrow significant amounts of money from banks.",
        "但是，2008年以来，很少有雄心勃勃的企业家能够从银行借到大笔资金。"
    ],
    [
        "He also hinted at more flexibility in negotiations with the United States.",
        "他还暗示将在对美谈判时采取更为灵活的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Two surprising conclusions are emerging in today’s discussions, but only one has been fully digested.",
        "今天，人们在讨论中得出了两个吃惊的结论，但是只有其中一个得到了完整的分析。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the BRICS countries remain an economic force to be reckoned with, accounting for 25.7% of world GDP, 42% of the global population, and 17% of total trade.",
        "事实上，金砖国家仍然是不容小觑的经济力量，它们贡献了世界GDP的25. 7%、人口的42%、贸易总量的17%。"
    ],
    [
        "He is now a venture capitalist who evangelizes about the growing importance of software in business today.",
        "如今他成为了一位风投资本家，致力于宣扬软件在商业上不断提升的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, unlike in 2005, the G-8 needs to present a plan of action.",
        "而且，不像2005年那样，八国集团需要提出行动规划。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s debt ratio will rise from 170% to 177% (despite a 58-percentage-point debt-relief scheme in 2012), Portugal’s will surge from 108% to 127%, and France’s will rise from 86% to 96%.",
        "希腊的债务比率将从170%升至177%（尽管在2012年获得了58个百分点的债务纾困），葡萄牙的债务比率将从108%升高到127%，法国将从86%升高到96%。"
    ],
    [
        "Coal mining will play no significant role in future US employment trends, Trump or no Trump.",
        "无论有没有特朗普，采矿业在未来美国就业趋势中都将不会发挥重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "I am committed to working to maintain economic openness, because it is good for America and for our workers.",
        "我致力于维持经济开放，因为这有利于美国以及美国工人。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall government expenditure is only weakly correlated with the size of the government.",
        "政府总支出与政府规模的相关性相当弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that the absence of reliable data can make the need to protect a species seem more abstract and less urgent, weakening governments’ capacity to resist other, more immediate demands, especially the need to protect relevant livelihoods.",
        "问题在于缺乏可靠数据可以让保护特定物种的必要性显得抽象和不那么紧迫，削弱政府抵制其他更直接需求的能力，特别当牵涉到对相关人员的生计予以保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Jonathan appears to be incapable of tackling the official corruption that, as the US report emphasized, pervades all sectors, from the police to the courts.",
        "乔纳森似乎无力处理好官员腐败问题——美国报告强调，腐败在尼日利亚已是无孔不入，从警察到法院皆无法幸免。"
    ],
    [
        "And by forcing its food culture on countries like Mexico and Canada, the United States is making the problem worse.",
        "而通过将其饮食文化强加给墨西哥和加拿大等国，美国正在令问题变得更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "In the face of a massive Russian propaganda assault, the West must continue to stand up for Ukraine, as well as for Georgia and NATO members like Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.",
        "在面临巨大的俄罗斯宣传攻势时，西方必须继续捍卫乌克兰和格鲁吉亚，以及爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚和立陶宛等北约成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "First, as in many other democracies, support for the United Kingdom’s two main political parties is declining.",
        "首先，与许多其他民主国家一样，英国两大政党的支持度正在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone has gained to some degree.",
        "任何人都在某种程度上获得了好处。"
    ],
    [
        "The demonstration led to a postponement of the bill, and ultimately to its withdrawal, as well as to the resignation of the Secretary for Security, who was responsible for it.",
        "示威活动导致了该项法案的推迟和其最终的撤销。 应对此负责的保安局长也被迫辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "It is true that Thailand’s queen herself recently presided over the funeral of a protestor killed in a clash with the police.",
        "事实上，泰国王后本人最近亲自主持了一个在与警察的冲突中被杀的抗议者的葬礼。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, Abbas was able to forge an agreement with the political arm of Hamas for the formation of a unity government.",
        "但是，阿巴斯还是与哈马斯的政治力量达成协议，建立一个联合政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientists increasingly believe that global warming will be accompanied by larger climatic disturbances.",
        "科学家们越来越相信全球变暖会带来明显的气候改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Human migration is as old as history. Even migration to distant places and remote cultures is nothing new.",
        "人类的迁徙与我们的历史一样悠久，即便移民到遥远、陌生的国度也毫不新奇。"
    ],
    [
        "The unemployment rate, now 5.6%, has fallen to less than half that of the eurozone.",
        "目前5. 6%的失业率也不及欧元区的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – When President Richard Nixon proclaimed in the early 1970’s that he wanted to secure national energy independence, the United States imported a quarter of its oil.",
        "美国剑桥—20世纪70年代初，在尼克松总统表示希望能够保证国家能源独立的时候，美国有四分之一的原油需要进口。"
    ],
    [
        "After intensive discussion among the six, and especially between France and Germany, the Treaty of Rome was drawn up and signed within two years of the EDC debacle.",
        "在六国之间，特别是法德之间的激烈讨论之后，起草了《罗马公约》，并在EDC彻底失败的两年之内签署了该公约。"
    ],
    [
        "Escaping George Bush’s Future",
        "逃离乔治·布什的未来"
    ],
    [
        "As it goes to the polls, India, with a sixth of the world's population, should offer an instructive example of the latter.",
        "正在走向大选的人口占世界六分之一的印度应该成为后者的典范。"
    ],
    [
        "The peripheral countries’ external deficits are falling rapidly, thus diminishing the need for foreign financing.",
        "外围国家的对外赤字正在急速下降，从而减少了对境外融资的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet they cannot, by themselves, resolve the underlying problems of global imbalances and the huge debt overhang.",
        "但它们本身无法解决全球失衡和巨额债务积压等根本问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Before becoming Premier and Party chief, he experimented with everything from the de-collectivization of agriculture and separation of the Party from business to laws guaranteeing the rights of journalists and greater openness toward the outside world for ordinary people.",
        "就任总理和总书记以前，他就已经尝试了农业的非集体化、将党政与企业和法律分开、保证记者的言论权利和加强普通百姓的对外开放。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-7 or G-8 leaders could issue a statement, for instance, urging the US to get its fiscal house in order.",
        "比方说，G-7或G-8集团领导人可以发表声明，敦促美国解决其财政问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless it finds a way to improve, the country's demographic profile could become a burden rather than a benefit.",
        "除非找到改善办法，否则印度人口结构将成为负担而不是优势。"
    ],
    [
        "One year after he was re-elected in a landslide, Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been forced to dissolve the National Assembly and call a snap election.",
        "在他信以压倒性胜利再次当选泰国总理之后一年被迫解散国民议会并举行提前选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, it requires a technological and politico-economic breakthrough in favor of renewable energy, rather than a return to nuclear power or coal.",
        "最后，这还要求可再生能源技术上和政治经济突破，而不是回到核能以及煤炭。"
    ],
    [
        "But, now that house prices have collapsed and credit is unavailable to underwater households, demand has plummeted.",
        "但是，随着房价的崩溃，资不抵债的家庭不再能够获得信用，需求也随之大跌。"
    ],
    [
        "But now the 25 member states must deal with the financial consequences of that enlargement, not just in the overall size of the European Union budget for the next seven years, but in who pays and who benefits.",
        "但现在这25个成员国必须面对扩盟带来的财政后果，这种后果不仅体现在未来7年内欧盟预算的总体数量，还体现在谁将付出而谁将获益。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is no need to reinvent the wheel, because the solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict is embodied in the main peace plans that are already on the table: the Clinton peace parameters, and the all-Arab peace initiative.",
        "这并不意味着我们要推倒重来，因为化解阿拉伯与以色列的矛盾的解决方案体现在了已经被摆上桌面的主要和平计划中：即克林顿的和平参数，和在整个阿拉伯实现和平的倡议。"
    ],
    [
        "As Managing Director of the IMF, I have had the privilege of working closely with Jim Wolfensohn, seeing up close a man with an extraordinary mission: the sustainable reduction of global poverty.",
        "作为国际货币基金组织的常务理事，我有幸和吉姆·沃尔芬森在工作上保持密切联系，从而得以近距离了解这个肩负着不断减少全球贫困的特殊使命的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Some are poorly secured.",
        "其中一些安保薄弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The remaining $20 billion will go toward a joint investment fund with the United Arab Emirates and Qatar to invest in traditional energy, infrastructure development, and high-end manufacturing industries in the region.",
        "其他200亿美元将以与阿联酋和卡塔尔组成联合投资基金的形式，投资于该地区的传统能源、基础设施开发和高端制造业。"
    ],
    [
        "A small image of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol – there are many of those, too – sold for $41 million.",
        "安迪·沃霍尔的玛丽莲·梦露像——也有多幅在世——也卖了4,100万美元。"
    ],
    [
        "When shocks hit a fragile financial system, as in 2007 and 2008, the government has reason to guarantee the money market funds, as US authorities did.",
        "但脆弱的金融体系遭受冲击时（比如2007年和2008年），政府就有理由站出来为货币市场基金提供担保，美国当局正是这么做的。"
    ],
    [
        "The obvious answer is that we do not have time; Chapter 11 procedures are generally long and complex, and the current crisis has reached a point where time is of the essence.",
        "显然，答案是我们没有时间; 一般来说，按第11章解决问题的程序是漫长而复杂的，而目前的危机已经到了时间是至关重要的地步。"
    ],
    [
        "But even if globalization has benefited some groups and regions more than others, it doesn’t explain today’s tribal politics; if anything, the lack of globalization in certain regions does.",
        "但即便全球化让某些团体和宗教比其他团体和宗教获得了更大的利益，它也无法解释当今的部落政治； 倒是某些地区全球化程度不足能够解释。"
    ],
    [
        "The main motivation behind the administration’s indulgence of serious criminality evidently is fear of the consequences of taking tough action on individual bankers.",
        "政府对严重犯罪的纵容背后的主要动机显然是害怕对银行家个人采取严厉措施所造成的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "So why does Merkel not dare more?",
        "一个表面化的回答就是社会民主党，她的联盟伙伴不愿再继续改革。"
    ],
    [
        "According to his recent interview with Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic magazine, Obama is “very proud” of the moment when he considered, pondered, and, bucking his advisers, decided not to follow the “Washington playbook.”",
        "据《大西洋》杂志的杰弗里·戈德伯格（Jeffrey Goldberg）的最新采访，奥巴马在考虑、深思和否定他的幕僚、决定不遵循“华盛顿剧本”的时候“非常自豪”。"
    ],
    [
        "These problems are due not to immigrants, but to our immigration controls, which are not only costly and cruel, but also ineffective and counterproductive.",
        "这些问题并不是移民造成的，而是移民管制造成的。 移民管制不仅成本巨大，而且没有效果也适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "On the left, it is regarded as a simple and potentially comprehensive antidote to poverty.",
        "左翼将它视为一个简单的、具有潜在完整性的减贫良药。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Europe places a primary emphasis on the universality of human rights and freedoms.",
        "所以，欧洲对于人权和自由的普世性尤为重视。"
    ],
    [
        "He also claimed that the decision “is not intended, in any way, to reflect a departure from our strong commitment to facilitate a lasting peace agreement,” one “that is a great deal for the Israelis and a great deal for the Palestinians.”",
        "”他还宣称，该决定“绝不是为了表明我们抛弃了推动长期和平协议的承诺，”这是一个“对以色列和巴勒斯坦都非常好的方案。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Pope Francis’s native region, Latin America, is currently home to nearly half (44%) of the world’s Catholics.",
        "毕竟，教皇方济各的祖国阿根廷拥有全世界近一半（44%）的天主教徒。"
    ],
    [
        "But how can deliberately limiting one’s options improve one’s prospects?",
        "但刻意缩小选择范围怎样才能使未来更美好？"
    ],
    [
        "The quality of that interaction and its evolution over time is probably the most fundamental determinant of a country’s potential for growth and prosperity.",
        "这一互动的质量以及随时间而发生的演化也许是一国增长率和繁荣的最根本决定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "In comparison, shale gas in the US has created an estimated 600,000 jobs that are generating about $100 billion in added GDP and almost $20 billion in public revenue.",
        "比较而言，页岩气在美国创造了约60万个就业岗位、增加了1000亿美元的GDP和近200亿美元的公共收入。"
    ],
    [
        "On the whole, though, it is reasonable to expect that giving poor people access to knowledge and the possibility of connecting with people anywhere in the world will be socially transforming in a very positive way.",
        "尽管如此，从整体看，有理由期待让穷人获得知识和与世界各地人们取得联系的可能性将以十分积极的形式推动社会变迁。"
    ],
    [
        "It may also be too late for Saudi Arabia.",
        "沙特阿拉伯或许也已经晚了。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, as the dominant postwar power, pursued its own interests, whether the British liked it or not.",
        "作为战后主宰力量的美国追求自己的利益，不管英国喜不喜欢。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, Trumpism could be a solution to the crisis of liberalism, not a portent of its disintegration.",
        "换句话说，特朗普主义可能是自由主义危机的一个解决办法，而不是自由主义分崩离析的先兆。"
    ],
    [
        "This new anti-HIV/AIDS campaign, which the international community has lauded, is more open and proactive than before.",
        "此次新的反HIV/艾滋病攻势得到了国际社会的广泛赞誉，它们确实比以前显得更加开放和积极。"
    ],
    [
        "He earned notoriety by calling India’s most beloved film star – a Muslim – a terrorist.",
        "他因为将印度最受欢迎的电影明星——也是一名穆斯林——称之为恐怖分子而臭名昭着。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is doubtful that even well-intentioned policymakers have a good handle on, say, how to raise secondary-school completion rates sustainably or reduce maternal mortality.",
        "但即使是有心的决策者，他是否能处理好（比如）持续提高中学完学率和降低产妇死亡率等问题仍然值得怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, while credit growth is high by international standards – a key indicator of a potential crisis – its ability to spur further growth is diminishing.",
        "此外，虽然信贷增长按照国际标准来说极高——而这一关键指标暗示着潜在的危机——其进一步刺激经济增长的效果却不断减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Successes in public health are instructive. For example, there was a time when diseases like polio and smallpox ravaged millions.",
        "在公共卫生方面取得的成就是有借鉴意义的。"
    ],
    [
        "And their demise is likely to lead to very different outcomes: liberation for the Libyans and stagnation for the Saudis.",
        "两人身故可能会导致大不相同的结果：利比亚人民获得了解放，而沙特人民将继续生活在专制之下。"
    ],
    [
        "When interest rates rise, as they surely will, the bubbles will burst, the prices of those securities will fall, and anyone holding them will be hurt.",
        "当利率上升时——必将如此——泡沫就会破裂，这些证券的价格将下跌，持有者将受伤。"
    ],
    [
        "These doubts are even stronger among those who consider the ideals of a social Europe insufficiently fulfilled, owing to the right’s political dominance: control of 18 of 25 governments, the same number of European commissioners, and a majority in the European Parliament.",
        "这些疑虑在一些人心中更为强烈． 他们认为由于右翼政治思想的主导，欧洲社会主义的完美模式没有得到充分实现——欧洲２５个政府中的１８个由右翼政治领导者，欧盟委员会委员也是如此，右翼也占了欧盟议会议的大多数。"
    ],
    [
        "OSAKA – Japan’s alliance with the United States is widely viewed as a crucial counterweight to China’s hegemonic ambitions, which pose significant threats to Asian security.",
        "发自大阪——人们普遍认为日美联盟是对中国霸权野心——也是亚洲安全重大威胁——的关键制衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Four decades have passed since the oil-price shocks of the 1970’s.",
        "20世纪70年代石油价格冲击距今已有40年。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the scandal plaguing UK soccer is hardly unique.",
        "但英国足球丑闻绝不是孤例。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have argued that the blame for the referendum’s outcome lies with economists themselves, because they were unable to speak a language that ordinary people could understand.",
        "有些人认为公投脱欧成功的责任在于经济学家自身，因为他们的说话方式一点都不接地气。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sunnis have four imams and the Shias have twelve; their teachings all differ.",
        "逊尼派内有四位伊玛目，什叶派有十二位，其教义各不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "There is certainly plenty of frustration about the implementation of austerity, and no real indication of the long-term sustainability of reform efforts in southern Europe.",
        "财政瘦身的贯彻前景着实令人沮丧，也没有真正的迹象表明，南欧国家能够持续地力行改革。"
    ],
    [
        "They also highlight the knock-on benefits that taking quick action on climate change could have, including reduction of local pollution, greater energy and food security, and faster innovation.",
        "它们还强调了迅速采取行动遏制气候变化所能带来的附带好处，包括减少地方污染、增强能源和粮食安全以及更快的创新。 要加速迈向低碳经济，就必须有适用于所有国家的国际协定；"
    ],
    [
        "If there is to be real progress toward more effective and efficient global governance that can address the unprecedented challenges posed by climate change and the rest of the global agenda, we must do much more than look for an easy replacement for American hegemony.",
        "气候变化以及其他全球性议题带来了前所未有的挑战。 要想在处理这些挑战的更为有效和效力的全球管理上实现真正的进步，我们还必须不能停留在简单地寻求替换美国霸权上。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourteen countries attended to discuss food price inflation, energy needs, etc.",
        "会议有14个非洲国家参加，议题是关于粮食价格上涨，能源的需求等。"
    ],
    [
        "Farmland that had been worked by an aging population with no successors, and that was subdivided into blocs that were too small, has now become vacant, opening the way for much larger-scale farming.",
        "此前由没有子嗣的老年人口耕种的农田被分割成极小的小块，现在空了出来，为扩大耕种规模开辟了道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberal democrats need to make it clear that we get nowhere by blaming others, and that assuming shared responsibility is the only way to build a better shared future.",
        "自由民主需要明确，指责他者无法把我们引导到任何地方，而认定共同责任是构建更好的共同未来的唯一方法。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, inclusive reforms stick, and quick and dirty reforms do not.",
        "从长期看，包容性改革能够坚持下去，而走捷径和肮脏的改革不能坚持下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Their demands for democracy are simply calls for good governance.",
        "他们的民主要求无非是为了更好的治理。"
    ],
    [
        "The human-rights practices in China and Russia, and their suppression of political dissent, are incompatible with global leadership.& These authoritarian regimes must reform themselves at home if they are to exert any kind of moral claim abroad.",
        "中国和俄国的人权实践以及它们的镇压政治异见者，这些都与国际领导地位不相符。 专制体制必须改革其自身，如果它们想输出道德观的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, we do not even know whether these numbers are unusually high when compared to pre-crisis trends.",
        "进一步来说，对比于经济危机爆发之前，我们甚至觉得这些数字其实并不是特别的高。"
    ],
    [
        "“You’d be in jail,” Trump told her.",
        "“你会进监狱的，”特朗普对她说。"
    ],
    [
        "Some claim that it is not only acceptable; it is desirable.",
        "一些人认为这不但可以接受，而且应该这样。"
    ],
    [
        "What is needed is a new pan-European treaty on collective security, signed either by individual countries or by NATO and the EU, as well as by Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.",
        "我们需要就集体安全问题订立新的泛欧协议，订立方或者以国为单位，或者是北约和欧盟，还有俄罗斯和独联体。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea that hyper-low interest rates are merely symptoms of deficient demand or financial repression is dangerously simplistic.",
        "将超低利率仅仅归结于需求不足和金融抑制的认识简单得有些草率。"
    ],
    [
        "So, for the time being, the risk of inflation simply does not exist.",
        "因此，通胀的危险暂时并不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "And they keep rising.",
        "3摄氏度。 而且温度还在持续升高。"
    ],
    [
        "But now that many governments and private institutions have made fighting the disease a high priority, its death toll has been halved over the last 15 years.",
        "但许多政府和私人机构都将消灭这种疾病列为工作重点，结果，疟疾致死数量在过去15年里减少了一半。"
    ],
    [
        "But, judging from experience in North Africa, where education improved greatly under the old regimes, but failed to boost growth performance and create job opportunities for educated youth, the validity of such an approach as a fundamental model for development policy is dubious.",
        "在北非的旧体制下，人们的教育程度大幅提高，但是却没能促进经济发展，也没能给受过教育的青年创造就业机会。 从北非的经历来看，这种发展政策的有效性值得怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting the kind of messages that emerged from the London meeting embedded in public and political consciousness is going to be slow boring through hard boards.",
        "让伦敦会议信息在公众和政界深入人心注定像在硬板上打孔一样缓慢而又乏味。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, there was not enough money left over to help soften budget cuts necessitated by the sudden stop in foreign funding.",
        "结果是没有足够的钱帮助减轻外国融资骤停所带来的不得不削减预算的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to diminish the value of some of the lesser evils – low-fat milk and yogurt, for example.",
        "这不是要诋毁有些“较小恶食品”的价值—如低脂牛奶和酸奶。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, ECB Chief Economist Jürgen Stark resigned.",
        "欧洲央行首席经济学家尤尔根·施塔克（Jürgen Stark）因此辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "Accelerating the expansion of state-funded social security could bring down household savings over time.",
        "假以时日，国家出资的社会保障的加速和扩张能够让家庭储蓄率下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this confederation would be asymmetrical, because the Serbian government’s sovereignty over the rest of Serbia would remain intact and unlimited, whereas the Kosovar government’s “sovereignty” over Kosovo would be restrained.",
        "当然，这个同盟体是不对称的，因为塞尔维亚政府对塞尔维亚其他部分的主权不会受到影响和限制，而科索沃政府对科索沃的“主权”会受到约束。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the length of the average workweek has held steady at about 34 hours since the advent of the Internet two decades ago.",
        "在美国，据劳动统计局（Bureau of Labor Statistics）估算，平均工作周时长自二十年前互联网出现以来一直保持在34小时左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the umbrella of common deposit insurance, US savings banks made a “gamble for resurrection” – borrowing excessively from their depositors and lending the money out to risky enterprises, knowing that potential profits could be paid out as dividends to shareholders while potential losses would be socialized.",
        "在共同存款保险的保护下，美国储蓄银行进行了一场“复活豪赌”——从存款者手中借入过多资金，然后放贷给高风险企业，它们知道，潜在利润可以用于发放股利回报股东，而潜在损失可以社会化。"
    ],
    [
        "Leftist thinkers have often claimed that fascism was the last stage of capitalism.",
        "左翼思想家常说，法西斯是资本主义的最后阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Georgian authorities announced plans to privatize the Inguri Power Plant and renew construction of the long-stalled Khudoni Power Plant, slated to become Georgia’s largest, RAO UES immediately began staking out a dominant role for itself in both projects.",
        "当格鲁吉亚政府宣布计划，将英古里水电厂私有化以及重新建造拖延已久的、将成为格鲁吉亚最大的古多尼电厂时，俄罗斯联合能源系统立即开始在这两个项目上大显身手。"
    ],
    [
        "The dire threat to both Iranian and US interests posed by the Islamic State (formerly the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) has, evidently, brought the two countries closer together.",
        "伊斯兰国（即前伊拉克和叙利亚伊斯兰国）给伊朗和美国利益都造成了巨大威胁，显然这是让两国走的更近的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "But even this may not happen.",
        "但即使这些目标可能也无法达成。"
    ],
    [
        "The Eastern Partnership was launched in 2009 on the initiative of Poland and Sweden, where I was the foreign minister at the time.",
        "东方合作伙伴始于2009年，由波兰和瑞典发起，当时我是瑞典外交部长。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to improve the quality of teaching and learning, we are working not only to expand facilities for teacher training, but also to draw more talented people to the profession by recognizing and honoring the service of teachers.",
        "为了改善教学质量，我们不但寻求扩大教师培训计划，还计划通过承认和表彰教师事业吸引更多优秀人才加入教师队伍。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it is important to take a nuanced approach.",
        "但采取细致的方法十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet all three are doing their best to bring one about.",
        "然而这三个国家如今却在竭尽全力地制造冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumption’s share of US GDP currently stands at a sharply elevated 70%.",
        "日本在二十世纪九十年代便忽略了那些细微的差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who hailed the Arab Spring five years ago must now recognize that its blooms died fast.",
        "五年前为阿拉伯之春欢呼的人现在必须承认，它的光荣很快就已经褪色。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time the next presidential term starts in January 2013, and contrary to the current narratives advanced by the Obama and Romney campaigns, the incumbent will find himself with limited room for maneuver on economic policy.",
        "新总统的任期将从2013年1月开始，与目前奥巴马和罗姆尼竞争口号中所描述的情形相反，上台者将会发现没有多少空间可以用于调整经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "We must meet force with greater force.",
        "我们必须用更强大的力量来解决火的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "There are a number of qualities that must be understood if integration is to continue to build an ever more open Europe.",
        "如果一体化要继续建设一个更加开放的欧洲，那么有些品质是我们必须了解的。"
    ],
    [
        "The New Philosophers",
        "新哲学家"
    ],
    [
        "Suppose that the government gets it right 19 times out of 20 when it relies on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities to revoke people’s citizenship.",
        "假设政府凭借怀疑与恐怖活动由涉而剥夺某些人的公民权，并且20次中有19次确有其事。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes the stories are mere fabrications to validate market optimism, as with the 1990’s boom.",
        "有时这种报道纯属为市场乐观情绪提供依据的胡编乱造，20世纪90年代的股市繁荣就是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, emerging economies must work to strengthen their institutions.",
        "最后，新兴经济体必须致力于强化制度。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank adds that women aged 15-44 are more likely to experience rape or domestic violence than cancer, car accidents, war, or malaria.",
        "世界银行则说，15—44岁年龄段的女性遭遇强奸和家庭暴力的机会比癌症、车祸、战争、疟疾还大。"
    ],
    [
        "But, according to a recent human rights report, despite the Emergency Law, 89 people were killed and 236 wounded in terrorist attacks in Egypt during the previous 12 months.",
        "但根据最近的人权报告，尽管实施了紧急状态法，但在过去12个月内埃及仍有89人在恐怖袭击中丧生、另外还有236人受伤。"
    ],
    [
        "The forecast errors have three potential sources: failure to recognize the time needed for economic recovery after a financial crisis; underestimation of the “fiscal multipliers” (the size of output loss owing to fiscal austerity); and neglect of the “world-trade multiplier” (the tendency for countries to drag each other down as their economies contract).",
        "对“财政乘数”（因财政紧缩导致的产出损失）的低估； 以及对“世界贸易乘数”（随着经济收缩各国互拖后腿的倾向）的忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "Next March, Obama will host a Global Nuclear Security Summit with the aim of developing new means to combat nuclear smuggling and terrorism.",
        "就在明年3月，奥巴马将主持一个旨在发展应对核走私以及核恐怖主义新方法的全球核安全峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, they would address this by quietly selling the aged cows either to local butchers or to those who would transport them to states where cow slaughter is legal.",
        "在过去，他们会悄悄地把这些老牛卖给当地的屠夫或把它们运往屠宰合法的邦。"
    ],
    [
        "But at a time when every digital service becomes more and more personalized, why should social policy remain confined to the philosophy and solutions of the twentieth century?",
        "在某种程度上也确实如此。 但在当所有数字业务变得越来越个性化的时候，为什么社会政策仍局限于二十世纪的哲学思维和解决方案呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, Merkel is favored to win a fourth term as chancellor in the upcoming federal election on September 24.",
        "在德国，默克尔很有希望在9月24日举行的联邦大选中赢得第四个总理任期。"
    ],
    [
        "Mali was the first to ask for it, with local religious authorities supporting the government’s request for military assistance from France.",
        "马里是第一个提出诉求的国家，地方宗教当局支持政府求助法国的军事援助。"
    ],
    [
        "While all of this is happening in Europe’s south, most of the northern countries are running current-account surpluses.",
        "所有这一切都发生在南欧，大部分北欧国家都存在经常项目盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – When an American president’s first overseas trip following his re-election is to Asia, one can be sure that something big is afoot in the region.",
        "东京—美国总统获得连任后的第一次出访来到了亚洲，这可以让你肯定，亚洲一定有大事在发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The US does not have a national interest in helping Taiwan become a sovereign country with a seat at the UN, and efforts by some Taiwanese to do so present the greatest danger of a miscalculation that could create enmity between the US and China.",
        "帮助台湾成为独立主权国家并在联合国拥有席位并不符合美国的国家利益。 某些台湾人这样做会带来误算的最大危险，有可能造成美中两国的敌对。"
    ],
    [
        "Some SWFs in the Middle East and Asia seem to understand the risks associated with carbon-heavy investment portfolios, and are ready to work together to create a platform to finance resource-efficient, low-carbon, environmentally friendly infrastructure projects.",
        "一些中东和亚洲的主权财富基金似乎已经明了蕴含于重碳投资组合中的风险，准备好了共同打造一个平台为资源效率高、碳排放量小、环境友好的基础设施项目融资。"
    ],
    [
        "It should provide special marketing assistance to enterprises that have suddenly lost their Russian markets.",
        "它应该为突然失去俄罗斯市场的企业提供特别市场援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Politics is becoming a battleground for lobbyists; media trivialize serious problems; democracy often looks like a virtual game for consumers, rather than a serious business for serious citizens.",
        "媒体把严肃的问题大事化小； 民主常常看起来像是一场消费者的虚拟游戏，而不是严肃的公民面对的严肃问题。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Because information technology (IT) has so quickly transformed people’s daily lives, we tend to forget how much things have changed from the not-so-distant past.",
        "华盛顿—由于信息技术（IT）极快地改变着人们的日常生活，我们开始忘记事情与不久的过去相比改变了多少。"
    ],
    [
        "Market fundamentalism conceals a profound contradiction.",
        "市场原教旨主义掩盖了一个深刻的矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "Proposals to limit moral hazard, meanwhile, would do so by limiting Eurobonds to 60% of GDP – the eurozone’s current ceiling for member states’ public debt.",
        "与此同时，限制道德风险的方案将把欧元债券规模限制在GDP的60%以内，亦即欧元区目前为成员国设定的公债上限。"
    ],
    [
        "But the real challenge for Obama is to do more to explain what the “pivot” means, because already his bold side trip to the unfinished project in Myanmar is being perceived as yet another effort to contain or, worse, encircle China.",
        "但奥巴马真正的挑战是进一步解释“中心”的意思，因为他专门抽出时间前往改革未竟的缅甸的安排被视为是遏制甚至包围中国的又一举动。"
    ],
    [
        "So why has the left been unable to mount a significant political challenge to globalization?",
        "那么左翼势力究竟为什么没能实现政治挑战全球化？"
    ],
    [
        "This seems untrue, because we hear an onslaught of terrible climate-related news.",
        "这似乎不是真的，因为我们正受到可怕气候消息的大规模冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "And Secretary of State James Baker used it to overcome the recalcitrance of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir during the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference.",
        "国务卿詹姆斯·贝克也曾借此破解了以色列总理伊扎克·沙米尔在1991年马德里和会期间的负隅顽抗。"
    ],
    [
        "Each dollar spent protecting them can provide benefits worth $24.",
        "每花费1美元保护珊瑚礁能带来24美元的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Under this scheme, a financial penalty would “automatically” be imposed on any country that violated that obligation.",
        "在该安排下，财政惩罚将“自动地”施加于违反平衡预算义务的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But this assumes that the oil sheikhs will extract less oil because there is more bio-fuel.",
        "但是这是在预想石油国家因为更多生物燃料的出现而减产石油的情况下才会出现。"
    ],
    [
        "And the lack of investment is not because profits, either before or after tax, are too low; after-tax corporate profits as a share of GDP have almost tripled in the last 30 years.",
        "而投资不足也不是因为利润——不管是税前还是税后； 税后公司利润占GDP之比在过去30年中几乎翻了两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The security environment since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States has clearly demonstrated the limits of the United Nations, or even the US as the world’s sole military superpower, to maintain international security.",
        "2001年9月11日恐怖份子对美国发动攻击以来的安全环境已经清楚地表明联合国、甚至作为世界唯一超级军事大国的美国在维持国际安全方面上的局限性。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, some benefits – for example, parental leave – are conditional on seniority within a company.",
        "此外，一些福利——例如，育儿假——则取决于员工在公司内的资历。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that most participants in discussions about global poverty – the readers of this commentary included – know few, if any, people who live below the poverty line is an indication of the extent of the world’s economic segregation.",
        "大部分全球贫困问题讨论的参与者——包括这篇评论的读者——很少或根本不认识生活在贫困线以下的人，这正是世界经济分裂程度的一个写照。"
    ],
    [
        "The contrast with today is striking.",
        "这同今日的情况形成极大反差。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference, of course, would be that, under NICU, member states would allow all payments to one another to pass through their central bank’s NICU Kosmos account.",
        "当然，区别在于，在NICU下，成员国彼此之间的所有支付往来都将通过其央行的NICU宇宙币账户进行。"
    ],
    [
        "In truth, however, the big story is the uneerie calm that has engulfed virtually every major asset class, from stocks to bonds.",
        "然而，从大的层面上讲真正的情况却是令人不安的平静几乎已经席卷了从股票和债券所有大的资产品种。"
    ],
    [
        "Populist rabble-rousers like to stir up such resentments by ranting about foreigners who work for a pittance or not at all.",
        "民粹主义煽动者想要挑起这样的仇恨，痛骂那些为微薄收入卖命或者根本不工作的外国人。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey is a complicated country, with multiple dilemmas.",
        "土耳其是一个复杂的国家，具有多种难题。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro is an ultra-fixed currency among members: participating countries locked themselves into an initial exchange rate vis-à-vis their pre-existing currencies and then threw the keys into the long grass.",
        "欧元是欧元区成员国中极端固定的货币：在最初，就把参与国本国货币兑欧元的汇率固定了，它们将自己锁在这个牢笼里，并将钥匙扔进了茂密的草丛中。"
    ],
    [
        "When my driver was Ethiopian, as often happened, we would commiserate over the national team’s defeat by Nigeria in a qualifying round, then celebrate the US defeat of Ghana, and end by agreeing that in four years, or certainly in eight, the US team would be among the world’s best.",
        "我常常遇上埃塞俄比亚司机，每逢此时，我们就会感叹埃塞俄比亚队在预选赛中被尼日利亚队淘汰，然后庆祝美国击败加纳，最后一致同意四年后——顶多八年——美国队将步入世界顶尖行列。"
    ],
    [
        "The technology developed by the money spent from the Global Climate Change Fund also should be equally available to all, including India and China, which would then enable them to agree to more emissions cuts.",
        "用全球气候变基金的资金开发的技术也应该对包括印度和中国在内的全世界开放，以促使各国同意更多地减排。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet instead of thinking that the momentum building in 2006 will carry forward and make 2007 an even better year, Europe’s gloomy experts are predicting a significant slowdown.",
        "但是欧洲悲观的经济学家们不是认为2006年所建立起来的这种势头将会延续下去而2007年经济形势会更好，反而预言经济将会出现明显的下滑。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF would be using real resources to subsidize the market until private market-makers saw it as attractive to provide those services at comparable cost.",
        "最初IMF必须对特别提款权市场进行补贴，等到其他私人市场慢慢地看到特别提款权的好处，自然会效仿。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, Jean-Marie Le Pen’s party has been substantially weakened, but in the Netherlands, the anti–Islam party led by Geert Wilders won 17% of the votes, and in Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Slovakia, and even in the UK the far right did better than expected.",
        "虽然让-马里·勒庞的极右翼政党在法国选战中被极度削弱，但由吉耶特·威尔德茨所率领，宣扬反伊斯兰教的荷兰自由党得票率则高达17%。 不仅如此，极右党派在奥地利，丹麦，匈牙利，斯洛伐克，甚至在英国都表现得比预想的要好——极右的英国国家党甚至赢得了建党以来的第一个席位。"
    ],
    [
        "More recent scientific gurus, such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, have presented a similar image to the public.",
        "更近的科学权威，比如卡尔·萨根和斯蒂芬•霍金，也有着与爱因斯坦相似的公众形象。"
    ],
    [
        "One hundred years ago, the rise of Japanese military power changed the fate of Asia.",
        "一百年前，日本军事力量的崛起改变了亚洲的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer need not be all despair. It may be that rethinking strategy in the light of new facts will open a way forward.",
        "答案也不见得是死路一条，也许在新形势下重新思考真的会另辟蹊径。"
    ],
    [
        "Three central issues of IMF reform should also be taken on board.",
        "国际货币基金组织改革的三个主要问题也应该提上日程。"
    ],
    [
        "BOSTON – While much of the world today suffers from information overload, there are still places where information is scarce.",
        "波士顿—如今，世界许多地方饱受信息过载之苦，但仍有一些地方信息稀缺。"
    ],
    [
        "Solidarity gained the opportunity to create independent media and a grassroots political organization.",
        "团结工会获得了开办独立的媒体和成立基层政治组织的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "American mobsters have had a major interest in boxing, for example.",
        "比如，美国黑帮涉入拳击运动很深。"
    ],
    [
        "Would there be one set of sub-institutions for every country that has made a special deal with the Union – say, a Commission for the eurozone and Sweden, and another for the eurozone and the UK?",
        "是否要给每个与欧盟达成特别协议的国家设立次级机构——比如既有针对欧元区和瑞典的委员会，也有针对前者和英国的委员会？"
    ],
    [
        "Such reforms are essential to raise productivity growth and improve the Japanese economy’s competitiveness.",
        "为了提升生产力增长并改善日本的经济竞争力，这类改革极有必要。"
    ],
    [
        "For most of the three and a half million years that beings we might call \"human\" have walked the Earth, they were unambiguously part of the natural system.",
        "在那种被称作\"人\"的生物在地球上活动的350万年的绝大部分时间里，他们就一直是自然系统的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Educating Syria’s Refugee Children",
        "教育叙利亚难民儿童"
    ],
    [
        "So government debt and the resulting financial vulnerability are not as high as they were in the past.",
        "因此，政府债务以及由此造成的财政脆弱性不如过去那样高。"
    ],
    [
        "The unanswered question is why the public should have the wrong expectations.",
        "一个未知的问题是为何公众的预期是错的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Affluents will continue to be major global players, but as the Globalizers’ relative economic power rises, they will demand a greater role in international affairs.",
        "富国将依然扮演全球的重要角色，但是随着全球化者相对经济实力的上升，它们将需要在国际事务中扮演更重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "But meeting the challenge will require vigorous growth from America’s other 30% – especially private capital spending.",
        "但迎接上述挑战需要美国其余的30%——尤其是私人资本开支保持强劲的增长势头。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain’s reactor at Santa María de Garoña was shut for a week in July 2006 after high temperatures were recorded in the Ebro River.",
        "而当2006年7月西班牙埃布罗河的水温升到极高水平时，位于该河沿岸的Santa María de Garoña核电站反应堆也被迫关停了1个星期。"
    ],
    [
        "China is like Cinderella – finally allowed to attend the ball and given a chance to become a prominent player.",
        "中国就像是灰姑娘——终于获得了参加盛宴、成为主角的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "We do not “have to live in a world of plagues, disastrous governments, conflict, and uncontrolled health risks.”",
        "我们不是“必须生活在一个充满瘟疫、灾难性政府、冲突和失控的健康风险的世界”。"
    ],
    [
        "The spot price has even recently slipped below that level.",
        "现货价格最近甚至下滑到低于这一水平。"
    ],
    [
        "As China confronts the challenges of its economy’s shift to a new normal, it will need to find common ground with the US.",
        "中国面临着经济向新常态转变的挑战，它需要找到与美国的共同点。"
    ],
    [
        "The relationship among the variables in cyber deterrence is a dynamic one that will be affected by technology and learning, with innovation occurring at a faster pace than was true of nuclear weapons.",
        "网络威慑变量之间关系不断变化且受到技术和学习能力的影响，大大超过此前核武器的创新速度。"
    ],
    [
        "It remains dominant today, as all efforts to establish an alternative, even totalitarianism, failed.",
        "时至今日，尽管有许多人努力去寻找另一种模式，甚至尝试运用极权主义来取代这一原则，但最后都以失败告终，自由市场依然占据着支配地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only has Iran developed its nuclear capabilities while a party to the NPT, the Israelis will say, but it also has put Israel’s destruction high on its agenda.",
        "他们会指出，伊朗不但在身为核不扩散条约成员国期间发展其核能力，而且还将摧毁以色列作为其优先任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Given inter-generational demands, large spillover effects between different communities, and interdependence with the rest of the world, any governance system must weigh the interests of ruling elites and lobbyists against those of weaker groups without voice, and popular demands against long-term planning.",
        "考虑到不同社区之间的跨代际需求和溢出效应，以及与世界各地区的互相依存关系，任何治理机制都必须权衡统治精英、游说者和那些人微言轻的弱势群体之间的利益关系，以及短期需求和长期计划之间的取舍。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone is still prone to bad equilibria as long as growth on its periphery remains weak.",
        "由于外围国增长依然疲软，欧元区仍很有可能陷入坏均衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem, though, is that some people have even become addicted; they now aim at living on welfare benefits alone.",
        "但问题是：有些人开始依赖失业救济，他们试图仅靠福利救济轻松地生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Those emerging markets that were hit severely during the “taper tantrum” episode – for example, Brazil, Indonesia, and Turkey – will certainly suffer.",
        "那些在“减债恐慌”中受灾最重的新兴市场国家——比如巴西，印尼和土耳其——必定将再次受灾。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s focus on resolving the most important of the problems – demilitarization, settlements, borders, and refugees – and allow the reality of peace to leave behind, or postpone until the distant future, the solution of problems that are essentially historical and theological.",
        "让我们集中目标来解决最为核心的问题——解除武装，定居，边界和难民等问题——以便和平早日到来，而要想解决这些问题，历史和宗教是解开问题的关键要素。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, China’s shadow-banking system has expanded at an unprecedented rate.",
        "与此同时，中国的影子银行系统规模也在以前所未有的速度扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "Three weeks later, Merck announced that it would spend an additional $10 billion to buy back some of its shares.",
        "三周后，默克公司宣布它将增加100亿美元用于回购本公司股票。"
    ],
    [
        "In a 2013 survey of economists by the University of Chicago, 75% of the respondents agreed that, “because the US has underspent on new projects, maintenance, or both, the federal government has an opportunity to increase average incomes by spending more on roads, bridges, railways, and airports.”",
        "在2013年芝加哥大学经济学家调查中，75%的回应者认为“由于美国在新项目或维护上的支出不足，或两者兼而有之，联邦政府有机会通过增加道路、桥梁、铁路和机场支出提高平均收入。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, a nomination was officially announced before the nominee moved on to the next phase and met with senators to discuss the appointment.",
        "在过去，提名会在被提名人进入下一阶段、由参议院讨论任命事项前正式宣布。"
    ],
    [
        "Such programs also enrich local students and offer valuable insights to professors about other traditions of higher education.",
        "这一项目还丰富了本地学生，为教授们提供了关于其他高等教育传统的极有价值的洞见。"
    ],
    [
        "The main question is whether privatizing pension systems, as President George W. Bush has proposed for Social Security in the United States, would solve the problem or merely make matters worse.",
        "问题关键在于，美国总统乔治W·布什提议为本国社会保障体系建立的养老金私有化制度，究竟能否解决该问题还是反而使它雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to disagree with him.",
        "很难不同意他的论点。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the risk of re-inflating asset bubbles, no one should expect a dramatic easing of credit of the type that followed the 2008 meltdown.",
        "考虑到资产泡沫再度膨胀的风险，没有人会期望一个类似2008年经济重挫后的大幅度信贷宽松。"
    ],
    [
        "These quotas, or “reservations,” were granted based on people’s (presumably immutable) caste identities.",
        "这些名额，或称“保留席位”，根据你的种姓成分（几乎终身无法改变）授予。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat to the EU’s political cohesion is even greater than the military risk.",
        "欧盟政治凝聚力风险甚至比军事风险还要大。"
    ],
    [
        "Civilizing the Marketplace of Ideas",
        "让思想市场变得文明"
    ],
    [
        "Debtor countries would regain their competitiveness; their debt would diminish in real terms; and, with the ECB under their control, the threat of default would disappear and their borrowing costs would fall to levels comparable to that in the United Kingdom.",
        "德国离开会造成欧元贬值，债务国的竞争力就会逐渐恢复； 它们的实际债务将会减少，而且因为控制着欧洲央行，它们违约的风险将会解除，而且它们的借贷成本将下降到和英国差不多。"
    ],
    [
        "People quickly discovered that the “students” allowed to ask questions at Obama’s town-hall meeting in Shanghai were young Communist party activists.",
        "因为人们很快发现那些被允许与奥巴马进行“大厅议事”的所谓“学生”都是些共产党青年积极分子。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1982, the science-fiction blockbuster Blade Runner featured flying police cars called “spinners.”",
        "1982年科幻大片《银翼杀手》中出现了被称为“旋转器”的飞行警车。"
    ],
    [
        "Paying more for a Fairtrade label is no more “anti-market” than paying more for a Gucci label, and it reflects better ethical priorities.",
        "为公平贸易标签支付更多的钱并不比为Gucci品牌多付钱更为“非市场化”，而且它反映的是更好的伦理取向。"
    ],
    [
        "Many face macroeconomic risks, owing to exchange-rate volatility, large debt burdens, and non-diversified, unsustainable economic structures.",
        "拜汇率波动、沉重的债务负担和多样化程度欠缺、不可持续的经济结构所赐，许多国家面临宏观经济风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent high rates of inflation, and the public’s memory of even higher rates in the past, have severely harmed Argentina’s economy.",
        "最近的高通胀率，以及公众对过去更高通胀率的记忆给阿根廷经济造成了巨大的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Against all odds, Ukraine's opposition groups have helped forge a civil society and healthy political parties far beyond anything seen in President Vladimir Putin's Russia.",
        "乌克兰反对派团体致力于建立一个同普京总统领导之下的俄国截然不同的市民社会以及健康的政党，为此可谓历经万难。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the 2014 intervention coincided with the weakening of China’s economic fundamentals, it ultimately amounted to pushing on an opening door.",
        "2014年的干预恰逢中国经济基本面转弱，因此它最终起到了推波助澜的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – As the United Nations Conference on Disarmament begins a seven-week session in Geneva, its future is on the line.",
        "发自日内瓦——在联合国裁军会议于日内瓦展开一段为期7个星期议程的同时，整个会议却面临着前途未卜的苦况。"
    ],
    [
        "But combining market integration with democracy requires the creation of supranational political institutions that are representative and accountable.",
        "但将市场一体化与民主结合起来要求创造代议制、可问责的跨国政治机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, while pesification removes balance sheet losses from domestic foreign-currency debts, external contractual obligations cannot be redenominated unilaterally.",
        "第三，虽然“比索化”清除了资产负债表中的国内外汇债务损失，但外债却不能单方面重组。"
    ],
    [
        "After 1989, history has made EU enlargement indispensable, but, without institutional reform, a Europe of 27 member states will inevitably deliver ever worse – and, to its citizens, increasingly disappointing – results.",
        "1989年后，历史已经让欧盟东扩成为必然，但是，如果没有制度改革，由27个成员国组成的欧洲不可避免地会产生更糟——而对欧盟居民来讲，也更令人失望的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, they have strong reservations about a potential withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.",
        "特别是，他们对于退出巴黎气候协定持强烈保留的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not just China’s large companies that need to rethink their business models.",
        "不仅中国大公司需要反思商业模式，随着中国电子商务平台的日益全球化，它们也可能挑战跨国巨头在国际贸易的主导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "That means supporting the ongoing effort to form an interim Palestinian government of technocrats, as stipulated in the Qatar agreement.",
        "而这也意味着支持当前为建立一个技术官员领导下的巴勒斯坦临时政府的所有努力，正如卡塔尔协定所列明的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Just ask former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.",
        "只要问问法国前总统萨科齐就知道了。"
    ],
    [
        "Where things get complicated is in applying the concept, particularly when addressing the nexus of water services, health, and ecosystem integrity.",
        "复杂之处在于如何应用这一概念，特别是在解决水利、卫生和生态系统完整性这一连锁问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "Due to the lack of public oversight on government budgeting, China’s political system is especially biased to favor big physical projects, and, through taxation and state ownership, the government maintains almost full control over much national income and wealth, maximizing the impact of this bias.",
        "由于缺乏对政府预算的公众监督，中国的政治体系特别偏向于赞成大型实体项目，并且，通过税收和全民所有制，中国政府几乎维持着对绝大多数国民收入和财富的完全控制，从而将这种偏向的影响最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, despite Chinese protests, Japan hosted a birthday reception for the Emperor in Taipei in 2003.",
        "例如，2003年日本不顾中国抗议在台湾为日本天皇举办生日酒会。"
    ],
    [
        "And, if we really wanted to benefit the world, €2 billion could halve the number of malaria infections, saving 850 million lives this century.",
        "而且，如果我们确实想要有助于世界，20亿欧元可以减少霍乱感染数量一半，在本世纪挽救八千万人的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the long-standing relationship between Pakistan’s Islamic militants and the military, it became clear there were limits to how far Musharraf was prepared to go in the “war on terrorism.”",
        "鉴于巴基斯坦伊斯兰武装份子和军方长期的关系，很明显，穆沙拉夫愿意在多大程度上进行“反恐战争”是存有局限的。"
    ],
    [
        "The victims were of all faiths and races, including Muslims, as were the heroes who helped London get back on its feet so quickly.",
        "这次爆炸的受害者来自不同的信仰和种族，包括穆斯林，而在帮助伦敦快速恢复元气的英雄中也同样有穆斯林。"
    ],
    [
        "As one presenter at the conference summarized: “No models have shown a complete shutdown, or a net cooling over land areas.",
        "正如与会的一位发言者所总结的那样：“没有任何一种模拟的结果显示（北大西洋暖流的）完全停滞，或是陆地区域的净降温。"
    ],
    [
        "The treaty is quickly gaining momentum, having been ratified in recent months by Germany, Italy, Argentina, and South Africa, among others.",
        "该条约正在快速获得支持，在最近几个月中得到了德国、意大利、阿根廷、南非和其他国家的批准。"
    ],
    [
        "Irish banks reportedly need an additional €24 billion to stay afloat.",
        "爱尔兰各大银行汇报说还需要24亿欧元才能维持基本运营；"
    ],
    [
        "Lebanon, argues Paul Salem, may provide a guide for those Iraqis who seek a constitution that can reconcile the country’s Shi-ite, Sunni, Kurdish and Turkmen communities.",
        "Paul Salem 认为，对于那些正在寻找一部可以调和国内什叶派、逊尼派、库尔德人和土库曼人争端的宪法的伊拉克人，黎巴嫩也许能为他们提供导向。"
    ],
    [
        "When it was over, the negotiators admitted failure.",
        "会议结束之时，协商也以失败告终。"
    ],
    [
        "It would then be reassuring to believe that killing on such a vast scale does not matter, because fish do not feel pain.",
        "人们就会安慰自己说捕杀如此庞大数量的鱼其实没有什么，因为鱼是不会感觉到痛苦的。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as the Greek people have to be asked to accept one austerity package after another, they might wonder when they will have a direct say on this matter.",
        "只要希腊人民被迫要求接受一个又一个紧缩计划，他们就会考虑是不是应该对这个问题来个快刀斩乱麻。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also leading to austerity – taxes are increasing and government spending is falling at the local and state level around the country.",
        "崩溃也导致了紧缩政策的出台——全国各地，无论是州还是地方层面都出现了加税以及缩减政府支出的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "From Damascus to Dubai, from Tel Aviv to Teheran, a new Middle East is now emerging.",
        "从大马士革到迪拜，从特拉维夫到德黑兰，一个新的中东正在出现。"
    ],
    [
        "A third reason for Germany’s opposition to the TTIP is that the country is already engaged in a battle for wealth redistribution.",
        "德国反对TTIP的第三个原因是德国已经身陷财富再分配战争。"
    ],
    [
        "My own firm, PwC Germany, offers a free ten-week language and vocational training course for refugees when they first arrive – the most critical period for them.",
        "我所在的公司德国普华永道为第一次到达的难民提供为期十周（对他们来说这是最关键的一段时期）的免费语言和职业培训。"
    ],
    [
        "A third candidate, Chris Christie, has threatened war with Russia.",
        "另一位候选人克里斯·克里斯蒂（Chris Christie）威胁与俄罗斯开战。"
    ],
    [
        "For core eurozone banks, this has been a region of extraordinary returns, and it is now integral to their operations.",
        "对于核心欧元区银行来说，中东欧地区能带来超常回报，并已将其纳入经营范围。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot know with certainty, but, based on the history of democratic government, and the experiences of other countries – the subject of my book, Democracy’s Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government – we can identify the obstacles that Egypt faces, as well as the advantages it enjoys, in building political democracy.",
        "对此我们目前还难以定论，不过基于民主政府的历史以及其他国家的经验——也正是笔者拙作《民主的盛名：当世最流行之政府架构的崛起与风险》的论题——我们可以发现并定义埃及在建立政治民主的过程中所面对的一系列障碍以及享有的各种优势。"
    ],
    [
        "· To stress Israel’s willingness to make peace, its readiness to agree to the creation of a Palestinian state, and its refusal to bear responsibility for the continuing conflict and violence;",
        "· 为了加强以色列谋求和平的意愿，它愿意同意巴勒斯坦国建国，拒绝为继续的冲突和暴力承担责任；"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, there is the public-good element of many infrastructure projects, which demands contingent government obligations like universal coverage levels for basic services.",
        "首先，许多基础设施项目包含公共品性质，这意味着或有政府义务，类似于基本服务的普遍覆盖。"
    ],
    [
        "Austerity’s proponents correctly point out that permanently expansionary macroeconomic policies lead to unsustainable deficits, debts, and inflation.",
        "紧缩的支持者准确地指出永久扩张性的宏观经济政策会导致不可承受的赤字、债务和通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Uribe warned, dramatically, that the peace agreement would deliver Colombia to terrorism and “Castro-Chavismo.”",
        "乌里维强烈警告说，和平和平协议将给哥伦比亚带来恐怖主义和“卡斯特罗-查韦斯主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, it does not require the arms-exporting member state to consult with any other member state that might have concerns.",
        "更重要的是，它并不要求武器出口国与其他可能关注该项出口的国家进行磋商。"
    ],
    [
        "Privatization, opening up closed markets and professions, promoting entrepreneurship, and eliminating public-sector waste should proceed at a fast pace over the next few months.",
        "实现这些目标的先决条件是希腊新政府实施所有与欧元区达成的结构性变化协议。 在未来几个月中，应大大加快私有化、开放封闭的市场和职业、鼓励企业家精神和消灭公共部门铺张浪费的步伐。"
    ],
    [
        "To express guarded optimism about the Greek deal is not to condone the provocative arrogance of former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis or the pointless vindictiveness of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble.",
        "表示对希腊协议谨慎乐观并不是要饶恕前希腊财政部长瓦鲁法基斯（Yanis Varoufakis）目中无人的傲慢或德国总理朔伊布勒（Wolfgang Schäuble）毫无意义的恶意相逼。"
    ],
    [
        "But siphoning the habits of one culture into another during a rebuilding process can trigger societal changes that are almost as damaging as the disaster itself, as happened in a small fishing villages in the Philippines in the late 1970’s.",
        "但重建时将一种文化习惯强行移植到另一种文化背景可能会导致社会变化，而这些变化就像灾难本身一样具有破坏性。 20世纪70年代末发生在菲律宾一个小渔村的故事就是最好的证明。"
    ],
    [
        "My visits as chairman of the AMR review also allowed me to witness some encouraging signs.",
        "我作为AMR评估主席的访印之旅让我看到了一些令人鼓舞的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, to strengthen cross-country comparability further, the benchmark should be variations in the stock of pension debt under given economic and demographic assumptions, rather than the debt level itself.",
        "最后，为了进一步加强跨国可比性，判断的标准定为一定的经济和人口条件下养老金债务的浮动，而不是债务水平本身。"
    ],
    [
        "It seemed too good to be true that the Greek deficit would be completely eliminated in just three years.",
        "短短三年希腊就完全抹平了赤字，这看起来过于美好了。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative to American leadership is a vacuum and increasing chaos.",
        "缺少美国的领导所带来的将是一个真空和越来越多的混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "First, now that David Cameron has made clear that he will resign, the Conservative Party’s right wing and some of its sourer members will dominate the new government.",
        "首先，现在戴维·卡梅伦已宣布将要辞职，保守党右翼和某些令人生厌的党员将主导新一届政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the problems in their design and implementation should be addressed, in order to improve their effectiveness within current economic circumstances.",
        "相反，为了在当前的经济情况下提高其有效性，应该对其设计和执行中存在的问题应该进行调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps that is just a temporary effect and the euro will decline when global financial markets recognize that a weaker exchange rate is needed to reduce current-account deficits in the eurozone’s three major Latin countries.",
        "也许这只是暂时措施，欧元会在全球金融市场认识到汇率贬值才是减少欧元区三大拉丁国家经常项目赤字的必须之策时贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "A new criminal code leaves room for abuse of authority, including the possibility of filtering online content.",
        "新刑法为滥用权力、包括过滤网络内容大开方便之门。 去年秋，政府曾想征收每十亿字节0."
    ],
    [
        "But Trump has a knack for manipulating perceptions.",
        "但特朗普长于操纵人们的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "In June, Obama announced that Assad’s regime had used chemical weapons against its own population and had thus crossed his administration’s “red line.”",
        "今年6月，奥巴马宣布阿萨德政权曾使用化学武器对付其国内民众，也因此越过了其政府划定的“红线”。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan’s Political Renaissance",
        "巴基斯坦的政治复兴"
    ],
    [
        "Syriza is in power in Greece; a leftist coalition is in office in Portugal; and the Spanish election could lead to significant political and policy uncertainty.",
        "激进左翼联盟已经在希腊掌权； 葡萄牙组建了左翼联合政府；"
    ],
    [
        "The End of Population Growth",
        "人口增长的终点"
    ],
    [
        "February’s test provoked another round of United Nations sanctions, drafted by the US and China, triggering an escalation of threats and provocations from the North.",
        "2月核试招致了由美中两国起草的又一轮联合国制裁，并由此引发朝鲜的威胁和挑衅进一步升级。"
    ],
    [
        "India, China, and the US – everyone needs sea links; everybody’s energy goes through it.”",
        "印、中、美都需要运输能源的海上通道。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But adequate funding structures for Italy and Spain must be in place before any resolution.",
        "但在做出任何决定之前，应该为意大利和西班牙留好充足的资金结构。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of Johnny Hallyday, it is perhaps not too farfetched to believe that this man of sphinx-like mystery is now, like Baudelaire, “a block of granite surrounded by vague fear” whose “fierce nature sings only to the rays of the setting sun.”",
        "对于约翰尼·阿利代来说，认为这个高深莫测的神秘人现在就像波德莱尔那样，成为“一块花岗石，周围是模糊的恐惧”，其“暴脾气只为夕阳引吭高歌”恐怕亦不为过。"
    ],
    [
        "But the dollar’s role as international anchor is beginning to falter, as emerging markets everywhere grow increasingly frustrated by the Fed’s near-zero interest-rate policy, which has caused a flood of “hot” capital inflows from the US.",
        "但美元作为国际锚的作用正在减弱，因为其他新兴市场国家越来越不满足于美联储的近零利率政策——这导致“热”资本从美国涌入。"
    ],
    [
        "Or consider Syria, where an estimated 200,000 Syrians have recently died, 3.7 million have fled the country, and 7.6 million have been internally displaced in a civil war that was stoked in no small part by the US, Saudi Arabia, and other allied powers.",
        "再以叙利亚为例，据估计，目前已有200,000叙利亚人死去，370万人逃离祖国，760万人在国内流离失所，而这场内战与美国、沙特阿拉伯和其他联合力量有着脱不开的干系。"
    ],
    [
        "And it matters a great deal which narrative prevails – for Germany, for Europe, and for the global economy.",
        "总有说法最后一语成谶——对德国、对欧洲、对全球经济皆然。"
    ],
    [
        "Those countries that have stepped forward as “friends of the Constitution” have also been making clear that the initiative they launched in Madrid will support the German Presidency’s efforts.",
        "那些已经先迈出一步成为“宪法的朋友”的国家也已经清楚地表明他们在马德里发起的倡议是支持轮值主席国德国的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Not in the kind of Europe we still have to build – a Europe where big and small countries are assured that they share the same rights and obligations, where minorities feel safe, where basic human rights are accepted as an inextricable part of our political system, and where neighbors are regarded with respect and expectations, not fear and anxiety.",
        "更别说是在我们努力建设的这样一个欧洲—国家不论大小都确保享有同等的权利和义务，少数民族有着安全感，基本人权作为政治体系不可分割的一部分而深入人心，对邻国充满尊重和期许而不是恐惧和焦虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Stop calling us idiots.",
        "不要再称我们是蠢货。"
    ],
    [
        "Efficient transportation, quality health services, and broadband Internet access can help smaller cities attract investment in sectors that do not rely on agglomeration effects.",
        "高效的交通、高质量的医疗服务和宽带网络接入有助于小城市吸引不依赖聚集效应的行业的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s rising trade surplus has led some observers to call for a revaluation of the renminbi to correct what they see as an unfair competitive advantage that China maintains in international markets.",
        "中国上升的贸易顺差让某些观察家呼吁对人民币重新估价，以便修正他们所认为的中国在国际市场中维持的不公平的竞争优势。"
    ],
    [
        "He remains unrepentant about the obscene levels of corruption during his tenure as prime minister.",
        "对于在其担任总理期间腐败盛行，他并不忏悔。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the US will merely end up with bigger budget deficits.",
        "因此，美国的预算赤字必然还会变得更大。"
    ],
    [
        "A well-designed combination of caps to limit tax expenditures and a gradual slowing of growth in outlays for entitlement programs could reverse the rise in the debt and strengthen the US economy.",
        "精心设计的税收支出上限和福利项目支出增长逐渐放缓的组合可以扭转债务上升的趋势，强化美国经济。"
    ],
    [
        "And those efforts are taking place largely at sea.",
        "其中又以主要发生在海洋的后者的威胁为甚。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier this month in Tehran, the Japanese and Iranian foreign ministers agreed to begin negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty.",
        "本月早些时候在德黑兰，日本和伊朗外长同意开始就双边投资条约举行谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "And, at the root of this multiplicity of perspectives lays the fact that economics struggles to explain how growth and innovation move an economy as a whole.",
        "而这些预测之所以五花八门，根源就在于经济学也无法完美解释增长和创新是如何令一个经济整体向前推进的。"
    ],
    [
        "Low international income inequality, rather than growing income inequality in individual countries, is putting unprecedented stress on the global order.",
        "较低的国际收入不平等性，而不是个体国家日益加剧的收入不平等性，正在给全球秩序造成前所未有的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Many millions more suffer from “silent hunger” – malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies.",
        "4亿人经历着长期的每日饥饿。 更有千百万人遭受着“静默的饥饿”——营养不良和微量元素缺乏。"
    ],
    [
        "They would also have recognized that market prices naturally transmit complex, specific, and changing local knowledge, which is distributed among individuals and corporations, not controlled by central planners.",
        "他们还应该认识到市场价格往往本能地传递了复杂、具体和不断变化的本地信息，而这些信息往往散布在个人和公司之间，并很难被中央计划者掌控。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, exactly the opposite is happening: here, too, renationalization is uppermost in the minds of Europe’s peoples and decision-makers.",
        "不幸的是，目前的方向与此南辕北辙：在欧洲各族人民和决策者中间，重新国家话才是压倒性的优势观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, guidelines for the clinical use of antibiotics, which the medical community now follows as closely as those concerning how to pick a necktie, must be reviewed and strongly enforced.",
        "此外，现在在医疗界执行力度堪比如何选择领带指南的抗生素临床使用指南必须得到严格的审核和执行。"
    ],
    [
        "The British data suggest that cultural and ethnic attitudes, not direct economic motivations, are the real distinguishing features of anti-globalization voting.",
        "英国的数据表明，文化和种族态度，而不是直接的经济动机，才是反全球化投票真正的区别因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is also an invaluable source of ideas.",
        "美国还是无价的思想来源。"
    ],
    [
        "But the slowdown has been contained, and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future.",
        "但这种放缓已经被消化了，并且极有可能是在可预见的未来的最低点。"
    ],
    [
        "But West Europeans remember their own traumas, including electricity grid failures and widespread blackouts.",
        "但西欧人对电网瘫痪和大面积停电都有切肤之痛。"
    ],
    [
        "The non-residential construction boom this created helped not only to absorb the labor force that was leaving rural areas but also to achieve a remarkable reduction in inequality.",
        "由此带来的非住宅建设繁荣不但有助于吸收离开农村地区的劳动力，也大大降低了不平等程度。"
    ],
    [
        "The decisions that we will make both individually and collectively in the foreseeable future will determine whether twenty-first century science yields benign or devastating outcomes.",
        "我们在可预见的未来个人和集体所做的决定将决定21世纪的科学带来的后果是良性的还是破坏性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, as the Muslim Brotherhood rose in Egypt, Hezbollah’s erstwhile ally, Hamas, drifted away from it and its Syrian and Iranian backers, and found a new footing in Egypt and the Gulf.",
        "此外，随着穆斯林兄弟会在埃及的兴起，真主党之前的联盟哈马斯开始远离他以及他的叙利亚和伊朗支持者，在埃及和海湾地区建立了新的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Europol is performing a similar function with material derived from police work, and we are working to ensure synergy between these two efforts.",
        "欧盟刑警组织掌握着从警察工作中得来的材料，而我们就要努力确保这两方面的努力得以协调。"
    ],
    [
        "This process has already begun, and has been supported since the beginning of the last decade by the government’s “Going Global” policy, through which it encourages outward FDI from China.",
        "这一过程已经开始了，并从本世纪初就开始得到政府“走出去”政策的支持（通过鼓励中国企业进行对外直接投资）。"
    ],
    [
        "From my perspective, this void presents an opportunity to consider new governance paradigms, including those that borrow from two commonly discussed models: the “Washington Consensus” and the “Beijing Model.”",
        "从我的角度看，这一空白是一次思考新治理范式的机会，包括那些借鉴两大热门模式——“华盛顿共识”和“北京模式”的范式。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the lack of product-focused discussion is symptomatic of a far more serious problem facing businesses of all sizes in nearly every industry.",
        "恰恰相反，缺乏以产品为核心的讨论恰恰表明几乎所有行业和大大小小的企业所面临的问题要严重的多。"
    ],
    [
        "And while historians will still be debating what led to Trump’s victory long after he has left office, it is already apparent that many of his supporters similarly want America to bolt its door, restock its pantry, and rely more on itself than on foreign friends.",
        "虽然历史学家们可能会在特朗普卸任总统后的相当一段时间内仍然探究令他胜选的原因，但很显然他的许多支持者们同样希望美国栓紧国门，充实储备，更多地依靠自身而非国外友人。"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, one country refused to relinquish territory to the other, resulting in so-called “adverse possessions”; in others, Radcliffe left small areas of one country completely surrounded by the other’s territory.",
        "一是一方拒绝向另一方拱手让出领土，导致所谓的“非法占有”； 二是拉德克利夫留下了许多小领地，这些领地属于某一方，但完全被另一方的领土所包围。"
    ],
    [
        "An IP regime dictated by the advanced countries more than a quarter-century ago, in response to political pressure by a few of their sectors, makes little sense in today’s world.",
        "一项在超过25年前由先进国家主导且受到其部分行业政治压力所左右的知识产权制度在当今世界毫无意义。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Chinese do not pump aid into his crumbling economy, he argues, they will face refugees pouring across the border and possible unrest.”",
        "如果中国不给他提供援助，他就威胁要让大量难民涌入中国并制造骚乱。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Membership allows Diageo to influence the rules that make it possible to compete on fair terms across Europe.",
        "帝亚吉欧借由欧盟成员国地位影响使其能够在欧洲全境展开公平竞争的各项规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes the extent of sequence identity between two orthologs can be as low as 25-30%, and yet their folds remain strikingly similar, attesting to the robustness of function to evolutionary change.",
        "有时，两种同源体的序列一致性程度可以低至只有25—30%，与此同时，它们的折叠却仍保持着极大的相似性，这证明蛋白质功能对进化是鲁棒的。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, robots will be able to perform tasks that could not be automated before.",
        "类似地，机器人将胜任此前无法自动化的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The surreal environment, the amazing chess turns, and the Cold War backdrop made Fischer one of the most famous people in the world that summer.",
        "超现实主义环境、绝妙的棋路和冷战背景让费舍尔成为那个夏天全世界最出名的人物之一。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, many Germans anticipate a further increase in inequality.",
        "事实上，许多德国人认为不平等性将进一步增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprising, much of Nokia’s most valuable design and programming talent left as well.",
        "不出所料，诺基亚最宝贵的设计和编程人才大多也离开了。"
    ],
    [
        "That is due increasingly to the importance of China – now Germany’s third-largest export market, after the European Union and the United States.",
        "而中国的重要性越来越显著——现在它是德国第三大出口市场，仅次于欧盟和美国。"
    ],
    [
        "China is entering a new phase of development, and institutional reform in key areas – particularly the public sector, income distribution, land ownership, the household registration system, and the financial sector – has become imperative.",
        "中国正在进入新的发展阶段，公共部门、收入分配、土地所有制、户籍制度和金融部门等关键领域的制度改革已经成为当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, service workers comprise more than one-third of total employment in developing Asia.",
        "此外，服务人员在发展中亚洲国家占就业总人数的比例超过三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "A senior police commissioner is currently languishing in jail for allegedly collaborating with far-left militants he spent his entire career hunting down.",
        "一名高级警官最近因与极左翼武装分子勾结的罪名入狱——但后者却是他一生追捕的对象。"
    ],
    [
        "Those documents revealed, for example, that Philip Morris Companies (then the parent of PMI) viewed the WHO as a threat and sought “countermeasures” to “contain/neutralize/re-orient” it.",
        "那些文件显示菲利普莫里斯公司（当时是菲利普莫里斯国际的母公司）将世界卫生组织视为威胁，并竭尽所能寻求促使其“遏制/抵消/改变方向”的反制举措。"
    ],
    [
        "While no regional experience is directly transferable, the Nordic countries have successfully combined social welfare with high income levels, solid economic growth, and macroeconomic stability.",
        "虽然区域经验不能直接转让，但北欧国家确已成功地将高收入水平的社会福利、稳固的经济增长和宏观经济稳定结合起来。"
    ],
    [
        "And in the Pacific region, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, and Vanuatu have banded together to create the Pacific Islands Regional Initiative (PIRI), which will enable every Pacific Island state, even those without a central bank, to share knowledge on improving access, quality, and usage of financial services in geographically challenging environments.",
        "在太平洋地区，斐济、巴布亚新几内亚、萨摩亚、所罗门群岛、东帝汶、汤加和瓦努阿图共同成立了太平洋岛国地区计划（Pacific Islands Regional Initiative，PIRI），该计划将让所有太平洋岛国——即使它没有央行——共享关于在不利的地理环境下改善金融服务的普及、质量和用途的知识。"
    ],
    [
        "In May 2015, the International Chamber of Commerce and CEOs from around the world called for a zero emissions goal.",
        "2015年5月，国际商会和来自世界各地的首席执行官们呼吁设定零排放目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the ongoing economic crisis in Europe and the United States, the developing world has sustained rapid economic growth.",
        "尽管欧洲和美国经历着持续性经济危机，发展中国家经济却实现了持续高速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Relentless extraction is quickly depleting China’s resource deposits.",
        "毫无节制的开采正在迅速耗光中国的资源储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Although markets may have been cowed into submission for now, the cracks in the eurozone’s political foundations are beginning to show.",
        "尽管市场现在已经被迫从命，但欧元区政治基础的裂缝正在开始显露。"
    ],
    [
        "Among immigrants, soul-searching is closely related to belonging and commitment, which in practice boils down to feeling part of society and feeling responsible for the city, neighborhood, and street where you live.",
        "移民人群中，灵魂的反省与义务感和归属感息息相关，而现实生活中这两种情感最终归结为把自己作为社会的一员，愿意为身处其中的城市、社区和街道负起责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s leadership, Turkey, which once boasted a functioning democratic system, has been slipping toward authoritarian rule.",
        "雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安总统领导下的土耳其曾经为运行顺畅的民主制度感到骄傲，但现在也已滑向专制统治。"
    ],
    [
        "Absent a dramatic improvement in the Middle East’s grim political landscape, the failure of deterrence would bring the sum of all the fears of our nuclear age upon us.",
        "在中东地区严峻的政治形势没有得到大幅度改善的情况下，威摄无力将会让核子时代的所有恐惧降临到我们头上。"
    ],
    [
        "This summit must, at a minimum, serve as a powerful call to states to uphold the established norms, but also to impel others to do so.",
        "此次峰会至少应当有效提醒国家执行既定法则，并要推动别国也这么做。"
    ],
    [
        "The new governor of the Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda, comes with a wealth of experience gained in the finance ministry, and then as President of the Asian Development Bank.",
        "日本银行新任行长黑田东彦曾任日本财相和亚洲开发银行行长，积累了丰富的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "In the nineteenth century, liberals laboriously separated their nascent states’ institutions from those of the Catholic Church.",
        "十九世纪，自由派费尽心机让各国机构与天主教会脱离关系。"
    ],
    [
        "A consistent narrative underpins this change in market conditions.",
        "市场条件的这些变化背后的驱动力是相同的。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite talk of the “green economy” and calls for a Europe-wide investment program, Macron’s agenda is broadly neoliberal.",
        "尽管马克龙的计划谈到了“绿色经济”，呼吁实施泛欧洲的投资计划，但广义上仍属于新自由派。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last three years, 11% of Australia’s population has completed such a course, partly owing to requirements that people in certain positions, such as child-care workers, have a first-aid certificate.",
        "在过去三年中，11%的澳大利亚人口完成了这一课程，部分是因为工作岗位要求（如儿童看护工作）持有紧急救助资格。"
    ],
    [
        "What US politicians and policymakers in their right minds could believe that US national security is properly pursued through a 900-to-1 ratio of military spending to global education spending?",
        "美国政客和决策者的思维一定不正常，否则他们绝不会认为900比1的军事-全球教育支出比有利于美国国家安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, soon after the award was announced in October, Deaton published some startling work with Anne Case in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – research that is at least as newsworthy as the Nobel ceremony.",
        "实际上就在十月公布获奖后不久，迪顿发表在《美国国家科学院学报》上与安娜·凯斯（Ann Case）联合发表了一些重大研究成果——而这一研究的新闻价值甚至可以与诺贝尔奖典礼媲美。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial bubbles, like the one that has just definitively burst, are intimately related to the world of art.",
        "金融泡沫，正如刚刚彻底破灭的那个一样，是与艺术界密切相关的。"
    ],
    [
        "But is it doing enough?",
        "但它做得足够了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It should not have come as a surprise when protesters shouted, “Let go of Syria; think about us.”",
        "因此，示威者喊出“随叙利亚去吧，想想我们自己”的口号也就不足为奇了。"
    ],
    [
        "But Kan still seems unwilling to focus on growth.",
        "但菅直人似乎仍不愿将发展作为第一要务。"
    ],
    [
        "The obvious solution is not to abandon the franc's euro peg, but to change the cantonal financing mechanism.",
        "显而易见的解决办法不是放弃瑞郎盯住欧元，而是改变州融资机制。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama administration had been pressing Abe not to aggravate regional tensions by visiting Yasukuni – an entreaty reiterated by Vice President Joe Biden during a recent stopover in Tokyo on his way to Beijing.",
        "奥巴马政府一直在敦促安倍不要因为参拜靖国神社加剧地区紧张——副总统拜登在访问北京之旅中特意经停东京，重申这一要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the US found a way to finesse this problem.",
        "但美国找到了一条解决这一问题的妙招。"
    ],
    [
        "The latter were first defined in the Nuremberg principles of 1950 to include murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and “other inhumane acts.”",
        "反人类罪最初在1950年的纽伦堡原则中被定义为包含了“谋杀、灭绝、奴役、驱逐出境”和“其他非人道行为”。"
    ],
    [
        "But is there really a paradox?",
        "但这真是一个悖论吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland’s government has exceeded its targets under the troika program, and the economy returned to growth last year.",
        "爱尔兰政府已经超额完成了三驾马车项目所制定的计划，经济也在去年实现了增长。"
    ],
    [
        "With Asia riven by territorial disputes and historical tensions, maintaining a stable security balance will not be easy.",
        "面对饱受领土争端和历史恩怨纠缠的亚洲，保持稳定的安全平衡并非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "India, which has lost reform momentum, is experiencing an economic slowdown and a potential loss of investor confidence.",
        "印度早已失去改革动力，现在正在经历经济放缓和投资者信心潜力丧失。"
    ],
    [
        "But those costs will have a significantly higher expected value if we do not adopt sensible global strategies that include adjusting our mitigation efforts in response to new information.",
        "但如果我们不采取包括根据最新资讯调整减排措施之类明智的全球政策，那么上述成本的价值将会大大超出预料。"
    ],
    [
        "While Fillon does not want to revoke same-sex couples’ legal right to marry, he opposes granting them the right to adopt children.",
        "虽然菲永并不打算剥夺同性恋夫妇结婚的法定权利，但却对授予他们收养子女的权利持反对态度。"
    ],
    [
        "There is some evidence of increased risk associated with exposure to trichloroethylene, commonly used in the textile industry and in the manufacture of pesticides and other chemicals.",
        "一些证据表明接触三氯乙烯（纺织业以及杀虫剂和其他化学制剂行业常用材料）者患帕金森病几率更高。"
    ],
    [
        "The Norway model will satisfy neither Britain’s elderly, provincial Europhobes, nor the young, urban voters who want to preserve the rights of EU citizenship that they have taken for granted all their lives.",
        "挪威模式满足不了英国年长群体，满足不了地方仇欧派，也满足不了想要保留他们出生以来就视为理所当然的欧盟公民权利的年轻城市选民。"
    ],
    [
        "Clinton has acknowledged that he could have done more to galvanize the UN and other countries to save lives in Rwanda.",
        "克林顿承认他本可以更大力度地敦促联合国和其他国家拯救卢旺达人的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2100, the gap would be even wider. The challenge is enormous.",
        "到了2010年两者之间的差距将进一步加大，可见挑战是十分艰巨的。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent weeks, security forces have shaped developments in different ways in three Arab states.",
        "而在最近这几个星期内，三个阿拉伯国家的安全力量分别以不同的形式左右了局势的发展."
    ],
    [
        "But Obama’s team does concede one point: New START fails to curtail Russia’s large numerical advantage in tactical nuclear weapons.",
        "但奥巴马政府确实承认了一点：那就是新条约无法削弱俄罗斯在战术核武器方面的巨大优势。"
    ],
    [
        "When Jesuit missionaries came to China in the seventeenth century, they enthused about how much Europeans could learn from the country’s enlightened political philosophy, Confucianism.",
        "当十七世纪耶稣会传教士来到中国时，他们十分热心地关注欧洲可以从中国的开明政治哲学——儒家思想中学到什么。"
    ],
    [
        "One Forest, Two Tigers",
        "一山二虎"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge consists in finding ways to get there, and is best addressed through rich and deep interactions between government and society.",
        "这一挑战包括寻找达到目标的办法，其最佳解决方式是政府和社会的大规模深度互动。"
    ],
    [
        "The exchange rate, however, is an asset price that has huge economic spillovers, because it affects real trade and direct-investment flows.",
        "但是，汇率也是一种资产价格，具有巨大的经济溢出效应，因为它会影响实际贸易和直接投资的流量。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar attacks have lately been carried out against security forces and, in some cases, non-Rohingya civilians, with the violence having escalated over the last 12 months.",
        "最近也有针对安全部队的类似袭击，有时候非罗兴亚平民也成为袭击对象，而在过去12个月中，暴力不断升级。"
    ],
    [
        "And then, finally, there were those near-deaths in the manner of Bossuet (“Johnny is dying!",
        "终于，他以波苏哀（Bossuet）的方式濒临死亡（“约翰尼快死了！"
    ],
    [
        "Trump won by promising to pursue unilateral and inward-looking solutions, much like those advocated by proponents of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.",
        "特朗普获胜是因为承诺实行单方面和内向的解决方案，这与英国退欧倡导者所提出的方案非常相似。"
    ],
    [
        "Is all this an American phenomenon, or are there similar trends elsewhere?",
        "这是美国才有的现象吗？ 还是在其他地方也有类似趋势？"
    ],
    [
        "When it was finally proved that power had turned Chen into a common criminal, the KMT was voted back into power.",
        "事实最终证明，是权力使陈水扁沦为阶下囚，而国民党则在大选中重新夺回政权。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, it is no surprise that, when Aquino relaunched stalled peace talks in 2012, the Filipino people were highly skeptical.",
        "在这样的背景下，毫不奇怪，当2012年阿基诺三世重启陷入停滞的和平谈判时，菲律宾人对此十分怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "A decade ago, economists were optimistic that flexible exchange rates would allow emerging markets to insulate their economies from monetary-policy shocks coming from the developed countries.",
        "十年前，经济学家乐观地认为弹性汇率将让新兴市场经济免于来自发达国家的货币政策冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "They may be coming soon, accompanied by the retrograde racial thinking - with its full range of dangerous assumptions and historical associations - that molecular biology was supposed to have dispelled.",
        "但种族药品不久就会诞生，随之而来的还有分子生物学已经消除的倒退的种族观念，以及所有危险的假设和历史的联想。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments must set themselves a firm four-year deadline to end fossil-fuel subsidies and redirect funding to areas like green infrastructure projects and development assistance.",
        "政府必须给自己设定明确的四年时限结束化石燃料补贴，将资金配置给绿色基础设施项目和发展援助等领域。"
    ],
    [
        "His motivation is not difficult to discern: his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hopes that such concessions will help it to wrest control of Maharashtra, India’s main sugar-producing state, from the UPA in the upcoming state assembly election.",
        "他这样做的动机不难判断：他的印度人民党（BJP）希望这样的让步有助于其与UPA争夺即将到来的印度糖主产邦马哈拉施特拉邦议会选举的控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, oil exporters such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates seek to set aside wealth during the boom years.",
        "最后，沙特和阿联酋等石油出口国也试图在繁荣时期储备财富。"
    ],
    [
        "We must rescue these people by giving them a better future, which only more education and new opportunities can bring.",
        "我们必须拯救这些人，给他们一个更美好的未来，而只有更多的教育和新的机会才可以带给他们这样的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "The first step in assessing China’s financial vulnerability is to distinguish a solvency crisis, which can occur when firms lack sufficient capital to withstand an asset-price meltdown, from a liquidity crisis.",
        "评估中国经济脆弱性的第一步是区分偿债能力危机和流动性危机。 偿债能力危机发生在企业没有足够资本抵御资产价格崩盘时。"
    ],
    [
        "This debate is at the cutting edge of today’s globalization, yet it is clouded by a healthy dose of national self-interest.",
        "这是在当今的全球化问题上争论最激烈的地方，然而它在相当大的程度上是出于对国家自身利益的考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Such criticism disregards two important differences: first, unlike China, Germany, as a member of the eurozone, cannot undervalue its currency.",
        "此类批评忽略了德国和中国的两个重要差异：第一，作为欧元区成员国，德国不可能低估本币汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who disdain environmental concerns have been ousted at the polls in large numbers, companies invest huge amounts in environmental technologies, states are suing car producers for their climate-adverse policies, and the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol have long been surpassed by some states – a lesson for German and European cities and municipalities.",
        "那些对环保关切不屑一顾的人在投票中惨败，被逐出政坛，企业投入巨资用于环境科技，各州因对环境有害的政策而起诉汽车制造商，而某些州长久以来则凌驾于京都议定书的要求之上。 这对于德国和欧洲各城市而言都是一个教训。"
    ],
    [
        "That question has provoked much debate over the years, often generating more heat than light.",
        "这一问题引起了多年的争论，其热度可谓如火如荼。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s noisy, confusing, multi-channel news landscape, where “fake news” is sold as fact, we need accountable, analytical, responsible reporting more than ever.",
        "在今天这个嘈杂，混乱且多渠道，将“假消息”作为事实贩售的新闻图景中，我们比以往任何时候都需要实话实说，分析严谨且负责任的报告。"
    ],
    [
        "For Al Thani, Al Jazeera is integral to the national “branding” of Qatar and its foreign-policy aspirations.",
        "在阿勒萨尼看来，“半岛电视台”是卡塔尔国家“品牌”和外交政策理想的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than losing touch with its own culture and traditions, however, Japan merged the two, moving forward without losing sight of the past.",
        "但是，日本并没有失去自己的文化和传统，而是将两者合并，在前进的同时亦不忘过去。"
    ],
    [
        "Defending the Kim dynasty, built up as a symbol of Korean resistance to foreign powers, is a sacred task.",
        "捍卫象征朝鲜抵制外国列强事业的金氏王朝是一项神圣的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee – who was noticeably less forthcoming on Tibet than his American counterpart during a press conference with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice – has publicly warned the Dalai Lama against doing anything that could have a “negative impact on Indo-Sino relations.”",
        "印度外长慕克吉在于美国国务卿莱斯会晤的时候明显在西藏问题上较为低调。 他公开警告达赖喇嘛不要做任何“对印中关系造成负面影响”的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has called for solidarity, warning that otherwise the border guards might soon be back at their posts, beginning with the German-Austrian frontier.",
        "而德国财政部长朔伊布勒（Wolfgang Schäuble）为此呼吁团结，警告说否则的话边境守卫很快就会恢复，首先是在德国-奥地利边境。"
    ],
    [
        "Deviant individuals and groups exist in all human societies, and they are now empowered in ways that were once unthinkable.",
        "只要是人类社会就存在反叛组织和个人，如今他们具备前所未有的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, responsible statesmen and party leaders have come out openly against Turkish membership.",
        "相反，恪尽职守的政治家和党派领导人已经公开对土耳其获得成员国资格表示反对。"
    ],
    [
        "Revulsion at government and traditional politicians hit the presidential contest like a tornado in the summer, flattening the campaigns of some who were once seen as serious contenders.",
        "今年夏天，对政府和传统政客的深恶痛绝像龙卷风一样席卷整个总统竞争，一些曾被视为资深竞争者的选战一败涂地。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s opposition to empowering the Kurds has been a source of tension with its traditional ally, the United States, which believes the Kurds are the only force on the ground capable of fighting ISIS.",
        "土耳其反对库尔德人获得实力已成为土耳其与其传统盟友美国关系紧张的一个原因。 美国认为库尔德人是唯一有能力在地面打击伊斯兰国的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Hiftar believes that the key to solving Libya’s myriad crises lies in establishing a strong national army capable of subduing the Islamists who are destabilizing the country.",
        "塔希夫塔认为解决利比亚众多危机的关键在于建设一支有能力战胜破坏国家稳定的伊斯兰主义的强大军队。"
    ],
    [
        "Against these formidable minuses are three pluses.",
        "除了上述三个的缺点之外，撒切尔主义也给我们带来了三点好处。"
    ],
    [
        "The US military’s protective umbrella gave large swaths of the world a vacation from war, making it easier for them to focus on economic growth and regional integration.",
        "在美国大学接受教育的外国学生把有关自由市场、创业精神以及民主的新观点带回国内。 美国军队的保护伞让世界上的大部分地区免于战火，使得这些地区更为容易地专心致志地从事经济增长和地区联合。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this has resulted in delayed progress in implementing lifesaving public-health protections around the world – though it hasn’t stopped them.",
        "所有这一切导致在世界各地推行挽救生命的公共卫生保护措施进展缓慢——尽管烟草公司未能彻底阻止这些进展的取得。"
    ],
    [
        "One seemingly unrelated event to watch: in the week before the presidential vote, Iran will play two critical football matches as part of the qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup.",
        "目前，好像有一件看似不相干的事件也在左右着局面——在本次总统投票前，也就是本周，伊朗将参加两场关键的2010年世界杯足球预选赛。"
    ],
    [
        "They will ultimately realize that their self-interest lies in supporting some form of global action to deal with both poverty and inequality.",
        "他们最终会意识到自身的利益在于支持某种形式的应对全球贫困和不平衡的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, compared with the contributions of universities and industry to the end product, the importance of tissue contributed by patients is minimal.",
        "此外，与大学和企业对最终产品的贡献相比，病人捐献组织的重要性可以忽略不计。"
    ],
    [
        "Universal health coverage is right, smart, and overdue.",
        "全民医疗覆盖是正确的、明智的、早就应该实施的。"
    ],
    [
        "LAGOS – When you think of teenage girls, you might imagine common stereotypes, from the “mean girl” to the sullen high school student locked in her bedroom.",
        "拉各斯—当你想到少女时，可能会有刻板印象，比如“贱女孩”和将自己锁在卧室里的忧郁女高中生。"
    ],
    [
        "You can ask (and get the answer) to “movies directed by Roman Polanski” and get only those movies – not those in which he only appeared.",
        "你可以提问“由罗曼·波兰斯基执导的影片”并只获得符合条件的结果，这些电影由波兰斯基执导，而不仅是有他出现。"
    ],
    [
        "In Africa, rural land is generally considered to be state-owned, and is treated by governments as if it were their own.",
        "在非洲，农村土地通常被认为是国家所有的，而政府也将其当成私产来任意支配。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are reacting to the current situation.",
        "但是，他们不过是对当前的局势做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with banks’ balance sheets having been strengthened, it will be possible to restructure mortgage debts, bank debts, and other private-sector debts without destabilizing financial systems.",
        "一旦银行的资产负债表巩固了，就有可能重组按揭债、银行债和其他私人部门债务而不至于动摇整个金融系统。"
    ],
    [
        "But those were just dry statistics.",
        "1%。 但是这只是枯燥的统计数据。"
    ],
    [
        "The US now imprisons around 2.3 million people at any time, a substantial number of whom are poor people who are arrested for selling drugs to support their own addiction.",
        "如今，美国时时刻刻都有约230万年轻人在蹲班房，其中相当数量是因贩卖毒品以解决自己的药瘾而被捕的穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "Promises to Keep in 2016",
        "2016年要兑现的承诺"
    ],
    [
        "A few days later, once the powers-that-be realized that the Greek government was about to capitulate fully to the troika’s demands, they saw fit to impose upon Greece their demeaning, unimaginative, and pernicious Treuhand model.",
        "几天后，当权者意识到希腊政府将完全屈服于三驾马车的要求时，他们觉得是时候向希腊施加他们的侮辱性的、毫无想象力的、贻害无穷的资产托管局模式了。"
    ],
    [
        "This threatens to create a vicious cycle in which misconduct and sloppy research are rewarded, undermining both the scientific process and its credibility.",
        "这可能产生一个恶性循环，舞弊和草率研究受到奖励，既妨碍了科学进步，也破坏了科学的信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, global cooperation will be crucial.",
        "最后，全球合作将至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Their efforts may be well intentioned, but, without better coordination, they will remain ineffective.",
        "他们的努力可能本意是好的，但如果缺乏良好的协调，恐怕难以产生多大的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "But the overall impact of ODA remains dubious.",
        "但ODA的总体影响仍然值得质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "That, together with the heroin that is trafficked from Burma to India, China, Thailand, and other countries in the region, poses a serious threat to our political and economic security.",
        "这些毒品，再加上从缅甸运输到印度、中国、泰国和该地区其他国家的的海洛因，对我们的政治和经济安全造成严重威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The city was rebuilt, eventually grew to more than 73,000 inhabitants, and remained stable for more than 300 years – until October 2008, when tremors began again.",
        "人们实施了灾后重建，将其最终发展成为一座拥有超过7."
    ],
    [
        "If the United Kingdom, for example, were to deploy all 44 interventions, it could rein in obesity rates and help roughly 20% of its overweight and obese population return to a healthy weight within 5-10 years.",
        "比如，如果英国实施全部44种干预手段，可以遏制肥胖率并帮助约20%的超重和肥胖人口在5—10年内恢复健康体重。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaflets dropped on villages announced, “The Vietcong hide among innocent women and children in your villages….If the Vietcong in this area use you or your village for this purpose, you can expect death from the sky.”",
        "向村庄投递的传单称，“你村无辜的妇女和儿童中隐藏着越共…如果你地区活动的越共利用你村作为掩护，灭顶之灾将会从天而降。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "JERUSALEM – The aftermath of Turkey’s failed military coup raises a fundamental question: will President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continue to pursue his authoritarian path, perhaps with a vengeance, or will he reach out to his opponents and attempt to bridge the deep fissures in Turkish society?",
        "耶路撒冷——土耳其失败的军事政变提出了一个根本性的问题：雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安总统是会为了复仇的目的继续奉行独裁主义道路，还是会向反对派伸出手去，试图弥合土耳其社会存在的深层次的鸿沟。"
    ],
    [
        "A global savings glut would suggest that rebalancing the world economy requires policies to boost America’s savings rate and to increase non-US households’ consumption.",
        "一种全球性的储蓄过剩意味着要重新平衡世界经济就必须制定政策提高美国的储蓄率并增加非美国家庭的消费。"
    ],
    [
        "By propping up the renminbi as a reserve currency, Europe is hoping to support the liberalizers inside China and welcome the country to the core group of world powers that decide global monetary affairs.",
        "通过支持人民币成为储备货币，欧洲希望支持中国国内的自由主义者（liberalizers），并欢迎中国加入决定全球货币事务的世界强国核心团体。"
    ],
    [
        "Economically speaking, gas supply and transport prices are more correlated to political relationships than to fundamental supply-demand or gas transport basis calculations.",
        "从经济角度讲，天然气的供应和输送价格与根本的供求关系或天然气运送成本关系不大，反而是国与国之间的政治关系起到更大的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Patriotism in the Age of Globalization",
        "全球化时代的爱国主义"
    ],
    [
        "Economists would typically argue that the way to balance a country’s external accounts is through a fall in its currency, which would make imports more expensive and exports cheaper, causing the former to fall and the latter to rise.",
        "通常来说，经济学家会将货币贬值视为平衡一个国家外部账户的有效手段，因为这会提高进口成本而拉低出口成本，进而令前者下降而后者上升。"
    ],
    [
        "The same arc of development can and should be limned for the southern Mediterranean.",
        "同理，这样的发展弧线也可以并应当在地中海南岸勾勒出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if you’re not and get such a disease anyway, you will be better able to cope and undergo treatment if your health is good.",
        "即便是你没有上述症状却依然罹患这类疾病的话，一副好身板也能帮你经受住治疗的过程。"
    ],
    [
        "In January, the BOJ went further and introduced negative deposit rates on commercial banks’ mandatory reserves, which markets interpreted as a confusing act of desperation.",
        "今年一月份日本央行更进一步，将商业银行在央行的强制性储备利率降为负值，这被市场解读为绝望中的胡乱挣扎。"
    ],
    [
        "Indicators for the eurozone are even worse.",
        "欧元区的指标更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Either the patient was not given the information, or she did not fully understand it.",
        "要么患者没有被告知信息，要么她没有充分理解她获得的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Petri and Plummer assume that labor markets are sufficiently flexible that job losses in adversely affected parts of the economy are necessarily offset by job gains elsewhere.",
        "彼特里和普卢默假设劳动力市场具有充分弹性，经济中受到负面影响的部分的就业损失必然会被其他部分的就业增长所抵消。"
    ],
    [
        "Millennium Promise seeks to respond to that skepticism one village at a time.",
        "“千年承诺”计划则采用逐村扶贫的方式来回应上述怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Divergences between euro-area economies in terms of growth and inflation have been a persistent challenge.",
        "欧元地区内的经济体之间，在增长和通货膨胀率方面的分歧一直是一个挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "China has tried to persuade Kim’s regime to follow its market-oriented example, but Kim is afraid that an economic opening would lead to a political opening and loss of dictatorial control.",
        "中国曾尝试说服金正日政权模仿其市场经济模式，但金正日害怕开放经济会导致政治解禁，最终丢掉自己的独裁权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Having attended countless summits, we can attest that, if these other meetings are correctly prepared, and heads of state engage meaningfully in them, the prospects of success in Paris could be improved.",
        "我们参与过无数峰会，可以说，这些其他会议准备合适，并且各国首脑带着诚意与会，巴黎会议成功的前景将会大增。"
    ],
    [
        "These are not people who came from outside their countries. They are people who in some ways lacked full citizenship, who demanded it, and who redefined the political order by obtaining it.",
        "那些女权分子并非外国人，而是一些在某些方面被剥夺了公民权利，转而争取这些权利，并通过得到这些权利重新定义了政治秩序的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only is QE’s ability to jumpstart crisis-torn, balance-sheet-constrained economies limited; it also runs the important risk of blurring the distinction between monetary and fiscal policy.",
        "不仅量化宽松政策重启那些饱受危机折磨且资产负债表受制的经济体的能力有限； 它还冒着模糊货币政策和财政政策之间区别的重大风险。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, in a scenario where South Korea is unprepared for reunification and the North quickly dissolves in a state of disorder, the risk premium on the Korean Peninsula would jump sharply, and reforms would be delayed.",
        "相反，如果韩国没有为统一做好准备，而朝鲜在无序状态下迅速解体，朝鲜半岛的风险升水将急剧上升，改革有可能被拖延。"
    ],
    [
        "At the head of the firing party, a French soldier carries the Tricolor forward. On it are the great words, “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.”",
        "执行开始时，一名法国士兵扛着三色旗走上前去，上面写着那几个伟大的字眼，“自由、平等、友爱。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has some of the skills of emotional intelligence.",
        "而特朗普也确实拥有一些情商的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "Those dynamics are changing, and emerging economies should take the lead in creating a balanced IP system that recognizes the importance of knowledge for development, growth, and wellbeing.",
        "这些动态也正发生着变化，新兴经济体应该带头创造一个制衡性的知识产权制度，认识到知识对发展，成长和福祉的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it looks as if his words have trapped him.",
        "不过现在看来他是被自己说过的话困住了。"
    ],
    [
        "Hemoglobin contains hemes, chemical compounds that contain iron – a transition metal that can undergo oxidation, or “rusting” processes.",
        "血红蛋白包含了亚铁血红素，一种含有铁元素的化合物。 铁是一种过渡金属，可以氧化（或曰“生锈）。"
    ],
    [
        "Rebooting Nuclear Security",
        "重启核安全"
    ],
    [
        "Enactment of these reforms would generate a win for each side – and for both.",
        "实施这些改革将令每一方都受益，取得双赢效果。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with the exception of a small minority of philosophers and scientists, nobody takes this view seriously.",
        "但是，除了少数的哲学家和科学家而外，似乎没有人把这种观点当真。"
    ],
    [
        "It is my earnest desire that the people in our neighborly countries and their leaders should feel free to visit each other whenever they wish to do so.",
        "我最诚挚的愿望莫过于邻邦的人民及其领导人能随心所欲地访问我们。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because this would all happen on global markets, the prices of certain skills would become more transparent to training institutions, students, employees, and employers alike.",
        "此外，由于这一切都将在全球市场上发生，某些技能的价格将对培训机构、学生、员工和雇主变得更加透明。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, Africa is following Sudan’s evolution with intense interest – and is eager to see this country “at the heart and crossroads of Africa” give substance to al-Nimeiry’s vision.",
        "这正是非洲大陆为何如此关心苏丹事态发展——也希望看到这个“位处非洲核心地带和交通要冲”的国家能最终实现尼迈里的理念。"
    ],
    [
        "California will most likely be unable to pay for the entire project, leaving little use for the first segment in the sparsely populated Central Valley.",
        "加州将很有可能无法负担整个项目，致使位于人烟稀少的中央山谷的一期工程陷于荒废。"
    ],
    [
        "They cast 73% of their ballots for the National Front’s rivals, depriving the party of even a single victory.",
        "他们将73%的选票投给了国民阵线的对手，让该党连一场胜利都没有得到。"
    ],
    [
        "It is certainly too early to declare a new Progressive Era in America.",
        "现在就宣布美国进入了新进步时代显然还为时过早。"
    ],
    [
        "For the ASEAN-5, current-account deficits averaging 4% of GDP in 1996-97 swung dramatically into average surpluses of 6.8% of GDP in 1998-99.",
        "在东盟五国方面，1996~1997年度平均相当于GDP4%的经常账户逆差戏剧性地逆转为1998~1999年度的6. 8%顺差。"
    ],
    [
        "So, even as we need companies to provide more and more vital services, from transportation to health care to evacuation plans, we trust them less and less.",
        "因此，即使我们需要公司提供越来越多的重要服务——从交通到医疗和疏散计划——但我们对它们的信任越来越少。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, efficiency of external action is inextricably linked to its legitimacy.",
        "今天，国外军事行动的效率与其合法性之间有着无法割裂的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "One theory that has gained a lot of traction lately is that the so-called productivity paradox does not actually exist.",
        "一个最近相当热门的理论是所谓的生产率悖论其实并不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "These efforts – which demonstrate complete disregard for the rights and dignity of women – must end.",
        "这些做法必须叫停，因为它们完全无视妇女的权利和尊严。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s growth trajectory will be 2% below what it would have been had the financial crisis been successfully finessed and the lesser depression avoided.",
        "美国的增长潜力将比金融危机被成功消除、小型萧条被成功避免的情形低2%。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil exporters, with the exception of Libya and Yemen, may have avoided major political changes, but the autocratic bargain – and any attempt to unravel it – has become more expensive.",
        "石油输出国——除了利比亚和也门——也许避免了政治剧变，但专制交易——以及任何解决它的努力——变得更加昂贵了。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest differences among the various groupings consist in the tone and tenor of their respective visions of India.",
        "三个政治派别最大的不同在于他们是不同的阶层的代言人和传声筒。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s leaders should think hard about this question now – before it is too late to change the situation.",
        "这是中国领导人如今应当认真思考的问题——在一切已经太迟之前。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Bangladesh acknowledges Rohingya militants’ external jihadi connections.",
        "即便是孟加拉国也认可罗兴亚军人有来自外部的圣战关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, those seeking to foster openness in the Arab world should focus not on the impact of Islam, but on the education to which the region’s residents are exposed.",
        "因此，寻求促进阿拉伯世界开放的人不应该将重点放在伊斯兰教的影响，而应该放在该地区居民所接受的教育上。"
    ],
    [
        "These losses reflect the far-reaching consequences of exclusion.",
        "这些损失反映出排斥的深远影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the middle of the twentieth century, worldwide efforts to address TB have emphasized biomedical solutions and focused on treating outbreaks.",
        "自20世纪中叶以来，世界各地应对结核病的工作一直强调运用生物医学方法并注重治疗疫情的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Swedes recently gave enough votes to a right-wing, anti-immigrant party to give it representation in parliament, reflecting a growing backlash against the rising number of immigrants in Swedish society.",
        "瑞典选民最近给一个右翼反移民政党投下了足够多的选票，足以让其在议会拥有一席之地，这反映出瑞典人对外国移民越来越强烈的抵制心理。"
    ],
    [
        "This represents a much-needed change in the conversation – one that, at long last, finally puts the focus squarely on stimulating the demand side of the European economy.",
        "这表明话语出现了急需的改变——重点终于对准了刺激欧洲经济的需求端。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, India’s growing influence and investment in Afghanistan is disturbing to Pakistan’s national security apparatus.",
        "事实上，印度在阿富汗地区不断增加的影响力和投资都令巴基斯坦的国家安全部门非常头疼。"
    ],
    [
        "Although a larger effect was expected, it remains too early for a complete assessment.",
        "虽然这与人们的希望还有距离，但全面评价还为时尚早。"
    ],
    [
        "This, remarkably, is what British Euroskeptics call “sovereignty.”",
        "值得注意的是，这就是英国欧洲怀疑论者所谓的“主权”。"
    ],
    [
        "They can earn more hanging around with a gun in their hands than by working in construction or trade.",
        "他们手持枪支游逛要比在工地打工或者做手艺挣得多。"
    ],
    [
        "First, there were limits on Powell’s ability to mobilize public opinion.",
        "首先，鲍威尔煽动公共情绪的能力是有极限的。"
    ],
    [
        "Every year, drug-resistant microbes kill about 700,000 people worldwide – more than three times the annual death toll from armed conflicts.",
        "每一年，耐药微生物都会杀死全球700,000人——比每年死于 武装冲突的人数多两倍多。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for central banks to assume responsibility and implement “helicopter money,” putting cash directly into the hands of people who will spend it.",
        "央行应该承担责任，实施“直升机撒钱”，将现金直接派发给会花钱的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Flood risks could complicate energy-infrastructure development in coastal cities in countries like Bangladesh and India.",
        "洪水风险可能导致孟加拉和印度等国沿海城市的能源基础设施开发进一步复杂化。"
    ],
    [
        "If they do not seize this decisive moment to define themselves – by beginning to institute the difficult reforms their countries so desperately need, for example – they risk ending up on a path they never intended to take.",
        "如果他们不抓住定义自己的决定性时刻——比如，可以从实施国家所急需的改革开始——他们就有可能走上永远不想走的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "The €2.5 billion estimate assumes that politicians pick the cheapest renewable energy alternative.",
        "25亿欧元的估计是假定政治人物挑选最为便宜的可再生能源。"
    ],
    [
        "And then the government needs to focus more attention on structural adjustment – the only effective cure for China’s $3.2 trillion headache.",
        "在此基础上，中国政府还需要更加关注结构调整，这才是医治中国3. 2万亿美元麻烦的唯一有效的药方。"
    ],
    [
        "Average annual growth in the least developed countries, many in Africa, reached almost 7% last year.",
        "去年主要是在非洲的最不发达国家的年平均增长达到了大约7%。"
    ],
    [
        "The crises in East Asia and the recent recessions in Latin America show that premature capital market liberalization can result in enormous economic volatility, increasing poverty, and destruction of the middle class.",
        "东亚的危机和拉美最近的经济衰退显示了不成熟的资本市场自由化能造成严重的经济不稳定，加重贫困并给中产阶级带来毁灭性的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "The most arresting but unrecognized of all post-Soviet monuments to the Gulag is the 500 ruble banknote, issued in the late 1990's and widely used today.",
        "后苏联时代，古拉格不为多数人知晓的最引人注目的纪念碑是500卢布纸币，它发行于20世纪90年代末，直到今天依然被广泛使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Commission’s then-president, Romano Prodi, had already harshly criticized the SGP’s rigidity.",
        "事实上，时任欧盟委员会主席普罗迪严厉批评了SGP的僵化。"
    ],
    [
        "By the early 1990’s, it became increasingly evident that the armed struggle for power in Latin American was winding down.",
        "到上个世纪90年代初期，在拉丁美洲，为了取得政权的武装斗争正在逐步停止的趋势越来越明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet no live apes were used.",
        "”但名为实拍，却没有一只真的猩猩参与演出。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, strong international financial partners are indispensable to multinational corporations, which often need global cash management or support for large-scale transactions.",
        "此外，牢固的国际金融伙伴关系对跨国公司来说是不可或缺的——它们通常需要全球化的现金管理和大规模交易支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to popular opinion, now is exactly the right time to make these changes.",
        "和流行的观点相反，现在正是作出这些改变的恰当时机。"
    ],
    [
        "The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians stands out as an example of the static nature of this key geopolitical region, because it seems to be completely unaffected by any international upheaval.",
        "以色列和巴勒斯坦之间的冲突，是这一重要地缘政治区域的停滞不前的一个突出例子，因为这种冲突似乎完全不受任何国际形势动荡的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But nearly a quarter of these women are not using an effective method of birth control.",
        "但这些女性中有近四分之一用不上有效的生育控制方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on what Romney has told us, we can conclude that his plan would exacerbate the public-investment deficit as well.",
        "根据罗姆尼告诉我们的内容，我们可以推论他的计划还将扩大公共投资赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not the European Union that is being provocative. It is not Germany, France, and Italy that are invading their neighbors.",
        "没有任何有理智的欧洲人想要重回冷战时期，但是，现在不是欧盟在进行挑衅，不是德国、法国或是意大利在入侵他们的邻国。"
    ],
    [
        "Any international bid to resolve the problem of Palestine depends on six factors.",
        "解决巴勒斯坦问题的任何国际努力都取决于6大因素能否发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "An accelerating convergence of the biological, physical, and engineering sciences promises a stunning array of new technological solutions.",
        "生物学、物理学和工程学的加速趋同给我们带来了层出不穷的新技术方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Further uncertainty regarding the future of variant CJD arises from the observation that the average age of the patients in the UK has not increased significantly over the past 10 years.",
        "关于变异型克雅氏病未来的不确定性来自这样一个观察：英国发病者的平均年龄过去10年以来并没有显著增长。"
    ],
    [
        "This inadequate level then crept up slowly, to $10.5 billion by 2000.",
        "这一远远不够的援助水平缓慢地增加着，2000年上升到了105亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "India could take a leaf from China’s success in handling the Taiwan problem.",
        "印度应该效仿中国处理台湾问题的成功经验。"
    ],
    [
        "For Greece, with an overall deficit of 4.1% of GDP and a debt/GDP ratio of 170%, the debt ratio would fall if the combination of inflation and real (inflation-adjusted) GDP growth exceeded 2.4%.",
        "1%，债务/GDP比率为170%，如果通货膨胀和真实（经通胀调整的）GDP的组合超过2. 4%，其债务水平也会下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, since South Korea’s new government took office earlier this year little progress has been made in relations between the two Koreas.",
        "此外，自从韩国新政府在年初执政以后，两朝关系就没有取得过什么进展。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, those agencies have a unique global mandate and political legitimacy, and the capacity to operate in all parts of the world.",
        "毕竟，这些组织承担着独特的全球使命和政治合法性，也具备在全世界各地展开工作的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "In July, the world will assemble in Addis Ababa for the International Finance for Development Conference, and just weeks after that, at UN Headquarters to adopt the SDGs in late September.",
        "7月，世界将在亚的斯亚贝巴召开国际发展金融会议，几周后，9月底，联合国总部将启动SDG。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in China, where the government has deep pockets to cushion the fall, one Lehman Brothers-size bankruptcy could lead to a major panic.",
        "即使是政府拥有大量财政余地抵御下跌的中国，雷曼兄弟规模的破产也会导致重大恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "He ran against the West and the “chaos” of the 1990’s, just as he raged against Chechen terrorists in 1999 and against oligarchs in 2003.",
        "他在竞选中反对西方以及九十年代的“混乱”，正如他在1999年镇压车臣恐怖份子以及2003年平定寡头们一样。"
    ],
    [
        "But the world order has changed.",
        "但世界秩序已经发证了改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear and Freedom on the Internet",
        "因特网上的恐惧和自由"
    ],
    [
        "How we achieve this will vary.",
        "我们如何实现这一目标要视情况而定。"
    ],
    [
        "But that decision, and bad policies by central banks and governments since then, has given over-indebted major banks the power to blackmail their rescuers – a power that they have used to create a financial system in which they are effectively exempt from liability.",
        "但这一决定以及自此以后央行和政府的坏政策让负债过度的主要银行肆无忌惮地对其拯救者进行敲诈勒索，它们利用这一权力营造了一个自己可以在事实上免受债务负担的金融系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Tereshkova’s generation, though it encompassed almost the entire era of Soviet rule, had been raised in the tradition of Russian womanhood.",
        "捷列什科娃的一代人尽管包含了几乎整个苏联统治年代，但却是在俄罗斯妇女传统中长大的。 这一传统要比苏联政权还要悠久得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences of these deficiencies are not mere inconveniences.",
        "这些缺陷带来的后果不仅是不便。"
    ],
    [
        "If these charges are true, the bank executives involved may fear that civil lawsuits would uncover evidence that could be used in criminal prosecutions.",
        "如果这些指控是真的，那么涉案银行高管就得担心民事律师发现足以将他们送上刑事庭的证据了。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, parts of global supply chains that were not competitive are no longer protected by being adjacent to parts that were.",
        "其次，全球供应链中无竞争力的部分将不再会因为毗邻高竞争力部分而得到保护。"
    ],
    [
        "We should replace today’s energy unilateralism by member states with a new common energy policy based on solidarity.",
        "我们应该用一项新的基于互惠的共同能源政策来取代现在各个成员国在能源上的单边行动做法。"
    ],
    [
        "Smaller, more agile power-generation units would be linked to a sophisticated monitoring and control system to ensure immediate startup and generation following outages.",
        "更小更灵活的发电单元接入先进的监测和控制系统，以确保发生停电事故后能立即启动发电。"
    ],
    [
        "Lenders are unwilling to provide long-term credit at fixed interest rates, because a jump in inflation would destroy the value of their bonds and loans.",
        "贷款人不愿意提供固定利率长期信用，因为通胀剧增将影响到他们的债券和贷款的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, for all the complaints about the United Nations, the US and others turned to UN peacekeepers to sort out the mess after the Lebanon War last summer.",
        "同样，针对关于联合国的所有抱怨，美国和其它国家都通过联合国维和部队来收拾去年夏天黎巴嫩战争留下的烂摊子。"
    ],
    [
        "Although other emerging regions will undergo a similar shift, Asia will dominate this transformation.",
        "虽然其他新兴地区都将出现类似的转换，但转型的中心将会是亚洲。"
    ],
    [
        "For years, China has also blocked meaningful sanctions against Burma.",
        "多年以来，中国还阻止了对缅甸的有效制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "The Buck Stops at the Top",
        "让对抗止于高层"
    ],
    [
        "There would be nothing sensational about this if China were a country like Luxembourg or Singapore.",
        "如果中国是一个像卢森堡或者新加坡那样的国家，这也就不足为奇。"
    ],
    [
        "The virtue of such a framework is to take into account the impact of temporarily weaker output on fiscal outcomes.",
        "这一框架的优点是考虑了暂时性产出萎靡对财政结果的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The two most obvious risks to keep an eye on will be Europe, where a cyclical upturn could stall, and the oil-rich Middle East, where tensions could flare up once again.",
        "最需要注意的两个最明显风险一个是周期性好转局面可能出现停滞的欧洲，以及紧张局势可能再次爆发中东产油区。"
    ],
    [
        "These children’s chances now depend on showing that we can make progress in Lebanon.",
        "这些孩子的机会现在取决于我们能否在黎巴嫩取得进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern neuroscience is revealing that metaphors are intrinsic to creativity, for their use activates diverse regions of the brain associated with their multiple meanings.",
        "现代神经学证明比喻是创造力的核心因素，因为它们能够激活与多重涵义相关的不同大脑分区。"
    ],
    [
        "When we rely on a single number to measure poverty, we misdiagnose the needs of poor people.",
        "当我们依靠一个数字来衡量贫困时，我们误判了穷人的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Singapore is harnessing its near-complete fiber-optic network to reduce urban congestion by introducing a spate of measures encouraging workers to telecommute.",
        "比方说，新加坡充分利用目前已接近完工的光纤网络系统，通过引入一系列劳动者远程办公激励举措来缓解城市的交通拥堵。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a transition that Greece and Argentina, with their financial instability, poor infrastructure, and weak education systems, have never made.",
        "希腊和阿根廷从未实现这一转型——它们的金融不够稳定，基础设施破败不堪，教育系统也十分孱弱。"
    ],
    [
        "So how is it that policymakers have managed to substitute the latter for the former?",
        "那么，决策者为何用后者代替前者呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The impact of WTO rules and resolution mechanisms is far-reaching, as 164 countries worldwide subscribe to them.",
        "世贸组织规则和解决机制的影响非常深远，被全世界164个国家所认可。"
    ],
    [
        "Soros is playing with fire.",
        "索罗斯在玩火。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran has, in violation of the NPT, hidden substantial parts of this program.",
        "伊朗隐瞒该项目大部分内容的行为已经违反了《核不扩散条约》。"
    ],
    [
        "Science can help us to attain the life we want, but it cannot teach us what kind of life is worth wanting.",
        "科学可以帮助我们获得想要的生活，但无法教导我们怎样的生活值得向往。"
    ],
    [
        "Collective action has never been easy, but it has never been more necessary than in achieving the UN’s Millennium Development Goals – the world’s blueprint for ending extreme poverty.",
        "集体行动从来殊非易事，但要想实现世界终结极端贫困的蓝图——联合国千年发展目标，立即采取行动就显得前所未有的重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The immigrants themselves, they suggested, might have reactionary moral codes, but their children, growing up in today’s Britain, America, or Continental Europe, would be quite different.",
        "移民本身，他们认为，也许存在反动道德，但他们的孩子们生长在今天的英国、美国或欧洲大陆，会与父辈大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Many believe that religious revival and political radicalism among Muslims who reside in the West reflects the traditions and conflicts of the Middle East or the wider Muslim world.",
        "很多人相信：西方国家穆斯林们的宗教复兴和政治激进反映了中东地区、或是更广阔的穆斯林世界的传统与矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The eurozone crisis is reaching its climax.",
        "纽约——欧元区危机迎来高潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, by forcing the BOJ to follow in the misdirected footsteps of the Fed and the ECB, that is precisely the risk that Abe and Japan are facing.",
        "然而通过迫使日本央行追随美联储和欧洲央行的错误步伐，这正是安倍和日本所面临的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "And what, really, is so humiliating about borrowing from your own citizens?",
        "既然如此，向自己的人民借点钱又有什么好感到蒙羞的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Through irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, and plant breeding, the Green Revolution increased world grain production by an astonishing 250% between 1950 and 1984, raising the calorie intake of the world’s poorest people and averting severe famines.",
        "通过灌溉、化肥、除虫和育种，绿色革命在1950—1984年间让谷物产量提高了惊人的250%，世界最贫困人口的卡路里摄入量得到了提高，严重饥荒得到了遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "Finland, for example, owes its dynamic computer-games cluster largely to a student-driven movement in higher education.",
        "比方说芬兰生机勃勃的电脑游戏业就应在很大程度上归功于一场由高校学生发起的运动。"
    ],
    [
        "That way, the debtor countries can reassure their creditors and repay their loans with self-printed cash if necessary, as Southern European countries have done for the last decade.",
        "如此，债务国就可以保证在必要时用自己印的现金来偿还它们的贷款，就像南欧国家在过去十年中所做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "And is it really wise to charge him with genocide, as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes?",
        "另外，向此人发出种族灭绝罪，反人类罪以及战争罪的指控又是否明智？"
    ],
    [
        "In our global war on AIDS, the international community is on the verge of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.",
        "在对艾滋病的斗争中，国际社会正在将唾手可得的胜利拱手让出。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it all dictated by advertisers and salesmen who are inventing needs?",
        "消费是否真的由创造需求的广告商和推销员们一手操纵？"
    ],
    [
        "But, on other issues – for example, Libya – Germany did not so much lead as use its newfound room for maneuver to follow its own preferences in the face of other EU members.",
        "但是，在其他问题上，例如利比亚，德国没有为了自身利益在其他欧盟成员面前太多地使用回旋的新余地。"
    ],
    [
        "They made the bubble burst.",
        "他们戳破了泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, China could find an excellent partner in Europe, either in a G-3 format with the US or in focused bilateral cooperation.",
        "在这方面，中国可能会发现欧洲是个出色的伙伴，不管是与美国一起构成G3还是与欧盟的双边合作。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Suppose that the world’s leading policymakers were to meet again in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to design a new global economic order.",
        "坎布里奇——假设全球主要决策者要在新罕布什尔州的布雷德森林集会，设计崭新的全球经济规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment banks are ranked on a variety of metrics, as are universities – from academic results to their prowess in environmental management, or their appeal to gay students.",
        "投资银行根据多方面的指标被排名。 大学也是如此——有学术成果排名、环境管理实力排名、甚至对同性恋学生吸引力排名。"
    ],
    [
        "First came a spate of stories about pet food laced with melamine (a coal derivative), cough medicine and toothpaste adulterated with diethylene glycol (a sweet-tasting industrial chemical used in anti-freeze and brake fluid), toy trains decorated with lead-based paints, bacteria-infected antibiotics, exploding cell phone batteries, and defective car tires.",
        "首先是大量关于宠物食品被掺入密胺（一种煤的衍生物）、咳嗽药和牙膏里面含有二甘醇（一种味甜的工业化学品，用于防冻液和刹车油）、玩具火车表面涂有含铅漆、被细菌感染的抗生素、爆炸的手机电池以及有缺陷的汽车轮胎。"
    ],
    [
        "The question today is whether a new upsurge of investment will come to our rescue.",
        "今天的问题是是否有新的投资潮来挽救我们。"
    ],
    [
        "This is over and above the heavy losses that banks incurred from bad lending and overambitious financial engineering.",
        "这个数字比银行因不良贷款和过度宏大的金融工程所蒙受的损失还要大。"
    ],
    [
        "What will its implementation mean in practice?",
        "该公约的实施有何实际意义？"
    ],
    [
        "The women leaders I met in Amman were not saying, “Please tell the West to save us.” They were too busy making egalitarian, modernist new worlds of their own, with an Arab, and often Islamic, imprimatur.",
        "我在约旦首都阿曼遇到的那些女领导人并没有跟我说，“请转告西方世界快来拯救我们”，因为她们正忙于缔造属于自己的平等和现代主义新世界，并获得了阿拉伯世界甚至时常来自伊斯兰教的认可。"
    ],
    [
        "Previously, readers could easily distinguish between non-credible sources, like the colorful and sensational tabloids in the checkout line at the supermarket, and credible ones, such as longstanding local or national newspapers.",
        "此前，读者可以非常轻松地区分不可靠的信息来源，如超市排队交费期间购买的五颜六色和耸人听闻的小报，读者也可以轻易分辨出可靠来源，比如历史悠久的地方或全国性新闻报道。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe and Latin America, voters today need to feel that their leaders’ hearts are in the right place, and that they are acting on behalf of everyone, including the underprivileged, not merely serving a rich elite.",
        "在欧洲和拉美，今天的选民需要感受到领袖的心是公平的，他们代表所有人（包括弱势群体）采取行动，而非仅仅服务于富裕的精英阶层。"
    ],
    [
        "In keeping with its commitment to the 2º C cap on the rise in global temperature, CELAC not only supports a legally binding agreement, but also calls for wealthy countries to meet their promises to provide developing countries with $100 billion per year in climate finance by 2020.",
        "CELAC将继续致力于将全球升温幅度限制在2℃内，它不但支持具有法律约束力的协定，还呼吁富裕国家兑现承诺，到2020年每年为发展中国家提供1,000亿美元的气候融资。"
    ],
    [
        "It also would have been irresponsible for Varoufakis not to work behind closed doors on a Plan B. After all, Greece’s eurozone destiny largely was – and remains – in the hands of others (particularly Germany, the ECB, and the IMF).",
        "指责瓦鲁法基斯没有关起门来实施B计划也是不负责任的。 毕竟，希腊是否留在欧元区，决定权很大程度上掌握在其他人（特别是德国、欧洲央行和IMF）手中，现在仍是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "When antibiotics first entered into common use in the 1940s, previously dangerous conditions, such as pneumonia or infected cuts, became benign conditions that could be treated easily.",
        "当20世纪40年代抗生素最早进入普遍应用的时候，之前非常危险的状况，比如肺炎和伤口感染，成了可以轻松化解的良性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Political leaders should not privilege any particular technology.",
        "政治领导人不应当给予任何特别的技术以关照。"
    ],
    [
        "(Currently, of all the OECD donor nations, only Greece gives a lower percentage of its gross national income than the United States does.)",
        "(目前，在所有经合组织成员中，只有希腊的外援占国民总收入的比例比美国的低。 )"
    ],
    [
        "Over the long run, commodity exporters need to innovate just as much as manufacturers do in order to maintain profitability.",
        "从长远来看，出口商品者需要创立尽量多的制造商以保持利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Once secure in his victory, Netanyahu immediately retracted the statement.",
        "一旦确保了胜利，内塔尼亚胡马上放松了口风。"
    ],
    [
        "Although EU-Turkey relations are currently not at their best, the dialogue between the two sides must continue in 2017, not least because of their common interests, which are based not only on economic interdependence, but also on the refugee crisis and the collective fight against terrorism.",
        "尽管欧盟土耳其关系现在并不在历史高点，但双方必须在2017年继续对话，尤其因为双方拥有基于经济相互依存、难民危机及反恐集体斗争等诸多共同利益。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – Syrian opposition activists regularly express disappointment with the level of international support that they receive.",
        "柏林—叙利亚反对派积极分子总是对他们所得到的国际支持表示失望。"
    ],
    [
        "International cooperation should also be strengthened to prevent multinationals from avoiding taxes by shifting profits among jurisdictions.",
        "国际合作也应该加强，以防止跨国公司通过在司法辖区间转移利润避税。"
    ],
    [
        "By some estimates, almost half of today’s professions could be automatable by 2025.",
        "一些人估算，今天的职业有将近一半可能在2025年实现自动化。"
    ],
    [
        "In all of its forms, gender discrimination makes women vulnerable to sexual slavery, trafficking, and forced marriage, deprives women of their inalienable rights, and diminishes their quality of life.",
        "各种各样的性别歧视让女性处于性奴役、人口买卖、包办婚姻的风险之下，剥夺了女性不可侵犯的权利，也破坏了生命的平等性。"
    ],
    [
        "The authorities have taken many other historically and symbolically important steps as well.",
        "当局还采取了许多具有重要历史性和象征意义的步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "“Bolivia is where Costa Rica was 20 years ago,” an eco-tourism expert told me at the first national summit on the industry on the shores of Lake Titicaca.",
        "一位生态旅游业的专家在第一次的的喀喀湖湖滨工业全国峰会上告诉我，“玻利维亚就是20年前的哥斯达黎加。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "There is something not quite right about this ad.",
        "但这则广告还是有地方不太对劲。"
    ],
    [
        "When should the EU’s AAA credit be mobilized if not at a moment when the EU is in mortal danger?",
        "试问欧盟的AAA信用等级如果不在联盟生死关头动用，又该在什么时候动用呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe that capitalism works better when it is being held accountable to some external standard than when left to its own devices.",
        "或许是当资本主义受到某些外部标准问责之时要比放任自流要好。"
    ],
    [
        "All the above categories encompass some genuine disorders.",
        "上述所有门类都是围绕着某些最基本的失调症状。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community undoubtedly has a central role to play in supporting social and economic reform in the region, and in assisting governments to find both the will and the way to undertake the necessary changes.",
        "国际社会无疑应在支持地区社会和经济改革方面发挥核心作用，协助政府找到推进必要改革的意愿和途径。"
    ],
    [
        "The market failures that initially give rise to public-sector intervention tend to recur internationally, which means that competition between states is usually not efficient, either.",
        "最初导致公共部门干预的市场失灵往往会在国际上重现，这意味着国家间竞争也常常是低效的。"
    ],
    [
        "Loath to recognize the intensified class war, they bang on interminably with conspiracy theories about Russian influence, spontaneous bursts of misogyny, the tide of migrants, the rise of the machines, and so on.",
        "他们不愿承认阶级斗争加剧的现实，宁愿没完没了地沉迷于关于俄罗斯的阴谋论、自然而然发作的“直男癌”、移民潮、机器的崛起，如此等等。"
    ],
    [
        "But the emergence of a viable consensus on how to minimize the security risks emanating from North Korea’s mercurial leadership remains to be found.",
        "但关于如何将来自朝鲜领导层的变化无常的风险降到最低，目前还有待形成可行的一致意见"
    ],
    [
        "Still, there is a big difference between an Iraq that struggles and one that implodes; between an Iraq that contributes to global energy security rather than undermining it; between a civil war and a regional war.",
        "然而，伊拉克苦苦挣扎和内爆、为全球能源安全作出贡献而不是予以破坏以及内战和地区性战争之间还是有天壤之别。"
    ],
    [
        "Because journalists’ safety directly affects news organizations’ employees, freelancers, and audiences, these organizations should report on the topic.",
        "因为记者安全直接影响到新闻机构的员工、自由职业者和读者，这些机构应当报道这一主题。"
    ],
    [
        "The first approach may maximize the traffic load that can be carried safely, but it fails to take most people where they want to go and is ultimately self-defeating.",
        "第一种方法或许能实现安全负载的最大化，但多数人无法去到想要的地方，最终还是会弄巧成拙。"
    ],
    [
        "The breakthrough, he noted, comes when institutions go beyond trade within local communities to permit anonymous and impersonal exchange across time and space.",
        "他指出，制度的突破关键在于贸易规则应超越本地社区内的贸易，从而让匿名的不带个人色彩的交易可以跨空间和时间进行。"
    ],
    [
        "The CER’s assessment is confirmed by the latest available information from the World Bank’s 2016 Doing Business indicators, which have the advantage of covering almost all countries in the world.",
        "CER的评估受到世界银行2016年营商指标的最新信息的确认。 世界银行营商指标的优点是覆盖了全世界几乎所有国家。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, as time passed, the ostensibly pragmatic clientelism of the Cold War proved far from ideal.",
        "毕竟，随着时间的推移，事实证明貌似务实的冷战庇护主义其实远远不够理想。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when it comes to the European financial crisis, China’s behavior seems to be determined by purely short-term tactical considerations, even as Chinese investments in Europe tripled in 2011.",
        "但是当面对欧洲的金融危机时，即使中国2011年对欧洲的投资达到之前的三倍，但短期的战术考量似乎是决定中国所作所为的唯一因素。"
    ],
    [
        "I couldn’t help but think: this was somebody’s daughter, somebody’s son.",
        "我禁不住想：这是某人的女儿，某人的儿子。"
    ],
    [
        "Unable to pay off its constituencies, disintegration looms, for the LDP has never been a party with entrenched grass-roots support, but instead operates as a machine of power and redistribution through a web of insiders across the country’s industrial sectors, occupational associations, and local communities.",
        "如果无法兑现承诺给支持者的好处，就有可能导致分崩离析的结果，因为自民党从来就匮乏根深蒂固的基层民众支持，而是通过与遍布全国的行业部门、职业协会和当地社区的内部人士联网实现对权力和再分配机器的操纵。"
    ],
    [
        "There is not a single plaque commemorating the Leningrad KGB's victims near the site of their suffering.",
        "列宁格勒的克格勃屠杀旧址附近，没有一块碑刻铭记被害者曾经遭受的苦难。"
    ],
    [
        "Malaysia’s Razak, for example, has made an enormous effort to reunify his country with his “1Malaysia” message.",
        "比方说马来西亚的拉扎克为将国家重新统一在“一个马来西亚”的旗帜下付出了巨大的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "But the idea that the deal will be a huge job killer for the US is highly debatable, and something does need to be done to make it easier to sell high-tech goods to the developing world, including China, without fear that such goods will be instantly cloned.",
        "但认为这份协议将扼杀美国大量工作岗位的说法争议极大，而且也确实需要做一些工作才能在防止迅速被山寨的情况下更好地将高科技产品销售给发展中国家(包括中国)。"
    ],
    [
        "But, by and large, the men and women of the US military believe in these ideals and do their best to live up to them, just as US citizens generally believe in their Constitution’s lofty words and seek to correct their national shortcomings.",
        "他本人不止一次没有做到。 但是，总的来说，美国军队中的男男女女都相信这个理想，并竭力以此作为生活准则，一如美国公民总的来说相信宪法的崇高字句并试图纠正祖国的短处。"
    ],
    [
        "Asked about the significance of what the team had done, Venter described it as bringing about “a giant philosophical change in how we view life.”",
        "”而在被问到这个科学家小组的成就的重要性的时候，研究资助人温特则认为此举“为我们的生命观带来了重大的哲学意义上的变革。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of humanity, we must not let them succeed again.",
        "为了人类的利益，我们决不能让他们再次得逞。"
    ],
    [
        "Conversely, in more than 50 countries, a girl under 15 can be married off if her parents consent to it, even if she does not.",
        "反之，在50多个国家，只要家长同意，不满15岁的女孩也可以结婚，甚至不需本人愿意。"
    ],
    [
        "Praetorian takeover: The People’s Liberation Army rules from behind a civilian mask, increasingly calling the shots with government officials, who are beholden to it.",
        "军队接管：解放军通过文职傀儡执政，和受其控制的政府官员一起决策。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea is essentially a theocracy.",
        "从本质上说，朝鲜是一个神权体制。"
    ],
    [
        "Their primary concern was the government’s interference in the legal process in its pursuit of the case.",
        "在其审理案件的法律过程中，他们最担心的是政府的干预。"
    ],
    [
        "And achieving the first period’s INDCs at low cost will be an important determinant of countries’ willingness to take further steps in future periods.",
        "而以低成本实现第一轮INDC将是决定各国在未来采取进一步措施的重要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Waste-treatment facilities are not typically tourist attractions, but Ankara’s novel integrated urban waste-management system has rightly attracted global attention.",
        "废物处理设施并不是典型的旅游景点，但安卡拉新奇的综合城市废物处理系统仍然恰如其分地吸引了全球的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "If there is any difference, it seems that non-public schools often are better than public schools in dealing with children with learning problems.",
        "由于非公立学校的存在造成了对公立学校进行改革的需求，所以竞争似乎使瑞典学校的整体素质得到了提升。"
    ],
    [
        "Each metal had its different coinage.",
        "每种金属有其特殊的铸币。"
    ],
    [
        "They ask us to think of the lead drivers of multi-car road trains (once our electric cars join up “convoy-style”), big data analysts, or robot mechanics.",
        "”他们让我们想象（电动车“编队行驶”后）多车厢公路列车的领驾、高级数据分析师或机器人技师。"
    ],
    [
        "The two names that have been floated so far – presumably leaked as trial balloons – are particularly disturbing.",
        "目前四处传言的两名候选人—这一消息很可能是当成探测气球故意泄漏出来的¾尤其令人觉得不安。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, perhaps no other aspect of economic globalization will pose greater challenges to world leaders over the coming decades.",
        "的确，在未来几十年中，可能不会有其他经济全球化的问题对世界各国领导人带来更大的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is another “miracle” that the government is starting to trumpet, one discovered in August 2009: an increase in Russia’s population.",
        "如此的话，还有另外一个“奇迹”政府准备大肆吹嘘的，这是在 2009 年 8 月发现的奇迹：俄罗斯人口的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Wolfensohn’s campaign against corruption also represented a major change in thinking, a shift from downsizing the state to improving the State.",
        "Wolfensohn发起的抵制腐败运动也代表了思想的一个重大转变，从 减小 国家 规模 转而 改善 国家。"
    ],
    [
        "For that, we need to examine the motivations of the key actors.",
        "要想提供解释，我们需要考察关键行动方的动机。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has already shown his willingness to target firms’ foreign operations with the threat of import levies, public accusations of price gouging, and immigration restrictions (which make it harder to attract talent).",
        "特朗普已经表示他随时准备用进口税、公开指责价格欺诈和移民限制（这导致美国更加难以吸引人才）威胁企业的海外经营。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unless international thinking gets considerably more realistic in a hurry, what happens in Copenhagen will be anything but wonderful.",
        "但除非国际社会能在短时间内采取更为现实一点的思维方式，否则的话，即将在哥本哈根发生的一切就将跟“美妙”一词无关。"
    ],
    [
        "Where a country’s fiscal adjustments have been approved by its peers, there should be limits on how much more can be asked of it.",
        "如果国家已经按照周围同伴的意愿进行了预算调整，那么别的国家就不应该无限制地要求它。"
    ],
    [
        "Where most forecasters and policy officials saw green shoots and reasons for confidence, I saw strong headwinds that would cause an economic downturn and then a subpar recovery.",
        "当大多数预测者和政策官员看到复苏的苗头和信心依据之时，我却看到了会令经济衰退并随之导致复苏疲软的强大阻力。"
    ],
    [
        "These revolutions operate in the minds of humans and are spread – eventually to most of the world – not by war (which tends to involve multiple causes), but by language and communications technology.",
        "这些革命发生在人的思维中，不是通过战争（战争总是有多重根源），而是通过语言和通讯技术传播，最终遍及世界绝大部分地区。"
    ],
    [
        "By blocking the passage of budgets, Republican lawmakers caused brief shutdowns of the federal government – an approach that succeeded only in spooking markets.",
        "共和党立法者阻挠预算的通过，导致联邦政府短暂关门——这样的方法只能让市场有如惊弓之鸟。"
    ],
    [
        "So maybe we should take the IMF’s more recent reports, which are full of dark warnings, with a grain of salt.",
        "因此，也许我们应该对IMF充满悲观警告的最新报告有所保留。"
    ],
    [
        "As in Brown v. Board of Education , the case that ultimately broke the back of racial segregation in America half a century ago, the European Court is being asked to give meaning to the fundamental principle of equality.",
        "和半个世纪前最终压垮美国种族隔离制度的布朗诉教育局案一样，民众要求欧洲法庭界定平等的根本原则。"
    ],
    [
        "If a central bank printed money and bought financial assets on a large-enough scale, people would begin to step up their spending.",
        "如果央行印钱并大规模购买金融资产，人们就会开始增加支出。"
    ],
    [
        "First, international policy coordination by the G-20 must be tightened by creating a permanent secretariat to make policy proposals and recommendations concerning macroeconomic and financial developments.",
        "首先，G20必须加紧国际政策协调，这可以通过成立永久性秘书处负责考虑关于宏观经济和金融发展的政策方案和建议。"
    ],
    [
        "The polls, both held on May 25, not only provide insight into the mindset of the respective electorates; the behavior of each electorate also offers important lessons for the other.",
        "两次选举都在5月25日举行，它们不但提供了一窥各自选民的思维的角度。 两地选民的表现也给彼此提供了重要借鉴。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Happy Mask",
        "中国快乐的面具"
    ],
    [
        "It is a simple idea, but even some presumptive professionals seem unable to grasp it – as evidenced by the decision by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a component of the World Health Organization, to classify the commonly used herbicide 2,4-D as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”",
        "这是个简单的理念，但就连某些假定的专业人士似乎也无法掌握——世卫组织下属的国际癌症研究机构（IARC）将常用的 2,4-D除草剂划为“可能的人类致癌物质”就是这方面的例证。"
    ],
    [
        "It takes only the static repulsion of a few electrons to make your hair stand up, overcoming the gravitational pull of the entire planet.",
        "让你的头发竖起来只需要几个电子的静电斥力，这样就能克服整个地球向你的头发施加的地心引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a combination of these options would allow Arab economies to create jobs in the short term, while avoiding the risks of destabilizing fiscal imbalances or a lack of financing for private-sector investment.",
        "只有这些方案多管齐下才能让阿拉伯经济在短期内创造出就业岗位，同时又不会有损于已经摇摇欲坠的财政平衡并避免私人部门投资融资难。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Brexit vote – with its promise to recreate the Britain of yesterday – is less revolution than counter-revolution.",
        "但英国脱欧投票——及其重建昔日英国的许诺——与其说是革命，不如说是反革命。"
    ],
    [
        "After 12 months of continuous unemployment, the typical unemployed worker still searched for a job, but in a desultory fashion, without much hope.",
        "失业一年后，典型的失业者仍会寻找新工作，但已不再十分上心，也不抱有多大希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Voters, clearly tired of the status quo, want change at the top, leaving even major parties’ establishments struggling to install leaders of their choosing.",
        "选民显然已经厌倦了现状，想要顶层发生变化，就连主流政党的建制派都难以安插他们选定的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "With charm and unassuming clear-headedness, she wrought a compromise from the G8 countries that may help save the world from the most severe devastations caused by global warming.",
        "她凭借魅力和谦虚的清醒头脑从八国集团中获得了妥协。 这一妥协有可能将世界从全球气候变暖所造成的最为严重的灾害中解救出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, Macierewicz’s defense ministry unexpectedly canceled a contract with France for the purchase of 50 Caracal helicopters, leaving Poland without a crucial military capacity to this day.",
        "而后，麦克瑞维奇领导的国防部出人意料地取消了与法国签订的购买50架狞猫直升机的合同，导致波兰迄今为止都未能掌握这项关键的军事技术。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision to publish images or words that disrespect or defame others’ deeply held beliefs must be a personal one.",
        "发行亵渎或中伤他人虔诚信仰的形象或言论的决定只能是个人决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The French Don’t Get It",
        "法国人闹不明白"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true of nations.",
        "这对于国家而言也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "What is to be learned from all this?",
        "从所有这些当中我们可以学到什么？"
    ],
    [
        "It is estimated that about 70% of the drugs currently in development across the industry are potential “first in class” treatments, meaning that they use a completely new mechanism of action against disease.",
        "据估计，全行业大约70%的目前正在研发的药物为潜在的“同类首种”医药，这意味着它们通过全新的行为机制对抗疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "I would include social cohesion as part of the asset base: it is the one that is depreciated by excessive inequality.",
        "我把社会凝聚力也纳入资产基础的概念中，它是一种因过度不平等而折旧的资产。"
    ],
    [
        "So, too, have protestors around the world made George W. Bush resemble Hitler, and mullahs throughout the Islamic world ritualistically harangue US presidents as earthly Satans, simultaneously noting their basic affection for the American people.",
        "同样，世界各地的抗议者将乔治·W·布什比作希特勒，而所有伊斯兰国家的毛拉则程式化地将美国总统称之为人间撒旦，并在同时重申对于美国人民的根本的喜爱。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then could we gauge how strongly investment and innovation would respond to incentives, how much free universal education would cost in the medium term, or how demographic structures would affect different social policies.",
        "惟其如此，我们才能看清投资和创新对激励的反应有多大，免费全民教育的中期成本有多大，人口结构如何影响不同的社会政策。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Greece's new government, led by the anti-austerity Syriza party, presents the eurozone with a challenge that it has not yet had to face: dealing with national officials who are outside the traditional European mainstream.",
        "普林斯顿—反紧缩左翼联盟（Syriza）领导的希腊新政府给欧元区带来了一项不曾面临过的挑战：与游离于传统欧洲主流之外的国家官员打交道。"
    ],
    [
        "The advantage of a par bond is that Greece’s creditors – banks, insurance companies, and pension funds – would be able and allowed to continue valuing their Greek bonds at 100 cents on the euro, thereby avoiding massive losses on their balance sheets.",
        "票面债券的优点在于，希腊的债权人——银行、保险公司和退休基金等等——能够以十足的价值来为它们持有的希腊债券定价，从而避免资产负债表上的巨亏。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasing taxes is not only unpopular; it can be counter-productive, given already-high taxation in many countries.",
        "增税不但会为民众所反对； 同时也不利于生产，因为许多国家的税负已经相当高了。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany is providing lavish support for the construction of new coal plants.",
        "德国为新建煤电站提供慷慨的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Last summer, Hadjiev’s brother and sister were arrested after they collaborated on a documentary about Turkmenistan, and were tried on trumped-up charges of weapons possession.",
        "去年夏天，Hadjiev的兄弟和姊妹在参与了一部关于土库曼斯坦的纪录片拍摄之后被捕。 随后又以大鸣大放的持有武器罪名受到审判。"
    ],
    [
        "The arguments now are not about the principle, but about how to apply it.",
        "现在的争议不在于原则本身，而在于实施方法。"
    ],
    [
        "The greatest cause of concern, however, is that the military question has reappeared.",
        "但最让人忧虑的是军事问题的重现。"
    ],
    [
        "The share of consumption in GDP in these economies fell from more than 60% in the early 1980’s to less than 50% today.",
        "这些经济体消费占GDP的比重从20世纪80年代初的60%多下降到了如今的不到50%。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade agreements can create jobs, but only to the extent that they destroy jobs in other countries.",
        "贸易协定能创造就业，但其数量取决于其他国家所损失的就业数量。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for the US to recognize that since it launched its war on terror, the scourge has only spread.",
        "美国应该认识到，自其发动反恐战争以来，兵灾越打越盛。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Earlier this week, a group of almost 100 prominent Europeans delivered an open letter to the leaders of all 17 eurozone countries.",
        "伦敦——本周早些时候，近100位欧洲名流向欧元区所有17个成员国领导人发出了一封集体公开信。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to stop overloading doctors with evidence and deploying fast-talking industry salespeople to manipulate them with clever marketing pitches.",
        "应该停止让面对证据的医生超负荷工作，停止让口若悬河的行业销售员用营销诡计操纵他们。"
    ],
    [
        "This management structure is neither democratically legitimate nor justified by its performance (which appears to consist of mere reactions to pressure from financial markets).",
        "这套管理结构既缺乏民主合理性，也没有取得令人信服的业绩（这套体系似乎仅仅对来自金融市场的压力被动做出反应）。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was not what I expected.",
        "结果和我预想的不一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Unity is also required of the Western world as a whole.",
        "整个西方世界同样需要团结。"
    ],
    [
        "Loan or bond covenants often require borrowers to agree to maintain a minimum level of equity capital or cash on hand.",
        "贷款或者债券协议书通常都要求借款者同意持有一个最低限度的股票或者现金。"
    ],
    [
        "Opposition from the tobacco industry is an obvious obstacle to tobacco control.",
        "来自烟草产业的反对力量是烟草控制的明显阻碍。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not a sure thing.",
        "但这绝不是百分百确定的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the framework will need to support more effective risk sharing and a distinct eurozone budget, as the southern member states demand.",
        "不仅如此，上述管理架构还必须支持有效的风险分担并制定明确的欧元区预算，以此来满足南部欧洲成员国的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "And the so-called “three principles on arms exports” have placed absurd limits on what may be sold or supplied abroad, as even flying boats used for sea rescue have been viewed as banned from export.",
        "所谓的“武器出口三大原则”对那些原本可以出售或向国外提供的武器作了荒谬的限制，甚至连用于海上救援的水上飞机也被禁止出口。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – In the debates raging over the future of the European Union and the eurozone, Germany always takes center stage.",
        "巴黎—在关于欧盟和欧元区未来问题的争论中，德国始终占据着舞台的中心。"
    ],
    [
        "One problem with market-based policies is strategic adoption and cancellation.",
        "基于市场保单的其中一个问题是策略采纳和取消。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, governments should offer subsidies or tax incentives to companies that invest in the skills that humans master better than machines, such as communication and negotiation.",
        "不仅如此，政府应当向那些投资于更适宜人类掌握的技术，如沟通和谈判技巧的企业提供补贴或税收激励。"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, to be frank, those hopes may be monumentally unrealistic.",
        "在某些情况下，坦率地讲，这样的希望可能非常不现实。"
    ],
    [
        "At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the world’s nations signed up to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), the objective of which is “to stabilize the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a level that does not cause dangerous interference with the climate system…, that allows ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, that ensures food production is not threatened, and that enables economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.”",
        "1992年在里约热内卢召开的地球问题首脑会议上，世界各国签署了气候变化框架公约（FCCC） ，其目标是“把大气中的温室气体浓度稳定在一定的水平，以避免造成对气候系统的危险的干扰. ."
    ],
    [
        "In the 1970s and 1980s, the counterpart of childish revolution from the left was murderous repression from the right.",
        "20世纪七八十年代，与左翼幼稚革命相对应的是右翼的残酷镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "Talk is cheap, and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the status quo usually appears comfortable enough.",
        "任何说辞都是廉价的，更何况还缺乏证据，相比之下现状往往令人感觉一切正常。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the travails of the European Union have revealed the limits of transnational political community-building, even among a comparatively limited and similar set of countries.",
        "事实上，欧盟一直以来的艰难历程揭露了跨国政治共同体建设的局限——即使这还是在一些数量相对有限且相似的国家之间。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Sub-Saharan Africa is less industrialized today than it was in the 1980’s.",
        "事实上，如今撒哈拉以南地区的现代化程度还不如20世纪80年代。"
    ],
    [
        "But the long-term outcome of America’s rapprochement with China became visible only recently, with the economic integration of the People’s Republic into the world economy.",
        "但美中关系恢复的长期结果近期才开始显现，中华人民共和国实现了与世界经济的融合。"
    ],
    [
        "Provided that inflation stabilizes at some lower level, such a cap would cause public expenditure as a share of GDP to decline as soon as the economy began to grow again.",
        "假设通货膨胀稳定在某个较低水平，那么，只要经济再次开始增长，这一上限就能立刻让公共支出占GDP之比开始下降。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Hainan authorities, from January 1, 2013, China’s police will be authorized to board and detain ships that are suspected of “illegal activities” in what China claims are its territorial waters.",
        "按照海南省政府的说法，从2013年1月1日起，中国警方将有权登船并扣留在所谓中国领海涉嫌“非法活动”的船舶。"
    ],
    [
        "In the current situation, however, China faces serious challenges.",
        "但是，在当前局面下，中国面临严重挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The opposition underestimates the Kirchners’ achievements, arguing that the international context, particularly high commodity prices – and thus strong export revenues – bailed them out.",
        "反对派贬低赫尔南阵营的成就，指出是国际环境，特别是商品价格高企（因此带来了强劲的出口收入）救了她。"
    ],
    [
        "Intelligence sharing is a case in point.",
        "情报共享是要点之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to what many critics suppose, mainstream economists do not assume that these ideal conditions are always present.",
        "与许多批评主张相反，主流经济学家并不假设这些理想条件总是成立。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the collapse in the price of crude oil is probably the most significant factor driving inflation below target, just as in 2011 it was the rise in oil prices that drove it above target.",
        "如今，原油价格的崩溃也许是导致通胀低于目标的最主要因素，正如2011年油价上涨导致通胀高于目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In July, the International Monetary Fund revised its global growth forecast downward for the second time this year.",
        "7月，IMF今年第二次下调全球增长预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, the Arab countries will not succeed unless women are fully integrated into political and economic life.",
        "一言以蔽之，除非妇女充分融入政治和经济生活，否则阿拉伯国家不可能获得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no movement of the soil yet, and there will not be for some time.",
        "根基还没有发生动摇，并且在一段时间内也不会动摇。"
    ],
    [
        "The general public is aware of clinical research trials, but there is little awareness that the number of subjects enrolled in research is much larger than the numbers enrolled in clinical trials alone.",
        "普通公众知道临床研究试验，但是并不知道研究中所采用的研究对象数量要远远大于临床试验。"
    ],
    [
        "Defusing Russia’s Energy Weapon",
        "解除俄罗斯的能源武装"
    ],
    [
        "Though Kazakhstan’s government, like other young states in the region, has lagged in advancing democracy and human rights, it has at least avoided foreclosing them entirely.",
        "尽管和域内其他年轻国家一样，哈萨克斯坦政府在推动民主和人权方面有所落后，但至少没有完全压制它们。"
    ],
    [
        "Another lesson from 2015 is that European countries must learn to redefine their national identities.",
        "2015年的另一个教训是欧洲国家必须学会重塑民族身份。"
    ],
    [
        "People vote with their wallets.",
        "人民用荷包投票。"
    ],
    [
        "That, after all, is the point of Europe’s straightjacket of austerity, which hampers its growth prospects, and thus makes little sense in economic terms.",
        "说到底，这是欧洲财政紧缩妨碍了增长前景，因而不会起多少经济作用造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "In July, the European Central Bank published a report suggesting that the negative output gap in the eurozone was 6%, four percentage points higher than previously thought.",
        "欧洲央行于今年7月公布的一份报告显示，欧元区负产出缺口为6％，比先前预计的要高出4个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is not easy to support a military coup against a democratically elected president (even one who, like Morsi, undermines the democratic values and institutions that brought him to power).",
        "当然，支持军事政变推翻民选总统绝非易事（即使像穆尔西这样的民选总统破坏令其当选的民主价值观和体制）。"
    ],
    [
        "The “natural” interest – what would be ground out by the Walrasian system of general equilibrium equations – is actually lower than what current monetary policy is producing.",
        "“自然”利息——可以用瓦尔拉一般均衡方程组求得——实际上要低于当前货币政策所产生的利息。"
    ],
    [
        "Workers, employers and governments must engage in dialogue to put in place the social policies which ensure that green jobs are decent jobs.",
        "工人、雇主和政府都必须参与到对话中来以便能让确保绿色工作是体面工作的社会政策实施到位。"
    ],
    [
        "So Kerala’s government introduced the ban.",
        "因此，克拉拉邦政府实施了禁令。"
    ],
    [
        "When that subject was raised in 2014, Li denied that the Chinese do such a thing, but noted that Chinese firms are hacked by domestic sources.",
        "2014年，当这一问题被提出时，李克强否认中国有此行为，但指出中国企业被来自国内的黑客侵入。"
    ],
    [
        "FLORENCE – The term “globalization” first swept the world in the 1990’s and reached its highpoint of popularity in 2000 and 2001.",
        "佛罗伦萨——“全球化”一词从20世纪90年代开始风靡世界，并于2000年、2001年红极一时。"
    ],
    [
        "The European experience confirms this.",
        "欧洲经验肯定了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the gap shows no signs of closing, and accounting for expected growth rates and equity returns, I estimate that the total loss to production will eventually reach nearly $3 quadrillion.",
        "鉴于跌幅尚未出现收窄的迹象，我估计包括预期增长率和股本回报率在内，GDP总损失最终将达到近3000万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "“What is important about the budget,” he said in 1970, “is whether it is inflationary or deflationary, not whether [it is] balanced or unbalanced.”",
        "“对预算来说，重要的是，”他在1970年说，“这是通胀还是通缩，而不是[预算]平衡还是不平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The usual monetary-policy response of lowering interest rates is unable to reverse this sharp drop in demand.",
        "通常的以采取降低利率的货币政策所作出的对策，现在却无力扭转这种需求急剧下降的局面了。"
    ],
    [
        "In the words of Anne Krueger, the Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, “Poor people are desperate to improve their material conditions…rather than to march up the income distribution [ladder].”",
        "按国际货币基金组织（IMF）副总裁Anne Krueger的话来说，“穷人们正迫不及待地要改善物质条件……而不是在收入分配的层级上大步向前。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "That is precisely why these violations must be made costly: to signal to Israeli voters that the cost of occupation is bound to rise.",
        "而这也恰恰是为什么必须加大这类侵害行为的成本的原因：这等于向以色列选民传递一个信号，那就是占领的费用一定会上升。"
    ],
    [
        "What the CCP refuses to recognize is that corruption cannot be rooted out as long as the Party maintains its monopoly on political power; with no organized opposition or functioning civil-society institutions, officials will continue to use their positions of public authority as a vehicle to generate personal wealth.",
        "中共拒绝承认，只要它垄断着政治权力，腐败就无法根除； 没有有组织的反对和功能健全的公民社会机构，官员就会继续利用公职作为敛财工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The US unemployment rate currently is less than half the rate in the European Union.",
        "美国目前的失业率还不到欧盟的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, even though Japan’s economic situation is far from dire, introducing negative interest rates has not been treated as what it is: a maneuver to loosen monetary policy.",
        "但是，即使日本经济状况远远算不上悲观，引入负利率的政策也没有得到公正的待遇：放松货币政策的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "And for all of their heroics during the financial crisis, many central bankers have been far too inflexible in the aftermath, worrying too much about overshooting inflation targets, and too little about deflationary dynamics.",
        "而虽然在金融危机的爆发过程中有许多壮举，但许多中央银行家在危机的余波中却表现得过度僵化。 一方面过于担心将通胀目标定得过高，另一方面又对通缩的动力估计不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, in the post-Arafat era, Palestinians must choose one of several strategies.",
        "如今在后阿拉法特时代，巴勒斯坦人必须从若干策略中做出选择。"
    ],
    [
        "And Putin’s handpicked successor, Dmitri Medvedev, had been eased into power, while Putin downshifted into the premiership.",
        "普京亲自挑选的继任者德米特里·梅德韦杰夫，轻易地掌了权，而普京则改任总理。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in contrast to other economies on the eurozone periphery, this improvement was achieved entirely through import compression.",
        "但与欧元区外围的其他经济体相反，这一改善完全是通过压缩进口实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, globalization means that the US capital market’s failure spreads misery around the world.",
        "而且，全球化意味着美国的资本市场衰退会在全球范围内造成极大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "So the city’s government blunders away, stirring up trouble, clearly on the orders of the government in Beijing.",
        "于是香港政府匆匆忙忙地挑起事端，显然是在北京政府的命令之下。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, in spite of natural disasters, the kidnapping of WHO personnel, and civil war, health workers repeated that success in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Somalia.",
        "接着，尽管经历了自然灾害、WHO人员被绑架事件以及内战，但卫生工作者仍然在孟加拉国、埃塞俄比亚和索马里复制了这一成功经验。"
    ],
    [
        "But even skeptics nourish many hopes.",
        "但是即使是怀疑主义者也怀有许多希望。"
    ],
    [
        "In this, he was clearly mistaken.",
        "在这里，他显然犯了错误。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no lab in the world that does not rely on them.",
        "如今，没有一家实验室不依靠计算机。"
    ],
    [
        "The evidence may not be conclusive, but it is too strong to be ignored any longer.",
        "现在或许还没有真凭实据，但结果太严重，再也不能视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "The art of statecraft is not to choose between war and diplomacy as if they were mutually exclusive alternatives, but to understand how they fit together.",
        "治国的艺术不是要像两者相互排斥般在战争和外交之间做出选择，而是必须理解这两种方案怎样相互结合。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, Lebanon can turn its attention to oil and gas production, with policymakers’ expectations running high – verging on irrational exuberance – that an energy windfall will jumpstart the country’s economy, which has suffered from poor political and economic governance and the spillover effects from Syria’s civil war.",
        "现在，黎巴嫩终于可以把注意力转向石油和天然气生产，该产业担负着决策者很高的期望——甚至接近于非理性繁荣——希望能源暴利能够启动该国经济，之前经济发展一直受到政治和经济治理不善以及叙利亚内战溢出效应的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems clear that tapering the Fed’s monthly purchases of long-term securities later this year would cause a realignment of asset values in financial markets.",
        "很显然，在今年下半年减弱美联储长期证券月度购买量将导致金融市场资产价值重估。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only are Candida infections particularly common in hospitals, but their fatality rates also seem to be higher among patients in hospitals and, specifically, intensive-care facilities.",
        "耳道假丝酵母菌感染不仅在医院中尤为常见，且医院（特别是重症监护设施中）的患者死亡率似乎更高。"
    ],
    [
        "In September, the ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, reappeared in the country inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa after three months of exile.",
        "9月，遭到驱逐的洪都拉斯总统曼努埃尔·塞拉亚在经历了三个月的流亡生活后在巴西驻特古西加尔巴大使馆再度露面。"
    ],
    [
        "The SDGs represent a quantum leap forward, because they recognize the vital links among challenges – including poverty in all its forms, gender inequality, climate change, and poor governance – that must be addressed in tandem.",
        "可持续发展目标代表着巨大的飞跃，因为它们认识到需要协同解决的多重挑战——包括一切形式的贫困、性别不平等、气候变化和贫困治理——之间有着重要的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Ireland is ranked as the best place in Europe to do business, the easiest in Europe for paying taxes, and number one in Europe for completion of tertiary education.",
        "爱尔兰被排名为欧洲最佳的生意场所，欧洲付税最容易的地方，也是欧洲高等教育最具竞争力的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "My recent study with Jacopo Carmassi, Time to Set Banking Regulation Right, shows that by permitting excessive leverage and risk-taking by large international banks – in some cases allowing banks to accumulate total liabilities up to 40, or even 50, times their equity capital – the Basel banking rules not only enabled, but, ironically, intensified the crisis.",
        "我和卡马西（Jacopo Carmassi）的最新研究《设置银行监管权正逢其时》（Time to Set Banking Regulation Right）指出，巴塞尔银行规则允许大型国际银行使用过度杠杆、承担过多风险——在某些案例中，银行可以累积相当于权益资本四五十倍之多的总负债——这不但埋下了危机的种子，而且颇为讽刺地起到了火上加油之效。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as the country that holds the G20 presidency this year, Germany is committed to continuing the important work begun under our most recent predecessors in China and Turkey.",
        "此外，作为今年G20的轮值主席国，德国将致力于延续由最近的前任主席国中国和土耳其开创的重要工作。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as recently as a few months ago, a French intellectual’s activism was crucial to initiating the so-far unsuccessful attempt to bring down Libya’s Colonel Muammar Qaddafi.",
        "而且，就在短短几个月前，一位法国知识分子的积极斡旋在发起迄今为止不太成功的打倒利比亚上校穆阿迈尔·卡扎菲的行动中起到了关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "As disinformation amplifies threats to democracy, and the debate about how to defuse fake news intensifies, consumers can take comfort in knowing that with a little practice, it is possible to discern fact from well-concealed fiction.",
        "假消息加剧了对民主的威胁，而关于如何扼杀假新闻的争论日益激烈，在这样的情况下，让消费者知道只消稍微做一点工作就能将事实和伪装的很好的虚假消息区分开来，将非常令人欣慰。"
    ],
    [
        "Our country's credit rating was affirmed.",
        "我们的国家信誉评级得到了巩固。"
    ],
    [
        "The critical limit beyond which creditors become anxious has been raised significantly by the bailout architecture put in place over the last two years.",
        "过去两年所实施的援助机制让债权人的焦虑阈值大大提高了。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that Abe’s government has a renewed mandate from Japanese voters, it must deliver on its promises – and that means decisive and comprehensive implementation of structural reforms.",
        "如今安倍政府已经获得了日本选民的新一轮授权，也必须兑现自己的承诺——这意味着坚定而全面地实施结构改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But adopting the reforms requires approval by the IMF’s member countries; and, though the United States was among those that voted in favor of the measure, President Barack Obama has been unable to secure Congressional approval.",
        "但事实改革需要IMF成员国的批准； 而尽管美国也投票支持改革措施，但总统奥巴马一直无法确保国会通过。"
    ],
    [
        "The French “No” to the referendum on Europe’s constitutional treaty in May 2005 revealed the depth of Europe’s crisis, it did not create it.",
        "2005年法国全民公决否决了欧盟宪法揭示了欧洲危机的深度，但并没有制造这一危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Humbug!” said Scrooge.",
        "骗子！ ”斯克鲁奇说。"
    ],
    [
        "The first round forced Wade into a run-off with Macky Sall, at which point the AU promptly sent an Elections Observer Mission, drawn from 18 African countries, to assess whether the elections were legal and the results “reflected the will of the Senegalese people.”",
        "第一轮选举迫使韦德进入与萨尔（Macky Sall）的决胜，此时非盟当机立断，派遣由18个非洲国家的代表组成的选举观察团（Elections Observer Mission）评估塞内加尔大选是否合法、其结果是否“反映了塞内加尔人民的意愿”。"
    ],
    [
        "Minority youth are, to be sure, over-represented among those involved.",
        "的确，在骚乱份子中，少数族裔的青年占据大多数。"
    ],
    [
        "When it is absent or deficient, the loss of life and livelihoods can be horrific – witness Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged Haiti and New Orleans in 2005.",
        "如果响应能力缺乏或不足，则可能导致可怕的生命和生活损失——2005年摧毁海地和新奥尔良的卡特里娜飓风就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "A nation was reborn out of Holocaust survivors and uprooted Jewish communities who, mostly through the quality of their human capital, built a booming economy, created one of the world’s most innovative agricultures, and revived a dead language.",
        "这些人依靠他们的才干成就了繁荣的经济，创造了世界上最富创造力的农业并且恢复了一门几乎濒临灭绝的语言。"
    ],
    [
        "The WTO’s intellectual-property agreement, called TRIPS, originally foresaw the extension of “flexibilities” to the 48 least-developed countries, where average annual per capita income is below $800.",
        "WTO的知识产权协议叫做TRIPS，最初向48个最不发达的国家——这些国家年人均收入在800美元以下——赋予“灵活性”。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unsurprisingly, they did not; rather, they succumbed to the notion that unprecedentedly high rates of GDP growth were the new normal.",
        "但不出意外，他们没能做到这一点； 相反，它们都认为前所未有的高GDP增长是一种新的常态，并因此走向绝路。"
    ],
    [
        "The valid complaints about fiscal policy over the past 14 months are not that it has run up the national debt and rewarded the princes of Wall Street, but rather that it has been too limited – that we ought to have done more.",
        "而且，由此带来的新增债务的成本却低得出奇：在当前的利率之下，每年增税120亿美元就足以满足财政刺激项目的资金需求。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach took on added significance in the late 1990s, when Greenspan became enamored of the so-called wealth effects that could be extracted from surging equity markets.",
        "20世纪90年代末，格林斯潘开始倾心于股市上涨可能带来的所谓的财富效应，这一方针的影响力更大了。"
    ],
    [
        "What might an increasingly elastic labor supply mean for Fed policy?",
        "弹性日益增加的劳动力供给对美联储政策意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "The effort failed completely.",
        "这些努力最终一败涂地。"
    ],
    [
        "On virtually every question, British voters are less enthusiastic about the EU than voters in any other country.",
        "几乎在所有问题上，英国选民都比其它国家的选民更缺乏热情。"
    ],
    [
        "This strategy is not without risk.",
        "这种策略也并非没有风险。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the decreased cost of manufacturing in America, combined with the country’s business-friendly regulations, strong rule of law, and political stability, will eliminate the competitive advantage that has driven China’s rapid economic growth over the last several decades.",
        "事实上，美国制造业成本的下降加上美国商业友好型监管环境、强大的法治精神以及政治稳定，将消除过去几十年推动中国经济快速增长的竞争优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Hollande supported the military intervention in Libya in 2011, and has joined the condemnation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.",
        "2011年，奥朗德支持对利比亚进行军事干预，也加入过叙利亚总统巴沙尔的声讨大军。"
    ],
    [
        "Across Russia’s near abroad, a form of criminalized diplomacy is taking root.",
        "在俄罗斯的周边国家，一种犯罪的外交政策正在形成势力。"
    ],
    [
        "On the positive side, the presence of biomarkers will enable drug companies to perform smaller, better-targeted clinical studies in order to demonstrate efficacy.",
        "从积极的角度看，生物指标的出现可以让制药公司进行更小、更有针对性的临床研究，以证明其产品的疗效。"
    ],
    [
        "He points out that people’s choices and assessments of current events are partly based on the stories they have heard about past events.",
        "他指出，人们对当前事件的抉择和评估有部分是基于他们曾经听过的关于过去事件的故事。"
    ],
    [
        "If anything needs fixing, it is the sociology of the profession.",
        "如果要有什么需要改变的的话，应该是他们的认知能力。"
    ],
    [
        "With the eurozone economy 2% smaller than it was seven years ago, “recovery” does not feel like the right word – especially as the relief is unlikely to last.",
        "再加上欧元区经济规模比七年前萎缩了2%的现状，“复苏”这个词似乎不太恰当——尤其是在这一状况很可能无法持续的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the same problems affect Labour.",
        "工党也受到一些同样的问题的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "In many cases, there is no official death record at all.",
        "在许多情形中，根本没有正式死亡记录。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking forward, one of the biggest challenges will be holding to account individual countries and multilateral organizations, such as the UN itself.",
        "放眼未来，最大的挑战之一在于个体国家和多边组织，比如联合国自身。"
    ],
    [
        "In either case, the individual would be able to purchase insurance after he or she receives the diagnosis.",
        "不管哪种情况，个人都可以在获得治疗后再买保险。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – Poor Ben Bernanke!",
        "芝加哥—可怜的本·伯南克！"
    ],
    [
        "Once this backlash starts, plenty of ambitious Conservative politicians whom May purged from government will be eager to exploit it.",
        "这一冲突一旦爆发，就会有大量被梅清洗出政府的野心勃勃的保守党政客竞相利用。"
    ],
    [
        "Addressing the dangers of climate change is not only an existential imperative; it is also an opportunity to move toward a cleaner, more productive, and fairer path of development.",
        "消除气候变化的危险不但是一项生存要求，也是一个通往更清洁、更有生产率、更公平的发展路径的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But, all too often, the poor are excluded, even when the clinics exist.",
        "但是，穷人往往受到排斥，即使有诊所存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Reporting on a traumatic story, we found, can have a profound impact on one’s mental health.",
        "我们发现，报道心理创伤性故事可能会对报道者的精神健康产生深远的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But the EU must go further than just Brexit damage control.",
        "但欧盟的任务不仅局限在英国退欧的损害控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, about 95% of all income gains have gone to the top 1%.",
        "2009年以来，大约95%的全部收入增量流向了最顶层1%的腰包。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 1990 and 2000, financing for environmental concerns followed roughly the same path as overall development assistance flows: it stagnated.",
        "在1990至2000年间，用于环境方面的资金情况与整个发展援助的资金情况大体相当：陷于停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s program for his country’s economic recovery has led to a surge in domestic confidence.",
        "东京—日本首相安倍晋三的经济复苏计划极大地激发了国内信心。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting lax enforcement accounts for a large portion of the one-third decline in the effective reach of the US corporate income tax since the late 1990s.",
        "”由此导致的执法不力是20世纪90年代以来美国公司所得税有效征税率下降三分之一的重要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "But some observers will undoubtedly characterize it as yet another chapter in the great-power rivalry between Russia and the US.",
        "但有些观察者无疑认为这不过是俄美大国争霸的另一个段落。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a fair chance that one or more of these bilateral accords will be approved (in part because the Obama administration seems finally to have recognized that trade can generate good jobs), but it is far less certain that the president will gain the authority needed to negotiate a new global trade deal.",
        "这是那几项双边条约获得通过的好机会（其中一部分原因是奥巴马政府似乎最终意识到贸易可以催生新的工作机会），但更不确定的则是总统是否有足够的权威去商讨一个新的全球贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, in most advanced economies, deficits need to be reduced to avoid a fiscal train wreck down the line.",
        "因此，在多数发达国家中，需要降低赤字才能达到防止财政列车最终倾覆的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "New fungal infections are even scarier and might be harder to treat.",
        "新的真菌感染更为可怕，且更难治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer, once again, is obvious.",
        "答案还是显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Greece and Turkey – the two key regional actors – support the current talks and are willing to be helpful in finding a solution.",
        "正如这些领导人所言：“解决问题，时不我待。 ”因此，他们已做出承诺：将不会在四月份塞浦路斯北部举行选举之前暂停谈判，谈判将继续进行。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result – and helped by low voter turnout – the party’s leadership primary was won by Amir Peretz, an outsider and populist who wants to revitalize Labor by putting social and economic issues at the forefront, which means withdrawing from the national unity coalition with Likud.",
        "佩雷茨是该党的圈外人士，民粹主义者。 他想通过突出社会和经济问题来重新振兴工党，这也就意味着退出和利库德党的全国联合政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet in the US and elsewhere (tellingly, far from the frontlines), the chattering classes continue to agonize about supposed lost opportunities to intervene militarily and protect civilians.",
        "然而在美国及其他国家（显然都远离叙利亚前线），那些象牙塔里的学者们依然围绕着丢失军事干预和保护平民的契机而喋喋不休。"
    ],
    [
        "Such reforms will not occur overnight.",
        "这类改革不会在一夜之中就得以完成。"
    ],
    [
        "The question, she reports on www.opendemocracy.net, seemed to take him by surprise, and he did not support the idea.",
        "opendemocracy. net网站上汇报说，这一问题让戈尔措手不及，而且他也不支持这一观点。"
    ],
    [
        "The disadvantages of strengthening Europe’s fiscal union further do not end there.",
        "进一步加强欧洲财政联盟的不利之处不仅限于此。"
    ],
    [
        "Mental-health problems tend to arise early in life, with the first episode occurring during adolescence or early adulthood – a critical phase of development, when people are completing their education, joining the work force, building key relationships, and forming health habits.",
        "心理健康问题常常在生命早期就会出现，第一次发作通常发生于青春期或刚成年时——这是发展的关键时期，而个人正在完成教育、走上工作岗位、建立关键的人际关系和形成健康习惯。"
    ],
    [
        "The great newspapers, like the great universities, still enjoy a higher status than the more popular press, and the same goes for higher learning.",
        "伟大的报纸就像伟大的大学一样，仍然享有比流行媒体更加崇高的地位，高等院校也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "That agenda must include two issues of global monetary reform that remain unaddressed: coordinated global regulation of capital flows in the short term, and a long-term shift toward a new international monetary system based on a true global reserve currency (possibly based on the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights).",
        "该安排必须包括两方面仍待进行的全球货币改革：短期资本流的全球合作监管，以及基于真正全球性储备货币（或许可以用IMF特别提款权来充当）的新国际货币体系。"
    ],
    [
        "But, amid the protests, he is more motivated than ever to improve domestic economic conditions.",
        "但在示威中，他有比以往更大的动机改善国内经济状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of its fundamentals, a German bank would be considered safer than an Italian one, because the German government’s implicit guarantee is much more valuable than the Italian government’s.",
        "不论基本面，德国银行会被认为比意大利银行安全，因为德国政府的隐含担保比意大利政府的有价值得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, no newspapers were closed, stories suppressed, or journalists harassed, as occurred in earlier Kazakh elections.",
        "同样重要的是，这次没有传出关闭报纸、封锁新闻或骚扰记者的报道，而这在哈萨克斯坦以前的选举中都是家常便饭。"
    ],
    [
        "But Trump’s decision undermines every one of these goals, and it goes against the wishes of a vast majority of Americans, including many of his own supporters.",
        "但特朗普的决定妨碍着多有这些目标，并且有悖于绝大多数美国人民的意愿，包括许多他自己的支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "By the same token, aside from the very wealthy, who benefit from personal connections and other devices, the hundreds of millions of ordinary Chinese savers who have achieved middle-class status do not have easy access to global markets.",
        "同理，除了可以从人脉和其他手段获益的巨富群体外，数亿跻身中产阶级的普通中国储户无法进入全球市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed China-mania, a mixture of hopes, but mostly fears, is sweeping the world due to China’s rapid economic rise.",
        "中国狂热，一种希望，但更主要是恐惧的混合物正由于中国迅速的经济崛起而横扫全世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors do not know what they are buying when they purchase an Italian bond – is it backstopped by Germany or not?",
        "投资者在购买意大利债券是根本搞不懂自己买入的究竟是什么——德国会为这玩意儿兜底吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But I am betting that India is rising again: millions more will be lifted out of poverty in the coming years, while the increasingly prosperous Indian middle class will expand further.",
        "但我相信印度在再次崛起：数百万人将在未来几年中摆脱贫困，日渐繁荣的印度中产阶级将进一步扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "Building these routine immunization systems has already helped us to eradicate diseases like polio and all but one type of measles.",
        "打造常规免疫系统已让我们根除了小儿麻痹症和绝大部分麻疹（只有一种尚待根除）。"
    ],
    [
        "In responding to the hurricane – and in funding some of the repair – everyone turns to government, just as they did in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis.",
        "为了应对飓风——以及为灾后重建筹集一些资金——所有人都把目光转向了政府，一如他们在2008年经济危机后所做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "In this fluid regional environment, a great proxy struggle for regional dominance between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran is playing out violently in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, and Lebanon.",
        "在这一瞬息万变的地区环境中，逊尼派的沙特阿拉伯和什叶派的伊朗之间为争夺地区主宰权而进行的激烈的代理斗争正在伊拉克、叙利亚、也门、巴林和黎巴嫩暴力上演。"
    ],
    [
        "France moved from right to left, and the UK went from left to right.",
        "法国从右转向左，而英国从左转向右。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the long-term outcome of this cold war is not hard to predict.",
        "但这次冷战的长期结果其实不难预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Everything else that was agreed at the London summit turned sour.",
        "伦敦峰会的其他协议都出了问题。"
    ],
    [
        "One cause for this shift toward authoritarianism is that many countries no longer view the United States as a beacon of democracy and a model of stability and prosperity to be emulated.",
        "专制主义转向的重要原因是许多国家不再将美国视为值得仿效的民主灯塔和繁荣稳定的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach could win back the fee-paying clients that comprise its self-sustaining resource base, provide it with its global reach, and allow it to continue to play a vital role in boosting economic growth and reducing poverty in developing countries.",
        "这一方针能够赢得构成其自我维持资源基础的付费客户的支持，使其获得全球影响力，并让其继续在刺激经济发展中国家经济增长、消除发展中国家贫困方面起到关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Other banks, when seeking to provide renminbi to their clients, are limited to bidding for the fixed supplies that circulate offshore.",
        "其他银行在向客户提供人民币时只能通过离岸流通的固定供给。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the long years of this bloody tragedy, we have tried to inch our way to a settlement through confidence-building measures or, in the case of the long dead “Road Map,” through pushing both parties to take parallel steps towards an agreement.",
        "在这一漫长的流血悲剧历史中，我们已经试图努力通过建立信任的手段，或者在名存实亡的“路线图”计划中通过推动双方共同采取行动来达成和解。"
    ],
    [
        "First, stop the refugee surge by ending the Syrian war immediately.",
        "首先，通过立刻结束叙利亚战争阻止难民激增。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence the question on the minds of politicians and economists alike: Is the productivity slowdown a permanent condition and constraint on growth, or is it a transitional phenomenon?",
        "政客和经济学家所想的问题也是如此：生产率减速是一个持久性条件和增长的约束，还只是一个过渡现象？"
    ],
    [
        "The US is not the only economy in this equation.",
        "美国不是经济等式中唯一的经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Chubais, Russia will never find a place in either NATO or the European Union, so it must create an alternativeto both, a new empire of its own.",
        "按照丘拜斯的设想，俄罗斯永远也不可能在北约或欧盟立足，所以它必须建立自己的一个帝国，与这两个组织分庭抗礼。"
    ],
    [
        "The second component of the collective bet – the avoidance of policy mistakes – is similarly tenuous.",
        "集体赌注的第二项——避免政策错误也相当危险。"
    ],
    [
        "The Goebbels of the Kremlin",
        "克里姆林宫的戈培尔"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, Coal workers pneumoconiosis (“black lung disease”) resulted in more than 25,000 deaths globally.",
        "2013年，全球25，000多人死于煤炭工人尘肺病（“黑肺病”）。"
    ],
    [
        "But that does not impugn the whole FOMC, much less the entire institution.",
        "但是不能由此抹黑整个联邦公开市场委员会，更不能因此批判整个制度。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the UN Charter, the primary focus of the General Assembly and the Security Council is to promote international security.",
        "《联合国宪章》规定促进国际安全是联大和安理会的主要任务。"
    ],
    [
        "There is much talk about it in the European Union, but little practical effect.",
        "欧盟内部对此议论纷纷，但是却没有什么实效。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s so-called “pivot to Asia” might have been necessary from its point of view, given the concerns of its Asian allies about China.",
        "照此看来，美国的所谓“亚洲支点”可能是不要的，因为它担心其亚洲盟友对中国的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, economic costs are soaring, with insured losses reaching a record-high $380 billion last year.",
        "再者，经济开销一直不断攀升，去年保险损失数额达到了历史性的3800亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "While staid TV pundits ask the usually vapid questions during presidential debates in the United States, candidates know that the really important thing is to get laughs on the comedy shows of David Letterman or Jay Leno.",
        "美国总统辩论期间，在严肃的电视批评家问着通常非常乏味的问题的同时，候选人明白真正重要的是在大卫·莱特曼或杰伊·莱诺主持的娱乐节目中引发更多的笑声。"
    ],
    [
        "Both sides are taking steps that are deepening bilateral tensions.",
        "双方都在采取加深双边紧张的动作。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, in South Korea, two successive presidents have failed to follow through on their bold promises to rein in the chaebol, the country’s massive family-owned conglomerates, in order to unleash the animal spirits of entrepreneurship.",
        "类似地，在韩国，连续两位总统都没能兑现遏制财阀（家族控制的企业集团）、从而释放企业家精神的动物精神的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Here and elsewhere, ideology causes conceptual confusion.",
        "意识形态总是导致概念混淆。"
    ],
    [
        "Responding “in the moment, dynamically, really takes analytic skills, executive function, ordering and sequencing, and knowing a lot of information.”",
        "“在‘当是时’情形下，动态地”反应“真的需要分析技巧、执行能力、顺序和排位，并且知道大量信息。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, it was the cajas that concentrated the risk associated with the housing bubble, and whose governance presented the worst face of public ownership.",
        "尽管如此，储蓄银行集中着房地产泡沫相关风险，其治理状况体现了公共所有权最糟糕的一面。"
    ],
    [
        "But those are not arguments against highlighting the important role of leadership in African countries’ success.",
        "但这些论点都不能掩盖领导人在这些非洲国家取得的成就中所扮演的重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "America is neither a battlefield nor a police state, so we should send our soldiers to the actual front or else back home to their families.",
        "美国既非战场也非警察国家，所以我们应该把我们的战士送回真正的前线，或者送回家里和他们家人团聚。"
    ],
    [
        "These saving plans show that there are methods other than outright compulsion to overcome human inertia.",
        "这些储蓄计划标明，除了完全强制性的手段以外还有其他方法来克服人的惰性。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil is on the cusp of sustained growth, higher international stature, and consolidating its middle-class status.",
        "巴西有望保持经济增长势头、赢得更高国际地位并且巩固国内中产阶级构成。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson was clear: “we achieve our aims by defending our values and leading the forces of freedom.”",
        "”而其中蕴含的经验也很清楚：“我们通过保卫自己的价值并引导自由的力量，使得我们的目标终获实现。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The group seems to believe that forcing Japan and Jordan to negotiate such a trade could undermine the countries’ longstanding relationship.",
        "伊斯兰国似乎认为迫使日本和约旦谈判这一交易可以削弱两国的长期关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact of globalization has brought about a rebalancing of power, but the demand for justice, transparency, and legitimacy remains constant.",
        "全球化的重新调整了全球势力的均衡，但对公正，透明和合法性的追求一如既往。"
    ],
    [
        "People have had a taste of politics conducted by firestorm.",
        "人们已经尝够了急风暴雨式执政的味道。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, that stance has further inflamed Korean emotions.",
        "毫无疑问，这个立场进一步激怒了韩国人。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the fourth explanation, the very high compensation of corporate executives, especially in the financial sector, is not a return to services that are in demand because they are socially valuable (like having gone to medical school or having been born with acting talent).",
        "而第四种解释认为，企业高管获得的极高花红，尤其是在金融领域，并不是因其服务于有社会价值（比如毕业于医学院或拥有与生俱来的表演天赋）的需求所带来的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in Europe, where there is no unified capital market to allow portfolios to rebalance, the policy works through the bank lending channel, so it inflates – and distorts – the prices of bonds and stocks.",
        "而欧洲缺乏允许资本账户实现重新平衡的统一资本市场，其政策通过银行贷款渠道生效，所以它膨胀——并扭曲了——债券和股票的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Merkel, together with the European Commission and the European Central Bank, threatened to deprive Greeks of the use of their own currency, the euro, unless their government accepted punitive conditions.",
        "默克尔与欧盟委员会和欧洲央行一起威胁剥夺希腊人使用欧元的权利，除非他们的政府接受惩罚性条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s leading politicians have spoken out, and now it is time for European civil society – its newspapers, critics, curators, academics, and publishers – to declare the failure of multiculturalism and show some courage in defending the values they claim to embody.",
        "欧洲顶层政要已开始据理力争，现在该轮到以报纸、批评家、评论员、学者和出版商为代表的欧洲民间组织站出来宣告多元文化主义的失败，在捍卫他们自称信奉的价值观时表现出一些勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, my life – like everyone’s – is enabled, enriched, and extended by a wide variety of plants and their derivatives.",
        "总之，我的生活和你们每个人的一样既活跃又充实，琳琅满目的植物及其衍生品拓展了我的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, we have a much better option, with a much better chance of success: we should make low-carbon energy sources like solar power become a real, competitive alternative to old energy sources, instead of the preserve of rich people who want to feel “greener.”",
        "幸运的是，我们有更好的选择，获取成功的几率要高得多：我们应该把像太阳能那样的低碳能源发展成旧有能源真正有竞争力的替代品，而不是让它们成为想感觉更加“绿色”的富人的保留节目。"
    ],
    [
        "VIENNA – Forty years ago, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe concluded with the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, a historic triumph of cooperation over conflict that set the stage for the end of the Cold War.",
        "维也纳—四十年前，欧洲安全与合作会议（Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe）促成了赫尔辛基最终决议（Helsinki Final Act），这是一次历史性胜利，合作战胜了冲突，并为冷战的结束搭好了舞台。"
    ],
    [
        "By and large representative of a liberal perspective, they nonetheless recognized the importance of Islam throughout Moroccan society.",
        "虽然总体而言他们代表自由主义，但是他们也认识到了伊斯兰教在整个摩洛哥社会中的重要地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone is wondering – not least those of us at Yale.",
        "每个人，不仅仅是我们耶鲁的人都在疑问。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, extra-judicial killings by the security services and elements in the military are rampant.",
        "更糟糕的是，安全部门和军方所实施的法外处决现象猖獗。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most interesting fact to emerge is that fully 70% of the reductions needed by 2020 can be achieved by investing in three areas: increasing energy efficiency, reducing deforestation, and use of lower-carbon energy sources, including nuclear and renewables.",
        "如果要实现到2020年将碳排放量减少70%的目标，我们可能还要关注以下三个方面：提高能源利用效率，减少森林砍伐和使用低碳能源，这包括核能源和可再生能源。 采取以下七项被证明行之有效的政策——可再生能源标准（例如长期保护性电价或是可再生配置标准）；"
    ],
    [
        "Unable to get his staff to reach a consensus, the chief executive decided to ask the newspaper’s distributor for his opinion.",
        "由于主编无法使他的员工达成一致，他决定向报纸的发行人征求意见。"
    ],
    [
        "A change of subject would also be in the national interest.",
        "转换话题也有利于国家利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In rejecting the European constitution, France expressed its fear of, among other things, globalization.",
        "而否决欧盟宪法至少反映了法国对全球化的恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "An alternative, Hawkins-like approach to economic development would take massive amounts of data about the world and ask what is likely to succeed next in a country or a city at a given point in time, given what is already present and in light of the experience there and everywhere else.",
        "霍金斯式的经济发展替代方针将利用大量关于世界的数据，根据关于目前已经发生的事情，在那里或其他地区以往经验的指导下，研究在给定时点的一个国家或一个城市中接下来怎样才有可能成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern history provides us with some famous examples.",
        "我们可以从现代史上找到一些著名的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The visit began with military jeeps escorting our convoy into North Korean territory.",
        "访问从军用吉普护送我们进入朝鲜领土开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, the 2008 financial crisis should have been a wakeup call to proponents of the “Great Moderation” view that long-term volatility has fallen.",
        "）毫无疑问，2008年金融危机不啻对“大稳健”观点（长期波动性下降）的警钟。"
    ],
    [
        "Even before the Great Depression, Europe’s enlightened “bourgeois” classes recognized that, to avoid revolution, workers’ rights needed to be protected, wage and labor conditions improved, and a welfare state created to redistribute wealth and finance public goods – education, health care, and a social safety net.",
        "即便在大萧条以前，欧洲开明的“布尔乔亚”阶级也承认，为避免革命，劳工权益必须得到保障，工资和劳动条件必须改善，福利国家需要建立，以对财富进行再分配，提供公共品——教育、医疗和社会保障网络。"
    ],
    [
        "It seemed that this was the natural order of things.",
        "看起来这正是事物发展的自然规律。"
    ],
    [
        "No single report can create a more secure world, but those who support that goal must hope that governments and their publics will consider seriously the Panel’s recommendations.",
        "没有一份报告可以建立一个更加安全的世界，但是怀有这一目标的人们一定希望政府和他们的公众会认真地考虑名人小组的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – While austerity in Europe faces increasing social resistance, in principle it has the merit of simplicity.",
        "发自牛津——虽然欧洲紧缩政策面临的社会阻力与日俱增，但至少该政策在原理上还具备简单直接的优点。"
    ],
    [
        "McKinsey consultants have even forecast that the upper middle-class will number 520 million by 2025 – the sort of projection that the communist mandarins welcome as a tribute to their strange hybrid of a market economy and rigid state control.",
        "麦肯锡咨询公司甚至预计，到2025年，中高阶层人口将达到5亿2千万。 中共官员欢迎这种预计，因为这是对于其市场经济和严厉的国家控制的奇怪的组合的肯定。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, economic growth and job creation remain lackluster, with the availability of investment finance for long-term productive assets – essential to sustainable growth – severely limited.",
        "结果，经济增长和就业创造依然萎靡逼真，对可持续增长至关重要的长期生产性资产的投资融资严重受限。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal rules can help make such behavior politically palatable.",
        "财政法规可以提高上述行为的政治接受度。"
    ],
    [
        "The US should tap India’s potential as an engine for economic recovery, and consult much more closely with it on matters of finance, trade, and investment.",
        "美国应当发掘印度作为经济复苏引擎的潜力，在金融、贸易和投资事务上与其进行更密切的磋商。"
    ],
    [
        "There is, however, a fly in the ointment.",
        "然而，还是有美中不足的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community has a shared interest in discouraging such activities.",
        "国际社会有共同利益阻止这样的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "We think that capital from these countries is increasingly flowing not so much “uphill” to developed countries (as it did over the past five years), but rather “around the hill” to other emerging markets and poorer developing countries.",
        "我们认为这些国家的资本不是在“向上”流入发达国家，而是越来越多地“在其周围”流动，流向了其他新兴市场以及更贫穷的发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "And the customers were absent because the pre-crisis credit boom had left them over-leveraged.",
        "而之所以缺少客户，是因为危机前信用繁荣导致他们过度借贷。"
    ],
    [
        "The other award winner, former US Vice President Al Gore, has spent much more time telling us what to fear.",
        "另一位获奖者，美国前总统戈尔，花了许多时间来告诉我们应该担心的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Charles Taylor have demonstrated that even heads of state are no longer safe from prosecution.",
        "对斯洛博丹·米洛舍维奇和查尔斯·泰勒的审判说明了，即使国家元首也不再可以被免予起诉。"
    ],
    [
        "We should all be on guard against the risk of outdated influences affecting our behaviors and decisions.",
        "我们都应该预防过时的影响力影响我们的行为和决策的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, if Qaddafi’s fourth son, Muatasim, emerges as the successor, he could take away Saif al-Islam’s business holdings and ability to profit from foreign contracts.",
        "比方说，如果卡扎菲的第四个儿子 莫塔西姆最终被选定为继任者，赛义夫·伊斯兰的控股公司以及从国外合同中牟利的特权就可能会被他夺走。"
    ],
    [
        "Warnings about competitive devaluations are misleading.",
        "关于竞争性贬值的警告具有误导性。"
    ],
    [
        "Reform of a country’s political and economic institutions and its accession to the EU and NATO usually go hand in hand, because the prospect of membership makes painful decisions electorally acceptable.",
        "一个国家的国内政治经济制度改革与加入欧盟和北约通常都是相随而行的，因为选民们为了争取成员国资格往往愿意承受一些改革的阵痛。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps Luther’s most enduring personal contribution came via his translation of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into German.",
        "或许路德影响最持久的个人贡献是将圣经从希腊文和希伯来文译成了德语。"
    ],
    [
        "A year ago, the leaders of the world’s richest countries committed themselves to alleviating the plight of the poorest.",
        "一年前，世界最富有国家的领导人承诺缓解最穷国家的困境。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – After three decades of 9.8% average annual GDP growth, China’s economic expansion has been slowing for 13 consecutive quarters – the first such extended period of deceleration since the “reform and opening up” policy was launched in 1979.",
        "发自北京——在经历了过去30年年均9. 8%的GDP增长后，中国的经济增长已连续13个季度放缓了——这是自1979年改革开放政策出台以来的首次长时间减速。"
    ],
    [
        "The mainstream perception is that the green economy will enable us to break free from our dependence on fossil fuels, without sacrificing growth.",
        "主流感觉是绿色经济能让我们摆脱化石燃料依赖而不影响增长。 许多人认为，转向绿色经济甚至可以刺激新增长。"
    ],
    [
        "What makes their struggle loom so large for a normally quiescent Egyptian public is partly that nearly all 9,000 judges are standing fast in solidarity.",
        "但又是什么让法官们的斗争在原本平静的埃及公众中引起那么强烈的反响？ 9，000多名法官团结一致地进行绝食恐怕是一个重要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometime this month, President George W. Bush will – reluctantly – announce a new policy for the United States in Iraq.",
        "本月某些时候，美国总统布什将不情愿地宣布美国在伊拉克的新政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In Myanmar, Buddhist racism is at the root of a virtual civil war in the state of Rakhine and is fueling a humanitarian crisis in which hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya have fled their country by land and sea.",
        "在缅甸，佛教种族主义是若开邦几乎陷入内战的根源，它正在煽动一场人道主义危机，数十万穆斯林罗兴亚人从陆路和海路逃离缅甸。"
    ],
    [
        "How long will the rest of its globalization agenda survive?",
        "那么其全球化议程的其余部分又能存活多久？"
    ],
    [
        "Will the Dollar Be Trumped?",
        "美元会式微吗？"
    ],
    [
        "They will spar with each other for another six weeks, then go to the brink of the purported “cliff” and see who blinks at the last moment.",
        "在未来六周内，它们将展开激烈争论，然后在濒临所谓的“悬崖”时看谁在最后时刻让步。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is not that emerging economies have no desire to borrow; they desperately need funds for infrastructure and other investments.",
        "问题不在于新兴经济体没有兴趣借钱； 它们急需资金用于基础设施和其他投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Most ministers, not to mention legislators, appear to have become lost in a procedural morass.",
        "大部分部长——更不用说立法者了——似乎已经迷失在程序的陷阱中。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, a majority of the Justices of the Supreme Court have articulated a multilateralist view of American law that stands in marked contrast to the unilateralism of the Bush Administration.",
        "近几年，大多数的美国高院法官都明确表达了美国法律多边主义的观点，这与布什政府的单边主义行为形成鲜明对照。"
    ],
    [
        "But the recent discovery of massive natural-resource deposits in Kenya and elsewhere should prompt officials to rethink this goal.",
        "但在肯尼亚和其他地区发现的巨量自然资源储备应该让官员们重新思考这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "And over the next five years, around half of all Sub-Saharan economies will expand at an average rate similar to or higher than that which prevailed during the “Africa rising” heyday.",
        "而在未来五年中，大约一半的撒哈拉以南经济体将实现不亚于“非洲崛起”顶峰时期的平均增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "Many executive teams are overconfident about their company’s competitive strength.",
        "许多高管团队过度自信于他们的公司的竞争优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Both are so large – accounting for 17% and 11% of eurozone GDP, respectively – that financing them through multilateral assistance would strain, if not exhaust, the resources of the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund.",
        "两国都是大型经济体——分别占欧元区GDP总量的17%和11%，以致任何多边资金援助手段都将大量占用（甚至可能耗尽）欧元区和世界货币基金组织的资源；"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, barring most major Russian banks from operating freely in Western capital markets could affect the entire Russian economy, not just the banks themselves.",
        "事实上，阻止大部分俄罗斯大银行在西方资本市场自由经营可以影响整个俄罗斯经济，而不仅仅是银行本身。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe thus faces a dilemma in deciding whether to raise the VAT further, from 8% to 10%, as planned.",
        "因此安倍面临着是否要将增值税从8％进一步提到计划中10％的两难决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of this progress was achieved during the Cold War, proving that it is possible to create global legal norms even in times of deep political division.",
        "事实上其中大部分成就都是在冷战时期取得的，而这同时也证明了一点：即便是在全球政治形势极端对立的情况下也是可以达成某些法律规范的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Left Party is led by two talk show politicians, Gregor Gysi, the former PDS leader, and Oskar Lafontaine, the ex-leader of the SPD, who do not have much more in common than a record of political failure and a talent for populist speeches.",
        "左翼党由两位“脱口秀”政客领导：前民主社会主义党党魁格里格·基希（Gregor Gysi）和前社会民主党领袖奥斯卡·拉方丹（Oskar Lafontaine）。 两人除了一连串的政治失败和善于发表民粹主义论调的演讲之外，并无多少共同之处。"
    ],
    [
        "More diversified economies are also likely to deliver more inclusive growth – growth that creates jobs for more people, and that distributes its benefits more widely.",
        "更多元化的经济也更有可能带来普惠增长，即能够给更多人带来跟多工作机会、好处被更多人分享的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "This is, after all, the Philippines, where Imelda Marcos is still living free and easy.",
        "这毕竟是在菲律宾，伊梅尔达·马科斯（Imelda Marcos）还在这片国土上轻松自由的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Applauding the military coup against Morsi makes this the more likely outcome.",
        "为推翻穆尔西的军事政变击节叫好让这种结果变得更有可能。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, one can only wonder why he chose to invite US President Donald Trump to attend France’s Bastille Day celebrations in July.",
        "例如，我们只想知道他为什么选择邀请美国总统唐纳德·特朗普参加7月举行的法国国庆日庆祝活动。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, some of the commodities that have experienced the largest price declines – most notably, oil (down 73%) and natural gas (down 55%) – are those in which China is a relatively minor player.",
        "而事实上，一些下跌幅度最大的大宗商品价格——最显著的是石油（下跌73%）和天然气（下跌55%）——中国都只是相对次要的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Government compensation for such pioneering firms can speed the process.",
        "而政府对于此类先行企业的补贴能够加快这一进程。"
    ],
    [
        "If any proof of this clash of values were needed, it came in the form of a hugely impressive counter-demonstration against the Shahbag movement led by activists of the fundamentalist Islamic movement Hifazat-e-Islam, which occupied the capital’s Motijheel area.",
        "如果这一价值冲突还需要东西来证明的话，那就是占领首都Motijheel区的伊斯兰原教旨运动Hifazat-e-Islam的活跃分子领导了大规模的反示威。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unlike in Pakistan, the army in India does not make foreign policy.",
        "与巴基斯坦不同的是，印军无权制定外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Mengarahkan Afghanistan menuju kemandirian mengharuskan kedua pihak, yakni pemerintah setempat dan para donor untuk mengubah arah kemudinya.",
        "让阿富汗走向自我恢复力之路需要阿富汗政府及其捐助者都改变方针。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though President Xi Jinping’s fight against corruption may cause economic growth to slow further, as paralysis grips public contracting, there is no reason for Xi to let up.",
        "此外，尽管国家主席习近平的反腐运动可能导致经济增长进一步减速，因为许多公共合同将陷入瘫痪，但习近平没有理由会有所松懈。"
    ],
    [
        "The violence and instability of North Africa is now spreading into Sub-Saharan Africa, with the Sahel – one of the world’s poorest and most environmentally damaged regions – now gripped by jihadism, which is also seeping into the Horn of Africa to its east.",
        "北非的暴力与动荡目前正在蔓延到撒哈拉以南非洲，撒舍尔——全世界最贫穷、环境破坏最严重的地区之一——已落入了圣战者的控制之中，此外他们还在向非洲之角渗透。"
    ],
    [
        "By accepting the ceiling on total expenditures, the European Parliament would gain credibility with governments and the electorate.",
        "通过接受支出总额上限，欧洲议会将会获得各国政府和选民的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, adherence to specific rules replaces an expensive manager in choosing the good apples and avoiding the bad and ugly ones.",
        "因此，具体规则取代昂贵的管理人选择好标的和避免坏和丑标的。"
    ],
    [
        "Rwanda remains poor, but, over the past 15 years, its health care advances have gained global attention, for good reason.",
        "卢旺达仍然很穷，但是，在过去15年中，其医疗进步引起了全球关注，这名副其实。"
    ],
    [
        "In Korea, the Yi dynasty ruled from 1382 until the Japanese conquest of 1910.",
        "在朝鲜，李朝的统治从1832年一直延续到1910年日本人的征服。"
    ],
    [
        "Three years ago, I was skeptical about the BRICS. And, despite the recent summit’s apparent success, I still am.",
        "三年前我对金砖国家持怀疑态度，现在亦然，尽管最新的峰会看上去颇为成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The predictable suspect is former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe.",
        "意料中的嫌疑人是前哥伦比亚总统乌里韦。"
    ],
    [
        "A new Deutsche Bank study reports that, last year, China’s 300 cities faced a 37% drop in their land-sale revenues – a major setback, given that land sales accounted for 35% of total local-government revenues.",
        "德意志银行（Deutsche Bank）新的研究报告指出，去年中国300个城市土地出让金收入下降了37%——相当大的降幅，而土地出售占地方政府收入的比例占35%。"
    ],
    [
        "The declaration demands leadership from those who can afford it, a just transition for those affected, and support for countries that face the most significant challenges.",
        "实现受影响群体的公平转型； 以及为面临最艰巨挑战的国家提供支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar concerns surround the project “pipelines” of the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America and the ASEAN Infrastructure Fund in Asia.",
        "相同的担忧也存在于南美地区基础设施融合计划（Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America）和亚洲的东盟基础设施基金（ASEAN Infrastructure Fund）等工程上。"
    ],
    [
        "There is enough baby food in the shops. But now there are no hopes for freedom.",
        "现在，商店里有足够的婴儿食品，但是，却没有了对自由的期待。"
    ],
    [
        "But most of the policy responses needed to meet people’s demand for greater security are beyond the scope and reach of national governments, especially when these governments are trying to cope on their own.",
        "但满足民众安全需求所需的多数政策都超出了国家政府的能力范畴，特别是当这些政府自己还在想办法适应的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Now all European leaders – from Mario Monti in Italy to Mariano Rajoy in Spain and Elio Di Rupo in Belgium – agree on the need to revive the European economy.",
        "如今，所有欧洲领导人——从意大利的蒙蒂到西班牙的拉霍伊和比利时的劳普——都认为必须重振欧洲经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Businesses now fear that the increasing deficits will lead to higher taxes, further discouraging investment.",
        "现在，企业担心赤字的升高将导致更高的税收，进一步阻碍投资。"
    ],
    [
        "As labor becomes a less important part of the economy, and working-age men, in particular, become a smaller proportion of the workforce, problems related to social inclusion are bound to become both more chronic and more acute.",
        "随着劳动力在经济中的重要性的降低，特别是工作年龄人口在劳动力中比例的降低，与社会包容相关的问题必然会更加长期、更加尖锐。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, world leaders listened to public-health specialists and not to the aid skeptics.",
        "幸运的是，各国领袖们在这些援助质疑者和公共卫生专家和之间选择了后者。"
    ],
    [
        "“The battle for brainpower,” as The Economist recently put it, has begun.",
        "正如《经济学人》最近所言，“脑力的战争”已经打响。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to controlling 25-30% of GDP directly, the government also takes a lion’s share of financial resources.",
        "中国政府直接控制着GDP的25—30%，此外还掌握着大部分金融资源。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s why such proposals are contingent on structural reforms that reduce unemployment where it is high and increase the flexibility of labor and product markets.",
        "这就是为何这样的提议都取决于以减少高失业率以及增加劳动力和产品市场灵活性的结构性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "France likes to think that it is at the back of the field, strolling leisurely in lockstep with Germany.",
        "法国人大概还满以为自己在这场竞赛中大大落后着，悠然自得地与德国人一起躲在后面看热闹呢。"
    ],
    [
        "When smaller economies gain access to a much larger market, trade volumes expand and wages rise, with a small part of the trade expansion diverted from other countries (one of Russia’s concerns).",
        "规模较小的经济体进入大得多的市场肯定能扩大贸易量并提高工资，同时可能会有很少部分的贸易增量被从其他国家转移开去（这也是俄国担忧的主要问题之一）。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also obvious that member states cannot solve these problems alone, but only through coordinated EU action and common policies.",
        "同样地没有哪个成员国能够单独解决这些问题，而必须依靠欧盟统一的行动和共同政策。"
    ],
    [
        "At the United States Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker engineered a sustained and successful process of disinflation beginning in 1979.",
        "在美联储，从1979年开始，保罗·沃克尔（Paul Volcker）开始了一个持续而成功的防止通胀的过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, technology could be used to streamline government services and render them more transparent.",
        "此外，可以利用技术让政府服务更加合理、更加透明。"
    ],
    [
        "The missing immigrants in Chile can help explain the dearth of entrepreneurship, innovation, and diversification.",
        "智利缺少移民有助于解释智利为何缺少企业家精神、创新和多样化。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, the TPP is a great bargain for the US.",
        "现实是，TPP非常有利于美国。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world observed Universal Health Coverage Day in December, I was left to reflect on the horrors of the last few years, and consider what steps we must take to improve health care in the future.",
        "在世界各国将目光聚焦12月全民健康覆盖日时，我独自反思过去几年的恐怖状况，思考我们应当采取哪些措施来改善未来的医疗保健工作。"
    ],
    [
        "So they have an interest in negotiating a fair deal, and one that is",
        "另外，在大型项目中，谈判团队的费用所占比例相对较小（或者可以由项目收入流以外的方式来报销）。"
    ],
    [
        "But, apart from its military strength, the USSR was never really powerful enough to counterbalance US influence.",
        "但是，除了其军事实力以外，苏联从来没有足够的实力来制约美国的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The necessary innovations are emerging.",
        "必要的创新正在显现。"
    ],
    [
        "In his first public appearance after being appointed Foreign Secretary, Johnson compared the Brexit vote to the French Revolution.",
        "在被任命为外交大臣的首次公开露脸中，约翰逊比较了英国脱欧投票和法国大革命。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, there is something appealing about a start-up-based innovation strategy.",
        "显然，以初创为基础的创新战略具有一定的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "There have also been political heavyweights, such as Michael Mansfield, a long-time Democratic majority leader of the US Senate, former Vice President Walter Mondale, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Foley, and Senator Howard Baker, who also served as President Ronald Reagan’s chief of staff.",
        "一种是重磅政治人物，如长期担任美国参议院民主党多数领袖的曼斯菲尔德（Michael Mansfield）、前副总统蒙代尔（Walter Mondale）、前众议院发言人弗雷（Thomas Foley）和参议员、罗纳德·里根总统幕僚长贝克尔（Howard Baker）。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost inevitably, the biggest banks in the world got into trouble.",
        "于是，银行巨无霸陷入困境，几乎成了一种宿命。"
    ],
    [
        "But fading memories of the Holocaust among younger Germans, together with Israel’s declining international standing, have lately challenged the official discourse about “special” ties between the two countries.",
        "但德国年轻人对大屠杀的记忆已经日渐模糊，再加上以色列国际形象的破坏，这些构成了两国“特殊”关系的官方定性的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The signs of the fading miracle became visible when Japanese competitors and other Asian Tigers succeeded in wiping out substantial parts of Germany’s labor-intensive textile, optical products, and precision engineering industries.",
        "当日本竞争者和其他亚洲虎成功地将德国劳力密集的纺织业、光学产品以及精密机械工程的产业部分挤出市场，奇迹消失的信号出现了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the need for environmental and social safeguards in infrastructure investment is more likely to be addressed effectively within a multilateral framework.",
        "此外，对基础设施投资的环境和社会影响所急需的保障问题也将在多边框架下得到有效应对。"
    ],
    [
        "So the failed missile launch probably means that a resumption of nuclear testing is inevitable, following tests in 2006 and 2009.",
        "因此，此次发射失败可能意味着朝鲜必将在2006年和2009年之后再次重启核试验。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world where power ebbs and flows, it is in everyone’s interest to adhere to a fair system of rules that respect both national sovereignty and individual rights.",
        "在实力格局不断变化的世界，尊重国家主权和个人权利的公正的规则体系与每个人的利益息息相关。"
    ],
    [
        "The two main uncertainties involve Iran and the US.",
        "两大不确定性来自伊朗和美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Will Netanyahu abandon his ideological rhetoric, negotiate seriously with the Palestinians, and make the needed concessions?",
        "内塔尼亚胡能否最终抛开那些意识形态上的言论，认真与巴勒斯坦人展开和谈，并作出必要的让步？"
    ],
    [
        "The late Yegor Gaidar, Russia’s first pro-reform prime minister, warned the government about the consequences of inflated oil prices, repeatedly arguing that excessive spending growth would undermine the political will for retrenchment when it became necessary.",
        "俄罗斯改革后上任的首位总理盖达尔就虚高的油价所带来的后果曾向政府提出过警告，他反复强调支出的过度增长会在必要的时候削弱政府削减支出的意志。"
    ],
    [
        "Human capital is the education, skills, and health of the workforce.",
        "人力资本是指劳动力的教育、技能和卫生。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, the risky behavior we have seen recently is part of the process of solidifying a unique political system: a hereditary Communist monarchy.",
        "如果这是真的话，我们最近见证的冒险行为可能就是某种程序的其中一环，为的就是巩固一个独特政治系统——一个世袭的共产主义君主国。"
    ],
    [
        "Mortgage rates are low in Hong Kong, but not zero, suggesting it is just about impossible for a median-income household to purchase a home there without access to additional funds from, say, a parent, or, if the buyer is an immigrant, from abroad.",
        "香港的按揭利率很低，但也没有低到零利率的程度，这意味着，中位收入家庭如果无法获得来自（比如）父母的资助，或者移民购房者如果无法获得海外资金的资助，几乎不可能买得起房。"
    ],
    [
        "As a fervent supporter of Santos’s human-rights efforts, of his call for a major debate on drug legalization, and of his attempt to end Colombia’s “Forty Years’ War,” I fear that Uribe has fatally wounded the peace process, and will prolong the country’s bloody and fruitless status quo indefinitely.",
        "作为桑托斯人权行动、他对开展毒品法制化问题争论的呼吁以及他结束哥伦比亚“四十年战争”努力的坚定支持者，我担心乌里韦会对和平进程带来致命伤害，导致哥伦比亚的流血现状无限期延长下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an approach would balance commercial returns with affordability, global access, and conservation, while saving governments money in the long run.",
        "这种方式可以平衡商业回报和购买力、确保新药进入全球市场和药物储备，同时从长远看还能为政府节省资金。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer a medicated animal spends in areas in which it is unprotected, the more effective the drug is judged to be in treating anxiety.",
        "实验动物在无保护区域呆的时间越久，就可以认为药物对焦虑的疗效越好。"
    ],
    [
        "The government has failed to take any meaningful action, and the problem is getting worse.",
        "政府未能采取任何有意义的行动，导致问题日益恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic recovery is all about jobs, not output, and politicians are willing to push for economic stimulus, both fiscal (tax cuts or government spending) and monetary (lower short-term interest rates), until jobs start reappearing.",
        "经济复苏说的是就业，而不是产出，因此政客们都愿意推行经济刺激政策，不管是财政上的（比如减税或者是政府支出）还是货币上的（调低短期利率），直到职位又重新出现了为止。"
    ],
    [
        "In the period following the oil shocks of the 1970s until the early 1980s, almost two-thirds of the countries recorded inflation rates above 10%.",
        "在20世纪70年代石油冲击后直到80年代初的一段时期中，近三分之二的国家录得超过10%的通货膨胀率。"
    ],
    [
        "Relative to GDP, the BOJ’s monetary-policy gambit could actually far outstrip the efforts of America’s Federal Reserve.",
        "相对于GDP而言，日本银行的货币政策头炮可以说打得比美联储还要响。"
    ],
    [
        "No one is more affected by past, present, and future policies than young people.",
        "年轻人是受过去、现在和未来政策影响最大的群体。"
    ],
    [
        "As we have come across these specific findings, we have realized that each link might need a different explanation.",
        "当我们发现这些具体情况时，我们已经意识到每个联系都可能需要不同的解释。"
    ],
    [
        "And if true investment income is indeed as large as double what is reported, the true US current-account balance entered the black in 2009 and has been in surplus ever since.",
        "而如果真正的投资所得实际上要比报告数字大一倍，那么真正的美国经常项目余额在2009年就不再是赤字，并在此后一直是盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynesian fiscal policy was caught in the crossfire, with many on the right condemning it as a manifestation of “excessive” government intervention in the economy.",
        "凯恩斯主义财政政策成为众矢之的，许多右翼人士抨击它代表政府对经济的“过度”干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the US has based nuclear weapons in Turkey for decades.",
        "事实上，美国几十年前就在土耳其部署核武器基地。"
    ],
    [
        "“It is the art of the possible.” If so, then Europe’s deconstruction – or, worse, its collapse – would be a shockingly fearful and painful business.",
        "”而如果欧洲的建构是一门关于可能性的艺术，那么它的分裂——或者更严重地说，崩溃——就将是一个骇人听闻的可怕而痛苦的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, a new yardstick is needed to measure success.",
        "因此，我们就需要一种新的准绳来衡量成功。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The creation of the euro just over a decade ago was a courageous and unique experiment.",
        "华盛顿——十年前，欧元开始启用，这是一次独特而大胆的尝试。"
    ],
    [
        "We should be examining how to make derivatives and repo investors assume the full risk of their decisions when dealing with systemically vital financial institutions.",
        "我们必须研究如何令金融衍生品和再购协议投资者在和系统关键性金融机构做交易时承担其决策的全部风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Homeland security and law enforcement – increasing protection both at borders and within them – will have to adjust to the increased threat.",
        "祖国安全和执法情况——加强边界和内部保护——必须根据日益严重的威胁作出调整。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, Europe, and Japan are likely to experience continued sluggish performance, inhibiting China’s export growth.",
        "美国、欧洲和日本可能将精力持续的低迷表现，抑制中国的出口增长。"
    ],
    [
        "While short-term factors – for example, political instability, weather-related disruptions, and speculative activity – are important determinants of prices, they tell only part of the story.",
        "短期因素——如政治动荡、与气候有关的干扰和投机行为——虽然也是价格的重要决定因素，但只是部分因素。"
    ],
    [
        "And a stunning defeat in parliamentary elections surely marks the beginning of the end of 16 years of churlish chavismo in Venezuela.",
        "而在议会选举中惨败必将成为脾气无常的查韦斯主义在委内瑞拉末日的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is important to be clear: the likelihood that loose monetary policies will restore global prosperity is nil.",
        "但必须搞清楚，宽松货币政策重塑全球繁荣的希望是渺茫的。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s politicians simply refuse to take the lead on this all-important issue.",
        "欧洲的政治家们总是拒绝带头来进行这件十分重要的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the US and Russia have not only broken off bilateral negotiations; mutual nuclear agreements have also come under threat.",
        "目前，美国和俄罗斯不但双边谈判破裂； 双方的核协议也岌岌可危。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, developing new antifungal drugs is not a priority for pharmaceutical manufacturers.",
        "此外由于抗真菌药物比抗菌药物更难开发，药厂也不太愿意开发新的抗真菌药物。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has often been presented as a pioneer in making monetary policy transparent.",
        "英格兰银行的货币政策委员会常常被视作货币政策透明化的先驱。"
    ],
    [
        "The government might be tempted to rely on rapid inflation to try to reduce the real value of its debt.",
        "日本政府可能会采取快速通胀的手段降低债务的真实价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Post-mortem examinations of their brains revealed deposits of prions – the infectious agents that cause scrapie, kuru, and mad cow disease.",
        "验尸官在他们的大脑中发现了朊病毒沉积，即痒病、库鲁病和疯牛病的病原。"
    ],
    [
        "By using high-yield seeds, better soil management, and proper row planting, the community has more than tripled its crop production, and villagers who previously were hungry grain buyers are now food-secure grain sellers.",
        "通过使用高产种子、更好的土地管理以及合理的耕种计划，该社区将粮食产量提高了三倍有余，从前身为饥饿谷物买家的村民翻身成了有了食品保障的谷物卖家。"
    ],
    [
        "I know that many Germans are uncomfortable with this.",
        "我知道，许多德国人不愿意如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republicans under Bush have turned huge surpluses into terrifyingly large deficits.",
        "共和党人在布什政府的领导下，把政府财政从巨额盈余变为大得恐怖的赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that many of these deplorable voters are also relatively uneducated, which makes Clinton’s remark look snobbish.",
        "问题在于许多这些可悲选民相对而言教育程度较低，这让克林顿的评价显得有些势利。"
    ],
    [
        "As the first two justifications crumbled in the wake of the 2003 invasion, the administration increasingly emphasized the importance of democracy, both in Iraq and in the broader Middle East, as a rationale for what it was doing.",
        "2003年入侵以后，前两个理由不攻自破，布什政府就越发强调在伊拉克以及中东更大范围内的民主的重要性作为其所作所为的道理所在。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, Trump shows little respect for this legacy, or for America’s tradition of optimism and confidence in its institutions.",
        "悲哀的是，特朗普丝毫不顾这一遗产，也丝毫不顾美国的乐观传统和对其机构的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s margin for error is much narrower—the support of its constituents less deep.",
        "欧洲央行的错误空间大为缩小，而成员国对它的支持也并不深厚。"
    ],
    [
        "Transitional criminal justice must be broad enough to reconcile a divided Iraq, and, therefore, include Shi’a and Kurdish crimes against humanity, while it apparently must also avoid embarrassing the US or its allies, particularly regarding their extensive dealings with Saddam’s regime.",
        "过渡期的刑事审判必须要足够宽泛，以求在一个分裂的伊拉克达成和解，并进而将什叶派和库尔德人的反人类罪行也纳入其中，当然它还必须避免让美国和盟国难堪，特别是在与萨达姆政权的诸多交易方面。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, this seasonal upsurge in sugar consumption is just part of a huge transition in world health that is now underway.",
        "事实上，季节性的大量食用糖这种行为仅仅是世界健康状况正在经历的巨大转变之一。"
    ],
    [
        "In exchange for such guarantees, international forces could largely withdraw, leaving a force to secure a political agreement and to train Afghan security forces.",
        "这种承诺所换取的是，国际部队可以在很大程度上撤走，留下一支部队，以确保达成政治协议，并训练阿富汗的维和部队。"
    ],
    [
        "In a weak global economic environment, China’s progress in addressing macroeconomic imbalances, while maintaining an annual growth rate of about 7%, was no small feat.",
        "在全球经济环境疲软的情况下，中国在通过名义及实际汇率不断升值来纠正宏观经济失衡的同时维持了7%以上的年经济增长率，这是一个不小的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "As such, the PBoC will need to maintain counter-cyclical policies in order to avoid a deflationary spiral.",
        "因此中国人民银行将必须维持反周期政策，以避免通缩螺旋。"
    ],
    [
        "The robust diplomatic approach that is needed to confront the problem must include three components.",
        "应对这一问题的健全外交策略必须包括三个组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "His wife is killed, and he stands accused of murdering her for an affair she briefly had with his friend.",
        "他的妻子死于非命，而他则被控因为妻子与他的朋友有染而杀妻。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, my brief tenure in the British government came to an end, following the completion of an independent review on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) that I had been chairing.",
        "在主持的针对抗菌素耐药性（Antimicrobial Resistance）的独立审查工作于近期完成之后，我在英国政府的短暂任期也结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a red line for any pluralist democracy.",
        "这是多元主义民主的一条红线。"
    ],
    [
        "Waking from the Middle East Nightmare",
        "走出中东噩梦"
    ],
    [
        "They plan when and where to strike.",
        "袭击的时间和地点由他们说了算。"
    ],
    [
        "If e-cigarettes are to replace traditional cigarettes and offset lost tobacco revenues, the government must regulate the industry more carefully to ensure safety and quality.",
        "要想让电子烟代替传统香烟弥补失去的烟草收入，政府必须更认真地规范行业以确保安全和质量。"
    ],
    [
        "There was an astonishing sequel.",
        "但这个场景还有令人震惊的续集。"
    ],
    [
        "To grasp the nature of the problem, we need to examine how humans are made at the molecular level, and contrast our constitution with that of other species that we often call “rudimentary,” such as unicellular organisms.",
        "为了抓住这一问题的本质，我们需要在分子水平上考察一下人类的构成，把我们与那些我们称之为“原始”的物种（比如单细胞生物）做个比较。"
    ],
    [
        "The two states that gave weight to this system, Iraq and Syria, have lost their central authority, and will remain politically fragmented and socially polarized for at least a generation.",
        "支撑上述制度的伊拉克和叙利亚两国已经失去了中央政府，而且至少将在一代人的时间里无法摆脱政治分裂和社会分极。"
    ],
    [
        "The repercussions of mishandling Syria will extend far beyond the country’s borders.",
        "在叙利亚事务上的举措失当的影响范围远远不止于叙利亚一国。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the kind of grassroots involvement that the EU has never been able to generate.",
        "如此大量的草根参与是欧盟从未能够实现过的。"
    ],
    [
        "Both advanced and emerging economies need to grow in order to ease domestic political tensions.",
        "发达和新兴经济体都需要增长以缓和政治紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "On one side is the danger that today’s alarmism will prove self-fulfilling – that trade officials and investors will turn the doomsday scenario into reality by panicking.",
        "一方面的危险是现在的危言耸听会自我实现——由于恐慌，贸易官员和投资者将想象中的灾难变成了现实。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time of rapid social change and relentless technological advancement, efforts to improve governance – at the local, national, or international level – will require careful thought and experimentation, in order to determine how to balance inclusive decision-making with the ever-evolving needs of markets.",
        "现时代，社会变化日新月异，技术进步层出不穷，改善治理的努力——不管在地方、国家还是国际层面——需要谨慎的思考和实验，以确定如何平衡包容性决策和不断演化的市场需求。"
    ],
    [
        "So when aid workers are stopped at gunpoint and cannot talk their way through, humanitarian agencies naturally turn to MONUC to guarantee access.",
        "所以，当武装分子用枪口阻止救援人员救援，而且救援人员不能通过谈话使事情取得进展的时候，人道主义机构自然会求助于联合国维持和平部队刚果民主共和国特派团，要求保证其救援通道。"
    ],
    [
        "This dream destroyed generations of victims.",
        "这个梦想毁了几代受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Commission’s Green Paper on immigration looks like an invitation to join the underground economy.",
        "欧盟委员会有关移民问题的绿皮书看起来更像是一封参与地下经济的邀请函。"
    ],
    [
        "Greed has to be controlled by fear of loss, which derives from knowledge that the reckless institutions and agents will not be bailed out.",
        "要让贪婪有所收敛，只能利用人们对损失的畏惧，要通过实例让人们得到教训——没有人会为冒失的金融企业和代理人的错误埋单。"
    ],
    [
        "But even before the dispute flared in mid-June, China was seething over India’s boycott of its May 14-15 summit promoting the much-vaunted “Belt and Road” initiative.",
        "但即使在6月中旬出现这一纠纷之前，中国因为印度抵制5月14—15日举行的推介其大肆吹嘘的“一带一路”计划的峰会而群情沸腾。"
    ],
    [
        "They owned everything from paper mills to department stores and supermarket chains.",
        "他们的项目从造纸厂到超市百货商店无所不包。"
    ],
    [
        "It is easy for business to want government just to get out of the way, and for the media to point fingers and sensationalize events without much depth of analysis – or even, sometimes, grasp of reality.",
        "企业往往想摆脱政府，媒体也往往不深入分析——有时甚至不了解情况就指手画脚、大肆炒作。"
    ],
    [
        "The US imports the equivalent of 16% of its GDP.",
        "美国的进口额相当于其GDP的16%。"
    ],
    [
        "The Spanish and the Chinese Civil Wars, World War II, the depth of depression in the United States, Stalinist purges, the political dependence of Asia and Africa, and the pains of decolonization in India and elsewhere could be viewed by Brazilians and Mexicans as remote events that could not happen here any more.”",
        "西班牙和中国内战、第二次世界大战、美国的大萧条、斯大林大清洗、亚洲和非洲的政治不独立，还有印度去殖民地化的痛苦，这些对于巴西人和墨西哥人来说，都是遥远的事情，不可能发生在自己的祖国。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "To address poverty-related shame, and adequately account for the role shame plays in perpetuating poverty, a number of steps must be taken.",
        "要解决与贫困有关的羞耻，充分考虑羞耻在导致贫困长期化中所起的作用，需要采取一系列措施。"
    ],
    [
        "But the problem is far broader than the AIIB.",
        "但问题远非亚洲基础设施投资银行所能限量。"
    ],
    [
        "Stagnant wages boost corporate surpluses, while subdued spending, a stifled service sector, and stunted start-ups suppress domestic investment, with the resulting surplus savings often squandered overseas.",
        "工资增长停滞不前为企业带来了盈利，但与此同时消费的停滞，服务部门的僵化以及以及对新企业的压制却压抑了国内投资，于是所有的盈余都被投向了国外。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, more than 30 countries have eliminated the malaria parasite, and at least ten more are on track to do so by 2020.",
        "如今，已有30多个国家消灭了疟原虫，另有至少十个国家正在努力在2020年实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The left, quite credibly, blames the idea that the free market is always right and needs to be unchained, and that those it rewards are always deserving.",
        "左翼相当可信地批判了自由市场永远正确、决不能对它加以限制、其所奖励的永远受之无愧的思想。"
    ],
    [
        "The most obvious candidate for such a policy switch is Iraq: if Brown wants to win an election as Labour leader, he must renounce Blair’s policy and announce the withdrawal, in short order, of British troops.",
        "这样的政策转变最明显的选择就是伊拉克：如果布朗想以工党领袖的身份赢得选举，就必须与布莱尔的政策分道扬镳，在短期内宣布英国撤军。"
    ],
    [
        "Hitler was the son of a minor customs official, and Ceauşescu was of poor peasant stock.",
        "希特勒是个海关小吏的儿子，而齐奥塞斯库则是农民出身。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, China should be ready to extend a helping hand.",
        "最后，中国应该做好施以援手的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Last month, China’s leaders revealed details of the 13th Five-Year Plan, which will guide the economy’s trajectory until 2020.",
        "北京—上个月，中国领导人公布了十三五规划的细节。 十三五规划将引导中国经济在直到2020年的运行轨迹。"
    ],
    [
        "According to research by the economists Loukas Karabarbounis and Brent Neiman, half of this decline is the result of cheaper information technology, which has enabled firms to replace workers with computers.",
        "根据经济学家卢卡斯·卡拉巴波尼斯（Loukas Karabarbounis）和布伦特·尼曼（Brent Neiman）的研究，这一下降有一半要归因于更加廉价的信息技术，信息技术的廉价化让企业得以用计算机取代工人。"
    ],
    [
        "Chaos provides a cover for crackdowns.",
        "混乱可以为打压提供借口。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, a chain of financial intermediaries now earn fees without bearing the credit risk.",
        "事实上，有许多金融中介现在可以在不承担信用风险的情况下赚取费率。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that he distances himself so emphatically from the same Islamist movement with which he has on occasion rubbed elbows, is, at worst, vice’s tribute to virtue.",
        "他如此断然地疏远自己曾亲密接触的同样的伊斯兰运动从最坏的角度解读可能是扬恶抑善。"
    ],
    [
        "Short- and long-term thinking do not necessarily align in economic development, either.",
        "短期和长期思维在经济发展中也未必一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, he now appears poised to make another serious political miscalculation, because he is backing a radical constitutional reform aimed at creating a purely presidential system.",
        "令人遗憾的是，他现在似乎又在做出另一个政治误判，因为他支持旨在创建纯粹的总统制的根本的宪法改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, that old indifference was not universal.",
        "当然，过去的冷漠也并非毫无例外。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, China knows full well that currency wars are self-defeating.",
        "事实上，中国十分清楚，货币战争无异于拿起石头砸自己的脚。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, some $90 trillion will need to be spent on infrastructure over the next 15 years, mostly in developing and emerging economies that are experiencing rapid growth and urbanization.",
        "据经济和气候全球委员会（Global Commission on the Economy and Climate）的数据，未来15年基础设施投资需求高达90万亿美元，其中大部分集中在高速增长和城市化的发展中和新兴经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "That enemy, however, was also European – first Germany, then Russia.",
        "那个敌人同样来自欧洲——开始是德国，然后又是俄国。"
    ],
    [
        "But democracy is an exceedingly complex system, and free elections are only one feature.",
        "但是民主制度过于复杂，自由选举只是其中一个特征。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also during such periods that we discover how many people who are holding long-term bonds, real estate, or stocks are doing so not because they think current prices are attractive relative to fundamentals, but because their prices have gone up over the past several years.",
        "同样在这段时间里，我们会发现，很多持有长期债券、地产、股票的人，他们这么做不是认为现在的价格相对于实际价值有吸引力，而是因为这些东西的价格在过去几年里不断上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "But even pragmatists have core principles that limit their actions, and Deng was no exception.",
        "但即使是务实主义者，也有核心原则约束他们的行为，邓小平亦不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the US embracing a form of neo-isolationism?",
        "美国正在采取某种形式的新孤立主义吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Railroading India’s Railways",
        "修建印度的铁路"
    ],
    [
        "The Fund was the centerpiece of the post-1945 global economic system.",
        "IMF是后1945年全球经济体系的核心机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Law is of minimal relevance, as he can always order the Constitutional Court to approve his third term.",
        "法律根本就无济于事，因为他可以随时命令宪法法院批准他的第三个任期。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the 1997 crisis was confined to East Asia, China was able to escape deflation after it joined the World Trade Organization.",
        "由于1997年危机局限于东亚地区，中国得以在加入世贸组织后摆脱了通缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it any wonder that the Greek government shrank from this horror and chose the “safe” option of austerity?",
        "希腊政府在这一恐怖情景面前退缩了，选择了“安全”的紧缩选项，这有什么可奇怪的？"
    ],
    [
        "Sykes and Picot cannot be blamed for the region’s pervasive lack of tolerance and political freedom, poor schools, or the unfair ways in which girls and women are treated.",
        "不能把该地区普遍缺乏宽容和政治自由、学校体系破败、女孩和妇女遭遇不公对待等情况归咎于赛克斯和皮科。"
    ],
    [
        "Understanding common causes of death is the only way to improve health care in communities with a high disease burden, patriarchal hierarchies, and large and dispersed rural populations that rely on traditional medicine.",
        "对于疾病负担高昂、存在宗法等级制度以及以来传统医学的庞大而分散的农村人口的社会来说，认识死亡的共同原因是改善医疗的唯一办法。"
    ],
    [
        "But another look at the list of populists tells us something else as well: most of them do not last.",
        "不过这个民粹主义者名单还告诉我们另一件事：他们大多好景不长。"
    ],
    [
        "New, more effective treatment to prevent tuberculosis, especially the multidrug-resistant strains, has also helped.",
        "预防肺结核，特别是对多种药物产生耐药性菌株的全新有效疗法效果也非常显著。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, Africa gets 50% of its energy today from renewables – and remains poor.",
        "相比之下，非洲能源总量却有50%来自可再生能源 ——而且仍未能摆脱贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "But by engaging with community leaders and parents to raise awareness of cervical-cancer prevention and address other local health concerns, we are finding that it is possible to generate demand and achieve good turnout at these centers.",
        "但通过与社区领导和家长共同加强宫颈癌预防意识和解决其他地方性卫生问题，我们发现在这些中心引导需求和实现良好的接种率是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "The realization of Speer Jr.’s Olympic vision, and that of his patrons, marks the end of a welcome interlude.",
        "小斯佩尔以及他的客户的奥运梦想化为现实标志着欢迎插曲的终结。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost all trials on acupuncture as a treatment for stroke conducted within China have been positive.",
        "几乎所有在中国进行的对于针灸作为治疗中风的手段的试验结果都是肯定的。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the transformation from hero to zero can be swift.",
        "毕竟，从英雄到狗熊的堕落不过是一瞬间的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Within a single year, eurozone governments’ general debt increased by almost 10 percentage points (78.7% of GDP in 2009, compared with 69.3% in 2008).",
        "在仅仅一年内，欧元区国家政府的普通债务就上升了大约10%（从2008年的占GDP69. 3%上升到2009年的78."
    ],
    [
        "Russia will hold a presidential election in 2012.",
        "俄罗斯将在2012年举行总统选举。"
    ],
    [
        "A major reason has been sharply decelerating growth in global trade, which the World Trade Organization expects to grow by 1.7% this year – far below the 6.7% average in the decade preceding the 2008 crisis.",
        "一个主要原因是全球贸易增长猛烈下降，世贸组织预计今年增长率只有1. 7%，远远低于2008年危机前十年的平均值6."
    ],
    [
        "Instead, tensions are now likely to continue to fester.",
        "但实际情况却恰恰相反，紧张关系很可能持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "The political--as distinct from the military-- wing of Hamas must be responsive to their desires.",
        "哈马斯的政治组织与其军事组织不同，必定对人民的渴求有所反应。"
    ],
    [
        "One encouraging fact is that developing countries will almost certainly get a larger say in how the Fund is run.",
        "一个颇为鼓舞人的事实是，发展中国家将几乎肯定能在货币基金组织如何运营上获得更大的发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "A true joint Euro-Atlantic missile defense would demonstrate NATO’s collective will, not only to defend against the new threats of today and tomorrow, but also to send a clear message that there is nothing to be gained from missile proliferation.",
        "我们不需另起炉灶，因为北约盟国早已在寻求不同的导弹防御方案。 北约本身已在为军队部署提供防御。"
    ],
    [
        "So the crisis of the sovereigns engulfs the banks.",
        "因此主权国家的危机吞噬了银行。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not yet clear whether words will be matched with deeds.",
        "但伊朗人的话是否只是口是心非的空话，还有待验证。"
    ],
    [
        "Or they can treat the crisis as a wake-up call to fix what debt has papered over in the last few decades.",
        "它们也可以将此次危机视为修正过去数十年来产生债务的问题的契机。"
    ],
    [
        "One notably successful agency in this regard is the African Development Bank (AfDB), which has introduced an organization-wide whistle-blowing policy, an anti-corruption and fraud framework, and an office to investigate disclosures.",
        "在这方面，一个取得显著成功的机构时非洲开发银行（非开行），它引入了一项全组织适用的揭发政策、一套反腐败和欺诈框架，以及一个调查披露办公室。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, that model is not what it used to be.",
        "不幸的是，这种模式现在也已江河日下。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, piling loans atop already-high debt burdens in the eurozone’s periphery entailed a significant gamble, particularly as the crisis erupted.",
        "事实上，在已经很沉重的欧元区外围国债务负担之上在添加贷款不啻一场豪赌，特别是在危机爆发时。"
    ],
    [
        "To reduce their vulnerability to volatile capital flows, they should promote exchange-rate flexibility, secure adequate international reserves, and adopt carefully designed capital controls.",
        "要降低面对高波动资本流的脆弱性，它们应该推进汇率弹性，确保足够的国际储备，并实施谨慎制定的资本管制。"
    ],
    [
        "In Thailand, the biggest crime of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his supporters was to keep winning national elections with populist campaigns that threatened the interests of the country's long-established Bangkok-based elite.",
        "在泰国，前总理他信及其支持者的最大罪名是利用民粹主义选战运动赢得国家大选，而他们的选战运动威胁到老牌曼谷精英的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "To glimpse just how dangerous, consider Italy, where Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s MediaSet conglomerate has seduced broad swathes of the electorate since the 1980’s with a Murdoch-like combination of insipid variety shows and partisan political theater.",
        "为了简单描述一下究竟有多大危害，试想一下意大利，当总理贝卢斯科尼的MediaSet企业联合体自1980年代以来就采取了与默多克类似的手段，利用乏味表演和党派政治剧场的结合体吸引了大多数选民。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, other countries and localities, from Scandinavia to New York City, have made smoking prohibitively expensive and illegal in most public places.",
        "毕竟，从斯堪的纳维亚到纽约的其他国家和地区已经在多数公共场所开辟了吸烟违法且付出昂贵代价的先例。"
    ],
    [
        "But the new strategic doctrine of “preemption,” which many argued would define war-making in the twenty-first century, suggests that democracies also fight in dread.",
        "但“先发制人”的新战略思想——许多人认为这正是21世纪的战争思维——表明民主国家也会因恐惧而战斗。"
    ],
    [
        "But the truth is that Sechin was both arrogant and a fool to assume that he would not get dragged into the case.",
        "但真相是谢钦认定自己不会被卷入案件既傲慢又愚蠢。"
    ],
    [
        "Even after the market volatility following the crisis in Greece and the Chinese stock market’s plunge, valuations appear to be high.",
        "虽然市场因为希腊危机和中国股市崩盘而波动陡增，但估值仍然很高。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON -- It is now almost one year since the European Union committed to stabilize Lebanon following last summer’s war.",
        "伦敦--去年夏天黎巴嫩战争后，欧盟承诺稳定该国局势已近一年。"
    ],
    [
        "German ten-year bond prices are extremely high, reflecting a current yield of less than 0.5%.",
        "德国十年期债券价格目前非常高，隐含收益率还不到0. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestic investment comes in various forms, including business investment in machinery and buildings; household investment in homes; and government investment in people (education, skills), knowledge (research and development), and infrastructure (transport, power, water, and climate resilience).",
        "国内投资形式繁多，包括机械和建筑的商业投资、家庭住房投资以及政府对人力（教育、技能）、知识（研究和开发）和基础设施（交通、电力、水和气候恢复力）的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, Biti was detained and beaten along with Tsvangirai and dozens of other MDC officials.",
        "去年，彼迪和茨万吉拉伊以及其他十几个民主变革运动官员一同被拘押和遭到殴打。"
    ],
    [
        "Realizing a long-term vision is more difficult than ever when so many short-term imperatives – reviving growth and employment, winning elections, and re-engaging a distrustful public amid growing populist sentiment, to name just a few – materialize simultaneously.",
        "实现长期愿景的困难性前所未有地大，因为大量短期障碍——重振增长和就业、赢得选举、在民粹主义情绪日益高涨的背景下重获公众信任等——正在同时发生作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Historians will argue whether forcing Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy in September 2008 precipitated the subsequent global financial crisis.",
        "历史学家会争论2008年9月的雷曼兄弟被迫破产事件是否是随后全球金融危机的滥觞。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, North Korea has been running its Yongbyon nuclear facility without international inspection.",
        "此外，朝鲜如今正在脱离国际监管的情况下运行宁边核设施。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, it is not just Indonesia’s income distribution that concerns us, but how unequal access to health care, education, and social services has become.",
        "换句话说，让我们感到担心的不仅仅是印尼的收入分配，还有医疗、教育和社会服务普及度的不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Russia’s future is uncertain, its history is becoming clearer, in part because we now know that the Twentieth Party Congress started the process that brought about the end of Soviet despotism.",
        "虽然俄罗斯前途未谱，但它的历史变得更加清晰，部分原因是因为我们现在知道苏共20大开启了苏联专制的终结。"
    ],
    [
        "Without fixing its savings problem, restricting trade with a few so-called currency manipulators would simply redistribute the US trade deficit to its other trading partners.",
        "不解决储蓄问题，限制与少数所谓货币操纵国的贸易只能让美国的贸易赤字转移到其他贸易伙伴身上。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers should mind the lessons of economic history.",
        "决策者应该汲取历史的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Various court rulings have determined that this process allowed richer districts to spend more than poorer ones and ordered states to equalize spending.",
        "但随后，法庭多次裁决此举使得富裕地区的教育经费超过了贫困地区，并要求各州协调此部分支出。"
    ],
    [
        "The passivity that mass media encourages is the polar opposite of the active engagement that democratic citizens need.",
        "大众媒体所倡导的消极状态正是民主公民所需要的积极参与的对立面。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the lesson of the May 25 elections is the same for both Ukraine and the EU: it is time for each to put its own house in order.",
        "与此同时，乌克兰必须专注于构建与欧洲的功能性关系。 进一步说，要求欧盟或北约成员资格是战术上的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "In 78 countries, homosexuality is prohibited, and in seven it is punishable by death.",
        "78个国家禁止同性恋，更有七个国家同性恋可能被判死刑。"
    ],
    [
        "While life expectancy can be calculated based on birth and death records, indices that measure quality of life, like the WHO’s disability-adjusted life year estimates, require considerable amounts of information on a wide range of illnesses and disabilities in every country.",
        "寿命预期可以根据出生和死亡记录计算，但生命质量指数，如世卫组织的经残疾调整的生存年份，需要大量关于各国的各种疾病和残疾的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "From a public-diplomacy perspective, his handling of the surveillance scandal has been a complete failure.",
        "从公共外交角度看，他对监控丑闻的处理是一场彻头彻尾的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "More worrying was the apparent absence of any strategy behind the research being funded.",
        "更令人担心的是注资进行研究的背后明显缺乏任何策略的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, structural and market-oriented reforms are necessary to boost potential growth.",
        "类似地，结构和市场改革是提振潜在增长的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The university began with the humanities at its heart, but today it is playing catch-up with the natural sciences.",
        "在最初的大学里，人文学科具有中心地位，但是现在它在和自然科学玩追赶游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestic politics is always an important factor influencing a country’s foreign policy.",
        "内政经济是影响一国外交政策的重要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Article IV surveillance of the United States during the sub-prime mortgage boom said little about the dangers posed by such lending for international financial markets.",
        "根据第四条款对美国次贷泡沫期的监测很少提到，此类放贷行为可能会给国际金融市场造成什么样的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the economy is not yet in a position to handle the 4-5%-of-GDP “fiscal cliff” that is approaching as all of the hard political decisions that were postponed come into view at the end of this year.",
        "首先，随着多项重大政治决策将于年底中止，美国经济正在迈向其尚无法处理的相当于GDP的4%—5%的“财政悬崖”。"
    ],
    [
        "But the negotiators’ success in converging on a plan that offers hope of practical progress is an unambiguous triumph.",
        "但谈判者成功地形成了一个计划，给我们带来了实践进步的希望，这毫无疑问是一种胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Feeling defeated by a series of failed approaches to the US, including an overture to hold direct talks with Roosevelt, Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe resigned on October 16, making hard-line Army Minister Hideki Tōjō his successor.",
        "日本首相近卫文磨试图接近美国包括与美国总统罗斯福举行直接会谈，但是都无功而返。 他深感受挫而在10月16日辞职，把首相位子让给了强硬派陆军大臣东条英机。"
    ],
    [
        "For years, critics have pointed to Europe’s “democratic deficit.”",
        "多年以来，批评人士一直指责欧洲的“民主赤字”。"
    ],
    [
        "But both theoretical and simulation results suggest no obvious decline in volatility.",
        "但不管是理论还是模拟推演的结论，都无法证明经济波动性会随之明显减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "· abandoning the convergence criteria, which require deficits to be less than 3% of GDP;",
        "·放弃要求赤字必须控制在相对GDP3％以内的收缩差距条件;"
    ],
    [
        "To express a negative view via the CDS market, investors do not need to locate securities to borrow (a prerequisite to shorting), and they risk only a limited premium, while they have the opportunity to gain many times that.",
        "通过CDS市场传递出来的负面观点，将使得投资者不必借入证券（做空行为的先决条件），他们只需要付出一点有限的期权费用，却有机会获得数倍于期权费的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "There are a number of other costs, some potentially quite large, although quantifying them is problematic.",
        "还有一些其他花费，尽管确定它们的数量是困难的，但是其中某些花费潜在性地非常巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "To maximize global social welfare, policymakers should strongly encourage the diffusion of knowledge from developed to developing countries.",
        "为了实现全球社会福祉的最大化，政策制定者应该大力鼓励知识从发达国家向发展中国家的传播。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, back in 1999, European central banks, seeing no reason to keep holding so much gold, entered a pact to start reducing their stocks in an orderly fashion.",
        "事实上，早在 1999 年，欧洲各国央行都开始觉得没有必须继续保持这么多黄金储备，于是订立了一项协定，开始有序减少手里的黄金储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Game-changing new technologies and treatments are transforming the practice of medicine, dramatically altering the patient experience, and creating conditions for even more breakthroughs.",
        "改变局面的新科技和疗法正在转变医学实践，大大扭转患者体验，并未更多的突破创造条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Iranian officials sometimes try to make relative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s more violent statements about Israel as nothing more than a call for “regime change.”",
        "伊朗官员有时候试图将马哈茂德·艾哈迈迪－内贾德关于以色列的更暴力的言论说成仅仅是要求“更换政权”的一个号召，没有其他意义。"
    ],
    [
        "One can also question how much appetite European investors will display for renminbi-denominated financial assets.",
        "你还可能质疑欧洲投资者会对人民币计价金融资产表现出多大的胃口。"
    ],
    [
        "Among Trump’s economic-policy promises, his fiscal proposals are most likely to be enacted: big tax cuts for the rich and increased spending on defense and other items.",
        "在特朗普的经济政策承诺中，他的财政方案是最有可能得到实施的：为富人大幅减税并增加防务和其他项目的支出。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are limits to how far this process can carry the economy.",
        "但这个过程对整个国家经济的推动程度有限。"
    ],
    [
        "The key to success will be to improve the efficiency of public spending, while attracting more private investment.",
        "成功的关键在于提高公共开支效率，同时吸引更多的私人投资。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, memories are long, especially when it comes to frigid winters of unheated homes and closed factories.",
        "毕竟，记忆总是深刻的，特别是对严冬时节没有暖气的家和关门大吉的工厂的记忆。"
    ],
    [
        "More ominously, the willingness of foreign central banks to lend to the US also looks likely to end.",
        "更不利的是，外国中央银行愿意借钱给美国的情况很可能就要结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Such efforts are also vital to find ways to stem more effectively the deterioration of people’s productivity and independence, by preserving their physical strength, mental acuity, and senses like hearing and vision.",
        "上述工作对有效遏制老年人工作效率和独立能力恶化同样至关重要，能够保持他们的体力和敏锐度，并将听力和视力等感官功能维持在一定的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain’s ability to restore a sense of calm amid far-reaching uncertainty about its economic and financial future shows how, with the right approach, political actors can manage shocks and surprises.",
        "英国在影响深远的经济和金融未来的不确定性中重塑冷静的能力表明，政治行动者可以通过正确的方针管理冲击和意外。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to predict how America role in the region will evolve.",
        "很难预料美国在亚太地区的角色会怎样变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But the two-step scenario involves incremental risks to the US economy, and to its standing in the global system. And the longer America’s politicians take to resolve the debt-ceiling issue, the greater the risk of an inadvertent accident.",
        "但这个方案会为美国经济及其全球地位埋下众多慢性风险，而美国政治家解决债务限额问题所耗费的时间越长，则发生意外事故的风险越大。"
    ],
    [
        "During this phase, they can register with their current host country and apply for asylum in the protective country of their choice.",
        "在该阶段，他们可以在当前东道国注册，并申请他们所选择的保护国的庇护资格。"
    ],
    [
        "If this structure works as advertised, Congress will be forced to reach a compromise, which can be sold once again by politicians to their polarized constituencies as being necessary to avoid a worse outcome.",
        "如果这一结构如宣传的那样起效，那么国会必须达成妥协，而要达到妥协，政客就必须再一次说服两极分化的选民以避免更糟糕的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gulf states, for example, have the means to invest in building an Afghanistan that provides real opportunities to all citizens – particularly the young men whose lack of options so often drives them into the arms of terrorist recruiters.",
        "例如，海湾国家就拥有各种手段投资建设一个能向所有公民提供真正谋生机会的阿富汗——特别是针对那些因为缺乏选择而常常投向恐怖主义招募者怀抱的年轻人。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider what else happened last week: Turkey’s government made clear that it would turn to new measures if Annan’s plan does not produce results.",
        "想想上周所发生的其他事情：土耳其政府明确表明，如果安南的计划不能收到成效，它将采取新的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "With regard to the first, emergency funds ought to be used to recapitalize the banking systems, as well as to provide loans to sovereign states.",
        "对第一个问题，应该使用紧急救助基金来向银行系统注入资金，或是为主权国家提供贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "It does not take into account the financial cycle, and thus produces excessively expansionary and asymmetric monetary policy.",
        "它没有考虑金融周期，因此导致过度扩张和不对称的货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Where, then, will the high returns of the financial products provided by the shadow banking system come from?",
        "那么影子银行系统提供的金融产品的高回报又从何而来呢?"
    ],
    [
        "Two weeks later, 400 Japanese businessmen hired as many as 500 local Chinese prostitutes for a weekend sex party in a Zhu Hai hotel.",
        "两周以后，400名日本商人在中国珠海一家宾馆召了500多名中国当地妓女举行周末性派对。"
    ],
    [
        "Moallem immediately embraced the proposal.",
        "穆阿利姆立即接受了这项提议。"
    ],
    [
        "The information carried on the new networks spans public health, medical care, education, banking, commerce, and entertainment, in addition to communications among family and friends.",
        "除了家人和朋友之间的通讯之外，在新网络上传输的信息涉及了公共健康、医学治疗、教育、银行服务、商业以及娱乐等行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Stability is also important because the country borders on Romania, a European Union member state.",
        "稳定也同样重要，因为摩尔多瓦与欧盟成员国罗马尼亚接壤。"
    ],
    [
        "By 1900, it represented only 20% of world output – not because something bad happened in Asia, but rather because the Industrial Revolution had transformed Europe and North America into the world’s workshop.",
        "但在100年后的1900年，亚洲的生产总值萎缩到仅占全世界的20%——这可不是因为什么天灾人祸，而是当时的工业革命已经使欧洲和北美两地摇身一变，成为了世界工厂。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Tudor faced innumerable lawsuits for libel, he could not be silenced.",
        "虽然都铎面临着不计其数的诽谤诉讼，但他仍没有缄口。"
    ],
    [
        "Excessively low interest rates have generated a mismatch between housing prices and the available supply, because they serve as hidden subsidies for those who can borrow – for example, the rich and SOEs – and thus stimulate demand for luxury property.",
        "过低的利率导致了房价与有效供给之间的错配，因为对那些可以从银行获得低息贷款的人（比如富人和国企）来说这其实是一种隐性补贴，从而刺激了高端地产的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally aggressive was its decision to curtail Greek banks’ spending on government treasuries, by instructing them to refuse debt rollovers.",
        "同样积极的还有其限制希腊银行政府国债购买的决定，指示它们拒绝债务展期。"
    ],
    [
        "This is, by far, one of the most significant I have ever seen.",
        "到目前为止，这是我所见过的最大幅度的调整之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Computers and the Internet made it possible to send information almost costlessly, and to do business across cultures and continents.",
        "计算机和互联网使我们可以几乎没有成本地传输资讯，进行跨文化和跨国度的商务往来。"
    ],
    [
        "What comes next is the era of the prudent politician in a boring blue suit who acknowledges that hard problems have no easy solutions, and who spurns towering promises in favor of Churchillian sweat and toil.",
        "随之而来的是身着无聊蓝西装的谨小慎微的政客，他们承认困难的问题没有容易的解决办法，鄙视空洞的承诺，赞成丘吉尔式的汗水和劳作。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk of another financial crisis cannot be ignored.",
        "爆发另一场金融危机的风险也不容忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "Sinister forces of fanatical, faith-based killing – something that we in the West, at least, thought had largely ended by 1750 – are back. And they have been joined by and are reinforcing forces of nationalism, bigotry, and racism that we thought had been largely left in the ruins of Berlin in 1945.",
        "那些邪恶的狂热宗教杀戮势力——某些西方人以为自1750年就已经灭绝了的东西——又卷土重来来了，而那些我们认为早已在1945年被埋葬在柏林城废墟之下的民族主义，偏见和种族主义势力也与之相结合并进一步得到了强化。"
    ],
    [
        "American officials countered that the financial inflows reflected Europe’s underdeveloped capital markets.",
        "对此美方官员则反驳说资金流入其实反映了欧洲资本市场的不成熟状况。"
    ],
    [
        "First, in international conflicts, the defending army must always protect the lives of its citizens, not just property interests.",
        "首先，在国际冲突中，防卫方的军队必须总是保护其平民的生命，而不仅是财产利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Productivity and income per worker in the UK remains significantly higher than in, say, Poland.",
        "英国工人的人均生产力和收入都显著高于波兰。"
    ],
    [
        "Scandinavian countries and Germany have led the way on paternity leave in Europe, yet many European men (and certainly Asian, African, Indian, and Latin American men) have a long way to go with regard to shedding traditional attitudes about the male/female division of labor.",
        "北欧国家和德国已率先在欧洲设立侍产假，但许多欧洲男性（当然还有亚洲、非洲、印度和拉丁美洲的男性）摒弃对男/女劳动分工的传统态度还有很长的路要走。"
    ],
    [
        "Money wages will lag behind demand, I argued, only as long as the representative firm is deterred from raising wages by the misperception that wages at other firms are already lower than its own – a disequilibrium that cannot last.",
        "我认为，只有防止代表性公司不会因为误认为其他公司的工资已经低于他们时提高工资，货币工资才会滞后于需求水平，但是这种不平衡维持不了太久。"
    ],
    [
        "Such repression is not meant to protect communism, let alone what little is left of Maoism.",
        "这样的镇压并不是为了维护共产主义，更别提什么毛泽东主义了。"
    ],
    [
        "The point of this deception was that when Horowitz asked each owner whether his dog looked guilty, she could consider whether the owner’s report of “guilty looks” actually had to do with the facts of the matter – whether the dog had taken the forbidden treat – or whether it reflected nothing more than whether the owner had chastised his hound.",
        "这个小小欺骗的目的在于当Horowitz询问每位狗主人他们的狗狗看上去是否愧疚时，她可以藉此了解主人报告的“愧疚之情”与事实真像——狗狗是否吃掉了被禁止触碰的食物——之间究竟有没有关系。 或者这种愧疚不过是主人严惩爱犬所造成的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Privatizing Africa’s Development",
        "非洲发展的私有化"
    ],
    [
        "The transition to a green economy now seems to be a certainty, rather than a hopeful aspiration, as growing public acceptance and technological advances make investments in clean energy increasingly practical.",
        "如今，向绿色经济的转型似乎已经确定无疑而不再是有希望的渴望，日益增加的公众接受程度和技术进步让清洁能源投资变得越来越务实。"
    ],
    [
        "This partly explains the curious flow of funds from developing countries to the US – from whence the world’s problems originated.",
        "这部分解释了资金不可思议地从发展中国家流向美国，从世界问题发端的地方。 而且，发展中国家缺乏资源来采取发达国家制定的大型刺激政策。"
    ],
    [
        "While China provides just 4% of value added, it supplies the core components to Apple at low prices.",
        "中国只提供了4%的增加值，但它以低成本向苹果公司提供核心元件。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, governments around the world are beginning to understand the challenge, and are expected to deliver – or at least make progress toward – two important agreements this year: a new global treaty to protect marine life in international waters, and a climate-change accord to safeguard the atmosphere.",
        "幸运的是，各国政府开始意识到所面临的挑战，并有望在年内签署两项重要协议——或至少在这方面取得进步。 其中一份是保护国际水域海洋生物的全新全球公约，而另一份则是保护大气的气候变化协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is striking that the majority of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina believe that their leaders are not interested in their country joining the EU.",
        "事实上令人感到震惊的是，波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的大部分市民都认为他们的领导人对加入欧盟不感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "A third policy change aimed at promoting urbanization will be to allow Chinese farmers to sell their land rights at realistic market prices, thereby increasing their incentive to cash out and move.",
        "旨在促进城市化的第三个政策是允许中国农民以真正的市场价格出售地权，从而提高他们变现并移民的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, if overcapacity is allowed to continue putting downward pressure on prices, China’s economic growth will not stabilize at a rate consistent with its potential; instead, the economy will be pushed into a vicious spiral of debt deflation.",
        "身水身汗，如果放任产能过剩继续给物价造成下降压力，中国的经济增长将无法稳定在与其潜力一致的水平上； 相反，中国经济将陷入债务通缩的恶性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "Leave delegation to complex technical matters.",
        "仅在复杂的技术性事务中利用委托。"
    ],
    [
        "So why be optimistic about cargo drones?",
        "因此，为何要对货运无人机保持乐观？"
    ],
    [
        "A country that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty over the last two decades must now find a way to safeguard and gradually increase those gains while engineering the same miracle for the hundreds of millions still left behind.",
        "这个过去二十年曾成功令亿万人脱贫的国家现在必须设法保护并逐步扩大这些成果，同时为依然贫困的亿万人口创造同样的奇迹。"
    ],
    [
        "Philanthropies don’t have to answer to public officials or generate returns for private shareholders.",
        "慈善机构不需要回应公共官员，也不必给私人股东创造回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries in Europe and its broader neighborhood – even those whose economies are less developed – cannot base long-term growth on a low-wage comparative advantage.",
        "欧洲及其广大近邻诸国——即使是其中的较不发达经济体——无法依靠低工资比较优势实现长期增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The brain’s wiring – its “synaptome” – is the anatomical substrate for a variety of functions that require information to be communicated rapidly from one point to another.",
        "大脑的导线——其“突触连接体”（synaptome）是一系列需要信息从一点快速传递到另一点的功能的解破学基底层。"
    ],
    [
        "That should serve as a rejoinder to those in Europe and America who are calling for just the opposite – further austerity.",
        "这不啻完全否定了欧洲和美国关于采取相反措施——进一步紧缩的呼声。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why commodity prices will just keep soaring until world growth slows down long enough for new supply and new conservation options to catch up with demand.",
        "这就是直到全球增长的放缓期足够长以使新的供应和保护措施赶上需求之前，商品价格还会持续上涨的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Other foreign-policy issues cry out for serious discussion and debate: addressing absolute poverty and pandemics in the global South; strengthening global governance, including undermanned and outmoded United Nations structures; international cooperation on the rising number of natural disasters; and rethinking Afghanistan/Pakistan with the understanding that Pakistan is far larger and one angry mob away from a loose nuke – and therefore should not be reduced to the role of a supporting actor in Afghanistan’s travails.",
        "其他需要认证讨论和争辩的外交政策问题有：解决南方国家的贫困和流行病问题、加强全球治理，包括人手不足又过时的联合国结构、应对越来越普遍的自然灾害的全球合作、以及重新认识阿富汗/巴基斯坦问题，明白巴基斯坦要大得多，巴基斯坦人更加愤怒，而且他们拥有核武器，因此不能把它降格为阿富汗问题的支持性因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s economy shrunk more than expected in the final quarter of 2015, and its stock market has been in turmoil since the beginning of this year.",
        "2015年最后一个季度日本的经济萎缩高于预期，而从今年年初以来其股市一直不断震荡。"
    ],
    [
        "What both countries need are short-term corrections and long-term structural changes.",
        "印中两国一方面需要进行短期的纠错性调整，另一方面则需要实施长期的结构改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The state had America’s best public schools and state universities.",
        "该州拥有全美最好的公立学校和州立大学。"
    ],
    [
        "This will happen only if all of the major trading countries demonstrate a commitment to play by the rules.",
        "只有当所有贸易大国宣称将依据条例规定行事，这才有可能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Now more than ever, it is a lesson that we cannot afford to ignore.",
        "我们现在比以往任何时刻都更不能忽视这样的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Anyone who does not share the ideology of the so-called “Islamic State” in Iraq and Syria is likely to agree that it is wrong for the group’s adherents to behead some of those they have held hostage.",
        "普林斯顿—任何不赞同伊拉克和叙利亚所谓的“伊斯兰国”的思想的人也许都同意，该集团热衷于斩首人质是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the supply-siders jumped to the daring conclusion that a permanent cut in tax rates on labor would encourage more work permanently – with no diminution of effectiveness.",
        "但是供应学派却又突然抛出了一个惊人的结论，持续降低劳动力税率将会持久性增加工作岗位——还不会降低效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s policymakers, so eager to draw a bold line under expansionary measures, should pause and consider the same question.",
        "如今，决策者急不可待地想在扩张性措施之下划出一条清晰的界线。 他们应该停下来，好好想想同样的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Wandering around the camp, segregation was in plain sight.",
        "漫步难民营，你会发现隔离无处不在。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: the number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.",
        "但研究教育及经济增长关系的经济学家确认了一种常识性的看法：即大学本科学历远不如培养学生的认知能力、如批判性思维和解决问题的能力那么重要。"
    ],
    [
        "From a historical perspective, the emerging economies seem to be headed toward a major crisis.",
        "从历史角度看，新兴经济体可能正在迈向重大危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Embattled politicians can be counted on to point the finger.",
        "焦头烂额的政客总要找个人来指责一下。"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland has been assigned a negative outlook and could soon suffer a downgrade as well.",
        "爱尔兰看上去也状况不佳，可能很快也会被降低等级。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, moreover, the burden will not fall on one country alone, and a broader mix of traditional and innovative sources of financing are already available to help fund the required investment programs in energy efficiency and renewables.",
        "此外，应对气候变化的成本不会由哪一个国家来承担，而且已经有一系列传统和创新的融资渠道，能够支持能效和可再生能源计划所需的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Only this will give a Morsi administration the necessary legitimacy and capacity to carry out a joint transition with the military for a true change of regime.",
        "惟其如此，穆尔西政府才能获得必要的合法性和能力和军方联手实现转型，真正改变埃及的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers must not rest on the optimistic assumption that Europe’s economy will recover on its own.",
        "政策制定者不能仅仅乐观地假设欧洲的经济将靠自身来实现复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Carbon Majors and Climate Justice",
        "碳排大户与气候公正"
    ],
    [
        "A new club called “Zone” – Russian slang for a concentration camp – is designed to reproduce the feeling of gulag life.",
        "新开业的“地带”俱乐部让人回忆起古拉格生活，“地带”是俄罗斯俚语中集中营的代名词。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, few people - if any - refer to the Rhineland model with such satisfaction.",
        "今天，很少有人（如果还有）再以那么满意的口吻说起莱茵兰模式了。"
    ],
    [
        "These consequences will only intensify.",
        "这些后果将继续恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "All global health citizens, and particularly health-care leaders, should adopt this mantra.",
        "”所有全球健康公民，尤其是医疗保健领袖，都应当秉承这一理念。"
    ],
    [
        "Communist China has experienced a monumental capitalist revolution in the last two decades, with an economy that is now six times bigger than it was 20 years ago.",
        "过去二十年中，共产中国经历了资本主义革命巨变，其现今的经济总量是二十年前的6倍。"
    ],
    [
        "History shows that doing so is both possible and necessary.",
        "历史已经证实，这样做是既可能，也必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "As economic inequities and social conflict in China have grown more acute, ordinary people have become increasingly angry.",
        "当中国的经济不平等和社会冲突变得更为尖锐时，普通民众也变得越加愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "The Labour Party is simply too divided to take power.",
        "工党太分裂，无法掌权。"
    ],
    [
        "China, the world’s rising strategic player, might join this policy, though it currently ranks third in terms of military power.",
        "而中国这个正在崛起的世界战略强权也必须参与到这一政策当中，因为该国已经位列世界第三军事大国了。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, the best defense against such outcomes is to prevent populist autocrats from getting elected in the first place.",
        "说到底，防止这样的结果的最佳办法是从一开始就阻止民粹主义独裁者赢得选举。"
    ],
    [
        "This puts Chinese policymakers in the position of the Irish tourist who asks for directions to Dublin and is told, “Well, sir, if I were you, I wouldn’t start from here.”",
        "如今，中国决策者就好比是一位爱尔兰游客，他想去都柏林，而他得到的回答是“先生，如果我是你，我不会从这里出发。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Even if she did, however, she would not face the barriers that people with poor dental health confronted in the past.",
        "即使她也要用到假牙，但像过去牙齿很差的人所面临的难题她不太可能遇到。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, I plan to spend more time underground.",
        "与此同时，我打算在地下花更多的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer this process takes, the greater the risk that tech firms will lose control of the narrative.",
        "这个过程拖得越长，科技企业对舆论失去控制的风险就越大。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – When a major highway bridge in California collapsed last month, the impact on the entire southwestern United States once again highlighted the country’s serious infrastructure problem.",
        "纽约—上个月，加州一座大型高速公路桥梁垮塌，该事件对整个美西南地区造成的影响凸显出美国严重的基础设施问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The key role of energy in global problems is clear.",
        "能源问题的重要性不言而喻。"
    ],
    [
        "China itself is a testament to the extent to which infrastructure investment can contribute to development.",
        "中国本身就是一个基础设施投资可以在何种程度上推动发展的极佳范例。"
    ],
    [
        "It should liberalize the foreign direct investment regime, allowing 100% foreign ownership in select cases, attract and retain foreign talent through the proposed “green card” immigration policy, and promote openness and tourism through an “open skies” policy.",
        "它应当放开外商直投制度，允许特定情况下100%的外资所有权，通过拟议中的“绿卡”等移民政策吸引并留住国外人才，并通过“开放天空政策”推动开放和旅游业的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "“I’d like to be able to argue that the [FDA] is wantonly standing in the way of entrepreneurism and innovation by cracking down on 23andMe,” wrote Matthew Herper in Forbes. “I wish that was the story I’m about to write, but it’s not.”",
        "“我也十分希望能够指出[FDA]打击23andMe是在阻挠创业精神和创新，”马修·赫伯（Matthew Herper）在《福布斯》杂志中写道，“我希望我写的是这样的故事，但事实并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "What was supposed to be a coordinated effort to protect civilians from ruthless repression and advance a peaceful transition – the plan developed by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan – has now degenerated into a proxy war between the United States and Russia.",
        "本应是旨在保护公民不受残酷镇压、促进叙利亚走向和平过渡的联合行动——由联合国前秘书长科菲·安南主导——目前已经沦为了一场美国和俄罗斯之间的代理战争。"
    ],
    [
        "In previous Tunisian presidential referenda, Bin Ali routinely received 99% of the vote; he now got 96%.",
        "以前对突尼斯总统的全民公决中，本·阿里始终保持获得99%的选票，现在他的得票率是96%。"
    ],
    [
        "· the Fed and the Treasury decided to let Lehman Brothers go into uncontrolled bankruptcy in order to try to teach financiers that having an ill-capitalized counterparty was not without risk, and that people should not expect the government to come to their rescue automatically.",
        "· 当美联储与财政部决定听任雷曼兄弟公司破产，此举是为了试图让金融家们得到教训——资本状况糟糕的银行是不是没有风险的，人们也不应当指望政府将自动地向他们伸出援手。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2008, China has signed 23 bilateral swap agreements, including one with South Korea.",
        "自2008年以来，中国已经签署了23个双边货币互换协议，其中包括韩国。"
    ],
    [
        "All the other hits, however, have been self-inflicted.",
        "然而所有其他的打击则是（俄罗斯）咎由自取。"
    ],
    [
        "The risks to global growth will increase as long as adjustment remains uneven.",
        "只要调整过程依然是不平稳的，那么全球经济增长所面临的风险将会越来越高。"
    ],
    [
        "The US authorities now have a legal mandate to do this.",
        "眼下美国当局有这样做的法定权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than focusing on the major short- and long-term challenges facing the oil industry, the debate about peak oil diverts attention to the wrong problems.",
        "有关石油峰值的争论把公众的注意力引向了错误的话题，而不是将目光集中在石油工业所面临的主要长期与短期挑战之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent events seem to suggest that many young Iranians doubt if Rouhani can deliver greater prosperity and a more moderate version of Islamist rule than that offered by his hardline rivals.",
        "最近一些事件似乎表明，许多伊朗年轻人质疑鲁哈尼是否能够较其强硬派对手带来更大的繁荣和更温和的伊斯兰统治。"
    ],
    [
        "Could something similar happen digitally, with a spark of misinformation igniting a conflagration and wreaking havoc before the truth is revealed?",
        "”数字世界中会发生类似的事件吗？ 假消息会在真相暴露前点燃恐慌之火吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Whether they will remains to be seen.",
        "是否会如此，仍需拭目以待。"
    ],
    [
        "But confrontation over globalization has clearly moved well beyond the streets to the columns of the financial press and the rostrums of mainstream think tanks.",
        "但是，在全球化上的对抗已经很明显地超越了金融报纸的专栏和主流智囊团的讲坛。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet there have also been landmark successes.",
        "然而它们也取得了令人瞩目的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "When new shortages develop, prices begin rising again, and the cycle repeats.",
        "一旦重新出现短缺，价格开始再度上涨，如此循环往复。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal policy should be focused on promoting growth and creating jobs, while maintaining medium-term credibility.",
        "财政政策应该关注促进增长和创造就业，同时维持中期信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "If Abdullah (aged 83) can perhaps skip a generation and appoint a more open-minded younger figure, there may be hope.",
        "如果阿卜杜拉（83岁）可以跳过一代任命一个思想更开通更年轻的人，这样或许还有希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Employment subsidies for jobless women and young people, expanded access to childcare, improved public transport, and effective anti-crime measures are all policies that boost both fairness and efficiency, now.",
        "向失业妇女和年轻人发放就业补助、扩大儿童医保、改进公共交通，以及有效的反犯罪措施都能马上改进公平和效率。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the consequence of policy often isn’t the same for men and women, in part because they tend to have unequal access to opportunities and resources.",
        "其实政策后果对男性和女性往往不尽相同，部分因为他们往往在机会和资源的获取能力上存在很大差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain’s soccer victory was not a fluke but the culmination of a long evolution to emerge as a winning machine from its Francoist furia española past.",
        "西班牙足球队的成功不是偶然，而是西班牙从弗朗哥主义“西班牙狂怒”（furia española）的过去中浴火重生、走向胜利的长期演化过程的顶峰。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi in Russia",
        "习近平在俄罗斯"
    ],
    [
        "Further monetary easing has boosted a cyclical recovery in the eurozone, though potential growth in most countries remains well below 1%.",
        "进一步货币宽松刺激了欧元区周期性复苏，但大部分国家潜在增长率仍显著低于1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Africa Still Rising?",
        "非洲仍在崛起吗？"
    ],
    [
        "As Bezos wrote in a memo to the staff: “The values of the Post do not need changing.",
        "正如贝索斯在给员工的一份备忘录中所写的那样：“《华盛顿邮报》的价值观不需要变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has issued executive orders that he claims will reverse former President Barack Obama’s climate policies.",
        "特朗普已经发布行政命令，声称将扭转前总统巴拉克·奥巴马的气候政策。 他的命令将废除美国环保署的“清洁能源计划”规定；"
    ],
    [
        "As is often the case, the experience of individual countries is more revealing than the averages.",
        "通常情况下，各个国家的经验比平均值更能说明问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the IMF is in no position to provide such support.",
        "但是，国际货币基金组织没有条件来提供这种援助。"
    ],
    [
        "This credit replaces the private capital imports that had hitherto financed the country’s net purchases of foreign goods, but which dried up because of the crisis, and it finances a capital flight, i.e. the purchase of foreign assets.",
        "这笔信用取代了私人资本进口（到目前为止，意大利外国商品净买入全靠私人资本进口融资，但因危机而发生了锐减），也为资本外逃——即购买外国资产——提供了资金。"
    ],
    [
        "But worries about potential deflation scenarios are unwarranted.",
        "1%。 但对潜在通缩状况的忧虑也是没有依据的。"
    ],
    [
        "A deal with Syria is not impossible, given the ambiguities in Assad’s position.",
        "就阿萨德立场的暧昧来看，与叙利亚达成协定并非不可能。"
    ],
    [
        "ZMapp never made it to human trials and is not yet licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration.",
        "Zmapp还从未进行过人体试验，也从未获得过美国食品与药物管理局的认证。"
    ],
    [
        "The restoration of normalcy to financial markets and lower interest rates did cause an economic upturn in the summer of 2009, leading many forecasters and market participants to expect a typical rapid post-recession recovery.",
        "金融市场恢复正常以及低利率使得经济在2009年夏天出现好转，许多预测者和市场参与者都期待一个典型而迅速的衰退后复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, their prospects are brighter because of his work over the past decade.",
        "实际上，正是由于他过去十年的工作，他们的前景才变得明亮起来。"
    ],
    [
        "In modern terms, the Romans faced a monetary squeeze.",
        "用现在的话讲，罗马面临着货币压缩。"
    ],
    [
        "That will have a chilling result: as long as a military-dominated Pakistan continues, willingly or helplessly, to harbour the perpetrators of Islamist terror, what happened in Mumbai could happen again -- anywhere.",
        "这将产生一个令人寒心的结果：只要在军方控制下的巴基斯坦继续——不管是有意的，还是无能为力的——给伊斯兰恐怖主义作恶者提供避风港，那么，在孟买发生的恐怖袭击还可能在任何地方再次发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The overdraft facility could again be financed with counter-cyclical issues of SDRs.",
        "而透支额度又可以通过特别提款权的抗周期发行来获得资金支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments should certainly cut taxes and fund initiatives that pass rigorous cost-benefit tests; but broad new spending programs usually do not yield a significant or immediate economic boost.",
        "政府应当实施减税并资助那些通过严格成本效益测试评估的计划;但大范围的新支出计划通常不会产生显著或即时的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "However, support should be limited in time and phased out as countries enjoy rising standards of living as a result of integration.",
        "但是，当这些国家开始享受整合带来的生活水平的提高时，应当及时限制并逐渐停止援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally shocking, the morbidity and mortality of white (non-Hispanic) middle-aged men and women in the US increased between 1999 and 2013.",
        "4。 同样令人震惊的是，美国中等年龄白人（非西班牙裔）男女的发病率和死亡率在1999—2013年间呈现上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "The IEO’s report suggests involving the Board more meaningfully, in order to provide a counterweight to political pressure from regional stakeholders.",
        "独立评估办公室的报告建议执行董事会更深入地参与进来，以便有效制衡来自区域性利益关联方的政治压力。"
    ],
    [
        "People also value the personal growth that may come from their career.",
        "人们还珍视可能来自其职业生涯的个人成长。"
    ],
    [
        "MEXICO CITY – The only certainty about US President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration is the uncertainty that will attend it.",
        "发自墨西哥城——继任美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的新政府唯一确定能为人们带来的一点，就是其不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "The old proletariat and the old bourgeoisie are gone. Instead we see what has sometimes been called a “levelled-in middle-class society,” albeit one with an important elite of the super-rich at one end and an underclass at the other.",
        "旧的无产阶级和旧的资产阶级已不复存在，取而代之的是所谓的“椭圆形中产阶级社会”，纵使其两端分别为极其富有的精英阶层和下层社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump must cut America’s dependence on Russia in the Syria war, in order to resist Putin’s efforts to use his influence in Syria to gain leverage with regard to Ukraine.",
        "特朗普必须降低美国在叙利亚战争中对俄罗斯的依赖程度，以遏制普京利用其对叙利亚的影响力赢得在乌克兰问题上的筹码。"
    ],
    [
        "Hansen suggests that there will eventually be sea-level rises of 24 meters (80 feet), with a six-meter rise happening just this century.",
        "韩森说，海平面最终将会上升24米（80英尺），其中，本世纪内将会上升6米。"
    ],
    [
        "The fallout from Bhutto’s assassination was bound to reach beyond Pakistan’s borders.",
        "贝布托遇害的影响肯定要超出巴基斯坦的范围。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, we need to abandon the idea that there is a holistic or global Islamist movement.",
        "实际上，我们需要摈弃这样一种观念，也就是说存在一个全盘性的或者全球性的伊斯兰运动。"
    ],
    [
        "But Clinton turned things around, appointing new aides, moving toward the political center, winning reelection in 1996, and working with a Republican-controlled Congress to balance the budget and reform welfare.",
        "但克林顿转换了方针，认命了新助手，转向政治中间派，在1996年赢得连任，并与共和党控制的国会一起实现了平衡预算和鼓励改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Coal is the world’s fastest growing fossil fuel, with annual production increasing by 6.4% since 2004.",
        "煤炭是世界上增长最快的矿物燃料，从2004年以来年产量递增6. 4%。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, he gave to a majority of Venezuelans a sense of identity, pride, and dignity long denied them by a corrupt, elitist, light-skinned oligarchy.",
        "其次，他给大部分委内瑞拉人带来了身份认同感、自豪感和尊严，而在此前腐败的精英主义浅肤色寡头政治下，人民是感觉不到这样的感觉的。"
    ],
    [
        "Although all of the Fragile Five – identified based on their twin fiscal and current-account deficits, which make them particularly vulnerable to capital-flow volatility – have adopted some macroprudential measures since the global financial crisis, the mix of such policies, and their outcomes, has varied substantially.",
        "尽管自全球金融危机以来，脆弱五国——这个名字来源于财政和经常项目双赤字，从而让它们尤其易受资本流波动影响——采取了一些宏观审慎措施，但政策的组合以及结果大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "In the event of an existential threat in the region, in particular a confrontation with Iran, Pakistan would offer the Kingdom a form of deadly protection denied it by the West.",
        "如若在地区内发生生存威胁，特别是与伊朗爆发冲突，巴基斯坦将为沙特王国提供西方拒绝提供的铁血护卫。"
    ],
    [
        "If this continues, Europe will lose its influence in world affairs and gradually become irrelevant.",
        "如果这一趋势继续，欧洲将在世界事务中失去影响力，逐渐沦为无关紧要的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, in Britain, the government must address the public-housing crisis.",
        "第四，英国政府必须解决公共住房危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, it has transformed Greece into a de facto holding pen with inadequate facilities.",
        "第三，它实际将希腊变成了一座临时监狱，而且监狱的设施严重匮乏。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, because the RTSS made cross-border capital movements much easier, short-term flows have become a major factor in determining the RMB’s exchange rate.",
        "简言之，因为RTSS的出现，跨国资本流动变得更加容易，短期流动成为决定人民币汇率的主要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, interest rates are not determined by some invisible natural force; they are set by people.",
        "毕竟利率并不是由某些可见的自然力量所主导的； 而是人来制定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries like China that have large surpluses will have to rely much more on domestic demand to fuel their economies.",
        "像中国那样拥有庞大贸易顺差的国家将会不得不越发依赖于国内需求来推动其经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Competition among localities – for example, between states for businesses and workers, and between school districts for students – can lead to more efficient and effective allocation of public resources.",
        "各地方之间的竞争（例如，各州和各学区争相吸引企业和员工以及优秀学生）能够提高公共资源分配的效能与效率。"
    ],
    [
        "But that approach will not work without a coordinated strategy to reduce the cost of carbon-free energy.",
        "但如果没有降低无碳能源价格的协调战略，这一方针就无从奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "If children have no choice but to return from primary school to the farm, why send them to school at all?",
        "如果孩子们小学毕业后除回家务农外别无选择，那么上学究竟有什么意义？"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, there is a 35-hour workweek, but companies can negotiate around the limit by offering to pay more for overtime.",
        "虽然一周工作规定为35小时，但公司可以协商支付更多加班费来绕过限制。"
    ],
    [
        "But the intensity of opposition in America to Bush runs deeper than any single issue.",
        "但美国人强烈反对布什的原因绝没有这么简单。"
    ],
    [
        "It is past time for these modest changes, because the Asia/Pacific region's many fault lines affect the interests of the world's great and emerging powers in fundamental ways.",
        "这些程度有限的变化已不能适应现实的需要，因为亚太地区的裂隙从根本上影响着世界大国和日益强大的国家的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, even more striking than this confirmation of the still-rising importance of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) economies is the sheer size of Apple’s ongoing buyback program.",
        "而比这一金砖国家（巴西、俄罗斯、印度和中国）重要性不断上升的明证更加令人震惊的是苹果公司正在进行的回购计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Kenya’s Unity Test",
        "肯尼亚的团结考验"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite these risks, investing in the informal market can still be a better choice than keeping one’s money in the bank.",
        "但尽管存在这些风险，投资民间金融市场依然要比存银行更加划算。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s current policy combines economic integration with a hedge against future uncertainty.",
        "美国目前的政策把经济融入与防患未来不确定性相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "These policies should aim at reducing or eliminating the wedge between activities that are good for individuals, banks, and firms, and those that benefit society as a whole.",
        "这些政策应该是减少或消除对个人、银行、企业和那些有利于社会整体利益的活动之间的脱节状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Conversely, legislative elections in March gave the Mockus-Fajardo ticket only minimal representation in the two chambers of Congress, implying that any government that they form would need all the legislative allies that it can find in order to enact its agenda.",
        "相反，莫卡斯法哈多组合在三月举行的立法会选举中仅获得最低的议会两院代表席位，这意味着他们成立的任何政府都需要获得所有可能的立法盟友的支持，才能推行相关政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of the exchange-rate mechanism, resetting the system to allow the tradable sectors to generate growth involves painful relative deflation, a process that takes longer in a low-inflation environment.",
        "在缺少汇率机制的情况下，重构经济体系、让可贸易部门成为增长引擎就必须采取痛苦的相对通缩，而在低通胀环境下这需要更长时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor can it be assumed that Iran’s divided and radical leadership would always act rationally, or that proliferation would stop with the Islamic Republic.",
        "我们也不能认为，伊朗四分五裂和激进的领导层常常会理智地采取行动，核扩散会仅限于伊斯兰共和国。"
    ],
    [
        "That is when the economic and environmental agendas could fatally collide.",
        "这时候，经济和环境议题就会剧烈相撞。"
    ],
    [
        "The prime minister then met with Iraq’s chief justice, following which the court’s decision was reversed.",
        "谁知在总理和国家首席大法官碰头之后，法庭的判决立刻又发生了 180 度的大逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea and Asia’s Widening Arms Race",
        "朝鲜和东南亚日渐高涨的军备竞赛"
    ],
    [
        "To understand what is going on, we need a different explanation of what keeps investment and growth low in most poor nations.",
        "为了理解所发生的事情，我们需要对在大多数穷国保持投资和经济增长有一个不同的解释。"
    ],
    [
        "The Democratic Party must get its act together.",
        "民主党必须保持有条不紊。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is the influence of outside disruptors.",
        "然后是外部破坏者的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the official banking sector, liberalization of interest rates on deposits, scheduled for 2016, will reduce financial repression and implicit investment subsidies.",
        "而对正式银行部门来说，计划在2016年实施的放宽储蓄利率政策将减少金融压制以及隐含的投资补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "For the moment, the outlook appears promising.",
        "目前来看，前景似乎是乐观的。"
    ],
    [
        "Populists are always anti-pluralists; the task for those opposing them is to fashion conceptions of a pluralist collective identity devoted to shared ideals of fairness.",
        "民粹主义者永远是反多元论者； 反对他们的人必须打造一个致力于共同理想和正义的多元论集体身份的流行概念。"
    ],
    [
        "Its current program of quantitative easing is meant to double the money supply in a very short period.",
        "其当前量化宽松操作意欲在极短时间内将货币供给扩大一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Organized crime is constantly on the lookout for such opportunities, and it continues to find them.",
        "有组织犯罪对这样的机会垂涎已久，并且正在不断寻找到这样的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet other findings from several relatively well-to-do countries, such as South Korea and the United States, suggest that people there are essentially no happier today than they were 50 years ago, despite a doubling or quadrupling of average per capita income.",
        "但针对几个相对富裕国家（比如韩国和美国）的研究也显示，即便这些国家的国民人均收入已经比50年前翻了两番或是三番，但人们却并未觉得更幸福。"
    ],
    [
        "I suspect that most of those who signed the agreement did not fully understand what they were doing.",
        "我怀疑签署协定的大多数人都不完全了解自己行为的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "In North America, Canada’s new center-left prime minister, Justin Trudeau, will be tempted to expand government spending and regulation. But he must not loosen the strings of the public purse too much.",
        "在北美，加拿大的新中左派首相贾斯汀·特鲁多（Justin Trudeau）有可能倾向于扩大政府支出和监管，但切忌大撒金钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Reform must also address the related challenges of a lagging education system and an insufficient social safety net.",
        "改革还必须解决与此相关的挑战：教育制度落后以及社会安全网不足。"
    ],
    [
        "How did we get here?",
        "我们是如何走到这一步的？"
    ],
    [
        "A deep overhaul requires system-wide re-engineering to ensure that all parts continue to work effectively together.",
        "深层次的改造需要重新设计整个系统，以确保所有部分能够持续有效运作。"
    ],
    [
        "New Zealand has threatened to walk away from the agreement over the way Canada and the US manage trade in dairy products.",
        "出于对加拿大和美国所提出的乳制品贸易管理办法的愤慨，新西兰威胁要退出该协定。"
    ],
    [
        "For instance, some 40% of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was connected with 9/11, although the 9/11 Commission - set up by Bush and chaired by a Republican - definitively established that no such connection existed.",
        "举个例子，40%左右的美国人到现在仍然相信，萨达姆·侯赛因与9/11事件脱不了干系，尽管由布什组建、并由民主党人任主席的9/11委员会已经做出了结论：这种所谓的联系纯属子虚乌有。"
    ],
    [
        "Lack of jobs, for example, often leads people, particularly the young, away from work and into dependency on drugs and crime.",
        "例如，缺少工作机会经常会让人们，特别是年轻人远离工作并依赖于毒品和犯罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Weimar Germany blindly poisoned itself.",
        "魏玛德国就是这样轻率地毒害了自己。"
    ],
    [
        "A straightforward calculation shows that mitigation is better than business as usual – that is, the present value of the benefits exceeds the present value of the costs – for any social rate of time preference less than 8.5%.",
        "直接的计算显示减排比执行照常的政策要好，就是说，利益的当前价值超过了代价的当前价值——对于任何低于8. 5%的社会时间偏好率而言。"
    ],
    [
        "ISIS certainly can – and will – be defeated militarily by the international coalition that is now assembling and which the UAE is actively supporting.",
        "ISIS当然可以——也将会——被目前正在组建、阿联酋积极支持的国际联盟在军事上打败。 但军事遏制只是局部方案。"
    ],
    [
        "In view of the Soviet system, it was indeed easy to overlook our own weakness and fallibilities.",
        "由于苏维埃体系的存在，我们很容易就会忽略自身的弱点和错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, there is an alternative.",
        "幸运的是，我们可以找到替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, same-sex marriage laws and antidiscrimination measures have not been able to prevent exhortations to “kick some faggot ass,” to “shove them in the oven,” or, when the writer is in a good mood, to subject gays to compulsory psychiatric treatment.",
        "在欧洲，同性婚姻法和反歧视措施也无法防止“踢烂他们的屁股”、“把他们送进烤箱”这样的警告，或者当作者情绪好时，要求同性恋者接受强制性精神治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "The clear trend is one of concentration of income and wealth at the top, the hollowing out of the middle, and increasing poverty at the bottom.",
        "显而易见的趋势是收入和财富向顶层集中、中产阶级被掏空，而底层日益贫穷。"
    ],
    [
        "Children in the United States will learn about Africa, China, and India not only from books and videos, but also through direct links across classrooms in different parts of the world.",
        "现在不仅仅是通过书本和录影资料，而通过遍布在世界各地教室里的直接链接口，美国的孩子也能了解非洲、中国和印度。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil and gas prices were sky high, with export revenues flooding the Kremlin’s coffers.",
        "石油和天然气价格的高涨，让出口收入源源不断地涌进克里姆林宫的国库。"
    ],
    [
        "NEWPORT BEACH – In a four-day period in mid-December, three seemingly unrelated developments suggested that modern central banking is in the midst of an historic change.",
        "纽波特海滩——在12月中旬的四天内，三项看似无关的进展表明现代央行正在发生历史性的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way to stem the erosion is to take determined action that convinces financial markets that the eurozone is here to stay.",
        "唯一抵抗侵蚀的办法是采取果断行动，让金融市场相信欧元区就在这里。"
    ],
    [
        "With Slovakia’s entry on January 1, the euro spans 16 countries and 329 million citizens.",
        "随着斯洛伐克于1月1日的加入，欧元区包括了16个国家的3. 29亿公民。"
    ],
    [
        "Clinton has created a raft of new positions at the State Department to spur outreach to different social segments.",
        "希拉里在国务院设立了一系列新职位来鼓励与不同社会群体之间的沟通。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Sunni leadership were to feel that it has a stake in the outcome of political events now unfolding, it would also be able to stop the insurgency.",
        "如果逊尼派领导感到现在正在展开的政治活动有利可图的话，它也可能会停止叛乱活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Lukashenko, simply, does not intend to allow even a small part of his army to become subordinated to Moscow.",
        "简而言之，哪怕是让白俄罗斯军事力量的很小一部分从属于莫斯科，卢卡申科也不情愿。"
    ],
    [
        "The fundamental problem with the patent system is simple: it is based on restricting the use of knowledge.",
        "专利体系最根本的问题很简单，那就是它是建立在限制知识的使用上的。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU has expanded from six members to 25, with Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, and Turkey waiting in the wings.",
        "欧盟的成员已经从六国增加到25国，而且保加利亚、罗马尼亚、克罗地亚和土耳其还在等候加入。"
    ],
    [
        "India has experienced horrific acts of terrorism on its own territory.",
        "印度在本土经历过可怕的恐怖主义活动。"
    ],
    [
        "A famous map painted by my friend and compatriot Saul Steinberg depicts the global village as seen from Manhattan: the distance from the Hudson River to the Pacific Ocean is the same as the distance from Ninth to Tenth Avenue on the Upper West Side, and somewhere beyond the calm ocean float Russia, China, and Japan.",
        "我的朋友和同胞索尔·斯坦伯格绘制的一幅著名地图描述了从曼哈顿看到全球村的模样：从哈得逊河到太平洋的距离与上西区第九到第十大街的距离大体相当，而在风平浪静的大洋对岸漂浮着俄国、中国和日本。 索尔的另一张地图追忆了他的过去：米兰，他年轻时所住的城市；"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Ten years ago, the world emerged from the dot-com bust and started to look more soberly at the Internet’s potential.",
        "伯克利—十年前，世界从互联网泡沫破裂后的废墟中复兴，并且开始以更冷静的目光看待互联网的潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that, although Africa's economic appeal is increasing, India and China are improving more quickly, widening the gap.",
        "问题是虽然非洲的经济吸引力在增强，但印度和中国在这方面的进步更为迅速，与非洲的差距正在拉大。"
    ],
    [
        "Too much self-censoring of what we do online would deny us the benefits of the Internet.",
        "在网络交流中过度的自我检查则是因噎废食。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, they have transformed the economic and social landscape in countless communities.",
        "合作社已经改变了无数社区的经济社会环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Frederick Smith, CEO of Federal Express, has argued that “the primary task of leadership is to communicate the vision and values of an organization.”",
        "对此联邦快递首席执行官弗里德里克·斯密斯曾说：“领导的首要任务就是为组织传达远景和价值观。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "External substitutes for organic structures can be surgically implanted, breaking down the barrier between the body and the outside world.",
        "器官结构的外部代替品可以通过外科手术进行移植，这突破了身体和外部世界之间的界限。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone, having enjoyed a temporary reprieve from austerity, will be constrained by listless global trade.",
        "暂时摆脱了紧缩的欧元区将受到全球贸易萎靡的束缚。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, although the central government has the authority to collect the revenues generated by existing fields, there is no law to prevent local officials from modernizing old sites and claiming that they are new.",
        "实际上，尽管中央政府有权征收现有油田产生的收益，但是法律并不禁止地方官员将旧油田现代化，然后声称这些是新油田。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Trump already set off alarm bells during the campaign with careless remarks about trying to renegotiate US debt by buying it back from creditors at a discount.",
        "事实上，特朗普在选战过程中已经敲响了警钟——他漫不经心地评论说要以折价从债权人手中收购美国债务的方式重新谈判债务问题。"
    ],
    [
        "There are obvious differences between the events of 1618-1648 in Europe and those of 2011-2014 in the Middle East.",
        "1618—1648年的欧洲与2011—2014年的中东存在显著不同。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – Global security – a safe and peaceful environment free of conflict – is a public good.",
        "马德里—全球安全——没有冲突的安全和平环境——是一种公共品。"
    ],
    [
        "This framework would reduce incentives for using annual EU budget negotiations to advance political agendas.",
        "该框架将削弱利用年度欧盟预算谈判行使政治图谋的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "For the past 50 years, these affluent countries have dominated the global economy, producing four-fifths of its economic output.",
        "在过去50年间，这些富裕国家主导了全球经济，占据了全球经济总产值的五分之四。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, German diplomacy is actively reconstructing the country’s economic and cultural spheres of influence, and not only in Eastern Europe.",
        "与此同时，德国外交正积极重建其在经济和文化上的影响力，而且不仅仅止步于西欧。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries experienced globalization mostly as a trade and foreign-investment shock, rather than as an immigration shock.",
        "全球化在上述国家主要表现为贸易和外资冲击，而不是移民冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Europe’s community of attitudes is becoming synonymous with solutions to world problems.",
        "的确，在应对各种世界性问题时，欧洲各国的态度越来越相似。"
    ],
    [
        "They actively promote carbon-intensive energy and deter green investment.",
        "它们积极地促进了碳密集能源，阻碍了绿色投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that both countries have almost perfectly aligned regional security interests, there should be plenty of scope for the two to act in tandem to improve regional security and mutual prosperity.",
        "两国拥有几乎完美一致的安全利益，因此有充分的空间携手并进改善地区安全、增进共同繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Therein lies the great irony of manipulation: The more we depend on markets, the less we trust them.",
        "这就是市场操纵最大的讽刺所在：我们越是依赖市场，就越是不信任市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem from 1921 to 1937, maintained close ties with the fascist regimes in Italy and Germany.",
        "1921至1937年耶路撒冷大穆夫提阿明·侯赛尼与意大利和德国的法西斯政权保持着密切的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s not discount that statement.",
        "我们不要忽略了这段话。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraqi politicians have not been exempt from posturing for political gain.",
        "伊拉克的政治人物们也并不免于做点姿态来获得政治利益。"
    ],
    [
        "All seven policies have already been successfully implemented in countries around the world, but they need scaling up.",
        "目前，所有的这七项政策都已经在全世界范围内成功地运用，但我们还需要进一步地推广。"
    ],
    [
        "While the draft constitution does contain positive provisions, many are causing concern.",
        "尽管宪法草案的确包含一些积极的规定，其中的一些也引起了担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Full support for refugees in frontline countries is estimated to cost at least €20 billion per year.",
        "充分支持前沿国家的难民估计每年至少要花费200亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Europeans are, in fact, calling on the EU to act to reduce unemployment and to intervene decisively in the international arena.",
        "事实上，许多欧洲人都呼吁欧盟采取措施以降低失业率并在国际领域内要果敢介入。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixty years ago, Arak was a humble village known to US troops for its grapes; today Pentagon officials hone in on it as an industrial city that is integral to Iran’s worrisome nuclear program.",
        "60年前，美国士兵眼中的阿拉克不过是个盛产葡萄小村庄，而今天，它在五角大楼官员的眼里却是一座工业城市，与伊朗令人不安的核计划息息相关。"
    ],
    [
        "Taiwan’s New Balancer-in-Chief",
        "台湾新当选的平衡总统"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, investors value a strong public partner now more than ever before.",
        "因此投资者比以往都更加珍视一个强有力的公营部门合作伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, to put the point more positively, it requires a willingness to coordinate policies more effectively.",
        "或者说，为了让结果更加积极，需要拿出精诚合作的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Central Bankers Gone Wild?",
        "不羁的央行行长？"
    ],
    [
        "In countries like China and India, rapid economic growth has lifted a huge number of people out of poverty.",
        "在中国和印度等国家，快速的经济增长让大量人民摆脱了贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "The Unity of Water",
        "水团结"
    ],
    [
        "Once the past bear markets were identified, it was time to assess stock valuations prior to them, using an indicator that my Harvard colleague John Y. Campbell and I developed in 1988 to predict long-term stock-market returns.",
        "一旦过去的熊市被定义，就可以开始使用我的哈佛同事约翰·Y·坎贝尔（John Y. Campbell）和我于1988年开发的预测长期股票市场回报指标来评估在那些时期之前的股票估值水平了。"
    ],
    [
        "The vulnerability of children was illustrated only too well six months ago, when the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram (whose name means “Western education is a sin”) abducted 276 Nigerian schoolgirls.",
        "儿童的脆弱在六个月前的事件中彰显无遗。 伊斯兰教恐怖组织博科圣地（Boko Haram，意思是“西方教育是一种罪恶”）诱拐劫持了276名尼日利亚女学生。"
    ],
    [
        "In the mortgage market, the IMF saw prospects of a soft landing.",
        "对按揭市场，IMF认为会出现软着陆。"
    ],
    [
        "For Turkey, the overthrow of Assad would bolster its regional standing.",
        "对土耳其来说，推翻阿萨德将加强它的地区地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this is not to suggest that competition between India and China can or should cease.",
        "当然，这并不意味着印度和中国能够或应该停止竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "With or without such a body, improved channels for cooperation among ministries will be vital.",
        "不管是否成立这一机构，改善各部门合作渠道也将至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In the spring of 2010, the IMF committed upwards of $300 billion to Southern Europe alone.",
        "2010年春季，光是为了帮助南欧，IMF就许诺了3000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "But his credibility was sapped in the wake of criticism of the BoE’s handling of the collapse in 1991 of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International – an episode that anticipated later issues in managing the failure of large, cross-border institutions.",
        "但随着英国央行因处理1991年国际商业信贷银行破产不力而大受指责，布莱恩·奎因的信誉也受到了损害，而这一事件也预示了后来在处理大型跨国机构破产事务上的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama has already made clear that the United States will not accept Iran as a nuclear power under any circumstances.",
        "美国总统奥巴马已经明确指出联合国在任何情况下都不会承认伊朗作为核势力存在。"
    ],
    [
        "But to abandon it altogether and retreat from globalization is the wrong answer.",
        "但一股脑儿抛弃这一框架，从全球化中退出是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s growth rate has been falling since the first quarter of 2010.",
        "自2010年一季度以来，中国的增长率一直在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Kupchan also examines some notable failures of friendship: the United States’ Civil War (1861-65); the end of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1923); the breakdown of Sino-Soviet relations (1960); the demise of the United Arab Republic (1961); and the expulsion of Singapore from Malaysia (1965).",
        "库普乾还考察了一些著名的化敌为友未果的例子：美国内战（1861—1865）、英日同盟的破裂（1923）、中苏关系的破裂（1960）、阿拉伯联合共和国的分裂（1961年）以及新加坡脱离马拉西亚独立（1965年）。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis revealed that after taking office, he assembled a group, with the consent of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, that met in secret to prepare the introduction of a parallel currency and the takeover of Greece’s central bank – effectively an exit (or “Grexit”) from the eurozone.",
        "前希腊财政部长雅尼斯·瓦鲁法基斯（Yanis Varoufakis）披露，上任后，他组建了一个团队，该团队在总理齐普拉斯的首肯下秘密召集，准备引入平行货币并接管希腊央行——这事实上就是从欧元区退出（或称“希腊退出”）。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the Treasury and Commerce departments will be handle trade policy concerning the North American Free Trade Agreement.",
        "同时，财政和商务部门会处理和《北美自由贸易协定》有关的贸易政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Policy recommendations that miss such warnings court over-confidence and error.",
        "忽略了这些警告的政策建议就会变得过度自信并导致失误。"
    ],
    [
        "Minor technical issues could easily be ironed out.",
        "次要的技术问题也可以轻松解决。"
    ],
    [
        "What individuals bring into any setting is important, but so are the situational forces that act on them, as well as the systemic forces that create and maintain situations.",
        "个体给任何情境带去什么很重要，但是作用于他们身上的情境力量以及制造和维持情境的系统力量也同等重要。"
    ],
    [
        "While econometric studies are not available, raw data show an increase in reported income and in the number of firms and official workers.",
        "尽管在这方面没有进行过经济研究，但是粗略的数据显示申报的收入和进行申报的企业和正式工的数量都出现了增长。"
    ],
    [
        "On February 14, women and men worldwide should support One Billion Rising, a global call for people to show their support for the one billion women who have survived violence and abuse.",
        "2月14日，全世界男女应该支持十亿人站出来（One Billion Rising）活动，该活动号召人们支持从暴力和虐待中幸存的十亿妇女。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, despite expressions of solidarity, they have refused to establish a protection zone for Syrian civilians along the border of neighboring states, or to impose a no-fly zone for Syrian military aircraft.",
        "事实上，尽管口头宣称团结一致，但它们拒绝沿邻国边境建立叙利亚平民保护区，或为叙利亚空军设置禁飞区。"
    ],
    [
        "But statesmen who aim to liquidate the debt should recall another famous specter – the specter of revolution.",
        "但意在清除债务的政客们应该记住另一个著名的幽灵——革命的幽灵。"
    ],
    [
        "The Scotland Act of 2012 caps the region’s deficit at 10% of its budget and limits how much the Scottish government can borrow.",
        "2012年苏格兰法将地区预算上限定在预算的10%，并限制了苏格兰政府可以借贷的上限。"
    ],
    [
        "The Temptation of China’s Capital Account",
        "中国资本帐户的诱惑"
    ],
    [
        "Denmark, Greece, Ireland, and Portugal are strongly anti-nuclear, and Switzerland has stopped all nuclear-power projects.",
        "丹麦、希腊、爱尔兰和葡萄牙反核氛围浓厚，瑞士也停建了所有核能项目。"
    ],
    [
        "I have urged the CD to adopt an agenda based either on the consensus that was forged in 2009, or on an alternative arrangement.",
        "为此我敦促裁军会议要么着手推动一个基于2009年共识的议程，要么重新选择另一方案展开工作。"
    ],
    [
        "But even CACs may not fully help, because they are designed in a way that still allows a small minority of creditors to hold out and thus prevent an orderly restructuring.",
        "但即使有了集体诉讼条款也未必完全高枕无忧，因为根据集体诉讼条款的设计，仍允许少数债权人发动抵制，从而阻止有序重组。"
    ],
    [
        "That possibility is, if anything, greater today than it has been in the past.",
        "如今，这一概率比以往更大了。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, no one can reliably foresee the unpredictable, but we can learn from past mistakes.",
        "当然，没人能有效预测那些不确定因素，但我们可以从过去的错误中学习。"
    ],
    [
        "For geo-strategists, however, the year that naturally comes to mind, in both politics and economics, is 1989.",
        "然而，作为地域战略学家，无论是从政治意义还是从经济意义上，让我自然想到的年份是1989年。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – Fluctuations in the world’s economies are largely due to the stories we hear and tell about them.",
        "东京—世界经济体的波动原因大体上就是我们所听到和谈论的那些。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called Internet of Things is a misnomer; soon enough, it will be the “Internet of Everything.”",
        "所谓的物联网是一种误导； 很快就会发展为“万物互联”的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "With countries headed toward growth at different speeds, global strategy must continue to be a priority.",
        "即便各国的增长速度不尽相同，全球战略依然是是首要任务。"
    ],
    [
        "He simultaneously advocates multiparty democracy and centralized power.",
        "他同时提倡多党民主制度和集权统治。"
    ],
    [
        "But corporate tax cuts are another matter, because making them temporary would defeat the purpose.",
        "但降低公司税是另一件事，因为如果这也是临时性的话，就达不到目的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kim cult owes something to Stalinism, something to messianic Christianity, something to Confucian ancestor worship, something to indigenous shamanism, and something to the emperor worship of the Japanese, who ruled Korea in the first half of the twentieth century.",
        "金式教派某些元素来自于斯大林主义、有些来自于救世主基督教、有些来自于儒家的祖先崇拜、有些来自于土生土长的萨满教、有些来自于日本的天皇崇拜，天皇曾在20世纪前半叶担任过朝鲜的领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "It has only sketchy economic policies toward Russia; ambitions, but no game plan, to become a player in the Middle East; and, despite its original leadership on the Kyoto Protocol, no successor program on climate change.",
        "有在中东问题扮演重要角色的雄心，但是却缺乏周密计划的行动方案； 还有，尽管在《东京议定书》占据原始的领导地位，但是在气候变化上却没有进一步的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "An adequately funded safety net could go a long way in tempering the expectations underlying this behavior.",
        "资金充裕的安全网可以大大改变导致这一行为的期望。"
    ],
    [
        "That difference probably has been narrowed since then.",
        "这一差别现在可能已经缩小了。"
    ],
    [
        "Aishetu knows that without school, her life chances would likely be confined to herding, farming, getting married, and having a lot of children.",
        "艾什图知道，如果不接受教育，她生命中的机会很可能仅限于放牧、耕种、结婚和生许多孩子。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, we – not the Americans – had opened the world’s first nuclear power plant.",
        "毕竟，是我们而不是美国人开启了世界上的第一个核电站。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most painful, the Kingdom has lost substantial market share in China to Russia.",
        "也许最痛苦的是，沙特王国在中国的巨大市场份额输给了俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "These traumas required responses very different from previous technological changes.",
        "这些灾难要求的对应措施与先前的技术变革大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan faces parliamentary elections in the near future, by August 2013 at the latest, but perhaps as early as the start of the year.",
        "日本最晚将于不久后的2013年8月举行议会选举，但最早也有可能提前到今年初。"
    ],
    [
        "People in Africa – and, indeed, throughout low- and middle-income countries – are seizing the opportunities that technology provides, using mobile phones for everything from making payments to issuing birth certificates, to gaining access to health care.",
        "非洲人——实际上，是所有中低收入国家的人——正在抓住技术所提供的机会，将移动电话应用于从支付到颁发出生证和获得医疗服务的方方面面。"
    ],
    [
        "Five years into this new era, how should we characterize it?",
        "在如今离新时代开启已满5年之际，我们又该如何定义这个时代呢？"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, now that the Democrats are the minority in both congressional chambers, they have turned to tactics – like Senate filibusters and amendments that would be politically costly to oppose – previously favored by Republicans.",
        "诚然，如今民主党已是国会两院少数派，他们因此转向了此前共和党所惯用的战术——如在参议院发表冗长演说阻碍议程和抛出需要极大政治代价才能反对的修正案。"
    ],
    [
        "India also appears set to sustain its growth and reform momentum.",
        "印度看上去也能够保持增长和改革势头。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is especially difficult for women migrants to navigate between the tantalizing freedom of choice and expression in their host society and the traditional roles expected of them at home.",
        "女性移民想要在东道国诱人的选择和言论自由和母国期待她们的传统角色之间游刃有余更是难上加难。"
    ],
    [
        "Warsh, like many Republicans, has harshly criticized the Fed’s attempts to stimulate the US economy in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, warning that the unprecedented expansion of the monetary base brought about by quantitative easing would trigger high inflation.",
        "和许多共和党一样，瓦尔什强烈批评美联储在全球金融危机爆发后刺激美国经济的举措，警告说，量化宽松所带来的前所未有的货币基础扩张将引发高通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, there are positive trends.",
        "即便如此也存在着积极的势头。"
    ],
    [
        "Any effort to close economies – much less borders – would fail disastrously.",
        "任何封闭经济——更不要说边界——的努力都将带来灾难性的失败后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Some might worry that this would be inflationary; but in Japan’s upside-down economy, inflation is exactly what’s needed.",
        "你可能会担心这件带来通胀； 但在上下颠倒的日本经济中，通胀正是急需之物。"
    ],
    [
        "But it provides no basis for recovery or growth.",
        "但却没有为复苏或增长打下基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the unanimity with which Kennedy was confirmed, she may be able to use her own political capital to help sell fast-track authority in Congress.",
        "肯尼迪的任命获得了一致肯定，因此她有望利用其自身政治资本帮助国会授予奥巴马快车道谈判权。"
    ],
    [
        "While Grillo’s supporters may ignite fireworks in protest of these gilded giveaways for a few months, a consistent assault leading to genuine reform seems doubtful.",
        "尽管格里罗的支持者可能放几个月焰火抗议上述镀金赠品，但真正推动改革的持续性努力却似乎希望渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa, for example, loses around $50 billion a year in illicit flows, much more than it receives in development aid.",
        "以非洲为例，每年因非法流动损失的资金约500亿美元，远高于其所得到的发展援助总额。"
    ],
    [
        "And they provide integrated, cross-sectoral inputs, by investing in the systems, institutions, and capacities that are needed to achieve development goals.",
        "它们还通过投资于实现发展目标所需要的系统、制度和能力提供跨部门的综合投入。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, some middle-income countries, after promising growth, spent decades “trapped” at a certain per capita income level.",
        "此外，一些中等收入国家在经历了强劲增长后在某个人均收入水平上被“困”了几十年。"
    ],
    [
        "An armed peace has held for a year. But an armed peace never lasts.",
        "武装和平已经一年。 但是武装和平从来都不会长久。"
    ],
    [
        "No, the world is not about to run out of commodities.",
        "世界并不会耗尽原料。"
    ],
    [
        "Death to Machines?",
        "死于机器？"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the United Nations Security Council has unanimously agreed a resolution to end the crisis in Lebanon.",
        "联合国安理会最终一致同意通过了一项结束黎巴嫩危机的决议。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a risk of a hard landing for emerging-market economies, as trade, financial, and currency links transmit real and financial shocks to them.",
        "新兴市场经济体存在硬着陆的风险，因为贸易、金融和货币联系将把实际的金融动荡传导给它们。"
    ],
    [
        "What if her true objective is to satisfy Conservative hardliners by bringing about a “clean break” with the EU?",
        "万一她的真正目标是通过与欧盟“决裂”满足保守党强硬派呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In China, political leaders seem genuine in their commitment to reduce the carbon content of their runaway economy.",
        "在中国，领导人们似乎也诚心要在其失控的国内经济中减少炭的比重。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that during the three decades before 2015, monopoly power caused the combined shares of wages and normal interest on capital to decline by 23%.",
        "这意味着在截至2015年的三十年中，垄断力让工资和付给资本的正常利息的比例之和下降了23%。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, there are a few notable outliers – namely, the United Kingdom, where currency pressures and one-off holiday distortions are temporarily boosting core inflation to 2.4%, and Malaysia, where the removal of fuel subsidies has boosted headline inflation, yet left the core stable at around 2.5%.",
        "当然也存在一些值得留意的异常例子——比如英国，货币压力和一次性假期扭曲暂时将核心通胀率提高至2. 4％，还有马来西亚，燃料补贴的取消推动了总体通胀，但核心通胀率稳定在2."
    ],
    [
        "For better or for worse, democracy in the region has been accompanied by policies of economic liberalisation and efforts to attract foreign investment, culminating in the signing of the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the US in 2005.",
        "无论怎样，中美洲民主一直伴随着经济开放政策和吸引外资的努力，2005年《中美自由贸易协定》的签署使这种努力达到了高潮。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there is very little Merkel has to do after her election to make her mark on foreign policy; the visible change of style will suffice, at least at first.",
        "实际上，默克尔大选胜出以后，在外交政策方面发挥的余地不大。 至少在开始阶段，执政风格上的转变就足够了。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush’s hardline approach toward Iran also produced none of the envisioned results.",
        "小布什对伊朗的强硬路线也导致结果没有任何远见可言。"
    ],
    [
        "But, beyond ethics, there are geopolitical considerations.",
        "然而除道德之外，还要考虑到地缘政治。"
    ],
    [
        "The new revolution may have been triggered by an uncomfortable finding of the old one.",
        "这场新革命可能是由旧革命的一个令人不快的发现引发的。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Since I believe that the Scots are sensible, I think that they will vote “no” this week to independence.",
        "伦敦—我相信苏格兰人是明智的，因此我认为他们会在本周的独立公投中说“不”。"
    ],
    [
        "What is driving the upturn?",
        "是什么推动了形势向好？"
    ],
    [
        "In my view, this is madness.",
        "在我看来这只能用疯狂来形容。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it remains to be seen if the European Union will even be able to implement its promise to cut CO2 emissions by 20-30% by 2020.",
        "其实，欧洲是否能够落实其保证，在2020年前减少其二氧化碳排放20%到30%尚且有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "The Army Corps of Engineers’ budget for levee construction in New Orleans was gutted, including funds specifically aimed at the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project.",
        "美国陆军工程兵团在新奥尔良的建坝费用被侵吞，用于路易斯安娜州东南部城市水灾控制项目的专项资金也未能幸免。"
    ],
    [
        "We hardly needed another test.",
        "我们不需要其他验证了。"
    ],
    [
        "Humanity has faced threats to its existence and the health of the planet before, yet we have managed to avoid the apocalypse, or at least postpone it, through ingenuity and invention.",
        "此前，人类便已面临着生存威胁和地球健康威胁，但我们通过巧思和发明成功避免了启示录的发生，或者至少推迟了它。"
    ],
    [
        "For those who have been suicidal in the past, any depressed mood is likely to be accompanied by a return of suicidal thinking.",
        "对产生过自杀念头的病人来讲，任何情绪抑郁都可能导致再次产生轻生之念。"
    ],
    [
        "But now the PiS is pursuing a wide-ranging power grab, seeking control of the country’s constitutional court, public media channels, and security services.",
        "但如今，PiS正在追求权力一把抓，寻求控制波兰宪法法院、公共媒体频道和安全部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet just as indispensable is the moral conviction, passionately expressed, that the “immigrant's daughter who studies in our schools” is a genuine member, with full rights, of that common us.",
        "但同样不可或缺的是一种热情表达的道德信念，即“在我们的学校中学习的移民的女儿”是共同的我们中间的真正的一员，拥有完全的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "A decade ago, it was Domingo Cavallo, who, as Argentina’s finance minister, had pegged the peso to the dollar to bring down the 1,000% inflation that was destroying the economy – and the fabric of society.",
        "十年前，多明戈·卡巴罗（Domingo Cavallo）就有此遭遇。 作为阿根廷财政部长，他让比索盯住美元，以使摧毁阿根廷经济（以及社会）的高达1,000%的通货膨胀降了下来。"
    ],
    [
        "Other assumptions, however, are under threat.",
        "不过，其他假设则遇到了危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Denmark’s subsidies, for example, pay almost €6,000 to avoid one ton of CO2 emissions.",
        "比如，丹麦的补贴相当于用近6000欧元减少1吨二氧化碳排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Brazil would have to delink revenues and expenditures – a feature of the country’s budget that renders it difficult to manage properly in times of distress.",
        "并取消让支出过于僵化的指数化规则。 此外，巴西必须让收入和支出脱钩——巴西预算的这一特点让其难以在逆境时合理地进行管理。"
    ],
    [
        "China also boasts four of the world's top ten most visited websites.",
        "中国还拥有四家全球访问量前十名的网站。"
    ],
    [
        "First, ideas determine how political elites define themselves and the objectives they pursue – money, honor, status, longevity in power, or simply a place in history.",
        "首先，观念决定了政治精英如何定义自己和他们所追求的目标——金钱、荣誉、地位、掌权时限，或仅仅是青史留名。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, an amnesty in Syria would not protect Assad from prosecution.",
        "无论如何，在叙利亚获得赦免并不能保证巴沙尔免于被起诉。"
    ],
    [
        "But it does work: Germany’s export-led growth is based on just such programs in the emerging countries and the US.",
        "但这确实有用：德国的出口导向型增长之基石正是美国和新兴国家所采取的此类计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The unifying idea underlying this extension of economics is that whatever people do, whether it is making love or making widgets, they aim to achieve the best results at the least cost.",
        "经济学的如此扩张背后的统一的基本思想是不管人们做什么，是做爱还是做小东西，他们的目标都是以最小的代价获得最好的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "And without true political unification, efforts to pursue the rest of the presidents’ plan, including the transfer of fiscal competencies to the European level, would carry serious risks.",
        "而没有真正的政治统一，追求主席/部长计划剩余部分的努力，包括将财政胜任力转移给欧洲层面，都将面临严重的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "In four key respects, the agreement is a good one for those who regard global climate change as an important problem and want to take feasible steps to address it.",
        "从四个关键方面看，如果你将全球气候变化视为一个重要问题，并希望采取可行的步骤解决这个问题，那么巴黎协定是一个好协定。"
    ],
    [
        "In the so-called periphery, political upstarts promise citizens an alternative to austerity.",
        "在所谓的外围，政治新贵向人民承诺采取紧缩的替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Until the recent crisis, economists were talking up the “great moderation”: economic fluctuations were supposedly becoming milder, and many concluded that economic stabilization policy had reached new heights of effectiveness.",
        "在最近的危机之前，经济学家一直在大谈“大稳健”（great moderation）：经济波动将趋缓，许多人认为经济稳定政策效果达到了新的高度。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, the National Front’s economic program is rather similar to that of the Left Front (an electoral bloc comprising the French Communist Party and the Left Party).",
        "此外，国民阵线的经济计划也确实和左翼阵线（Left Front，由法国共产党和左翼党组成的选举联盟）十分相似。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that want to retain power in a changing global order must learn to share it, which requires accepting and embracing the contours of a new world.",
        "希望在变幻莫测的全球秩序中保持实力的国家必须学会分享它，而这又需要接受并拥抱新的世界格局。"
    ],
    [
        "But neither country, apparently, did so by manipulating its exchange rate.",
        "但显然，这两个国家都不是通过操纵汇率达到这一成就的。"
    ],
    [
        "For years, observers had been touting the governance and growth-enhancing reforms that these countries’ leaders had supposedly introduced.",
        "多年来，观察家们一直在鼓吹这些国家领导人如何如何实施治理和刺激增长的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The most disquieting interpretation of Macron’s decision-making is that he is already captured by his own administration.",
        "对马克龙的决定的最悲观的解释是，他已经被他自己的政府所绑架。"
    ],
    [
        "For migrants who reach EU territory, are not entitled to international legal protection, and lack such vital skills, repatriation regimes must be established.",
        "必须为没有资格享受国际法保护、也不具备上述重要技能的移民设立遣返机制。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also depriving the continent of talents and contributions needed to drive development and progress.",
        "它还剥夺了推动这块大陆发展和进步所需的人才和贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of the planet, all of us need to grab a bucket.",
        "为了地球的命运，我们都应该拿起水桶帮助印尼灭火。"
    ],
    [
        "BOSTON – This month, we will have a chance to chart a course toward a stronger, safer global society, where power belongs to the many, not to the few, and where those who have run roughshod over our environment, human rights, and public health will be held accountable.",
        "波士顿—本月我们将有机会制定一条通往更强大、更安全的全球社会之路，权力属于大多数而不是一小撮，那些漠视环境、人权和公共卫生的人将被问责。"
    ],
    [
        "The removal of capital-market regulations and foreign-exchange controls in the late 1980’s, and Sweden’s entry into the EU in the early 1990’s, signaled a new era – the embryo of a third Swedish model.",
        "二十世纪八十年代末瑞典解除了资本市场的管制和外汇管制，九十年代早期加入欧盟，这标志着一个新的时代，也就是第三种瑞典模式的胚胎。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it is official: a “mega-tiger” has been brought down.",
        "现在，消息被正式公布了：一只“打老虎”被打倒了。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the dollar started to weaken, exports from the 25 EU member states were growing at 6.5% per year, compared with 2% for consumption and 3% for investment.",
        "30美元，已经足以让欧洲今年第三季度的增长化为泡影。 美元开始疲软前，25个欧盟成员国的年出口增长率是6."
    ],
    [
        "Last year’s High-Level Meeting resolved that member-state delegates are to reconvene for a progress assessment after two years – so, in September 2018.",
        "去年的高级别会议决议，成员国代表将在两年后再次开会评估进展情况——因此，下一次会议是在2018年9月。"
    ],
    [
        "This is about global order in a stable and prosperous world.",
        "它事关稳定繁荣世界的全球秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who had the chance migrated, first to their homeland’s centers of economic progress, then abroad, to countries and places where the new world could be found immediately.",
        "那些有机会的人迁徙，首先到本国的经济发展中心，然后出国，到那些可以立即找到新世界的国家和地方。"
    ],
    [
        "This unfortunately has been accompanied by increasing number of variant CJD cases in Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and the USA.",
        "不幸的是，变异型克雅氏病在加拿大、法国、爱尔兰、意大利、日本、荷兰、葡萄牙、沙特阿拉伯和美国的发病率也逐年上升。"
    ],
    [
        "In response to concerns among customers, employees, and shareholders, Apple has improved working conditions and agreed to regular reviews by an independent observer.",
        "为了回应客户、员工和股东的担忧，苹果公司改善了工作条件，并同意接受独立观察者的定期检视。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bologne protocol, which aims at harmonizing university training throughout Europe, could prove useful here.",
        "旨在协调全欧洲大学培训的《波伦亚协议》在这方面应该有用武之地了。"
    ],
    [
        "Developed countries – the major contributors to global warming – must live up to the promises they made at the COP21 climate talks in Paris last December.",
        "发达国家——全球变暖的主要贡献者——一定要兑现他们去年十二月在巴黎联合国气候会谈中所作出的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The Triumphant Return of John Maynard Keynes",
        "凯恩斯的胜利回归"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to be confused with isolationism.",
        "不可将此与孤立主义搞混。"
    ],
    [
        "This is precisely the kind of incentive that could propel the world toward a more sustainable future.",
        "这正是能够驱使世界走向可持续未来的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "These discussions should include detailed questions and specific answers.",
        "上述探讨应当包括详细的问题和具体的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "And bilateral trade is booming, worth $88 billion per year.",
        "双边贸易蓬勃发展，每年贸易额高达880亿美元之巨。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s New Path",
        "中国的新路径"
    ],
    [
        "The popular belief is that Tung was sacked or pressured to step down.",
        "民间普遍认为董是被免职或是在压力下辞职的。"
    ],
    [
        "For regimes that represent economic elites (and are often corrupt to the core), it is a ploy that pays off handsomely at the polls.",
        "对于代表经济精英的政权（这样的政权往往从内到外都腐败透顶）来说，这是一个能带来可观民意好处的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the effort put into those memoirs by the man who called himself “Minister Mentor” during his later years offers a clue about Lee’s ultimate concern.",
        "但这位晚年自称“部长导师”的领袖所写的回忆录让人们了解了他的终极关切。"
    ],
    [
        "At a symposium in Paris last month entitled “New World, New Capitalism,” Sarkozy described capitalism based on financial speculation as “an immoral system” that has “perverted the logic of capitalism.”",
        "上个月在巴黎召开的主题为“新世界，新资本主义” 会上，萨科齐把基于金融投机之上的资本主义描述为一种“扭曲了资本主义的逻辑 ”的“不道德的制度”。"
    ],
    [
        "This variable makes an enormous difference in terms of whether debt will be regularly and promptly serviced.",
        "在是否按时、迅速还债的问题上，这个变量影响巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Reinvigorating these institutions is the first step toward solving the global economy’s current problems.",
        "很明显，为了解决当前全球经济所面临的问题，第一步必须重树这些组织的威望。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the wounds had fully healed, the treatment was terminated.",
        "在伤口完全愈合之前，治疗就被终止了。"
    ],
    [
        "In an ideal world, Iran should have been forced to scrap its nuclear program altogether and hand over all of its enriched uranium to an outside power; but, realistically, that was unattainable.",
        "理想世界的处理方法应当是迫使伊朗完全放弃核计划，并将浓缩铀全部移交给外部大国掌控； 但现实世界中这相当于痴人说梦。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF view is that Somalia, like earlier HIPC beneficiaries, should establish a track record of economic reform.",
        "IMF认为，索马里和早前的HIPC受益国一样，应该建立经济改革跟踪记录。"
    ],
    [
        "And that means that Westerners who have spent considerable time in China and consider themselves seasoned “China hands” need to ask why they have gotten it so wrong.",
        "这意味着那些花了相当长的时间了解中国并以经验老到的“中国通”自居的西方人需要思考一下：自己为什么会得出如此错误的结论。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the story of a region undergoing a renaissance in which people’s minds are re-opened and their outlook refreshed.",
        "该地区经历了一场文艺复兴，其人民的心智被重新开启，眼光焕然一新。"
    ],
    [
        "In normal times, citizens and officials alike would welcome this trend.",
        "在正常时期，公民和官员都会欢迎这一趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s new consumer army will have the means and, more important, the willingness to spend its higher earnings.",
        "中国的新消费大军有花钱的途径，更重要的是，他们也有意愿把提高的收入花掉。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Isaac Newton revolutionized astronomy and physics by “standing on the shoulders” of his predecessors, Freud built on Darwin’s evolutionary insights in order to understand psychological symptoms, dreams, myths, art, anthropology, and much more.",
        "正如牛顿以“站在巨人肩膀上”掀起了天文学和物理学革命，弗洛伊德在达尔文的革命性洞见的基础上理解了心理症侯、梦、传说、艺术、人类学和其他很多方面。"
    ],
    [
        "World trade is highly imbalanced.",
        "世界贸易存在着极大的不平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "What I have just described is no mere hypothetical, of course.",
        "我刚刚描述的可不仅仅是设想。"
    ],
    [
        "Is that necessarily a bad thing?",
        "这一定是一件坏事吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans’ views of Asia in general, and China in particular, are more complex and swing from lucid adjustment to a new and respected competitor to pure ideological rejection.",
        "欧洲人对亚洲的普遍观点，特别是对中国，就更加复杂，并且在头脑清醒的改革者、新兴且令人尊敬的竞争对手以及完全的意识形态排斥间摇摆不定。"
    ],
    [
        "In essence, this is what happened last autumn.",
        "从本质上来说，去年秋天所发生事情就是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest of the Chinese economy is dynamic, decentralized, and privately owned.",
        "其余部分为充满活力的分散的民营企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Reluctantly, Samuelson concluded that there needed to be permanent controls over prices and wages to stop cost-push inflation.",
        "”萨缪尔逊不情愿地推论说，需要永久控制物价和工资以阻止成本推动型通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration has created a transnational apparatus of lawlessness that he alone, without global intervention, can neither roll back nor control.",
        "布什政府已经建立了一个超越国界的违法机制，在这个机制中如果没有国际干预，靠自己奥巴马是既不能对抗也不能控制这一点的。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, China must shift its focus from meeting GDP growth targets to creating an environment that fosters innovation and competition, thereby enabling market forces to set prices and allocate resources more effectively.",
        "总之，中国必须将重点从实现GDP增长目标转向营造促进创新与竞争的环境，从而允许市场制定价格并提高资源分配效率。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, an informal state-building alliance of convenience emerged between key non-communist Ukrainian nationalists and key pro-sovereignty, ethnic Russian communists.",
        "实际上，在主要的乌克兰非共民族党派和要求主权的俄罗斯共产党之间，已经成立了正式的建国联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, North Korea’s reaction to the Bush administration’s policies was to drop out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, restart its nuclear program, and further develop its weapons production.",
        "毕竟，北朝鲜对布什政府政策的反应就是退出《核不扩散条约》，重新启动其核计划，并进一步发展武器生产。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the International Monetary Fund and United States officials have recognized Georgia’s unquestionable success in adopting sound macroeconomic policies and reforms to improve the business climate.",
        "确实，国际货币基金组织和美国的官员们都承认格鲁吉亚在实行健全的宏观经济政策和改革以改善商业环境方面，取得了无可置疑的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The continuation of the current crisis is likely to produce more foreign-exchange crises, as governments’ creditworthiness and the position of their banks go hand in hand.",
        "本轮危机如果持续下去，就可能导致更多外汇危机，因为各国政府的信用跟它们国家银行的风险敞口紧密相关。"
    ],
    [
        "Happily for world exporters, the same binge mentality that makes a whopping two-thirds of Americans either overweight or obese seems to extend to all their purchasing habits.",
        "让世界各地的出口商欣喜的是，那种让多达三分之二的美国人或超重或肥胖的狂欢心态也延伸到了他们的购物习惯上。"
    ],
    [
        "Educational specialists fill every conceivable logistical and administrative gap, run sports and arts programs, guarantee diversity, and oversee technology transfer to the private sector.",
        "教育专家填补一切后勤和管理缺口、开办体育艺术课程、保障多样性，并对私有部门技术转让进行监督。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the current crisis, the academic evidence has overwhelmingly shown that fiscal austerity does what textbook economics says it will do: the more severe the austerity, the greater the drag on growth.",
        "但在最近的危机中，学术证据一边倒地表明财政紧缩带来了经济学教科书上所说的效果：紧缩越严厉，增长受累越大。"
    ],
    [
        "As such, North Korea’s economic recovery is vital for an enduring peace on the Korean Peninsula.",
        "同样，北朝鲜的经济复苏对实现朝鲜半岛持久和平至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten years from now, that statistic could be no more than a bad memory, thanks to Mosquirix.",
        "多亏有了Mosquirix，10年后这一可怕的统计数据可能仅留在人们的记忆当中。"
    ],
    [
        "The catalyst of Golden Dawn’s sudden rise is not Greece’s large population of illegal immigrants – their presence predates the rightward shift by many years – but rather the massive rise in poverty and unemployment over the last three years and, above all, growing popular anger with the political class as a whole.",
        "而刺激金色黎明党突然崛起的因素并不是希腊庞大的非法移民人口——这些移民在政治右倾之前好多年已经出现了——而是过去三年里贫困率与失业率的飙升，尤其人们是对整个政治阶层不断膨胀的愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "Atmospheric greenhouse gases allow sunlight to pass through but absorb heat and radiate some down to the earth’s surface.",
        "大气中的温室气体在允许阳光穿过的同时吸收热量，并将部分热量辐射至地表。"
    ],
    [
        "Having made significant inroads among Hispanic voters in 2000 and 2004, thanks to Bush’s support for immigration reform, Republicans now can barely count on 20% of that total – mainly among Cuban-Americans – thanks to their strident anti-immigration stance.",
        "由于布什支持移民改革，共和党在2000年和2004年在拉美选民中取得重大进步。 由于共和党人强硬的反移民立场，他们现在只能指望这一总数的20%，主要是在古巴美国人中。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Secretary of State John Kerry has launched a courageous effort to revive the Israel-Palestine peace process.",
        "同样，国务卿约翰·克里大胆努力恢复以巴和平进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Europe has also moved away from France through successive enlargements, but the main roots of the estrangement lie in France itself.",
        "当然，欧洲也通过不断的扩张和法国越来越疏远。 但是导致这种疏远的主要根源还是在法国本身。"
    ],
    [
        "But he seems to have decided that the suggestion would reinforce the view of Russia as a regional player rivaling in importance Turkey or even the US.",
        "但他似乎认为这一建议能够加强俄罗斯作为与土耳其甚至美国的重要性相抗衡的地区力量的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "The constitutional treaty was originally designed to streamline the system, and it was only later that it was over-enthusiastically expanded into the lengthy and pompous document that is now a dead letter.",
        "宪法公约的初衷是要简化这一体系，只是后来它却过于狂热地扩展一份内容冗长、言词华丽的文件，而现在则成为故纸一堆。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, Francis’s actions have not sparked the kind of confrontational response or mass mobilization this is often associated with regime change in authoritarian systems.",
        "迄今为止，方济各的行动未引起极权制度下体制改变时常常伴随的冲突反应或群众动员。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq and Iran used to be India’s principal oil suppliers.",
        "伊拉克和伊朗曾经都是印度的主要石油供应国。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, banking regulation and deposit insurance are centralized in the US, as they must be in a monetary union.",
        "此外，美国的银行监管和存款保险都被收归联邦，因为它们必须存在于一个货币联盟之中。"
    ],
    [
        "On December 10, Edmund Phelps, my colleague at Columbia University, received the Nobel Prize in economics for 2006. The award was long overdue.",
        "12月10日，我在哥伦比亚大学的同事菲尔普斯将会接受2006年度的诺贝尔经济奖，这是一份他早就应该得到的奖。"
    ],
    [
        "The Secular Stagnation Hypothesis accounts well for the mistakes made in the eurozone in the aftermath of the global recession, when sovereigns attempted to deleverage while companies and households were unwilling to spend, and the ECB was keeping monetary policy relatively tight.",
        "长期停滞假说很好地考察了欧元区在全球衰退后所犯的错误——主权实体试图去杠杆，公司和家庭不愿支出，欧洲央行则保持相对较紧的货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The return to public investment is affected by the presence or absence of complementary reforms, which vary from country to country. And there is some potential for abuse, with expenditures being misclassified as investments.",
        "对公共投资的回归会受到是否存在与其相辅相成的改革的影响，每个国家的情况都会有所不同，同时还存在被滥用的可能，因为有些支出会被误判为投资。"
    ],
    [
        "After the wide-scale persecution and displacement of people in World War II, world leaders took the bold step of crafting the 1951 Refugee Convention.",
        "二战中出现了大规模的迫害和驱逐，二战结束后，世界领导人采取了果断措施，起草了1951年难民公约。"
    ],
    [
        "This seemingly contradictory fall in financing costs reflected an abundance of foreign capital seeking to invest in the US, including money fleeing from Europe.",
        "这一看似反常的融资成本下降反映出有大量外国资本正在寻求美国的投资，其中就包括从欧洲逃离的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain is hardly an example of a successful fiscal adjustment.",
        "西班牙也算不上是成功财政调整的好榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "The US now has more than 20 military bases in six countries in the region (Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Turkey) and large-scale military deployments in many others, including Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.",
        "如今，美国在六个中东国家（阿富汗、巴林、吉布提、阿联酋、阿曼和土耳其）拥有20多个军事基地，在埃及、科威特、卡塔尔和沙特阿拉伯等其他许多国家也有大规模军事部署。"
    ],
    [
        "They and other emerging-market countries are victims of a rational flight to safety, exacerbated by an irrational panic.",
        "它们和其他新兴市场国家都是在非理性的恐慌下理性地逃向安全地的牺牲品。"
    ],
    [
        "Can its political system contain growing popular frustration or channel it through existing institutions?",
        "其政治系统可以容纳日渐增长的沮丧情绪或通过现有体制进行疏导吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, unlike in the case of Israel, the radical wing in Palestine represents the democratic majority, as it emerged victorious from the elections two years ago.",
        "此外，与以色列的情况不同，极端势力在巴勒斯坦代表着民主的大多数，它在两年前的选举中一举获胜就是很好的证明。"
    ],
    [
        "For many centuries, even while metallic money circulated, the task of defining units of account – livres tournois, marks, gulden, florins, or dollars – remained a task of the state (or of those with political power).",
        "多个世纪以来，甚至在金属货币流通的时代，定义记账单位——里弗尔（中世纪法国）、马克（德国）、基尔德（荷兰），弗罗林以及美元——都属于国家（或者政治实体）的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Effective oversight from donors and Pakistan’s private sector will be critical.",
        "因此捐助国和巴基斯坦第三方私营部门的有效监督至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a United Nations report, average annual water availability in the Arab world could fall to 460 cubic meters per capita – less than half the water-poverty threshold of 1,000 cubic meters.",
        "据联合国报告，阿拉伯世界年均每人可用水量可能降至460立方米——还不到水贫乏阈值1,000立方米的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Riots and paralyzing strikes have crippled Thailand, France, and Greece.",
        "泰国、法国和希腊被暴乱和罢工折腾得半身不遂。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – More than any of the previous events in the Arab Spring, Syria’s turmoil has presented serious difficulties for Western policymakers.",
        "华盛顿—和此前阿拉伯之春的所有事件相比，叙利亚动乱给西方决策者造成的困难更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria is not Libya, and the political context has changed significantly, with America’s presidential election approaching and a deepening economic crisis in Europe.",
        "叙利亚不是利比亚，而且现在的政治环境也有了显著的变化——美国总统大选近在眼前，欧洲又面临着日益恶化的经济危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond his message’s wishful thinking, the public’s reaction to the messenger was a mixture of disbelief and indifference.",
        "除了奥朗德话中的一厢情愿，公众对奥朗德的反应时不信任和冷漠。"
    ],
    [
        "But if they are due to speculation, then policymakers speculators must act to rein in behavior that has imposed huge and needless costs on the global economy. And, when the evidence is confronted, it points to speculation as a culprit.",
        "但是，如果高油价是由于投机引起的，那么，政策制定者就必须行动起来制止给全球经济施加了巨大且不必要的成本的行为，并且，当面对证据的时候，它也会指出投机是罪魁祸首。"
    ],
    [
        "If the new treaty comes into being, the institutional reforms that the union needs will become a reality, and a new double majority voting procedure will take effect, even if with some delay.",
        "如果新的条约成型，欧盟所需要的机构改革就将成为现实，而且新的双多数投票表决程序即使拖延也将生效。"
    ],
    [
        "But a scandal over his personal conduct (he allegedly paid his wife and children for non-existent jobs while he was a member of parliament) damaged his candidacy – probably fatally.",
        "但一则他个人行为所引发的丑闻（据称他曾在担任议员期间因为根本不存在的工作而向自己的妻子和儿女支付薪水）损害了他的候选人资格——这对他造成的打击很可能非常致命。"
    ],
    [
        "Achieving it was a daunting challenge, and more challenges lie ahead.",
        "形成这一协定是一个艰巨的挑战，而未来还有更多的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Such policies are often implemented in response to fiscal or balance-of-payments crises and frequently squeeze living standards in the short term.",
        "这些政策常常作为应对财政或收支平衡危机的手段实施，在短期往往会恶化生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2016, we must fill – and thus protect – that space together.",
        "2016年，我们必须共同占据——从而保护——这一空间。"
    ],
    [
        "But everything is relative: Germany’s trend growth rate is just 1.1%, and the country has been the slowest growing EU country since 1995.",
        "但是，所有的事情都是相对的：德国的趋势增长率仅为1. 1%，而且自1995年以来一直是欧盟国家中增长最慢的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "From 2002 to 2014, Turkey doubled the proportion of education spending in the total budget to 18% without hurting the country’s fiscal position.",
        "从2002年到2014年，土耳其教育支出占总预算之比实现翻倍，达到了18%，财政状况并未受到影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But the candidate’s nationality, and the nominating country – whether small and poor or large and rich – should play no role in determining who gets the job.",
        "但候选人的国籍以及提名国——不管是大是小、是穷是富——不应该在人选决定中起到任何作用。"
    ],
    [
        "So, why has it not been tried before?",
        "但为什么以前没有尝试呢？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the separatists could renounce a unilateral declaration of independence in exchange for talks on constitutional reforms that would move Spain in a federal direction.",
        "举例来讲，分离主义者可以放弃单方面独立宣言，以换取进行有关宪法改革的谈判，从而促成西班牙走向联邦制。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that regulation of sovereign-debt restructuring cannot be based at the International Monetary Fund, which is too closely affiliated with creditors (and is a creditor itself).",
        "这意味着主权债务重组监管不可以国际货币基金组织（IMF）为基础，它与债权国关系过近（并且自己也是债权人）。 为了让未来冲突风险最小化，该框架可以由联合国或新的国际机构来实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Would a truly self-confident ruling elite have been so skittish about his activism?",
        "试想一个真正拥有自信的统治精英会对刘晓波的这种举动如此敏感吗？"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a more fundamental reason to focus on future variations in the stock of pension debt associated with pension reforms: the EU has no business interfering with pension liabilities of individual member states.",
        "关于为何将关注点集中在同养老金改革相联系的未来养老金债务浮动上还有一个更加本质的原因：欧盟没有权力干涉个体成员国的养老金债务问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Yale University and the National University of Singapore have worked together to establish Yale-NUS, Singapore’s first liberal arts college.",
        "耶鲁大学和新加坡国立大学共同成立了耶鲁-新加坡国立大学，这是新加坡第一所文科学院。"
    ],
    [
        "Usually it is difficult to say whether they are appropriate.",
        "通常很难说这些情况是否属于异常。"
    ],
    [
        "The big question then will be: Is China as geopolitically competent as number one as it was when it was number two?",
        "到时最大的问题将会是：这个占据了头把交椅的中国，是否还具备当年位居次席时的地缘政治竞争力？"
    ],
    [
        "After Prime Minister Rafic Hariri was assassinated in February 2005, crowds led by various political parties filled Martyrs’ Square in downtown Beirut.",
        "2005年2月，黎巴嫩总理哈里里（Rafic Hariri）被刺杀后，众多政党领导的群众运动将贝鲁特市中心的烈士广场堵得水泄不通。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the fight against corruption is at war with itself, because Xi is simultaneously seeking to buttress one-party rule.",
        "事实上，反腐斗争还需要与自身作斗争，因为习近平同时也在寻求巩固一党执政。"
    ],
    [
        "That disguised coup failed – barely – and there is no guarantee that the result will be similar this time around in Mexico.",
        "哥伦比亚毒品卡特尔进行的伪装的政变失败了——刚好失败——而且，在墨西哥没有结果会与此类似的保证。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, it can provide the nonpartisan technical expertise that enables governments to define policies that will ensure continued economic stability.",
        "与此同时，它还可以提供没有党派分歧的技术专业协助来使得各国政府制定可以确保持续经济稳定的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "National chauvinism and religious fundamentalism are here to stay, and with them the terrorism that extremists of all stripes embrace, because both phenomena are ideally suited to the age of the individual: They provide imaginary answers to personal angst, instead of political answers to collective challenges.",
        "民族沙文主义和宗教原教旨主义矗立在我们面前，与它们一起崛起的是形形色色的极端分子所实施的恐怖主义：它们为个人焦虑提供臆想的答案，而不提供对集体挑战的政治答案。"
    ],
    [
        "The big difference is that the share of China’s GDP going to the household sector is below 50%, leaving little for consumption.",
        "但最大的区别在于家庭部门占中国GDP的比例小于50%，因此也只给消费留下了一个很小的空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Conversely, the fall in savings in the US is largely due to higher borrowing by the young (rather than a fall in middle-aged Americans’ savings rate).",
        "相反，美国储蓄率的减少则主要来自于年轻人更多的贷款（而不是中年美国人储蓄率的下降）。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite pressure from Germany and other countries to participate in the new bailout program, the Fund will not get involved unless it judges Greece’s debt to be sustainable.",
        "尽管有来自德国和其他参与新援助方案的国家的压力，但IMF不会介入其中，除非它判断希腊债务可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "The results were impressive: participants improved their ability to distinguish trustworthy news from false news by 24%.",
        "结果令人印象深刻：参与者区分有价值的新闻和假新闻的能力改善了24%。"
    ],
    [
        "As the economist Joan Robinson pointed out in 1947, just about any exchange rate will be the equilibrium value for some combination of these other variables. The equilibrium exchange rate, she famously argued, is a chimera.",
        "正如经济学家琼·罗宾逊夫人在1947年所指出的，几乎所有汇率都是这些其他变量的某种混合体的平衡价值。 她的一个有名的观点就是，所谓平衡的汇率完全是一个妄想。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that China’s ruling Communists are holding their Party Congress at the same time as the current IMF meetings, a deal seems unlikely now, too.",
        "考虑到中国执政的共产党在国际货币基金组织会议期间正召开它们的中央全会，这样的协议现在恐怕也很难达成。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that, nowadays, it is harder than ever to keep such large-scale wrongdoing under wraps, not least because of the efforts of committed journalists and brave whistleblowers.",
        "而好消息是在记者和勇敢告密者矢志不渝的努力之下，这种大规模的不当行为是越来越难以保密了。"
    ],
    [
        "Sarkozy can afford to thumb his nose at his party, given the total collapse of the opposition Socialists, who will almost certainly lose the 2012 election.",
        "由于反对派社会党出现全方位崩溃，很可能必然会输掉2012年的大选，萨科奇可以毫无顾忌地蔑视自己的党派。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, by making some of its own data sets publicly available, it can kick-start an open-data movement and pave the way for the emergence of related industries.",
        "此外，通过让公众查访某些政府数据集，政府可以借此启动一个开放数据运动，并为相关行业的崛起铺平道路。"
    ],
    [
        "There are market economies that are doing better, both in terms of both GDP growth and rising living standards for most citizens.",
        "不少市场经济体比美国做得好得多，不管是从GDP增长的角度还是从大多数公民生活标准提升的角度。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese corporations’ high level of debt could be a source of financial instability, although several officials stressed that they were not worried.",
        "中国公司债务水平高企可能成为金融动荡的来源，尽管一些官员强调他们并不担心。"
    ],
    [
        "As the BOJ’s latest actions indicate, the penchant for financial engineering remains unabated.",
        "日本银行的最新动作表明，其金融工程嗜好从未戒除。"
    ],
    [
        "Opinion polls, for example, indicate that 50% of Russians support the slogan “Russia for Russians.”",
        "例如，民意测验显示，50%的俄罗斯人支持“俄罗斯人的俄罗斯”口号。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes, a lack of professional freedom prevents those who may be most familiar with the data – for example, analysts whose livelihoods depend on the government(s) involved in the conflict – from using their expertise for purposes that could be politically damaging.",
        "有些时候，职业自由的匮乏使那些最熟悉情况的人无法将自己的专长用于可能造成政治危害的目的¾举例来讲，很多分析人士需要依赖卷入冲突的政府才能维持自己的生计。"
    ],
    [
        "As China’s economy slows, the public stirs, and its confidence in nonelected leaders wanes.",
        "随着中国的经济放缓，公众开始躁动不安，对非选举领导人的信心也开始动摇。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, neither SCAF nor Morsi espouses the type of liberal regime that would provide women with opportunities to take on the leadership roles that have traditionally been denied to them.",
        "不幸的是，SCAF和穆尔西都不支持为妇女提供领导人角色机会（传统上，妇女没有这一权利）的自由主义制度。"
    ],
    [
        "International conferences in Brussels in 1920, Portorose in 1921, and Genoa in 1922 – as well as the League of Nations’ World Economic Conference in Geneva in 1927 – endorsed a tariff truce, but to no avail.",
        "1920年在布鲁塞尔，1921年在斯洛文尼亚波特罗斯（Portoros），1922年在热那亚召开的国际会议——以及1927年在日内瓦召开的国际联盟世界经济会议——都支持关税休战，但无济于事。"
    ],
    [
        "This raises an important tactical challenge for China.",
        "这构成了中国的一个重要战术性挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Curiously, in Tehran, Iran, the choice is markedly in favor of Iranian, rather than Muslim, identity.",
        "出乎意料的是，在伊朗的德黑兰，人们却选择更认同伊朗人的身份而不是穆斯林的身份。"
    ],
    [
        "The precautionary principle prescribes action, regardless of cost, to prevent all of them.",
        "预防性原则命令我们不顾代价地采取行动来防止所有的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, an Islamic democracy with restrictions on non-religious parties would be a mockery of democracy and harmful to Islam.",
        "同样，一种对非宗教政党进行约束的伊斯兰教民主制度也是对民主制度的践踏，将会损害伊斯兰的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also reveals something else: a morally crooked logic that condemns governments and leaders to remain silent in the face of aggression, repression, and even death, because to say anything would be tantamount to “intervention” in another country’s internal affairs.",
        "但这也揭露了令一些东西：政府和领导人在面对侵犯、镇压甚至死亡时保持沉默，因为不论说什么都等同于“干涉”他国内政，谴责这样的政府和领导人的逻辑在道德上是站不住脚的。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences are being felt most acutely in the Levant, where improved transport and trade reforms had strengthened economic ties between Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.",
        "黎凡特的状况尤其令人触目惊心。 黎凡特良好的交通状况和贸易改革曾经强化了伊拉克、约旦、黎巴嫩和叙利亚之间的经济联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Some hope that postponement will stimulate violence in Kosovo and further encourage Western reconsideration of independence.",
        "有人希望，推迟决定将会激发科索沃的暴力并且进一步鼓励西方重新考虑独立事宜。"
    ],
    [
        "The West’s response will be a new containment policy, mainly taking the form of economic and diplomatic measures.",
        "西方的反应是新的遏制政策，即采取经济和外交手段。"
    ],
    [
        "This would enhance export competitiveness at a stroke.",
        "这将大大增强出口竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "There is one other thing that the public should know about economists: It is cleverness, not wisdom, that advances academic economists’ careers.",
        "关于经济学家公众还需要了解一点：那就是推动经济学者事业发展的是聪明而不是智慧。"
    ],
    [
        "One way or the other, unions stand as a major wild card for the evolution of our economic system in 2008 and beyond.",
        "不管怎样，工会在2008年及其今后将会成为我们的经济制度演进中的一个难以琢磨的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "A few weeks ago, several youngsters suffocated to death while being deported back to Egypt across the Libyan desert in overloaded trucks.",
        "几个星期前，几个年轻人被装在超载的卡车里遣返回埃及，途中路过利比亚沙漠时甚至窒息而死。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assertive foreign policy stance of recent years reflects the confidence that comes with a booming economy.",
        "俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京（Vladimir Putin）在近年奉行的自信的外交政策反应了与经济繁荣携手而至的政治信心。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1885, during an earlier era of great power competition in Asia, Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill’s father, impulsively annexed Burma to the British Raj in India following the Third Anglo-Burmese War.",
        "在1885年，在亚洲大国博弈刚刚揭幕之时，温斯顿·丘吉尔的父亲，兰道夫·丘吉尔爵士，在第三次英缅战争中断然将缅甸并入英国在印度的统治之下。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of the camps shares a fundamental outlook on the role refugees play in society.",
        "各阵营都对难民的社会作用持有最基本的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, more needs to be done to strengthen the global economy’s resilience against sudden shocks.",
        "比如，我们需要做更多的事情增强全球经济面对突发冲击的恢复力。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an obvious solution, similar to the Coal and Steel Community implemented by our founding fathers: a European energy, environment, and research community (E3RC).",
        "存在一个与我们的创始人们建立煤铁共同体同样明显的解决方案，即一个欧洲能源、环境和研究共同体（E3RC）。"
    ],
    [
        "At the height of the migrant crisis, it hoped, for once, to receive some.",
        "在难民危机最严重的时候，它一度希望获得一些团结。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2016, the same thing must happen to forge a better system for protecting migrants.",
        "2016年，国际社会必须拿出同样的举动构建一个更好的保护难民的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "But this argument is undermined by the fact that the state can resort to lethal force to prevent serious crimes, or to fight a war or rebellion.",
        "但事实上国家可以借助毁灭性力量、或者是战争和叛乱来阻止严重罪行的发生，在这样的极端事例面前，这条理由实际也很难成立。"
    ],
    [
        "Politics aside, property bubbles leave in their wake a legacy of debt and excess capacity in real estate that is not easily rectified – especially when politically connected banks resist restructuring mortgages.",
        "抛开政治因素不谈，地产泡沫给爱尔兰政府留下了一大堆债务和一个产能过剩的房地产行业，而这些东西是不那么容易被消除的——尤其是当那些在政治上抱团的银行拒绝进行抵押贷款重组的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Singapore has announced plans to introduce similar legislation next year to tackle “fake news.”",
        "新加坡也已宣布明年将推出类似计划来应对“虚假消息泛滥”。"
    ],
    [
        "His sermons fill football stadiums and he has won a Nobel Prize, but political leaders around the world shirk from meeting him openly, for fear of offending China.",
        "他的布道可以赢得整个足球场的听众并且获得诺贝尔和平奖，但是全世界的政治领导人却担心冒犯中国而回避与他公开会见。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, however, China’s leadership must continue to pursue its agenda of structural reform and adjustment, even if it may have an adverse impact on growth in the short run.",
        "但是，与此同时，中国领导人必须继续追求结构改革和调整日程，及时这样会对短期增长造成消极影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Donald Trump’s British crony, Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party, suggested that Trump should put the bronze bust back in the Oval Office.",
        "唐纳德·特朗普的英国密友、前英国独立党领导人尼格尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）建议特朗普把这尊铜像迎回椭圆办公室。"
    ],
    [
        "But growth-oriented policies have been absent, beyond whatever monetary policy can contribute, and inflation is broadly below targets.",
        "但除货币政策外以增长为导向的政策长期缺位，且通胀普遍低于目标值。"
    ],
    [
        "A more likely culprit for the steep price decline is a combination of the shale-energy revolution in the US and the sharp slowdown in Chinese growth.",
        "油价暴跌更有可能的元凶是美国页岩能革命和中国增长急剧放缓的共同作用。"
    ],
    [
        "It builds in part on two recent studies at Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution, which conclude that, as Carnegie atmospheric scientist Ken Caldeira put it, “there is more than enough energy available in winds to power all of civilization.”",
        "这项研究基于斯坦福大学和卡耐基研究所的两项最新研究，正如卡耐基研究所大气科学家卡德拉（Ken Caldeira）所说，这两项研究认为“风能中蕴藏着足以满足文明需求的能量。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The crude output measures that are used, such as the number of medical procedures carried out or the number of fires extinguished, miss a crucial point: while responding to the need for such services is a good thing, reducing the need for them would be better.",
        "GDP所采用的履行医疗程序或扑灭火灾数量等粗放的产出标准并未考虑到一个关键因素：虽然响应需求提供服务本身是件好事，但最好是能控制对于此类服务的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, his days are numbered.",
        "尽管如此，他的日子已经进入了倒数。"
    ],
    [
        "The Copenhagen agreement envisages the world’s industrialized nations financing emissions reduction and other necessary adjustments in developing countries through a $30 billion aid package, which will rise to $100 billion between now and 2020.",
        "哥本哈根协议设想世界工业化国家通过300亿美元的援助计划资助发展中国家的减排和其他必要调整措施，援助计划的金额从现在到2020年这段期间将增加到1000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Successful companies last for decades, even centuries.",
        "成功的公司会持续几十年乃至几百年。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community allowed change in Tunisia and Egypt to proceed at those countries' own pace.",
        "国际社会允许突尼斯和埃及按照其自身的日程安排推进国内改革。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s not even past.” – could not be more apt.",
        "过去甚至不曾过去”真是再正确不过了。"
    ],
    [
        "JEDDAH – As the Arab world undergoes fundamental changes, its leaders must adapt fast or risk popular uprisings – a lesson that has not been lost on the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.",
        "吉达—阿拉伯世界经历着快速的根本性变革，阿拉伯领导人必须迅速适应这一形式，否则就会面临群众起义的风险。 对于海湾合作委员会（Gulf Cooperation Council，GCC）国家——巴林、科威特、阿曼、卡塔尔、沙特和阿联酋——来说，可谓殷鉴未远。"
    ],
    [
        "Far from reviving the economy, such a rate would cripple it.",
        "如此之高的税率不但不能恢复经济，反而只能削弱它。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, where opposition to such investments has been stronger, accounts for less than 10%.",
        "对主权财富基金反对更激烈的美国只占主权财富基金投资的10%。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – This has been a good decade in the fight against tuberculosis.",
        "柏林—这个十年是肺结核斗争大有进展的十年。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then can the world economy move onto a sustainable growth path.",
        "唯其如此，世界经济才能走上可持续发展的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil, the world’s main source of energy, is indicative in this regard.",
        "这一点可以用世界主要能源——石油来说明。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the dead or dying seals, penguins, and turtles that had the bad fortune of becoming entangled in plastic rings or nets, biologists are finding dead whales and birds with stomachs stuffed with plastic debris.",
        "除了因为不幸被塑料绳索或网络缠住而死去或垂死挣扎的海豹、企鹅和海龟，生物学家还在死去的鲸鱼和鸟类的胃里塞满了塑料碎片。"
    ],
    [
        "But this would make little difference to the inefficiency of most green technologies.",
        "但是这并不能够改变大多绿色技术低效性的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "By proving that authoritarianism can be successful, China is an example to autocrats everywhere, from Moscow to Dubai, from Islamabad to Khartoum.",
        "通过证明独裁也能取得成功，中国俨然成了世界各地，从莫斯科到迪拜，从伊斯兰堡到喀土穆独裁们的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, confidence and self-doubt are not mutually exclusive.",
        "当然，自信和自我疑惑并不相互排斥。"
    ],
    [
        "But the relationship between growth and political stability is subtler and less linear than we like to believe.",
        "但是增长和政治稳定之间的关系比我们所认为的更加微妙并且没有那么直线化。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, such domestic political considerations were probably also a major driver of the killing and destruction that took place in Gaza over the summer.",
        "事实上，上述国内政治考量很可能还是夏天加沙发生的杀戮和破坏行为的主要动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Sovereign debt, needed by all countries, but particularly by the poorest, suffers profoundly from erratic interest-rate and exchange-rate movements.",
        "所有国家、尤其是贫困国家所需的国家债务深受利率和兑换率不稳定运动的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the Egyptian economy contracted by 0.8%, and one million Egyptians lost their jobs.",
        "与此同时，埃及经济收缩了0. 8%，100万埃及人丢掉了工作。"
    ],
    [
        "It will not be easy, but it will be worth it.",
        "实现这一目标不会轻而易举，但却值得为此付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The best INGOs develop strong reputations quickly, sustain them indefinitely, and exercise real influence on policymaking.",
        "最好的INGO能快速建立强大的名誉，坚决地维护名誉，并在决策中产生真正的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "No Country for Young Men (and Women)",
        "少无所依"
    ],
    [
        "Diamond apparently forgot that the continued existence of any bank with a balance sheet that is large relative to its home economy – and its ability to earn a return for shareholders – depends entirely on maintaining a good relationship with regulators.",
        "博达文显然忘记了，任何一家银行，只要它的资产负债表同所在国经济高度相关，那么它的持续存在和为股东盈利的能力就全然依赖同监管者维持良好关系。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, banks, borrowers, and governments are dragging each other into a vicious downward spiral.",
        "结果，银行、借款人和政府互相拖累，一起陷入了向下恶性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "Prominent voices in Europe – including the president of the European Parliament and the leader of Germany’s Social Democrats (who is about to form a coalition government with Merkel) – are already demanding a suspension of the TTIP talks.",
        "欧洲要人——包括欧洲议会主席和德国社民党（马上将与默克尔组建联合政府）——纷纷发声，要求中止TTIP对话。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine Bush parlaying with Saddam Hussein in 2005 or 2006, if war had never come again to Iraq, after having called him this generation’s Hitler.",
        "想象一下如果从未爆发过第二次伊拉克战争，那么布什在称萨达姆·侯赛因为当代的希特勒之后，该怎样在2005或2006年与萨达姆赌博。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders in the North may mistakenly believe that they can circumvent or outmaneuver the South – the so-called strategy of driving a wedge between the Republic of Korea and the US.",
        "北朝鲜领导人也许会错误地相信自己能超过或者压制南朝鲜——这就是所谓在大韩民国和美国之间挑起不和的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, to cope with toxic drugs, a cancer cell may increase its rate of DNA repair, or actively pump the drug out across the cell membrane.",
        "比如为了对抗有毒药品，癌细胞可能会加快DNA的修复速度，或者主动将抗癌药物挤出细胞膜。"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorism cannot be defeated by arms alone.",
        "无法仅仅用武器来打败恐怖主义。"
    ],
    [
        "A combination of defective growth models, rising longevity, and unanticipated increases in costs (such as health care in America) have caused these longer-term liabilities to explode.",
        "有缺陷的增长模式、不断延长的寿命与超出预计的成本增加（比如美国的医疗）一起导致了长期债务的爆发式增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The fourth and most immediately consequential peace process concerns Syria.",
        "第四个也是最紧迫的和平进程是叙利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher limited herself to worried public statements, but French President François Mitterrand felt it necessary to improvise a visit to East Berlin, against the opinion of his Foreign Ministry and despite the French people’s great enthusiasm for German reunification. Mitterrand hoped to slow the process and to link negotiations to some international guarantees.",
        "英国首相撒切尔夫人发表了一系列忧心忡忡的公众声明，而法国总统密特朗则罔顾其外交部长的反对和法国人民对两德统一的极大热情，认为很有必要临时出访东柏林，并希望延缓统一进程并试图让各方许下某些国际承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "As graduation nears for the first class to complete their Master of Business Administration since the onset of the global financial crisis, students are circulating an oath that commits them to pursue their work “in an ethical manner”; “to strive to create sustainable economic, social, and environmental prosperity worldwide”; and to manage their enterprises “in good faith, guarding against decisions and behavior that advance my own narrow ambitions but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves.”",
        "当全球金融危机之后的第一批MBA学员临近毕业之时，同学们都在暗自思量自己是否要宣读一份誓言，宣誓内容包括：“以道德的方式”去从事自己的工作； “努力在全世界创造可持续的经济、社会和环境财富”；"
    ],
    [
        "Block and Keller describe how a “decentralized network of publicly funded laboratories” and an “alphabet soup” of financing initiatives, such as the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, work with private firms and help them commercialize their products.",
        "布洛克和凯勒描述了“分散的公共资金支持的实验室网络”和“字母汤”融资项目——如小企业创新研究（SBIR）项目——是如何与私营企业合作并帮助它们实现产品商业化的。"
    ],
    [
        "But China has 1.3 billion people.",
        "但是中国有13亿人口。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the second half of the twentieth century was far from perfect.",
        "当然，二十世纪下半叶绝非完美。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany had moved to current-account convertibility in 1958, but Japan only in 1964.",
        "德国于1958年放开了经常项下可兑换，日本则要到1964年才放开。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the past six years, shale gas alone has doubled potential gas resources in the United States and halved the price.",
        "在过去六年中，页岩气一项就把美国潜在天然气资源量扩大了一倍，价格削去了一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Griesa did not seem to grasp the common understanding of the clause.",
        "葛里萨似乎没有抓住对该条款的普遍理解。"
    ],
    [
        "In this season of love and family, the loneliness of a prison cell is almost unbearable.",
        "在这个洋溢着爱和天伦之乐的季节，身处囚室中的寂寞几乎让人无法忍受。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s leaders were also paralyzed – ruling out defaults and devaluations, as well as deficits and stimulus.",
        "欧洲各国领导人也左右为难：一方面排除了违约和贬值的可能性，另外一方面又不愿推行赤字和刺激计划。"
    ],
    [
        "There is another potential consequence, however.",
        "此外这还有另一个潜在后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sense, it’s the difference between matching words and understanding a piece of text.",
        "从某种意义上讲，这相当于匹配词汇和理解文意之间的区别。"
    ],
    [
        "But the poor, it is claimed, are still better off than they would have been had the gap been artificially narrowed by trade unions or governments. The only secure way to get “trickle-down” wealth to trickle faster is by cutting marginal tax rates still further, or, alternatively, by improving the “human capital” of the poor, so that they become worth more to their employers.",
        "但是，据说由于收入差距没有被工会和政府人为缩小，穷人的境况也因此得到了改善。 确保“滴渗”财富渗透得更快的唯一办法是进一步降低边际税率，或者改善穷人的“人力资本”，从而增加他们对雇主的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this happened inside a corporate behemoth, which could afford the lab thanks to its monopoly on local telephony and on the equipment used to provide the service, which was manufactured by AT&T’s subsidiary, Western Electric.",
        "所有这些都来源于这家庞然大物般的企业，这家企业有能力创新是因为垄断了当地电话服务以及提供这种服务的设备，制造上述设备由美国电话电报公司的子公司西部电器负责。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Next Stimulus",
        "中国的下一轮刺激政策"
    ],
    [
        "But Elop was not the only person at fault.",
        "但并不只有埃洛普犯了错误。"
    ],
    [
        "The third key objective that the EU and China should be pursuing on the way to a BIT is the development of new mechanisms to finance investment.",
        "欧盟和中国在通往双边投资条约的道路上必须追求的第三个目标是制定新的投资融资机制。"
    ],
    [
        "The number of high-income households is still growing, but not enough to justify the 30-40% compounded growth rates expected by some.",
        "高收入家庭的数量依然在增长，但不足以支撑某些人所期望的30-40%复合增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest of the world should support them before it is too late.",
        "世界其他国家也应该在为时已晚之前支持他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Global investors are apparently willing to accept these extraordinarily low rates, even though they do not appear to compensate for expected inflation.",
        "8%以下。 全球投资者显然愿意接受超低利率，及时这无法补偿预期通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Senegal’s Pasteur Institute of Dakar, one of only four facilities in the world producing yellow fever vaccines, manufactures about ten million doses per year, and the manufacturing process is extremely difficult to scale up.",
        "塞内加尔的达喀尔巴斯德研究所是全球仅有四家生产黄热病疫苗的机构之一，每年可以生产一千万剂，并且产能极难扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an enlightened body that places at its core liberal values such as individual rights, the protection of minorities, and a market-based economy.",
        "它是一个开明机构，将个体权利、少数群体保护和市场经济作为其核心自由价值。"
    ],
    [
        "If, as is commonly assumed, North Korea wants some sort of credible security guarantee in exchange for curtailing its nuclear program, the only country capable of providing it is China.",
        "如果如人们普遍认为的那样，朝鲜希望以可信的安全保障换取其停止核计划，那么唯一有能力提供安全保障的只有中国。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these developments are paving the way to new interpretations.",
        "所有这些事态发展为新的诠释铺平了道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Few world leaders doubt that Russia’s use of force to compromise Ukraine’s territorial integrity, change its borders, and annex Crimea violated international law.",
        "极少有世界领导人怀疑俄罗斯使用武力损害乌克兰领土完整、改变其边境并吞并克里米亚的行为违反了国际法。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, there is no legal basis for his demand.",
        "首先，他的要求没有法律基础。"
    ],
    [
        "As a former trade minister for Costa Rica, I know how difficult it is for countries – developed and developing alike – to craft trade policies that deliver benefits to all of their people.",
        "作为哥斯达黎加前贸易部长，我深知对各国来说——不管是发达国家还是发展中国家——制定让全体人民受惠的贸易政策十分困难。"
    ],
    [
        "On the high seas, the distortion is even larger.",
        "在公海，这一扭曲状况更加触目惊心。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal, for Polanyi, was to achieve the prosperity that a market economy generates, without suffering the risks of poverty, creative destruction, and community erosion implied by the operation of market forces.",
        "对波拉尼来说，目标是实现市场经济所创造的繁荣，而免于市场力量操作所隐含的贫困、创造性破坏和社会侵蚀风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The availability of food, water, and energy – fundamental building blocks of every country’s security – depends on healthy, robust, and diverse ecosystems, and on the life that inhabits them.",
        "获得粮食、水和能源——每个国家安全的基本构成要件——取决于健康、鲁棒、多样化的生态系统以及栖息于其中的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "There is, however, another way to look at the worldwide surge of populism.",
        "但是，我们也可以从另一个角度来观察民粹运动的兴起。"
    ],
    [
        "But Obama might soon realize that most of his predecessors started as believers in international cooperation, until events forced them to fall back on a strategy of confrontation.",
        "但奥巴马可能很快就会意识到其大多数前任起初也笃信国际合作，直到在情势逼迫下才采取对抗战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Tax benefits could also be extended to individual purchases of health insurance by allowing individuals to deduct the premiums that they pay from their taxable incomes.",
        "税收优惠还可以扩大到个人购买健康保险行为，办法是在个人应税所得中扣除保险费。"
    ],
    [
        "After suggesting during the presidential campaign that he would “cancel” the Paris agreement, Trump later claimed to be keeping “an open mind” about it.",
        "特朗普在总统竞选期间表示他将“撤销”巴黎协定，随后又宣布对巴黎协定持“开放态度”。"
    ],
    [
        "The sharpshooters hidden in the forest take aim and fire, only this time their target is not the bear, but Ceausescu himself.",
        "隐藏在森林里的神枪手瞄准开枪，只是这一次他们的目标不是黑熊，而是齐奥塞斯库本人。"
    ],
    [
        "If India’s pursuit of peace strengthens like-minded Pakistani politicians who are struggling against their own hawks, it is worth attempting.",
        "如果印度对和平的追求能够加强志同道合的巴基斯坦政治家在鹰派面前的力量，这样的努力就值得尝试。"
    ],
    [
        "Several large-scale telemedicine systems are now providing primary health and even cardiac care to rural populations.",
        "大型远程医疗系统目前为农村人民提供基本的医疗服务甚至是心脏病治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "But if that is the benchmark, we could say that jumping off a cliff is the best way to get down from a mountain; after all, the descent has been stopped.",
        "但如果以此为准，我们可以说跳下悬崖是最好的下山方式； 毕竟，下坡之势被止住了。"
    ],
    [
        "The poorer EU countries will suffer from this development.",
        "较为贫困的欧盟国家将因为这一进展而深受其害。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, as was the case with the global financial crisis, investors seem unable to estimate, price, and hedge such tail risks properly.",
        "事实上，正如全球金融危机一样，投资者似乎无法合理地估计这些尾部风险、对它们定价并采取对冲措施。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, when the Delors Committee prepared its report in 1988-1989 on how a monetary union could be established in Europe, experts devoted considerable attention to the issue of whether market pressure would suffice to discipline states.",
        "比如，当德洛尔委员会（Delors Committee）在准备其1988—1989年关于如何在欧洲建设货币联盟的报告时，各路专家花了相当多的心血关注市场压力是否足以让国家遵守纪律的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And more could be done to expand income-based repayment schemes.",
        "在扩大基于收入的偿还机制方面也可以做得更多。"
    ],
    [
        "At first sight, the idea that Spain could descend into chaos is puzzling.",
        "乍看之下，西班牙可能陷入混乱的想法令人感到迷惑。"
    ],
    [
        "Kim Jong-un is the son and grandson of his two predecessors in North Korea.",
        "金正恩分别是朝鲜两位前任元首的子和孙。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s latest chapter in his two-year plan – the “home stretch to freedom” – will be complete in August 2011.",
        "总理萨拉姆·法耶兹两年计划的最新一章——“自由的终点”——将在今年8月完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, Greenspan holds his ground, and pleads not guilty.",
        "而在这两点上，格林斯潘坚定地为自己进行无罪申辩。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The world has never been closer to achieving the dream of a more sustainable and secure energy future.",
        "华盛顿——世界从未如此接近实现可持续安全能源未来的梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "The signatories, later joined by thousands more, asked where China was heading in the twenty-first century: “Will it continue with ‘modernization’ under authoritarian rule, or will it embrace universal human values, join the mainstream of civilized nations, and build a democratic system?”",
        "后来又有几千人签名，他们问到，中国在二十一世纪究竟走向何处。 中国是否继续在独裁统治下实现“现代化”，还是接受普世人权价值标准，加入文明国家主流并且建设民主体制？"
    ],
    [
        "Getting fiscal consolidation back on track then requires more spending cuts, which depress growth still further, causing budget performance to worsen even more.",
        "于是，为了完成财政整合目标，就不得不削减更多的支出，而这又进一步抑制了经济增长，导致预算表现进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – When Ministers meet for the IMF’s Spring Meeting this month they will find an institution with regained self-confidence.",
        "华盛顿——当世界各国的部长们在本月的春季再次聚会的时候，他们将发现IMF将重获信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Symptoms otherwise meeting the DSM criteria are not considered disorders if they arise after the death of an intimate, do not last more than two months, and do not include certain particularly severe symptoms.",
        "符合第三版诊断手册标准的症状如果出现在亲人去世之后、持续时间为两个月以下且不包含某些特别严重的症状则不被诊断为抑郁症。"
    ],
    [
        "We can make those choices now, or we can persuade ourselves that peace is too hard or too complex, and then look on resignedly from the sidelines as hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children needlessly die.",
        "而我们可以选择现在就勇敢地面对，或是懦弱地告诉自己和平是高不可攀，遥不可及的，然后冷漠地站在一旁围观，任由成百上千的无辜男女和儿童白白丧命。"
    ],
    [
        "Expense is only one barrier for poor women and girls; another is the lack of information.",
        "对贫困妇女和女孩来说，开支只是其中一个壁垒；"
    ],
    [
        "Three-quarters of the world’s poor live in rural areas, where agricultural workers suffer the highest incidence of poverty, largely owing to low productivity, seasonal unemployment, and the low wages paid by most rural employers.",
        "四分之三的世界穷人生活在农村地区，其中农业工人的贫困发生率最高，这主要是拜低生产率、季节性失业和大部分农业雇主给的工资水平较低所赐。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, and no less important, is the speculative contagion that underlies any bubble.",
        "第三，导致这种经济泡沫的投机热同样是一个重要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The up and down of lending represents a credit cycle, and credit cycles have played a major role in economic fluctuations for centuries.",
        "贷款的这种变化代表了一个信贷周期，而信贷周期在几个世纪来的经济波动中，扮演了重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Although it is right that the Stability and Growth Pact has become more flexible in these extraordinary times, its rules did secure a successful first decade for the euro.",
        "欧洲稳定和增长公约在这一特殊时期变得更为灵活，这是不假。 但是这一公约规则确保了欧元取得第一个十年的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first six months of 2007 alone, the value of German exports nearly passed €500 billion.",
        "仅仅是在2007年的前六个月中，德国的出口额就几乎超过了5000亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Bankers want to be so highly leveraged for a simple reason: implicit government guarantees mean that they get the upside when things go well, while the downside is someone else’s problem.",
        "银行家希望杠杆率如此之高，原因很简单：隐性政府担保意味着他们可以在好光景时获利，而坏光景是其他人的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the Communist regime, the new Russian state doesn't treat its citizens like a flock of sheep.",
        "与共产主义体制不同，新的俄罗斯国家并不把它的公民当作羊群对待。"
    ],
    [
        "But much has changed.",
        "但许多情况都发生了变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Microprudential regulation, she argued, is the first line of defense: if all banks are lending prudently, the chances of collective excesses are lower.",
        "她认为宏观谨慎监管是第一道防线：如果所有银行都谨慎放贷，出现集体过激行为的可能性就较低。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s anxieties, too, are fed by perceptions and fears, by real and imagined concerns.",
        "而成见和恐惧、现实和虚妄的担心也在滋长着今天的忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Errors in medical and legal decision-making have also been linked to specific irrational thinking tendencies that psychologists have studied.",
        "医学和法律决策方面的错误同样与具体的非理性思维倾向相关，心理学家已经就此展开了研究。"
    ],
    [
        "The current cohort of Republican governors offers similarly innovative state-level solutions – for example, on spending, debt, and unfunded pension and health liabilities – as models for the country.",
        "如今，这群共和党州长也提供了类似的创新性州级解决方案（包括支出、债务和养老金及医保开支缺口等问题），可以作为全国的参考样板。"
    ],
    [
        "While the government has not pursued adequate reform of state-owned enterprises, it has deliberately allowed new, largely private-owned technology giants to compete against state-owned banks and financial institutions.",
        "中国的国有企业改革还是任重道远，但政府已开始有意地允许一些民营新技术企业巨头与国有金融机构竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "In Japan and Europe, in particular, large numbers of such zombie firms and banks survived, and they are now blocking would-be competitors able to drive the next upswing in growth.",
        "特别是在日本和欧洲，大量此类僵尸企业和银行都还活着，阻挠能够推动增长上扬的可能的竞争者。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation is not much better in Tunisia, where, according to Freedom House’s 2015 report, “criminal defamation remains one of the biggest obstacles to independent reporting.”",
        "突尼斯的情况也好不到哪里去，据自由之家（Freedom House）2015年的报告，“诽谤罪仍是独立报道的最大障碍之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The first challenge is to generate enough jobs to accommodate the inflow of new entrants into the labor market.",
        "第一大挑战是创造足够的就业岗位来容纳劳动力市场新军。"
    ],
    [
        "But Shultz’s Stanford colleague, Condoleezza Rice, wanted a more transformational diplomacy that did not accept the world as it was, but tried to change it.",
        "但舒尔茨的斯坦福同学康多莉扎·赖斯想要的是变革型外交，她拒绝接受世界的现状，试图改造它。"
    ],
    [
        "A Latin American default would have brought down the banking systems of all the major industrial countries, causing something like a replay of the Great Depression.",
        "当时，如果拉美国家普遍违约，将把各大工业国的银行体系全都拖垮，引爆又一次大萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "“Victory” cannot bring peace, simply because there will always be a war after the war.",
        "“胜利”不能带来和平，就是因为战争还会接连不断地发生。"
    ],
    [
        "These institutions delivered superior economic and political outcomes through lower transaction costs, clear and enforceable property rights, and other shared rules and norms.",
        "这些经济制度通过更低的交易成本、明晰且可执法的产权以及其他公共领域的规则和规范带来了超凡的经济和政治表现。"
    ],
    [
        "No one knew the real value of credit-default swaps and of the various tranches of collateralized debt obligations.",
        "没有人知道信用违约掉期和各类债务抵押债券的真实价值。"
    ],
    [
        "The Marcos regime in the Philippines was doomed in the mid-1980’s from the moment the Catholic Church turned against it.",
        "八十年代中期，菲律宾的马科思政权在罗马天主教反对它的时候就不可救药了。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the precautionary principle places some responsibility on us to hand down the living resources of the marine realm in a form that can be used as much by future generations as by us.",
        "而预防原则提示人类必须负起责任，把海洋界的生物资源传给后代，以使他们享受和我们同样丰富的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "And if Italy were helped, the incoming ECB President, Mario Draghi, an Italian, would be criticized, no matter how dire Italy’s need.",
        "而如果意大利得到了援助，那么不管它是多么需要这笔援助，未来欧洲央行行长、意大利人德拉基（Mario Draghi）都将遭到口诛笔伐。"
    ],
    [
        "As a top-ten site for US web traffic, it acts as a major conduit for media outlets, which use it to increase their page views, and thus their advertising revenues.",
        "作为位列美国流量前十名的网站，它其实是新闻媒体的一条重要渠道，用来增加页面访问，从而提高广告收入。"
    ],
    [
        "But the initiative is insufficient, because the three pillars of the Vienna model are basically missing.",
        "但这个倡议也是无效的，因为它缺少了维也纳模式中的三大支柱。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it is based on indirect implementation: almost everything the EU does and decides is carried out by national governments and their administrations.",
        "相反，它基于间接的执行：欧盟的几乎一切事务和决定，都由国家政府和机关做出。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot take them for granted, even in America.",
        "我们不能把它当成理所当然，哪怕在美国也不行。"
    ],
    [
        "But these countries have options.",
        "但这些国家并非无计可施。"
    ],
    [
        "The data adjusted China’s investment-income deficit for 2011 from $26.8 billion to $85.3 billion – a massive revision that casts doubt on the reliability of China’s balance-of-payments statistics and exposes a flaw in the economy’s growth path.",
        "该数据将中国2011年度的投资收入逆差从268亿美元调整为853亿美元——这一重大修改不但令人开始怀疑中国国际收支统计的可信度，还暴露出了经济发展路径中存在的一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "First, and most important, the US should end covert CIA operations aimed at toppling or destabilizing governments anywhere in the world.",
        "首先，也是最重要的，美国应停止其在世界各地旨在颠覆或破坏当地政府的中情局秘密行动。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, there is every reason to believe that China would benefit greatly from the opposite course.",
        "但是，有充分的理由相信反其道而行之才会给中国带来巨大好处。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they are finding it hard to “pay for” the tax cuts with any reduction in tax expenditures (incentives for various activities such as corporate borrowing, mortgage financing, or retirement saving).",
        "结果，他们无法通过削减税收支出（对诸如公司借贷、按揭融资和退休储蓄等各种活动的激励）来“支付”减税。"
    ],
    [
        "What is needed is a major international effort to realign financial and capital markets in ways that support sustainable development.",
        "我们需要重大的国际举措协调金融和资本市场，使其支持可持续发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The government used the period of high oil prices from 2004 to 2013 to quintuple its external debt, expropriate significant chunks of the economy, and impose draconian price, labor, and currency controls.",
        "政府在2004-2013年的高油价期间借了高达五倍的外债，侵占了大片经济部门，并对价格、劳动力和货币强制实行严酷的管制政策。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the outside world will be looking especially carefully at what, if anything, officials plan to do if the dollar continues to sink.",
        "与此同时，外界将非常仔细地观察如果美元继续下跌官员们将会如何应对（如果他们会应对的话）。"
    ],
    [
        "It always comes back to oil.",
        "一切都是石油惹的祸。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1970s and 1980s, the international community rallied to resettle more than a million Vietnamese.",
        "20世纪七八十年代，国际社会一同安置了一百多万越南难民。"
    ],
    [
        "And, lo and behold, France, which is scheduled to ratify the Constitution by a referendum on May 29, gives the impression of wanting to vote against it.",
        "然而，出乎意料地是，原本按计划5月29号举行全民公投来批准宪法的法国，现在却给人印象以他们要投票反对宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "Detroit’s fate should serve as a warning, not only for China, but for the next generation of urbanizing countries (for example, India) as well.",
        "底特律的命运应当成为一记警钟，不仅仅是对中国，也是对印度这类下一轮城市化国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the revised text might be enough to win approval – either in a new plebiscite or, preferably, in Congress.",
        "事实上，修订后的协议文本可能足以赢得批准——不管是通过新全民表决还是（更理想的情况）国会批准。"
    ],
    [
        "Lessons from the Tsunami",
        "海啸的教训"
    ],
    [
        "But, for the Palestinians, there can be no negotiations that do not include both issues.",
        "然而，对于巴勒斯坦人来说，这两个问题是谈判的前提。"
    ],
    [
        "Gathered into pension, investment, and hedge funds, shareholders can place considerable pressure on companies to extract dividends, using performance-based bonuses to gain executive support for their preferred policies.",
        "以退休基金、投资基金和对冲基金为首的股东给公司施加强大的压力榨取股利、使用基于表现的将近诱使高管支持他们所偏好的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has called the 2008 financial crisis a sign that America’s global leadership is coming to an end.",
        "俄罗斯总统德米特里·梅德韦杰夫称2008年金融危机标志着美国全球领导地位的结束。"
    ],
    [
        "DECORAH, IOWA – Populism has a long and colorful history in American politics, from Huey Long on the left and George Wallace on the right, to – more recently – Ross Perot in 1992 and Donald Trump today.",
        "迪克拉，艾奥瓦—民粹主义在美国政治的历史悠久而丰富，从左翼的休·朗（Huey Long）到右翼的乔治·华莱士（George Wallace），再到——更近一些——1992年的罗斯·佩洛特（Ross Perot）和今天的唐纳德·特朗普。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, there can be no denying the fact that Friedman’s cure proved to be an inadequate response to the Great Recession – strongly suggesting that it would have fallen similarly short had it been tried during the Great Depression.",
        "此外，事实上，一个不容否认的事实是弗里德曼的药方被证明并不足以应对大衰退——这强烈地表明如果在大衰退期间使用，其效果也可能远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the single most important decision Trump will make on the economy will be his choice of who should replace Janet Yellen as Chair of the Federal Reserve Board.",
        "也许特朗普将会做出的最重要的经济决定是选择由谁来接替耶伦担任美联储主席。"
    ],
    [
        "These are just two of the very personal stories behind the shocking statistics reported by the United Nations’ Population Fund.",
        "以上两个事例来自联合国人口基金会所提交的令人震惊的统计报告，而类似的事例更是不胜枚举。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States has commenced its “pivot” to Asia, and its relations with China, in particular, seem constantly to be flirting with Thucydides’s trap, the historical pattern that suggests that a rising power will inevitably collide with a reigning power.",
        "美国开始将“支点”设在亚洲，特别是中美关系，似乎一直修昔底德陷阱周围起舞——作为历史范式，崛起大国难免与现有大国发生碰撞。"
    ],
    [
        "But investors’ risk appetite could easily shift, spurring them to withdraw large amounts of capital.",
        "但投资者的风险偏好正在快速变化，促使他们抽回大量资本。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this means that Churchill was always right, let alone a figure to emulate.",
        "所有这些都不意味着丘吉尔永远是对的，更不是永远值得效仿的人物。"
    ],
    [
        "But how countries structure their health-care system – and their society – makes a huge difference in terms of outcomes.",
        "但国家如何构建医疗体系——以及社会——能够造成结果的巨大差异。"
    ],
    [
        "A window of opportunity opened at the beginning of Bush’s first term, and closed shut after the terrorist attacks of September 2001.",
        "布什第一个任期内开启的机会之窗在2001年9月份的恐怖主义攻击后关闭了。"
    ],
    [
        "And crises that are fundamentally ecological in nature are managed by outdated strategies of war and diplomacy.",
        "这些危机从本质上看属于生态灾难，但人们仍然通过早已过时的战争和外交手段来加以管理。"
    ],
    [
        "The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was designed as state of the art, which included a strong aesthetic preference for slender structures.",
        "Tacoma Narrows大桥的设计代表了当时的最高水平，突出表现了对纤细美感的执着追求。"
    ],
    [
        "Yankee Bases Go Home",
        "美军基地滚回去"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s attempt to strike a deal to sell Egypt crude oil would also help the Iranian government to cope with economic sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union.",
        "伊朗与埃及达成原油销售协议也有助于伊朗政府对抗美国和欧盟的经济制裁措施。"
    ],
    [
        "But, again, the BRICs’ output growth amounts to creating the equivalent of another Italy every 12 months.",
        "但是请让我再一次提到，金砖四国的产出增长相当于每十二个月创造出一个意大利。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – In his first inaugural address, US President Barack Obama offered an invitation to the world’s most closed countries.",
        "华盛顿—在他的第一次就职演说中，美国总统奥巴马向全世界最封闭的国家发出了邀请。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the Kohinoor poses a particular challenge, owing to competing claims.",
        "诚然，由于存在多重竞争性索偿权，克西努尔钻石是一个特殊的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "And the European Union has committed to a minimum emissions reduction of 40% from 1990 levels.",
        "而欧盟也已做出比1990年最少减排40%的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike such tools, interest-rate policy is a blunt instrument for dealing with financial imbalances.",
        "与这些工具不同，利率政策是应对金融失衡的“钝器”。"
    ],
    [
        "Namely, he can try to “wag the dog,” by fabricating an external threat or embarking on foreign military adventures to distract his supporters from what he and congressional Republicans have been doing.",
        "也就是说他可以通过制造外部威胁或者开展外国军事冒险来“转移视线”，从而令支持者们忽视了他和国会共和党人的做所作为。"
    ],
    [
        "In such a scenario, the economy would gradually weaken, hampering the royal family’s ability to continue buying middle-class support, while enabling rebel groups in the east and the south to erode the government’s authority.",
        "在这样的情形下，经济将逐渐疲软，使皇室难以继续收买中产阶级支持，让东部和南部的反对派有能力打击政府的权威。"
    ],
    [
        "But this time may well be different.",
        "但这一次结果很可能会有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Investments that clear these controls benefit the US economy in numerous ways and should be welcomed.",
        "符合这些控制要求的投资会给美国经济带来诸多好处，应该受到欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the question in this region is not whether the war on terror can be wound down, but whether Pakistan, which in many ways has become Islamic terrorism’s nexus, is doing all that it can to fight it.",
        "事实上，该地区所面临的问题不是打击恐怖主义的战争能否歇口气，而是在许多方面已经成为伊斯兰恐怖主义联系纽带的巴基斯坦在打击恐怖主义方面是否正全力以赴。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has rarely missed an opportunity to provoke Japan’s Korean critics, whether by visiting Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine, where the “souls” of 14 Class A war criminals are interred, or embracing revisionist critiques of previous official apologies for Japanese aggression.",
        "日本首相安倍晋三从不错过挑衅日本的韩国批评者的机会——要么拜访供奉14名甲级战犯“灵位”的东京靖国神社，要么对此前日本对侵略行为做出的官方道歉进行修正主义批评。"
    ],
    [
        "Among other things, the new technology was a boon to world religions, which suddenly had an efficient means of reproducing and disseminating sacred texts.",
        "除其他因素外，这项新技术是世界宗教的福音，宗教界突然间拥有了复制和传播经文的有效利器。"
    ],
    [
        "As services and software converge, public officials must enhance their technical skills and work with the private sector to ensure market fairness and efficiency.",
        "由于服务和软件的趋同，公共官员必须加强技术技能、与私人部门共同保证市场公平和效率。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet Cameron is right to believe that not all EU members will want or be able to be part of a more integrated eurozone.",
        "但卡梅伦认为并非所有欧盟成员国都愿意或能够成为更统一的欧元区的一部分的观点是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Giving the EU a greater role in situations where member states’ views differ should also be considered.",
        "在各成员国意见不一的情况下，欧盟应当扮演一个更重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, Greek negotiators might have considered another proposal, circulated informally by the German finance ministry, recommending that Greece receive immediate debt forgiveness, in exchange for leaving the euro temporarily.",
        "在这一背景下，希腊谈判者也许想到了由德国财政部长提出的另一个方案，即建议希腊立刻获得债务豁免，条件是它暂时退出欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "This may be a reaction to the American-led war in Iraq; but Tony Blair will exclude it precisely for that reason, and a common European defense policy without Britain makes little sense.",
        "这可能是对美国领导的对伊战争做出的反应，但正因为此托尼·布莱尔一定会投票否决，而统一的欧洲防卫政策如果没有英国的参与会变得毫无意义。"
    ],
    [
        "At the turn of the millennium, a meeting of African church leaders convened on the Senegalese island of Gorée to urge Africans to assess their share of responsibility for the slave trade.",
        "在千年之交，一场在塞内加尔戈雷岛（著名奴隶贸易遗址）召开的非洲宗教领袖会议就呼吁非洲人认清自身对那段奴隶贸易史所负有的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "New technology and “intelligent” machines are not only displacing many types of workers in both the manufacturing and services sectors; they are also facilitating the rise of new business models, in which individuals perform (mostly low-paid service) jobs within loose networks, instead of as dedicated employees of structured organizations.",
        "新技术和“智能”机器不但取代了制造业和服务业的多种岗位； 也存进了新商业模式的崛起，在这些模式中，个体在松散的网络中从事（大部分为底薪服务业）岗位，而非作为结构完善的组织中的专注雇员。"
    ],
    [
        "Aid for health has worked.",
        "卫生援助是有效的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is projected to surpass 19 million by 2025. That will put more pressure on the country’s already limited stock of agricultural land.",
        "预计到2025年，那里的人口总数将超过1900万，该国本已紧张的耕地资源将因此承受更大的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 200 million people are unemployed.",
        "2亿多人陷入失业。"
    ],
    [
        "The influx of insurgents from Pakistan will not stop.",
        "从巴基斯坦来的叛乱分子会源源不断地进来。"
    ],
    [
        "More “China-bashing,” with the US demanding that the renminbi be allowed to appreciate further, is clearly not the answer.",
        "更多的“教训中国”措施，包括美国要求中国允许人民币进一步升值等压力，并不是最好的药方。"
    ],
    [
        "When private jobs are no longer competitive, government jobs seem an easy solution to keeping people employed.",
        "当私营部门的工作不再具有竞争力，政府工作好像就是让人们就业的简单办法。"
    ],
    [
        "There will be 25 Commissioners, one for each EU member country, whereas previously big countries had two and small countries one.",
        "委员总数定为25名，分别来自25个欧盟成员国，而以前是大国两名，小国一名。"
    ],
    [
        "First, history has already shown how resource constraints can hinder global economic growth.",
        "首先，历史已经显示资源限制怎样阻碍了全球经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is very possible that Philippon’s estimate of the size of the US financial sector’s hypertrophy is too small.",
        "而且菲力彭对美国金融部门规模的估计很有可能是低估的。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the increasing emphasis in party journals on the proposition that China’s armed forces must be viewed as servants of the Communist Party, and not simply of the nation, seems to suggest concern that the military may be developing its own view of Chinese domestic affairs, in addition to proclaiming with increasing assertiveness its responsibility for national security.",
        "与此同时，党报日益强调党指挥枪、反对军队国家化，这似乎表明存在一种担心，即军队除了在捍卫国家安全责任方面变得日益强硬之外，也正在产生他们自身对中国内政的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eurozone, this scenario would entail only nominal progress toward greater integration, with Germany’s continued rejection of true risk-sharing or fiscal union weakening incentives for struggling member countries to undertake tough reforms.",
        "在欧元区，这一情景包括仅仅在名义上实现了更进一步的一体化，德国仍然拒绝真正的风险共担和财政联盟，这使得受困成员国没有什么动力采取艰难的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the European Union has recently announced a €3.6 billion nanotechnology research program, which includes environment, health, and safety goals that align with these challenges.",
        "比如，欧盟最近宣布了一项耗资36亿欧元的纳米技术研究项目，包括与这些挑战相关的环境、健康和安全目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Western countries will also need to create new redistributive mechanisms to supplement the declining role of wages in their economies.",
        "西方国家还需要建立新的再分配机制以补充工资在经济中越来越次要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The aim is to reduce unemployment.",
        "该计划的目的是减少失业。"
    ],
    [
        "When agreements fail, it is usually not because of what they contain, but because of what is missing, or because of what the signatories do despite what they have agreed.",
        "协议失败往往不是因为写进协议的内容，而是因为没有写入的部分，或者因为签字方明明签字同意却违反自己的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month’s 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China effectively crowned President Xi Jinping – who has spearheaded a more muscular foreign policy, in service of his goal of establishing China as a global superpower – as the country’s emperor.",
        "上个月的中共十九大事实上使中国国家主席习近平加冕了中国皇帝。 他主导了更加强势的外交政策，以推动其让中国成为全球超级大国的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "As for purely private-sector investment, the committee recommends a focus on developing the sectors that will dominate tomorrow’s economy.",
        "至于纯私人部门投资，委员会建议关注发展将主导未来经济的部门。"
    ],
    [
        "In my view, we may be witnessing the emergence of Muslim democratic parties, much like the rise of Christian Democratic parties in Europe in the years after World War II.",
        "在我看来，我们可能正在见证穆斯林民主政党的出现，就像第二次世界大战后基督教民主党派的崛起一样。"
    ],
    [
        "A vibrant economy – GDP growth is second only to China’s in Asia – is indispensable for regional leadership.",
        "蓬勃繁荣的经济（在亚洲，泰国的国内生产总值增长仅次于中国）也是地区领导人不可或缺的条件之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Given climate change, that means accounting for whether, say, entire low-lying coastal areas or agricultural regions will be able to cope.",
        "在气候变化的大背景下，这意味着考虑（比如）全部低海拔沿海地区或农业地区是否能够应对气候变化等问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, its adherents did play an important role in the removal of Libya’s brutal dictator, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi.",
        "去年其追随者在推倒残暴的独裁者穆阿迈尔·埃尔·卡扎菲（Muammar el-Qaddafi）上校一事上的确起了很重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "From the Bank’s establishment until today, the unwritten rule has been that the US government simply designates each new president: all 11 have been Americans, and not a single one has been an expert in economic development, the Bank’s core responsibility, or had a career in fighting poverty or promoting environmental sustainability.",
        "自世行成立至今，一直有一条不成文的规矩：行长人选由美国政府决定。 成立至今的11位行长均是美国人，而且没有一位是世行核心责任——经济发展方面的专家，也没有一位拥有扶贫或促进环境可持续性的职业经验。"
    ],
    [
        "The post-war powers certainly did not have to take that approach. It was within their power to focus far more narrowly on their own interests.",
        "当然，这些强国不一定非得采取这种做法，它们也可以随心所欲地着眼于自身的更狭隘利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese wisdom offers another helpful perspective.",
        "中国智慧提供了另外一个有益的视角。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this has given the US an extraordinary ability to tell stories that are more persuasive and attractive than those of its rivals.",
        "所有这些让美国拥有无与伦比的能力，能够讲出最有说服力、最吸引人的故事，远非其对手所能比。"
    ],
    [
        "But the corresponding decline in demand caused the price of oil to plummet in 1986, ushering in a new era of cheap energy.",
        "但由此带来的需求下降导致1986年石油价格暴跌，开启了廉价能源的新时代。"
    ],
    [
        "But if President Nicolas Sarkozy’s team in the Élysée Palace had had its way, Noyer would have immediately informed the government of Société Générale’s troubles.",
        "但是如果萨尔科奇总统的爱丽舍宫班子如愿以偿的话，努瓦耶就将会立即告知政府有关兴业银行的困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti’s government accomplished a major pension reform, cut public spending, and raised taxes.",
        "即将卸任的总理马里奥·蒙蒂（Mario Monti）所领导的政府完成了主要的养老金改革、削减了公共支出并提高了税收。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that only the US and the massively over-represented countries of the European Union supported the Greek bailout.",
        "事实上，只有美国和在代表权过大的欧盟国家支持原主席拉。"
    ],
    [
        "He was promptly sidelined to a command in provincial France.",
        "他此后立即被调往法国乡村的一个指挥所。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians launched monetary union in 1999, despite warnings that the constituent economies were too diverse.",
        "政客们在1999年成立了货币联盟，尽管有人警告欧洲大陆的经济体之间多样性太大。"
    ],
    [
        "They want to enjoy the game, rather than sit in the company of their male relatives, oblivious to what’s happening on the pitch.",
        "她们希望能分享球赛的快乐，而不是像往常那样呆坐在男人身边，弄不清一帮人究竟在球场上忙什么。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The looming bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, and the forced sale of Merrill Lynch, two of the greatest names in finance, mark the end of an era.",
        "伦敦-雷曼兄弟的即将破产，美林的被迫出售，这两个在金融业中著名的名字，标志着一个时代的结束。"
    ],
    [
        "But, on closer inspection, things are not so simple.",
        "可这结论经不住推敲，事情远没有那么简单。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, governments can claim a powerful legitimacy in embarking on reform efforts.",
        "因此政府在着手推行改革措施时就拥有强大的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "But today, nominal GDP growth far exceeds average long-term interest rates (which, in some countries, include risk premia of up to 100 basis points) – even in the eurozone, where nominal GDP growth is expected to reach about 3% this year.",
        "但如今，名义GDP增长远远超过长期利率（在一些国家，长期利率包括最多高大100个基点的风险溢价）——即使是欧元区也是如此，那里的名义GDP增长预计今年可达3%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan is also likely to gain from a long-overdue rebalancing of the US economy.",
        "日本也可以从姗姗来迟的美国经济再平衡中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Becoming a member is a seven-year process of induction and indoctrination.",
        "成为党员需要长达七年的诱导和灌输。"
    ],
    [
        "In Sub-Saharan Africa, researchers have found a strong correlation between three decades of rising temperatures and outbreaks of civil war.",
        "在撒哈拉以南非洲，研究者发现，三十年来不断上升的气温，与内战的爆发之间存在强相关性。"
    ],
    [
        "At the other extreme are Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay.",
        "智利、哥斯达黎加和乌拉圭则是与阿根廷相反的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "After initial dislocations, the eventual outcome would fulfill John Maynard Keynes’ dream of an international currency system in which both creditors and debtors share responsibility for maintaining stability.",
        "经过最初的错位之后，最终的结果将会实现约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯的梦想，建立债权和债务国共担维稳责任的国际货币制度。"
    ],
    [
        "But right now, the global economy is teetering on the precipice of disaster.",
        "但是，现在全球经济在灾难的悬崖边摇摇欲坠。"
    ],
    [
        "In its latest report, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that it is virtually certain that, in global terms, hot days have become hotter and occur more often; indeed, they have increased in frequency by a factor of 10 in most regions of the world.",
        "最新的联合国气候变化跨国委员会报告指出，几乎可以肯定，从全球角度看，高温天气正在变得更热，且出现得更频繁； 事实上，在世界大部分地区，高温天数频率提高了十倍。"
    ],
    [
        "So long as developing countries remain integrated into the global economy – and do not take measures to restrain the impact of international prices on domestic prices – domestic prices of rice and other grains are bound to rise markedly when international prices do.",
        "只要发展中国家保留在全球经济之中并且不采取措施限制国际价格对国内价格的影响，当国际大米和其他农作物价格显著上升的时候，其国内价格肯定也会显著上升。"
    ],
    [
        "The point of the veto restraint is, at minimum, to raise the political cost for those who would block action designed to ensure that there are no more Cambodias, Rwandas, Srebrenicas, or Syrias.",
        "否决权克制的关键点是至少要提高阻挠为了确保柬埔寨、卢旺达、斯雷布雷尼察和叙利亚悲剧不再发生而采取的行动的政治成本。"
    ],
    [
        "At last count, 24 states have begun adapting their unemployment-insurance systems to take advantage of the measure.",
        "而迄今为止已经有24个州开始对自身失业保险系统进行调整以利用这一政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But the collapse of GDP has necessarily implied a rising debt ratio, driving the country into a recessionary spiral as economic contraction forces further spending cuts.",
        "但GDP的暴跌免不了会导致债务比率上升，将希腊拖入衰退螺旋——经济收缩破事支出进一步缩减。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union and Sudan’s neighbors – in particular Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda – will also need to play a robust role.",
        "欧盟以及苏丹各邻国——尤其是埃及，埃塞俄比亚，肯尼亚和乌干达——也需要积极参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Additional wage cuts will not help export-oriented companies, which are mired in a credit crunch.",
        "进一步降低工资无助于陷入信用动荡的出口导向型公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Stated differently, now that Greece has achieved a zero primary budget deficit, its debt burden will decline if its nominal growth rate exceeds the average interest that it pays on its government debt.",
        "换句话说，如今希腊已经实现了零初级预算赤字，如果其名义增长率超过其政府债务的平均利率，则其债务负担将会降低。"
    ],
    [
        "These include commitments by Pacific countries on the environment and the expansion of enforceable labor rights, as well as the geopolitical argument for America’s much-discussed strategic “rebalancing” toward Asia.",
        "这些区别包括太平洋国家对环境和扩大可强制实施劳动权利的承诺，以及正在美国受到热议的亚洲战略性“再平衡”的地缘政治考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "For, although the surge was important, two other factors played a critical role in bringing Iraq back from the brink.",
        "因为，尽管增派部队显示了其重要性，而另有二个因素也起了重要作用，挽救了伊拉克于悬崖边上。"
    ],
    [
        "But he is unlikely to face retribution for any of it.",
        "但他不太可能遭到任何报复。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, anchormen and anchorwomen from all ethnic backgrounds populate American television news programs.",
        "同样，美国的电视新闻节目中有很多来自各种族裔背景的男女主播。"
    ],
    [
        "Retrenchment is not isolationism; it is an adjustment of strategic goals and means.",
        "紧缩不是孤立主义； 只是对战略目标和手段的调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared with anything that came before, the post-war order was a boon for inclusiveness.",
        "与之前的任何情况相比，二战后的秩序堪称一笔具备包容性的福利。"
    ],
    [
        "After every (predictable) tragedy, the party mobilizes to block any legislation that might strengthen gun controls.",
        "在每一场（预料之内的）悲剧后，共和党都会动员阻挠可能加强控枪的立法。"
    ],
    [
        "Having already surged on account of Iran-related geopolitical concerns, they are altering American consumers’ behavior, weakening their confidence, aggravating the country’s payments imbalances, and further reducing policymakers’ flexibility.",
        "由于有关伊朗的地缘政治忧虑，油价已出现了飙升，正在改变美国消费者的行为，削弱他们的信心，恶化美国收支失衡问题，也进一步削弱了决策者的灵活度。"
    ],
    [
        "But Japan’s wealthiest people, such as entrepreneurs, medical doctors, and lawyers, are nowadays less willing or financially able to continue patronizing the sport, particularly since the collapse of Japan’s asset bubble in the early 1990’s.",
        "但日本社会的那些富有阶级，比如企业家，医生和律师，如今都不大愿意（或者没能力）去赞助这项运动，尤其是在1990年代早期日本资产泡沫爆破之后。"
    ],
    [
        "And this includes only young people actually at work or looking for work. Many more have simply become discouraged and dropped out of the labor force entirely: not at school, not at work, and not looking for work.",
        "而这只包括那些事实上正在打散工或者求职的年轻人，另外还有一些沮丧的青年人直接就退出了劳动力大军：他们不上学，不上班，也不去求职。"
    ],
    [
        "Researchers at Harvard University and Tsinghua University say that wind power could, in theory, produce all of China’s electricity for the price of coal by 2030.",
        "哈佛大学和清华大学的研究者指出，理论上，到2030年风能就可以以煤电的价格生产出中国的所有电力。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so would put us in far better position to negotiate on equal terms with the US, just as we can on trade issues.",
        "实现这一目标能让我们更加有利地与美国展开平等谈判，正如我们在贸易问题上做得那样。"
    ],
    [
        "This likely outcome mirrors the initiative for a European or global banking fund to insure against the next financial crisis.",
        "类似的结果也在试图在欧洲或者全球范围内建立银行保险基金，以防下次金融危机的动议上反映了出来。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as the grid’s CO2 emissions are cleaned up, the vehicles’ role as a source of emissions will decline.",
        "而且随着电网排放的二氧化碳被清理完毕，汽车所起的排放源作用也将随之下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Political uncertainty is also on the rise in Europe.",
        "欧洲政治不确定性也在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "The US as a whole did not have a winter as extreme as New England’s in the first part of 2015, and the effects of the weather on the country’s overall economy were subdued.",
        "总体而言，2015年初美国的冬天并不像新英格兰地区那样极端，天气对美国总体经济的影响也要小一些。"
    ],
    [
        "If current estimates are correct, around 10% of users (and one in six who start in adolescence) may become dependent on marijuana – that is, find it difficult to control or discontinue their use.",
        "如果目前的估计是正确的话，大概有10%的使用者（其中1/6在青少年时期就开始吸食）将发展为大麻成瘾——这意味着他们将难以自我控制或者戒除大麻。"
    ],
    [
        "And how could that cost be financed if the proposed taxes on existing health policies and the reductions in Medicare outlays have already been used?",
        "如果现在提议的对现有医疗保险征税和削减Medicare开支的方法实施以后，这笔开支又将从何而来？"
    ],
    [
        "Abimael Guzmán, the leader of the Maoist Shining Path in Peru, and Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, are notable examples of this.",
        "这方面的著名事例有秘鲁的毛派光辉道路领袖阿维马埃尔·古斯曼和土耳其库尔德工人党领袖阿卜杜拉•奥贾兰。"
    ],
    [
        "The problems of Europe’s banks are also far from being resolved.",
        "欧洲银行的问题也远未得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Something similar happened when Jay Vacanti, a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, and I had an idea in the 1980’s to combine three-dimensional synthetic polymer scaffolds with cells to create new tissues and organs.",
        "美国马萨诸塞州总医院外科医生杰伊·森提和我在20世纪80年代提出用三维合成高分子聚合物支架和细胞一起创造新的组织和器官时也经历过同样的境遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.",
        "卡特里娜飓风摧毁了新奥尔良。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet all of these problems can be solved, especially if we make the needed investments in research and development.",
        "然而所有这些问题都可以解决，只要在研究和开发上投入必要的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the reality is that corruption imposes a large, often random, tax on businesses, not least by discouraging officials from cutting red tape for all firms – a move that really would boost growth.",
        "事实上，现实是腐败给企业带来了一项沉重的、往往是随机出现的税负，尤其是这样做让官员更加不愿放松束缚所有企业的红头文件——而这才是真正的刺激增长的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The tears streaming down the cheeks of Andrea Pirlo and Mario Balotelli after Italy’s defeat were not those of hardened pros.",
        "意大利战败后皮尔洛和巴洛特利脸上流下的泪水与感情淡漠的专业人士无关。"
    ],
    [
        "Even democratic bodies are not immune to this danger.",
        "即使民主也不能对这一风险免疫。"
    ],
    [
        "An Arab Marshall Plan",
        "阿拉伯马歇尔计划"
    ],
    [
        "It is the state that, to a greater extent in some societies than in others, must fill the gap.",
        "国家必须弥补这种缺陷，虽然在有些社会中，比起在其他社会中，更是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is hypocritical that hunting for sport and unsupervised home slaughtering continue to be permitted, whereas shechita, which is carried out by experienced people according to well-established procedures, is not.",
        "”事实上，狩猎运动和无监督家庭屠宰仍被允许才是伪善的，而犹太屠宰——必须由经验丰富之士根据固定流程操作——则否。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the IARC has in the past classified aloe vera, acrylamide (a substance created by frying foods, such as French fries and potato chips), cell phones, working night shifts, Asian pickled vegetables, and coffee as “probable” or “possible” carcinogens.",
        "因此，国际癌症研究机构过去曾将芦荟、丙烯酰胺（薯条和薯片等油炸食品所产生的一种物质）、手机、上夜班、亚洲泡菜和咖啡划为“相当可能”或“可能的”致癌物。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, they would devalue on their own had they not given up their currencies for the euro ten years before the crisis (and if it were not for their euro-denominated debt).",
        "当然，如果在危机发生十年前它们没有为了使用欧元而放弃本国货币（并且它们的债务也不是用欧元计价），那么它们还可以自主贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Zubkov will continue Fradkov’s “Yes, whatever you say Mr. President” management style.",
        "当然，祖布科夫会继续弗拉德科夫的管理方式，“是的，总统先生，一切都按你的意思办”。"
    ],
    [
        "Fixing the financial sector was necessary for economic recovery, but far from sufficient.",
        "修复金融部门是经济复苏的必要条件，但远不是充分条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Global supply chains – constantly in flux, owing to rising developing-country incomes and shifting comparative advantage – locate productive activities where human and other resources make those activities competitive.",
        "全球供应链——由于发展中国家收入的增加和比较优势的变迁，全球供应链一直在流动——能够将生产活动配置在人力和其他资源最具竞争力的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "About 380 million women, children, and men in sub-Saharan Africa live on less than $1.25 a day.",
        "撒哈拉南部非洲的大约3亿8千万妇女、儿童和男人每天仅靠不到1. 25美元维持生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Our knowledge of the structure and function of proteins, for example, has been greatly expanded through the discovery of dynamic folding processes.",
        "比方说，动态折叠过程的发现大大拓宽了我们对蛋白质结构和功能的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "But three unique features of its so-called Rhineland model stand out.",
        "但其所谓的莱茵地区（Rhineland）模式拥有三个独特的突出特点。"
    ],
    [
        "The second-largest source of violence is the abuse of children, 80% of which is inflicted by parents.",
        "虐童是第二大暴力来源，80%的虐童案作案者都是父母。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – China’s economy slowed unexpectedly in the second quarter of this year.",
        "北京—今年二季度，中国经济出人意料地放缓了。"
    ],
    [
        "Opening up the debate about what peace could look like would help.",
        "开启和平应当是什么样子的辩论可能会有所帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "But a democracy that does not translate into regular dinners is a democracy that is bound to fail.",
        "但一个无法形成日常规律的民主制度是注定无法延续的。"
    ],
    [
        "Last autumn, President Barack Obama proposed the American Jobs Act, a $450 billion package of fiscal measures aimed at job creation.",
        "去年秋天，奥巴马总统提出了“美国就业机会法案”，该法案将落实4500亿美元的财政措施创造就业机会。 “美国就业机会法案”约占GDP总额的3%，预定于2012年生效。"
    ],
    [
        "That is where Switzerland demonstrates that giving foreigners a voice is good policy, one that also means teaching citizens to understand the benefits of open democracy.",
        "也正是在这方面瑞士人证明赋予外国人话语权是一项明智的政策，这也意味着引导公民理解开放民主的益处。"
    ],
    [
        "We have compared the performance of the best-performing and worst-performing euro-zone countries between 1999 and 2009.",
        "我们对 1999-2009 年间欧元区经济表现最佳和最差的国家做了比较。"
    ],
    [
        "France, for example, is notorious for forcing foreign firms like Britain's Marks and Spencer to keep redundant workers on the payroll.",
        "比如法国就因为强迫英国Marks and Spencer这样的外国企业保留富余劳力而臭名昭著。"
    ],
    [
        "Because China is now the world’s largest exporter after the European Union, and accounts for about half of global growth, decisions taken in Beijing could have a more important impact on the world economy than those taken in Berlin, Brussels, or Washington, DC.",
        "目前中国是世界上仅次于欧盟的最大出口国，贡献了大约一半的全球增长，因此北京的决策对世界经济的影响力是最大的，要超过柏林、布鲁塞尔和华盛顿。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of the day, debt forgiveness benefits creditors as much as it helps debtors.",
        "最终，债务豁免既能帮助债务人，也对债权人有益。"
    ],
    [
        "(The same is true of the United States and Japan, though the details differ.)",
        "（虽然细节有所不同，但同样的情况在美国和日本也出现了。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, all major legislation and reforms are likely to be stalemated until 2013, following a new presidential election.",
        "事实上，所有重要的立法和改革都将停滞不前，直到2013年的新一轮总统大选之后才有转机。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of this flow is steady, because it supports families at home; but much of it is opportunistic investment seeking real returns.",
        "这些资金流的其中一部分是相当稳定的，因为它们主要用来满足国内家庭支出； 但也有很大一部分是追求回报的机会主义投资。"
    ],
    [
        "It is therefore clear that a calorie is not a calorie.",
        "因此，很显然，此一卡与彼一卡不是同一卡。"
    ],
    [
        "In the wake of the defeat of the EU’s Constitutional Treaty in France and the Netherlands this spring, many say that Europe’s decade-old promise cannot and should not be kept.",
        "随着欧盟宪法条约今年春天在法国和荷兰遭遇否决，许多人都说欧洲十年前的承诺不能够也不应该再去遵守了。"
    ],
    [
        "A Tale of Two Theories",
        "双理记"
    ],
    [
        "Analysis showed that focusing on the panel’s top 19 targets would achieve about four times more in terms of welfare gains than would trying to distribute funds among all 169 targets.",
        "分析表明重点攻克专家小组前19项目标所获得的福利收益将是资助所有169项目标的约四倍还多。"
    ],
    [
        "But the cause of nuclear non-proliferation is now in deep trouble, as countries are once again tempted to acquire the means of oblivion.",
        "但是核不扩散却由于许多国家一再试图逃避其约束而陷入极大的困境中。"
    ],
    [
        "That means building mutually beneficial relationships with neighboring countries, which can benefit by taking over some of China’s lower-value-added activities.",
        "这意味着要进一步拓展与邻国之间的互利共赢的关系。 周边国家可以接纳一些中国低增加值活动而从中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it is still too early to write off progress toward increased European integration.",
        "但抹杀欧洲进一步一体化的进展还为时过早。"
    ],
    [
        "When spending is high, it is usually social spending that is badly targeted, which means that only a small share of poor people really benefit.",
        "而在这些支出中用于社会方面的支出往往不得要领，只能让少部分的穷人受益。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to escape the conclusion that some public expenditure in Brazil serves little purpose other than keeping certain political constituencies conveniently quiet.",
        "你很难不认为，巴西的某些公共支出的唯一目的是让某些政治选区保持安静。"
    ],
    [
        "What Jones said about Clinton is surely defamation, and she could bring a civil suit against him; but that would be costly and time-consuming, most likely taking years to move through the courts.",
        "琼斯对克林顿的言论无疑涉及诽谤，她可以对他提出民事诉讼； 但那种方法注定耗时、昂贵，法院审理很有可能要历时数年才能完成。"
    ],
    [
        "On the left, the social democratic wing of the Socialist party, which backed Dominique Strauss-Kahn against Royal, may be tempted to align with Bayrou, too, owing to the prospect of a post-electoral alliance between the center left and the center right.",
        "在左翼一边，社会党的社会民主派曾经支持斯特劳斯·卡恩而反对罗雅尔，他们也可能由于在大选结束后中左翼和中右翼有可能结盟而受到诱惑与贝鲁结盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, until governments – and the elites that support and benefit from them – are prepared to commit to democracy, good governance, and the rule of law, and until they are accountable to their populations, coups will remain a viable option.",
        "即便如此，在政府和支持政府并从中获益的政要切实致力于民主、善政和法治、并对国内民众负责之前，政变都将作为一种可行的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Its key rate has been cut to 0.05%, the deposit rate is negative, and targeted longer-term refinancing operations are supposed to support bank lending.",
        "其关键利率已下降至0. 05%，存款利率已为负值，定向长期再融资操作意在支持银行放贷。"
    ],
    [
        "Did the UK’s population really know what they were voting on?",
        "英国民众真的知道他们在投什么票吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, domestic credit growth began to decelerate only in August 2011, when the escalation of the eurozone crisis made global investors more wary of risky emerging markets.",
        "因此，2011年8月，当欧元区危机让全球投资者对高风险的新兴市场变得更加谨慎时，国内信用增长开始减速。"
    ],
    [
        "But the same period has also been an era of rapid technological change.",
        "但同样是这一时期，也是科技快速变化的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – On August 1, China’s People’s Liberation Army celebrated its 88th anniversary.",
        "克莱蒙特，加利福尼亚—8月1日，中国人民解放军迎来建军88走周年。"
    ],
    [
        "BANGKOK – Joseph Estrada, the disgraced former president of the Philippines, faces the prospect of spending his remaining years in prison after a special court in Manila found him guilty of amassing around US$15 million in bribes and kickbacks.",
        "曼谷——被马尼拉的特别法庭裁定染指1500万美元的贿赂和回扣案后，含羞蒙耻的菲律宾前总统约瑟夫·埃斯特拉达（Joseph Estrada）可能会在监狱中渡过余生。"
    ],
    [
        "The Assad government does not hesitate to fire on civilians, lay siege to cities, or shut off their electricity and water.",
        "阿萨德政府毫不犹豫地朝平民开火，包围城市，切断水电供应。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, how will the convention’s implementation affect existing regional and local cross-border freshwater agreements?",
        "类似地，该公约的实施将如何影响现有地区和地方跨国淡水水域协定？"
    ],
    [
        "The Polish and Hungarian governments have turned the worst nightmare of the single market’s founding fathers into a reality.",
        "波兰和匈牙利政府将单一市场元勋们最大的噩梦变成了现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s dramatic overture to the Islamic world was only the latest in a series of such openings by this remarkable US president.",
        "对奥巴马这个不平凡的美国总统来说，此番针对伊斯兰世界的戏剧性开场白只不过是一系列政策启动计划的最新一幕而已。"
    ],
    [
        "That could change if the Democrats take over the House in next November’s midterm elections.",
        "如果在明年11月的中期选举中，民主党掌控了众议院，那么情况有可能生变。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the Haqqanis created a sanctuary in the North Waziristan Tribal Agency.",
        "在美国入侵阿富汗之后的2001年，哈卡尼在北瓦济里斯坦部落机构建立了庇护所。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing the service sector could also diversify the production base, thereby enhancing economic resilience and boosting growth momentum.",
        "发展服务业可以多元化产业基础，从而提高经济抵抗力并强化经济增长动能。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, there is the issue of trust.",
        "接着出现的则是信任问题。"
    ],
    [
        "For its part, Singapore is increasingly seeing the effects of a decade of regulatory reforms, including government grants and tax incentives to encourage foreign investment in the technology sector.",
        "就其国内而言，新加坡十年的监管改革成效日益显著，包括提供政府补助和税收优惠鼓励外国资本投资新技术。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time I finished my research in 1982, the price of oil had begun what would become a 20-year plunge.",
        "等我在1982年完成研究时，石油价格已开始了长达20年的暴跌。"
    ],
    [
        "And because inflation is still too low, owing to depressed macroeconomic conditions, there is no need for the Fed to raise interest rates and offset any inflationary effects of the increase in spending.",
        "而由于通胀仍然过低（因为萧条的宏观经济条件），美联储也没有提高利率以抵消支出增加的通胀效应的必要。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, regional geopolitics pits the powerful “Sunni Crescent,” led by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, against the beleaguered “Shia Crescent” states – Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.",
        "再者，区域地缘政治中以土耳其、沙特阿拉伯，卡塔尔和阿联酋为首的强大 “逊尼派新月”对伊朗、伊拉克，叙利亚和黎巴嫩等“什叶派新月”国家展开了围攻。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks have a great deal of control over an economy’s money supply, and they can affect interest rates across a wide range of loans and securities.",
        "央行控制着经济的货币供应，并能通过各种贷款和证券影响利率。"
    ],
    [
        "A few weeks later, everything changed.",
        "几周后，一切都变了。"
    ],
    [
        "It would certainly not be wise to allow Europe’s energy bill to explode in the name of ambitious climate policies.",
        "以激进的气候政策为名任由欧洲的能源账单超标当然是不明智的。"
    ],
    [
        "International economic policy coordination should be significantly strengthened in order to deal effectively with changes on such a scale.",
        "应该着力强调国际经济政策协调，以便有效地应对如此规模的变局。"
    ],
    [
        "As policy inertia prolongs sluggish growth and impairs job creation, it becomes even more difficult to abandon.",
        "随着政策惯性拉长衰退期和削弱就业机会创造，也使其变得更加难以放弃。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty-Five Years of HIV/AIDS",
        "二十五年与HIV/AIDS的抗争"
    ],
    [
        "It depends on the day, but if we count by centuries, then surely humanity’s urbanization is a strong contender.",
        "虽然每个年代的侧重点各有不同，但如果用世纪为单位来衡量的话，那么人类的城市化肯定是一个有力的候选项。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it has managed only a meager 0.3%.",
        "事实结果是更加令人失望的0. 3%。"
    ],
    [
        "Manufacturing firms and homebuilders are benefiting from increasing activity.",
        "制造业企业和建筑商从经济活动的活跃中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank’s assistance was sometimes overburdened by prevailing ideology; for example, the free-market Washington Consensus policies foisted on recipients actually led to deindustrialization and declining income in Sub-Saharan Africa.",
        "世界银行的援助在某些时候充斥着一些流行理念； 比如说，被推销给受援助国的华盛顿共识自由市场政策实际上导致了撒哈拉以南非洲的去工业化和收入下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Work-sharing might keep more people marginally attached to their jobs in an economic slump, thereby preserving their self-esteem.",
        "工作分担使得更多的人在经济衰退期间部分地保住工作，从而保留了他们的自尊。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is then whether any candidate demonstrated the necessary level of excellence in office.",
        "但问题是这些人是否于在位之时体现出了足够优秀的治国能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Every Indian who follows the Olympics has cringed scanning the daily list of medal winners, eyes traveling down past dozens of nations big and small before alighting on a solitary Indian bronze in tennis or wrestling.",
        "每一个关注奥运会的印度人在浏览每日的奖牌名单时都心有悲戚，他们的眼睛在扫过了几十个大大小小的国家之后才最终落在了一个孤零零的印度获得的网球或摔跤铜奖上。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be attractive not simply because the People’s Bank of China and other major Chinese institutions have massive overseas assets, but because China produces goods that the world’s consumers continue to want.",
        "它的吸引力不仅在于，中国央行和其他金融机构持有数额巨大的海外资产，更重要的是因为，全世界消费者会持续购买中国的产品。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2,000-year-old city of Beijing should be transported into hyper-modernity, whereas his father’s 1936 Berlin design was, in his words, “simply megalomania.”",
        "拥有2000多年历史的北京应该被转化成一座超现代的城市，而他父亲在1936年对柏林的设计用他的话来说“就是妄自尊大”。"
    ],
    [
        "With fewer students from Afghanistan going to Pakistan, Pakistan could turn its attention to the country’s own madrassas and to the mullahs who convert students into suicide bombers.",
        "随着从阿富汗进入巴基斯坦学生的减少，巴基斯坦可以把它的注意力集中到自己的宗教学校和将学生转变成自杀炸弹的毛拉上。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, polio workers in Nigeria are spending more than half their time providing unrelated but vital health services.",
        "目前，尼日利亚脊髓灰质炎工作人员已经把超过半数时间用在提供至关重要的无关医疗服务上。"
    ],
    [
        "Land use and water security are firmly linked.",
        "土地使用和水资源安全之间的联系异常紧密。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, evidence shows that migrants contribute more than they appropriate, as they foster knowledge transfers, trade, tourism, investment, and even job creation through entrepreneurship, while doing important jobs – from caring for children and the elderly to staffing hotels and restaurants to picking crops – that are undesirable to locals.",
        "此外，证据表明移民的贡献远大于他们所占的比例，因为他们通过企业家精神和从事本地人看不上的重要工作（如儿童和老人看护、饭店和餐饮服务员、收割庄稼等）促进了知识传播、贸易、旅游、投资甚至就业创造。"
    ],
    [
        "But the prospect of an “Islamized” Europe is also remote.",
        "但是，将欧洲“伊斯兰化”也遥不可及。"
    ],
    [
        "A far more inertial indicator is unemployment, which experts predict will grow in 2010.",
        "一个更具有惯性的指标则是失业率，专家估计失业率会在 2010 年上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "Montreal is a relatively successful example of a city in which Anglophones and Francophones both feel at home, but language debates nonetheless dominate the political scene – and structure an ethos for the city’s residents.",
        "对于讲英语和讲法语的人来说，该市堪称一个可以提供归属感的相对成功的范本，但针对语言的讨论依然充斥着政治舞台，并塑造了该市居民的某种气质。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not clear who the buyers will be, especially since the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation restricted what banks can do and increased their capital requirements, which has raised the cost of holding bonds.",
        "谁来当买家无法清楚地知道，特别是自2010年多德-弗兰克（Dodd- Frank）金融改革立法限制银行行为、增加资本要求从而提高了持有债券的成本之后。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, according to a recent survey by the International Data Corporation, 97% of organizations have concerns about their security skills.",
        "毕竟，据国际数据公司（International Data Corporation）的最新调查，97%的组织的安全技能存在问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In Italy, moreover, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is under attack by two anti-euro populist parties that have risen in opinion polls.",
        "此外在意大利，总理马泰奥·伦齐（Matteo Renzi）正处于由两个民调支持率上涨的反欧元民粹主义政党的夹击之下。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – In the French parliament’s recent debate on Europe’s new fiscal treaty, the country’s Socialist government vehemently denied that ratification of the treaty would undermine French sovereignty.",
        "美国剑桥—最近，法国议会对欧洲新财政条约进行了讨论，社会党政府义正辞严地否认批准这一条约有损于法国的主权。"
    ],
    [
        "Who needs to study languages and comparative literature?",
        "又是谁需要学习外语和比较文学？"
    ],
    [
        "Assuming 6% Chinese GDP growth and only 2% US growth after 2030, China would not equal the US in terms of per capita income – a better measure of an economy’s sophistication – until sometime near the second half of the century.",
        "即便在2030年后中国的GDP年增长率达到了6%而美国只有2%，中国的人均收入也无法与美国并驾齐驱——而这一指标也能更好地反映经济的成熟程度——直到21世纪下半叶才会有所转变。"
    ],
    [
        "This cannot last.”",
        "不能永远是这样。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Oil embargos turned out to be a blunt instrument that hurt many besides the targeted countries.",
        "石油禁运到头来是一把钝刀，既打击了目标国家，也伤害了其他许多人。"
    ],
    [
        "People began taking matters into their own hands by attending rallies, signing petitions, and donating to political parties and activist groups in unprecedented numbers.",
        "人们开始以自己的方式寻求解决问题的办法。 其具体表现形式是参加集会、签名请愿和向政治党派和活动集团捐助的市民达到了前所未有的人数。"
    ],
    [
        "And the subsequent fevered discussions about Trump’s core beliefs – maybe he was a crypto-Democrat, who had, after all, donated to Democratic candidates at one time and sympathized with Democratic positions (such as on abortion) – missed the point.",
        "随后的关于特朗普的核心信念的热烈讨论——也许他是个地下民主党，毕竟，他曾经资助过民主党候选人，并且同情民主党立场（比如堕胎问题）——没有切中要害。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the thought experiment of turning statistical lives into identifiable lives highlights an important point about policy-making: much, if not all, of the appeal of “efficient” resource allocation depends on the anonymity of the victims.",
        "实际上，把统计生命转化为鲜活生命的思想尝试强调了决策的一个重要前提：那就是决策中资源有效分配的全部、至少也是大部分前提取决于受害者的不为人知。"
    ],
    [
        "But such cooperation is a concrete way to build mutual trust and confidence.",
        "此类安全屏障将是一个有力的政治象征，表明俄罗斯是欧洲大西洋大家庭的重要一员，与其他成员荣辱与共。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, policymakers should be cautious in interpreting the plunge in gold prices as a vote of confidence in their performance.",
        "同时，政策制定者也应该在将黄金价格暴跌解读为对自身表现的肯定时更加谦虚谨慎一些。"
    ],
    [
        "It takes only a 10% decline in banks’ asset values to bankrupt the banking system.",
        "只要银行资产价值下降10%，就可以让整个银行系统破产。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, one of the key initiatives to address the fiscal shortfall is an increase in the value-added tax to 23% for almost all goods and services.",
        "比如，填补财政窟窿的主要措施之一是对几乎所有商品和服务增加23%的增值税。"
    ],
    [
        "Fast forward to the present.",
        "快速回到现状。"
    ],
    [
        "India is a case in point.",
        "印度就是一个很好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "With our members’ support, we are implementing important reforms to our lending policies that will encourage countries to approach the IMF early on, before crises become severe and almost intractable.",
        "在成员国的帮助下，我们将对IMF的贷款政策实施重要的改革，这将鼓励各成员国在危机恶化并且几乎无法控制之前能够尽早向IMF靠拢。"
    ],
    [
        "Overdosing on Heterodoxy Can Kill You",
        "过于异类，反受其害"
    ],
    [
        "The protection of human life – even in the midst of war and disasters – should be a concern for all of us, as global citizens.",
        "身为全球公民，保护人类生命——即使在战争和灾难等极端条件下——一也应当成为我们所关注的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The choice could not be clearer.",
        "选择显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial Inclusion Now",
        "金融包容，从现在开始"
    ],
    [
        "FLORENCE – At the recent annual meetings of the American Economic Association, there was widespread pessimism about the future of the United States.",
        "发自佛罗伦萨——最近召开的美国经济学会年会中弥漫着一片对美国前途的悲观情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Once high-flying small economies like Ireland, Hungary, and Iceland break down.",
        "爱尔兰，匈牙利，冰岛等一度腾飞的小型经济体垮掉了。"
    ],
    [
        "The central banks of South Korea, Brazil, Taiwan, Japan, Switzerland, and many other countries are now buying dollars in order to protect their own currencies against revaluation and thus to defend their exports.",
        "韩国、巴西、台湾、日本、瑞士以及其他许多国家的央行正在购买美元来防止它们本国货币的升值，以此来保护他们的出口。 对于欧元汇率超过1."
    ],
    [
        "It is thus unsurprising that, though CDU/CSU and SPD negotiators have touted the deal as a breakthrough, many, especially in the SPD, are unhappy with the outcome, with some calling for renegotiation.",
        "因此，丝毫不令人奇怪，尽管CDU/CSU和SPD的谈判员们将协议称作一次突破，但许多人，特别是SPD成员，对于结果并不满意，甚至有人要求重新谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, in the context of the modern era’s “Fourth Industrial Revolution” – which Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum defines as a fusion of technologies blending the physical, digital, and biological spheres – it is tempting to assess which technologies could be the next printing press.",
        "首先，现代时期的“第四次工业革命”大背景——正如世界经济论坛的克劳斯·施瓦布（Klaus Schwab）所定义的集物理，数字和生物领域于一身的多技术融合——让人不禁遐想究竟哪些技术可能成为下一台印刷机。"
    ],
    [
        "In January 2016, the TransCanada energy company used NAFTA to sue the United States, claiming $15 billion in losses after President Barack Obama denied a permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline.",
        "2016年，TransCanada能源公司援引NAFTA起诉美国索赔150亿美元损失，因为奥巴马总统拒绝批准Keystone XL输油管道。"
    ],
    [
        "China does not yet have global cultural industries on the scale of Hollywood or universities capable of rivaling America’s.",
        "中国尚不具备规模堪与好莱坞相比的全球文化产业或实力堪与美国相比的大学。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the doves might support a rate hike in September to counter-act the charge that they are being bullied out of a September hike by Sarkozy.",
        "甚至是鸽派人物也可能会支持在九月份加息以便回击他们被萨尔科奇吓唬而不在九月份加息的指控。"
    ],
    [
        "Every member of the community must be empowered to protect and improve their own mental health, and that of those around them.",
        "社区的每一个成员都必须由保护和改善自身和周边人群心理健康的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But I am beginning to fear that I am living in a state whose politicians are more interested in proclaiming the nobility of goals that cannot be achieved.",
        "但我开始担心，我生活在一个政客更喜欢宣扬根本无从实现的目标的高尚性的国家中。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though each new store takes away business from Wal-Mart stores established nearby, ever-improving supply efficiencies help maintain the chain’s overall growth.",
        "尽管每一家新店会抢走附近的沃尔玛店的生意，但是不断提高完善的供应效率帮助维持了连锁店的总体增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Their mission was to negotiate the terms and conditions of a financial bailout of Greece.",
        "他们的任务是与希腊谈判金融援助的条款和条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The Security Strategy is a clear departure from that of its predecessor and offers a wider conception of what national security represents for US President Barack Obama.",
        "报告一方面展现了与前任政府截然不同的政策取向，另一方面则诠释了新总统自身对国家战略概念的更深刻理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Both involve disputes about sharing costs, complicated by a clash of values, at the center of which lies a newly dominant Germany.",
        "两场危机都包含如何分担成本的纠纷，都因为价值冲突而变得复杂化，并且其核心都是新晋住在力量德国。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, amid considerable tumult, the conference aimed to create a stable international monetary framework that could serve as a cornerstone of a peaceful global order.",
        "事实上，在大量争吵中举行的这次会议，目标是建立稳定的国际货币框架作为和平的全球秩序的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "(Yes, Francis tweets, using the Twitter handle @Pontifex.)",
        "（是的，方济各的tweet，昵称是@Pontifex。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "But news organizations could reach many more people if they worked to circumvent Internet filtering instead of passively relying on those inside the firewall to figure out how to reach beyond blocked sites on their own.",
        "但是如果新闻机构主动努力避开互联网过滤，而不是被动地依赖防火墙里面的那些人自己寻找突破被封锁的网站的方法，那么新闻的受众可能将会比现在多的多。"
    ],
    [
        "But if you ask the government’s supporters why there is no alternative to mammoth cuts in government spending and increases in taxes, they sound confused and incoherent.",
        "不过，如果你提问：为什么除了大规模削减政府支出和增税之外就没有其他方法了呢？ 政府支持者便顾左右而言他了。"
    ],
    [
        "But if people lie about whether they have previously been tested, that provision will be moot.",
        "但假如人们在是否接受过基因测试这个问题上说了谎，这个条款就毫无意义了。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis started with too much private debt and leverage, which became public debt and deficits as crisis and recession triggered fiscal deterioration and private losses were mostly socialized via bailouts of financial systems.",
        "危机的起因是私人部门过度负债和过高杠杆率，随着危机和衰退削弱财政状况，随着大部分私人亏损经由金融体系脱身计划而被摊派给全社会，私人债务危机演变为公共债务和公共赤字危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Judging by his campaign statements, Trump might not be worried about the unraveling of NATO – or of any US security alliance, at least not yet.",
        "从选战中的言辞看，特朗普可能并不担心北约或任何美国安全联盟的解体，至少目前如此。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – America’s recent bout of dysfunctional politics and the eurozone’s on-again, off-again crisis should, on the face of it, present a golden opportunity to China.",
        "华盛顿—最近，美国政坛陷入了瘫痪，而欧元区危机好一阵坏一阵，至少从表面上，这是中国的黄金机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor will the emergence of another providential figure come easily.",
        "而下一位天赐人物的出现并非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "What will your commitments to your children be, and for how long?",
        "你会怎样养育你的孩子？ 养育多久？"
    ],
    [
        "Paying the interest requires higher federal taxes or a larger budget deficit.",
        "支付利息需要提高联邦税或增加预算赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "In this way, global public goods can be not only funded; they can also propel global recovery.",
        "以这种方式，全球公共品投资不但能够找到资金； 还能刺激全球经济的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "But most Chinese bloggers accept this as part of the reality of life in China.",
        "但是，大多数的中国博客们将此接受为中国生活现实的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "And this soon shaded into anti-Semitism – what the German Social Democrat August Bebel famously called “the socialism of fools.”",
        "而这很快转变为反犹主义——德国社会民主党的奥古斯特·贝贝尔（August Bebel）为它起了一个著名的名字“愚人社会主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – Donald Trump’s surprise election as the 45th president of the United States has spawned a cottage industry of election post-mortems and predictions, in America and abroad.",
        "发自斯坦福——唐纳德·特朗普竞逐美国第45任总统的意外胜选令美国国内和国外都涌现出一批专门进行选举后分析和预测的家庭小作坊。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chilcot report found that the case for invading Iraq was made on the “basis of flawed intelligence,” that the resources committed did not meet the stated goals, and that interveners failed to plan for unintended consequences.",
        "齐尔考特报告发现入侵伊拉克的理由建立在“情报错误的基础之上”，即投入的资源没有达到既定目标，且干预方也并未预料到意想不到的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Disparate tax rules among different countries have resulted in close to a zero-sum game for national governments, which are forced to pursue beggar-thy-neighbor policies to secure a bigger slice of a shrinking pie.",
        "不同国家各自为政的税收规则导致国家政府间形成一个接近于零和的博弈，政府被迫采取以邻为壑政策确保从日益缩小的蛋糕中获得更大的份额。"
    ],
    [
        "Secondary Schools’ Primary Importance",
        "中学最重要"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Bernanke claimed that “the growth fundamentals of the United States do not appear to have been permanently altered by the shocks of the past four years.”",
        "最后，伯南克宣称“过去四年来的冲击并未永久性改变美国经济增长基本面。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "That explains his focus on combating corruption.",
        "这也解释了他着力反腐倡廉的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "This has resulted in widespread discontent and has fueled support for Islamist militants, whom many Somalis view as the main bulwark against foreign interference.",
        "上述举措引发了民众的普遍不满，激起了对伊斯兰武装分子的支持。 在很多索马里人眼中，伊斯兰武装分子是反抗外国干涉的主要堡垒。"
    ],
    [
        "If they can do it to popular acclaim, others can, too.",
        "如果我们大家都为此喝彩，其他人也能这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "The question now is how the international community should respond.",
        "现在的问题是国际社会应当如何面对。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ambitious plan to transform his country’s oil-based economy into a modern industrial economy will require a long and uncertain process.",
        "这意味着沙特王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼（Mohammed bin Salman）的雄心勃勃的计划面临着一个漫长而不确定的过程。 萨勒曼王储意欲将基于石油的沙特经济转型为现代工业经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the growth rate in China’s less developed eastern regions amounts to less than half of the national average.",
        "此外，中国欠发达的东部地区增速为全国平均增速的一半不到。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the region’s emerging economies have increased their holdings of foreign-exchange reserves, and now possess more than half of the world’s total.",
        "此外，自1997年亚洲金融危机以来，亚洲新兴经济体已经增加了其持有的外汇储备，如今储备量已经占到世界总量一半以上。"
    ],
    [
        "But several obstacles stand in the way.",
        "但是障碍很多。"
    ],
    [
        "That lack of unity is symptomatic of the BRICS members’ underlying incompatibilities.",
        "如此缺少统一其实是金砖国家内在不协调的表征。"
    ],
    [
        "The most likely explanation for this public investment shortfall is fiscal constraints.",
        "这一公共投资短缺的最可靠的解释是财政约束。"
    ],
    [
        "Sentiments that we take for granted in the opinion pages of newspapers rarely find their way into Bollywood blockbusters.",
        "我们在报纸评论版上习以为常的情绪，基本上不可能出现在宝莱坞影片中。"
    ],
    [
        "A fundamental principle of financial theory – “diversification” or “risk spreading” – implies that interest in the new contracts will be high.",
        "金融理论的一个基本原则即“多样化”或“风险分散”意味着这个新的合同将有很高的权益。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless a constructive course of political action is found in 2016, Puerto Rican migration to the 50 states will rival the scale of the 1930s Dust Bowl exodus from Oklahoma, Arkansas, and other climate-devastated states.",
        "除非20116年做出建设性政治动作，否则波多黎各向50州的移民规模将堪与20世纪30年代阿肯色州俄克拉荷马沙尘碗（Dust Bowl）大逃亡和其他被气候摧毁的州相提并论。"
    ],
    [
        "And foreign direct investment by US MNCs is not zero-sum: it encourages rather than reduces employment, investment, and R&D in the US.",
        "美国跨国公司的外国直接投资也不是零和的：它们鼓励而不是妨碍了美国的就业、投资和研发。"
    ],
    [
        "Faulty expectations on the part of market participants regularly cause credit and asset-price bubbles.",
        "市场参与者的错误预期时不时会引起信用和资产价格泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "The best way to ensure that outcome is to normalize relations with it, help its economy recover, and support its integration into the international community.",
        "确保这一结果的最佳办法是对伊关系正常化，帮助其经济复苏、支持其融入国际社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, the current legal framework survived a close vote (217 to 205) in the House of Representatives.",
        "上个月，当前法律框架在众议院以微弱多数（217对205）获得通过。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese economy has come through two major global crises in the past four years.",
        "中国经济在过去四年里已经安然度过了两个重要的全球危机。"
    ],
    [
        "At one moment he is the “responsible” world leader who speaks charmingly to the international media about moderate Islam; at the next, he is the cunning conspirator who rigs elections, destroys political opponents, breaks promises on relinquishing power, enters into mutually beneficial relationships with mullahs, and castigates human-rights activists as “Westernized fringe elements” that “are as bad as the Islamic extremists.”",
        "他一会儿是那位“负责”的世界级领袖，魅力十足地向国际传媒侃谈温和的伊斯兰教； 时而，他又是那个狡猾的阴谋家，操纵选举，消灭政治对手，不信守放权的承诺，与毛拉们建立互利关系，严惩人权活动分子，视之为“和伊斯兰主义者一样坏”的“西方化的残渣余孽。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe’s refugee crisis is also a business problem.",
        "但欧洲难民危机同样也是商业问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Adding to China’s labor woes, the financial crisis during the last two years had a disastrous effect on foreign demand.",
        "除了中国国内的劳动力困境之外，过去两年所爆发的金融危机还对国外需求造成了毁灭性的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even among this age group, one finds that the unemployment ratio is often about one-half of the widely reported unemployment rate.",
        "但是，就是在这一年龄段，你也可以发现失业比例通常只有广泛报道的失业率的一半左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment banks and credit rating agencies believed in financial alchemy – the notion that significant value could be created by slicing and dicing securities.",
        "投资银行和信贷评级机构相信金融点金术——也就是认为拆分债券可以创造巨大的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "That means tackling the mispricing of risk that results from the government’s backing of the country’s state-owned banks (which surely could not be allowed to fail).",
        "这意味着去除因政府对国有银行的兜底所导致的风险错误定价（因为国家肯定不会让这些银行破产）。"
    ],
    [
        "Few people expect Corbyn to win a national election in Britain, either; that is why his parliamentary party is in such despair.",
        "也很少有人预期科尔宾能赢得英国国家大选； 因此，他的议会政党相当地绝望。"
    ],
    [
        "The final nail in the coffin was the appreciation of the euro between 2002 and 2008.",
        "棺材上的最后一颗钉子则是2002年到2008年间欧元的升值。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty-two years ago, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was unveiled; today, 195 countries have agreed to prevent dangerous global warming by limiting the increase in global temperature to 2⁰C.",
        "二十二年前，联合国气候变化框架公约（Framework Convention on Climate Change，UNFCCC）诞生； 如今，195个国家同意通过限制全球升温幅度在2℃内以防止危险的全球变暖。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty-six years after the Islamic Revolution, just when the West had expected Iran to settle down and become more pragmatic, the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems to have lurched back toward radicalism.",
        "伊斯兰革命爆发26年之后，正当西方预料伊朗局势稳定、变得更加注重实效之时，内贾德总统当局标志着伊朗突然回归到激进主义的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s other major contribution comes through constructive diplomatic engagement in the region.",
        "土耳其的另一个重要贡献来自于在该地区的建设性外交接触。"
    ],
    [
        "To save the euro – which is essential, because the European project’s fate depends on the success of monetary union – Europe needs action now: in addition to indispensable austerity measures and structural reforms, there is no way to succeed without a viable economic program that will assure growth.",
        "拯救欧元十分重要，因为欧洲计划的命运取决于货币联盟的成功与否。 除了必不可少的紧缩政策和结构改革，没有任何方式可以不采取既切实可行又保证增长的经济项目而取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time they qualify for pensions and the license to grumble, the century will be into its seventh or eighth decade.",
        "当他们到了退休年龄并有资格去发牢骚的时候，大概已经是2070~80年了。"
    ],
    [
        "And, according to recent ECB statistics, this hope has been largely fulfilled.",
        "而根据最新的欧洲央行数据，这一希望已经基本实现。"
    ],
    [
        "By including the entire international community in its partly binding framework, the deal establishes a new paradigm in global governance.",
        "通过将整个国际社会纳入其半约束性框架，该协议建立了全球治理的新范式。"
    ],
    [
        "Through pragmatic, sustained reform efforts, countries like Brazil, China, and India turned their economies around to achieve stunning increases in GDP growth – from an average annual rate of 3.5% in 1980-1994 to 5.5% since then.",
        "通过务实的持续改革，巴西、中国和印度等国家扭转了经济局面，获得了令人惊异的GDP增长——从1980—1994年间的年均3. 5%增至1994年后的年均5."
    ],
    [
        "Sharon and you might have felt that unilateral action was needed in Gaza, but the withdrawal from Gaza could have produced many more benefits for both sides had it been done bilaterally.",
        "沙龙和您可能感觉到，在加沙地带需要单方面的行动。 但是，如果双方都采取行动，从加沙撤军对双方所产生的利益要大很多。"
    ],
    [
        "A last-ditch diplomatic solution appears unlikely, given that the nuclear question plays a decisive role in the Iranian regime’s factional struggles, in which anyone favoring compromise can be considered the loser.",
        "由于核问题在伊朗国内派系斗争中扮演着重要角色，任何持妥协立场的派系都会被认定是失败者，因此在希望在最后一刻达成外交解决方案也是不太可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "While the latter focus on the ability and willingness of the borrower to pay, the odiousness rating would provide an estimate of how likely it is that a court would decide that the debt falls with the regime.",
        "前者侧重借款人偿付的能力和意愿，而后者将为法庭有多大可能裁决债务随政权的倒台而消灭提供估计。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, I believe that a political system that best serves free choice – including the choice of people to be practicing Muslims – is the best system for Islam.",
        "因此，我相信，一个能最大程度上尊重自由选择的政治制度——包括人们选择信奉穆斯林的方式——就是伊斯兰最好的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Growing discrimination in employment, housing, and education affects not just immigrants and their children; it harms our societies as a whole.",
        "在就业、住房和教育方面日益严重的歧视问题不仅会影响移民及其后代，也不利于我们整个社会。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, the authorities will eventually need to inject capital into the Chinese banking system.",
        "在这种情况下，当局最终肯定会被迫得向银行体系注资。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis in international financial markets has had a noticeable impact on Europe’s real economy.",
        "国际金融市场的危机对欧洲实体经济的冲击显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "This has severely undermined the Chinese Communist Party’s legitimacy, while hampering the kind of market-based competition that China’s economy needs to propel the country to high-income status.",
        "这严重破坏了中国共产党的合法性，也妨碍了驱动中国经济迈入高收入行列所必须的基于市场的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Ericsson estimates that by 2018, 85% of the world’s population will have access to mobile-broadband coverage via 3G networks, and 50% will have 4G.",
        "爱立信预测到2018年，3G网络移动宽带将覆盖总人口的85%，其中50%将为4G用户。"
    ],
    [
        "There is much debate about what explains the rapidity of Myanmar’s current pace of change.",
        "关于缅甸近期改变之迅猛的原因还存在颇多争议。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with Congressional elections in 2006 and a presidential election in 2008, five years is too long.",
        "但是对即将于2006年开始的国会大选和2008年的总统大选而言，五年的时间毕竟太长。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Muslims still condemn the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kamal, because he tried to modernize his country.",
        "许多穆斯林还在谴责现代土耳其的奠基人穆斯塔法·凯末尔，因为他曾尝试使他的国家现代化。"
    ],
    [
        "But moral and ethical questions never yield fully to technical solutions; they also require an understanding of humanity’s social and cultural heritage.",
        "但道德和伦理问题从来不会有完全技术的解决方案； 这些问题还需要对人类社会和文化传统的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "With few exceptions, the SCAF’s members benefited significantly from Mubarak’s regime.",
        "几乎没有什么特例，最高军事委员会的委员都从穆巴拉克政府中受益匪浅。"
    ],
    [
        "The Promise of Ethical Machines",
        "有伦理的机器能给我们带来什么"
    ],
    [
        "Many people regard a successful CEO as someone who can deliver on well-defined objectives, so they conclude that a businessman can solve social problems that a politician cannot.",
        "许多人觉得成功的CEO能实现明确的目标，因此他们认为商人能够解决政客不能解决的社会问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The second factor that could push US interest rates sharply upward is not fear of a decline in the future value of the dollar, but the fact of a past decline in its value.",
        "另一个可能导致美国利率急升的因素不是对美元终值下跌的恐惧，而是其价值在过去曾经下跌的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, however, has always found it difficult to come to terms with an over-confident, let alone arrogant, Germany.",
        "但是，欧洲总是不能和过度自信（甚至目中无人）的德国形成妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2004, both the EU and US were tardy in speaking in defense of Ukraine’s democrats. Only when the courage of millions of ordinary Ukrainians gathered in central Kyiv galvanized world opinion did the US and EU marshal the courage to stand up for an honest election result.",
        "2004年，欧盟和美国对于声援乌克兰的民主人士都显得不情不愿，直到数百万聚集在基辅市中心的乌克兰百姓展现的勇气唤醒了世界舆论，美国和欧盟才站出来捍卫真实的选举结果。"
    ],
    [
        "As the supreme commander of an army at war, Hollande can now try to reinvent himself.",
        "作为战斗军队的最高指挥官，奥朗德现在可以重新树立自己的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "Phelps was also responsible for the “island parable,” which helped explain why monetary policy can have temporary real effects as a result of imperfect information.",
        "菲尔普斯提出“孤岛比喻”，该比喻帮助解释了为什么货币政策作为一种不确切的信息能产生暂时性的真正的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri el-Maliki, representing the ruling Shi’a-Kurdish coalition, expressed the hope that the dictator’s end would help to heal the sectarian divides.",
        "伊拉克总理马利基代表了占据统治地位的什叶派和库尔德人联盟，他表示说希望独裁者的死将会帮助平息国内不同部落之间的隔阂。"
    ],
    [
        "So is restraint and mutual cooperation – as is true for China as well.",
        "同样，克制和共同合作也是印度——以及中国——国家安全的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the case of so-called beggar-thy-neighbor policies.",
        "这就是所谓以邻为壑政策的案例。"
    ],
    [
        "But multilateralism is undergoing a transformation of its own, driven by doubts about the legitimacy of existing structures.",
        "然而在那些现有架构合法性质疑声的推动下，多边主义也在进行着自身的转型。"
    ],
    [
        "While poverty reduction is the best way to reduce fertility rates, access to reproductive health care is critically important for helping families limit the number of children they have to the number they desire.",
        "尽管消除贫困是降低人口出生率的最佳途径，获得恰当的生殖保健对于家庭把孩子的数量控制在他们都希望的水平也是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "If anything, there will be an even bigger hole to fill.",
        "中国不拖后腿已属不易。"
    ],
    [
        "Several thousand PLA troops are indisputably stationed in the Khunjerab Pass on the Xinjiang border to protect the Karakoram Highway, which PLA soldiers are now repairing in several places.",
        "数千名解放军正驻扎于红其拉甫口岸的新疆一侧以保卫喀喇昆仑高速公路，而且正在修理某些路段。"
    ],
    [
        "This group of parasitic and related infections – including lymphatic filariasis (or elephantiasis), intestinal worms, and schistosomiasis – is a scourge of poverty.",
        "这类寄生虫引起的相关的传染病，包括淋巴性丝虫病（或象皮病）、肠道寄生虫病和血吸虫病，是贫困的刺激因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The unprecedented demonstrations against Syria’s occupation of Lebanon following the assassination of its former prime minister, Rafiq al-Hariri, show no signs of abating.",
        "在黎巴嫩前总理哈里里遇刺身亡后，反对叙利亚对黎占领的示威规模空前，并且没有减弱趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "In the UK, immigrants generate more in taxes than they draw in benefits.",
        "在英国，移民所缴纳的税收比获得的福利更多。"
    ],
    [
        "For a long time, economic theory aspired to the elegance of Euclidean geometry, where all true statements can be derived from five apparently incontrovertible axioms, such as the notion that there is only one line that connects two points in space.",
        "长期以来，经济理论追求欧几里得几何之美。 在欧式几何中，所有真命题都可以从五个显然是无可争议的公理推得，比如空间中两点之间有且只有一条直线相连。"
    ],
    [
        "Another reason is that heterodox and MIT School economists also often agree on policy, even if their reasoning is different.",
        "还有一个原因是即便推理过程有所差异，非正统和麻省理工学派经济学家却常能就政策达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure to recognize this point can have significant consequences.",
        "认识不到这一点可能带来严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "A typical oilfield yields only 20% of the reservoir, with close to 63% remaining buried in the earth even when the most advanced technologies are used.",
        "一座典型的油田的产出只占其储量的20%，有近63%的资源深藏于地下，即便用当今最先进的技术也无法开采。"
    ],
    [
        "When the agent asked how the tape would be removed, he was not given any answer.",
        "当这名特工询问怎样取下封带时却没有得到答案。"
    ],
    [
        "A flexible membership system would enable countries to join the northern euro when their economic and fiscal conditions became strong enough.",
        "灵活的成员资格制度将允许它们在经济和财政条件足够坚挺时加入北欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers can respond in three ways.",
        "决策者有三条应对方案。"
    ],
    [
        "I concluded that there was a fair chance that oil prices were peaking and that before too long spot prices would reverse and start to decline.",
        "我推断最大的可能性是石油价格达到顶峰，不久现货价格将会逆转，然后开始下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the meaning of the constitution is always contested, and it would be naive to believe that non-partisan appeals to it will immediately deter him.",
        "当然，宪法的含义永远有争议，认为无党派偏见地诉诸宪法立即能让特朗普胆战心惊是天真的。"
    ],
    [
        "A real estate housing project developer wanted to cut many acres of trees so he could build houses.",
        "一个房地产开发商准备砍伐掉数公顷的树木以供他建造房屋。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is not something they can influence much.",
        "但这不是他们可以产生巨大影响的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Sri Lanka, beautiful and ideally located in the Indian Ocean, is in a position to become an economic hub for the entire region – a financial center and a safe haven for investment in a geopolitically turbulent part of the world.",
        "斯里兰卡，美丽且坐落于印度洋上的绝佳位置，将有能力成为整个区域的经济枢纽——在这个饱受地缘政治动荡影响地区的金融中心和安全投资避风港。"
    ],
    [
        "A concert of powers is only as strong as its weakest pillar, and requires a great deal of self-discipline and restraint.",
        "强国之间的协调是它最坚固也最脆弱的地方。 这种联合还需要广泛的自律和自制。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a situation would be, in her words, “ludicrous, wasteful, and unfair.”",
        "”用她的话讲，这样的情形“可笑、浪费而且有失公允。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "That outcome would run counter to British public opinion, which remains moderate on the question of fully breaking with the EU.",
        "这一结果将与英国公众观点相悖，英国公众对于完全脱离欧盟的态度并不热烈。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be the height of irresponsibility not to seize the unexpected opportunity created by Rowhani’s election with all the strength, good faith, and creativity we can muster.",
        "但不以全部的力量、真诚和创造力抓住鲁哈尼当选这个意料之外的机会将是高度的不负责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Both groups are reacting to genuine evidence.",
        "两大阵营的反应都来自确凿的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a sentiment shared by many Americans who went to hear her lecture after her retirement.",
        "前去聆听她卸任后演讲的许多美国人也有同感。"
    ],
    [
        "The international Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, which I co-chaired and on which Deaton served, had earlier emphasized that GDP often is not a good measure of a society’s wellbeing.",
        "由本人担任联合主席同时迪顿参与的经济表现和社会进步国际测定委员会早前就强调，GDP往往不是衡量社会福祉的优秀指标。"
    ],
    [
        "The new IMF needs to become more vocal on global financial stability issues.",
        "新的IMF应该在全球金融系统稳定的问题上有更大的发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed committed the most egregious error of all.",
        "美联储犯下了最为严重的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Trump is not in this alone, and a leader is only as good as his or her team.",
        "当然，特朗普不是一个人在战斗，领袖好不好，全看团队。"
    ],
    [
        "The breakthrough provided clear evidence that while institutions are very important in world affairs, individuals can sometimes be decisive.",
        "伊朗核问题的突破清楚地证明，尽管机构在国际事务中十分重要，但有时个体才具有决定性作用。"
    ],
    [
        "(It also perfectly complements his declared intention to charge US allies for protection.)",
        "（这也是对他公开宣称的要向美国的盟国收取保护费的完美补充。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, its practitioners failed to anticipate the calamity, and many appeared unable to say anything useful when the time came to formulate a response.",
        "毕竟，经济学实践家没有预见到这次灾难，当需要对此作出反应时，许多经济学家也提不出任何有用的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "Stories are remarkable for the way that they allow us to comprehend new concepts, and continue to make sense of them, even when they involve numerous contexts and unexpected associations.",
        "故事有一个卓越的特点，它能让我们理解新概念，并持续地了解它们，即使它们包括大量上下文语境和预料之外的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Will it lead to a persistent increase in risky assets, especially in US and other global equity markets?",
        "它是否会导致风险资产的持续增长，尤其是在美国以及其他全球股票市场？"
    ],
    [
        "India’s parliament, not surprisingly, denounced the Chinese incursion in the harshest possible terms.",
        "毫不奇怪，印度议会用最强硬的语调谴责中国的入侵。"
    ],
    [
        "The pros and cons of austerity nowadays have been thoroughly debated.",
        "现在紧缩的优缺点已经被人们全面地讨论过了。"
    ],
    [
        "Subsequently, they raised equity capital from investors seeking to make a social impact – Compartamos from Accion and the IFC, and SKS from Unitus, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, and an Indian government development agency.",
        "接着，它们向寻求社会影响的投资者募集股本——康帕多的股东来自Accion和IFC，而SKS的股东则来自Unitus、硅谷风险投资家科斯拉（Vinod Khosla）以及印度政府开发署。"
    ],
    [
        "By increasing reflection and shade, a great deal of heat build-up can be avoided.",
        "通过增加反射和遮光物，大量聚集起来的热量是可以避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "Once Britain gives the Union formal notice (by invoking Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon), that option will enter the mainstream of political debate everywhere.",
        "一旦英国向欧盟提交正式通知（通过激活《里斯本条约》第50条），那种选择将进入各地政治辩论的主流。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentina’s new president-elect, Mauricio Macri, an engineer by training, is often described in the international press as “center-right.”",
        "阿根廷当选新总统，工程师出身的毛里西奥·马克里，常常被国际媒体称之为“中间偏右”。"
    ],
    [
        "Non-financial firms have achieved a mix of resilience and agility that contrasts sharply with prevailing conditions for some households and governments around the world that have yet to confront adequately a legacy of over-leverage.",
        "非金融企业实现了恢复力和灵活性兼具，这与世界范围内不少家庭和政府所面临的的情况——过度杠杆留下的后遗症——形成了鲜明对比。"
    ],
    [
        "The Great Depression and World War II opened the new era of the Bretton Woods system of a more balanced state-market relationship.",
        "大萧条和二战则开启了以布雷顿森林体系为核心的新时期，国家与市场之间的关系也因此变得更加均衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment-driven growth is no substitute for conflict resolution and political stabilization; on the contrary, the former cannot be sustained without progress on the latter.",
        "投资驱动的经济发展不能取代冲突化解和政治稳定； 恰恰相反，如果后者迟迟不能向前推进前者所取得的进展很可能也无法维系。"
    ],
    [
        "They insist that Putin’s regime represents a form of continuity with Russia’s cultural traditions.",
        "他们坚持认为普京政权代表俄罗斯文化传统的一种持续形式。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a growing number of systemically important countries have taken measures that are undermining the Fund and the Bank, albeit largely inadvertently.",
        "事实上，越来越多的系统重要性国家采取了妨碍IMF和世界银行的措施，尽管本意未必如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva showed that significant departures from free-market prescriptions worked better.",
        "巴西总统卢拉表明，从自由市场药方分道扬镳更为有效。"
    ],
    [
        "And the collapse the following month of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, which unleashed a global financial crisis from which the world economy has yet to recover fully, underscored the advanced economies’ vulnerabilities, while largely sparing China.",
        "9月美国投资银行雷曼兄弟公司倒闭引发了一场全球金融危机，世界经济至今仍未从中复苏，这凸显出发达经济体的弱点，但中国基本上独善其身。"
    ],
    [
        "Or the central bank lets the markets go where they will, at the cost of drawing the ire of business, labor, the rest of the government, and, in fact, practically everyone except financial types.",
        "或者央行让市场顺其自然地发展，其代价是引发商界、劳工、政府其他部门和实际上除了金融界以外所有人的不满。"
    ],
    [
        "Bond yields in southern Europe were rising, and a pervasive sense of apprehension and fear cloaked governments in European capitals.",
        "南欧国家债券的收益率不断攀升，各国政府内部都笼罩着忧虑和恐惧的气氛。"
    ],
    [
        "Donors should lend their support by backing long-term solutions aimed at increasing food production, slowing population growth, and mitigating long-term global climate change.",
        "捐助国应将他们的援手伸向以提高粮食产量、减缓人口增长和缓解长期全球气候变化的长远解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in this respect, immigration is more a part of the solution than a part of the problem.",
        "事实上，从这个角度讲，移民是解决办法而不是问题的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, China introduced two new national memorial days to commemorate China’s long battle against Japanese aggression in World War II: “War against Japanese Aggression Victory Day” on September 3 and “Nanjing Massacre Day” on December 13.",
        "今年早些时候，中国新规定了两个全国纪念日以纪念漫长的抗日战争：9月3日为“抗日战争胜利纪念日”； 12月13日为“南京大屠杀死难者国家公祭日”。"
    ],
    [
        "The shift to an “East Asian” growth model should not be surprising, given India’s demographic pipeline.",
        "从印度的人口因素看，转向“东亚”增长模式并不令人惊奇。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that the coming US presidential election will lead to a more enlightened public debate about tax and entitlement reform.",
        "有人希望接下来的美国总统选举将在税务和授权改革方面激起一场更为理性开明的公众讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "They often hunt and eat bushmeat, leaving them vulnerable to infection.",
        "他们常吃野味，因此很容易被传染。"
    ],
    [
        "The rejection of the European Union’s Constitution by French and Dutch voters forces us to think well beyond that treaty.",
        "法国与荷兰对欧盟宪法的反对迫使我们开始好好考虑一些条约之外的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A major slowdown seems to be looming.",
        "重大的经济减速似乎就要来临。"
    ],
    [
        "But if there are no new investment opportunities on the horizon, squabbling is less costly, because the existing plant and machinery are already sunk costs.",
        "但如果根本不存在新的投资机会，争吵的成本就会因此降低，因为现有的厂房机器已经属于沉没成本的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is belied by Turkey’s own history.",
        "但这与土耳其本身的历史不符。"
    ],
    [
        "But intervention need not be defined as either armed intervention or intervention with arms.",
        "但其实干涉行为并不能仅仅被定义为武装干涉或是利用武器来进行干涉。"
    ],
    [
        "A European Role in Palestine?",
        "巴勒斯坦的欧洲角色？"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this is not required by current legislation in Europe, where only quality, efficacy, and safety must be demonstrated, without any need for comparative studies.",
        "不幸的是，目前欧洲的立法却没有这样的要求：药物只需证明其质量、药效和安全性，而在比较研究方面却没有任何规定。"
    ],
    [
        "As we learned in 2009, patterns of expectations and demand take a new shape.",
        "正象我们在2009年认识到的那样，期望和要求的模式要求一种新的形态出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Produced on an appropriate scale, a kit should cost about $20,000, including distribution costs and a profit margin.",
        "如果有了一定的生产规模，这种改装包的售价是约为20，000美元，这包含了配送成本和一定的利润。"
    ],
    [
        "The US was running a deficit of more than 6.5% of its GDP, and China had a surplus of close to 10% of its GDP.",
        "美国的赤字超过其GDP的6. 5%，而中国的盈余接近其GDP的10%。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the International Organization for Migration, as of July, some 150,000 migrants had reached Europe by sea this year, double the number during the same period in 2014.",
        "根据国际移民组织（International Organization for Migration）的数据，截至7月，今年有大约150,000移民抵达欧洲，比2014年同期翻了一番。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s a mistake.",
        "这是一种错误。"
    ],
    [
        "And the trend is not restricted to GDP.",
        "并且这一趋势不仅仅局限于GDP。 1945年以降，平均而言民主党执政期间失业率下降0."
    ],
    [
        "Aceh was essentially a spectacular Muslim success story.",
        "亚齐省和平在本质上是穆斯林成功的巨大典范。"
    ],
    [
        "The sudden surge in young voters has called into question the long-presumed victory of the governing GNP’s likely candidate, Park Guen-hye, in the presidential election due to be held in December.",
        "执政大国家党的总统候选人朴槿惠原本被外界一致看好，但年轻选民的突然涌现使得今年12月的总统选举突生变数。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the IMF recommends antiquated and phony solutions.",
        "与之相反，国际货币基金组织的建议却是过时的伪方法。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, in some societies, they are not allowed to emerge from those confines, or may do so only if fully covered and accompanied by a male relative.",
        "这就是为何在某些社会中，女性不允许出现在家庭范围之外，或者只有在男性亲属寸步不离的陪同下才能外出。"
    ],
    [
        "A more useful framework would view the state and the market as two sides of the same coin, bound together by the property-rights infrastructure (PRI).",
        "更有效的分析框架应该是将政府和市场视为一枚硬币的两面，并通过产权基础设施（property-rights infrastructure，PRI）联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Some officials have reverted to alarmist language on the number of fatalities attributed to Chernobyl.",
        "某些官员又重新回到有关由于切尔诺贝利所引起的死亡数目的耸人听闻的语言。"
    ],
    [
        "Declining remittances from overseas workers, shrinking trade flows and investment could undermine new businesses, throw thousands out of work, and increase tensions and instability. The crisis -- which Africa did nothing to cause -- demands a strong response.",
        "海外劳工汇款减少，贸易和投资资金流的萎缩将威胁到某些新兴行业，导致数千人失业并激发社会矛盾和不稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "But if large numbers of a host – say, birds – encounter a great number of people, eventually the virus will find a way to prosper in a new type of cell.",
        "但如果数量众多的宿主—比如鸟类—遭遇了众多的人类，那么病毒最终会找到在新型的细胞中繁殖的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in that case, the mutual funds and ETFs have to sell those corporate bonds.",
        "但是，接到套现通知后，共同基金和ETF必须出售这些公司债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite possessing very different institutions than those seen in the advanced economies, no doubt a result of its communist system, China managed to achieve 8.7% average annual per capita GDP growth from 1980 to 2015.",
        "尽管拥有与发达经济体差异极大，沿袭自其共产主义路线的体制，但中国依然在1980年~2015年间成功实现了8. 7％的年均人均GDP增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "It would limit the extent to which government borrowing fuels inter-bank money creation, or at least force financiers to tie up some of their inter-bank money in the closed, domestic fiscal money system, thereby minimizing shocks from sudden capital flight.",
        "它可以限制政府借贷助长银行间货币创造的程度，或至少能够迫使银行家的一部分银行间货币锁定在封闭的国内财政货币体系中，从而让突发资本外逃的冲击最小化。"
    ],
    [
        "The chief Jesuit confessor at the papal court used to be called “the black pope,” owing to his simple black cassock (if not his sinister intent).",
        "这位教廷首席耶稣会神父曾被成为“黑教皇”，因为他的教袍颜色纯黑（如果不是他别有用心的话）。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries take others’ advice for many reasons.",
        "一国接受他人意见的原因很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, some cynics say that the Chinese possess neither the sophistication nor the temperament to be innovators.",
        "当然，一些犬儒主义者认为，中国不具备作为创新者的成熟性和气质。"
    ],
    [
        "But that statement, amazingly, ignored Spain’s higher pre-euro inflation – thus confusing real and nominal rates – and more rapid GDP growth.",
        "但令人惊讶的是，这种说法忽视了西班牙加入欧盟以前较高的通胀率，进而混淆了实际和名义利率，以及更快的GDP增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments could afford the cost of the subsidies since cutting unemployment would not only lower public security costs, but would also reduce the need for welfare programs.",
        "由于降低失业率不仅会降低公共治安费用，而且也会减少福利项目的需要。 因此，政府有能力支付这些补贴的费用。"
    ],
    [
        "But the liberties of Europeans will not be better served by blowing up the institutions that were carefully constructed in the ruins of the last calamitous European war.",
        "但欧洲人的自由不会因为推翻谨慎建立于上一场欧洲战争浩劫废墟上的机构而得到更好的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "In these posts, Kan avoided involvement with the two issues that wrecked Hatoyama’s premiership: the controversial base relocation issue, and debates over budget cuts.",
        "在其职位上，菅避免了卷入两桩事务：美军基地迁移问题和预算削减讨论，而正是这两个议题迫使鸠山下台。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are wrong to be frightened by these factors.",
        "但是他们根本不应该对这些因素所吓倒。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem for the rich is that, other than military spending, there is no place to cut the budget other than in areas of core support for the poor and working class.",
        "而富裕阶层的问题则在于，除了军事领域之外，最可供开支削减的领域莫过于那些主要为穷人和工薪阶级的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "From Central Bank to Central Planning?",
        "从中央银行到中央计划?"
    ],
    [
        "We are also stepping up our technical assistance to strengthen economic policy making in Africa, and opening two new regional technical assistance centers.",
        "我们还在增加我们的技术援助来在非洲增强经济决策，并且开辟了两个新的地区技术援助中心。"
    ],
    [
        "Seldom do the “chickens come home to roost” as quickly as they have in recent years – an ill-conceived war, attempted on the cheap, has not brought peace to the Middle East.",
        "恶有恶报这句话很少像近年来这样迅速地得到应验¾一次想占便宜的错误战争未能给中东地区带来和平。"
    ],
    [
        "Although China surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest economy two years ago, Japan is a comfortable society with a much higher per capita income.",
        "虽然两年前中国就已超越日本成为世界第二大经济体，但日本却是人均收入更高的小康社会。"
    ],
    [
        "For several decades, that tendency has been offset by ever more intensive trading of tradable goods, often passing through many countries in complex supply chains.",
        "几十年来，这一趋势一直被越发频密的可贸易商品交易所抵消，这些交易往往通过复杂的供应链在许多国家之间流通。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Ban, the number of Palestinian children killed in 2014 was higher than the numbers of child deaths in Syria and Darfur, and was exceeded only in Afghanistan and Iraq.",
        "潘基文指出，2014年被杀的巴勒斯坦儿童数量比叙利亚和达尔富尔儿童死亡人数还要多，仅次于阿富汗和伊拉克儿童死亡人数。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent agreement with the International Monetary Fund is of immediate importance in this respect, and the agreement with the European Union on a Deep and Comprehensive Free-Trade Area is crucial to the country's long-term transformation.",
        "在这方面，与国际货币基金组织的最新协议具有紧迫的重要性，而与欧盟的深入和全面自由贸易区（Deep and Comprehensive Free-Trade Area）协议对于乌克兰的长期转型至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it is back in fashion in Washington.",
        "而现在软权力又成为华盛顿的流行词汇。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries have powerful elites with outsize influence, but in India, dynastic elites control the top echelons in every sphere of public life: politics, business, the media, and even Bollywood.",
        "许多国家都有影响力超群的强大精英，但在印度，世代相传的精英控制着公众生活方方面面的最顶层：政治、商业、媒体甚至宝莱坞莫不如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But the plight of child refugees is only one reason why a new approach to children’s rights is needed.",
        "但难民儿童的困境只是需要采取新的儿童权利方针的原因之一。"
    ],
    [
        "By decarbonizing the global economy and limiting climate change, world leaders can unleash a wave of innovation, support the emergence of new industries and jobs, and generate vast economic opportunities.",
        "世界领导人可以通过让全球经济去碳化和限制气候变化开启新一波创新潮，支持新产业和就业机会的涌现，并形成巨大的经济机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Henry Ford was an anti-Semite who was happy to cooperate with Nazi Germany until 1942. He was also a leader of the America First Committee, which opposed going to war against Hitler.",
        "亨利·福特是反犹主义者，他和纳粹的愉快合作一直持续到1942年，并领导着反对与希特勒开战的美国优先委员会（America First Committee）。"
    ],
    [
        "This type of aid would also provide political support for the authorities from a population grateful for policies that promote job creation.",
        "这种援助还将会为政权从人民中提供政治支持。 这些人民对促进就业的政策感恩戴德。"
    ],
    [
        "President Franklin Roosevelt once famously addressed the Daughters of the American Revolution – a group that prided itself on the early arrival of its ancestors – as “fellow immigrants.”",
        "富兰克林·罗斯福总统对美国革命女儿会——该团体以祖先最早到达美国为自豪——做过著名评价，称他们是“同伴移民”。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the Arab Spring revolutions did undermine the pillars of the regional status quo, whose construction and maintenance the Kingdom had underwritten with its petrodollars.",
        "尽管如此，阿拉伯之春革命仍破坏了沙特王国用石油美元建立并维持的地区现状的支柱。"
    ],
    [
        "Nostalgia has also emerged as a major factor in many countries’ domestic affairs.",
        "怀旧也成为左右许多国家国内事务的主旋律。"
    ],
    [
        "As countries come under pressure to make payments, multiple emerging-market debt crises are likely.",
        "随着各国日渐遭受偿付压力，可能出现多场新兴市场债务危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet widespread concerns persist.",
        "但普遍的担忧依然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "How long Russia can afford such an expensive prime minister?",
        "俄罗斯还能承受这位代价高昂的总理多久？"
    ],
    [
        "China will work for a global consensus on climate change.",
        "中国将会为气候变化的全球共识做出贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "America and Europe will keep their high living standards only by basing their competitiveness on advanced skills, cutting-edge technologies, and modern infrastructure.",
        "只有将竞争力建立在先进技术、尖端科技和现代化基础设施之上，美国和欧洲才能保持自己的生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Fed’s legitimacy – and its ability to make sensible policy – is not boosted by having major banks represented, directly or indirectly, on a board that chooses and oversees a key policymaker.",
        "但美联储的合法性——以及其做出明智决策的能力——并没有因为让大银行获得遴选和监督重要决策者的理事会席位而直接或间接地得到增强。"
    ],
    [
        "Both men and women will make those decisions.",
        "不论是男性还是女性，都可以做出决策。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has multiple alliance obligations – with Japan, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, and Thailand – which are needed, in part, to deter North Korean aggression.",
        "美国身上背负着诸多盟友义务——对日本、韩国、澳大利亚、菲律宾还有泰国——部分是出于防止朝鲜入侵的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the purely inflation-oriented approach to monetary policy gained total dominance in both central banking and academic economics.",
        "于是这一单纯通胀导向的货币政策便统治了央行界和经济学学术圈。"
    ],
    [
        "Household wealth is also increasing.",
        "家庭财富也在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, the major powers view climate change as a negotiation over who will reduce their CO2 emissions (mainly from the use of coal, oil, and gas).",
        "目前，主要大国将气候变化视为一场关于谁减少二氧化碳排放（主要来自煤炭、石油和天然气的使用）的谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s citizens have tended to expect too much from their state, and now they may be expecting too little from politics and politicians at a time when deep divisions on fundamental economic and social issues run not only between the traditional right and left, but also within both camps.",
        "法国人民对国家期待太大，而如今，在基本经济和社会问题的深刻分歧不仅来自传统的左翼和右翼，也来自左右阵营内部的时候，他们对政治和政客的期待又太少。"
    ],
    [
        "It was the Northern Alliance, backed by India, Iran, and Russia, that overthrew the Taliban regime in Kabul in late 2001 with the help of America’s air war.",
        "当年也正是印度，伊朗和俄罗斯支持的北方联盟在美国空中力量的帮助下推翻了塔利班政权。"
    ],
    [
        "An even bigger question mark hovers over what might be the greatest national security concern of all: the federal budget deficit.",
        "而一个更重要的问题则是所谓最大的国家安全问题：联邦债务赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "Should Musharraf’s government backslide even more on its commitments to restore parliamentary democracy, Pakistan’s crisis would not only be exacerbated, but it might begin to infect the wider region.",
        "如果穆沙拉夫政府在其恢复议会民主的承诺上再次倒退，巴基斯坦的危机不仅会加剧，而且也可能会传播到更为广大的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Suddenly, the world turned upside down: “rich” countries were running large deficits and, in some cases, tipping from net creditor status to net indebtedness, while “poor” countries were running surpluses and accumulating large stocks of external assets, including financial claims on Western economies.",
        "突然间，世界来了个天翻地覆：“发达”国家出现了巨额赤字，有的还从净债权人变成了净债务人，而“贫穷”国家出现了盈余并积累起了巨额外部资产存量，包括对西方经济体的金融权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The next report is due to be released in 2010.",
        "下一份报告预计将在2010年发表。"
    ],
    [
        "First, they must identify patterns in the debris that could have come from the production and rapid decay of a Higgs particle.",
        "首先他们必须确定希格斯粒子产生及快速衰减所导致的碎片模式。"
    ],
    [
        "It is as if the Nuremberg trials never happened after WWII.",
        "就好像二战后纽伦堡审判从未发生过一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Can this change?",
        "这一切会改变吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so – and thus being in a position to win the war – is impossible without soft power.",
        "没有柔性力量，求得平衡乃至占据获胜的制高点都是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Many putative “theorists” themselves declared that the enragés should let go of revolutionary textbooks and, instead, “practically problematize” inherited radical strategies.",
        "很多公认的“理论家”自主宣布应当放弃革命教条主义，从实际出发对继承而来的激进策略提出问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The often-invoked investment gap is mostly a result of wishful thinking, and the remaining barriers to investment have little to do with a lack of financing.",
        "时常被人提及的投资缺口主要来自想当然，依然存在的投资壁垒与缺少融资没有什么关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Musharraf withdrew the emergency and restored the constitution, but a few days later Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in Rawalpindi after she addressed a large election rally.",
        "穆沙拉夫再次鲁莽地宣布全国进入紧急状态，而当时最高法院的裁决是让乔杜里恢复原职。 这次，穆沙拉夫对原本已经经历人事调整的司法部再次洗牌，于是再次把乔杜里撤职。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when this choice became critically acute during the crisis of Russia’s short war against Georgia last summer, the West didn’t provide a conclusive answer to this question.",
        "即使在去年夏天俄罗斯与格鲁吉亚短暂的战争危机期间，当进行选择变得极其尖锐的时候，西方也没有为这个问题提供一个确定的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "One such step is the debt-conversion program proposed here.",
        "一个步骤便是本文所提出的债务转换方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, at the end of February, with the country running low on reserves, Ukraine’s currency, the hryvnia, lost half its value; as a result, annualized inflation surged to 45% in March.",
        "此外，2月底，由于储备减少，乌克兰货币格里夫尼亚价值跌去一半； 结果，3月份年化通胀率飙升至45%。"
    ],
    [
        "Postponing important decisions leads to an inefficient budget shaped by competing national interests.",
        "中止重要决定导致国家利益的相互竞争，产生低效的预算。"
    ],
    [
        "Most non-Americans would find it crazy that neither Romney nor Barack Obama supported stricter gun-control laws (with Obama making an exception only for assault weapons such as AK-47s), in a country where it is sometimes easier to buy guns than it is to vote.",
        "大部分非美国人都会吃惊地发现在这个买枪有时比投票更容易的国度，无论是罗姆尼和奥巴马都不支持制定更严格的枪支管制条令（奥巴马只说要加强对AK-47这类进攻性武器的监管）。"
    ],
    [
        "Nationalism today is not nearly as virulent as it was in the 1930s, because economic distress is much less pronounced.",
        "今天的民族主义没有20世纪30年代那么危险，因为经济困境远没有当时严峻。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese censors methodically suppress news coverage of princelings’ business dealings.",
        "中国审查人员系统地控制对太子党商业行为的新闻报道。"
    ],
    [
        "Kazakhstan achieved independence at a time when international cooperation, free trade, and collective security were encouraged, and it has long worked to support these principles.",
        "哈萨克斯坦获得独立时正逢国际合作、自由贸易和集体安全大受鼓舞的时期，长期以来，它也致力于支持这些原则。"
    ],
    [
        "The occupation troops went on a rampage. Food was hard to find.",
        "占领军队到处闹事，食物出现匮乏。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek referendum has put perhaps the final nail in the coffin of that idea.",
        "希腊公投也许正式宣判了这一希望死刑。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an alternative – but the clock is ticking.",
        "我们可以换一种做法——但时间紧迫。"
    ],
    [
        "The \"catalogue of fundamental rights\" included in the Constitution is extensive, centering on respect for human dignity, freedom, and equality, and also on the principles of democracy and the rule of law.",
        "纳入宪法中的\"基本权利目录\"内容广泛，以尊重人的尊严、自由、平等为中心，同时还阐明了民主原则以及法律规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Many inside and outside of Germany declare that both austerity and more growth are needed, and that more emphasis on growth does not mean any decrease in austerity.",
        "许多德国的内部和外界人士都宣称，财政紧缩和更多的增长都是必要的，而且重视增长并不意味着在削弱紧缩政策。"
    ],
    [
        "European leaders must choose which one it will be.",
        "欧洲国家的首脑们必须二选其一。"
    ],
    [
        "Data-Driven Gender Equality",
        "数据驱动的性别平等"
    ],
    [
        "The reliability and size of the European Union’s farm output means that it can and should play the role of regulator in global markets.",
        "欧盟农业产量稳定而又巨大，这就意味着它能够而且应该在全球市场上发挥监管者的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "These units, most of which are not controlled by the PNA’s central leadership, are more loyal to grassroots figures than to uniformed PNA officers.",
        "这些组织多数都不归民族权力机构中央领导人直接控制，而是听命于基层组织的领导。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Japan’s desire to continue to kill whales is no less motivated by “emotion” than environmentalists’ opposition to it.",
        "事实上，日本希望继续捕杀鲸鱼背后的“感情色彩”丝毫不亚于环保主义者对它的反对声。"
    ],
    [
        "Global Warming’s Misunderstood Victims",
        "被误解的全球变暖受害者"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the post-crisis experience of quantitative easing has highlighted monetary policy's relative powerlessness to offset the global deflationary trend.",
        "事实上，后危机时期的量化宽松经验凸显出货币政策在抵挡全球通缩趋势方面的相对无效性。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of the true explanation, the US is singularly unprepared for jobless recoveries.",
        "但不管真正的解释究竟是什么，奇怪的是，美国似乎没有还准备好如何应对这种失业性复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Those driving that process were aiming to fulfill a perceived mandate for “science-based social intervention.”",
        "推动这一过程的人的目标是实现他们所感到的“基于科学的社会干预”使命。"
    ],
    [
        "ATHENS – George Clooney has reignited a longstanding debate after suggesting, in response to a Greek journalist’s question, that removing the Parthenon Marbles, known in Britain as the Elgin Marbles, from London’s British Museum and returning them to their ancient home in Athens would be “the right thing to do.”",
        "雅典——在回答希腊记者提问时，乔治·克鲁尼表示让现存于伦敦大英博物馆的帕台农神庙大理石浮雕（英国也称之为埃尔金浮雕）回归其古代的家园雅典是“正确的选择”。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Gore agonizes over the accelerated melting of ice in Greenland and what it means for the planet, but overlooks the IPCC’s conclusion that, if sustained, the current rate of melting would add just three inches to the sea level rise by the end of the century.",
        "同样地，戈尔为格陵兰岛冰层的加速融化以及它将给地球带来的后果而感到忧心忡忡，但是却忽略了联合国政府间气候变化专家小组得出的结论，即如果保持现在的融化速度，到本世纪末海平面只会因此而上升3英寸。"
    ],
    [
        "OAKLAND – For the past decade, much attention has been paid to Greece’s public finances.",
        "奥克兰——过去十年来，外界十分关注希腊的公共财政状况。"
    ],
    [
        "“There will be no spreadsheets.",
        "“根本就没有什么数据表。"
    ],
    [
        "But when systemically vital firms overdose on repo, we all pay, first as taxpayers when the government bails them out, and then as we suffer from the resulting economic disruption and downturn.",
        "但当具有系统重要性的公司持有了过量回购协议债务时，我们所有人都要付出代价，首先是作为纳税人（当政府出手援助这些公司时），然后又经受了由此导致的经济破坏和低迷的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "In spite of these possibilities, let’s assume that plans for energy independence succeed, and that several European countries, the United States, Japan, China, and India become self-sufficient.",
        "尽管存在这些可能性，让我们假设能源独立计划取得了成功，并且几个欧洲国家和美国、日本、中国以及印度实现了自给自足。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bitterness of Sugar",
        "糖之苦"
    ],
    [
        "This spring marks the third anniversary of the wave of repression in which Fidel Castro’s regime arrested and handed down long sentences to 75 leading Cuban dissidents.",
        "今年春天是镇压浪潮的三周年纪念。 在此镇压浪潮中，卡斯特罗政权逮捕了古巴75名主要的持不同政见者并宣判了他们的长期徒刑。"
    ],
    [
        "It is critically important that this does not lead to a new lost decade of development, and that poor households – especially children – do not suffer as they did in the 1980‘s.",
        "关键是这次不能再演变为新一轮失去的十年，贫困家庭特别是儿童不能再像20世纪80年代那样备受煎熬。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulators and Internet financiers can look to traditional bank lending to individuals and SMEs as they devise new measures to minimize risk and lock up bottom lines in the P2P lending sector.",
        "监管者和互联网金融企业可以效仿传统银行给个人和中小企业贷款的方法，设计新措施尽量减小风险，锁定P2P贷款业的利润。"
    ],
    [
        "Brain-machine interfaces represent a highly sophisticated case of tool use, but they are still just that.",
        "脑机接口设备代表一种高精密的工具使用方式，但仅此而已。"
    ],
    [
        "As if this were not bad enough, the agreement jettisons everything we’ve learned over the last 30 years or so about international pressure and labor law reform.",
        "更糟的是，我们在过去约三十年里，了解到的所有与国际压力和劳工法改革有关的一切，协议都弃之不顾。"
    ],
    [
        "If the initiative, agreed late last year by the municipal people’s congress, is successful, China may impose a similar ban nationwide.",
        "如果去年底市人大批准的举措成功实施，中国有可能在全国范围内强制实行类似的禁烟措施。"
    ],
    [
        "In this new era, the balance between global order and disorder will be determined not just by US actions, but also and increasingly by what others long aligned with America are prepared to do.",
        "在这个全新时代，全球秩序和混乱之间的平衡不仅取决于美国的行动，而且越来越多地取决于其他美国长期盟国的所作所为。"
    ],
    [
        "When an agricultural research unit called the World Agroforestry Center discovered that a certain tree could help African farmers grow more food, they introduced a new and valuable approach to overcoming Africa's chronic food crisis.",
        "当一个叫做世界农林中心的农业调查机构发现有一种树可以帮助非洲农民扩大粮食产量，它们介绍了一种全新且有价值的方法以克服长期困扰非洲的粮食危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Additional food must be produced using technologies that do not damage the natural resources that future generations will need in order to feed themselves; that do not fuel climate change, which weighs heavily on farmers; and that do not accelerate the disintegration of the delicate fabric of rural society.",
        "必须利用技术来生产更多的粮食，而这些技术必须无损于我们子孙后代未来养活自己所需的自然资源； 不会加剧给农民造成严重影响的气候变化进程；"
    ],
    [
        "On this basis, the US and China avoided conflict over the issue for nearly two decades.",
        "基于此，美国和中国在近二十年的时间里没有发生摩擦。"
    ],
    [
        "The other is that in a representative democracy there is no binding mandate for the elected politician to act in a certain way.",
        "还有就是在代议制民主中，没有任何约束力量强制当选政治家以某种特定的方式行事。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why globally networked, developing-country-based health research institutes like icddr,b are invaluable.",
        "这也告诉我们为什么像icddr,b这样全球联网并植根于发展中国家的医疗研究机构是非常宝贵的。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Algeria is preoccupied with the presidential election in April, in which the incumbent, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, will stand again.",
        "与此同时，阿尔及利亚将在4月进行总统选举，现任总统本特弗利卡（Abdelaziz Bouteflika）将再次参选。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East’s Springtime of Democracy",
        "中东民主的春天"
    ],
    [
        "As a rule, most nationalists do not call themselves nationalists.",
        "有一条规律，大部分民族主义者不称自己是民族主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain has been here before, so this is a question on which history can shed light.",
        "其实英国早就面对过这种情况，因此历史可以为我们提供一些解答。"
    ],
    [
        "But the pursuit of global objectives is difficult, bordering on the impossible, when central banks function under the kind of narrow, domestically focused mandates that independence requires.",
        "但当中央银行在维持独立性所需的那种狭隘且只关注国内事务的政治授权下运作时，追求全球目标就极为困难甚至近乎不可能。"
    ],
    [
        "This also applies to such artifacts of modern humans as personal ornaments, with recently discovered shell beads dated at 75,000 years ago.",
        "同样的情况还有现代人用于个人装饰的器物，特别是最近发现的距今75000年前的贝壳珠链。"
    ],
    [
        "As one Confucian classic put it: Possessing virtue will give the ruler the people.",
        "正如孔子在其儒学经典《大学》中所言：有德，此有人；"
    ],
    [
        "His refusal to rule out future visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, with its war-glorifying Yushukan Museum alongside, fuels hardline skepticism in China.",
        "他拒绝承诺未来不去参拜靖国神社及其美化战争的游就馆，这助长了中国的强硬怀疑派。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this cleavage that defines the intellectual battle now taking place in and around Europe.",
        "这一分歧决定了目前欧洲内外所存在的思想战争。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, some institutions that could provide effective international oversight have been coopted, as demonstrated by Libya’s leadership of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights while under the control of deposed dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi.",
        "与此同时，一些可以提供有效国际监督的机构被收买，比如利比亚在联合国人权委员会中占领导地位，而该国被独裁者卡扎菲所控制。"
    ],
    [
        "It will only exacerbate the rage of the masses at the West’s hypocrisy, now expressed in a form of democratic charlatanry.",
        "这只会加剧群众对于西方伪善的仇恨，这种伪善现在用一种民主欺骗的形式表现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Encouraging investments in renewable energy and increased energy efficiency will have the added benefit of boosting long-term self-reliance and resilience against the volatility of fossil fuel prices.",
        "鼓励在可再生能源和提高能源效率上的投资将有提高长期能源自给能力并应对化石燃料价格波动性的额外好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Western and Middle Eastern governments are also highly concerned about Iran’s behavior, which reflects a rejection of international norms such as respect for national sovereignty.",
        "许多西方和中东政府也高度关注伊朗的行为，这表明国际规范不认可这是尊重国家主权的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s Balancing Act",
        "土耳其的平衡策略"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the Institute for International Finance, a preeminent Washington, DC-based lobbying group for large banks, consistently argues: bail us out, or else face the consequences.",
        "比如，华盛顿有一个叫国际金融协会（Institute for International Finance）的机构，是代表大银行利益的游说集团。 该协会不断强调：援助我们，否则后果自负。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then can the past truly be past.",
        "只有到那时，过去才能真正成为过去。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these global threats are closely intertwined with war, but war that is far more likely to be fought within borders than across them.",
        "其中许多全球危机与战争息息相关，但这些战争都是国内战争，而不是国与国冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, evaluating the impact of any research project is difficult.",
        "事实上，评估任何研究项目的影响是十分困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "And what accounts for South Korea’s exceptional performance if not a coherent sports policy?",
        "如果不是具有连贯性的体育政策，韩国为什么能够有如此卓越的表现呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Merkel had a difficult time in the run-up to her recent party conference, because Jürgen Rüttgers, the minister-president of the largest German state, North-Rhine Westphalia, reminded the Christian Democrats of their historical support for strong social-welfare policies.",
        "默克尔在她前一次的党代会上走上前台也是颇费了一番周折，因为德国最大的州北莱茵-威斯特法伦州的州长约尔根·吕特格尔斯提醒基督教民主党注意他们在历史上一贯支持强有力的社会福利政策。"
    ],
    [
        "How Would Health-Care Reform Affect Patient Health?",
        "医疗改革如何影响患者健康？"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Ozawa’s electoral challenge has left the DPJ more divided than ever.",
        "另一方面，小泽一郎参选使得民主党分裂倾向高于以往。"
    ],
    [
        "In many developing countries, total tax revenue is derived from three main sources: domestic taxes on goods and services (sales and excise taxes), direct taxes (primarily on corporations), and, most important, taxes on foreign trade (import duties).",
        "在许多发展中国家，税收总收入有三个主要来源：对商品和服务收取的国内税（销售税和消费税）、直接税（主要对公司收取）以及最重要的对外贸易税（进口关税）。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if Japan implemented them, they would still not equal the capacity of the US or eliminate the asymmetry.",
        "即便日本贯彻这些措施，它的军事力量依然无法与美国相抗衡，也依然无法消除这种不对称。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though new standards would apply to suppliers from all exporting countries, compliance costs usually vary, meaning that those less equipped to meet higher standards could suffer.",
        "尽管新标准将适用于所有出口国供应商，但合规成本通常各不相同，这意味着更难以满足高标准的企业会遭受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Withdrawal by the US from the current push to restart negotiations would send a clear message that bad behavior will not be tolerated, and would encourage Israelis, who overwhelmingly want peace, to force a change in their own government’s position.",
        "因此美国退出当前重启谈判的行为将明确传达一条信息：错误的行为不会被纵容，并将促使极度渴望和平的以色列人改变其政府的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "But in recent years, the pathogen’s genetic traces have been found in sixth-century graves, and the DNA evidence convicts Yersinia pestis of this ancient mass murder as definitively as it would in a modern courtroom.",
        "但近年来，这种病原体的遗传痕迹已经在公元六世纪的墓穴中被找到，而DNA证据就像现代法庭那样不容置疑的宣判鼠疫杆菌就是这次古代大屠杀的罪魁。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s management model has long been underpinned by a hereditary inner circle.",
        "特朗普的管理模式长期以来一直由基于血缘的内部圈子支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "Its end came with that of the Soviet Union, as it petrified into authoritarian, corrupt, and inefficient military regimes and dictatorships.",
        "它随着苏联的解体而终结，僵化为专制、腐败和低效的军事政权和独裁统治。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, labor's share of profits seems to have fallen markedly in recent decades across the world's eight largest economies, with the possible exception of the United Kingdom.",
        "此外，除英国外，纵观全世界八大经济体，劳动力收入占利润份额似乎在 近数十年呈明显下降态势。"
    ],
    [
        "World War I was the trigger that set off the reversal, with economic globalization declining while military globalization increased, as witnessed by two world wars and a global cold war.",
        "一次大战是造成逆转的导火索，两次世界大战和一次全球冷战期间，人们见证了经济全球化的降低和军事全球化的提升。"
    ],
    [
        "One remembers the 1960’s, when the global economy’s “long boom”gave Africa a chance to save its surpluses, invest in value-added industries, and increase productivity. Instead, Africa squandered the opportunity on consumption of foreign goods.",
        "1960年代的全球经济腾飞曾为非洲提供了一个积累财政盈余，投资高附加值工业以及提高生产力的机会，但非洲却沉溺于对外国商品的消费中，白白浪费了这个机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The second key to transforming governments into engines of innovation is to shift the balance of investment toward intangibles, as in the private sector.",
        "把政府变为创新引擎的第二个关键是改变投资平衡，使之如私人部门那样向无形资产倾斜。"
    ],
    [
        "Some ideas are worse than wrong: they are castrating, because they interpret the world in a way that emphasizes secondary issues – say, the availability of raw materials – and blinds societies to the more promising opportunities that may lie elsewhere.",
        "一些观点比错误更加可怕：它们让你失去雄风，因为它们总是强调次要问题——如是否可以获得原材料——而让社会无法看到存在于别处的良机。"
    ],
    [
        "A country where legislation is tailor-made to benefit a few, at the expense of the public interest, cannot achieve long-term inclusive prosperity – and is likely to experience social instability.",
        "一个国家，如其立法康公共利益之慨满足一小撮人的利益，它就无法实现长期包容性繁荣——并且有可能出现社会动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, charges have already been brought against several.",
        "而事实上，不少记者已经被起诉。"
    ],
    [
        "While financial institutions tried to mitigate risks by bundling subprime mortgages, Fukushima’s cooling system was able to cope with either a blackout and an earthquake or a tsunami.",
        "当金融机构尝试用捆绑次级贷款的方式来减低风险的时候，福岛核电站的冷却系统也能够分别应付停电，地震或是海啸灾害。"
    ],
    [
        "A “soft law” framework containing these features, implemented through an oversight commission that acted as a mediator and supervisor of the restructuring process, could resolve some of today’s inefficiencies and inequities.",
        "由作为调解人和管理者的监督委员会以实施具备这些特征的“软法”框架能够在某种程度上解决今天的低效率和不平等问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1987, the historian Ray Huang explained it for China:",
        "为此历史学家黄仁宇早在1987年就针对中国进行了论述："
    ],
    [
        "Finally, ECB purchases of dollars would help push down the euro’s exchange rate against the dollar.",
        "）最后，欧洲央行购买美元有助于欧元对美元贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "But using the trilateral FTA to expand its economic and political influence would require China to increase transparency, open its service sector, and remove non-tariff barriers.",
        "但利用这个三边自贸协议来扩大其经济和政治影响力将需要中国增加其政治透明度，开放服务领域并撤销非关税壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed’s decision in September to postpone tapering its quantitative-easing program has given emerging markets some breathing room, which they should use to bolster themselves against the inevitable reversal of easy-money inflows from the US.",
        "9月，美联储决定中止其逐渐减少量化宽松的计划，这给了新兴市场一些喘息空间，新兴市场应该借此对美国宽松资金流入之势不可避免的逆转未雨绸缪。"
    ],
    [
        "For, in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most Europeans viewed the United States as both its defender against the Soviet Union’s expansionist aims and the key external actor for their deeply wounded continent’s moral and economic reconstruction.",
        "因为，在第二次世界大战结束不久，大多数欧洲人把美国既看作防止苏联扩张主义目标的保护人，又是深受伤害的欧洲大陆道德和经济重建的关键外部力量。"
    ],
    [
        "While the optimists are not entirely right (loss of biodiversity in the twentieth century probably cost about 1% of GDP per year, with some places losing much more), the overall picture is clear.",
        "乐观者也许并不完全正确（20世纪生物多样性损失每年大约相当于GDP的1%，一些地区还要高），但总体状况是明确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Legacy problems in national banking systems should be solved at the national level before the banking union moves forward.",
        "国家层面银行系统的遗留问题应该在国家层面得到解决，然后银行联盟才迈得开步子。"
    ],
    [
        "In parts of southern Yemen, an Al Qaeda affiliate, Ansar al-Sharia, functions as a de facto government.",
        "在也门南部的一些地区，基地组织附属机构Ansar al-Sharia才是事实上的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise of many regional powers is not a threat to the US, but an opportunity for a new era of prosperity and constructive problem solving.",
        "许多地区力量的崛起不是对美国的威胁，而是新的繁荣和建设性解决问题时代的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Stoppard, like Havel, clearly doesn’t agree.",
        "和哈维尔一样，斯托帕德显然不这么看。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU and the US should underscore the need for political change and for candidates who support EU accession as indispensable to Bosnia’s economic and political progress.",
        "欧盟和美国应当强调政治变革以及支持加入欧盟的候选人对于波斯尼亚的经济和政治进步都是必不可少的。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who favor European unification should take criticisms of its political flaws very seriously.",
        "支持欧洲统一者应该严肃对待针对其政治漏洞的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer to the emerging markets’ question would have been straightforward a few years ago.",
        "换做几年前，新兴市场所面临的问题有着直接明了的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "Harassment of opposition parties and independent media.",
        "对反对党及独立媒体的骚扰。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no question that emerging markets are highly sensitive to global market conditions, including not only changes in short-term US interest rates, but also other financial risks, as measured, for example, by the volatility index VIX.",
        "新兴市场无疑对全球市场波动极为敏感，这当中不仅包括美国的利率变化，还包括波动指数等其他金融风险。"
    ],
    [
        "So the lobby of Mumbai’s Taj hotel, just across the road from the gateway built to welcome Britain’s King George V and Queen Mary on their visit to India in 1911, is once again thronged with visitors, many of whom have arrived to see if India is living up to its image as the next great power.",
        "于是乎，孟买的泰姬陵酒店（该酒店就坐落在1911年印度专门为迎接英王乔治五世和玛丽皇后而修建的拱门附近）大堂又再次挤满了到访者，其中许多人都是想看看印度究竟能否真能符合一个未来世界大国的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "(This highlights the importance of tracking net, rather than gross, reserves.)",
        "（这突显出追踪净储备而非总储备的重要性。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "If this abuse of antibiotics does not end, we will soon find ourselves without drugs to treat bacterial infections effectively.",
        "如果这种滥用抗生素的局面不尽快结束，我们很快就会发现自己没有有效治疗细菌感染的药物可用。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, assuming that there is no increase in domestic US saving, penalizing a low-cost producer like China for currency manipulation would most likely cause the Chinese piece of America’s trade deficit to be reallocated to higher-cost producers.",
        "比如，假设美国国内储蓄不增，则以货币操纵为由惩罚中国等低成本生产国极有可能导致中国占美国贸易赤字的比重转移到成本更高的生产国身上。"
    ],
    [
        "Agreement on this provided a real breakthrough for the future of water policy.",
        "达成这样的一致使水资源政策在未来的突破成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "That exception was sustained first by World War II and then by the post-war reconstruction of Europe and Japan, as well as rapid economic growth in the United States.",
        "这一例外是首先是得益于二战后欧洲和日本的重建以及美国经济的快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Often these “solutions” are based on non-existent or risky new technologies.",
        "通常这些“解决方案”基于根本不存在或风险很高的新技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Without the US guarantee to protect its democratic allies, institutions built after World War II to provide that protection would not survive for very long.",
        "没有美国保证保护其民主盟友，二战后建立起来的提供这一保护的机构将无法持久。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, with people losing jobs and income, immediate economic help seems to matter more than temperature differentials 100 years from now.",
        "然而，现在人们正在失去工作和收入，采取紧急的经济援助看起来比100年后的温差要重要的多。"
    ],
    [
        "A new Chinese leadership must accelerate structural reforms to reduce national savings and increase consumption’s share of GDP; but divisions within the leadership about the pace of reform, together with the likelihood of a bumpy political transition, suggest that reform will occur at a pace that simply is not fast enough.",
        "中国新一届领导人必须加快结构性改革，降低国民储蓄，增加消费占GDP的比重； 但领导人之间对改革节奏存在分歧，且政治权力的过渡可能并不平缓，这表明改革步伐可能跟不上需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have argued that even though the PBOC has stopped buying US and other foreign assets, China’s sovereign wealth funds still do, and that this, too, counts as manipulation.",
        "有人说，即使中国人民银行停止购买美国和其他外国资产，中国的主权财富基金也会这样做，而这样也算操纵。"
    ],
    [
        "Only in 1937, by a decree of the British viceroy, was Burma finally separated from British India.",
        "直到1937年，在英国总督的判令之下缅甸最终得以从英属印度中独立出来。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, Hamas can demonstrate that its leaders have been on the front lines during this war, sharing Palestinian suffering; many have been killed, along with their families.",
        "更重要的是，哈马斯可以证明在此次战争中，其领导人到战争前线参加战斗，分担巴勒斯坦人的痛苦； 许多哈马斯成员和他们的家人一起牺牲了。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it was the most severe commodity-price collapse to date, resulting in a 40% peak-to-trough decline.",
        "相反，它是迄今为止最严重的商品价格暴跌，从顶到底跌了40%。"
    ],
    [
        "Approximately 320,000 people lost their homes, of which more than 90% continue to live in temporary housing.",
        "大约320 000人无家可归，其中90%以上至今仍住在临时住所。"
    ],
    [
        "How much will they have to get angry about then because of the way that we are behaving today?",
        "只是不知到时他们将有多少的牢骚，是由我们今天的所作所为引起的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "We have seen the Arab Spring blossom haltingly in a few countries; in others, it is still uncertain whether it will bear fruit.",
        "我们看到，阿拉伯之春的花朵在一些国家顽强地绽放着； 但另一些国家中，我们还不能确定花朵会变成果实。"
    ],
    [
        "But social democrats must understand why the protests developed quite independently of existing, organized, center-left politics.",
        "但社会民主派必须理解为何示威的发展会独立于现有的有组织中左翼政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Or so we must hope.",
        "或者说，我们希望是这样的。"
    ],
    [
        "Although politicians on both the left and the right recognize that these programs’ growth must be slowed to avoid massive deficits or very large tax increases, their growth is unlikely to slow enough to prevent the national debt/GDP ratio from rising.",
        "尽管左翼和右翼政客均已认识到这些计划规模的增势必须有所放缓以避免巨额赤字或大幅增税，但不可能让其放缓到能够阻止国民债务/GDP比率不再上升的地步。"
    ],
    [
        "China is certainly not free from risk.",
        "中国显然不是没有风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Genocide is a socially meaningful way to describe a species of annihilation; it is the legal category that we must question.",
        "种族灭绝在概括各类灭绝时具有社会意义，但我们必须质疑的是它的法律分类。"
    ],
    [
        "If not, why would Asia’s net lenders, especially China, continue funding speculation against themselves?",
        "如果不能实现这一政策协调，那么亚洲的净贷款国（特别是中国）为何要继续为针对自己的货币投机提供资金？"
    ],
    [
        "As Turkey faces many regional challenges, his experience as foreign minister ought to serve him well.",
        "他担任外长的经验肯定会在解决土耳其所面临的地区性挑战方面发挥巨大作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-populists in the US, the UK, and elsewhere must come to terms with the reality that bad policies pay off, both economically and politically, long before they become toxic.",
        "美国、英国和其他国家的反民粹主义者必须接受这样一个现实：即不良政策在毒害经济前，或许会在很长时间内改善经济和政治情况。"
    ],
    [
        "The way this issue plays out will determine whether peace continues to prevail across the Pacific.",
        "如何处理这一问题将决定太平洋地区能否实现持续和平。"
    ],
    [
        "Masters of these disciplines were revered there, medicine advanced quickly, and the average person was curious about how nature worked.",
        "这些学科的大师们在那里倍受尊崇，医药迅猛发展，普通人也对大自然的奥秘充满了好奇。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while we know what to do, we now need to muster the political will to do it.",
        "但是，尽管我们知道如何做，但如今还需要更多的政治意愿来实行。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has two ways ahead.",
        "欧洲现有两条出路。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Climate change is already wreaking havoc throughout the developing world.",
        "巴黎—气候变化已给发展中世界造成了严重破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, ASEAN’s focus on trade makes diversity an advantage, as companies seek to benefit from low-cost labor in some countries and intermediate manufacturing capabilities in others, all while gaining access to one of the world’s most sophisticated financial and logistics centers.",
        "事实上，东盟集中关注贸易使多样性成为一种优势，能让公司从一些国家获得低成本劳动力，并将制造产能引入到其他国家，从中获得好处，与此同时还能进入世界最发达的金融和物流中心之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, it seems to be choosing the path of flexibility and adjustment, as it pursues an ambitious reform plan that, it is hoped, will enable it to edge closer to – and eventually cross – the high-income threshold.",
        "幸运的是，它似乎正在选择灵活和调整之路，追求一个宏大的改革计划，我们希望这能让中国更加接近——并最终迈过——高收入门槛。"
    ],
    [
        "Classifying disease should reflect the best collaborations between science and politics.",
        "对疾病的分类应当反映出科学与政治之间的最佳合作状态。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, consumption – the main driver of economic growth – has stagnated since 2000, while unemployment rates have risen almost everywhere, creating instability that affects even those who still have jobs.",
        "因此，消费——经济增长的主要引擎——自2000年以来便停滞不前，而失业率几乎在所有国家都在上升，甚至给仍保有工作的人也造成了动荡效应。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that trading will likely collapse in many areas, and many financial trades will be executed in other countries.",
        "问题在于许多地区的交易可能崩盘，而许多金融交易将在其他国家执行。"
    ],
    [
        "Did the outcome - together with Republican gains in the Congress - represent an endorsement of Bush's positions?",
        "这次大选结果及共和党在国会的获胜说明布什的立场得到认可了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In the former case, Obama personally managed a unilateral use of force, which involved a raid on Pakistani territory.",
        "对于前者，奥巴马亲自指挥了包括在巴基斯坦领土上实施袭击的单方面动武。"
    ],
    [
        "But we cannot expect a single set of simple actions to solve a complex problem.",
        "但我们不能期望靠一系列简单行动来解决复杂问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, more prudent policies and better regulatory frameworks have allowed local-currency bond markets to flourish in recent years.",
        "诚然，最近几年来，更加审慎的政策和更好的监管框架使本币债券市场欣欣向荣。"
    ],
    [
        "The conventional response – reducing interest rates – is impossible, because current short-term interest rates in the eurozone countries are already near zero or negative.",
        "常规响应手段——削减利率不再可能，因为当前欧元区国家短期利率已经接近于零或为负数。"
    ],
    [
        "They believe that free and fair elections represent their best chance of having a competent leader – someone like Patten, China’s former nemesis, who is remembered fondly in Hong Kong.",
        "他们相信自由公正的选举最有可能产生能力胜任的领导人——比如中国的前对手、在香港有口皆碑的彭定康。"
    ],
    [
        "Humala is no novice politician rising to victory on charm and luck.",
        "乌马拉并不属于依靠魅力和运气取胜的新秀政客。"
    ],
    [
        "These differing views explain the uncertainty surrounding France’s recent interventions in Africa.",
        "这些不同意见解释了法国不久前非洲干预行动的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, we must remain vigilant and continue actively to manage this pandemic.",
        "简言之，我们必须保持警惕，继续积极推进传染病管理。"
    ],
    [
        "As the United States Global Change Research Program’s recently released draft report on climate change points out, some kinds of weather events have become more common, and more intense, in recent years.",
        "美国全球变化研究计划最新公布的气候变化报告草案指出，近几年来，一些类型的天气事件变得越来越常见、越来越猛烈。 2012年，北冰洋海冰数量降至历史新低，融化面积相当于美国国土；"
    ],
    [
        "But when you can play with others’ money and expect a very high reward for success and no punishment for failure, the incentives for irresponsible risk-taking become enormous.",
        "但当你可以操控他人的金钱，成功有赏，失败却无罚时，肆无忌惮冒险的欲望就会急剧膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, once in office, they would often pursue an entirely different agenda – one that usually made things much worse.",
        "相反，一旦当选，他们常常会实施完全不同的日程——往往是让情况雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "Contraception indisputably brings health and socioeconomic benefits.",
        "避孕无疑会带来健康和社会经济效益。"
    ],
    [
        "Several large mass shootings occur each year – in a country that is also waging several seemingly endless wars overseas.",
        "造成大量伤亡的枪击案每年都要发生多次——与此同时，这个国家还在海外进行着多场看不到头的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Why has the government achieved so little, despite a large majority in Parliament, widespread backing among the population, and supportive media?",
        "尽管拥有议会的多数支持、人民的广泛赞同和媒体的全力拥护，政府为什么还是鲜有成果？"
    ],
    [
        "While slightly more than 60% of Americans embraced the importance of the UN and its global mission, only 39% believed that its lofty goals for peace and human development were achievable.",
        "略高于60%的美国人同意联合国及其全球使命的重要性，但只有39%相信其和平与人类发展的崇高目标可以实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Anything can trigger such an act: rejection by a girl, being fired from a job, failing an examination.",
        "任何东西都可以引发这样的行为：向姑娘求爱被拒，被老板解雇，考试不及格。"
    ],
    [
        "Initially, balance-sheet expansion – by $5 trillion since 2009 – provided banks with the cheap funding they needed to avoid failure.",
        "一开始，通过全球央行资产负债表的扩张（2009年规模达5万亿美元）给了银行避免倒闭所需要的廉价资金。"
    ],
    [
        "The committee members increasingly seem to be prisoners of the past.",
        "该委员会成员好似越发成为历史的囚犯。"
    ],
    [
        "Wall Street is now facing one of the worst contractions in history.",
        "华尔街正在进入历史上最严重的收缩期。"
    ],
    [
        "And we need to act globally.",
        "我们需要全球行动。"
    ],
    [
        "A more direct approach to preventing crises in weaker economies would be to create a continuous eligibility scale, akin to the sovereign rating scale (which does not have a large effect on country risk), with countries at different points on the scale having access to different types of precautionary facilities.",
        "一个防止较疲弱经济体爆发危机的更直接方法是创建一个类似于（对国家风险没有很大影响的）主权评级量表的连续型资格标准，不同国家在量表中的位置不同，从而获得的预防机制也不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, however, is the reduction of economic imbalances and European policy coordination to enable growth.",
        "不过，同样重要的还有减轻经济失衡以及提振增长的欧洲政策合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Last week, the European Union declared that it had practically saved the planet.",
        "上周欧盟实际上宣布它拯救了这个星球。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, America maintained a trade embargo against Vietnam until 1994, established diplomatic relations only in 1995, and did not provide most-favored nation treatment to Vietnamese imports for years after that.",
        "恰恰相反，1994年前美国一直对越南实行贸易禁运，仅在1995年才开始建立了外交关系，而且此后若干年内都没有向越南进口商品提供最惠国待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is like an aging parent; it is no longer willing to invest much in the family business, but remains averse to ceding control to its increasingly mature children.",
        "美国就像是年迈的家长； 不再愿意大量投资于家族企业，但又不愿意将控制权让给日益成熟的孩子们。"
    ],
    [
        "Suharto came to power in 1966, establishing a quasi-military dictatorship and encouraging Indonesians to “enrich themselves.”",
        "1966年，苏哈托开始掌权，建立了一个类似于军事独裁的体制，鼓励印尼人“自己富起来”。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there is some good news.",
        "平心而论，也有一些好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s soft-power assets were inadequate to compensate for the deficiencies of its hard-power approach.",
        "美国的软实力资产不足以弥补其硬实力方针的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us start with the analogy between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hitler.",
        "让我们首先比较伊朗总统内贾德和希特勒。"
    ],
    [
        "The Hospital Preparedness Program was designed specifically to train health personnel on disease containment in the setting of unforeseen epidemics, such as Ebola.",
        "医院应急计划专门负责培训医务人员在埃博拉等不可预知的流行病毒爆发期间开展疾控工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent research conducted at the University of Oxford found that from China to the United Kingdom, people facing economic hardship – even children – experience a nearly identical assault on their pride and self-esteem.",
        "牛津大学的最新研究发现，从中国到英国，面临经济困境的人，即使他只是儿童，也会经历几乎相同的对骄傲和自尊的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "While trade deals have often come at the expense of stronger domestic climate action, the EU’s new trade agreement with Singapore aims to boost trade and investment in clean-energy technologies and promote green public tendering.",
        "贸易协议通常会以牺牲国内气候问题的更大动作为代价，尽管如此，欧盟与新加坡的新贸易协定把目标放在了提振清洁能源技术的贸易和投资以及促进绿色公开竞标上。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite foreign creditors’ threats, the federal government did not come to the rescue.",
        "但是，尽管有外国债权人的威胁，联邦政府仍拒绝出手援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Is this true of the GFCI, or does it contain valuable insights into how the global financial system is evolving?",
        "GFCI的结果也会一样吗？ 还是说，它的确包括了关于全球金融体系如何演化的有价值的洞见？"
    ],
    [
        "His protectionist stance could incite a global trade war, and his insistence that allies pay for their own defense could lead to dangerous nuclear proliferation, while diminishing American leadership on the world stage.",
        "他的保护主义立场将带来全球贸易战，他坚持盟友自己为自己的防务买单将导致危险的核扩散，同时削弱美国在世界舞台上的领导力。"
    ],
    [
        "Floating the renminbi, for example, is a dangerous option.",
        "比如，让人民币浮动是一个危险的选项。"
    ],
    [
        "But democracy and distrust can be a dangerous compound, because people confronting complex political and economic issues do not always direct their anger at the proper target.",
        "但民主体制和信任缺失会成为危险的组合，因为面临复杂政治和经济问题的民众并不总能找到恰当的目标来发泄愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "Or is the world experiencing a temporary cyclical upswing that will soon be subdued by new tail risks, like those that have triggered other slowdowns in recent years?",
        "还是世界只是在经历一场短暂的周期性上扬，很快就会被新的尾部风险所压制，重蹈最最近几年的覆辙？"
    ],
    [
        "For more than a half-century, no US president was willing to pay the political price for admitting failure and resuming diplomatic relations with the island.",
        "半个多世纪以来，没有一位美国总统愿意付出政治代价承认失败并重新与这个岛国建立外交关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The mantra of “opportunity found in crisis” has been uttered endlessly over the course of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. But seizing that opportunity requires moving past blame, learning from mistakes, and identifying how best to achieve a sensible, long-term national energy policy.",
        "“从危机中找机会”的论调在深海地平线号钻井事故的整个过程中都萦绕在耳边，但要抓住机会就必须从过去的指责中超脱出来，从错误中学习，并找到一个切合实际的长期国家能源政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the paradox of choice (as elegantly described in an eponymous book by Barry Schwartz) is that too many choices confuse us and raise the possibility of regret; how can we be sure that we are getting just what we want, and that something else would not be better?",
        "简言之，选择的悖论（如巴里·施瓦茨（Barry Schwartz）在同名书中精彩描述的）在于太多的选择混淆了我们，让我们后悔； 我们如何肯定我们得到的正是我们想要的，胜过其他所有东西？"
    ],
    [
        "So, those who are grappling with the Afghan riddle today should consider, first and foremost, the regional realities: can the West afford to withdraw?",
        "所以，我奉劝那些正为阿富汗焦头烂额的人们，首先好好思考一下这一地区的现实：西方国家能否承受从阿富汗撤军所要付出的代价？"
    ],
    [
        "The ruled, in this ideal system, will naturally obey their rulers, just as sons obey their fathers.",
        "在这种理想体系之中，被统治者正如子女遵从父亲一般、自然而然地听命于统治者。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, HICCup will not choose which communities participate.",
        "事实上，HICCup就不会选择哪个社区参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Corker, too, has presented himself as somehow apart from the Trumpian mire.",
        "考克也曾表现出和特朗普划清界限的姿态。"
    ],
    [
        "The European bill amounts to just over $100 billion – roughly half of which was paid by the top seven British banks.",
        "欧洲的罚单只有1,000亿美元出头——其中大约有一半是由七家英国大银行支付的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the situation today is not usual at all.",
        "但当下的状态并不是正常状态。"
    ],
    [
        "From what we have seen over the past five years, the correct answer probably contains more than a little bad faith and sheer ineptitude.",
        "结合我们过去5年来的观察，正确的答案很可能比言而无信和尸位素餐更复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "We see this in the current discussion about the distributional effects of rescuing the automobile industry; or the worry that hedge funds, which are widely blamed for today’s financial malaise, should have access to the Fed’s emergency credit lines.",
        "我们在当前有关救助汽车业的分配效应的讨论中，能看到这一点； 在对冲基金有权使用美联储的紧急信用额度的担忧中——对冲基金被广泛认为应该对现在的金融危机负责，也看到了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "For several years, some couples at risk of passing a genetic disease on to their children have used in vitro fertilization, producing several embryos that can be tested for the faulty gene and implanting in the woman’s uterus only those without it.",
        "数年来，一些可能将遗传病遗传给子女的夫妇采用试管授精的方式生成多个胚胎，检查基因缺陷，然后挑出没有基因缺陷的胚胎植入女性的子宫。"
    ],
    [
        "Are security and political interests so overwhelming that they justify assuming large and unlimited liabilities incurred by political systems over which they have no control?",
        "安全和政治利益是否真的重要到值得冒险承担无法控制的政治体制所产生的无限巨额债务？"
    ],
    [
        "Third, there was no unemployment insurance to discourage it.",
        "第三，也不存在失业保险这个阻碍因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Poor countries need to go through a similar change in order to become rich: reduce farm employment, become more urban, have fewer children, and keep those children that they have in school longer.",
        "穷国要想致富就必须经历类似的变化：增加非农就业人数、推进城市化、少生孩子、延长孩子的学校教育。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, policymakers are talking only about exchanging old Greek bonds for cash (in buybacks) or new Greek bonds.",
        "到目前为止，政策制定者们仅仅是在讨论将旧的希腊债券换成现金（通过回购）或者新希腊债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Who will replace an obsolete nonproliferation regime, provide collective security in emerging international hotspots, and build momentum behind Middle East Peace talks?",
        "谁将会取代过时的防核扩散条约，在新出现的国际不稳定地区提供集体安全并推动中东和谈呢？"
    ],
    [
        "For Central Americans, the cost of drugs will soar, straining budgets and gutting health care.",
        "对中美洲大众而言，药物成本会急剧上升，造成预算紧张，医疗保健严重破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is straightforward.",
        "原因非常明了。"
    ],
    [
        "And he reprised a longstanding complaint within US foreign-policymaking circles: that it is somehow excessive and unfair to expect American taxpayers to pay for 22% of the UN’s total budget.",
        "他还重申了美国的外交决策界一直以来的抱怨，认为要美国纳税人承担联合国总预算的22％是过分且不公平的。"
    ],
    [
        "Time will run out for Argentina at the end of July.",
        "阿根廷的时间到7月底为止。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a scenario might appear to be a distant dream today, given the region’s myriad conflicts.",
        "现在看来，中东冲突不断，这一情景似乎是一个遥远的梦。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, this long-running debate has become increasingly contentious – and the costs of stalemate are mounting.",
        "近几年来，这一长期存在的争论变得越来越激烈——而僵局造成的代价也越来越高。"
    ],
    [
        "The Scottish Parliament, however, is able to legislate over health services, education, local government, housing, criminal and civil justice, and economic development.",
        "但是，苏格兰议会可以在医疗服务、教育、地方政府、住房、刑事和民事司法以及经济发展等领域立法。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, calls by major civil-society organizations, business leaders, and top academics for the appointment of an autonomous and effective attorney general and anti-corruption prosecutor have met considerable resistance.",
        "与此同时，重要公民社会组织、商界领袖和著名学者要求任命有自主权、能起到效果的检察长和反腐检察官，但遭到了巨大的阻力。"
    ],
    [
        "Kurdish political parties shied away from contesting past elections, owing to their fear of failing to clear the 10% popular-vote threshold needed to enter the parliament.",
        "库尔德政党过去一直回避参选，因为他们害怕凑不够进入议会所需的10%的公众选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten-year yields on British government bonds were at historic lows long before Cameron took office.",
        "英国国债的十年期收益率从卡梅伦上台之前很久便下跌到了历史低点。"
    ],
    [
        "To address that problem, it helps to think of any pension system as a way of managing risks – of unemployment, illness, volatile interest rates, sudden death, or a very long life span.",
        "将养老金系统视为管理——失业、疾病、利率波动、猝死或长寿——风险的一种方式对解决问题会有所帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Greece may have dropped out of the high-income category in recent years.",
        "事实上，希腊在近几年中已经跌出了高收入类别。"
    ],
    [
        "(The same is true of the UK’s similar commitment to the United Nations to spend 0.7% of its GDP on international development assistance.)",
        "（英国像联合国承诺将其GDP的0. 7%用于国际发展援助也是同样的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "As Lawrence Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute has documented, this was the case from 1948 until about 1973.",
        "经济政策研究所（Economic Policy Institute）的劳伦斯·米歇尔（Lawrence Mishel）指出，从1948年到1973年左右都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2012, the Supreme Court intervened, decreeing that the Constituent Assembly had outlasted its mandate, and installed an interim unity government led by the chief justice.",
        "2012年，最高法院出手干预，裁定立宪大会权力到期，并成立了由首席大法官领导的过渡联合政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, if Trump really does want to redistribute some income from capital to labor, and from corporate profits to wages (admittedly a big “if”), his policies could boost consumption; but his populist, protectionist policies would undermine business confidence, and thus capital expenditures, while reducing consumers’ purchasing power through higher inflation.",
        "类似地，如果特朗普真的想让一些收入从资本流向劳动力，以及从公司利润流向工资（诚然，这绝对只是“如果”），那么他的政策可以提振消费； 但他的民粹主义、保护主义政策将破坏企业信心，从而影响资本支出，同时也通过提高通胀限制消费者的购买力。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazilian democracy, at long last, is working well, following many years of military government, and its economy seems more robust than ever.",
        "巴西的民主制度在历经多年的军政府统治后，终于得以修成正果，巴西经济也比以往任何时刻更加繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Three European Union countries – Britain, France, and Germany – are trying to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear enrichment program, which would give it bomb material to use after a quick withdrawal from the treaty.",
        "欧盟三国——英国、法国和德国——正试图劝说伊朗放弃它的浓缩核计划，该计划将使得它在迅速退出条约后获得可使用的核弹材料。"
    ],
    [
        "Why is Obama Winning?",
        "为什么奥巴马会赢？"
    ],
    [
        "When states are not democratic, this scaffolding collapses.",
        "如果国家不存在民主体制，那么整体框架就会崩塌。"
    ],
    [
        "Guns also have a different place in the European mind; it is their absence that most Europeans regard as important.",
        "欧洲人对枪支问题也持不同看法，大部分欧洲人认为禁止枪支十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation (SICP) has been working with agencies across the federal government to spur pay-for-success efforts around the country.",
        "白宫社会创新和公民参与办公室（SICP）一直在与联邦政府各部门合作刺激全国成功后买单项目。"
    ],
    [
        "More ominously, in a move reminiscent of Stalin, Putin has initiated a new anti-extremism law, according to which anyone can be accused of terrorism, espionage, being a foreign agent, or disseminating hatred.",
        "更加凶险的预兆是，普京推出了新反极端主义法，根据该法，任何人都可以以恐怖主义、间谍、身为外国特工或传播仇恨等罪名被捕，这让人想起了斯大林时代。"
    ],
    [
        "When it became clear that most had elected to stay, and were joined by extended families, many were grudgingly allowed to become citizens of European states, without necessarily being treated as such.",
        "但显然其中大多数人会选择留下，并设法把自己的家人也弄来，许多人都被（欧洲人）极不情愿地接纳为欧洲国家公民，即便他们从来都没得到过相应的公民待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "And the first days of 2014 have made it darker still.",
        "2014年的第一天让氛围更加阴暗了。"
    ],
    [
        "As Putin shuffles his court, subordinating the Duma to his will, the EU’s hopes for a growing “Europeanization” of Russia should be abandoned.",
        "普京重组他的法院，令议会杜马唯其马首是瞻。 欧盟应当放弃将俄罗斯日益“欧洲化”的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these forces overestimate their capacity to dilute or circumvent existing economic integration, which has been strengthened in recent decades by the rapid development of cross-border value chains.",
        "所有这些势力都高估了自己的能力，认为自己可以稀释或规避近几十年来跨境价值链快速发展一直强化的现有一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, that does not rule out humans, for we can augment the eyes we were born with.",
        "幸运的是，人类没有被排除在外，因为我们的肉眼可以“升级”。"
    ],
    [
        "Logically, the surveillance system should operate by extracting the entire subset of data required for surveillance purposes from each health-care provider’s patient management information system (“front-end capture”).",
        "逻辑上该监测系统应当从每一个医疗服务提供者的信息管理系统中提取所有服务于监测目的的所有数据（即“前端捕捉”）。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for states to sit down and discuss how to limit this threat to world peace.",
        "各国现在应该坐下来，讨论如何限制网络战争对世界和平的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Though overall economic activity is weak, the current-account deficit has reached a 12-year high of 3.5% of GDP.",
        "尽管总体经济活动十分疲软，但经常项目赤字仍达到了GDP的3. 5%，为12年以来最高值。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the massive equity and housing price increases of the past dozen or so years probably owe as much to greater macroeconomic stability as to any other factor.",
        "实际上，过去一二十年资本和地产的大幅升值有赖于更大的宏观经济稳定，同样也有赖于其他因素。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Ukraine, the way forward is difficult to discern – not least because of the conflicting experiences of buffer states in the past.",
        "乌克兰前进的道路还难以辨认——这不仅因为缓冲国过去的经历有矛盾之处。"
    ],
    [
        "But on the middle chessboard, economic power is already multi-polar, with the US, Europe, Japan and China as the major players, and others gaining in importance.",
        "但是，在中间的棋盘上，世界经济实力已经多极化了，其中，美国、欧洲、日本和中国是主要的参与者，而其他国家的重要性正在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Brussels would no longer be the bogeyman, insisting on fiscal austerity and drawing the ire of countries with high unemployment and low growth.",
        "布鲁塞尔不再充当恶人，要求财政紧缩、引起高失业低增长国家的愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "To his horror, the robot Francine arose.",
        "弗朗辛机器人赫然出现，吓得他魂飞魄散。"
    ],
    [
        "The shale revolution has changed that, demonstrating the combination of entrepreneurship, property rights, and capital markets that constitute the country’s underlying strength.",
        "页岩革命改变了这种局面，彰显了构成美国基础实力的企业家精神、产权和资本市场的完美结合。"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of all Japanese – not to mention a world economy in need of a new source of dynamism – that promise deserves to be met.",
        "为了日本的整体利益——不要说一个需要新动力来源的世界经济——这个承诺值得去兑现。"
    ],
    [
        "Broadly, we see three areas in which Europe’s policymakers at both the national and EU levels can do better: global challenges where Europe could show greater leadership, the creation and strengthening of human capital within the EU and worldwide, and improvement in the effectiveness of the EU’s own political machinery.",
        "从大处讲，欧洲的政策制定者们在国家和欧盟层面上的三个领域可以做得更好：在全球性挑战方面欧洲可以发挥更大的领导作用； 在欧盟和世界范围内创造和强化人力资本；"
    ],
    [
        "Policy advisers argued that gaining Israel’s trust was necessary to win support for a European role in the peace process.",
        "而那些政策顾问则认为获得以色列的信任就是欧洲在和平进程中赢得支持所必需的。"
    ],
    [
        "Only 60% of the adult population can read and write at an elementary level.",
        "只有60%的印度成年人拥有具备小学水平的读写能力。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – For the last few years, the global economy has been oscillating between periods of acceleration (when growth is positive and strengthening) and periods of deceleration (when growth is positive but weakening).",
        "纽约—在过去几年中，全球经济在加速（增长为正并不断强化）和减速（增长为正但不断弱化）之间来回震荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Such statements could well have pushed some undecided voters to decide against Clinton.",
        "但很可能正是这类言论令一些原本左右摇摆的选民转而反对希拉里。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the US will remain the most influential external actor in the Middle East, for its failure is one of leadership, not of actual power.",
        "但是，美国仍将是中东地区最为具有影响力的外部国家，因为它的失利是领导不力，而非实际实力不济。"
    ],
    [
        "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s election as President of Iran in 2005 derailed those talks and ultimately led to the imposition of sanctions.",
        "2005年内贾德（Mahmoud Ahmadinejad）当选伊朗总统，谈判随之崩溃，并最终导致伊朗受到制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent trends in global trade are also flashing warning signs.",
        "全球贸易的最新趋势也是警报频响。"
    ],
    [
        "When the crisis struck, the 3% deficit target became the focal point for unrelenting austerity – a form of what anthropologist Clifford Geertz described as “involution,” which occurs when a process intensifies rather than changes in response to external or internal pressure.",
        "危机爆发后，3%赤字目标成了无情的紧缩政策的焦点——人类学家格尔茨（Clifford Geertz）将这种形式称为“内卷化”，当一个过程因外部或内部压力而加剧而不是变化时就发生了内卷化。"
    ],
    [
        "The Muslim population in Europe was 44.1 million in 2010, or 6% of the total.",
        "2010年欧洲穆斯林人口，为4,410万，或总人口的6%。"
    ],
    [
        "In Kenya’s presidential election, held last month, 51% of registered voters were below the age of 35 years.",
        "在上个月举行的肯尼亚总统选举中，51%的注册选民年龄低于35岁。"
    ],
    [
        "European authorities were slow to react, because member countries held radically different views.",
        "欧元当局对此反应迟缓，因为各成员国的态度大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "This will cause obvious hardship, but it will also hold back the economic growth needed for millions of people to escape poverty.",
        "这显然会带来苦难，还会阻碍经济发展，而发展正是成百上千万人摆脱贫困的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even if Greece’s debt is restructured beyond anything imaginable, the country will remain in depression if voters there commit to the troika’s target in the snap referendum to be held this weekend.",
        "事实上，即使希腊债务能够以超乎任何人想象的程度得到重组，如果希腊选民在本周末进行的提前公投上接受三驾马车的目标，希腊仍将陷入萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "It is estimated that meeting the World Health Organization’s interim standards could reduce damages by $80 per capita.",
        "据估计如果能符合世界卫生组织暂时设立的标准，中国的人均环境损失将可减少80美元。"
    ],
    [
        "But the question of the settlements is even more difficult to resolve.",
        "但定居点的问题更加棘手。"
    ],
    [
        "The existence of large financial-market actors that do not care about maximizing their profits magnifies the riskiness of the bets.",
        "金融市场上还有一些大户，他们对最大化自己的利润并不关心。 他们的存在更加大了投资的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Qatar has one operating helium refinery, and another recently started up.",
        "卡塔尔也有一座运转中的氦提炼厂，另有一家工厂最近刚刚上马。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, it operates through the supply side to boost productivity and thus raise growth potential.",
        "在长期，它通过供给端刺激生产率从而提高增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "But macroeconomic reform came to a screeching halt after Koizumi stepped down in 2006.",
        "但2006年小泉下台后宏观经济改革嘎然而止。"
    ],
    [
        "But, now that Trump could possibly cancel all those flights, it would be madness for anyone to commit, say, $200 million to refurbishing Havana’s José Martí International Airport.",
        "可一旦特朗普可能取消所有这些航班，任何投资承诺都将其刻化为乌有，例如花2亿美元翻新哈瓦那的何塞·马蒂国际机场。"
    ],
    [
        "This is unlikely to change in the near future, as liquefaction and transport costs will keep LNG prices high even if the US issues more export permits.",
        "这一局面在近期不可能改变，因为即使美国增加出口许可量，液化和运输成本仍决定了液化天然气价格将十分高昂。"
    ],
    [
        "The documentary’s footage of shot-out computer screens and piles of smashed printers and cameras – under graffiti reading “Palestine Never” – makes one despair.",
        "看到那些被子弹洞穿的电脑屏幕，满地的打印机和摄影机残骸——还有涂在墙上的“永远别想建国”标语——任何人都会感到心灰意冷。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the US is conveying to its allies that it will no longer intervene in low-priority areas unless its allies commit first, just like an investor waiting for the promoter to make a down payment.",
        "换句话说，美国向其盟友传递的信息是，它不会在干预非当务之急的地区，除非其盟友率先行动，这就好比是投资者等待推销者付首付。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the issues are complex and difficult, especially those of financing adaptation and mitigation efforts in poorer countries.",
        "可以肯定，这个问题复杂艰巨，特别是贫困国家的财务调整和缓和行动。"
    ],
    [
        "While raising men and money from the subcontinent, the British promised to deliver self-rule to India at the end of the war.",
        "在从印度次大陆招募兵员和资金时，英国人曾许诺在战争结束后允许印度自治。"
    ],
    [
        "I have been privileged to witness these students becoming at ease with the cultures, faiths, and beliefs that inspire so many people around the world.",
        "我很荣幸看到这些学生不再对启发全世界无数人类的文化、信仰和观念问题感到紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "And over the longer run, the effects on the global balance of power and the liberal international order – in which Britain has a strong national interest – would be negative.",
        "而在长期，对全球实力平衡和自由国际秩序——英国在其中有着强大的国家利益——的影响也有将是消极的。"
    ],
    [
        "This protein is involved in a process called apoptosis in which damaged cells commit \"suicide\" to ensure that their defective genes are not passed on to daughter cells.",
        "P53蛋白参与所谓的\"凋亡\"过程，命令受损细胞\"自我终结\"，以确保自身的基因缺陷不会遗传给下一代。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF is not an institution that inspires warm and cuddly feelings.",
        "IMF并不是给人们带来温暖和希望的慈善机构，但也并非如人们所指责的那样是冷血的财政紧缩鼓吹者。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB is in an odd position as well, but for different reasons.",
        "欧洲央行的立场也颇为怪异，但原因不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Expansive, growth-based policy could work better in Germany than in many eurozone countries for which it is being prescribed.",
        "因此扩张性，以增长为基础的政策在德国能比许多欧元区国家取得更好的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "· Free and fair elections that are widely viewed as reflecting the will of the Afghan people to chart a peaceful future.",
        "· 被广泛视为反映了阿富汗人民争取和平未来的自由而公平的选举。"
    ],
    [
        "But he later dropped the modification, known as the “cosmological term,” calling it the “biggest blunder” of his life.",
        "但他随后却放弃了这一名为“宇宙项”的修正，并将其称之为一生中“最严重的失误”。"
    ],
    [
        "The opposition parties, too, paid the price for their failure to come to grips with reality.",
        "反对党也为自己没有抓住现实而付出了代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Deficits resulting from capital spending, by contrast, are – or can be – good.",
        "反之，因资本支出引起的赤字是——或者可以是——好赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "In the egg industry, hens can barely move at all, because they are crammed into wire cages, which makes it possible to stack them in tiers, one above the other.",
        "产蛋的母鸡更是一动不动，因为它们被塞进了铁丝编的鸡笼，这样就能一层层堆叠起来，压在同伴的上面。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most important, cross-cutting problem is poverty, which afflicts billions of people and underlies most other development problems.",
        "或许最重要的跨领域问题是贫困，令数十亿人深受其害并构成其他多数发展问题的罪魁祸首。"
    ],
    [
        "Winston Churchill often attributed his success to his mastery of the English sentence.",
        "温斯顿·丘吉尔经常把自己的成功归功于掌握英文语言艺术。"
    ],
    [
        "The British minister responsible for the test justified the idea by claiming that “the simple act of taking one’s turn is one of the things that holds our country together.",
        "负责考试事务的英国内阁大臣辩解道“遵守秩序排队的行为虽然简单，但却是我们这个国家团结的保障。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, Australia led international protests against Japan’s plan to kill 50 humpback whales.",
        "上个月，澳大利亚带头对日本计划捕杀50头座头鲸的行为发起国际抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "Excise duties on liquor account for 22% of the state revenues that sustain generous welfare programs in Kerala, which boasts the best social development indicators in India.",
        "酒精税占喀拉拉邦收入的22%，是维持其慷慨的福利政策的重要支柱，而喀拉拉邦的福利政策被夸赞为印度最佳社会发展指标。"
    ],
    [
        "But waging a serious war requires a serious reorganization of Russia's power structures, which will be very painful.",
        "但要发动一场严肃的战争就需要对俄罗斯的权力架构进行严肃的重组。 而这将会是一个痛苦的过程。"
    ],
    [
        "This has serious implications for the rest of Asia.",
        "这对亚洲其余国家来说具有重大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "If an agreement is reached, existing sanctions can be reduced; if Iran’s leaders refuse to budge, new sanctions could be introduced.",
        "如果达成协议，现有制裁可以缓和； 如果伊朗领导人拒绝让步，可能增加新的制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, China can expect large external surpluses to transform the country from the world’s workshop into its main financier.",
        "因此，可以预计中国将获得巨大的外部盈余，使其从世界工厂转变为主要资金提供者。"
    ],
    [
        "First, European governments must put a swift halt to Russian financing of political parties within Europe.",
        "首先，欧洲政府必须立刻切断俄罗斯对欧洲内部政党的资金支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Although no one should expect the British to join the euro any time soon, political leadership within the EU requires the acumen to take account of the central interests of one’s own country and those of the other member states without indulging in threats.",
        "尽管没人会期待英国在不久的将来加入欧元区，但欧盟内部的政治领导力需要明智地考量一国本身的核心利益和其他成员国的核心利益，不能把目光集中在威胁上。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, China’s urban working-age consumers number 521 million; in just 15 years, their ranks will have swollen to 628 million.",
        "如今，中国城镇工作年龄消费者数量为5. 21亿；"
    ],
    [
        "Magna Carta’s key principles can be seen as derived from reason because the very idea of a law excludes arbitrary arrest and seizure, as well as the rendering of a verdict on any grounds other than the proper application of the law.",
        "大宪章的关键原则可以视为为理性所启发，因为法律的思想排除了专断的逮捕和没收，也排除了以法律的合理应用之外的基础所做的裁决。"
    ],
    [
        "The third type are presidential political appointees, such as Thomas Schieffer, a former business partner of President George W. Bush, and John Roos, a noted Silicon Valley lawyer.",
        "第三类来自总统的政治任命，如谢佛（Thomas Schieffer）是小布什的前商业伙伴； 罗斯（John Roos）是前硅谷律师。"
    ],
    [
        "Mirac’lous Palaces, whose Walls,",
        "那些为享乐而建的，壮丽宫殿，"
    ],
    [
        "His hesitation must reflect a deep anxiety.",
        "他的犹豫不决肯定反映出深深的焦虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Although many officials and experts predict that Brexit will have dire economic consequences, this certainly is not inevitable. Much now depends on the terms of the future relationship between the EU and Britain.",
        "尽管许多官员和专家都预测英国脱欧将带来可怕的经济后果，当然这也不是不可避免的，其中很大程度取决于欧盟和英国之间构建未来关系的条款。"
    ],
    [
        "Even with such steps, Iran and Saudi Arabia are highly unlikely to reach an agreement on Syria in the next round of international talks.",
        "即使采取了这些措施，伊朗和沙特阿拉伯在下一轮国际谈判中就叙利亚问题达成协议的可能性极低。"
    ],
    [
        "Using Iceland as our measuring stick, the cost to Greece of not exiting the eurozone is equivalent to 75% of a year’s GDP – and counting.",
        "如果用爱尔兰作为衡量标杆，那么希腊不退出欧元区的代价是一年GDP的75%。"
    ],
    [
        "In the East, a large number of Chinese troops have entered Pakistani-held territory high in the mountain fastness of the Kashmir Karakorams, in the picturesque Gilgit-Baltistan region, not far from the glacial battlefield of Siachen, where India and Pakistan confront each other.",
        "在东边，大批中国军队已经进驻克什米尔喀喇昆仑山脉巴勒斯坦控制区的高山要塞，而该地位恰好于风景如画的吉尔吉特-巴尔蒂斯坦地区，附近就是印巴相互对峙交火的主战场——锡亚琴冰川。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, at best, they could facilitate a socially responsible transition to more efficient forms of social protection.",
        "事实上，增量税收充其量能够促进向提高社保保障效率更负责任的过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s New Economic Model",
        "中国新的经济模式"
    ],
    [
        "In 2001, the committee's Web site carried instructions on how to vandalize \"immoral\" billboards by splashing paint on them.",
        "2001年，委员会网站登载了如何泼洒颜料，毁坏那些\"有伤风化\"的广告牌。"
    ],
    [
        "Its members cared little about the verities associated with “community” or “family values.”",
        "其成员对与“社区”或“家庭价值观”相关的事实关心甚少。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits of cross-border consolidation are that market power is diluted in a large market, and more diversification is obtained, though these gains come at the price of weakened cost synergies.",
        "跨境整合的好处是市场力量将在更大的市场中被稀释，并获得了更多的多元化，尽管这些好处的代价是弱化了成本协同（cost synergies）。"
    ],
    [
        "In one of the more insidious recent instances of malfeasance, bankers at Wells Fargo simply opened accounts on behalf of customers, unbeknownst to them, so that it could collect additional fees.",
        "在最近一起更为隐蔽的渎职行为中，美国富国银行的职员竟然在客户不知情的情况下直接为后者开立账户，并以此收取额外的费用。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from the working poor, an additional 215 million workers worldwide slipped below the poverty line in 2008-2009, owing to the Great Recession.",
        "除了有工作的贫困人口之外，全世界还有2. 15亿工人在2008—2009年间因为大衰退而被打到了贫困线之下。"
    ],
    [
        "It viewed America’s backing for Hosni Mubarak’s fall from power in Egypt – and its subsequent acceptance of the Muslim Brotherhood government – as a betrayal.",
        "它把美国支持埃及人推翻穆巴拉克——以及随后接受穆斯林兄弟会政府——视为背叛。"
    ],
    [
        "The central dilemma of nuclear power in an increasingly water-stressed world is that it is a water guzzler, yet vulnerable to water.",
        "在这个水资源日渐匮乏的世界上，核能身上的核心困境莫过于它既是水资源的极大消耗者，都是水文灾难的脆弱受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Yakovlev went on to become a Politburo member and key liberalizing influence on Mikhail Gorbachev.",
        "他后来成为政治局委员和对米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫施加自由化影响的关键人物。"
    ],
    [
        "Such pressure is magnified when rivals and neighbors are perceived to have any kind of strategic advantage.",
        "当竞争对手和邻国都被认为有任何形式的战略优势的时候，这种压力就会被放大。"
    ],
    [
        "Tiger Mothers or Elephant Mothers?",
        "虎妈还是象妈？"
    ],
    [
        "The Coming Showdown with Iran",
        "即将与伊朗的摊牌"
    ],
    [
        "In Iran, the regime pushes ahead, but is clearly being hurt by an economic crisis (largely a consequence of international sanctions), popular protest, and internal bickering – and has turned bellicose as a result.",
        "在伊朗，现政权仍在继续推进，但显然因经济危机（很大程度上是国际制裁的结果）、群众示威和内部分裂而受到了削弱，并因此变得十分好斗。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a liberating, as well as a humbling, prospect.",
        "这一发现令人释怀同时也让人感到卑微。"
    ],
    [
        "Many cities around the world are already basing their energy choices on a desire to tackle climate change.",
        "放眼全球，许多城市已经开始为了解决气候变化而制定能源选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans should not pontificate on nuclear-energy policy as if our opinion mattered worldwide, but we do.",
        "欧洲人在核能问题上不应该像教皇教条地发表言论，似乎我们欧洲人的言论在全世界范围内都很重要一样，但是我们现在就在这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the Libyan case and the Dubai debt crisis of 2009 might increase suspicion in the developed world and lead to protectionism against SWFs, especially those from North Africa and the Gulf.",
        "最后，利比亚案例和2009年的迪拜债务危机可能会增加发达国家的疑虑，导致针对主权财富基金（特别是来自北非和海湾地区者）的保护主义。"
    ],
    [
        "This pattern can be traced to 1967.",
        "这种畸形模式可以追溯至1967年。"
    ],
    [
        "When he said in Davos, “we cannot be indifferent to the pain and suffering of our fellow brethren in the region,” he might as well have been referring to the Assad regime and its partners in crime.",
        "当他在达沃斯说“我们不能漠视我们的同胞在该地区经受痛苦和苦难煎熬”时，他或许已经在暗示巴沙尔政权及其合作伙伴的罪恶。"
    ],
    [
        "Dirigiste attitudes are more popular in France than in most other European countries.",
        "国家指导的态度在法国要比绝大多数其他欧洲国家更为受到欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "We Hungarians, and Central Europe in general, have come far since those heady times, but the past 20 years have also given us much cause to question the path we took.",
        "虽然对于匈牙利人以及中欧人来说，那些铁幕专制的年代早已远去，但过去20年所经历的一切，仍呼唤我们去反思自己选择的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Living on a Volcano",
        "在火山口上生活"
    ],
    [
        "We are focusing on insignificant – but very costly – green policies that make us feel good, while ignoring or actively discouraging policies that would dramatically reduce emissions and make economic sense.",
        "我们专注于无甚大用——但成本高昂——的绿色政策，这让我们感到好受，但忽略了甚至积极地抑制着能大量减排、经济上也划算的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "And this amount partly reflects the fact that employed people who collect Social Security and Medicare are subject to the payroll tax that finances them.",
        "而这一数字部分反映了一个事实：有社会保障和医疗保险的受雇人群受到为这些收入提供资金的工资税的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, on the other side of the world, the newspaper The Australian mentioned Giffords 160 times in the six months following the shooting, compared to just one mention in the previous 12 months.",
        "事实上，在地球的另一边，《澳大利亚人报》（The Australian）在枪击后的半年时间里160次提及吉福兹，而在枪击前的一年中总共只提到了1次。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, crisis management mechanisms must be put in place to manage their deeply integrated nature, as 80% of Europe’s banking assets held in cross-border banking groups.",
        "在欧洲，因为80%的银行资产是由跨国银行集团所持有的，所以危机管理机制必须到位，以应对本质上高度融合的资本市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sunni-Shia schism goes back to the year 632, when the Prophet Muhammad died without indicating how the fast-growing Islamic community should pick his successor.",
        "逊尼和什叶派分裂可以追溯到632年，当时先知穆罕默德死前未及明确快速扩张的伊斯兰社会应如何挑选继任者。"
    ],
    [
        "At countless conferences and symposia, ministry officials and government personnel insist that funds must be found to import solutions, à la carte.",
        "在无数会议和专题讨论会上，各部官员和政府工作人员坚持认为必须找到资金按既有模式进口解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, FIFA must introduce and adhere to clearer term limits for its president and board members, starting with Blatter – and with immediate effect.",
        "同样，国际足联必须引入并贯彻总裁委员明确任期制，这方面布拉特更要立即以身作则。"
    ],
    [
        "The ICC is like a cobweb: small flies get stuck, but wasps and hornets get through.",
        "国际刑事法院就象一张蜘蛛网：小苍蝇被抓住了，胡蜂和大黄蜂破网而出。"
    ],
    [
        "Giving up on a “united” Jerusalem is the only way to secure the city’s “eternal” status.",
        "放弃“统一的”耶路撒冷是保证耶路撒冷“永久”地位的唯一办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Our region does not need a super-strong external power to stop its decline; we need the power from within that can overcome the hatred and intolerance that has blighted life in many neighboring countries.",
        "本地区无需超强的外部力量来阻止衰退； 我们需要能克服仇恨和偏狭的内在力量，正是仇恨和偏狭让诸多邻国的生活逐渐枯萎。"
    ],
    [
        "These structural elements have been reinforced by developments in the region, which have reinforced the sense among Israeli voters that they are threatened by numerous enemies: Iran and its nuclear ambitions; Hezbollah and Hamas and their missiles; the rise of ISIS amid state failure in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere.",
        "这些结构性要素因为地区局势的发展而强化——以色列选民越来越感到受到多方面敌人的威胁：伊朗及其核野心； 真主党和哈马斯以及他们的导弹；"
    ],
    [
        "With an economy about a quarter of the size of America’s, it was able to maintain rough military parity by spending four times as much of its national income on defense as the US did – to the detriment of the living standards of ordinary citizens.",
        "其经济只有美国的四分之一左右，依靠比美国高四倍的军事支出/国民收入比维持双方军事实力平衡，而普通公民的生活水准因此饱受压抑。"
    ],
    [
        "US equities and bond yields rallied after Trump delivered a victory speech that seemed to signal that he was tacking to the center, which investors had originally expected him to do this summer, after he won the Republican nomination and entered the general election campaign.",
        "美国股票和债券收益率在特朗普发表胜选演讲后反弹，演讲给人一种他将走中间道路的信号，而这正是投资者在今年夏天他赢得共和党提名、正式开始大选选战时对他的期望。"
    ],
    [
        "But we also must not lose sight of the fact that more than 15.8 million people are still awaiting treatment, while an estimated 11 million people do not even know they have the virus.",
        "但我们同样不能忽视超过1，580万人仍在等候救治的现实，同时约有1，100万人甚至都不知道自己感染了这种病毒。"
    ],
    [
        "In many cases, the benefits of those solutions will extend far beyond their original purpose.",
        "在很多时候，这些解决办法的好处大大超过了初始目的。"
    ],
    [
        "But how do we deal with the reality that so many voters prefer fiction to fact?",
        "但我们如何应对如此多的选民宁可相信虚幻也不愿面对事实的现实？"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that the rest of the world has started to see Erdoğan’s republic for what it is: an increasingly authoritarian regime built around a popular but deeply flawed leader.",
        "好消息是世界其他地区开始实事求是地看待埃尔多安的共和国：这是一个围绕广受支持但缺陷重重的领袖建立的日益独裁化的政权。"
    ],
    [
        "Interest-rate spreads on Italian sovereign debt have widened, but not sharply.",
        "意大利主权债券的利差有所扩大，但幅度并不大。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not a manly modern Achilles who makes the best warrior leader in today’s communication age. Military leadership today requires political and managerial skills.",
        "在当今的信息时代，不是很男性化的现代阿基里斯才是最好的战斗领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the mind does not operate like a video recorder, and thus not every aspect of a traumatic experience gets encoded into memory in the first place.",
        "的确，头脑的工作机制不像录像机，因此并不是创伤经历的方方面面在一开始就会被编码写入记忆。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is little wonder that it is in these places that most illegal immigration and human trafficking occurs – pirates in the Straits of Malacca, fast boats between Albania and Italy, and desperate human cargoes from Africa and Latin America.",
        "因此，大多数非法移民和人口走私发生在这些地方也就不足为奇了。 马六甲海峡海岛猖獗，阿尔巴尼亚和意大利的水稻上快艇出没，而绝望的人口货物从非洲和拉美铤而走险。"
    ],
    [
        "The third target of collective action, rebalancing, has two meanings.",
        "集体行动的第三大目标是再平衡。 这包括两方面的含义。"
    ],
    [
        "But he had second thoughts, fearing that the move would jeopardize the PiS’s chances in the 2019 parliamentary elections.",
        "但事到临头他又有所犹豫，担心这样的举动会威胁法律与正义党参加2019年议会选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Another drawback to hosting the games is the public scrutiny a city receives.",
        "主办奥运会的另一个弊端是这座城市将受到公众的密切关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Parents’ occupations are also related to their child’s intelligence and later risk of illness: children from more privileged backgrounds tend to have higher intelligence and better health, and to live longer.",
        "父母的职业也与儿童的智力水平以及后期疾病风险有关。 家庭背景更好的孩子一般具有更高的智力水平，身体较好，而且长寿。"
    ],
    [
        "A US commitment not to attack North Korea with conventional or nuclear weapons was also included in the deal.",
        "美国还在协议中承诺不对朝鲜发动常规和核武器打击。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that maintaining a steady, uncontaminated supply of donor blood is not always easy.",
        "问题是保持稳定的无污染献血源有时并不容易。"
    ],
    [
        "We are determined to solve their remaining problems, and we believe that we can do so through mutual trust and cooperation.",
        "我们决心要解决他们目前依然存在的问题，也相信可以通过互信与合作实现这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The Tacit-Knowledge Economy",
        "隐性知识经济"
    ],
    [
        "This approach, using question clusters, could be applied to virtually any important debate.",
        "使用问题组的方法可应用于几乎所有重要争论。"
    ],
    [
        "One factor diminishing the likelihood of governments intervening more directly in markets is that the recent crisis seems to have discredited government as much as it discredited the financial sector.",
        "一个减少政府更直接干预市场的因素是最近这场危机不但令民众丧失了对金融部门的信任，也极大打击了政府的威信。"
    ],
    [
        "Charisma is more easily identified after the fact.",
        "魅力更容易在事件发生后被定义。"
    ],
    [
        "But the incessant, extended media coverage of the investigation suggests that the MPD has provided – and possibly even leaked – information from the investigation to journalists, a routine but legally dubious means of gaining public support.",
        "然而媒体对此事持续不断的报道显示警视厅似乎提供——或者有意泄露——某些调查资料给记者，这也是警方惯用的一种打擦边球的方式，为的是赢得更多的公众支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Its coverage was filled with Arab masses declaring their demands to the world.",
        "这家电视台的报道中随处可见阿拉伯普通民众向世界宣布自己的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "New technologies – offensive cyber capabilities, armed drones, robots, and electronic, laser, and standoff weapons – carry new dangers.",
        "新技术——网络攻击力、武装无人机、机器人以及电子、激光和远距离武器——带来了新危险。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings us to the need to balance short-term imperatives with long-term vision.",
        "这就引出了平衡短期任务和长期愿景的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Yahoo set the pace in pioneering the active collaboration of Internet and high-tech firms with political repression.",
        "网络和高科技公司积极配合政治压迫的始作俑者是雅虎。"
    ],
    [
        "Previously, life in developed countries was based on daily routines: people went to work in offices and factories, returned home to eat dinner with their families, watched their favorite television programs, went to sleep, and repeated the cycle when they awoke.",
        "在此之前，发达国家人们的生活都是基于一些每日常规活动：在写字楼或者工厂上班，回家与家人吃饭，观看喜欢的电视节目，上床睡觉，然后第二天醒来把上述活动又重复一遍。"
    ],
    [
        "In view of some big countries’ intense national egoism, the failure to agree on the EU’s 2007-2013 budget could have ominous political consequences for Europe.",
        "由于某些大国强烈的国家利己主义，欧盟2007-2014年财政预算的谈崩将给欧洲带来不利的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But not everyone stands behind these goals.",
        "但并非所有人都支持这些目标。"
    ],
    [
        "A black child in a largely white world, he will always be “the orphan Madonna adopted.”",
        "一个生活在白人世界里肤色黝黑的孩子，永远要被打上“麦当娜收养的孤儿”的烙印。"
    ],
    [
        "Students are forced to pass brutally difficult examinations – only about 10,000 of the 500,000 who take the IIT-JEE each year score high enough to be admitted – in subjects they often detest.",
        "学生们被迫参加难道变态的考试——每年参加IIT联考的人数有500,000，只有大约10,000能上线——而他们往往很讨厌这些考试科目。"
    ],
    [
        "With America’s subsequent emergence as a global power, it treated the Middle East in the same way, relentlessly installing, toppling, bribing, or manipulating the region’s governments, all the while mouthing democratic rhetoric.",
        "随后美国崛起成为超级大国，它对待中东的方式并未改变，鲁莽地扶持、颠覆、贿赂或操纵地区各国政府，每一次都打折民主的口号。"
    ],
    [
        "He remembered the impoverished backwater that Singapore was in the 1920’s, and now he saw the gleaming city that free enterprise – together with Lee Kwan Yew’s quasi-authoritarian leadership – had wrought.",
        "他还记得二十世纪二十年代的新加坡还是一个赤贫的穷乡僻壤，而现在他看到的是自由的开拓精神加上李光耀类似独裁的领导所造就的令人眩目的城市。"
    ],
    [
        "And a stable government, with all the coercive means at its disposal, can reasonably expect to continue collecting taxes, which it can use to repay its earlier debts, for generations to come.",
        "而一个稳定的政府，能够根据自己的意愿实施强制措施，想必可以一直征税，将税收收入用于偿还早前的债务，这一过程可以维持多代人。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when pressed on it, Romney was sufficiently uncomfortable about his position that he wobbled on the issue.",
        "但在面临压力时，罗姆尼又会对自己所持的立场感到相当不舒服，以致他经常摇摆不定。"
    ],
    [
        "Tel Aviv – Ten years ago, on Israel’s 50th anniversary, the peace process begun by the path-breaking Oslo accord, reached by Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 1993, established the legitimacy of two peoples’ national existence in their shared homeland on the basis of territorial compromise.",
        "特拉维夫—十年前，在以色列建国50周年之际，经由奥斯陆协议的铺垫，和平进程启动了。 由以巴当局在1993年达成的该协议确立了两个民族以领土妥协为基础，共享祖国的国家存在的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while most accounts say that Bohr won the debate, my view is that Einstein, as usual, was seeking an explanation of reality, while his rivals were advocating nonsense.",
        "因此当大多数解释认为波尔赢得了论战之时，我的看法则是当爱因斯坦一如既往地寻找一个实体解释之时，他的对手却在鼓吹虚无。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the opinion polls remain tight.",
        "事实上，民意调查的数据依然胶着。"
    ],
    [
        "In this battle of minds, it is thinkers and scientists of spiritual and intellectual stature among Muslims who are best placed to lead the charge.",
        "在这场思维之战中，精神和思想声誉卓著的穆斯林思想家和科学家才是最合适的领袖人选。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – Japan’s prolonged political anni horribiles – spanning more than half a decade – has ended.",
        "东京—日本持续了五年多的长期政治悲剧已经结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "Websites where commercial artists submit designs for company logos and freelance editors offer services for authors promise to shed new light on issues like the determinants of innovation.",
        "商业艺术家提交公司标志和自由职业编辑为作者提供服务的网站可以提供观察关于创新的决定因素等问题的新角度。"
    ],
    [
        "What gives economics the appearance of a science is that its propositions can be expressed mathematically by abstracting from many decisive characteristics of the real world.",
        "给予经济学它是一门科学的表象的东西是，它的命题可以通过提炼许多现实世界的决定性特征用数学加以表述。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there are the countries – including Venezuela, Argentina, and Russia – that never moved in the reform direction in the first place.",
        "此外还有委内瑞拉、阿根廷和俄罗斯等从未走上改革道路的经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "Another crucial component of the Scandinavian model is labor-market flexibility.",
        "斯堪的纳维亚模式的另一个关键要素是劳动力市场灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration, led by Vice President Dick Cheney (but with his boss’s explicit approval), recently accused Russia of backsliding into its old “evil empire” ways.",
        "由副总统切尼领导的布什政府（切尼获得了老板布什的明确授意）不久前指责俄国退回到了旧式的“邪恶帝国”时代。"
    ],
    [
        "But his shiny, clean-shaven pate stood out as much among the neat gray coiffures of mainstream politicians as Johnson’s blond mop or Trump’s gilded comb-over (all these men, except Berlusconi, are blonds, by the way, or fake blonds; dark hair doesn’t seem to work so well with the populist mob).",
        "但他刮得干干净净的发亮的秃顶就像主流政治家约翰逊的金色拖把头或特朗普精心修饰的侧分头一样引人注目（顺便提一句，除贝卢斯科尼外，这些人都是金发，或者染成金发； 深色头发似乎与民粹主义暴徒不那么相配）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Murdoch experience is a microcosm of how modern globalization works.",
        "默多克帝国的历史就是现代全球化的缩影。"
    ],
    [
        "(Of course, a fresh shock to demand could send unemployment back up and reduce inflation; but the “natural rate” always exerts its centripetal force.)",
        "（当然，新的需求冲击可能让失业卷土重来，并抑制通胀； 但“自然率”永远实施着它的向心力。"
    ],
    [
        "It is primarily about governance, not economics.",
        "它的重点在于治理而非经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Growing networks of sophisticated suppliers make it easier to move manufacturing activity overseas to lower-wage locations.",
        "成熟供应商的网络日益壮大，使得海外制造活动更容易被转移到低薪酬地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Our overriding task is to construct a digital way of life that reinforces our existing sense of ethics and values, with security, trust, and fairness at its heart.",
        "我们的首要任务是构建强化现有道德和价值观的数字化生活方式，确保安全、信任和公平是其中的核心因素。"
    ],
    [
        "In most advanced economies, aging populations – a serious problem in Europe and Japan –exacerbate the problem of fiscal sustainability, as falling population levels increase the burden of unfunded public-sector liabilities, particularly social-security and health-care systems.",
        "在许多发达经济体，尤其是在欧洲和日本，人口老龄化会加剧财政风险，因为随着老龄人口比重的上升，公共服务的资金缺口会更加突出，尤其是社会保障和医疗保障体系的负担会大大加重。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the plaintiffs, this is not permissible under international law.",
        "根据原告的说法，这是国际法所不允许的。"
    ],
    [
        "These not only increase household spending, but also offer opportunities for trade, in both the formal and informal sectors, making it the most successful policy in the fight against poverty.",
        "这不仅拉动了家庭消费，而且也为正规和非正规部门提供了难得的贸易机会，并因此成为战胜贫困最成功的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, sectors or firms that export, like those in manufacturing, would enjoy significant reductions in their tax burden.",
        "与此同时，出口行业和企业，如制造业，税收负担将大量降低。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the world – not just the West, but Russia and China as well – would risk global proliferation of drugs, weapons, and terror.",
        "此外，世界——不仅是西方世界，也包括俄罗斯和中国——也将面临全球性的毒品、军火和恐怖行动扩散的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "And, although circumstances changed in 1968, when a survey by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific revealed the seas around the islands to contain an abundance of resources, the periodic tensions that arose were manageable.",
        "尽管情况在1968年起了变化——当时，联合国亚太地区经济和社会委员会的一份报告披露，钓鱼岛周围海域蕴藏着丰富的资源——但是不是发生的紧张对峙一直处在可管理的范围内。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine, which legalized the import of methadone only in December 2007, had a mere 5,000 people receiving it when I visited.",
        "”而乌克兰迟至2007年12月才批准进口美沙酮，在我到访之时仅有5000人参与相关治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "Having failed to pass its first budget – owing to the abrupt decision by the far-right Swedish Democrats (SD) to support the Alliance alternative – the government could not simply continue as if nothing had happened.",
        "预算没能通过的原因是极右翼的瑞典民主党（Swedish Democrats）突然决定支持中右翼联盟的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "But the US position is unambiguously misguided in not foreseeing that the “Kosovo precedent” will incite instability and potentially even violence elsewhere.",
        "美国的立场明显是被误导了，因为它没有预见到“科索沃先例”会在别处引发不稳定、甚至潜在的暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "It remains calm in the face of events, seeking at all cost to avoid doing anything that might be construed as encouraging excessive risk-taking or creating even a whiff of inflation.",
        "事件发生时它依然保持冷静，并会不惜任何代价来避免做出那些可能会被视为鼓励过度冒险或是制造一小轮通胀的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "In the event of an Islamist political awakening, the army’s allegiances are not guaranteed.",
        "当伊斯兰主义者在政治上的觉醒变得强烈起来时，我们并不敢保证军队的效忠。"
    ],
    [
        "And that scarcity sometimes costs people their lives.",
        "而这种稀缺有时候会让人们失去生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Others call for radical transformation: state-led industrialization, free tertiary education, land redistribution without compensation.",
        "其他人则呼吁彻底改造：国家主导的工业化，免费高等教育，不设补偿的土地再分配。"
    ],
    [
        "Its analysis of national efforts shows that, while most countries have made improvements over the last year, improvement in some of the largest countries has been minimal, and a few countries have not made any progress at all.",
        "报告对国家措施的分析表明，尽管大部分国家在去年有所进步，但一些最大的国家改善很小，一些国家甚至完全没有进步。"
    ],
    [
        "The claim that exchange-rate appreciation will reduce a country’s trade surplus is false, because, in globally integrated economies, domestic investment falls when the exchange rate appreciates.",
        "认为汇率升值会减少一国贸易盈余的观点是错误的，因为在全球一体化的经济中，国内投资会随汇率的升值而下降。 因此，对中国冲击厌恶是毫无根据的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet no country, rich or poor, is keen to cut its energy use, owing to concern that to do so would threaten jobs, incomes, and economic growth.",
        "但所有国家，无论贫富，都并不热衷于缩减能源使用，因为它们担心这么做可能会对就业、收入和经济增长造成威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, for that matter, are all American politicians so afraid to be critical of Israeli policies?",
        "在这件事上，为何所有美国政客都那么害怕批评以色列的政策？"
    ],
    [
        "Is It Time for Global Money?",
        "全球货币正当时？"
    ],
    [
        "The US has been pressing for tighter controls on banks’ internal models, and for a limit on how much a bank’s models can reduce its assets on a risk-weighted basis.",
        "美国要求更严格地控制银行的内部模型，并根据风险加权水平限制银行模型可以降低其资产的限度。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – When Radosław Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, went to Ukraine for talks last month, his Ukrainian counterparts reportedly laughed at him because he was wearing a Japanese quartz watch that cost only $165.",
        "普林斯顿—波兰外长西科尔斯基上个月前往乌克兰谈判，据说他的乌克兰对手因为他手戴价格只有165美元的日本石英表而嘲笑他。"
    ],
    [
        "Kerry has also expressed “regret” over the incident.",
        "克里也表达了对该事件的“遗憾”。"
    ],
    [
        "As in the Bible story, when Peter and John said to a beggar, “rise up and walk,” Africans are called upon to walk away from ignorance, inertia, apathy, and fatalism.",
        "就像《圣经》里彼得和约翰对一个乞丐说，“站起来向前走，”非洲人被呼唤着远离无知、惰性、冷漠和宿命。"
    ],
    [
        "His vision, at least as far as the Western world is concerned, may have been romantic, but it had a certain nobility.",
        "他的愿景——至少从西方世界的观念看——也许是浪漫的，但也有一定的贵族气质。"
    ],
    [
        "A prominent venture capitalist, Tim Draper, wants to put a proposition on the ballot to split California into six separate states.",
        "著名风险投资家蒂姆·德雷珀提议就是否将加州分为六个独立的州展开投票。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps one day we will find that we are not the only intelligent beings in the universe, and perhaps we will be able to discuss issues of interspecies ethics with such beings.",
        "也许有一天，我们会发现我们并不是宇宙中唯一存在的智能生物。 或许我们会讨论和这些不同物种之间的关系问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest difference between the Great Dictators and the PEKOs is that the latter regularly have to face their electorates.",
        "大独裁者和皮克之间的最大区别是后者隔一段时间就必须面对选民。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems unlikely that these hackers, especially those engaged in cyber espionage, pilferage, and intimidation, are private individuals with no links to the Chinese government.",
        "这些黑客（尤其是参与网络间谍活动、窃密活动或恐吓行动的黑客），看起来不大可能是一些与中国政府没有关系的独立个人；"
    ],
    [
        "Sceptics fear that now that the collective financial threat is perceived, rightly or wrongly, to be manageable, the Pittsburgh Summit will result in a weak compromise that reflects divergent national interests rather than a sense of urgency about tackling climate change, chronic poverty and ineffective global governance.",
        "怀疑者害怕目前许多国家会认为集体性的金融威胁已经是可以控制的了（这一看法的对错还不得而知），而匹兹堡峰将因此而变成各国间不同利益追求的虚弱妥协，而不是对气候变化，长期贫困和低效率全球管制的积极应对。"
    ],
    [
        "Communism and fascism were born and took root in societies demoralized by war, which is why all steps should be taken now to prevent the outbreak of war.",
        "共产主义和法西斯主义在战后意志消沉的社会中诞生并深入人心，这也是为什么必须不惜一切代价防止战争的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund, for example, has always resented the FSB, arguing that the Fund itself should be the monitor of systemic risk – and thus serve as the de facto global financial regulator.",
        "比如世界货币基金组织就经常对金融管制委员会发火，认为自己本身就应该是系统性风险的监控者——并因此成为事实上的全球金融监管者。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this view is too good to be true, because one country’s emissions are not independent from those of another.",
        "不幸的是，这一观点好得难以成真，因为某国的排放并不孤立于其他国家之外。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s experience holds important lessons for Europe, the main one being that stimulus policies, though necessary in the short run to support demand, cannot address long-term structural deficiencies.",
        "日本的经验给欧洲带来了重要教训，其中最主要的一个是，刺激政策尽管对于短期支持需求必不可少，但无法解决长期结构性缺陷。 如果安倍经济学2."
    ],
    [
        "Around three-quarters of the unconnected – 3.4 billion people – live in just 20 countries.",
        "在34亿未联网人口中，约四分之三都生活在20个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gulf monarchies are trying to ride this tiger militarily against Iran.",
        "海湾君主国在与伊朗的军事对抗中已经势成骑虎。"
    ],
    [
        "Some believe that 9/11 ushered in a “clash of civilizations” between Islam vs. the West.",
        "有人认为9/11导致了伊斯兰和西方之间“文明的碰撞”。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe means nothing but sacrifice: northern Europeans paying for southern Europe’s woes through large transfers, or southern Europeans repaying onerous – and maybe impossible – levels of debt.",
        "欧洲除了牺牲没有其他含义：北欧通过大规模转移支付为南欧的乱象买单； 或南欧偿还巨额债务（这或许是不可能的）。"
    ],
    [
        "But the answers have been all over the map, with some finding that the yuan is not undervalued at all, while others argue that it should appreciate against the dollar by more than 30%.",
        "但是对此的回答已经都摆到台面上来了。 有人认为人民币的价值根本没有被低估，而另外一些人则认为它应该对美元升值超过30%。"
    ],
    [
        "Jika dibiarkan, Amerika akan lebih memilih untuk memberikan subsidi ekspor bagi Boeing – seperti yang sering mereka lakukan – dibandingkan memberlakukan pajak ke Boeing.",
        "要让美国自己选的话，它宁可补贴波音公司的出口——它经常这么做——而不是对它们征税。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s call to update US tax rules in 2017 could produce benefits on this front, assuming that the new rules promote domestic investment by encouraging companies to bring back their overseas earnings and by lowering the corporate tax rate, currently one of the highest among OECD countries.",
        "特朗普要求修订2017年美国税法或许能助一臂之力，如果新税法通过鼓励公司汇回海外利润和降低公司税率（目前为经合组织国家中最高税率之一）刺激国内投资的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the UN continues to defer to Mugabe, who hides behind claims of sovereignty while jailing a defenseless populace.",
        "然而恰恰相反，联合国依然听任穆加贝为所欲为，他一面宣称主权不可侵犯，一面却在国内大肆拘捕手无寸铁的平民。"
    ],
    [
        "Huxley’s masterpiece, which had more to say about materialism, mood-control, mass-distraction, and social fragmentation than Orwell’s, offers a new kind of insight into what is really happening in twenty-first-century China.",
        "贺胥黎的名著比奥维尔的作品对唯物主义、精神控制、大众娱乐和社会分裂有更多的描述，提供了一个观察21世纪中国正在发生的变化的新视角。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of simply watching in horror, as it did at the start of the Bosnian war, NATO decided to intervene before Milosevic’s forces could again devastate one of the constituent ethnic groups of the former Yugoslavia.",
        "和波斯尼亚战争一开始一样，北大西洋公约组织并没有恐惧地袖手旁观，而是在米洛舍维奇的军队再次摧毁前南斯拉夫又一个少数民族前进行了干涉。"
    ],
    [
        "But let us suppose that the British bombed Buenos Aires.",
        "但是，让我们设想一下英国轰炸布伊诺斯艾利斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Congress may also want to target the eurozone in coming negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.",
        "国会也许还会在跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系（Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership）的后续谈判中对准欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "Unasur, however, has highlighted the cooling of relations between Brazil and Mexico, which is not a member of the new organization.",
        "但是南美国家联盟已经凸显了巴西和墨西哥两国关系的冷却，后者并不是这个新组织的成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "When the ruble tumbled in December, the finance ministry – which holds almost half of Russia’s foreign reserves, $169 billion, in two sovereign-wealth funds – deemed the central bank’s intervention to be insufficient.",
        "12月，当卢布暴跌时，俄罗斯财政部——它通过两家主权财富基金持有俄罗斯外汇储备的近一半1,690亿美元——认为中央银行的干预不够充分。"
    ],
    [
        "There can be no doubting that the imagination, marketing savvy, and management skills of private entrepreneurs are critical to the successful application of a new technology.",
        "毋庸置疑民营企业家的想象力、营销经验和管理能力对于新技术成功诞生起到至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The Court’s hearing is set for March 1.",
        "法庭定于3月1日进行听证。"
    ],
    [
        "From the outset in postwar Iraq, criminal justice resembled deracinated constitutionalism: atomistic trials, radical purges, and compromised elections.",
        "在战后的伊拉克，刑事审判从一开始就和其无源之水般的立宪相似：原子论般的审判，激进的肃清和妥协的选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s help people build their own societies.",
        "我们应该帮助人们构建自己的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "A stronger RMB can help only the overheated Chinese economy.",
        "人民币升值仅仅可以帮助中国过热的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "But it cannot be the sole purpose of international aid, nor of the World Bank.",
        "但是它并不能成为国际援助和世界银行的唯一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "A major shortcoming in today’s world is the persistence of a zero-sum sense of geopolitics.",
        "当今世界的一大弊端是地缘政治挥之不去的“零和”感。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, it is Mexico’s hardline strategy against the drug cartels on its own territory which is making the situation worse; gangs are seeking the relative sanctuary of Central America as a base for their operations.",
        "颇具讽刺意味的是，造成局势恶化的正是墨西哥对待本国领土上贩毒卡特尔的强硬政策，贩毒团伙也因此试图把中美防御相对薄弱的国家建成自己的行动基地。"
    ],
    [
        "What Next for Europe?",
        "欧洲何去何从？"
    ],
    [
        "Transforming the SDR into a true international currency would require surmounting other obstacles.",
        "特别提款权如果要成为一个真正的国际货币的话，还需要克服一些障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Abbas, whose bid is supported unanimously by the Arab and most Islamic countries, is convinced that the Arabs will stand with the Palestinians, regardless of the consequences.",
        "阿巴斯的入联申请获得了阿拉伯地区和绝大多数伊斯兰国家的一致支持，这使他信心满满，相信不管结果如何，阿拉伯都会站在巴勒斯坦一边。"
    ],
    [
        "Polls suggest that Clinton, a former senator and secretary of state, will defeat the controversial Trump.",
        "民调显示，前参议员、国务卿克林顿将击败饱受争议的特朗普。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN Security Council resolved in November of that year that “acquisition of territory by war” is unacceptable.",
        "联合国安理会于当年11月作出决议，“通过战争获得领土”是不可接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the UK, however, the epidemic of variant CJD seems to have peaked in 2000 and is now in decline, with 156 cases being identified so far.",
        "但在英国，变异型克雅氏病的感染似乎在2000年到达了顶峰，而目前却有所下降，到现在发现的病例总共有156起。"
    ],
    [
        "But all of the options that might restore competitiveness require real currency depreciation.",
        "但可能重塑竞争力的选择无不要求实际货币贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "The other extreme is a world comprising entirely isolated autarchic states, where individuals are protected from external economic forces and the state has full autonomy over domestic affairs.",
        "另一个极端是世界由完全孤立的独裁国家组成，个体不必受到外部经济力量影响，国家对内政拥有完全的自决权。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider, for example, a government policy in which subsidies, funded with newly printed money, are handed out to residents of 1,000 villages.",
        "比如，考虑一项政府政策，其中的补贴以印钞为资金来源，对象为1,000个村庄的村民。"
    ],
    [
        "The US government itself has taken advantage by running vast deficits.",
        "美国政府本身通过大量的赤字已经受益。"
    ],
    [
        "The first Franco-German history book was released recently, and, according to its team of writers, it was not the past and the Nazi years that constitute a source of contention between French and German historians, but the present and in particular relations with the United States.",
        "最近出版了第一部关于法德历史的著作。 据作者讲，法德历史学家的争论根源并不在于过去以及纳粹年代，而是现在特别是与美国的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires preventing people from responding by hoarding paper currency; but, as I have explained recently, this is not so difficult.",
        "这需要防止人们采取囤积纸币的应对方式； 但是，如我在最近所解释的，这并不困难。"
    ],
    [
        "When a particular model of capitalism is working successfully, material progress relieves political pressures.",
        "当某种资本主义模式取得成功时，物质进步缓解了政治压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the question is: will Britain – where confidence in the government has not cracked and where austerity is not forced but chosen – join the others at the bottom and serve as a horrible warning?",
        "现在的问题是：英国——在对政府的信心并未崩溃的情况下选择了紧缩——会在应对危机排行榜上沦为末流、成为警告世人的反面教材吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Keynes and Social Democracy Today",
        "凯恩斯和今天的社会民主"
    ],
    [
        "Lula also turned a blind eye to Hugo Chávez’s increasingly heavy hand in Venezuela, never protesting or questioning his jailing of opponents, his crackdowns on the press, trade unions, and students, or his tampering with the electoral system.",
        "卢拉强调巴西一如既往地不会干涉古巴内政，甚至在一名异见分子绝食身亡之际照常访问哈瓦那，并且（虽未明确地）表示绝食者是咎由自取。"
    ],
    [
        "They take it as an article of faith that the exchange rate will in fact rise to neutralize the trade effects of a border adjustment tax.",
        "他们也同意汇率实际上会上升以抵消边境调整税的贸易影响的定理。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – President Barack Obama has extended an open hand of friendship in his landmark Cairo speech to the Muslim world – seeking to engage Muslims with a commitment of mutual respect. No one can doubt his sincerity.",
        "发自纽约——在具有历史里程碑意义的开罗讲话中，美国总统奥巴马向穆斯林世界伸出了友谊之手——他尝试与穆斯林达成一种相互尊重的共同承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The level of ammonia in the air from their accumulated droppings stings the eye and hurts the lungs.",
        "鸡棚中积聚的排泻物散发出大量的氨，刺激眼睛，伤害肺脏。"
    ],
    [
        "The Clinton administration ignored Rafsanjani’s effort, and the following year the US Congress unanimously passed the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act.",
        "克林顿政府忽视了拉夫桑贾尼的信号，第二年，美国国会一致通过了伊朗和利比亚制裁法。"
    ],
    [
        "We are at a turning point.",
        "我们正站在转折点上。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is only marginally involved in an uprising that it did not initiate and has no hope of controlling, is no excuse for trying to save a failing regime.",
        "害怕穆斯林兄弟会掌权无法成为试图挽救失败政府的借口，该组织只是有限地参与了这场起义，它既不是起义的发起者也不能控制起义。"
    ],
    [
        "But evidence in other areas remains patchy.",
        "但其他领域的证据仍不完整。"
    ],
    [
        "To preserve the principles of openness and democracy on which continued social and economic progress depends, those grievances must be understood and addressed.",
        "要想保持社会经济不断进步所依赖的开放性和民主原则，上述不满情绪必须得到理解并采取措施予以消除。"
    ],
    [
        "But to take part in a school play is to contribute to a community good.",
        "但参加学校戏剧表演这类的活动其实是在为集体利益做贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "But a third factor has become manifest recently.",
        "但最近大热的是第三个因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, conducting thorough assessments of the health impact of key policies and investments must become the norm, rather than the exception.",
        "同样，对主要政策和投资所产生的健康影响进行全面评估必须成为常态，而不是偶一为之的特例。"
    ],
    [
        "These new friends liked the ruthless use of force, the ethnic nationalism, the continued humiliation of the Palestinians.",
        "新朋友们喜欢那种对暴力的肆意使用，种族民族主义，以及对巴勒斯坦人的持续羞辱。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first half of 2014, 13% of electricity in Germany came from wind energy alone.",
        "2014年上半年，德国耗电总量的13%都来源于风能一项。"
    ],
    [
        "Kosovo and Iraq provide instructive examples.",
        "科索沃战争和伊拉克战争是两个很好的例子，值得思考。"
    ],
    [
        "And corruption scandals and the related risks of political turmoil were unsettling, to say the least, in the months prior to last year’s Communist Party leadership transition.",
        "腐败丑闻和政治动乱风险导致人心骚动——至少在去年共产党领导层权力交接之前的几个月是这样的。"
    ],
    [
        "Debt crises are likelier if debt is being used to cover current spending.",
        "如果债务被用于填补当前支出，就更有可能引发债务危机。"
    ],
    [
        "For a region not always accustomed to things going well, this is a somewhat strange state of affairs.",
        "对于一个通常不大适应一切顺利的地区来说，这多少显得有些奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to public-sector efforts, we also need the robust engagement of financial institutions and markets.",
        "除了公共部门的努力，我们还需要金融机构和市场的强力参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Guyana will have its debt reduced by more than 8% of GDP.",
        "同样，圭亚那的债务将下降超过国民生产总值的8％。"
    ],
    [
        "While the economic toll of graft cannot be precisely quantified, indirect evidence suggests that the costs are significant.",
        "尽管经济上的行贿受贿统计不能准确计算，间接证据显示其代价是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "One should not blame anyone today for such behavior.",
        "人民不应当在今天指责这样的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Transparency and inclusiveness should be prerequisites of any deal.",
        "透明度和包容性理应是任何协议的先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Put plainly, English animosity toward the presence of fellow Europeans has a lot to do with some of the worst aspects of English society.",
        "简单说，英国对其欧洲同胞的存在的敌意与英国社会中最阴暗的一些方面有着很大关联。"
    ],
    [
        "Sanctions are a routine (and not terribly successful) part of the pressure applied to rogue states like Iran and North Korea.",
        "制裁是对伊朗和朝鲜等无赖国家施压的常规程序，但却并不十分成功。"
    ],
    [
        "It would have to borrow under its own rating, which would be prohibitively expensive for fiscally weaker countries.",
        "该国将按其信用评级在市场上借钱——对于财政状况疲软的国家来说，利率会高到无法承受。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now fairly obvious that the euro was not necessary to the success of the EU, and instead has proved a massive impediment, as many economists on this side of the Atlantic had predicted.",
        "现在我们可以相当明确地认识到，欧元不是实现欧盟伟业的必需品，也已被证明是一个巨大的障碍，正如许多身处大西洋这一侧的经济学家所预测的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s effort to strike a Faustian bargain with the Afghan Taliban, whose top leaders enjoy sanctuary in Pakistan, indicates that he is more interested in confining terrorism to the Middle East than defeating it – even if it means leaving India to bear the brunt of terrorist activity.",
        "奥巴马想与阿富汗塔利班达成浮士德式的交易，而后者最高领袖在巴基斯坦逍遥法外，这表明他更想将恐怖主义限制在中东，而不是击溃恐怖主义——即使这意味着印度将成为恐怖主义的首当其冲者。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether they will continue their competition for regional dominance, regardless of its destabilizing impact, or become pillars of a new regional security structure.",
        "问题在于它们是将继续不顾破坏性影响竞争地区主导地位，还是蜕变为新地区安全结构的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "If such growth rates continue, we will see relatively poor countries like India, Indonesia, the Philippines, or Nicaragua reach the average levels currently enjoyed by advanced countries in 50 years.",
        "如果保持这样的增长速度，印度、印尼、菲律宾或 尼加拉瓜等较穷的国家就可以在50年内赶上目前发达国家的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But the world is often too complex and nuanced for such an approach.",
        "但世界往往太复杂，太微妙，这一方针难以奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "At first glance, this seems entirely logical; indeed, many would say that this simply could be called “medicine.”",
        "”乍一看，这完全合乎逻辑； 事实上，有许多人都说，这已足以称为“医学”。"
    ],
    [
        "Intended to provide an economic and political backdrop to peace-making through confidence-building in the Middle East, it was an admirable recognition of Europe’s historical, commercial, cultural, and political ties with its neighbors to the south of the sea which has brought us all together over the years.",
        "它是为了在中东通过建立信任来提供调停的经济和政治背景，也是一个对欧洲与其直到地中海南部的邻居历史、商贸、文化以及政治联系的极好的承认，而就是这个海将我们这么多年连在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "A small event – say, an illness in the family – can push them back into destitution.",
        "很小的事件——比如家人患病——就可能让他们重回贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, though Russia’s WWII allies were from Europe and North America, no Western leaders will attend the commemoration – a reflection of the West’s disapproval of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea.",
        "但虽然俄罗斯二战盟国均来自欧洲和北美，但西方领导人却不会出席纪念活动——这是西方对普京入侵乌克兰及吞并克里米亚不满的反映。"
    ],
    [
        "Members of the Uzbek security service visited me here at Guantánamo and accused me of being a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.",
        "乌兹别克斯坦安全部门的人来关塔那摩看过我，他们指控我是乌兹别克斯坦伊斯兰运动的成员。"
    ],
    [
        "But doing so will require overcoming three related obstacles: Iraqi leaders’ military inexperience; corruption and cronyism; and ambiguity regarding the extent of external support.",
        "但这样做需要克服三个相关障碍：伊拉克领导人的军事经验、腐败和裙带，以及外部支持力度的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "But we need to look beyond reform of the Security Council and start creating a democratic global architecture that puts globalization at the service of citizens, not markets.",
        "但是，我们需要放眼于安理会改革之外并开始建立一个将全球化服务于公民而非市场的民主的全球性结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Can we show that ecological restoration of the watershed could do more than just insecticides or mosquito nets to support efforts to reduce malaria (and dengue) in cities?",
        "我们能否证明，分水岭的生态重建的作用比抗虫蚊帐对城市疟疾（和登革热）的遏制作用更大？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the practice targets holders of PhD’s, professionals, political activists, and office workers.",
        "实际上，这一做法就是针对博士、专业人员、政治活动份子以及办公室职工。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, a survey that I conducted in April 2004 found that two-thirds of Palestinians saw the Israeli plan in just this light.",
        "实际上，我2004年4月的一次调查显示，三分之二的巴勒斯坦人认为这就是以军计划的实质。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, investigations are conducted and reports are written, but no one is ever brought before the bar of justice.",
        "调查有之，报告有之，但因此被送上审判席者则无之。"
    ],
    [
        "The country should be linked to broader markets through mobile devices and broadband, and access to finance must be made easier, especially for those who traditionally have been excluded.",
        "印度必须借助移动设备和宽带与更广泛的市场保持联系，而且确保融资渠道畅通，尤其要确保传统上被排除在外的人能够享受到融资服务。"
    ],
    [
        "So we need the world’s democracies to stand with us and support us, lest our people become discouraged and be tempted by the autocratic forces waiting in the wings to return to power in the coming parliamentary election.",
        "因此我们需要全世界民主国家与我们站在一起支持我们，以免我们的民众灰心失望或专制势力伺机而动，在即将举行的议会选举中夺回权力。"
    ],
    [
        "In essence, it recapitulates the contrast between the Greater Germany dreamed of by idealists in 1848 and the Smaller Germany created by Bismarck in 1871.",
        "事实上，该提议正是 “ 大德国 ” 与 “ 小德国 ” 之间的强烈对比。 前者由理想主义者于 1848 年所构想，后者由俾斯麦（ Bismarck ）于 1871 年提出。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – Several years ago, I predicted that there would be a tectonic shift toward devolution, secession, and independence around the world, owing to the failure of political institutions to manage economic, cultural, ethnic, and religious differences.",
        "发自斯坦福——早在几年前笔者就预测说由于政治机构无力应对经济，文化，种族和宗教方面的差异，全球各地都将出现权力下放，分裂和独立等结构性转变。"
    ],
    [
        "As these measures take effect, self-sufficient satellite towns will likely develop, reducing transportation-related energy consumption further, while fostering a more active civil society.",
        "相关措施收效后将可能出现大批自给自足的卫星城，在进一步节约交通能耗的同时培育更积极主动的公民社会。"
    ],
    [
        "In Afghanistan, where withdrawal dates have already been set, it is difficult to believe that a cohesive unified state can be established.",
        "在撤军日期已经确定的阿富汗，很难相信有凝聚力的统一国家将得以最终建立。"
    ],
    [
        "European governments and banks ultimately will need a solution similar to Brady bonds, which worked quite well in overcoming the 1990s Latin American debt crisis and the threat that it posed to highly exposed US money-center banks.",
        "欧洲政府和银行最终将需要类似于布雷迪债券（Brady bond）的解决方案。 20世纪90年代，布雷迪债券在克服拉丁美洲危机及其对风险敞口高企的美国资金中心银行的威胁中居功至伟。"
    ],
    [
        "If true, Iran should realize that violent statements on sensitive issues will set back any serious attempt to get a dialogue going.",
        "如果果真如此，伊朗应该意识到在敏感问题上的暴力言论将会阻碍任何启动对话的认真尝试。"
    ],
    [
        "The current Australian government would not take such a step, and the opposition would be unlikely to do so as well.",
        "当今的澳大利亚政府不会采取这一步措施，反对党也不可能这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "New and expanding cities sustain growth through services-based employment, which in turn boosts consumer purchasing power by trebling per capita income relative to that earned in the countryside.",
        "新城市和旧城扩张通过基于服务业的就业维持增长，反过来又通过比农村高两倍的城市人均收入提振消费者购买力。"
    ],
    [
        "Accounting for the value individuals place on longer and healthier lives, net returns on investments in immunization soar to some 44 times the cost.",
        "考虑到个人对更长的寿命和更健康的生活的重视，免疫投资的净回报高达成本的44倍。"
    ],
    [
        "At such a time, central banks must step in and set the price of liquidity at a reasonable level – make it a centrally-planned and administered price – rather than let it swing free in response to private-sector supply and demand.",
        "此时，央行必须出手干预，将流动性设定在合理的价格水平上——使之成为中央计划和管理的价格——而不是任由它根据私有部门的供求而自由涨落。"
    ],
    [
        "Too many countries of the former Soviet bloc remain under the control of authoritarian leaders, including some, like Russian President Vladimir Putin, who have learned how to maintain a more convincing façade of elections than their communist predecessors.",
        "目前依然有许多前苏联集团国家陷于俄罗斯总统普京这类专制领导人之手，而这些人也已学会了如何维护比其共产主义前辈更具说服力的选举假象。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, Russia’s economic and military power has been in decline, whereas China’s has exploded.",
        "此外，俄罗斯经济和军事实力已经衰落，而中国有所扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, there remains the remedy of impeachment, which is being discussed more and more openly in Washington these days, accompanied (in a sign of the times) by a book, The Case for Impeachment, by Allan J. Lichtman.",
        "最后还有弹劾这种补救办法，这些日子这种办法在华盛顿引发了越来越公开的讨论，伴随这样的讨论还流行一本书，那就是艾伦·J·里奇曼的弹劾案例。"
    ],
    [
        "ISTANBUL – In the last four weeks, I have traveled to Sofia, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, London, Milan, Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Istanbul, and throughout the United States.",
        "伊斯坦布尔—过去四周以来，我分别去了索菲亚、吉隆坡、伦敦、米兰、法兰克福、柏林、巴黎、北京、东京、伊斯坦布尔，还穿越了美国。"
    ],
    [
        "So concern about Iran’s nuclear program is still justified.",
        "因此对伊朗核计划的担心仍然是有道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "And this needs to be a core part of young people’s education.",
        "并且这需要成为年轻人教育的核心部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Its prime objective remains price stability, with real-economy factors relegated to the second order of importance.",
        "它的主要目标仍是价格稳定，实体经济因素被降格为第二等重要的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But if sound government policies in advanced and major emerging economies contain the downside risks that are more prevalent in the first half of this year – which derive from political and policy uncertainty – a more resilient global economic recovery could take hold in the second half of 2011 and into 2012.",
        "但如果能提前制定明智的政治政策，而那些主要新兴经济体也能控制那些更可能在今年上半年出现的下行风险——这可能由政治或者政策上的不确定性产生——更有活力的全球经济复苏将在2011年下半年出现，并持续到2012年。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – The European Union has finally agreed on its “third-level sanctions” against Russia for its actions in Ukraine.",
        "布鲁塞尔—欧盟终于同意因为俄罗斯在乌克兰的行为对其实施“三级制裁”。"
    ],
    [
        "While average agricultural income grew by 90% in the 1994-97 period, the rural tax burden jumped by 800%.",
        "在1994-97年间农民的平均收入增加了90%，而同期的税赋却激增了8倍。"
    ],
    [
        "And the regulatory failures in Europe – consider the German Landesbanks, for example – will become only more obvious in the coming months.",
        "而欧洲的监管无能——德国Landesbanks就是明证——在未来几个月中将进一步显现。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the remarkable story of the twentieth century.",
        "这是20世纪令人瞩目的故事。"
    ],
    [
        "To be fair, McCain never suggested that US troops will wage 100 years of war, as some of his critics claim.",
        "公平而言，麦凯恩从来没有像某些批评者所言说美国军队将发动百年战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is red tape all over and a huge drag on productivity.",
        "结果导致繁琐的程序遍地开花，大大影响了生产效率。"
    ],
    [
        "This sharp balance-sheet improvement has been instrumental in enabling emerging countries to bounce back strongly from the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, whereas the West continues to hobble along.",
        "资产负债表方面的巨大改善使新兴国家能够在2008—2009年的全球金融危机中迅速复苏，而西方国家则一直在泥淖中苦苦挣扎。"
    ],
    [
        "The second pillar is formed by the unions that have controlled the Mexican labor movement since the 1930’s.",
        "从20世纪30年代起就控制着墨西哥劳工运动的工会构成了这一体系的次要支柱。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the question is no longer, “Are you for or against globalization?” The question is, “What should the rules of globalization be?”",
        "现在的问题不再是“你支持还是反对全球化”的问题，而是“全球化的规则应该是怎样的”的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it lacks content: it is unclear what any eventual Bretton Woods II discussions will be about.",
        "首先，它缺乏内容：最终的布雷顿森林体系II要讨论什么，还不清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "Causing loss of lives does not contribute to the present or future welfare of the people of the region.",
        "打打杀杀不会有助于这个地区的人民现在和将来的福祉。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many other tools to advance integration.",
        "还有很多工具可以用来增进融合。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy in Europe",
        "欧洲的民主"
    ],
    [
        "Irrespective of the merits of PETA’s campaign, however, those who stood up for free speech at the UN Human Rights Council should be able to see that the fact that some forms of speech cause offense is not sufficient reason to censor them.",
        "但抛开人道对待动物协会宣传的功过不论，在联合国人权理事会坚持言论自由的人应当认识到这样一个事实，即某种形式的言论造成某些人的反感并不是审查这些言论的充分理由。"
    ],
    [
        "In most human disease, oxidative stress is merely a symptom.",
        "在大多数的人体疾病中，氧化应激仅仅是一种症状。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, today’s Russian leaders, like nineteenth-century Czars, want a sphere of influence around their borders.",
        "第四，今天的俄罗斯领导人，和十九世纪的沙皇一样，想在其周边边境建立一个影响圈。"
    ],
    [
        "As former Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski noted recently, there is a sense among many Poles that the US takes Poland for granted.",
        "就像波兰前国防部长西科斯基最近所说的，许多波兰人认为美国没有给予波兰足够的重视。"
    ],
    [
        "And while efforts to achieve a ceasefire have failed, diplomacy has not – at least not entirely.",
        "而尽管实现停火的努力失败了，但外交努力并没有失败——至少没有完全失败。"
    ],
    [
        "How Can the Arab World Avoid the Abyss?",
        "阿拉伯世界如何避免坠入深渊？"
    ],
    [
        "China alone, with over $600 billion in reserves, holds more than enough dollars to recapitalize the IMF four times over.",
        "仅中国一家，以其超过6000亿美金的外汇储备就足以将IMF的资本结构调整4次。"
    ],
    [
        "EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Štefan Füle insists that enlargement is progressing, but the western Balkans remains a fragile region, defined by mutually antagonistic nationalisms, incomplete state formation, deep and pervasive patterns of corruption, and endemic economic mismanagement.",
        "负责扩张和欧洲邻国政策的欧盟委员富勒（Štefan Füle）坚持认为扩张在进步，但西巴尔干是个不稳定的地区，存在相互敌对的民族主义，国家形式不完全，腐败程度深、范围广，且充满了经济治理不当。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite this economic orthodoxy, Vázquez’s government also pursued important policy innovations: protection of human rights was improved; tax reform, including introduction of a general, progressive income tax was undertaken and a more inclusive health system was created.",
        "尽管在经济上循规蹈矩，巴斯克斯政府还是实施了一些重要的政策创新：人权保护状况改善； 引入并实施了包括一种普遍、递进税制的税务改革并创建了一个更具包容性的医疗体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Since governments already pay the cost of much drug research directly or indirectly, through prescription benefits, they could finance the prize fund, which would award the biggest prizes for developers of treatments or preventions for costly diseases affecting hundreds of millions of people.",
        "因为政府已经直接或间接地支付了很大一部分药物研究的开支，它们可以通过处方利润来融资建立奖励基金，给予开发出影响数以亿计人的代价高昂的疾病的治疗或预防方法的人最高的奖励。"
    ],
    [
        "Communities in the Amazon have suffered grievously from the economic incentives to cut down the rainforests.",
        "砍伐雨林的经济诱惑令亚马逊各部落损失惨重。"
    ],
    [
        "The Olympic Games – no doubt perfectly organized, without a protester, homeless person, religious dissenter, or any other kind of spoilsport in sight – will probably bolster China’s global prestige.",
        "奥运会的举办可能会提高中国在全球的威望。 毫无疑问，会组织得很完美，不会看到抗议者、无家可归者、持不同信仰者或任何其他类型的扫兴者。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year alone, some six million Koreans visited ASEAN member states, both as tourists and for business.",
        "光是在去年，就有约六百万韩国人来到东盟成员国旅行，他们当中既有游客，也有商务人士。"
    ],
    [
        "But the real danger – which even Hollande’s sternest critics may be underestimating – is not so much his individual policy failings (serious though they may be) as his approach to the twin challenges posed by France’s economic imbalances and the eurozone crisis.",
        "但真正的危险——即使是对奥朗德最为严苛的批评者也低估了这一危险——并不完全在于个别政策会因奥朗德追求应对法国经济失衡和欧元区危机双重挑战的计划而失败（尽管这很严重）。"
    ],
    [
        "Former US Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke faced the same question in Shanghai last month.",
        "上个月，前美联储主席伯南克（Ben Bernanke）在上海也遇到了这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, under fiscal pressure, the opposite is more likely.",
        "实际在财政压力下更有可能出现相反的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "The least that can be said is that Tsipras’s approach does not make up for these defects.",
        "至少可以说，齐普拉斯的方针无法弥补这些缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "The effort to revive international coordination began in response to the 2008 global financial crisis.",
        "重振国际协作的努力始于2008年全球金融危机后的应对措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe the US is right that Syria’s brutal and mendacious president, Bashar al-Assad, cannot be part of any eventual solution.",
        "美国认为任何最终解决方案都不能容忍虚伪残暴的叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德，这可能是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestic issues are likely to preoccupy Obama and his team at least up until the mid-term elections this November, thus precluding active diplomacy during the critical months ahead.",
        "至少在今年11月中期选举举行前，国内事务很有可能会吸引奥巴马及其团队的关注，这样在今后关键的几个月之中将会妨碍出台积极的外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "It is on this uneasy basis that its hegemony in Europe rests.",
        "在这一并不容易的基础上，德国建立了欧洲霸权。"
    ],
    [
        "The incomes needed to repay loans have evaporated, and assets posted as collateral have lost value.",
        "用来偿还贷款的收入切断了，用来作为抵押品的资产价值崩盘了。"
    ],
    [
        "The verse says, literally, “We (the court) force him until he says that he wants to do it willingly.”",
        "该段话原文如下：“我们（法庭）会强迫他，直到他说出这是自愿的为止。"
    ],
    [
        "That sentiment probably held back consumption and investment far more than any opinions about changes in the next six months.",
        "这样的情绪可能会让任何关于未来半年消费和投资会如何变化的观点大打折扣。"
    ],
    [
        "According to NASA, global temperatures in February were 1.35°C above average, based on a 1951-1980 baseline.",
        "美国航空航天局认为，2月的全球气温比以1951-1980年数据为基准的历史均值高1. 35摄氏度。"
    ],
    [
        "A governing body that is not representative fuels uncertainty and frustration among those subject to its decisions, undermining the legitimacy – and thus the effectiveness – of its actions.",
        "不具代表性的治理机构会增加不确定性和受其决策影响群体的沮丧感，破坏其行动合法性——从而降低效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Rowhani’s supporters want a better economy and integration into the international community more than they want nuclear glory.",
        "与核光荣相比，鲁哈尼的支持者更希望经济好转和融入国际社会。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, our government believes that this program has failed, leaving the population weary of reform.",
        "相反，希腊政府认为这一计划已经失败，并且让希腊人民厌恶改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Tax havens can be eliminated; all that is required is to close the loopholes that allow legal tax avoidance and establish enforcement mechanisms that make illegal tax evasion no longer worth the risk.",
        "避税港可以消除； 所需要的只是补上让合法避税得以实现的漏洞并建立让非法逃税不再值得冒险的执法机制。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Trade negotiators in Singapore recently failed to finalize a deal on the long-awaited Trans-Pacific Partnership; they will soon have another chance to complete what would be the world’s largest regional free-trade agreement.",
        "纽约——新加坡贸易谈判代表近日未能成功签署期待已久的跨太平洋伙伴关系协议； 但很快他们就会有另一次机会签署全世界规模最大的区域自由贸易协议。"
    ],
    [
        "They must navigate the European ship safely through this storm.",
        "要么他们引领欧洲这条大船平安穿越风暴，要么船就翻了。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy today has no rivals, but it is losing support.",
        "今天，民主已经没有了对手，但是，民主正在失去民众的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, European banks hold more than a €1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) of Spanish debt, with German and French banks holding more than half of that sum.",
        "比如，欧洲银行持有了超过1万亿欧元的西班牙债，其中一半是德国和法国银行持有的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this history that makes the current moves to sideline the European Commission in enforcing the Competitiveness Pact suspicious.",
        "正是过去这段历史令人们对欧盟委员会贯彻《竞争力协议》的可能性充满了怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the fiscal multiplier was seriously underestimated – as the WEO has now recognized.",
        "相反，财政乘数被严重低估了——这是《世界经济展望》最新认识到的一点。"
    ],
    [
        "A month later, in equal secrecy, Hitler sold Lithuania to Stalin.",
        "一个月后，同样也是秘密地，希特勒将立陶宛卖给了斯大林。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, health conditions are horrendous, but could be improved dramatically just with immunization, de-worming, safe water, antibiotics, and anti-malaria bed nets.",
        "同样，海地目前的健康状况糟糕透顶，但是只需引入人工免疫、杀虫剂、安全饮水、抗生素和预防疟疾的蚊帐，就可以极大地改善。"
    ],
    [
        "“Readers are our customers’ customers,” so “we operate with a lean newsroom staff.”",
        "“读者是我们的客户的客户，”因此“我们要保持新闻室人手的精简。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Last June, we led a delegation of nine US law school deans to a two-day summit with ten peers from China’s top law schools, which culminated in a joint statement declaring that both sides recognize and support the rule of law, and agree on the importance of promoting the integrity of the legal profession.",
        "去年六月，我们带领一支由9所美国法学校的院长组成的代表团与来自中国顶级法学院的同行们参加了为期两天的研讨会，会议最终发布联合声明，双方承认并支持法治，同意完善法律界的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Deaton rightly argues that this approach, now enshrined in World Bank procedures, is of very little use for understanding how to help a country develop more broadly.",
        "迪顿正确地指出这个当前世界银行奉为至宝的方法对于认识如何帮助一个国家更大范围地发展是没什么作用的。"
    ],
    [
        "Let me first set the scene by making three observations on where we are today.",
        "在切入正题之前先让我讲讲对目前形势的三点观察。"
    ],
    [
        "This must be carried out in as public and transparent a fashion as possible.",
        "实施方式必须做到尽可能的公开透明。"
    ],
    [
        "No wonder that most of them employ a “ghost,” like the one in Robert Harris’s excellent thriller of the same name, which is really a devastating critique of Britain’s former premier, Tony Blair.",
        "怪不得多数领导人雇佣“枪手”代笔，这让人联想起罗伯特·哈里斯精彩的同名惊险小说中塑造的角色，这的确是对英国前首相托尼·布莱尔的致命的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "So hidebound conservatives run Russian universities.",
        "所以，迂腐守旧的保守派分子经营着俄国的大学。"
    ],
    [
        "Adding nuclear weapons to that mix would be highly dangerous.",
        "在如此纷繁复杂的格局下再加上核武器无疑非常危险。"
    ],
    [
        "A few years later, the global financial crisis erupted, and these statements, once idle conjecture, became the basis for an urgent action plan.",
        "几年后，全球金融危机爆发，伯南克的这些曾经只是空想的措施成了紧急行动计划的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an approach is the only way to place the global economy’s recovery on a sustainable footing.",
        "这一方法是将全球经济复苏引向可持续之路的唯一方法。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, because regulators cannot do either perfectly, they do some of each.",
        "在实践中，由于监管机构都无法做到完美，所以它们选择在两方面都做一些规定。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be reassuring that most Palestinians and Israelis still favor a two-state solution.",
        "令人感到欣慰的是多数巴勒斯坦人和以色列人仍然支持两国并存的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of these gains would be in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the world’s most deprived regions.",
        "世界最贫困的撒哈拉以南非洲和南亚地区将是最大的受益者。"
    ],
    [
        "Darfur is shorthand for the latest example of a recurring international problem, one that gained headlines a decade ago in Rwanda.",
        "达尔富尔成了国际问题重复出现的最新代名词，同样的问题10年前在卢旺达就登上了头版头条。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Parliament election in May shocked Europe’s elites, as parties of the far right, assorted euroskeptics, and even leftists made strong gains in many countries, fueled in part by popular frustration with the European Commission’s concentration of power.",
        "5月的欧洲议会选举震惊了欧洲精英，极右翼政党、各色欧洲怀疑派甚至极左翼在许多国家颇有斩获，这部分是拜群众普遍对欧盟委员会的权力集中感到不满所赐。"
    ],
    [
        "The New America-GPPI report is entitled “Technological Sovereignty: Missing the Point?”",
        "新美国-GPPI报告的标题是《技术主权：文不对题？ 》（Technological Sovereignty: Missing the Point?"
    ],
    [
        "Politics is thus constraining efforts to strengthen public finances.",
        "因此，政治成了加强财政健康的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "This week’s slaughter of schoolchildren in Peshawar could be the tipping point.",
        "本周对白沙瓦学生的屠杀可能是一个引爆点。"
    ],
    [
        "Piotr’s plea is clear: please do not confuse depression with insanity.",
        "”皮奥特的请求非常明确：请不要混淆抑郁症和疯狂。"
    ],
    [
        "President Johnson-Sirleaf, recognizing that educated people could contribute much to an agriculture revival, launched her “Back to the Soil” campaign in June 2008 in large part to encourage urban dwellers to farm.",
        "当约翰逊-瑟利夫总统意识到受过良好教育的人们能够为农业振兴贡献很大力量时，她随即于2008年6月启动了“回归沃土”活动，尤其是鼓励城市居民投身农业。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, when a large financial firm runs into problems that require a government bailout, the government should be prepared to provide a safety net to depositors and depositor-like creditors, but not to bondholders.",
        "所以，当一家大型金融机构驶入泥潭，需要政府救助的时候，政府就应当做好保护储户以及类储户性质的债权人的准备，而不要去顾及债券持有人。"
    ],
    [
        "But this kind of migration actually undermines productivity.",
        "但是，这种方式的移民实际是在削弱生产力。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Congress, meanwhile, is readying yet another round of sanctions against Iran.",
        "与此同时，美国国会已经准备对伊朗采取新一轮制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Egyptian researchers have shown that by transferring a single gene from barley to wheat, the plants can tolerate reduced watering for a longer period of time.",
        "埃及研究人员已经证明只需把单个基因从大麦转移到小麦上，作物就可以耐受较长时间的缺水状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite India’s historically established territorial claims to the region, China terms the area “disputed,” a description that it has now begun to extend to the whole of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.",
        "尽管印度历史上一直对该地区拥有主权，但中国却将该地区定义为“争议地区”，并将该定义扩展到整个查谟和克什米尔地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Only after the bond market turned on Berlusconi again was he replaced by the reform-minded Mario Monti.",
        "也只有在贝卢斯科尼被改革派的马里奥·蒙蒂所取代之后债券市场才抛弃了前者。"
    ],
    [
        "President Donald Trump’s 2017 budget proposal includes a staggering 45% cut to funding by the US Agency for International Development for water and sanitation projects, a 26% cut to global health funding, and the elimination of funds for family planning.",
        "唐纳德·特朗普总统2017年的预算提案包括美国机构将提供给国际开发署供水及卫生项目的资金支持缩减令人震惊的45%，全球卫生资金缩减26%，同时将计划生育资金彻底取消。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not a reassuring model.",
        "这并不是个让人放心的比喻。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, European leaders must renew their sanctions against Russia every six months, which means they are unlikely to survive long enough to change Kremlin policy.",
        "同样，欧洲领导人必须每六个月延长对俄制裁，这意味着制裁很有可能延续不到迫使克里姆林宫改变政策的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "A 2002 study indicated that three-quarters of Americans feel connected to their communities, and consider their quality of life to be excellent or good, with nearly half of adults participating in a civic group or activity.",
        "一份2002年的研究指出，四分之三的美国人认为自己与社区息息相关，并认为自己的生活质量属于优良之列，近一半的成年人参与公民团体或活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Government, more than any other sector, can shape the impact of technological change, ensuring that challenges are addressed and opportunities are seized.",
        "政府比其他所有部门更有能力引导技术变革的影响，确保能够战胜挑战、抓住机会一。"
    ],
    [
        "If they maintain their secretive decision-making and continue to manipulate the price system for political ends, their chances of building a stable, resilient, and market-oriented economy, underpinned by a major international reserve currency, will be seriously compromised.",
        "如果他们继续秘密决策、用政治操纵价格系统，那么他们构建一个以主要国际储备货币为基础的、稳定而恢复力强的市场经济的机会将受到严重制约。"
    ],
    [
        "He did not create the messes in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it is not his fault that conducting foreign policy is far more difficult in today’s fragmented world than it was during the Cold War.",
        "伊拉克和阿富汗乱局不是他造成的，在当今分裂的世界中实施外交政策远比冷战期间更困难也不是他的错。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond keeping interest rates below market levels, the government offered the automobile, machinery, and steel industries, among others, preferential access to cheap credit, favorable tax treatment, and public investment support.",
        "除了维持利率低于市场水平之外，政府还为汽车、机械以及钢铁等几个行业提供优先廉价信贷渠道，优惠税收待遇和公共投资支持。"
    ],
    [
        "With Palestinians unable to agree among themselves on a minimal national consensus, how can peace be established between them and Israel?",
        "在巴勒斯坦人无法达成最起码的国家共识的情况下，又如何能在他们和以色列中间实现和平呢？"
    ],
    [
        "If trade liberalization in goods and services proves too politically difficult to achieve in this decade, the benefits of liberalizing international labor flows is worth contemplating – not least because otherwise illegal migration is likely to increase.",
        "如果商品和服务的贸易自由化在这一十年中由于政治原因而难以达到，那么，就值得考虑一下解除国际劳工流动限制的益处，这不仅仅是因为如果不是这样非法移民就会增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by doing so can we truly protect our people, our countries, our economy, and our global society.",
        "只有这样我们才能真正保护我们的人民、我们的国家、我们的经济和我们的全球社会。"
    ],
    [
        "The way that globalization has been managed, however, has eroded the ability of the state to play its proper role.",
        "但现行的管理全球化进程的方式已经侵蚀了国家行使其职责的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there are plenty of ways for the construction industry to offer untold millions more people the opportunity to call some beautiful place home, simply by building more high-density and high-rise vacation apartment buildings there.",
        "此外，建筑行业有各式各样的方法让无数人在风景胜地拥有自己的家，而他们所要做的不过是在当地建设更多高密度、高层次的公寓大楼。"
    ],
    [
        "From seeking to block reductions in nitrous oxide and methane emissions, to circumventing obligations to reduce air, water, and soil pollution, they have managed to increase profits while dumping pollution costs on the public.",
        "它们阻挠一氧化二氮和甲烷的减排计划，规避减少空气、水和土壤污染的义务。 它们赚取万贯利润，却让公众来承担污染的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet most economists, even those who were never keen on EMU in the first place, have been reluctant to make the argument that the time has come to abandon a failed experiment.",
        "但是，大部分经济学家，哪怕是那些一开始对欧洲货币联盟并不热情的经济学家，都不愿意挑明是时候放弃这个失败实验了。"
    ],
    [
        "That is something that everyone should welcome.",
        "所有人都欢迎这样的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Four out of five child deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, regions where there are few doctors and even fewer pathologists.",
        "五分之四的儿童死亡发生在撒哈拉以南非洲或南亚，这些地区缺少医生，更缺少病理学家。"
    ],
    [
        "As the situation deteriorated, one might have guessed that the IMF would mark its beliefs to market, as it were, and adopt a more cautious tone.",
        "随着情况的恶化，你也许会认为IMF将向往常一样信赖市场，并在放话时采取更加谨慎的语调。"
    ],
    [
        "Good policies that are boosting production and employment without causing inflation ought to be politically popular, right?",
        "而今，这些政策却成了政治输家：现在无人提议采取更多刺激措施。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, the Commission is rewarding inefficiency and reducing the effectiveness of its commitments to clean up the environment.",
        "在欧盟内部，这些新成员国的环保效率已经是最高的，因此，委员会这样做，是在奖励低效率，会降低欧盟为净化环境所做 努力的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "To take advantage of the political opportunity offered in 2014 requires launching an open, pedagogical effort now.",
        "利用2014年提供的政治机会需要从现在开始展开开放、教育性的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The opportunity to “throw the rascals out” in each election cycle helps to let off some steam, but it does not resolve the problems that are generating it.",
        "在每个选举周期中，人民都有一次“让混蛋滚蛋”的机会，这在一定程度上减轻了压力，但并没有根除造成这一现象的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Environmental hazards blow in on the wind.",
        "危害环境的物质随风而至。"
    ],
    [
        "Costa Rica’s reforms have greatly improved her quality of life, and no doubt there are many other patients just like her, in every corner of the world, who could benefit from a similar approach.",
        "哥斯达黎加的改革大大改善了她的生活质量，而毫无疑问，像她这样的患者不下千万，遍布世界每一个角落，他们都可以从类似的方法中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "For these governments, economic reform is now a matter of survival.",
        "对这些政府而言，经济改革意味着生死存亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, few would disagree that we find ourselves in a generational battle for hearts and minds that cannot be won by military means alone.",
        "因此，没有人可以否认我们陷入了一场关于心灵和思想的代际战争，这场战争不可能只靠军事手段获得胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Tackling climate change, we are told, would carry a much lower cost.",
        "我们被告知解决气候变化问题可以大幅降低所付出的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "And when Florida’s voters are disenchanted about the economy, they do not riot outside the state capital; they put pressure on their representatives in Congress to push for changes in federal policies.",
        "而当佛罗里达州选民对经济彻底失望时，他们也不会在州首府闹事； 他们会对他们在国会的代表施压，要求联邦政策有所反应。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, many of the “federalist” arguments look dubious: in particular, there is no single European social model.",
        "实际上，许多“联邦主义者”的论点看起来是可疑的。 特别是，不存在单一的欧洲社会模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Capital outflows will adversely affect their equity prices, push up their debt-to-equity ratios, and increase the likelihood of defaults.",
        "资本外流对其股票价格产生了不利影响，推高它们的负债/权益比率，增加了违约的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "The topic of my panel was what President Xi Jinping has called the Chinese economy’s “new normal”: an era of relatively slower growth, following three decades of double-digit economic expansion.",
        "我所在的讨论组的主题是中国国家主席习近平所提出的中国经济的“新常态”：在三十年的两位数经济扩张期后，中国将迎来一个增长相对较缓的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "The plight of these victims long went unrecognized, as governments and the international community alike failed to acknowledge their rights to protection and assistance.",
        "这些受害者的困境在很长时间内一直无人关注，各国政府和国际社会都忽视了他们得到保护和帮助的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The cataloging and naming of diseases is a condition of scientific research, as well as its product.",
        "疾病的分类和命名是科学研究、同样也是科学成果的条件之一。"
    ],
    [
        "There has always been a correlation between American and European house prices.",
        "美国和欧洲的房地产价格之间总是存在联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet since they have given life to their children, it seems that, on D’Souza’s view, there is nothing wrong with what they have done.",
        "然而按照杜泽的观点，既然她们给了孩子生命，那么她们做的事情就好像没有什么错误。"
    ],
    [
        "By promising to intervene in vulnerable markets in the event of excessive financial volatility, the IMF, as the largest player, would reduce coordination problems among investors.",
        "通过承诺在金融波动过大时出手干预脆弱的市场，作为最大行动方的IMF可以极大地减少投资者间的协作问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The media, meanwhile, always thrives on being the bearers of bad news.",
        "与此同时，媒体则热衷于挖掘坏消息。"
    ],
    [
        "Surveys of business and financial opinion in Britain show clear majorities in these groups expecting a sudden swing toward the Conservatives in the closing days of the election campaign, resulting in a stable coalition government and continuity in economic and political conditions.",
        "英国商业和金融观点调查表明，这类群体中的绝对多数期望选战的最后几日会出现有利于保守党的突然转变，形成一个稳定的执政联盟和实现经济和政治环境的连续性。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2013, Venezuela’s extravagant borrowing led international capital markets to shut it out, leading the authorities to print money.",
        "2013年，委内瑞拉的肆意借贷导致国际资本市场对它关闭，促使当局转向印钞机。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, beef production requires, on average, 28 times more land and 11 times more water than the other livestock categories, while producing five times more greenhouse-gas emissions and six times more reactive nitrogen.",
        "事实上，牛肉生产平均而言需要的土地和水是其他家畜卡路里的28倍和11倍，同时排放高出五倍的温室气体和高出六倍的活性氮。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of giving into such demands, the US has long held that it will engage in talks with North Korea only if they are based on previous agreements, including the September 2005 joint statement, which obliged the North to abandon all nuclear programs.",
        "美国并未向这样的要求屈服，而是一直坚持在此前协议的基础上与朝鲜谈判，包括2005年9月签署的联合声明。 该声明强制朝鲜放弃所有核计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the US and Europe were not immune, with the collapse of the major hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) fueling anxiety about the viability of many other financial institutions.",
        "甚至美国和欧洲也未能幸免，大对冲基金长期资本管理公司（LTCM）的倒闭让人们十分担心其他许多金融机构的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "During that period, the yen’s value more than doubled against the dollar, rising from its original fixed rate of 360 to 144 at the end of 1989.",
        "在那段时间里，日元对美元升值了一倍多，从最初360日元兑1美元的固定汇率暴涨到1989年底的144日元兑1美元。"
    ],
    [
        "With government deficits the norm, that appears unlikely.",
        "而政府赤字已成定则，所以更新看起来可能性很小。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Sudan sits at the proverbial crossroads between potential peace and possible nationwide conflict, which would undoubtedly become the world’s deadliest conventional war in 2011.",
        "发自华盛顿特区——众所周知，苏丹已经走到了和平与内战的分叉路口上，一旦开战，势必会上演一场本年度最为血腥的常规战争。"
    ],
    [
        "DAVOS – The measures introduced by the European Central Bank last December, especially the Long Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO), have relieved the liquidity problems of European banks, but have not cured the financing disadvantage of the highly indebted member states.",
        "达沃斯——去年12月份，欧洲央行推出的措施，尤其是“长期再融资操作”，缓解了欧洲各银行的流动性问题，但是并没有消除高负债成员国的融资劣势。"
    ],
    [
        "Interwar Poland, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania adopted forms of Corporatism.",
        "两次大战间的波兰、希腊、阿尔巴尼亚、保加利亚、爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚和立陶宛也采用社团主义的形式。"
    ],
    [
        "This fact is unrecognized at home because the victims of the war on terror are not Americans.",
        "上述事实在美国国内没有得到认可，因为反恐战争的牺牲者都不是美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "From Beirut to Paris, the terrorists’ attacks are a deliberate effort to exacerbate tensions between communities.",
        "从贝鲁特到巴黎，恐怖分子的袭击是在故意扩大不同社会之间的紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "That is likely to be a money-losing strategy unless an investor is sagacious or lucky enough to sell the bond before interest rates rise.",
        "这极有可能是赔钱策略，除非投资者聪明地或幸运地在利率上升前卖出债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Unclear policy communication was compounded by global developments.",
        "不清晰的政策沟通由于全球经济形势低迷而对市场形成了愈加复杂的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Universities should be trusted to exercise that degree of control themselves.",
        "应当相信大学有能力加以自控。"
    ],
    [
        "Major environmental groups such as the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council support careful, small-scale research.",
        "主要环境组织，如环境保护基金（Environmental Defense Fund）和自然资源保护委员会（Natural Resources Defense Council），都支持仔细的小范围研究。"
    ],
    [
        "A Spanish bank run, financial crash, and euro exit follow in short order.",
        "仅在很短时间内，西班牙一家银行破产，金融危机出现，该国也将要退出欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans tend to describe leadership with tough male stereotypes, but recent leadership studies show increased success for what was once considered a “feminine style.”",
        "在美国传统中，领导人总是硬朗的男性形象，但最新的领导力研究表明，曾经被认为是“娘娘腔”的做派，其成功的可能性正在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "The gender gap in schooling remains a concern.",
        "教育方面的性别差异仍然令人担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "We should do everything in our power to avoid radicalization, to interrupt radicalization processes early, and to guide radicalized individuals back into our society and to acceptance of our values.",
        "我们应该竭尽全力避免极端化，对极端化倾向实施早期干预，并引导极端个体回归社会，接受我们的价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, in those districts where the election pitted JCP and LDP candidates against each other, many citizens did not take the trouble to vote.",
        "事实上，在日本共产党和自民党针锋相对的选区，许多公民干脆不去投票。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – It is increasingly clear that US President Donald Trump represents a departure when it comes to America’s global outlook and behavior.",
        "纽约—越来越清楚，美国总统特朗普在美国的世界观和行为方面代表着与过去决裂。"
    ],
    [
        "The sad fact is that children are doing more than adults to fight for their own rights.",
        "悲哀的事实是儿童在为自己争取权利方面比成年人做得更多。"
    ],
    [
        "“We weren’t focused on being Armenian or Turkish – just on being the best,” a Turkish participant noted.",
        "“我们不会在意是亚美尼亚人还是土耳其人——只会在意是不是最好的，”一位土耳其与会者这样说。"
    ],
    [
        "The logic of current economic conditions implies that governments should be taking advantage of ultra-low interest rates to invest in infrastructure projects, which would both stimulate demand and improve the structure of the economy.",
        "当前经济状况的逻辑意味着政府应该利用超低利率的时机来投资于可以刺激需求和改善经济结构的基础设施项目。"
    ],
    [
        "They dislike the business leaders who take home huge sums even when they fail, and they hate to see poor and excluded people in their midst.",
        "人们不喜欢那些即使是经营失败也收入丰厚的工商领导人，而且他们讨厌看到周围有穷人和被社会排斥的人。"
    ],
    [
        "It is quite another if the colony is just next door, and the colonial power is surrounded by countries with limited sympathy for a mess that is largely of its own making.",
        "但殖民地就在隔壁、殖民者被对其自己造成的混乱同情有限的国家包围是完全不同的另一回事。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding the unfinished business of consumer-led rebalancing, China now appears to be embracing yet another shift in its core economic strategy – driven by a broad array of “supply-side initiatives” that range from capacity reduction and deleveraging to innovation and productivity.",
        "尽管向消费拉动的再平衡尚未完成，中国目前仍开始了其核心经济战略的另一个转变——其背后推动因素是范围广泛的“供给侧改革方案”，包括产能收缩、去杠杆、创新和生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s Republican congressional majorities, however, have seemed singularly devoted to slowing and narrowing any serious inquiry into the thoroughly substantiated reports of Russian efforts to throw the 2016 election to Trump.",
        "而今天共和党的多数议员似乎单方面致力于延缓和缩窄对俄罗斯全力支持特朗普赢得2016年大选进行任何严肃的调查活动，相关报告已经完全拥有过硬的证据支持。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Donald Trump’s stunning election victory has pushed the United States – and the world – into uncharted territory.",
        "坎布里奇—唐纳德·特朗普令人震惊地赢得大选把美国——以及全世界——推向了未知领域。"
    ],
    [
        "A firm denial by the government should be seen as a sign that most of the American economy is fundamentally sound, and that American financial markets are sophisticated enough to be able to identify sound business practices.",
        "他说，美国无法容忍救市文化。 政府严辞拒绝拯救该公司，这应当被视为一种迹象，也就是美国经济的大部分基本面保持良好，而且美国的金融市场足够发达，可以确定良好的商业行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, unlike in previous accession rounds, the EU has provided no concrete timetable for achieving the promise of membership made in Thessaloniki ten years ago.",
        "事实上，与前几次入盟轮次不同，欧盟并未就兑现十年前塞萨洛尼基所作的成员资格承诺提供具体的时间表。"
    ],
    [
        "Mercosur is usually described as a trade grouping; in fact, it has been a political creation from the start.",
        "南方共同市场通常被定义为贸易组织； 事实上，自成立伊始它就与政治挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, most Russians do not object strenuously to wage cuts, reductions in working hours, and unpaid leaves.",
        "而且，大多数俄罗斯人并不强烈反对减薪、减少工作时间以及无薪休假。"
    ],
    [
        "We have placed victims (more than 7.5 million in our case) and a comprehensive system to guarantee their rights at the center of the solution to the conflict.",
        "我们将受害者（超过750万人）和保障他们的权利的完整体系作为冲突解决方案的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "With the possible exception of the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, these changes would take considerable time to implement.",
        "除了延长布什时代减税计划或许是个例外，罗姆尼的这些措施的实施都要花上好几年才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "So what economic consequences would a vote for nationalism have?",
        "那么，投票给民族主义会造成什么经济后果？"
    ],
    [
        "Protecting soils need not undermine prosperity.",
        "保护土壤并不一定会影响繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "No governing party can afford such woefully incompetent ministers and leadership; Merkel had merely to stand back and watch the liberals’ public suicide over the last four years.",
        "没有哪个执政党能容忍如此无能的部长和领导； 过去四年中，默克尔站在一旁冷眼目睹自由派在公众面前自寻死路。"
    ],
    [
        "That depends on whether one believes that Leninist capitalism is a viable and stable form of government for China over the long term.",
        "这要取决于一个人是否相信列宁主义化的资本主义在中国是一种长期可行而且稳定的政府形式。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s GDP will almost certainly surpass that of the US within a decade, owing to the size of its population and its impressive economic-growth rate.",
        "得益于庞大的人口数量以及令人瞩目的增长率，中国的GDP几乎肯定会在十年内超过美国。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for Japan, which has been struggling with deflation for a generation, it is a risk worth taking.",
        "但是，对于与通缩搏斗了一代人的时间的日本来说，这一风险值得承担。"
    ],
    [
        "Since Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher first demanded to have “her money back” in 1979, the budgetary costs of EU membership have completely overshadowed its economic benefits in the public’s view.",
        "4%。 在公众眼里，自1979年首相撒切尔夫人第一次要求“要回她的钱”以来，欧盟成员资格带来的预算成本大大超出了经济收益。"
    ],
    [
        "These measures not only distort resource allocation; they also often lead to collusion between businesses and government officials seeking opportunities to enter the private sector upon retirement.",
        "这些措施不但扭曲了资源配置； 还往往导致企业与寻求在退休后进入私人部门的政府官员的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Successive Puerto Rican governments thought that the island’s economy was in “recession” and attempted to spur activity by increasing government spending.",
        "历届波多黎各政府都认为小岛经济陷入“衰退”并试图通过增加政府支出刺激活力。"
    ],
    [
        "Colombia’s FARC guerrillas have held some of their kidnapping victims for many years.",
        "有些被绑人质已经被哥伦比亚革命武装部队（FARC）民兵关押了多年。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of these efforts, Turkey’s per capita income has tripled in less than a decade, while its poverty rate has more than halved, according to World Bank estimates.",
        "据世界银行估计土耳其的人均收入在不到10年时间里翻了两番，而贫困率则降低了一半以上。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an adaptive logic to being kind to those with whom we continually interact; we scratch their backs, they scratch ours.",
        "依照这个逻辑，我们也会对那些与我们持续互动的人表示友善； 我们帮助他们，他们也会反过来帮助人们。"
    ],
    [
        "Closing the Health-Care Data Gap",
        "填补医疗数据缺口"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, both business investment and employment growth have been glaring weak spots in the current recovery. There is a distinct possibility, however, that this is due less to onerous taxes and regulatory strangulation, and more to an unprecedented shortfall of aggregate demand.",
        "商业投资和就业增长无疑都是当前复苏的明显软肋，但在此存在一个突出的可能性，这些状况更多源自于总需求的巨大缺口，而非繁重税收和监管限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Sub-Saharan Africa depends heavily on commodity exports, so it is especially vulnerable to the global downturn.",
        "非洲萨哈拉以南的国家严重依赖于商品价格，因此它们尤为受到全球经济放缓的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "While inequality has decreased across countries, it has increased within them, in the advanced and developing worlds alike.",
        "尽管国家间不平等性在降低，但国家内部不平等性在升高，发达国家和发展中国家均是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "We also need cheap, effective adaptation, to avoid the worst climate damage.",
        "我们还需要廉价、有效的适应政策，以避免最严重的气候损失。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the last ten years or so, we have become concerned about something else: rapid world economic growth.",
        "但是，在过去十年左右的时间里，我们开始担心其它的事情：全球经济的快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "“We never saw it coming,” they confessed.",
        "他们承认“我们从来没有想到”。"
    ],
    [
        "And there were hopes in the 1990s that the information technology revolution would have a similar effect.",
        "20世纪90年代，信息技术革命也大有希望形成同样的效应。"
    ],
    [
        "That is precisely what China sees in today’s Middle East.",
        "这正是当前中国对中东的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "What is not open to dispute is that a week after my trip ended, the number of the credit card that I had used for shopping in Beijing was used to make purchases at a Chinese supermarket in New York City.",
        "毫无疑异的是在我的中国之行结束一周后，我用来在北京购物的信用卡号被人用来在纽约的一家中国超市购物。"
    ],
    [
        "With the economy flat in Argentina and in free-fall in Venezuela, and inflation rates in both countries among the highest in the world, pocketbook issues obviously influenced these election surprises.",
        "阿根廷经济萎靡，委内瑞拉更是一落千丈，两国通货膨胀率都名列世界最高之列，民生问题显然是影响这些选举冷门背后的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this makes it highly unlikely that US engagement will have much of an impact on ordinary Cubans.",
        "所有这些都意味着与美国立约不太可能对普通古巴人的生活产生巨大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "When they were finally allowed on board the rescue vessels, they guided officials to areas where floating bodies had been spotted.",
        "当他们最终得到允许登上救援船只时，他们引领着官员来到发现浮尸的海域。"
    ],
    [
        "It is worth noting that the US experienced its fastest economic growth since 1929 in the 1950s and 1960s, a time of high government expenditure on the Interstate Highway System, which was launched in 1956.",
        "美国1929年后的最快速经济增长阶段是20世纪五六十年代，当时正逢政府州际高速公路系统（1956年启动）支出高峰。 如今，这一点根本没人重视。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither episode generated much international reaction: Hun Sen still had enough political capital from his fight against the Khmer Rouge and his cooperative role in the peace process, while Sam Rainsy was regarded as deeply flawed, and the royalist leadership as feckless.",
        "所有这些事件都没有引起多少国际反响：洪森因为与红色高棉的斗争以及在和平进程中的合作态度而依然掌握着足够大的政治资本，而沈良西被认为缺陷重重，保皇党领导层则碌碌无为。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain’s Path of Denial",
        "英国的否定之路"
    ],
    [
        "· Limit harm, including by resisting the natural inclination to promulgate increasingly ineffective, albeit established approaches, entities, and mindsets.",
        "· 限制伤害，包括克制推广日益低效但现成的方针、实体和思维的天然倾向。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the best place to start is the moment the world first gained a glimpse of Ahmadinejad’s character and hardline program.",
        "或许这样的了解选择在世界首次对艾哈迈迪内贾德的性格和强硬路线计划惊鸿一瞥之际最为恰当。"
    ],
    [
        "For a monk to involve himself in politics or to hold a political post is contrary to the ethical code of Theravada Buddhism.",
        "上座部佛教的道德规范规定僧侣不得介入政治或者担任政治职务。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the parliamentary majority must formally acknowledge Lahoud’s illegitimacy.",
        "第三步，议会中的多数派必须正式承认拉胡德的非法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientists studying climate change have shown how the problem can be tackled by adopting a clear path with progressive milestones.",
        "研究气候变化的科学家已经找到了问题的处理方法，即选择一条明确的道路，并在不同阶段设立里程碑。"
    ],
    [
        "In South Asia, there is renewed tension between India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed rivals with a history of conflict.",
        "在南亚，印度和巴基斯坦两个有武装冲突史的有核国家间再次出现了紧张局势。"
    ],
    [
        "That is an important point for globalization’s cheerleaders to understand, as they often behave as if the “other side” still consists of protectionists and anarchists.",
        "这是全球化的拉拉队需要 明白的一个重要观点，因为他们常常表现得好像“另一边”仍然是由贸易保护主义者和无政府主义者组成的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "It also follows from these legal and moral first principles that once there are reasonable grounds for confidence that the threat to civilian populations has been removed or neutralized (as seems now to be largely the case, at least in the east), military action should cease.",
        "法律和道德至上原则同样意味着一旦认为对平民构成威胁的合理前提不复存在（目前似乎就基本符合这种情况，至少在东部是这样），那么就应该停止军事行动。"
    ],
    [
        "If they succeed, the euro will survive; if they fail, it won’t, at least in its present form.",
        "如果这些措施能成功的话，欧元就能存活下来； 反之则将走向衰亡，至少无法维持现有的形式。"
    ],
    [
        "Human and organizational failings are not unique to Japan.",
        "人事和组织不力绝不是日本独有的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "So the key is that the leader has the opportunity to consider alternatives, and choose the right one for his or her country.",
        "因此关键在于领导人是否有机会权衡利弊，并代表国家做出正确的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "However, to ensure that the European whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and to guarantee fairness to all Union members, all EU states must work within the parameters of EU policy, as they have in the case of Ukraine.",
        "但是，要保证欧洲的整体要大于各个部分之和，保证所有欧盟成员国之间的公平，所有欧盟国家都必须在欧盟政策的范围内活动，正如它们在乌克兰的问题上所做的一样。"
    ],
    [
        "But, although the revolutions toppled dictators and transformed societies, these core objectives remain as distant as ever.",
        "但是，尽管革命颠覆了独裁者、改变了社会，但这些核心目标扔像从前一样遥远。"
    ],
    [
        "George Will, a widely read conservative columnist, recently endorsed Fisher’s view .",
        "颇受欢迎的保守派专栏作家乔治·维尔（George Will）最近支持了费希尔的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "What do we want to achieve?",
        "我们要达到什么目的？"
    ],
    [
        "Nigeria, now home to more than 186 million people, has followed a similar trajectory; its population is predicted to rise to a half-billion by 2050.",
        "目前拥有超过1. 86亿人口的尼日利亚也走上了类似的轨道；"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, we believe it is important to prepare for the collapse of EU under the weight of its leaders’ hubris.",
        "事实上，我们认为，做好欧盟不堪领导人的傲慢而解体的准备至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it portends a continuation of America’s hands-off approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict.",
        "相反，它预示美国将继续在巴以冲突中采取袖手旁观的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its widespread use, the government estimates that only about 70% of those who are eligible receive benefits.",
        "尽管该计划使用广泛，但政府估算大约只有70%的合格补贴对象能得到这项福利。"
    ],
    [
        "A rigorous fiscal rule, designed and applied by center-left governments, made it all possible.",
        "有中左翼政府设计并实施的严格财政规则让这一切得以实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The fastest way to adjust is via reduced demand and imports, and that is what almost always ends up happening.",
        "更快的调整方式是通过降低需求和进口，这也是几乎每一次都最终发生的事。"
    ],
    [
        "But German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own mantra was not quite the same as Obama’s.",
        "但德国总理默克尔的咒语和奥巴马不尽相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine your job as a media executive depends on expanding your viewing audience. Whom would you pick: an expert who balances conflicting arguments and concludes that the likeliest outcome is more of the same, or an expert who gets viewers on the edge of their seats over radical Islamists seizing control and causing oil prices to soar?",
        "如果你是媒体管理者，你的工作就是吸引更多观众，那么想一想你会选择谁：是一个平衡不同观点、认为最可能的结果都大体类似的专家，还是一位声称伊斯兰教徒会控制一切、造成油价飞涨的让观众坐都坐不稳的刺猬型人物？"
    ],
    [
        "In Russia, for example, 12 foreign NGOs were put on a blacklist last July and threatened with a ban on any further activity in the country.",
        "比如，在俄罗斯，12家外国非政府组织去年6月被列入黑名单，并被威胁禁止它们在俄罗斯的一切后续活动。"
    ],
    [
        "So let me try my hand at defining non-depression economics:",
        "所以让我来试着界定一下非萧条经济学："
    ],
    [
        "That labor influx would dampen wage and price pressures, allowing the Fed to proceed gradually with interest-rate normalization.",
        "这一劳动力的大量涌入将压低工资和物价压力，让美联储逐步实现利率正常化。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that we can’t – unless we improve dramatically the technologies that we use.",
        "答案是我们无法做到这一点，除非我们能够极大地改良我们所使用的技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, we will invest in innovation.",
        "第三，我们将投资于创新项目。"
    ],
    [
        "In time, the cartographers became even more ambitious: they drew a map that was an exact, one-to-one replica of the whole empire.",
        "而地图师的目标更加宏大：他们绘制了一张精确的一比一比例的帝国全图。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, if progress continues at its current rate, there will still be some 3.6 million such deaths per year by 2030.",
        "但是，按照现在的进展速度，到2030年每年仍会有360万左右儿童死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Words are not mirrors of things “out there,” but they have some relation to such things.",
        "叙事不是“彼处”（out there）事物的镜像，但与这些事物存在某些关联。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to GDP growth, most countries recorded 3-4% annual rates on average in the period between the crises of 1999 and 2009.",
        "谈到GDP的增长，多数国家在1999至2009年危机期间取得了3-4%的年均增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "Removing gender barriers to STEM requires African governments to make equity in the sciences a priority.",
        "消除科学、技术、工程和数学领域的性别障碍需要非洲政府优先关注科学平等问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Advanced economies dominate MGI’s latest Connectedness Index, which ranks countries on both inflows and outflows of goods, services, finance, people, and data relative to their size and share in each type of global flow.",
        "发达经济体主导着MGI最新的连通性指数（Connectedness Index，对各国就商品、服务、金融、人员和数据的流入和流出量相对于它们在每一类流动上的规模和比重进行排名）。"
    ],
    [
        "Natural resources were abundant in the North, and even electricity was supplied from North to South.",
        "北方拥有丰富的自然资源，就连电力也是从北方输送到南方。"
    ],
    [
        "Less well known is that a rebalanced China should have a slower growth rate – the first hints of which may now be evident.",
        "更不为人所知的是重新平衡后的中国增长率应该更低——其第一批暗示迹象如今已经成为了现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Eighth, there is a major gap in the international system.",
        "第八，国际体系中间存在一个巨大缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "In normal times, any effort by a central bank to take short-term interest rates too low for too long will boomerang.",
        "在正常时期，央行若在过长时间内将短期利率维持在过低水平将适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Britain has lost much of its ability to make an effective contribution to European reform.",
        "因此，英国失去了为有效的欧洲改革出力的动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The doctrine according to which great powers, many of them nuclear-armed, try to stop lesser powers from acquiring nuclear weapons by force and threats of force – a fiasco in Iraq, nuclear-armed North Korea, and now Iran – has reached a dead end.",
        "大国（很多都有核武器）用武力和威胁来阻止小国获得核武器的老办法——在伊拉克、拥有核武器的北韩、以及现在的伊朗均遭遇惨败——已经走进死胡同。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the King and his courtiers are much relieved that the Arab Spring did not lead to the creation of functioning democracies in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, or Syria.",
        "平心而论，沙特国王及其近臣为阿拉伯之春并未在突尼斯、埃及、也门、巴林、利比亚和叙利亚带来运转良好的民主国家而大舒一口气。"
    ],
    [
        "The first rule of family dictatorships is that loyalty matters above all else.",
        "家族独裁的首要原则是忠诚高于一切。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States will certainly experience its worst recession in decades, a deep and protracted contraction lasting about 24 months through the end of 2009.",
        "美国可能会经历几十年来最严重的衰退。 严重并且漫长的经济紧缩可能将持续24个月，直至2009年底。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States Federal Reserve injected liquidity, as did other advanced countries’ central banks.",
        "美联储和其他发达国家央行也纷纷注入流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, many companies expect major budgetary reform; but they are not yet able to assess the impact on their future operating profits.",
        "在美国，许多公司都期待着重大的预算改革，但它们尚无法评估预算改革对未来经营利润的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "He’s scooped you on your main idea, although he hasn’t thought through the implications, or worked out all the other ideas that comprise your theory.",
        "尽管他对所有的后果没有考虑周全，也没有解决所有对你的理论不利的观点，但是他在你的主要观点上却捷足先登。"
    ],
    [
        "But if voters are now jettisoning the left and its supposedly “pro-people” policies, it is not because they now prefer the “class enemy.” It is because they have changed narratives.",
        "但如果选民现在抛弃左翼力量及其所谓的“亲民”政策，这并非是因为他们现在更喜欢“阶级敌人”，而是因为他们已经改变了叙事方式。"
    ],
    [
        "What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections, but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.”",
        "但最困扰所有人，包括他本人的，则是民主行动虽然影响了选举，但从政治领导人那得到的却只不过是假惺惺的表态。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in order for that to be possible, realistic policies and strategies are needed.",
        "但是，为了让降低二氧化碳成为可能，我们需要现实的政策和战略。"
    ],
    [
        "But their impact is fleeting.",
        "但影响大都转瞬即逝。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, there will be little to hold it back except the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, a voluntary agreement that does not include penalties for non-compliance.",
        "到那时，除了核不扩散条约以外就再也没有可以凭借的约束，而核不扩散条约是一个自愿协议，没有规定对不遵守的情况施加怎样的惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then can investment by the private sector – the engine of employment and stable livelihoods – begin to recover.",
        "惟其如此，私人部门投资——就业和稳定生活的引擎——才会开始恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, I would go further: in the face of the crisis, we felt abandoned by conventional tools.”",
        "事实上我可以更进一步说：在危机面前，我们感觉被传统工具所抛弃了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "That was a useful signal.",
        "这是个有用的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "Things began to unravel when two cabinet ministers abruptly resigned, citing family commitments or policy disagreements.",
        "局势四分五裂始于两名内阁大臣以家庭和政策分歧为由突然辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider what the Greek Cypriot community has achieved - a thriving economy, no one living under conditions of misery and humiliation in camps, membership in the European Union - compared to the catastrophe the Palestinian choice has brought to their own people.",
        "想想希腊塞浦路斯社团取得的成就¾经济繁荣、没有人痛苦、屈辱地在难民营里生活、还成为欧盟新的成员¾对比巴勒斯坦人的选择带给人民的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "While the US seeks to use unilateral and unlawful pressure to preclude Iran’s legitimate right to peaceful nuclear energy, it has assisted in developing Israel’s nuclear capabilities.",
        "美国一方面力图运用单方面和非法的压力来否定伊朗和平利用核能的合法权利，而另一方面又支持以色列发展核能力。"
    ],
    [
        "To help things along, Egyptians should seek ways to use new technologies to include all constituencies in the debates that must shape this process.",
        "为推动局势取得进展，埃及人应当设法利用新技术确保所有选民都参与决定改革进程的辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "Our nation’s unity is not artificial. We are united as a people and in our shared history of suffering.",
        "我们是作为一支民族被统一起来的，彼此分担着一段受尽苦难的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "This would enable to FSB to hire the best possible talent, receive funding from governments, and enter into more formal arrangements with other international bodies in order to carry out its responsibilities more effectively.",
        "这将使金融稳定性委员会能够延请到最好的人才，获得政府资金支持，并参与与其他国际机构的更加正式的安排，以便其更好地承担自己的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Kita patut bersyukur, kesadaran atas dampak buruk dari ketimpangan terhadap demokrasi, pertumbuhan ekonomi, perdamaian, keadilan, dan pembangunan manusia kini semakin meningkat.",
        "幸运的是，世界日益认识到不平等对民主、经济增长、和平、正义和人类发展的破坏作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The odds of a recessionary relapse in an environment of unusually weak growth – very much the problem today – should not be minimized.",
        "在增长极其萎靡的情况下（今天的问题正在于此），衰退复发的可能性无法最小化。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the danger of Davos lies in this concentrated commingling of the chattering classes and the real world of politics and business.",
        "当然，达沃斯的危险也正在于这里集中地混合着喜欢夸夸其谈的人和真实世界中的政治与商业。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, because Rosneft must repay its external debt, it is likely to use its bailout cash to buy dollars, which can only result in further downward pressure on the ruble.",
        "其次，由于俄石油必须偿还其外债，因此它有可能用援助金购买美元，这将导致卢布进一步下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "The land reclamation project is undermining the ecological connection between the Spratly Islands and the South China Sea, choking off the supply of nutrients upon which these ecosystems depend.",
        "土地开垦项目正在破坏南沙群岛和南中国海之间的生态联系，掐断这些生态系统赖以存在的营养物质供应。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, there is the public-health impact of industrial livestock production.",
        "最后，工业化畜牧业生产还有公共健康影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that, even near the ZLB, monetary policy works.",
        "好消息是，即使在零利率下限，货币政策仍然有效。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Bacon, we value utility because it seems to lend credibility to the claims that science makes about the nature of the world – science is true because it works.",
        "像培根一样，我们因致用能增加科学的可信度而看重致用——科学因致用而真实。"
    ],
    [
        "For most of the twenty-first century, emerging markets’ rising importance – and, with it, a reordering of the global economy and international relations – has been conventional wisdom.",
        "在21世纪的绝大部分时间里，新兴市场日益重要并将由此引发全球经济和国际关系重构已成为传统智慧。"
    ],
    [
        "Small farms support 2.5 billion people worldwide, accounting for up to 80% of food produced in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.",
        "小农场支撑着全世界25亿人的生活，产出了亚洲和撒哈拉以南非洲地区80%的粮食。"
    ],
    [
        "In the “Brexit” vote, the fault lines were clear: rich versus poor, gainers versus losers from trade/globalization, skilled versus unskilled, educated versus less educated, young versus old, urban versus rural, and diverse versus more homogenous communities.",
        "在“脱欧”投票中也展现出了明显的断层：富人/穷人，贸易及全球化的赢家/输家，高技能/低技能劳动者，受过良好教育/低教育程度，年轻人/老年人，城市/农村，多样性/单一型社区。"
    ],
    [
        "Two far-right parties, the Austrian Freedom Party and the Movement for Austria’s Future, won 29% of the vote in the latest Austrian general election, double their total in the 2006 election.",
        "在最新的奥地利大选中，两个极右翼政党即奥地利自由党和奥地利未来运动赢得29%的选票，这是它们在2006年选举中获得总票数的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazilian Lessons for Industrial Policy",
        "产业政策之巴西经验"
    ],
    [
        "When politics comes first, there is a temptation to bend the law toward one’s own ends.",
        "在政治第一的情况下，就会有一种让法律屈服于个人意志的诱惑。"
    ],
    [
        "But citizens and politicians alike must agree to target services far more carefully; reform the tax system with lower rates on a broader base of economic activity and people (almost half pay no state income tax); and modernize inefficient state programs to spend less and produce far better outcomes.",
        "针对更大范围的经济活动和人口调降税率、改革税制（几乎半数的人不用缴纳州所得税）； 并推动该州低效项目的现代化，降低开支，改善结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia’s View of the Greek Crisis",
        "希腊危机的亚洲观点"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to reform them – and to devise new structures and tools designed to address global problems.",
        "现在是时候进行改革——设计出解决全球问题的全新结构和工具。"
    ],
    [
        "There are also risks for the US.",
        "美国同样也承受着风险。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the share of EU immigrants in the total population is twice as high in Ireland.",
        "事实上，爱尔兰欧盟移民占总人口比例比英国高出一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "New loans for failed policies – the current joint creditor proposal – is, for them, no adjustment at all.",
        "为失败政策组织新贷款——即当前的联合债权人方案——对他们来说根本不是调整。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom – the homeland of pragmatism and realism, a country of unflappable principles and unmatched adaptability that stoically gave up its empire after successfully defending Europe’s freedom against Nazi Germany – has now lost its way.",
        "英国——实用主义和现实主义的发轫地，一个有着惊人镇定和适应性的国家，一个在成功对抗纳粹德国、捍卫欧洲自由之后放弃帝国地位的国家——如今正在迷失方向。"
    ],
    [
        "The kind of fiscal integration and centralized power that they would require do not even remotely resemble those in place in the US.",
        "财政一体化及其所要求的权力集中和美国的情形毫无相似之处。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is that wood opened up a different and much richer path to development.",
        "原因在于木材开启了一条不同并且富裕得多的发展之路。"
    ],
    [
        "In the old days, before computers, it was hard to manage complex pricing – or, for that matter, to reach the right customers with specific time-based or location-based offers.",
        "在没有电脑的年代，综合性定价是很难实施的——或者具体来说，很难为基于特定交易时间和地点的报价找到合适的顾客。"
    ],
    [
        "Her endorsement of a candidate whom she knew Cameron would vehemently oppose was a serious mistake, because it strengthened the hand of those in the UK who want to leave the EU.",
        "她支持明知卡梅伦强烈反对的候选人是一个严重错误，因为这让想脱离欧盟的英国人底气更足了。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, liberal democracies have felt threatened since communism collapsed in 1989 – but mostly by foreign terrorists, who tend not to form political parties and sit in these countries’ parliaments.",
        "平心而论，自由民主国家自1989年共产主义崩溃以来便一直感受到威胁——但大部分来自外国恐怖分子，他们的意图不是组建政党和进入议会。"
    ],
    [
        "An improved system could help alleviate the burden imposed on innocent victims of the financial and economic downturn.",
        "改善系统现状可以有助于减轻金融和经济低迷给无辜牺牲者带来的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "The concept of “structural reform” usually refers to measures aimed at boosting economic growth by sharpening market signals and restoring the health of public finances.",
        "“结构改革”的概念常常是指旨在通过加强市场信号和重塑公共财政健康提振经济增长的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "García recently signed an economic agreement with Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, called Pacto del Pacífico, which is destined to reorient Latin America’s economies.",
        "加西亚不久前与智利、哥伦比亚和墨西哥签署了一份名为Pacto del Pacífico的经济协定，旨在重新调整拉美经济。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe so.",
        "我相信如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1990s, South Korea waited for matters to come to a head before responding.",
        "20世纪90年代，韩国一直等到大难临头才开始反应。"
    ],
    [
        "The household work and care responsibilities of women are reflected in a sizeable “motherhood pay penalty.”",
        "妇女的家政工作和看护责任体现在规模庞大的“母亲薪酬惩罚”（motherhood pay penalty）中。"
    ],
    [
        "Asian-style reforms do not travel well, and, in any case, there is significant controversy about the role of specific policies.",
        "亚洲式改革并不放之四海而皆准，且关于具体政策的作用也存在重大争议。"
    ],
    [
        "But his decision came only after the epidemic had been smoldering for many months, with 6,000 Ebola cases confirmed and many more believed to be undetected.",
        "但他是在疫情已经酝酿了几个月后才做出的这项决定，经过确诊的埃博拉病例达到6，000起，而且有不少病例尚未被发现。"
    ],
    [
        "The coup attempt will add potency to Erdoğan’s venom and fuel a wider witch-hunt against the Gülen movement.",
        "军事政变将在埃尔多安的阴毒手段上平添恨意，刺激针对居伦运动的全面搜捕。"
    ],
    [
        "In a similar vein, the Business Roundtable, composed of CEOs of major US corporations, has deployed brigades of lawyers to squelch shareholders’ aspirations.",
        "与此一脉相承的是，由美国大公司首席执行官组成的商业圆桌会议（Business Roundtable）派出律师大军镇压着股东的请愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil could become a prisoner of the policy’s totemic value as a commitment device, even as it outlives its usefulness as such.",
        "巴西可能沦为政策作为承诺机制的图腾价值（即使它早就已经失去了这一用途）的囚徒。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure to address the deficit (and the mounting debt) will create pressures to reduce what the US spends on foreign aid, intelligence, and defense – although Republicans are more likely than Democrats to protect such spending (except for foreign aid).",
        "如果无法解决赤字（以及不断堆积的债务）的话，那么美国的对外援助，情报和国防事务都将面临巨大的压力——即便共和党人比民主党人更倾向于维持这部分经费（对外援助除外）。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference cannot possibly be related to educational quality, because those who moved from poor municipalities to richer ones also earned more.",
        "造成上述差异的不可能是教育质量，因为那些从穷市迁移到富市的劳动力同样赚得更多。"
    ],
    [
        "So, when unprecedented extreme weather events occur, the prime suspect is naturally the biggest atmospheric change that has happened over the past hundred years – one that has been caused by human emissions.",
        "因此当史无前例的极端气候发生之时，最主要的嫌疑犯自然就是过去数百年以来持续发生的重大大气变化——而这就是由人类排放所导致的。"
    ],
    [
        "But without the rule of law, businesses lose confidence that contracts and private-property rights will be enforced or independently arbitrated, and the economy cannot sustain strong long-term growth.",
        "但如果没有法治，企业就会担心合同和私人产权得不到执行或独立的仲裁，经济无法保持强劲的长期增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The revolution in transport and communications, we hear, has vaporized borders and shrunk the world.",
        "我们被告知说交通与通讯技术革命已经消弭了边界，让世界变得更小。"
    ],
    [
        "Nervous financial markets will keep the government on a tight leash.",
        "紧张的金融市场将继续掣肘巴西政府。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – What is going on in North Korea?",
        "发自剑桥——朝鲜究竟出了什么问题？"
    ],
    [
        "Their market power has increased, yet they know they incur no risk, owing to the aggravated systemic impact of their potential bankruptcy.",
        "它们的市场影响力增加了，然而它们知道由于可能破产的严重系统性影响，自己不会面临风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But they have not yet produced a deal.",
        "但仍没有产生协议。"
    ],
    [
        "How unfeeling will they come to be about the people who share their neighborhoods?",
        "他们对于生活在自己周围的人又是怎样的不关心？"
    ],
    [
        "So can the proactive use of oral cholera vaccines and quick access to treatments, such as oral rehydration solution and intravenous fluids.",
        "用口服霍乱疫苗进行预防和快速治疗手段（如口服补水剂和静脉注射）也能起到同样的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU accounts for almost 40% of Turkish trade, 70% of its foreign direct investment, and more than 50% of its tourism industry.",
        "欧盟贡献了土耳其近40%的贸易、70%的外国直接投资和50%多的旅游业收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Will they tolerate dissent?",
        "他们能够容忍不同政见吗？"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, even though Japan’s working-age population, traditionally defined, has shrunk 8% over the past decade, the labor force decline totaled just 1%.",
        "结果，尽管日本按传统定义的工作年龄人口在过去十年减少了8%，但劳动力数量只下降了1%。"
    ],
    [
        "And EU member states could use their aid budgets to provide greater support for the Syrian refugees living in dire circumstances in neighboring countries.",
        "欧盟成员国可以运用国内援助预算，为邻国生活在水深火热中的叙利亚难民提供更多支持。"
    ],
    [
        "But a forthcoming report by two highly respected economists – Jean Pisani-Ferry, the French government’s Commissioner-General for Policy Planning, and Henrik Enderlein, a key leader of a reformist group of German economists – will propose a way forward.",
        "但两位极有名望的经济学家——法国政府政策规划总顾问让·皮萨尼-费里（Jean Pisani-Ferry）和德国改革派经济学家领袖人物亨里克·恩德莱恩（Henrik Enderlein）在他们即将发表的文章中设计了一条前进道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Societies, too, can become more altruistic (and may even enjoy an evolutionary advantage over their more selfish counterparts).",
        "社会也可以向利他主义转化（甚至可以实现相对于自私同伴的进化优势）。"
    ],
    [
        "As an astute investor friend pointed out to me, this would be the equivalent of a 2,500% return.",
        "1%。 一位精明的投资者朋友对我说，这相当于2,500%的回报率。"
    ],
    [
        "COLOMBO – As China’s economy slows and growth in the developed world remains anemic, governments across Asia are working to keep their economies on an upward trajectory.",
        "科伦坡—由于中国经济减速和发达世界增长依然萎靡，亚洲各国政府正在努力保持经济的向上势头。"
    ],
    [
        "The wilder Brexiteers – shaven heads, national flag tattoos – resemble the English football hooligans infesting European stadiums with their particular brand of violence.",
        "“野生”英国退出派——光头、国旗纹身者——就像是骚扰欧洲球场的英国足球流氓，暴力是他们的招牌。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the economy is on the verge of collapse.",
        "同时经济也处在崩溃的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "This was deemed a “credit event,” so credit-default swaps were exercised: anyone who insured against default had to pay out.",
        "这被认为是一起“信用事件”，将触发信用违约互换：所有为该事件投了保的人都可以获得赔付。"
    ],
    [
        "Many legitimate manufacturers worldwide, whether through complacency or incompetence, lack adequate quality controls.",
        "放眼全球，许多合法制造商——不管是因为自满还是因为能力不足——缺少足够的质量控制。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the governments of Chad and the Central African Republic would never have accepted NATO’s intervention to help resolve the Darfur crisis.",
        "与此同时，乍得和中非共和国政府永远也不会接受由北约采取的干预行动，协助解决达尔富尔危机。"
    ],
    [
        "While factory jobs never became pleasant, blue-collar occupations now enabled a middle-class standard of living, with all its consumption possibilities and lifestyle opportunities.",
        "工厂工作仍然不令人愉快，但蓝领岗位已能够让人过上中产阶级的生活，拥有中产阶级的消费能力和生活方式机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Because Trump’s hostile tweets and swaggering public utterances are usually followed by more cautious statements from senior members of his cabinet, Kim might not take them seriously.",
        "因为特朗普充满敌意的推特和令人震惊的公开言论往往都会引来其内阁高级官员的更加谨慎的声明，金正恩可能根本没有认真对待。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the gains have been worth just 1% a year, over the past 30 years that would cumulate to a gain of 35%.",
        "但假设这些收益只相当于每年1%，过去三十年累计下来也能造成35%的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "In Iraq, the Kurds base their demand for independence on the claim that the Iraqi state is oppressive and failing.",
        "在伊拉克，库尔德人声称伊拉克国家的压迫和失败迫使他们提出独立要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Why resume, under US pressure, a nearly normal dialogue with Israel if the outcome is to be abandoned, if not betrayed, by American policy?",
        "如果结局是被美国抛弃（如果不是背叛的话），为什么还要在美国的压力下重启与以色列的最新正式对话？"
    ],
    [
        "Schäuble’s ideas have so far failed to persuade her or, indeed, the Bundesbank (which, through its president, Jens Weidmann, has been hugely negative toward any degree of fiscal mutualization, even the limited version that Schäuble is willing to trade for control over the French and Italian budgets).",
        "因为朔伊布勒的观点迄今未能说服她，或者更确切地说——德国央行（其行长延斯·魏德曼（Jens Weidmann）一直反对任何程度上的财政融合，即使是朔伊布勒用来交换法国和意大利预算控制权的有限版本也不同意）。"
    ],
    [
        "The new silent majority is the best defense against the radical and suicidal undercurrents that have filled the political vacuum created by the collapse of the old order.",
        "旧秩序崩塌带来了政治真空，这样的真空被极端自杀性暗流所填补，而面对这样的暗流最坚固的防御力量是新生沉默的多数民众。"
    ],
    [
        "A World Economic Forum study estimates that, when aligned, an annual increase of only $36 billion in public-sector investment in climate change could be leveraged to 16 times that amount by mobilizing $570 billion of private capital.",
        "世界经济论坛的研究估算，一旦联合起来，每年在气候变化方面只要新增360亿美元的公共部门投资，就能撬动16倍的资金，动员5700亿美元的私人资本。"
    ],
    [
        "Students will share ideas through live chats, shared curricula, joint projects, and videos, photos, and text sent over the digital network.",
        "学生们将能够通过实时聊天、共享的课程、合作项目和影视、照片以及通过数字网络发出的文字等方式，一起分享各自的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "America will remain a rich society for a long time to come, but one that is increasingly divided and unstable.",
        "美国在一段长时期内依然会是一个富裕的国家，但同时也会逐渐走向分化和动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The unreality of the treaty’s goals comes through in the official statement of its objectives: “the conservation and sustainable use of all plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of their use, in harmony with the Convention on Biological Diversity, for sustainable agriculture and food security.”",
        "条约目标的正式声明体现了条约的非现实性：“保护并可持续利用所有粮食和农业植物遗传资源，公正和平等地享有相关应用所产生的收益，遵守生物多样性公约，并实现农业和粮食安全的长期持续。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Traditional donors, for their part, have decades of lost time to make up for.",
        "而那些传统的捐赠者则有几十年的空缺要去弥补。"
    ],
    [
        "Campaigns are always more extreme than the eventual reality, but countries should be wary of calls for transformational change.",
        "竞选口号总是比最后的落实要极端得多，但世界各国应该仍会对美国外交政策变革感到担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "As other advanced economies become increasingly services-based, the US is reindustrializing.",
        "当其他发达国家日渐依赖服务业的时候，美国正在重新工业化。"
    ],
    [
        "If the presidency goes to a politician who lacks fame and charisma, its place will forever be low down in the international pecking order.",
        "如果主席一职由缺乏威望和魅力的政治家担任，那么它永远不会在国际权力排行中占据任何优势。"
    ],
    [
        "In the run-up to the crisis, the US Federal Reserve Board (an informal inflation targeter) was even more committed than the MPC to this orthodox view – so committed, in fact, that it barely allocated any time or resources to analyzing house-price fluctuations.",
        "在危机前，美联储（它并不是正式的通胀目标派）甚至比MPC更严格地遵循正统——严格到它几乎从未花时间和精力分析房价的波动。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, trade between India and Pakistan could contribute to the normalization of ties between these long-estranged neighbors.",
        "同样地，印度和巴基斯坦之间的贸易对正常化这两个长期疏远的邻国之间的关系功不可没。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – Governments’ inability to act decisively to address their economies’ growth, employment, and distributional challenges has emerged as a major source of concern almost everywhere.",
        "米兰—政府无法采取决定性的措施解决经济的增长、就业和分配问题已经成为各国的主要问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A coordinated system for responding to violations is also vital.",
        "建立处理违规行为的统一体系也有着重要意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the influence of feminist movements throughout the West.",
        "试想一下女权运动对西方的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The criminalization and stigmatization of women who use illicit drugs means that they are less likely than men to self-identify as needing assistance for drug dependence.",
        "伴随着吸毒女性的刑罚和屈辱意味着她们不太可能像男性那样主动承认因吸毒行为而需要帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Can one picture a childish man, compulsive and narcissistic, surrendering without a fight the larger-than-life toy that is the top job in the most powerful country on the planet?",
        "是否能够想象一个孩子气、冲动和自恋的男人不经过一番挣扎就放弃地球上最强大国家的最高领袖这样一个意义超乎生命的玩具？"
    ],
    [
        "Individuals born after 1975 now account for a very large proportion of the electorate.",
        "1975年后出生的印度人如今占据着选民相当大的比例。"
    ],
    [
        "Were it not for some design flaws that would not be repeated today, Fukushima might well have survived intact – and history would be so different.",
        "要不是一些如今已不可能再次出现的设计缺陷，福岛核电站应能安然无恙，历史也将被改写。"
    ],
    [
        "Old hands know that global trade deals often rise out of the ashes of failed talks.",
        "老手们都知道全球贸易协议往往诞生于谈判破裂的灰烬之中。"
    ],
    [
        "In a 2015 speech, Stanley Fischer, one of the most internationally-minded of the Fed’s governors, acknowledged that world financial stability could be supported by a global central bank, yet concluded: “I should be clear that the US Federal Reserve is not that bank.”",
        "在2015年的讲话中，美联储最具国际思维的关于之一的斯坦利·费舍尔（Stanley Fischer）承认，世界金融稳定可以由一家全球央行支持，但又总结说：“我应该澄清，这家央行不是美联储。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Either way, victory is not around the corner.",
        "但无论选择哪一条道路，胜利都不会立刻到来。"
    ],
    [
        "A Prisoner’s Reflections on Nelson Mandela",
        "纳尔逊·曼德拉牢狱生活反思"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – The world’s developed economies, of which the United States is by far the largest and systemically most important, face a range of difficult political and social choices.",
        "米兰—以美国为最大、最具系统重要性的发达国家面临着一系列艰难的政治和社会选择。"
    ],
    [
        "A reconsideration of banks’ limited liability charter would go even further in restoring credibility.",
        "对银行有限责任章程的重新考量也会有助于进一步重建其公信力。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the system has lost some important safety belts, which have yet to be restored.",
        "第三，该系统已失去了一些重要的安全机制，而且尚未得到恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as is acknowledged in the ECB’s statute, it also means ensuring the “smooth operation of payment systems.”",
        "但是，欧洲央行章程也承认，这意味着确保“支付系统的平滑操作。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the prospect of a rise in global temperature of more than 2°C (3.6°F) over pre-industrial levels by the end of this century (which would trigger global warming’s most damaging effects) calls for higher investment in sustainable urbanization, climate-smart agriculture, and social safety nets.",
        "与此同时，全球气温预计将在本世纪末较工业化前水平升高2℃以上（这将触发全球变暖最危险的效应）意味着需要增加可持续城市化、气候智能型农业和社会安全网的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher investment and social spending in poor countries will stimulate the entire world economy, spur economic development, and promote environmental sustainability through investments in renewable energy, efficient water use, and sustainable agriculture.",
        "贫穷国家提高投资和社会支出将会刺激全球经济，推动经济发展，还能通过注资给可持续能源，有效的水资源利用和可持续性农业来提升环境的可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "But for how long will a majority serve a minority? For how long will it accept a lack of water, sanitation, education, and dignity?",
        "但大多数能服务少数多久？ 他们能忍受缺水、缺医疗、缺教育、缺尊严的状况多长时间？"
    ],
    [
        "A logical question to ask, then, is why the Party allowed an unprecedented degree of openness at the trial.",
        "因此合乎逻辑的问题是党为什么允许进行这场前所未有的公开审判。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment is ruled out from the start – a built-in outcome of the model that TPP proponents often fudge.",
        "失业从一开始就被排除——这一该模型的内生结果常常被TPP支持者所回避。"
    ],
    [
        "Cumulative economic growth over the past five years was the slowest in the euro zone – 3.2%, compared to an average of 7.8% – with two years of stagnation.",
        "过去的五年中，经济累积增长速度是欧元区中最缓慢的，只有3. 2%，而欧元区平均增长速度达到了7."
    ],
    [
        "As a result, efforts to fight monopoly are lagging, and the next stage of reform – the transition to a “blended ownership system” – remains distant.",
        "因此，治理垄断的努力十分缓慢，而下一阶段的改革——向“混合所有制”转型——依然任重道远。"
    ],
    [
        "In most countries of continental Europe, “9/11” has remained an American date.",
        "在大多数欧洲大陆国家，”9/11“已经成为一个美国人的日子。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s consider two hypothetical extremes in the state-market relationship.",
        "让我们构想国家-市场关系的两种极端情况。"
    ],
    [
        "This risk was highlighted by the recent downgrade of Italy’s credit rating by Standard & Poor’s.",
        "而这一风险在标准普尔最近调低意大利主权评级一事中可见一斑。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent criminal trial, two German-Turkish brothers stood accused of forcing more than 100 women to work in Amsterdam’s red-light district ( De Wallen ).",
        "在最近的一次刑事审判中，土裔德籍的俩兄弟被指控强迫100多位妇女到阿姆斯特丹的红灯区( De Wallen )工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kellogg, Kraft, Nestlé, and Groupe Danone all have market shares ranging from 4% to 7%.",
        "可口可乐、General Mills、Kellogg、卡夫、雀巢和达能也都占有该市场4%-7%不等的份额。"
    ],
    [
        "It is true that the paper’s title, “A Financial System that Creates Economic Opportunities,” has a political flavor; but the specific ideas it floats are not exactly those found on the wilder shores where “free banking” advocates roam.",
        "诚然，这篇文章的标题《创造经济机会的金融体系》有一丝政治的味道； 但它所提出的具体概念，与“自由银行业”鼓吹者经常提到的内容并不完全相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the world is suddenly asking whether Burma (Myanmar), after six decades of military dictatorship, has embarked on a genuine political transition that could end the country’s pariah status.",
        "现在，世界突然对缅甸产生了疑问，在60年的军事独裁之后，缅甸真的将开始走向终结该国贱民地位的实质性政治转型了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "For actual GDP, such frequent and large forecast revisions are inevitable.",
        "对实际GDP来说，如此频繁和大幅度的预测修正是难免的。"
    ],
    [
        "Now imagine the alternative and ask yourself: Which world do I want to live in?",
        "然后，想象一下若非如此会是如何，然后扪心自问：你愿意生活在哪个世界中？"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether the state should be determining what citizens should or should not wear.",
        "问题在于国家是否有权决定民众应当或不应当穿着什么。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution adopted in frantic late-night negotiations in Brussels initially looked counterproductive.",
        "布鲁塞尔的深夜谈判最初拿出的方案看起来有害无益。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is also a theatrical intensity about the Argentine character: we are dramatic like the tango and somber like the novels of Ernesto Sábato.",
        "但阿根廷人极富戏剧天赋：我们像探戈一样热情，像萨瓦托（Ernesto Sábato）的小说一样忧郁。"
    ],
    [
        "New research by the International Monetary Fund, to be published in next month’s Regional Economic Outlook for Asia and the Pacific, suggests that the median Asian country’s economic sensitivity to China’s GDP has doubled in the last couple of decades.",
        "基金组织即将在2016年4月期《亚太地区经济展望》中发布一份新研究，其指出：典型亚洲国家经济对中国GDP的敏感度在过去几十年翻了一番。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach is both misguided and dangerous.",
        "这样的方法既错误又非常危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Peace thus requires a degree of political and socioeconomic change to diminish the appetite for military adventurism.",
        "因此和平需要一定程度上的政治和社会经济变革从而减少军事冒险主义的野心。"
    ],
    [
        "Several factors have diminished investors’ willingness to extend long-term credit.",
        "几大因素削弱了投资者扩展长期信用的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The World Trade Organization’s ministerial conference in Bali in December produced a modest package of encouragements to global trade.",
        "伦敦—12月的世界贸易组织巴里部长级会议非全球贸易带来了些许鼓励。"
    ],
    [
        "And what else could it be?",
        "除了腐败，还能是什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "For many women, however, the veil is a token of liberation – an indication that they have engaged with the Moroccan public in ways that reflect their own sense of religious practice.",
        "然而，对于许多妇女而言，面纱已经成为一种解放的象征，表明她们已经参与到摩洛哥的公众活动中来，反映自己对宗教活动的认识和见解。"
    ],
    [
        "Welcome to the Era of Incompetence",
        "欢迎进入执政无能的时代"
    ],
    [
        "As we heard repeatedly during the Congress, China’s leadership reckons that its biggest policy challenge in the coming years will be the shift from export-led growth to an economic model based more firmly on domestic consumption.",
        "在十八大期间，我们反复听到，中国领导人认为未来几年最大的政策挑战将是出口导向的增长向基于更加稳固的国内消费的经济模式的转型。"
    ],
    [
        "These “netizens” surmount the firewall by way of proxy servers or virtual private networks (VPNs) that allow them to browse the Web as if they were outside of China.",
        "这些“网民”借助代理服务器或虚拟专用网络越过防火墙，这些工具让他们像在国外一样浏览互联网。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush waited weeks for a positive development that would allow him to suggest he can reduce troop levels in Iraq from 133,000 to 100,000 by the end of 2006.",
        "布什苦苦等候了几个礼拜，才等来了这次积极的进展。 这使他得以提出在2006年底之前把驻伊美军从原来的133，000人减至100，000人。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi may be much smarter than Trump (not a high hurdle to clear), but that is not enough to guarantee a stable and prosperous future for China.",
        "习近平也许比特朗普聪明得多（特朗普并不是一个难以清除的障碍），但这并不足以保证中国能获得稳定繁荣的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "This allowed many European Union countries to approach the crisis with room for maneuver.",
        "这使得许多欧盟的成员国的在解决危机的时候有了回旋的余地。"
    ],
    [
        "And every country should think very carefully about what it wishes to communicate about itself.",
        "每个国家都应该认真思考究竟想和新移民交流些什么问题。"
    ],
    [
        "I do not think so, and to argue as much devalues the efforts of many overworked and underpaid public servants around the world.",
        "我可不这样认为，而继续争辩只能再度贬低全世界那些拿着低工资却超负荷工作的公务员们所付出的努力而已。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given deep mistrust and a multitude of conflicts involving China, its regional neighbors, and the United States over security, environmental, and human-rights issues, its success is far from guaranteed.",
        "但考虑到中国，其邻国，以及美国在安全，环境和人权事务方面存在的深刻不信任和大量冲突，讨论该动议的成功还为时过早。"
    ],
    [
        "If most community members work for just a few employers and obtain health care from just a few providers, the effort of corralling the players will be easier.",
        "如果大部分社区成员为少数雇主工作并从少数提供者处获得卫生服务，那么集中参与者的工作就会较为容易。"
    ],
    [
        "This massive expression of solidarity evolved into an effort to draft me to run for the presidency in 2010.",
        "而他们展现的团结一致也成为了我参加2010年总统大选的动力。"
    ],
    [
        "While the “banking union” may soon exist on paper, in practice the eurozone banking system is likely to remain fragmented along national lines and divided between a northern “core,” where governments continue to stand behind local banks, and a southern “periphery,” where governments have run out of money.",
        "虽然这个“银行联盟”可能很快出现在各种纸面文件上，但实际上欧元区的银行体系依然处于各国的条块分割之下，一边是不断为本国银行作后盾的北部“核心国家”，一边是早已耗尽货币资源的南部“外围国家”。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Reform Anxiety",
        "中国的改革忧虑症"
    ],
    [
        "They are putting their own money and policies behind expanded implementation of the MVP’s guiding concepts.",
        "他们投入自己的资金和政策支持千年村计划指导概念的日益扩大的实施。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, rising inequality has been a fact of life at least since the 1970s, when the relatively equitable distribution of economic benefits from the early post-World War II era started to become skewed.",
        "在美国，不平等性加剧成为一个事实至少可以追溯到20世纪70年代，从那时开始，二战后早期相对平等的经济收益分配开始出现倾斜。"
    ],
    [
        "To know with confidence that the coin is ordinary, with no hidden features, one must log a sufficiently large number of coin flips and check whether the data include equal numbers of heads and tails over the long run.",
        "要想确信硬币没有不为人知的功能，的确是普通硬币，你就必须记录足够数量的抛掷结果，并检验长期结果数据中正面和背面的出现是否等量。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, despite of the rise of Fayaadism, the Palestinian national movement will be careful not to betray its real sources of legitimacy: the ethos of dispossession and the refugee.",
        "事实上，尽管经历了法雅德主义的崛起，巴勒斯坦民族运动仍然小心翼翼地避免背叛其真正的合法性来源：那就是难民和剥夺。"
    ],
    [
        "Even worse, in the absence of strong American leadership, longstanding global problems – from climate change to urgently needed reforms of the international monetary system – will continue to fester.",
        "更糟糕的是，没有美国的强有力的领导，长期全球问题——从气候变化到急需改革的国际货币体系——将继续发酵。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, both geographically and demographically, Afghanistan’s non-Pashtun groups account for more than half of the country, with Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras alone making up close to 50% of the population.",
        "实际上，阿富汗非普什图人无论从地理还是人口方面都占到半数以上，光是塔吉克族、乌兹别克族和哈扎拉族就占总人口的近50%。"
    ],
    [
        "This national dialogue, held under security measures that have basically shut down central Beirut, began March 2 and is expected to last up to ten days.",
        "为此次全国对话所采取的严密的安保措施封闭了贝鲁特的中心地区。 会议于3月2日开始，预计为期10天。"
    ],
    [
        "If the costs of firing workers are prohibitively high, firms may not hire additional workers in a market upturn, for fear that they will be unable to reduce their labor costs in a future downturn.",
        "如果解雇工人的成本过高，企业可能就不会在市场复苏期额外雇用工人，因为担心在未来的经济衰退期劳工成本无法下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Chairman Mao’s main aim was to consolidate his revolution at home.",
        "毛主席的主要目标是巩固国内革命。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there is more than one.",
        "事实上这样的人选还不止一个。"
    ],
    [
        "But we had no surefire way of getting users exactly what they wanted: JLo wearing that dress.",
        "但我们却无法为用户提供他们想要的东西：珍妮弗·洛佩兹身着那件裙子。"
    ],
    [
        "Logic and reason play no part in it.",
        "逻辑和理智在这里没有用武之地。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the special vulnerabilities of Israel, and a repetitive cause of violence, is the holding of prisoners.",
        "激进的巴勒斯坦以及黎巴嫩人知道，抓获一名以色列士兵或者平民要么导致冲突，要么就是交换战俘的有价值的谈判筹码。"
    ],
    [
        "It means expanding access to credit and financial services everywhere.",
        "这意味着要普遍扩大各地对信贷和金融服务的使用。"
    ],
    [
        "The government will need to find the right balance between government interests and individual rights, between economic growth and environmental stewardship, and between the role of markets and that of the state.",
        "中国政府需要在政府利益和个人权利之间、经济增长和环境保护之间以及市场角色和国家角色之间找到正确的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "This was of course an affront to the gods of the market, who responded by meting out divine retribution in the form of high and persistent inflation.",
        "这显然是对市场之神的亵渎，市场之神立即回报以天罚——持续而高企的通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, China’s emergence as a true innovator could turn it into a global R&D hub.",
        "最重要的是，中国崛起成为真正的创新者能够让它成为全球研发枢纽。"
    ],
    [
        "Crucially, the PP has made this move without losing voters who lean further to the right – the kind of voters who presumably would lead a backlash of right-wing populism.",
        "关键的是，人民党在实现这一转变的同时并没有失去变得更加右倾的选民——这类选民往往成为右倾民粹主义兴起的先锋。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, one important achievement of former President Felipe Calderón’s administration was to push through a 140-mile highway connecting the interior city of Durango and the Pacific port at Mazatlán.",
        "比如，前总统卡尔德隆的一个重要成就打通了内陆城市杜兰戈（Durango）和太平洋港口城市马萨特兰（Mazatlán）的140英里高速公路。"
    ],
    [
        "The CCP’s leaders have already decided that Bo is guilty and must spend years in jail (the scale of Bo’s alleged bribe-taking ensures a sentence of 15-20 years).",
        "中共领导人已经确定薄熙来有罪并将服刑（薄所涉嫌的受贿数额将保证他被判处15－20年徒刑）。"
    ],
    [
        "Commodity prices are soaring worldwide, not only for headline items like food and energy, but for metals, arable land, fresh water, and other crucial inputs to growth, because increased demand is pushing up against limited global supplies.",
        "因为需求的增加与有限的全球供应相比，差距越来越大，所以商品价格在全球范围内暴涨，不仅仅是像食品和能源这样饱受关注的商品，而且还有金属、耕地、淡水以及其他对增长至关重要的要素。"
    ],
    [
        "A second worrying factor is the FMLN’s links to Cuba and Venezuela.",
        "第二个令人担忧的因素是马解阵线与古巴和委内瑞拉的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Most people accept the need for security services to respond to terror, particularly in the aftermath of an attack.",
        "多数人接受动用安全部队来应对恐怖行为，尤其是在袭击发生之后。"
    ],
    [
        "In principle, everyone wants heavy-hitters; in practice, many national leaders resist the idea of a more independent and assertive team in Brussels.",
        "在原则上，每个人都想要大人物； 而实际上，许多国家领导人却拒绝接受布鲁塞尔有一个更为独立和张扬的团队。"
    ],
    [
        "They are able to resist all meaningful reform that could really change their compensation schemes.",
        "它们有能力去阻止任何影响其补偿方案的切实改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The habit of changing the rules to keep power would persist after the strongman eventually leaves the scene, but the superficial stability of his rule would not.",
        "改变规则以保持权力的习惯在强人最终离开舞台后将会依然保留下去，但是在他统治下的外表的稳定性却不再会得到保留。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision to attack Pearl Harbor was reached after five months of deliberations that included numerous official conferences.",
        "袭击珍珠港的决定是在经过五个月的审议后做出的，决策过程中举行了难以计数的会议。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that Xi’s unprecedented anti-corruption campaign, and there is no turning back on China’s road to rebalancing and structural change.",
        "此外还有前所未有的反腐运动，中国的再平衡和结构变迁之路也没有回头路可走。"
    ],
    [
        "British voters, still wobbly from Osborne’s medicine, can be forgiven if they decide that they should have stayed in bed.",
        "在奥斯本的药方下，英国选民仍然远远没有完全恢复，如果他们决定当初还不如呆在病榻上，也无可指摘。"
    ],
    [
        "Alumni run the show even at public institutions such as Purdue (90%) and Michigan (63%).",
        "即使是在普渡（90%）和密歇根（63%）这样的公立大学，也是校友占主导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, cities – which already house more than half of the world’s population, a share that will rise to 66% by 2050 – have plenty of experience integrating new residents, both from abroad and from rural areas.",
        "毕竟，城市——世界上一大半人口生活在城市中，并且这一比例到2050将增加到66%——有足够的经验融合新居民，不管来自国外还是来自农村。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom’s “Brexit” referendum notwithstanding, there is no denying that we live in a truly global world.",
        "尽管出现了“英国退欧”公投，但不可否认我们生活在一个真正的全球化世界中。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this worsens an already tense situation.",
        "所有这些让已然紧张的局面进一步恶化了。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact of their ignorance forces investors to fall back on certain conventions, of which the most important are that the present will continue into the future, that existing share prices sum up future prospects, and that if most people believe something, they must be right.",
        "”投资者往往有盲点，但最为重要的事情是对未来的预期，从现在的股价推算出未来的上升空间，如果绝大多数人都这么认为的话，他们就是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "This can be explained partly by pain’s subjective nature, and partly by the fact that its source can be difficult to pinpoint.",
        "这部分是因为疼痛的主观性质，部分是因为疼痛根源难以精确查明的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama, for his part, catered to economic nationalists by attacking Romney as an “outsourcing pioneer” and calling him an “outsourcer in chief” – as if outsourcing were evil, could be stopped, or Obama himself had done much to discourage it.",
        "而奥巴马则通过攻击罗姆尼的“业务外包先锋”形象来迎合经济民族主义者，并将对手称之为“首席业务外包官”——似乎业务外包就是洪水猛兽，应该被禁止，或是奥巴马在阻止外包方面作了许多努力似的。"
    ],
    [
        "Generally, much of our uneasiness reflects our exposure to threats that we can only partly control.",
        "总体而言，我们感受到的不安大多来自我们只能部分控制自己所面临的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – With China's economic slowdown more apparent than ever, its prospects of avoiding a hard landing are weakening.",
        "香港—中国经济减速的迹象从未如此明显。"
    ],
    [
        "But the ECB needs time to establish its inflation-fighting credentials.",
        "但是欧洲央行需要时间来建立其与通货膨胀作斗争的资格。"
    ],
    [
        "Peter Kenen argued in the late 1960’s that without exchange-rate movements as a shock absorber, a currency union requires fiscal transfers as a way to share risk.",
        "柯南（Peter Kenen）在20世纪60年代末指出，如果没有汇率变动作为冲击吸收器，货币联盟就需要财政转移来作为分担风险的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "The world urgently needs to create a political mechanism to help these countries escape the quagmire into which they are sinking.",
        "世界迫切需要建立政治机制，帮助这些国家从日益深陷的泥潭中摆脱。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Aurora Energy Research recently projected a significant decline in electricity prices for the next three decades.",
        "这也是极光能源研究所近期预测今后三十年电价显著下降的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, whether people choose to marry or not, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual, even whether they pay to fulfill their erotic fantasies or have fantasies they can fulfill at no cost, tells us little about whether they are good people who can be trusted with high office – unless, of course, they say one thing while doing another.",
        "即使如此，人们是否决定结婚、他们是否是异性恋或是同性恋、甚至他们是否掏钱还是免费满足性幻想并不能告诉我们他们是否是可以委任以高职的好人，当然，除非他们言行不一。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, despite the ups and downs of the business cycle, the US economy continues to return to full employment.",
        "但尽管商业周期起起落落，美国经济仍然实现了充分就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Creating meaning and preserving values is probably the one task that Europe has to undertake on behalf of the entire world.",
        "创造意义并保持价值观可能是欧洲不得不代表全世界来承担的一项重任。"
    ],
    [
        "Here as elsewhere, central bankers have no alternative but to consider the broader context and rely on their judgment.",
        "世界各地的央行行长们别无选择，只能参考大背景并依赖他们的判断。"
    ],
    [
        "Giving voice to German “transfer fatigue”, the FDP is adamantly opposed to any arrangement that transfers German money to underperforming member states.",
        "FDP认为德国已经“转移疲劳”，强烈反对任何将德国的钱转移支付给表现欠佳的成员国的安排。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial markets are supposed to be forward-looking, and many economists believe that they allocate resources in a way that reflects all available information.",
        "金融市场应该具有前瞻性，而且许多经济学家认为其分配资源的方式反映了所有的信息汇总。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot afford to have weak links in our chain of defense.",
        "我们担不起防护链出现弱环。"
    ],
    [
        "Or did it?",
        "果真如此吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Taxpayers across the EU must have the sense that they control what they owe – and that they will not be held responsible for the mistakes and frauds of the unholy alliance between irresponsible finance and irresponsible government.",
        "欧盟的纳税人必须明白自己只能为自己控制之下的债务负责——而不应为那些不负责任的金融界和不负责任的政府之间的邪恶同盟所造下的罪孽负责。"
    ],
    [
        "Reconciling these actors’ conflicting interests and demands concerning the full range of relevant issues would have been next to impossible.",
        "参与者对所有相关问题相互矛盾的利益和诉求几乎不存在调和的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "The tone at the beginning of the second Bush administration is different.",
        "布什连任之初的执政基调有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Washington Recaptured",
        "华盛顿再次沦陷"
    ],
    [
        "In our report, we recommend evaluating from a public-health standpoint – and on the basis of the most advanced medical science – the merits of decriminalizing possession of cannabis for personal use.",
        "在报告中，我们建议从公共卫生的角度——并以当前最尖端的医学研究为基础——来评估将个人服食大麻行为无罪化的优点。"
    ],
    [
        "Had Merkel been less enamored of austerity for Europe’s debt-distressed countries, and had she managed to convince her domestic electorate of the need for a different approach, the eurozone crisis would have played out quite differently.",
        "倘若默克尔不是那么着迷于对欧洲高负债国家采取紧缩政策，又如果她能说服自己的选民们接受另一种措施的话，欧元区的危机将都会以一种截然不同的形式发展。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps there is a deeper level on which we can see some connections between Thatcherism and the crisis.",
        "但对于撒切尔主义和金融危机，我们可以看到更深层次的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "With national security and prosperity now dependent on the safekeeping of cyberspace, cybercrime must be effectively countered as an international priority.",
        "由于国家安全与繁荣如今依赖于网络空间的安全保障，因此对网络犯罪加以有效回击一事，必须成为国际社会的优先关注；"
    ],
    [
        "Recent findings, however, show otherwise.",
        "但最近的研究却得出了相反的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other, he is a longtime Republican with a financial background.",
        "另一方面，他是一位拥有金融背景的老牌共和党。"
    ],
    [
        "The weak economy has caused people to postpone consumption of health-care services and has encouraged states and employers to restrain their spending on health.",
        "疲软的经济导致人们暂停医疗服务消费，也使各州和雇主限制医疗支出。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not certain that the additional spending will trickle down to the rest of the economy.",
        "但支出的增加是否会渗透到经济的其余部门远未可知。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the way problems are proliferating appears almost uncontrollable.",
        "实际上局面几乎已经失控。"
    ],
    [
        "While citizens with so-called “below-poverty-line” cards are eligible for government relief, surveys show that about half of the poor do not have the card – while about one-third of the non-poor do.",
        "拥有所谓的“低于贫困线”卡片的公民有资格获得政府救济，但调查显示大约一半穷人没有这张卡片——而有大约非贫困者拥有这张卡片。"
    ],
    [
        "At what cost?",
        "成本几何？"
    ],
    [
        "The key to addressing this problem is, as the declaration recognizes, to develop and improve access to rapid point-of-care diagnostic tools.",
        "解决这一问题的关键——如宣言所指出的——是开发和改善快速检测诊断工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits have been commensurately smaller.",
        "其效果要小得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, of the 20.2-percentage-point increase in aggregate household savings (as a share of GDP) in China from 1992 to 2009, the middle-aged cohort accounted for more than 60% (the remainder was largely attributable to the elderly).",
        "事实上，在中国1992至2009年家庭总储蓄率（作为GDP的一部分）所增加的20. 2%中，中年人群体占了超过60%（余下部分主要由老年人贡献）。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that the EU can be criticized for the way it handled the crisis; but it cannot be blamed for the global economic imbalances that have fueled economic strife since 2008.",
        "现实是，欧盟可以因为其处理危机的方式而被批评； 但你不能指责它造成了助长2008年以来的经济灾难的全球经济失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "I also know that we are treating more children more effectively than ever before – and that we can do much better still.",
        "我也知道我们治疗的儿童更多，疗效更好——而且未来还可能进一步提升。"
    ],
    [
        "Photograph of Jean-Claude Trichet: (c) European Central Bank/Andreas Böttcher",
        "让-克劳德·特里谢，曾任法国财政部长（1993-2003），欧洲中央银行行长（2003-2011），现任国际清算银行董事会董事。"
    ],
    [
        "And leading bank executives still insist that they should be allowed to run highly leveraged global businesses, in which they are paid based on their return on equity – unadjusted for any risk.",
        "但那些银行大佬们却依然坚持自己应当被允许运营更高杠杆的全球业务，并基于企业股票回报率来向他们支付报酬——无论出现任何风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The CPPC has risen to the challenge and provided a worthwhile service, by bringing past consumer-protection violations and noncompliance issues to health-insurance regulators who are willing to listen.",
        "保护患者选择联盟勇敢面对挑战并提供有价值的服务，将过往的消费者保护侵权案例和违规问题提供给愿意倾听的医疗保险监管机构。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea, for example, has been using a series of macro-prudential measures since 2010, aimed at moderating pro-cyclical cross-border banking-sector liabilities.",
        "以韩国为例，该国从2010年开始实施了一系列宏观审慎措施，旨在缓和顺周期性的跨国银行部门负债。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the global economy – replete with get-rich-quick schemes, overpaid bosses, and corporate fraud – has lost its moral bearings.",
        "简而言之，全球经济充满了快速致富的途径，报酬过于丰厚的老板以及企业诈骗，已经失去了其道德标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Only they could quickly come to the assistance of the giant housing finance institutions US Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and then deal with AIG.",
        "只有它们才能够迅速挽救美国的两大房贷公司，随后又托起美国国际集团。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Will 2018 be the year when the United Kingdom changes its mind about leaving the European Union?",
        "伦敦—2018年会成为英国改变脱离欧盟思维的一年吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission’s new president, Jean-Claude Juncker, was the first ever to be selected based on his faction’s strong showing in the European Parliament election.",
        "欧盟委员会新主席——让-克劳德·容克（Jean-Claude Juncker）是第一位凭借其所在派系在欧洲议会选举中的强劲表现而问鼎这一宝座的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey has been given what looks like an ultimatum from the EU Commission: open your ports for ships from Cyprus within a month, or you may risk a halt to the EU accession talks now underway.",
        "土耳其好像收到了欧盟委员会的最后通牒，那就是在一个月内向来自塞浦路斯的船只开放港口，否则，就有暂停目前正在进行的入盟谈判的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Its residents, estimated to number anywhere from a few hundred thousand to more than a million, do not officially exist.",
        "这里的居民约有几十万到上百万，在官方记录中，他们根本不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "In most advanced economies and many emerging economies, investment rates fell sharply in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, and have still not returned to pre-crisis levels.",
        "在大部分发达经济体和许多新兴经济体，2008年全球金融危机后投资率出现暴跌，至今仍没有回到危机前水平。"
    ],
    [
        "That world, however, will be one in which Israel can no longer count on feelings of Holocaust guilt to influence major powers.",
        "然而这么一个世界意味着以色列无法再利用对纳粹大屠杀的愧疚感来影响那些主要势力。"
    ],
    [
        "And Turkey wanted Assad gone to extend its strategic reach and stabilize its southern border.",
        "土耳其希望巴沙尔倒台能扩大它的战略接触面、稳定其南部边界。"
    ],
    [
        "That way, if a small minority of EU governments prove unable to ratify the treaty, it would not be torpedoed the way that its predecessor, the Constitutional Treaty, was in 2005.",
        "如此一来，即便欧盟少数的成员国政府不能批准该公约，那么它也不会像其前身《宪法公约》在2005年时一样前功尽弃。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic performance in the United States and the United Kingdom holds an important lesson for the eurozone.",
        "美国和英国的经济表现给欧元区提供了重要教训。"
    ],
    [
        "But in today’s prevailing conditions, we cannot afford this perspective.",
        "但在今天面对的主要情况下，我们不能接受这样的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier this year, analysts released images of what is expected to be a 10,000-foot (3,000-meter) runway on Fiery Cross Reef.",
        "今年早些时候，分析师公布了一组影像，永暑礁上似乎正在建设一条3,000米长的跑道。"
    ],
    [
        "Not long after the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, these liberal reformers joined with 160 other professionals to write and sign a petition to Crown Prince Abdullah asking for reforms.",
        "2001年9月美国遭受恐怖袭击后不久，这些自由改革者们和其他160名专家一起在一份递交给皇储阿卜杜拉（Abdullah）、要求改革的请愿书上签字。"
    ],
    [
        "Make no mistake: policymakers’ track record on forecasting Greek economic performance during the crisis has been an embarrassment.",
        "别弄错了：决策者在预测危机期间希腊经济表现的历史记录可谓尴尬。"
    ],
    [
        "My father weighed his response carefully.",
        "我的父亲认真权衡他的回应。"
    ],
    [
        "By early 2009, the plunge in stock markets around the world reached its nadir, and fear of a deep depression, according to the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey, was at its highest level since the second oil crisis in the early 1980’s.",
        "2009年初，全球股市崩盘达到谷底，密歇根大学消费情绪调查表明，对深度萧条的恐慌达到了自20世纪80年代初第二次石油危机以来的最高水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Energy exploration and production requires many different disciplines and technologies – eolic (wind), photovoltaic, nuclear, coal, etc.",
        "能源勘探和生产要求众多学科和技术基础，比如风力、光伏、核能、煤炭等。"
    ],
    [
        "They also have, on average, slightly lower intelligence.",
        "平均而言，他们智力水平较低。"
    ],
    [
        "This means changes in Israeli military policy, travel restrictions, and political posturing, and an end to one-upmanship by both sides.",
        "而这意味着修改以色列的军事政策、旅行限制和政治姿态，同时双方必须摒弃高人一等的作风。"
    ],
    [
        "Including such provisions would be a mistake – not least because exchange-rate issues are intrinsically irrelevant to trade deals.",
        "纳入这些条款将是一个错误——因为汇率问题本质上与贸易协议无关。"
    ],
    [
        "And if that narrative fuels a populist victory in March, reform of the banking sector will again be postponed, raising the eventual cost still further.",
        "而如果这一叙事在3月份让民粹主义赢得胜利，那么银行部门的改革将再次停止，最终的代价将进一步提高。"
    ],
    [
        "If donor governments really want results, they should take the money out of the hands of thirty or more separate aid bureaucracies and pool it in one or two places, the most logical being the World Bank in Washington and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome.",
        "如果捐助国政府真的看重结果，就应该从30家或者更多的独立官僚援助机构中把款项收回，集中交给一两家机构管理。 最顺理成章的管理机构是华盛顿世界银行和罗马联合国国际农业发展基金。"
    ],
    [
        "As a rule of thumb, diplomacy can be expected only to work with facts on the ground, not to create them, and the facts on the ground stand in the way of a regional settlement.",
        "经验表明，外交只能根据实际情况起作用，而不能创造实际情况，而实际情况正是形成地区和解的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "A more substantial constraint would be to establish a tougher disciplinary regime on fiscally profligate countries as part of a reinforced institutional framework.",
        "一个更重要的约束是为财政挥霍国设立更为严格的纪律机制，并将其作为强化制度框架的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Or consider corruption scandals in Brazil, Spain, and many other countries, where governments remain in power even after high-level corruption within the ruling party has been exposed.",
        "再比如巴西、西班牙和其他许多国家爆出的腐败丑闻，即使在执政党高层腐败丑闻公之于众后政府仍然留在台上。"
    ],
    [
        "Firmness must be accompanied by clarity.",
        "坚定必须辅之以明确。"
    ],
    [
        "Why do good, ordinary people sometimes become perpetrators of evil?",
        "为什么善良的普通人有时会变成作恶者？"
    ],
    [
        "Catalonia does have a legitimate dispute with the Spanish government over finances and the attributes of autonomy.",
        "加泰罗尼亚在财政和自治属性方面的确与西班牙政府存在合理的争端。"
    ],
    [
        "There have been mass protests and resistance from the old guard of the governing party, but the general public seems ready to accept austerity as long as it sees progress in correcting budgetary abuses – and there are plenty of abuses to allow progress.",
        "虽然原先的执政党举行了若干反对集会，社会大众似乎愿意做出改变来挽救过去的挥霍 —— 要改变的事情还很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there’s nothing wrong with vanguard groups of members forging ahead – the recent diplomatic initiative concerning Iran’s nuclear program is a case in point.",
        "当然，先锋成员国先行一步没有什么不对——最近在伊拉克核计划问题上的外交倡议就刚好说明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Engaging the World in Syria",
        "世界参与解决叙利亚问题"
    ],
    [
        "Hours of work in rich countries have halved since 1870, while real per capita income has risen by a factor of five.",
        "1870年以来，富裕国家的工作时间减少了一半，而真实人均收入上升了五倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, a new commitment to the struggle against the Islamic State has eliminated a core point of friction with Turkey’s Western partners.",
        "类似地，打击伊斯兰国的新承诺打消了土耳其西方盟友的一个核心摩擦点。"
    ],
    [
        "How will countries apply its mandates within their borders and in relation to riparian neighbors?",
        "各国如何在国内以及针对隔河相望的邻国行使其权力？"
    ],
    [
        "Asia, of course, includes Japan, India, Korea, and others, but China will eventually play the largest role.",
        "当然，亚洲包括日本、印度、韩国和其他国家，但是中国将最终成为角色最为重要的一个。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s real freedoms depend on sane public policy.",
        "美国的真正自由取决于明智的公共政策。"
    ],
    [
        "And we have seen this recently in Britain. Down goes the economy and down goes the Labour government’s standing.",
        "而且最近我们已经在英国看到了实例——工党执政的政府支持率随着经济状况一路下滑。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important for international actors to assure Sudan’s government that the UN/AU mission will not strive for regime change in the country or otherwise exceed its peacekeeping mandate.",
        "重要的是国际各方须向苏丹政府保证，联合国/非洲联盟这次行动无意使达尔福尔发生政权变更或者作出超出其维和职权范围的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone was founded on the “no bailout” principle: if member states could not repay their debts, lenders would bear the losses.",
        "欧元区是建立在“无援助”原则上的：如果成员国无法偿还债务，债权人必须承受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "While Israel keeps its bomb in the basement, it has a long history of stopping its adversaries.",
        "尽管以色列把核弹藏得严严实实，却一直竭尽全力阻止对手拥有核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet stability was achieved.",
        "但稳定的局面还是实现了。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why the new xenophobia has largely been resisted in Europe’s most diverse cities.",
        "这也解释了新仇外主义大都在欧洲最多样化的城市都遭到抵制的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Now is the time to recognize those consequences, particularly given that China’s leaders are not done limiting their citizens’ reproductive choices.",
        "现在应该认识到这些后果了，特别是考虑到中国领导人并没有取消公民的生育选择限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan is in danger of falling back into the hands of terrorists, insurgents, and criminals, and the multi-billion-dollar opium trade is at the heart of the country’s malaise.",
        "阿富汗正处于陷入恐怖份子、叛乱份子以及罪犯手中的危险，而几十亿美元的鸦片交易则是这个国家病症的核心所在。"
    ],
    [
        "Entrepreneurship has become a catalyst for progress in similarly thorny situations worldwide.",
        "创业精神能够催化全世界处于同样棘手境地的国家取得进步。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not 2008.",
        "但这可不是2008年。"
    ],
    [
        "And the compatibility issues raised by the wide variety of mobile-phone handsets would need to be addressed.",
        "手机的多样性所带来的兼容性问题也需要解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Providing proper nutrition in a child’s first thousand days is particularly important.",
        "在儿童生命的第一个一千天提供合适营养尤其重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Other currencies might depreciate as well, some as a result of deliberate policy.",
        "其他货币也可能贬值，其中不乏有意为之的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, as we discovered during the financial crisis, such markets can become less liquid or even dry up completely when lenders start to fear unforeseen problems, either with borrowers or with the assets that they pledge as collateral.",
        "不幸的是，正如我们在金融危机期间所发现的，如果贷款人开始担心未预见问题——不管这些问题来自借款人还是来自充当抵押品的资产——这一市场可能会减少甚至完全丧失流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "A more humane and effective way to ensure the validity and usefulness of animal experimentation would be to provide conditions that minimize stress-related activities such as excessive grooming and fighting.",
        "采用更人性和有效的方式以确保动物实验的有效性和有用性应该是最大限度地减少与压力有关的活动，比如过度的照料和打斗。"
    ],
    [
        "We need an inclusive approach that brings together top minds from all over the world, from both the public and private sectors.",
        "我们需要包容性方法，集中来自公共和私人部门的全球最顶尖的智慧。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting laws onto national statute books is one thing, ensuring they are properly applied and enforced is another.",
        "使法律写入国内法典是一回事，确保它们得到有效实施和执行则是另外一回事了。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea was to permit countries whose official dollar holdings were larger than they were comfortable with to convert dollars into SDRs.",
        "就是允许官方持有美元的国家自由地将美元兑换成SDR。"
    ],
    [
        "If we continue to delay military action, we will have to intervene with greater force when the carnage spreads to Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq.",
        "如果我们继续拖延不采取军事行动，到大屠杀蔓延到黎巴嫩、以色列、约旦、土耳其和伊拉克时，就得派更多的兵力干预。"
    ],
    [
        "But hypocrisy is not what is most disturbing about this particular campaign.",
        "但此次宣传活动中伪善还不是最令人担心的成分。"
    ],
    [
        "Publication in such journals is also the basis of promotion.",
        "迁升也凭借这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "France may elect a president who opposes the fiscal compact and whose policies may scare the bond markets.",
        "法国可能诞生一位反对财政契约、采取令债券市场恐慌的政策的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as there was Renaissance man and, in the twentieth century, homo sovieticus, “democratic man” is a form of human being.",
        "正如先前文艺复兴式的博学之人以及二十世纪的苏维埃人种，“民主人种”也是人种之一。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the good offices of the Norwegian government have failed to produce an agreement on the key question of the post-independence distribution of oil revenues between North and South.",
        "迄今为止，挪威政府主导的斡旋工作尚未就独立后石油收入在南北方之间分配的关键问题达成一致意见。"
    ],
    [
        "These attacks overlooked the fact that the directive makes employment conditions of workers from other EU-member states subject in most respects to host-country rules.",
        "这些攻击忽视了这一事实，也就是这一欧盟指令在大多数情况下将从欧盟其他成员国来的工人的就业条件遵从于东道国的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Arguably, the causes of food shortages are to be found in the organization, distribution, and waste of resources, not population growth.",
        "可以说，是组织、分配和资源浪费，而不是人口增长造成了粮食的短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "But he ended up alienating more people than he impressed.",
        "但到头来，他反而让对他寄予厚望的人离心离德。"
    ],
    [
        "In this spirit of cooperation, the major multilateral development institutions – the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Islamic Development Bank, the United Nations, and the World Bank – have already begun to strengthen their joint efforts in producing and sharing development data.",
        "在这一合作精神下，主要多边发展机构——非洲开发银行、亚洲开发银行、泛美开发银行、国际货币基金组织、伊斯兰开发银行、联合国和世界银行——已经开始加强在生产和共享发展数据方面的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Gazprom's European sales plummeted in the third quarter of last year and fell by 25% in the fourth quarter.",
        "去年三季度，俄天然气欧洲销售额暴跌，四季度又下降25%。"
    ],
    [
        "SAN FRANCISCO – The tragic Ebola outbreak in West Africa has underscored the imperative of strengthening health systems at both the national and global level.",
        "旧金山—西非埃博拉大爆发是一场悲剧，它彰显出加强国家和全球层面医疗系统的紧迫性。"
    ],
    [
        "A Pew Research opinion poll conducted between November 30 and December 5, after the election had cast the usual victor’s glow on Donald Trump, indicated that only 37% of Americans thought Trump was well-qualified for the presidency, just 31% deemed him moral, and a mere 26% viewed him as a good role model.",
        "皮尤研究公司（Pew Research）11月30日—12月5日的选举后民调表明，特朗普身上也出现了常见的赢家效应，只有37%的美国人认为特朗普是合格的总统人选，31%认为他品行端正，26%认为他是正面榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Reforms must aim to bolster inclusivity, advance environmental sustainability, promote innovation, and boost competitiveness. And this is precisely the four-pronged approach that China’s leaders seem to be taking.",
        "改革必须将目标放在更全面的培养包容性、推进环境可持续性、激发创新和促进竞争力上，而 这正是中国领导人正在采取的步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "Something similar has happened to Mexico.",
        "墨西哥也发生了类似的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "There are also now two reasons to fear a double-dip recession.",
        "如何避免第二次危机的发生，我们还有两个因素需要考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "In one of his last articles, Milton Friedman wrote that savings nowadays took the form of houses.",
        "在米尔顿·弗里德曼最后的几篇文章之一中，他指出，如今，储蓄是以房子为形式。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to imagine many countries where a young African woman could become a famous member of parliament only ten years after seeking asylum.",
        "很难想象在许多国家中，一名寻求避难的年轻非洲女子可以在仅仅十年后成为知名的国会议员。"
    ],
    [
        "They also know, of course, that any serious engagement with the Palestinian question must imply engaging Hamas in the search for a two-state solution.",
        "他们当然还明白，在寻求达成一个两国解方案的过程中，只要认真地牵涉到巴勒斯坦问题，就肯定意味着会牵涉到哈马斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Strengthening Russian democracy is in the interest of Ukraine, Poland, and all of Europe.",
        "加强俄国的民主符合乌克兰、波兰和整个欧洲的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The regulators who banned DDT also failed to take into consideration the inadequacy of alternatives.",
        "禁用DDT的监管者们还没有考虑到替代方案的缺失。"
    ],
    [
        "That consensus will remain credible as long as political reform continues and economic growth accelerates.",
        "只要政治改革继续进行，经济加速增长，达成的这项共识就是可靠的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the midday meal scheme’s benefits have ensured its popularity, the quality of its implementation has varied across states.",
        "但是，尽管午餐制度的好处确保了它的推广，但其实施质量在全国参差不齐。"
    ],
    [
        "While that represents a bit of a rebound from the 61.2% low recorded in the 2012-2014 period, it is two percentage points below the post-1980 average of 64.6%.",
        "虽然这一数字较2012~14年期间的61. 2％低点有所反弹，但比1980年后的平均64."
    ],
    [
        "In fact, faith in the market has been dented, while trust in government and regulation is increasing.",
        "我们如今所见到的景象，正是上世纪八十年代那些争论的相反版本。"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt, even as female political activists and reporters were being sexually harassed in Tahrir Square, they continued to contribute to the revolution.",
        "在埃及，尽管女性政治活动家和记者在解放广场遭受了性骚扰，但她们仍继续为革命出力。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an expression in Iran that applies to the international community: “You can wake only someone who is sleeping, not someone who is pretending to be asleep.”",
        "伊朗的一种观点也适用于国际社会：“你永远无法唤醒一个装睡的人。"
    ],
    [
        "The concept of open society is based on the recognition that nobody possesses the ultimate truth.",
        "开放社会理念的基础是任何人都不掌握绝对的真理。"
    ],
    [
        "Mobile phones, local wireless Internet, and more paved roads could do much to break the economic isolation of Africa’s villages.",
        "手机、当地无线互联网和更多修建公路能够有效地打破非洲村庄在经济上与世隔绝的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "But this does not mean that there is no scope for differences.",
        "但这并不意味着一点改变都无法做出。"
    ],
    [
        "Some European Union countries wanted to push for complete abolition of the death penalty right away.",
        "某些欧盟国家想要立即推动完全废除死刑。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s Argentina Moment",
        "巴西的阿根廷时刻"
    ],
    [
        "The advantages in terms of employment creation, reintegrating former combatants into productive activities, savings from safety-net programs, and improved public security would be many.",
        "创造就业、重新把原先的战斗人员融入到生产性活动、从社会保障网络项目节省下来的资金以及改善公共治安所带来的优势将会是众多的。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, American and European clothing companies have been struggling to contain the reputational damage caused by lethal working conditions in Bangladeshi garment factories.",
        "类似地，在孟加拉国制衣厂致命工作环境被曝光后，美国和欧洲服装公司也因为名声的损坏而焦头烂额。"
    ],
    [
        "Big Brother is invoked in stories about Internet censorship.",
        "“大哥”陷入了实行互联网审查制度的报道里。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the two countries’ long-strained relations, this visit would have been remarkable at any time.",
        "鉴于两国关系长期僵持，这一访问在任何时候都是不同寻常的。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent carnage in Mumbai has prompted another standoff between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.",
        "不久前在孟买发生的大屠杀致使有核印度和巴基斯坦再次陷入到僵持的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Developments in Europe, which faces a series of potentially destabilizing political events in the next few months, will be particularly consequential.",
        "欧洲的发展态势尤其兹事体大，在未来几个月中，欧洲将迎来一系列可能造成动荡的政治事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Control of the physical layer can have both territorial and extraterritorial effects on the virtual layers.",
        "物理层的控制可以对虚拟层产生域内和域外效力。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments must also organize the provision of infrastructure for transportation, communication, energy, water, and waste disposal.",
        "政府还必须组织提供交通、通讯、能源、水和垃圾处理等基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "New Orleans is a city mostly below sea level, and must be protected by levees to keep water out.",
        "新奥尔良市的大部分位于海平面以下，必须由堤坝将大水御于城门之外。"
    ],
    [
        "It is inconceivable that Brazilian, Cameroonian, or Japanese doctors, computer scientists, blue-collar workers, or bank tellers could move from one country to another as easily as Brazilian, Cameroonian, or Japanese football players do.",
        "巴西、喀麦隆或者日本的医生、计算机科学家、蓝领工人或者银行出纳可以像它们的足球运动员一样在不同国家之间自由流动是不可想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "As these families have tightened their belts, the pace of consumption spending and economic growth has become more dependent on earners at the top of the income distribution.",
        "由于这些家庭开始勒紧裤腰带生活，消费支出和经济增长的速度就更加依赖于收入分配顶层的群体。"
    ],
    [
        "But public investment, too, has fallen below pre-crisis expectations, aggravating rather than ameliorating the slump in private investment.",
        "但公共投资也不如危机前预期，加剧而不是缓解了私人投资的暴跌。"
    ],
    [
        "However, if EU countries start competing for a share of the Chinese market, the Russians could soon be tempted to sell their best arms to the communist regime in Beijing.",
        "但如果欧盟国家开始竞争中国的市场份额，那么俄罗斯可能很快就会不敌诱惑而向北京的共产党政权出售他们最好的武器。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, a radical reform program within Ukraine is gaining momentum, and slowly becoming visible to both the Ukrainian public and the European authorities.",
        "与此同时，乌克兰国内的彻底改革正在赢得动力，并逐渐为乌克兰民众和欧洲当局所见。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that they are happening at all – and, if my Beijing experience is any guide, in a constructive, problem-solving spirit – is an encouraging development.",
        "它们举办起来这一事实——从我的北京之行体验来看，它们的举办是建设性的，以解决问题为基本精神——便已令人欢欣鼓舞。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors are aware of Morocco’s exceptional geographic position and its political stability in a region all too often held back by uncertainty.",
        "投资者都明白摩洛哥无与伦比的地理位置和其在饱受不确定性困扰地区中的政治稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "When asylum seekers reach European shores, the EU should take collective financial and administrative responsibility for processing and accommodating them, regardless of where they disembark.",
        "当寻求庇护者抵达欧洲海岸时，欧盟应该集体承担处置和收容的金融和管理责任，不管他们在何处上岸。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth of US politics today is simple.",
        "当今美国政治的现实情况再简单不过。"
    ],
    [
        "This balance involves not only economic factors, but also such considerations as security and the desire to control one’s own economic development.",
        "这种平衡不仅牵扯到经济因素，而且还夹杂着维护国家安全和控制本国经济发展的强烈愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are downside and upside risks to this scenario.",
        "而在这种情况中，下行风险和上升机遇是同时存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Conservative groupings, whose origins lay in Francoism, actually served as vital building blocks of Spain’s democracy.",
        "源于弗朗哥主义的保守派集团事实上成了西班牙民主的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "For Weber, the modern state was rooted in a self-evident legal legitimacy.",
        "对韦伯而言，现代国家植根于不言自明的法律合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, federalism can allow for the orderly management of key Sunni countries, where a unitary state simply is not practical.",
        "如今，联邦制能让有序管理重要逊尼派国家成为可能（形成单一国家已经不再是现实选择）。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require, first and foremost, that they internalize their own systemic importance, and adjust their perspectives and behaviors accordingly.",
        "这首先要求它们把自己的系统重要性内在化，并相应调整自身的观点和行为。"
    ],
    [
        "But the principal reasons for the West not to isolate Kazakhstan are geostrategic.",
        "但是西方不得孤立哈萨克斯坦的主要原因是地理政治上的。"
    ],
    [
        "When I served in 1995 on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientific group that periodically assesses the science of global warming, there was overwhelming evidence that the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere had increased markedly since the beginning of the industrial revolution, that human activity had contributed significantly to those increases, and that they would have profound effects on climate and sea levels.",
        "当我在1995年任职于“政府间气候变化专门委员会”（Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change），这个定期对全球变暖的科学研究进行评估的科学机构时，有令人震惊的证据表明温室气体在大气中的集中程度自工业革命开始已经显著增加。 还有证据表明人类活动在很大程度上造成了这种集中。"
    ],
    [
        "Great significance was read into who signed an official document, or who stood where atop Lenin’s Tomb in Red Square when reviewing military parades.",
        "谁签署了一份官方文件，谁在阅兵时站在红场列宁墓上方，这些东西的微言大义都会被深入解读。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, access to energy spurs development on many levels – not least in terms of women and their health, safety, and autonomy.",
        "事实上，能够得到能源刺激了各个层面的发展，比如妇女及其健康、安全和自主。"
    ],
    [
        "The world, or even the US by itself, has the ability to provide the additional funds needed.",
        "全世界，或甚至美国一国，都具有提供所需额外资金的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "At the UN, the goal should be to turn the mantra of “access, not excess” into a reality, with an agreement to reduce the unnecessary use of antibiotics in agriculture, and to spearhead a global awareness campaign.",
        "而联合国的目标应当是真正落实“使用方便而非过剩”的口号，签署一份减少农业不必要使用抗生素的协议，并发起一场全球宣传运动。"
    ],
    [
        "This has raised doubts about the sustainability of the recovery, with some arguing that a rise in interest rates could trigger another global crisis.",
        "这引发了人们对经济复苏持续性的质疑，甚至有人认为利率上升可能会引发另一场全球危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Forget MIT.",
        "忘掉麻省理工学院吧。"
    ],
    [
        "It should give the FSB a legal personality, enshrined in an international treaty.",
        "峰会应当给予该委员会一个法律地位，并将其写入到条约之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Questions designed to elicit the needed information could be incorporated into surveys already being conducted regularly in low- and middle-income countries, such as the Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys.",
        "可以在已在中低收入国家进行的调查中加入引导所需信息的问题，如人口和健康调查和多指标集类调查。"
    ],
    [
        "But this has not eliminated reason for concern.",
        "但担忧的原因并未就此消除。"
    ],
    [
        "Effective trade networks and access to livestock markets would enable them to increase sales substantially.",
        "有效的贸易网和进入牲畜市场将极大地提高他们的销量。"
    ],
    [
        "There, India nonetheless continues to build a strategic ring road around the country, as well as a vitally important dam at Salma.",
        "尽管如此，印度仍在继续建设具战略意义的环阿富汗公路以及重要性不相上下的位于萨尔玛（Salma）的大坝。"
    ],
    [
        "To allow self-appointed arbiters of Indian culture to impose their hypocrisy and double standards on the rest of us is to permit them to define Indianness down until it ceases to be Indian.",
        "让自封的印度文化裁判肆意向我们其他人施加歇斯底里的双重标准，不啻放任他们将印度性（Indianness）逐出印度人的身体。"
    ],
    [
        "It was no less ironic when the titans of US banking, having preached the neoliberal gospel of downsizing government and eliminating regulations that proscribed some of their most dangerous and anti-social activities, turned to government in their moment of need.",
        "美国银行巨头到了有需要的时候就向政府伸手要援助也同样讽刺——它们一直在大肆宣传缩减政府规模、取消禁止它们的一些最危险和最反社会的行为的监管。"
    ],
    [
        "That should signal to Iran’s rulers not only that the US is serious about a deal, but also that whatever the US offers is likely to be the best deal that they can get.",
        "这不仅将向伊朗统治者表明美国对协议的态度非常严肃，而且要让他们明白，美国所提出的将是他们可以期望得到的最好的交易。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is where we should draw the line.",
        "问题在于我们应该在哪里划定界限。"
    ],
    [
        "If the purchasing power of their money had been dealt a blow after 2008, they would naturally have sought substitutes for their home currencies (other currencies, precious metals, or alternative forms of saving).",
        "如果他们的钱的购买力在2008年后遭遇重创，他们自然会寻求将本币换掉（换成其他货币、贵金属或其他储蓄方式）。"
    ],
    [
        "First, there needs to be a level playing field within the EU.",
        "首先，在欧盟内部需要一个平等的竞争环境。"
    ],
    [
        "The NIH and the US Department of Veterans Affairs, however, had heavily funded the start-up that developed the drug and was later acquired by Gilead.",
        "美国国立卫生研究院和美国退伍军人事务部曾投入大量资金资助研发该药的创业企业，这家企业后来被吉利德收购。"
    ],
    [
        "They see a president committed to the advancement of all Americans, regardless of race, gender, creed, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, handicap, or economic status.",
        "他们看到的是一个代表所有美国人——无论种族、性别、信仰、民族、性取向、是否残疾和经济地位——的进步的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, the diplomatic effort to prevent dangerous climate change has focused on coordinating national cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "到目前为止，防止危险气候变化的外交努力集中在协调各国的温室气体减排计划上。"
    ],
    [
        "And they did, culminating in one of the most successful periods of global policy coordination in history, involving both advanced and emerging economies.",
        "他们接受了建议，于是出现了历史上最成功的全球政策协调，发达国家和新兴市场均参与其中。"
    ],
    [
        "But aid is falling and expected to drop sharply after 2014.",
        "但援助正在减少，并且预计将在2014年后大幅减少。"
    ],
    [
        "MOSCOW – “Google violates its ‘don’t be evil’ motto.”",
        "莫斯科-ampquot;谷歌违背了其'不作恶'的座右铭ampquot; 。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to widespead belief, stock-market-induced short-termism is probably not much of an economic handicap anyway. There is considerable (though not conclusive) evidence that it is not nearly as widespread – or as problematic – as many think.",
        "与大众的认知相反，股市诱发的短期主义可能并不算是一个经济阻碍因素，也有相当多（虽然不是决定性的）证据表明它并不像许多人认为的那样普遍——或者有危险性。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite all this, Lukashenko manages to avoid implementing economic projects profitable to Russia (i.e., a single currency).",
        "然而即便如此，卢卡申科却能成功的避免实施对俄罗斯有利的经济项目（比如推动两国统一使用俄罗斯卢布）。"
    ],
    [
        "The transition to the new stance will involve a broader and much more political role for the central bank.",
        "过渡到这种新的立场需要央行发挥更广泛和更多的政治作用。"
    ],
    [
        "They may have a point; arguably, the ECB’s proposal is inconsistent with single-market principles.",
        "他们可能会提出一个极有道理的论点：欧洲央行的方案违反了单一市场原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Real progress will demand real cooperation.",
        "只有真合作才能带来真进步。"
    ],
    [
        "You will never succeed, they say, if you try to bob and weave your way slowly towards an end game.",
        "他们认为，如果你想要蹒跚前行达到残局的话，你永远也不可能成功。"
    ],
    [
        "We are working closely with our 53 African members on crafting the appropriate policy response.",
        "我们目前与五十三个非洲成员国密切合作制定适当的对应政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The most serious unintended consequence of the war is the emergence of a powerful Shia challenge to the West’s Sunni allies in the Middle East.",
        "人们没有预料到的这一战争最为严重的后果是在中东出现了什叶派穆斯林对于西方逊尼派同盟的强大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "One is the beginning of the end of the nearly decade-long struggle in Afghanistan – the longest war in United States history – with President Barack Obama announcing the withdrawal of 30,000 US troops from the country by next summer.",
        "首先，随着奥巴马总统宣布3万名驻阿富汗美军将在明年夏天以前陆续撤出，持续近十年之久的阿富汗战争——也是美国历史上历时最长的一场战争——终于迎来了落幕的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Arab elites have been engaged in a false embrace of economic reforms for decades, with countless ministerial shuffles, five-year plans, and elaborate World Bank and International Monetary Fund programs. But all these reforms involve government handouts or government-created jobs and opportunities; rarely do they involve removing the government’s grip over people’s lives.",
        "许多年以来阿拉伯精英们都在错误地实施着经济改革，无数的经济官员更替，5年计划以及精心筹划的世界银行和国际货币基金组织项目都无济于事，因为这些改革的内容大都是政府操控下的再分配或者创造就业；"
    ],
    [
        "The obvious way to square this circle is to spend more on imports.",
        "最明显的应对之道就是扩大进口支出。"
    ],
    [
        "In all of these cases, regional stability of sorts emerged after an American military withdrawal, albeit at the cost of a significant loss of life.",
        "所有这些案例在美国撤军之后都出现了某种地区稳定，虽然是以损失大量生命为代价获得的。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the accused groups was the Ansar al-Shariah Brigade, which was quick to support the demolition, but denied any responsibility for it.",
        "其中一个组织是安萨尔·沙里亚旅（Ansar al-Shariah Brigade，阿拉伯语意为“教法支持者”）——它在第一时间表示了对拆毁苏菲派神殿的支持，却拒绝对此事承担任何责任。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the single most important impediment to good governance in the region has been its lack of self-governance: The region’s political institutions have been crippled as a result of repeated US and European intervention dating back to World War I, and in some places even earlier.",
        "毕竟，该地区实现良好治理的障碍一直是缺乏自治：一战期间（在某些地区甚至更早）美国和欧洲的反复干涉破坏了该地区的政治机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Will you be given us?”",
        "我们会达到你们吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Even a re-drawn map of the Middle East is a possibility.",
        "甚至重绘中东地图都有可能。"
    ],
    [
        "This simplistic perspective, while perhaps containing a grain of truth, badly misses the true underlying political economy of deficits.",
        "这一简单化的视角也许包含着一丝真理，但它完全没有抓住赤字的政治经济学的真正核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, earlier this month, the US-based international NGO Human Rights Watch formally adopted a stance that rejects criminalization of possession and consumption of all drugs and calls for a radically different approach.",
        "最后，本月早些时候，美国国际非政府组织人权观察组织（Human Rights Watch，HRW）正式宣布了它的立场——拒绝任何毒品的拥有和消费的除罪化，并呼吁采取截然不同的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "If the trend is extrapolated, the home bases of Europe’s largest companies will account, on average, for less than half of their European revenue, and less than a third of their global revenue, before the end of this decade.",
        "如果这样的趋势得以延续，那么到2010年，欧洲最大公司在所在地获得的收入占其欧洲地区总收入的平均比重将低于一半，而在其全球总收入中所占的比重将低于三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq’s territorial integrity must be preserved, we are told, and independence for the KRG could destabilize Turkey and Iran, owing to those countries’ sizeable Kurdish minorities.",
        "他们说伊拉克的领土完整必须得到保护，而库尔德斯坦地区政府的独立还可能会破坏土耳其和伊朗的稳定，因为这两国也有着数量庞大的库尔德少数民族。"
    ],
    [
        "Some developing-country leaders may be displeased for another reason: the figure of $100 billion in finance from rich countries does not appear in the legally binding body of the agreement.",
        "一些发展中国家领导人也许因为另一个原因而不太高兴：富裕国家提供1,000亿美元融资没有写入协定有法律约束力的部分。"
    ],
    [
        "For the previous 39 years, Japanese representatives to the G-7 had focused on the economic discussions at such meetings, content to remain largely silent as the industrialized world’s other leaders surveyed the planet’s political hot spots and recommended action or, more often, inaction.",
        "过去三十九年，日本代表甘愿在在七国集团首脑会议上重点探讨经济问题，而在其他工业化国家领导人讨论世界政治热点、行动方案或静观其变的时候保持沉默。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, the WVS surveyed 12 Arab countries – Jordan, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Qatar, Yemen, Kuwait, and Libya – along with 47 non-Arab countries.",
        "最近，WVS调查了12个阿拉伯国家——约旦、埃及、巴勒斯坦、黎巴嫩、伊拉克、摩洛哥、阿尔及利亚、突尼斯、卡塔尔、也门、科威特和利比亚——和47个非阿拉伯国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with the right approach – and a bit of good luck – it can make sure that, this time, it recovers more sustainably than in the past.",
        "但是，如果有正确的方针——以及一点点运气——中国可以确保这一回的复苏将比过去更加可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "Keeping alive the international community’s commitment – that is, seeking an international solution to Haiti’s tragedy – is a vital necessity for the Dominicans.",
        "保持国际社会对寻求海地悲剧国际解决方案的关注对多米尼加而言至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "It is easy to see why the Iranians would have done so.",
        "伊朗这样做不难理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet digital flows offer developing countries new ways of engaging with the global economy.",
        "但数字流给发展中国家带来了参与全球经济的新途径。"
    ],
    [
        "Dating agencies have developed increasingly complex algorithms to sort out their clients’ romantic lives.",
        "约会机构开发出越来越复杂的算法厘清客户的浪漫生活。"
    ],
    [
        "IT has improved life enormously.",
        "IT显著地改善了人们的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, as China takes minuscule steps forward, Russia takes giant steps backward.",
        "但是，正当中国大步伐前进之时，俄国却大幅度倒退。"
    ],
    [
        "Slightly less dramatically, though still significant, per capita GDP in Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh, based on current trends, is forecast to reach 0.7-1.2 times the national average by 2025, swelling the number of middle-class consumers four-fold, to 16 million.",
        "不那么显而易见但仍可谓重大发展的是，按照当前趋势，恰蒂斯加尔、奥里萨、西孟加拉、拉贾斯坦和中央等邦的人均GDP到2025年预计将达到全国平均水平的0. 7到1."
    ],
    [
        "Recycled materials do not need to be delivered to centralized processing centers and then forwarded to factories.",
        "循环材料不再需要被送到集中处理中心，然后再分送到工厂。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund’s estimate of Lebanon’s potential oil and gas revenues optimistically assumes that production will start in 2021, reach full capacity by 2036, and continue until 2056.",
        "国际货币基金组织对黎巴嫩潜在石油和天然气收入的估计乐观地认为油气生产将于2021年开始，到2036年实现满负荷，并一直持续到2056年左右。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, a US attack on Syria would almost certainly dash any hope of a US-Iran rapprochement for years to come.",
        "在这种情况下，美国对叙利亚的袭击几乎肯定将使今后几年的美伊和解希望完全破灭。"
    ],
    [
        "But is acknowledging past guilt only a way to facilitate the integration of minorities?",
        "但是，承认以前的过错只是推动少数民族融合的一种方法吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Such policies would include a rising tax on CO2 emissions, large-scale research-and-development efforts in low-carbon technologies, a shift to electric vehicles, and regulations to phase out all coal-fired power plants except those that install CCS.",
        "这些政策应该包括提高二氧化碳排放税、大规模低碳技术研发、推广电动汽车以及通过监管取缔纯火电厂（除非它们采用了CCS）。"
    ],
    [
        "A loose alliance of struggling capitalist democracies” is faced by Russia and China.",
        "由挣扎中的资本主义民主国家组成的松散联盟”正面临俄罗斯和中国的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether a condition was diagnosed as disordered depended not just on the symptoms, which might be similar in normal sadness, and not just on the condition’s severity, for normal sadness can be severe and disordered sadness moderate, but on the degree to which the symptoms were an understandable response to circumstances.",
        "某个病例是否被确诊为抑郁症不仅取决于它的具体症状（这可能与正常的悲伤情绪很难区分），也不仅取决于症状的严重程度（正常的悲伤情绪可能非常严重，而病态的悲伤情绪也可能相对轻微），而恰恰取决于症状是否是对环境做出的正常反应。"
    ],
    [
        "A number of other churches and synagogues are also under renovation.",
        "还有相当数量的基督教堂和犹太教堂都在翻新。"
    ],
    [
        "The technical questions are complex, and the proverbial devil really is in the countless details.",
        "技术问题的确复杂，众所周知魔鬼也的确藏在无数细节中。"
    ],
    [
        "That growth model has now almost exhausted its potential.",
        "但这种发展模式现在已经耗光了大部分潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Gillo Pontecorvo’s brilliant 1966 film The Battle of Algiers spelled out the dilemma for the occupying colonial power.",
        "庞德科沃（Gillo Pontecorvo）1966年的经典电影《阿尔及尔之战》（The Battle of Algiers）道出了殖民势力面临的两难。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico, known primarily as a country of emigration, is home to millions of migrants from Central America.",
        "有高技能的工人，比如银行家和工程师，蜂拥去了中国。 墨西哥以主要的移民出口国出名，现在有来自中美洲的数百万移民在此安家。"
    ],
    [
        "But that planned monetary union, until recently envisaged to be launched in 2009, has now been put on ice.",
        "与1980年相比，尼日利亚国民人均收入的购买力相对于英国而言低了50％。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Afghanistan's government does not need to be fully centralized, Afghanistan cannot succeed if the central government fails.",
        "虽然阿富汗政府不能完全集权，不过，如果中央政府失灵，人民也就不会幸福。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments are right to worry about the fate of Chernobyl-affected territories, but the way forward will require fresh thinking and bold decisions, particularly a shift in priorities from paying paltry benefits to millions to targeted spending that helps to promote jobs and economic growth.",
        "各国政府担忧受到切尔诺贝利影响地区的命运是正确的，但是，前进的方向要求有新鲜的思考以及大胆的决定，特别是把重点从向数以百万计的人发放微不足道的的福利转向有针对性的拨款来帮助促进就业和经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Human life expectancy barely changed before the late eighteenth century.",
        "人类寿命预期在十八世纪末之前鲜有变化。"
    ],
    [
        "If this proves true, the ICC and its sponsors have muddled justice with diplomacy.",
        "如果证明的确如此，那么国际刑事法院及其发起者就已经把正义和外交混为一谈。"
    ],
    [
        "This political savvy, combined with the country’s improving economy, could help the regime weather today’s turbulence and the next violent upheaval.",
        "这一政治技巧，再加上摩洛哥不断改善的经济，有助于体制抵挡住当下的动荡和未来暴力剧变。 但政府也必须落实其2011年所承诺的政治改革；"
    ],
    [
        "This explanation may seem even more paradoxical than the first, but the logic is straightforward: Governments often try to escape the hard task of improving economic efficiency through supply-side reforms and rely on demand-side fixes instead.",
        "这一解释看上去比第一个解释还要矛盾，但逻辑很清楚：政府常常试图摆脱通过供给端改革改善经济效率的艰巨任务，而依靠供给端措施。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is a method of decision-making that has had numerous champions throughout the country’s history; US Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln all placed pragmatism ahead of ideology.",
        "但在美国历史上，很多巨擘都采取国这一决策方法呢； 艾森豪威尔、泰迪·罗斯福、富兰克林·罗斯福、林肯等美国总统都将务实主义置于意识形态之前。"
    ],
    [
        "That, in a nutshell, is the fundamental eurozone dilemma: the periphery needs financing as it adjusts, while Germany, pointing to the post-euro experience, says that it cannot trust countries to reform once they get the money.",
        "一句话，这就是欧元区所面临的基本难题：外围国的调整需要融资，而德国根据后欧元时代的经验，认为这些国家拿到钱之后才不会进行改革。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Hun Sen, like other Southeast Asian autocrats, now seems to believe that he has political carte blanche, given the low priority that US President Donald Trump has placed on human rights.",
        "事实上，与其他东南亚独裁者一样，洪森现在似乎认为自己得到了全权政治委任，因为美国总统唐纳德·特朗普对人权问题的重视程度并不高。"
    ],
    [
        "The quest for education will not be stopped, but history will judge harshly those who turn their backs on children in need.",
        "对教育的追求永不停步，但历史终将严厉批判那些对急需帮助的孩子置之不理的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Both sides will have to decide whether or not they want Europe – that is, full economic and political integration.",
        "法德双方都必须决定要不要欧洲——我说的是完全的经济和政治一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "With this depressing prospect setting in, British voters could change their minds about Brexit before their leaders go through with it.",
        "前进如此暗淡，英国选民可能会在领导人完成退欧过程之前，就改变对退欧的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "Any economy’s success is very much affected by the performance of that sliver of activities that can sell their output to outsiders.",
        "任何经济体，它的成功在很大程度上取决于能够将产品卖给外人的产业活动。"
    ],
    [
        "And Free Flows the Nile",
        "自由流淌的尼罗河"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, after its policy of direct pressure failed in 1929, the Fed raised interest rates to rein in the stock market.",
        "类似地，1929年，在直接压力政策失败后，美联储提高利率抑制股市。"
    ],
    [
        "And while it goes without saying that economists have many ingenious explanations to offer, none has yet proved persuasive enough to create a consensus.",
        "当然经济学家早已对此提出了许多精妙的解释，但仍然没有一个能具备足够说服力以达成共识。"
    ],
    [
        "He said that there could be no doubt that the methods used to kill whales were inhumane – he even described them as “most horrible.”",
        "他说毫无疑问捕杀鲸鱼的方式是非人道的，他甚至把这些方式描述为是“极其恐怖的”。"
    ],
    [
        "“The Donald” (no one has better name recognition than the former TV personality) has pitched his appeal both to American patriotism and the country’s dark side.",
        "“唐纳德”（没有任何人的名字识别度能超过这位前电视人）将他的号召力建立在美国爱国主义和阴暗面上。"
    ],
    [
        "Muhammad Khatami (1997-2005) tried to implement dramatic political reform, while Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1989-97) tried to open the Iranian economy to the West.",
        "卡塔米(1997-2005)试图实行大刀阔斧的政治改革，而拉夫桑贾尼(1989-97)则企图让伊朗经济向西方开放。"
    ],
    [
        "If there was ever a level playing field in the global economy, it no longer exists: the massive subsidies and bailouts provided by the US have changed everything, perhaps irreversibly.",
        "如果全球经济曾经有过一个公平的竞技场，那它已经不再存在了：美国所提供的巨额补贴和紧急援助已经改变了一切，而且这种改变也许是不可逆转的。"
    ],
    [
        "The garbage doesn’t always get picked up.",
        "垃圾并不总能得到清除。"
    ],
    [
        "But this fluid hierarchy, an absence of written rules and organizational order, allowed the various seminaries – and their different interpretive traditions – to survive despotic political regimes and resist intervention by different dynasties and monarchies.",
        "但正是由于这种灵活的层级制度摆脱了书面规则和组织秩序的羁绊，才使得神学院及其特有的诠释传统能够摆脱来自不同朝代及君主的一切干扰，从而在专制的政治制度下完整地保存下来。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet he was jailed for “inciting subversion of state power.”",
        "即便如此，他还是因“煽动颠覆国家政权罪”而被判入狱。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of whether Obama can deliver on his promises, America will not regain the stature it had between 1941 and 2000.",
        "不论奥巴马是否能够实现他的诺言，美国都不会重新获得其在1941-2000年间所拥有的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "A symmetric adjustment has also occurred in China, via real appreciation of its currency and higher prices for labor and land.",
        "对称的调整发生在中国——通过人民币实际升值和劳动力及土地价格升高实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when national budgets are tight, health investments are worth it; after all, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.",
        "即使国家预算吃紧，健康投资也物有所值； 毕竟，预防花费者一，治疗花费者百。"
    ],
    [
        "But the most important issue is whether countries will achieve their 2030 targets in a way that helps them to get to zero emissions by 2070 (full decarbonization).",
        "但最重要的问题是国家能否以2070年实现零排放（全脱碳）的方式实现其2030年目标。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why people tend to view her as a sincere politician, rather than one concerned only about personal ambition.",
        "尽管其他政客并不认为这些事情在政治上是重要的，但是，它们对于普通民众而言却很重要。 这就是为什么人们趋向于把她视为一个真诚的、而不是只关心个人野心的政治家。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kremlin black art of manipulating elections by deception and other means – called “political technology” by locals – will now be used only in other countries’ elections in, as these are the only real elections the Kremlin has to worry about, so neutered have Russia’s own votes become.",
        "克林姆林宫运用欺骗和其他手法对选举进行操纵的巫术（在俄罗斯被称作“政治技术”）现在将仅用于乌克兰等外国的选举中。"
    ],
    [
        "It involves all of us.",
        "它包括了我们所有人。"
    ],
    [
        "Calls for immediate debt restructuring went unheeded.",
        "立刻进行债务重组的呼声被忽视了。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the central role of London in EU financial markets, and its political sensitivity in the UK, there is bound to be trouble ahead.",
        "考虑到伦敦在欧盟金融市场的核心角色，及其在英国的政治敏感性，前方的道路绝不平坦。"
    ],
    [
        "More than ever, America’s ability to sustain the credibility of its alliances as well as establish new networks will be central to its global success.",
        "比以往任何时候相比，美国全球成功的核心是看其能否维持盟国的信任，以及能否建立新的联盟网。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that while many people work toward the SDGs, political confidence men (and some women) are throwing up new barriers, by stoking the resentments of those who have benefited the most from inequitable growth, as well as those who have missed out.",
        "问题在于，尽管有很多人致力于SDG，但政治心机客（和一些心机婊）在树立新的障碍，煽动那些从不平等的增长中获益最多的人和被遗忘的人的仇恨。"
    ],
    [
        "As tempting as it may be to attribute these developments to idiosyncratic factors, the latest slowdown in developed countries is not so easily dismissed.",
        "人们总喜欢将这样的发展趋势归结为各种奇特的原因，但发达国家的最新减速之势并不容易开脱。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the example of Greek-Turkish relations, which had hardened under the compressed weight of “establishment” views that were long entrenched in both countries.",
        "以希腊和土耳其为例，两国关系在各自长期坚持的“根据地”观点重压下不断恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "A narrow focus on shareholders’ interests would impel all other stakeholders to pursue their narrow interests as well, increasing strife and transaction costs.",
        "狭隘地注重股东利益会驱使其他相关利益方也都只关注各自的狭隘利益，从而加剧冲突，增加交易成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The standard of care at the time was poor, and a dearth of intravenous drips meant that rehydration solutions could not be administered widely.",
        "当时的护理水平非常低，静脉滴注非常罕见，这意味着脱水状况无法得到广泛治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks can play an important role in a cyclical downturn.",
        "在周期性衰退中，央行可以起到重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as we revitalize Japan’s economy, we need “new” Japanese who shoulder global responsibilities commensurate with their country’s size and economic resources.",
        "但是，随着我们重新振兴日本经济，我们需要“新”日本人承担与国家规模和经济资源相匹配的全球责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Martti Ahtisaari fully deserved his Nobel Peace Prize for articulating a diplomatic solution to Kosovo’s drive for independence.",
        "马尔蒂·阿赫蒂萨里完全有资格获得诺贝尔和平奖，因为他为科索沃的独立提供了提供了外交解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "But Snowden’s revelations that the London summit’s British hosts allegedly monitored the participants’ communications make it difficult to imagine that the genuine intimacy of earlier summits can ever be recreated.",
        "但斯诺登披露伦敦峰会英国主办方监控与会者的信息传递使人们相信早前峰会真正保密的状况很难再现。"
    ],
    [
        "But this scientific hierarchy is false and misleading: we now know that biology contains more mathematics than we ever imagined.",
        "但是这种科学等级划分却有偏颇误导之嫌：因为我们现在知道生物学中所包含的数学远远超过我们的想象。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to resolve the question of whether conspiracy constitutes a crime under the laws of war, Justice Stevens followed the arguments made in the brief that I submitted on behalf of Experts on Conspiracy and the Law of War.",
        "为了解决同谋是否属于战争法范畴的问题，史蒂文斯法官接受了我代表同谋和战争法专家组提交的案情摘要中提出的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "More than three thousand people were murdered or “disappeared” during Pinochet’s rule, thousands more were tortured by his forces, and tens of thousands were forcibly exiled.",
        "皮诺切特统治期间，三千多人被杀或“被消失”，数千人遭遇军方虐待，数万人被迫流亡。"
    ],
    [
        "The group’s report, published in October 2012, came to a similar conclusion as the Vickers Commission concerning the danger of brigading retail and investment banking activities in the same legal entity, and recommended separating the two.",
        "该小组于2012年10月发布了报告，其结论与维克斯委员会类似——将零售和投资银行活动置于同一个法律实体之内会产生风险，建议将两者分离。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, what could matter more to their constituents than happiness?",
        "毕竟有什么比幸福感对他们的选民更重要呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the United Nations’ Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development is about pet projects of all and sundry – many of them tangential to the major environmental issues, such as climate change, that were the principal legacy of the original Rio Earth Summit.",
        "事实上，联合国的里约+20可持续发展会议是一次所有人各自争利的会议，许多人对里约地球峰会的主要遗留问题——气候变化等重大环境问题根本不关心。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia's people wanted to make a difference and amazingly they did: their energy and cohesion put an end to Communist rule.",
        "俄罗斯人民想要改变，他们也令人惊讶地做到了这一点：他们的精神和凝聚力终结了共产党的统治。"
    ],
    [
        "· Progress in the United States on pro-growth policies.",
        "· 美国在促增长政策方面取得进展。"
    ],
    [
        "The SEC’s rejection of the proposed rules demonstrates the power of concerted lobbying – and that concentrated interests often trump diffuse benefits.",
        "证券交易委员会的否决行动显示出协商一致的游说行动——以及集中的利益往往会胜过分散的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Anticipating falling prices, households could postpone their consumption decisions, and companies could defer investment, pushing the economy into a downward spiral from which it would be very difficult to escape.",
        "家庭预料价格将下跌，因此可能推迟消费决策，公司也因此可能推迟投资，导致经济陷入非常难以摆脱的下跌螺旋。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States is likely to have a different problem with consumer-led growth in China.",
        "很有可能中国的消费者主导增长模式对美国来说会成为一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the world has seen progress on some fronts in recent decades.",
        "平心而论，近几十年，世界在一些方面取得了进步。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, interest rates on sovereign debt would have to rise to sustain governments’ borrowing levels.",
        "此时，主权债务利率就不得不上升以维持政府的借贷规模。"
    ],
    [
        "Was this the long-awaited signal that the US was about to squeeze Pakistan on the issue of terrorism?",
        "这是否是人们期待已久的信号，即美国将在恐怖主义问题上对巴基斯坦施加压力？"
    ],
    [
        "Or do you want universities that regard the idea of a “safe space” – in terms of closing down debate in case it offends someone – as an oxymoron in an academic setting?",
        "你心目中的大学是否将“安全空间”理念——即在冒犯他人的情况下停止讨论——视为学术环境中的矛盾修饰法？"
    ],
    [
        "A classic example was Winston Churchill’s warnings against Adolf Hitler’s ambitions.",
        "这方面的一个经典案例就是丘吉尔对希特勒野心的警告。"
    ],
    [
        "And when did a disproportionate military response to terrorism ever work?",
        "对恐怖主义采取不成比例的军事反应什么时候奏效过呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This “pink gold” forms the heart of the Antarctic marine food web, and land-based krill predators, such as penguins and seals, are most vulnerable to krill scarcity.",
        "这种“红金色”的动物是南极海洋食物链的核心，而一些在陆地活动的食磷虾的动物，如企鹅和海豹，面对磷虾数量的减少会显得尤其脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "For most citizens, wages are the only source of income.",
        "对大多数中国公民来说，工资是唯一的收入来源。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as governments do not encroach excessively on central-bank decision-making, this development will restore balance in policymaking and support policy coordination, particularly in times of stress.",
        "只要政府不过分蚕食央行的决策权，这一趋势将重塑决策平衡，支持政策协调，特别是在面对压力时。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also leaves individual citizens too exposed to too many risks.",
        "但民众个人也因此被迫面对太多的风险因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, checks are being reinstituted at an increasing number of internal borders – most recently, on Denmark’s border with Germany.",
        "但是，越来越多的内部边境正在重启入境检查——最新的例子是丹麦的德国边境。"
    ],
    [
        "An EU clearing union would be a less visible intrusion on German national interests than a fiscal transfer union would be.",
        "相较于财政转移支付联盟，欧盟清算联盟对德国国家利益的影响没有那么显眼。"
    ],
    [
        "Expansion was, for lack of other options, financed largely through short-term loans.",
        "由于缺乏其他选择，扩张大部分是通过短期贷款融资的。"
    ],
    [
        "How important is the contribution of the American firm that isolates the active ingredient?",
        "从中成功提取活性成分的美国公司贡献到底有多大？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, US official development assistance amounts to just 0.15% of America’s GNP, which is less than one-fourth the global target.",
        "事实上，美国官方发展援助只占其GNP的0. 15%，还不到全球目标的四分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "That ought to be a winning combination.",
        "而这也应当是一个迈向胜利的组合。"
    ],
    [
        "This holding pattern is particularly harmful because profound transformation will surely depend on financing from a sound sovereign bond market, which cannot function properly until uncertainty related to the government’s contingent liabilities – all those implicit guarantees – has been resolved.",
        "这一既定模式为害尤甚，因为深刻的转型显然需要依靠来自可靠的主权债券市场的融资，而如果关于政府或有负债——一切隐性担保——的不确定性得不到解决，主权债券市场就无法合理地起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "If the negotiations lead to the establishment of a Palestinian government supported by both Fatah and Hamas, there will be a tough choice to make – not primarily for Palestinians, but first and foremost for Western decision makers.",
        "如果这次谈判建立了法塔赫和哈马斯双方支持的巴勒斯坦政府，那么我们就必须做出艰难的抉择——这不仅涉及到巴勒斯坦人，而且首先涉及到西方决策者。"
    ],
    [
        "The entrenchment of debtor-creditor relationships between the states of the eurozone would fuel political tension – as occurred in the United States in its first decades.",
        "欧元区成员国之间债权人-债务人关系的沟壑会助长政治紧张——正如美国建国最初几十年所出现的情景。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, private creditors, anxious to avoid a haircut, will often postpone resolution in the hope that the situation will turn around.",
        "与此同时，私人债权人担心遭遇“剃头”（haircut），常常会中止清算，寄希望于情况峰回路转。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than relying on laboratory reporting of a single biomarker, an ideal chronic-disease surveillance system would extract all necessary data directly from the patient record.",
        "除了依赖实验室对某一单一生物标记的报告之外，一个直接从病人病历中提取所需数据的慢性病监测系统才是最理想的。"
    ],
    [
        "The crucial question that the US must ask both Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is whether they would be willing – here and now – to negotiate in earnest about the final status.",
        "美国必须询问内塔尼亚胡和巴勒斯坦总统马哈茂德·阿巴斯的关键问题是，他们是否愿意在此时此地就最终解决方案展开严肃的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the November 13 terror attacks in Paris, François Hollande, the unpopular but altogether sensible French president, has been so afraid of being labeled a weakling by politicians of the right and far right that he has declared a national state of emergency – and war on the Islamic State (ISIS).",
        "11月13日巴黎恐怖袭击以来，尽管支持率不高但十分明智的法国总统奥朗德生怕被右翼和极右翼政客贴上怯懦的标签，宣布法国进入紧急状态，并向伊斯兰国宣战。"
    ],
    [
        "But this ad-hoc approach has been, and remains, a recipe for paralysis.",
        "但是这种治标不治本的方法已经埋下了防卫政策瘫痪隐患。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the decision demonstrates the BRICS’ ability and willingness to work together, for their own benefit and for that of the entire world.",
        "事实上，这一决定彰显了金砖国家出于自身和全世界利益合作共事的能力和意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – As I have traveled around the world in recent weeks, I am repeatedly asked two questions: Is it conceivable that Donald Trump could win the US presidency?",
        "发自纽约——在最近几个星期的环球访问行程中，人们总会问我两个问题：唐纳德·特朗普会有可能赢得美国总统大选吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But the more pressing question that this anniversary raises has less to do with historical analysis than it does with current policy.",
        "但在赛克斯-皮科协定一百周年之际，更紧迫的问题更多地与当前政策而不是历史分析有关。"
    ],
    [
        "With the changes in the import controls on Gaza – there is now a list of what cannot be taken in, rather than of what can – more goods should arrive.",
        "随着加沙进口管制的变化，不允许进口的商品清单取代了允许进口的商品清单，更多的商品会被运进加沙。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is a pity that three important opportunities for growth from trade liberalization – the World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Round, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the Asia-Pacific region, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and Europe – are being neglected.",
        "因此，三个来自贸易自由化的增长机会被忽视着实令人遗憾。 这三个机会是世界贸易组织多哈发展回合、亚太地区的跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（Trans-Pacific Partnership，TTP）以及美国和欧洲之间的跨大西洋贸易和投资合作伙伴关系（TTIP）。"
    ],
    [
        "Any blatant and repeated violation of this commitment would – and should – result in the loss of the special privileges granted under the TPP.",
        "任何公然和反腐违反这一承诺都将——也应该——导致失去TPP所授予的特权。"
    ],
    [
        "With mobile apps, schools and community education workers can log student and teacher attendance on a transparent, real-time basis, and follow up more easily with students who drop out, especially for reasons that could be overcome through informed intervention by community education workers.",
        "利用手机应用，学校和社区教育工作者可以实时透明地记录学生和教师的出勤情况，并降低跟踪辍学学生的难度，特别是导致某些学生辍学的原因在了解情况的社区教育工作者的干预下是可以解决的。"
    ],
    [
        "As he put it, “the wealth of a country consists, not in its gold and silver only, but in its lands, houses, and consumable goods of all different kinds.”",
        "正如他所说，“一个国家的财富不仅仅存在于其金与银两种金属中，也存在于它的土地、房屋以及各种可消费商品中。"
    ],
    [
        "The US faces serious problems: public debt, weak secondary education, and political gridlock, to name just a few.",
        "美国正面对着一系列严重问题，其中包括公共债务，低水平中学教育以及政治停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "In the very first meeting, he had asked the students how many of them preferred free trade to import restrictions; the response was more than 90%.",
        "”他曾在第一堂课请在座学生在自由贸易和进口限制之间做出选择，结果有超过90％赞成前者。"
    ],
    [
        "But that would take time, and Europe’s leaders have run out of it.",
        "但这需要时间，而欧洲领导人最耗不起的就是时间。"
    ],
    [
        "US-Pakistan relations have turned poisonous, with blunt statements proliferating from both governments.",
        "美国-巴基斯坦关系已经转恶，两国政府已开始相互攻讦。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, this marriage of convenience morphed into a full-blown and inherently unhealthy codependency.",
        "随着时间的推移，这场基于利益的婚姻演变为赤裸裸的、具有天生缺陷的共存。"
    ],
    [
        "He is no ordinary US president, and he must be taken seriously, though not literally, to borrow a phrase from The Atlantic’s Salena Zito.",
        "他不是普通的美国总统，并且，借用《大西洋》（The Atlantic）的塞伦娜·齐拓（Salena Zito）的话，必须认真对待特朗普，但不要从字面上理解他。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a longstanding debate in macroeconomics has focused on how prices respond to news about the economy, and whether companies pass through to consumers changes in import prices that result from exchange-rate movements.",
        "比如，宏观经济学中有一个长期争论，争论的焦点是价格如何反应于关于经济的消息，以及公司是否会把汇率变动导致的进口价格变化转嫁给消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, a policy-induced hard landing would be difficult to avoid.",
        "否则就难以避免政策引发的硬着陆。"
    ],
    [
        "The Coming Productivity Revolution",
        "即将到来的生产力革命"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this is not about America-bashing.",
        "但这并不是抨击美国。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whereas Zhu had to grapple with local officials to increase the central government’s authority and revenue, thereby stabilizing the economy and unleashing China’s growth potential, Li must cooperate with local governments to create a system that fosters and protects new sources of innovation and economic dynamism at all levels.",
        "但是，朱镕基需要和地方官员角力以增加中央政府的权威和收入，从而稳定经济、释放中国的潜力； 而李克强必须与地方政府协调以创造在各个层面培养和保护创新和经济活力新源泉的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "This strikes me as wrongheaded for several reasons.",
        "在我看来有几个理由证明这种说法的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Without its own currency, the IMF is poorly positioned to intervene with the overwhelming force needed for lender-of-last-resort operations.",
        "没有自己的货币，国际货币基金组织在介入最终贷款人操作所需的巨大力量上，处于非常不利的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, he had never expressed any such sentiment inside the British Isles during the previous eight years.",
        "当然，过去8年布莱尔从未在英伦诸岛表达过这样的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond that, Ludwig, Tufts University’s Dariush Mozaffarian, and I have proposed instituting a tax on processed food, much the same way that tobacco is taxed.",
        "除此之外，大卫·路德维格，塔夫茨大学的达瑞许·莫扎法里安（Dariush Mozaffarian）和笔者也提议对加工食品征税，就跟烟草税一样。"
    ],
    [
        "This all reflects a trend toward greater clarity in our relations.",
        "这都反映出我们人际关系更加清晰化的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so requires, first and foremost, measures to halt the decline in foreign direct investment, which fell by 30% from 2012 to 2013.",
        "这首先需要采取扭转外国直接投资的下降趋势的手段。 2012—2013年，乌克兰外国直接投资减少了30%。"
    ],
    [
        "The interests of both the EU and the US were expansively redefined.",
        "欧盟和美国的利益在扩张之后重新进行了界定。"
    ],
    [
        "Crowdfunding or Crowdphishing?",
        "众筹还是众钓？"
    ],
    [
        "Before asking for a new Windows PC this holiday season, remember the old adage: “Be careful about what you wish for.”",
        "在这个圣诞节想要一台新的Windows个人电脑之前，记住一句古老的谚语：“对你所盼望的事物保持警惕。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "There is entirely too much fuel for terrorist propaganda.",
        "对于恐怖主义宣传来说，燃料太多了。"
    ],
    [
        "Here India has been slow to join the struggle for influence.",
        "而印度则在争取对缅甸的影响力这方面反应迟缓。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a danger that the public mistakes speculation for truth, only because of the speculator’s credentials and assertiveness.",
        "但存在公众将猜测和真相混淆的危险，而公众之所以会混淆，只是因为猜测者的资质和自信。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, in 1980, the world was officially free of smallpox.",
        "最后，在1980年，世界正式摆脱了天花。"
    ],
    [
        "They must also provide information about which entities do business in each jurisdiction and the economic activities in which they engage.",
        "它们还必须提供关于各司法辖区有哪些实体开展业务以及参与哪些经济活动的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, global integration means that eurozone distress threatens the US economy, while the US debt-ceiling standoff threatens financial markets everywhere.",
        "同样，全球一体化意味着欧元区的困境同样会威胁到美国经济，而美国的债务上限僵局又会影响到全球各国金融市场。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, we do not know whether Iran is conducting secret activities at undisclosed sites, or when Iran could develop a crude nuclear weapon, with estimates ranging from several months to several years.",
        "比如，我们不知道伊朗是否在未遭披露的地方进行秘密的活动，伊朗何时能研发出粗糙的核武器，据估计是在几个月到几年之间。"
    ],
    [
        "Blatter is not quite as uncouth as Havelange.",
        "布拉特不像阿维兰热那样粗鄙。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, despite recent increases, commodity prices have generally fallen to about a third of their level 150 years ago.",
        "但是，即使商品价格最近有所反弹，但总体而言已下跌至150年前水平的三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The world today is markedly different from the world at the time of the founding of the World Bank and many of the regional development banks.",
        "当今世界与世界银行和众多地区开发银行成立的年代已经截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "And hope is fundamental to negating the allure of extremism, in all of its forms.",
        "而希望又对抵制一切形式的极端主义诱惑意义极其重大。"
    ],
    [
        "KYIV – Europe recently experienced two watershed elections, with very different outcomes.",
        "基辅—最近，欧洲经历了两次里程碑式的选举，产生了非常不同的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The intangible characteristics that make a product more than simply useful are what differentiate expensive products from cheap products, and include design, brand name, and environmental friendliness.",
        "正是那些让一种产品具有比实用价值更多内涵的无形特点使得昂贵的产品有别于廉价产品。 这些特点包括设计、品牌和环境友好性。"
    ],
    [
        "For we are engaged not in revolution, but in peaceful democratic evolution.",
        "我们想要的不是革命，而是和平的民主演变。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, not only is fixed income more illiquid, but now most of these instruments – which have grown enormously in number, owing to the mushrooming issuance of private and public debts before and after the financial crisis – are held in open-ended funds that allow investors to exit overnight.",
        "第三，固定收益政权不但流动性更差，它们——拜金融危机前后如春笋般茁壮发展的私人和公共债务发行，它们的数量急剧增加——大部分都持有在允许投资者随时退出的开放式基金手中。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision came a month after Premier Li Keqiang’s declaration that China had set its annual growth target at “around 7.5%” – the same as last year’s goal.",
        "此前一个月，李克强总理宣布中国的年增长目标是“7. 5%左右”，与去年持平。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, South Korea will undergo in less than three decades a transformation that will have taken France nearly 175 years.",
        "换言之，韩国将在不到三十年时间里完成法国花了近175年才完成的转型。"
    ],
    [
        "The False Promise of Financial Liberalization",
        "金融自由化的虚幻前景"
    ],
    [
        "Progress toward fiscal integration has stalled.",
        "财政一体化进展陷入停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the Chinese government has remained committed to intervention, responding to the correction with heavy-handed, politically motivated measures, including the complete suspension of trade of many companies’ stocks.",
        "但中国政府仍决定干预，用出于政治动机的大手笔政策应对市场修正，包括完全停牌许多公司的股票。"
    ],
    [
        "One of those hurdles is the cost of education.",
        "这些障碍之一是教育成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The market economy forces us to be concerned about the needs of others, because it is their need that constitutes the source of our livelihood.",
        "市场经济迫使我们要关注他人的需要，因为正是他们的需要构成了我们的生活来源。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s Model of Resilience to Terror",
        "法国的恐怖主义恢复力模式"
    ],
    [
        "Stephen King, Group Chief Economist of HSBC, notes that when he asks recent university graduates (and HSBC recruits a large number of them) how much time they spent in lectures and seminars on the financial crisis, “most admitted that the subject had not even been raised.”",
        "汇丰银行集团首席经济学家史提芬·金（Stephen King）指出，当他询问应届大学毕业生（许多刚刚加入汇丰银行）他们花多少时间在关于金融危机的讲座和研讨会上时， “大多数承认这个问题甚至没有被提起过。"
    ],
    [
        "Household consumption has begun to climb, even as the pace of investment has fallen, and now exceeds 60% of GDP.",
        "在投资速度有所下滑的形势下，家庭消费仍然开始攀升，现已突破GDP的60%。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, energy security has become a serious issue.",
        "因此，能源安全已成为严重问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are intended to underline what many people in Europe know very well, which is that the speed with which problems concerning international development and conflict are growing easily outpaces the EU’s policy responses so far.",
        "但它们旨在强调一些欧洲的许多人都再明白不过的事实，即与国际发展和冲突相关的问题恶化的速度早已超过了欧盟的政策回应速度。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese government had just released its 13th Five-Year Plan, and officials were eager to explain what it means for China’s future.",
        "中国发展论坛是一年一度的中国和国外高级官员和顶级企业高管会议。 中国政府刚刚发布了十三五规划，官员们急切地想解释它对中国未来的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "This is vitally important for Britain’s service industries, particularly for the City of London’s exports of financial services.",
        "这对英国的服务业（尤其是伦敦金融城的金融服务出口）非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the US, where the inequality narrative’s poster child has become the displaced, older, less-educated, white working-class male.",
        "在美国，不平等性叙事的主角已经变成失业、年长、教育程度低下的白人工作阶级男性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Euro’s Imagined Community",
        "欧元的想象共同体"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Russia and the United States are circling each other like boxers before the contest actually begins, supporting different factions and trying to ensure that their allies in the multi-sided conflict are advancing, or at least holding ground.",
        "事实上，俄罗斯和美国就像比赛开始前的拳手那样围绕彼此转来转去，支持不同派别并试图确保其盟友在多方冲突中占得优势，或至少保持住现有的局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Serious European governments – from Ireland to Poland – have successfully addressed the problem.",
        "一些认真执政的欧洲国家政府——从爱尔兰到波兰——都已成功地解决了这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It means sticking to principles, but also attempting to understand the other side, however irrational or intransigent it may sometimes appear.",
        "这意味着坚持原则，但是同时也努力理解另一方，而无论那一方有时看起来有多么的没有理性和不妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "Levity aside, the answer reveals the pompousness and vacuity of each and every economic theory.",
        "若不嫌轻薄的话，我的答案能够揭露每种经济理论的傲慢和虚无。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Russia’s role as the world’s newest “petro-state” is very different from the Russia where life expectancy for men is bordering on levels seen in the poorest African countries.",
        "确切地说，俄罗斯作为世界最新的“石油国”的角色与那个男性（公民）的预期寿命和非洲最穷的国家不相伯仲的俄罗斯是迥然不同的。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, financial investors have trusted in the steadfast support of central banks, confident that the monetary authorities will eventually succeed in transforming policy-induced growth into genuine growth.",
        "相反，金融投资者对中央银行的坚定支撑能力极为信任，有信心货币当局最终会成功地将政策诱导性增长转化为真正的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Revolutions tend to confront new governments with steeply rising social demands (for wage increases and higher welfare spending, for example) at a time of capital flight, financial turmoil, and deep disruptions of production.",
        "革命往往产生面临急剧上升的社会需求的政府（比如要求涨薪和增加福利支出），与此同时又往往伴随着资本外逃、金融动荡和生产的严重破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are also other reasons having to do with politicians’ need for scapegoats, the media’s struggle to reinvent itself in the Internet age, and central-bank pronouncements’ predictable short-term effects on financial markets.",
        "而同时也存在着其他的原因，比如政客们寻找替罪羊的需要，媒体在互联网时代重新改造自身的努力，以及中央银行声明对于金融市场的可预测的短期效应。"
    ],
    [
        "When I came back to Britain in 1997, I was asked to become Chancellor of Newcastle University.",
        "1997年回到英国时，我被任命为纽卡斯尔大学的校长。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps just as important is that sons typically live with their parents even after they are married, and assume responsibility for parents in their old age.",
        "还有一点也许同样重要，那就是儿子即使婚后一般也与父母同住，并在父母年老时承担起赡养义务。"
    ],
    [
        "Helicopter drops are currently proposed by both leftist and centrist economists.",
        "从直升机上撒钱的战略目前得到了左翼和中间派经济学家的一致赞成。"
    ],
    [
        "The effort that this has inspired to create more innovative learning environments was apparent last April, during a visit to the Tohoku schools destroyed by the 2011 tsunami.",
        "在去年4月访问被2011年海啸摧毁的东北学校时，这一结果所带来的创造更具创新性的学习环境的措施随处可见。"
    ],
    [
        "The sooner the Fed takes on the markets, the less likely the markets will be to take on the economy.",
        "美联储越早对市场动手，市场对经济的影响就越小。"
    ],
    [
        "Taken together, these political outcomes – and the anti-establishment forces on the march ahead of next year’s French and German elections – will halt further global economic and political integration, at least in the near term.",
        "总而言之，这些政治结果——以及面对明年法国和德国选举一路高歌猛进的反体制势力——将至少在短期内阻碍全球经济和政治一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "Is there a way to redress the double standard in biomedical research that is both fair and wise?",
        "有没有一种方法能在纠正生物医药研究双重标准的同时，还能够实现公平和合理的目标？"
    ],
    [
        "However, by 2100, even the most pessimistic forecasts from the UN expect the average person in the developing countries to be richer than now, and thus better able to cope.",
        "然而，即使是来自联合国的最悲观的预测也预期发展中国家的普通民众在2100年时会比现在更富裕，也因此能更好的应对这一挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But successes have been far and few between.",
        "但是成功的案例却极为鲜见。"
    ],
    [
        "Without these twin transformations of its right and left, Mexico can only keep running in place, while so many others speed forward.",
        "没有左右两翼的变革，墨西哥只能原地踏步，而其他众多国家则迅速发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The Internet has also enabled instantaneous cross-border dissemination of knowledge-based services such as software programming, engineering and design, medical screening, and accounting, legal, and consulting work.",
        "互联网让基于知识的服务——如软件编程、工程与设计、医学筛查以及会计、法律和咨询工作——能够在一瞬间实现跨境流动。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the benefits of mitigating emissions of GHGs are so overwhelming that this, combined with the prospect of the harm resulting from inaction, makes it imperative for the world to devise an international response and a plan of action.",
        "其次，缓解温室气体排放的益处也非常巨大，再加上不采取行动可能带来的伤害，全世界务必要采取一种国际态度和行动计划。"
    ],
    [
        "What we need now are more refined mathematical tools and simulation models to understand the hidden uncertainties that can emerge from interactions in complex social and natural systems.",
        "我们现在需要的是更加精致的数学工具和仿真模型来理解在复杂的社会和自然系统的互动中可能产生的隐藏的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Lessons for China’s Reformers",
        "中国改革者可以从欧洲教训中学到什么"
    ],
    [
        "Colonial history shows that this type of rule is fragile.",
        "殖民历史表明，这种类型的统治是脆弱的。"
    ],
    [
        "An independent board would oversee the state plan’s administration, relying on a competitive bidding process to select investment managers.",
        "）一个独立委员会将监督州计划的管理，以竞标程序选择投资经理。"
    ],
    [
        "If, on the other hand, Castro did not attend, some of the ALBA members, including two neighbors with which Colombia hopes to improve relations – Ecuador and Venezuela – might not show up, either.",
        "另一方面，如果卡斯特罗真的没有前来，那么一些ALBA国家，包括两个哥伦比亚希望改善关系的邻国（厄瓜多尔和委内瑞拉）可能也不会来了。"
    ],
    [
        "One rationale for the European project has always been to allow Germany to project diplomatic and military force in the context of a larger, EU-wide foreign policy.",
        "欧洲工程的一大立足点一直是让德国在更广泛的欧盟外交政策环境下构建外交和军事力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Those structures are gone forever, but a liberal-democratic order cannot succeed through situational politics built on popular resentments. It requires a sense of the medium term and a commitment to rational debate of issues, for one tradition that can be revived – that of enlightened thinking – is the most important of all.",
        "这些结构已经一去不复返，但是开明、民主的社会秩序不可能通过建立在大众不满情绪上的机会政治实现，而是需要长远的眼光，以及理性思辨的原则，因为一种可以复兴的传统——即文明思考的传统——是最重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the final implementation date for these new obligations has been deferred until 2019 – by which point a few banks might still be left standing.",
        "不幸的是，这些新规则的最终实施日期已经排到了2019年，而且即使到那时，仍会有一部分银行逃脱束缚。"
    ],
    [
        "However, after two years of work, I discovered that I could modify certain types of polymers to release molecules of virtually any size over a 100-day period.",
        "但经过两年的研究，我发现可以改良特定种类的聚合物，在100天内释放几乎任意大小的分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Their first responsibility is hitting their inflation target.",
        "它们的首要责任是达到通胀目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, his goal is to highlight the challenges associated with fostering or maintaining these three institutional arrangements, partly or fully.",
        "相反，他的目标是强调与促进或维持这三种制度安排相关的挑战，上述挑战既有可能关系全局也有可能涉及某些局部。"
    ],
    [
        "When the results came in, it seemed that the only people who hadn’t planned for the “Leave” campaign’s victory were those who led it.",
        "当结果出炉时，唯一没有为“脱欧”阵营的胜利做好准备的似乎恰恰是导致这一结果的人。"
    ],
    [
        "But Turkey faces many challenges of its own.",
        "但土耳其面临诸多自身挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the Party leadership became steeped in suspicion and distrust toward the outside world, especially toward the so-called “great powers.”",
        "中共领导层也因此逐渐变得多疑，对外界充满了不信任，尤其是对那些所谓的“超级大国”。"
    ],
    [
        "An instructive precedent is Slovakia, whose “velvet” divorce from the Czech Republic at the beginning of 1993 led to the creation of a new national currency.",
        "一个颇具说明性的先例是斯洛伐克，1993年伊始，它通过“天鹅绒革命”脱离捷克独立，并决定使用新的国家货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody’s perfect, least of all Sarkozy, so we should expect some infuriating initiatives.",
        "人无完人，更何况萨尔科奇，所以我们应该会看到某些激烈的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Research commissioned by the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, headed by the economist Jim O’Neill, has calculated that if current trends continue, drug-resistant infections will kill ten million people a year by 2050 and cost the global economy some $100 trillion over the next 35 years.",
        "以经济学家奥尼尔（Jim O’Neil）牵头进行的抗生素抗药性研究（Review on Antimicrobial Resistance）指出，如果当前趋势持续，抗药性传染病将在2050年夺走1 000万人的生命，在未来35年中给全球经济带来100多万亿美元的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "These are steps in the right direction.",
        "这些举措方向正确。"
    ],
    [
        "US Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, for example, have said that the aim must be not only to protect civilians, but also to drive Qaddafi from power.",
        "比如美国参议员约翰·麦凯恩和约瑟夫·利伯曼就曾扬言，此次干涉的目标不仅要保护平民的安全，还要迫使卡扎菲交出权力。"
    ],
    [
        "The world will have changed once the global economic crisis is over, and the Europeans will not be able to complain about it then.",
        "全球经济危机结束后世界格局将会发生变化，而欧洲到那时将会追悔莫及。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who emphasize the historical uniqueness of Europe’s monetary solution insist that other countries – which control their own monies – could not possibly fall into such a predicament.",
        "有些人强调欧洲货币方案的历史独特性，坚持认为其他国家——能够控制自己的货币——不可能陷入如此窘境。"
    ],
    [
        "The point is also to show that the minimal conditions for the EU and the eurozone to work in their current form are lacking.",
        "重点还在于证明，当前形式下的欧盟和欧元区缺乏起作用的最低条件。"
    ],
    [
        "As Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations:",
        "正如亚当·斯密在《国富论》中所指出的："
    ],
    [
        "But, as the economy becomes richer and more complex, there will be no escaping the market imperative in internal credit allocation.",
        "然而随着经济生活越来越丰富，越来越复杂，中国将无可避免地遭遇内部信用分配的市场规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries have gone further.",
        "其他国家在这方面走得更远。"
    ],
    [
        "Its Third Plenum reforms provide a cohesive framework for a pro-consumption transformation.",
        "十八大三中全会改革给出了严密的支持转型的框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Those areas of the financial sector that have suffered the most reputational damage are the ones least subject to regulation and supervision: the derivatives market, hedge funds and private equity funds, and the ratings agencies.",
        "金融部门遭受最严重名誉损失的领域是那些监管最少的领域：衍生品市场，对冲基金和私募股权基金，以及评级机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Proximity to the US should, of course, be an advantage for exports and attracting investment.",
        "当然，靠近美国应该有利于出口和吸引投资。"
    ],
    [
        "This will allow us to record causes of death more accurately and track progress as vaccination campaigns and other measures are introduced.",
        "这将让我们能够更加准确地报告死亡原因，并追踪引入疫苗和其他措施后的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s Middle East is very different from the old one in many significant ways.",
        "当前的中东和过去的中东在许多重要的方面有很大的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than improving services and living conditions in areas where it could have helped consolidate peace, the government, at America’s behest, will allocate hundreds of millions of dollars to pay investment banks, accounting firms, and legal advisors who assist with that refinancing.",
        "伊拉克现政府非但没有在本可能有助于巩固和平的地区改善服务并提高人民的生活水平，反而在美国的授意下，将成百上千万的美元支付给参与这项重组计划的投资银行、会计事务所和法律顾问。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the new economic environment will produce more tension than accommodation between countries pursuing liberal and mercantilist paths. It may also reignite long-dormant debates about the type of capitalism that produces the greatest prosperity.",
        "于是乎，新的经济环境将会在追求自由或重商主义道路的国家中引发更多的对立而非和解，也有可能再次点燃本已长期陷入平静的关于哪种类型的资本主义才能产生最大繁荣的争论。"
    ],
    [
        "But health is only a small part of the Bank’s “portfolio,” and it typically works in this area with partners who bring to the table expertise in medicine.",
        "但卫生在世行的“组合”中只是一个次要部分，而且通常只是配合其他在医药领域领先的专业伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "So expansion of nuclear energy is, and will continue to be, a fact.",
        "所以核能的扩张现在会，将来还会持续进行下去。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Japanese policymakers should prioritize drawing more women into the workforce.",
        "这就是日本决策者应该优先把更多的妇女引入劳动力的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, many services related to intermediate and final demand require knowledge, expertise, information, and communication for their delivery.",
        "比如，许多与中间和最终需求有关的服务需要知识、专家、信息和通信才能提供。"
    ],
    [
        "The northern countries argue that permitting wage growth and boosting domestic demand would reduce their competitiveness and trade surplus.",
        "北欧国家指出，增加工资、提振内需会削弱它们的竞争力、影响贸易盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "So, in the spirit of tolerance: Happy Christmas, whether you are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, atheist, agnostic, consumerist, or Christian.",
        "因此，以宽容的名义：圣诞快乐，不管你是犹太人、穆斯林、印度教徒、锡克教徒、无神论者、不可知论者、消费主义者还是基督徒。"
    ],
    [
        "a) The bloody denouement of the protests on Tiananmen Square.",
        "a) 天安门广场抗议活动的血腥结局。"
    ],
    [
        "China needs to prepare itself for an economy whose performance is not dependent on exports and low domestic wages.",
        "中国必须建设一个不依赖出口和低工资的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, a growing proportion of the workforce – often below the radar screen of official statistics – is losing hope of finding gainful employment, while the unemployment rate (especially for poor, unskilled workers) will remain high for a much longer period of time than in previous recessions.",
        "这样一来，劳动大军中就会有越来越多的人再也无法找到收入较高的工作，失业率（尤其是贫困、无技能的劳动者的失业率）将居高不下，比从前历次衰退都拖得久——而这一部分人往往是被官方统计口径忽略掉的。"
    ],
    [
        "If the constitution is to operate as the guarantee of democracy, freedom, and security, poor Iraqis must learn to make that fight their own.",
        "如果宪法保证民主、自由以及安全而得以实施，贫苦的伊拉克人必须为此自我争取。"
    ],
    [
        "If heavy rains discourage people from shopping in August, they will just spend more in September.",
        "如果8月份的大雨让人们打消了上街购物的冲动，那么他们会在9月份买更多东西。"
    ],
    [
        "All they need are strong incentives to be proactive.",
        "他们所需要的不过是积极主动的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "They are intellectual butlers, serving the interests of those in power, not vigilant observers of shifting reality.",
        "他们是知识分子仆人，为那些有权势的人的利益服务，而不是变化的事实敏锐的观察者。"
    ],
    [
        "The Slow March to Gender Parity",
        "通往性别平等的缓慢长征"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – America’s gradual withdrawal from the Middle East puts increasing pressure on Europe to help foster peace in the region.",
        "伦敦——美国从中东逐步撤军使得欧洲协助维护地区和平的压力越来越大。"
    ],
    [
        "To Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, US President Barack Obama betrayed Israel when he sacrificed Egypt’s former president, Hosni Mubarak, and paved the way for the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power.",
        "对以色列总理内塔尼亚胡来说，美国总统奥巴马在牺牲掉埃及前总统穆巴拉克并为穆斯林兄弟会的掌权扫清障碍时已经背叛了以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "But private investment was modest before the uprisings of 2011, when such risks were already high.",
        "但2011年之前这些风险便已经很高，私人投资也相当平庸。"
    ],
    [
        "This is very doubtful.",
        "这十分可疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the BRICS’ dissatisfaction with the status quo is understandable.",
        "因此，金砖四国对现状不满是可以理解的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the only economic rights the Bush administration recognizes are intellectual property rights, putting the interests of drug companies ahead of those with life threatening diseases, and the free mobility of capital, which has had such devastating effects on many countries.",
        "但是唯一让布什政府意识到的经济权是知识产权，把医药公司的利益放在那些威胁人们生命的疾病、资金的自由流动之前，这对许多国家都产生了破坏性的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "If history is any guide, there are three major issues that warrant careful monitoring in the coming months.",
        "从历史上看，在未来几个月中必须严密监控三个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the Middle East’s most important players are increasing the risks of confrontation because they have either lost a proper feeling for their regional and international environment, or seek to increase their own political power through provocation and brinkmanship.",
        "中东有些最重要的人物正在增大对抗的风险，因为他们或者对地区和国际环境认识不清，或者试图通过挑衅和外交冒险来扩大自身的政治权力。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The United States Congress is close to enacting a major tax reform. The plan’s most important provision reduces the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20% – from the highest among all OECD countries to one of the lowest – and allows US companies to repatriate the profits of their foreign subsidiaries without paying additional US taxes.",
        "发自剑桥——美国国会即将通过一项重大税务改革，而这项改革中最重要的规定是要将企业所得税率从35％降至20％——从所有经合组织国家中的最高水平减至最低——并允许美国企业在无需额外向美国缴税的情况下将其国外子公司的利润回流本土。"
    ],
    [
        "Two and a half years later, Feldstein joined US President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet, where he chaired the Council of Economic Advisers until July 1984.",
        "两年半后，费尔德斯坦加入了美国总统里根的内阁，担任经济顾问委员会主席直至1984年7月。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, in some areas, government authorities simply don’t consider making business a part of the solution early on.",
        "诚然，在某些方面，政府在一开始根本没有考虑将企业作为解决方案的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "It was possible to experience being a refugee through a virtual reality headset, – or through the actual experience of donning a headscarf and spending 75 minutes being treated like a refugee and facing heart-wrenching choices in a simulation created by the Crossroads Foundation.",
        "人们可以借助虚拟现实耳机体验难民经历——或戴上头巾体验75分钟充当难民的感觉，在十字路口基金会创建的模拟环境中被迫面对令人痛心的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that the bubble has burst, America’s current economic downturn is likely to be far worse than previous ones, because US enterprises will have to be rebuilt, slowly and carefully.",
        "现在，泡沫已经破灭，然而美国当前的经济低迷可能比以前的低迷严重得多，因为美国企业不得不缓慢而小心地进行重建。"
    ],
    [
        "The industry contends that the existence of these living wills – showing how a big bank’s collapse could be handled without causing global financial panic – means that “too big to fail” is over.",
        "金融业的主张是，这些生前遗嘱的存在表明一家大银行的倒闭可以有序处理而不会引起全球金融恐慌，因此意味着“太大而不能倒”已经成为过去。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with the use of chemical weapons, probably by the Syrian government (and possibly by both sides), the US has again ratcheted up the stakes.",
        "如今，化学武器的使用（可能是叙利亚政府，也可能是双方都用了）使得美国再次加大了赌注。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world hungry for attractive investment returns, a prospective Trump boom has drawn funds to Wall Street, in turn increasing demand for the dollar.",
        "世界对有吸引力的投资回报十分饥渴，因此看到特朗普繁荣的希望吸引资金流向华尔街，反过来又增加了美元需求。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Europe and South America are more dominant than four years ago and remain the unchallenged great powers of international soccer.",
        "第一，欧洲和南美球队要比四年以前更为占据优势，而且保持为国际足球中无可挑战的大国。"
    ],
    [
        "Trichet already has cleared the way for this to happen.",
        "特里谢已经为此扫清了障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Hardly anyone understands our dogmatic austerity policy, which goes against all experience, and we are considered largely off-course, if not heading into oncoming traffic.",
        "几乎没有人理解我们一根筋的紧缩政策，这与历史经验完全背道而驰，大部分人认为，说轻了我们是偏离正道，说重了我们已经走火入魔了。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world’s second-largest source of foreign direct investment, the EU wields considerable influence, with European investors bringing credibility to projects and regions, thereby serving to attract further investment.",
        "作为世界第二大外国直接投资来源地，欧盟有着卓著的影响力，欧洲投资者给项目和地区带来信誉，从而有利于吸引更多投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that heat waves like the one in Russia become more frequent and extreme in a warmer world is easy to understand.",
        "在一个更加温暖的世界中，像俄罗斯那样的热浪变得越来越频繁和极端的事实就非常容易理解了。"
    ],
    [
        "The history of arms control suggests there will be occasions when Iran, which has a record of withholding relevant information from UN weapons inspectors, is suspected of not living up to the letter, much less the spirit, of what was negotiated.",
        "军备控制的历史表明，有向联合国武器检查官隐瞒相关信息前科的伊朗将多次被怀疑不遵守谈成的协议条款，更不用说协议精神了。"
    ],
    [
        "Rosneft has denied this publicly, but the markets nonetheless seem to expect that the newly printed rubles will flood the currency markets.",
        "俄石油已经公开否认了这一点，但市场仍然预期这笔新鲜印出的卢布将涌入货币市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The trigger should be the domestic government itself. Refusing international help in such instances would mean electoral suicide for any government that faces a major bank collapse.",
        "真正的触发点应该是当地政府本身，因为对于所有面临着大型银行崩溃的政府来说，在这些事件中拒绝国际救助无异于政治自杀。"
    ],
    [
        "Long before September 11 became a day of infamy in the United States, it acquired similar significance in Chile, where 40 years ago, on September 11, 1973, the armed forces, led by General Augusto Pinochet, overthrew the country’s democratically elected government.",
        "在9月11日成为美国的特殊日子之前四十年，它就在智利获得了相似的重要性。 1973年9月11日，皮诺切特将军领导的军队推翻了民选政府。"
    ],
    [
        "They compete, expand, mature, and eventually, with few exceptions, fade into obscurity.",
        "它们竞争、扩张、成熟，并最终衰亡，只有极少数能成为例外。"
    ],
    [
        "We must recognize, yet again, that we are all in this together.",
        "我们必须意识到人类的命运是休戚相关的。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s crisis was triggered by widespread concealment of bad loans within pools of securities sold all over the world.",
        "而最近这场经济危机，则是由全球发售的债券中所隐含的坏账引发的"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, in the medium to long term, we must complete the eurozone integration process and move forward on solidarity and risk-sharing – for example, by establishing a eurozone-specific budget.",
        "最后，在中期和长期，我们必须完成欧元区一体化过程，沿着团结和风险共担的道路前进，比如建立专门的欧元区预算。"
    ],
    [
        "In April and May, the new Indian Premier League revolutionized the sport.",
        "在四月份和五月份，新印度超级联赛对这项运动进行了彻底改革。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Roosevelt’s New Deal policies sometimes conflicted with one another, and quite a few of them were counterproductive.",
        "可以肯定，罗斯福的新政政策有些时候彼此冲突，也有不少取得了适得其反的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The real lesson from the collapse of the emerging-market hype is the need to pay closer attention to growth fundamentals and to recognize the diversity of circumstances among a group of economies needlessly lumped together.",
        "新兴市场经济停滞的真正教训是必须更多关注增长的基本面，并清醒地认识到被强行划归一类的不同经济体具有各自局面的多样性。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, the latter risk is more relevant in today’s conditions.",
        "很明显，在今天的情况下发生后者（通货紧缩）的危险更大。"
    ],
    [
        "From the opposite extreme, we have the Left Party’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon thundering against Merkel’s “austerity” policy and inviting her to “shut up.”",
        "同时极左翼党派的吕克·梅朗松大声反对默克尔的“紧缩”政策，并请她“别再说话”。"
    ],
    [
        "An increase in the price of a tangible good would typically cause demand to fall, leading the market toward a new equilibrium.",
        "有形商品价格的上涨通常导致需求下降，促使市场形成新均衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the West is paying the price.",
        "现在西方正在为此付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that the US must open its borders to everyone from Kenya.",
        "这并不意味着美国必须向来自肯尼亚的每一个人开放其边界。"
    ],
    [
        "International cooperation has increased markedly, in part because governments that cannot agree on many things can agree on the need to cooperate in this area.",
        "反恐国际合作显著增强，部分是因为，各国政府都觉得需要在这一领域加强合作，尽管它们在其他领域颇有分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor can isolationism guarantee national security at a time of rising threats from terrorist groups and rising ambitions on the part of China and Russia.",
        "此外，在恐怖集团威胁与日俱增、中国和俄罗斯雄心与日见长的当下，孤立主义也不能保证国家安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Convincing foreign direct investors that India is a reliable destination will increase the inflow of long-term funds.",
        "让外国直接投资者相信印度是可靠的投资地将增加长期资金流入。"
    ],
    [
        "But China will most likely move toward an open, largely rules-based multilateral framework.",
        "但中国很有可能走向一个开放的，基本上基于规则的多边框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in many cases, the value of the troubled entity’s assets as a going concern is greater than it would be if the assets were sold separately.",
        "此外，在许多情况下，如果能够继续经营下去，受影响实体的资产价值将比分割出售后更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Many believe that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was responding to an ultimatum from his European partners: Accept our demands or leave the euro.",
        "许多人认为这是希腊总理齐普拉斯对其欧洲伙伴国最后通牒的反应：要么接受条件，要么离开欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "Skeptics worry that the economic progress may not last, arguing that the high growth rate is simply a reflection of loose monetary policy and fiscal stimulus – a strategy that inflation will render unsustainable.",
        "持怀疑态度的人担心现在的经济进步可能不会持久，认为较高的增速不过是宽松货币政策和财政刺激的反映——通胀最终会让这项策略不可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "While several provincial satraps have been cut down to size, new, aspiring ones have garnered significant support.",
        "虽然有几位省级总督逐渐丧失了威望，但也有雄心勃勃的新政治家得到了很多人的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the electoral system is tipped sharply in Labour’s favor.",
        "首先，选举制度的设计极有利于工党。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, traditional constituencies of the right, such as the business sector, the military, and the Church, will find a somewhat more welcoming government, but a sharp rightward turn is unlikely.",
        "是的，商业部门、军队和教堂等传统上受右派把持的选区会发现新政府更对胃口，但几乎不可能出现朝着右翼方向的剧烈转折。"
    ],
    [
        "They told me that in the past, hepatitis patients had to travel for hours to be diagnosed and treated at a city hospital, while many others who were unable to make the journey suffered without treatment.",
        "他们告诉我，在过去，肝炎病人需要跋涉数小时才能到达城市医院获得诊断和治疗，许多无力前往城市的患者只能放弃治疗饱受病痛折磨。"
    ],
    [
        "The sequence Physics-Chemistry-Biology implies that continuous collegial professional development for teachers is essential.",
        "物理-化学-生物学的学习顺序表明对教师进行持续的大学专业发展非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been the purpose of the vast bank bailouts in the US and Europe, followed by several rounds of “quantitative easing,” by which central banks print money and pump it into the banking system through a variety of unorthodox channels.",
        "这便是美国和欧洲大规模银行援助的目的，随之而来的是数轮“量化宽松”，即央行印钱并通过一系列非常规渠道注入银行系统。"
    ],
    [
        "We could do all good things.",
        "我们可以做一切有益的事。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to feel confident of the outcome, however uncertain that may be.",
        "如此结果难以让人安心，不管它们仍具有高度不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank provided upfront long-term zero-interest loans for the purchase of oral polio vaccines in Nigeria and Pakistan, while the other three organizations covered all service and commitment charges associated with the loans.",
        "世界银行为尼日利亚和巴基斯坦提供前端长期零息贷款用于采购口服脊髓灰质炎疫苗，而其他三个组织负责与贷款有关的维持和偿还费用。"
    ],
    [
        "The Renewable Energy Sources Act, for instance, introduced in 2000 by a Social Democrat-Green government, has enabled the country to exceed all growth expectations in the alternative-energy sector, which now accounts for 20% of Germany’s total electricity consumption.",
        "比方说社会民主绿党政府2000年推出的《可再生能源法》使得德国替代能源领域的发展超出了所有人的预期，现在已经在德国用电总量中占据了20%的份额。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – As I tour the U.S. promoting my new book, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty , I am often asked if this isn’t the wrong time to call on affluent people to increase their effort to end poverty in other countries.",
        "普林斯顿-当我在全美国为我的新书《你能挽救的生命：现在行动起来，结束世界贫困》做宣传时，我常常被人问及这个问题，即现在来呼吁富裕的人们拿出更多的钱来消灭他国贫困现状，是不是显得不合时宜？"
    ],
    [
        "Some hope that the next US administration can stem Iran’s nuclear ambitions through bilateral diplomacy.",
        "有些人希望，美国下届政府可以通过双边外交来阻止伊朗的核子野心。"
    ],
    [
        "Former US President Bill Clinton called this response a “democratization of development assistance,” in which individuals lend their help not only through their governments but also through their own efforts.",
        "美国前总体比尔·克林顿称之为“发展援助的民主化”，意思是个人不仅通过本国政府提供援助，自己也亲自参与其中。"
    ],
    [
        "The possibility of managing national risks globally is another example of the advantages of economic globalization and expansion of financial markets.",
        "将国家风险全球化的可能性正是经济全球化以及金融市场拓展的优势所在的又一个范例。"
    ],
    [
        "The extent of congressional Democratic support depends directly on what exactly is in any trade agreement.",
        "国会民主党支持度与贸易协定的具体内容直接相关。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments, donors, and other investors can still make bad choices, but there are unprecedented opportunities for high-payoff growth.",
        "政府、捐助团体和其他投资者仍然有可能做出错误的决策，但实现高回报增长的机遇前所未有。"
    ],
    [
        "Another area in which Greece should consider taking action is food.",
        "希腊应考虑采取行动的还有粮食领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Who Does Business Represent?",
        "企业代表了什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq and Syria remain mired in violence and chaos; Eritrea is in the grip of a repressive regime; and Libya has become a collapsed state.",
        "厄立特里亚处于专制政权的掌控之中； 利比亚则成了崩溃国家的典型。"
    ],
    [
        "The constitution was designed to make a Europe of 25 members more efficient, not produce a strong federal state.",
        "宪法是为了使一个拥有25个成员国的欧盟变得更有效率，而不是产生一个强大的联邦制国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia has an important place in Chinese geopolitical calculations, as a supplier of both modern weaponry and energy resources needed to continue its modernization.",
        "俄国在中国的地缘政治考量中占有重要的地位，是其现代化所需要的现代武器和能源的供应国。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – Many of the men and women who turned out for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund in early October were saying something like this: “Imagine if the Republicans had nominated someone with the same anti-trade views as Trump, minus the insults and the sexual harassment.",
        "圣地亚哥——参加国际货币基金组织10月初年度会议的代表普遍认为：“假设共和党人不顾性骚扰和侮辱性言论提名了像特朗普这样的反贸易主义者，就有可能导致民粹保护主义者入主白宫。"
    ],
    [
        "An estimated 90,000 Ukrainians were reached indirectly.",
        "据估计，有90,000乌克兰人被间接影响到。"
    ],
    [
        "But few have thought it worth their while to express their criticism in public.",
        "但很少有人认为值得公开发表批评。"
    ],
    [
        "The political reality, though, is that most governments are unwilling to commit to take in any specific number or percentage of the world’s refugees.",
        "但政治现实是大部分政府不愿意承诺具体数字或占世界难民的半分比。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the revolution in non-conventional hydrocarbons, particularly shale gas and oil, which the International Energy Agency recently predicted would make the US the world’s largest oil producer by 2020, and the top energy producer overall by 2030, will have enormous global repercussions.",
        "事实上，根据国际能源机构的近期预测，打破常规的碳氢化合物（特别是页岩油气）革命到2020年将使美国成为世界最大产油国，而到2030年则将成为最大产能国，由此产生的全球反响将不容小觑。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, throughout Europe – in France, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom – governments have been turned out of office in the face of a crisis that they have seemed unable to address.",
        "事实上，在放眼欧洲——法国、希腊、爱尔兰、葡萄牙、西班牙还有英国莫不如此——政府都因为发生了无力解决的危机而该换了门庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Particularly the losers, often represented by young men with no future to look forward to, can be induced to take even suicidal action against the alleged enemy.",
        "特别是那些全球化的失败者常常以那些没有未来可以憧憬的年轻人为代表，能够被诱导采取甚至是采取自杀式行动来对抗指称的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "The fine would have been largely symbolic, but the Commission seems to have decided that the symbolism wasn’t worth it.",
        "罚款原本也是象征性的，但欧盟委员会似乎认定象征性不值得它出手。"
    ],
    [
        "The reset must occur in the context of efforts to solve real problems together.",
        "重启必须在共同努力解决实际问题的条件下发生。"
    ],
    [
        "So, even as custom-manufactured goods become cheaper and people talk about local manufacture as well as local foods, other goods may get more expensive if we do it right.",
        "因此，即使定制商品越来越便宜，人们向讨论本地食物那样讨论本地制造，其他东西也可能变得更贵，如果我们做出正确的东西的话。"
    ],
    [
        "A New Growth Path for Europe examines the impact of expectations and learning-by-doing.",
        "《一条欧洲新增长路径》解释了预期以及边干边学所产生的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution is relatively simple, provided the presence of political will: By putting a price on carbon and repealing policies that incentivize fossil-fuel consumption, investments can be channeled into the creation of a low-carbon economy, including the necessary clean-energy infrastructure.",
        "解决方案相对简单，如果有政治意愿的话：通过给碳定价并取消鼓励化石燃料消费的政策，投资就可以被导向构建低碳经济，包括必要的清洁能源基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s speech in Ghana, carefully located in an African country that recently had a successful democratic change of government, illustrated such an approach.",
        "奥巴马精心选择在非洲的加纳进行演讲，帮助了该国近期成功地进行了民主式的政权交割。"
    ],
    [
        "We must keep the pressure on to make sure that the promised climate finance is sufficient to enable the least-developed countries to adapt to present and future climate change.",
        "我们必须保持压力，以确保承诺的气候融资足以让最不发达国家适应当前和未来气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "This additional economic activity will boost overall GDP growth, yielding significant new fiscal revenues.",
        "由此产生的经济活动的增加将提振总体GDP增长，产生大量新财政收入。"
    ],
    [
        "According to estimates by HSBC, the “one belt, one road” initiative could end up costing as much as $232 billion – just under two-thirds of the World Bank’s balance sheet in 2014.",
        "根据汇丰银行的估算，“一带一路”工程最终可能耗资2,320亿美元——几乎相当于2014年世界银行资产负债表规模的三分之二。"
    ],
    [
        "They disagree about who predicted which outcome.",
        "他们不承认谁预测了哪个结果。"
    ],
    [
        "They did so in such a way as to benefit themselves, of course; but they also tried to be as inclusive as possible for developing countries.",
        "虽然它们这样做也是为了让自己受益； 但它们也试图尽可能地去包容发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But, like a socialist utopia or pure libertarianism, the idea of world government can illuminate a sensible path for capturing the benefits of a more effective global polity.",
        "但正如一个社会主义乌托邦或者纯自由主义主义，世界政府的理念可以照亮一个从更有效全球政治中得益的合理路径。"
    ],
    [
        "For far too long, the international community has struggled to govern migration effectively.",
        "长期以来，国际社会一直竭尽全力对移民进行有效的治理。"
    ],
    [
        "Strategic frameworks, along with ESG disclosure, should encourage both companies and their shareholders to focus more on long-term value and less on short-term financial performance.",
        "战略框架配合ESG披露能够鼓励公司及其股东更加关注长期价值而不是短期财务表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s rulers dare not face up to their own experiences or moral responsibility.",
        "今天的统治者不敢面对他们自己的经历或道德责任。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the victory of the secular Awami National Party (ANP) in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province is a strong indication that people there have rejected religious political forces and violence.",
        "毕竟，世俗的人民民族党(ANP)在巴基斯坦西北边境省份选举的胜利有力地的说明那里的人民已经拒绝了宗教政治和暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Now Google itself has become a victim of China’s growing cyber prowess, in the same way that appeasement of Hitler boomeranged onto France and Britain.",
        "正如当年英法两国对希特勒实施绥靖战略、最终却自作自受一样，谷歌如今也成为了中国日益增强的网络能力之受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Another might be that Syria will be a federal state, with broad local autonomy.",
        "另一个原则或许可以是叙利亚将成为联邦国家，地方获得广泛的自治权。"
    ],
    [
        "The police were slow to arrive.",
        "警方此时才姗姗来迟。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting destruction brought reconciliation between warring Palestinian factions and support for them throughout the Arab world.",
        "随之而来的破坏让巴勒斯坦内部冲突各派别和解，并且为他们在整个阿拉伯世界带来了支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The joint declaration issued at the summit was delayed a day, and omitted all references to North Korea – a prime concern of both Japan and South Korea.",
        "三国峰会联合宣言也推迟了一天发布，宣言中没有任何关于朝鲜问题的内容，而这本是日本和韩国最关心的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that most European governments (especially British Tory governments) tend to scapegoat the EU to mask their own political myopia.",
        "问题在于多数欧洲政府（特别是英国保守党政府）倾向于把欧盟当作替罪羊来掩盖其自身政治远见的缺乏。"
    ],
    [
        "It has also requested that interest payments be linked to economic growth.",
        "它还要求利息支付与经济增长挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades, technological advances have been essentially incremental, and the industry remains largely based on long-haul transport aircraft, with an emerging small jet component and a legacy of general aviation markets and products.",
        "几十年来，技术进步基本上小幅度增长，而这一产业大体上是建立在长途运输飞机的基础之上，同时正在涌现一小部分喷气飞机以及遗留下来的通用航空市场和产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, laboring under a common currency, a half-hearted banking union, and an unnecessarily tight fiscal policy, has chosen to abandon those tools.",
        "在共同货币、三心二意的银行业联盟和不必要的紧缩财政政策重压下艰难度日的欧洲已经选择放弃这些工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than spending energy on trying to build large-scale institutions covering the entire region, it would be better to focus more on smaller, issue-oriented institutions.",
        "与其花精力去尝试建立大规模机构去覆盖整个区域，不如着手创建规模更小且专注于特定事务的相关组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Modi was marketed to voters through a clever (and lavishly financed) campaign that portrayed him as the business-savvy leader who had transformed the state of Gujarat into a lodestar of development – and who would do the same for the country as a whole.",
        "莫迪的选战策略很明智（并且资金充沛）。 他被描述为精通商业的领导人——他曾经将古吉拉特邦变成发展明星，现在他要实现整个国家的同样的变迁。"
    ],
    [
        "The shadings differed from country to country in the post-communist world, but the new generations rising in these societies now seem to be fed up with it.",
        "后共产主义世界的情况各国均不相同，但是成长在这些社会中的新的一代人现在看起来对此不耐烦了。"
    ],
    [
        "But his opposition to the Gaza Strip withdrawal, coupled with his strong criticism of Sharon, cost him his position as heir apparent.",
        "但是，由于他反对从加沙地带撤军，又强烈批评沙龙，从而失去了王位继承人的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Some insist that Greece finish its payment program, regardless of the humanitarian and economic consequences – not to mention the failure of all previous Greek governments to meet its terms.",
        "一些人坚持希腊必须完成偿付，不管这样会造成怎样的伤害和经济后果——全然不顾此前诸任希腊政府都没有满足这一要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Extending the use of biofuels in these regions could boost productivity and create new employment opportunities, especially in rural areas.",
        "扩大生物燃料在这些地区的使用能够提振生产率、创造新的就业机会，特别是在农村地区。"
    ],
    [
        "They found that there was little or no tendency for governments to make taxes more progressive when pretax inequality increased.",
        "他们发现，政府不存在或极少存在当税前不平等加剧时增加税收的累进性的倾向。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2010, Korea and ASEAN have made significant strides together as strategic partners.",
        "2010年以来，韩国和东盟作为战略合作伙伴，一起取得了重大进步。"
    ],
    [
        "That is by far the most protracted period of weakness in real US consumer demand since the end of World War II – and a massive slowdown from the pre-crisis pace of 3.6% annual real consumption growth from 1996 to 2007.",
        "这是美国真实消费需求自二战结束以来最长的疲软期，大大低于1996—2007年危机前真实消费增长年率3. 6%"
    ],
    [
        "The crippling lack of capacity means that lives are lost every day – particularly in rural areas – for want of medical attention.",
        "8。 医务人员严重不足意味着每天都会发生因为缺医少药而导致的生命损失——特别是在农村地区。"
    ],
    [
        "In modern biotechnology, Boyle thinks, things previously outside the market-once thought to be impossible to commodify-are becoming routinely privatized.",
        "博伊尔认为，在现代生物科技中， 从前不进行买卖的东西——曾经被认为不可能商品化的东西——正在被例行公事地私有化。"
    ],
    [
        "That underscores the futility of attempting to find a bilateral solution for a multilateral problem.",
        "这说明试图用一个双边解决方案来解决多边问题其实是徒劳的。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1904, US President Theodore Roosevelt argued that, “there are occasional crimes committed on so vast a scale and of such peculiar horror” that we should intervene by force of arms.",
        "在1904年，美国总统西奥多·罗斯福（Theodore Roosevelt）就指出：“有一些偶尔发生的罪行，其波及范围极广且极端恐怖”以致我们必须动用武力干涉。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, even these young countries will not be spared from the effects of an aging population.",
        "但是，即使是这些年轻国家，也无法摆脱人口老龄化的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – Japan’s nuclear disaster has fueled fear and uncertainty among all of the world’s producers of nuclear power.",
        "新德里——日本核灾难引发了世界所有核电生产国的恐惧和疑虑。"
    ],
    [
        "If gas taxes are high and consumption is low, as in Europe, fluctuations in the world price of oil have a smaller effect domestically.",
        "如果汽油税很高而消费很低（如欧洲），世界石油价格的波动所造成的国内影响就会较小。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s opposition to the AIIB is not unprecedented; in fact, it is akin to the successful US opposition to Japan’s generous New Miyazawa Initiative of the late 1990s, which offered $80 billion to help countries in the East Asian crisis.",
        "美国对亚投行的反对并不是没有先例的； 事实上，美国在1990年代末就成功压制了日本计划向东亚金融危机国家慷慨提供800亿美元援助的新宫泽动议。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, beyond the fact that China will be in charge, almost nothing is known about the bank or its financing rules.",
        "事实上，除了中国将是主导者这一事实之外，关于该银行或其融资规则我们几乎是一无所知。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, what little action has been taken has been aimed at shoring up the financial system.",
        "ampnbsp;ampnbsp;ampnbsp; 而且，他们采取的那一点行动也是集中在巩固金融系统。"
    ],
    [
        "American Conservatism’s Crisis of Ideas",
        "美国保守主义的思想危机"
    ],
    [
        "The UN report identifies numerous benefits for companies that have pursued gender equality in employment, pay, and leadership, including the ability to attract, motivate, and retain talented workers, and to address complex problems with more diverse teams.",
        "联合国报告发现，公司如果追求雇用、薪酬和领导力（包括吸引、动员和保留有才能的员工的能力）等方面的性别平等，并采用更加多元化的团队解决复杂问题，将得到巨大的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Guatemalans, Ecuadoreans, and Colombians, though not explicitly mentioned, did not feel particularly reassured.",
        "危地马拉人、厄瓜多尔人和哥伦比亚人尽管没有被他公然提及，滋味肯定也不好受。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as China’s economy does grow, its military power will likely increase, thus making China appear more dangerous to its neighbors and complicating America’s commitments in Asia.",
        "只要中国的经济继续增长，它的军事力量就很有可能加强，这将会使中国看起来对其邻国更具危险性，使美国在亚洲的事务变得更为复杂化。"
    ],
    [
        "But the last leg of the journey – to Mecca itself – remained a monopoly of the camel-owning Bedouin.",
        "但朝圣之旅的最后一段——即前往麦加的那段，仍然被拥有骆驼的贝都因人所把持着。"
    ],
    [
        "Late last month, while putting the finishing touches on the next edition of our newspaper, Haykakan Zhamanak (The Armenian Times), we heard an explosion outside our office.",
        "上月末，正当我们的《Haykakan Zhamanak》（《亚美尼亚时代报》）进入新一期收尾工作时，办公室外传来爆炸声。"
    ],
    [
        "If, say, the BOJ moved to intervene outright in the exchange-rate markets to depreciate the yen, the odds that the People’s Bank of China and the Bank of Korea would opt for weaker currencies would increase.",
        "如果（比如）日本银行开始大举干预汇率市场，让日元贬值，那么中国人民银行和大韩银行选择货币贬值的可能性也会增加。"
    ],
    [
        "While the special representative’s office has done an excellent job exposing attacks on children – and in some cases negotiating the release of child soldiers – the punishments do not fit the crimes.",
        "尽管特别代表办公室出色地完成了揭露儿童袭击事件的任务——而且在某些情况下还成功谈判了儿童士兵的释放——但侵害儿童权利却始终罚不抵罪。"
    ],
    [
        "China is now changing, and America doesn’t like it.",
        "现在，中国正在发生变化，而美国不喜欢这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither alternative – approval or rejection of the troika’s terms – will be easy, and both carry huge risks.",
        "没有一个方案——批准或拒绝三驾马车的条件——是容易的，并且两个方案都含有巨大的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Crises, especially very severe ones, are often learning opportunities.",
        "普林斯顿——危机，尤其是严重的危机，常常可以让人吃一堑长一智。"
    ],
    [
        "Isolation has brought confusion about Japan's place in the world.",
        "与世隔绝让日本在世界的地位变得不甚明朗。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the US election will be immensely consequential; but endless punditry and horserace politics have obscured two groundbreaking events that begin on November 7: meetings of the parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).",
        "诚然，美国大选将产生立竿见影的后果； 但没完没了的专家解读和赛马政治遮挡了11月7日开始的两起突破性事件：世界卫生组织控烟框架公约（FCTC）各方会议和联合国气候变化框架公约（UNFCCC）各方会议。"
    ],
    [
        "The auto industry can also make a vital contribution to the environment.",
        "汽车业还能为环境做出重要贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s challenge, however, may be more difficult.",
        "不过，中国的挑战也许更加困难一些。"
    ],
    [
        "One can see why Uribe would threaten to leak news about the negotiations, as well as why Santos would try to preempt the leaks by going public and having them take place in the open (the talks will begin in Oslo, but will be pursued in Havana).",
        "我们可以看到，乌里韦为什么要泄露关于谈判的消息，也可以看到为什么桑托斯会以将谈判公开化、让所有人都看到谈判进程作为回击（谈判将在奥斯陆开始，但会在哈瓦那进行）。"
    ],
    [
        "The causes are fascinating, and there is reason to be optimistic that the vicious cycle can be broken, transforming the balance of hope and opportunity between developing and developed economies.",
        "原因无疑非常引人入胜，人们有理由对打破恶性循环、改变发展中及发达国家希望和机遇平衡的前景感到乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Romania, for its part, has a history not at all admirable in regard to it its “Roma” minority, whose shortcomings and deeds always attract blame but never any real action by the state to improve their condition.",
        "就罗马尼亚而言，其与“罗马”族相关的历史也不甚光彩。 这个民族的缺点和行为常常招致诟病但国家却从未采取过任何的切实行动来改善他们的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "On January 9, 2011, the people of Southern Sudan will vote for independence from the North, taking with them up to three-quarters of the country’s known oil reserves and placing millions of civilians in the direct path of war.",
        "居住在苏丹南部的人民将于2011年1月9日公投决定是否脱离北方独立，此举不但会把大概3/4的石油储量划归南方所有，更意味着数百万人将再度面临战乱之苦。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fund’s shareholders would have to agree to incur those costs.",
        "IMF的成员国必须愿意支付最初的费用。"
    ],
    [
        "If the central bank of the country that printed its “strong currency” (Germany) had been willing to provide unlimited support to a “weak currency,” things would have been sorted out.",
        "只要那些印刷“硬通货”的国家央行（比如德国）愿意向那些“软通货”同僚们提供无限度的支持，问题自然迎刃而解。"
    ],
    [
        "But we need to invest now, seriously and through global collaboration, so that by 2020 we are in a position to scale up CCS or be ready to deploy other alternatives.",
        "为了实现2050年的目标。 我们必须现在就采取行动，通过国际间的合作，这样，到了2020年，我们就可以更好地利用CCS技术，或是利用替代煤炭的新能源。"
    ],
    [
        "Examples include programs to boost primary-school enrollment and, in public health, mass immunization campaigns.",
        "这样的例子包括小学入学促进计划，以及公共卫生领域的大规模免疫运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, they could face a fate similar to Nokia, which was disintermediated by one tech company (Apple) and acquired by another (Microsoft).",
        "否则它们将面临与诺基亚类似的命运——先是被一家科技公司（苹果）脱媒，然后被另一家（微软）收购。"
    ],
    [
        "He has said that he will make America energy independent, which entails abandoning US interests in the region and becoming more reliant on domestically produced greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil fuels.",
        "他声称将令美国实现能源独立，这就意味着美国将放弃在该地区的利益，并更加依赖本国开采的那些排放温室气体的化石燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "The structure of a carbon-pricing scheme remains up for discussion.",
        "碳定价机制的结构仍有待讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Exceptional circumstances – namely, the depth and urgency of the financial and economic crisis – have contributed to bringing an exceptional man, Barack Obama, to the American presidency.",
        "巴黎——特殊的环境——也就是深重而急迫的金融和经济危机——已经为巴拉克·奥巴马这位特殊人物当选美国总统做出了贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015, the SDGs outline a vision for global development that targets poverty, education, public health, inequality, sustainability, and climate action over the next 15 years.",
        "2015年联合国大会通过的可持续发展目标描绘了未来15年在贫困、教育、公共卫生、不平等、可持续发展和气候行动等一系列领域的全球发展愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "Hollywood studios are already censoring the content of movies expected to make money in the Chinese market.",
        "好莱坞工作室已经开始审查面对中国市场的电影内容。"
    ],
    [
        "But anyone who is even vaguely familiar with the US approach to multilateral lending knows that no other country has been as adept at exploiting its power and leverage for strategic gain.",
        "但只要你略微了解一下美国队多边贷款的方针就可以知道，在用实力和杠杆赢得战略利益方面，没有国家比美国更加擅长。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a transformation on the scale of the shift, more than 8,000 years ago, from nomadic hunter-gatherer societies to settled agricultural ones, which eventually led to the rise of cities.",
        "这次转型的规模堪与8,000多年前的那一次相比。 8,000多年前，人类从游牧狩猎采集社会转变为定居农业社会，并最终创造出城市。"
    ],
    [
        "Even without a consensus, however, there is a strong case for increasing funding for refugees, ensuring their humane treatment, and setting fair quotas for their resettlement.",
        "但即使尚未达成一致意见，仍然有必要增加对难民的投资，以确保他们受到人道主义待遇以及设定公平的配额用于安置难民。"
    ],
    [
        "Second is the abolition of slavery in many parts of the world during the nineteenth century, followed by, third, the global loosening over time of other caste constraints – race, ethnicity, gender – which deprived even some people with wealth of the opportunities to use it.",
        "其次是十九世纪世界诸多地区废除奴隶制，随之而来的是第三个过程，即全球等级限制——种族、民族、性别等——随时间而放松，就连一些富有之人也因为这些限制而失去了使用机会。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, in high-income countries, income taxes (primarily on individuals) comprise the largest proportion of tax revenue (roughly 36%), while domestic taxes on goods and services and social-security contributions each account for slightly more than one-quarter.",
        "相反，在高收入国家，所得税（主要对个人收取）构成了税收收入的最大头（约占36%），对商品和服务征收的国内税和社会保障费用只占四分之一略多。"
    ],
    [
        "By extending its largesse to rich corporate farms, the US may not have intended to harm the world’s poor, but that is the predictable result.",
        "美国对于富有的联合农场的慷慨大方，也许并无意伤害世界上的穷国，但这却是可以预见的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Or he could have adopted a less aggressive strategy: Concede from the start the German principle that debts are sacrosanct and then show that austerity could be eased without any reduction in the face value of Greek debt.",
        "或者他可以采取更温和的策略：从一开始就做出让步，承认债务神圣不可侵犯这一德国的原则，然后证明在不减少希腊债务任何面值的情况下可以减缓紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "But not all producers will lose equally.",
        "但并非所有的生产者的损失都一样。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the fact that nearly 40% of the US corn crop is being used for ethanol, up from around 5% a few years ago, means that corn prices must be higher to meet the feed, export, and ethanol demands for corn.",
        "此外目前美国玉米产量的40%都已经用作提炼乙醇，而几年前这一比例还仅有5%左右，这意味着玉米价格必须提高以应对市场对食品，出口和乙醇生产的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "This led to the formation of new political parties, and the creation of regional councils in 1997 made it possible for leaders with strong local roots – like Morales – to reach Bolivia’s congress without any major party’s backing.",
        "新的政党也由此出现，1997年成立的区域委员会使得像莫拉莱斯这样具有强大地方根基的政治领袖在没有任何主要政党支持的情况下成功跻身于玻利维亚议会。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2002 a second referendum was held which reversed the result and saw the ‘Yes’ side triumph.",
        "2002年举行第二次全民公决逆转了结果，赞成派获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Volkswagen, it turns out, took a different approach from that of most other German firms.",
        "看起来，大众公司采取了一条不同于其他大部分德国企业的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Because it is so obviously in every player’s interest to avoid outright conflict, we have stony handshakes like that between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Beijing last month.",
        "显然，避免彻底冲突符合所有行动方的利益，因此我们看到了中国国家主席习近平与日本首相安倍晋三上个月在北京貌合神离地握了手。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it would be gradualist, implemented over several years.",
        "首先，它是渐进的，需要多年时间实施。"
    ],
    [
        "But the report’s authors believe that there is a need to expand the current mandates, develop a comprehensive approach to consumer protection, and reduce further the influence of national authorities.",
        "但报告作者认为需要扩大目前的权力范围，发展全面的消费者保护方针，并进一步减小国家当局的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The US system is manageable, because the American states are largely constrained to running balanced budgets, while the federal government accounts for most fiscal policy.",
        "美国的体系可以做到这一点，因为各州都在很大程度上被强制保持预算平衡，而联邦政府则为大部分财政政策负责。"
    ],
    [
        "I warned that house prices had begun to fall in the summer of 2006 from dangerously high levels, implying a future collapse of construction activity and large losses of household wealth.",
        "我警告说，房价已经在2006年夏天从危险的高水平开始下跌，这意味着未来建筑业的崩溃和家庭财富的巨大损失。"
    ],
    [
        "People have complex reasons for acting illegally.",
        "人们违法行为的原因非常复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "American multinational companies and other foreign firms are an important part of the economic scene.",
        "美国跨国公司和其他外国企业也是中国经济图景中的重要部分。"
    ],
    [
        "It remains to be seen whether the two events will be capable of swinging world opinion in China’s favor and keeping it there.",
        "这两大活动项目是否能够改变世界的观点获得对其的好感并且加以保持还有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the 1990s, it has not invested sufficiently in human capital to meet the fast-changing economy’s shifting skill requirements; undertaken no effective education, environmental, or labor-market reforms; and launched no new urban initiatives or future-proofing infrastructure policies.",
        "自20世纪90年代以来，它也没有对人力资本进行足够的投资以满足日新月异的经济不断变化的技能要求； 没有实施有效的教育、环境和劳动力市场改革；"
    ],
    [
        "While the economic impact of such a move would be serious for South Korea’s export-dependent economy, the most urgent imperative is to avoid any military conflict on the Korean Peninsula.",
        "这一举动将给以来出口的韩国经济造成严重的经济后果，但最紧迫的任务仍然是避免朝鲜半岛军事冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "So long as the return on those assets exceeds the cost of funds, public investment in fact strengthens the government’s balance sheet.",
        "只要这些资产的回报率能超过资金成本，公共投资就能令政府的资产负债表更加优化。"
    ],
    [
        "But what about candidates for political leadership?",
        "但是对于政治领导者竞选人又当如何呢？"
    ],
    [
        "What is true of the parts is not true of the whole.",
        "适用于局部并不等于整体正确。"
    ],
    [
        "He also proves his profound friendship for the Jewish state.",
        "他也向犹太国家奉献了自己意味深长的友谊。"
    ],
    [
        "It is becoming increasingly clear that if Greece proceeds to unilateral action – whether by repealing unpopular austerity laws or renouncing the loan agreement itself – the eurozone will suspend disbursement of the loan.",
        "越来越明确的是，如果希腊决定单方面行动——不管是抛弃不受支持的紧缩法案还是废除贷款协议——欧元区将中止贷款发放。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – As the world economy begins to recover, Indians are looking back with particular satisfaction at how they coped with the recent crisis.",
        "发自新德里——随着世界经济开始复苏，印度人也得以志得意满地回顾自己当时是如何应对这场危机的。"
    ],
    [
        "The task before African leaders is to ensure a smooth and full transition from mass vaccination campaigns to routine immunization.",
        "非洲领导人所面临的任务是确保实现从大规模疫苗接种运动到常规免疫接种的顺利及全面的过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "If the main advantages of affluence were the ability to afford yachts and fancy vacations, inequality would matter less than it does today.",
        "如果富有的主要好处只不过在于能否支付得起游艇或者奢华假期，那么不平等在今时今日的重要性就不会那么大。"
    ],
    [
        "It must recognize a strong popular desire for individual autonomy, more leadership positions for women and the young, and greater support for individual enterprise (along with reforms of social insurance that make it cost-effective and truly inclusive).",
        "民主反对必须认识到公众极其渴望个人自治，让女性和年轻人担起更多的领导责任，以及加大对个体企业的支持（并辅之以社会保险改革，使其成本低廉且真正具有包容性）。"
    ],
    [
        "In some ways, Obama’s candidacy illustrates the problems facing our democracies today.",
        "在某些方面奥巴马的候选资格表明了当今民主所面临的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Absent these conditions, the US is ultimately powerless.",
        "缺少这些条件，美国就完全无能为力。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is a prerequisite for success.",
        "但它是成功的先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "But even this may not be enough to cover the cost.",
        "但即使这样也未必能满足开支。"
    ],
    [
        "The first-ever recorded figures, reported in July, showed that there were 5,702 new cases in England between April 2015 and March 2016.",
        "7月份第一批被记录的数字表明，在2015年4月到2016年3月期间，英格兰发生了5,702起新的割礼案件。"
    ],
    [
        "Less than two months later, however, the two countries were exchanging artillery fire across the border, with Modi instructing the Indian Army to respond disproportionately to Pakistani provocations.",
        "但是，不到两个月后，两国就在边境猛烈地互射炮火，莫迪命令印度军队加倍奉还巴基斯坦的挑衅。"
    ],
    [
        "Wen’s critique triggered an intense internal debate that resulted in a key strategic decision to rebalance the Chinese economy by shifting to a consumer-based model, as framed by the 12th Five-Year Plan of 2011-2015.",
        "温家宝的批评激起了激烈的内部争论，最后形成了一个重要战略决定——通过向基于消费者的模式的转型实现中国经济再平衡，并写入了2011—2015年的十二五规划。 这一新方针强调三个主要成分：转向服务业以增加就业创造；"
    ],
    [
        "The stronger sectors (within countries and across them) will continue to recover, but not enough to pull up the global economy whole As a result, weaker sectors risk being surpassed at an ever-faster pace.",
        "较强势的部门（无论在国内还是国际上）都会继续复苏，但并不足以拉动整个经济体。 结果较弱的部门会以更快的速度被超越。"
    ],
    [
        "Religious groups responded to this opportunity, emerging first as social welfare agencies, and then becoming the equivalent of local politicians.",
        "在这种情形下，宗教团体首先作为社会福利机构出现，之后逐渐成为当地的政党。"
    ],
    [
        "What about the interests of the oil countries themselves?",
        "石油国家自己的利益怎么样呢？"
    ],
    [
        "China’s dramatic manufacturing growth reflected low wages up to now.",
        "目前为止，中国制造业的急剧增长反映了其低工资水平。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Economic growth worldwide picked up in 2017, and the best guess is that the global economy will perform strongly in 2018 as well.",
        "发自剑桥——全球经济增长在2017年有所上扬，因此人们寄望2018年的经济也能表现强劲。"
    ],
    [
        "Draft legislation that reflects a restrictive interpretation of sharia (Islamic law), particularly concerning women’s status, is now being submitted for debate in Tunisia.",
        "立法草案体现了对伊斯兰法律的严格解读，特别是在妇女地位方面，现在突尼斯已提交并处于讨论中。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, again, strengthening Europe requires strengthening the Alliance.",
        "这一点再次说明强化欧洲需要巩固北约。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – 2008 has been an exceptionally tumultuous year for exchange rates.",
        "坎布里奇-2008年是汇率非常动荡的一年。"
    ],
    [
        "Last December, the State Council decided to introduce a negative list for market access that applies to all investment activities in China, by both domestic and foreign investors.",
        "去年12月，国务院决定对一切在华投资活动（不论来自国内还是国外投资者）采取负面清单市场准入制度。"
    ],
    [
        "We have become more interdependent, increasing the need to act together, but we do not have the institutional frameworks for doing this effectively and democratically.",
        "我们变得更为相互依赖，提高了共同行动的需要，但是我们并不具有以高效和民主的方式作为的机制框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern China has benefited enormously from this arrangement; nonetheless, there is keen resentment that the Chinese civilization-state’s vast achievements over several thousand years offer China no special status.",
        "这种秩序曾经让现代中国受益匪浅，但数千年来中国文明古国的巨大成就没有换来任何特殊地位令中国感到非常不满。"
    ],
    [
        "It is only by identifying the various causes of Parkinson’s that we will be able to develop preventive strategies.",
        "只有识别帕金森病的诸多病因，我们才能够制定预防策略。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, reducing nuclear weapons to a minimum might theoretically enhance the usefulness of missile-defense systems and their destabilizing role.",
        "此外，削减核武器至少将在理论上提升导弹防御系统的作用及其带来的不稳定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless Thailand’s military is prepared to serve as a truly honest broker between deposed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (and her supporters) and the anti-democratic Bangkok elite, which has sought a right to permanent minority rule, today’s calm may give way to a new and more dangerous storm.",
        "除非泰国军方准备充当被推翻的总理英拉（及其支持者）和反民主的曼谷精英（正在追求永久的少数派统治）之间的真诚的牵线人，否则今天的平静将让位给新的危险风暴。"
    ],
    [
        "This development offers an unprecedented opportunity.",
        "这一局势发展提供了一个前所未有的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "What the new law will not do, however, is address the most serious property rights disputes: land seizures and forced evictions for urban redevelopment.",
        "然而，这部新的法律将不能解决最严重的物权争执，即在旧城改造中没收土地和强制拆迁的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "As Foreign Minister Aso recently put it: “The more China voices [opposition], the more one feels like going there.",
        "正如外相麻生太郎最近指出的那样：“中国反对的声音越强，日本人越觉得应该去参拜。"
    ],
    [
        "Friedman was the catalyst for a profound shift in how governments conduct economic policy.",
        "弗里德曼催化了政府经济政策制定的深刻转变。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the IMF should promote financial stability through multilateral surveillance.",
        "第一，该组织应该通过多边监控来促进金融稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Republic were going to be destroyed, the famous orator and establishment politician Cicero lamented, at least let it fall by the hand of a real man.",
        "著名雄辩家、建制派政客西塞罗哀叹，如果共和国继续不遭到破坏， 那么至少让它毁在真正的男人手里。"
    ],
    [
        "The refugee crisis, terrorist attacks, and the lingering effects of the global economic crisis are all providing fuel for simmering nativist sentiment.",
        "难民危机，恐怖袭击，以及全球经济危机的持续影响都在不断撩拨着本土主义情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "While it supported the fight against piracy off the Horn of Africa, that was more a policing operation than a military one, and it was guided by a shared interest in protecting trade routes from the Middle East and Asia.",
        "虽然它支持把海盗从非洲之角赶出去，但那次行动与其说与军方有关还不如说是为了保护从中东到亚洲贸易航线共同利益的警方行动。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, over the next 25 years, 60% of the EU’s generating capacity is due to retire – contributing to demand for $2.2 trillion of energy investment.",
        "比如，在未来25年里，60%的欧盟产能将退役——这将产生2. 2万亿美元能源投资需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout history, confederations have never really worked, because the question of sovereignty (and thus of power and legitimacy) remains unresolved.",
        "纵观历史，国家联盟从来没有成功过，因为主权问题（以及随之而来的权力和立法问题）没有得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Images likely mattered more.",
        "画面可能更起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Malaysian television producers could choose to comply with, say, America’s easier-to-meet safety standards, then sell the same product in both markets, reaping the benefits of economies of scale while lowering compliance costs.",
        "比如，马来西亚电视生产商可能选择符合（比如）美国较易符合的安全标准，然后在欧美两地销售同样的产品，既享受了规模经济的好处，又降低了合规成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The Hong Kong authorities have gravely miscalculated the views of their citizens.",
        "香港当局严重误判了民意。"
    ],
    [
        "Such succession disputes become even more acute when there are multiple marriages and multiple sets of competing children.",
        "如果父辈结过多次婚，有几方子女参与争产，则继承纠纷会变得更险恶。"
    ],
    [
        "The outpouring of aid in response to the Indian Ocean tsunami brought hope to a troubled world.",
        "关心印度洋海啸并为受灾地区提供经济援助的全球热潮给这个困难重重的社会带来了希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet nature, like knowledge, is a public good that needs state intervention to be “produced” in sufficient quantities.",
        "但自然和知识一样，也是需要政府干预才能足量“出产”的公众利益。"
    ],
    [
        "This, in turn, puts the spotlight on ongoing security cooperation between Israel, the PA, and the United States, again undermining the PA’s claims to represent the Palestinian people.",
        "这反过来会令公众的焦点集中于以色列，巴民族权力机构和美国三方的安全合作之上，并再一次削弱巴民族权力机构“代表全体巴勒斯坦人民”的宣言。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also an inefficient way of generating food; up to 30 crop calories are needed to produce one meat calorie.",
        "这种粮食生产方式也十分低效； 需要消耗30植物卡路里才能生产出1肉类卡路里。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite America’s “pivot” to Asia, it intends to stick to its two-pronged approach: seek to maintain a balance of power with the help of strategic allies and partners, while continuing to accommodate a rising China.",
        "尽管美国“优先”考虑亚洲，但实行的仍是两手准备：在战略盟友和伙伴的帮助下维持势力均衡； 同时继续适应中国崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "To say that Duch is a monster who does not deserve rights ignores the gray area between good and evil, between man and monster, where anything is possible.",
        "说杜赫是不该享有人权的魔鬼就忽略了善与恶、人与魔之间那片万事皆有可能的灰色地带。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, with the exception of the Taiwan issue, China is a satisfied status quo power when it comes to the evolution of the international system – a patient actor that finds it perfectly legitimate to behave and to be seen as the world’s number two power.",
        "除了台湾问题以外，中国在国际体系的转变上首先是一个取得满足的现存大国，也是一个耐心的发挥作用的国家，它认为举止得体而又被世人认为是全球第二大强国完全是合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "But reliance on foreign workers could run into structural problems down the road.",
        "但不久的将来依靠外国工人可能会造成结构性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The cables should lead Calderón to rectify a strategy that so far has increased the level of violence without decreasing drug trafficking.",
        "电报应促使卡尔德隆纠正目前滋生暴力，但却没有遏制贩毒的无效策略。"
    ],
    [
        "But they have already made significant progress, meaning that the drag on growth is set to diminish.",
        "但他们已经取得了重大进展，这意味着对增长的拖累即将结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The one-child policy’s long-term demographic consequences have been devastating as well.",
        "一胎政策的长期人口影响也是灾难性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Changing this will require comprehensive education reform that expands and improves opportunities for children, while strengthening skills training for adults.",
        "改变这一局面需要全面的教育改革以扩展和改善儿童的机会，同时加强成人技能培训。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1992, the sirens of Somalia’s political collapse lured the US into another civil war to save a country from itself.",
        "1992年，索马里政治崩盘的警报致使美国介入另一场内战来拯救一个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost two billion people remain in poverty in the developing world, and, while the World Bank cannot solve the problem on its own, it plays a leading role.",
        "发展中国家仍有20亿人口生活在贫困之中，世界银行不可能单枪匹马解决这个问题，但需要担起领导之责。"
    ],
    [
        "None of our critics has been able to explain with any clarity or credibility why price stability is the wrong goal, which key objectives central banks should pursue instead, or what we could have done radically differently after 2008.",
        "我们的批评者没有一人能够以清楚和可信的方式解释为何物价稳定是错误的目标、央行应该追求什么关键目标； 以及2008年以来他们本应该采取什么截然不同的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond preventing Somalia’s violence from spilling over into Kenya and undermining its security and its tourist-driven economy, such a buffer state could be forced to absorb the half-million Somali refugees who now live in Dadaab’s refugee camps.",
        "这样的缓冲国除了可以防止索马里暴力溢出到肯尼亚、破坏其安全和基于旅游业的经济，还可以强迫其接受目前住在达达布难民营的50万索马里难民。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, prolonged misery and hopelessness for millions of Arab young people will create a new generation of desperate jihadists who blame the West for their despair.",
        "第三，数百万阿拉伯年轻人长期生活在悲惨和无望中，这将制造新一代绝望的圣战者，他们指责西方必须为他们的绝望负责。"
    ],
    [
        "Since political independence in 1960, politics has revolved round Nigeria’s major ethnic groups – the Igbo and Yoruba in the south, and the Hausa and Fulani in the north.",
        "1960年政治独立后，政权就一直在尼日利亚的主要种族¾南方的伊博和约鲁巴、还有北方的豪萨和富拉尼之间循环往复。"
    ],
    [
        "Another important step would be to expand and strengthen water infrastructure to address seasonal imbalances in water availability, make distribution more efficient, and harvest rainwater, thereby opening up an additional source of supply.",
        "另一个重要措施是扩大和强化水基础设施以解决可用水量的季节性失衡，让水的分布更有效率并收集雨水，从而实现开源。"
    ],
    [
        "Chemistry and biochemistry are similarly solid -- there are some things we don’t understand about the body, but it is believed that the basic machinery of how cells and molecules interact is known.",
        "化学和生物化学同样拥有坚实的基础¾虽然人体内还有我们未知的领域，但普遍的看法是我们已经掌握了细胞和分子反应的基本方法。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is the advocates who misinterpret the data when attempting to show that victims are often unable to recall their traumatic experiences.",
        "但正是鼓吹者们在试图证明受害者常常不能回忆起创痛的经历时，对研究数据进行了错误的阐释。"
    ],
    [
        "Political institutions needed to catch up.",
        "政治机构需要加紧赶上了。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, he cultivated a reputation as an anti-Indian hardliner.",
        "相反，他却营造了一个反印强硬派的名声。"
    ],
    [
        "The question he must now ask himself is whether he wants to go down in history for denying Colombia the peace it deserves.",
        "现在，乌里维必须扪心自问，他是否想因为破坏哥伦比亚赢得的和平而成为历史罪人。"
    ],
    [
        "4. Metropolitan agriculture in a rapidly urbanizing world can provide high-quality produce on small amounts of land.",
        "4、在一个高速城市化的世界中，都市型农业能凭借少量的土地供应高质量的农产品。"
    ],
    [
        "So, in the political sphere, reason has trumped both faith in an unattainable goal and self-delusion about the consequences of its pursuit.",
        "因此在政治范畴内，理性既战胜了那种追求遥不可及目标的信念，也击败了那种为这一追求而放弃某些权利的自欺欺人之举。"
    ],
    [
        "Importantly, there is already broad agreement on a set of shared goals.",
        "世界各国在一系列共同目标上已经达成了广泛的协议，这一点非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems unlikely that immigration will alter the trend. In recent years, Europeans, like Japanese, have proven to be highly resistant to large-scale immigration, which is what would be required to offset demographic decline.",
        "本可以用来抵消人口下滑的移民措施似乎不太可能改变这一趋势，因为近年来欧洲人跟日本人一样对大规模移民进行了极力抵制。"
    ],
    [
        "A simple solution to that problem would be to relate the age at which full benefits are paid to each individual’s average lifetime earnings.",
        "对这一问题的一个简单解决办法是将全额退休福利领取年龄和个人的平均终身收入挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "As for al-Qaradawi, everyone, however bad, has the right to a legal defense, and their relationship was always that of a lawyer and his client.",
        "至于卡拉达维，无论多坏的人都有权接受法律辩护，况且他们之间的关系仅仅限于律师和客户。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short term, young companies should view ethics not as a marketing gimmick, but as a core concern.",
        "短期内，年轻公司应当将道德视为一种核心关注，而不只是一种营销噱头。"
    ],
    [
        "First, more information and transparency about complex assets and who is holding them are needed.",
        "首先，我们需要对复杂的资产以及是谁在持有它们有更多的了解和透明度。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Saudi subjects feel the same pattern of continuous uncertainty and torpor.",
        "许多沙特人感受到了同样的持续的不稳定和僵化模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Some aspiring leaders think that they must proclaim a vision that overawes their followers. In practice, however, a successful vision often arises from the needs of the group, which are then formulated and articulated by the leader.",
        "一些有抱负的领导人认为自己必须构建一个能够镇摄住其追随者的远景，但在实践中，我们发现一个成功的远景通常源自于集体的需要，领导人只是适时将其提炼出来并阐明清楚而已。"
    ],
    [
        "But, more than a decade after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, foreign banks’ share of the Chinese market stands at a miniscule 2% – a reflection of Chinese regulators’ failure to create a level playing field.",
        "但是，在加入世贸组织十多年后，外资银行占中国市场的份额只有 2% —— 这表明中国还需要改进准入、开放及公平竞争环境。"
    ],
    [
        "But thousands of others took part in the violence.",
        "但成千上万的人都参与了暴行。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments not only needed to help by providing a combination of public assistance and new legislation guaranteeing deposits, but also were called on to shield their constituencies from destabilizing international influences.",
        "各国政府为了缓解危机，不但要提供一系列公开援助，制定保障存款的新法律，还要帮助他们的选民抵御日渐不稳的国际影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Rabin won and returned, after 15 years, to the premiership.",
        "拉宾在时隔15年后再次赢得大选并成为总理。"
    ],
    [
        "During his election campaign, Modi once said that Hindus and Muslims could either fight each other or fight poverty.",
        "在选战期间，莫迪曾说印度教徒和穆斯林可以互斗，也可以共同与贫困搏斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Poland’s first post-communist finance minister, Leszek Balcerowicz, showed an amazed world how communism could be abolished and a market economy built almost instantly.",
        "波兰后共产主义时期的首任财政部长巴塞洛维茨（Leszek Balcerowicz）让世人大跌眼镜，他展示了如何在一夜之间抛弃共产主义并建立市场经济。"
    ],
    [
        "In the developed world, US President Barack Obama’s tenure will soon end.",
        "在发达世界，美国总统奥巴马的任期马上就要结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "These are significant gains for an economy that is still operating far below potential, remaining about 1.5 million jobs short of its pre-recession employment level.",
        "对于经济在远低于潜力的水平上运行、就业岗位数量仍比衰退前水平少150万个的美国来说，这算得上重大改进。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as technocrats assume that there is only one right solution to every policy challenge – hence political debate is not necessary – so, for populists, the people have one, and only one, uncorrupted will.",
        "这就像技术官僚认为政策挑战只有一种正确的解决方式，因此政治辩论根本就毫无必要。 因此在民粹主义者看来，民众有且只有一个纯洁的愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "But some economists supported a dissenting – and much more damning – verdict, one that focused on the failure of economics education.",
        "但一些经济学家支持异端——也更可怕——的解释，这个解释直指经济学教育的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Sakr appealed the decision from Somalia, where he was living.",
        "萨克尔在他的居住地索马里就该决定提起上诉。"
    ],
    [
        "In the current pilot project, Tianjin in China’s north and Shanghai in the south are competing against each other, prompting even more second-guessing.",
        "在目前这一试点中，天津与上海形成南北竞争的局面，越发引起人们的猜测。"
    ],
    [
        "Charles de Gaulle did not reveal his strategy for Algerian independence when he came to power in 1958, because he knew that doing so would doom it to failure.",
        "戴高乐在1958年掌权时也没有披露他的阿尔及利亚独立战略，因为他知道，这样做会让该计划失败。"
    ],
    [
        "They indicate that Greece’s turn away from the high spending of 2008-2013 is not to blame for today’s mass unemployment.",
        "它们表明，希腊2008—2013年间支出由盛转衰并非今天大面积失业的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1992, satellites orbiting the planet have measured the global sea level every 10 days with an amazing degree of accuracy – 3-4 millimeters (0.2 inches).",
        "从1992年以来，环绕地球飞行的卫星每隔10天就极为精确地测量全球海平面水平，其精确度达到三到四毫米（0. 2英寸）。"
    ],
    [
        "With technological progress and rising oil prices, most of these reserves will become conventional, helping to push back peak oil for years.",
        "随着技术进步和油价的提升，这些石油的开采都将变成常规操作，并将“石油峰值论”再向后推延数年。"
    ],
    [
        "AQAP is firmly rooted in this region as well, implying the possibility that local residents will seek its help in defending against an expected Houthi onslaught.",
        "AQAP也在该地区根基深厚，这意味着当地居民可能寻求AQAP的帮助以抵抗预料中的胡塞运动突击。"
    ],
    [
        "Free trade is not a liability for the US economy; it is a necessity.",
        "自由贸易不是美国经济的负债； 而是美国发展的必须。"
    ],
    [
        "In South Korea, for example, the share of income held by the top 10% rose from 29% in 1995 to 45% in 2013.",
        "比如，韩国顶层10%所得到的收入占比从1995年的29%升高到2013年的45%。"
    ],
    [
        "First, of course, you can have cards identifying your compliance behavior – e.g., not how many drugs you take, but how regularly you take them.",
        "你首先得有张会员卡来证明自己确实遵守了健康行为——比如说，重要的不是你吃了多少药，而是你是否定期吃药。"
    ],
    [
        "What is lacking is the strategic vision and determined action of the major political players.",
        "我们所欠缺的就是全球主要政治人物战略的眼光和坚决的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite a change of government in the Netherlands since voluntary euthanasia was legalized, no effort has been made to repeal the measure.",
        "自从自愿安乐死合法化以后，荷兰政府换届，但却没有取消自愿安乐死的任何努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States then let it be known that President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had been trying to convince German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble to offer debt relief to Greece, also without success.",
        "接着，美国透露其总统巴拉克和财政部长卢（Jack Lew）一直在试图说服德国总理默克尔和财政部长朔伊布勒（Wolfgang Schäuble）为希腊提供债务纾困，但也没有成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, delegating national monetary policies to a Europe-wide central bank was intended to solve precisely this problem.",
        "事实上，把国家货币政策委托给欧洲央行正是为了解决这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "I have lived in Europe all my life, mostly in Belgium, but never in Ireland, and I have never voted, despite the fact that the Maastricht treaty entitles me to vote both in European elections and in Belgium’s local elections.",
        "我终身生活在欧洲，多数时间都在比利时，但从没在爱尔兰生活过； 我也从未参与过投票，虽然《马斯特里赫特条约》规定我有权参加欧洲和比利时的国内选举。"
    ],
    [
        "No side can prevail and win outright, so there must be a negotiated settlement on the political arrangements that follow the conflict.",
        "没有哪方可以脱颖而出获得压倒性胜利，因此必须通过谈判和解形成冲突后的政治安排。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier that day, my father was in Kyiv, Ukraine, on military business.",
        "当天早些时候，我的父亲在乌克兰基辅参加军事活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Nation-building at home is not the isolation that critics fear; on the contrary, it is central to a smart foreign policy.",
        "在国内的国家建设并不是批评者所担忧的孤立主义； 相反，这是明智外交政策的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "European leaders seem to be moving in this direction.",
        "欧洲领导人似乎都在向这方面运作。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, internally focused initiatives– the digital single market is one clear example – have significant international impacts, while external events shape life in the EU.",
        "实际上，数字统一市场等着重于内部的计划产生了显著的国际影响，而外部事件也影响了欧盟的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Over one-third of adult women are anemic.",
        "1/3以上的成年妇女患有贫血。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps the most important criticism is a political one: in a world of challenged multilateralism, how would global ecological interventions be governed?",
        "但也许最重要的批评是政治上的：在多边主义饱受挑战的世界中，如何治理全球性生态干预？"
    ],
    [
        "But those who think that China’s mutant political authoritarianism and mighty economy can long prevail are guilty as well.",
        "但那些认为中国政治集权主义和强大经济能够长期持续的人同样也是帮凶。"
    ],
    [
        "The Still-Emerging Markets",
        "仍在兴起的市场"
    ],
    [
        "The security fostered by America’s unchallenged global power has been shown to be an illusion.",
        "由美国全球霸权所提供的保护伞将很快化为泡影。"
    ],
    [
        "But the returns that make US stock markets so attractive reflect a delicate political balance. In particular, tax rates that affect stocks have varied through time as political pressures change.",
        "但使美国股市如此诱人的投资回报却反映了微妙的政治平衡，特别是影响股票的税率随政治力量的改变而不断变化。"
    ],
    [
        "While it catalyzes a more generalized demand – the elderly plumber who works longer hours in the boom spends more on his stamp collection – it is not unreasonable to believe that much of debt-fueled demand is more focused.",
        "虽然它也会带动其他需求——房地产热使上年纪的管道工业务增加，让他可以花更多的钱去集邮——但说大部分举债维持的需求是较为集中的并无不妥。"
    ],
    [
        "Venezuela’s lack of market access means that it cannot roll over its obligations, except under conditions that worsen its solvency, as PDVSA is trying to do.",
        "委内瑞拉失去资本市场意味着除非像PDVSA那样以恶化偿付能力为代价，否则无法实现债务延期。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, for many reasons, does not.",
        "而美国处于多种原因可不是这样想。"
    ],
    [
        "So rising prices feed back into more rising prices, and the cycle repeats again and again – for a while.",
        "所以，人们对股票价格上涨的反应反过来又会引起股票价格的进一步上涨，而且这个周期在一段时间里反复发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Upholding America’s core principles is not just the right thing to do; it is smart strategy.",
        "坚持美国的核心原则不仅是正确的原则； 也是明智的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "After the rise of an Albanian insurgency, the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), Milosevic launched a violent, all-out campaign to expel Kosovo’s Albanians.",
        "在阿尔巴尼亚叛军科索沃解放军（UCK）成立之后，米洛舍维奇发起了一场暴力行动，全力驱赶科索沃的阿尔巴尼亚人。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, such a convention will not prevent all future acts of terrorism.",
        "当然，这样一个公约并不能防范将来所有的恐怖主义行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Having overthrown Hosni Mubarak’s iron-fisted 30-year-old regime in a remarkably quick and relatively peaceful manner, Egypt’s revolutionary masses were to leave the streets and pursue an all-out drive for economic prosperity and social justice.",
        "在以相对和平的方式迅雷不及掩耳地推翻穆巴拉克30年铁腕政权后，埃及的革命群众理应离开街道，全力建设经济繁荣和社会正义。"
    ],
    [
        "Providing tools and opportunities that support the evolution of their respective roles is essential to creating a labor force capable of adapting to changing circumstances.",
        "提供支持教师和学生角色演化的工具和机会对于打造能够适应环境变化的劳动力大军来说至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The most effective solution would be to issue jointly and separately guaranteed eurobonds to refinance, say, 75% of the maturing debt, as long as Greece meets its agreed-upon targets, leaving Greece to finance the rest of its needs as best it can.",
        "最为有效的解决手段就是联合地及单独地发放欧洲债券，比方说， 75% 的到期债务，只要希腊达到设定的目标，它就可以自行融资剩余部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone who spends nine minutes watching the video presentation of the Arc will see that its potential is nothing short of breathtaking.",
        "只要花9分钟观看弧形发展区的视频演示，就可以看到这里的发展潜力是多么令人惊叹。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet when central banks’ balance sheets finally start to shrink, asset-dependent economies will once again be in peril.",
        "等到央行终于开始收缩其资产负债表时，那些依赖资产的经济体就将再次陷入危机。"
    ],
    [
        "To minimize uncertainty, institutional reforms are needed.",
        "要最小化不确定性，制度改革必不可少。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, Greece’s geopolitical position would be weakened, its economy would sink further into recession, and social tensions would rise.",
        "在这种情况下，希腊的地缘政治地位将被削弱，其经济将进一步陷入衰退，社会矛盾将会上升。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, everything becomes brighter.",
        "相反，这样能使所有东西都变得更亮。"
    ],
    [
        "My plan this year is to show the world that the planning, policies, and systems are in place months before the start of the school year – ready to be scaled up if the financing can be provided.",
        "今年，我的计划是向全世界表明，计划、政策和体系在学年开始前几个月便已就绪——只要能获得融资，随时准备扩大规模。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is more important to give adequate financial support to Ukraine than to impose new sanctions on Russia.",
        "如今，给予乌克兰足够的金融支持比向俄罗斯施加新制裁措施更加重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that the US has “cleared the air” with the Saudis, the real work must begin.",
        "如今，美国已经与沙特“澄清了气氛”，真正的工作必须开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Thaler and Sunstein also believe that donating organs is a good thing.",
        "萨勒和桑斯坦也认为捐献器官是个好事情。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these factors played a part.",
        "但事实上，以上所有因素其实都发挥了一定作用。"
    ],
    [
        "This bodes ill for improved relations with Iran in the short run, and makes it imperative that Western powers unite to make it unambiguously clear that any use of nuclear weapons or materials by Iran or terror groups aligned with Iran will result in an immediate and devastating response.",
        "这就预示着短期内与伊朗改善关系的可行性不大，并且使得西方国家联合起来采取行动变得势在必行。 西方应该明确无误地告诫伊朗及与其有关的恐怖集团任何，使用核武器或核材料的行动都将立即招致毁灭性的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the difficult climate negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009, we understand why some European leaders may be lowering expectations for the Paris talks.",
        "2009年哥本哈根气候谈判艰难无比，这我们理解了为何一些欧洲领导人降低了巴黎谈判的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "The court likened doing so to “opening a Pandora’s box, with all the seemingly discriminative customs from our 120 tribes” vulnerable to legal challenge.",
        "法院将此比作“打开潘多拉的盒子，导致120个部落所有看似具有歧视性的惯例”都有可能面临法律的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "If re-elected, the Bush doctrine of preemptive action - and the invasion of Iraq - will be endorsed, and the world will have to live with the consequences.",
        "如果再次当选，布什的霸权信条－和侵略伊拉克的行径－将会得到承认，而全世界都不得不为此付出惨重代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, there is the problem of limited resources for international peacekeeping operations in Africa – always with disastrous results.",
        "最后还有国际维和行动在非洲资源紧缺的问题 —— 这一问题常常会带来灾难性的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, mainstream media are being marginalized, and the previously marginalized media are becoming mainstream.",
        "结果是，主流媒体被边缘化，而以前处于边缘地位的媒体成为了主要媒体。"
    ],
    [
        "Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing is a problem that can be solved through leadership, action, and international cooperation.",
        "非法、不报告和不受监管的捕捞是一个可以通过领导力、行动和国际合作解决的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Ecosystems and other species were also hit.",
        "生态系统和其他物种也遭到破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "But Japan would close the 30% gap (adjusted for purchasing power parity) between its per capita GDP and that of the US.",
        "但日本能够弥补其与美国接近30%的人均GDP差距（以购买力平价衡量）。"
    ],
    [
        "He failed, because he believed that even a fake gun would work if it looked scary enough.",
        "他失败了，因为他认为只要气势汹汹，就算是假枪也能奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, many Asian countries have achieved impressive export-led growth under the current system.",
        "毕竟，在现有体制下许多亚洲国家已经实现了不错的出口主导的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "As clean-tech businesses continue to scale up, there will be additional opportunities to improve.",
        "随着清洁技术企业继续壮大，将会有更多的改善机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the GMO classification has encouraged unscientific regulatory approaches that are not commensurate with the level of risk, and that, by discriminating against modern molecular genetic-engineering techniques, inhibit agricultural innovation that could reduce strain on the natural environment and enhance global food security.",
        "此外，给转基因分类还鼓励了不科学的监管方针——既不能让监管和风险水平相协调，还会因为歧视现代转基因技术而阻碍可以减轻自然环境负担、提高全球粮食安全的农业创新。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea’s Budding Femocracy",
        "女性民主在韩国萌芽"
    ],
    [
        "In recent decades, only a few economies – notably, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore – have managed to escape the so-called “middle-income trap” and continue to increase their prosperity.",
        "近几十年来，只有少数经济体——特别是韩国、中国台湾和新加坡——成功地摆脱了所谓的“中等收入陷阱”，实现了持续繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Driven by this new momentum, growth will finally reach the long-elusive 4% rate next year.",
        "受新动力推动，增长最终会在明年达到久违的4%水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation is not insoluble, but it will require extraordinary skill and perseverance to bring it under control..",
        "第三是卡尔扎伊政府失去了合法性和民众支持。 局势并非无法解决，但是这要求有极高的技巧和耐性来控制局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Given India’s growth rates, who would seriously question their decision?",
        "而考虑到印度的经济增长率，试问谁又有什么理由来质疑他们的决定呢？"
    ],
    [
        "With the debate on the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals starting at last month’s UN General Assembly, an oblique reference to “ensuring access to services” can be fully explored.",
        "上个月的联合国大会启动了2015年后可持续发展目标（Sustainable Development Goals）的讨论，可以充分利用其中的“确保获得服务”分议题。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Zimbabwe’s trade balance with China is far superior to Kenya’s.",
        "此外，津巴布韦与中国的贸易平衡远优于肯尼亚。"
    ],
    [
        "The Spanish and Portuguese ravaged Latin America.",
        "西班牙和葡萄牙对拉丁美洲极尽掠夺之能事。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eurozone, most government debt is held by private banks.",
        "在欧元区，大多数政府债务都由私人银行持有。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Dangerous Anti-Iran Posturing",
        "危险的美国反伊朗姿态"
    ],
    [
        "And this process has been strengthened enormously with the development of DNA identification.",
        "而且这一程序由于DNA鉴定的发展而大为增强。"
    ],
    [
        "The high-growth developing countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and others in the G-20 – now include more than half the world’s population.",
        "快速增长的发展中国家——巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和其它二十国集团成员——现在已经囊括了超过世界半数的人口。"
    ],
    [
        "If interest rates rise too far, then the collapse in housing values will lead to large-scale foreclosures and a collapse in consumption spending as well.",
        "如果利率过度提高，那么房产价值的崩溃将导致大规模的抵押赎取权丧失和消费支出的崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from lessons that Japan must learn from its momentous decision, is there something to be learned by the United States as well?",
        "除了日本要从这一重大决定中吸取教训之外，美国有没有经验教训要总结呢？"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the 44 countries in attendance, and the 188 that now belong to the IMF, agreed to “consult and agree on international monetary changes which affect each other… and they should assist each other to overcome short-term exchange difficulties.”",
        "正因如此，当时与会的44国以及如今加入IMF的188国都同意要“就影响彼此的国际货币变化进行磋商和取得一致……并且各国应该胡夏昂帮助以克服短期汇兑困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Rico is not Greece; successive governors of the island have introduced budgets they thought were balanced, only to find that inadequate growth led to lower revenues and higher expenditures than had been projected.",
        "波多黎各不是希腊，历届岛上政府都推介他们认为是平衡的预算，却发现增长不足导致较低的收入和支出高于预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who believe this are unfazed by the corruption and waste that characterizes much private-sector spending.",
        "持这种观点的人对于私人部门支出的腐败和浪费视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "In choosing the default option, the government or the employer nudges all employees into prevailing fads such as “buy equity for the long run.”",
        "通过选择默认选项，政府或雇主助推了所有雇员选择流行的时尚，比如“以长期视角买入股票”之类。"
    ],
    [
        "This would make a huge difference, especially when coordinated with aid packages that are delivered to border crossings.",
        "这会造成极大的不同，特别是在与越境方面的援助计划相结合的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Reigning in Russia’s illiberal “liberal empire” is the central question of European security today.",
        "如何应对俄罗斯粗暴的“自由帝国”是当今欧洲安全所要面对的中心问题。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that these attitudes may have led to a political system in which small and medium-size firms find it difficult to flourish, they may have contributed to France’s problems.",
        "只要这些态度可能导致一种使得中小企业难以繁荣发展的政治制度，它们就可能导致法国的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Juppé was seen as a sufficiently “soft” candidate, who would provide an alternative to Le Pen for left-wing voters.",
        "朱佩被外界认为是足够“温和”的候选人，从而在左翼选民内部提供了勒庞的替代者。"
    ],
    [
        "There are two sorts of things that friends and allies can and should do to prepare for the worst.",
        "友邦和盟国可以且应当做好两类最坏的打算。"
    ],
    [
        "For those who are unsettled by the widespread change of the past few decades, national identities have become increasingly appealing as a way to offset often-unpredictable globalization.",
        "对那些因为过去数十年的全面变化而深感不安的人来说，民族身份已经变成一种对抗往往不可预测的全球化趋势的越来越有吸引力的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Perestroika took place at a unique moment in Russian history.",
        "重组改革发生在俄国历史上的特殊时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "But while “fake news” is a useful label for a very real problem, it does not tell us if we are in fact living in a “post-truth” world; and, if so, whom we should hold responsible.",
        "但尽管“假新闻”是一个非常真的问题的有用的标签，它并没有告诉我们，我们是否真的生活在一个“后真相”（post-truth）的世界中； 以及，如果答案是肯定的话，我们中谁必须为此负责。"
    ],
    [
        "That office has now issued a comprehensive critique of the Fund’s role in Europe’s post-2008 crisis.",
        "而最近该办公室就针对基金在欧洲2008年危机后这段时间所起到的作用发布了一份全面批评报告。"
    ],
    [
        "Constraining American policy may, therefore, be one of the motivations behind Israel’s incursion into Gaza.",
        "因此，制约美国政策可能是以色列入侵加沙的动机之一。"
    ],
    [
        "A few months later, he was arrested and died in prison.",
        "几个月后，他被捕并死在狱中。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, the Obama administration should endorse India’s quest for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.",
        "有基于此，奥巴马政府应该支持印度获得联合国安理会常任理事国席位。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s particular economic circumstances provide a second reason for establishing a National Investment Bank.",
        "今天特殊的经济环境为成立国家投资银行提供了第二个理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Annual investment in equipment increased by 7.7% in 2006, while overall investment, including construction, was up by 5%.",
        "2006年对机器产业的年度投资增长了7. 7％，而包括建筑业在内的总投资上升了5%。"
    ],
    [
        "George Kennan, one of the greatest American diplomats of the post-war years, once wrote that the Western world was committing its biggest mistake in 50 years time by expanding NATO after Soviet communism collapsed.",
        "作为二战后最伟大的美国外交官之一的乔治·凯南曾经写道,西方社会在50年来犯得最大的一个错误就是，在前苏联共产政权倒台之后，北约还继续东扩。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, a major barrier to incorporating ESG criteria into investment decisions remains: many investors – including 54% of the respondents in the Morgan Stanley survey – believe that doing so could lower the financial rate of return.",
        "平心而论，阻挠将ESG标准纳入投资决策的一个主要障碍仍然存在：许多投资者——包括摩根士丹利调查的54%的受访者——认为这样做可能降低财务回报率。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers often view nomadic pastoralism as an archaic and unproductive way of life, with little economic benefit.",
        "决策者常常将游牧视为过时的、不利于生产的生活方式，无法产生经济效益。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU already accounts for almost 20% of US imports, and the US for 11% of EU imports.",
        "而且欧盟占了美国进口量的20%，美国则占欧盟进口量的11%。"
    ],
    [
        "If you want us to stay, you need to address the grievances that have caused a majority of us to want to leave.",
        "如果想让我们留下，你们就必须消除使我们多数人想要离开的不满情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone on the square and everyone watching on national TV saw clearly.",
        "亲临广场和收看电视转播的每一个人都看得清清楚楚。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the least developed countries attract less than 3% of north-south investments, these flows account for more than 3% of their GDP, a level higher than the average for developing countries.",
        "尽管最不发达国家吸引的投资还不到北南投资总数的3%，但这些投资在其国内生产总值中所占的比例却达到了3%以上，高于发展中国家的平均水平。"
    ],
    [
        "As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s corrupt and authoritarian rule demonstrates every day, that transition is far from finished.",
        "俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京的腐败和专制统治每一天都告诉人们，从专制向民主的过渡还远没有结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The total number of deaths that Snyder attributes to Stalin is lower than the commonly cited figure of 20 million, which was estimated before historians had access to the Soviet archives.",
        "斯奈德所认为的因斯大林而死的总人数低于通常所引用的数字（2000万，该数字为历史学家在无法获得苏联档案的情况下估算的）。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise of protectionism and anti-immigrant sentiment in Britain, America, and Europe is widely believed to reflect stagnant incomes, widening inequality, structural unemployment, and even excessive monetary easing.",
        "人们广泛认为，英国、美国和欧洲保护主义和反移民情绪的崛起反映了收入停滞、不平等性加剧、结构性就业和过度的货币宽松。"
    ],
    [
        "As a share of GDP, the US is spending less than half of what it did at the peak of the Cold War, when the century of American leadership was being consolidated.",
        "按占GDP的比例衡量，美国的支出还不到冷战顶峰、美国领导的世纪得到巩固时期的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Putin is expected to win a fourth term in office easily.",
        "可以肯定，普京能够轻松赢得第四次总统任期。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – The ongoing economic crisis and the persistent deficits of the United States have increasingly called into question the dollar’s role as the world’s anchor currency.",
        "新德里——没完没了的危机和美国赤字正在日渐威胁美元世界锚货币的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "We urge our international partners to support our economic recovery in the same spirit of cooperation, and with the same sense of urgency, that helped us fight the Ebola virus.",
        "我们敦促我们的国际伙伴以与帮助我们对抗埃博拉病毒同样的合作精神、同样的紧迫感支持我们的经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the losers remain worse off, why should they support globalization and pro-market policies?",
        "但如果输家每况愈下，为什么他们还要支持全球化和亲市场政策？"
    ],
    [
        "As an experienced statesman once told me, “At the UN, we do not settle for failure, nor do we expect success.”",
        "正如一位经验丰富的政治家曾经告诉我的，“在联合国，我们不会满足于失败，也不会期待成功。"
    ],
    [
        "It reflects Kazakhstan’s appreciation of the liberal world order into which it was born in 1991 – an order that, at that time, had just received a major boost, with the Soviet Union’s collapse.",
        "这体现出哈萨克斯坦对让它得以在1991年诞生的自由世界秩序的感激之情——当时，这一秩序因为苏联解体而大大增强。"
    ],
    [
        "They must hope for the best but prepare for the worst.",
        "他们必须怀着最好的希望，但同时也要做好最坏的打算。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s opposition leaders do not need to sweep their political differences under the rug in order to gain the international community’s support.",
        "叙利亚反对派领导人不需要为了赢得国际社会支持而关门他们之间的解决政治分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Although we will need more such informal learning environments in the future, politicians and the public have hardly noticed.",
        "虽然我们将来会需要更多这一类的非正式学习环境，但政客和公众似乎都还没有意识到。"
    ],
    [
        "Historical context is crucial to assessing the Dokdo issue.",
        "在评估独岛问题上，历史是关键。"
    ],
    [
        "As the current Chair of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, Bangladesh is committed to ensuring that the lessons learned inform the global compact.",
        "作为现任移民与发展全球论坛主席国，孟加拉致力于确保已有的教训可以在全球协议中得到体现。"
    ],
    [
        "The existing world order – created by the US itself – was first devalued in American eyes, then weakened, and finally consciously attacked.",
        "由美国本身所创建的现有的国际秩序在美国人的眼中开始被贬低， 然后是被弱化，最后是被有意识地攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "But unless we recognize the real reasons that we continue to be battered by crises, we will be doomed to continue muddling through until there is no EU left.",
        "但除非我们认识到连续遭遇危机重创的真正原因，我们将注定继续得过且过，直到欧盟不复存在。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1970s, for example, Czechoslovakia, like other Communist states, was a dreary, oppressive, joyless place, where mediocre party hacks set the tone, and creativity was stifled under a blanket of enforced conformism.",
        "比如，20世纪70年代，和其他共产主义国家一样，捷克斯洛伐克是一个沉闷、压抑、毫无乐趣可言的地方，平庸的党的御用文人决定着基调，创造力被强制的因循守旧所压制。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinian rivals, both from his own Fatah party and from the Islamists of Hamas, as well as the Israelis, perceived Abbas’s civility as weakness.",
        "他的巴勒斯坦对手，既来自他自己的法塔赫党，也有来自伊斯兰主义的哈马斯，以及以色列人都将他的文人作风视为软弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is the Pakistani army, the country’s “super political party.” To a large degree, Pakistan’s relations with India, Afghanistan, and the United States depend on the military.",
        "另外还要注意的则是巴基斯坦军方这个“超级政党”，因为巴基斯坦与印度、阿富汗以及美国这三国的关系在很大程度上是建立在军事合作之上的。"
    ],
    [
        "And the world’s only military superpower is often seen within China as trigger-happy when intervening in other countries’ internal affairs.",
        "同时在中国人眼中这个全球唯一的军事强权极端好战，整天忙于干涉他国内政。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, they have moved into riskier credit instruments, resulting in a compression of corporate-bond spreads.",
        "首先，他们进入了风险更高的信用工具市场，导致公司债券利差缩小。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s asylum policy has broken down.",
        "欧盟的庇护政策已经陷入瘫痪。"
    ],
    [
        "Diplomatic incidents often had to do with the relative status of kings and queens.",
        "外交事件往往牵涉到国王和王后的相对地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain knows that the euro’s survival requires much closer political integration, and also that London’s role as a financial center – as important for the UK as the nuclear industry is for France and the auto industry is for Germany – would be greatly damaged if the euro should fail.",
        "英国知道，欧元的生存需要更紧密的政治一体化，也知道作为金融中心的伦敦之于英国就像核工业之于法国、汽车工业之于德国，若是欧元崩溃，将受到严重损害。"
    ],
    [
        "Murdoch’s newspapers and television networks might as well have patented the recipe for the deceitful, dog-whistle politics that powered Trump’s rise and the Brexit vote.",
        "默多克的报纸和电视网络让欺骗的狗哨政治（dog-whistle politics）大行其道，特朗普的崛起和英国退欧投票结果都要拜其所赐。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor economists focus not only on how trade unions can distort markets, but also how, under certain conditions, they can enhance productivity.",
        "劳动经济学家不仅知道工会对市场的危害，同样也知道，在某种程度下，工会对提高生产力也有一定的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Because we know how to prevent it, we are obliged to act.",
        "我们知道如何预防它，因此我们有义务行动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there will be many powerful losers as we make these changes.",
        "当然，在我们做出这些转变的时候将会有许多实力不俗的落伍者。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, all online P2P lending platforms, regardless of the scope of their business, should be required to register with regulators.",
        "比如，所有在线P2P贷款平台，不论其业务范围如何，都应该要求在监管机构注册。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s resolve to stand with Germany helped prevent Germany from drifting into a dangerous neutrality that would have shaken the European community to its core.",
        "法国下定决心与德国站在一起防止了德国滑向危险的中立境地，如果德国真这么做，将会动摇欧洲共同体的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s military operation saved its imperiled ally, Assad, from defeat and secured its airbase in Latakia and its naval presence there and in Tartus. These strongholds will allow him to challenge US and NATO control in the eastern Mediterranean.",
        "俄罗斯的军事行动令其危在旦夕的盟友阿萨德免于溃败，保障了前者在拉塔基亚的海空军基地以及塔尔图斯的海军基地，并利用些据点继续破坏美国和北约对地中海东部地区的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "He began his term by paying homage to Deng Xiaoping at his statue in Shenzhen, where, more than three decades ago, the former Communist Party leader had launched the campaign to convert a reluctant Party to free-market reforms.",
        "一上任他就前往深圳朝邓小平雕像致意，三十年前，作为前中共领导人的邓小平在深圳拉开了改革的序幕，让顽固的中共接受了自由市场。"
    ],
    [
        "But competitive pressures and the long gestation period of fixed-capital outlays multiply optimism, leading to more investment being undertaken than is actually profitable.",
        "但是竞争性压力和长期固定资产开支孕育过度放大了人们的乐观，导致更多的投资，超过世纪营利所需。"
    ],
    [
        "Correcting for housework would inflate GDP, while making no real difference to living standards.",
        "针对家务劳动的价值矫正会令 GDP 膨胀，却不会对生活标准产生切实的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But at the very least national identities in Europe are no longer quite so colored by memories of war.",
        "但是至少欧洲的民族身份不再被附加上如此鲜明的战争记忆的色彩。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its strong scientific tradition, figures for Central Europe are even worse, and the cost of EU integration is likely to further shift priorities away from science and education.",
        "尽管有着深厚的科研传统，这一数字在中欧则更为严峻。 欧盟一体化的成本还可能会进一步将发展重点从科学和教育方面转移开去。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone should.",
        "每个人都应该如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But Chen’s behavior did not help.",
        "但是陈的行为并没有对此有所帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Their labor markets will become stronger, with job creation accompanied by wage recovery.",
        "它们的劳动力市场将更加强劲，工资复苏伴随就业创造。"
    ],
    [
        "While Greece has reached the heights of corporatism, Italy and France are not far behind – and not far behind them is Germany.",
        "希腊已经达到了社团主义的最高峰，意大利和法国也没有落后多少——而德国就在他们身后不远处。"
    ],
    [
        "With the earlier pillars having collapsed, the emergence of a new one would bring about a situation where an increasingly integrated majority would be negotiating with a minority, thus perpetuating its isolation in the process.",
        "在早前的支柱已经坍塌的情况下，新支柱的出现会带来一种新的情况：日益一体化的多数派会与少数派进行谈判，而又在这一进程中保持孤立。"
    ],
    [
        "The timing was highly significant: Merkel goes to China, the emerging global power, after declaring her own commitment to strengthening the eurozone, if not the EU as a whole, as a credible pole of an emerging multipolar world.",
        "这样的时间安排意义重大：她宣布将担起巩固欧元区（如果不是欧盟的话）作为新兴多极世界一大可信极点的地位，随后便将访问新兴全球大国中国。"
    ],
    [
        "The Disuniting Kingdom?",
        "联合王国在解体吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The results so far have been mixed, as inadequate funding of a social safety net continues to temper the support to household incomes provided by services-driven job creation and urbanization-led increases in real wages.",
        "到目前为止，这一战略成果不显著，社会安全网资金不足继续制约着服务驱动的就业创造和城市化拉动的真实工资增长给家庭收入带来的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The “end of history” had been achieved, and elections, representative institutions, and the rule of law would, it seemed, always go neatly together.",
        "“历史的终结”已经实现，选举、代议机构和法治看起来将永远齐头并进。"
    ],
    [
        "How sick is Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua?",
        "尼日利亚总统奥马鲁拉·杜瓦病得有多严重？"
    ],
    [
        "Fully 90.6% of US families in the highest decile of the income distribution owned stocks – double the 45% ownership share of the other 90%.",
        "在这收入最高的10%的美国家庭中有90. 6%持有有股票——而其他90%的家庭中只有45%持有股票。"
    ],
    [
        "Bucking the global trend of increasing inequality, Namibia’s Gini coefficient (the standard measure of inequality in an income distribution) has fallen by some 15 points since 1993 (admittedly from one of the highest levels in the world).",
        "逆全球不平等性加剧的潮流，纳米比亚基尼系数（衡量收入分配不平等程度的标准手段）自1993年以来下降了15点（不过是从全世界最高之一的水平上降下来的）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the two countries share similar interests in reshaping global economic governance, particularly by further strengthening cooperation among the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and ensuring that climate change is addressed in a way that does not impede growth.",
        "此外，两国在变革经济治理，特别是进一步深化金砖国家（巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非）之间的合作、确保气候变化能在不影响增长的前提下得到解决等方面也具有相近的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In Spain, for example, wages have risen too fast, and productivity has lagged.",
        "比如在西班牙，工资一再飙升，生产力却停滞不前。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not as if they change interest rates all of the time. Nor have they developed new, more robust models for analyzing the economy.",
        "这可不是因为他们一直在改变利率，也并非由于他们研究出了更有效的新经济分析模式。"
    ],
    [
        "But central banks’ successes fueled excessively high expectations, which encouraged most policymakers to leave their monetary counterparts largely responsible for macroeconomic management.",
        "但中央银行的成功也催生了过高的期望，这促使大多数政策制定者放手让货币部门去承担起宏观经济管理的主要责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin may not have ordered the hit on Nemtsov or any of the others.",
        "普京也许没有下令除掉涅姆佐夫和其他所有人。"
    ],
    [
        "Genetics for the People?",
        "为了人民的遗传学？"
    ],
    [
        "The court was approved under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter and will be situated in Holland.",
        "这一法庭是根据联合国宪章第八章批准建立的，将会设在荷兰海牙。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, the price will reflect the costs that an efficient supplier must recoup in producing the last barrel of oil required to meet global demand.",
        "简言之，价格将反映有效供给者在生产最后一桶石油以满足全球需求时所需要覆盖的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Burning natural gas to heat oily dirt releases large amounts of carbon dioxide, exacerbating global warming.",
        "燃烧天然气加热油砂释放出大量二氧化碳，导致全球变暖进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, America’s definitions of its role in the world may change.",
        "当然，美国对自身全球作用的定义或许会发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "If not, policymakers will eventually face an ugly tradeoff: kill the recovery to avoid risky bubbles, or go for growth at the risk of fueling the next financial crisis.",
        "如果答案为否，政策制定者最终将面临一个艰难的决定：要不扼杀复苏，避免危险的泡沫，要不在酝酿下一次金融危机的风险中继续增长。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s what North Korea did when Bush, upon taking office, essentially tore up the “agreed framework” with that country.",
        "这正是小布什上任后后撕毁与朝鲜的“协议框架”后与所发生的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when it comes to morphology, personality, and life-history traits – such as age at sexual maturity and fertility – related individuals’ likeness often has a genetic basis.",
        "即使牵涉到形态、个性和性成熟及生殖力等各项生活史特征，相关的个体相似度往往可以找到遗传原因。"
    ],
    [
        "At the heart of this process is the even touchier issue of whether the people who will take charge of the EU’s main institutions should be strong leaders.",
        "这一过程的核心是一个更为敏感的问题，也就是负责欧盟主要机构的人士是否应该是强势领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, Algeria’s Africa-wide influence may be set to grow.",
        "目前，阿尔及利亚的非洲影响力提高已成定局。"
    ],
    [
        "Martin Sandbu of the Financial Times has been a strong proponent of the view that a workable monetary and financial union does not require fiscal integration.",
        "《金融时报》的马丁·桑德卜（Martin Sandbu）强烈支持这一观点：可行的货币和金融联盟并不要求财政一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "Military force – so often used in the past to unite diverse nations under a single political umbrella – is out of the question.",
        "军事力量自不待言——过去往往靠它把多元化的诸国统一在一个政治框架下。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign policy .",
        "外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "And Britain was always reluctant to do anything that might compete with NATO.",
        "而且英国一向不愿意与北约产生任何竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "If it were generally accepted, it would imply that the EU now holds official moral doctrines, and that allegiance to these doctrines is required in order to exercise the full right of citizens to serve in a public capacity.",
        "万一它被普遍接受，那就将暗示着，只有拥护欧盟目前持有的官方道德准条，才能全权行使公民权利，获得公共权力。"
    ],
    [
        "If this were correct, the United States was right to wage war on Iraq on the basis of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s regime.",
        "如果这是正确的话，基于萨达姆•侯赛因构成的威胁，美国对伊拉克发动战争就是正确的了。"
    ],
    [
        "The atmosphere was certainly favorable.",
        "那里的氛围当然是有利的。"
    ],
    [
        "Last May, Higgins told economics students at the University of Chicago that they were studying a deformed discipline, torn from its ethical and philosophical roots.",
        "去年5月，希金斯对芝加哥大学经济学专业的学生们说，他们学习的是一门畸形的学科，从伦理和哲学的基础上就是被扭曲的。"
    ],
    [
        "To see the impact beyond America on GDP, consumer prices, exchange rates, and interest rates, we then apply the scenarios to a total of 36 emerging and advanced economies that together account for 90% of global output.",
        "为了研究对美国之外地区GDP、消费者指数，汇率和利率的影响，我们将这两大情境应用在占全球产出90%的36个新性和发达国家身上。"
    ],
    [
        "If it is to survive, its management will need to streamline its loan approval processes and leverage the unique assets that distinguish it from its competitors.",
        "要想生存，世界银行管理层必须优化其贷款批准程序，并利用好使其与竞争者区别开来的独特资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Some areas, such as travel, are even more complex.",
        "旅游等某些领域甚至更为复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "For many politicians, particularly in America, there is an unwillingness to upset Turkey without strong justification, given its record as a loyal NATO ally and putative EU candidate country.",
        "考虑到土耳其一直是一个忠实的北约同盟国以及公认的欧盟候选国，许多政治家，尤其是美国的政治家，不愿意在没有可靠证据的情况下困扰土耳其。"
    ],
    [
        "Most people who couldn’t possibly afford such a vacation home probably don’t miss it.",
        "大多数买不起度假住宅的人并没有这样的愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "But financial markets, even when agitated, are not blind.",
        "但金融市场充其量只是焦虑，绝不是失去理智。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, China has tried to persuade North Korea to follow its market-oriented example.",
        "结果，中国试图说服朝鲜效仿其市场经济榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, tropical rainforests play a crucial function in maintaining stable weather and rainfall, acting as a “pump” that helps moisture travel between different regions.",
        "比如，热带雨林在保持稳定天气和降雨方面起着关键作用，起着帮助不同地区间的水传播的“泵”的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Give people the incentives to plan for their future, ownership-society advocates argue, and they will.",
        "产权社会拥护者主张，要奖励人们去计划其未来，并且他们会这么做。"
    ],
    [
        "Teachers and nurses often do not show up for work, but that does not mean that performance would improve much if they did.",
        "教师和护士常常不在工作中露面，但这并不意味着如果他们出工绩效就能得到改善。"
    ],
    [
        "These ancestral homelands exercised a hold on Turkish imaginations, but today it is business opportunities, energy resources, and other practical matters rather than ethnic unity that are creating a loose Turkic “commonwealth.”",
        "这些古老的国家对土耳其的想象持保留态度，但是现在商业机会、能源和其他实际问题而不是民族团结创造了一个松散的土耳其“联邦”。"
    ],
    [
        "But one possible reading of Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential election is that voters these days care less about responsibility than “authenticity.”",
        "但对唐纳德·特朗普赢得美国总统竞选的一个可能的解读是如今选民更多地关注“真性情”而不是“勇于担当”。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, trained economists view their discipline as having already achieved this scientific standard.",
        "与此形成对比的是，受过正规训练的经济学家人们却认为他们的学科已经达到了这个科学水准。"
    ],
    [
        "A bridge to nowhere can go only so far before it collapses.",
        "“无路之桥”（bridge to nowhere）最后只能倒塌。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal would not be to rescue banks and their creditors, but to minimize the disruption that an uncontrolled default might cause.",
        "推行此举的目的不是要拯救银行及其债权人，而是要将一个失去控制的违约所造成的破坏降到最低。"
    ],
    [
        "With so much being written about Putin’s Russia, the rest of the country is often overlooked.",
        "由于对有关普京领导下的俄罗斯的描述泛滥，该国的其他方面往往被忽略。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump does not just want to avoid repeating the failed policies of the past, as he puts it.",
        "特朗普不仅仅如他所言，想要避免重蹈过去的失败政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Income inequality is correlated with inequalities in health, access to education, and exposure to environmental hazards, all of which burden children more than other segments of the population.",
        "收入不平等与健康不平等、教育不平等和环境危险不平等都具有相关性，而所有这些对儿童的影响比其他人群更大。"
    ],
    [
        "But primary-product prices remain much more volatile than the prices of manufactured goods and services, causing large fluctuations in producers’ incomes.",
        "但初级商品的价格依然比制成品和服务价格更加反复无常，导致生产者收入的极大波动。"
    ],
    [
        "The poorly attended emergency meeting of European foreign ministers following the US election is a stark reminder of just how far Europe has to go to fill the gaping hole that Trump’s abdication of America’s global responsibilities would create.",
        "美国大选后参与积极性不高的欧洲外长紧急会议明确地提醒人们，欧洲需要付出多少努力才能填补特郎普放弃美国全球责任所造成的真空。"
    ],
    [
        "The foreign minister of the Philippines, which is also currently engaged in a heated territorial conflict with China, called on Japan to rearm itself to balance China militarily, notwithstanding his country’s bitter legacy of Japanese occupation.",
        "目前也正和中国发生激烈领土冲突的菲律宾外长不顾本国曾在日本占领中所受的痛苦，要求日本重新武装以维持对华的军事平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "If Deng Xiaoping were alive, he would be deeply concerned.",
        "如果邓小平在世，估计会对此忧虑不已。"
    ],
    [
        "For these countries, it matters whether history suggests that there is a strong threshold effect once public debt exceeds 90% of GDP.",
        "对这些国家来说，一国的公共债务一旦超过GDP的90%这个值会不会有强烈的“门槛效应”这点很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But they cannot be used in the other transactions in which central banks and governments engage.",
        "但在各国中央银行和政府之间，它并不能进行划转。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is perhaps a deal to be done with the Chinese on investing their reserves and with Western multinationals on the tax treatment of repatriated profits.",
        "但或许可以和中国谈谈如何利用其外汇储备进行投资，并和西方跨国公司商讨回流利润的税务问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The first, following the collapse of the USSR, was almost cataclysmic – nothing in the shops, the country in bankruptcy, all savings lost.",
        "第一场危机，是苏联倒台后的几乎一贫如洗——商店里什么东西都没有，国家破产了，人们所有的积蓄都没有了。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, net savings in developing economies are increasing, and low yields in developed economies are providing an incentive for investors to channel more resources to productive investment in these countries.",
        "与此同时，发展中国家的净储蓄在增加，而发达经济体的低收益率正在促使投资者寻找更多投资这些国家生产性项目的渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, for many nowadays, helping the Syrian rebels is too risky, and might even jeopardize the Middle East’s Christian minorities.",
        "的确，在当今许多人眼中帮助叙利亚反对派的风险太大了，甚至可能令中东地区的基督教少数派遭殃。"
    ],
    [
        "Reducing dependence on external demand – for example, by promoting private-sector investment and encouraging household expenditure – is crucial.",
        "降低对外部需求的依赖——比如，通过刺激私人部门投资和鼓励家庭支出——是一大关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, however, citizens of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia – the region's four ex-communist countries – are turning in a disappointingly mixed performance when it comes to promoting and protecting Internet freedom.",
        "但时至今日，该地区捷克、匈牙利、波兰和斯洛伐克等四个前共产主义国家的民众在促进和保护互联网自由的问题上令人失望地表现不一。"
    ],
    [
        "History teaches us that these latter responses to inequality have made the world a better place.",
        "历史教导我们，后面那几种不平等性的应对之道让世界变得更加美好。"
    ],
    [
        "Social protections should be framed in laws enacted by democratically elected legislators, who are well placed to weigh the costs and benefits for their constituents.",
        "社会保护应该在法律的框架内实施，而相关的法律应该由民主选举出的立法者来制定，因为他们对选民的成本和收益最有发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "Even oil production in the United States has not matched the increase in oil prices, as rising import costs for tools and equipment – partly a reflection of the dollar’s weakness and other factors – have forced project delays and cancellations.",
        "即使美国的石油生产也未能与石油价格的上涨相匹配，这是因为进口工具和设备的成本增加——部分反映了美元的弱势和其他因素——已经迫使许多石油项目被延迟和取消。"
    ],
    [
        "A discussion thread on the case on Tianya, a popular Chinese Internet portal, was soon flooded with comments expressing bafflement and outrage at the verdict.",
        "在著名的天涯网络论坛上，关于这起案件的讨论帖很快就被网友的迷惑和愤慨所淹没了。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, by contrast, has essentially abandoned its pensioners by inflating away the value of their incomes.",
        "而俄国却恰恰相反，它任由通货膨胀把退休职工的收入侵蚀得一干二净，实际等于将依靠退休金维持生计的老年人抛到了一边。"
    ],
    [
        "What Orbán would describe as the “liberal democracies” in the United States and Europe are indeed weighed down by internal problems.",
        "奥班所谓的美国和欧洲“自由民主”确实被内部问题所困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "But a reduction in emissions of soot (and other short-lived climate pollutants) could alleviate the pressures on the climate in the coming decades.",
        "但减少烟尘（和其他短效气候污染物）排放可能会在今后几十年减轻对气候造成的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, too, has grudgingly accepted that without developing nations’ participation, rich nations’ cuts will have little impact.",
        "欧洲也勉强承认，没有发展中国家的参与，富裕国家的减排效果有限。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s Communists had tried to topple the Congress-led government last year in an attempt to scuttle the nuclear deal brokered by the United States, and had vowed to upend it.",
        "去年，印度共产党试图杯葛国大党提议的美印核协议，结果没能得逞，现在他们又誓言要报复。"
    ],
    [
        "China might well step in to fill that vacuum, but that is quite different from being able to elbow America aside.",
        "中国很有可能会填补这一真空，但我们并不能说是它压倒了美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulators generally turned a blind eye to these suspicions.",
        "对于此类怀疑，监管者的普遍态度是睁一只眼闭一只眼。"
    ],
    [
        "The tribunal’s Web site has video of an execution.",
        "前南法庭的网站上还存有记录当时屠杀过程的录像资料。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the euro-zone is not an “optimal currency area,” it needs tools to deal with so-called “asymmetric shocks” – shocks that affect some members more than others.",
        "欧元区并非 “ 最理想的货币区域 ” ，因此它需要各种手段来应对所谓的 “ 非对称冲击 ” —— 此类冲击能对某些成员国造成更大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But Mubarak never entirely fit his detractors’ portrayal of him as an American lackey. In fact, Mubarak’s need to please his Saudi Arabian benefactors, not the United States, was paramount in his thinking. Although he sometimes supported American policies, Mubarak frequently rebuffed the US when its positions did not align with his own.",
        "事实上，这位前总统真正放在首位的是如何讨好自己的沙特阿拉伯赞助者，而不是美国。 虽然有时他也会支持美国的政策，但在美国的立场与自己的态度不符时，穆巴拉克也经常会拒绝美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies possess the capabilities and the global scale to play a stronger future role in addressing public-health challenges and achieving the objectives of the SDGs.",
        "公司有能力，也有全球规模，未来能够在解决公共卫生挑战、实现SDG子目标（objective）方面扮演更重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it must be right in the very long run: sooner or later, we will run out of jobs.",
        "相反，这种担心在遥远的未来一定会兑现，我们迟早会找不到工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Relaxing limits on foreign investment.",
        "放松外国投资限制。"
    ],
    [
        "In America, the requirement is usually for three years of science study, and, today, most U.S. students take science in this order: biology, chemistry, physics.",
        "在美国，通常的要求是进行三年的科学学习，今天大部分美国学生学习科学的顺序是这样的：生物学、化学、物理学。"
    ],
    [
        "Romney has promised tougher negotiations on trade and currency with China, but is generally far more likely to push new trade agreements than the labor-supported Obama administration.",
        "罗姆尼还承诺将就贸易和货币问题和中国展开更强硬的谈判，但总的来说，与支持美国劳动力的奥巴马政府相比，共和党更有可能与中国达成新的贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, instability would become chronic, because the eurozone would no longer offer a backstop for fiscal and financial laxity.",
        "不仅如此，不稳定将成为常态，因为欧元区将不再为财政和金融的废弛提供支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "But part of his charisma was in the eyes of his followers.",
        "但他的一部分魅力其实存在于追随者的眼中。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, the solution would be at hand.",
        "经济增长放缓已经近在咫尺。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the rise of Asia’s middle class is not the only change we should expect.",
        "当然，亚洲中产阶级的崛起并不是我们唯一预期的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as a former law professor, she is likely to be a stickler for details in any negotiations with China.",
        "此外，身为曾经的法学教授，她极有可能在与中国的任何谈判细节上坚持己见。"
    ],
    [
        "Why is there culture?",
        "文化缘何存在？"
    ],
    [
        "There seem to be two common characteristics of the descent into barbarism.",
        "堕入野蛮似乎有两个共同特征。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, China recently threatened to launch military action against Vietnam’s outposts in the disputed Spratly Islands, forcing the Vietnamese government to stop drilling for gas at the edge of China’s exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.",
        "比如，中国最近威胁要对越南在争议的南沙群岛哨所采取军事行动，强迫越南政府停止在南海中国专属经济区边缘钻探天然气。"
    ],
    [
        "Better-informed and more ethical consumers could change this.",
        "更加了解情况和更讲道德的消费者可以改变这一状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Its infrastructure, both material and intellectual, was poorer, and its economic structure was unfit for the new challenges, owing both to firm size and their specialization in traditional sectors, as well as low levels of education and R&D.",
        "其基础设施，无论是物资还是智力，都更为匮乏，并且其经济结构不能适应新的挑战，主要原因是公司的规模、专注于传统行业以及教育和研发水平低下。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that unless America’s domestic savings rate rises mightily – which it shows no signs of doing – and unless investment expenditure remains abnormally low for the rest of this decade, the supply of loanable funds to finance investment will soon be much less than demand when the current-account deficit narrows to sustainable levels. But when supply is less than demand, prices rise sharply.",
        "这就意味着除非美国国内存款率大幅度上升（目前还没有这种迹象），除非2010年以前，投资支出依然保持现在这种不正常的超低状态，否则当经常项目赤字降低到可持续水平时，用以支持投资的信贷资金很快就会严重供不应求，而当供不应求时，价格就会直线上升。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings me to the subject of macroeconomic coordination at the EU level.",
        "我再接着谈谈欧盟级别的宏观经济协调。"
    ],
    [
        "It is often claimed that rape is not really about sex, but about power.",
        "人们常说，强奸不是真正的性行为，而是暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "The new consensus can be described as follows: Ségolène Royal cannot defeat Nicolas Sarkozy, but Sarkozy can defeat himself.",
        "新的共识基本可以概括如下：罗雅尔无法击败萨尔科奇，但是萨尔科奇却会败在自己手下。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Ten years on, the euro is a resounding success.",
        "伦敦—十年以来，欧元是一个巨大的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2012, the region proved once again that it is truly the best at perpetrating the worst.",
        "2012年，中东再一次证明，这个地区最擅长犯下最严重的罪恶。"
    ],
    [
        "A good place to start would be a meeting of members of the European and Turkish parliaments.",
        "一个合适的起点是欧洲和土耳其议会成员会议。"
    ],
    [
        "If Clinton wins, many Republicans will assume that it was only because of Trump’s flaws, and they will judge her likely to be a one-term president.",
        "如果克林顿获胜，许多共和党人会将全部责任推给特朗普的缺陷，而认为克林顿只能担任一个任期。"
    ],
    [
        "A focus on care, by contrast, opens the door to the dual problem of too few women at the top and far too many at the bottom.",
        "相反，关注照顾责任才是解决极少数女性抵达上层而绝大多数则身处底层的双重问题的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Thatcher’s greatest achievement was the liberalization of the overregulated British labor market, while Reagan turned the tide with his inaugural address: “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”",
        "撒切尔最大的成就是实现了过度监管的英国劳动力市场的自由化，而里根以他的就职演说开启了新潮流：“在当下的危机中，政府不是解决我们的问题的方案，政府乃是问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It is far from clear, in other words, that the right response to the latest crisis is an abrupt about-face.",
        "换句话说，对于最新危机的正确反应是否是猛然向后转还远未可知。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the ice cap’s area has decreased by half since the 1980’s, when summer sea-ice still extended over roughly seven million square kilometers, as opposed to less than four million today.",
        "其实1980年代后海洋冰盖区已经缩减了一半，那时的夏季海冰还可以覆盖约7百万平方公里的面积，而现在却只剩下4百万。"
    ],
    [
        "So, a strategy for inclusive growth has to focus on ways of either lowering or paying for the fixed costs that connect people to networks.",
        "因此，包容增长战略必须聚焦于降低将人们接入网络的成本或代他们支付这一成本。"
    ],
    [
        "First, apply the dictum of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) that it is better to let “them” do it than it is to try to “do it better” for them.",
        "首先，经典影片《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》主角，英国军官T·E·劳伦斯曾说过，让“他们”自己动手要比尝试代替他们去“做得更好”更加明智。"
    ],
    [
        "While China’s GDP has risen by about 70%, making it the largest contributor to global growth, this was aided substantially by debt-fueled investment.",
        "中国GDP增长了70%左右，是全球增长的最大贡献者，但在很大程度上受到债务助长的投资的推动。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the early 1970’s, President Richard M. Nixon expanded the scope of affirmative action.",
        "但是，在1970年代早期，尼克松总统扩大了平权的范围。"
    ],
    [
        "But Germany’s political class, like its ordinary Michels, are in denial.",
        "但和普罗大众一样，德国的政治阶层也拒绝接受。"
    ],
    [
        "The Soviet Union also wanted to surround itself with a protective buffer of like-minded states, and Italy’s Benito Mussolini was proud that for a time fascism was a competitive export.",
        "苏联也希望在周边营造由观念类似国家组成的保护圈，而意大利的墨索里尼也曾经以法西斯主义成为极有竞争力的输出品而自豪。"
    ],
    [
        "While he will not run as a candidate (he is already a senator for life), he formed a centrist coalition – affiliated with neither the left nor the right – to contest the election, and has declared his willingness to resume his leadership role if the coalition is victorious.",
        "虽然不再以候选人身份参选（蒙蒂已被授予终身参议员职位），但他成立了（既不隶属于左派也不隶属于右派的）中间派别联盟，并宣称若联盟获胜他愿意继续担任领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an energy, finance, and security issue.",
        "它也是一个能源、金融和安全问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In invading Russia in 1941, Hitler, like Napoleon, demonstrated a military overconfidence that resulted in catastrophe.",
        "希特勒1941年入侵俄国的时候如同拿破仑一样表现出了军事上的过度自信，造成灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate change is bad, but geoengineering has the potential to make it worse.",
        "气候变化是一件糟糕的事，但地质工程有可能让它变得更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "But growth prospects remain grim.",
        "但增长前景并不乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Africans themselves must tackle these issues, but our international partners have an important role to play.",
        "这些问题必须由非洲人自己处理，但我们的国际伙伴可以发挥重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009, China’s export value fell by 16 percent from 2008. Labor intensive industries were especially hard hit.",
        "2009年中国的出口总额较2008年下跌了18%，而劳动密集型产业的受害尤其严重。"
    ],
    [
        "They are more tolerant of human frailties, and have a more refined appreciation of the art of seduction.",
        "法国人对人的劣根性具有更大的包容度，对勾搭异性也持有有保留的欣赏态度。"
    ],
    [
        "If you’re a tech entrepreneur, you may aspire to be Marc Andreessen, but reading about him may also make you feel inadequate – especially if you are female.",
        "高科技企业家可能想成为马克·安德森，但了解安德森的故事也可能让你觉得自己不够好——尤其如果你是女性的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Conditions in Gaza are harsh and the population does suffer.",
        "加沙的条件的确艰苦，这里的民众也确实在受苦受难。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, although Russia has been backsliding since Putin took power in 2000, his policies might have been worse had he been ostracized.",
        "不管怎样，尽管从2000年普京掌权后，俄罗斯就开始后退，但如果普京真被排斥在外，那么他的政策可能会更差劲。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, officials, seeking to secure promotions by achieving short-term economic targets, misallocated resources; basic industries like steel and cement built up vast excess capacity; and bad loans accumulated on the balance sheets of banks and local governments.",
        "基础行业（如钢铁业和水泥业）累积了巨大的过剩产能； 而银行和地方政府的资产负债表上也累积了大量不良贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The short answer is money and action.",
        "简单的答案是金钱和行动。"
    ],
    [
        "How did Royal rise so far and so fast?",
        "罗雅尔为何上升如此之高，如此之快？"
    ],
    [
        "Trying Keynesian therapy to resolve, say, the structural problems currently affecting the countries of southern Europe would be like trying to cure a broken leg with heart medicine.",
        "用凯恩斯疗法解决（比如）目前正在影响南欧的结构性问题就好比是用心脏病药物治疗腿疾。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting tough on China while ignoring those consequences could be a blunder of epic proportions.",
        "而在忽视这些后果的同时对中国来硬的，很可能是个极为愚蠢的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the recent spike in oil prices would have been driven by an irrational frenzy in futures markets.",
        "例如，最近油价的波动就是由期货市场的非理性狂热所驱动的。"
    ],
    [
        "Ending the monetary union would end the European project itself, and wreak unmanageable havoc.",
        "结束货币联盟会把欧洲一体化大计一起结束，还会引起不可收拾的混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "For Saudi Arabia, as for Israel, the main goal is to oust Assad in order to weaken Iran.",
        "对沙特阿拉伯，以及对以色列来说，主要目标是颠覆阿萨德以削弱伊朗。"
    ],
    [
        "No central bank had considered any of these measures (zero interest rate policy, quantitative easing, credit easing, forward guidance, negative deposit rate, and unlimited foreign exchange intervention, respectively) before 2008.",
        "没有一家央行在2008年前考虑使用这些措施（分别是零利率政策、量化宽松、信用宽松、前瞻指引、负存款利率和无限制外汇干预）。"
    ],
    [
        "Now Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s administration has responded to this activity, introducing legislation that bans foreign donations to political parties and activist groups, including some charities, and requires former politicians, lobbyists, and executives working for foreign interests to register if they are to be involved in Australian politics.",
        "如今，澳大利亚总理特恩布尔政府已经对这些活动有所反应，立法禁止外国（包括某些慈善机构）捐助政党和活动组织，并要求为外国利益效命的前政客、游说者和高管若想继续参与澳大利亚政治，都必须进行注册。"
    ],
    [
        "Creating an international pool of expertise could become an important asset for European universities, while enabling European industries to create new jobs.",
        "建立一个国际性的科技资源库在为欧洲的各大产业创造新的就业机会的同时也能成为欧洲大学的一笔重要资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin needs a credible rival, not the same old Kremlin-linked candidates – the communist Gennady Zyuganov, the nationalist buffoon Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and the purported liberal Grigory Yavlinsky – to join the race.",
        "普京需要有一位令人信服的对手，而不是让从前那些与克里姆林宫关系密切的候选人参加竞选——比如共产党员久加诺夫（Gennady Zyuganov）和所谓的自由派格里高利·亚夫林斯基（Grigory Yavlinsky）等。"
    ],
    [
        "Bernanke also pointed to increased retirement saving by aging populations in Germany and Japan, as well as to saving by oil-exporting countries, with their rapidly growing populations and concerns about oil revenues in the long term.",
        "伯南克还提到了德国和日本老龄人口退休储蓄的增加，以及人口快速增长、担心长期石油收入的石油出口国的储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "Human-resource executives at some of the world’s largest companies anticipate profound disruptions from the increased adoption of mobile Internet and cloud technology, the use of big data, flexible work arrangements, 3-D printing, advanced materials, and new energy supplies, according to early results from a survey by the World Economic Forum.",
        "世界经济论坛的调查表明，一些世界最大公司的人力资源高管认为，移动互联网和云技术的不断采用、大数据的使用、弹性工作安排、3-D打印、先进材料和新能源供给将带来影响深远的破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Social, tribal, and economic ties between the provinces of Deir al-Zour in Syria and Anbar in Iraq are strong and have strengthened further as control by the Syrian and Iraqi governments has loosened.",
        "叙利亚代尔祖尔省（Deir al-Zour）和伊拉克安巴尔省（Anbar）的社会、部落和经济联系很强，随着叙利亚和伊拉克政府控制的松动，这种联系进一步强化了。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor reform has long been on France’s agenda.",
        "劳工改革一直是法国的政治议程。"
    ],
    [
        "Gilani unequivocally declared in his inaugural address that fighting terrorism is a top priority, and his first decision was to release from house arrest judges deposed by Musharraf.",
        "吉拉尼在他的就职演说中明白地宣布打击恐怖主义是国家的首要任务，他的第一个决定就是释放被穆沙拉夫软禁的法官。"
    ],
    [
        "The book caught the attention of both the elites and the mass public with its heart-breaking stories of the suffering endured by 900 million farmers and its bold criticism of the government's rural policies.",
        "该书以其对9亿农民困苦境况的细致描述和对政府农村政策的大胆批评，引起了精英阶层和普通大众的注意。"
    ],
    [
        "They will also have to adopt more flexible labor regulations, because firms won’t hire skilled workers who cost too much.",
        "政府还应当采取更灵活的劳动规则，因为要价太高的技工不会得到企业的聘用。"
    ],
    [
        "The third-ranked organization was Interplast, which is more narrowly focused on correcting deformities like cleft palate.",
        "向贫穷的农村人口提供医疗的医疗夥伴组织名列第二。 第三名是Interplast，这一组织较为专注地矫正类似颚裂那样的畸形。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is to assume that factual truth matters in the rhetoric of a populist agitator.",
        "但这不啻认为事实真相在民粹主义搅局者的修辞中至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The appointment of George Mitchell, who opposes Israel’s West Bank settlements, and Mitchell’s decision to open an office in Jerusalem, speaks volumes about what the new Israeli government should expect from the Obama administration.",
        "反对以色列在西岸建造定居点的米歇尔被任命为中东特使，而且他决定在耶路撒冷开设办事处。 新的以色列政府将会从奥巴马政府听到什么从这两件事中就可以知道了。"
    ],
    [
        "They have enabled – indeed, fueled – the rise of the Islamic State, and with it a growing threat to the global order, as the successive terrorist attacks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Beirut, and Paris tragically have shown.",
        "他们让伊斯兰国得以兴盛——甚至助了伊斯兰国一臂之力——并给全球秩序造成日益严重的威胁，在沙姆沙伊赫、贝鲁特和巴黎接连发生的恐怖袭击悲剧地证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The point, of course, is not simply to highlight how much danger the world currently faces.",
        "当然，这只是强调目前世界着多大的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, charismatic leadership can be problematic even when it takes a benign form.",
        "而且，富有个人魅力的领导即使采用好的形式也是存在问题的。"
    ],
    [
        "The only difference from her mother’s era was that today’s generation quit, married, and gave birth later.",
        "与渡边小姐母亲的时代唯一不同的是今天的一代辞职、结婚和生育都比较晚。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, whether one thinks of Al Qaeda’s terrorism or the presence of Western armies in Iraq and Afghanistan, Europe and the Islamic world have demonstrated a continuing willingness to deal violently with each other.",
        "其二，不管你对基地组织的恐怖或者西方军队在伊拉克和阿富汗的行动作何感想，欧洲和伊斯兰世界似乎都更愿意用暴力的手段跟对方打交道。"
    ],
    [
        "But now that the $50 ceiling is being tested, we can expect the next major move in the trading range to be downward.",
        "但如今50美元的顶部正在接受测试，我们可以期待该交易区间内的下一次大走势是下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, China has become South Korea’s single largest export market, and Japan’s second largest.",
        "因此，中国已成为韩国最大，日本第二大的出口市场。"
    ],
    [
        "With the integration of information technology and hydraulic-fracturing (“fracking”), the central players are experts using joysticks and high-resolution screens to maneuver drill bits through geological formations.",
        "页岩油气行业的核心选手是整合了信息技术和液压致裂的专家，他们使用操纵杆和高分辨率屏幕操纵钻头钻穿地质构造。"
    ],
    [
        "But alternatives that would have made the South richer at the price of reducing the wealth of the North would require a wholesale revolution in human psychology.",
        "但是，那些以减少北方富有国家财富为代价让南方穷国更为富有的选择则会要求人类心理方面翻天覆地的革命。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, such a refusal “should be considered an acceptance of the human condition, or a wish to avoid the application of a medical procedure disproportionate to the results that can be expected, or a desire not to impose excessive expense on the family or the community.”",
        "相反，这样的拒绝“应被视为是对于人类状态的一种接受，或者是对不当治疗可能引起的结果的回避，或者是不给家庭或者群体造成更多负担的一种愿望。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Only Germany’s lunatic fringe dares to commemorate Hitler.",
        "现在敢纪念希特勒的也只有德国一些疯狂分子罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "The same officials who lord it over ordinary Chinese people often summon irresistible charm to woo Western investors.",
        "一名官员可以一面对普通中国百姓作威作福，转身却展现出不可抗拒的魅力去吸引西方投资者。"
    ],
    [
        "If we accept the above definition of the West as a mindset, this leaves open three major questions: can the East be modernized without being Westernized?",
        "如果我们接受以上西方作为一种心态的定义就会带来三个大问题。 它们是：东方在不被西化的情况下能否现代化？"
    ],
    [
        "When a sufficient proportion of creditors agree to a restructuring plan (in the case of Argentina, the holders of more than 90% of the country’s debt did), the others can be forced to go along.",
        "当足够比例的债权人批准重组计划时（在阿根廷的例子中，90%的该国债务持有人同意重组），其他人也将被迫同意。"
    ],
    [
        "For six months we have seen escalating violence and repression.",
        "这半年以来，我们看到那里的暴力和镇压在不断升级。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only are governments improving their capabilities, but many private-sector companies are entering the game, and their participation reduces the costs to governments of having to disclose sensitive sources.",
        "不仅政府在提高这方面的能力，很多私营企业也介入其中，而它们的介入降低了政府被迫公开敏感来源的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Three recent examples highlight the risks journalists take to report the news, and underscore why publicizing their plight is the only way to bring about change.",
        "最近有三个例子突出了记者进行新闻报道的危险，并强调了为什么将这种困境公诸于世是改变现状的唯一方法。"
    ],
    [
        "The Assad regime, with its own external supporters, seems likely to have no difficulty matching any new hardware thrown at it.",
        "巴沙尔政权及其本身的外部支持者似乎可以毫无困难地赶超对手获得的硬件设施。"
    ],
    [
        "This group, not the desperately poor and helpless, forms the great mobilizing force of violent protest, and ultimately of major change.",
        "正是这一团体而非赤贫无助者才是暴力抗议以及最终巨大变革的主要驱动力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Reform without money on the table does not work, as nervous and trigger-happy investors would rather pull their money out if the country lacks the foreign-currency reserves needed to prevent the equivalent of a bank run on its short-term liabilities.",
        "没有资金作后盾的改革是做不成的，如果受困国缺乏外汇储备，那些神经紧张、动不动发飙的投资者会纷纷抽逃资金，就跟银行挤兑一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Latin America’s Ukraine",
        "拉丁美洲的乌克兰"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Global Burden of Disease Study, health risk factors explain at least 50% of the early death and disability of adults aged 50 and over; for young people, the figure drops to 26%.",
        "局全球疾病负担研究（Global Burden of Disease Study），健康风险因素解释了至少50%的50岁及以上人群早期死亡和残疾； 对年轻人来说，这一比例只有26%。"
    ],
    [
        "In Zambia, for example, Sylva Banda ignited a craze for authentic traditional meals two decades ago with a chain of popular restaurants.",
        "比方说希尔维亚·班达20年前在赞比亚开了一系列广受喜爱的餐馆，用真正的本地菜引领起一股时尚潮流。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless and until the US faces up to its chronic aversion to saving – namely, by reducing massive federal budget deficits and encouraging the rebuilding of severely depleted household saving – multilateral trade deficits will persist.",
        "除非并直至美国能直接面对自身在储蓄上的长期背离——也就是说，通过削减大规模联邦预算支出并鼓励重建早已严重枯竭的家庭储蓄——否则多边贸易逆差将继续存在下去。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, investment barely exceeds pre-crisis levels, even though GDP has risen by 10%.",
        "在美国，投资仍未超越危机前水平，尽管GDP增长了10%。"
    ],
    [
        "But other barriers can be overcome by reforming housing policies, reducing the cost of moving, and revising social-welfare policies in order to end fears of losing long-term benefits.",
        "但是我们可以通过改革住房政策、减少搬迁费用以及修订社会福利政策以便消除人们对于失去长期福利的担心来消除其他的一些的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, if only their supporters are really “the people,” everyone else is undeserving.",
        "毕竟，要是他们的支持者是真正的“人民”，那么其他人就不配获得这一地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Mikhail Kasyanov, a former prime minister and now an opposition critic, was inherited from Yeltsin.",
        "卡西亚诺夫，前总理和现在的反对派批评家，继承了叶利钦时代的风格。"
    ],
    [
        "But when the North Korean regime realized that smile diplomacy did not get it whatever it was they wanted, the country’s rulers shifted back to hostility.",
        "但当北朝鲜政府意识到微笑外交没能达到目的的时候，这个国家的领导人又转而重回敌对政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, if the press Christmas party was the only precedent Trump and his team broke, no one would be too distraught.",
        "当然，如果媒体圣诞派对是唯一一个特朗普及其团队准备打破的先例的话，没人会为此心神不宁。"
    ],
    [
        "The influence of the levels and composition of maternal nutrition on a female fetus will carry through to adulthood, when she, too, becomes a mother.",
        "女孩在胚胎期得到的母亲营养水平和成分将会一直影响到她成年，当她自己也称为母亲时。"
    ],
    [
        "In this respect, Wolfowitz, while by all accounts an intelligent and pleasant person, did not do himself any favors.",
        "沃尔福威茨尽管是一个聪明开朗的人，但是在这一方面他并没有给自己创造有利的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "The High Level Panel on Security Reform appointed by Secretary General Kofi Annan is looking at the various options.",
        "联合国秘书长柯非·安南任命的安全改革高级小组正在对各种可能性开展研究。"
    ],
    [
        "But it nonetheless distresses other member states, particularly those, like Germany, that recognize the great benefit of having a country with a strongly pro-free trade position and a deep commitment to the rule of law play an important role in the EU.",
        "但英国的做法无论如何都让德国等其他成员国备感苦恼，他们认为坚决支持自由贸易立场并坚定支持法治的国家能在欧盟发挥重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "A more confident and secure Japan would be better able to block China from gaining ascendancy in the western Pacific, thereby advancing the central US policy objective of ensuring a stable balance of power in Asia.",
        "更有信心、更可靠的日本将更有能力抵制中国在西太平洋获得支配地位，从而有利于美国的核心政策目标——确保亚洲稳定的实力平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "China, which has invested billions of dollars in developing Afghanistan’s natural resources –investments protected, ironically, by the US – would be certain to experience greater unrest in Xinjiang Province, home to millions of disaffected Muslims.",
        "中国在阿富汗有着数十亿美元的自然资源开发投资——讽刺的是，保护这些项目的乃是美国。 作为数百万心怀不满的穆斯林的家园，新疆自治区将肯定会经历更大的动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "If their choices can be directed, is this not paternalism plain and simple, rendered more sinister because individuals are unaware that they are being nudged, and cannot raise their guard?",
        "如果他们的选择可以被引导，那不是赤裸裸的家长式作风是什么？ 这样做更不道德，因为个人并不知道他们被助推了，从而根本无从捍卫自己的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as its creditors have now recognized, providing more money will not address Greece’s insolvency.",
        "但是，债权人现在发现，提供更多的资金无法解决希腊的偿债能力问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed’s decision to raise rates is a historic moment for financial markets and is already ushering in a period of increased volatility for asset prices worldwide.",
        "美联储决定升息对于金融市场来说是一个历史性时刻，并且已经给全世界资产价格带来了波动增加的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "That tax is paid on profits earned in the US and on repatriated profits earned by US companies’ foreign subsidiaries.",
        "课税的对象是在美国所赚得的利润以及美国公司的外国分支汇回美国的利润。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s say that the country incurs a cost of 100 of some unit because of its water shortages.",
        "假设以色列由于水短缺造成的一单位生产成本为100。"
    ],
    [
        "Education and values will drive local innovation, alter lifestyles, and shift social norms.",
        "教育和价值能推动地方创新，改变生活方式，转变社会范式。"
    ],
    [
        "Obamacare establishes a public mandate to buy private insurance (with public subsidies for the poor) to finance services provided by (mostly) private hospitals and clinics.",
        "奥巴马医保规定了一个公共使命：购买私人保险（穷人可以获得公共补贴）为（占大部分数量的）私人医院和诊所的服务提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Something similar is at work in the European attitude to the US.",
        "欧洲对美国的看法也非常相似。"
    ],
    [
        "For farmers, who must rely on pumped water to irrigate their crops, this means lower efficiency and productivity.",
        "对于必须依靠抽水灌溉作物的农民来说，这意味着低效低生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "Overcoming such sentiments will take time and a vibrant economy, which means that a new Iraqi government must have limited power, allowing the private sector to grow while encouraging widespread understanding of democracy and human rights.",
        "克服这些情绪需要时间以及活跃的经济，这也就意味着新的伊拉克政府的权力必须受到节制，允许私营部门成长，与此同时，鼓励大众理解民主和人权。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world economy generates stronger headwinds in the years ahead, it will become easier to distinguish countries that have truly strengthened their economic and political fundamentals from those that have coasted on false narratives and the tenuous strength of fickle investor sentiment.",
        "随着世界经济未来几年内所产生的较强阻力，真正强化经济政治基本面和依靠弄虚作假及浮躁的投资者情绪的国家将变得很容易区分。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that the criteria are drawn so broadly that they pathologize mostly the non-disordered.",
        "问题就是这些条件都被定得太宽，以致将大多数非失调行为都当成了病态。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in Thailand in 2006, as in Egypt last month, they were happy to see their political leaders ousted by force.",
        "但2006年在泰国和上个月在埃及，他们都很乐于看到政治领袖被武力推翻。"
    ],
    [
        "But these parties do not reject the EU.",
        "但这些政党并不拒绝欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite Erdoğan’s personal authoritarian tendencies, which are obvious, it would be misleading to regard the current protests purely as a conflict between democracy and autocracy.",
        "虽然埃尔多安明显存在个人独裁主义倾向，但把当前的抗议活动纯粹视为民主和专制的碰撞恐怕会有所误导。"
    ],
    [
        "Because SOEs and local governments accounted for more than half of the credit issued through the banking system, proper debt restructuring of state-owned assets would strengthen the projects they were funding, by allowing private or professional management teams to improve overall returns.",
        "国有企业和地方政府占了银行系统发行的信用总量的一大半。 因此，国有资产及债务结构的重组可以让民营投资者及职业管理团队通过改善总回报来增强资金的效率及项目的成功率。"
    ],
    [
        "It was also the West European financial regulators and supervisors who, under “home rule,” were supposed to discourage these excesses.",
        "而且，是西欧金融机构的监管者，按照 “自治规则”，应该防止这些过度的风险敞口。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a lot to be said for making political argument more civil.",
        "在让政治争论更心平气和方面，也很值得一谈。"
    ],
    [
        "This inability to discuss, clearly and forthrightly, this strategic doctrine continues to hamper the Alliance.",
        "有关法国退出北约而产生的不稳定问题，已经有过广泛而深入的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "And we are richer for it.",
        "而且欧洲给了我们更加多彩和富足的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "There is nothing wrong with exporting copper, wine, fruit, and forest products.",
        "错误不在于出口铜、葡萄酒、水果和木制品。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, increased engagement in multilateral institutions seems likely to change China more than it changes the institutions, even as China’s voting power increases to reflect better its growing contributions.",
        "目前，加大参与多边机构对中国的改变比反过来更大，即使在中国投票权增加到能够更好地反映其贡献的程度的情况下也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Time is money: the more money you can squeeze out of an hour’s work, the better off you are.",
        "时间就是金钱：你可以从一个小时工作中赚到的钱越多，你的生活就越好。"
    ],
    [
        "The struggle for water is heightening political tensions and exacerbating impacts on ecosystems.",
        "水之争凸显出政治紧张，也放大了对生态系统的破坏效应。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, although the electoral arithmetic makes a stable centrist government – one that could maintain Britain’s current policies on taxes, economic management, and Europe – almost impossible to imagine, continuity is the outcome that most international business leaders and politicians seem to expect.",
        "此外，尽管选举算术意味着稳定的中间道路政府——能够保持英国当前的税收、经济管理和欧洲政策的政府——几乎不可能出现，但连续性仍是大部分国际商界领袖和政客所期待的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, just as microeconomic problems in the financial sector triggered a credit crunch and fueled a global recession, so microeconomic factors hold the key to recovery.",
        "事实上，正如金融部门的微观经济问题触发了信贷动荡、助长了全球衰退，微观经济因素也是复苏的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that preschool provides a qualitative boost to children’s social skills or emotional development that enables them to take better advantage of economic opportunity later in life.",
        "这表明学前教育能够定性地提高儿童的社交技能或情商开发，使他们在随后的生活中拥有抓住更好经济机会方面的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "For Brooks, it is that knowing that public programs make one’s life easier causes one to vote for non-Republican candidates.",
        "在布鲁克斯看来，问题在于知道公共项目让生活变得更加容易导致民众把选票投给非共和党候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "But creditors have challenged the move in court, with the US Supreme Court set to issue a ruling by the end of June.",
        "但债权人在法庭上对此提出疑议，美国最高法院将于6月底对此进行裁决。"
    ],
    [
        "The new thinking should put people first, and banks’ shareholders and bondholders second.",
        "这个新思维必须以民众福祉为先，随后才是银行的股东和债券持有人。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the media.",
        "以媒体为例。"
    ],
    [
        "It is absurd that China’s voting power in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund is the same as Belgium’s.",
        "中国在世界银行和国际货币基金组织（IMF）的投票权与比利时等量齐观，这实在是荒谬可笑。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is seriousness.",
        "首先是严肃性。"
    ],
    [
        "The timing of the inevitable policy shift back to tightening depends on overall inflation, particularly house prices.",
        "不可避免的政策回转到紧缩的时机取决于总体的通货膨胀，尤其是房价。"
    ],
    [
        "Encouraging one kind of innovator could easily give rise to the other.",
        "鼓励前一种创新者可能导致后一种轻易崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "A Window on China’s New Normal",
        "管窥中国新常态"
    ],
    [
        "The result should be a contract that is as fair as possible under the given circumstances – and perceived as such.",
        "其结果应该是一份在同等条件下尽可能公平的合同—并且在外界看来也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1998-1999 Serbia had embarked on violent repression of Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority, driving roughly 400,000 Kosovars from their homes. Diplomatic efforts by the outside world proved ineffective, so in March 1999, NATO began a 78-day bombing campaign against the Serbs.",
        "布莱尔性格的弱点之一是自以为是、过度自信，这可能是他的基督教信仰的推断，因此他知道正确的东西，所以就有权利据此来行动。"
    ],
    [
        "As the economist Dani Rodrik has pointed out, standard analysis generally results in a laundry list of desirable reforms that does not tell governments where to begin.",
        "经济学家罗德里克（Dani Rodrik）指出，标准分析通常通常会产生一份详细的欲改革清单，但不会告诉政府从哪里开始。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, an expansive reform effort cannot be advanced by economic decisions alone.",
        "与此同时，全面的改革努力不能仅靠经济决策来推动。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, however, more than four years into a credit crisis, a conspicuous enigma calls this legacy into question.",
        "然而，如今，资本主义进入债务危机已逾四年，却仍然不知所向，这不仅让人们开始质疑这一优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Policy reform should aim to promote market transparency, improve risk management, and strengthen effective supervision and regulations.",
        "政策改革应该将目标定在增进市场透明度、改善风险管理、强化有效监督和监管上。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia’s Multilateralism",
        "亚洲的多边主义"
    ],
    [
        "As a potential model to be followed, Europe should look at the so-called “affirmative action” policies that America enacted to provide opportunities to blacks.",
        "作为一种可资效仿的模式，欧洲应该仔细考察美国为给黑人提供机会而实施的所谓“平权(affirmative action)” 政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite the recent ceasefire agreement announced in Minsk, ongoing violence – reflected in the violent expulsion of Ukrainian forces from the town of Debaltseve – strongly suggests that it is time to consider what is needed to block any Kremlin-imposed military solution.",
        "但是，尽管最近在明斯克达成了停火协议，但持续暴力——杰巴利采韦（Debaltseve）的乌克兰军队被暴力驱逐就是明证——仍然强烈地表明有必要考虑阻止克里姆林宫所实施的一切军事解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "A Breakthrough Opportunity for Global Health",
        "全球卫生状况的突破性机会"
    ],
    [
        "The deliberate undervaluation of China’s currency, and the fall in the dollar, are both putting a squeeze on the export prospects of the European Union members and other countries like Canada and Mexico, and China’s covert and not so covert export subsidies and import barriers exacerbate the problem.",
        "人民币被人为低估以及美元的贬值，给欧盟成员国以及加拿大和墨西哥等其他国家的出口前景蒙上了阴影； 而中国或明或暗的出口补贴与进口壁垒，更令情况雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not sustainable.",
        "这是不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "To attract more female students, 30% of the school’s scholarships are reserved for female applicants, and the school aspires to reach 50% in the near future.",
        "为吸引更多女性学生，该校将30%的奖学金预留给女性申请者，而学校希望这一比例能在不久的将来达到50%。"
    ],
    [
        "But the UN will be effective only if it takes some crucial steps.",
        "但联合国必须采取一些关键步骤才能取得效果。"
    ],
    [
        "And, unlike military personnel, CIA agents enjoy extensive immunity, undermining international legal standards.",
        "而且与军事人员不同，中央情报局特工享有全方位的豁免权，这已经破坏了国际法律的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowhere have we heard about the Paris agreement’s actual costs and effects.",
        "对巴黎协议实际的代价和效果却没有得到任何分析。"
    ],
    [
        "But not at the expense of growth itself – and China plans to grow pretty fast.",
        "但这些政策可不能以牺牲增长为代价——而中国正计划飞速发展。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, they have largely relied on economic and commercial mechanisms – especially rival port and pipeline projects – to secure their positions.",
        "目前，它们的竞争仍基本依靠经济和商业机制，特别是建设港口和输油管道工程确保自己的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1960’s and early 1970’s, disparities in purchasing power declined by about 40%, then stalled, while nominal income disparities fell by a similar margin from the mid-1970’s to 1990.",
        "在二十世纪六十年代和七十年代早期，购买力的差异减小了大约40%，然后出现了停顿，而名义收入差异在二十世纪七十年代至九十年代期间出现了类似幅度的减小。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is something to be said for the fact that Francis is ultimately his own man.",
        "但方济各最终只是他自己，这一事实值得一说。"
    ],
    [
        "Pooling regional reserves as a way of making them go further is a better alternative.",
        "把地区储备汇到一个池子里，从而给这些钱找到个去处，这是个不错的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a 2013 survey of peer-reviewed publications on the subject, some 97% of scientists endorse the position that humans are causing global warming.",
        "据2013年同行评审出版物的一项调查显示，约97%的科学家赞同人类造成全球变暖问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the International Monetary Fund’s regular projections of world growth.",
        "就拿IMF的定期世界增长预测来说吧。"
    ],
    [
        "This is minor stuff.",
        "这些都是小事。"
    ],
    [
        "There is now widespread concern that the US and China may be headed for a new cold war.",
        "如今，人们广泛担忧美国和中国可能开始新的冷战。"
    ],
    [
        "SINGAPORE – The election of a new pope always sparks debate about the tension between tradition and modernity in the Catholic Church.",
        "新加坡——新教皇选举总能就天主教会传统与现代间的紧张关系引发辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "Under Bouteflika’s leadership, Algeria’s government has failed to address the country’s most pressing economic and social challenges.",
        "在波特弗利卡的领导下，阿尔及利亚政府无法解决该国最紧迫的经济和社会挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama administration is also consulting with Congress on when to re-submit the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which was rejected by the Senate 10 years ago.",
        "而奥巴马政府也在就何时重新提交《全面禁止核试验条约》——此条约10年前遭到美国参议院否决——的问题咨询国会。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the world, this perverse and graphic criminality has added fuel to anxiety about US cultural and military power.",
        "在世界范围内，这种不正常的生动的犯罪行为加剧了人们对美国文化和军事实力的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "And this is turning out to be less a boon to their prestige than a threat to their independence.",
        "而这对央行独立性的威胁显然比对其声誉的助推作用更大。"
    ],
    [
        "How long it will take for India to recover is anyone’s guess.",
        "印度需要多久才能从当前的乱局中恢复，我们只能猜测。"
    ],
    [
        "In his disastrous 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Begin perceived himself as a God-sent vindicator of the legacy of the Holocaust.",
        "1982年入侵黎巴嫩时，贝京把自己看作受上帝派遣的大屠杀复仇者。"
    ],
    [
        "As North America becomes self-sufficient in gas, more from various other regions will be freed up to provide alternative sources for Europe, thereby diminishing Russia’s leverage.",
        "随着北美在天然气上成为自给自足地区，其他众多地区将能腾出手来为欧洲提供替代资源，从而削弱俄罗斯的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "The bill ensures “net neutrality” (meaning that Internet service providers must treat all information and users equally), and subjects global companies, such as Google and Facebook, to Brazilian law and precedent in cases involving its own citizens.",
        "该法案确保“网络中性”（意味着互联网服务提供商必须平等对待所有信息和用户），并要求谷歌和Facebook等全球公司在对待巴西用户时遵守巴西法律和判例。"
    ],
    [
        "However, this cost is nothing compared to the scars associated with Africans being seen around the world as the “wretched of the earth.”",
        "但相比于那些令非洲被全世界公认为“地球之耻”的苦难来说，这些金钱还是微不足道的。"
    ],
    [
        "The company’s management is planning to spend vast sums – perhaps tens of billions of dollars – to develop Arctic oil and gas reserves that cannot safely be used.",
        "该公司管理层计划花巨资——也许达到数百亿美元——开发无法安全使用的北极圈油气储量。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has never been clear and consistent about what he will do as president.",
        "特朗普从未对如何当总统有过明确且一致的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever since its great military victory in the Six-Day War of 1967, when it repelled the combined armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, which had openly proclaimed their desire to destroy the Jewish state, Israel has been in the throes of an ideological and military confusion resulting from the conquests it made during that conflict.",
        "自从1967年在六日战争中大获全胜，击退公然叫嚣要摧毁犹太国家的埃及、叙利亚和约旦联军后，以色列就陷入到一场由征服所引起的意识和军事紊乱的痛苦磨难之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though path dependencies, incomplete information, and cognitive biases can still frustrate human actions, we need no longer assume that past experiences must determine future outcomes.",
        "尽管路径依赖、不完全信息和认知偏见仍有可能挫败人类行动，但我们无需认为过去的经验必然决定了未来的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany and Italy, fascist parties came out on top, while elsewhere, dictators were backed by armies or kings.",
        "在德国和意大利，法西斯政党旗开得胜，然而在别的国家，军队或国王都支持独裁者。"
    ],
    [
        "And generous net transfers meant that disposable incomes increased for almost all households.",
        "而慷慨的净转移支付意味着几乎所有家庭的可支配收入都有所增加。"
    ],
    [
        "India, Iran, and the Case for Double Standards",
        "印度、伊朗以及双重标准的理由"
    ],
    [
        "Their tragedy highlights the extreme vulnerability of India’s poor coastal communities to the vagaries of nature.",
        "他们的悲剧凸显了这样一个现实：印度沿海地区的穷人极易受到变幻莫测的大自然的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – China’s new five-year plan will have important implications for the global economy.",
        "发自剑桥——中国的新五年计划将对全球经济产生极其重要的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the height of folly to ignore the lessons of history.",
        "忽视历史教训愚不可及。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters is the total amount of oil a country imports, not where it comes from.",
        "重要的是一个国家进口石油的总量，而不是从哪里进口。"
    ],
    [
        "The expectation that he would allow the Arabs, particularly the Syrians and the Palestinians, to recover their land without resorting to arms has been proved, by his own admission, to be unrealistic.",
        "他能让阿拉伯、特别是叙利亚和巴勒斯坦无需动用武力即可收复失地的愿望已经从他本人的口中承认是不现实的。"
    ],
    [
        "When many people are no longer able to find work to support a family, troubling consequences ensue, and, as Phelps stresses, “the functioning of the entire community may be impaired.”",
        "当很多人都没法再找到工作来维持家庭的时候，麻烦的后果就会接踵而来，如同菲尔普斯所强调的那样，“整个社区的运作可能会受到损害”。"
    ],
    [
        "This is akin to forcing people to use mobile phones every time they drive.",
        "这类似于强迫人们每次开车都使用手机。"
    ],
    [
        "By supporting further consolidation of large-scale monocultures in the hands of the most powerful economic actors, we risk widening further the gap with small-scale, family farming, while pushing a model of industrial farming that is already responsible for one-third of man-made greenhouse-gas emissions today.",
        "通过支持那些金融大鳄手中巨型单一作物农场的进一步整合，我们面临着进一步扩大其与小生产者和家庭式农业之间差距的风险，更何况这类产业化农业正是当今全球1/3人造温室气体排放的元凶。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, such subsidies would help reactivate the private sector, which is essential as large-scale post-conflict aid withers to the low levels that are common under conditions of normal development.",
        "而且，这样的补贴将会帮助重新激活私营部门。 这对于在正常发展条件下冲突后大规模援助减少到低水平是十分重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Read their speeches – those put out not for Western ears, but for their own.",
        "看看他们的演讲——这些演讲针对的不是西方，而是自己人。"
    ],
    [
        "Competition is another example.",
        "竞争是另外一个例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Tibetan Buddhism, however, still serves as the common link, with the Karmapa’s Kagyu sect a powerful force on the Indian side.",
        "但藏传佛教依然是彼此之间共同的纽带，而藏传佛教噶玛噶举派则是印度一侧的重要力量。"
    ],
    [
        "During the 2006 French student protests, France’s 22% youth unemployment rate appeared to compare unfavorably to rates of 11%, 12%, and 13% in the United Kingdom, the US, and Germany, respectively.",
        "在2006年法国学生示威运动期间，该国22%的年轻人失业率比英国、美国和德国严重多了，后三者的数字分别为11%、12%和13%。"
    ],
    [
        "When home prices stop rising, recent homebuyers may lose the enthusiasm to continue paying their mortgages – and investors lose faith in mortgage-backed securities.",
        "当房价停止上升，最近的房屋购买者也许会失去继续归还他们的抵押贷款的信心，而投资者会对抵押支持证券失去信心。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the Tibetan Plateau, which contains the world’s third-largest store of ice, is warming at almost twice the average global rate, owing to the rare convergence of high altitudes and low latitudes – with potentially serious consequences for Asia’s freshwater supply.",
        "比方说，由于罕见的高海拔及低纬度，冰储量居世界第三位的青藏高原升温速度几乎是全球平均速度的两倍，对亚洲的淡水供应造成严重的潜在威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The LAC then meanders until the point where India, China, and Burma meet.",
        "接着，实际控制线一直延伸到中国、印度和缅甸的交界处。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, a critical part of the gold standard was that individual national central banks set their own interest rates, with the aim of influencing the direction of capital movements.",
        "尤其是，金本位的一个重要方面是个体国家央行出于影响资本流动方向的目的自行确定利率。"
    ],
    [
        "On one hand, public trust in government is at an all-time low.",
        "一方面，对政府的公共信任处于历史最低点。"
    ],
    [
        "In such cases, America can step in and, by using both carrot and stick, make both sides go the extra mile.",
        "在这样的情形中，美国可以介入，而且可以通过使用胡萝卜和棒子的方法，使双方更近一步。"
    ],
    [
        "It costs too much; it is inconvenient; and its environmental benefits are negligible (and, in some cases, non-existent).",
        "它太与众不同； 它的环境好处可以忽略不计（对于某些车型，根本没有环境好处）。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1997, South Korea’s economy took a nosedive, and 1998 was still difficult, but GDP soared by 11.1% in 1999.",
        "1997年，韩国经济发生崩盘，1998年毫无起色，但到了1999年，GDP大增11. 1%。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a simple, practical answer that explains why opponents of the laws may not be in favor of efforts to repeal them.",
        "还有一种简单、实际的答案能够解释为什么反对者可能并不赞成废除这项法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, they are prone to frequent drought, which reduces their output significantly, leaving many as little more than decorative infrastructure landmarks.",
        "而且，这些电站还要受到频繁的干旱影响。 干旱会大幅度降低电力产量，使得很多电站成为基础设施点缀而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Molecular biology has provided excellent tools to address health, environmental, and food problems such as those seen in Kenya. The question is whether decision-makers are prepared to use them.",
        "不幸的是，肯尼亚政府听从了告诫，不许其农民种植转基因玉米，尽管转基因玉米早已在南非、阿根廷、巴西、美国及其他国家被批准、种植、收割并用于制造饲料及食品。"
    ],
    [
        "Startlingly, the central protagonist in most of these stories is that most peaceable and innocent of animals, the cow.",
        "令人震惊的是，这些报道中的主角大多是和平的无辜动物——牛。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, heat waves account for more deaths than any other type of weather-related event, killing more than 12,000 people worldwide each year.",
        "事实上，热浪致死人数超过其他任何类型的天气相关事件，全球范围内，每年超过12，000人因此而死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year’s Northern Rock debacle in the United Kingdom will long remain an example of how not to manage such risk.",
        "去年英国罗森若克（Northern Rock）银行的倒闭将会在很长时间内作为一个不要怎样管理这种风险的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "It also presumes that they will have the capacity to do so – the ability question.",
        "它还包含另一个假设，政治领导人有能力做这些事——这是“能”的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fact that more than 50 countries, including advanced economies with democratic values, have joined the AIIB means that it will be possible to monitor its actions.",
        "但事实上，50多个国家，包括持民主价值观的发达经济体在内，都加入了亚投行，这意味着有可能监督亚投行的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "But the climate benefit is negligible: according to the International Institute for Sustainable Development, deforestation, fertilizer, and fossil fuels used in producing biofuels offset about 90% of the “saved” carbon dioxide.",
        "但其气候效益可以忽略不计，据国际可持续发展研究所（International Institute for Sustainable Development）的数据，用于生产生物燃料的森林采伐、化肥和化石燃料，将抵消90%的“节省”的二氧化碳。"
    ],
    [
        "There can be little doubt that some societies are more steeped in violence than others, even controlling for obvious factors like income levels and education.",
        "毫无疑问，即使控制了收入水平和教育等显而易见的因素，某些社仍比其他社会更具暴力倾向。"
    ],
    [
        "The recipient country might open their medical schools and health-care training to new recruits, or help pay for health-care education and a scholarship fund back home.",
        "接收国可以向新员工开放医学院和医疗培训计划，或资助其国内的医疗教育和奖学金。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s resignation brings to an end one of the more interesting curiosities of subcontinental politics: for more than four years, Pakistan had a president who was born in India, while India had a Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) who was born in Pakistan.",
        "巴基斯坦总统穆沙拉夫辞职，从而结束了南亚次大陆政治中更为有趣、令人好奇的一页。 这也就是，四年多以来，巴基斯坦有一个出生在印度的总统，而印度则有一个出生在巴基斯坦的总理(辛格总理)。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, because Japan can meet at most 6% of its own energy needs, cheap oil is a true blessing – one that may well endure for some time to come.",
        "类似地，由于日本最多只能满足6%的自身能源需求，廉价的石油也是天大利好——并且可能维持一段时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The indices spanned decades, and in two countries, the US and the UK, went all the way back to 1900.",
        "该指数覆盖数十年，美国和英国更是追溯到1900年。"
    ],
    [
        "Realistic restrictions in Europe can be adopted only by taking into account migration spillovers across jurisdictions, which requires implementing policies that are agreed at the EU level.",
        "只有充分考虑到不同国家间的移民流动，才能确保在欧洲范围内采取现实的管制措施，而实现这样的目标需要整个欧盟采取共同认可的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "With the European Union also preparing to commit to new 2030 climate targets, hopes for a global deal are rising.",
        "欧盟也在准备做出2030年气候目标承诺，因此达成全球协议的希望在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is not only that this can lead to the election of utterly unqualified leaders.",
        "问题不仅在于这可能导致选出完全不够格的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "The British government has said that it is important that “the people of Hong Kong have a genuine choice.”",
        "英国政府说，“香港人民拥有真正的选择”至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of having their peoples begin to manufacture their own goods, these rulers chose to import them from Europe in exchange for their own subjects – or the subjects of neighboring rulers – whom they exported as slaves.",
        "这些统治者不让人民生产自己的商品，反而从欧洲进口商品，用来交换的则是他们自己的占有物——或是邻国统治者的占有物——黑奴。"
    ],
    [
        "The resolution can thus be seen as another incremental step towards the establishment of a global system of justice able to punish those who commit gross violations of human rights, regardless of their political or legal status in their own country.",
        "2月26日，联合国安理会以无记名投票的方式通过针对利比亚的武器禁运案，敦促成员国冻结卡扎菲及其家人所有的资产，并将卡扎菲的暴力行为上诉到国际刑事法庭，将对可能的罪犯提起诉讼。"
    ],
    [
        "But a tourist might prefer a map that highlights specific attractions or indicates public-transport links.",
        "而游客则可能希望标明具体景点或指示公交线路。"
    ],
    [
        "In our own time, the United Nations is now calling for changes in the criteria used to measure governmental success from economic indicators to measures related to human happiness and wellbeing.",
        "在我们这个时代，联合国呼吁将人类幸福和福祉而非经济指标作为衡量政府成功的标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, although Obama also inherited two ongoing wars, nuclear-proliferation threats from Iran and North Korea, and the continuing problem of Al Qaeda’s terrorism, his early months in office were devoted to addressing the economic crisis at home and abroad.",
        "因此，尽管奥巴马接手了战争、伊朗和朝鲜核威胁以及基地组织恐怖主义等问题，但其白宫生涯的最初几个月都在应对国内外经济危机。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be morally repulsive to allow the junta’s members to retire with their ill-gotten gains, but any alternative will exact a dramatically higher price from Burma’s people.",
        "允许军政府的成员可以带着他们非法积聚的财物退休在道义也许令人难以接受，但是任何替代方案都将会使缅甸的百姓付出高得惊人的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "So what is the EU left with?",
        "那究竟欧盟手里还有什么本钱？"
    ],
    [
        "Some corporations are beginning to explore new “social business” approaches that will allow them to meet the needs of people and society in the developing world, while at the same time covering their costs, or even making a small profit.",
        "一些公司正在探索新的“社会企业”方法，该方法让它们满足发展中世界的需要，同时又能覆盖成本甚至略有盈利。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, sanctions have helped bring Iran to the bargaining table, though it is not clear how long its government will be willing to defer its nuclear ambitions.",
        "类似地，制裁还让伊朗重回谈判桌，尽管伊朗政府愿意将其核野心延缓多久还不得而知。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation in Spain is not as good.",
        "西班牙的状况没有意大利那么好。"
    ],
    [
        "The country remains the world’s largest creditor, and has slowly but steadily eliminated enormous non-performing loans in its banking sector.",
        "日本仍是世界最大的债权国，其银行部门正在缓慢但稳健地消灭巨量的不良贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "First, repair.",
        "首先是修复。"
    ],
    [
        "In foreign policy, the US has always had few checks on the president, though some external limitations may apply.",
        "在外交政策方面，美国对总统向来制衡很少，尽管一些外部限制可能会起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal consolidation therefore requires additional revenue as well as slower growth in entitlement spending.",
        "因此，财政整合就必须将开源和减缓福利支出增速结合起来。"
    ],
    [
        "The second fault line appeared alongside the refugee crisis.",
        "第二条断层线与难民危机有关。"
    ],
    [
        "For Hamas, strongly linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, the coup means losing Egypt’s support, which also implies that Israel is one of the countries that stand to benefit the most from the coup.",
        "对与穆斯林兄弟会关系密切的哈马斯来说，埃及政变意味着失去埃及的支持，这也意味着以色列将是政变的最大受益者之一。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s plutocracy contributes to homegrown violence as well.",
        "美国富豪也助推本土暴力。 美国凶杀率为10万分之3."
    ],
    [
        "It was to be the theme of his presidency.",
        "这也成了日后其总统生涯的主题。"
    ],
    [
        "And, like my father during the Dust Bowl years, they have novel means at their disposal: a wide range of new seeds and other technologies have been developed for African family farms – those with 4-5 acres or less – to use in the field.",
        "而且，就像当年尘暴期我的父亲一样，他们不乏新的手段可以支配：为非洲农场研发了各式各样的新种子和其他技术——那些拥有4-5英亩土地或者更少的农户可以在自己的田里利用新技术和种子。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet investments in new resource-saving technologies are not being made at a sufficient scale, because market signals don’t give the right incentives, and because governments are not yet cooperating adequately to develop and spread their use.",
        "然而因为市场信号没有给出正确的刺激，以及各国政府还没有在这方面进行充分的合作以发展及推广新节能技术的使用，在新节能技术上的投资还没有达到足够的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "Budget deficits automatically increase government debt, requiring higher future taxes to pay the interest on that debt.",
        "预算赤字会自动增加政府的债务，于是需要更高的税收来支付这些债务的利息。"
    ],
    [
        "But many other single-currency areas, including the US, display similar divergence.",
        "但在许多包括美国在内的其它的单一货币区，也显现出同样的分野现象。"
    ],
    [
        "The question, alas, is when and where.",
        "唉，问题在于何时、何地。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now tied with Pakistan – behind China, Malaysia, and the Philippines – on the list of major economies for which The Economist provides basic economic data.",
        "在由《经济学人》杂志提供基本经济数据的主要经济体排名中，印度目前与巴基斯坦不相上下——位列中国，马来西亚和菲律宾之后。"
    ],
    [
        "The asymmetrical response of the world’s two largest economies to their respective saving dilemmas has far-reaching consequences.",
        "世界前两大经济体对各自储蓄困境的不对称反应造成了影响深远的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, not all economists, or even a majority, are wedded to this view, as evidenced by the fact that both Thaler and I have been elected president, in successive years, of the American Economic Association, the main professional body for economists in the United States.",
        "当然，鉴于泰勒和我已经连续几年被选为美国经济学会（美国经济学者的主要专业组织）主席，可见并不是所有（或是大多数）经济学家都持有这样的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, outside of East Asia, progress has been modest, with the situation worsening in some countries and regions – despite several economic-growth spurts, sustained expansion in some large developing countries, and public commitments by the international community to the 2000 Millennium Declaration, which led to the MDGs.",
        "其实除东亚地区外扶贫的进展一直不大，尽管某些经济体增长迅速、发展中大国持续扩张且国际社会公开承诺支持实现千年发展目标的2000 千年宣言，但某些国家和地区的局势仍在持续恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Surowiecki argues, socialism has gone by the wayside, and there is no need to coopt the working class anymore.",
        "此外，索罗维基还指出，社会主义已经靠边站，也没有必要在拉拢工作阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "Some predict that this migration will take place as soon as the second half of this century.",
        "有人预计这场浩大的移民行动将在本世纪下半叶正式展开。"
    ],
    [
        "OPEC uses output cuts whenever possible to keep prices at levels that are at least an order of magnitude above the cost of production plus a reasonable return.",
        "石油输出国组织一有可能就实施减产，从而使石油的销售价格大大高于生产成本与合理回报之和。"
    ],
    [
        "As of last year, Xi has been officially declared the “core leader” of the CCP, a designation that his predecessor, Hu Jintao, never achieved.",
        "去年，习近平已正式宣布为党的“核心领袖”，这是其前任胡锦涛不曾实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "Joyce Karam, the Washington bureau chief of the Pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, believes that this is because “Muslim killing Muslim or Arab killing Arab seems more acceptable than Israel killing Arabs.”",
        "泛阿拉伯报纸《生活报》（Al-Hayat）华盛顿记者站主任乔伊斯·卡兰（Joyce Karam）认为其原因在于“穆斯林杀害穆斯林或阿拉伯人杀害阿拉伯人比以色列杀害阿拉伯人更容易接受。"
    ],
    [
        "The median income of a full-time male employee is lower than it was 40 years ago.",
        "一名全职男雇员的平均收入比40年前更低。"
    ],
    [
        "But that does not mean that we can afford to ignore an obvious threat from countries that want to destroy us.",
        "但是那并不意味着我们会对来自其他国家的想要毁灭我们的明显威胁置之不理。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, relatively little help has been forthcoming from the engineers and physicists in whom Trichet placed his faith, though there has been some response.",
        "虽然到目前为止已经得到一些回应，但特里谢从他所信任的工程师和物理学家那里获得的帮助还相对较少。"
    ],
    [
        "He has little sway over either the Kiev clan, led by Viktor Medvedchuk, Kuchma's chief of staff, or the Dnipropetrovsk clan of Viktor Pinchuk, Kuchma's son-in-law.",
        "他在由库马总统的总参谋长维克多·麦德伍申科领导的基辅派和由库马的女婿领导的宁普洛帕乔斯科派之间摇摆不定。"
    ],
    [
        "It is, of course, unlikely that dental health will ever secure a place on the United Nations development agenda.",
        "当然，牙齿健康也许永远不会被纳入联合国发展计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese stock-market capitalization grew from 44% of GDP at the end 2012 to 94% of GDP earlier this month.",
        "中国股市市值占GDP之比从2012年的44%增加到本月初的94%。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to direct investment, governments can also create incentives for the formation of these kinds of funds – for example, by guaranteeing bonds issued for biopharma research.",
        "除了直接投资，政府还可以为建立这类基金提供激励——比如为生物制药研究债券提供担保。"
    ],
    [
        "But intervention requires that the authorities first have both the reserves and the will to abandon (at least temporarily) their hands-off commitment to a floating exchange rate.",
        "但干预首先要求当局拥有储备，并愿意放弃（至少暂时放弃）它们不干涉浮动汇率的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "I can understand that some people are skeptical about the evidence, although I believe they are wrong about both that and the common sense of the issue.",
        "我可以理解，尽管某些人对于证据和有关这一问题的常识都持有错误的观念，他们还是怀疑证据。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it emphasizes the government’s commitment to “respect and protect human rights,” prohibiting law-enforcement authorities from extracting confessions “by torture, corporal punishment, or abuse” and abolishing widely criticized programs for “re-education through the labor system.”",
        "一是《决定》强调政府要“尊重和保护人权”，禁止执法当局“刑讯逼供，体罚虐待”，并废除了饱受批评的“劳动教养”制度。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s far-right National Front is currently second in opinion polls.",
        "法国的极右翼政党国民阵线（National Front）在目前的民调中名列榜眼。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s predatory approach – and its gloating over securing Hambantota – is ironic, to say the least.",
        "中国的侵略性方针——及其因为拿下了汉班托塔而表现出来的踌躇满志——很有讽刺意义。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, India’s exports of services are doing somewhat better, perhaps because of demand from the United States.",
        "与此同时，印度服务出口表现相对较好，原因可能是美国需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Training programs, including for green jobs, should be significantly increased.",
        "包括绿色职业在内的培训计划应该大力增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Assessments of the current economic situation and expectations for the next six months have worsened everywhere.",
        "各地对当前经济形势和对今后六个月的评估都恶化了。"
    ],
    [
        "Confusion, fear, ideology, and electoral self-interest all play a role in the readiness of many members of Congress – despite warnings from the Federal Reserve, the Congressional Budget Office, and most private forecasters – to make such an egregious mistake.",
        "困惑、恐惧、意识形态和选举利益在很多国会成员即将——尽管有来自美联储、国会预算办公室和许多私人预测机构的警告——犯下的这样一个惊人错误中起着一定的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Optimists imagine a scenario in which production is rationalized, pipelines are built, grids are interconnected, and gas from Bolivia, Argentina, or elsewhere fuels growth throughout the continent, benefiting everyone in the process.",
        "乐观者所想象的景象是生产合理、管网建设完全、电网互通，玻利维亚、阿根廷和其他地方的天然气能提振整个南美大陆的增长，并让所有人在此过程中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, China already experienced the impact of deleveraging late last year, when the European financial system seemed on the brink of collapse.",
        "事实上，去年年底欧洲金融市场在崩溃边缘摇摇欲坠时，中国便已经历了去杠杆化的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that Hong Kong is not an incipient nation-state, and it will not become one.",
        "现实是香港不是一个方兴未艾的民族国家，以后也不可能是。"
    ],
    [
        "The policy also helped to expand China’s foreign trade and boost its external financial strength (with a robust balance-of-payments position, large international reserves, and a stable currency), thereby creating space for Li to carry out his ambitious reform agenda.",
        "因为该政策同时也帮助扩大了中国的对外贸易并借助稳健的国际收支状况，巨额外汇储备和稳定的货币增强了自身外部金融实力，最终为李克强雄心勃勃的改革方案创造了空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Housing payments are higher because mortgages are of short duration (an average of ten years) and tight loan-to-value restrictions force borrowers to seek additional higher-cost loans from second-tier deposit institutions and non-financial companies.",
        "由于抵押期较短（平均十年），住房支出变得更高了，同时严厉的贷款占总房价比例限制迫使借款人额外从二级存款机构和非金融企业寻求更高成本贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "If those who insist on scorekeeping have their way, the US will be unable to exercise the leadership that the world needs.",
        "如果热衷计分派得势，美国将无法行使世界所需要的领导力。"
    ],
    [
        "How these funds are deployed will determine the shape of tomorrow’s economies and the state of the environment on which they depend.",
        "这些资金如何配置将决定未来经济的格局和我们所生活的环境的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "And remember that John Boehner stepped down as Speaker of the House in 2015 in part over similar budget struggles with the right wing of his party.",
        "并且不要忘了，2015年约翰·博纳（John Boehner）之所以失去众议长之位，部分原因就在于他的党派的右翼挑起了类似的预算纷争。"
    ],
    [
        "With populations worldwide aging fast, the scale of such challenges is growing exponentially, affecting not only health-care systems, but also economies, government policies, and, of course, families.",
        "随着全球人口加速老龄化，上述挑战的规模正在呈几何级数增长，结果不仅影响到医疗保健系统，也影响到经济、政府政策、当然也少不了家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "It would inherit its share of UK public-sector debt and future liabilities without the benefit of the substantial subsidy that it currently receives from the British Treasury.",
        "它将继承其在英国公共部门债务的相应部分以及未来负债，并且再也不能获得目前英国财政部所给予的巨额补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "From a ten-year perspective, the big gainers have been Hong Kong and Singapore.",
        "从十年视角看，大赢家是香港和新加坡。"
    ],
    [
        "That should hardly be surprising in an era of balance-sheet repair.",
        "在修复资产负债表的时代，这一点都不令人奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Trump administration takes aim at major foreign lenders – namely, China – its strategy could quickly backfire.",
        "如果特朗普政府将目标对准主要外国贷款人——即中国——其战略可能很快会适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "The principles that Ukraine is defending – the very principles on which the EU is based – will be abandoned, and the EU will have to spend a lot more money on defending itself than it would need to spend helping the new Ukraine succeed.",
        "乌克兰所捍卫的原则——即作为欧盟基础的原则——将会被抛弃，欧盟将不得不投入比帮助新乌克兰获得成功更多的钱捍卫它自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamilton made federal customs houses the key element of his proposal.",
        "在汉密尔顿的方案中，联邦关税机关是重要组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, the Fund must change how it is perceived from outside.",
        "总的来说，世界货币基金组织必须改变外界对它的观感。"
    ],
    [
        "The key is to focus on socioeconomic issues, rather than geopolitics.",
        "关键是要集中力量关注社会经济问题，而不是地缘政治。"
    ],
    [
        "While significant progress has been made – in July, the US, Italy, and Turkey did so – at least 14 more countries are needed.",
        "尽管取得了重大进展——7月份，美国、意大利和土耳其批准了这一修订案——但仍然需要14个国家的批准。"
    ],
    [
        "National greatness for a world power always arises from its ability to shape the world.",
        "一个世界强权国家的伟大来自于它塑造世界的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Now Russia’s invasion of Georgia has shattered even the illusion of attraction.",
        "现在，俄罗斯对格鲁吉亚的入侵甚至已经粉碎了中俄之间的吸引力幻想。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, we need a European economic stimulus program – a “Big Bargain” – and we need it now.",
        "最后，我们需要有一个欧洲经济刺激计划——一个“大甩卖”——我们现在就需要它。"
    ],
    [
        "The Trumping of US Foreign Policy",
        "美国外交政策的失败"
    ],
    [
        "Each country will try to design its stimulus package to maximize the impact on its own citizens – not the global impact.",
        "每个国家都力图让自己设计的一揽子经济刺激计划能够最大程度地造福于本国公民，而不是最大限度地影响全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "How will the Palestinian body politic deal with the growing power of the Islamic movements that undoubtedly will expect a significant share of power in post-withdrawal Gaza?",
        "巴勒斯坦国将如何应对实力日益增强的伊斯兰运动，面对他们在撤军后的加沙不可忽视的权力要求？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there is some evidence that the overwhelming majority of multi-millionaires in China are relatives of high-ranking Communist Party officials.",
        "事实上，有证据证明中国绝大多数百万富翁都是中共高官的亲戚。"
    ],
    [
        "After some successes, most notably in Chile, “neoliberal” advice in Latin America also failed, most dramatically in the case of Argentina’s currency board, but most damagingly by increasing inequality, which worsened the continent’s central political-economic problem.",
        "新自由主义在特别是智利取得一些成功以后在拉丁美洲也失败了。 最为明显的是在阿根廷的货币委员会，但是危害最大的在于增加了不平等，从而恶化了南美大陆的核心政治经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Where is it?",
        "帮助从何而来？"
    ],
    [
        "In 2015, Deere & Company reported $29 billion in sales, surpassing the $25 billion that Monsanto and Bayer made selling seeds and pesticides.",
        "2015年，迪尔公司披露的销售额为290亿美元，超过了卖种子和杀虫剂的孟山都和拜耳的250亿美元销售额。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also becoming more sustainable, in line with the shift in its growth model away from investment and exports and toward domestic demand and services.",
        "在其经济增长模式由投资出口向国内需求和服务转移后，其经济模式也变得更具可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Some in the financial sector would, of course, threaten dire consequences.",
        "当然，某些金融部门人士会威胁说，这将产生灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, however, Vietnam’s strategic significance has increased dramatically, owing to huge – and not always widely recognized – transformations in its economic performance and foreign-policy orientation.",
        "近年来，由于国内经济状况的改善和外交立场的转变（世人对此依然所知甚少），越南在战略重要性也再度凸显出来。"
    ],
    [
        "So the European Union and the other Kyoto parties (the United States never ratified the agreement, and the Protocol’s terms asked little of China, India, and other emerging powers) must commit to a second commitment period, in order to ensure that this legal framework is maintained.",
        "因此欧盟和京都议定书的其他各方（美国从未批准过该协议，中国、印度和其他新兴大国也不受京都议定书约束）必须提交第二承诺期，以确保这一法律框架能够得以延续。"
    ],
    [
        "If markets are confused or pessimistic about China’s longer-term agenda, but if the direction of structural change and reform is positive, there may be investment opportunities that were absent in the more exuberant recent past.",
        "如果市场混淆了中国的长期日程或对此表示悲观，但结构性变化和改革的方向是积极的，那么将会出现在刚刚过去的较为繁荣的光景中所找不到的投资机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The first two components (or “arrows”) of Abenomics – loose monetary and fiscal policies – helped to restore demand.",
        "安倍经济学的前两项举措（也叫前两支“箭”）——宽松的货币和财政政策——有效地恢复了需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Allegations that the scheme lacks nutritional value have been disproved.",
        "批评该制度没有营养价值的人是信口胡说。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, if you are from the upper class, you lay it on thick, you turn yourself into a caricature of the higher born, like the old-fashioned aristocrat who despises the timid bourgeois, but gets on fine with his gamekeeper.",
        "恰恰相反，如果你来自上层、造型古怪、把自己变成一幅上层人物的讽刺画，就像老式贵族藐视胆小的资产阶级，但却能与猎场看守人和谐地相处。"
    ],
    [
        "Ibrahim wants to stamp out corruption, to see the rule of law applied everywhere, to foster policy environments that encourage businesses to start up and thrive, and to strengthen the role of women.",
        "易卜拉辛希望驱除腐败，希望看到法治之光普照各国，培养出鼓励商业生长繁荣的政策土壤，并加强女性的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Another compelling explanation comes from a venture capitalist who credits Chinese society with copious reserves of entrepreneurial energy that derives, he believes, from the fact that Chinese culture attaches very little shame to failing in a business enterprise.",
        "另外一个有说服力的解释来自一位冒险资本家，他认为中国社会充满了创业能量的丰富储备，而在他看来，这些能量储备都源自于中国文化对创业失败几乎不加任何羞辱的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Once again, Greece’s creditors put the cart before the horse, by insisting that the new loan be agreed before any discussion of debt relief.",
        "希腊债权人再一次本末倒置——他们要求先同意新贷款，然后再讨论债务纾困。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes, opponents of a nominee merely want to make a point, or to cultivate donors (an activity that can seep into any issue in Washington).",
        "有时，被提名人的反对者仅仅是为了表明立场，或者争取献金（在华盛顿，任何问题都会有这种行为渗透）。"
    ],
    [
        "Multiples of that amount, however, simply end up as gifts by the public to a few individuals.",
        "数倍于此的回报不过是公众给少数个人的大礼。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, roughly 1% of China’s population – about 12 million people – is migrating to cities each year.",
        "此外，每年有大约1%的中国人口——即1200万人——迁往城市。"
    ],
    [
        "The implications are far-reaching.",
        "影响是深远的。"
    ],
    [
        "With a list of assets in hand, and a proper understanding of their market value, taxpayers, politicians, and investors can better reckon with the long-term consequences of political decisions.",
        "手握资产清单并准确理解资产的市场价值，纳税人、政治家和投资者就可以更好地思考决策的长期后果。"
    ],
    [
        "With core buyers pulling back, and the opportunity cost rising, the end of the art bubble will not be a pretty picture.",
        "随着核心买家的离场和机会成本的上升，艺术品泡沫的最终结局画面也许不会好看。"
    ],
    [
        "He preferred to help steer Europe toward monetary and political union, just when its economy had begun to fall behind the rest of the world.",
        "他更愿意推动欧洲向货币和政治联盟的方向发展，彼时欧洲经济刚刚开始落后于世界其他地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, there is a simple solution to these problems.",
        "幸运的是，对于这些问题有一个简单的解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "China still hews to Mao Zedong’s belief that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”",
        "中国依然坚信毛泽东“枪杆子里面出政权”的信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "But we must likewise be united in seeking to avoid an upward spiral of antagonism and confrontation.",
        "但我们必须同样团结寻求避免对立与冲突的上升螺旋。"
    ],
    [
        "Commercial banks found it advantageous to accumulate weaker countries’ bonds to earn a few extra basis points, which caused interest rates to converge across the eurozone.",
        "商业银行发现，囤积疲软国债券以赚取额外几个基点是有利可图的，这导致了整个欧元区利率的趋同。"
    ],
    [
        "Under farming methods that were universal 50 years ago, and that are still common in some countries today, all animals have the space to turn around and stretch their limbs.",
        "按照50年非常流行、今天在某些乡村地区也仍在沿用的养殖方式，所有动物都不缺少转身和伸展肢体的空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatively, knowing that they cannot fire permanent workers, firms may remain tiny in order to remain below the authorities’ radar.",
        "此外，明知道不能解雇固定工，企业就会选择不扩大规模以躲避政府机构的监控。"
    ],
    [
        "Protecting Zimbabwe",
        "保护津巴布韦"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks partly to their efforts, the public tends to be knowledgeable and vigilant about encroachment on Hong Kong’s freedoms, such as the recent abduction of five book publishers by mainland agents.",
        "部分拜他们的努力所赐，香港公众大多察觉并警惕对香港的自由的侵犯，如最近大陆特工绑架五名图书出版人的事件。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the environment should allow the animals to perform the behaviors normal for their species.",
        "此外，给动物提供的环境应该使它们能够进行一些对它们的种类来说正常的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "If they do not, 2015 could mark the return of a European and world order that was supposedly overcome seven decades ago.",
        "如果他们不明白这一点，2015年可能标志着欧洲和世界秩序退回到70年前的老样子。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, just 100 miles inland, in California’s Central Valley, unemployment rates remain in the double digits (11.2% in Fresno and 10.4% in Modesto), with average family income amounting to less than half of that in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley.",
        "事实上，距离硅谷不过100英里的加州中央山谷（Central Valley）失业率一直保持两位数（Fresno市为11. 2%，Modesto市为10."
    ],
    [
        "The answer to that question will likely determine whether the international order retains any order to speak of in the years ahead.",
        "这个问题的答案很有可能决定了国际秩序在未来几年中能否保留现有顺序。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, a “hung parliament” could see a “third front” coming to power as a minority government, supported tactically by one of the big parties.",
        "如果这种情况真的发生的话，就会出现一个无任何党派占明显多数的议会，一个由少数派执政的一个政府，称为“第三阵线”，有可能得到某个大党口头上的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas US MNCs must pay the high US corporate tax rate on profits earned by their affiliates in low-tax foreign locations, MNCs headquartered in territorial systems pay only the local tax rate on such profits.",
        "美国跨国公司在低税率的海外地区赚得的利润也必须缴纳高昂的美国公司税，而总部设在领地税收制度地区的跨国公司的这类利润只需要按当地税率纳税。"
    ],
    [
        "I, for one, am not convinced.",
        "我本人不相信这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The Basic Law embodies this vision, laying the foundations for our development over a 50-year period and providing the freedom and the power for us to position ourselves as Asia’s world city – and to do it on our own.",
        "基本法体现了我们对未来的这一展望，为香港未来50年的发展奠定了基础，并赋予了我们自由与力量，使我们能够自力更生地将香港建设成为亚洲的国际都会。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s developing countries, the bulk of excess labor is absorbed in non-tradable services operating at very low levels of productivity, in activities such as retail trade and housework.",
        "在今天的发展中国家，大部分过剩劳动力被零售贸易和家政等不可贸易服务业吸收，这些部门生产率水平很低。"
    ],
    [
        "The burgeoning fishery and aquaculture sector is benefiting from species with better yields and greater resistance to disease and stress.",
        "迅速发展的渔业和水产养殖业受益于产量更高、抗病和抗压能力更强的物种。"
    ],
    [
        "This can be done without announcing a specific target level for the exchange rate.",
        "这样做还无需宣布一个具体的目标汇率水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in many cases, inflows are driven by short-term factors, fads, and irrational exuberance, which can lead to an overvalued currency, the crowding out of non-traditional export sectors or import-competing sectors, a loss of competitiveness, and eventually a large current-account deficit and thus tighter external constraints on growth.",
        "但在许多情况下，驱动资本流入的是短期因素、市场狂热和非理性繁荣。 它们会导致货币高估，非传统出口行业（non-traditional export sectors）和进口竞争型行业（import-competing sectors）被挤出，出口竞争力丧失，最终导致经常项目下的大赤字，使得经济增长面临更严峻的外部制约。"
    ],
    [
        "The northern business and political elite see him as a bulwark against their increasingly restive southern rivals who openly threaten a repeat of the Igbo attempt to secede in 1967 that caused the Biafra conflict, taking the rich oil fields of the Niger delta with them.",
        "北方的商界和政界精英把他当作阻挡越来越难以控制的南方对手的一道屏障，这些南方人公开威胁要步1967年伊博族退出联邦的后尘，这次行动是比夫拉冲突的导火索，他们离开时带走了尼日尔三角洲富庶的油田。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes its owners use it in hugely generous amounts for great public gain.",
        "因为有时财富的拥有者散尽千金，只为了大众的福祉。"
    ],
    [
        "In fairness, it should be acknowledged that it was under Schroeder that Germany shed hesitations to deploy soldiers abroad.",
        "凭心而论，应该承认德国正是在施罗德的领导下才打消了向海外派兵的顾虑。"
    ],
    [
        "After laboring over subtleties of translation and possible extraneous associations that might bias respondents’ answers, we arrived at a set of virtually identical questionnaires in both Russian and English.",
        "在仔细研究了两种语言之间的微妙翻译差异并排除了可能导致受访者答案产生偏差的不相干关联后，我们拿出了两份几乎相同的俄语和英语问卷。"
    ],
    [
        "We will have to learn how to live, and thrive, in this new world.",
        "我们将需要学习如何在这个新的世界生存和实现繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, we have become dangerously exposed to systemic risks that transcend borders.",
        "结果令我们受到跨越国界的系统性风险威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "By concentrating on policies to sustain integration while at the same preserving the European social model, the European Council would again become a relevant policy forum where the real needs and hopes of citizens could find effective responses.",
        "通过集中精力关注鼓励移民的政策，同时又维护欧洲的社会模式，欧洲理事会将会再次成为能够有效回应公民的真实需求和希望的政策论坛。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fund will play its part, but all these actions are needed to reinforce the credibility of the coordinated global response to the crisis.",
        "基金组织将发挥它应有的作用，但是我们还需要采取所有这些行动以提高全球共同应对危机的可信度。"
    ],
    [
        "If the government continues to pursue this policy, the salutary effects in terms of public trust in the country’s businesses and institutions will help ensure stable, sustainable economic growth for years to come.",
        "如果政府继续推行上述政策，那么公众对国家商业和机构信赖的有益效果将协助确保在未来若干年内继续有稳定、可持续的经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone leaders’ summit on June 28-29 in Brussels now looks like the most far-reaching and satisfactory recent attempt at European diplomacy.",
        "6月28—29日的欧元区领导人布鲁塞尔峰会貌似称得上近来欧洲外交事务上影响最深远、效果最令人满意的外交事件。"
    ],
    [
        "However, although about 15 Battlegroups have been created – two of which are, at any time, on permanent call for six months – none has actually been deployed since the Artemis “prototype” mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003. As time passes, a concept without real commitment in the field may eventually raise suspicions about its relevance.",
        "可是，尽管约15个战斗集群已经建立，而且其中两个在六个月中随时随地处于备战状态，但自从2003年民主刚果共和国的阿蒂米斯（Artemis）榜样任务结束后，一个在战场上没有实际用武之地的空洞概念可能最终招致对其存在价值的质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, at the same time, the US supports Abu Mazen, trying to undermine the Hamas government, thus casting a shadow on the credibility of its own commitment to democracy.",
        "但是，与此同时，美国支持阿布·马赞，试图削弱哈马斯政府，因此对其自身对民主的承诺的恶可信度投下阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "Next time could be an even worse horror show.",
        "下一次，我们可能迎来更加恐怖的一幕。"
    ],
    [
        "Nationalist Turks, on the other hand, regard joining the EU mainly as a confirmation of national power and view all criticism of the country as a violation of Turks’ collective honor.",
        "另一方面，土耳其的民族主义者主要把加入欧盟视为对其国力的确认，而且将对其国家的所有批评都看作是对土耳其人集体荣誉的破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "The primary, and most pressing, of the problems we face is the financial and economic crisis that is enveloping the EU.",
        "我们面临的主要、也是最为迫切的问题是正在席卷欧盟的金融和经济危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The implication is that we should punish offenders rather than restrict gun circulation.",
        "”言下之意是，我们应该惩罚罪犯，而不是限制枪支流通。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that emerging markets that benefited after the 2008 crisis from China’s economic growth, rising commodity prices, and cheap foreign capital must now adjust to reversals in all of these factors.",
        "现实是在2008年危机后受益于中国经济增长、大宗商品价格上涨和廉价外国资本的新兴市场现在必须适应所有这些因素的一齐逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "He suddenly saw the desirability of getting rid of his chemical weapons.",
        "他突然认识到销毁化学武器的益处。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s New Latin Beat",
        "中国的新拉丁政策"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, China has since been testing Japan’s resolve and America’s assurances, though US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent and resolute affirmation of her country’s commitment to Japan’s security should put an end to any suspicion in that regard.",
        "结果，中国开始试探日本的决心和美国的保障力度，尽管美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿最近坚决重申美国对日安全承诺应该为任何这方面的疑虑画上了一个句号。"
    ],
    [
        "This scenario is not inevitable, and it certainly will not be on the minds of Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin when they meet in Moscow.",
        "这一情景并不是不可避免的，也必然不是习近平和俄罗斯总统普京在莫斯科会晤时的心中所愿。"
    ],
    [
        "The damage that slavery and colonialism inflicted in these countries has left a powerful legacy.",
        "奴隶制和殖民主义所称对这些国家所造成的伤害构成了一个影响巨大的历史遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil benefits a handful of princes.",
        "石油收益则是一小撮贵族的禁脔。"
    ],
    [
        "But policies based on science and data have a short half-life at the UN.",
        "但是基于科学和数据的政策在联合国的半衰期很短。"
    ],
    [
        "I’ve seen this for myself during recent travels to Benin, Ghana, Ethiopia, Egypt, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa.",
        "这些是我在不久前访问贝宁、加纳、埃塞俄比亚、埃及、纳米比亚、尼日利亚、塞内加尔和南非等国家时亲眼所见。"
    ],
    [
        "Put another way, how can we construct a new social contract for the digital age?",
        "换句话说，我们如何构建数字时代的新社会契约？"
    ],
    [
        "The improbable theme that Russian President Vladimir Putin chose for the conference is energy security.",
        "俄罗斯总统普京为本次会议所选择的不大可能的主题是能源安全。"
    ],
    [
        "In its 2009 intelligence assessment (the TE-SAT Terrorism Situation and Trend Report), Europol concluded that “Pakistan [has] replaced Iraq as preferred destinations for volunteers wishing to engage in armed conflict.”",
        "在欧盟2009年的情报评估（TE-SAT报告，即《恐怖主义现状及趋势报告》）中，欧盟的政治家得出了这样的结论， “ 巴基斯坦已经取代伊拉克成为渴望介入军事冲突的志愿者的理想集散地。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine last month, Chinese leaders predictably condemned his decision to honor those behind “the war of aggression against China.”",
        "东京—当日本首相安倍晋三拜访存在争议的东京靖国神社时，中国领导人如意料之中谴责安倍瞻仰“侵华战争”背后的人。"
    ],
    [
        "By reducing the number of infections, they limit the need for medication.",
        "疫苗通过降低感染数量限制药物需求。"
    ],
    [
        "American consumers’ unprecedented retrenchment has turned the US economy’s growth calculus inside out.",
        "美国消费者前所未有的紧缩态度已经将美国经济增长预测翻了个底朝天。"
    ],
    [
        "Cynics privately add that hyperinflation may not be such a bad thing after all, because it would force local politicians to reform.",
        "犬儒主义者还夹带私货，指出恶性通胀也许并不那么糟糕，因为它将迫使地方政客实施改革。"
    ],
    [
        "And exports of raw materials to China, India, Europe, and the US – a key factor in Africa’s recent growth surge – may suffer simply because the global slowdown means less consumption everywhere.",
        "向中国，印度，欧洲和美国出口原材料是非洲最近经济飙升的一个关键因素，但这种出口可能受挫，因为全球经济下滑意味着每个地区都会减少消费。"
    ],
    [
        "By addressing its shortcomings, Islamic finance could encourage inclusive growth in many developing countries.",
        "如果能够克服这些短处，伊斯兰金融将有助于大量发展中国家的普惠增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as the world’s fifth-largest economy, the UK probably would not find it easy to negotiate favorable trade deals with giants like America, Japan, and China.",
        "即使身为世界第五大经济体，英国想与美国、日本和中国等巨头谈判有利的贸易协议恐怕也是难上加难。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – The most important economic-policy decision of 2013 might well have been taken in November at the Third Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee, which pledged that the market should be given a “decisive” role in guiding China’s economy.",
        "布鲁塞尔—2013年所做出的最重要经济政策决策大概要数11月中共十八大三中全会的决定了——市场应该在指导中国经济中起“决定性”作用。"
    ],
    [
        "An influx of Western NGOs often bids talent away from nascent businesses that could help the country long after the NGOs reset their priorities and move on.",
        "每当大量非政府组织涌入，它们通常会从当地新生的医疗机构中招募人才，一旦这些组织完成任务撤离，就只留下残缺不全的机构长期服务这个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Complicating matters further are the US congressional elections in November.",
        "十一月的美国国会选举使事情变得更加复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the West in general, and the EU in particular, perpetuates the economic, environmental, and military factors driving the unfolding humanitarian disaster.",
        "与此同时，西方特别是欧盟导致了引发人道主义灾难的经济、环境和军事因素始终难以根治。"
    ],
    [
        "The structure and timing of performance pay in banks must be more closely aligned to long-term shareholder interests and financial stability.",
        "银行绩效工资的支付结构和支付时间，必须和股东的长期利益以及金融稳定更紧密的联系起来。"
    ],
    [
        "From Thailand and Indonesia to South Korea and Taiwan, China was widely thought to be next.",
        "危机从泰国和印尼，蔓延到韩国和台湾，人们普遍认为中国将是下一个。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a 2007 study of Lebanon’s copyright-based industries, conducted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the main challenges facing the country’s software sector – an important part of its economy – include restricted markets, intense competition, a brain drain (loss of human capital), inadequate technology policy, a lack of government incentives, and rampant piracy.",
        "世界知识产权组织的2007年黎巴嫩基于版权的产业研究表明，黎巴嫩软件业——其经济的重要组成部分——所面临的主要挑战包括受限的市场、激烈的竞争、人才流失（人力资本损失）、技术政策不充分、政府激励缺失和盗版横行。"
    ],
    [
        "Money put into banks and other financial intermediaries (such as pension and insurance funds) can finance productive activities or short-term speculation (for example, consumer loans and real estate).",
        "存入银行和其他金融中介（如退休基金和保险资金）的钱可以用于生产性活动，也可以用于短期投机（如消费贷款和房地产）。"
    ],
    [
        "The basis for this claim was a single report from the World Wildlife Fund that itself cited only one study, which didn’t even look at climate change, but rather at the impact of human activities like logging and burning.",
        "然而这一结论却只是基于世界自然基金会的一份报告，而这个报告只引用了一个单一的研究，那份研究甚至跟气候变化无关，仅仅是描述了人类砍伐和焚烧所带来的影响而已。"
    ],
    [
        "So, when we decide to fight a war against them, we have to consider very carefully the character of that war, its duration, and the effect of its violence.",
        "因此，当我们决定向他们发动战争时，我们必须考虑这场战争的性质、持续时间及其暴力造成的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But that proposal was a trap that would have destroyed the possibility of an independent, contiguous Palestinian state.",
        "但是这一建议是一个陷阱，将会破坏建立独立和临近的巴勒斯坦国家的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "For adolescent girls, early marriage or an unwanted pregnancy typically curtails schooling.",
        "对青春期女童而言，早婚和意外怀孕通常会打断她们的教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Another group also succumbed to this delusion.",
        "另外一群人也被错觉所蒙蔽。"
    ],
    [
        "For years, ordinary Saudis watched with envy parliamentary debates on Arab satellite channels, in countries richer than theirs, such as Kuwait, as well as in poorer ones, such as Yemen and Jordan.",
        "几年来，沙特的平民百姓羡慕地看着卫星电视上一些其他国家进行议会辩论，其中不乏比他们富裕的国家，如科威特，以及比他们贫穷的国家，比如也门和约旦。"
    ],
    [
        "Or you will be told stories about how Saudi trained imams are twisting the girls’ arms, turning them into unwilling stalking-horses for “Islam.”",
        "或者你会被告知沙特受过训练的伊玛目怎样扭住女孩子的手臂，把她们变成“伊斯兰教”不情愿的掩饰物的故事。"
    ],
    [
        "The Secretary General is positioned to make this point loudly and repeatedly.",
        "联合国秘书长有实力大力并且不断地宣传这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it did anything but that.",
        "但什么都发生了，唯独这一幕没有发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Punjab is controlled by India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party, in alliance with a powerful regional party, the Shiromani Akali Dal, neither of which was pleased by the film’s portrayal of the state they rule.",
        "旁遮普由印度执政党印度人民党联合强大的地区政党锡克教的阿卡利党（Shiromani Akali Dal）控制，两个政党都对影片对它们所治理的邦的描述感到不满。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, we can deal with the problem to some extent by using modern technology or video replays to review controversial refereeing decisions.",
        "为什么职业足球球员的这种行为这么少呢？ 可能是过度支持一边的文化压过了道德价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s recent election hinged critically on Abe’s views of the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy stance.",
        "日本近期的选举与安倍对日本银行货币政策立场的见解紧密联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Can the Palestinians rise to the political moment and take advantage of the pressure coming from US President Barack Obama?",
        "巴勒斯坦人又能否把握好这个政治时机，并有效借助奥巴马对以方所施加的压力？"
    ],
    [
        "A Standby Program for the Eurozone",
        "欧元区的备选方案"
    ],
    [
        "The law has proven to be a powerful tool in stifling dissent, which can include mass protests against election fraud, journalists working to expose corruption, or a librarian in Siberia fulfilling a patron’s request for a banned book.",
        "该法已被证明是清除异端的有力工具，“异端”可以包括反对选举欺诈的游行群众、揭露腐败的记者，或是满足来客阅览禁书要求的西伯利亚图书管理员。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan’s Black Revolution",
        "巴基斯坦的黑色革命"
    ],
    [
        "The international community is again firmly focused on China’s relationship with its rogue ally, and expects that, as an emerging superpower seeking to reassure the world of its peaceful rise, China will play a constructive role.",
        "国际社会又开始密切关注中国与其难以控制的盟友之间的关系，并希望中国作为一个想要向世界昭示自身和平崛起的新兴超级大国能发挥建设性的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "If they were not following precise orders, they were at least responding to vague pro forma instructions from the top: don't do anything illegal, just maximize profits.",
        "如果不是执行特别的指令，至少也是在对他们心目中的上层意愿做出回应：别违法，只要尽量多赚利润。"
    ],
    [
        "The first thing that many people ask about charities is, “How much of my donation is spent on administration?”",
        "许多人对慈善组织提出的第一个问题就是：我的捐款的多大部分用于行政管理？"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, North Korea’s leaders are clearly betting that they can get away with what they have done, and that the world will get used to their nuclear weapons program, much as it did with Israel, India, and Pakistan.",
        "然而，北朝鲜的领导人显然认定他们不会受到任何惩罚，并且世界将慢慢地习惯于他们的核计划，就像对以色列、印度和巴基斯坦那样。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1990s, the newspaper Asahi Shimbun caused a firestorm at home and in South Korea by publishing a series of articles, based upon testimony by the former Japanese soldier Seiji Yoshida, on “comfort women” – Koreans forced to provide sexual services to the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.",
        "20世纪90年代，《朝日新闻》发表了一系列基于前日军士兵吉田清治（Seiji Yoshida）回忆的关于“慰安妇”的文章。 二战期间，许多韩国妇女被迫为大日本帝国皇军提供性服务，被称为慰安妇。"
    ],
    [
        "This page-window format is known as Window-Icon-Mouse-Pointer, or WIMP, which, due to monopoly forces, has been the universal paradigm since the 1980’s – ancient history in computer years.",
        "这种页面视窗格式就是知名的窗像单点界面，即WIMP，该界面因为垄断力量，从20世纪80年代起——在电脑的年代中属于久远的历史时代了，就成为通用的范式。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite international resolutions prohibiting attacks on health-care facilities, such attacks are a regular occurrence.",
        "尽管国际决议禁止对医疗卫生设施发动袭击，但这样的袭击却依旧屡见不鲜。"
    ],
    [
        "For, even if America’s banks were healthy, household wealth has been devastated, and Americans were borrowing and consuming on the assumption that house prices would rise forever.",
        "因为，即便假设美国的银行是健康的，但家庭财富也已经损失殆尽，而美国人的借贷和消费是建立在房价会永远上涨的基础之上的。"
    ],
    [
        "That explains why the ECB, and some EU governments, are keen on the Capital Markets Union project, which aims to find ways to stimulate the growth of non-bank financing channels across the continent.",
        "这解释了为何欧洲央行，以及一些欧盟政府，热衷于资本市场联盟工程，这项工程的目标是找到办法刺激整个欧洲的非银行融资渠道的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "This historical perspective suggests three conclusions.",
        "这一历史角度意味着三点。"
    ],
    [
        "The HTF is funded by the federal gasoline tax, which is the federal government’s single most important source of transportation funding.",
        "公路信托基金的资金来源是联邦汽油税，这也是联邦政府最为重要的交通融资源。"
    ],
    [
        "But with great power comes great responsibility – and, at this point, Xi’s power is virtually absolute.",
        "但随大权力一同到来的是大责任——而就这一点而论，习近平的权力几乎是绝对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Without this guarantee, fewer would have invested in the capacity to satisfy the US market.",
        "如果不是因为这一协定，可能如今也就不会有那么多墨西哥商人为了进军美国市场而追加资本，扩充实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking at Greece, these economists argue that a shift in fiscal policy to “austerity” – a smaller public sector – has brought an acute deficiency of demand and thus a depression.",
        "在希腊问题上，这些经济学家认为，财政政策转向“紧缩”——即缩小公共部门——导致了需求急剧萎缩，从而发生萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "It is only logical, on this view, that Kim Jong-un wants to avoid the mistake made by Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, both of whom would still be alive and in power had they acquired deliverable nuclear weapons.",
        "这样看来，金正日想要避免伊拉克的萨达姆和利比亚的卡扎菲的覆辙相当合理，萨达姆和卡扎菲当初要是已经获得了可发射的核武器的话，现在肯定还活着掌权。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – Over the years, advanced and developing countries have experimented, sometimes deliberately and frequently inadvertently, with a variety of approaches to growth.",
        "米兰—多年来，发达和发展中国家试验了一系列增长办法——有时是有意为之，大部分是无心插柳。"
    ],
    [
        "This kind of redundancy is actually efficient in the long run, as each player experiments and all of them learn from everyone’s failures and successes.",
        "这种冗余实际从长远来看更有效益，因为每家公司都勇于实验，并从其他人的成败当中吸取经验。"
    ],
    [
        "This, too, has its roots in domestic politics – financial and business elites’ grip on the policymaking process and the narratives they have spun about the limits of redistributive policies.",
        "其根源同样来源于国内政治——具体而言，是金融和商业精英控制决策过程以及他们胡编乱造的有关再分配政策的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of its recent borrowing violates key tenets of hard-earned wisdom gained in past crises: it is foreign exchange-denominated, short-term, shadow-bank-intermediated, and housing-backed.",
        "很多近期借贷违反了过去危机中来之不易的重要原则：债务以外币计价、期限较短、由影子银行居中撮合并以房屋作为抵押。"
    ],
    [
        "The elder statesman of this generation of pragmatists died last week.",
        "这一代务实主义者的老大哥上周逝世了。"
    ],
    [
        "China has emphasized its cultural and economic strengths, but it has paid less attention to the political aspects that can undermine its efforts.",
        "中国强调其文化和经济强势，但不太关注可能破坏其努力的政治角度。"
    ],
    [
        "Reality has disappointed.",
        "但现实却让人们失望了。"
    ],
    [
        "The second case for expansionary fiscal contraction is subtler.",
        "另一种扩张性财政收缩则更为隐蔽。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, an intellectual property regime rewards innovators by creating a temporary monopoly power, allowing them to charge far higher prices than they could if there were competition.",
        "与此相反，知识产权体系通过赋予创新者暂时的垄断权力来对其努力进行褒奖，允许他们制定比竞争情况下高得多的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if used as a transitional measure to help jump-start an economy or to provide a buffer from negative demand shocks, such efforts can be highly beneficial.",
        "但如果作为过渡性措施，以快速重启经济或作为负需求冲击的缓冲垫，这种做法可以是非常有益的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the DSM’s history reveals many such errors of over-inclusiveness.",
        "事实上，在这本手册的前几版中就不乏这类因诊断条件过于宽泛而导致的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Rodents, in particular, are sensitive to these noises, and studies show that this sensitivity does not diminish with time, as is commonly assumed.",
        "啮齿类动物对这些噪音尤其敏感，并且研究显示这种敏感性并不会像通常预期的那样随着时间的推移而有所减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – Competition for strategic natural resources – including water, mineral ores, and fossil fuels – has always played a significant role in shaping the terms of the international economic and political order.",
        "新德里——由水、矿石和化石燃料等战略自然资源所引发的竞争一直在国际政治经济秩序的形成中发挥重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the European Border Agency will become operational in 2005.",
        "另外，欧洲边境局将于2005年开始工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Libor Unplugged",
        "被断开的伦敦银行间拆借利率"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere in Europe, populists are demanding that the drawbridges of trade be raised.",
        "在欧洲其他国家，民粹主义者正在要求建设贸易壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "Such might have been the case, four years earlier, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, had Kennedy not died from his wounds.",
        "约翰·F·肯尼迪被刺后，如果没有因伤死亡，那么就有可能按照这项程序的规定提前四年结束任期。"
    ],
    [
        "One is that a surprising number of populist leaders have managed to get themselves into power in recent years.",
        "一是近年来成功掌权的民粹主义领导人竟然如此众多。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – This Christmas, like every Christmas, thousands of pilgrims and tourists will travel to the Middle East to celebrate the holiday in the land of the Bible.",
        "普林斯顿—今年圣诞节和所有的圣诞节一样，成千上万的朝圣者和游客将前往中东，在《圣经》的土地上庆祝节日。"
    ],
    [
        "A well-organized team would collapse like a house of cards, and the hopes for future space research and missile design would be dashed, threatening the country’s security.",
        "一个组织良好的团队就会像一座纸牌搭的房子那样倒塌，而且，未来空间研究和导弹设计的希望就会破灭，从而威胁国家安全。"
    ],
    [
        "The information revolution has created a more global, interdependent, and transparent world than ever.",
        "信息革命造就了一个更全球化、更相互依赖、更透明的世界，这是前所未有的。"
    ],
    [
        "It adulterated nuclear-related exports from European vendors to perform poorly during operation.",
        "美国还在欧洲供应企业出口的核货物中掺假，破坏其在使用中的性能。"
    ],
    [
        "The Communist Party’s official verdict, undoubtedly the product of fierce ideological disputes, is that he was a great Marxist and revolutionary, whose “gross mistakes” during the Cultural Revolution were outweighed by his contribution to China.",
        "而中国共产党的官方定论，则无可争议的是激烈的思想政治斗争的产物，即：毛泽东是一位伟大的马克思主义者和革命家，而他在文化大革命期间犯下的“重大错误”则不及他对中国所作出的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that complex algorithms that set prices in a way that maximizes profits, and the company’s dominance seems relatively secure.",
        "此外亚马逊还拥有复杂的算法，可以制定利润最大化价格，并且其主宰地位相对稳固。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s shift has been dramatic.",
        "中国的投资转变非常剧烈。"
    ],
    [
        "Countering the Contagious West",
        "抵御西方传染病"
    ],
    [
        "This would mean that China’s much-publicized effort to boost domestic consumption might in fact call for appropriate credit-market reforms.",
        "这将意味着中国大肆宣扬的刺激国内消费计划可能需要呼唤适当的信贷市场改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, Daoud’s travails are just one example of legitimate intellectual inquiry degenerating into political bickering over whether it is acceptable to criticize Islam.",
        "可悲的是，达乌德的艰苦努力仅仅是合法的知识探索沦落为能否批评伊斯兰教的政治争吵的一个实例而已。"
    ],
    [
        "The opposition, of course, was perplexed by the US call for compromise without any serious call to review the vote itself.",
        "当然，反对派对美国在没有严肃呼吁重审选票的情况下就疾呼分享权力的做法感到迷惑不解。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union, and even more so the eurozone, was constructed on the expectation that the exercise of national sovereignty would fade away over time.",
        "欧盟建立的基础是期望国家主权的行使会随着时间的推移而逐渐消失——欧元区更是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Observers often cite loss of habitat in the face of population growth, land degradation, and industrialization.",
        "观察者常用的论据包括人口增长导致栖息地收缩、土地退化以及工业化。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that the short-lived story of Italy’s jumbo IMF package, which was to be funded largely by non-European money, can be regarded as a game changer: while Italy may never receive such a package, Europe, it seems, is determined to resolve its problems using other people’s money.",
        "这意味着短命的IMF意大利融资计划流言——这笔资金将主要来自非欧洲资源——可视为博弈变化器：意大利也许永远不会收到这笔钱，但欧洲似乎已下定决心要用他人的钱来解决自己的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "All have now burst into the open.",
        "所有这些问题现在都已公开爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the tax changes in such a stimulus package should provide incentives to increase spending by households and businesses.",
        "同样的，新的税改方案也应该是为了有利于企业家庭增加支出而设计的。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – The idea of integrating Israel into NATO has frequently been advanced as bait to encourage the Jewish state to make the necessary concessions for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.",
        "发自马德里 —— 将以色列整合进北约的构想经常被作为某种诱饵而被提出来，以吸引前者对巴以和平协定做出必要的让步。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the new constitution strengthens the powers of the prime minister and enables him to call early elections in the event of a government crisis.",
        "新宪法尤其强化了总理的权力，使其能够在政府危机的情况下召集提前选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Western journalists fight back when governments threaten their ability to gather the information they need.",
        "大多数西方记者在收集信息的能力遭到政府的威胁时会进行抵抗和反击。"
    ],
    [
        "This horrible conflict is being addressed through threats of military force, sanctions, and generally the language of war and peacekeeping.",
        "人们正试图通过军事、制裁威胁以及战争维和语言来化解这次可怕的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "During the recent visit of a high-level North Korean delegation to the US, there were encouraging signals that its rulers would welcome increased economic contacts, including with international financial institutions.",
        "在朝鲜高层代表团近期访美期间，大家看到了令人鼓舞的信号，这些信号传达出朝鲜统治者欢迎与包括国际金融组织在内的外部世界建立进一步的经济联系；"
    ],
    [
        "The dynamics of the region changed when the Afghan freedom fighters of 1980’s were converted into “mujahidin” through a criminal enterprise in which both the West and the Muslim world happily participated.",
        "20世纪80年代当阿富汗自由战士通过西方和穆斯林世界都乐于参与的犯罪组织演化为“穆斯林游击队员”的时候，也就改写了南亚地区的发展史。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea’s government must pursue a more comprehensive policy package aimed at lowering some of the barriers to childbirth.",
        "韩国政府必须采取更加全面的方案，以降低一些育儿壁垒为目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Reform of the hukou (residency permit) system to allow citizens to transfer their welfare benefits from one city to another is vital for an increasingly flexible labor force that now includes almost 200 million migrant workers.",
        "户口制度的改革——允许公民在不同城市之间转移社会福利账户——对于包括近2亿农民工在内的日益灵活的劳动力来说至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain’s economy grew more steadily and rapidly than it had done for several generations, and the tax revenue generated by growth enabled the government to pour money into education and the National Health Service.",
        "与过去几十年相比，英国经济增长更为稳健和快速，而由经济增长所带来的税收收入使得政府能够把钱投入到教育和全国医疗系统上。"
    ],
    [
        "But Russia didn’t stop with Crimea; since then, it has waged a low-intensity unconventional war against Ukraine in the country’s eastern Donbas region.",
        "从那以后，它在乌克兰东部的顿巴斯地区对乌克兰发动了一场低烈度的非常规战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike Jiang and Hu, Xi assumed quick command of the Chinese Communist Party, the government, and the military, and very effectively shepherded the Third Plenum’s historic reforms.",
        "与他们不同，习近平很快成为党政军一把手，并十分有效地领导了三中全会的历史性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, wages are rising, borrowing costs have nowhere to go but up, and corporate tax policies are under scrutiny.",
        "5%。 今天，工资不断上升，借贷成本也只会一路上涨，而企业的税收政策正在接受严格的监督。"
    ],
    [
        "Tobin Trouble",
        "托宾麻烦"
    ],
    [
        "But beyond this, one should view secular stagnation as an opportunity rather than a threat.",
        "但除此之外，你应该将长期停滞视为机会而不是威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "They have consistently minimized distributional concerns, even though it is now clear that the distributional impact of, say, the North American Free Trade Agreement or China’s entry into the World Trade Organization were significant for the most directly affected communities in the United States.",
        "他们一直在尽量减小分配顾虑，即使如今已经十分清楚（比如）北美自由贸易协定或中国加入世贸组织的收益效应对于美国最直接的受影响群体而言是非常大的。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teacher’s College were on buses heading to Mexico City to join protesters on the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre (in which up to 300 students were killed ten days before the opening of the Olympic Games).",
        "2014年，来自Ayotzinapa乡村师范大学的43名学生乘坐公共汽车前往墨西哥城参加1968年特拉特洛尔科大屠杀纪念日的抗议活动（在那次大屠杀中多达三百名学生在奥运会开幕十天前被杀）。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a dispiriting development, and it would be easy to say that the process seems doomed to fail.",
        "这真是令人沮丧的发展趋势，很有可能，该进程注定要失败。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the courts should be able to make decisions independently of the local governments that finance them.",
        "换句话说，法院应该能够独立于向它们提供资金的地方政府做出决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The IT revolution and associated “swarm” technologies enable the foremost solution: a “digital airspace” that is wholly automatic in terms of air traffic control, navigation, and vehicle operations.",
        "信息技术革命以及相关的“蜂窝”技术提供了最为前沿的方案，也就是空中交通管治、航行以及交通工具操作等完全自动化的“电子空间”。"
    ],
    [
        "But Republican politicians now seem to have forgotten that this approach was once their policy.",
        "但如今共和党政治家们似乎忘记了自己曾有这么一个政策。"
    ],
    [
        "There are alternative drugs, such as prasugrel or ticagrelor, which can be used instead of Plavix to bypass the problem.",
        "此外还有普拉格雷或替卡格雷等其他替代用药，这些药可以替代波立维防止支架堵塞。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, electoral commissions there and in Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and, according to some accounts, in Argentina are being packed with political loyalists.",
        "同样，在该国及玻利维亚、厄瓜多尔、尼加拉瓜和（据有人称）阿根廷的选举委员会中也充斥着拥护现政权者。"
    ],
    [
        "When a would-be exploiter of trees stands before a politician and requests, or demands, the right to clear a forest, the politician, out of fear, complies.",
        "当一个潜在的树木破坏者站在一位政治家的面前要求，或者强求清除一片森林的权利时，政治家出于惧怕允许了。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson is that markets simply cannot work without accompanying public goods and high-quality government supervision.",
        "小额信贷的教训是，没有公共品和高质量的政府监管，光靠市场是无法良好运转的。"
    ],
    [
        "The same stagnation applies to Russia.",
        "俄罗斯的状况也与此类似。"
    ],
    [
        "Going back to Turkey, leaked recordings of telephone conversations have directly implicated Erdoğan and his family, along with several government ministers, in a hugely lucrative corruption ring involving trade with Iran and construction deals.",
        "再回到土耳其，外界掌握的电话交谈录音直接牵涉到埃尔多安及其家人。 同时受牵连的还有几位政府部长，他们都卷入了与伊朗贸易和建筑交易相关的利润丰厚的腐败丑闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Many international movements and organizations – such as Women Under Siege, V-Day, and Stop Violence Against Women – are already working to deliver justice and security to women.",
        "许多国际运动和组织——比如受困的妇女（Women Under Siege）、V-Day和停止针对妇女暴力（Stop Violence Against Women）——已开始致力于为妇女赢得公平与安全。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, people wanted more than just text.",
        "毕竟，人们想要的不仅是文字。"
    ],
    [
        "Street demonstrations, elections, and political debate in cafes and on the Internet are flowering as never before.",
        "街道游行、选举以及咖啡馆和互联网上的政治辩论正以前所未有的态势繁荣发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, taxation of financial firms’ profits and bonuses should be made more similar to that of other economic activities.",
        "当然，对金融企业的利润和分红征税，理应缩小同其他经济活动的差距。"
    ],
    [
        "What options does this leave the EU for responding to political polarization and the concomitant demands for more policy leeway at the national level?",
        "这意味着欧盟还有哪些选择可以应对政治极化以及随之而来的增加国家层面政策自由度的要求？"
    ],
    [
        "If not for expat populations in rural and remote areas, there would have been little reason to invest in roads, schools, and hospitals – let alone parks, libraries, and theaters.",
        "要不是农村和偏远地区的侨民人口，根本没有理由投资于道路、学校和医院——更不用说公园、图书馆和剧院了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the charter states that, in secondary education, it is sufficient to guarantee “the teaching of the relevant regional or minority languages” – not necessarily other subjects – “as an integral part of the curriculum.”",
        "此外章程也指出，在中等教育中，保证“相关区域或少数族裔语言的教授”——不一定非得设立其他科目——“作为课程的组成部分”就足够了。"
    ],
    [
        "Several have spent three decades at Trump’s elbow.",
        "其中有几位三十年来一直是特朗普的左膀右臂。"
    ],
    [
        "What accounts for the armies of protesters – distinguished, gang-like, by the color of their shirts – whose mutual antipathy often borders on nihilistic rage?",
        "是什么让衣服颜色显著易辨、如黑帮般的游行大军上了街？ 而他们所表达的共同愤怒又往往是虚无的？"
    ],
    [
        "But recent cuts in public-sector pay in Spain and Greece are a reminder that Europe is, in fact, capable of wage flexibility.",
        "然而近来西班牙和希腊削减公共部门工资的做法证明，欧洲实际上是可以提高工资灵活性的。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, charisma is a vague synonym for “personal magnetism.”",
        "在实际情况中，魅力是“个人吸引力”的一个模糊近义词。"
    ],
    [
        "The European periphery would have benefited from the same institutional advances in central banking as everyone else; but there is no particular reason to suppose that its political structures would have evolved in a radically different way.",
        "欧洲外围国家将和其他人一样受益于中央银行制度的进步； 但是没有特别的理由认为其政治结构会往一个完全不同的方向发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Altruism makes us all better off.",
        "利他主义让所有人都能更好地生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Thirty-eight years after I attended Burnage, so too, apparently, did Salman Abedi, the suspected Manchester Arena bomber.",
        "在我入学伯纳戈38年后，曼彻斯特体育馆爆炸案的嫌疑人萨尔曼·阿贝迪显然也在那里入学。"
    ],
    [
        "Without limits placed on the appetites and prejudices of the majority, intolerance will rule.",
        "不对大多数人的偏好和偏见加以限制，就会让党同伐异成为规则。"
    ],
    [
        "And the world is still waiting for the US to implement a 2010 reform of the IMF that would strengthen the position of China and other large emerging economies in the institution’s governance structure.",
        "而世界仍在等待美国实施IMF的2010年改革。 这项改革将加强中国和其他新兴大经济体在IMF治理结构中的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the IMF is paralyzed by the need to confront some internal governance problems, the biggest of which is the lack of a sensible way to recalculate the voting shares of countries as their relative influence in the global economy evolves.",
        "不幸的是，解决某些内部管理问题的需要令国际货币基金组织处于瘫痪。 其中最大的问题就是各国在全球经济中相对影响力演变过程中缺乏切合实际的方法来重新计算它们的投票份额。"
    ],
    [
        "China, Russia, India, and the Gulf States have integrated their wealth into the global economy, to the immense benefit of world trade.",
        "乘着世界贸易所带来的巨大收益的东风，中国、俄罗斯、印度和海湾国家已将它们的财富融入了全球经济之中。"
    ],
    [
        "You can count on us, the West would be saying, but don’t look next door to Afghanistan, where you will see that you can’t rely on us.",
        "“这没问题，”西方会这样对巴基斯坦人说，“但别看隔壁的阿富汗就是了，看到那你就知道我们是多么不可靠了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The accompanying graph not only illustrates this; it also succinctly addresses the question of why Greece has not done as well as, say, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, or Cyprus in the years since the 2008 financial crisis.",
        "相关数据不但说明了这一点； 还扼要地回答了为何2008年金融危机以来希腊的表现不如西班牙、葡萄牙、爱尔兰和塞浦路斯等国家。"
    ],
    [
        "During my time as the editor-in-chief of The Economist (1993-2006), I received such browbeatings on many occasions.",
        "在就任《经济学家》（1993-2006）杂志主编的日子里，我就有多次遭遇恫吓的经历。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe's southeastern and Mediterranean countries could also benefit from sharing power.",
        "东南欧和地中海沿岸诸国也会从能源分享中得益。"
    ],
    [
        "But, since the end of April, a more persistent correction in global equity markets has set in, driven by worries that economic growth in the United States and worldwide may be slowing sharply.",
        "然而，自从四月底以来，全球资本市场开始了一轮持续时间比较长的调整，其背后的担忧是，美国和世界经济增长可能急剧放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "A 2016 working paper by the International Monetary Fund distinguished digital currency (legal tender that could be digitized) from virtual currency (non-legal tender).",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）的一篇2016年工作论文将数字货币（可以数字化的法定货币）和虚拟货币（非法定货币）做了区分。"
    ],
    [
        "The imperial couple’s weeklong visit is likely to mark a defining moment in Indo-Japanese relations, fostering closer economic and security ties between Asia’s two leading democracies as they seek a pluralistic, stable Asian order.",
        "天皇夫妇为期一周的出访有可能标志着印日关系的里程碑，在亚洲两大民主国家间塑造更紧密的经济和安全联系，寻求更加多元、稳定的亚洲秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "My proposal is to use the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to insure the European Central Bank against the solvency risk on any newly issued Italian or Spanish treasury bills that it may buy from commercial banks.",
        "我的提议是，利用欧洲金融稳定基金和欧洲稳定机制确保欧洲央行为意大利或西班牙新发行的国库券的偿付能力风险提供担保，欧洲央行可能会从各商业银行购买这些债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Regional consultation mechanisms remain weak.",
        "地区协商机制仍然相当无力。"
    ],
    [
        "Some measures were agreed to reduce the nuclear danger: bilateral arms-control agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union, restrictions on the testing of new weapons, and – above all – the Non-Proliferation Treaty.",
        "人们同意采取一切措施降低核威胁：美国和苏联的双边军备控制协议、限制新武器测试； 以及——最重要的——核不扩散条约。"
    ],
    [
        "And if Germany doesn’t use its fiscal space, there will be little room for its eurozone partners to do so.",
        "而如果德国不利用其财政空间，其欧元区伙伴国也将没有财政空间可用。"
    ],
    [
        "In the South China Sea, China has built artificial islands and militarized them with airstrips and defense facilities; and it is flexing its naval muscles with a newly minted aircraft carrier group, with more on the way.",
        "在南海，中国建设人工岛并修筑机场跑道和防务设施； 此外，中国还通过其新生产、即将大量列装的运输机大秀海军肌肉。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, leaders are under extraordinary pressure to apply similarly inspired decision-making skills to an array of daunting challenges.",
        "今天，领导人面对一系列艰巨挑战进行类似开创性决策的压力非常大。"
    ],
    [
        "But this overlooked a crucial feature of monetary unions: free capital mobility and elimination of currency risk – indispensable attributes of a currency area – could be (and were) the source of asymmetric shocks.",
        "但这忽视了货币联盟的一个关键特征：资本自由流动和货币风险的消除——货币区必不可少的属性——可能成为（也确实成为过）不对称冲击的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, the huge increase in the national debt and the realization that even $700 billion is not enough to rescue the US economy will erode confidence further and aggravate its weakness.",
        "如果被不幸言中，那么国家债务的巨额增长和即便7000亿美元也不足以挽救美国经济的认识将进一步侵蚀人们的信心，加剧经济的疲弱态势。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, it must expand opportunities for anyone with talent to acquire high-quality secondary and tertiary education, thereby reducing substantial disparities in the accessibility and quality of higher education across regions and social groups.",
        "与此同时，中国必须扩展人才获得高质量中学和大学教育的机会，从而减小不同地区和社会群体之间的较高等级教育机会和质量差距。"
    ],
    [
        "The resilience of the global economy in the face of political and economic shocks demonstrates the central relevance of the reform process - and underlines the importance of continuing along this path.",
        "全球经济在政治和经济动荡中的复苏表明改革过程的核心实用性--并且说明继续沿着这条道路走下去的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, outward investment by Indian companies is expanding fast.",
        "比如说印度企业的对外投资正不断扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "With its remarkable ability to adapt, China is making strides to accommodate the rising power of its markets and people.",
        "中国显示出了惊人的适应力，大踏步地容纳着其不断崛起的市场和人民的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – In 1883, the authoritarian imperial government of Prince Otto von Bismarck – who famously declared, “It is not by speeches and majority votes that the great issues of our time will be decided…but by blood and iron” – established national health insurance for Germany.",
        "伯克利—俾斯麦曾经有句名言：“我们时代的大问题不是通过演讲和多数票解决的……而是通过铁与血解决的。 ”就是这个俾斯麦，他的独裁帝国政府在1883年建立了德国的国民健康保险。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Indian government’s decision to welcome foreign retailers coincided with French retailer Carrefour’s announcement that it will shut down its substantial operations in Singapore by the end of this year.",
        "事实上，在印度政府做出接受外国零售商的决定的同时，法国零售商家乐福宣布将在今年年底关闭其在新加坡的大量业务。"
    ],
    [
        "John Maynard Keynes was correct that “in the long run we are all dead,” but the human life span can be quite a long run, indeed.",
        "约翰·凯恩斯说，“长期看，我们都死了，”这固然正确，但人的一生确确实实是一段相当长的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier this year, Daniel Schwammenthal, writing in The Wall Street Journal, explained why in the starkest possible terms: “Screaming ‘Sieg Heil’ and ‘Hitler, Hitler,’ a mostly Muslim mob threw bottles and stones at a small group of Jews peacefully demonstrating for Israel at this town’s central square last year. Worshippers on their way to synagogue and Jewish kids in schools are routinely accosted as ‘Dirty Jews.’”",
        "而在年初，丹尼尔·施瓦门撒尔就在《华尔街日报》上用最直白的语言阐述了犹太人恐惧的原因——“去年，一伙高喊着‘Sieg Heil’(德文意为‘胜利’，法西斯分子见面时的用语)以及‘希特勒，希特勒’，主要由穆斯林组成的暴徒向在城市中央广场和平声援以色列的一小队犹太人投掷瓶子和石块，而那些到犹太教堂作礼拜的人，以及学校里的犹太孩子都经常被称之为‘臭犹太人’。"
    ],
    [
        "The island is hit regularly by devastating hurricanes.",
        "海地岛经常受到毁灭性的飓风袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "To declare, as the President of the European Commission did, that this is an internal Spanish problem in which the EU has no say is hypocrisy on stilts.",
        "欧盟委员会主席宣称这是西班牙内部问题，欧盟无可奉告，这简直伪善到家了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Promise of Digital Finance",
        "数字金融的希望"
    ],
    [
        "Poland’s GDP has almost doubled over the last 20 years, while Ukraine is still barely maintaining the output level recorded during the last year of socialism.",
        "波兰的GDP在过去20年间几乎翻了一倍，而乌克兰的产出却依然维持在社会主义制度倒台那一年的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more significant, shifting income from state-owned enterprises to middle-class workers and increasing consumer spending will reduce China’s enormous saving rate.",
        "更重要地是，把财富从国有企业转移到中产阶级手中以及提高消费支出会降低中国极高的储蓄率。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the test is expensive and sophisticated, putting it out of reach for many poor countries.",
        "不幸的是，这一测试十分昂贵和复杂，不是一般穷国负担得起的。"
    ],
    [
        "The consensus nowadays is that the US economy is growing steadily, with the leading indicators pointing toward further expansion, and labor-market data surpassing expectations.",
        "如今的共识是随着关键指标进一步向好，以及劳动力市场数据超过预期，美国经济正在稳步增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The man hoped that his act of protest would influence PiS supporters – 47% of the population, according to the latest polls – who should not want their favored policies to be enacted in ways that undermine democracy and the rule of law.",
        "”这名男子希望他的抗议之举会影响法律与正义党的支持者——最新民调结果显示这些人占波兰总人口的47%——他们不会希望他们所支持政策的执行最终损害波兰的法治与民主。"
    ],
    [
        "ExxonMobil, alas, is different.",
        "埃克森美孚，唉，它与众不同。"
    ],
    [
        "That might be true, but stronger domestic demand would lead to higher imports, which would need to be paid for with higher export revenues, because the country cannot afford to accumulate more foreign debt.",
        "这也许是正确的，但更强的内需会导致更高的进口，而这需要用更高的出口收入来支付，因为希腊无法承受外债的继续累积。"
    ],
    [
        "With output and employment remaining flat, government subsidies and additional Christmases will merely produce more debt and higher prices.",
        "在产出和就业保持不变的情况下，政府补贴和圣诞过节意愿的增加只能产生更多的债务和更高的物价。"
    ],
    [
        "The point is that developed countries still dominate the income bracket that can afford luxury goods.",
        "由此可见，可支付奢侈商品的收入层次中还是以发达国家的人占绝大多数。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Experience across the Arab world demonstrates that when it comes to security-sector reform, technocratic approaches are inadequate.",
        "发自华盛顿——阿拉伯世界的经验表明，在涉及到安全部门改革问题的时候，光靠技术官僚的手段是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "But someone had to do something.",
        "但总得有人出来做点什么。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the climate indicator declined again, after having sunk dramatically in the second quarter, bringing it to its lowest level since 1991.",
        "在美国，景气指标在第二季度急剧下降后再次下降，已经降低到自1991年以来的最低水平。"
    ],
    [
        "We all know where that led.",
        "我们都知道他所取得的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than admit defeat, US officials are resorting to diversionary rhetoric.",
        "美国官员不承认失败，反而再次祭出了转移注意力的把戏。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Europeans have no such leverage at the Fund, where Rato has elected to go out under his own steam.",
        "但对于拉托主动提出辞职的国际货币基金组织，欧洲人能却还没有具备那么大的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world rooted for former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in his recent efforts to end the violence in Kenya, many also found themselves wondering whether a weary Annan, or some other global leader, will be battling another fire by the end of this month: this time in Zimbabwe.",
        "尽管全世界都大力支持联合国前秘书长安南最近为结束肯尼亚的暴乱而进行的努力，但是许多人还是不禁会疑问疲倦的安南或者另一位世界领导人能够扑灭这个月底将会发生的另一场大火吗？ 这一次是在津巴布韦。"
    ],
    [
        "In her brief lifetime, she was often lauded for qualities (her beauty and style) that were secondary to her life’s work, and derided for other aspects of her character (her emotionality and chaotic personal life) that were equally beside the point.",
        "在黛安娜王妃短暂的一生中，她经常因为可以点缀她一生努力的品质（她的美貌和时尚）而受到赞美，并因为性格中无关紧要的其他方面（她的情绪化和混乱的私人生活）而被人嘲笑。"
    ],
    [
        "The new narrative was reinforced with physical symbols, akin to a currency or a flag, in the form of belts of beads made of wampum, the Iroquois’ money.",
        "这一新“故事”由实物符号来强化，该符号类似于货币或旗帜，是一种用易洛魁货币——贝壳做成的数珠带。"
    ],
    [
        "Sustained moderate inflation would help to bring down the real value of real estate more quickly, and potentially make it easier for German wages to rise faster than those in peripheral countries.",
        "持续温和通胀有助于更快降低房地产的实际价格，而且很可能会使德国的工资水平比欧元区外围国家上涨得更快。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet that is the case today.",
        "并因此提高当前以及未来几代人的福祉。 而这就是今天我要说的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "And stronger efforts must be made to safeguard existing water resources.",
        "必须花大力气保护现有水资源。"
    ],
    [
        "For at least a year prior to the August 2009 elections, NATO officials recognized that ordinary Afghans' disgust with their government's massive corruption was among the Taliban's most effective recruitment tools.",
        "早在 2009 年 8 月的大选之际，北约官员就发现，普通阿富汗民众对政府大规模腐败感到厌恶，这也是塔利班征兵的一个最有效借口。"
    ],
    [
        "The GAO’s failure to see and state this problem clearly is a major disappointment.",
        "审计办公室没能清楚地看清和表述问题，这着实令人失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who are persecuting Christians should recognize that the Arab Spring should benefit all Arabs.",
        "指责基督徒的人应该明白，阿拉伯之春理应让所有阿拉伯人受益。"
    ],
    [
        "A decade ago, when the first Nord Stream pipeline deal was announced, Poland’s then-foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, compared the venture to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (the non-aggression treaty between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union).",
        "当十年前宣布建造北溪管道一期的时候，时任波兰外交部长的拉德克·西科斯基（Radek Sikorski）就将其与1939年的《苏德互不侵犯条约》（纳粹德国和斯大林苏联之间的互不侵犯条约）相提并论。"
    ],
    [
        "Citibank – whose chief executive, Walter Wriston, famously declared that countries don’t go bust – led the charge, recycling a flood of petrodollars to dubious regimes.",
        "花旗银行——其总裁沃尔特·李斯顿有句名言说国家不会破产——先拔头筹，从那些不可靠的政权手里回收了大量石油美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Essentially, one is forecasting not just economics, but politics - and even the cultural values - that shape economic policies and performance.",
        "本质上看，我们不仅在预测经济，也是在预测政治，甚至是文化价值，是它们最终决定了经济政策和走向。"
    ],
    [
        "It now stands at well over $1.2 trillion, more than 60% of which is held by the bottom quartile of households (those with a net worth of less than $8,500).",
        "2万亿美元，其中超过60%由收入最低的四分之一家庭（即净财富少于8,500美元的家庭）承担"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia and Israel do not maintain diplomatic relations, but they are both US allies, and they have a shared opponent in Iran.",
        "沙特阿拉伯和以色列没有建立外交关系，但都是美国的盟国，并且都反对伊朗。"
    ],
    [
        "First, acknowledge complexity.",
        "首先必须承认局势的复杂性。"
    ],
    [
        "In nine countries – Niger, Central African Republic, Chad, Bangladesh, Mali, Guinea, South Sudan, Burkina Faso, and Malawi – UNICEF estimates that child marriage rates are higher than 50%.",
        "联合国儿童基金会估计，在九个国家——尼日尔、中非共和国、乍得、孟加拉国、马里、几内亚、南苏丹、布基纳法索和马拉维——童婚率高于50%。"
    ],
    [
        "JOHANNESBURG – Is the honeymoon over for African economies?",
        "约翰内斯堡——非洲经济体的蜜月期是否已经结束？"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, two successive quarters of negative growth have had a dispiriting psychological impact.",
        "相反，连续两个季度的负增长已经产生了令人丧气的心理影响。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, legal markets are dominated by rich lawyers, schools are controlled by teachers’ unions, and the medical sector is influenced by powerful doctors, resulting in high business costs that also hamper industrial development.",
        "比方说富有的律师成为法律市场的主导，教师工会控制学校，强势医生影响整个医学界，由此导致的企业成本高企也对工业发展起到了阻碍作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Proponents of the macro approach point out that the greatest development successes have typically been the product of economy-wide reforms.",
        "宏观方法的支持者指出，最成功的发展通常是整体经济改革的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But the truth is that the West’s loss is not China’s gain.",
        "但真相是西方之所失并非中国之所得。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, Király would not have hesitated to meet the man who ordered the invasion.",
        "可以肯定的是，基拉里将军会很乐意见到这个当年下达入侵指令的人。"
    ],
    [
        "One example of overly timid policies involves policing.",
        "过度软弱的政策的例子之一是有关警力问题。"
    ],
    [
        "What should the methodology be?",
        "应该采用什么评级方法？"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, their historic mission doomed them.",
        "结果是，他们的历史任务给他们带来了厄运。"
    ],
    [
        "The US seems to be settling into annual real (inflation-adjusted) growth rates of around 2%, though whether this is at or below the economy’s potential remains a source of heated debate.",
        "美国的年实际（经通胀调整的）增长率大概在2%左右，尽管这一水平是低于还是等于经济潜力仍有待争论。"
    ],
    [
        "After 1,000 years, Russia will have come full circle, returning to Kievan Rus after wandering on the roads of the Mongol hordes, empire, communism, and farcical Putinism.",
        "在1000年之后，俄罗斯将回到原地，在漫游过蒙古汗国，帝国，共产主义以及滑稽的普京主义之后，又回到了罗斯国。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a decade ago, contracts promising a steady supply of Argentine gas at pre-set prices led Chile to spend billions refitting its power stations.",
        "比如，十年前智利和阿根廷签署了后者以预定价格向前者供应天然气的合约，智利为此花了数十亿改装电站。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite ample historical evidence of peaceful inter-communal relations, many people – whether through simple ignorance of history or the need to assert the supremacy of one version of the truth – prefer to consecrate narratives of treachery and betrayal that perpetuate hatred.",
        "尽管充分的历史证据表明两派之间曾经和平共处，但许多人——不管是出于对历史的无知，还是出于维护某种版本的真相的至高无上性的需要——更愿意相信延续仇恨的关于变节和背叛的圣谕。"
    ],
    [
        "We must use it single-mindedly to implement reforms that enhance Japan’s long-term growth potential.",
        "我们必须坚定不移地实施强化日本长期增长潜力的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dollar’s Long Tail",
        "美元的长尾"
    ],
    [
        "The longer China delayed addressing its problems, the more intractable the solution became.",
        "中国在解决问题上拖延的越久，就越难以找到办法。"
    ],
    [
        "If the world follows the same old approaches in building new infrastructure, it would lock in polluting, resource-intensive, and unsustainable pathways to growth.",
        "如果世界沿着老路建设新基础设施，就会深陷高污染、资源密集、不可持续的增长路径。"
    ],
    [
        "They also dismantled tariffs and quotas on imports faster than their World Trade Organization obligations required.",
        "中国政府解除进口关税和配额的步伐也比世贸组织义务的要求更快。"
    ],
    [
        "In this crisis, the US president should form a united front with human rights groups, which can advise him exactly how to follow, sustain, and support those Iranians who have been or may yet be arrested, or worse.",
        "而在这场危机中，美国总统应该和人权组织共同组建一个前线联盟，而这些组织则告诉他具体应该怎样跟进，支撑并支持那些被逮捕或未被逮捕，或者碰到更遭待遇的伊朗人。"
    ],
    [
        "Several solutions to this problem have been proposed, and some – such as increased capital requirements and restrictions on risky investments – are headed toward implementation.",
        "人们已经提出了一些解决这一问题的办法，其中不少——如增加资本要求、限制高风险投资等——已经进入实施阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – The global economy is experiencing a major growth challenge.",
        "米兰—全球经济正在经历增长大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Free trade, technological progress, and other forces that promote economic “efficiency” are presented as beneficial to society, even if they harm individual workers or businesses, because growing national incomes allow winners to compensate losers, ensuring that nobody is left worse off.",
        "自由贸易、技术进步和其他促进经济“效率”的力量被包装成同样有利于社会，即使它们伤害了个体工作者或企业，因为日益增长的国民收入让赢家能够补偿输家，从而确保没有人境况会变遭。"
    ],
    [
        "But a ban might not have halted the German people’s general disenchantment with liberal democracy, and an authoritarian regime still might have followed.",
        "但禁止可能无法阻止德国人民对自由民主制度的总体性的失望，集权政权崛起的土壤仍在。"
    ],
    [
        "But after Trump’s fairly emollient 12-day tour of Asia, fears of a conflict on the Korean Peninsula have ebbed somewhat.",
        "但在特朗普经历了相当低姿态的12天亚洲之行后，关于朝鲜半岛冲突的担忧有所消退。"
    ],
    [
        "Pupil-teacher ratios have also fallen.",
        "学生-教师比率也有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is confrontation, which could occur directly or as a result of the US being drawn into conflicts between China and its neighbors.",
        "其中之一是对抗，这可能导致美国被直接卷入到中国与邻国间的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "This \"adjustment fatigue,\" a term coined to describe the experience of Latin American countries to economic liberalization in the 1990's, is now coupled with the feeling that the EU is not such a great bargain after all.",
        "这种\"调整疲惫\"是一个为了形容拉美各国在20世纪90年代经济自由化中的经历而生造的词。 而今欧洲对它的体会更添加了一种感觉，认为加入欧盟并不如想象的划算。"
    ],
    [
        "The vast majority of Greeks want to stay in the EU.",
        "绝大多数希腊人都希望留在欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Most people might agree that living beyond our means in the aggregate, via unfunded social services and insurance, or disproportionate use of resources, imposes a burden on our offspring.",
        "大部分人会同意，通过入不敷出的社会保障和保险和对资源的滥用实现在总量上超过应有水平的生活水平会给子孙后代造成负担。"
    ],
    [
        "But he is also depicting how people create their heroes.",
        "但他也描绘了人们如何创造他们的英雄。"
    ],
    [
        "Vivid images have stuck in people’s minds from that episode: long lines of cars at gas stations, people riding bicycles to work, gasless Sundays and other rationing schemes.",
        "那一事件生动的形象进入人们的头脑。 加油站排队的汽车长龙，人们骑车上班，星期天停止供应天然气以及其他配给措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries want to export more than just commodities and manufacturing inputs to China, and companies around the world are jockeying for access to China’s massive domestic market.",
        "许多国家希望不仅仅向中国出口大宗商品和制造业投入品，世界各地的公司也在努力进入中国巨大的国内市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, however, all measures of inequality have pointed in the same direction since the turn of the century, reflecting the fact that the benefits of economic growth have gone almost exclusively to those at the top.",
        "而在美国，一切测量不平等的方法自世纪之交以来都指向了同一方向，反映出经济增长所带来的好处了几乎全都归了位于社会顶层的那一小撮人。 前0."
    ],
    [
        "But selling off these holdings will not suffice; the freed-up assets must also be redirected to more sustainable businesses.",
        "但甩卖这些投资仍然不够，所解放出来的资产必须重新引导流向更加可持续的企业。"
    ],
    [
        "That is true now, and it is likely to continue to be true in the future.",
        "这在当今已是事实，并将继续延续到未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, however, will play no part in the region, simply because any attempt to do so would place too much strain on its reach and resources.",
        "但欧洲不会在东亚有任何动静，因为任何这方面的努力都会对其影响范围和资源形成重大约束力。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign investors now own more than half of net government debt, and that proportion is likely to keep growing.",
        "如今，外国投资者拥有一大半净政府债务，并且这一比例有望继续升高。"
    ],
    [
        "We tell ourselves that maybe we won’t get a toothache after all, even though we know that the odds are that we will.",
        "我们告诉自己也许最终不会牙痛，即使我们明明知道牙痛的几率很大。"
    ],
    [
        "Alencar has suggested that Brazil should “advance” in the development of nuclear weapons, while Chávez has strengthened his alliance with Iran on this front.",
        "阿伦卡尔已经提出巴西应该在核武器研发方面“更进一步”，而查韦斯则在这个问题上巩固了与伊朗的联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump is determined to head off both outcomes, and he’s clearly worried that he might fail.",
        "特朗普决心要阻止这两个结果，并且他显然担心自己可能失败。"
    ],
    [
        "In the summer of 2004, two groups of scientists working independently (one led by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the other led by researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories) called this scientific dogma into question.",
        "2004年的夏令时节，两个独立开展研究的科学家团体对这一科学教条提出了疑问。 （其中一个团体由哈佛医学院、伯明翰大学以及波士顿女子医院的研究者负责，另一个团体由冷泉港实验室的研究者负责）。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, following the resignation and return of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Lebanon is now experiencing a political crisis that has raised the specter of a return to civil war.",
        "更糟糕的是，随着总理萨阿德·哈里里（Saad Hariri）的辞职和回归，黎巴嫩正经历一场政治危机，使人们重新陷入内战的阴影之中。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, it is said, took no decisive action while 100,000 Syrians were dying, and it had no strategy to end the conflict.",
        "人人都说美国在100,000叙利亚民众面临死亡时没有采取果断行动，也没有拿出结束冲突的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there are demographic challenges.",
        "再就是人口结构方面的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The funding from the parent banks that in the earlier phase of the crisis helped provide liquidity to the East European banking systems now appears more as a liability and possible source of contagion.",
        "在危机早期来自西方母银行为东欧的银行系统提供流动性的资金，现在看起来更像是负债以及可能的危机传染源。"
    ],
    [
        "Overcoming historic biases requires questioning an industry’s taboos.",
        "克服历史偏见需要挑战一个行业的禁忌。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s Monetary Conundrum",
        "特朗普的货币之谜"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, they transformed the US military bases into special economic zones.",
        "最终，他们将美国军事基地改造为经济特区。"
    ],
    [
        "European police and security agencies have prevented many terrorist attacks.",
        "欧洲的警察和安全机构已经阻止了众多的恐怖攻击事件。"
    ],
    [
        "The short answer is no, notwithstanding the frightening events in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past weekend.",
        "简短的答案是没有，尽管弗吉尼亚夏洛茨维尔刚刚过去的周末发生的事情非常可怕。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also a testament to the enduring power of social philanthropy, partnerships, and international collaborations.",
        "这也证明了社会慈善事业、伙伴关系和国际合作的持久力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The Doha Round of global trade talks remains stalled, and Obama delayed the three bilateral free-trade agreements that awaited approval when he came into office.",
        "世贸谈判多哈回合依然停滞不前，并推迟了三项自他入主白宫以来一直等在签署的双边自由贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s own advisers have estimated that his stimulus package prevented a rise in unemployment of one percentage point at peak unemployment, not the 20-percentage-point increase the president seems to be claiming.",
        "奥巴马本人的幕僚估算他的刺激计划阻止了峰值失业率上升一个百分点，而不是总统所吹嘘的20个百分点的上升。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1990, the Italian singer Toto Cutugno won the annual Eurovision song contest with his passionate call to Europeans to unite.",
        "1990 年，意大利歌手托托·库图诺曾饱含激情地号召全欧洲联合起来，并以此夺得了一年一度的欧洲电视网歌唱大赛桂冠。"
    ],
    [
        "The declining average is partly due to a furiously trading fringe.",
        "平均持有时间的下降在某种程度上源自于疯狂的交易边际。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing helps the Israeli right more than heightening the electorate’s sense of being under siege.",
        "最能帮助以色列右翼的莫过于强化选民的被围攻意识。"
    ],
    [
        "This entails strengthening China’s institutional foundations and establishing clear, transparent rules, in order to encourage experimentation and innovation, ensure the smooth exit of failed projects, and manage the fallout of errors.",
        "这需要强化中国的制度基础、建立明确透明的规则，从而鼓励大胆实验和创新，确保烂尾工程的平稳退出，并有稳健常规化的机制收拾不成功实验的残局。"
    ],
    [
        "With the recent elections in the United States and the rise of Asia’s global influence, there is an opportunity to turn the world’s attention to the most critical challenges facing our planet.",
        "不久前的美国选举和亚洲全球影响力的提高再次创造出机遇，可以让世界各国的注意力重新回到我们这个星球所面临的最为关键的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not just the Party that Xi is empowering; he is also empowering himself.",
        "但习近平不仅仅在给党赋权； 他也在给他自己赋权。"
    ],
    [
        "While in the White House, Feldstein waged a persuasive but lonely bureaucratic campaign against the Reagan administration’s 1981 income-tax cuts, arguing that they had been too big, and would prove economically painful if not corrected.",
        "在白宫任职期间，费尔德斯坦发动了一场很有说服力但却孤家寡人的反对里根政府1981年所得税减税方案的官僚运动。 费尔德斯坦认为，里根的减税规模太大，如果不加纠正，将会危害到经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Greece is not the first country to request emergency financing to delay budget cuts, and then complain that the cuts are excessive once the worst is over.",
        "当然，希腊不是第一个要求紧急融资以延迟削减预算，然后在最坏时期过去之后抱怨削减幅度过大的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither the Palestinians nor the Syrians will acquiesce to their exclusion.",
        "巴勒斯坦人和叙利亚人都不会甘愿被排除在外。"
    ],
    [
        "And there are other risks stemming from humanity’s greater collective impact on the planet, and from the growing empowerment of individuals.",
        "此外，还有其他的危险，源自人类对这个星球集体影响的扩大，以及个人权利的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the wake of the American-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the intervention in Libya, is not the same experiment being repeated almost a century later?",
        "但是，美国领导的伊拉克和阿富汗战争以及对利比亚的干预无非是在近一个世纪后重复相同的实验吗？"
    ],
    [
        "For businesses, particularly those that have to transport goods across the country, the GST would be a boon.",
        "对企业，尤其是有国内货运需求的企业来讲，商品和服务税将给他们带来实惠。"
    ],
    [
        "If money is power, then women must no longer be excluded from controlling the supply of it.",
        "如果说金钱就是权力，那么女性将不再被排除在控制金钱供给的圈子之外。"
    ],
    [
        "To date, up to 5-6% of total liquidity has been returned to the central bank in this way.",
        "迄今为止，大约有5%~6%的货币都通过这种方式回流到了中央银行。"
    ],
    [
        "The Magna Charta is the world’s most visible statement of principles for the promotion and protection of university autonomy.",
        "《大学宪章》是推动并保护大学自治权的世界最著名的原则声明。"
    ],
    [
        "Reforms take time, which means that China may need to brace itself for more troubles and a protracted period of slow growth.",
        "改革需要时间，这意味着中国需要勇敢面对更多的麻烦和漫长的低速增长期。"
    ],
    [
        "Can the right amount of confidence be instilled in countries or groups that badly need it?",
        "能否在急需自信的国家或者团体中注入剂量适当的自信呢？"
    ],
    [
        "While responding to such demands would help to ease political tensions across the eurozone, they would face strong opposition within Germany.",
        "尽管响应这一需要有助于缓解整个欧元区的政治紧张，但在德国国内会引起强烈反对。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the price-stability mandate, the oil-price collapse has naturally affected headline figures over the past year, but the trend in core inflation (excluding the energy component) suggests that the Fed is falling behind the curve.",
        "至于物价稳定使命，石油价格崩盘必然地影响了去年的标题数字，但核心通胀（剔除能源）趋势表明美联储已经落后于形势。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when democracy is spreading, they remain dictatorships.",
        "当民主之风呈现蔓延之势时，民族主义依旧保持着专政政权。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Next Transformation",
        "中国的下一次转型"
    ],
    [
        "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”",
        "如果自由社会不能帮助众多处于贫困的人，它也无法拯救那极少数富裕的人。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "What awaits us tomorrow?",
        "明天会怎样？"
    ],
    [
        "Since the eruption of the European crisis in 2009, the EU and the eurozone have experienced massive, unprecedented changes.",
        "2009年欧洲危机爆发以来，欧盟和欧元区经历了前所未有的大规模变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if it remains true that a rising tide lifts all boats, it does not do so in an even way.",
        "即使水涨必定船高的道理仍然成立，也并不一定所有的船都会涨得一样高。"
    ],
    [
        "Following strenuous international protests over Chen’s kidnapping, the FPC decided to investigate.",
        "在国际社会强烈抗议陈光诚被绑架事件的情况下，计生委决定予以调查。"
    ],
    [
        "As events over the past two weeks in Egypt have demonstrated all too vividly, the Arab awakening is still only in its first act in many countries.",
        "正像过去两周埃及局势已经证明的那样，阿拉伯觉醒在很多国家仅仅只是拉开了序幕。"
    ],
    [
        "Although few accuse Asian central banks of explicitly conspiring to calm global markets, some say that their common cautious approach to trading is a form of implicit collusion.",
        "尽管很少有人指责亚洲中央银行有显而易见的合谋活动来平息全球市场，但是有些人说它们在贸易上共同的谨慎措施是一种隐含的合谋方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, political and policy uncertainties – on the fiscal, debt, taxation, and regulatory fronts – abound.",
        "此外，在财政、债务、税收和监管诸领域充满了政治和政策不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "But the balance must be handled delicately to ensure that attendees who have paid are not put off by aggressive marketing.",
        "但必须谨慎行事以确保主动营销不会吓跑付过费的与会者。"
    ],
    [
        "With such a clear vision of the future, the challenge will be implementation.",
        "对未来有了这样清醒的认识，接下来执行就成了最大的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, having countries like Russia and China more vested in the well-being of the US economy would not be a bad thing.",
        "实际上，让像俄国和中国那样的国家在美国经济福祉上更多投资并非一件坏事。"
    ],
    [
        "How close are we to that goal?",
        "我们对这一目标有多接近？"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, what is happening is that the integration of 2.5 billion people (China and India alone) into the global economy is producing a demand shift that is likely to put far more upward pressure on commodity prices than any technology gains are likely to offset.",
        "实际上，25亿人口（仅仅是中国和印度两国）融入全球经济，其产生的需求移动带来的对原料价格的上浮压力要远远大于技术进步所可能抵消的部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it just a coincidence that he was rich?",
        "他富有仅仅是巧合吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Crashing the SDR",
        "撕开SDR之口"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Atlas of Economic Complexity, which I co-authored, in 2008 the gap between Greece's income and the knowledge content of its exports was the largest among a sample of 128 countries.",
        "我参与合著的《经济复杂性的阿特拉斯》（Atlas of Economic Complexity）一书指出，2008年希腊收入与其出口的只是成分之间的差距是128个样本国家中最大的。"
    ],
    [
        "“We are ghosts roaming around without anyone noticing,” he remarked: “I wish we had died in the war instead.”",
        "“我们是四处游荡的孤魂野鬼，没有人注意到我们，”他评论说，“我宁可我们已经死在了战争里。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In part, this series of speeches was tactical.",
        "从一定程度上说，这一系列演讲颇有些技术性。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike many Latin American and former Soviet-bloc countries, where similar controls are honored mainly in the breach, violating capital controls in China is virtually a capital offense.",
        "许多拉美国家及前苏联国家实行类似的管制制度，然而违反的人比遵守的还多。 与这些国家不同的是，在中国，违反资金管制基本上算一项死罪。"
    ],
    [
        "They held large inventories of these assets, thus providing liquidity and smoothing excess price volatility.",
        "它们持有大量这类资产的存货，因此提供了流动性、平滑了过度价格波动。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is conceivable that Germany is not at all interested in a serious effort to resolve Europe’s crisis, because that would mean taking big risks and investing a lot of money.",
        "因此，人们可以想到德国人一点也没有兴趣为解决欧洲债务危机而做出认真的努力，因为解决债务危机意味着承担大的风险和投资大笔的钱。"
    ],
    [
        "The groups that needed to work together to attain them were easy to identify, and they could be held accountable for cooperation and progress.",
        "需要团结一致实现这些目标的团体很容易识别，它们的合作和进步也被大家所监督和问责。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Chechen authorities seem to welcome this prospect.",
        "这一提议似乎受到了新任车臣当局的欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important, too, that aid target the areas where it is most needed.",
        "重要的是援助针对需求最迫切的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "We need only recognize that migration benefits us all to maximize the gains and minimize the pain.",
        "要想最大限度的获取收益和减轻痛苦，我们只需要认识到移民有利于我们所有人。"
    ],
    [
        "It is vital we now build on this success and develop a genuine international strategy for the euro.",
        "至关重要的是，我们现在要在此成功的基础上为欧元制定出真正的国际化战略。"
    ],
    [
        "In Auckland, New Zealand, where one-third of the population is foreign-born, the Omega project, inspired by a Canadian initiative, matches new migrants with skilled mentors and offers paid internships.",
        "在新西兰奥克兰，三分之一的人口出生于国外。 受一项加拿大政策的启发，该市推出了欧米茄工程（Omega project），为新移民提供高技能导师和带薪实习机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Alibaba’s e-commerce platform expanded market access and reduced transaction costs, crowding out traditional middleman who undermined productivity.",
        "阿里巴巴的电子商务平台降低了交易成本、开拓了新市场、挤出了制约生产率提升的传统中介。"
    ],
    [
        "Can a wage dispute qualify as a “grave offense” warranting arrest and humiliation?",
        "工资纠纷是不是应该遭到逮捕羞辱的“严重罪行”？"
    ],
    [
        "So it is time to consider alternatives that until recently would have been inconceivable.",
        "因此现在是时候考虑就在不久前还根本无法想象的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Nestlé scores better, because its guidelines for suppliers – used for the sourcing of sugar, soy, palm oil, and other commodities – require that they obtain the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous and local communities before acquiring land.",
        "雀巢公司的评分要好一些，因为其供应商指南——用于糖、大豆、棕榈油和其他商品的采购——要求供应商在土地兼并前获得土著和本地社区自主做出的充分了解情况的先期同意。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly relevant as emerging development partners, especially the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), offer new kinds of aid packages that incorporate investment and non-financial assistance.",
        "这一点随着新兴发展伙伴——特别是金砖国家（巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非）——提供结合了投资和非金融援助的新形式的援助方案而显得特别重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision – a welcome break from a series of decisions by American judges who do not seem to understand the complexities of global financial markets – conveys some important messages.",
        "这一决定是对似乎并不理解全球金融市场复杂性的美国法官的一系列决定的有益反驳。 它释放出一些重要信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Advanced Europe, Canada, and Japan also suffered major job losses that will last for a long time.",
        "欧洲的发达国家、加拿大和日本也遭受了严重的失业问题，并且会持续相当长的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "“Ambiguous” is a reasonable description of the morality of Cromwell’s actions.",
        "“模糊不清”用来描述克伦威尔行为的道德性是合适的。"
    ],
    [
        "Policy, instead, should be targeted at withdrawing excessive stimulus to consumption and loosening the constraints that are holding back investment.",
        "相反，政策应该以撤销对消费的过度刺激、放松抑制投资的限制为目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, once that tranche of funds had been transferred by the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), the eurozone’s bailout fund, to its Greek franchise, the Hellenic Financial Stability Facility, the HFSF pumped approximately €40 billion into the four “systemic” banks in exchange for non-voting shares.",
        "当这批资金于2013年通过欧洲金融稳定基金（欧元区的救助基金）转到其分支机构希腊金融稳定基金后，后者随即向四家“系统性”银行注资大约400亿欧元以换取无投票权股份。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they are less likely to destabilize the global financial system or impose harm on most shareholders and the public.",
        "这些银行因此也不大可能破坏全球金融系统稳定或损害大部分股东和公众的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the often partisan and quintessentially French polemics about Sarkozy’s NATO decision, it is possible to discern what might best be termed a three-way wager by the French president.",
        "对于萨科奇的重返北约的决定，除了那些经常存在的左右派系思维和那套经典的法式论调（民族主义，种族主义和大西洋主义）之外，我们或许还能看到某种可以被恰当地形容为这位总统的“三重赌注”的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, as former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson used to say, “a week is a long time in politics,” and Sarkozy will officially become a candidate only this week.",
        "当然，正如英国前首相哈罗德·威尔逊（Harold Wilson）所言，“在政治上，一周里的变数太多了，”而萨科齐也将在这一周内正式成为一名候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "Repo debt seems to have made up an astounding one-half of MF Global’s balance sheet.",
        "而曼氏金融的回购协议债务占资产负债表规模的比重达到了惊人的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "This raises an obvious question: How has China managed to defy the Mundell trilemma by maintaining all three policy objectives simultaneously?",
        "因此就产生了一个显而易见的问题：中国是如何通过同时维持三大政策目标来逆转蒙代尔三重困境的？"
    ],
    [
        "Of the Arab countries receiving ENP funds, only Egypt has channeled a high proportion – nearly 50% – toward education.",
        "在接受欧洲睦邻政策援助的阿拉伯国家中，只有埃及把近50%的比例投资于教育项目。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a serious accusation, given that one of the big attractions of foreign direct investment is local job creation.",
        "这是一个严重的指控，因为外国直接投资的亮点之一就是为当地创造就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "If carbon metrics continue to shape climate policy, new generations will know only a carbon-constrained – and, if they are lucky, a low-carbon – world.",
        "如果碳指标继续影响气候政策，新的一代就只会见到一个碳约束——而且如果他们足够幸运，低碳的——世界。"
    ],
    [
        "China itself has benefited from today’s open international trade and investment regime, which allows firms to locate production where it is most beneficial for their international competitiveness – and is now beginning to shed labor-intensive industries itself.",
        "如今的开放国际贸易和投资体系使得公司能够把生产放在最有利于其国际竞争力的地方，中国本身也从中获益良多，现在，中国也开始转移劳动密集型产业了。"
    ],
    [
        "My parents, together with 200,000 Hungarians, left the country after the defeat of the 1956 revolution, and they received asylum in the United States.",
        "我的父母与200,000匈牙利民众一起，在1956年革命失败后离开匈牙利，并在美国得到了庇护。"
    ],
    [
        "When Merkel’s new government is in place, Germany will assume an even more important role in the pursuit of greater European integration – a process that will demand additional sacrifices, including the ceding of national sovereignty.",
        "默克尔新政府组阁完毕后，德国将在实现欧洲一体化的过程中发挥更重要的作用——欧洲一体化进程需要作出包括放弃国家主权在内的进一步的牺牲。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is that they continue to be dependent, directly or indirectly, on exports to advanced industrial countries.",
        "原因之一是它们仍直接或间接地依赖于向工业化国家的出口。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, even for them, GDP in 2013 was far below the level projected prior to the crisis.",
        "但是，即使是这些国家，2013年GDP也远低于危机前的趋势水平。"
    ],
    [
        "It should also enlarge its emergency credit lines to act more as a lender of last resort to developing nations hit by financial whiplash.",
        "国际货币基金组织也应该扩大其紧急贷款额度，以更好地充当受金融危机打击的发展中国家的最终贷款人的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The ambition was to complete the negotiations on “one tank of gas.”",
        "当时人们雄心万丈，意图“一鼓作气”完成谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "I am relatively certain that the US will successfully manage its reorientation and realignment, but the relative weight and reach of its power will nonetheless decline in the new world of the twenty-first century, as others grow in strength and catch up.",
        "我比较确定美国将成功完成调整和重新定位，但由于其他国家实力增强并且迎头赶上，美国的相对地位和权力仍将在二十一世纪的新世界有所降低。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, in all of these areas, the critics have a point.",
        "当然，所有这些批评都有自己的道理。"
    ],
    [
        "When Xi first unveiled his slogan after being selected as the CCP’s new general secretary, he defined it in simple, accessible, but nonetheless generic terms: The “Chinese people dream of living the same good life as all other people in the world.”",
        "在习近平被选为新任中共总书记后首次公布其口号时，他用简单，容易理解，但依然笼统的术语来定义中国梦：即“中国人民过上和世界其他国家人民一样美好生活的梦想。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "And many heads of state from the G-20 and other countries have publicly declared their intention to pursue this path.",
        "二十国集团及其他国家的众多国家元首已经公开宣布要实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorism is not the biggest threat facing people in advanced countries.",
        "恐怖主义并非发达国家民众所面临的最大威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, if Japan needs allies to balance the rise of China, it could easily turn not only to the US, but also to Russia and India.",
        "此外，如果日本需要盟友来抗衡中国崛起的话，它不但可以依靠美国，连俄罗斯和印度也是人选之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Subsequent research in my specialty, pediatric neuropathology, established that the medical basis for the SBS hypothesis was also flawed.",
        "我所在专业——儿科神经学的后续研究发现，SBS假说的医学基础也是有漏洞的。"
    ],
    [
        "The 40% decline in the US stock market and the dramatic fall in house prices have reduced American households’ wealth by more than $10 trillion, which is likely to reduce annual consumer spending by more than $400 billion.",
        "美国股市40 ％的下挫幅度以及房价的大幅下降已经使美国家庭的财富蒸发了十万多亿美元，这很可能导致每年减少4000多亿美元的消费额。"
    ],
    [
        "Secured grazing corridors are being established with the help of modern satellite imagery to orient nomads and their herds to appropriate areas.",
        "通过现代卫星图为牧民及牧群确定适宜地区的帮助而建立安全的放牧走廊。"
    ],
    [
        "Following Ireland, Greece is now the second euro-zone member to have gotten into massive payment difficulties due to the crisis, almost to the point of national bankruptcy.",
        "继爱尔兰之后，如今希腊成了第二个陷入严重偿债困境的欧元区国家，危机几乎把它拖到了国家破产的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "In an attempt to mitigate this problem, the law specifies that anyone taking out an insurance policy valued at more than €300,000 may be required to disclose the results of prior genetic tests.",
        "为了缓解这个问题，法案要求所有购买总额超过30万欧元保险的投保人都必须披露自己之前的基因测试结果。"
    ],
    [
        "This time it appears that Yanukovych is prepared to do anything to remain in power.",
        "这一次，为了保住权势，亚努科维奇似乎准备无所不用其极。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent events have shown this clearly: the refugee crisis bedeviling the EU, for example, would be much easier to manage if the situation in Syria was different.",
        "近来的事件清楚地表明了这一点：例如如果叙利亚局势发生变化，处理困扰欧盟的难民危机就会容易得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Evolutionary changes, including morphological ones, were thought to be the result of the accumulation and distribution of beneficial mutations, and the genetic makeup of populations was believed to be close to homogeneous, with only a few rare, random mutations creating differences between one individual and another.",
        "进化改变，包括形态上的改变被视为日积月累和有益突变不断扩散的结果，种群的基因构成被认为接近同质化，只有极少数随机突变成为造成个体差异的主因。"
    ],
    [
        "Jeremy Stein (no relation to Kara Stein), until recently a governor of the US Federal Reserve System, has suggested that forced “fire sales” of assets are one important way that risks are transmitted.",
        "刚刚卸任的美联储官员杰里米·斯坦（Jeremy Stein，与卡拉·斯坦没有关系）指出，被迫的“紧急甩卖”资产行为是风险传播的重要方式。"
    ],
    [
        "The rights of the individual were submerged by the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.",
        "个体权利被20世纪上半叶的恐怖包围着。"
    ],
    [
        "The Brazilian and Russian economies are contracting; South Africa’s growth has slowed; and India, though maintaining relatively strong growth, must undertake important reforms.",
        "南非的增长已经放缓； 而印度虽然保持了相对强劲的增长，也必须要推行重要的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The FSB has been criticized for lacking enforcement capability.",
        "金融稳定性委员会一个被人诟病之处是它缺乏强制力。"
    ],
    [
        "During the immediate postwar occupation, US military planners had to impose new currency regimes and central banking institutions.",
        "在战后占领时期，美国军事当局不得不重建两国的货币和央行体系。"
    ],
    [
        "And, last but not least, he is still a stellar campaigner who happens to own the country’s major commercial TV stations.",
        "此外，他仍然是明星竞选者，又正好拥有意大利主要商业电视频道。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the IMF, this “accelerator” theory of investment explains most of the weakness of business investment in the developed economies since the 2008 crisis.",
        "据IMF，这一投资的“加速器”理论解释了2008年危机后发达经济体商业投资疲软的绝大部分。"
    ],
    [
        "He was subsequently disbarred and was himself arrested in April 2006.",
        "他随后被取消了律师资格，而本人也于2006年4月被捕。"
    ],
    [
        "On the first issue, European businesspeople and media organizations need to appreciate fully how US prosecutors of financial crimes think.",
        "在第一项上，欧洲商界和媒体人士都应该完全理解美国经济犯罪检察官的思维方式。"
    ],
    [
        "There is still a huge amount to play for: we don’t know which of these two outcomes English voters would choose.",
        "还有巨大的周旋余地：我们不知道英国选民会选择两种结果的哪一种。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be a tragedy if similar opportunities were missed today.",
        "如果今天也错失这样的机会，将是一个悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "When the country’s political leadership does not meet that expectation, a leader like Peres assumes the role – and gains the glory.",
        "当以色列政治领导层无法满足这一期望时，像佩雷斯这样的领导人能够填补这一角色——并赢得荣耀。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the basic premise of these trials is to uphold human rights, then we are obliged to extend that same principle to Duch.",
        "但如果这些审判的基础是捍卫人权，那么我们就必须让同样的原则适用于杜赫。"
    ],
    [
        "But he will make it easier for middle-class voters to identify with PiS.",
        "但他会使中产阶级选民更容易认同法律与正义党。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the United States, where the financial sector is smaller as a share of GDP, the UK economy has still not recovered the output lost in the post-2008 Great Recession, owing to continued retrenchment in the banking sector.",
        "跟金融业只占GDP一小部分的美国不同，由于银行业持续紧缩，英国经济的产出仍然未能从2008年后大萧条的损失中恢复过来。"
    ],
    [
        "Senegalese and Mauritanian fishermen and their families are also among the thousands of people risking their lives to get to Europe today.",
        "如今冒着生命危险前往欧洲的难民大军中也不乏塞内加尔和毛里求斯渔民和他们的家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Such borrowing calls for collateral – in this case, the land on which construction will take place.",
        "这笔借款需要抵押品——在这个例子中是准备用于建造购物城的土地。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Someone recently quipped that the best thing about 2011 was that it was likely better than 2012.",
        "纽约——最近，有人不无讽刺地说，2011年最好的事情大概莫过于会好于2012年。"
    ],
    [
        "What the EU learned from the subsequent four years of Balkan disasters under its management is now being tested by another major turning point and potential crisis – when and how Kosovo is to become independent.",
        "”现在，另一重大转折点和潜在的危机正在考验欧盟从随后四年管理巴尔干灾难中所学到的东西。 这也就是科索沃在何时以何种方式独立。"
    ],
    [
        "All, including the traffickers, ended up embracing the fundamentalist rhetoric of revenge against infidels.",
        "他们——包括游牧商人在内——最终都皈依了清算异教徒的原教旨主义思想。"
    ],
    [
        "Thirty years ago, the West wanted nothing more than for China to become a capitalist economy.",
        "三十年前，西方最大的愿望就是中国变成资本主义经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, he began apologizing for his earlier anti-Semitic hate speech.",
        "他甚至开始为自己早先的反犹太人言论道歉。"
    ],
    [
        "If this preferred solution proves unacceptable, an alternative would be to strengthen Article II-52, to state clearly that the twelve \"social rights\" of Part II apply to the Union, but not to the member states, even when these are implementing Union directives. If the Union decides, as it could, that all member states must provide public health care for all unemployed persons, it would be up to national parliaments, not 25 judges in Luxembourg, to determine how to address that objective.",
        "如果这个首选方案不能被接受，那么另一个办法就是强化第二条第52款，明确指出12项\"社会权利\"适用于欧盟但 不 适用于其成员国， 即便是在它们执行欧盟方针时 也不适用。 如果欧盟运用其权限决定让所有成员国都必须为失业者提供公共医疗服务，那么达成这一目标的具体方式也应该由各国议会，而不是由卢森堡的25位大法官来决定。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is the wrong way to look at it.",
        "但这种看法并不正确。"
    ],
    [
        "For Europe’s bigger countries, the picture of annualized demand in the same period is mixed.",
        "对欧洲其他的大国来说，2008年1月份到2009年1月份的年化需求情况有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "First, with asset prices like housing fueled by global liquidity, goods prices kept quiescent by excess capacity and global trade, and interest rates held down by muted investment, domestic and external imbalances have been easily financed.",
        "首先，随着住房等资产价格在全球市场流动性的推动下上涨，商品价格因过剩的生产力和全球贸易而低迷不振，以及利率随着投资的萎缩而下降，很容易出现国内和对外收支不平衡的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "POTSDAM, PARIS, ZURICH – Unless the world reduces greenhouse-gas emissions rapidly, humanity is likely to enter an era of unprecedented climate risks.",
        "波茨坦、巴黎、苏黎世—除非世界迅速降低温室气体排放量，否则人类将进入前所未有的气候风险期。"
    ],
    [
        "To boost domestic demand in the short term, India needs Keynesian interventionist policies.",
        "为了在短期内推动国内需求，印度需要凯恩斯主义式的干预政策。"
    ],
    [
        "That means establishing an emergency education system that enables adequate funding to be released to UN agencies and operational NGOs at the onset of a crisis – not years later.",
        "这意味着需要成立一个紧急教育制度（emergency education system），让联合国机构和参与其中的非政府组织在危机伊始——而不是几年后——获得充足的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "(Germany and its northern European allies, however, insist that this be an alternative to some form of debt mutualization, rather than a complement to it.)",
        "（不过，德国及其北欧盟国仍坚持这是某种形式的债务共同化的替代方案，而不是补充方案）。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany now wants to send some Tornado jets for reconnaissance purposes – better than nothing, but not by much.",
        "德国现在想派出几架“狂风”战斗机去执行侦察任务—聊胜于无，但又于事无补。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – What a difference two months make.",
        "美国剑桥—两个月间，斗转星移。"
    ],
    [
        "Nine of every ten recorded disasters are now climate-related.",
        "在当前有记录的灾害中，有90%是与气候相关的。"
    ],
    [
        "Their conscientiousness and integrity have restored people’s self-confidence.",
        "他们的责任心和团结重塑了人们的自信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, too little is being done to help banks that actually do what banks are supposed to do – lend money and assess creditworthiness.",
        "此外，对于那些真正在做银行被认为应该做的事情即贷款以及评估信用的那些银行的帮助非常之少。"
    ],
    [
        "On the fiscal front, the shift from a complex system of state-level indirect taxes to a national goods and services tax (a type of value-added tax) will improve efficiency and raise revenue.",
        "在财政领域，从复杂的邦级间接税向国民商品和服务税（一种增值税）的转变将改善效率、增加收入。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the problem is weak investment, then a reduction in such incentives will lead to excessively high real interest rates when the factors holding back investment dissipate.",
        "但如果问题在于投资不足，则减少鼓励会导致抑制投资的因素消失后出现过高的实际利率。"
    ],
    [
        "The international debate about how much austerity is appropriate to balance the interests of Greece and its creditors has distracted policymakers for too long.",
        "国际上正在争论需要多少紧缩能够恰当地平衡希腊及其债权人的利益，这场争论长期占据了决策者的注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "But France’s efforts to shore up solidarity by insisting on laïcité and erecting a dam against Muslim immigrants are both ineffective and counter-productive, because they exclude from a sense of fully belonging to the nation many people who are actually in France already.",
        "但法国人试图通过强调世俗主义来巩固团结，并停止接纳穆斯林移民的做法不但无效，还会起反作用，因为这同时也将许多身在法国的人们对这个国家的归属感排斥在外了。"
    ],
    [
        "As China’s e-commerce platforms become increasingly global, they may erode the dominance of giant multinationals in international trade.",
        "2015年，中国跨境电商总规模估计在5. 2万亿元，或相当于贸易总量的17."
    ],
    [
        "But the fact that, particularly in India’s northern states, voters elect people referred to openly in the press as “mafia dons,” “dacoit leaders,” and “anti-social elements” is a troubling reflection on the way the electoral process has served Indian democracy.",
        "但是，选民——特别是北方各邦的选民——选出被媒体公开称为“黑帮老大”、“土匪首领”和“反社会分子”的候选人这一事实是关于选举程序如何服务于印度民主的一个危险信号。"
    ],
    [
        "It is recorded neither as new debt nor as a deficit for any of the member states, which means that new government spending could be funded without affecting national fiscal performance.",
        "它既不会被记为新债，也不会成为任何一个成员国的赤字，这意味着新政府支出可以在不影响国家财政表现的条件下筹资。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the lessons of the past two years are any guide, the wheels of violence will keep on turning.",
        "但如果说两年来的教训有什么指导意义，那就是暴力的车轮恐怕将难以停下。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond Europe, Japanese women lament how far they must still go in a relentlessly male and sexist culture.",
        "在欧洲之外，日本女性哀叹她们在无情的男权文化和性别歧视中仍然任重道远。"
    ],
    [
        "In preparation, he has replaced senior generals in the Pakistani army with officers considered more beholden to him, evidently hoping that this will ensure the military’s loyalty even after he removes himself from the chain of command.",
        "为此，他撤换了巴基斯坦军队中的高级将领，代之以更为忠诚的军官。 这明显是希望在他自己离开军职后保证军队的忠诚。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, numerous downside risks – adverse weather shocks, military conflict, and political turmoil – still can undermine the hard-earned benefits of this social and economic record.",
        "当然，恶劣天气的冲击、军事冲突和政治动荡等多种下行风险仍然可以破坏这一社会经济记录的来之不易的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "A review of the pedagogical literature on the region’s education systems reveals the extent to which they have been designed for indoctrination.",
        "对该地区教育体系的教育学文献综述揭示了这些教育体系在多大程度上是为了灌输而设计。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump, like Nixon, may well be guilty of grave impeachable offenses – even graver offenses than Nixon’s.",
        "特朗普像尼克松一样很可能犯有严重到应当接受弹劾的罪行——甚至有可能比尼克松的罪行更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve their aims, they use reason and evidence to ensure that whatever resources they devote to doing good will be as effective as possible.",
        "为了实现他们的目标，他们用理性和证据确保他们用于做善事的资源尽可能地有效使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Thein Sein’s decision to halt the project is clearly an important policy shift.",
        "登盛叫停密松大坝项目的决定显然是一个清晰的政策转向信号。"
    ],
    [
        "For Europe, such distancing is impossible.",
        "但对欧洲来说，这种隔离根本不可能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, much of the US government’s focus has been on the toxic assets clogging banks’ balance sheets.",
        "目前，美国政府对有毒资产的注意力还大多停留在银行的资产负债表上。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, one must ask how much youth unemployment contributes to total unemployment.",
        "此外，还必须问问年轻人失业率如何影响总体失业率。"
    ],
    [
        "The lack of response to the European Commission’s non-enforcement in Spain and Portugal of the terms of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) is one of those times.",
        "欧盟委员会的稳定与增长公约（SGP）在西班牙和葡萄牙没有得到执行也没有引起反应，就属于此列。"
    ],
    [
        "Education is by far the most profitable investment Europe can make, so it should be launching its most ambitious strategy ever to create a new knowledge dynamic and employment inside the EU while helping to expand greatly education in the world’s poorest countries.",
        "教育是目前为止欧盟可以进行的回报最高的投资。 因此它应该启动有史以来最为宏伟的计划，在内部创造新的求知动力和就业机会，同时帮助世界上最穷困的国家大力发展教育事业。"
    ],
    [
        "Now consider the German voters who have turned against Chancellor Angela Merkel and her SPD coalition partners, mainly because they resent what they see as uncontrolled immigration and unjustified transfer payments to Greece.",
        "现在来看看反对安格拉·默克尔总理及其领导的社会民主党伙伴联盟的那些德国选民，他们持反对态度主要因为他们痛恨所看到的不受控制的移民以及针对希腊的不合理的转移支付。"
    ],
    [
        "Occasionally, when a repressive regime expels our foundation – as happened in Belarus and Uzbekistan – we operate from the outside.",
        "偶尔当我们的基金组织被专制政府驱逐出境时¾就像白俄罗斯和乌兹别克斯坦曾经发生的那样¾我们就在境外继续开展行动。"
    ],
    [
        "And, again, even this more substantial rise probably represents a substantial underestimate of the increase in the real standard of living.",
        "而即使是这一大大提高了的增幅，也可能大大低估了实际生活水平的提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet an alliance with the nationalists against Putin currently tempts many Russian liberals.",
        "然而，一个由民族主义分子组成、反对普京的联盟还是吸引了许多俄罗斯自由主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of going hungry, humans around the world on a per capita basis are eating more calories than ever before.",
        "世界各国人口非但没有挨饿，人均摄入的卡路里数量反而比以往任何时候都多。"
    ],
    [
        "By late 2009, the Chilean economy was growing again, and in the years since, growth has been helped by highly propitious external conditions.",
        "2009今年底，智利经济开始再度增长，此后几年以来，增长受极为有利的外部环境推动。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, economic outcomes will remain, as former US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke put it in 2010, “unusually uncertain.”",
        "否则，经济结果将继续如同前美联储主席伯南克（Ben Bernanke）在2010年所指出的那样“反常地不确定”。"
    ],
    [
        "Locust Capitalism",
        "蝗虫资本主义"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the police fail to take tough action against rioting young thugs.",
        "这也是警方无法重拳打击骚乱青年暴徒的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "China now has the world’s largest installed base of wind power, and its solar power capacity is second only to Germany’s.",
        "如今，中国拥有全球规模最大的风电基地，其太阳能发电能力也仅次于德国。"
    ],
    [
        "Piketty observes a rising wealth-to-income ratio from 1970 to 2010 – a period divided by a significant change in the monetary environment.",
        "皮克提观察到财富/收入比率在1970至2010年——该时期被货币环境的显著变化一分为二——出现了上升。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Over the last year, it has been easy to lose sight of the Greek debt crisis.",
        "发自普林斯顿——在过去一年中大家很容易会忽视了希腊的债务危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the US could set clear, narrow terms for the talks and provide a guarantee that the outcome would not impinge on Israel’s core interests, thereby mitigating Israeli officials’ fears that opening the treaty’s military annex for revision would call into question its other terms.",
        "此外，美国可以为谈判设定清晰精确的条件，并保证结果不会侵犯以色列的核心利益，从而减轻以色列官员关于开启条约军事附则修订会让其他条款遭到质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "One plausible answer, offered by Clinton and many others, focuses on the role of Russian cyber operations and FBI Director James Comey’s unconscionable “announcement” (of what amounted to nothing) just days before the vote.",
        "克林顿和起许多人所认可的一个解释是选举前几天的俄罗斯网络行动和联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米（James Comey）不“配合”的“宣布”（后来又不了了之）。"
    ],
    [
        "The question of what to do about Iran’s nuclear program will also return with a vengeance in January, after US President Barack Obama’s second inauguration and Israel’s general election, and will demand an answer within a few months.",
        "怎样针对伊朗核计划的问题也将在1月份美国总统奥巴马再次履新以及以色列大选结束后强势回归，并且将在几个月内给出答案。"
    ],
    [
        "Many either did not vote, or supported other parties.",
        "许多人要么拒绝投票，要么转投其他政党。"
    ],
    [
        "The first paragraph reads, “The IMF has always been a valuable tool for advancing US national interests globally.”",
        "开头一段写道，“国际货币基金组织一向是在全球推动美国国家利益的重要工具。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Big losses for large depositors in Cypriot banks will now be imposed, and the country’s second-largest bank will be shuttered.",
        "塞浦路斯银行大储户将被迫接受巨额损失，该国的第二大银行也将关门停业。"
    ],
    [
        "“There are those who will seize upon the report and say ‘see what Americans did,’” Feinstein said, “and they will try to use it to justify evil actions or to incite more violence.",
        "“肯定会有人拿着这份报告说‘看看美国人的所作所为’”，费恩斯坦表示，“他们会利用这份报告来为自己的邪恶行为寻找借口，或者进一步煽动暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Facebook has educated people, clumsily, about privacy controls, so marketers must educate people, ideally more elegantly, about tracking controls.",
        "正如Facebook在磕磕碰碰中教会了人们私隐控制那样，市场经营者们也应该用一种更为优雅的方式教育人们何为数据跟踪控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Going further, the EU should institute a joint foreign and defense policy to address the underlying causes of the migration crisis – namely, the conflicts in Libya and Syria.",
        "进一步讲，欧盟需要实行共同的外交和防卫政策，以解决移民危机的根本原因——也就是利比亚和叙利亚发生的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "The more audacious his behavior, the more the public loved him for it.",
        "他的行为越是乖张，民众就越喜欢他。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the basis of America’s insistence on administrative reforms.",
        "这也就是美国所坚持的行政改革基础。"
    ],
    [
        "What led Israel to war in 1967 was not a sound assessment of Egypt’s intentions to attack, but fear of a second Shoah.",
        "1976年致使将以色列发起战争的不是对埃及侵犯意图的全面评估，而是对第二场大屠杀的恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "One day, the country is on the brink of a double-dip recession; the next, it is on the verge of a turbo-charged recovery, powered by resilient consumers and US multinationals starting to deploy, at long last, their massive cash reserves.",
        "今天眼看着美国就要掉下二次探底的悬崖了； 过了一晚，受消费回弹刺激和美国跨国公司终于开始着手使用手里的大把现金储备，看上去高速复苏又近在眼前了。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent jitters about Iceland’s gaping trade deficit and Brazil’s new finance minister rippled around the world, reminding global investors that while many emerging markets are gradually moving towards investment-grade status, most are not there yet.",
        "最近冰岛的巨额贸易赤字和巴西新任财政部长所引发的波澜，触动了世界的敏感神经，并提醒全球投资家们：虽然有很多新兴市场正逐渐向投资级的地位迈进，但大多数却仍然长路漫漫。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, these technologies and management ideas amount to something of a new industrial revolution – though one that will be very different from the Industrial Revolution that made Great Britain the dominant world power in the nineteenth century and helped it build a global empire.",
        "其实，可以将这些技术及管理理念视为新一次的工业革命——虽然这次革命与19世纪让英国占据世界主导地位、并成为全球帝国的那次革命具有很大的差别。"
    ],
    [
        "On the Japanese side, there is growing anxiety over China’s increasing economic and military prowess, such that some nationalists would like to “settle” the matter in Japan’s favor as soon as possible.",
        "在日本方面，对中国强大经济和军事实力的忧虑与日俱增，以至于某些民族主义者想要尽快在对日本有利情况下把这件事“敲定”下来。"
    ],
    [
        "On the hilltop were Pakistanis in the same dire conditions, burning anything they could find in order to cook.",
        "山顶上是居住环境同样糟糕的巴基斯坦人，他们燃烧一切可以找到的燃料做饭。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of actually doing something constructive about Europe’s essential problem --reforming expensive welfare states to ensure global competitiveness--Europe’s political leaders are hiding behind straw man arguments about “ultra liberal Anglo Saxon models,” and pressuring the ECB to lower interest rates as if European economic weakness were Frankfurt’s fault.",
        "欧洲的政治领导人并没有真正地为解决欧洲基本问题做一些有建设性的事情——改革高额福利国家以保证他们能适应全球化的竞争，相反他们却用有关“极端自由的盎格鲁-萨克逊典范”、英国的预算返款以及高利率的论调作幌子，好像经济衰退是欧洲中央银行的过错一样。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Next Agenda",
        "中国的下一个日程"
    ],
    [
        "But if you look carefully at her statements during this election cycle, they have been, from the very beginning, almost identical to what Warren has been seeking for the past half-dozen years.",
        "但如果你仔细看看她在这一选举周期中的言论，就会发现它们从一开始 就几乎与沃伦在过去六年中一直在寻求的目标别无二致。"
    ],
    [
        "With the right rhetoric, and, above all, plausible policy alternatives, this self-conception can be changed again.",
        "运用正确的话语，以及最重要的，可信的政策方案，这一自我意识可以再次改变。"
    ],
    [
        "When a tsar loses his image of omnipotence, he eventually loses his grip on authority.",
        "当沙皇失去无所不能的形象时，他最终将无法进行专制统治。"
    ],
    [
        "A second component consists of former Ba’athist officials seeking a return to power.",
        "另一个组成部分就是企图重新掌权的前社会党官员。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Europe’s population is aging and will be shrinking, that of much of the developing world is young and growing.",
        "正当欧洲人口正在老龄化同时将会下降之际，大部分发展中国家却是生气勃勃而又在增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese e-tailers are already using their advantages in exporting products from the country’s factories to expand internationally.",
        "中国电子零售商已开始利用自身优势出口中国工厂的产品以实现国际扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the attack on the heroic Pakistani schoolgirl and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai demonstrated, girls and women are still blocked from education in many places, sometimes through violence.",
        "但英勇的巴基斯坦女学生和诺贝尔和平奖得主马拉拉·优素福扎伊遭袭事件表明，某些地方仍不许女童和女人接受教育，甚至不惜为此而诉诸暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite improved ties in the 1990s, successive Indian governments were unable – or unwilling – to risk their political capital by legitimizing the territorial transfer and settling the dispute.",
        "尽管两国关系在20世纪90年代有所改善，但后来的诸届印度政府都无法——或不愿——拿政治资本押注将领土转移和解决纠纷合法化。"
    ],
    [
        "“I never thought I’d say this,” one senior national security figure in New Delhi said to me, “but Pervez Musharraf…may be India’s best hope for peace with Pakistan.”",
        "印度一位资深国家安全事务官员告诉我说：“我从来都没有想到穆沙拉夫或许会成为印度与巴基斯坦修好的最大的希望”。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2003, then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke argued that Japan, facing deflation, should increase public expenditure or cut taxes, funding the operation by printing money rather than issuing bonds.",
        "在2003年，时任美联储主席的本·伯南克认为面临通缩的日本应当增加公共支出或者减税，并通过印钞而非发行债券的方式来为这些措施注入资金。"
    ],
    [
        "And, given the increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant TB, the trend could be reversed.",
        "而由于具有多重抗药性的结核病的普遍化，患病人数下降的趋势可能发生逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "That step – which places the renminbi on par with the major global currencies (the US dollar, the euro, the British pound, and the Japanese yen) – will enhance public- and private-sector acceptance of China’s currency in the international monetary system.",
        "这一举措——授予人民币与主要全球性货币（美元、欧元、英镑和日元）同等地位——将让更多公共和私人部门在国际货币体系中接受人民币。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists cannot be so sanguine.",
        "经济学家就没有这么乐观了。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it must establish strong cooperation with the EU on other key issues, such as security, foreign, and climate policy.",
        "首先，它必须在其他关键事务上与欧盟开展强劲的合作，比如安全、外交和气候政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Another strategy that might help sustain aggregate demand would be to phase in the VAT increase at an annual rate of 1% for three or four years.",
        "另一种可能有助于维持总需求的策略是在未来三年或四年的以1%的年增长率逐步提高增值税。"
    ],
    [
        "And he wanted things to get done, uncompromised by political wheeling and dealing.",
        "他希望能成事，为了避免折中，在政治上无所不用其极。"
    ],
    [
        "In principle, declining labor-force participation should be a problem in the eurozone, too, given the prolonged period of very high unemployment that many European workers have faced.",
        "理论上，劳动力参与率下降也应该成为欧元区的问题，因为许多欧洲工人长期以来都面临着非常高的失业率。"
    ],
    [
        "How has this confusion arisen?",
        "这种混乱是怎么产生的？"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the debate about the UK’s “Brexit” referendum has little relation to Nietzsche’s ideas.",
        "关于“英国退出”全民公决的大部分争论与尼采的概念没有什么关系。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as China’s excessive domestic credit growth and shadow-banking system attract increased attention, many companies are becoming anxious.",
        "而中国国内信用增长过快和影子银行系统问题正在日益受到关注，许多国家对此标识担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "If Al Gore had been declared president in 2000, the US probably would have gone to war in Afghanistan, but not in Iraq.",
        "如果2000年判决阿尔·戈尔（Al Gore）赢得总统，美国可能仍然会对阿富汗开战，但不会对伊拉克开战。"
    ],
    [
        "Tech-savvy young people tend to circumvent attempts at official censorship.",
        "长于技术的年轻人总是能够绕过官方审查措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet that is precisely what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe must do in his upcoming statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the war.",
        "但这正是首相安倍晋三在即将到来的二战结束70周年纪念讲话中所要做的。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Filipino people undoubtedly appreciate his tenacity in protecting their interests.",
        "菲律宾人民毫无疑问也很欣赏他在捍卫国家利益上的坚定。"
    ],
    [
        "In emerging markets, rapid urbanization is another important factor, as well as a desire to emulate Western lifestyles.",
        "而在新兴市场国家快速城市化则是另一个重要因素，此外还有模仿西方生活方式的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "With Germany as the primary exponent of orthodoxy, the debate has raged on.",
        "德国作为最主要的正统经济倡导者，争论变得越来越激烈。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, China, burdened by 150 years of perceived humiliation by the West, does not take kindly to that reaction.",
        "尽管如此，150年来一直对西方怀有屈辱感的中国对美国的反应略欠淡定。"
    ],
    [
        "A more recent version of the survey provides some clues.",
        "我们可以从最近一次调查中找到某些线索。"
    ],
    [
        "A preferable approach to resolving the problem might be more vigorous use of the tools available to market regulators.",
        "一个解决问题的较佳选项可能是让市场监管机构更大力地动用手边的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Cultivating critical-thinking skills takes time and practice, which is why it is more important than ever to invest in education.",
        "培养批判性思维需要时间和耐心，因此，投资于教育比以往任何时候都要重要。"
    ],
    [
        "France has simply failed to incorporate minority citizens – many of them third-generation immigrants who have been educated for twenty years in assimilationist public schools.",
        "法国根本上没有融合少数族裔公民，他们中的许多人都是第三代移民，在同化主义的公共学校中接受了二十年的教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Renewable energy sources, including solar and wind power, are well positioned to contribute to energy needs in both mature and emerging economies.",
        "可再生能源，包括太阳能和风能，能够很好地满足成熟和新兴经济体的能源需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Americans do not feel the sacrifices associated with the large troop presence and ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.",
        "大多数美国人都对派驻阿富汗和伊拉克的庞大军队所付出的牺牲毫无知觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, he and his administration were so busy trying to build consensus that they watered down some of the vital ingredients of the stimulus package, and failed to defend it robustly from Republican attack.",
        "第二，他和他的政府如此急于要建立共识而淡化了其刺激方案中一些关键因素，在共和党的攻击下没法捍卫其刺激方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Using the Danish figures to calculate EU-wide costs, the total is likely to be more than €150 billion annually, with every euro doing just half a cent worth of good.",
        "我们用丹麦的数据来估算整个欧盟的成本，总数有可能超过每年1500亿欧元，每个欧元只有半分得效益。"
    ],
    [
        "The trillions of dollars that have been mobilized to address current woes, together with the trillions of investors’ dollars waiting in the wings, represent an opportunity that was unthinkable only 12 months ago: the chance to steer a more resource-efficient and intelligent course that can address problems ranging from climate change and natural-resource scarcity to water shortages and biodiversity loss.",
        "各国已经动用了几万亿美元来应对当前的经济困境，加上投资者还有几万亿美元在等候，这就提供了一个在仅仅一年以前还是不可想像的机会，也就是导向一个更为灵巧、使用能源更为高效的解决问题的道路。 这些问题包括气候变化、自然资源贫乏、水资源短缺以及生物多样性的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The ICAO agreement is the next wave in the international battle against climate change.",
        "ICAO协定是对抗气候变化的国际战争的新一波浪潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Still others blame changes in policy and practice.",
        "还有人将矛头指向了政策和实践的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "As computing power has become cheaper and computers have shrunk to the size of smart phones and other portable devices, the decentralizing effects have been dramatic.",
        "随着计算能力变得更便宜，而计算机体积也缩小到智能手机和其他便携设备大小，分散效应变得极其显著。"
    ],
    [
        "As former US Senator Bob Graham, the lead author of the classified Senate report on the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, put it earlier this year, “ISIS is a product of Saudi ideals” and “Saudi money.”",
        "正如2001年9. 11恐怖袭击参议院机密报告的主要作者美国前参议员鲍勃·格雷厄姆今年初所说的那样，“伊斯兰国是沙特理想”和“沙特资本”的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "Modi won a landslide victory in an election that reflected the Indian public’s disappointment with the policies and performance of the previous government, led by the Indian National Congress.",
        "莫迪在大选中赢得了压倒性胜利，这场选举反映出印度公众对印度当所领导的前任政府的政策和表现的失望之情。"
    ],
    [
        "Build walls.",
        "修筑围墙。"
    ],
    [
        "Are we facing a long global slump, or possibly even a depression?",
        "我们是否正面对着一个长时间的全球低迷期，甚至可能是一场萧条？"
    ],
    [
        "These countries are mainly taking aim at the most visible manifestation of IP injustice: the accessibility of essential medicines.",
        "上述这些国家主要着眼于一个最体现出知识产权不公正性的地方：基本药物的可获取性。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, many countries have committed themselves to precisely this illusion, and it may be a long time before they take heed of Greenspan’s most important lesson.",
        "不幸的是，许多国家恰恰陷于这一幻觉，而且，它们注意到格林斯潘最为重要的经验教训可能需要很长的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "But domestic politics has made a bad situation much worse; indeed, the biggest obstacle to economic recovery this year came in the form of a massive corruption scandal at the state-owned oil giant Petrobras.",
        "但国内政治让糟糕的情况大大恶化了； 事实上，今年经济复苏的最大障碍是国有石油巨头巴西石油（Petrobras）大规模腐败丑闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Good metaphors are those that set off the right intuitive connections in our brains.",
        "好的比喻在头脑中激起恰当的直觉联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Innovation, spurred by talent, will determine success.",
        "受人才刺激的创新将决定成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The rising value of the renminbi will induce Chinese manufacturers to shift their emphasis from export markets to production for markets at home.",
        "而人民币的升值将导致中国制造商将重心从国际市场转回到国内市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, under his leadership, hints of how to structure international cooperation in a new era began to emerge – hints that Trump seems determined to ignore.",
        "尽管如此，在他的领导下，如何在新时代建立国际合作机制的线索开始浮现——这些线索特朗普似乎决意忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "Sarkozy’s proposed partnership has three pillars.",
        "萨尔科奇的建议包括三大支柱。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is too much to expect from a man who appears to understand little about sexual life.",
        "但对于一个对性生活了解甚少的人来说，这有点苛求了。"
    ],
    [
        "This process became known as globalization only after China and India joined in during the 1980s, but it had started long before.",
        "这一过程在20世纪80年代中国和印度加入之后才被称为全球化，但其实早就已经开始。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be true that some of that order’s elites chose to ignore the adverse distributional and employment-related consequences of the old order, while reaping the benefits.",
        "虽然可能确实有一些该秩序下的精英选择无视旧秩序在分配和就业方面的负面后果，同时获取好处。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to removing the damaging specter of the fiscal cliff – a potentially disruptive economic hindrance equivalent to some 4% of GDP, in the form of excessively blunt spending cuts and across-the-board tax increases – greater political effectiveness would serve to remove other uncertainties that inhibit certain economic activities.",
        "除了消灭财政悬崖这个危险的怪物——可能会对经济造成相当于GDP的4%的损失，其形式包括过度的支出削减和全面的增税——之外，政治效率的改善还能够消除其他困扰经济活动的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "With this approach, policymakers could use the market to help propel their economies away from dependence on fossil fuels, redistributing producer surplus (profits) from oil producers to the treasuries of importing countries, without placing too large or sudden a burden on consumers.",
        "通过这种方法，政策制定者可以利用市场来帮助推动本国经济摆脱对化石燃料的依赖，让盈余（利润）从石油生产国那里重新回归进口国的国库，同时不至于大幅或突然加重消费者的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the next ten years, China will build 100,000 megawatts of wind-power generation plants (10 times the US amount), 50,000 MW of nuclear capacity, 10,000 MW of solar photovoltaic power, and 10,000 MW of solar thermal power.",
        "在下一个十年内，中国将建造10万兆瓦的风力发电厂（是美国总量的十倍），5万兆瓦核电站，1万兆瓦太阳能光伏电站以及1万兆瓦太阳能热电站。"
    ],
    [
        "Individuals can be involved for profit and power, or for political and religious reasons, while others participate for hate or thrills.",
        "恐怖分子个人可能是追求金钱和权力，也可能是追求政治和宗教目标，还可能是出于仇恨或想寻求刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, more likely, in another moment of excess, will the Fed over-react, nipping the recovery in the bud?",
        "或者，更有可能的是在新的流动性过剩时期中，美联储是否会过度反应，把复苏掐死在萌芽状态呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In the last 15 years, India has pulled more people out of poverty than in the previous 45 – roughly 10 million people per year on average in the last decade.",
        "在过去15年间，印度脱离贫困线的人口总量比之前45年都要多——近10年间大概每年有1000万人实现了脱贫。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey is currently confronting the limits of its possibilities, while the EU finds that it can do very little in this region without Turkey.",
        "土耳其正在挑战其能力极限，而欧盟发现，对它来说，在这一地区土耳其是不可缺少的。"
    ],
    [
        "Development is held back by too little government, too much government, too little credit, the absence of property rights, and so on.",
        "政府干预过少、政府干预过多、信贷不足、产权缺位等等，这些东西都会阻碍发展。"
    ],
    [
        "This effort will help to develop business innovations for affordable and sustainable sanitation services in Africa, which could reach two million urban dwellers directly and another six million people through subsidiary projects.",
        "这项工作将有助于催生能为非洲提供廉价、可持续卫生服务的商业创新，该计划可以令两百万城市居民直接受益，并通过附属项目惠及另外600万人。"
    ],
    [
        "From now on, fluctuations in the Chinese economy, and the policy responses that those fluctuations imply, need to be considered in that vein.",
        "自此，中国经济波动及其所隐含的政策应对措施需要换个思路考虑了。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – When the news broke last week about the specific documents sought by Robert Mueller, the special counsel heading the federal investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election and whether Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with the Kremlin, a chill fell over Trump’s already jittery White House.",
        "华盛顿——当上周主导针对俄罗斯在2016年大选中所起的作用以及唐纳德·特朗普竞选团队是否与克林姆林宫相勾结的联邦调查活动的特别顾问罗伯特·米勒正在寻找的具体文件信息曝光时，特朗普本已战战兢兢的白宫更是惊出了一身冷汗。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is that anti-Americanism has grown in both reach and intensity.",
        "结果就是反美情绪在广度和深度上都有所增加。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a recent study, restoring tax rates on dividends and capital gains to their pre-1997 levels of 28% could finance a reduction in the US federal corporate tax rate from 35% to 26%.",
        "根据一项最新研究，让红利和资本利得税回到1997年前的水平（28%）能抵消美国联邦公司税率从35%降至26%所导致的收入损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU supports politically uncontroversial confidence-building measures that can reap results only in the long term, if ever.",
        "欧盟支持的政治上无争议的建立信任的措施只会在长期产生效果，如果能够产生效果的话。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the RMB’s sudden fall in December reflects China’s liberalization of cross-border capital flows.",
        "事实上，12月人民币的突然贬值反应出中国跨境资本流的自由化。"
    ],
    [
        "When asked what you should do in these circumstances, most people say that it would be wrong to push the stranger.",
        "当被问到你在这种情况下会如何做时，大多数人都说将陌生人推下去是错的。"
    ],
    [
        "So is Russia, where, despite encouraging talk about innovation-based development, the economy continues to de-modernize as corruption has been allowed to metastasize, and as the country relies increasingly on its natural-resource wealth.",
        "俄罗斯同样如此，尽管不乏鼓舞人心的言论（如建立在创新基础上的发展），但随着贪腐弊病被允许向着各处蔓延、加上该国愈加依赖于自然资源这一财富，如今的俄罗斯经济之现代化程度正在继续下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In helping Mexico, China, and other developing countries grow, the US is gaining richer trading partners.",
        "在帮助墨西哥、中国和其他发展中国家增长的过程中，美国赢得了更加富有的贸易伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this is to suggest that the US and Europe should abide every move by every corrupt dictator.",
        "这绝不是说美国和欧洲应该按照腐败独裁者的意愿采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there are no official data quantifying the deficit; in most parts of the Middle East, too few Christians are left to make meaningful statistical comparisons.",
        "可以肯定，不存在量化信任赤字的正式数据，因为该地区剩下的基督徒太少，导致已经无法进行有意义的数据比对工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Number seven is the dramatic progress made in eliminating measles.",
        "第七项成功是消灭麻疹方面的巨大进步。"
    ],
    [
        "And UN Peacekeeping Forces are badly overstretched.",
        "联合国维和部队保护水资源的力量严重不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Cynics might call this the old bread-and-circuses routine.",
        "犬儒主义者或许会把这称作陈旧的面包与马戏俗套。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1990 to 2012, the net Gini coefficient – a common measure of (post-tax and post-transfer) income inequality – increased dramatically in China, from 0.37 to 0.51 (zero signifies perfect equality and one represents perfect inequality).",
        "从1990年到2012年，中国净基尼系数——衡量（税收和转移支付后）收入不平等性的常用指标——从0. 37大幅上升至0."
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Syria has supported Allawi for the past seven years. Yet, in the wake of intense US and Iranian diplomatic pressure in favor of Maliki, Syria has apparently shifted its support accordingly.",
        "在过去7年中，叙利亚一直支持阿拉维当政，但在意识到美国和伊朗支持马利基的强大外交压力时，它也知趣地倒向了马利基。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the region is better positioned for a growth takeoff than it was in the 1990s, owing to major education and infrastructure investments that were made during the last decade of high oil prices.",
        "幸运的是，中东比其在20世纪90年代时更加有可能实现增长起飞，这是因为在过去十年的高油价时期，它们投入了巨大的教育和基础设施投资。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the Arab world’s governments have reached the limits of their ability to employ more people, raise public debt, and attract outside grants, members of these countries’ political and economic elite, whom the current rentier system privileges, will likely resist efforts at substantive reform.",
        "但尽管阿拉伯世界政府在雇佣民众、提高公共债务和吸引外部赠款方面已经达到了极限，但上述国家的政治和经济精英（这些人在当前食利系统中分得的好处最多）却将极有可能抵制任何实质性的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The US naively continues to view the Middle East as an object of manipulation, whether for oil or for other purposes.",
        "美国继续天真地把伊朗当作可以操纵的木偶，无论是出于争夺石油还是别的什么目的。"
    ],
    [
        "Electricity has given humanity huge benefits.",
        "电力令人类受益巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Jang’s tact, as well as his usefulness as an interlocutor with China, enabled him to keep his position, despite his long-term separation from his wife.",
        "张成泽老谋深算，并且在与中国的交往中作用显著，这让他得以保持自己的地位，尽管他与金敬姬早已分居。"
    ],
    [
        "Each member country could of course reduce taxes and increase spending.",
        "当然，各成员国可以减税增支。"
    ],
    [
        "But this requires treating drug users not as criminals to be incarcerated, but as patients to be cared for.",
        "但这要求不能将吸毒者视为必须打击的罪犯，而是需要照顾的病人。"
    ],
    [
        "Chávez’s petro-diplomacy sometimes took bizarre forms, like providing cheap bus travel for Londoners to please London’s left-wing mayor, Ken Livingstone.",
        "查韦斯的石油外交有时令人匪夷所思，比如为伦敦人提供廉价公交以取悦伦敦左翼市长列文斯顿（Ken Livingstone）。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, genetic testing is being used to pre-select participants for clinical trials, cutting recruitment times.",
        "比如，基因测试被用在临床试验候选参与者身上以缩短招募时间。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Chinese economy far less threatened by export-led weakening than it was three and a half years ago, a hard landing is unlikely.",
        "而中国经济对出口导向部门危险的抵御力远高于两三年前，因此硬着陆不会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Their cumulative overvaluation, in turn, helped set the stage for the Asian crisis that erupted in mid-1997.",
        "而它们的逐渐升值反过来酝酿了1997年年中爆发的亚洲危机。"
    ],
    [
        "We stopped investing in genuine engines of growth, letting our infrastructure decay, our education system lag, and our worker training and retooling programs erode.",
        "我们停止了对真正增长引擎的投资，任由我们的基础设施破败、教育体制落后、工人培训及重组计划遭到破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Trump’s behavior reflects a lack of regard for some of the most elementary requirements for successful negotiation.",
        "但事实上，特朗普的行为体现出他并没有考虑到一些实现成功谈判的最基本要素。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese public’s indifference to their country’s ceremonial transition of power is hardly surprising.",
        "中国民众对该国礼节式的权力交接漠不关心并不令人惊奇。"
    ],
    [
        "To accommodate this change in spending patterns, the dollar weakened, enabling the US to export more.",
        "为了适应支出模式的变化，美元开始贬值，这增加了美国的出口。"
    ],
    [
        "Technology has helped close the gap in recent years.",
        "近年来在技术协助下已经缩小了目前存在的差距。"
    ],
    [
        "In Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, and elsewhere, Israel is being denounced as a “terrorist state.”",
        "在柏林、伦敦、巴黎、罗马和其他地方，以色列被描述为“恐怖国家”。"
    ],
    [
        "But increasing efficiency in a wide variety of sectors, as Japan must do, can be a long, difficult, and piecemeal process, as it involves the upgrading of virtually every technology and process.",
        "但日本必须在众多部门增进效率，这需要一段漫长、艰难和渐进的过程，因为几乎所有技术和过程都要更新。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, unlike in the 1930’s, the US faces a hypertrophied financial system.",
        "因此，不同于1930年代，美国目前面临着过于庞大的金融体系。"
    ],
    [
        "One television channel after another was taken over by the state under various pretexts, as were major newspapers.",
        "一个又一个电视台被国家以各式各样的借口接管，主要的报纸媒体也难逃厄运。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important that we learn the lessons of Fukushima and incorporate them into our strategy to combat nuclear terrorism.",
        "我们必须从福岛危机中汲取教训，并据此制定打击核恐怖主义的战略中。"
    ],
    [
        "Thailand might face the hardest problems.",
        "泰国正处于非常艰难之时。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the captain, Gigi Buffon, sang with his eyes closed, as though in prayer.",
        "事实上，意大利队的队长布冯唱歌时还如祈祷时那样紧闭双眼。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it might be a Nixon-in-China moment: a wealthy politician at the pinnacle of power advocating higher taxes for the rich could change the course of history.",
        "事实上，这或许是可以和尼克松访华相比的时刻：位于权力之巅富有政客呼吁提高富人税收将改变历史进程。"
    ],
    [
        "NAIROBI – African countries are often criticized for failing to meet their environmental challenges.",
        "内罗毕—非洲国家常常被批评没有很好应对环境挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Osborne must not be given too much credit for his closet Keynesianism.",
        "平心而论，不能因为奥斯本身为影子凯恩斯主义者而大肆赞扬他。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – When the heads of state of the world’s 20 largest economies come together on short notice, as they just did in Washington, D.C., it is clear how serious the current global crisis is.",
        "巴黎—当世界20个最大经济体的首脑紧急聚首华盛顿，当前全球危机的严重性就可见一斑。"
    ],
    [
        "Natural selection as a theory becomes a proposition in play, needing much more work.",
        "物竞天择作为一项理论成为了一个现实的假设，需要大量更多的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasing numbers of universities offer courses or even programs in “sustainability,” and many large companies boast substantial departments devoted to the subject.",
        "越来越多的大学开始开设关于“持续性”的课程甚至专业，许多大公司也以成立庞大的“可持续”相关部门为荣。"
    ],
    [
        "First, we must concur on how to approach Greece’s fiscal consolidation.",
        "首先，我们必须就如何整合希腊的财政形成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise of the Islamic State did lend support to the government’s claims that Syria risks being taken over by terrorist groups; nonetheless, the regime is finding itself increasingly isolated.",
        "政府所谓叙利亚可能被恐怖团体接管的说法的确受到了伊斯兰国崛起的支持； 尽管如此，政府正在越来越深地陷入孤立。"
    ],
    [
        "An autocratic Empire arose, and the Roman Republic vanished forever.",
        "独裁帝国崛起，罗马共和国永远消失。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s design for Asian trade is inspired by the goal of containing China, and the TPP template effectively excludes it, owing to the non-trade-related conditions imposed by US lobbies.",
        "美国对亚洲贸易的设计就是源自于遏制中国的目标，而跨太平洋伙伴关系协议的条款实际上也将中国排除在外。"
    ],
    [
        "We projected downward wage pressure, which, by depressing domestic demand, would lead to lower employment and higher inequality in all country groupings.",
        "我们预测工资将承受下行压力，并通过抑制国内需求导致更低的就业和更高的不平等性（所有国家组别都是如此）。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments have proved unable to protect unskilled and semi-skilled employees from the consequences of globalization and technological change.",
        "政府证明了它无法保护无技能和低技能员工不受全球化和技术变革冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "This argument is correct in the sense that it is the current-account surplus or deficit of a monetary union as a whole that can be expected to have exchange-rate implications.",
        "作为整体的货币联盟的经常项目盈余或赤字可以预期带来汇率影响，从这一点上看，区别对待中国和德国是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, one can argue that, until now, Chinese corruption was more of a tax than a paralyzing force, and that dramatically changing the rules of the game could by itself catalyze a sharp drop in output.",
        "另一方面，你也可以指出，到目前为止，中国的腐败更类似于一种税，而不是一股让国家瘫痪的力量，激烈地改变游戏规则本身可能引发产出的剧烈下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the frail and ailing 85-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej still functions as a symbol of national cohesion.",
        "只有85岁高龄且体弱多病的普密蓬·阿杜德国王依然是国家团结的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "Though these measures are certainly positive steps, no country acting alone can ensure adequate protection of shark populations.",
        "虽然这些措施无疑可以算作积极步骤，但没有哪个国家单凭一己之力就足以保护鲨鱼种群。"
    ],
    [
        "The BoE’s vigilance, together with the fact that economic and financial arrangements with Europe have yet to be altered, has convinced companies and households to postpone plans to change their behavior.",
        "英格兰银行的警惕，加上对欧经济和金融安排尚未改变的事实，让公司和家庭放心地中止了改变行为的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The wind is at their backs.",
        "他们处于顺风位。"
    ],
    [
        "The implications of this are profound.",
        "这一现象的影响是深远的。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Palin has called the Iraq War “a task from God.”",
        "同样地，佩林把伊拉克战争称之为“上帝赋予的任务”。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the only efficient gift is an envelope of cash.",
        "从这个角度看，唯一有效率的礼物是现金红包。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term growth stems from prudent monetary and fiscal policies, the political will to regulate banks, and a combination of bold public and private investments in infrastructure, skills, and cutting-edge technologies.",
        "长期增长来源于稳健的财政货币政策、规范银行的政治意愿以及基础设施、技能和尖端技术领域大胆的公私投资组合。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence, the big question underlying the current wave of liberalization is whether these reform tendencies are politically sustainable.",
        "因此，目前自由化浪潮的根本问题是这些改革取向在政治上是否可以维系。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes the guesses are right, but most often they are not.",
        "有时猜测正确，但大部分时间是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "If a majority of the French come to believe that a course of action is being imposed on them from outside – and by Germany, no less! – they will respond with traditional Gallic stubbornness.",
        "如果绝大多数的法国人相信这一连串的行动都是由德国出台从外部强加于他们，法国人一定会用高卢人固有的倔强来予以还击。"
    ],
    [
        "As in other \"state nations,\" surveys in Ukraine indicate that common symbols have helped build elements of a common identity.",
        "和其它\"国家民族\"一样，乌克兰的民意测验表明共同的象征创造了共同的国籍身份。"
    ],
    [
        "China, the ministry vowed, would “take all appropriate measures to resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights.”",
        "中方表示将“采取一切适当措施坚决维护本国合法权益”。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the brutal paradox of climate change is that heavy precipitation is occurring more often as well, increasing the risk of flooding.",
        "此外，气候变化存在一个残酷的悖论，即大规模集中降水也愈来愈频繁，这增加了发生洪水的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Turkey’s considerable experience in writing constitutions, most legal experts deem the amendments, which voters endorsed by a razor-thin margin, regressive at best.",
        "土耳其在修改宪法方面“经验”丰富，因此，大部分法律专家认为这次选民们以微弱多数支持的修宪绝对是一次倒退。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the attacks, their relationship with their surroundings has been upset.",
        "自袭击发生以来，他们与周围的关系就变得不同了。"
    ],
    [
        "Currency-swap agreements, which have been important for Brazil and Argentina, must also be added to the list.",
        "对巴西和阿根廷来说十分重要的货币互换协议也必须加入到清单中。"
    ],
    [
        "One could argue that concessions on this front would simply acknowledge attitudinal and behavioral reality and allow the church to move on.",
        "你可以说，在这方面的让步可以承认态度和行为的现实，让教会有所进步。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Is it appropriate to use trade agreements to discourage countries from using large-scale intervention in the foreign-exchange market to hold down their currencies’ value?",
        "华盛顿—用贸易协议阻止国家利用大规模外汇市场干预拉低其货币价值，这样做合适吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, we occupy our bodies. We own them.",
        "相反，我们主宰并拥有它们。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s leaders directed negotiators to resolve the issue before the arrival of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, because she could be counted on to raise the issue in full view of the world’s media.",
        "中国领导人命令谈判者务必要在美国国务卿希拉里访华之前解决这个事情，因为她可能会在全世界媒体面前提起这个事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of these droughts reflects a complex mix of factors: long-term climate change, short-term or decade-long weather patterns, growing populations' rising demand for freshwater, mismanagement of local resources, and, of course, a lack of political attention and will.",
        "所有这些旱灾反映了复杂的因素组合：长期气候变化、短期或十年左右的天气模式、增长的人口对淡水需求的增加、本地资源管理不善，当然还有政治关注和意愿的缺位。"
    ],
    [
        "One might expect a leader who faces internal armed opposition to avoid doing anything that might weaken the military.",
        "你也许一位，面临国内武装反对的领导人会避免做出任何削弱军队的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the KRG government has long made clear that it respects Turkish sovereignty and will not interfere with relations between Turkey’s government and its own Kurdish population.",
        "事实上，KRG政府早就明确表示它尊重土耳其主权，也不会干涉土耳其政府与其自身库尔德人民之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The pro-austerity argument is pure assertion, but it is meant to be a testable assertion, so econometricians have been busy trying to prove that the less the government spends, the faster the economy will grow.",
        "赞同紧缩的论点纯粹只是一个主张，但它应该是一个可测量的主张，所以计量经济学家一直忙于证明政府支出越少，经济增长越快。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is far slower than in the United States and Britain.",
        "9%，但这一增长率依然远低于美国和英国。"
    ],
    [
        "While opponents of globalization still fight “neo-liberal” policies, political discourse has taken a new turn.",
        "当全球化的反对者还在与“新自由主义”的政策抗争之时，政治演讲的口气已经转向了一个新的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "The electric carmaker Tesla was a beneficiary of the same public loan guarantee program as Solyndra, the solar cell company that went bust in 2011 in a spectacular public collapse.",
        "电动汽车制造商特斯拉公司是公共贷款担保的受益者。 太阳能电池制造商Solyndra公司也参加了同一个项目，但它在2011年上市后轰然倒闭。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past ten years, we have held Scandinavian conferences on Taiwan in the parliaments in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm.",
        "在过去十年里，我们在哥本哈根、奥斯陆和斯德哥尔摩的议会都召开过关于台湾问题的斯堪的纳维亚会议。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s admonishment reminds us to be more discriminating about what information we share online.",
        "奥巴马政府提醒我们在网上分享信息要更具选择性。"
    ],
    [
        "We rely on such models to explain, for example “the paradox of thrift,” whereby individual decisions to increase saving can, by depressing spending and output, result in the population as a whole saving less.",
        "比如，我们依赖这类模型解释“节俭悖论”——个体增加储蓄的决定可能抑制支出和产出，最后导致全体储蓄总量变少。"
    ],
    [
        "And, considering the rampant corruption that plagues our continent, it might take a century to see male soccer teams managed and funded sufficiently.",
        "此外考虑到弥漫整个大陆的腐败问题，估计要等100年之后才能看到一支管理完善资金充足的非洲国家男子足球队。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, the ECB did precisely what any central bank would have done: we acted to restore the relationship between our monetary policy and the cost of borrowing, aiming to bring down the average rate that households and firms have to pay.",
        "对此欧洲央行做出了跟其他任何央行一样的回应：我们重新梳理了自身货币政策和借贷成本之间的关系，务求将家庭和企业所承担的平均贷款利率压下来。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2015, Estonia, Hungary, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia all announced or began the construction of barriers on their frontiers.",
        "2015年，爱沙尼亚、匈牙利、肯尼亚、沙特阿拉伯博和突尼斯均宣布或开始沿国境线建设隔离屏障。"
    ],
    [
        "One disappointing probability is that global efforts to fashion new arrangements to promote trade, slow the pace of climate change, or regulate cyberspace are likely to come to naught.",
        "一种令人沮丧的可能性是促进贸易、减缓气候变化或管理网络空间的全球努力极有可能前功尽弃。"
    ],
    [
        "“Be” refers to the shaping of character and values, and it comes partly from training and partly from experience.",
        "其中，“性”指性格与价值观的塑造，这一点部分源于训练，部分源于经验；"
    ],
    [
        "Faced with this unexpected challenge, some desperate rulers, above all now in Syria, have been using repressive, even terrorist methods against their open people.",
        "面对这些意想不到的挑战，某些穷途末路的统治者——比如叙利亚总统阿萨德——用镇压甚至恐怖主义的手段来镇压开明的人民。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks play an essential role in all modern economies, but that role is not to assume a huge amount of risk, with the downside losses covered by society.",
        "银行在所有现代经济中都有着举足轻重的地位，但其作用并不包括堆积大量风险，然后用社会来为损失买单。"
    ],
    [
        "So the decision to keep him on for at least the next two years represents a significant endorsement by the new Chinese leadership.",
        "因此让他至少再留任两年的决定代表着中国新领导人对其的高度认可。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, the Fund directly assisted 30,000 Roma children and 800 university students.",
        "去年，该基金直接资助了 30 ， 000 名罗姆儿童和 800 名大学生。"
    ],
    [
        "The long-run damage could be devastating.",
        "这种长期的破坏可以是毁灭性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Sociologists have analyzed the class composition of India’s legislatures and traced the change from a post-independence Parliament dominated by highly educated professionals to one populated by today’s motley crew of MPs, who are more truly representative of India’s rural heartland.",
        "社会学家分析了印度立法机构的阶级组成，并追踪了独立以来印度议会从由高教育程度的专业人士主导逐渐演变为当今成分更加复杂的议员构成。 今天的议员构成更能真正代表印度的农村腹地。"
    ],
    [
        "Elite military units usually protect radio and television stations, because they have often been the first targets in military coups.",
        "电台和电视台常有精锐部队重兵把守，这些地方通常都是军事政变的首要目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The demand-driven models (operating through so-called “accelerator” effects) won hands down.",
        "需求驱动型模式（通过所谓“加速器”效应来操作）无可争议地成为首选。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the prospect of a capital-flow reversal adds risk, deters investment, and can produce sudden credit-tightening events.",
        "同时，资本流向逆转的预期也会增加风险，阻碍投资，并可能导致突发信贷紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, he has ensured that the opposition leader Alexei Navalny was convicted of embezzlement, giving the government an excuse to bar him from the ballot.",
        "他已经确保反对派领导人阿列克谢·纳瓦尔尼被判犯有贪污罪，这给了政府禁止他参与投票的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "As if that were not enough, he recently issued an executive order instructing government agencies to roll back the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which was designed to limit emissions from coal-fired power plants, and promote renewable energies.",
        "他似乎还意犹未尽，最近又发布行政令要求政府机构撤销奥巴马时代的清洁电力计划。 该计划的目的是限制来自燃煤电厂的排放和促进可再生能源。"
    ],
    [
        "But the international community, Palestinians, and Arabs all bear responsibility as well, albeit at different levels.",
        "但是国际社会、巴勒斯坦和阿拉伯国家同样负有责任，虽然责任大小有不同。"
    ],
    [
        "My Best Investment",
        "我的最佳投资"
    ],
    [
        "A month later, French forces in Côte d’Ivoire arrested President Laurent Gbagbo, who had refused to recognize his rival’s election victory, putting the country at risk of civil war.",
        "一个月后，法军在科特迪瓦捉拿拒绝承认对手赢得大选的总统巴博，消灭了内战之忧。"
    ],
    [
        "If you elect a bad government, then tough – you live with it.",
        "如果选出了糟糕的政府，那么很遗憾——你只能接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Cyrenaica is Qaddafi-free, Tripolitania is not, and Fezzan did not fully join the revolution.",
        "昔兰尼加基本不受卡扎菲控制，的黎波里则在卡扎菲控制之下，费赞并没有完全参与到革命之中。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be a good outcome in the long run.",
        "从长远来看这会是一个好的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is what comes after that: the risk that the fiscal compact will founder on precisely the same shoals as the SGP.",
        "而问题在于随后发生的事情：财政契约的失败风险其实和《稳定与增长公约》是同样大的。"
    ],
    [
        "A leading example is food supply – an area where technology has continually produced ever-more highly processed and genetically refined food that scientists are only beginning to assess.",
        "一个显著的例子是食品供给。 在这一领域，科技在持续生产着日益复杂的转基因食品，而科学家对这些食品的评估才刚刚开始。"
    ],
    [
        "None has any personal experience of war.",
        "这些人都没有对战争的个人体验。"
    ],
    [
        "Another major concern is that, if businesses are no longer able to “grease the wheels” – that is, bribe officials to allow them to circumvent excessive regulations – their performance could suffer.",
        "另一个主要担忧是，如果企业不再能够“走后门”——即贿赂官员允许他们规避过度监管——业绩将受到影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Having abandoned its historical role in shaping Europe’s future, will the UK really be content to remain on the sidelines?",
        "那么放弃了在塑造欧洲未来的历史任务的英国，会否真正满足于永远靠边站呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, Bush’s record on science policy is miserable.",
        "一言以蔽之，布什的科学政策记录惨不忍睹。"
    ],
    [
        "So my principles would then be developed from Karl Polanyi’s old observation that the logic of market exchange puts considerable pressure on that underlying foundation.",
        "因此我的原则是从Karl Polanyi的固有认识发展而来，即：市场交流的逻辑给这一基础施加了巨大的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "If Cameron’s advisers overestimated the support that they might have received from Merkel and others, they clearly underestimated the power and effectiveness of the European Parliament.",
        "如果说卡梅伦的顾问们高估了他们可以从默克尔和其他人那里获得的支持，那么他们显然低估了欧洲议会的权力和效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, in many parts of the world, women have made considerable headway on the path to the top.",
        "尽管如此，在世界上许多地方，女性在走向权力顶峰的路上已经取得了巨大的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "After emancipation in the nineteenth century, the African-American communities remained impoverished and largely bereft of political rights.",
        "而在19世纪的黑人解放运动后，非洲裔美国人仍然饱受贫困，被剥夺了一切政治权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixteen years later, it has become clear that the Israelis have made no effort to come to terms with Palestinian national aspirations – and that no effective effort has been made to convince them.",
        "一转眼16年过去了，人们却越发明确地意识到以色列根本就没打算满足巴勒斯坦人的建国渴望——也根本没想用什么实际的努力去让巴勒斯坦人明白到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Each nation feels that it has been humiliated and demonized by the other.",
        "每个国家都感到被对方羞辱和歪曲。"
    ],
    [
        "If this situation persists, China’s moves to assert more authority in Hong Kong could well become even more brazen.",
        "如果这一局面持续下去，中国将更加恬不知耻地在香港主张威权。"
    ],
    [
        "To the US administration, every act in the drama of the war on terror was seen as discrete and self-contained: Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Hezbollah in Lebanon.",
        "对于美国当局而言，他们视发生在阿富汗、伊拉克、巴勒斯坦以及黎巴嫩的真主党的反恐战争的每个行动都是互不相关、各成一体的。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason why Japan hesitated to export its high-speed rail technology was revealed by JR Tokai Chairman Takayuki Kasai, who wanted to make its provision conditional upon the “country being politically stable and governed by the rule of law.”",
        "而日本之所以在出口高速铁路技术方面犹豫不决，正如日本东海旅客铁道株式会社（JR Tokai）社长山田佳臣所说，是因为出口必须符合“技术受让国政治稳定且实行法治”的前提条件。"
    ],
    [
        "An inflationary bubble in Eastern Europe, coupled with the dismantling of border controls, could destabilize the entire EU and create a fresh wave of economic migrants into Central Europe.",
        "东欧的通胀性泡沫，加上边控的取消，可能动摇整个欧盟，导致新一波经济移民潮进入中欧。"
    ],
    [
        "The second, the Canadian National Breast Screening Study, which began in the 1980s, also used annual mammograms and breast examinations for the screened group.",
        "第二次是20世纪80年代开始的加拿大国家乳腺筛查研究，筛查组同样每年接受X光乳腺造影和乳房检查。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is really a theory about risk management for certain kinds of products, not “liquidity” per se .",
        "但是这实际上是一种有关某些种类的产品——而不是“流动性”本身——的风险管理的理论。"
    ],
    [
        "If terrorist bombs are no longer going off in the Indian state of Assam, it is thanks to the government in Dhaka.",
        "如果恐怖分子的炸弹不再在印度阿萨姆邦炸响，我们要感谢达卡政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Back to the Future in Finance",
        "回到金融史上的解决方案"
    ],
    [
        "The answer was no – a decision that, in the wake of the 2007-2008 credit crisis, appears to have been a fundamental mistake.",
        "得出的结论是不应该——2007年至2008年的信贷危机发生后，这一决定似乎一直就是一个根本性的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "The government has taken a first step by tightening its own budget and spending less, especially on distortionary subsidies.",
        "政府已经迈出了第一步——紧缩自己的预算、减少支出，特别是自由裁量补贴支出。"
    ],
    [
        "But consider the constraints.",
        "但我们必须考虑到其中的诸多限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Nikolai Patrushev, the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB, the former KGB) and Rashid Nurgaliev, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), both sent to Beslan by President Vladimir Putin, were invisible as the tragedy unfolded.",
        "他们浪费了宝贵的分分秒秒，直到暴行无可避免的发生。 与此同时，国家安全局（FSB，以前叫KGB）局长帕鲁谢耶夫和内政部（MVD）部长努尔加里耶夫受命于弗拉基米尔·普京总统双双来到现场，却在悲剧发生时踪影全无。"
    ],
    [
        "Consent should not be snatched away, like a train ticket held out for the conductor.",
        "同意不应该被剥夺，就像火车票被检票员拿走一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Much has changed in the 13 years since the first International Conference on Financing for Development was held in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2002.",
        "自2002年墨西哥蒙特雷第一届国际发展融资会议召开以来，情况发生了很大的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – This year’s presidential campaign in the United States has been marked by calls from Barack Obama’s would-be Republican challengers for a radical transformation of American foreign policy.",
        "美国剑桥—今年的美国大选有一个特点：奥巴马的潜在共和党挑战者无不要求对美国外交政策来个彻底变革。"
    ],
    [
        "So make no mistake.",
        "因此，不要搞错了。"
    ],
    [
        "The scale of this challenge demands a comprehensive, institutional response from the EU that goes well beyond the Decade and the capacity of my foundations.",
        "上述挑战的规模需要欧盟制定远比“十年”计划和我所建立的基金更全面、也更制度化的对策。"
    ],
    [
        "There were, of course, a number of subjects that remained just below the surface and were not discussed at this year’s CDF.",
        "当然，许多主题仍没有摆上台面，也没有在今年的发展中国论坛上讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Correspondingly, RMB liabilities owed by mainland Chinese and multinationals increased, as did RMB assets held by Hong Kong residents.",
        "相应地，大陆中国居民和跨国公司的人民币债务增加了，香港居民持有的资产亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, such controls are ineffective in reducing short-term cyclical pressure on the currency to appreciate.",
        "所以，此类管制在减小本币升值的短期周期性压力方面没有用处。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, there is no unified Young Guard.",
        "换言之，团结统一的“青年卫队”并不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "But the correlation between the Treasury yield and the inflation rate over the next ten years is only 28%.",
        "但国债收益率与未来十年通货膨胀率之间的相关性只有28%。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, they have largely accepted the fact of anthropogenic (man-made) climate change but argue that its impacts will not be great, that we can “wait and see,” and that in any case we can always fix the problem if it turns out to be substantial.",
        "而最近，他们基本上接受了这样的事实，即人为造成的气候变化的现象的存在，但认为其影响将不会很大，我们可以再“等等看” ，而且他们认为，在任何情况下，如果气候变暖发展到很严重的地步，我们总是能够解决这一问题的。"
    ],
    [
        "The whole of Asia, from Turkey to China, contributes 24%, less than the US alone.",
        "从土耳其到中国的整个亚洲占24%，比美国一个国家还要少。"
    ],
    [
        "Badiny was reappointed after the revolution, but then reprimanded in November 2011, following clashes between demonstrators and police that left more than 40 protesters dead.",
        "巴迪尼在革命之后重新获得了任命，但在2011年11月造成40名示威者死亡的游行者和警方的冲突后再次受到斥责。"
    ],
    [
        "To take full advantage of the known genetic susceptibility factors, it will be necessary to understand their biological consequences.",
        "为充分利用已知的基因易感因素，我们有必要了解它们的生物后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In nearly every case, an international effort is needed.",
        "几乎在所有情况下，国际努力都是不可或缺的。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest – Yanukovych’s renunciation of the EU agreement, the popular uprising that ousted him in response, two invasions by Russia, and thousands of people killed in the country’s eastern Donbas region – is history.",
        "后来的事——亚努科维奇反悔欧盟协定、群众因此暴动并推翻亚努科维奇、俄罗斯两次入侵乌克兰、乌克兰东部顿巴斯（Donbas）地区数千人丧生——大家都知道了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, after his fall, a very different picture emerged.",
        "但在他倒台后呈现的却是一幅截然不同的图景。"
    ],
    [
        "The kingdom’s new leadership has some difficult but important choices to make as it formulates a detailed economic strategy.",
        "该国新一届领导班子在制定详细的经济战略前需要做出一些艰难但却重要的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "A widening gap in economic performance and political dominance is such a dismal prospect for the EU that it must not be allowed to become permanent.",
        "对欧盟而言，经济表现和政治地位差距拉大的前景是如此可怕，绝不能任其发展为一种永久现象。"
    ],
    [
        "I do worry that the government is not moving fast enough to grant the country’s millions of migrant workers official residency in the cities where they work and live.",
        "我确实担心政府给予中国数百万农民工在他们工作和生活的城市的正式居留权的动作不够迅速。"
    ],
    [
        "But it did.",
        "但是美元依然是被报价币。"
    ],
    [
        "Such fragmentation is likely to intensify.",
        "政治分裂有可能恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, just as Brexiteers want to withdraw from Europe, Trump wants to withdraw the US from international arrangements of which it is a part, if not the linchpin.",
        "此外，就像英国脱欧支持者希望退出欧洲一样，特朗普希望美国从已经参加、甚至扮演关键角色的国际协议中退出。"
    ],
    [
        "Others argue that the stable exchange rate fosters macroeconomic stability in China.",
        "其他人则提出，稳定的汇率促进中国的宏观经济稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Canute set his throne by the sea and commanded the rising tide to turn back.",
        "克努特将王座设在海边，命令上涨的海潮退去。"
    ],
    [
        "Until we think in terms of European sovereignty, rather than fret over risks to national sovereignty, the present crisis cannot be overcome.",
        "只有我们以欧洲主权的方式来考虑问题，而不是为国家主权而烦恼，目前的危机才能被克服。"
    ],
    [
        "America is a country of immigrants, with a dynamic economy that has enabled newcomers, time and again, to achieve great success.",
        "美国是一个移民之国，其充满活力的经济一次次的让新移民取得了巨大的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, Russia and others have been planting malware in the control systems of the US power grid and other sensitive networks.",
        "最近，俄罗斯和其他国家一直在向美国电网和其他敏感网络控制系统植入恶意软件。"
    ],
    [
        "The atrocity carried out by Abedi, for which the Islamic State has claimed credit, is probably worse than the dreadful bombing by the Irish Republican Army that destroyed parts of the city center 21 years ago, an event that many believe played a key role in Manchester’s renaissance.",
        "伊斯兰国声称对阿贝迪犯下的暴行负责，这次暴行很有可能比21年前爱尔兰共和军摧毁市中心部分地区的恐怖爆炸更加恶劣。 很多人认为那起事件在曼彻斯特的复兴中发挥了关键的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a macro-deflationary problem.",
        "此外还有一个宏观通缩的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "For his tenacity, CPJ awarded him our International Press Freedom Award in 1998.",
        "为了表彰他的坚韧，CPJ授予他1998年国际新闻自由奖。"
    ],
    [
        "But that would mean a substantial change in the direction of EU social policies, including revision of the draft constitution.",
        "但那就意味着欧盟社会政策方向的重大变化，包括对宪法草案的修改。"
    ],
    [
        "A case of shingles may be benign and relatively bearable for someone in his or her thirties.",
        "带状孢疹病例对30多岁的人而言或许相对不那么严重和可以承受。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, with the worst now over, complacency is the Spanish economy’s worst enemy.",
        "事实上，最坏的时期已经过去，骄傲自满才是当前西班牙经济最大的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Nature study puts it: “Development of resources in the Arctic and any increase in unconventional oil production are incommensurate with efforts to limit average global warming to 2º C.”",
        "《自然》的研究指出：“北极圈资源的开发和任何非常规石油产量的增加不利于将全球平均升温水平限制在２℃以内的目标。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Ocean Commission has put forward a clear three-step program to eliminate harmful fishing subsidies.",
        "全球海洋委员会已经提出了一份明确的三步走计划取消有害的渔业补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, he must shelve some of the large, long-term infrastructure projects that he has promoted energetically in the last two years.",
        "首先，他必须搁置一些他在过去两年中大力推进的大型长期基础设施项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Big Data for Poor Students",
        "穷学生的大数据"
    ],
    [
        "Every time investment picks up, the current-account deficit grows too large for comfort.",
        "只要投资略有抬头，经常项目赤字就会增加到令人不安的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "ISLAMABAD -- As Pakistan gears up for its parliamentary election on February 18, many observers hope that the vote will usher in a period of stability and calm by lending popular legitimacy to the government.",
        "伊斯兰堡--当巴基斯坦准备2月18日的议会选举之际，许多观察家希望这一次投票将会通过给予政府合法性而迎来平稳的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "The story, akin to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's ambitious 1962 masterpiece One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, steadily indicts the corruption of state power – a power ever-willing to kill and to align itself with an even more corrupt power, the Orthodox Church.",
        "影片的故事接近于索尔仁尼琴1962年的宏大杰作《伊万·杰尼索维奇的一天》（One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich），是对国家力量的腐败的娓娓道来的控诉。 这股腐败的力量日益沉溺于杀戮，并且与更加腐败的力量——东正教会相勾结。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, during Ramadan prayers last October, a mob of a 1,000 people razed a mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.",
        "例如，在去年10月的Ramadan祷告中，1,000人的暴徒之众将一个Ahmadiyya穆斯林团体的清真寺夷为平地。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the attacks are a reminder that, as a new part of the global commons, cyberspace already has come under threat.",
        "事实上，这些攻击便是在提醒人们：网络空间这一全球公域中新的成员，已经处在了威胁之下。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the gene’s function in causing breast and ovarian cancer was uncovered by Cancer Research UK in 1995, Myriad, along with nearly 30 other defendants, argues that the patent is a necessary reward for its research costs.",
        "虽然英国癌症研究所在 1995 年就发现了这种基因在导致乳腺及卵巢癌中的作用，但迈里德与其他近 30 名被告一道，称专利是为补偿其必要的研究投入。"
    ],
    [
        "Normally, the math of increasing government purchases tells us that a small or dubious boost to output today brings a heavier financing burden in the future, which makes debt-financed fiscal expansion a bad idea.",
        "常规政府支出增加算术告诉我们，当下产出的微小或可疑提振会增加未来融资负担，照这么说来，债务融资的财政扩征绝不是好主意。"
    ],
    [
        "With the 5150, IBM moved into mass production of a standardized commodity using components produced by other companies.",
        "随着5150电脑的来临，IBM转而使用由其他公司生产的配件大规模生产电脑这一标准化商品。"
    ],
    [
        "The big difference – that Japan has a trade surplus and the US has a deficit – is not important as long as China’s currency policy obliges it to accumulate dollar assets in one form or another.",
        "美日之间的差别——贸易赤字对贸易盈余——已不再重要，因为中国的货币政策使其不断地积累着美元资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, a grave question arises about the now-ruling Supreme Council of the Military High Command in Egypt: How can the enforcers of the status quo become the agents of change?",
        "当然，关于目前政治的埃及最高军事委员会最高统帅部的严肃问题是： 现状的捍卫者怎能促动改革？"
    ],
    [
        "If Farage had had some first-hand experience dealing with Putin, he might have reached an accurate assessment much sooner.",
        "如果法拉奇有过接触普京的第一手经验，他准确认清形势可能会快得多。"
    ],
    [
        "A formula for this could be linked to the debt/GDP ratio – a scheme with advantages that transcend the Greek case.",
        "该方面的一个参数可以是债务/GDP比率，该机制的实施的好处远远超过了希腊。"
    ],
    [
        "All of the relevant powers of the twenty-first century are represented in the G-20, and they should see the success of Copenhagen as part of their direct responsibility.",
        "作为所有21世纪相关国家代表的20国集团应该将哥本哈根的成功视作其直接责任的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "And we need a new, unambiguous system of fiscal accounting that distinguishes between tax-funded government spending and public spending that pays for itself.",
        "此外，我们还需要一个崭新的、明晰的财政计算体系，区别靠税收融资的政府支出和能自我维持的公共支出。"
    ],
    [
        "A Wave Election in America?",
        "美国的选举波？"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s Economic Imperialism",
        "俄罗斯的经济霸权主义"
    ],
    [
        "Rich country consumers are responding to higher energy prices, and it helps.",
        "富裕国家的消费者对于越来越高的能源价格有所反应，并且高价格确实起了一些作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite economic success, it became steadily clearer that Blair’s time was running out.",
        "然而，尽管经济上取得了成功，布莱尔的时间还是不多了，这一点已经越来越明显。"
    ],
    [
        "It was once fashionable to argue that when China opened up to the world, Hong Kong and Singapore would suffer.",
        "曾几何时，人们纷纷议论如果中国向世界开放，香港和新加坡将受到冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "And Chinese and Western companies should be encouraged to invest in one another’s IP.",
        "中国和西方公司应该被鼓励投资彼此的知识产权。"
    ],
    [
        "Tackling migration-related challenges is necessary regardless of whether one favors more or less immigration.",
        "不管人们支不支持移民，处理与移民相关的挑战都是很有必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "All weather is driven by energy, and the sun ultimately provides this energy.",
        "所有的天气都是由能量推动的，而这些能量的最初提供者则是太阳。"
    ],
    [
        "Empires come and go, as do their traditions.",
        "帝国起起落落，帝国的传统也是。"
    ],
    [
        "The meaning of a drug-aided victory is ambiguous and elusive even for the athlete.",
        "通过使用兴奋剂而赢得的胜利对运动员来说，其含义是模糊的，隐晦的。"
    ],
    [
        "The public-spirited justification of the concentration of wealth offered in “The Gospel of Wealth” has more support in the United States than elsewhere, which reflects Americans’ relatively greater admiration of business people.",
        "“财富的福音”一文所包含的、为财富集中提出的基于公众精神的理由在美国得到了比其他地方更多的支持。 这反映了美国人对工商界人士相对更高的敬重。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the largest popular challenge the Chinese Communist Party ever faced, the demonstrations of 1989, now looks like a blip that helped Deng consolidate support for his model of development.",
        "即便是中国共产党有史以来面对的最大的民意挑战——1989年游行，现在看起来也更像是帮助邓巩固对其发展模式支持的一个标记。"
    ],
    [
        "If this happens, Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan would not be left unaffected.",
        "如果这种情况真的出现，伊拉克、黎巴嫩和约旦肯定无法置身事外。"
    ],
    [
        "The group essentially repeated the study in 2006, using a larger sample size.",
        "该研究小组在2006年又将调查重新进行了一遍，所不同的是这次调查中选取的样本数量更多。"
    ],
    [
        "In view of the modern power of information, they must think carefully about the legal ramifications of the FBI’s demand.",
        "鉴于信息在现代社会的力量，我们必须认真思考联邦调查局请求的法律后果。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s model of authoritarian efficiency seemed attractive to many other developing countries, particularly in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, which began in the United States and thus seemed to discredit American-style liberal capitalism.",
        "中国的极权效率模式似乎对许多其他发展中国家很有吸引力，特别是在2008年全球金融危机后。 2008年全球金融危机源于美国，因此令美国式自由资本主义信誉大损。"
    ],
    [
        "Its moon mission in 2008, which carried a payload for some 20 countries, won the International Lunar Exploration Working Group’s International Cooperation Award.",
        "其2008年的月球任务承担了20个国家的任务，并赢得了国际探月工作小组（International Lunar Exploration Working Group）的国际合作奖。"
    ],
    [
        "This restatement of the principal contradiction has not emerged from thin air.",
        "这个主要矛盾的重述并不是空穴来风。"
    ],
    [
        "Given rapid urbanization – up to 70% of all people will live in cities by 2050 – the rate of exposure to higher levels of pollution is rising rapidly.",
        "由于快速城市化——截止2050年，高达70%的人将生活在城市——暴露在更高污染水平中的人群占比正在迅速攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "This would not be a pleasant prospect for the world economy.",
        "这对于世界经济来说可不是好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "But the vast majority of developing countries – including China and Brazil – are happy with the new regime.",
        "但绝大多数发展中国家——包括中国和巴西——乐于见到新机制。"
    ],
    [
        "This would pose fundamental, even existential questions for Germany, the other half of a tandem that has been at the heart of the European project since World War II.",
        "这可能给二战后一直处在欧洲核心地位的与法国对等的德国带来根本、甚至是生死攸关的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s size and rapid economic growth will almost certainly increase its relative strength vis-à-vis the US.",
        "中国的规模和快速经济增长几乎必然会增加它相对于美国的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Pick on BNP Paribas?",
        "为何偏偏是巴黎银行?"
    ],
    [
        "The test of statesmanship did not end there.",
        "对于一个政治家的才能的测试并不止于此。"
    ],
    [
        "So, what can we do?",
        "那么，我们可以做些什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "We should be interested not for prosecutorial purposes, but in order to gain a more profound understanding of a bloody, demagogical, and tyrannical Utopia – and of human weakness and vulnerability. We may even consider it a rewarding testament to an artist’s ability to overcome his past mistakes and still produce priceless work.",
        "我们之所以感兴趣不是为了揭发他，而是为了对一个血腥、蛊惑民心和专制的乌托邦以及人的弱点和脆弱性有更深的理解。 我们甚至可以认为这是对一位艺术家战胜他过去所犯的错误然后依旧推出宝贵作品的能力的有回报的验证。"
    ],
    [
        "Starting this fall, the UN SDSN will create a platform for all global citizens to participate in the hard work of saving the planet.",
        "从今年秋季开始，联合国SDSN将打造一个平台方便全体地球公民参与拯救地球的艰巨事业中。"
    ],
    [
        "How this contrast is resolved will be important not only to the country’s more than 17 million people, but also to everyone who regards Chile as a model of what sound economic policies have been able to achieve.",
        "而如何消除这种反差将极为重要，不仅关乎该国1700万国民的福祉，还将影响到那些将智利视为合理经济政策成功典范的人们。"
    ],
    [
        "According to this view, inclusion of “the other” – people from different countries and cultures – does not destroy national identity; it enriches it with new ideas and behaviors.",
        "按照上述观点，“他人”——不同国家和文化移民的融入不仅不会破坏民族认同感； 反而会以新的思想和行为丰富它的内涵。"
    ],
    [
        "One does not have to read Carlos Pascual’s leaked cables to understand that.",
        "这一点不用看卡洛斯·帕斯夸尔的泄密电报也能知道。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal consolidation and national reforms are essential and should continue.",
        "财政整合和国家改革至关重要，也应该继续进行。"
    ],
    [
        "Freedom of expression is in their bones; mass protests their visual lifeblood.",
        "言论自由就是他们的骨髓，大规模抗议就是他们的命根子。"
    ],
    [
        "How much will slower trade growth, now in the offing, matter for the global economy?",
        "从目前看，贸易增长即将转衰，这对全球经济会造成多大的影响？"
    ],
    [
        "UnionPay, the market leader, is expensive for retailers to install, and many shops prefer cash to avoid tax.",
        "市场上最好的银联系统因为太昂贵而使零售商无力承受，许多商店更喜欢用现金支付以逃税。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s system may have enabled its rapid economic rise, but its dependence on a top-to-bottom consensus means that it functions well only in a predictable environment.",
        "中国的体制或许促成了快速经济崛起，但其对自上而下共识的依赖意味着它只在可以预测的环境中才能取得效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Microsoft’s contribution to Chinese political repression follows Yahoo’s role in the sentencing of a dissident reporter and Google’s decision not to display search results that are blocked by what has become known as the “Great Chinese Firewall.”",
        "微软协助中国的政治镇压紧随雅虎公司在判处一名异议记者中的作用以及Google公司决定不显示被称为“中国防火长城”所阻拦的搜索结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, those claims were of a piece with the linguistic obfuscations that dominate American public debate: just as carpet bombing was called “pacification” during the Vietnam War, today illegal immigrants are called “undocumented aliens.”",
        "事实上那些主张只不过是一堆主导美国公共辩论的文过饰非而已：就像从前把越南战争中的地毯式轰炸称之为“和解”一样，如今那些非法移民则被称之为“未有登记在册的外国人”。"
    ],
    [
        "That place is not Europe or Japan, where debts are even higher than in the US – and the demographic preconditions for servicing them less favorable.",
        "不是欧洲，也不是日本，它们的负债比美国还高，人口前景比美国更糟。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, to put matters in perspective, the scorecard also shows us that the world’s biggest environmental problem by far is indoor air pollution.",
        "但是，如若放长目光，记分牌还告诉我们，目前世界最大的环境问题是室内空气污染。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the United States is the most powerful and wisest of nations, it has a unique role to play, and the world should rally behind it in courageously tackling this challenge.",
        "由于美国在各国最为强大、最为明智，因此美国可以发挥独特的作用，而全世界应该团结在美国身后勇敢地迎接这一挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Violent attacks have caused a huge exodus, jeopardizing the existence of Christians, Yazidis, and Mandeans, who have lived in Iraq for hundreds of years.",
        "暴力袭击使许多人移居国外，并且给基都教派、雅兹迪教派和曼德恩人的生存造成了巨大的威胁，这些人已经在伊拉克生活了好几百年了。"
    ],
    [
        "That a country must take ownership of its reform program is not a new lesson.",
        "一国必须拥有其改革方案的所有权（ownership），这并非新教训。"
    ],
    [
        "And, unlike China, Germany no longer has a “national” exchange rate that can adjust in response to its current-account surplus.",
        "此外，与中国不同，德国不再拥有可以根据经常项目盈余调整的“国家”汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the deal entered into effect in March 2016, Turkey’s government had been actively encouraging migrants and refugees to continue to Europe; now, it is integrating refugees into Turkish society, and even trying to prevent high-skilled migrants from leaving.",
        "在该协议于2016年3月生效之前，土耳其政府一直在积极鼓励移民和难民不断涌向欧洲； 如今却在努力使难民融入土耳其社会，甚至试图阻止某些高技能移民离开。"
    ],
    [
        "But at the moment, onerous spending rules and weak financial commitments are tying the hands of those working to prevent the next serious disease outbreak.",
        "但目前的情况是，繁琐的支出规则和金融承诺的不足正在束缚致力于下一场严重的疾病爆发的人员的手脚。"
    ],
    [
        "JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING – As central bankers from around the world gather this week in Jackson Hole for the Federal Reserve’s annual Economic Policy Symposium, one key topic of discussion will be the current global stock-market turmoil.",
        "杰克森霍尔，怀俄明州—本周，全球央行行长将齐聚杰克森霍尔（Jackson Hole），出席一年一度的美联储经济政策讨论会。 讨论会的一个重要议题是当前股市动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The mission must therefore walk a fine line to bridge the country’s communal divisions, which will be possible only with a clear understanding of Lebanon and the wider Middle East.",
        "因此，该使命就必须辗转腾挪，弥合该国部落分歧。 只有清楚地理解黎巴嫩和广大中东地区才能做到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinians continue to be killed on a daily basis not only in Gaza but also in Nablus, in the West Bank.",
        "巴勒斯坦人继续每天都在加沙、纳布卢斯以及西岸遭到杀害。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, immediate carbon cuts are expensive – and the cost significantly outweighs the benefits.",
        "其次，立即降低碳排放非常昂贵——其所需的成本远远超过了相关的收效。"
    ],
    [
        "The result has been layoffs, cost-cutting, and diminished reporting on national and local issues.",
        "结果是裁员、削减成本和减少对国家和地方问题的报道。"
    ],
    [
        "The agreement was made possible by the fact that Iran’s interlocutors – the permanent members of the UN Security Council, Germany, and the EU (E3/EU+3) – were able to maintain a common position during a process that played out for more than ten years.",
        "该协议因为一个事实而成为可能：伊朗的对话者——联合国安理会五大常任理事国、德国和欧盟（E3/EU+3）——能够在为期十多年的整个过程中保持共同立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, their neighbors are straining under the weight of the crisis.",
        "与此同时，它们的邻邦不堪危机重负。"
    ],
    [
        "With that revolution already marginalizing some countries and communities – and creating new opportunities for others – the question could hardly be more timely.",
        "这场革命已经让一些国家和社区边缘化了——也为其他国家和社区创造了新机会——因此提出这一问题可以说正逢其时。"
    ],
    [
        "The process could start in Britain.",
        "这一过程可能从英国开始。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer to the first question is, the rule of law.",
        "第一个问题的答案是法治。"
    ],
    [
        "While there is great potential for new non-conventional resources, all of this is expensive, requiring annual investment of about 3% of GDP over the next five years.",
        "非常规资源潜力无限，但无不成本极高，需要在未来五年内每年拿出GDP的3%进行投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Malawi today is an urgent case in point.",
        "今天的马拉维正是这样一个迫切的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Strengthening and supporting the former Soviet republics would serve both prongs of a unified EU policy towards Russia.",
        "加强和支持前苏联加盟共和国将会有利于欧盟对俄统一的双刃政策。"
    ],
    [
        "If we hope to halt violent extremism, we must engage religious and militant groups in dialogue and address the root causes of violence.",
        "如果我们希望制止暴力极端主义，那我们必须让宗教和军事组织加入到对话中来以解决暴力冲突的根源问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Because all 27 states must ratify the Treaty, it therefore seems obvious that it cannot enter into force in its current form, and that the “yes” countries cannot push ahead with it unchanged.",
        "因为所有27个成员国都必须批准该条约，因此显然它不可能被以现在的形式生效，同时“说是”的国家也不可能在不修改该条约的情况推动条约的批准。"
    ],
    [
        "The best estimates show that Africa needs about 300 million bed nets, and that the cost per net (including shipping) is around $10, for a sum of $3 billion.",
        "最精确的估计显示非洲需要约3亿顶蚊帐，每顶蚊帐的成本（包括运费）约合10美金，总共约需要30亿美金。"
    ],
    [
        "One place to start may be to reexamine the concept of the nation-state, which students around the world are taught is the basic unit of international relations.",
        "或许重新检视民族国家的定义——这一定义被作为国际关系的基本单位教授给全世界的学生——是一个开端。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while austerity did cause a deep recession, it enabled Greece to avoid large external deficits, thereby reducing the size of the bailout the country needed.",
        "因此虽然紧缩政策确实造成了深层次的衰退，但它令希腊得以避免出现庞大的外部赤字，因此也减少了该国所需的援助规模。"
    ],
    [
        "The full-employment target was replaced by an inflation target, and unemployment was left to find its “natural” rate, whatever that was.",
        "充分就业目标被通胀目标取代，失业被放任寻找其“自然”率（不论为何）。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, there are countless ways in which technology can be deployed to improve health-care access and delivery.",
        "事实上，技术可以通过数不清的方式用于改善医疗普及和实现（access and delivery）。"
    ],
    [
        "When the United States adopted its Freedom of Information Act in 1966, it joined the exclusive company of Sweden and Finland.",
        "当美国在1966年通过了信息自由法案时，在它前面只有瑞典和芬兰通过了这一法案。"
    ],
    [
        "Is watching television on demand more rewarding than visiting a movie theater?",
        "看电视点播比看电影更值得吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Both were reluctant to lower interest rates markedly. Indeed, financial markets may have taken the Fed’s view on US inflation as representative of other central banks’ outlook on inflation, reinforced by the surprising ECB decision of October 2 to keep interest rates on hold.",
        "实际上，金融市场可能已经将美联储对美国通货膨胀的观点作为其他中央银行对通货膨胀观点的典型代表了，这一观点被欧洲中央银行十月二日令人吃惊的维持利率不变的决定所强化。"
    ],
    [
        "Improving people’s understanding of the problem will be crucial to reversing this trend.",
        "增加人们对这一问题的理解是扭转这一趋势的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Foremost among these conditions is a shared diagnosis of the EU’s problems and a common philosophy.",
        "这些条件中最重要的是对欧盟问题和共同哲学的一致诊断。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argued the same after WWII.",
        "二战后就有人提出这样的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given the absence of any conspiracy, falling inflation, and the inability to use gold as a currency, such arguments cannot be sustained.",
        "但考虑到这些阴谋的荒谬性，不断下降的通胀和黄金无法作为货币的特性，这些观点都是站不住脚的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a real beginning, and we should encourage such contracts to grow in order to help billions of people hedge their inflation and deflation risks.",
        "这是一个坚实的开端，而且我们应当鼓励发展此类合同以便帮助数以十亿计的人们防范通货膨胀和通货紧缩风险。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 90 signatories of the United Nations Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate have pledged to develop, implement, and report on water-sustainability policies and practices in both their own and their suppliers’ operations, and to work with stakeholders beyond their own operations to address water risk.",
        "联合国全球盟约的CEO水使命（CEO Water Mandate）已征集到90多个签名，该计划旨在开发、实施和报告其自身和其供应商经营活动中的水可持续性政策和实践，并与经营活动之外的相关利益方合作解决水风险。"
    ],
    [
        "That path leads to Venezuela – and to a far less stable and prosperous Latin America.",
        "这样做只能让巴西重蹈委内瑞拉的覆辙，拉丁美洲也将走向动荡和萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the new EU members are projected to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 21% by 2010.",
        "其实，新的欧盟成员国预计都能在2010年将各自的温室气体排放量减少至少21%。"
    ],
    [
        "Mephistopheles is rather a joker. So is America, always stirring sleepy societies out of their torpor – a role begun when Commodore Matthew Perry “opened up” Japan in 1854.",
        "因此墨菲斯托更像是个小丑，美国也一样，经常把那些昏昏欲睡的社会撩拨起来——这一角色从舰队司令马修·佩里(Matthew Perry)于1854年打开日本门户时就开始扮演了。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether Abenomics 2.0 will put Japan’s economy back on the path to renewed prosperity.",
        "问题在于安倍经济学2. 0是否能让日本经济回到重新繁荣之路。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging-market policymakers hope that incentives like tax breaks and free land will induce innovators to settle and prosper there.",
        "新兴市场决策者则希望通过税收减免等奖励政策和免费土地吸引创新者落脚并取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, they achieved the kind of sustained engagement that is badly needed on the Korean Peninsula today.",
        "最重要的是，赫尔辛基协议实现了今天的朝鲜半岛急需的持续交流（sustained engagement）。"
    ],
    [
        "Far more disconcerting is the willingness of major central banks – not just the Fed, but also the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Japan – to inject massive amounts of excess liquidity into asset markets – excesses that cannot be absorbed by sluggish real economies.",
        "比通胀问题危险得多的是主要央行——不只包括美联储，也包括欧洲央行、英格兰银行和日本银行——准备向资产市场注入巨量过剩流动性，远超停滞不前的实体经济所能吸收的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Far more important, especially for Germany, is to get China to invest in and hold its bonds.",
        "比贸易重要得多的是（特别对德国而言）让中国投资并持有其债券。"
    ],
    [
        "The ironic sequel was Somalia’s later fragmentation in a civil war among its clans and warlord leaders.",
        "具有讽刺意味的结局是，索马里后来在其部族和军阀领导人进行的内战中，分裂了。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that the International Monetary Fund, the US Department of Justice, and anti-poverty NGOs all joined in opposing the vulture funds is revealing.",
        "IMF、美国司法部和减贫NGO都加入到反对兀鹫基金的行列这一事实很能说明问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the HIPC Initiative, eligible countries spent, on average, slightly more on debt service than on health and education combined.",
        "在HIPC之前，平均而言，符合资格的国家在还债上花费的要略为大于医疗和教育费用的总和。"
    ],
    [
        "The second consideration is that this behavior will continue.",
        "第二点思考则是ALBA国家将继续重复这种行为模式。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN projects a decline in population to around 630 million in 2050, from around 725 million people today.",
        "联合国预测欧洲的人口数量到2050年将由现在的7. 25 亿下降至6."
    ],
    [
        "Improved regulatory conditions for long-term investments and savings would help.",
        "改善长期投资和储蓄监管环境是有裨益的。"
    ],
    [
        "When Islamist groups are denied access to electoral politics, their cause takes on a mythic aura.",
        "当伊斯兰教团体被阻挡在通往选举政治之路上时，他们的事业也带上了神秘色彩。"
    ],
    [
        "A couple of years ago, forecasters were confident that global imbalances would reemerge once the crisis passed.",
        "几年前，预测家信誓旦旦地表示全球失衡将在危机过去之后重现。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gallic Heart of Europe",
        "欧洲的高卢心"
    ],
    [
        "With the entrenchment of a particular ideology or mode of thinking, monetary policymakers increasingly missed – by choice or inertia – opportunities to change, reinvigorate, and improve the running of these vital institutions.",
        "由于特定意识形态和思维方式的隔阂，货币政策制定者错过了越来越多——通过选择或惯性——改变、重振以及改进那些核心机构运行的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But policymakers did not shy away from large strategic public investments when needed, as in the case of the Canal expansion or the airport.",
        "但在必要时决策者也绝不回避大型战略性公共投资，比如运河扩建计划和机场。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits of such action would extend beyond increased climate resilience.",
        "这些行动的好处远不止于增加气候恢复力。"
    ],
    [
        "This will allow them to create a Europe that is stronger, faster, more dynamic – and more digital.",
        "这将让他们打造一个更强大、更快速、更有活力——也更“数字”——的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU will continue to decline and become increasingly marginalized as it fails to find the spirit or the structure to adjust to the profound transformations and challenges of the twenty-first century.",
        "但欧洲复兴的前景似乎非常黯淡，如果不能寻找到足以适应 21 世纪深刻转型和变革所需要的精神或架构的话，那么欧洲就将继续衰落，继续被边缘化。"
    ],
    [
        "There are few signs that Greece is ready to walk on its own, and as long as the aid continues to flow, that is unlikely to change.",
        "几乎没有迹象表明希腊已准备好自力更生，而只要援助继续流入，这一点就不可能改变。"
    ],
    [
        "The French Socialists’ New European Identity",
        "法国社会党的新欧洲身份"
    ],
    [
        "Start with the simple Keynesian model.",
        "从简单的凯恩斯模型开始。"
    ],
    [
        "But the case of Germany is different.",
        "但德国的情况却有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "“Eco-theology” and evangelical pro-life propaganda have become one of the liveliest branches of the US environmental movement.",
        "“生态神学”和福音教派的反堕胎宣传已经变成美国环保运动中最为活跃的分支之一。"
    ],
    [
        "We have seen some improvement in economic data, but not enough to suggest that we are any closer to overcoming decisively this painful period of low growth and high unemployment.",
        "经济数据存在一些改善，但并不足以表明我们离决定性地克服此次低增长、高失业时期迈进了一步。"
    ],
    [
        "When some want to reduce their surpluses without a corresponding desire by others to reduce deficits, the result is a “sudden stop” in capital flows and financial crisis.",
        "当一些国家向减少盈余但没有国家想减少赤字时，结果就是资本流的突然“断流”和金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The recent United States National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which reports that Iran once had a “nuclear weapons program” but suspended it in 2003, means that there will probably be no American attack on Iran during the Bush administration.",
        "纽约——不久前，美国国家情报估测（NIE）的报告称伊朗曾有过“核武器计划”，但已于2003年中止。 这意味着布什执政期间美国不大会进攻伊朗。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, there are lessons to be learned from the process.",
        "即使是这样，我们也可以从此进程中吸取教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan, for example, will find that the TPP enhances “Abenomics,” the three-pronged economic-revitalization strategy introduced by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2012.",
        "比如，日本将发现TPP增强了“安倍经济学”。 安倍经济学是日本首相安倍晋三在2012年推出的三管齐下的重振经济战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Genetically modified mice either lack a specific gene or gene-pair (knock-out mice) or carry a piece of foreign DNA integrated into their own chromosomes (transgenic mice), and are used to deduce the functions of particular genes.",
        "基因重组鼠不是缺少一种特定的基因或基因配对（基因剔除鼠），就是携带有一个被植入它们自己的染色体的外来DNA（转基因鼠），并且被用来推断特定基因的功能。"
    ],
    [
        "The current debate often skews toward the melodramatic, foretelling a future in which machines drive humans out of work.",
        "当前的辩论往往倾向于耸人听闻地预言一个机器将人们驱逐出就业的未来。 据一些悲观的估计，美国有47％的就业岗位岌岌可危；"
    ],
    [
        "Plenty of bodies, such as the World Trade Organization, the Energy Charter, and the Energy Community, already do an excellent job of developing rules or enforcing compliance in the energy sector.",
        "世贸组织、能源宪章和能源共同体等大量机构已经在能源业制定规则或落实合规管理方面完成了出色的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – For a while, it looked as if the European Central Bank’s €1 trillion credit program to pump liquidity into Europe’s banking system had calmed global financial markets.",
        "慕尼黑—曾经有那么一段时间，看上去欧洲央行向欧洲银行系统注资1万亿欧元信用以提振流动性的计划已让金融市场平静下来。"
    ],
    [
        "We should be at the forefront of the campaign to complete the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the US.",
        "我们应该成为与美国建设跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系的先锋。"
    ],
    [
        "In the late 1950’s, after the Soviet Union launched the first spacecraft, eminent Western economists predicted that Soviet income would overtake that of the United States in a few decades.",
        "在20世纪50年代末，苏联发射了第一艘宇宙飞船后，西方经济学名家纷纷预测苏联收入在几十年内就能超过美国。"
    ],
    [
        "China is, with the exception of Tibet, a satisfied and confident status-quo empire.",
        "除了西藏以外，中国则是一个心满意足而又自信的现实帝国。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 1993 and 1994, Greenspan once again reined in monetary policy, only to be surprised by the impact that small amounts of tightening could have on the prices of long-term assets and companies’ borrowing costs.",
        "1993—1994年，格林斯潘再一次勒紧货币政策，结果人们惊讶地发现，小规模紧缩可以给长期资产价格和公司借贷成本带来如此大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "His anti-terrorist partnership with the United States fatally undermined his political alliance with Pakistan’s religious conservatives even before his government stormed Islamabad’s Red Mosque in July, killing more than 100 people.",
        "甚至在他的政府七月份冲进伊斯兰堡的红色清真寺，杀死超过100人之前，他与美国的反恐合作就已经致命地削弱了他与巴基斯坦宗教保守势力的政治联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "These companies are uniquely placed to move new ideas and technologies into early-stage demonstration projects, thereby accelerating global learning cycles.",
        "这些公司在将新思想和新技术转化为早期示范工程方面能起到独一无二的作用，从而加快全球学习周期。"
    ],
    [
        "The process fed on its own success, and, as the Soviet Union crumbled, it received a powerful boost from the prospect of German reunification.",
        "这一过程为其自身的成功奠定了基础，而苏联的解体和德国的重新统一让这一过程看上去有了非常美好的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to turn ideas into effective action and solve the problem of drug resistance.",
        "现在是时候将想法付诸行动并以此解决耐药性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Stalin’s ghost is no substitute for a real live leader; he will never leap out of his portraits, no matter how often they are waved.",
        "斯大林的灵魂代替不了一个活生生的真正领导人，不管人们多少次向他的肖像挥手致意，他也不会跳出相片。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab public is fully aware of the close alliances that existed between the West and the now-defunct despotic regimes, yet they have exhibited no desire for vengeance or retribution towards the West.",
        "阿拉伯公众十分清楚西方和如今已被打倒的暴政体制之间的紧密关系，但他们并没有显示出意欲报复西方的倾向。"
    ],
    [
        "Unpredictability can provide a tactical advantage, but it is also a strategic liability.",
        "反覆可能能够带来战术性优势，但必然是战略性负担。"
    ],
    [
        "I was lucky enough, as Australia’s foreign minister at the time, to be one of the first foreign officials to greet him after his release from prison in February 1990 – just a few days later, in Lusaka, where he had flown to meet his African National Congress colleagues in exile.",
        "1990年2月曼德拉出狱几天后就飞赴卢萨卡会晤流亡的非国大同事，时任澳大利亚外长的我幸运地成为迎接他的首批外国领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "It does not help that many countries are also grappling with public debt, which makes it difficult for them to borrow from multilateral development institutions.",
        "与此同时，许多国家都背负着沉重的公共债务，这使得它们难以从多边发展机构借款。"
    ],
    [
        "Phelps’s new theory provides a logical backdrop against which we can assess the consequences of fluctuations in share prices, exchange rates, and, more generally, the value of physical assets and human capital under the powerful influence of new technologies and innovation.",
        "菲尔普斯的新理论提供了一个逻辑背景，凭借这一背景我们可以评估在新技术和创新的强有力的影响下股票价格、汇率以及更常见的有形资产和人力资本的价值波动所带来的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the frictions that disrupt the machine’s smooth operation are human beings.",
        "不幸的是，干扰这台机器的平顺运转的摩擦正是人类。"
    ],
    [
        "But referring to the UN as “they” implies that it is something apart from the US.",
        "”但是把联合国称为“他们”则意味着这个事情仿佛跟美国无关。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2010, the biologist Craig Venter created the first fully synthetic and self-replicating cell.",
        "2010年，生物学家克雷格·文特尔首次创造出自我复制的全合成细胞。"
    ],
    [
        "One promising opportunity lies in knowledge-intensive services.",
        "一个重要的机会在于知识密集型服务业。"
    ],
    [
        "After a suitable period, the participating countries would enter into debt-reduction programs tailored in a way that does not jeopardize their growth.",
        "在经过适当的时期后，参与过将进入合理设计、不会影响增长的债务削减计划。"
    ],
    [
        "To do otherwise at this stage would create an irreparable split between Europe’s rich and poor, and powerful and weak.",
        "在目前阶段反其道而行之将制造欧洲贫与富、强与弱之间无可挽回的分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Are ordinary Russians showing solidarity with a victim unjustly hounded by the British Crown Prosecution Service?",
        "是普通的俄国人面对一位遭受英国皇家检控署不公正的追捕的受害者所表现出的团结一致么？"
    ],
    [
        "Their pasts are different, and so are their prospects.",
        "他们的过去不同，他们的前景也不同。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while China’s embrace of the market and opening to the outside world has enabled it to achieve astonishing economic progress over the last three decades, the country might now have reached a level of income at which the problem is no longer “too little market.”",
        "但是，尽管中国采取市场经济和改革开放让它在过去三十年中取得了令人惊异的经济成就，但其收入可能已经达到了问题不再是“太少市场”的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "I returned home early to have a biopsy, but the pathology lab was achingly slow; days passed with no word.",
        "我提前赶回家来进行组织活检，但病理实验室的检测却慢得让人心烦意乱；"
    ],
    [
        "The region’s people are sliding into enemy camps, deepening their societies’ wounds in the process.",
        "该地区人民正在滑入敌方阵营，社会伤口越来越深。"
    ],
    [
        "First in Britain in the mid-eighteenth century, and then in Western Europe and North America, men and women flocked from the countryside to towns to satisfy factories’ growing demand for labor.",
        "先是十九世纪中叶的英国，然后是西欧和北美，男男女女从乡村涌向城镇以满足工厂对劳动力的不断增长的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless the source of the problem – a saving shortfall that is likely to worsen in the face of Trump’s inevitable widening of federal budget deficits –is addressed, America’s current-account and trade deficits will only widen.",
        "除非问题的根源——储蓄短缺，并且面对特朗普不可避免地将扩大联邦预算赤字的局面，这一问题可能进一步恶化——得到解决，否则美国经常项目和贸易赤字将进一步扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been the entrenched and continuing pattern, including when I was the IMF’s chief economist (from early 2007 to August 2008).",
        "这已成为根深蒂固的持续模式，包括在我担任IMF首席经济学家期间（2007年初至2008年8月）。"
    ],
    [
        "At times, it seemed that the result would be much closer, or even that we British might engineer the dismemberment of our country, which for centuries has brought together four national communities: England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.",
        "有好几次，结局已经无比接近，甚至于我们英国人有可能促成我们的祖国的分解。 几个世纪以来，英国由四个民族社会（national community）组成：英格兰、威尔士、北爱尔兰和苏格兰。"
    ],
    [
        "Germline genetic modification threatens to make such errors permanent.",
        "生殖细胞基因改良可能造成错误永久化。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate change, too, will impose enormous costs, even if strong mitigation and adaptation measures are taken.",
        "而且即使采取强有力的缓和及改造措施，气候变化也将带来巨大的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "And according to a recent poll, only 16% of Brazilians would support it.",
        "而根据当前民调，只有16%的巴西人支持经济改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The deep corruption of the Harvard University team chosen to “help” Russia in its transition, described in a detailed account published in 2006 by Institutional Investor, reinforced these beliefs.",
        "《机构投资者》于2006年发表的详细报告中所描述的获选“协助”俄罗斯过渡的哈佛大学团队的深层次腐败更是强化了这些信念。"
    ],
    [
        "A moment's reflection should raise another question: does Bush's Texas swagger qualify him to remain America's Commander-in-Chief?",
        "片刻的思考会引发另外一个疑问：布什的德克萨斯牛皮能不能使他继续留任美国的三军统帅？"
    ],
    [
        "For the US, the eight other TPP countries, with a combined population of 200 million, constitute its fourth largest export market, behind only China, the European Union, and Japan.",
        "对美国来说，其他八个TPP国家总人口可达2亿，能够构成其仅次于中国、欧盟和日本的第四大出口市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, many major economies will be trying to save for retirement at the same time.",
        "在现实中，许多主要经济体会同时为退休而储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "For 1,000 years, Russia has belonged to such a category.ampquot;",
        "一千年以来，俄国一直就属于这一类型”。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it seems that London’s small decline is attributable to negative scores on general factors such as the “business environment” and “infrastructure.”",
        "”事实上，伦敦排名的略降似乎可以归因于一般因子——如“商业环境”和“基础设施”等——上所获得的负分。"
    ],
    [
        "It struck me how different the mood is now.",
        "安理会的氛围发生了很大变化，令我大吃一惊。"
    ],
    [
        "From now on, US diplomatic relations with other countries will engage directly with their people and connect them to the American people as much as possible.",
        "从今往后，美国与其他国家的外交关系将包括与别国人民直接接触并尽可能地把他们和美国人民联系起来。"
    ],
    [
        "But they knew that they could not improve their product faster than engineers could improve theirs, and thus that blocking the spread of tractors would be impossible.",
        "但他们知道他们改善产品的速度不可能比工程师更快，因此彻底阻断拖拉机的传播是不可能完成的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "US policymakers in particular wanted to take advantage of the ongoing surge in NATO combat forces in Afghanistan – which reached 150,000 in August, of which some two-thirds were American – to shake Taliban commanders’ conviction that they were winning the war.",
        "尤其是美国的政策制定者还想利用北约当前的军事行动（今年8月增兵到15万人，其中约2/3是美军）来动摇塔利班领导人，打消他们自认为赢得了战争的信念。"
    ],
    [
        "But they invariably exaggerate what they have to offer, as well as the perils that would result should their opponents win.",
        "但他们却不约而同地夸大自己的好处以及竞争对手获胜的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Her sudden disappearance has sparked much speculation about the fragility of the “Young General’s” regime; despite her notorious drinking habits, she was widely seen as the power behind Kim Jong-un’s throne.",
        "她的突然消失引起了大量的猜测，“小将军”政权或已岌岌可危； 尽管她酗酒的恶习早已人尽皆知，但她仍被广泛视为金正恩背后的权力靠山。"
    ],
    [
        "India Embraces the Welfare State",
        "印度迈向福利国家"
    ],
    [
        "As long as central government takes responsibility for maintaining a high and stable level of employment, Keynes thought, most of the rest of economic life can be left free of official interference.",
        "只要中央政府能够保持一个充分而且稳定的就业环境，凯恩斯的思想，绝大多数的经济生活应该不受干扰，自由发展。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, there are long-lasting or even permanent effects on some communities – and particularly on people with less education in places where prosperity was based on manufacturing that is now exposed to more competition from imports.",
        "在现实中，一些社区会受到长期甚至永久的影响——特别是依靠制造业繁荣、现在不得不面临更加激烈的进口竞争的地方的教育程度较低的人。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, nearly 400,000 people have filled refugee camps in Tunisia and Egypt, and an estimated 20,000 have reached Italy’s shores.",
        "截至目前为止，突尼斯和埃及境内的难民营已收容了40万难民，同时估计有2万名难民已经抵达意大利沿岸。"
    ],
    [
        "Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist David Autor and his colleagues have carefully documented the impact of globalization and labor-saving digital technologies on routine jobs.",
        "麻省理工学院经济学家大卫·奥拓尔（David Autor）及其同事仔细记录了全球化和劳动力节约型数字技术对常规就业岗位的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "He was elected with just 38% of the vote, without a majority in either house of Congress, and with the opposition in control of Mexico City, the capital.",
        "他当时的当选票数仅有38%，未能在议会两院占据任何多数，而且首都墨西哥城还落入了反对派的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – President Barack Obama’s first appearances outside North America – in London, Strasbourg, Prague, and Istanbul – galvanized world attention.",
        "布鲁塞尔——奥巴马·巴拉克总统在北美以外的第一次露面，即他的伦敦，斯特拉斯堡，布拉格和伊斯坦布尔之行， 引起了全球的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, and most important, the country is suffering from inadequate progress on market-orientated reform.",
        "最后也是最重要的，中国正饱受市场改革进展不足之苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only was Abbas politically weak, with few friends among Fatah militants, but he also didn’t show much interest in what was happening in Gaza.",
        "阿巴斯不仅在政治上软弱，在法塔赫武装中少有朋党，他对加沙地带的形势也缺乏兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "While the most effective sanctions had already been lifted, and are unlikely to be re-imposed, Iran’s conservatives have gained political points that they can use against their opponents at home.",
        "尽管最有效的制裁已经取消，并且不可能重新实施，但伊朗保守派仍然赢得了能够用来打击国内反对者的政治“子弹”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Stability and Growth Pact, which limits euro-zone members’ fiscal deficits, is another reason why a country might want to leave the EMU.",
        "限制欧元区成员国财政赤字的《稳定和增长公约》，是另一个欧洲经济与货币联盟成员国想退出联盟的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "There will always be statistical flukes in the data, just as any series of coin tosses can produce an unexpected string of seven heads in a row.",
        "数据中总无法避免偶然情况，就像任何一组抛掷硬币的动作都可能出人意料地连续出现7次正面朝上的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Their rants should be rejected with argument, not with police and prisons.",
        "应当用辩论来拒绝他们的叫嚷，而非使用警察和监狱。"
    ],
    [
        "It will require leadership skills of a high order to persuade voters that in order to prevent national decline we must curb our appetite for more and more public spending.",
        "因为要说服选民去接受为了防止国家衰退必须遏制住花费更越来越多公共支出的观点是需要非常高超的领导技巧的。"
    ],
    [
        "With the increase in the aggregate stock of money balances, things are basically the same.",
        "货币余额储存总量的上升也基本如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, Greece is a country of exceptional talents, capable of building new competitive sectors from the ground up, if given the chance.",
        "幸运的是，希腊是个才华横溢的国家，如果给它机会，它能白手起家建立新的竞争部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Programs like ours demonstrate what can be achieved through substantive, locally driven public-private partnerships around the world.",
        "类似项目证明，通过在全世界实施有实质内容、以地方为基础的公私合作，可以取得了不起的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the government did not attempt the impossible task of trying to separate winners from losers.",
        "幸运的是，政府并没有试图完成分辨成功者和失败者这个不可能完成的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s ongoing process of economic and political development has left those living here, as well as concerned observers like me, both hopeful and worried about the future.",
        "这个国家方兴未艾的经济和政治发展让生活在这里的人，以及像我这样的关注它的观察者，对它的未来感到喜忧参半。"
    ],
    [
        "Under such circumstances, international cooperation is essential to ensure stability and growth and prevent disruptive crises.",
        "在这种形势下，国际合作对于确保稳定和增长以及防止破坏性危机都是非常重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "With all these contradictory forces at work we can expect wild currency fluctuations.",
        "由于这两种相互对抗的力量的左右，外汇市场将会出现大幅的波动。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that countries must deliver on their commitment to increase IMF resources by more than $430 billion, and that the Fund’s quota and governance structure must reflect the ongoing global shifts in economic influence.",
        "这意味着各国必须兑现让IMF资源增加4300亿美元的承诺，IMF投票和治理结构必须反映全球经济影响力的变迁。"
    ],
    [
        "This helped develop a strong sense of identity with the statewide political community.",
        "这有助于全国范围内的政治团体形成强烈的身份认同。"
    ],
    [
        "It may even be the case that we ought to return to the much more tightly regulated financial system of the first post-World War II generation.",
        "由此看来，我们甚至有可能会恢复到二战后那种管制更为严格的金融体系。"
    ],
    [
        "This is helping to promote further instability in already volatile political contexts.",
        "这就为该地区早已动荡不安的政局增添了进一步的不稳定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Fiscal Stimulus Pointless?",
        "经济刺激方案没有意义么？"
    ],
    [
        "Minorities have historically served as brokers between the Middle East and the outside world, and if they disappear, the region will lose an important class of cultural, economic, and intellectual leaders.",
        "历史上，少数群体承担着中东与外部世界联系桥梁的作用，如果他们消失了，中东地区也将失去重要的文化、经济和知识领导者阶层。"
    ],
    [
        "China could stop purchasing US aircraft, impose an embargo on US soybean products, and dump US Treasury securities and other financial assets.",
        "中国可以停止采购美国飞机，对美国大豆制品实施禁运，甩卖美国国债和其他金融资产等。"
    ],
    [
        "Maternal health care is also a barometer of how well a health system functions.",
        "妇女保健同样是医疗体系运转是否正常的晴雨表。"
    ],
    [
        "But the potential for Argentina and the region is tremendous.",
        "但阿根廷和地区潜力是无穷的。"
    ],
    [
        "And the student population is just one of many social groups that lives on debt.",
        "而学生只是许多依靠贷款的社会群体之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Constitution’s Bill of Rights puts considerable emphasis on that right, specifying in the Sixth Amendment that in all criminal prosecutions, “the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury” and “to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”",
        "《美国宪法》的《人权法案》再三强调了这一项权利，在《第六修正案》中特别指出在所有刑事起诉中，“被告享有在迅速和公开的情况下被一个公正的陪审团审判的权利”并“有权被告知指控的内容和原由； 有权面对控方证人。"
    ],
    [
        "The nonprofits, by contrast, are mostly small and are often run by people with passion but not much expertise or management skill.",
        "相反，非营利组织大多规模较小，通常由满怀激情但专业和管理技能欠缺的人运作。"
    ],
    [
        "China has shown that it wants to be influential in the developing world – and certainly in Asia – by playing the role of a supportive partner, at least in the economic realm.",
        "中国已经表明它希望通过扮演一个支持性的伙伴 角色(至少在经济领域) 在发展中国家中 (当然也在亚洲) 发挥影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "While the political vocabulary in the United States is different, the Democratic Party, since Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency, is indeed a center-left force, the Republican Party occupies the right, and no other significant party exists.",
        "尽管美国的政治观念有所不同，但民主党自富兰克林·罗斯福以来便是事实上的中左派，而共和党代表右翼，此外再无第三个主要党派出现。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first half of 2015, for instance, only about one-quarter of applicants came from Syria and Iraq, a significant proportion of whom had already found shelter in the UN camps in or around those countries.",
        "比如，2015年上半年，只有四分之一的申请者来自叙利亚和伊拉克，很大一部分人已经在这些国家内部或周边找到了收容所。"
    ],
    [
        "“This is a major professional mistake.",
        "那些将军应该和穆巴拉克一样被判终身监禁。"
    ],
    [
        "A final secondary tension can be found in the contrast between the path and the destination.",
        "最后一个次要矛盾可以在路径和目的地之间的对比中找到。"
    ],
    [
        "The international development community and many African governments want to work toward regional integration, linking the markets of 55 African countries.",
        "国际发展机构和许多非洲国家政府希望朝地区一体化方向努力，将55个非洲国家的市场联系起来。"
    ],
    [
        "To some extent, Mandarin has become the new French, but with a major difference: The language of Molière was a cultural tool, not (or not entirely) an instrument of economic success.",
        "从某种程度上说，汉语成了新的法语，但有一个极大的不同点：莫里哀的语言是一种文化工具，而不是（或者说不完全是）经济成功的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fiscal Crisis Down Below",
        "眼下的财政危机"
    ],
    [
        "But when analyzed collectively, the data reveal a troubling truth: without changes to how wealth is generated and distributed, the political convulsions that have swept the world in recent years will only intensify.",
        "但若对它们进行集体分析，那么这些数据揭示了一个麻烦的事实：如果财富产生和分配的方式不发生变化，近几年来席卷世界的政治“抽风”只会更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "But external pressure may create new facts.",
        "但外部压力可以造成新的实际。"
    ],
    [
        "In the ten years prior to the 2008 financial crisis, independent central banks set an inflation target of about 2%, in order to provide economies with a price-stability “anchor.\"",
        "在2008年金融危机前的十年中，独立央行制定的通胀目标是2%，这样做是为了为经济提供物价稳定之“锚”。"
    ],
    [
        "However, governments cannot simply liberalize markets and hope for the best.",
        "但是，政府不能只是实施市场自由化，然后坐等最好的情况出现。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way (in this view) not to win was to sit on the sidelines.",
        "（在这种观点下）不能受益的只有那些静观其变的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s reluctance to rattle its nuclear saber, even in dire circumstances, adds to the mystery.",
        "即使在严峻条件下以色列也对核武器讳莫如深进一步加深了这个问题的神秘性。"
    ],
    [
        "What are America’s objectives in the Middle East?",
        "美国在中东的目标是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Mubarak’s Odious Debts",
        "穆巴拉克的恶意债务"
    ],
    [
        "Recall former UK justice minister Michael Gove’s remark in the midst of the Brexit debate: “people in this country have had enough of experts.”",
        "记得前英国司法部长迈克尔·戈夫在英国退欧辩论中说过：“这个国家的民众已经受够了专家。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Chinese media have lately been directing a relentless stream of vitriol at Li.",
        "事实上，中国媒体近来一直在尖刻地评论李嘉诚。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Though Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir is alive and well in Washington, the plot to assassinate him may have succeeded – if its aim was not to kill al-Jubeir, but rather Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s foreign policy.",
        "发自华盛顿——虽然沙特驻美大使阿德尔·朱拜尔在美国宣称挫败的暗杀阴谋中毫发未伤，但如果这一行动的真正目标并不是朱拜尔，而是为了破坏伊朗总统内贾德的外交政策的话，那么策划者的目的或许已经实现了。"
    ],
    [
        "Peace will not quickly be restored to Iraq, and it is hard to conceive of opening up a major new front, when America can hardly manage what it has already undertaken.",
        "伊拉克不会很快恢复和平。 很难想象美国在对付现有事务都应接不暇的情况下，再打开这样一条重要的新战线会是什么样子。"
    ],
    [
        "For Chen, as for myself, the true flight to freedom will be made with a return ticket home.",
        "对陈光诚来说，也对我来说，真正的自由航班就是一张回家的机票。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the current system is inequitable, because it forces a transfer of resources from developing countries to the industrial nations that provide reserve currencies.",
        "第三，当前的国际储备体系是不公平的，因为它迫使资源从发展中国家向提供储备货币的工业国家转移。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, war carries a high economic and human cost.",
        "类似地，战争也会造成巨大的经济和人力成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic science helps us establish the scale of the problem. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN’s climate panel, estimates that in about 60 years, global warming will cost the planet between 0.2% and 2% of GDP.",
        "经济学能帮助我们确定问题的范围。 联合国气候机构政府间气候变化委员会（IPCC）估计大约60年后，全球变暖将消耗掉地球0."
    ],
    [
        "Engineering contracts and investment have also enhanced ties.",
        "工程合同和投资也有助于加强合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreigners will become less enthusiastic about continued lending to the US, weakening the dollar further, forcing up US interest rates, and threatening to undermine America’s stock market and consumer spending.",
        "外国人继续借钱给美国的热情会降温，从而使美元进一步贬值，迫使美国提高利率，并危及美国的股市和消费者开支。"
    ],
    [
        "This idea is attractive at first sight.",
        "这一观点乍看上去极具吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Restrictions on the transshipment of cocaine from South America to the US have made only a dent in street prices, which spiked in 2008 but have stabilized in 2009 at levels well below their historical highs in the 1990’s.",
        "对从南美向美国运输可卡因的限制仅仅稍微影响了一下这种毒品的路边交易价，而这一价格在 2008 年暴涨之后在 2009 年稳定了下来，也远低于其 1990 年代的历史高位。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, when Rouhani succeeded Ahmadinejad in 2013, a door opened.",
        "事实上，当2013年鲁哈尼继任内贾德成为伊朗总统时，谈判成功的大门就打开了。"
    ],
    [
        "They are wrong, however, about Europe’s prospects for achieving its restricted growth potential.",
        "然而，他们对于欧洲将达到它被限制了的增长潜力的预期是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "I was a member of the 2015 AHDR team, along with around 30 intellectuals and activists from the Arab world.",
        "我本人曾是2015年阿拉伯人类发展报告编制小组成员，参与编制工作的还有约30名阿拉伯世界知识分子和活动人士。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – This year’s annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund made clear that Europe and the international community remain rudderless when it comes to economic policy.",
        "纽约—今年的IMF年会清楚地表明，欧洲和国际社会对经济政策还是一头雾水。"
    ],
    [
        "China believes that it has found its own model to develop and modernize, and its rulers regard the Games in the same way as the Nazis and Leonid Brezhnev did, as a means of “selling” their model to a global audience.",
        "中国相信它已经找到了它自己发展和现代化的模式，而它的统治者像纳粹和勃列日涅夫一样，也把奥运会当成将他们的模式“兜售”给全球观众的途径。"
    ],
    [
        "That combination of philosophical radicalism and economic pragmatism has proven to be a perfect formula for Brazil’s progress.",
        "”这种激进主义哲学和实用主义经济结合在一起，被证明是巴西发展的超完美方程。"
    ],
    [
        "It also requires more energy efficiency, which means a reduction of waste in both energy production and consumption.",
        "这还要求更大的能源效率，这就意味着同时降低能源生产和消费的浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "The age of the universe and its size measured in light years – these are things that the purely religiously trained ulamas cannot comprehend.",
        "宇宙的年龄和用光年计算的距离——这些是仅仅接受过宗教训练的乌理玛无法理解的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "In late March, Moldova was also promised €1.9 billion by the European Union, the United States, the IMF, the World Bank, and other donors to support a strategy of reforms under the banner “Rethink Moldova.”",
        "在三月末，摩尔多瓦再次从欧盟，联合国，世界货币基金组织，世界银行和其他援助方处得到了19亿欧元的援助承诺，将在“摩尔多瓦新思维”的旗号下推行整个国家的战略改革。"
    ],
    [
        "That will require more use of the soft power of attraction rather than relying so heavily on hard military power, as the Bush administration has done.",
        "这需要更多利用吸引力等软性力量，而不能像布什政府那样过多地依赖强硬的军事实力。"
    ],
    [
        "The first big city to boom was London, starting around 1996. Boom mentality spread to Los Angeles, New York, and Sydney around 1997, to Paris in 1998, to Miami, Moscow, and Shanghai in 2001, and Vancouver around 2002.",
        "大城市房价飞涨首先始于1996年的伦敦，繁荣心理随后在1997年迅速传到了洛杉矶、纽约和悉尼，1998年传到巴黎，2001年传到迈阿密、莫斯科和上海，2002年又轮到了温哥华。"
    ],
    [
        "Reaching that goal will require increased confidence in the policies and institutions of the countries in which the money is to be spent.",
        "实现这一目标需要人们增加对资金支出对象国政策和制度的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "The new law requires the consent of 80% of a major tract’s landowners before the state can acquire it, and includes exacting provisions for the rehabilitation and resettlement of those affected.",
        "这项新法律要求国家征用土地必须经过80%以上所有者同意，并规定必须为受影响者提供明确的复建和回迁。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor does the Fed seem to be updating its view of the economy in an understandable way.",
        "美联储似乎也没有以可理解的方式更新对经济的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Up to now, with only 15% of the world’s population, rich countries have been responsible for more than 75% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and thus most of the environmental damage.",
        "目前为止，只占世界人口15%的发达国家却排放了占世界总量75%以上的二氧化碳，是大部分环境破坏的罪魁祸首。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite an increase in funding for climate adaptation and mitigation in the developing world, Pakistan’s share has remained tiny, relative to the disasters it has suffered in the last five years alone.",
        "尽管发展中国家气候适应和减灾资金有所增加，但光从过去五年所遭受的灾难看，巴基斯坦所占比重仍然很小。"
    ],
    [
        "And now, seemingly out of the blue, he has defied and even offended Uribe by undertaking negotiations with the despised FARC, after having delivered such devastating military blows to them that perhaps, this time around, the peace process will prosper.",
        "但如今，似乎在一夜之间，桑托斯开始违抗甚至回击乌里韦：与人人鄙视的FARC谈判。 在谈判前，他对FARC进行了毁灭性的军事打击，以使此次和平进程更易达成成果。"
    ],
    [
        "In the banking world as a whole, expected write-offs now considerably exceed the €400 billion mark projected just last spring.",
        "在整个银行业，现在预期的呆账核销数额大大超过了去年春天预计的4000亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "But Latin America and Asia will start to feel distress as well, as the decade-long US role as the global economy’s importer of last resort comes to an end.",
        "但随着美国长达十年的，作为世界经济中救命稻草式的进口国角色的终结，拉美和亚洲的日子也会开始不好过了。"
    ],
    [
        "And, after six decades of meddling, EU policymakers should step back and consider which restrictions have become harmful or irrelevant, and how better to support the entrepreneurs and industries of the future.",
        "此外，在六十年瞎干预后，欧盟决策者应该后退一步，思考那些限制是有害的或无关紧要的，以及如何更好地支持未来企业家和行业。"
    ],
    [
        "A new WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement would benefit all by increasing developing countries’ capacity to trade, strengthening the WTO’s development mandate, and boosting global economic growth.",
        "新的世贸组织贸易便利协定（WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement）将提升发展中国家的贸易能力、增强世贸组织的发展号召力、刺激全球经济增长，从而让所有人受益。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – With China, Russia, and the United States fine-tuning anti-satellite (ASAT) warfare capabilities, the third round of competition to “seize the high ground” of space is well underway.",
        "华盛顿—随着中国、俄罗斯和美国纷纷提升反卫星（ASAT）作战能力，第三轮空间“占领制高点”的竞争正在如火如荼地展开。"
    ],
    [
        "Either way, engaging Iran is the right policy, and it is hard to understand why Bush and McCain have continued to hold out against such an obvious change of course, which, if carried out with firmness, will not compromise American or Israeli national security.",
        "无论怎样，与伊朗保持接触都是正确的决定，很难理解布什和麦凯恩为什么一直坚持反对如此明显的路线变化。 如果新路线得到坚定不移的贯彻，将不会损害到美国或以色列的国家安全。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, Americans have much farther to go on the road to balance-sheet repair – which hardly suggests a temporary, or cyclical, shortfall in consumer demand.",
        "换句话说，美国人在修复资产负债表的道路上还有极长的距离要走，这表明当前问题绝不是暂时性或周期性的消费需求短缺问题。"
    ],
    [
        "About two-thirds of global central banks’ foreign-exchange reserves – that is to say, their rainy-day funds – are invested in dollars.",
        "约2/3的全球央行外汇储备——也就是各国的应急基金——都投资在美元上。"
    ],
    [
        "With export performance also set to slow, owing to the economic downturn in the United States, employment and growth could be weakened further, which implies mounting pressure on China’s government – and thus on the fiscal deficit, creating another source of inflationary pressure.",
        "随着美国经济的下滑必然导致出口放缓，用工和产量增长将被进一步走弱，这将使中国政府承受越来越大的压力，从而也增加了财政赤字的压力。 财政赤字是造成通货膨胀压力的另一个根源。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, North Korea has asserted that the US has effectively declared war, though the White House has denied that interpretation.",
        "事实上，朝鲜已经宣布美国实际已经宣战，尽管白宫否认了这一解读。"
    ],
    [
        "Tougher economic sanctions will not force Iran to comply; instead, sanctions will merely hit this oil- and gas-rich country’s trading partners.",
        "更为严厉的制裁无法让伊朗就范； 相反，制裁只会打击这个石油和天然气储量丰富国家的贸易伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that each of these constraints on investment can – and should – be addressed; and recent US business investment data suggest some progress.",
        "好消息是，分开看，这些投资约束的每一个都可以——也应该——得到解决； 最新的美国商业投资数据就表现出一些改善。"
    ],
    [
        "It will undermine the West’s role as a model of prosperity and freedom that societies worldwide hope to emulate.",
        "这将破坏西方作为全世界社会都希望模仿的繁荣和自由的榜样的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The pace of deficit reduction must be slowed, particularly in Spain, because output is determined in the short run by demand, and private demand cannot replace public demand until a degree of faith in the future is restored.",
        "削减赤字的步伐必须放缓，特别是在西班牙，因为产量在短期内由需求决定，而除非对未来的信心在一定程度上得以恢复，否则私人需求就无法替代公共需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last three years, China’s P2P lending sector has been growing annually at an astounding average rate of 245%, with its total value reaching CN¥253 billion last year.",
        "在过去三年中，中国的P2P贷款业年均增长幅度高达245%，去年总值已达到2. 530亿元。"
    ],
    [
        "When what you do will be seen by millions, revisited on endless video replays, and dissected on television sports programs, it is especially important to do what is right.",
        "（虽然，该表扬的是，许多法国球迷，包括总统萨科齐在亨利的手球之后，对爱尔兰表达了同情）。"
    ],
    [
        "No one denies that Africa has many problems.",
        "没有人否认非洲面临许多问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences could be catastrophic, not just for Greece, but also for Portugal, Spain, Italy, and who knows whom else.",
        "其后果将是灾难性的，不仅对希腊如此，对葡萄牙、西班牙、意大利和大家都知道的其他国家也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, which has become the world’s leader in containing the chemical-weapons risk, seems befuddled.",
        "世界遏制化学武器风险领袖——美国似乎并未惊醒。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, to improve alignment and reflect the new P-4 order, government agencies and DFIs should be encouraged to establish explicit targets for leveraging private capital.",
        "事实上，为了增进联合、反映新的P-4顺序，政府机构和DFI应该鼓励设定明确的撬动私人的资本目标。"
    ],
    [
        "To minimize compliance costs – and because environmental sustainability is now a key competitive marker for customers and investors alike – airlines will likely encourage the countries where they do business to participate in the ICAO program.",
        "为了实现合规成本最小化——并且因为环境可持续性如今是争夺客户和投资者的关键性竞争市场——航空公司可能会鼓动业务所在国加入ICAO计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Nigeria’s film industry is the world’s third largest, after the US and India, and is second only to oil production in terms of its economic significance to the country.",
        "事实上，尼日利亚的电影业已是世界第三，仅次于美国和印度，对该国的经济影响力位居第二，仅次于石油部门。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Global Ocean Commission’s work comes to a natural conclusion, its many partners and supporters will be working hard to sustain this momentum, ensuring that building healthy and resilient oceans remains a global priority until it is a global reality.",
        "随着全球海洋委员会的工作得出了一个自然而然的结论，它的众多合作伙伴和支持者将努力维持这一势头，确保建立健康和有回复力的海洋仍然作为一个全球优先事务，并最终将其变成一个全球现实。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, privatization will have profound consequences for China’s economy.",
        "在这样的情况下，民营化将对中国经济产生深远的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "This lack of uniformity is preventing both banks and consumers from doing more cross-border business, and it is where policymakers must act; only harmonized rules and EU-wide standards will eliminate costly and time-consuming compliance with different national regimes.",
        "这种统一性的缺乏使得银行和顾客却步跨界业务，而这正是政策制定者们必须采取行动的地方； 只有协调统一的法规和全欧盟的标准才会消除在履行不同国家的体系合规方面费钱费时的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "But corruption poses the single largest obstacle to growth and development in many countries, especially as it diverts resources from the poor.",
        "但在许多国家，腐败成了阻碍发展唯一最大的障碍，尤其因为它侵占穷人的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Confidence can come from three things: hope, pride, and progress.",
        "信心可以来自三个方面：希望、自豪和进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the European Commission, which is working toward creating an energy union, is well placed to initiate an open dialogue with non-EU countries on long-term energy policies.",
        "事实上，致力于创建能源联盟的欧盟委员会完全有能力与非欧盟国家就长期能源政策进行公开对话。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the Saudis must stop being a “swing producer” and instead force US frackers into this role.",
        "简言之，沙特必须停止充当“摇摆生产者”，而是迫使美国液压致裂法炼油商来充当这一角色。"
    ],
    [
        "They now base their legitimacy on the notion that the Party, which rose to power as the nation fought foreign domination, is uniquely qualified to keep China from being bullied in a hostile international arena, and that only they can provide the stable environment needed for growth.",
        "他们的合法性来自于中国共产党崛起于反抗外国统治过程中的历史，并由此断定共产党特别适合中国，使其能在一个敌对的国际环境中免遭恐吓，而且只有他们才能提供发展所需的稳定环境。"
    ],
    [
        "But the protracted talks, which included a complex final approval process, finally succeeded in October.",
        "但旷日持久的谈判，包括复杂的最后批准程序，终于在10月取得了胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "A second default in 13 years would be a big setback for Argentina, they claimed, threatening the country’s fragile economy.",
        "他们说，13年后的第二次违约将是阿根廷的一次重大退步，威胁到脆弱的国家经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks can also play a role when financial markets freeze up.",
        "央行还可以在金融市场冻结时挺身而出。"
    ],
    [
        "If they contain the same amounts, the exercise is pointless.",
        "如果他们的红包的数额一样，那么交换礼物就毫无意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, after a half-century of competition between military or royal dictatorships and militant Islamist regimes, many Arabs are again seeking a “third way” – a path toward a credible form of representative democracy.",
        "如今在经历了半个世纪的军事或皇室独裁与军事伊斯兰教政权的竞争后，许多阿拉伯人开始再次寻找“第三条路”——通向可信的代议制民主的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "The heyday of US economic growth in the two decades after World War II was also a golden era for the middle class.",
        "二战后的二十年是美国经济增长的黄金时期，也是中产阶级的黄金时期。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – At the outset of the ongoing violent protests in South Korea over imported beef from the United States, the entire cabinet of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak offered to resign. Last week, President Lee fired three of them.",
        "纽约－在韩国持续进行的反对从美国进口的牛肉的暴力抗议开始的时候，韩国总统李明博的内阁集体要求辞职。 上个星期，李明博总统解雇了其中的三人。"
    ],
    [
        "These innovations have helped keep the US-China economic relationship on an even keel, even in times of tension.",
        "这些创新帮助让美中关系即使在紧张的时候也保持稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is less freely traded in global currency markets, ranking only 9th overall, according to the Bank for International Settlements.",
        "但人民币在全球货币市场的交易自由度却不大，在国际清算银行的排名中仅位列第九。"
    ],
    [
        "“It’s a very important crop for raising income and commercializing agriculture,” says Nelson Gagawala Wambuzi, Minister of State for Trade.",
        "“这是一种对提高收入和农业商业化都非常重要的作物”，贸易部部长Nelson Gagawala Wambuzi如是说。"
    ],
    [
        "They will still loathe poverty, embrace universal values, and find joy in hard work.",
        "他们仍然厌恶贫困、认同普世价值、乐于努力工作。"
    ],
    [
        "But few people – whether ordinary citizens or internationally oriented economists – recognize that our seemingly weak and ineffectual multilateral institutions are the world’s best hope for managing and democratizing the global market.",
        "但一些人——不管是普通市民还是放眼国际的经济学家——把我们这些看似虚弱低效的多边组织视为全世界管理和民主化全球市场的最大希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese convicts also have been dispatched to the Maldives, where the Chinese government is building 4,000 houses on several different islands as a government-to-government “gift” to win influence.",
        "中国服刑人员也被派到了马尔代夫，中国政府正在那里的几个岛上建设4，000栋房屋，作为获取影响力的政府对政府的“礼物”。"
    ],
    [
        "After more than five years of conflict in Syria, retreating without having found a solution is not an option.",
        "叙利亚冲突已经爆发了五年多，在没有形成解决方案的情况下就撤退绝不是选项之一。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is tobacco smoke, not nicotine, that kills.",
        "另一方面，是烟草烟雾而不是尼古丁致人死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "But the region’s Islamist parties appear to be conscious of these risks, and determined to mitigate them.",
        "但该地区的伊斯兰政党似乎早已意识到了这些风险并展开应对。"
    ],
    [
        "These innovations enabled Foshan to create markets that were largely defunct before 1979, while coping with rapid urbanization, industrialization, and globalization.",
        "这些创新使佛山从1979年之前市场几乎消失的状态快速成长而进入了城市化、工业化和全球化的轨道。"
    ],
    [
        "While highly educated people at the top of the income distribution are doing better than ever, people with only a high school education face declining incomes, living standards, and prospects for themselves and their children.",
        "虽然位于收入分配金字塔顶端的高学历阶层比以往任何时候都过得更好，但那些只接受过高中教育的人却面临着收入，生活水平和自身及子女发展前景三方面的败退。"
    ],
    [
        "Even countries with some of the world’s most robust democratic traditions have been cracking down.",
        "就连一些世界上民主传统最强大的国家也纷纷沦陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Such taxes play a crucial role in cutting the carbon emissions that cause climate change.",
        "这种税收在削减导致气候变化的碳排放方面发挥着至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Most early pioneers, such as the UK’s Margaret Thatcher, India’s Indira Gandhi, and Israel’s Golda Meir, were Queen Bees; all of them eschewed feminism.",
        "大部分早期先驱，如英国的撒切尔夫人、印度的英迪拉·甘地和以色列的梅厄夫人，都属于蜂后型； 她们都回避女权主义。"
    ],
    [
        "This discrepancy may be explained partly by the fact that the global financial crisis was most painful for the advanced countries, especially in Europe.",
        "这一差异可以用一个事实部分地解释：全球金融危机主要影响了发达国家，特别是欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal constraints will remain, as governments continue to fund public goods.",
        "只要政府继续为公共品提供资金，财政约束就会存在。"
    ],
    [
        "In deepening social affiliations, we can lay the groundwork for a new form of economy in which many more opportunities can be seized.",
        "在深刻的社会亲密关系中，我们可以为新形式的经济打下基础，让我们可以抓住多得多的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Are the days of organizing international relations according to traditional, formal law over?",
        "根据传统的正是法律组织全球关系的时代结束了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In deciding when to normalize interest rates, the Fed has placed considerable weight on the weakness of inflation, and its global underpinnings.",
        "在决定何时实现利率正常化时，美联储着重考虑了通货膨胀的颓势及其全球成因。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rhetoric of some Chinese, particularly in the military, concerning the South China Sea and other disputed Chinese sovereignty claims suggests that not everyone in the country’s leadership is committed wholeheartedly to such a path.",
        "但某些中国官员——特别是军方人士——对南海和其他争议中国主权主张的说法表明，并非所有中国领导人都会全心全意坚持这条道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Though he has not specified what he means by this, he seems to want more concessions on human rights from Raúl Castro, in exchange for the unilateral concessions already made by the Obama administration.",
        "虽然他并未具体说明自己究竟想干什么，但似乎想从劳尔·卡斯特罗争取更多的人权让步以换取奥巴马政府本已作出的单方面让步。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas is even weaker, having lost control of Gaza to Hamas after a violent putsch last year.",
        "在马哈茂德·阿巴斯领导下的巴勒斯坦政权就更虚弱了，它已经在去年哈马斯暴力暴动之后失去了对加沙的控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, it isn’t always the case that openness is better than secrecy.",
        "一般人都认为丰富的知识是一件好事，所以据此推测，对美国政府在世界事务中的所思与所行有更多的了解也应该很好。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the well-documented limitations of these measures, their simplicity – not to mention the competition inherent to scientific progress – makes them widely appealing.",
        "尽管这些指标有着广为诟病的局限性，但凭借着简明性——更不用说科学进步固有的竞争了——它们仍具有相广泛的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "True, market forces have spurred innovation, which has continually driven down the price of processed food, even as the price of plain old fruits and vegetables has gone up.",
        "诚然，市场力量推动创新，而创新则不断压低加工食品价格，即使普通水果和蔬菜的价格不断上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "In those days, editors, reporters, and columnists played a cat-and-mouse game with the authorities, resorting to satire, humor, or metaphor.",
        "在那段时间，编辑、记者以及专栏作家借助讽刺、幽默和隐喻，与政府当局玩着猫捉老鼠的游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if a monopoly is restricting output and raising prices, regulate firms and industries.",
        "因此，如果垄断限制了产出、提高了价格，则管制企业和行业即可。"
    ],
    [
        "Investigators from the US and Guatemala believe that the two biggest Mexican cartels, the Sinaloa and Gulf gangs, are spreading their tentacles across various departments; the Gulf cartel’s notorious armed wing, Los Zetas, is held responsible for a spate of massacres in the country in the past year.",
        "美国和危地马拉的调查人员相信锡那罗亚和海湾集团这两个墨西哥最大的贩毒卡特尔正在把魔爪伸向各个部门，海湾卡特尔臭名昭著的武装派别 Los Zetas被指应对去年该国大量的屠杀事件负责。"
    ],
    [
        "But here, again, the government is hiding in plain sight.",
        "但是，在这里，政府又在自圆其说。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, drugs like ketamine that quickly increase neuroplasticity might be particularly clinically efficient in combination with psychotherapeutic interventions.",
        "换句话说，克他命等快速提升神经可塑性的药物与精神治疗干预相结合或许会产生卓越的临床效果。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, there should be two points of contact during a catastrophe.",
        "综上所述，灾难降临时要依靠两条线。"
    ],
    [
        "That answer must be given carefully.",
        "这一问题必须予以小心回答。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies also need educated, hard-working, ethical employees and reliable, efficient suppliers.",
        "公司也需要教育程度高、工作努力、道德端正的员工和可靠、高效的供应商。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, investors have long accepted real (inflation-adjusted) negative returns.",
        "事实上，投资者早就接受了实际（经通胀调整的）负回报。"
    ],
    [
        "But even on that issue, the GOP has changed.",
        "但即使在这个问题上，共和党也已经改变了态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Sarkozy would be surprised to be told that the same logic should lead to a declaration of repentance by the French state to Algeria, not to mention to the Algerian soldiers who fought under the French banner, the so-called “Harkis,” many of whom were abandoned to a terrible fate when France left the country in a hurry.",
        "但估计萨科齐同时会大吃一惊，因为同样的逻辑也可适用于法国对阿尔及利亚的忏悔行动，更别提那些在阿尔及利亚独立战争中站在法军一方的阿尔及利亚士兵。 这些所谓“战斗团（Harki）”中的大多数人都在法军匆忙撤离之后遭遇了可悲的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "Coverage of violent acts that result in multiple deaths is particularly extensive.",
        "对导致多人死亡的暴力行为的报道往往会特别详尽。"
    ],
    [
        "But the overarching direction of their proposals is clear: more tax cuts, disproportionately benefiting those at the top, coupled with significantly lower non-defense discretionary spending, disproportionately hurting everybody else – and weakening the economy’s growth prospects.",
        "但他们的方案的主要方向是明确的：更多的减税——让顶层人士大捞好处，同时大量削减非防务自由裁量支出——让其他人大受其害并恶化经济增长前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Seven years earlier, Hurricane Katrina struck the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in the US as a Category 3 storm.",
        "七年前，三级飓风卡特里娜摧毁了美国墨西哥湾沿岸。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it because some voters do not realize that the region has been enjoying greater economic stability than it has in decades?",
        "难道是一些选民没有认识到这个地区现在正经历着过去几十年来都未曾有过的经济上巨大的稳定吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But, before the economy reached bottom, the stimulus was turned off, and austerity – accelerated liquidation of budget deficits, mainly by cuts in spending – became the order of the day.",
        "但是，在经济触底前，刺激就结束了，而紧缩——预算赤字的加速清偿，主要通过支出削减实现——成为主流。"
    ],
    [
        "Alas, there is no consensus on what this would require, and even where some agreement exists, sufficient will to commit the required military and economic resources does not.",
        "可惜，对于这需要什么，人们还没有形成共识，而即使在存在一些一致意见的地方，也缺乏做出必要的军事和经济资源承诺的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with tighter labor-force attachment on the part of those who have jobs, the unemployment rate thereafter would likely be about 0.1 percentage points lower in the indefinite future.",
        "此外，随着就业人口的劳动力附着效应收紧，失业率将在无穷期的未来中下降0. 1个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in those states where mortgages are not “no recourse” loans, creditors generally do not pursue the assets or income of individuals who default.",
        "即便在那些房贷不是“无追索权”贷款的州，债权人通常也不会追索断供人的资产或收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, for example, has exercised vetoes more than 100 times since 1946, most recently – and unhappily – four times since 2011 to block resolutions intended to halt the carnage in Syria.",
        "比如，自1946年以来俄罗斯共100多次行使否决权——其中2011年以来的最近四次都是生气地驳回试图停止叙利亚大屠杀的决议。"
    ],
    [
        "When I asked about it, the employees explained what to them was obvious: “People call offices only about problems.”",
        "当我就此提出疑问时，政府雇员解释说——这对他们来说是理所当然的——“人们只有有问题了才会打电话来。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require carefully balancing the need to mitigate risks in the unregulated sector with the benefits that its efficiency and innovation provide to the financial system.",
        "这要求仔细平衡减轻无监管部门风险的需要及其有效性和创新给金融体系带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "If not, when the next crisis comes, those who opposed the FSOC’s proper functioning will bear the lion’s share of the responsibility.",
        "若否，当下一场危机爆发时，反对FSOC正常行使权力的人就是罪魁祸首。"
    ],
    [
        "The head of the Reserve Bank of India (the central bank) will continue to be Raghuram Rajan, a distinguished economist who has already shown his desire to reduce India’s near-double-digit annual inflation rate, and to reform some of the inherited counterproductive restrictions on the country’s financial sector.",
        "拉古兰·拉詹（Raghuram Rajan）将继续担任印度储备银行（央行）行长。 拉詹是一位杰出的经济学家，在印度储备银行行长任上，他表现出降低印度高达两位数的年通货膨胀率的渴望，并试图改革印度金融部门的一些固有的生产率制约因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Applying a 2%-of-AGI cap to the total benefit that an individual can receive from tax expenditures would have a very powerful effect.",
        "给个人可以从税收开支中获得的福利施加2%-AGI上限可以产生非常强的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this policy earned Europe neither recognition nor relevance.",
        "但这一政策既没有为欧洲赢得承认，也没有换来亲密关系。"
    ],
    [
        "That the Union has been moving towards a common approach to border security, most visibly with the expansion of the Frontex border agency, will be of help here.",
        "鉴于目前欧盟在边境管制方面逐渐走向统一，Frontex边境管理局的规模也不断扩大，预计将对这一事务有所帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, generic drugs for first-line AIDS defenses have brought down the cost of treatment by almost 99% since 2000 alone, from $10,000 to $130.",
        "比如说，用于第一线爱滋病防御的非专利药物单单从2000年以来就把治疗的费用降低了大约99%，从1万美元降到了130美元。"
    ],
    [
        "So would European countries that dropped their obsession with fiscal austerity and used public-investment programs to kick-start growth and reduce unemployment.",
        "如果欧盟国家放弃对财政紧缩的痴迷并利用公共投资项目来启动增长和降低失业，那么他们的地位也能够更加巩固。"
    ],
    [
        "The End of the Special Relationship?",
        "特殊关系的终结？"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – When I left India for graduate school in the United States in 1975, the word “globalization” was not in use anywhere in the world.",
        "新德里—1975年我离开印度去美国读研究生时，全世界还没有人使用“全球化”一词。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan needs to develop well-balanced defense forces with the capacity needed to respond to new threats, such as the rapid build-up of China’s navy, especially its submarine forces.",
        "日本需要发展平衡的、能回击新的威胁（如中国海军的迅速壮大，特别是其潜艇力量）的防卫部队。"
    ],
    [
        "We have also found that about 2% of undergraduates we studied are pure non-cooperators.",
        "我们还发现参加实验的大学生中有2%是纯粹的不合作者。"
    ],
    [
        "Location is especially important in developing countries, where many areas lack adequate transport, water, electricity, and sanitation infrastructure.",
        "区位在发展中国家尤其重要，在发展中国家，许多地区缺少足够的交通、水电和卫生基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Focusing on one (say, the competitiveness problem in the tradable sector) to the exclusion of the other (perhaps a serious non-tradable demand shortfall or stagnant absolute productivity) will not be enough.",
        "专注一其中一个部分（比如可贸易部门的竞争力问题）而排除另一个（也许是严重的不可贸易需求短缺或绝对生产率停滞不前）是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "David Landes likes to tell the story of Nathan Meyer Rothschild, the richest man in the world in the first half of the nineteenth century, dead in his fifties of an infected abscess.",
        "David Landes喜欢讲述Nathan Meyer Rothschild的故事。 这个19世纪前半叶全世界最富有的人在50多岁时死于脓肿感染。"
    ],
    [
        "China and other emerging-market countries pursued an economic strategy that defied the standard tenets of growth and development theory.",
        "中国和其他新兴市场国家采取的经济战略有悖于增长和发展理论的标准远离。"
    ],
    [
        "Moscow nowadays has all the trappings of high-end capitalism: Prada, Fouchon, Rolls Royce.",
        "莫斯科现在充满了高档的资本主义的产物：普拉达、Fouchon, 劳斯莱斯。"
    ],
    [
        "The accession of ten new countries to the European Union earlier this year opened the latest and perhaps most dramatic chapter in this process.",
        "今年早些时候10个新成员国加入欧盟开启了这一进程中最后的，且可能是最富戏剧性的一章。"
    ],
    [
        "This has never been more true than today, and if America is not seen as an avid supporter of a two-state solution, it will stay well behind the curve and damage its own interests in the Middle East.",
        "这在今天尤其重要，如果美国没有成为两国制的热情支持者，它就会落后于形势的发展，并损害其自身在中东的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies that before 2050 global emissions of CO2 must be reduced to below 50% of the 1990 level (they are currently 15% above that level), and that average emissions in developed countries must be reduced by at least 80% of the 1990 level.",
        "这意味着， 2050年前全球的二氧化碳排放量必须比1990年的水平减少50 ％以上（目前是超过了该水平的15 ％以上） ，而且发达国家的平均排放量必须至少比1990年的水平减少80 ％。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure to act quickly and globally will leave our children and grandchildren struggling to adapt to rapidly rising seas and devastating weather.",
        "无法迅速采取全球行动将让我们的子孙后代难以适应快速升高的海洋和灾难性气候。"
    ],
    [
        "A possible answer lies in an early election: a new mandate for an India that is in desperate need of renewal.",
        "可能的答案在于提前大选：渴望涅槃的印度需要一个新指挥官。"
    ],
    [
        "Tigers lead solitary lives, except for mothers with their cubs.",
        "自然界的老虎独来独往，那些带着幼兽的雌虎尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argue that the Taliban, eager to return to power, would want to reconcile with the international community or at least prevent further Western military strikes.",
        "有些人认为塔利班急于重新掌权，故乐意与国际社会妥协，至少希望能让西方军队停止进一步攻势。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the brief stimulus-fueled recovery faded, growth in world trade again slowed quickly, falling to 2% year on year over the past 18 months.",
        "一旦短暂刺激推动的复苏消失，世界贸易的增长再次迅速放缓，在过去18个月内跟去年同期相比降到了2%。"
    ],
    [
        "But not all of it is true.",
        "但并非所有都是真理。"
    ],
    [
        "If there is no financing, the scheme collapses – and we have another “Lehman moment,” or worse.",
        "如果没有融资，这套机制就会破产——我们将迎来又一个“雷曼时刻”，或者更糟。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether we are choosing what to eat or how much to exercise, or trying to assess our chances of a specific condition, the numbers make it feel real and immediate.",
        "不管是我们选择吃些什么，还是进行多少锻炼，或者评估身体遇到某种特殊状况的可能性，在数字上都可以真实而迅速的反应出来。"
    ],
    [
        "On December 31, 1999, President Boris Yeltsin resigned, leaving the country in the hands of his recently appointed prime minister, Vladimir Putin.",
        "在1999年12月31日，总统鲍里斯·叶利钦辞职，把国家交到了被他最近任命为总理的普京手里。"
    ],
    [
        "And we must adapt to new approaches to meeting people and nurturing relationships.",
        "我们还必须采取新方法来会面和培养关系。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, at the moment, that is precisely what seems to be happening.",
        "但是，眼下，正在发生的恰恰是重蹈覆辙。"
    ],
    [
        "Three years later, my father went home, not to die, but to infuse new life into the demoralized ranks of the opposition to the dictatorship.",
        "3年后父亲归国，不为求死，而是为陷入低谷的反独裁运动注入新生。"
    ],
    [
        "· a greater freedom of travel for all the EU’s Eastern neighbors.",
        "· 给所有欧盟的东部邻国的人民以更大的旅行自由。"
    ],
    [
        "The state’s commitments became incredible as it absorbed losses produced in the non-functioning market.",
        "国家吸收了运转不良的市场产生的损失，从而失去了信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "If the amount of bank capital needed to protect that risk-weighted equivalent is 10%, then the bank requires just $2,000 of its own capital to fund the mortgage, $198,000 of which the bank itself borrows.",
        "如果保护这一风险加权等价值所需要的银行资本比重为10%，则银行只需要拿出2,000美元的资本就可以发起这笔贷款，其余198,000美元都是银行借来的。"
    ],
    [
        "History offers a recipe for success, so long as Americans adhere to the lesson of 1989.",
        "只要美国人仍然对1989年的经验深信不疑，那么历史便已指出了通向成功的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "More taxes mean that the government will be larger.",
        "增税意味着政府变大。"
    ],
    [
        "He was directly involved in the holding of American hostages in Iran, though exactly how much so remains a matter of dispute.",
        "他直接参与了伊朗的美国人质事件，虽然具体的参与程度仍有争议。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Democratic elections cannot be described as competitions aimed at revealing which candidates tell the unvarnished truth.",
        "伦敦——揭示哪些候选人能不加修饰地说出真相并不是民主选举竞赛的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "That makes sense in the context of focusing attention where a decision is needed.",
        "这有助于将注意力集中于需要做决定之处。"
    ],
    [
        "Occurring on the 72nd anniversary of the 1931 Mukden Incident that led to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, 90% of Chinese respondents to an Internet poll said they believed that the Japanese businessmen intended to humiliate China.",
        "1931年的“满洲里事件”最终导致日本占领东北三省，日本商人召妓正发生在该事件72周年纪念日。 在一个互联网民意测验中90%的投票者表示他们坚信日本商人是故意要籍此羞辱中国。"
    ],
    [
        "The presence of foreign troops creates a stimulus for nationalist and jihadist responses.",
        "外国驻军的存在刺激了民族主义者和吉哈德分子采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "In his effort to prove that losing its imperial status has not diminished Russia’s global role, Putin has meddled relentlessly in international decisions, opposing sanctions against Iran and supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, even as it slaughters its own citizens.",
        "普京试图证明，失去帝国地位并不妨碍俄罗斯的全球角色，他在国际事务中到处乱管闲事，反对针对伊朗和叙利亚总统巴沙尔的制裁，尽管后者的屠刀挥向的是自己的人民。"
    ],
    [
        "These are testing times in Shangri-La.",
        "这是香格里拉的考验时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Strict uniformity of regulatory practices may not be necessary.",
        "要求监管行动严格一致或许并不是必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "If the authorities adopted common-sense policies and sought support from the International Monetary Fund and other multilateral lenders, as most troubled countries tend to do, they would rightly be told to default on the country’s debts.",
        "如果当局采取常识政策，并像大部分受困国通常做的那样寻求国际货币基金组织（IMF）和其他多边贷款人的支持，就会得到正确的建议，对国家债务违约。"
    ],
    [
        "Contemporary evolution requires a specific set of conditions.",
        "现代进化需要满足特定的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Knowledge moves when people do.",
        "人才的流动带来知识。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea’s male labor-force participation rate, by contrast, stands at about 77% – close to the OECD average of 79%.",
        "相反，韩国男性劳动力参与率为77%左右，接近经合组织平均水平79%。"
    ],
    [
        "Tentative calculations using Japanese Cabinet Office data suggest that, according the standard of the 2008 SNA – which counts research and development, including intellectual property, among firms’ capital assets – Japan’s 2011 GDP exceeded the published data by 4.2%, or ¥19.8 trillion.",
        "使用日本内阁办公室数据的暂定计算表明，根据2008年国民账户经济计算准则——将研发工作，包括知识产权也计入企业资本资产——日本2011年的GDP总额超过公布数据要多出4. 2％（或19."
    ],
    [
        "America’s current fiscal problems are rooted in a long period of unfunded spending.",
        "美国目前财政问题的根源在于长期没有来源的开支。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, natural gas accounts for 51% of energy consumption, compared to 32% for oil and barely 17% for coal, renewables, and hydroelectric and nuclear power.",
        "与此同时，天然气占据了能源消费的51%，石油占32%，煤、可再生及水电核电占17%。 从全世界看，天然气只占能源总消费量的四分之一左右——比如在美国为27%，在邻国巴西为9%。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though most observers believe that China’s first-tier cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen) will still struggle in 2015 to digest the huge housing stock they built up in recent years, some second- and third-tier cities have already reached the bottom, and have started to recover.",
        "而尽管大部分观察者认为中国一线城市（北上广深）在2015年将继续疲于消化近几年中所建立的巨大住房库存，但一些二线和三线城市已经触底并开始回暖。"
    ],
    [
        "Cyber weapons are relatively cheap (and thus widely accessible) and capable of reaching anywhere in the world.",
        "网络武器相对廉价（因此可以轻松获得），无论身在何处都能接触到。"
    ],
    [
        "For them, the lawless Bedouin, the Sinai jihadis, and Hamas and other groups in Gaza threaten Egypt’s national security.",
        "对他们来说，无法无天的贝多因人、西奈圣战者和哈马斯以及其他加沙集团威胁着埃及的国家安全。"
    ],
    [
        "The result of the failure is a generalized indifference and passivity in audiences.",
        "它们做不到这一点的结果就是受众的整体性无动于衷和消极。"
    ],
    [
        "The case for returning fiscal responsibility to national authorities is also strong – and not only because centralized fiscal authority has proved to be so inefficient.",
        "把财政责任交还给国家当局的问题也很大——这不仅是因为集中财政当局已被证明极其低效。"
    ],
    [
        "This effect is likely to be compounded by the expectation that a lower corporate tax rate will attract foreign investment, resulting in a net capital inflow.",
        "这一效应或许会因为公司税率降低会吸引外国投资、引起净资本流入的预期而加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "But they do not want America alone to shoulder the burdens of international peace, and they are gradually coming to the realization that leadership and cooperation do not come automatically, simply because America is the only superpower.",
        "但是他们不希望美国独自地担负维护国际和平的重担。 他们渐渐意识到并不因为美国是世界唯一的超级大国，就自然而然地拥有了领导地位和其它国家的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, top defense contractors’ R&D spending as a proportion of sales plummeted by nearly a third from 1999 to 2012.",
        "此外，1999—2012年间，顶级防务承包商的研发支出占销售额之比下降了近三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s lone superpower, the US, has demonstrated its disdain for supranational institutions and worked assiduously to undermine them.",
        "作为世界上唯一的超级大国的美国对超国家的国际组织表现得不屑一顾并且不遗余力地削弱它们。"
    ],
    [
        "Taylor is known for having developed his own guideline (the “Taylor rule”) for how central banks should set interest rates.",
        "泰勒因为制定关于央行应当如何设定利率的准则（“泰勒规则”）而闻名于世。"
    ],
    [
        "The diplomatic Europe, incarnated by EU founding father Jean Monnet, took big, sensitive questions out of the sphere of popular politics and reduced them to manageable technical issues that diplomats could address through bureaucratic compromises behind closed doors.",
        "外交的欧洲由欧盟之父让·莫内提出，它将敏感的大问题拿到群众政治范围之外，将它们缩小为可管理的技术性问题，外交官能够通过闭门商谈的官僚妥协解决。"
    ],
    [
        "It will dull the pain for a short period, but the euro’s deep-seated problems will metastasize, with a dismal prognosis for the single currency and perhaps even the European Union as a whole.",
        "它能够暂时减少痛苦，但欧元的深层次问题将会转移，这个单一货币乃至整个欧盟的预后非常不乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "I think this judgment is wrong.",
        "我个人认为这个思路是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Clear-cut gains exist only for a few commodities, such as cotton and sugar, which are not consumed in large quantities by poor households.",
        "明显的好处只在诸如棉花和糖这样的几种商品中存在，而贫困家庭并不大量消费这些东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Consequently 1-3.5 million Pakistani children were not vaccinated.",
        "结果，100—135万巴基斯坦儿童没有得到接种。"
    ],
    [
        "But Royal has so far failed to rally her camp behind her.",
        "但是罗雅尔至今未能将其竞选队伍团结一致。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer-run impact is thus different and much less negative.",
        "因此，长期影响与短期影响有很大不同，长期影响要小得多。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Dream Team",
        "中国梦之队"
    ],
    [
        "Australia, for example, is a large coal exporter but imports most of its refined fuels and holds just three days of fuel stockpiles.",
        "比如，澳大利亚是煤炭出口大国，但精炼燃料大部分依靠进口，燃料储备只够用三天。"
    ],
    [
        "From 2005 to 2014, total public investment has more than doubled relative to national income, from 6% to 13%, and the government intends to push the ratio even higher in coming years.",
        "从2005年到2014年，玻利维亚的公共投资总额相对于国民收入的比率增加了一倍多，从6％提升到13％，而政府则计划在未来几年进一步提高该比例。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – For 18 days, during the ebb and flow of protest, it did not seem possible that the end of the Egyptian Revolution would come so suddenly, in a terse announcement that lasted no more than a half-minute: “President Hosni Mubarak has relinquished office….”",
        "新德里——18天来，随着抗议活动的起起落落，没人能够想到埃及革命的结尾会来得如此突然，不过是一则不到半分钟的简短公告。"
    ],
    [
        "Dionysus emerges victorious, and Pentheus is ripped to shreds.",
        "狄俄尼索斯赢得了胜利，而潘修斯粉身碎骨。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro crisis had its origin in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision, taken in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ default in September 2008, that the guarantee against further defaults should come not from the European Union, but from each country separately.",
        "欧元危机的根源是德国总理默克尔在2008年9月雷曼兄弟公司违约后的决策——对不会发生进一步违约的担保不应该来自欧盟，而应该由各国各自做出。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, coal is phenomenally polluting, but it also provides for cheap and reliable power, which drives development.",
        "比如说煤炭造成了惊人的污染，但它也提供了廉价和可靠的电力去推动发展。"
    ],
    [
        "A month later, a French jihadist attacked the Jewish museum in Brussels, leaving three dead and one critically wounded.",
        "一个月后，一名法国圣战分子袭击了布鲁塞尔犹太博物馆，造成3人死亡、1人重伤的惨剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, electric cars bought in the European Union will actually increase global CO2 emissions.",
        "更糟糕的是，在欧盟购买电动汽车实际上会增加全球二氧化碳排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the stakes are far higher than in the seventeenth century, because Iran represents a threat that combines a fanatic religion with a determination to acquire nuclear weapons.",
        "然而，现在的利害关系要远比十七世纪时严重得多，因为伊朗人所代表的威胁融合了狂热的宗教和获得核武器的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "To solve this problem, Japan’s political leaders have three options: find some way to raise the country’s birthrate dramatically, open a long-insular society to a wave of immigrants, or finally unveil the country’s secret weapon – the energy, talents, and ingenuity of Japanese women.",
        "为了解决这个问题，日本政治领导人有三个选择：寻求迅速提高国家出生率的方法； 开放长期与世隔绝的社会状态，接受大量的移民浪潮；"
    ],
    [
        "For the small, economically still-fragile states of East Central Europe, a Europe of national states, once again fighting ruthlessly for their own interests, is a nightmare.",
        "对于那些位于东欧中部、经济仍然疲软的小国，一个各国再次为其各自利益争斗得不可开交的欧洲是一个恶梦。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, timely evacuations in the face of accurately forecasted major storm systems have enabled the Philippines and India to save thousands of lives just in the last year.",
        "事实上，在正确预测大风暴的基础上及时疏散让菲律宾和印度在去年挽救了成千上万生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of the outcome of this year’s presidential and congressional elections, various Republican state governors are likely to gain a higher national profile.",
        "不管今年大选和国会选举结果如何，不少共和党州长将赢得高度支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike in Ukraine, investors have shrugged off the noisy demonstrations in Mexico City’s streets and remained focused on interest rates and fluctuations in the global economy.",
        "与乌克兰不同，投资者对墨西哥城街头喧闹的游行示威置之不理，而是把精力集中在利率和全球经济的起伏之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s per capita GDP was 21% of America’s in 1951, and in the following 20 years it grew at an average rate of 9.2%.",
        "日本人均GDP在1951年达到美国的21%，随后20年，其经济以平均每年9. 2%的速度增长。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the scenario the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman considered in a 1989 paper on bilateralism, in which he reported that a world consisting of three major trading blocs constitutes the worst constellation for trade, as a lack of explicit cooperation among all three would lead to increasing trade barriers.",
        "诺贝尔经济学奖得主保罗·克鲁格曼（Paul Krugman）在1989年发表的一篇关于双边主义的论文中指出一个由三大主要贸易集团组成的世界将会是最差劲的贸易组合，由于三者之间缺乏明确的合作关系，贸易壁垒将因此增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, high-quality antibiotics must be made available at affordable prices.",
        "此外，必须以合理价格提供高质量的抗生素。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of in-house emails reportedly have been destroyed.",
        "6亿美元）的封口费给被窃听者。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a weapon could be capable of killing many people, contaminating large urban areas, and sparking mass panic.",
        "这类武器可以杀掉很多人，污染大片城镇地区，并营造巨大的恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "Thirty percent of global fish stocks have collapsed, up from roughly 15% in 1987, and the proportion of fish stocks classified as over-exploited has doubled, to around 40%.",
        "全球渔业储量的30%已经消亡，而1987年大约是15%。 而且，被划归为过度捕捞的渔业储量的比例达到40%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "But why is Europe so far ahead of other countries in its concern for animals?",
        "但为何欧洲可以在关注动物方面领先全球其他地区如此之多呢？"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, many states undergoing political transition are doggedly pursuing some form of justice.",
        "平心而论，许多正在经历政治转型的国家顽强地追求着某种形式的正义。"
    ],
    [
        "So he closed the opposition-leaning private Imedi TV station (owned by Patarkatsishvili) and introduced a state of emergency for nine days, before calling an early presidential election for January 5.",
        "因此他下令关闭了亲反对派的私有的伊梅季电视台（帕塔尔卡齐什维利是该电视台的所有人），并且实行九天的紧急状态。 此前他已经下令在1月5日提前进行总统选举。"
    ],
    [
        "For Jews, given the absence of a homeland, development occurred among the diaspora, with civil emancipation in Europe giving rise to reformist movements aimed at reconciling faith and modernity.",
        "对犹太人来说，由于没有故乡，发展在离散犹太人中间发生，其背景是欧洲的文明解放让旨在协调信仰和现代性的改革主义运动兴起。"
    ],
    [
        "The spectacular inversion of the French and US roles on the issue of intervention has different causes.",
        "法美两国在干涉问题上惊人的立场颠倒有着不同的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "But Trump is a real-estate mogul, so we cannot immediately assume that he is a true monetary-policy hawk, and not a closet dove.",
        "但特朗普乃房地产大亨，我们不可就此认定他是正宗的货币政策鹰派，而不是隐藏的鸽派。"
    ],
    [
        "More needs to be done to accelerate the post-nuclear transition.",
        "加快推动后核能时代变革还有很多工作要做。"
    ],
    [
        "NATO has established a special NATO-Georgian Commission to help coordinate allied support for Georgia’s post-conflict reconstruction.",
        "北约成立了一个专门的北约－格鲁吉亚委员会，帮助协调北约对格鲁吉亚战后重建的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "The views expressed here do not represent the views of the United Nations or its member states.",
        "本文观点与联合国及其成员国无关。"
    ],
    [
        "The reasons for this are clear.",
        "造成这种局面的原因是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, they should tackle other major threats to Europe’s long-term competitiveness, including low productivity, an incomplete internal market, and insufficient innovation.",
        "与此同时，他们应该解决欧洲长期竞争力的诸项重大威胁，包括生产率低下、内部市场不完善以及创新不充分等。"
    ],
    [
        "Without strict conditionality, she would risk shifting the domestic consensus in favor of Germany’s emerging Euro-skeptic mood.",
        "如果不要求严苛的条件，她可能会让国内一致观点倒向新崛起的怀疑欧元派。"
    ],
    [
        "Cities, then, represent the most important development challenge of all.",
        "到那时，城市就会成为最重要的发展难题。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumer confidence is being steadily eroded by a number of factors that lead people to question the extent to which they are valued.",
        "消费者信心被众多导致人们质疑自己在多大程度上被估价的因素所不断侵蚀。"
    ],
    [
        "COPENHAGEN – In 1950, people in South Korea and Pakistan earned roughly the same amount of money annually.",
        "哥本哈根——1950年，韩国和巴基斯坦民众每年所得相差无几。"
    ],
    [
        "Measures to keep the industry afloat in one country look like unfair competition to others.",
        "某一国家采取措施让这一产业存活下来对其他国家而言好像是不公平竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the macroeconomic environment, governments can improve conditions through public investment, particularly in infrastructure, which will augment productivity and add to private-sector profitability.",
        "至于宏观经济环境，政府可以通过公共投资改善条件，特别是基础设施来提高生产力和增加私人部门的盈利能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Accommodating one million asylum-seekers should not be a huge challenge for the European Union – an area with 500 million citizens that welcomes more than three million immigrants every year.",
        "安置一百万寻求庇护者不应该成为欧盟的艰巨挑战——欧盟拥有5亿公民，每年都要迎来三百多万移民。"
    ],
    [
        "Government policy back then began with a permanent military program of spending and R&D and continued through massive public works program and suburbanization, underpinned by the Federal Highway Program and subsidized home ownership loans from the Federal Housing Administration.",
        "政府随即回来使用政策指挥棒，开始实施一个有关费用和调查发展的永久性军事项目，并将此项目持续在民众的工作计划和郊区化项目中推进，并得到了联邦高速公路项目的支持，资助人们向联邦房屋管理局进行房屋贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "We do these things over dinner.",
        "我们则可以一边吃饭一边对这些话题侃侃而谈。"
    ],
    [
        "When Barnier was appointed, French President Nicolas Sarkozy described it as a “defeat for Anglo-Saxon capitalism.”",
        "巴尼耶获得任命后，法国总统萨科齐称之为“对盎格鲁-撒克逊资本主义的胜利”。"
    ],
    [
        "They are also less likely than other graduates to defect and leave violent Islamism behind.",
        "而且与其他毕业生相比他们更不容易变节或者放弃伊斯兰主义暴力行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Up to now, a focus on who has been appointed to what post – in particular, the appointment of the relatively inexperienced Federica Mogherini as EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy – has overshadowed the Commission’s structural transformation.",
        "目前，对谁被任命为什么职位的关注——特别是相对缺少经验的费得利卡·莫格里尼（Federica Mogherini）被任命为欧盟共同外交和安全政策高级代表——困扰着欧盟委员会的结构转型。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent commentary, Harvard University economist Dani Rodrik thoughtfully argues the latter.",
        "在最近的评论中，哈佛大学经济学家丹尼·罗德里克（Dani Rodrik）意味深长地支持后者。"
    ],
    [
        "The important thing for Copenhagen is that decisions are taken now for investments that will yield benefits later.",
        "可以确定的是哥本哈根协议将有利于我们的未来发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, more than four years after the terrorist attacks of September 2001, Bush appears to have finally woken up to the reality of America’s increasing dependence; with soaring oil prices, it was hard for him not to note the consequences.",
        "现在，2001年9月的恐怖袭击发生已经4年多了，布什似乎终于从美国（对外国石油）日益增强的依赖的现实中醒悟过来； 油价暴涨使他不得不注意到后果的严重。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in other areas, strategic thinking has fallen short.",
        "但是，在其他领域，战略思维有所欠缺。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, Assad is doing his best to cling to power.",
        "就目前来讲，阿萨德正在竭尽所能固守权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinians have shown that they are willing to accept minor and agreed-upon land swaps, and will be open to creative ideas for solving the problem of Jerusalem, possibly following the parameters set out by US President Bill Clinton at the end of his second term.",
        "巴勒斯坦已经显示出他们愿意接受基于一致的吃亏的土地交换，并对解决耶路撒冷问题的创造性方案持开放态度，比如按美国总统克林顿在其第二个任期末所提出的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, in 2014, Shia Houthi rebels – another Iranian proxy group – conquered the capital of Yemen.",
        "其后，在2014年，什叶派胡塞反政府武装——也是伊朗的另一个代理团体—— 征服了也门的首都。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from achieving what the EU now deems a “functioning market economy,” key political and legal changes, which I have overseen as Minister of Justice, range from increased transparency and control in the funding of political parties to a shakeup of the judiciary.",
        "除实现了被欧盟认为是“运转的市场经济”外，在我担任司法部长期间还见证了重大的政治和法律变化，包括提高透明度，控制政治团体的资金募集以及对司法系统的大改组。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not only the crises extending from Ukraine to Syria that will prevent the MSC, the fiftieth, from becoming an exercise in self-celebration.",
        "让第十五届MSC无法成为欢庆舞台的不仅仅是乌克兰和叙利亚危机的发酵。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a response should not be surprising.",
        "这样的反应并不奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the next year or so, the Fed is likely to enter a tightening cycle, raising interest rates on a steady and sustained basis.",
        "在未来几年间，美联储将可能进入一个货币紧缩周期，并稳步提高利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Poland’s Jewish population numbers only a few thousand.",
        "如今，波兰犹太人口只有几千人。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, it is relevant to ask whether a country as large as Germany – or even a large state like California or Texas – augments or depletes global aggregate demand.",
        "出于这个原因，有必要问一问，像德国这样的大国——甚或像加州或得州这样的大州——增加还是减少了全球总需求。"
    ],
    [
        "This raises the practical question of what Iran’s current bomb-making capability is.",
        "我们能否在事先侦查到生产核弹的秘密活动呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire a century ago, Western powers have sought to control the Middle East for a variety of reasons, including claims on oil, access to international sea routes, Israel’s security, and geopolitical competition with Russia in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.",
        "自一个世纪前奥斯曼帝国崩溃以来，西方列强怀着各种算盘试图控制中东，包括主张石油权利、获得国际航海通道、以色列的安全、与俄罗斯在埃及、叙利亚、伊拉克和伊朗的地缘政治竞争等。"
    ],
    [
        "It will have to accept all the other states in the region as legitimate players with their own legitimate interests as much as it wants to be recognized as such itself.",
        "它必须承认该地区所有的其他国家是合法的参与者，拥有它们自己的合法利益，就像它自己想被承认的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2050 the population of the 50 least developed countries is projected to double, and while the ratio of working-age to non-working-age people in Europe will fall to around 1.4, in the developing world it will be considerably higher.",
        "到2050年，50个最不发达国家的人口预计将会翻番，欧洲工作年龄和非工作年龄人的比例将会下降到1. 4左右，而在发展中国家这一比例将会高出许多。"
    ],
    [
        "Or would they become mired in ineffective, poorly-funded attempts to obtain quick results, and then say it couldn’t be done?",
        "或者还是为了急功近利而采取空洞而无资金投入的政策之后，然后说这是不可能完成的任务呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Last October, amid an unnecessary escalation of sectarian violence, state-owned television featured a hospitalized Egyptian soldier screaming, “The Copts killed my colleague!”",
        "去年10月份，在不必要的宗派暴力升级过程中，国有电视特别报道一位住院的埃及士兵喊道，“科普特人杀了我的同事！"
    ],
    [
        "Some indicators, such as workers’ average height, suggest that standards of living may have even declined for a while.",
        "一些指标，如工人平均体重，表明生活质量可能下降了一段时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s citizens – and all people longing to resist a tyrannical government or to protest in an established democracy – should bear that lesson in mind.",
        "因此伊朗市民——以及所有渴望反抗一个残暴政府或者抗议一个民主政权的——都要牢记这些历史经验。"
    ],
    [
        "Though it has not yet been implemented, its waste targets have the potential to save the European Union 190 million tons of CO2 emissions per year.",
        "尽管该方案尚未开始实施，但其废品目标有望每年让欧盟节约1. 9亿吨二氧化碳排放。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is the continent of Michelangelo and Montesquieu, but also of the guillotine and the gas chamber.",
        "欧洲是米开朗基罗和孟德斯鸠的大陆，但同时也是断头台和毒气室的大陆。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is much talk about the net benefits of inward migration.",
        "当然，关于内向移民的净收益很有讨论的余地。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to change the world, we need to understand it.",
        "为了改变世界，就必须理解世界。"
    ],
    [
        "But what is extraordinary about Palin’s comment is that, despite being a strong proponent of the sanctity of human life, in criticizing Obama she did not pause to deplore the serious loss of innocent human life that American air strikes in Afghanistan have caused.",
        "但是佩林评论的惊人之处在于，尽管她强烈支持人命不可侵犯，但是在批评奥巴马的时候她并没有停下来哀悼美国空袭在阿富汗造成的巨大平民死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Aggregate economic balance may require a negative real interest rate; but with inflation at an all-time low – the IMF expects it to be negative this year and next in the advanced economies, and zero in the emerging economies – this is not feasible.",
        "总体经济平衡可能需要真实利率为负； 但通胀正处于历史最低水平——IMF预计发达经济体今年和明年通胀率均为负，新兴经济体则接近于零——因此真实利率不可能为负。"
    ],
    [
        "They could recapitalize banks that suffered inadvertent balance-sheets damage as a result of these reforms.",
        "他们可以对因为这些改革而受到附带资产负债表冲击的银行进行资本重组。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is the point: most physicists and students have lost sight of the distinction between the approximate and the exact.",
        "但问题在于：大多数物理学家和学生都忘记了估算和精确值之间的区别。"
    ],
    [
        "But even he may stay in office to try again, having blamed others - in this case private companies - for the debacle.",
        "但即便如此他也能继续留任，而把失败的责任归咎于人，私有公司成了这次事故的替罪羊。"
    ],
    [
        "On the most basic level, it will almost certainly require security guarantees for the Tigers’ leaders.",
        "最基本的是，斯里兰卡政府肯定要保证猛虎解放组织领导人的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "The panic about bread that swept France in 1789, and the inability of the government to guarantee supplies, destroyed the ancien regime.",
        "1789年，没有面包吃的恐慌席卷法国，政府没有能力确保供应，导致了“旧制度”的垮台。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s High-Income Future",
        "中国的高收入未来"
    ],
    [
        "Income growth accelerated, wealth was predominantly earned (justly or unjustly), politics became dominated by the middle class, and economic inequality was modest (even if race and gender equality remained a long way off).",
        "收入增长加速，财富主要靠挣（不管公不公平），政治由中产阶级主宰，经济不平等也相当温和（即使种族和性别平等仍然大大落后）。"
    ],
    [
        "The continual deepening of the BRICS enterprise has caught many international observers by surprise.",
        "金砖国家组织的不断深化让许多国际观察家感到震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, every time investment picks up in Latin America, it has to be financed with loans from abroad.",
        "因此，每当拉美投资开始增加，就必须从国外拉贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither China nor anyone else was found guilty this time.",
        "这一次，中国和其他任何国家都未被认定“有罪”。"
    ],
    [
        "Institutions and traditions supporting cooperative conflict resolution hardly exist in the region.",
        "支持合作性冲突解决方案的制度和传统在该地区几乎不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly true in Ukraine, where, despite the current ceasefire, Russia and the West have yet to find a way to ease tensions definitively.",
        "这点在乌克兰显得尤为突出，即便最近实现了停火，但俄罗斯和西方依然未能找到一个最终缓解紧张局势的出路。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Party remains in charge today.",
        "但中国共产党的政权却一直维持到了今天。"
    ],
    [
        "Watanabe is thus the equivalent of a Holocaust denier, but, unlike his German counterparts, he easily draws large and sympathetic audiences.",
        "但是，与他的德国持相似论点者不同，他在这里可以轻易地博得大量的观众，并且得到他们的认同。"
    ],
    [
        "Marwan Barghouti, the leader of Fatah’s grassroots group on the West Bank, is now in an Israeli prison for organizing the bloody uprising that began in 2000, and for direct involvement in planning the killings of many Israeli civilians.",
        "其中之一是约旦河西岸法塔赫基层组织领导人马尔万·巴尔毫迪，此人现正在以色列监狱中服刑，罪名是领导了2000年爆发的流血叛乱，并直接参与策划多起谋杀以色列平民的事件。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2012, eurozone leaders signed a fiscal compact aimed at controlling public debt – which, in total, amounted to 91.3% of GDP, according to the International Monetary Fund – by forcing countries to cut spending and raise taxes.",
        "2012年，欧元区领导人签署了一项旨在通过迫使各国降低支出、提高税收来控制公共债务的财政契约。 据国际货币基金组织（IMF）数据，欧元区公共债务总量高达GDP的91."
    ],
    [
        "The origins of the current crisis may be in some dispute, but the costs are not.",
        "目前的危机可能源于某些冲突，可代价却并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But such adjustments cannot happen in a monetary union, so unit labor costs are slowly re-converging via a protracted process of flat nominal wage growth and slowly declining real wages (a process that would be quicker with higher inflation in Germany and Northern Europe).",
        "但在货币联盟中不可能发生这样的调整，因此单位劳动力成本正在通过名义工资增长的长期停滞和实际工资的长期缓慢下降而缓慢地实现重新趋同（如果德国和北欧通胀更高一些，那么这个过程也会更快一些）。"
    ],
    [
        "In poor countries, this is reasonable; there is not enough wealth to spread round.",
        "在穷国，这在合理不过了——没有足够的财富可供分配。"
    ],
    [
        "When the best players play together, the quality of each, and of the team as a whole, increases exponentially.",
        "当最佳球员们同场竞技时，每人以及整个球队的水平也大为增长。"
    ],
    [
        "If such improvements in productivity do last, the vistas this will open are amazing: an America 50 years from now in which the average full-time worker earns not $40,000 a year, but the equivalent of today's $160,000 a year.",
        "如果生产率的上升势头得以延续，将打开令人叹为观止的发展空间：50年后，美国普普通通的全职劳动者每年不仅能挣40，000美元，而且这40，000美元还相当于今天160，000的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "As 2014 begins, economic insecurity is giving way to worries about the EU’s strategic position.",
        "随着2014年的到来，对经济不安全的担忧将让位给欧盟的战略定位。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to these divisions, there are problems concerning how to amend the constitution.",
        "除了这些分歧之外，还有如何修正宪法的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks now have to reconcile the need to maintain price stability with the responsibility – regardless of whether it is legally mandated – to reduce financial vulnerability.",
        "如今中央银行现在必须在维持价格稳定以及降低金融脆弱性——无论其是否获得了法律授权——的责任之间取得平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The next 95% would create much more happiness and opportunity if it was divided evenly among US citizens or others than if they were to consume any portion of it.",
        "至于剩下的95%，如果能够在美国公民和其他人中均衡地分割，而非用于消费，那么，这将创造更大的幸福和机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The world is on a slippery slope toward nationalism and exclusion.",
        "世界正在滑向民族主义和排外主义的泥沼。"
    ],
    [
        "Sudden fiscal contraction would reduce domestic aggregate demand faster than the economy’s deleveraging and structural shifts could replace it, thereby killing off growth and hiring, with adverse feedback effects on budget deficits.",
        "突然的财政收缩拉低国内总需求的速度会快于经济去杠杆化和结构变化弥补需求损失的速度，造成预算赤字的负反馈效应。"
    ],
    [
        "It has to move forward fast enough to exceed critical physical thresholds, which are significantly higher than those for most of Boeing’s other (smaller) planes.",
        "它必须向前运动得足够快，超过某个物理临界阈值——远高于绝大部分波音其他型号（体型更小）的飞机。"
    ],
    [
        "Halting this progressive alienation will require major changes in outlook and policy on both sides of the Atlantic.",
        "遏止美欧关系日渐疏远的趋势需要大西洋两岸国家在观点和政策两方面发生重大的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "A new comprehensive arrangement with Turkey is also needed to reduce the flow of jihadist recruits to Syria and the number of refugees heading north.",
        "此外要与土耳其签署全面协议，以减少难民向北迁移和新招募的圣战份子流入叙利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "People selected to lead countries or companies must have the technical competence – and the number-crunching support teams – needed to make good decisions.",
        "被选出领导国家和公司的人必须具备技术胜任能力，还必须有数据分析团队支持，这样才能做出好决策。"
    ],
    [
        "TOULOUSE – For the last half-century, the world’s leading universities have taught microeconomics through the lens of the Arrow-Debreu model of general competitive equilibrium.",
        "发自图卢兹——在过去半个世纪，全球顶尖学府都通过阿罗-德布鲁（Arrow-Debreu）一般竞争性均衡模型的视角来教授微观经济学。"
    ],
    [
        "Turning Crisis into Success in Germany",
        "将危机转化为德国的成功"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the EU cannot reimburse member states for recent unexpected expenditures, including emergency outlays, such as aid to Italian earthquake victims, and spending aimed at boosting economic growth and employment, such as the accelerated absorption of unused Structural and Cohesion Funds.",
        "结果，欧盟无法偿还成员国近期计划外支出，包括紧急支出（如意大利地震灾区援助）以及旨在提振经济增长和就业的支出（如未使用结构和凝聚基金（Structural and Cohesion Funds）的加速吸收）。"
    ],
    [
        "The first two priorities, if well designed and well implemented, are certainly honorable goals for a government to pursue.",
        "如果策划实施得好，前两种政策无疑令人肃然起敬。"
    ],
    [
        "Employment conditions improved as state-mandated or negotiated arrangements led to reduced working hours, greater safety, and family, health, and other benefits.",
        "国家规定或劳资双方商定的安排降低了工作时长，增加了安全度，提高了家庭、医疗和其他福利，就业环境有了改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Such broad evaluations tend to be rare.",
        "范围如此广泛的评估十分罕见。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, too much rainfall can be as bad as too little, especially when it comes out of season.",
        "另一方面，过多的降水可能和过少的降水同样糟糕，特别是在雨季以外的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, thanks to the SMS for Life project, vital medicines can be quickly redistributed to where they are most needed.",
        "如今，有了“生命短信”（SMS for Life）项目的支持，关键药品可以迅速地分配给最需要的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The estimated ranges vary widely, even after a quarter-century of scientific effort, owing to the complexity of the environment itself.",
        "尽管已经进行了四分之一个世纪的科学研究，但由于环境自身的复杂多变，导致预期的范围波动很大。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is what the American sociologist David Riesman has called “inner-directed individuals” – “Cartesian” men and women who think for themselves.",
        "结果是美国社会学家大卫·李斯曼（David Riesman）所谓的“有主见的个体”——为自己思考的“笛卡尔派”男女。"
    ],
    [
        "Chad risks falling prey to the same cycle of violence.",
        "乍得也有陷入同样的暴力周期的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Their risks today are often big due to real estate bubbles in such glamour cities as London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Istanbul, Moscow, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Sydney, Melbourne, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami. Those bubbles may keep expanding, or may burst, leaving many homeowners mired in debt.",
        "由于伦敦、巴黎、马德里、罗马、伊斯坦布尔、莫斯科、上海、杭州、悉尼、墨尔本、温哥华、洛杉矶、拉斯维加斯、波士顿、纽约、华盛顿特区和迈阿密等魅力都市都存在房地产泡沫，所以这场赌博的风险很大。"
    ],
    [
        "And the answer brings us back, full circle, to where we started, namely to US fiscal policy.",
        "这个问题把我们带回了本文的起点，也就是美国的财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "We streamlined civil-military relations, guaranteed social and cultural rights, and attended to the problems of ethnic and religious minorities.",
        "我们减少军队对公民的干预，保证社会和文化权利，并正视少数族裔和宗教的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when, as in the UK, the cost of losses is not completely ruinous, the direct damage to domestic credit and to broader confidence can be enough to hold back the economy for a half-decade or more.",
        "在英国，尽管损失成本还没有到毁灭性的地步，但对国内信用和更广义的信心的直接伤害之大足以让经济倒退五年甚至更多。"
    ],
    [
        "In one fell swoop, the risk of currency wars, and the harm they can inflict on the world economy, would be eliminated.",
        "货币战争风险以及它们对可能对世界经济带来的冲击一下子烟消云散了。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, abandoning market-capitalist systems, and implicitly growth, is not really an option.",
        "显然，抛弃市场-资本主义体系——因而也抛弃了增长——绝非现实选择。"
    ],
    [
        "If Trump really wants to make America great again, he should ponder how his inaugural address will sound to a global audience 56 years from now.",
        "如果特朗普真的想让美国重新伟大，他应该仔细思考他的就职演说如何面对56年前的全球听众。"
    ],
    [
        "Something needed to be shaken up.",
        "有些机制需要进行重组。"
    ],
    [
        "They were, at that stage, much smaller and had an elongated shape that allowed them to slip between other cells.",
        "在过程中，它们的形状非常小并且被拉长了，这样可以使它们穿过其他的细胞。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unless and until it does, thereby giving President Barack Obama a firm basis from which to engage Xi on issues requiring international statesmanship, the prospect of trouble between the US and China will continue to grow.",
        "但直到美国实现这一目标，从而为奥巴马总统奠定就需要治世之才的问题与习近平接触的坚实基础，美中两国间出现麻烦的可能性仍然会继续增大。"
    ],
    [
        "In a domestic legal system, an entity whose land was, say, flooded would have a claim to compensation from the entity that had caused the damage.",
        "在国内法律体系内，一个土地被（比如）淹的实体有权向导致这一伤害的实体主张补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if anything, Sykes-Picot provides a good model for what to avoid in rebuilding the Middle East.",
        "但如果说对后世有什么意义，赛克斯 - 皮科协定恰恰告诉人们在重建中东过程中哪些问题需要避免。"
    ],
    [
        "Schools and universities give students a vital link to normality, while encouraging them to maintain hope and pursue their aspirations.",
        "学校和大学是学生过上正常生活的关键一环，并鼓励他们保持希望、追逐梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "The task now is to introduce prototype systems in representative communities, in order to prove what is possible, discover consumers’ preferences, determine the most attractive business models, and identify and avert unexpected consequences.",
        "目前的任务是在代表性社会中引入原型系统，以证明什么是可行的，发现消费者偏好，确定最具吸引力的商业模式，识别并避免意料外结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, some are making a notable difference on the ground, attracting widespread admiration.",
        "目前有些年轻人已经开始推动改革，并且得到了公众由衷的敬佩。"
    ],
    [
        "All trading schemes not based on this hypothesis were labeled as either misguided or outright frauds.",
        "于是所有不以此假说为基础的交易计划都被视为愚蠢或是居心不良。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the anti-Assad movement may never have been the enlightened democratic coalition that its international supporters claimed it was, at least not completely.",
        "事实上，反阿萨德运动可能根本就跟其国际支持者声称的那种开明民主联盟无关，至少不完全相关。"
    ],
    [
        "My own sarcastic reaction was to think, “Oh, now the IMF thinks that some of the core eurozone countries are a default risk.”",
        "我不无讽刺地想：“哦，现在IMF认为某些欧元区核心国家也存在违约风险了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Walls and fences won’t stop millions of migrants fleeing violence, extreme poverty, hunger, disease, droughts, floods, and other ills.",
        "高墙和藩篱不能阻止数百万移民逃离暴力、极端贫困、饥饿、疾病、干旱、洪水和其他状况。"
    ],
    [
        "This has undermined Putin’s own stated objective of establishing a Russia-led Eurasian Union to compete with the European Union.",
        "这有悖于普京自己宣称的目标——建立俄罗斯领导的欧亚联盟对抗欧洲联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Officials would often be better advised to improve their own policies, before they tell others what to do.",
        "通常，官员最好专注于改进他们自身的政策，然后再去互相指导。"
    ],
    [
        "For a world weary of waiting for the World Trade Organization’s interminable Doha trade round to conclude, even a bilateral trade initiative may seem like a boon, especially when, as a recent Financial Times editorial pointed out, “bilateral” covers half of the world’s economy.",
        "对于一个等待世贸组织冗长的多哈回合最后结果已经不耐烦的世界来说，即使是双边计划也像是天降恩惠，特别是在《金融时报》最近所指出的“双边”关系包括了世界经济半壁江山的当下。"
    ],
    [
        "When the bubble burst, the region’s competitiveness was destroyed, and Northern Europe was called on to provide huge loan guarantees, public credit, and transfers.",
        "泡沫破裂时，该地区的竞争力也随之毁灭，而北欧被要求提供巨额贷款担保、公共信用和转移支付。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the question that realistic policymakers should be asking themselves as they ponder what to do in Syria.",
        "这个问题是现实决策者在思考如何解决叙利亚问题时应该扪心自问的。"
    ],
    [
        "So, after a week of heroism he and a few thousand of his men crossed the border into Austria and exile.",
        "在一周的英勇抵抗之后，将军和他手下几千人越过国界进入奥地利，开始了流亡生活。"
    ],
    [
        "What is clear is that any candidate who does not fit that description will enter the race with a crippling, though not necessarily insuperable, handicap.",
        "很显然，任何不符合上述条件的候选人在加入竞选时都将面临障碍，虽然这样的障碍不一定不能克服。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it can increase the amount of promised financial assistance.",
        "首先，国际社会可以提升金融援助承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, as long as we see a chance to escape death, we run from it, and we expect those who take care of us to look for the escape routes.",
        "尽管如此，只要我们看到一线生机，我们就会竭尽全力躲避，而且期待决策者能帮助们找到逃离的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Chinese policymakers seem unable to grasp the importance of crafting appropriate incentives and disincentives.",
        "事实上，中国决策者似乎把握不了拟定适当奖惩规则的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Pan African Youth Leadership Network, Africa’s own young people, recently visited the Millennium Village in Senegal, and requested the support of the MVP to expand the Millennium Village Project’s techniques and strategies in their home countries and regions.",
        "而由非洲本土年轻人组成的泛非洲青年领导网络（Pan African Youth Leadership Network）最近访问了塞内加尔的千年村，并要求千年村计划支持扩大他们所在国家和地区的千年村计划技术和策略。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, some tax systems are more corruption-resistant than others, because they curtail the discretionary authority of tax officials.",
        "例如，某些税收制度要比其他的税制更为抗拒腐败，因为它们可以抑制征税人员的自由裁量权。"
    ],
    [
        "Estimates for 2012 suggest that 88% of air-pollution-related deaths occur in low- to middle-income countries, representing 82% of the world’s population.",
        "2012年的测算数据表明88%的空气污染死亡案例发生在占世界人口82%的中低收入国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The global health community has long appreciated the importance of a vaccine in reducing the disease’s burden, and the World Health Organization is expected to make an announcement in November about the use of Mosquirix in countries where malaria is endemic, some 30 excruciating years after researchers at the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) began working on the vaccine.",
        "全球卫生界早已意识到缓解疟疾负担时疫苗的重要性，在制药公司葛兰素史克（GSK）的研究人员开始疫苗研制工作漫长而痛苦的30年后，预计世卫组织将于11月就Mosquirix在疟疾流行国的应用发布公告。"
    ],
    [
        "And new mobilized parties of Nepal's southern plains, representing the Madhesi people, won 80 seats on a platform of greater federalism, ensuring that no single party or grouping could dominate the assembly.",
        "尼泊尔南部平原新动员成立的政党（代表玛德西（Madhesi）族，以更广大的联邦主义为宗旨）赢得80席，这意味着没有一个政党或集团可以主导立宪大会。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality now, following the end of the bipolar supremacy of the US and the Soviet Union and a brief “unipolar” phase following the Soviet Union’s collapse, is that we are now in a “multipolar” world.",
        "现在的现实——在美苏两极状况结束和苏联解体后的短暂“单极”时期后——是我们正处于“多极”世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Right on, sister!",
        "完全没问题，姐妹们！"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s critics argue that he is playing to the basest instincts of disaffected voters, who hate foreigners (especially Mexicans), distrust bankers (or anyone with a higher education, for that matter), and still can’t get over the election of a president whose father was black.",
        "特朗普的批评者认为他迎合了愤愤不平的选民们最基本的天性，那就是痛恨外国人（尤其是墨西哥人）、不信任银行家（或者任何接受过高等教育者）、到现在都没法接受父亲是黑人的奥巴马。"
    ],
    [
        "The sad truth, though, is that the solution of mixing quotas and taxes will not deliver results quickly enough to bring about a genuine and immediate move to low-carbon or even carbon-free economies.",
        "但令人难过的是配额与税收相结合的解决方案无法迅速地产生结果，朝着低碳甚至是无碳经济立即迈出坚实一步的愿望很难变成现实。"
    ],
    [
        "There were also years of “Russia in China” and “China in Russia” cultural exchanges, meant to underscore that the two countries were tied together not just by geopolitical pragmatism, but by genuine cultural/historical ties as well.",
        "中俄之间也进行了几年的“俄罗斯在中国”和“中国在俄罗斯”的文化交流，这些交流旨在强调两国不仅仅是因为地缘政治实用主义而联系在一起，而且也被真正的文化/历史关系联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet rather than address the front’s demands and shape a healthy bilateral relationship between equal countries, Syria has sought to divide the opposition and reassert control.",
        "但叙利亚不但没有满足他们的要求，建立平等、健康的双边关系，反而试图分裂反对派，以便重掌大权。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to lower oil prices, innovation, and economies of scale in the renewable-energy sector, that vision can now be turned into reality.",
        "多亏油价下跌、创新和可再生能源领域的规模经济，我们现在可以实现这样的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, companies must be responsive to the concerns of their youngest employees, who will inherit the office of the future.",
        "最后，企业必须对最年轻员工的忧虑作出积极的回应，他们才是办公室未来的继承者。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the eurozone seems to accept being on the receiving end of other countries’ actions.",
        "似乎只有欧元区的国家愿意成为其它国家行为影响的承受者。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the share of coal – the dirtiest fuel – has been rising, not falling, in the rest of the world’s energy mix.",
        "与此同时，最脏的燃料煤炭在世界其他地方能源结构中所占的比重不仅没有下降，还一直在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "For this is a moment when Japan must chart its course – either decline or dignity – as a “state” (kokka) in relation to its giant neighbor, China.",
        "因为此时正是日本必须规划其未来之路的时刻——作为中国这个巨大国家的邻邦，要么走下坡路，要么努力维持自身的尊严。"
    ],
    [
        "While this push pre-dates last November’s presidential election, President Donald Trump’s Make-America-Great-Again mantra has sealed the deal.",
        "虽然推动该项措施的力量在去年11月总统大选之前已经存在，但却是唐纳德·特朗普总统“让美国再次伟大起来”的咒语将其一锤定音。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians should set goals, but they should avoid micromanaging the economy or imposing strict rules that would inevitably fail in unexpected circumstances.",
        "政客应该设定目标，但应该避免微观管理经济或实施遇到意料外情况必然失败的严格规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Such investment also creates jobs, both in the short term, by creating demand for materials and labor, and in the long term, for related services.",
        "这笔投资还能创造就业——从短期看，是通过创造对原材料和劳动力的需求； 从长期看，是通过创造对相关服务的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiators in Paris recognized that business, philanthropy, civil society, academia, and ordinary people all have a role to play in addressing a major global challenge.",
        "巴黎的谈判员们认识到，企业、慈善机构、公民社会、学界和普通人都能在解决重大全球挑战方面起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Public programs work less well when the best route to the goal – in this case, the most promising post-carbon energy technologies – is uncertain.",
        "当实现目标的最佳途径并不明朗之时（对于这种情况而言是最为有前途的后碳能源技术），公共规划项目并不切实可行。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet he left his people in a terrible situation, with no state, in the midst of a losing war, and with a bankrupt economy.",
        "可他却把自己的人民留在了水深火热之中，没有国家、面临一场失败的战争、经济也濒临崩溃的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "To outsiders, the BJP’s campaign against the Taj Mahal might seem bizarre.",
        "对局外人来说，印度人民党反对泰姬陵的运动看起来相当怪异。"
    ],
    [
        "The US government, through decades of deficit spending and advocacy of policies that encourage households to consume rather than save, has forced America to rely on foreign saving for far too long.",
        "但美国政府通过几十年赤字支出和鼓励居民消费而非储蓄的政策宣传，迫使美国过长时间地依赖外国储蓄运转。"
    ],
    [
        "But they at least can be corrected. That, however, requires first looking more deeply into the root causes of the problem.",
        "但是，政策错误至少是可以被纠正的。 然而，这首先需要对问题的根本原因有更深刻的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "As the central bank of the 19 member states of the European Monetary Union (EMU), the ECB also faces “extra-institutional overburdening.”",
        "作为欧洲货币联盟（EMU）19个成员国的中央银行，欧洲央行也面临着“超出本机构的过度负担”。"
    ],
    [
        "And, despite the barriers it faces, the country’s private sector has become highly dynamic and innovative.",
        "尽管中国面临各种挑战，其民营部门仍然充满活力和创新力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the mirror of history, we can see that the greater mistake has been to abandon the country altogether.",
        "但是，以史为镜我们可以看到，更大的错误是放弃这个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Vemula was admitted to his university on merit, not through the reservation system.",
        "维穆拉凭借成绩进入大学，而不是通过保留席位制度。"
    ],
    [
        "But the playing field has always been unlevel.",
        "但是一直以来竞技场就是不平坦的。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, the international financial system has been highly volatile.",
        "而自那时起，国际金融体系就变得极不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "With developing countries getting richer over the century, malaria is similarly likely to decrease rather than increase.",
        "随着发展中国家在这个世纪变得更为富强，疟疾的危害也同样会被降低而不是增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the most Godless households, most children in Western societies probably know the details of the Christmas story.",
        "即使在宗教信仰最弱的家庭，西方社会的多数儿童或许也知道圣诞故事的细节。"
    ],
    [
        "Brave New World is not coming to life, and the “Terminator” is not lurking just beyond the horizon, either.",
        "《美丽新世界》（Brave New World）不会成为现实，“终结者”也不会出现在地平线。"
    ],
    [
        "It continues to be a movement with a revolutionary faction – not a majority, but certainly a large minority – bent on insurrection, socialism, and “anti-imperialist” alignment with Cuba and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.",
        "它依旧是具有革命派别的运动，还不是多数派，但也是很大的少数派。 它同古巴以及委内瑞拉的查维斯总统结盟，致力于谋反、社会主义以及“反帝”。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor should it be the end of the story.",
        "而且也不能就此为止。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Kagame remains popular, his government was criticized for stifling free speech and human rights in the run-up to the vote.",
        "尽管卡加梅保持着很高的支持率，但他的政府被批在选举期间扼杀言论自由、压迫人权。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bolsheviks did it to the bourgeoisie.",
        "布尔什维克这样对待资产阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "Dick Cheney clearly cannot be held responsible for corporate misconduct after he left Halliburton, but there is mounting evidence about misconduct that took place while he was at the helm.",
        "迪克·切尼当然不能为离开哈里伯顿后的不良行为负责，但越来越多的证据表明，他掌管公司期间也存在大量问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, strains of the disease are developing resistance against treatment.",
        "此外，某些结核病菌株正在对治疗产生耐药性。"
    ],
    [
        "Dampaknya terhadap kesehatan manusia dan perekonomian sangat besar.",
        "这带来了严重的人道和经济后果。"
    ],
    [
        "All in all, 1.7% of the CPC’s 89 million members – including both “tigers” (Party leaders) and “flies” (petty officials) – have been affected.",
        "7%受到了影响，其中既包括“老虎”（党的高级领导人），也包括“苍蝇”（一般官员）。"
    ],
    [
        "Taken separately, any one of these would be damaging.",
        "单独来看，任何一项都具有破坏性。"
    ],
    [
        "The uncomfortable answer that Obama is likely to confront is this: nobody.",
        "奥巴马有可能面对的并不令人愉乐的答案是：谁也不行。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than attempting to squeeze energy-intensive performance out of ever-larger chips, we can arrange computer components in a dense 3D matrix similar to a human brain, maximizing not performance, but energy efficiency.",
        "我们不必试图从越来越大的芯片中榨取能源密集型性能，可以重新排布计算机元件，组成类似于人脑的密集3D矩阵，从而实现能源效率而不是性能的最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "This would help avoid local competition between krill vessels and the creatures that need krill to live, since krill fishing closely overlaps with the critical foraging areas for penguins and seals.",
        "这将有助于避免捕捉磷销的船只与依靠磷销为升的生物之间的竞争，因为磷虾的捕捉区域与企鹅和海豹觅食的重要区域严重重叠。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Yemen’s masses are not to become more radicalized, they will need to be incorporated into an economic zone that offers hope for the future.",
        "但是，如果该地区的国家要防止也门民众的进一步激进化，它们就需要将也门的民众融入一个可以为他们的未来带来希望的经济区域。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite the fears – and the dangers inherent in a free Internet – the world must not give up exploring the transformative potential of cyberspace.",
        "但是，尽管忧虑重重——并且自由互联网本身也孕育着危险——但世界决不能放弃利用网络空间的转型潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation is even worse in the smallest EU member country, Malta. There, the only two political parties represented in parliament since independence in 1964 have ganged up to ensure for themselves an oligarchic duopoly on anything that goes on in the country.",
        "而在最小的欧盟成员国马耳他，情况更糟。 马耳他自 1964 年独立以来议会里就只有两个政党，如今这两党还沆瀣一气搞寡头政治，垄断了该国一切事务。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is seeking more financial aid from the US and the International Monetary Fund, and wants his coming visit to Washington, DC, to be a success.",
        "事实上，埃及总统穆尔西正在寻求从美国和IMF获得更多的财政援助，希望其对华盛顿的访问获得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, full employment depends on high investment rates that match high saving rates.",
        "第三，充分就业取决于与高储蓄率匹配的高投资率。"
    ],
    [
        "In any other year, the House Republicans would be regarded as irresponsible extremists.",
        "换做其他任何一个年份，国会共和党都会被视为不负责任的极端分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, it should be implemented quickly.",
        "最重要的是，它应该马上实施。"
    ],
    [
        "And India is following close behind China in its level of carbon emissions.",
        "印度则在二氧化碳排放水平上紧随中国。"
    ],
    [
        "China, the world’s growth superstar, has a huge current-account surplus, which means that it is a net lender to the rest of the world.",
        "中国是当今世界经济增长的超级明星，拥有巨大的经常帐户盈余，这就意味着中国是向世界其他各地的净贷方。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more crucial has been the enormous drop in the cost of transmitting information, which reduces barriers to entry.",
        "更重要的是传递信息的成本的大幅减小，这降低了进入壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "Even incumbent governments in the region are altering their course.",
        "就连该地区的在任政府也在改变政策。"
    ],
    [
        "A genocidaire must intend both to commit a defined crime and to destroy the victim’s group.",
        "种族灭绝必须故意犯下特定罪行，同时还要以毁灭受害者群体为目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Implicit threats of a unilateral Israeli attack, together with conspicuous meddling in the US presidential election campaign, have compounded Netanyahu’s effort to twist Obama’s arm.",
        "暗示以色列将单方面采取军事袭击以及赤裸裸地干预美国大选，这些举动表明内塔尼亚胡在和奥巴马较劲。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, many Republicans fear a contest pitting Trump against Clinton.",
        "事实上，许多共和党人都担心会出现特朗普对克林顿的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "But as long as there is a strategy that might succeed, everyone who wants the EU to survive should rally behind it.",
        "但只要存在可能取得成功的战略，希望欧盟存在下去的人们就应当团结执行。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of policymakers’ heavy focus on the exchange rate, China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange has now accumulated more than $4 trillion in reserves – far exceeding the amount needed to cover any imaginable currency emergency.",
        "由于决策者将大量注意力集中在汇率上，因此中国国家外汇管理局积累起了4万多亿美元的外汇储备——远远超过了抵御任何想象得到的货币紧急情况所需要的量。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the classical Gold Standard that prevailed until 1914, free capital mobility had been sacrosanct.",
        "在1914年之前的古典金本位下，自有资本流动是神圣不可侵犯的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Japan, such skits are apparently regarded as humorous; in China, the skit was seen as lewd and insulting.",
        "在日本，这样的短剧被认为是幽默搞笑的。 但在中国，它却被看作猥亵淫秽且带有侮辱意味。"
    ],
    [
        "Immediately following the coup, the European Union adopted an ambivalent position toward it.",
        "政变发生伊始，欧盟的立场是矛盾的。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia has enjoyed average annual economic growth of 7% since 1999.",
        "自1999年以来，俄罗斯的平均经济年增长率为7%。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, one might say, surely the “international community,” or the West, or the US as the major Western power, must draw the line somewhere.",
        "但人们可能会说，身为西方主要力量的“国际社会”、西方国家或美国必须划出一条底线。"
    ],
    [
        "It is still a useful commodity, but no one regards salt mines any more as instruments of national power and influence.",
        "盐仍然是一种有用的物资，但已经不再有人把盐矿当作国家权力和影响力的依托。"
    ],
    [
        "Since taking over the presidency, Xi’s actions have been both resolute and contradictory.",
        "成为中国共产党总书记以来，习近平的行动既坚决又矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "With the most severe economic slowdown in 25 years expanding the budget deficit to record levels, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been forced to turn to austerity, including cuts in unemployment and welfare benefits.",
        "25年来最严重的经济减速让预算赤字扩大到创纪录的水平，巴西总统罗塞夫被迫转向紧缩，包括削减失业救济的福利补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "A storm of green propaganda has followed, and the government now talks about using “Green GDP” to measure development.",
        "随后开展了一鼓风的绿色宣传，政府现在谈论用“绿色GDP”来衡量发展。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why I joined Africa’s movers and shakers last week at a meeting of the World Economic Forum in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.",
        "这就是我上周在卢旺达首都基加利举行的世界经济论坛会议上加入非洲影响力运动的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The two-week conclave meets annually, and while it is unfair and inaccurate to characterize the Congress as a rubber-stamp exercise, delegates tend, in the main, to jump on the bandwagon of policies constructed by the central government, and by the Communist Party.",
        "中国每年都会召开为期两周的全国人民代表会，虽然将这一大会描述成橡皮图章是不公平、不准确的，但是基本上，全国人民代表大会的代表们都会对中央政府和中国共产党确定的政策，表示支持。"
    ],
    [
        "It also happens to be the least expensive and most cost-effective support that government can provide.",
        "它也是政府能够提供的费用最低成本效益最高的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Although people may feel panicky, they almost always behave well.",
        "尽管人们可能会感觉慌乱，但几乎总能控制自己的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "This is often explicit; historically, debates about abortion, for example, are often framed in terms of the question: When does the soul enter the body?",
        "例如，历史上，人们对堕胎的观点总是针锋相对，也都是围绕着这样一个问题：灵魂是何时进入躯体的？"
    ],
    [
        "All of the country’s major rivers are contaminated.",
        "国内所有的主要河流均已遭到污染。"
    ],
    [
        "And those conditions are set to deteriorate further, as rapid population growth puts even greater strain on resources.",
        "而上述条件注定会进一步恶化，因为快速人口增长进一步加剧了资源紧张的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments could also use procurement policies to help build markets for local products and encourage cleaner, more vibrant farm economies.",
        "政府还可以用采购政策来帮助建立地方产品市场和鼓励更清洁、更有活力的农场经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Across Africa, governments are enacting legislation to restrict Internet access and outlaw criticism of elected officials.",
        "放眼非洲，许多政府都实施了限制互联网接入、将对当选官员的批评入罪的法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Its pyramidal patronage network, similar to that created by Vladimir Putin in Russia, appears to be nearly indestructible.",
        "其金字塔式的政治依附网络与普京在俄罗斯创造的类似，看上去似乎坚不可摧。"
    ],
    [
        "As Robert Frost once put it, when two roads diverge in a wood, taking the one less traveled can sometimes make all the difference.",
        "罗伯特·弗罗斯特（Robert Frost）曾说，当两条路在树林中岔开时，选择较少有人走过的路有时候会让结果完全不同。"
    ],
    [
        "If Chile is unlikely to gain substantial new market access, ask critics, why should Chile make trade concessions at all?",
        "批评者指出，如果智利无法获得显著更多的市场准入，那么它为何要做出贸易让步？"
    ],
    [
        "Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Republican, recently faced thousands of his constituents chanting “Do your job!” at what was supposed to be an ordinary town hall meeting.",
        "犹他州代表、共和党人詹森·查夫兹不久前在本该是一次普通的市民会议上面对了呼喊“履行你的职责！ ”的数千名选区民众 。"
    ],
    [
        "Mussolini and Hitler both took inspiration from his book, and incorporated his ideas into Fascist and Nazi ideology; and those ideas did not die with those regimes.",
        "墨索里尼和希特勒都从这本书中获得了灵感，并把勒庞的思想融合到法西斯主义和纳粹主义钟来； 这些思想并未随着政权的倒闭而死去。"
    ],
    [
        "Policies that do not abide by some variant of this utilitarian principle (as proposed by, say, John Rawls or Amartya Sen) are bound to be inefficient or unfair.",
        "政策如果不受一些功利主义原则变量的约束，那么（如约翰·罗尔斯（John Rawls）或阿玛蒂亚·森（Amartya Sen）等人所言）它们就必然是无效或不公正的。"
    ],
    [
        "But emerging-economy growth is now slowing considerably, including in China, where demand is shifting from investment toward consumption.",
        "但新兴经济体增长如今显著放缓，中国也是如此，其需求正从投资转向消费。"
    ],
    [
        "“Neoliberalism” grew in popularity as a result of its successes in jump-starting economic growth in the US, the United Kingdom, and some developing countries in the 1980’s and 1990’s.",
        "“新自由主义”由于在二十世纪八十年代和九十年代成功地大力推动了美国、英国以及某些发展中国家的经济而赢得推崇。"
    ],
    [
        "We will also accelerate the pace of negotiations for the further liberalization of a Korea-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA), in order to pave the way for freer and more inclusive growth in the region.",
        "我们还将加快韩国-东盟自由贸易协定（FTA）进一步自由化的谈判，从而为更自由、更包容的地区增长铺平道路。"
    ],
    [
        "The public in the southern countries embraced the euro precisely because the northern countries’ commitment to price stability gave them a currency with enormous anti-inflation credibility.",
        "南部国家的公众接受欧元正是因为北部国家对物价稳定的承诺给予了他们一个有着强大反通胀信誉的货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the warmongers are trying to scuttle the Vienna accord.",
        "如今，战争贩子又试图扼杀维也纳协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Committed federalists in the EU want Britain out as quickly as possible, because Britain has long given cover for others – such as Denmark, Poland, and Sweden – to resist deeper integration.",
        "欧盟的坚定的联邦主义者希望英国尽快退出，因为长期以来英国一直为其他抵制深化融合的国家——如丹麦、波兰和瑞典——提供掩护。"
    ],
    [
        "Our mandate from the Japanese people is to ensure that this tradition continues, undiminished, into the future.",
        "日本人民给予我们的使命是确保这一传统在未来无损地延续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to recapture that memory.",
        "是时候重温这一记忆了。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes, even powerful sovereign states use global commitments to help them lock in sensible policies that might otherwise be difficult to initiate and sustain.",
        "有时即便那些强大的主权国家也会利用全球承诺去帮助自身去维持一些原本可能难以启动或持续的合理政策。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no more powerful way to uphold the vision of a future free from conflict than by keeping schools running.",
        "没有比让学校正常运行更强大的捍卫没有冲突的未来愿景的办法了。"
    ],
    [
        "Increased access to technology is also crucial to improving nomads’ economic prospects.",
        "更便利地获得技术也是改善牧民经济前景的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, markets should view the Greek situation as an equilibrium, not a transition.",
        "从这个角度讲，市场应该将希腊的状况视为均衡，而不是过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "This has resulted, in the short run, in an embrace of low journalistic standards.",
        "从短期来看，这种现象将导致对低新闻标准的信奉。"
    ],
    [
        "Voters were galvanized by the prospect of rejecting new free-trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and renegotiating old ones like the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA).",
        "选民们因为否决像“跨太平洋伙伴关系”（TPP）这样的新自由贸易协议及重新谈判像北美自由贸易协定（NAFTA）这样的已有协议而兴奋不已。"
    ],
    [
        "Employment and incomes soared, and savings piled up.",
        "就业和收入飙升，储蓄也水涨船高。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, none of the 16 Arab Muslim-majority countries is an overachiever.",
        "恰恰相反，穆斯林为主的阿拉伯16国中，没有一个超前享有政治权利。"
    ],
    [
        "High national incomes are not enough to ensure children’s well-being.",
        "高国民收入并不足以保证儿童的福祉。"
    ],
    [
        "Some measures may already have been exhausted: the country may not have any wealth or reserves left to tap, and there may be a shortage of willing lenders.",
        "一些措施有可能已经失去效果：该国可能没有任何财富或储备可用，其领导人可能意志力不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, restoring competitiveness, not just fiscal adjustment, is necessary to revive sustained growth.",
        "因此，要恢复它们的竞争力，不仅需要财政调整，更是必须恢复可持续增长的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "And, under the public spotlight, some central bankers have sought to downplay the BIS’s assessment, arguing that it is all too easy to issue far-reaching policy recommendations when one suffers none of the consequences should one’s prescription turn out to be wrong.",
        "而在公共聚光灯下，一些央行行长试图贬低国际清算银行的评估，指出如果你不会因为药方开错而承担后果，你就会相当草率，制定不出深远的政策建议。"
    ],
    [
        "Protecting the world’s young girls is a tall order.",
        "保护全世界年轻女孩是一个艰巨的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "That is certainly not the belief of all Muslims or of the governments of Muslim-majority states, but the radicalism espoused by groups like the Islamic State seeks to spread not just codes of conduct but an entire worldview.",
        "这无疑并非所有穆斯林或主要穆斯林政府的看法，但“伊斯兰国”等组织信奉的激进主义目的不仅限于传播一种行为规范，而是全套世界观的推行。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, they are wary of turning over control of their brigades to military commanders whom they claim supported Qaddafi or, at least, failed to oppose him.",
        "此外，他们不愿将部队交给军队指挥官，称这些人都曾支持卡扎菲，至少也没有站出来和卡扎菲作对。"
    ],
    [
        "This may be because there is no obvious solution.",
        "这可能是因为没有显而易见的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes fraud consists in plagiarism: the culprit takes credit for someone else’s work.",
        "有时，欺骗包括剽窃：肇事者将别人的工作据为己有。"
    ],
    [
        "If they don’t, they will continue to vote against the establishment that they believe has failed them – even if it means voting for turmoil in Europe or a reckless narcissist in the US.",
        "如果没有，他们将继续投票反对他们认为辜负了他们的建制派——即使这意味着投票支持欧洲的动乱和美国的鲁莽自恋狂。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this does not mean uploading videos of politicians in suits telling young men not to join the jihad in Syria.",
        "当然，这并不是说上传身着西服的政治家教导年轻人不要加入叙利亚圣战的视频文件。"
    ],
    [
        "So what these countries need are more employment opportunities and higher salaries in the private sector for these workers.",
        "那么，这些国家所需要的是私营部门中给这些工人更多的就业机会和更高的工资。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, Japan has decided to provide ¥150 billion ($1.5 billion) in economic aid for Ukraine, the largest pledge by any individual country, including the US, thus far.",
        "日本已经决定向乌克兰提供1,500亿日元的经济援助，这是到目前为止包括美国在内的最大一笔单国援助承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "For one thing, this time was different with regard to fiscal behavior, as Luis Felipe Céspedes and I show in a recent paper.",
        "一方面，从财政行为角度看，今时不同往日，我和切丝皮蒂斯（Luis Felipe Céspedes）在最近的论文中指出了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The use of a government agency to punish a president’s previous opponent recalls the behavior for which Richard Nixon was impeached, and suggests a very different form of government than a democratic one.",
        "用政府机关来惩罚总统的前对手让人想起了尼克松被弹劾的原因，它所表明的政府形式绝非不民主。"
    ],
    [
        "British Prime Minister David Cameron, an austerity advocate, says he believes that his program reduces “welfare dependency,” restores “rigor,” and encourages the “the doers, the creators, the life-affirmers.”",
        "英国首相卡梅伦是紧缩支持者之一，他说他认为他的方案减少了“财富依赖”，重塑了“刻苦”，鼓励了“实干者、创作者和生活肯定者”。"
    ],
    [
        "He then noted that there would have to be exceptions to this policy to protect privacy and national security.",
        "这使得引用凡尔赛条约来说明在国际谈判中隐秘外交的可取性完全失当。"
    ],
    [
        "The same arguments that rightly apply to the Palestinians should apply equally to the Kurds.",
        "正确适用于巴勒斯坦人的论据也应适用于库尔德人。"
    ],
    [
        "There, too, the ICTY will not be missed.",
        "前南国际法庭同样不会受到当地民众的怀念。"
    ],
    [
        "The strongest critique has come from sugar associations, who claim that the upper limit of 10% on caloric intake from sugar is not based upon scientific evidence.",
        "最强烈的批评来自糖业协会，它声称从糖中摄取的卡路里最高限度不能超过10%的说法是没有科学根据的。"
    ],
    [
        "Should Western feminism deepen its definition of a successful woman’s life, so that more than credentials can demonstrate well-made choices?",
        "西方女权主义是否需要继续深化其关于成功女性的人生定义，从而不再需要依靠什么证书来证明究竟什么才是正确的选择呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Basketball?",
        "还是是篮球比赛？"
    ],
    [
        "They could also address chronic teacher shortages through expedient recruitment of Syrian refugee teachers.",
        "它们还可以通过临时招聘叙利亚难民教师来缓解教师严重不足的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "The depth of OONI data supports much-needed accountability and oversight.",
        "OONI数据的深度支持急需的问责和监督。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, there are two conflicting images of Islam: a peaceful Islam, which is ready for dialogue and coexistence, and a fundamentalist Islam, which is militant and even terrorist.",
        "总体来说，有两种截然相反的伊斯兰形象：一个是和平的伊斯兰，欢迎对话和共存； 另一个就是原教旨主义伊斯兰世界，好战甚至不惜采用恐怖主义。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a post-American world is taking shape before our eyes, characterized not by a new international order, but by political ambiguity, instability, and even chaos.",
        "实际上，以政治含糊、动荡甚至混乱，而非国际新秩序为特点的后美国世界正在我们眼前成形。"
    ],
    [
        "By working with the US on Pakistan, China can help secure its own interest in a strong Pakistani campaign against the militants on its territory.",
        "通过与美国在巴基斯坦并肩合作，中国能在巴基斯坦向武装分子发动强大攻势的同时确保自身利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Microsoft has been in antitrust trouble for 15 years, and, despite the company’s recent agreement with the European Union to license its source code, it will probably be in trouble again.",
        "15年来，微软一直受到反托拉斯法的困扰，而尽管该公司不久前与欧盟达成了源代码特许协议，但它很可能将再次陷入麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies and/or individuals would buy insurance policies, pay a regular premium for them, and receive a benefit if some measure of the economy, such as GDP growth, dropped below a specified level.",
        "公司和个人可以购买保险，定期支付保费并且在某些经济指标、例如GDP增长低于一定水平的时候获得保险利益。"
    ],
    [
        "At the Climate Summit that I convened last September at the UN in New York, financial institutions, commercial and national banks, insurance companies, and pension funds vowed to mobilize more than $200 billion by the end of this year for action to address climate change.",
        "在去年9月我组织的联合国纽约气候峰会上，金融机构、商业和国民银行、保险公司、退休基金承诺在今年年底前动员2,000亿美元以上的资金用于遏制气候变化的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, EU membership is a more powerful incentive than ever for what the EU calls three “candidate countries” (Croatia, FYR Macedonia, and Turkey) and five “potential candidate countries” (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo under UN Security Council Resolution 1244, Montenegro, and Serbia).",
        "而时至今日，欧盟成员国身份已经具有了有史以来最强有力的诱惑——欧盟目前拥有三个“候选国”（克罗地亚，马其顿共和国及土耳其），以及五个“潜在候选国”（阿尔巴尼亚、波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那共和国、联合国安理会1244号决议下的科索沃、黑山共和国和塞尔维亚）。"
    ],
    [
        "But it now challenges the principles on which America’s successful policy of a democratic and prosperous peace was based, and it has no alternative model to put in its place.",
        "但它却对造就美国民主繁荣和平的成功政策提出挑战，同时又拿不出取代这种模式的好的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there is a clear correlation between Chinese GDP growth and commodity prices.",
        "诚然，中国GDP增长和大宗撒谎那个品及挨个之间存在明确的相关性。"
    ],
    [
        "Or perhaps its outlook already is quite internationalist – as its actions during the financial crisis suggest – and it is only domestic political constraints that prevent this from being acknowledged openly.",
        "或者其展望已经相当国际主义——其在金融危机中的行动就是明证——只不过国内正是约束阻止了它公开承认这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "While little investment is needed to upgrade the service sector, dismantling excessive regulations will require strong political will.",
        "升级服务部门不需要多少投资，但取消过多的监管规定也需要强大的政治意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "When I asked my students at Warsaw University how many intended to vote, only two raised their hands.",
        "我问过华沙大学的弟子有多少人想去投票，只有两个人举起了手。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why any solution to the migration challenge must focus on spurring development in migrants’ home countries.",
        "这也解释了为什么针对移民问题的任何解决方案都必须着眼于促进移民本国的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "When they arrived, brown domes made of crisscrossed branches and layers of multicolored mats would appear like crowds of dappled beetles on the outskirts of town.",
        "他们来的时候，用交错的树枝和五颜六色的幡子做成的棕色圆顶帐篷就会在城镇外围出现，活像成群结队的斑纹甲虫。"
    ],
    [
        "In the most recent budget, the federal government’s outlays for Medicare in 2010 are projected to be over $500 billion, while Medicaid will cost taxpayers over $250 billion.",
        "在最新预算中，联邦政府2010年用于Medicare计划的支出预计将超过5000亿美元，而Medicaid则将耗费纳税人2500亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The result could be a speculative attack by “bond-market vigilantes,” triggering a sharp rise in interest rates, a dramatic fall in the dollar, or a combination of the two.",
        "结果可能会是“债券市场义勇军”对其发起投机性攻击，这会引起利率飙升，美元大幅贬值，或者两种情况一起出现。"
    ],
    [
        "I consider Juncker a close friend, but I strongly disagree with him about this idea.",
        "虽然我和容克私交不错，但我坚决不同意他这个想法。"
    ],
    [
        "And independent analysts, such as Anat Admati of Stanford University, have explained all of the relevant details of how – and why – this should be done. Those details – for example, in Admati’s recent testimony to the Senate subcommittee chaired by Brown – are not in doubt.",
        "而斯坦福大学的阿纳特·阿德马提（Anat Admati）等独立分析家业解释了关于应该如何——以及为何——实现这一目标的所有相关细节。"
    ],
    [
        "For the last two decades, Chinese leaders have been diligently trying to build a new edifice in order to gain some of that missing respect.",
        "在过去二十年里，中国领导人一直努力建造一个新的门面来赢得丢失的尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even under the Constitutional Treaty, all states know that their partners have the express right to withdraw if they should ever become sufficiently disenchanted or come to look upon the EU as a bad bargain.",
        "事实上，即使是在宪法条约下，所有国家都知道，他们的伙伴拥有明确的撤退的权力，只要他们足够地清醒或把建立欧盟看作是一个坏主意。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the developing world, but most evidently in Africa, two groups are interested in finding tools to combat the menace of bad drugs.",
        "在整个发展中世界，最明显是在非洲，有两大团体对打击伪劣药品兴趣浓厚。"
    ],
    [
        "Sharply rising income inequality has raised the stakes of the economic game.",
        "日益突出的收入不平衡矛盾提升了经济游戏的投资额度。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporate contracts place the profit-oriented legal person at the center of the transaction and bind all of its stakeholders.",
        "企业合约将追求利润的法人置于交易的中心，并将所有的利益相关方联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, US-Pakistani relations now appear at an all-time low.",
        "实事求是地说，美国-巴基斯坦关系正处于历史最低点。"
    ],
    [
        "Among other changes that it has spurred, the GFMD has compelled governments to understand migration more holistically, and to develop a “whole of government” approach to addressing the opportunities and challenges that it poses.",
        "在其推动的各项变革之中，论坛说服政府更全面地理解移民问题，并发展出一套“政府整体应对”方案去处理这一事务所带来的机遇和挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "In their recent book The Smartest Places on Earth, Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker document how this is already happening in parts of the US Rust Belt, where many towns – such as Akron, Ohio, or Albany, New York – have reinvented themselves.",
        "在新书《地球上最聪明的地方》（The Smartest Places on Earth）中，安托万·范艾格特迈尔（Antoine van Agtmael）和弗雷德·巴克尔（Fred Bakker）指出，这一点已经在美国锈带的部分地区发生，许多城镇，如俄亥俄州阿克伦（Akron）和纽约州艾尔巴比（Albany），正在涅槃重生。"
    ],
    [
        "That negotiation has been left to the five sessions of talks scheduled for 2015, starting in February.",
        "这方面的谈判留给了2015年的五次谈判日程，第一次将从2月开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Creating a more employment-intensive economy remains a primary objective.",
        "创造更加劳动密集型的经济仍然是主要目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet a glance at today’s headlines suggests that what is most likely to kill and displace millions, if not hundreds of millions, of people in the coming decades are global threats such as pandemics, climate change, and terrorist and criminal networks – not inter-state war.",
        "但对今天新闻头条的匆匆一瞥显示最有可能令数百万人、甚至数亿人在今后数十年付出生命和流离失所代价的是传染病、气候变化、恐怖主义和犯罪网络等全球性威胁，而并非国与国之间的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "On the right, the Likud party, which Sharon abandoned to establish Kadima, did very poorly, partly because many conservative voters also deserted it for religious, immigrant, and other parties.",
        "右派方面，沙龙从中退出创立前进党的利库德集团在选举中遭到惨败，部分原因是很多保守派选民也弃之而去，把票投给了宗教、移民和其它政党。"
    ],
    [
        "They know that ultimately we all must rely on our own initiative and effort, and they make use of the opportunities of open markets.",
        "他们知道，我们最终必须依靠自己的才华和力量，而他们则利用开放市场带来的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The plan has been clear: Start with a customs union – initially Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan – and add most of the other former Soviet republics.",
        "计划是清晰的：从关税联盟开始，——最初由俄罗斯、白俄罗斯和哈萨克斯坦组成——然后加入大部分其他前苏联共和国。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the official unemployment rate understates the weakness of the labor market.",
        "事实上，官方失业率数字低估了劳动力市场的疲软程度。"
    ],
    [
        "The obvious lesson to be drawn from 1979 is that America unwisely rested its entire strategic relationship with Iran on the shoulders of an unpopular dictator.",
        "1979年带给我们的一个明显的教训是美国不明智地把它与伊朗的战略关系完全放在一个不受欢迎的独裁者身上。"
    ],
    [
        "But you have to work hard and make every possible effort in demanding your rights.",
        "但是你们必须尽最大努力争取你们的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "There are as many reasons to strive towards “ever closer union” in Europe today as there were back in 1945, and they are entirely forward-looking.",
        "相比于1945年，我们有更多的理由去为一个“更紧密的”欧洲而奋斗，而且这些理由都是向前看的。"
    ],
    [
        "Southeast Asia represents but a fraction of China’s size and wealth.",
        "东南亚的国土面积和财富根本无法和中国相比。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate in France is still raging, and nothing is yet lost.",
        "法国内的辩论依然唇枪舌剑，好在还未有任何损失。"
    ],
    [
        "As emerging-market investors well know, political changes can affect economic assumptions.",
        "新兴市场投资者早已熟知，政治变化可能影响经济假设。"
    ],
    [
        "On a per capita basis, Japan remains nine times richer than China, and it possesses Asia’s largest naval fleet and its most advanced high-tech industries.",
        "从人均水平看，日本仍比中国富裕九倍，而且拥有亚洲最大的海军舰队和最先进的高科技产业。"
    ],
    [
        "There have been very few expropriations in recent decades, and investors who want to protect themselves can buy insurance from the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, a World Bank affiliate (the US and other governments provide similar insurance).",
        "最近几十年中极少发生没收物权的情况，且希望得到保护的投资者可以像世界银行下属机构多边投资担保局（Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency）购买保险，美国 和其他政府也提供类似的保险。"
    ],
    [
        "The signs of cooperation have been clear: increasing use of Arabic, rather than French, discussions that incorporate real knowledge of Islamic scripture, and recognition that Islam remains distinct from traditional practices.",
        "合作的信号很明显：越来越多地使用阿拉伯语而不是法语、讨论伊斯兰教经文中的实际知识并且承认伊斯兰教依然与传统做法有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "When a mine shuts down, the result is not just unemployed miners.",
        "当某个矿山被关闭时，造成的后果不仅仅是矿工失业。"
    ],
    [
        "The total cost would be 50 times that of the avoided climate damage.",
        "并且其总成本是其防止之气候损害的50倍之多。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Dutch, the French, and the Irish voted against the European constitution, they were expressing distrust of their political elites.",
        "当荷兰、法国以及爱尔兰选民否决欧洲宪法的时候，他们是在表达对其政治精英的不信任。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The biggest political surprise of 2016 was that everyone was so surprised.",
        "伦敦—2016年最大的政治惊奇是每个人都如此惊奇。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent transatlantic survey by the German Marshall Fund found that, while majorities in all countries were worried about illegal immigration, anxiety about legal immigration was low – with only 26% of European respondents expressing concern, and just 18% doing so in the United States.",
        "一份近期由德国马歇尔基金支持的大西洋两岸调查发现，当所有国家的大部分人都在担忧非法移民的时候，对合法移民的担忧就显得很少——只有26%的欧洲受访者表达了担忧，而在美国只有18%的受访者表示担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with benefits ten times greater than initial costs, investing in health first may ultimately pay for the rest of the new global development agenda.",
        "首先投资于卫生将产生十倍于初始成本的收益，并且有可能成为其他新全球发展日程的最终付款人。"
    ],
    [
        "China and India can pursue security of supply by using their large coal resources, but unless they also have access to improved coal technology, the burdens they impose on the atmosphere will be large.",
        "中国和印度可以通过利用其巨大的煤炭来源来寻求供应安全，但是，除非它们可以得到改进的煤炭技术，否则，它们带给大气的负担将会是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "The “constructive” part of Rudd’s thesis argues for systematic collaboration – with the US treating China more as an equal – in tackling a series of other difficult issues at bilateral, regional, and global levels.",
        "陆克文报告的“建设性”部分提出，在处理双边、地区和全球层面上的一系列其他难题是，可以进行系统协作——美国更应该将中国视为平等的对手。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, though composting receives good press as a “green” practice, it generates a significant amount of greenhouse gases (and is often a source of pathogenic bacteria in crops).",
        "此外，尽管堆肥被赞为“绿色”措施，但会产生大量温室气体（也通常是作物致病菌的来源）。"
    ],
    [
        "Containing China’s Slowdown",
        "遏制中国减速"
    ],
    [
        "Russia will not skimp on spending after annexing Crimea, and Crimeans will benefit from that aid and access to cheap energy.",
        "吞并克里米亚后俄国不会在援助问题上有丝毫吝啬，而援助和廉价能源将惠及克里米亚。"
    ],
    [
        "Aleppo is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world – and one of the bloodiest battlegrounds in the war.",
        "阿勒颇是全世界最早有人定居的城市之一——也是叙利亚内战中最血腥的战场之一。"
    ],
    [
        "If I were to take that trip, I might have gone to Ireland to discover that my Irish ancestors were originally from Scotland.",
        "如果我进行这样一个旅行，我可能会到爱尔兰，然后发现我的爱尔兰祖先最初来自苏格兰。 但是，这些苏格兰人来自哪里呢？"
    ],
    [
        "A financial transaction, by contrast, happens over time: the borrower gets the money today and promises to repay in a month, year, or decade.",
        "相反，金融交易需要一段时间：借款人今天拿钱，承诺一个月、一年或十年后偿还。"
    ],
    [
        "Africans can start winning only if they move faster.",
        "非洲人必须要行动更快才能胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "It must combine both if it is to survive.",
        "欧洲必须将两者联合起来才能生存。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, Muslims and non-Muslims need to combine their efforts to defend the sanctity of human life.",
        "特别是，穆斯林和非穆斯林需要齐心协力来防卫大众生命的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Typically, the two are equal, and, if not, powerful forces push them towards each other.",
        "供需一般相互平衡，否则的话就会产生强大的力量让两者相互靠近。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians, even in the world’s supposedly enlightened democracies, are refusing to provide refuge to desperate people fleeing brutal war; making little, if any, effort to address high and rising economic inequality; and are all but ignoring the factors driving civil-rights movements like America’s Black Lives Matter.",
        "人类几乎没有付出任何努力解决业已严重且不断恶化的经济不平等问题； 并几乎忽视了美国“黑人的生命同样珍贵”等民权运动的驱动因素。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Corporate-Debt Challenge",
        "中国的企业债挑战"
    ],
    [
        "So the EU must harmonize its policies with poorer countries.",
        "所以，欧盟必须与穷国协调其政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Fed’s low-interest, non-recourse loans to buy up toxic assets have not yet caused a stampede of participants.",
        "但美联储收购有毒资产的无追索权的低息贷款到目前为止还没有激发参与者的抢购。"
    ],
    [
        "Prisons herd together angry, unruly people against their will.",
        "监狱将愤怒而难于管束的人集中在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "The proper responses are also increasingly understood.",
        "正确的应对方式也正为越来越多的人理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the depth of Ukraine’s plight, Europe cannot avoid taking up the challenge that Putin has set before it.",
        "尽管乌克兰已深陷困境，欧洲依然要不可避免地解决普京设定的难题。"
    ],
    [
        "There was, moreover, strong resentment that political power lay in the hands of western-based politicians and generals who were blatantly insensitive to Bengali demands.",
        "此外，东巴基斯坦人对政治权力掌握在西巴基斯坦政客和将军手中非常不满，因为这些人明目张胆地无视孟加拉人的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Along the way, a number of famous physicists tried and failed to get the answer – Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and Richard Feynman being notable examples.",
        "沿着这条道路，一大批著名物理学家前赴后继地追寻这个答案——爱因斯坦，沃纳·海森堡和理查德·费曼则是他们的杰出代表。"
    ],
    [
        "It also provides assistance to one country that no longer deserves it: India.",
        "它还为一个已不再应该得到援助的国家提供援助：印度。"
    ],
    [
        "It tells the story of an elderly woman who is forced to face her past as a torturer.",
        "它讲述了一位曾经身为虐待者的老妇人如何面对自己的过去的故事。"
    ],
    [
        "But they supported it nonetheless, hoping to leverage it for more freedom at home.",
        "但他们仍然支持这个协议，希望利用它来争取更多的国内自由。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, Americans were frightened by Japanese consumer products – televisions, which wiped out domestic production, and automobiles, which seemed so malignly efficient.",
        "美国人特别害怕日本的消费品：日本的电视机摧毁了美国的电视制造业，而日本汽车工业的效率也高得近乎邪门。"
    ],
    [
        "Why should the one region - and people - who run an orderly government, are not involved in murder, attacks on mosques, and suicide bombing of schoolchildren, be penalized?",
        "库尔德人民拥有合法的政府，也并未参与谋杀、袭击清真寺和对在校学生的自杀性爆炸活动，他们凭什么受到惩罚？"
    ],
    [
        "The Party, alarmed by the “color revolutions” that toppled post-Soviet leaders in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, is cracking down on domestic non-government organizations for fear that they, too, might become catalysts for popular uprisings.",
        "推翻格鲁吉亚、乌克兰以及吉尔吉斯坦后苏联领导人的“颜色革命”另中共大惊失色。 中共害怕国内非政府组织也会成为大众起义的催化剂而予以打压。"
    ],
    [
        "Pushing “structural reforms” and designing narrow macroeconomic policies aimed exclusively at increasing productivity might force Western workers to compete with technology to an even greater extent, exacerbating precariousness.",
        "推行“结构性改革”和设计完全以提高生产率为目标的狭隘的宏观经济政策可能迫使西方工人与科技进行更大程度的竞争，加剧不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "A more useful definition of cyber war is any hostile action in cyberspace that amplifies or is equivalent in effect to major physical violence.",
        "网络战更有用的定义是网络空间内任何强化或效果相当于实际暴力的敌对行为。"
    ],
    [
        "They need better access to health care, especially family-planning services; expanded economic opportunities; and more decision-making power over their own lives (which in turn requires greater social participation and public leadership).",
        "把握更多经济机会； 并更多掌握涉及自我生活的决策权（这反过来又需要扩大社会参与和加强公共领导）。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, the G-20’s decision to prop up systemically relevant banks must be revisited.",
        "说到底，G20支持具系统重要性银行的决定必须有所改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Berlusconi’s experience tells a different story.",
        "但贝卢斯科尼的经历却与人们的想象截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "This is as true in developed as it is in developing economies.",
        "发达国家和发展中国家莫不如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe should get more seriously involved, even at the risk of occasionally irritating America, which may be less likely to happen once the Bush administration is history.",
        "欧洲应该对中东进行更认真地介入，即使冒着偶尔激怒美国的风险，而一旦布什政府成为历史，这可能就不大可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Within three years, Sharon commanded an entire brigade in the 1956 Sinai campaign, which he led in a swift advance across the desert to link up with a paratroop battalion that had been dropped deep into Egyptian territory at the entrance to the strongly defended Mitla Pass.",
        "短短三年内沙龙就指挥一个旅参与了1956年的西奈战斗。 他率领全旅官兵快速穿越沙漠与空降到埃及腹地守卫森严的米特拉山口的伞兵营汇合。"
    ],
    [
        "The past is being abridged and sugarcoated in order to portray it as superior to the widespread tumult and misery of today.",
        "”我们对过去进行了删减和美化，才让它在今天的混乱和痛苦面前更具吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "But international support is falling far below promised levels.",
        "但是国际援助远远没有达到承诺的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Because a cartel would make these market changes more discernible, labor exporters would be able to respond and adjust their worker-training systems accordingly, increasing labor importers’ ability to recruit migrant workers better suited to the available jobs.",
        "卡特尔将让这些市场的变化更加明确，因此劳动力输出国将能够做出反应并据此调整工人培训系统，增加劳动力输入国招到更加适合可用岗位的移民劳工的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "As a consequence, Israel’s willy-nilly expansion of West Bank settlements might finally bury comprehensive peace efforts for good.",
        "其结果可能致使以色列无所顾忌的西岸定居点扩张政策最终彻底葬送全面和平进程。"
    ],
    [
        "However, its members do not necessarily oppose social legislation that benefits working people – especially when white workers are privileged – and some even retain a positive image of the New Deal.",
        "然而，其成员并不一定反对使工人阶级获益的社会立法，尤其是当白人工人占据优势的时候，有些人甚至对新政依然保持肯定的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so in the early 2000s to finance vaccines saved millions of lives in the developing world.",
        "21世纪初，以这种方式进行的疫苗融资拯救了数百万发展中国家的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "And price growth in health-care services, which had slowed in recent years, has jumped to 3.9%, double the rate recorded a year ago.",
        "而最近几年有所放缓的医疗服务价格涨幅升高到3. 9%，比一年前扩大了一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Slovenia, which entered the eurozone in 2007, and Slovakia, which joined at the beginning of 2009 – just as the cresting financial crisis slammed shut the door to further euro enlargement – have enjoyed much greater financial stability than their untied neighbors.",
        "斯洛文尼亚和斯洛伐克有幸分别于2007年和2009年初加入欧元区，恰好赶在金融危机关上欧元区扩大之门的前夕，后来，它们都享受到那些未加入的邻国所没有的金融稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision to add the renminbi to the SDR basket may have put that danger into remission.",
        "将人民纳入SDR篮子的决定将减轻这一危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Securing the UN’s Future",
        "保障联合国的未来"
    ],
    [
        "Unconventional times require consideration of bold unconventional policy approaches.",
        "非常规时期需要考虑激进的非常规政策方针。"
    ],
    [
        "Lehman Brothers was simply the weakest link in a long chain of brittle financial firms.",
        "雷曼兄弟只不过是一长串脆弱金融公司中最薄弱的那一环而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Workers who did not face discrimination in sectors where animus was rife would win, while the losers would include not just those directly being discriminated against, but also workers forced to compete when those workers sought employment elsewhere.",
        "在充满敌意的部门中并且不必面临歧视的工人将是赢家，而输家不仅包括直接遭受歧视者，也包括在别处找工作时被迫竞争的工人。"
    ],
    [
        "Abetted by the determination of national financial authorities at the center of the world economy to protect their own institutions, capital fled from the periphery. Currencies fell, interest rates rose, and credit default swaps soared.",
        "由于受到世界经济中心各国金融机构决定保护自己的金融机构、资本领地免遭外围损害的怂恿，货币贬值，利率上升，信贷违约互换飙升。"
    ],
    [
        "Resentment over past wrongs buttresses all of these rival claims for influence.",
        "对历史错误的怨恨不平助长了所有这些争夺地区影响力的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Is US President Donald Trump what Maoists used to call a paper tiger, or should his noisy threats be taken seriously?",
        "伦敦—美国总统是毛泽东主义者所谓的纸老虎吗？ 还是应该认真对待他的聒噪式威胁？"
    ],
    [
        "Hu Shisheng, a leading South Asia strategic analyst at the China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations, has suggested that such visits do not mean that “India-China relations are [in a state of] disturbance,” though the potential for trouble remains high.",
        "中国现代国际关系研究院首席南亚战略分析师胡仕胜认为此类访问并不意味着“印中关系处于不稳定状态”，但潜在的麻烦的确也不容小觑。"
    ],
    [
        "Gone are the days of big fish eating small fish.",
        "大鱼吃小鱼的日子一去不返了。"
    ],
    [
        "Singapore quickly fell, in what is widely considered Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s most ignominious military defeat.",
        "新加坡很快就沦陷了，至今仍被广泛视为丘吉尔首相最难堪的军事失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Global Growth – Still Made in China",
        "全球增长——依然中国制造"
    ],
    [
        "That falloff in investment implies slower productivity growth, while aging populations in developed countries – and now in an increasing number of emerging markets (for example, China, Russia, and Korea) – reduce the labor input in production.",
        "这一投资下降意味着更缓慢的生产率增长，而与此同时，发达国家的老龄化——现在越来越多的新兴市场（如中国、俄罗斯和韩国）也是如此——降低了投入生产的劳动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The US returned to Afghanistan in 2001 to wage an as-yet-unfinished war on the jihadists whom its actions had spawned.",
        "2001年，美国返回阿富汗，开始了至今仍未结束的战争。 其对手——圣战主义者越打越多。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Western policy has yielded some progress toward a resolution regarding Iran’s nuclear program.",
        "比如，西方政策在解决伊朗核计划问题上取得了一些进展。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, a stronger sense of empathy spurs moral progress.",
        "简言之，同情感的增强刺激了道德进步。"
    ],
    [
        "This has already changed military postures across the Middle East.",
        "这已经改变了中东的军事格局。"
    ],
    [
        "Our research shows that industrial policy was successful in promoting a competitive bioethanol industry in Brazil.",
        "我们的研究结果表明行业政策成功地推动了巴西颇具竞争力的生物乙醇行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Since that speech, the frequency of strikes in Yemen and Pakistan has declined, but civilian casualties have continued, albeit at a lower rate.",
        "自这次演讲以来，也门和巴基斯坦的空袭频率降低了，但平民伤亡仍在发生，尽管比率有所减小。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of focusing the Bank’s attention on helping the poorest countries to improve their infrastructure, he launched a crusade against corruption.",
        "沃尔福威茨并不强调世界银行帮助贫困国家提高基础设施，而是向腐败宣战。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the discussion of a levy on bank deposits, and whether small customers should be exempted, put class conflict front and center.",
        "第一，关于是否要对银行存款征税以及小储户是否应该免税的讨论，让阶级矛盾问题走到前台。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia and China, bruised by their loss of face in the NATO-led intervention in Libya in 2011, have sought to keep the international community out of Syria.",
        "而俄罗斯和中国则因为在2011年北约主导的利比亚干涉行动上丢了面子，于是希望把国际社会隔绝在叙利亚国门之外。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though the data are somewhat inconsistent, it is clear that the world is spending more on the environment.",
        "此外，尽管数据方面存在一些不一致，但显然世界在环境方面的支出也在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicizing EU Competition Policy",
        "欧盟竞争策略政治化"
    ],
    [
        "At a deeper level, the real dichotomy is not between state capitalism and unfettered markets; it is between extractive and inclusive economic institutions.",
        "从更深层面讲，真正的二分不在于国家资本主义和自由放任的市场； 而在于掠夺性和包容性的经济制度。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s strategic “pivot” to Asia adds more tension.",
        "美国的亚洲“支点”战略加剧了紧张局面。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, just as the need for robust regional and international institutions is at its greatest, support for them is waning.",
        "然而，就在对强有力的地区和国际机构的需求达到顶峰之际，各国对他们的支持却正在减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Gordon Gekko Reborn",
        "贪婪的土壤"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps they are true climate deniers as well.",
        "也许他们也是真正的气候否认者。"
    ],
    [
        "Did the US ask for dominion over a single nation in Europe?",
        "美国有要求控制任何一个欧洲国家吗？"
    ],
    [
        "There are, after all, different types of forces that could be suppressing growth, not all of which are beyond our control.",
        "毕竟，抑制增长的力量有多种类型，并非所有都不在我们的控制范围内。"
    ],
    [
        "At least Europe is not going down the protectionist path that President Donald Trump is forcing the United States to take.",
        "至少欧洲不会堕入特朗普总统迫使美国所采取的保护主义道路。"
    ],
    [
        "It is thus time for a radical change, one that replaces traditional anti-monopoly laws with legislation mandating a wider dispersal of shareholding within each company.",
        "因此是时候进行彻底的改变，用一种立法来取代传统的反垄断法，要求在每个企业内更广泛地分散持有股份。"
    ],
    [
        "Corbyn accuses companies of handing out large dividends to shareholders, while infrastructure crumbles, service deteriorates, and companies pay far too little in taxes.",
        "科尔宾指责公司给股东发放大量红利，而与此同时，基础设施日益破败，服务日益恶化，公司纳税也少得可怜。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran will be there.",
        "伊朗也将出席。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – Those whom the gods would destroy, they grant their wishes.",
        "东京—神要毁灭一个人，就会给他希望。"
    ],
    [
        "The 75% of Russians who make up the Putin majority are essentially passive, and seek only the preservation of a paternalistic state.",
        "那些占全国总人口 75% 的普京支持者在本质上都是消极的，他们只希望能维持一个家长制的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Given such low yields in most of the world, investors will be eager to take advantage of the relative value opportunity offered by rising US interest rates.",
        "鉴于世界上大多数国家收益率如此之低，投资者会急于利用由美国利率上升带来的相对增值机会。"
    ],
    [
        "This challenging climate undermines the project’s viability, even though the business model – based on lower-cost workers from the North producing labor-intensive goods – makes sense.",
        "环境的多边影响了工业园区项目的可行性，尽管其业务模式——用朝鲜的低成本工人制造劳动密集型产品是有效的。"
    ],
    [
        "The annual headline rate over the past 12 months was only 0.2%, far short of the Fed’s 2% target.",
        "过去12个月的年标题通胀率（headline rate）只有0. 2%，远低于美联储2%的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The neo-liberal revival of the 1980’s will always be known as the Reagan-Thatcher revolution.",
        "20世纪80年代新自由主义的复苏永远都会以里根-撒切尔革命而被人铭记。"
    ],
    [
        "At a strategic level, Turkey is correct in thinking that the Arab revolutionary process has weakened its direct rivals.",
        "战略层面，土耳其准确地意识到阿拉伯革命进程削弱了直接对手的势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of these three factors alone would have attracted the attention of traders and investors around the world.",
        "这三个因素中的任何一个都会吸引世界各地交易者和投资者的关注。 如果三者同时出现的话就会动摇市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Among those personnel was William Foege, a Lutheran missionary doctor working as a consultant for the CDC in Nigeria.",
        "其中有一个人叫做威廉·福格（William Foege），他是一位路德派传教士医生，在尼日利亚担任CDC顾问。"
    ],
    [
        "China must warn North Korea that it will not be pressured into providing support even when Chinese national interests have been undermined.",
        "中国必须警告朝鲜：它宁可让自身国家利益受损也不会为朝鲜提供帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "The government has since reined in money-supply growth and started to impose limits on local governments’ borrowing.",
        "此后，中国政府遏制了货币供应增长，开始实施地方政府贷款上限。"
    ],
    [
        "Article 5 of the NATO treaty stipulates that an attack on one NATO member is to be considered an attack on all, and that all will come to the member’s aid.",
        "北约条约第五条规定，对某一成员国的攻击视为对北约全体的攻击，所有成员国都会出手相助。"
    ],
    [
        "Creating more Californias would of course require the approval of the federal government in Washington, where elected representatives from California – mainly from Obama’s Democratic Party – have more power today than at perhaps any time in US history.",
        "拆分加州当然需要在华盛顿的联邦政府的批准，而在华盛顿政府中，加州选出的代表-主要来自奥巴马的民主党-在美国历史上她们从未像现在这样大权在握。"
    ],
    [
        "But CACs may not resolve the problem entirely, because a vote would be required for each separate bond issue, and a holdout position could be achieved by buying up the blocking percentage of a small issue.",
        "但该条款并不能解决所有问题，因为每一份债券都包含一个投票权，如果要反对重整，只要收购足够比例的分额就行了。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, austerity is exactly the opposite of what is needed.",
        "在这些情况下，财政紧缩所起的作用刚好相反。"
    ],
    [
        "A more difficult issue for Hu could be intellectual property rights.",
        "胡主席访美将要面临的难题，是关于知识产权的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "I cannot believe that people in developed counties, when informed about the issues, would support rescuing bankers and oppose partial compensation for poor countries and regions.",
        "我无法相信发达国家的民众在了解事实真相后，会支持援助银行而反对对贫困国家地区给予部分的补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "There, and in the volatile Caucasus, a significant improvement in Europe’s relations with Russia is crucial to defusing tensions.",
        "在那里以及动荡的高加索地区，欧洲与俄国明显改善关系对于缓解紧张局势十分关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Both understood that for centuries the English Channel has been a formidable geopolitical barrier to a durable sharing of interests between Britain and France.",
        "”戴高乐和丘吉尔都明白几个世纪以来，英吉利海峡一直是阻碍英法谋求持久共同利益的难以逾越的地理障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The Israeli-built wall to the west of the West Bank means that Palestinian unemployment will continue to rise and living standards will continue to drop.",
        "以色列在约旦河西岸西面建墙意味着巴勒斯坦的失业率将继续上升，生活水平持续下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Turning his attention from the Atlantic to the Pacific, US President Barack Obama – with his eye, once again, trained on China – has now unveiled a new regional trade initiative.",
        "将注意力从大西洋转向太平洋之后，美国总统奥巴马——他再一次把矛头指向了中国——现在抛出了一项新的地区贸易方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, however, remains in bad shape.",
        "然而欧洲的病情却依然严峻。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the AfD scored well in eastern Germany – where three state elections will be held in 2014 – by gaining many votes from The Left.",
        "事实上，AfD在东德表现出色，从左翼党手中夺下了很多选票（2014年东德有三个州将举行选举）。"
    ],
    [
        "Integrating EU defense, moreover, would facilitate NATO operations, so that groups of EU countries engaged in permanent structured cooperation could, for example, participate in the North Atlantic Council, NATO’s governing authority, as a single entity.",
        "此外，整合欧盟防务可以促进北约行动，从而使参与永久结构性合作的欧盟国家团体能够以单一身份参与北大西洋理事会这一北约管理机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Andreessen’s aim is to shock his listeners – not just for effect, but to get them to do something about it.",
        "安德森的目的是要为他的听众带来思维上的冲击——不仅仅是为了吸引眼球，而是要让人们行动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Anderson showed that if developing countries cut their tariffs by the same proportion as high-income countries, and services and investment were also liberalized, the annual global gains could climb to $120 billion, with $17 billion going to the world's poorest countries by 2015.",
        "Anderson的研究显示如果发展中国家降低关税的幅度和高收入国家相当，并同时让服务和投资自由化，那么到2015年全球的年收益将会达到1200亿美金，而其中的170亿美金将会流向世界上最贫穷的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern Israel is also not like the weak Jewish communities dispersed throughout Europe in the past.",
        "现代以色列也不同于过去散居在欧洲各地的弱小的犹太人群体。"
    ],
    [
        "But Germany also swamped world’s markets with mass consumption goods: cheaper musical instruments than the traditional makers in France or Italy could produce, and lithographic prints used for Christmas cards and seaside postcards.",
        "但德国同样以其大众消费品占领了世界市场：比法国和意大利的传统制造商生产的更为廉价的乐器和用于圣诞卡和风景明信片的平板印刷技术。"
    ],
    [
        "None of these developments is, in itself, of great moment.",
        "上述事态发展分开来看都算不上大事。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether that hastens or hinders political progress toward fiscal and banking federalism is the next big question.",
        "而这将加快还是延缓迈向财政和银行联邦的政治进程则是下一个大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the tax plan would be another brick – not a huge brick, but a medium-size brick – in the increasingly impregnable fortress of American plutocracy.",
        "5%。 从这个角度讲，这项税收计划将给日益坚固的美国财法治国堡垒在添加一块砖块——不是一块大砖，而是一块中等规模的砖块。"
    ],
    [
        "The result of low interest rates, quantitative easing, and forward guidance, Taylor argues, is a “decline in credit availability [that] reduces aggregate demand, which tends to increase unemployment, a classic unintended consequence.”",
        "”泰勒说，低利率、量化宽松和前瞻指引的结果是“信用越来越难以获得，以至于降低了总需求，而总需求的降低总是会增加失业，这是经典的意料外后果。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "As I mourned with these beleaguered communities, trying to share their pain and grief, I vowed to do all I can to secure help for them.",
        "当我和这些被困民众共同哀悼，试着分担他们的痛苦和悲伤时，我发誓尽一切可能为他们提供帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "For the West, using the opportunity to influence Hamas’s future course requires modifying the failed policy of all-encompassing rejection.",
        "对西方来说，利用这个影响哈马斯未来进程的机会意味着要修改那种失败的全方位抵制政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the same accounts could serve as vehicles for public policy.",
        "最后，同一账户可以作为公共政策的载体。"
    ],
    [
        "This new “hyper-realism” has little in common with old-style realism.",
        "这种新的“高度现实主义”与过去旧的现实主义几乎没有任何共同点。"
    ],
    [
        "This argument is true – most of the time.",
        "这种论点没错——大多数时候如此。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this is new, nor will it be changed by an election.",
        "上述问题都是老生常谈，也不会通过选举而改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Frustrated by his population’s political apathy, Qaddafi frequently announced his intention to dissolve all government ministries and transfer their responsibilities to municipalities.",
        "由于对民众对待政治的冷漠态度感到失望，卡扎菲时常宣布自己打算解散所有政府部门，并将其职能转交给市政府。"
    ],
    [
        "In such circumstances, should they further their own interests by continuing to exploiting their control, or should they further the interests of those other patients by donating their tissue?",
        "在这样的情况下，患者是应该继续行使控制权来获得收益，还是应该 捐献 组织标本，以促进其他病人的利益？"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – A recent trip to Berlin brought back memories of an earlier visit in the summer of 1967, when I was a poor student who marveled at the Wall that would divide and devastate an entire society for another two decades.",
        "发自香港——最近的柏林之行令我回想起了自己的上一次到访，那是1967年的夏天，作为一个穷学生的我，在那堵还将继续分割和压抑整个德国社会20多年的高墙前震惊不已。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, international climate policy would become unrecognizable, ineffective, and, ultimately, irrelevant.",
        "结果，国际气候政策将变得无法获得承认、无法形成效果，最终沦为无关紧要的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump, it seems, plans to reverse his predecessors’ approach of isolating Russia.",
        "看起来特朗普计划逆其前任孤立俄罗斯的方针而行。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, China’s net international investment position has become very vulnerable to the devaluation of the dollar.",
        "结果，中国的NIIP变得极其容易受美元贬值影响。"
    ],
    [
        "On this occasion, we traveled by train to the Bernese Highlands (Berner Oberland), just as I had done nearly 40 years ago.",
        "在这次旅途中我们乘坐火车前往伯尔尼高地（正如我30多年前一样）。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the Internet, it turns out, is not as borderless as it seems: one study found that Americans are much more likely to visit Web sites from countries that are physically close than from countries that are far away, even after controlling for language, income, and many other factors.",
        "甚至连互联网也不像想象中那样没有边界：一项研究发现美国人更喜欢访问那些邻近国家的网站，即便在排除了语言，收入和其他因素的影响之后也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the news is remarkable: PMI survey results in many countries around the world are the strongest they have been in years.",
        "这方面的表现也令人瞩目：全球许多国家PMI调查结果为多年来最好。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet in just a few decades, a quarter of all sharks and rays have become threatened with extinction.",
        "但短短数十年后，四分之一的鲨鱼和鰩鱼就将面临着灭顶之灾。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, despite the risks, European leaders remain remarkably inactive, apparently reassured by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s promise to do “whatever it takes” to protect the monetary union from collapse.",
        "此外，尽管风险重重，但欧洲领导人令人惊讶地鲜有作为，这显然是吃了欧洲央行德拉吉的定心丸——他承诺“竭尽全力”保护货币联盟不会崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Later that month, he recognized that the US government “should make public the overall numbers of civilian deaths resulting from US strikes targeting Al Qaeda.” The US has done neither.",
        "从这个角度讲，无人机打击远远没有让也门和美国变得更安全，反倒可能强化对基地组织的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, prion-free sheep and cows have already been created.",
        "事实上，不携带朊病毒的羊和牛已经被培育出来。"
    ],
    [
        "But the data were not made available, because the interested parties were (and remain) afraid to share it, knowing full well what would be revealed.",
        "但在数据获取方面出现了人为的刁难，因为利益集团害怕（当时是，现在依然是）分享数据，他们对于数据所能揭示的东西心知肚明。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this reality, corporations want to give simply because it is expected of them.",
        "在这种情况下，企业愿意承担起相应的责任也只是因为社会是这样的期待它们的。"
    ],
    [
        "But all of this has come at a price: accidents, congestion, pollution, and an uneasy dependence on oil, among other costs.",
        "但所有这些都是有代价的：事故、拥堵、污染、难以摆脱的石油依赖，以及其他。"
    ],
    [
        "History offers countless examples of the misallocation of resources that can result from socialization of bank debt.",
        "历史上，由银行债务社会化导致资源适配的例子数不胜数。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, patients must recognize that there are no “silver bullets” for pain treatment.",
        "类似地，病人必须认识到疼痛治疗没有“万灵丹”。"
    ],
    [
        "There was already movement after Argentina’s earlier default to add “collective-action clauses” that allowed the holders of an individual bond issue to take a binding vote to accept a restructuring offer.",
        "在阿根廷上一次违约后，已经有人行动起来增加“集体行动条款”——允许某次债券发行的持有人发起具法律约束力的投票以接受重组计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing nations, the argument went, have plenty of investment opportunities, but are short of savings.",
        "这一理论认为，发展中国家具有大量的投资机会，但是却缺少储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, the OBR, broadly in line with the IMF, assumed a fiscal multiplier of 0.6: for every dollar cut from government spending, the economy would shrink by only 60 cents.",
        "直到最近，预算责任办公室——大致与国际货币基金组织一样——都依然采用0. 6的财政乘数：也就是政府每减少一美元的支出，经济只会收缩60美分。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, suppose that you have many workers qualified and skilled to work in construction, but households have decided that their houses are more than large enough, and wish to fill them with manufactured goods.",
        "比如说，你手下有一帮经验丰富的建筑工人，但消费者却认为自己的房子已经足够大了，他们需要些家居用品来装点自己的家。"
    ],
    [
        "On the question of Iran’s nuclear weapons capability, Americans and Europeans also fundamentally agree: it should be prevented.",
        "在伊朗制造核武的能力问题上，欧美双方的根本立场是一致的：应该防止。"
    ],
    [
        "Development is no miracle solution to violence, and may create its own set of grievances – particularly when done without regard to the abrupt changes it brings to societies.",
        "发展并不是解决暴力问题的灵丹妙药，并且可能会制造它自己的悲伤情绪，尤其是在没有充分考虑它可能给社会带来的突然变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Media attention has been focused on the “security wall,” which has certainly succeeded in reducing the level of violence.",
        "其中最受媒体关注的非“安全墙”莫属，这种方法确实有效减轻了暴力活动。"
    ],
    [
        "FLORENCE – For months, an increasingly frenetic, even apocalyptic, debate about the fate of the euro has been the major driver of global instability.",
        "佛罗伦萨——数月来，关于欧元命运的争论不仅日趋激烈，而且日益带有末世论的色彩，已经成了全球不稳定的一个主要推力。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank’s Wrong Choice",
        "世界银行的错误之选"
    ],
    [
        "In hindsight, the “new protectionism” of the 1980s was not a radical break with the past.",
        "事后看来，20世纪80年代的“新保护主义”并非与过去的彻底切割。"
    ],
    [
        "First, President François Hollande, worried about the euro’s appreciation against other major world currencies, called for an exchange-rate target.",
        "首先，总统弗朗索瓦·奥朗德（François Hollande）担心欧元会对其他世界主要货币升值，并呼吁设定汇率目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with last year’s presidential election, the situation began to deteriorate.",
        "但是，在去年的总统选举中，局面开始恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Adding new features can speed the transition, but what is necessary is only that the new system be incompatible with existing systems in certain respects, and that a sufficient number of people expect that it will become the new standard.",
        "增加新功能可以加快转型的速度，但必要的却只是让新系统在某些方面与现有系统不兼容，还要有足够数量的人认为新系统将要成为新的标准。"
    ],
    [
        "And, by providing a more comprehensive understanding of the aging process, it could also guide us toward treatments and cures for other diseases – including those affecting the young.",
        "而且，通过全面了解衰老进程，它还可能引导我们找到其他疾病的治疗和痊愈方法——其中也包括影响年轻人的疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "With attention and money in scarce supply, what matters is that we first tackle the problems with the best solutions, doing the most good throughout the century.",
        "鉴于注意力和金钱的投入都是有限的，我们首要应该做的是用最佳的方案解决问题，并且在整个世纪中尽量做最正确的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "A CDU/CSU-SPD alliance, working with France and the rest of Europe, could and should do much more on climate change.",
        "CDU/CSU-SPD联盟如果能与法国和欧洲其他国家精诚合作，就能够也应该为气候变化做更多的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the legal obligations of all signatories of the 1951 Refugee Convention, this is a test of humane values and decency – one that the so-called advanced countries are largely failing.",
        "这不但是1951年《难民公约》所有签署国的法律义务，也是人道主义价值和体面的考验——所谓的发达国家大多没有通过这场考验。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in January, the United Nations’ outlook for the global economy raised concerns about the economic pain this might impose on heavily indebted US households.",
        "今年1月，美国对全球经济的展望就引发了可能给债台高筑的美国住宅市场带来经济阵痛的忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "He has expressed only limited ideas here, like subsidizing school choice to improve education.",
        "他在这方面只给出了有限的办法，比如补贴学校改善教育的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe many academics find it difficult to take the initiative to achieve in the real world – I have yet to meet another professor who has mentioned having read Kiyosaki.",
        "可能是众多的学者认为开拓进取、在现实生活中有所获利是困难的事情。 目前为止，我还没有遇到一位提到读过清崎书籍的教授。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with only a few exceptions, like Germany and the Netherlands, imbalances have also declined within the eurozone.",
        "而且，除德国和荷兰等少数例外，欧元区的不平衡也呈下降趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments around the world are spending money on regulating and monitoring their stock markets so that they are safer for individual investors, and so that investor interest in these markets will grow.",
        "全世界各国政府正在花钱控制并监视他们的股票市场，以使它们对个人投资者更为安全，并保证投资者在这些市场中的利益增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Some estimate that 300,000 Christians have fled Syria.",
        "有人估计，30万基督徒逃离了叙利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "The public losses are massive in comparison: roughly $6 trillion, if we limit ourselves just to the increase in federal government debt.",
        "相比之下公众的损失则极为巨大：如果仅仅用联邦政府的债务增长来评估的话，大概60亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The US government often declares these days that it is not bound by any “arbitrary” numerical target such as 0.7% of GNP.",
        "这些天，美国政府却经常申明它并不受到任何“武断的”诸如GNP0. 7%的数字目标的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "Throngs of Chinese expatriates and students took to the streets, protesting the prejudice they perceived in Western media reports.",
        "大量的海外华人和留学生走向街头，抗议他们所感受到的西方媒体报导的偏见。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, many of these countries are calling on the West to de-escalate the crisis and, as an official Chinese foreign-ministry statement advocated, to “exercise restraint and refrain from raising tensions.”",
        "反之，这些国家中许多人要求西方遏制危机升级并且，正如中国外交部的一份正式声明所言，“保持克制，避免紧张局面加剧。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "One bitterly cold March day, I joined a few friends on a trip to the former camp.",
        "一个寒冷的三月天，我和几个朋友一道前往劳改营。"
    ],
    [
        "Here lies the explanation of the interest-rate puzzle.",
        "利率之谜的解释就在这里。"
    ],
    [
        "“With President Trump,” Eisenkot told the Saudi publication Elaph, “there is an opportunity to build a new international coalition in the region.”",
        "“与特朗普总统合作，”艾森克特对沙特媒体Elaph说，“有机会形成新的域内国际联盟。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that if China wishes to lower the GDP growth rate to 7.5% in 2012, from 9.2% in 2011, without worsening the growth pattern by raising the high investment rate even further, the annual growth rate of investment must be equal to or less than 7.5%.",
        "2%放缓为2012年的7. 5%，同时又不想通过进一步提高投资率来恶化增长方式，那么年投资增长就必须不高于7."
    ],
    [
        "Within minutes, a seven year old can teach herself to play a complex game on an iPad.",
        "不消几分钟，七岁顽童便可以无师自通地在iPad上玩复杂游戏了。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be good to believe that they will be effective, but so far we have little proof.",
        "虽然乐观地认为这些软件都会最终变得高效实用，但目前我们现在还拿不出什么证据来证明这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who both persecuted and were persecuted are willing to talk only about their being victims.",
        "那些既迫害过别人也受到过迫害的人只愿意谈论自己受到的迫害。"
    ],
    [
        "Stein proposes focusing on risk premiums in the bond market.",
        "斯特恩提出应该专注于债券市场的风险溢价。"
    ],
    [
        "In most countries, they amount to only about 2-3% of GDP, even during a major recession.",
        "在大部分国家，它们只占GDP的2—3%，即使在发生严重衰退时也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Technically and economically, China was the world’s leader (though without global reach) from 500 to 1500.",
        "从技术和经济角度来说，在公元500年至1500年间，中国是世界领导者（尽管没有做过全球性的研究）。"
    ],
    [
        "While these are worthy goals, there are good reasons to believe that the tax would not achieve most of them.",
        "这些目标都是值得追求的，但有充分的理由相信，托宾税无法完成这些目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Frustrated, China finally decided to push for the establishment of the AIIB, in which it will be the largest shareholder, with a stake of up to 50%.",
        "饱经挫败之后，中国最终决定要推动亚洲基础设施投资银行的建立，并自任最大的股东，持有最多达50%的股份。"
    ],
    [
        "Turning away people who manage to reach one’s country is emotionally difficult, even if they are being sent to a safe haven.",
        "拒绝抵达边境的人入境在感情上非常困难，即使他们被送往一个安全的避风港。"
    ],
    [
        "We analyzed trade-offs between competing objectives (say, equity versus efficiency), and prescribed policies to meet desired economic outcomes, including redistribution.",
        "我们在竞争性将目标（比如公平和效率）之间做权衡分析，为所欲的经济结果（包括再分配）开政策药方。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gulag of the Russian Mind",
        "俄罗斯的思想禁锢"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the field repels all but connoisseurs of fanciful formal models.",
        "事实上，经济学反对一切奇形怪状的形式化模型的行家。"
    ],
    [
        "There, both the resilience of the local political culture and strategic imperatives are converging to define the limits of the West’s capacity to impose its values.",
        "在这块大陆上，区域政治文化弹性和战略规则共同限定了西方把自身价值观强加于人的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the terrible returns on savings since 2007, the prospect of continuing low interest rates might make her put even more money aside.",
        "自2007年以来，储蓄的回报率低得可怜，利率持续保持低位可能促使他储蓄更多的钱。"
    ],
    [
        "In just the last few weeks, the world has shown that it is prepared to spend more to find new ways to provide reliable, affordable, clean energy sources.",
        "过去几周，世界已经表示愿意投入更多资源来寻找提供可靠、廉价和清洁能源的全新方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it has been eighteen months since the virus was last detected in Africa.",
        "此外，距离该病毒上一次在非洲被检测到已经过去了十八个月。"
    ],
    [
        "We saw this a few weeks ago, when former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated.",
        "几周前当巴基斯坦前总理贝·布托遇刺身亡时我们就看到了这样的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "When every offense has an associated penalty, transgressions cease to be moral violations, but are simply a way for wrongdoers to effectively “use the system” while facing some risk of getting caught and paying a fine.",
        "当每一种违规行为都有相应的惩罚措施，那么违反规则就不再是违背道德，而仅仅是做坏事的人冒着事情败露，受到处罚的风险，有效地“利用这一系统”的方式了。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – In the last two months, I have been in eight American cities – Boston, New York, Washington, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle.",
        "发自伦敦——在过去的两个月间，我曾经到过波士顿、纽约、华盛顿、休斯顿、芝加哥、洛杉矶、旧金山和西雅图等8个美国城市。"
    ],
    [
        "A decade later, that percentage had sunk below 25%.",
        "十年后，这一比例下降到25%以下。"
    ],
    [
        "“Partnerships” of donors can become an expensive end in themselves, merely delaying real action.",
        "捐助国的“伙伴关系”自身又可能代价昂贵，而且除推迟实际行动外起不到任何作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in an increasingly globalized economy, diversity will continue to be the hallmark.",
        "即便经济越来越全球化，多样化的特点也还会继续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Thatcher herself was not an enthusiast for credit, once famously saying, “I don’t believe in credit cards.”",
        "撒切尔本人并非信用的拥趸，她有句名言：“我不相信信用卡。"
    ],
    [
        "The barriers to growth in the past were an unholy alliance among oligarchic interests and political parties, scandalous procurement, clientelism, the permanently broken media, overly accommodating banks, weak tax authorities, and a weighed-down, fearful judiciary.",
        "过去的增长壁垒是由寡头利益和政党、可耻的采购、裙带主义、永远不作为的媒体、过于随和的银行、疲软的税收当局和堕落怕事的司法系统组成的邪恶同盟。"
    ],
    [
        "SAN FRANCISCO – Last fall, Bill and Melinda Gates sent shock waves through the global health community when they announced the audacious goal of eradicating human malaria from the face of the planet.",
        "旧金山—去年秋天，当比尔和梅林达·盖茨夫妇宣布要将人类疟疾从地球上消灭的雄心勃勃的目标时，他们给全球的医疗卫生界以极大的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "His 60-point plan included reforms of fiscal policy and the financial sector that would set market interest rates on loans and deposits, permit some private-investor participation in state-owned enterprises, increase the role of small and medium-size enterprises, loosen labor restrictions, and introduce property taxes to boost revenue for local authorities.",
        "他的60点计划包括落实制定存贷款市场利率的财政政策及财政部门改革，允许私营投资者参与国有企业、活跃中小企业、放宽劳动力限制以及征收房产税增加地方政府收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Hollywood is that powerful.",
        "毕竟，好莱坞是多么的强大啊。"
    ],
    [
        "Tocqueville’s Lessons in Democracy",
        "托克维克有关民主的教诲"
    ],
    [
        "Opened on February 4, Noor-1 uses highly advanced technology to store energy for use at night and on cloudy days.",
        "Noor-1于2月4日开张，它使用先进科技储存能源用于夜晚和多云的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Peres presented his candidacy, but narrowly lost to Yitzhak Rabin.",
        "佩雷斯参加了总理竞选，但以微弱劣势败给了拉宾。"
    ],
    [
        "Assessments of safety and efficacy often do not move closely in tandem, so that even if smaller, better-targeted clinical trials offer clear evidence of a drug’s efficacy, regulators might demand far larger studies to provide evidence of the drug’s safety.",
        "安全性和疗效的评估通常会平行进行，因此即使小型的、更具针对性的临床试验能提供关于疗效的明确证据，监管者仍可能要求进行更大型的实验以证明药物的安全性。"
    ],
    [
        "Armed soldiers now sit in newsrooms, vetting the galleys before they go off to press.",
        "全副武装的士兵现在坐在编辑部室，审查即将出版的稿件。"
    ],
    [
        "But then, at roughly the same time you finish drafting the first summary of your ideas, a book, written by an anonymous author, appears that also purports to explain how life might have changed through time, and considers some of the mechanisms that may underlie this grand history.",
        "但是当时，大概在你完成你的观点初稿的时候，一个匿名作者写的一本书好像也解释了生命如何随着时间而演化，并且研究了某些这一大理论的机制根基。"
    ],
    [
        "· take into account new military capabilities and strategies (smaller, mobile units, rather than traditional, large armies, taking resources such as transport capabilities into consideration accordingly);",
        "· 纳入新军事力量和战略（规模更小的行动单位，而不是传统的规模宏大的军队，并相应地将运输能力等资源也纳入考虑）；"
    ],
    [
        "Yet another divide lies between the United Kingdom and the rest of the EU.",
        "但还有另一个分裂，存在于英国和欧盟剩余部分之间。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term forecasts for the Red Sea region’s share of global trade are comparatively flat.",
        "关于红海地区占全球贸易比重的长期预测基本保持不变。"
    ],
    [
        "Though moral outrage is important, it is not enough when it comes to crafting policy.",
        "尽管道德愤怒很重要，但并不足以左右政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization, immigration, and cosmopolitanism have served the interests of a highly educated minority, but sometimes at the expense of less privileged people.",
        "全球化、移民和世界主义符合受到良好教育的少数群体的利益，但有时会牺牲没有特权的人的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, currencies move in the same direction as monetary policy – for example, when the yen dropped in response to the Bank of Japan’s 2013 quantitative easing.",
        "在一些例子中，货币与货币政策同向变动——比如，当日本银行2013年推出量化宽松时，日元应声贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is important to note that the effects of market concentration are changing.",
        "但认识到市场集中的效果正在发生改变非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, global financial stability now depends upon greater cooperation at the international level, with tighter enforcement of rules at the national level.",
        "另外，如今全球金融稳定性取决于国际层面的更紧密合作以及国家层面的更严格的规则的实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Just phasing in more efficient air-conditioning systems would be the emissions equivalent of retiring 2,500 medium-size peak power plants (power plants that come on-stream during periods of high demand, such as during the summer).",
        "仅逐步采用能效更高的空调系统一项就相当于停用2，500座中等规模峰值电站（即仅在用电高峰期，如夏季投产的电站）所减少的排放。"
    ],
    [
        "British public opinion concerning the EU has since remained lukewarm, at best.",
        "英国公众对欧盟的态度往好了说，也只是不冷不热。"
    ],
    [
        "Pessimists will point out that much remains to be worked out, fighters have yet to hand in their weapons, and the final peace agreement has not been signed.",
        "悲观主义者可能指出还有许多工作要做，战士们还没有交出武器，最终的和平协议也还有待签署。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the costs and risks of their low-interest-rate policies are a return to the leveraged growth pattern and growing uncertainty about the limits of a central bank’s balance-sheet expansion.",
        "这些国家的低利率政策隐含着成本和风险，而其中包括令经济恢复到杠杆型增长模式以及央行资产负债表扩张局限性所带来的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "For that reason, it is all the more important that diplomacy be recast and given one last chance.",
        "因此，我们必须调整外交政策以进行最后的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "And, by every indication, 2015 has been no less dismal.",
        "5%。 同时种种迹象表明2015年也会同样惨淡。"
    ],
    [
        "In exchange, investors would commit to train local workers, create employment by purchasing local inputs and services, improve corporate practices and local providers’ standards, facilitate technology transfers, and establish links with local technical schools and universities.",
        "作为交换，投资者应该承诺培训本地员工、通过采购本地原料和服务创造就业、改善公司行为和本地供应商标准、协助技术转移，并建立与本地技术学校和大学的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, it is a prescription for endless terrorism and war: both pro- and anti-Iranian revolutionary Islamists believe that, because God is on their side and their enemies are cowardly, they will win, and they are quite prepared to spend the next half-century trying to prove it.",
        "然而，这是对无休止的恐怖主义和战争开出的一个处方：支持和反对伊朗革命伊斯兰主义的人都认为，因为真主是站在他们那一边的，他们的敌人很懦弱，所以他们一定会取得胜利，而且他们对用接下来的半个世纪的时间来证明这一点，作好了充分的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the evidence that was presented publicly was thin and exaggerated.",
        "事实上，公之于众的证据既夸张又薄弱。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, the collaboration of social and scientific institutions would help to break down language and cultural barriers, ensuring that the genomic revolution aids, rather than alienates, the public, and thereby passes the true test of any scientific advancement: relevance to everyday experience.",
        "在这方面，社会和科学机构的合作有助于打破语言和文化壁垒，确保基因组革命有益于公众而不是制造隔离，从而战胜任何科学进步的真正考验：与日常经验的相关性。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea under Kim began to rein in the chaebols, the country’s huge family-owned conglomerates.",
        "金大中治下的韩国开始遏制财阀（家族所有的巨型企业集团）。"
    ],
    [
        "“Two-state condominialism” is as visionary as the name is clunky.",
        "“两国安全套主义方案”的名字颇为不雅，但相当有远见。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason: easy credit, especially subprime mortgages, which helped those without means to keep up with the Joneses.",
        "原因就在于宽松的信用，特别是次级按揭贷款。 次级按揭贷款让穷人也能过上与邻居们相当的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Taylor and others who share his view probably begin with a sense that current interest rates are too low.",
        "泰勒和其他同意他的观点的人也许是从这样一个感觉开始的：当前利率过低了。"
    ],
    [
        "His campaign assumes that people do not really care about the truth and will believe almost anything if it is repeated often enough.",
        "这种策略的前提是人们毫不看重事实，而会相信反复灌输给他们的一切思想。"
    ],
    [
        "With fewer opportunities to attend conferences abroad, publish papers in Western academic journals, or spend time teaching or conducting research outside of China, their professional development and careers could be severely impaired.",
        "出国参加会议、在西方学术刊物发表文章或在国外进行教学和研究的机会将越来越少，他们的职业发展和职业生涯将严重受损。"
    ],
    [
        "In measured but devastating prose, the Winograd Commission gives failing marks to all three leaders.",
        "维诺格拉特报告以克制而又严厉的笔调对所有三位领导人都评定为不及格。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its name, the Bank is primarily an international development institution.",
        "世界银行虽然挂着一个“银行”的名字，但其主要职责是国际发展机构。"
    ],
    [
        "The economics behind efforts to close these energy gaps are relatively straightforward.",
        "填补能源缺口努力背后的经济因素相对容易理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Their silence was tantamount to consent.",
        "他们的沉默等同于赞成。"
    ],
    [
        "Without an inflow of new blood and new ideas, the old Continent's economic future looks bleak.",
        "没有新鲜血液和思想的注入，衰老的欧洲大陆的经济前景会是一片黯然。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, with the launch of the UNESCO report, several partners have already stepped up.",
        "幸运的是，随着联合国教科文组织报告的面世，几个合作伙伴已经站了出来。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the eradication of poppy crops not only damage local communities and undermines the international community’s goals, but it is also failing: opium production last year was at an all-time high.",
        "实际上，铲除罂粟作物不但破坏了当地民生、阻碍了国际社会实现其目标，而且也是失败的：去年的鸦片生产创历史新高。"
    ],
    [
        "And in the US, if we look beyond the fog of election-season opprobrium, it appears that both sides are in favor of more infrastructure spending.",
        "而在美国，如果我们能看穿选举季互相攻讦的迷雾，似乎双方都支持增加基础设施支出。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to analyze carefully whether the new regulations are actually needed and, if yes, to foresee and fill regulatory gaps with rules that ensure the smooth flow of savings to new and existing projects.",
        "仔细分析新监管措施是否真的需要，以及在需要的情况下预估并用规则填补监管空白以确保储蓄平稳流向新建和已有项目很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese officials still insist that they cannot control North Korea.",
        "中国官员仍坚称他们无法控制朝鲜。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission's powers to initiate action when there is a risk of excessive deficits should be strengthened - provided, of course, that the Commission never again forgets that surveillance of national policies is a task that requires political judgment and cannot be left to accountants and lawyers.",
        "应该加强额外赤字危险出现时委员会的行动能力，当然前提条件是委员会永远牢记对国内政策的监督是一项需要政治判断的任务，不能简单地推给会计师和律师来完成。"
    ],
    [
        "He added a dotted line, explaining that this was the only ferry connecting the island to the mainland.",
        "他又画了一条虚线，说这是连接岛屿和大陆的唯一渡口。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is reason to fear that it will complicate ongoing efforts to reduce nuclear arsenals further, deepen the divide between nuclear- and non-nuclear states, and, in the worst-case scenario, even increase the risk of a nuclear conflict in key regions.",
        "但我们有理由担心该条约让进一步去核计划复杂化，加深有核和无核国家间的分歧，并（在最糟糕情景中）增加关键地区核冲突的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, Turkey tried to mediate between Israel and Syria, Israel and Hamas, opposing factions in Lebanon, and lately between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany.",
        "最近几年，土耳其试图在以色列和叙利亚、以色列和哈马斯以及黎巴嫩各对立派别之间充当调停角色，最近又试图为伊朗和加上德国的联合国安理会五大常任理事国进行调和。"
    ],
    [
        "To organize discussion of these broader issues, the US and others should explore the possibility of appointing a special envoy – perhaps a former Chief of State under UN auspices – to engage Iran in new ways.",
        "为了组织这些更广泛问题的讨论，美国和其他国家应该研究任命特使——可以是由联合国出面任命的前国家元首——前往伊朗以新办法解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The participants in the deliberations that resulted in New Power, New Responsibility split on this question.",
        "在审议《新大国、新责任》的观点时，在这一问题上形成了分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "We believe, though, that the increased use of qualified majority voting by member governments embodied in the new treaty should also be applied to the ratification process itself.",
        "但我们认为新公约所规定的、正被各成员国越来越多地使用的有效多数票（qualified majority voting）方式，也应该适用于公约的批准过程本身。"
    ],
    [
        "While Russia and China asserted that signing an agreement would render any kind of sanction legally unjustifiable, the US sought to allay the fears of Iran’s neighbors as much as possible.",
        "俄罗斯和中国认为签署协议将意味着任何形式的制裁都不合法，而美国试图尽量减轻伊朗邻国的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "This is also what one would expect from economic theory: in conditions approaching a liquidity trap, the impact of unconventional monetary policies on financial conditions and demand is likely to be modest.",
        "我们也可以从经济学理论中发现这一点：在日益接近流动性陷阱的条件下，非常规货币政策对金融条件和需求的影响是微小的。"
    ],
    [
        "The fear was that, if China sought a weaker exchange rate to escape deflation, the result would be another round of global competitive devaluations and even more deflation.",
        "许多人原本担心中国会用汇率贬值来摆脱通缩，而其后果必然是全球范围的竞争性货币贬值以及进一步全球通缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Four decades after the “Nixon shock,” no one disputes that China has benefited enormously Today, the impoverished and autarkic country that Nixon visited is history.",
        "amp#160;“尼克松冲击波”释放四十年后，已经没有人否认中国在今天获益良多，尼克松曾经访问的自给自足的贫穷国家已经成为历史。"
    ],
    [
        "To buy half of the Piraeus harbor at a knockdown price may seem more advantageous than investing in the long-term consolidation of the Greek economy and its finances, but is that really the case?",
        "以低廉的价格购买一半的比雷埃夫斯港与其说是从长远角度投资希腊的经济和金融，还不如说是趁火打劫占取便宜。 但实际情况是否真的如此？"
    ],
    [
        "Those hundreds of thousands of people who camped for weeks on the freezing streets of Kiev did so because they were demanding their dignity.",
        "那些在基辅冰冻的街道上风餐露宿达数周之久的成千上万的人们之所以会这么做，是因为他们要求本属于自己的尊严。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now highly probable that the central government will invoke Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, which allows it to take direct control of Catalonia, a step that would undoubtedly provoke more civil unrest throughout the region.",
        "中央政府现在很有可能会援引《西班牙宪法》第155条的规定，该条款允许西班牙政府接管加泰罗尼亚，而这样的举措无疑可能在整个地区引发进一步内乱。"
    ],
    [
        "Putting Deflation First",
        "把通缩放在首位"
    ],
    [
        "Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Debt?",
        "谁在害怕巨额不良债务？"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s likely successor, Dmitry Medvedev, is Chairman of Gazprom leaves little doubt about the Kremlin’s determination to maintain an iron grip on the energy sector.",
        "俄罗斯总统普京可能的继任者梅德维杰夫就是俄罗斯天然气工业公司总裁的事实清楚地表明了克里姆林宫对能源部门保持铁腕控制的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that they do not make them.",
        "问题是俄国并不制造这些产品。"
    ],
    [
        "One potential flashpoint will be North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program.",
        "潜在的引爆点之一是朝鲜的核武器项目。"
    ],
    [
        "There may be some justification for each EMU state to be represented in the G-8, but not in the main economic organizations.",
        "欧洲货币联盟的每一个成员国都在G-8现身或许还讲得通，但在主要的经济组织中却不然。"
    ],
    [
        "First, globalization may have delivered many benefits, but it has also eroded the capacity of societies to determine their own destinies.",
        "首先，全球化带来了诸多好处，但也侵蚀了社会决定自己命运的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "What is unexpected is that the new wealth is flowing not to the shareholders of dot-com companies, but to purchasers and users of high-tech capital and the consumers they serve.",
        "出人意料的是新的财富并没有流向dot-com公司的股东，而是流向高科技资本的购买者和使用者，以及他们所服务的消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to wholesale shifts in paradigms of belief, Venezuela shows how unaffordable such experiments may turn out to be.",
        "在信念范式整体变迁的问题上，委内瑞拉说明了这样的经验真是不可承受之重。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers cannot afford to wait decades for economists to figure out a definitive answer, which may never be found at all.",
        "政策制定者们不可能有几十年去等待经济学家们找出一个确定的答案——而这个答案甚至永远都无法得出。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten years after the common currency’s introduction, the 16-member euro zone has the world’s second most important currency, accounting for more than a quarter of all central banks’ foreign-exchange reserves and having overtaken the dollar as the currency of choice for international bond issues.",
        "引入共同货币10年以来，16个欧元国家拥有了世界上第二大货币，占据了全球中央银行外汇储备的1/4强，并正逐步取代美元，成为国际债券发行的可选货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides the never-ending anarchy of neighboring Somalia, the regional challenges facing Ethiopia and its long-serving prime minister, Meles Zenawi, are daunting.",
        "除邻国索马里无休无止的混乱局势外，长期在位的总理梅莱斯·泽纳维是摆在埃塞俄比亚面前最令人生畏的区域挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "With membership achieved and EU money starting to pour in, leaders feel secure enough to let economic policy slip.",
        "随着欧盟成员国身份的确立和欧盟资金的涌入，领导人们便心满意足得不再恪守既定经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "To allay anxiety about government profligacy, the ECB built conditionality into its bond-purchase program.",
        "为了减轻人们对政府恣意挥霍的忧虑，欧洲央行在其债券购买计划中加入了条件。"
    ],
    [
        "All reputable scientific studies conducted so far have concluded that the impact of radiation has been less damaging than was feared.",
        "目前为止所进行的所有具有声望的科学研究都得出结论说，核辐射的影响要比担忧的要轻。"
    ],
    [
        "They should prioritize measures to make it easier to start a business, lift barriers to venture capital, and introduce temporary 100% capital allowances to encourage businesses to bring forward investment.",
        "它们需要尽快采取措施，让创业变得更容易，让风险资本不再受到各种壁垒的限制，让企业享受100%的暂时性资本免税额，以增进投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the German people decided otherwise; they took history into their own hands by insisting that the Wall come down.",
        "当然，德国人自己并不这么看，他们把握了历史，最终拆毁了柏林墙。"
    ],
    [
        "Though some scholars and thinkers are fit to be “leaders of the people,” a favorable environment is needed to coax them out of their ivory towers.",
        "尽管一些学者和思想家适合成为“人民领袖”，但需要有利的环境让他们走出象牙塔。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign consulates in the KRG’s capital, Erbil, effectively function as embassies.",
        "其首府埃尔比勒的外国领事馆实际上在行使大使馆的职能。"
    ],
    [
        "While oil has made a few presidents and princes staggeringly rich, the rest of the population has received little benefit.",
        "尽管石油让少数总统和王子暴富，但其他人民并没有得到好处。"
    ],
    [
        "So companies can attract like-minded shareholders by espousing distinctive values, missions, and cultures.",
        "因此公司可以通过支持不同的价值、使命和文化来吸引观念相近的股东。"
    ],
    [
        "The “yes” campaigners would not have had to look far for inspiration.",
        "“是”阵营本不需要辛苦寻找灵感。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, though the recent reduction in the corporate-tax rate was necessary to encourage economic growth and attract investment, it seems to many Japanese to be a questionable move at a time when the consumption-tax rate has been increased and measures to address deflation are pushing up prices.",
        "比如，尽管最近的降低公司税的政策对于鼓励经济增长、吸引投资十分必要，但对许多日本人来说，在消费税已经提高、治理通缩的措施正在推高物价的时候，采取这样的动作大有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "I asked Tatiana whether the museum had a brochure for tourists. “There are many academic treatises on the subject,” she replied.",
        "我问塔蒂亚娜博物馆是否有游客手册，她回答说：“有很多关于这项工程的学术论文。"
    ],
    [
        "The budget cost of Social Security pensions could be gradually reduced by substituting annuities generated by investment-based personal retirement accounts for part of the current tax-financed benefits.",
        "社会福利的预算成本可以通过用基于投资的个人退休金账户所产生的年金替代部分目前靠税收支付的福利项目来实现逐步削减。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – We have been living in an illusion.",
        "马德里—我们一直生活在幻觉中。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor does the closed-door succession process at the Bank, where the US continued its sixty year lock on the Presidency, justify continuing European monopolization of the Fund job.",
        "而导致美国60年来独霸行长职位的世界银行闭门造车式的任命政策也不能为欧洲继续把持国际基金组织的领导地位提供理由。"
    ],
    [
        "And the currency conversion would not save the country one cent with regard to its external debt, which would, of course, remain denominated in euros.",
        "而货币转换不会为该国省下一分钱外债，因为外债当然仍以欧元计价。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, American universities still attract the world’s best and brightest in many fields, most notably in science and technology.",
        "与此同时，美国大学将继续吸引各领域的世界顶尖学者，特别是科技领域。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the so-called core CPI (consumer price index) – which excludes food and energy – has headed down just when it was supposed to be going up.",
        "在美国，所谓的核心消费价格指数（core CPI）——不包括食品和能源——在一片上行预期中调头向下。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial pressure on Italy is now mounting.",
        "意大利的金融压力也陡然加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "But that decision, and its moral costs, remains in the hands of the Palestinians alone.",
        "但是决定权和为此所付出的道德代价只在巴勒斯坦人自己手中掌握。"
    ],
    [
        "This is also a recipe for global failure, and even future conflict.",
        "这种处理方式最终导致的仍是全球市场的萧条，甚至会导致未来的市场冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, more than one-third of total bank lending has gone to infrastructure, most of which has been built by government entities.",
        "近年来，三分之一以上的银行贷款流向了基础设施，而基础设施大部分是由政府实体建设的。"
    ],
    [
        "The West’s wariness is well founded, and we have no reason to renounce our mistrust.",
        "西方的戒心是有道理的，而且我们没有理由放弃我们的不信任。"
    ],
    [
        "This cast doubt on the transparency and accountability of the Fund's debt-sustainability projections.",
        "这一系列动作让人质疑IMF债务持续性预测的透明性和可问责性。"
    ],
    [
        "Did no one tell President Xi Jinping and his Politburo colleagues where Karl Marx came from?",
        "难道没有人告诉习近平主席及其政治局同事卡尔·马克思从哪里来？"
    ],
    [
        "This shows that, though Scandinavian labor markets are more flexible than elsewhere in continental Europe, the US labor market is far more flexible – and provides less security – than any of them.",
        "5分。 这表明，尽管斯堪的纳维亚国家劳动力市场比其他欧洲大陆国家更加灵活，但美国劳动力市场比所有这些国家都要灵活得多——提供的保障也要少得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Diplomacy was rushed.",
        "外交手段被急匆匆一带而过。"
    ],
    [
        "The use of social dialogue for crisis management should be increased, because trust must be rebuilt.",
        "增加使用社会对话用于危机管理，因为信任必须重建。"
    ],
    [
        "One is a shift in comparative advantage.",
        "其一是比较优势的变迁。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – For decades, critics of the European Union have spoken about a democratic deficit.",
        "马德里——几十年来，欧盟的批评者一直在大谈民主赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whatever the cause or effect, spending always goes up whenever groups decide to spend more – and government decisions to spend more are as good as anybody else’s.",
        "两个半世纪以来，经济学家一直认为，只要一些人群决定增加开支，那么经济体的支出流就会上升。 支出上升的原因有时在于可支配现金的增加，有时在于机会成本（即放弃某种做法、例如放弃储蓄的成本）的变化令人们愿意加快花钱的速度。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless we change our system of income generation, there will be no way to check the concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich and exceptionally entrepreneurial.",
        "除非我们改变我们的收入创造系统，否则就没有办法阻止在财富向富人和企业家手中集中。"
    ],
    [
        "A direct military showdown in the Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz, through which about 40% of the world’s traded oil is shipped, cannot be ruled out.",
        "在运送世界石油交易量40%的波斯湾和 霍尔木兹海峡发生直接军事冲突的可能性也不能排除。"
    ],
    [
        "Assad must go not because he is authoritarian, but because he is allied with Iran, which, from the perspective of the US, Israel, Turkey, and several Gulf countries, makes him a regional threat.",
        "巴沙尔之所以必须下台，不是因为他独裁，而是因为它与伊朗结盟，在美国、以色列、土耳其和一些海湾国家看来，这让巴沙尔成为了地区威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The largest of the ten major means-tested programs is the food subsidy program, now called SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).",
        "十大基于收入调查的计划中规模最大的一项是食品补贴计划，现在称为SNAP（补充营养补助计划）。"
    ],
    [
        "The chance of all of this occurring is not zero, of course.",
        "当然，所有这些条件都具备的可能性也不是零。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2007, even Abdullah Dardari, the deputy prime minister for economic affairs and a chief architect of Syria’s economic reforms (which were upended by the 2011 civil war), described Raqqa as a long-forgotten city.",
        "到2007年，就连叙利亚经济事务副总理兼（2011年被内战打断的）经济改革总设计师阿卜杜拉·达尔达里也将拉卡形容为长期被遗忘的城市。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – A core problem in the United States today – reflected in Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election earlier this month – is that too many Americans feel helpless and insecure in the face of the job polarization that has resulted from globalization and new technology.",
        "发自华盛顿特区——今日美国的一个核心问题——以唐纳德·特朗普早些时候赢得总统大选胜利为标志——就是在面对全球化和新技术所造成的就业两极分化时，有太多的美国人感到无助和缺乏安全感。"
    ],
    [
        "A third urgently needed commitment is to increase support for research that accelerates the development of new innovations in effective and efficient treatment delivery.",
        "第三项继续做出的承诺是增加研究支持和加快高效治疗实现的新创新的开发。"
    ],
    [
        "Lula and Chávez, after all, did not unseat right-wing governments: They were preceded by left-wing governments, led by members of the Socialist International.",
        "归根结底，卢拉和查韦斯并没有推翻右翼政府：他们的前任是左翼政府，领导者是社会主义国际的成员。"
    ],
    [
        "But Bush has neither eliminated massive subsidies to the oil industry (though, fortunately, the Democratic Congress may take action) nor provided adequate incentives for conservation.",
        "但布什既没有取消对石油产业的巨额补助（幸运的是民主党国会也许会采取行动）、也没有出台足够的措施来鼓励节能。"
    ],
    [
        "The Venezuelan government’s latest “currency reform” may ostensibly be aimed at curbing high inflation.",
        "委内瑞拉政府最新的“货币改革”表面目的可能是抑制高通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "But would China be happy with this division of labor?",
        "但中国是否会乐于接受这样的分工？"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the biggest policy letdown of our day is the failure of governments in advanced democracies to address rising inequality.",
        "我们这个时代最大的经济失策或许是发达民主国家政府未能解决不平等日益扩大的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "He knows that any weapon capable of shooting down a Syrian warplane could also be used by a terrorist against a US airliner.",
        "他知道，能够击落叙利亚战斗机的武器同样可以用来对准美国民航客机。"
    ],
    [
        "They had merely gone abroad to serve their foreign masters.",
        "他们不过是替外国主子卖命罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the scale of capital outflows could be so large that long-term capital will remain cheap even after the world’s major central banks tighten monetary policy. How the world absorbs those surpluses will define the next period of global economic expansion.",
        "事实上，资本外流规模可能极其巨大，以至于即使世界主要央行都收紧货币政策，长期资本仍将十分廉价。"
    ],
    [
        "Technically, Papandreou’s proposed referendum was not directly about fiscal or economic policy, but it is a decision that would have had huge economic ramifications for the eurozone.",
        "从技术上说，帕潘德里欧的全民公投计划并非直接针对财政或经济政策，但这一决定会给欧元区带来巨大的经济分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "If one makes no distinctions and disregards nuances one will end up believing that 60% Turkish women wear the veil.",
        "如果人们不加以区分，而且不考虑细微的差别，就会相信60%的土耳其妇女佩戴面纱。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, Hamas and Israel have conducted air and land operations in the densely populated Gaza Strip.",
        "更晚近一些，哈马斯和以色列在人口密集的加沙地带采取空中和地面行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps some of this attention to intelligence is necessary, but what is not warranted is the tendency to ignore cognitive capacities that are at least equally important: the capacities that sustain rational thought and action.",
        "也许必须对智力给予一些关注，然而忽略起码是同样重要的认知能力—这一趋势却不合理：正是这种能力支撑起理性的思维和行为。"
    ],
    [
        "International trade is about getting access to a bigger market, and trade agreements involve mutual reduction of barriers, including all kinds of non-tariff rules that minimize competition in the provision of services.",
        "国际贸易事关进入更大市场，而贸易协定包括共同消除壁垒，包括所有最小化服务供应竞争的非关税规则。"
    ],
    [
        "A New Cold War Order?",
        "新冷战秩序？"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – After multiple failed attempts to “repeal and replace” the 2010 Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), US President Donald Trump’s administration now hopes to achieve its first legislative victory with a massive tax giveaway that it has wrapped in the language of “tax reform.”",
        "纽约—在经历了多次试图“取消并取代”2010年平价医疗法（奥巴马医保）未果后，美国总统特朗普政府现在寄希望于通过打着“税收改革”旗号的大规模税收减免实现其第一次立法胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "China fears dependence on those entrepôts in the event of conflict.",
        "中国担心在面临冲突事件时过度依赖香港和新加坡等中转站。"
    ],
    [
        "But both are mere relics of ideas and ideals that in reality have been consigned to the dustbin of history.",
        "但这两者都只不过是在现实中已被扔进历史故纸堆的理念和理想的遗迹罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s foreign policy agenda has been no less audacious than his domestic undertakings.",
        "奥巴马在外交政策上的魄力与其国内政策相比毫不逊色。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The recent G-20 meeting of finance ministers in Saint Petersburg confirmed that the debate between growth and austerity is over – at least for now.",
        "伯克利—最近在圣彼得堡举行的G20财政会议确认了增长和紧缩之争已经结束——至少在当下是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Most other Latin American countries would probably vote in favor of some sort of enhanced status for the Palestinian Authority.",
        "其他大部分拉美国家可能会投票赞成提高巴勒斯坦权力机构地位。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time since the onset of the crisis in Greece, it was officially recognized that the root of the eurozone’s problem was not the flouting of fiscal rules, and that the very principles underlying the monetary union had to be revisited.",
        "这是自希腊危机爆发以来，官方第一次认识到欧元区问题的根源不在于藐视财政规则，而在于货币联盟的基本原则需要修正。"
    ],
    [
        "With foreign infusions of cash easing the need for tax revenues, politicians are likely to spend more time courting donors than caring for their constituents.",
        "外国资金的注入缓解了对税收收入的需要，政客们可能把更多的时间花在与出资人周旋而不是关心他们的选民。"
    ],
    [
        "After a series of (often spectacular) failures, the euro was born to superglue exchange rates together.",
        "在一系列（往往令人叹为观止的）失败后，作为强力汇率粘合剂的欧元终于问世。"
    ],
    [
        "And even in those cases, stock markets barely reacted to the Fed tightening, while bond-market volatility proved short-lived.",
        "而即使在这两次先例中，股市也对美联储的紧缩动作没有什么反应，债券市场的波动也是转瞬即逝。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor did American government spending end the Great Depression (unemployment was still over 15% in 1939, a decade after the depression’s onset).",
        "美国政府的支出也没有让大萧条结束（大萧条开始后的第十年1939年的失业率仍超过了15 ％） 。"
    ],
    [
        "One need not be an economist to figure out that, while all currencies can (and do) depreciate against something else (like gold, land, and other real assets), by definition they cannot all weaken against each other.",
        "我们不需要成为一个经济学家就能明白，货币能（或者确实）对其他资产（比如黄金、土地和其他不动产）贬值，但显然它们不能全体一起相互贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem stems from how unemployment is measured: The adult unemployment rate is calculated by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals in the labor force.",
        "问题出在如何衡量失业：成年人失业率的算法是用没工作的个人数量除以劳动力总数。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, transnational corporations are often targets of NGO campaigns to \"name and shame\" companies that pay low wages in poor countries.",
        "同样，跨国公司也因为在穷国付低工资而经常成为被NGO\"点名并羞辱\"的对象。"
    ],
    [
        "The figure for monthly job creation, for example, is distorted by the growing importance of part-time employment, and it fails to convey the reality of stagnant earnings. Meanwhile, the headline unemployment rate does not reflect the growing number of Americans who have left the work force – a phenomenon vividly reflected by the decline in the labor participation rate to just 63.2%, a 35-year low.",
        "比如，月度就业岗位创造数字因为兼职岗位的日益重要而被扭曲，无法表现收入停滞的现实与此同时，标题失业率也没有反映越来越多的美国人退出了劳动力大军——这一现象生动地体现在劳动力参与率中，该指标只有63."
    ],
    [
        "The first step is to rebuild the health-care system.",
        "第一步是重建卫生体系。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a matter of considerable importance to central banks, which value liquidity when deciding which currencies to hold as reserve.",
        "而这对其他国家的中央银行来说是一个相当重要的问题，因为它们在决定持有哪种货币作为储备时都会重点考虑流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the abject failure of Japan’s approach, the rest of the world remains committed to using monetary policy to cure structural ailments.",
        "尽管日本的方针是一场彻头彻尾的失败，但世界其他国家仍铁心要用货币政策解决结构性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the most remarkable things about Trump is the extent of his own ignorance, despite his high educational attainment, and the fact that he seems to benefit from flaunting it.",
        "特朗普身上一个最引人关注的特点是他自身的无知，尽管他受过高等教育，以及他从炫耀自己的无知中获益这一事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Bond-market crashes have actually been relatively rare and mild.",
        "债券市场崩盘其实相对来说比较罕见和温和。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in order to seize global opportunities today, we need to emphasize a new dimension: the ability to create a shared set of values and foster a culture that embraces those beliefs.",
        "但是，为了在当今世界抓住全球机会，我们需要强调一个新维度：创造共享价值集、打造接受这些信念的文化的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The match garnered front-page headlines in major newspapers around the world on a daily basis for two months, with commentators providing live move-by-move analysis for up to five hours each day.",
        "这个对局在长达两个月的时间里占据着全世界各主要报纸的头版，每一天，都有评论员对对局做出长达五小时的逐步分析。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no telling which future will be realized.",
        "不知道未来会向哪条路发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, by the early 2000s, more than four-fifths of an average North Korean’s household income comprised unofficial earnings from market activities.",
        "事实上，到21世纪初，超过五分之四的朝鲜普通家庭收入都将包含来自市场行为的非官方收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra did – and still do.",
        "意大利前总理西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼和泰国前总理他信则有志于此——他们现在仍不改初衷。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short term, policymakers must address declining demand for Indian products, both among domestic consumers and in export markets.",
        "在短期内，政策制定者必须解决印度商品在国内和出口市场的需求下滑问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians like Hillary Clinton in the United States are promising that they can cajole large corporations into paying higher wages.",
        "希拉里·克林顿这样的美国政客承诺可以说服大企业支付更高的工资。"
    ],
    [
        "When Chinese seek a benchmark model for social protection, they go on study trips to Scandinavia.",
        "当中国人寻找社会保护的基准模式时，他们会去斯堪的纳维亚取经。"
    ],
    [
        "Short-sighted responses by politicians – who hope to get by with a deal that is small enough to please taxpayers and large enough to please the banks – will only prolong the problem. An impasse is looming.",
        "政客们的短视行为——例如认为可以用纳税人较少的投入来解决如此复杂的问题银行——只能延长问题解决的时间，结果只能是死路一条。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps the toughest test facing the ANC’s new leadership will be to reverse the creeping dirigisme that the country has faced in recent years, while steering bold reform.",
        "但也许非国大新领导层所面临的最严峻的考验将是扭转近年来国家面临的隐性种族统制，同时执掌大胆的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "If the world economy’s center of gravity shifts substantially toward developing countries, this will not be a smooth – and possibly not even a benign – process.",
        "如果世界经济的重心不断向发展中国家转移，那将不会是一个平稳——甚至可能不会是良性的——过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Be it the US Congress’s paralyzing polarization or Italy’s protest vote against the established political order, politicians are being given time to overcome their dysfunction, thereby minimizing any immediate disruptive impact.",
        "不管是美国国会导致僵局的两极分化，还是意大利反对现存政治制度的抗议票，政客都获得了时间克服功能失调，从而将即期破坏性影响最小化。"
    ],
    [
        "Psychology need only change enough to bring about a drop in consumption or investment growth of a percentage point or so of world GDP, and market repercussions can do the rest.",
        "心理只需要足够的改变来引起消费或者投资增长降低世界GDP的一个百分点，而市场反应会完成这一过程。"
    ],
    [
        "These are exactly the wrong sticks and carrots.",
        "这些恰恰是错误的胡萝卜和大棒。"
    ],
    [
        "International developments might also awaken some Republicans to the magnitude of the Russian offensive on Western democracies, an offensive which, in the wake of the French elections, feels like an undeclared war.",
        "国际事态的发展也可能唤醒一些共和党人，使他们认识到俄国对西方民主国家的攻势，这样的攻势在法国选举刚刚开始时就像是一场未经宣布的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, Brazil is preparing for its most important presidential election since its transition from dictatorship to democracy in 1985 – and the polls do not bode well for Rousseff.",
        "在这样的背景下，巴西正准备迎来其自1985年从独裁向民主转型以来最重要的总统选举——民调结果对罗塞夫并不十分有利。"
    ],
    [
        "I must emphasize that this process of asset-price declines and the resulting contraction of economic activity is a risk, not a prediction.",
        "我必须强调，这一资产价格下跌过程及其所导致的经济活动的收缩是一种风险，而不是一个预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, the problem with genocide is not narrow judging, but that the crime itself is doubly irredeemable: it is defective in its definition and troubling in its moral and political effects.",
        "尽管如此，种族灭绝真正的问题并不在于狭义的判断，而在于这种罪行本身的性质加倍的无可救药：种族灭绝在定义上就存在缺陷，同时又会造成令人不安的道德和政治影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Upon returning to office this spring as Prime Minister, Singh brought into government an experienced and internationally renowned team, including Finance Minister Chidambaram, who served successfully as Finance Minister in the mid-1990's, and Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who heads the Planning Commission, the key body assessing India's medium-term public investment strategies.",
        "今春再次就任总理后，辛格将一支身经百战、国际闻名的团队带入了印度政府，这其中有20世纪90年代就曾成功担任财政部长的奇丹巴拉姆，以及主管计划委员会的Montek Singh Ahluwalia，计委是负责印度中期公共投资策略的主要机构。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not in Europe’s interest, and it is not in America’s interest to have to deal with such a Europe.",
        "这对欧洲没有任何好处，美国也不会从跟这样一个欧洲的交往中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "(These and related issues were raised at a recent event on Capitol Hill in which I took part.)",
        "（这些问题以及相关问题在最近的国会山会议上被提出，我也参与了这次会议。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to see why, for example, a German welfare recipient who is unfit for work should be supported by the Spanish state if he decides to live in Mallorca.",
        "比如，很难接受为何生活在马略卡的不适合工作的德国籍福利受领者应该由西班牙供养。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – A gift for words was always US President Barack Obama’s strongest asset.",
        "纽约——语言天赋向来是美国总统奥巴马的强项。"
    ],
    [
        "The export portion increased the most – by nearly six-fold, from 6% in 1980 to a pre-crisis peak of 35% in 2007 – as new capacity and infrastructure, low-cost labor, and accession to the World Trade Organization made China the world’s greatest beneficiary of accelerating globalization and surging trade flows.",
        "出口比例增加最多——翻了近六倍，从1980年的6%增长到2007年危机前35%的峰值水平——新产能和基础设施、低成本劳动力和加入世界贸易组织让中国成为加速的全球化和急剧增长的贸易流的最大受益者。"
    ],
    [
        "In many cases, China even sends its own construction workers, minimizing the number of local jobs that are created.",
        "在许多例子中，中国甚至输出自己的建筑工人，从而让本地就业创造降到最低。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s economic peace remains elusive for a simple reason: governments have still not found a way to generate the trifecta of growth, employment, and financial stability.",
        "欧洲的经济和平仍然晦暗不明，原因很简单：政府仍未找到增长、就业和金融稳定三管齐下的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "A second issue likely to blow the G-2 apart before it has actually taken shape is the impact of China’s authoritarianism on the free movement of information.",
        "第二个可能在 G-2 集团最终成型之前导致其流产的问题，则是中国在信息自由方面的专制主义行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution to the impasse over Europe’s Constitutional Treaty certainly does not lie in the direction of diminishing its scope, and thus perhaps making it just an “ordinary” treaty.",
        "要解决欧洲在宪法条约上面临的僵局显然不能够用缩小它的范围的方式，那可能会使它变成一个“普通”的条约。"
    ],
    [
        "The emotional appeal of a tax on all financial transactions is undeniable.",
        "对一切金融交易征税，可谓大快人心，似乎没有理由加以拒绝。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – The most recent World Trade Organization ministerial conference, held in December in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was a fiasco.",
        "巴黎——今年12月在阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯召开的最新一届世贸组织部长级会议失败得非常之惨。"
    ],
    [
        "Some UN programs should be merged or closed, while other new SDG-related UN programs should be created.",
        "我们要在关闭或合并某些联合国项目的同时，创设新项目实现与可持续发展相关的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Soviet Union’s collapse, a unique opportunity to end the nuclear competition emerged.",
        "随着苏联解体，一个终结核武竞赛的绝佳机会出现在人们眼前。"
    ],
    [
        "First and foremost was Obama’s handling of the economic crisis.",
        "首先，也是最为重要的一点，奥巴马在经济危机的处理中的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "There were no banner headlines or enthusiastic comments.",
        "没有头号大标题或者激情评论。"
    ],
    [
        "It is thus unwise to rely wholly on China.",
        "完全依赖中国是不明智的。"
    ],
    [
        "Only when policymakers truly grasp that dignity and self-respect are unavoidable prerequisites in the struggle against deprivation – rather than outcomes of its alleviation – will the world have a fighting chance of eradicating poverty in all its forms.",
        "只有当决策者真正领会到尊严和自尊是减贫斗争不可或缺的先决条件——而不是扶贫的结果，世界才获得了消灭所有形式的贫困的战斗机会。"
    ],
    [
        "This internal devaluation is paying off: while Ireland was still running a current-account deficit of 5.6% of GDP in 2008, the European Commission expects the outturn for 2011 to have been a 0.7%-of-GDP current-account surplus.",
        "这一内部贬值进程是有所回报的：爱尔兰在2008年时的经常账户赤字相当于GDP的5. 6%，而欧盟委员会预计该国会在2011年实现相当于GDP0."
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, a surge of extra-parliamentary mobilization occurs: more and longer strikes and more and larger demonstrations.",
        "与此同时，院外动员情况会出现爆发式增长：罢工更加普遍，时间更长； 游行示威规模也会更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Then Warren hit them where it hurt.",
        "接着，沃伦直击他们的痛处。"
    ],
    [
        "But the studies do not specify why.",
        "但这些研究没有具体说明原因。"
    ],
    [
        "A woman lying on a beach in a body-covering swimsuit is probably the least likely person to start shooting or bombing.",
        "身着布基尼泳装躺在沙滩上的女性也许是最不可能开枪或引爆炸弹的。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, where else but in South Korea can you find a Christian church whose registered membership runs upwards of 800,000, and where nearly 100,000 adherents attend each of the three Sunday services every week?",
        "同样的，除了韩国外，你还能在哪个地方能找到拥有超过80万信徒的单个基督教会，在哪能找到每周约有10万信徒参加三次的礼拜？"
    ],
    [
        "Combating the virus requires knowledge about its biology, the epidemiology of its transmission, and the drugs and vaccines that could potentially be deployed against it.",
        "与病毒抗争需要我们理解病毒的生物学、其传播的传染病学，以及可能使用哪些药物和疫苗来对付它。"
    ],
    [
        "But Big Tobacco is not the only industry attempting to undermine the public good for the sake of its own interests.",
        "但大型烟草公司并非为保护自身利益而试图破坏公共利益的唯一一个个案。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, the video shows how the stores spread out like petals of a flower, ever thickening and expanding.",
        "有趣的是，录像片展示的是沃尔玛如何像花束一样扩张，不断变厚和扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "In the advanced countries, trade barriers for manufactured goods and many services are at a historic low.",
        "而在发达国家，对于制成品和很多服务的贸易壁垒也降到了历史低点。"
    ],
    [
        "In its 2015 mid-year report, the agency put the number of “forcibly displaced” people worldwide at 59.5 million at the end of 2014, including 19.5 million internationally displaced, which they define as true refugees.",
        "在2015年年中报告中，联合国难民署认为2014年底全世界共有5,950万“被迫流离失所”者，其中包括1,950万国际流民（他们被定义为的真正的难民）。"
    ],
    [
        "But the study she cites shows only a possible loss of 1-12% of GDP in the future, and this is estimated not globally but within just eight carefully selected, climate-vulnerable regions or cities.",
        "”但她所引用的研究结果显示未来可能损失仅占GDP的1-12%，而且这还不是全球数据，而仅限于8座精心挑选的易受气候变化影响的地区或者城市。"
    ],
    [
        "Either the banks reform themselves, or public authorities will intervene still further.",
        "要么银行改革自己，要么公共当局进一步干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s Israel Problem",
        "奥巴马的以色列问题"
    ],
    [
        "James Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank, has announced his intention to leave, and the search is on for a new head of the world’s most important multilateral organization promoting development.",
        "世界银行行长詹姆斯•沃尔芬森已经公布了离任的打算，现在世行这个全世界最重要的多边发展促进组织正在寻找新的带头人。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – The European Union’s list of crises keeps growing.",
        "布鲁塞尔—欧盟的危机名单还在加长。"
    ],
    [
        "Taxation remains the dominant source of government revenue in most developed countries.",
        "在大多数发达国，税款依然是政府收入的主要来源。"
    ],
    [
        "A nuclear-armed Iran would certainly make Israel feel more vulnerable.",
        "拥有核子武装的伊朗必定会让以色列感到更加脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, there is rising mistrust of politicians who cannot fulfill promises to halt immigration, accompanied by perceptions of immigrants as law-breakers rather than enterprising people, and mistreatment of refugees aimed at deterring people who want to work from applying for asylum.",
        "此外，人们因政治人物无法实现阻止移民的诺言而对他们越发不信任。 随之而来的是移民给人一种违法者而不是具有创业精神的人的印象，刁难难民从而不让想要工作的人申请难民。"
    ],
    [
        "This comes after years of declarations by prominent economists, including Berkeley’s Brad DeLong and former US Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, that helicopter money offers a way to overcome deflation (with which Japan has struggled for decades).",
        "多年前，许多著名经济学家，包括伯克利的布拉德·德隆（Brad DeLong）和美联储前主席本·伯南克（Ben Bernanke），宣布直升机撒钱是克服通货紧缩的一个办法。 多年后，饱受通缩之苦几十年之久的日本终于这么做了。"
    ],
    [
        "Barriers like geographical distance and low resources, which have long prevented billions of people from getting the care they need, are much easier to overcome in the digital age.",
        "地理距离和资源匮乏等障碍长期阻碍数十亿人获得他们所需要的看护，而在数字时代，这些障碍可以轻易克服。"
    ],
    [
        "One centers on the US and its ambition to conclude the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).",
        "一个板块的核心是美国及其完成跨太平洋合作伙伴关系 (TPP)和跨大西洋贸易与投资合作伙伴关系 (TTIP)的宏大目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In this way, fundamental tensions are created both in the way these deals are put together and in the overall conduct of North-South and South-South integration.",
        "如此，这些交易的汇总方式以及南北和南南融合的总体安排均造成了根本性的紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "With a more balanced approach to intervention that reflects those lessons, they could put China’s economy on a much more stable path.",
        "如果实行反映这些教训的更加平衡的干预防针，中国领导人能够让中国经济走上更加稳定的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Our experience with authoritarian rule, however, is that it undermines the goal of post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction by its need to maintain our society’s divisions artificially.",
        "但独裁统治的亲身经历告诉我们独裁者想要通过人为维持社会分裂来破坏冲突后的和解及重建目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, one can expect the debate to center on how to confront China in the short term, rather than on how to nurture long-term cooperative ties.",
        "事实上，可以预见辩论将集中在如何在短期内对付中国，而不是如何加强长期合作关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The third step is to get everyone on the same page.",
        "第三步是让所有人都参与进来。"
    ],
    [
        "The most one could hope for, then, was a perfectly balanced dialectic.",
        "因此，人们最大的指望就是完全平衡的论理的推论。"
    ],
    [
        "Finding a description of gravity that is compatible with our understanding of quantum physics would revolutionize cosmology, yield new insights into the first moments of our universe, and provide a deeper understanding of the theories on which all of modern physics is based.",
        "寻找一种与我们对量子物理学的理解相容的引力的描述方法将带来宇宙学革命，形成关于宇宙最初时刻的新的洞见，并提供作为所有现代物理学基础的理论的更深层次的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States and Germany are at opposite extremes of the creditor-debtor scale.",
        "美国和德国是债权-债务对立的两大极端。"
    ],
    [
        "One possibility is that they worry about borrowers’ credit risk, though this would have to be extremely high to justify the complete cessation of long-term lending.",
        "一种可能是它们担心借款者的信贷风险，虽然这样的风险要非常高，才能证明银行完全停止长期贷款是正当的。"
    ],
    [
        "Through its Water Futures Partnership, the company has identified which of its facilities are located in areas facing water-security risks and has created partnerships in the local watersheds to address these risks.",
        "通过其期水合作伙伴计划（Water Futures Partnership），该公司研究哪些工厂位于面临水安全风险的地区，并与当地水文部门合作解决风险。"
    ],
    [
        "With fear of bank runs and defaults receding, banks’ reserve ratios became ever smaller, thus increasing their lending facilities.",
        "虽然依旧害怕遭遇挤提和烂帐，但银行的存款准备金比率依然逐渐下调，并借此逐渐扩大其贷款能力。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2030, 70% of India’s GDP will come from its cities.",
        "到2030年，七成的印度GDP讲来自城市。"
    ],
    [
        "And recent sanctions have only worsened conditions.",
        "近期的制裁只是让局势进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "But American policy toward China is different from Cold War containment of the Soviet bloc.",
        "但是，美国对华政策不同于对前苏联的压制战略。 冷战时期，美苏间只有相当有限的双边贸易和民间往来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while a parliamentary system can work in a small, largely homogenous country, in India’s large, diverse, and fractious polity, it has been messy, to say the least.",
        "事实上，虽然议会制可以在大体同质化的小国很好地发挥作用，但针对印度这样一个大型、多样且难以驾驭的政体，议会制至少也是乱七八糟的。"
    ],
    [
        "But he must recognize that achieving that objective is not worth selling Russia’s pro-democratic activists down the river.",
        "）但特朗普必须认识到出卖俄国亲民主人士来实现这一目标得不偿失。"
    ],
    [
        "“Let’s make the poor pay” is his fiscal order of the day.",
        "“让我们降低工资”是他当时的财政命令。"
    ],
    [
        "What is certain is that how Russia develops will be a key factor determining the character of this century, no less than the last.",
        "明确不过的是，俄罗斯如何演变将是决定本世纪大局的一个关键因素，其重要程度并不亚于上世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, confronted with a revival of nationalist sentiment, former Polish President Lech Wałęsa – the leader of the anti-communist Solidarity movement – suggested that his country should enter into political union with Germany.",
        "今年，面对民族主义情绪的再次兴起，前波兰总统兼反共团结工会运动领导人莱赫·瓦文萨表示波兰应与德国结成政治联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Another secret assault on civil liberties was Nixon’s adoption of the “Huston Plan” which authorized political surveillance by burglary, electronic eavesdropping, and the use of the military to spy on civilians.",
        "对公民自由的另一个秘密破坏是尼克松采纳“休斯顿计划”。 这一计划授权通过入室行窃、电子窃听以及对平民使用军队监视来进行政治性侦察。"
    ],
    [
        "The meeting also called for the establishment of an Interagency Coordination Group to guide efforts in the fight against AMR during that two-year period.",
        "会议还号召成立一个机构间协调小组，在两年的时间里指导遏制AMR的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "But we live in a globalized world, and nowadays, Japan’s citizens are acquiring considerable income from Japanese activities abroad.",
        "而我们其实生活在一个全球化的世界，日本国民正在从众多国外经济活动中获得可观的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, as Geffen presumably knew, the family of Avery Fisher had to be compensated with a payment of $15 million in order to agree to the renaming.",
        "毕竟，格芬事先就已知道，让艾弗里·费雪家族同意改名需要给他们1,500万美元补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "Kashkari is presenting from a position of authority a message that many other reasonable people have been trying to convey for nearly a decade.",
        "卡什卡利运用自身所处的权威角色，传达了许多其他理性的人们在近十年来一直在试图传达的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "• Eliminating waste.",
        "• 消灭浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s Zero Hour",
        "德国的零时"
    ],
    [
        "The country has also spent millions of dollars on illegal purchases of enrichment technology and nuclear-weapon designs from the Pakistani nuclear scientist and black marketeer A.Q. Khan, the “Father of the Pakistani bomb.”",
        "该国同时还斥资数百万美元从身兼核科学家和黑市商人双重身份的“巴基斯坦核弹之父” 阿卜杜勒·卡迪尔·汗那里购买浓缩技术和核弹设计图纸。"
    ],
    [
        "After World War II, when a ruined Europe was smothered in foreign-exchange controls, illegal capital flows out of the continent often averaged 10% of the value of trade or more.",
        "在二战后，几遭毁灭的欧洲执行了严苛的外汇管制，但平均下来流出的非法资本经常会占到贸易总额的10%或更多。"
    ],
    [
        "In many that aren’t (and even in some that claim to be), those who campaign for a more socially, economically, and ecologically equitable world face severe repression.",
        "在许多不是多元化民主的国家（甚至包括一些自称是多元化民主的国家）中，鼓吹社会上、经济上和生态上更平等的世界的人面临着严重压迫。"
    ],
    [
        "The current US turn toward collaboration with Sunni militias holds within it the risk of a final break-up of Iraq into three parts.",
        "美国现在转向与逊尼派武装合作，这其中暗含了将伊拉克最终一分为三的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Under this policy, Hong Kong’s capitalist system, the rule of law, and its people’s freedoms and way of life were to be preserved.",
        "在此政策下，香港的资本主义制度、法制、人民的自由及生活方式保持不变。"
    ],
    [
        "The origin of China’s desultory policy lies in its leadership’s failure to shape or sharpen the drift of domestic politics: many Chinese still see plucky little North Korea as a friend and ally.",
        "中国的外交政策之所以散乱无序，其原因在于中国领导层无力影响和塑造其国内政治动向：许多中国人仍旧将负隅顽抗的小国朝鲜当做自己的朋友和盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "The new reform brings three critical changes.",
        "新的改革带来三大关键变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, this is true not just for Greece.",
        "最重要的是，不仅仅希腊是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The relentless competition for talent and skills is being underscored daily by the increases in R&D investment in China and India, whose growing middle classes are only too keen to seek better educational opportunities for their children.",
        "中国和印度在研发方面投入的增加每天都在提醒着我们人才和技能方面的严酷竞争。 两国日益壮大的中产阶级不惜代价地为自己的子女寻求更好的教育机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The underlying stability highlighted by Mexico’s post-election crisis is also evident elsewhere in Latin America.",
        "墨西哥选后危机所突出的根本性稳定局面也在拉美其他国家显现。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last six years, Hezbollah established a virtual state-within-a-state: its militia became the only military force in southern Lebanon, setting up outposts along the frontier with Israel, sometimes only a few meters away from the border.",
        "在过去六年里，真主党建立了国中之国。 其民兵成为南黎巴嫩唯一的军事力量，在与以色列的前沿建立了前哨阵地，有的距离边界只有几米远。"
    ],
    [
        "On the same day, the US State Department released its annual report on religious freedom, in which Myanmar was included among the world’s eight worst offenders.",
        "同一天，美国国务院发布了其宗教自由年度报告，缅甸名列全世界对宗教干涉最粗暴的八个国家之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign students now dominate many US doctoral programs, accounting for 64% of PhDs in computer science, for example.",
        "外国学生已经统治了许多美国博士研究项目，比如在计算机科学方面，64%的博士生都是外国人。"
    ],
    [
        "If central banks are tightening and long-term rates aren’t rising, one needs some explanation.",
        "如果中央银行在收缩银根而长期利率却没有上升，那么人们需要 某种 解释。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are exceptions: the cumulative impact of these reforms over the past 25 years has been greater inequality in most developed and developing countries, with rising unemployment, greater earnings disparities, reduced social protection, and environmental degradation.",
        "但他们仅仅是例外：过去25年来的经济改革的累积后果是在大多数发达国家和发展中国家造成更大的不平等、持续攀升的失业率、更大的收入差距、更弱的社会保护和环境恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, even stopping the fighting between regime forces and some armed groups – that is, those that associate themselves with the Syrian National Coalition, or are at least willing to coordinate with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the partly Saudi-sponsored Islamic Front – would be a major achievement.",
        "毕竟，即使在政府军和某些武装团体（与叙利亚全国联盟有联系或至少愿意和叙利亚自由军及部分由沙特资助的伊斯兰阵线合作）之间实现停战也将是一项重大的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Any study seeking to determine whether a psychiatric disorder is over-diagnosed will find that some patients with the condition do not have it upon re-interview.",
        "任何试图判断某种精神障碍是否被过度诊断的研究都会发现某种病情在病人再次问诊时却没了踪影。"
    ],
    [
        "So the world has experienced true financial globalization only for 15 years or so.",
        "因此，当今世界经历真正的金融全球化只不过有15年时间左右。"
    ],
    [
        "That is progress, however hard earned.",
        "无论得来有多么不易，这就是一种进步。"
    ],
    [
        "After providing Sri Lanka’s government with offensive weapon systems that helped end the country’s decades-long civil war, China has been rewarded with port-building, railroad, and other infrastructure projects.",
        "在为斯里兰卡政府提供攻击性武器系统，帮助这个国家结束了长达10年的内战后，中国得到了建设港口、铁路和其他基础设施的项目作为回报。"
    ],
    [
        "And it will be the most vulnerable people – rural women, the sick, the old, and the very young – who are most at risk.",
        "而风险最大的则是那些最脆弱的人——农村妇女，病人，长者以及婴幼儿。 对于世界上那些最脆弱的国家而言，限制温度上升1."
    ],
    [
        "But, while the grievances fueling these choices are real – many have been left behind by globalization – the treatment is likely to cause more harm than the disease.",
        "但尽管助推上述选择的不满情绪确实存在——很多人被全球化进程远远抛在了后面——但这种应对方法很可能比问题本身造成更大的危害。"
    ],
    [
        "But back in 2001, Iran’s government, led by reformist President Mohammad Khatami, essentially consented to the US invasion of Afghanistan, even providing discreet assistance.",
        "但其实早在2001年，由改革派总统穆罕默德·哈塔米领导的伊朗政府基本上是同意美国入侵阿富汗的，甚至不动声色地提供了一些协助。"
    ],
    [
        "They then hijacked two armored personnel carriers and sped toward the frontier with Israel.",
        "接着，他们劫持了两部武装运兵车，加速向以色列边境驶去。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU cannot alter the international coalition’s strategy alone.",
        "欧盟无力单独改变国际联合部队的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "The restaurant’s interior is decorated with various pieces of espionage equipment. But the main attraction is a shooting gallery where patrons can test their skills between courses.",
        "餐馆里摆放着很多间谍设备，但最引人注目的还是一条射击廊，供客人在上菜的间歇小试枪法。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only are these banks now large relative to some national economies, but the quality of government credit is now in question across the eurozone periphery – up to and including Italy.",
        "这些银行不仅与国民经济关系密切，而且还影响欧元区外围国家的政府信用质量，甚至波及到意大利。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatively, citizens could try to lead efforts to re-negotiate their countries’ constitutional arrangements.",
        "或者，公民可以试图领导其祖国的宪法安排再协商。"
    ],
    [
        "DUBAI – The global financial crisis taught the world how profoundly interdependent our economies have become.",
        "迪拜—全球金融危机让世界知道了我们的经济相互依存度有多高。"
    ],
    [
        "As we know from WWI, wars founded on lies are likely to produce a series of disastrous unforeseen consequences.",
        "我们通过第一次世界大战知道，战争建立在谎言的基础上可以产生一系列无法预料的惨重损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Wages continue to rise, reducing competitiveness vis-à-vis low-income economies, but the growth model is not yet equipped to support competitiveness in high-skill industries, leading to stagnation.",
        "工资继续上升，这导致相对低收入经济体的竞争力下降，但增长模式还不能支持其在高技能产业的竞争，从而导致经济停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "No matter how unenthusiastic the Japanese might be about Abe’s security bills and his attempts to change the constitution, they would prefer that the issue be relegated to a back burner.",
        "无论日本人对安倍法案以及修宪企图如何不热心，他们更希望能够将这个问题退居到次要的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Hagel’s successor is likely to find that, in an era of limited budgets and automatic spending cuts, the type of comprehensive innovation strategy that Hagel envisioned may simply not be viable.",
        "不幸的是，哈格尔的继任者也许会发现，在预算有限、自动减支的时期，哈格尔所构想的完整的创新战略也许根本不可行。"
    ],
    [
        "The collapse of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in Egypt, the subsequent departure of the Israeli ambassador from Cairo, the political upheaval in Syria, and the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador from Ankara are causing great uncertainty in Israeli leadership circles.",
        "穆巴拉克体制在埃及的倒台及其后以色列大使离开开罗、叙利亚的政治动荡，以及土耳其驱逐以色列大使，这些事件在以色列领导层中间造成了极大的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "The presidential election on January 14 was the first of the transfers of power in China and Taiwan that will take place this year.",
        "而1月14日的那场大选则是两岸政权各自实施权力交接的第一幕。"
    ],
    [
        "To grasp how risky, consider this: US households now own $21 trillion of equities, so a 35% decline in equity prices to their historic average would involve a loss of more than $7.5 trillion.",
        "到底有多危险，我们来看一下。 如今美国家庭拥有21万亿美元股票，因此，股价下跌30%至历史平均水平意味着超过7."
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the 2017 draft budget law already includes urgent measures to fight corruption, trim the bureaucracy, and reduce tax evasion.",
        "事实上，2017年预算法草案已经囊括了打击腐败、整顿官僚机构和减少逃税等紧急措施。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Most of today’s economic institutions, from money to banking, evolved over many years – the unintended consequences of decisions by millions of individuals.",
        "华盛顿—今天的大部分经济制度——从货币到银行——都是经过多年的演化形成的，是千百万个人决策的不经意的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "From a European perspective, this is deeply worrying.",
        "从欧洲角度讲，这实在令人担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Kolakowski, on the other hand, was someone I knew.",
        "与将军不同的是，柯拉科夫斯基确是与我相识的。"
    ],
    [
        "This shortage – exacerbated by exploding populations, depletion and degradation of natural ecosystems, and popular discontent – is casting a shadow over these countries’ future.",
        "水短缺因为人口爆炸、自然生态系统的枯竭和退化以及民怨而越发加剧，给这些国家的未来蒙上了一层阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "Now many members, including Brazil, China, India, and several African countries, are raising their voices in support of more collegial leadership and an improved strategy that works for all.",
        "如今，不少成员国——包括巴西、中国、印度和数个非洲国家——正在发声支持合议领导以及改善世行战略使之适用于所有成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "Led by the developed countries, the pendulum began to swing in the 1980’s.",
        "20世纪80年代，权衡直接外资利弊的天平在发达国家的引导下开始发生倾斜。"
    ],
    [
        "On this view, China has been investing too much, building too many factories, importing too many machines, and constructing too many new homes.",
        "按照这种观点，中国投入了过多的资金、建起了太多的工厂、进口了太多的机器、盖起了太多的新居。"
    ],
    [
        "The first dose of MDT kills 99.9% of the bacteria that cause leprosy, rendering the person no longer infectious.",
        "首剂联合化疗药物能杀死99. 9%的麻风杆菌，让患者失去传染性。"
    ],
    [
        "And when, in November, the country faced the first review of its reform progress under its latest agreement with its creditors – an exercise required to obtain a new infusion of bailout funds – its budget deficit was put under the microscope once again.",
        "当该国11月按照与债权人的最新协定首次面对改革进展状况审核时（这是获得新注入救助资金的必要条件）——其预算赤字问题再次被放到显微镜下。"
    ],
    [
        "GOP leaders’ failure to stop Obama in 2012 and roll back his initiatives intensified populist Republicans’ anger at their own party.",
        "共和党2012年未能阻止奥巴马并挫败其计划加剧了民粹主义者对自身政党的愤怒情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and new initiatives to monitor the safety of financial products, could alter the architecture of finance.",
        "而最近在美国颁布的“Dodd-Frank华尔街改革和消费者保护法案”以及多部监控金融产品安全性的新提案都将改变整个金融架构。"
    ],
    [
        "The region’s trajectory is worrisome: weak states unable to police their territory; the few relatively strong states competing for primacy; militias and terrorist groups gaining greater influence; and the erasure of borders.",
        "中东地区的动向令人担忧：弱国无力治理领土； 极少数相对较强的国家为主宰权而互相争夺；"
    ],
    [
        "Traditional war is a man’s game: tribal women never band together to raid neighboring villages.”",
        "传统战争是男性之间的游戏：部落中的女成员从来不会联合起来扫荡相邻部落。"
    ],
    [
        "If excessively high real interest rates are undermining the domestic demand that China needs to reverse the economic slowdown, one naturally wonders why the government does not take steps to lower them.",
        "如果过高利率破坏了中国扭转经济放缓势头所需要的内需，那么一个自然而然的疑问是为何政府不采取措施降低利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Social phobia (later dubbed “social anxiety disorder”) was one of seven new anxiety disorders created in 1980.",
        "社交恐惧症（后被称作“社交焦虑症”）就是在1980年所确认的7种新的精神疾病之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Bilateral relations were frozen.",
        "双边关系被冻结。"
    ],
    [
        "Jewish fundamentalists obstruct any peace process that is left in the Middle East and build more illegal settlements.",
        "犹太原教旨主义者极力阻挠中东仅存的和平进程，继续建设非法定居点。"
    ],
    [
        "But the size of a country plays only a limited role in the EU's decision-making process, because political influence within the Union depends more on economic power.",
        "但在欧盟的决策过程中，国家的大小起不了决定作用，因为欧盟内部的政治影响更多地取决于经济方面的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Georgian war antagonized not only the west, but also China, which has a vital strategic interest in maintaining the post-Cold War geo-strategic settlement.",
        "事实上，格鲁吉亚战争使俄罗斯不仅同西方而且同中国树了敌。 维持后冷战时期地缘战略的安定性，对中国具有重要的战略利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the cause of the next downturn, ECB policies that helped in the past would no longer be available.",
        "不管下一场衰退原因为何，在过去起到帮助作用的欧洲央行政策都不再可用。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon the drums will be beating, the trumpets blowing.",
        "战鼓很快就将擂起，号角也将吹响。"
    ],
    [
        "Cool heads must prevail.",
        "冷静必须压倒头脑发热。"
    ],
    [
        "There is, however, a recent European precedent: Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi.",
        "但近期欧洲却有一个先例：那就是意大利的西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼。"
    ],
    [
        "In economic terms, they have had considerable success.",
        "在经济方面，它们取得了相当大的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "By reaffirming the US commitment to aid India’s rise, and by emphasizing America’s fellowship with India, Obama can help bring the two countries together on the basis of shared interests, and move their relationship forward significantly.",
        "通过重申美国力助印度崛起的承诺，强调美国与印度的伙伴关系，奥巴马能够促使两国在共同利益的基础上携手共进，使两国关系向前迈进一大步。"
    ],
    [
        "All leaders can order their forces into battle in cases of national emergency or self-defense.",
        "所有领导人都可以命令军队开战，如果出现国家紧急情况或是为了自卫的话。"
    ],
    [
        "But the SOEs have also been the source of serious problems.",
        "但国企也是许多严重问题的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "One carried a handwritten sign stating that it belonged to unit 325 of the North Korean army.",
        "其中一条带有朝军325部队的手写标志。"
    ],
    [
        "Research from MIT has shown that an increase in population size is an important driver of technological progress.",
        "MIT的研究表明，人口规模的增加是技术进步的一个重要推动因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Paulson’s plan would create a charitable institution that provides welfare to the rich – at taxpayers’ expense.",
        "保尔森的计划将促成用纳税人的钱为富人提供福利的慈善机构的诞生。"
    ],
    [
        "Human capital is vital to an economy’s success, and Mexico is no exception.",
        "人力资本对于经济的成功至关重要。 墨西哥也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "To square the circle, Macron needs growth, and he is relying on supply-side reforms to deliver it.",
        "为了成功，马克龙需要增长，而他依靠供给侧改革来实现增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Distrust of the elites fosters distrust of the system, and the longing for great leaders who will deliver us from the selfishness of professional politicians will lead to new forms of tyranny.",
        "不信任精英导致不信任制度，而期盼伟大领袖让我们摆脱职业政客的自私将导致新形式的暴政。"
    ],
    [
        "Others, following the government’s retreat, grandiosely thought the events amounted to a revolution.",
        "其他人则看到了政府不得不让步，因此将这起事件视为伟大革命。"
    ],
    [
        "As 2010 concludes, several outstanding issues continue to bedevil the country.",
        "2010年末，几个悬而未决的问题仍然困扰着巴基斯坦。"
    ],
    [
        "The organic movement’s claims about the sustainability of its methods are dubious.",
        "有机运动宣称其方法具有可持续性，这一点颇可质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost 40 countries had introduced single regulators, merging all types of oversight into a single all-powerful entity.",
        "近40个国家成立了单一监管者制度，把所有类型的监督都合并到一个全能监督实体中。"
    ],
    [
        "Political and economic pressure would lead more Japanese sectors to undergo the transformation to machine-intensive, high-productivity modes of organization that export-oriented manufacturing had already undergone (and that sectors like agriculture and distribution had undergone or were undergoing in the North Atlantic region).",
        "政治和经济压力将引导更多日本行业经历向机械密集型高生产率组织模式的转变，这是出口导向型制造业已经经历过的（也是北大西洋地区农业和分销等部门已经或正在经历的）。"
    ],
    [
        "The effort should begin with a publicly commissioned gathering of a broad cross-section of political scientists, anthropologists, theologians, philosophers, and artists, among others, from across the political spectrum, convened from universities and similar institutions around the world. Over a predetermined period, they would produce a clear, plainly written report to the public.",
        "首先，我们应该组成一个由各政治流派的政治学家、人类学家、神学家、哲学家、艺术家和其他人所组成的靠开的组织，从全球各所大学和类似机构汇聚人才，由他们根据计划安排撰写面向公众、通俗意赅的报告。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, low and especially negative interest rates make holding cash costly, prompting investors to seek riskier investments with higher potential returns.",
        "此外，低利率，特别是负利率，能产生现金持有成本，促使投资者寻求通过高风险投资实现更高的潜在回报。"
    ],
    [
        "If China fails to rebalance, weak external demand from a crisis-battered developed world will continue to hobble its export machine, forcing it to up the ante on a credit- and investment-led growth model – in effect, doubling down on resource-intensive and environmentally damaging growth.",
        "如果中国无法成功调整，发达国家饱受危机冲击的疲软外部需求将会持续遏制其出口机器，迫使它在信贷和投资主导的增长模式上押更多的赌注——实际上就会加倍进行资源密集和伤害环境的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1990 to 2010, death and disability from NCDs in low-income countries increased 300% faster than the rate of decline in infectious diseases.",
        "从1990到2010年，中低收入国家非传染性疾病的致死及致残率比传染性疾病的下降速度快300%。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the sudden devolution of health responsibilities to the country’s provinces occurred without adequate preparation or oversight.",
        "不幸的是，突然将卫生责任下放给邦级政府的做法并没有充分的准备和监督支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet beneath Iraq’s chaos and the rubble, a rough and tumble private sector has been expanding since the US invasion, benefiting from higher oil revenues and more liberal economic policies.",
        "但是，在伊拉克的混乱和废墟之下，一个粗糙而又跌跌撞撞的私营部门从美国入侵以来就一直在扩大，并且获益于高昂的石油收入以及更为自由化的经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Euro for euro, dollar for dollar, yen for yen: energy and carbon taxes have a lower negative impact on a nation’s economy, consumption, and jobs than income tax and VAT.",
        "欧元对欧元，美元对美元，日元对日元：能源税和碳税对一个国家的经济、消费和就业产生的负面影响比所得税和增值税要小。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, from 1965 to 1980, the value of Soviet oil production soared by a factor of almost 20.",
        "结果，从1965年到1980年，苏联石油产量飙升近20倍。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, when a country is in this predicament, fiscal contraction may end up being expansionary to the extent that it reestablishes financial confidence and lowers sky-high interest rates.",
        "事实上，当一国陷入这一窘境时，财政收缩最终会演变成扩张，因为这样能重塑信心、降低奇高的利率。"
    ],
    [
        "The control of climate change is a moral imperative and a practical necessity – far too important to be left to politicians, Big Oil, and their media propagandists.",
        "控制气候变化既是道德需求，也是现实必要——这个重要任务不能只由政客、石油巨头及其媒体宣传机器参与。"
    ],
    [
        "But the advantage for trade and investment implied by the absence of foreign-exchange risks within the euro area is of greater economic importance.",
        "但是，由于少了外汇兑换的风险而给贸易和投资带来的好处，在经济上的意义远比这更为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The future promises peace without development.",
        "未来唯一能带给他们的只有和平，而发展却遥遥无期。"
    ],
    [
        "The Cultural Revolution at 40",
        "文化大革命40周年祭"
    ],
    [
        "Trade with China is keeping those market forces supplied with goods and business opportunities across the border.",
        "而中朝贸易正在为这些市场力量提供着商品和跨境商机。"
    ],
    [
        "But poor countries typically lack the funds needed to pay such a team’s fees.",
        "但穷国通常负担不起如此巨额的费用。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is still too early to declare the job done and claim victory.",
        "但宣布任务胜利完成仍然太早。"
    ],
    [
        "In February, Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, declared that if Cuban President Raúl Castro were not invited to the Summit, the ALBA countries (Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and some of the Caribbean islands) would not attend.",
        "2月，厄瓜多尔总统科雷亚宣布，如果古巴总统劳尔·卡斯特罗不能获邀参会，ALBA国家（古巴、委内瑞拉、厄瓜多尔、尼加拉瓜、玻利维亚和一些加勒比岛国）也不会与会。"
    ],
    [
        "European economic elites perceive China and India very differently.",
        "欧洲经济巨头对中国和印度的看法却与此截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate about the American elections has still not abated.",
        "有关美国大选的争论势头依然不减。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a good starting point.",
        "这是个不错的起点。"
    ],
    [
        "The tide of national democracy is rising across Europe, and slogans about “ever closer union” will not reverse it.",
        "国家民主的潮流正在整个欧洲兴起，“更加紧密的联盟”的口号无法逆转这一潮流。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that these states were denuclearized as part of the Safe and Secure Disarmament program provides a valuable lesson.",
        "南非和这几个原苏联国家的无核化进程给大家作出了一个好的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "I do not know if there is a Mandarin equivalent for “Be careful what you wish for,” but if there is, it surely applies.",
        "我不知道中文是否有和“小心你希望的东西”相应的说法，但是，如果有，这个说法在这里当然适用。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, nobody understands the limitations of a weak health-care system better than someone who has to work in one.",
        "毕竟，最了解脆弱的医疗系统本身限制的莫过于其中的工作者。"
    ],
    [
        "If EU countries reject trade deals currently under discussion, including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, the EU’s share of world trade will decrease, and the European economy will suffer for it.",
        "如果欧盟国家拒绝目前正在讨论中的贸易协定，包括跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系以及全面经济和贸易协定，那么欧盟占世界贸易的比重将继续下降，欧洲经济也将因此蒙受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Small changes in practices, when replicated by hundreds of millions of people, can make an enormous difference.",
        "日常行为的小小改变如果被成千上万的人实践就能扭转局面。"
    ],
    [
        "A few weeks later, Guterres appointed Amina Mohammed, a former Nigerian environment minister, as his deputy secretary-general.",
        "几个星期后，古特雷斯任命前尼日利亚环境部长阿米娜·穆罕默德担任副秘书长职务。"
    ],
    [
        "If the BJP is to avoid doing further damage to the Indian nation, it must recognize that the past is not a blunt tool for scoring petty political points.",
        "如果印度人民党要避免对印度民族造成进一步的损害，那就必须认识到翻旧账并不是一个用来积攒零碎政治分数的趁手工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The US public sharply rejected Obama’s planned missile strikes to punish Assad for the repeated use of chemical weapons, and a recent Pew poll indicates that a majority of Americans believe that the US “should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along the best they can on their own.”",
        "美国公众坚决拒绝了奥巴马严惩阿萨德反复使用化学武器的导弹袭击计划，而且最近一次皮尤民调显示多数美国人认为“美国应该在国际上管好自己的事务，让其他国家依靠自己的力量，能做到什么程度就做到什么程度。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia’s initial response to the fracturing of the regional order was to increase its support for those of its allies – Jordan, Lebanon, and Bahrain – that were still standing, and to turn the Egyptian army into its proxy, leading to the removal of the Muslim Brotherhood’s government.",
        "沙特阿拉伯对地区秩序破坏的最初反应是增加对仍没有到下的盟友的支持——包括约旦、黎巴嫩和巴林——并把埃及军方变为它的代理人，促使穆斯林兄弟会政府的倒台。"
    ],
    [
        "Global warming is the most horrific challenge facing these regions, we are told. Its resolution is vital.",
        "他们声称，全球变暖成为了这些地区所面对的最严峻挑战，急需解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "In other Western countries, such as Germany, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, heated debates about religious slaughter and circumcision have taken place recently.",
        "在其他西方国家，比如德国、法国、荷兰和新西兰，关于宗教屠宰和割礼的争论最近也呈上升之势。"
    ],
    [
        "Asians want to assume greater responsibility in the world, and it is in Europe’s interest that they do, as long as they, too, respect the rules of fair play.",
        "亚洲人想在世界上承担更多的责任，而只要他们也尊重公平竞争的规则，那么他们的如愿就符合欧洲的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Thirty years later, Jimmy Carter still spoke bitterly about an incident at the Democrats’ convention in 1980.",
        "30年后，卡特在谈到民主党1980年大会事件时还依然念念不忘。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, these fears are accompanied by the hope that structural reforms and monetary expansion work in harmony, boosting employment and output without raising inflation by much.",
        "当然，这些担心也伴随着对结构性改革和货币扩张协调实施的希望。 这样做可以促进就业和产出而又不至于大幅提高通胀率。"
    ],
    [
        "One possible solution would be to permit member states to issue debt as eurobonds up to, say, 60% of GDP, and to require them to be individually responsible for any debt exceeding that level.",
        "一种可能的解决办法是允许成员国最多发行相当于GDP的60%的欧元债，如果债务超限，就要追究个体国家的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation at carmaker AUTOVaz is a striking example.",
        "在俄罗斯伏尔加汽车厂内的情况就是十分典型的一例。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly 1.5 million Cubans will never have a stake in the industries controlled by the military bourgeoisie. Nor was the issue of land ownership resolved: only a few plots will be leased in some form.",
        "近150万古巴人永远无法从这些军事新贵控制的产业中分一杯羹，而土地所有权的问题也无法得到解决：因为只有很少的地皮会以某种形式向公众开放。"
    ],
    [
        "Its 14-foot surge of seawater was backed by the sea-level rise already caused by a century of global warming, and the storm’s sweep and intensity was fueled by a warming planet’s warmer ocean waters.",
        "14英尺的潮涌乘着一个世纪以来全球变暖所造成的海平面上升以及变暖的地球的变暖的海水的东风，留下一地狼藉。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, technological advance also requires good governance, market forces, effective universities, and more.",
        "毕竟，技术进步也需要好的管理、市场机制、高效大学和诸多其它因素进行支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "Depositors with the British bank Northern Rock blame American developments for the credit turbulence that made it impossible for the bank to continue to fund its lending.",
        "英国银行Northern Rock的储户则指责美国的开发商造成了信用动荡，使该银行无力继续维持贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "But not all fiscal rules are created equal.",
        "但并非所有的财政规则都是一样的。"
    ],
    [
        "Some states have established technical-assistance offices primarily to help small and medium-size companies overcome this gap.",
        "一些州已经成立了技术支持办公室，主要就是为了帮助中小型公司克服这一障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The strategy was poised for implementation when the Bank’s leadership crisis struck.",
        "当世行的领导力危机发生时，该战略正好处在付诸实施的关键时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the Iraq operation, the planned missile defense deployment will almost certainly require approval by the Polish parliament.",
        "与伊拉克问题不同，计划中的导弹防御系统的部署几乎必定需要得到波兰议会的批准。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, thanks to the scheme, school-attendance rates have improved, sometimes by as much as 10%, and dropout rates have declined.",
        "事实上，归功于这一制度，印度入学率获得了改善，有时改善程度高达10%，而辍学率则有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "But China reversed course in November 2009.",
        "但是在2009年9月，中国改变了投资方向。"
    ],
    [
        "For many democrats, it was a force for peace and social justice, minimizing the power of special interests and teaching citizens about fairness and international understanding.",
        "对许多民主人士来说，它是一种和平和社会正义的力量，将特殊利益群体的权力最小化并教导公民有关公平和国际理解的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "It happened in Palestine, and it could well happen in Egypt if free and fair free elections were held.",
        "这在巴勒斯坦发生了，在实行自由或相对自由的选举的情况下，这也可能在埃及发生。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, what was intended to be a global free-trade regime has given way to a discordant managed-trade regime.",
        "这样一来，原本计划的一个全球自由贸易体制已经让位给了不和谐的托管贸易体制。"
    ],
    [
        "The film was to be shown among the advertisements in cinemas.",
        "该片计划在电影院广告时段播放。"
    ],
    [
        "So much has changed.",
        "发生了如此多的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries like the US and the United Kingdom eventually responded by deregulating their economies.",
        "美国和英国等国家的最终应对措施是放松对经济的监管。"
    ],
    [
        "The lives of ordinary North Koreans matter as much as the security of North Korea’s neighbors.",
        "普通朝鲜人生活问题的重要性丝毫不亚于朝鲜邻国的安全问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the British, who created these problematic offenses, have since eliminated all of them at home – a reflection of the changing times.",
        "事实上，炮制了这些有问题的侵害行为的英国人在自己国家已经取消了所有这些法律——这反映了时代的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in the event of a Trump presidency, financial policy would likely be crafted in large part by the House Financial Services Committee, whose chairman’s clearly stated priorities are to reduce consumer protection and remove any effective constraints on big banks’ activities.",
        "如果特朗普成为总统，金融政策可能大部分由众议院金融服务委员会起草，委员会主席明确表示重点是减少消费者保护和取消一切对大银行行为的有效约束。"
    ],
    [
        "He could have said the same thing about the fiscal drag that would be created by Obama’s budget proposal.",
        "对于奥巴马的预算方案所造成的财政拖累，伯南克也许也会这样说。"
    ],
    [
        "Was all of this a Chinese effort to obtain, in Henry Kissinger’s words, “strategic deterrence”?",
        "所有这些会不会是中国意在获得基辛格所谓的“战略威慑”的努力？"
    ],
    [
        "Following the introduction of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy toward refugees last September, a raft of reports emerged offering economic and demographic arguments within which her decision could be framed.",
        "去年9月，德国总理对难民采取了打开大门的政策，此后出现了大量报告，为她的决定提供经济和人口支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Are the Saudis Fanatics?",
        "沙特人到底算不算狂热份子？"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission’s proposal is far from perfect.",
        "欧盟委员会的方案远远称不上完美。"
    ],
    [
        "The Wahhabi religious establishment, the Saudi state’s hidden co-rulers, could very well obstruct Abdullah’s attempts at regional religious reconciliation.",
        "瓦哈比宗教机构是沙特国家的幕后共同统治者，很有可能破坏其地区宗教和解的企图。"
    ],
    [
        "In political terms, this calls for well-executed reforms that last and do not imperil economic stability.",
        "从政治上讲，这需要不会危及经济稳定的、持久的、执行情况良好的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The NIC foresees a transformed world, in which “no country – whether the US, China, or any other large country – will be a hegemonic power.”",
        "国家情报委员会预测未来世界将脱胎换骨，“无论美、中还是其他大国，任何国家都不能再成为霸权力量。 ”这是以下四大“趋势”的体现：个人授权和全球中产阶级成长；"
    ],
    [
        "To reduce tensions in the region, perhaps the US should initiate long-avoided direct talks with North Korea, which could help to resolve the security issues posed by that country’s regime.",
        "为了缓和地区紧张局势，或许美国应该启动其一直逃避的与北朝鲜的直接会谈，这或许有助于解决该国政权造成的安全问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Barrels, Bushels, and Bonds",
        "桶、蒲式耳和债券"
    ],
    [
        "To varying degrees, emerging economies are now exhibiting all of them.",
        "如今，各新兴经济体以不同的程度呈现出所有这些症状。"
    ],
    [
        "Many young people lack access to skills training or even a favorable social environment to try something new.",
        "许多年轻人缺少技能训练，甚至得不到有利的社会环境来尝试新鲜事物。"
    ],
    [
        "By investing not only in systems to provide clean drinking water and sanitation, but also in educational programs that encourage better hygiene practices and toilet use, governments can break a vicious cycle of diarrhea and malnutrition that causes irreversible physical and cognitive damage.",
        "政府不但要投资于提供清洁饮用水和环境卫生的系统，也要投资于鼓励更好的卫生习惯和使用厕所的教育计划，如此就能打破导致不可逆转的身体和认知损害的腹泻和营养不良的恶性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, manufacturing relations between the US and Mexico are such that some 40% of the value added in Mexican exports to the US is actually of US origin.",
        "事实上，美国和墨西哥的制造关系是如此紧密，40%的墨西哥对美国出口品增加值实际上源自美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Large-scale creative destruction will root out inefficiencies and vault China to a new echelon of global competitiveness.",
        "大规模的创造性颠覆将铲除中国行业效率较低的状况，从而帮助中国经济的全球竞争力跻身新梯队。"
    ],
    [
        "We are also failing in the application of soft power.",
        "在软性力量的应用方面，我们也做得非常不够。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, radicalization is not limited to Europe nowadays.",
        "诚然，如今激进化并不是欧洲的特有现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Diversity should be a strength, one that helps societies to flourish.",
        "多样性应当成为协助社会蓬勃发展的某种优势。"
    ],
    [
        "The Living Legacy of Helsinki",
        "赫尔辛基的活遗产"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2011 should also help to ensure that it plays by international rules, as occurred with China when it joined the WTO.",
        "俄罗斯在2011年加入世贸组织也有助于确保它遵守国际规则，就像中国加入世贸组织的时候一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of acknowledging the legitimacy of European concerns, he shrugged them off as a frivolity: “[I] guarantee you that in European capitals, there are people who are interested in, if not what I had for breakfast, at least what my talking points might be should I end up meeting with their leaders.”",
        "奥巴马非但没有承认欧洲担忧的合理性，反而认为这是无关紧要的小事：“（我）向你们保证，在欧洲各国首都都有这样的人，他们即便不想知道我早餐吃了什么，至少也很有兴趣知道我在与他们的领导人会面后说了哪些要点。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "During Operation Cast Lead, rockets struck perilously close to Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport.",
        "在铸铅行动期间，火箭弹距离特拉维夫和本古里安机场只有一步之遥。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s just a way of letting out your feelings.”",
        "只不过是一种表达感情的方式而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders are never bound to rise or fall by circumstances alone.",
        "领导者的崛起与失势从来就不是单纯由时势决定的。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, viewed from a broader perspective, France’s problems are largely symptoms of a disease that is affecting the entire global economy (including the European Union’s southern members).",
        "而更广的角度看，法国的问题可以说无非是影响整个全球经济（包括欧盟的南欧成员国）的疾病的症候。"
    ],
    [
        "The same goes for the G3 trading blocs: if the EU expends political capital to stop the US from undermining WTO mechanisms, China (and the rest of world) will reap most of the gains.",
        "三大贸易集团也是如此：如果欧盟花费政治资本阻止美国破坏WTO机制，最大的得益者就将是中国（以及世界其他地区）。"
    ],
    [
        "If soldiers – and, by extension, all “real” men – are strong and daring, then real women should be the antithesis: passive, obedient, and in need of protection as “good” wives, sisters, and mothers.",
        "如果士兵——或者推而广之，所有“纯”爷们——是强大而有勇气的，那么真女人就应该正好相反：消极、驯服、需要以“好”妻子、“好”姐妹、“好”母亲的身份被保护。"
    ],
    [
        "The Tea Party’s Modest Proposal",
        "茶党最谦卑的提议"
    ],
    [
        "Many advocates of withdrawal cherry-pick policies and regulations, such as provisions of the EU’s free-trade agreements with Canada and Singapore, to cobble together a vision of what life would like be for the UK outside of Europe.",
        "许多支持英国退出的人搬出一些政策和监管规则——比如欧盟与加拿大和新加坡的自由贸易协定——胡乱拼凑出一幅身在欧洲之外的英国的图景。"
    ],
    [
        "The government is probably happy with these protests, for they divert attention from the real issue – the authorities’ utter failure to address the fundamental problem.",
        "政府可能乐于见到这些抗议活动，因为抗议会转移人们注意力，使之无法关注真正的问题，即当局处理基本问题的彻底失败。"
    ],
    [
        "At the very least, to keep the economy on course for 2.5% growth this year, the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits proposed by Obama should be extended through the end of the year.",
        "无论如何，为了保证美国经济今年能有2. 5%的增长，奥巴马所提出的工资税削减和失业救济方案应该延期到今年年底。"
    ],
    [
        "Shortages were the result of hoarding by speculators.",
        "短缺是投机客囤积居奇所致。"
    ],
    [
        "A critical component in the coordination and proper functioning of Europe’s security and defense policy is the European Defense Agency.",
        "欧洲安全和防务政策协调和合理运转的一个关键组成部分是欧洲防务局（European Defense Agency，EDA）。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.",
        "以2010年墨西哥湾石油泄漏事件中的英国石油公司（BP）为例。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, to deny Turkey a European future on religious grounds is to deny our Union’s diversity.",
        "同时，以宗教为由拒绝土耳其融入欧洲也就等于是否认我们这个联盟现有的多元化。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF also was empowered to conduct the Mutual Assessment Process of each country’s macroeconomic policies under the Framework for Strong, Sustainable, and Balanced Growth.",
        "此外，会议还授权IMF在《强势，可持续和均衡发展框架》（Framework for Strong, Sustainable, and Balanced Growth）下对各成员国的宏观经济政策执行相互评估程序。"
    ],
    [
        "That means, of course, that the EU should seek to widen its transatlantic thinking so that the EU and the United States cooperate more closely on defining – and thus protecting – their common interests in a world where together they account for little more than 10% of the total population.",
        "当然，这就意味着欧盟应该寻求扩展其跨大西洋的思维以便欧盟和美国在定义—进而保护—它们在世界上的共同利益方面更紧密地合作。 两者的总人口只不过占世界总人口的百分之十多一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, oil accounted for about three-quarters of the Kingdom’s total export revenues and around 90% of government revenue.",
        "去年，石油占王国出口总收入的3/4和大约90%的政府收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Every country in Europe is party to international treaties that recognize the rights of refugees to seek asylum and not be forcibly returned to countries where they will be unsafe.",
        "每个欧洲国家都加入了承认难民有寻求庇护、不可强迫他们回到已不再安全的国家的国际条约。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this blatant inconsistency stems from the US’s continuing economic and financial vulnerability rather than reflecting any compelling economic logic.",
        "不幸的是，这个明显的矛盾源自美国持续脆弱的经济和财政状况而不是要反映任何强行性的经济逻辑。"
    ],
    [
        "And fiscal policies were also necessary to support aggregate demand.",
        "财政政策也是支持总需求的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Information about Pakistan’s nuclear program and ISI operations in Afghanistan were out of her domain.",
        "关于巴基斯坦核计划和ISI在阿富汗的行动也不在她的掌控中。"
    ],
    [
        "The price-earnings ratio of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is now nearly 70% above its historic average.",
        "标准普尔500指数市盈率目前要比历史平均水平高出近70%。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of the eighteenth century, the apotheosis of that technology was the firearm.",
        "在18世纪末，枪支曾经是相关技术的典范。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the region’s governments need to develop their own national-security capacities, to defend against non-existential threats and hegemonic expansionism.",
        "首先，各国政府需要发展各自国内的国家安全能力，以防范威胁和阻止霸权扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "Unleashing Africa’s Girl Power",
        "释放非洲女孩的力量"
    ],
    [
        "His opponents cavalierly dismiss the affair, with the deputy head of President Leonid Kuchma's administration suggesting that Yushchenko should hire a food taster.",
        "他的对手傲慢地解散了集会，总统兰奥尼德·库马的政府代表也暗示尤什申科应该雇佣一个帮他试吃食品的人。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community's goal must be to persuade neighboring countries to halt their brazen, unwarranted attacks on parts of Syrian society.",
        "国际社会必须说服邻国停止其对叙利亚社会部分群体毫无根据的无耻攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, it would be safer and more effective for the Fed and other central banks to pursue a single inflation target, and then use the gain in credibility to aid economic recovery.",
        "基于此，美联储和其他央行更安全、更有效的做法是追求单一通胀目标，然后用赢得的信誉助推经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Sovereign states increasingly measure their vulnerability not to one another, but to forces beyond their control.",
        "随着时间的流逝，主权国家不再计较相互之间孰优孰劣，而是把人们无法控制的力量看作它们共同的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "The continuing financial crisis is putting steady upward pressure on the dollar thanks to its safe haven status.",
        "由于美元其避风港的地位，持续的财政危机正对美元造成稳步上升的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The liver mitochondria could not keep up with the energy onslaught, and had no choice but to employ a little-used escape valve called “de novo lipogenesis” (new fat-making) to turn excess energy substrate into liver fat.",
        "肝脏线粒体无法处理能量的猛攻，只能动用很少使用的安全阀，即所谓的“脂肪再生”（de novo lipogenesis），将多余的能量基础转变为肝脂肪。"
    ],
    [
        "The role of the electors is a brief formality; they meet in their state capitol and cast the vote.",
        "选举人仅仅发挥一种形式上的作用； 他们汇聚在本周首府并投下选票。"
    ],
    [
        "BOGOTÁ – The Framework Agreement for the End of the Armed Conflict in Colombia that has just been announced by President Juan Manuel Santos is a historic landmark for his country and all of Latin America.",
        "波哥大—哥伦比亚总统桑托斯刚刚宣布的《停止武装冲突框架协议》（Framework Agreement for the End of the Armed Conflict）是他的祖国和整个拉丁美洲的一座里程碑。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether Forgeard acted illegally is still under investigation, but, with the announcement causing the share price to plummet by 26% overnight – wiping out €5.5 billion of the company’s value – his position became untenable.",
        "福尔杰拉德是否违法尚在调查之中，但是，这一宣布推迟使得股价一夜之间暴跌26％，公司市值蒸发了55亿欧元，其宝座变得摇摇欲坠。"
    ],
    [
        "Transportation will need to be found and funded.",
        "交通设施需要建立起来并得到资金支持。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, the recession has lasted six years and counting; in Chile, it lasted ten months.",
        "在欧洲，衰退已经持续了六年并还在继续； 在智利，衰退只维持了十个月。"
    ],
    [
        "This opposition extends to Christian evangelicals voters, who tend to live in working-class and middle-class households that depend on many kinds of government social services.",
        "持这种反对立场的还有福音基督教会的选民，因为他们大多生活在工人阶级和中产阶级家庭中，依赖政府的多种社会服务。"
    ],
    [
        "While that is true, high export prices alone were no guarantee for success.",
        "这不无道理，但光凭出口价格有所上涨还不足以保证成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s Drift from Europe",
        "德国与欧洲渐行渐远"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that, with its “peaceful rise” giving way to an increasingly sharp-elbowed approach to its neighbors, China has broadened its “core interests” – which brook no compromise – and territorial claims, while showing a growing readiness to take risks to achieve its goals.",
        "事实是，中国的“和平崛起”已经让位于日渐对四邻的日渐专横，它扩大了自己的“核心利益”——即不容妥协的利益——和领土主张，同时表现出准备不惜冒险实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The fundamental idea behind a fiscal union is that poorer, less creditworthy countries can gain from joint debt liability with richer countries.",
        "财政联盟背后的基本思想是资信较差的贫困国家可以受益于与富裕国家的联合债务。"
    ],
    [
        "But Obama has other priorities.",
        "但奥巴马的优先考虑项并不在此。"
    ],
    [
        "Having borne the brunt of the blame for the government shutdown of October 2013, Republican leaders decided to stifle their more radical “Tea Party” members and refrain from similar dead-end showdowns in 2014.",
        "共和党领导人背上了2013年10月导致政府关门的骂名，它们决定阻止更极端的“茶党”成员，不让2014年重现类似的僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "Major companies need to accept responsibility for their actions.",
        "大公司应该为它们的行为承担相应的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "He has risen to the top by winning friends and allies inside the CCP.",
        "他通过在共产党内部赢得朋友和盟友攀上了权力顶峰。"
    ],
    [
        "But the alternative – rule not by law but by dictatorship – is a far nastier prospect.",
        "但独裁而非法制的前景显然更加不妙。"
    ],
    [
        "They will be unwilling or unable to provide the kind of leadership that sustained multilateralism in the decades that followed World War II.",
        "美国和欧洲将会不愿意或没有能力提供在第二次世界大战后几十年里维持多边主义的那种领导。"
    ],
    [
        "It should tell the Council that it will accept a lower ceiling on overall spending, but that it will want to have a greater say over the composition of spending.",
        "欧洲议会应当告诉欧洲理事会它将接受一个较低的支出总额上限，但是它要对支出构成拥有更大的发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, Germany and Poland will play a central role, for both belong to the EU’s six big member states and have the necessary strategic awareness of Ukraine’s importance for Europe.",
        "在这一点上，德国和波兰的角色十分关键，这两个国家都属于欧盟六大国，并且对乌克兰的战略意义有清楚的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "This is without considering the effect that FAIRTRADE has on the poorest people in these countries – not farmers but casual laborers – who are excluded from the scheme by its expensive regulations and labor standards.",
        "这还没有考虑到公平贸易制度对那些国家中最贫穷的人民所带来的影响——这些人连农民都不是，只能算是散工——他们被公平贸易所设定的昂贵规章制度和劳工标准排斥在外。"
    ],
    [
        "Managers' salaries - including bonuses for failed or departing directors - have reached new highs.",
        "经理人的薪水－包括管理失败、被迫撤离的管理者，都再次创下了历史新高。"
    ],
    [
        "The assassin could have killed Peres, but decided that targeting Rabin was the more effective way to derail the peace process.",
        "杀手本来想杀死佩雷斯，但他认定以拉宾为目标是破坏和平进程更有效的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Support for EU membership within the pre-enlargement EU-15 remains where it was in the mid-1990’s (and below the peak reached in 1990), while support for the euro is no higher now than it was in 1997.",
        "欧盟扩张前15国对联盟的支持率仍然是20世纪90年代的水平（比20世纪90年代的最高水平有所下降），而对欧元的支持率也不比1997年的时候高。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – As China continues its unremitting rise, people throughout East Asia are wondering whether their states will ever be able to achieve the peaceful, stable relations that now characterize Europe.",
        "发自首尔——眼看着中国不断崛起，东亚地区的人们都不禁思索是否也能在东亚各国之间建立一种欧洲式的和平稳定关系。"
    ],
    [
        "This poses a real threat to the Eskimo and Inuit populations, as well as to polar bears.",
        "这将对爱斯基摩人和因纽特人以及北极熊构成真正的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "During this time of tension, an increasingly self-confident South Korea began to chart a course independent of its American patron.",
        "在这一非常时期，日益自信的南韩却开始追寻一条独立于其美国庇护人的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Issues like the eurozone’s troubles and relations with Russia received no attention at all.",
        "欧元区危机和对俄关系等问题则根本没有提及。"
    ],
    [
        "OONI data can help enrich public discourse about the legality, necessity, and proportionality of Internet censorship.",
        "OONI数据有助于丰富关于互联网审查的合法性、必要性和适当性的公共讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "But even amid a massive police manhunt and a citywide lockdown, planners were already focusing on ensuring that next year’s marathon will redeem the tragedy of this one.",
        "但即使在大规模警方搜捕和全市戒严期间，规划者已经将注意力集中在确保用明年的马拉松挽回今年的悲剧上。"
    ],
    [
        "American planes and satellites watch North Korea day and night, and the most sensitive intelligence-gathering equipment covers the frontier between the two Koreas.",
        "美国飞机和卫星日夜监视着朝鲜，朝韩边界则属于最先进的情报收集设备的覆盖范围。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than preventing conflict, Pericles’s sanctions in ancient Greece ultimately helped to trigger the Peloponnesian War.",
        "古希腊伯里克利的制裁并没有阻止冲突，反而最终引发了伯罗奔尼撒战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, international private investment flows are essential. It is the private sector that will finance most low-carbon, sustainable growth.",
        "第三，来自国际私人投资的资金是必不可少的。 事实上，大多数低碳和可持续发展措施都是由私人部门提供资助的。"
    ],
    [
        "On a date that meant so much to me personally as the colony’s last governor, and much more to the citizens of Hong Kong, I attended a magnificent production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” on the grounds of a country house near Oxford.",
        "作为末代港督，这个日子对我个人来说意义重大，对香港人民来说更是如此。 7月1日，我出席了在牛津附近的一间乡间别墅举行的盛大的贝多芬《费德里奥》（Fidelio）演出。"
    ],
    [
        "Within Indonesia itself, even with the Suharto era long gone, anti-communist sentiment remains strong, survivors remain cowed, and demands for justice and accountability remain few.",
        "在印尼国内，虽然苏哈托时代早已过去，反共情绪仍然十分高涨，幸存者仍然战战兢兢，呼吁正义和问责的声音仍然微不足道。"
    ],
    [
        "Although this may be challenging for investors, we should take comfort in the implications for the real economy.",
        "尽管这会对投资者构成挑战，但我们大可放心这对实体经济的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called net national saving rate – the depreciation-adjusted sum of business, household, and government saving – stood at just 2.4% of national income in mid-2016.",
        "2006年年中，所谓的净国民储蓄率——经折旧调整的企业、家庭和政府储蓄总和——仅为国民收入的2. 4%。"
    ],
    [
        "The second view is that the financial sector lobbied long and hard for deregulation in recent decades, and spent a great deal of time and money persuading politicians that it constituted the safe and modern approach to banking.",
        "第二种观点是，近几十年来，金融部门一直在努力游说去监管化，花了大量的时间和金钱说服政客这才是安全而现代化的银行业方式。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s enduring dominance will rile many, and with good reason.",
        "美国的长期统治地位会激怒很多人，而且理由非常充分。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea of bringing back debtors’ prisons may seem far-fetched, but it resonates with current talk of moral hazard and accountability.",
        "重建债务人监狱的思想也许有些牵强附会，但它与目前关于道德风险和问责的讨论异曲同工。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a strong case for global cooperation to increase these public investments in the developing economies, and especially in the world’s poorest regions.",
        "有强有力的论据来支持全球应该合作，增加发展中经济体的上述公共投资，尤其是针对世界上最贫困的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Greeks and Spaniards are unlikely to be able to bear the strain of economic austerity much longer, with youth unemployment inching toward 60%.",
        "此外，希腊人和西班牙人也不可能再长时间忍受经济紧缩的压抑了，这两个国家的年轻人失业率在朝60%挺进。"
    ],
    [
        "First, eurozone government bonds should include clauses that make it easy to “bail in” bondholders.",
        "首先，欧元区政府债券应包含使其可以更易于出手“援助”债券持有人的条款。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important that more attention is now paid to public liabilities – not only growing sovereign debt, but also larger, non-debt liabilities embedded in social-insurance programs.",
        "更多地关注公共负债很重要——公共负债不仅包括不断积累的主权债务，也包括那些在社会保险项目上数目更为庞大的非债务负债。"
    ],
    [
        "What began as a simple way for households to boost incomes – by renting out one’s apartment or car – has become a formidable disruptive force.",
        "起出只不过是让家庭提高收入的简单方法——让你出租公寓或汽车——后来演变为可怕的破坏力量。"
    ],
    [
        "For a pickpocket who has served half of a two-year sentence, it would be excessively harsh to insist on the sentence being served in full if that meant that he would die in prison, rather than with his family.",
        "对于一个判了两年也服了一年刑的扒手来说，如果在得知此人命不久矣的情况下还坚持让他蹲够两年而不是和家人共度残生，那显然是不近人情的。"
    ],
    [
        "He managed to stay at the helm for over forty years with no serious challengers.",
        "四十年来他大权独揽，没有受到过任何真正严重的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth in a Time of Disruption",
        "危机时代的增长"
    ],
    [
        "Good coaches analyze their game and their opponent’s game, so that they can capitalize on errors and benefit from “good luck.”",
        "好教练分析本方和对手的比赛，以便利用对手的错误收获“好运气”。"
    ],
    [
        "If the international community is serious about the SDR as an international currency, it will have to empower the IMF to do likewise.",
        "如果国际社会真的想把美元作为国际货币的话，IMF也应该被赋予相应的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, accounts of cyber war may be exaggerated, but cyber espionage is rampant, and more than 30 governments are reputed to have developed offensive capabilities and doctrines for the use of cyber weapons.",
        "事实上，宣扬网络战争可能有些夸大其辞，但网络间谍活动的确非常猖獗，30多个国家政府被认为具备了网络武器应用的学说和攻击力。"
    ],
    [
        "But such research is inconclusive for several reasons, not least that public schools face incentive problems of their own, leading to low effort, absenteeism, and frequent strikes.",
        "但出于一些原因，这些研究无法得出确定的结论，如公立学校也面临激励问题，导致投入程度不够、旷课和频繁的罢工。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that the delay in the opening of the Mexican energy sector, and it seems that low oil prices could amount to a net gain for the Kingdom.",
        "再加上墨西哥能源部门的延迟开放，似乎低油价能为沙特这个石油王国带来净收益。"
    ],
    [
        "For their part, producers of news have long since ceased to believe that news is propaganda.",
        "对新闻出版者而言，他们早就不再相信新闻即宣传。 我的职业生涯始于 1979 年，那年我加入了《中国青年报》，经历了中国改革开放的整个过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s economy is weaker, and its armaments are rusty.",
        "俄罗斯经济比以前更弱，军备也相当陈旧。"
    ],
    [
        "The associations – of carpenters, mechanics, plumbers, and so on – enable pooled savings, provide opportunities to upgrade skills, and create a form of market regulation.",
        "这些行业协会——比如木匠协会、机械工协会、水管工协会等——将储蓄汇集起来，提供提高技能的机会，并形成了一种市场监管形式。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given limited resources, the international community can only do so much.",
        "但资源的有限性制约着国际社会。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if such a merger is to be the first step toward consolidating the European banking sector and strengthening the EU, it should be a cross-border affair, bringing Deutsche Bank together with a significant French and/or Italian financial institution.",
        "但如果要让这样的合并成为整合欧洲银行业、强化欧盟的第一步，那么需要进行跨国合并，德意志银行要与法国和/或意大利主要金融机构合并。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s Mafia State",
        "欧盟的黑手党国家"
    ],
    [
        "Under President Donald Trump’s administration, the American government does not even bother to pay lip service to democracy anymore.",
        "在特朗普总统的领导下，美国政府不再打民主的“嘴炮”了。"
    ],
    [
        "For Prime Minister Brian Cowen’s new government, the risk is that a “No” to the Lisbon Treaty would cripple his administration in its infancy.",
        "对于总理考恩的新政府而言，如果里斯本条约遭到否决，那么他刚刚组建的新政府就会陷于瘫痪。"
    ],
    [
        "But that announcement came as a surprise (as did the devaluation of China’s renminbi this past summer).",
        "但伯南克的这番话出乎人们意料（今年夏天人民贬值也是如此）。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge today is to learn from the past, in order to embrace the former and avert the latter.",
        "如今的挑战是汲取历史教训，追求前者，避免后者。"
    ],
    [
        "BLOOMINGTON – “Cite your sources.”",
        "布卢明顿—“引用来源。"
    ],
    [
        "In these cases, too, there was an obvious suspicion that the central bank was a tool of the financial elite.",
        "美国联邦储蓄系统（成立于1914年）是在1907年金融大危机之后建立的。 在这些例子中，央行是金融精英的一种工具这一怀疑也同样显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "The falling regimes consistently maintained that Al Jazeera wasn’t neutral.",
        "正在瓦解的政权固执地认为“半岛电视台”并不中立。"
    ],
    [
        "As a tumultuous year comes to a close, giddy global markets continue to set new records.",
        "虽然这个动荡的一年行将结束，但令人眼花缭乱的全球市场却依然在刷新纪录。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries adopted slightly different models.",
        "其他国家的方式略有不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher exports would not only have yielded directly higher revenues; they would have had a multiplier effect on the domestic economy as well, thereby increasing consumption tax revenues.",
        "更高的出口不但可以直接带来更高的收入，还能对国内经济产生乘数效应，从而增加消费税收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is not very difficult to envisage the voluntary reincorporation of the ethnic Russian populations of Belarus, eastern Ukraine, and northern Kazakhstan into the Russian Federation – but only in a context in which Russia emerges as a true regional leader on a par with the EU.",
        "当然，人们并不难以设想在白俄罗斯、东乌克兰以及北哈萨克斯坦的俄罗斯裔人口自愿重新返回俄罗斯联邦，但是这只会在俄国崛起成为与欧盟并驾齐驱的真正的地区领导国家的情况下才可以。"
    ],
    [
        "In the near future, Morocco will also develop a wind program with a capacity of at least 2,000 MW daily, and a 2,000 MW hydropower project.",
        "在不远的将来，摩洛哥还将开发日发电量至少达到2,000百万瓦的风电项目和2,000百万瓦的水电项目。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though the government may not want not to draw attention to its pollution problem, it certainly is trying to address it.",
        "但是，尽管政府也许不愿吸引注意力集中至环境问题，但显然也在采取措施解决环境问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, there are signs that the IMF now sees trouble everywhere it looks.",
        "事实上，有迹象表明如今IMF眼中处处是麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, welfare-state institutions should be strengthened.",
        "其次，应该加强国家福利机构。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s Disrupted Democracy",
        "印度民主乱象"
    ],
    [
        "When he entered politics in 1994, he was an outsider, albeit one who, also like Trump, had long been close to plenty of insiders.",
        "当1994年步入政坛时，他被视为局外人，虽然也像特朗普一样，一直与很多内部人士保持着密切的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Kenyans voted in vast numbers, waiting in the hot sun for several hours at crowded polling booths around the country.",
        "肯尼亚的众多选民顶着烈日等待了数小时，在全国各地拥挤的投票站投票。"
    ],
    [
        "Migration – when it is safe, legal, and voluntary – is the oldest poverty-reduction and human-development strategy.",
        "移民——安全、合法和自愿的移民——是最古老的减贫和人类发展战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Belgium will be serving on the United Nations Security Council for the next two years, and has indicated that it wants to give its mandate a European dimension. The coming period could thus be used in both countries to review traditional positions and reflect on how European policy can best serve their common needs.",
        "但在荷兰选民2005年中举行全民公决坚决否定了欧盟宪法提案以后，比利时或许可以对荷兰的立场表现出更多理解的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – Marc Andreessen made his first fortune writing the code that became Netscape Navigator, the Internet browser.",
        "发自新德里——马克·安德森（Marc Andreessen）通过编写网景浏览器代码赚到了人生的第一桶金。"
    ],
    [
        "So Putin wins the gold medal in his favorite event - bullying his smaller neighbors.",
        "所以，普京在欺侮弱小邻国这项他最拿手的项目中拿到了金牌。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, too, the Enlightenment is often invoked as shorthand for the Western values that are supposedly in danger of “Islamization.”",
        "现在也是一样，启蒙运动往往被引为西方价值观面临所谓“伊斯兰化”威胁的代名词。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, it increased over the course of the year.",
        "在欧洲，这一差距在今年又有所扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "This will delay a full debt write-off for up to three years, exclude Somalia from long-term development finance, and reinforce its dependence on emergency aid.",
        "这将让债务减记延后多达三年时间，使索马里无法获得长期发展融资，让它对紧急援助更加依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "Renewing American Leadership",
        "重建美国领导"
    ],
    [
        "The Sunnis are only likely to win in two provinces, but if Sadr orders his followers in Baghdad’s slums to vote “no” alongside local Sunnis, that would probably flip the capital to the constitution’s opponents, ensuring its defeat.",
        "逊尼派只在两个省有胜算，但如果Sadr命令其巴格达贫民窟里的追随者和当地的逊尼派一起投反对票的话，就可能将首都变成反宪地区，从而使宪法注定不能通过。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the Fed could follow the Bank of Japan’s recent move to target the ten-year interest rate instead of the very short-term one it usually focuses on.",
        "比如，美联储可以效仿日本银行最近的做法，以十年期利率为目标，而不是它通常紧盯的极短期目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Hunting the Higgs",
        "追踪希格斯粒子"
    ],
    [
        "The prisoner whose release it has demanded in exchange for Goto is Sajida al-Rishawi, who faces the death penalty in Jordan for her role in hotel bombings in Amman in 2005.",
        "其作为后藤的交换条件要求释放的囚犯是雷莎维（Sajida al-Rishawi），她因为2005年安曼饭店爆炸事件而在约旦面临死刑。"
    ],
    [
        "I would have preferred bigger capital injections. I would have liked to see his administration use its leverage to replace the management responsible for creating the financial mess in the first place.",
        "奥巴马稳定银行体系的措施也还算成功，尽管它留下了许多遗憾：我原本希望，资本注入的力度能够更大一些，总统能够运用权力，炒掉那些应该为金融危机的爆发负首要责任的金融高管。"
    ],
    [
        "It is even harder to argue that PDVSA’s dollar-denominated debt was legitimate when it was sold for local currency at below-market prices, to politically connected individuals, who often borrowed the needed bolivars overnight from public-sector banks, just to flip the bonds immediately to Wall Street.",
        "也很难说PDVSA的美元计价债务出售的合法性——以低于市场价格按本币出售给政治关系户，他们常常从公共部门银行隔夜借入玻利瓦尔来购买这些债务，立即转手卖给华尔街。"
    ],
    [
        "This argument, too, is hardly irrelevant: higher inflation today must not be permitted to change inflation expectations in the medium run.",
        "这个理由同样不无道理：绝对不能允许当前较高的通胀水平改变人们的中期通胀预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Key powers over the implementation of common policy guidelines have been entrusted to the European Commission, and the European Council has limited its own ability to reject Commission recommendations by requiring a qualified majority to change them.",
        "在执行共同政策方针方面的重点权力已经委托给欧盟委员会，而欧盟理事会则将自身权力限定为在获得符合条件的多数成员支持的情况下否决委员会的提议。"
    ],
    [
        "The main opposition alliance, led by Raila Odinga, won about 100 seats, compared to roughly 30 for Kibaki.",
        "相对于仅获得了约30席的Kibaki，由Raila Odinga领导的主要反对派联盟赢得了约100个议席位。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to make this a more inclusive process, and make sure that:",
        "我们要让全球化惠及更多民众，确保实现下列目标："
    ],
    [
        "But I have never understood why many economists believe this implies we should skew our argument about trade in one particular direction.",
        "但我始终不明白为何许多经济学家认为这意味着我们应该让我们的贸易观点呈现出一边倒。"
    ],
    [
        "In one of her very rare appearances on a popular television talk show on January 2, she called Ahn “a very popular professor with young people.”",
        "在1月2日朴槿惠罕见地出现在一档著名电视节目上，并将安哲秀称之为“很受青年人欢迎的教授”。"
    ],
    [
        "Many are running macro imbalances, such as twin current account and fiscal deficits, and confront rising inflation and slowing growth.",
        "许多经济体存在宏观失衡，如经常项目和财政双赤字，并面临通胀抬头和增长减速。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the crisis should abate somewhat, because the most risk-averse institutions have by now sold their holdings of peripheral countries’ sovereign debt.",
        "尽管如此，这场危机已经有所减轻，因为大部分风险厌恶机构现在已经卖光了手里持有的外围国家主权债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Serious efforts and far-reaching compromises are needed to begin the process of building institutions for regional security cooperation.",
        "要想开启地区安全合作机构的建设，就需要严肃动作和深刻妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, China is doing the best in dealing with the financial crisis.",
        "到目前为止，应对危机做得最好的是中国。"
    ],
    [
        "But asymmetries of information and attention do not confer a permanent advantage on the wielders of informal violence.",
        "但信息和注意力的不对称并不能赋予那些非正式暴力行使者们永恒的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Botswana, among others, has invested heavily to offer universal treatment, and now is well on its way to ensuring that no baby is born with HIV – a reality in developed countries, but not so in Africa, where 400,000 children are born with the disease each year.",
        "其中，博茨瓦纳投入重金建立了全民医疗，正在朝着消灭艾滋病婴儿的目标大踏步前进——在发达国家，这一目标早已实现，但在非洲，每年仍有400 000婴儿生来就带有艾滋病。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, nearly half the country continues to suffer from drought, while heavy rainfall has broken records in the Northeast, devastated crops in the South, and now is inundating Colorado.",
        "在美国，几乎一般的国土饱受旱灾困扰，而东北部降雨量创下了历史记录，南部农业收成暴降，而科罗拉多一片汪洋。"
    ],
    [
        "This mix of excitement and anxiety is, in fact, a sign of the looming crossroads that faces investors.",
        "事实上，这一兴奋和焦虑的混合标志着投资者走到了十字路口。"
    ],
    [
        "But implementing such a program raises a new set of challenges.",
        "但事实这一计划带来了新挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "So, although the strategic value of closer military ties with Pakistan seems highly questionable, Saudi Arabia has little choice.",
        "因此，尽管加紧与巴基斯坦的军事联系的战略价值颇为可疑，但沙特阿拉伯别无选择。"
    ],
    [
        "This includes our risk of developing a host of age-related diseases.",
        "这其中也包括我们患上老年疾病的风险性。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unfortunately for Rouhani, many Iranians who had expected their living standards and employment prospects to improve as a result of these successes are now feeling disappointed.",
        "汇率也已经稳定了四年。 但是，对鲁哈尼来说不幸的是许多期待生活水平和就业前景因为这些成就而得到改善的伊朗人现在感到失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, governments did not go nearly far enough in pursuing complementary fiscal and structural responses.",
        "不幸的是，政府在实施全面财政和结构性响应措施方面做得远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, as companies begin to adopt these practices, a rising tide will lift all boats: with greater support, SMEs, which currently account for 99% of businesses and two-thirds of private-sector employment in the European Union, will be able to invest in research and development, and to hire more employees.",
        "此外，当公司这样做时，所有企业都能乘东风：有了更大的支持，中小企业——目前占欧盟企业总数的99%，私人部门就业总数的三分之二——将能够投资于研发并雇用更多员工。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there may well be turbulence: when US wage levels appear low because of a weak dollar, it is hard to export to America, and other countries must rely on other sources of demand to maintain full employment.",
        "当然，还有可能出现其他混乱：当美国的工资水平由于美元贬值而显得低廉时，向美国出口的难度就会增大，而其他国家也必须依靠其他的需求来源维持各自国内的就业状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Now more than ever, understanding the limits of one's capabilities is an essential part of a viable foreign policy.",
        "如今，认识自身能力边界对于可行的外交政策比以往任何时候都更重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Although officially adopted in December 2003 by the Iraqi Governing Council, the IST’s statute was framed under contract to the US government and approved by L. Paul Bremer, the Coalition Provisional Authority’s Administrator.",
        "虽然在2003年12月得到了“伊拉克管理委员会”的正式批准，但IST的章程是由美国政府按协议制定，并由伊拉克临时权力机构的执行长官L. Paul Bremer批准。"
    ],
    [
        "For anyone with an annual income of $50,000 (which is close to the median for US households), this would be equivalent to a fine of $25.",
        "如果你的年收入是50 000美元（大概相当于美国中位家庭收入），这就好比是对你进行了25美元的罚款。"
    ],
    [
        "When foraging in a rural village, they can exercise that intelligence and explore their varied environment.",
        "在农村，它们在寻找食物的过程中可以运用自己的智力，探寻所处的各种环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Improved water management is also crucial.",
        "改善谁管理也很关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey, to be blunt, will not recognize today’s divided Cyprus as the sole representative of that island.",
        "坦率地讲，土耳其不会承认今天四分五裂的塞浦路斯作为该岛的唯一代表。"
    ],
    [
        "Ideally, the British government should aim to bring down imports as a percentage of GDP from the current high of around 30% to pre-1974 levels of around 20%.",
        "理想的情况是，英国政府应该把进口相对GDP的比率从目前约30％的高点降至1974年以前的20％左右。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that leaders across the Muslim and Arab world are not going to allow Trump to hand Jerusalem to Israel unilaterally, simply to satisfy his small base of US Christian Zionist evangelicals (he received the support of less than a quarter of American Jews).",
        "事实上，整个穆斯林和阿拉伯世界的领导人都不会允许特朗普单方面将耶路撒冷送给以色列，只为满足为数甚少的美国锡安主义福音派基督徒票仓（他只获得了不到四分之一美国犹太人的支持）。"
    ],
    [
        "There are two main reasons to doubt that impeachment would rid the world of Trump.",
        "有两个主要理由质疑弹劾能使世界摆脱特朗普。"
    ],
    [
        "They must convince their constituents that using public money to provide sweeteners for debt restructuring and to recapitalize the banks is essential to the internal devaluation strategy that they insist their neighbors follow.",
        "他们必须让后台老板和选民们相信，动用公共资金为债务重组和银行再注资提供担保是内部贬值策略的必要条件； 既然德国敦促其他欧盟国家采取这种策略，它就应该义不容辞地肩负担保的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the Dalai Lama is not a Chinese citizen, I will leave out his Nobel Peace Prize, though to China’s rulers it was perhaps the most irritating of all.",
        "鉴于达赖喇嘛不是中国公民，尽管他的得奖是最让中国政府不可容忍的，但我还是没有把他计算在内。"
    ],
    [
        "The Financial Times recently called this pensions crunch a “creeping social and political crisis.”",
        "金融时报最近称上述养老金紧缩为一场“潜移默化的社会和政治危机。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "One after another, they abandoned the gold standard, depreciating their currencies.",
        "结果，各国一个接着一个放弃了金本位，贬值了本国货币。"
    ],
    [
        "But the more you distrust politics and your politicians, the more anger will manifest itself in uncontrollable ways, especially if your country is imbued with a romantic “revolutionary” tradition and culture.",
        "但你越是不信任政治和政治领袖，就会无节制地表达越多的愤怒情绪，尤其当你的国家被灌输了浪漫“革命”传统和文化时就更是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding a small recent uptick, most forecasts predict that oil prices will remain at current levels for the long term.",
        "尽管最近略有反弹，但大部分预测仍认为石油价格将在当前水平保持很长时间。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a marked difference in tone here from debates in much of the Western world.",
        "在印度，人们辩论的内容跟大部分西方国家有明显的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Such large banks are needed because small players alone cannot make a market.",
        "大银行之所以有用，是因为光靠小银行是无法做市的。"
    ],
    [
        "Renegotiating the JCPOA to extend the duration of several of its constraints, make inspections more intrusive, and expand its coverage to missiles is attractive in the abstract.",
        "重新谈判JCPOA，延长某些约束条件的期限、让检查更加深入，并将检查覆盖面扩大到导弹绝对很具有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "When help came, it was, as one New York Times columnist noted, like the Titanic: the rich and powerful got out first.",
        "即便救援最终来到，也与《纽约时报》专栏作家笔下的泰坦尼克式援助完全吻合：那就是有钱有权者最先获救。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kyeongju meeting decided that the G-20 countries would move toward market-determined exchange rates and pursue “politics conducive to reducing excessive imbalances and maintaining current-account imbalances at sustainable levels.”",
        "庆州会议已经决定，G-20集团各国将转向市场化汇率，并努力达成有助于减少过度失衡以及将经常性账户失衡维持在一个可持续水平上的政治共识。"
    ],
    [
        "The Resource Curse Revisited",
        "再谈资源劫难"
    ],
    [
        "At the time, most of the owners were from Taiwan or Hong Kong; today, more than 70% of the island's industrial companies are locally owned.",
        "当时，一些工厂的所有者来自中国台湾和中国香港； 如今，毛里求斯70%以上的工业公司为本国所有。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy needs to learn how to live with the euro and within the eurozone, which means adopting policies that ensure that productivity growth and innovation, not currency devaluation, are the main drivers of competitiveness.",
        "意大利需要学习如何与欧元共存，如何在欧元区内生存，这意味着采取保证生产率增长和创新而不是货币贬值的政策，这才是提振竞争力的主要动力。"
    ],
    [
        "When he came into office, his economic advisors told him that there was a one-in-three chance of a 1930’s-style depression.",
        "在他就任总统之初，经济顾问告诉他说，美国有三分之一地可能陷入1930年代式的大萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "Since Confucianism was essentially an agnostic ideology, concerned with the management of the visible world, the post-Confucians experienced little of the spiritual angst that afflicted Hindus, Muslims, and Christians in their collision with the “materialism” of industrial society.",
        "由于儒教在本质上是一种不可知论的意识形态，只关注可见的世界的管理，所以后儒家弟子们几乎没有经历过那种印度教徒、穆斯林和基督徒在与工业社会的“唯物主义”的冲突中所引发的精神痛苦的折磨。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index ranking Ukraine 142nd out of 175 countries, drastic measures to improve and professionalize governance are imperative.",
        "此外，在透明国际（Transparency International）的腐败感指数上，乌克兰位于175个国家的第142位，采取果断措施改善治理、实现治理专业化也是当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, many European countries have accepted very few refugees so far, making their inaction even more difficult to comprehend.",
        "事实上，到目前为止许多欧洲国家接受的难民数量极少，这让人们更加难以理解它们为何不作为。"
    ],
    [
        "Most recently, the Zimbabwean police suspended the work of numerous human rights organizations that were documenting the recent violence.",
        "最近，津巴布韦警察中止了众多记录最近暴力事件的人权组织的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "As Osama bin Laden observed, people like a strong horse.",
        "如奥萨马·本·拉登所言，人们总是喜欢强壮的马。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s neighborhood, where EU expansion is not in the cards, Europe hopes to shore up its presence by opening its huge internal market and increasing assistance.",
        "面对如今这些不太可能被纳入欧盟版图的邻国，欧洲也希望通过开放内部市场以及增加援助来提高自身影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Considering the country’s vast size, a two-party system seems to be the most appropriate.",
        "鉴于俄国幅员辽阔，两党制度好像是最为适合的。"
    ],
    [
        "As in the Great Depression, the political consequences are more serious and hold longer-term significance.",
        "在大萧条中，政治上的后果更为严重，也会产生更长远的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "For those in developing and emerging-market countries who harbor grievances against the advanced countries, there is now one more reason for discontent with a brand of globalization that has been managed to serve rich countries’ interests (especially their financial sectors’ interests).",
        "对发展中和新兴市场国家的那些对发达国家怀恨在心的人来说，现在又有了新的理由反对用来保护富国利益（特别是其金融部门利益）的全球化。"
    ],
    [
        "Start with the Islamists.",
        "先从伊斯兰教徒开始。"
    ],
    [
        "But power is not good or bad per se.",
        "但权力本身无所谓好坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while leading indicators may be stronger than they were a year ago, risks have only intensified.",
        "事实上，尽管先行指标比前几年略有好转，但风险仍然极高。"
    ],
    [
        "In many places, especially in rural areas, women spend long hours each day finding fuel wherever they can in the absence of sustainable energy sources.",
        "在许多地方，特别是农村地区，如果缺乏可持续的能源来源，妇女就得每天花很长时间寻找燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia’s rulers, as custodians of the Muslim faith’s holiest places in Mecca and Medina, perhaps feel this threat most keenly.",
        "沙特的统治者们作为穆斯林信仰圣地麦加和麦地那的守护者可能更加深切地感受到这一威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek government has limited room for fiscal stimulus, and it would be shut out of financial markets.",
        "希腊政府的财政刺激空间有限，也将无法进入金融市场。"
    ],
    [
        "He hasn’t stopped with Europe.",
        "他没有止于欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "For every word that Krugman publishes, he must henceforth commit to having first read at least a hundred words by other writers.",
        "从今以后，对于克鲁格曼所公开发表的每一个词，他都必须保证此前已经阅读过他人所写的至少100个词。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea is to use global networks of knowledge and action to identify and demonstrate new, cutting-edge approaches to sustainable development around the world.",
        "该计划的想法是利用全球知识和行动网识别和展示全世界的高精尖方法可持续发展新方法。"
    ],
    [
        "After nearly a year in control of both houses of Congress and the White House, the Republicans haven’t achieved any of their four policy goals: repeal and replacement of Obamacare, infrastructure development, trade-policy reform, or even tax reform.",
        "共和党控制国会两院和白宫已近一年，但在四大政策目标上全面受挫：取消和取代奥巴马医保、基础设施开发、贸易政策改革，以及税收改革。"
    ],
    [
        "And at my institution, Boston University, we research ways to improve the quality and practice of medicine in the developing world.",
        "而在我所属的波士顿大学，我们研究改善发展中国家医药质量和应用的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "This currency shift is, of course, the functional equivalent of a large hike in the price of Chinese exports.",
        "当然，这一货币变迁在功能上等同于中国出口品价格的大幅攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "Some changes will be evolutionary, taking many years to manifest themselves; others will be sudden and more disruptive.",
        "有些挑战是革命性的，需要许多年才能彻底显露出来； 而另外一些则会突然爆发并造成一定混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "It has also expanded the security agencies’ authority to track citizens’ online activities and curtail their right to free speech, while intensifying discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals and persecuting religious groups.",
        "俄政府还扩大了安保机构跟踪公民在线活动并限制其言论自由的权利，同时加强了对宗教团体的迫害和对性少数族群和个人的歧视。"
    ],
    [
        "The sum total of the US effort in terms of American money and lives will likely be less than in Iraq, but still substantial.",
        "虽然美国在阿富汗的总投入无论在金钱和伤亡方面都比伊拉克要少，但却依然是非常可观的。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – In the afternoon of July 16 two men appeared to be breaking into a fine house in an expensive area of Cambridge, Massachusetts.",
        "纽约——7月16日下午两名男子看似正试图闯入位于马萨诸塞州坎布里奇高尚住宅区的一栋豪宅。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, Bush left him hanging.",
        "但是布什再次没有满足他的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditional Chinese culture, with its emphasis on harmony between human beings and nature, was thrown aside.",
        "传统中国文化强调人与自然的和谐，已经被抛在一边。"
    ],
    [
        "Others cite the so-called “capital glut” – large inflows of external financing from China and much of the developing world.",
        "其他人则认为是所谓的“资本过剩” —— 从中国等发展中国家涌来的大量资本 —— 惹的祸。"
    ],
    [
        "Think about a 30-year-old new parent at the middle of the income distribution.",
        "设想一位处于收入分布中间位置的30岁的新父母。"
    ],
    [
        "But, so far, South Korea has not managed to improve diplomatic relations with its own ally, the US, not to mention with China.",
        "但到目前为止，韩国连改善与自身盟友——美国（更不用说中国了）的外交关系都没有做到。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that China is saddled with large local-government and corporate debts, but also enjoys large domestic savings and a strong fiscal position, this message could not be more pertinent.",
        "由于中国存在为数巨大的地方政府和公司债务，但同时也存在为数巨大的国内储蓄和坚挺的财政状况，情况就变得非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the campaign, Israeli leaders competed over who would deal more firmly (read: violently) with the Palestinians.",
        "在整个竞选中，以色列领导人们竞相表明谁可以更为坚定地、也就是用更多的暴力对付巴勒斯坦人。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Madrid and Warsaw recently looked very similar: both were the sites of massive demonstrations.",
        "发自巴黎——马德里和华沙最近看似非常相似：两地都爆发了大规模示威。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the successful economies’ superlative growth performance has been enabled by other countries’ choice not to emulate them.",
        "事实上，成功经济体能有超凡经济表现是因为其他国家没有选择模仿它们。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, accession untied politicians' hands, and conflicts came to the fore.",
        "毫不奇怪，加入欧盟后，政治家们握在一起的手松开了，冲突开始成为核心问题。"
    ],
    [
        "That could mean truly withdrawing from NAFTA, taking trade action against China and other trading partners, or doubling down on harsh immigration policies.",
        "这可能意味着真正退出《北美自由贸易协定》，对中国及其他贸易伙伴采取贸易行动，或将加倍收紧移民政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But shared potential does not translate into collaborative action.",
        "但共同潜力并不会转变为合作行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Increased infrastructure investment, better corporate-tax policies, and an updated budgetary approach are also needed.",
        "增加基础设施投资、改良公司税政策、升级预算方针都是应有之义。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the amount of saving that people desire exceeds the available investment opportunities.",
        "此外，人们所渴望的储蓄规模超过了可行的投资机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Most people understand that coal is a dirty business, one that countries like Australia should abandon for their own economic wellbeing, as well as for the sake of the global climate.",
        "大部分人都明白煤炭是一个肮脏的行业，为了自身经济福祉，也为了全球气候，澳大利亚等国家应该放弃这一行业。"
    ],
    [
        "For struggling southern European economies whose traditional exports have been undercut by Chinese and Turkish competition, the solution is to invest in moving up the value chain by producing new and better products.",
        "对于那些传统出口在中国和土耳其的竞争下陷于困境的欧洲南部经济体来说，最好的解决方案应该是通过生产更新及更好的产品向价值链上游迁移。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists tend to have a soft spot for such restraints, because policymaking that is fully responsive to the push and pull of domestic politics can generate highly inefficient outcomes.",
        "经济学家倾向于实施这样的限制，因为完全响应国内政治波动的政策制定可能会产生极为低效率的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Where a clear impact has been found is mental health.",
        "只有在心理健康方面发现了明显的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "He is sure to enter the pantheon of Latin American heroes.",
        "毫无疑问，查韦斯将作为拉丁美洲英雄被人铭记。"
    ],
    [
        "The “gold initiative\" was voted down, but the political debate was traumatic.",
        "“黄金计划”被公投所否定，但政治争论极其激烈。"
    ],
    [
        "Blair has promised that he will make the fight against poverty and long-term climate change the two priorities of the summit.",
        "布莱尔首相承诺它会致力于解决贫困和长期气候变化问题，这也是峰会的两大焦点问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Much can also be learned from countries like Turkey, which has managed to create a dynamic and innovative private sector.",
        "从土耳其等国家身上也可以学到很多，土耳其成功地创造了活力和创新力十足的私人部门。"
    ],
    [
        "This invariably means that fiscal and monetary stability will become a priority while controlling the trade surplus has become a lower one.",
        "这显然意味着保持财政和货币的稳定性将成为经济工作的首要任务，而控制贸易顺差则降到了较为次要的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, just in the last ten years, Russia’s population has dropped by 9.5 million, despite the many thousands of Russians returning from former Soviet republics.",
        "其实，仅在过去十年中，虽然有成千上万的俄罗斯人从前苏联共和国归来，俄罗斯的人口还是下降了950万。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Asia’s growth momentum is declining.",
        "事实上，亚洲的增长势头正在放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "But is “health for all” – also known as universal health coverage – really possible, not just in rich countries, but in the poorest countries, too?",
        "但这一“所有人的健康”——亦称全民医疗覆盖——真的是不论富裕国家还是最贫穷国家都可行的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The rankings will no doubt vary from year to year.",
        "毫无疑问，排名每年都会变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the promise of great cost savings and major advances in service delivery is at hand.",
        "然而，大幅节省成本的前景以及服务传递的重大跃进已经具备。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the EU currently conducts 17 military and civilian operations around the world.",
        "比如，目前欧盟在世界各地开展着17项军事和民事任务。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is not surprising that this has been reflected in higher rates of drug abuse, alcoholism, and suicide.",
        "于是吸毒，酗酒和自杀的比率不断走高就不出意外了。"
    ],
    [
        "Surprisingly, the bond market still seems almost oblivious to this risk.",
        "令人惊讶的是，债券市场似乎仍然没有注意到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN encourages governments to assume a more proactive development role, which would entail an integrated policymaking approach aimed at promoting structural change while reducing inequality, vulnerability, and economic insecurity.",
        "联合国鼓励政府主动担负起发展责任，制定旨在促进结构改革、减少不平等现象、查缺补漏和应对经济不安全问题的综合决策方式。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1980s, Japan was widely regarded as on the verge of overtaking the US; today, after more than two decades of Japanese stagnation, no one would take this scenario seriously.",
        "20世纪80年代，日本被广泛认为即将超越美国； 如今，日本经历了二十年的停滞，再也没人把这种论断当真了。"
    ],
    [
        "China is clearly seeking to exploit India’s political disarray to alter the reality on the ground.",
        "中国显然实在试图利用印度的政治乱局改变领土现实。"
    ],
    [
        "They are wrong to do so.",
        "他们这么想是不对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Sea levels are rising.",
        "海平面正在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, our projections show that gross (or total) capital inflows to emerging markets will increase from US$400-500 billion just before the Asian crisis of 1997 to US$800-900 billion both in 2007 and 2008.",
        "事实上，我们的推测显示，流入新兴市场的总资本额将从1997年亚洲金融危机前的4000-5000亿美元上升到2007年和2008年的8000-9000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that the recent surge in fast-growing, innovative companies – such as Huawei, Alibaba, and Wanda – and China is well placed to implement Xi’s ambitious vision.",
        "此外，高速增长的创新公司——如华为、阿里巴巴和万达等——层出不穷，这让中国很有希望落实习近平的宏达愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "And, thanks to the large pool of savings generated by Chinese households and state-owned companies, the Chinese economy can for the time being bear the waste and misallocation implied by such crony capitalism.",
        "所幸中国的家庭和国企创造了庞大的储蓄，才使中国经济得以承受权贵资本主义造成的资源巨大浪费和扭曲配置。"
    ],
    [
        "One need only recall the bidding for Emcore or Firstgold.",
        "人们只要回想光纤公司“Emcore”和金矿公司“Firstgold”的竞标案就明白了。"
    ],
    [
        "A mere 20% of Americans now trust the federal government to “do the right thing,” while trust in Congress has fallen below 9%.",
        "目前，只有20%的美国人相信联邦政府在“做正确的事情”，而对国会的信任已经下降到不足9%。"
    ],
    [
        "Tribalism is at the heart of this process.",
        "部落主义（tribalism）是这一过程的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, M&A activity – both the number and size of transactions – was picking up before the 2008 global financial crisis, including across borders within and beyond the eurozone.",
        "事实上，并购活动——不管是数量还是交易规模——在2008年全球金融危机前十分活跃，包括欧元区内部和之外的跨境并购。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that the 2005 Defense Review will address this issue, although it is certain to answer some strategic questions and leave others open to continued debate.",
        "我们希望《2005国防评估》会着手解决这一问题，虽然它肯定会回答一些战略问题而将其他的留在日后商榷。"
    ],
    [
        "From the US perspective, President Barack Obama pivoted quickly from Mubarak to the people; but it did not look that way on Cairo’s streets.",
        "从美国的角度看，革命爆发后奥巴马总统迅速放弃穆巴拉克转而支持民众，但开罗街头的民众却不这么看。"
    ],
    [
        "The US government (or European governments, for that matter) can’t get us out of our current economic mess any better than they can get us to the moon at this point.",
        "美国政府（在这方面也包括欧洲政府）带领我们走出目前经济困境的能力并不比他们带领我们登月的能力更强。"
    ],
    [
        "“If you are really serious about a deal with Iran, Israel has to come out of the closet.",
        "一种基于虚构内容与双重标准的政策注定迟早会失败；"
    ],
    [
        "Musharraf may be counting on the army, his primary constituency, to bail him out of this crisis.",
        "穆沙拉夫可能会指望军队——他最主要的支持者——使他摆脱危机。"
    ],
    [
        "A second problem, even in areas with adequate infrastructure, is the prevalence of bureaucratic and economic barriers that limit access to essential medicines.",
        "另外一个主要问题是即使在基础设施充足的地区，仍然普遍存在限制基本药物获取的官僚和经济障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "But the repeated efforts of Britain, France, and the US to keep all Islamist governments out of power only block political maturation in the region, without actually succeeding or providing long-term benefits.",
        "但英、法、美一再阻止伊斯兰政府当权却只能阻碍该地区的政治走向成熟，实际上不可能取得成功或带来长期的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "It also requires a lot of data processing to make the records usable.",
        "此外还需要大量数据处理，病历记录才能便于使用。"
    ],
    [
        "He then turned into the most partisan and ideological president of modern times, egged on by his vice-president, Dick Cheney.",
        "但后来他却变成了现代史上最具有党派观念和善于空谈的总统，并和他的副总统切尼一唱一和。"
    ],
    [
        "A classic case involved the CIA contractor Raymond Davis, who fatally shot two men in 2011 in Lahore, Pakistan.",
        "一个经典案例涉及中情局承包商雷蒙德·戴维斯，戴维斯2011年在巴基斯坦拉合尔打死两名男性。"
    ],
    [
        "I mean, of course, the regime in Damascus, which years ago we should have begun to deal with as we dealt with Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime.",
        "当然，我指的是大马士革政权，多年前我们就应该像对待卡扎菲政权那样处理它。"
    ],
    [
        "POTSDAM/MANILA – It’s monsoon season in Asia – marking an end to months of scorching temperatures.",
        "波茨坦/米兰——现在是亚洲的季风季——季风季的到来标志着数月高温的结束。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, mainstream economics – and the concept of homo economicus – recognizes only half of what makes us human.",
        "简言之，主流经济学——以及理性人的概念——只认识到我们的人性的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Ketika angka harapan hidup meningkat dan gaya hidup berubah, penyakit-penyakit tidak menular (PTM) seperti diabetes, penyakit kardiovaskuler, kanker, dan gangguan pernafasan semakin menjadi-jadi, bahkan menjadi penyebab kematian tertinggi di dunia. sekitar 3,2 juta orang meninggal dunia akibat malaria, TB, atau HIV/AIDS pada tahun 2014, namun lebih dari 38 juta orang meninggal dunia akibat PTM.",
        "随着生命的延长和生活方式的改变，非传染性疾病（NCD），如糖尿病、心血管疾病和呼吸系统疾病等大幅涌现，成为世界第一大致死原因。 2014年，死于疟疾、结核病或艾滋病的人数为320万，但有3,800万多人死于非传染性疾病，并且人数还在继续增加。"
    ],
    [
        "The Alberta government – and the oil companies that influence it – would upgrade “tar sands” to “oil sands,” apparently thinking that a better name somehow silences environmental critics.",
        "阿尔伯塔省政府和背后的石油公司把“焦油砂”改叫“油砂”，似乎改个好听点的名字就能摆脱环保主义者的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal stimulus is a tricky business.",
        "财政刺激是个吃力不讨好的事儿。"
    ],
    [
        "Low-value silver coins were used for small day-to-day transactions, including payment of modest wages and rents.",
        "低价值的银币则用于日常交易，包括支付工资和租金等等。"
    ],
    [
        "A second constraint stems from all the crises that will greet the new president. Israelis and Palestinians are fighting a low-level war.",
        "第二个制约因素源于新总统将面临的所有的各种危机。 以色列人和巴勒斯坦人正在打一场低级别的战争；"
    ],
    [
        "For such a complex system to work, eurozone policymakers must be able to trust one another to behave in a particular way – and that requires a common framework of rules and standards.",
        "要让如此复杂的系统起作用，欧元区决策者必须能够相信彼此以特定方式行事——而这有需要共同规则和标准框架。"
    ],
    [
        "However, quite apart from the evidence to the contrary, intuitively this makes no sense.",
        "但抛开相反的证据不论，单凭直觉也知道这样的指责有多么荒谬。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, financial aid to Ukraine would clearly signal that the EU will not tolerate the country’s destabilization, while providing economic stimulus in Ukraine and the entire region.",
        "相反，对乌金融援助将是一个明确的信号，表明欧盟不会容忍乌克兰被动摇，同时也能给乌克兰和整个地区带来经济刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "Calling this a Ponzi scheme might be too harsh.",
        "虽然将这种行为称为旁氏骗局可能太尖刻了，但是它们却有相似的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "While Russia retains the world’s largest (if somewhat aging) arsenal of nuclear weapons, as well as a permanent seat (and thus veto power) on the UN Security Council, it is more sick than BRIC.",
        "于是，各种不同的新名词纷纷出台，从BRICET（金砖四国加上东欧和土耳其）导BRICKETS（上述国家再加上韩国），甚至范围还要扩大——BRIMC，连墨西哥都要掺乎在里面。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2008, China’s per capita income was just over one-fifth that of the United States.",
        "2008年，中国人均收入只有美国的五分之一略多。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientists have spent the last 60 years trying to figure out the best way to create these conditions.",
        "科学家们花了六十年时间试图找出创造这些条件的最佳方法。"
    ],
    [
        "As the radicals leave, so does Saudi money, which funds their violent activities.",
        "激进分子离开沙特也带走了沙特的资金，以支持他们的暴力行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Then-US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson sought a bazooka during the 2008 financial crisis.",
        "时任美国财政部长保尔森在2008年金融危机期间就祭出过类似的火箭炮。"
    ],
    [
        "Brexit was such an event, and its reversal could be another.",
        "英国退欧就是一起这样的事件，它的逆转则有可能是另一起这样的事件。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard for non-profits to compete with the production values embodied in Beyoncé’s Pepsi commercial or Taylor Swift’s Diet Coke commercial.",
        "非盈利机构很难与碧昂丝的百事可乐广告或泰勒·斯威夫特的健怡可乐广告背后所体现的产值相抗衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer lies in potential growth.",
        "7%。 答案就在于潜在增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "The Power of a European Energy Union",
        "欧洲能源联盟的能量"
    ],
    [
        "With just days to go until the Brisbane meeting, the G-20 is ignoring the main long-term threats to the global economy.",
        "距离布里斯班峰会开幕只有几天时间了，二十国集团仍然无视全球经济的主要长期威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "First, however, was the chaos.",
        "然而，一开始却是一片混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "From the incredible media lab at MIT to the mathematics and economics departments at Harvard, Asians – Chinese and Indians, in particular – are everywhere, like the Romans in Athens in the first century BC: full of admiration for those from whom they were learning so much, and whom they would overcome in the coming decades.",
        "从一流的麻省理工学院的媒体实验室到哈佛大学的数学和经济系，亚洲人-尤其是中国和印度人-到处都是，犹如公元前一世纪在雅典的罗马人一样：他们对那里学到太多东西的人们充满了敬佩，而他们将在今后几十年打败他们学习的对象。"
    ],
    [
        "Forward-thinking entrepreneurs are already reaping the benefits of this fast-moving revolution.",
        "前瞻性企业家已在撷取这场快速展开的革命的利益果实。"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, they can do this on their own, so all that is needed is liquidity support to avoid a collapse of the exchange rate and allow for the adjustment to occur.",
        "在某些情况下，它们能够自己应对，所需要的只是流动性支持以避免汇率崩溃并使得这种调整能够发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The real guarantee of American resolve to defend Japan is the presence of US troops and bases, and cooperation on issues – such as ballistic missile defense – aimed at protecting both Americans and Japanese.",
        "美国决心为日本提供防卫的真正保证是美国军队以及军事基地的存在，以及它们在旨在保护美国和日本公民的种种行动，比如弹道导弹防御系统上的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Some other attraction may appear.",
        "一些其他诱惑可能由此出现。"
    ],
    [
        "More than half of Iraqis surveyed said that they would not welcome Turks, Jordanians, Iranians, or Kuwaitis as neighbors.",
        "半数以上接受调查的伊拉克人表示不欢迎土耳其人、约旦人、伊朗人或科威特人成为他们的邻居。"
    ],
    [
        "Illusions of a special relationship with the US replacing the influence of Europe are mistaken.",
        "用与美国的特殊关系取代欧洲影响的幻觉是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "If the rationale for arming the opposition is not so much to win the war as to weaken the government’s resistance to negotiation, it is arguable that the elements of a “hurting stalemate” are already in place, with more weapons likely to produce nothing but more fighting and more casualties.",
        "如果武装反对派的理由与其说是为了赢得战争，不如说是减少政府对谈判的抵制，那么可以说，“有害僵局”的要素已经具备，更多的武器除了制造更多的战争和更多的伤亡之外别无用处。"
    ],
    [
        "As individuals, we appear to view a gamble that has a roughly 50% chance of doubling our wealth and a roughly 50% chance of halving it as worthy of consideration – not a no-brainer, but not out of the question, either.",
        "作为个人，我们似乎认为有约一半机会加倍财富并有约一半机会让财富减半的赌博值得一试。 ——这不是一件容易之事，但也不是根本不可能。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that almost all of it is in US dollars – a currency that is rapidly losing its value.",
        "问题是其中的美元储备占了绝大部分-而美元正在迅速地贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin seems to be hoping that if the United Kingdom votes for “Brexit” and the National Front’s Marine Le Pen is elected President of France, the EU will lose its ability to maintain the sanctions.",
        "普京似乎寄希望于，如果英国投票选择“英国退出”，并且国民阵线（National Front）的马琳·勒庞（Marine Le Pen）当选法国总统，那么欧盟将失去维持制裁的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar calculations help us to estimate the global funding needed to enable all children to complete at least a high-school education.",
        "类似的计算帮助我们估算出让所有儿童至少完成高中学业所需的全球投资额。"
    ],
    [
        "Armed individuals resort to kidnapping to get jobs, free family members from prison, and exact revenge.",
        "武装个人采用绑架来获得工作、从监狱解救家人以及实行报复。"
    ],
    [
        "In India, Mahatma Gandhi rejuvenated the country’s soul, which had been battered by colonialism, and Jawaharlal Nehru established its democratic political culture.",
        "在印度，圣雄甘地重新唤醒了遭遇殖民主义重创的国家精神，尼赫鲁则确立了印度的民主政治文化。"
    ],
    [
        "That, in turn, reduces oil exports, driving up prices further.",
        "只有爆发一次大规模衰退才能打破这个怪圈；"
    ],
    [
        "Even China, though highly insensitive to democratic principles, is discovering, with the dangerous spread of AIDS, an obligation to listen to popular clamor, and the need for public support to justify government actions.",
        "甚至连对民主原则高度迟钝的中国在艾滋病蔓延的过程中也发现了倾听公众呼声的义务和为政府行为赢得公众支持的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Like most Russians, he wanted the material advantages of capitalism, but had little respect or understanding for the rule of law and dispersion of power, which makes capitalist institutions work.",
        "和大多数俄罗斯人一样，他想要资本主义带来的物质好处，但是对法制和权力分散这些资本主义体制得以运行的保障毫无敬意或了解。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the innovation in finance in the US and Europe came after it was deregulated in the 1980’s – that is, after it stopped being boring.",
        "美国和欧洲的大部分金融创新发生在20世纪80年代去监管化之后——也就是说，发生于不再无聊之后。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless central banks figure out a convincing way to address their paralysis at the zero bound, there is likely to be a continuing barrage of outside-the-box proposals that are far more radical.",
        "除非央行找到令人信服的方法解决它们在零区间功能瘫痪的问题，否则就有可能始终存在一道不可逾越的高墙阻挡更加激进的非常规方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, in many ways, accumulating reserves worked better than anyone could have imagined – countries found that they could withstand considerable shocks and growth was impressive both domestically and globally.",
        "然而，在许多情况下，持续增长的外汇储备比任何人所能够想象的都要有利，这些国家发现它们能够抵御国内外的巨大冲击并且保持了高速的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "That is what happened in 2008-2009, when a run-up of the Shanghai index (which reached 6,092 in October 2007), together with the government’s CN¥4 trillion stimulus package, sustained overcapacity in traditional industries.",
        "2008—2009年的教训需要铭记，当时，上证指数2007年曾达到6092点，加上政府4万亿人民币的刺激计划维持了传统行业的过剩产能。"
    ],
    [
        "That, too, will change.",
        "这一点也将有所改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, both Hollande and Sarkozy represented those adapted to globalization and viewed the rest as a reservoir of voters to be seduced, not as a new underclass.",
        "事实上，无论是奥朗德还是萨科齐都代表着那些适应全球化的群体，并将在此之外的人视为一批可供引诱的选民，而不是一个新的下层阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "However, in terms of non-income indicators of poverty – for example, child mortality, malnutrition, and school dropouts – India’s performance has been dismal (in some respects worse even than in sub-Saharan Africa).",
        "从贫困的非收入指标来看——比如说，儿童死亡率，营养不良以及辍学等等——印度的表现就非常差（在某些方面甚至比撒哈拉以南非洲还要糟糕）。"
    ],
    [
        "Persistently low employment and near-zero aggregate inflation do not suggest that they have erred on the side of profligacy.",
        "持续低就业和接近于零的总通胀并不意味着它们犯了不知节制的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "On a macro level, the World Health Organization recently revised its estimate of the number of premature deaths due to air pollution to seven million annually.",
        "宏观上，世卫组织最近将每年与空气污染相关的早亡人数预期值上调至七百万。"
    ],
    [
        "While these countries did accumulate a huge volume of debt during the credit boom that went bust in 2008, the cost of debt service is now too low to have the impact – reducing incomes, preventing a return to growth, and generating uncertainty among investors – that one would normally expect.",
        "这些经济提确实在结束于2008年的信用繁荣期中积累了巨量债务，但现在的债务维持成本非常低，根本无法产生正常情况下所应该产生的影响——降低收入、阻碍增长回归、在投资者中间制造不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Hu has fomented nationalism, not by taking understandable pride in China’s impressive economic growth, but by demonizing Japan.",
        "而且，胡锦涛煽动了民族主义。 他的煽动方式并不是采用可以理解的、对中国印象深刻的经济增长大为自豪，而是妖魔化日本。"
    ],
    [
        "But she made it clear during the campaign that she is her own person, a seasoned business leader with appropriate professional degrees.",
        "但在选举过程中英拉已经明确显示了出自身的独立性：一位拥有专业学历的老练商界领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "• “Virtualizing” processes – that is, moving them out of the physical world.",
        "• “虚拟化”过程——即将它们从现实世界中移出。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence, as the Kenyans put it, the border between northern and southern Sudan should become the border between Black Africa and the Arab World.",
        "因此，正如肯尼亚人所说，南北苏丹的边界也应当成为黑非洲和阿拉伯世界的边界。"
    ],
    [
        "That recession was destructive, but it had one silver lining: an inspiration to the world that an independent central bank can take tough measures to ensure price stability.",
        "这场衰退是破坏性的，但它也有一个亮点：给予全世界一个启示—一家独立的中央银行为确保价格稳定可以采取强硬措施。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Volatile Growth",
        "中国的高波动增长"
    ],
    [
        "CSR can be divided into two categories: what corporations should do (say, contribute to a women’s rights NGO or build a village school) and what they should not do (say, dump mercury into rivers or bury hazardous materials in landfills). The latter is wholly conventional and subject to regulation (and recently to questions about how corporations should behave when there are no host-country regulations).",
        "一般来说，企业社会责任可以被分成两类：企业应该做的（比如说向一个保护妇女权益的非政府组织捐款，或是捐建一所乡村学校）以及不应该做的（向河中排放水银或在填埋场掩埋危险物料），而后者属于一般性行为，且易于监管（但在东道国缺乏相关监管的情况下，企业该如何作为？"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the EU has not really come up with any practical ways to do this.",
        "目前为止，欧盟尚未提出任何实际的落实措施。"
    ],
    [
        "This would squarely shift most of the adjustment burden onto structural funds, a sure harbinger of bitter rows between old recipients and new entrants.",
        "这将正好减轻结构基金所承担的大部分调整负担，却无疑预示着老成员国与新加入国之间的一场激烈争论。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of the recession and lagging recovery, health-care spending has also slowed significantly since 2009 throughout the OECD.",
        "由于衰退和复苏不力，自2009年以来，经合组织国家医疗支出纷纷大幅减速。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether competent technocrats, or as has happened in the past, party hacks are appointed to the ministries will be a telling sign.",
        "而究竟被委任到政府部门的是有能力的技术官僚，还是正如过去曾经发生过的那样，只是些政党鹰犬，将是一个有说服力的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, jihadism is more fundamentally divided than ever before.",
        "如今，征战主义的根本分歧之严重前所未有。"
    ],
    [
        "The job is not complete.",
        "但事情并没有完。"
    ],
    [
        "A better approach would be to introduce tuition fees for the wealthy and scholarships for the poor.",
        "更好的办法是对富人家庭的孩子收学费，给穷人家庭的孩子奖学金。"
    ],
    [
        "The utility of the state is clear. It is a necessary organizing principle that allows people to pool their resources for the common good and mobilize against common threats, whether they are floods or invading armies.",
        "国家的作用是很清楚的，它是使人们能够为了共同利益汇集他们的资源并动员起来抵御共同的威胁——不管这些威胁是洪水还是外国军队的入侵——的必要的组织原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the troika made three mistakes.",
        "此外，三驾马车翻了三个错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics of intelligence tests have long pointed out that the tests ignore important parts of mental life, mainly non-cognitive domains such as socio-emotional abilities, empathy, and interpersonal skills.",
        "长期以来，智力测验的批评家们已经指出这些测验忽略了精神生活的重要方面，主要是类似社会情感能力，情感转移能力和人际交流技能等非认知领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as the experience of India’s mobile telephony sector clearly demonstrates, scaling up for massive impact requires more than start-up innovation; it also demands a regulatory environment characterized by a liberal approach to pricing, manufacturing, and distribution.",
        "此外，印度移动电话部门的经验清楚地表明，要形成大规模影响力，所需要的不仅是起始阶段的创新； 还需要一种监管环境，对定价、制造和分销采取自由方针。"
    ],
    [
        "A TTIP with wider regulatory convergence could facilitate a significant increase in trade.",
        "一个具备更广泛的监管覆盖面的TTIP能够促进贸易的大幅增长。 此外，奠定一个欧盟和美国（GDP分别高达18."
    ],
    [
        "Iran scales back its nuclear activities, especially the enrichment of uranium fuel, in exchange for an end to economic sanctions.",
        "伊朗减少其核活动，特别是铀燃料浓缩活动，以换取取消经济制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "These were off the agenda in earlier trade rounds, as the US pushed for liberalization of financial services - thus serving its own comparative advantage.",
        "而美国积极推进金融服务的自由化，以借此发挥自己的比较竞争优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Other problems loom for the NTC. In July, their military chief of staff, Abdul Fattah Younis, was killed in murky circumstances after the Council issued an arrest warrant for him. His tribe has demanded answers that the NTC does not have. People close to the case say that senior NTC officials were implicated in Younis’s death.",
        "在今年7月，反对派武装力量总司令阿卜杜·法塔赫·尤尼斯在过渡委员会对其签发逮捕令后离奇被杀。 尤尼斯所属部落要求委员会对此作出解释却没得到任何回音。"
    ],
    [
        "IMF surveillance, intended to detect economic vulnerabilities and imbalances, was inadequate.",
        "用于侦测经济脆弱性和不平衡的基金监督机制其实并不完备。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of these are harmless; the really harmful ones don’t survive long enough to show up anywhere.",
        "其中的绝大多数都没有危害，真正有危害的变异存活时间太短，也因此不为人知。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is to shift massively from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, especially wind power and solar power.",
        "首先是从化石燃料大规模过渡到可再生能源，特别是风能和太阳能。"
    ],
    [
        "Overseen by the task force, this self-selected peer group – comprising university administrators and faculty who recognize that change must start from within – will implement the steps that the task force has devised.",
        "在特别小组监管下，这一由认识到变化必须由内部产生的高校管理人员及教师组成的自主选择的同业群体将会忠实执行特别小组已经制定的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Another remarkable success in India is the safe home-care of newborn infants in the first few days of life.",
        "印度的另一个重大成功是在婴儿出生后头几天安全的家庭护理。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in October, Congress was persuaded to give it Trade Promotion Authority, enabling the completion of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).",
        "此外，10月份国会被说服授予奥巴马政府贸易促进权（Trade Promotion Authority），从而使得包括12个国家的跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）得以完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Three issues stand out.",
        "三个问题非常突出。"
    ],
    [
        "Sex, Lies, and Leadership",
        "性、谎言和领导力"
    ],
    [
        "These initiatives – particularly efforts to strengthen the IMF’s surveillance function and the so-called “exceptional access framework” – must now be locked in and implemented consistently.",
        "现在应当锁定这些措施，特别是加强该基金的监控职能以及所谓的“特殊贷款框架”，并且贯穿实施。"
    ],
    [
        "The West must again begin to out-invent, out-innovate, and out-skill the rest of the world if it is to seize the opportunities that Asia presents. Indeed, unless the West significantly expands its capital investment in engineering, science, and new technologies, it will be marginalized by countries whose governments back their innovators with hard cash.",
        "如果想抓住这些亚洲市场机会的话，西方必须再度开始在发明，创新和技术等方面超越其他地区。 事实上，除非西方大规模扩张其在工程，科学和新技术上的资本投资，否则就将被那些政府大力支持创新者的国家边缘化。"
    ],
    [
        "Their success will depend, in large part, on whether China gets support from other great powers, specifically Russia in Central Asia and India in South Asia.",
        "它们的成功很大程度上取决于中国是否能够获得其他大国——即中亚的俄罗斯和南亚的印度的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "But this doesn’t mean that EU companies are condemned to live with 25 different national tax systems.",
        "但这并不意味着欧盟的公司们不得不应对25个不同的国家税收体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Olmert’s government has serious problems, but they are not the reason that the situation between Israel and Iran is coming to a head.",
        "奥尔穆特政府深处困境，但是这并非以色列和伊朗两国冲突一触即发的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "They currently spend a disproportionate share of their time “getting the Venezuelan call right,” because their bonuses are based on their over-performance relative to the index – of which Venezuela is the main driver.",
        "他们目前在“确保买入委内瑞拉债券行为的正当性”上花费了过多的时间，因为他们的奖金是基于能在多大程度上超越该指数——而委内瑞拉则是其中的主要驱动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an approach would have a number of benefits.",
        "这种做法将有一系列的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Agronomical research and technical innovations are crucial to maximizing water efficiency in this sector, and they must be taken much further.",
        "对于将农业用水效率提高到最大程度而言，农事研究及技术创新至关重要，而且必须进一步予以推动。"
    ],
    [
        "Inward investment is steadily rising, as business seems to believe that the remaining political and security challenges – the possible negative effects of post-independence Kosovo and Bosnia’s malaise – will be overcome sooner rather than later.",
        "国内投资也在稳步上升，因为企业似乎相信现有的政治和安全挑战也就是科索沃独立后以及波斯尼亚的不安定可能造成的负面影响将很快被克服。"
    ],
    [
        "Wilson could not implore his people to “kill the Krauts,” as British or French leaders frequently did, because so many of Wilson’s soldiers were, by ethnicity at least, Krauts themselves.",
        "威尔逊无法像英法领导人常作的那样要求他的人民去“杀死德国佬”，因为威尔逊的太多战士至少从种族渊源上划分本身就来自德国。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a 2015 report by the McKinsey Global Institute, household debt in many advanced countries doubled, to more than 200% of income, between 2000 and 2007.",
        "据麦肯锡全球研究所的一份2015 年报告，许多发达国家家庭债务在2000—2007年间翻了一番，达到收入的200%。"
    ],
    [
        "And when the moment of reckoning came this summer, China’s leaders spent $200 billion of hard-earned foreign reserves to play King Canute trying to hold back the tide of a stock-market rout.",
        "而当今年夏天清算时刻终于到来时，中国领导人拿出2,000亿美元辛苦积攒的外汇储备扮演了一回卡努特王（King Canute），试图力挽股市暴跌之狂澜。"
    ],
    [
        "During perestroika and the Yeltsin presidency, the legacy was a widespread hatred and fear of the Communist Party with all its force and power.",
        "重组改革和叶利钦执政给人们留下了对强大共产党的普遍的憎恨和恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the new president and CCP leader, Xi Jinping, is hardly dull.",
        "但新国家主席和中共总书记习近平绝非平庸之辈。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, Morocco’s monarchy has always been a step ahead of other Arab regimes when it comes to devising calculated responses to the popular mood.",
        "尽管如此，摩洛哥君主制在用深思熟虑的方法应对公众情绪时仍然要胜其他阿拉伯体制一筹。"
    ],
    [
        "Guinea, which is making progress despite annual per capita income of roughly $450, exemplifies the potential of the world’s poorest countries to surpass expectations.",
        "圭亚那的年人均收入只有450美元左右，但它在快速发展，它是一个榜样——世界最穷国家也有超预期增长的潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "While all EU leaders have advocated using the budget to stimulate economic growth, little action is being taken.",
        "尽管所有欧盟领导人都支持用预算来刺激经济增长，但行动者寥寥。"
    ],
    [
        "The Price Paradox",
        "价格悖论"
    ],
    [
        "They will facilitate interactions across their network to stimulate the development of innovation ecosystems.",
        "公司将促进该网络内部的互动，以刺激创新生态系统的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Consensus-oriented negotiations can work when a treaty is being struck between victors and vanquished –ampnbsp;the strong and the weak.",
        "以绝对共识为目标的谈判只有在战胜方和战败方（也就是强者和弱者）的谈判中才可能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "RCV has already been adopted by a number of American cities and the state of Maine, and one hopes it will continue to spread in the years ahead.",
        "RCV已在多个美国城市以及缅因州实施，我们希望它能够在未来几年得到继续推广。"
    ],
    [
        "A water investment policy that reduces the vulnerability of the poor and offers basic water security for all will require customized planning and an effective partnership of donor countries, developing country governments, the private sector, and local communities.",
        "减轻贫困人口脆弱性和提供全民基本用水保障的水务投资政策需要捐助国、发展中国家、私营部门和地方社会的合理规划和有效合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Far from being a detriment to economic growth, the report concludes that efforts to combat climate change could boost growth considerably – and relatively soon.",
        "该报告指出，对抗气候变化的努力不但不会阻挠经济增长，反而可以极大地起到提振作用——并且这一天很快就会到来。"
    ],
    [
        "As products of revolutionary military takeovers, these secular nationalist regimes failed to produce genuine popular legitimacy and have had to fall back on the dynastic succession practiced by the regimes they toppled.",
        "作为革命军事政变的产物，这些世俗民族主义政权没能产生大众合法性，而是不得不退回到被他们所推翻的政权所实行的世袭继承中来。"
    ],
    [
        "But the book does not tell us what “depression economics” is supposed to replace.",
        "但是这本书并没有告诉我们“萧条经济学”假定将要取代的是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "The era of Israeli pragmatism that he opened will not end with his departure.",
        "他所开启的以色列实用主义时代不会随着他的离去而终结。"
    ],
    [
        "As Lisa Sachs and I recently explained, responsible investors must urgently query these companies about their business plans to comply with the 2º limit on warming.",
        "丽莎·萨克斯（Lisa Sachs）和我最近指出，负责任的投资者必须尽快询问这些公司有什么计划应对2℃升温限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Just two days after Afghanistan’s polls close, India will launch its marathon general election, to be concluded on May 12.",
        "阿富汗选举结束两天后，印度将开启其马拉松式的大选，直到5月12日才会结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, one cannot at reasonable cost prevent all possible damage from calamities, which strike randomly and in locations that cannot always be predicted.",
        "当然，你不可能以有限的成本防止所有灾害造成的可能破坏，因为灾害袭击是随机的，受害地是不可预测的。"
    ],
    [
        "America, Israel, and much of the international community then torpedoed that arrangement.",
        "美国、以色列和国际社会的大多数国家而后猛烈攻击这一结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whereas metal prices have fallen, oil prices are reaching record highs.",
        "但是，在金属价格下跌的同时，油价却正创造着历史新高。"
    ],
    [
        "Fundamental values are also at stake for the EU, whose members, ironically, have in some cases actively supported the US in its quest to extradite Snowden, despite being victims of America’s alleged breaches of international law.",
        "对欧盟来说，根本价值也岌岌可危。 讽刺的是，尽管身为美国受控违反国际法行为的受害者，欧盟成员国中不乏积极支持美国引渡斯诺登者。"
    ],
    [
        "Many kids still lack clean drinking water, access to basic toilets, and good hygiene practices.",
        "许多儿童仍然缺乏清洁的饮用水，无法获得基本厕所设施、养成良好的卫生习惯。"
    ],
    [
        "When justified by economic fundamentals, the exchange rate should be allowed to rise gradually.",
        "如果有经济基本面的支撑，应允许本币汇率缓慢升值。"
    ],
    [
        "Supported by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan sought strategic depth against its arch-enemy India with the help of militant religious students from Afghan refugee camps. These “Taliban” were created and equipped by the Pakistani secret service, the ISI.",
        "为了寻求战略纵深以对抗世仇印度，巴基斯坦在沙特阿拉伯的支持下，以阿富汗难民营好战的宗教学生为班底拉起一支队伍——由巴基斯坦三军情报局（ISI）一手组建和武装起来的“塔利班”。"
    ],
    [
        "The organization has inspired a worldwide campaign to lift children out of exploitation and into education.",
        "该组织开启了一场全球性的解救被剥削儿童、让他们重获教育的运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a solution is readily available in the form of Special Drawing Rights (SDR).",
        "这样的解决方案以特别提款权（SDR）的形式是可用的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor can such questions be answered with the wistful hope that everyone will someday benefit.",
        "一厢情愿地希望所有人某一天都受益也不能回答这样的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing the challenge at hand, the PBOC has been allowing the renminbi to fall, slowly but surely, since November.",
        "中国人民银行认识到它所面临的挑战，从11月开始缓慢但无误地允许人民币贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Some observers argue that more should be done to contain risk in the system; to the extent that risk has simply shifted from banks to shadow banks, they may be right.",
        "有观察家认为应当采取更多措施来控制金融系统的风险； 就风险仅仅从银行转移到影子银行来说，他们可能有道理。"
    ],
    [
        "A Better Global Framework to End AIDS",
        "一个更好的消灭艾滋病全球框架"
    ],
    [
        "Catching Up at Different Speeds",
        "不同的赶超速度"
    ],
    [
        "It is easy to conclude that there is just no point in even trying to beat the market.",
        "因此，很容易得出结论说，即使是试图获得超过市场平均的回报都是徒劳的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a huge amount of information in there, but we can’t understand it.",
        "其中承载着海量的信息，但我们无法读懂其中的含义。"
    ],
    [
        "This should serve as an environmental benchmark for future agreements – including with the US, despite some American constituencies’ expectations that EU standards could be relaxed in a bilateral trade deal.",
        "这应该作为未来协定的环境基准——包括与美国的协定，尽管一些美国选民认为在双边贸易协定中，欧盟标准可以放松。"
    ],
    [
        "As one Kosovo Liberation Army commander warned, “If we kill one KFOR soldier a day, these cowards will leave.”",
        "正如一个科索沃解放军指挥官所警告的那样：“如果我们每天杀掉一名KFOR士兵，这些胆小鬼们就会滚蛋。"
    ],
    [
        "Five months later, there remains no clear account of the motivation behind the decision to eliminate Chang.",
        "五个月后，我们仍不知道决定清洗张成泽的背后动机。"
    ],
    [
        "Incremental measures will only distract us from the scope of the challenges that we confront.",
        "在原有基础上修修补补只能让我们忽略人类所面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if governments lack clear arguments with which to rebut protesters, they are in trouble.",
        "可如果政府找不到明确的观点来反驳抗议者，就会陷入到困境之中。"
    ],
    [
        "That firewall, together with press censorship, enables China’s leaders to conceal their failures and highlight their achievements, however dubious.",
        "防火长城，再加上言论审查，使得中国领导人能够隐瞒失败、突出成就，不管多么可疑。"
    ],
    [
        "People entering the labor market are increasingly finding only short-term or temporary contracts; often, they are forced to take informal work or emigrate for a job.",
        "进入劳动力市场的人们日益发现自己只能获得短期或临时合同； 他们往往被迫从事非正式工作，或为了工作而搬家。"
    ],
    [
        "The violence of Tudor's rhetoric, directed against everybody who opposed him, rose to heights not seen since the Fascist era.",
        "此人亲自下令屠杀了约20万犹太人。 都铎针对所有反对者的文字暴力达到了自法西斯时代以来的新高度。"
    ],
    [
        "Until a few months ago, it still looked as if Greece could achieve a primary surplus, albeit a small one, this year.",
        "直到几个月前，似乎希腊今年仍可以实现初级盈余（尽管规模不大）。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, the world’s poor regions need to be seen as investment opportunities, not as threats or places to ignore.",
        "第四，世界的贫穷地区应该被看作是投资机会，而不应该被看作是威胁或应该忽略的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Civil servants have been prodded to wear customary khaki uniforms, and women encouraged to don traditional dresses.",
        "政府号召公务员穿上传统的卡其布制服，还鼓励女性穿着传统泰式连衣裙。"
    ],
    [
        "But recent high-value cases involving high-tech products like airplanes, semiconductors, and green technologies, including solar panels and biodiesel, make clear that the problem cannot be ignored.",
        "不过，最近所发生的包括飞机、半导体和绿色技术（如太阳能面板的生物柴油）等高科技产品在内的高案值案件清楚地表明，这个问题已经不容忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "Big Tech Meets Big Government",
        "当大科技遇上大政府"
    ],
    [
        "During the Cold War, institutions such as Radio Free Europe proved to be valuable instruments.",
        "在冷战期间，像自由欧洲电台那样的机构被证明是有价值的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent success stories have been made possible through a combination of increased spending from poor countries’ budgets, supplemented by aid from rich-country donors.",
        "通过结合穷国预算中增加开支和辅之以富有捐助国家的援助取得了最近的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "While this was far from a perfect monetary system, it had one very positive attribute: countries could leave in hard economic times, and rejoin if and when the outlook brightened.",
        "尽管这远非完美的货币体系，但有一个非常积极的特性：各国可以在经济艰难时期离开，并在前景恢复光明后重新加入。"
    ],
    [
        "And no matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don’t stop watching the Tour de France.",
        "不论药物使用的问题闹得有多么不可开交，我们对环法大赛还是照看不误。"
    ],
    [
        "Their fears are justified.",
        "他们的担心是合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, however, India has no choice: there are already sporadic riots over water shortage, while water tankers move under armed guard in some cities, and virulent conflicts arise between communities over water-sharing.",
        "最后的结果是，印度将无从选择：印度已经因为水短缺偶尔引发骚乱； 在一些城市水罐车必须在武装人员的监视下才能流动：社团之间因水问题而不断引发激烈矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason to believe 2018 will be different.",
        "没有理由认为2018年会有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The results of irresponsible populism, however, are always the same.",
        "但是，不负责任的民粹主义的结果永远是相同的。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the AfDB’s African Water Facility (AWF) complements its project-finance work by attracting downstream investments in water infrastructure.",
        "不仅如此，非洲开发银行的非洲水利设施（AWF）项目还通过吸引下游资金投向水利基础设施很好地补充了其项目融资工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Others recommend monitoring the leverage ratio, particularly the ratio of capital to assets in the banking system, on the grounds that banks are the weak link in the financial chain.",
        "也有人建议监测杠杆率，特别是银行系统的资本-资产比率，因为银行是整个金融链的薄弱环节。"
    ],
    [
        "Left unchecked, these trends are likely to persist.",
        "若放任不管，这些趋势可能会持续。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the reach of today’s mass media and social networks, only a few people must be targeted to cow the rest of society into conforming to the leader’s vision.",
        "由于今天大众媒体和社交网络全覆盖，只要攻击少数人就可以恐吓社会民众服从领袖的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In many cases, the revolutions have evolved into brutal and protracted internal conflicts, with no solution in sight.",
        "在许多国家，革命演变为残酷的长期国内冲突，看不到解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "In essence, this would amount to the signatories agreeing not to manipulate their currencies.",
        "理论上，这会让签署国同意不操纵货币。"
    ],
    [
        "But they also prevented sufficient numbers of young entrepreneurs and investors from risking a new start.",
        "但它们也阻止了足够数量的年轻企业家和投资者冒险成立新企业。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not clear what these resources are meant to be.",
        "但对具体资源的界定还不是很明确。"
    ],
    [
        "The meeting was chaired by Prince Albert.",
        "演示会由阿尔贝亲王亲自主持。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, China accuses it of deliberately aiming to depreciate the dollar.",
        "这也难怪中国不断指责美方蓄意压低美元汇率了。"
    ],
    [
        "A third innovation is essentially a smart mosquito trap, capable of capturing only the mosquito species capable of spreading the Zika virus and other diseases.",
        "第三项创新基本上是一个智能蚊子陷阱，专门捕捉那些能够传播寨卡病毒和其他疾病的蚊子种类。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets react to credible announcements of reforms, as well as to their implementation.",
        "市场不仅会对改革的实施做出反应，也会对可信的改革公告做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "It signals that the authorities are seriously committed to making the future different from the past.",
        "这表明当局十分认真地想让未来不同于过去。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for all the dramatic headlines, there is a deeper, unreported problem with the UK’s welfare reform: rather than reduce poverty, it could actually exacerbate it.",
        "但在所有这些夺人眼球的新闻头条之外，英国福利改革还存在一个更深入的，未被报道的问题：与其说是减少贫困，它实际上可能会加剧贫困状况的恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this must be fixed.",
        "所有这一切都必须要修正。"
    ],
    [
        "These groups protected the growth in consumption to which they had become accustomed by going more deeply into debt.",
        "中低收入群体通过更深地负债维持了早已习惯的消费增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan is another Asian giant regaining confidence, following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s energetic stimulus program.",
        "在首相安倍晋三的大手笔刺激计划驱动下，日本正成为另一个重拾信心的亚洲巨人。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, while the move has probably reinforced Iran’s claim to be the true defender of Jerusalem and Palestine, the biggest gains for Iran will likely be emotional.",
        "事实上，尽管该举动或许强化了伊朗自称为耶路撒冷和巴勒斯坦守护神的定位，但对其最大的收益可能只是情绪而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring that adaptive capacity is expanded and exploited where it is most needed is thus a key challenge.",
        "确保适应能力被扩大和开发到最最需要的地方因而成为了我们所面临的一个重要挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation in the corporate sector is mixed.",
        "企业部门的状况喜忧参半。"
    ],
    [
        "The Third Way's Second Chance",
        "第三条道路的第二次机会"
    ],
    [
        "OONI’s Web-Connectivity Test, for example, is designed to examine whether access to websites is blocked through DNS tampering, TCP/IP blocking, or a transparent HTTP proxy.",
        "比如，OONI的网络连通性测试可以检查网站接入是否通过DNS削弱、TCP/IP封禁或透明HTTP代理封禁。"
    ],
    [
        "All told, a single case of clinical malaria can be averted for as little as $11.",
        "这样算来，减少一例临床疟疾的成本可以下降到区区11美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, do we really want the former borrowers to borrow themselves into trouble again?",
        "更何况，我们真的想让原先的那些借款人再度陷入泥潭吗？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, raising banks’ capital requirements when credit is booming could restrain lending and strengthen banks’ cushion against losses, while setting ceilings on loan-to-value ratios could rein in exuberant property markets, thereby heading off excessive risks for borrowers and lenders.",
        "比如，在信用繁荣时期提高银行资本要求可以抑制贷款、增强银行吸收损失的能力，而制定贷款-价值（loan-to-value）比上限可以给火热的房地产市场泼冷水，从而降低借款人和贷款人的过高风险。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that tomorrow it could bid for contracts to build missile bases on the coast of the People’s Republic of China. The following day it could allow its decisions on Chechnya to be dictated by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s advisers.",
        "也就是说明天它可能会参与在中华人民共和国沿海建立导弹基地工程的竞标，接着它可能会让自己在车臣问题上的决策受到俄国总统普京顾问们的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "And too many policymakers are deferring to them.",
        "太多的决策者屈从于它们。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, research finds that women tend to be less confident and less likely to negotiate for pay raises and promotions than equally qualified men.",
        "比方说，研究表明女性与同等资质的男性相比不太自信，也不太容易谈判加薪和升职等类似问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, ancient and difficult issues divide Armenia and Turkey.",
        "当然，亚美尼亚和土耳其之间的恩怨由来已久，错综复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Unsurprisingly, the plateau is the new hub of Chinese dam building.",
        "不出所料，青藏高原成为中国水坝建设的新枢纽。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the talks provide a platform for practical action – and for governments to demonstrate leadership by example.",
        "但谈判提供了一个实践平台，也提供了政府用榜样证明领导力的平台。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond global factors that apply to all, rapid catch-up growth requires sufficient investment in both physical and human capital.",
        "除了适用于所有国家的全球因素，快速赶超增长还需要对实物和人力资本进行充分的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, they should act to prevent Republicans from gaining control of three-quarters of state legislatures, thereby opening the way for constitutional amendments.",
        "其次，他们应该应该行动起来阻止共和党控制四分之三州立法机关，从而开启修宪之路。"
    ],
    [
        "And states, despite their reticence to be formally bound by preset terms, recognize this.",
        "而各国也承认这一点，尽管它们也不愿接受预先确定的条款的正式约束。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, China and India are steadily increasing the size of their nuclear arsenals, and Pakistan is doing so even faster, even spelling out plans to combine battlefield nukes with conventional weapons.",
        "与此同时，中国和印度也在稳步扩大核武库，巴基斯坦的动作更加迅速，甚至抛出了将战场核武器（battlefield nukes）与常规武器相结合的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Magda Bianco, Silvia Giacomelli, and Giacomo Rodano, researchers at the Bank of Italy, report that these institutional roadblocks to expansion remain substantial in Italy.",
        "一份由意大利银行研究员马格达·彼安科（Magda Bianco）, 西尔维亚·吉阿科迈利（Silvia Giacomelli）和贾科莫·罗丹诺（Giacomo Rodano）共同撰写的报告指出意大利国内依然存在大量阻碍经济扩张的制度性障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The terms of the Bernanke-Paulson bailouts were disadvantageous to taxpayers, and yet remarkably, despite their size, have done little to rekindle lending.",
        "伯南克和保尔森的紧急援助计划的条款对纳税人是不利的，并且值得注意的是，尽管规模如此之大，然而对于刺激贷款的重新发放做得却很少。"
    ],
    [
        "Putting out Indonesia’s forest fires for good will be crucial to meeting these targets.",
        "扑灭印尼森林火灾将是满足这些目标的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "There are two main kinds of technologies that look most promising.",
        "有两种技术看起来最有前途。"
    ],
    [
        "For ten years in the Indian Ocean, we supported US operations to stop the flow of terrorists and arms.",
        "十年来，我们在印度洋支持美国打击恐怖分子和武装的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "But progress has mostly stalled.",
        "但是这一进程现在却几乎处于停滞状态。"
    ],
    [
        "They do not seem concerned that the charges are unfair; rather, they appear to be demonstrating solidarity with a fellow head of state.",
        "他们似乎并不在乎这些指控是否公正； 而似乎是在显示与一位国家元首同一战壕的团结。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why the crisis over the presidential election was actually a crisis of the constitutional order installed by the military when it ruled from 1980-1983.",
        "这也就是为什么说总统大选危机其实是在1980-1983年间统治土耳其的军方所建立的宪法秩序的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "A firm, enforceable climate-change deal would show that, as difficult as it is to reach a hard-law agreement nowadays, it is possible.",
        "确定的、可强制实行的气候变化协议将证明，如今达成硬法律协议尽管困难，但仍是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "And the fact is that not even Thatcher’s detractors can deny her impact.",
        "事实上，就连撒切尔的批评者都无法否认她的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, even though Obama carried Ohio in the last two elections, its current congressional delegation is 75% Republican.",
        "比如，尽管奥巴马在过去两次大选中都赢得了俄亥俄州，但该州最新一届国会代表中有75%是共和党。"
    ],
    [
        "Even on the Golan Heights, where there is no Syrian presence, the settlements, located only a few kilometers from enormous Syrian troop concentrations, create a heavy burden, because, in the event of war, the Israeli army would be forced to evacuate them quickly, as was the case during the Yom Kippur war of October 1973.",
        "即使在没有叙利亚势力存在的格兰高地上，仅仅离开叙利亚兵营几公里远的定居点也造成了沉重的负担，因为在战争爆发的情况下，以色列军队不得不迅速将他们撤离，1973年10月爆发的赎罪日战争就是一例。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia and China may no longer be communist, but they certainly are illiberal and definitely not democratic.",
        "俄罗斯和中国也许不再是共产主义国家，但它们显然是不自由的国家，也绝对是不民主的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom, a pilot study on stronger enforcement of existing rules showed that assaults could be reduced in a very cost-effective way, with the benefits outweighing the costs by 17 to one.",
        "英国有关加强执行现行规则的试点研究表明能够以高成本效益的方式减少袭击事件，其中收益与成本的比例高达17：1。"
    ],
    [
        "No one should assume smooth sailing for China (or for any other part of the world, for that matter) in the years ahead.",
        "中国在未来几年的行程（任何世界其他国家也是如此）绝非坦途。"
    ],
    [
        "Unprecedented long-term monetary stimulus and massive spikes in public-debt burdens have left governments poorly equipped to manage the next economic downturn when – not if – it arrives.",
        "前所未有的长期性货币刺激政策和公共债务负担的大幅攀升必将使政府在应对下一次（必定会来的）经济衰退时捉襟见肘。"
    ],
    [
        "During the exercises, Shenyang units advanced 1,000 kilometers into the Beijing district, where they engaged in joint war games.",
        "在演习中，沈阳军区的部队深入北京军区1000公里，两大军区在那里进行了联合军事演习。"
    ],
    [
        "And there is a large volume of bad loans in some state-owned banks and in the shadow banking system.",
        "一些国有银行和影子银行系统存在巨量不良贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The questions are many.",
        "需要解答的问题众多。"
    ],
    [
        "Of those that survive, over a third have changed ownership, concentrating the industry into fewer hands.",
        "在存活下来的小市场报纸中，超过三分之一所有权发生了改变，整个行业变得更加集中了。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin is hoping that Russia and its BRICS partners (Brazil, India, China, and South Africa) will become “the future leaders of the world and the global economy,” as he put it in July, at the conclusion of the BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organization summits",
        "普京希望俄罗斯及其金砖国家伙伴（巴西、印度、中国和南非）将成为“未来世界和全球经济的领导者”，他在7月金砖国家和上海合作组织峰会时总结说。"
    ],
    [
        "The 0.5%-of-GDP expense will reduce emissions ever so slightly (if everyone in the EU actually fulfills their requirements for the rest of the century, global emissions will fall by about 4%).",
        "相当于GDP5%的花费减少排放微不足道(如果欧盟各国都在本世纪内实际履行其要求，全球二氧化碳排放将下降大约4%)。"
    ],
    [
        "Where America has room for maneuver, it always presses forward in this direction.",
        "只要是美国能插手的地方，它都会朝着自身愿景而努力。"
    ],
    [
        "“[T]rading partners and international institutions can do more to address trade imbalances,” the NSS asserts. That is wrong.",
        "报告称“合作伙伴和国际机构可以发挥更大作用以解决贸易不平衡问题”，但这个说法是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "But Haldane’s conclusion is that, overall, markets are less stable as a result of the sharp rise in turnover, and that “grit in the wheels, like grit on the roads, could help forestall the next crash.”",
        "但是霍尔丹的结论是，总体而言，由于成交量显著增加，市场的稳定性下降了； “轮子中的沙子，像道路上的沙子一样，有助于预防下一次崩盘。"
    ],
    [
        "Edgar Welch, a Christian who has Bible verses tattooed on his back, was one of Jones’s listeners.",
        "埃德加·韦尔奇是一位把圣经经文纹在背上的基督徒，也是琼斯的忠实听众之一。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a sort of free democratic spirit that operates outside the convention that elections decide the government.",
        "这是一种植根于选举决定政府原则的自由民主精神。"
    ],
    [
        "Removing Saddam was important, but Iraq is now a violent place governed by a sectarian group, with one corruption index ranking it 169th out of 174 countries.",
        "推翻萨达姆的确是重要结果，但伊拉克现已成为宗派团体治下的暴力之地，其腐败指数在194个国家中排名第169。"
    ],
    [
        "Those threats were heard in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and – rendered in black-comedy style – in Libya.",
        "这种威胁在突尼斯、埃及、也门、巴林、叙利亚已经是家常便饭，而在利比亚更是呈现某种黑色喜剧风格。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Guantanamo Bay case, by contrast, the Bush Administration argued that a ruling for the detainees would undermine the war effort by diverting manpower and material from the battlefield to the courtroom.",
        "而在关塔纳摩湾一案中，布什政府申辩说有利于被拘押者的判决会使人力和物力从战场上转移到法庭中，从而削弱美国的战斗力。"
    ],
    [
        "But Israel’s breathtaking victory against three Arab armies in 1967 brought it not only grandeur, but also moral and political decay.",
        "但是以色列在1967年对三支阿拉伯军队所取得的令人惊叹的胜利给它带来的不仅仅是荣耀，还有道义和政治上的腐朽。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Ever since Edward J. Snowden disclosed the National Security Agency’s ongoing collection of massive amounts of electronic-communications data generated by United States citizens and non-citizens alike, attention has been lavished on his personal status.",
        "美国剑桥—自从爱德华·斯诺登披露美国国家安全局一直在搜集来自美国公民和非公民的大量电子通讯数据以来，人们的目光一直集中在他的个人状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Blinded By ISIS",
        "被伊斯兰国所蒙蔽"
    ],
    [
        "But they didn’t.",
        "但是，他们并没有将我释放。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem for American conservatives is not their choice of candidates or the tone of their rhetoric. It is that their ideas are not politically sustainable.",
        "美国保守主义者的问题不在于候选人的选择或是说辞的语调，而在于他们的想法不具有政治可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "The DR-CAFTA pays lip service to international labor standards as enshrined in the International Labor Organization’s core labor rights, but promptly throws them overboard.",
        "对国际劳工组织核心劳工权中规定的国际劳工标准，DR-CAFTA也是口惠而实不至，说抛弃就抛弃。"
    ],
    [
        "Substantial redeployments of US military forces and assets, triggered by the need for additional troops in Afghanistan and ongoing problems over the US-Japan status-of-forces agreement, are already taking place.",
        "由于需要在阿富汗增兵以及有关美日的部队地位协议的旷日持久的问题，已经引发了美国大规模对其军队和资产的重新部署。"
    ],
    [
        "Income redistribution may be an attractive idea for some – including, to a lesser extent, the Republicans who support a watered-down version, in which relatively high marginal tax rates support expanded family assistance – but it is fool’s gold.",
        "收入再分配也许对于某些人很有吸引力——包括（在较小程度上）支持一个淡化版本政策的共和党人，该政策用相对较高的边际税率支持扩大家庭援助——但这只是愚人金。"
    ],
    [
        "Nationalism is a temporal vision (and thus secular, even when using religion in its rhetoric) that divides people into sovereign communities of equal members.",
        "民族主义是一种当代思维（因此也是世俗的，即使在它自称具有宗教性的时候），它将人们分裂为诸多由平等成员组成的主权社区。"
    ],
    [
        "The ethical case for UBI is different.",
        "而无条件基本收入的道德诉求则有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Even within this framework, the negotiations were challenging.",
        "即使在这一框架之内，谈判也是剑拔弩张。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, where inflation is falling sharply, monetary policy has already begun to ease.",
        "中国的通胀就出现了显著下降，货币政策也开始转向宽松。"
    ],
    [
        "Although a very large number of girls drop out after primary school, the number completing higher education is now large.",
        "尽管大量女生在小学毕业后就会辍学，但完成高等教育的女生数量如今已经颇为庞大。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these are worthy goals, to be sure, but they belong intrinsically to the sphere of national political decisions.",
        "这些目标无疑都很有价值，但本质上却属于国家政治决策的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "The only advanced economy with an inflation rate above 2% is Iceland (where the latest 12-month reading is 2.2%).",
        "唯一一个通胀率高于2%的发达经济体是冰岛（最近12个月的记录为2. 2%）。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is an old and well-traveled one.",
        "这是一个古老且通行于世界的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, implementation of complementary reforms will be a key determinant of the economic returns on Belt and Road investments.",
        "实际上，补充性改革的实施将成为左右一带一路投资经济回报的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The key will be to smooth out free trade’s negative impacts and prepare societies better for increasing economic openness.",
        "关键是要平稳抵消自由贸易的消极影响，让社会做好准备增进经济开放。"
    ],
    [
        "On the political side, however, the two countries were not evenly matched.",
        "然而在政治层面，两国却并未实现对等。"
    ],
    [
        "In conformity with Germany’s demand, the additional capital would come first from the market and then from individual governments – and from the European Financial Stability Facility only as a last resort, thereby preserving the EFSF’s firepower.",
        "按照德国的要求，追加的资本首先来自市场，然后来自各国政府，而欧洲金融稳定基金将在最后出场，因此不会浪费手中的弹药。"
    ],
    [
        "At the political level, the UN is the meeting place for 193 member states to negotiate and create international law, as in the important treaty on climate change adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.",
        "在政治层面，联合国是193个成员国一起坐下来谈判的地方，1992年里约地球峰会的气候变化条约等重要国际法就产生于这类谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Directed housing credit was a policy with broader support, because each side thought that it would benefit.",
        "而房贷政策却广受推崇，因为各方都认为会获利。"
    ],
    [
        "Either technology will depend on a national electricity grid that uses low-emission forms of power generation, such as wind, solar, nuclear, or coal-fired plants that capture and store the carbon-dioxide emissions.",
        "这两种技术都将依赖使用低排放的发电能源——例如风能、太阳能、核能或者能收集和储存二氧化碳排放的燃煤发电站的国家电网。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet another advantage of the CETA is improved dispute settlement, brought about by the establishment of a permanent court whose members will be chosen by Canada and the EU together, in order to avoid conflicts of interest.",
        "但全面经济和贸易协定的另一项优势是改进争端解决机制，具体方法是通过建立由加拿大和欧盟各自挑选成员组成的永久性法庭，最大限度地避免利益冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "And if that weren’t bad enough, the bill intentionally penalizes higher-tax states like California and New York, by capping the federal deduction for state and local income and property taxes.",
        "如果这还不够糟糕的话，法案还故意借助为州和地方收入和财产税的联邦抵扣额设定上限惩罚的方式去惩罚加州和纽约等高税率州。"
    ],
    [
        "In December, China’s government reiterated its commitment to implementing tough market-oriented reforms, including measures to address environmental pollution, overcapacity, excessive debt, high taxes, bureaucratic red tape, and monopoly privileges for state-owned enterprises (SOEs).",
        "另一方面，去年12月，中国政府重申将致力于实施棘手的市场化改革，包括针对环境污染、产能过剩、债务积压、高税收、官僚主义和国有企业垄断特权等问题的改革措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Hundreds of millions of Chinese have been lifted out of poverty.",
        "几亿中国人已经脱离贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "The government’s capacity to invest is under severe pressure.",
        "政府的投资能力受到了极大掣肘。"
    ],
    [
        "CANBERRA – When does acceptable diplomatic caution and realism become indefensible abdication of moral standards?",
        "堪培拉—可接受的外交警告和现实主义何时变成了站不住脚的不顾道德标准？"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, though the West – especially the US – has made grave policy errors in the Arab world over the last 50 years, external powers cannot be blamed entirely for the region’s meltdown.",
        "从更广义的角度讲，虽然西方——尤其是美国——过去50年来在阿拉伯世界的确犯下了严重的政策错误，但外部势力却不能完全对地区的危机负责。"
    ],
    [
        "It is here that Rouhani will face his most difficult challenge.",
        "鲁哈尼的最艰巨的挑战就在于此。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic integration and globalization are not exactly the same thing, but they rest on the same Ricardian principles of trade liberalization – principles that are falling on deaf ears in the political arena.",
        "货币联盟（存在严重漏洞，如缺少一个各成员国之间的财政转移机制）。 经济一体化和全球化并不严格相等，但它们都建立在李嘉图贸易自由化原理之上——这些原理在政治领域不受待见。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever one thinks of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his brand of “illiberal democracy,” there is no denying that he has created a secure environment for German business interests.",
        "不管你怎么看待匈牙利总理欧尔班和他的“反自由民主”的名声，你都不能否认他为德国商业利益集团创造了一个有保障的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Cruz is an ideological bruiser; Trump is just a bruiser, with no discernible ideology at all.",
        "科鲁兹是意识形态斗士； 特朗普只是斗士，根本没有意识形态可言。"
    ],
    [
        "These assessments are unusually divergent.",
        "各路观点的差异程度有些反常。"
    ],
    [
        "But the predominant goal should be to support the creation in Egypt of a pluralistic society that defends the rights of all to political participation and free and fair elections.",
        "但主要目标应该是支持在埃及创造多元社会，捍卫所有人参与政治和自由公正选举的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "And Japan is offering subsidies for hydrogen cars and creating new pedestrian-only areas.",
        "日本也采取了氢燃料汽车补贴，开辟新的步行区域。"
    ],
    [
        "The resolution was originally proposed by the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), and was put to the Human Rights Council by Pakistan.",
        "该决议由56个国家组成的伊斯兰会议组织（OIC）最先提出，而后由巴基斯坦提交人权理事会进行表决。"
    ],
    [
        "From the banks’ perspective, that means that capital is trapped in subsidiaries, and cannot be optimally used across its network.",
        "从银行的角度来说，这意味着资本会被困在子公司，而无法在整个网络实现最优配置。"
    ],
    [
        "Several leading scientists, including one of the world’s greatest biologists, E.O. Wilson, have reached out to religious communities to support the fight against human-induced climate change and the fight for biological conservation, and those religious communities have reached back in harmony with science.",
        "Wilson，积极接触宗教社区，并支持向由人类引起的气候变化开战和开展生物保护。 而那些宗教社区也以科学相吻的态度进行了回应。"
    ],
    [
        "Thirty years later, Chile’s exports comprise the same items.",
        "三十年后，智利的出口篮子里依旧是这些东西。"
    ],
    [
        "This new reality demands a new response.",
        "这一新现实需要新应对。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been tried and failed, and Arab states are unable or unwilling to constitute one.",
        "曾经做过这一尝试，但以失败告终，而阿拉伯国家也无法或不愿组建这样一支地面部队。"
    ],
    [
        "Patients who do receive care are often treated with substandard, even harmful, medicine.",
        "接受治疗的病人用药一般不合规范，甚至可能有害。"
    ],
    [
        "While the numbers may seem small, the rise significantly increases the likelihood of severe flooding along vulnerable coasts worldwide.",
        "尽管这些数字看似微不足道，但海平面的升高令全球面临威胁的海岸发生严重洪涝灾害的可能性明显增高。"
    ],
    [
        "Vietnam, for example, decided to “reset” its relations with China, and not to cooperate with the Philippines in waging a legal battle over China’s maritime claims.",
        "比如，越南决定“重置”对华关系，并且不与菲律宾合作与中国打海权主张的法律战。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s hardliners play up doubts that the West will ever agree to lift the sanctions, while their Western counterparts will do whatever they can to support that presumption.",
        "伊朗的强硬派大肆鼓吹西方永远不会解除制裁，而西方强硬势力则会不惜一切代价支持这种假设。"
    ],
    [
        "The political divisions are artificial.",
        "政治的对立是人为的 。"
    ],
    [
        "Medical research and policy implementation in the developing world must be led by researchers and specialists from low- and middle-income countries – people who can combine cutting-edge scientific expertise with an intimate understanding of local contexts.",
        "发展中国家的医学研究和政策实施必须由中低收入国家的科研人员和专家自己领导——这些人可以做到把尖端科学知识和对当地情况的深入了解相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Pakistan is struggling with unprecedented flooding that has killed more than a thousand people and affected millions more.",
        "与此同时，巴基斯坦却在与史无前例的洪水作斗争，死亡人数已经过千，数百万人流离失所。"
    ],
    [
        "What the authorities have not yet found, however, is a motive.",
        "但当局仍未找到他的作案动机。"
    ],
    [
        "China is running external surpluses because its saving exceeds its investment.",
        "中国账上之所以有对外盈余，是因为其国民总储蓄超出其国民总投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN-REDD Program, launched in 2008, currently supports 44 developing countries, with 16 countries receiving direct financial and technical support.",
        "2008年实行的UN-REDD计划目前支持着44个发展中国家，其中16国受到了直接金融和技术支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, and more seriously, the judiciary is not yet independent, undermining the rule of law and thus deterring badly needed private investment.",
        "最后，而且更为严重的是，司法还不独立，从而破坏法制而赶走急需的私人投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Any strategy must be realistic.",
        "不管采取什么战略，都必须务实。"
    ],
    [
        "Market participants also know that the Fed needs them to leverage its policy influence and deliver on its mandate, which, in recent years, has rightly been broadened in practice to incorporate the goal of financial stability.",
        "市场参与者们也知道美联储需要他们利用政策影响力完成其使命，近年来美联储的现实使命不断拓展，保障金融稳定开始被涵盖其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Alas, some Europhiles’ unifying zeal has all too often spilled beyond the bounds of economic reason, even common sense.",
        "但遗憾的是，许多欧盟鼓吹者对这种一致性的狂热常常会超越经济理性，甚至违背常识。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the Middle East remains in the early phase of a revolutionary transition.",
        "同样，中东仍处在革命过渡阶段的初期。"
    ],
    [
        "From US President Barack Obama’s oxymoronic first-term mantra “leading from behind” to the recent German variant “leading from the center,” empty phrases have become the currency of Western governments’ foreign policies.",
        "从美国总统奥巴马第一个任期的矛盾体魔咒“从背后领导”，到最近德国对此的变体“从中央领导”，空洞的说辞已成为西方政府外交政策的通例。"
    ],
    [
        "But China should not be expected to do too much more.",
        "但是，不应期望中国能做得太多。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment is surging in many countries, even though we can detect the first signs of recovery from the recession.",
        "现在尽管我们已能觉察到经济从衰退走向复苏的第一丝信号，但不少国家的失业率却正在快速攀升；"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson that Schroeder drew was to insist that Germany could no longer be taken for granted and would demand a role commensurate to its size and weight.",
        "施罗德所汲取的教训就是坚持德国不能再被轻视，它需要扮演一个与其国力相适应的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while these additional tax revenues would improve Europe’s public finances, they would not obviate the need to reform the welfare state.",
        "但在额外税收改善欧洲公共财政状况的同时，它们也无法排除进行福利国家改革的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "But Kuwait shows that there will invariably come a moment when holding onto feudal ways is no longer an option.",
        "但是，科威特事件表明，总有一天，抓住封建体制不放不再是一个选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from these personality factors, there is the regional context.",
        "除个性方面的因素外，还有地区环境因素在起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere in the world, however, developments have moved in a different direction.",
        "但是，在世界其他地区，发展方向正好相反。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that service industries ultimately have to compete for workers in the same national labor pool as sectors with fast productivity growth, such as finance, manufacturing, and information technology.",
        "关键在于服务业最终得和高速生产率增长的金融业、制造业和信息技术行业在同一个国家的劳动力市场里争夺劳动力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, although the United States and some European countries have gone a long way toward restoring the lending capacity of banks, that may not be enough.",
        "然而，虽然美国和一些欧洲国家已经在恢复银行的放贷能力方面不遗余力，但这可能还是不够。"
    ],
    [
        "This sort of manipulation is now a Kremlin staple.",
        "这类操纵行为已经成为克里姆林宫最拿手的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Fearing that the system was fragile, the government opened its coffers in 1787, bailing out private investors who had lost in an immense speculative scheme to corner shares in a reorganized East India Company.",
        "由于担心系统太过脆弱，政府在1787年打开了金库，援助在操纵重组的东印度公司股价的投机风潮中损失惨重的私人投资者。"
    ],
    [
        "Arabs don't trust it, either.",
        "阿拉伯人也对它缺乏信任。"
    ],
    [
        "But this was not always the case.",
        "但事实并非总是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "That would change the political outlook not only in Argentina, but throughout Latin America.",
        "这不仅会改变阿根廷的政治前景，而且会影响整个拉丁美洲。"
    ],
    [
        "These sorts of trees can be restored, given a concerted campaign and investment in nurseries to produce local varieties.",
        "如果人们齐心协力，投资培育开发本地树木品种，这些种类的树木就能重新恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not acceptable for the EU to offer foreign investors protection from a European country’s inability to meet its obligations, in particular to service its debt.",
        "但欧盟因欧洲国家无法履行其义务，特别是无法偿债而向外国投资者提供保护并不可取。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, these conflicts are themselves “modernized,” which could make them even more dangerous than in the past.",
        "相反，这些冲突本身也“现代化”了，这可能使它们比以往更为危险。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – In many countries, public debate about gender equality focuses mainly on women's access to top positions and high-powered career opportunities.",
        "华盛顿—在许多国家，性别平等的公共争论主要集中在女性获得顶级职位和权重职业机会的问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet projections of the impact of climate change on migration in Asia remain indefensibly limited in number, scope, and predictive power.",
        "即便如此，对亚洲气候变化移民影响的预测性研究无论在数量、范围还是预测能力方面都仍然是严重不足的。"
    ],
    [
        "A diffuse anxiety is gaining ground.",
        "一种弥散性的焦虑正在扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "Other regions, however, are likely to be unable to provide productive employment.",
        "但是，其他地区却会可能无法提供生产性就业。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to the eternal Israel-Palestine conflict, Iraq’s instability, the Arab Spring, Syria’s civil war, and the ongoing nuclear standoff with Iran all demand America’s attention.",
        "除永恒不变的巴以冲突外，伊拉克的混乱局势、阿拉伯之春、叙利亚内战和伊朗目前的核僵局都吸引着美国的注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "These same fears are also restraining business investment, which has remained muted, despite extremely low interest rates for many companies.",
        "相同的恐慌还制约了商业投资，尽管许多公司面临的利率已降至极低水平，但商业投资仍然停滞不前。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukrainian officials insist they are still working Sheremet’s case.",
        "乌克兰官员坚持说，他们仍然在为谢里梅特案努力。"
    ],
    [
        "But even Draghi’s bazooka is partly a bluff.",
        "但即使是德拉吉的火箭炮，也有一半是虚张声势。"
    ],
    [
        "The job of UN Secretary General involves very little hard power, but some people have filled the post with great effect, using their soft power resources to leverage the hard power of governments.",
        "联合国秘书长的工作几乎没有什么硬实力及，但是有些人以巨大的努力来担当这份工作，运用他们的软实力资源来借助各国的硬实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Widening inequality in the world’s advanced and developing countries thus inflicts two blows against democratic politics.",
        "世界发达国家和发展中国家间不断扩大的不平等性因此造成了对民主政治的两大冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, while many might deny it, an increase in the supply of low-skill labor leads – so long as there are normal downward-sloping demand curves – to lower equilibrium wages.",
        "但是，尽管许多人可能否认，但低技能劳动力供给的增加导致了均衡工资的降低——只要需求曲线是正常的向下倾斜形状。"
    ],
    [
        "An important distinction in practice concerns the interaction between the economic and the political system.",
        "在现实中，经济与政治体系的互动与一种重要的特性有关。"
    ],
    [
        "US banks have had more space to diversify.",
        "美国银行的多元化空间更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Not every fantasy is a vision.",
        "并非所有的幻想都是愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "However reluctantly, Silvio Berlusconi accepted in the end that he had lost, if just by a whisker, as did Viktor Orban in Hungary.",
        "无论是多么心不甘情不愿，西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼(Silvio Berlusconi)最终还是承认了自己差之毫厘的失利，匈牙利的欧邦(Viktor ORBAN) 也最终接受了失败的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington highlighted fundamental disagreements between Israel’s current government and President Barack Obama’s administration.",
        "特拉维夫——以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡近期对华盛顿的访问突显了当前以色列政府和美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马政府存在着根本的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "This situation is untenable.",
        "这一局面是不可维持的。"
    ],
    [
        "Urgent action is needed to break the cycle.",
        "需要采取紧急行动打破这一循环。"
    ],
    [
        "The coup d’état that brought down President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras, for example, made that country the first case of successful neo-putschism in Central America in the twenty-first century.",
        "比方说推翻洪都拉斯总统 曼努埃尔·塞拉亚的政变，让洪都拉斯成为二十一世纪中美第一个叛乱成功的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no guarantee that Iran would accept such an offer.",
        "我们不能保证伊朗是否会接受这一提议。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is sectarianism, particularly the growing strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims.",
        "接着是宗派主义问题，特别是日益激烈的逊尼派和什叶派穆斯林之争。"
    ],
    [
        "Children of guest workers feel unwanted.",
        "那些临时劳工的子女感觉自己是个不受欢迎的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Collectively, capital-scarce developing countries are lending to capital-abundant advanced economies.",
        "资金匮乏的发展中国家向资金充裕的发达国家放贷成为一种集体现象。"
    ],
    [
        "More complete and timely information might indeed help.",
        "更完全、更及时的信息或许能够起到效果。"
    ],
    [
        "I call this a heresy because it rejects the supremacy of equality under law and proclaims the supremacy of particular men. This is alien to any and all concepts of liberty.",
        "我把它称为异端邪说，是因为这种说法拒绝承认合法的平等至高无上，却极力渲染个人的霸权。"
    ],
    [
        "The army command must finally recognize that repeated military interventions have not served the country well.",
        "且军方领导层也必须最终认识到，反复的军人干政对国家并没有什么好处。"
    ],
    [
        "But the headline figures often mask longer-term problems – not least, an over-reliance on natural resources and chronic inequalities.",
        "但新闻标题的数字常常掩盖长期问题——不光是过度依赖自然资源和长期不平等的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Nout Wellink, currently the head of the Dutch central bank, is a wildcard candidate, as is Erkki Liikanen of the Finish central bank.",
        "现任德国中央银行行长的努特·威尔林克也是一位未知的候选人，正如芬兰中央银行行长艾尔奇·林坎南那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Having served as the IMF’s chief economist from 2001 to 2003, I am familiar with the Fund’s need to walk a tightrope between building investor confidence and shaking up complacent policymakers.",
        "作为2001—2003年IMF首席经济学家，我十分熟悉IMF的处境——它需要在提振投资者的信心和威慑踌躇满志的政客之间走钢丝。"
    ],
    [
        "Trends in 2015 were a case in point: The 8.3% expansion in the services sector outstripped that of the once-dominant manufacturing and construction sectors, which together grew by just 6% last year.",
        "3%，超过了曾经的领头羊制造业和建筑业，后两者总量去年只增长了6%。 2015年，所谓的第三产业占中国GDP之比为50."
    ],
    [
        "But enlargement fatigue among the member states continues to muddy this optimistic forecast.",
        "但成员国的扩张疲劳仍在影响这一乐观前景。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, today's mounting threats cannot be covered up.",
        "换句话说，今天的日益严重的威胁时无法掩盖的。"
    ],
    [
        "Scenes from Hurricane Katrina, the Asian tsunami, and now the Haitian earthquake were shown over and over again on all television news broadcasts.",
        "卡特里娜飓风，南亚海啸以及如今海地地震的画面不断在各电视台的新闻中反复播放。"
    ],
    [
        "This “bilateral aid” is subject to the whims and trends of the aid industry, sometimes flowing only into specific sectors or to back particular approaches.",
        "这“双边援助”容易受到援助行业的趋势和反覆的影响，有时资金全部流向了某些特定部门或支持特定方针。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – As global economic growth gathers pace, with the International Monetary Fund reporting that all of the G20 countries are now in an expansion phase, we are at last entering a process of normalization of interest rates and monetary policy.",
        "伦敦—随着全球经济增长的起势，国际货币基金组织（IMF）报告所有G20国家都已经进入扩张阶段，我们也终于正在进入利率和货币政策正常化的过程。"
    ],
    [
        "But the massive compliance costs ultimately fall on small and medium-size businesses.",
        "但巨大的合规成本最终要落到中小企业头上。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a gamble they often lost.",
        "这是一场他们常常会输的豪赌。"
    ],
    [
        "Globally, Rudd believes that the joint agenda could focus on combating climate change, revitalizing the G-20, further internationalizing the renminbi; giving China a greater role in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; and reforming other key international institutions within the UN system.",
        "就全球层面而论，陆克文认为中美联合日程应该着重于抵抗气候变化、提振G-20、人民币的进一步国际化、给予中国在国际货币基金组织和世界银行更重要的角色、在联合国体系内改革其他重要国际机构等。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Russia, which considers the naval base of Tartus to be strategically vital, can be counted on to do all it can to prevent a total defeat of the regime.",
        "同时，我们认为将塔尔图斯海军基地视为具有重要战略意义的俄罗斯将会竭尽所能防止阿萨德政权的彻底失败。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Blinder, governments should encourage education for jobs that are harder to outsource overseas.",
        "在Blinder看来，政府因该鼓励兴办教育，培养那些不容易被外包到海外的职业。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese leaders recall that the US promised Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that German reunification and democratic transition in Eastern Europe would not mean eastward expansion of NATO.",
        "中国领导人清楚地记得美国曾承诺苏联总统米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫德国统一和东欧民主转型并不意味着北约东扩。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, we consider it the master of the taiga.”",
        "在我们俄罗斯，熊是主宰针叶林的王者。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Okinawans should be offered compensation to offset the opportunity costs of forced coexistence with US forces.",
        "最终，冲绳人民应该得到相应的补偿来抵消被迫与美军共处的机会成本。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, world leaders must take advantage of falling oil prices to move beyond indirect carbon pricing – achieved through the prices of carbon-emitting substances – to an explicit carbon tax that can help steer the world onto a more sustainable growth path.",
        "简言之，世界领导人必须利用油价下跌之机突破碳定价的间接现状，实现有助于让世界走向更加可持续的增长路径的直接碳税——通过碳排物质的价格实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1979, these MEPs have been elected direct rather than indirectly from national parliaments.",
        "自从1979年以来，欧洲议会的议员都是由各国的议会中直接而非间接选举产生。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it would be fair to say that European politicians, with few exceptions, such as Tony Blair, have been slow to adjust their worldviews in accordance with the revolutionary pace of change in Asia.",
        "事实上，可以公平地说，欧洲政治家们，除了托尼·布莱尔等少数人外，他们在观念转变上无法赶上亚洲革命性巨变的步伐。"
    ],
    [
        "Such speculative purchases may barely register in inventories, because the purchases are small compared to the overall market, and because of the global storage system’s many margins of accommodation.",
        "因为投机性的购买和整个市场相比是很小的，而且全球的石油库存体系有许多需要调适的空白地带，这样的购买几乎不可能登记在库存中。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – South Korea is facing major demographic challenges.",
        "首尔—韩国正面临严重的人口挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Adopted in 2009 by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the PSMA requires parties to implement stricter controls on foreign-flagged fishing vessels.",
        "PSMA于2009年由联合国粮农组织实施，它要求各方对外籍渔船进行更加严格的管控。"
    ],
    [
        "The third challenge is distributional.",
        "第三大挑战是分配挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the genetic code, there are 30,000-40,000 highly organized regions called genes.",
        "在遗传密码中，有30,000-40,000个排列高度整齐的区域叫做基因。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon after arriving by train in Beijing, the band’s members were quickly bundled onto a plane back to Pyongyang.",
        "乘火车抵达北京后不久，乐队成员很快又被塞进了返回平壤的飞机。"
    ],
    [
        "The world economy cannot count on higher investment levels either.",
        "世界经济也无法再依靠提高投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Past research by the Copenhagen Consensus, at both the global and national level, has conclusively shown that R&D can be an extraordinarily good investment for aid donors.",
        "哥本哈根共识中心过去的研究，不管是全球性研究还是国家层面的研究，都证实研发是对援助国而言非常有益的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe that we can achieve this goal, because I have witnessed how far we have come already, despite our struggles.",
        "我相信我们可以完成这一目标，因为尽管充满了艰辛，我们已经取得了重大进步。"
    ],
    [
        "This strategic fact is more evident now than ever before.",
        "如今，这一战略实施比以前更加明确。"
    ],
    [
        "This includes being slapped on the face, head, or ears, and a quarter of these children are beaten with some kind of implement repeatedly and as hard as possible.",
        "体罚内容包括掌掴面部、头部、耳朵，而且其中有四分之一的儿童遭到某种器械的反复殴打。"
    ],
    [
        "Archeologists still find elaborate (and probably expensive in those days) two-pan balance scales and weights on sunken bronze-age merchant ships.",
        "考古学家还在铜器时代沉没的商船上出土了精巧（当时也许还很昂贵）的两盘天平以及砝码。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestic resource mobilization, remittances from expatriate workers, private debt and equity flows, and philanthropic contributions exceed official international aid by a wide margin.",
        "本国资源流动、侨汇、私人债务和股本流以及慈善捐赠大大超过了官方国际援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Princeton -- If anyone wanted evidence that we are not in the mental and political world of the interwar Great Depression, the German election result and its outcome – a stable government of the center-right - should be a clincher. In interwar Germany, the Depression destroyed German democracy and led to the rise to power of Hitler and the National Socialists; in today’s Germany, the most severe economic crisis since the Second World War produced the reelection of Frau Merkel.",
        "发自普林斯顿——如果有人想找证据证明我们不是身陷两次世界大战之间大萧条时期的精神和政治世界的话，那么德国大选及其成果——一个稳固的中右翼政府——就是铁证。 在两次大战间隙期的德国，大萧条破坏了德国民主并导致了希特勒及其纳粹党徒的上台；"
    ],
    [
        "Growth in output per working-age person, especially since 2008, has been higher than in the United States, and much higher than in Europe.",
        "工作年龄人口人均产出增长要高于美国，比欧洲更是要高出甚多，2008年以后尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But the IMF’s experience exposes significant challenges in implementation.",
        "但IMF的经验暴露出实施方面的巨大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But if we believe that debt-driven demand is different, demand stimulus will at best be a palliative.",
        "但如果我们相信债务驱动型需求有其特殊性，那我们就得承认需求刺激政策最多是治标不治本。"
    ],
    [
        "This also why populist and anti-establishment parties are still a political minority.",
        "这也就是为什么民粹主义和反建制政党在政治上依然是少数的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers can promote retraining programs for displaced workers and remove regulatory obstacles that impede their flow into thriving, export-oriented sectors.",
        "决策者可以推进下岗工人再培训计划，并消除妨碍他们流入繁荣出口行业的监管障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The contemporary map of the Middle East was drawn by the victorious Western imperial powers, Great Britain and France, during and after WWI.",
        "当代中东版图是由在一战中获胜的西方帝国主义列强英国和法国划定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, terrorism is now viewed as a problem for everyone, with major tragedies in Indonesia, Spain, and Russia.",
        "此外，恐怖主义对于今天的每一个人都是问题，它在印度尼西亚、西班牙和俄罗斯制造了一连串大的悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, much of the business community around the world, including in the West, is still trying to figure out how to make inclusion and diversity programs successful, including with respect to leveling a playing field that is still tilted against women.",
        "事实上，世界商界的大部，包括西方商界，仍没有找到如何让包容和多样性计划取得成功，包括在为仍在饱受歧视的妇女打造公平竞争环境方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Serious strategic risks cannot be a political plaything.",
        "严重的战略威胁绝非政治把戏。"
    ],
    [
        "And only then could the US stem the rising tide of import penetration by foreign producers.",
        "也只有这样美国才能遏制外国生产企业进口渗透的增长势头。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a matter of quiet satisfaction that their long-overdue rehabilitation has now begun.",
        "让我们暗自庆幸的是今天历史终于开始重新认识他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, central banks’ inflated balance sheets – the result of short-term crisis-response measures – could, through refinancing arrangements, be used to boost green investment.",
        "类似地，中央银行资产负债表的不断膨胀——短期危机响应措施带来的结果——可能通过再融资安排用于提振绿色投资。"
    ],
    [
        "These principles can and should underpin strong economic, diplomatic, and military relationships throughout the region today.",
        "以及避免使用武力解决冲突的公正的国际秩序中拥有永恒不变的国家利益。 上述原则可以并且应当支持今天整个地区强劲的经济、外交和军事关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea that markets are self-regulating received a mortal blow in the recent financial crisis and should be buried once and for all.",
        "市场能自我调整的理念在不久前的金融危机中遭受了致命的打击，以此为基础的制度应当被彻底埋葬。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps it will help that, under the fiscal compact, the rules are to be adopted at the national level, as opposed to the SGP, which operated on the supranational level.",
        "也许在财政契约实施的情况下，它会有助于这些规则在国家层面上被采纳，而不像《稳定与增长公约》在超国家的层面上运作。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, according to the DCIP report, 561 children were killed – 557 of them Palestinian, most as a result of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza during the summer.",
        "根据DCIP报告，去年有561名儿童被杀——其中557人是巴勒斯坦人，大部分死于去年夏天以色列在加沙进行的护刃行动（Operation Protective Edge）。"
    ],
    [
        "Malaria control can demonstrate this world-saving lesson once again.",
        "疟疾控制就能够再为我们上一堂拯救世界的示范课。"
    ],
    [
        "That case is not yet proven.",
        "这种说法还未得到证实。"
    ],
    [
        "A well-functioning water sector already attempts to balance complementary interventions.",
        "运转良好的水部门已经开始尝试平衡互补性干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers are counting on a more competitive currency to stimulate growth. But they are likely to be disappointed.",
        "政策制定者们寄望于用一个更具竞争力的货币来刺激增长，但他们很可能会感到失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing countries' alleged gains from capital market liberalization have been widely discussed (although recent studies raise some doubts about these benefits).",
        "发展中国家从放开资金市场中的收益被大肆宣扬（尽管最近的研究对上述收益提出了置疑）。"
    ],
    [
        "As in any civil war, such entrepreneurs of violence become increasingly likely to carry the day the longer the conflict endures.",
        "像在任何内战中一样，冲突持续的时间越长暴力煽动者就胜算越大。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, but less evident, is the leverage that this position provides with respect to Iran.",
        "略显隐晦但却同样重要的是上述立场对伊朗的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is easy to see why.",
        "不难看出为何如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In principle, the IMF could be allowed to print money (it already has its own accounting unit, the so-called Special Drawing Rights).",
        "原则上，国际货币基金组织被允许印发钞票（它已经有了自己的会计单位，即所谓的特别提款权）。"
    ],
    [
        "Wrong analogies have already led America to disaster in Iraq, which had nothing in common with Germany or Japan after World War II – the parallel that some in the Bush administration used in arguing that democracy could be made to sprout in former dictatorships through occupation.",
        "错误的类比已经把美国引向在伊拉克的灾难，这与布什政府的某些人辩解民主可以通过占领以前的独裁国家来在该国生根发芽而常常拿出来举例的二战后的德国或日本没有任何相似之处。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout this process, the emerging economies recognized the importance of allowing market mechanisms to work, guaranteeing property rights, and safeguarding macroeconomic and financial stability.",
        "在这一过程中，新兴经济体认识到了允许市场机制按照自身规律运作、保证财产权利，维护宏观经济和金融稳定等事务的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "The main thing is that these politicians are not like the dull and moderate mainstream.",
        "最主要的是这些政客与沉闷温和的主流有很大差别。"
    ],
    [
        "But the absence of a secondary breakdown of such data, like the UK-style, four-fold class analysis (plus examination of patterns of unemployment by ethnicity or religion), makes it hard for social workers, public heath officials, and economic planners to diagnose new problems.",
        "但是，如果没有像英国模式那样对此类数据进行第二层分析以及四层社会阶层分析（加上按照种族或宗教区分进行的失业模式分析），使得社会工作者、政府卫生官员以及经济规划者很难诊断新的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The larger the stocks of wood on earth, in the form of living trees or wooden construction material in buildings, the less CO2 there is in the atmosphere and the cooler the earth remains.",
        "地球上木材的储量越大，不管它们是以活的树还是建筑物中的木质建材出现，空气中二氧化碳的含量都会更少，而地球也会变得更凉爽。"
    ],
    [
        "But these societies may find it difficult to address adequately their troubled pasts without the support of international institutions.",
        "但如果没有国际机构的帮助，这些国家或许难以与难堪的过去充分决裂。"
    ],
    [
        "The job of democratic governments is to provide the resources that can make delivery of this aid possible.",
        "而个民主国家的政府的职责则是提供让这种援助成为可能的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama apologized for arriving late, and added: “That’s why we have civil society.",
        "奥巴马首先对迟到表示抱歉，并补充说：“那正是我们需要民间团体的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "If there was a case for additional stimulus back in February, that case is even stronger now.",
        "如果说今年2月的时候有出台新刺激计划的需要，那眼下这种需要就更迫切了。"
    ],
    [
        "But the puzzle in the poll is that, even if Europe's voters are unenthusiastic about the EU and its existing institutions as they stand now, 65% of them would support a common foreign policy for Europe, and 72% would support a common defense and security policy; even in Britain, there is 52% support for the idea of a common defense policy.",
        "但调查结果令人不解的地方是：即便欧洲选民对欧盟及其现存机构缺乏热情，但65%的人支持统一欧洲外交政策，72%的人支持统一国防和安全政策，即便在英国，支持共同防卫政策的比例也有52%。"
    ],
    [
        "Senior PLO officials have participated in demonstrations and protest activities, with some being injured and Executive Committee member Abbas Zaki imprisoned for a couple of days.",
        "巴解组织的高级官员开始参与到游行示威活动当中，有些人在活动中被打伤，执行委员会委员阿巴斯·扎奇甚至被关了几天监狱。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek government institutes capital controls and is ultimately forced to issue drachmas in order to supply domestic liquidity.",
        "于是希腊政府建立起资本控制，并且最终不得不发行德拉克马货币以增加国内流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas riparian neighbors in Southeast and South Asia are bound by water pacts that they have negotiated between themselves, China does not have a single water treaty with any co-riparian country.",
        "当东南亚和南亚诸国都通过边界谈判签订了水资源协议之时，中国并未与任何下游国家订立任何水资源协议。"
    ],
    [
        "In his view, MFFP is the ideal solution to spur demand, without further augmenting Japan’s already-heavy debt burden.",
        "在他看来，MFFP是刺激需求的完美方案，不会进一步加剧日本已然十分沉重的债务负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar systems are in use in Taiwan and Latin America.",
        "台湾和拉丁美洲也在使用类似的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Government intervention in benchmark prices can be justified in the name of macroeconomic management or regulatory action to improve the provision of public goods and services. After all, the state determines the supply of fiat money and is responsible for energy and natural-resource conservation.",
        "政府通常以改善公共产品服务、宏观经济管理或监管行动为由对一些重要的基准价格实施干预，毕竟政府决定法定货币供应量，并负责保护能源和自然资源。"
    ],
    [
        "As warnings about the “middle-income trap” underscore, history is littered with more failures than successes in pushing beyond the per capita income threshold that China has attained.",
        "关于“中等收入陷阱”的警告表明，在历史上，让人均收入在中国所实现的水平上更进一步的失败例子比成功例子更多。"
    ],
    [
        "It was the worst global crisis since the Great Depression.",
        "这是从大萧条以来最严重的全球危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Well, yes and no.",
        "好吧，可以说是，也可以说不是。"
    ],
    [
        "By bypassing more efficient and inclusive structures, these arrangements undermine multilateralism.",
        "这些协议绕过更高效、更包容的结构，破坏了多边主义。"
    ],
    [
        "In an era of open-ended US government budget deficits and chronic shortfalls in personal saving, America is doomed to suffer subpar savings and massive multilateral trade deficits for as far as the eye can see.",
        "在一个美国政府预算赤字和慢性个人储蓄短缺早已是众人皆知的时代，美国注定要在可见的未来经历储蓄不足、多边贸易赤字巨大的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "At that time, newspapers held the public’s focus and could be a powerful gadfly.",
        "当时的报纸操纵着公众的注意力并成为一种令政府十分头痛的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, we must develop comprehensive, constructive narratives about how the Fourth Industrial Revolution should develop.",
        "第二，我们必须制定一套关于第四次工业革命如何发展的全面的建设性叙事。"
    ],
    [
        "Older children sit in classrooms with much younger children, growing frustrated and violent, rather than becoming role models for others to emulate.",
        "年龄较大的孩子和小得多的孩子同室上课，会变得挫伤和暴力，而不是成为他人效仿的楷模。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not because they fail to affect the quantity or composition of flows, but because such effects are quite small.",
        "这并不是因为它们没有影响资本流的质量或组成，而是因为作用太小。"
    ],
    [
        "It squandered American soft power, diverted attention from Afghanistan and Al Qaeda, and created a danger that Iraq may become a haven for terrorists.",
        "它挥霍了美国的软性力量，将注意力从阿富汗和基地组织转移开去，并增加了伊拉克成为恐怖避难所的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "But no one was more dumbfounded than those on the losing side, which in both cases had been widely expected to come out on top.",
        "但最目瞪口呆的还是输掉的一方，不论在美国还是在英国，事前他们一直被广泛认为必胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the Smoot-Hawley tariff increases were modest compared to those under Fordney-McCumber, their timing turned the act into a virtual synonym for bad trade policy.",
        "虽然与福德尼-麦坎伯关税协定相比，斯穆特-霍利关税法案的关税上调较为温和，但这个发布的时间点使其成为了恶劣贸易政策的代名词。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1960, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization spoke of wasteful logging practices, such as “head-skidding” (in which a log is rolled downhill, ripping up plants and soil).",
        "1960年，联合国食品和农业组织（FAO）谈到了不经济的伐木行为，例如“ 木头滚滑法（head-skidding）”（即将木头滚下山去，同时将树木带着土壤连根拔起）。"
    ],
    [
        "Hasina’s enormous popularity as a former prime minister, and her status as one of only two surviving daughters of Bangladesh’s founder, Sheikh Mujib Rahman, always ensured that she would be a leading contender in the election.",
        "作为前总理的哈西娜享有极高的声望，加上她是孟加拉国的创始人谢赫·穆吉布·拉赫曼两名幸存的女儿女儿之一，这些始终保证了她在选举中领先于她的对手们。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies that they should figure out how to manage immigration well, rather than outsourcing much of the process to smugglers and extremists.",
        "这意味着他们应该想办法如何好好管理移民，而不是把这个包袱甩给走私者和极端分子。"
    ],
    [
        "In place of what the economist Charles Kindleberger once called an “altruistic hegemon,” the America that the world now faces is what I call a “selfish hegemon.”",
        "改一下经济学家金德尔伯格（Charles Kindleberger）所谓的“无私霸权”，我将如今世界所面对的美国称为“自私霸权”。"
    ],
    [
        "Last week, he inaugurated the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North, a 26-member committee composed mainly of northern leaders tasked with opening a dialogue with Boko Haram and working out the terms of amnesty and compensation for victims of the insurgency.",
        "上周，他组建了北方对话和和平解决安全挑战总统委员会（Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North），该委员会由26名成员组成，大多为北方领袖。 委员会的任务是与博科圣地组织展开公开对话，并制定赦免条件和叛乱受害者补偿方案。"
    ],
    [
        "So fluctuations in the price and quantity of India’s imports from China, for example, depend on the rupee-dollar exchange rate, rather than the rupee-renminbi exchange rate.",
        "因此印度从中国进口商品价格和数量的波动取决于卢比和美元之间的汇率，而不是卢比和人民币之间的汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "On one hand, the border-adjustment tax could push up tax revenues, because the US imports more than it exports.",
        "一方面，由于美国的进口多于出口，边境调整税可能会提升税收收入。"
    ],
    [
        "With weakening ODA commitments from traditional donors, China has a chance to lead in human development, poverty alleviation, and public health spending.",
        "由于传统捐助国官方发展援助力度不断削弱，中国有机会领导人类发展、贫困缓解和公共卫生支出。"
    ],
    [
        "This leaves space for new leaders to step in, using personal charisma and appeals to tradition to win support.",
        "这给了新领袖介入的空间，他们用个人魅力和传统诉求赢得支持。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – China’s transformation from a manufacturing-driven and export-led economy to one underpinned by services and domestic consumption is firmly underway.",
        "香港—中国从制造业驱动和出口拉动型经济向以服务和国内消费为基础之经济的转型正在稳步推进。"
    ],
    [
        "It is probably a good thing that structured competition between large center-right and center-left parties persists.",
        "中右翼大党和中左翼大党的持续结构性竞争或许是件好事。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently expressed dismay over the fact that “only 47 out of 100 children enrolled in class I reach class VIII.”",
        "实际上，总理辛格也于近期表示对“一年级的儿童中只有47%能够上到八年级”这一事实沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "This made little impression on their German EU partners – unsurprisingly, since Schroeder now chairs the consortium that will build the pipeline.",
        "这对它们的德意志欧盟合作伙伴而言，几乎没有造成什么影响。 这倒在意料之中，因为施罗德现在正担任着管道修建财团的主席。"
    ],
    [
        "We frequently met at conferences, where it was always a delight to hear him speak Russian – a Russian that had the accent and elegance of Tolstoi and Pushkin, not the degraded Russian bark of Vladimir Putin.",
        "我们常常在各种会议上相遇，听他说俄语是一件令人愉快的事情——那是有着托尔斯泰和普希金式优雅的俄国口音，而不是普京式的粗鲁咆哮。"
    ],
    [
        "But President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan certainly is skeptical of an agreement that Obama describes in almost messianic terms.",
        "但雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安总统肯定对奥巴马以救世主般口吻描述的这份协议表示怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "A Greek government that summarily rejected conditions set by the EU and the International Monetary Fund would immediately be cut off by the ECB and forced to exit the euro.",
        "基本拒绝欧盟和IMF设置的条件的希腊政府将立刻为欧洲央行所不容，并被迫离开欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists have struggled with the tradeoff between growth and equity for centuries.",
        "几百年来，经济学家在增长和公平之间苦苦权衡。"
    ],
    [
        "If we engage in a serious discussion about ecologically sustainable and socially just measures to protect the Earth’s climate, there will be no need to roll the dice on geoengineering.",
        "如果我们能认真地讨论生态上可持续、社会上公正的地球气候保护之道，就没有必要押注于地球工程。"
    ],
    [
        "That neglect is a human tragedy.",
        "这一疏忽是人类的悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "That process takes time, of course – especially if, say, the initial recipients of increased income already have a high savings rate.",
        "当然，这一过程需要时间，特别是（比如）收入增量的初始受益者原本就存在高储蓄率的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Unable to mount a political alternative, however, the protesters’ rejection of the Islamist government served only to put the army back in charge.",
        "但是，由于无法给出政治替代方案，示威者的拒绝伊斯兰政府最终导致军队重新回到了权力中心。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent research has shown that community conservancies (areas set aside for wildlife conservation) in northern Kenya are highly effective forms of landscape (and therefore elephant) preservation, provided the right incentives are in place.",
        "最近的研究已经表明只要建立正确的激励机制，肯尼亚北部的社会保护区（也就是专门划定用于保护野生动物的区域）是景观（以及大象）保护的一种非常有效的形式。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not only an Arab responsibility, but also an international responsibility, because providing grassroots opportunity and a better quality of life for the people of this region is guaranteed to ameliorate our shared problems of instability and conflict.",
        "这不仅是阿拉伯国家的责任，也是国际社会的责任，因为为草根提供机会和为该地区人民提供更高质量的生活必然能够减轻动荡和冲突这一共同问题。"
    ],
    [
        "We therefore conducted a study to examine empirically how often bipolar disorder might be over- and under-diagnosed.",
        "于是我们便展开了一项研究，从经验的层面来考察双相障碍被过度诊断和诊断不足的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "For many years, Japan has been taking very cautious steps into this area, but substantial changes have occurred recently.",
        "多年来，日本在这一领域一直小心谨慎，但是最近发生了实质性的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "It is imperative that all children, especially those most at risk, have access to life-saving health-care services.",
        "必须尽快让所有儿童，特别是高危儿童，获得救命医疗服务。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, public investment in infrastructure, human capital, and the economy’s knowledge and technology base would remain crucial.",
        "毕竟对基础设施，人力资本和经济体的知识技术基础的公共投资依然是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "I have believed for some months that the Fed should start tightening monetary policy to reduce the risks of financial instability caused by the behavior of investors and lenders in response to the prolonged period of exceptionally low interest rates since the 2008 financial crisis.",
        "几个月来，我认为美联储应该开始收紧货币政策，以降低投资者和贷款人的行为导致金融不稳定的风险。 投资者和贷款人的高风险行为是对2008年金融危机以来长时间超低利率的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whereas Hamas operates without international recognition from Gaza – its legitimacy questioned even by the Palestinian Authority – India’s tormentors function from Pakistan, a sovereign member of the United Nations.",
        "哈马斯在加沙兴风作浪，国际社会并不承认这一组织，甚至连巴勒斯坦权力机构也质疑它的合法性。 而印度的杀人者却是从联合国成员、主权国家巴基斯坦进行活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The boost to wealth provided by the \"new economy\" is exceeding even its most avid boosters' wildest dreams.",
        "\"新经济\"对财富增长的驱动力让其最热忱的推动者也难以想象。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, since its inception, transplant medicine has been grappling with a rapidly increasing gap between the supply of organs and demand for them.",
        "但从一开始，移植医学就一直被器官供应和需求之间不断扩大的差距所困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "The alliance between Syria and Iran dates back more than two decades, and was explicitly reaffirmed by the two ruling regimes as recently as January 2005.",
        "叙利亚和伊朗的联盟关系已经有20年的历史，就在2005年1月这种联盟关系还得到了双方统治者的共同认可。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, the rise of political opposition to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Brexit vote, and the growing appeal of nationalist parties on the right can all be attributed to real and imagined fears stemming from refugees.",
        "在欧洲，对德国总理默克尔政治反对的兴盛、英国脱欧投票以及右翼民族主义政党号召力日益增强都可以归因于源自难民的现实和想象的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, it would involve implementing the UN’s 1,000-day project for maternal health and infant nutrition, aimed at ending the North’s chronically high rate of infant malnutrition.",
        "比方说，我们要落实联合国孕产妇保健及婴儿营养1000天计划，以结束长期困扰朝鲜的婴幼儿营养不良。"
    ],
    [
        "The independence of the central bank and the statistical agency have been severely compromised, with Fernández forcing the adoption, for example, of a consumer price index that grossly understates the inflation rate.",
        "中央银行和统计部门的独立性遭到了严重破坏，比如，费尔南德兹强迫采取了严重低估通胀率的消费物价指数。"
    ],
    [
        "Some economists even thought long ago that we would be enjoying much more leisure by this point.",
        "很久以前，一些经济学家甚至认为我们可以因此享受更多的闲暇。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, it is important to recognize that America’s situation is extraordinary.",
        "无论如何，认识到美国的情况是反常情况十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent Pew Forum study found Europe’s Muslims to be “markedly less well off than the general population, frustrated with economic opportunities and socially isolated,” while most American Muslims say that “their communities are excellent or good places” to live; 71% say they can succeed in the US if they work.",
        "皮尤论坛最近的一项调查发现，欧洲的穆斯林“日子大大不如普通人，对经济机会缺乏感到沮丧，在社会上被孤立”，而大部分的美国穆斯林说“他们的社区很好或者不错”，71%的人说如果他们劳作的话就可以在美国成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer has everything to do with politics.",
        "答案完全与政治有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, how many times does a critic of European block thought meet this kind of response: “But where are the Muslims who are criticizing extremist Islam?”",
        "事实上，欧洲思维一律者的批评者经常会碰到这样的回答：“但是哪里有批评极端伊斯兰的穆斯林呢？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "But the treaty applies to the PRC indirectly through the ROC-Japan bilateral peace treaty of 1952, which was signed just hours before the San Francisco Treaty entered into effect and reaffirmed its terms – especially Japan’s renunciation of Taiwan.",
        "但1952年中华民国－日本双边和平条约间接适用于中华人民共和国，该条约于旧金山条约正式生效前几小时签署且重申旧金山条约规定，特别是日本放弃对台湾的主权要求。"
    ],
    [
        "The differences between urban development in China and India are clear not only in the substance of policy, but also in the two countries’ governance styles.",
        "中印两国城市发展的差异不仅体现在政治实质，也反映在两国的治理作风。"
    ],
    [
        "On odd days, my bottom line is that material wellbeing since 1979 has grown at 0.5% per year for America’s poor, compared to 4% per year for America’s rich (and 6% per year for its super-rich).",
        "一方面，我的基本观点是1979年以来，美国穷人实际福利年增长率为0. 5%，而美国富人为4%（超级富人更是高达6%）。"
    ],
    [
        "This time needs to be different.",
        "）这一次他们需要做点别的事了。"
    ],
    [
        "Zero.",
        "零次。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, why hold US T-bills with a meager 5% return, German Bunds with a 4% return, or Japanese government bonds with a 0.5% return when you can acquire foreign firms, invest in real assets, stock markets, or higher-yielding corporate bonds?",
        "毕竟，如果当你可以投资于房地产、股票市场或者高收益的企业债券时，何必持有5%回报可怜的美国国债、4%回报的德国债券或者0. 5%的日本政府债券呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that the world economy is more open today than it has ever been, and will remain so even if the Doha talks collapse.",
        "事实是今天的世界经济比过去任何时候都要开放，即便多哈谈判失败这一点也不会改变。"
    ],
    [
        "In the process, they subjected the assumptions underlying homo economicus to experimental tests and found them wanting.",
        "在这个过程中，它们用实验检验经济人假设，发现了其中欠缺。"
    ],
    [
        "And it isn’t just citizens of the large creditor countries, such as Germany, who have little patience for Greece.",
        "而对希腊不耐烦的并不只限于德国等大债权国的公民。"
    ],
    [
        "The Committee routinely rubber-stamped his salary demands.",
        "委员会不经审查就批准他的薪酬要求已成惯例。"
    ],
    [
        "One area that is particularly relevant to the UK is the eurozone, where the manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose above 60 in November – its highest level since 2000.",
        "一个对英国特别重要的地区是欧元区，其制造业采购经理人指数（PMI）在11月份站上了60——为2000年以来的最高水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Humanitarian help is necessary, and Turkey is providing it generously, in ways that should serve as an example for Western countries.",
        "人道主义援助是必不可少的，而土耳其也在慷慨提供，并且应该成为西方国家效仿的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Among workers earning the minimum wage, more than half are women, and many of them depend on tipping for the bulk of their income, as restaurants are permitted to pay a shockingly low minimum wage of $2.13 per hour.",
        "在获得最低工资的工人中，一半以上是妇女，其中许多人的大部分收入来源是小费，因为政府允许餐馆支付令人震惊的2. 13美元/小时最低工资。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe might not intimidate, but it certainly inspires, and Israel should have an interest in encouraging a judicious role for Europe in building a framework for peace, stability, and cooperation in the region.",
        "欧洲可能不会进行威胁，但是它肯定会进行鼓动，以色列应该有兴趣鼓励欧洲在该地区建立和平、稳定和合作框架上起到明智的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In Venezuela, the October 7 presidential election may put an end to Hugo Chávez’s 14 years in power, along with his systematic destruction of the economy, media clampdowns, and endless meddling in other countries’ affairs.",
        "在委内瑞拉，10月7日的总统大选可能会宣告查韦斯14年统治结束，与之一起结束的是对经济的系统性破坏、媒体管制和无穷无尽的干涉他国内政。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the left, it has not become fragmented so much as atomized.",
        "至于左翼，它并没有支离破碎到原子化的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Non-Muslims rarely have much contact with Muslims who are in the process of becoming radicalized, and in any case their arguments would not be well received.",
        "非穆斯林民众很少与走向极端的穆斯林民众有多少联系，因此无论他们的看法如何都影响不大。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the Hungarian government’s concerted efforts, the public was not taken in.",
        "尽管匈牙利政府部门齐心协力，但公众却并不买账。"
    ],
    [
        "Losing Latin America",
        "失去拉美"
    ],
    [
        "Many economies need to fix the financial sector and restore credit, while many more need to raise productivity in order to boost growth and create jobs.",
        "许多经济需要修正金融部门、重塑信用，更多的国家需要提升生产率以提振增长、创造就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, it is important not to overburden these firms with complex, high-level capital-adequacy requirements that would impede their operational flexibility.",
        "尽管如此，要点在于不要用复杂的高水平资本充足度要求让企业不堪重负，妨碍它们的经营灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "So he promised that his party would try to compromise on a few issues, and offered an explicit pledge that there would be no government shutdowns like the highly unpopular one in 2013.",
        "因此他承诺共和党将尝试在新问题上妥协，并明确承诺类似2013年的不受民众支持的政府关门绝不会重现。"
    ],
    [
        "The upshot is that Greece is back where it started in the poker contest with Germany and Europe.",
        "结果是在与德国和欧洲的牌局中，希腊又回到了原点。"
    ],
    [
        "Loss of control over our assets!",
        "失去对我们的资产的控制权！"
    ],
    [
        "The growing tendency of many professions to produce winner-take-all outcomes may play a role as well.",
        "许多职业中产生的赢家通吃趋势也可能起了一些作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The average workweek in manufacturing and mining fell from 45 hours in 1929 to 35 hours in 1932.",
        "制造业和采矿业的每周平均工作时间从1929年的45小时下降到1932年的35小时。"
    ],
    [
        "The Morsi government seemed incapable of understanding that a slim electoral majority is not enough, especially nowadays.",
        "穆尔西政府似乎没有意识到，光有微弱的选举多数优势是不够的，特别是在当下。"
    ],
    [
        "And while some predict a recovery in 2016, I fail to see how any analysis of demand flows can justify that forecast.",
        "尽管有人预测2016年会开始复苏，但我无法看到任何需求流分析能够证实这一预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Both polls hold real promise. But they also are in real doubt.",
        "这两次投票既存在变数，也是真正的希望所在。"
    ],
    [
        "It is worth remembering that in the twentieth century, following two world wars, peace was the top priority, along with – or even before – prosperity.",
        "值得记住的是，在第二十世纪经历了两次世界大战之后，和平才是第一要务，其优先级与繁荣等同，甚至要高于繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is hard not to be optimistic about our increasing medical knowledge.",
        "但我们很难不对医学知识日新月异的发展持乐观态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Since shareholder democracy does not provide effective control over entrenched, runaway, self-indulgent management, finance has a potentially powerful role to play in ensuring that corporate managers work in the interest of shareholders.",
        "由于股东民主没能有效控制管理层的放任恣睢，金融扮演着保证公司管理者按股东利益行事的重要角色。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the disease burden in the developed world has declined substantially.",
        "因此，发达国家的疾病负担可以大大下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it would not be hard to argue that sky-high prices have a corrupting influence on artistic expression.",
        "事实上，不难论证一飞冲天的价格在腐蚀艺术表达的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Just 13 years after the successful completion of the Human Genome Project, the power of genomics applications to spur innovation is already becoming apparent.",
        "坎布里奇—人类基因组计划成功完成不过13年，基因组学应用刺激创新的力量已经尽显无疑。"
    ],
    [
        "My life was ruled by tk – which stands for “to kum,” or “to come,” in the jargon of reporters.",
        "我的生活被 tk 所主宰——在记者的行话中，这是“to kum”的缩写，也称作“事实待查”。"
    ],
    [
        "Sufficient numbers of teachers, school buildings, and textbooks are all essential, but accelerating learning requires much more.",
        "师资、校舍和教材的充分供应是基础中的基础，但要加快学习，光有这些是远远不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "As I wrote more than four decades ago, a company, “like an organism…depends on several arteries,” all of which it must nurture if it hopes to survive and grow.",
        "正如我四十多年前所写，一个公司“就像一个器官……依赖于几条动脉”，如果希望实现自身的生存和成长，就必须维持所有这些血管的健康。"
    ],
    [
        "“Now I don’t even need to catch a plane.”",
        "“现在我都不需要赶飞机就知道了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "China is not the only country that steals intellectual property.",
        "中国不是唯一一个窃取知识产权的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The Israeli government reacted furiously to Goldstone’s efforts.",
        "戈德斯通的做法让以色列政府火冒三丈。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, genetic selection will inevitably move towards genetic enhancement.",
        "有鉴于此，基因筛选必将发展成基因优化。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, applied both individually and together, fiscal stimulus and consolidation are necessary parts of the adjustment process.",
        "相反，财政刺激和整合（不管是单独使用还是综合使用）乃是调整过程的必需组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Time and again, it has proven dangerous for the world to be on holiday.",
        "一次又一次，历史一再证明，休假中的世界是十分危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly 380,000 of the 2.1 million jobs that shale-related industries generated in the US in 2012 , were created in these areas.",
        "2012年，美国页岩相关行业共创造了210万个工作岗位，其中有近380 000个来自中下游行业。"
    ],
    [
        "The underlying view is that rising populism on the right and the left, both in the United States and in Europe, is a straightforward consequence of globalization and its unwanted effects: lost jobs and stagnant middle-class incomes.",
        "弦外之音是美国和欧洲的左右翼民粹主义势力崛起是全球化及其负面影响的直接后果：相关负面影响包括失业和中产阶级收入停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "While the EU’s vision of “wider Europe” relies on soft power, economic integration, and long-term institution building, Putin’s “wider Russia” policy depends on intimidation and violence.",
        "欧盟“更广大的欧洲”的愿景依赖于软实力、经济一体化和长期制度建设，而普京的“更广大的俄罗斯”政策依赖于威吓和暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Destroy that and you destroy the hallmarks of liberal order.",
        "毁灭了分歧，你也毁灭了自由秩序的标志。"
    ],
    [
        "Helping Hamas would empower radical Islamism and Iranian ambitions, while undercutting the PA and everyone else, not just Israel.",
        "帮助哈马斯会增强激进的伊斯兰主义以及伊朗的野心，同时削弱巴勒斯坦当局以及其他国家的力量，而不仅仅是以色列的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "These data may be better than nothing, but not by much.",
        "这些数据充其量只是聊胜于无。"
    ],
    [
        "Taboos had been broken, and during the subsequent decades, technological advances enabled the spread of new ideas.",
        "禁忌已经打破，而在随后几十年里，技术进步促成了新思想的传播。 封建主义没过多长时间就开始瓦解；"
    ],
    [
        "FRANKFURT – Konrad Adenauer, Germany’s first chancellor after World War II, famously said: “Why should I care about the things I said yesterday?”",
        "发自法兰克福——二战后德国首任总理康拉德·阿登纳（Konrad Adenauer）曾说过一句名言：“为什么我要为昨天说过的话负责？"
    ],
    [
        "And he was encouraged by the enthusiastic and positive response he received from the commission’s prospective members.",
        "但是该工作激起了他的兴趣， 并且他被从预期的委员会成员那里得到的热情和积极反应所鼓励。"
    ],
    [
        "As the power of the Internet spreads through social and political networking sites, and as virtual democracy grows, this bottom-up influence is likely to grow.",
        "随着互联网力量通过社会或政治网站不断扩散，以及实质民主力量的形成，这种自下而上的影响力正不断增强。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an effort must be collective.",
        "这一方针必须以集体行动的方式落实。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet many countries continue to issue weak declarations that fail to produce genuine progress.",
        "但许多国家继续发表无力的宣言，而不拿出真正的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s import demand is slowing in line with its economic structure’s shift away from industry and toward services and household consumption.",
        "中国的进口需求放缓是因为其经济结构从倚重工业转向倚重服务业和家庭消费。"
    ],
    [
        "The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei sums up the new mood of universal and unmitigated cynicism.",
        "中国非主流艺术家艾未未在时代氛围中敏锐地捕捉到一种四处弥漫、无药可救的玩世不恭。"
    ],
    [
        "From the Great Reform Act of 1832 to the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 – and on to the civil-service reforms initiated in 1853 and the Representation of the People Act of 1867 – Britain pursued its unique path toward a relatively stable and sustainable democratic capitalism.",
        "从1832年改革法案到1846年谷物法的废除——以及1853年开始的公务员改革和1867年的人民代表法案——英国开创了独一无二的迈向相对稳定而可持续的民主资本主义之路。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be highly regrettable if the competitive sport’s narrow focus on point-scoring were to limit our appreciation of the beauty and harmony we can experience riding a wave without fitting as many turns as possible into our time on it.",
        "如果竞技体育对成绩的狭隘关注限制了我们对冲浪美与和谐的体味，而因此硬要在冲浪时强行加入更多的转向恐怕就太遗憾了。"
    ],
    [
        "The New Development Bank, established by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), was launched during the year, becoming the first major international financial institution led by emerging countries.",
        "由金砖五国（巴西，俄罗斯，印度，中国及南非）成立的新开发银行将在年内正式启动，成为由新兴国家领导的第一个大型国际金融机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Drought, floods, and landslides have become commonplace.",
        "干旱、水灾和山体滑坡已经非常普遍。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenges posed by climate change are real, and the consequences of inaction are impossible to ignore.",
        "气候变化带来的挑战是实实在在的，不作为的风险也是不可忽视的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, because Goldstone went further and found a policy of intentionality, before revising that judgment, he should have insisted on additional evidence that his finding was not warranted.",
        "但因为戈德斯通进一步指出了政策的故意性，在改变结论之前，他本该继续寻找仅凭之前的调查结果无法得出的其他证据。"
    ],
    [
        "Independent Ukraine has been free of ethnic conflicts, even though there has been no shortage of attempts to incite them.",
        "尽管寻衅滋事者大有人在，独立后的乌克兰仍然消灭了种族冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, he may not even object to ruining the EU’s entire legislative engine by granting national parliaments a veto.",
        "事实上，他也许甚至不会反对通过授予国家议会否决权来破坏欧盟的整个立法机制。"
    ],
    [
        "There is another way of considering the matter.",
        "思考上述问题还有另一种方式。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as it stands, there is no reason to believe that the advent of social media, satellite television coverage, or a more intrusive press will change that fundamental reality.",
        "而且，现状显示没有理由认为社交媒体、卫星电视覆盖或更具披露性的媒体会改变这一基本状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the conflict rages on, with severe spillover effects on US allies like the European Union.",
        "”与此同时，冲突仍在肆虐，并给欧盟的美国盟友造成严重的 溢出效应。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that, especially outside the US, this monetary loosening will occur only when the G7 and global recession become entrenched.",
        "问题是，特别在美国国外，货币的放松只有在G7和全球衰退变得难以改变才会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "International imbalances continued to mount until the system came crashing down in 1971-1973.",
        "结果国际贸易失衡状况持续恶化，直到该系统在1971-1973年间轰然倒塌。"
    ],
    [
        "It will be a difficult time for all.",
        "未来对所有国家来说都会是个困难的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising incomes, population aging, and new technologies for extending and enhancing life, have caused health costs to rise 3.5% faster than overall income for many decades now in the United States.",
        "在美国，收入增加、人口老化以及延续生命和提高生命质量的新技术在几十年中让医疗费用上升超过总体收入3. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatives to a debt restructuring are fast disappearing.",
        "除了债务重组，其他的出路变得越来越渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – South Korea is moving forward with plans to host an advanced missile-defense system – known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD – in partnership with the United States Army.",
        "发自华盛顿——韩国正逐步与美军合作引进一套名为为末端高空区域防御系统（英文缩写为THAAD，译为“萨德”）的先进的导弹防御系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Quality used to be included in the price of a ticket; now, with surcharges for seat selection, meals, and the like, customers are charged for it separately.",
        "质量曾经被包括在机票的价格中； 如今，质量以选座、选餐等各种附加费用单独收费。"
    ],
    [
        "This is one area where Obama’s consensual instincts do not serve him well.",
        "在金融改革这个领域，奥巴马身上那种寻求共识的天性没有用武之地。"
    ],
    [
        "Few South Koreans remember those straitened months anymore, but for North Koreans, hunger in the countryside during this time of year is very real.",
        "如今只有极少数韩国人还记得那段艰难的时光，但对朝鲜人来说，农村地区在这一时节的饥饿感却是实实在在的。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the Republican-led Congress has (so far) been disinclined to fulfill its responsibility to constrain Trump.",
        "可以肯定，共和党领导的国会（迄今为止）一直不愿履行其约束特郎普的职责。"
    ],
    [
        "There is widespread disapproval of Putin’s autocratic style and of his government’s human rights record.",
        "很多人对普京的独裁风格以及俄国政府的人权记录不满。"
    ],
    [
        "The reforms turned out to be extremely rewarding: more than three decades of double-digit economic growth followed their implementation.",
        "邓小平的改革最终收到了巨大成效：三十多年两位数字的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Welcoming immigrants is in Europe’s interest.",
        "欢迎移民符合欧洲的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Now is not the time to discuss how appropriate Orders-in-Council are for lawmaking in a twenty-first-century democracy, but this move showed disregard for the Chagossians’ basic human rights.",
        "在英国这个21世纪的现代民主国家，如今已经无须争论枢密院令究竟如何适用于法律制定了，但这一举措表现出了一种对查戈斯人基本人权的漠视。"
    ],
    [
        "On the foreign-policy front, Xi has signaled that he might be ready to fill the leadership vacuum created by Trump’s “America First” approach.",
        "在外交政策方面，习近平表现出他或许已准备好填补特朗普的“美国优先”方针所留下的领导力真空。"
    ],
    [
        "Having ridden to power on a wave of popular anger, Trump can’t even be counted on to follow its rules.",
        "特朗普依靠群众的愤怒赢得权力，因此你甚至不能期望他会遵守规则。"
    ],
    [
        "And political life in the world’s largest democracy, India, is raucous and unruly.",
        "世界最大的民主国家印度的政治生活也是喧闹难驭。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that short- and medium-term commitments alone are simply inadequate to fulfill the pledge, made by the world’s governments in 2009 and reiterated in 2010, to cap the rise in global temperatures at 2° Celsius relative to the pre-industrial era.",
        "事实是，短期和中期承诺根本不足以兑现世界各国政府2009年所做、2010年重申的将全球气温升温幅度限制在工业化前水平以上2℃以内的保证。"
    ],
    [
        "The Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman has poured scorn on what he calls the “confidence fairy,” the claim that fiscal policy must command the support of the bond markets.",
        "诺贝尔经济学奖获得者克鲁格曼（Paul Krugman）对于他所谓的“信心仙女”嗤之以鼻。 “信心仙女”是指财政政策必须领导对债券市场的支持的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Let’s be honest: no one knows what is happening in the world economy today.",
        "伦敦—实事求是地讲，没人知道当今世界经济正在发生什么。"
    ],
    [
        "All of the recent episodes can be traced, more or less directly, to the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, established in 2005 by 171 Palestinian nongovernmental organizations. So they provide a good occasion to remind those who support this campaign of its true nature.",
        "近期事件或多或少都可以直接追溯到2005年由171个巴勒斯坦非政府组织成立的全球抵制、撤资和制裁（BDS）运动，并因此令上述运动的支持者有机会真正认清其本质。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, that approach has not proved adequate to overcome the challenges there.",
        "不幸的是，这一方针不足以克服希腊的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise and fall of the Chinese stock market should also be understood in the context of Chinese households’ limited options for storing savings.",
        "中国股市的兴衰应该置于一个背景下去理解：中国家庭的储蓄选择十分有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Weirdness – peculiar upper-class mannerisms, ostentatious living, outrageous jokes, deliberate crassness, and mad hairstyles – is an asset.",
        "怪异的举止——奇特的上流社会习性、财大气粗的生活、离谱的笑话、故意表现出的粗鲁和疯狂的发型——都能在政治上加分。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s vulnerabilities and risks – stemming from property bubbles, shadow banking, and local-government debt – have triggered concerns about a crisis not only there, but also in neighboring Asian countries.",
        "中国的漏洞和风险——源于房地产泡沫、影子银行，以及地方政府债务——不仅导致其国内对危机的担忧不已，还引起了各亚洲邻国的忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Rico’s population has declined from approximately 3.8 million in 2000 to a little more than 3.4 million in 2016.",
        "波多黎各人口已经从2000年的约380万下降到2016年的340万多一点。"
    ],
    [
        "If it does not, the current Sino-Russian entente cordiale is almost certain to sour.",
        "如果这一情况继续，当前的中俄互相谅解局面几乎肯定会变质。"
    ],
    [
        "If Trump is serious about tackling inequality, he must rewrite the rules yet again, in a way that serves all of society, not just people like him.",
        "如果特朗普真心要解决不平等性问题，他必须再次改写规则，让它有利于全社会而不只是和他一样的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Israel are all squandering vast sums in an accelerating Middle East arms race, in which the US is the major financier and arms supplier.",
        "沙特阿拉伯、伊朗和以色列都在耗费巨资加速中东军备竞赛，而美国是主要金主和军备供应者。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dollar and the Dragon",
        "美元和中国"
    ],
    [
        "Once such a process begins, the politically fragile EU will be unable to stop it, at least in the foreseeable future.",
        "一旦这一过程开始，政治上四分五裂的欧盟将无力停止它，至少在可预见的未来无力停止。"
    ],
    [
        "As restitution, the ECB should take on its books part of Ireland’s public debt.",
        "为了纠正这一错误，欧洲央行应当将爱尔兰的一部分公共债务纳入自身的资产负债表。"
    ],
    [
        "Free Trade, Free Labor, Free Growth",
        "自由贸易、自由劳工和自由增长"
    ],
    [
        "So Castro will not attend, Obama will, and the ALBA leaders will probably be divided.",
        "因此，卡斯特罗不会参会，而奥巴马会，而ALBA领导人则两说。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese economy has been doubling in size every ten years since 1978.",
        "中国经济总量从1978年以后每10年都以翻番的速度增长。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, investors will insist on a risk premium: higher interest rates on Treasury debt.",
        "果真如此的话，投资者将要求风险溢价：提高美国国债利率。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Mexico, immigration and migrants are the most important topic excluded from the original agreement.",
        "与对墨西哥一样，（移入和移出的）移民是原始协定没能包含的最重要的议题。"
    ],
    [
        "The quality of government programs makes a big difference.",
        "政府计划的质量能造成很大的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "They evidently believe that this approach has yielded results – most notably the fragile Syrian ceasefire that the US and Russia brokered in July.",
        "他们显然相信上述策略已经取得了成果——其中最显而易见的是美俄在7月达成的脆弱的叙利亚停火协议。"
    ],
    [
        "And there are also those who fear that a political heavyweight in the job might eclipse the EU Commission’s President, former Portuguese prime minister José Manuel Barroso, who has just been confirmed for a second five-year term, and devalue the role of the foreign policy chief whose authority Lisbon is due to beef up.",
        "也有人担心一个重量级的政治人物可能会让欧盟委员会主席，前葡萄牙总理若泽·曼努埃尔·巴罗佐相形见绌，巴罗佐刚刚确定出任第二个五年任期，这一决策削弱了里斯本本应全力增强的欧盟外交首脑的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "The AIIB seems to offer an ideal solution.",
        "亚投行似乎提供了一个理想的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been a revolutionary change, but will this 20-year-old trend continue?",
        "这是一个革命性的变化，但这20年来的趋势会持续下去吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Trade is also an engine of political and economic reform.",
        "贸易也是政治和经济改革的发动机。"
    ],
    [
        "But no government can impose a lump-sum tax – the same amount for everyone regardless of their income or expenditures – because it would fall heaviest on those with less income, and it would grind the poor, who might be unable to pay it at all.",
        "但没有一个政府可以征收定额税——不管收入或支出如何，都缴一样的税——因为这意味着收入越少税负越大，还可能会压垮那些无力付税的穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "How to deal with evidence of terrorist planning gleaned from states suspected of practicing torture?",
        "如果某些国家可能采取刑讯逼供，又该如何处理因此取得的恐怖行动情报？"
    ],
    [
        "Unsurprisingly, the intervention in Argentina passed all three tests: the market suffered a coordination failure that was addressed effectively through public policy carried out by appropriate institutions.",
        "不出所料，阿根廷的干预通过了之前说到的三项测试：市场协调失败，而通过由适当机构执行的公共政策而得到有效解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Its defense expenditures have an even faster pace.",
        "它的国防费用开支增长得更快。"
    ],
    [
        "This delicate moment for the EU demands decisive progress toward a more effective, more integrated, and more desirable union.",
        "这一欧盟的微妙时刻需要欧洲果断朝更有效、更一体化、更令人渴望的联盟迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, office work allowed a degree of freedom and personal autonomy that factory work never provided.",
        "同样重要的是，办公室工作提供了工厂工作所不具备的一定程度的自由和自主性。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as a visiting American scholar/diplomat recently told me in a confidential conversation: “In the US, too, at least a generation of our children, from birth till the age of 15, have seen their country almost continuously at war.”",
        "而一味访问阿富汗的学者/外交官最近对一次秘密对话告诉我：“在美国，至少我们的下一代从出生到15岁，他们的祖国一直在打仗。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The direct impact is that a stronger dollar reduces the cost of imported goods.",
        "直接影响是强势美元增加进口品的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that many countries have been unwilling to open their borders to meaningful numbers of asylum-seekers highlights the reality that the best refugee policy is one that prevents innocent men, women, and children from becoming refugees in the first place.",
        "但许多国家不愿意向合理数量的寻求庇护者开放其边界的做法凸显了一个现实：即便最好的难民政策也无法第一时间阻止无辜的民众沦为难民。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is working hard to reverse this trend, including by completing agreements that cover nearly all of the region’s economies.",
        "但欧盟在努力扭转这一趋势，比如与几乎所有域内经济体都签订了协定。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, the US must show leadership and adaptability.",
        "在这方面，美国必须表现出领导力和适应力。"
    ],
    [
        "In theory, as capital floods in, these countries’ exchange rates will appreciate rapidly, making them look unattractive and automatically stemming the flow.",
        "从理论上说，随着资本的流入，这些国家的汇率将很快升值，减少其吸引力，自动地阻止资本流入。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, there is an emerging consensus – among grassroots organizations and central bankers alike – that inequality poses a serious threat to people’s livelihoods and prosperity worldwide.",
        "同时，基层组织与核心央行之间越来越就不平等严重威胁全世界民众生计和繁荣达成共识。"
    ],
    [
        "This raised uncomfortable questions not only about the efficacy of austerity, but also about the reliability of economic analysis.",
        "这不仅引发了令人不安的关于财政紧缩有效性的问题，也令人开始担忧经济分析是否依然可靠。"
    ],
    [
        "I served on the Clinton administration’s Council of Economic Advisors at the time, and it was clear that there was more interest in pleasing the pharmaceutical and entertainment industries than in ensuring an intellectual-property regime that was good for science, let alone for developing countries.",
        "那时我在克林顿政府的经济顾问委员会中任职，很明显，与确保建立对科学，尤其是发展中国家有所帮助的知识产权制度相比，当时的谈判代表对取悦制药和娱乐等行业更感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Possibly manufactured for money, The Protocols purported to be evidence of a Jewish plan for world domination.",
        "制造者可能为了赚钱，声称有证据表明犹太人制定了统治世界的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge is to make this hidden sharing of information less confusing, more explicit, and more transparent before the majority of people discover it for themselves in a way that leaves them feeling deceived.",
        "而挑战则在于令这些被暗中分享的信息变得更加容易被理解，更加明确，也更加透明，而且要抢在公众通过某种方式发觉自己被蒙蔽之前。"
    ],
    [
        "Another is whether they invest the money prudently, thereby enabling prompt repayment.",
        "其二是它们能否审慎地将资金用于投资，从而能够利落地偿付。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, low-skilled workers in Egypt, the US, and other countries must either raise their productivity enough to compete at a decent wage, or accept extremely low pay or outright unemployment.",
        "相比之下，埃及，美国以及其他国家那些低技术工人要么提高自己的生产力来挣得一份体面的工资，要么只能忍受极端低下的薪水或者彻底失业。"
    ],
    [
        "But this ignores the possibility that regulators may have started to enforce the CRA rigorously only later.",
        "但这忽略了一种可能性：监管者只能在之后大力推进CRA。"
    ],
    [
        "Conservative animus toward trade unions is also once again on display.",
        "保守势力对工会的敌意也再次显示出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Information technology is already revolutionizing the delivery of health care, education, governance, infrastructure (for example, prepaid electricity), banking, emergency response, and much more.",
        "信息技术已经掀起了医疗、教育、治理、基础设施（如预付电力）、银行、紧急响应以及其他众多服务提供的革命。"
    ],
    [
        "Wasteful government expenditures and subsidies account for some 8% of non-oil GDP (5% of total GDP) in the GCC states.",
        "浪费性政府支出和补贴占了GCC国家非石油GDP的8%（总GDP的5%）左右。"
    ],
    [
        "The closest thing to a real warning came before the 1980-82 downturn.",
        "最接近于真正警告的是1980—82年衰退前。"
    ],
    [
        "The timing of the April 2014 consumption-tax hike (from 5% to 8%) was also unfortunate.",
        "2014年4月消费税提高（从5%提高到8%）的时机也很不幸。"
    ],
    [
        "Given its own policies, and those of the US, China is on track to become the world’s innovation leader.",
        "从其自身以及美国的政策看，中国正走在成为世界创新领导者的路上。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the Death Penalty Debate",
        "死刑辩论之外"
    ],
    [
        "One way to clear it would be to develop the regulatory and institutional groundwork needed to enable funding to flow more smoothly from institutional investors in advanced economies to projects in the emerging world, where huge populations still need access to essential infrastructure services.",
        "解决方式之一是制定必要的监管和体制基础，协助发达国家的资金从机构投资者顺利流向新兴国家的项目。 新兴国家的海量人口仍然需要享受基本的基础设施服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Whenever we are encouraged to oppose a dictator, the specter of Adolf Hitler is invoked, and the ghosts of 1938 are resurrected to counter skepticism about hasty “preemptive” war.",
        "每当我们被鼓励反对某位独裁者，希特勒的幽灵就会浮现，而1938年常常被用来反驳质疑仓促的“预防性”战争的人。"
    ],
    [
        "A comprehensive response to AIDS, TB and malaria is needed.",
        "我们需要对艾滋病、肺结核和疟疾做出全面反应。"
    ],
    [
        "While America says that it cannot afford to do anything about it, China’s senior officials have acted more responsibly.",
        "在美国宣称无能为力的同时，中国高级官员的所作所为无疑更负责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The French historian and sociologist Emmanuel Todd has argued that, everywhere in the world, economic takeoff usually occurs 60-70 years after 50% of the population achieves literacy.",
        "对此法国历史学家和社会学家伊曼努尔·托德（Emmanuel Todd）认为，无论在世界哪个地方，经济腾飞通常都会在一国50%以上民众脱离文盲后的60~70年后实现。"
    ],
    [
        "I hear his smutty jokes in which the careful language of politics has been pushed aside in favor of supposedly authentic popular speech at its most elemental – the language, apparently, of the genitals.",
        "我听着他那些淫秽的笑话，摈弃了政治语言一贯的谨慎，代之以真正低俗流行的生殖器语言元素。"
    ],
    [
        "Most people are probably not aware of these practices – though, at this point, most would not likely be shocked by the information. (I, for one, was only somewhat surprised – about as much as I was to learn about the US National Security Agency’s far-reaching data collection.)",
        "大多数人可能没有意识到这些操作——虽然此刻大多数人也不会对此表示震惊（比如我在知道美国国家安全局收集的数据竟然如此私密时也只是略显惊讶）。"
    ],
    [
        "When ASEAN member states cannot reach a consensus, they should distinguish between two types of issues to determine the path forward: those that have obvious implications for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and domestic autonomy of a member state; and those that have obvious implications for regional security.",
        "当东盟国家无法形成共识时，它们应该区分两种类型的问题以决定怎样解决：对成员国主权、领土完整和独立自主构成显然影响的问题； 以及对地区安全构成显然影响的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "At the recent Conservative Party annual conference, speeches by Prime Minister Theresa May and members of her cabinet revealed an intention to pursue a “hard Brexit,” thereby dismantling trading arrangements that have served the economy well.",
        "在最近的保守党年度大会上，首相梅及其内阁成员的讲话表明他们准备追求“硬退欧”，取缔给英国经济带来巨大好处的贸易安排。"
    ],
    [
        "Manufacturing firms have increased output in each of the last six months.",
        "制造业企业在过去六个月中的每个月都实现了产出增加。"
    ],
    [
        "The figure is all the more unfathomable, given that, alongside this massive wastage and loss, 840 million people experience chronic hunger on a daily basis.",
        "还有更加难以想象的数字。 在如此大规模浪费和损失的情况下，仍有8."
    ],
    [
        "Since 2012, when Xi began “hunting tigers,” as he put it, three dozen government ministers, provincial governors, and other high-level officials have fallen into his net.",
        "自2012年习近平开始提出“打老虎”以来，三十多名政府部长、省级官员和其他高官落马。"
    ],
    [
        "George W. Bush’s administration should be credited for giving overdue recognition to India, but this was done primarily on a bilateral basis.",
        "乔治·W·布什政府应该为给予印度迟到的重视而受到赞誉，但布什政府的成果多以双边关系为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "For today’s European leaders, the central lesson of 1989 is that force is counterproductive; what matters is consensus.",
        "对于欧洲现在的领导人而言，1989年的核心经验便是：暴力只会带来事与愿违的结果，真正重要的因素是共识。"
    ],
    [
        "If a policy is found to be contrary to the goal of promoting gross national happiness, it is sent back to the ministry for reconsideration.",
        "如果发现某项政策有悖于提升国民幸福总值的目标，就会发回部里重新拟定。"
    ],
    [
        "Industrial countries thus had to export double, namely ten cars for the same amount of imports of raw materials.",
        "因此，工业国需要加倍出口，即出口十辆车才能弥补同样数量的进口原材料。"
    ],
    [
        "All seemed to have something to do with speculative price movements that surprised most observers and were never really explained, even years after the fact. They also had something to do with government policymakers’ mistakes.",
        "所有这三次危机似乎都与震惊大部分观察并且此前从未得到真正解释（甚至发生多年后仍未得到真正解释）的投机性价格波动有关。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea of Trump, advised by Farage, using Churchill’s bronze head as a totem would have filled the old man with horror.",
        "特朗普根据法拉奇的建议用丘吉尔的铜头像当作图腾将让这位老人惊悚不已。"
    ],
    [
        "If you were President Richard Nixon, there was no ignoring what appeared on the front page of The New York Times .",
        "假如你是当时的尼克松总统，那么《纽约时报》的头版新闻可是一条也不能漏掉的。"
    ],
    [
        "And it minimizes the devastating economic impact of a mega-devaluation on countries with which China competes.",
        "它还假设大幅贬值对于中国的竞争对手国家的破坏性经济影响是最低的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, China’s recent strategic assertiveness has led many Asian democracies to seek to deepen their ties with the US, as South Korea has done with a bilateral free-trade agreement. The US is reciprocating by pledging not to cut Asia-related defense spending, despite the big reduction in overall US defense spending that lies ahead.",
        "而中国近期的战略压迫则迫使许多亚洲民主国家寻求加深与美国的关系，比如韩国就已经与美国签订了一份双边自由贸易协议，美国也投桃报李，在其国防支出大幅度消减的情况下承诺不减少与亚洲相关的防务支出。"
    ],
    [
        "The climate-change agreement expected to be reached in Paris in December will not solve the problem at the stroke of a pen, just as no agreement to protect marine life will, on its own, lead to a healthier ocean.",
        "就像没有哪份海洋生物保护协议能凭一己之力使海洋更加健康一样，预计12月将在巴黎达成的气候变化协议也不可能大笔一挥就解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the West has rejected everything, on the pretext that any uranium enrichment would indicate a military program.",
        "至今为止，西方社会拒绝了所有的提议，其借口是任何铀浓缩都将意味着军事计划。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as Fatah keeps things more or less under control on the West Bank, and all Hamas can do is periodically lob missiles across the Israeli border or occasionally blow up a bus, Israel can easily live with the status quo.",
        "只要法塔赫或多或少掌握约旦河西岸的局面，哈马斯所能做的充其量无非是不定期地向以色列境内射几枚火箭，或是偶尔引爆几辆公交车，而以色列可以在现状中逍遥存活。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, Eroom’s law charts the regress in new drug approvals, noting that the costs of developing a new medicine double roughly every nine years.",
        "相反，逆摩尔定律是关于新药批准数量的，该定律指出，开发新药的成本大约每九年会翻一番。"
    ],
    [
        "And Erdoğan’s moves since the coup’s collapse – mass arrests and purges of thousands of soldiers, judges, police, and teachers were announced almost immediately – seem to confirm the more pessimistic scenario.",
        "而政变崩溃后埃尔多安的动作——几乎立即发布对数千名士兵、法官、警察和教师的大规模逮捕令——似乎证实了相对悲观的预想。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, opposition to supposed impunity is not the only reason Colombians voted against the peace deal.",
        "当然，反对豁免并非哥伦比亚人否决和平协议的唯一原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the war in eastern Ukraine, the country has managed to take important steps toward democracy since the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych last February.",
        "尽管乌克兰东部战火纷飞，但自去年2月推翻总统亚努科维奇（Viktor Yanukovych）以来，乌克兰仍成功地朝民主迈出了重要步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "In March, the European Commission proposed a plan under which disclosure would continue to be voluntary, meaning that the minerals that enter the EU would not be subject to mandatory checks.",
        "3月份，欧盟提出一项计划，根据该计划，披露将继续是自愿性质，这意味着进入欧盟的矿产不需要接受强制性检查。"
    ],
    [
        "But the primacy given to “advancing national interests” has always precluded real concerted action, at least until now.",
        "但将“推进国家利益”作为首要任务总是会妨碍真正的联合行动，至少到目前为止是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But Abe has two more arrows in his policy quiver.",
        "但安倍晋三的政策是三管齐下的。"
    ],
    [
        "The final issue concerns European solidarity.",
        "最后一项事物涉及到的则是欧洲的团结。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Italy is being encouraged to accelerate privatization.",
        "类似地，意大利被鼓励加快私有化。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, many advanced economies have suffered considerably from their balance-sheet composition, with limited, poorly measured assets and outsize debt and non-debt liabilities.",
        "与此同时，所许多发达经济体却因为自身资产负债表中只有极为有限且未能精确统计的资产，加上孤独庞大的债务和非债务偿付责任而深受其害。"
    ],
    [
        "But, under other conditions, individuals influence one another in such a way that the crowd becomes a herd, led by a few.",
        "但是，在其他条件下，个体之间彼此的影响会导致群体成为听从少数人领导的乌合之众。"
    ],
    [
        "This material incentive is in clear breach of the principle that organs should be distributed according to need only.",
        "这种物质刺激明显违反了器官只允许按需分配的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – The Initiative on Global Markets, based at the University of Chicago, periodically surveys a group of leading academic economists, of varying political persuasions, on the issues of the day.",
        "普林斯顿—芝加哥大学的全球市场计划（Initiative on Global Markets）定期调查一组政治观点各异的顶尖经济学家，询问他们对当前问题的意见。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that luxury goods provide individuals with a competitive advantage, higher luxury-goods sales could indicate a brighter economic future for a country.",
        "鉴于奢侈品能为个体带来竞争性优势，一个国家奢侈品销售的增长可能预示着更美好的经济未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Economically, however, hard Brexit will come at a high price, which the UK will have to pay for years to come.",
        "但从经济上讲，硬退欧将带来高昂的代价，而英国将为此还债多年。"
    ],
    [
        "Right-wing populists such as Trump engage in identity politics.",
        "特朗普等右翼民粹人士钟情于身份政治。"
    ],
    [
        "The refugee has escaped from a country where life has become unsustainable, whether because of conflict or a lack of economic opportunities, but has yet to arrive in the host country.",
        "难民已经逃出生活不可持续的国家——或者是因为冲突，或者是因为找不到经济机会——但尚未到达东道国。"
    ],
    [
        "But when sanctions target a country, their effectiveness depends much more on other countries’ participation, which can cost political capital to secure.",
        "但如果制裁针对的是某个国家，其最终效果可能要更多依赖其他国家的参与，而其他国家参与需要消耗政治资本去争取。"
    ],
    [
        "We don’t hear about the workshops for women’s empowerment, or the successful organization of small-scale local elections across the country.",
        "此前我们从未听说过女权组织，或是在全国范围内成功组织过小规模的地方选举。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, only an alliance of democracies can ensure the emergence of a strong rules-based order and a stable balance of power in the world’s most economically dynamic region.",
        "事实上，只有民主国家联合起来，才能确保这个全世界经济最有活力地区的基于规则的强大秩序和稳定的实力平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Although direct legal obstacles have been eliminated in Europe, indirect obstacles such as taxation – which can make a merger unprofitable – persist.",
        "虽然直接的法律障碍在欧洲已经消除，但间接的障碍，如税收（可能让并购变得无利可图）则仍然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "It was and continues to be a critical check against the imprisonment of individuals without oversight by independent courts.",
        "它曾经是对在没有独立法院监督下拘禁人身的一个重要制衡，而且也将继续如此。"
    ],
    [
        "If governments, say, mandated that particular diagnostic tests must be conducted before antibiotics could be prescribed, companies would have the necessary incentive.",
        "如果（比如）政府强制要求在开具抗身素处方前进行某些皮试，高科技公司就能得到必要的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "And we witnessed a dramatic worsening in inequality, not just of income and wealth, but also of opportunity.",
        "我们目睹了不平等大幅恶化，这种不平等不仅涉及到财富和收入，而且也涉及到机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In the age of Donald Trump and Brexit, that outcome is far from unthinkable.",
        "在特朗普成为美国总统、英国退出欧盟的时代，这一结果绝不是不可想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "But synergies and similarities between two factions – Iranian hardliners and the hawks of the current US administration – are as counterintuitive as they are profound.",
        "但两个派别——伊朗强硬派和现任美国政府中的鹰派——之间的的协同和相似性反常地高，并且影响深远。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the low probability of being able to sell ivory in the future, the cost of storing and protecting it is unlikely to be recouped.",
        "鉴于未来出售象牙的可能性十分之低，导致储存和保护成本不太可能被收回。"
    ],
    [
        "For increasingly rich Europeans, the summer of 1914 seemed a peaceful, lazy time.",
        "对日益富裕的欧洲人来说，1914年的夏天似乎应该是一个和平慵懒的夏天。"
    ],
    [
        "The wave of corporate investment that was supposed to be unleashed by a combination of fiscal restraint (to rein in government debt) and monetary easing (to generate ultra-low interest rates) has never materialized.",
        "财政约束（遏制政府债务）和货币宽松（形成极低利率）的组合理应带来公司投资潮，但这一幕并未发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Trying to advance one’s interests based on the rules of the past is like trying to solve today’s crossword puzzle using yesterday’s clues.",
        "想要依据过去规则追求自身利益就像用昨天的线索来解今天的填字游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "Serbian Prime Minister (then President) Vojislav Kostunica’s attempt in 2001 to set up a truth commission was doomed from the outset by allegations of bias, and was disbanded within a year.",
        "塞尔维亚总理（当时任总统）伊斯拉夫·科什图尼察2001年成立真相委员会的企图从一开始就被指控为缺乏公正，成立起来的真相委员会也不到一年就遭到解散的厄运。"
    ],
    [
        "Are today’s really so different?",
        "今天的预测真的会不同吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In short, there is a vacuum of global leadership just at the moment when it is badly needed.",
        "总之，就在全球迫切需要领导的时刻，全球领导却出现了一个真空。"
    ],
    [
        "The coincidental combination of the election of Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker’s interest-rate shock of October 1979 ended an era in which inflation had been seen as a solution to social problems.",
        "当年10月，撒切尔夫人（Margaret Thatcher）当选英国首相，时任美联储主席的保罗·沃尔克（Paul Volcker）启动了大幅加息的紧缩政策，这两个互无关联的事件在时间上偶然重合，标志着一个时代的终结，人们不再把通货膨胀视作解决社会问题的一个药方。"
    ],
    [
        "Most NCDs increase in prevalence with age – a consequence of the cumulative exposure to risk factors (including unhealthy behaviors such as tobacco use and biological risk factors such as high blood pressure) over a lifetime.",
        "大部分NCD的出现伴随着年龄的老化——这是一生中累积风险因素的结果（包括吸烟等不健康行为以及高血压等生物性风险因素）。"
    ],
    [
        "To turn the Nazi leader Hermann Göring’s notorious barb on its head, when Bengalis hear the word “gun,” they reach for their culture.",
        "当孟加拉人听到“枪”这个字时，他们反纳粹头子戈林臭名昭著的“名言”而行之，去寻找他们的文化。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, even if emerging economies manage to diversify their funding away from foreign currencies, they will remain hostages to US monetary-policy cycles.",
        "最终，即便新兴经济体能够将自身融资与外国货币剥离开来，它们依然会遭到美国货币政策的裹胁。"
    ],
    [
        "First, a carbon price in the range of $20-25 per ton of CO2 by 2020 is key to mobilizing climate finance at this level.",
        "首先，要筹集这笔巨资，关键是要在2020年之前执行20~25美元/吨的碳排放收费。"
    ],
    [
        "By one careful reckoning, community colleges are an extremely good investment.",
        "仔细思考就能发现，社区大学是一项极好的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "China wants to preserve its access to Iranian oil, and Russia seeks to preserve a valuable commercial market.",
        "中国想保住伊朗的石油来源，俄罗斯想保住一个有价值的商业市场。"
    ],
    [
        "But the United States, for one, is no longer satisfied with this approach.",
        "但比如美国就不再满足于这样的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, successive rounds of quantitative easing by the US Federal Reserve in 2009-2014, the Bank of Japan since 2013, and the European Central Bank since earlier this year, resulted in depreciations of the dollar, yen, and euro, respectively.",
        "类似地，2009—2014年的美联储、2013年以来的日本银行以及今年早些时候开始的欧洲央行实施了多轮量化宽松，分别造成美元、日元和欧元贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "In public, most of them are more polite, but the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Neel Kashkari, struck a chord recently when he called for a reevaluation of how much progress has been made on addressing the problem of financial institutions that are “too big to fail” (TBTF).",
        "不过在公开场合，他们大多都比较收敛，但明尼阿波利斯联邦储备银行总裁尼尔·卡什卡利（Neel Kashkari）则最近激起了人们共鸣，因为他呼吁要对在应对那些“大而不能倒”的金融机构所导致的问题上所取得的进展进行重新评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, disrespect for the national flag is derided in most countries, and has been a criminal offense in India since 1971, with the adoption of the Prevention of Insults to National Honor Act, which threatens whoever “mutilates, defaces, disfigures, destroys, tramples upon, or otherwise shows disrespect to” the Indian flag with imprisonment.",
        "当然，不尊重国旗在大部分国家都是一件大事，印度更是自1971年引入防止冒犯国家荣誉法（Prevention of Insults to National Honor Act），将此列为犯罪行为，任何人如果“切割、涂销、玷污、损毁、踩踏或表现出不尊重”印度国旗，都可以判处徒刑。"
    ],
    [
        "As Hatoyama could not keep his promise to safeguard the interests of the Okinawan people, he followed up with a customary resignation.",
        "由于鸠山无法兑现维护冲绳人利益的承诺，只能引咎辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "The brain drain to the Anglo-Saxon countries, the US in particular, is astounding.",
        "流向盎格鲁萨克斯国家、特别是美国的人材令人惊讶。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the theory turns out to be, it is certain to revolutionize physics.",
        "但无论这一理论将如何发展，它都注定将催生物理学的革命。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, given so much uncertainty about the future state of Europe and the world, debating enlargement or the TTIP seems pointless – or worse, because even opening such discussions is certain to play into the hands of Euroskeptics.",
        "比如，欧洲和世界的未来状态充满了不确定性，争论扩张或TTIP似乎毫无意义——甚至更加糟糕，因为即使开放这些讨论也必然正中欧洲怀疑派下怀。"
    ],
    [
        "But if interest rates shoot up in the Trump era (as well they could), the US government will wish that it had opted for less short-term borrowing and more long-term borrowing.",
        "但如果利率在特朗普时代升高（可能性很大），美国政府将后悔当初没有选择更少短期借贷、更多长期借贷。"
    ],
    [
        "In his speech to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s death on June 4, Khamenei fully appropriated the discourse of the dissident clerics aligned with Khatami.",
        "在6月4日霍梅尼逝世25周年纪念讲话中，哈梅内伊毫无保留地赞颂了与哈塔米同声共气的持异见牧师。"
    ],
    [
        "They have allowed an enormous concentration of power in the hands of one person and the parliamentary majority that he leads.",
        "这使得大量权力集中在独夫之手及其所领导的议会多数。"
    ],
    [
        "So she crafted a political strategy that would keep the Brexit debate from opening up again.",
        "因此她制定了一项阻止人们再就英国脱欧进行讨论的政治政策。"
    ],
    [
        "New research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) finds that cross-border flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data during this period increased world GDP by roughly 10% – roughly an additional $7.8 trillion in 2014 alone.",
        "麦肯锡全球研究所（MGI）的新研究发现，在此期间，商品、服务、金融、人员和数据的跨境流动将世界GDP推高了10%左右——光是在2014年，就增加了7. 8万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Eisenhower could have said that, and no one would accuse him of being an isolationist.",
        "”艾森豪威尔也会这样说，并且每人会因此指责他是孤立主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – One of the most dispiriting features of today’s international debates is that the threat to humanity posed by the world’s 23,000 nuclear weapons – and by those who would build more of them, or be only too willing to use them – has been consigned to the margin of politics.",
        "伦敦——将全球23，000枚核武器、核武器生产者及迫不及待想使用核武器的人对全人类造成的威胁漫不经心地推到政治的边缘是当今国际争论最令人沮丧的特点之一。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is why, even in the face of a severe financial crisis, we remain frozen today.",
        "所以说，即使我们目前面临如此严重的金融危机，我们依然无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "Understanding them – being “conference literate” – is critical to making the most of a conference, whether as an organizer, speaker, or attendee.",
        "无论是会议的组织者、发言人还是参与者，了解这些原则——“把握会议文化”对充分利用会议所起的作用至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But this mechanism lacks the common political will needed to activate it; the less it is used, the less usable it will become.",
        "但这一机制缺乏激活它所需要的共同政治意愿； 而这一机制使用得越少，其可用性就越低。"
    ],
    [
        "Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble were among the other speakers.",
        "总理默克尔和财政部长朔伊布勒也将会上讲了话。"
    ],
    [
        "The panic of the literary bureaucracy, ensnared in its certainties and steeped in its petty calculations, its half-baked prognostications, its crafty shifts of position, has been palpable.",
        "文学官僚的恐慌浸透在确定性及琐碎的算计当中，已经可以明显察觉到它草率的预言和狡猾的立场变化。 选择迪伦是否出于政治原因？"
    ],
    [
        "The third phase was one of economic catch-up, which, unlike the first two phases, has not really been successful in Hungary, which today may even be falling back.",
        "第三阶段则和前两个阶段有所不同，我们谋求在经济上追赶欧洲其他国家，但这个阶段进行得不但不太成功，如今甚至有点倒退。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, as Saunders puts it, “energy efficiency may be a net positive in increasing economic productivity and growth, but should not be relied upon as a way to reduce energy consumption and thus greenhouse gas emissions.”",
        "或者就像桑德斯所说的那样，“能效在提高经济生产力和推动增长方面可能起到积极作用，但我们却不能靠它来降低能耗，进而降低温室气体排放。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the economic stimulus provided by the German state budget will amount to 4.4% of GDP in 2009.",
        "因此，德国国家财政预算提供的经济刺激资金在2009年会达到GDP的4. 4%。"
    ],
    [
        "And their green tee shirts were emblazoned with the message that for these Americans, there has been no recovery.",
        "而他们的绿色衬衣也印着标语——对这些美国人来说，根本没有什么复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, a lot of us have been phools – including Akerlof and me, which is why we wrote this book.",
        "不幸的是，许多人都曾经是“愚人”——包括阿克罗夫和我，这也是我们写这本书的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to circumvent the law, interrogation had to be conducted outside the US, even if that place was an overseas American military base.",
        "为了规避法律，审讯必须在美国境外进行，即使是海外的美军基地也行。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas many regard Israel’s toughness as its principal characteristic, India’s own citizens view it as a soft state, its underbelly easily penetrated by determined terrorists.",
        "许多人把以色列严厉视为其主要特点，而印度人则把自己的国家视为软弱可欺，铁心的恐怖分子很容易就击破它的软肋。"
    ],
    [
        "As Brookings Institution foreign-policy expert Suzanne Maloney points out, countries in the region and beyond are already dismayed at the lack of US leadership concerning Syria.",
        "布鲁金斯学会外交政策专家苏珊·马洛尼指出，中东及其他地区国家已经对美国在叙利亚问题上鲜有作为而感到沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "Such investment can determine whether a country’s economic growth is broadly inclusive or leaves large segments of society behind.",
        "这些投资可以决定一国的经济增长是否具有广泛的包容性，是否把大量社会群体抛在了身后。"
    ],
    [
        "Existing applications in agriculture, health care, education, and infrastructure can collectively contribute $160-280 billion to annual GDP – and, more important, empower ordinary Indians.",
        "现有的农业、医疗、教育和基础设施方面的应用加起来每年可以增加1,600—2,800亿美元的GDP——更重要的是，能让普通印度人获得更多的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking back on his own presidency, Bill Clinton recognized the dangers of burnout.",
        "回顾自己的总统经历，比尔·克林顿认识到精疲力尽所带来的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff say that it takes five years for a country to dig itself out of a financial crisis.",
        "哈佛大学经济学家卡门·莱因哈特（Carmen Reinhart）和肯尼斯·罗格夫（Kenneth Rogoff）说，一国需要五年时间才能从金融危机中走出。"
    ],
    [
        "Both countries have a reputation for corruption in government.",
        "两国都有政府腐败的名声。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Constitutional Council gets closer to functioning like a Supreme Court, its membership, still heavily influenced by politics, will need to be reassessed.",
        "随着宪政委员会的作用越来越贴近最高法院，我们要重新评估仍受政治显著影响的委员会成员的资质。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time, Hamas proved capable of causing disruptions as far away as Tel Aviv, while Israel was forced to defend its behavior and reputation even with its traditional allies, including the United States.",
        "哈马斯首次成功干扰到特拉维夫，迫使以色列在传统的盟友（包括美国）面前为自己的行为和声誉进行辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "An interconnected energy system would make particular sense for the UK and Germany, which could use the one-hour time difference between them to smooth out the peaks and troughs in demand.",
        "一个互联的能源系统对英国和德国尤其有用，因为两国可以利用互相之间的一小时时差去抹平本国能源需求的高峰和低谷。"
    ],
    [
        "This is strange, because usually when something works the natural impulse is to do it again.",
        "如果说过去14个月间的财政政策确实有缺陷，那么缺陷并不在于增加国家负债和厚待华尔街骄子，而在于政策力度太小，我们原本可以做得更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the middle class in Africa has expanded markedly in recent years, generating a consumer boom and boosting domestic investment, many people still struggle to make a living.",
        "尽管非洲中产阶级在近几年中迅速扩大，形成了一波消费繁荣，也提振了国内投资，但许多人仍在艰难度日。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that Putin’s track record as an untrustworthy partner, and it is clear that, while a better relationship with Russia can benefit Turkey, Erdoğan cannot afford to abandon his country’s ties with the West.",
        "再加上普京作为合作伙伴的过往记录并不值得信赖，不难得出结论尽管改善土俄关系可以惠及土耳其，但埃尔多安放弃与西方国家关系基本是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "One way to prevent traffic accidents is to require everyone to drive a similar car, travel at the same speed, and head in the same direction.",
        "防止交通事故的一种方式是要求所有人都开相似的车，以同样的速度行驶，并去往相同的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign investors now hold more than $5.7 trillion of these low-yielding securities, not to mention large quantities of other dollar assets.",
        "外国投资者目前持有约值5. 7万亿美元的这类低息债券，更别提大量的其他美元资产。"
    ],
    [
        "After the 1929 stock market crash the US government suspended much anti-trust activity, allowing companies to acquire monopoly power that would boost their value.",
        "1929年股市崩溃后，美国政府暂时停止了反托拉斯活动，默许公司拥有能增加市值的垄断能力。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, futures markets predicted prices of $75 or higher; the Saudi and Russian governments needed $100 to balance their budgets; and any price much below $50 was considered unsustainable, because it would put the US shale-oil industry out of business.",
        "毕竟，期货市场预测价格将保持在75美元或以上，沙特和俄罗斯政府需要100美元的价格才能保持预算平衡； 而任何低于50美元的价格都被认为是不可持续的，因为这将让美国页岩油行业破产。"
    ],
    [
        "Flake is one of 100 members of America’s highest legislative body.",
        "弗莱克是美国最高立法机构百名成员中的一份子。"
    ],
    [
        "This hurt older households that have significant interest-bearing assets, while benefiting younger households that are net borrowers.",
        "那些拥有大量存款的成熟家庭成为了受害者，而身为净贷款者的新家庭则得到了实惠。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the many recipes thesis has strong appeal and empirical support, and suggests a spirit of theoretical pluralism, the claim of “one economics” is misguided, for it implies that mainstream neoclassical economics is the only true economics.",
        "尽管多条道路论很有吸引力、在符合实践经验的同时也合乎理论多元化的精神，但是“一个经济学”的提法还是受到了误导，因为它暗示只有新古典主义主流经济学才是真正的经济学。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is almost certain that neither policy, much less both, will be implemented.",
        "但几乎可以确定的是这两个政策都不可能分别得到实施，更别说同时推行了。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the fraction of international reserves held in euros grew from 18% to 24%, and the dollar’s share dropped from 71% to 66%.",
        "与此同时，欧元在国际储备中持有率从18％上升到24％，而美元则从71％下降到66％。"
    ],
    [
        "Implementing this idea also implies embracing a new concept of sovereignty, given the complex interdependence that exists between eurozone countries.",
        "因为欧盟去国家之间复杂的互相依存关系，实施这一构想也意味着接受一个新的主权概念。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the announcement in December that the US is to sell $1.83 billion in weapons to the Ma government is also a clear show of support for Taiwan, which already appeared ready to renounce the Kuomintang.",
        "此外，12月美国宣布向马政府出售价值18. 3亿美元的武器同样明确表示了对台湾的支持，此举似乎已经准备放弃国民党。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the region's ex-communist countries have made considerable progress.",
        "今天，该地区前共产主义国家已经取得了长足的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, with a population of more than 300 million, Arab countries export less to the world, excluding oil and gas, than Finland.",
        "实际上，尽管人口达3亿之众，阿拉伯国家除石油天然气外对世界的出口还比不上一个芬兰。"
    ],
    [
        "If official data in the coming months support this finding, it will represent a significant positive development indeed.",
        "如果未来几个月的正式数据支持这一现象，那么确实是一个重大的积极趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "The Saudis can afford to be more mature, and less suspicious than they have been.",
        "沙特完全可以表现得更加成熟，避免像过去那样疑心很重。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting vulnerability was highlighted by the Russian reduction of gas supplies to Ukraine in January, which resulted in reduced flows to central and western Europe.",
        "由此带来的脆弱性集中体现在今年一月俄罗斯削减对乌克兰的天然气供应事件上。 它使得输往中欧和西欧的天然气也有所减少。"
    ],
    [
        "And there is evidence that they got advanced countries to pay more attention to poor nations.",
        "有证据表明，它们还使发达国家更加关注穷国。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s growth rate may be lower than 7% this year, but I do not believe that it will end up very far from the government’s target of “about 7%.”",
        "今年中国的增长率也许会低于7%，但我不相信会比政府“7%左右”的目标低很多。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The Ebola crisis reminds us, once again, of the downside of globalization.",
        "纽约—埃博拉危机再次提醒我们全球化的弊端。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear of terrorism is only one segment of what might best be described as a multi-level structure of dread.",
        "对恐怖主义的恐惧只是可以用多层次恐慌结构来予以最佳概括的东西的一个方面。"
    ],
    [
        "First, there is the counterfactual case: How would Japan’s economy have performed in the absence of fiscal stimulus?",
        "首先是违反事实：如果没有财政刺激，日本经济表现将如何？"
    ],
    [
        "Traditionally, nearly half of India’s trade deficit has been financed by remittances from Indian expatriates.",
        "长期以来，近一半的印度贸易逆差都由印度侨民的汇款来补足。"
    ],
    [
        "And there are plenty of untapped opportunities for technological catch-up in, say, health, education, and financial services.",
        "而在（比如）医疗、教育和金融服务方面，有大量技术赶超机会等待新兴市场去把握。"
    ],
    [
        "One option, surprisingly, could be to promote widespread adoption of hacking itself.",
        "意外的是，一个选择是推进黑客行为本身的广泛使用。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1993, the last year before NAFTA came into effect, Mexican manufacturing value added was equivalent to just 7.7% of US manufacturing.",
        "1993年，即NAFTA生效的前一年，墨西哥制造业增加值只相当于美国制造业的7. 7%。"
    ],
    [
        "For Palestinians, this is likely to be Abbas’s last chance.",
        "在巴勒斯坦方面，这是阿巴斯的最后一次机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In Kyoto, leaders committed to a cut of 5.2% below 1990 levels by 2010.",
        "在京都会议上，各国领导人承诺到2010年把碳排放量削减到比1990年水平还低5."
    ],
    [
        "This may not be a coincidence.",
        "这可能不是一个巧合。"
    ],
    [
        "If not, markets might have to deteriorate further to make possible a comprehensive resolution to the eurozone crisis.",
        "如果答案是否定的话，那么市场将进一步恶化以促成一个欧元区危机综合性解决方案的出台。"
    ],
    [
        "Recommended allocations of individuals’ total financial wealth are something like 60% equities, 30% bonds, and 10% cash, depending mainly on the saver’s degree of risk aversion and need for liquid assets.",
        "对个人总财产的推荐分配比例是60％的股票，30％的债券和10％的现金，主要取决于储户的风险延误程度以及对流动资产的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany will have to deal with the consequences of this refugee wave for years to come.",
        "在未来数年中，德国都必须应对这一难民潮的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese know that Park values her relationship with the United States, but they also understand that she, like most mature South Korean leaders, desires a solid relationship with China as well – one based (unlike in centuries past) on mutual respect.",
        "中国人知道朴槿惠重视韩美关系，但也清楚她和多数成熟韩国领导人一样希望在相互尊重基础（和过去几个世纪不同）上拥有坚实的对华关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But it isn’t as simple as that, because a continuation of the conflict (which is what “forgetting about it” would boil down to) would not only prolong what is a tragedy for both Palestinians and Israelis, but would also be too dangerous for the region.",
        "但事情却没有那么简单，因为冲突的持续（也是“视而不见”的必然结果）不仅会延长巴以双方的悲剧，也会给整个地区带来危险的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the trend toward green energy can be seen in China’s investment patterns.",
        "最后，中国的投资模式可以明确反映出绿色能源趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, it needs the message of reconciliation sent to Islam that Turkey’s entrance into the Union would represent.",
        "最重要的是，它需要把和解的信息发送到伊斯兰世界中，而土耳其加入欧盟将代表了这个信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, information is integrated with emotion – and with suspicion, sometimes bordering on paranoia, about the underlying motives of the leadership classes.",
        "今天，信息与情感和有时近乎于偏执的怀疑纠缠在一起，进而质疑领导阶级的根本动机究竟是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "For many women, the challenge is abandoning the assumption that their work/family balance will have to tip in favor of family, that it is they who will have to sacrifice their careers.",
        "对许多女性而言，挑战在于放弃其工作/家庭平衡必须向家庭倾斜的假设，也就是她们必须牺牲自己的事业来成全家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "From that standpoint, the deepening of chaos in the Middle East poses both opportunities and risks for Russia and China, which may force them to define the roles they want to play and the images they want to project in the world.",
        "从这一观点来看，中东混乱加剧给中俄两国带来了机遇和风险。 这些机遇和风险有可能迫使两国确定它们想要在世界上扮演的角色和展示的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "Investing in a sustainable economy would dramatically boost our wellbeing and use our “excess” savings for just the right purposes.",
        "投资于可持续经济将极大地改善我们的福祉，有利于利用我们的“过度”储蓄为正确的目标服务。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea was an over-simplified reflection of global realities.",
        "但当时这种想法其实是把全球的现实情况过度简单化了。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, current funding models stifle product-specific innovation and investment, and all but freeze out SMEs.",
        "显而易见，目前的融资模式扼杀了产品创新和投资，几乎完全冻结了中小企业。"
    ],
    [
        "But Latin America should also be on its guard. While China may be a ravenous importer of Latin American commodities, it is also a formidable competitor.",
        "但是拉美国家也不能掉以轻心，要知道，虽然中国对拉美出口商品需求巨大，但其本身也是个可怕的竞争对手。"
    ],
    [
        "At Merkel’s behest and with the complicity of the ECB, which waited until July 2012 to quell a bond-market panic sparked by eurozone policymakers’ mistakes, the Commission also imposed eurozone-wide austerity, causing a cumulative loss of nearly 10% of GDP in 2011-13, according to the Commission’s own economic model.",
        "面对默克尔的要求和欧洲央行的顺从（欧洲央行直到2012年7月才出手平抑由欧元区决策者错误导致的债券市场恐慌），欧盟委员会也在全欧元区推出了紧缩政策，导致2011—2013年接近GDP的10%的总损失（据欧盟委员会自己的经济模型数据）。"
    ],
    [
        "This is three times the amount original projected by the Bush administration.",
        "这是布什政府原本计划数量的三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "What we know is that Putin has decided to come to the aid of Bashar al-Assad’s embattled regime.",
        "我们知道，普京决定出手助身陷重围的巴沙尔·阿萨德政权一臂之力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Western Christian tradition portrays all sexuality, even married sexuality, as sinful.",
        "西方的基督教传统把所有的性，甚至是婚姻内的性，都视为罪恶。"
    ],
    [
        "It is similarly important to understand the evolution of US legislation on immigration since the 1920’s, and the shifts and hypocrisy involved in the application of those laws.",
        "同样重要的是理解自二十世纪二十年代以来美国移民立法上的变迁以及在执行这些法律上的变化和伪善。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain has become – and is widely perceived to be – a less dependable and less capable ally, and reality and perception would intensify if the UK were to take a step that would marginalize its role on the continent.",
        "英国已经变成——并且被广泛认为是——一个不再那么可靠、不再那么有能力的盟友，而如果英国采取让其在欧洲的角色边缘化的举动，将进一步加剧现实和感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "After its success on the national stage in the 2010 midterm congressional election, many Republican lawmakers became so concerned about securing their party’s “base” for future re-election bids that they no longer felt comfortable pursuing the type of bipartisan cooperation that underpin effective economic policymaking.",
        "2010年，茶党在国会中期选举中取得成功，此后，许多共和党立法者开始担心确保本党在未来连任的“基础”问题，而不再满足于追求作为有效经济决策基础的跨党派合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyday it is consulted by 7% of all 1.2 billion Internet users, and its rate of usage is growing faster than that of Internet usage as a whole.",
        "每天，12亿互联网用户的7%要查阅这一网站，其使用率的增长要快于整体互联网的使用。"
    ],
    [
        "But pushing the “re-set button” on US-Russia relations may be harder than Obama and his team imagined.",
        "但对奥巴马和他的团队来说，启动全新美俄关系的“重设按钮”可比他们想象中要更难触动。"
    ],
    [
        "The older summits (the G-7 or, with the addition of Russia, the G-8), as well as the G-7 finance ministers’ meetings, were no longer legitimate.",
        "原有的峰会（G-7或者加上俄罗斯的G-8），还有G-7财长会议，都已经失去了合法地位。 它们当中包含了实际造成问题的国家；"
    ],
    [
        "And, though many government programs deliver good value for money – Medicare is a good example – far too many do not.",
        "而尽管不少政府项目物有所值——联邦医疗保险（Medicare）就是一个很好的例子——但不划算的项目数量更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither is politically easy; but neither should be impossible.",
        "这两个条件在政治上都不容易实现，但也不是不可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Banking union, Europe’s leaders agreed, means creating a single supervisory authority.",
        "欧洲领导人达成一致的银行联盟意味着创立一个单一的监管权力机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on the NDRC’s figures, 2008 capacity utilization rates were just 76% for steel, 75% for cement, 73% for aluminum, 88% for flat glass, 40% for methanol, and 20% for poly-crystalline silicon (a key raw material for solar cells). The current project pipeline also implies less than 50% utilization for wind-power equipment manufacturers in 2010.",
        "根据发改委公布的数据显示，在 2008 年钢铁行业的产能利用率只有 76% ，水泥 75% ，铝 73% ，平板玻璃 88% ，甲醇 40% ，多晶硅（一种生产太阳能电池板的关键原料）的利用率更只有 20% ，而目前的项目规划则暗示明年中国的风能发电企业将有超过 50% 的产能闲置不用。"
    ],
    [
        "Because they are.",
        "因为就是这么复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Technological breakthroughs such as antibiotics and cars responded to a compelling need felt by a huge number of consumers.",
        "来自海量消费者的迫切需求自然而然地推动了抗生素和汽车领域的技术突破。"
    ],
    [
        "Special interests would not be peddling such dubious pabulum if they felt confident about the economy’s future.",
        "特殊利益群体如果对经济的未来充满信心是不会发表这种可疑的言论的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Romania, the extremist poet Corneliu Vadim Tudor lost to a succession of corrupt pragmatists, beginning with Ion Iliescu, who had led the ouster of the country’s last communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu.",
        "罗马尼亚极端主义诗人科尔内留·瓦迪姆·图多尔输给了一系列腐败的实用主义份子，上述实用分子中的第一个是领导推翻该国最后一名共产党领导人齐奥塞斯库的伊利埃斯库。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian corporations’ foreign investments have already generated a heated debate in both the United States and Europe – even when investment was done by a private company.",
        "俄罗斯公司的海外投资已经在美国和欧洲引起了激烈的争论——即使投资是由私营公司进行的。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, most countries are cutting public expenditures – with the IMF’s support.",
        "事实上，大部分国家在削减公共支出——在IMF的支持下。"
    ],
    [
        "Uber depends on the previous diffusion of cell phones, cars, and credit cards.",
        "优步取决于此前手机、汽车和信用卡技术的传播效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Businesses, too, have been quick to adopt new practices.",
        "企业也在迅速采纳新的规范。"
    ],
    [
        "Media Capture in the Digital Age",
        "数字时代的媒体捕获"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, reform means change.",
        "当然，改革意味着变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But what really matters is whether, after the summit, China takes concrete actions that reflect a genuine shift from the policies that have fueled the deterioration in bilateral ties.",
        "但真正重要的是峰会之后中国是否拿出实际行动证明其真正开始远离那些加剧双边关系恶化的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "This cannot be achieved without bridging ideological divisions and overcoming political pressures from particular economic groups.",
        "这只有在弥合思想分歧、克服特殊经济集团政治压力的情况下才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Were attitudes in the two countries really different?",
        "那么这两个国家的人民对此的态度是否真的有什么不同？"
    ],
    [
        "Market participants are watching the Fed to judge if and when the process of interest-rate normalization will begin.",
        "市场参与者正在通过观察美联储判断利率正常化过程是否以及何时开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, by encouraging better policy coordination and the pooling of financial resources, the Bretton Woods institutions boosted the effectiveness of international cooperation.",
        "此外，通过鼓励更好的政策协作、集中金融资源，布雷顿森林机构增进了国际合作的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, cooperatives have sometimes struggled to live up to the ideal.",
        "当然，合作社有时候不能达到其理想状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Training police forces to secure law and order without resorting to bloodshed is no less important than elections.",
        "在不诉诸流血的情况下训练警察部队维护法律和秩序其重要性丝毫不在选举之下。"
    ],
    [
        "If free and fair elections were to be held in any Arab country, Islamists would come to power. That was the case in Algeria in 1991-92, in Iraq in 2005, and in the West Bank and Gaza in 2006.",
        "因为一旦有任何阿拉伯国家举行了自由和公平选举的话，极端主义者都会接掌政权，正如1991~1992年的阿尔及利亚，2005年的伊拉克，以及2006年的约旦河西岸和加沙地区。"
    ],
    [
        "How, you might ask, can I say this?",
        "你也许会问，我为什么这样说？"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, it has shown that it can close secret bank accounts, but has chosen to do so only for terrorists.",
        "从那时以来表明，它可以关闭秘密银行帐户，但是却只是限于恐怖分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Achieving economies of scale and lessening environmental impacts simply are not priorities.",
        "至于有没有规模经济效益，能不能减少对环境的影响这些问题，根本就不在优先考虑之列。"
    ],
    [
        "But in India, where prohibition is popular among many segments of the electorate, politicians find it particularly difficult to resist the self-righteous urge to improve their fellow citizens.",
        "但在印度，禁令在许多选民细分群体中稀松平常，政客要抵制道貌岸然地敦促改善同胞境况的做法是十分困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher interest rates, slower growth, and a weaker primary budget position all raise the debt-ratio trajectory.",
        "更高的利率，更低速的增长和更脆弱的基本预算状况都会使得债务比率的曲线不断上升。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – In less than two years, France has carried out three decisive foreign military interventions.",
        "巴黎—在不到两年的时间里，法国做出了三次果断的出兵干预决策。"
    ],
    [
        "And whose banks are these?",
        "人们不禁要问，这些银行是谁的银行？"
    ],
    [
        "They will also place less pressure on the biosphere.",
        "这些国家将减少对生物圈的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, policymakers across the Americas are tiptoeing towards the obvious.",
        "现在，美洲各国的决策者正悄悄向显而易见的解决方案靠拢。"
    ],
    [
        "I say ‘she’ because the majority of small-scale farmers in Africa are women.”",
        "也无法贷款，而我之所以用‘她’这个词，就是因为这些小农业生产者大多都是女性。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has repeatedly disdained negotiation as a sign of weakness and appeasement.",
        "美国总是看不上谈判，认为这是示弱和绥靖。"
    ],
    [
        "And the euro has revalued even more against the yen and a number of emerging-market currencies.",
        "而欧元对日元和许多新兴市场货币的升值幅度更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless they are defused in time, financial shocks may derail the economy from its normal growth path.",
        "除非这些缺陷被及时处理，否则金融冲击有可能会使经济偏离正常的轨道。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s political foes generally attack him for having taken too little action, not too much.",
        "总体而言，奥巴马的政敌抨击他没有采取什么行动，而不是采取了过多的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "More debt relief – encompassing more countries and more debt (including bilateral debt) – is needed.",
        "更大力度的债务免除-纳入更多的国家和更多的债务（包括双边债务）--是有必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu, however, has imbued the Israeli state’s existence with all of the Jewish people’s past anxieties, pains, and struggles.",
        "但内塔尼亚胡将所有犹太民族过去的焦虑、痛苦和挣扎注入了以色列国的存在中。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1970, a quarter of all pensioners lived in poverty; today, the figure is only 4%.",
        "1970年，四分之一的养老金领取者生活贫困，而今天，养老金领取人口的贫困比率却只有4%。"
    ],
    [
        "But internal devaluation requires debt restructuring.",
        "但内部贬值必然要求债务重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Lower-income countries account for only half of all vehicles on the road but suffer more than 90% of the fatalities.",
        "低收入国家拥有全世界的一半汽车，但却占据了致死交通事故的90%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Even a visit to a bookstore can shock anyone who first came to know China decades ago, when it seemed inconceivable that works by non-Marxist theorists would ever outnumber those by Marxists.",
        "甚至去一下书店就足以让在几十年前了解中国的人震惊。 那时，非马列主义理论的著作会超过马列主义者是不可想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "When it is safe to return home, those who have not obtained permanent residency or citizenship should do so.",
        "如果回国已经安全，那些尚未获得永久居留权或公民权的人就应该回国。"
    ],
    [
        "Many voters – not just in America – also fret over terrorism and immigration, especially in combination with these rapid changes.",
        "许多选民——不仅仅是在美国——也对恐怖主义和移民感到恐惧，尤其是与这类快速变革结合在一起的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama, for his part, recently recorded a series of video endorsements for Democrats running for the Senate, the House, and state legislatures.",
        "奥巴马最近发表了一系列视频讲话支持民主党竞争参议院、众议院和州立法部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Papal authority stands on shaky ground, especially in the comparatively secular West.",
        "教皇权威岌岌可危，特别在相对世俗的西方。"
    ],
    [
        "A Safer Path to Asylum",
        "安全的庇护之路"
    ],
    [
        "That said, US opposition to the AIIB is harder to fathom, given that infrastructure policy is much less subject to the influence of ideology and special interests than other policymaking areas, such as those dominated by the US at the World Bank.",
        "即便如此，由于基础设施政策相对于其他政策领域（正如美国在世界银行所主导的那些）更难受制于意识形态和特殊利益的影响，美国对亚投行的反对就显得更加难人寻味。"
    ],
    [
        "We are in the middle of a social and demographic shift that will both destroy and create consumer markets.",
        "我们正处于一个同时会破坏和创造消费者市场的社会和人口结构变革。"
    ],
    [
        "A return of the price-earnings ratio to its historic average would cause share prices to decline by 40%, implying a loss of more than $9 trillion, an amount equal to nearly half of total GDP.",
        "回归市盈率历史均值将意味着股价下跌40%，合9万亿美元损失，相当于总GDP的近一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Divestment is indeed one answer, for several reasons.",
        "取消投资确实是一个答案，原因是多样的。"
    ],
    [
        "Experts in various fields – including economics, sociology, psychology, and the natural sciences – must work together to develop an integrated suite of indicators that provides a comprehensive picture of humanity’s productive base, on which people’s ability to pursue their interpretation of success depends.",
        "各个领域的专家——包括经济学、社会学、心理学和自然科学——必须合作开发一系列指标，全面勾勒人类生产基础图景，作为人们解释成功的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "But government by slogan, whether in China or in other autocracies, seldom achieves its declared goals.",
        "但空喊口号的政府，无论是在中国还是在其它独裁国家，很少能达到其宣称的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, they have often been more useful in proving the law of unintended consequences.",
        "事实上，制裁一直能很好地证明非预期后果法则。"
    ],
    [
        "This may bode ill for traditional politicians of the right who have been waiting two decades for a chance in office.",
        "对于传统的右翼政治人士来讲这可能不是个好消息，为了拥有执政机会他们已经苦苦等待了二十年之久。"
    ],
    [
        "Rotary took on the challenge of getting vaccines to the poor, in regions with weak or non-existent public health systems.",
        "扶轮社接受挑战，向公共健康系统比较薄弱或根本不存在的地区的贫困人口提供疫苗。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why it is so important to start planning for the SDGs now.",
        "正因如此，从现在开始为SDG做好规划至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In Poland, a big gap exists between the government’s attitude and that of the population regarding the EU.",
        "在波兰，政府与公众在欧盟问题的看法上存在巨大的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "On its own, the free market will not develop new sources of energy fast enough.",
        "自由市场本身无法以足够快的速度开发新的能源资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Eight years of 7% average annual GDP growth during Putin’s previous presidency (2000-2008) allowed Russia to repay its debts, accumulate almost $600 billion in foreign-currency reserves, and join the leading emerging economies.",
        "欧洲深陷主权债务危机，美国的领导人正在争论如何遏制赤字，与欧洲和美国不同，俄罗斯看起来好像是一个稳定而具有连续性的美好国度。"
    ],
    [
        "An end to the US expansion, now in its ninth year, could pull down demand in Europe.",
        "美国扩张的结束——目前这一扩张期已经持续到第九年——可能拖累欧洲的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Andrew Carnegie, the richest man of Veblen’s era, was blunt in his moral judgments.",
        "凡勃伦时代最富有的人——安德鲁·卡耐基的道德判断相当直率。"
    ],
    [
        "Government measures like family leave and more nurseries for working mothers can help, but traditional attitudes change slowly.",
        "为就业母亲设置家庭假和增加托儿所等政府措施可能有所助益，但传统观念的改变是非常缓慢的。"
    ],
    [
        "These proportions will rise even higher as emerging-market countries urbanize rapidly.",
        "随着新兴市场国家的快速城市化，这一数字将继续攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond attracting millions of Muslim workers from South Asia, Saudi Arabia financed the establishment of Wahabbi madrassas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.",
        "除去吸引南亚成百上千万穆斯林工人，沙特还在阿富汗巴基斯坦边境出资设立瓦哈比宗教学校。"
    ],
    [
        "Improving access to vaccines is crucial to addressing this global inequity and reducing the widening gap between rich and poor.",
        "改善疫苗普及是纠正这一全球不平等并拉近越来越大的贫富差距的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Chu emphasized this point in his Tsinghua University speech, calling the global climate situation “very disturbing,” and stressing that we were “all in it together.”",
        "朱在清华的演讲中指出，目前的全球气候问题“非常严峻”，并强调说，我们必须联合起来。"
    ],
    [
        "But that does not mean that China is in the clear. On the contrary, the success of the structural rebalancing that China needs to ensure sustainable long-term growth is far from certain.",
        "但这并不意味着中国经济已经安全着陆，确保可持续长期增长所需要的结构再平衡能否成功还远未确定。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are to prevent the UK from rattling to pieces, we have to change the way we govern ourselves.",
        "如果我们想防止英国分崩离析，就必须改变我们管理我们自己的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Pruitt’s selection was announced soon after Trump’s transition team delivered a questionnaire to employees of the Department of Energy, asking whether they had attended meetings where climate change was discussed.",
        "普利特的提名在特朗普过渡团队对能源部雇员进行了问卷调查后很快就公布了。 问卷调查的内容是他们是否出席过讨论气候变化的会议。"
    ],
    [
        "What is left now, after Cameron, is a mess.",
        "卡梅伦身后留下的是一地狼藉。"
    ],
    [
        "ASEAN has also contributed to building one of the most dynamic economic-integration platforms in the world, and now acts as a de facto regional hub of wider economic cooperation and integration.",
        "同时，东盟也为打造世界上最具活力的经济整合平台做出了突出贡献，并在现实中扮演着更广泛经济合作和一体化区域枢纽的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "In October, an extraordinary “superstorm” smashed into the Atlantic coastline around New Jersey, causing losses of around $60 billion.",
        "10月，一场史无前例的“超级风暴”袭击了新泽西州大西洋沿岸，造成约600亿美元的财产损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community is putting great store in the Fund’s judgment and performance.",
        "国际社团已做好充分的准备等待着货币基金组织的决定与表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Tracing the precise consequences of policy measures or institutional reforms – and estimating when they might “pay off” – is hopelessly complex.",
        "）追踪政策措施和制度改革的精确结果——以及估算它们何时“划算”——实在太复杂了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Tunisia’s revolution was indigenous, not imported as part of some forcible regime change.",
        "此外，突尼斯革命不是作为强制政权改革的组成部分从国外强行输入，而是这个国家内部土生土长的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "The affected schools’ students, teachers, and alumni are predictably upset.",
        "受此影响，学生、老师和毕业生质量下降几乎毫无疑问。"
    ],
    [
        "Resistance to tractors in the early 1900s took a slightly different form.",
        "20世纪早期抵制拖拉机的运动采取了略微不同的形式。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatively, we can allow growing poverty, fear, and anger to give rise to xenophobia and racism, and thus place at risk the EU’s greatest accomplishments.",
        "要不然的话，我们就将放任贫困、恐惧和愤怒的滋生，培养出排外主义和种族主义，从而让欧盟最伟大的成就陷入危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Complete Genomics and its competitors are about to create huge amounts of data.",
        "Complete Genomics及其竞争者将会创造海量数据。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet some analysts now argue that the US is following in the footsteps of the United Kingdom, the last global hegemon to decline.",
        "但如今一些分析家认为美国正在步上一个衰落的全球霸权——英国的后尘。"
    ],
    [
        "So, yes, Trump just might get his growth number, especially if he finds a way to normalize economic policymaking (which is highly uncertain for a president who seems to prefer tweet storms to patient policy analysis).",
        "因此，特朗普固然可能得到他想要的增长数字，特别是如果他找到办法实现经济决策正常化的话（这对于喜欢推特治国甚于耐心的政策分析的总统而言，充满了不确定性）。"
    ],
    [
        "Arguably, only a political “hawk” like Begin, a man with a keen sense of the dramatic and a political romantic with a beady eye to the judgment of history, could have responded in such a way to Sadat’s initiative.",
        "大概只有一个像贝京这样的政治“鹰派”，一个对戏剧性有着敏锐触觉的人以及非常在意历史评价的政治浪漫主义者，才会以这样一种方式回应萨达特发出的倡议。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that are saving a substantial amount, investing in human capital, and providing a modicum of good governance should resume their previous rapid growth.",
        "大量储蓄、投资人力资本和能够提供些许良好治理的国家应能回到此前的快速增长节奏中。"
    ],
    [
        "What was striking during this European championship was the intimate collegiality between opposing players.",
        "令人印象深刻的是此次欧锦赛上敌对球员间的亲密共事。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time in its history, the very continuance of the European project is at stake.",
        "有史以来第一次，事态的发展直接关系到欧洲计划的生死存亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Their common interest is continuation of the game.",
        "他们的共同利益就在于这个竞赛的延续。"
    ],
    [
        "Jettisoning the trade embargo, a failed policy, makes sense, but it does not require “playing nice” with a dictator.",
        "放弃作为失败政策的贸易政策是明智的，但这并不需要“示好”独裁者。"
    ],
    [
        "The loss of output in Italy since the beginning of the crisis is as great as it was in the 1930’s.",
        "意大利自危机爆发以来所导致的产出损失跟1930年大萧条时相当。"
    ],
    [
        "The longest election campaign in UK history has been strikingly short of focus.",
        "令人震惊的莫过于这场在英国史上选前造势期最为漫长的选举竟然不存在任何焦点议题。"
    ],
    [
        "Interest income from these funds is currently disbursed through the M-Pesa Foundation.",
        "这些基金的利息收入目前通过M-Pesa基金会支付。"
    ],
    [
        "The US military’s impressive work in providing humanitarian relief after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 helped restore America’s attractiveness, and enhanced its soft power.",
        "2004年印度洋海啸后美军提供人道主义救援令人印象深刻，帮助了美国的吸引力并提升了它的柔性力量。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, however, there has been a widespread misperception that somehow “Europe” protects small depositors.",
        "然而，在现实中已经广泛流传着一个误解，即“欧洲”以某种方式保护着小储户。"
    ],
    [
        "Cow slaughter and beef consumption are fully legal in just five of India’s 29 states, mainly in the south and northeast.",
        "屠宰和食用牛肉仅仅在印度29个州中的五个是完全合法的，而这些邦主要位于在南部和东北部。"
    ],
    [
        "Medical-training programs in developing countries should also be considering how they can better direct future doctors toward meeting domestic needs.",
        "发展中国家的医学训练项目也应该考虑如何更好地引导未来医生满足国内需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent events point once again to the importance of good governance and responsive political systems, a familiar topic in studies of long-term economic growth.",
        "最近的事件再一次显示出了良好治理和灵活反应政治体制的重要性，这也是研究长期经济增长中的一个常见议题。"
    ],
    [
        "The “troika” institutions (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) have, over the years, relied on a process of backward induction: They set a date (say, the year 2020) and a target for the ratio of nominal debt to national income (say, 120%) that must be achieved before money markets are deemed ready to lend to Greece at reasonable rates.",
        "多年来，“三驾马车”机构（欧盟委员会、欧洲央行和国际货币基金组织）都依赖逆向归纳过程：它们制定一个日期（如2020年）和一个名义债务占国民收入比例的目标（如120%），在认为货币市场已经做好以合理利率向希腊贷款的准备之前必须实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Congress would still need to ratify the measure before the US’s own quota increased, but its approval would not be required for this part of the reform package to take effect for other countries.",
        "国会仍需要在美国自身的配额增加前批准该措施，但其批准对于改革的该部分在其他国家生效并非必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, America’s economic model has not been working for most Americans.",
        "毕竟，美国经济模式对大部分美国人也不灵光。"
    ],
    [
        "There is clearly a risk that consumers may react more sharply to rate increases when they eventually occur.",
        "当升息真的发生时，消费者反应过激的危险显然是存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "A country torn by sectarian violence beginning in 1975, Lebanon pitted an even more complex array of contestants against each other than Iraq does today.",
        "1975年开始的派别之争撕裂了黎巴嫩，这个国家陷入比今日的伊拉克更复杂的派别敌对之中。 ，"
    ],
    [
        "My experience in the health sector has led me to conclude that two important factors will prove crucial in addressing the challenges posed by NCDs.",
        "我在卫生界的经验让我觉得，两个重要因素是克服NCD带来的挑战的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "The subsequent Progressive Era was followed by a temporary return to plutocracy in the 1920’s.",
        "随后的进步时代引来的是20世纪20年代富豪统治的暂时复辟。"
    ],
    [
        "They would have understood that the calculations provided were at complete odds with reality, and they would have considered what to do about it.",
        "他们将会明白提供的计算结果与实际大相径庭，所以他们将会考虑采取措施应对。"
    ],
    [
        "The engineering behind it was technically complicated, but what you got was pretty rough: a page of text, broken up by ten blue links.",
        "背后的操作机制在技术上非常复杂，但由此得出的结果却相当直接：那就是一页文字，其中包含10个蓝色的链接。"
    ],
    [
        "Examples include the auctioning of emissions allowances, carbon taxes, and the pricing of emissions from international transport.",
        "措施内容包括拍卖排放配额，征收碳税以及针对国际运输的碳排放费。"
    ],
    [
        "For a democratic leader, negotiating peace is – perversely – riskier than waging war.",
        "对民主领袖而言，和平谈判所涉及的风险往往不可思议地大于发动战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Closing the Middle East’s Education Deficit",
        "填补中东的教育赤字"
    ],
    [
        "US President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, led by Jason Furman, has attempted to tally the extent of the increase in market concentration and some of its implications.",
        "贾森·福尔曼（Jason Furman）领导的美国奥巴马总统经济顾问委员会（CEA）试图厘清市场集中度的上升情况及其所造成的一些后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Power of China’s Powerless",
        "中国无权者的权力"
    ],
    [
        "There are numerous routes to bezzle and febezzle.",
        "可谓条条大路通占款和等价占款。"
    ],
    [
        "From the two billion adults who carry too much weight to the 159 million children with stunted growth, malnutrition takes many forms.",
        "从超重的20亿成年人，到发育不良的1. 59亿儿童，营养不良有各种形式。"
    ],
    [
        "If the government falls down on the job, John Maynard Keynes wrote 76 years ago, and “demand is deficient…the individual enterpriser...is operating with the odds loaded against him.",
        "76年前，约翰·凯恩斯（John Maynard Keynes）写到，如果政府无法履行这一职责，同时“需求不足……每个企业主……都在相当不利的情况下经营。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when America desperately needs insight and ideas, Greenspan gives us only partisan bludgeons.",
        "美国迫切需要洞见和思想，而格林斯潘给我们的只是跨党派大棒。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s Medieval Dreams",
        "恐怖的伊凡为什么在俄罗斯复活？"
    ],
    [
        "Recent success in countries such as Ethiopia and Rwanda in expanding access to impregnated bed nets and slashing malaria rates is building confidence that the disease can be dramatically reduced around the world and, in some areas, eliminated entirely.",
        "最近，在诸如埃塞俄比亚和卢旺达这样的国家扩大药浸蚊帐的使用和减少疟疾患病率上的成功，使人们建立了疟疾可以在全世界范围内大规模减少并在一些地区彻底被消灭的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia, for example, is raising taxes, cutting domestic subsidies, and shifting its foreign-aid paradigm away from grants and toward investments.",
        "如沙特阿拉伯正在提高税收、削减国内补贴，并将对外援助模式从赠款向投资过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "These negotiations, in which the US is seeking the creation of ceasefire zones to facilitate its forces’ withdrawal, can only undercut the legitimacy of the Karzai government and bring the Quetta Shura back to center stage.",
        "美国想通过这些谈判创造停火区，促进其部队撤离，但是这些谈判只会削弱卡尔扎伊政府的合法性，让塔利班的领导委员会回到中心位置。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bailout Bias",
        "援助偏见"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, some will claim that the world will never change and that we will continue to depend on fossil fuels forever.",
        "诚然，会有人说世界永远不会变，我们将永远依赖化石燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "From its own experiences in the twentieth century, Europe knows what catastrophes can result when concessions are made to evil.",
        "从其二十世纪的自身经历出发，欧洲知道向邪恶妥协可能引发的灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "China has witnessed rapid growth in the processing trade: assembling intermediate inputs – imported from countries like the US and Japan – that have high capital and skill content.",
        "中国经历了加工贸易的飞速发展：组装从美日等国进口的中间零件，这里所说的中间零件本身具有较高的资金及技术含量。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, while a fully floating currency would create a beneficial combination of discipline and flexibility, it might best be delayed in favor of an adjustable (“crawling”) peg to some anchor currencies.",
        "比如，尽管完全浮动的货币能带来纪律和灵活的好处，但极有可能最好的做法还是推迟完全浮动，代之以可调整（“爬行”）盯住锚货币。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, Japan, South Korea, and China have manipulated their currencies to keep them undervalued.",
        "近几年来，日本、韩国和中国操纵各自货币，使其低估。"
    ],
    [
        "Scholars can become so trapped in their methods – in the language and assumptions of the accepted approach to their discipline – that their research becomes repetitive or trivial.",
        "学者们将陷于现有方法——即该学科中已被接受的语言和假设——无法自拔，他们的研究也将陷入循环和琐碎的无用功。"
    ],
    [
        "Irresponsible risk-taking and excessive greed outpaced prudential regulation and supervision.",
        "不负责任的冒险和过度贪婪压倒了审慎监管和监督。"
    ],
    [
        "Opinions differ as to the reasons for France’s rejection of the Constitutional Treaty.",
        "对于法国拒绝《宪法条约》的原因也是众说纷纭。"
    ],
    [
        "With appropriate policies and structural reforms, the emerging economies can recapture their dynamism and move onto an even stronger growth path – taking the entire global economy with them.",
        "如果能有合适的政策和结构改革，新兴经济体能够重新焕发活力，走上更加强大的增长道路——并带动整个全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Flexibility and responsiveness will enable such firms to thrive.",
        "灵活性和响应能力将使这些公司能够茁壮成长。"
    ],
    [
        "But they held on.",
        "但他们坚持住了。"
    ],
    [
        "Children born into low- and high-income families are born with similar abilities.",
        "出生在低收入和高收入家庭的儿童其实有着同样的天赋，但却占据着不同的教育机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Dousing a naked detainee with water was to last 20 minutes if the water’s temperature measured 5 °C, 40 minutes at 10 °C, and up to 60 minutes at 15 °C. Sleep deprivation could not exceed 180 hours, but could start over again after eight hours rest.",
        "将赤裸的囚犯浸在水中，水温为5 C时可浸20分钟，10°C时可浸40分钟，15°C时最长可浸60分钟。 剥夺睡眠的时间不能超过180小时，但是在休息8小时后可以再来。"
    ],
    [
        "Learning Globalization From Football",
        "从足球中领略全球化"
    ],
    [
        "Personal retirement savings, another pillar of the US retirement system, are woefully inadequate for most households, partly because the decades-long stagnation in median wages has made it difficult to save.",
        "美国退休制度的另一大支柱——个人退休储蓄对大部分家庭来说是远远不够的，这部分是因为中位收入已有数十年停滞不前，导致储蓄变得困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Politically, Trump stands to gain much more by leading the way toward a new multilateral free-trade agreement than he would by pursuing isolationism and allowing China to assume trade leadership in Asia.",
        "在政治上，领导达成新多边自由贸易协定，要比寻求孤立主义、放任中国成为亚洲贸易领导者可以给特朗普带来更多的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Theirs is a movement of political reform – demanding more freedom and government accountability – not of social protest, at least not yet.",
        "他们掀起一场政治改革运动——要求扩大自由和政府责任——这项运动与社会抗议活动无关，至少现在依然没有关系。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a grim recognition that Russia faces the opposite problem: a rapid decline in population that threatens every aspect of Russian life.",
        "但是，我却认识到一个残酷的事实，即俄罗斯正面对着截然相反的问题：人口的剧减已经威胁到俄罗斯人生活的每一个层面。"
    ],
    [
        "By offering generous economic incentives to its Southeast Asian neighbors, it has weakened their will to confront China in a coalition.",
        "通过向东南亚邻国提供慷慨的经济激励，中国削弱了它们联合对抗中国的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain and Europe did the same, throwing lifelines to RBS, HBOS-Lloyds, Fortis, Hypo Real Estate, and others.",
        "这些僵化的企业只得依赖贷款来维持运转，而贷款多来自于日本财阀——比如一些大的银行。"
    ],
    [
        "But all of these questions can be answered.",
        "但所有这些问题都可以回答。"
    ],
    [
        "In Southeast Asia, Hong Kong benefits, first and foremost, from a business culture that is unencumbered by either red tape or corruption.",
        "在东南亚，香港首先受益于不为繁文缛节和腐败所累的企业文化。 成立一家新企业只需两天；"
    ],
    [
        "I’ve thought a lot about it over the past three years, which have been so difficult for the world economy.",
        "随后三年间我对这个问题思考了许多，而对世界经济来说，这又是多么艰难的三年。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a bargain must contain two elements.",
        "这种协议应该包含两个方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Only one fact really mattered: powerful export performance, with both countries maintaining large trade surpluses over several years and through different stages of the economic cycle.",
        "只有一个事实是真正作数的：强劲的出口表现。 两国都保有巨大的贸易盈余，历经多年，并且在都经济周期的不同阶段都未改变。"
    ],
    [
        "The Lebanon War One Year Later",
        "黎巴嫩战争一年回首"
    ],
    [
        "(This behavior is, of course, not unlike that of many other financial assets, such as exchange rates or stock prices, though gold’s price swings may be more extreme.)",
        "（当然这种行为与很多其它金融资产没有什么不同，比如汇率或股票价格，尽管黄金价格波动可能更极端。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, black socioeconomic advancement is central to more rapid and broad-based development.",
        "黑人社会经济的进步无疑是实现更迅速和广泛发展的核心因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently penned an open letter to the Chinese government telling them that, because the top “cause of death of Chinese regimes in history is greed and corruption,” a free press is more likely to help than hurt.",
        "泰晤士报专栏作家托马斯·弗里德曼不久前写了一封公开信致中国政府，指出因为“贪婪腐败是历史上中国政权灭亡的首要原因”，新闻自由更能帮助而不是伤害中国政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Expansionary monetary policy – that is, massive injections of liquidity through so-called quantitative easing – is clearly not enough, either.",
        "扩张性货币政策——即通过所谓的量化宽松注入巨量流动性——显然也是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "As the free market developed, a dual-price system emerged, in which those with access to quota-allocated goods paid less.",
        "其后随着市场机制在中国的引入及发展，催生了价格双轨制，使得那些有能力获得产品配额的人只需支付较低的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, the EU’s role as global climate-policy leader would be weakened, as would its emphasis on building a green economy.",
        "到了这一步，欧盟作为全球气候政策领袖的地位将受到削弱，其对建设绿色经济的强调亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, without major reform in the US entitlement programs – which are exploding in size as a result of rising real benefits per beneficiary and an aging population – the next generation can expect a 20% reduction in living standards.",
        "比如，在不对美国福利项目做重大改革的情况下——由于受益者人均收益额的增加和人口老龄化，其规模将出现爆炸性增长——下一代人的生活水平将下降20%。"
    ],
    [
        "And the shareholders monitor – in essence – the use of resources to deliver that quality (roughly measured as profitability).",
        "而如何使用资源以符合质量要求本质上由股东负责监督（盈利能力可以作为粗略的衡量标准）。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, of course, few people occupy top positions in groups or organizations.",
        "当然在实践中，只有少数人能占据团队或组织的高层。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not easy to do a lot while controlling only one-half of one-third of the federal government.",
        "如果你只能控制联邦政府的一半或三分之一，那么你有很多事情就很难做成。"
    ],
    [
        "They mimic bank accounts by allowing investors to write checks and promise that their investment’s value will not fall.",
        "他们通过允许投资者写支票来模仿银行账户，并承诺后者的投资价值不会下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, during her tenure, the government took the Polish ship of state for such a ride that the keel eventually had to be replaced.",
        "简言之，在她的任期内，政府疯狂驾驶波兰国家之船，以至于最后不得不更换龙骨。"
    ],
    [
        "Money and the Good Life – I was struck by his devotion to thought.",
        "Money and the Good Life）相提并论。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, I would argue that sport has no single “spirit.”",
        "次外，我还想说体育运动没有单一的“精神”。"
    ],
    [
        "So everything is fine and dandy, right?",
        "因此，一切事务都进展地十分顺利，运行良好，不是吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation and Egypt’s Dream have also won large segments of the general Arab public with entertainment programs.",
        "黎巴嫩广播公司以及埃及的梦想也用娱乐节目赢得了大量普通阿拉伯公众。"
    ],
    [
        "And that means that we will have new data to steer decisions about planetary stewardship.",
        "而这意味着人类将有新的数据来引导行星管理工作。"
    ],
    [
        "They, together with wiser European leaders elsewhere, understand that this will require the appropriate forms of solidarity, including a unified foreign policy that can address the problems in Europe’s neighborhood.",
        "他们，以及欧洲各地的明智领导人都知道，这需要合适的凝聚力形式，包括能够解决欧洲周边问题的统一的外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But how long will Harry Potter’s popularity hold?",
        "但《哈利波特》系列的人气能够持续多久？"
    ],
    [
        "Carter had difficulty choosing between the muscular line of his national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the more moderate approach of his secretary of state, Cyrus Vance.",
        "卡特难以在其国家安全顾问布热津斯基的强硬路线和国务卿万斯的温和路线之间做出抉择。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is to be found in the decentralized nature of American politics, which leaves elected officials relatively unbeholden to party leaders.",
        "原因之一是美国政治的分散性，当选官员相比之下无需对党派领袖负责。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1930’s, during and after the Great Depression, a strong feeling that the creditors were illegitimate and unethical bloodsuckers accompanied widespread default.",
        "20世纪30年代大萧条期间及其后一段时间，世人曾有一种强烈的情绪，认为债权人就是一帮非法、败德的吸血鬼，于是当时违约成风。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a study published in the British journal BMC Public Health has found that if the rest of the world had the same average body mass index as the US, this would be the equivalent of adding almost one billion people to the global population, greatly exacerbating water stress.",
        "比如，英国《BMC公共卫生》（BMC Public Health）杂志发表的一项研究发现，如果全世界平均体重指数都向美国看齐，其效果相当于全球人口增加近十亿人，会大大增加水压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth arguments will be advanced to counter strong social and environmental policies: higher gasoline taxes, for example, will kill our nascent auto industry.",
        "随着政府推行强有力的社会和环境政策，与发展有关的争论会进一步升级：比如有人会说，高额的燃油税会扼杀我们新生的汽车工业。"
    ],
    [
        "An unprecedented effort by the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) in the wee hours of December 16 to stabilize the ruble, by hiking the interest rate from 10.5% to 17%, proved useless.",
        "俄罗斯中央银行（CBR）采取了前所未有的行动，将利率从10. 5%升至17%，但这一动作只是将卢布稳定了一小会儿便宣告失败。"
    ],
    [
        "And, making matters worse, the British government’s independent Office of Budget Responsibility has now lowered its expectations for economic growth, owing to persistently weak productivity performance in the UK.",
        "此外，更糟糕的是，英国政府的独立预算责任办公室（Office of Budget Responsibility）因为英国生产率表现持续低迷而调低了经济增长预期。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The rising crescendo of bickering and acrimony within Europe might seem to outsiders to be the inevitable result of the bitter endgame playing out between Greece and its creditors.",
        "纽约—欧洲内部的争吵和讽刺日益升级，对于外部人士来说，这似乎是希腊及其债权人博弈的苦涩终局的必然结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Does this reveal, Duwe asks, just how mentally plagued these perpetrators are?",
        "杜威问，这是否揭示出这些罪犯经历着巨大的精神折磨？"
    ],
    [
        "Through a process of institutional borrowing and creative adaptation, successful economic institutions and cutting-edge technologies spread around the world, and thereby boost global growth.",
        "通过制度上的借鉴和创造性的适应过程，成功的经济制度以及前沿技术得以向全世界扩散，从而促进了全球经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush’s Gambling Debts",
        "布什的赌债"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Korea will actively support the “Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025” and “Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Work Plan,” both of which call for enhancing the connectivity between ASEAN economies and citizens.",
        "因此，韩国将积极支持“2025年东盟联动性总体规划”（Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025）和“东盟一体化（IAI）工作计划方案”（Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Work Plan），两者都要求加强东盟经济体和公民之间的联动性。"
    ],
    [
        "That, together with a high ranking for volunteering time, led it to tie with Myanmar as the most generous nation in the world.",
        "再加上在义务劳动时间上的高分，使美国与缅甸一起成为世界上最慷慨的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The National Audit Office had to mobilize 55,400 staff members to review not only the central government’s accounts, but also those of 31 provinces and autonomous regions, five central municipalities, 391 cities, 2,778 counties, and 33,091 rural communities.",
        "国家审计署需要动员55,400位工作人员审查各级政府的账目，包括中央政府以及31个省和自治区、5个直辖市、391个市、2,778个县、33,091个农村社区。"
    ],
    [
        "The opposition has since boycotted all Constituent Assembly proceedings.",
        "此后，反对派便抵制一切立宪大会议程。"
    ],
    [
        "These developments stood in stark contrast to what was happening in the West.",
        "新兴世界的这一发展趋势与西方国家形成了鲜明对比。"
    ],
    [
        "And time is running out.",
        "而时间也正在耗尽。"
    ],
    [
        "Sustaining the momentum generated by Macron’s election in France and realizing the promise that it holds will require decisive action in the months ahead.",
        "保持马克龙在法国当选总统所启动的趋势并兑现其所作出的承诺需要在未来几个月内果断采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "But uncertainties about value also expose deep problems in the political order.",
        "但是，有关价值的不确定性也暴露了政治秩序深层次的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Last June, the annualized interbank lending rate surged to more than 10% – a level that it almost matched in December.",
        "去年6月，年化银行间拆借利率飙升到10%以上，12月又几乎重演了一次。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing like that is likely to happen in Japan.",
        "这样的情况在日本不太可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "In crossing borders, the sharp portfolio reallocations and the rush to safer assets are creating not only financial but also exchange-rate crises.",
        "投资组合的仓惶转移和对更安全资产的追逐不仅正在新的国家造成危机，还将汇率危机也带过了国界。"
    ],
    [
        "Chirac’s shortening of the presidential term from seven to five years has, paradoxically, resulted in an even greater concentration of presidential power.",
        "讽刺的是，希拉克将总统任期从7年缩短到5年的做法反而令权力更加集中到总统手中。"
    ],
    [
        "If the absence of democracy in the Islamic world was the problem, bringing democracy to the “Greater Middle-East would be the solution, and it was the historical duty of the United States, as the most powerful and moral nation, to bring about that necessary change.",
        "如果伊斯兰世界缺乏民主是问题所在，那么，将民主引入“大中东”就是解决方案； 而且，造成必要的变化正是美国作为最强大、最道德的国家的历史职责。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever since September 11, 2001, the United States has been engaged in a crusade against the forces of evil in the Muslim world.",
        "自从2001年9月11日以后，美国就一直在针对穆斯林社会的邪恶势力进行一场十字军运动。"
    ],
    [
        "China also followed Kindleberger’s financial lessons. For a moment, it looked as if a contagious crisis, driven by fears of government over-indebtedness, would destroy the politically fragile compromise that European countries had carefully constructed over a 50-year period.",
        "中国同时也遵循着金德博格的经济信条：在对政府过度负债的恐惧推动下，一度不断蔓延的危机似乎要摧毁欧洲人苦心经营了50余年的脆弱政治承诺（欧盟）。"
    ],
    [
        "Previous reactions to declines in household wealth indicate that such a fall will cut consumer spending by about $500 billion every year until wealth is restored.",
        "在经济停止下滑之前，美国家庭每年将会减少大约5000亿美元的消费支出。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea’s agreement to give up its military nuclear programme was a huge success for the international community.",
        "北韩同意放弃其核子计划对于国际社会而言是一个巨大的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorist groups can be minimized if their enabling states are contained.",
        "只要遏制住恐怖主义宗主国就能遏制住恐怖主义运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, governments and international organizations should support education policies that have been shown to be effective, encourage research and evaluation of other types of education policies and programs, and back non-education policies and programs that improve the quality of life in developing countries.",
        "政府和国际组织应该做的是支持被显示有效的教育政策，鼓励研究和评估其他类型的教育政策和计划，以及支持提高发展中国家生活质量的非教育政策和计划。"
    ],
    [
        "That will depend on the Obama administration’s other policies, particularly in an area that might seem unrelated: the United States’ ongoing discussions with India over intellectual property.",
        "这取决于奥巴马政府其他政策是否配合，尤其是美印知识产权这一看似无关领域的谈判结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the promise of the new push to European integration in the 1980’s was that it would make borrowing easier.",
        "20世纪80年代兜售欧洲一体化的广告词，有一条就是，一体化以后借债变得更容易。"
    ],
    [
        "After spending the last six decades defending South Korea and Japan, the US has every reason – and plenty of leverage – to demand that its two long-time allies enhance their military cooperation.",
        "过去六十年中，美国一直在保护韩国和日本，它由充分的理由——和手段——要求这两个差昂起盟友加强彼此的军事合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is why it is good to be big – you can get more downside protection from the Federal Reserve or other official sources.",
        "但做大的妙处就在这里——你可以从美联储或其他官方资源哪里得到更多的损失保护。"
    ],
    [
        "But exit they must, because expansionary monetary policies have reached the point at which they may be doing more harm than good.",
        "但它们必须退出，因为扩张性货币政策已经达到了弊大于利的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Malagasies, for example, have been the ones to feel the brunt of the suspension of foreign aid, which dominates Madagascar’s budget.",
        "比如马达加斯加人就亲身感受到暂停作为马达加斯加主要财政来源的外国援助的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "When I spoke with Wyatt last month, he acknowledged that there were practical reasons for not using real apes in his movie. But he also understood the ethical issue.",
        "当我上个月和怀亚特交流的时候，他承认不使用真正的大猩猩是有操作上的因素的。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite big investments and bigger promises, there are physical and practical reasons why it is highly unlikely that our cities will be filled with airborne people movers anytime soon.",
        "尽管拥有巨额投资和远大前景，但我们的城市不太可能在短期内充满空中飞人却有着物理和现实的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2008, the American Society of Clinical Oncology commissioned a report that declared that the partial type of genetic analysis offered by 23andMe had not been clinically proved to be effective in cancer care.",
        "2008年，美国临床肿瘤协会（American Society of Clinical Oncology）发布了一份委员会报告，称23andMe公司所提供的局部类型遗传分析在临床上并不是有效的癌症疗法。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is a utilitarian argument: capital punishment deters many criminals from murder.",
        "其次是实用主义的论调：死刑能够阻止罪犯进行谋杀。"
    ],
    [
        "The typical American worker spends that much every year on coffee.",
        "一名普通美国工人每年花在咖啡上的支出都比这个数字高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor can it withstand the inevitable attacks directed against EU institutions for every action and regulation that citizens dislike and for which national politicians want to avoid responsibility.",
        "上述理念同样无法承受不被民众理解、国内政客也不愿承担责任的规章和行动所招致的对欧盟机构的不可避免的攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the patchwork of national asylum and migration policies makes a cohesive framework impossible to devise.",
        "此外，东拼西凑的国家庇护和移民政策难以建立起连贯的框架结构。"
    ],
    [
        "What can we do to help?",
        "我们能够怎样施以援手？"
    ],
    [
        "SAN JOSE – It has long been said that we know more about the Moon than we do about the oceans.",
        "圣何塞——一直以来，有种说法是我们对海洋的了解还不及月球。"
    ],
    [
        "Some, like the US, can combine structural reforms with short-term demand stimulus.",
        "美国等国可以把短期需求刺激计划和结构性改革结合在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "And no outside mediation is feasible without a minimum of censure or criticism of Maduro’s extremism, even if the opposition takes its lumps, too, for some of its factions’ radical, occasionally subversive stances.",
        "而任何外部调停都会遭到马杜罗极端主义的谴责和抨击，尽管反对派也在忍气吞声，因为反对派的一些派系持有激进的破坏性立场。"
    ],
    [
        "National defense is an obvious example, as are functions for which economies of scale are important.",
        "国防便是很好的例子，有赖于规模经济的其它职能亦是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Third-World Politics",
        "美国式的第三世界政治"
    ],
    [
        "Important decisions should be vetted by the IMFC and others delegated to IMF management.",
        "IMFC和非IMF常任理事国的代表可以对重要的决定有否决权。"
    ],
    [
        "Unilever has committed to the sustainable sourcing of agricultural and forest products.",
        "联合利华承诺使用可持续的农业和森林产品源。"
    ],
    [
        "While the overwhelming majority of citizens are convinced that further armed conflict in the region is unlikely, the public’s mood – with the exception of Kosovars and Albanians – is pessimistic.",
        "报告显示，尽管绝大多数市民相信在本地区内爆发进一步的武装冲突不太可能，但公众的情绪——除科索沃和阿尔巴尼亚以外——却都甚为悲观。"
    ],
    [
        "Can we really afford them all?",
        "我们真的有能力实现所有这些愿望吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Despite having remarkably similar genes at birth, identical twins do not develop the same cancers.",
        "虽然在出生时，同卵双胞胎的基因极其相似，但他们却罹患不同的癌症。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s environmental problems, complex as the causes may be, can ultimately be attributed to our understanding of Marxism.",
        "中国的环境问题根源复杂，最终可以归结于我们对于马克思主义的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "This was an important advance, and thus one that spread quickly.",
        "这是一项伟大的进步，因而以极快的速度得以传播。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be far more acceptable to investors – and the world – than the radical agenda he promised his voters.",
        "但对投资者——以及全世界——来说，这比他向选民所许下的激进日程更加容易接受多了。"
    ],
    [
        "Mahmoud Abbas’s Bad Neighborhood",
        "阿巴斯的恶邻"
    ],
    [
        "To succeed, companies should work to reach consumers’ price points through a combination of product reengineering (such as removing low-value-added features), smaller package sizes, and low-cost operating models.",
        "企业想获得成功，就必须通过将产品业务流程再设计（例如去除低附加值的产品功能），更小的包装尺寸和低成本运营模式三者相结合来触及消费者的心理价位。"
    ],
    [
        "It was this failure that brought Hamas to power.",
        "哈马斯因此上台。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, if there was ever a moment for Congressional approval of the IMF reform package, this was it: the measure would have greatly increased the IMF’s ability to support Ukraine, a key American objective, at a much lower cost than the alternative of a US bilateral credit guarantee.",
        "事实上，如果说国会曾经批准过IMF的改革方案，那么肯定是下面这个时刻：这一措施能极大地增强IMF支持美国的关键目标——乌克兰的能力，并且成本要远远低于美国的双边信用担保。"
    ],
    [
        "Government, it is often said, should not be engaged in picking winners.",
        "人们常说，政府不应该主动去挑选赢家。"
    ],
    [
        "But this approach is practical only in mountainous areas, making it unsuitable as a mass-market solution.",
        "但这种方法只在山区可行，因此作为大规模市场解决方案有些不合适。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, perestroika took place in a void.",
        "因此重组改革需要探索一条全新的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "The most widely accepted view is that he suffers from a narcissistic personality disorder, which is far more serious than simply being a narcissist.",
        "最被人广为接受的观点是他患有自恋型人格障碍，这种障碍比普通自恋要严重的多。"
    ],
    [
        "But this definition, while forthright, leaves a large loophole for legislators.",
        "但这个定义虽然明确，却给立法者留下了一个巨大的后门。"
    ],
    [
        "A week earlier, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported excruciating details of Syria’s humanitarian crisis, including citizens under fire from all sides, sustained government barrel-bomb attacks, and shortages of food and medicine.",
        "一周后，联合国人道主义协调办公室（Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs）报告了叙利亚人道主义危机令人毛骨悚然的细节，包括陷入各方围攻的平民，持续不断的政府桶状炸弹（barrel-bomb）袭击，以及缺少食品和药品。"
    ],
    [
        "Many financial institutions that received government funds have concentrated on their respective home markets and scaled back their activities abroad.",
        "事实上，第三种风险还在于：国家在经济领域更大规模的干预将导致世界偏离全球化的方向，为五花八门的国家保护主义铺平道路。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Rouhani retains the presidency – or another moderate takes his place – there is a chance that such pressure would provide sufficient cover to scale back Iran’s foreign adventurism and reform the domestic economy.",
        "但如果鲁哈尼不下台——或由另一位温和派取代他——那么这些压力有望提供足够的掩护，让伊朗收回外交冒险主义并改革国内经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the risky derivatives – the financial weapons of mass destruction – have been put on exchanges, increasing their transparency and reducing systemic risk; but large volumes continue to be traded in murky over-the-counter markets, which means that we have little knowledge about some of our largest financial institutions’ risk exposure.",
        "一些高风险金融衍生品——金融界的大规模杀伤性武器——被归入交易所，增加了其透明度并减少了系统风险； 但还有大量衍生品依然在场外市场暗中交易，这意味着我们对某些最大型金融机构的风险状况知之甚少。"
    ],
    [
        "“The crisis revealed the resulting risks to US financial stability,” said Fed Governor Daniel Tarullo.",
        "“这场危机揭露了由此产生的美国金融稳定风险，”美联储理事丹尼尔·塔鲁洛（Daniel Tarullo）说到。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on its analysis of Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” as a foreign-backed “NGO revolution,” Russia has also been quietly building its own network of Russia-friendly NGOs in Ukraine since 2004.",
        "俄国分析了乌克兰受到外国“非政府组织革命”支持的“橙色革命”。 它自己也从2004年以来静悄悄地开始在乌克兰建立亲俄的非政府组织网络。"
    ],
    [
        "They have always caused economic distortions and political complaints, but many have endured for surprisingly long periods.",
        "它们总是造成经济扭曲和政治抱怨，但许多失衡令人惊奇地维持了很长时间。"
    ],
    [
        "In the face of so much uncertainty, British voters would ultimately have to make their decision on the basis of pragmatic, not strategic, considerations.",
        "在面临如此多不确定性的情况下，英国选民最终将根据务实而非战略考虑作出决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The government’s universal health-care insurance is very rudimentary, and private health insurance is not widely available.",
        "政府的全民医疗保险非常初级，私人健康保险普及率也比较低。"
    ],
    [
        "People now hear only the reflexively anti-pesticide drumbeat of the environmental movement, the lamentable legacy of the benighted Rachel Carson and her acolytes.",
        "人们现在只能听到环境运动人士反杀虫剂的条件反射式的鼓噪，那是愚昧的Rachel Carson及其门徒的不幸遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "The conditions for serious negotiations in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, however, are anything but good, owing to a lack of partners on both sides.",
        "但由于在巴以双方同样缺乏伙伴，无法用好来形容以巴冲突正式谈判的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "How can voters make intelligent judgments when campaigns are so carefully scripted and slickly promoted?",
        "当竞选者都被精心包装且小心兜售时，选民们又该如何做出明智的选择？"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to offering benefits to those who invest, carry out research, and create jobs, higher taxes on land and real-estate speculation would redirect capital toward productivity-enhancing spending – the key to long-term improvement in living standards.",
        "除了实现谁投资谁获益、推动研究和创造就业岗位，提高土地和不动产投机税还能引导资本流向提高生产率的支出项目——这是生活水平长期改善的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Karachi is sometimes called an “instant city,” having grown 50-fold as a result of several waves of migration since Pakistan gained independence in 1947.",
        "事实上，卡拉奇有时也被称为“瞬间出现的城市”，自1947年巴基斯坦独立后人口因数次移民潮增长五十倍之多。"
    ],
    [
        "But that, too, will be difficult, given the widespread view that the reforms are being imposed on Greece by its creditors.",
        "但这也十分困难，因为人们广泛认为改革是债权人强加给希腊的。"
    ],
    [
        "Not much.",
        "答案怕是不容乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Mending Bangladesh’s Garment Industry",
        "改造孟加拉国的制衣业"
    ],
    [
        "A new paper by Thomas Herndon, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and two of his professors, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin, questioned this finding, and Krugman made their work famous.",
        "麻州大学安姆赫斯特分校一名叫做托马斯·赫恩顿的研究生和他的两位教授迈克尔·阿什和罗伯特·波林发表了一篇论文质疑罗格夫和莱因哈特，而克鲁格曼让后一篇论文名声大噪。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, it is China’s rulers who are now scrambling to resurrect Confucius as a moral anchor in a culture dominated by the pursuit of money.",
        "具有讽刺意味的是，中国的执政者现在正努力重新把儒教树立为盛行拜金主义文化中的道德依靠。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s not a rip-off; that’s arithmetic.”",
        "那不是敲竹杠； 这是算术。"
    ],
    [
        "That is essentially the question British Prime Minister David Cameron posed in his long-awaited speech on immigration from other European Union countries, delivered last month at the headquarters of the construction-equipment manufacturer JCB.",
        "上个月，英国首相卡梅伦在建筑设备生产商JCB总部所做的人们期待已久的关于来自其他欧盟国家移民问题的演讲中实质提出了这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1997 to 2007, the US net investment deficit widened by only $0.3 trillion, while the net investment surpluses of China, Japan, and Germany rose by $1.2 trillion, $1.1 trillion, and $0.8 trillion, respectively.",
        "从1997年到2007年，美国净跨境投资赤字只增加了0. 3万亿美元，而中国、日本和德国的净跨境投资盈余分别增加了1."
    ],
    [
        "The modern Pakistani identity is shaped largely by the negation of an Indian-Hindu identity and the adoption of a global pan-Islamic charter. Economic advancement is taken to mean Westernization or worse, Indianization.",
        "现代巴基斯坦身份意识在大部分方面是受到了对印度的印度教身份的否认以及对全球泛伊斯兰宪章的认同的影响，经济上的进步被认为是西方化，甚至更糟的是，被认为是印度化。"
    ],
    [
        "Modernization à la Carte?",
        "按菜单定菜的现代化"
    ],
    [
        "Dialogue focused on Iran’s nuclear program or on Iraq alone will not work.",
        "只是针对伊朗核子规划或者伊拉克问题的对话无法奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "As devotees of the 12th Imam, the Hojatieh believe that only great tribulation will warrant his coming.",
        "作为十二世伊玛姆的信徒，Hojatieh认为，唯有巨大的苦难能确保他的降临。"
    ],
    [
        "Adapting to this will require shifts in mindsets, policies, investments (especially in human capital), and quite possibly models of employment and distribution.",
        "适应这一新时代需要思维、政策、投资（特别是人力资本投资）的转变，很可能还需要就业和分配模式的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more unusual, it is associated with neurological and developmental conditions affecting babies: microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome.",
        "更加反常的是，它还能影响婴儿的神经系统和发育状况，导致小头症和格林-巴利综合症。"
    ],
    [
        "With the conspicuous exception of China and the less conspicuous exception of Australia, all have had low standard deviations of daily returns for the 100-business-day period ending August 3 when compared with the norm for the country.",
        "除中国一枝独秀以及澳大利亚稍逊一些的表现外，与各国的标准相比，截止8月3日前的100个交易日各国市场的每日回报标准差其实都很低。"
    ],
    [
        "But a poll in February 2014 showed that in Scotland, 48.7% would vote for the UK to remain in the EU, with 35.4% voting to leave.",
        "但2014年2月的民调显示，在苏格兰，48. 7%的人会支持英国留下欧盟，35."
    ],
    [
        "Muddling through can lead to only one outcome: disintegration.",
        "蒙混过关只能导致分裂一种结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Toshiba’s recent accounting scandal – the company was found to have inflated its profits by ¥151.8 billion ($1.2 billion) over several years since 2008 – presents an opportunity for Japan’s government to demonstrate its seriousness about the new regulations.",
        "最近的东芝会计丑闻为日本政府提供了一次证明其是否严肃对待新监管措施的机会。 东芝被发现在2008年以来的多年中虚增利润1,51."
    ],
    [
        "The doctors told my parents that little could be done for me, so my father prepared for my funeral.",
        "医生告诉我父母亲他们无能为力，于是父母亲开始准备我的葬礼。"
    ],
    [
        "But make no mistake: despite its less-than-constructive role in multilateral efforts, China is not just sitting still on energy and environmental issues.",
        "不过毋庸置疑的是：尽管中国在多边努力上所起的作用缺乏建设性，但其在能源与环境问题上却并未坐视不动。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative to liberalizing trade is not the status quo; it is a consistent move away from openness.",
        "贸易自由化的替代方案不是保持现状； 而是持续地减小开放。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, the world’s response to pleas for donations has been slow and miserly.",
        "不幸的是，世界对捐款请求反应缓慢而冷淡。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is the North whose activities are inherently hostile, and the South, along with the US, that is focused on defense.",
        "其实怀有固有敌意的是朝鲜，而韩国和美国则一直注重防御。"
    ],
    [
        "Their financial crisis is the main reason for their weakness.",
        "金融危机是他们国力衰弱的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The basket had previously comprised the US dollar, the euro, the British pound, and the Japanese yen – all world-class currencies that meet the IMF’s two criteria for admission: they are issued by the world’s leading exporters, and they are “freely usable,” meaning that they are widely exchanged worldwide.",
        "这个篮子原本只包含美元，欧元，英镑和日圆，而这些货币都是符合国际货币基金组织两个准入标准的世界级货币：它们都由位居世界前列的出口国发行，而且是“可以自由使用的”——也就是说可以在全世界各处进行兑换。"
    ],
    [
        "But, by competing with poor farmers and misleading consumers about the origins of its ingredients, EverSweet and other examples of synthetic biology are generating bitterness at both ends of the product chain.",
        "但因为与贫困农民竞争和误导消费者其所含成分的出处，EverSweet和其他合成生物技术正在产品链的两端制造痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, in response to rumors that President-elect Nicholas Sarkozy’s wife had left him, a spokesman for Sarkozy said, “That’s a private matter.”",
        "”同样地，在应对当选总统萨尔科奇的妻子已经离他而去的传言时，萨尔科奇的一名发言人说：“这是一个私人问题。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "There are three key economic conditions – none of which exists in Europe – that allow the diverse US states to operate with a single currency: labor mobility, wage flexibility, and a central fiscal authority.",
        "而当一国的财政赤字过大从而需要增税和削减政府开支时——正如眼下希腊的情况，由此造成的GDP和就业萎缩无法通过货币贬值、增加出口和减少进口来缓和。"
    ],
    [
        "And Brazil exports only a small share of the vehicles that it produces.",
        "并且巴西所造汽车的出口比例很小。"
    ],
    [
        "Singh will open up India’s economy even more than he has so far.",
        "辛格会在已经取得的成绩上，更加开放印度的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Another man died after being attacked by villagers who believed he was involved in cattle smuggling.",
        "另一位男性因为被相信卷入了牛只走私而被村民袭击致死。"
    ],
    [
        "Cooperation is equally vital in reinforcing the bedrock economic principles on which America and other countries built their postwar prosperity.",
        "对于巩固作为美国和其他国家战后繁荣基础的经济原则，合作也同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Under such crowded conditions, the more dominant, aggressive birds are likely to peck to death the weaker hens in the cage.",
        "在这种拥挤的条件下，强壮好斗的鸡会将笼中体弱温顺的鸡啄死。 为了避免出现这种情况，养鸡人就用烧红的刀片将所有鸡的喙都烙去一截。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that there is no consensus in the Middle East, either among governments or civil society, about how to respond to the crisis.",
        "问题是中东尚未就如何应对危机形成一致，不管是政府还是公民社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a serious presidential initiative, supported by civil society and brave new political forces, can do the job.",
        "只有获得民间社会和勇敢政治新势力支持的严肃的总统计划有能力解决这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And one of the most promising options is nuclear fusion – the process that powers the sun and all stars.",
        "其中最具前景的技术是核聚变——核聚变为太阳和星星提供了源源不断的能量。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, a wage subsidy program that lowers the cost of hiring full-time unskilled workers could make it more attractive for firms to hire them.",
        "具体而言，降低雇佣低技能的全职工人成本的工资补贴项目有可能让公司雇用这些工人更有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "If the portfolio does less well – profits of 4% per year – the managers still get a healthy but sub-market return of 10% per year on their equity.",
        "如果投资表现不够理想——年利润率在4%——基金经理们仍能以他们的产权投资为基础得到相当丰厚的10%次市场利润率。"
    ],
    [
        "Among residents of the Iranian capital, the share of “nationalists” soared from 38% in 2000 to 59% in 2005.",
        "在伊朗的首都，“民族主义者”的比例从2000年的38%上升到了2005年的59%。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB should not try to balance inflation in the south and east with deflation in the north in order to hit artificial continent-wide targets.",
        "欧洲央行不应该为了实现人为的欧洲大陆范围内的目标，就以北欧的通货紧缩来平衡南欧和东欧的通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "TEL AVIV – In 2010, then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced America’s eastward shift in global strategy.",
        "特拉维夫—2010年，时任美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿宣布美国将以东进作为全球战略。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though wrong or false information spreads just as quickly as true information, corrections are often swift as well.",
        "虽然错误或虚假信息的传播速度不亚于真实信息，但修正也同样迅速。"
    ],
    [
        "The BoJ will continue to increase its balance sheet until it achieves its 2% inflation target.",
        "日本银行将继续扩大其资产负债表直到达到2%的通胀目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, they never claim to be indigenous to any particular locale, not even in Singapore, where ethnic Chinese make up three-quarters of the population.",
        "他们从未在任何情况下宣称自己是某一地区的原住民，甚至没有在华人占总人口７５％的新加坡。"
    ],
    [
        "Deficit countries need to become more competitive, increasing productivity while cutting costs.",
        "赤字国需要增加竞争力、提高生产率，同时削减成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Why were the risk controls at highly-leveraged money-center universal banks so lousy?",
        "那些高杠杆跨国金融核心银行的风险控制为何如此糟糕？"
    ],
    [
        "Strategies that would help countries to overcome domestic insecurity and conflict, transform their economies, and, ultimately, meet their potential include strengthening governance institutions and the rule of law, ensuring multi-stakeholder participation, and guaranteeing that all citizens have equal access to justice.",
        "有助于各国克服国内不安全和冲突、实现经济转型以及充分开发其潜力的战略包括加强治理制度和法治精神、确保多方参与、以及保证所有公民能够平等地获得公正。"
    ],
    [
        "Niall Ferguson, the British historian, cites scholars who attribute Japan’s imperial expansion after 1914 to a male youth bulge, and who link the rise of Islamist extremism to an Islamic youth bulge.",
        "英国历史学家尼尔·弗格森援引某些学者的看法，将日本帝国主义扩张和伊斯兰极端主义盛行归结于1914年后日本男青年数量激增和伊斯兰青年男性人口膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "That crisis, and others before and since, showed that tensions in the Middle East rarely dissolve with the passage of time.",
        "那次危机和它前后的历次危机一样，表明中东地区的紧张局势极少会随着时间的推移而自行解决。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, economies worldwide are making progress in recovering from the 2008 disaster, and the US Federal Reserve’s tightening of policy last December signals that the global interest-rate cycle is moving into the next phase.",
        "相反，全球经济在从2008年的灾难中恢复过来，美国联邦储备委员会在上年十二月的政策紧缩说明全球利率周期正进入下一个阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "They tend to adapt only gradually to changing public psychology.",
        "他们总是很慢地适应变化的大众心理。"
    ],
    [
        "However, late last year, Everbright Bank and some others began offering fixed-rate mortgages.",
        "尽管如此，去年晚些时候，光大银行和其他一些银行开始提供固定利率的抵押贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone is represented.",
        "所有经济体都找到了自己的代言人。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the years, we have learned that the real challenge is not just to enroll children in school, but to help them to acquire the skills necessary for employment, entrepreneurship, family life, and citizenship.",
        "多年来，我们已经认识到，真正的挑战并非让孩子入学了事，而在于帮助他们获得就业、创业、家庭生活和成为公民所必需的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "So, China’s “socialism with Chinese characteristics” is an economy where an increasing share of national income goes to the state.",
        "2倍。 所以，中国“具有中国特色的社会主义”经济制度，是越来越多的国民收入归国家所有的经济制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Farther west, too, India’s statecraft is in question.",
        "进一步向西看，印度的国基也存在问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if a sudden upheaval in the Kingdom were to transform the balance of power in the Middle East, the country would still want to maintain its exports.",
        "即使沙特王国突然爆发剧变，改变了中东的实力平衡，沙特仍将尽力保持出口。"
    ],
    [
        "On this, the IMF is partly right.",
        "在这点上，国际货币基金组织的观点有一定的道理。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a natural fear that specific legislation designed to protect privacy would muzzle legitimate press inquiries.",
        "有人担心用于保护隐私的明确立法会箝制合法的新闻调查，这是很自然的。"
    ],
    [
        "Near Tingiri’s office, Rwanda’s largest telecom company, Rwandatel, is installing new wireless telephony equipment made by Huawei of Shenzen.",
        "就在Tingiri的办公室附件，卢旺达最大的电信公司Rwandatel，正在安装由深圳华为公司提供的新的无线通讯设备。"
    ],
    [
        "But Singh’s successors could not hold on to his kingdom.",
        "但辛格的继任者无法维持他的王国。"
    ],
    [
        "But officials are confident that they have at least found the haystack.",
        "但官员们至少相信 “捞针”的这片大海已经找到。"
    ],
    [
        "What seems clear is that China’s leadership is intent on pursuing many of the market-oriented reforms approved by the Third Plenary in 2013.",
        "已经清楚的是中国领导层意在实施2013年三中全会所批准的众多市场化改革。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Nigeria has used the MVP concepts for national-scale delivery of health and education services in all 774 of the country’s Local Government Areas.",
        "比如，尼日利亚用千年村计划概念提供全国规模的健康和教育服务，该国774个地方政府区（Local Government Areas）都获得了覆盖。"
    ],
    [
        "The French are ready for a woman, but perhaps not this one.",
        "法国人已经做好了女总统的准备，但是可能不是这样的一个。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, it recognizes only inflation as a threat to stability, and ignores deflation, which is the real threat today.",
        "因此它只承认通胀会威胁稳定，但却忽视今天造成现实威胁的通货紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "More boys and girls have been uprooted by crisis than at any time since 1945.",
        "1945年来因危机而流离失所的男孩和女孩数量达到历史之最。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest problem with the current system is that, by taxing the subsidiaries of multinational corporations as separate entities, it provides plenty of room for global companies to dodge their tax obligations.",
        "当前制度的最大问题是，它将跨国公司分支机构当作独立实体征税，从而给全球性公司创造了充分的逃税空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Many generations of selection in a particular direction – say, for moving efficiently through the air – can give rise to complicated structures like wings and the coordinated processes of flying.",
        "向同一方向的多代选择——例如，在空气中的高效移动——能够造成像翅膀和协调的飞行过程这样复杂的结构。"
    ],
    [
        "In divided societies, the most powerful group is often unwilling to share power with the others, resulting in dictatorship.",
        "在这些分裂的社会中，最有权势的团体往往不愿意与其他团体分享权力，于是便导致了专制。"
    ],
    [
        "The BIS maintains that excessively low interest rates are a big reason why growth is disappointing.",
        "BIS认为，过低的利率是增长令人失望的重要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require radical structural reforms to the eurozone and to the EU’s central political institutions.",
        "这需要针对欧元区和欧盟中央政治体制开展彻底的结构性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Until Thomas Eric Duncan brought Ebola into the United States, the disease was largely dismissed as an exotic pestilence of concern mainly to impoverished West Africa, and those who dared to volunteer there.",
        "纽约——直到托马斯·埃里克·邓肯将埃博拉病毒带回美国前，这种疾病被视为在贫困非洲和胆敢付非工作的志愿者中传播的异国瘟疫而基本不受重视。"
    ],
    [
        "A European quota system, limited to electricity producers and materials manufacturers, the two major sources of emissions, has been in place since 2005.",
        "自 2005 年起，一个约束发电企业和原料生产企业这两大温室气体排放源的欧洲配额系统已经开始投入运作了。"
    ],
    [
        "A democracy that produces governments led by Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Muslim Brotherhood is inevitably bound to be anti-Western and opposed to an American-inspired “peace process” with Israel.",
        "这样的民主产生了被哈马斯、真主党或穆斯林兄弟会所领导的政府，它们无可避免地会与西方对抗并且反对由美国所倡导的与以色列之间的“和平进程”。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent expansion of private airlines and airports shows what private firms in this sector can accomplish.",
        "最近私人航线和机场的扩张表明私人企业也可以在这一领域有所作为。"
    ],
    [
        "Protecting that essence is the best way to honor the memory of the victims of terror, be they from London, Sharm el-Sheik, Madrid, Casablanca, or New York.",
        "保护上述精髓是纪念恐怖活动牺牲者的最佳途径，无论曾经的受害者来自伦敦、沙母沙伊赫、马德里、卡萨布兰卡还是纽约。"
    ],
    [
        "With the exception of Ghana, and a few other states, in 2009 most African countries’ fiscal balances deteriorated.",
        "除加纳和少数几个其他国家之外，2009年绝大多数非洲国家的财政收支状况均呈现恶化态势。"
    ],
    [
        "The nominal reason is Hamas’s refusal to recognize Israel.",
        "表面上的原因是哈马斯拒不承认以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the key question must be the effect of changing their tax rate on the well-being of the rest of us.",
        "关键问题应该是改变他们的税率对其他人福利的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, diehard anti-Americans will never be persuaded, but they remain a minority, with the possible exception of the Muslim world.",
        "当然反美的死硬派永不会被说服，但可能除了在穆斯林世界，他们毕竟是少数。"
    ],
    [
        "“In every major religion, a version of the following question is asked: what does it profit us to gain wealth and power if we lose our moral values?",
        "在主要的每种宗教中，都问及了这样一个问题：如果我们丧失了道德价值，获得财富和权力又将如何造福我们呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, they highlight its failure to head off trouble by agreeing on clear economic and security strategies.",
        "更糟糕的是，它们彰显了欧盟缺乏通过达成明确的经济和安全战略来防止麻烦发生的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But the recent spate of high-profile cases harms the reputation of the sector as a whole.",
        "但当下大案频发伤害了整个部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Ebola is spreading in ways that differ from what we have previously seen.",
        "埃博拉传播的方式与我们之前目睹的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Like price in economics, a single electoral choice compresses a lot of information.",
        "如同经济学中的\"价格\"概念一样，单个选民的选择浓缩了很多信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Lowering taxes on the poor and raising unemployment benefits while simultaneously increasing taxes on the rich can stimulate the economy, reduce the deficit, and reduce inequality.",
        "为穷人减税、提高失业津贴以及同时增加夫人的税收可以刺激经济、降低赤字以及缩小贫富差距。"
    ],
    [
        "FARAH , AFGHANISTAN – When the problems riddling Afghan society are listed – violence, insecurity, corruption, religious fundamentalism – one dominating factor is usually left out: the influence of customary law.",
        "阿富汗法拉赫 —— 在历数暴力、危险、腐败、原教旨主义等诸多困扰阿富汗的谜题时，人人往往遗漏了一个起决定作用的因素：那就是习惯法的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The aim of the unlikely partnership is to encourage the use of digital services “to save lives and improve people’s health.”",
        "这一看似不可能的合作关系的目标是鼓励使用数字服务“拯救生命、改善人民健康”。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, 13 years later, Western governments, while able to describe in strategic terms the threat of the Islamic State to the Middle East, are still struggling to come to terms with its visual assault in the global media.",
        "”如今，13年过去了，西方政府可以将伊斯兰国对中东造成的威胁用战略术语来描述，但仍无法在全球媒体中通过视觉冲击与它抗衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Democratized medicine represents the fullest flowering of the biomedical information revolution.",
        "民主化的医疗代表着生物医学革命最灿烂的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately for Merkel, her relentless defense of humanitarian values does not seem to have cost her much support among those who voted for her previously.",
        "对默克尔来说，幸运的是她不懈地捍卫人道主义价值观的做法并没有让她失去众多此前投票给她的人。"
    ],
    [
        "In this Hobbesian worldview, the threats can stem from virtually any development – political, strategic, or otherwise – and amount to existential challenges to the entire Jewish nation.",
        "在这一霍布斯式（Hobbesian）的世界观中，威胁来自几乎任何发展趋势——政治的、战略的或其他的——并构成对整个犹太国家（nation）的生存挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "It has engaged in the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East, and Afghanistan, as well as South-East Asia with its Aceh peacekeeping mission, and more recently in the Caucasus and in the Indian Ocean.",
        "其足迹涉及巴尔干地区，非洲，中东和阿富汗，东南亚地区印尼亚齐省的维和任务，以及最近在高加索和印度洋的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has brought Pakistan’s state of turmoil to new heights.",
        "前总理贝•布托的遇刺使得巴基斯坦国内的骚乱状态进一步升级。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to the efforts of Sharif’s government, Pakistan now has reasonably well-developed political parties, which compete in regularly scheduled elections; an autonomous judiciary capable of defending the constitution; and a military that appears to have accepted civilian control.",
        "感谢沙里夫政府的举动，如今巴基斯坦可以说已经有了发育完善的政党并通过定期举行的选举竞争，有了能捍卫宪法的自主的司法，有了似乎接受文职控制的军方。"
    ],
    [
        "The same can be said for his rejection of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which China is already trying to replace with a regional trade pact that would exclude the US.",
        "他拒绝跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）的计划也是如此，中国已经开始试图用一个不包括美国的地区贸易协定取而代之。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, companies have more hedging tools at their disposal.",
        "诚然，公司手上有更多的对冲工具。"
    ],
    [
        "These vessels have lately been joined by an increasing number of Chinese surveillance forces, which periodically enter the waters surrounding the islands, sometimes leading to direct confrontation with Japanese patrol ships.",
        "最近，越来越多的中国海事巡逻船只也加入了这些渔船的行列，定期在钓鱼岛附近水域巡航，有时与日本巡逻舰只发生冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the 2008 global financial crisis hit the city-state hard (owing to its exposure to inflated real-estate assets), it recovered quickly, as evidenced by its bids for events such as the World Expo 2020.",
        "虽然2008年全球金融危机沉重打击了这个城市国家（因为其不动产资产风险高涨），但迪拜经济迅速得到了恢复，这一点由于迪拜申请主办2020年世博会而得到了证实。"
    ],
    [
        "There have not been any studies with data on childhood intelligence, lots of subsequent data on adult health behaviors, and then a long-term follow-up for deaths.",
        "有关儿童智力、成年健康行为的大量数据以及对死亡的长期跟踪还没有任何研究。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as Iraq observer Joel Wing has pointed out, public-sector employment doubled from 2005 to 2010, and now accounts for roughly 60% of the full-time labor force.",
        "伊拉克观察家乔尔·韦恩指出，公共部门就业从2005到2010年翻了一番，现在占到全职劳动力约60%的份额。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s armed forces may still be the most advanced in the world; after all, the US spends more than twice as much on military research and development as major powers like France and Russia, and nine times more than China and Germany.",
        "美国武装力量也许仍是世界上最先进的； 毕竟，美国的军事研究和支出 开发是法国和俄罗斯等主要强国的两倍多，是中国和德国的九倍多。"
    ],
    [
        "The aggregate growth rate does not capture this inclusiveness, and thus understates the pace of economic and social progress.",
        "总增长率并未反映出这类包容性，并因此低估了经济和社会进步的步伐。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this recognition and remorse, we Japanese have believed for decades that we must do all that we can to contribute to Asia’s development.",
        "基于这一认识和忏悔，我们日本人几十年来都认为我们必须竭尽全力为亚洲的发展做出贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "They saw their acquisitions of paintings and sculptures as a connection to eternity.",
        "他们把收购绘画和雕塑视为连接永恒的通道。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Parliament has consistently denounced Belarus as Europe’s last dictatorship, yet EU member governments continue business as usual with Aleksander Lukashenka, the country’s wayward and near lunatic despot.",
        "欧洲议会一直谴责白俄罗斯是欧洲最后一个独裁政府，但欧盟各成员国政府却照常与亚历山大·卢卡申科这个任性到近乎疯狂的独裁者进行贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "In developing and emerging economies, one charitable explanation for the poor quality of public discourse about income inequality is that data on income distribution are often unavailable or dubious.",
        "在发展中和新兴经济体，一个关于收入不平等公开披露质量低劣的善意解释是收入分配数据常常难以获得或质量可疑。"
    ],
    [
        "BOSTON – As we learn more about the threat from substandard and counterfeit medicines, it is becoming clear that it is a far greater problem than previously thought.",
        "波士顿——随着我们对不合格及假冒药品的深入理解，这个问题显然正在超出我们之前的想象。"
    ],
    [
        "Fed officials have repeatedly expressed concern that the prolonged weak recovery will inflict future pain in the form of slower long-run growth.",
        "美联储官员再三表示了对复苏长期萎靡会导致未来长期增长率降低的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "One promising step, recommended by a UN working group in January, is the development of a new, legally binding agreement on high-seas biodiversity, to be ready for the UN General Assembly to review by September.",
        "由联合国工作组于1月提议的充满希望的步骤是就公海生物多样性制定有约束力的新法规。 该法规定于9月提交联合国大会接受审议。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the foreign minister is a general, rather than a career diplomat.",
        "就连外交部长也不是职业外交官而是将军。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether this amounts to removing the bottom rungs on the ladder of development remains to be seen.",
        "但这是否相当于直接跳过最底层的发展阶段还有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey must look carefully at the catastrophe unfolding around it in the Middle East.",
        "土耳其必须密切关注其四周围中东地区正在发生的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Sustaining a high budget deficit over many years will lead to an unmanageable debt buildup, unless that debt is inflated away or restructured.",
        "在多年间维持高水平预算赤字会导致不可治理的债务堆积，除非债务可以通过通胀贬值或被重组。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – There are many roads to political disaster: greed, hubris, the charisma of the demagogue, and, perhaps most dangerous of all, fear.",
        "纽约—可谓条条大路通政治灾难：贪婪、狂妄、魅力超凡又蛊惑人心的政客，但也许最危险的是恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "An administration of plutocrats – most of whom gained their wealth from rent-seeking activities, rather than from productive entrepreneurship – could be expected to reward themselves.",
        "一个由财阀组成的政府——大部分成员通过寻租活动，而不是生产性的企业家精神，攫取大量财富——必然会大肆奖励自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Sperling is fundamentally different from the typical academic economist, who tends to concentrate on advancing economic theory and statistics.",
        "斯珀林与那些典型的学术经济学家有着根本的不同，学术经济学家倾向于专注推进经济理论与统计。"
    ],
    [
        "Private investors would take note, accelerating the recovery process.",
        "私人投资者将引起注意，加速复苏进程。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – In 2012, the Pew Research Center found that 85% of self-described middle-class adults in the United States believe that it is more difficult now than it was a decade ago for people like them to maintain their standard of living.",
        "伦敦—2012年，皮尤研究中心（Pew Research Center）发现，85%的美国自称中产阶级成年人认为，和十年前相比，维持生活水平对他们来说变得更加困难了。"
    ],
    [
        "McCain’s solution seems to be more of Bush’s policies – tax cuts for the rich plus promises to curb public spending.",
        "麦凯恩的解决方案似乎更多来源于布什的政策，即对富人减税并承诺遏制公共开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Their thinking is at the forefront of a widening recognition that France must face the world’s challenges as they really are, not as the French want them to be.",
        "他们的思想处在一个日益扩大的认知前沿，即法国必须直面世界的真实挑战，而不能按照法国人自己的意愿歪曲它们。"
    ],
    [
        "On June 19, after a year’s work, the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards finally laid a large egg.",
        "一年之后的6月19号，英国议会银行业标准委员会终于取得了一项重大成果。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is: very poor.",
        "答案只有一个： 谈判前景极其黯淡。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Ukraine crisis unfolded, Russian policymakers and commentators talked about “the end of the Post-Cold War era,” while Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dimitri Rogozin even appeared to welcome the start of a New Cold War.",
        "随着乌克兰危机的展开，俄罗斯决策者和评论家大谈“后冷战时代的结束”，而俄罗斯副总理罗戈津（Dimitri Rogozin）甚至表示了欢迎新冷战的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump administration officials have lately hinted that the US may, at some point, devise a new strategy for the entire Indo-Pacific region.",
        "特朗普政府官员最近暗示，美国可能会在某个时刻抛出整个印度-太平洋地区的新战略。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting upheavals in the structure of the workforce can be at least as important as the actual number of jobs that are affected.",
        "由此带来的劳动力结构剧变至少和实际受影响的工作数量一样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But demographers rarely use CDR’s, thinking instead in terms of age- and sex-specific mortality rates, usually summarized as “life expectancy.”",
        "但人口统计学家很少使用总死亡率，而更多地以特定的年龄和性别死亡率来考虑问题，这一般被概括为“寿命”。"
    ],
    [
        "Internet or Splinternet?",
        "互联网还是分裂网？"
    ],
    [
        "So long as performance gaps continue to widen, voters will continue to challenge European integration.",
        "只要经济表现的差距继续扩大，选民们将继续挑战欧洲一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "And, even when times were good, India never gained a foothold in the global manufactured-goods trade.",
        "与此同时，即使是经济向好的时候，印度也从未在全球生产产品贸易中获得立足之地。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is time for India to raise its aspirations.",
        "但印度应该提高期望。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, it is emerging markets as an asset class that should make people morally queasy.",
        "可如今新兴市场也成为了一种让人在道德上心存疑虑的资产类别。"
    ],
    [
        "And if Greece exits, a large share of the acquired resources measured by the TARGET balances and the cash that has been printed would turn into an endowment gift for an independent future.",
        "很大一部分已获得的资源（用TARGET余额衡量）和已印出的现金将成为希腊的独立的未来的禀赋。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal now is regional stability.",
        "现在的目标就是地区稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "As a Lord Ashcroft poll showed, 73% of those aged 18-24, and 62% of those aged 25-34, voted accordingly in last year’s referendum.",
        "阿什克罗夫特勋爵（Lord Ashcroft）调查表明，73%的18—24岁群体，以及62%的25—34岁群体，在去年的全民公决中投票赞成留欧。"
    ],
    [
        "We know that we must continue working to sustain and strengthen our engagement in the Pacific, even as US soldiers continue to carry out diverse and demanding missions in other parts of the world.",
        "我们知道即使在美国士兵继续在世界其他地方执行多样化和难度极大的任务的同时，我们也必须继续竭尽全力保持并强化我们在太平洋地区的参与力度。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as people remain under a relative \"veil of ignorance,\" in the sense that they do not yet know how they will personally be affected, they may find it easier to agree that progressive taxes should be used to subsidize low-wage earners.",
        "只要人们还披着相对\"无知的面纱\"，即当人们还不了解作为个人会受到怎样的影响，他们就可能更易于赞同采用累进税制以补贴低收入者。"
    ],
    [
        "Speaking at Stanford University’s 2013 commencement, he quipped, “I believe that more and more Stanford graduates will find themselves moving to Silicon Alley, not only because we’re the hottest new tech scene in the country, but also because there’s more to do on a Friday night than go to the Pizza Hut in Sunnyvale.",
        "在2013年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上，布隆伯格戏谑道：“我相信越来越多的斯坦福毕业生会来到硅巷，不但是因为我们有美国最热门的新技术，也是因为这里的周五夜生活比桑尼维尔（Sunnyvale）的必胜客丰富得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Terms in office have expired for the prosecutor-general, members of the national election commission, and supreme court justices, but no successors have been named, because Maduro is unwilling to negotiate with the opposition and lacks the two-thirds majority in the National Assembly needed to appoint officials of his choosing.",
        "总检察长、国家选举委员会委员和最高法院法官任期早已届满，但他们的继任者迟迟没有得到人名，因为马杜罗不愿与反对派展开谈判，又无法达到任命他的心仪人选所必须的国民大会三分之二多数。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Russia’s leaders have been so keen to label Ukraine’s leaders as Russophobes and fascists.",
        "因此，俄罗斯领导人急于给乌克兰领导人贴上仇俄分子和法西斯分子的标签。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an urgent need to find a way out of this impasse.",
        "目前急需找到脱离这一困局的途径。"
    ],
    [
        "On this view, Riccio was doing what anyone should have been prepared to do for Welby, who was paralyzed and unable to implement his refusal of a burdensome medical treatment.",
        "在这一事件中，列奇做了任何人都可能为韦尔比做的事，因为韦尔比已经瘫痪，无法自己拒绝这种成为负担的医疗手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump might have some realistic instincts.",
        "特朗普也许有一些现实主义本能。"
    ],
    [
        "But an unintended consequence of this focus is that many governments, corporations, and people are missing much of what is going on in Latin America.",
        "但注重这些地区的一个意料外的后果是许多政府、公司和人忽视了拉丁美洲正在发生的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "A wave of state defaults followed in the late 1830’s.",
        "接着，在19世纪30年代，爆发了一波州政府违约潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Witness the recent car-bomb attacks in a Hezbollah-controlled neighborhood of Beirut and in the northern city of Tripoli.",
        "最近在真主党控制的贝鲁特周边和北部城市的黎波里（Tripoli）发生的汽车炸弹袭击事件就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s start with the only certainties: the Brexit negotiations will be long, complex, and acrimonious, and the divorce will have far-reaching geopolitical effects.",
        "让我们从唯一的确定性开始：英国脱欧谈判必将长期、复杂和激烈，而英欧离异必将产生意义深远的地缘政治后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while success breeds imitation, the opposite is often not the case.",
        "但虽然成功往往能引来群起模仿，但反之却往往并不成立。"
    ],
    [
        "That is true, but only up to a point.",
        "的确如此，但是有限度。"
    ],
    [
        "Their active leadership, and that of others, is needed now more than ever to turn the tide.",
        "我们现在比任何时候都需要他们及其他人的积极领导，才能帮助我们力挽狂澜、实现目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, a State Department spokesperson urged India’s authorities to act with “appropriate democratic restraint” in response to the crisis provoked by Harare’s protests.",
        "与此同时，美国国务院的一位发言人敦促印度当局以“合适的民主克制”应对哈拉雷所挑起的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Stephen Roach has suggested that in the post-crisis global economy “relapse is the rule”; economist Brad DeLong, speaking of the “consequences of our lesser depression,” argues that the pretense of a eurozone recovery has collapsed; and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has acknowledged the need not only for structural reform, but also fiscal expansion to boost aggregate demand.",
        "经济学家布拉德·德隆则探讨“小规模衰退带来的后果”，并提出欧元区经济复苏的假象已经破灭； 而欧洲央行行长德拉吉则承认不仅需要进行结构改革，还需要实施财政扩张以刺激总需求。"
    ],
    [
        "While the world frets about North Korean and Iranian nuclear weapons, it is useful to remind ourselves that Japan, should it choose, could become a nuclear power in a matter of weeks.",
        "当全世界都在朝鲜和伊朗核武问题上焦头烂额之时，我们有必要提醒自己：只要日本愿意，它也能在几周内造出核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Until not long ago, there was a strong left-wing current in education and some of the media that used Japan’s horrendous wartime record as an argument against any kind of revisionism.",
        "直到不久前，在教育及部分传媒界仍然存在着一股强大的左翼力量，利用日本可怕的战争纪录反对任何形式的修宪企图。"
    ],
    [
        "His removal by military coup was unjustified.",
        "军事政变推翻他是不公正的。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, British Prime Minister David Cameron has had to shift a summit meeting with French President François Hollande from the proposed site, Blenheim Palace, because French diplomats realized that it had been built to celebrate John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, who crushed Louis XIV’s forces in 1704, near the small Bavarian town that gave the palace its name.",
        "英国首相卡梅伦已经不得不改变与法国总统奥朗德原定在布伦海姆宫（Blenheim Palace）举行的峰会，因为法国外交官员意识到布伦海姆宫是为了庆祝1704年马尔堡公爵（Duke of Marlborough）约翰·丘吉尔（John Churchill）在巴伐利亚小镇布伦海姆附近打败了路易十四的军队而兴建和命名的。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s Winning Streak",
        "普京的连胜"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to tempering debt problems, a short burst of moderate inflation would reduce the real (inflation-adjusted) value of residential real estate, making it easier for that market to stabilize.",
        "除了缓解债务问题之外，短期内发生温和通胀能降低住房的真实（调整通胀后）价值，使房地产市场更容易稳定下来。"
    ],
    [
        "It could unwind remarkably quickly.",
        "它可能在眨眼间逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "And it has testified to the good sense of those who have been arguing for years, in a variety of Asian and wider global contexts, that maritime search, rescue, and disaster relief is an ideal place to start in creating confidence building mechanisms aimed at laying the foundations for conflict prevention and resolution.",
        "这证明若干年前有人在一系列亚洲及全球论坛上提出的主张自有其道理，他们认为海上搜索、援助、救灾是启动以冲突预防及解决为目标的信任建立机制的理想场所。"
    ],
    [
        "As the very different examples of the Soviet Union and China show, the Iranian regime might someday collapse or change fundamentally – probably when hardly anyone expects it.",
        "虽然两者差别很大，但苏联和中国的例子都表明伊朗政权或许会在某天崩溃或发生根本变化——很可能是在任何人都没有预料到时候。"
    ],
    [
        "There are a few more minor objections, but these are the core issues holding up the adoption of the GST.",
        "还有一些小的争议，但以上这些核心问题阻止了商品服务税的通过。"
    ],
    [
        "The ostensibly trivial expression “mutual respect” actually modulates China’s true desire: a return to the Westphalian principle of non-interference in states’ domestic affairs, particularly their human-rights records.",
        "表面上看似微不足道的“相互尊重”实际上表达了中国的真实愿望：回到不干涉它国内政的威斯特伐利亚原则，尤其是人权记录方面。"
    ],
    [
        "But who is receiving that aid?",
        "但是接受援助是对象是谁？"
    ],
    [
        "The Brexiteers promised to end free immigration from the European Union.",
        "英国脱欧派承诺终止欧盟的自由移民政策。"
    ],
    [
        "At this stage of China’s development, such an approach will have few if any costs, while most likely conferring many benefits.",
        "在中国的这一发展阶段，这样的做法基本上是百利而无一害。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent agreements to restructure some debt are just the beginning; in fact, they are not even adequate to rule out an outright default.",
        "最近所达成的重组部分债务的协议只是开始； 事实上，这些协议甚至不足以排除完全违约。"
    ],
    [
        "There is room for moderation in both sides’ positions, but their leaders must be given the right platform on which to make the needed adjustments.",
        "双方的立场都有缓和的空间，但它们的领导人必须得到正确的平台，以便形成必要的调整。"
    ],
    [
        "That pressure should be turned in the opposite direction, and we should celebrate those, like Sikorski, with modest tastes and higher priorities than conspicuous consumption.",
        "这样的压力应该反过来施，我们应该赞美西科尔斯基，他口味温和，有着比炫耀性消费更高的理想。"
    ],
    [
        "Diplomacy tries to lower the temperature; the demotic paradigm raises it.",
        "外交试图降低温度； 大众范式则提高温度。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem for American power in the twenty-first century is that there are more and more things outside the control of even the most powerful state.",
        "即便是最强的国家也有越来越多的问题无法控制是二十一世纪美国权力所面临的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, in this case, life is still far from imitating art.",
        "幸运的是，果真如此的话，生活仍然远不止于模仿艺术。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping committed to phase out hydrofluorcarbons, a potent greenhouse gas.",
        "去年，奥巴马和中国国家主席习近平承诺取缔强力温室气体氢氟碳化物。"
    ],
    [
        "The Frente Amplio (FA) brings together nearly all the country’s left-wing groups and has the loyal support of labor unions.",
        "因为与巴西和智利不同，乌拉圭社会民主主义者的治国之道是一个一党多数政府。 广泛阵线 (FA)集结了该国几乎所有的左翼党派并得到了工会的忠心支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, in October 1994, the US and North Korea entered into the Agreed Framework to freeze North Korea’s nuclear program.",
        "接着，在1994年10月，美国和朝鲜进入冻结朝鲜核计划的协议框架。"
    ],
    [
        "We were already certain then that if democracy is emptied of values and reduced to a competition of political parties that have \"guaranteed\" solutions to everything, it can be quite undemocratic.",
        "当时我们就明白，如果掏空民主的价值，把民主降格成“保证”能解决所有问题的政党之间的竞争，这样的民主其实相当不民主。"
    ],
    [
        "This is one of the main reasons why, throughout history, democracies have rarely fought each other.",
        "这也是纵观历史民主政体很少相互交战的主要原因之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the fighting between Israel and Hamas subsides, the question of what the Arab states will do to strengthen Palestinian moderates and to make peace with Israel is sure to arise.",
        "一旦以色列和哈马斯之间的战争趋于缓和，阿拉伯国家将做些什么来支持巴勒斯坦温和派并与以色列和平相处的问题肯定会提上日程。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposed constitution will contain a Charter of Fundamental Rights, which is intended to enhance the political and moral legitimacy of the EU.",
        "拟议中的宪法将包含《基本权利宪章》，旨在提高欧盟政治和道德的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2005, only 15 countries imported LNG; today, that number has tripled.",
        "在2005年，仅有15个国家进口液化天然气； 而今天，这一数据增加了三倍以上。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank has provided a monetary lifeline that has provided much needed liquidity within the financial system and helped the government to stem the crisis of confidence created by the banking collapse.",
        "而欧洲中央银行已经为急需流动性的爱尔兰金融系统提供了资金救济，并帮助政府挺过了由银行崩溃引发的信任危机。"
    ],
    [
        "We should demand nothing less.",
        "我们的目标不能比这更低。"
    ],
    [
        "Correcting these policy failures is made more difficult by the rise of populist political forces.",
        "民粹主义政治势力的崛起更加大了纠正政治错误的难度。"
    ],
    [
        "Next year, I want to go much further.",
        "明年，我希望能够更进一大步。"
    ],
    [
        "“Tactical nuclear weapons,” the Pakistani military official explained, “will deter India from following through on this strategy.”",
        "“战术核武器，”巴基斯坦军方负责人解释，“将遏止印度执行上述战略。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases during 2012, politics was a force for good: consider Prime Minister Mario Monti’s ability to pull Italy back from the brink of financial turmoil.",
        "对某些国家来说，2012年的政治是一股积极力量：例如意大利总理马里奥·蒙蒂（Mario Monti）将自己的国家从金融风暴边缘力挽狂澜的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "This was not, of course, the first time someone had been detained without explanation in China, so it was not a good omen.",
        "当然，这并不是有人第一次在中国被莫名拘留，所以这不是一个好兆头。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentina´s “pesification” of bank deposits and loans benefited debtors at the expense of depositors, inciting public upheaval.",
        "阿根廷对银行存贷款的“整顿重组”是建立在牺牲广大储户利益之上，从而引发了社会动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States and the European Union have a combined GDP of about $34 trillion and a population of 822 million, with the US population growing rapidly.",
        "美国和欧盟GDP之和达到了34万亿美元左右，人口8. 22亿，美国人口还在迅速增加。"
    ],
    [
        "These are crucial and daunting objectives, but they are too narrow for the twenty-first century.",
        "这些都是重要而又艰巨的目标，但是对于二十一世纪而言它们又太过狭隘。"
    ],
    [
        "To use them, a holder has to exchange them for, say, dollars in a transaction with the US government.",
        "若要使用它们，持有人只能在与美国政府的交易中用其来交换美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Japan remains broadly credible, at least relative to the US and the European Union.",
        "因此，日本仍拥有极高的信誉，特别是相对美国和欧盟而言。"
    ],
    [
        "A symmetrical peace between Israel and Palestine would, by contrast, incite much less Islamic resistance.",
        "相比之下，一个平等的巴以和平关系应该少煽动伊斯兰的抵触情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "To offset some of the resulting revenue loss, the new law might eliminate tax deductions for state and local taxes, and tax some of the fringe benefits that are currently excluded from taxable income.",
        "为了抵消由此带来的一些税收收入损失，新税法可能会取消州和地方税收抵扣，并对某些目前享受非税待遇的福利性收入征税。"
    ],
    [
        "But the EU should not rejoice at this seeming triumph over American “big business.”",
        "但是欧盟不应该对这种对美国“大公司”表面上的胜利而欢呼雀跃。"
    ],
    [
        "The advance of behavioral economics is not fundamentally in conflict with mathematical economics, as some seem to think, though it may well be in conflict with some currently fashionable mathematical economic models.",
        "不像某些人所想的那样，行为经济学的先进之处并不与数学经济学存在根本性的冲突，虽然前者或许与某些当前流行的数学经济模型背道而驰。"
    ],
    [
        "My homeland, Poland, has a steady economy and a thriving media.",
        "我的祖国波兰也实现了经济稳定和媒体繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "His election will further erode Pax Americana, already battered by a succession of foolish wars.",
        "他的当选将进一步破坏美国治下的和平（一系列愚蠢的战争已经令这一状态受到巨大影响）。"
    ],
    [
        "Effective aid programs have almost always been temporary in nature, working – as was the case with the Marshall Plan – through short, sharp, finite interventions.",
        "有效的援助方案几乎永远是暂时性的，通过短期、激烈、有限的干预起作用——马歇尔计划便是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Trade is high on the agenda in the United States, Europe, and much of Asia this year.",
        "华盛顿—今年，贸易使美国、欧洲和亚洲大部分国家的重点议程。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps we should be sanguine about the gradual end of Pax Americana.",
        "或许我们应当乐观地看待美式和平的逐渐终结。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial crisis delivered a fatal blow to that overconfidence in scientific economics.",
        "但随之而来的金融危机给那些过度自信的科学经济学家一个响亮的耳光。"
    ],
    [
        "My belief is that there is another, far more critical challenge facing Afghanistan in 2014: the election of a new president.",
        "我认为，2014年的阿富汗将面临另一个远为关键的挑战：选举新总统。"
    ],
    [
        "A British Tragedy in One Act",
        "英国悲剧一幕"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s record on implementation is actually pretty good.",
        "希腊在实施改革方面的记录其实相当出色。"
    ],
    [
        "The second item on the agenda should be labor-market reform.",
        "第二点应该是劳动力市场改革。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this requires leadership.",
        "所有这一切都需要坚决的领导。"
    ],
    [
        "For China’s monetary policymakers, reforming the exchange-rate system, while preventing depreciation from getting out of hand, poses a serious challenge.",
        "对中国的货币决策者来说，改革汇率制度，同时防止贬值失控是一个严峻的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "We must redouble our efforts to reach out in local communities and demonstrate the realities of our faith.",
        "我们必须加倍努力，接近当地团体，并展现我们信仰的本来面目。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, if you fail to make your payments on time, the lender can foreclose on the loan and take possession of the property – as millions of homeowners have experienced in the last decade.",
        "换句话说，如果你不能及时偿还按揭款，贷款人可以取消你的贷款偿还权并收走你的房子——过去十年有几百万屋主有过这种经验。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if ECB President Mario Draghi wants to highlight the fact that nominal interest rates are lower today than last August, he must also acknowledge that, given low inflation expectations, real interest rates have moved little.",
        "因此，如果欧洲央行行长德拉吉想强调今天的名义利率低于去年8月的事实，他也必须承认，由于低通胀预期，真实利率基本上没有变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But with such a globalized economy, it cannot count on subsidies funded by general tax revenues to offset future shortfalls in its social-security system.",
        "但在全球化的经济中，德国无法靠一般税收收入所支持的补贴来解决社会保险体系的未来短缺问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Pursuing one of the world’s first efforts to regulate agricultural methane, the state government has set ambitious targets to reduce emissions in cattle processing.",
        "州政府实施了世界上第一个监管农业甲烷排放的政策，制定了雄心勃勃的牛肉处理活动减排目标。"
    ],
    [
        "An Answer to the Russian Challenge",
        "对俄罗斯挑战的回答"
    ],
    [
        "Austerity, according to some of its promoters, is supposed to improve morale.",
        "用某些支持者的话说，紧缩是为了增进士气。"
    ],
    [
        "One must not forget that even after a period of stagnation, the middle class in rich countries remains an upper class from a global perspective.",
        "我们决不能忘记，哪怕经历了一段时间的停滞，富裕国家的中产阶级在全球范围内仍属于上层阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, ASI is allowed to keep, in Ireland, profits representing close to two-thirds of the revenue from the sale of every Apple product sold outside the US.",
        "与此同时，苹果国际销售公司被允许在爱尔兰保留相当于在美国以外销售苹果产品的总收入近三分之二的利润。"
    ],
    [
        "But South Korea’s then-president, Syngman Rhee, in violation of the treaty and international law, instituted the “Syngman Rhee Line” to demarcate an expansive area, including Takeshima, within which South Korea unilaterally claimed fishery jurisdiction.",
        "但韩国时任总统李承晚违反旧金山条约和国际法，私设“李承晚线”，把包括竹岛在内的海域单方面地划入韩国渔业管辖权范围。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, no.",
        "不幸的是，没有。"
    ],
    [
        "Given all of this – not to mention renewed attention to national borders, owing to contentious immigration issues, such as the influx of Middle Eastern refugees in Europe – the TPP’s ratification is far from certain, especially in the US.",
        "考虑到所有这些因素——更不用说因为争议很大的移民问题（如东欧难民涌入欧洲）而再度受关注的国界问题——TPP是否能获得批准还远未可知，特别是在美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Not withstanding the self-serving intentions of outgoing President Leonid Kuchma, this historic pact may in the long run produce positive results for Ukraine's democracy and prospects for joining the European Union.",
        "尽管卸任总统库奇马是出于自私的目的，但长远来看这项历史性的协议可能为乌克兰的民主和加入欧盟的前景融入积极的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "In the House of Lords, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, a former Lord Chancellor, moved an amendment requiring the bill to distinguish between marriage (same sex) and marriage (opposite sex).",
        "在上议院，前大法官克拉什弗恩的麦凯勋爵（Lord Mackay of Clashfern）建议修订该法，区别婚姻（同性）和婚姻（异性）。"
    ],
    [
        "But behind it lie two moral attitudes, which are much easier to grasp.",
        "但这场斗争背后的两个道德观则相对容易让人理解。"
    ],
    [
        "A full-scale invasion might well provoke Iraq’s own Kurdish guerrillas into a prolonged and bloody battle with Turkish forces that can only undermine support for Erdogan’s government at home and abroad.",
        "全面入侵很可能会激起伊拉克国内的库尔德游击队员与土耳其军队进行一场漫长而又血腥的斗争，这只会削弱埃尔多安政府在国内和国际所受到的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, less than two years later, the price is $45 – or even less.",
        "如今，不到两年后，其价格是45美元——甚至更低。"
    ],
    [
        "But if it does, it will probably be due to a sharp rise in interest rates.",
        "但如果结果真的很糟，那也很可能是因为利率的急剧提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, South Korean negotiators appear convinced that they will not be able to make any headway with the US on the issue.",
        "其实，韩国谈判代表似乎相信他们无法与美国就此问题取得任何进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Kuwaitis see this very technical issue as a way of pressing for reform.",
        "大多数科威特人将这个技术性非常强的问题看作是促进改革之路。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe must resist the geopolitical challenge that Russia is posing, and it must be unified to have any chance of success.",
        "欧洲必须抵御俄罗斯给它们带来的地缘政治挑战，并且它们只有联合起来才有机会取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "But the good news stops right about there.",
        "但发展中国家的优势也到此为止了。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s lack of solidarity, imagination, courage, unity, and vision in recent years has made Europe a symbol of division for some, if not many.",
        "近几年来，欧盟一直缺少团结、想象力、勇气、统一和远见，以至于不少人（如果不是很多人的话）将欧洲视为分裂的典型。"
    ],
    [
        "MGI’s analysis shows that higher-level cognitive abilities – such as logical reasoning, stronger communication skills, and enhanced social and emotional skills – will become more important, while machines take over routine capabilities common in the workplace today, including in cognitive tasks like data collection and processing.",
        "麦肯锡全球研究院的分析表明高级认知能力——如逻辑推理、强大的沟通技巧以及社交和情感技巧——将在重要性上大幅提升，而机器则将逐步取代当今工作场所随处可见的常规能力，包括数据搜集和处理等认知类工作。"
    ],
    [
        "And the British are welcoming an expansion of these activities in London – offering to treat Chinese banks operating there as branches (subject to Chinese regulation) rather than as subsidiaries (subject to British regulation).",
        "而英国欢迎这些活动在伦敦的扩张——将向在英经营的种子银行提供分行待遇（受中国监管约束），而不按子公司对待（受英国监管约束）。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the system’s resilience in absorbing huge disruptions – the 2008 financial crisis and the 2011 earthquake – is one key reason for its survival.",
        "事实上，该制度吸收巨大破坏力（2008年金融危机和2011年大地震）的韧性正是其生存下来的关键原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence, everybody waits for others to move first, creating obvious delay.",
        "因此，每个人都会等别人先有所行动，这明显会造成拖延。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to being an affront to human rights, deforestation and the accompanying assault on indigenous cultures is a serious threat to the fight against climate change.",
        "除了是对人权的侮辱，森林砍伐和对土著文化随之而来的冲击是对气候变化斗争的严重威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The November 26, 2008, terrorist attacks on Mumbai were brilliantly planned, timed, and executed.",
        "2008年11月26日恐怖分子对孟买的攻击是经过精心策划、安排和执行的。"
    ],
    [
        "And adverse effects – such as a rising debt-to-GDP ratio and excess capacity – are inevitable.",
        "副作用——如债务-GDP比率上升和产能过剩——也是难以避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "Debt – for example, a government or corporate bond that is bought and sold for a price that is a function of inflation and default risk – can be traded domestically.",
        "债务——比如某种政府或企业债券，它以某个价格买卖，这个价格又是通货膨胀和违约风险的函数——可以在国内交易。"
    ],
    [
        "High oil and gas prices, America’s self-inflicted global weakening due to its misadventure in Iraq, and the rise of China and India obviously have prompted Moscow to change its foreign policy.",
        "居高不下的石油和天然气价格、美国由于在伊拉克困难重重而自己造成在全球势力的削弱以及中国和印度的崛起等因素明显地促使莫斯科改变其外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "They have become eager to stoke publicity from the public outrage at their methods, even transmitting images of their crimes around the world.",
        "他们渴望通过引起公众对他们所作所为的激愤获得知名度，他们甚至将暴行影像向全世界展示。"
    ],
    [
        "Half-measures will not do.",
        "仅靠权宜之计不可能实现目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The Cretan Epimenides is supposed to have said: “All Cretans are liars.”",
        "克里特的艾庇米尼得斯曾说：“所有克里特人都是骗子。"
    ],
    [
        "The new partnership aims to strengthen data collection and monitoring efforts by raising more funds, encouraging knowledge-sharing, addressing key barriers to access and use of data, and identifying new big-data strategies to upgrade the world’s statistical systems.",
        "上述全新伙伴关系旨在通过筹集更多资金、鼓励知识共享、解决访问和使用数据的关键障碍及制定全新大数据战略升级世界统计系统来加强数据的收集和监管工作。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s decision to return to full and equal Alliance membership was a good one, and France must now work from within to advance the principles in which it believes.",
        "法国重新返回北约就是一个好的信号，法国还应该一直为自己一贯坚守的原则而努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Progress is needed on emission-reduction targets and on sharing knowledge and technology more widely.",
        "世界各国必须在减排目标方面以及分享减排知识和技术方面取得进展。"
    ],
    [
        "But Chinese cooperation, though necessary, will not resolve the North Korea problem on its own.",
        "中国的合作虽然必要，但仅靠它也解决不了朝鲜问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But this has reduced these banks’ effectiveness as financial intermediaries, while encouraging the rise of shadow banking to circumvent the restrictions.",
        "但这降低了银行作为金融中介的效率，同时也助长了影子银行的崛起和绕过限制。"
    ],
    [
        "And so, after six months of bargaining, a historic deal was struck.",
        "因此，一项历史性的协议在6个月的谈判之后达成。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is difficult to see any really bad mistakes, except perhaps allowing himself to be pushed around by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and giving China the impression that he was prepared for a bilateral relationship entirely on China’s terms.",
        "他还未能解决上述所有问题，然而除了允许自己任由以色列总理内塔尼亚胡摆布，以及令中国人相信他正在照中国的意思构建一个新的中美双边关系之外，似乎也没有出什么大的纰漏。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the elections may have softened some of the sense of illegitimacy that has clouded Bush’s Iraq policy.",
        "可不论如何，选举可能已经软化了人们对布什伊拉克政策挥之不去的不信任感。"
    ],
    [
        "For Xi, that end is a smooth transition into modernity that cements the CPC’s long-term authority and ensures his own legacy as modern China’s most significant leader.",
        "对于习近平主席来说，这个目的是中国向现代化的平稳过渡，既要巩固中国共产党的长期权威，又要确保他作为现代中国最重要的领导人能够留下的政治遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the discussion foundered, and no decision was taken.",
        "可是讨论最终没能达成决议。"
    ],
    [
        "With the rest of Europe growing, other governments, believing themselves to be in a stronger economic position, are less inclined to compromise with Greece.",
        "在欧洲其他国家都出现增长的情况下，各国政府都似乎对自身经济情况多了点底气，因此也越来越不愿和希腊有所妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "Although de Villepin’s speeches are more flamboyant than those of most political leaders, the underlying sentiment extends far beyond France.",
        "虽然德维尔潘的辞藻比其他多数政治领袖都要华丽，但内中所蕴含的核心精神却绝对不仅局限在法国。"
    ],
    [
        "These Islamist parties have nothing to do with Al Qaeda, even though some of the most conservative among them have adopted somewhat similar ideological positions.",
        "尽管某些最为保守的政党采取了某些与基地组织类似的意识形态立场，但是它们与基地组织并无牵连。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet European leaders must steel themselves for what is to come.",
        "但欧洲领导人必须做好准备迎接后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, China’s stock market is more like a casino than an amusement-park attraction.",
        "事实上，中国股市更像是赌场而不是游乐场。"
    ],
    [
        "One such line, which is presumed to be significant, goes from Europe (Spain) via Singapore or Dubai, through India to Nepal or Bangladesh and back again to the market in India.",
        "有一条被认为重要的线路，是从欧洲（西班牙）出发，经由新加坡或者杜拜，穿过印度到尼泊尔或孟加拉国，然后再次返回到印度内的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us hope for an America ready to act as a responsible player in a fairer world.",
        "但愿美国时刻准备着在更加公平的世界中扮演负责任大国的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The Oxford development economist Paul Collier reckons that 75% of the poorest people in the world live in countries that have only recently recovered from conflict or are still in conflict. Most of them are in Africa.",
        "牛津大学的发展经济学家保罗·科利尔（ Paul Collier ）估计全世界最贫困的人口中有 75% 生活在那些刚刚从冲突中复原或者依然深陷于冲突之中的国家，而非洲国家就占了绝大多数。"
    ],
    [
        "I have often mused that, by 2020, German companies (and policymakers) might prefer a monetary union with China to one with France, given that German-Chinese trade would likely continue to grow.",
        "我有时不禁会遐想，说不定到了2020年，因为德中贸易持续增长，德国企业（和政策制定者）可能更喜欢与中国（而不是法国）建立货币联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone can change a diaper, but not everyone can engage, stimulate, and respond to a baby or a toddler in a way that will build neurons, much less impart skills calibrated to the child’s stage of development.",
        "所有人都会换尿布，但不是所有人都能以能够塑造神经元参与、刺激和响应婴儿或幼童，拥有契合儿童发育阶段的传授技能的人就更少了。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro, and the countries that adopted it, are now paying the price.",
        "欧元以及采用欧元的国家如今正在为此付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-20’s decisions have become increasingly informal, while rule-making authority has been outsourced to private regulatory bodies, such as the Basel Committee and the International Accounting Standards Board.",
        "G-20的决定越来越不正式，而规则制定权被外包给了私人监管机构，如巴塞尔委员会（Basel Committee）和国际会计准则委员会（International Accounting Standards Board）"
    ],
    [
        "Its substance should be something like the following:",
        "它的本质应该象这个样子："
    ],
    [
        "As for the new state, it should be obligated to maintain at least the same level of fiscal transfers as before.",
        "对于新国家，应该负有至少保持与此前同等水平的财政转移的义务。"
    ],
    [
        "Where do we draw the line between West and East?",
        "我们如何区分东方和西方？"
    ],
    [
        "The price rises that followed OPEC’s oil embargoes of the 1970’s were unsustainable and led to conservation efforts and expansion of non-OPEC production.",
        "欧佩克20世纪70年代实行石油禁运造成的价格飞涨无法长期持续下去，直接导致了石油消费的减少和非欧佩克石油产量的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Abolitionists respond with two ethical arguments.",
        "死刑废除派也提出了两条道德理由作为回应。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in the early 1990's, American officials like me who were making long-term forecasts for the Clinton administration cautioned that it would be rash to forecast an average long-run growth rate of more than 2.5% per year - and that actual growth might turn out to be even slower.",
        "在上世纪90年代初，像我这样的美国官员在为克林顿政府作长期预测时都警告说长期平均2. 5%的年增长率预测过于轻率-实际的增长率可能比这一数字还要低。"
    ],
    [
        "And we must fight to uphold the nuclear deal with Iran and nuclear non-proliferation around the world.",
        "我们必须坚决支持伊朗核协议以及世界各国的核不扩散政策。"
    ],
    [
        "There was a time when Brown was thought to be a believer in traditional Labour Party values.",
        "布朗一度被认为是传统工党价值观的真正信仰者。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, speculators had little time to let the capital gains sink in and have a lasting impact on lifestyle expectations.",
        "结果，投机者没有时间让资本利得沉淀下来、形成持续的改善生活（lifestyle）效应。"
    ],
    [
        "There are large numbers of soldiers and police among the casualties, as well as civilians; and, partly as a byproduct of the fall of Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, Egypt is awash with weapons.",
        "伤亡者中既有大批军警、也有普通民众； 同时，作为利比亚卡扎菲倒台的副产品，埃及现在到处都是武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia’s New Entente",
        "亚洲的新友好关系"
    ],
    [
        "Water quality would be improved for more than 600 million people if the farms and ranches operating within their watersheds limited runoff and restored stream banks.",
        "如果在流域内进行耕作的农牧民在限制水土流失的同时修复河岸，就能够改善6亿多人的用水水质。"
    ],
    [
        "An immediate need is to counter the perception that any condemnatory response to an unfolding RtoP situation means stepping onto a slippery slope to military confrontation – a perception that Russia and China heavily milked in seeking to justify their vote against an early-stage Security Council resolution on Syria.",
        "当务之急是要反对这样一种观点，即对保护责任局势的任何谴责性反应无一例外意味着滑入军事对抗的深渊——俄中两国大量利用了这样的观点，目的是为其反对安理会的早期叙利亚决议找出理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Nehru’s economic vision had its flaws, giving rise, for example, to the so-called “license-permit-quota Raj,” under which government control stifled entrepreneurial activity, which in turn held growth rates below those of India’s Southeast Asian neighbors.",
        "当然，尼赫鲁的经济愿景尤其漏洞，比如，这催生了所谓的“执照许可配额统治”（license-permit-quota Raj），政府控制扼杀了企业家活动，反过来导致印度增长不及南亚邻国。"
    ],
    [
        "Each proposed measure has generated broad, bipartisan agreement among policymakers (at least behind closed doors).",
        "每一条建议措施都在决策者中间形成了跨党派的广泛一致（至少是幕后一致）。"
    ],
    [
        "And perhaps that is why federal arrangements like those in Australia and Canada – essentially what Westminster grudgingly offered Scotland – could be their best option.",
        "也许正因如此，澳大利亚和加拿大等国家的联邦制度可以成为他们的最佳选择——英国不情愿地向苏格兰所做的让步亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, for 300 million Arabs and more than one billion Muslims the “root cause” of the Middle East conflict is not Hezbollah.",
        "正因为如此，对3亿阿拉伯人和10多亿穆斯林来说，黎巴嫩真主党并不是中东战争的“最终根源”。"
    ],
    [
        "Consequently, the prestige of the Taliban and other militant groups operating in the area has grown.",
        "因此，塔利班以及其他在该地区活动的武装团体的声望上升了。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany",
        "德国"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to suggest, of course, that just because the EU cannot agree on a budget or a constitution Europe is approaching yet another historical calamity.",
        "当然，这不仅仅因为欧盟不能在财政预算上达成一致，也不意味着一个宪法体制的欧洲正在走向另外一个灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "European regulators have already introduced sophisticated monitoring and surveillance programs, blocked market access to countries with a record of illegal fishing, penalized European rogue operators, and helped support “yellow or red carded” countries reform their fisheries laws.",
        "欧洲监管者已经引入了成熟的监控和监督计划，阻止铀非法捕捞的国家进入市场，惩罚欧洲流氓渔民，并帮助支持“红黄牌国家”改革渔业法。"
    ],
    [
        "Some commentators suggest that Wilders, born and raised as a Catholic in a provincial Dutch town, is, like his Muslim enemies, a true believer, driven by the goal of keeping Europe “Judeo-Christian.”",
        "有些评论家说，怀德是在荷兰的一个地方小镇出生长大的天主教徒。 他像他的穆斯林敌人一样也是一个虔诚的信徒，受到维持欧洲“犹太教和基督教”本质的目标的驱使。"
    ],
    [
        "No black person, American or otherwise, is in the top 200.",
        "没有黑人，不管是美国还是其他国家的黑人，跻身前200名。"
    ],
    [
        "This is probably a legitimate goal – he sells decent products – but the reality of the world is that relationships, even around so-called shared interests, are not necessarily symmetrical.",
        "这或许是个合理的目标——他贩卖的东西相当好——但这个世界的现实是关系并不一定是对称的，甚至围绕所谓的共同利益的关系也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "That occupation began between August 28 and September 5, 1945, when the Soviet Union hurriedly nullified the existing Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty and invaded not only Japanese-occupied Manchuria, but also southern Sakhalin Island and the ancient Japanese territories of Etorofu Island, Kunashiri Island, Shikotan Island, and the Habomai Islands.",
        "其占领史始于1945年8月28日至9月5日期间，当时苏联匆忙撕毁苏日中立条约，不但入侵了日占满洲，还攻占了库页岛南部和日本固有领土择捉岛、国后岛、色丹岛和齿舞群岛。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, however, the MDGs were a public-relations triumph, which is not to belittle their contribution.",
        "不过，毫无疑问，MDG称得上公关胜利，这么说并不是要贬低它们的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps we are just seeing the beginnings of a changing of the guard, and that HSBC and Citibank will be replaced as global players by China’s ICBC, Brazil’s Itau Unibanco, or Russia’s Sberbank.",
        "也许我们所看到的仅仅是卫兵交接仪式，花旗银行和汇丰银行的全球地位由中国工商银行、巴西伊塔乌联合银行（Itau Unibanco）、俄罗斯联邦储蓄银行（Sberbank）取而代之。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Economic policymakers seeking successful models to emulate apparently have an abundance of choices nowadays.",
        "普林斯顿—如今，寻找可供模仿的成功模式的经济决策者有大把的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "So, too, were new digital technologies that freed up information and facilitated communication among ordinary citizens, essentially dismantling the monopolies that many governments held on knowledge and connectivity.",
        "此外，促成变革的还有带来信息解放和促进普通民众交流、并从根本上瓦解了许多政府对知识和联系方式垄断地位的全新数字技术。"
    ],
    [
        "As Justice Stevens wrote, “The crime of ‘conspiracy’ . . . does not appear in either the Geneva Conventions or the Hague Conventions – the major treaties on the law of war.”",
        "正如史蒂文斯法官所论述的那样：“‘同谋’罪在日内瓦公约和海牙公约这两大战争公约中都没有出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it is erroneous to compare the present with the late 1990’s. Italy and Spain are at very different points in the economic cycle now than they were then.",
        "此外，将现在与20世纪90年代末相比也是不正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Revealingly, the Vatican, knowing that it cannot win, is currently campaigning strongly for mass abstention.",
        "梵蒂冈很清楚它无法赢得这场公投，因此现在正在全力计划大规模的弃投。"
    ],
    [
        "With today’s population of 7.3 billion expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050, food demand will increase accordingly.",
        "今天的73亿人口预计到2030年将变为85亿，到2050年将变为97亿，食物需求也将相应增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the scale of Ukraine’s current problems and dysfunction, an elegant solution may neither be available nor sufficient.",
        "鉴于乌克兰当前问题及障碍的规模，优雅的解决方案可能既不存在也远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the government maintains high buffers: debt is relatively low, and foreign-exchange reserves are relatively high.",
        "此外政府依然拥有较大的缓冲空间︰ 债务相对较低，外汇储备相对较高。"
    ],
    [
        "There’s nothing like a good scandal or two to discourage already unenthusiastic followers.",
        "让已经失去热情的追随者“反水”不需要丑闻。"
    ],
    [
        "The two institutions that seemed most dynamic and effective in 2008-2009 were the International Monetary Fund and the G-20; the credibility of both has been steadily eroded over the long course of the crisis.",
        "2008-2009年最具活力和成效的两家机构是国际货币基金组织（IMF）和G-20，但两者的信誉在漫长的危机进程中均有所削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in view of America’s long history of neglect of energy security and resilience, the notion that Barack Obama’s administration is responsible for rising gas prices makes little sense.",
        "但是，考虑到美国长期不重视能源安全和弹性，因此奥巴马政府需要对汽油价格升高负责的说法是站不住脚的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama administration is promising to pick up losses to persuade hedge funds and other private investors to buy out banks’ bad assets.",
        "奥巴马政府承诺会说服那些对冲基金和私人投资者，让他们购买银行的坏帐，承担起应负的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom’s National Autistic Society reports that just 16% of autistic adults in Britain have full-time paid employment, and only 32% have any kind of paid work, compared to 47% for disabled people and 80% for non-disabled people.",
        "据英国自闭症协会（National Autistic Society）报告，在英国的成年自闭症患者中，只有16%拥有全职有薪工作，只有32%拥有有薪工作，而残障人士和无残障人士拥有有薪工作的比例为47%和80%。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the lower dollar means cheaper oil in Europe, Asia, and all countries with appreciating currencies.",
        "当然，便宜的美元意味着在欧洲、亚洲和其他所有货币在升值的国家里石油更便宜。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten years after opting out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, North Korea clearly possesses nuclear weapons.",
        "退出核不扩散条约十年后，朝鲜显然已经掌握了核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "But flattening is reversible.",
        "但这种平坦化的进程是可逆的。"
    ],
    [
        "The fear premium in oil markets may significantly rise and increase oil prices by 20%, leading to negative growth effects in the US, Europe, Japan, China, India and all other advanced economies and emerging markets that are net oil importers.",
        "石油市场的恐慌性溢价可能会显著上升，因而引起石油价格上涨20%，这就会导致美国、欧洲、日本、中国、印度和所有其他石油净进口的发达国家及新兴市场出现负增长效应。"
    ],
    [
        "They cannot possibly achieve all 169 targets at once, so they focus on only some of them.",
        "它们不可能一次性实现全部169项目标，因此它们只把注意力集中在其中某些工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The bigger an economy, the greater its systemic importance, and the more leverage its political representatives have in international decision-making.",
        "一个经济，其规模越大，其系统重要性就越高，其政治代表在国际决策中的分量也越重。"
    ],
    [
        "So, too, did the Bank of England, though it was a bit slower to react.",
        "英格兰银行亦然，尽管其反应速度稍慢一些。"
    ],
    [
        "As the late Grand Ayatollah Ali Montazeri put it, the regime’s brutality towards its own people has rendered it “neither Islamic nor a Republic.”",
        "正如已故大阿亚图拉阿里·蒙塔泽里所说，这个政权对其民众的残暴行径已经使之陷入了“既违反了伊斯兰教义，也不像个共和国”的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "A story is constructed, which rationalizes one’s discomfort as reflecting an awareness of some general evil.",
        "患者编造一个故事，将自身的不适应归结为由某种普遍的邪恶现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Having sent his foreign minister to Havana to ask, he received a surprising response: Cuba did wish to attend, despite having rejected in 2009 an invitation to return to the OAS.",
        "他派外交部长前往哈瓦那探听虚实，结果得到了出人意料的回答：古巴确实希望参会，尽管该国曾在2009年拒绝了重回OAS的邀请。"
    ],
    [
        "And, just as the 1973 US-North Vietnam agreements were negotiated after the South Vietnamese regime was shut out of the talks, the US today is shutting out the Afghan government, even as it compels President Hamid Karzai to lend support and appears ready to meet a Taliban demand to transfer five incarcerated Taliban leaders from Guantánamo Bay.",
        "此外，正如1973年，美国和北越在南越没有参与的情况下协商达成协议一样，如今美国也把阿富汗政府拒在了门外，尽管美国还要求哈米德•卡尔扎伊总统提供支持，似乎准备满足塔利班的要求，释放关在关塔那摩监狱的五名塔利班领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "But migration should not be considered good or bad; it is simply natural to the human condition.",
        "但移民其实不分好坏，它只是人类的一种天性。"
    ],
    [
        "They failed to get that vote, and early elections were called.",
        "但最终他们丢掉了那个席位，随后提前选举程序启动。"
    ],
    [
        "And he has launched his initiative without waiting for approval from ECB and EU officials, who blocked an earlier “bad bank” plan under German pressure.",
        "他等不及欧洲央行和欧盟官员的批准便启动了他的计划，后两者曾在德国的压力下阻止了早前的“坏银行”计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Constant reminders and repetition are essential.",
        "不断地提醒和重复至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "I was about to be interviewed by the CNBC reporter Steve Sedgwick, to whom I said, “That would be a first.",
        "当时我正要接受CNBC财经有线电视台记者史蒂夫·塞齐维克（Steve Sedgwick）的采访，我对他说：“那将是第一次。"
    ],
    [
        "David Miles of the Bank of England predicts three more financial crises in the coming two decades.",
        "英格兰银行的大卫·迈尔斯预测在未来20年内还将再发生3次经济危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite scientific critics of the Club of Rome’s methods, the public was ready to believe the dire forecast.",
        "尽管有对罗马俱乐部研究方法的科学批评，但是公众仍然准备相信这个可怕的预言。"
    ],
    [
        "What really shocked the markets was not the Fed’s decision to maintain zero interest rates for a few more months, but the statement that accompanied it.",
        "真正震惊市场的并不是美联储决定维持零利率数月，而是伴随这个决定的声明。"
    ],
    [
        "That said, when it comes to respecting minority rights, democracies have a far better record than autocracies.",
        "也就是说，在尊重少数族裔权利问题上，民主政体相比独裁政体有着明显的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "The residual suspicion that lingers in countries like China and Korea sets limits on Japan’s appeal that are reinforced every time the Japanese prime minister visits the Yasukuni Shrine.",
        "中国和韩国对于日本的疑虑尤存，日本首相每次参拜靖国神社都限制了日本的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Kosovo remains in political limbo to this day.",
        "如今科索沃在政治上还是悬而未决。"
    ],
    [
        "Each eurozone member state would pay into a European Monetary Fund in proportion to its national income and level of trade.",
        "各欧元区成员国根据国民收入和贸易水平，出资成立欧洲货币基金组织。"
    ],
    [
        "But the young Britons who voted overwhelmingly to remain a part of Europe almost certainly will.",
        "但那些压倒性投票支持留欧的年轻人却肯定能看到。"
    ],
    [
        "The private waste-management company ITC receives thousands of tons of solid municipal waste each day.",
        "私营废物处理公司ITC每天接收数千吨的固体城市废物。"
    ],
    [
        "Service-sector reform is vital as well.",
        "服务业改革同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, Europe, and Japan have produced comparable amounts of wealth over the long term. Yet their labor markets, corporate governance, antitrust rules, social protection, and financial systems differ considerably, with a succession of these “models” – a different one each decade – anointed the great success to be emulated.",
        "美国、欧洲和日本长期以来创造的财富具有可比性，但他们在劳动力市场、企业治理、反垄断规则、社会保障和金融体系方面的差异都非常显著，每十年更迭的国家典范为后世树立起模仿的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Afghan expatriates in the Gulf states, who have invested roughly $5 billion in regional and global trading networks, are reluctant to invest in their homeland.",
        "移居海湾国家的阿富汗人已经在地区和全球贸易网络中投资了大约50亿美元，但即使是他们也不愿意在祖国投资。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last quarter of 2015 alone, the net capital outflow amounted to $367 billion.",
        "光是2015年四季度，净资本流出就高达3,670亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Tocqueville focused on the consequences of the destruction of caste as a principle of social and political order.",
        "托克维尔注重作为社会和政治秩序原则的社会等级的破坏的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "While this is an over-simplification, it is understandable.",
        "这固然过度简化了，但也可以理解。"
    ],
    [
        "A loan to the Indian government will have a risk weight of 50%, and one to a riskier Argentina will be weighted at 150%.",
        "贷给印度政府的贷款，风险权重为50%，风险更高的阿根廷贷款，风险权重将是150%。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not a shareholders’ spring: it is the winter of their discontent.",
        "这不是股东之春，而是股东失望之冬。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there are notable differences between North Korea and Iran.",
        "当然，朝鲜和伊朗之间有着重大不同。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while EU emissions stay the same, most electric batteries come from Asia, so an extra 11.5 tons of emissions will not be offset.",
        "16吨/为电动汽车购买的电力。 但是，尽管欧盟排放量维持不变，但大部分电池来自亚洲，因此会有新增的11."
    ],
    [
        "As we do this, we will engage in a practical and principled way, sharing global responsibilities with our partners and contributing to their strengths.",
        "在进行这些任务时，我们将以务实和守原则的方式参与，于我们的合作伙伴共同承担全球责任、增进它们的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "With graduation rates and government spending easy to calculate, educational quality, which is difficult to measure, is likely to be the objective that slips.",
        "因为毕业率和政府开支很容易计算，难以衡量的教育质量就可能成为被忽略的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the recent past is any guide to the near future, the IMF’s views will be trumped.",
        "但如果过去能给未来任何启示，国际货币基金组织的观点将被抛到脑后。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the legally mandated savings rate is only 10% of the monthly wage, and men and women can retire at 65 and 60, respectively – figures that are much lower than the OECD average.",
        "此外，法律规定的储蓄率仅为月工资的10%，而男性和女性的退休年龄分别为65岁和60岁——远低于经合组织国家的平均数。"
    ],
    [
        "Yahya Khan responded by sending in the troops.",
        "叶海亚·汗派出了军队。"
    ],
    [
        "The contrast is starkest in emerging countries, but differences also exist among the advanced economies.",
        "这些对比在新兴市场国家最为明显，但差别同样出现在发达国家之间。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is little hope of this unless the people and leaders of Northern and Southern Sudan come together and fully implement the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.",
        "但除非南北苏丹的人民和领袖开始合作落实《全面和平协定》，这样的愿望几乎不可能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if Hezbollah can adjust to the Arab Spring, it fears the winter with Israel that might follow.",
        "即使真主党能够适应阿拉伯之春，他仍旧担心以色列之冬会紧随其来。"
    ],
    [
        "It is unusual to witness a clash of views among monetary policymakers that is so radical and clear-cut that it has grabbed wider political and media attention.",
        "货币决策者之间出现如此清晰彻底的观点对立，以至于引起了更广泛的政治和媒体关注，这是极不寻常的。"
    ],
    [
        "Under this scheme, each worker would have an individual account balance (treated as an IRA from a tax perspective), but the assets that secure the plan’s benefits would be held in a pooled trust, with a real return guaranteed by private insurance and paid out as an annuity upon retirement.",
        "在这一制度下，每名员工可以获得个人账户余额（税收待遇等同IRA），但确保该计划收益的资产将由资金池信托持有，实际回报由私人保险担保，从退休开始以年金的形式发放。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, Trump could work with Russian President Vladimir Putin to help Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s anti-EU nationalist right, win April’s presidential election.",
        "在这方面，特朗普可以与俄罗斯总统普京合作帮助法国反欧盟民族主义右翼领导人马琳·勒庞（Marine Le Pen）赢得4月份的总统竞选。"
    ],
    [
        "The population’s outraged response to these events was visceral, and previously unknown figures such as the anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare rallied thousands of Indians in meetings across the country to protest against government corruption.",
        "人民对这些事件爆发了发自肺腑的愤怒，先前默默无闻的反复活动家，如阿纳·哈扎尔（Anna Hazare）发动了数以千计的印度人在全国开展机会运动，向政府腐败示威。"
    ],
    [
        "The main question is whether India’s parliament will pass crucial legislation or remain paralyzed by hyper-partisan, scandal-fueled infighting.",
        "主要的问题就是印度议会究竟能否通过关键的立法，还是依然在极端派系化且丑闻频出的内斗中继续僵持。"
    ],
    [
        "Organizations working together can make a difference.",
        "各组织合作能够带来不同。"
    ],
    [
        "And they really need to stop saying things that are untrue – for example, that central banks’ policy arsenal is not just exhaustible, but also nearly exhausted.",
        "它们确实需要停止说不真实的东西——比如，央行政策武器库不但可能耗尽，而且已经接近耗尽了。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the key is to make this effort work.",
        "现在的关键是要收到实效。"
    ],
    [
        "Or has the company peaked?",
        "或者，苹果公司已经达到了巅峰期？"
    ],
    [
        "The Business Case for Sustainability",
        "从商业角度论可持续性"
    ],
    [
        "During his presidential campaign in 2000, George W. Bush promised to renounce nation-building adventures abroad, to maintain fiscal discipline, and to treat greenhouses gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.",
        "2000年选战期间，小布什承诺放弃海外建国行动，保持财政纪律，并将温室气体作为污染物写入清洁空气法。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan, like the Federal Reserve before them, are gluttonously buying bonds.",
        "欧洲央行、日本央行像之前的美联储一样，正进行大规模债券买入。"
    ],
    [
        "One lesson provided by former American presidents is the value of direct, high-level contacts with key adversaries.",
        "诸位前任总统留下的教训是与对手展开高层次的直接对话非常有效。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the 1990s, the oil and gas industry and its allies perfected the art of blocking America’s support for key global climate-change initiatives.",
        "整个20世纪90年代，石油天然气行业及其盟友完善了阻止美国支持重大全球气候变化举措的艺术。"
    ],
    [
        "Amid the current furor over electronic eavesdropping, the notion that individuals should decide who can access their personal data is particularly appealing.",
        "在最近关于电子窃听的汹涌民意中，谁可以获得个体的个人数据必须由个体自己决定这一概念显得特别有号召力。"
    ],
    [
        "The factors contributing to its rise and undue power, however, remain unclear.",
        "但是，导致这一阶级崛起和拥有过度权力的的因素仍不清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "That is more than the number of people who currently die of cancer, and greater than the number of deaths from diabetes, lung cancer, road traffic accidents, diarrhoeal disease, and HIV combined.",
        "这一数字比目前死于癌症、糖尿病、肺癌、交通事故、腹泻症和艾滋病的总数还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "An annual stimulus equivalent to just 0.3% of GDP yields a return in the US of 0.8% in economic growth at its peak in 2013, and 0.4% in Europe.",
        "3%的年度刺激计划可以为美国的GDP带来0. 8%的贡献，并在2013年达到顶峰，而同样的计划则能让欧洲的GDP取得0."
    ],
    [
        "But, like most temptations, the urge to gloat at America’s imperfections and struggles ought to be resisted.",
        "但是，和大多数诱惑一样，急于盯住美国的不完美性和麻烦应该被克制。"
    ],
    [
        "There was a time when north-south migratory flows in the western hemisphere were limited to Mexico and the Caribbean.",
        "先前有段时期，西半球的南北向移民流动局限于墨西哥以及加勒比。"
    ],
    [
        "But Obama’s victory might also be a testament to most US voters’ basic sense of economic reality.",
        "但奥巴马的胜利或许也证实了大部分美国选民对经济现实的基本观感。"
    ],
    [
        "The caps on member states’ budget deficits and public debt imposed by the Maastricht criteria have proven relatively early on to be of limited use in the real world, and the same is true for the monitoring tools linked to these limits.",
        "尽管《马斯特里赫特条约》给各成员国的预算赤字和公共债务规定了上限，但危机爆发后，这一套规定和相关的监管机制在严酷的现实面前显得作用有限。"
    ],
    [
        "On several occasions in the post-WWII period, the US has learned with great pain that there are limits to the effective use of military power.",
        "在二战结束后的几次战争中，美国从惨痛的代价中学到了军事实力的有效运用无法解决所有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The price of oil has fallen more than 25% in the past five months, to less than $80 a barrel.",
        "美国剑桥—在过去五个月中，石油价格下跌超过25%至80美元/桶以下。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, one had to be able to hoodwink more or less reputable news outlets to plant fake stories.",
        "过去，造假者必须蒙蔽受人尊敬的新闻媒体才能植入假消息。"
    ],
    [
        "But, judging by Article 8 of the CoE’s European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which Ukraine has ratified, it seems reasonable to expect that changes won’t be needed.",
        "但是，根据乌克兰已经批准了的欧盟理事会《欧洲区域性或少数民族语言宪章》第8条，这一法律规定照理无需更改。"
    ],
    [
        "Even at $75 or $80 a barrel, these governments will have a difficult time financing the populist programs that they need to maintain public support.",
        "即使以75—80美元/桶的价格算，这些政府也将难以为维持公共支持所需要的民粹主义计划融资。"
    ],
    [
        "“The aqueduct,” concedes a sheepish co-conspirator. “And sanitation,” says a second, as others pipe up with more examples.",
        "“水渠，”一位同谋怯生生地说，“还有下水道，”另一名同谋说，接着，其他人也纷纷开始举例。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, three-quarters of Internet users get online via mobile phones already; in Ethiopia and Uganda, four out of five do.",
        "在中国，四分之三的互联网用户已经通过移动电话上网； 在埃塞俄比亚和乌干达，这一比例达到了五分之四。"
    ],
    [
        "They see discussing “energy security” with Russia as akin to chatting about water safety with Comrade Crocodile.",
        "在他们看来，与俄国讨论“能源安全”就跟与鳄鱼同志探讨用水安全的问题一样荒唐可笑。"
    ],
    [
        "Apparently, Amri’s expulsion from Germany was postponed, owing to the Tunisian bureaucracy’s slowness in confirming his citizenship.",
        "显而易见，阿米尔从德国的驱逐出境被迫推迟，因为突尼斯官僚体制在确认其公民身份的过程中效率低下。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite communism’s ideological bankruptcy, China has not changed in this regard.",
        "尽管共产主义的意识形态已经破产了，但是中国在这方面并没有改变。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, Ukraine is closer to being a \"state nation\" than many people think.",
        "恰恰相反，乌克兰比多数人想象的更接近\"国家民族\"的理想。"
    ],
    [
        "FRANKFURT – In six months, representatives from countries around the world will gather in Paris in an effort to reach a global accord to fight climate change.",
        "法兰克福—六个月后，世界各国代表将齐聚巴黎，为达成对抗气候变化的全球协定努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Park is tough-minded on national security, but takes up new issues and agendas with a refreshing combination of intellectual energy and personal calm.",
        "朴槿惠在国家安全方面态度强硬，但却以前所未有的智慧和平静探讨新的议题。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Suppose a group of workers frequently communicate among themselves, and then suddenly one of them gets left off all the “copy-tos.” “It could be that they’re planning a surprise birthday party,” says Elizabeth Charnock, whose company, Cataphora, analyzes e-mail traffic and content as well as other documents, primarily for clients involved in litigation and crime detection.",
        "发自纽约——试想有一帮员工经常在自己的小圈子里互通有无，不料突然之间所有人都与某个人断绝了消息。 “大概他们正在策划一个生日惊喜，”伊丽莎白·夏诺克如是说，她经营着一间名叫Cataphora的公司，主要为那些卷入了法律诉讼或者犯罪调查的客户分析电子邮件及其它各类文件。"
    ],
    [
        "It is precisely because Japan depends so heavily on the international community for the stability of its external environment that we wish to work even more proactively for world peace.",
        "正因为日本如此依赖国际社会维持其外部环境稳定，我们才希望更加积极地位世界和平做出贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Donald Trump Versus Mideast Peace",
        "特朗普和中东和平"
    ],
    [
        "Official development assistance and multilateral bank lending, though valuable, remain insufficient.",
        "官方对发展扶持和多边银行的贷款尽管有价值，但是仍然不够。"
    ],
    [
        "In December, US President Barack Obama talked of the need for a new “Sputnik moment” to revitalize America’s once-leading role in technology.",
        "12月，美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马谈到需要新的“卫星时刻”，重振美国一度领先的太空科技。"
    ],
    [
        "But the element of personal dependence is a throwback to the preindustrial world.",
        "但个人依赖是指向前工业化时代的倒退元素。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever else he might be, Romney does not come across as a convincing war leader.",
        "无论罗姆尼有哪些潜质，但他绝不是一位令人信服的战争领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last two decades, the world as a whole has gotten richer, but, while some national economies have advanced sharply, others have fallen farther behind.",
        "在过去20年中，世界总体而言变得更为富有。 但是，尽管某些国家的经济大幅增长，其他一些国家则大为落后。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Relationships between London banks and their regulators are not especially warm just now.",
        "发自伦敦——最近伦敦各大银行与其监管者之间的关系似乎并不特别融洽。"
    ],
    [
        "It has been the same with many of our changes.",
        "我们的许多变化也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But, just as the Turkish military’s repeated interventions against a perceived Islamist threat have impeded democracy, so the Egyptian military’s toppling of Morsi will not help to restore it.",
        "但是，正如土耳其军队一再干预被认为的伊斯兰威胁妨碍了民主，埃及军队推翻穆尔西也无助于重建民主。"
    ],
    [
        "Even demographic trends favor Indonesia, which, with 230 million people, is already the fourth largest country in the world by population – a full Germany (80-plus million) larger than Russia.",
        "印尼的人口结构也有优势，目前人口2. 3亿，是世界上第四大人口大国——相当于德国（八千多万）和俄罗斯人口加起来的总和。"
    ],
    [
        "The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the European Union has an even more ambitious reach, promising to join two giant regions that together account for half of world trade.",
        "而与欧盟合作构建的泛大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系（Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership）则更具野心，试图将占全球贸易总量1/2的两大板块连成一片。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the lack of scientific justification for skepticism about genetically engineered crops – indeed, no cases of harm to humans or disruption to ecosystems have been documented – they have been the most scrutinized foods in human history.",
        "对转基因作物的怀疑缺乏科学依据——事实上，从未有过有记录的人体伤害和生态系统破坏发生——但转基因作物仍是人类历史上被审视最严格的粮食。"
    ],
    [
        "The offence has caused a breach in relations and this breach needs to be healed.",
        "犯罪行为破坏了社会关系，这种破坏需要人为的修补。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the shared vision and direction needed to buttress a new, modern global order.",
        "我们需要这样的共同愿景和方向来支持新的现代全球秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "All are casting a shadow on the future of the global economic system.",
        "所有这些都给全球经济体系的未来蒙上了一层阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "At the police station, he asked the protestor, “Why are you denouncing dictatorship in Pakistan when it exists here?”",
        "在警察局，他问这个抗议者：“为什么专政主义在这里，你却公然抨击巴基斯坦的？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "That means abandoning the fantasy that it can or should determine who rules in the Middle East.",
        "这意味着放弃它能够或应该决定谁主宰中东的幻想。"
    ],
    [
        "Many observers are asking whether these reductions are deep enough.",
        "许多观察家都在询问上述减排措施是否充分。"
    ],
    [
        "Winning the European Confidence Game",
        "夺取欧洲信心战的胜利"
    ],
    [
        "There is, however, shame in loyalty to a disgraced or deplorable party or cause.",
        "但是，忠于斯文扫地、糟糕透顶的政党或事业倒是一个耻辱。"
    ],
    [
        "What accounts for the apparent lack of effective policy action across a broad range of countries and regions?",
        "为什么如此多的国家和地区都显然没有拿出有效的政策措施？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, any balancing tends to take place in order to preserve the hierarchy, not to replace or supersede it.",
        "事实上，任何平衡行为的出现都是为了 保护 这种多级体系，而不是接替或者取代它。"
    ],
    [
        "The extra value provided by globalization amounted to $7.8 trillion in 2014 alone.",
        "全球化所带来的增加值在2014年一年就高达7. 8万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, programs for the eurozone periphery have been spearheaded and largely financed by European governments, with the IMF contributing financially, but mainly acting as an external consultant – the third party that tells the client the nasty bits while everyone else in the room stares at their shoes.",
        "到目前为止，为欧元区外围国家制定的计划均由欧洲政府牵头并提供主要资金，IMF会在财务上有所支持，但主要扮演外部顾问的角色——即在房间里的所有人都自顾自时告诉客户房间里有恶棍的第三方。"
    ],
    [
        "When inequality reaches such proportions, it erodes the very basis of the social contract.",
        "当不平等达到如此程度时，社会契约的基础就会遭到破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "It is equally important to restart global trade talks and bring the Doha Round to a successful conclusion – not least in order to protect Africa from the risk of rising protectionism.",
        "同样重要的是，重新开始全球贸易谈判并且圆满结束多哈回合谈判，至少是让非洲免受不断上升的保护主义威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Successive Israeli governments have shown that they can meet and contain explosions of Palestinian frustration and rage.",
        "一代又一代以色列政府证明，他们可以面对并遏制巴勒斯坦失望和愤怒的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Antifragility is crucial in large economies like China, where administration is largely centralized, but activities are dispersed among families, civil society, markets, and the various levels of government.",
        "抗脆弱性对中国这样的大国至关重要，因为中央政府行政权力相对集中，但日常活动主体却分散在家庭、民间团体、市场和各级地方政府。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 13,000 fishermen were killed and another 5,000 evacuated in Sri Lanka alone, with 80% of the fishing fleet lost or severely damaged.",
        "一万三千多名渔夫死于海啸，另有五千名渔夫撤离至斯里兰卡，80%的渔船队失踪或严重损坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon, the gulag was virtually emptied; a political thaw began, spurring whispers of freedom that could not be contained.",
        "此后不久，苏联古拉格劳改营里的犯人几乎都被释放，一股政治解冻的暖流开始在苏联出现，但却也激发了许许多多这个政权所不能容忍的，与自由有关的秘密言论。"
    ],
    [
        "But why care about the increase in temperature, if not because of its impact on life on Earth, including human life?",
        "但要不是气温升高影响到包括人类在内的地球上的生命，为什么还要关注这个问题？"
    ],
    [
        "Given the high rate of growth in China’s money supply, there could be considerable pressures for the yuan to actually depreciate, because a rate of monetary growth that exceeds the growth rate of economic activity tends to cause a currency’s exchange rate to fall.",
        "考虑到中国货币供应的高速增长，实际上人民币贬值的压力非常大，因为货币增长速度超过经济活动增长速度通常会导致货币的货率下降。"
    ],
    [
        "That approach amounts to communitarianism, not multiculturalism.",
        "”这种观念代表的是社群主义，而不是多元文化。"
    ],
    [
        "They will then proceed to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.",
        "接着，他们会把砍刀挥向医疗保险（Medicare）、医疗补助（Medicaid）和社会保险。"
    ],
    [
        "But this time, as perhaps never before, a bipartisan isolationist impulse is being driven by the budget.",
        "但这一回可能与前几次都不一样，预算问题正在催生跨党派孤立主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, this is one reason why Obama gained a reputation for charisma.",
        "很显然，这就是他为何以魅力著称的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Hezbollah is now not only militarily stronger than ever – Security Council Resolution 1701, which called for its disarmament, has proven to be an utter failure – but also more politically robust than before the war.",
        "事实上，真主党不仅在军事实力上变得前所未有的强大——要求真主党裁军的安理会1701号决议已经成为完全失败——而且，在政治上比战争前更有活力。"
    ],
    [
        "The cuts would also increase the costs to hospitals that provide care that is not reimbursed.",
        "联邦资金削减也将增加提供医疗服务的医院的逃费成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Casual racism – disparaging remarks made about other ethnic and national groups around the workplace, or over the bar or the family dinner table (as I can well remember growing up in the 1950’s) – had become much less prevalent in Australian private life, and certainly wholly absent from public life, by the 1990’s.",
        "非故意的种族主义——在工作场所，酒吧或者家庭餐桌上（正如我在1950年代的童年记忆）所发表的对其他种族或者国家团体的歧视性言论——在1990年代澳大利亚人的私人生活中已经越来越少，而且完全在公共生活中被消灭了。"
    ],
    [
        "But the government should not operate like a bank or a hedge fund, loading up on short-term debt to fund long-term projects.",
        "但政府不应该向银行或对冲基金那样操作，用短期债务为长期项目融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Led by former Attorney General Dominic Grieve, the rebel Tory MPs refused to countenance such a step, regardless of the cost.",
        "在前检察长多米尼克·格里夫（Dominic Grieve）的领导下，反叛的保守党议员们不惜一切代价拒绝这一做法。"
    ],
    [
        "All that is needed is political will.",
        "欧洲和发展中国家政府迫切需要转变对转基因作物的偏见，惟其如此，方能保证所有人可持续的食品安全。"
    ],
    [
        "And when budget cuts extend to education, it is their children who are unable to gain the skills they need to reach their future potential.",
        "而当预算削减影响到教育时，他们的孩子就无法获得实现未来潜力所需要的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s citizens increasingly regard security as a high-priority issue and want the EU to show greater leadership.",
        "欧洲民众日益将安全视为优先问题，并希望欧盟发挥进一步的领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But all wood-related products represent barely 20% of Finland’s exports.",
        "芬兰也这么做了。 但所有木材相关产品加起来只占芬兰出口的20%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "It is those values, after all, that set them apart: as Tillerson recognized, while Trump’s upcoming visit to Beijing will undoubtedly draw much global attention, the US cannot have the kind of relationship with non-democratic China that it can have with a major democracy.",
        "毕竟，正是这些价值观让它们产生了分裂：蒂勒森承认，尽管即将到来的特朗普北京之旅肯定会吸引全球关注，但美国不能与不民主的中国产生与民主大国所能产生的那种关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The boom in the world’s housing markets and stock markets between 2003 and 2006 was caused by this faulty idea, and the idea that investments in homes and equities are a sure route to wealth.",
        "2003年到2006年全球房地产市场和股票市场的繁荣，是由以上的错误观点以及投资房地产和股权是发财的可靠途径的观点造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative would be for UK exporters to accept the EU’s common external tariff, and for the UK to create its own import tariff, applied to all imports, including from the EU.",
        "另一套方案则是英国出口商接受欧盟的共同对外关税，同时英国创设自身的进口关税并适用于所有（包括来自欧盟的）进口商品。"
    ],
    [
        "If Franco-German rivalry shaped the era between 1870 and 1920, it was the conflict with Russia that defined the next 70 years.",
        "如果说法德对峙决定了1870—1920年，那么与俄罗斯的冲突就决定了此后的70年。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, high prices are helping in ways that Western politicians seem afraid to contemplate.",
        "价格高昂再一次帮助人类，这一途径西方政治人物连想都不敢想。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the stronger banks are being pressed to increase their capital reserves.",
        "就连相对健康的银行也被迫充实其资本金。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, it should not be reduced to “selfish genes.”",
        "当然，这不应该被归纳为“自私基因”。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, China’s leaders have agonized over North Korea’s recent provocations.",
        "事实上，中国领导人对朝鲜的最新挑衅行为感到十分恼怒。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, ever since Clinton’s election in 1992, those at the head of the Republican Party have believed that creating gridlock whenever a Democrat is in the White House, and thus demonstrating the government’s incapacity to act, is their best path to electoral success.",
        "此外，自从克林顿1992年当选以来，共和党领导人就认定，不论民主党谁当总统，都要在白宫制造僵局，以证明政府的无法作为，这是竞选成功的最佳之道。"
    ],
    [
        "Creating viable institutions for managing public debt in a democracy is difficult.",
        "在一个民主政体中创设切实可行的体系去管理公共负债是相当困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "This attitude goes a long way toward developing trust among team members and helps foster strong commitment to a common vision.",
        "这一态度非常有利于团队成员之间形成信任，也有助于为共同目标营造坚强承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Notably, billions of dollars of public property are at stake, owing to a privatization plan designed by former President Dimitri Medvedev.",
        "值得注意的是，因为前总统迪米特里·梅德韦杰夫设计的私有化计划，数十亿美元的公共财产正受到威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a classic “prisoner’s dilemma.”",
        "这是一个典型的“囚徒困境”。"
    ],
    [
        "Vietnam witnessed a dramatic fall in poverty, while in Mexico real wages fell.",
        "5%的速度快速增长。 越南的贫困人口大幅下降，而墨西哥的实际工资却有减无增。"
    ],
    [
        "In this trendy discourse, sovereignty means “empowerment,\" and EU institutions are “undemocratic.\"",
        "在上文提到的时髦言论中，主权和“权力”是一回事，而欧盟制度则等同于“不民主”。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest round has focused on the alleged activities of the Pakistani military’s powerful intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), in the United States.",
        "在美国，巴基斯坦强大的军方情报机构——三军情报局的所作所为成为新一轮摩擦的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "Managing mixed economies that include state-owned enterprises and an inchoate private sector will require discipline, so that productive assets are not squandered, or privatized at fire-sale prices.",
        "管理由国有企业和尚处于雏形阶段的私人部门组成的混合经济需要纪律，以保证生产资料不被浪费或以跳楼价私有化。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, unemployment in the eurozone has skyrocketed to an average rate of roughly 12%, with more than 50% youth unemployment in the periphery countries implying a long-term loss of talent and erosion of the tax base.",
        "此外，欧元区失业率水平达到了惊人的程度，平均为12%左右，外围国年轻人失业率更是超过了50%，这意味着人才的长期损失和税基的侵蚀。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, politics.",
        "简言之，政治。"
    ],
    [
        "He shied away from the inevitable confrontation with critics – among whom were friends and colleagues.",
        "他对难免的批评敬而远之——其中不乏来自朋友和同事者。"
    ],
    [
        "It should be evident by now that many of the world’s economies are undergoing some form of structural change, and in the wake of that change, the “jobs-productivity-income” distribution triangle has gone askew.",
        "如今，显而易见世界上许多经济体正在经历某种结构性变化，并且，这一变化导致了“就业岗位-生产率-收入”分配三角发生倾斜。"
    ],
    [
        "In Poland, a comment presenting the views of the German Ethics Council was posted online by Jan Hartman, a philosophy professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.",
        "在波兰，一则介绍德国伦理委员会观点的评论被克拉科夫雅盖隆大学的哲学教授哈特曼张贴到网上。"
    ],
    [
        "But how do we know if Mandeville is right about austerity?",
        "但我们怎么知道曼德维尔对于紧缩的判断是对的？"
    ],
    [
        "They must recognize the impact that national economic policies have on the euro area as a whole, and thus discuss and coordinate economic programs at the euro-area level.",
        "他们必须认识到各个国家的经济政策对欧元地区作为一个整体所产生的影响，因此，他们必须在整个欧元区的层面上来讨论和协调其经济计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But if interest rates don’t rise far enough, the value of the dollar will spiral downward and US inflation will spiral upward like in the 1970’s, setting the stage for the type of extremely painful measures imposed by then Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.",
        "但如果利率的提升不到位，美元的价值就会螺旋式下跌，而通货膨胀则会螺旋式上升，就像70年代那样。 这样的情况一旦发生就会为实施前美联储主席保罗·沃尔克曾采用过的那种极端痛苦的措施创造条件。"
    ],
    [
        "A Europe overwhelmed by a demographic challenge, in addition to its economic and security challenges, would be neither able nor willing to be an effective ally.",
        "除经济和安全难题外深陷人口困局的欧洲既不能也不愿扮演有效的盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinians have presented to their Israeli counterparts (through the Americans) a written offer that includes giving up lands occupied by Israel in 1967 and now populated by Israeli settlers. These lands would be swapped for other lands equal in size and importance.",
        "对此巴勒斯坦当局已经通过美国向以色列递交了一份书面草案，内容包括要求以色列放弃其在1967年占领的领土并退出目前被犹太人定居者强占的土地，同时也允许以色列以其他同等面积和重要性的土地进行交换。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal must be to ensure that recipient countries have oversight over how donor funds are spent.",
        "我们的目标必须是确保受援国有能力监督捐助资金的使用状况。"
    ],
    [
        "They should demonstrate to their governments that they will not succumb to divisive ideology.",
        "她们应该让她们的政府明白，她们不会屈从于分裂主义的意识形态。"
    ],
    [
        "A reformed Security Council would reflect the emergence of new powers and their readiness to contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security.",
        "改革后的安理会将反映新强国的崛起以及它们为维持国际和平与安全做出贡献的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the curtain gets lifted from time to time.",
        "但面纱总会被揭开。"
    ],
    [
        "The Japanese experience holds important lessons for Europe, where the demographic future looks a lot like Japan’s past.",
        "日本的经历对欧洲有极大的借鉴意义，因为目前看来后者的人口构成走向与过去的日本非常相似。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of Australia, however, such assertions ring particularly hollow – though that has not stopped Abbott’s government from trafficking in them.",
        "但是，在澳大利亚，这一主张显得特别空洞，但这并没有阻止阿伯特政府推行它。"
    ],
    [
        "They will probably find a way to thread this particular needle.",
        "他们可能会找到办法穿过这根特别的针。"
    ],
    [
        "Normally, a Davos audience would rally to the support of the central bankers.",
        "通常，达沃斯的与会者会一致支持中央银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Consistent with this, the US military presence is decreasing.",
        "与此一致，美国在伊拉克的军事存在在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In Vietnam, it is even higher and is expected to approach 18.2% this year, and in India it is 5.8% .",
        "在越南，通胀甚至更高而且预计将会在今年达到18. 2%。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, forecasting inflation is notoriously difficult.",
        "当然，众所周之，要想预测通货膨胀是异常困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s government is running real risks as it pushes through structural reforms that are unprecedented in speed, scale, and complexity.",
        "中国政府正以前所未有的速度、规模和复杂性来推进结构改革。 在这个过程中会面临一些失败的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly 250,000 hip replacements are performed in the US each year.",
        "美国每年进行大约25万个髋部更换手术。"
    ],
    [
        "Omar Suleiman’s appointment as Vice-President (and heir-apparent) indicates that the army has accepted that Mubarak must leave sooner or later.",
        "奥马尔·苏莱曼被指定为副总统（和确定的接班人）表明军队已经接受穆巴拉克迟早要卸任的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "In the process, the labor force of China’s state enterprises declined by 50 million, China lost 25 million manufacturing jobs, and central-government employment was slashed.",
        "在此过程中，中国国有企业职工人数减少了5 000万，全国减少了2 500万个制造业岗位，中央政府工作人员数量也大幅下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation is so volatile that we may not know everything the bill contains – and which special interests won out – until after it is passed.",
        "情况的波动性太大，以至于我们无法知道法案到底包含什么——以及哪些特殊利益集团会胜出——直到它被通过之后才会真相大白。"
    ],
    [
        "The current system underpins Spain’s soaring unemployment rate.",
        "现行制度是西班牙失业率飙升的推动器。"
    ],
    [
        "The changes run deeper, of course.",
        "当然，变化还要深刻。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent electoral triumph of Yukio Hatoyama’s untested DPJ thus confirmed the popular wish not to follow America’s free-market model.",
        "不久前鸠山由纪夫治下未经考验的日本民主党在选举中获胜证明了公众不愿追随美国的自由市场模式。"
    ],
    [
        "A few days before the parliamentary election, people were asked if they hoped for a better life.",
        "议会选举的前几天，公众被问及是否希望生活变得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, they doubt local governments’ ability to manage their budgets properly and to use the additional tax revenues efficiently.",
        "此外，中央政府怀疑地方政府是否有能力管好预算、高效地使用增加的税收收入。"
    ],
    [
        "So one can only wonder what he would have made of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.",
        "要是他看了佛罗里达州坦帕市的共和党全国大会上仍作如是观，那真是有鬼了。"
    ],
    [
        "In such cases, the physician must determine how close his or her patient’s situation matches that in the relevant studies.",
        "此时，医生必须确定他的患者的状况与相关研究的匹配程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Several national networks and consortia have already developed models for estimating the breast cancer risk in women with a positive family history.",
        "有几家全国性的网络和联盟已经研发出评估阳性家族史妇女罹患乳腺癌风险的模型。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the state competes with the private sector via state-owned enterprises and utilities.",
        "最后，政府通过国有企业和公用事业与私人企业竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "But the ECB seems temperamentally incapable of adopting the same approach, given fear and loathing in northern Europe of radical monetary action.",
        "但欧洲央行暂时还无法采取相同的方针，因为北欧担心和厌恶激进的货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF took steps in this direction in March, particularly by creating the Flexible Credit Line for crisis-prevention purposes, as well as expanding other credit lines and overhauling conditionality (relying more on ex-ante conditionality and eliminating structural performance criteria).",
        "今年三月份，国际货币基金组织采取了措施，特别是通过为了预防危机而创设的灵活信贷额度、扩大其他的信贷额度以及修改贷款条件（现在国际货币基金组织更多的依靠事前设定条件，取消了结构性表现标准）的方式，在向这个方向进行努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is also a healthy element of competition.",
        "当然，竞争也有健康要素。"
    ],
    [
        "Cameron’s call for a referendum, first issued when he was in opposition, was an attempt to appease both sides, allowing each to stick to their principles while promising to give voters the final say.",
        "当年卡梅伦第一次呼吁公投时还是在野，这样做只是为了安抚双方势力，既让他们得以各自保留自身的原则，同时还能把包袱甩给选民。"
    ],
    [
        "If cutting into Iran’s oil income fails to weaken Ahmadinejad, the US would retain military options.",
        "如果减少伊朗的石油收入没能削弱内贾德的地位，那么美国还保留着采取军事行动的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Such studies are very costly, and, by any reasonable standard, the number of patients included in them is grossly excessive.",
        "这些研究成本巨大，而且从任何的合理标准看，接受试验的病患数量都大大过多了。"
    ],
    [
        "NATO is often described as a construction with two pillars and an architrave symbolizing the common values that form the basis of the alliance. But even during the Cold War, Americans often pointed out that the European pillar was lacking.",
        "北约组织从来被认为是“两根支柱（美欧），一条横梁（共同的价值观）”，但即便是冷战时期，美国也经常指责欧洲那根“支柱”形同虚设，而美国人想要的则是更大程度上的“责任分担”。"
    ],
    [
        "If one accounts for consumer goods expenditure on imports, that 10% appreciation would lower inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), by just 0.5 percentage points in the first two quarters.",
        "如果你考虑进口消费品支出，那么10%的升值在前两个季度内将仅仅让通胀——用消费物价指数（CPI）衡量——下降0. 5个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "The list of urgent challenges facing humanity is depressingly long.",
        "人类面临的急迫挑战数不胜数。"
    ],
    [
        "If European leaders tried the same approach with Britain, they might be surprised by the favorable response.",
        "如果欧盟领导人对英国采取这样的方式，他们可能会惊讶于由此带来的有利反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the campaign, he has vacillated wildly between poise and pugilism, sometimes in the same day.",
        "整个竞选过程，他都在风度和恶毒攻击间大幅摇摆，有时从一种策略切换到另一种策略仅仅在一天之间。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the US economy has increased its dependence on international trade.",
        "事实上，美国经济对国际贸易的依赖程度增强了。"
    ],
    [
        "The main differences between the leading Israeli parties are more atmospheric than real, mainly concerning how much to concede and how much to demand.",
        "以色列重要党派之间的主要分歧更多是一种氛围而非真实存在。 这种分歧主要是关于让步多少和要求多少。"
    ],
    [
        "In the context of Europe, that would mean a multinational effort.",
        "而在欧洲的语境下，这就意味着多国协同努力。"
    ],
    [
        "As a next step, the report proposes a pilot program and consultations with borrowers, lenders, and funders to resolve enduring questions about their application.",
        "接着，报告提出了一个试点计划，建议借款人、贷款人和出资人会商解决补贴贷款的应用问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A digital airspace would in turn enable a complete revolution in personal mobility.",
        "amp#160;amp#160;amp#160; 电子空间将会反过来形成个人移动上的完整革命。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason can be found in the financier George Soros’s concept of “reflexivity.”",
        "一个理由可以从金融家乔治·索罗斯（George Soros）的“反身性”中找到。"
    ],
    [
        "Reliance on street mobilization and army intervention to bring down an elected leader who has support on the ground is unlikely to lead to a positive outcome.",
        "依靠街头动员和军队干预迫使拥有基层支持的当选领袖下台不太可能带来好的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it is argued that action of this sort would violate the requirements of the EU’s fiscal compact.",
        "首先，有人指出这类行动违反了欧盟财政契约的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump paints a bleak picture of life in the US today, blaming globalization (specifically, immigration) and the “establishment” leaders who have advanced it for the struggles of ordinary American workers.",
        "特朗普将今天美国的惨淡归咎于全球化（尤其是移民）以及为赢得普通美国劳动者斗争竭力推进全球化的“体制”领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiation and diplomacy are the only way to resolve the Iranian nuclear question in the long term and to normalize Iran’s critical role in regional security.",
        "谈判和外交史长期解决伊朗核问题、实现伊朗地区安全关键作用正常化的唯一途径。"
    ],
    [
        "The error, to the extent that the generals make it, must operate at a more subtle level.",
        "就将军们所犯下的错误而言，必然是在更加微妙的层面犯下的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Greece, anti-corruption officers from the US, Italian tax-efficiency specialists, German privatization experts, and Spanish tourism professionals should be made available to accelerate the pace of modernization.",
        "希腊应任用来自美国的反腐人员、意大利研究税收效率的专家、德国研究私有化的专家以及西班牙的旅游专家来加快现代化的步伐。"
    ],
    [
        "That order has remained largely intact for almost a century, enabling the emergence of separate, though not necessarily exclusive, political identities in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and, to varying degrees, in Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf countries.",
        "赛克斯-皮科特秩序稳定维系了将近一个世纪，形成了叙利亚、伊拉克、约旦、黎巴嫩等分裂（尽管未必互相排斥）的政治身份，沙特阿拉伯和海湾国家也或多或少地受该秩序的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than paying lip service to climate change and resource scarcity, we start to respect and uphold the limits of our planet and its atmosphere.",
        "我们不再空谈治理气候变化和资源稀缺问题，而是开始尊重和支持地球和大气的极限。"
    ],
    [
        "The Treasury bills would be assigned a zero-risk rating by the authorities and treated as the highest-quality collateral for repo operations at the ECB. The banking system has an urgent need for risk-free liquid assets.",
        "欧洲债券将获得当局的零风险评级，成为欧洲央行回购操作最高质量抵押品。 银行系统急切需要无风险资产。"
    ],
    [
        "The potential recession risk of a budget deal can be avoided by phasing in the base-broadening that is used to raise revenue.",
        "预算方案的潜在衰退风险可以通过逐步采取扩大税基增加收入的办法避免。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that hard facts and scientific evidence never had any special authority in shaping policy in the first place; to political leaders, a scientist’s view is just another opinion.",
        "真相是，硬事实和科学证据从一开始就从未获得过左右政策的特殊权威； 对政治领导人来说，科学家的观点只不过提供了多一种意见。"
    ],
    [
        "The world's systemically important economies can be placed into four categories.",
        "全世界最重要的经济体可以笼统归为四大类。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not the Weltanschauung – the worldview – that permeates private-sector discourse, especially the views expressed by most chambers of trade and industry and business associations around the world.",
        "但影响私人部门总体观念，特别是全球大部分贸易和产业商会以及商业协会所表达的观点的并不是这一世界观。"
    ],
    [
        "Sweden’s current-account surplus has averaged above a whopping 7% of GDP over the last decade; Germany’s has averaged close to 6% during the same period.",
        "在过去十年中，瑞典的经常项目盈余平均可达GDP的7%以上； 同期的德国平均可达近6%。"
    ],
    [
        "“The idea that a Palestinian state should be established within the Land of Israel has reached a dead end,” he declared.",
        "“巴勒斯坦国应该在以色列之地（Land of Israel）上建立的观点已经没有任何存在的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "If they are to lead it well, they need to be healthy.",
        "要想出色地领导世界，青少年必须健康。"
    ],
    [
        "Mervyn King, the previous governor of the Bank of England, hailed the lower exchange rate as a “welcome change.”",
        "对此英格兰银行前行长梅尔文·金（Mervyn King）表示较低的汇率是个“受欢迎的变化”。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the US has the Congressional Budget Office, which scores legislation in terms of its budgetary impact, assesses official budget proposals, and formulates its own economic projections.",
        "幸运的是，美国还有国会预算办公室，它可以根据预算冲击给立法打分，评估官方预算方案，并给出自己的经济预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Each country may also be tempted by protectionist measures, trying to preserve domestic jobs at the expense of imports.",
        "各国也或许会受到保护主义措施的诱惑，试图以进口的代价来保证国内工作机会。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to tackling high-impact health challenges like the proliferation of fake or inferior drugs, local solutions and local innovations are not only likely to be central to any successful effort; they have the potential to provide benefits that go far beyond the scope of the original problem.",
        "在涉及解决假冒伪劣药品蔓延等极具影响力的健康难题方面，植根于当地的解决办法和创新不仅对成功至关重要； 而且带来的收益还可能远远超出原来问题的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "But a political settlement within Afghanistan cannot succeed without a regional grand bargain.",
        "但是，阿富汗境内的政治解决方案，如果没有区域性的大协定，就不能取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "At the opposite extreme are the debt-ceiling absolutists who want governments to start balancing their budgets tomorrow (if not yesterday).",
        "另一个极端是债务上限绝对论，认为政府应该从明天（既然往者不可追）就开始平衡预算。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević, whose call for a “Greater Serbia” triggered the war, was not alone: For a moment, Europe was in danger of reverting to the confrontation of 1914, with France and the United Kingdom supporting Serbia, and Germany and Austria favoring Croatia.",
        "当然，以提出“大塞尔维亚”而引发战争的塞尔维亚总统米洛舍维奇（Slobodan Milošević）并不孤独：有一段时间，欧洲大有重回1914年冲突之势，法国和英国支持塞尔维亚，德国和奥地利站在克罗地亚一边。"
    ],
    [
        "And, given that Bangladesh gains the most from the settlement, both officially expanding its territory and enhancing its position relative to India, the deal should face no resistance there.",
        "此外，由于孟加拉国是和解的主要受益方，领土得到了正式扩张，也强化了相对于印度的地位，因此孟加拉国应该不会抵制该协议。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in the United States, where inflation exceeds 2%, the Federal Reserve’s benchmark federal funds rate remains at an historic low of 0-0.25%.",
        "在美国，通胀率也超过2%，而美联储的基准联邦基金利率仍维持在0—0. 15%的历史低点。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the fish will not have had a chance to reproduce, undermining the fish stock altogether.",
        "而且鱼群也将因此失去繁殖机会，招致鱼类总储备量下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Its 640 million people include 240 million Muslims, 120 million Christians, 150 million Buddhists, and millions of Hindus, Taoists, Confucianists, and Communists.",
        "2亿基督徒、1. 5亿佛教徒，还有数以百万计的印度教徒、道教徒、儒家和共产主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "Relentless low-level corruption is a major irritant for poor people in many of these countries; indeed, it limits their access to the social services and basic government functions that they often depend upon for their very survival.",
        "在这些国家中，肆无忌惮的低层次腐败激怒着贫困人口； 事实上，低层次腐败让贫困人口无法获得他们赖以生存的社会服务和基本政府功能。"
    ],
    [
        "The former would be a more efficient use of funds than the latter. Properly capitalizing the banking system would leave countries with smaller deficits, enabling them to regain access to capital markets sooner.",
        "前一种手段相对后一种手段会更有效，因为对银行系统的适当外部资金注入能避免被救助国承担更多赤字，让它们能尽快恢复与资本市场的对接。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite higher incomes and lower inequality, 70% of Brazilians have expressed a desire for change.",
        "尽管收入有所提高，不平等性有所降低，但70% 的巴西人表示希望看到变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The capital-markets union actually began as a slogan, coined by one of EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's acolytes.",
        "资本市场联盟起初其实是一个口号，由欧盟委员会主席容克的一位助手提出。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, issues about which facts really matter – for example, the safety of genetically modified foods, the hazards of extracting shale oil and gas, and the impact of global warming – are debated without regard for scientific evidence or in ways that use distorted and cherry-picked information to promote a chosen position.",
        "如今，在什么才是真正重要的事实这一问题上——比如，转基因食品的安全性、提炼页岩油气的风险性以及全球变暖的影响等——争论完全不顾科学证据，或使用扭曲、偏颇的信息论证预先选定的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Two days before the count, bookmakers were paying out to gamblers who had bet that Scotland would vote “No” to independence.",
        "计票前两天，博彩公司开始支付下注苏格兰对公投说“不”的赌徒。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, investment has emerged as everybody’s favorite response.",
        "在这样的情况下，投资就成为所有人最喜欢的应对措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Patents, trademarks, and competition for resources (people, money, and accolades) seal off information and prevent molecular data from being analyzed and shared.",
        "专利、商标和资源竞争（人才、资金和荣誉）让信息成为了秘辛，阻止了人们分析和共享分子数据。"
    ],
    [
        "If his center-right coalition wins a majority, he will directly choose the prime minister; more likely, he will be the key player in negotiations over a grand coalition government of center-right and center-left parties.",
        "如果他的中右翼联盟赢得多数，他将直接选择总理的人选； 更有可能的是，他将在中右翼和中左翼的大执政联盟谈判中扮演关键角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then should the Government pledge a responsible path of budget spending, but not extreme cuts.",
        "只有到那时，政府才应被要求承诺负责地制定预算支出，而不是极端地削减开支。"
    ],
    [
        "But what separates us from Saakashvili is that we understand that history, geography, and economics dictate close ties to Russia.",
        "但我们与萨卡什维利的不同之处就是我们了解是历史、地理和经济因素造就了我们与俄国之间的密切关系。"
    ],
    [
        "We must start investing in people at the earliest possible moment – right from birth.",
        "我们必须尽早对人进行投资——甚至从出生那一刻开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Several surveys show that adults reporting childhood sexual abuse often say that there was a period of time when they “could not remember” their abuse.",
        "有几份调查表明，报告在童年时期曾受过性虐待的成年人常常说有一段时期他们“记不住”曾经遭受的虐待。"
    ],
    [
        "But are the incompetents – say, the average person who believes that buying cheap imports from China destroys Western jobs – always wrong?",
        "但没有专业能力的人，比如认为购买来自中国的便宜进口品伤害了西方就业的普通人永远都是错的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "They need about $50 billion per year of global help to close the financing gap.",
        "他们每年需要约500亿美元的全球援助才能弥补资金缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "Policies that stimulate growth, such as infrastructure investment, will also be important.",
        "刺激增长的政策，如基础设施投资，也十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Musharraf’s Return?",
        "穆沙拉夫回归？"
    ],
    [
        "During the Industrial Revolution, working hours increased by 20% as factories replaced feasting.",
        "工业革命期间工厂取代了灯红酒绿，工作时间延长了20%之多。"
    ],
    [
        "This genie cannot be stuffed back in the bottle. Once connected, there is no turning back.",
        "这是一个无法被赶回神灯的幽灵：一旦联通起来，就没有回头路可走了。"
    ],
    [
        "At home, the legacy of Saudi family rule, fear of chaos, increased public spending, and abundant security forces have produced calm.",
        "在国内，王室统治的余威，对混乱的恐惧，增加的支出以及大量的安保力量维持了局势的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, according to the Syrian Center for Policy Research, half of the refugees and internally displaced people are under the age of 18.",
        "事实上，据叙利亚政策研究中心（Syrian Center for Policy Research）的数据，在叙利亚国内流离失所的人中有一半年龄不到18岁。"
    ],
    [
        "As the journalist Christian Caryl put it, “to say that historical or economic conditions predispose a country to embark on a particular path does not mean that its politicians will necessarily decide to take it.”",
        "正如记者卡约尔（Christian Caryl）所说：“说历史和经济条件让一国走上某条道路并不意味着该国政治家必须决定接受这一点。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In the last boom, construction jobs expanded significantly, with investment in housing as a share of GDP increasing by 50% from 1997 to 2006.",
        "建筑就业在之前的繁荣期大幅增加，房地产投资的GDP占比从1997到2006年增长了50%。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to this the palpable tensions in Franco-German relations, the blocking of a common EU gas market, close strategic cooperation with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, etc., and the worries about Germany multiply.",
        "在法德关系明显紧张之外，又加上了德国对欧盟天然气共同市场的抵制和与普京领导下的俄罗斯建立紧密的战略合作关系……如此种种另外界对德国的担心与日俱增。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies are investing in building more efficient translation software to make working anywhere, with anyone, simple and seamless.",
        "企业投资于研发更高效的翻译软件，以便实现在任何地点与任何人都能简单无缝的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, they would risk doing real long-term damage to their country.",
        "更重要的是，他们可能让祖国遭受切实的长期伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "That sort of volte-face would be impossible for most of the Brexit camp, for whom the dream of sovereignty trumps the threat of economic collapse.",
        "如此大转变对于大部分脱欧阵营来说是不可能的，对他们来说，主权之梦压倒了经济崩溃的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the Barcelona Accord of 1995, the European Union offered aid and trade to several Arab countries, in exchange for progress on democratic reform.",
        "在1995年巴塞隆纳合约框架下，欧盟向一些阿拉伯国家提供援助并开展贸易往来，作为交换条件，这些国家也要进行民主改革。"
    ],
    [
        "By that time, the Conservatives will have been in power for three parliaments and 12 years.",
        "届时，保守党已经掌权三届议会、12个年头。"
    ],
    [
        "On the supply side, structural reforms to stimulate productivity growth could, for example, emphasize the development of modern services industries, including health care, education, telecommunications, business processing, and legal and financial services.",
        "在供应领域，以刺激生产力增长为目的的结构改革可以，举例来讲，重点发展现代服务业，包括医疗保健、教育、电信、事务处理以及法律和金融领域的服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, electoral self-interest.",
        "最后是选举利益。"
    ],
    [
        "For almost 40 years, that era’s Western feminist critique of rigid sex-role stereotyping has prevailed.",
        "近40年来，那个年代西方女权主义批评在性别角色领域的僵化成见一直占统治地位。"
    ],
    [
        "On Keynesian fiscal stimulus, economists’ views range from “absolutely essential” to “ineffective and harmful.”",
        "对于凯恩斯主义者的经济刺激计划来说，经济学家的观点从“绝对必须”到“没有效率而且有害”，真是无所不包。"
    ],
    [
        "But the death tolls of the past need not become the world’s future.",
        "但是过去的吸烟死亡并非一定是世界的将来。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Between 2000 and 2014, Africa grew at a strong clip, fueling belief in the narrative of an “Africa rising.”",
        "华盛顿—从2000年到2014年，非洲实现了强劲增长，这带来了一种“非洲崛起”的信念。"
    ],
    [
        "We believe, for example, that EU integration needs to be wider as well as deeper, thereby maintaining its positive transformative influence in neighboring regions.",
        "比方说我们认为欧盟一体化进程必须更为广泛深入，并以此保持对周边地区积极的改革影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as India’s agriculture cannot sustain all the farmers trying to live off the land, our over-fished seas cannot possibly sustain all of our fishermen.",
        "就像印度农业无法维持所有以土地为生的农民的生计一样，我们经历了过度捕捞的海洋也不可能维持所有渔民的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this initial fighting force – and the ideology that motivated it – that today still forms the basis of the Sunni jihadist insurgencies, including ISIS.",
        "正是这支最初的战斗部队——及其背后的意识形态——今天依然构成逊尼派圣战叛乱分子的基础，其中也包括伊斯兰国。"
    ],
    [
        "A single European asylum process would remove the incentives for asylum shopping and rebuild trust among member states.",
        "统一的欧盟庇护程序可以消除庇护投机并在各成员国之间重建信任。"
    ],
    [
        "First, economic developments will likely lead the Fed to exhibit caution when it comes to the process of raising interest rates.",
        "首先，经济发展将有可能令美联储在进入加息程序时表现谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, this requires opposition to any Mubarak-style repression of the Muslim Brotherhood.",
        "如今，这需要反对任何针对穆斯林兄弟会的穆巴拉克式的镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "A convergence of interests and a profoundly emotional attitude to Israel’s story and to the Jewish narrative since the Holocaust have been the motive forces behind what is perhaps one of the most intriguing alliances in international relations.",
        "自从犹太人种族灭绝大屠杀之后，美国和以色列共同的利益加上对犹太人的深刻同情，这恐怕是目前国际关系中最有趣的联盟关系主要的推动力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even if this politically risky move succeeded, he would just be deepening the economic model started by Pinochet and followed by the Concertación .",
        "但即使这一政治冒险举动取得成功，他也不过是深化了由皮诺切特开创、并在执政联盟手中得以延续的经济模式。"
    ],
    [
        "And when economists see behavior that has destructive side effects, we like to tax it.",
        "当经济学家们看到某种行为有着破坏性的副作用时，就喜欢对其征税。"
    ],
    [
        "Things are not quite so simple.",
        "事情没有那么简单。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the work of the International Labor Organization, which was established in 1919, is still relevant today.",
        "因此，成立于1919年的国际劳工组织的工作在今天仍然至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The answers to these questions cannot be found by discussing sound finance, public or private, for they reside firmly in the realm of power politics.",
        "这些问题的答案无法通过公开或私下讨论可靠金融（sound finance）找到，因为它们牢牢地掌握在权力政治手中。 债务是债权人的权力；"
    ],
    [
        "At the start of 2017, Walmart had 5,332 stores in the US.",
        "2017年初，沃尔玛在美国拥有5,322家店铺。"
    ],
    [
        "That makes the absence of a widely accepted regional structure of peace all the more dangerous.",
        "这使得能被广泛接受的亚洲地区和平结构的缺位变得尤其危险。"
    ],
    [
        "While they appreciate the urgent need for growth and jobs, they believe that this can be achieved only after Ireland’s finances are put back on a sound footing.",
        "他们认同增长和就业的迫切需要，但认为这些只有在爱尔兰金融恢复稳定后才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The Human Thatcher",
        "人间撒切尔"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Though a solution to the euro crisis continues to elude European leaders, the foundations of one are not difficult to discern.",
        "普林斯顿——虽然欧洲领导人至今仍未想出欧债危机的解决方案，但却不难想见方案的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Discontent has continued to mount, and investors, employees, politicians, and members of the public now want to know not only about executive compensation, but also about the frequently staggering discrepancy between what companies’ highest- and lowest-paid personnel earn.",
        "但事实却是上述趋势的表现形式日益成熟。 不满情绪持续高涨，投资者、员工、政治家和公众现在不光想了解高管薪酬，还想了解公司最高和最低收入者令人惊讶的差异是怎么造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "The simplest idea is that it is made out of one new kind of particle, the so-called “Higgs particle,” but I suspect that there is more to it.",
        "最简单的一种猜测是，它是由一类新的粒子构成，所谓的“希格斯粒子”（ Higgs particle ）。 但我认为还有其他物质。"
    ],
    [
        "I am certain that power-sharing, reconciliation, and accountability are the only way forward for Iraq.",
        "我坚信分权、和解和问责制是伊拉克唯一的出路。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings me to another key point: a workable exit strategy is just as important to the success of any future humanitarian intervention as the entry strategy.",
        "这使得我联想到另外一个关键点，即，对于任何未来的人道主义干预而言，一个可操作的退出战略与进入战略同等重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is obvious only because we already know that groups like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Taliban are not obeying the precepts of Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, or Hinduism.",
        "但这恰恰因为我们已知像基地、伊斯兰国和塔利班这样的组织不遵守基督教、佛教、犹太教或印度教戒律。"
    ],
    [
        "Many eventually try to migrate to Europe in desperate search of a livelihood.",
        "许多走投无路的人最终只能尝试偷渡欧洲谋生。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, in this scenario there are opportunities: the dollar, after all, might rise; US interest rates will be at normal levels; asset values will not be unduly depressed; and investment spending will not be affected by financial turmoil.",
        "恰恰相反，在这种情况下却存在着机遇：归根结底，美元还可能探底回升。 美国利率将维持正常水平，资产价值也不会过度缩水，投资开支也不会受到金融动荡的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the major role that tax revenues play in funding development efforts – providing two-thirds of the financing for the UN Millennium Development Goals, with official aid and private flows covering the rest – the bleeding must be stanched.",
        "税收收入对于发展措施融资具有重要作用——它们提供了联合国千年发展目标（Millennium Development Goals）资金的三分之二，其余资金来自官方援助和私人资金流——这一出血口必须堵住。"
    ],
    [
        "But repudiating America’s role as a global beacon – and thus the idea of American exceptionalism – is a bad bet for the future.",
        "但否认美国作为全球灯塔的角色——因此也否认了美国例外论——绝不是对未来的好下注。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that, unless government spending provides the demand bridge, the large non-tradable part of the economy cannot drive growth and job creation.",
        "这意味着除非政府支出能够搭起需求的桥梁，该经济体的大型非贸易部门就不能驱动经济增长也不会创造新的工作机会。"
    ],
    [
        "One is the structural decline of the once-dominant Social Democrats.",
        "其中之一是曾经拥有主宰地位的社会民主党的结构性衰落。"
    ],
    [
        "Its units are no longer simple terrorist cells; they are highly trained and well-equipped combat units, and its rockets, like those in southern Lebanon, are launched with timers from crude underground silos.",
        "而是训练有素并且装备精良的战斗分队。 而它的火箭弹就像那些在黎巴嫩南部的火箭弹一样是从简陋的地下导弹发射井里用定时器控制发射的。"
    ],
    [
        "What lay behind the declaration was the regime’s recognition that a second-term Bush administration would not soften its demand for a complete repudiation of its nuclear program, but would instead continue to pursue policies aimed at isolating and stifling North Korea.",
        "金正日政府之所以正式承认拥有核武器，是认识到了连任的布什政府在要求北朝鲜完全放弃其核武器方案方面不会让步，而是会继续实行孤立、扼杀北朝鲜的政策。 在此问题上日本也持同样态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Muslims in The Netherlands are responding by opening up their mosques and reaching out to neighbors.",
        "在荷兰的穆斯林通过开放他们的清真寺和接近邻居的方式，来对此作出回应。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Geography has dealt Europe a mixed hand.",
        "发自巴黎 —— 对于欧洲来说，自己所处的地理位置堪称是一把双刃剑。"
    ],
    [
        "Their boom-and-bust character reflected nothing more than the relevant regulators’ failure – or refusal – to understand the risks involved.",
        "它们的泡沫-破裂特征所反映的无他，正是相关监管者没有——或拒绝——理解其中所包含的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Both sides of the conflict – the government of Sudan and its allied forces, as well as all the opposition groups in Darfur – must understand that civilians should no longer fall victim to their political disputes.",
        "争端双方――苏丹政府及其联军以及达尔福尔的各反对派都必须懂得平民不能再成为他们政治分歧的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "But Greece’s creditors have already had two haircuts, first in the spring of 2012, and another that December.",
        "但希腊的债主已经打折过两次，第一次是在2012年春天，第二次是在当年12月。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s comparative advantage lies in relatively skill-intensive services – such as information technology – which can absorb no more than a tiny slice of the country’s largely unskilled labor force.",
        "印度的比较优势在于相对的技术密集型服务——比如信息技术——但只能吸纳该国极小比例的非技术劳动人口。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, it is important to stress the work of the World Trade Organization, the best multilateral forum that the world has for resolving trade disputes.",
        "从这个角度看，促进世贸组织的工作十分重要，因为这是世界所拥有的解决贸易纠纷的最好论坛。"
    ],
    [
        "A challenging new book by the Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker says that the answer is “yes.”",
        "哈佛大学心理学家斯蒂芬·平克（Steven Pinker）的新书对此的回答是“是”。"
    ],
    [
        "The new development and distribution models promoted by the Open Education movement represent a natural and inevitable evolution of the educational publishing industry.",
        "由开放教育运动促发的新的开发和传播模式带来了教育出版产业的自然而然以及不可避免的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "Sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, global investment banks, and hedge funds do not invest only in their own backyard.",
        "主权财富基金、退休基金、全球投资银行和对冲基金并不只投资于自己的后院。"
    ],
    [
        "Most estimates suggest that global warming will put 3% more of the earth’s population at risk of catching malaria by 2100.",
        "大多数评估报告认为到了2100年，全球变暖将使全球面临疟疾威胁的人口数量增加3％。"
    ],
    [
        "The establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) captured global headlines earlier this year, not just because of strong US resistance, but also because countries like Britain and Germany joined anyway.",
        "今年早些时候，亚洲基础设施投资银行（亚投行）的成立吸引了全世界的关注，不仅是因为美国的强烈反对，也时因为英国和德国不顾美国的反对加入其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, since the discovery of HIV, there has never been a documented case in which an individual’s immune system has ever completely eradicated the virus following established infection.",
        "事实上，自从发现HIV病毒以来，迄今还没有过有记录的某个人在受到感染后其免疫系统完全根除病毒的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the recent lifting of sanctions on Iran, and the resulting increase in global oil supply, prompted a further 9% price drop over a matter of days.",
        "类似地，最近伊朗制裁的取消，以及由此导致的全球石油供给的增加，让油价在几天内进一步下跌9%。"
    ],
    [
        "The US must lead again, as it did in the past.",
        "美国必须和以往一样再次成为领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, they will be robust democracies.",
        "最后，它们会成为健全的民主国家。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, a higher growth rate would require fewer golf breaks for salarymen and significant immigration in a nation that is unaccustomed to foreign intrusion and different cultural habits.",
        "相反，加快经济发展速度需要工薪族减少打高尔夫球的时间，而且会使这个不适应国外入侵和别样文化习惯的国家被迫面对大量移民。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a royal intervention would risk returning Thailand to square one, seeking to rewrite its constitution to remedy the shortfalls of its democratic culture.",
        "而且，皇室的干预将会有把泰国带回到起点的风险，将试图重新制定宪法来补救其民主文化的不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Success depends not on what one or even a handful of countries can do alone, but on what all of us are able to achieve by moving forward together against this common threat.",
        "成功不取决于一国甚至少数几国可以独力完成什么，而是取决于我们所有人可以通过携手面对这一共同威胁实现什么。"
    ],
    [
        "All crises end in the same way: with all parties sitting at the negotiating table.",
        "所有危机最后均以各方坐到谈判桌前的方式来结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq and Japanese Isolation",
        "伊拉克和日本孤立"
    ],
    [
        "A key question has been the disaster’s impact on global supply chains.",
        "而另一个问题则关于这场灾难对全球供应链的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "CPAU worked across the country in the last three years to set up District level Peace Committees, supported by satellite Peace Councils in villages.",
        "过去3年来，CPAU在全国建立了地区和平委员会，由各村所属的和平理事会提供支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Airing the IMF’s Dirty Laundry",
        "为国际货币基金组织打扫门庭"
    ],
    [
        "First, as money looms larger in our societies, affluence – and its absence – matters more.",
        "富有——或者不富有——就变得越发重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Who Will Run the World’s Deficits?",
        "世界赤字将来自哪里？"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – The People’s Bank of China has cut interest rates for the third time in six months, in order to lighten the debt burdens of companies and local governments.",
        "香港—为了减轻企业和地方政府的债务负担，中国人民银行在六个月内第三次降低了利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Across Europe and in America, new arrangements have been set up to pool information about possible terrorist attacks and take the speedy (and sometimes robust) action needed to prevent or disrupt them. Where possible, we work closely with India, Russia, Pakistan, the Gulf states, and other key international partners.",
        "欧美各地纷纷建立了相关机制以共享潜在恐怖袭击信息，并采取迅速（有时甚至有点粗暴）的行动来防止或是扑灭这些威胁，同时还尽可能地与印度、俄罗斯、巴基斯坦，海湾国家以及其他重要国际伙伴展开密切合作。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Rouhani is the supposedly moderate administrator of a state whose constitution is not, in the eyes of the clerical elite, derived from this earthly realm.",
        "毕竟，鲁哈尼被认为是伊朗的温和统治者，而在宗教精英眼中伊朗的宪法并不来源于世俗。"
    ],
    [
        "The stimulus must come from the EU, because individual countries will be under strict fiscal discipline.",
        "必须由欧盟推出刺激计划，因为每个成员国都将遵守严肃的财政纪律。"
    ],
    [
        "With today’s extraordinarily low interest rates, investors seem ever more willing to assume greater risk in search of return.",
        "在当今极低的利率环境下，投资者似乎更加愿意为了回报而承受更大风险。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Of all major world regions, Europe has worked the hardest to implement policies aimed at countering human-caused climate change.",
        "纽约——在世界所有主要地区中，欧洲为贯彻应对人为气候变化的政策付出了最艰苦的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The triumph of a female president would be an important symbolic and practical victory for all who have sought to establish a political environment that is hospitable to women.",
        "对所有志在营造对女性友好的政治环境之人来说，女性在总统选举中胜出具有重要的象征意义，也是重大的现实胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "The Front Line of Democracy",
        "民主的前沿"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Singapore Swing",
        "中国转向新加坡"
    ],
    [
        "Condominialism recognizes the reality of the deep interconnectedness of Israeli settlers in the West Bank with the rest of Israel – through roads, water supplies, electricity grids, administrative structures, and economic relationships (just as Israeli and Palestinian parts of Jerusalem are interdependent).",
        "安全套主义承认约旦河西岸以色列定居者和其他以色列之间具有深刻联系的现实——包括公路、供水、电网、政府结构和经济关系等（正如耶路撒冷的以色列区和巴勒斯坦区互相联系一样）。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a scenario seemed quite plausible for a few weeks last summer, and it reemerged as a threat in the first two weeks of this year.",
        "这一情景在去年夏天的几周中曾经就在眼前，而在今年前两周，这一威胁再一次重现。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the US, not Israel, that Iranian hardliners want to deter, using Israel as a hostage.",
        "伊朗的强硬派想要威慑的是美国而不是以色列，并且他们使用以色列作为人质；"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011, Chinese companies spent ¥8 billion ($1.3 billion) on industrial robots.",
        "2011年，中国公司耗资80亿人民币（合13亿美元）用以购置工业机器人。"
    ],
    [
        "There is essentially no risk that the economy would overheat so quickly that the Fed could not intervene in time to prevent excessive inflation.",
        "经济将迅速过热，以至于美联储无法及时干预阻止过度通胀，这一风险基本上不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "When alternatives become difficult to find, the compensation requested for accepting an illegal transaction falls.",
        "当替代的卖主越来越难寻找到时，对要求接受非法交易的补偿就会下降。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – If Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election was an earthquake, then the transition period leading up to his inauguration on January 20 feels like a tsunami warning.",
        "华盛顿——如果将唐纳德·特朗普在美国总统大选中的胜选比作一次地震，那么他在1月20日就职典礼之前的过渡就像是一次海啸预警。"
    ],
    [
        "We also encourage China’s active participation in the Major Economies Meeting efforts to develop a post-2012 framework for greenhouse-gas reduction.",
        "我们还鼓励中国积极参与主要经济体会议的工作来制定2012年后的温室气体减排框架。"
    ],
    [
        "“Whenever we heard the train coming,” my father once told me, “all the young boys in the village would run as fast as we could through the apple orchard to greet the passing Americans.",
        "父亲曾告诉我，“只要听到火车经过，村里所有的男孩都会快速跑过苹果园，向路过的美国人问候。"
    ],
    [
        "He cannot escape this responsibility even if the perpetrators are identified and prosecuted.",
        "即便作恶者已经被绳之以法，他也不能逃避理应承担的职责。"
    ],
    [
        "A system intended to promote prosperity and further integration has been having just the opposite effect. An amicable divorce would be better than the current stalemate.",
        "如果一个旨在促进繁荣和欧洲进一步整合的系统一直都导致了适得其反的效果，那么友好分手就比当前的僵局更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Unit labor costs rose steadily relative to Germany – not only in Spain but also in all of southern Europe, and in France – in the decade beginning in 2000, following the euro’s introduction.",
        "2000年以来的十年间，随着欧元引入，该国单位劳动力成本相比德国逐步上涨——欧洲南部以及法国也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Japan’s escape from its 15-year deflationary trap and two decades of economic stagnation would be good for the world.",
        "当然，日本的走出15年通缩陷阱和20年经济停滞对于世界来说是个好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the Obama administration has declined to go down this path – currency manipulation is off the table as far as it is concerned.",
        "不幸的是，奥巴马政府决定不这样做——到目前为止，货币操纵不在谈判之列。"
    ],
    [
        "Short-term consumer-price stability does not guarantee economic, financial, or monetary stability.",
        "短期消费物价稳定并不能保证经济、金融或货币稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "The true problem for France is the huge chunk of state-owned companies that go through the motions without being particularly successful in the market.",
        "法国的实际问题是占据大量份额的国有公司。 这些公司仅仅是走过场而并没有在市场上取得特别的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, Syria, with its geographical position, its Iranian links and weapons, and its brutal Ba’athist regime, has become the lynchpin of developments between the Mediterranean and the Gulf.",
        "简言之，由于自身地理位置、与伊朗的联系机伊朗提供的武器和残暴的社会党政权，叙利亚已经成为地中海和波斯湾之间事态发展的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the American Medical Association has endorsed a draft bill that would make it easier for states to offer various non-cash incentives for donation.",
        "在美国，美国医学会已经批准了一项议案草案，使得各州能够更方便地为捐献行为提供各种非现金的奖励。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the situation in the US: while the rate of uninsured Americans has dropped precipitously under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the insured face rapid increases in premiums and out-of-pocket expenses.",
        "以美国的情况为例：在2010年平价医疗法的作用下，无医保美国人比例大幅下降，但参保美国人面临保费和自费开支的迅速上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama, by contrast, would run larger deficits – his spending increase is much larger than his tax increase – which imply large tax hikes in the future.",
        "相反，奥巴马将扩大赤字——他的增支计划远比增税计划庞大——这意味着未来会发生大规模增税。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate is not – and should not be – between Europe and the US.",
        "这一讨论不是——也不应该是——欧洲和美国的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "But even the US Constitution is ambiguous about the powers of Congress and the president in foreign policy.",
        "但即使是美国宪法，对国会和总统在外交政策方面的权力也语焉不详。"
    ],
    [
        "Facts on the ground will be understood as the ultimate arbiters, no matter how illegal and unjust they may be.",
        "无论多不公平、多不合理，现有事实都将成为最终裁决。"
    ],
    [
        "When negotiations started six months ago, it was Britain’s turn to take over the Presidency of the European Council.",
        "6个月前谈判开始时，恰逢英国接任欧洲理事会主席职务。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this structural weakness, the idea of a new Cold War is misleading.",
        "考虑到俄罗斯这种结构上的弱势，那种认为新的冷战已开始的观点是误导人的。"
    ],
    [
        "He or she might veto it, but a Republican president after the 2016 election might not.",
        "总统可能会否决它，但如果2016年大选后共和党总统当选，则可能不会。"
    ],
    [
        "But even after transitioning from the “old normal” to what the Chinese leadership has dubbed the “new normal,” global economic growth remains heavily dependent on China.",
        "但即使在从“旧常态”转为中国领导层所谓的“新常态”后，全球经济增长仍然严重依赖中国。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK set its record for wind power in 1804, when its share reached 2.5% – almost three times its level today.",
        "英国风能占比记录出现在1804年，比重为2. 5%，是今天水平的近三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the explanation, the evidence is now accumulating that commercial fishing inflicts an unimaginable amount of pain and suffering.",
        "不管做何解释，如今有越来越多的证据证明商业捕捞制造了超乎想象的痛苦和折磨。"
    ],
    [
        "Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly.”",
        "一旦公众开始相信科学问题尘埃落定，他们对于全球变暖的观点也会随之改变。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Good health is a blessing.",
        "好健康是一项福祉。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1999 pact has been revisited periodically, though since the most recent edition in 2014, most rich countries have taken a long pause, still leaving them with extremely high gold reserves.",
        "各国会对1999年协议进行周期性的修订，但自 2014 年出台最新版本以来，大多数富裕国家的黄金储备销售都被长时间暂缓，令它们依然保有极大量的黄金储备。"
    ],
    [
        "And ferociously entrepreneurial private enterprise was supported by a broad array of state investments, guarantees, and protective tariffs, in accordance with the “American System” inspired by Alexander Hamilton and realized by Henry Clay.",
        "凶残的创业私营企业背后是大量国家投资、担保和保护性关税，即亚历山大·汉密尔顿启发、亨利·克莱（Henry Clay）发扬光大的“美国体系”（American System）。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is the third group that is by far the most powerful politically: oil and coal interests, which contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to the 2014 campaign.",
        "但目前第三个群体才是政治上力量最大的群体：石油和煤炭利益集团，2014年，他们投入数亿美元用于选战。"
    ],
    [
        "Once this strategy is understood, there is a simple antidote: Refuse to behave the way your enemies want you to.",
        "一旦我们掌握了这一策略，就会找到简单的解决办法：拒绝落入敌人布下的圈套。"
    ],
    [
        "These “proximity talks” allow Mitchell to ensure that each side is making serious offers.",
        "这种“代理谈判”的形式让米歇尔可以确保双方都能提出实质性条件。"
    ],
    [
        "One factor in such decisions is fear on the part of doctors or hospitals that they will be sued by the family for letting their loved one die.",
        "从生命的终点开始考虑就很有意义。 对不想再继续生命的垂危病人进行治疗是一种浪费，但只有少数几个国家允许医生主动实施安乐死。"
    ],
    [
        "The regime may assume that it will be able to use the process to its own advantage, but events may not be that easy to control once people begin to feel empowered.",
        "这种政权制度可能会认为它能够把这一程序为己所用，然而一旦人民感到被赋予了权利，局面就未必那样容易控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s pledge to scrap the nuclear deal with Iran is a case in point.",
        "特朗普信誓旦旦废除与伊朗核协议就是很好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "But this threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.",
        "但这有成为自我实现的预言的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "The target of all versions of fair trade is “free trade,” and the most damaging attacks on FAIRTRADE have come from free traders.",
        "所有形式的公平贸易的目标就是“公平贸易”，而对公平贸易制度最有力的攻击则来自那些自由贸易者。"
    ],
    [
        "The new government will face formidable challenges.",
        "新政府将面临强大的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The Americans’ supply train would regularly pass through my father’s ancestral village, Arak, then a scenic oasis of green gardens and fruit orchards.",
        "美国的给养火车会定时经过我父辈们祖居的村庄阿拉克，当时那里到处是风景如画的绿洲和果园。"
    ],
    [
        "To businessmen, engineers are practical problem solvers, whereas lawyers are obsessed with procedural complexities and intent on exploiting contractual loopholes.",
        "在商人看来，工程师是实际问题的解决者，而律师们则痴迷于研究程序的复杂性并热衷于寻找合同漏洞。"
    ],
    [
        "In time, the Arab world will have them.",
        "随着时间的推移，阿拉伯世界将拥有这套制度。"
    ],
    [
        "That has changed.",
        "不过情况已经发生了变化。"
    ],
    [
        "In his reality television persona, Trump’s enthusiastic firings and occasional Cinderella-like promotions of low-level employees provide an obvious parallel.",
        "在他的现实电视真人秀中，特郎普极端的官员解雇和偶尔灰姑娘般地提拔底层雇员显然是美国版的独裁执政。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush’s most promising initiative, promoting democracy across the Middle East, was already dealt a crippling blow by US intervention in Iraq and the ensuing civil war there.",
        "布什推动中东民主的最看似光明的努力已经由于美国入侵伊拉克和随之而来的伊内战而遭到重创。"
    ],
    [
        "During Tusk’s premiership, the government was perversely reluctant to claim credit for Poland’s economic success.",
        "在图斯克任首相期间，政府倔强地不愿为波兰的经济繁荣居功。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of military expenditure, Europe is second only to the US, accounting for 15% of the world total, compared to 12% for China and 5% for Russia.",
        "在军事支出方面，欧洲仅次于美国，占世界总量的15%，而中国为12%，俄罗斯为5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Forty-one percent of the world's population live in areas where malaria is transmitted, with 350-500 million cases each year.",
        "全世界有41%的人口生活在疟疾的疫区，每年有3. 5-5亿人罹患此病。"
    ],
    [
        "Errors regularly occur in academia, but they are more swiftly and systematically corrected than in other fields.",
        "学术界经常会犯错误，但其纠正错误的能力却远比其他领域更迅速、也更系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the G-20 should provide the FSB with adequate institutional capacity to address its tasks, but without creating a bureaucracy.",
        "最后，G20应该授予金融稳定性委员会足够的制度地位以便让它完成自己的使命，同时又免于沦为一个官僚机构。"
    ],
    [
        "The key question in the near future will be whether Europe actually has the military and political capabilities, the political staying power, and the common will to act in accordance with its core interests in the Middle East.",
        "近期的主要问题是，欧洲是否果真具有军事和政治能力、政治持久力量以及共同意愿来根据其在中东的核心利益采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Violence and murder of women are on the increase, perpetrated by men who feel that these alternatives pose a threat to their authority.",
        "针对妇女的暴力和谋杀呈上升趋势，因为犯罪的男性感到这些选择对他们的权威构成了挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Legislation alone won’t help, for tradition is a law unto itself.",
        "单靠立法并不能收到效果，因为传统本身就是一种法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Yemen continues to serve as a battleground in a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia.",
        "与此同时，也门依然是伊朗和沙特阿拉伯之间的代理战争的战场。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to gas pipelines – the first is scheduled to be completed this year – it will include a high-speed railroad and a highway from the Burmese coast to China’s Yunnan province, offering China’s remote interior provinces an outlet to the sea for the first time.",
        "除今年即将首度建成的天然气管道外，能源走廊还包括从缅甸海岸到中国云南的一条高速路和一条铁路，使中国偏远的内陆省份云南首次能够直达出海口。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the credit-bubble burst in 2008, fiscal transfers replaced these private financial flows, causing budget deficits to balloon.",
        "随着2008年信贷泡沫破灭，财政转移取代了这些私人资金流，这导致了预算赤字膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "One idea is to raise the Fed’s inflation target.",
        "一个主意是提高美联储的通胀目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But it beats me how publishers ever recover the huge multi-million dollar advances they hand out.",
        "但出版商怎样才能收回高达数百万的预付投资常常令我感到困惑。"
    ],
    [
        "That analysis both anticipated and explained the combination of rising inflation and rising unemployment of the 1970’s that came to be known as “stagflation.”",
        "这一分析同时预计并且解释了发生在七十年代的通货膨胀与失业率同时不断上升的、被成为“滞胀”的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "If the peripheral countries remain mired in a deflationary trap of high debt, falling output, weak competitiveness, and structural external deficits, eventually they will be tempted by a third option: default and exit from the eurozone.",
        "如果外围国陷入债务高企、产出下降、竞争力疲软和结构性外部赤字的通缩性陷阱无法自拔，那么它们最终将面临第三选择：违约并退出欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "After the summit in Washington, it should have sunk in among Europeans everywhere – even the Euroskeptics of the British Isles – that this strategic realignment is taking place right now!",
        "在华盛顿首脑会议之后，各地的欧洲人甚至是英国的那些对欧盟持怀疑态度的人，也应该意识到这一战略调整此刻就在发生着！"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, from September 15, 2008 – the day that the investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy – until then-US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced in May 2009 that in his judgment the major US banks either had or could quickly raise adequate capital cushions, the two camps’ interests and conclusions were identical.",
        "在美国，从2008年9月15日——投资银行雷曼兄弟倒闭破产的日子——到2009年5月时任美国财政部长盖特纳宣布据他判断美国各大银行要么已经、要么可以马上筹得足够的资本缓冲期间，这两大阵营的倾向和结论都是相同的。"
    ],
    [
        "Having had direct meetings with both Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Erdoğan was in a unique position, as a prime minister of a NATO country, to convey these critical messages to a regime whose top-level decision-making processes remain as opaque as ever to the West.",
        "同时，埃尔多安同伊朗总统内贾德和最高领袖哈梅内伊曾经直接会晤，作为一个北约国家的总理，他的地位非常独特——他需要将这些重要消息传递给一个顶层决策过程同以往西方一样不透明的政权。"
    ],
    [
        "The Long Short Run",
        "长短期"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the financial crisis and the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant in Japan share at least four similarities:",
        "事实上金融危机与本次福岛核电站核危机至少有四点是类似的："
    ],
    [
        "This happened a decade ago in the United States, with the effort to expand home ownership.",
        "十年前美国就发生过这样的事——扩大住房所有权的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the bias toward manufacturing and export industries leads to a severe misallocation of capital.",
        "此外，偏好制造和出口也导致了严重的资本错配。"
    ],
    [
        "If, say, the Bank of China and the Federal Reserve decided to teach speculators a lesson by pushing the dollar’s value relative to the yuan up by 20% for a month, they could do so, bankrupting many financial institutions with short positions.",
        "比如说，如果中国银行和美联储决定教训教训投机者，将美元与人民币的比价推高20%，并保持一个月，它们这样做是完全可能的，能让大量做空仓的金融机构破产。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Pan Gongsheng, the PBOC’s deputy governor, green finance will be a “key element” of “the 13th Five-Year Plan for the reform and development of China’s financial sector.”",
        "据中国人民银行副行长潘功胜透露，绿色金融将是“中国金融业改革和发展十三五规划”的“关键要素”"
    ],
    [
        "For my entire adult life, Britain’s sense of its place in the world has been largely defined by Winston Churchill’s leadership during World War II and his views of our role in the world when that war was over.",
        "在我的整个成年时代，英国对它在世界上的地位的看法大部分来自丘吉尔在二战中的领导以及他对战争结束后我们在世界上的角色的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Le Pen accused the mainstream parties of ganging up on her, describing their cooperation as a denial of democracy.",
        "勒庞指责主流政党结派反对她，称它们的合作是对民主的否定。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – At least since the fall of 2008, leading economies’ officials have agreed – in principle – that something must be done about financial firms that are “too big to fail.”",
        "华盛顿—至少从2008年秋天开始，领先经济体官员们都——在原则上——同意必须对“太大而不能倒”的金融企业做些什么。"
    ],
    [
        "- Socializing losses while privatizing gains is more worrisome than the consequences of nationalizing banks.",
        "——比起国有化银行的后果来说，民众的损失和私营公司的得利的后果当然更为严重。 美国纳税人的钱会打水漂。"
    ],
    [
        "This must change, with Africans gaining not only better access to banking systems, but also improved financial literacy.",
        "这种状况必须改变，非洲民众不仅应当拥有更好的金融系统，而且应当提高金融素养。"
    ],
    [
        "Though he and Trump stayed in touch, in retrospect, an eventual falling out seems to have been inevitable.",
        "尽管他和特朗普仍然保持联系，但最终的出局早已不可避免。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, America’s “moderate” jihadist allies are no more palatable than President Bashar al-Assad, and the so-called Islamic State is far from defeated.",
        "毕竟，美国的“温和”圣战主义盟友绝不比叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德更加“可人”，而所谓的伊斯兰国也还远远没有消灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it was heading into an election cycle, which increased the rigidity of its position.",
        "此外，德国自身也正好处于选举周期，这进一步强化了它的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "History will have many tales to tell about what this really meant for the Continent.",
        "历史将会留下许多故事来讲述这对欧洲大陆意味着什么。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a key concern because, notwithstanding recent reforms, the banking system remains fragile.",
        "这是一个关键性的顾虑，因为最低程度的金融体系改革应当足以落实低通胀目标。"
    ],
    [
        "On the key issue of being able to issue a “reserve currency” that investors and governments want to hold, Subramanian is correct that China has many of the prerequisites in place.",
        "在发行一个投资者和政府都愿意持有的“储备货币”问题上，苏布拉曼尼恩认为中国已经具备了许多先决条件，这是事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Agreement today on the diagnosis facilitates mounting a common response.",
        "如今，对问题判断的一致性有利于采取共同应对措施。"
    ],
    [
        "I am writing this in New York in early August, when the mayor declared a “heat emergency” to prevent widespread electricity outages from the expected high use of air conditioners.",
        "我八月上旬在纽约写这篇文章，当时，纽约市长宣布实行“高温紧急状态”来防止由于预期的大量使用空调而造成的大范围停电。"
    ],
    [
        "It is shocking that the EU has done so little to press its members, and candidate-members, to promote community living for people with mental disabilities.",
        "令人震惊的是，欧盟在向其成员国和准成员国施压，改善精神疾病患者的社会生活方面几乎没有任何作为。"
    ],
    [
        "But the question cannot be ignored.",
        "但这一问题不容忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "Per Zhou’s proposal, China has championed a transition to a multi-currency reserve system, in which the SDR and an internationalized renminbi would be used more widely, including in countries’ currency reserves.",
        "根据周小川的建议，中国领衔主张转向多货币储备体系，其中SDR和国际化的人民币应该得到更广泛的使用，包括作为各国储备货币。"
    ],
    [
        "This seems to be the case in Europe, as clear majorities of voters are saying in all eurozone countries, including Germany and Greece.",
        "欧洲似乎就是如此，所有欧元区国家，包括德国和希腊的绝对多数选民都这么认为。"
    ],
    [
        "Quality of management obviously plays a key role, but institutions and human capital also matter; corruption, credit constraints, and lack of access to high-quality education all make economic transformation more difficult.",
        "管理质量显然起着重要作用，但制度和人力资本也很重要； 腐败、信用约束和难以获得高质量教育都会导致经济转型更加困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s Continuing Chemical Fallout",
        "叙利亚化学武器阴云仍在"
    ],
    [
        "An alternative would be to create a full-fledged, global, not-for-profit pharmaceutical company with a research budget equal to that of the world’s top five for-profit companies, and with the singular objective of creating a pipeline of products to address the challenge of infectious threats.",
        "另一种方法是建立一个成熟的全球化非盈利制药公司，给予其与世界前五大盈利公司同等的研究预算，其唯一的目标是创造一个产品线解决传染病威胁挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But if gender inequality is ever to be abolished, we can no longer afford to neglect one of its major causes and consequences: malnutrition.",
        "但想要根除性别不平等，就不能忽视其主要原因和后果之一：营养。"
    ],
    [
        "These misconceptions are clearly evident in government leaders’ speeches over the past two decades.",
        "这样的误解在过去20年政府领袖的演讲中非常普遍。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gulf might even become increasingly destabilized.",
        "海湾地区甚至可能变得越来越不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "No doubt many Afghan women in burqas are equally convinced that covering their faces is a cultural command – and therefore a natural duty.",
        "毫无疑问，许多阿富汗女性同样也认为身穿遮盖面孔的布卡罩袍是一种文化责任，因此是天生的义务。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – I am on a two-week European tour at a time that could make one either very pessimistic or constructively optimistic about Europe’s prospects.",
        "柏林—我正在欧洲作为期两周的旅行，眼下，我对欧洲的前景既不特别悲观，也不建设性地乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "But what do independent central banks stand for if they are not prepared to face up to the markets and make the tough and disciplined choices that responsible economic stewardship demands?",
        "但独立的中央银行如果不准备直面市场、做出负责任的经济管理工作所要求的严守纪律的艰难抉择，还要它们做什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Growth in two components of private demand, residential investment and consumption, which account for more than 75% of total spending in the US economy, has been especially slow.",
        "私人需求的两大组成部分——占美国经济总支出额75%以上的住宅投资和消费增长特别缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "That policy, almost instantly dubbed “Abenomics,” comprises what have been called the three “arrows”: bold monetary policy, an expansionary fiscal stance, and structural reforms to stimulate private investment.",
        "这一几乎从一开始就被称之为“安倍经济学”的政策由所谓的三 “支箭”组成：积极的货币政策、扩张的财政立场以及刺激私人投资的结构性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The digital divide isn’t much of a divide anymore; it’s the literacy divide that is holding many people back.",
        "数字鸿沟基本上已经不存在了，但是文化上的鸿沟往往会使很多人无法享受因特网的精彩。"
    ],
    [
        "A wise political doctrine known as subsidiarity holds that public-policy challenges should be assigned to the lowest level of government able to address them, thereby ensuring maximum democratic participation in problem solving and the greatest opportunity to tailor solutions to genuine local needs.",
        "被称为辅助性原则（subsidiarity）的政治思想认为，公共政策挑战应该分派给能解决挑战的最低层次的政府，从而在问题解决过程中确保最大化的民主参与，最大限度地让解决方案切合真正的地方需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognition of diverse credit quality is a step back into the nineteenth-century world, and at the same time forward to a more market-oriented and less distorting currency policy.",
        "承认信用质量的多样性是退回19世纪一步，与此同时，也是迈向更多市场导向、更少扭曲的货币政策的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "For me, the nomad was a romantic figure, akin to the American cowboy of the Wild West.",
        "对我来说，游牧事件浪漫的事情，就像是美国狂野西部的牛仔。"
    ],
    [
        "Apparently doing something virtuous – like turning off the lights– makes us feel entitled to act badly afterwards.",
        "显然，做好事（比如关灯一小时）会让我们下意识觉得自己获得了做点小坏事的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The ISPs (rather than governments) should provide basic security – anti-virus, anti-phishing, anti-spam, and the like – as a regular feature of consumer Internet services.",
        "ISP比起政府来说，应该提供简单的安全防范——杀毒软件，反钓鱼软件，防范垃圾邮件等等——这些都是一些基本的网络用户所需要的服务，实施起来也不会很困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Moving on From the Euro",
        "摆脱欧元，继续前进"
    ],
    [
        "This leaves the “explanation” to what economists call Total Factor Productivity (TFP), a mix of several important elements, including innovation activity, a well-functioning financial system ready and willing to take risks, and organizational flexibility that facilitates rapid diffusion of new technologies.",
        "所谓全要素生产率，就是几项重要因素的综合，包括创新活动、运转良好的金融体系准备而且愿意承担风险，以及促进新技术快速传播的组织灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, the clean-energy revolution has brought jobs, money, and industry to rural America.",
        "清洁能源革命已经为美国农村带来了就业、资金和工业化。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, given the SDR’s very limited role in the global economy, the move will have few concrete effects in the short term.",
        "事实上，SDR在全球经济中的作用十分有限，因此IMF的决定几乎没有任何短期实质影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The distinction between capital and current spending (and thus between “good” and “bad” deficits) is old hat to any student of public finance.",
        "资本和经常性支出（亦即“好”与“坏”赤字）的区别对公共财政学来说已是老生常谈了。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon, Helmut Kohl, Europe’s Honorary Citizen and Germany’s Chancellor of Reunification, will be celebrating his 80th birthday.",
        "很快就是赫尔穆特·科尔的 80 大寿了。"
    ],
    [
        "Relying on a calibrated approach counts on stimulus being withdrawn before any evidence of concern over the central bank’s finances appears.",
        "依靠方针调整的前提是刺激在产生任何担心央行财务状况的迹象之前就结束。"
    ],
    [
        "So the high share of government employment contributes to the region’s low unemployment rate.",
        "如此，高政府雇用造就了该地区的低失业率。"
    ],
    [
        "We should wish the effort well, and hope that ultimately the goal becomes global, rather than merely national, happiness.",
        "我们应该衷心期待它取得成功，并希望幸福最终会成为全球而不只是某个国家的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Some wonder whether Erdoğan staged the coup to justify the epic purge.",
        "有人怀疑埃尔多安是否谋划了此次政变借以开展这次历史性的清除。"
    ],
    [
        "The invasion of Afghanistan was not merely an improvised response to a local development (a putsch in Kabul); it was also a direct result of this trend.",
        "入侵阿富汗并不只是针对地方发展态势（喀布尔动乱）的即兴之作； 它也是这一趋势的直接结果。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, America’s position in the region strengthened after Egypt became a US ally and made peace with Israel.",
        "最终，在埃及成为美国盟友并与以色列和解后，美国在该地区的地位提高了。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the country’s massive investment in solar and wind, it mostly sells solar panels to Western countries at subsidized prices.",
        "尽管中国大手笔投资风能和太阳能，但主要是以补贴价向西方国家出售太阳能面板。 风能只占中国能源总量的0."
    ],
    [
        "Further down, he claims that the bill “would reduce [the corporate-tax] rate to 25% or less,” which, he asserts, is “likely to boost domestic corporate investment.”",
        "接下来，他宣称该法案“将把[公司税]率下降到25%或更低，”这，他主张，“或能提振国内公司投资”。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment remained high, at 7.8% at the end of 2012, and there has been almost no real wage growth over the last few years.",
        "失业率仍然很高，2012年末水平为7. 8%，且过去数年来真实工资几无增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But today, two years later, Iran must look again at where it is.",
        "但在两年后的今天，伊朗必须再一次看看自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the example of Ethiopia, which experienced one of the worst famines in history in the mid-1980s.",
        "以埃塞俄比亚为例，这个国家在20世纪80年代中经历了有史以来最严重的一次饥荒。"
    ],
    [
        "If the international community is serious about alleviating poverty and achieving development goals, tackling the diseases so directly associated with economic misery should be a fundamental objective.",
        "如果国际社会对减轻贫困问题和实现发展目标的态度是严肃的，那么，解决这些与经济困顿直接有关的疾病就应该被列为基本目标之一。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for Europe to adjust the way that it thinks about nationality, cultural roots, and how it deals with immigrants.",
        "欧洲在国籍、文化起源和如何对待移民等方面的看法的确应该调整了。"
    ],
    [
        "Every day, new Palestinian sorrows strike heaven in the face.",
        "每天都会却发生新的巴勒斯坦人悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "A growing number of commentators – and no longer only in the Anglo-Saxon world – question the monetary union’s viability.",
        "越来越多的评论员——而且不仅仅是说英语的那帮——开始质疑这一货币联盟的生存能力。"
    ],
    [
        "This depends on the development of a robust civil society, tolerant of open debate, and healthy liberal political parties, as well as active participation by women and an independent media.",
        "这取决于稳健公民社会的发展、对公开争论的包容、健康的自由派政党，以及女性和独立媒体的积极参与。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy that Rouhani inherited from his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had been distorted by years of generous redistributions of oil revenues to the president’s supporters and then hit with stagflation, as what US Vice President Joe Biden called the “toughest economic sanctions in history” began to take hold.",
        "鲁哈尼从他的前任内贾德手中接过的是一个经济烂摊子，多年来，石油收入被肆意再分配给总统支持者，然后，随着美国副总统拜登所谓的“史上最严厉经济制裁”的开始，伊朗经济陷入滞胀。"
    ],
    [
        "For some groups, the situation is much worse: more than 38% of black children, and 30% of Hispanic children, are poor.",
        "某些群体的状况更是恶劣得多：38%的黑人儿童和30%的西班牙裔儿童是穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "De Tocqueville identified another source of restraint in the US system: the power of religion.",
        "托克维尔还指出了美国制度的另一个约束来源：宗教的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s aid still appeared niggardly when compared with the amounts offered by countries with a fraction of America’s economic wealth.",
        "但如果与很多物质财富远不及美国的国家比起来，美国的援助显得十分吝啬。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no doubt that, with time, the renminbi will acquire a more consequential international role.",
        "毫无疑问，假以时日，人民币将起到更重要的国际作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But while the premises underlying this broad trend are clear, Latin America’s voters are electing not one left, but two.",
        "尽管这种大趋势作为前提已经再清楚不过，但拉丁美洲的投票者选出的却不是一个左派，而是两个。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine does, indeed, present a threat, but not to Russia’s security, as Kremlin propagandists claim.",
        "像克里姆林宫的宣传家声称的那样，乌克兰确实对俄罗斯构成了威胁，但是不是对俄罗斯安全的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "If Saudi Arabia succeeds in transforming its economy, including reforming institutions and restructuring economic incentives, other countries that face similar challenges, in the region and beyond, will be inspired to follow suit.",
        "如果沙特阿拉伯的经济转型——包括制度改革和经济激励重组——取得成功，该地区内外面临类似挑战的其他国家也会受到启发，争相效仿。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was a series of short, witty films explaining simply and humorously how antibiotics can be misused.",
        "结果产生了一系列幽默的短片，诙谐地解释了抗生素是如何被错用的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not a question of nostalgia or snobbery.",
        "这不是怀旧或势利。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, while Egypt is in the midst of a messy revolution, and must give priority to internal change, it also intends to regain a more visible and influential role within the Palestinian national movement(s) and in the region as a whole.",
        "同样，尽管埃及正在经历一场混乱的革命，必须重点关注内部变化，但它也想在巴勒斯坦民族运动和整个地区重新发挥有显著作用的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Many African businesses – nearly half of companies in Nigeria, and more than one-third in Angola and Egypt – highlight unreliable electricity supplies as a major challenge.",
        "许多非洲企业——尼日利亚企业的将近一半、安哥拉和埃及的超过1/3——强调电力供应不可靠对他们构成严重挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve this, it must focus specifically on crisis prevention and management. That is where Japan and South Korea went wrong.",
        "为了实现这一目标，就必须特别关注危机的预防和管理，这也是日本和韩国出了问题的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "The key benefit of Russian foreign investment is not economic, but that it helps Russia become a global citizen.",
        "俄罗斯外国投资的主要益处不是经济上的，而是在于促使俄罗斯成为一个世界公民。"
    ],
    [
        "This is surprising, because anyone who has worked in government knows that coordinating the public and private sectors to address a particular issue, while often complicated, is a cakewalk compared to the problem of herding the cats that constitute the panoply of government agencies.",
        "这相当令人奇怪，因为只要你在政府中供职就知道，协调公共和私人部门解决一个具体问题尽管复杂，但与理顺叠床架屋的政府机构相比简直可以说是易如反掌。"
    ],
    [
        "But while the IMF has projected 2.9% GDP growth for 2017 – and annual growth of 4% by 2020 – annualized growth in the first half of this year was just 2.5%.",
        "但虽然国际货币基金组织预计2017年乌克兰GDP将实现2. 9％的增长（至2020年将达到4％），今年上半年的年增长率仅为2."
    ],
    [
        "But the truth is that the North has done nothing to earn such appeasement.",
        "但实际情况是朝鲜没有做出任何事情值得我们给予这样的姑息。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy is associated with less injustice and abuse, with basic civic and political freedoms, and with greater sensitivity by governments for the true priorities of its citizens.",
        "民主是与更少的不公正和滥用权力，与基本的公民和政治自由以及与政府对其公民真正优先事务的敏感度联系在一起的。"
    ],
    [
        "Such statements are typically made only days, sometimes hours, before the first American bombs fall.",
        "通常在这样的声明发表几天、有时甚至是几小时后，美国就会投下第一枚炸弹。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, they typically pride themselves on integrity.",
        "相反，他们常常标榜自己的诚信。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, it is understandable that academics might question Daoud’s approach; his argument was based on a strain of “essentialism,” in which individual actions are reduced to cultural and religious forces, with no attention to the social, political, and economic conditions that might be at work.",
        "可以肯定，学者们质疑达乌德的方法是可以理解的； 他的观点基于一系列“本质论”，即仅仅通过文化和宗教因素来解释个人行为，而不考虑社会、政治和经济条件发挥的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "At the ongoing International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in Hawaii, a group of leading conservationists and scientists issued an open letter, entitled “A Call for Conservation with a Conscience,” demanding a halt to the use of gene drives in conservation.",
        "在正在夏威夷举行的国际自然保护联盟（IUCN）世界保护会议上，一群著名自然保护主义者和科学家发表了一篇题为《保护需要良知》（A Call for Conservation with a Conscience）的公开信，要求停止在保护中运用基因驱动器技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Startups such as Acorns – an app that automatically allocates a proportion of everyday purchases to a pre-selected investment portfolio – are making rapid inroads into a very competitive marketplace.",
        "Acorns是一个自动配置日常买入的一定比例给预先选定的投资组合的应用。 这类创业企业正在快速向竞争激烈的市场挺进。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as with polio, the fight against hunger, disease, and lack of access to safe water and sanitation can be carried forward with practical and powerful technologies.",
        "就像小儿麻痹症一样，与饥饿、疾病和缺乏安全饮用水和卫生设施的斗争可以通过切实可行、成效卓著的技术取得进展。"
    ],
    [
        "To succeed, we must solve the mystery of how to induce the human body to produce a protective immune response.",
        "要取得成功，我们必须解决怎样诱导人体产生保护性免疫反应的难题。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, in line with the recommendation of the Commission for Africa, the United Nations, and the African Union, we ask for a total cancellation of our foreign debt.",
        "最后，按照非洲委员会（Commission for Africa）、联合国和非洲联盟的建议，我们呼吁完全豁免我们的外债。"
    ],
    [
        "Emergencies are chaotic: staff and resources are stretched, the local population is very unlikely to be able to provide meaningful feedback, and pre-crisis baseline data are largely unavailable, so comparisons are complicated.",
        "紧急情况是混乱的：人员和资源捉襟见肘，当地人几乎不能提供有用的回馈，且危机之前的基本数据也往往难以获得，因此要进行比较更是困难重重。"
    ],
    [
        "Poor US economic performance is not the result of any particular ideology, but of allowing ideologues to guide public policy.",
        "美国经济表现拙劣不是拜某种意识形态所赐，而是因为让意识形态左右了公共政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Renewing Europe’s Security Dialogue",
        "重启欧洲安全对话"
    ],
    [
        "Some 42 agreements were reportedly penned at the meeting, on issues ranging from outstanding trade and economic matters to the launch of a human rights commission.",
        "据报道，本次东盟峰会共签署了大约42项协议，内容涵盖尚未解决的贸易经济问题以及人权委员会的成立事宜。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, interest rates on bank loans to nonfinancial enterprises remain close to 7%, despite having fallen slightly over the last year.",
        "与此同时，尽管叫去年略有下降，非金融企业银行贷款利率仍接近7%。"
    ],
    [
        "Education Without Borders",
        "教育无国界"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, Hoover and other figures argued in a perfectly modern, Keynesian fashion that large-scale public-works programs were needed to pull the economy out of the trough.",
        "恰恰相反，胡佛和其他一些人物曾抱有一种十足现代、凯恩斯式的主张，认为只有出台大规模公共就业项目，才能把经济拉出泥潭。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, globalization’s opponents in the emerging markets and developing countries have been joined by tens of millions in the advanced countries.",
        "如今数千万发达国家民众也加入了新兴市场和发展中国家的全球化反对者们队伍之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s culture remains inward-looking.",
        "日本文化依旧保持内敛。"
    ],
    [
        "The European ideal has parallels in other parts of the world.",
        "欧洲的统一理想并非当世无二。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN currently is falling short of providing effective support to member states, migrants, and the societies that host them.",
        "联合国目前没有能力为成员国、移民和收留移民的社会提供有效的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge is to apply these insights in a world characterized by global economic interdependence, major imbalances, and a worsening growth and employment problem.",
        "挑战在于将这些洞见应用于当今全球经济相互依赖型越来越强、失衡越来越严重、增长和就业问题越来越恶化的世界中。"
    ],
    [
        "Centralized municipal systems now use algorithms to monitor urban infrastructure, from traffic lights and subway use, to waste disposal and energy delivery.",
        "集中市政系统现在利用算法来监控红绿灯、地铁应用、废物处理和能源输送在内的城市基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – This weekend, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a country music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, from an overlooking hotel, killing at least 59 people and injuring more than 500 others.",
        "伦敦—这个周末，史蒂芬·帕多克（Stephen Paddock）在内华达州拉斯维加斯的一家饭店居高临下朝一个乡村音乐节开火，至少杀害了59人，伤及500多人。"
    ],
    [
        "The PiS jumped on the anticorruption bandwagon and strengthened its appeal by linking the fight against corruption to the vision of hidden forces supposedly perverting Polish society and democracy.",
        "法律与正义党借题发挥，并且通过将反腐败与被指称破坏波兰社会和民主的隐藏势力联系起来而巩固了其号召力。"
    ],
    [
        "Can northern Italy’s family firms again prove themselves capable of growth in increasingly tough international markets?",
        "8％。 意大利北部的家族企业能否再次证明自己可以在竞争日渐激烈的国际市场上发展壮大？"
    ],
    [
        "UNICEF reports that 2.1 million children in Syria and 700,000 Syrian refugee children are out of school.",
        "联合国儿童基金会（UNICEF）报道，210万叙利亚儿童和700,000叙利亚难民儿童辍学。"
    ],
    [
        "Public debt in all three countries is thus either already low or (as in Hungary) declining.",
        "这三个国家的公共债务因此已经降得很低，或（如匈牙利）正在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "With central banks – the de facto best friend of financial markets these days – pushing for increasingly large financial risk-taking (as a means of stimulating productive economic risk-taking), this is no easy feat.",
        "央行——近段时期以来，它们实际上是金融市场最好的朋友——推动着越来越大规模的金融冒险（以此作为刺激生产性经济冒险的手段），因此这并不容易。"
    ],
    [
        "But after years of preaching and practicing one of Zionism’s main tenets, will the removal of settlements continue in the West Bank, or will this be a one-time exception?",
        "但是在多年宣扬和实行犹太复国主义的主要原则后，撤除定居点的行动是将继续下去，还是将成为千古绝唱？"
    ],
    [
        "That is why home seems far, far away for so many Mexicans.",
        "因此，许多墨西哥人才会觉得家乡还在那很远很远的远方。"
    ],
    [
        "History demonstrates the difficulty of avoiding the so-called “resource curse” – and that it does not plague only less-developed countries like Nigeria, as many assume.",
        "历史表明，避免所谓的“资源诅咒”是十分困难的，正如很多人所认为的，并非只有尼日利亚等欠发达国家才会受这一诅咒的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "But we proved the skeptics wrong, and learned some fundamental lessons.",
        "但我们证明了怀疑论者的错误，从中汲取了某些基本的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "Perceptions of China’s vulnerability need to be considered in this context.",
        "对于中国疲软的观点，应该放到这一环境中去考察。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, the US delivered 75% of the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), 75% of air-to-air refueling, and 90% of the targeting intelligence – an indisputably significant contribution.",
        "最终，美国提供了75%的情报、监视和侦察（ISR），75%的空中加油和90%的定点情报——毫无疑问贡献卓著。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, it has provided more than $400 million to strengthen and support the country of my birth.",
        "从那以后，这家基金已经提供了超过4亿美元，用来巩固和支持我所出生的国度。"
    ],
    [
        "Solar power is currently cheaper in cloudy Germany than in sunny regions where the cost of borrowing is higher.",
        "如今，在多云的德国，太阳能已经比借贷成本较高的阳光充裕国家价格更低。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite capital flight from much of the region, foreign investment continues to flow in.",
        "尽管资本纷纷流出该地区，但外国投资仍在持续流入。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, the AKP’s triumph is unlikely to ameliorate the country’s internal conflicts, much less revive its tarnished international standing.",
        "但是，AKP的胜利无法缓和土耳其的内部冲突，更不能改善土耳其的国际地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The population and the labor force are shrinking, implying even higher debt ratios in the future.",
        "人口和劳动力双双萎缩，意味着未来的负债率还将走高。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it attempted to limit verification to that which was already known.",
        "相反，它要求核查限定于已知的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, Iran has effective means of retaliation.",
        "另一方面，伊朗具备有效的报复手段。"
    ],
    [
        "This seems to be one of those cases: the risks are great, and outweigh whatever benefits violent video games may have.",
        "这似乎属于这样一种情况：风险过于巨大，超过了暴力电子游戏可能带来的任何好处。"
    ],
    [
        "This occurred because sterling fell more than 21%, peak to trough, from 2007 to 2008.",
        "1％左右的通胀率。 这是因为从2007~08年间，英镑汇率从顶部下跌了超过21％。"
    ],
    [
        "At this stage, Iran still needs at least a year or longer to assemble one or two crude Hiroshima-type bombs.",
        "在目前阶段，伊朗仍需要至少一年或更长的时间才能组装成功一枚或两枚像当年投放在广岛那样的最原始的核弹。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, though America’s policy toward Cuba has been one of the Cold War’s last vestiges, Obama’s move will not be a game changer in America’s competition with China and Russia to shape the new world order.",
        "平心而论，尽管美国对古巴政策是冷战最后的痕迹之一，但奥巴马的举动无法成为美国与中国和俄罗斯的新世界秩序之争的局面改变因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is almost 100 years old, while the most widely used diagnostic test, microscopic detection of bacilli in sputum, was developed 130 years ago.",
        "事实上，Bacille Calmette–Guérin（BCG）疫苗问世已近百年，而使用最广的诊断测试——用显微镜检测痰中的细菌数量——更是拥有130年的历史了。"
    ],
    [
        "They knew that they were fighting evil in an environment that was historically and culturally familiar.",
        "他们知道，他们将在熟悉的历史和文化环境中与恶魔搏斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Another frequent cause of companies’ blind spots is historic bias, or what psychologists call an “anchoring bias” – the assumption that something that was true in the past will continue to be true in the future.",
        "另一个常常造成公司盲点的因素是历史偏见，或心理学家所谓的“锚定偏见”——即认为过去正确的东西在未来将依然正确。"
    ],
    [
        "This view is outdated.",
        "但这肯定是过时的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "If they do, it would represent a significant improvement over recent performance: the US economy has averaged less than 2% annual growth since 2000.",
        "如果真的成功的话，这将是在近期表现基础上的重大改善：自2000年以来，美国年均经济增长不到2%。"
    ],
    [
        "The policy of never negotiating with terrorists cannot be scaled up to state level when hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake.",
        "在数百或数千条生命危在旦夕之时，不能把绝不和恐怖分子谈判的政策扩大到国家层面。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately for Sri Lanka – and other OBOR participants – China’s intentions are far from malicious.",
        "幸运的是，对于斯里兰卡和其他“一带一路”参与者来说，中国的意图远非恶意。"
    ],
    [
        "Pride of place goes to Fedor Fedorovich, the generic unsung hero whose task it was to prevent accidents by banging the rails and wagon couplings with a hammer to check for faults.",
        "最显眼的地方留给了费多·费多罗维奇（Fedor Fedorovich），这位朴实的无名英雄的工作是通过用锤子敲击轨道和货车联轴器来排查故障防止事故。"
    ],
    [
        "The Paris agreement also abandons the idea of “compliance” as a stamp of legality or illegality.",
        "巴黎协定还放弃了用“遵守”作为合法还是不合法标志的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "His selection of Republicans for key posts – including retaining Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense – has raised a few eyebrows among his supporters.",
        "他选择的担任重要职位的共和党人-包括保留罗伯特·盖茨担任国防部长-着实让一些他的支持者吃惊。"
    ],
    [
        "Blaming the revolution is the wrong approach to Egypt’s current economic woes.",
        "埃及目前的经济困境不应归咎于革命。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, the dollar could succumb to a long, slow bleeding out, as America’s financial rivals try to make their own currencies more attractive and accessible.",
        "另一方面，随着美国的金融对手让本国货币更具吸引力和更容易获得，美元可能陷入漫长缓慢的失血期。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians – like Jacques Chirac in France, Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, and ECOFIN (the finance ministers of the European Union’s member states) – continue to press for fixed, even lower, interest rates.",
        "像法国的希拉克、意大利的贝卢斯科尼和欧盟成员国财政部长这样的政客就继续要求保持固定、甚至是更低的利率水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The BRICS today, like in 2001, have a vital role to play in tackling the most pressing international challenges.",
        "当今的金砖五国跟2001年时一样，在解决那些最为紧迫的国际性挑战方面发挥着至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF, the World Bank, and other international financial institutions, such as the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, as well as the European Central Bank and the European Commission, have worked together to stabilize the situation.",
        "国际货币基金组织和世界银行，连同欧洲投资银行、欧洲复兴开发银行、欧洲中央银行和欧盟委员会等其他国际金融机构一道，共同合作以稳定东欧的形势。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to encourage citizens to use public transport, policymakers in Tokyo reduced subsidies for private cars, so that driving one became five times costlier than using public transport.",
        "为鼓励市民利用公交，东京的决策者降低了私家车补贴，导致开私家车成本是公交的五倍还多。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Twenty years ago, the adoption by 189 governments of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action marked a turning point in the history of women's rights.",
        "纽约—二十年前，189个政府接受了北京宣言和行动纲领，标志着妇女权利史的一个转折点。"
    ],
    [
        "And Julius Evola, the reactionary Italian thinker whose work has inspired Europe’s post-war far right, expressly admired the concept of jihad and the self-sacrifice it demands.",
        "而曾凭借著作激发欧洲战后极右翼势力的意大利反动思想家尤里乌斯·埃弗拉则公开推崇圣战理念及其所要求的自我牺牲精神。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so would in no way entail compromising any core European values.",
        "这样做并不会牺牲任何欧洲核心价值。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, he was met with skepticism and apathy.",
        "他的英美之旅无一例外地遭遇了怀疑和冷漠。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, then, are businesses unwilling to invest more in the country?",
        "那么为何如今企业却不愿意在德国追加投资？"
    ],
    [
        "Training the Middle East’s Future Health-Care Professionals",
        "培训中东未来医疗专业人士"
    ],
    [
        "Or, if they exist at all, they appear to be constrained by dysfunctional political systems. Their ability to act is limited by their political environment.",
        "即便有这样的人，也被机能失调的政治制度限制着，他们的行动能力也被身处的政治环境所制约着，无法动弹。"
    ],
    [
        "But Asia’s economies can still grow much faster than the developed West if they respond to prolonged stagnation by rebalancing their growth toward internal demand, especially household consumption.",
        "但亚洲经济体仍能以比发达西方快得多的速度增长，如果它们通过转向内需（特别是家庭消费）实现增长再平衡以应对出口的长期停滞的话。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, we need new policies to address youth unemployment, given that current approaches are failing.",
        "尤其我们需要出台全新政策解决青年失业问题，因为目前的做法是失败的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the costs are very concrete and visible, as jobs in enterprises that depend on exports to Russia seem to be at stake.",
        "此外，制裁成本是实实在在、看得见摸得着的，依赖对俄出口的企业的就业将受到冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Right now, all eyes are on the undeclared frontrunners to become the first appointed president of the European Council.",
        "目前，所有的目光都集中在成为第一个经过任命的欧洲理事会主席的没有公开宣布的侯选人身上。"
    ],
    [
        "Back then, countries still had their national currencies; they could simply stop supporting them.",
        "当是时，各国仍然用着各自的本国货币； 它们所做的只是停止支持本币。"
    ],
    [
        "But is there any strategy that could have succeeded in restoring the Greek economy?",
        "但有战略能成功重塑希腊经济吗？"
    ],
    [
        "This is an accomplishment well worth celebrating; but we must also bear in mind that with increased longevity come significant long-term economic consequences – and that many societies are aging at a record speed.",
        "这一成就非常值得庆祝； 但我们也必须牢记寿命延长会带来显著的长期经济后果——许多社会老龄化将达到创纪录的速度。"
    ],
    [
        "The failures in the oil-rich Middle East are legion.",
        "与此同时，我们可以看到，中东地区许多盛产石油的国家，经济发展都是失败的。"
    ],
    [
        "By reducing benefits received by the poor, the government is ensuring that scarcity surges and poor decisions multiply.",
        "通过减少穷人获得的福利，政府正在确保稀缺性不断上升以及糟糕决策倍增。"
    ],
    [
        "It is useful, because it shows whether the United States is spending beyond its means and therefore going into debt to the rest of the world.",
        "它很有用，因为它说明了美国是否入不敷出，因此欠下世界其他国家的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the US and others following its example are becoming rich countries with poor people.",
        "结果，美国及其追随者都变成了穷人遍布的富国。"
    ],
    [
        "Capital flows among emerging economies have doubled in just ten years, and more than one billion people crossed borders in 2009, over five times the figure in 1980.",
        "新兴经济体间的资本流动在短短十年间增加了一倍，2009年有超过10亿人跨越国界，是1980年跨境人数的五倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, more than ever, I believe the peace process could take a new turn if the EU officially recognized Palestine – whose interim institutions it continues to support.",
        "如今，我比以往任何时候都更加相信，欧盟正式承认巴勒斯坦可以为和平进程带来新转折。 欧盟一直支持巴勒斯坦过渡机构。"
    ],
    [
        "But what may be lost is how many people did believe.",
        "但是无法弄清楚的是有多少人曾确实相信过它。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar sense of déjà vu has pervaded economic forecasting since the global economic crisis began a half-decade ago.",
        "自五年前全球经济危机爆发以来，经济预测界也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "This represents a potential loss of more than 10% of output for Greece.",
        "这意味着希腊产出蒙受了10%以上的潜在损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Neuroscientific studies have shown that humans can be motivated by care and systems of affiliation just as easily as they can be by power and achievement or consumption and desire.",
        "神经学研究表明，关爱及隶属机制对人的驱动力与权力成就感或消费欲望一样强。"
    ],
    [
        "Sparked by Poland’s Solidarity movement, the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the bipolar world and its East-West divide vanished.",
        "伴随着波兰团结工会的运动，华沙条约失效了，苏联解体了，两极世界和东方西方的纷争烟消云散。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE, MA. -- Development “big think” has always been dominated by comprehensive visions about transforming poor societies.",
        "麻省，剑桥——对贫穷社会的全面愿景总是统领有关发展的“宏大构想”。"
    ],
    [
        "But the next step – an international treaty establishing a global bankruptcy regime to which all countries are bound – may prove more difficult.",
        "但下一步——建立一个约束所有国家的全球性破产制度国际条约——可能更困难。"
    ],
    [
        "China will have a more rapid recovery later this year, but growth will reach only 5% this year and 7% in 2010, well below the average of 10% over the last decade.",
        "中国的复苏速度相对较快，但今年的增长只能达到5%，2010年则将达到7%，这与过去10年来平均10%的增长速度不可同日而语。"
    ],
    [
        "Conversely, the Target debt of the Southern European countries – Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain (GIPS) – amounted to €816.5 billion.",
        "反之，南欧国家——希腊、意大利、葡萄牙和西班牙（欧猪四国）——的Target债务达到了8,165亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "An example is the IMF’s general revision of quotas, due in 2014.",
        "2014年，国际货币基金组织将进行配额大修订就是一例。"
    ],
    [
        "And today’s Asia faces many such decisions.",
        "而今天的亚洲就面临许多这样的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "This success can surely be replicated elsewhere in Africa.",
        "非洲其他国家无疑也可以复制这样的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The great task for Obama, incoming Chinese President, Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the new Japanese and South Korean leaders who will come to power following elections in December, and all ASEAN members is to ensure that consensus prevails in Asia without stoking China’s greatest strategic fear – encirclement.",
        "奥巴马、即将上任的中国主席习近平、印度总理辛格、12月大选后上台的日本和韩国领导人、以及所有东盟成员国必须确保在亚洲形成共识的同时不让中国最大的战略隐忧——岛链——恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "This would require, of course, less cynical political elites who can transcend their petty ambitions and divisions for the sake of the country.",
        "当然，这要求有更加坚定的政治精英，为了国家的命运牺牲自己的小野心和小异议。"
    ],
    [
        "The outlook for developing countries, in particular, is decidedly mixed.",
        "特别是，发展中国家的前景十分模糊。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this situation, the logical choice for the country should have been clear: if the government wanted to survive, foreign depositors must bear part of the losses.",
        "鉴于这种情况，该国的合理选择原本应该很明显了：如果政府想要安全渡过危机，外国储户就必须承担部分损失。"
    ],
    [
        "4. Use of trans fats in food manufacturing and restaurants can be limited without any significant effects on food taste, cost, or availability. While industry often expresses concern that limiting the use of trans fats will affect food taste or cost, no evidence exists to support this hypothesis.",
        "可以对食品生产和餐馆中对反型脂肪的使用进行限制而又不会对食品的口味、成本或可得性产生明显影响。 虽然食品行业时常表示对限制使用反型脂肪对食品的口味或成本产生影响的担心，但却没有证据支持这样的假设。"
    ],
    [
        "Some believe that China cannot rise peacefully, and will seek hegemony in East Asia, leading to conflict with the United States and Japan.",
        "有些人认为中国不可能会和平崛起，并会在东亚寻求霸权，引发与美国和日本的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Words have consequences and can inflame thuggery or worse.",
        "言辞会造成后果，可以谋财害命甚至更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Tourism has been stagnant for decades, even as travelers have flocked to other Caribbean destinations.",
        "纵使游客蜂拥至加勒比海其他各大旅游胜地，但这里的旅游业却已停滞了数十年。"
    ],
    [
        "To flesh out Darwinism, we obviously have to understand the three processes that are at its core. We need to know how organisms develop and reproduce, what is inherited and how it is inherited, and how heritable variations are generated.",
        "很显然，为了充实达尔文主义，我们必须明白达尔文主义中处于核心地位的三个过程：我们要知道生物是怎样发展和繁衍的，什么被遗传以及是怎样遗传的，以及遗传变异是怎样发生的。"
    ],
    [
        "Or it can reach the limits of its military and economic strength, as in the case of the Soviet Union at the time of its disintegration.",
        "另一种方法是超越其军事和经济实力的极限，苏联解体就是这方面的具体例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, China continues to accumulate a vast fund of foreign-exchange reserves.",
        "是的，中国仍在继续囤积巨量外汇储备。"
    ],
    [
        "A number of commentators have observed that the global financial crisis was good for economic history, because it directed attention to previous crises and to the insights that could be gleaned from studying them.",
        "许多评论家观察到，全球金融危机对经济史来说是一件好事，因为它将注意力引向此前发生过的危机以及可以从研究这些危机中获得的洞见。"
    ],
    [
        "Fragmentation of the international institutions seemed imminent – that is, until European countries decided to join the AIIB.",
        "国际机构的分裂似乎一触即发——直到欧洲国家决定加入亚投行。"
    ],
    [
        "In the late 1990’s, as China and Vietnam were posting rapid GDP growth, North Korea was ravaged by one of the worst famines in modern history.",
        "上世纪九十年代后期，当中国和越南两国的GDP快速增长之际，朝鲜却正在经历着现代史上最严重的饥荒之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever happens in the US, Muslim immigration into Europe will continue and even expand in the next few years.",
        "不管美国发生了什么，未来几年进入欧洲的穆斯林移民仍将继续并有可能增加。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is a conversation that Francis has yet to initiate, and that the people around him show little sign of understanding.",
        "但方济各并未作此言论，他周围的人也没有显示出理解这一点的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "India with 1.5 Billion People",
        "印度和它的15亿人口"
    ],
    [
        "One cornerstone of the project was “smallholder farmers,” meaning peasant farm families in Africa, Latin America, and Asia – working farms of around one hectare (2.5 acres) or less.",
        "“小农”是这个项目的基础，“小农”一词是非洲、拉美和亚洲耕种土地不超过1公顷（合2. 5英亩）的农民家庭的代名词。"
    ],
    [
        "Mainstream parties, desperate to remain relevant, are caught in a vice, forced to choose between pandering to extremism and the risk of being overwhelmed by populist, anti-establishment movements.",
        "急于捍卫重要性的主流政党左右为难，被迫在迎合极端主义和被民粹主义反现状运动推翻的风险之间做出选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Ahmedinejad may be making increasingly challenging statements, but he does not have the authority to act on them.",
        "内贾德或许在发出越发挑衅的言论，但是他并没有权力实施它们。"
    ],
    [
        "In turn, large companies will receive the benefits of faster innovation, rates of youth unemployment will fall, and the hollowing out of the middle class – and its faith in future living standards – will be reversed.",
        "反过来，大公司将收获更快创新的好处，年轻人失业率会下降，中产阶级——及其对未来生活水平的信念——遭遇挖空的趋势也会逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "As the conflict intensified, established profession-based identities began to disappear, giving way to family, regional, and religious solidarities.",
        "随着冲突不断加剧，原有的专业身份开始消失，家庭、地区和宗教团结则开始浮出水面。"
    ],
    [
        "Aristotle said the state is a living being which develops in seeking the achievement of moral perfection and happiness for individuals.",
        "亚里士多德曾说，国家是实现个人道德完善及幸福的有生命的存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Long saddled with a bank-centric system of credit intermediation, the development of secure and stable equity and bond markets is a high priority in China’s effort to promote a more diversified business-funding platform.",
        "长期以来，中国存在着以银行为核心的信用中介体系，发展安全稳定的股市和债市是中国促进更加多元化的商业资金平台的重中之重。"
    ],
    [
        "Just this month, one of Netanyahu’s shamelessly incendiary statements – the claim that Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, gave Adolf Hitler the idea of annihilating Europe’s Jews during World War II – sparked a media firestorm.",
        "就在这个月，内塔尼亚胡无耻的煽动点燃了一场媒体风暴——他声称是耶路撒冷大穆夫提哈吉·阿明·侯赛尼向希特勒灌输了二战期间消灭欧洲犹太人的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "Therefore, we suggest that PARP inhibitors might be more useful in the prophylactic treatment of women carrying the gene responsible for this form of inherited breast cancer.",
        "因此，我们建议，PARP抑制剂也许在对携带造成这类遗传性乳腺癌基因的妇女的预防性治疗上更有效用。"
    ],
    [
        "Others are also historically marginalized from the social and political life of the nation, notably the Dalits, sometimes known as “untouchables,” who are at the bottom of the Hindu caste system.",
        "这个国家的其他人也在历史上就被在国家的社会和政治生活中边缘化了，特别是达利兹（Dalits），他们有时候也被称为“贱民”，是处于印度等级制度中最底层的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, each proposal faced its own opposition.",
        "相反，所有方案都不乏相应的反对力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that all alternatives to globalization are unrealistic, frightening, or both, how can we sublimate, transcend, or at least channel our fears?",
        "全球化的所有替代方案要么不现实，要么令人害怕，要么两者兼具，那么，我们怎样才能升华、克服或至少疏导我们的恐惧？"
    ],
    [
        "On July 5, the Greek people backed their young, charismatic leader with a decisive “No” vote on the unreasonable demands of their country’s creditors.",
        "7月5日，希腊民众投票支持他们年轻、有魅力的领袖，对债权人的无理要求果断说“不”。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, no one doubts Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s legitimacy.",
        "其结果是无人会质疑巴勒斯坦民族权力机构主席马哈茂德·阿巴斯的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "The GCC is in fact disintegrating, following Qatar’s ouster for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and Oman’s voluntary departure from the group.",
        "GCC正处于事实上的分裂中，卡塔尔因为支持穆斯林兄弟会而被驱逐，阿曼则主动选择退出。"
    ],
    [
        "In the trade debate, we have had the International Monetary Fund, US President Barack Obama, and the OECD – quite apart from the UK Treasury – telling Britons that a vote to leave would be bad for the economy.",
        "在贸易的辩论中，我们听到世界货币基金组织，美国总统奥巴马和经合组织——而非英国财政部——都告诉英国人投票脱离欧盟对经济是没好处的。"
    ],
    [
        "The new focus on the need to tame the power of finance is largely a consequence of globalization.",
        "全球化的结果导致我们要限制金融的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Deficits have to fall within a time horizon of 5-10 years.",
        "预算必须在5—10年的时间框架内下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing philosophy – thinking and arguing about it, not just passively reading it – develops our critical reasoning abilities, and so equips us for many of the challenges of a rapidly changing world.",
        "研究哲学——思考和思辨它，而不仅仅是消极地阅读它——开发了我们的批判性推理能力，也让我们能够应对快速变化的世界的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Then again, maybe we’re lucky that things aren’t worse.",
        "可能我们也该为事情没有继续恶化而暗自庆幸了。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor has that standard, whatever it is, been met if more children die on one side than the other.",
        "如果某一方的儿童死亡多于另一方，也并不达到某种标准，而无论这一标准为何。"
    ],
    [
        "Shock and Panic",
        "电击和惊恐"
    ],
    [
        "The higher the productivity and the quality of export activities, the higher the wages they can pay and still remain competitive. If employment in the export industry is significant, as is true in most places that do not rely on oil revenues, the wages that the export sector can afford will affect the wages of everybody in town.",
        "如果出口行业就业占比较大，就像不依赖石油收入的多数地域那样，出口行业能够支付的工资将影响生活在城里的几乎所有人。"
    ],
    [
        "Its inspired creativity and support in building formal institutions like the United Nations and World Bank has given way to a predilection for weak, informal, and ad hoc groupings, such as the various G-somethings and “coalitions of the willing.”",
        "其在建立联合国和世界银行等正式机构上所表现出来的灵光一现的创造力和支持让位给了对孱弱、非正式和临时性组织的偏好，比如各种“G-某”集团和“意愿联盟”。"
    ],
    [
        "Fossil-fuel pricing is a striking exception to the general rule that if the government has only one policy instrument, it can achieve only one policy objective.",
        "一条一般的规则是，如果政府只有一个政策工具，那么只能实现一个政策目标。 化石燃料定价是这一规则的一个显著例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet anxiety remains high in the countries most exposed to new supply cuts.",
        "但在那些最可能面临停气的国家中，恐慌依然严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting Serious in Russia's War on Terror",
        "严肃对待俄罗斯的反恐战争"
    ],
    [
        "Obama happily combines showmanship and seriousness in a way that could inject new life into the democratic system.",
        "奥巴马在某种程度上成功地综合了做秀和严肃这两种方式，对民主体系带来了鲜活的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "With external surpluses also rising in other countries of the eurozone core, the monetary union’s overall imbalance is large and growing.",
        "其他欧元区核心国的外部盈余也在上升，这使得整个货币联盟的总体失衡十分庞大并且不断增加。"
    ],
    [
        "That has jeopardized the Schengen Area of borderless travel, and some are asking whether the EU can withstand the pressure.",
        "这破坏了能够自由旅行的申根区，一些人质疑欧盟能否战胜这一压力。"
    ],
    [
        "There were several other promising developments in November.",
        "11月还有其他一些积极的发展趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "But why would they?",
        "但是这些规则为何要改变？"
    ],
    [
        "But many find it equally or even more unconscionable that migrants are forced to live for decades in the shadows – or that children raised by immigrant parents could be deported to countries that they have never seen.",
        "但很多人也会发现同等或者甚至更为不合理的现象：这些非法移民将被迫在阴影之中生活好几十年——而那些由移民父母抚养的孩子们有可能被驱逐到那些他们从未见过的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "This is very urgent in order to calm the panic.",
        "这是平息恐慌所急需的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, we must also continue forming and correcting the EU to maximize its ability to reflect the needs of its inhabitants in an ever-changing world.",
        "今天，我们必须继续塑造和修正欧盟以使其能够最大限度的反映其居民在不断变化的世界形势下的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, why should this matter?",
        "那又怎样呢？"
    ],
    [
        "With few signs that this year will bring any improvement, policymakers would be wise to understand the factors underlying the global economy’s anemic performance – and the implications of continued feebleness.",
        "几乎没有信号表明2015年会迎来任何改善，因此决策者的明智做法也许是弄清楚全球经济表现持续萎靡的根本因素——以及继续如此下去的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Somehow, it seems, Saudi society has produced a stream of violent fanaticism that draws its inspiration from extreme religious orthodoxy.",
        "看起来，暴力狂热的逆流似乎在沙特社会中蔓延，而这股逆流的根源就是极端正统的宗教观念。"
    ],
    [
        "But Royalty Pharma’s model will not bridge the funding gap between the basic research supported by government grants and the late-stage development of drugs that are in clinical trials.",
        "但特许费制药公司的模式无法填补从政府出资支持的基础研究到已进入临床试验的最后阶段研发之间的资金缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "With anti-globalization sentiment now on the rise throughout the West, this has been quite a year for finger-watching.",
        "如今，反全球化情绪在西方全面崛起，今年也成为望指（finger-watching）的一年。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt has already endured the harsh rule of secular police states, of both the right and the left.",
        "埃及已经受够了左右两派世俗警察国家的残暴统治。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s net national saving rate – the sum total of household, business, and government saving (adjusted for the depreciation of aging capacity) – currently stands at 2.5% of national income.",
        "美国的净国民储蓄率——家庭、企业和政府储蓄总和（经老化产能折旧调整）——目前占国民收入的2. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "These reforms were followed by a gradual opening to the global economy, a process that accelerated in the early 1990s.",
        "随后是逐渐向全球经济开放的过程，这一过程在20世纪90年代有所加速。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of gloating, China’s leaders should be watching developments in the Western democracies with concern – and start planning for their own difficult times ahead.",
        "因此，中国领导人不应该对西方幸灾乐祸，而应该关注西方民主国家的发展趋势——并开始为未来自身的艰难日子做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with a strong political commitment, global food-production systems can be transformed.",
        "但有了坚定的政治目标，全球粮食生产体系可以实现转型。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, global uncertainty about currencies stands in the way of a solution.",
        "最后，全球货币不确定性也妨碍欧洲问题得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the two last decades, masses of Indians and Chinese have closed the gap (in relative terms) with the rich world.",
        "在过去的二十年里，印度人和中国人缩小了他们与富裕国家的差距（相对而言）。"
    ],
    [
        "Will future historians look back at Trump’s presidency as a temporary aberration or a major turning point in America’s role in the world?",
        "未来历史学家回顾特朗普任期的时候，会把他看作临时性的反常，还是美国在世界中的角色的重大转折点？"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary union required political union.",
        "货币联盟需要政治联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "By moving to annex Crimea, Putin, supported massively – thus far – by domestic public opinion, seems to be ending the post-imperial frustration of the past two decades.",
        "普京吞并克里米亚之举迄今为止受到国内舆论的强大支持，似乎为前20年后帝国时代的无奈画上了句号。"
    ],
    [
        "The election is too important to all of us to begin and end with her.",
        "这次选举对我们大家来说太重要了，我们不能从开始到结束都围绕着她转。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the most recent G20 report also highlights some challenges.",
        "但最新的G20峰会也突出了一些挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But whenever the Kingdom has tried to reduce public-sector hiring, unemployment has increased.",
        "但只要沙特王国尝试降低公共部门雇用量，失业就会上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Stated differently, Greece is now able to finance its current level of consumption and investment, including government and private spending, without relying on capital inflows from the rest of the world.",
        "换句话说，目前希腊能够为其当前水平的消费和投资（包括政府和私人支出）融资，不需要依靠来自世界其他部分的资本流入。"
    ],
    [
        "Another widespread claim is that Chinese companies prefer to employ their own nationals rather than locals.",
        "另一个普遍的说法是，中国公司更喜欢雇用自己的公民，而不是本地人。"
    ],
    [
        "This number is up sharply from just five years ago, owing primarily to chaos across the Middle East, with Syria alone the source of nearly one in every four refugees in the world today.",
        "难民数字的激增不过五年，主要是因为整个中东的混乱局面所赐，其中叙利亚一国就占了全世界难民的近四分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the history of technology has repeatedly refuted this pessimistic view.",
        "然而技术史一次又一次地宣布这一悲观观点是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "The basic texts remain the same, but their interpretation, and the application of religion in people’s lives, has not.",
        "伊斯兰的基本文本没有变化，但是它们的解释以及宗教在人们的生活中的运用却发生了改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But Clinton should be reminded that every free industrial zone that was built along the Israeli-Palestinian border eventually fell victim to political instability.",
        "但应当向克林顿指出一点，即沿以巴边境修建的所有自由产业区最终都沦为政治动荡的牺牲品。"
    ],
    [
        "Annual inflation has not been 2% at any time in the last six years, but it is possible that the BoE’s commitment has had some effect in lowering interest rates.",
        "而在过去六年里，年通胀率从未达到过2%，但有可能英格兰银行的承诺已经产生了一些降低利率的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "But the moral power of religious faith does not need a supernatural explanation.",
        "但是宗教信仰的道义力量并不需要超自然的解释。"
    ],
    [
        "They built a system of community justice, called Gacaca, which integrated their need for nationwide reconciliation with an ancient tradition of clemency.",
        "他们建立了社区司法系统，称之为“加卡卡”（Gacaca），这套系统将全国和解的需要与仁慈的古老传统相融合。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, no single country can steer the world away from this trap.",
        "如今，没有一个国家能够让世界摆脱这一陷阱。"
    ],
    [
        "The foreign ministry, for example, released a statement noting that, “The agreement…constitutes the first concrete positive development concerning Iran’s nuclear program since the Tehran Declaration of 2010.”",
        "比如，外交部发布了一份声明，说“该协议……是自2010年德黑兰宣言以来关于伊朗核计划第一次取得实质性进展。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Most of those who took the leaflets did not know that their eggs came from hens kept in cages so small that even one bird – the cages normally housed four – would be unable to fully stretch and flap her wings.",
        "大多数接过传单的人都不知道自己吃的鸡蛋原来来自于那些极为窄小，以致连一只鸟都无法完全伸展双翼的笼子——而常规操作中这么一个笼子要装下四只母鸡。"
    ],
    [
        "US military strikes against Syria would further fuel extremism and result in widespread atrocities by the rebels against Syrians of all faiths.",
        "美军事打击叙利亚将进一步助长极端主义，导致叛军对所有信仰的叙利亚人发动大规模暴行。"
    ],
    [
        "The rich and powerful turn to the government to help them whenever they can, while needy individuals get little social protection.",
        "有钱有权的人可以伸手向政府求助，而普通大众却没什么社会保障。"
    ],
    [
        "When the majority party in either house of Congress routinely changes the rules to suit its own ends, crafting bipartisan solutions becomes almost impossible.",
        "当国会两院之一的多数党总是会修改规则以利于本党时，形成跨党派方案便成为几乎不可能的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, there was outsize demand for safe assets.",
        "这两个时期都存在巨大的安全资产需求。"
    ],
    [
        "So, for example, patients close to death are resuscitated, against the doctor’s better judgment, because they have not specifically stated that they do not want to be resuscitated in such circumstances.",
        "在美国，约27%的医疗保险支出用在了生命的最后一年。 虽然有些花费是希望使病人能够多活很多年，但医院为那些已经没有希望活过一两个星期病人, 提供上万美元的治疗, 也是常事, 通常这些病人都是在麻醉和无意识状态下度过的。"
    ],
    [
        "These two apparently contradictory interests can be reconciled and translated into a common strategy by adopting a three-pronged approach based on efficient isolation, effective containment, and direct negotiations.",
        "这两项看似相悖的利益可以被和解并转化为一项共同战略。 具体做法是采取一种基于有效孤立、充分遏制和直接谈判的三头并进的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "And domestic politics in several member states, including Malaysia and Thailand, is becoming increasingly chaotic.",
        "马来西亚和泰国等成员国的国内政局也早日益混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, they refused to reach out to their secular opponents to offer them a piece of the political pie.",
        "因此，他们拒绝与世俗反对者接触，让他们也能从政治蛋糕上分一杯羹。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq thus showed both the strength and the limitations of the UN.",
        "如此，伊拉克战争显示出联合国的力量和局限性。"
    ],
    [
        "While this seems to be a very pessimistic assessment of the regional situation, the radical Islamist side has many weaknesses.",
        "虽然这看起来似乎是对该地区局势的一个非常悲观的评估，但是，激进的伊斯兰主义一方有许多弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "But the consequences are so unpredictable, and the costs of any domino effect potentially so large, that Germany and other creditors have no interest in precipitating a Grexit scenario.",
        "但结果根本无法预测，任何潜在的多米诺效应都是十分巨大的，因此让希腊退出情形发生不符合德国和其他债权国的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "I expressed my sadness that our government has killed a human being, whatever his crimes may have been.",
        "我为政府杀人而深感难过，无论这个人犯有什么样的罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "A third of them have said that they won’t vote for her.",
        "有1/3的桑德斯支持者明确表示不会投票给她。"
    ],
    [
        "It could also require some adjustments to the Fund’s Charter, but so what? The recently approved reforms already require changes to the IMF’s “Articles of Agreement.”",
        "这也需要对国际货币基金组织的章程作出一些调整，但是，那又怎么样呢？ 最近批准的改革已经需要对《国际货币基金组织协定》作出一些改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, today’s policies are inadequate.",
        "总体而言，当下的政策不够充分。"
    ],
    [
        "Superbugs, like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile, are proliferating.",
        "超级病菌，如具有甲氧西林抗药性的金黄葡萄球菌（MRSA）和艰难梭菌，正在迅速繁衍。"
    ],
    [
        "Some still take the form of a “state of nation states.”",
        "有些依旧采取“民族国家的国家”形式。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, new labor-market regulations were introduced, the most important being strict job-security legislation implemented in the early 1970’s.",
        "而且，实施了新的劳动力市场规范，其中最为重要的是在二十世纪七十年代早期实施的严格的就业保障立法。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s KGB cronies, usually from St. Petersburg, control these institutions, and tap them for huge kickbacks.",
        "普京的克格勃把兄弟们大多来自圣彼得堡，控制着这些机构并且从中获取巨额回扣。"
    ],
    [
        "Pessimistic observers foresee a continual decline of freedom rather than a liberal equilibrium.",
        "持悲观论调的观察家认为未来更可能出现自由的减少，而不是达到自由的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama’s proposed alternative to the fiscal cliff would substantially increase tax rates and limit tax deductions for the top 2% of earners, who now pay more than 45% of total federal personal-income taxes.",
        "奥巴马总统的财政悬崖替代方案将大幅提高薪酬最高的2%人群的税率，限制他们的税收减免优惠，如今，该群体贡献了联邦个人所得税总量的45%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders of both China and Japan need to accept their position in this process and, above all, not simply ride on the froth of current events.",
        "中日两国的领导人需要接受自身在该进程中所处的位置，而且最重要的是，不要仅仅着眼于当前事件的一些旁枝末节之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, we are beginning to find our way through the forest.",
        "尽管如此，我们正开始找到穿越森林之路。"
    ],
    [
        "For my part, and for many years now, I have tried to highlight the sweet.",
        "就我而言，这么多年来我一直试图彰显其甜的一面。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Kuwait is a monarchy, its parliamentary history has not been placid, and the election campaign reflected ongoing tensions between the royal family and segments of the electorate.",
        "虽然科威特实行的是君主政体，但是其议会历史也并非波澜不惊。 此次选举竞选活动反映出了当前王室与部分选区之间一直存在的紧张关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Debt markets would also benefit from such an initiative.",
        "债券市场也会从这些举措中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush Loses in the Supreme Court and America Wins",
        "布什高院败诉，美国获胜"
    ],
    [
        "Failure discredits only the party or coalition in power, not the entire political system.",
        "在失败中信用破产的只是掌权的政党或是联合体，但不是整个政治体制。"
    ],
    [
        "More than a year was wasted on this, causing, among other things, tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and the Obama administration.",
        "米歇尔在这方面已经耗费了整整一年，并与其他因素一起导致了以色利的内塔尼亚胡政府和奥巴马当局之间的紧张关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The first strategy is problematic because it is unsustainable.",
        "第一种战略是有问题的，因为它是不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as economic policy remains the province of national governments, sovereign risk will likely continue to distort the operation of cross-border finance.",
        "只要经济政策由国家政府决定，主权风险就会继续扭曲跨境金融的操作。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the highest priorities of the new Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which I direct on behalf of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, will be to elaborate alternative pathways to a low-carbon economy, taking into account the specific conditions of countries around the world.",
        "一项当务之急是由我代表联合国秘书长潘基文主管的新的可持续发展解决方案网络（Sustainable Development Solutions Network）能够详尽地规划通往低碳经济的新道路，考虑世界各国的具体条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Rating agencies and shareholders are nervous when they hear that a stricter regulatory environment is not necessarily a disadvantage.",
        "一个更严格的监管环境并不一定是件坏事的说法会让评级机构和股票持有者们感到非常紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "But foreign ministers will be deeply suspicious if they think that the Commission is taking over foreign policy.",
        "而一旦欧盟成员国的外长们认为巴罗佐的欧盟委员会正在接管外交政策，这些人就将表示出极度的不信任。"
    ],
    [
        "These industries have learned that by focusing the debate on uncertainties in the science (and the need for more research), it is possible to avoid a debate on public policy.",
        "这些行业已经明白了通过在科学的不确定性（以及进一步研究的需要）上纠缠就可能避免公共政策的辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "Compulsory student participation would not only improve Wikipedia ’s already impressive collective knowledge base, but also might help curb the elitist pretensions of researchers in the global knowledge system.",
        "作为学生必修课参与其中不仅会提高维基百科全书业已令人惊叹的集体知识基础，而且还有可能帮助限制在全球知识体系中研究人员的精英外表。"
    ],
    [
        "If he becomes Fatah’s leader (and hence leader of the PA and the PLO as well), any compromise with Israel would become unimaginable.",
        "如果古奈姆最终当选为法塔赫的领导人，并因此成为巴勒斯坦当局以及巴勒斯坦解放组织领导人的话，那么同以方达成任何形式的妥协方案都只能是无稽之谈了。"
    ],
    [
        "After a year-long campaign costing $2.5-6 billion (estimates vary widely), President Barack Obama has won a second four-year term, with 49 states reporting their results on election night (Florida, for the second time in four presidential elections, did not).",
        "在经历了耗时一年、耗费25—60亿美元的大选之后（诸项估计差别很大），49各州在选举当夜报告了投票结果（佛罗里达不在其中，这是四次总统选举以来的第二次）总统奥巴马赢得了第二个4年任期。"
    ],
    [
        "It is quaint that the 1933 World Economic Conference took place in the Geological Museum in London’s Kensington, at a time when international cooperation seemed as alien as a fossilized dinosaur.",
        "1933年世界经济会议（World Economic Conference）的举办地是位于伦敦肯辛顿区的地质博物馆，这个透着远古气息的地点暴露了那场会议有多么不合时宜：当时，国际经济合作就像恐龙化石一样古怪。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s Self-Defeating “But”",
        "弄巧反拙的“但是”"
    ],
    [
        "At such times, resolute American steps can stop the fighting and impose a cease-fire, if not peace.",
        "在这个时候，美国采取坚决的措施可以停止战争，并且即使如果不能缔造和平，也可以迫使双方停火，。"
    ],
    [
        "Customary inflation forecasts and economic analysis alone are not a sufficient basis for monetary policy decisions.",
        "单单依靠习惯的通货膨胀预测和经济分析无法为货币政策的决策提供足够的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "These parties’ extremist tendencies and narrow platforms are limiting governments’ policy flexibility by driving relatively moderate parties and politicians to adopt more radical positions.",
        "这些政党的极端化倾向和狭隘的平台促使相对温和的政党和政客不得不采取更加激进的立场，从而限制了政府政策的灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade and output levels exceeded pre-crisis levels in most countries a few years ago, and global poverty continues to decline rapidly.",
        "大部分国家的贸易和产出水平几年前就已经超过危机前水平，全球贫困也在继续迅速减少。"
    ],
    [
        "The gradual easing of the sanctions is expected to benefit Turkey’s export industries, which hope to satisfy pent-up Iranian demand for consumer and investment goods.",
        "对伊制裁的逐渐放松预计将增加伊朗对消费品和投资品的需求，从而让土耳其出口部门获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, as Mancur Olson famously observed, it is the individual interests of the parties that drive collective success.",
        "尽管如此，如奥尔森（Mancur Olson）的著名论断所言，推动集体成功的各方的个体利益。"
    ],
    [
        "And the interest rate is the price of that metric – of money itself.",
        "而利率则是这一指标——即货币本身的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – This month is the first anniversary of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance, which the United Kingdom’s independent Review on AMR helped to bring about.",
        "伦敦—本月是联合国抗生素耐药性（AMR）高级别会议召开一周年，该联合国会议由英国的独立AMR评估帮助组织。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the distance between what Europe needs and what Europeans want is growing, and that gap could spell deep trouble in 2016.",
        "简而言之，欧洲的需求和欧洲人的需求之间的距离正不断加大，这种差距可能会在2016年引发深层次危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing countries, particularly in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, seem awestruck by this possibility.",
        "发展中国家，特别是东南亚和撒哈拉以南非洲地区，似乎对这一可能性敬畏不已。"
    ],
    [
        "To change this, governments need to step up their efforts to prevent pneumonia and diarrhea, including by ensuring that parents have access to the information they need to protect their children.",
        "要改变这一状况，政府需要采取措施预防肺炎和腹泻，包括通过确保家长能获得保护孩子所需要的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The system worked, because its major members recognized the legitimacy of independent panels, even if they sometimes deliver politically inconvenient judgments.",
        "这个制度最终奏效了，因为它的主要成员国都承认各个独立（仲裁）小组的合法性，即便后者有时会做出一些在政治上挺棘手的判决。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, imagine if recent history had gone differently, and Saddam had in fact taken the Bush administration’s eleventh-hour offer of exile rather than war.",
        "我们再想象一下，如果不久前那段历史以不同的方式发展，萨达姆·侯赛因实际上接受了布什政府11小时的逃亡建议而不是选择接受战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan and China have an agreement that then-Premier Wen Jiabao and I concluded in 2007, during my first term as Prime Minister.",
        "2007年，时任中国总理温家宝和首次担任日本首相的我代表两国形成了一项协议。"
    ],
    [
        "War has recently raged in Ukraine.",
        "乌克兰已被战争席卷。"
    ],
    [
        "The $200 Trillion Question",
        "一个事关200兆美元的问题"
    ],
    [
        "A groundswell of support from CEOs, on a nonpartisan basis, could be the key to spurring the needed action.",
        "来自打破党派藩篱的CEO的强烈支持也许是刺激采取必要行动的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "In my book The Globalization Paradox, I contemplate the following thought experiment.",
        "在我的《全球化悖论》（The Globalization Paradox）一书中，我设想了如下思想实验。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump responded by appointing Mick Mulvaney, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, to run the CFPB.",
        "而特朗普却任命白宫管理和预算办公室负责人米克·马尔瓦尼（Mick Mulvaney）来接管保护局。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments really have no choice: they must take responsibility and exercise power, even if it requires swimming against the tide of public opinion – and especially if it can help alleviate the social suffering brought on by the crisis.",
        "各国政府都无从选择：他们必须承担起责任并行使权力，即便这意味着违背民意——特别是这些行为有助于缓解危机所导致的社会苦难时。"
    ],
    [
        "In a region ravaged by conflict, business as usual is no longer an option.",
        "在这个冲突肆虐的地区，放任自流绝不是好选择。"
    ],
    [
        "In good times, the trade generated by a country’s growth bolsters global growth.",
        "在好光景时，一国增长带来的贸易能够提振全球增长。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, in cases of blasphemy, it is not the speaker (or the filmmaker) who is directly inciting discrimination or violence. Rather, it is those who are enraged by the expressed views who may threaten or actually engage in violence, either against the speaker, or against those, like US government officials, whom they believe have facilitated (or failed to suppress) the blasphemer’s activities.",
        "相反，在渎神的问题上，煽动歧视和暴力的并不是说话者（或影片制作者），相反，是那些被说话者的观点激怒的人可能发出威胁或实际参与暴力，攻击目标可能是说话者，也可能是他们所认定的为渎神行为提供便利（或没能予以阻止）的美国官员。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate about whether Turkey is European is absurd. It is impossible to airbrush Turkey out of European history.",
        "如果还要争论土耳其究竟是否属于欧洲的话，那简直是荒谬，因为根本不可能从欧洲历史中抹去土耳其的身影。"
    ],
    [
        "This is neither a correct description nor a useful terminology for terrorist acts, which are more correctly described as criminal.",
        "这既非对恐怖主义行为的正确描述，也不是有用的词汇。 恐怖分子应该更为准确地被称为罪犯。"
    ],
    [
        "It mattered that Chávez reassured the masses that “I am a little of all of you.”",
        "查韦斯向民众保证“我身上可以找到你们所有人的影子”的确很有好处。"
    ],
    [
        "These come, however, after a vast influx of legal and illegal immigrants.",
        "虽然这项改革是在一大批合法或者非法移民涌入英国之后的亡羊补牢之策。"
    ],
    [
        "And women, in particular, are at a disadvantage, because they are paid less than their male counterparts and often must settle for seasonal or temporary jobs.",
        "妇女尤其不利，因为她们的薪酬低于男性同事，从事的也常常是季节性或临时性工作。"
    ],
    [
        "It would combine some general rules with income-adjusted financial contributions by the state, employers, and individuals.",
        "它将结合一些一般规则和国家、雇主和个人缴纳的基于收入调整的金额。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in his speech, Cameron could not resist a passing shot at the European Court of Justice.",
        "事实上在他的演讲中，卡梅伦按捺不住地对欧洲法院提出了批评。"
    ],
    [
        "First, governments must start thinking about education as a security issue.",
        "首先，政府必须开始把教育提升到安全问题的高度。"
    ],
    [
        "The Capital-Flow Conundrum",
        "资本流之谜"
    ],
    [
        "The reason why there still is no good interconnection between the Spanish and French power grids is not a lack of financing, but the unwillingness of monopolies on both sides of the border to open their markets.",
        "西班牙和法国电网之所以仍然不能很好地互通，原因不在缺少融资，而在于两边的垄断商不愿意开放市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In 800 meticulously argued and documented pages, Pinker shows that, over the course of history, there has been a dramatic decline in violence, both domestically and internationally – and that this downward trend is continuing through the post-Cold War years.",
        "在800页精心的举证和记录中，平克告诉人们在历史的长河中，国内和国际暴力活动均呈现大幅下降之势——这样的下降之势在冷战后仍然得以延续。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, democratization in Russia required efforts aimed at ensuring shared prosperity, not policies that led to the creation of an oligarchy.",
        "显然，俄罗斯的民主化需要努力确保共同繁荣，而不是导致寡头丛生的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Killing kids for attending school is viewed as a legitimate military strategy.",
        "杀死上学的学生被视为一种合法的军事策略。"
    ],
    [
        "In this regard, we welcome the recent decision by Spain to seek financial assistance from the European Union to recapitalize its banks as required.",
        "在这个问题上，我们欢迎西班牙最近寻求欧盟协助其对银行进行必要资本重组的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "But the outcomes of South Africa’s transition are far from perfect.",
        "但南非转型的结果远远称不上完美。 如今，增长包容性不足且过于缓慢，去年年GDP几乎没有增长。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, in recent years, Russia has enjoyed a sizeable budget surplus, and public debt is below 20% of GDP.",
        "相反，近几年来，俄罗斯一直存在巨大的预算盈余，而公共债务也低于GDP的20%。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s offer is no longer unique, and faces competition from other frameworks for integration, other actors, and myriad strategic opportunities.",
        "欧盟的方案不再是独一无二的，并且面临着来自其他融合框架、其他行动方和众多战略机会的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, for that matter, why not include the Russian ruble or Indian rupee?",
        "或者，出于同样的理由，为什么不加入俄罗斯卢布或印度卢比？"
    ],
    [
        "And a transatlantic comparison suggests that this may indeed be the case.",
        "而一个针对大西洋两岸状况的比较也说明事实可能就是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said recently in Paris: “I use the word ‘power’ broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.”",
        "正如国务卿赖斯最近在巴黎表示的：“我所说的‘权力’是广义的，因为往往比武力和经济实力更为重要的，是理念、同情和希望的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Terrorist attacks on civilians, whether the downing over Sinai of a Russian aircraft killing 224 civilian passengers, the horrific Paris massacre claiming 129 innocent lives, or the tragic bombing in Ankara that killed 102 peace activists, are crimes against humanity.",
        "纽约——对平民的恐怖袭击，无论是在西奈半岛上空击落俄罗斯飞机杀害224名平民乘客、恐怖的巴黎大屠杀夺走129条无辜生命，还是对安卡拉的悲剧性轰炸，炸死102名和平积极份子，都是对于人类的犯罪。"
    ],
    [
        "This prepares the ground for religious and ethnic divisions and possible civil war à la Bosnia, rather than democracy.",
        "这埋下了宗教和种族分裂的隐患，甚至可能导致波斯尼亚那样的内战，但绝不会带来民主。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Plastics are among the most popular materials in use today.",
        "伦敦—塑料是当今最常用的材料。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, mesmerized by China’s vast military buildup, a new constellation of strategic partnerships among its neighbors, and America’s revitalized commitment to Asian security, many shrewd observers suggest that 2010 saw the first sparks of a new Cold War in Asia. But is “Cold War II” really inevitable?",
        "事实上，中国的大规模军事集结、各邻国间全新战略伙伴关系的建立和美国重振保卫亚洲安全的决心吸引了很多精明的观察家，他们认为2010年已经迸发出亚洲新一轮冷战的第一簇火花。 但“第二次冷战”真的无法避免吗？"
    ],
    [
        "First, it is supporting the Egyptian coup and international recognition of the military regime, thereby ensuring – it hopes – greater stability along the Sinai border.",
        "首先，它支持埃及政变和对军事政权的国际承认，从而确保——它希望如此——西奈半岛边境的进一步稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "There is truth in the cliché that middle-class citizens tend to be politically moderate; open societies and reformist politics often go together.",
        "中产阶级公民在政治上往往比较温和； 开放社会和改革政治往往携手共进，这样的老生常谈不无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "Through a simple text message, anyone with a cellular handset is able to send and receive money.",
        "通过一条简单的短信，任何有便携式手机的人都可以发送和接收资金。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom, the Office for National Statistics reports that in the period from 2012 to 2014, the wealthiest 10% of households owned 45% of total aggregate household wealth.",
        "英国国家统计局报告从2012到2014年间，10%的最富家庭拥有家庭合计财富总额的45%。"
    ],
    [
        "QE and OMT are simply new incarnations of this old transgression.",
        "QE和OMT无非是披着新衣的老罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – The idea that “Spain is different” drove generations of romantic travelers across the Pyrenees to see for themselves, their imaginations stirred by visions of vibrant women and charming bandits.",
        "马德里—“西班牙不一样”的概念让一代又一代浪漫的旅行者翻越比利牛斯山来这里亲身体验，活力四射的女郎和风流倜傥的好汉激发着他们的想象。"
    ],
    [
        "Some say that Germany should stimulate demand while other countries, including France, implement supply-side reforms.",
        "有人说德国应该刺激需求，同时包括法国在内的其他国家应该实施供给端改革。"
    ],
    [
        "As he put it in a 2010 interview with John Cassidy for The New Yorker, “I don’t even know what a bubble means.",
        "在2010年接受《纽约客》采访时，法马对约翰·卡西迪（John Cassidy）说：“我甚至不知道泡沫是什么意思。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that DTC genetic tests target only a fraction of the human genome’s three billion markers, and various companies sample different SNPs, different tests may return disparate results for the same customer, who might then make serious medical decisions based on inaccurate information.",
        "这项测试费用是99美元。 由于DTC遗传测试的目标仅仅是人类基因组三十亿个表示点的一小部分，且不同公司对SNP的取样也不同，因此对于同一客户，不同测试可能呈现完全不同的结果，从而导致因信息不准确而引起的严重医疗后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Sapre’s answer might not have been the brightest, but if the judges had any idea of how desperate Indians are for sporting success, they would have understood that she was not expressing such an absurd priority.",
        "萨普的回答可能不是最聪明的，但是如果评委对印度人是多么渴望在体育上取得成功有任何的了解的话，他们就会明白她不是在表达一个很荒谬的要务。"
    ],
    [
        "Another five million starved in the famine of 1930-1933, of whom 3.3 million were Ukrainians who died as a result of a deliberate policy related to their nationality or status as relatively prosperous peasants known as kulaks.",
        "另有五百万人在1930—1933年的饥荒中饿死，其中330万是乌克兰人，他们因为与其国籍和所谓的“富农”身份有关的有意为之的政策而死。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, was the decision to invade rightly made?",
        "更重要的是，入侵是否有正当的理由？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, on this front, the science is not as clear-cut as it might have seemed.",
        "不过在这方面，科学的结论并不像看上去那样明确。"
    ],
    [
        "The price levels are unlikely to go down. Yet the desire to hold assets that avoid the medium-term risks associated with the business cycle has overwhelmed this long-run fundamental risk factor.",
        "价格水平不太可能下降，然而，为规避商业周期导致的中期风险，人们持有资产的渴望完全掩盖了上述远期基础风险因素。"
    ],
    [
        "I consider FDR the greatest president of the twentieth century because of his leadership during WWII.",
        "我认为，凭借他在二战中的领导力，罗斯福是二十世纪最伟大的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "And no feasible basic income would be large enough, at least for now, to enable people simply to leave work behind.",
        "并且可行的基本收入必然不足以（至少现在如此）让人们完全将工作抛诸脑后。"
    ],
    [
        "And many of them do not wish to do so.",
        "许多人并不想这样。"
    ],
    [
        "The public’s lack of confidence in the EU’s political leadership is totally justified.",
        "正如不光彩的布鲁塞尔峰会所清楚表现出的那样，这种对欧盟政治领导层的信任的缺乏是完全有道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "The X Prize Foundation once promoted this idea, but dropped it when a funder lost interest.",
        "X奖基金会（X Prize Foundation）曾近推行过这一想法，但在出资人失去兴趣后不了了之。"
    ],
    [
        "That was the case with the biggest US stock-market corrections of the last century (after 1907, 1929, 1973, 2000, and 2007) and the biggest US housing-market corrections of all time (after 1979, 1989, and 2006).",
        "过去一百年中美国股市的最大调整走势（1970、1929、1973、2000、2007年后）和美国房产市场的所有调整走势（1979、1989、2006年后）都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Charles Kindleberger, an intellectual architect of the Marshall Plan who later taught at MIT, argued that the disastrous decade of the 1930s was caused when the US replaced Britain as the largest global power but failed to take on Britain’s role in providing global public goods.",
        "马歇尔计划的思想构建者之一、后来在麻省理工大学任教的查尔斯·金德尔伯格认为二十世纪三十年代多灾多难的原因是虽然美国取代英国成为世界大国，但却未能接替英国扮演为全球提供公共产品的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "I seem to have been one of the few journalists who from the outset didn’t think that Donald Trump’s entry into the presidential race was funny.",
        "我似乎是从一开始就未把唐纳德·特朗普参选总统视为笑话的少数记者之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, she will be obliged to abandon her studied ambiguity, and she will probably pay a price for doing so.",
        "最终，她将不得不放弃其深谋远虑的模棱两可，而且有可能为此付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a method of economic reasoning that is calculated to appeal to those at the top of the income pyramid.",
        "这一经济论证算法对位于收入金字塔顶层的人群颇具吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Iranian influence is pervasive in the south and extensive in the center.",
        "在伊拉克南部地区，伊朗的影响无处不在，甚至正在向中部渗透。"
    ],
    [
        "I firmly believe that the military option alone cannot defeat terror.",
        "我坚信，单靠军事行动不能击败恐怖主义。"
    ],
    [
        "That, of course, makes universities dangerous to authoritarian governments, which seek to stifle the ability to raise and attempt to answer difficult questions.",
        "这当然导致独裁政府将大学视为危险，并试图遏制大学对疑难问题的提出和解答。"
    ],
    [
        "Will you press for Europe and America to eliminate their agricultural subsidies?",
        "你是否会推动美国和欧洲取消农业补贴？"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – For the past six years, US President Barack Obama's administration has, more often than not, sided with the interests of big banks on financial-sector policy.",
        "华盛顿—过去六年中，美国总统奥巴马政府的金融业政策往往与大银行利益站在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, for China, this may be the ultimate tipping point in its modernization.",
        "事实上，对中国来说，这将是其现代化进程中的终极关键点。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and now Iran: all seem to be under attack as part of the “global war on terror.”",
        "先是阿富汗、伊拉克以及巴勒斯坦，现在轮到了伊朗。 所有这些国家都在“全球反恐战争”中受到了攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "It began as a result of weakness in a specific sector – residential mortgages – after a bubble in home prices allowed many Americans to borrow massively, and often disastrously, against the putative value of their equity in order to finance purchases.",
        "某个领域——住宅抵押——的弱点引发了危机。 此前，泡沫房价允许许多美国人大数额地，而且经常是灾难性地，违反他们股票证券的推定价值进行借贷，以便来为购买提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Some, like the now-ruling People’s Party (PP), have over time shifted toward the center to become more typical conservative European parties, much like the UK’s Conservatives or Germany’s Christian Democratic Union.",
        "其中一些群体，如目前执政的人民党（PP），逐渐转向了中间道路，成为比较典型的保守派欧洲政党，就像英国保守党和德国基督教民主联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "The Madness of King Donald",
        "唐纳德国王的疯狂"
    ],
    [
        "A debtor’s negotiating strategy is to make creditors believe that a collapse would produce some much bigger catastrophe, which can be avoided only by more concessions and more support.",
        "债务人的谈判策略是让债权人相信崩溃将造成更大的灾难，而只有债权人做出更多让步、给予更多支持才能避免惨事发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Connectivity means, at the most fundamental level, being able to remain in contact with family members left behind, some of whom may still be at risk of violence or persecution.",
        "在最根本的层面，连通性意味着能够与留在后方的家庭成员保持联系，其中一些可能仍然暴露在暴力和迫害的风险下。"
    ],
    [
        "But for psychologists seeking to understand the apparent nexus of success and abuse, Weinstein’s apparent downfall is just the tip of an analytic iceberg.",
        "但对那些想要理解成功和虐待行为之间显性关系的心理学家来说，韦恩斯坦显而易见的垮台仅仅是揭开了分析冰山的一角。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than investing in efficient housing, zero-carbon mobility, renewable energy, and better land-use systems, these governments say one thing but still do another.",
        "这些政府没有投资于高效率的住房、零碳交通、可再生能源和更好的土地使用体系，它们说一套做一套。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, all this may be so.",
        "可能的确是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "It has an income-contingent education-loan program that permits borrowers to spread their repayments over more years if necessary, and in which, if their income turns out to be particularly low (perhaps because they chose important but low-paying jobs, say, in education or religion), the government forgives some of the debt.",
        "澳大利亚拥有基于收入的教育贷款机制，允许借款人在必要时延长还款年限，如果他们的收入非常低（也许是因为他们选择了重要但低薪的工作，如教育或宗教方面的工作），政府还可以豁免一些债务。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to broaden the agenda of global financial reform, which so far has focused on an essential but still limited set of issues, particularly financial regulation.",
        "现在是扩大全球金融改革议程范围的时候了。 全球金融改革到目前为止，仍然只关注着一些关键但是有限的问题——尤其是金融监管问题。"
    ],
    [
        "America has spent roughly $800 billion in direct military outlays in Afghanistan, and indeed has been at war there almost non-stop since the CIA covertly intervened in 1979, helping to provoke the Soviet invasion of that country.",
        "美国已经在阿富汗投入了大约8,000亿美元直接军事支出，而事实上，自从1979年中央情报局秘密干预阿富汗，助其刺激苏联入侵以来，美国的阿富汗战争几乎从未停止。"
    ],
    [
        "That is reflected in the current stalemate in talks between them (plus Germany) and Iran.",
        "最近五常（以及德国）和伊朗的谈判陷入僵局就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Arab oil-exporting countries embargoed oil sales to the US and the Netherlands to punish them for their support of Israel.",
        "阿拉伯石油出口国对美国以及荷兰实行石油禁运，以惩罚它们支持以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "In democratic India, for example, it took eight years to rebuild Mumbai’s airport, because courts forced the government to respect the rights of squatters on its outskirts.",
        "比如，在民主的印度，重建孟买机场用了八年时间，因为法院迫使政府尊重郊区寮屋居民的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Together with poor design, they explain why America’s 2009 stimulus cost several hundred thousand dollars per temporary job created.",
        "它们与糟糕的设计一起，可以解释为何美国2009年的支出需要耗费好几十万美元才能创造一个就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is no impetus for such a reform from existing interest groups or the news media.",
        "但现有利益集团和新闻媒体都没有动力推动这一改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Servicing these debts will most likely become increasingly difficult over the coming years, especially if growth continues to stagnate, interest rates begin to rise, export opportunities remain subdued, and the collapse in commodity prices persists.",
        "5倍多。 在未来几年中，维持这些债务极有可能越来越困难，特别是如果增长继续停滞而利率开始提高、出口机会依然萎靡不振、大宗商品价格崩盘之势无法挽回的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Zika’s medium- and long-term consequences must be addressed with this in mind.",
        "寨卡的中长期后果比依靠这样的思路来解决。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1999, The Economist labeled Germany “the sick man of the euro” – a monument of European sclerosis, with low growth and high unemployment.",
        "1999年，《经济学人》（Economist）给德国打上了“欧元病夫”（“the sick man of the euro”）的标签——欧洲症候的象征，低增长和高失业并存。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, US President Barack Obama, spurred by an alliance between civil-society organizations and the technology industry, has taken some action.",
        "可以肯定，美国总统奥巴马在民间社团和科技产业的联手带动下已经采取了某些举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Why has he ignored these problems?",
        "他为什么忽略了这些问题？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet most of the rest of Asia appears to be averting its eyes from the country’s ongoing and increasingly anarchic unrest.",
        "但亚洲大部分国家并没有把目光放在泰国日益高涨的无政府主义骚乱上。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has added some themes from the Republicans’ traditional anti-government agenda, but with his own grandiose twists.",
        "特朗普在共和党传统的反政府日程上又加上了一些主题，但无不带有特朗普特色的浮夸扭曲。"
    ],
    [
        "It would retain its status alongside the United States’ on the world stage, its territorial integrity would be unquestioned, and it would be left to manage its domestic affairs without outside interference or criticism.",
        "按理，欧洲应该以一个声音与俄罗斯对话，但实际上，欧盟各国一有机会就会与俄罗斯进行双边协商（特别是在利润丰厚的商业合同事务上），只是在万不得已的情况下才会统一打出欧盟的旗帜。 这使得俄罗斯可以游刃有余地各个击破。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Hamas, too, is playing a double game.",
        "事实上，哈马斯也在唱双簧。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in 1963, 97% of Thailand’s export basket was composed of agricultural and mineral products such as rice, rubber, tin, and jute.",
        "比方说，在1963年，泰国出口篮子中97%是大米、橡胶、锡和黄麻等农产品及矿产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the Middle East.",
        "就拿中东来说吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, it is understandable that France prefers fiscal to political unification.",
        "因此，不难理解法国更偏好财政联盟而非政治联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Russell sometimes wrote as if the fact that we are a mere speck in a vast universe showed that we don’t really matter all that much: “On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.”",
        "罗素曾经写道，作为宇宙中的一个微不足道的一个点，我们其实什么都算不上：“在这个点上，这个微小的碳水化合物，一个所谓不寻常的物理化学的复杂体，它慢慢在宇宙中爬行，直到慢慢解体成当初组合成的各种元素。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, the true contest is less between moral hazard and financial stability than it is between financially sensible and politically acceptable solutions.",
        "最终，真正的争论与其说在于道德风险和金融稳定，不如说在于明智的金融解决方案和政治可行方案。"
    ],
    [
        "By understanding and drawing on proven innovations from around the world, Africa could leapfrog more developed countries technologically, building the capacity to produce more sophisticated, higher-value goods.",
        "通过理解并从世界各地引进有效的创新，非洲能够在技术上赶超更加发达的国家，构建生产更先进、价值更高的商品的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "I have been an optimist about China for 15 years.",
        "对中国的经济我已经乐观了15年。"
    ],
    [
        "Other currency-centered conferences were dismal failures.",
        "其他以汇率问题为中心的会议统统都失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "And when things go well, a highly leveraged enterprise – a company or your house – will show a great return on equity.",
        "光景好时，高杠杆单位——公司或你的房子——能带来不错的股本回报。"
    ],
    [
        "It is to be hoped that the protests against Erdoğan will make it more liberal, too.",
        "我们应当期待反对埃尔多安的示威活动能够让土耳其变得更加自由。"
    ],
    [
        "The same, incidentally, applies to France, except that the French, unlike the Germans, find it difficult to transfer political sovereignty, whereas for us Germans, it is all about the money.",
        "顺便说一句，法国也面临着同样的局面，只不过与德国不同的是，法国很难转让政治主权，而我们德国人一切向钱看。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, broadly speaking there have been three different Swedish “models” since the late nineteenth century.",
        "实际上从广义上来说，从十九世纪下半叶以来，一共有三种不同的“瑞典模式”。"
    ],
    [
        "For a complex system such as the world economy, understanding the past – for example, the massive decline in manufacturing employment in almost all countries over the past two decades – is already hard enough.",
        "”具体到世界经济这样的复杂系统，了解过去——如过去20年来几乎所有国家制造业就业人数的大幅下滑——本身已经具有很大难度。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Palestinians have been exposed not only to the obvious hardships of occupation while living under Israeli rule for the better part of four decades; they were also able to experience, at close range, a liberal democracy at work - a free press, an independent judiciary, and political pluralism.",
        "最后一点，四十多年来，巴勒斯坦人民经历着领土被占的艰难和痛苦、大部分时间都生活在以色列法律下； 但他们同时也经历了，近距离感受到了，一个自由的民主体系如何工作——新闻自由，司法独立、政治多元。"
    ],
    [
        "Well-established scientific evidence shows that it is becoming emptier, warmer, and more acidic, putting marine life under serious pressure.",
        "成熟的科学证据表明，海洋变得更空、更暖、酸性更强，导致海洋生物严重承压。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, contrary to popular belief, much of the dramatic poverty reduction in China over the last three decades was due not to integration into the global economy, but to domestic factors like growth in the agricultural sector (where mass poverty was concentrated).",
        "而且，与普遍的看法相反，在过去30年里，中国国内贫困人口数量的急速下降并不是由于融入了全球经济，而是由诸如农业部门（大量的贫困人口都处在这一领域）的发展等国内因素所导致的。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditionally, EU heads of state and governments try to help one another with their domestic political problems.",
        "传统上，欧盟国家和政府领导人试图在国内政治问题上彼此帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "When we compare male and female farmers with similar land sizes across similar settings, the productivity gap can be as high as 66%, as it is in Niger.",
        "我们可以比较土地规模和各方面条件相近的男性和女性农民，他们的生产率差距可能高达66%（如尼日尔）。"
    ],
    [
        "Exploiting what Valéry Giscard d’Estaing called the “exorbitant privilege” of the world’s reserve currency, the US borrowed surplus savings from abroad on very attractive terms, running massive balance-of-payments, or current-account, deficits to attract foreign capital.",
        "利用季斯卡（Valéry Giscard d’Estaing）所谓的世界储备货币的“过度特权”，美国可以廉价借入国外的盈余储蓄，维持巨额国际收支（或经常项目）赤字以吸引外国资本。"
    ],
    [
        "But the same majority fears that the Palestinians – with the split leadership of a relatively moderate Fatah under Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and a Gaza administration under the implacable, terror-supporting leadership of Hamas – are not ready for a conventional peace and good neighborly relations.",
        "但同时这些人也害怕巴勒斯坦人摆脱不了目前处于领导地位的相对温和的巴勒斯坦权力机构主席马哈茂德·阿巴斯和支持恐怖活动的无情的哈马斯治下加沙政府的内部分歧，以色列人因此担心巴勒斯坦人尚未准备好接受传统的和平与睦邻友好关系。"
    ],
    [
        "At first, they bought only newly minted gold in the US.",
        "起初他们只购买美国铸币厂新铸的黄金。"
    ],
    [
        "The ability to offset the crisis in a constructive manner through expanded public-private partnerships will determine the subsequent success of countries and regions.",
        "通过加大公私在基建方面的合作来抵消危机的能力将决定今后国家与地区在经济危机中的成败。"
    ],
    [
        "Can he make sufficient concessions on borders and Jerusalem?",
        "他能否在边界和耶路撒冷问题上做出足够的让步？"
    ],
    [
        "We should have learned the lesson of the 1980’s: ignorance is not bliss.",
        "我们必须吸取20世纪80年代的教训：无知是祸不是福。"
    ],
    [
        "But what happens when, influenced by their friends, people actually go to buy something or take some action?",
        "但人们在朋友的影响下实施购买或其他行为时又将如何？"
    ],
    [
        "Santos has overcome formidable challenges, and the next one is a forthcoming plebiscite, where the Colombian people, one hopes, will recognize that their country has furnished a conflict-ridden world with a new model for peace.",
        "桑托斯成功克服了艰巨的挑战，接下来摆在面前的挑战是即将到来的全民公决。 我们希望哥伦比亚民众能够认识到他们为充满了冲突的世界提供了新的和平模型。"
    ],
    [
        "And at one rally in New Delhi, farmers carried human skulls, which they say belonged to farmers who have committed suicide following devastating crop losses over the past six months.",
        "而在新德里的一次集会中，农民带来了人体骷髅，据说是因为过去六个月干旱导致歉收而自杀的农民的遗骸。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN has not fully succeeded in turning recognition into reality.",
        "联合国在将认识转变为现实方面尚未取得完全的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "CAPE TOWN – After an insight-filled and enjoyable visit to South Africa – my first to this beautiful country in 15 years – I am leaving with mixed feelings.",
        "开普敦—在经历了一次大开眼界、充满欢乐的南非之行后——这是我15年来第一次访问这个美丽的国家——离开时我有一种复杂的感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why Germany decided in 2009 to enshrine strict fiscal rules in its constitution.",
        "这也是德国为何决定在2009年将严格的财政规定写入宪法的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Such events, though not exactly glamorous, do not receive nearly the amount of attention they deserve.",
        "这些活动也许并不十分令人着迷，但它们收获的关注与应有的不符。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer we wait, the costlier and more difficult it will be for us – and our children and grandchildren – to protect the planet.",
        "我们等待得越久，我们——以及我们的子辈和孙辈——保护地球的成本和困难就越大。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not a “niche\" segment, but an asset-intensive industry on its way to commoditization.",
        "这不是一个“利基”市场细分，而是一个正在商品化的资产密集型行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if ITER is successful, and if one solves the tritium and material problems, everything would need to be tested in real size, and only then could a first prototype of an industrial reactor be built.",
        "即便国际核聚变实验堆能获得成功，人们解决了氚和材料的问题，所有的东西也还需要进行实际规模的测试，只有到那时才能开始建造工业级反应堆的第一个样板。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico City – As I reflect on my troubled country, the lyrics of a Bruce Springsteen song come to mind: “We are far, far away from home.",
        "墨西哥城——故乡墨西哥层出不穷的问题让我不禁想起布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀的一句歌词——“我们离家乡很远很远；"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a big difference between a low-quality result and one that is more comprehensive.",
        "但是，低质量的结果和全面结果之间有着巨大不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Far larger and far more damaging is the difficulty that afflicts the five billion people who lack documented property rights.",
        "更大、更严重的问题是折磨着五十亿没有注册产权的人的困难。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, the average employee of Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, earned $383,000 – much higher than what the best-performing employee in most firms can hope to take home.",
        "在2013年，高盛投资银行的员工平均年薪为38. 3万美元——比大多数公司业绩最好的员工希望获得的还要高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "As Ralf Dahrendorf once put it, populism is simple; democracy is complex. To populists, there is only one right view – that of the people.",
        "在民粹主义者看来，只有一种正确的观点——那就是民众的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the proposal to link the SGP to the Lisbon agenda, which contains more than 100 indicators.",
        "再考虑将《合约》同《里斯本日程》挂钩的建议，其中包含了100多项指标。"
    ],
    [
        "These young people and Denmark itself will benefit, as this “KVINFO generation” grows up with a genuine stake in Danish civil society, and seeing the world as Danes, not as guests.",
        "随着“中心一代”在一个纯正丹麦市民社会的基础上成长，并以丹麦人而不是外来人的视角来看待这个世界，获益的将不不止是他们自己，还有这个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The ongoing political stalemate in the United States holds two major implications for the international monetary system.",
        "纽约—美国没完没了的政治僵局给国际货币体系带来了两大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets also welcome the fact that the Fed’s hyperactive experimentation is forcing other central banks around the world to pursue more expansionary policies.",
        "美联储的积极动作正迫使世界其他央行采取更宽松的政策，市场对这一事实也非常欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "But many members of the press were also quick to declare that their own character limit had been reached.",
        "但许多新闻界人士也很快宣称他们已经达到了自身的角色极限。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it is much more difficult to make an argument for market economies when they are under siege.",
        "毕竟，在市场经济处于困境的时候，在中国支持市场经济的人要为它说话更加困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Bringing health care to everyone on the planet is a great challenge.",
        "让全球人人健康是一个艰巨的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the G20, innovative public-private partnerships are emerging to deliver new treatments against drug-resistant killers such as tuberculosis.",
        "除了G20，创新公私合作计划也在为等结核病等耐药杀手提供新疗法。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, they have implemented repressive media laws that amount to state control of the Internet, which they claim is necessary to preserve stability, fight terrorism, or defend national sovereignty from Western interference.",
        "此外，他们实施了高压式媒体法律，由国家控制互联网，声称这是维护稳定、打击恐怖主义或防止西方干预主权的必要措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Had Clinton tried to send American troops, he would have encountered stiff resistance in the US Congress.",
        "如果克林顿尝试派兵，他将在美国国会遇到重大阻力。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting unusual economic environment of falling prices and wages can also have a damaging psychological impact on households and businesses.",
        "随之而来的价格和工资普降的非常经济环境又会给家庭和公司造成破坏性的心理影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey alone can protect itself, and only by upholding truly democratic behavior at home and pursuing an external policy that promotes peace and democracy but does not take sides in the region’s ongoing battles, particularly between Sunni and Shia.",
        "土耳其靠自力更生就能保护自己，而只有在国内建立真正的民主行为、与此同时追求推进和平和民主但不在中方兴未艾的中东战局（特别是逊尼派和什叶派之争）中站边的对外政策才能实现这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Wasn’t Dylan alluding to something similar when, after years of struggle for civil rights, resistance to the war in Vietnam, and support for the feminist revolution, he titled one of his most beautiful songs “I’m Not There,” as in, I’m not here anymore, no longer your servant, goodbye to all that, so long?",
        "迪伦难道不是在意有所指，即在多年的民权斗争、对越战的抵制、对女权主义革命的支持后，他将最美的一首歌命名为“我不在那里”，意指我不会继续待在这儿，不会再充当你的奴隶，再见了过去的一切，后会有期？"
    ],
    [
        "The real cause of Ukraine’s inflation is that its currency, the hryvnia, remains pegged to the US dollar.",
        "乌克兰通货膨胀的实际原因是它的货币格里夫纳与美元挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "The same logic applies to Putin’s Russia.",
        "同样的逻辑也适用于俄罗斯的普京。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of capital flows, this means retaining capital-account regulations as an essential tool of macroeconomic policy.",
        "在资本流动方面，这意味着保留资本账户监管措施作为宏观经济政策的一个必要工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Under Deng Xiaoping – the leader who initiated China’s radical “reform and opening up” in 1978 – the singular policy goal was domestic economic transformation and growth, to be achieved with a collaborative decision-making model that included vigorous internal debate.",
        "在1978年发起激进式“改革开放”的邓小平治下，政策目标只有一个，就是国内经济的转型和增长，并通过包含了激烈内部讨论的协同决策模式来实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the network went on to perpetuate the outright lie that Britain’s intelligence-gathering agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (better known as GCHQ), had been tasked by President Barack Obama to spy on Trump during the campaign.",
        "相反，他们的网络继续传播彻头彻尾的谎言，说什么英国情报搜集机构政府通讯总部（Government Communications Headquarters，其缩写GCHQ更为著名）接受奥巴马总统的任务，在选战期间暗中侦查特朗普。"
    ],
    [
        "Demographers predict that the US is the only large developed country that will experience a significant increase in population in the first half of the twenty-first century.",
        "人口学家预测美国是21世纪前半叶能实现人口显著增长的唯一一个大规模发达国家。"
    ],
    [
        "HOUSTON – Russia watchers are rightly focusing on the latest brittle ceasefire in Ukraine, seeking to discern President Vladimir Putin's intentions there.",
        "休斯顿—俄罗斯观察家正确地将关注焦点集中在最新达成的脆弱的乌克兰停火协议上，试图解读俄罗斯总统普京的意图。"
    ],
    [
        "A decline in oil revenues could be devastating to the fledgling Iraqi government.",
        "石油收入的下降会给初出茅庐的伊拉克政府带来破坏性影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The SGP's fundamental problem is that it must strike a balance between two contradictory goals: it must retain bite against excessive debt accumulation, yet it must also give governments more maneuvering room to enact structural reforms and restore Europe's competitiveness.",
        "《合约》涉及的基本问题就是它必须在两个相互矛盾的目标间找到平衡：一方面它要能够继续削减大规模的债务累积，另一方面它必须给政府更多的尝试空间去实施体制改革和恢复欧洲的竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even with the limited quantitative evidence available, there are good reasons to believe that capital punishment deters.",
        "但是，即使根据现有有限数量上的证据，还是有充足的理由相信死刑具有震慑力量。"
    ],
    [
        "And this is not only about Islamic extremism.",
        "并非伊斯兰极端主义是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The market is thus rife with distortions. It is accordingly not surprising that in the area of health, the patent system, with all of its distortions, has failed in so many ways.",
        "因而，在医疗领域，专利体系因为其种种的扭曲而在如此多的地方造成了失败，这也就不足为奇了。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, platform economies are emerging rapidly and build on traditional networks.",
        "其次，平台经济正在快速崛起并以传统网络为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Ukraine’s recent monetary history has been defined by an exchange-rate peg to the US dollar, not the euro.",
        "此外，乌克兰的当代货币史一直采取盯住美元而不是欧元的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Generally, young people post more information of an edgy nature about themselves and about their friends than do older adults, so they are quickly learning the need for specific controls.",
        "一般来说，年轻人比年长者更多地在网上发布一些自己及其同伴所干的傻事，因此他们也迅速学会了对某些方面的信息加以控制。"
    ],
    [
        "• First, the prospect of riches orients official efforts to seizing a larger share of the pie, rather than creating a larger pie.",
        "l 其一，对财富的渴求使得一些政府官员不再想把蛋糕做大，而是想如何分到蛋糕中更大的一份。"
    ],
    [
        "And foreign-direct investment has been flowing into the region, with multinationals hoping to capitalize on its rapidly expanding middle class and strategic location at the intersection of China, Japan, and India.",
        "外国直接投资也在源源流入该地区，跨国公司也想利用这里快速增加的中产阶级和位于中国、日本、印度中间的战略区位。"
    ],
    [
        "Globally, three-quarters of people living in extreme poverty are in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihoods.",
        "全球范围内，约有四分之三的极端贫困人口生活在农村，依靠农业和相关活动维持生计。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it has already begun to do so.",
        "事实上，中国已经开始这么做了。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the possibility of such a perfect storm is more a risk than a baseline at this point.",
        "幸运的是，在现阶段，形成如此完美风暴的可能性还只是个风险，而不是必然。"
    ],
    [
        "But the story starts even before Tyndall, with the French genius Joseph Fourier.",
        "但廷德尔并非始作俑者，真正的始作俑者是法国天才约瑟夫·傅立叶。"
    ],
    [
        "Euro accession and bull-market “convergence trades” pushed bond yields in these countries toward the level of German bunds, with the ensuing credit boom supporting excessive consumption growth.",
        "加入欧元区和牛市收敛交易（ convergence trade ，利用息差收敛趋势套利的交易 —— 译者）把这些国家的债券收益推高到德国债券的水平，从而催生了信贷繁荣，支持了这些国家的消费过度增长。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades, reform discussions in the EU have focused on reducing labor-market regulation, cutting red tape in product markets, privatizing state-owned enterprises, and lowering tax rates.",
        "几十年来，欧盟改革讨论一直聚焦于减少劳动力市场监管、消除产品市场的官样文章、国有企业私有化以及降低税率。"
    ],
    [
        "Gone are the 1990’s, when for a brief moment in the immediate aftermath of the end of the Cold War, the world looked as if it would be permanently peaceful and unconcerned with power.",
        "九十年代，冷战刚刚结束后的一个短暂时间，世界看似好像会永久和平，不会受到国力的困扰，这一时代已经一去不复返了。"
    ],
    [
        "The case went to the local court, where the judge ruled it an \"accidental traffic disturbance\" and gave the driver a two-year suspended sentence.",
        "这一案件在地方法院进行审理，法官的判决结果是\"意外扰乱交通秩序\"，撞人者被判入狱两年并缓期执行。"
    ],
    [
        "But the consensus about the benefits – both for the children and society – does not extend to delivery and funding.",
        "但关于早教的好处——包括对儿童和对社会——的共识并没有带来供给和资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Among other things, this reflects the tendency, supported by empirical evidence, for higher incomes to impel households to delay having children.",
        "这反映了一个趋势：收入提高促使家庭推迟要孩子。 这一趋势有实证证据的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "And what of the LDP?",
        "那么自民党的境况又将如何？"
    ],
    [
        "As private consumption has expanded, services have proliferated, generating employment for many.",
        "随着私人消费的扩张，服务业兴旺发达，为许多人带来了就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "In an Africa bereft of successful populist politicians, Zuma’s role models may come from Latin America, where income inequality is also extreme and the trade-union movement, as in South Africa, is strong and militant.",
        "在缺乏成功的平民主义政治家的非洲，祖马的行为榜样可能来源于拉丁美洲。 在拉丁美洲，收入不平等问题也是极端严重的，而且，工会运动和南非一样，非常强大而好战。"
    ],
    [
        "But what is not acceptable is the way that people with leprosy, those cured of it, and even their family members continue to be discriminated against on the basis of fears, myths, and outdated notions about a disease that is today completely curable.",
        "但令人无法容忍的是麻风病患者、治愈者甚至是他们的家人今天继续因为对这种完全可以治愈疾病的恐惧、传说和过时的观念而遭受公众的歧视。"
    ],
    [
        "Too many creditors were reimbursed at par on their maturing claims.",
        "太多的债权人在到期时得到了十足的面值偿付。"
    ],
    [
        "It was right to encourage a new economy to grow outside these congealed structures.",
        "因此，以一种新的经济形式来取代僵化的社会结构未尝不是一种好的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Saving is but a means to an end – in this case the sustenance of a thriving and secure middle class.",
        "储蓄是结束这一切的手段——这意味着支撑一个蓬勃兴旺且具有安全感的中产阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, economists can be counted on to parrot the wonders of comparative advantage and free trade whenever trade agreements come up.",
        "尽管如此，凡是有贸易协定出台，人们永远希望经济学家高举比较优势和自由贸易的大旗。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where old men seem past their political expiration dates.",
        "而这就是老人们在政治上显得不合时宜的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, how are doctors to explain and control disease without a common language for the phenomena that they observe?",
        "的确，如果医生没有一种通用语言来描述他们所观察到的现象，他们怎能解释并控制疾病呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The meeting comes at a delicate time, as a new group of leaders moves into China’s senior positions, and as the agenda has been broadened to include food and product safety, energy efficiency and security, and environmental sustainability.",
        "一批新领导人进入中国的高级职位，而且提议扩大到包括食品和产品安全、能源效率和安全以及环境可持续性，因此，这一会议是在一个敏感时期召开的。"
    ],
    [
        "Sustained robust growth and rising aggregate demand have also caused production bottlenecks outside of China, most notably in the agricultural commodity and mining sectors, which have helped lift oil prices to more than $100 per barrel.",
        "持续强劲的增长以及上扬的总体需求还在中国以外的地方造成生产瓶颈，最主要的是在农业商品和采矿行业。 这就把石油价格推到了100多美元一桶。"
    ],
    [
        "The state must be involved in their design and reform.",
        "国家必须参与到它们的设计和改革中。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the specter of violent separatism has reared its head again in Spain.",
        "事实上，暴力分裂主义势力的幽灵已经在西班牙重新抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "The Oxford English Dictionary gives as the earliest reference to its current usage an academic article from 1972.",
        "《牛津英语词典》把现在这种用法的起源追溯到1972年的一篇学术文章。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of the new chips has a unique signature used for encryption, which is coupled with its user’s fingerprint.",
        "每个芯片都有独一无二的加密签名，并与用户的指纹配合使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, notice how a populist responds to a situation like this: instead of demanding a fairer system, he tells the downtrodden that only they are the “real people.”",
        "再次注意民粹主义者如何应对这样的情况：他不会要求更公平的制度，而是告诉受压迫者，他们才是“真正的人民”。"
    ],
    [
        "But what happens if the theory is wrong, or incomplete?",
        "但如果理论是错误的货不完全的话会怎样？"
    ],
    [
        "According to a study by Goldman Sachs, countries like Greece, Portugal, and Spain will have to become 20-30% cheaper, and German prices will have to rise by 20% relative to the eurozone average.",
        "高盛的研究表明，希腊、葡萄牙和西班牙等国家的价格必须下降20%—30%，而德国的价格必须升高20%（相对欧元区平均水平）。"
    ],
    [
        "Is this a historical aberration, or are Islam’s two largest sects condemned to perpetual mutual hostility?",
        "这只是一个历史插曲，还是伊斯兰教最大的两个宗派已经陷入了持久的对立？"
    ],
    [
        "If the countries can leapfrog over old technologies, they can become new leaders in carbon-smart flying.",
        "如果可以跨越旧技术，就能成为碳职能（carbon-smart）飞行的新领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamilton argued – against James Madison and Thomas Jefferson – that the debts accumulated by the states during the War of Independence should be assumed by the federation.",
        "汉密尔顿针对詹姆斯·麦迪逊和托马斯·杰斐逊的观点争锋相对地指出，各州在独立战争期间所积累的债务应该被认为是联邦债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Progress is being made to connect women’s health solutions and financial inclusion.",
        "人们正在努力将女性健康方案与金融包容联系起来，并在不断取得进步。"
    ],
    [
        "That happens at the Olympics, too, of course.",
        "当然，奥运会也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "(This is just one example of Russia’s tactics, but one that reveals much about how Putin intends to prosecute his latest foreign adventure.)",
        "（这只是俄罗斯策略的一个例子，但这个例子揭示了普京准备如何贯彻他最新的对外动作。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "By far the largest component of German aid has been in the form of restitution payments for Nazi atrocities.",
        "到目前为止，德国绝大部分的援助都是以归还纳粹暴行造成的损失的形式进行的。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative is muted wage and income growth shared across the income spectrum, combined with productivity-enhancing measures.",
        "对此的替代方案就是让各个收入阶层都分担缓慢的工资和收入增长，再结合促进生产力发展的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal then becomes to figure out what the government has done to make interest rates so wrong.",
        "于是，其目标变成了找到那些政府行为导致利率如此错误。"
    ],
    [
        "It is here that China is currently investing “billions of dollars in mega projects like expressways, tunnels, and oil and gas pipelines.” This, Sering says, is “surely not on account of any overflowing altruism.”",
        "他还声称中国在该地区投资了“数十亿美元的大型项目，包括高速公路，隧道以及油气管道”，而且“显然不是来无私奉献的”。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Poor and rural people around the world rely on plants and animals for shelter, food, income, and medicine.",
        "纽约——世界各地的穷人和农民要靠动植物来获取庇护、食物、收入和药品。"
    ],
    [
        "The deal also included an historic land-reform program.",
        "该协议还包括了历史性的土地改革计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU could even play a part in keeping the 2012 European Championship football finals on track.",
        "2012年欧洲杯足球赛将在波兰和乌克兰举办。 欧盟甚至应该发挥作用，确保这一赛事如期举办。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike Trump, House Republicans have formulated and published detailed plans that can fairly be compared to what the Democrats have presented.",
        "和特朗普不同，众议院共和党制定并公布了完全可以与民主党相媲美的详细计划。"
    ],
    [
        "East Asia as a whole will surpass the US in terms of aggregate GDP by 2015, with China contributing the highest proportion of the total.",
        "东亚作为一个整体，其总GDP将在2015年超过美国，而中国在其中的贡献比例最大。"
    ],
    [
        "Economics aside, China and Russia are likely to pose the biggest challenge.",
        "除了经济问题，中国和俄罗斯可能陈伟最大的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, the help that we have received so far is too little to enable my government to be as effective as it can and should be in rebuilding our country and resetting our strategic position in the world.",
        "可悲的是，迄今为止我们得到的帮助少之又少，致使政府无法有效完成重建国家及其全球战略地位的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The “Communist united front” has been let off its leash.",
        "“共产主义统一战线”势不可挡。"
    ],
    [
        "They know that they need economic growth to curb unemployment and pay for social services, so they are working to bolster the private sector.",
        "他们知道自己需要经济增长来遏制失业并支付公共服务支出，因此着手鼓励私营经济的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Oceans belong to everyone except those near landmasses, which are managed in a similar manner to the country's land-bound borders.",
        "除开那些近陆地的海洋——那是受到与该国陆地边界同样方法管制的，其他的海洋是属于人类共有的。"
    ],
    [
        "The emissions attributable to the Carmichael mine will be some of the highest resulting from a single project anywhere in the world.",
        "卡迈克尔煤矿所产生的排放量将是全世界所有单体煤矿中最大的。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking backward gets us no closer to what we want; on the contrary, it is a surefire way to miss the challenges – and miss out on the opportunities – that lie before us.",
        "回忆给不了我们想要的东西； 相反，它却能让我们错过近在眼前的挑战和机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "As it happens, Putin is now entrenching the already dominant United Russia party by his decision to head the party’s candidate list in December’s parliamentary election.",
        "现在的情况是，普京已经牢牢掌握了在这个国家占压倒地位的统一俄罗斯党，决定作为这个党名列首位的候选人参加11月份的议会选举。"
    ],
    [
        "They are convinced that their vision of a buccaneering, global Britain can be achieved only with a clean break from Europe.",
        "他们坚信只有彻底脱离欧洲，才能实现他们海盗般的全球英国设想。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to popular belief, this could be done in a way that reinvigorates the European ideal, rather than reviving the parochial nationalism of the past.",
        "与流行的见解不同，这可以通过一种刺激欧洲理想而不会让过去的狭隘民族主义死灰复燃的方式实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kyoto approach, of course, does none of these things.",
        "而当然，用“京都模式”是做不到这几点的。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time in decades, all energy-sector activities are open to private capital – a strategy that will attract an estimated $12.6 billion in investment every year.",
        "几十年来第一次，能源业全行业向私人资本开放——预计这一战略每年可以吸引126亿美元投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Under Russia’s highly concentrated ownership structure, the Kremlin’s control of wealth is synonymous with political control.",
        "在俄罗斯高度集中化的所有权结构下，克里姆林宫对财富的控制和对政治的控制本质是一回事。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, improving the provision of health care, education, and care for the elderly, and bringing it into line with the needs and expectations of the emerging middle class should encourage more households to allocate a larger share of their income to consumption.",
        "比如，改善卫生、教育和养老条件并使之与崛起的中产阶级的需求和期望一致可以鼓励家庭将收入的更大部分用于消费。"
    ],
    [
        "This has put the CBR in a challenging position.",
        "这就让俄罗斯央行面临了挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Global leaders must encourage Europe to tackle its problems decisively by offering advice, financial support, and constructive criticism.",
        "全球领导人必须为欧洲提供建议、金融支持和建设性批评，以此鼓励它果断解决自身问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, given that China’s corporate debt is already very high, the increase in real debt may have devastating consequences for financial stability.",
        "此外，鉴于中国的企业负债水平已经极高，实际债务的增加可能会对金融稳定形势造成灾难性的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In controlled firms, where the concern is diversion from minority shareholders, making directors even more responsive to the controller will likely make minority investors still more vulnerable.",
        "在股权受控的公司，投资者担心的问题是小投资者的分散，而让董事更加响应控股股东的要求，可能使小投资者的利益更加容易受到损害。"
    ],
    [
        "So the problem is regional, and it concerns institutional support for extremism that incites terrorism.",
        "所以，问题是整个区域性的，它涉及到有组织地支持和煽动恐怖主义的极端主义。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Mullen’s study revealed that the path to mass murder is rather stereotypical.",
        "事实上，穆伦的研究揭示了杀人狂之路非常老套。"
    ],
    [
        "No one inside or outside can remove its anachronistic dynastic-communist regime, and no outsider can hope to modify quickly the policy behavior of its fossilized military, party, and administrative bureaucrats.",
        "不论是在朝鲜国内还是国外，都没有人能够清除这个错置的王朝式共产主义政权，外人也不能期望很快改变朝鲜陈腐的军事、政党和政府官僚的政策行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a return further underlines a growing skepticism about the market and its key actors’ infectious and dangerous greed.",
        "这种回归进一步加深了大家对于市场及其主要参与者传染性的并且危险的贪婪的怀疑态度。"
    ],
    [
        "A strike designed to destroy Assad’s air force and prevent him from dropping bombs full of nails on his people would concentrate his mind on a diplomatic solution.",
        "旨在摧毁阿萨德空军并阻止他向民众投掷钉子炸弹的行动或许能把他的注意力集中到外交谈判上。"
    ],
    [
        "Incumbents win if the economic outlook is rosy, and are vulnerable – as George H. W. Bush was – when times are hard.",
        "”在任者将赢得连任，如果经济前景看好的话； 在任者将不堪一击——就像老布什那样——如果世道艰难的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, wage growth remains strong and uninterrupted.",
        "与此同时，工资增长仍然强劲，没有受到干扰。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as the borrower has not misled the lender at the time of taking the loan, the lender bears at least some responsibility for the transaction.",
        "只要借款人在获得贷款时没有糊弄贷款人，那么贷款人就至少要为贷款交易负一定的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the ECB is facing a much more comfortable situation.",
        "如今，欧洲央行面临的局面要舒适得多。"
    ],
    [
        "This is consistent with the Chinese strategic concept of “vital space,” which includes all spheres of a state’s strategic activities, on land, at sea, under water, in the air, and in space.",
        "这与中国的“重大空间”战略概念相吻合，这一空间包括陆地、海上、空中以及太空的国家战略活动的所有方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Granted, in many cases business leaders have chosen to remain on the sideline; but both they and governments need to adjust their thinking.",
        "当然，在很多问题上，企业领袖选择了袖手旁观； 但他们和政府都需要调整思维。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The shock of the British vote to leave the European Union has yet to sink in.",
        "伦敦—英国投票脱离欧盟的冲击还有待消化。"
    ],
    [
        "The Copenhagen-Paris Express",
        "哥本哈根 - 巴黎快车"
    ],
    [
        "Matters are worse in the banking sector.",
        "银行业的情况更糟。"
    ],
    [
        "Given China’s close relationship with the North, its leaders have never warmed to South Korea’s democratically elected governments, whether left or right.",
        "鉴于中朝关系密切，中国领导人从未热心与无论左翼还是右翼的韩国民选政府改善关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Like other aid recipients, Greece has become locked in a codependent relationship with its creditors, which are providing assistance in the form of de facto debt relief through subsidized loans and deferred interest payments.",
        "和其他受助国一样，希腊陷入了与其债权人的相互依存（codependent）关系，这一关系以补贴贷款和利息偿付延期为形式的事实债务纾困为形式提供援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the net tax changes may widen the budget deficit in the short term, the incentive effects of lower tax rates and the increased accumulation of capital will mean faster economic growth and higher real incomes, both of which will cause rising taxable incomes and lower long-term deficits.",
        "尽管净税收变化可能会在短期扩大预算赤字，但降低税率的激励效应和资本积累的增加意味着经济增长加速和真实所得提高，这两者有利于提高应税所得、缩小长期赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Hamas, with its newly acquired position at the forefront of Palestinian politics, provide such a solution?",
        "新近获得巴勒斯坦政坛前沿地位的哈马斯能提供这样的解决方案吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Economic and social globalization does produce superficial similarities in T-shirt logos and soft drink brands, but an underlying cultural diversity will remain.",
        "的确，经济和社会的全球化导致了T恤和软饮料商标的雷同，但是隐藏在下面的文化多样性会得以保留。"
    ],
    [
        "As Tony Blair’s wife, Cherie Booth, herself a human rights lawyer, lamented, “the majority of people feel that human rights are not relevant to their lives.”",
        "正如布莱尔的夫人切丽·布斯（她本身就是位人权律师）哀叹道：“大部分公众认为人权法案与自己的生活毫不相关。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they are examples of politicians willfully blocking critical information relating to serious threats, for entirely partisan, if not personal, reasons.",
        "相反，它们是政客完全出于党派甚至个人原因故意封杀与严重威胁相关重要信息的实际例子。"
    ],
    [
        "“Wiki” is a Hawaiian root that was officially added to English in 2007 to signify something done quickly – in this case, changes in the collective body of knowledge.",
        "“维基”是一个夏威夷的词根，于2007年被正式加入到英语之中，用来表示某种速成的东西。 在这里，速成的东西是集体知识体系的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "In the future, client-service and transaction-management systems will receive more input from customers more frequently, so that product design is shaped interactively.",
        "在未来，客户服务和交易管理系统将更多更频繁地从客户那里获得输入变量，因此产品设计将变得更加具有互动性。"
    ],
    [
        "Forging Asia’s Missing Links",
        "重新构建亚洲消失的链条"
    ],
    [
        "But it is also evidence that the US is trying to pursue the right policy.",
        "但这恰恰证明美国正试图推行正确的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps that is wishful thinking.",
        "但也许这只是一厢情愿。"
    ],
    [
        "By using the best evidence available at the time, hundreds of additional deaths were avoided.",
        "通过采用当时能够获得的最好的证据，成百上千的伦敦市民免受了死亡威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout his business career, he has frequently invoked libel laws.",
        "在商业生涯中，他经常会利用诽谤法。"
    ],
    [
        "Some people will, of course, try to link Sandy with climate change.",
        "有些人理所当然地会把桑迪和气候变化联系起来。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2015, an audit of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation revealed that about $20 billion in revenue was never remitted to the authorities under the previous administration.",
        "2015年，对尼日利亚国家石油公司的审计显示这家企业从未将上届政府执政期间约200亿美元的石油收入汇给政府。"
    ],
    [
        "But at least policymakers in Asia have recognized the problem and are taking steps to address it.",
        "但至少亚洲决策者认识到了这一问题，并在采取行动解决它。"
    ],
    [
        "The virtue of such models is that they make explicit the chain of cause and effect, and therefore render transparent the specific assumptions on which a particular prediction rests.",
        "这种模型的优点在于能展现出清晰的因果链条，从而使一个特定的预测可以明确构建于一个特定的假设之上、。"
    ],
    [
        "Democratic and Republican candidates alike were called upon to explain what they would be prepared to do if there were an opportunity to capture Osama Bin Laden or a need to secure Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.",
        "民主党和共和党的候选人都被要求解释如果他们遇到有机会抓住本·拉登或者需要保护巴基斯坦的核武器时他们准备如何应对。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – Many Europeans have come to believe that they have weathered the economic and financial storm.",
        "斯坦福—许多欧洲人现在相信，他们已经成功抵挡住了经济和金融风暴。"
    ],
    [
        "How does one separate the terrorist parasite from its unwilling host, without doing fatal violence to the patient?",
        "怎样能够将恐怖分子与其并不情愿的寄居国加以区分，能够不给其寄居国以致命打击？"
    ],
    [
        "The usual argument for raising interest rates is to dampen an overheating economy in which inflationary pressures have become too high.",
        "升息的常见理由是为了抑制经济过热。 经济过热导致通胀压力过高。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world’s fourth largest oil exporter, Iran has profited mightily from the tripling of global oil prices over the last four years.",
        "作为世界上的第四大石油出口国，伊朗从过去四年来全球翻了三倍的石油价格中获得了巨大的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "These developments – and the questions that they raise – underscore the need to redraw the map of the sciences.",
        "这些发展——以及它们所引起的疑问——表明需要重新绘制科学地图。"
    ],
    [
        "The scale of the challenge is immense.",
        "上述挑战是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the problems in advanced countries – from slow economic growth to political uncertainty – are likely to persist, reducing potential growth everywhere for an extended period.",
        "首先，发达国家所面临的问题——从经济放缓到政治上的不确定性——可能会继续存在，在一段较长的时期内压低全球各地的增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, following from this, there is a clear perception in Iran that acquiring an actual bomb would lead to impossibly stringent economic sanctions.",
        "第三，基于上面一点，伊朗人预计自己一旦制造了核武的话就将遭到极为严厉的制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "The argument for this option is that long-term secular factors are important drivers of capital inflows, as advanced-economy investors discover that they are underweight in emerging-market assets and reduce their portfolios’ “home bias.”",
        "支持这一办法的论据是，长期性、历史性因素是资本流入的重要驱动力，也就是说，发达经济体的投资者发现自己的资产组合中新兴市场资产比重过低，从而采取矫正举措。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea was brilliantly elegant: just as our universe is homogeneous (the same at every point in space) and isotropic (looking the same in all directions), it remains the same at every point in time.",
        "这一思想非常漂亮：正如我们的宇宙是同质的（空间的每一点都是相同的）、各向同性的（所有方向看上去都一样），因此它在每一个时点都是相同的。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF is ready to assist with policy advice, financial support, and technical assistance.",
        "IMF已准备好给予政策建议、金融支持和技术援助。"
    ],
    [
        "DUBLIN – The Mediterranean migration crisis has delivered two critical lessons.",
        "都柏林—地中海难民危机告诉我们两个关键教训。"
    ],
    [
        "the establishment of “security” while chaining my wrists.",
        "这时候我不会放弃圣战。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the incentive for economic migrants to seek asylum would be reduced, and affluent countries could fulfill their responsibility to accept more refugees from the camps, while maintaining control of their borders.",
        "此外，经济移民寻求庇护的动机将会减少，而富裕国家也可以在保持边界控制的同时，履行从难民营接收更多难民的职责 。"
    ],
    [
        "But the composed manner in which they delivered their remarks belied their countries’ long-simmering tensions over the islands, which have come to a near boil in the last few months.",
        "但他们陈述的方式掩盖了各自国家在这些岛屿问题上由来已久的怨气，在过去几个月中，这种怨气几乎喷发。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s Christians, many of its 1.5 million Kurds, and even Damascus-based, secular classes have been disinclined to join what is widely perceived in the country – though not by the rest of the world – as a sectarian Sunni opposition that might not be supportive of cultural pluralism were it to assume power.",
        "叙利亚的基督教徒——其中绝大部分是150万库尔德人——甚至还有主要分布在首都大马士革的世俗阶层，都被迫加入一个可能在执政后不会支持文化多元主义的宗派主义逊尼派反对派——这点在叙利亚国内司空见惯，但在国际上却鲜为人知。"
    ],
    [
        "If the same law were applied to Japan today, every company would be delisted.",
        "如果今天日本也采取相同的法律，那么所有公司都得摘牌下市。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the ten major interventions we proposed, four are particularly important:",
        "在我们所建议的十大干预措施中有4项尤为重要："
    ],
    [
        "It is the self-made part of luck.",
        "这是可以自我制造的幸运。"
    ],
    [
        "The New Cosmopolitans",
        "新国际阶层"
    ],
    [
        "But avoiding what might be called the “Dudley Paradox” – a CEO is paid a huge bonus for hitting targets, even as the company suffers major losses – requires boards to stop delegating the entire pay discussion to the compensation committee and waiting for the decisions to arrive, fait accompli, tied up in a bow.",
        "但避免所谓的“达德利悖论”——即CEO因为达标而获得巨奖，但同时公司却遭受到重大损失——要求董事会停止将整个薪酬讨论计划委托给薪酬委员会，同时自己却打着领结坐等决策的到来。"
    ],
    [
        "In Vietnam’s parched central highlands and coastal provinces, for example, there is an urgent need to harvest “more crop per drop” and improve emergency responses.",
        "比如，越南饱受干旱之苦的中部高地和沿海省份急需增加“单位灌溉产量”、改善紧急情况响应。"
    ],
    [
        "If China imposes a carbon price for its energy-intensive manufacturing industries, the US won’t need to do so at its border, lowering risks to the international trading system on which both countries rely.",
        "如果中国向其高能耗制造业征收碳价格，美国将不必在更大范围内冒更小的风险针对国际贸易机制采取同样的做法，这种机制是中美双方都依赖的。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the cuprates first appeared, a variety of other “high temperature” superconductors have been discovered – one is a simple compound of magnesium and boron, and another involves a mixture of iron and arsenic.",
        "在高温超导铜氧化物发现之后，科学界也发现了一系列其他类型的“高温”超导体——其中一种是镁和硼的简单化合物，另一种则是铁和砷的混合物。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if their prestige is in fact at stake, the perception of a threat becomes decisive.",
        "但是，如果它们的民族地位真的受到了威胁，那么这种危机感就会起到决定性作用。"
    ],
    [
        "And the debilitating “corruption tax” that seems inevitably to accompany economic revolutions must be curbed, as it was in Britain during the nineteenth century and America during the twentieth.",
        "而看似经济进步阶段不可避免的、具有削弱性质的“腐败税”必须得到遏制，就像英国在19世纪、美国在20世纪做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Jokes also betray a certain uneasiness about the apparent contradictions that they reveal. In this case, the uneasiness derives from a fundamental uncertainty about which of the two faces of science, natural philosophy or instrumentality, represents its true character. Is science really about understanding the world, with instrumentality being a matter of fortuitous spin-offs?",
        "这样的玩笑也在某种程度上暴露出对显而易见矛盾的不安和局促。 此时此地，这种不安来源于人们对于自然哲学和功用性这两个侧面究竟哪一面能代表科学真正属性的疑惑。"
    ],
    [
        "The prospect of a disorderly fiscal contraction needs to give way to a more rationally designed approach that avoids undermining the fragile recovery.",
        "无序财政紧缩必须让位给设计合理的过程，以避免影响脆弱的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, because skills are necessary for nearly all activities in most of Africa, here and now, we need to organize ways to supply such skills to these countries.",
        "第三，在非洲，几乎所有领域的活动都急需技能，因此我们需要组织向这些国家供给所需技能的渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "I hope so, but I would be more convinced by a plan tilted more toward domestic private consumption, health, and education than to one based on the same growth strategy of the past 30 years.",
        "我希望如此。 但对我而言，一项以国内私有消费、医疗和教育为主题的计划比一项基于与前30年相同的增长战略的计划更有说服力。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, a law adopted in 2005 requires that severance pay for company managers now be subject to a shareholder vote, and the EADS scandal has spurred consideration of further legal changes.",
        "法国的一部2005年通过的法律要求股东投票来决定公司经理的离职报酬，而欧洲航空防务及航天公司的丑闻激发了采取进一步法律变革的考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Prodi has won a large margin in the lower house, but he has only a handful of extra votes in the Senate.",
        "因此，普罗迪在下议院赢得了很大的富余票，在参议院却仅有少数多余选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Although no particular heat wave can be directly attributed to global warming, it will make such events more frequent.",
        "尽管没有一场特别的热浪可以直接归咎于全球变暖，但是它将会让这样的事件更为频繁。"
    ],
    [
        "To use the language of the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, they are creating “saving translations,” whereby a language, conceptual apparatus, and social system is updated to reflect progress in human reason.",
        "用德国哲学家哈贝马斯（Jürgen Habermas）的话说，他们正在创造“拯救翻译”（saving translations），即更新一种语言、概念装置和社会制度，使之体现人类理性的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are signs that these assumptions are now being challenged.",
        "几十年来，这些词组以及类似的词组表达了美国立法者、监管者以及金融公司的共同心声。"
    ],
    [
        "He is widely credited for setting the country’s agenda, and for being the motor behind the liberal economic reforms that since 2004 have meant a qualitative leap in the Egyptian economy.",
        "他得到广泛的信任为这个国家设定议程，并且是2004年以来使埃及经济发生高质量的腾飞的自由经济改革幕后的策划者。"
    ],
    [
        "It is high time to question the very existence of an intellectual property system that privileges monopoly ownership over the common good.",
        "是时候对将垄断所有权凌驾于人类共同利益之上的知识产权体系是否有必要存在提出质疑了。"
    ],
    [
        "Though China is employing ostensibly peaceful tactics to advance the initiative, its primary goal is not mutually beneficial cooperation; it is strategic supremacy.",
        "尽管表面上中国采取了和平战术推进该计划，但其主要目标并非多赢合作； 而是战略主宰。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the challenges posed by proliferation are more complex than ever:",
        "今天，核扩散对世界和平的挑战比以往任何时期都要复杂："
    ],
    [
        "For decades, the Franco-German alliance bound Europe together and drove it forward.",
        "几十年来，法国-德国联盟把欧洲绑在了一起并推动它前进。"
    ],
    [
        "Things have clearly moved on from Copenhagen, when the priority was to reach agreement between those countries that have been chiefly responsible for global warming.",
        "现在与哥本哈根时期相比已经取得了显著的进步，当时的重点是在对全球变暖负主要责任的国家之间达成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Their collective commitments to stimulate, regulate and restructure global economic activity helped to calm nerves around the world.",
        "他们共同承诺刺激，规管和重整全球经济活动，令世人紧张的神经得以平复下来。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, Fed officials should avoid weighing in on issues that are only obliquely related to monetary policy.",
        "此外，美联储官员应该避免介入与货币政策没什么关系的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is what China, India, Brazil, and others are prepared to do with their growing strength.",
        "问题是中国，印度，巴西和其他新兴国家准备如何使用它们日益壮大的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "He has tried to understand what we can do to lower unemployment and increase the well-being of those at the bottom.",
        "他试图弄清楚我们如何能降低失业率以及提高那些生活在底层的人的生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, sovereign risk is rising – consider the troubles faced by investors in Dubai, Greece, and other emerging markets and advanced economies.",
        "最后，主权风险在加剧——在迪拜、希腊和其他一些新兴市场乃至发达经济体投资的人眼下正是焦头烂额，看看他们就知道啥叫主权风险了。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the development of online search in the broadest terms.",
        "让我们广义地思考一下网络搜索的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "In Brasil, President Luiz Ignacio da Silva Lula’s main issue, demand and hope was for a reduction or elimination in the US tariff on ethanol imports.",
        "在巴西，卢拉主要关心的问题、要求和希望是美国能减免或者取消乙醇进口的关税。"
    ],
    [
        "The trend can be seen in traditionally autocratic regimes.",
        "这一趋势可见于传统极权政权。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a scenario is not impossible.",
        "这种方案并非全无可能。"
    ],
    [
        "On one hand, top-down factors – regulatory change, unusual pricing, and what Nouriel Roubini has cleverly termed the “liquidity paradox” – are at work.",
        "一方面，至上而下因素——监管变化、反常定价和努里埃尔·鲁比尼（Nouriel Roubini）巧妙提出的“流动性悖论”——在起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But Chinese officials know that renminbi appreciation is also in China’s interest, as they seek to dampen inflationary pressures.",
        "但中国官员也意识到人民币升值同样符合本国的利益，因为这有助于缓和国内的通胀压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, financial systems themselves stand to benefit from becoming more comprehensive and progressive.",
        "此外，金融系统本身也可以变得更完善。 更进步，从而从中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "While the particular chavista creed that destroyed Venezuela will most likely end up collapsing under the weight of its own cataclysmic failure, the lesson for others is how costly it is to adopt a potentially dysfunctional belief system.",
        "毁掉了委内瑞拉的特殊的查韦斯主义教条极有可能最终不堪其自身的巨大失败而崩溃，而其他人应该从中汲取的教训是采取可能不健全的信念体系会造成怎样的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama’s administration had mixed results in competing for influence with China.",
        "奥巴马政府在于中国竞争影响力方面可谓得失参半。"
    ],
    [
        "We know from existing evidence that empowering women and girls can accelerate progress.",
        "现有证据显示授权妇女和女童可以加速推动进步。"
    ],
    [
        "The most damning charge against their stewardship is that they embraced the idea that financial markets are optimally self-regulating – a view that Keynes rejected.",
        "对他们的治国之道的最严厉的指责是他们认为金融市场最好自我监管——而这正是凯恩斯反对的。"
    ],
    [
        "We will win battles but kill crews in a war that does not exist.",
        "我们将赢得战斗，但我们在这场战争中消灭的是子虚乌有的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "That, in a nutshell, is the story of Greece.",
        "这就是希腊情况的概括。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet China’s preoccupation with its internal politics is such that it cannot see the price that it pays for reacting to every North Korean outrage with only vague opprobrium, combined with expressions of hope-over-experience that North Korea will reform.",
        "但是中国过于关注其国内政治，以致每次朝鲜胡作非为时都只会表示暧昧的遗憾之情，并不切实际地表达对朝鲜改革的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "And labor laws would be revised to strengthen the role of unions.",
        "同时将修改劳动法以加强工会的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Rarely has a leadership change in one EU member state created expectations of a real policy shift.",
        "很少有哪次欧盟成员国领导人变化如此次引起人们对实际政策变迁的猜想。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks that failed the stress test and didn’t take the result seriously are partly to blame, but so, too, are regulators who did not sufficiently hold the banks’ feet to the fire to improve their balance sheets, and who may have applied stress tests that were too weak to detect financial frailty.",
        "没有通过压力测试，也没有认真对待结果的银行固然需要谴责，但没有充分监督银行改善资产负债表，以及把压力测试难度定得太低以至于无法找出财务弱点的监管者也难辞其咎。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the answer is a qualified yes: there are ways to ensure that fiscal accommodation now is followed by consolidation later.",
        "幸运的是，答案是有条件的“是”：有办法保证现在进行财政调整，随后再进行整合。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies that further progress in trade liberalization will be slow.",
        "这意味着贸易自由化的进一步进展将会放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, fully aware of Obama’s claims for a presidency that will be about the future, Asians are eager to hear about his vision of the Asia-Pacific region and how the US will deal with Asia’s giants – China and India – while maintaining strong connections to Japan.",
        "现在亚洲完全清楚奥巴马总统面向未来，因此就急迫地想要听取其有关亚太地区的构想以及美国如何处理亚洲巨人中国和印度，同时维持与日本的强大联系。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has been short-changing infrastructure for years.",
        "美国基础设施短缺的情况已经维持了多年。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – The year 2017 will mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Age of Uncertainty.",
        "柏林—2017年是约翰·肯尼斯·加尔布雷斯（John Kenneth Galbraith）的《不确定性的时代》（The Age of Uncertainty）出版四十周年。"
    ],
    [
        "Kant offers a famous example: Language is what distinguishes us from other species; without it, we are mere beasts.",
        "康德提出了一个著名的例子：语言是区分我们和其他物种的关键； 没有语言，我们就只是野兽。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is no great surprise that Hamas rejected the Quartet’s conditions.",
        "所以哈马斯拒绝了四方的条件也就不足为奇了。"
    ],
    [
        "BDS is supposedly a worldwide civil-society movement embodying respect for law, democracy, and human rights.",
        "抵制、撤资和制裁运动本应是尊重法治、民主和人权的全球民间团体。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are several reasons to question the link between populist politics and economic distress.",
        "但出于一些原因，应该质疑民粹主义政治和经济不景气之间的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "And, along with courageous political leadership, it has enabled the state to escape from a seemingly hopeless fiscal crisis.",
        "并且，它与勇气十足的政治领导力一起，让加州摆脱了令人绝望的财政危机。"
    ],
    [
        "A Greek Morality Tale",
        "希腊道德神话"
    ],
    [
        "Some, such as Greece’s debt drama, are economic disasters; others, like Syria’s implosion, are characterized by brutality and political chaos; and still others, most notably Ukraine’s predicament, fall somewhere in between.",
        "其他，比方说叙利亚的国内崩溃，则属于暴力和政治混乱的范畴； 还有些，尤其是乌克兰困境，介乎于两者之间。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, Macron is taking advantage of current circumstances to blow up the tripartite system.",
        "现在，马克龙正在利用现状来彻底破坏三足鼎立的系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Why were there no suitable female candidates in the first place?",
        "为什么一开始会没有合适的女性候选人？"
    ],
    [
        "The Trade Numbers Game",
        "贸易数字游戏"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of relying primarily on command-and-control rules, regulators should focus on what motivates the organization as a whole and align those incentives with financial safety.",
        "监管者不应该主要依赖要求-控制规则，而应该专注于组织作为一个整体的动机，将激励与金融安全协调起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Such policy choices should be made rarely, and with a clear understanding that support for the violent overthrow of a government is not very popular around the world.",
        "这样的政策选择以少做为妙，并且应该由一个明确的认识——支持暴力推翻一国政府在国际上并不讨好。"
    ],
    [
        "China, too, will feel the results of the new balance in Congress.",
        "中国也会感觉到两党重新划分众议院势力的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, China’s development strategy depends on its continued integration into the world economy – and, specifically, reliable access to American markets and technology.",
        "毕竟，中国的发展战略依赖于继续融入世界经济——具体而言，依赖于可靠的获得美国市场和技术的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s military spending still nearly equals that of the rest of the world combined, two decades after the end of the Cold War.",
        "冷战结束20年后，美国军费依然与世界其他国家总和相当。"
    ],
    [
        "These judicial and extra-judicial killings reflect the depth of Egypt’s current crisis.",
        "这些司法和法外杀戮反映出埃及当前危机之深刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Barroso needs to respond to all these doubts.",
        "巴罗索需要对这些怀疑做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Private debtors will continue to have difficulties finding capital, so the state will expand relative to the private sector.",
        "私人债务人将继续陷入融资困境，因此国有部门会相对私人部门有所膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East’s Oil-Price Problem",
        "中东的石油价格问题"
    ],
    [
        "If it cannot, and no other force emerges to do the job, Netanyahu’s prophecies of doom risk becoming self-fulfilling.",
        "如果不能，并且也没有其他力量站出来完成这一任务，内塔尼亚胡的末日预言就有可能自我实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Still others, like Richard Fisher, the outgoing president of the Dallas Fed, have inveighed against the special role of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.",
        "还有一些人，如即将卸任的达拉斯联邦储备银行行长理查德·费舍尔（Richard Fisher）猛烈抨击了纽约联邦储备银行的特殊角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Now Germany can take a tough stance on the new Greek government's demands for a large-scale debt write-off and an end to austerity, without fearing the kind of financial-market turbulence that in 2012 left the eurozone with little choice but to bail out Greece.",
        "如今，德国可以针对希腊新政府大规模债务减记和结束紧缩的要求采取强硬立场，而不必担心2012年的金融市场动荡——当时，这场动荡让欧元区别无选择，只能援助希腊。"
    ],
    [
        "In the CER’s view, EU membership has increased UK trade in goods with other member states by more than 50%.",
        "在CER看来，欧盟成员资格让英国与其他成员国的商品贸易增加了50%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "But contributing money also means having a say, and the BRICS – no surprise – are pressing their demand for voting reform in the IMF, and are increasingly offering currency swaps to economically troubled countries.",
        "但捐助资金同时也与话语权有关。 金砖五国——不出意外——也不断施压要求对世界货币基金组织的投票体制进行改革，并逐步与那些经济受灾国进行货币互换。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern technology, possibly including weapons of mass destruction, increases the possibility that any terrorist success will cause damage of great magnitude.",
        "现代技术、可能包括大规模杀伤性武器增加了恐怖得逞将会造成巨大损失的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "In one move, he reversed the Pakistani political dynamic: being farthest from the dictator became more valuable than being closest to him.",
        "通过回国这一举动，他扭转了巴基斯坦的政治能动格局，也就是，与独裁者距离最远要比与其接近对其更具有价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, we don’t need to rely on such verbal descriptions of our planet’s insignificance against the background of our galaxy.",
        "现在，我们不再使用如此的语言来描述我们的星球的微不足道。"
    ],
    [
        "In Defense of Polish Plumbers",
        "波兰水暖工辩"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, a mobilized NCD movement can turn the tide against that epidemic.",
        "类似地，动员起来的NCD运动能够改变潮流。"
    ],
    [
        "We could perhaps all be happy working fewer hours if the decline reflected gradual social progress.",
        "或许人人都会对更少地工作感到愉快，如果工作时长减少反映社会逐渐进步的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Should that happen in 2018, it will be a very good year indeed.",
        "如果这一切能在2018年发生，那这将是非常好的一年。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama administration should hold firm on this through the coming rounds of negotiation, and should appoint a senior official to help coordinate US policy on Darfur in order to ensure that peace efforts there receive the same level of attention as the North-South efforts.",
        "在新一轮谈判中，奥巴马政府要坚定这一立场，并任命一位高级官员专门协调美国在达尔富尔的政策，确保当地的和平进程与南北双方的和平进程受到同等重视。"
    ],
    [
        "Here was the prime example of competition and collaboration that typified the Rabin-Peres relationship.",
        "这是拉宾-佩雷斯之间竞争与合作关系的最佳例证。"
    ],
    [
        "But it rose again during the presidencies of Néstor Kirchner and his wife and successor, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, to 25%.",
        "但在内斯托·基什内尔及其妻子兼继任者克里斯蒂娜·费尔南德兹担任总统期间，通胀又上升到25%。"
    ],
    [
        "EU leaders must not sit on their hands.",
        "欧盟领导人绝不能袖手旁观。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, it suggests that even extraordinary success at cutting emissions would not save the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, locking in eventual sea-level increases of more than five meters.",
        "更糟糕的是，模型表明，即使减排工作取得卓越的成功，也无法拯救西南极洲冰原，最终的海平面上升幅度将超过五米。"
    ],
    [
        "Her advice is to grab the opportunity at work, and also find happiness in marriage and children.",
        "她的建议是抓住工作机会，同时在婚姻和孩子中找到幸福。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, solar power took a hit after the European Commission decided to phase out subsidies for renewable energy by 2017.",
        "在欧洲，欧盟委员会决定在2017年取消可再生能源补贴，太阳能行业遭遇重创。"
    ],
    [
        "First, excess capacity enabled companies to ramp up production.",
        "首先，充裕的过剩产能让企业可以轻易增加生产。"
    ],
    [
        "These trends have culminated in Trump, whose most popular policies focus on destruction, rather than creation.",
        "这些趋势在特朗普上任后达到了顶峰，他最受民众支持的政策集中在“毁”而不是“建”上。"
    ],
    [
        "In principle, banks should be attracted to the proposal, because restructured loans are less likely to default.",
        "从原理上看，该方案对银行是有吸引力的，因为重组后的贷款违约可能性更小了。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel accepted this, but the Palestinians did not, so the Palestinian state was never established.",
        "以色列接受了这一方案，但巴勒斯坦人拒绝了，于是巴勒斯坦国从未建立。"
    ],
    [
        "This should be unacceptable to anyone committed to democratic principles.",
        "这是无法让任何致力于民主原则的人所接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers everywhere should recognize the economic opportunities – and the political benefits – that such an outcome promises to deliver.",
        "各国决策者都应认识到上述结果所带来的经济机会和政治利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle, co-authored with Saul Singer, the American writer and political adviser Dan Senor poses a fundamental question.",
        "在与索尔·辛格合著的《初创国：以色列经济奇迹的故事》一书中，美国作家兼政治顾问丹·塞纳提出了一个根本性的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Basic Law, the election committee should be “broadly representative” – a provision that the committee’s current composition violates.",
        "根据《基本法》，选举委员会应该具有“广泛代表性”——而目前的组成情况违反了这一条款。"
    ],
    [
        "And while Trump’s communication style remains striking, particularly in comparison to Xi’s, it becomes far less appealing when one is the target of his blunt comments on touchy topics.",
        "而尽管特朗普的沟通风格依然辛辣——特别是与习近平相比——但当一个人因为在敏感问题上的鲁莽评论而成为众矢之的时，他的沟通风格魅力不再。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, such a comparison has its limits.",
        "很明显，这样来对两者进行比较有其局限性。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to establish a clear, low-risk path to producing their goods at a predictable (and profitable) cost, companies employ teams dedicated to securing the relevant supply chains, controlling inventory, managing the production process, and so on – from the point of origin to the point of consumption.",
        "为了以可预测（且有利可图）的成本在控制风险的前提下制造产品，企业从原产地到消费地全程雇佣负责确保相关供应链、库存控制、生产过程管理等项职能的团队。"
    ],
    [
        "Once again, French lawmakers are acting on the conviction that they know better than market participants.",
        "法国立法者再一次认为自己比市场参与者懂得更多。"
    ],
    [
        "The short answer is that after a quarter-century of economic reform, Chinese today are much freer to express themselves.",
        "简而言之，经过二十五年的经济改革，今天的中国人能够更自由地表达自我。"
    ],
    [
        "Tellingly, the influential neo-conservative Richard Perle said in 2003 that he was still a registered Democrat, out of “nostalgia” for Henry “Scoop” Jackson, the powerful former Senator who embodied these commitments.",
        "颇能说明问题的是，有影响力的新保守主义者理查德·派瑞2003年的时候说他 仍然 是一名注册的民主党党员，这是出于对体现了这些诺言的强有力的前参议员亨利·杰克逊的“留恋”。"
    ],
    [
        "How can this governance gap be closed?",
        "如何才能把治理鸿沟给堵上呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB should drop its inflationary bias because the European economy is weakening, and the weaker economy will contain whatever inflationary pressures now exist.",
        "欧洲央行应当放弃其通胀偏见，因为欧洲经济正在变弱，而相对疲软的经济将会限制现在的无论何种通胀压力。"
    ],
    [
        "But S&P’s downgrade was a poor decision, taken at the wrong time.",
        "但标普给美国国债降级是个糟糕的决策，选择的时机不对。"
    ],
    [
        "China is also actively pursuing the construction of a Pan-Asia Railroad, which, when complete, will form an enormous circular route.",
        "中国还在积极寻求建设泛亚铁路，一旦完工，将构成一个巨大的环形铁路圈。"
    ],
    [
        "Systems Biology May Provide Answers.”",
        "系统生物学可以提供答案》。"
    ],
    [
        "The glories of getting rich have overwhelmed the deprivations of patriotic self-sacrifice.",
        "致富的荣耀感已经压过了爱国主义自我牺牲的匮乏感。"
    ],
    [
        "The PiS captured the public media, the general prosecutor’s office was politicized, and, with the use of the media, was turned into a tool of party propaganda aimed at showing that Poland was ruled by malicious hidden forces, known as the układ , which cheated Poles and kept them poor.",
        "法律与正义党控制了公共媒体，总检察长办公室被政治化，而且，利用媒体将其转变成为政党宣称的工具，其目的在于表明波兰是被叫做“尤达卡”的隐藏的恶意势力统治。 这一势力欺骗了波兰人并让他们处于贫穷。"
    ],
    [
        "But the reality of the talks is very different.",
        "但谈判的现实绝非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Each agrees to small “contributions” of emission reduction, trying to nudge the other countries to do more.",
        "所有人都同意为减排做出小“贡献”，而让其他国家承担更多责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Given trade’s record of reducing poverty, this is a moral imperative; it is also indispensable for peace and stability.",
        "从贸易对减少贫困的作用看，这是一项道德要求； 这也是和平与稳定的不可或缺的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson is clear: either political leaders and policymakers demonstrate the leadership needed to secure a better medium-term outlook, or downside risks will materialize before long – and do serious damage to the global economy.",
        "教训是明确的：要么政治领袖和决策者拿出确保更好的中期前景所需要的领导力，要么下行风险不久之后就成为现实——并给全球经济造成严重危害。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Commission now proposes to put the emphasis entirely on peer pressure – naming and shaming offenders.",
        "但现在委员会却提议把重点完全转向伙伴国的压力－找到违反规定的国家并对其进行羞辱。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that we know how to do this.",
        "好消息是我们知道如何做这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require more than philanthropy: it will demand new commercial models that solve health-care issues, help the economy to grow, and benefit those who invest in Africa’s future.",
        "这不光光是慈善问题：这需要新的商业模式来解决健康问题、刺激经济增长并让投资非洲未来的人获益。"
    ],
    [
        "To overcome this fundamental design flaw, government debts must be pooled.",
        "为了克服这一根本性设计缺陷，政府债务必须集中起来。"
    ],
    [
        "We use one map if we are driving from home to work, another one if we are traveling to another city.",
        "我们在上下班路上使用某张地图，在去另一个城市旅行时使用另一张地图。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 10 million of them still live in poverty.",
        "大约1,000万人生活贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Kerry and a growing number of Americans recognize that accepting limits on US power and the use of military force are a precondition for America's ultimate security, that what binds can also strengthen, and that such limits will reinforce America's ability to tackle the crisis in Iraq.",
        "凯利和越来越多的美国人都意识到：接受对美国权力和使用军事力量的限制是享受终极安全的前提条件，必要的限制同样能加强美国的力量，而这些限制将增强美国处理伊拉克危机的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Early in the Syrian civil war, when President Bashar al-Assad’s government was claiming that the many pictures of atrocities that opposition members posted to social media were fake, it would have been possible to develop a United Nations platform with verification procedures to ensure the authenticity of photos and videos posted.",
        "叙利亚内战早期，当巴沙尔·阿萨德总统政府宣称反对派在社交媒体发布的很多照片均系伪造时，联合国本来可以建立验证平台，确保所公布照片和视频的真实性。"
    ],
    [
        "And, despite its economic and political dysfunction, Turkey managed to maintain a positive image, owing in part to its ambition to join the European Union.",
        "而且，尽管存在着经济和政治领域的障碍，但部分因为希望加入欧盟的雄心，土耳其依然成功树立了一种积极的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "Everything else, in this view, is a distraction.",
        "根据这一观点，其他任何东西都是无用功。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, many African women are not only expected to fulfill traditional roles, such as raising children and caring for the elderly; they also face legal and social discrimination regarding land and property ownership, inheritance, education, and access to credit and technology – in addition to oppressive sexual mores and violence.",
        "如今，许多非洲妇女不但要扮演传统角色（如抚养孩子和照顾老人），还面临着土地和财产权利、继承、教育、获得信用和技术等方面的法律和社会歧视——当然还有压迫性性习俗和暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "If China threw a handful of sand in the gears of these chains, it could disrupt entire production networks, doing serious damage to the US (and, indeed, all the countries participating in such networks).",
        "如果中国向这条供应链的齿轮中惨一些沙子，就能影响到整个生产网络，对美国造成严重打击（事实上，所有参与这些网络的国家都会受到冲击）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, four reactors were de-commissioned during 2009, and a larger number of reactors in Japan and Germany are not in use, owing to various technical stoppages.",
        "此外，还有4座反应堆于2009年退役，日本和德国都有相当数量的反应堆由于各种技术原因而处于闲置状态。"
    ],
    [
        "The six-year initiative, focused on preventing nuclear terrorism, produced important outcomes on eliminating, minimizing, and securing dangerous nuclear and radiological materials.",
        "着重于防止核恐怖主义的六年计划在危险核与放射性材料的销毁、最少化和安全方面形成了重要结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The porter immediately called the medical team, and the operation was postponed.",
        "护工马上通知了医疗团队，她的手术被叫停。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, in the first place, can’t he be put on trial in Belgrade, instead of The Hague?",
        "为何要在海牙开审，而不能把法庭设在贝尔格莱德？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it costs $0.70-0.80 per cubic meter to provide piped water in urban areas, compared to $2 in sparsely populated areas.",
        "70-0. 80美元，比人烟稀少地区的2美元能节约不少开销。"
    ],
    [
        "The effort will also involve phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies, as well as developing new financial tools to motivate investors to help solve problems on their own, without relying on public funds.",
        "上述努力还包括逐步淘汰化石燃料补贴，以及开发鼓励投资者不依赖公共资金独立解决问题的新型金融工具。"
    ],
    [
        "We should not become so enthralled by the explanatory power of the behavioral sciences that we succumb to the belief that moral progress is predetermined.",
        "我们不应该被行为科学的解释力所奴役，以至于陷入了道德进步被事先决定的窠臼。"
    ],
    [
        "On government efficiency, the report claims that Italy is doing worse than all countries except Venezuela – much worse than Burundi or even Syria – in a ranking topped by Singapore and, more surprisingly, Rwanda.",
        "在政府效率方面，报告称意大利比除委内瑞拉外的所有国家政府都更糟糕——其糟糕程度远超布隆迪乃至叙利亚——而该指标排名靠前的是新加坡，还有更令人惊讶的，卢旺达。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, European and American banks keep the resources that are looted from Africa.",
        "同样，欧洲和美国的银行也从非洲掠夺了大量的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Successive governments staffed with unqualified politicians have failed dismally to carry out the core governmental functions of maintaining law and order, providing the basic services expected of modern societies, and promoting economic growth.",
        "充斥着不合格政客的历届政府根本无法完成维护法律和秩序的政府核心任务，无法推动经济增长并为现代社会提供基本服务。"
    ],
    [
        "HIV is an extremely complex virus.",
        "艾滋病毒的结构极为复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when the Fed starts to raise interest rates (some time in 2015), it will proceed slowly.",
        "即使2015年某一时刻美联储开始提高利率，它的加息举措也会非常谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "Yingluck has been banned from politics for five years.",
        "英拉则在五年中被禁止踏入政坛一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us imagine, just for a moment, what the Middle East and Central Asia could look like if the US and Iran could once again talk to each other.",
        "我们可以暂时地想象一下，如果美国和伊朗可以再一次互相对话，中东和中亚会怎样。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, it is a real stretch to bemoan the state of corporate earnings in the US.",
        "首先，哀叹美国企业收入低迷的论调本是言过其实。"
    ],
    [
        "For the rest of the world, the unfolding Zhou scandal reconfirms a profoundly worrisome fact: the Middle Kingdom remains deeply corrupt.",
        "对世界其他地区来说，周永康丑闻的发酵确认了一个影响深远又令人担心的事实：这个中央王国依然是深度腐败的。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, shipping freight across the country is a logistical nightmare.",
        "结果导致国内货运费用成为物流噩梦。"
    ],
    [
        "Reconciliation’s New Frontier",
        "化解矛盾的新前线"
    ],
    [
        "Because biochemical-based tests cannot differentiate between C. auris and other invasive Candida infections, several cases of C. auris were initially misidentified as C. haemulonii.",
        "因为相关生化测试无法将耳道假丝酵母菌感染和其他侵入性念珠菌感染区分开来，以致有数个耳道假丝酵母菌病例最初被误诊为希木龙念珠菌（Candida haemulonii）感染。"
    ],
    [
        "She is now serving a seven-year prison sentence for supposedly abusing her position as Prime Minister by signing a gas deal with Russia – and awaits the completion of two more trials.",
        "如今她正在服七年徒刑，罪名是在总理任上滥用职权，和俄罗斯签署了天然气交易。 她还在等待令两项审判的宣判。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, President Barack Obama’s administration is trying to close that information gap with the College ScoreCard, a free, easily searchable database that offers unbiased information about the performance and costs of US public and private institutions providing post-secondary education.",
        "在美国，总统巴拉克·奥巴马领导的政府正试图用院校记分卡来弥补上述信息的缺失，这是一套提供美国公共和私人机构高等教育绩效和费用等客观信息的方便搜索的免费数据库系统。"
    ],
    [
        "At a moment when integration is being debated in France, Zidane embodied the ideal of success through talent and hard work – while never betraying himself or his Algerian origins.",
        "正当法国辩论融入问题的时候，齐达内象征着通过天赋和艰苦工作取得成功的理想，与此同时，从不背叛他自己和他的阿尔及利亚根源。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Today, roughly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states.",
        "巴黎—如今，全世界大约有四分之一的人口生活在受冲突影响的脆弱国家中。"
    ],
    [
        "Each would introduce aggressive targets for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.",
        "两人都要引进减少温室气体排放的激进的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2003, China has become Mexico’s most important trading partner after the United States. Indeed, Mexico’s trade deficit with China reached $9 billion in 2003.",
        "自2003年起，墨西哥对中国的贸易逆差达到九十亿，中国已经成为了墨西哥的第二大贸易伙伴，排名仅列美国之后。"
    ],
    [
        "But both appear committed to running large surpluses (indeed, the two largest in the world).",
        "但这两个经济体似乎都致力于形成巨额盈余（事实上，是世界上第一和第二大盈余）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Politics of Islamophobia",
        "伊斯兰恐惧症的政治学"
    ],
    [
        "This modus operandi needs to be changed in order to give the IMF the independence it needs if it is to become a credible, impartial judge of balance-of-payments disequilibria and sources of risk to global financial markets.",
        "国际货币基金组织若成为国际收支不平衡和全球金融市场风险源头可靠的、公平的裁判，这个运作形式就需要进行改革，从而赋予国际货币基金组织必需的独立性。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, these fears have a strong historical basis.",
        "事实上，这些恐慌有其深刻的历史根源。"
    ],
    [
        "The Senate must decide whether New START enhances American security.",
        "参议院必须决定新条约究竟能否提高美国的国防安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Rebalancing is China’s only option.",
        "而中国唯一的选择就是实现重新平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The real gap is narrower: it is the Arab world, not Islam, which seems at loggerheads with democracy.",
        "真正的差距在缩小：是阿拉伯而非伊斯兰世界与民主水火不容。"
    ],
    [
        "And, given that President Barack Obama would ultimately be held responsible for a default, he needed the deal more than the Republicans did.",
        "而一旦违约，最终负责的将是奥巴马政府，因此奥巴马比共和党更需要妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "The country is home to one-sixth of the world’s people, yet it accounts for almost one-half of global coal consumption.",
        "中国人口占全球的六分之一，但却消费了全球近二分之一的煤炭。"
    ],
    [
        "REYKJAVIK – European and Chinese officials have made two notable announcements in recent weeks.",
        "雷克雅未克—近几周来，欧洲和中国官员宣布了两件要事。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the EU’s newest members share some key features.",
        "不论如何，这些欧盟的新成员都有着一些共同的特点。"
    ],
    [
        "The MDGs, which expire in 2015, signaled a new era of global cooperation, and triggered real progress in terms of lifting millions of people out of extreme poverty, improving health and access to education, and empowering women.",
        "2015年到期的千年发展目标开启了全球合作的新时代，在千百万人摆脱极端贫困、改善医疗教育机会以及女性授权等领域取得了真正的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "The greatest talents in our societies – in universities, businesses, NGOs, and especially among the world’s young people – are ready to take on our greatest challenges, and are joining the UN’s new Sustainable Development Solutions Network.",
        "大学、企业、非政府组织、特别是全球青年中最出色的人才已经做好准备迎接最严峻的挑战，并陆续加盟联合国新的可持续发展方案网络。"
    ],
    [
        "In return, India has pledged to open 14 of its 22 existing and planned nuclear power reactors, as well as all future civil reactors, to international inspection.",
        "作为交换，印度已经承诺向国际核查人员开放其22个现有以及计划中的核能反应堆中的14个，以及未来所有的民用反应堆。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, over-diagnosis is inevitable with good screening tests.",
        "可以肯定，过度诊断现象在好的筛查试验中不可避免。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, few politicians will champion changes that promise longer-term benefits but often come with short-term disruptions.",
        "简单地讲，没有多少政客愿意推动牺牲短期利益来换取长期利益的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But this approach ignores serious problems with the development and deployment of geo-engineering technologies.",
        "但这一方法忽视了与开发和部署地质工程技术有关的严重问题。 以CCS为例。"
    ],
    [
        "How plausible is this argument?",
        "但这些言论中有多少是正确的？"
    ],
    [
        "The OECD estimates that a dollar of aid spent on improving tax collection yields an average of $350 in revenue.",
        "经合组织估计，在改善征税给予一美元援助，平均可以产生350美元的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "The end of bilateralism stems also from the dysfunctional political systems of both Palestine and Israel.",
        "无法通过双边协议来解决冲突，也缘于巴勒斯坦和以色列有着机能障碍的政治体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the ban on smoking in public places or during official activities imposed in 2013 on Chinese Communist Party and government officials could be helpful.",
        "这里，2013年实行的党和政府官员公共场合或公务活动吸烟禁令可能会有所帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher taxes at the top could generate revenues to finance needed public investment, and to provide some social protection for those at the bottom, including the unemployed.",
        "对高收入人群收取更多的所得税可以产生收入，用来资助所需的公共投资，同样也为那些包括失业人口在内的底层人民提供一些社会保障。"
    ],
    [
        "But no section of Ukraine is our enemy and none will be treated that way. For we need no reminding of what must be Ukraine’s priority.",
        "但是没有任何一个乌克兰选区是我们的敌人，也没有人应以敌对态度对待，因为我们很清楚乌克兰的优势所在。"
    ],
    [
        "Given what has happened in the last few weeks, Leung could quite properly give a new report to the authorities in Beijing focusing on two issues not proscribed by Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law.",
        "从过去几周的形势看，梁振英很有可能向北京当局递交了以香港宪法——《基本法》所未述及的两大问题为核心的新报告。"
    ],
    [
        "What America’s affirmative action programs may not do is set quotas for minorities, as this prevents competition between different groups.",
        "美国的平权政策不可能做的就是对少数族裔设定配额，因为这会妨碍不同族裔集团之间的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, even at times when fighting is less intense Congo suffers from the indirect effects of the war.",
        "然而，即使在战争不那么激烈的时候，刚果也经受着战争间接影响的荼毒。"
    ],
    [
        "Most sports certainly contribute to physical fitness – as do some other expressions of culture, such as ballet – but what we admire in a player who can do extraordinary things with a ball is a technique that is utterly useless outside the playing field and has taken thousands of hours of practice to bring to perfection.",
        "大多数体育无疑有助于身体健康—如其他一些文化所表现的一样，如芭蕾—但是，我们对有特殊球类技能的运动员所崇拜的是一种技巧，这种技巧在运动场外一无是处，并且花费了大量的时间练习，以求尽善尽美。"
    ],
    [
        "And it certainly is tempting to do so.",
        "显然，这么做具有相当充分的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, either a disastrous inflationary blowout will inevitably follow, or the body of economic theory that has dominated a generation of policy and academic thinking since Friedman’s paper on “rational” expectations and “natural” unemployment will turn out to be completely wrong.",
        "否则要么出现灾难性的通胀井喷，要么自弗里德曼对“理性”预期和“自然”失业率论文的论文发表后主宰了一代政策和学术思想的经济理论主体被证明为完全错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Two other factors are equally, if not more, influential: the status quo inherited from the Mubarak era and the army’s internal cohesion.",
        "如果不是更加具有影响力的话，另外两个因素至少具有相同的影响力：从穆巴拉克时代继承下来的现状和军队内部的凝聚力。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides, these countries correctly argue that the tradeoff between action on climate change and poverty reduction is more compelling for them at their level of per capita income, unless they can access newly emerging technologies at low cost.",
        "此外，这些国家正确地指出，从它们的人均收入看，气候变化行为和消除贫困之间的权衡才是更重要的问题，除非它们能够以低成本获得新技术。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is ironic that Leviathan was partly financed by Russia's culture ministry – and telling that the Russian authorities had no interest in its winning at the Oscars.",
        "因此，《利维坦》由俄罗斯文化部拨出部分资金——并且表示俄罗斯当局对赢得奥斯卡奖不感兴趣——显得颇为讽刺。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Belarus’s last independent daily newspaper recently went out of business.",
        "事实上，白俄罗斯最后一家独立日报不久前也被迫停刊。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is that countries should seek to do both: Lower the price paid to oil producers and raise the price paid by oil consumers, by cutting subsidies for oil and refined products or raising taxes on them.",
        "答案是各国应该同时追求这两个目标：降低支付给石油生产商的价格并提高消费者所支付的价格，办法可以是降低石油和石化产品补贴或提高税收。"
    ],
    [
        "But, although the United States and Japan are conducting joint naval exercises in the East China Sea in order to signal to China that it should tone down its actions over the disputed Senkaku Islands, all is not well with the alliance.",
        "但尽管美日两国在东海进行联合海军演习来向中国传达应当缓和对有争议的尖阁列岛（或尖阁列岛）行动的信号，但联盟内部却称不上和谐。"
    ],
    [
        "If, as is likely, economic growth in the US remains anemic in spite of QE3, top-line revenues and bottom-line earnings will turn south, with negative effects on equity valuations.",
        "倘若（而且很可能）美国的经济增长在QE3之下依然疲软，营业收入和实际利润将下降，并对股票估值也会产生负面的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer the problems persist, the greater the pressure on consumer and business sentiment, and the harder it is for the unemployed to find and relocate to new job opportunities.",
        "房地产问题拖得越久，消费者和企业情绪的压力就越大，失业者找到和被配置到新就业机会的机会就越小。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, central banks are all but powerless to cope with the moving target of what can be called a non-stationary liquidity trap.",
        "第三，中央银行在应对所谓的非平稳流动性陷阱的变动目标方面都是无能为力的。"
    ],
    [
        "And it was driven partly by an unforeseen increase in real-estate investment growth, to 6%.",
        "而其背后部分原因就在于房地产投资增长出人意料地增加到6%。"
    ],
    [
        "The “Greed is good” mentality is a regular feature of financial crises.",
        "“贪婪是好的”是历次金融危机中的一种典型心态。"
    ],
    [
        "As political parties bickered, King Gyanendra, who succeeded his murdered brother, sacked the prime minister in 2002 and ruled through an appointed cabinet.",
        "正当各政党争得不可开交之时，贾南德拉国王接替他被谋杀的兄长，在2002年罢黜总理，通过一个任命内阁进行统治。"
    ],
    [
        "I examined the 45 clinical research findings that had received the greatest recognition in the scientific world, as documented by the number of times other scientists had cited them over the last 15 years.",
        "这是我在研究了在科学界中受到最广泛认同的45个临床研究成果后得出的结论，它们在过去15年间被其他科学家引用的次数最多。"
    ],
    [
        "Dawkins is “deeply shocked” to discover that a person who committed an illegal act may be found not guilty.",
        "道金斯“深深震惊于”违法者有可能被认定为无罪的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe has proposed relaxing visa conditions for expatriate workers; but immigration on a scale that would make a major economic difference is unlikely, given the homogeneity and insularity of Japan’s traditional culture.",
        "安倍提出放宽对外籍工人的签证条件； 但鉴于日本传统文化的一致性和狭隘性，靠大规模移民带来经济重大变化几乎没有可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Attaining this level of growth will be essential if jobs are to be created; Iran habitually suffers from a double-digit unemployment rate, with official youth unemployment above 25%.",
        "要想创造就业岗位，如此增长水平至关重要； 伊朗失业率常常达到两位数，官方年轻人失业率更是高达25%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "The idealism of India’s freedom movement quickly evaporated after independence in the face of the opportunities for patronage that came with power.",
        "实现独立后，面对着伴随权力而来的任命机会，印度自由运动的理想主义色彩很快就消失殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "The Philippine government has proposed that half of all scheduled debt payments be withheld for a specified period, to be invested in reforestation, clean water, housing, food production, primary healthcare, sanitation, basic education, farm-to-market roads, ecologically sound tourism, micro-finance, and related MDG projects.",
        "菲律宾政府提出将所有待偿债务的一半暂时延缓一段时间，把它们投资到人工造林、清洁饮水、住宅建设、食品生产、基本医疗、卫生设施、基础教育、从农村到市场的道路建设、生态游览、微观金融和相关的联合国千年发展目标项目中。"
    ],
    [
        "Though somewhat dysfunctional, these institutions have helped to empower Kenyan youth, driving the high election turnout last month.",
        "尽管这些机构功能未必完善，但仍有助于赋权肯尼亚青年，为上个月选举的高投票率立下了功劳。"
    ],
    [
        "Forcing the US to use its veto in the Security Council, or obtaining the support of more than 150 of the UN’s 193 member states in the General Assembly, would be a huge defeat for Israel and the US, which is why the Latin American votes are important.",
        "迫使美国在安理会投出否决票，或者获得联大193个成员国中150个以上的支持，将会是对以色列和美国的一次重大打击，这也是拉美如何投票至关重要的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer to that question lies within the various Muslim communities of the region, not just in Pakistan.",
        "这一问题的答案将有赖于该地区所有的穆斯林社会共同去解答，而不仅仅是巴基斯坦穆斯林的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Nihalani went so far as to declare that engaging in a long kiss “means you want to do sex in your house with your door open, and show to people the way you are doing sex.”",
        "尼哈拉尼甚至宣称接吻时间太长“表示你想在家开门做爱，并且向人们直播怎么做。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea typically goes silent after such episodes: “failure” does not exist in its political lexicon, so it cannot be reported or discussed.",
        "通常，在发生类似事件后，朝鲜事总是对此闭口不谈。 “失败”在朝鲜的政治词典中是不存在的，因此也不能提及或者讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, with education increasingly becoming a lifelong pursuit, businesses must rethink their role in providing for a competitive workforce.",
        "此外，随着教育日渐成为终身追求，企业必须反思它们在提供竞争性劳动力方面的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "With a 900-kilometer border with Syria, it is hosting nearly two million Syrian refugees and is vulnerable to attacks and infiltration by the Islamic State.",
        "土耳其与叙利亚有900公里的接壤边界，这让它成了 近两百万叙利亚难民的栖身之所，并极易受到伊斯兰国的攻击和渗透。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the regime threatened to conduct more nuclear tests if the United Nations does not withdraw its recommendation to prosecute the country’s leaders for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.",
        "首先，朝鲜政府威胁如果联合国不撤销其关于在国际刑事法院起诉朝鲜领导人反人类罪的建议，朝鲜就要进行更多的核试验。"
    ],
    [
        "Ravaged by endemic elite discord since its founding, Pakistan desperately needs an elite reconciliation that includes all of the country’s major stakeholders.",
        "这个自建国伊始就备受各地精英集团不和之蹂躏的国家迫切地需要各方精英之间达成和解，并吸收巴基斯坦国内所有利益相关方的参与。"
    ],
    [
        "In the latter case, where national interests were not as clear, he waited until the Arab League and the UN had adopted resolutions that provided the legitimacy needed to ensure the right soft-power narrative, and then shared the leadership of the hard-power operation with NATO allies.",
        "对于后者，美国在其中的国家利益并不明晰，因此他一直等到阿盟和联合国批准了解决方案、获得了正确施展软实力所必须的正当性之后才采取行动，即使如此，仍与北约盟友一起分担了领导任务和硬实力行动。"
    ],
    [
        "STOCKHOLM – A vast majority of countries want to eliminate the existential threat of nuclear catastrophe, and rightly so.",
        "斯德哥尔摩—绝大部分国家都希望消除核灾难所带来的生存威胁，理应如此。"
    ],
    [
        "All were battling recession and high unemployment, only to find themselves unable to finance their deficits.",
        "所有这些国家都与衰退和高失业作斗争，结果发现自己无法为赤字融资。"
    ],
    [
        "The Russian government essentially provoked Georgia into attacking first and then crafted an elaborate justification aimed at rendering its actions compatible with international law.",
        "俄罗斯政府基本上挑逗格鲁吉亚首先发动攻击，之后编造了一个复杂的借口以显示其行动符合国际准则。"
    ],
    [
        "But diminished international standing and growing regional isolation have been insufficient to induce Pakistan’s dominant military to rethink its stance on terrorism.",
        "但国际地位的削弱和区域孤立的增强不足以让主宰巴基斯坦的军方反思其在恐怖主义问题上的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "While President Barack Obama outpolls the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, on foreign policy, slow economic growth and high unemployment – issues that are far more salient in US elections – favor Romney.",
        "奥巴马总统在外交政策上略胜共和党挑战者罗姆尼一筹，但经济增长不力和失业高企等对于美国大选重要得多的问题都有利于罗姆尼。"
    ],
    [
        "For as it does, China is using its colossal financial firepower to expand its strategic position on the continent, without linking aid and investment to pesky demands for good governance.",
        "因为中国正在利用其巨大的金融资源巩固其在非洲大陆的战略地位，他们并没有把援助和投资事务与麻烦的善政要求挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Hope Against Hope",
        "美国：此希望与彼希望"
    ],
    [
        "The Turkey-EU agreement concluded last March – according to which non-refugee migrants who reach the EU are sent to Turkey – has helped, contributing to a sharp decline in the number of migrants arriving in Greece.",
        "去年3月，土耳其和欧盟达成协议，到达欧盟的非难民移民间遣送至土耳其，这一协议很有裨益，有助于大幅降低到达希腊的移民数量。"
    ],
    [
        "By the fact that he believes and has confidence in you, cares about your true needs, and honestly tells you your mistakes, which he tries to help you correct.",
        "真朋友信任你、对你有信心、注重你真实的需求、坦诚地指出你的错误、并帮助你改正。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in this era of austerity, many Western countries lack the resources, much less public support, for such an effort – most of the Arab world today couldn’t make the most of it in any case.",
        "但在这个紧缩的时代，许多西方国家缺少相应资源，更不要说公众支持，来推行这样一项工作——而且无论如何，这样一项计划在今天绝大多数阿拉伯国家都无法最大限度的发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "That compromise – between Germany and Southern Europe, and between US Republicans and Democrats – should be economically and politically feasible.",
        "这一妥协——在德国与南欧之间以及美国共和党与民主党之间——应该兼具经济和政治可行性。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the persistent move toward independence appears to be driven mostly by the excitement and kneejerk responses of some of Catalonia’s leaders.",
        "但目前的情况似乎是某些加泰罗尼亚领导人的狂热和下意识反应推动了持续不断的独立运动。"
    ],
    [
        "There are three fundamental factors that determine the evolution of a country’s sovereign debt: its rate of economic growth; its borrowing costs; and its primary budget position (the budget balance net of interest payments).",
        "有三个根本性问题因素将决定一国主权债务的发展状况：经济发展速率； 借债成本；"
    ],
    [
        "The exceptional access policy, which seeks to both enhance the predictability of the Fund’s lending policy and to safeguard its financial position, is still waiting for its first real test.",
        "特殊贷款框架目的在于提高该基金借款的可预测性并且保护其财政地位，目前尚有待接受实际考验。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet complacency remains the order of the day, with EU leaders adopting to a crisis-response mentality that privileges reaction over action and perpetuates the cycle of destabilization.",
        "但自满仍然是现在的常态，欧盟领导人应对危机的心态是被动多于主动，因此无法打破动荡循环。"
    ],
    [
        "And the authorities’ strong commitment to reform restored investor confidence, reviving inflows of private capital and reactivating foreign trade.",
        "而当局对改革的强力承诺重塑了投资者信心，私人资本重新流入，外贸重新活跃。"
    ],
    [
        "So, to hit the 20% cap, spending on everything else would have to be slashed by an average of roughly 40% by 2016 and 57% by 2022.",
        "因此，为了将联邦支出压制20%的限制以下，其他方面的支出将在2016年削减约40%，在2022年削减57%。"
    ],
    [
        "For its part, Iran seems relatively stable, at least compared to its neighbors.",
        "就其本身而言，伊朗似乎相对稳定，至少与邻国相比暂时如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, Khamenei will not tolerate any diminution of his power, and he is determined to avoid the type of friction that has characterized his relationships with previous presidents, particularly Ahmadinejad.",
        "简言之，哈梅内伊不会容忍自身权力的削弱，并且决意避免与前任总统、特别是艾哈迈迪内贾德之间的矛盾再次产生。"
    ],
    [
        "In April, the United States Navy announced an experimental program called LOCUST (Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology), which officials promise will “autonomously overwhelm an adversary” and thus “provide Sailors and Marines a decisive tactical advantage.”",
        "4月，美国海军宣布了一项称为LOCUST（低成本无人航空器分蜂技术）的试验计划，官员承诺，该计划将“自主克敌”，从而“为水兵和海军陆战队员带来决定性战术优势”。"
    ],
    [
        "Jettisoning the Manichean rhetoric of that “war” allowed the US to regain the political legitimacy that former President George W. Bush had lost, without diminishing its strategic credibility.",
        "放弃这场对“战争”的摩尼教式的口吻，美国重新赢得了前总统小布什所丢掉的政治合法性，同时又没有降低其战略信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "So it should surprise no one that “containment” is coming to dominate Asian diplomatic discourse.",
        "因此“遏制”策略开始主导亚洲外交领域并不值得大惊小怪。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors’ recognition of these risks may be one driver of capital outflows, meaning that distortionary incentives in the financial system are also contributing to the downward pressure on the exchange rate.",
        "投资者对这一风险的认识或是资本外流的原因之一，这意味着金融系统激励扭曲同时也在给人民币汇率造成贬值压力。"
    ],
    [
        "By this standard, President Barack Obama should now be in a hopeless situation.",
        "从这个标准衡量，奥巴马总统目前应该是连任希望渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "First with Shevarnadze, and now with Saakashvili, popular disillusionment reflects not rejection of democracy, but frustration with its continuing absence.",
        "以前是谢瓦尔德纳泽，现在是萨卡什维利，格鲁吉亚民众的觉醒并不代表拒绝民主，而恰恰是民主的长期缺位使他们感到心灰意冷。"
    ],
    [
        "Are millions of workers headed for the glue factory?",
        "真有数百万计的工人会经历这一命运？"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, warming increases water stress, costing about 0.2% of GDP, and negatively affects ecosystems like wetlands, at a cost of about 0.1%.",
        "2%的损失； 对湿地等生态系统也有消极影响，成本大约为GDP的0."
    ],
    [
        "Mexico’s Paradox of Reform",
        "墨西哥的改革悖论"
    ],
    [
        "But the key issues lingering in the minds of the G-20 leaders will be exchange rates and global imbalances.",
        "不过，萦绕在G-20集团各国领导人大脑里的关键议题依然还是汇率和全球贸易失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain eventually may or may not be relatively better off than other countries by leaving the EU, but its economy and people stand to suffer significantly in the short to medium term.",
        "退出欧盟的英国可能会比其他国家相对状况好一些，也可能差一些，但在短期和中期，其经济和人民必定会蒙受巨大的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The argument should instead be focused on how to get the most effective results out of aid, both for the recipients and for a donor country’s tax-payers. Aid, I believe, is best focused on infrastructure – the bridges, roads, Internet cables, and power stations that will help our economies to grow and allow us to trade more easily with each other.",
        "相反，焦点应集中在怎样使援助发挥最大的效果，既解决受助者的燃眉之急，也无愧于捐助国纳税人的付出。 我认为，基础设施是援助的最佳领域，包括桥梁、道路、网络电缆和发电站，这些设施在推动经济发展的同时，会让我们的相互贸易更加轻松。"
    ],
    [
        "These choices partly reflect pragmatic concerns: all of the financial-engineering schemes that have been proposed to protect Italy and Spain from aggravated borrowing conditions raise legal, political, or governance difficulties.",
        "这些选择都在某种程度上反映了实用主义的观点：所有旨在防止意西两国借债状况恶化的金融推进方案都会引发诸多法律，政治和治理难题。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that people’s preferences, desires, and motivations are not fixed, and thus that well-designed programs or policies can change what is automatic, intuitive, and obvious.",
        "这意味着人们的偏好、欲望和动机并非一成不变，因此精心设计的计划或政策可以改变自然而然的直觉和显著的偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of the IMF, the financing for such liquidity could be counter-cyclical issues of SDRs.",
        "就国际货币基金组织来说，提供这样的流动性的资金来源可以是特别提款权的抗周期发行。"
    ],
    [
        "This persistence is best reflected in the role that Nobel Prize-winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa plays in his native Peru.",
        "曾获诺贝尔奖的小说家马里奥·巴尔加斯·略萨在他的祖国秘鲁所起的作用就是这种持续影响力的最佳代表。"
    ],
    [
        "A key area should be support for teachers, particularly in computer science, especially in middle and high school curricula.",
        "一个关键领域是支持教师，特别是初高中课程中计算机科学方面的教师。"
    ],
    [
        "But now that Donald Trump has been elected to the US presidency, those sanctions might be eased or eliminated.",
        "但如今，特朗普当选美国总统，这些制裁可能松动或取消。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone knows that Greece will be unable to work its way out of crisis without massive debt relief.",
        "希腊人没有大规模债务减免就无法摆脱危机已是不争的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar arguments have been raised again recently.",
        "最近也发生了类似的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, just this summer, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new government sent Vice President Hamid Ansari to Beijing to participate in the treaty’s 60th anniversary celebrations.",
        "但是，就在今年夏天，莫迪总理的新政府还派副总统安萨里（Hamid Ansari）赴北京出席该条约签署60周年庆典。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama should also support India’s membership in key non-proliferation organizations like the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Missile Technology Control Regime.",
        "奥巴马还应该支持印度加入关键的核不扩散组织，如核供应国集团（Nuclear Suppliers Group）和导弹及其技术控制制度（Missile Technology Control Regime）。"
    ],
    [
        "Permanent-status issues concerning borders, the West Bank, Jerusalem, and refugees must be dealt with bilaterally.",
        "与边界、西岸、耶路撒冷和难民相关的永久性地位问题必须通过双边努力才能得以解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet gross public debt had actually increased, to 93.2% of GDP.",
        "但总公共债务实际有所上升，达到GDP的93. 2%。"
    ],
    [
        "All that is left is to restore the fortunes of England’s national football and cricket teams.",
        "剩下一点时间还要重振英格兰足球队和板球队的雄风。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-20 was the great winner of the financial crisis.",
        "G-20是金融危机的大赢家。"
    ],
    [
        "Preventing two million HIV infections each year would be relatively expensive, at $2.5 billion, but would yield benefits twelve times higher.",
        "每年防止两百万艾滋病感染相对便宜，只要25亿美元，但是会产生十二倍更高的效益。"
    ],
    [
        "The party cannot evade demands for a more social Europe and for solutions to weak growth and high unemployment.",
        "人们需要一个更为社会化的欧洲，希望低出生率和高失业率的问题能得到有效解决，这些都是社会党无法逃避的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, surprisingly, many scientists are unaware that loud noises in their animal facilities can affect research outcomes and compromise their data.",
        "然而，令人惊讶的是，许多科学家并不清楚动物生活设施内巨大的噪音会影响研究结果以及得出的数据。"
    ],
    [
        "As environments deteriorate from climate change, toxification, and loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, people will have less time and energy for governance reform aimed at reducing inequality or preserving the environment.",
        "气候变化、毒化，以及生物多样性和生态系统功能的丧失导致环境日益恶化，人们进行旨在减少不平等性或保护环境的治理改革的时间和能量也越来越少。"
    ],
    [
        "There are legitimate fiscal issues that demand serious discussion, including how to control growth in health-care spending and how best to structure tax reform.",
        "需要严肃讨论的正当财政话题不少，包括如何控制医保支出增长和如何使税收改革达到结构最优。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer to that question is likely to be no, which is why Iraq probably will be a much less stable place a year from now.",
        "这个问题的答案很可能是否定的，这就是为什么伊拉克的局势在一年之后很可能远不如现在稳定的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Immigration Challenge",
        "欧洲的移民挑战"
    ],
    [
        "She had the key ideas that led to the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and she helped get that agency on its feet.",
        "消费金融保护局（Consumer Financial Protection Bureau）便是基于她的思想组建的，并在她的帮助下站稳了脚跟。"
    ],
    [
        "As the private sector purchases more of that debt, demand for goods and services falls, creating deflationary pressure.",
        "随着私人部门购买更多的政府债务，商品和服务的需求就会下降，形成通缩压力。"
    ],
    [
        "This might not matter so much had there been a change of government.",
        "如果换了一个政府，这也许不重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But the most compelling reason why one should not expect a renminbi-dominated international finance system to arise anytime soon is that China’s leaders have never shown any sustained commitment to developing the renminbi as a true alternative to the dollar.",
        "但不必期待人民币在不久的将来主导国际金融体系的最令人信服的原因在于中国领导人从未表现出要让人民币成为美元的真正替代品的持久的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "For inevitably, the ordinary men and women who have built modern China will demand to live in a freedom commensurate to their material achievements.",
        "因为任何为建设现代化出了力的普通中国人都无可避免地要求一个与物质文明相称的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "That remains true today.",
        "今天仍然如此。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 200,000 people have died.",
        "超过200，000人死于战乱。"
    ],
    [
        "From an investor’s perspective, the mechanics of this are simple: all are reluctant to hold private or public debt from a country that is vulnerable to redenomination.",
        "从投资者的角度看，这一机制的机理很简单：所有人都不愿意持有可能遭遇重新计价事件的国家的私人和公共债务。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, finance will no longer be an industry that systematically outpaces the rest of the economy.",
        "如果这样的话，金融业的整体表现也不再可能超过其他行业。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Soviet Union weakened, social unrest grew, culminating in the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism throughout Central and Eastern Europe.",
        "随着苏联的日益疲软，社会动荡开始增加，最终导致1989年柏林墙的倒塌和中东欧共产主义的崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps he was giving us a glimpse of more fundamental disagreements on financial regulation at the heart of the administration.",
        "也许他是在向我们暗示，政府核心层对于金融监管问题存在更为根本性的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor should good overall results be permitted to mask problems in particular areas – public procurement, for example, which accounts for between 15% and 20% of Europe’s GDP.",
        "也不能用总体的良好结果来遮掩某些方面的问题—比如，占欧洲GDP15%至20%的公共采购。"
    ],
    [
        "In most parts of China, farming can no longer sustain a respectable standard of living.",
        "在中国的大多数地方，从事农业生产已不能维持合理的生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Clinton announced a major initiative in cooperation with more than 30 organizations, including the MasterCard Foundation, Intel, and Microsoft.",
        "克林顿与30多家机构宣布开展重要合作计划，万事达基金会、英特尔和微软这样大名鼎鼎的机构也身处其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Our rules now encourage investors in infrastructure and other projects with limited foreign earnings to issue Masala bonds (whereby Indian companies can borrow abroad in rupees), or to borrow long term, thereby limiting their risk when the exchange rate moves against them.",
        "现在，我们的规则鼓励外国利润有限的基础设施和其他项目的投资者发行玛萨拉债券（印度公司向海外筹集卢比债务）或进行长期借贷，从而在汇率不利于它们时遏制风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The more cautious Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence has set up a special panel to study what it calls “the potential for loss of human control of computer-based intelligences.”",
        "对此态度更为审慎的人工智能发展联合会则成立了一个特别小组，专门研究其所谓的“计算机智能摆脱人类控制的潜在可能性”。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a positive development from a firm-level, partial-equilibrium perspective; but it may not be if one considers laid-off workers’ wellbeing and the general-equilibrium implications for society.",
        "从企业层面的局部均衡角度，改革是积极的； 但如果从被裁员工的福祉和对社会的一般均衡影响的角度看未必如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Directorate-General of Associations has been charged with the task of renovating houses of worship used by religious minorities, including the historic Aya Nikola Church in Gökçeada Çanakkale, and the Assyrian Catholic Church and Greek Catholic Church in Iskenderun.",
        "另外，社团组织主管被赋予了翻新宗教少数派祈祷场所的重任，包括Gökçeada Çanakkale地区历史悠久的Aya Nikola教堂，还有伊斯肯德仑市的亚述人天主教堂和希腊天主教堂。"
    ],
    [
        "As these economies grow, so will others throughout the region and beyond.",
        "在这些经济体增长的同时，域内外的其他经济体也在增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Usually, we would expect the others to have an interest in more market discipline.",
        "通常我们可以预期这些“其他”参与者更乐于推行更多的市场纪律。"
    ],
    [
        "Inflation, a major threat to the economy until recently, is down under the guidance of the Reserve Bank of India’s governor, Raghuram Rajan.",
        "此前构成经济主要威胁之一的通货膨胀在印度储备银行行长拉詹（Raghuram Rajan）的指引下有所降低。"
    ],
    [
        "Bureaucratic entrepreneurs, on the other hand, take advantage of such opportunities to adjust and promote policies.",
        "但另一方面，官僚体系中企业家式的人物会借助这些机会调整和促进政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Populist anti-euro parties of the right and the left are challenging Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.",
        "左翼和右翼民粹主义反欧元政党正在挑战意大利总理伦齐。"
    ],
    [
        "The model for Charter 08 was Czechoslovakia’s Charter 77.",
        "零八宪章建立在捷克斯洛伐克的七七宪章模式基础之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the coup, coming just one year after the formation of an elected government – and just a few months after then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Morsi to mark the end of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip – could give rise to great frustration among Islamists across the region.",
        "反之，当选政府组成不到一年——距离时任美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿与穆尔西会面、标志以色列和加沙地带哈马斯结束敌对状态更是只有几个月——就爆发政变将给整个地区的伊斯兰教徒带来深深的挫败感。"
    ],
    [
        "But wars often beget more wars, or longer ones.",
        "但一场战争往往会引发更多或者更持久的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "But dismissing inflation as “yesterday’s problem” could undermine central banks’ efforts to address today’s most pressing issues – and, ultimately, facilitate inflation’s resurgence.",
        "但将通胀视为“昨天的问题”而不予关注不利于央行解决当今最紧迫的问题，也将最终助长通胀的卷土重来。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world’s only victim of a nuclear attack, Japan’s allergy to radiation is stronger than anywhere else.",
        "作为全世界仅有的一次核打击的受害者，日本人对辐射的厌恶比其他任何国家都要大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "At the peak month for the stock market before the 1929 crash, volatility was only 2.8%.",
        "在1929年崩盘之前股市的高点月，波动值只有2. 8％。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia and East European countries on the periphery of the euro were tied much more to the euro; but when the Russian market collapsed, the effect on the dollar was the same, because the Russian central bank had overbought euros and had to sell them to defend the ruble.",
        "处于欧元区周边的俄罗斯和东欧国家与欧元的联系更为密切。 但是，当俄罗斯市场崩溃的时候，对美元的影响是一样的，因为俄罗斯中央银行购买了大量欧元，现在他们不得不抛售这些欧元来维护卢布。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Europeans appear to be embracing nationalism, balkanization, divergence, and disintegration.",
        "相反，欧洲人似乎更欢迎民族主义，巴尔干化，分歧和分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial markets are vulnerable to manipulation, because they are not in the business of evaluating the truth.",
        "金融市场容易被操纵，因为他们不评价真相。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the deflationary impact of a stronger currency – and the Fed’s general intolerance of deflation – there is good reason to believe that the Fed will exercise caution in raising interest rates.",
        "考虑到更强势货币所带来的通货紧缩影响—美联储一般不会容忍通缩—有充分的理由相信，美联储将再加息上保持谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "But the IASB has spawned other committees to oversee auditing.",
        "但IASB衍生出其他监督审计的委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "Households in US cities received mortgages in 2006 that they could never hope to repay, while taxpayers never dreamed that they would be called on to bail out the lenders.",
        "2006年，美国各大城市的家庭获得了他们根本无力偿还的按揭，而纳税人从未想过他们会被要求出手援助贷款人。"
    ],
    [
        "Reserves of member banks at Fed were $256 million more than required in 1932; $528 million in 1933, $1.6 billion in 1934, $2.6 billion in 1936.”",
        "56亿美元，1933年为5. 28亿美元，1934年上升到16亿美元，最后在1936年堆积到26亿。"
    ],
    [
        "At the start of 2002, a fragile 1994 agreement between the US and North Korea was still restraining the North’s efforts to develop nuclear weapons, though the US had dragged its feet on several parts of the agreement.",
        "2002年初，脆弱的1994年美朝协定仍能够约束朝鲜开发核武器的动作，尽管美国对协定内容的落实一直拖拖拉拉。"
    ],
    [
        "Gohē’s quick leadership and sacrifice saved all of the villagers.",
        "Gohē迅速的带头和牺牲成功地挽救村民的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "So why not complete the picture?",
        "那么为何不干脆一蹴而就呢？"
    ],
    [
        "HIV presents perhaps the greatest challenge, because the virus leverages its extensive genetic variability to hide from the immune system.",
        "HIV大概是最大的挑战，因为这种病毒利用其多种多样的遗传变异而不被免疫系统所识别。"
    ],
    [
        "They are not “good” simply because the West is backing them; but they are, in any case, infinitely better than the forces they are resisting.",
        "并不是西方支持他们他们就“好”； 但无论如何他们比各自的竞争对手好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, the problem of how to divide the eventual bill when things became costly was not addressed, and the problem of excessive debt was wished away by the establishment of convergence criteria (which were not fully implemented anyway).",
        "出现危机时最终偿债责任如何划分的问题当时并没有解决，而过度负债问题则通过制定欧元趋同标准（反正该标准也没有全面实施）只当不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "But as health expenses start taking up a third of national income, healthcare socialism starts becoming just plain Marxism: to each according to his needs.",
        "但是，随着医疗费用占据国民收入的三分之一的时候，医疗社会主义开始成为赤裸裸的各取所需的马克思主义了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the US effort merely widened the divide on security issues within Pakistani– a situation that serves no one’s interests.",
        "事实上，美国的做法仅仅扩大了巴基斯坦人在安全事务中的分歧——这种情况不符合任何人的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the claims of inefficiency and waste.",
        "想想效率低下与浪费的诉求吧。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while these policies have reduced inequalities in some social and economic outcomes, including income, housing quality, and health-care access, they have been insufficient to eliminate health inequalities.",
        "但是，尽管这些政策在一些社会和经济结果中降低了不平等性（包括收入、住房质量和卫生服务等方面），它们仍不足以消除健康不平等性。"
    ],
    [
        "We were bluffing, but our bluff worked.",
        "我们的声势造得很大，但我们的声势起了作用。"
    ],
    [
        "They are helped in this effort by the rapid deepening of China’s skills and technology base.",
        "这方面，中国迅速深化的技能和技术帮了大忙。"
    ],
    [
        "Global financial stability, too, can be strengthened within the existing framework.",
        "全球金融稳定也可以在当前框架中得到加强。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fact that his administration has chosen to default on 30 million Venezuelans, rather than on Wall Street, is not a sign of its moral rectitude. It is a signal of its moral bankruptcy.",
        "但他的政府选择向3,000万委内瑞拉人民而不是华尔街违约这一事实绝非其道德正直的标志，而是其道德破产的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "Genocide makes other crimes seem less important.",
        "种族灭绝似乎令其他罪行相形见绌。"
    ],
    [
        "It has been obvious for some years that the “actually existing EMU” has been a costly failure, both economically and politically.",
        "多年来，很明显“实际存在的欧洲货币联盟”是一个代价昂贵的失败，不管在经济上还是在政治上都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The GDP derived from the ocean amounts to $2.5 trillion, or 5% of the world’s total GDP.",
        "海洋国内产值高达2. 5万亿美元，占全世界GDP总量的5%。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is not what these provisions are about.",
        "但这些协定中的条款与此无关。"
    ],
    [
        "My ministry has worked with the international community, especially UNICEF and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, as well as international donors like the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the World Bank, to develop the strategy we call Reaching All Children with Education (RACE).",
        "我的部门与国际社会——特别是联合国儿童基金会（UNICEF）、联合国难民事务高级委员会（United Nations High Commission for Refugees）以及欧盟、英国和世界银行等国际出资人——合作发展了我们称之为有教无类计划（Reaching All Children with Education，RACE）的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Academics spend considerable energy freely disseminating their research findings.",
        "研究人员花费了大量的时间精力，无偿地传播自己的研究成果。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, which will hold a general election in 2017, support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is on the rise, exemplified in the party’s strong showing in recent state elections.",
        "德国将在2017年举行大选，如今，极右翼的德国另类党（AfD）正在崛起，在最近的州选举中表现抢眼就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "But Burma’s generals will have little incentive to opt for an alternative to bloodshed and repression if China continues to provide them with support and protection against sanctions at the UN Security Council.",
        "但是如果中国继续给他们提供支持以及保护他们免受联合国安理会的制裁，缅甸的将军们几不太可能选择流血镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "Women are truly the motors of Africa’s economies.",
        "女性的确是非洲经济的引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, it is frequently said that the average household income has risen only slightly, or not at all, for the past few decades.",
        "比如，人们常说，过去几十年来平均家庭收入增长十分缓慢（甚至停滞不前）。"
    ],
    [
        "A more useful definition of cyber waris hostile action in cyberspace whose effects amplify or are equivalent to major physical violence.",
        "网络战争更为有用的定义是网络空间中发生的敌对行动，其所产生的影响放大或者等同于严重身体暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "But is it proportional?",
        "但是，这是成比例的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Then, with 100 million people, it represented 20% of the world’s population.",
        "当时的欧洲有一亿人，占世界人口的20%。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve her goal, she prefers to emphasize her “essence,” thereby countering Sarkozy’s stress on his record as a “doer.”",
        "为了达到这一目的，她更愿意强调自己的“本质”，并以此来对抗萨尔柯齐的所谓“实干家”履历。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Bolivia is not alone: the shift from military rule to democratic politics in Latin America during the past 20 years is gradually, fitfully, but consistently, broadening political empowerment beyond the traditional elites and dominant ethnic groups.",
        "不仅如此，玻利维亚也不是什么特例：过去20年来，拉丁美洲从军事统治向民主政治的过渡虽然缓慢、却从未间断，把政治权力交付给了除传统上的精英阶层和优势种族以外的更广泛的群体。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not clear how that increase in innovation will be achieved.",
        "但尚不清楚的是如何实现创新的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has begun to talk about a Bretton Woods II that would give a bigger voice to Asia in the world’s great multilateral financial and economic institutions, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked that China help the West during these difficult times.",
        "英国首相布朗已经开始谈论新的布雷顿森林体系。 这一体系将会在世界重要多变金融和经济机制中赋予亚洲更大的发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "Because immigrants participate in America’s economic and political arenas, Americans are used to different sorts of people and so distinguish those differences that might damage the country from those that will not.",
        "因为移民参与到美国经济和政治的领域，美国人习惯于不同种类的人以及那些可能会损害这个国家与那些不会损害这个国家的意见之间如此鲜明的差异。"
    ],
    [
        "In another, a man who appears to have gotten into the enclosure at night, when Sea World was closed, was found dead in the pool with Tilly.",
        "在另一幕里，一位男士似乎在某个晚上闯进了已经关门的海洋世界游乐园，后来被发现死在了 Tilly 所呆的那个池子里。"
    ],
    [
        "I see the army of the Cross in our land,",
        "我看见十字军出现在我们的土地上，"
    ],
    [
        "As parliamentary and presidential elections loom, everyone wants to figure out just what he is up to.",
        "在国会和总统选举即将到来之际，所有人都在揣测他究竟意在何为。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixteen years ago, business as usual meant almost no treatment of poor people with AIDS, because financing was not available.",
        "十六年前，一切照旧意味着对贫穷的艾滋病人几乎不予治疗，因为没钱。"
    ],
    [
        "This left the regime to choose between using force to quell the growing resistance or cutting its losses.",
        "政府不得不在两难之间做出抉择：是使用武力镇压不断上扬的抵抗情绪，还是降低他们的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The microfinance industry began in the 1980’s in Bangladesh with the non-profit Grameen Bank and BRAC Bank.",
        "小额信贷发轫于20世纪80年代的孟加拉国，由非盈利的格莱珉银行（Grameen Bank）和BRAC银行发起。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine, for example, that EU leaders endorsed Denmark’s recent proposal to allow national governments to differentiate between welfare payments to citizens and recent immigrants, or that it extended to all of Europe the Swiss plan for an “emergency brake” against sudden immigration surges.",
        "比如，想象一下欧盟领导人认可丹麦的最新方案，允许国家政府区别对待本国公民和新近移民的福利支付，或者，想象一下将瑞士“紧急叫停”移民激增的计划推广到全欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – One hundred years after the start of World War I, the world has been commemorating that seminal event.",
        "新德里——第一次世界大战爆发一百年后，世界各国都在纪念这一开创性事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Wolfowitz’s pre-Bank claim to fame was his role as an architect of the Iraq war, arguably one of the greatest strategic debacles since Napoleon’s invasion of Russia.",
        "让沃尔福威茨入主世行的主要功绩是一手制造了伊拉克战争，虽然现在仍有争论，但这场战争被视为自拿破仑入侵俄国之后最严重的战略失败。"
    ],
    [
        "While the UN system is far from perfect, the world would be a poorer and more disorderly place without it.",
        "虽然联合国的体系远非完美，但没有它这个世界将会更加贫穷和混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "SAN FRANCISCO – New technologies are emerging so rapidly that societies in the Middle East are now having trouble coping with their impact.",
        "旧金山——新技术涌现速度如此之快，以至于我们无法面对它们对社会造成的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Netherlands, a newly rich class of real-estate moguls backed the right-wing populist Pim Fortuyn and his cruder successor, Geert Wilders.",
        "在荷兰，一帮新贵地产大佬支持信奉右翼民粹主义的皮姆·福图纳及其更粗俗的继任者威尔德斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump won the US presidency partly because of his pledges to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and ban Muslims from entering the country.",
        "特朗普当选美国总统部分因为他承诺驱逐数百万无证移民并禁止穆斯林进入美国。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a precedent for this argument: Hezbollah described the destruction of Beirut’s southern suburbs in exactly these terms at the end of the Lebanon War in July 2006.",
        "这样的观点有一个先例可考：在2006年6月份黎巴嫩战争结束的时候，真主党将贝鲁特南部郊区遭到破坏，正是用这样的语言加以解释的。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Writing about oil prices is always risky.",
        "发自伦敦——撰写关于油价的文章向来都是有风险的。"
    ],
    [
        "Lower interest rates, for example, would free up money so that even countries with tight budget constraints could spend more on growth-enhancing investments.",
        "比如，更低的利率能够挤出钱来让那些即使是预算吃紧的国家也能花更多的钱用于投资促进经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "In the midst of political, social, and institutional vulnerabilities, as well as the vast damage to human and physical infrastructure that are the legacy of conflict, this is a monumental task.",
        "在政治、社会以及机制乱局中，以及冲突所留下的对人力和实物基础设施的巨大破坏的情况下，实现这一点就异常艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "Its relations with the West – and with the United States in particular – have frayed in the turmoil unleashed in the Middle East and North Africa by the Arab Spring.",
        "它与西方的关系——特别是与美国的关系——因为阿拉伯之春所引发的中东和北美动荡而受损。"
    ],
    [
        "The most remarkable media story of 2017 may have been how Trump inadvertently made newspapers great again.",
        "2017年最引人瞩目的媒体故事也许是特朗普如何无心插柳地让报纸重新伟大。"
    ],
    [
        "If policymakers are not careful, two problems, in particular, can reinforce each other, potentially pushing the economy over the precipice.",
        "如果决策者不够谨慎，那么特别是有两个问题可能互相强化，有可能导致经济脱轨。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the following scenario: Ten-year survival rates for the four groups are 70%, 71%, 80%, and 82%, respectively, and the proportion of people developing troublesome side effects is 1%, 2%, 5%, and 50%.",
        "考虑以下情形：四个组别的十年存活率分别为70%、71%、80%和82%，并且出现棘手副作用的人数比例分别为1%、2%、5%和50%。"
    ],
    [
        "Any new threats to the Bank of England’s independence, in particular, could provoke a reckoning from the market.",
        "特别是任何对英格兰银行独立地位的新威胁可能导致市场重新审视英镑。"
    ],
    [
        "Was she prescient about the problems of European monetary union, or did she leave Britain isolated on the fringes of the continent?",
        "她是对欧洲货币联盟的问题有着先见之明，还是让英国孤立于大陆边缘之外？"
    ],
    [
        "Dictating the direction of the policy discourse is no longer Europe’s role.",
        "规定政策的制定方向已经不是欧洲的能力范围了。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue is of little importance.",
        "这个问题根本无关紧要。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin vowed to revive the moral fiber of the Russians, their glory and international respect.",
        "普京发誓要恢复俄国人的道德基础、其荣耀以及国际尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "Private businesses would develop, jobs would be created, and incomes would rise.",
        "私人企业将会得以发展，工作岗位将得以产生，人们的收入将得以提高。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now a wizened and humiliated husk of a party.",
        "现在该党只剩下一个衰落而耻辱的外壳。"
    ],
    [
        "In international relations, to be humiliated means more than to be embarrassed.",
        "在国际关系中，受辱要比难堪意义还要重大。"
    ],
    [
        "His propensity for glamorous women and glitzy homes somehow enhanced his popular appeal.",
        "他喜欢追求豪宅和美女在某种程度上增强了他对民众的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of Chile’s cautious fiscal strategy, the country has a national debt that amounts to only 16% of GDP – and a sovereign debt rating that is the highest in South America.",
        "在谨慎财政策略之下，该国国家负债额只相当于GDP的16％——主权债务评级也是南美是最高的。"
    ],
    [
        "A Saudi prince’s status is based on his mother’s tribe and his alliances with other male royals.",
        "沙特王子的地位由母亲所属部族以及他和其他男性皇室成员的结盟关系决定。"
    ],
    [
        "From a financial perspective, it should provide adequate funding for projects of national and regional significance, and use its financial leverage to overcome obstacles and enforce best practices.",
        "并推动州和地方政府取消官僚繁文缛节和代价高昂的内讧。 从金融角度，联邦政府应该提供足够的资金给具有全国和地区重要性的项目，并利用其金融杠杆克服障碍、执行最佳实践。"
    ],
    [
        "This might seem surprising, because most countries south of the Río Bravo (known to North Americans as the Rio Grande) moved from right-wing dictatorship to democracy in the 1980’s and 1990’s.",
        "这可能令人惊奇，因为在20世纪八九十年代，大部分布拉沃河（Rio Bravo，北美称为格兰德河，Rio Grande）以南国家从右翼独裁过渡到民主。"
    ],
    [
        "Charity responds to attention-grabbing events, often neglecting less sensational disasters.",
        "而慈善活动只对那些众人关注的事件有所反应，对于那些非爆炸性的灾难通常忽略不顾。"
    ],
    [
        "This acceleration would place India among the world’s fastest-growing large economies and increase the number of Indian consumers who can afford discretionary items from 27 million in 2012 to 89 million in 2025.",
        "如此经济加速将让印度成为世界增长最快的大经济体之一，并让有能力随意消费的印度人数量从2012年的2,700万增加到2025年的8,900万。"
    ],
    [
        "Art also functions as a store of value.",
        "艺术也有保值的功能。"
    ],
    [
        "There remain many good reasons for investors to take a chance on Africa’s frontier markets.",
        "投资者有许多理由在非洲前沿市场上进行冒险。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, a new, clearly defined approach to industrial policy is still missing.",
        "不幸的是，日本仍没有定义明确的新的产业政策方针。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason to assume that this cycle will be any different.",
        "人们没有理由假定这一次周期会有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the Middle East is at risk of becoming the Balkans of the twenty-first century – a decline into regional chaos that began with, and was largely the result of, the US-led invasion ten years ago.",
        "中东也因此有可能沦为二十一世纪的巴尔干——陷入到十年前以美国为首侵略所造成的区域动荡之中。"
    ],
    [
        "The purchase of government bonds is explicitly authorized by the EU Treaty.",
        "购买政府债券是欧盟条约明文允许的。"
    ],
    [
        "Isn’t any plan better than none?",
        "是否只要有计划总比没有要好？"
    ],
    [
        "He has turned the Center into a force.",
        "他已经将中间派转变成为一支力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Do they intend to give foreign athletes paper bags stuffed with dollars as a welcoming present at the Olympic village?)",
        "他们将给外国运动员塞满美元的大纸袋作为来到奥运村的欢迎礼物吗？ ）"
    ],
    [
        "For it to be useful, believers in scarce oil must be able to predict such things as the timing of the oil peak, the state of demand when oil production reaches it, and the pattern of decline.",
        "如果想令预言有意义，这些石油恐慌论者们必须同样预言石油生产顶峰到来的时间，那时候的能源需求状况，以及产量的下滑模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than pursue proven solutions – leaving fossil fuels in the ground, moving away from industrial agriculture toward agro-ecology, creating no-waste economies, and restoring natural ecosystems – we are counting on some miraculous innovation to save us, deus ex machina, just in the nick of time.",
        "我们不仅没有推行成熟的解决方案——即将化石燃料留在地下、从农业产业化转向农业生态化、创建零废物经济及恢复自然生态系统——反而指望某些神奇的创新能在关键时刻神使鬼差地救我们于水火。"
    ],
    [
        "But what is the natural level?",
        "”但什么是自然水平？"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, despite calls by frontline Mediterranean states to establish systems to improve the handling of the crisis and share the burden, little is being done to make things safer for refugees or more manageable for the countries in which they arrive.",
        "此外，尽管有人呼吁地中海沿岸国家建立制度以改善危机处理、共同承担难民负担，但让难民更加安全、在接受国中更加易于管理的措施极少。"
    ],
    [
        "In these countries, oligarchs and the organized underworld have not captured the state; rather, an organized “upperworld” of elites have captured the economy, including the oligarchs themselves.",
        "在这些国家，寡头和有组织的黑社会未能窃取国家；"
    ],
    [
        "According to the UN resident coordinator, there has been a quick airlift and supply of materials – such as the well-known “School in a Box,” a pre-packaged educational kit suitable for teaching up to 40 children, Early Childhood Development Kit, and Recreation Kits – for displaced boys and girls.",
        "按照联合国驻地协调员的说法，联合国组织了快速空运和物资供给——尽人皆知的“箱式学校”就是个例子。 这是一种预先打包好、可以容纳40名儿童同时上课的教育套件，此外还有为流离失所的男孩和女孩准备的早期儿童开发和休闲娱乐套件。"
    ],
    [
        "Mental health services around the world are largely based on the assumption that being upset or disoriented is a sort of condition like medical illnesses.",
        "全世界的精神健康服务都基于这样一个假设：即心神烦躁和混乱是一种和生理疾病一样的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "But greater dependence on networked computers and communication leaves the US more vulnerable to attack than many other countries, and cyberspace has become a major source of insecurity, because, at this stage of technological development, offense prevails over defense there.",
        "但对联网计算机和通讯的更多依赖致使美国比其他许多国家更容易受到攻击，且网络空间已成为不安全的主要发源地，因为在目前的技术发展阶段，进攻显然比防守更具优势。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s neighbors have proved this often enough, welcoming the overthrow of elected governments in popular coups.",
        "印度的邻国一再证明了这一点，用民变推翻当选政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the secrecy that attends all things “nuclear” has left people not knowing enough to feel confident.",
        "此外，“核”问题的神秘感让人们无法了解足够的信息，因此自信心也很难建立。"
    ],
    [
        "It remains true that Stalin led his country to victory in war, and to a position of global power that it had not held before and from which it has since fallen.",
        "尽管如此，斯大林领导苏联赢得了战争，并领导苏联获得了此前从未有过的全球超级大国地位（后来也衰落了）。"
    ],
    [
        "Abedi’s barbaric act, by contrast, killed at least 22 people, many of them children.",
        "相反，阿贝迪的野蛮行径至少造成22人死亡，其中许多还是儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, rival financial centers such as Paris and Frankfurt would seize the chance to establish rules that would help them win back business from London.",
        "与此同时，作为竞争对手的金融中心，如巴黎和法兰克福，将抓住机会制定有助于它们从伦敦夺回业务的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "The Union has also been a bearer of prosperity, because it is an effective mechanism for lagging members to surmount long-standing barriers to development.",
        "欧盟已经成为了繁荣富裕的传达者，因为它是帮助落后成员国克服发展过程中长期障碍的一个有效机制。"
    ],
    [
        "At the height of the global crisis in 2009, many low-income countries experienced a slowdown in growth marked by falling exports, lower remittances from expatriate workers, and subdued foreign investment.",
        "2009年全球危机处于顶峰时，许多低收入国家经历了因出口下降、侨民寄回外汇减少以及外国投资出逃所造成的增长减速。"
    ],
    [
        "It is at such moments that we demonstrate our ability – or lack of it – to confront the unexplained, the unplanned, and the unfathomable.",
        "这样的时刻正是我们证明我们面对无法解释的、计划外的、深不可测的能力——或证明我们欠缺这种能力——的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany, Europe, and Russia",
        "德国，欧洲和俄罗斯"
    ],
    [
        "The head of a Rajput organization, the Karni Sena, claimed to be her direct descendent.",
        "拉吉普特组织Karni Sena首脑自称是她的直系后裔。"
    ],
    [
        "Aided by digital technologies, they are advancing their own interest in earning more, while benefiting from more flexible working arrangements.",
        "受助于数字技术，他们能够实现赚更多钱的理想，同时也从更灵活的工作安排中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai publicly said that the war was intended “to teach India a lesson.”",
        "中国总理周恩来公开宣称此次战争的目的是要给印度“一个教训”。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1932, when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was established, it adopted Wahhabism – a school of Sunni Islam – as its official creed.",
        "1932年，沙特阿拉伯王国建立时将逊尼派伊斯兰教的一个派别——阿拉维派立为国教。"
    ],
    [
        "The accelerator explanation of the shortfall in business investment in the US is consistent with evidence that, where projected demand growth has been relatively strong – for example, in cable, telecommunications, digital platforms, social networking, and, until recently, energy – investment growth has also been relatively strong.",
        "美国商业投资短缺的加速器解释与证据一致。 证据表明，预测的需求增长相对强势的部门——比如在电缆、通讯、数字平台、社交网络以及直到最近的能源等——投资增长也相对强势。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, however, the share of imports has decreased, and it should continue to do so.",
        "不过，至此以后，进口比重便有所降低，未来仍将维持这一趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "In any event, the matter cannot rest where it is.",
        "无论如何，这件事都不能照目前的方式继续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "This would lower the marginal productivity of hours worked sufficiently to offset the positive effects of increasing the number of hours per worker.",
        "它将会降低高效工作的每小时边际生产力，抵消掉增加每小时工人人数所带来的积极影响。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why interest-rate spreads in the eurozone periphery are widening again now.",
        "这就是为何欧元区外围国利差再度上升的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "By some estimates, life on Earth has never been so diverse.",
        "有人估计地球上的生命从未如此多样化。"
    ],
    [
        "But Obama alone does not have the power to stanch the HTF’s bleeding or to reverse years of underinvestment.",
        "但仅靠奥巴马不足以止住公路信托基金的失血状况或扭转多年来的投资不足情况。"
    ],
    [
        "But when the sharp run-up in equity prices turned into a bubble that subsequently burst with a vengeance in 2000, the Fed moved aggressively to avoid a Japan-like outcome – a prolonged period of asset deflation that might trigger a lasting balance-sheet recession.",
        "但当股票狂飙突进转变为泡沫并随后在2000年轰然破灭，美联储大力避免日本式的结果——可能导致持久资产负债表衰退的漫长的资产通缩。"
    ],
    [
        "While none of these problems should be minimized, they are unlikely to trigger a hard landing.",
        "尽管上述任何问题都不容小觑，但它们引发经济硬着陆的可能性不大。"
    ],
    [
        "But, since the March 2011 triple-meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, the pace of the decline has accelerated significantly.",
        "但是，自2011年日本福岛第一核电站的三座反应堆出事故以来，其衰落速度大大加速了。"
    ],
    [
        "Such spending can be put to many good uses.",
        "这些支出可以用在很多很好的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "The three possible outcomes of all this include a relatively stable multi-speed world, notable disruptions that undermine the US’s economic recovery, and a European revival that benefits from US growth.",
        "所有这些因素的三个可能结果包括相对稳定的多速世界、破坏美国经济复苏的大扰动，以及得益于美国增长的欧洲复兴。"
    ],
    [
        "But his argument that China plays by different economic rules than everyone else is not far from the truth.",
        "但他提出中国与别国实行不同的经济规则却比较接近于真相。"
    ],
    [
        "The reaction has been predictable breast-beating about the inefficiency of India’s government services (particularly in rural areas), the country’s woeful standards of hygiene, and inattentive implementation of even flagship national schemes by the country’s 28 state governments.",
        "反应不难预测——对政府服务（特别在农村地区）效率低下、糟糕的国家卫生标准以及28个邦政府对印度最重要的全国计划的实施不力的口诛笔伐。"
    ],
    [
        "For many, however, this was not enough.",
        "但是，对许多人来说，有这些仍然不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Expect further upward revisions as the government continues to be surprised by the economy’s ongoing strength.",
        "4%。 我想随着政府面对经济强劲的上升势头，他们还会对经济增长预期继续往上调整。"
    ],
    [
        "In many regions, a higher proportion of girls than boys enroll in primary school.",
        "很多地区上小学的女孩比例比男孩还高。"
    ],
    [
        "Tariff protection may not be bad macroeconomic policy in a liquidity trap.",
        "关税保护或许并非流动性陷阱条件下的坏宏观经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to move beyond the system that gave us the crisis – a financial sector in which some, as the ancient Greeks might say, toyed with hubris and unleashed nemesis.",
        "我们需要将造成危机的体制甩在身后——正如古希腊人所说，金融界一小撮人的傲慢招来了报应。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gulf States’ Widening Gulf",
        "海湾国家变宽的海湾"
    ],
    [
        "The West needs Russian cooperation in dealing with issues like nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea, the control of nuclear materials and weapons, combating the current wave of radical Islamist terrorism, and energy production and security.",
        "西方需要俄罗斯在处理像伊朗和朝鲜的核扩散、核材料和核武器的控制、与目前的激进伊斯兰恐怖主义浪潮的斗争、能源生产以及安全的问题进行合作。"
    ],
    [
        "As historian David Fromkin shows in his recent book Europe's Last Summer , von Moltke feared that Russia was gaining too much industrial strength, and that in a few years Russia could withstand a war with Germany.",
        "就象历史学家戴维·弗罗姆金（David Fromkin）在他的新书《欧洲的最后一个夏天》里说的，毛奇害怕俄罗斯的工业实力过于强大，在今后的几年时间里可以在战争中与德国抗衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Maintaining consumption at as high a level as possible is vital to reviving economic activity, which means that freeing money for consumers to spend is just as important.",
        "将消费维持在尽可能高的水平对于重振经济活动至关重要，这意味着创造条件让消费者自由消费同等重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Most importantly, the future of the conflict and the chances for genuine peace in the region will depend on understanding the limits of offensive military power, defensive resistance, and unilateralism.",
        "最为重要的是，巴以冲突的未来和真正实现地区和平的机遇将会取决于人们是否了解进攻性军事力量、防御性自卫和单边主义各自的局限。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the decision to intervene was taken, France, with the largest armed forces in the Mediterranean, alas became the most visible of the intervening countries – with few others capable of joining it, the United Kingdom, and the United States.",
        "一旦下达了军事介入的决定，法国这个在地中海地区的第一军事强国就成为了介入国中最引人注目的国家——别忘了还有英美等其他有能力介入的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, like most developing countries, China remains an “immature creditor” that lends mainly in dollars; and if it needed to borrow in international markets, it would have to issue most of its debt in dollars, not renminbi.",
        "事实上，和大部分发展中国家一样，中国仍然是“不成熟的债权人”，主要用美元贷款； 而如果它需要从国际市场上借钱，大部分债务也必须用美元而不是人民币发行。"
    ],
    [
        "But the overall picture remains fragile.",
        "但整体状况依然脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "When Hu’s predecessor, Jiang Zemin, traveled to Japan ten years ago, bilateral relations were deteriorating: China was unhappy with the Japanese government’s refusal to extend the same apology offered to South Korea for past aggression; Japan was worried about a rising China and thus turning more confrontational.",
        "当胡的前任江泽民10年前访问日本时，双边关系正在迅速恶化：中国对日本政府拒绝对过去的侵略行为向中国和韩国同样致歉深感不满，而日本则对中国的崛起充满了忧虑，也因此滋长了对立情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "With one billion people living in high-income countries, total aid in 2010 amounted to around $27 per person in the donor countries – a modest sum for them, but a life-saving one for the world’s poorest people.",
        "约10亿人口生活在高收入国家中，2010年的援助总额意味着他们人均贡献了27美元——对他们来说算不了什么，但对最贫困人口来说足以救命。"
    ],
    [
        "In the interview, Koons said that the Jim Beam work “used the metaphors of luxury to define class structure.”",
        "在这次访谈中，库恩斯说占边·波本作品“用奢侈品的隐喻定义阶级结构”。"
    ],
    [
        "This clearly indicates that Japan should not proceed with another large increase in the consumption tax.",
        "这显然表明日本不应该再度大幅提高消费税。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, says Goodhart, immigrants do not have to abandon their traditions completely, but “there is such a thing as society,” and if they make no effort to join it, native citizens will find it hard to consider them part of the “imagined community.”",
        "当然，古德哈特说，移民不必完全放弃自己的传统，但“有一个叫做社会的东西，”如果他们不努力加入其中，本土公民就很难将他们视为“想象的共同体”的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "In a wide-ranging speech at the Sorbonne in September, French President Emmanuel Macron injected new energy into EU policymaking in this area.",
        "法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙9月在巴黎索邦大学上发表一场引发了广泛影响的讲话，为欧盟在这一领域的决策注入了新的活力。"
    ],
    [
        "The car explosion occurred the day after we rebuked Armenia’s Police Chief.",
        "这场汽车爆炸就发生在我们发文谴责亚美尼亚警察局局长的第二天。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus that is suppressed by acute and chronic stress is elevated by many antidepressant treatments.",
        "例如，齿状回中因急性或慢性压力而受到抑制的神经元的生成，在经过多种抗抑郁药治疗后得以提高。"
    ],
    [
        "They have also become disobedient.",
        "他们也变得不停从调遣。"
    ],
    [
        "Jordan, with a population of 6.5 million, has taken in nearly 700,000.",
        "人口650万的约旦接受了近700,000人。"
    ],
    [
        "And the economies and societies of frontline states like Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, already under severe stress from absorbing millions of such refugees, face even greater risks.",
        "黎巴嫩、约旦和土耳其等前沿国家已经不堪吸收数百万难民的重负，其经济和社会面临着更大的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite Novartis’s large production capacity, donor agencies have failed to order, buy, and ship the medicines in the required amounts.",
        "可尽管该公司产能巨大，但捐助机构却没有能够预订、购买和运送足够量的药物。"
    ],
    [
        "The choice of venue was, of course, steeped in irony. Musharraf did not uphold the Gladstonian tradition while he was in office for almost nine years, from October 1999 to August 2008.",
        "巴基斯坦前总统佩尔韦兹·穆沙拉夫决定要重返巴基斯坦政坛，尽管尚未回到巴基斯坦。"
    ],
    [
        "The forum’s theme was undoubtedly selected partly in response to fears that technological advances will lead to widespread unemployment, as machines become advanced enough to replace humans in performing an increasing number of tasks.",
        "随着机器能代替人执行越来越多的任务，担心技术进步将导致大规模失业无疑在一定程度上影响了论坛主题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the news from Iraq before the storm was bad and hasn’t gotten better.",
        "但飓风发生前伊拉克的状况非常不好，而且丝毫没有好转的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative option can be observed in Zimbabwe.",
        "其他选择可以看看津巴布韦。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the path on which both countries have embarked was not Lee’s path.",
        "但泰国和马来西亚所走的道路绝非李光耀的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1996 match, Deep Blue stunned the champion by beating him in the first game. But Kasparov quickly adjusted to exploit the computer’s weakness in long-term strategic planning, where his judgment and intuition seemed to trump the computer’s mechanical counting.",
        "尽管很特殊，但计算机象棋只不过是提供了一个硅革新的视窗以及人类如何去适应这种视窗的晴雨表。"
    ],
    [
        "This threat took a heavy toll on the ECB’s credibility, since an interest-rate hike in the midst of the most serious financial crisis in decades was obviously absurd.",
        "这一威胁使ECB的公信力大打折扣，因为在面临数十年来最为严重的金融危机的情况下大幅提升利率是明显不合时宜的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is easy to be skeptical that his example will spur a new wave of early retirements to run philanthropies.",
        "他的这一榜样之举是否会引发提前退休并经营慈善组织的浪潮还是令人怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "China implemented the policies that engineered history’s greatest poverty eradication program prior to, and independently from, the Millennium Declaration and the MDGs.",
        "中国的史上最伟大减贫计划因国内政策而起，发生于千年宣言和MDG之前，也独立于后两者。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s a bridge too far for Turkey’s nationalists and its military.",
        "那对于土耳其的民族主义者和它的军队来说是不太可能做的。"
    ],
    [
        "Khrushchev had, of course, been an intimate part of Stalin’s repressions, but he also didn’t know half of what was going on.",
        "当然，赫鲁晓夫曾是斯大林专制政权的重要组成部分，但他对所发生的事情也只是知道一半。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, for one, is likely to see a surge in demand for its own exports, including cars, locomotives, planes, and high-end construction equipment, and financial, accounting, educational, and legal services.",
        "美国可能会看到自身出口的需求激增，包括汽车、牵引机车、飞机，高端建筑设备以及财务、会计，教育和法律服务。"
    ],
    [
        "If policymakers overlook them, they run the risk of encouraging quicker, cheaper forms of education that will do far less to serve either students or society.",
        "如果决策者忽略这样的现实，就有可能鼓励更快、更廉价的教育形式，而上述教育形式对学生和社会的贡献都小得多。"
    ],
    [
        "It is known that some senior military officers were quietly critical of Kim Jong-il’s failure in managing the country’s relationship with the United States and Japan.",
        "众所周知某些高级军官私下对金正日未能管理好美日关系有诸多批评。"
    ],
    [
        "Such initiatives provide rare opportunities for dialogue and collaboration between rival communities.",
        "这些措施为竞争群落之间的对话及合作提供了难得的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "As Japan and Europe recovered from World War II – with the latter getting an added boost from economic integration – America’s lead began to dwindle, and by the 1970s and 1980s, the US was sharing power over the world’s trade agenda with Europe.",
        "随着日本和欧洲从二战中复苏——后者还得到了经济一体化的进一步推动，美国的领先优势开始缩小，到了1970年代和80年代，美国开始与欧洲分享制定世界贸易议程的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "As much as Bernanke and others wish otherwise – and as much as bickering politicians seek to dump policy responsibilities on others – central banks do not have the proper tools to deal with the component of the unemployment crisis that results from insufficient investment in education, training, and physical capital.",
        "不管伯南克和其他人多么不愿正视现实——也不管吵吵嚷嚷的政治家多想推卸政治责任——央行并不掌握有效工具，来解决因教育培训及实物资本投资不足而造成的失业危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Council, which represents member states in the structures of the Union, could be given a more public character.",
        "在欧盟框架内代表了各成员国的欧洲理事会，也许将被赋予更多的公共性质。"
    ],
    [
        "There is much more at stake in inheritance rights than who gets the house, the car, and the sewing machine.",
        "继承权的意义远不止谁能拿到房、车和缝纫机的所有权。"
    ],
    [
        "The trigger for this wave of scorn was Li’s sell-off of some of his prime Shanghai properties, after relocating his corporate registry from Hong Kong to the Cayman Islands.",
        "引发这波轻蔑谴责的是李抛售在上海的某些高端物业，还把公司注册地从香港转到开曼群岛。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal and current-account surpluses were transformed into deficits.",
        "财政和经常账户盈余转变为赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "The failure of jihadism is paving the way for a potentially promising restructuring of Islamic politics, but the West either doesn’t recognize the changes or is hostile to them.",
        "圣战主义的失败正为伊斯兰政治中具有潜力的重组铺平道路，但是西方要么不承认变化，要么对此表现出敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "Reducing large regressive tax expenditures like preferential tax rates for capital gains and dividends and deductions for state and local taxes, and replacing deductions with progressive tax credits, could generate enough revenue to finance rate cuts for all taxpayers, increase the tax code’s overall progressivity, and contribute meaningfully to deficit reduction.",
        "减少包括资本收益和股息优惠税率以及国家和地方税减免在内的巨额递减性税收支出并以累进制税收抵免取代税收扣除可以带来充足的收入资助所有纳税人的税率减免、强化税法的总体进步性并为削减赤字做出真正的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, state-owned enterprises, including banks, may respond more flexibly than purely private enterprises to a variable mix of public and private incentives and investment returns.",
        "例如，包括银行在内的国有企业可能会比纯私营企业更灵活地处理公共/私人激励因素和投资回报的不同组合。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bretton Woods organizations – the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO – remain heavily Western in structure, leadership, and mentality.",
        "布雷顿森林机构——世界货币基金组织、世界银行和世界卫生组织在结构、思想和领导方式上仍是西方化的。"
    ],
    [
        "Rapid economic and demographic expansion has already turned adequate access to potable water into a major issue across large parts of the world.",
        "经济和人口的快速扩张已经让获得充足的饮用水成为世界大部地区的主要问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The bilateral US-China talks in Warsaw in the 1960’s were fruitless until Richard M. Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger opened a different, more direct discussion through the auspices of Pakistan.",
        "20世纪60年代，华沙美中双边会谈一直没有取得进展，直到尼克松及其国务卿基辛格另辟蹊径，在巴基斯坦的协助下与中国开展了更加直接的交流。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if the economy grows at 2.5% in 2012, as most forecasts anticipate, the jobs deficit will remain – and will not be closed until 2024.",
        "即使2012年经济增长如许多人预计的那样达到2. 5%，就业赤字仍然无法消除，可能将一直持续到2024年。"
    ],
    [
        "In response to China’s capability to project power many hundreds of miles from its borders, the US (as I have suggested for the last 25 years) should develop a long-range bomber capable of penetrating sophisticated defenses and delivering great force.",
        "要想防止中国在距边境数百英里外投射军力，美国应研发一种能穿透复杂防御系统的强火力远程轰炸机（就像我过去25年一直建议的那样）。"
    ],
    [
        "After reviewing case reports of nicotine intoxications and suicide attempts, the pharmacologist Bernd Mayer found that the lethal dose of nicotine in humans must be somewhere between 500-1000 mg of absorbed – not just ingested – nicotine.",
        "在审读了尼古丁中毒和尝试自杀的案例报告后，药物学家本恩德·梅耶（Bernd Mayer）发现人类尼古丁致死剂量必须要达到500—1000毫克吸收——不仅是摄入——尼古丁。"
    ],
    [
        "The unfair and unwise elements of these models nonetheless suggest a solution that is both fair and wise: a tissue tax.",
        "上述模式不公平、不明智的缺陷最终凸显出一种公平、明智的解决方法：那就是收取组织标本税。"
    ],
    [
        "Romney overstates his tax proposals’ long-term growth effects as well.",
        "罗姆尼对其税收计划的长期增长效应也有所高估。"
    ],
    [
        "One idea that has been mooted repeatedly in Europe is to create some European, or at least eurozone, unemployment insurance fund.",
        "在欧洲被一再提起的一个观点是成立欧洲（或至少是欧元区）失业保险基金。"
    ],
    [
        "A central bank is not a university economics department, where diversity is almost invariably a source of strength.",
        "央行不是大学经济学系，多样化并不总是优势来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Investments should be assessed on the basis of their overall economic impact, with proper procedures put in place to prevent public money from being wasted.",
        "投资应该以总体经济影响为基础进行评估，应该有合理的程序以防止公共资金被浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "This ultimately prevents developing countries from stopping the outflow of money that is bleeding them of essential resources.",
        "这最终阻碍了发展中国家阻止导致关键资源流失的资金外流。"
    ],
    [
        "Counting Iraqi Casualties",
        "统计伊拉克的伤亡情况"
    ],
    [
        "Britain’s Democratic Failure",
        "英国的民主失败"
    ],
    [
        "But the Chilean government has little money left, having committed the revenues from a sizeable tax increase two years ago to the ill-conceived policy of free university education, even for high-income students.",
        "但智利政府却受制于剩余资金不足，因为政府将两年前增税带来的可观资金投资于（甚至为高收入学生）提供免费大学教育等考虑不周的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who are fortunate enough never to have witnessed cholera’s effects firsthand might assume that it is just another stomach bug.",
        "那些从未亲眼目睹霍乱影响的幸运儿，可能会认为这无非是有一种肠胃病。"
    ],
    [
        "It is high time that these ideas are implemented.",
        "而目前也正是推行这些理念的最佳时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the plan assumes that the migration flows will taper off, with the population declining by only 0.2% per year over the 2017-2026 period.",
        "而该计划假设移民数量将逐渐减少，还假设2017到2026年间岛内人口每年仅有0. 2%的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, while new middle and great powers do not always agree, they are generally more skeptical of both international sanctions and military interventions.",
        "类似地，尽管新兴中型和大型强国未必同意，但它们从总体上说对国际制裁和军事干预持怀疑态度。"
    ],
    [
        "In the central region of Marib, home to the oil and gas facilities that Yemen relies on for foreign currency, several tribes have vowed to fight the Houthis.",
        "在马利布（Marib，作为也门主要外汇来源的油气设施所在地）地区，多个部落都宣誓与胡塞运动斗争到底。"
    ],
    [
        "While Saudi production policies were clearly behind last year’s halving of the oil price, the latest plunge began on July 6, within days of the deal to lift international sanctions against Iran.",
        "沙特生产政策显然是去年油价腰斩背后的原因，而7月6日开始的新一轮暴跌就发生在取消伊朗国际制裁的协议达成几天后。"
    ],
    [
        "The warrant was no leap forward.",
        "逮捕令并不是向前的一大步。"
    ],
    [
        "The Assura Group had to get permission from the New York State Department of Insurance to have a dynamic rate filing, meaning that they will set prices by a formula, rather than using a fixed rate, so that their prices vary in rapid response to changing economic conditions.",
        "Assura集团要从纽约州保险局获得批准来制定动态费率，也就是说，他们将根据公式来确定价格，而不是使用固定的费率。 这样，他们的价格就可以迅速地反映不断变化的经济状况。"
    ],
    [
        "But the new dispute over Greece has convinced many policymakers of the necessity to return to the drawing board.",
        "与此同时，公民们则在质疑为什么他们要共用一种货币？"
    ],
    [
        "As tempting as it may be to ramp up IMF lending on a long-term basis, this would be a strategic mistake for both the world and the Fund.",
        "在长期内增加国际货币基金组织的贷款尽管非常诱惑人，但是，这对世界和国际货币基金组织来说都是一个错误策略。"
    ],
    [
        "Political risks in the eurozone’s periphery include the collapse of Italy’s government and a fresh election as a result of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s criminal conviction.",
        "欧元区外围国的政治风险包括意大利前总理贝卢斯科尼被定罪导致政府倒闭和新一轮选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s global economy bears striking similarities to the immediate post-war period: high unemployment, high and rising debt levels, and a global shortage of aggregate demand are constraining growth and generating deflationary pressures.",
        "今天的全球经济与二战刚刚结束时有诸多惊人的相似之处：高失业、不断增加的高债务水平，以及全球总需求短缺制约着增长、形成通缩压力。"
    ],
    [
        "As in the meltdown of the 1970’s, it is easy to see how everyone benefited from the recent boom: homeowners saw their houses rising in price, social-welfare payments were expanded, and people seemed swept up in a new wave of 1960’s-style “Cool Britannia.”",
        "同20世纪70年代时一样，今日的经济崩溃，也令所谓“人人受益”的方式显露无遗：房产所有者看到房价上涨、社会福利覆盖面有所扩大、人们陶醉在一波类似20世纪60年代“酷英伦”的潮流之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries like Mexico, Venezuela, and Colombia supply up to 40% of US oil imports, and could easily replace unstable suppliers in the Middle East.",
        "墨西哥、委内瑞拉和哥伦比亚等国提供给美国的石油占到美国石油进口的近40%，能够很容易取代很不稳定的石油供应地区中东。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s insistence on “voluntary” restructuring – that is, avoidance of a credit event – has placed the two sides at loggerheads.",
        "欧洲央行坚持“自愿”重组——也就是说，避免了信用事件的发生——无异于站到了债权人的对立面。"
    ],
    [
        "Clinton’s Republican opponents characterized the increase as the “largest ever increase in taxes on the middle class.”",
        "克林顿的共和党反对者将增税称为“有史以来对中产阶级最大规模的增税”。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the sharpest decline in public trust in the government occurred in the late 1960s and early 1970s.",
        "事实上，对政府的公共信任的最剧烈降幅发生在20世纪60年代末到70年代初。"
    ],
    [
        "Gauck may not have gone far enough: At this point, an ever-closer union may be a political mirage.",
        "或许高克走的还不够远：目前前所未有地紧密的联盟可能是一场政治婚姻。"
    ],
    [
        "Skeptics also point out that Latin America already went through a round of industrial policy in the 1960’s and 1970’s, with results that were mediocre at best.",
        "怀疑派还指出，拉丁美洲已经在20世纪六七十年代经历过一轮产业政策，效果只能说差强人意。"
    ],
    [
        "I quickly saw that with these men at Iran’s helm, an agreement would be possible.",
        "我很快意识到，有这些人担任伊朗领导人，协议将成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "This would seem to call for a very different set of policies to rebalance the world economy.",
        "这一现象似乎在呼吁出台一套全然不同的政策来重新平衡世界经济。"
    ],
    [
        "At its peak in 1992, mad cow disease was claiming nearly 1,000 head of cattle weekly.",
        "在1992年疯牛病高发期，每周都有近1000头牛报告发病。"
    ],
    [
        "The greatest danger is that an escalating fear of enmity in the three countries becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.",
        "最大的危险在于三国对于敌对关系越来越大的担忧成为一种自我实现的预言。"
    ],
    [
        "It was not responsible for existing monetary conditions – a currency union with a central bank focused on price stability.",
        "对于现有货币条件——由一家中央银行维持价格稳定的货币联盟——它并不负责。"
    ],
    [
        "The intentional character and symbolic significance of burials prior to 30,000 years ago, especially those of Neanderthals, remain the subject of intense debate.",
        "距今3万年前以前的墓葬，特别是穴居人墓葬的目的性特点和象征意义仍然是激烈争论的主题。"
    ],
    [
        "Explanations for remuneration calculations can run for pages, and often board members who aren’t on the remuneration committee cannot unravel them.",
        "”薪酬计算说明可以长达很多页，没有进入薪酬委员会的董事会成员往往无法真正读懂。"
    ],
    [
        "To varying degrees, these governments have undermined their democratic credentials by failing to protect civil and human rights and employing heavy-handed tactics against their opponents.",
        "这些政府或多或少拖累了它们的民主性质——不能保护公民权和人权，对示威者采取强硬措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank estimates that dire poverty in China, calculated as individual income of $1 per day, has been reduced from about 500 million people at the start of the 1980’s to less than 90 million in 2000.",
        "据世界银行估计，中国在上世纪80年代初有约5亿人口极度贫困，日均收入只有1美元，但在2000年这个人数已经减少到九千万。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic liberalism came first, political liberalism later.",
        "以经济自由主义为先导，政治自由主义紧随其后。"
    ],
    [
        "China's leaders recognize the long-term imperative of serious institutional reform, even as concerns about slowing growth heighten the temptation to embrace short-term fixes.",
        "中国领导人认识到为了确保可持续增长，重要的制度改革势在必行，虽然对短期增长放缓的担忧不可避免的会要求出台一些解决当前问题的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The new asset class would need its own standardized risk/return profile, accounting, for example, for the political risks that public-sector involvement may imply and for the lower returns from infrastructure relative to traditional private equity.",
        "新资产类别需要有其自身的风险/回报特征，比如，需要考察公共部门参与所隐含的政治风险以及基础设施回报低于传统私人股权的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "A better approach to reducing unemployment would be a new and expanded round of quantitative easing.",
        "就减少失业而言，更好的办法是新一轮扩大的量化宽松。"
    ],
    [
        "When Guglielmo Marconi made the first transatlantic wireless transmission over a century ago, he was competing with the telegraph in point-to-point communication; he never envisioned popular mass-broadcast radio.",
        "当古列尔莫·马可尼（Guglielmo Marconi）在一个世纪之前实现首次跨大西洋无线电传输时，还只是想在点对点传输方面和电报竞争； 却从未预见大众广播收音机会因此诞生。"
    ],
    [
        "With Khamenei’s support, Rouhani will be able to rein in recalcitrant forces in Iran’s power structure in a way that his pragmatic predecessors, Rafsanjani and Khatami, could not.",
        "有了哈梅内伊的支持，鲁哈尼能够以他的务实派前任拉夫桑贾尼和哈塔米无法做到的方式驾驭伊朗权力格局中的顽固派。"
    ],
    [
        "It is our duty to preserve the multilateral system of peace and security – an achievement of the international community that, despite its shortcomings, has helped save the planet from another war on a global scale.",
        "我们的责任是保护多边和平和安全体系——尽管国际社会有这样那样的不足，但它有助于拯救地球免受又一场世界大战。"
    ],
    [
        "As everyone at the IMF knows, a debt overhang is a vast unfunded tax liability that says to investors: enter at your own risk.",
        "IMF所有人都知道，对投资者来说，债务积压是一笔巨额无资金准备的税收负债（unfunded tax liability）：风险自负。"
    ],
    [
        "One point of view holds that if you can make good on your commitments, then that is what you should do.",
        "一个观点是，如果你能够履行承诺，那么这就是你应该做的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as some countries have shown, a market economy can take forms that temper the excesses of both capitalism and globalization, and deliver more sustainable growth and higher standards of living for most citizens.",
        "但正如一些国家所表明的那样，市场经济可以采取某些可以缓和过度资本主义和全球化的形式，为大多数公民提供更可持续的增长和更高的生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "He has repeatedly expressed his willingness to meet with US President Barack Obama – even sending him a congratulatory letter on his inauguration – and has traveled to New York to be interviewed by the American media much more often than his predecessors.",
        "也因为这样，他才会反复表示愿意与美国总统奥巴马会晤——甚至写信祝贺奥巴马当选——而且还前往纽约接受比历任伊朗总统更高频率的美国媒体采访。"
    ],
    [
        "But Morales’ nationalization of Bolivia’s oil and gas fields sent shock waves through the international community.",
        "但是，莫拉莱斯将玻利维亚的石油和天然气油田收归国有却令国际社会震惊不已。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there are important differences between the oil exporters and the Asian economies.",
        "可以肯定，石油出口国和亚洲经济体之间有重要的区别。"
    ],
    [
        "What is beyond dispute is that Russia’s economic health depends on external factors.",
        "而始终没有被提到的一点是俄罗斯的经济健康也取决于外部因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The reward is the close relationship with their children that women have traditionally enjoyed.",
        "他们得到的回报是与子女间建立起传统上只有女性才有的亲密关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Strong, effective, and inclusive multilateral institutions can play a vital role in combating this instability and fostering cooperation.",
        "强大、高效、包容的多边机构可以在对抗动荡、促成合作方面起到关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "For these reasons alone, to dispense with it would be an adventurous gamble.",
        "光是出于这些原因，脱离欧盟就必然是非常冒险的赌注。"
    ],
    [
        "Creditor countries’ central bankers must stop trying to manipulate their economies with more potentially counterproductive monetary easing.",
        "债务国央行行长必须停止用更多可能不利于生产的货币宽松操纵经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan now promises to “reconstruct Turkey” in his own authoritarian and religious image.",
        "如今埃尔多安誓要按他自己的独裁和宗教形象“重建土耳其”。"
    ],
    [
        "The best European clubs are all multinational now.",
        "欧洲顶级俱乐部现在都是跨国公司。"
    ],
    [
        "The second shock was EU integration, including the northern and southern enlargements.",
        "第二轮冲击波来自欧盟的整合，包括向南北两个方向的扩充。"
    ],
    [
        "Established in June 2001, the SCO includes China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.",
        "上合组织建立于2001年6月，包括中国、俄罗斯、哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯坦、塔吉克斯坦以及乌兹别克斯坦。"
    ],
    [
        "The SNP claims that additional revenues from North Sea oil would offset the subsidy.",
        "SNP宣称北海石油所带来的额外收入将能抵消补贴减少。"
    ],
    [
        "The implications of this madness are ominous.",
        "如此疯狂之举的后果极为严重。"
    ],
    [
        "First, unlike the structure of Cold War-era “mutually assured destruction,” cyber weapons offer those who use them an opportunity to strike anonymously.",
        "首先，与冷战时代的“确保互相摧毁”结构不同，网络武器为使用者提供了匿名袭击的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The public, categorical rejection of Germany’s silent plea by countries that continue to benefit massively from European solidarity will not be easily forgotten.",
        "一直从欧洲的团结中获得巨大好处的国家公开断然拒绝了德国无声的恳求，这绝不会轻易遗忘。"
    ],
    [
        "The best structural-adjustment programs are those in which the debtor country’s government proposes the policy changes, and the IMF helps design a bespoke program and provides the political cover for its implementation.",
        "最好的结构调整计划应该让债务国政府实施政策变化，并由IMF帮助设计定制方案和提供实施方案的政治掩护。"
    ],
    [
        "The development of targeted new agents is likely to affect outcomes for other subtypes of childhood cancer, including anaplastic large-cell lymphoma and other types of leukemias.",
        "针对性的新药研发可能影响其他儿童癌症亚型的治疗效果，包括间变性大细胞淋巴瘤和其他类型的白血病。"
    ],
    [
        "Five Truths about Terrorism",
        "恐怖主义五大真相"
    ],
    [
        "Devolution would unshackle the economically more successful states.",
        "权力下放能放松较成功邦的经济束缚。"
    ],
    [
        "The Revolution aimed at achieving Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Instead, it wrought for France – and much of Europe – Jacobin terror, right-wing counter-terror, decades of war, and eventually Napoleonic tyranny.",
        "”这场原本为了实现自由，民主和博爱的大革命最终为法国（以及欧洲大部分地区）带来了雅各宾专政，右翼势力反专政，持续数年的内战以及独裁者拿破仑的最终上台。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Jennifer Aniston, whom Brad Pitt left because she did not want kids, now sighs in interviews, as she nears 42, that she has stopped waiting for Prince Charming, and that she, too, could be ready to adopt and go it alone.",
        "就连因为不想要孩子而遭布拉德·皮特离弃的珍妮弗·安妮斯顿现在也在采访中连声叹息，42岁的她已经不再等待自己的梦中情人，她准备领养一个孩子，并独自承担起抚养的义务。"
    ],
    [
        "Commodity prices fell, too.",
        "商品价格也开始下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "But, over time, long-term thinking has rightly become a hallmark of good governance.",
        "但随着时间的推移，长期思维已经成为好治理的标志。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – In October, central bankers, policymakers, private-sector executives, academics, and representatives of civil-society organizations will convene in Washington, DC, for the annual joint meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.",
        "美国剑桥—10月，央行行长、决策者、私人部门高管、学者和公民社会组织代表将在华盛顿参加一年一度的IMF和世界银行联合会议。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia’s inadequate representation poses a serious threat to the UN’s legitimacy, which will only increase as the world’s most dynamic and populous region assumes an increasingly important global role.",
        "亚洲席位不足严重威胁到联合国的合法性，这一问题随这个世界人口最多、也最具活力的地区全球地位不断攀升势必会不断增加。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rise of China, the relative decline of the United States, the long boom in commodity prices, and the Western financial collapse of 2008 have created space for political and economic experiments.",
        "但中国的崛起、美国的相对衰落、商品价格的长期繁荣以及2008年西方金融危机为政治和经济实验创造了空间。"
    ],
    [
        "In a new report, my colleagues at The Nature Conservancy, the C40 Climate Leadership Group, and the International Water Association show that investing in forest protection, reforestation, stream bank restoration, improved agricultural practices, and forest-fire management can reduce the amount of pollutants flowing into supplies of drinking water.",
        "我在大自然保护协会、C40气候变化领导小组和国际水协的同事在新发布的报告中证明投资于森林保护、植树造林、改变农业传统和森林防火管理等领域可以减少污染物流入饮用水。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the domestic sphere, unconventional monetary policies have had far-reaching spillover effects.",
        "除了国内影响，非常规货币政策还带来了影响深远的溢出效应。"
    ],
    [
        "But the goal is certainly worth embracing, because the evidence is overwhelming: impunity is not only morally noxious; it is also economically costly and deeply corrosive to wellbeing.",
        "但我们值得为此而努力，因为有压倒性证据显示：有罪不罚现象不仅在道义上有害； 并且能带来极高的经济成本，破坏人们的幸福生活。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s people and government are especially dismayed by the Mekong killings, which seemed to demonstrate, once again, the government’s inability to protect its citizens from being murdered abroad, despite the country’s newfound global status. As a result, two compelling questions have arisen: Why do China’s neighbors choose to neglect its interests?",
        "中国民众和政府对湄公河杀戮事件尤为震惊，这似乎再一次证明，尽管中国的全球地位已经今非昔比，但其政府在保护公民免遭海外屠戮方面依然无能。 结果产生了两大引人注目的问题：为什么邻国不把中国的利益放在眼里？"
    ],
    [
        "What they mind is people immigrating to the UK to take advantage of its welfare benefits.",
        "他们在意的是移民英国的人享受英国的社会福利。"
    ],
    [
        "A national investment bank would be capitalized by the government, borrow from the private sector, and invest in infrastructure, housing, and “greening” the economy.",
        "可以成立一个国家投资银行，政府为出资人，私人部门为债权人，投资于基础设施、住房以及“绿化”经济。"
    ],
    [
        "When they do, the country will get the modern and effective social-democratic government that it deserves.",
        "到那时，巴西将水到渠成地出现现代、高效的社会民主党政府。"
    ],
    [
        "This apparently seamless transition, however, is widely expected to usher in a complex and potentially difficult decade for China – and for the rest of the world.",
        "但是，这一次显而易见的无缝权力交接正逢中国（以及全世界）进入复杂而可能十分困难的十年。"
    ],
    [
        "Such violence is typical of Islam’s contemporary crisis.",
        "此类暴力行为在当代伊斯兰危机中稀松平常。"
    ],
    [
        "AI is still a long way from surpassing human intelligence.",
        "人工智能超越人类智慧还有很长的路要走。"
    ],
    [
        "All those young men and women cut down in Paris must not have been slaughtered in vain.",
        "所有在巴黎被击倒的年轻男女决不能徒劳地死去。"
    ],
    [
        "It is perhaps regrettable but nonetheless real that democracy finds roots more easily if economic conditions improve.",
        "也许这个计划颇有遗憾之处，尽管如此，如果经济条件得到改善的话民主就能更为容易地找到根基。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet preventable diseases kill two million children every year, many of whom are too poor to afford proper treatment.",
        "但可预防疾病每年要杀死两百万儿童，其中许多人是因为太穷而无力承担合适的医治。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there is no specific religious or ethnic character to these riots, in so far as youth from various ethnic backgrounds have taken part.",
        "实际上，尽管不同种族背景的年轻人参与了骚乱，这些骚乱中并没有特别的宗教或种族特征。"
    ],
    [
        "Qaddafi’s turn to China in his hour of desperation is somewhat surprising.",
        "卡扎非在绝望时向中国求救的行为多少有点出人意料。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, given the numerous uncertainties surrounding macroeconomic forecasts and the effects of policy instruments (not least quantitative easing), many academics find it puzzling that central bankers’ speeches and statements generate so much fanfare.",
        "即便如此，考虑到围绕着宏观经济预测的极大不确定性，以及政策工具（不仅是量化宽松）的效果，许多学者也对中央银行家的言论和声明引发过多喧嚣而感到困惑。"
    ],
    [
        "Indonesia’s Sumatra Island is a good example.",
        "印度尼西亚的苏门答腊岛就是一个很好的例证。"
    ],
    [
        "The people and the times for which these texts were written are completely different from the people reading them today.",
        "这些典籍的作者和成书时间与今天阅读它们的人群截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "These points are far from a blanket criticism of the EU’s efforts to create a common foreign and security policy.",
        "这些观点甚至不算是对欧盟创建共同外交与安全政策的努力的委婉批评。"
    ],
    [
        "In certain cases, the evidence requires a judgment on such a question.",
        "有些情况下，证据要求对上述问题做出判断。"
    ],
    [
        "The People’s Bank of China, for example, bought a record quantity of dollars from 2004 to 2014, thereby preventing the renminbi’s exchange rate from appreciating as fast as it otherwise would have done.",
        "比如，2004—2014年间，中国人民银行购入了创纪录数量的美元，阻止人民币汇率过快升值。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, they saved their country once; they are more than capable of doing it again.",
        "毕竟，他们曾经拯救了自己的国家，他们完全有能力再次这么做。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is India or Russia likely to pose a serious challenge.",
        "印度和俄国也不太可能构成严重的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Yingluck’s Pheu Thai Party (PTP) won an outright majority in Thailand’s 2011 general election, gaining 265 MPs in the 500-member lower house.",
        "英拉的为泰党（Pheu Thai Party）在2011年泰国大选中获得绝对多数，在500个席位的下院中获得265席。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given the inability of participating states to control their borders with non-EU countries, Germany and other Schengen members have temporarily reinstated controls.",
        "但是，由于参与国无法控制它们与非欧盟国家的边境线，德国和其他申根成员国临时恢复了边境控制。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, he could embolden Taiwan to be more aggressive in trying to upend the status quo.",
        "首先，他可能促使台湾更加激进地试图打破现状。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in impersonal market exchange, we cannot help but personalize transactions, say, with the grocery store cashier who smiles and thanks us, or the store greeter whose only purpose is to make us feel cared for.",
        "即便是在非个人的市场交换中，我们也不可避免地将交易个人化。 比如在杂货店对我们微笑并道谢的收银员，或是仅仅为了让我们感到备受呵护而工作的商店迎宾人员。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s biofuels policies inevitably lead to larger price responses to supply shocks in the short run.",
        "美国的生物能源政策无可避免地导致了对短期供应震荡的更大幅度价格反映。"
    ],
    [
        "So will lower inflation, which raises real returns on bank deposits.",
        "降低通胀率亦然，这能提高银行存款的真实回报。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kremlin is now using its control over natural resources to reestablish Russia’s position as a political power, enrich the rulers and ensure their own control over Russia, and to bribe and suborn the rulers of the former Soviet. The various objectives mutually reinforce each other; together, they constitute the new order – a sham democracy built on petrol-patronage.",
        "克里姆林宫正在利用其对自然资源的控制来重新建立俄罗斯作为政治大国的地位，让统治者发家致富并且确保他们对俄罗斯的控制，同时贿赂和收买前苏联加盟共和国的统治者。 不同的目标相互强化对方，它们共同组成了新的秩序，也就是建立在石油赞助上的伪民主。"
    ],
    [
        "All Western policymakers will, before long, have to move beyond their parochial political considerations and anxieties to present a clear strategic vision.",
        "用不了多久，所有西方决策者都必须超越他们偏狭的政治考虑和焦虑，拿出明确的战略愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it could stick with the Nice treaty as the basis of the Union’s operation.",
        "首先，它可以坚持将《尼斯条约》作为欧盟运行的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Rudd argues that they are wrong, and that Xi will neither overplay his authoritarian hand nor under-deliver on growth.",
        "陆克文认为这些人是错误的，习近平不会过度使用极权措施，也不会让增长大幅降低。"
    ],
    [
        "This reflects our current era, in which new knowledge, ideas, and possibilities have made our identities richer, more fluid, and less subject to fate.",
        "新知识、新观念和各种可能性已使得我们的身份定位更为多样化，更具可变性，且不再受制于命运，这正反映了当前时代的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposal will be met with outrage from many governments, especially, but not exclusively, Germany’s, and will be dismissed by the many political candidates who treat sovereign debt, built up by the incumbents they are seeking to depose, as the devil’s work.",
        "这一方案将受到许多政府的怒目相向，特别是（但不限于）德国政府，也将被许多把主权债务（由他们寻求取而代之的在任者制造）视为洪水猛兽的政治候选人嗤之以鼻。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Keynesian measures halted the global economy’s downward slide.",
        "诚然，凯恩斯主义措施阻止了全球经济雪崩。"
    ],
    [
        "The same goes for Poland’s populist government, whose de facto leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, doesn’t even hold a formal position in the administration.",
        "波兰的民粹主义政府也是如此，其实际领导人雅罗斯瓦夫·卡辛斯基（Jarosław Kaczyński）甚至没有在政府中担任任何正式职位。"
    ],
    [
        "Change for the better could emerge only from practical initiatives, not from Sunday speeches.",
        "局面上的改观不会源于星期日的演讲，而只会来自实际的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been studying the phenomenon since 1988.",
        "国际气候变化委员会（Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change，IPCC）自1988年以来就在研究这一现象。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest evidence to support this hypothesis comes from a large international epidemiological study of childhood asthma that was recently published in the medical journal The Lancet .",
        "最近在医学杂志柳叶刀发表一项针对儿童哮喘病的大型国际流行病研究所得到的最新证据也支持这一推测。"
    ],
    [
        "The inadequate response to pressing questions of natural resource management, whether of water or trees, merely strengthens the hands of opium dealers and malcontents in what is already the most disaffected and sensitive part of Afghanistan – the clear-cut mountain slopes where intelligence officers believe Osama bin Laden is most likely holed up.",
        "若对紧迫的自然资源管理问题——不管是水资源还是森林资源的管理问题反应措施不当，就只会在砍伐一空的山坡地带——阿富汗本已充斥不满情绪和最敏感的地带，加强鸦片商人和不满分子的力量。 情报官员相信那里是奥萨马·本·拉登最有可能洗劫的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "Suppose it was divided into independent political units of two million people each. That would mean 3,000 micro-states, each refusing to accept any sovereignty superior to its own.",
        "假设将其等分为200万人口的独立政治单位，那就将意味着3000个拒绝接受更高主权的微型国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, America’s military modernization agenda needs balance.",
        "类似地，美国的军事现代化日程也需要平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "PASADENA – In 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan’s coastal region.",
        "帕萨迪纳—2011年，日本东北地震和海啸摧毁了日本的沿海地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Lost in the angst over inequality is the critical role that central banks have played in exacerbating the problem.",
        "在不平等的焦虑中迷失导致各大中央银行在问题的恶化中起到了推波助澜的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "If anything, it fuels conspiracy theories (there is nothing more suspicious than the claim of absolute transparency).",
        "如果说这有什么效果的话，那就是助长了阴谋论（没有什么比宣称绝对透明更令人怀疑的了）。"
    ],
    [
        "To our north, Europe is at a crossroads, undergoing a process of creative destruction, with potentially far-reaching ramifications well beyond the confines of the European Union.",
        "我们北面的欧洲正处在创造性毁灭的十字路口，由此产生的深远后果将远远超出欧盟本身的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "And Hindu zealots stormed a Cricket Control Board meeting to disrupt discussion of a possible India-Pakistan cricket series (which now seems unlikely to take place).",
        "狂热印度教徒还席卷了板球协会（Cricket Control Board）会议，干扰板球协会讨论印度-巴基斯坦板球联赛事宜（目前已几乎铁定无法实现）。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, advanced economies will need to invest in human capital, skills and social safety nets to increase productivity and enable workers to compete, be flexible and thrive in a globalized economy.",
        "将来，发达经济体需要扩大投资于人力资本、技能培训与社会安全网络，以提高生产率和工人竞争力，灵活适应经济全球化并从中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "Ready for a US Rate Hike?",
        "美国加息，你准备好了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But China does not run the world, and it is unlikely to do so anytime soon.",
        "但中国并没有主宰世界，也不可能在近期主宰世界。"
    ],
    [
        "In effect, the report states, he has a monopoly on military spending and imports, apparently a rich source of kickbacks each time he approves a deal.",
        "实际上，报告谈到他有权独自决定军事开支和军事进口，每批准一项交易显然都会给他带来极为丰厚的回扣酬劳。"
    ],
    [
        "But they grew up in the ghettos that ring France’s major cities, surrounded by families like theirs, literally on the margins of society.",
        "但却在环绕法国各大城市的贫民窟中长大，可以说身处社会边缘，周围都是和他们境况类似的家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "It is true that energy poverty is a huge problem, affecting some 1.2 billion people worldwide.",
        "的确，能源贫困问题非常严重，影响着全球约12亿人。"
    ],
    [
        "The everyday consequence for the middle class is a stagnant paycheck and growing job insecurity.",
        "由此给中产阶级带来的影响体现在日常生活中，就是工资上不去，就业形势日益不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "But a UK decision to leave, should it come to that, would initiate a painful and complicated process of negotiating an exit and agreeing on some sort of new relationship.",
        "但如果英国真的决定退出欧盟，则会带来一个痛苦而复杂的退出谈判过程，并形成一个新的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "It is to Spence’s credit that the report manages to avoid both market fundamentalism and institutional fundamentalism.",
        "该报告设法既避免了市场正统主义又避免了制度正统主义，使斯宾塞感到高兴。"
    ],
    [
        "The US could, for example, lend money to low-income African economies to buy new power plants from US companies.",
        "比如，美国可以贷款给低收入非洲经济体从美国公司手中购买新电站。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a great opportunity lost.",
        "于是，良机就这样失去了。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the focus on financial reform in developed economies, while warranted, has contributed to complacency in developing economies.",
        "与此同时，发达经济体的金融改革尽管得到了保证，但远远不如发展中经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – In his First Inaugural Address, during the depths of the Great Depression, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously told Americans that, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”",
        "纽黑文—大萧条最严重的时期，美国总统罗斯福发表了他的第一次就职演说，其中有一句名言，他告诉美国人，“我们唯一必须恐慌的是恐慌本身。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with serious congestion slowing traffic in major cities to a crawl, the land gradient in housing prices is steep once again.",
        "现在，随着交通堵塞让各大城市的车流陷入爬行，土地梯度在房价中的重要性又重新凸现。"
    ],
    [
        "First, we need to reverse the worrying trends of growing inequality.",
        "首先，我们必须扭转令人担忧的不平等现象日益加剧的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "But these countries would be equally wise to signal to China that it is welcome to take its place among the world’s leading countries if it acts responsibly and according to the rules set for all.",
        "但这些国家应该同样明智地想中国释放一个信号，如果中国负责任地行动，并遵守为所有人制定的规则，就欢迎它跻身世界领导国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, for example, house prices have remained relatively low and consumption weak.",
        "例如在德国，住房价格维持相对低下，消费也疲软。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the Muslim Brothers’ Web sites includes such a statement, and Libya’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Sadeq al-Gheriani, also condemned the attack.",
        "穆斯林兄弟会的其中一个网站里就有一个这样的声明，而利比亚的大穆夫提——萨德克·盖里亚尼（Sadeq al-Gheriani）也谴责了这次袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments, international organizations and individuals that participate in the London conference must not dismiss the call made by the European Parliament, for it offers a far more workable strategy to promote Afghanistan’s future than the current counter-narcotics policies permit.",
        "参加伦敦会议的各国政府、国际组织以及个人都不应回绝欧洲议会发出的呼吁，因为这一呼吁提供了一个比当前反毒品政策所可以达到的远远更为可操作的战略来促进阿富汗的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "“Green” investment – which, as the World Bank recently proved using robust economic modeling, does not constrain economic growth – is a good place to start.",
        "“绿色”投资——世界银行最近用鲁棒的经济模型证明，绿色投资不会拖累经济增长——才是好的起点。"
    ],
    [
        "But the issue of justice for the crimes of 1971 has brought the divide into sharp relief.",
        "但1971年罪行的公正问题让这一分歧爆发了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, rather than deal with today’s problems and find a formula for growth, they prefer to deliver homilies about what some previous government should have done.This may be satisfying for the sermonizer, but it won’t solve Europe’s problems – and it won’t save the euro.",
        "但是与其去解决问题，寻求经济增长的方式，还不如喋喋不休地去指责前几任政府的失职。 对于说教者而言这是个让人满意的行为，但是这并不会解决欧洲的问题，当然也拯救不了欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "The LDP, formed in 1955, had not done much actual ruling after helping to coordinate postwar reconstruction, which extended without debate into an unofficial but very real national policy of, in principle, unlimited expansion of industrial capacity.",
        "日本自民党自1955年创立以来除了协助战后重建外实际上没有实施多少实际统治。 随后这种重建政策被大家心照不宣地演变成为一个非正式但却实实在在的日本国家政策，那就是追求工业生产能力的无限扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "America and other advanced countries are the real losers from the demise of the Doha Round.",
        "美国和其他发达国家是多哈回合谈判失败真正的输家。"
    ],
    [
        "So, all in all, even if a border adjustment tax does not directly make US goods more competitive, it is an efficient way to raise revenues, potentially making room for other tax cuts.",
        "因此总而言之，即使边境调整税会不直接使美国商品更具竞争力，倒也是个提高收入的有效方式，或许能为其他减税措施腾出空间。"
    ],
    [
        "These citizens of the world are developing loyalties to each other that cross national boundaries.",
        "这些全球公民们跨越国界发展着彼此间的忠诚。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, it is all the more urgent that the EU backs a comprehensive strategy to end the panic and stop the unnecessary human suffering.",
        "因此，欧盟支持全面战略结束恐慌、停止不必要的人道灾难迫在眉睫。"
    ],
    [
        "But the work has taken 20 scientists a decade to complete, at an estimated cost of $40 million, and commercial investors are an obvious source for such funds.",
        "不过这个研究可是花了20位科学家10年时间才宣告完成，总费用估计高达4000万美元，因此很显然只有商业投资者才是最主要的资金来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the Christian and Jewish Bibles, the Koran is open to interpretation, whether quite liberal or dogmatic and repressive.",
        "和基督教和犹太教圣经一样，可兰经也对各种解释开放，不管是自由性质的还是教条和压迫性质的。"
    ],
    [
        "But Putin is ambitious, and – like other autocrats in Central Asian nations – he may remain in power for decades to come.",
        "但普京很有野心，并且与中亚的其他独裁者一样，可以在未来几十年掌握权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s Bundesbank, it was suggested, would stand ready to buy “unlimited quantities” of lire or francs, so no one would dare to short either currency.",
        "倘若德国央行时刻准备着购入“无限数量”的意大利里拉或者法郎，当然也没人敢做空这些货币了。"
    ],
    [
        "Tudor subsequently finished second in the presidential election.",
        "都铎也随即在总统选举中成为亚军。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the frequency and intensity of heat waves, floods, and droughts are on the rise.",
        "此外，热浪、洪水和干旱发生的频率和强度也在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "No matter how strong the EU’s external borders are – though, of course, better monitoring and patrolling measures are needed – the flow of migrants will continue to overwhelm their capacity, endangering the openness that is so fundamental to European unification, beginning with the Schengen acquis, which guarantees freedom of movement, without border controls, among 26 European countries.",
        "无论欧盟的对外边界多么强大——尽管改善监管和巡逻措施确有必要——移民人数仍将继续超过他们的防御能力，从而对自申根协议始的开放这一欧洲统一的基础构成威胁，申根协议确保欧盟26个成员国民众在没有边界控制的情况下能够自由迁徙。"
    ],
    [
        "A way of looking is a way of not looking, runs a Chinese proverb.",
        "有一句中国成语叫：一叶障目。"
    ],
    [
        "“If things are left as they are,” writes Watanabe, “a skewed perception of history – without knowledge of the horrors of the war – will be handed down to future generations.”",
        "渡部写道：“如果情况还是像原来那样，歪曲历史的观点，认识不到战争所造成的恐怖，就会被传给下一代。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, a full-scale military invasion would meet with a devastating defeat by superior South Korean and US military forces, whose current naval exercises in the Yellow Sea are designed to remind North Korea of this disparity.",
        "朝鲜的全面入侵无疑会遭到美韩优势兵力的毁灭性打击，两国最近在黄海的演习就是为了提醒朝鲜这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not the best of times.",
        "但目前还不是最佳时点。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be a disaster, because the crisis now runs too deep to be resolved by technocratic means.",
        "这将带来一场灾难，因为单凭技术官僚手段已经无法化解这场危机。"
    ],
    [
        "And after they arrive, many fundamental needs – including health, education, and physical safety – must be met.",
        "而在他们到达目的地后，许多基本需求——包括健康、教育和人身安全——也必须得到满足。"
    ],
    [
        "The surest way to accelerate China's digital rise is a transatlantic falling out over relatively small issues.",
        "大西洋两岸斤斤计较于相对较小的问题，这最有利于加速中国的数字崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "The North Korean Enigma",
        "朝鲜迷局"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The recent decline in oil prices is likely to have a major, largely positive impact on the global economy – even greater than most observers seem to recognize.",
        "发自华盛顿特区——最近的油价下跌很可能会为全球经济带来重大且在很大程度上正面的影响——甚至要比绝大多数观察家们所意识到的更为深远。"
    ],
    [
        "It has a unique capacity to rebound, and it controls unparalleled military, intellectual, economic, and even political resources.",
        "它具有独特的反弹能力，而且它控制着无可比拟的军事、知识、经济甚至政治资源。"
    ],
    [
        "The Paris climate agreement may be a harbinger of the spirit and mindset needed to sustain genuine global cooperation.",
        "而巴黎的气候协议可能会成为一个维持真正全球合作所需的精神和心态的好预兆。"
    ],
    [
        "Last but not least, Hollande is not likely to call into question Sarkozy’s decision in 2009 to reintegrate France into NATO’s military command.",
        "最后，奥朗德也不会动摇萨科齐在2009年做出的法国重回北约军事指挥集团的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest challenge is public perception.",
        "而最大的挑战则来自于公众意识。"
    ],
    [
        "The dismal failure of Middle Eastern and North African economies to deliver the prosperity that their people desperately want is a constant factor pushing people into the streets.",
        "”中东和北非经济无法带来民众所需繁荣的惨淡失败不断将人们推上街头。"
    ],
    [
        "The Muslim Brotherhood is working to strengthen ties with Sunni allies, such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and even Turkey, rather than with Iran’s Shia regime, which threatens Sunni regimes by exporting revolution and pitting Shia minorities against their governments.",
        "相比伊朗的什叶派政权，穆斯林兄弟会正努力加强与沙特阿拉伯、卡塔尔、甚至土耳其等逊尼派盟友的关系。 伊朗什叶派政权通过输出革命及鼓动什叶派少数民族对抗其各自政府而对逊尼派政权构成威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Problems with Uzbekistan were overlooked – until it fell out of favor with the US.",
        "乌兹别克斯坦在从美国失宠以前一直安然无事。"
    ],
    [
        "World leaders are meeting in Copenhagen this December to forge a new pact to tackle global warming.",
        "来自世界各国领导人定于今年12月在哥本哈根会面，以共同缔结一个新的条约来应对全球变暖问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Manafort made the major misstep of trying to compel Trump to change, and of telling mainstream Republicans that he could manage the candidate.",
        "马纳福特的主要失误是试图迫使特朗普改变，以及告诉主流共和党人他能够管理候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "Others fear that, even without such financial shocks, the economy’s current strong performance will not continue when interest rates are raised.",
        "也有委员担心，即使没有这些金融冲击，美国经济目前的强劲表现也会因为利率提高而终止。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the need to confront evil remains as pressing as ever, Western societies’ motivation for doing so may lose clarity.",
        "尽管直面魔鬼的需要与往常一样迫切，但西方社会这样做的动机可能不再那么明确。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, those of us who are exposed on a daily basis to the inner workings of financial markets would caution against too upbeat an attitude toward a second downgrade by a major ratings agency.",
        "但是，对于我们这些天天暴露在金融市场内部运转情况风险的人来说，对主要评级机构第二次降级的影响过于乐观是值得引起警惕的。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argue that little has changed as a result of the test.",
        "有些人争辩说就试验的结果而言没有发生多大的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if it does begin to function, the BRICS lack what gives development banks, and the World Bank in particular, legitimacy and weight: a staff composed mostly of dedicated experts who are among the world’s best.",
        "即使它真的开始运作，金砖国家也缺乏更给予各种开发银行（特别是世界银行）合法性和分量的东西：主要由具备世界顶尖水平的敬业专家工作人员。"
    ],
    [
        "The final issue that ministers should be prepared to discuss in Buenos Aires is the need to ensure that the WTO adapts effectively to a changing international environment.",
        "部长们应该在布宜诺斯艾利斯讨论的最后一个问题是如何确保世贸组织能有效适应不断变化的国际环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Also, with the emergence of a new generation of political leaders, the French -- who were thought cynical towards politics -- seem to have regained their unique passion for it.",
        "同时，新的一代政治领导人的涌现，让被认为是对政治玩世不恭的法国人看起来重新获得了对政治独特的热情。"
    ],
    [
        "As I travel in small towns, many of the businesses that I see – most of them, it seems – belong to large chains, with mass-purchasing contracts, standardized training procedures, consistent quality, and, I assume, profitability.",
        "在小镇之间穿行时，我所见到的许多企业——应该说是大部分——都属于大型连锁，签订了大量采购合同、有标准化的培训流程、始终如一的品质，以及（我认为具有）盈利能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider a career criminal who robs and kills a victim who led a decent life and left several children and a spouse behind.",
        "考虑一下一个职业罪犯抢劫和杀害一个生活体面家有妻小的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten-year Treasury bonds now yield just 2.5%.",
        "十年期国债收益率目前只有2."
    ],
    [
        "In February 1984, facing a quagmire, Reagan acceded to Vice President George H.W. Bush’s recommendation to get out of Lebanon.",
        "1984年2月，面对困境的里根同意了副总统乔治·H·W·布什的建议从黎巴嫩撤军。"
    ],
    [
        "A third problem is that there are too few health-care workers.",
        "第三个问题是医务工作者数量太少。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel claims its actions in Gaza and Lebanon are designed to safeguard its own security.",
        "以色列辩称它在加沙和黎巴嫩的行动是为了保护它自身的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamic “golden age” – during which scholarship and learning flourished across the Muslim world – lasted many centuries, and included the establishment of the world’s first universities.",
        "学术和知识在整个穆斯林世界快速发展的伊斯兰“黄金时代”长达几个世纪，并导致世界首批大学的诞生。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in 2008 Intellectual Ventures (which I helped found) established a presence in China and other countries with emerging innovation cultures in order to focus their inventors’ talent and energy.",
        "比如，2008年，告高智发明公司（Intellectual Ventures，我也参与了创立）在中国和其他创新文化方兴未艾的国家展开经营活动，以便关注这些国家发明者的才华和能量。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has said that the EU may reject Scotland and Catalonia’s applications, or at least delay them considerably, even if the UK and Spain do accept their independence.",
        "事实上，欧盟委员会主席若泽·曼努埃尔·巴罗佐已经表示就算英国和西班牙接受苏格兰和加泰罗尼亚的独立的请求，欧盟也可能拒绝这两国提出的申请，至少也会尽量延缓他们入盟的步伐。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi society, and those of some other Gulf States, lacks minimum levels of political freedom and participation.",
        "沙特阿拉伯以及其他海湾国家社会都缺乏最基本的政治自由和参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Further liberalization of farm trade will not ensure food security.",
        "进一步开放农业贸易并不确保食品安全。"
    ],
    [
        "That explains why efforts to reduce nuclear arsenals in Western Europe have come to a halt.",
        "这也解释了为何西欧暂停了去核。"
    ],
    [
        "It is more than likely that the young and impulsive Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili fell into the trap that he had helped to create.",
        "更有可能的情形是，格鲁吉亚年轻冲动的总统萨卡什维利跳进自己设下的圈套。"
    ],
    [
        "This is good news not only for Germany, but also for Europe as a whole, as the business climate for German manufacturers reflects that in the rest of Europe – their main export market.",
        "这不仅是对德国的一个好消息，同时也是对全欧洲。 德国制造业的经济气候也反映着欧洲的其他地方――德国主要出口市场的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "But what about low- or middle-income countries?",
        "但中低收入国情况如何？"
    ],
    [
        "The chemical inhibitors used in this treatment target the enzyme polymerase (PARP1), which is normally involved in the repair of DNA single-strand breaks – a common form of spontaneous DNA lesions.",
        "使用于这种治疗手段的化学抑制剂主要针对聚合酶（PARP1），PARP1通常用于修补DNA的单个碱基断裂——一种常见的自发性DNA损伤。"
    ],
    [
        "The Return of the Madman Theory",
        "狂人理论的回归"
    ],
    [
        "He did not mellow, but was swallowed by history’s zeitgeist.",
        "他并没有变得香醇，但是却被时代思潮所吞没。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditional explanations for the high savings rate (lack of a social safety net, limited public services, aging of the population, underdevelopment of consumer finance, etc.) are only part of the puzzle.",
        "对于高储蓄率的传统解释（缺乏社会安全网，有限的公共服务，人口老化，消费信贷的不发达）只是这一迷局的其中一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The March to Barbarism",
        "向野蛮沦落的长征"
    ],
    [
        "A cooperative US-Russia relationship is essential if the international system, now almost dysfunctional, is to work properly in the future.",
        "如果濒于失调的国际体系要想在未来继续正常运转的话，合作的美俄关系是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Apprehensive leaders start with the most politically expedient items, while bold leaders start with the most challenging prescriptions; but there is no guarantee that either of these approaches will deliver the expected result.",
        "心存疑虑的领导人会从政治上最方便的项目开始，而激进的领导人会从最有挑战性的内容开始； 但哪种方法能产生预期效果，谁也打不了包票。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, when the two-child generation becomes middle-aged, its members will each have to support only one elderly person, on average, alleviating the economic pressure associated with such a high old-age dependency ratio.",
        "当然，当二孩一代步入中年，他们人均只需供养一位老人，从而缓解如此之高的老年赡养比所带来的经济压力。"
    ],
    [
        "In higher organisms – such as humans – epigenetic processes are controlled by chromatin, a complex of macromolecules inside cells consisting of DNA, protein, and RNA.",
        "具体到人类等高等生物，细胞内由脱氧核糖核酸 、蛋白质和核糖核酸等组成的复合物大分子链（也叫核染色质）控制着试验胚胎学的进程。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a broad array of policies that can benefit people in both developing and developed countries, thereby providing globalization with the popular legitimacy that it currently lacks.",
        "大量的政策可以让发展中国家和发达国家的民众都受益，从而给全球化提供它目前所缺乏的民众合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Handing over power to Solidarity was the last thing they had in mind. Yet the Roundtable compromise turned out to be good even for them, as communist “reformers” began to build new careers in business and politics (one, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, became Poland’s second democratically elected president).",
        "然而，圆桌会谈达成的妥协，对他们也是有好处的，因为波兰共产党的“改革家”开始在商业和政治领域开创新的职业生涯（例如，亚历山大·克瓦希涅夫斯基成为波兰第二任民主选举的总统）。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the real world, many countries, particularly but not limited to small, open economies, simply find it impractical or undesirable to permit their currency to float.",
        "但是，在现实中，许多国家——特别是（但不限于）小型开放经济体——发现，放任货币浮动既不可行，也不可取。"
    ],
    [
        "Ruthless leaders mobilize disoriented followers.",
        "残酷无情的领导人动员那些失去坐标的追随者。"
    ],
    [
        "Some politicians and pundits maintain that Communism merely collapsed under its own weight - again, owing to \"objective laws\" of history.",
        "某些政客和学究还坚持认为共产主义的崩溃是出于其自身的原因——同样属于历史的“客观规律”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Europeans typically picked their nominee behind the scenes, as did the Americans, after only cursory consultation with developing countries.",
        "欧洲人通常会私下商定继任人选，美国人也一样，双方都不太理会发展中国家的意见，只是草草咨询一下了事。"
    ],
    [
        "Given these trends, I suspect that Switzerland will continue to host plenty of Japanese tourists in the coming years.",
        "鉴于这一趋势，我想瑞士在未来几年将继续接待大量日本游客。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, because the US central bank had repeatedly upped the ante in providing support to the Asset Economy, taking its policy rate to zero, it had run out of traditional ammunition.",
        "但是，美联储反复下注与支持资产经济（Asset Economy），将其政策利率保持在零水平，这导致它用尽了传统工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Others have pointed out that, although the team produced a synthetic genome, they put it into a cell from another bacterium, replacing that cell’s DNA.",
        "也有其他人认为，虽然这个研究小组制造出了一个人造基因组，但他们也只是将其放进了来自另外一个细菌的细胞之中，代替了原有细胞的DNA。"
    ],
    [
        "The hardware of the clean-energy revolution has more in common with mobile phones and laptops than with mines and refineries.",
        "清洁能源革命的硬件与移动电话和笔记本电脑，而不是矿山和炼油厂更加相近。"
    ],
    [
        "So, by that point, France’s four main political parties, two on the left and two on the right, must prepare their party manifestoes and choose candidates.",
        "因此，到那个时候，法国四个主要政党，包括两个左翼党派和两个右翼党派，必须发表各自的党派宣言并推举候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the report is of course devoted to traditional aspects of national security: military budgets, alliances, and dealing with countries like Russia and China, which the new NSS calls “strategic competitors” (rather than adversaries). But the growth of the domestic economy, the role of international trade, and America’s new positive energy position also receive substantial attention.",
        "报告的大部分内容都是与传统国家安全事务有关：军事预算，联盟以及如何与俄罗斯和中国这类被新报告称之为“战略竞争者”（而非敌手）的国家打交道，同时国内经济的增长，国际贸易的作用以及美国的新优势能源地位也受到了极大关注。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation is far from hopeless.",
        "情况还远未到达无望的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Each cell in the body contains DNA, which is responsible for producing the proteins that are necessary for a cell’s functioning.",
        "身体内每个细胞都包含有DNA，它负责产生细胞要形成其功能所必需的蛋白质。"
    ],
    [
        "Moves toward increased exchange rate flexibility in China and other Asian countries, supported by financial sector reform, will have domestic and global benefits.",
        "中国和其他亚洲国家在金融部门改革的支持下提高汇率灵活性的措施将带来国内和全球性的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "On the top chessboard, military power is largely unipolar and likely to remain so for a while.",
        "在顶端的棋盘上，世界军事实力在很大程度上是单极的，并且很可能在短期内继续如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Rainforests, oceans, and peatlands (such as bogs) have immense CO2 storage capacities and do not require untested technological manipulation.",
        "热带雨林、海洋和泥炭地（如沼泽）拥有巨大的二氧化碳储存力，还不需要进行未经测试的技术操纵。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though they are fighting side-by-side in Libya, with their armies expressing a deep confidence in each other, there are distinct nuances in each country’s position on military intervention.",
        "尽管英法两国在利比亚并肩作战，双方部队都对对方表示信任，但两国在军事干预问题上的立场却明显有所差异。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – A new global agreement to address climate change is taking shape, with the United States joining the European Union in formally submitting its plan to cut greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).",
        "伦敦—新的解决气候变化的全球协议正在形成中，美国和欧盟正式联手将削减温室气体排放的计划递交给联合国气候变化框架公约（UNFCCC）。"
    ],
    [
        "Techno-pessimists recognize this; the optimists might not be wrong, but to make their case, they need to focus on how the effects of technology play out in the economy as a whole.",
        "技术悲观派认识到这一点； 乐观派可能并不错，但要令人信服，他们需要聚焦于技术如何影响整体经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, macroprudential regulation has been added to policymakers’ toolkit: simply put, it makes sense to vary banks’ capital requirements according to the financial cycle.",
        "其中最重要的就是宏观审慎监管已被添加到政策制定者的工具箱中：简而言之，就是有必要根据金融周期来改变银行的资本金要求。"
    ],
    [
        "On balance, I believe that I was right to oppose the Kosovo war.",
        "总体而言，我相信我反对科索沃战争是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "These responsibilities do not invalidate or override our responsibilities to those who are suffering elsewhere in the world, but they do mean that if we judge only by material need, we risk leaving out important considerations.",
        "这些责任不抹杀、也不凌驾于我们对于正在世界其他地方受苦的人的责任，但它们确实意味着如果我们只从物质需要来判断，就有可能将重要的考虑因素排除在外。"
    ],
    [
        "While technology is no panacea, when paired with wise policy reforms, it can make a meaningful contribution to the fight for good governance.",
        "虽然技术不是万灵丹，但如果能与明智的政策改革相配合，就能够极大地帮助改良治理。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a shift that raises a major question: if those who are willing to act prove incapable of doing so “successfully,” what happens to global stability unless those who are capable are also willing to step in?",
        "上述变化派生出一个重要的疑问：如果愿意行动的人没有能力取得“成功”，那么除非有能力的人也愿意参与进来，否则全球稳定还能否保持？"
    ],
    [
        "Doing nothing left Russia’s security structures unscathed and able to make a political comeback, which they have now achieved.",
        "无所作为使俄国的安全机构侥幸逃脱，伺机发动政治反扑，他们的反扑已经在今天取得了成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, cap-and-trade systems in practice do not rely solely on auctions to distribute the emissions permits.",
        "更为糟糕的是，“总量管制和排放交易”系统在实际操作中不仅仅是通过竞价拍卖来发放牌照。"
    ],
    [
        "Selection of children need not involve abortion.",
        "筛选子女不一定要做人流。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gulf coast of Mexico and Central American countries has repeatedly experienced such tragedies, with poor communities the most vulnerable and the least able to cope.",
        "墨西哥湾沿岸和中美洲国家多次经历了这种悲剧，贫困地区受到的损害最为严重，而其应对危险的能力却最低。"
    ],
    [
        "The length of an economic expansion is not a reliable predictor of when the next downturn will come.",
        "经济扩张的长度并非下一次衰退何时到来的可靠预测指标。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s not hard to see why.",
        "不难看出这是为了什么。"
    ],
    [
        "As the discussion went on, one child would occasionally let out a blood-curdling scream.",
        "随着讨论的进行，一名儿童偶尔发出令人毛骨悚然的尖叫。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1930’s, the control of banks went hand in hand with the control of capital movements and in the end with the fixing of exchange rates.",
        "在 20 世纪 30 年代，伴随着银行管制的加强，资本流管制日益趋紧，最终迎来了固定汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "The large hole (on the order of $700 billion or more) in global aggregate demand will have to be filled over time by a compensating increase in consumption in surplus economies, such as China and Japan.",
        "全球需求上的巨大窟窿（大约至少7000亿美元）将会随着时间，通过一些经济体国家，例如中国和日本的逐步增长的消费而慢慢弥补。"
    ],
    [
        "While a small portion of the project may be saved, the essential reality is that this is a unique failure in the history of multilateral trade negotiations, which have transformed the global economy since World War II.",
        "其中一小部分或许可以救活，但根本现实是，这是改变二战后全球经济面貌的多边贸易谈判史上一次独一无二的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "The BoE’s governor is now in the odd position of being invited to knock himself out – and in public, too.",
        "英格兰银行行长目前的处境相当微妙，他被要求把他自己赶出局-而且还是以公开的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Will a user need some kind of license and obligatory insurance to operate a prosthesis?",
        "使用者是否需要获得某种执照和强制性保险才能操纵假肢？"
    ],
    [
        "Freedom of speech is thus fundamental to what universities are, enabling them to sustain a sense of common humanity and uphold the mutual tolerance and understanding that underpin any free society.",
        "言论自由因此对大学而言至关重要，它能让学者保持人类共同情感，并捍卫支撑任何自由社会的共同的理解和宽容。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, there is not much to be said against the tax (other than what is said against all taxes), and something to be said for it.",
        "总而言之，除了反对一切税收都适用的理由外，没有反对托宾税的特别理由，但支持托宾税的理由有不少。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the market no longer able to generate prosperity?",
        "市场不再能够制造繁荣了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, it is imperative that European governments adopt cost-cutting measures that do not jeopardize their naval assets.",
        "有见及此，在欧洲各国政府实施支出削减方案时也不应染指本国的海军资产。"
    ],
    [
        "But how would a semantic search engine solve the information quality problem?",
        "但是，语义搜索引擎将如何解决信息质量的问题呢？"
    ],
    [
        "They point to steel, coal, and construction statistics, which really are collapsing in several Chinese regions, and to exports, which are growing much less than in the past.",
        "他们拿钢铁、煤炭和建筑业数字（在中国的一些地区，这些数字确实呈现出崩溃之势），以及出口数字（增长比以往大幅下降）作为论据。"
    ],
    [
        "Absent local political will, and when confronted with a peace-making project that may take years to complete, the US is virtually powerless.",
        "缺乏当地政治意愿，并且面对可能需要几年才能完成的调解计划，美国事实上无能为力。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last quarter of 2008, economic output had declined by an astonishing 8.2% per annum.",
        "在2008 年第四季度，年经济产出出现了8. 2%的惊人下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the banking union needs to be strengthened through an enhanced resolution regime and an integrated financial supervisor, and a sovereign insolvency mechanism should be introduced.",
        "比如，银行联盟需要通过加强清算机制和综合金融监督机构进行强化，并且应该引入一套主权破产机制。"
    ],
    [
        "In the twenty-first century, it has showed how devastating a lack of such leadership can be.",
        "在二十一世纪，美国又证明了缺乏这一领导力所能造成的灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The mortgage-backed securities that US banks succeeded in selling to the world are not comparable to European assets with similar names.",
        "美国银行成功地销往世界的用房屋按揭贷款支持的证券无法与名字相似的欧洲资产相比。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue has become serious enough that European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has asked the European Systemic Risk Board to investigate it.",
        "事态严重，以至于欧洲央行行长马里奥·德拉吉（Mario Draghi）要求欧洲系统性风险委员会对此进行调查。"
    ],
    [
        "But this problem is easily negotiated.",
        "但是这个问题是可以很容易解决的。"
    ],
    [
        "Studies have shown that there is a significant positive association between a higher intake of fruits and vegetables and reduced risk of chronic disease.",
        "研究表明水果和蔬菜摄入越多与降低患慢性病的危险之间存在着非常明显的正比关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, those rules have proved completely ineffective.",
        "不幸的是，这些规则完全无效。"
    ],
    [
        "The nationalist Council for National Strategy published a devastating report on the decay of Russia’s military under Putin.",
        "民族主义者掌握的“国家战略委员会”发表了一份关于俄罗斯军力在普京任期衰落的具有杀伤力的报告。"
    ],
    [
        "Targets can be adjusted in light of future developments to be more or less aggressive, (probably more, if the scientists’ predictions are borne out).",
        "目标可以根据未来发展情况调整激进程度（更加激进的可能性更大，如果科学家的预测兑现的话）。"
    ],
    [
        "The key was the recognition that Iran’s sense of honor had to be accommodated.",
        "关键在于承认伊朗的荣誉感必须得到顾及。"
    ],
    [
        "But it remains very expensive, and efforts to develop the technology at scale have moved slowly.",
        "但这项技术目前的价格依然昂贵，大规模推广工作进展是非常缓慢的。"
    ],
    [
        "With Chinese companies no longer able to sell a rapidly increasing volume of products abroad and support further expansion of productive capacity, the economy has lost some important growth, employment, and wage engines.",
        "中国公司不再能够向国外出售迅速扩大的产量并进一步支持产能扩张，中国经济失去了一些重要的增长。 就业和工资引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "As central banks brought policy interest rates down to zero, no one cared that gold yields no interest.",
        "由于中央银行已经将政策利率降至零，没有人会在意黄金也是零利息的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "The Soviet Union imploded because the party was the state, and vice versa.",
        "苏联之所以崩溃，是因为党即是国，国即是党。"
    ],
    [
        "Renzi will need the support not just of his own party, which is deeply divided over the referendum, but also of an Italian electorate that has grown disillusioned with politics in general.",
        "伦齐不仅需要获得已经在公投议题中陷入严重分裂的本党派的支持，还需要争取已经对政治大失所望的意大利选民的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, as NATO Ambassador in the 1970’s, I had to fly back to testify against legislation in the US Congress to withdraw America’s forces from Europe in the middle of the Cold War.",
        "事实上，作为1970年代期间美国驻北约大使，我不得不在冷战中期飞回美国作证反对美国国会通过从欧洲撤回美国军队的议案。"
    ],
    [
        "(Why they need to be bribed by poor countries to do what is good for them is an enduring mystery.)",
        "（富裕国家为什么需要穷国贿赂它们以使它们做对自己有好处的事是一个不解之谜）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the power of vested interests that oppose reform – state-owned enterprises, provincial governments, and the military, for example – has yet to be broken.",
        "此外，反对改革的既得利益——比如国有企业、省政府和军队——还有待破冰。"
    ],
    [
        "Will it be possible for them to rollover their market funding in these circumstances?",
        "在这样的环境下，欧元区银行还有可能对其市场融资进行展期吗？"
    ],
    [
        "With a Republican president, the party has always been glad to boost public spending and relax debt limits, as it was under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.",
        "如果总统是共和党，共和党总是乐于刺激公共支出、放松债务限制，里根和小布什时代就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "A Global Agenda for Seven Billion",
        "70亿人的全球日程"
    ],
    [
        "Rising spreads in Spain and Italy show that contagion is already occurring, even in the absence of an official decision to write down Greek debt.",
        "即便目前还没有正式决定取消希腊债务，但在西班牙和意大利不断爆发的事件说明危机早已开始蔓延了。"
    ],
    [
        "As one of his supporters put it, he is a “pragmatic idealist.”",
        "正如他的一位支持者所指出的，他是个“实用主义的理想主义者”。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump seems intent on transforming the presidency into another source of personal wealth.",
        "特朗普似乎执意要将总统任期转化为用一种个人敛财工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The most openly conservative French government of the past decade was essentially elected by the left.",
        "左翼党派实际上选出了近10年来最为保守的法国政府。"
    ],
    [
        "While there was less American leadership than one would have hoped, indeed expected under the circumstances, many participants were simply relieved that America did not put up obstacles to reaching a global consensus, as would have been the case if George W. Bush were still president.",
        "但恰恰当美国的领导角色并没有想象中那么重要时，许多与会成员反而会感到宽慰，因为美国将不会像小布什总统在任时那般对全球共识的达成设置诸多障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "In my opinion, it is superfluous to ask the Palestinians to recognize the nationhood of a people with thousands of years of history and a state that maintains diplomatic relations with 150 countries around the world.",
        "在我看来，对于这个有着上千年的历史和已经被世界上150多个国家承认的国家而言，要求巴勒斯坦人的承认显然是多此一举。"
    ],
    [
        "Ghana is best known for producing cocoa and gold, but today Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), a Texas company that runs the outsourcing operation, is the country's largest private employer.",
        "加纳以生产可可和金子著称，但今天经营外包服务的一家来自德克萨斯州的名为\"关联计算服务公司\"(ACS)的企业却是该国最大的私营雇主。"
    ],
    [
        "On July 29, many organizations staged a large protest in Cairo’s Tahrir to highlight the unity of Egypt’s revolutionaries (whose demands included a public trial of Mubarak).",
        "7月29日，不少组织在开罗解放广场举行了示威，以示埃及革命者之间的合作无间（公审穆巴拉克便是他们的要求之一）。"
    ],
    [
        "G-20 summits are more cumbersome as a result, but that simply reflects the reality of the ongoing shift in economic power from West to East.",
        "虽然这也令G20峰会更加臃肿，但却也清晰地反映了经济实力从西方向东方转移的事实"
    ],
    [
        "We are also proposing that an international convention be adopted to establish liability and compensation for both economic losses and ecological damage caused by offshore oil and gas exploration and production, which should also always be subject to legally binding safety protocols.",
        "我们还建议采取国际公约为离岸油气开采和生产所造成的经济损失和生态破坏规定责任和补偿。 离岸油气开采和生产活动也应该受到具法律约束力的安全协议的管辖。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a real cinema of humility – the directors again and again have chosen to take seriously the dramas and struggles of ordinary people and find the heroism or tragedy therein.",
        "这些才是真正关于人性的电影——导演们一次又一次地选择严肃看待普通大众的遭遇和抗争，并从中发掘潜藏的英雄主义或悲剧情节。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the two leaders’ mutual loathing is long and legendary.",
        "事实上，两位领导人的对立既久且盛。"
    ],
    [
        "Acting on their own, nation-states can successfully address neither tax avoidance nor carbon emissions.",
        "各自为政的民族国家无法解决避税和碳排放问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The amounts of money involved are not large relative to the overall size of the US government.",
        "所涉资金量相对美国政府的总规模而言并不大。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, publicly traded European companies had excess cash holdings of €750 billion ($1 trillion) in 2011, close to a 20-year high.",
        "事实上，2011年欧洲上市公司手握着7500亿欧元的超额现金，接近20年新高。"
    ],
    [
        "Building on such evidence, the University of Oxford is extending its research on the “shame-poverty nexus,” to study how the international development sector can “shame-proof” anti-poverty policies.",
        "基于这一证据，牛津大学正在将其“羞耻-贫困的关系”的研究进行扩张，探讨国际发展部门如何制定“不羞耻”（shame-proof）的扶贫政策。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, organic producers do use insecticides and fungicides to protect their crops, despite the green myth that they do not.",
        "与此同时，有机农业生产商确实也使用杀虫剂和杀菌剂保护作物，尽管绿色神话说没有这回事。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, beyond the social misery produced by the re-institutionalized cruelty of the current global economic system, the greatest danger facing the world nowadays is that very system’s inherent instability.",
        "毕竟，除了当前全球经济体系重新制度化后的冷酷无情所带来的种种社会不幸之外，如今全世界所面临的最大危险，就是这个体系与生俱来的不稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "As always, there is no guarantee.",
        "当然，这一点永远不能打包票。"
    ],
    [
        "It was also only in the 1960’s that Milton Friedman clearly formulated the Great Depression’s monetary lessons.",
        "也是在60年代，米尔顿·弗里德曼才清晰地阐述了货币主义从大萧条中得出的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Robert Peston, in his 2005 biography of then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, described Brown’s “pragmatic view that the EU was a good thing only insofar as it delivered practical benefits of peace and prosperity to Britain.”",
        "在其为时任英国财政大臣戈登·布朗撰写的2005年传记中，罗伯特·佩斯顿描述了布朗的实用主义观点，即认为“欧盟只有为英国带来和平繁荣的实际利益才是好东西。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, Francis has launched a series of initiatives aimed at pleasing just about everyone.",
        "与此同时，方济各采取了一系列行动，旨在让所有人都满意。"
    ],
    [
        "Will a President Kerry really be able to rally allies to America's side?",
        "凯利总统真的能把盟友重新召回美国的旗下？"
    ],
    [
        "Parliament’s functioning has become, to most Indians, an embarrassment and, to many, an abomination.",
        "对大部分印度人来说，议会的运转状况让人尴尬，更有许多印度人对此感到不齿。"
    ],
    [
        "The worry is that information technology is now on the bend of a \"hockey stick\" curve, where it will suddenly take off at much greater speed than before.",
        "（人们的）忧虑在于信息技术现在到了\"起飞\"的前夕，它会突然以前所未有的速度发展。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, despite widespread knowledge of the risks, global obesity goes largely unchecked, while tobacco and alcohol use continue to rise.",
        "但尽管这些风险早已众所周知，全球肥胖率仍居高不下，而烟草和酒精消费量在不断增加。"
    ],
    [
        "And it happened in his hometown of Sirte.",
        "而这一幕发生在其故乡苏尔特。"
    ],
    [
        "While these novel susceptibility factors have been shown to be significantly associated with an increased relative breast cancer risk, the statistical significance does not imply clinical utility for preventive management and therapy of breast cancer – at least not yet.",
        "尽管有证据表明这些新发现的易感因素能大大增加罹患乳腺癌的概率，但统计数据却并不支持以此为由展开包括乳腺癌预防管理和治疗在内的临床应用，至少到目前为止尚不支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite being wildly popular, Reddit is mentioned in mainstream media coverage only when its most controversial conversations boil over, as occurred in 2008, when a Reddit subpage (or subreddit) called “Jailbait” provided a platform for users to exchange child pornography.",
        "尽管Reddit在网上非常热门，但只有在其最具争议的帖子“炸锅”后，才会被主流媒体提及，比如，2008年Reddit的一个名叫“Jailbait”（祸水妞儿）的子页面（版面）被用户用作了儿童色情交易平台。"
    ],
    [
        "China responded to the 2009 global slowdown with dramatic fiscal and monetary stimulus, which fueled a rapid investment-led recovery at home and throughout Asia.",
        "为了应对2009年全球放缓，中国抛出了大规模财政和货币刺激，助长了国内和整个亚洲的投资拉动型快速复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "A 401(k) is a heavily tax-favored account in which workers can save money for their retirement.",
        "401(K)是具有大量税收优惠的账户，据此，员工可存款以备退休之用。"
    ],
    [
        "While far smaller than the deposits in Saudi Arabia or Iran, Caspian oil could prove important if oil production falls or is reduced for political reasons elsewhere.",
        "尽管与沙特阿拉伯或伊朗相比不可同日而语，但在其他地方石油产量下降或受到政治因素影响的情况下，里海地区石油资源的重要性就能够充分地显现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Resolving disputes requires mutually accepted principles that guide how individuals and countries interact.",
        "解决分歧需要共同接受的原则，这些原则能够引导个人和各国互动。"
    ],
    [
        "As in past periods of economic transformation, AI will unleash new levels of productivity, augment our personal and professional lives, and pose existential questions about the age-old relationship between man and machine.",
        "就像过去的经济转型期一样，人工智能将释放新的生产力水平、强化个人和职业生涯并提出有关人和机器间古老关系的存在性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistani attempts to seek support against India were widely rebuffed, with Pakistan’s usual supporters, China and the US, mildly calling for both sides to defuse the tensions.",
        "巴基斯坦寻求支持反对印度的企图普遍遭到了挫败，作为该国惯常支持者的中美只是温和地呼吁双方缓和紧张局势。"
    ],
    [
        "The performance of the IOSCO and the IAIS has similarly been sharpened by the need to report progress through the FSB.",
        "IOSCO和IAIS也因为需要通过金融稳定委员会报告进展而取得了类似的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Sino-Japanese relations are particularly fraught, with two decades of economic stagnation in Japan and rapid growth in China fueling nationalist overreaction on both sides.",
        "中日关系尤其令人担心，日本二十年的经济停滞和中国二十年的快速增长加剧了双方民族主义热情高企。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, his mental-health records were released to the public two years later, reviving the link between his crime – killing 32 people and wounding 17 others before committing suicide – and his mental illness.",
        "此外，他的精神卫生记录在两年后被公之于众，再一次将他的罪行——杀害32人，致伤17人，然后自尽——和他的精神病联系起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the Chinese government had ample scope for policy intervention, this turnaround should come as no surprise.",
        "中国政府有充足的政策干预空间，因此如此转折并不令人奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "Once upon a time, such contracts were enforced by armed intervention, as Mexico, Venezuela, Egypt, and a host of other countries learned at great cost in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.",
        "曾几何时，这样的契约由武力干预来强制实施，墨西哥、委内瑞拉、埃及和其他一些国家在十九世纪和二十世纪初以沉重的代价学到了这一教训。"
    ],
    [
        "The natural interest rate was low because, as the Fed’s current chairman Ben Bernanke explained at the time, the world had a global savings glut (or, rather, a global investment deficiency).",
        "自然利率之所以低，是因为正如美联储现任主席本·贝南克当年解释的那样，世界正面对全球性储蓄过剩（或者说全球性投资匮乏。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Only with a new approach – and tangible progress – can solidarity within Europe be regained.",
        "只有实施新的方法——和切实的进展——才能重新让欧洲实现团结。"
    ],
    [
        "Budget cuts – together with accountability issues and new technological challenges – are also hurting those tasked with delivering good governance.",
        "预算削减——加上问责的压力以及新技术的挑战——也正在损害及威胁那些旨在提供良好治理的倡议及项目。"
    ],
    [
        "The terrible French peacekeeping experience in Bosnia in the early 1990s, in which France lost 84 soldiers serving in a humanitarian capacity under restrictive ROEs, justifies their fears.",
        "1990年代法国在波斯尼亚惨痛的维和经历是他们这种担忧的来源。 在这次行动中法国失去了在限制性“交战规则”指导下执行人道主义使命的84名维和士兵。"
    ],
    [
        "For one thing, the elites have failed not only to predict recent populist victories, but also to anticipate that the decidedly non-populist François Fillon would win the French center-right Republicans’ presidential primary by a wide margin.",
        "一方面，精英不但没能预见到最近的民粹主义胜利，他们也没有预见到坚定的反民粹主义者弗朗索瓦·菲永以绝对优势赢得法国中右翼共和党的总统初选。"
    ],
    [
        "The analogy popularized by the great monetarist economist Milton Friedman was that the central bank could always deal with deflationary problems by dropping money from a helicopter.",
        "货币主义经济学家米尔顿·弗里德曼做出的一种广为人知的类比是，中央银行总能通过从直升机上撒钱的做法来解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The dynamic in the WTO stands in stark contrast to that within the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.",
        "而世贸组织内部的动态则与国际货币基金组织和世界银行形成了鲜明对比。"
    ],
    [
        "As my Berkeley colleagues Christina and David Romer have shown, fiscal policy is less effective in countering recessions, and less likely to be used, when a country has already incurred a high public debt.",
        "我的伯克利同事卡里斯蒂娜·罗默和大卫·罗默（Christina and David Romer）指出，如果一国已经积累了很高的公共债务，那么财政政策在抵御衰退方面效果较低，采用的可能性也较小。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of making a halt to uranium enrichment the be-all and end-all of their effort, their central objective should be to subject the Iranian activities to as much verification as possible: if Iran wants to enrich, so be it, but it must accept intrusive international inspections.",
        "它们所有努力的最终目标不应当是停止其浓缩铀，其中心目标应当是让伊朗的活动尽可能地接受核查。 可以放任伊朗搞浓缩，但是它必须接受严格的国际核查。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, it has taken the unprecedented step of incorporating monetary policy into a comprehensive economic strategy based on coordination among different policy areas and their associated institutions.",
        "与此同时，它还采取了前所未有的动作，让货币政策成为基于不同政策领域和相关机构协调合作的全方位经济战略的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Yushchenko's promises resonate across Ukraine.",
        "尤什申科的承诺传遍了乌克兰举国上下。"
    ],
    [
        "Today's challenges call for such a dynamic use of educational policy.",
        "当今的挑战需要我们积极地采用这样的教育政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the Securities and Exchange Commission enacted a rule at the beginning of August requiring public companies to disclose the pay gap between workers and CEOs.",
        "美国证券与交易委员会（SEC）从8月初开始实施一项规则，要求上市公司披露员工与CEO之间的薪酬差距。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there is good reason to believe that the situation is less alarming and more containable than this.",
        "事实上，有足够的理由去相信情况并非如此危急，而且依然在控制范围以内。"
    ],
    [
        "They use their discipline as a kind of mental hygiene to protect against the grossest errors in thinking.",
        "他们将经济学用作一种思想消毒剂，杜绝思维中的严重错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Nasser’s successor, Anwar Sadat, attempted to revive Egypt by liberalizing the economy, making peace with Israel, and abandoning the alliance with the Soviets in favor of the US and Western Europe.",
        "纳赛尔的继任者安瓦尔·萨达特试图通过自由化重振埃及经济、与以色列握手言和，并放弃与苏联结盟而转向西欧和美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Although that strategic change in US policy is also in Israel’s best interests, most Israelis will not see it that way.",
        "虽然这一美国政策的战略转变也是最符合以色列利益的，但大多数以色列人并不会这么认为。"
    ],
    [
        "The new administration will also need to learn to work together and review existing policies before it can decide on new ones.",
        "新政府还要学会合作并审查现有政策，之后才能进入新政策的确定阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "Though he pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership early in his term, the remaining 11 partners are moving to sustain most of the agreement.",
        "尽管他在上任之初就率领美国退出了跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP），但其他的11个伙伴国仍保持着该协定的大部分内容。"
    ],
    [
        "True, all taxes are distorting, and the government has to raise money somehow.",
        "诚然，所有税收都有扭曲性，而政府总得筹集资金。"
    ],
    [
        "What really explains these new public controversies surrounding religion is something else, something political: the dilemma in which right-wing and center-right European parties find themselves.",
        "真正能解释这些围绕宗教新出现公众争议的是某些与政治有关的其他因素：那就是右翼和中左翼欧洲政党所处的两难境地。"
    ],
    [
        "That doesn’t change the basic fact that the current halfway house is untenable.",
        "这并不能改变这一基本事实：目前这种半吊子体制是站不住脚的。"
    ],
    [
        "If that happens, we will all know who lost Thailand.",
        "果真如此的话，我们所有人都将知道谁输掉了泰国。"
    ],
    [
        "Reagan’s prior experience as a Hollywood actor served him well in this regard, and Roosevelt was a consummate actor as well.",
        "里根曾作为一名好莱坞演员的经验让他在这方面受益匪浅，罗斯福也曾是个技艺精湛的演员。"
    ],
    [
        "Tens of thousands of micro-hydro systems operate in China, and nearly none in Africa.",
        "这种技术从很小的水流上就可以产生小量的电，在中国有数万个微水电系统在运行而在非洲却几乎为零。"
    ],
    [
        "US Secretary of State John Kerry’s current dedication and drive on the Israeli-Palestinian issue is exemplary: If it matters, act on it, however difficult.",
        "美国国务卿约翰·克里目前的恪尽职守及对以巴问题的态度可以视之为新的典范：如果重要就采取行动，不管会面临多大困难。"
    ],
    [
        "That policy continues to guide the Obama administration, which has broadened the annual economic consultations with China to include security issues.",
        "这一政策也在奥巴马政府得以延续，并进一步将两国的年度经济磋商议题扩展到安全事务方面。"
    ],
    [
        "The first impact of monetizing vanishing assets could be to lower demand for such goods, since one lawnmower, for example, can serve many people.",
        "而将消逝性资产货币化所产生的首要影响就是降低了对这些产品的需求，因为一台剪草机可供多个人分享使用了。"
    ],
    [
        "A pioneering social-networking platform called Tawasul (“Connection”), established by the IRC and the non-profit news organization Internews, has been set up to help refugees help one another through the exchange of information and advice.",
        "IRC和非盈利新闻组织Internews建立了一个被称为Tawasul（“联系”）的创新社交网络平台以帮助难民通过信息和建议交流互相帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Playing the role of swing producer was coming at a growing cost to both current and future generations of Saudi citizens.",
        "扮演摇摆生产者的角色对于当前和未来沙特公民来说成本日益增加。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, success will require major technological advances and their broad adoption.",
        "从长远来看，取得成功需要重大的技术进步和对先进技术的普遍应用。"
    ],
    [
        "But, until recently, the divergences were viewed in terms of interests, not “philosophies.”",
        "但是，直到最近，这一分歧都是从利益而非“哲学”角度出发的。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporations are allowed to deduct interest payments on bonds, but stock dividends are effectively taxed at the both the corporate and the individual level.",
        "企业也被允许减免为债券所支付的利息，但股票分红无论是在企业还是个人方面都要被征税。"
    ],
    [
        "“I still find it quite unethical,” Daoud responded, “that I was pushed into the role of sacrificial lamb to be brought on the altar of local hate, condemned for Islamophobia by today’s Inquisition.”",
        "“我还是觉得这样做很不道德，”达乌德回应道，“我被当做祭祀的羔羊呈送到当地仇恨的祭坛上，并被今天的宗教法庭谴责为伊斯兰教的仇视者。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "And, even in electricity generation, emerging economies’ INDCs imply significant new investments in coal or gas capacity.",
        "此外，即使是在发电领域，新兴经济体的INDC仍表明将出现煤电和天然气电的重大投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider, for example, the biggest challenge facing us, which deserves to be called existential: global warming and climate change.",
        "比如说我们目前所面对的最大，且足以被定义为事关生死存亡的挑战：全球变暖和气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet two simultaneous phenomena suggest that the West may have been buried prematurely by its own Cassandras and by Asian pundits who sometimes behave like “arrogant Westerners.”",
        "然而，两种同时发生的现象表明，西方国家可能已提前被西方预言家和行为举止有时貌似“傲慢的西方人”的亚洲学者所埋葬。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this is typical of Chirac’s leadership style: blame others, excuse yourself, and ignore reform.",
        "不幸的是，这正是典型的希拉克领导风格：责怪他人，原谅自己，无视改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Obama advocated holding a “national conversation” on the question of state versus federal legislation on such issues.",
        "最后，奥巴马号召召开一次“全国会议”讨论这些在这些事物上州法和联邦法冲突的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "When international funds are available, this produces short-lived booms and large current-account deficits, financed by heavy external borrowing.",
        "当巴西可以获得国际资金时，这催生了短期的繁荣和大规模经常项目赤字（通过大量对外借款融资）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Middle East’s role in the global geopolitics of energy will grow in the coming decades, making it difficult to see how a superpower like the US could simply walk away from the region.",
        "此外，中东在全球能源地缘政治中的作用将在未来几十年中与日俱增，因此，对于美国这样的超级大国，很难想象它会对该地区一弃了之。"
    ],
    [
        "In rich societies over the last three decades, mean incomes have been rising steadily, but typical incomes have been stagnating or even falling.",
        "过去三十年来，发达国家的平均收入稳步上升，但典型收入一直停滞不前甚至有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Though students who attended preschool do not perform better than their peers in primary school, they do tend to earn more as adults.",
        "尽管受过学前教育的学生在小学阶段的表现并不比未受学前教育的同学强，但成年后的收入确实更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these weapons remain deployed or designed for use within the Euro-Atlantic region.",
        "其中很多武器仍然设计用于或部署在欧洲大西洋区域。"
    ],
    [
        "Under a newly negotiated arrangement, labor-exporting countries would likely have an incentive to curb free riders and illegal emigration, and labor-importing countries would likely have an incentive to legalize and manage the status of illegal immigrants already within their borders.",
        "根据新谈判的安排，劳动力输出国或将产生遏制免费搭车者和非法向外移民的激励，而劳动力输入国或将产生已入境非法 移民合法化和地位管理的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Breaking the circle of poverty by addressing the most pressing issues of disease, hunger, and polluted water will not only do obvious good; it will also make people less vulnerable to the effects of climate change.",
        "通过解决疾病、饥饿和水污染等燃眉之急来打破贫困的循环不仅会明显地改善民生； 它还能够增强人们对气候变化的应对能力。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Financial Times’ Martin Wolf, among others, has pointed out, the German economy has been free-riding on global demand.",
        "正如《金融时报》的沃尔夫（Martin Wolf）和其他人所指出的，德国经济搭了全球需求的顺风车。"
    ],
    [
        "This sort of arithmetic has the merit of giving some indications about burden-sharing, but it has also been shown that burden-sharing cannot be fully captured in graphs and spreadsheets.",
        "这种算法的一个优点是可以给责任分担一些指标，但是它也显示责任分担不能用图表和数据表来完全反映。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, no policy can succeed if those who shape it are betting on its failure.",
        "毕竟，如果政策制定者一心希望政策失败，那政策成功的可能性将微乎其微。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, cancer researchers should not abandon their search for ever-more-effective cancer therapies, even for cures.",
        "当然，癌症研究人员不应放弃对更有效的癌症治疗方法、甚至是治愈方法的研究。"
    ],
    [
        "On a recent visit organized by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), the coexistence of entrenched tradition and rapid transformation was starkly apparent.",
        "在欧洲外交关系委员会（ECFR）组织的最新访问中，根深蒂固的传统与快速的变迁如何共存的问题显得颇为突出。"
    ],
    [
        "American policy might as well have been made in Likud’s headquarters.",
        "美国的政策好像是在利库德总部里制定的一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s continued slide into stagnation and disrepute is the natural outcome.",
        "欧洲就在不断的分歧之间陷入了停滞，而名誉扫地只是自然而然的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, doubts still surround the political and institutional machinery the EU will need to realize these and other ambitious goals.",
        "同时，在欧盟实现其宏伟目标所需要的政治与制度机器上仍然疑云笼罩。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these trends reduce wages and employment for low-skill workers in labor-scarce and capital-rich advanced economies, and raise them in labor-abundant emerging economies.",
        "上述这些趋势令低技能工人的工资和就业在劳动力短缺但资本充足的发达经济体和劳动力充裕的新兴经济体中此消彼长。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, since the recession’s onset, state and local governments have cut nearly 600,000 jobs and reduced spending for infrastructure projects by 20%.",
        "事实上，自衰退发生以来，州和地方政府裁掉了600 000个工作岗位和20%的基础设施项目支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie’s “android” C-3PO.",
        "而日本本田和索尼公司设计的机器人则更类似于《星球大战》中的那个叫C-3PO的人形机器人。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor unions, human rights NGOs, consumer groups, or environmental organizations do not have direct access to protection in the way that firms do.",
        "工会、人权非政府组织、消费者组织或环保组织无法获得企业所获得的直接保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Increased crop diversion to feed livestock will put upward pressure on food and land prices, making it increasingly difficult for the world’s poor to meet their basic nutritional needs.",
        "越来越多的作物用于喂养牲口将导致粮食和土地价格出现上涨压力，使世界贫困人口更加难以满足基本营养需要。"
    ],
    [
        "State and local consumer groups nationwide have been very worried about health-insurer monopolization.",
        "全国各州及地方消费团体一直对医疗保险企业的垄断化倾向表现出深深的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, South Korea’s government denies that there is any dispute over the islands.",
        "事实上，韩国政府否认两国在独岛问题上有任何争议。"
    ],
    [
        "These funds could be structured to distribute risk among a variety of projects or sectors, which might make them more attractive to investors who avoid high-stakes venture financing.",
        "这类基金可以设计成在各类项目或行业之间分散风险，这可能提高它们对躲避高风险投资的投资者的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, half of the world’s smallholders are women, and we must keep in mind their punishing task of walking long lengths to get their produce to market.",
        "”事实上，世界上一半的小农业生产者都是女性，而我们必须记住她们将极大精力耗费在了将产品送往市场的路上。"
    ],
    [
        "That is some 100 million, or 25%, more than in 2000.",
        "这一数字比2000年增加了1亿，或25%。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, that moment has come for the climate movement.",
        "现在，气候运动的时机已经到来。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not clear why Abe and his advisers believe that this will deliver sustained real GDP growth of 2% a year.",
        "安倍晋三及其幕僚为何认为这能将真实GDP增长率维持在每年2%不得而知。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2050, Asia’s urban population could nearly double, to three billion people.",
        "截至2050年，亚洲地区的城市人口可能接近翻番，达30亿人以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Some suggest that Sri Lanka turn to the International Monetary Fund, promising belt tightening.",
        "一些人认为斯里兰卡应求助于国际货币基金组织，承诺会勒紧裤带过日子。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, a strong US-Indian partnership is in both countries’ strategic interest.",
        "说到底，坚固的美印合作伙伴关系符合双方战略利益。"
    ],
    [
        "To avoid the shortfall in aggregate demand that might arise from an abrupt surge in saving, these measures should be phased in over a period of 3-5 years.",
        "为避免存款激增可能导致总需求不足，应当在3－5年内分阶段实施上述举措。"
    ],
    [
        "This would be a difficult challenge under any circumstances – and is all the more daunting against the backdrop of the Arab Spring’s destabilization of the economic systems across the Middle East and North Africa.",
        "这在任何环境下都是一项艰巨的挑战，而在整个中东和北非的经济制度因阿拉伯之春而摇摇欲坠的背景下，要获得这样的成绩尤为艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "But today, things look very different.",
        "但事到如今，情况已经大不相同了。"
    ],
    [
        "The summit should be designed to highlight the critical advantages of cooperation and rebuff the emerging view that multilateralism is simply a burden to bear.",
        "此次峰会应旨在凸显合作的关键优势，同时对多边主义不过是一种负担的新兴观点加以反驳。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Ebola was known to be both contagious and often fatal, it was thought that only Africa’s impoverished rural population was at risk.",
        "尽管我们已知埃博拉具有传染性和高致死率，但我们认为只有非洲贫困的农村人口属于高危人群。"
    ],
    [
        "Empowering the Iranian people means weakening Khamenei and his military allies.",
        "向伊朗人民赋予力量意味着削弱哈梅内伊及其军事同盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Romney’s proposed contractionary policies – the attempt to reduce deficits prematurely, while the US economy is still frail – will almost surely weaken America’s already anemic growth, and, if the euro crisis worsens, it could bring on another recession.",
        "罗姆尼推荐主张经济紧缩的政策——当美国经济仍然很虚弱时贸然试图降低赤字——几乎必然会削弱美国本已乏力的增长，而且，如果欧元危机继续恶化，将会引发另一轮衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, everyone is gearing up behind the scenes for a “Copenhagen 2,” and what those involved in the negotiations are calling “an even greater slog.”",
        "实际上所有人都在幕后铆足了劲准备应付“第二轮哥本哈根会议”，而那些参与谈判的人则将其称之为“更艰苦的跋涉”。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics assert that Zhu’s 1994 tax reform led to the current real-estate bubble, because it drove local governments to use land sales to boost their incomes.",
        "批评者称，朱镕基的1994年税制改革导致了目前的房地产泡沫，因为改革让地方政府通过出售土地提高收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing this problem, banks can hold their host governments to ransom.",
        "恰恰是看准了这一点，那些银行便可以向它们的政府勒索赎金。"
    ],
    [
        "But, on the other side of the Atlantic, Americans have no reason to feel smug.",
        "但在大西洋的另一边，美国人就找不到任何自命不凡的理由了。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, former Secretary of State and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and a leading Republican contender, Donald Trump, have opposed reform of Social Security and Medicare.",
        "相反，前国务卿、民主党候选人希拉里·克林顿和共和党阵营中的领先者唐纳德·特朗普都反对社会安全与医疗保险改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil companies around the world keep supply off the market by reducing the amount of oil that they take out of the ground.",
        "全球石油公司通过降低它们从地下采掘的石油量保持低供给。"
    ],
    [
        "Public opinion polls showed, for the first time, a plurality of Americans favoring Nixon’s impeachment.",
        "民意调查则首次显示多数美国人赞成弹劾尼克松。"
    ],
    [
        "Wars in Syria, Eritrea, Libya, and Mali have been a huge factor in driving the current surge of refugees seeking to reach Europe.",
        "叙利亚、厄立特里亚、利比亚和马里的战争是最近试图进入欧洲的难民潮的重要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Those extra years are often accompanied by illness and disability – such as dementia, which the World Health Organization now estimates affects 47.5 million people worldwide.",
        "多活的这几年，常常伴随着病痛和残疾——比如痴呆症，据世界卫生组织测算，全球有4,750万痴呆症患者。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy has long had a large Communist Party, and the left may be in power again; but there is no gut antagonism to the freedoms that capitalism encourages.",
        "很久以来，意大利的共产主义势力十分强大，左翼党派很可能再次掌权，但却对资本主义鼓励的自由丝毫没有感到抵触。"
    ],
    [
        "Not so long ago, it would have been unimaginable to contemplate a British exit from the European Union, or a Republican presidential candidate in the United States promising to renege on trade agreements, build a wall against Mexican immigrants, and punish companies that move offshore.",
        "不久前，认为英国会退出欧洲联盟或美国共和党总统候选人承诺违反贸易协议、筑墙阻挡墨西哥移民和惩罚离岸企业还是难以想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it would be naive not to ask whether retaining a member that is challenging the very principle of European integration would really be in the EU’s best interests.",
        "事实上，不问一问保留一个挑战欧洲一体化原则的成员是否真的符合欧盟的最佳利益是幼稚的。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Syria’s moderate Sunnis came under attack from two sides: Assad’s government and extremist adherents of Wahhabism, Islam’s most intolerant school of thought.",
        "不幸的是，叙利亚的温和逊尼派腹背受敌：巴沙尔政府和极端的瓦哈比派（伊斯兰教中最偏狭的思想流派）。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that crises have become the EU’s new normal has reinforced the notion, already ubiquitous among Europhiles and Eurocrats, that we will simply continue to muddle through.",
        "危机已成为欧盟新常态的现实强化了这一其实已经在亲欧人士和欧盟官员当中无所不在的观念。 这种观念认为我们只能继续蒙混过关。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the Fund’s role, even in the current crisis, should be sharpened as an interlocutor between lenders and developing country borrowers, rather than simply as a replacement for all other loan sources.",
        "反而，即使在当前的危机中，国际货币基金组织作为贷款国家和发展中国家借款人的中间人的作用也应该得到加强，而不是将国际货币基金组织仅仅作为所有其他贷款资源的替代者。"
    ],
    [
        "The countries that have been severely affected by the financial crisis illustrate the impact of reform.",
        "深受金融危机危害的国家说明了改革的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Hope usually dies last, but the incoming administration’s proposed economic policies are not encouraging.",
        "通常希望最后都会死去，但即将履新的政府所提出的经济政策并不鼓舞人心。"
    ],
    [
        "A crisis, when the viability of established arrangements is called into question, is just such a window.",
        "危机，即已有安排的活力出现问题之时，便是一种时间窗口。"
    ],
    [
        "Even some in Japan are becoming critical of Koizumi.",
        "甚至日本一些人也开始对小泉持批评意见。"
    ],
    [
        "Billionaires such as Charles and David Koch (oil and gas), Robert Mercer (finance), and Sheldon Adelson (casinos) play their politics for personal financial gain.",
        "查尔斯和戴维·科赫（来自石油天然气行业）、罗伯特·默瑟（来自金融行业）和谢尔登·阿德尔森（来自博彩行业）等亿万富翁为追求个人经济利益而玩弄政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last five years, it has confronted a seemingly endless series of tests, including a eurozone-wide financial crisis, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, renewed fears of a Greek default, and the prospect of a British exit.",
        "过去五年来，欧盟面临着一系列看似无穷无尽的考验，包括波及整个欧元区的金融危机、俄罗斯入侵乌克兰、希腊重现违约担忧以及英国退出欧盟的隐患。"
    ],
    [
        "This highlights a larger problem: the European Union lacks a unifying narrative strong enough to prevent the emergence of conflicting – and highly destructive – narratives within its borders.",
        "这凸显出一个更大的问题：欧盟缺少足够强的统一叙事以阻止其内部出现互相冲突——并且极具破坏力——的不同叙事。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks are receiving ever-larger bailouts, while countries that borrowed are cutting social programs and face rising social tensions and political instability as a result.",
        "银行获得了规模史无前例的援助，而那些向银行贷款的国家却在削减社会福利项目，并因此面临着不断高涨的社会矛盾和政治不稳定状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, European governments must show a real commitment to act together.",
        "其次，欧盟各国政府必须做出一致行动的实际承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "To this day, the Universal Declaration remains the single most important reference point for discussion of ethical values across national, ideological, and cultural divides.",
        "直到今天，《世界人权宣言》依然是跨越民族、意识形态和文化分野来探讨道德价值观的唯一一个最重要的基准点。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, Asian policymakers should improve cooperation mechanisms designed to prevent and manage crises.",
        "但即便如此，亚洲地区的政策制定者们应当携手改善旨在预防和管控危机的合作机制。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the ethical justification for economic development.",
        "这是对经济发展在伦理上的辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "New money should go to good performers, not just to those who are experiencing debt distress.",
        "新的资金应该流向表现良好的而不只是那些正经历债务困境的受援方。"
    ],
    [
        "What is that ideology?",
        "这一意识形态是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "What is changing is the way that US military power is used to implement this grand strategy.",
        "正发生着变化的，是美国用于实施这一宏大战略的军事力量。"
    ],
    [
        "If they can develop a two-track policy framework aimed at facilitating economic reform inside North Korea while continuing international pressure for denuclearization, constructive engagement may be possible.",
        "如果他们能成功制定双轨制的政策框架，在推动朝鲜经济改革的同时继续保持国际无核化压力，就有可能实现建设性的接触。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, even the pre-boom years are not a good guide for today’s European economy, because something fundamental has changed more quickly than is typically recognized: Europe’s demographic trends.",
        "不幸的是，即使是繁荣前年份也不是今天欧洲经济的好指引，因为一个基本要素比通常认为的变化得更快：欧洲的人口趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the fiscal cliff would amount to a 4.5%-of-GDP drag on growth in 2013 if all tax cuts and transfer payments were allowed to expire and draconian spending cuts were triggered.",
        "第三，财政悬崖将对2013年GDP形成4. 5%的拖累作用，如果减税和转移支付到期停止且严厉的支出削减被触发的话。"
    ],
    [
        "According to standard economic reasoning, this is inefficient.",
        "在标准经济推理中这象征着效率低下。"
    ],
    [
        "The condition of many humans – not to mention the human condition itself – will improve or worsen depending on how we use this opportunity.",
        "很多人的状况——更不用说人类状况本身——的改善或者恶化将取决于我们对这次机遇如何善加利用。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an advance in many respects.",
        "在许多方面都有了进步。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in supporting the Western model of parliamentariansm, we are on the side of Georgia, not Russia.",
        "而且从支持西方议会模式的角度讲，我们也代表了格鲁吉亚、而非俄国的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not true of Scotland or Catalonia; nor, despite Russian propaganda, does it appear to be the case for those regions of Ukraine with ethnic Russian majorities.",
        "但苏格兰或加泰罗尼亚却并非如此； 尽管俄国竭力宣传，俄罗斯族占多数的乌克兰地区也不属于这种情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond Sarkozy is Qaddafi, the ideal villain.",
        "除萨科奇以外还有卡扎菲，由他来扮演罪犯再理想不过。"
    ],
    [
        "That is what the ECB is now throwing away.",
        "而这正是欧洲央行正在抛弃的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "In Africa, hunger remains the leading cause of death in children, accounting for half of all deaths of children under the age of five and killing more than AIDS, TB, and malaria combined.",
        "饥饿仍然是非洲儿童死亡的罪魁祸首，占到5岁以下儿童死亡率的一半，致死人数超过艾滋病、结核病和疟疾的总和。"
    ],
    [
        "Happiness by Design",
        "幸福源于设计"
    ],
    [
        "So, what went wrong?",
        "那么，哪里出了问题？"
    ],
    [
        "This hardly amounts to an agenda to fight economic inequality and exclusion, and it is revealing that rich businessmen wrote the largest checks to support Leave.",
        "这显然不构成遏制经济不平等和经济排斥的日程，并且表明富裕的商人才是支持脱欧的主力军。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas the standard story – the one that motivated the drive to liberalize capital flows – is that developing countries are saving-constrained, the fact that capital is moving outward rather than inward in the most successful developing countries suggests that the constraint lies elsewhere.",
        "标准的情形是发展中国家储蓄受到限制，促使资本流动自由化，而事实是资本却是在最成功的发展中国家中，资本向外输出，而非流入。 这一情况表明限制存在于其他地方。"
    ],
    [
        "Endorsing the claim to arbitrary power is the cardinal heresy of those who say we should certify property stolen from the state as rightfully owned.",
        "认可独裁权力是那些声称应该证明从国家盗窃的财产为个人合法所有的人所提出的主要邪说。"
    ],
    [
        "Factions within the Russian, Indian, Mexican, and South African governments have their own competing political priorities.",
        "同样的，在俄罗斯，印度，墨西哥，南非，各国的政府都有自己难念的经。"
    ],
    [
        "For these reasons, the EU provides a unique model for other regions that remain stuck in a mire of conflict, poverty, lack of infrastructure, and environmental crisis.",
        "因此欧洲也为那些依旧在冲突、贫困，基础设施缺乏和环境危机中挣扎的区域提供了一个独特的范例。"
    ],
    [
        "This is precisely what happened in Japan after the yen was revalued by over 50% against the dollar between 1985 and 1987, following the Plaza Accord.",
        "这与《广场协议》签订后，日元在1985到1987年间相对美元升值50%的情况如出一辙。"
    ],
    [
        "If assault were punished with execution, perpetrators would have an incentive to kill their victims to avoid discovery (which is a major reason why the severity of punishments more generally should be matched to the severity of crimes).",
        "如果用死刑处罚人身攻击，那么罪犯就有动机杀死其受害者来避免被发现（这也是处罚的程度一般应当与犯罪的严重性相匹配的主要原因）。"
    ],
    [
        "Other industries face more daunting chicken-and-egg problems: countries lack the capabilities that growth industries demand, yet it is impossible to develop these capabilities unless the industries that require them are present.",
        "其他行业面临令人气馁的鸡和蛋问题：国家缺少成长行业所需要的功能，而这些功能无法被开发，除非需要这些功能的行业出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us also put aside the scandalous hacking of private telephones in the UK, which culminated in the closure of Murdoch’s beloved tabloid The News of the World in 2011.",
        "我们也暂且将窃听英国私人电话的丑闻放在一旁。 该丑闻最终导致了默多克最喜欢的小报《世界新闻》（The News of the World）在2011年关门大吉。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, hosting the Games does more harm than good for tourism, which thrives on word of mouth.",
        "因此，主办奥运会对依靠口碑繁荣的旅游业弊大于利。"
    ],
    [
        "While no state-run TV station had live current affairs programs ten years ago, now even stations from some of the most dictatorial regimes are forced to raise their level and allow live interviews.",
        "十年以前，没有任何一家国营电视台有直播的时事节目，现在，即使是最为独裁的政权的电视台也被迫提高水准，允许实况采访。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the language that he used to sell his scheme to the Chinese was very different from the words his father used to present his plans to Hitler.",
        "当然，他用来向中国人兜售他的规划的语言与他的父亲将他的计划提交给希特勒时所用的语言肯定非常不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The conclusion is clear: the current regulatory system, characterized by a clear and rigid division of responsibility among its constituent bodies, is completely out of sync with China’s rapidly growing, and increasingly integrated, capital markets.",
        "结果很明显：在当前的监管体系中，各机构之间的责任划分清楚而僵化，已经完全与中国快速增长、日益一体化的资本市场脱节。"
    ],
    [
        "After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Bush found his voice and the American people rallied around his presidency.",
        "2001年9月11日的恐怖袭击发生以后，布什巩固了自己的地位，美国人都聚集到他的周围。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011, he attempted to dismiss Heider Moslehi, an ally of Khamenei, from his position as intelligence chief, but was quickly overruled.",
        "2011年，他曾试图罢免哈梅内伊的盟友情报部长海达尔·穆斯利赫，但是很快就遭到了否决。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet share prices barely reacted.",
        "但股价并未因此起反应。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chernobyl Forum findings should have brought relief, for they show that the specter haunting the region is not invincible radiation, but conquerable poverty.",
        "切尔诺贝利论坛的结论应当带给人们宽慰，因为它们表明侵袭该地区的幽灵并非是不可战胜的辐射，而是可以战胜的贫穷。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that the law of rule has supplanted the rule of law, Hungary’s democratic ship may have already sailed.",
        "如今治法已经取代了法治，匈牙利的民主之船可能已经渐行渐远了。"
    ],
    [
        "It works the same way in any country.”",
        "这样的方法适用于任何国家。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "First, as we concluded in our final report, non-inclusive growth patterns will always ultimately fail.",
        "首先，我们撰写的最终报告认为，非包容性增长模式最终永远要失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Few believe that the PA and Hamas’s main rival, Fatah, will be willing or able to make such an agreement for decades.",
        "很少有人相信，巴勒斯坦民族权力机构和哈马斯的主要对手 — 法塔赫—愿意或是能够在数十年内就此达成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "In the coming decades, as incomes continue to rise, so will demand for meat and dairy products.",
        "在未来几十年中，随着收入继续上升，肉类和奶制品需求也将水涨船高。"
    ],
    [
        "But rapid urbanization is driving up industrial fossil-fuel consumption and household water consumption, and is increasing demand for food in areas where arable land is scarce.",
        "但飞速城市化推升了工业化石燃料消耗和家庭用水量，同时增加了耕地稀缺地区人们的食品需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Although some members’ allegiances now appear to be in flux, the NEC was vital in shielding Zuma from previous attempts to remove him.",
        "尽管其中一些成员忠诚看起来已经动摇，但NEC过去在祖玛化解推翻他的图谋中起着关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the US record since the doctrine was formulated, another criterion should be added: the main beneficiaries of military intervention are not America’s mortal enemies.",
        "美国在这一思想提出后的记录表明，应该在这些标准之上再增加一条：军事干预的主要受益者不是美国的道德对手。"
    ],
    [
        "We must use what has been called ‘smart power,’ the full range of tools at our disposal.”",
        "我们必须充分利用所谓的‘明智的权力’，利用能够为我们所用的一切工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue is certainly solvable, especially given an excellent education system and high-quality institutions of all kinds.",
        "这个问题肯定可以解决，尤其考虑到新加坡拥有优秀的教育体系和高质量的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Obama’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon, recently explained, US foreign policy over the past few years has been buffeted by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, concerns about terrorism, nuclear-proliferation threats in Iran and North Korea, and the recent Arab uprisings.",
        "如奥巴马的国防顾问汤姆•多尼隆所言，之前美国身陷两场战争，外交政策更多关注的是反恐怖主义、防止伊朗和朝鲜核扩散以及阿拉伯国家的局势。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise and fall of empires has long been considered a geopolitical matter, based on factors such as military assets, resource endowments, and population size.",
        "建立在军事资产、资源禀赋和人口规模等因素基础上的帝国兴衰一直被划归地缘政治事务的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "Communities could be walled off, national borders closed, and travel could be restricted or even suspended.",
        "社区将被隔离，国家边境关闭，旅行受到限制甚至中止。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1960’s analogy raises the question of whether and when a new major international currency could emerge.",
        "既然拿20世纪60年代来类比，自然就引出一个问题：会不会崛起一个新的主要国际货币？"
    ],
    [
        "An example of such collective punishment occurred in Uganda in 2014, when the World Bank froze some $90 million in loans following the government’s enactment of legislation criminalizing homosexuality.",
        "这种集体惩罚的一个例子发生在2014年的乌干达，因为乌干达政府实施了同性恋入罪的立法，世界银行冻结了约9,000万美元贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "A third necessary reform concerns money in politics.",
        "第三项必要的改革涉及到政治献金。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s fear of contagion is justified, because the Brexit referendum’s outcome has transformed the politics of EU fragmentation.",
        "对欧洲危机蔓延的恐惧合情合理，因为英国退欧公投的结果成功导致了欧盟碎片化政治的转型。"
    ],
    [
        "So, has significant change followed?",
        "那么，这是否引来了重大变化？"
    ],
    [
        "Tellingly, the British Foreign Office’s rigorous review of how the EU operates did not deliver an agenda for the repatriation of competences.",
        "颇能说明问题的是，英国外交部关于欧盟如何运行的详细评估并未给出遣返能力（repatriation of competence）的日程。"
    ],
    [
        "Another graduate student showed that the polymers were safe.",
        "另一位研究生证明聚合物是安全的。"
    ],
    [
        "From one perspective, this is just another case of emotion defeating economic logic.",
        "从某种角度，这只是感情战胜经济逻辑的又一个例子。"
    ],
    [
        "For his part, Berlusconi has cast himself as an elder statesman – even a safe pair of hands.",
        "贝卢斯科尼将自己包装为长者政治家——甚至是一手安全牌。"
    ],
    [
        "The question we need to be asking now is, how can we enhance the likelihood that we will eventually emerge into a robust recovery?",
        "我们要问的问题是，我们如何才能增加最终将出现一个强劲复苏的可能性？"
    ],
    [
        "Today, most African leaders accept it as an important, cost-effective investment and as part of their countries’ economic-development strategies.",
        "如今，大部分非洲领导人都认同这是一项重要的高性价比投资和国家经济发展战略的组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s Pipeline to Empire",
        "俄罗斯通往帝国的管道"
    ],
    [
        "Friction with the US is thus inevitable, but in the long run there is usually fruitful cooperation.",
        "因此与美国的摩擦是难以避免的，但是从长期来看它们却保持着富有成果的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, however, Gore was not successful in carrying the torch on global warming when he was a politician.",
        "但是不幸的是，戈尔在从政期间却并未成功地高举气候变暖的火炬。"
    ],
    [
        "Expansion of exports of labor-intensive manufactures has nonetheless lifted many Chinese out of poverty.",
        "劳动密集型产业的出口扩张无疑让许多中国人摆脱了贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, though growth remains well below potential, data suggest that about half of the recovery in growth has resulted from a shift in capital and labor to the tradable side of the economy, with shale gas providing a big boost.",
        "在美国，尽管增长仍显著低于潜在水平，但数据表明大约一半的增长复苏是由资本和劳动力向经济的可贸易端转移实现的，其中页岩气提供了巨大的提振作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But innovation is often embedded in capital and needs new investment to spread across economies.",
        "但创新常常来自资本，并需要新投资在不同的经济间扩散。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientists call this new period the Anthropocene – in which human beings have become the main causes of the earth’s physical and biological changes.",
        "科学家将这一新时期称为“人类纪”（Anthropocene），即人类称为地球物质和生物变化的主要原因的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "So the stories, unheard and untold, are lost.",
        "因此，这些故事不会口口相传。"
    ],
    [
        "The army has always been the strongest bulwark in assuring that Pakistan does not go the way of Iran.",
        "军队的强大保障使人们相信巴基斯坦不会走上伊朗的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "One can admire Vargas Llosa for his courage in taking the plunge, without being entirely convinced that it was the right plunge to take.",
        "人们可以钦佩巴尔加斯·略萨果断冒险的惊人勇气，但却不一定认为这次冒险是正确的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "World War II, with a death toll of at least 55 million, had been the high point of mankind’s collective savagery.",
        "第二次世界大战卷走了至少5,500万条人命，是人类历史上集体暴行的最高峰。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, the bankers are now back at their desks, earning bonuses that amount to more than most workers hope to earn in a lifetime, while young people who studied hard and played by the rules see no prospects for fulfilling employment.",
        "更糟糕的是，银行家现在踌躇满志地坐在自己的座位上，赚着大多数工人一辈子都不敢想的奖金，而努力学习、循规蹈矩的年轻人却面临着失业的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "There have been important gains in market access in the past 15 years: 80% of developing countries’ exports to developed countries are now tariff-free, while average tariffs are down overall.",
        "在过去15年中，市场准入方面取得了重大进展：如今，80%的发展中国家对发达国家出口不需要交关税，总体平均关税水平也有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Electricity, the automobile, airplane, air conditioning, and household appliances altered the way that ordinary people live in fundamental ways.",
        "电力、汽车、飞机、空调和家用电器从根本上改变了普罗大众的生活方式。"
    ],
    [
        "At present, financial firms are learning the lessons for themselves, reducing leverage and hoarding capital and cash, whereas the authorities are trying to persuade banks to expand lending – precisely the strategy that led to the current crisis.",
        "在现阶段，金融公司正在为自己吸取教训，削减杠杆、储备资本与现金，然而当局却正在试图说服银行扩大贷款规模——而这正是导致目前此次危机的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Infrastructure.",
        "基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "If a crash occurs and those countries leave the euro, their national central banks are likely to go bankrupt because much of their debt is denominated in euro, whereas their claims against the respective states and the banks will be converted to the new depreciating currency.",
        "如果发生崩溃，这些国家退出欧元，它们的国家央行有可能破产，因为大部分债务用欧元计价，而它们对各自国家和银行的债权已转换为新的贬值货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Delinquencies, defaults, and foreclosures are now spreading from sub-prime to near-prime and prime mortgages.",
        "拖欠债务、违约和取消抵押品赎回权的现象正从次级抵押贷款蔓延到近优和优质抵押贷款上。"
    ],
    [
        "One critical difference lies in economic fundamentals.",
        "一个关键不同在于经济基本面。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders who “want to speed up their development while preserving their independence,” Xi said, should look to China as “a new option.”",
        "习近平说，“希望加快发展、保持独立”的领导人，都应该将中国视为“新的选择”。"
    ],
    [
        "Just a couple of years ago, India was developing a reputation as the cool place to invest.",
        "几年前，印度还是最酷的投资目的地。"
    ],
    [
        "Bangladesh offers the lowest cost, only one-fifth the price of locations like Shanghai and Suzhou.",
        "而排名在中国之前的印度是0. 51美元每小时，成本最低的孟加拉的劳动力价格仅为上海和苏州的1/5。"
    ],
    [
        "Observers now take bets on when Kelly will decide he’s had enough.",
        "如今，观察者打赌凯利总有一天会忍无可忍。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – The man of the hour in the United Kingdom, if not in Europe, is obviously Sadiq Khan – Pakistani by origin, Muslim by faith, and newly elected Mayor of London.",
        "巴黎——英国、乃至整个欧洲当前的风云人物显然非萨迪克·汗莫属——汉原籍巴基斯坦、信奉伊斯兰教、刚刚当选伦敦市长。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, China used the Panchsheel Treaty to outwit and humiliate India.",
        "简言之，中国利用《潘查希拉条约》欺骗和羞辱印度。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider a simple thought experiment.",
        "我们来做个简单的思想实验。"
    ],
    [
        "Before, advocates of leaving the EU or euro could be ridiculed as fantasists or denounced as fascists (or ultra-leftists).",
        "之前，退出欧盟或欧元运动的鼓吹者可以被讥笑为空想家或被谴责为法西斯分子（或极左分子）。"
    ],
    [
        "I was supposed to put forward Russian proposals on the new security concept to the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) last September.",
        "我本来负责在去年九月将关于该新安全理念的俄方提案呈交北约—俄罗斯委员会(NRC)。"
    ],
    [
        "Achieving the goal of enhanced stability in the Middle East requires the two sides to work together.",
        "实现增强中东稳定的目标需要双方共同努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The redefinition of feminism as “always seeking more” fulfills the requirements of consumer capitalism and a post-industrial work ethic.",
        "虽然把女权主义重新定义为“永不满足”满足了消费资本主义和后工业时代工作伦理的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic growth picked up in the final quarter of 2012 to 7.9% – half a percentage point faster than the 7.4% increase in GDP in the third quarter.",
        "其经济增长在2012年最后一个季度提速至7. 9%——比第三季度7."
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s efforts to reclaim “great power” status for Russia may find support among his people; but that support will probably dwindle if Russians face the prospect of losing all of the comforts derived from the relatively open economy that their country has had for more than two decades.",
        "普京夺回“大国地位”的努力或许会得到民众的支持； 但如果需要以失去20多年来俄罗斯开放经济所带来的舒适生活为代价，那样的支持可能会不断萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "This entails not only an increase in the consumption-tax rate, the second round of which we have postponed, but also making the necessary adjustments so that our tax system no longer impairs investment incentives.",
        "这不仅包括增加新消费税率（目前我们暂停了消费税率的第二轮提升），也包括做出必要的调整以使我们的税收制度不再阻碍投资激励。"
    ],
    [
        "We could therefore achieve huge reductions in CO2 emissions by converting to small, lightweight, battery-powered vehicles running on highly efficient electric motors and charged by a low-carbon energy source such as solar power.",
        "因此，我们可以使用又小又轻、以电池作为能源的汽车，采用高效的电动马达，使用太阳能等低碳能源。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s growth miracle, benefiting a fifth of the earth’s population, is the most important economic event of the last quarter-century.",
        "中国的增长奇迹得益于占全球五分之一的人口，这也是过去四分之一世纪中最重要的经济事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the uncertainty about whether two of APEC’s key leaders will even speak to each other highlights the grim reality of Asian international relations today.",
        "事实上，APEC两大关键领导人是否会有交流的不确定性彰显出当今亚洲国际关系的严峻现实。"
    ],
    [
        "The primary reason, in a word, is “fracking.”",
        "主要原因一言以蔽之就是“液压裂解技术”。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sense, Modi is fortunate that his government’s failings have become so starkly apparent so early in his tenure; he now has time to address them.",
        "从某种程度上说，莫迪是幸运的——他的政府的失败在他执政伊始就表露无遗，这让他还有时间解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent high-speed rail debacle is a case in point.",
        "最近的高铁项目问题就是这一问题的写照。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreigners are either going to start earning much better returns in the US, pushing American debt levels into unsustainable territory, or else they will pull back and invest elsewhere.",
        "外国人在美国的投资回报要么会不断改善，将美国的负债水平推向不可持续的境地； 要么则会撤资，并投往别处。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the turn of the century, remarkable strides have been taken toward a world in which every person has the chance to lead a healthy, productive life.",
        "从世纪之交开始，我们就朝着人人过健康、丰富生活的社会迈出了坚实的一步。 产妇死亡人数减少近一半；"
    ],
    [
        "The survival of artisanal retailers should not be used as an excuse to introduce or uphold business regulations that ultimately protect the incumbent rich.",
        "个体零售企业的生存不应被用作制定或坚持商业法规，最终保护现有富裕阶层的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "A study by James Fearon of Stanford University and Anke Hoeffler of Oxford University’s Center for the Study of African Economies argues that societal violence – homicides and especially violence against women and children – is a much bigger problem than civil wars.",
        "斯坦福大学詹姆斯·费伦和牛津大学非洲经济研究中心安柯·霍芙勒的研究结果显示杀人、尤其是针对妇女和儿童的社会暴力远比内战更具破坏性。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while the US may technically be close to the end of a severe recession, most of America is facing a near-depression.",
        "所以说，尽管美国经济的严重衰退从技术上说已接近尾声，但大多数美国人面临的是一个近乎萧条的悲观前景。"
    ],
    [
        "The price of coal, for example, has plunged to around half of its peak level, with plenty of room remaining on the downside.",
        "比如煤炭价格就已经下跌到将近峰值一半的水平，而且还有足够的空间继续下行。"
    ],
    [
        "A well-developed “eco-city” framework was presented at this year’s Forum to counter both concerns, and features incentives promoting a new urbanization model that stresses compact land usage, mixed modes of local transportation, lighter building materials, and non-carbon energy sources.",
        "今年的发展论坛提出了解决这两项问题的“生态城市”框架，主要关注集约型土地应用、地方交通混合模式、轻型建筑材料及非碳能源等推动新型城市化模型的激励机制。"
    ],
    [
        "He could, however, undermine it, such as by indicating to countries like India that the US will not fulfill its commitments.",
        "但他可以破坏巴黎协定，比如向印度等国家表示美国不会兑现承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Export Led Growth Passé?",
        "出口带动增长是否已是明日黄花？"
    ],
    [
        "That is a recipe for renewed threats, not only to Ukraine, but to EU members like Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the three Baltic states.",
        "这样的做法会制造新的威胁，这些威胁不仅针对乌克兰，还将针对波兰、捷克共和国、匈牙利、斯洛伐克、斯洛文尼亚和其它三个波罗的海国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But the latter are “technical” and gain from standardization; the former are not and must reflect variety instead.",
        "但后者是“技术性的”，具有标准化的优点； 而前者则否，且必须反映多样化。"
    ],
    [
        "(The Watts Bar 2 reactor in Tennessee holds the record, having been under construction for 41 years.)",
        "（田纳西州的瓦茨巴（Watts Bar）2号反应堆保持着在建时间记录，已经长达41年。"
    ],
    [
        "Technological changes whip up gales of creative destruction.",
        "技术改革总是掀起创造性破坏的风暴。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynes versus the Classics: Round Two",
        "凯恩斯主义对经典主义：第二轮"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the talks have served as a platform for addressing a host of issues that range far beyond the North Korean nuclear problem, in the process nurturing interlocking, interrelated bilateral relationships in the region.",
        "其实，在营造环环相扣、相互关联的区域双边环境过程中，各国正依托六方会谈解决朝鲜核问题等诸多问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the following diets: Atkins (all fat and no carbohydrates); traditional Japanese (all carbohydrates and little fat); and Ornish (even less fat and carbohydrates with lots of fiber).",
        "我们来看一下以下食谱：阿特金斯饮食（Atkins，戒除糖分，脂肪随意）； 传统日本饮食（糖分随意，极少量脂肪）；"
    ],
    [
        "The same criticism applies to the loss-sharing arrangements that the ECB attached to its quantitative easing.",
        "相同的批评也适用于欧洲央行为其量化宽松设计的损失共担安排。"
    ],
    [
        "On the European project, she is as committed to integration as her predecessors have been.",
        "在欧洲项目上，她对一体化的承诺和前任们一样坚定。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey can be a good neighbor, but otherwise Iran is bordered by inhospitable states to the east and the north.",
        "土耳其本来可以成为不错的邻居，但除此之外伊朗东侧和北侧的邻国并不殷勤友好。"
    ],
    [
        "UNASUR or UNASUL (depending on whether one speaks Spanish or Portuguese) was established by the twelve presidents in Brasília in May 2008 with the aim of furthering economic and political integration.",
        "UNASUR 或 UNASUL（缩写视西班牙语或葡萄牙语而定）是（南美）十二国总统于2008年五月在巴西利亚建立的，其宗旨是促进经济和政治一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "A strong and stable India, on the other hand, will always be a status quo power.",
        "另一方面，一个强大而稳定的印度从来就是一个现实存在的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community has rightly condemned the crackdown.",
        "国际社会谴责缅甸的镇压行为，这是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "ERFURT – In the battle against HIV/AIDS, South Africa was for many years the perfect example of what not to do.",
        "爱尔福特——在对抗艾滋病毒/艾滋病的战斗中，南非多年来一直是各种禁忌的代名词。"
    ],
    [
        "To head off this possibility, the EU created the Stability and Growth Pact: government deficits had to be less than 3% of GDP.",
        "为了阻止这种可能性，欧盟制定了《稳定和增长协定》，规定政府赤字必须低于国内生产总值（GDP）的3%。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the division of labor between the US and Europe isn’t functioning in the time-tested manner of old: the ongoing war in Iraq is gnawing at America’s military capabilities and resulted in a crisis of moral and political legitimacy of the US across the Arabic/Islamic world.",
        "而且，美国和欧洲之间的分工在久经考验的方式下并不奏效。 伊拉克目前的战争正在侵蚀美国的军事能力，造成美国的道义和政治合法性在整个阿拉伯伊斯兰地区的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "BECCS would have enormous development implications, provoking large-scale land grabs, most likely from relatively poor people.",
        "BECCS将产生重大发展影响，造成大规模土地掠夺，最有可能的掠夺对象是相对较穷的人。"
    ],
    [
        "As the saying goes, “sunlight is the best disinfectant.”",
        "俗话说，“阳光是最好的消毒剂。"
    ],
    [
        "Global health presents a different set of challenges.",
        "全球卫生代表着完全不同的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But not only is it possible for most people to be better off than they used to be, that is precisely what economic growth means.”",
        "但让大部分人较自己的过去有所改善不但是可能的，也正是经济增长的含义。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "With the High 5s framework, the AfDB is working to bring these three ingredients together.",
        "在High 5s框架下，非洲开发银行正在努力将所有三项要素加以整合。"
    ],
    [
        "Raúl replaced Fidel as President of the Councils of Ministers and of State, but not as First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party.",
        "至少是在某种意义上。 劳尔接替菲德尔出任部长理事会主席和国家主席，但古巴共产党第一书记仍然由菲德尔本人亲自担任。"
    ],
    [
        "Have these large and promising emerging economies fulfilled expectations?",
        "这些庞大且让人寄予厚望的新兴经济体到底有没有辜负人们的期望？"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed Trap",
        "美联储陷阱"
    ],
    [
        "Another argued that the summertime market stress would most likely be a hiccup.",
        "另一位则认定夏季的市场压力很有可能只是个小问题。"
    ],
    [
        "As Europe continues down the road of digital transformation, the possibilities for growth are immediate and significant.",
        "随着欧洲继续沿数字转型之路前行，可观的增长也将随之而至。"
    ],
    [
        "I had assumed, when I made my projections in 2010, that the region’s poor demographics and weak productivity would prevent it from growing at more than 1.5% a year.",
        "我在做出2010年预测时假设，该地区的不利人口因素和低下的生产率将使其增长率无法超过每年1. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "That is about a 40% annual growth rate.",
        "也就是说其年增长率在40%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "The second complicating factor is that political power now lies in the hands of competing militias.",
        "其次，政治权力目前还掌握在相互竞争的几个军事阵营中。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, while monetary policy has limited impact when the problems are excessive debt and insolvency rather than illiquidity, credit easing, rather than just quantitative easing, can be helpful.",
        "其次，由于问题出在过度负债和资不抵债，而不是流动性缺失，因此货币政策效果有限，但信贷宽松（而不是量化宽松）仍是大有裨益的。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, as we argued during the OECD Forum and annual Ministerial Council Meeting last week, this time we need to promote investments that focus on people and the planet.",
        "简言之，正如我们在上周的经合组织论坛和部长委员会年会中指出的，这一回，我们需要促进以人和地球为核心的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "President Asif Ali Zardari went even further, saying that he did not care about the “collateral damage.”",
        "” 总统阿西夫·阿里·扎尔达里走得更远，表示自己并不关心“连带损失”。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even if only one life were saved per execution, the tradeoff might still be desirable if the life saved is much better than the life taken, which would usually be the case.",
        "但是，即使每处死一人只能挽救一条人命，如果获救的人命要大大好于被处死的人命（通常如此），这一交换还是值得的。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is often remarked that Denmark is providing every third terrestrial wind turbine in the world, creating billions in income and jobs.",
        "今天，人们还是常常会提到丹麦提供了全世界三分之一的陆上风轮机，创造了价值几十亿美元的收入和就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Social media are another powerful and relatively cheap tool to reach millions of people.",
        "社交媒体是另一个有力且相对廉价的能接触数百万人的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Qatar has money, but no other hard power, and it has been criticized for its interference in Syria and its support for the Muslim Brotherhood.",
        "卡塔尔有钱，但除此之外再无硬实力，并因其对叙利亚的干涉和支持穆斯林兄弟会而饱受诟病。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s announcement after the UN vote of new settlements around Jerusalem weakened his standing further.",
        "以色列在联合国关于耶路撒冷问题的新提案的投票表决之后发表的声明进一步削弱了他的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "The European crisis began with a Greek meltdown story, and it appears that the entire global economy is threatened by events in a country of only 11 million people.",
        "欧洲危机由一个希腊崩盘的故事作为开端，而且在这个只有1100万人的小国里发生的事件似乎威胁到了全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the damage is occurring quietly, enabling political interests to overshadow any sense of urgency about the need to redress the global economy’s intensifying problems.",
        "不幸的是，伤害在静悄悄地发生，从而让政治利益凌驾于一切关于急需解决全球经济日益加剧的问题的紧迫感之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Every geographic area must buy products it does not make and pay for them by selling to outsiders some of the output that it does make.",
        "所有地理区域都必须购买它不生产的产品，并通过把它所生产的某些产出卖给外人来支付货款。"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Rico’s debt is to be restructured under a framework established by the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA).",
        "波多黎各的债务即将在波多黎各监管、管理和经济稳定法案（PROMESA）所确定的框架下进行重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Western businessmen, architects, artists, university presidents, and museum directors – or anyone who needs large amounts of cash to fund their expensive projects – now have to deal with non-Western autocrats.",
        "西方商人、建筑师、艺术家、大学校长和博物馆馆长——或任何需要大量资金推进昂贵项目的人——现在都需要和非西方独裁者打交道。"
    ],
    [
        "The gap between the two – in terms of each country’s behavior and achievements – has never been greater.",
        "两国之间的差距——以各自的行为和成就衡量——从未如此之大。"
    ],
    [
        "In Friedman’s original work, the natural unemployment rate was a purely theoretical conjecture, founded on an assumption described as “rational expectations,” even though it ran counter to any normal definition of rational behavior.",
        "在弗里德曼的原文中，自然失业率是一个纯理论推测，建基于称之为“理性预期”的假设，尽管它违背了任何理性行为的标准定义。"
    ],
    [
        "SINGAPORE – European policymakers like to lecture the rest of the world on air pollution.",
        "新加坡—欧洲决策者喜欢给世界其他地区上空气污染课。"
    ],
    [
        "The sadder thing, though, is that this money would be spent on methane collection from waste dumps in developing nations, instead of on helping those countries’ citizens deal with more pressing concerns like health and education.",
        "可是，更可悲的是，这些钱是用来收集发展中国家的废料堆排出的甲烷，而不是用来帮助这些国家的公民应对像健康和教育这样更紧迫的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Untangling this web, and imparting to it a cooperative order, should be high on the agenda of all countries involved.",
        "解构这一网络并给施以合作秩序应当成为所有国家的日程重点。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – For those of us who were wrong about the United States’ presidential election, it is worth suppressing emotional reactions, at least for a month or two, and attempting a dispassionate judgment about what Donald Trump’s administration may mean for the world.",
        "伦敦—对我们这些错判了美国总统大选的人来说，应该克制我们情绪上的反感，至少要克制一两个月，并尝试心平气和地判断特朗普执政对世界意味着什么。"
    ],
    [
        "A combination of falling oil and primary commodity prices, an over-ripe business cycle, and the Fed’s announcement of its intent to start “tapering” its asset purchases brought the decade-long boom in many emerging markets to an end.",
        "油价和初级商品价格下跌、过于成熟（over-ripe）的商业周期，以及美联储宣布意欲开始“逐渐减少”其资产购买量让许多新兴市场长达十年的繁荣走向尾声。"
    ],
    [
        "A top scientist has now followed suit, returning his Padma Bhushan, the government’s third-highest honor.",
        "一位顶尖科学家也效而仿之，返还了他的莲花装勋章（第三高的政府荣誉）。"
    ],
    [
        "But, two centuries after Jefferson, states are no longer merely colored shapes on a map; increasingly, they are transparent and open territories that we view as home to millions of fellow human beings.",
        "但是，在杰斐逊身后两百年，各国早已不再是仅仅是地图上的彩色色块，各国的领土越来越透明和开放，我们把国家视作数百万人类共同的家园。"
    ],
    [
        "The years of John Paul II’s papacy have not actually been a time in which “soft power” could achieve a great deal anywhere, so that Stalin’s famous question, “How many divisions has the Pope?,” remained topical.",
        "约翰·保罗二世任职于一个并非“软力量”在到处都可以起到多大作用的时代，因此，斯大林那个著名的问题，即“教皇能有多少个师？"
    ],
    [
        "The second condition that must be satisfied before elections can be credible is security.",
        "选举之前必须满足的条件之二是安全。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Last month’s terrorist assault in Mumbai targeted not only India’s economy and sense of security.",
        "坎布里奇——上个月在孟买发生的恐怖袭击所针对的不仅仅是印度的安全和经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Outside the eurozone, in London, there is concern about negative financial and economic spillover effects from the monetary union.",
        "在欧元区之外，伦敦担心来自货币联盟的消极金融和经济溢出效应。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not imply that China must have a Democratic Spring before the renminbi becomes a leading international and reserve currency.",
        "这虽然并不意味着中国要人民币成为主要国际储备货币就必须经历一个民主之春。"
    ],
    [
        "But, regardless of the sponsorship or the location, fans felt close to most of the clubs, as well as to their national teams.",
        "但是，不管有没有赞助、位于何处，球迷与大部分俱乐部心心相印，对国家队亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – For Europe, the defining event of 2014 was Russia’s annexation of Crimea and military intervention in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.",
        "布鲁塞尔—对欧洲来说，2014年的定性事件是俄罗斯吞并克里米亚和军事干预东乌克兰顿巴斯地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Strategies work best when they are tailored to fit the requirements of specific conditions, such as geographic locations, business unit type, or department function.",
        "根据具体情况（如地理区位、企业单位类型或部门职责）作出调整的战略才能起到最好的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Now is Our Time",
        "到采取行动的时候了"
    ],
    [
        "But just how different remains unclear.",
        "但如何不同还有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "The death sentences and torturing that were then imposed on almost entire nations and millions of people are, it now appears, to be silently accepted and noisily celebrated on May 9 in Moscow.",
        "当时被强加于整个国家和几百万人民身上的死刑和折磨，现在看来，即将在今年5月9号在莫斯科再次被默默忍受并大张旗鼓地庆贺。"
    ],
    [
        "The end of American preeminence in education, the collapse of private-sector unions, the emergence of a winner-take-all information-age economy, and the return of Gilded Age-style high finance have produced an extraordinarily unequal pre-tax distribution of income, which will burden the next generation and make a mockery of equality of opportunity.",
        "随着美国教育优势不再、私人部门工会的堕落、赢者通吃的信息时代经济的到来以及镀金时代高端金融的回归，税前收入分配出现了极大的不平等，这给下一代造成了沉重的负担，也是对机会平等的极大讽刺。"
    ],
    [
        "Now developing countries are also following the trend to consolidate.",
        "现在就连发展中国家也开始加入整顿的行列。"
    ],
    [
        "In China’s last protracted bout of deflation, from 1998 to 2002, persistent declines in prices were the result of monetary and fiscal tightening that began in 1993, compounded by the lack of exit mechanisms for failed enterprises.",
        "中国上一次经历长期通缩是1998—2002年，物价持续下降的原因是1993年开始的货币和财政紧缩，而缺少倒闭企业退出机制则令情况雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "Most importantly, China’s call for the introduction of a new reserve currency stems from its frustration with the failure of major governments – whether in the US or Europe – to govern their economic affairs with realism and good sense.",
        "更为重要的是，中国呼吁引入全新储备货币是因其懊恼于美国和欧洲等主要国家政府无力在管理自己的经济事务时表现出现实的态度和良好的判断力。"
    ],
    [
        "Lying at two ends of that monetary triangle, the eurozone and China have acquired a geopolitical stake in helping each other.",
        "欧元区和中国位于这一货币三角的两个底角上，存在彼此互助的地缘政治利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1960’s, Friedman showed that Keynesian demand management through government spending constantly increased the money supply, accelerating wage and price growth.",
        "六十年代，弗里德曼表明，凯恩斯主义以政府开支为手段的需求管理不断增加货币供应，加快了工资和价格增长。"
    ],
    [
        "What we are experiencing today is the natural repercussion of the implosion of centrist politics, owing to a crisis of global capitalism in which a financial crash led to a Great Recession and then to today’s Great Deflation.",
        "当前我们遇到的是中间派政治崩溃所产生的自然反应，而导致这一切的则是全球资本主义危机——金融危机导致经济大萧条再到如今的大通缩。"
    ],
    [
        "(Indeed, Palestinians showed little interest in the outcome of this election.)",
        "（事实上，巴勒斯坦人对此次选举的结果基本上没有任何兴趣。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "But longevity bonds, while only experimental today, will eventually become vitally important to the world economy.",
        "尽管时至今日还只处于试验阶段，长寿债券最终将对世界经济产生重要影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus far, judging from the modest recovery in the US versus non-recovery in Europe, American policy accommodation is performing better than European austerity.",
        "因此如果用美国的温和增长与欧洲的无增长作对比的话，前者的政策调节效果显然比后者的紧缩措施表现更佳。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the Financial Stability Board should help to reduce avoidable inconsistencies across countries by propagating a set of high-level principles to which all member countries would be expected to conform when introducing new regulations.",
        "首先，金融稳定委员会应该宣传一系列所有成员国在引入新监管措施时都会遵从的高级别原则，以此协助减少跨国不一致性。"
    ],
    [
        "These commitments include significant increases in debt relief and aid.",
        "这些承诺包括大规模增加债务减免和援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s then imagine what Europe needs to do to confront its most pressing challenges, especially if it were able to do so without the political constraints of 50 years of EU deal-making and ramshackle institution-building.",
        "就让我们想象一下欧洲为了应对最迫在眉睫的挑战需要怎么做，特别是它如果能够摆脱50年来欧盟讨价还价和朝三暮四的制度建设的政治制约。"
    ],
    [
        "Inconvenient Truths About Migration",
        "关于移民的令人不安的真相"
    ],
    [
        "Those of us who know that long-run fiscal imbalances are likely to end in disaster – high inflation, deep recession, financial crisis, or all three – scratch our heads in bemusement at the priorities of George W. Bush and his administration.",
        "我们这些知道长期未决的财政失衡可能会导致灾难¾高通货膨胀、严重经济衰退、金融危机，或是三者兼而有之¾的人看到乔治·W·布什及其政府的施政日程都会困惑地挠头。"
    ],
    [
        "Last June, I gave the keynote speech at the celebrations marking the 36th anniversary of the establishment of Philippines-China diplomatic relations and the 10th anniversary of Philippines-China “Friendship Day” in the presence of 5,000 of my countrymen and a smattering of Chinese officials.",
        "去年七月，我面对5000名菲利宾民众和几位中国官员发表了庆祝菲中建交36周年暨“菲中友谊日”10周年的讲话。"
    ],
    [
        "Sustainable development offers a new concept for the world economy in the twenty-first century.",
        "可持续发展为二十一世纪世界经济提供了新概念。"
    ],
    [
        "They tend to be more ready than middle-class white women, in our experience, to master the basics of financial literacy and to learn salary negotiation, because they don’t have the luxury of assuming that a knight on a white horse will rescue them economically.",
        "她们比中产阶级的白人妇女更愿意去掌握基本的财务知识，并学习就薪酬进行协商，因为她们没有那种奢侈的幻想，幻想会有一位王子骑着白马翩翩而来，然后在经济上拯救她们。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Xu Zhitao, an official at the Chinese Communist Party central committee’s United Front Work Department, the allegation that “the Karmapa [may be] a Chinese agent or spy shows that India is keeping its mistrustful attitude toward China.”",
        "根据中共中央统战部官员徐志涛所说，所谓“噶玛巴（可能）是中国特工或间谍的指控反映出印方对中方一贯持有的不信任态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, angry citizens are in charge, and politics is driving financial policy.",
        "如今，愤怒的人民在决策，政治在推动者金融政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, China’s 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) recognizes the need to deepen market-oriented reform, change the country’s development model, and focus on the quality of growth, structural reforms, and social inclusion to overcome the rural-urban divide and stem the rise in income inequality.",
        "幸运的是，中国的十二五规划（2011—2015）已认识到深化市场导向改革的必要性，着眼于改变中国的发展模式，注重增长的质量、结构性改革和社会融合，以克服源于收入不平等的城乡差距。"
    ],
    [
        "The banking system ended up fueling massive speculation, including a huge run-up in real-estate prices, only to be brought to its knees when the bubbles popped.",
        "最后，银行系统助长了全民投机，包括房地产价格的飙升，而当泡沫破裂时，爱尔兰也轰然倒下。"
    ],
    [
        "Then massive turmoil erupted in the Middle East, further ratcheting up oil prices.",
        "中东地区的群众骚乱进一步推高了油价。"
    ],
    [
        "As we reflect on that success, one thing is abundantly clear: the need for ambitious coalitions has returned.",
        "当我们回顾这一成功时，有一点是非常清楚的：我们依然需要这类雄心联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "The transition to a service economy often went hand in hand with the decline of unions, employment protections, and norms of pay equity, greatly weakening workers’ bargaining power and job security.",
        "转向服务经济常常与工会、就业保护、薪酬平等性规范的式微一起发生，大大削弱了工人的议价能力和岗位安全度。"
    ],
    [
        "Deficit countries tend to blame the yield-seeking “saving glut” that sloshes around in world financial markets.",
        "赤字国总是指责在全球金融市场中寻找收益率的“储蓄过剩”。"
    ],
    [
        "During the same period, there have been 10 South Korean presidents and 11 US presidents.",
        "然而在此期间，在韩国换了10位总统，在美国换了11位总统。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the recent cash infusions, it is estimated that Americans are getting $0.25, or less, for every dollar.",
        "25美元的资产。 如此搞法只能使得国家负债累累。"
    ],
    [
        "But what, exactly, has changed?",
        "但究竟是怎样的改变呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Traditionally, under Bengali Sufi mystical teachings, the majority Muslim population lived peacefully with other religions, and Bangladesh had a good record on education and civil rights for women.",
        "从传统来看，在Bengali Sufi神秘的宗义教导下，大部分穆斯林人与其他宗教信仰者和平相处，并且孟加拉国在妇女教育和妇女人权方面拥有良好纪录。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Western governments should support, learn from, and reap the rewards of the invention boom in the East.",
        "相反，西方政府应该支持、学习并摘取东方发明繁荣的果实。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the 8.6 million British forces in WWI, nearly a third came from the overseas empire.",
        "在一战的860万英军中，近三分之一来自海外。"
    ],
    [
        "But, above all, Europe suffers from an identity deficit, for no one seems to know what it means to be a European nowadays.",
        "），不管怎么说，欧洲没有一个整体的认同感。 也许没有人知道“欧洲人”究竟意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, since the declaration was signed, a plethora of tools has been introduced in the effort to combat hunger.",
        "平心而论，自世界人权宣言签署以来，人们已经动用了各种工具治理饥饿。"
    ],
    [
        "Warren Buffett’s daughter, Susan Buffett, created the Alliance for Early Success, which brings together various stakeholders to encourage investments and policies that lead to improved health, learning, and economic outcomes for children in the first eight years of life.",
        "沃伦·巴菲特的女儿苏珊·巴菲特成立了早期成功联盟（Alliance for Early Success），该机构聚集了众多相关利益方，鼓励带来八岁前儿童健康、学习和经济结果改善的投资和政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s focus is now on Palestine.",
        "现在，巴勒斯坦成为了世界的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany wants to attract companies and investment, but it also wants to create as many high-paying jobs as possible.",
        "德国希望吸引公司和投资，也希望尽可能多地创造高薪岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the longer it takes to put a strategic communications framework into place, the more the vacuum will be filled by the enemy.",
        "实际上，建立战略交流框架拖得越长，敌人就会填补越多的真空。"
    ],
    [
        "First, China must make clear through its actions that it can be trusted to keep its promises to Hong Kong.",
        "首先，中国必须通过行动澄清，可以相信它会兑现对香港的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "And some of them are doing very well at this point.",
        "其中有些人现在还小有成绩。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite frantic efforts by the US and the European Union to find some compromise that would head off a UN vote by kick-starting real negotiations, it is much more probable that, even after a US veto in the Security Council, an early UN General Assembly vote will deliver a strong majority for observer-state status.",
        "美国和欧盟为了寻找快速启动实质谈判，从而阻止巴勒斯坦动议拿到联合国去表决的妥协而忙得手忙脚乱，但更有可能的事情是，即使美国在安理会投了否决票，联合国大会的掀起投票也会以压到多数通过授予巴勒斯坦观察员国地位的决议。"
    ],
    [
        "But, from 1911 to 2010 in the US, the correlation between annual real growth of prices for homes and farmland was only 5%, and the latest data on farm prices have not shown anything like the decline in home prices.",
        "但美国住宅和农地价格在1911年到2010年间的相关性其实只有区区5%，而最新的农地价格数据也并没有像住宅价格那样下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "More than one half of living Egyptians were born since Mubarak assumed office.",
        "埃及半数以上的现有人口都是穆巴拉克执政后出生的。"
    ],
    [
        "This investment shortfall is due to many factors, but perhaps the main one is that there are substantial medium-term institutional roadblocks to investment in many developing countries, where long-term returns now seem to be by far the highest.",
        "造成这种投资不足的因素有很多，但可能最主要的一点是在向许多发展中国家投资的过程中有不少中期的制度性障碍。 在这些国家里现在似乎长期投资的回报最高。"
    ],
    [
        "“History is a distillation of rumor,” wrote Thomas Carlyle in the nineteenth century.",
        "托马斯·卡莱尔曾在十九世纪写道：“历史是对谣言进行蒸馏的结果”。"
    ],
    [
        "Lee’s recent behavior may also reflect his fear that he could suffer a fate similar to that of past South Korean presidents.",
        "李明博最近的举动可能同样反映的是对自己重蹈过去几任韩国总统命运的担心。"
    ],
    [
        "Market economies are not self-regulating.",
        "市场经济不能全靠自我调整。"
    ],
    [
        "The failure to equalize electorates in different constituencies counted heavily against the winners, as it takes more votes to send a Conservative MP to Westminster than it does a Labour MP.",
        "无法在不同选区平均分配选民的现状使得作为胜者的保守党受到了极大损害，因为选出一个保守党议员要比工党议员需要更多的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestine’s quest for statehood within the borders of June 4, 1967, falls squarely within international law.",
        "巴勒斯坦要求在1967年6月4日的边界内建国，这符合国际法。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic research clearly shows the argument that such intellectual property rights promote research to be weak at best.",
        "经济学研究清楚地显示，这类知识产权对研究的刺激十分有限。"
    ],
    [
        "But Fernández found that her colleagues’ polite words of encouragement mattered little.",
        "但费尔南德斯发现同僚礼貌的鼓励其实无关紧要。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a livelihood for a group with few economic opportunities – one that benefits the many Hindus who would not want to perform such an unpleasant task.",
        "这份活为达利特人这个本来在经济地位极为低下的群体提供了生机——也有利于许多不想沾手这份苦差的印度教徒。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, Chinese leaders are determined to push through reforms – especially of the banking sector and state-owned enterprises – that will help drive forward this development.",
        "此外，中国领导人决心推行改革——特别是银行业和国有企业改革——以帮助推动其货币的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, they all criticize the Clinton-era practice of routinely clearing America’s policy positions first with Israel, which is hardly likely to win Arab confidence or support.",
        "而且，他们都批评克林顿时代的政策首先获得以色列的认同，这样就难以赢得阿拉伯人的信任和支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, oil and natural gas were to run out in 1990 and 1992, respectively; today, reserves of both are larger than they were in 1970, although we consume dramatically more.",
        "类似地，石油和天然气原本预计将分别于1990和1992年耗尽； 如今，两者的储备均高于1970年水平，尽管我们的消费量大大地增加了。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem, as emphasized by the Iranian theologian Mohsen Kadivar, is that many parts of sharia law are linked to pre-modern social structures, which deny women or non-Muslims the same protections as Muslim men receive.",
        "如伊朗神学家莫森·卡迪瓦尔（Mohsen Kadivar）所强调，问题在于伊斯兰教法的诸多内容联系的是前现代社会结构，它们否认女性和非穆斯林获得与穆斯林男性一样的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "If we act together and pull in the same direction, we all will win.",
        "如果我们携手共进，将能实现共赢。"
    ],
    [
        "In some countries, ISPs appear to be censoring sites at their own discretion.",
        "在一些国家，ISP似乎可以随心所欲地审查网站。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s political genius is to have recognized this.",
        "普京在政治上的聪明就在于认识到了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in recent years, less than 0.03% of Chinese infrastructure investment – which amounted to roughly 9% of GDP – was derived from private capital.",
        "事实上，在最近几年中，中国基础设施投资（约占GDP的9%）中只有不到0. 03%来自私人资本。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than the dominos falling following America’s retreat from Saigon in 1975, a Vietnam-Cambodian War ensued.",
        "1975年美国从西贡撤军后，多米诺骨牌没有滑落，反而爆发了越南和柬埔寨之间的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "In the best of worlds, the US financial sector will emerge from the crisis smaller and more heavily regulated.",
        "美国的金融机构在加强被监管以后，慢慢地走上复苏之路。"
    ],
    [
        "While China’s economic transformation is vital to its long-term prosperity, it is one – albeit important – step toward mitigating the massive risks associated with climate change.",
        "中国的经济转型对于其长期繁荣来说至关重要，与此同时，这也是减轻气候变化相关风险的重要一步。"
    ],
    [
        "The struggle for Egypt thus continues.",
        "因此埃及的斗争还在进行中。"
    ],
    [
        "In Eastern Europe, most available drug treatment takes place in long-term programs located at centers far from urban centers and without child-care services.",
        "在东欧，多数治疗毒品的长期项目都远离市区，并且没有托儿服务。"
    ],
    [
        "The Taliban in Pakistan, Hilaly concluded, have become an “autonomous force beyond … control.”",
        "” 伊拉利最后认为，巴基斯坦的塔利班已经成为“一股无法…控制的自治力量。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "As Kosti Manibe Ngai, South Sudan’s finance minister, has put it, “Nothing about us without us.”",
        "正如南苏丹财政部长诺盖（Kosti Manibe Ngai）所指出的：“没有我们参与的事情和我们无关。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "When measured against the size of its national economy, most German banks remain too small, trailing their international rivals in terms of both market capitalization and total assets.",
        "与国家的经济规模相比，大多数德国银行都仍然太弱小，在总市值和总资产方面都很难与其国际竞争者匹敌。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Turkey is Thriving",
        "土耳其为何一枝独秀"
    ],
    [
        "Recent improvements in data for industrial production, fixed investment, and retail sales suggest that the Chinese economy, which had slowed in recent quarters, may already be on the mend.",
        "最新的工业产出、固定投资和零售数据显示，在经历了最近几个季度的减速后，中国经济已开始复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "The parallel to Chase’s book today is the 2012 bestseller Why Nations Fail by the economist Daron Acemoglu and the political scientist James Robinson.",
        "今天堪与蔡斯著作媲美的是由经济学家达龙·阿西莫格鲁和政治学家詹姆斯·罗宾逊合著的2012年畅销书《国家为什么失败》。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s lower growth trajectory was dubbed the “new normal.”",
        "中国的较低增长轨迹被称为“新常态”。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the eurozone, the area began with only a small group of member countries, all of which had a similar outlook and capacity to implement common rules, but soon welcomed many others, some of which, it later became apparent, could not uphold agreed standards.",
        "和欧元区一样，申根区一开始也只有少数几个成员国，它们具备相似的前景和相同实施共同政策的能力。 但很快申根区接纳了其他许多国家，其中一些后来显然无法遵守共同标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Tsai’s election, with 56.1% of the vote, demonstrates that, while many Taiwanese want good relations with China, they are opposed to the “One China” policy repeatedly asserted in Beijing.",
        "蔡英文以56. 1%的得票率赢得大选表明尽管许多台湾人希望与中国建立良好关系，但他们反对北京一再宣称的“一个中国”政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike during the protests of 2009, and mindful of the generally disappointing outcome of the Arab Spring uprisings, Iran’s middle class has so far exercised caution, observing the demonstrations apprehensively and from a distance.",
        "伊朗中产阶级已与2009示威时不同，也知道阿拉伯之春动乱的结果令人失望，因此到目前为止，他们显得相当谨慎，保持相当的距离忧心忡忡地观察示威情况。"
    ],
    [
        "The specific dynamics of security-sector reform varies among states, depending on past modes of policing and the circumstances in which the authorities are challenged and forced to change existing structures.",
        "各国安全部门改革背后的具体推动力也各不相同，而且往往取决于过去的警务工作模式以及令当局遭遇挑战且被迫改变现有架构的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Infrastructure Minister Andriy Pivovarsky, also a former investment banker, was most recently CEO of Continium, one of the country’s largest holding companies.",
        "基础设施部长安德烈·皮沃瓦尔斯基（Andriy Pivovarsky）也是前投资银行家，曾任全国最大的控股公司之一Continium集团的CEO。"
    ],
    [
        "Discretionary employer retirement plans are a major pillar of America’s retirement system.",
        "自由裁量雇主退休计划是美国退休制度的一大主要支柱。"
    ],
    [
        "Others disagree, arguing that the mind can protect itself by banishing memories of trauma from awareness, making it difficult for victims to remember their most horrific experiences until it is safe to do so many years later.",
        "而另一些学者则持有不同意见。 他们认为（人的）头脑可以通过将创痛的记忆从意识中消除的方式来保护自身，从而使受害者很难回忆起他们最为可怕的经历。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially urgent in light of the rapid growth of cities and informal settlements – where infectious diseases can spread more easily – in developing countries. We need to start creating those plans now.",
        "在发展中国家城市和非正式住所——在这些场所传染病传播起来更加容易——快速增长的背景下，这一需要尤其迫切。"
    ],
    [
        "The specificity of the French situation is that the revolt is targeted against the state, and more precisely against the police forces.",
        "而法国的情况的特殊性在于，骚乱针对的是国家，更为准确地说是针对警察。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither is it to deny the economic criticism of the bailout provisions presented by progressives like Joseph Stiglitz and conservatives like Hans-Werner Sinn.",
        "这也不是要否认斯蒂格利茨（Joseph Stiglitz）等进步人士和辛恩（Hans-Werner Sinn）等保守人士对援助条款的经济学批评。"
    ],
    [
        "Indonesia is seeking to form an air-defense squadron of 12 jets, with eight Russian fighters to complement the two Russian Su-27SK’s and Su-30MKM’s that it has already bought.",
        "印尼正企图构建一支由12架喷气战斗机组成的空中防卫中队，其中的8家新购战机将作为已经购买的两架苏-27SK和苏-30MKM的补充。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, our survey group ranked chronic fiscal imbalances second among 50 global risks that are most likely to manifest themselves over the next ten years.",
        "毫不奇怪，在我们的调查中，长期财政失衡名列未来十年将趋于严重的50大全球风险第二名。"
    ],
    [
        "The effects of banks’ hijacking of national payment systems to service only the modern economy are compounded by the exclusive agreements that banks and money-transfer companies such as Western Union have signed with most African countries.",
        "银行和西联等汇款公司与多数非洲国家签订的独家协议进一步加剧了银行劫持国家支付系统、只为现代经济服务的恶果。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world slowly moves from elation to sober realism, it is important to maintain a balanced view of what’s happening and avoid the dual risks of underestimating the truly revolutionary nature of what took place and overestimating the ability of Obama’s team to find miracle solutions.",
        "随着世界逐步从兴高采烈过渡到清醒地面对现实，重要的是必须平衡地看待所发生的一切，在避免对所发生情况真正的革命性认识不足的同时，还要避免高估奥巴马团队找到奇迹般解决方案的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Academics who research human suffering have recognized that “recipient dignity” is a crucial component of successful poverty alleviation.",
        "研究人类痛苦的学者已经承认，“接受者的尊严”是成功的扶贫的关键要素。"
    ],
    [
        "The decisive break with more than a decade of war and confrontation came in December 2012, when Kosovo and Serbia began to implement an agreement on border control.",
        "与十多年来的战争和冲突的决定性告别发生于2012年12月。 当时，科索沃和塞尔维亚开始执行边境控制协议。"
    ],
    [
        "In this effort, companies must recognize that both demand and supply factors are or will be driving the transformation of their competitive landscapes.",
        "在改变过程中，公司必须认识到，供给和需求因素在或将推动它们的竞争格局的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Critical negotiations between the NCP in the North and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in the South on issues that divide the North and South have stalled.",
        "代表北部的国大党与代表南部的苏丹人民解放运动（Sudan People’s Liberation Movement）在划界事务上的谈判已经瘫痪。"
    ],
    [
        "Are these experiences mutually exclusive, or is convergence possible?",
        "这些经验互为排斥还是有可能融会贯通？"
    ],
    [
        "Nor has he been able to rein in Iran’s relentless drive for regional hegemony, or convince it to abandon its quest for nuclear arms.",
        "他也无法阻止伊朗对地区霸权的不懈追求，无法说服伊朗放弃研制核武器的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "With the liberal opposition apparently unable to create a political organization capable of challenging the Brotherhood within a recognized framework – and, indeed, largely supporting the military coup – Egypt’s fate is increasingly being decided on the street.",
        "自由主义反对行动显然无法形成能够在有组织的框架内挑战穆兄会的政治组织——事实上，反对者大多支持军事政变——埃及的命运将越来越多地取决于街头。"
    ],
    [
        "Two-thirds of all refinancing loans within the eurozone were granted within the GIPS countries, despite the fact that these countries account for only 18% of eurozone GDP.",
        "欧元区内部再融资贷款总量的三分之二来自四猪国，而这四个国家的GDP只占欧元区的18%。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, incomes and value added per employee remained largely flat.",
        "在这里，雇员人均收入和增值几乎保持恒定。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN remains the world’s best – indeed its only – hope to stop the Syrian bloodbath and halt the flood of refugees to Europe.",
        "联合国仍是全世界最大——事实上，也是唯一——的停止叙利亚流血、阻止难民涌向欧洲的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, for many international actors, Western notions of tolerance and political correctness – for example, acceptance of “non-traditional lifestyles,” such as homosexuality – are, in Putin’s words, an affront to the world’s “God-given diversity.”",
        "事实上，对许多国际行动方来说，西方的宽容和政治正确概念——比如接受同性恋等“非传统生活方式”——用普京的话说，是对“神赐多样性”的侮辱。"
    ],
    [
        "House Speaker Paul Ryan and others favor moving to a border adjustment tax that would tax corporate cash flows regardless of where the goods sold by US companies are produced, while exempting exports.",
        "众议院议长保罗·瑞恩（Paul Ryan）和其他人支持采取边境调节税，即对美国公司所销售的商品所产生的现金流征税，不论产品产自何处，而出口可以免征。"
    ],
    [
        "Early onset depression (before 20 years of age) is particularly associated with a significantly higher risk of relapse and recurrence.",
        "如果患上抑郁症时年龄很小（还不到20岁），那么复发和重犯的危险性会大大提高。"
    ],
    [
        "The major Arab states, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and others, share that view.",
        "主要的阿拉伯国家，包括埃及、沙特阿拉伯以及其他国家都持有这一观点。"
    ],
    [
        "If the crisis is to be solved, this will have to change.",
        "要想解决这场危机，这一点就必须改变。"
    ],
    [
        "At first glance, Brazil’s weak growth appears ephemeral, and President Dilma Rousseff should be well positioned to win a second term.",
        "乍一看，巴西的增长疲软只是暂时的，总统罗塞夫很有机会赢得第二个任期。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though they were already resigned to a 25-basis-point rate increase, the politicians made a big show of being opposed to it, aiming to prevent what they really feared and what was certainly more warranted: a 50-basis-point hike and a warning of more on the way.",
        "即便他们已经屈从了25基点的利率上升，但这些政客们仍然大张旗鼓地唱反调，其目的在于防止他们真正害怕而却更顺理成章的事发生：一次50基点的利率提升和未来进一步升息的警告。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s reluctant endorsement of capital controls resembles the attitude of gun-control opponents: policymakers should target the harmful behavior rather than bluntly restrict individual freedoms.",
        "IMF不愿支持资本管制的态度就好像是反对枪支管制者的态度：决策者应该将目标定在有害行为，而不是一刀切地限制个人自由。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Iran-backed Houthis remain in control of Yemen, despite Saudi airstrikes.",
        "而尽管沙特实施了空袭，但伊朗支持的胡塞叛军仍控制着也门。"
    ],
    [
        "The Swiss proceedings were stopped at the request of the Pakistani government when Zardari became president.",
        "该进程在扎尔达里当选总统后就在巴基斯坦政府的要求下停止了。"
    ],
    [
        "What makes an event in which a group of mostly men talk about money so intriguing?",
        "是什么让这个一群人（其中绝大部分是男性）讨论钱的事件变得如此有趣？"
    ],
    [
        "One of the most plausible scenarios in response to calls by governments and politicians around the world to reduce or even eliminate dependence on oil is a relative decline in investment in additional production capacity in the oil-producing countries.",
        "面对世界各国政府和政治家要求减少或者甚至是取消对于石油的依赖的呼吁，石油生产国一个最可行的应对方案是相应地减少在额外生产能力上的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Is State Capitalism Winning?",
        "国家资本主义赢了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It created an ideological consensus that would dominate the public sphere from 1980 to 2010.",
        "它创造了一个主宰1980—2010年公共领域的意识形态共识。"
    ],
    [
        "That cannot be said about the market’s second great worry: collapsing oil prices.",
        "市场的第二大担忧——石油价格崩溃就不是这样了。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa, for example, would benefit enormously from relaxing its skills and entrepreneurship constraints through more liberal immigration policies.",
        "比如，南非如果能通过更加自由的移民政策放松其技能和企业家精神约束，将受益良多。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the reason stems from tax systems, which in some countries allow some consumer interest payments (for example, mortgages in the US) to be deducted from taxable income.",
        "部分原因在于税收制度，一些国家的税制允许消费者利息支出（如美国的按揭）从应税收入中扣除。"
    ],
    [
        "Kim’s less-than-innocent intentions are demonstrated by his regime’s secret construction of a massive uranium-enrichment facility, containing more than 2,000 centrifuges, revealed to Stanford University’s Siegfried Hecker, a former director of America’s Los Alamos National Laboratory.",
        "金正日的邪恶企图早已昭然若揭：他们向美国洛斯·阿拉莫斯国家实验室前主管，斯坦福大学核武器专家齐格弗里德·汉克尔展示了包括2000座离心机在内的大规模秘密铀浓缩设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Under these circumstances, it is by no means certain that low-income countries will have access to additional concessional financing.",
        "在这样的环境下，没人能够保证低收入国家可以继续获得优惠融资。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially true of Brazil, the source of much of this mistrust.",
        "其中巴西尤其如此，这个国家是南美国家联盟间不信任感的主要源头。"
    ],
    [
        "Stock-market movements are certainly hard to explain, but there are reasons to believe that Brazilians might be rationally exuberant.",
        "股市的运行肯定很难解释，但我们有理由认为巴西仍然属于 理性的 繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, the damage caused by the Great Recession is subjecting most advanced economies to secular stagnation and creating major structural growth challenges for emerging markets.",
        "这一回，大衰退引起的危险让大部分发达经济体面临着长期停滞，也给新兴市场造成了严重的结构性增长挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a mega trade deal covering 12 countries that together account for more than one-third of global GDP and a quarter of world exports – is the latest battleground in the decades-long confrontation between proponents and opponents of trade agreements.",
        "坎布里奇—几十年来，自由贸易支持派和反对派争论不断，跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）是这一争论的最新战场。 TPP由12个国家组成，它们加起来占了三分之一以上的全球GDP和四分之一的世界贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "In the wake of recent miscalculations, we must recalibrate our political radars – and that means accounting for all potential sources of interference, not just those that fit a neat narrative.",
        "在出现了最近的误算的情况下，我们必须校准我们的政治雷达——而这意味着考虑一切潜在干扰源，而不只是符合条理的干扰源。"
    ],
    [
        "And in both cases, France had an obvious interest in not intervening, in order to erase its colonial past (more so in Côte d’Ivoire than in Libya, where Italy had been the European colonizer).",
        "其实最符合各国利益的做法都是袖手旁观，以便重新勾起其殖民历史（科特迪瓦尤甚于利比亚，因为意大利也曾是其欧洲殖民国）。"
    ],
    [
        "As far as falsehoods go, this is a dangerous one; it once again threatens the constitutional integrity of Britain, just eight months after Scotland voted to stay part of the United Kingdom by a margin of 10%.",
        "这是一个危险的谎言； 在苏格兰仅以10%的优势投票留在英国短短八个月后，它再次对英国的宪法完整性构成威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "We are also witnessing the establishment of a new balance between state and market.",
        "我们还目睹了国家和市场之间新的平衡关系的建立。"
    ],
    [
        "America's reluctance – and that of France, Germany, and Italy – to give the emerging powers an appropriate voice in the established international financial institutions is counterproductive.",
        "美国——以及法国、德国和意大利——不愿在现有国际金融机构给予新兴力量合理的话语权只能起到适得其反的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "These experiences have convinced me that there is an enormous amount of trust in the world about the path that postwar Japan has taken.",
        "这些经验让我相信，世界人民对于战后日本所采取的道路有着巨大的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is already clear that the capacity of some communities to adapt will quickly be exceeded if climate change goes unmitigated.",
        "不过，很明显，如果气候变化的趋势没有缓和，某些地区将很快失去解决问题的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "How many have they not yet described?",
        "还有多少种仍没有被发现？"
    ],
    [
        "Even the world’s oldest continuous democracy is not immune to the erosion of self-governance.",
        "即使世界上存续时间最长的古老民主制度也无法避免自我管治的腐蚀。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone forecasting 7% is considered a “China bear,” and predicting a downshift to 6.5% makes one a downright fanatic.",
        "任何7%的预测都可以让你成为“中国空头”，预测将减速至6. 5%？"
    ],
    [
        "Sweden’s job-security councils, run by the private sector and funded by a payroll tax on companies, provide displaced workers with a comprehensive suite of income support, training, coaching, and assessment with caseworkers.",
        "由私营部门运营并由企业工资税出资的瑞典职业安全委员会为失业工人提供全套的收入支持、培训、指导和社会工作人员评估等服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Most notably, they failed to predict the rebound in both the US and the UK, with growth rising and unemployment falling even as deficits were cut.",
        "最令人瞩目的是，他们没能预测到美国和英国的反弹。 美国和英国出现了增长加速和失业下降，即使它们削减了赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "And there are potential gas and oil fields that can be tapped only with the new technologies of fracking and horizontal drilling.",
        "还有一些潜在油气田，只有运用致裂技术和水平钻井技术才能生产。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, they can get in.",
        "另一方面，他们可以进入到这个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "And, more generally, the agreement should emphasize inclusiveness and honest dealing to foster economic growth for developing and developed countries alike.",
        "此外，整体上，该协定应该强调包容和以诚相待，从而促进发展中和发达国家的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama must contend with a far more complex political environment, beginning with the US Congress.",
        "总统奥巴马必须应付远为更复杂的政治环境，首先就是美国国会。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are signs that the Chinese miracle is coming to an end – or at least that the country’s economic growth is slowing.",
        "但有迹象表明中国奇迹正在走向终点——或者至少经济增长正在放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this internal weakness that has allowed Putin’s Russia – which, on its own, is far from attractive – to emerge as a potent rival to the EU.",
        "这一内在软弱性导致普京的俄罗斯——其本身吸引力也相当弱——成为欧盟的劲敌。"
    ],
    [
        "At the moment, our attitude to trade and migration seems to be encapsulated in one simple but contradictory slogan: “Open for business, but closed for foreigners.”",
        "目前，我们对贸易和移民的态度似乎可以用“欢迎商业、但不欢迎外国人”这句简单而矛盾的口号来概述。"
    ],
    [
        "RIGA -- Instead of helping all EU member states to meet their own Kyoto goals, the European Commission is shifting what should be a shared burden onto its newest members, which are already the most environmentally efficient in the European Union.",
        "RIGA——欧盟委员会不帮助所有欧盟成员国实现各自的《京都议定书》目标，反而将本应共同分担的责任推到最新成员国头上。"
    ],
    [
        "We are evidently facing the mystery of Russian thought that has proved so unfathomable to others, so unyielding to every analytical scalpel, and about which our Slavophiles and Eurasians wrote at length.",
        "它对许多人而言都是如此深不可测、无法理解。 亲斯拉夫派和亚欧学者们对此都有长篇的著述。"
    ],
    [
        "Their concern appears warranted.",
        "他们的担忧似乎是有道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, a cash-strapped country can also implement strategies to spur economic growth, thereby generating incremental income that can then be used for part of the payments.",
        "第四，囿于现金的国家还可以实施经济增长刺激战略，从而产生可用于部分偿付债务的增量收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas unemployment in the US has been rising for one and a half years, Germany currently is enjoying its lowest unemployment rate in 16 years.",
        "美国的失业率在过去一年半时间里一直在上升，而德国目前的失业率却是16年以来最低的。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there were jolts along the way.",
        "当然，这当中并非没有挫折。"
    ],
    [
        "The violence in France, fueled by staggering unemployment and ruthless policing, reflects the utter failure of the French model of social integration.",
        "高居不下的失业率和鲁莽的警察执法为法国的暴力冲突火上浇油。 这反映了社会一体化法国模式的彻底失败。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon in an attempt to crush militant Palestinians operating there.",
        "1982年，以色列入侵黎巴嫩，试图粉碎黎巴嫩境内活动的巴勒斯坦军事人员。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the avowedly “free-market” beliefs of many Christian fundamentalists, as voters they support government-financed pensions, health care, and other public services.",
        "尽管许多原教旨主义基督徒公开宣扬“自由市场”的信仰，但是作为选民，他们支持由政府提供资金的养老金、医疗保健和其他公共服务。"
    ],
    [
        "But others have been successfully targeted by luxury-goods manufacturers and credit-card companies, which benefit from the way that mass culture ties certain kinds of consumerism – the latest designer clothes, this season’s “it” bag, the right highlighting, and even the trendiest sports car – into a narrative of successful femininity.",
        "而另一些中产女性则被奢侈品生产商和信用卡公司成功地锁定了，大众文化把某些消费主义（如最新潮的时装，当季的流行背包，各种首饰或是时髦的运动型跑车）与成功女性的典范形象捆绑在了一起，而这些生产商和公司则从中大肆渔利。"
    ],
    [
        "China hawks in both India and the West dream that “strategic partnership” will link the world’s great democracies.",
        "在印度和西方有关“战略伙伴关系”将会联接世界民主大国的梦想中，中国鼓吹强硬路线。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic gains from doing so are significant.",
        "这样做的经济利益非常显著。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1990’s produced a demeaning narrative of women waiting in frustration as their “biological clocks” ticked, cursing themselves for putting career first at the expense of finding Mr. Right and having children.",
        "20世纪90年代出品了很多贬低女性的影片，片中的女性在“生物钟”的滴答声中绝望地等待，咒骂自己年轻时把事业放在第一位，而错过了找到合适伴侣结婚生子的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The control of income by the overlapping corporate and public sectors makes it easier to push the investment-led growth model to the point of low (or even negative) returns.",
        "通过重重叠叠的公司和公共部门控制收入使得将投资带动型增长模式推向低回报（甚至负回报）更加容易了。"
    ],
    [
        "Many governments are also encouraging better waste management, and the reuse, redesign, and recycling of plastic products.",
        "许多政府也鼓励改善废物管理，重新使用、设计和回收塑料制品。"
    ],
    [
        "Generally the causes are these: unpaid wages and pensions; sudden and massive job terminations; and management corruption held responsible for the bankruptcy of industrial enterprises--where discharged workers were secure, enjoying privileges and benefits, since the 1950s.",
        "这些国有企业难以为继的原因是缺乏先进的技术和设备，管理不善或资产侵占，沉重的社会福利负担，或是来自国内外更为现代化和更有成本效率的非国有企业的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a global shortage of morphine and codeine, particularly in underdeveloped countries, where these vital medicines are often in short supply, if not completely unavailable.",
        "全球的吗啡和可待因供应短缺。 特别在欠发达国家，这些重要药品即便不是没有也是紧缺的。"
    ],
    [
        "When we reach an agreement, when we stop killing one another after a half-century of war, we will remove a heavy burden that has stalled our progress and finally enjoy the opportunity to write a new chapter of prosperity and modernity for our country.",
        "当我们达成协议时，当我们在经历了半个世纪的战争后停止彼此相杀时，我们将解除一个扼杀我们的进步的沉重的负担，并最终获得为我们的国家撰写繁荣与现代化的新篇章的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, Europe and the US control too much power in the IMF, and their thinking is too dominant.",
        "在IMF，欧洲和美国把持了太多的权力，在行为方式中占据了太大的主导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Upping the ante could turn the tables.",
        "赌注越大，赢面越多。"
    ],
    [
        "John McCain has shown throughout his career a penchant for risk-taking; in his memoirs, he proudly calls himself a gambler.",
        "纵观约翰·麦凯恩的职业生涯，他一贯表现出非常强烈的风险偏好，甚至在回忆录中骄傲地称自己为赌徒。"
    ],
    [
        "And those who are employed are often stuck in roles that do not take full advantage of their skills.",
        "而那些在职的人却无法完全施展自己的才能。"
    ],
    [
        "France ’s re-integration into NATO is, in fact, the final stage in a process that has seen the French military play an increasingly important role in the alliance’s operations.",
        "而对于法国军事力量在大西洋联盟中角色逐渐增强这个历史进程来说，法国重新整合进北约只是其中的最后一个阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "During the 1970s and 1980s, Lindbeck intervened in Swedish elections, invoked microeconomic theory against social democracy, and warned that high taxation and full employment led to disaster.",
        "20世纪七八十年代，林德贝克干预瑞典选举，援引微观经济学理论对抗社会民主，并警告说高税收和充分就业导致灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge of caring for, employing, and integrating such numbers will soon run up against the limits of physical capacity, financial resources, and public tolerance.",
        "照料和融入如此数量的难民会很快达到实际容量、财政资源和公众忍耐度的极限。"
    ],
    [
        "These two developments should stimulate the Fund to claim a new purpose as the world’s reserve manager.",
        "这两种情况都应该激励该组织担当起世界储备管理者的新角色。"
    ],
    [
        "All other EU member countries have already agreed, but without the Dutch it cannot be ratified.",
        "所有其他欧盟成员国均已签署，但没有荷兰人的首肯就无法批准这项协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Both those committed to trade liberalization within a multilateral system and those committed to helping developing countries will look at America’s new strategy with abhorrence.",
        "那些致力于多边体系下的贸易自由化和帮助发展中国家的人们将以憎恶的目光看待美国的新战略。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires, first and foremost, that the company is profitable. But profitability should not be an end in itself; it is a tool to help managers determine the most effective use of their resources and gauge the company’s competitiveness and vitality.",
        "这首先要求公司盈利，但盈利不仅限于盈利本身，还是帮助管理者确定最有效利用资源和评估公司竞争力和生命力的一个工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether the rebellion will jump across the Atlantic remains to be seen.",
        "而大西洋对岸的反抗者们何时能挺身而出，则依然是有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – On August 30, 2013, the United States was about to launch air strikes on Syria, where more than a thousand civilians had died in a sarin gas attack perpetrated by the army of President Bashar al-Assad.",
        "巴黎—2013年8月30日，美国正准备对叙利亚发动空袭。 一千多叙利亚公民死于叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德的军队实施的沙林毒气袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "At the aggregate level, Egypt could improve its performance in global rankings.",
        "在总量层面，埃及可以改善其在全球排名中的表现。"
    ],
    [
        "European states can influence whether or not war consumes Sudan in 2011.",
        "欧洲国家有能力决定苏丹会否在2011年爆发战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Central and Eastern Europe after 1989, though a very interesting reference point for analysts of the Arab revolutions, is not an appropriate reference point, because the region’s new domestic and foreign order resulted from the change in external conditions stemming from the collapse of Soviet power.",
        "1989年后的中欧和东欧是阿拉伯革命分析的有趣参照点，但却不是合适的参照点，因为该地区的新国内外秩序来源于外部条件的变化——苏联解体。"
    ],
    [
        "Some banks may even prefer these flows to direct deposits.",
        "一些银行甚至更喜欢这类现金流而非直接存款。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a broad need for reformist and realistic globalizers to join forces to take on populist movements seeking to twist nostalgia into extreme nationalism, built almost exclusively on identity politics.",
        "改革派和现实主义全球化者都有着许多理由去联合起来，对抗那股试图将怀旧理想转变为极端民族主义的，几乎完全建立在身份政治之上的民粹主义运动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dominicans and Franciscans literally lived by begging – that is, by depending on diverse sources of income, whose return to any particular investor was always unclear.",
        "道明会和圣方济会人士确实以乞讨为生，也就是说他们的收入来源多种多样，而对于某一位投资者的回报也许并不清晰。"
    ],
    [
        "The uprising in Syria, the most violent of the Arab Spring rebellions, is playing out slowly and lethally.",
        "作为阿拉伯之春叛乱的最暴力部分，叙利亚起义的发展势头缓慢而血腥。"
    ],
    [
        "But those who say that Syria is on the brink of civil war miss what has become more obvious with each passing day: Syria alreadyis in a state of civil war, one whose battle lines were drawn months ago.",
        "但那些认为叙利亚正处于内战边缘的人也忽视了一个每过一天都变得越发明显的事实：叙利亚已经处于内战状态，而且战线早在数月之前就已划定了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while China’s new stimulus plan overwhelmingly emphasizes infrastructure, it gives short shrift to social programs, such as health care and education, even though they can reduce household saving pressure and increase private consumption.",
        "事实上，虽然中国的新经济刺激计划极其强调基础设施建设，但是却对诸如医疗和教育这样的社会保障项目不予理睬，即使这些社会保障项目可以降低家庭的储蓄压力并增加私人消费。"
    ],
    [
        "We must change laws, judicial systems, and attitudes that exonerate the perpetrators, and we must provide help to victims.",
        "我们必须改变让施暴者逍遥法外的法律、司法制度和态度，也必须为受害者提供帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary tightening, administrative measures introduced by various municipal governments to stem the run-up in the housing market, and the waning effect of the government’s ¥4 trillion ($642.3 billion) stimulus package resulted in a gradual economic slowdown.",
        "随着货币逐步紧缩，各地政府遏制房地产市场急剧增长的行政措施，以及4万亿人民币（约合6423亿美元）经济刺激计划影响的逐渐减弱，经济也因此开始逐渐减速。"
    ],
    [
        "All this implies that British politics will become very fluid as economic conditions deteriorate and voters start to change their minds.",
        "所有这些意味着，随着经济状况恶化、选民开始改变想法，英国政坛将变得波诡云谲。"
    ],
    [
        "No other nation – not China, Europe, India, or Russia – has the power and the sense of mission to take on America’s role.",
        "中国、欧洲、印度和俄罗斯，没有哪个国家有这种力量和使命感来替代美国的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "With respect to monetary policy, I am reminded of when I became Turkey’s Minister of Economic Affairs after the February 2001 financial crash.",
        "在货币政策方面，我还记得2001年2月金融大崩盘后我担任土耳其经济部长时的情景。"
    ],
    [
        "Tragic as this was for Thomas Duncan, the only one of these patients who has died, if all of the more than 13,000 cases and nearly 5,000 deaths had occurred in Africa, Ebola would never have aroused nearly as much attention in rich countries.",
        "唯一悲剧的是托马斯·邓肯（Thomas Duncan），他是这几个病人中唯一一个丧命的，虽然在非洲造成13,000多例病患和近5,000人死亡，但埃博拉在发达国家基本没有引起什么关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors could be forgiven for hoping for more of the same.",
        "投资者发出这样的宏愿也是无可指摘的。"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring that data accurately reflect a changing economy is one of the hardest tasks faced by national statistical institutes worldwide.",
        "确保数据准确反映变化的经济是全世界国家统计机构最艰巨的任务之一。"
    ],
    [
        "He repeatedly said that the TPP would determine who – America or China – would write the twenty-first century’s trade rules.",
        "他多次表示，跨太平洋伙伴关系协定将决定由谁——美国还是中国——来订立二十一世纪的贸易规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s one-party state, under the conservative LDP, was a product of World War II and the Cold War.",
        "日本这种自民党一党专政的状况其实是二战和冷战的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "Decriminalization of consumption also reduces dealers’ power to influence and control consumers’ behavior.",
        "吸毒无罪化同时也削弱了毒品贩子影响和控制吸毒者行为的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Economy, Insure Thyself",
        "为自身投保的经济体"
    ],
    [
        "The presence of insurgent or terrorist sanctuaries in non-belligerent countries is one of the most intractable, explosive issues in international relations.",
        "在非交战国里出现恐怖分子或恐怖分子避难所的现象是国际关系中最棘手、最易引发争端的一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the Oslo Accords of 1993, which envisaged a Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza, “facts on the ground” have whittled down the putative Palestinian state still further.",
        "自1993年签订奥斯陆协定（设想在约旦河西岸和加沙建立巴勒斯坦国）以来，“既成事实”是假定的巴勒斯坦国国土越缩越小。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Putting an end to Egypt’s deepening polarization and rising bloodshed requires one urgent first step: the reinstatement of Mohamed Morsi as Egypt’s duly elected president.",
        "纽约—停止埃及日渐加深的极端化和日渐增加的流血需要马上采取第一步：恢复穆尔西作为埃及合法当选总统的职位。"
    ],
    [
        "Re-launching conventional arms control should be based on a principle that was at the heart of Brandt’s Ostpolitik: security in Europe must not be framed as a permanently adversarial process.",
        "重启常规军备控制应该基于一个原则，这一原则也是布兰特的东方政策的核心：欧洲的安全决不能作为一个永久性的对峙过程。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not just that the US lacks the means; the very nature of contemporary global problems suggests that only collective responses stand a good chance of succeeding.",
        "不仅仅是因为美国缺少方法； 当代全球问题的本质决定了只有集体相应才能获得最大的成功机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1970’s, feminists identified the connection between rape, male privilege, and female sexual vilification. Today, readily accessible Internet pornography is teaching boys and men that sexual acts involving degradation and even violent abuse of women are acceptable.",
        "20世纪70年代，女权运动者指出强奸、男权和妇女性别诽谤之间存在关系。 如今，现成的互联网色情文学让男孩和男人知道，歧视妇女甚至对其施加暴力的性行为是可接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "The best answer that I have heard comes from Axel Weber, the former president of Germany’s Bundesbank and an astute political observer.",
        "而我所听到的最佳答案来自德国联邦银行前行长阿克塞尔·韦伯（Axel Weber）——此人同时也是一位敏锐的政治观察家。"
    ],
    [
        "So what are the Europeans waiting for?",
        "既然如此，欧洲人还在等待什么？"
    ],
    [
        "But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things – the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit.",
        "但是，体育也有可能成为一种巨大的分散注意的幕帐，恶劣的政权在这一幕帐后面从事令人发指的事情。 这是与奥林匹克和世界杯精神背道而驰的。"
    ],
    [
        "Desperate countries often consider such unions to be the best way out of an emergency.",
        "身处绝境的国家往往将财政联盟视为应对紧急状况的唯一方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Violence is conspicuously absent from the list.",
        "暴力完全没有出现在这份挑战清单上。"
    ],
    [
        "Its methodology is largely sound, its purposes are valid, and its findings are useful.",
        "该报告所使用的方法大致靠谱，其目的相当合理，其结论颇为有用。"
    ],
    [
        "More than anyone else, French President Emmanuel Macron is at the center of this turnaround.",
        "法国总统伊曼纽尔·马克龙比任何人都更处在这一趋势转折的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, we should support economic growth and development, but only in a broader context: one that promotes environmental sustainability and the values of compassion and honesty that are required for social trust.",
        "我们当然应该支持经济增长和发展，但这种发展必须具有更加广泛的背景：经济发展必须促进环境保护和同情诚实的价值观，因为上述因素是社会信任的前提。"
    ],
    [
        "If a leader like the late Hugo Chávez, the architect of Venezuela’s “socialist revolution,” emerges, Corbyn would probably be on the next plane to meet him.",
        "如果像已故的委内瑞拉“社会主义革命”设计者雨果·查韦斯那样的领导人出现，柯比很可能会登上下一班飞机去会见他。"
    ],
    [
        "By comparison, the allegedly strong US dollar is up just 12% in real terms over the same period.",
        "相比而言，号称强势的美元在相同期间内实际价值只升高了12%。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Six decades ago, the American diplomat George Kennan wrote an article, “The Sources of SovietConduct,” that galvanized American and world opinion, which soon hardened into the rigid postures of the Cold War.",
        "发自北京——60多年前，美国外交官乔治·凯南发表了一篇激起美国乃至世界舆论的文章《苏联行为的根源》。 该文促成了冷战时期的美国强硬外交。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, Germany was richer in skills than Austria.",
        "其次，德国的高素质人力资源比奥地利更丰富。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the divergence of monetary policies between the US and other major economies is already universally understood and expected.",
        "首先，美国和其他主要经济体之间的货币政策差异早已被众人所理解和预期到。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan is aging even faster, and economic stagnation is reducing domestic savings, while the public debt is approaching 200% of GDP.",
        "日本的老龄化形势更严峻，经济停滞正在侵蚀国内储蓄，而公债更是高达 GDP 的 200% 。"
    ],
    [
        "Do any of us ever tear up our insurance policies?",
        "有没有人撕碎自己的保险单？"
    ],
    [
        "It can be found in their demand that Greece maintain unsustainably high primary surpluses (more than 2% of GDP in 2016 and exceeding 2.5%, or even 3%, for every year thereafter).",
        "这一立场的一个写照是它们要求希腊保持不可持续的高初级盈余（2016年超过GDP的2%，此后各年超过2. 5%甚至3%）。"
    ],
    [
        "There are simply not enough teachers, classrooms, or textbooks to deliver decent educations to the refugee children.",
        "教师、教室和教科书严重不足，无法给难民儿童提供像样的教育。"
    ],
    [
        "A third Asian issue with combustible potential is Burma, where another unique woman, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, is at the heart of events.",
        "亚洲第三个蕴藏无限可能的事务则与身在缅甸的另一位奇女子，诺贝尔和平奖得主昂山素季有关。"
    ],
    [
        "The real question, then, is whether Putin sees bolstering the Assad government as an end in itself or as a means to an end.",
        "因此，真正的问题是普京将支持巴沙尔政府视为结局本身还是通往结局的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "By renouncing simplicity, it also repudiates today’s prevailing confusion of information with literature, of facts with creativity, and best-selling products with true works of art.",
        "这部小说断然否定简单化，也否定了当今的流行思潮——混淆信息与文学、现实与创造力以及畅销作品与真正艺术品。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rohingyas are, of course, the main target of this strategy.",
        "当然，罗兴亚人是这一战略的主要针对目标。"
    ],
    [
        "It put the US in effective opposition to the United Nations peace initiative then being led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose approach was to call for a ceasefire followed by a negotiated political transition.",
        "这使美国事实上违反了由前秘书长科菲·安南领导的联合国维和措施。 安南的办法是呼吁停火，然后进行政治转型谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "But if you think that the $2 trillion figure is already huge, the latest estimates by my research consultancy RGE Monitor suggest that total losses on loans made by US financial firms and the fall in the market value of the assets they hold (things like mortgage-backed securities) will peak at about $3.6 trillion.",
        "但是如果你认为两万亿美元的数字已经庞大，那么，我的研究咨询公司RGE所做的估计表明美国各金融公司做出的贷款总体亏损及其持有的资产市值下跌将会高达大约三点六万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Almost all rich countries are rich because they exploit technological progress.",
        "坎布里奇——所有富裕国家富有几乎都是利用了技术进步的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Although sentiment favoring a secular state is considerable, a coalition that can serve as an alternative or counterweight to the Muslim Brotherhood will be difficult to assemble.",
        "尽管埃及社会支持建立世俗国家的情绪相当高涨，但很难建立起一个足以与穆斯林兄弟会相抗衡甚至取而代之的联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, Americans, not surprisingly, have much to learn from other countries’ debates, laws, and cultural norms.",
        "其次，毫不奇怪，美国人可以从其他国家的争论、法律和文化范式中学到很多东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone agrees that incomes at the top have surged ahead in recent decades, helped by soaring rewards for those with a high-tech education and rising share prices.",
        "所有人都同意，得益于高科技教育和股价攀升带来的巨大收益，顶层人群的收入几十年来可谓狂飙突进。"
    ],
    [
        "When investments are in upstream basic research, the spillover effect across industries and sectors is sometimes enough of a social reward.",
        "当投资项目为上游基础研究时，其对各行业和部门的溢出效应或许已能产生足够的社会回报。"
    ],
    [
        "A signatory in the 1960’s of the Tlatelolco Treaty, which banned nuclear weapons from Latin America, Brazil dismantled its enrichment process and research facilities during the 1990’s and ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1998.",
        "巴西企业，特别是建筑公司，在委内瑞拉的投资及承建项目很多。 卢拉也利用其与卡斯特罗兄弟和查韦斯的关系平息党内左翼势力对其务实经济政策的不满。"
    ],
    [
        "But Cameron’s vision for Europe’s institutional future is difficult to translate into workable specifics.",
        "但卡梅伦关于欧洲制度未来的愿景很难转变为可行的细则。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the former, the European Commission would impose fiscal and structural conditionality on Greece, while the EU and/or ECB would provide financing, which would be absolutely necessary, because announcing even the best conceived reform program would not be sufficient to restore lost policy credibility.",
        "所谓变相贷款是指，欧盟委员会可向希腊提出财政和结构上的贷款附加条件，由欧盟和 / 或欧洲央行出资。 外来资金支持是绝对必要的，因为即便希腊能提出最好的改革方案，少了资金支持，它也无法恢复公众对政策的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, he has done nothing to counteract the legal nihilism against which he himself has spoken.",
        "迄今为止，他仍没有任何行动来对抗他本人也反对的法律虚无主义。"
    ],
    [
        "The disadvantages included the lack of a clean break between Poland’s authoritarian past and its democratic present.",
        "劣势包括波兰的独裁过去和民主现在之间缺乏明确的界限。"
    ],
    [
        "Just promising not to provide a bailout is not credible.",
        "仅仅承诺不提供援助是不可信的。"
    ],
    [
        "But fiscal expansion is likely to meet resistance from monetary policy, as the Fed resumes its “normalization” of interest rates.",
        "但财政扩张可能会遭遇来自货币政策的抵制，即美联储重新启动利率“正常化”。"
    ],
    [
        "Others worry that the EU would surrender its decision-making powers were it to consult with outsiders.",
        "还有人担心如果征询外人的意见欧盟是否会交出其决策权。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the privileged position of fossil fuels already seems to be weakening.",
        "令人庆幸的是，化石燃料的特权地位似乎已经削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "But this, too, is largely irrelevant.",
        "但这也基本没有关系。"
    ],
    [
        "People feel uneasy and worried, especially when traveling.",
        "人们感到不安，特别是在旅行的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries’ foreign reserves, mainly held in US securities, topped $8 trillion at their peak last year.",
        "这些国家的外汇储备（主要是美国债券），在去年达到了8万亿美元以上的峰值。"
    ],
    [
        "The thirst for vengeance after the Beslan school massacre makes confrontation between Chechens and Ingushis increasingly possible.",
        "在别斯兰学校屠杀之后的复仇之心更加大了车臣和印古什人之间正面冲突的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Time is no longer on the side of those who favor two states.",
        "对于支持两国（解决方案）的人们来说，真是时不我待。"
    ],
    [
        "A regulated market would not challenge these man-made facts.",
        "监管有序的市场也不会改变这些人为因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Expressions of anti-Americanism will provide no protection or immunity to governments or individuals who for good reason are not prepared to endorse the terrorists’ radical agendas.",
        "对于出于正当理由而并不支持恐怖份子激进主张的各国政府和个人而言，表示反美并不提供保护或者让他们能够幸免。"
    ],
    [
        "his words both cunning and weightless,",
        "他的言语狡诈轻佻，"
    ],
    [
        "It has already been discovered that the brain regions used to deal with problems when probabilities are clear are different from those used when probabilities are unknown.",
        "根据已经发现的结果，大脑用来处理概率情况一目了然的区域与处理概率未知的区域是不同的。"
    ],
    [
        "Junta leader Senior General Than Shwe “lost face” and promptly disappeared from public view so completely that some Burmese thought he had died.",
        "军政府首脑Than Shwe将军“颜面尽失”并立刻消失在公众视线当中，以至于有的缅甸人认为他已经死了。"
    ],
    [
        "Afterward, each national program would be monitored, audited, and evaluated.",
        "而后，将对每项国家计划进行监督、审计和评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, those central banks that have tried raising interest rates prematurely, including the European Central Bank and the Swedish National Bank, have been forced to reverse course, and the Fed wants to avoid that fate.",
        "事实上，过早提高利率的央行，包括欧洲央行和瑞士国民银行，被迫反向操作，而美联储想要避免这一命运。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s use of natural gas to exert economic and political pressure on Ukraine has caused grave concern in the West.",
        "俄罗斯用天然气对乌克兰实施经济和政治压力引起了西方严重的关切。"
    ],
    [
        "The Powerlessness of the Powerful",
        "弱势和强势"
    ],
    [
        "It was particularly encouraging to see hundreds of global youth ambassadors from 100 countries descend on New York recently to demand the right to education and to support the Bring Back Our Girls campaign in Nigeria.",
        "来自全球一百多个国家的青年大使最近齐聚纽约，主张受教育权并支持尼日利亚的让我们的女孩回家（Bring Back Our Girls）运动，这一幕相当令人鼓舞。"
    ],
    [
        "Obamacare has provided powerful new incentives for such innovation.",
        "奥巴马医保为这类创新提供了有力的新激励。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why most new members were ultimately willing to support Luxembourg’s proposed compromise, under which the budget would be only 1.06% of the EU’s overall GDP and Great Britain’s annual rebate would be frozen at €4.6 billion.",
        "这就是为什么大部分新成员国最终愿意支持卢森堡所提议的和谈方案，即预算将只占欧盟全部GDP的1. 06%且英国的年返款将封顶在46亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "If we antagonize Europe’s Muslims enough we will push more people into joining the Islamist revolution.",
        "如果我们不断激怒欧洲的穆斯林，那么就会推动更多的人加入伊斯兰革命。"
    ],
    [
        "India, in particular, has access to other sources of development finance, including the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the newly launched Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the BRICS’ New Development Bank.",
        "特别是印度，它能获得其他发展融资源，包括国际复兴开发银行、新成立的亚洲基础设施投资银行和金砖国家新开发银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Could Berlusconi end up being Italy’s political savior?",
        "贝卢斯科尼会成为意大利的政治救星吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The real question is whether an uncertain electorate is prepared to defend democratic constitutions if an extremist who wins by a hair tries to overturn it and usher in a new era of tyranny.",
        "真正的问题是，如果以微弱优势获胜的极端主义分子妄图颠覆民主宪法，创造新的独裁时代，举棋不定的选民是否能够奋起反击。"
    ],
    [
        "China, which has emerged as the archetype of this growth strategy since the 1970s, traveled a well-worn path.",
        "而在20世纪70年代后成为这一增长战略榜样的中国也是走的这条老路。"
    ],
    [
        "The first step would be a moratorium on new coal mines.",
        "第一项措施是关停新煤矿。"
    ],
    [
        "America, India, Europe, and Japan will face increasing tension between their short-term military needs in the region and their long-term goal of promoting political reform in order to create more stable and reliable partners.",
        "美国、印度、欧洲和日本将不得不在满足本国短期军事需求和促进中亚地区政治改革、以建立更加稳定可靠的伙伴关系的长期目标之间面对越来越多的激烈冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "“Every day that goes by only causes more people to wish for the renewal of the Israeli occupation of Gaza.",
        "“日子一天天过去，只会使更多的人希望以色列恢复对加沙的占领。"
    ],
    [
        "The region’s main economies recorded slower GDP growth in 2013, and much the same is being forecast for 2014.",
        "2013年，拉美地区主要经济体增长纷纷减速，预计2014年亦将如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Under these circumstances, many suggest that a reversal in Chinese currency policy to weaken the renminbi is the most logical course.",
        "在这样的环境下，许多人认为中国改变货币政策、促使人民币贬值是最合乎逻辑的动作。"
    ],
    [
        "For businesses, ICT can improve efficiency and facilitate coordination.",
        "对企业而言，ICT可以增进效率、促进合作。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, intra-European trade and support for European institutions, having soared in the previous two decades, began to decline practically before the ink on the Maastricht Treaty was dry.",
        "结果是马斯特里赫特条约几乎墨迹未干，过去二十年来一直飙升的欧洲内部贸易和对欧盟机构的支持就开始走下坡路。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Many organizations, from government agencies to philanthropic institutions and aid organizations, now require that programs and policies be “evidence-based.”",
        "坎布里奇—从政府机构到慈善组织和援助组织，如今许多组织要求计划和政策必须“基于证据”。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Germany's policymakers seem to be stumbling from decision to decision.",
        "事实上，德国决策者踉踉跄跄做出一个又一个决定。"
    ],
    [
        "(Such security guarantees are, after all, implicit.)",
        "（毕竟，这些安全保障只是间接的。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "But the “bread versus freedom” dilemma remains: Can governments deliver economic growth and prosperity while respecting their citizens’ rights and freedoms?",
        "但“面包或自由”的困境依然存在：政府能否在实现经济增长和繁荣的同时，尊重公民的权利和自由？"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries have even intensified their surveillance activities.",
        "有些国家甚至增强了监控活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The paradox is that America might be winning the war for Arab democracy, even if by default, but cannot reap the benefits, simply because the emerging pattern of Islamic pluralistic politics does not coincide with the West’s brand of secular liberal democracy.",
        "自相矛盾的是，即使兵不刃血，美国也可能正在赢得阿拉伯民主战争的胜利，但是它却无法获得益处，只是因为伊斯兰多元政治正在涌现的模式并不与西方世俗自由民主的模式向吻合。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, without support from this strategic group, other social groups, such as workers and peasants, have become politically marginalized and rudderless.",
        "更糟的是，没有这一战略性团体的支持，其他社会团体，例如工人和农民已经在政治上被边缘化了，而且群龙无首。"
    ],
    [
        "But this argument is far from airtight.",
        "但这一观点很不严密。"
    ],
    [
        "There has been pressure to impose targeted sanctions aimed at impeding the financial operations of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which holds a virtual monopoly over strategic industries such as banking, defense and construction.",
        "而且议会内部一直有压力，要对伊朗革命卫队实施针对性的制裁，以冻结其财务运作 —— 伊朗革命卫队实质上就是一个垄断了诸如银行，国防和建筑等国家战略行业的寡头。"
    ],
    [
        "Public pessimism in southern Europe is largely attributable to the absence of such a reward.",
        "看不到未来的回报在很大程度上导致了南欧民众的悲观情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Such pressure brought results a year ago, with the success of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.",
        "这样的压力一年前曾经取得了成果，赢得了乌克兰橙色革命的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "What bad news there is – industrial scandals (like that at Volkswagen), airline bankruptcies, endlessly delayed infrastructure projects – does little to dampen the general sense of safety and wellbeing enjoyed by Germany’s Michels.",
        "坏消息——产业丑闻（如大众汽车丑闻）、航空公司破产、基础设施项目无尽的拖延——并没有妨碍德国的米切尔们的总体安全感和所享受的福利。"
    ],
    [
        "And, if the BRICs slow down, they may be more prone to debt and currency crises.",
        "此外，如果金砖国家放缓，它们也许更容易发生债务和货币危机。"
    ],
    [
        "They just had not recognized – or had not cared to recognize – the need for action until OPEC had them over a barrel.",
        "他们只不过还没意识到——也可能是不愿承认——遭到欧佩克的石油绑架前有这个必要。"
    ],
    [
        "With 67 million people today, and a population that will reach 80 million in 20 years and 100 million in 2050, Turkey is bound to become the most populous of all European nations.",
        "土耳其现有人口6,700万，20年内达到8,000万，2050年则为1亿。 土耳其必定成为所有欧洲国家中人口最多的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "True, bureaucratic rules are not nearly as constraining as they were during the pre-1991 “license raj.”",
        "诚然，官僚主义规则已不再像1991年以前的“许可证制度”（license raj）时期那样束手束脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, facing distorted domestic bond prices stemming from unconventional policy, pension funds and insurance companies may look to buy them in less distorted markets abroad.",
        "此外，面临因为非常规政策而扭曲的国内债券价格，退休基金和保险公司可能会着眼于在扭曲较小的海外市场购买债券。"
    ],
    [
        "The second storm, rolling in from the EU’s east, is the costly military conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region.",
        "第二起风暴来自欧盟东面——代价高昂的乌克兰顿巴斯（Donbas）地区军事冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are to reap what we can sow, however, we will need reasonable, science-based policies from regulators worldwide.",
        "但是，要想从我们能够播种的东西中有所收获，我们需要全世界监管者采取基于科学的合理政策。"
    ],
    [
        "One problem is that doctors receive little formal training in obtaining consent, with medical schools teaching only the basics.",
        "一个问题是医生很少接受过正式的获得同意的训练，医学院只教授基本知识。"
    ],
    [
        "That is because using resources in suboptimal ways is always better than not using them at all; in the absence of the post-2008 stimulus, China would have suffered substantial unemployment.",
        "这是因为以次优的方式使用资源总是比不使用要好； 如果没有2008年后的刺激，中国将遭遇大规模失业。"
    ],
    [
        "If such banks fail, they are resolved by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the normal fashion, and this has always been the market’s ex ante expectation.",
        "如果这些银行出了问题的话，那么美国联邦存款保险公司（Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation）将按照一般程序来处理，而这也是市场一直以来的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, he would accompany this with an explicit set of social policies – and here the potential differences are profound – that addresses the need for equitable burden-sharing.",
        "其次，对于这些经济政策，应辅之以明确的社会政策组合——在这方面，潜在改变空间极大——以满足公平负担共担的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the EU’s share of total Latin American imports has been declining, and now stands at 13.5%.",
        "平心而论，欧盟占拉美总进口的比重一直在下降，目前为13. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "In the second, more favorable scenario, China’s per capita GDP would reach 80% of America’s – higher than the 70% average rate for the five largest Western European countries since 1960 – and its economic strength relative to the US would amount to roughly 2.8.",
        "在第二种较有利的情形中，中国人均GDP将达到美国的80%——高于西欧最大的五个经济体自1960年以来的平均水平70%——其对美国的相对经济强度将达到2. 8左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Tony Blair, who in July was faced with the shortcomings of integration in the UK, should take advantage of the country’s current presidency of the European Union to make affirmative action programs the top priority at next month’s summit of European government leaders in Brussels.",
        "在7月直面了英国民族融合中的缺陷的托尼•布莱尔，应该利用英国作为目前欧盟轮值主席国的机会，将平权政策作为下月将在布鲁塞尔举行的欧洲政府首脑峰会的首要议题。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the European Investment Bank’s lending capacity could be increased substantially, and European Union structural funds mobilized, to finance investment projects in the peripheral economies.",
        "此外，欧洲投资银行的贷款能力也可以大大提高，欧盟结构性基金应该被动员起来，为外围国的投资项目提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has applied tremendous diplomatic pressure on Iraq’s Arab neighbors to get them to accept another Maliki term.",
        "美国对伊拉克周边的阿拉伯国家施加了巨大的外交压力，以迫使它们接受马利基连任。"
    ],
    [
        "Predicting the onset of Alzheimer’s, let alone preventing or curing it, remains an immense challenge.",
        "预测阿尔茨海默的开始——更不用说预防和治疗了——仍是一个巨大的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone is not expected to grow at all this year.",
        "据估计，今年欧元区根本不会发生增长。"
    ],
    [
        "With access to professional coaching and support around the clock, patients will feel more empowered to manage their own physical wellbeing.",
        "患者可以获得全天候专业指导和支持，因此能够更有能力管理自身身体状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging countries have fared better, but they, too, have started to flounder lately.",
        "新兴国家表现更好，但它们也最近也开始步入低迷。"
    ],
    [
        "And he worked together with my mother, Alice, who ran the family poultry business.",
        "他与我的母亲爱丽丝一起工作，我母亲负责经营家族的禽类企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Populism is not about taxation (or jobs or income inequality).",
        "民粹主义的本质不是税收（也不是就业或收入平等）。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason for this additional levy is that a few weeks ago the UK’s Office for National Statistics announced, proudly, that it had discovered that the country’s gross national income (GNI) had been much higher than previously assumed, not only in 2013, but also in all previous years.",
        "这笔追加金的原因是，几周前英国国家统计局自豪地宣布，英国国民总收入（GNI）比此前估计的高出很多，不但2013年是如此，此前多年都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, even if the majority says “yes” to the EU, a share of the population – a substantial one, according to the polls – will remain convinced that Brexit would have been much better for the UK.",
        "毕竟，即使大部分人对欧盟投“是”票，一定比例——根据民调，这个比例不小——的人口仍然认为英国退出对英国更有利。"
    ],
    [
        "According to WikiLeaks, former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani approved the US drone strikes, saying: “I don’t care if they do it as long as they get the right people.",
        "按照维基解密的说法，前总理优素福·拉扎·吉拉尼批准美国发动无人机袭击，表示：“只要他们找对目标我并不反对他们这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Average annual growth, at only 2.4%, is well below what is needed and possible for a country with such enormous human and natural endowments, a prime location on the United States’ doorstep, and considerable catch-up potential.",
        "4%，远远不足以满足人力和自然禀赋如此雄厚的国家的需要，不足以体现其潜力。 墨西哥占据着与美国相邻的有利区位，拥有巨大的赶超潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether or not they acknowledge it, they have a stake in world order.",
        "不论它们是否承认，它们都与国际秩序息息相关。"
    ],
    [
        "He then stayed at the conference for the entire two and a half days, and made pertinent contributions to our discussions.",
        "随后两天半的会议期间他一直留在现场，并对我们的讨论提出了中肯的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "As Krugman recently put it, a “deflationary vortex” is dragging down much of the world economy, with falling prices causing an inescapable downward spiral in demand.",
        "克鲁格曼最近表示，一个“通缩漩涡”正在拖累世界经济大部，下跌的物价导致了无法摆脱的需求下降螺旋。"
    ],
    [
        "Senior ministers in the United Kingdom and other northern European countries, relying on little more than armchair behavioral economics, argued that Mare Nostrum encouraged more migrants to attempt the dangerous sea crossing.",
        "英国和其他北欧国家的高级部长以扶手椅行为经济学为借口，提出地中海救援行动鼓励更多移民尝试危险的海洋偷渡。"
    ],
    [
        "Group dynamics prevent company boards that consist solely of males from including women, even if members individually would support such a decision.",
        "群体能动阻碍全部由男性组成的公司董事会包含妇女，即使单个董事成员会支持这一决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Talk of care and moral scruples is uncomfortable and unstable terrain.",
        "谈关注和道德顾虑令他们心里没底，也不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel is rightly aggrieved by the abduction of its soldiers by Hamas-backed insurgents in Gaza and Hezbollah forces in Southern Lebanon, but Israel’s massive and disproportionate military response plays into the hands of the extremists.",
        "以色列由于加沙地带受到哈马斯支持的反叛人员以及南黎巴嫩的真主党力量绑架其士兵而受到冤屈，但是以色列大规模失去比例的军事回应却正中极端分子的下怀。"
    ],
    [
        "But, like any family secret that would cause us discomfort if faced directly, we Western women turn a blind eye to it.",
        "但正如我们不愿正视所有家庭问题那样，西方女性也选择对这一事实视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "With prices far in excess of the cost of production, there are, for example, huge profits to be gained by persuading pharmacies, hospitals, or doctors to shift sales to your products.",
        "由于申请了专利的产品价格远远高于其生产成本，因此例如在医药行业，通过说服药房、医院或医生转而推销你的产品就可以获得巨大的利润。"
    ],
    [
        "And that paradox is now affecting even the core.",
        "而如今，甚至连核心国也受到了节约悖论的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the overall gap has widened in Jordan and Tunisia.",
        "事实上，约旦和突尼斯的总体差距甚至有所扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the erosion of the nation-state ultimately does little good for global markets as long as we lack viable mechanisms of global governance.",
        "事实上，只要我们依然缺乏全球治理的有效机制，民族国家的失效对全球市场都没什么好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, unemployment is low compared to the Western world, because the unproductive distribution sector absorbs young people who cannot find better jobs.",
        "此外，失业状况也不像西方世界那般严重，因为非生产性的分销行业吸收了找不到更好工作的年轻劳动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab world has played that beneficent role in the past, and it can do so again.",
        "阿拉伯世界在过去曾经扮演过这一有益角色，也可以再次扮演这一角色。"
    ],
    [
        "These sobering prospects should prompt all involved to seek a peaceful resolution.",
        "上述发人深省的可能性应当提醒所有参与者寻求和平解决问题的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is already facing a perfect storm of fiscal strains, anemic economic growth, massive inflows of migrants and refugees, and renewed Russian aggression.",
        "欧洲已经面临着财政困难、经济增长萎靡、大规模移民和难民流入以及俄罗斯侵犯再现的“完美风暴”。"
    ],
    [
        "China and a New Balance of Power",
        "中国和新的权力平衡"
    ],
    [
        "By promoting a shift in public perceptions, such programs can catalyze fundamental behavioral changes.",
        "通过促进公共观点的改变，这些项目可以催化根本性的行为改变。"
    ],
    [
        "The third and fourth positive factors relate to housing and the labor market.",
        "第三和第四个积极因素与房地产和劳动力市场有关。"
    ],
    [
        "First, in contrast to the dot-com boom, it is difficult to identify the technological “shock” that set off the boom.",
        "首先，与互联网泡沫不同的是，人们难以确定引发泡沫的技术“冲击”。"
    ],
    [
        "The drive in the 1930’s to restrict banking activities occurred in many countries.",
        "20 世纪 30 年代时，许多国家都想要限制银行业活动。"
    ],
    [
        "As I drive to downtown Chicago, I pass a series of high-rise housing projects, meant in their time to be the miracle cure for homelessness, poverty, unemployment, and crime.",
        "如果我开车去芝加哥市中心，那么我将经过一系列高层住宅项目，当初开发它们时，说这是治愈无家可归、贫困、失业和犯罪问题的良药。"
    ],
    [
        "Through more effective use of smart data – collected during service delivery, economic transactions, and remote sensing – the fight against extreme poverty will be bolstered; the global energy system will be made much more efficient and less polluting; and vital services such as health and education will be made far more effective and accessible.",
        "有效运用通过服务提供、经济交易和遥感等方式搜集的智能数据将有效提振打击极端贫困的事业； 全球能源系统将会提高效率、降低污染；"
    ],
    [
        "Church officials are not calling for that harsh a penalty.",
        "教职人员都没有提倡如此严厉的惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "The very term \"social right\" is a misnomer.",
        "\"社会权利\"这一提法本身就值得商榷。"
    ],
    [
        "Are those associations wrong?",
        "”这种联系果真有误吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It is all too easy to imagine an Asian and Pacific future characterized by higher spending on arms of all types – and thus more susceptible to violent conflict.",
        "以及如何解决亚洲的大量领土纠纷。 亚太的未来将出现各种类型的军备竞赛，因此也更容易发生暴力冲突——这样的情景很容易想象。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Combating antimicrobial resistance will require groundbreaking technological solutions.",
        "伦敦—打击抗药性需要突破性技术解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "She left Britain’s relations with the European Union in a mess from which they have never recovered.",
        "”她把英国与欧盟的关系弄得一团糟，直至今天从未恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "Public and private displays of atavistic machismo, one hopes, will no longer be considered acceptable.",
        "在人们的意识中，那种对公开或私下的返祖式大男子主义行为的认同也将一去不返了。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to make any excuses – it is not true that to comprehend is to forgive.",
        "这样做并不是要找借口——理解也绝不等同于原谅。"
    ],
    [
        "This may not be a bad thing.",
        "这也许并非坏事。"
    ],
    [
        "By then, the torture facility had been turned into a museum.",
        "那时，刑讯设施已经被改造成了博物馆。"
    ],
    [
        "But, instead of learning to compete with Thaksin for the votes of Thailand’s rural poor, the country’s urban elite (including the powerful military) sought to delegitimize his rule.",
        "但是，泰国城市精英（包括强大的军方）并没有通过选票和泰国困苦农民竞争，而是选择推翻他信的合法执政地位。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – This year is likely to be the most momentous for refugee protection and migration since the signing of the Geneva Convention in 1951.",
        "伦敦——今年可能继1951年《日内瓦公约》签订后在难民保护及移民领域意义最为重大。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Legend holds that King Canute brought his flatterers to the sea to show them that even a king could not command the ocean waves, that the laws of nature are more powerful than the decrees of men.",
        "纽约——传奇故事记载卡努特国王曾把他的奉承者带到海边，向他们展示即使国王也无法指挥海浪，告诉他们自然规律比人类的法令更强大。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, such changes to legal frameworks must support, not impede, the private financial sector’s efforts to tackle climate change.",
        "总体而言，这些法律框架变化必须支持而不是阻挠私人金融部门对抗气候变化的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The results of austerity have been what any Keynesian would have expected: hardly any growth in the UK and the eurozone in the last two and a half years, and huge declines in some countries; little reduction in public deficits, despite large spending cuts; and higher national debts.",
        "紧缩的结果就是凯恩斯所断言的那样：过去两年半英国和欧元区国家几乎没有任何经济增长，在某些国家经济衰退得很快； 尽管有大额的开支削减，公共赤字并没有下降多少；"
    ],
    [
        "Long Live China’s Slowdown",
        "中国经济放缓万岁"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s leaders, who helped broker a peaceful and democratic end to the Orange Revolution, should once again help Ukraine avoid political deadlock.",
        "曾经帮助使橙色革命获得一个和平、民主的结局的欧洲领导人现在应该再一次帮助乌克兰走出政治僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "Indonesia’s Forgotten Genocide",
        "被忘却的印尼种族灭绝"
    ],
    [
        "Former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan may be right when he says: “This crisis is different – a once or twice a century event deeply rooted in fears of insolvency of major financial institutions.”",
        "当前美联储主席艾伦·格林斯潘说“这次危机不同——这是一个深深植根于对主要金融机构破产的恐惧中的一个世纪发生一次或两次的危机”的时候，他可能是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "By allowing social tensions to mount to such a degree, the Chinese government may also be partly responsible for the recent rampage among thousands of workers at the Foxconn plant (where components for Apple iPods and iPads are made) in Taiyuan.",
        "放任社会紧张到如此程度的中国政府对于最近在太原富士康（苹果iPod 和iPad的组装工厂）千人大斗殴事件中也要付一定的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "During the first half of the twenty-first century, the population of Africa as a whole is expected to grow from about one billion to 2.5 billion.",
        "其人口预计将在2050年增长至5亿。 21世纪上半叶，非洲人口总数预计将从10亿上升到25亿之多。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the three issues, military transparency seems to be the most sensitive and difficult to address.",
        "在这三个问题中，军事透明度好像最敏感也最棘手。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative – further escalation of the Asian arms race – is in no one’s interest.",
        "否则——亚洲军备竞赛进一步升级——不符合所有人的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In another crucial policy area, however, change by the incoming Trump administration would be welcome: the Middle East.",
        "但在另一个关键中策领域，即将上任的特朗普政府所做的改变是值得欢迎的。"
    ],
    [
        "Their creations – whether diaries or Flickr photos, a hand-crafted cabinet or cheesecake recipes – are another way.",
        "而他们的作品 —— 无论是日记还是 Flickr 照片，亲手做的柜子还是一张芝士蛋糕配料表 —— 则是另一种方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile,the UN Environment Program reports that global investment in renewable energy totaled only $257 billion in 2011.",
        "而联合国环境规划署的数字则表明同年在可再生能源上的全球投资总额仅为2570亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "But what about the impact of politics on economics?",
        "那么政治是如何作用于经济的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "So why will policymakers be considering an interest-rate hike at the Fed’s September meeting?",
        "那么，为何决策者要在美联储9月的会议上考虑升息？"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the purchasing power of the federal gas tax declined by about 30% from 1997 to 2011.",
        "结果是，从1997年到2011年，该联邦税的购买力下降了 30%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "The best place to consider that question would not be Brussels, but Tiraspol, the capital of the entity that calls itself the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, or Trans-Dniestr.",
        "思考这个问题的最佳地点不是布鲁塞尔，而是蒂拉斯波尔，自称普列德涅斯特罗瓦（Pridnestrovian）摩尔多瓦共和国（或称德涅斯特河沿岸）的实体的首都。"
    ],
    [
        "One day all that had to be over.”",
        "总有结束这一切的那一天。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Personally, I am reluctantly willing to accept the US government spying on people, especially foreigners, as long as it is constrained by rules that are public and enforced.",
        "就个人而言，我难以接受美国政府监控人民（特别是外国人）的说法，因为政府受公开的有强制力的规则约束。"
    ],
    [
        "More mature firms have phased in formal protocols, with ethics officers, risk committees, and other structures that oversee how data are collected and used, though not always successfully (indeed, they often depend on trial and error).",
        "成熟的企业已开始建立规程，虽然并非总能奏效（实际执行时往往依靠试错），但安排了专门的道德官员、风险委员会和其他机构对如何搜集和利用信息进行监管。"
    ],
    [
        "But they should not rely on technocratic prowess alone as the key to legitimacy and political success.",
        "但他们不能仅以技术实力作为合法性和政治成功的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Peatlands are particularly important.",
        "泥炭地尤其重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But curtailing democracy in order to modernize the energy sector is not a good idea.",
        "但为实现能源现代化而遏制民主也不是一个好主意。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the advanced economies have been shedding routine jobs at a rapid rate, while adding non-routine jobs (for example, those that cannot yet be replaced or reduced by machines and networked computers).",
        "结果，发达国家以更快的速度削减常规岗位，同时增加非常规岗位（比如仍无法用机器和联网电脑取代和削减的岗位）。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Asset Owners Disclosure Project, which I chair, the top 500 global asset owners are alarmingly exposed to the dangers of climate change.",
        "据我本人任主席的资产所有者披露项目显示，全球资产500强所有者惊人地遭受到气候变化威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, fear, insecurity, and nationalism are again raising their heads.",
        "事实上恐惧、不安全感和民族主义又在抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "But this imported hybrid war – and Russia’s bid to carve up Ukraine – is far from over.",
        "但这场境外输入的混合战争——还有俄罗斯对乌克兰的瓜分——却还远远没有结束。"
    ],
    [
        "In Africa, for example, road coverage on Google Maps increased from 20% in 2008 to 75% last year, while the number of towns and villages for which detailed maps are available grew by more than 1,000%.",
        "比方说在非洲，谷歌地图的道路覆盖率从2008年的20%提高到去年的75%，而可以找到详细地图的村镇数量去年实际增长1000%多。"
    ],
    [
        "None operates out of its parents’ garage while awaiting an infusion of venture capital.",
        "其中没有一家是在创始人父母的车库里运营，同时眼巴巴地等待着风险资本的注入。"
    ],
    [
        "In a landmark speech on administrative restructuring in 1980, Deng underscored the urgency of bringing about a “separation of party and government.”",
        "1980年，邓小平对行政改革做了历史性的讲话。 他强调“党政分开”的急迫性。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not acceptable.",
        "这是不能接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the face of an immense tragedy, working class families around the world opened their wallets to the disaster’s victims.",
        "大灾面前，全世界的工薪家庭都打开钱袋，援助受灾群众。"
    ],
    [
        "It was published through a Chinese-language blog-hosting service run by Microsoft’s MSN Spaces.",
        "它是通过微软公司MSN空间运行的中文版博客主机服务发表的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also why the EU requires an integral approach to conflicts and crises that uses every available instrument and policy.",
        "欧盟也因此需要充分利用所有工具和政策的整体方案来应对冲突和危机。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if it plays its cards right, it could do much to increase its international influence, while enhancing global economic and financial stability.",
        "但如果它能打出好牌，就可以极大地增加其国际影响力，同时增强全球经济和金融稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Refunding a customer’s money – or giving them a free complementary breakfast – is easy.",
        "把房钱退给客人 —— 或者给他们一份免费的早餐作补偿是件很容易的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent elections in the Netherlands and France suggest that Trump may be serving as a deterrent, rather than a boost, to populist extremism in Europe.",
        "近期在荷兰和法国的选举表明特朗普可能遏制、而非推动的欧洲的民粹极端力量。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Informal discussions on the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union are now underway.",
        "华盛顿—如今，关于英国与欧盟的关系的讨论正在进行中。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, China benefits greatly from access to Burma’s energy and other natural resources.",
        "当然，中国也因为能够开采缅甸的能源和其他自然资源中获得了巨大的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "This genuine embrace of reconciliation provided much-needed support to Chinese leaders, who were eager to control anti-Japanese sentiments.",
        "这种真诚的拥抱和解为中国领导人提供了急需的支持，他们正急于控制国内的反日情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "The problems are too complicated.",
        "问题太过错综复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Whole cities are rising out of desert sands overnight.",
        "一夜之间整座城市就从沙漠中拔地而起。"
    ],
    [
        "Even very low inflation hampers countries’ ability to address over-indebtedness.",
        "即使是极低的通胀也不利于于各国解决过度负债问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But he’s also liable to turn a 30-month ceremonial post as the EU’s figurehead into one with much more political clout than its 27 national leaders might like.",
        "但是他也有可能把欧盟为期30个月的礼仪性职务转变成为更为政治性的角色，超过欧盟27个国家领导人所希望的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, despite the highly charged situation in our country, Ukraine deserves a clear road map out of its current security “grey zone\" and toward a Euro-Atlantic future.",
        "从更广的角度，尽管我的祖国身处千钧一发之势，但乌克兰应该获得清晰的路线图走出当前的安全“灰色地带”，走向欧洲-大西洋未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, an Iranian civilian nuclear program would enhance US and world energy security by making more oil and gas available in the global market.",
        "不无讽刺的是，伊朗的民用核计划会通过使更多的石油和天然气供应到全球市场从而增强美国和世界的能源安全。"
    ],
    [
        "We have also cut interest rates on all concessional lending to zero through 2012.",
        "我们还把到2012年的优惠贷款利率削减到零。"
    ],
    [
        "They used to pop their dentures into a mug of whitener every night.",
        "他们每晚把假牙泡在装有增白剂的杯中。"
    ],
    [
        "These disadvantaged groups are particularly large in the countries that were hit hardest by the recent global financial crisis and now struggle with high unemployment.",
        "在最近的全球金融危机中受冲击最大、目前陷入高失业的国家，这些劣势群体的规模特别巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, extensive research into alternative models was funded through the US Department of Defense, which, as the world’s largest buyer of complex machinery, wanted better, cheaper and more tailored goods.",
        "具有讽刺意味的是，美国国防部出资赞助了对替代性模式的广泛研究。 作为全世界最大的精密仪器买主，国防部想要更先进、更廉价、也更符合需要的产品。"
    ],
    [
        "And his social background is more complicated.",
        "他的社会背景是比较复杂的。"
    ],
    [
        "If the UK stays, the EU must urgently work out how a legitimate multi-currency union will function, instead of reverting to business as usual.",
        "如果英国决定留下，欧盟不仅不能回归常态，还必须争分夺秒找到合法多币种联盟的有效运作方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush lacks comparable successes to compensate for his mismanagement of Iraq.",
        "布什并没有类似的成功可以弥补他在伊拉克的失误。"
    ],
    [
        "It is almost as if remuneration committees have taken a leaf from Sun Tzu's The Art of War: “The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.”",
        "现在的情况几乎变成薪酬委员会已经吸取了孙子兵法的策略：“全部的秘诀在于迷惑敌人，从而使其无法摸清我们的真正意图。"
    ],
    [
        "The modest initiatives on the table reflect the government’s anti-public-sector rhetoric.",
        "摆在桌面上的温和举措反应了政府反对公共部门的说辞。"
    ],
    [
        "For believers in the benefits of diversity, California represents the largest social experiment in human history, bringing people of different backgrounds together in a way unimaginable in, say, Germany, China, or Brazil.",
        "对于笃信多元化好处的人来说，加州代表了人类历史上最大的社会实验，它把不同背景的人融合在一起，这样的方式在德国、中国或巴西是难以想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "One thing is certain: Mexico is not going to pay for the border wall.",
        "有一件事是确定的：墨西哥不会为边境墙买单。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson for other governments is clear: if you want independence of action, don’t put yourself in hock.",
        "对于其他国家的政府同行来说，英国的教训很明确：如果你想自由自在，那就别欠债。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the next three years, progress toward fulfilling the commitments made at the upcoming summit will be evaluated.",
        "未来三年内，我们将对即将召开的峰会上履行承诺所取得的进步进行评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Given real economic conditions, European and American monetary policy is not too loose; if anything, it is too restrictive.",
        "给定真实经济条件，欧洲和美国货币政策并不过于宽松； 如果真有“过于”的话，那也是过于限制性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bangladeshi government’s sympathies are closer to the Shahbag protesters than to the Hifazat counter-demonstrators.",
        "孟加拉政府的立场更接近Shahbag示威者而非Hifazat反示威者。"
    ],
    [
        "In America, the only questions are whether a board will force a CEO to leave and, if so, how big his severance package will be.",
        "而在美国，唯一的问题是董事会是否会 迫使 一位首席执行官离开，以及如果让他离开的话，应该支付给他多少离职津贴。"
    ],
    [
        "Fewer Africans working in rich countries will automatically translate into less money circulating in African countries.",
        "当在富裕国家工作的非洲人数量减少时，这自然会导致在非洲国家里流动的钱也会变少"
    ],
    [
        "People without them have suffered … a change has got to come.",
        "没有资产的人遭了秧……必须要做出改变。"
    ],
    [
        "The greatest danger is that humanitarian relief will be tailored to meet donors’ demands, rather than actual needs.",
        "最大的危险在于人道主义援助将会更多地满足捐助方的要求而不是实际的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "But Gordon is almost surely wrong: game-changing inventions fundamentally transform or redefine lived experience, which means that they often fall outside the scope of conventional measurements of economic growth.",
        "但戈登几乎肯定是错的：改变大局的发明从根本上改变或重新定义生活体验，这意味着它们往往落在经济增长的常规衡量手段适用范围之外。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet today, more than ever, debt is fueling concern about growth prospects worldwide.",
        "然而时至今日，债务却比以往任何时候都更加引发对全球增长前景的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won.",
        "美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿是赢家。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, they should agree on indicative target dates – from five to 15 years – for achieving all of these initial objectives.",
        "最重要的是，它们应该形成一个指导性目标日期——五年到15年不等——以实现所有这些最初目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging market countries from Chile to China have been arguing for some time that the International Monetary Fund – the nerve center of the international financial system – needs to become more “democratic.”",
        "从智利到中国， 许多新兴市场国家一段时间以来都在呼吁国际货币基金组织—国际金融体系的神经中枢—需要变得“民主”。"
    ],
    [
        "A resolution to break the scientifically illiterate opposition to genetically modified food would help boost agriculture and exports to Europe substantially.",
        "一项破除盲目反对转基因食品的解决方案将极大促进该地对欧洲的农产品出口。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the European Union’s current fragmented regulatory regimes, companies must obtain separate permission to sell in each of the 28 national markets.",
        "在当前各自为政的欧盟监管框架下，公司必须在28个国家级市场上分别获得许可。"
    ],
    [
        "Westphalia is behind us.",
        "”威斯特伐利亚已经离我们远去。"
    ],
    [
        "It also benefits from a highly educated diaspora.",
        "非洲也从受过良好的教育的侨民中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "While there was a business cycle, no perceptible tendency toward chronic demand weakness appeared.",
        "虽然存在商业周期，但从未出现过需求的慢性疲软趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Decoupling oil revenues from public subsidies will require a new social contract that is based less on guaranteed consumption and more on personal autonomy.",
        "让石油收入与公共补贴脱钩要求全新的社会契约，新的契约将更少依靠消费保障，更多依靠个人自治。"
    ],
    [
        "A dictator who wants to control every aspect of people’s lives will seek to ignore the preferences of everyone else.",
        "希望掌握人们生活方方面面的独裁者会寻求忽略所有其他人的偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "The BRICS’ ambitions – and the world’s expectations for them – may yet be fulfilled.",
        "金砖国家的雄心——以及全世界寄予它们的厚望——或许能够实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Although households in many advanced economies have reduced their debt burdens since the financial crisis began, total household debt in the US, the UK, and most eurozone countries is still higher as a percentage of GDP (and in absolute terms) than it was in 2000.",
        "虽然许多发达国家家庭自从金融危机以来就降低了自身债务负担，但美国，英国和大多数欧元区国家的家庭总负债规模依然比2000年时增加了1%（相对于GDP，以绝对价值计算）。"
    ],
    [
        "Coalition politics gives representation to the myriad interests that make up a diverse and complex society, and ensures that the country as a whole accepts the policies ultimately adopted.",
        "在一个多元而复杂的社会里，联合政府可以代表不同的利益团体，使得国家的各方面决策得到大多数人的拥护。"
    ],
    [
        "The price of Obama’s approach is that it denies any potential for progress toward peace.",
        "奥巴马计划的代价是它否认任何通往和平的潜在进步。"
    ],
    [
        "His point was that Google was just like the ferry: the only way to navigate the Internet.",
        "他想说谷歌就像渡船一样，是浏览互联网的唯一方式。"
    ],
    [
        "A few were even promoted.",
        "有几位甚至反而得到了重用。"
    ],
    [
        "Founded at the end of World War II to prevent another major disaster of that kind, the UN has now vastly expanded its mandate beyond peacekeeping, as important as that is. For instance, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), adopted at the UN Millennium summit five years ago, proclaimed the international community’s resolve to reduce poverty in all of its manifestations and set concrete goals to be achieved by 2015.",
        "目前，联合国的职责已大大超出维护和平的范畴，而这些新职责与维和同样重要。 例如，五年前在联合国千年首脑会议上通过的千年发展目标宣告了国际社会决心降低各种形式的贫困，并确定了在2015年前所要实现的明确目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatively, it may intervene and sell international reserves, reducing the stock available to repay dollar debt.",
        "或者，它可以干预并出售国际储备，导致可用于偿还美元债务的存量下降。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as in Turkey, a collapsed narrative can leave much debris.",
        "但就像在土耳其一样，谎言的破灭可能留下一地碎片。"
    ],
    [
        "We should not underestimate the creativity of financiers seeking to escape capital requirements and leverage up.",
        "我们不应该低估金融家逃脱资本要求、扩大杠杆的创造力。"
    ],
    [
        "That sum will not come from the poor.",
        "这笔钱显然也不会来自于穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, the emerging political players – particularly the Islamist parties – have adopted a rather conciliatory tone regarding engagement with international actors.",
        "总的来说，新崛起政治势力——特别是伊斯兰政党——对国际合作采取了颇具妥协性的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "For all, a perilous existential moment is increasingly close at hand.",
        "所有人都说，生死存亡的时刻越来越近了。"
    ],
    [
        "Genuine anti-racists, anti-imperialists, and believers in republican democracy must take the side of the Islam of moderation and peace in its war against the criminal Islam of the Salafists.",
        "真正的反种族主义者、反帝国主义者以及信奉共和民主者，在现代化和和平伊斯兰教与沙拉菲派的犯罪伊斯兰教的战争中必须站在前者一方。"
    ],
    [
        "But these are big “ifs” – especially given the high level of uncertainty regarding the ultimate volume of oil resources.",
        "但这不过是些空乏的“如果”——尤其在考虑到关于石油资源终极储量的如此高的不确定性之时。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor are the Chinese casual and infrequent Internet users.",
        "中国那些不常使用互联网的人数也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Greek government's argument that this is an unreasonable target fails to withstand scrutiny.",
        "希腊新政府认为这是不合理的目标，但这一说法经不起考验。"
    ],
    [
        "There are winners and losers in globalization.",
        "全球化有赢家和输家。"
    ],
    [
        "Global fear about free trade leaves the planet at risk of missing out on the extraordinary benefits that it offers.",
        "对自由贸易的全球性恐惧让世界处在错过可能获得的巨大收益的风险中。"
    ],
    [
        "Making Globalization Work",
        "让全球化生机盎然"
    ],
    [
        "What, then, can the US do to undermine Iran’s position?",
        "那么，美国如何才能削弱伊朗的地位呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are not subject to the Federal Election Commission’s transparency rules.",
        "目前，Facebook和Twitter等平台不受联邦选举委员透明度规则的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "His “war” approach is making it easier for Islamist terrorists to view the West as an equally united and malevolent force.",
        "他的“战争”论使伊斯兰恐怖分子更容易把西方看成一股同样团结的邪恶力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) was established in 1982, as part of the Antarctic Treaty System, in response to concerns that continued unregulated fishing might undermine the basis of the Antarctic food chain.",
        "作为南极协约系统的一部分，成立于1982的南极海洋生命资源保护公约（CCAMLR）就是对持续无限制的捕捉会破坏南极食物链的基础的担忧的回应。"
    ],
    [
        "Syrians in Cairo or Beirut could do the same.",
        "开罗或贝鲁特的叙利亚人也可以这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "It can begin by creating greater opportunities for US firms – including from the nuclear industry – to invest in India’s economic success. It can expand defense cooperation beyond purchases of American-made military equipment by deepening its diplomatic engagement with the US to help find solutions to the difficult problems stemming from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran.",
        "印度可以向美国公司开放更多的投资机会——包括核工业在内，也可以扩大与美国的防务合作，不仅仅只是从美国进口军事装备，而是与美国展开更深层次的外交合作，协助美国解决在阿富汗、巴基斯坦和伊朗遇到的棘手问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Don’t Cry for Corporate America",
        "无须为美国企业喊冤"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorism is like Ju-jitsu.",
        "恐怖主义就像柔道。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor, no matter how inexpensive, will become a less important asset for growth and employment expansion, with labor-intensive, process-oriented manufacturing becoming a less effective way for early-stage developing countries to enter the global economy.",
        "劳动力不管多么廉价，都将沦为增长和就业扩张的次要资产，而劳动密集型、过程导向型制造业将不再是发展早期阶段国家进入全球经济的做有效手段。"
    ],
    [
        "The US should quietly try to nudge these steps forward.",
        "美国应该悄悄地努力推动这些步伐。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has expressed his indifference to NATO, and US security commitments in East Asia.",
        "特朗普已经表示对北约和美国的东亚安全承诺“无所谓”。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that rapid labor-productivity growth in the industrial sector – more than 10% per year over the last two decades – is reducing the need to hire more workers.",
        "问题在于，工业部门快速的劳动生产率增长（过去二十年每年大于10%）正在减少雇用更多工人的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Any man who would frame the four death sentences he had received (one signed by Khrushchev, another by Yuri Andropov, the Soviet ambassador in Budapest in 1956) and hang them in his drawing room has the sort of quirky humor I relish.",
        "我想一个会将自己四张死刑判决书（其一由赫鲁晓夫签发，另一份则由1956年时任苏联驻布达佩斯大使的尤里·安德罗波夫签发）用画框框起来放在画室里的人，肯定拥有某种异乎寻常的幽默感吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, that, too, is possible.",
        "幸运的是，这也是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, Russia’s attitude toward its near abroad is not quite as erratic as it may seem.",
        "显然，俄罗斯对其东邻的态度并非如表面上看起来那样飘忽不定。"
    ],
    [
        "That 8% target will be met, because in China directed objectives are always attained, and often exceeded.",
        "中国8%的经济增长目标肯定会实现，因为在中国，政府确定的目标总是实现了，并且经常是超额完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, Assad would remain in power; yes, Russia would retain an ally in Syria; and yes, Iran would have influence there.",
        "诚然，俄罗斯将继续是叙利亚的盟国； 诚然，伊朗将在那里获得影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK would pay at least $8 billion annually in subsidies to support this inherently inefficient technology.",
        "英国每年至少得付出80亿美元用于补贴这一效率先天不足的技术。"
    ],
    [
        "If these programs work so well, why are they not more widespread?",
        "既然这些计划这么好，为何没有得到普及？"
    ],
    [
        "Jane Jacobs’s insights on this, published more that 40 years ago, have been confirmed by more recent studies summarized in books by Edward Glaeser and Enrico Moretti.",
        "雅各布斯（Jane Jacobs）在四十年前就发表了这一洞见，并被总结在格雷泽（Edward Glaeser）和莫雷蒂（Enrico Moretti）书中的更新的研究所证实。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if convention allows the American president to appoint the World Bank’s head, the organization’s success depends on the confidence of others.",
        "即使惯例允许美国总统指定世界银行行长，但世行的成功取决于别人的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "East Asia’s New Year Resolutions",
        "东亚的新年决心"
    ],
    [
        "China’s recent slowdown, by fueling turbulence in global capital markets and weakening commodity prices further, has exacerbated the downturn throughout the emerging world.",
        "最近中国的减速进一步增加了全球资本市场动荡、压制了大宗商品价格，从而加剧了整个新兴世界的衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Only with stable and inclusive growth can Nigeria escape the clutches of brutal forces like Boko Haram and give its citizens the security and prosperity that they deserve.",
        "只有借助包容性稳定增长尼日利亚才能逃脱博科圣地等暴力组织的魔掌，赋予尼日利亚人他们理应享有的安全与繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Massive government interventions during the crisis have undermined this principle, and have probably already destroyed much of the inherited wealth.",
        "危机期间的大规模政府干预已经破坏了这一原则，可能也已经毁掉了很大一部分先人遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "The heads of the world’s historical powers need to recognize that it is in their interest, too, to follow the rules, and to allow rising states to help write these rules.",
        "世界历史强国的首脑需要认识到，遵守规则、允许崛起国家参与制定规则也符合他们的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Ordinary Japanese say sumimasen countless times each day, to apologize to friends or strangers for even the most trivial accident or mistake.",
        "普通日本人每天都要说无数次“斯米马赛”，有一点点事情或犯一点点错误就用这个词向朋友或陌生人致歉。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that enlargement has taken place, it is easier to discuss migration objectively.",
        "现在东扩已经实现，客观地讨论移民问题就容易一点了。"
    ],
    [
        "The conventional wisdom could be offered as a recommendation, along with explanations of why it makes sense, but it would not be the default.",
        "传统智慧可以作为一种建议，并附上为何有效的说明，但不作为默认选项。"
    ],
    [
        "The cycle will continue, though other factors – such as the steadily declining costs of renewable energy and the shift toward less energy-intensive production processes – mean that it will probably spin within a lower range.",
        "这一周期依然会持续存在，虽然其他因素——例如可再生能源成本的不断下降以及向低能源密集度生产流程的转变——意味着它可能会较窄范围内运行。"
    ],
    [
        "VIENNA– Europe’s current financial squeeze defies easy solutions.",
        "维也纳——欧洲目前的财政困难没有轻松的解决之道。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, many “Leave” voters may not live to regret it.",
        "事实上，很多“脱欧”选民或许活不到后悔的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "The steps that Africa’s leaders need to take are clear.",
        "非洲领导人需要采取的步骤非常明确。"
    ],
    [
        "Schools were multiplying as attendance surged.",
        "学校如雨后春笋般兴起，入学儿童的数量也在不断激增。"
    ],
    [
        "With Chinese fishing vessels constantly intruding into what have hitherto been others’ undisputed 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zones (EEZs) under UNCLOS, these claims are now causing real friction with countries like Indonesia.",
        "”因为中国的渔船时常侵入他国根据《联合国海洋法公约》规定迄今为止无可争议的200海里专属经济区（EEZ），上述主张正在与印尼等国间制造出真正的摩擦。"
    ],
    [
        "Taking to the airwaves within hours, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy called the proposal “ground-breaking.”",
        "在讲话发表后的数小时内，欧盟委员会主席若泽·曼努埃尔·巴罗佐（José Manuel Barroso）和欧洲理事会主席赫尔曼·范龙佩（Herman Van Rompuy）就纷纷称赞这个提议是“开拓性的”，并认为自由贸易区的建立能让欧洲的年度经济增长提高0."
    ],
    [
        "The obvious question is why China’s government, which is not known to be shy about imposing paternalistic policies in other areas, does not simply ban cigarette production and use altogether.",
        "最明显的问题是为什么在其他领域不吝推行家长式政策的中国政府不干脆禁止烟草的生产和使用。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems that the lesson from the fall of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 was not lost on Xi.",
        "看起来习近平没有忘记1964年前苏联领导人赫鲁晓夫倒台的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, for both our countries, greater energy efficiency and security requires reliance upon market price signals, technology, innovation, and diversified energy sources.",
        "同样，对于两国而言，提高能源效率和安全要求依赖于市场价格信号、技术、创新以及多样化的能源来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Sustaining Women",
        "让妇女可持续"
    ],
    [
        "But what is clear is that the revolution took place on shaky national economic foundations, transforming the upper floors of the European economy – financial markets and macroeconomic policy institutions – while leaving intact the ancien underpinnings of supply-side distortions induced by misguided national policies in the 1970’s and 1980’s.",
        "但有一点是十分清楚的：这次革命是在脆弱的国家经济基础之上发生的，它所改革的是欧洲经济的上层建筑¾金融市场和宏观经济制度¾而保留了20世纪七八十年代错误的国家政策所造成供应经济扭曲的原有基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The Muslim interest in democracy is best understood through a clear perception of the reality of how Muslims live.",
        "对于穆斯林的生存现状的深刻了解最能诠释穆斯林在民主制度中享受到的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Dealing with Ukraine will take patience and perseverance, but there is too much at stake to choose any other path.",
        "同乌克兰打交道，需要耐心和恒心，但它实在是太重要，没有别的路可选。"
    ],
    [
        "Biofuels are not the answer, either.",
        "生物燃料也不是答案。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, cybersecurity is high on the list of global concerns, as well it should be.",
        "今年，网络安全在全球关注榜上名列前茅，理应如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The second path is to follow the German model of accelerating structural reforms and corporate restructuring to increase productivity growth while keeping wage growth moderate.",
        "第二条路是学习德国的榜样，加快经济结构改革，推动企业转型，一方面提高生产率，另一方面把工资维持在适当水平上。"
    ],
    [
        "Helping developing countries grow will stimulate investment opportunities for EU companies and open new markets for their goods.",
        "帮助发展中国家成长将为欧盟公司带来新投资机会，为它们的产品打开新市场。"
    ],
    [
        "If Europe and the US do their part, Erdoğan may be persuaded to resume the role of human-rights reformer that he played during his first several years in office.",
        "如果欧洲和美国做好了分内工作，就可能说服埃尔多安重新成为人权改革者，这也是他在成为总理后最初几年所扮演的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "This policy can also help on the fiscal front.",
        "这项政策在财政方面也会有所帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Presidents of Yale have come and gone, but Swensen stays on.",
        "耶鲁大学的校长们过往不息，而斯文森则岿然不动。"
    ],
    [
        "While China has nuclear weapons and more soldiers, Japan’s military is better equipped in some areas (and obviously has the technological capacity to develop nuclear weapons very quickly).",
        "虽然中国在核武器和兵员数量方面占据优势，但日本军队在某些领域装备更为精良（而且显然拥有快速研发核武器的技术力量）。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the Congressional Budget Office projects the relative cost of the Social Security program’s old-age pension benefits to rise by more than a quarter over the next 25 years, from 4.9% of GDP today to 6.2% in 2038.",
        "在美国，国会预算办公室预测社会保障计划的老龄退休福利的相对成本将在未来25年中增加四分之一以上，到2038年，其占GDP比重将从今天的4. 9%上升为6."
    ],
    [
        "But if that were the objective, clearly a long list of countries should have been drawn up, and it is hardly certain that Iraq would have come out on top.",
        "但是，如果那是目的的话，应该有一个长长的国家名单，而伊拉克几乎很难位居首位。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey, another country whose star has faded, also relied on large annual current-account deficits, reaching 10% of GDP in 2011.",
        "土耳其则是另一颗逐渐暗淡的明星，它也依赖于巨大的年度经常项目赤字，其中2011年达到了GDP的10%。"
    ],
    [
        "For most of India’s existence, however, the default approach has essentially been “live and let live” – make your own choice about beef, and let others do the same.",
        "但是，在大部分印度的存在中，默认的观点其实是“各活各的”（live and let live）——你对牛肉的选择你自己定，让其他人也自己定。"
    ],
    [
        "In the spirit of that notorious nineteenth-century czarist forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, anti-Semites think “the Jews\" run the US government, Wall Street, and the media.",
        "根据臭名昭著的十九世纪沙俄伪书《锡安长老会纪要》（The Protocols of the Elders of Zion）的精神，反犹主义者认为“犹太人”把持着美国政府、华尔街和媒体。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the world has made a half-hearted effort.",
        "事实上，世界各国付出了三心二意的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese experts are now debating a key governance question: which top-level architecture would enable the country to adopt the reforms needed to meet global and domestic pressures?",
        "如今，中国专家对一个关键性治理问题展开着争论：哪种上层建筑能够让中国接受应对全球和国内压力所必须的改革？"
    ],
    [
        "To ensure a durable exit from the crisis, and to build foundations for sustained and broad-based growth in a globalized world, developing countries in 2010 and beyond must draw the right lessons from history.",
        "而实行经济自由化之前的中国、越南和印度同样如此。 对于发展中国家来说，为了彻底摆脱危机，为在全球化的世界中实现全面可持续性的增长打好基础，它们必须在2010年以及之后的岁月里，从历史中汲取正确的经验教训。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why central banks are now searching for new instruments.",
        "这也是为什么各国的中央银行现在都在想方设法采取新的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps, but this is probably a red herring.",
        "也许如此，但是这可能是混淆视听。"
    ],
    [
        "That makes sense.",
        "这些政策很有意义。"
    ],
    [
        "There are too few like him.",
        "像他一样的人太少。"
    ],
    [
        "If Brexit triggers a Europe-wide revolt against liberal elites, it would be the first time in history that Britain leads a wave of illiberalism in Europe.",
        "如果英国退出应发一场席卷欧洲的对自由派精英的反抗，那么这将是英国在历史上第一次在欧洲领导了一场不自由浪潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Environmentalists opposing the pipeline refer, with equal deftness, to “dirty oil.”",
        "而反对输油管项目的环保者也出于同样的心态将其称之为“脏油”。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a view that Americans should take to heart.",
        "美国应该时刻铭记这一评价。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, they overestimated the extent to which quantitative easing (QE) by the monetary authorities – that is, printing money – could counterbalance fiscal tightening.",
        "第二，他们高估了金融当局实施的量化宽松政策——也就是印钞票——对财政紧缩的抵消程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan needed real financial risk sharing: charity rarely amounts to much.",
        "日本需要真实有效的金融风险分担：而慈善却很少能承担起这个重任。"
    ],
    [
        "The regime seems convinced that there is only a small likelihood of a military attack on its nuclear program. It does not believe that sanctions can bring about its collapse.",
        "这个政权似乎确信，自己的核计划不大可能遭到外军袭击，而国际制裁似乎也难以令政权崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US presidential campaign, trade protection is fashionable again.",
        "在美国总统选战中，贸易保护再次成为热门。"
    ],
    [
        "Every one of these bright young Africans – examples of what the Mastercard Foundation calls “transformative leadership” in action – has the potential to drive change in their own countries and communities.",
        "每个聪明的非洲年轻人——万事达基金会所谓“变革型领导者”的实例——都有可能在自己的国家和社区推动变革。"
    ],
    [
        "For quality of life, we have to rely on morals, not markets.",
        "如果要过有质量的生活，我们只能依赖道义，而不是市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Another two million have since been added to the tally.",
        "冲突爆发后这一人数增加了两百万。"
    ],
    [
        "That amounts to a 6% increase above business as usual.",
        "这与常规业务相比实现了6%的增幅。"
    ],
    [
        "Eurobonds, for example, would not only create moral hazard; “taxation without representation” would also violate a fundamental tenet of democracy and undermine support for the European idea.",
        "比如，欧元债券不但会造成道德风险； “无代表的纳税”还违反了民主的基本原则，不利于对欧洲思想的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a scheme would include joint military exercises and information-sharing arrangements not just with South Korea and the US, but also with China, India, the Southeast Asian countries.",
        "这样的方案不仅包括与韩美两国、也包括与中国、印度和东南亚国家的联合军演和信息共享安排。"
    ],
    [
        "Without it, a free-trade system will eventually break down.",
        "若非如此，自由贸易体系最终将解体。"
    ],
    [
        "A bigger part of this increased productivity comes from the extraordinary technological revolutions in computers and communications that have led to dramatic increases in the usefulness - and decreases in the cost - of high-tech capital.",
        "劳动生产率的较大部分增长来自于计算机和通信技术的革命-这使得高科技资本的有效性大幅增加，而其成本则大幅降低。"
    ],
    [
        "ZURICH – The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) have long been the focus of emerging-market investors.",
        "苏黎世—金砖四国（巴西、俄罗斯、印度和中国）一直是新兴市场投资者关注的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "While foreign companies have not been deliberately targeted, regular headlines of new killings hardly present a positive international image.",
        "尽管外国公司并没有成为刻意攻击的目标，但是对新发杀人案的定期新闻报导很难促成一种积极的国际形象。"
    ],
    [
        "Were the doves right, or just lucky?",
        "是鸽派对了，还是仅仅因为幸运？"
    ],
    [
        "And Europe does need to develop structures and decision-making processes that limit conflicts of interest by offering compromise solutions.",
        "与此同时，欧盟也不需要形成可以提供折中方案的架构和决策过程，以形成限制利益冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "As Iraq moved through progressive phases of mismanagement over the subsequent ten agonizing years, the country fractured, shattering the dreams of Iraqis who saw their beloved homeland once again sliding toward authoritarianism, with almost daily violations of the constitution.",
        "伊拉克在之后痛苦的十年里经历了管理不善的所有阶段，国家的破裂彻底粉碎了伊拉克人的梦想。 他们眼睁睁看着自己心爱的祖国再次滑向独裁，看着违宪行为成了家常便饭。"
    ],
    [
        "In Dostoievski’s great novel Crime and Punishment , Raskolnikov is pushed to committing his crime not only by his nihilism and rebelliousness, but also by poverty.",
        "在陀思妥耶夫斯基的伟大小说《罪与罚》中，把Raskolnikov推向犯罪深渊的不仅是虚无主义和叛逆心态，还有贫穷。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization does not get much better than this, right?",
        "全球化能够带来的好处也不过如此，对吧？"
    ],
    [
        "The episode highlights the ongoing race in global health research that is playing out in the field of stem cells.",
        "这一事件突出了在正在进行的全球医疗研究中干细胞方面的竞赛。"
    ],
    [
        "It could hardly be more clear.",
        "这再清楚不过了。"
    ],
    [
        "The second is that “medium-term inflation expectations no longer remain sufficiently well anchored.”",
        "第二个出局条件是“中期通胀预期不再能够充分锚定”。"
    ],
    [
        "Until then, we should take a page from cultural evolution’s playbook and design systems that use variation and selection to make institutions compete.",
        "但在那一天到来之前，我们应当遵守文化演进的规则并设计利用变化和选择实现制度竞争的系统。"
    ],
    [
        "The Pact came after the pogroms of “Kristallnacht” in Germany, so its Soviet initiators knew pretty well to what destiny they were consigning the Jews of Poland and Lithuania, which, in accord with the first secret Protocol signed by Ribbentrop and Molotov on August 23, 1939, were to go to Hitler.",
        "该协定是在德国“水晶之夜”屠杀后制定的，所以该协议的苏联起草者非常清楚，根据1939年8月23日纳粹德国外交部长Ribbentrop和苏联外务委员会委员莫洛托夫Molotov签订的第一个秘密协议，他们把波兰和立陶宛的犹太人的命运交付给了希特勒。"
    ],
    [
        "Together with Wałęsa, Mazowiecki was a founder of Polish independence.",
        "马佐维耶茨基和瓦文萨都是波兰独立的创始人。"
    ],
    [
        "BALTIMORE -- Tuberculosis, one of the most deadly infectious diseases, is back with a vengeance, especially in Africa.",
        "巴尔的摩——肺结核，一种最为致命的传染疾病，出现了报复性的重新流行，特别是在非洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Poor taxation capacity has, after all, been an endemic problem in southern Europe, including in Italy (and especially in Greece), while France and Germany, which both received large rebates, are better tax collectors.",
        "毕竟，拙劣的税收能力是包括意大利在内的南欧的顽疾之一（希腊尤其严重），而收获大笔退款的法国和德国的收税能力要强得多。"
    ],
    [
        "All call for a concerted political effort implying some form of negotiation with the Taliban.",
        "所有的人都呼吁各方作出共同的政治努力以便与塔利班开展某种形式的谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "The costs of macroeconomic populism are familiar from Latin America.",
        "宏观经济民粹主义的代价是拉丁美洲屡见不鲜。 正如杰弗里·D·沙斯（Jeffrey D."
    ],
    [
        "But in the years since, the percentage has dropped – to 87% in 2014, and to 81% in 2016.",
        "但其后那些年，百分比则持续下降——2014年是87%，而2016年则下降到81%。"
    ],
    [
        "The same article then threw Tibet into the stew of accusations. “Chinese society,” it continued, “has…been indignant about India’s intervention in the Dalai [Lama] problem,” cautioning India to “bear in mind” that “its actions in the South China Sea will push China to the limit.”",
        "该文随后又提到了西藏问题：“中国社会无不对印度干预达赖问题义愤填膺，”并提醒印度“注意其在南中国海的行径正在挑战中国的底线。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, much of the world transplant establishment – including the WHO, the international Transplantation Society, and the World Medical Association – advocates only a partial remedy.",
        "不幸的是，大部分世界移植机构（包括世界卫生组织，国际移植协会，世界医学协会）都赞成只进行部分补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "New manufacturing processes will incorporate specially designed microbes and computer-characterized compounds into an array of products.",
        "新制造过程将结合特别设计的微生物和计算机特征的化合物，形成各种产品。"
    ],
    [
        "States can respond to territorial disputes either by surrendering some aspects of sovereignty, thus weakening their power and influence, or by adopting a more robust national-defense strategy aimed at fending off current challenges and precluding future threats.",
        "对付领土纠纷，国家可以放弃某些主权（因而削弱实力和影响力），也可以采取更稳健的国防战略，以应对当前挑战、消除未来威胁为目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Initially viewed as a sign of weakness, Cameron’s move has turned out to be a masterstroke.",
        "卡梅伦的这一举动乍看上去是示弱，实则是一招妙手。"
    ],
    [
        "Like bureaucrats, professional politicians have mastered the art of saying nothing interesting in public.",
        "与官僚一样，职业政客已经掌握了言之无味的艺术。"
    ],
    [
        "If it had turned out that chlorine behaved chemically like bromine, the ozone hole would by then have been a global, year-round phenomenon, not just an event of the Antarctic spring.",
        "结果发现，具有氯的化学属性，例如溴起到一定的作用。 臭氧空洞是一个全球性的问题，而且情况一年比一年恶化，这也不是南极洲春天事件。"
    ],
    [
        "On questions of trade, for example, Europe is the equal of the US and able to balance American power.",
        "比方说在贸易问题上，欧洲与美国完全对等，并且能够对美国力量进行制衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Gazprom is buying up oil (Sibneft), gas, and power companies at knockdown prices, reinforcing its monopoly.",
        "俄国天然气工业股份公司不断地以最低价格买断石油（Sibneft）、天然气和电力公司，其市场垄断地位也因此得到进一步巩固。"
    ],
    [
        "Indian couples have a strong cultural preference, bordering on obsession, for sons over daughters – despite the strides in education and employment that women have made over the last few decades.",
        "尽管过去几十年来女性在教育和就业领域已经取得了重大进步，但印度夫妻却有着建立在执迷基础上的强烈的重男轻女文化偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "After Ibn Saud’s death, his sons, though never entirely united, maintained enough coherence to keep the store running.",
        "伊本·沙特死后，他的儿子虽然从来不曾真心团结过，但仍足以凝聚在一起守住伊本的祖业。"
    ],
    [
        "Leverage is down sharply. Investment banks with leverage of more than 30 times their capital in early 2007 are now down to little more than ten times.",
        "金融杠杆大幅降低，在2007年早期，投资银行的杠杆超过其资本三十倍有余，现在则下降到十倍刚出头的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia is in a violent struggle with Iran for regional supremacy, with geopolitical competition converging with the Sunni-Shia rivalry.",
        "沙特阿拉伯正在与伊朗暴力争夺地区主宰权，地缘政治竞争最后指向的是逊尼派-什叶派对立。"
    ],
    [
        "But, confronted with a resolute Russian policy of imperial re-assertion, now also visible in the Caucasus, the US seems unable to see how global developments are linked.",
        "但面对俄国坚定不移的帝国重振政策，（现在在高加索也已清晰可见）美国似乎未能察觉全球事态发展的联系因素。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, after 15 years of deflationary recession, revitalization of the Japanese economy remains far from complete.",
        "坦白说，在经历了15年的通缩性衰退后，日本经济的复苏仍有很长的路要走。"
    ],
    [
        "What happened in Yugoslavia, an ill-conceived product of Wilsonian diplomacy, could happen in the more cynical imperial creations in the Middle East.",
        "南斯拉夫——威尔逊主义外交政策的拙劣产物——所发生的事情可能中东更加互相怀疑的诸帝国间重演。"
    ],
    [
        "While the trauma is no longer acute, as it was in 2009, wounds remain – and they are breeding new pathologies.",
        "尽管外伤早已不像2009年那样严重，但伤口仍然存在——并在产生新的迸发症。"
    ],
    [
        "Like a well-designed, well-functioning road network, strong institutions empower economies by ensuring a stable operating environment, smoother transmission mechanisms, less costly and less risky economic interactions, a credible set of property rights, and respect for the rule of law.",
        "强大的机构就像是一张设计合理、运转良好的道路网，它们确保稳定的运行环境、更加平稳的传递机制、成本和风险更低的经济互动、可信的财产权利，以及对法治的尊重，从而让经济变得强大。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as a 2013 Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) report makes clear, the fiscal stimulus was not always withdrawn in time when the crisis abated, so the fiscal position across the region today is weaker than it was in 2007.",
        "但是，泛美开发银行（IADB）的一份2013年报告明确指出，财政刺激并不总能在危机过去后及时推出，因此现在拉美地区的财政状况比2007年更加疲软。"
    ],
    [
        "But neither can we accept a situation in which vast resources are spent on national cohesion, while European cohesion lags so woefully behind.",
        "但是，我们也无法接受这样一种局面，那就是，大量资源用于国内凝聚，而欧洲范围的凝聚则远远地被抛在后面。"
    ],
    [
        "It was also how the financial crisis of 2008-2009 transmitted itself to emerging markets.",
        "这也是2008—2009年金融危机传染到新兴市场的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Caught between a reluctant German chancellor and an indisposed France, Schäuble imagined that the turbulence caused by a Greek exit from the eurozone would help persuade the French, as well as his cabinet colleagues, of his plan’s necessity.",
        "在默克尔和法国人之间两头不讨好的朔伊布勒寄望于希腊退出欧元区所产生的动荡将有助于说服法国人和他的内阁同僚们，并让两者认识到这份计划的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans do not realize how little interest in “European affairs” there is in Seoul, Sydney, São Paolo, or San Francisco.",
        "此外欧洲人也并未意识到“欧洲事务”对首尔、悉尼、圣保罗和旧金山等地的利益来说究竟有多么渺小。"
    ],
    [
        "A massive reassessment is finally in progress, with US elites now recognizing that market capitalism is in crisis, and that the world will not blindly follow their lead.",
        "大规模的重新评估最终正在进行。 美国的精英们现在承认市场资本主义处于危机之中，而其他国家不要盲目追随美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, they have nearly caught up, with a combined GDP of more than $16 trillion, just short of America’s $17.4 trillion.",
        "如今，它们已接近赶超，GDP之和超过16万亿美元，只是略低于美国的17. 4万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "International agreements succeed best when the political, economic, and social trends of the time align, as they have now, to give rise to a new vision of the future and a new relationship between humanity and the planet we share.",
        "国际协议成功的最佳条件是当政治、经济和社会发展趋势像现在这样形成合力，从而催生出人类和我们所共享的这个星球间未来和新关系的崭新视野。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is difficult to see how a re-elected Cameron could maintain the Conservative Party’s unity without endorsing a “no” vote in the referendum on the outcome of his own renegotiation.",
        "事实上，很难想象连任的卡梅伦如何维持保守党的团结，同时又不支持对关于其自己的重新谈判结果的公投投出“否决”票。"
    ],
    [
        "Social Security’s actuaries may not have fully recognized the impact of today’s technological revolutions, but they have markedly boosted the scale of the system that the US government can afford.",
        "社会保障体系的精算师们可能并没有完全认识到如今技术革命带来的冲击力，而是显而易见地继续推进了这一政府能够负担得起的体制的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "(Indeed, a survey in Canada found that paid employment was the most satisfying activity for people over the age of 65.)",
        "（事实上，加拿大一项调查发现带薪就业是65岁以上人群最富满足感的行为。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "The recent Greek crisis has further galvanized the anti-CDS camp.",
        "最近的希腊危机进一步巩固了反CDS的阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "He was also Prime Minister (a very good one) in a national unity government in 1984-1986; but, despite trying for nearly 30 years, he never won his own mandate from Israeli voters for the post he coveted the most.",
        "1984—1986年，他也担任过联合政府总理（干得非常优秀）； 但是，尽管他努力了近30年，但从未从以色列选民手中赢得对这个他最向往的职位的任命。"
    ],
    [
        "There are good reasons why the US adopted policies that encouraged poorer countries to grow rapidly through export-led industrialization.",
        "美国采取鼓励穷国通过出口拉动的工业化迅速增长的政策有很好的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "The fourth policy imperative is rebuilding.",
        "第四大政策是重建。"
    ],
    [
        "Individual accountability would somehow break the chain of ethnic identity and communal vengeance.",
        "个人责任制会在一定程度上斩断种族身份和公共复仇的锁链。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the renminbi’s recent depreciation was much smaller than the de facto currency devaluations engineered by the United States and the United Kingdom after the financial crisis of 2008. It was also nowhere near as significant as the devaluation that the Bank of Japan has pursued since 2012.",
        "当然，最近的人民币贬值比2008年金融危机后美国和英国所发动的实际贬值要小得多，也远远比不上2012年以来日本银行所发动的贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "This year’s output growth has been disappointing, and the International Monetary Fund expects only a slight improvement in 2015.",
        "今年的产出增长令人失望，国际货币基金组织（IMF）预测2015年也只能由略微的改善。"
    ],
    [
        "And what about Israel?",
        "以色列问题又该如何解决？"
    ],
    [
        "As a system, NASA is resistant to change, but inside there are thousands of people yearning to experiment and learn from both successes and failures.",
        "作为一个系统，NASA是抗拒变革的，但在它内部却有着数千名渴望从无数次成功和失败中经历和学习的人。"
    ],
    [
        "With respect to incentives, politicians have not been given a good enough reason to address unequal distribution patterns.",
        "在激励方面，政客并没有很好的理由纠正不平等分配模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes her expression is briefly clouded by a streak of stifled pain, obstinate and not wholly contained.",
        "她脸上有时会控制不住地掠过一丝倔强而痛苦的表情。"
    ],
    [
        "For three and a half years following the start of the Great Depression, US President Herbert Hoover’s top priority was to balance the budget, trying – but ultimately failing – to restore business confidence.",
        "大萧条开始三年半时间内，美国总统赫伯特·胡佛的首要任务是平衡预算，并竭力恢复企业信心（但他的努力最终没有成功）。"
    ],
    [
        "It is possible, for example, that demographic trends are slowing wage growth and reducing the natural rate.",
        "比如，人口趋势可能会抑制工资增长，降低自然率。"
    ],
    [
        "The same applies to the Supreme Leader, who, despite his title, is not an absolute ruler.",
        "最高领袖也同样如此，虽然拥有貌似绝对的头衔，但绝对统治权并不掌握在他的手上。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, we must find better ways to cope with energy interdependence.",
        "而是，我们必须找到应对能源相互依赖的更好方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, each morning, before the tourists reappear, they unceremoniously open the gates again, so that the eerily silent falls suddenly revive in a simulacrum of normalcy.",
        "赶在第二天早上游客到来之前，他们又开闸放水，于是这个死一般寂静的瀑布突然又像安装了某种虚拟视觉装置那样转眼间变得生机勃勃了。"
    ],
    [
        "Shanghai’s overall economy is currently growing at around 13% per year, thus doubling in size every five or six years.",
        "上海的经济每年大致呈13%增长，每5、6年便可以翻一番。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the country’s continuing high levels of fixed-asset investment make sense – building roads, water pipes, metro systems, telecommunication networks, and electronics factories is what a vast and rapidly modernizing country must do.",
        "此外，国家持续高水平的固定资产投资有其意义所在。 建设道路、水管、地铁系统、通讯网络和电子厂是一个幅员辽阔、快速现代化的国家必须要做的。"
    ],
    [
        "The key is to be Keynesian throughout the economic cycle: pursuing expansionary policies when growth is slow; tightening to reduce public debt (and thus create room for future expansion) when activity is buoyant.",
        "关键是要在整个经济周期奉行凯恩斯主义：在经济增长缓慢时实行扩张性政策； 而在经济活动活跃期则实行紧缩降低公共负债（并借此为未来的扩张腾出空间）。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan’s national security adviser, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, describes the pact as “providing a strong foundation for the security of Afghanistan, (and) a document for the development of the region.”",
        "阿富汗国家安全顾问兰金·达德法尔·斯潘塔称协议“为阿富汗安全奠定了坚实的基础，是地区发展的指导性纲领。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent study by the Pew Research Center noted that Americans earned 4% less income in 2014 than they did in 2000, and for the first time in more than 40 years, middle-class Americans no longer constitute a majority of the population.",
        "皮尤研究中心的最新研究指出，2014年美国人的收入比2000年少4%，并且40多年来第一次出现中产阶级不再占人口大部分的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to China’s collusion, the suffering of Burma’s people continues.",
        "由于中国的勾结，缅甸人们的痛苦在持续。"
    ],
    [
        "Nationally, we need to experiment with new mechanisms for policymaking and implementation, reconnecting democratic institutions to citizens and emerging networks of civil society.",
        "国家范围内，我们需要试验政策制定及执行的新机制，将民主制度重新与公民和新兴民间社会网络联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "But they have been widely condemned by economists worldwide (including in Germany) as nonsense.",
        "可是全世界的经济学家，包括德国的经济学家，则广泛认为那是无稽之谈。"
    ],
    [
        "Why should this historic event cause such political upheaval?",
        "为什么这一历史性的事件会引起如此大的政治巨变？"
    ],
    [
        "It appears that there is no way for political leaders to leave the scene gracefully.",
        "看起来，政治领导人无法体面下野。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite these ideological affinities, political disagreements make a rapprochement unlikely.",
        "虽然在意识形态领域颇多相似之处，但政治分歧严重限制了和解的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether or not one shares this opinion, the point is worth studying.",
        "不管你是否赞同这一观点，它的要点值得思考。"
    ],
    [
        "The surge in cow vigilantism – a uniquely Indian phenomenon that has lately begun to flourish under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government – is no exception.",
        "而神牛纠察行动——一个近来开始在印度人民党（Bharatiya Janata Party）政府领导下逐渐抬头的独特印度现象——的不断激增也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Precisely because they opposed the war, they are now the only countries that can restore Europe's unity of action in promoting stability.",
        "正是因为它们反对战争，因此成为能让欧洲采取统一行动，促进稳定的唯一人选。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, there is no case in history of non-Western modernization; the discourse on Asian values, initially started in Singapore, is basically a political discourse.",
        "目前为止，历史上还没有非西方的现代化。 有关亚洲价值观的讨论最初起源于新加坡，这基本上是一个政治性讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "This results in embryos that contain genetic material from three people – the child’s father and mother, plus the egg donor.",
        "这将导致胚胎包含来自三方的遗传物质——孩子的父亲、母亲和卵子捐献者。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, there remains a broad consensus across the developed and emerging economies on the desirability of maintaining a relatively open global economy.",
        "首先，对于必须保持相对开放的全球经济这一点，发达和新兴经济体之间仍有广泛共识。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, these workers lose the opportunity for engagement and personal development that most legitimate jobs provide.",
        "在这两种情况下，这些工人失去了大多数正规工作所提供的参与和个人发展的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, I find it difficult to believe any of Putin’s account of what has been happening in Ukraine – a view shared by many seasoned observers in Poland and the Baltic states.",
        "在这样的背景下，我觉得很难相信普京口中乌克兰发生了什么——波兰和波罗的海国家的许多资深观察家也秉承同样的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "What would “integration” mean, and how is it achieved without the loss of cherished civil-society values?",
        "“融合”这个词究竟该如何解读，又该如何在不伤及市民社会价值理念的情况下达致融合？"
    ],
    [
        "Probably a significant majority of Africans have at least emergency access to a cell phone, either their own, a neighbor’s, or one at a commercial kiosk.",
        "可能绝大部分的非洲人至少可以在紧急情况下能找到手机并使用手机 - 或是他们自己的手机，或是朋友的手机，或是商业性的电话服务处。"
    ],
    [
        "But offshore wind turbines cost about $150 per ton of CO2, avoiding just three cents of climate damage per dollar.",
        "但海上风电机组减排一吨二氧化碳约耗资150美元，每投资1美元只避免了3美分的气候损失。"
    ],
    [
        "With few options for fighting deflation, countries have resorted to competitive devaluations.",
        "各国对于如何解决通缩问题几乎没有选择，只能求助于竞争性贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "It is thus understandable that the Turkish and Iranian governments would object to the KRG’s independence bid: they fear the emergence, if it succeeds, of similar movements among their own oppressed Kurdish populations.",
        "因此也可以理解土耳其和伊朗政府为何会反对库尔德斯坦地区政府的独立尝试：他们担心一旦库尔德斯坦成功独立，自己手下那些被压迫的库尔德人也会群起仿效。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s leaders should begin by shunning hostile rhetoric.",
        "首先，伊朗的领导人应该避免敌对的言论。"
    ],
    [
        "While the US has stood on the sidelines, intra-Asian agreements have run ahead.",
        "当美国人还在袖手旁观之时，亚洲内部的自由贸易协定已经走在了前面。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also evidence that some or all of the sanctions will eventually disappear, as other governments come to accept the reality of a country’s nuclear status and choose to focus on other objectives.",
        "证据还表明，一些甚至全部制裁，会随着时间最终取消，因为其他政府会接受一国的核地位，而专注于其他目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not the only reason Indians are greeting Musharraf’s exit with mixed feelings.",
        "但是，这并非印度对于穆沙拉夫退出感到五味俱全的唯一的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The region would be pushed back into violence and terror, instead of continuing its transformation from the bottom up.",
        "原本正在由下至上持续转型的中东将重新回复到暴力与恐怖状态中。"
    ],
    [
        "For too long, Europe and Japan have subordinated the quest for full employment to other goals, whether extremely low inflation (Europe) or avoiding the costs of a bubble economy (Japan).",
        "长久以来，欧洲和日本一直将寻求充分就业让位于其它的目标-或是极低的通货膨胀（欧洲），或是规避泡沫经济的成本（日本）。"
    ],
    [
        "Circuses are even worse places for animals.",
        "而对动物来说，马戏团则是更糟糕的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "We're not being tough enough. This is something that we've got to do.",
        "我们还不够狠，我们必须这么做。"
    ],
    [
        "The ICMA’s new framework seems to provide a way out: The supermajority would be defined by the acceptance of the aggregate principal amount of outstanding debt securities of all of the affected series.",
        "ICMA的新框架似乎提供了解决之道：绝对多数由所有受影响序列的未偿还债务政权的总本金数量决定。"
    ],
    [
        "A gathering of the modern equivalents of Metternich, Castlereagh, Alexander I, and Talleyrand is also a dream: there are none.",
        "当代梅特涅、卡斯尔雷、亚历山大一世和塔列朗的聚会也是一个梦：根本没有这样的聚会。"
    ],
    [
        "The revolt made little progress in the years of the “Great Moderation” of the 2000s, but was revived following the 2008 crisis.",
        "这场反抗在21世纪初的“大稳健”（Great Moderation）年代里没有多少市场，但在2008年危机后开始勃兴。"
    ],
    [
        "Women got the vote.",
        "妇女拥有投票权。"
    ],
    [
        "And even the former borrowers are unlikely to use their stimulus money to pay for more housing – they have soured on the dreams that housing held out.",
        "而原先的举债人也不太会再用刺激资金去买房——他们的房产梦早已幻灭了。"
    ],
    [
        "Private savings, as a rule, can pay the costs of treatment only for the thrifty and the well-off.",
        "自然，只有勤俭节约的小康之家才能靠私人储蓄负担治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "A negative income tax – which, unlike a UBI, provides a powerful incentive to work – could raise the take-home pay of millions of workers employed in low-wage jobs.",
        "与全民基本收入不一样的是，负所得税会催生强大的工作激励，可以提升数百万低工资劳动者的实际收入。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the IMF, China’s GDP will be $17.6 trillion in 2014, outstripping US output of $17.4 trillion.",
        "根据IMF的数据，中国GDP将在2014年达到17. 6万亿美元，超过美国17."
    ],
    [
        "Ever since, I have wondered whether I was right or wrong.",
        "从那时以来，我就在考虑我是对是错。"
    ],
    [
        "A key message of Sikhism – equality among the faithful – has in the past inspired people from the lower Hindu castes to convert.",
        "锡克教的关键信条之一——信徒人人平等——在过去曾启发来自印度低种姓的人群该换信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – For at least a quarter-century, the financial sector has grown far more rapidly than the economy as a whole, both in developed and in most developing countries.",
        "伦敦——至少在最近的二十五年中，发达国家以及大部分发展中国家的金融产业取得了比整体经济快得多的增长速度。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, long-term development budgets are set in stone years in advance and lack the flexibility to respond to natural and man-made disasters.",
        "此外，提前制定好的长期发展预算缺乏必要的灵活性，无法应对自然和人为灾害。"
    ],
    [
        "That is partly because two-thirds of Africans – 621 million people – do not have access to electricity.",
        "3%，部分原因是三分之二的非洲人口（6. 21亿）还没有用上电。"
    ],
    [
        "When battles were lost, talks began.",
        "如果打了败仗，就开始和谈。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Greece and its creditors are now enacting a deal that provides financial support in exchange for wide-ranging reforms.",
        "伦敦—希腊及其债权人正在制定一份协议，用金融支持换取范围广泛的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Singapore eventually managed to develop a highly skilled base of indigenous talent by making large investments in education and setting completion of post-secondary study as a national priority.",
        "新加坡最终通过大规模投资教育和优先普及国内中学以上教育成功了建立起一座高技能的本土人才库。"
    ],
    [
        "To me, this makes sense, but such policies should be anathema to the EU’s free-market advocates.",
        "我个人觉得这样的政策会行之有效。 但是对于欧盟自由市场的倡导者而言，这些政策只会招来极大的不满。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2005, the US Department of Defense has cut R&D spending by 22%.",
        "自2005年以来，美国国防部的研发支出削减了22%。"
    ],
    [
        "The most alarming implication of this mode of genetic selection, however, is that only the rich will be able to afford it.",
        "然而这种模式的基因筛选最让人警惕的地方在于只有有钱人才负担得起。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, it would advance the government’s efforts to internationalize the renminbi.",
        "更重要的是，这有利于中国政府的人民币国际化政策。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the developed economies have not previously engaged in the kind of unconventional monetary policy seen in recent years – a period characterized by ultra-low interest rates and ultra-fast cross-border capital flows.",
        "毕竟发达经济体以前并未实施过近年这种非常规货币政策——这个时期是以超低利率和超迅速的跨境资本流动为特点的。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The US Federal Reserve has emphasized that its monetary policy will be determined by what economic indicators show.",
        "美国剑桥—美联储强调其货币政策将由经济指标表现决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama was praised extravagantly a year ago; 12 months on, the criticism is over the top, too.",
        "如今 12 个月过去了，他所背负的批评自然也会登峰造极。"
    ],
    [
        "This mindset suggests that, despite the panoramic city skylines, the billboards, and the flashy five-star hotels say otherwise, China has a long way to go before it truly comes to understand and appreciate its actual accomplishments and status.",
        "这种思维方式意味着，尽管城市里连绵不断的空中轮廓线，广告牌和华丽的五星级酒店诉说着中国的变化与发展，但要真正理解并珍惜其实际的成就和地位，中国还有很长一段路要走。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early days of the crisis, it was argued that, given the strength of the regime’s air defenses and ground forces, even these limited objectives could not be achieved without fighting an all-out war – and thus causing a net increase in human suffering.",
        "在冲突之初，有人指出，拜巴沙尔政权的空中和地面优势所赐，即使是这样的优先目标也无法在不进行全面战争的情况下实现，因而这会大大增加人道伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "A related myth is that Nigeria’s economic growth is unstable, with large and unpredictable shifts in performance from year to year.",
        "与此相关的错误认识是尼日利亚的经济增长很不稳定，不同年份可能出现不可预测的大的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond addressing institutional issues, however, China and the EU need to dismantle cultural and conceptual barriers to investment.",
        "但是，除了解决制度问题，中国和欧盟还需要克服投资和文化和概念壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Iran’s behavior – developing powerful ballistic missiles, helping to spread terror across the Middle East, and running intensive cyber warfare campaigns – is deeply troubling, and measures should be taken to apply pressure on Iran to address these issues.",
        "当然，伊朗的所作所为——研发威力强大的弹道导弹、协助在中东地区散播恐怖活动以及发动密集的网络战争——都令外界深感不安， 我们也应当采取措施施压伊朗制止这些行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Breaking the data drought will not by itself end Asia’s water crisis.",
        "打破数据荒本身不能终结亚洲水危机。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s European settlers committed a two-century-long genocide against the native inhabitants, and established a slave economy so deeply entrenched that only a devastating civil war ended it.",
        "美国的欧洲定居者们对土著居民进行了一场长达两个世纪的种族灭绝，还建立了根深蒂固的奴隶经济，最后通过一场灾难性的内战才终结。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the essence of a free market, and it should also be the essence of a free democracy.",
        "这正是自由市场的本质，而它也应该成为自由民主的本质。"
    ],
    [
        "Many argue that regulations protect small domestic firms against undue competition from large foreign firms.",
        "很多人认为管制可以保护国内小企业免受国外大公司不正当竞争的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "Reduction and elimination of this Cold War-era nuclear infrastructure is the largest piece of unfinished business from that bygone time.",
        "削减并消除冷战核设施是过去那个时代遗留下来的最艰巨的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Putting a price on carbon is critical.",
        "给碳定价至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The most troubling aspect of Renzi’s and Macron’s statements is the hopelessness they convey.",
        "在伦齐与马洪言论中最令人不安的地方是他们所传达出的那种绝望情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "SKS raised more equity from investors such as Sequoia and Odyssey Capital, before going public on the Indian stock exchange in 2010, raising about $358 million at a valuation exceeding $1.6 billion.",
        "SKS从红杉（Sequoia）和奥德赛（Odyssey）资本等投资者处筹集了更多的股本，并于2010年在印度证交所上市，筹资3. 58亿美元，估值超过16亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-terrorism laws are a problem here, because the demand for more effective control mechanisms on international financial transfers places an extra burden on remittance operators.",
        "反恐怖主义法在这里是个问题，因为对更有效的国际金融转移控制机制的需求为汇款操作人员造成了额外的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "The high voter turnout, coupled with the relatively peaceful manner in which the election took place, is a testament to the Nepali people’s desire to cement the peace process and contribute in determining the political future of the country.",
        "民众投票踊跃加上选举相对平和，表明尼泊尔人民想要巩固和平进程并且为决定国家的政治前途做出贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "You would still expect major social and cultural changes from such modernization.",
        "你仍然会看到，这个国家的社会和文化会因此发生巨变。"
    ],
    [
        "But Chen’s legacy was already in tatters.",
        "但是陈水扁必将留下一个烂摊子。"
    ],
    [
        "With the sun quickly setting on the Saleh era, the president is out of options.",
        "当萨利赫时代迅速落幕之时，总统本人已没有任何回旋余地。"
    ],
    [
        "At this stage, pulling off another diplomatic reset would be difficult, if not impossible.",
        "目前阶段重新进行外交安排即使不是完全没有可能，也将是极其困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, the development of norms among like-minded states can attract adherence by others at a later point.",
        "在一些情况中，观念相近国家之间的规范的发展可能会在日后吸引其他国家的遵守。"
    ],
    [
        "For all the discomforts that may lie ahead, Britain is not about to enter an age of brutal austerity.",
        "而对于未来可能遭受的阵痛来说，并非意味着英国即将步入一个节衣缩食的艰难时代。"
    ],
    [
        "But the advent of electricity, refrigeration, and freezing ended salt’s monopoly relatively quickly.",
        "但电力、冷藏和冷冻技术的问世较快地结束了食盐的垄断。"
    ],
    [
        "Starting modestly in coastal areas and special economic zones, the “world factory” supply chain has spread throughout China, producing everything from stuffed animals to iPads.",
        "“世界工厂”供应链起步很低，一开始均位于沿海地区和经济特区，如今已遍布中国，生产从动物填充标本到iPad的一切东西。"
    ],
    [
        "But the biggest reason that Thailand matters for Asia’s democracies is fierce competition for influence between a rising China and the democratic world.",
        "但泰国对亚洲民主国家之所以重要，最大的原因是崛起的中国和民主世界之间正在进行激烈的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Vietnam aims to construct eight urban rail lines in the coming years.",
        "越南目标在未来几年中建设八条城市轨道交通线。"
    ],
    [
        "We have also pledged to improve financial accounting, so that the costs of climate change and the benefits of climate action are incorporated into economic policymaking.",
        "我们还承诺改善财务核算机制，将气候变化的成本与气候行动的效益纳入经济决策考虑条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, though, they must choose between being outflanked by Euroskeptic parties on both the far left and far right, or responding to that threat by creating a supra-national democracy that can satisfy voters’ legitimate concerns.",
        "但现在，他们必须选择是要在极左和极右翼遭到欧洲怀疑论政党的包抄，亦或是成立超国家民主制度来应对上述威胁，并解除选民的合理忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Therein lies a profound contradiction.",
        "这里存在一个深刻的矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, of course, negative nominal and real returns may lead savers to save less and spend more.",
        "当然，假以时日，负名义和真实回报可能导致储户更少储蓄、更多支出。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2000, Chinese novelist Gao Xingjian won China’s first Nobel prize for literature, followed a year later by the Indian diaspora writer V.S. Naipaul.",
        "2000年，中国小说家高行健赢得了中国的第一个诺贝尔文学奖。 印度移居海外的作家维·苏·内保尔则在一年后获奖。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the benefit is capped at $5,000 per year.",
        "此外，该福利的上限是每年 5,000 美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In South Africa, for example, whites were both the elite and the racial minority.",
        "例如南非白人既是精英阶层又是少数族裔。"
    ],
    [
        "We need not only more precise use of language, but also timely and accurate measurement of banks’ capital levels.",
        "我们不但需要更准确的用语，也需要及时而准确的银行资本水平指标。"
    ],
    [
        "Up to now, the region (excluding Israel and Turkey) had more or less missed out on the epochal process of worldwide modernization.",
        "事实上，迄今为止该区域国家（以色列和土耳其除外）都在某种程度上与宏伟的现代化进程脱节了。"
    ],
    [
        "China had overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy.",
        "中国已经取代日本成为世界第二大经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "Did anyone notice?",
        "有人注意到吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But, now that a Russian-American agreement allows supply flights to Afghanistan to go through Russian airspace, it is clear that Russia sought only to monopolize the military cargo transportation routs in order to gain leverage over the United States.",
        "而今美俄双方却签订协议，允许美方的后勤运输机飞越俄领空去支援阿富汗，很明显，俄方就是想独霸所有的军事运输通道，以便自己能在和美方讨价还价时占到上风。"
    ],
    [
        "The operations of South Korea’s chaebols – which dominate production, if not employment – should be adjusted to support productivity gains in the increasingly dominant services sector.",
        "主导生产（而不是就业）的韩国财阀的经营应该做出调整以支持日益重要的服务部门的生产率的提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Though investors may bid up prices of existing capital assets, their attempts to save only slow down the economy.",
        "尽管投资者可能会提高对现有资本资产的出价，但他们的储蓄努力只能让经济减速。"
    ],
    [
        "But now it is time for a clear-eyed assessment of what lies before Palestinians, Israelis, and, perhaps more importantly, for the wider Arab world.",
        "也许这并不为过，但现在却是时候来头脑清醒地来确定一下巴勒斯坦人、以色列人、以及更为重要的阿拉伯世界当前面临的问题了。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, despite Nasser’s pro-Soviet bent, Egypt was the largest recipient of American foreign aid until its disastrous war with Israel in 1967 froze relations.",
        "而且事实上，尽管纳赛尔具有亲苏倾向，直到1967年与以色列的灾难性战争冻结埃美关系之前，埃及一直是美国对外援助的最大接受国。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank’s designation as a “bank” understates its importance and its multifaceted roles.",
        "世界银行“银行”的这一称呼削弱了这一组织的重要性，也淡化了其角色的多面性。"
    ],
    [
        "The increasing climate-change danger is mainly due to developments in China.",
        "气候变化的危险日益增大的主要原因是中国的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "But while expectations of a breakthrough in the fight against climate change in Paris are optimistic, a push for equitable distribution of the costs of global warming must be made.",
        "但尽管人们乐观地预计巴黎能够带来遏制气候变化的突破，还必须为全球变暖成本制定平等的分配方案。"
    ],
    [
        "These activities sent a powerful signal to extremists that their attempts to turn religious communities against each other had the opposite effect.",
        "这些活动向极端分子发出了强有力的信号，他们在宗教团体间挑起矛盾的作法取得了相反的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that the French referendum on the EU constitution in 2005 vetoed further political integration, while further economic integration may now fail because of Germany.",
        "问题在于2005年法国针对欧盟宪法的全民公投否决了政治一体化进程的深入，而经济一体化进程的深入则可能因为德国的犹豫而陷入失败。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – From Hong Kong to São Paulo, and all points between, one word dominates all others among big investors: Greece.",
        "巴黎——从香港到圣保罗，以及中间的所有地区，所有大投资商都在谈论一个词：希腊。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, water supplies in largely arid Central Asia are coming under further pressure as China appropriates a growing volume of water from the Illy River.",
        "同样，中亚大部分干旱地区供水也面临着进一步的压力，因为中国占用的伊犁河水越来越多。"
    ],
    [
        "In the event, it turned into a three-way battle between Britain, France and the new member states.",
        "这种情况最终变成了英国、法国和新成员国三方之间的角力。"
    ],
    [
        "It was only in the latter part of the twentieth century that a truly effective chemotherapy became available.",
        "直到二十世纪后半叶，人类才发明了真正有效的化疗。"
    ],
    [
        "This is because most of the expansion is not the equivalent of a greater income for America’s poor in any reasonable sense, and because America gets relatively little value for its health-care financing.",
        "这是因为扩张的大部分并不等同于美国穷人收入的增加，也因为美国的医疗融资价值相对低下。"
    ],
    [
        "Many have turned to weapons, slave, or gold trafficking; some are demanding independence.",
        "许多人开始从事武器、奴隶和黄金买卖； 一些人开始要求独立。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, controls are an inevitable ingredient in the exit mix.",
        "当然，管制是必须的。"
    ],
    [
        "The things that make us happy must not come at an unforgivably high price.",
        "让我们幸福的东西决不能只有付出难以负担的高价才能获得。"
    ],
    [
        "Automated weapons already exist, and they could eventually be capable of autonomous target selection.",
        "自动武器已经存在，并且最终将具备自动遴选目标的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "If trade data were re-calculated to reflect the country of origin of various components of value-added, the general picture would not change, but the relative magnitudes would: higher US deficits with Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, and a dramatically lower deficit with China.",
        "但如果贸易数据根据增加值成分原产地进行重新计算，那么，基本图景没有发生变化，但美国赤字主要来自德国、韩国、中国台湾和日本，而对中国的赤字显著降低了。"
    ],
    [
        "From this standpoint, the Fed’s decision to wait to begin liftoff is eminently sensible.",
        "从这一点看，美联储决定推迟升空非常明智。"
    ],
    [
        "Political apathy among young people, like that seen in the Brexit referendum, remains pervasive worldwide.",
        "年轻人的政治冷漠——就像英国退欧公投所表现的那样——仍然在全球范围内普遍存在。"
    ],
    [
        "The repercussions, however, will be global.",
        "但是，其影响是世界性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Bolstering democracy, however, requires emphasizing the political dimension and public debate that is free and open to all.",
        "尽管如此，民主仍需要对全体民众自由和公开的对政治局势和公众辩论的密切关注作为支撑因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Ninth, establish economic reconstruction zones to jump-start sustainable economic activity, create jobs and export earnings, improve aid effectiveness and accountability, and avoid aid dependency.",
        "第九，设立经济重建特区来启动可持续的经济活动，创造就业和出口收益，改善援助的有效性和公信力，避免出现吃援助的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "So we voices for human rights in China have reason to express gratitude to Clinton, Ambassador Gary Locke, House Speaker John Boehner, US Representatives Chris Smith, Frank Wolf, Nancy Pelosi, Jim McGovern, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and many citizens who spoke out for Chen.",
        "因此我们在对中国人权的呼声中有必要感谢克林顿女士，骆家辉大使（Gary Locke），众议院议长约翰·伯纳（John Boehner），克里斯·史密夫议员（Chris Smith），法兰克·沃尔夫议员（Frank Wolf），南希·佩洛西议员（Nancy Pelosi），吉姆·麦克格文议员（Jim McGovern）和伊莉娜·罗斯-勒提南议员（Ileana Ros-Lehtinen），感谢这些人为陈光诚奔走呼吁。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that Afghanistan’s ethnic groups are concentrated in distinct geographical zones would simplify partition and make the resulting borders more likely to last, unlike those drawn by colonial officials, who invented countries with no national identity or historical roots.",
        "阿富汗族群聚居于独立的地理区域令分治变得简单，由此划定的边境线也有可能长期存在，这与殖民官员凭空绘制的没有民族认同感或历史起源的边境线有着本质的区别。"
    ],
    [
        "This analysis does not answer the question of whether this illustrative tax policy is a good idea.",
        "上述分析并未回答这一演示性税收政策究竟是不是个好主意。"
    ],
    [
        "The fault, to paraphrase Shakespeare, lies not in the stars but in China’s own financial markets.",
        "借用一句莎士比亚的名言，错不在命运，而在于中国的金融市场本身。"
    ],
    [
        "Initially, the group should only exert peer pressure on its members to comply with international responsibilities.",
        "在会议召开之前，应该再配备一个相对公正的秘书处来进行协调安排。"
    ],
    [
        "This should moderate their willingness to do so, thereby limiting the magnitude of the currency swing.",
        "这就会降低他们这样做的意愿，从而限制货币波动的幅度。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone who disagreed with this diagnosis or criticized the PiS’s methods, particularly those used by its leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, was promptly classified as belonging to the układ .",
        "任何不同意这一观点或者批评法律与正义党、尤其是其领导人卡钦斯基的手腕的人被迅即划归为“尤达卡”。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is why Modi did it.",
        "问题在于莫迪为什么要这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, antiretroviral drugs given to pregnant HIV-infected women and newborns have proven enormously successful in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV.",
        "此外，给感染HIV病毒的孕妇和新生儿服用抗逆转录病毒药物后，在预防母婴传染HIV病毒方面取得了巨大的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The increasing detachment of the budget from the Union’s objectives is sustained by decision-making procedures that authorize the European Council, representing member governments, to take all the important decisions according to a rule of unanimity, with the European Parliament and the European Commission confined to a minor role.",
        "欧盟的决策程序规定，代表各成员国政府的欧洲理事会在做重要决定时奉行一致通过原则，而将欧洲议会和欧洲委员会限制在一个较次要的地位，这使得欧盟预算与欧盟目标愈走愈远。"
    ],
    [
        "This self-defeating crisis is now over, but can both sides really prevent further deterioration in their complex, mutually dependent relationship?",
        "这起搬起石头砸自己脚的危机如今已经落幕，但美巴双方是否又能防止本已复杂且相互依赖的关系不再继续恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Your fiscally responsible political party just won the election?",
        "你的具有财政责任心的政党刚刚赢得了选举？"
    ],
    [
        "After all, when it comes to technological advances relating to biological materials and processes, this is only the beginning.",
        "毕竟，在涉及到与生物材料及进程相关的技术进步问题时，公众知情权仅仅是一个开始。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s safety, including the safety of people living in rich countries, depends on the global community’s ability to prove that it will come to the aid of all who are in desperate need.",
        "世界的安全，包括生活在富裕国家的人们的安全依赖于国际社会证明它可以对所有困苦中的人们提供援助的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, most gene drive experiments will pose little, if any, environmental risk.",
        "可以肯定，多数基因驱动实验即使带来环境风险也都算不上严重。"
    ],
    [
        "But what about conditions like a heart attack or injuries sustained in an automobile accident?",
        "但若遇到心脏病突发或车祸情形怎么办？"
    ],
    [
        "Diamond argues that when agriculture was still in its infancy, our ancestors were remarkably efficient at identifying the very few species that were suitable for domestication – by which Diamond means not being poisonous.",
        "戴蒙德指出，在农业仍处于雏形阶段时，我们的祖先非常擅长识别适合驯化的极少数物种。 戴蒙德的“适合驯化”指的是没有毒。"
    ],
    [
        "But inequality remains poorly defined, its effects highly variable, and its causes hotly debated.",
        "但不平等性的定义仍然不明确，其效果也大相径庭，其根源更是众说纷纭。"
    ],
    [
        "There are four possible economic and policy responses to this state of affairs.",
        "对于这一局面，有四种可能的经济和政策应对方式。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was the wrong target.",
        "但这是错误的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "He can call general elections, declare war, impose a state of emergency, and issue decrees that have the force of law.",
        "他可以召集大选、宣布战争、执行紧急状态和颁布有法律效力的政令。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal consolidation and the abrupt closure and restructuring of inefficient banks and state enterprises would, after all, constitute a powerful brake on short-term growth, threatening social peace and political stability.",
        "巩固财政的要求以及突然关闭和重组效率低下的银行及国有企业毕竟会对短期增长踩急刹车，威胁到社会安定和政治稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "For Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980’s, the catalyst for his perestroika was the USSR’s growing economic paralysis.",
        "而对于1980年代的米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫来说，改革的催化剂则是苏联不断恶化的经济瘫痪局面。"
    ],
    [
        "But for China, this distinction rings hollow.",
        "但在中国，这样的区分并不为人所熟知。"
    ],
    [
        "This, in essence, is the German proposal today in the narrower context of the euro-zone.",
        "事实上，这与眼下德国提出的欧元区提议在本质上是一致的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem will lead a midnight mass, while in Syria – where some Christians still speak dialects of Aramaic, similar to the ancient language Jesus spoke – celebrations are likely to be subdued, curtailed by the dangers of a war that is tearing the country apart.",
        "在耶稣降生地伯利恒，耶路撒冷的拉丁宗主教（Latin Patriarch）将领衔子夜弥撒，而在叙利亚——那里的一些 基督徒仍说着类似于耶稣所说的古代语言的阿拉姆语——庆祝活动可能会有所抑制，受到正在分裂这个国家的战争的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The logic and the mechanism that the government uses to set benchmark prices are very different from those that the market uses to set risk premia.",
        "政府发现及制定基准利率与市场发现及形成风险溢价的逻辑和机制完全不同。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the OECD, “there does not appear to be any strong reason to expect that recent structural reforms mean that OECD labor markets are now substantially less sensitive to severe economic downturns.”",
        "根据经合组织的说法，“没有有力的理由让人相信近来的结构改革能有效降低经合组织国家劳动力市场对严重经济萎缩的敏感度。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Political disputes must not be allowed to hinder the adjustments needed to ensure long-term sustainable development.",
        "不能让政治纠纷妨碍确保长期可持续发展所需要的调整。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, such US securities are like a lottery ticket.",
        "与此相比，美国的这种证券就像是彩票。"
    ],
    [
        "Vietnam has much more serious TPP issues to resolve, particularly concerning labor rights.",
        "越南有更加重要的TPP问题需要解决，特别是劳动权利等问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Citizens in many countries started to feel as though their sovereignty had been eroded.",
        "许多国家的公民开始觉得本国主权受到了侵蚀。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Soufan Group, roughly 30,000 people from 86 countries have traveled to ISIS-held territory in Syria and Iraq.",
        "按照苏凡集团的统计，约有来自86个国家的3万人已经前往叙利亚和伊拉克境内的伊斯兰国控制区。"
    ],
    [
        "But, brilliant as Obama is, he has been prone to making odd mistakes.",
        "但是，睿智如奥巴马，仍然免不了犯下奇怪的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, this stimulated ever-greater economic convergence.",
        "随着时间的流逝，这刺激了前所未有的经济集中。"
    ],
    [
        "Environmental degradation is on the rise.",
        "环境破坏日益加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Castro saw this shift coming even before the Venezuelans did, and began looking to the US to take up the slack.",
        "卡斯特罗在委内瑞拉情况发生变化之前就已经观察到这一变局，并开始转向美国寻求破局。"
    ],
    [
        "There, leading politicians who choose to call themselves “fiscal conservatives” – such as Paul Ryan, now the Republican Party’s presumptive vice-presidential nominee to run alongside presidential candidate Mitt Romney in November’s election – care more about cutting taxes, regardless of the effect on the federal deficit and total outstanding debt.",
        "在美国，自称“财政保守派”的政治领袖——比如共和党确定的与总统候选人罗姆尼共同挑战11月大选的副总统人选保罗·莱恩——更关注减税，而不管这会对联邦赤字和总未偿还债务水平的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, political leaders have often asked citizens to sacrifice personal freedoms and comforts in the name of secularized spiritual entities, such as the nation or the state – and citizens have eagerly obliged.",
        "结果是政治领导者往往假借民族或国家等世俗化精神实体的名义要求民众牺牲个人的舒适及自由权利，而民众也往往怀着满腔的热情照行不误。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Party leaders rarely evince their personal feelings in public, much less transgress the Party line as brazenly as Zhao did.",
        "毕竟，党的领导人很少当众表露感情，更别说像赵紫阳一样明目张胆的越过党的界线了。"
    ],
    [
        "This involves the ability to size up group politics and understand the positions and strengths of various stakeholders in order to decide when and how to use transactional and inspirational skills.",
        "这包括揣摩集团政治并理解不同相关利益者的立场和优势，以便确定何时以及如何使用事务性和鼓动性技能的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The role of the Holocaust as the constituent myth of the Zionist meta-narrative reinforced Israel’s tendency to face “the world,” an amorphous but imposing construct with which the Jews wage a dispute that cannot be resolved through the traditional tools of international relations.",
        "大屠杀在锡安主义元叙事中扮演着基本神话元素的角色，这强化了以色列直面“世界”的倾向，这是一个没有定型但又蔚为壮观的构造，犹太人据此发动了无法用国际关系的传统工具解决的争端。"
    ],
    [
        "So, the argument goes, a courageous Tory government that cuts spending today spares citizens that future pain.",
        "因此，该观点推断，保守党政府在今天大力削减开支将有助于英国人民免于在明天遭受痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "After wading through the drivel of ethics-free Republican hacks and knowledge-free academic hacks who claim, one way or another, that the basic principles of economics make it impossible for government spending decisions to alter the flow of economic activity, reading Barro comes as a great relief.",
        "在缺德的共和党人和无知的学术打手的操弄下，经济学的基本原理使得政府支出决策无法改变经济活动的运行方向，看了巴罗的文章使人松了一口气。"
    ],
    [
        "Even where there is accord in principle, there is little agreement in practice.",
        "即使在原则上达成了一致，如何实践也是莫衷一是。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when our ancestors left Andalusia, people of other faiths went with them.",
        "甚至当我们的祖先离开安达卢西亚，其他信仰的民众仍在追随他们的脚步。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1972, on the basis of data on toxicity to fish and migrating birds (but not to humans), the United States Environmental Protection Agency banned virtually all uses of DDT, an inexpensive and effective pesticide once widely deployed to kill disease-carrying insects.",
        "1972年，以对鱼类和候鸟（而非对人类）的毒性研究为依据，美国环境保护署全面禁止使用DDT，一种曾被广泛使用来杀灭致病虫害的廉价而有效的杀虫剂。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that charities were unprepared for such questions indicated to Karnofsky and Hassenfeld that other donors and foundations give more or less blindly, without the information needed to make sound decisions about whom to support.",
        "慈善组织对于这些问题没有准备这一事实告诉他们二人，其他捐助者和基金会或多或少都是在没有做出支持谁的明智决定所需要的信息的情况下盲目捐款。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the period since the financial crisis of 1998 has generated serious problems for monetary and exchange-rate policies.",
        "结果，从1998年金融危机以来的这段时期，货币和汇率政策遇到了严重的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, that means meeting the standards that we expect of others.",
        "显然，那意味着达到我们希望其他人达到的标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Old industrial England, in cities like Sunderland and Manchester, voted against better-off London.",
        "以桑德兰和曼彻斯特为代表的古老的工业英格兰对更加富裕的伦敦投了反对票。"
    ],
    [
        "A new customs component to a highway project between Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City helped increase the total value of trade through the Moc Bai-Bavet border by 40% over three years.",
        "金边-胡志明市高速公路上的新海关工程让木牌（Moc Bai）-巴域（Bavet）边境通关贸易总量在三年内增加了40%。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Technological innovation has long triggered diametrically opposed reactions: awe of new possibilities for some; for others, fear of disruptive change.",
        "发自伦敦 — — 技术创新一直以来都会引发截然不同的反应: 有些人惊叹于新的可能性：其他人则为破坏性变化而忧心。"
    ],
    [
        "With China’s growing importance in the world order, it needs to be given space to forge its own approach to global economic leadership.",
        "随着中国在世界秩序中日益重要，它需要获得空间构建其自身的全球经济领导方针。"
    ],
    [
        "The general concept of “ownership” is not by itself a roadmap to a successful new economy, and there are myriad interpretations of how to carry out the revolution.",
        "普通概念中的“所有权”本身并非通往成功新经济的路线图，而对如何实现改革的说法数不胜数。"
    ],
    [
        "Its beginning dates to early 2011, when the cognitive computing system Watson beat two human champions on the game show “Jeopardy!”.",
        "其滥觞可以追溯到2011年，认知计算机系统沃森在游戏秀《Jeopardy! 》中打败了两位人类冠军。"
    ],
    [
        "Such platforms are not just lucrative on their own; they also produce a host of related opportunities for new business models operating in and around them, in, say, advertising, logistics, and finance.",
        "这些平台不仅本身能够盈利，还为围绕它们开展的新商业模式创造了一系列相关机会，比如广告、物流和金融。"
    ],
    [
        "Although there are more than 570 million farmers and seven billion consumers worldwide, just a handful of companies control the global industrial-agriculture value chain – from field to shop counter.",
        "7亿农民和七十亿消费者，但从田间到店头，全球工业农业的价值链控制在一小撮公司手中。"
    ],
    [
        "Dissaving by the government contributes to a dismally low national savings rate.",
        "政府入不敷出导致国民储蓄率极低。"
    ],
    [
        "How Islam is understood varies widely among devout, moderately religious, and non-observant Muslims, as well as among Islamic scholars, political parties, and organizations.",
        "对宗教虔诚但不狂热的、略欠精明的穆斯林份子对伊斯兰教的理解可谓各有不同，更不要说伊斯兰教学者、各个政党以及各种组织了。"
    ],
    [
        "To support officials during this process, which will include unpopular decision such as cutting capacity and restructuring failed enterprises, China also needs transparent processes that ensure fairness to all stakeholders.",
        "为了支持官员果断决策，包括作出削减产能和重组倒闭企业等不受欢迎的决定，中国还需要保持决策程序的透明以确保公平对待所有相关利益方。"
    ],
    [
        "Donald Trump Thought is easy to understand and requires little intellectual strain to master.",
        "特朗普思想通俗易懂，也不需要多少智力就能掌握透彻。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only does Germany now seem to be running Europe, but the rest of Europe seems to be falling in love with Germany – not least because, in a time of political confusion and economic instability, Germans are the only Europeans who seem to know what they want.",
        "德国不仅在管理欧洲，其他欧洲国家似乎也与德国一见钟情——因为在政治混乱和经济动荡的前提下，德国民众似乎是唯一知道该怎么做的欧洲人。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, why should the Shias, for their part, submit to Sunni hegemony rather than building up their own political structure in the south, modeled on what the Kurds have already achieved in the north?",
        "同样，就什叶派而言，他们为什么不仿效北部的库尔德人的成功模式在南部建立自己的政治架构，而却要臣服于逊尼派的霸权呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of strong political commitment and credible plans for gradual fiscal consolidation, there is a distinct risk that at some point sovereign yields will rise markedly – with negative implications for the economy and politics.",
        "而且政府的财政平衡状况并不能反映出现实的所有方面。 比如在德国，若将养老金债务计入其中，则整体负债与国内生产总值之比将从目前的65%跃升为250%。"
    ],
    [
        "One last concern that I have on this first anniversary of the UN High-Level Meeting is that policymakers still need to agree on a source of funding for the market-entry rewards intended to encourage the development of new drugs and diagnostics.",
        "在联合国高级别会议迎来一周年之际，我的最后一项担忧是决策者仍然没有批准旨在鼓励开发新药和新诊断方法的市场进入奖励经费。"
    ],
    [
        "This is certainly how many Israeli right-wing politicians explain things.",
        "这恰恰就是许多以色列右翼政客阐述问题的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no discernible Spanish connection to the case.",
        "没有迹象表明西班牙与此案有关。"
    ],
    [
        "So why has financial regulation become the unlikely casus belli between the UK and its partners?",
        "那么，为什么金融监管会成为英国及其伙伴之间宣战的不是原因的原因？"
    ],
    [
        "The fracking revolution, widely viewed as originating in the US, has helped to lower energy prices and has eliminated America’s dependency on foreign oil.",
        "被广泛视为美国原创的液压致裂革命帮助降低了能源价格，让美国不再依赖外国石油。"
    ],
    [
        "The report was correct but misleading, for it failed to mention why there is so little inflation in the US today.",
        "报道说的没错，但有误导之嫌，因为它没有提及为何现今美国通胀如此之低。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in 2003 China enacted a law on environmental-impact assessments, which was followed in 2008 by “provisional measures” to permit public participation in such assessments.",
        "比如，中国在2003年通过了环境影响评估法，2008年又接着出台了允许公众参与上述评估的“临时措施”。"
    ],
    [
        "The stress tests and recapitalizations of US banks in 2009 were subsequently hailed as crucial to the recovery of both the banking system and the economy.",
        "2009年美国银行的压力测试和资本重组随后被称为是银行系统和经济复苏的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "In European eyes, Americans lack such sophisticated understanding, and often have no interest in acquiring it, seeing the land around and beyond Israel as populated largely by greedy oil sheikhs and dangerous religious fanatics.",
        "在欧洲人看来，美国缺乏这种深入而复杂的了解，甚至连了解的兴趣都没有，在他们眼中居住在以色列以外土地上的只不过是一帮贪得无厌的阿拉伯油王和丧心病狂的宗教狂人而已。"
    ],
    [
        "All this represents obvious progress from the standpoint of the separation of powers.",
        "站在分权制衡的角度，所有这些显然是取得了明显的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, we need a more energetic global discussion on this pressing issue.",
        "至于现在，我们需要对这一紧迫问题进行跟大力度的全球讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2004, a major reform program was launched under former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif.",
        "2004年，前总理那齐夫（Ahmed Nazif）开始了一项重大改革计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, Xi is ready for Act II of his CPC revival: improving state governance.",
        "现在，习近平主席已经准备好开启他的中国共产党复兴的第二幕：改善国家治理。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe still exists in the US, though probably more among the Washington administrative and political elite than within the world of New York finance and business, despite the fundamental importance of transatlantic trade for both economies.",
        "欧洲仍存在于美国体内，只不过更多地存在于华盛顿政府和政治精英，而不是纽约金融和商业世界，尽管跨大西洋贸易对于欧洲和美国来说都具有根本重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "As world energy prices collapsed, Brazil fortuitously turned off its subsidy tap, whereupon a brutal Darwinian free-for-all ensued.",
        "随着世界能源价格的崩溃，巴西在这一偶然因素的作用下关闭了补贴的龙头，一场残酷的达尔文式的生存混战随之发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Government-funded space-exploration programs around the world have been profound inspirations.",
        "放眼全球，政府出资的空间探索计划产生了深远的鼓舞效果。"
    ],
    [
        "This entails preventing administrative abuses, establishing a level playing field for SOEs and other companies, and divorcing regulators from regulated entities.",
        "这需要防止行政权力滥用，为国企和其他企业创造公平的竞争环境，并实现监管者与被监管者的彻底分离。"
    ],
    [
        "Without changes in prevention and control, deaths from cervical cancer worldwide are projected to rise almost two-fold by 2030, to more than 430,000 per year.",
        "如果预防和控制状况不发生变化，到2030年全球宫颈癌死亡人数预计将增长近2倍，超过430,000人/年的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "But it will not contest the dollar’s supremacy unless China’s leaders align the country’s political and legal institutions with its economic reforms.",
        "但除非中国领导人能将该国的政治和法律体系与其经济改革同时进行，否则人民币将无法挑战美元的统治地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Any military intervention would entail a confrontation not only with the Syrian military (supported by Russia and China), but also with Shia Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.",
        "任何军事干预都将不但面对叙利亚军队（有俄罗斯和中国支持），还将面对伊朗什叶派及其代理人黎巴嫩真主党。"
    ],
    [
        "Real GDP grew at an annual rate of only 7.5% in the second quarter of this year (equal to the target actually set by the Chinese government at the beginning of this year).",
        "今年第二季度的GDP增长年率仅为7. 5%（刚好等于中国政府今年年初制定的目标）。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the tribunal’s decision, China will simply shrug it off.",
        "无论法院如何裁决，中国人都可以置之不理。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposal would benefit the roughly nine million students attending community college at least half-time, making steady progress, and maintaining passing grades.",
        "这一提案将令大约九百万至少在社区大学学习半天的学生受益，产生稳定的进步并保持通过成绩。"
    ],
    [
        "American officials, for their part, emphasize that if Japan can be accused of manipulating currency markets, the US Congress will not approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).",
        "而美国官员强调，如果日本涉嫌操纵货币市场，美国国会就不会批准跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）。"
    ],
    [
        "And, despite the rise of China and the move to a more “plural” international system, the US still has the power to change “facts on the ground” in large parts of the world, particularly the Middle East.",
        "而尽管面对着中国崛起和越来越“多元”的国际体制，美国依然有能力去改变世界大多数地区的“现状”，尤其是中东地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Avatar and Empire",
        "《阿凡达》与美利坚帝国"
    ],
    [
        "For the British, however, the existence of contending claims is a major relief, as it helps the country to fend off a blizzard of demands to undo the manifold injustices of two or more centuries of colonial exploitation of far-flung lands.",
        "但是，对英国人来说，存在互相竞争的索偿主张令它大舒一口气，这有助于英国抵挡蜂拥而至的对两个或更多世纪的对遥远殖民地的掠夺所带来的各种不公平拨乱反正的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Real-estate prices start to rise, a construction boom occurs, and a new phase of rapid expansion begins, partly sustained by the revitalization of the domestic economy, including services.",
        "房地产价格开始上升，建筑业迎来繁荣，扩张进入高速发展的新阶段，其中部分支持因素来自国内经济包括服务业的复兴。"
    ],
    [
        "She is far from being the only Western journalist to be “neutralized” in this manner.",
        "她绝不是唯一一个通过这种方法被“中和”的西方记者。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese rightly understand that they must focus more on the “quality” of growth –rebalancing their economy away from exports and toward domestic consumption – than on sheer output.",
        "中国人正确地认识到他们需要多注意增长的质量而不是数量——将出口导向转为国内消费，实现中国经济的再平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "To all of this, I say: Dream on.",
        "对于所有这些，我要说的是：继续做梦。"
    ],
    [
        "As Admiral Dennis C. Blair, a former commander of the US Pacific Fleet, stated at a recent conference, “The history of Asia from the 1930s to about 1955 or so was not pretty in any way….I don’t think any country can have a monopoly on righteousness, or on guilt and shame” for that time.",
        "前美国太平洋舰队司令布莱尔上将（Dennis C. Blair）在最近的会议上指出，“20世纪30年代到1955年左右的亚洲历史绝对算不上光彩，……我认为没有一个国家占据着全部的正确性，也没有一个国家需要承担所有罪恶和羞耻。"
    ],
    [
        "With limited educational and economic prospects, talented youth from disadvantaged backgrounds end up running in place.",
        "起点较低的有才青年，因为教育和经济前景饱受限制而最终原地踏步。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the word “liberal,” in the mouths of populist radio hosts and right-wing politicians, has become almost synonymous with “effete East Coast snob” or, worse, “New York intellectual.”",
        "在美国，从受到欢迎的电台主持人和右翼政治人物那里说出来的“自由”一词已经几乎和“精疲力尽的东岸小人”或者更糟的“纽约知识分子”同义了。"
    ],
    [
        "Another proposal involves creating new international liquidity by issuing special drawing rights (international reserve assets maintained by the International Monetary Fund).",
        "另一个计划包括通过发行特别提款权（SDR，由IMF负责保管的国际储备资产）创造新的国际流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "In renewing our liberties, we will renew our unity. We will renew Ukraine.",
        "在重得我们的自由中，我们将恢复我们的统一，我们将使乌克兰焕然一新。"
    ],
    [
        "It offers the last chance to avoid debt socialism.",
        "这是避免债务社会主义的最后机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But these events actually presage an uncomfortable, potentially destabilizing time for Japan – and all of East Asia.",
        "但这样的安排实际上预示着日本——以及整个东亚——将迎来令人不安甚至动荡的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Assets bubbles will not disappear, but they will be less likely to be turbocharged by leverage.",
        "风险的扩散也不会回到危机爆发之前的水平。 资产泡沫虽然不能消除，但也不会被金融杠杆而放大。"
    ],
    [
        "Death could come by assassination, with Trump tearing up the agreement.",
        "协定可能“遇刺而亡”——被特朗普撕毁。"
    ],
    [
        "They should also address the lack of uniform standards across Europe’s internal borders; for example, there are 11 separate signaling systems for rail freight in the EU-15.",
        "它们还应该解决欧洲各国彼此之间缺少统一标准的问题，比如，欧盟15国存在11种彼此不同的铁路信号系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the US economy’s performance remains overly dependent on the Federal Reserve’s experimental monetary policies, courageously adopted in the absence of adequate measures by other economic policymakers.",
        "此外，美国经济的表现依旧过于依赖美联储的实验性货币政策——这是在其他经济政策制定者缺乏合适手段的情况下大胆采取的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s priority is not to be dragged into another conflict.",
        "奥巴马的当务之急是避免被拖进另一场冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to determine the appropriate level of oversight, government bodies would presumably conduct a science-based risk analysis.",
        "为了确定监督的适当水平，政府机构会预先进行基于科学的风险分析。"
    ],
    [
        "This experimental approach by central banks has involved the conscious decoupling of financial-asset prices from their fundamentals.",
        "央行的实验性方针包括有意识地让金融资产价格与基本面脱钩。"
    ],
    [
        "Victory in Uttar Pradesh was critical to enable Modi to take control of India’s Upper House, whose members are elected by state legislative assemblies.",
        "北方邦的获胜对莫迪控制印度上议院至关重要，因为上议院议员是由州立法议会选举产生。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is always an optimist around to offer a positive spin.",
        "当然，永远会有乐观派提供积极的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "So even if the generosity of state benefits may be curtailed, aggregate government spending is unlikely to be rolled back dramatically from the current 53% of GDP.",
        "所以，即使国家福利的慷慨程度可能会受到限制，总的政府开支不大可能从目前GDP的53％大幅度退缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Stability and trust must be the order of the day.",
        "稳定和信任必须成为最重要的事项。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, with so little confidence in the financial system, and credit constrained by concerns about falling housing prices, the usual transmission channels from the policy rate have been blocked.",
        "不管怎么样，因为现在人们对金融系统非常缺乏信心，以及信贷因为对房价下跌担忧而受到遏制，政策利率正常的传导渠道已经被切断了。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet global cooperation means the willingness to reach agreements with other countries, not simply to make unilateral demands of them.",
        "但全球合作意味着愿意与其他国家达成协议，而不仅仅是单方面要求它们。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Arab Emirates, for example, has taken in just over 200,000 Syrian nationals since the Syrian crisis began in 2011.",
        "比如，自2011年叙利亚危机爆发以来，阿联酋只接收了略多于200,000叙利亚人。"
    ],
    [
        "What the world needs now are leaders who look to the long-term future.",
        "如今，世界具有远见卓识的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "Many are low-income workers who would otherwise be unemployed.",
        "许多底薪工作者若不从事独立工作就会失业。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why we Colombians have been fortunate to count on the support of the region and the world.",
        "因此，我们哥伦比亚人很幸运地获得了地区和世界的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Vargas Llosa argued – eloquently and elegantly – that he could not vote for the daughter of a corrupt and repressive former president currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for human rights violations.",
        "巴尔加斯·略萨雄辩而又不失优雅的宣称他不能为因侵犯人权服刑25年的腐败独裁前总统的女儿投票。"
    ],
    [
        "In normal times, fiscal policy would support monetary policy, including by playing a redistributive role.",
        "在常规时期，财政政策可以支持货币政策，扮演再分配角色就是办法之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The Elixir of Education?",
        "教育的万灵药？"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, a 66-country “pow-wow” like the abortive World Economic Conference, held in London in 1933, could never be expected to produce an agreement.",
        "相反，一场66个国家参与的“座谈会”——类似于1933年在伦敦举行的无果而终的世界经济会议（World Economic Conference）——是绝没有可能产生协定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Magna Carta, too, looked like it might be short-lived.",
        "大宪章看上去也不会维持多久。"
    ],
    [
        "To say that it is anti-Semitic to condemn the killing and maiming of children in Gaza is to make a mockery of acts that really are anti-Semitic and that deserve to be condemned by every civilized person.",
        "说谴责杀害和致残加沙儿童的行为是反犹，这是对每个文明人都应该谴责的真正的反犹行为的嘲弄。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, for example, does the world pursue a paradigm of economic growth that rests upon eroding the very basis of earth’s life-support systems?",
        "比如，为什么世界要追求一种依靠侵蚀地球生命支持系统基础的经济增长范式？"
    ],
    [
        "And yet many Egyptians, including some human-rights activists, have endorsed it.",
        "但却得到了很多埃及人，包括人权活动家的赞同。"
    ],
    [
        "Disaster aid for education in such circumstances almost always flows far too slowly, because there is no central pool of funds available to be distributed when a crisis erupts.",
        "因为在危机爆发时缺乏可用的中央资金池，导致上述状况下的教育援助几乎总是太过缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "What is needed now are leadership, resources, a greater sense of urgency, and commitment to the long-term efforts that must dedicated to ensuring that the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration are not only recognized universally, but respected as well.",
        "我们现在需要的是领导、资源、紧迫感和长期努力的决心，所有这些都必须用来确保《世界人权宣言》中所记载的权利在全世界得到人们的承认与尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "These revised agreements should include bold, enlightened provisions for infrastructure and “social-cohesion” funds, since these can make the difference between muddling through and true success.",
        "这些修改后的协议应该包括大胆的、开明的对基础设施以及“社会凝聚力”基金的规定，因为这些东西区分了蒙混过关和真正的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from abandoning the “one-child” policy, China could avoid this outcome by climbing the value chain in manufacturing and services, as Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan have done.",
        "除放弃“独生子女”政策，中国参照香港、新加坡、韩国和台湾的做法通过攀升制造业和服务业的价值链来防止这一结果。"
    ],
    [
        "For Iraq, the complexities and contradictions of the war were even more pronounced.",
        "对伊拉克来说，战争的复杂性和矛盾性更加显著。"
    ],
    [
        "The interwar period, which suffered from a similar crisis of leadership, produced not only a collapse of globalization, but a devastating armed conflict on a global scale.",
        "出现过类似领导危机的战争间歇期不仅导致了全球化崩溃，而且在世界范围内造成了毁灭性的武装冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Another way of looking at Africa’s paradoxical economic position is to admit that the region’s historical marginalization within the international financial system – so costly in times of global plenty – is proving to be an unexpected benefit when the wealthiest of the world are sick unto death.",
        "观察非洲自相矛盾的经济状况时，另一种方法是承认该地区历史上一直被全球金融体制边缘化，结果在世界繁荣的时候损失惨重。 然而在全球最富裕的国家病入膏肓的时候，这一点反而成了是一个出人意料的益处。"
    ],
    [
        "Oki-Now-What?",
        "冲绳何去何从？"
    ],
    [
        "But when major structural and secular challenges arise, as is the case today, the advanced countries’ institutional architecture acts as a major obstacle to effective action.",
        "可一旦出现今天这种重大结构性长期性挑战时，发达国家的制度架构就摇身一变成为了实施有效行动的主要障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Entitled the “Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act,” the proposed legislation would criminalize the purchase of “sexual services.”",
        "这项名为《保护社区和被剥削者法案》（Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act）的立法建议将把购买“性服务”的行为列为犯罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Along with more mouths to feed, stresses on food supplies will include conflicts, economic volatility, extreme weather events, and climate change.",
        "随着有更多的肚子需要填饱，食物供给的压力将来自冲突、经济动荡、极端天气事件、气候变化等。"
    ],
    [
        "During 2002-2006, I led the United Nations Millennium Project, which aimed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, for then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.",
        "2002至2006年，我为实现千年发展目标，在时任联合国秘书长科菲·安南管理下领导联合国千年发展项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Powell came from a lower-middle-class family.",
        "鲍威尔来自中下阶级家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Saving Syria and America",
        "拯救叙利亚和美国"
    ],
    [
        "Securing a Sustainable Future",
        "确保可持续的未来"
    ],
    [
        "Defusing Iran",
        "接触伊朗的风险"
    ],
    [
        "One failure is already clear: that of the neo-conservative dream of creating a military ally that could serve as a long-term base for American troops in the campaign to transform and democratize the Middle East.",
        "一个失败已经非常明显，即：创建一个军事联盟的新保守主义梦想，这一联盟曾被看作是美军对中东进行改造和民主化的长久基础。"
    ],
    [
        "When normal mortgages did not prime the pump enough, he encouraged them to take out variable-rate mortgages – at a time when interest rates had nowhere to go but up.",
        "当普通贷款不能满足需求时，他鼓励美国人进行可变汇率按揭—而且在利率只升不降的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "The British are reluctant Europeans, for historical and cultural reasons.",
        "由于历史和文化的原因，英国人一直与欧洲人貌合神离。"
    ],
    [
        "At the elite level, the difference between being a champion and an also-ran is so miniscule, and yet matters so much, that athletes are pressured to do whatever they can to gain the slightest edge over their competitors.",
        "在精英运动员的层面上，冠军与亚军的成绩差距微乎其微，但它又是如此重要，以至于压力之下的运动员们都不惜代价地争取超过对手的些微优势。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – What once could be dismissed as simply a Greek crisis, or simply a Greek and Irish crisis, is now clearly a eurozone crisis.",
        "伯克利——“那只不过是希腊危机”，“那只不过是希腊和爱尔兰的危机”，人们曾经那样以为，可是现在不行了，因为那显然已经是一场欧元区的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "That model is, to some extent, a policy-induced construct, the result of a deep-rooted bias toward construction and manufacturing as the leading drivers of economic development.",
        "从某正程度上说，这一模式是政策导致的结构，是根深蒂固地偏好建筑和制造业作为经济发展主要引擎的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2007, the US current-account deficit has narrowed, but not because of a higher savings rate.",
        "自2007年以来，美国经常项目赤字有所减少，但这并不是因为储蓄率提高了。"
    ],
    [
        "Fast-forward 150 years to post-World War II America, and to the original Chicago School critique of the New Deal version of social insurance – that it created “notches” that perverted economic incentives.",
        "快速地浏览一下二战前150年中的美国，看看芝加哥学派对罗斯福新政这一社会保险新形式的最初批判——它形成了阻碍经济创新的“等级”（notch）。"
    ],
    [
        "At first, governments threw everything at it.",
        "一开始，政府竭尽全力对付它。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s government has had a similar impact through its effort to manage its limited water resources.",
        "以色列政府通过其对该国有限水资源的管理起到了这一作用。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, China’s shift from heavy industry to services implies less output per worker and less control by the central government.",
        "首先，中国从重工业向服务业的专心意味着每工人产出的下降和中央政府控制的减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, aid should be directed to specific needs – for example, malaria control, food production, safe drinking water, and sanitation – whose fulfillment can be measured and monitored to resist corruption.",
        "当然，应当将援助提供给专门的需求，例如，控制霍乱、粮食生产、安全饮用水以及卫生。 可以衡量并监督是否满足这些需求以抵制腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has the necessary scale to absorb China’s surplus, and its inadequate infrastructure provides plenty of avenues for fruitful investment.",
        "美国规模够大，能吸收中国的盈余，且其基础设施不足也提供了充足的可行投资机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The second undesirable possibility – that governments with little spending capacity to assuage public anger turn against democracy and free expression – is also remote for now.",
        "第二个负面情况——那些没有足够财力来花钱平息民众愤怒的政府转而开始压制民主和言论自由——出现的几率目前还很小。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of values, Royal, too, seems to represent a rupture with May 1968, with her emphasis on discipline and family.",
        "在价值观方面，罗亚尔似乎也提倡与1968年5月革命决裂，而她着重强调的是法纪和家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "If they succeed, life expectancy in the United States would most likely continue to decline, relative to other developed countries.",
        "如果他们得逞的话，美国寿命预期（相对其他发达国家）很可能会继续下降。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – As 2015 begins, policymakers around the world are faced with three fundamental choices: to strive for economic growth or accept stagnation; to work to improve stability or risk succumbing to fragility; and to cooperate or go it alone.",
        "华盛顿—随着2014年临近尾声，全世界决策者面临着三大基本选择：为经济增长而奋斗或者接受停滞； 努力改善稳定或者陷入分裂；"
    ],
    [
        "Hoenig looks at how much equity banks have in the simplest and most transparent measure (also known as leverage).",
        "霍尼格着眼于以最简单、最透明的指标（也称为杠杆）看，银行拥有多少股本。"
    ],
    [
        "The North Atlantic Council would seem an obvious forum within which to enhance solidarity among members, reassure member states that have perceptions of greater vulnerability, and avoid misperceptions.",
        "北大西洋理事会显然可以作为一个增进成员国团结，消除成员国对各种威胁的恐惧并避免误解的论坛而存在。"
    ],
    [
        "No longer would the powerful sit by idly while butchers like Slobodan Milosevic or Foday Sankoh slaughtered their own people.",
        "强国决不能再坐视无睹，任由斯洛博丹·米洛舍维奇和弗迪·桑科这样的屠夫屠杀他们自己的人民了。"
    ],
    [
        "Richemont, the Swiss luxury goods company that owns the Cartier and Montblanc brands, has said that it is facing “the toughest market conditions since its formation 20 years ago.”",
        "Richmond里士满，这个瑞士拥有卡地亚和万宝龙品牌的奢侈品公司表示，它正面临着“自20年前成立以来最艰难的市场情况。"
    ],
    [
        "That way, we can dump the losers and keep the winners.",
        "这样一来，我们就可以淘汰那些失败的制度并保留赢家。"
    ],
    [
        "That view belongs to a school of modern macroeconomics that assumes rational expectations and perfectly functioning markets.",
        "持有这种观点的是一个现代宏观经济学的流派，他们假设存在理性的预期和充分发挥功能的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, they argue, faces a mass influx that threatens to place even greater strain on its economies, labor markets, and cultures.",
        "他们认为，欧洲面临巨大的人口流入，这会给其经济、劳动力市场和文化带来更大的制约。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, increasing the interest rates paid on bank deposits would enable savings to decline without loss of income.",
        "类似地，提高银行储蓄利率能够在不至于减少收入的情况下降低储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, one-fifth of Germany’s residents – and one-third of its schoolchildren – have a migrant background.",
        "如今，五分之一的德国居民——以及三分之一的学生——具有移民背景。"
    ],
    [
        "Why not just shut down democracy, as Newfoundland effectively did when it entered into receivership before World War II?",
        "为何不干脆取消民主，就像纽芬兰在二战前进入破产接管时所作的那样？"
    ],
    [
        "Given Liberia’s recent success in post-conflict reconstruction and human development, following a 14-year civil war, it is a fitting setting for the Panel’s deliberations.",
        "最近，利比里亚在后冲突时代重建和人权发展方面取得了成功（此前该国经历了14年的内战），因此是发展日程高级别小组会议的理想举办地。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, markets could be incorrect in their assessment that conflicts like that between Russia and Ukraine, or Syria’s civil war, will not escalate or spread.",
        "其次，市场可能对俄罗斯-乌克兰冲突或叙利亚内战等冲突存在误判，错误地认为它们不会升级或蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "Most significantly, the Bush administration gave Iraq $2.3 billion to restore its oil production.",
        "最重要的是，布什政府给了伊拉克23亿美元，用于恢复石油生产。"
    ],
    [
        "Zhao did not set out to become an activist.",
        "赵连海本来不想成为一个活动分子。"
    ],
    [
        "The initial talks are already sending a clear message: the disagreements to be resolved by Canada, Mexico, and the United States are fundamentally political, not economic, and they are as pronounced within each country as they are between them.",
        "最初几轮协商已经释放出明确的信号：加拿大、墨西哥和美国所需要解决的分歧从根本上说在于政治，而不在于经济，并且各自国内的分歧不亚于彼此之间的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a post-modern or post-sovereign currency.",
        "它是一种后现代货币、一种后主权货币。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the current advantage of offense over defense may change over time.",
        "因此目前进攻相对于防御的优势很可能会随时间的流逝而逐渐发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed it is.",
        "诚然。"
    ],
    [
        "To those outside the arcane world of intellectual-property rights, the answer seems obvious: No.",
        "对那些知识产权的门外汉来说，答案是很显然的：不可以。"
    ],
    [
        "Once again, short-term national interests are taking precedence over the need for a forward-looking, flexible, and efficient EU budget.",
        "短期国家利益再一次压倒了前瞻性的、灵活的和高效的欧盟预算的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "What we do know is that HPV is a highly infectious sexually transmitted virus, which is responsible for almost all forms of cervical cancer.",
        "但我们知道HPV是通过性行为传播的感染性很强的病毒，而且差不多是所有宫颈癌背后的元凶。"
    ],
    [
        "Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized the United States Federal Reserve and the Bank of England for “quantitative easing,” which has in practice allowed the central bank to monetize many types of government and non-government debt.",
        "德国总理默克尔（Angela Merkel）曾经批评美联储和英格兰银行的“量化宽松”政策，说它实质上允许央行把各种政府和非政府债务货币化。"
    ],
    [
        "Transforming promises and policies into patient rights, awareness, and effective health care will undoubtedly take time, especially for a country as massive and lacking in transparency as China.",
        "把承诺和政策转变为患者权利、认识和有效的医疗护理肯定需要时间，在中国这样庞大且缺乏透明度的国家恐怕尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The Internet’s impact on politics is deeply ambiguous.",
        "互联网对政治的影响是非常模糊的。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative would be to embark on a sustained program of privatization to shrink the asset side of the state’s huge balance sheet.",
        "而替代方案可能是着手实施一个持续私有化项目，以缩减该国庞大的资产负债表中的资产项目。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that GDP growth should have slowed gradually in Japan after 1971, instead of plummeting by more than 50%.",
        "这意味着日本GDP增长应该在1971年后逐渐放缓，而不应该大幅降低超过50%。"
    ],
    [
        "But how much more pain will Europe have to endure before reason is restored?",
        "但在恢复理性之前，欧洲还要承受多少痛苦？"
    ],
    [
        "The number of people proclaiming their faith worldwide is growing.",
        "世界上自认拥有宗教信仰的人正不断增多。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Germany’s Nazi past, it is difficult for Germans today to treat the desirability of that goal as anything but permitting the state to determine who may reproduce.",
        "鉴于德国的纳粹史，今天的德国人很难不联想到将决定谁有生育权的权限交给政府。"
    ],
    [
        "And Trump is right about one thing, even if he expresses it crudely: Europe, as well as Japan, has become too dependent on American military power.",
        "而且，尽管表达有失粗鲁，但特朗普有一点说得完全正确：欧洲，还有日本，已经太过依赖美国的军事力量。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time since 2002, he will.",
        "自2002年以来，他将第一次现身北约峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Sergei Loznitsa’s My Joy simply explores the life of a Ukrainian truck driver named Georgy, who gets lost and finds himself in an archetypal Russian village, where he is drawn into daily life.",
        "与此类似，谢尔盖·洛兹尼察的电影《我的幸福》主要是讲述了一位名叫格奥尔基的乌克兰籍卡车司机的一生，他在荒郊迷了路，发现自己身处在一个典型的俄罗斯村庄之中，并随之卷入了当地居民的日常生活。"
    ],
    [
        "But while dysfunctional systems of land tenure have no doubt cost African governments millions in foreign investment, they have hurt African farmers most directly.",
        "然而，尽管土地所有权制度的瘫痪毫无疑问让非洲政府损失了数百万美元的外国投资，但最直接的受害者还是非洲农民。"
    ],
    [
        "These trends are remarkable in light of the shocks from the surge in oil prices, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, international terrorism, and the breakdown of multilateral trade negotiations.",
        "考虑到这些增长是在油价的暴涨、阿富汗和伊拉克的战争、全球的恐怖主义以及多边贸易谈判破裂的状况下取得的，这些态势尤其引人瞩目。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment in Kenya’s education system, along with economic reforms, and (until recently) relative political stability has undoubtedly helped the economy, which has grown by around 4-5% annually over the past decade, following long periods of stagnation.",
        "毫无疑问，对教育系统的投资，以及经济改革和（到目前为止）相对稳定的政治环境帮助了经济，在经历了长期的停滞后，过去十年中肯尼亚经济每年以4—5%的速度增长。"
    ],
    [
        "One of our discussants, Joseph Tracy of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (and co-author of Housing Partnerships), put the problem succinctly: “Firefighting is more glamorous than fire prevention.”",
        "我们的讨论者之一、纽约联邦储备银行的约瑟夫·特雷西（Joseph Tracy，同时也是《合伙买房》的合著者）言简意赅地总结了这一问题：“救火比防火光荣得多”。"
    ],
    [
        "For ASEAN to become a real manufacturing powerhouse, its lower-income economies will need to focus on modernizing equipment and processes and building their workforces’ skills.",
        "东盟要想成为真正的制造业强权，其收入较低的经济体需要关注设备和流程的现代化，并建设劳动力的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "And countries, like China, that rely excessively on net exports for growth should accelerate reforms, including more rapid currency appreciation, in order to boost domestic demand and consumption.",
        "而中国等国家过于依赖进出口刺激增长，它们应该加速改革，包括让货币快速升值，以提振内需和消费。"
    ],
    [
        "In the run-up to next year’s presidential election, Putin will not hesitate to take advantage of the leeway foreign leaders give him.",
        "在明年总统大选即将开始前，普京会毫不犹豫地利用外国领导人留给他的余地。"
    ],
    [
        "While the market tends to expand geographically as its participants pursue economic benefits, the state seeks to keep orderly everybody and everything within the territory it controls.",
        "市场参与者追求经济利益，市场也随之在地理上不断扩大，而国家寻求人人遵守秩序和控制领土内的一切。"
    ],
    [
        "This reflects several factors, including rapid urbanization, sustained investment in skills and infrastructure, and a shift from agriculture to industries such as automotive components, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, financial, and IT-enabled services.",
        "这是多重因素的反映，包括快速城市化、技能和基础设施方面的持续投资以及从农业向汽车零件、石油化工、制药、金融和IT服务业等工业行业的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "In a notable breakthrough in 1997, the British House of Commons decided to serve only fair-trade coffee.",
        "其中1997年的一次突破性进展则是英国下议院决定只提供公平贸易咖啡。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, America’s monetary authority has all but explicitly recognized a new mandate: promoting global financial stability.",
        "相反，美国的货币政策已经明白无误地有了新的使命：促进全球金融稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the Commission already polices the internal market – one of Europe’s major policy successes – by monitoring member states’ compliance with the single market’s rules. It also launches infringement proceedings against member states that have not implemented valid directives on time, or in the correct manner.",
        "与此同时，欧洲委员会已经通过检查各成员国是否遵循单一市场（这也是欧洲的成功政策之一）规则的方式来监察欧盟内部市场，此外还启动了针对成员国不按时或不按正确方式执行欧盟指令的违规处理程序。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether or not the government was involved, the fact remains that Pakistan has lost a desperately needed leader.",
        "不论巴政府是否参与其中，事实仍然是巴基斯坦已经失去了一位不可多得的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "China and India were absent at the time, and Russia was hostile to the idea.",
        "中国和印度当时都未列席会议，而俄罗斯则对此满怀敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "In Shanghai, air pollution from an additional million gasoline-powered cars would kill an estimated nine people each year.",
        "在上海，新增100万汽油动力汽车所造成的空气污染每年会杀死9个人。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that affluent households spend a smaller share of their incomes and wealth, greater inequality translates into lower overall consumption, thereby hindering the recovery of economies already burdened by inadequate aggregate demand.",
        "丰裕家庭花费收入和财富的比例较低，因此，不平等性的升高会带来总体消费水平的降低，从而制约已不堪总需求不足重负的经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "The troubles for Hamas began when it chose to back the wrong side in both Syria and Egypt.",
        "因为选错了在叙利亚和埃及的支持对象，哈马斯的麻烦从此开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – For the entire first half of this year, since the far-left, anti-austerity Syriza party came to power in January, the Greek saga virtually monopolized the attention of European policymakers.",
        "布鲁塞尔—在今年整个上半年，自极左翼的反紧缩政党左翼联盟（Syriza）在1月份开始掌权以来，希腊神话几乎垄断了欧洲决策者的注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "In evolutionary studies, because heritable non-genetic variations are often induced by the environment, we have to expand our notion of heredity and variation to include the inheritance of acquired variations, the once disparaged idea that was part of Lamarck’s theory.",
        "在进化研究中，因为可遗传的非基因变异通常是由环境引起的，所以我们应该将我们的遗传和变异概念扩大到包括获得性变异的遗传——这一被轻视的观点是让－巴提斯·拉马克（Jean-Baptiste Lamarck）理论的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, exciting developments in technologies for studying our brains and genes have created the hope that we are about to discover the biological causes of, and solutions to, human misery and confusion.",
        "再者，在研究人类大脑和基因的技术方面的重大发展，为我们带来了发现人类痛苦和纷扰的生物原因及解决方案的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Faced with the biggest test in its history, the euro is far from steering into disaster, as the Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman predicted ten years ago.",
        "面对历史上最大的考验，欧元远远没有如诺贝尔奖得主经济学家米尔顿·弗里德曼10年前所预测的那样进入灾难性的阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "Such thinking goes back at least as far as Max Weber’s argument that an effective business environment requires a legal structure as predictable as a clock.",
        "这样的想法要追溯至马克思 韦伯的观点。 他的观点认为有效的商业环境需要一套法律结构，这种结构应该像钟表一样准确。"
    ],
    [
        "Any new leader must spur the economy, enforce the rule of law, fight corruption, unify the PA’s security agencies, and preserve public safety – and he must do so quickly or lose authority.",
        "无论谁最终上台，都必须做到以下几点：刺激经济发展、加强执法力度、抵制打击腐败、统一巴各安全机构并保证公众安全，而且必须在短期内做到，否则就得拱手相让权力宝座。"
    ],
    [
        "But this analysis gives credit where none is due: India’s problem is its top political leadership’s lack of competence.",
        "但这种分析却赋予了印度高层不该有的荣誉：印度的问题是最高政治领袖 缺乏 必要的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "These are soon to be joined by microchips, given the $1 billion factory that chipmaker Intel built outside Ho Chi Minh City.",
        "而芯片制造商因特尔投资10亿美元在胡志明市郊区建立的工厂将使越南很快成为微型芯片的主要出口国。"
    ],
    [
        "Immigrants have crowded out domestic residents who prefer the benefits to engaging in low-wage competition with the newcomers.",
        "移民排挤了本国居民。 而后者希望得到社会福利以和新来者进行低工资的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also true that Latin American countries have pursued a massive expansion of economic ties beyond America’s sway.",
        "诚然，拉丁美洲国家在经济方面拓展了很多，与美国的联系远远不像过去那样紧密。"
    ],
    [
        "François Hollande’s Tartuffe Syndrome",
        "奥朗德的伪君子综合征"
    ],
    [
        "These dropouts often sign up with gangs, drug traffickers, even jihadists.",
        "这些辍学者常常成为黑社会、毒贩甚至圣战者。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, much of it will find its way abroad.",
        "相反，大部分钱会流向国外。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, justice had to be applied according to the specific political conditions that brought about the transition.",
        "相反，正义必须根据带来转变过渡的具体政治条件来实现。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The first two components of the euro crisis – a banking crisis that resulted from excessive leverage in both the public and private sectors, followed by a sharp fall in confidence in eurozone governments – have been addressed successfully, or at least partly so.",
        "伯克利——我们已经成功渡过、或者至少在一定程度上成功渡过了欧元危机的前两个阶段——因为公共和私营部门过度杠杆化而导致的银行业危机，以及对欧元区政府信心的急剧丧失。"
    ],
    [
        "The US drone program does not make the world a safer place; it creates an environment in which unlawful killings can happen virtually anywhere, at any time, violating the fundamental human right not to be arbitrarily deprived of one’s life.",
        "美国的无人机计划不但没有令世界更加安全，反而创造出非法杀戮几乎随时随地可能发生恐怖环境，违反了不得强制剥夺他人生命的基本人权要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout 2011, I was struck by the potential for less-developed countries – including in Sub-Saharan Africa – to emulate successful industrializing East Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, China, and Vietnam.",
        "整个2011年，我注意到，欠发达国家——包括撒哈拉沙漠以南非洲地区的国家——具有模仿正在进行成功工业化的国家（比如日本、韩国、新加坡、马来西亚、中国和越南）的潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Eurozone member states have increasingly gone their own way, even overtly defending nationalist economic policies that harm the eurozone as a whole.",
        "各成员国越来越着眼于自己那一亩三分地，甚至置整个区域的总体利益于不顾，公然袒护本国的国家主义经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Real GDP growth in the US has averaged only 2.1% in the 28 quarters since the Great Recession ended in the third quarter of 2009 – barely half the 4% average pace in comparable periods of earlier upturns.",
        "自2009年第三季度大衰退结束以来的28个季度中，美国真实GDP增长只有2. 1%——而此前可比的经济上升期平均增长率高达4%。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – Too often, debate about the relationship between the state and the market casts them as opposing forces locked in a zero-sum struggle.",
        "香港—关于政府和市场关系的争论往往像两股方向相反的作用力，陷入零和博弈。"
    ],
    [
        "The principle even applies to foods: Large amounts of nutmeg or licorice are notoriously toxic.",
        "该原则甚至适用于食品：高剂量的肉豆蔻或甘草的毒性众所周知。"
    ],
    [
        "Angela Merkel was sometimes called the German Iron Lady, and that seems to have scared enough people to rob her of an expected victory.",
        "安格拉·默克尔有时被誉为德国的铁娘子，这似乎吓住了很多人，夺走了她预期能够取得的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "But some nations will be missing from the party.",
        "但有几个国家将会缺席聚会。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The 17th conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, popularly known as COP-17, is taking place in Durban, South Africa, at a critical moment, as the historic 1997 Kyoto Protocol is set to expire next year.",
        "纽约——第十七届联合国气候变化框架会议（简称COP17）正在南非举行，这次会议的时间可谓关键，因为1997年京都议定书将于明年失效。"
    ],
    [
        "One aspect of knowledge, as we know from nineteenth-century philosophy (and who studies that anymore?), reflects the integration of information with experience.",
        "正如19世纪哲学（谁还学这个？ ）告诫我们的那样，知识的某一方面所反映的是信息与经验的整合。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor-market liberalization, globalization, and unions’ declining influence have exacerbated these employment trends.",
        "劳动力市场的自由化、全球化以及工会影响力日衰放大了这一就业趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "More often than not, the answer is: “We don’t have one.",
        "更多时候，我获得的回答是“我们没有洗手间。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last few years, France has distinguished itself from other European nations by gradually abandoning community-based policing, which the government considers too “social” and prevention-oriented.",
        "在过去几年中，法国因逐步放弃社区警力而与其他欧洲国家有所区别。 法国政府认为社区警力过于“社会化”而且注重防治。"
    ],
    [
        "By incorporating carbon-reducing strategies into agriculture and land conservation, more heat-trapping gases can be locked up in forests and soils.",
        "在农业和土地保护中纳入减碳策略，就能将更多导致温室效应的气体锁定在森林和土壤中。"
    ],
    [
        "One key fact about low-carbon energy (just like fossil fuels) is that it is not generally located where it will ultimately be used.",
        "（像化石燃料一样），一个关于低碳能源的关键事实是其生产和使用往往不在一地。"
    ],
    [
        "The entire Alliance should commit itself to the defeat of terrorism.",
        "整个北约都应该致力于打击恐怖主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Estimates provided to my team suggest that in India, Nigeria, Brazil, and Indonesia alone, nearly a half-billion cases of diarrhea are treated each year with antibiotics.",
        "我的团队所获得的估计表明，仅仅在印度、尼日利亚、巴西和印度尼西亚，每年就有近五亿例痢疾用抗生素治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in at least four lawsuits brought against regulators in the United States, judges initially ruled that regulators had failed to comply with the procedural requirements of the US National Environmental Policy Act.",
        "比如，在美国，至少有四件针对监管者的案子，法官的最初判决是监管者没有遵守美国国家环境政策法的程序要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so would send an unmistakable signal to the global market: Ivory is not for sale, not now and not in the future.",
        "这样做会向全球市场发出明确无误的信号：即象牙不允许出售，无论是现在还是将来。"
    ],
    [
        "While many factors contributed to America’s destabilizing actions, a powerful one is anti-intellectualism, exemplified recently by Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s surging popularity.",
        "当然，美国的这些引起不安的行为是有许多因素引起的，但是，其中一个重要的因素是反知识主义，最近共和党副总统候选人萨拉. 佩林快速走红就是一个例证。"
    ],
    [
        "Bo personified that risk.",
        "薄熙来就是这一风险的写照。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed folk are paid a little better, and stay rather longer.",
        "而其他联邦政府部门的待遇就稍好一点，员工也干得更久一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe the answer is that the clock starts ticking on the five years when the crisis is fully over, which is not yet true in Europe.",
        "也许答案在于时间要从危机完全结束后开始计算，而目前欧洲的危机显然还没有结束。"
    ],
    [
        "But this argument has it backward.",
        "但这一观点是有缺陷的。"
    ],
    [
        "This culture of exploiting Africa’s human and natural resources at will – not through entrepreneurial endeavor and wealth creation, but by means of predatory politics – is deeply entrenched.",
        "这种肆意开发人力和自然资源——不是通过商业行动和财富创造，而是利用掠夺性统治——的做法在非洲根深蒂固。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund recommends additional reforms aimed at improving labor-market flexibility, strengthening national competitiveness through investment in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, and diversification away from natural-resource exports.",
        "IMF建议增加旨在改善劳动力市场灵活性、通过运输和通讯基础设施投资增强国家竞争力以及摆脱天然能源出口依赖、实现多元化的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, given the multitude of existing taxes, fees, and subsidies on energy products in various countries, the goal of aligning the effective cost of carbon with its most economically efficient level would take time to achieve.",
        "当然，考虑到不同国家现有能源生产税收、费用和补贴的多样性，将碳的实际成本与最划算效率水平相协调需要一定时间才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade in a Time of Protectionism",
        "保护主义时代的贸易"
    ],
    [
        "First, the Constitutional Treaty guarantees that the Union's institutions will respect the fundamental rights of everyone within the EU.",
        "首先，欧洲宪法条约将确保欧盟的机构尊重欧盟内每一个人的基本权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Testing is only a small element of a weapons program – and not necessarily an essential one.",
        "试验只是武器计划的一小部分，并且不是关键部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Jordan has reached its refugee-saturation point, and continued inflows are placing limited resources under ever-greater pressure.",
        "约旦吸收难民的能力已经饱和，而持续的难民流入正在对有限的资源施加越来越大的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "But these forces are too timid and fragmented, with no drive for political action.",
        "但这些力量太过懦弱和分散，同时也缺乏发动政治行动的动机。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The idea that public investment in infrastructure – roads, dams, power plants, and so forth – is an indispensable driver of economic growth has always held powerful sway over the minds of policymakers in poor countries.",
        "发自剑桥——在贫穷国家的政策制定者脑中，公共基础设施投资——公路，水坝，电厂等等——一直都被认为是经济增长不可或缺的驱动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the need for further economic restructuring – and in view of long-term demographic trends, which will reduce the labor supply – pre-2008 growth rates are unlikely to be restored.",
        "考虑到进一步调整经济结构的需要——以及长期的人口构成变化趋势所导致的劳动力供应下降——2008年前的增长率必将无法重现。"
    ],
    [
        "SHANGHAI – The tumult in China’s equity market appears to have come to an end.",
        "上海—中国股市动荡似乎已经进入尾声。"
    ],
    [
        "But when growth does return, leverage will be far more tightly constrained than it was before.",
        "但当银行业再次出现增长时，杠杆将受到比以往严格得多的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason that we can afford to increase the amount of aid we give is that the amount we are giving now is insignificant in comparison to what we spend on other things.",
        "我们有能力提高援助额的原因之一是，相比于我们花在其它事情上的钱，我们现在捐出的钱是微不足道的。"
    ],
    [
        "But Piotr’s act should not be made a spectacle in Poland’s political fight, or wielded haphazardly as a blunt object against the PiS or anyone else.",
        "但皮奥特的行为不应被视为波兰政治斗争中的一场演出，也不应被随意当做反对法律与正义党或其他任何人的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, an analogy with household debt readily suggests itself.",
        "在这里，仍然可以用家庭债务来类比。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for Europe to assert itself, harness its economic might, and use it to put Putin in his place.",
        "现在，欧洲应该振作精神，拿出经济武器，用来让普京回到他应该在的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "And much of the anger that drove people to the streets, led countries to the point of collapse, and drove millions from their homes was motivated by a desire for clear rights, including those protecting property.",
        "而让人民涌向街头，让国家走向崩溃，让数百万人走出家园的愤怒背后正是对明晰的权利的渴望，包括保护财产的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The key will be agreement on a cease-fire, as a precursor to a long-term resolution of the conflict.",
        "关键在于同意停火，以此作为长期冲突解决方案的先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, a global cash-transfer scheme could be very effective, and would be feasible if donor countries pooled their aid budgets.",
        "换句话说，全球现金转移支付机制可以非常高效，而且可行——如果援助国把援助预算集合起来的话。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the international order is becoming more pluralistic.",
        "换句话说，国际秩序正在朝多元化发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, France’s return to NATO is far from a U-turn that reflects disenchantment with ESDP.",
        "事实上，这次回归并不是一次意味着法国从欧洲防务与安全政策的迷梦中苏醒过来而进行的彻底反转。"
    ],
    [
        "Another approach would be to unleash the liability system.",
        "另一种方法是实行责任制。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last decade, insurers have paid out some $300 billion for climate-related damage, often to rebuild the same vulnerable structures.",
        "在过去十年中，保险商因为气候相关损失而破费了大约3,000亿美元，而这些钱常常被用于重建同样脆弱的结构。"
    ],
    [
        "For households, the main impact of lower interest rates is felt through mortgages.",
        "对家庭而言，降低利率的主要影响通过按揭被感受到。"
    ],
    [
        "Debating, recognizing, denouncing – whatever…. anything but suppressing!",
        "可以用辩论、承认、抨击—除了压制以外的任何方式。"
    ],
    [
        "While animals use colorful displays and complicated behaviors to signal fitness and strength, humans use luxury goods to demonstrate economic health.",
        "动物用缤纷的色彩和复杂的行为来显示健康和力量，而人类则利用奢侈品作为经济状况的标志。"
    ],
    [
        "We are on track to being the generation that wasted decades bickering over carbon-emission cuts and failed to stop the harmful effects of warming.",
        "因为我们正在沦落为这么一代人——徒费几十年光景为了削减碳排放而争吵，却并没能阻止全球变暖所带来的有害效应。"
    ],
    [
        "So they exaggerate and tell stories about how the European economy is fundamentally different from the US economy.",
        "因此他们便夸大其词，描述欧洲经济与美国经济是多么的根本性的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "In its most recent WEO, the IMF forecasts global GDP to grow by only 3.3% in 2012, and by 3.6% in 2013.",
        "在最新的《世界经济展望》中，IMF预测2012年全球GDP增长将仅为3. 3%，2013年为3."
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, the Palestinian leadership must reshape and reunite its polity to face the challenge of statehood.",
        "更为重要的是，巴勒斯坦领导层应该做出改变，重新架构目前的政体，以应对目前的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Santa Clara County, California is introducing a pilot project aimed at reducing the cost of supporting people with acute mental illness.",
        "加利福尼亚州的圣克拉拉县（Santa Clara County）正在引入一项实验项目，旨在降低支持急性精神疾病患者的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization is, of course, only one part of what is going on; technological innovation is another part.",
        "当然全球化只有当前形势的其中一部分； 技术创新则是另一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "That, in turn, may catalyze the cooperation needed to create high seas marine protected areas, which would enable damaged or depleted ecosystems to recover.",
        "并最终催生侧重于管理保护生态系统，而不仅是渔业资源的崭新组织。 这反过来又将催化打造公海海洋保护区的合作，致使遭到破坏或几近枯竭的生态系统得以休生养息。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, as in other countries, bureaucracies are creatures of habit.",
        "当然，与其他国家一样，官僚主义是一种痼疾。"
    ],
    [
        "And it will be even more interesting to see how he uses his intelligence, eloquence, and experience after his retirement.",
        "而更有意思的是他在退休后如何利用他的智慧、口才和经验。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet when we treated the mice with a drug dose continuously adjusted to maintain a stable tumor volume, the animals, though not cured, survived for a prolonged period of time.",
        "但当我们用调整到能够保持癌细胞数量稳定的药物剂量为小白鼠进行治疗的时候，实验动物虽然没有被完全治愈，但却实现了长时间存活。"
    ],
    [
        "An infrastructure program, by creating huge numbers of productive jobs and distributed wealth, would be a good start – one that would be far easier to achieve if her Democratic Party also won the Senate.",
        "基础设施计划可以创造大量生产性工作岗位并分配财富，它是一个良好的起点——如果她的民主党能够同时赢得参议院，推行这一计划就将容易得多。"
    ],
    [
        "For the US, the settlements have proven to be an equal-opportunity obstacle, obstructing both Republican and Democratic diplomacy.",
        "而对于美国来说，犹太定居点问题对于民主共和两党的外交政策来说都是同样棘手的绊脚石。"
    ],
    [
        "Military measures require broad international acceptance, and that condition can be met only in a context of good-faith efforts at diplomacy.",
        "军事手段要求广泛的国际认可，而这一条件只有在诚信外交的环境下才能达到。"
    ],
    [
        "Political corruption runs rampant.",
        "政治腐败十分猖獗。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor-market conditions for immigrants are also a troublesome issue in Scandinavian countries, which otherwise perform well in enabling access to employment.",
        "在斯堪的纳维亚国家，移民所面临的劳动力市场条件也是个麻烦问题，尽管它们在普及就业方面表现出色。"
    ],
    [
        "Realizing Ahtisaari’s proposal will depend on EU solidarity and persistence, coupled with strong American support, to manage the vicissitudes of UN debate, lobby skeptical non-permanent Security Council members, such as Indonesia and South Africa, and persuade Russia to abstain rather than exercise its veto.",
        "认识到阿赫蒂塞利的建议将会取决于欧盟的团结和坚持，以及美国的坚决支持，处理联合国辩论变化无常，游说持怀疑态度的安理会非常任理事国像印尼和南非，并且劝说俄国弃权而不是行使否决权。"
    ],
    [
        "The definition might be something like “situations where populations are suffering, or at imminent risk of, genocide, other crimes against humanity, or major war crimes.”",
        "定义可以类似于“人口遭遇或有极大可能遭遇种族灭绝、其他人道罪行或严重战争罪行的情况。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "This year, one of the issues on the ballot was an act to prohibit tethering or confining a pregnant pig, or a calf raised for veal, in a manner that prevents the animal from turning around freely, lying down, and fully extending his or her limbs.",
        "今年，表决的问题之一是一项禁止圈养或禁锢怀孕母猪或肉用小牛的法案，这样的圈养方式造成动物无法自由转身、躺卧和充分伸展四肢。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – The debate about emerging countries’ growth prospects is now in full swing.",
        "发自柏林——对于新兴市场国家增长前景的讨论如今已经呈现两极化。"
    ],
    [
        "But it does mean that we can quit panicking and start thinking calmly to ensure that we focus on the right issues.",
        "但是这确实意味着我们可以抛弃恐慌，而开始平静地思考以确保我们能够去关注那些确实值得关注的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And it would also indicate that we must rethink our remedies.",
        "这也表明，我们需要反思药方是不是有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The bailout exposed deep hypocrisy all around.",
        "银行救助行动暴露了美国社会无处不在的虚伪。"
    ],
    [
        "If it does, Pakistan’s lawyers will be able to return to the courtrooms, and Pakistani citizens will have another chance to make democracy work.",
        "如果能做到，巴基斯坦的律师们就可以重返法庭，巴基斯坦的公民将再次获得实现民主的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, by contrast, while individuals have regained many personal freedoms since the death of Maoism, they are not free to organize anything that is not controlled by the Communist Party.",
        "相反在中国，尽管自从毛泽东主义消亡以来，人们获得了许多的个人自由，但是他们并不能自由地建立任何不是受到共产党控制的组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor are they set to become a benevolent, altruistic power, ready to use their new strength and reputation to improve the stability of the international system.",
        "他们也不会成为一个乐善好施、利他主义的大国，运用他们新的力量和声望促进国际体制的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "To establish whether something systematic was going on, we examined the education of more than 4,000 extremists of all stripes around the world.",
        "为了确定其中是否存在系统性联系，我们对世界各地超过4000名形形色色极端分子所受的教育进行了研究。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the princes believe that it is easier to kill “terrorist” criminals than to crush demands for social justice.",
        "也许亲王们认为，比起镇压要求社会正义的呼声，除去“恐怖主义”罪犯要容易得多。"
    ],
    [
        "May actually opposed Brexit.",
        "梅实际反对英国脱欧。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, several of these experiments are already underway.",
        "事实上，有几项研究已经在进行当中。"
    ],
    [
        "In this period, when resources flowed to this “innovative” sector, GDP growth was markedly lower than it was before.",
        "在此期间，资源纷纷流入这一“创新”部门，而GDP增长比此前显著地降低了。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic growth rates reveal the same gap.",
        "南美的经济增长率也反映了这一差距。"
    ],
    [
        "In this example, if Citibank is precarious and is as systemically vital as AIG, the clearinghouse has obscured that it has saved AIG only by transferring risk from the clearinghouse to Citibank, which then fails.",
        "在我们的例子中，如果花旗银行告急，且其系统重要性不亚于AIG，那么清算所只是造成了它拯救了AIG的假象，实际上，它只是把风险从清算所转移到了花旗银行身上，并导致了后者的破产。"
    ],
    [
        "For all the apparent freshness of Medvedev’s recent pronouncements, including his now famous article “Go Russia!” – which sounded a clarion call for modernization and liberalism – he is borrowing massively from Putin’s vocabulary of 2000.",
        "从梅德韦杰夫最近发布的一系列讲话中，包括最近热炒的文章《前进吧俄罗斯！ 》 —— 该文看上去像是对现代化和自由主义的动人号召 —— 所表现出的新鲜感看来，梅氏其实是在大量借用普京 2000 年时所使用的词汇。"
    ],
    [
        "Having their bonds purchased by the European Central Bank did not keep Greece, Ireland, and Portugal from needing a bailout.",
        "欧洲央行的国债买入计划并未使希腊、爱尔兰和葡萄牙免于救援。"
    ],
    [
        "By last summer, countries along the Balkan route – first Greece, then Hungary and Slovenia – buckled under the pressure of hundreds of thousands of refugees attempting to make their way to safety.",
        "到去年夏天，巴尔干路径周边国家——首先是希腊，然后是匈牙利和斯洛文尼亚——面对数十万寻找安全之地的难民不堪重负。"
    ],
    [
        "The virus does not spread as rapidly as many others, such as influenza, which in the past limited the scale of epidemics, particularly because outbreaks were confined to rural areas.",
        "埃博拉不具备流感那样的传播速度，这一特点曾经限制了疫情的规模，使疫情主要集中在农村地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes it proves true; often it does not.",
        "有时这句话是对的，通常它是错的。"
    ],
    [
        "We know how the Bush strategy turned out.",
        "我们都知道小布什的这一战略的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "During the wars in Croatia and Bosnia the UN was responsible for humanitarian assistance and also dedicated to peacemaking.",
        "在克罗地亚与波斯尼亚的交火中，联合国负责当时的人道主义援助并致力于和平调解。"
    ],
    [
        "India, the world’s third-largest emitter, has pledged to reduce emissions intensity by 33-35% from 2005 levels, and generate 40% of its power from non-fossil-fuel sources, by 2030.",
        "世界第三大排放国印度已经承诺到2030年实现排放强度比2005年降低33-35%，并实现非化石燃料能源发电量占总发电量的40%。"
    ],
    [
        "Its successful implementation will require bold policies and strengthened global cooperation that address both the impact of inclusion and its underlying causes.",
        "其成功的实施需要大胆的政策和强化的全球合作以解决包容的影响和根本原因。"
    ],
    [
        "For its part, the EU would have to reconsider, for example, its policy on GM foods.",
        "至于欧盟，它必须重新考虑转基因食品政策等问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Monnet hated all that.",
        "莫内对此深恶痛绝。"
    ],
    [
        "Had Obama not failed to enforce his chemical-weapons “red line” in Syria a year ago, following an attack on a suburb of Damascus, Russian President Vladimir Putin probably would not have been as daring as he was in Ukraine.",
        "假如奥巴马在一年前大马士革郊区袭击发生后坚持其化武“红线”，那么俄罗斯总统普京可能不会在乌克兰如此有恃无恐。"
    ],
    [
        "Global Capital Heads for the Frontier",
        "全球资本涌向前沿市场"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, no one knew who is right, because no one was keeping score.",
        "直到不久前，还没有人清楚到底谁对谁错，因为根本没人做过记录。"
    ],
    [
        "Müntefering simply caught the popular mood in developing his theory of locust capitalism.",
        "明特费林正是轻易地抓住了民众的普遍心理发展了他的蝗虫资本主义理论。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world increasingly dominated by grievances – against immigrants, bankers, Muslims, “liberal elites,” “Eurocrats,” cosmopolitans, or anything else that seems vaguely alien – such wise words are rare.",
        "在这个被针对移民、银行家、穆斯林、“自由派精英”、“欧盟官员”、世界主义者或哪怕仅有些许陌生的任何事物的不满所占据的世界里，像这样明智的看法已经十分罕有。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be better if the ECB and the EU finance ministers adopted a common position ahead of G-7 meetings, then allowed their joint view to be represented by a single Council representative and the ECB’s president.",
        "如果欧洲央行和欧盟的财政部长们能够在G-7会议之前达成一个共同的立场，并允许由一个共同的会议代表和欧洲央行总裁来阐述他们的统一观点，那么情况会好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Lee Buchheit, a leading sovereign-debt attorney and the man who managed the eventual Greek debt restructuring in 2012, was harshly critical of the authorities’ failure to face up to reality.",
        "主权债务主要律师之一、2012年希腊最终债务重组的管理者巴赫海特（Lee Buchheit）对当局没有直面现实提出了严厉批评。"
    ],
    [
        "The sole purpose of the capital controls imposed on Greece last summer was to force the country’s rebellious government to capitulate to the eurozone’s failed policies.",
        "去年夏天强迫希腊实施资本管制的唯一目的是迫使逆叛的新政府屈从于欧元区的失败政策。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – There are many arguments against government paternalism: apart from limiting individual choice (for example, the choice to remain uninsured in the current health-care debate in the United States) and preventing individuals from learning, history suggests time and again that the conventional wisdom prevalent in society is wrong.",
        "芝加哥—反对家长式政府的理由很多：除了这样会限制个人选择（比如，在当前美国医保争论为尘埃落定时选择不参加医保）和让人怠于学习之外，历史一再表明，社会所流行的传统智慧是错的。"
    ],
    [
        "While such decisions must not ignore longer-term developments, the time horizon for inflation forecasts is usually only one to two years, beyond it gets highly uncertain.",
        "因为这些决策不能忽略长期的发展，所以通货膨胀预测的时间范围常常只有一到两年，超出这个范围就变得十分不确定了。"
    ],
    [
        "If China is successful in implementing its pro-consumption agenda, the rest of Asia will be well positioned to avoid the fallout from America’s new generation of zombie consumers.",
        "由于人口相对较少（日本的人口已经出现负增长），这些国家只能依赖出口以及外部需求来刺激经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Big payouts do more than drain public coffers; the mere threat of them discourages governments from pursuing more ambitious climate policies, owing to fear that carbon-dependent industries could challenge them in international tribunals.",
        "巨额的偿付不仅仅耗尽了公帑； 仅仅是存这一威胁，就让政府无法追求进取的气候政策，因为它们担心碳依赖行业在国际仲裁法庭上起诉它们。"
    ],
    [
        "At best, it seems that the time path of extractions can be tilted toward the future.",
        "最好的情况下，开采看起来会向后推延。"
    ],
    [
        "If this view is correct, we can expect to see global imbalances re-emerge once the recession is over and to unwind only slowly thereafter.",
        "如果这种观点是正确的，我们就可以预期，一旦经济衰退结束，我们又会看到全球失衡再次出现，而且此后只能慢慢调整这种失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Even here, behind prison bars and 24-hour surveillance of the type that he experienced for so long, I can conjure the warmth of his broad smile, merry eyes, and those colorful Hawaiian-style shirts that he wore with such panache.",
        "即使在监狱铁窗和他长期经历的24小时监控背后，我一样能想象出他灿烂温和的笑容、快乐的眼神和身上五颜六色的夏威夷衬衫。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF currently projects that these five economies will contract by a combined 0.7% in 2016, reflecting ongoing recessions in Russia and Brazil and modest growth in the other three.",
        "IMF最近预测，2016年这五个经济体总计将收缩0. 7%，其中俄罗斯和巴西继续衰退，其他增长萎靡。"
    ],
    [
        "In the pre-negotiation phase, this means that Iran would agree not to install any new centrifuges, necessary for increasing the volume of uranium being enriched, while the 5+1 group would refrain from calling for new sanctions in the Security Council.",
        "在谈判前阶段，这意味着伊朗将会同意不安装任何新的、提高铀浓缩量所必须的离心分离器。 与此同时，五加一小组则不再要求安理会实行新制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "MOGADISHU – Somalia is blessed with the largest coastline in continental Africa.",
        "摩加迪休—索马里拥有非洲大陆最长的海岸线。"
    ],
    [
        "It shows that most households’ real market incomes remained flat or fell, even though aggregate growth remained positive in the 2005-2014 period.",
        "研究表明，虽然2005—2014年间总增长仍为正，但大部分家庭的真实市场收入保持不变或下降。"
    ],
    [
        "If they raise rates too slowly, inflation could become uncomfortably high and ingrained.",
        "如果他们过慢提高利率，通胀可能会变得令人难以忍受并经久不降。"
    ],
    [
        "With oil prices experiencing a prolonged slump, and new sources (for example, Iran) coming onstream, the Saudis will not find dipping into financial reserves quite as effortless a proposition as it has been in the past.",
        "随着油价长期低迷和新的石油来源（比方说伊朗）即将投产，沙特人将会发现用财政储备解决问题不再像过去那样毫无困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as other European conservatives have flirted with anti-immigrant posturing in an attempt to stave off populist threats, Spain’s PP has done no such thing.",
        "即使其他欧洲保守派纷纷摆出一副反移民的姿态来抵挡民粹主义的威胁，西班牙人民党也无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "But the more uncertain security challenges that Europe faces may just demand the kind of strong fiscal link that the French and Russians were willing to forge before 1914, and that the Germans and French embraced in 1950.",
        "但欧洲更加无法确定的安全挑战可能恰恰需要1914年前法俄两国和1950年德法两国曾经乐于建立的那种牢固的财政连接。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is that there are indisputable advantages to being big, as well as the disadvantages that have become obvious over the past two years.",
        "因此，规模大的金融机构，虽然也具有过去两年所暴露出来的一些劣势，但它们所拥有的优势更是无可争议的。"
    ],
    [
        "If privatization displaces too many workers without compensation, a majority of citizens could come to see it as illegitimate, potentially undermining their support for private ownership of productive property.",
        "如果私有化让太多的工人失去饭碗又不给予补偿，那么大多数公民就会认为私有化不合理，这有可能影响到他们对生产资料私有制的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "A European Ukraine and the European Union stand in the way of this goal.",
        "欧洲的乌克兰和欧盟是横亘在俄罗斯面前的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, I find it plausible that a very different mechanism lies behind the post-2008 stagnation, which I refer to as “self-inflicted malaise.”",
        "事实上，我发现很有可能2008年后停滞背后是一个截然不同的机制，我称之为“自作自受的衰退”（self-inflicted malaise）。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas is convinced that Israel understands only the language of force and power, and it will not negotiate until Israel accepts the permanence of Palestinian demands.",
        "哈马斯认定以色列只认武力和实力，除非以色列接受巴勒斯坦人民的要求永远不会屈服的现实，否则它是不会谈判的。"
    ],
    [
        "The question of overall deflationary – or inflationary – impact depended (and still depends) on the total quantity of money.",
        "整体通缩——或通胀——影响的问题取决于（过去是，现在仍是）货币总量。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the 600,000 food items available in the US, 80% are laced with added sugar.",
        "在美国人可以找到的60万种食材中，80%都添加了糖。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it should welcome proposals by Arab League mediators for immediate electoral reform and early parliamentary elections.",
        "它应该欢迎阿拉伯联盟斡旋人的提议，促成选举改革的即刻实施并提前举行国会选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Technology is facilitating the creation and sharing of knowledge, in a region that has historically lagged in this area, and technology start-ups are on the rise.",
        "在这样一个有史以来在相关领域一直相对落后的地区，技术正在推动知识的创造和分享，而且技术创业也呈现出上升的势头。"
    ],
    [
        "Normally, countries use their EU presidencies to display their ability to solve problems and move the Union forward.",
        "通常，各国会利用轮值主席国的时机来展示其有能力解决问题并推动欧盟前进。"
    ],
    [
        "If Poland and its neighbors are to chart a new way forward, at least three things must happen. First, these countries should look West for alternative, and more humane, drug policies.",
        "波兰及其邻国要想开辟一条新路，至少需要具备三个条件。 其一，上述国家必须向西方学习更人道的替代性毒品政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s Humanitarian Lifelines",
        "叙利亚的人道主义生命线"
    ],
    [
        "For example, we now have many models of markets with imperfect competition or asymmetric information.",
        "比如，我们现在有许多关于竞争不完美或信息不对称的市场的模型。"
    ],
    [
        "There is strong evidence for encouraging greater attention to mental and physical health, and for placing a high priority on reducing unemployment.",
        "有确凿证据表明应当加大对精神和身体健康的关注，并且重点关注失业问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier this year, the agency gained the exclusive right to sell Russian weapons to foreign countries.",
        "今年早些时候，该公司获得了向外国出口俄国武器的独家权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Seen from this perspective, any US-Iranian talks over the nuclear issue in the wake of Hassan Rouhani’s victory in Iran’s presidential election could have much broader significance.",
        "从这个角度看，鲁哈尼在伊朗总统选举中获胜背景下的美伊核问题谈判可能产生更广的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "The country as a whole has also experienced significant economic progress.",
        "哥伦比亚全国也经历了巨大的经济进步。"
    ],
    [
        "An Old Problem on China’s New Frontier",
        "中国新边界上的老问题"
    ],
    [
        "Four out of ten employers said that they cannot find workers to fill entry-level positions in their firms, with more than one-third of respondents saying that their businesses are suffering from a lack of appropriate skills in the labor market.",
        "四成企业表示找不到工人从事入门岗位工作，三分之一以上的受访者表示劳动力市场上找不到契合自己企业的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Goldman’s equity play, as bond-market guru Bill Blain put it, “the words ‘buy cheap, sell a bit dearer on the up, and then dump and run’ spring to mind.”",
        "债券市场大亨布莱恩（Bill Blain）这样评论高盛的股票买入行为：“脑海中突然浮现出‘买在地位，稍稍上涨后卖掉，出货完毕逃之夭夭。 ’这句话。"
    ],
    [
        "It is neither inward-looking nor atavistic.",
        "它既不目光短浅也不隔代遗传。"
    ],
    [
        "But after that, under the new budget, they will be buying from the likes of start-ups SpaceX and Orbital Sciences (and eventuallly, I hope, XCOR).",
        "但再过几年，在新预算体制下，他们将从SpaceX或者Orbital Science这些新兴企业购买服务（最终我希望能它们能惠顾XCOR Aerospace火箭公司）。"
    ],
    [
        "Initially, the campaign seemed to succeed.",
        "一开始，这场运动似乎成功了。"
    ],
    [
        "Disproportionately, they farm the land, carry the water, raise and educate the children, and care for the sick.",
        "她们超出比例地承担着种地、挑水、抚养教育子女、照顾病人的职责。"
    ],
    [
        "Morsi’s government clearly reflects the balance of power between the president and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). But it also reflects the strategy of the Muslim Brothers to shift that balance.",
        "穆尔西政府显然是总统和武装部队最高委员会（SCAF）权力平衡的产物，但也反映了穆斯林兄弟会寻找新平衡的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Other tools, aside from schooling, can help women improve their income-earning ability.",
        "除了学校教育之外的其它工具能够帮助女性提高她们创收的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Both John Stuart Mill and John Maynard Keynes looked forward to a horizon of growing leisure: the reorientation of life away from the merely useful toward the beautiful and the true.",
        "在约翰·斯图亚特·密尔和约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯两人看来人类的生活会越来越悠闲：生命从仅仅“有用”被重新定位到追求美好和真实。"
    ],
    [
        "The same thing happened when I tried again in March.",
        "3月份我有做了一次尝试，同样无功而返。"
    ],
    [
        "All these strategies use up energy that would otherwise be available for invasion into non-cancerous tissues or proliferation, and so reduce a cell’s fitness.",
        "这些方法将会耗尽本可以用于入侵健康细胞或者进行扩散的能量，并以此来降低癌细胞的健康程度。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, this insurance policy would protect against lifetime income risks.",
        "换言之，本保单可为一辈子的收入风险提供保护。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Dangerous Digital Agenda",
        "中国的危险数字日程"
    ],
    [
        "Assuming that they are significantly better off than one’s own generation, how important is their absolute level of income?",
        "假设他们比你这一代的福利要好得多，那么，他们的绝对收入水平有多重要？"
    ],
    [
        "European policymakers today often complain that, were it not for the US financial crisis, the eurozone would be doing just fine.",
        "如今，欧洲决策者经常抱怨说，要不是美国金融危机，欧元区根本不会遭殃。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey recently demonstrated its ability to overcome complex challenges, wisely restoring full diplomatic relations with Israel after a five-year breach in ties.",
        "土耳其最近证明了其有能力克服复杂挑战，在长达五年的决裂之后明智地与以色列重建完全的外交关系。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why conflicts like that between Cuba and the United States persist for so long.",
        "正因如此，古巴和美国这样的冲突才会持续如此之久。"
    ],
    [
        "That price differential – and nothing else – is Italy’s problem.",
        "这一价格差，而不是其他，才是意大利的问题所在。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, many people both inside and outside the United States had become cynical about the American political system, arguing that it was dominated by money and closed to outsiders.",
        "例如，美国内外的许多人都开始对美国式的政治制度颇有微词。 他们认为这是种被金钱左右并对局外人关闭大门的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why serious reduction of food loss and wastage is one of the five elements of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s “Zero Hunger Challenge” and a major focus of the UN High Level Task Force on Global Food Security.",
        "大幅减少粮食损失和浪费成为联合国秘书长潘基文的“零饥饿挑战”（Zero Hunger Challenge）的五大要素之一以及联合国高级别全球粮食安全工作组（UN High Level Task Force on Global Food Security）的主要关注点之一，原因就在于此。"
    ],
    [
        "The Indian-run lodge I visited is part of a $175 million ecological tourism industry that has been growing at 20% a year precisely because of the country’s natural splendor.",
        "我游览的印第安人小屋就是投资1亿7500万美元的生态旅游业的组成部分，这个行业的存在纯粹是因为该国有富饶的自然资源，生态旅游业的发展方兴未艾，而且每年正在以20%的速度快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "If developing countries collapse, there will be millions knocking on our front doors, and the first port of call will be Europe.",
        "如果发展中国家垮掉的话，就会有数百万人来敲我们的门，而他们的首选避难所就是欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Deposit facilities count as central bank money and have inflationary potential, given that the German banks could withdraw those funds at any time.",
        "存款便利被与央行资金无异，具有引发通胀的潜力，因为德国银行有权随时要回这些钱。"
    ],
    [
        "It might be expensive to compensate all potential losers, but we must put our money where our mouth is; if a reform is certain to pay off handsomely, it will pay for the buy-offs, and more.",
        "补偿所有的失败者会十分昂贵，但我们必须拿出实际的行动。 如果某项改革肯定能够盈利，它就能够抵消我们所付出的代价，而且还有剩余。"
    ],
    [
        "That is socially, morally, and environmentally wasteful.",
        "这是一种社会，道德和环境方面的浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s cynical declaration of support for the coup is a sign that some want to turn today’s struggle in the Arab world into a bloody contest between Islamists and secularists.",
        "叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德冷言支持政变表明有人希望将当今阿拉伯世界的斗争转变为穆斯林和世俗者的血腥冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a system would protect migrants and safeguard Europe (by enabling it to vet applicants fully).",
        "这样一套制度能够保护移民、捍卫欧洲（通过充分审查申请）。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason that the disease spread so rapidly in Liberia and Sierra Leone is that both are war-ravaged countries, where a large proportion of the population is malnourished and the health-care system has been devastated.",
        "埃博拉在利比里亚和塞拉利昂传播得如此迅速，一个原因是这两个国家都饱受战争蹂躏，很大一部分人口营养不良，医疗体系也被摧毁殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "The nuclear deal must mark the beginning of the international community’s efforts to engage Iran in addressing the Middle East’s toughest challenges.",
        "核协议必须标志着国际社会接触伊朗、解决中东最棘手问题的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Though market forces alone will not give rise to a decarbonized economy, they do play a critical role.",
        "尽管光靠市场力量无法带来去碳化的经济，但市场力量的作用是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Money of course talks for both China and Taiwan, and their economies are now closely linked, with large numbers of Taiwanese living and working in China (especially in the Shanghai area) and huge Taiwanese investments in Chinese manufacturing.",
        "当然，中国和台湾都不会拒绝钱，如今它们的经济关系也十分密切，许多台湾人在中国生活和工作（特别是在上海地区），台湾在中国也有着为数巨大的制造业投资。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a recent year-long study of the country by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) showed that, over the next 15 years, Nigeria has the potential to become a major global economy.",
        "事实上，麦肯锡全球研究院（MGI）最近一项对该国为期一年的研究显示，在未来15年中，尼日利亚具备成为全球重要经济体的潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Such monopoly pricing should be ended.",
        "它们利用其垄断地位不断推高成本，而这种垄断定价应当被终结。"
    ],
    [
        "He did worse: he simply took a wrong turn – and he took it before 9/11, a traumatic event that reinforced, but did not create, America’s Manichean view of itself and its role in the world.",
        "他做得更糟：从根本上选择了错误的方向¾这样的错误在九一一事件之前就已经存在，那次给人们留下巨大创伤的事件并不是美国在全世界扮演摩尼教徒的开始，而只是又一次强化了这种已经存在的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing much, except for policy inertia and lack of clear leadership.",
        "无非是政策惯性和缺乏明确的领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "Not all member states contribute equally to the EU budget; some are net contributors, while others are net beneficiaries.",
        "各成员国对欧盟预算的出资并不是对等的； 一些国家是净贡献者，一些国家是净受益者。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that a large majority of Arabs turns to family and religion is highly revealing.",
        "绝大多数阿拉伯人选择家人和宗教颇能给人以启迪作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Corbyn should be praised, not castigated, for bringing to public attention these serious issues concerning the role of the state and the best ways to finance its activities.",
        "科尔宾将这些事关国家角色以及国家行为最佳融资办法的严肃的问题摆在了公共面前，他应该因此受到赞扬而不是苛责。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s drive for economic and political leadership in East Asia, and its increased military capability there, is inevitable.",
        "中国在东亚地区增强军力及寻求经济政治领导地位是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "This highlights another source of uncertainty today: exchange rates.",
        "这突出了当前不确定性的另一个来源：汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the Syrian government’s first moves after it began shooting protesters, for example, was to expel all foreign journalists.",
        "比如，叙利亚政府在向示威者开枪后做的第一件事是驱逐所有外国记者。"
    ],
    [
        "Others suggest broadening the scope of stock options to include more employees.",
        "其他人建议股票期权的范围包括更多的雇员。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, year after year, top government officials at the IMF/World Bank annual meetings fail to address it.",
        "但是，年复一年，参加IMF/世界银行年会的政府高官们都无法解决它们。"
    ],
    [
        "The oceans’ heat content is measured by a network of more than 3,000 free-drifting robotic floats spread out across the world’s waters, where they routinely dive 2,000 meters beneath the surface.",
        "海洋的热含量由分布在全世界海域的3,000多个自由漂移的浮动机器人网络测量，它们通常潜在2,000米深的深海。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, for example, this involves less reliance on exports and public investment, and more on the private components of domestic aggregate demand.",
        "以中国为例，这举包括减少对出口和公共投资的依赖，增加国内总需求的私有成分。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s chimerical dream of democratizing overnight a deeply divided society accustomed only to violence and coercion has unleashed a terrifying array of political demons.",
        "伊拉克社会分歧严重，只习惯于暴力和高压政治。 美国想在一夜之间将其民主化不过是白日做梦，并且释放了一长串可怕的政治恶魔。"
    ],
    [
        "Diplomats view these developments with alarm.",
        "外交家们紧张地关注着发展势态。"
    ],
    [
        "The Great Depression of the 1930’s, when the Fed stood idly by as the economy collapsed, is the molding event seared into the consciousness of every American central banker.",
        "上世纪30年代的大萧条时期——当时美国经济崩溃，美联储却袖手旁观——是深深烙印在每一个美国中央银行家意识中的固化事件。"
    ],
    [
        "At least since December 1956, when Fidel and Raúl Castro, together with a young Argentine doctor, later known as Che Guevara, sailed from Mexico’s port of Tuxpan to Cuba and into history, the region has seen innumerable attempts by small left-wing revolutionary groups to take power through armed uprisings.",
        "至少从1956年12月开始，当菲得尔和劳尔·卡斯特罗以及一个年青的阿根廷医生——后来闻名于世的切·格瓦拉，从墨西哥的图斯潘港出发航行到古巴并开始书写一段历史后，该地区已经见证了无数的小规模左翼革命团体试图通过武装起义来取得政权事例。"
    ],
    [
        "The US rate was previously 50%, and rates in the other OECD countries were substantially higher than the current 25% average.",
        "美国从前的税率曾经高达50％，其他经合组织国家的税率也大大高于当前25％的平均水平。"
    ],
    [
        "And the answer might very well be an emphatic “no,” as opinion polls in Greece and the experience of Iceland (whose population twice voted down deals agreed by the Icelandic government) suggest is likely.",
        "而答案很可能是大声说出的“不”字，希腊的态度调查以及冰岛的经验（其人民两次否决了冰岛政府所同意的决定）都是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Japan was already a high-income country in 1973, with per capita income (in terms of purchasing power parity) at roughly 60% of the United States’ level.",
        "比方说，日本1973年就已经进入高收入国家行列，其人均收入（按购买力平价计算）相当于美国60%的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "People’s discomfort with the findings stemmed largely from faulty intuition: if earlier and more frequent screening increases the likelihood of detecting a possibly fatal cancer, then more screening is always desirable.",
        "人们对于上述发现的不满在很大程度上源自于一种错误的直觉：如果更早且更频密的筛查可以增加发现某种可致命癌症的几率，那么更多的筛查就是应该的。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be naive to think that movements alone will make European politics more democratic.",
        "但认为光靠运动就能让欧洲政治变得更加民主是幼稚的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is to reduce its deficit, with the surplus countries proposing sensible steps to bring down their surpluses in ways that support global growth.",
        "美国将削减它的赤字，而贸易顺差国家将采取明智的步骤逐步减少它们的贸易顺差以支撑全球经济的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic and environmental crises before us are too urgent to play games that give the appearance of international unanimity.",
        "我们所面临的经济和环境危机太过紧迫，没有时间再玩各国一致赞同的游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "It may sound plausible, but it is hardly conclusive, and, more importantly, it certainly does not tell us that high prices are sustainable.",
        "它看似有理，但却并不是结论性的，更重要的是，它的确没有告诉我们这种高价格是可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "At last the point has been reached in Iraq where everyone ostensibly wants the same thing: the departure of Coalition forces from the country.",
        "最后，伊拉克各派势力表面终于达成了一致，那就是联军撤离伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a tradition of designating a specific issue or problem for special attention, and this year will be no exception.",
        "还有一个传统是指定一个具体问题吸引特别关注，今年也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "So anyone who talks about the consumer “coming back” – even after deleveraging – is living in a fantasy world.",
        "因此任何关于消费者“归来”的言论——即使指的是去杠杆化之后——都是痴人说梦。"
    ],
    [
        "It came a day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Greece should not expect more debt relief and must maintain austerity.",
        "奥巴马是在德国总理默克尔说希腊不必指望更多债务纾困、必须保持紧缩之后一天做出这一评论的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the situation is far from dire.",
        "但情况远非绝望。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if an athlete has a dangerously high level of red blood cells as a result of taking erythropoietin (EPO), he or she should not be allowed to compete.",
        "因此，如果一名运动员由于服用促红细胞生长素 (EPO)而使红细胞水平高到了危险的程度，那么就不应该允许其参赛。"
    ],
    [
        "This caused a sharp fall in the value of the yen and sent the interest rate on ten-year bonds toward zero.",
        "这导致日元大幅下跌并使得10年期债券利率趋向于零。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the Sarkozy administration will seek to develop mechanisms for managing the transition to an international currency system in which the dollar, the euro, and the renminbi all play consequential global roles.",
        "相反，萨科齐政府试图发展另一套机制，争取实现向一个美元，欧元和人民币同时扮演全球重要角色的过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "Innovate or Stagnate",
        "创新还是停滞"
    ],
    [
        "SINGAPORE – After years of debate, India’s government recently announced that will open the country’s retail sector to foreign investment.",
        "新加坡—在经历了多年的争论后，最近印度政府宣布将向外资开放零售部门。"
    ],
    [
        "So, after a totally flawed plan that would have given money to Greece too late – only when the country risked a refinancing crisis – and at market rates that would make its debt unsustainable, the EU regained its senses and designed a new scheme that is closer to typical IMF conditionality: tranched support with some early front-loaded support and a semi-concessional interest rate.",
        "欧盟最早搞出来的一个方案完全不对头，按照那个方案，除非希腊陷入再融资危机，否则不给它钱，那实在是太晚了，市场利率早就把希腊压垮了。 经过这一番折腾之后，欧盟终于恢复了理智，重新设计了一个类似于IMF贷款条件的方案：把信贷资金分批发放，一部分以优惠利率先期到位。"
    ],
    [
        "Why has there been none?",
        "但为何却一片沉寂呢？"
    ],
    [
        "After Fischer became champion and simply stopped playing competitive chess, his mental illness became much worse.",
        "费舍尔成为冠军后便不再参加象棋比赛，他的精神病迅速恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, only one conclusion is possible: The plundered Marbles must be reunited in their historical home and exhibited to the world as the ancient artists intended.",
        "因此，只有一个可能的结论：被夺走的大理石雕像必须回归其历史家园，按照古代艺术家的意愿向全世界展出。"
    ],
    [
        "In sum, a remarkable shift in the national debate -- from how to make Indonesia more conservatively Islamic, to how to sustain Indonesia’s tradition of religious pluralism into the future – has taken place.",
        "总之，这场举国辩论已经发生了引人瞩目的转向，从怎样使印尼倾向于更为保守的伊斯兰主义，到怎样保持印尼传统上的宗教多元化。"
    ],
    [
        "It has also contributed to the prevention of injustice in contexts far removed from the Balkans.",
        "它还有助于在与巴尔干截然不同的环境中防止不公正。"
    ],
    [
        "The current plan to reduce the present value of privately held bonds by 20% is just a first small step toward this outcome.",
        "而目前试图将私人持有债券现值削减20%的计划只是为实现这一目标而首先迈出的一小步而已。"
    ],
    [
        "This rather confirms my view that the men who drafted the US Constitution had a sense of irony.",
        "这在相当程度上证实了我的看法，即起草美国宪法的人颇具讽刺天赋。"
    ],
    [
        "The upcoming meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank – two institutions dominated by the US and its Western allies – provide an ideal opportunity to change that.",
        "即将到来的两大由美国及其西方盟友主导的机构——国际货币基金组织（IMF）和世界银行会议是一次改变这一局面的理想机会。"
    ],
    [
        "To the Victors Go the Foils",
        "成功之路雄关漫道"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone today does not have a foreign-debt problem – all of the debt in question is in euros, and most of it is owed by European governments to their own countries’ banks.",
        "如今，欧元区不存在外债问题——所有的问题债务都是欧元债，且大部分是欧洲政府欠本国银行的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Benchmarking has been moving to the policy arena, including issues such as sustainable development, the business environment, competitiveness, gender parity, and, more recently, inclusive growth.",
        "基准比较正在挺进政策界，包括可持续发展、商业环境、竞争力、性别平等a以及最近的包容性增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Democratic states are not alone in seeking to expand their influence.",
        "并不只有民主国家热衷于扩大影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of America’s reluctance to deal with Islamists reflected concern over the reaction of autocratic regimes, some of which are long-time allies.",
        "美国在和伊斯兰主义者接触方面的迟疑在一定程度上反映了它对那些独裁政权的反应有所顾虑。 它们中的一些国家是美国的长期盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "Before Trump’s rise to prominence, the House Republicans were developing a set of policies structured around deep tax cuts, sweeping deregulation (including for finance and the environment), and repeal of President Barack Obama’s signature health-care reform, the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”).",
        "在特朗普崛起前，众议院共和党就制定了一系列围绕深度减税、取消监管（包括金融和环境监管）和废除作为奥巴马总统招牌的医保改革——平价医疗法（“奥巴马医保”）的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The favorable effect of the increase in household wealth is being reinforced this year by the improved fiscal position.",
        "今年以来，家庭财富增长带来的正效应受财政状况的改善的加强。"
    ],
    [
        "With the European Central Bank and intergovernmental rescue operations keeping interest rates low, Italy’s public debt has been able to rise by one-third from the end of 2007 to the spring of 2014.",
        "欧洲央行和跨政府援助操作保持了低利率，意大利公共债务水平得以在2007年底到2014年春期间增加三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "France, uniquely in Western Europe, built its own independent nuclear deterrent, and has been a champion of creating a European military capacity outside NATO.",
        "法国在欧洲独一无二地建立了自己独立的核子威摄力量，并且一直倡导在北约之外建立欧洲军事能力。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The recent decision by the Bank of Japan to increase the scope of its quantitative easing is a signal that another round of currency wars may be under way.",
        "纽约—日本银行最近决定提高量化宽松范围，这表明新一轮货币战争可能已经箭在弦上。"
    ],
    [
        "By agreeing to a divided Jerusalem, Netanyahu would be initiating the long-overdue departure from the hubris and megalomania that has brought the city to its current state of stagnation and isolation.",
        "如若同意分割耶路撒冷，则内塔尼亚胡将能启动迟到很久的告别妄尊自大之路。 正是这一妄尊自大让耶路撒冷陷入了如今停滞孤立的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s credit tsunami is financing investment in steel and property, sectors already burdened by massive excess capacity.",
        "中国的信贷海啸为钢铁和房地产这些已经产能严重过剩的产业提供了融资。"
    ],
    [
        "As the latest OECD forecast for 2018 and beyond shows, a cloud of gloom has descended on the United Kingdom.",
        "最近的2018年及以后经合组织预测表明，一片阴云笼罩在英国上空。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe’s growth strategy has the potential to bring massive benefits to Japan.",
        "安倍的增长战略有可能给日本带来巨大的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments will also need to make it easier for women and older workers to participate in the labor force, by expanding child-care facilities and creating incentives for firms to relax their retirement-age requirements.",
        "政府还必须让妇女和年长工人更加容易参与劳动力，这可以通过扩大育儿设施、为企业提供弹性退休年龄的激励等方式实现。"
    ],
    [
        "G-20 chairs can have considerable influence.",
        "G-20 主席国可望拥有巨大的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "But here there is no agreement between Congress and the Trump administration on the form such cuts should take.",
        "但国会和特朗普政府尚未对如何操作达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "And what perspective would Turkey have outside the EU?",
        "那么除了欧盟之外土耳其还有哪些前景呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries will huddle together to protect themselves from the US bully.",
        "其他国家将联合起来抵抗美国的仗势欺人。"
    ],
    [
        "Though all three outcomes are undoubtedly desirable, the unfortunate reality is that they are far from certain – and bets on them without some hedging could prove exceedingly risky for current and future generations.",
        "尽管所有者三个结果毫无疑问都是值得追求的，但不幸的现实是，它们还远远不能称之为确定——下注于它们而不对冲也许会给我们和子孙后代带来巨大的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "President Xi Jinping’s daughter, for example, studies at Harvard under an assumed name, and Bo Xilai’s son has been a student at Oxford and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; he is now studying at Columbia Law School.",
        "比方说习近平主席的女儿在哈佛化名就读，而薄熙来的儿子曾经是牛津大学和哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院的学生； 他目前正在哥伦比亚大学法学院就读。"
    ],
    [
        "That moment, I realized, was more than just a plane crash.",
        "在那一刻，我意识到这可不仅仅是一场普通的空难。"
    ],
    [
        "The common currency completes the single market for the euro area’s member states.",
        "统一的货币促成了欧元成员国的单一市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the much-praised notion of competition seems fake and cynically manipulated by the “corporate” mentality that now pervades the world of culture – by the financial pre-selection that determines what publishers, producers, and other impresarios will support.",
        "当前的文化世界弥漫着“公司”思维——从财务角度出发预先选定发行商、制作商及其他艺术经理的支持对象——这使得即便是广受赞誉的“竞争”概念看起来也是假的，被可悲地操纵着。"
    ],
    [
        "This should serve as a model for Latin America as it works to improve the quality of its educational systems.",
        "这款以为致力于改善其教育系统质量的拉丁美洲提供一个样板。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States generously subsidizes production of ethanol from maize, with output there currently growing 12% annually and almost 10% worldwide.",
        "美国给从玉米中生产乙醇提供巨额的补贴，这使该国的产量现在每年以12%的速度增长，而全世界的年增长幅度大约为10%。"
    ],
    [
        "For years, Arafat avoided holding elections, as required by the laws of the Palestinian Authority, under the pretense that they cannot be held under occupation: but, lo and behold, two months after his demise, an election was held - and with resounding success.",
        "多年来，阿拉法特总是籍此来回避举行选举； 但是，你看，就在阿拉法塔去世后两个月，就举行了一场选举，并且盛况空前。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the domestic natural-gas price is well below the export price.",
        "结果，美国国内天然气价格显著低于出口价格。"
    ],
    [
        "We must make markets work for them and their families.",
        "我们必须让市场有利于她们和她们的家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "If he does that, he could turn his presidency around, confound his critics, and leave a positive legacy.",
        "如果他在这方面取得成功，就有望扭转执政的颓势，在批评者面前证明自己，并留下积极的遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "To an intellectual, an academic may look like someone who mistakes the means of inquiry for its end. But to academics, intellectuals look like ramblers freely trespassing on other people’s property, picking the fruits and despoiling the soil.",
        "知识分子们认为学究式的学者错把方法认为是治学的根本，但对于学院派来说，知识分子就像非法入侵者一样肆意践踏他人的财产，摘采着果实，掠夺着土地。"
    ],
    [
        "First, as the skeptics warned, when hordes of pundits are jostling for the limelight, many are tempted to claim that they know more than they do.",
        "第一类，就像怀疑论者警告的那样，当成群结队的专家竞相成为人们注目的焦点，很多人都禁不住会夸大自己的学识。"
    ],
    [
        "Since Trump’s election, nearly 900 companies and investors, many of them American, have signed an open letter, “Business Backs Low Carbon,” calling on the administration not to withdraw the US from the Paris agreement.",
        "自特朗普当选以来，近900家公司和投资者——其中许多来自美国——联署了一封公开信《商界支持低碳》（Business Backs Low Carbon），呼吁政府不要让美国退出巴黎协定。"
    ],
    [
        "So the results strongly suggest that if all Americans were given a chance to vote on keeping pregnant pigs and calves in such tight confinement, the majority would vote no.",
        "因此这一结果强烈表明：如果所有美国人都有机会对禁锢怀孕母猪和肉牛的问题投票表决，绝大多数人会选择说不。"
    ],
    [
        "In many eurozone countries today, “fiscal conservatives” are a powerful group, insisting on the need to boost government revenue while bringing spending under control.",
        "如今，在许多欧元区国家，“财政保守派”是一个很有力量的集团，他们坚持政府需要增加收入，同时控制支出。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whatever you do in the next few months to win the forthcoming parliamentary elections, please remember that the support that Kadima has received from the Israeli public derives precisely from the fact that it has taken a moderate centrist position.",
        "但是，无论您在今后几个月做什么来赢得即将到来的议会选举，请记住前进党从以色列公众中得到的支持恰恰来源于它采取了温和中间立场的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has experienced significant immigration from countries such as Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan; but many of the newcomers have little education, and finding them employment has proved difficult.",
        "虽然欧洲接收了来自叙利亚，利比亚和阿富汗等国的大量移民，但是很多新来者都基本没有受过教育，让这些人实现就业极为困难。"
    ],
    [
        "With too many people feeling marginalized, forgotten, and dispossessed – and angry at the leaders and institutions that have allowed this to happen – domestic policy pressure has intensified, causing countries to turn inward.",
        "太多的人感到被边缘化，被遗忘，被剥夺——对放任这些情况发生的领导人和机构充满了愤怒——国内政策压力也随之日益加剧，导致各国不得不向内转。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet imposing capital controls on inflows is difficult and sometimes leaky.",
        "而对资本流入施加资本管制既很困难，也漏洞百出。"
    ],
    [
        "That debate has yet to begin.",
        "这一争论还尚未开始。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, rather than bringing the hoped-for end of the Great Recession of 2008, a downturn that has lasted too long and caused too much suffering, 2012 may mark the beginning of a new and more frightening phase of the world’s worst economic calamity in three-quarters of a century.",
        "果真如此的话，走出持续了太长、造成了太多伤害的2008年大衰退的希望将落空，2012年将是75年来全世界最严重的经济灾难走向更严峻阶段的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "The first factor to undermine the pursuit of growth was concern about its sustainability.",
        "阻止人们不再追求增长的第一个因素是对其可持续性的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, place a portion of Luke’s equity in the farm in a public trust, which then provides a universal payment to everyone.",
        "相反，拿出卢克的农场股份的一部分投入公共信托，然后用这个信托给所有人提供全民红利。"
    ],
    [
        "Ancient Arab lands are bestirred.",
        "古老的阿拉伯土地欢欣鼓舞。"
    ],
    [
        "If, based on an understanding of the processes and their implications, a majority of a country’s citizens find them to controvert morality, democratic principles would demand a government response.",
        "如果基于对程序及其影响的了解，一个国家的大部分民众认定某项研究有违道德，则政府必须按照民主原则做出回应。"
    ],
    [
        "All were portrayed as representatives of another world, with no relationship to the lives of ordinary British people.",
        "所有人都被描绘成另一个世界的代表，那个世界丝毫无关于普通英国民众的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment and external financing must follow.",
        "投资和外部融资必须跟进。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no shortage of Latin American demagogues who will likely try to emulate Trump’s campaign.",
        "拉丁美洲绝不缺少可能模仿特朗普选战的煽动家。"
    ],
    [
        "Such programs cannot dispense with the need for government resolve, as Greece’s travails demonstrate.",
        "这样的计划并不能消除政府最终抉择的必要性，希腊的阵痛便是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that CO2 emissions – the largest component of the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause global warming – will begin falling, too, enabling China to fulfill its pledge, made last November as part of a landmark climate agreement with the United States, that emissions would peak around 2030.",
        "这意味着二氧化碳排放量——导致全球变暖的温室气体排放的最大成分——也将开始下降，使中国兑现其在去年11月与美国达成的标志性气候协议中所做的排放量在2030年左右达到最高峰的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Its “independence” is rejected by Serbia, unrecognized by the Security Council, and opposed by Russia, China, and most multi-national states in Europe and Asia, which fear setting a precedent for their own dismemberment.",
        "塞尔维亚、安理会拒绝承认其“独立”，俄国、中国以及欧亚的大多数多种族国家也反对。 它们担心这样会给自己的分裂确立先例。"
    ],
    [
        "But other infrastructure-related opportunities beckon.",
        "但其他与基础设施相关的机会也在闪光。"
    ],
    [
        "The EIB could be given significantly more resources to boost its loan programs.",
        "可以大幅增强欧洲央行的资金源，以提振其贷款项目。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed has understood that message.",
        "美联储已经掌握了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "In February alone, there were announcements of new solar power projects in Nigeria (1,000 megawatts), Australia (2,000 MW), and India (10,000 MW).",
        "光是在2月，就有尼日利亚 (1,000百万瓦)、 澳大利亚(2,000百万瓦)和印度(10,000百万瓦)等新项目公布。"
    ],
    [
        "But as they hunt down and kill violent domestic extremists, they are quietly tightening the noose around all those who want moderate reform.",
        "但是当他们一路追寻并要除去国内的极端分子时，他们也悄悄地收紧了那些布在想要温和改革的人周围的套索。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, many European intellectuals argue that not just capital punishment, but punishment in general, does not deter criminals.",
        "实际上，欧洲的知识分子们认为不仅仅是死刑，甚至连通常意义的处罚都并不震慑罪犯。"
    ],
    [
        "In this environment, deepening Europe’s defense and security integration would appear to be low on the list of priorities.",
        "在这样的环境下，深化欧洲防务和安全一体化不可能成为当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "Decoupling did not occur in 2008, when exports accounted for about 45% of pan-Asian GDP (excluding Japan) and every emerging country in the region experienced a sharp contraction in growth as world trade plummeted.",
        "2008年并没有发生脱钩，当时，在泛亚洲GDP（不含日本）中，出口要占大约45%，随着世界贸易量的剧烈萎缩，该地区的所有新兴经济体都经历了大幅衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The challenge of raising the incomes of middle-class families has emerged as an important focus of the presidential election campaign in the United States.",
        "美国剑桥—提高中产阶级家庭收入的挑战已成为美国总统选战的重要焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "Closer to home, ASEAN’s recent decision to give Burma a chance to chair the organization in 2014 underscores its neighbors’ desire for the country’s full participation in Asia’s growing prosperity.",
        "在近邻方面，东盟最近决定将2014年的主席国地位授予缅甸，这表明邻国也渴望缅甸完全融入亚洲的日渐繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "And at the recent G-20 summit in Antalya, held just two days after the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, a consensus emerged that the fight against the Islamic State is a “major priority.”",
        "而在最近的G-20安塔利亚峰会上（举行于11月13日巴黎恐怖袭击前两天），G-20达成共识，将打击伊斯兰国作为“主要重点”。"
    ],
    [
        "Who would deny that companies have a clear responsibility to earn profits for their shareholders, or that most shareholders invest primarily to make money, not to make the world a better place?",
        "谁能否认，公司有明确的责任应该为股东赚取利润、大部分股东投资的主要目的是赚钱而不是让世界变得更好？"
    ],
    [
        "That happened when Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008.",
        "这种情况在2008年9月雷曼兄弟破产时就出现了。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Trump Prove His Sanity?",
        "特朗普能否证明自己理智？"
    ],
    [
        "Meat production is a tremendously inefficient use of agricultural land, because considerably more plant-based food is needed to feed livestock than we would need to feed ourselves directly through a plant-based diet.",
        "生产肉食是效率极低的农地使用方式，因为饲养牲畜所需要的植物食物远高于我们直接吃素所需要的植物食物量。"
    ],
    [
        "While initially viewed as pacific and moderate, it was underpinned by an overarching view of Turkey as the hegemonic regional power – as an arbiter of conflicts, but ultimately also as an enforcer of its own views on lesser players.",
        "“零冲突”政策乍一看是一种温稳健的政策，但其基础观点是土耳其乃中东霸权，是冲突的裁决者，说到底，其他较次要的中东国家都得照土耳其的指令行事。"
    ],
    [
        "What this shows is that, in dealing with ASEAN, China gets to negotiate twice – first, through its closest allies within ASEAN in the formulation of common ASEAN positions, and then directly with an ASEAN team that could include one of its allies.",
        "换句话说，在与东盟打交道时，中国有谈判两次的权利——首先在东盟共同立场形成过程中通过其在东盟的最紧密盟友进行，然后再与所有东盟国谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "In America’s view, the reinterpretation of Article 9 of Japan’s “peace constitution” that Abe undertook – thereby allowing Japan’s self-defense forces to aid allies under attack and to assist the US and other allies in meeting their commitments to securing Asia’s peace – was long overdue.",
        "在美国看来，安倍所发起的对日本“宪法” 第9条的重新解释——从而允许日本自卫队援助遇袭盟国以及协助美国和其他盟国兑现确保亚洲和平的承诺——可谓姗姗来迟。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve injected huge amounts of cash into their economies through “quantitative easing” (QE) – massive purchases of long-term government and corporate securities.",
        "英格兰银行和美国联邦储备委员会通过“定量宽松”——大量采购长期政府和公司债券——来向本国经济体注入巨量现金。"
    ],
    [
        "With Sarkozy off his back, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet might feel freer to cut interest rates to counter the impending economic slowdown in Europe.",
        "没有了萨尔科奇的压力，欧洲央行行长特里谢或许就会感到更为自由地下调利率来对抗马上来临的欧洲的经济减缓。"
    ],
    [
        "The dramatic weakening of the US dollar may help America to narrow its massive trade deficit, but we should not expect any sustained improvement without drastic changes in American management.",
        "美元的急剧贬值可能会帮助美国缩减其巨额的贸易赤字，但是，如果在美国的管理上没有巨大的改变，我们不应该期望能够有任何持续的改进。"
    ],
    [
        "This positive spirit can be nurtured by Russia’s government, which usually has cordial relations with the Vatican.",
        "这一正面态度可能得到俄罗斯政府的支持。 俄罗斯政府与梵蒂冈关系向来不错。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, given that Iran has so far survived severe international sanctions, its leaders believe that they could get an offer from the US after the election – particularly if Romney wins – that recognizes their right to enrich uranium.",
        "事实上，由于伊朗在严厉国际制裁的情况下仍活得好好的，因此其领导人认为美国会在大选后——特别是罗姆尼当选的请款下——向伊朗颁发铀浓缩许可证。"
    ],
    [
        "And performing-arts festivals featuring international figures went ahead – signaling the Lebanese people’s refusal to give in to radicalism and violence.",
        "表演艺术节赞颂抵抗极端主义的国际先驱——表现出黎巴嫩民众拒绝向极端主义和暴力活动低头。"
    ],
    [
        "This definition mixes nature and nurture, and means that “traits” can to some extent be learned rather than merely inherited.",
        "这个定义结合了天生的因素和后天的培养，并意味着“领导特征”在某种程度上可以通过学习得来，而不仅仅是靠遗传获得的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republicans seem confident that voters will not see beyond the next paycheck.",
        "共和党似乎有信心认定选民只会把目光集中在眼前的工资条上。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from its wealth – or perhaps because of it – Switzerland has always struck me as a happy country.",
        "在其财富之外——又或许是由于它的富庶——瑞士在我心目中一直是个幸福的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "System-wide solutions are needed.",
        "重组金融机构需要从整个金融体系角度来考虑解决方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Less developed cities with inadequate infrastructure must spend more to meet the IOC’s transportation, communications, and hospitality requirements; more developed cities have the infrastructure, but not necessarily the land, and risk disrupting thriving industries to bring the Games to fruition.",
        "基础设施不足的欠发达城市必须花费更多才能满足国际奥委会的交通、通讯和接待要求； 较发达城市具备了基础设施，但未必有足够的土地，并且还要冒着为落实奥运会破坏繁荣产业的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "As the British vote in June to exit the European Union starkly demonstrated, citizens of democratic countries are more than capable of making choices that contradict their own rational self-interest – a trend that has lately been picking up steam.",
        "6月份英国退欧投票清楚地表明，民主国家的公民完全有可能做出有悖于理性自利的选择——这一趋势目前正在起势。"
    ],
    [
        "Surveys of manufacturing and construction dropped precipitously.",
        "制造业和建筑业指数也同步暴跌。"
    ],
    [
        "In a particularly important move, the insurance industry, representing $30 trillion in assets and investments, committed to creating a Climate Risk Investment Framework for industry-wide adoption by the end of the year.",
        "一个特别重要的动作是坐拥30万亿美元资产和投资的保险业承诺在今年年底之前建立一个气候风险投资框架（Climate Risk Investment Framework）并在全行业内采用。"
    ],
    [
        "Increased competition from China and other large emerging economies has eroded US manufacturing capabilities, jeopardizing America’s ability to develop the most technologically sophisticated defense platforms.",
        "来自中国和其他新兴经济体的竞争日益激烈，这侵蚀了美国的制造能力，也破坏了美国开发技术最先进的防务平台的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The government’s efforts to promote renewables are driven partly by growing pressure from middle-class Chinese, who are increasingly frustrated with pollution levels.",
        "中国政府推进可再生能源部分是因为来自中国中产阶级的压力日益增加。 他们对污染感到日益不满。"
    ],
    [
        "The cast will be huge: presidents and prime ministers at center stage, supported by thousands of extras, including protesters, riot police, and busloads of media.",
        "“卡司”阵容强大：各国总统和总理当主角，包括示威者、防暴警察和各路媒体在内的“群众演员”当陪衬。"
    ],
    [
        "The cap’s defenders will sound unconvincing, because the economic case for it is weak in the absence of extreme credibility problems.",
        "支出上限的捍卫者提出的理由将不再令人信服，因为其经济论据在信誉问题已不再极端的时候根本不堪一击。"
    ],
    [
        "With the International Monetary Fund predicting that GDP will either stagnate or contract this year, Iran’s economy might well be set for a double-dip recession.",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）预测伊朗GDP今年将停滞或萎缩，伊朗经济可能发生二次探底。"
    ],
    [
        "Given China’s population of 1.3 billion – a major competitive advantage in terms of innovation and purchasing power – these platforms can disrupt the incumbent one-sided market producers by offering superior scale, speed, and convenience, including access to global markets.",
        "对于创新和购买力而言，中国高达13亿的人口是一个巨大的竞争优势。 因此这些数字化平台能够通过提供更胜一筹的规模、速度和便利性（包括与全球市场的对接）来颠覆老牌单边市场生产商（包括一些国企）。"
    ],
    [
        "The result, as we now know, was that the killing continued, sometimes in the presence of UN peacekeepers whose countries had not given them a strong enough mandate to intervene.",
        "正如我们随后看到的那样，杀戮持续进行，甚至有时就当着联合国维和部队的面，因为他们的国家没有给予足够的授权去干涉。"
    ],
    [
        "How can the rater be protected from political pressure?",
        "如何保护评级者免受政治压力？"
    ],
    [
        "And on a Sunday morning talk show, another Republican candidate, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, described building a wall on the US-Canada border as “a legitimate issue for us to look at.”",
        "在一次周日晨间脱口秀上，另一位共和党候选人、威斯康辛州州长斯科特·沃克尔（Scott Walker）称在加拿大边境建设一座边境墙是“一个我们看来相当合理的事项”。"
    ],
    [
        "If Chinese banks and firms are slow to adjust, liberalizing international capital flows will lead only to more volatility, fewer offshore deposits, and less reliance on the renminbi for settling merchandise transactions – exactly as has been the case recently.",
        "如果中国的银行和企业调整的步伐过慢，放开国际资本流动就只会导致更多的波动，更少的离岸存款，更少依赖人民币去结算商品交易——正如最近的情况一样。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The most important contribution of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly 60 years ago, on December 10, 1948, was to assert a powerful idea: rights are universal.",
        "纽约--联合国大会在六十年前，也就是1948年12月10日通过了世界人权宣言。 这一文件最为重要的贡献就是宣告了一个强有力的观点，那就是人权是普世的。"
    ],
    [
        "The myriad benefits of a Northeast Asian FTA are clear.",
        "东北亚自贸协议的巨大好处是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is now the greatest moral issue of our time.",
        "这就是现时代的道德大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A too-rapid inflow of immigrants weakens bonds of solidarity, and, in the long run, erodes the affective ties required to sustain the welfare state.",
        "移民涌入过快会削弱团结的纽带，从而在长期侵蚀维持福利国家所需要的情感关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The same lack of security applies to delivering aid: on a recent visit to North Somalia to assess humanitarian needs, a team from the International Rescue Committee of which I was a part spent more time, effort, and funds on security issues than on inspecting wells and evaluating the need for latrines, although the lack of water and sanitation is acute.",
        "在援助的实施方面也同样缺乏安全保障：在我亲历的国际救援委员会对索马里北部的最近一次评估考察中，我们的团队在安全事务方面花费的时间、精力和资金比在考察水井状况和对厕所的需求上还要多。 虽然缺水和卫生问题是当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "The rapid income growth of the early Putin years is a thing of the past.",
        "在早年普京当政时的那种收入快速增长已是明日黄花了。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Democrats have a point.",
        "但民主党的反对不无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "Three years ago, few would have believed that the world would do so little to prevent such a situation.",
        "三年前，没有人相信世界放任如此局面发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, a deficiency of aggregate demand afflicts almost all advanced countries, leading to high unemployment, lower wages, greater inequality, and – coming full, vicious circle – constrained consumption.",
        "如今，几乎所有发达国家都饱受着总需求不足的折磨，并因此导致了高失业、低工资、不平等性恶化以及消费不足——所有这些形成了一个完整的恶性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "It is here – at the level of execution – that governments often perform poorly.",
        "政府表现低劣的领域就在这里——执行。"
    ],
    [
        "“Systems” biology is biology that recognizes that what remains the same is the design of the boat – that which determines the relationships between the planks.",
        "“系统”生物学正是认识到了这一点，即不变的是木船的设计——它决定了木船与厚木板之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil was the most prominent among the Latin American economies under attack, but analysts worried about similar vulnerabilities elsewhere in the region.",
        "巴西受到的冲击尤为严重，但分析师担心拉美地区其他国家同样脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The Netherlands, in particular, has been subjected to a relentless campaign of vilification.",
        "尤其针对荷兰，已经有很激烈的诋毁运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Russian investments in aerospace, telecommunications, and, most of all, in the energy sector, are the main source of concern for Germany.",
        "的确，俄罗斯在航空航天、电讯以及最重要的能源行业的投资，令德国最为关注。"
    ],
    [
        "But, of course, they will not have caught up with these countries, for those countries will have moved ahead too.",
        "不过当然，它们还无法赶上发达国家，因为这些国家也在向前发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The Emergency Law has been in force since the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in October 1981, and Mubarak claims that he needs another extension to combat terrorism.",
        "1981年10月安瓦尔·萨达特(Anwar Sadat)总统遇刺身亡后，埃及就一直处在紧急状态法的统治之下，现在穆巴拉克再一次提出延期，理由是需要应对恐怖主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Two important components of Hamilton’s financial architecture were not realized, or were realized imperfectly.",
        "汉密尔顿财政结构中，有两个重要部分无法实现（或无法完美实现）。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Palestine Win the Peace?",
        "巴勒斯坦能赢得和平吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the potential for the first eurozone exit, Greece could be at risk of becoming a failed state – an outcome that would pose a multi-dimensional threat to the rest of Europe.",
        "希腊有可能成为第一个退出欧元区的国家，也有可能遭遇国家破产——这一结果将给欧洲其他国家造成多维度威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The global economy holds great promise, but it is a promise that can be realized only in an international system based on rules, consent, respect, and a shared sense of justice.",
        "全球经济许下了重大的承诺，但这一承诺只有在基于规则、同意、尊重和共同的正义感的国际制度下才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require further investment in immunization, improved data collection and analytics, new tools and approaches, and most importantly, strong partnerships.",
        "这需要对免疫接种工作、改进数据收集和分析方法以及新工具和新方法展开进一步的投资，而且最重要的是，需要建立强有力的伙伴关系来支持这项工作。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2005, on the UN’s 60th anniversary, the General Assembly, convening at head of state and government level, unanimously endorsed the concept of states’ responsibility to protect populations at risk of genocide and other mass atrocity crimes.",
        "2005年，在联合国成立六十周年之际，超越国家和政府水平的联合国大会一致通过了一国具有保护其人民免受大屠杀和其他大规模残暴罪行伤害义务的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "This means shifting the focus from backward-looking labor-market policies, which seek to protect workers in existing jobs, to future-oriented measures, such as innovative insurance mechanisms and active labor-market policies.",
        "这意味着将重点从当前这种试图保护已就业劳动者的倒退式劳动力市场政策转向面向未来的多种措施，比如创新的保险机制和积极的劳动力市场政策。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings me to my third point: we must reconceptualize the meaning of market risk.",
        "这就引出了我的第三个判断：我们必须重新定义市场风险的内涵。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, because both Hu and Bush fear the economic effects of reducing their country’s carbon emissions, each has hidden behind the non-participation of the other to justify absence from international efforts and failure to assume a global leadership role.",
        "然而，因为无论是胡锦涛还是布什都担心减少各自国家碳排放量可能带来的经济影响，所以两人都以对方不参与为遮羞布，为自己没有参与国际努力和承担全球领导责任寻找借口，进行辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "Another promising development is the growth of local-currency bond markets.",
        "另一个有希望的发展之路是本地货币债券市场的成长。"
    ],
    [
        "How they passed from the scene, however, was often very different, and these differences can shape societies for years and decades to come.",
        "但他们如何从政坛消逝的情况却迥异。 而这些不同会对他们所在的社会产生短期和长期的重大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But so do some “street ball” players who excel in slam-dunk theatrics; perhaps because they are not tall enough to compete, they make almost nothing.",
        "那些最顶尖的球员确实拥有极大的创造性天赋，但其实一些擅长扣篮表演的“街球”运动员也有； 或许他们的身高无法跟他人竞争，所以也赚不到什么钱。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The United States’ economy is approaching full employment and may already be there.",
        "美国剑桥—美国经济正在走向充分就业，也许已经达到了这一水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The US cannot afford such a large increase in the fiscal deficit.",
        "美国无法承受财政赤字的大幅增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Because ministers meet before each G-7 meeting, this would be an easy procedure to introduce.",
        "由于部长们在每次G-7会议前都要碰头，所以这项程序应该很容易引入。"
    ],
    [
        "As Renzi put it in a recent interview, “After two years listening, now I speak.”",
        "伦齐在最近的采访中指出：“在做了两年听众之后，现在我开始发话了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Outside intervention has left too many scars in the public’s collective memory.",
        "外部干预给公共集体记忆留下了太多的伤疤。"
    ],
    [
        "A recovery has already begun in the eurozone. It should be left to run its course.",
        "欧元区已经出现了复苏的苗头，也应该让复苏在自己的轨道上运行。"
    ],
    [
        "He warned that if the international community did not come together, “vicious cycles” of deflation, liquidity traps, and increasingly pessimistic expectations could take hold.",
        "他警告说，如果国际社会不能走到一起，那将会出现“恶性循环”的通货紧缩，流动性陷阱以及越来越悲观的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1999, the year before Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin as president, Russia’s GDP was a paltry $200 billion.",
        "在普京接替叶利钦担任总统以前的1999年，俄国的国内生产总值只有微不足道的2000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In advanced markets, these stem largely from a declining and aging population, labor-market rigidities, an unaffordable welfare state, high and distorting taxes, and government indebtedness.",
        "在发达市场，这些瓶颈大多来自人口的下降和老化、劳动力市场僵化、不堪重负的福利国家、高昂的扭曲性税收以及政府负债。"
    ],
    [
        "With modern digital technology, the returns to scale are so large that it no longer makes sense to demand that, say, 1,000 firms produce versions of the same good, each meeting one-thousandth of total demand.",
        "随着现代数字技术的发展，规模经济的回报如此之大，以至于那种让1000个企业生产各类版本的相同产品，每个产品满足总需求的1/1000的要求已经不再合理了。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as the Coalition forces stay, violence is likely to escalate.",
        "只要联军留在伊拉克，暴力就可能升级。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the US Congress should ratify the agreed changes to the governance of the IMF and the World Bank.",
        "类似地，美国国会应该批准已经形成一致的IMF和世界银行治理结构的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "He fears Ukraine’s 2014 uprising as a “revolutionary plague” only because it might erupt in Moscow’s own squares.",
        "他害怕乌克兰2014年起义演变为一场“革命的瘟疫”，仅仅因为同样的起义可能发生在莫斯科自己的广场上。"
    ],
    [
        "But any sober observer can see that the US is still a long way from the nightmarish atmosphere of Germany in 1933.",
        "但任何清醒的旁观者都可以看出美国还远未到1933年德国噩梦般氛围的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is clearly problematic, as it puts the entire burden of refugees on the EU’s frontier countries.",
        "但这显然是有问题的，因为它将所有负担都推给了欧盟边界国家。"
    ],
    [
        "“Preservation of the people” requires nothing less than that our men take care of themselves so that they can take proper care of our children.",
        "“保护人民”要求的正是我们男人照顾好他们自己，这样他们才能很好地照顾好我们的孩子。"
    ],
    [
        "But what if the primary surplus – the Greek government’s trump card in its confrontational negotiating strategy – has now disappeared?",
        "但如果初级盈余——希腊政府在谈判战略冲突中的王牌——现在已经消失了该怎么办？"
    ],
    [
        "To break the deadlock, the current bilateral framework for negotiation, which has remained largely unchanged since the Cold War, must be transformed into a trilateral framework that includes China.",
        "要想打破现有僵局，冷战结束后基本保持不变的双边谈判框架必须转化为三边框架，并邀请中国参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly a lot of the discrepancy is attributable to valuation effects: since 1982, the dollar value of overseas assets has increased repeatedly, owing to increases in the dollar value of foreign currency and increases in the assets’ foreign-currency value.",
        "显然，这一差异中的很大一部分可以归因于估值效应：1982年以来，海外资产的美元价值一再上升，原因在于外币美元价值的升高和资产外币价值的升高。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Putin Makes a Bad Ally",
        "普京为什么是糟糕的盟友"
    ],
    [
        "A retail banker once told me that in making credit decisions in Russia, his analysts had faced a shortage of data and had assumed that a criminal record would be one easy way to weed out the bad eggs.",
        "一位零售银行家曾告诉我，在做俄罗斯信用决策时，他的分析师面临数据短缺的问题，只好假设犯罪记录是挑出坏蛋的简便方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Bretton Woods III",
        "布雷顿森林III"
    ],
    [
        "It is now apparent that the roots of that crisis are far deeper than anyone initially realized.",
        "如今，显而易见这场危机的根源比所有人最初所认为的都要深远得多。"
    ],
    [
        "But the resulting economic inaction would be just as damaging to the consolidation of democratic rule.",
        "但由此产生的经济失活对民主规则的巩固同样有害。"
    ],
    [
        "Under current circumstances, the Democrats are strong enough – with control of the Senate and of the presidency – to fend off these assaults.",
        "在当前环境下，民主党势力足够强大——控制着参议院，总统也是民主党——能够抵挡住共和党的攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "The rationale is simple: If patent protection were limited, or if it were easy for competitors to innovate around intellectual property, a firm in a competitive market would have very little incentive to invest in pathbreaking research and development.",
        "其中的原因很简单：如果专利保护有限度，或竞争者很容易就能从知识产权中进行创新，那么竞争性市场的企业就没什么动力投资于突破性研发活动。"
    ],
    [
        "For the coming 2010 fiscal year, Obama’s budget calls for $755 billion in military spending, an amount that exceeds US budget spending in all other areas except so-called “mandatory” spending on social security, health care, interest payments on the national debt, and a few other items.",
        "在即将到来的2010财政年度，奥巴马预算提出的军费开支为7550亿美元，这一数额超出了所有其他方面的预算支出（除了社会保障、医疗、国债利息支付和其他几项所谓“强制性”支出以外。 ）。"
    ],
    [
        "By the same token, the interests of any one of them must not be allowed to become the total interest of the US.",
        "同理，这些国家中的任何一国的利益决不能成为美国的总利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond noting and appreciating what their families have done for them, graduates must consider the kind of family that they want to nurture.",
        "除了关注并感谢家人对他们的培养，毕业生还必须思考他们想建立什么样的家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "A carefully designed public-private partnership – in which the state gives a subsidy directly to the poor, who then buy food from private farmers and traders – would benefit all.",
        "谨慎设计的公私合作——国家直接向穷人发放补贴，然后穷人从私人农民和贸易商手中购买粮食——能让所有人受益。"
    ],
    [
        "Smaller but more competitive manufacturing firms lack the resources to expand in more advanced technological sectors.",
        "规模较小但更有竞争力的制造公司缺少在高科技领域扩张所需的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it extends well beyond Asia, embracing Eastern Europe and the east coast of Africa.",
        "此外，这一战略远远超出了亚洲，也包括了东欧和非洲东海岸。"
    ],
    [
        "The island ran its own affairs, becoming a rambunctious democracy in the 1980s, but never insisted on international recognition as a full-fledged sovereign state.",
        "台湾自为其政，在20世纪80年代变成了一个欢闹的民主政体，但从未在国际上获得完全主权国家地位的承认。"
    ],
    [
        "The third key factor for assessing the risk of growing debt is monetary policy and interest rates.",
        "评估债务增长风险的第三个关键因素是货币政策和利率。"
    ],
    [
        "That is what makes it so ominous for Europe.",
        "而这也是欧洲的不幸。"
    ],
    [
        "This matters because good governance is the cornerstone of development.",
        "善政是发展的基础，因此这一点至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Chinese researchers admit that their country has one of the highest levels of income inequality in the world.",
        "甚至中国研究者也承认，他们的国家的收入不平等性位居世界最高之列。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, there is substantial confusion about China’s new foreign-exchange regime.",
        "与此同时，关于中国的新外汇机制存在重大认识混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "We will need a true global business plan that spells out how the new technologies are developed, tested, and adopted on an expedited basis worldwide.",
        "我们需要一个真正的全球性商业规划来确定如何在全球范围内快速开发、测试以及采用新技术。"
    ],
    [
        "In the ongoing power struggle between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, each is more likely to out-tough the other than to propose concessions to the West.",
        "在总统内贾德和最高精神领袖哈梅内伊的权力斗争中，双方都想表现得比对方更强硬，而不是向西方提出妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s Quagmire",
        "土耳其的沼泽"
    ],
    [
        "Obama has repeatedly committed himself to the goal of turning the world in the direction of “global zero” – a world without nuclear weapons.",
        "奥巴马已反复承诺要实现“全球零核化”目标——即消除全世界所有核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Even coaches who were fired, the report asserts, were often not flagged, meaning that predatory coaches could simply start training children at a new gym.",
        "报道说，即便是被炒鱿鱼的教练，也常常不会留下污点，这意味着这些“禽兽”教练只需要换一个体操俱乐部就可以重操旧业。"
    ],
    [
        "But this cannot be pinned on one or two “bad actors,” as politicians invariably put it.",
        "但切不可像这帮政客们那样总是归咎于一两个“坏家伙”。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulatory competition thus degenerates into a race to the bottom, since the benefits of lax regulation translate into profits at home, while the losses lie with bank creditors around the world.",
        "于是，监管竞争就退化为争相放松的竞争，因为放松监管的好处是将利润留在国内，而损失则由全世界银行债权人承担。"
    ],
    [
        "The Risk of European Centralization",
        "欧洲集中化的风险"
    ],
    [
        "After all, while “neoliberalism” was criticized as technocratic and elitist, it was nonetheless a form of liberalism, and it was also consistent with the spread of democratic governance worldwide.",
        "毕竟，人们批评”新自由主义“具有技术官僚和精英色彩，但是它还是一种自由主义，而且是与在全世界传播民主管治是一致的。"
    ],
    [
        "But now we have returned to an aesthetic of political mesmerization, reflected in the host government’s declared aim that China should win more gold medals than any country before.",
        "但是现在我们又回到了政治催眠的美学标准中，这反映在主办国宣称中国应该赢得比任何国家都多的金牌。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2010, some 600,000 European citizens died prematurely because of outdoor and indoor air pollution, and the economic costs have been put at $1.6 trillion, roughly 9% of the European Union’s GDP.",
        "2010年，大约600,000欧洲公民因为室外和室内空气污染而过早死亡，而经济成本更是高达1. 6万亿美元，相当于欧盟GDP的9%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "In an environment of zero or near-zero interest rates, creditors have an incentive to “extend and pretend” – that is, roll over their maturing debt, so that they can keep their problems hidden for longer.",
        "在零或近零利率环境中，债权人有动力“延期和假装”，即烟气到期债务以便在更长时间里隐瞒它们的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "That is far short of the 3.2% average rebound recorded over comparable eight-year intervals during the two recoveries of the 1980s and the 1990s.",
        "8％，远低于1980年代和1990年代两次复苏期间可供对比的八年间隙期平均3. 2％的比率。"
    ],
    [
        "South Australia, meanwhile, has developed the most supportive regulatory framework for renewable energy investment in Australia, enabling an increase in renewables’ share in power generation from virtually zero in 2003 to almost 40% today.",
        "与此同时，南澳大利亚制定了澳大利亚最支持可再生能源投资的监管框架，该地区可再生能源发电比例从2003年的接近于零增加到今天的近40%。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, in the midst of inflationary stagnation, voters may be questioning that alternative.",
        "现在，面临通货膨胀和经济停滞，选民们可能会质疑这种方案能否行得通。"
    ],
    [
        "And they count themselves lucky, because they know that their poorer counterparts, some of whom did better in school, cannot afford to spend a year or two without income, and do not have the connections to get an internship in the first place.",
        "而他们自认为是幸运儿，因为他们知道，还有一些更倒霉的同龄人，其中一些成绩比他们更好，他们无法承担工作一两年而没有收入，也没有人脉在一开始找到实习工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Equity prices and other risky assets have fallen sharply from their peaks of late 2007, but there are still significant downside risks.",
        "股权价格和其他风险资产的价格自2007年下半年达到最高点以来急剧下降，但是依然还存在大幅下降的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "These pessimists, such as the economist Robert Gordon, claim that new innovations are unlikely to improve productivity as fundamentally as electricity, automobiles, and computers did in the last century.",
        "这些悲观主义者，比如经济学家罗伯特·戈登（Robert Gordon）都认为新的科技创新都不可能像上世纪的电力，汽车和计算机那样为生产力带来翻天覆地的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes sense only for systems that are larger than a kilowatt of peak power and that have sufficient battery capacity.",
        "变频装置仅适用于功率峰值大于1千瓦、且电池容量充足的系统。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a fascinating parallel between the evolution of American political attitudes toward market mechanisms in environmental regulation and Republican hostility to “Obamacare” (the 2010 Affordable Care Act).",
        "美国针对环境管制中市场机制的政治态度的演化与共和党人对“奥巴马医改”（2010年《合理医疗费用法案》）的敌意之间存在着一个令人惊叹的平行关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whereas America’s problem in the world today is that domestic pressures sometimes lead to an excess of fortitude, China’s problem is that similarly constraining pressures produce foreign-policy weakness.",
        "但当美国的外交问题是国内政治压力有时会导致过度强硬之时，中国的问题则是类似的压力使其在外交上优柔寡断。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, governments cannot escape their responsibilities to their citizens, and only the most naïve technocrat believes that the market alone can ensure energy independence.",
        "实际上，各国政府无法回避它们对其公民的责任，而只有最天真的专家治国论者才会相信仅仅依靠市场就能保证能源的独立。"
    ],
    [
        "It took two decades in the case of nuclear technology.",
        "制定核技术规则用了20年时间。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, stagnation becomes a trap.",
        "真到那时，我们就将落入停滞陷阱很难摆脱。"
    ],
    [
        "Apparently, making America great again means pledging to remove elitist crooks from government, and then stuffing your cabinet with billionaires and Goldman Sachs alumni.",
        "让美国再次伟大显然意味着将精英骗子们赶出政府，然后再用亿万富翁和曾几何时高盛的同事来填满内阁。"
    ],
    [
        "Action gives us a sense of control, and helps us bear our fear.",
        "行动让我们有控制感，帮助我们消除恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is no agreement on where to situate it or how to staff it. It could be placed within ASEAN’s Secretariat in Jakarta.",
        "尽管如此，这个机构的选址和人员构成仍是悬而未决的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Vemula’s death sparked a wave of public protests, with leading politicians flocking to Hyderabad to add their voices to the growing clamor against not just the university, but also the government – especially Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who remained silent for nearly a week after the tragedy.",
        "维穆拉之死引起了一系列群众示威，政治领袖纷纷来到海德拉巴，发声指责大学和政府——特别是在悲剧发生一周后仍保持沉默的总理莫迪。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, monetary policy is likely to remain accommodative, and inflation remains lower than expected.",
        "此外，货币政策有望继续保持有利，通胀水平也将比预期更低。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Russia and its BRICS partners (Brazil, India, China, and South Africa) are creating a development bank that is to serve as an alternative to the Western-controlled International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.",
        "类似地，俄罗斯及其金砖国家伙伴（巴西、印度、中国和南非）正在成立一个开发银行，作为西方控制的国际货币基金组织和世界银行的替代品。"
    ],
    [
        "In Greece, weak administrative and judicial systems have impeded economic recovery.",
        "在希腊，孱弱的行政和司法体系妨碍了经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Knowledge of other countries’ experiences will also help Africa to avoid the pitfalls of unbridled industrialization – particularly environmental damage.",
        "了解其他国家的经验也有助于非洲避免自由放任的工业化的弊端——特别是环境破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "But this liberty, empowering and encouraging the individual to choose what to be, complicates identity formation.",
        "但这种授权并鼓励个人选择定位的自由使得身份的形成变得愈加复杂化。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – It is difficult to separate some of my personal memories of Margaret Thatcher – mundane but revealing – from the sweeping judgments of history.",
        "伦敦—很难将我对玛格丽特·撒切尔——平凡但具有启发性——的个人记忆从压倒性的历史判决分开。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade with countries like China and Mexico is just one factor affecting income distribution in the US, and it is by no means the most important one.",
        "与中国和墨西哥等国家的贸易只是影响美国收入分配的一个因素，并且绝不是最重要的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The US decision was based on America’s constitutional protection of free speech.",
        "美国的裁决基础是美国宪法对言论自由的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama’s attention is now concentrated on stimulating the anemic US economy, crafting tax cuts, reforming energy and health-care policies, and restoring confidence in US financial institutions.",
        "奥巴马总统的注意力现在集中在刺激美国疲软的经济、制定减税政策、改革能源和医疗保健政策并恢复人们对美国金融机构的信心等方面。"
    ],
    [
        "China Adjusts",
        "中国的调整"
    ],
    [
        "Vaccines already prevent the deaths of 2-3 million people every year, preempt human suffering, lighten the burden placed on health-care systems, and enable more rapid economic and social development.",
        "疫苗每年能够挽救200—300万条生命，预防人类苦难，减轻医疗系统负担，并促进更快的经济和深灰发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Total household saving as a percentage of disposable income fell from about 6% in 2011 and 2012 to just 3.8% in the most recent quarter.",
        "家庭总储蓄占可支配收入之比从2011年和2012年的6%左右降至最近一个季度的3. 8%。"
    ],
    [
        "But the problem extends further than that.",
        "但这还远远不是问题的全部。"
    ],
    [
        "Many doctors struggle to obtain proper consent.",
        "许多医生为获得适当的同意而心力交瘁。"
    ],
    [
        "So raising inflation is no cure for the government’s current debt or future deficits.",
        "因此制造通胀不会是政府当前债务或未来赤字的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Some observers even speak of a “Turkish Spring.”",
        "某些观察家甚至提出了“土耳其之春”的说法。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is simple: the EU has nothing new to say or offer.",
        "原因很简单：欧盟将要在会上说的都是些陈词滥调，毫无新意可言。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany’s view, European military intervention should be limited to the continent, and should not include combat operations.",
        "德国认为欧洲军事干预应当局限在欧洲大陆，而且不应该参与战斗行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The unresolved Arab-Israeli problem leads to the rise of radicalism and extremism.",
        "阿拉伯和以色列的问题悬而不决也会引起激进主义和极端主义的抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not surprising – businesses invest when they are confident about future demand and output growth.",
        "这并不令人奇怪——企业在它们对未来需求和产出增长充满信心时投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.",
        "贸易是在这场抗贫困战争中几乎已经被忘却的武器，但是它却比援助更能帮助贫困人口。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany, the G20, and Inclusive Globalization",
        "德国、G20和包容性全球化"
    ],
    [
        "This year, the two deficits are expected to reach 13% and 6.4% of GDP, respectively.",
        "今年，这两项赤字 预计分别将达到GDP的13%和6. 4%。"
    ],
    [
        "When the failures described above occurred, engineers were sensitized to their own limitations and so approached subsequent designs - no matter of what kind of bridge - with renewed respect for the laws and forces of nature.",
        "事故发生时，工程师们了解了自身的局限，今后设计桥梁时就会更尊重自然法则。"
    ],
    [
        "At least two-thirds of Israelis, recognizing the benefits that lasting peace would bring to the region, would prefer a two-state solution.",
        "至少三分之二的以色列人认可长期和平将给中东带来的利益，并愿意达成双边和解协议。"
    ],
    [
        "But, over the next few years, even as humans learned from computers, computers improved at a far faster pace.",
        "5的比分赢得比赛，这让冠军震惊不已。 很多评论员把深蓝的获胜称为20世纪最重要的事件。"
    ],
    [
        "A multilateral agency such as the World Bank could play a critical role in launching a market in commodity bonds.",
        "世界银行等多边机构可以在打造商品债券市场方面起到关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – “Fasten your seat belts, because it should be a bumpy ride,” the captain warned from the cockpit.",
        "圣地亚哥——当我们的飞机即将进入阿根廷空域时，机长从驾驶室里传出指示：“请务必系好安全带，因为本段飞行会较为颠簸。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty-something software coders are commanding six-figure salaries.",
        "二十来岁的软件代码编写员要求六位数的薪水。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, outspokenness was a hallmark of Wolfensohn’s tenure.",
        "的确，直言不讳似乎是沃尔芬森任期期间的一大特点。"
    ],
    [
        "DENVER – The United States’ presidential campaign, already long and tumultuous, will no doubt become even more so in the coming months, as the two parties’ nominees, now officially selected, face off ahead of November’s election.",
        "丹佛——已经漫长动荡的美国总统竞选活动无疑将在未来几个月变得更加动荡，因为现在正式选定的两党候选人已经开始了11月的大选对抗。"
    ],
    [
        "The ICTY is also in trouble.",
        "前南国际刑事法庭也同样困难重重。"
    ],
    [
        "This is because Krugman refuses to take seriously Keynes’s crucial distinction between risk and uncertainty.",
        "按照凯恩斯的说法，风险和不确定性有着严格的界限。"
    ],
    [
        "In purchasing-power terms, Cuba’s per capita income stands at roughly one-fifth of the US level.",
        "以购买力衡量，古巴人均收入大约只有美国的五分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "While it has been making slow but steady progress, its future is clouded by worsening water shortages; though it straddles the Yellow River, the water table is dwindling fast.",
        "尽管该省一直取得缓慢而稳步的进展，但是其未来还是受困于日益恶化的水源短缺； 尽管黄河横跨该省，但是其地下水正在快速下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The greatest risk to bond holders is that inflation will rise again, pushing up the interest rate on long-term bonds.",
        "债券持有者的最大风险是通货膨胀再次上升，推高长期债券利率。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, a determined shift toward markedly higher and more inclusive global growth is far from guaranteed.",
        "在这样的背景下，坚定地朝向显著更高、更包容的全球增长的转变远非板上钉钉之事。"
    ],
    [
        "The pipeline has been established as a Russian-German-Dutch consortium, but it is the Russian energy giant Gazprom that is in the driver’s seat with 51% of the shares.",
        "该管道由俄罗斯－德国－荷兰三国合资联营，但其中能源巨头俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司却独占51％的股份并因此牢牢掌握着主导权。"
    ],
    [
        "What is essential about Chen is neither his blindness nor his family’s visit to the US, but the fact that he upholds a vision of universal human rights, a vision that can be fully realized only when, and if, China honors its promise to allow him one day to return home.",
        "而对中国来说，重要的不是陈光诚作为盲人的事实或者其家人对美国的造访，而是他秉承着一个普世人权的理想，但直到有一天中国能履行自己的承诺让他重归祖国，这个理想才算完全实现。"
    ],
    [
        "He bore his suffering since the assassination attempt of 1981 with dignity.",
        "自从1981年遇刺后，他就一直带着尊严忍受着痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "The same can be said for China’s growing stridency with respect to its claims in the South China Sea.",
        "中国对南海领土要求日趋强硬也遵循同样的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Pope Francis, for example, appears to be leading the Catholic Church in the direction of greater social engagement.",
        "比如弗朗西斯教皇似乎想引导天主教会加强社会参与。"
    ],
    [
        "The subsequent burst of the housing bubble in the United States caused banks to fail, because banking had gone global and the big banks held one another’s bad loans.",
        "随后美国房地产泡沫破灭导致银行破产，这是因为银行业已经全球化而大银行之间都对方持有对方的不良贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "And weaknesses in the London housing market do not appear to have spread elsewhere.",
        "而伦敦住房市场的弱势并没有蔓延到其他地区。"
    ],
    [
        "State manipulation of interest rates, however, does not influence time preference, even though it signals such a change.",
        "然而，国家对利率的操控并不影响时间偏好，尽管它显示了这样的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year was the second in a row in which China added more generating capacity from non-fossil-fuel sources than from fossil-fuel sources.",
        "去年中国连续第二年非化石燃料新增发电量超过化石燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent study conducted in China, including 862 patients who were between the second and tenth day after onset of acute stroke, is the largest truly randomized trial using death or dependency as the primary outcome.",
        "最近一项在中国针对862名处于第二次严重的中风发作后十天内的病人所进行的研究是真正把死亡或依赖他人护理作为主要结果的最大规模的随机试验。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, in the second quarter of 2014, China recorded a capital-account deficit for the first time in decades.",
        "因此，2014年二季度，中国资本账户出现了数十年来的首次逆差。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, to some extent, such is the price of progress.",
        "是的，在某种程度上而言这的确是进步的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Ban needs to begin with a cold, hard assessment of his new position.",
        "潘基文需要对他新的职位作一个冷静的、艰难的评估。"
    ],
    [
        "For the Fed, it is important to ask whether the 1930’s, when its premature policy tightening precipitated a double-dip recession, really is the best historical analogy to consider when contemplating how to time the exit from its current accommodating stance.",
        "对美联储来说，重要的是当考虑如何计算退出当前适应性立场的时机时，要搞清楚上世纪30年代——当其过早政策紧缩引发了双重衰退——是否真是用以类比的最佳历史时期。"
    ],
    [
        "But in 2003, following five years of deflation, China’s economy entered a new phase.",
        "但是在2003年，随着五年通货紧缩的结束，中国经济步入了一个新的阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "With the TPP, Vietnam gets some assurance of continued access to the US market (existing barriers on the US side are already quite low), but in return must submit to restrictions on subsidies, patent rules, and investment regulations.",
        "在TPP框架下，越南得到了关于持续进入美国市场（美方现有障碍已然相当低）一些保证，而作为回报，该国必须服从针对补贴，专利规则和投资规则的限制条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Cross-border flows of goods, including commodities, remain the largest category, growing at 11% per year during the last decade and surpassing their pre-recession peak in 2012.",
        "跨境商品流（包括大宗商品）仍是最大的流动项，在过去十年中以每年11%的速度增加，并在2012年超过了危机前峰值。"
    ],
    [
        "Losses in stock markets have a double effect: they reduce households’ wealth and lead them to spend less; and they cause massive losses to investors who borrowed to invest in stock, thus triggering margin calls and asset fire sales.",
        "股票市场的损失会产生双重效应：它们减少了家庭的财富从而使他们的消费下降； 同时它们造成借款投资股票的投资者的损失，从而引发保证金催缴和减价销售资产的风潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, attacks against the West in mosques, however vicious, should not be banned, in contrast to open encouragement to join suicide death squads.",
        "同样地，与公开鼓励参加自杀式敢死队相反，不应当禁止在清真寺中攻击西方社会，无论这种攻击有多么恶毒。"
    ],
    [
        "Vázquez needed some cover on the status of Urugayan immigrants in the US, and mainly, increases in quotas for its exports to the American market.",
        "巴斯克斯要求在美国的乌拉圭移民能够身份问题上得到某种保护，还有主要是要增加其对美国市场的出口配额。"
    ],
    [
        "Energy is, of course, the bloodline of any society, reflected in the correlation between energy demand and income.",
        "当然，能源是任何一个社会的生命线。 这一点可以在能源的需求和供应上反映出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that this strategy can be applied to stocks, bonds, currencies, and many other asset classes, smart beta could be the future of asset management.",
        "聪明贝塔策略可用于股票、债券、货币和其他多种资产类别，因此它也许代表了资产管理的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "The dark clouds gathering around synthetic biology may not have been visible at Cargill’s sunny product launch.",
        "笼罩在合成生物技术周围的乌云或许在嘉吉阳光明媚的产品发布会上并不那么明显。"
    ],
    [
        "The two grand agreements that it pursued – the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – would have put the US at the center of an integrated market comprising two-thirds of the global economy.",
        "它所推动的两项大型协议——包含12国的《跨太平洋伙伴关系协议》以及《跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系协议》——将使美国成为涵盖全球经济总量三分之二的整合性市场的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, in Russia, President Vladimir Putin rules a state apparatus designed and run by elements of the country's old intelligence services and its new mafia.",
        "类似地，在俄罗斯，总统普京所统治的国家机器由该国旧情报机关和新黑手党成员制定和运营。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Ukraine has been an independent country since 1991 and is fully integrated into the international system, having ceded its nuclear weapons in 1994 and presided over three sessions of the UN General Assembly.",
        "比如，乌克兰自1991年以来就一直是独立国家，并且充分融入了国际体系，它在1994年放弃了核武器，并且主持过 三次联合国大会。"
    ],
    [
        "Fears abound that Chinese aid is beginning to run amok.",
        "因此也产生了许多忧虑中国的援助将变得独断专行的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, potential growth has also fallen in both advanced and emerging economies.",
        "更糟糕的是，发达和新兴经济体的潜在增长也有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Ben Carson – the retired neurosurgeon who endorsed Trump after bowing out of the Republican primary – is no fan of social programs or fair-housing initiatives.",
        "本·卡尔森（Ben Carson）——在共和党初选后力挺特朗普的退休外科医生——很不喜欢社会保障计划或公平住房计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar efforts are being deployed in South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, China, and beyond.",
        "南非、尼日利亚、乌干达、中国和其他国家也进行了类似的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, conservative forces in the Arab world repeatedly turn against women when political unrest spreads.",
        "不幸的是，在政治动荡蔓延时，阿拉伯世界的保守势力一再反对妇女。"
    ],
    [
        "And, to keep up with rapidly changing geopolitical conditions, the international community should consider new partnerships in addressing migration and large movements of people.",
        "而且，为了跟上瞬息万变的地缘政治形势，国际社会应当思考在解决移民和民众大规模流动问题上建立全新伙伴关系。"
    ],
    [
        "As the state of Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, Palestinians remember the Nakbeh, or “catastrophe” – their story of dispossession, occupation, and statelessness.",
        "当以色列国庆祝它六十岁生日的时候，巴勒斯坦人民回忆起了 Nakbeh ，即“大灾难”——关于他们被剥夺，领土被占领和没有国家的故事。"
    ],
    [
        "It is fitting that only the Kremlin shares this idea of democracy.",
        "这样的民主理念受到克里姆林宫的称道还差不多。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the United Kingdom itself, the law meant that many important issues could not be fully debated.",
        "在英国国内，该法案导致很多重要问题都无法展开讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "The country could then tax the foreign income of its workers and use the revenues to develop its health-care system.",
        "然后，该国可以对员工的海外收入征税，用税收收入发展本国医疗体系。"
    ],
    [
        "But that price index does not reflect new products or improvements to existing goods and services.",
        "但这一物价指数没有反映新产品或已有商品和服务的改进。"
    ],
    [
        "There are also opportunities to prevent lifestyle-related diseases and improve treatment by enabling patients to compare their own data with aggregated data on similar patients.",
        "另一类机会是通过让病人将自身数据和类似病人的汇总数据比较，从而防止生活方式相关疾病和改善治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past two decades, governments have come up short on solutions to environmental threats.",
        "在过去二十年中，政府一直没能拿出应对环境挑战的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – As Europe’s debt crisis fades, another economic disaster seems to be looming – the price of energy.",
        "发自柏林——随着欧洲债务危机的消退，另一场经济灾难似乎迫在眉睫——能源价格。"
    ],
    [
        "New confrontations would likely emerge as soon as a new government was formed.",
        "一旦新的政府组成，新的冲突就可能出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Any attempt at disarming Hezbollah by the UN force would mean a war with Hezbollah (and with Syria and Iran in the background) -- a task the UN force cannot accomplish.",
        "任何由联合国部队解除真主党武装的企图都将意味着同真主党(以及背后的叙利亚和伊朗)的战争。 联合国部队无法完成这一任务。"
    ],
    [
        "By burying their heads in the sand, Trump and his advisers must be hoping that reality will simply go away.",
        "特朗普及其顾问就像是把头埋在沙子里的鸵鸟，他们想必寄希望于气候变化的现实会自动消失。"
    ],
    [
        "But if employers actually enroll their employees automatically in the plan, telling them that they can drop out at any time simply by notifying the employer, a large majority of employees will just accept the plan.",
        "但是如果雇主实际上自动把雇员吸纳进计划之中，告诉他们说他们只要通知雇主就可以随时退出，那么雇员的大多数就将会接受这一计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy in Delhi estimates that every year the Indian government doles out significantly more than that in implicit or explicit subsidies to better-off sections of the population, not to mention tax exemptions to the corporate sector.",
        "德里国家公共财政与政策研究所估算，印度政府每年向境况较好群体发放的暗补和明补便远高于这一数字，更不用说公司部门的税收减免了。"
    ],
    [
        "What will he say about inequality?",
        "他对不平等会作何表态呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This will intensify pressure on state pension funds and health-care systems considerably.",
        "国家养老基金和医疗保健系统所受的压力将因此大幅增加。"
    ],
    [
        "(Henderson tried to refuse the role, but there was no “should you choose to accept it” in this episode.)",
        "（亨德森试图谢绝这个职位，但这一回没有“如果你选择接受的话”这个桥段。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this will require deft diplomacy.",
        "所有这些都需要高超的外交技巧。"
    ],
    [
        "Dying for Europe",
        "为踏上欧洲大陆而丧生"
    ],
    [
        "The safe bet is that we will not see a return to the kind of growth that the world – especially the developing world – experienced in the two decades before the financial crisis.",
        "可以肯定的是，我们将不会见到像金融危机发生前20年那样的全球增长——尤其是发展中国家的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, we can use this simple framework to monitor developments, learn from them, and adapt.",
        "相反，我们可以利用这个简单框架来观察事态的发展，从中汲取知识并最终适应。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to child immunization programs, fewer children die each year from vaccine-preventable diseases.",
        "多亏开展了儿童免疫项目，每年很少有儿童死于疫苗可以预防的疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Inflation is now low in every industrial country, and the combination of high unemployment and slow GDP growth removes the usual sources of upward pressure on prices.",
        "美国剑桥—眼下，所有工业国通货膨胀都很低，高失业和低GDP增长的组合也消除了价格上涨压力的常规原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Creating the time and the space needed to recharge, refuel, and reflect is essential for the human operating system to function optimally.",
        "创造加油、充电和思考所需的时间和空间是人类操作系统发挥最佳水平的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "And, even as the US and its allies attempt to restrain Iran, its regime continues to goad Israel, calling for its extinction and exporting military wares to its Lebanese and Gazan adversaries.",
        "但即便美国及其盟国试图控制伊朗，伊朗政权仍继续激怒以色列，一边号召将以色列彻底消灭，一边向其黎巴嫩和加沙反对势力出口军事用品。"
    ],
    [
        "As the World Bank observed, “Western European governments spend about 10% of GDP more than the United States, Canada, and Japan. The difference in social protection spending is 9% of GDP.”",
        "世界银行指出，“西欧政府支出与GDP的比率要比美国、加拿大和日本都高出10%，在社会保障支出上的差距相当于GDP的9%。"
    ],
    [
        "Draghi’s strong – indeed, unprecedented – statement was widely interpreted as signaling that the ECB would soon revive its bond-purchase program, focusing on Spanish debt in particular.",
        "德拉基前所未有的强势声明被广泛视为欧洲央行将很快重启债券购买计划的标志，而此次重启该计划西班牙债券将成为主要目标。"
    ],
    [
        "It is impossible to know whether synthetic organisms like Venter’s JCVI-syn 3.0 or gene-editing techniques will prove to be commercially dominant in biotechnology – or indeed whether some other method will supplant both.",
        "现在还不太可能知道像文特尔的JCVI-syn 3. 0这样的合成有机物还是基因编辑技术将主导生物技术的商业应用——或者实质上这两种方法都将被其他某种方法所取代。"
    ],
    [
        "Law and Order, Russian-Style",
        "俄国的法律和秩序"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the years leading up to the 2008 crisis, US data show that productivity trended downward; and, until the crisis, unemployment did not rise significantly.",
        "但是，在2008年危机前几年，美国的数据显示生产率存在下降趋势； 并且，直到危机之前，失业并未大幅上升。"
    ],
    [
        "With this unique mix of insider knowledge and outsider status, and a freshness that both main candidates lack, Enríquez-Ominami has gone farther than most observers predicted.",
        "Enríquez-Ominami同时具备了圈内人的知识和圈外人的身份，还有两大主要候选人所缺少的新鲜与活力，因此他比多数观察家预测的走得更远。"
    ],
    [
        "If they were already too big to fail, what should we now say when banks are even bigger?",
        "如果这些银行已经因为过于庞大而不能破产，那么在它们变得更为庞大时我们还有什么话可说？"
    ],
    [
        "The fundamental contradiction, as these examples show, is between the goals of the reform process and the incentives that underpin them.",
        "这些例子表明，根本矛盾存在于改革过程的目标与支撑这些目标的激励之间。"
    ],
    [
        "But only about 15% of the drugs that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved recently were developed by the same company that markets and sells them, meaning that many major pharmaceutical companies depend on the innovation ecosystem to advance their products.",
        "但美国食品药物管理局最近批准的药品中仅有约15%是由营销和销售该药品的企业研发的，也就是说多数大型制药企业依靠创新生态系统来推进他们的产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Mothers of the Disappeared",
        "失踪者的母亲"
    ],
    [
        "True, Venezuela’s immense natural riches have been exploited and often squandered by elites more accustomed to the boulevards of Miami than to the slums of Caracas.",
        "诚然，委内瑞拉的丰富的自然资源由习惯迈阿密林荫大道更甚于加拉加斯贫民区的精英开采并（通常）挥霍着。"
    ],
    [
        "Deng mistakenly believed that the state, which retained its central role in the economy, would be able to use new market-generated resources to correct the short-run inequalities created by his reforms.",
        "邓小平认为，仍在经济中扮演核心角色的政府，能够使用市场所产生的新资源来纠正他的改革所引发的短期不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the migration cycle, women are more at risk from physical violence by fellow migrants, smugglers, and state officers, and can be forced to exchange sex for transportation, food, or accommodation.",
        "在整个移民过程中，女性更容易受到来自同伴、走私贩和国家官员的人身伤害，并有可能被迫用性换取放行、食物和住宿。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in Turkey, where the rule of law is relatively strong and the constitution well established, the opposition has failed to organize a credible political party with broad public support.",
        "即使是法治精神相对较强、宪法较完善的土耳其，反对者也没有在获得广大公众支持的情况下组织起可信的政党。"
    ],
    [
        "He was awarded the highest public-service medal by the then Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chi-wah, who was later ousted by Beijing for incompetence.",
        "时任香港行政长官的董建华向他颁发了公共服务最高勋章，董后来因能力不够被北京免职。"
    ],
    [
        "I have five grandchildren below the age of four.",
        "我有5个不足4岁的孙子辈。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States put 500,000 troops into Vietnam in the 1960’s, but withdrew before North Vietnam overran the South in 1975.",
        "20世纪60年代，美国在越南用兵50万人，但在1975年撤军后，北越还是占领了南越。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless rural development receives more attention, young people will continue to abandon agriculture and rural areas in search of better livelihoods in cities or abroad.",
        "除非农村发展获得更多关注，否则年轻人将继续逃离农业和农村地区，前往城市或国外寻找更好的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, as in most settlements, BoA did not admit any fault.",
        "然而，一如在大多数和解中那样，美国银行并没有承认任何错误。"
    ],
    [
        "In the name of the “global war on terror,” they have tolerated torture; accepted – and even endorsed – the illegal invasion of Iraq; and allowed innocent civilians to become collateral damage of mechanical drone strikes.",
        "在“全球反恐战争”的名义下，他们容忍了虐待，接受——甚至支持——对伊拉克的非法入侵； 并放任平民成为无人机空袭的附带受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the cartel would double as an international workers’ union, lending bargaining power to employees in countries where unions are weak or not permitted at all.",
        "从这个角度，卡特尔将起到双重国际工会的作用，为工会力量较弱或被禁止的国家的员工提供议价力。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only will the world adopt a new set of goals to achieve sustainable development, but it will also have a new global network of expertise to help achieve those vital objectives.",
        "全世界不但将接受新的可持续发展目标，还将拥有新的全球专家网络来实现这些关键目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments are being left behind as entrepreneurs and innovators race ahead.",
        "政府已经被不断进步的企业家和创新家抛在了身后。"
    ],
    [
        "A year ago, a German judge ruled that religious circumcision was a cruel practice that inflicted bodily harm on boys and was therefore illegal – a view supported by many commentators in the media.",
        "一年前，一位德国法官判决宗教割礼是残忍行为，是强加给男孩的伤害，因此是非法的——这一观点受到了很多媒体评论员的肯定。"
    ],
    [
        "In emerging-market economies, governments should bear in mind five considerations when devising health-care systems.",
        "新兴市场经济体政府在制订卫生保健系统时应牢记以下五点。"
    ],
    [
        "That should worry central bankers, because their credibility is pretty much all they have.",
        "这一切都应当令中央银行管理者们感到忧心，因为公信力就是他们的一切。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s fall back to earth, meanwhile, spawned a kind of parlor game among academics, foreign-policy wonks, and educated investors, aimed at replacing the country in the club of major emerging-market economies.",
        "即使在过去6个月，商品价格有所回升，俄罗斯的能源产量近些年来还一直下滑，部分原因是害怕外资的介入。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a clear economic link would help to motivate local policymakers to take strong action, while helping to bolster public support for policies promoting gender equality.",
        "明确的经济联系有助于激励地方决策者采取强硬措施，同时有助于提高公众对促进性别平等政策的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "And the share should rise to 65-70% over the next 15 years.",
        "未来15年，这一比例应能上升至65—70%。"
    ],
    [
        "In the heavily protected automotive industry, high import tariffs have encouraged foreign automakers to establish factories in Brazil.",
        "在深受保护的汽车工业，高进口关税鼓励外国汽车制造商在巴西设厂。"
    ],
    [
        "This heritage, they claimed, was not sufficiently “appreciated” by the current president.",
        "他们称现任总统并未充分“重视”这种关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The Effective Altruism movement consists of people who give in the latter way, combining the head and the heart.",
        "有效利他主义运动由后一种捐献者构成，他们是知行合一之士。"
    ],
    [
        "For Microsoft, the problem is that the marginal cost of software is zero.",
        "而对于微软来讲，问题就在于软件的边际成本是零。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing works as potently to inflame protectionist sentiment as large trade deficits.",
        "庞大的贸易逆差最为煽动保护主义情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Or bond-market participants may expect that new regulations, like the stress tests, will finish the job.",
        "或者债券市场参与者预期新的监管手段，如压力测试，能够完成使命。"
    ],
    [
        "Neville Cameron?",
        "千古罪人卡梅伦？"
    ],
    [
        "Knowing this, no one would innovate.",
        "明白了这一点，就不会有人去创新了。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, they can reduce the burden of regulatory red tape on the very small clinical trials of new treatments for rare diseases.",
        "其次，它们可以减小罕见病新疗法的极小规模临场试验的监管官样文章负担。"
    ],
    [
        "People who have been infected with leprosy also are entitled to the same rights as everyone else with respect to full citizenship and obtaining identify documents.",
        "麻风病患者在享受所有公民权利及领取身份证件方面也与其他人享有同样的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in Japan, the recent recovery was almost entirely led by exports.",
        "5%，对应的消费增长是2%，投资增幅为3%。 即使在日本，近期的复苏也几乎完全依赖出口。"
    ],
    [
        "Sunni-Shia tensions tend to rise sharply during geopolitical power struggles, such as in Iraq in 2006-2008.",
        "逊尼派-什叶派对峙总是会在地缘政治势力缠斗时迅速发酵，比如2006—2008年的伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "While these protests have no unified theme, they express in different ways the serious concerns of the world’s working and middle classes about their prospects in the face of the growing concentration of power among economic, financial, and political elites.",
        "虽然这些抗议行动并无统一纲领，但它们以不同的方式表达出全世界劳动和中产阶级的深切忧虑——眼看权力日益向经济、金融和政治精英集中，他们感到前途茫茫。 直接导火索很明确：发达和新兴经济体失业率高，就业不充分；"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, it was the Cuban Revolution of 1959 – in which armed revolutionaries successfully overthrew the military dictator Fulgencio Batista – that inspired this movement.",
        "毕竟，点燃这场运动星星之火的是1959年的古巴革命，这场革命中武装革命者成功推翻了军事独裁者巴蒂斯塔。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even if these shortcomings were removed, Turkey should still not be admitted to the EU, because it is not a European country.",
        "但即便这些不完善的地方都得到改进，土耳其还是不应该被准予加入欧盟，因为它根本不是一个欧洲国家。"
    ],
    [
        "A few deals to export Russian hydrocarbons to China can be expected, but not much more.",
        "可以期待会有一些向中国出口石油产品的新合同，但不会有大惊喜。"
    ],
    [
        "But Trump seems eager for state and local governments, which are in the strongest position to assess the needs of their communities, to shoulder much of the burden.",
        "但特朗普似乎渴望让州和地方政府来主力承担这一负担。 州和地方政府能够更加便利地评估各自社区的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "But the terrorists still have not done anything on the scale of 9/11.",
        "然而，恐怖分子还没有做出什么和9/11事件旗鼓相当的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite massive injections of funds and unprecedented security, insurgents have still managed to halt or reduce oil production and exports several times since the invasion.",
        "入侵后，尽管投入了大笔资金和前所未有的安全力量，叛乱分子还有几次成功破坏或削减了石油的生产和出口。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Europe and the US have made substantial progress in implementing effective health and environmental policies, China’s quality-control mechanisms can be improved.",
        "正如欧洲和美国在实施有效的健康和环境政策领域已经取得了实质性的进展，中国的质量控制机制也同样有改善的余地。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in other cases, like Greece, political dysfunction aggravated economic problems.",
        "然而在别的国家，比如希腊，政治体制功能失调则导致了经济问题的进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "People living poorly may feel happier more often than their more “fortunate” counterparts.",
        "穷人可能比“幸运”的有钱人更能感受到幸福。"
    ],
    [
        "If they succeed in bringing about a national renewal, Bhutto, a monumental political figure in Pakistani history, will not have died in vain.",
        "如果他们能够在民族复兴的道路上取得成功，贝・布托，这位巴基斯坦历史上里程碑式的政治人物，就没有白白死去。"
    ],
    [
        "Myriad is a true example of an American corporation for which profit trumps all other values, including the value of human life itself.",
        "麦利亚德是典型的将利润置于其它所有价值观——包括人的生命——之上的美国公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Last century sea levels rose by half that amount without most of us even noticing.",
        "上个世纪海平面上升了那个数量的一半，大多数人甚至没有注意到。"
    ],
    [
        "China should also publicly work within the UN and with ASEAN to find a way in which the international community can help to resolve the crisis peacefully.",
        "中国还应该公开地在联合国和东盟内寻找到一条国际社会可以帮助和平地解决这场危机的途径。"
    ],
    [
        "· Improve support for survivors of violence and their families, including legal assistance, psychological counseling, and health care.",
        "· 改善对暴力幸存者及其家庭的支持，包括法律援助、心理辅导和医疗。"
    ],
    [
        "And America’s founders clearly regarded legislative control over the budget as a key pillar of democratic governance.",
        "”而美国的建立者们也很清楚地认定对预算的立法管制是民主治理的一大关键支柱。"
    ],
    [
        "But this argument becomes irrelevant when ensuring price stability is no longer monetary policymakers’ sole task.",
        "）但当确保价格稳定不再是货币决策者的唯一使命时，这一理由便站不住脚了。"
    ],
    [
        "Private investors will need to agree to binding rules protecting social, environmental, human, and gender rights.",
        "私人投资者必须同意保护社会、环境、人道和性别权利的有法律约束力的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference is this: A market economy is a tool – a valuable and effective tool – for organizing productive activity.",
        "不同之处在于：市场经济组织生产活动的一种——有价值且富有成效的——工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s leaders must imbue their citizens with renewed hope.",
        "欧洲领导人必须让民众看到新的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "But what is really needed is a shift in the distribution of income toward households.",
        "但真正需要的是改变收入分配格局，使之向家庭倾斜。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, China now faces the same debt-deflation challenge that much of the rest of the world must address.",
        "简而言之，如今中国面临着与世界许多其他国家一样的债务通缩挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But the collapse of the Soviet Union meant that there was no negotiated settlement of this new order.",
        "\"但苏联的崩溃意味着这种新秩序已经无法通过谈判产生。"
    ],
    [
        "We all felt that we were creating something new, something that might, one day, turn out to be an important component of democracy in our countries.",
        "我们都感到我们是在创造某些新气象，或许终有一日会成为我们国家民主的重要组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "But the report plainly understated the degree of public support for change.",
        "但该报告显然低估了公共对变革的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet governments across Europe have clamped down on infrastructure spending for years, giving precedence to fiscal austerity and debt reduction in the misguided belief that government borrowing crowds out private investment and reduces growth.",
        "但整个欧洲的政府多年来都在遏制基础设施支出，在政府借贷挤出私人投资、降低增长的误导信念下，财政紧缩和减少债务才是重点。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing new antibiotics is difficult and expensive – and, crucially, far less profitable than investments in other important fields, such as cancer and diabetes.",
        "新抗生素的研发难度大且投入昂贵——而且关键是与癌症和糖尿病等其他重要投资领域相比带来的利润没那么多。"
    ],
    [
        "There are now more connected mobile devices than there are people on the planet.",
        "如今，连上互联网的移动设备数量比地球人口还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "The legislation is not “tax reform” by even the most elastic reading.",
        "就算是按照最不着边际的阅读理解方式，这一立法也跟“税收改革”没有一毛钱关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush invaded Iraq ostensibly to remove Saddam Hussein’s capacity to use weapons of mass destruction and, in the process, to change the regime.",
        "布什出兵伊拉克的表面理由是消灭萨达姆·侯赛因的大规模杀伤性武器，顺便改变伊拉克的政权。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the beginning of his travails in Bulgaria, he has battled the system by confronting the government branches responsible for his persecution.",
        "从他在保加利亚的艰难困境一开始，他就以与负责迫害他的政府部门对抗的方式来与这个制度抗争。"
    ],
    [
        "It also pulls their lives back from the razor’s edge, giving them a sense of security even if they have a bad harvest.",
        "他们不用再过剃刀边缘的日子，即使收成不好，也能获得安全感。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s over for a while.",
        "这种生活在一段时间内结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "The treaties mark an attempt to balance action and ambition in a context of economic crisis, fiscal consolidation, large-scale defense transformations, increasing interdependencies, and global threats – from terrorism and nuclear proliferation to climate change, resource scarcity, and epidemics – that are impossible to tackle unilaterally.",
        "经济危机、财政巩固政策、大规模防御手段升级、国家间依存度不断提高以及全球威胁（从恐怖主义、核扩散、气候变化，资源缺乏以及流行病）都不可能由各国独自应对，在此背景下，欧洲领导人尝试利用该协议在实际行动和理想之间实现某种平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a day for young people to recall the sacrifices that their families have made for them, and consider the kinds of sacrifices they will make for their families.",
        "年轻人应当记住家人为自己做出的牺牲，并认真思考他们愿意为自己的家庭做些什么。"
    ],
    [
        "What We Owe Egypt",
        "我们欠埃及什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, in his defense of the family – or, as he would put it, the sacred union between man and woman – he pointed out how sexual arrangements outside that union were a threat to human civilization.",
        "相反，他为家庭做了辩护——他称之为男人和女人之间难得的联盟——指出这一联盟之外的性安排是对人类文明的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Initially, it looked like Obasanjo would weather the storm and serve out his last term without making concessions to his opponents.",
        "起初，奥巴桑乔似乎能承受这场风暴的洗礼，在不对反对派让步的情况下完成自己的最后任期。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, watchdog NGOs dedicated to scoring the public-interest value of what business groups ask for from the government could facilitate trust.",
        "考虑到这一情况，致力于评估商业组织对政府要求中的公共利益的非政府组织有助于增进信任。"
    ],
    [
        "These are highly complex cases, frequently involving not only novel issues under international law, but also thousands of witnesses – often traumatized by their suffering – dispersed to many lands, the constant need for high-quality simultaneous translations, and disruptive tactics by some defendants.",
        "这些都是极为复杂的案件，不仅经常包含国际法中的新兴事务，而且还有数以万计饱受痛苦折磨、流离失所的证人，对高质量同传翻译的需求，以及某些被告的破坏性伎俩。"
    ],
    [
        "The point is that commercial logic is not the only consideration that should govern their economic relationships.",
        "要点在于商业逻辑不是决定它们的经济关系的唯一考虑因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Amid rising allegations of abuse, President George W. Bush’s government realized some time ago that it could not maintain its Guantánamo detention camp forever.",
        "面对日益增多的虐待传言，布什总统的政府已经意识到无法永远维持关塔那摩监狱。"
    ],
    [
        "A glimmer of hope is Europe’s willingness to use the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) imaginatively – as equity or first-loss cover.",
        "欧洲愿意将欧洲金融稳定基金（EFSF）用于各种想象得到的新用途——比如用于股权投资或作为第一损失保险。"
    ],
    [
        "But the stubborn truth revealed by the US diplomat emerges every day, despite the impact of drug kingpins who are arrested, the number of weapons discovered, or the amount of cocaine seized.",
        "但这位美国外交官揭露的残酷现实每天都在发生，不管逮捕的贩毒头目，发现的武器或缴获的可卡因数量有什么影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost immediately, 20,000 bar workers and distillery employees lost their jobs, in a state that already struggles with high unemployment.",
        "20,000酒吧和酿酒厂员工几乎在一夜之间失去了工作，而当时的喀拉拉邦已经因为高失业而步履维艰。"
    ],
    [
        "Compton is rumored to be next; most observers expect more to follow.",
        "传言认为康普顿会下一个宣布破产； 多数观察家预计将有更多城市加入到这个队伍。"
    ],
    [
        "Here are two democracies, both among America’s closest allies, unable to overcome the burden of the past.",
        "它们都是民主国家，都是美国最紧密的盟友，都无法克服历史负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Therefore, in assessing member states’ draft budgets, governments and the Commission would be foolish to assume that low interest rates on government bonds will be around for the foreseeable future.",
        "因此，在评估成员国预算草案时，政府和欧盟委员会假设政府债券将在可预见的未来维持低利率是愚蠢的。"
    ],
    [
        "A small group of economists, including me, recognized this discrepancy, and argued strenuously that monetary easing was critical to fight deflation and extreme currency appreciation.",
        "包括我在内的少数经济学家注意到这一矛盾，大力指出货币跨暗送对于抵抗通缩和极端货币升值至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than telling Japan that the US was determined to search for a diplomatic solution, America’s categorical reaction confirmed it to the Japanese as an arrogant and conceited enemy.",
        "美国不仅没有告诉日本它决心寻求外交解决途经，其坚硬的反应措施使得日本确信美国是一个自负的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "In China – home to the world’s largest Internet base, with 641 million users – 80% of doctors use smartphones for professional purposes, including by providing medical advice via social media, with some practitioners attracting millions of followers.",
        "在中国——这里有全世界最大的互联网用户群体，高达6. 41亿人——80%的医生将智能手机用于职业目的，包括通过社交媒体提供医疗建议，一些人吸引了数百万的关注者。"
    ],
    [
        "New Politics for Clean Energy",
        "清洁能源新政治"
    ],
    [
        "In places where home prices have been rising rapidly, the upward trend may continue or level off for a while.",
        "在房价上涨过快的地方，这种上升趋势会在一段时间内保持或趋缓。"
    ],
    [
        "For, even as the central banking authority administered the price of liquidity, the price of risk was left to the tender mercies of the market.",
        "因为虽然央行当局管理了流动性定价，但风险的定价仍然完全取决于市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to prepare for EU accession, Turkey has undertaken vast and serious legal, political, and economic reforms.",
        "在准备加入欧盟的过程中，土耳其在法律、政治和经济方面实施了广泛而严肃的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The recommendation follows a 2012 decision by the European Court of Human Rights upholding the conviction of a Leipzig man for having a sexual relationship with his sister.",
        "德国伦理委员会在欧洲人权法院2012年判决一名与其姊妹性交的莱比锡人有罪之后提出了这项建议。"
    ],
    [
        "(Other democracies, such as the United Kingdom and Spain, always try terrorism suspects, including alleged Al Qaida members, in ordinary criminal trials).",
        "（而其他民主国家，比如英国和西班牙，通常的做法就是在普通刑事法庭审讯恐怖嫌疑犯，甚至包括某些基地组织嫌疑人。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "The Washington Consensus of free-market reforms for developing countries ended more than two decades ago.",
        "针对发展中国国家自由市场改革的华盛顿共识已经在20年前达成。"
    ],
    [
        "“But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”",
        "“然则除了下水道、医药、教育、葡萄酒、公序良俗、灌溉、公路、净水系统和公共卫生，罗马人还为我们做了什么？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "Nature and nurture became thoroughly intertwined.",
        "在这种时候，天生的因素和后天的培养完全交织在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "The picture is further complicated by security risks such as nuclear arms proliferation, fundamentalism, and weak or failing governance.",
        "这些问题因为核武器扩散、原教旨主义和低能或者缺乏管制等等的安全风险而变得愈加复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s largest polluters – especially China, India, and the United States – have made it clear that they alone will decide what measures they will take.",
        "世界最大的污染国——尤其是中国、印度和美国——已明确表示他们将自主决定采取哪些举措。"
    ],
    [
        "That tendency will be even greater if the public senses that the consequences (distorted asset prices, high government debt, etc.) eventually must be reversed.",
        "如果公众感到结果（扭曲的资产价格、高企的政府债务等）最终必须扭转，这一倾向会更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Online retail and supporting logistics is expanding in a wide range of advanced and developing economies.",
        "在线零售和支持物流正在大量发达和发展中国家蓬勃发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial Safety Nets for Asia",
        "亚洲的金融安全网"
    ],
    [
        "Now, its once-impregnable citadel in America is under threat.",
        "现在，以色列曾几何时在美国坚不可摧的堡垒正在受到威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Reconsidering Man’s Dominion",
        "反思人类主宰"
    ],
    [
        "And even then, the price increase could be limited. After all, game theory dictates that, once the surplus is eliminated, the dominant producer must prevent oil prices from rising high enough to cause it to lose market share again.",
        "即使如此，油价上涨也将是有限的，毕竟博弈论表明一旦这种过剩情况消失，占主导地位的生产者就必须防止石油价格上升过高使其再次丢失市场份额。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, as the Chinese leadership knows, only continued strong growth will provide the government with the wriggle room it needs to begin to revalue the renminbi.",
        "毕竟中国的领导人也明白只有持续的经济发展才能给政府留出足够的回旋余地，以便继续对人民币汇率进行调整。"
    ],
    [
        "With almost perfect synchronization, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced the end of the war on Gaza in a televised broadcast from his Ramallah headquarters, while Hamas leaders called on Palestinians in Gaza to take to the streets to celebrate their supposed victory.",
        "几乎是在同时，巴勒斯坦总统阿巴斯通过电视广播在其拉马拉总部宣布加沙战争结束，而哈马斯领导人号召加沙巴勒斯坦人走上街头庆祝他们所想象的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "By lowering the corporate-tax rate to a globally competitive level and granting better terms for repatriating profits, the tax package is expected to shift corporate earnings back to the United States.",
        "通过将公司税率降低到具备全球竞争力的水平并给予更好的利润归国条件，该税收计划有望将企业收益转移回美国。"
    ],
    [
        "So good did things seem that Russia suddenly discovered that, perhaps for the first time since the early days of the Soviet era, the country actually had some “soft power.”",
        "一切看来是如此之美妙，以致俄罗斯似乎突然间发现，这个国家实际上还有一些“软实力”，这也许是自苏联早期时代以来的首次。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that China appears to have arrived at a similar conclusion.",
        "而中国则是这种趋向表现最明显的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The best response to today’s unholy alliance of populist/racist parties is courage, determination, and clarity of position.",
        "对现今民粹主义/法西斯主义政党的罪恶同盟的最佳应对措施就是勇气、决心和明白无误的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1980’s, its principal adversaries were the urban intelligentsia, who constituted the backbone of the pro-democracy movement that culminated in Tiananmen Square.",
        "八十年代，中共的主要对手是城市知识分子，他们构成了要求民主运动的骨干力量，这场运动最终导致天安门事件。"
    ],
    [
        "With much of the country’s agriculture relying heavily on rainfall, owing to underdeveloped infrastructure, cereal yields are down 40% this year.",
        "由于基础设施落后，该国大部分农业严重依靠降雨，结果今年谷物产量下降了40%。"
    ],
    [
        "The first “revolutionary” statement of Egypt’s new grassroots Tamarod (rebel) movement demanded that Morsi leave within two days or face a march on the presidential palace.",
        "埃及基层新的反抗（Tamarod）运动首次发表“革命”声明要求穆尔西在两天内离开，否则就要到总统府门前举行示威活动。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2017, Beijing – once dubbed “Greyjing” by the international media – will spend some CN¥760 billion ($121 billion) to combat air pollution.",
        "到2017年，曾经被国际媒体戏称为“霾都”的北京将斥资7,600亿元人民币治理空气污染。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, if intra-eurozone mobility were anything like Mundell’s ideal, today we would not be seeing 25% unemployment in Spain while Germany’s unemployment rate is below 7%.",
        "尽管如此，如果欧元区内部流动性能够与蒙代尔的理想状况略有相似，那么如今我们就不会看到西班牙失业率高达25%而德国失业率低至不到7%的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "And it would create conditions for truly innovative future scenarios.",
        "它也能为真正的创新性未来情景创造条件。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a profound conviction in the West that an Iranian regime such as this must want nuclear weapons, and that it is acting accordingly.",
        "西方坚信，像现在这样的一个伊朗政权一定想要拥有核武器并且正在采取相应行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The political transition at home, it seems, is being matched – for better or worse – by a diplomatic transition in the Kingdom’s stance toward the region.",
        "似乎其国内政治过渡伴随着王国地区立场的外交转变——是好还是坏仍拭目以待。"
    ],
    [
        "The second challenge for the US is to champion human rights and democracy in Iran without compromising the independence of opposition forces.",
        "其二，如何在支持伊朗人权和民主的同时却不会影响到反对派的独立性。"
    ],
    [
        "The refugee crisis has also changed domestic priorities.",
        "难民危机改变了国内政策重点。"
    ],
    [
        "So why, if China was still running a decent current-account surplus and a long-term capital surplus, did the RMB suddenly depreciate, forcing the PBoC to intervene (though not very vigorously) to prevent it from falling further?",
        "那么，既然中国仍然存在漂亮的经常项目顺差和长期资本盈余，为什么人民币会突然贬值，迫使人民银行出手干预（尽管力度不是很大）以防止其进一步下跌呢？"
    ],
    [
        "A Roadmap to End Cholera",
        "消灭霍乱路线图"
    ],
    [
        "History suggests that without greater authority, the Agency will be incapable of dramatically reducing global nuclear risks.",
        "历史表明，如果没有更大的权限，该机构将无法大幅度降低全球核子风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But those historical rates prevailed at times when fiscal deficits and federal government debt were much lower than they are today.",
        "但历史利率是在财政赤字和联邦政府债务远比今天低的时期录得的。"
    ],
    [
        "Every large human settlement on our planet is connected to another by air transport.",
        "每个大型人类定居点都通过航空交通与另一个人类定居点相连。"
    ],
    [
        "Yar’Adua’s health worries are creating risks to Nigeria’s stability that run far beyond questions about the Niger Delta or any single political issue.",
        "对杜瓦健康状况的担忧导致了尼日利亚除尼日尔河三角洲或者任何一个单一的政治问题之外的稳定风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But Israel was wrong to believe that Egypt could be a gateway into the Arab world.",
        "但是以色列错误地把埃及当成了通往阿拉伯世界的跳板。"
    ],
    [
        "A carefully focused export strategy is crucial.",
        "谨慎而集中的出口战略至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, the Middle East’s experienced neighbor, could be China’s strategic partner in this endeavor.",
        "作为中东经验丰富的近邻，欧洲可以在这方面成为中国的战略伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the reason for America’s world-beating CAPE ratio may be its higher rate of share repurchases, though share repurchases have become a global phenomenon.",
        "美国CAPE市盈率高居世界之最的部分原因在以其股票回购率较高，尽管股票回购已成为一种全球现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the long-term trend towards ever-lower income shares for unskilled workers is likely to continue over the coming decades, as modern technology permeates the globe, and as emerging markets like China, India, Brazil, and Eastern Europe continue to integrate into global production.",
        "不幸的是，随着现代技术在全球的渗透和中国、印度、巴西及东欧继续融入全球化的生产，非熟练工人工资减少的长期趋势在未来几十年中可能还要持续。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s Nation of Faiths",
        "土耳其的国家信仰"
    ],
    [
        "Each would certainly be costly – particularly for Germany – and therefore would be anything but popular, but the alternatives are much costlier; indeed, they are not serious political options.",
        "它们肯定都要花昂贵的代价的-尤其是对德国-也因此根本不会受选民的支持，但其它的选项会更昂贵，实际上，这些不会成为被认真加以考虑的政治选项。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Americans have not yet embraced the idea that the US-China relationship is too big to fail.",
        "大部分美国人并不认为中美关系已经到了太大而不能断的地步。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not clear whether China’s leaders will recognize this and act in their country’s own long-term self interest.",
        "但迄今为止，我们都未能确定中国领导人是否已经意识到了这一点并从其国家长远利益出发采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "DENVER – US President Donald Trump has decided not to certify that Iran is in compliance with the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the agreement constraining Iran’s nuclear-weapons program.",
        "丹佛——美国总统唐纳德·特朗普已决定拒绝承认伊朗履行了限制其核武计划相关协议《全面联合行动计划》（JCPOA）的规定。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the world is on a robust path to achieve the SDGs, the need for, say, peacekeeping and emergency-relief operations should decline as conflicts diminish in number and scale, and natural disasters are better prevented or anticipated.",
        "一旦世界走上实现可持续发展目标的正轨，冲突的数量和规模就会减少，自然灾害将得到更好的预测或预防，从而导致维和及紧急救援行动的需求下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, there is also some good news.",
        "幸运的是也有一些好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "The historic agreement with Iran is just one of many that will be required to bring peace and stability to the Middle East.",
        "与伊朗的历史性协议只是实现中东和平与稳定所需要的诸多协议中的一个。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, early anecdotal evidence suggests that these safeguards may ultimately slow down traffic by roughly the same amount of time that the project was meant to speed it up!",
        "不幸的是，早期非正式证据表明，士兵检查让运输增加的时间把该公路所节约的时间侵蚀殆尽！"
    ],
    [
        "Employment levels and the regional PMI business surveys indicate that, for most of the past two years, economic momentum has been stronger in North West England than in the country as a whole, including London.",
        "就业水平和区域PMI商业调查显示在过去两年的大部分时间里，英格兰西北部的经济发展势头比整个国家（包括伦敦在内）更加强劲。"
    ],
    [
        "Rothberg was killed because “the yearning for peace deafened his ears, and he did not hear the voice of murder waiting in ambush.”",
        "洛特伯格的被杀是因为“对和平的渴望让他变成了聋子，听不到埋伏中的杀戮之声。"
    ],
    [
        "And with paper money – particularly large-denomination notes – arguably doing more harm than good, currency modernization is long overdue.",
        "而若使用纸币——特别是大面额钞票——实际上弊大于利，货币现代化可谓姗姗来迟。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a doubt, Israel will be a major obstacle to reaching an agreement.",
        "毫无疑问，以色列将成为达成协议的一大障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, before the introduction of limited liability in the nineteenth century, a company’s shareholders or partners were each liable for all of the firm’s debts, which severely restricted businesses’ willingness to borrow to finance trade.",
        "同样，在19世纪引入有限责任这个概念之前，一家公司的股东或者合伙人都必须为这家公司的所有债务负责，而这也严重限制了企业借贷来进行贸易的积极性。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is this: are Muslims ready to accept that Khomeini’s dictum that “Islam is politics or it is nothing” is wrong, that Islam is a religion and not a form of government, and that, as in the Christian world, there is a sphere for Caesar and a sphere for God?",
        "问题是：穆斯林准备好接受霍梅尼关于“伊斯兰就是政治，非此莫属”的格言是错误的，伊斯兰是一种宗教而不是政府的形式，就像在基督教社会，凯撒和上帝能够共存一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Confucian emperors were brutal.",
        "许多儒家的皇帝都是残暴的。"
    ],
    [
        "The third attack on Italian unity launched at the beginning of August by the President of the Lega Nord group in the Senate, Federico Bricolo, who proposed adding a proviso to Article 12 of the Italian Constitution whereby the flags and anthems of the different regions would be officially recognized on an equal footing with the national anthem and flag.",
        "而对于意大利国家统一的第三次冲击则始于今年八月初，参议院北方联盟阵线的领导人，费得里克·布里克罗，他提议在意大利宪法第十二条中添加一条附加条款，要求官方承认意大利不同大区的旗帜及区歌的地位与意大利国歌和国旗平起平坐。"
    ],
    [
        "Its first Regional Center for Africa will be based in South Africa.",
        "其首个非洲地区中心将坐落于南非。"
    ],
    [
        "Uruguay is expected to approve legislation fully legalizing marijuana in January; the Organization of American States is scheduled to deliver a report to the region’s heads of state at mid-year on alternative drug-enforcement strategies and existing “best practices” in other countries.",
        "据预计，1月份乌拉圭将批准给予大麻完全合法地位的立法； 美洲国家组织也将在年中举行地区国家首脑会议，讨论缉毒执法新方针和其他国家的现行“最佳实践”。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast to the Great Depression, collapsing national output was in recent decades accompanied by accelerating inflation, not deflation.",
        "与大萧条时期相反，近几十年随国内产值下降出现的是通货膨胀，而不是通货紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Pecora turned next to the investment banks.",
        "佩科拉接着向投资银行开火。 这一回，调查揭露出，摩根财团（J."
    ],
    [
        "But they can help ease the suffering by discouraging further atrocities, deterring violent extremism, and improving border security.",
        "但却可以通过阻止进一步暴行、遏制暴力极端主义和改善边境安全来协助缓解痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is microeconomic, not macroeconomic: you can sell only so much steel or auto parts at home, and labor productivity in service industries does not match that of export-oriented activities.",
        "其原因是微观经济上的，而非宏观经济。 因为一个国家只能够在国内销售如此多钢铁或者汽车部件，而且服务产业的劳动效率并不与出口导向经济活动相匹配。"
    ],
    [
        "He argued that QE is not nearly as unconventional as its critics claim.",
        "他指出量化宽松政策完全不是批评所说的“非常规行为”。"
    ],
    [
        "And there is no longer-term vision of how the fiscal integration needed for the effective operation of a monetary union could be achieved in a practical timeframe.",
        "而货币联盟的有效运作所亟需的财政一体化，如何能在一个可操作的时间框架内得到实现，也没有任何长远的打算。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that over the last three years, some regional insiders, including me, had several lengthy discussions with Bush’s advisors on the National Security Council (NSC) and in the State Department.",
        "事实上在过去的三年里，包括我在内的一些地区性“局内人士”和布什在国家安全委员会和国务院的顾问们进行了几次长时间的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Also in December, India became the latest nation to join the EU in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) team, which aims to produce electricity using nuclear fusion, as happens in the sun.",
        "同样在12月，印度成为国际热核实验反应堆队伍中最新加入欧盟的国家。 该计划的目的是像太阳一样利用核聚变来产生电力。"
    ],
    [
        "But such a move has several significant drawbacks.",
        "但这样做有几大弊端。"
    ],
    [
        "Wars are traditionally fought over territory.",
        "传统上，战争围绕领土进行。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason Japan should not hold a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council.",
        "不允许日本在联合国安全理事会获得常任理事国席位是没有道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Optimism about the Syrian people's future must be tempered by realism about the challenges facing Syria's opposition movement and the international community alike.",
        "在对叙利亚民众未来保持乐观态度的同时必须考虑到叙利亚反对运动和国际社会共同面对的困难现实。"
    ],
    [
        "With this approach, the US and its allies are sending a clear message to anyone who may disagree with US policy: avoid using the dollar and dollar-denominated bank accounts.",
        "通过这一举措，美国及其盟友向可能会反对美国政策的任何人释放出清晰的信号：最好不要使用美元和美元银行账户。"
    ],
    [
        "President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Gordon Brown are obviously more responsible for the financial crisis than are their successors, who have to clean up the mess.",
        "小布什总统和布朗首相对金融危机的责任显然比替他们收拾残局的的继任者要大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Though security in the Pacific is often associated with the efforts of the US Air Force and Navy, the Army is assuming an increasingly important role in strengthening regional partnerships.",
        "虽然太平洋安全往往与美国空军和海军的工作密不可分，但陆军却在加强地区合作方面发挥着日益重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Denying the reality of climate change will not make it go away; rather, it will erode the economy and expose the US to serious risks.",
        "否认气候变化的现实不会让问题消失，反而会削弱经济，使美国面临严重的安全风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, in times of economic crisis we should be guided more than ever by our common democratic values – the inner dimension of our European identity and a crucial unifying factor for our societies.",
        "最后，在经济危机的艰难时世中，我们更应该前所未有地汇集在我们共同的民主价值观的引领之下—这是我们欧洲认同的内在因素和我们社会至关重要的一体化动因。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank of England has argued that there should be no replication of the banking union grant of new powers to the European Central Bank at the expense of national central banks.",
        "英格兰银行指出，绝不应该能像银行联盟那样授予欧洲央行新的权力而削弱国家央行。"
    ],
    [
        "The evidence is increasingly clear that the early years of life are crucial to brain development, with 700-1,000 new neural connections occurring every second during the first three years of life.",
        "证据日益清楚地表明出生最初几年是大脑发育的关键，在零到三岁，每秒钟都会发生700—1,000次神经连接。"
    ],
    [
        "NATO after Riga",
        "里加会议后的北约"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, though Saudi Arabia’s soft power is waning, its massive oil wealth will likely ensure that it remains a regional heavyweight.",
        "尽管如此，虽然沙特的软实力在消失，其巨量的石油财富或能继续保证它拥有地区重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries deserve an opportunity to correct the situation themselves and to restore stability.",
        "这些国家应当得到一个自我修正和重新实现稳定的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Then came the crash of 2008.",
        "接着，2008年大崩溃爆发了。"
    ],
    [
        "Inflating local growth numbers is so endemic that reported provincial GDP growth data, when added up, are always higher than the national growth data, a mathematical impossibility.",
        "夸大本地经济增长数字的做法是如此流行，以致把这些数字加起来往往会高于国家总体增长数字——这在数学上显然是行不通的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet such reductionism lies behind one of today’s dominant concepts, multiculturalism, according to which one of our identities must prevail above all others, serving as the sole criterion for organizing society into distinct groups.",
        "然而这种降格的背后是当今盛行的一种观念，即多元文化。 根据这种观念，我们的某种身份必然盖过所有其他身份，作为把社会分化成各不相同的团体的首要标准。"
    ],
    [
        "The Socialist Party’s program and its presidential candidate’s campaign promises were considerably less ambitious than they were in 1981, when François Mitterrand was elected.",
        "社会党的政纲及其总统候选人的竞选承诺都被认为是比1981年弗朗索瓦·密特朗胜选时更加缺乏野心。"
    ],
    [
        "Although America objects strongly, a number of Europeans shrug off any opposition.",
        "尽管美国极力反对，但是许多欧洲国家却对他们的反对呼声不屑一顾。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia provides conclusive evidence of the impotence of authoritarian violence and disregard for the rule of law.",
        "俄国为独裁暴力和轻忽法治政策的不堪一击提供了决定性的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why what happened in Vegas should stay in Vegas.",
        "这也解释了为什么从维加斯开始的势头必须在那里结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Jang Sung-taek’s promotion to General was her decision.",
        "事实上，张成泽晋升大将也是金敬姬的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the European Central Bank can create more euros if so desired.",
        "相反，如果急需欧元，欧洲中央银行可以制造更多。"
    ],
    [
        "A technological breakthrough – the steam engine, computers, the Internet – may play a leading role.",
        "技术突破——蒸汽机、计算机和互联网——可能起到了领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas a popular revolution produced regime change in Tunisia, Morocco underwent a peaceful transformation that left the monarchy in place.",
        "相对于人民革命推动下的突尼斯政权更替，摩洛哥实现了一个保留皇室的和平转型。"
    ],
    [
        "An apology to Saddam Hussein?",
        "向萨达姆·侯赛因道歉？"
    ],
    [
        "After 100 years, the price tag will be a whopping $724.",
        "100年后，价格标签将变成724美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Changing that would not cost a single euro; it requires only political resolve.",
        "改变着一点不需要花费一毛钱； 只需要政治决心。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, French-British cooperation if it does take on real substance could be an inspiration to others, though the challenges to making the agreement viable are formidable.",
        "但即便法英合作最终未能落到实处（须知实施条约所要客服的挑战不可胜数），对其他国家也能起到激励作用。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when partisan divisions are undermining America’s economic leadership, China’s growing influence in Southeast Asia should raise a question: If push comes to shove in the South China Sea, will the US find allies in its corner, or will they just be holding Uncle Sam’s coat?",
        "在两党分歧破坏美国经济领导力的时刻，中国在东南亚日益扩大的影响力不免令人产生疑问：如果未来南海局势到了紧要关头，美国是否能够找到自己的盟友，亦或他们只是帮山姆大叔拿大衣的随从？"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the public is disenchanted by the instability caused by fractious and corrupt parliamentary leaders and by the Maoist insurgency, which has cost 12,000 lives in nine years.",
        "国会领导人脾气暴躁且贪赃枉法，毛泽东主义反政府动乱在九年时间内已经夺走12,000人的生命，大部分民众 已经不再抱有幻想。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is bad for those with a strong asset position; by reducing their spending power, it spurs them to save even more.",
        "但受害的是那些资产状况较好的人； 一方面降低了他们的消费能力，另一方面又刺激他们去储蓄更多的钱。"
    ],
    [
        "But once they do reach a new record high, prices are far more likely to set additional records – probably not on consecutive days, but within a short interval.",
        "但一旦价格真的创出新高，其继续创出新高的可能性就会大幅增加——也许不是连日创出新高，但在较短时期内创出新高可能性很大。"
    ],
    [
        "Mitigation will run another $17 billion per year.",
        "减灾每年另需170亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "If it is clear who will vote for which measure, there will be increased demand for a public debate about who should be chosen: why not elect the MPC, since it is effectively a monetary government?",
        "如果说谁投什么票是清楚的，那公众就会越来越多地要求讨论委员会的人选：既然货币政策委员会是事实上的货币当局，它为什么不能由选举产生呢？"
    ],
    [
        "He did one great thing: resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis.",
        "他完成了一项伟大任务：化解古巴导弹危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Their management of the economy, which included a deluge of subsidies, reduced unemployment and poverty.",
        "赫尔南阵营的经济管理（如大面积补贴）减少了失业和贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Another promising initiative – the “optional protocol on communications,” aimed at enabling children and their advocates, for the first time, to bring cases before the UN Human Rights Committee – has been similarly weakened by a lack of strong support, authority, and resources.",
        "另一个大有希望的计划——“可选沟通协议”（optional protocol on communications）旨在让儿童和他们的支持者向联合国人权委员会（UN Human Rights Committee）提交诉状，这是历史性突破。 这一计划也因为缺少强力支持、权威和资源而大受削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "On the one hand, despite the economic crisis engulfing neighboring Europe, Turkey remains the world’s second-fastest growing economy, after China.",
        "一方面，尽管经济危机席卷欧洲，与之为邻的土耳其仍保持世界第二的经济增速，仅次于中国。"
    ],
    [
        "People there want to see an end to the safe havens that allow corrupt officials to steal public money and stash it abroad.",
        "民众希望那些帮助腐败官员在海外隐匿赃款的“天堂”早日消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, both men hope for political survival through a peace agreement: Olmert by means of new elections and Abbas by a referendum through which he can regain ascendancy over Hamas.",
        "实际上，两人都希望通过和平协议来达到在政治上生存下去的目的。 奥尔穆特通过新的选举，而阿巴斯通过可以取得对哈马斯优势的全民公决来达到目的。"
    ],
    [
        "The bully was blaming the victim, and the ECB was openly embracing its role as enforcer for its political masters: the creditors.",
        "施暴者竟然指责受害者，欧洲央行也公开自身作为其幕后政治大佬——债权国——鹰犬的角色：。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain’s relationship with European integration has been a difficult one, regardless of which party has been in power (Wilson, after all, was a Labour prime minister).",
        "无论哪党哪派掌权（威尔逊毕竟是一位工党首相），英国与欧洲一体化的关系注定将会困难重重。"
    ],
    [
        "In turn, Japan now imports from China finished goods (such as office machines and computers) that once came from America and Europe.",
        "反过来，日本现在从中国进口办公设备和电脑等制成品，而这些制成品原先的进口地是美国和欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "A fraction of the population will always be willing buyers of fake news; but the majority will learn to distinguish between trustworthy and unreliable sources.",
        "一小撮人总是愿意相信假消息； 但绝大多数人将学会分辨哪些消息来源不可靠。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, shale-energy resources have largely remained in the ground.",
        "在欧洲，页岩能源资源基本上都位于地下。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, interest-rate reforms must be pursued alongside capital-market reforms that boost access to credit by the more productive sectors.",
        "换言之，利率改革必须与资本市场改革齐头并进。 资本市场改革能让生产率更高的部门更容易获得信贷。"
    ],
    [
        "This is discriminatory, undemocratic, and no way to treat important allies like Norway and Turkey.",
        "这样做是歧视性的、不民主的，而且对像挪威和土耳其这样重要的盟友是行不通的。"
    ],
    [
        "And, judging by the high number of distinguished and honorable professionals in the industry, many advisers, if not most, already do.",
        "此外，从金融业杰出又体面的专业人士数量看，许多顾问（如果不是大多数的话）已经在这么做了。"
    ],
    [
        "These large-scale changes will have to be coordinated, at least informally if not tightly, among the major economies.",
        "这些大规模的改变需要在主要经济体中协调起来，这样的协调即使是不紧密的，至少也要是非正式的。"
    ],
    [
        "Politically, too, the process of adjustment by deflation in deficit countries is so unpleasant and difficult that many pessimists think it will ultimately prove to be unsustainable.",
        "而从政治上说，赤字国的通缩调整过程将十分痛苦和艰难，以至于许多悲观派认为迟早无法持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "For fairness as well as for efficiency reasons, rights and benefits should be attached to individuals, not to companies or employment status, and should be fully portable across sectors and jobs.",
        "为公平以及效率起见，权利和利益不应取决于公司或就业状况，而是要与个人挂钩，同时应该可以在所有行业和岗位之间自由转移。"
    ],
    [
        "But bankers and businesses, viewing these measures as desperate responses to self-fulfilling deflationary expectations, went on an investment strike, while using the central-bank money to inflate the prices of their own assets (stocks, art, real estate, and so forth).",
        "但银行家和企业将这些措施视为面对自我实现的通缩预期的绝望之举，它们拒绝投资，而是用央行的钱抬高自身资产（股票、艺术品、不动产等）的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Lacking any forward-looking political visions, German politics has degenerated to tactical plays being carried out by established players.",
        "没有高瞻远瞩的政治愿景，德国政治沦为建制派行动方的策略交锋场。"
    ],
    [
        "These are all problems that mainstream political parties have been unwilling or unable to solve.",
        "这些问题主流政党一直不愿或无法解决。"
    ],
    [
        "That system was disrupted by World War I, but Britain went back to a gold peg in 1925.",
        "这一体系被一战打破，但英国在1925年又回到了钉住黄金的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Backed by lavish financing from abroad, Salafist fundamentalism – an intolerant version of Islam at odds with the more moderate Sufi-influenced variant that prevailed in India for centuries – has been spreading across Bangladesh in recent years.",
        "受国外金主的慷慨支持，近几年来沙拉菲派原教旨主义——一个偏隘的伊斯兰教流派，与几百年来在印度大量存在的更温和的苏菲派变体大相径庭——正在孟加拉国蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "It can choose to lead the Middle East into vibrant multi-sectarian democracy or slump back into corrupt local politics under foreign tutelage.",
        "它既可以选择走上领导中东进入活力四射的多宗派民主政治之路，也可以后退陷入外部势力监护之下的腐朽地方政治之路。"
    ],
    [
        "When the crisis spread to Portugal and Spain, there was the $1 trillion rescue.",
        "当危机蔓延到葡萄牙与西班牙，又出台了1万亿美元的救助计划。"
    ],
    [
        "If prices rise simply because investors decide that there is no longer any risk, then prices will collapse all the more precipitously if investors collectively change their minds.",
        "如果价格仅仅是由于投资者确信已经没有了风险而上升，那么，如果投资者一道改变了观点，价格就会更为剧烈地崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "The greatest success of Europe’s external policy has been EU enlargement.",
        "欧盟最成功的对外政策就是欧盟扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2004, for example, the United States Food and Drug Administration told drug manufacturers to print warnings on certain antidepressants about the increased short-term risk of suicide in adolescents using them, and required increased monitoring of young people as they started medication.",
        "比方说在2004年，美国食品药品管理局通知药厂在某些抗抑郁药品包装上印刷警告性说明，披露在服药的青少年患者中短期自杀率升高，并需要在开始服药后加强对年轻人的监控。"
    ],
    [
        "But any successor government must be able to maintain order and not permit the Islamic State to exploit a power vacuum, as it has done in Libya.",
        "但继任政府必须能够维持秩序，不允许伊斯兰国利用权力真空，重蹈利比亚的覆辙。"
    ],
    [
        "The most insidious temptation to muddy an INGO’s mission occurs when money is potentially available for some project that is not part of its core business, and for which it does not have readily available internal expertise.",
        "弄混INGO使命的最危险的诱惑情形是给钱让你从事并非核心业务的项目或你没有现成内行专业知识的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent weeks, China announced a 12.6% increase in its defense spending; America’s CIA director, Porter Goss, testified about a worsening military balance in the Taiwan Strait; and President George W. Bush pleaded with Europeans not to lift their embargo on arms sales to China.",
        "最近几周，中国宣布将其国防开支增加12. 6%，美国中央情报局局长Porter Goss证实了台湾海峡日益恶化的军事平衡，乔治·W·布什总统要求欧洲不要解除对华军售禁令。"
    ],
    [
        "Of these, Iran and its nuclear program may well constitute the Obama administration’s first foreign policy crisis.",
        "在这其中，伊朗及其核计划或许将成为奥巴马政府所面临的第一个外交政策危机。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, people everywhere now have more access to more sources of information than ever before. making it increasingly difficult for governments to control, much less monopolize, the flow of knowledge.",
        "结果，如今各国人民所能获得信息源前所未有地丰富，政府想要控制信息源越来越困难，知识流的垄断程度越来越低。"
    ],
    [
        "Still no correlation.",
        "仍然没有发现什么联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump, in particular, is channeling the same populist anger on the right that fueled the rise in 2010 of the Tea Party, which opposed both the government’s bailout of the banks that had caused the 2008 financial crisis and President Barack Obama’s health-care program.",
        "尤其特朗普正在利用促成2010年茶党崛起的同样的右翼民粹主义怒火，这股右翼势力既反对政府救助导致2008年金融危机的银行也反对奥巴马总统的医疗保健计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Using Microsoft Windows does not predispose you to accept torture by the country that produces it.",
        "使用微软Windows并不会让你倾向于接受美国的酷刑。"
    ],
    [
        "One example is the Act of Union between England and Scotland, which requires all succeeding sovereigns of the United Kingdom to take an oath to maintain the Church of Scotland and the Church of England.",
        "一个例子是英格兰和苏格兰的《联合法案》（Act of Union），该法案要求联合王国的所有后续君主宣誓维持苏格兰教会和英格兰教会。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the central issue is how far the old member states are willing to pay to boost the less developed economies of the new members.",
        "具体地讲，核心问题是原有成员国愿意为促进发达程度较低的新成员国经济发展付出多大的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this approach faces challenges.",
        "当然，这一方案也面临挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Committing to massive cuts in carbon emissions will leave future generations poorer and less able to adapt to challenges.",
        "致力于大规模减少碳排放量只会使我们的后代更加贫困，并且缺乏能力去适应挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "We simply had reached the end of our endurance with the omnipresent and all-powerful communist apparatchiks who ruled in our workplaces, neighborhoods, even places of rest.",
        "我们再也无法忍受无孔不入、无所不能的共产党爪牙，忍受不了他们对工作场所、居住社区、甚至是休闲地域的统治。"
    ],
    [
        "And Trump’s approach is far more belligerent – and dangerous – than Bush’s.",
        "而特朗普的方针比小布什还要好斗，也更加危险。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s what happened in May 2010, when Merkel’s government was forced by the French triumvirate of European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to violate the Maastricht Treaty by establishing a rescue fund for Greece’s foreign creditors, primarily French banks.",
        "2010年5月曾经发生过这样的事情，默克尔政府在法国三巨头——欧洲央行行长特里谢（Jean-Claude Trichet）、IMF总裁斯特劳斯-卡恩（Dominique Strauss-Kahn）和法国总统萨科齐——的压力下，不得不违反马斯特里赫特条约，为希腊的外国债权人（主要是法国银行）成立了一个救助基金。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, new studies show that 38% of the EU carbon cuts leak elsewhere, meaning that European climate policy avoids not three cents of climate damage per dollar spent, but less than two.",
        "其实，最新研究结果显示38%的欧盟碳减排渗漏到了别处，这意味着欧洲的气候政策每耗费1美元避免的气候损失不是3美分，而是不到2美分。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – In July, the European Commission published its sixth report on economic, social, and territorial cohesion (a term that can be roughly translated as equality and inclusiveness).",
        "米兰—7月，欧盟委员会发布了第六期经济、社会和领土凝聚力（这个词可以大致解读为平等性和包容性）报告。"
    ],
    [
        "We would still have to pay by the end of the century, only now we would also have made ourselves poorer in the 90 years preceding it.",
        "而我们还是要在本世纪末的时候支付这一代价，只是我们是在前九十年把我们自己搞得更穷而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Such structures have been built across the River Thames in London, and a similar barrier project is underway in Venice, Italy.",
        "伦敦泰晤士河已采取了这样的做法，意大利威尼斯也在建设类似的堤岸工程。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, America’s current economic difficulties will hit Europe hard, but with a time lag – the best guess being 2009.",
        "相反，美国目前的经济困境会给欧洲造成强烈冲击，但有一个时间差—最乐观的估计是到2009年。"
    ],
    [
        "The choice is long overdue, as South Korea is a remarkable success story: in one generation, the South Koreans, formerly pummeled by civil war, under constant threat from their Northern communist brethren, long mired in poverty, and ruled by military dictators for 40 years, have built the world’s 13th largest economy and Asia’s most vibrant democracy.",
        "这项决策早就应该做出，因为韩国已经成为一个引人注目的成功案例： 在短短一代人的时间里，韩国人从内战的重创、北方共产主义兄弟的威胁、长期的贫困和40年的军事独裁统治中解放出来，已经成为世界第13大经济体和亚洲最具活力的民主制度。"
    ],
    [
        "The heads of the 27 EU governments also characterized the Kremlin’s decision to recognize the independence of the two breakaway regions as “unacceptable.”",
        "欧盟27国政府的首脑同样将俄罗斯承认这两个分裂地区的独立看作是“不可接受的”。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, Putin will be able to gain considerable economic benefits from dividing Europe and exploiting the connections with commercial interests and anti-European parties that he has carefully cultivated.",
        "相反，普京将显著受益于欧洲分裂，受益于它自己精心培植的对商业利益及反欧政党层层关系的利用。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the tax reductions will be saved by households rather than used to finance additional spending.",
        "原因是美国家庭将会把由于所得税下降的增加的收入存起来，而不是用来消费。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, many still die from infections, such as bacterial pneumonia, that should be easily treatable.",
        "事实上，很多儿童仍然死于细菌性肺炎等感染，而这种感染本来是应当可以轻松治愈的。"
    ],
    [
        "A successful businessman, he could become an ombudsman and whistle-blower, which would be a real innovation.",
        "尽管没有机会成为主要领导者，但作为一名成功的商人，施塔耶有能力担任组织内部监督者和揭发者这类的角色，而这将是一个革新性的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Soviet scientists believed that the Americans would keep their plans secret until after they had succeeded in launching a satellite, so all our efforts were put into beating the Americans to the launch.",
        "苏联科学家相信，美国科学家在成功地发射卫星之前将会对其计划保密，所以我们就竭尽全力领先美国发射。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowhere in the world is the transformation of an armed insurgent group into a peaceful political movement quick or easy.",
        "世界上没有任何一个地方将武装战乱团体转变成和平政治运动是很快并且很容易的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why the world normally hears less about them than about Afghanistan, say, or Kosovo.",
        "这就是为何有关阿富汗或者科索沃的消息比这些国家更多。"
    ],
    [
        "And Uganda is poised to start exporting rice within East Africa and beyond.",
        "并且乌干达已经准备开始向东非及以远地区出口大米。"
    ],
    [
        "During previous financial crises, from Mexico in 1994 to southern Europe recently, the international community has proved that it can be very creative when it comes to finding mechanisms to channel emergency funds.",
        "在此前的金融危机期间，不论是1994年的墨西哥还是最近的欧洲，国际社会都证明它在寻找紧急资金渠道机制方面具有巨大的创新力。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, Trump, despite knowing almost nothing about governance or public policy, has managed to consolidate most Republicans behind him.",
        "首先，特朗普尽管对于治国和公共政策几乎一无所知，但他成功地将大部分共和党人团结在自己背后。"
    ],
    [
        "Huge gains in disease control and prevention were made last year, and the next few items on my list (11 through 16) reflect progress on specific illnesses.",
        "去年，我们在疾病控制和预防方面取得了巨大的进步，我名单上接下来的几项（第11至第16）则代表了在具体疾病上所取得的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "The results of quantitative easing in the United States and the United Kingdom have been equivocal.",
        "美国和英国的量化宽松结果是模棱两可的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, governments should guarantee insolvent banks’ loans to non-financial companies, as well as private customers’ current, fixed-term, and savings deposits, by reforming insolvency laws.",
        "此外，政府应该通过改革破产法担保破产银行的对非金融企业的贷款以及私人客户的活期、定期和储蓄存款。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost surely, this stimulus would exceed the contractionary effect of money being taken out of the system and the negative wealth effect of the decreased value of “carbon assets.”",
        "这一刺激几乎肯定能盖过从现行体系中抽出资金所带来的萎缩效应以及“碳资产”贬值所造成的负财富效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Ideas for carbon taxes run into resistance everywhere.",
        "征收碳排放税的理念更在全球范围内遭到了抵抗。"
    ],
    [
        "Eighty percent of countries where the density of skilled health workers is less than 22.8 per 10,000 people are in Africa, and another 13% are in Southeast Asia.",
        "高技能卫生工作者比例小于万分之22. 8的国家八成分布在非洲，另有13%位于东南亚。"
    ],
    [
        "A third option is nuclear containment, which relies on several measures.",
        "第三种选择是核遏制，以此为方案必须采取若干措施。"
    ],
    [
        "We returned to our homeland, rich with history, but devoid of natural resources.",
        "我们回到了我们的故乡，这里有着丰富的历史，但自然资源贫乏。"
    ],
    [
        "But if he holds on to power contrary to the constitution, his popularity could easily collapse, especially as his economic policy has thrived on luck, not reform.",
        "但是如果他违反宪法规定抓住权力不放，他的支持率可能会很快下降，尤其考虑到他经济政策的成功是更多地源于运气、而不是源于改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But the policy implications of this are not straightforward.",
        "但上述政策影响并不简单纯粹。"
    ],
    [
        "A Pakistani court’s decision to grant bail to Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who is accused of masterminding the 2008 terror attack that killed 166 people in Mumbai, underscores the challenge of getting every Pakistani government institution on board.",
        "巴基斯坦一家法院裁决导致孟买166人丧生的2008年恐怖袭击的策划人拉赫维（Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi）准予保释，这凸显出一项挑战——要让巴基斯坦各大政府机构团结起来。"
    ],
    [
        "MAYNOOTH, IRELAND – Despite its many woes, the European Union remains a lodestar for poorer states outside its borders.",
        "梅努斯，爱尔兰—尽管乱象丛生，但欧盟仍是欧盟外穷国的指路明灯。"
    ],
    [
        "None of these indispensable and long-postponed reforms will convince López Obrador’s followers that the end of poverty and inequality in Mexico is around the corner.",
        "以上这些必不可少、拖延已久的改革都不会让洛佩斯的追随者相信结束墨西哥的贫困和不平等指日可待。"
    ],
    [
        "She asked him what he thought about compensation for those who are hit hardest by climate change, but who have done the least to cause it.",
        "她问戈尔如何看待给那些受到气候变化打击最大、但却对气候变化作用最小的人予以补偿的问题。 她在www."
    ],
    [
        "That means India’s contribution to global GDP growth is likely to be just 0.6 percentage points this year – only half the 1.2-percentage-point boost expected from China.",
        "这意味着今年印度对全球GDP增长的贡献可能只有0. 6个百分点——只有中国预计贡献幅度1."
    ],
    [
        "This response is intertwined with a defensive reaction to the growing role of TNC’s from emerging markets, the “new kids on the block.”",
        "上述反应中还夹杂着由于新兴市场跨国企业的崛起而导致的保护性行动，这些新兴市场企业成了“经济舞台上新的对手。"
    ],
    [
        "So leaders’ ability to take corrective action increases only with time, as some of the costs of inaction are experienced.",
        "因此领导人只能等待，等到人们吃过了苦头才能采取正确的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "While the original Internet linked computers entirely in the US, today’s Internet connects billions of people worldwide.",
        "尽管原始互联网连接的电脑都在美国境内，但今天的互联网连接着全球数十亿人。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the sky is usually conceptualized in terms of traffic.",
        "其结果是，天空通常在人们心目中通常只是一种交通的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic sanctions alone are dubious against the world’s most sanctioned country.",
        "仅靠经济制裁来对付全世界受制裁最多的国家其效果很值得怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "They need the eurozone core and the International Monetary Fund as temporary lenders of last resort until they restore policy credibility and regain investors’ confidence.",
        "它们需要欧元区核心国和IMF充当暂时最后贷款人，直到它们重新建立政策信誉，赢回投资者信心。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not likely that China (or others) will soon close that gap with the US.",
        "在这方面中国（或者其他国家）要在短期内赶上美国是不太可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "So the state “corrects” firms’ incentives by levying fines or issuing bans.",
        "因此，国家通过课以罚款或实施禁令“纠正”企业的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Since Darwin, academic psychology has expanded significantly, enriched by the sophisticated tools of cognitive science, cybernetics, and brain imaging.",
        "自达尔文以来，心理学的范围扩大了很多，引入了复杂的认知科学、控制论和大脑造影技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, though the US Constitution stipulates that the power to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations” lies solely in the hands of Congress, the Obama administration is pressing legislators to approve so-called fast-track authority, under which they would have no say over either the TPP’s terms or the parties to it – or even the power to amend the treaty text in any way.",
        "事实上，尽管美国宪法规定“监管与外国有关的商业”的权力全部掌握在国会手里，但奥巴马政府正在敦促立法者授权所谓的“快车道权力”（fast-track authority），这样一来，立法者便无权再对TPP条款或参与方置喙——甚至也无权通过任何方法改变条约内容。"
    ],
    [
        "The region’s most populous states – Algeria, Egypt, and Morocco – will maintain the social and political orders that have become entrenched over the last six decades of their post-colonial history.",
        "该地区人口最多的国家——阿尔及利亚、埃及和摩洛哥——将继续沿用其在后殖民时代近60年里已经根深蒂固的社会和政治秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only is the region important for meeting China’s growing energy needs, but the Chinese authorities also are concerned about separatist pressures among the Uighur population in Xinjiang province and the impact of ties with Uighurs in neighboring Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.",
        "这一地区不仅对满足中国日益增长的能源需求至关重要，而且中国政府还十分关注新疆维吾尔族的分离主义势力，以及邻近的哈萨克斯坦和吉尔吉斯斯坦与维吾尔族关系的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "They now have a chance to make good on their word.",
        "他们现在有这样一个机会能把他们所说的话变成现实。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the US is far and away Ecuador’s largest trading partner, accounting for more than a third of its foreign trade.",
        "比如，美国毫无疑问是厄瓜多尔最大的贸易伙伴，占其对外贸易的三分之一强。"
    ],
    [
        "Farmers might be able to increase their output, but it won’t be able to reach the cities, and the cities won’t be able to provide the countryside with inputs.",
        "农民也许能够提高产量，但他们无法接触到城市，而城市也无法向乡村投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, none of the demagogues in the West today – from Donald Trump in the United States to Marine Le Pen or Geert Wilders in Europe – are comparable to Hitler.",
        "当然，如今，蛊惑人心的西方政客——从美国的唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）到欧洲的马琳·勒庞（Marine Le Pen）或吉尔特·怀德斯（Geert Wilders）——都无法与希特勒相提并论。"
    ],
    [
        "In Italy, former Prime Minister Mario Monti’s government undertook some reforms, but it continued to support unions and corporate monopolies.",
        "在意大利，前总理蒙蒂政府实施了一些改革，但仍支持工会和公司垄断巨头。"
    ],
    [
        "The Church of England filmed various Christian groups saying the Lord’s Prayer, one of the foundations of Christian worship.",
        "英国圣公会制作了一部拍摄各种基督教团体念诵主祷文（Lord’s Prayer，基督教崇拜的基础之一）画面的影片。"
    ],
    [
        "But a close reading reveals that the authors reserve their most scathing criticism for the Fed’s failure to initiate a concerted program of security purchases in the first half of 1930 in order to prevent those bank failures.",
        "但通过更仔细的解读可以发现，两位作者保留了对美联储的最严厉的批评——没能在1930年上半年实施购买证券的联合计划以防止银行倒闭。"
    ],
    [
        "How common is the phenomenon we are examining? It may be that many cancer patients harbor disseminated tumor cells, and not all of these cells are destined to re-awaken.",
        "可能许多癌症康复者身上都携带有弥散性肿瘤细胞，但只有其中一部分会重新激活。"
    ],
    [
        "That said, it would be dangerously naïve to believe that the exercise of power and the capacity to intimidate are unnecessary.",
        "虽然如此，认为使用武力和威慑力并不必要的想法也是天真得危险。"
    ],
    [
        "First, there is the issue of the easy availability of weapons of war across most of the United States.",
        "首先是美国大部分地区可以轻易获得战争武器的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It is estimated that children in the program increased their future incomes by $300 per year.",
        "据估计接受该计划的孩子未来的收入每年可以增加300美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Political heavyweights in Guangdong still favor a form of development that relies on speed and quantity while ignoring overall environmental quality.",
        "广东的主要领导喜好的依然是一种注重速度和数量而忽视整体环境质量的发展模式。"
    ],
    [
        "And what is important to bear in mind is that the slowdown in China and the deep recessions in the Russian Federation and Brazil only explain part of the broad falloff in growth.",
        "更需牢记的是，中国经济的放缓以及俄罗斯联邦和巴西的深度衰退只是导致增长全面衰退的一部分原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, the image of concentric circles can help.",
        "这里，借用同心圆的比喻可能再次对理解有所帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial returns from such investment would almost certainly be far higher than from oil exploration.",
        "这些投资的财务回报几乎肯定要比石油勘探高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Most economists understood the downside risks of European monetary union.",
        "大部分经济学家明白欧洲货币联盟存在崩盘危险。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be a cruel irony if, just as Africa begins to succeed, its prospects are cut short by a crisis beyond its control.",
        "如果当非洲在开始走向成功，但它的发展前景却被一场与之无关的危机所荼毒的话，那么整个事件将堪称是一个莫大的讽刺。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the collapse of Lehman Brothers left European creditors more exposed than those in the US, whose funds had been wired home to New York on the Friday before the end.",
        "同样，雷曼兄弟的倒闭将欧洲债权人置于比美国债权人更危险的境地，因为美国人的钱在一切结束前的那个星期五已经被汇回纽约了。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be irresponsible not to try.",
        "但不做尝试是不负责任的。"
    ],
    [
        "The main relevance of economics is that the 2008 financial crisis created conditions for a political backlash by older, more conservative voters, who have been losing the cultural battles over race, gender, and social identity.",
        "最重要的经济意义是2008年金融危机形成了有利于年纪较长、思想较保守的选民政治逆袭的条件，而他们一直是种族、性别和社会身份的文化战斗中的输家。"
    ],
    [
        "The dismal image that Europe projects to the world nowadays does no justice to reality.",
        "欧洲工程的凄凉现状与现实并不相符。"
    ],
    [
        "This is what happened to a Georgian (known by the screen name cyxymu) who used his blog on LiveJournal to criticize how both governments handled last summer’s war.",
        "一个格鲁吉亚人(网名叫做CYXYMU) 用他在实况报上的博客批评两国政府处理去年夏天战争不当。"
    ],
    [
        "But a realistic assessment of growth prospects is precisely what is needed right now to design appropriate and feasible policies.",
        "但对增长前景进行现实评估正是当前所需要做的事，这样才能为未来制定合理可行的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Fully 20% of the population lives in dire poverty.",
        "20％的人口生活极度贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain’s disastrous 1956 invasion of Egypt was talked about as though Gamal Nasser was a throw-back to the fascist dictators of the 1930’s. If he were to be appeased as they had been, the results would be catastrophic in the Middle East.",
        "而在1956年令英国人损失惨重的入侵埃及事件中，埃及领导人伽马尔·纳赛尔就被说成是一个1930年代式的法西斯独裁者，如果像当年对待希特勒那样对纳赛尔执行绥靖政策的话，那么对整个中东地区都将是一场灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Arafat’s successor will need to juggle between negotiations with Israel, which will require concession on refugees’ “right of return” to Palestine, and the aspirations of more than three million Palestinians who wish to come back to the homes from which they were expelled in the wars of 1948 and 1967.",
        "阿拉法特的继任者要在与以色列的谈判中巧妙周旋，要在300多万巴勒斯坦人重返故里的愿望和难民“返回巴勒斯坦”的权利问题上做出让步，这些难民都是在1948到1967年爆发的战争中逃到国外的。"
    ],
    [
        "Anecdotal evidence shows that many of the parties in the various conflicts are using children to fight their wars.",
        "小道证据表明，多起冲突中的众多方面在战斗中使用了童军作战。"
    ],
    [
        "But not all G-20 countries have yet ratified UNCAC – the United Nations Convention against Corruption – which provides a framework for countries to develop their own laws to stamp out the use of safe havens for criminals stealing from the developing world.",
        "但并非所有的G20国家都批准了《联合国反腐败公约》——该公约为各国提供了一个框架，帮助制订相关法律来消灭那些从发展中国家抽逃资金的安全避难所。"
    ],
    [
        "Farther east, the US wants an “honorable” exit from Afghanistan – the longest war in its history – through a peace deal with the Taliban, its main battlefield opponent.",
        "在更向东的地方，美国希望与其在阿富汗的主要战斗对手塔利班达成和平协议，从而“光荣”地退出这场美国历史上历时最长的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "In the wake of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, when Britain revolted against the spendthrift Stuart dynasty, the British government adopted a new approach to debt. Voting on budgets in Parliament – a representative institution – ensured that the people as a whole were liable for the obligations incurred by their government.",
        "自从1688年英国人民发动光荣革命奋起反抗挥霍无度的斯图亚特王室之后，英国政府就采用了一套新的债务制度：在议会（代议制机构）投票通过预算，以确保人民作为一个整体对政府支出负责。"
    ],
    [
        "The US experience is consistent with OECD evidence that students from countries with greater income inequality score lower on academic achievement tests.",
        "美国的经验和经合组织关于收入不平等性更大国家的学生在学业测试中分数较低的证据相一致。"
    ],
    [
        "I knew it, too.",
        "我也知道。"
    ],
    [
        "Their model reduces the sources of all recessions to just six shocks – “oil, monetary policy, productivity, uncertainty, liquidity/financial risk, and fiscal policy” – and explains most of the post-2007 downturn in terms of just two of these factors: “uncertainty” and “liquidity/financial risk.”",
        "他们的模型将所有衰退的成因缩减为只有6大冲击——“石油、货币政策、生产力、不确定事件，流动性/金融风险和财政政策”——并将2007年前的大多数经济衰退仅仅归因为其中两个因素：“不确定事件”和“流动性/金融风险”。"
    ],
    [
        "Rumors have swirled about a possible downgrade of France’s sovereign debt, accompanied by speculation about the consequences for French banks.",
        "市场上流言四起，说法国可能遭遇主权债务降级，关于法国银行的猜测也一下子多了起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Dramatic changes in urbanization, global trade, and consumer markets – which occurred over decades in wealthy countries – are happening at a faster rate, and at a much larger scale, in still-poor countries.",
        "城市化、全球贸易和消费者市场的急剧变化——富裕国家的类似变化发生在数十年前——正在以更大规模、更快速度在依旧贫困的国家上演。"
    ],
    [
        "If this principle is permanently violated, how can one expect a prosperous future based on a new set of treaties that are even more demanding than the existing ones?",
        "如果这一原则被永久性破坏，你如何期待实现基于比现有条约要求更高的新条约的繁荣未来？"
    ],
    [
        "Bédié founded his power on the country’s Catholics and his government on tribal membership.",
        "贝迪埃将自身的权力构建于天主教势力和部族成员制之上。"
    ],
    [
        "That reality was reflected in the eruption of street protests across the Middle East soon after Trump’s announcement, though the large-scale violence that some feared has not occurred.",
        "”特朗普话音刚落，中东街头就爆发了示威游行（尽管一些人担心的大规模暴力事件并未发生），这便是这一现实的体现。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Treasury estimates that American subsidiaries’ offshore investments stand at more than $2.5 trillion.",
        "美国财政部估算，美国公司海外分支的离岸投资规模超过2. 5万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Families and nations that obeyed together stayed together.",
        "家庭与民族共同顺从也相互依存。"
    ],
    [
        "Tensions continued to mount through early 2014, raising concerns about an “accidental war” between China and Japan, which would demand the involvement of Japan’s main ally, the US (as President Barack Obama confirmed on a visit to Tokyo last April).",
        "紧张局面在2014年初继续升级，引起了人们对中日之间“意外战争”（accidental war）的担忧。 若发生意外战争，日本的主要盟国美国也需要介入（奥巴马在4月访问东京时确认了这一点）。"
    ],
    [
        "Now they are in rapid retreat from that market, creating a worrying gap that Asian banks are seeking to fill.",
        "如今它们正在快速从亚洲市场撤出，导致亚洲银行疲于奔命，寻找填补它们留下的要命空白的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "By radically simplifying the myriad combinations of start and end points – the only routes were to and from Memphis – all of the packages could be delivered the next day reliably.",
        "这样出入孟菲斯就成了公司唯一一条线路，从根本上简化了始发点和目的地的无数组合，因此所有包裹都可以在第二天确定无疑的交付。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this will not be easy.",
        "当然，这决非轻而易举的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Romney, for his part, will hold up Obama’s early, still-unmet promises, while Obama will call Romney a “flip-flopper” who changes his positions to suit the moment (and the audience).",
        "而罗姆尼则会重拾奥巴马早年许下的那些尚未兑现的承诺，虽然奥巴马会将罗姆尼称为一个见风使舵的“骑墙派”。"
    ],
    [
        "This would move Greece and its official creditors beyond the continuous angst that now prevails.",
        "这将让希腊及其正式债权人摆脱当前挥之不去的焦虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s ultra-conservative theocrats appear to have thought that by stoking anger over the economy in their political heartlands, they would undermine the moderate President Hassan Rouhani.",
        "伊朗的极端保守神权领袖似乎认为，通过在他们的核心地带煽动针对经济的愤怒情绪，就可以破坏温和派总统鲁哈尼。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, many doctors are unaware of the subtleties of what constitutes valid consent in the eyes of the law and their professional body – a task made more difficult by the evolving rules on consent.",
        "结果，许多医生不了解法律和专业机构眼中的有效同意的微妙含义——而随着同意的规则的演变，这一任务变得更加困难了。"
    ],
    [
        "Since Shiite fundamentalism is itself a recent phenomenon, the early Iranian revolutionaries inevitably rebuilt the religious seminaries along lines suggested by the Iranian opposition’s most powerful pre-revolutionary discourse: communist ideology.",
        "因为什叶派原教旨主义现象本身才出现不久，早期的伊朗革命者就不可避免地按照伊朗反对派在革命前提出的最为有力的理论，也就是共产主义理论来开展宗教学院的重建工作。"
    ],
    [
        "But with more information, it is within our power to prevent those deaths that are caused by our own complacency or incompetence.",
        "但有了更多信息，我们就有能力防止那些因为我们的自满或无能而引起的疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "The Looming Crisis with Iran",
        "迫在眉睫的伊朗危机"
    ],
    [
        "The liability side will expand as social insurance grows – but slowly, owing to a fear of underestimating the liabilities being created.",
        "而这些资产的负债一面将会随着社会保险覆盖的增长而扩张——但由于害怕低估即将产生的负债，这种扩张的步伐将会相对缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s not just short-term pleasure: those who donate wealth and time to others tend to be a lot happier in their entire lives than those who do not.",
        "而且这并不是某种短暂的快乐：那些捐赠了财富和时间给他人的人在一生中都会比其他人更快乐。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Texas swagger merely to be replaced by the distinguished disdain of a Boston Brahmin?",
        "凯利当选是否只是波士顿贵族取代了德克萨斯牛皮大王？"
    ],
    [
        "That is a big gamble, given that the UK now appears to be shuffling towards the EU exit.",
        "这是一场豪赌，英国现在正在滑向退出欧盟的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Gerald Ford’s 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon, who had resigned from the presidency over the Watergate scandal, was couched in terms of national healing.",
        "就连杰拉尔德·福特1974年对理查德·尼克松的赦免也是为了实现国家团结，尼克松当时因为水门事件已经辞去了总统职务。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly flawed is the view of Justin Lin, former Chief Economist of the World Bank.",
        "类似地，世界银行前首席经济学家林毅夫的观点也有缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "It will take a clearly stated, widely understood strategy – the kind that Paul Volcker introduced in 1979-1982 – to complete the job.",
        "为此，美联储必须给出明确的、被广泛理解的战略，就像1979—1982年保罗·沃克尔（Paul Volcker）做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "They may become malicious and aggressive in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
        "伊朗人可能会在伊拉克和阿富汗发动恶意的袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, since taking control of Mecca, the Saudi government has used the city and the hajj as centerpieces in its efforts to place the kingdom at the center of the Muslim world and spread Wahhabi Islam.",
        "事实上，控制麦加后，沙特政府利用这座城市和朝觐之旅力求使沙特王国成为穆斯林世界的核心并推广瓦哈比教。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a slim provision that made joint inspections with the IAEA voluntary made it into the final agreement.",
        "再者，由于欧盟积极的干预，与国际原子能机构自愿进行联合检查这一微小的决定被列入了最终决议，欧盟的理由是安全和视察的责任应该主要归于成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, build a Demand Mountain, and the innovators will come.",
        "相反要着力创造需求，这样自然而然就能吸引创新者。"
    ],
    [
        "The key challenge confronting the economy in the next two years will be faced by the Fed, which must control the inflationary pressures that could emerge as commercial banks respond to a healthier economy by increasing lending to businesses and households.",
        "未来两年中经济的关键挑战将由美联储面对。 美联储必须控制当商业银行以增加对企业和家庭的贷款应对更健康的经济时所产生的通胀压力。"
    ],
    [
        "One must go back to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) and its 60-year era of “heavenly flourishing” ( Qianlong ) in the eighteenth century to find a comparable period of coherent political and economic policy.",
        "必须回顾满清王朝（1644-1912）及其在18世纪长达60年的“天朝繁荣”（乾隆）才能找到与之相媲美的连贯的政治和经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The former should acknowledge medium-term win-lose situations, but maintain their long-term faith in gradual democratic change at home, while working to uphold international peace.",
        "前者应该承认中期输赢局面，但保持对国内渐进式民主变革的长期信念，并致力于保持国际和平。"
    ],
    [
        "SHANGHAI – Many people are profoundly pessimistic about the Chinese economy’s growth prospects, owing to the emergence of massive debt, excessive investment, overcapacity, and so-called “ghost cities” since the 2008 global financial crisis.",
        "上海—许多人对中国经济的增长前景感到十分悲观，因为大规模债务、过度投资、产能过剩以及2008年全球金融危机以来的所谓“鬼城”逐渐出现。"
    ],
    [
        "The decline in Chinese imports has already contributed to a decline in commodity prices.",
        "中国进口贸易的下跌已经造成大宗商品价格下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "They certainly don’t give that impression to onlookers.",
        "但在旁观者看来显然并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "As the son of Holocaust survivors, I have always had an intuitive aversion to moral relativism.",
        "作为大屠杀幸存者的儿子，我对道德相对论一直抱有天生的厌恶。"
    ],
    [
        "For some deputies, it undoubtedly was; but others discovered their love of animals only when it seemed popular to do so.",
        "一些议员认为毫无疑问是如此； 但也有一些议员只有在爱护动物形成潮流时加入这一行列。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Newspeak is alive and well in many places, and there are certainly Orwellian echoes in the authorities’ pronouncements and actions.",
        "当然，官方新闻语言在很多地方仍然大行其道，在官方的声明和行动中也肯定有奥维尔的作品中所描述的那些事情的痕迹。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Have a look at what happened around the world this past month.",
        "纽约—看看世界在即将过去的一个月中发生了什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the two parties’ leaders, Heinz-Christian Strache and Jörg Haider, despise each other, there is little chance of a far-right coalition taking power.",
        "由于两党领导人斯特拉赫和海德尔相互蔑视，因此，极右翼联合政府组阁的可能性不大。"
    ],
    [
        "Upon Nadir Shah’s death in 1747, the diamond fell into the hands of one of his generals, Ahmad Shah Durrani, who became the Emir of Afghanistan.",
        "1747年奈迪尔沙驾崩，钻石落到了其部将、阿富汗埃米尔艾哈迈德沙杜兰尼（Ahmad Shah Durrani）手中。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a different logic from the one that calls for inflation as a way of reducing long-term debt (at the expense of investors), but it has equally serious weaknesses.",
        "与将通胀作为降低长期债务的办法（以投资者蒙受损失为代价）比起来，这是个完全不同的逻辑，但一样站不住脚。"
    ],
    [
        "This system would initially benefit countries with the lowest per capita emissions, meaning that most of the funds would flow towards the least-developed countries.",
        "这一系统一开始有利于人均排量最低的国家，这意味着大部分资金将流向最不发达国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But now, as then, Britain’s future is bleak and overshadowed by debt.",
        "但是也正如70年代一样，今日英国的未来注定坎坷，而且还笼罩在债台高筑的阴影之下。"
    ],
    [
        "So, it is not alarmist to worry aloud about preserving the sense of community that Europe has enjoyed for the past half-century.",
        "因此，为存在了50多年的欧洲统一的观念而忧心忡忡绝不是没有道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Contemporary Japan may have its flaws, but it is now much more egalitarian than the US, India, or many countries in Europe.",
        "现代日本可能自有其缺陷，但却比美国、印度或欧洲其他国家要平等得多。"
    ],
    [
        "They view themselves as counter-forces to cultural domination by the West, asserting their religious identity in the face of what they regard as imperializing ideas like secularism and human rights.",
        "他们自认为是西方文化统治的反抗力量，并且面对他们所认为的例如世俗主义和人权等帝国主义化观念时伸张他们的宗教身份特征。"
    ],
    [
        "A more complex breakdown is possible, and other ideas should of course be vetted and discussed.",
        "可以进行更加复杂的分类，当然也应该对其他想法进行审查和讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "We have many opportunities to do so in Europe and Cuba.",
        "我们有很多机会在欧洲和古巴这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea is a kind of looking-glass world to Havel’s dictum that, to survive under totalitarianism, one must live in truth.",
        "朝鲜便是哈维尔的名言的对立面——为了在集权主义中生存，你必须生活在真相中。"
    ],
    [
        "Voters punished the nationalist MHP severely for its obstructionism following the June election, when it refused all offers to join a coalition government.",
        "6月选举后，MHP拒绝一切加入联合政府的条件，这一从中作梗的行为受到了选民的严惩。"
    ],
    [
        "But it has a lot to do before then, not only to establish a unified approach, but also to translate that approach into strong tactics and a clear message at COP21.",
        "但在此之前欧洲理事会已经做了很多，不但建立了统一的方针，还将在COP21上将该方针转化为强大的策略和明确的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "A growing sense of mistrust and hostility, together with a diminishing commitment to the OSCE’s brand of comprehensive security, was hindering cooperation in various areas.",
        "日益增长的不信任和敌对情绪，以及欧安组织全面安全声誉的下降，阻碍了诸多领域的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the English Premier League was started in 1992, only one championship was not won by Manchester United, Arsenal, or Chelsea.",
        "1992年英超问世以来，只有一届冠军不是在曼联、阿森纳或者切尔西之间产生。"
    ],
    [
        "New mobile-money services are already demonstrating digital finance’s potential.",
        "新的移动货币服务已经彰显了数字金融的巨大潜能。"
    ],
    [
        "Those past disputes probably explain why former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, though a political soul mate of then-President Ronald Reagan, was never invited to address a joint session of Congress.",
        "这些昔日的纠纷也许能够解释为何前首相中曾根康弘尽管与时任美国总统里根惺惺相惜，但从未获邀在国会两院联席会议上发表演讲。"
    ],
    [
        "But is the US interested in Europe or only in parts of it?",
        "但是，美国对欧洲感兴趣，还是只对部分欧洲感兴趣？"
    ],
    [
        "But the un-priced environmental externalities – global warming and water depletion, for example – will require serious attention, not myopic, reactive mindsets and approaches.",
        "但无价可循的环境外部性——比如全球变暖和缺水——必须引起严重关注，采取具有远见卓识的应对措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain’s unique character can be seen in its response to terrorist attacks.",
        "西班牙的独特之处可以从其对恐怖袭击的反应中窥得一斑。"
    ],
    [
        "The fifth source of optimism is slightly paradoxical.",
        "第五个乐观理由听起来有点似是而非。"
    ],
    [
        "This may encourage national policy-makers who defend the SGP’s deficit ceiling to continue to do so, but peer pressure will lose some of its effectiveness when the ultimate threat of sanctions disappears.",
        "这可能会激励支持《协议》赤字限额的国家继续做下去，但如果失去了制裁的最终威胁，伙伴国的压力也可能丧失一部分作用。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Fed underscoring its strong anti-inflation bias, it is harder to argue that investors need gold as a hedge against high inflation.",
        "由于美联储表现出了坚决的反通胀倾向，因此也很难证明投资者需要黄金来对抗高通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "The revolutions of 2011 are a historic opportunity for all Arabs.",
        "2011年的革命对所有阿拉伯人来说都是一次历史性机会。"
    ],
    [
        "We saw how we must learn to work together, to love each other.”",
        "我们知道了为什么我们必须学会一起工作并且互相热爱。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "This gap has narrowed in the past couple of years, but much of the improvement probably reflects little more than the temporary impact of an unusually tough business cycle.",
        "过去几年来，赤字有所减少，但大部分改善可能只是受异常艰难的商业周期的暂时影响所致。"
    ],
    [
        "To dismiss Medvedev as a mere Putin puppet, a constitutional bridge between Putin’s second and third presidential terms, would be both unfair and wrong.",
        "如果将梅德韦杰夫解释成仅仅是普京的一个傀儡，一个实现普京第二次，第三次当选总统的宪法跳板的话，那么不但不公平，而且是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States currently spends $147 billion on obesity-related health care annually.",
        "如今，美国每年要花费1470亿美元用于与肥胖有关的医疗。"
    ],
    [
        "Frankly, with two decades of economic stagnation already behind it, Japan has more important matters to pursue.",
        "坦白说，在经历了二十年的经济停滞后，日本有更重要的事情值得优先考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the media shower lavish attention on over-claimers while neglecting their humbler colleagues.",
        "事实上，媒体对言过其实者给予了大量的关注，却对他们谦虚谨慎的同事看都不看一眼。"
    ],
    [
        "People make a conscious choice to become either cosmopolitans or locals, depending on their own personal talents and the perceived returns from making the choice.",
        "人们有意识地选择成为国际或当地人士，这要看他们自己的才能以及他们认为这样的选择所带来的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Laos was among the worst-affected countries.",
        "实际上，老挝成为受到打击最为严重的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Next, Trump will head to Vietnam and the Philippines.",
        "然后，特朗普将访问越南和菲律宾。"
    ],
    [
        "“Of course not,” he replied.",
        "他说：“当然不是。"
    ],
    [
        "And conventional analyses of the financial crisis focus on the weak capital base of many banks, which left them with insufficient reserves to absorb the losses they incurred when asset prices fell sharply in 2007-2008.",
        "传统金融危机分析将也注意力放在众多银行孱弱的资本金上，资本金过少让它们在2007—2008年资产价格暴跌时缺乏足够的储备来吸收所发生的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "If technologies are being used in ways that exacerbate poverty, discrimination, or environmental degradation, they have not been optimized for the future that the people of the Middle East want to build.",
        "如果新技术的运用形式加剧了贫困、歧视或环境退化，那么这项技术尚未经过适应我们预想中未来的优化进程。"
    ],
    [
        "It was not long before feudalism began to dissolve; liberal and democratic values gained traction; women secured greater rights; and economic systems emerged that could boost productivity, achieve high growth rates, and improve living standards.",
        "妇女获得了更多权利； 同时出现了提高生产效率、实现高增长和改善生活水平的经济体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Osama Bin Laden himself never ruled out the idea of establishing a caliphate.",
        "本·拉登本人从来没有排除建立哈里发政权的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "But the challenge – which my institution, the World Bank, is working to overcome – is to ensure that trade-driven growth benefits the poor.",
        "但我所在的世界银行正着力解决的难题是确保由贸易驱动的增长能够惠及穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU is, after all, the ultimate expression of representative democracy.",
        "毕竟，欧盟是代议制民主的终极表达。"
    ],
    [
        "In promoting democracy, liberals reject the argument used by today’s rulers that the first free election would be the last, because Islamists would win and establish theocratic regimes.",
        "在推动民主的过程中，今日统治者的这一言论遭到自由主义者的反对：第一届自由选举也将是最后一次，因为伊斯兰教主义者们将会赢得胜利并建立一个神权政体。"
    ],
    [
        "Joseph Schumpeter and Friedrich Hayek, the two most famous Austrian economists of the last century, also attacked the view of the economy as a machine.",
        "上个世纪最著名的两位奥地利经济学家约瑟夫·熊彼特（Joseph Schumpeter）和弗雷德里希·哈耶克（Friedrich Hayek）也抨击了将经济视为机器的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, instead of making an effort to foster peace in Sudan, as a permanent, veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council should, China’s deep involvement with Sudan, through the provision of oil infrastructure and weapons, actually prolonged the Darfur conflict.",
        "比如说中国非但没有致力于维护苏丹和平，相反作为一个联合国安理会常任理事国，中国借助石油设施和武器而对苏丹的深度介入实际上延长了达尔富尔冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Workers in Ohio whose wages have stagnated, or unemployed voters in Michigan whose jobs have migrated overseas, will consume information in a way that reflects their economic situation.",
        "工资停滞不前的俄亥俄州的工人，或就业岗位移往海外的密歇根州失业选民消费信息的方式也将反应他们的经济状况。"
    ],
    [
        "And then: “He turned to his workmates and said: ‘Death to Machines’/They tread on our future and stamp on our dreams.”",
        "”接着是这样的：“他来到工友们中间，说：‘死于机器’/它们践踏了我们的未来，碾碎了我们的梦想。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the longer central banks promote financial-market froth, the more dependent their economies become on these precarious markets and the weaker the incentives for politicians and fiscal authorities to address the need for balance-sheet repair and structural reform.",
        "此外，央行鼓吹金融市场泡沫越久，经济对这些危险的市场的依赖程度就越大，政客和财政当局满足资产负债表修正和结构改革的需要的激励就越弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation remains tense and fluid.",
        "目前的局势依旧紧张多变。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan seized its opportunity in the years following World War II, using labor-intensive industries, such as textiles and simple electronics, to drive its economy until rising labor costs eroded its comparative advantage in those sectors.",
        "日本在二战后抓住了这一机会，用劳动密集型行业（如防止和简单电子）驱动经济，直至劳动力成本遏制了这些行业的比较优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, an economic slowdown could erode Putin’s popular support, which is based on the gains in living standards made under his leadership.",
        "当然，经济减速可能腐蚀普京的支持度——它建立普京所领导的生活水平的不断提高的基础上。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by boldly seizing the initiative can South Africa put itself at the core of Africa’s economic renewal, and only by embracing its role as regional leader can it revitalize its own prospects.",
        "唯有果断抓住机会，南非才能成为非洲经济复兴的核心，而唯有抓住其地区领导者的角色，才能重振其自身的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "North’s work goes a long way toward explaining the dramatic institutional and economic changes that have occurred in China over the last three decades, as well as illuminating the challenges that it will face over the next decade.",
        "诺斯的工作有助于解释中国过去三十年来所发生的剧烈的制度变迁和经济成就，并对中国在未来十年将遇到的改革挑战有重要的启发。"
    ],
    [
        "Tight budgets are straining the agencies that could be driving path-breaking innovation.",
        "吃紧的预算制约着可能推动突破性创新的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is no reason to delay action in the areas where policy can make a difference.",
        "但这绝不是推迟在政策能够造成不同的领域采取行动的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Romney is right to raise the issue of subsidies, but he badly misstates what has happened in the US during the last four years.",
        "罗姆尼提出补贴问题是对的，但他在描述过去四年美国所发生的事情时错得离谱。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the Fed is again playing the expectations game.",
        "如今，美联储再一次玩起了预期游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "Another common argument against tobacco control – that if people are not harming others, governments should not interfere with their individual decisions – is at odds with both common sense and the evidence.",
        "另一个常见的反对烟草控制的论点是，如果人们并没有危害他人，各国政府就不应该干预他们的个人决定。 这一论点有悖常理并且与事实证据不符。"
    ],
    [
        "In one case, a document describing a plot directed against Christian minorities turned out to have been in police possession before the authorities claimed to have recovered it from a suspect.",
        "在一个案件中，一份描述针对基督徒少数派密谋的文档在当局宣布从一位嫌疑人处发现之前便落在了警方手中。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an agreement makes sense because more than 50% of Moldova’s trade is already with the EU, while roughly 70% of Moldova’s citizens and virtually all of its political parties support European integration.",
        "这将是一份明智的协议，因为摩尔多瓦50%的贸易额都是来自于欧盟地区，而且70%的摩尔多瓦公民以及差不多所有国内政党都是支持欧洲一体化的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Syrian crisis is a major “threat to the peace,” and the world must address it together.",
        "叙利亚危机是一个主要的“和平威胁”，世界必须齐心合力才能解决它。"
    ],
    [
        "The data show that countries with saving deficits tend to run trade deficits, while those with saving surpluses tend to run trade surpluses.",
        "数据表明，存在储蓄赤字的国家一般伴随着贸易赤字，而储蓄盈余的国家伴随着贸易盈余。 美国是最显著的例子，2015年净国民储蓄率为2."
    ],
    [
        "The Saudis did not like the recent meeting.",
        "沙特人对最近这次会议并不满意。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the new model that emerges will still have to account for major forces that sustained the old model, especially the forces of globalization and technological innovation that voter resistance will not stop.",
        "与此同时，当前涌现的新模式仍然必须考虑到支撑旧模式的主要力量，尤其是选民将继续抵制的全球化和技术创新的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if manufacturing were to come back, the jobs won’t.",
        "即使制造业能回归，就业机会也不会随之而来。"
    ],
    [
        "The current crisis is not a one-off event; it augurs a period of higher migration pressures for the foreseeable future, due to a variety of causes.",
        "因为各种各样的原因，它预示着可以预见的未来移民压力很大。 其中包括欧洲人口不足和非洲人口爆炸；"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the process started the wrong way, by excluding most countries from the talks.",
        "其次，这个过程是以将绝大多数国家排除在会谈之外的错误方式开始的。"
    ],
    [
        "For the bankers, that’s a bonanza, paid from monies that the Fed would normally pay to the US Treasury.",
        "对银行家来说，这简直是天降馅饼，这笔钱通常是美联储付给美国财政部的。"
    ],
    [
        "A few years ago, the US Treasury Department estimated that shifting to a territorial system would reduce corporate tax revenue by only $130 billion over ten years.",
        "几年前，美国财政部估算转向领土原则仅仅会导致税收收入在十年时间里减少1,300亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The early Muslims read the works of the great Greek scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers.",
        "早期的穆斯林阅读了伟大的希腊科学家、数学家和哲学家的作品。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the outcome in Tunisia, those who believe that democracy, to paraphrase Woodrow Wilson, makes the world a safe place – and that more democracy makes it safer – have every reason to rejoice at such an auspicious development.",
        "无论突尼斯革命的最终结果如何，那些相信民主能像伍德罗·威尔逊所说让世界更安全——而且民主国家越多安全性也越高——的人们有理由为这样一个美好的进展而欢欣鼓舞。"
    ],
    [
        "From 2010 to 2012, the LHC produced the highest-energy proton-proton collisions ever; and even higher-energy collisions are anticipated in 2015.",
        "2010—2012年间，LHC进行了最高能量的质子对撞； 2015年将进行更高能量的对撞。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, at least, breaching sexual norms still brings with it a moral opprobrium that is unrelated to any real harm it may do.",
        "至少在美国，违背性关系的准则依旧带有与任何实际损害无关的道德骂名。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Xi Factor",
        "中国的习因素"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, there are hard-line Jews, such as the settler groups who drive Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem and Hebron, who have forgotten the early teachings of Jewish scholars who argued that strangers should be treated like your own people.",
        "同样，到处都是态度强硬的犹太人，比方说将巴勒斯坦人赶出东耶路撒冷和希伯伦家园的定居者团体，他们早就把犹太学者早期的训诫抛到了脑后，这些训诫要求犹太教信徒给予陌生人亲人般的待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Tribal feelings – national, ethnic, and religious – are filling the vacuum.",
        "部落感——民族的、种族的、宗教的——正在填补真空。"
    ],
    [
        "Others, such as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, are evidently skeptical.",
        "其他人，如财政部长史蒂文·努钦（Steven Mnuchin）显然对此抱怀疑态度。"
    ],
    [
        "When Climate Leaders Protect Dirty Investments",
        "当气候领导者保护肮脏投资时"
    ],
    [
        "The problem arises when our yearning for certainty overwhelms rational thinking, taking our ideas and actions in an unproductive – or even dangerous – direction.",
        "问题就出在我们对确定性的向往压倒了理性思维，从而将我们的思想和行动带往低效——甚至是危险的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "Fighting corruption is vital, not simply because it is the right thing to do, but because failing to do so affects us all.",
        "与腐败斗争之所以必不可少，不但是由于这样做是对的，而是因为如果失败的话，我们每个人都像深受其害。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberalize or restrict abortion?) are complex, and that the existence of a plurality of views about what to do is both natural and legitimate.",
        "正如拉尔夫·达伦多夫曾经说过的那样，民粹主义是简单；"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, voters on both sides are tuning in only to views with which they agree, rather than attempting to understand and reconcile opposing arguments.",
        "更糟糕的是，两边的选民眼里都只有自己所认可的观点，而不是试图理解和调和反对观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Polish companies are working hard to build brands abroad, this can take decades.",
        "尽管波兰公司努力地建立海外品牌，但这可能需要几十年时间。"
    ],
    [
        "I wouldn’t bet on either.",
        "3万亿美元用于消费——至今都是世界上消费开销最大的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "That depends on when you think the financial crisis will abate, and the timing of that is as hard to predict as exchange rates.",
        "这取决于你认为什么时候金融危机将得到缓解，而这和汇率一样很难预测。"
    ],
    [
        "SOFIA – One of the most troubling outcomes of the ongoing financial crisis has been a collapse of trust in democratic institutions and politicians.",
        "索菲亚—当前金融危机的最严重后果之一是对民主制度和政治的信任崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "While the AIIB and the forthcoming New Development Bank, operated by the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), are the most visible internationally, they are only the tip of the iceberg.",
        "亚投行和即将成立的由金砖国家（巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非）经营的新开发银行的国际化特征最为明显，但它们只是冰山一角。"
    ],
    [
        "These enemies of freedom are permanently silent about torture, oppression, and mass murder carried out by their fellow dictatorships, but are quick to rant against the world’s democracies, in particular the United States.",
        "这些自由的敌人对他们的独裁主义同伙所实施的酷刑、镇压和大规模屠杀长期保持沉默，却总是迅速对世界民主政策，尤其是针对美国的民主政策高唱反调。"
    ],
    [
        "Open trade is under attack even in parts of Asia.",
        "即使在一些亚洲国家，开放贸易也在受到抨击。"
    ],
    [
        "There might be a dawning awareness among investors that growth rates are slowing, or that central banks have missed the emergence of inflation once again.",
        "投资者之间可能会形成初步意识，认为增长率正在放缓，或央行再次没有能够注意到通胀抬头的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the country could be facing catastrophe, as Hollande’s actions risk miring the economy into sustained stagnation and driving an increasingly angry French public to elect the far-right National Front party’s Marine Le Pen as his successor.",
        "事实上，随着奥朗德的行为可能使经济陷入持续停滞，并驱使越来越愤怒的法国公众投票选举其极右政党国民阵线的勒庞（Marine Le Pen）作为其继任者，法国很可能将面临一场灾难,。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan has voiced support for an East Asian community that includes India, Australia, and New Zealand, while the Chinese and others question widening the circle.",
        "因为日本已经表态支持成立一个包含印度，澳大利亚和新西兰在内的东亚国家集团，而中国和其他国家则对此表示质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever decision they make, Germany’s economic performance is likely to remain strong, at least in terms of trade and a balanced budget.",
        "不管他们做出什么决定，德国经济表现都有望保持强劲，至少在贸易和平衡预算方面是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, amidst the news reports over the past few months of financial fraud, bloodshed in India and Gaza, and global economic disasters, one item stood out for its bravery and nobility.",
        "但是，在过去几个月有关金融诈骗、印度和加沙流血以及全球经济灾难的新闻报导中，有一个事件则由于其勇敢和高尚而引人注目。"
    ],
    [
        "Bill Clinton’s administration began with a lack of discipline, a failed attempt at health-care reform, and a loss for the Democrats in the 1994 midterm elections.",
        "克林顿政府一开始就缺乏规律，尝试进行医疗改革失败，民主党也在1994年的中期选举中败北。"
    ],
    [
        "But higher inflation would help to accelerate desperately needed adjustment in Europe’s commercial banks, where many loans remain on the books at far above market value.",
        "但更高水平的通胀水平将有助于加速欧洲商业银行迫切需要的调整，因为这类银行手中许多贷款的书面价值远高于市场价值。"
    ],
    [
        "A good example is the allegation that the “responsibility to protect” principle is inherently flawed, because the major powers will always be immune from intervention, not only because five of them can exercise a Security Council veto, but also because of their inherent military strength.",
        "一个很好的例子是指责“保护责任”原则具有天然缺陷，因为大国永远对干涉免疫，不仅是因为五常拥有安理会否决权，也是因为它们所具有的的军事优势。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way Western economies will be able to compete and improve their standard of living is by seeing themselves as being involved in a race to the top.",
        "西方经济体得以在竞争中立足并改善生活条件的唯一出路是认为自己处在一场向上竞争的竞赛中。"
    ],
    [
        "The MDGs paved the way for the SDGs, and I have been encouraged by the commitment the global community has shown to sustaining the post-2015 development agenda.",
        "千年发展目标为可持续发展目标题铺平了道路，我本人也因为全球社会对实现后2015年发展议程所表现出来的坚定决心而感到鼓舞。"
    ],
    [
        "Like traditional myths, such graphic, shared images embody fears that are deeply entrenched in our psyche.",
        "就像传统深化一样，这些生动共同的形象体现了深植于我们心理之中的恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "Hungary has many reasons to be sensitive to the issue of the political consequences of debt.",
        "匈牙利有足够的理由为债务的政治后果感到担心。"
    ],
    [
        "As traditional industries increase their usage of the Internet, they streamline their operations, find new methods of collaboration, and expand their reach via e-commerce – all of which accelerate productivity growth.",
        "随着传统行业增加对互联网的使用程度，它们的经营也将流线化，找到新的整合方式，通过电子商务扩大接触面——所有这些都会促进生产率增长。"
    ],
    [
        "America is no longer the protector or model that it used to be, nor is it alone in terms of influence and power.",
        "美国已经不再是以往的保护人或模式了，而且在影响力和实力上也不是如此了。"
    ],
    [
        "So, even if the Democrats control the Senate starting in January, Republicans could still block a President Clinton’s Supreme Court nominations and policy program.",
        "因此，即使民主党1月开始控制参议院，共和党人仍可以阻止克林顿总统的最高法院提名和政策计划。"
    ],
    [
        "And the public- and private-sector investments are complementary: The former raises the rate of return to the latter, and hence its level.",
        "公共和私营部门投资互补：前者通过提升后者的回报率实现其投资水平的提升。"
    ],
    [
        "When Nixon adopted his own “mad” persona, he was in some ways drawing on the example of Nikita Khrushchev, my grandfather and Nixon’s adversary during his tenure as US vice president.",
        "当尼克松披上“狂人”伪装时，他其实是在某种程度上借鉴了赫鲁晓夫的实例，赫鲁晓夫既是我的祖父，也是尼克松在担任美国副总统期间的对手。"
    ],
    [
        "Those subsidies are a hidden form of government spending on everything from home mortgages and health insurance to the purchase of hybrid cars and residential solar panels.",
        "这些补贴是隐性政府支出，其范围从家庭按揭和医疗保险到混合动力汽车和家用太阳能板无所不包。"
    ],
    [
        "Falling consumer prices should thus be viewed as a good sign.",
        "消费者价格的下降也应当被视为一个好的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "If you don’t trust the numbers, you can’t trust the debt.",
        "如果你不相信数据，你就不会相信债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Empowering women and girls is morally right and economically smart.",
        "赋权妇女和女孩在道德上正确，在经济上明智。"
    ],
    [
        "In East Africa, where millions of people already are dependent on food aid, a sharp rise in the cost of staple crops looms.",
        "在已经有成百上千万人依赖粮食援助生活的东非，主食作物成本的飙升令人担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the most basic question – how much inequality is too much – is virtually impossible to answer.",
        "即便是最基本的问题——多大的不平等性算是过度——也几乎不可能得到回答。"
    ],
    [
        "And they prefer the total waste of letting millions of people sit idle (Brock reckons that 16% of the American workforce is unemployed, underemployed, or too discouraged to seek work) to the possibly partial waste of programs that put them to work, nurture their skills, and equip the country with assets.",
        "他们宁可让数百万人整天无所事事（布洛克认为，美国16%的劳动力处于失业和半失业状态，或者已经失去了找工作的动力），也不愿看见那些能让他们重新工作、能培养他们的技能、能用资产武装国家的项目。 他们宁可出现全局浪费，也不愿看见局部浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "If the West were to turn its back on Russia, such isolation would reinforce the xenophobic and statist tendencies present in Russian political culture and make the liberal cause more difficult.",
        "如果西方抛弃俄罗斯，这种孤立只会强化目前俄罗斯政治文化中的排外以及中央集权论调，从而使自由事业变得愈加困难。"
    ],
    [
        "The average American still accounts for ten times the emissions of the average citizen of India, and India should not be deprived of the right to develop economically.",
        "一位普通美国人的碳排放量是普通印度人的十倍，而印度不应该被剥夺经济地发展的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson is obvious: the whole is more than the sum of its parts.",
        "美国的经验是显而易见的：部分之和大于整体。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, the EU’s plans for dealing with the refugee crisis need to be thoroughly revised.",
        "第四，欧盟处理难民危机的计划需要彻底重订。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey has an enormously important role to play in the region.",
        "土耳其在中东地区拥有十分重要的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "In the words of the strategic analyst Stanley A. Weiss, this “helped suck the lifeblood out of communism’s global appeal,” making it incapable of meeting the widespread yearning for a better and more open life.",
        "正如战略分析家斯坦利·A·崴斯所说，此举“抽干了共产主义的新鲜血液，使其丧失全球吸引力，”也最终使之无法满足人们对更加美好也更加开放的生活的渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "With so many of them graduating from universities, they suffer from a mismatch between their qualifications and the jobs on offer.",
        "很多从大学毕业出来的年轻人发现，他们在学校所学习的知识和社会所提供的工作机会不能匹配。"
    ],
    [
        "This is sensible, but how it is done matters.",
        "这是明智之选，但如何做是个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "According to current estimates, there are some 40,000 NGOs operating internationally, with the overwhelming majority focusing primarily on health, education, welfare, economics, industry, energy, the environment, human rights, social policy, and governance- and development-related issues.",
        "根据最新统计，大约有40 000个非政府组织（NGO）为国际性组织，绝大多数主要专注于卫生、教育、福利、经济、产业、能源、环境、人权、社会政策以及治理和发展相关问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks grew out of a practice by gold smiths and silver smiths, who, for a small price, accepted deposits for safekeeping.",
        "银行产生于金银匠人的实践之中，人们只需要支付一笔小钱就能把金银安全寄存在他们那里。"
    ],
    [
        "But, like many last-minute agreements, it would have little durable impact.",
        "但正如众多最后一刻达成的协议一样，这个协议也缺乏长期效力。"
    ],
    [
        "There is little doubt that the country’s climatic woes are caused, at least in part, by the greenhouse-gas emissions that industrialized countries have pumped into the air since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.",
        "毫无疑问，巴基斯坦气候混乱部分要归因于工业革命以来工业化国家向空气中排放的温室气体。"
    ],
    [
        "While Japan’s gross public debt, for example, is a massive 246% of GDP, the net figure, accounting for intra-government debts, is 127% of GDP.",
        "比如，日本的总公共债务达到了GDP的246%，但代表政府内债务的净债务为GDP的127%。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, companies and entrepreneurs will be there in full force to explore a range of valuable opportunities.",
        "这一次，公司和企业家将在仙台充分参与探索一系列极具价值的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative is to seek a cooperative resolution, consistent with the benign interpretation of “forced willingness.” This can be achieved by adopting some features of the model used in Eastern Europe, known as the “Vienna Initiative.”",
        "另一个手段则是寻找一个合作的解决方案，与“被迫自愿”的温和解读相一致，还可以通过采用东欧模式（也就是维也纳倡议）的某些特点来实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Norway is investing $3 billion to support national and international initiatives, including the UN-REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) Program, a joint effort of three UN agencies to support developing countries’ efforts to save, sustainably manage, and restore tropical forests (a range of activities known as REDD+).",
        "挪威正在投入30亿美元用于支持国家和国际计划，其中就包括UN-REDD（减少森林砍伐和退化所产生的排放）计划，这是由三个联合国机构联合发起的计划，旨在支持发展中国家保护、可持续管理和恢复热带雨林（这一系列活动被称为REDD+）。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists have made valiant efforts to assess computers’ impact on the production of goods and services, and to measure their contribution to productivity.",
        "经济学家花了巨大的力气评估计算机对商品和服务生产的影响，以及测量它们对生产率的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, a successful leader needs the hard-power skills of organizational and Machiavellian political capacity.",
        "此外，一位成功的领导人还需要组织和政治权谋能力的硬领导力。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Easy-Money Endgame",
        "欧洲的货币宽松终局"
    ],
    [
        "This contributed to Hamas’s electoral victory.",
        "这也就造成了哈马斯在选举中获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Economically frustrated youth welcome Ahn with loud cheers wherever he appears, because he expresses their anxiety that the chaebol are stifling new companies that could create much-needed jobs.",
        "那些经济上不如意的青少年在安哲秀每次出现时都会大声欢呼，因为他们担心大财阀会倾轧那些新企业的生存空间并减少新增职位，而安哲秀恰好表达了这一诉求。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, the Chinese have been invited to develop Gwadar port on the Balochistan coast, and to use it as a base for their fast-expanding navy.",
        "另一方面，中国应邀在俾路支省海岸修建瓜达尔港，并将该港用于其快速扩张的海军的基地。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians’ desire to keep interest rates low in order to reduce unemployment is often in tension with the Fed’s concern to act in a timely manner to maintain price stability.",
        "政客们希望保持低利率以便减少失业，这常常与美联储及时行动以保持价格稳定的想法产生冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "The trade deficit.",
        "贸易逆差。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – It has been a bad few weeks for JPMorgan Chase (JPM), the multinational financial-services firm that by some measures is America’s biggest bank.",
        "美国剑桥—对于从某些角度堪为美国最大银行的跨国金融服务企业摩根大通公司（JPM）来说，最近几周日子可谓难过。"
    ],
    [
        "Behind the top three are dozens of fledgling competitors.",
        "前三强之后还有数十家新晋竞争者。"
    ],
    [
        "The death of the trainer is a tragedy, and one can only have sympathy for her family.",
        "这位训练员的遇害是一场悲剧，我们除了对其家人表示同情外，别无他法。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF does not have an adequate framework for handling the massive defaults that could easily attend a huge surge in lending, much less the political will to distinguish between countries that are facing genuine short-term liquidity problems and countries that are actually facing insolvency problems.",
        "国际货币基金组织没有处理通常伴随贷款数量激增的巨大违约的恰当架构，更没有区分真正面临短期流动性问题的国家和实际上面临破产问题的国家的政治意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – US President Barack Obama has called for additional revenue as part of a balanced plan to reduce future budget deficits.",
        "伯克利—美国总统奥巴马提出将增加收入作为减少未来预算赤字的平衡计划的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet things are not necessarily so black and white.",
        "但事情并不一定非黑即白。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe the time is right to do so.",
        "我想现在正是这样做的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "At the national level, congressional Republicans’ ill-fated attempt to repeal and replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) sought to shift more responsibility to the states through federal block grants.",
        "在国家层面上，美国国会共和党人徒劳地试图废除和取代2010年《平价医疗法案》（Obamacare），想利用联邦整笔拨款的方式向各州转移更多的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan is a case in point.",
        "对此日本就是一个很好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "As former US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke put it, if only countries like China had spent more, the bubbles that nearly broke America would not have formed in the first place.",
        "美联储前主席本·伯南克（Ben Bernanke）指出，要是中国等国家支出更多，那么几乎让美国破产的泡沫一开始就不会形成。"
    ],
    [
        "Tourism depends on sensible visa requirements, convenient airports, road signs, hotel construction permits, and the preservation of cultural sites and coastlines.",
        "旅游业依赖于合理的签证要求、方便的机场、道路标志、饭店建造许可以及人文景观和海岸线保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Even outright lies spoken in a nationally broadcast interview go unchallenged, as if Trump were indeed entitled to his own facts.",
        "此人即便在全国广播的采访中说弥天大谎也毫无顾忌，仿佛他确实有权去捏造自己所认定的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether Americans like it or not, with Europe, China, and India largely consumed by domestic politics, international leadership and stewardship of the world’s problems will remain firmly in US hands.",
        "不管美国人喜不喜欢，在欧洲、中国和印度仍主要关注内政的情况下，全球问题的领导和治理角色仍然紧紧地握在美国手里。"
    ],
    [
        "Populist demagogues in politics and the mass media are doing everything they can to discredit the quality press as propaganda organs for left-wing elites who sneer at the views of ordinary Americans.",
        "民粹主义煽动者和大众传媒正想尽办法地将高质量媒体抹黑为嗤笑普通美国人观点的左翼精英宣传喉舌。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a federal state can be justified by claiming that the moral substance of traditional nation states has been deeply compromised by past belligerence, or as a practical preventive measure to keep the potential of new nationalist passions in check.",
        "人们宣称民族国家的道义实质被过往的敌对所大幅削弱而给这样一种联邦提供理由，或者联邦可以作为限制潜在的新冲突的切实的预防性措施。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ireland, independents topped the poll.",
        "在爱尔兰，独立派的支持度最高。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the Fed assesses many approaches and indicators in making its decisions, there is no doubt that it was heavily influenced by mainstream academic thinking – including the so-called real business cycle models and New Keynesian models – which assumed that financial markets operate flawlessly.",
        "尽管美联储在做决定时评估了很多方法和指标，但毫无疑问它深受主流学术思想的影响——包括所谓真实商业周期模型和新凯恩斯模型——这些模型假设金融市场会完美运行。"
    ],
    [
        "On the subject of despotic rulers, Rouhani offered only the benign observation that they lack the ability to connect with and understand their people.",
        "在暴政问题上，鲁哈尼只是轻描淡写地观察道暴君们没有能力联系和理解他们的人民。"
    ],
    [
        "In Asia, US economic and military primacy has provided decades of stability; but a rising China is now challenging the status quo.",
        "在亚洲，美国的经济和军事优势确保了几十年的稳定局势； 但是一个崛起的中国正对此发出挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The relatively successful election in Iraq is a major victory for democracy, but not necessarily for liberal reform in the Middle East.",
        "伊拉克相对成功的大选是民主进程中的一个伟大胜利，但对中东的自由改革而言却非必然之步。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past few months, the Tigers have suffered a series of devastating blows.",
        "在过去的几个月里，猛虎解放组织遭受了一系列致命的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Addressing such issues effectively, rather than falling into the trap of the immediate, requires adhering to accepted strategies.",
        "有效解决上述问题，而不是落入眼前的陷阱，需要对既定策略的坚持。"
    ],
    [
        "And it implies that Xi is unlikely to emerge as paramount leader.",
        "这意味着习近平不可能成为最高领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries will be unlikely to support a military solution until they have seen genuine efforts at other means of persuasion (and coercion) fail.",
        "）许多国家不会支持军事行动，除非它们看到其他所有劝说（和强制）手段的诚恳努力都已经失败。"
    ],
    [
        "In private, Obama and Romney may be able to agree on many things.",
        "私下里，奥巴马和罗姆尼或许能在诸多方面达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Israel, Iran, and Turkey – all non-Arab-majority countries – are probably the region’s only genuinely cohesive nation-states.",
        "事实上，以色列、伊朗和土耳其——即该地区仅有的几个非阿拉伯人占据多数的国家——很可能是唯一真正有凝聚力的民族政府。"
    ],
    [
        "To understand what needs to be done, we have to understand the economy’s problems before the crisis hit.",
        "为了明白我们需要做什么，就必须理解经济在危机袭来之前存在什么问题。"
    ],
    [
        "If you want to know what all of this means in practice, pay attention to recent statements from Diageo, the world’s largest producer of Scotch whisky.",
        "如果想要了解这一切在现实中意味着什么，那么敬请关注世界最大苏格兰威士忌生产商帝亚吉欧最近发表的声明。"
    ],
    [
        "But that sounds like “expert” talk, and the former Leave campaigners have a response to it: economists are talking down the UK to prove that their gloomy forecasts were correct.",
        "但这听起来很像“专家”的说法，而脱欧活动家们也早就做好了应对的准备：经济学家就是唱空英国，好证明他们的负面预测是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of North Korea, Trump’s approach is even more reckless, threatening that the US will “totally destroy” the country if it does not agree to abandon its nuclear program.",
        "在朝鲜问题上，特朗普的方针更加鲁莽，他威胁说，如果朝鲜不同意放弃核计划，美国将“彻底摧毁”这个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Listen even briefly, and you will understand that Mexicans and Chinese are working with Wall Street to forge lousy trade deals that rob American workers of their rightful jobs, and that Muslims want to blow everyone up.",
        "只要稍微听一耳朵，你就能理解墨西哥人和中国人正在与华尔街合作炮制蹩脚的贸易协议抢走美国工人的正当工作，而穆斯林想把所有人都炸了。"
    ],
    [
        "The parliament’s first step in ultimately removing them would be to defend its authority to choose the members of a planned 100-person constitutional assembly.",
        "议会驱逐军事统治者的第一步是捍卫其选择100位立宪大会参与者的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of how much markets come to favor renewable-energy sources, we will still need better national regulations – such as carbon pricing– to create economic incentives and manage negative externalities stemming from energy production.",
        "无论市场多么青睐可再生能源资源，我们仍然需要更好的国际监管——如碳定价——来创造经济激励和管理源自能源生产的负外部性。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation is further complicated by political calculations, including geostrategic considerations, like those behind Saudi Arabia’s actions in Yemen, and the rejection of scientific evidence in order to pander to constituents, as in the United States.",
        "情况因为政治算计而进一步复杂化，包括地缘政治考虑（如沙特阿拉伯在也门的幕后行动，以及美国为了迎合选民而拒绝接受科学证据）。"
    ],
    [
        "In view of the oppressive – and unprecedented – abundance of problems with which Obama is confronted at home and abroad, he will certainly not be able to fulfill all expectations.",
        "考虑到奥巴马在国内和国际上面临沉重——以及空前——多的问题，他当然不可能实现所有的期望。"
    ],
    [
        "Authoritarian countries’ middle classes may push their leaders toward greater democracy, as in Russia, but Western democracies will also likely become more authoritarian.",
        "俄国等专制国家的中产阶级可能敦促领导人推动民主制度，但西方民主国家也可能会变得更加专制。"
    ],
    [
        "The decisive moment came when de Gaulle, in military uniform, went on television to demonstrate his mastery of the new medium.",
        "随着戴高乐身着军装，在电视上向人们展示他对这一全新媒介的全面控制，决定性的时刻到来了。"
    ],
    [
        "(Just as columnists may promote themselves or some other party’s offering.)",
        "（比如专栏作家可能借此机会宣传自己或第三方所提供的内容。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "The multiplication of assassinations of political opponents and economic rivals, the mafia practice of contract murders, cannot be seen as signs of a regained stability.",
        "政治和经济对手惨遭暗害的事件成倍增加、黑手党实施协议谋杀时有恃无恐，这些都绝对不是恢复稳定的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "“The House Republican plan would cut the top tax rate back to 30% or lower,” he writes, before listing a few “mights”: the bill “might…eliminate the estate tax”; and it “might eliminate tax deductions for state and local taxes, and tax some of the fringe benefits that are currently excluded from taxable income.”",
        "“国会共和党的计划将降低最高税率，回到30%或更低的水平，”他写道，然后列举了一些“可能”：该法案“可能……取消不动产税”； 它“可能取消州和地方税的抵扣，对目前不属应税所得的某些额外福利征税”。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting Corruption Right",
        "正确地理解腐败"
    ],
    [
        "None of this is to say that we should ignore the productivity challenge.",
        "所有这些都不是说我们应该忽视生产率问题。"
    ],
    [
        "So, what makes a successful metaphor work?",
        "那么，究竟是什么造就了成功的比喻？"
    ],
    [
        "But there is much more to the story.",
        "但这并不是故事的全部。"
    ],
    [
        "This social shift probably will not influence US institutions’ effectiveness as much as one might think, given America’s decentralized federal system.",
        "拜美国的分散化联邦制所赐，这一社会变迁可能不会如你所想象的那样影响美国制度的效率。"
    ],
    [
        "But this time around, the Chilean economy was in shape to withstand massive external shocks.",
        "但这一回，智利经济的状况足以抵御大规模外部冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Caught up in the bluster of the US accusations being leveled at China, little attention is being paid to the potential consequences of Chinese retaliation.",
        "人们都在关注中国如何化解美国的恫吓，却几乎没有注意到一旦中国报复所带来的潜在后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The campaign for Ukraine’s parliamentary election of September 30th is scarcely underway and yet Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych is already trying to steal it.",
        "乌克兰9月30日的国会大选还没有开始，总理维克托·亚努科维奇就已经在想法暗渡陈仓。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, political leaders must consistently pursue this agenda at the international, regional, national, and local levels.",
        "最后，政治领袖必须在国际、地区、国家和地方层面不懈地最求这一日程。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the key challenge in the years ahead will be to find the proper balance between these two objectives.",
        "实际上，今后几年的关键挑战是在上述两个目标之间找到平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Greeks have already made tough choices.",
        "但希腊人已经做出了艰难的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – The word “trump,” according to the dictionary, is an alteration of the word triumph.",
        "巴黎——根据字典释义，“trump”一词是胜利（triumph）一词的变形。"
    ],
    [
        "But the prospect of permanent stagnation for countries like France, Italy, and Portugal is unacceptable.",
        "但法、意、葡等国永久停滞的前景是难以接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the novel methods that the PLA has employed is to bring ethnic Han pastoralists to the valleys along the LAC and give them cover to range across it, in the process driving Indian herdsmen from their traditional pasturelands.",
        "解放军所采用惯用伎俩是让汉族牧民来到实际控制线沿线的山谷，提供保护让他们跨越实际控制线，从而将印度牧民驱逐出他们的传统牧场。"
    ],
    [
        "We also propose creating a European grant fund to support public investment in the eurozone that advances common aims, strengthens solidarity, and promotes excellence.",
        "我们还建议成立欧洲援助基金支持有利于共同目标、增强团结、精益求精的欧元区公共投资。"
    ],
    [
        "According to one estimate, nearly half of all prescriptions for antibiotics in the United States are inappropriate or unneeded.",
        "据一项估算，美国近一半的抗生素处方是不恰当或不必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "We want to discuss with them, and the heads of the African Development Bank, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, what the elements of country-specific investment compacts could be.",
        "我们希望与他们以及非洲开发银行、世界银行和国际货币基金组织的首脑们一起讨论视各国具体情况制定的投资契约需要具备哪些要素。"
    ],
    [
        "But, puzzlingly, wealthy European countries’ decision to join provoked the ire of American officials.",
        "但令人莫名其妙的是，那些欧洲发达国家加入该行的决定竟然激怒了美国官员。"
    ],
    [
        "The first set of issues includes slow-burn problems involving externalities, the leading example being environmental degradation.",
        "第一类问题包括一些缓慢发酵的问题，如外部性，最显著的例子便是环境破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The year 2015 will be our generation’s greatest opportunity to move the world toward sustainable development.",
        "纽约—2015年是我们这一代人让世界通往可持续发展的最佳机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Of these, roughly one-quarter will die from hepB-related liver cancer or cirrhosis (a consequence of chronic liver disease).",
        "在这些人中，大约四分之一会死于与乙肝相关的癌症或肝硬化（慢性肝病的后果之一）。"
    ],
    [
        "But the unemployment rate is still more than two percentage points above the long-run value that most economists view as normal when the economy is operating near its potential.",
        "但失业率仍比大部分经济学家所认为的经济在接近潜力水平运行时的长期值低了两个百分点以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Just before entering a gas station, Brazilian drivers calculate whether conventional gasoline or ethanol is cheaper (bioethanol has 30% less energy content than traditional gasoline), then choose between a gasoline and an ethanol pump.",
        "驶入加油站前，巴西的驾车族会计算传统汽油和乙醇燃料哪个更便宜（生物乙醇比传统汽油的能源含量低30%左右），然后在汽油和乙醇泵之间作出选择。"
    ],
    [
        "When I did arrive in America, to be an Indian still carried a whiff of the exotic and the unfamiliar.",
        "当我真的到了美国，身为印度人还是能感受到一丝身在异乡为异客的味道。"
    ],
    [
        "This is hardly the type of leadership Europe needs to survive and prosper in the modern world.",
        "欧洲若要在现代世界中生存并繁荣，这可不是它需要的领导风格。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of 2016, there were an estimated 11.6 million refugees experiencing “protracted displacement”: they have been away from their homes for more than five years and have no “immediate prospects” of return.",
        "据估计，到2016年年底，有1,160万难民正在经历“长期流离失所”：他们背井离乡已超五年，没有任何能“立即返乡”的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is confronting a similar moment of destiny.",
        "欧洲正面临着类似的命运决定时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine’s prices started spiraling out of control around the time when Yuliya Tymoshenko returned as prime minister last December.",
        "当季莫申科在去年十二月重新返回担任总理的时候，乌克兰的物价开始失去控制攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "- Better to be forward looking than backward looking, focusing on reducing the risk of new loans and ensuring that funds create new lending capacity. Bygone are bygones. As a point of reference, $700 billion provided to a new bank, leveraged 10 to 1, could have financed $7 trillion of new loans.",
        "——向前看当然比向后看要好，把注意力集中在新发贷款上，规避风险，让它们真正发挥作用，这样才能良性循环。 举个例子，如果将7000亿美元都投给了一家银行，假设10倍的杠杆作用，就能产生70000亿美元的新贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor does his oft-repeated proposal for a federal infrastructure bank to attract more private funds for infrastructure projects.",
        "他一再提及的建立联邦基础设施银行为基础设施项目吸引更多私人资金的方案亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "As I attended a small but dignified memorial ceremony in Paris last week in honor of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya – a woman “brave beyond limits,” in the words of her French editor – I was reminded of another posthumous tribute I participated in nearly 17 years ago in Moscow.",
        "上个礼拜，我参加了在巴黎举行的缅怀俄国记者安娜·波利特科夫斯卡娅（Anna Politkovskaya）的一场规模很小却不失庄重的纪念仪式。 借用与她合作的法国编辑对她的评价，安娜是一个“大无畏”的女人。"
    ],
    [
        "While Russia was launching its bid to subordinate Ukraine, I was in prison, with scant hope of ever regaining my freedom.",
        "当俄罗斯开出条件要乌克兰屈服时，我正身陷囹圄，自由已看似可望而不可及。"
    ],
    [
        "Nationalism continues to produce powerful political “antibodies” to American and European meddling in other countries’ internal affairs.",
        "民族主义还催生了反对美国和欧洲强权的“抗体”，不再允许发达国家干涉其它国家的内部事务。"
    ],
    [
        "He maintained a constitution, and held elections, but this did not make him a democratic ruler, nor was he able to extricate his country from appalling backwardness despite its tremendous potential for economic development.",
        "他保留了宪法和选举，但却并没有因此成为民主统治者，他也没有成功发掘出这个国家在经济发展方面的巨大潜质，把他的国家从令人震惊的落后状况中解救出来。"
    ],
    [
        "We want our infrastructure, health policies, and economic strengths to benefit people across borders through links – community support systems and development corridors – that encourage collaboration and job creation.",
        "我们希望我们的基础设施、卫生政策和经济优势能够通过鼓励合作和就业创造的联系——社区支持系统和发展走廊——惠及各国人民。"
    ],
    [
        "And perhaps it would do no good; it might save a few lives, they argue, but, with so many different countries fighting a proxy war via so many different groups of opposition fighters, it would not change the overall dynamic of the conflict.",
        "这样做可能不会带来任何好处； 他们指出，这也许可以救几条人命，但叙利亚有如此多的不同国家通过如此多的相互敌对的集团开展着代理战争，因此安全区不可能改变冲突的整体动态。"
    ],
    [
        "It has also drawn into public service some of the country’s best and brightest (including from the Ukrainian diaspora) to fight a war and stave off an economic meltdown simultaneously.",
        "乌克兰政府也将该国的一些最好最聪明的人才（包括乌克兰犹太人）纳入了公职部门以实现打仗和避开经济崩溃两不误。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides, technology has been advancing so fast that the number of jobs globally in manufacturing is declining.",
        "此外，技术一直在飞速进步，以至于全球制造业工作岗位数量不断下降。"
    ],
    [
        "They have turned down repeated offers by climate scientists to meet and conduct serious discussions about the issues.",
        "他们屡次拒绝气候科学家举行会晤和严肃讨论问题的提议。"
    ],
    [
        "Southern Europe has a substantial agenda of flexibility-enhancing reform ahead of it.",
        "南欧在增强灵活性方面还有很长的路要走。"
    ],
    [
        "Backed by a reasonable Arab peace plan, they will insist that there is already a worldwide consensus on restoring the 1967 borders (with mutual adjustments of equal size and quality), the need for a fair agreement on dealing with refugees, and a formula to share Jerusalem.",
        "在一份合理的阿拉伯和平计划的支持下，他们将会坚持认为重新恢复1967年的边界（双方都在同等质量上进行了调整）已经是世界范围内的共识，需要就难民问题达成公平的协议，和建立一种共享耶路撒冷的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "But reaching one cohort per year is too little to meet demands in a fast-changing economy.",
        "但是每年只有一部分人接受高等教育，不能满足快速变化的经济的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Private banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and so on have limited appetite for building up liquid dollar claims on foreigners when their own liabilities – deposits, insurance claims, and pension obligations – are denominated in renminbi.",
        "私有银行、保险公司、退休基金等也没有什么意愿增加对外国人的流动美元债权，因为它们自己的负债——存款、保险责任和退休金义务——都是人民币计价的。"
    ],
    [
        "Much hand-wringing followed, with single mothers (never, at that time, single fathers) cast as harbingers of doom for core American values.",
        "在一阵手足无措后，单身母亲被当作美国核心价值观的末日先兆扔进了垃圾桶（当时的单身父亲却没有经历同样的厄运）。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the start of this decade, neither recession nor hurricanes nor sky-high oil prices have seemed to dent their appetites.",
        "这个十年以来，不论是经济衰退还是飓风抑或是高企的油价都没能影响美国人的购买欲。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, two years ago in Cuba, after advertising for “entrepreneurs” on Twitter, I had the opportunity to meet several dissidents.",
        "最后，两年前在古巴，在替“创业家”在Twitter上做了推广后，我获得了会见几名持异见者的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, the geopolitical environment has changed fundamentally in the decade since the ESS was ratified, owing to economic rebalancing toward Asia, the upheavals in the Arab world, the revival of Russian assertiveness, and the rise of isolationist tendencies in the US.",
        "更加糟糕的是，自ESS起草以来，由于经济向亚洲倾斜、阿拉伯世界动荡、俄罗斯重振雄风以及美国日渐倒向孤立主义等因素，地缘政治环境发生了根本性变化。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades, many people lamented the extent to which the West dominated the global economic system.",
        "几十年来，许多人对西方主导全球经济体系程度之深大为失望。"
    ],
    [
        "But America’s continued technological leadership is far from assured.",
        "但美国的持续技术领导地位远非安枕无忧。"
    ],
    [
        "What the market is saying is not that the economy has too much debt, but that it has too much private debt, which is why prices of corporate bonds are low and firms find financing expensive. The market is also saying – clearly and repeatedly – that the economy has too little public US government debt, which is why everyone wants to hold it.",
        "声称美国存在债务问题、而且增发债务不能解决此问题的人忽视（有时是有意忽视）了一个事实：私人债务和美国国债绝非同类，自本次金融危机爆发起，二者的走势和行为就大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Which principles a machine requires would depend, to some extent, on how it is deployed.",
        "机器需要什么原则在某程度上取决于它被如何部署。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, instead of spurring solutions, the current crisis has been bringing out all that is ugly, feckless, and dysfunctional about the European project.",
        "但是，目前的危机并没有刺激解决方案的出现，反而暴露了欧洲工程丑陋、恶劣、失调的一面。"
    ],
    [
        "TILBURG – Following his re-election, US President Barack Obama almost immediately turned his attention to reining in America’s rising national debt.",
        "蒂尔堡—美国总统奥巴马获得连任后，几乎立刻将注意力转向了控制美国节节攀升的国民债务的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Far from receiving subsidies, the fossil-fuel industry should be paying for climate change.",
        "化石燃料行业不但不应拿到补贴，还应该承担气候变化造成的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "We must send a strong political message from Antalya in support of a successful outcome at the United Nations Climate Change Conference that takes place in Paris from November 30 to December 11.",
        "我们必须在安塔利亚发出强烈的政治信号，支持11月30日—12月11日巴黎联合国气候变化会议形成成功的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time in almost 200 years, China can really throw its weight around, and it will do what it wants, regardless of what other countries may think.",
        "在差不多200多年的时间里，中国第一次尝到能够真正地展现它影响力的甜头，它将无视他国的看法而为所欲为。"
    ],
    [
        "Control over traditional media, like television, radio and newspapers, is of course one reason why these regimes maintain their electoral majorities.",
        "控制电视、广播和报纸等传统媒体，当然是这些政权能够保持选举多数的原因之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the massive drop in commodity prices lately, there is little need to seek any other explanation for the recent slowdown in trade.",
        "基于最近大宗商品价格的暴跌之势，没有必要寻找其他贸易最近放缓的解释了。"
    ],
    [
        "Just ask the Japanese, who were continually denounced in the 1980’s as wicked traders.",
        "你可以问问日本人，20世纪80年代，他们一直在猛烈抨击邪恶贸易者。"
    ],
    [
        "Post-election shifts in the composition of coalitions could complicate the situation, making governance even more difficult.",
        "各联盟在选举之后的成分变迁将使情况复杂化，让治国难上加难。"
    ],
    [
        "CELAC seeks rules to ensure the transparency and verification of countries’ climate actions, and calls on developed countries to increase their technology transfer and capacity-building efforts to support its member countries.",
        "CELAC寻求确保透明度和证明各国气候行动合理性的规则，并呼吁发达国家增加技术转移和能力建设以支持CELAC成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "In Kosovo, now that a last-ditch round of negotiations has concluded with a report to the UN Secretary General, the US and the EU should agree to recognize Kosovo’s independence, provided the Kosovars agree to implement the plan submitted by Finnish mediator Marti Ahtisaari.",
        "在科索沃，最后一轮孤注一掷的谈判后形成了一份呈交联合国秘书长的报告。 美国和欧盟应该同意承认科索沃的独立，只要科索沃人同意执行由芬兰调解人马尔蒂·阿赫蒂萨里提交的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But Russia’s position in the region remains fragile.",
        "但俄罗斯在该地区的地位仍然十分脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Like all predictive studies based on computer modeling, the validity of the results depends on the integrity of the data and the algorithm.",
        "和所有基于计算机建模的预测研究一样，结果的可靠性取决于数据和算法的完整性。"
    ],
    [
        "Wise policy simultaneously considers short-, medium-, and long-term effects.",
        "明智的政策同时考虑短期、中期和长期效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar tendencies can be seen in Trump’s approaches to his Republican campaign opponents, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and one of Trump’s most outspoken Republican detractors, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.",
        "类似的趋势还可见于特朗普对其共和党竞选对手的态度，包括众议长保罗·莱恩（Paul Ryan）和最直率的特朗普共和党内批评者、马萨诸塞州前州长米特·罗姆尼（Mitt Romney）。"
    ],
    [
        "But Barientos’s interests are not all that set him apart from the likes of Casey-Kirschling.",
        "但巴兰托斯与像克希林这样的婴儿潮一代还不止是兴趣上的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The political resurrection of KGB structures under Putin, and their efforts to silence dissent, has once again turned Russia into a country of defectors.",
        "克格勃在普京统治下的政治复苏，以及他们为压制反对意见所做的一切努力，终于再一次使俄国变成了背叛者的天堂。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting improvement in child survival rates and population growth during the 1970’s and 1980’s were faster than those seen earlier in Asia or Latin America.",
        "由此造成的二十世纪七八十年代儿童存活率的提高和人口数量的增长也比此前亚洲或拉美更快。"
    ],
    [
        "Back then, it was assumed that the benefits of academic training accrued not only, or even primarily, to those who experienced it but also, and more importantly, to the rest of the population, whose lives were variously enriched by the application of the arts and sciences.",
        "在那时候，人们认为理论训练不仅－甚至是主要的－使接受它的人受益，更重要的是，对其他的人，他们的生命不同程度的因为艺术和科学的应用而变得丰富起来。"
    ],
    [
        "The Taming of Trump",
        "驯服特朗普"
    ],
    [
        "The idea here is to demonstrate to the electorate that the government can combine capitulation to the troika with its own agenda of reforms, comprising efficiency gains and an assault on the oligarchy that may liberate funds for the purpose of lessening austerity’s impact on weaker Greeks.",
        "其目的是向选民显示政府可以边向“三驾马车”低头边推行自己的改革计划，即将提高效率和攻击寡头相结合，并将由此解放的资金用于减少紧缩政策对希腊弱势群体的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge now is to overcome the divisions that remain within the population – no easy task in a vast country with a sparsely inhabited interior populated mostly by ethnic minorities and reclusive tribes.",
        "现在要做的是弥合民众间存在的分歧——这在像利比亚这样一个以少数民族和隐居部落为主要人口的地广人稀的国家并不容易做到。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s announcement of its policy narrowed the gap in bond yields between Europe’s core and periphery.",
        "欧洲央行的政策宣言缩小了欧洲的核心与外围国家之间的债券收益率差距。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the drone strikes constitute a flawed policy that has only strengthened anti-US sentiment and the forces of extremism in Pakistan.",
        "总之，无人机袭击是增强巴基斯坦反美情绪和极端主义势力的缺陷政策的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The writer Robert Kaplan points to the birth of a new “warrior class as cruel as ever and better armed” ranging from Russian Mafiosi and Latin American drug kingpins to terrorists who glorify violence just as ancient Greeks did in the sacking of Troy.",
        "作家罗伯特·卡普兰（Robert Kaplan）指出，出现了一个新的“和前人一样残酷而拥有更好的武器装备的战斗阶层”，这个阶层包括俄罗斯黑手党，拉丁美洲毒枭以及像古希腊人在特洛伊屠城中那样美化暴力的恐怖分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider what life is like in East Jerusalem, the epicenter of the decentralized rebellion, where some 77% of Palestinians live below the poverty line.",
        "想想叛乱中心东耶路撒冷的生活场景，那里有77%的巴勒斯坦人生活在贫困当中。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, we must not rest until it is completed.",
        "这一次，我们不能在这一任务完成之前止步不前。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while Song may be cast as an anti-hero, in contemporary China, he is considered a “good catch.”",
        "事实上虽然宋思明在剧中是个反面人物，在现实中他却被视为一个“完美选择”。"
    ],
    [
        "In economic terms, these costs should be “internalized” by the factory farmers rather than being shifted onto the rest of us.",
        "用经济术语讲，这些成本应该由养殖户来“内化”承担，而不是转嫁到其它人的身上。"
    ],
    [
        "He also accomplished, in a somewhat round-about way, another goal: showing the flag, so to speak, in the face of the mounting challenge from Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who, thanks to virtually unlimited supplies of oil dollars and Cuban doctors and foot-soldiers, is riding high across Latin America.",
        "他还以某种迂回的方式取得了另一个成果，即面对委内瑞拉总统查维斯越来越强烈的挑衅表明他对拉丁美洲的忠诚。 查维斯得益于他几乎源源不断的石油美元、古巴医生和步兵，在拉丁美洲的地位越来越高。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the current paradigm, as argued by Harvard’s Joseph Nye, this would imply the unilateral destruction of America’s most important source of “smart” power.",
        "在当前范式下，如哈佛大学的约瑟夫·奈（Joseph Nye）所言，这意味着单方面毁掉美国最重要的“巧”实力源泉。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argue that SWFs’ home governments and host countries have too many mutual interests – including the stability of the financial system and maintaining the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency – to threaten global markets.",
        "有人指出，主权财富基金的母国政府和东道国有着太多的共同利益——包括金融体系的稳定性和维持美元的世界储备货币地位——因此它们不会反应过度从而威胁到全球市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Can the Arab states avoid a similar fate?",
        "阿拉伯国家可以避免类似的命运吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Then came two major initiatives.",
        "接着出现了两个大手笔动作。"
    ],
    [
        "High on the list of supply-side policies is eliminating some of the excess capacity of state-owned firms in the steel and coal industries.",
        "在供给侧政策清单上名列前茅的是消灭一些国有企业和钢铁和煤炭行业的过剩产能。"
    ],
    [
        "MAPUTO – Sub-Saharan Africa’s economies have boomed in recent years.",
        "马普托—撒哈拉以南非洲经济体在近几年十分繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "One does not know what one will find when working at the cutting edge and attempting to push into unknown territory.",
        "当从事尖端工作并尝试进入到未知领域时，没有人知道会发现些什么。"
    ],
    [
        "By appointing a special tribunal to try Musharraf, the Sharif government is sending a strong signal to the military – particularly its senior commanders – that they are not above the law.",
        "沙里夫政府通过任命特别法庭处理穆沙拉夫案向军方（特别是军方高级军官）释放了强烈的信号——他们不能凌驾于法律之上。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU urgently needs to build a common energy policy and a single market for natural gas.",
        "对此欧盟迫切需要建立一个共同的天能源政策以及一个天然气的单一市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s Gold Delusion",
        "德国的黄金错觉"
    ],
    [
        "One option would be to accept and live with a nuclear or near-nuclear Iran.",
        "一种选择是接受拥核或接近拥核的伊朗并与之相处。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether one is investing in normal or abnormal times, applying a scientific, low-cost approach to get a basket with a higher-than-average share of good apples does seem like a sensible approach.",
        "不管你在正常时期还是反常时期投资，运用科学的低成本方法获得好于平均水平的好标的篮子都是明智的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of this variation may be explained by cross-national differences regarding what it means to be religious. For example, Americans may define religiosity differently than Middle Easterners, with perhaps a weaker attachment to religious beliefs than is true in Islamic countries.",
        "有些不同源于不同国家对虔诚的不同理解，像美国人对虔诚的看法可能与中东人不同，他们并不像伊斯兰信徒那样强调对宗教的信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "It was long in the making, easy to foresee, and eminently manageable by Europe and the international community.",
        "它形成过程漫长，很容易就能预见，并且欧洲和国际社会可以轻松管理。"
    ],
    [
        "Such outcomes are not unimportant, but they represent a far cry from the picture painted by free-trade fundamentalists.",
        "这样的结果并不是不重要，但却与自由贸易信奉者所描绘的景象相去甚远。"
    ],
    [
        "But Clinton isn’t about to make Sanders her running mate.",
        "）但克林顿不会选桑德斯作为竞选搭档。"
    ],
    [
        "Free of incentive-crushing financial repression, such firms would be able not only to contribute to growth and development, but also to help propel the needed market adjustments.",
        "一旦摆脱破坏激励的金融抑制，这些企业不但能够为增长和发展做出贡献，还有助于推进必要的市场结构调整。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a perspective that the next US president should embrace.",
        "这是一个下任美国总统应该持有的角度。"
    ],
    [
        "Understandably, the international community, which has long punished Myanmar’s authoritarian regime with sanctions, remains cautious.",
        "不难理解，长期以来对缅甸的独裁机制进行着制裁的国际社会依然对缅甸保持谨慎的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "In grim detail, his letter described the bloody mayhem that the slaughter brought to his hospital and the hysteria of ordinary people as they arrived to find children and loved ones dead.",
        "在信中，他详细描述了那场杀戮给他所在的医院带来的血腥混乱以及普通市民赶到医院发现亲人死去后悲痛欲绝的惨状。"
    ],
    [
        "On balance, it thus seems that this time – or, rather, this post-crisis environment – really is different, and that macroeconomic policies have done little to improve matters.",
        "综上所述，似乎本次——或者说这个后危机环境——确实是不一样的，而宏观经济政策也未能令情况得到多少改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Basic issues concerning the efficacy and safety of consuming relatively high doses of antioxidant supplements need to be resolved.",
        "服用相对高量的补充抗氧化剂的效果和安全性这样的基本问题尚需得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "All this is perfectly true.",
        "这些都是完全正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU is China’s largest trading partner, accounting for $383 billion in merchandise exports in 2010.",
        "欧盟是中国最大的贸易伙伴，2010年中国对欧盟商品出口额高达3830亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "If they were unable to foresee something so important to people’s wellbeing, what good are they?",
        "如果经济学家无法预见对人类福祉如此重要的事件，他们还有什么是处吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, monetary policy remains the most effective driver of exchange-rate movements.",
        "基于此，货币政策仍是最有效的汇率运动驱动因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet nothing has been done to root out this tool of terror.",
        "然而俄罗斯至今没有采取任何铲除这种恐怖主义工具的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, it stunts the capacity of boys and men to understand women’s plight, thus diminishing their motivation to change the situation.",
        "与此同时，这也阻碍了男孩和男人理解女性权利的能力，从而抑制了他们改变现状的动力。"
    ],
    [
        "So countries began to deepen and develop international law by building shared institutions.",
        "因此各国开始通过建立共同机构来深化和发展国际法。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the NPT is clear: any signatory country that gives up nuclear weapons and accepts the IAEA’s absolute and unconditional control is entitled to produce electric energy from civil nuclear sources, and to receive from the international community, if necessary, technical and financial support.",
        "但是核不扩散条约是明白的，那就是，任何放弃了核武器并且接受国际原子能机构绝对和无条件的监控的签署国都有权力从民用核原料中生产电力，并且在必要的情况下从国际社会那里接受技术和财政支持。"
    ],
    [
        "But exaggerating the supposed Shia threat has a price.",
        "但是过分夸张所谓的什叶派威胁也存有代价。"
    ],
    [
        "So China might like to see, for example, amendments to the IMF mandate or the addition of a “chapter” to the IMF’s working agenda that discipline America’s money supply and debt accumulation.",
        "因此，中国可能会希望看到，例如，修改国际货币基金组织的工作或在国际货币基金组织的工作议程中增设一“章程”，以制约美国的货币供应量和债务积累。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States and the European Union have never cared that much about that agenda.",
        "美国和欧盟从未怎么关心过这一议程。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom, for example, wages have grown by only 13% since 2008, but the stock market is up by 115%.",
        "比如，英国工资水平自2008年以来只增长了13%，但股市上涨了115%。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the two US government officials best equipped to lead are Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke.",
        "在此议题上美方的两名官员分别是能源部长朱棣文和贸易部长骆家辉。"
    ],
    [
        "And other emerging countries have performed similarly well.",
        "其他新兴国家表现也同样出色。"
    ],
    [
        "Demonstratively hostile to the interests of both Belarus and Ukraine, the pipeline is intended to ensure that these countries are under Russia’s energy thumb, regardless of who is in power in Minsk and Kiev.",
        "这项工程将威胁到白俄罗斯和乌克兰两国的利益，这条管线目的是确保无论明斯克和基辅由谁来当政，这两个国家都完全受制于俄罗斯的能源。"
    ],
    [
        "ITER is not designed to produce electricity, but to study the stability of the flame in the magnet.",
        "国际核聚变实验堆并不是被设计来产生电能的，而是要研究磁体中的这个火焰的稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether foraging for firewood, which may expose them and their daughters to the risk of rape, or spending their scarce resources on kerosene for smoky, inefficient lighting, women make difficult decisions every day about household energy resources and usage.",
        "不管是外出寻觅柴火（可能导致妇女及其女儿遭遇强暴），还是将手中不多的财富用于购买燃烧不充分且烟量很大的煤油，妇女每天都要做出艰难的选择，决定家庭能源的来源和用途。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, infrastructure investment cannot be deferred forever.",
        "此外，基础设施投资不可能永远推迟。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, if a factory leaks toxic chemicals into a river that I use to irrigate my farm, killing my crops, I can sue the factory owner.",
        "例如，如果一家工厂向我用来灌溉农田的河流渗漏了有毒化学品，杀死了我的作物，那么我可以起诉工厂的主人。"
    ],
    [
        "Even a disorderly regime transition, however traumatic and chaotic in the short term, could yield a system that, on balance, is an improvement over a stagnant, repressive, and corrupt autocracy.",
        "退一万步讲，无论无序的政权过渡在短期内造成何种创伤和混乱，但由此产生的制度总体而言都要优于停滞、镇压和腐败的专制统治。"
    ],
    [
        "The DNA genetic program is akin to a fragile book: the order of its pages can change, with some even being moved to another cell’s program.",
        "DNA基因计划就像是一本被活页的书：页码顺序可以改变，一些页面甚至可以移植入其他细胞的程序。"
    ],
    [
        "· A five-year cumulative 30% deflation in prices and wages – in Greece, for example – which would mean five years of deepening and socially unacceptable depression; even if feasible, this amount of deflation would exacerbate insolvency, given a 30% increase in the real value of debt.",
        "· 在五年内让价格和工资累计降低30%（以希腊为例），这将意味着为期五年的深度的、不为社会所接受的萧条； 即使这条路可行，如此幅度的通缩也将进一步破坏偿债能力，让债务实际价值扩大30%。"
    ],
    [
        "After ten years, Iraq’s oil production has finally recovered to its pre-war level.",
        "十年后，伊拉克石油产量终于恢复到战前的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The Non-Crisis of the Euro",
        "欧元无恙"
    ],
    [
        "So, when you are reading your favorite newspaper’s analysis of the CCP’s 19th National Congress, don’t be too distracted by the court intrigue.",
        "因此当你看到你最常看的报纸中对中共十九大的分析文章时，不要过度关注其中的阴谋论。"
    ],
    [
        "In October of that year, the price of gold – the consummate faith-based speculative asset – was on the way up, having just hit $1,300.",
        "那一年的10月，黄金价格——完美的以信任为基础的投资性资产——正在上升，刚到1300美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Years ago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn coined the phrase “preservation of the people,” by which he meant Russia’s cultural survival.",
        "多年前，亚历山大·索尔仁尼琴（Alexander Solzhenitsyn）借用短语“保护人民”来形容俄罗斯的文化复兴。"
    ],
    [
        "Since that exceeds the size of the government deficit, it implies that private markets do not need to buy any of the newly issued government debt.",
        "如此规模甚至超过了政府赤字，它意味着私人市场不再需要购买任何新发政府债务。"
    ],
    [
        "While monetary policy can play an important role in boosting growth and inflation, structural policies are needed to increase potential growth and keep firms, households, banks, and government from turning into zombies, chronically unable to spend because of too much debt.",
        "货币政策可以在提振增长和通胀方面起到重要作用，但还需要结构政策增加潜在增长和避免企业、家庭、银行和政府僵尸化，因为债务过多而产期无力支出。"
    ],
    [
        "But others view biofuels as an existential threat, because the plants used to create them compete for agricultural land and water that would otherwise be used to grow food.",
        "但其他人把生物燃料当成生存威胁，因为用于生产它们的农地和水本来可以用于种植粮食。"
    ],
    [
        "The first cholera cases were reported in October 2016; within a year, the number of cases had soared to more than 600,000.",
        "第一批霍乱病例报告于2016年10月； 不出一年，病例数量就飙升至600,000以上。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Arab Spring an increasingly distant memory, the instability along this arc is deepening.",
        "阿拉伯之春的记忆已经渐行渐远，但这一地带的动荡正在加深。"
    ],
    [
        "Rogue fishing accounts for up to one-fifth of all ocean fish caught globally.",
        "流氓捕捞（rogue fishing）占全球渔获总量高达五分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond appropriate refugee and immigration policy, Europe needs proper tools for implementation.",
        "除了合适的难民和移民政策，欧洲还需要合适的实施工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Within a week of its attack on Georgia, Russia recorded a capital outflow of $16 billion, which has since increased to $30 billion.",
        "在进攻格鲁吉亚的那一周之内，俄罗斯就出现了160亿美元的资本外流，自那时起外流总额已高达300亿美金。"
    ],
    [
        "Members of today’s Trumpenproletariat are not forever lost to democracy, as Clinton suggested when she called them “irredeemable” (though she is probably right that some of them are resolved to remain racists, homophobes, and misogynists).",
        "今天的“无产阶级特朗普”（Trumpenproletariat）们不会永远败给民主，克林顿说，她称他们是“不可挽救的”（但她也许有一点是对的，其中一些人决定继续成为种族主义者、“恐同”和“直男癌”）。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, such uncoordinated interventions are exacerbating currency-market turmoil, with the ruble’s value fluctuating by 5% – and as much as 10% – in a single day.",
        "显然，这些不协调的干预加剧了货币市场的波动——卢布价值一天之内可以震荡5%乃至10%之多。"
    ],
    [
        "China Going Forward",
        "中国向前进"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is now seeking legislation to enable Japan to reinterpret the constitution to include “collective self-defense,” whereby the country would enhance its security cooperation with other countries, particularly its closest ally, the United States.",
        "如今，首相安倍晋三正在寻求立法让日本重新解释宪法，纳入“集体自卫权”，使日本能够强化与其他国家，特别是其最紧密盟友美国的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Actions such as these will not only strengthen climate security; they will also contribute to a more efficient, effective, and resilient financial system.",
        "这类措施不但可以强化气候安全； 还有助于建立更高效、更有效、恢复力更强的金融体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the third arrow of structural reforms – especially tax, education, and immigration reforms – is nowhere near its target.",
        "与此同时，第三支箭——结构性改革，特别是税收、教育和移民改革——距离目标也还相去甚远。"
    ],
    [
        "Namibia certainly has some of the difficulties we associate with less-developed economies.",
        "纳米比亚显然存在一些我们认为与欠发达经济体相关的困难。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even if Moon becomes president, the new strains in South Korea’s relationship with Japan, owing to the revival of historical issues, may not be easy to mend.",
        "但是，即使文在寅当选总统，韩日关系的新约束因素——拜历史问题死灰复燃所赐——也不会轻而易举地被解决。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is that liberal neo-classical economists like Stiglitz and Krugman share values with heterodox economists, and shared values are easily conflated with shared analysis.",
        "原因之一是斯蒂格利茨和克鲁格曼这样的自由新古典主义经济学家与非正统经济学家的价值观有某些相似之处，而价值观的近似又很容易与分析的近似相互混淆。"
    ],
    [
        "With its aggression against Ukraine, the Kremlin has breached the United Nations Charter, the Helsinki Final Act, and other international agreements, including the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances and the Black Sea basing agreement, which spelled out Russia’s relations with Ukraine.",
        "对乌克兰的侵犯触犯了联合国宪章、赫尔辛基最后议定书（Helsinki Final Act）和其他国际协定，包括确定俄罗斯与乌克兰关系的布达佩斯安全保证备忘录（Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances）和黑海基地协定。"
    ],
    [
        "But the reality is more complicated, and marked by repeated failures to create a coherent body politic, even when historical opportunities beckoned.",
        "但是其真实情况却要复杂得多，即使历史性机遇招手之际，依旧是为建立一个具有凝聚力的国家所做的努力的一再失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Designing an environment to suit animals’ psychological and physiological needs would be far preferable to the minimalism, otherwise known as “standardization,” that is currently employed.",
        "设计一个适合动物心理和生理需求的环境要比目前所运用的最简单化，或者说“标准化”有益得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Our hopes were not starry-eyed self-deception.",
        "我们的希望并非不切实际的自欺欺人。"
    ],
    [
        "Day or night, they live in darkness.",
        "无论是白天还是夜晚，他们都生活在黑暗之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the 500 schools in the hard-hit Gorkha district, 450 have been leveled or are now derelict.",
        "遭受地震重创的廓尔喀地区共有500所学校，其中的450所已经被夷为平地，或者处于废弃状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the US learned from the Kosovo experience of “war by committee” to distrust NATO as a place to run operations, and now Afghanistan highlights the organization’s limitations as a mechanism for generating force contributions.",
        "而且，科索沃“集体作战”经历让美国不把北约视为进行军事行动的场所，而现在，阿富汗突出表现了北约在提供军队机制上的局限。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe this allows him to focus more on long-term fundamentals – and thus to make investments that may not perform well in the short run.",
        "这可能让他更为关注长期的基本面，从而做出在短期内可能并不十分获利的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "In such conditions, France urgently needs to restore and maintain economic growth, and should seek to coordinate its policies with those of other eurozone member countries.",
        "在这种情况下，法国急需恢复并保持经济增长，并应当与其他欧元区成员国寻求政策协调。"
    ],
    [
        "Two weeks ago, a landslide victory for the apparent underdog seemed out of the question.",
        "仅仅两周前，明显处于劣势的候选人以绝对优势获胜似乎根本不可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt’s New Old Government",
        "埃及新组建的旧政府"
    ],
    [
        "But, where Leviathan examines Putin's Russia with the unflinching eye of a surgeon, American Sniper merely trumpets supposed national values with no consideration of their application around the world.",
        "但是，《利维坦》毫不畏惧地以外科医生的犀利眼光洞察普京的俄罗斯，而《美国狙击手》只是大肆鼓吹所谓的国家价值，而没有考虑这些价值在全世界的应用。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, none of this seems likely if left exclusively in the hands of Venezuelans, who have failed repeatedly over the past 15 years to find solutions to their dilemmas.",
        "不幸的是，如果完全由委内瑞拉人民自行处理，镇压和极端化就不可能结束，因为在过去15年中，委内瑞拉人从未找到过走出困境的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "With some $90 trillion dollars set to be invested in infrastructure globally over the next 15 years, the impact of such an approach could be considerable – if not decisive.",
        "在未来15年终，全球基础设施投资预计将达90万亿美元，这一方针的影响力将是巨大的——甚至是决定性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Once their common enemy, the secularists, were out of the way, Erdoğan had less need for the movement.",
        "一旦其共同敌人——世俗主义者——被排挤出局，埃尔多安便不再那么需要葛兰运动了。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 2005 rankings, Iceland scored as the least corrupt country, with the Scandinavian countries, New Zealand, and Singapore close behind.",
        "在2005年的排名中，冰岛在最廉洁的国家中名列第一，斯堪的那维亚国家、新西兰以及新加坡紧随其后。"
    ],
    [
        "This is good news, but the fact remains that countries’ commitments do not yet add up to enough to turn the tide – and our window of opportunity to act effectively on climate change is rapidly closing.",
        "这是好消息，但事实是，各国的决心还不足以扭转潮流——而我们在气候变化问题上采取有效行动的机会窗口正在迅速关闭。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama’s administration is seeking to block corporate inversion through administrative measures that may not hold up in US courts.",
        "总统奥巴马的政府正在通过行政手段试图阻止公司倒置（这些手段未必有法律效力）。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, India’s current account, which has been in deficit for years, is likely to record a surplus this year.",
        "事实上，印度的经常账户在维持了多年的赤字之后。 有望在今年实现顺差。"
    ],
    [
        "But the positive impact of these changes may be tempered by Rajan’s departure.",
        "但拉詹的离任可能会影响到这些举措的积极效果。"
    ],
    [
        "So a gradual, invisible reduction in the debt burden by debasing the currency is rarely an option.",
        "因此通过贬值该货币来逐步且无形地减轻债务负担的做法往往无法实现。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of global life expectancy, total world wealth, the overall level of technology, growth prospects in emerging economies, and global income distribution, things look rather good, while on still other dimensions – say, global warming or domestic income inequality and its effects on countries’ social solidarity – they look bad.",
        "从全球寿命预期、世界总财富、技术总水平、新兴国家增长前景和全球收入分配看，情况相当强劲，而在其他领域——比如全球变暖和国内收入比平等及其对各国社会稳定的影响——则看起来相当糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "In all, there are eight nuclear-weapon states – the US, Russia, Britain, France, China, Israel, India, and Pakistan.",
        "世界上总共有 8 个核武国家 —— 美、俄、英、法、中，还有印巴两国以及以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "And as the methods of manipulation multiply, the problem is only likely to worsen.",
        "而随着操纵手段的多样化，问题还可能进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Even today, Europe’s military weakness is working to undermine the transatlantic relationship.",
        "即使在今天，欧洲在军事上的弱势仍然是跨大西洋关系的软肋。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial industry has a central role to play in catalyzing the global transition to inclusive, sustainable growth.",
        "金融业在促进全球向包容性可持续增长转变方面起着核心作用。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is democracy – that is, the need to secure adequate support for the bill in parliament – that is enabling Congress to block any further progress until Modi relents.",
        "也正是民主——也就是法案在议会赢得足够支持的必要性——导致国会在莫迪让步前阻止任何深入的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "But Russia took that deal out of self-interest, not because of the Trump administration’s obsequiousness.",
        "但俄罗斯签订这份协议是出于自身的利益考虑，而不是因为特朗普政府的谄媚态度。"
    ],
    [
        "There cannot be a Palestinian state without dealing with West Bank settlements.",
        "在没有处理西岸定居点问题的前提下不可能有巴勒斯坦国家。"
    ],
    [
        "This is true, but only up to a point, for Lebanon’s confessional-based political system assigns the Shi’a, who make up close to 40% of the population, only 21% of parliamentary seats.",
        "确实如此，但这种确认只是在一定程度之上。 因为黎巴嫩基于告解的政治体系只给了占总人口40%的什叶派21%的议会席位。"
    ],
    [
        "The Friedmans almost always made the claim in its first form: they said that the government had “caused” the Great Depression.",
        "弗氏夫妇对此几乎是开宗明义：他们说，政府“引起”了大萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "Saving imbalances can also lead to destabilizing international capital flows, asset bubbles, and financial crises.",
        "储蓄失衡还可能导致破坏性国际资本流、资产泡沫和金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Duwe argues that, contrary to popular belief, such gunmen do not “just snap.”",
        "杜威指出，和流行的信念相反，这些抢手不会“突然着魔”。"
    ],
    [
        "In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, German immigrants, the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch, carried them to the United States, from where they later spread to the rest of the world, if only as marketing icons for Coca Cola.",
        "在17世纪和18世纪里，德国移民，即所谓的德裔宾州人，将这一传统带到了美国，并从那里传扬到全世界，就好像为可口可乐打造市场品牌一样。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Climate Foundation had already published its Roadmap 2050, A Practical Guide to a Prosperous, Low-Carbon Europe.",
        "欧洲气候基金会已经发表了《2050路线图，一个实现繁荣低碳欧洲的实用指南》。 自那以后，联合国环境计划发布了其《绿色经济报告》；"
    ],
    [
        "Psychologists have tried to measure intelligence for more than a century.",
        "一个多世纪以来心理学家们都在研究如何测量智力。"
    ],
    [
        "But he failed to produce a sustainable picture of America’s leadership role in the world.",
        "但是，布什没能为美国在世界上的领导角色描绘出一个可持续的图画。"
    ],
    [
        "Export performance is thus the key to escaping the austerity trap.",
        "因此出口表现就是摆脱紧缩陷阱的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Trees can even be used as a natural screen against pollution from highways or industrial areas.",
        "甚至可以将树木作为抵御高速路或工业区污染的自然屏障。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, we now know that we can prevent catastrophic climate change while still providing the energy needed to sustain economic growth, create jobs, and lift millions of people out of poverty.",
        "幸运的是，现在我们知道我们能够阻止灾难性气候变化而不妨碍提供保持经济增长、就业创造和让数百万人脱贫所需要的能源。"
    ],
    [
        "An unhealthy dependence on painkillers can be avoided, but only if we recognize the risk in time.",
        "这种对止痛药的病态依赖是可以避免的，但问题是我们必须及时意识到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, China did not suffer a severe recession – as occurred in Japan, Germany, and elsewhere in emerging Asia in 2009 – only because fixed investment exploded.",
        "凭借着爆发性的固定资产投资，中国得以摆脱了2009年日本，德国和亚洲新兴国家所遭遇的严重经济衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Cecchetti and Kharroubi find evidence that it is indeed research-intensive firms that suffer most when finance is booming.",
        "赛切蒂和卡罗比发现的证据证明，研究密集型企业确实是金融业兴旺的最大受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "The practice has exposed another facet of China’s egregious human-rights record, which, when it comes to the overseas operations of Chinese companies, includes the government’s failure to enforce its own regulations.",
        "这种状况暴露了中国糟糕人权记录的另外一个侧面，也就是当涉及到中国公司的海外经营时，政府无法严格执行自己制定的法律。"
    ],
    [
        "· Generate revenues through higher taxes and fees, and earn more from abroad.",
        "· 通过提高税费产生收入，并增加海外收入。"
    ],
    [
        "But, at the end of the day, we ourselves must be willing to work toward a region of peace and cooperation.",
        "但是最终，我们自己必须愿意努力建立地区和平及合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Within months of the war’s end, indeed, Deng initiated the reforms that have since transformed his country.",
        "而在战争结束几个月后，邓小平也的确启动了改革，中国自始发生了天翻地覆的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But most people don’t see things this way.",
        "但大多数人却并不这么看。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, geographically diversified institutions outperformed even during the recent global crisis, because they were less vulnerable to downturns in individual regions.",
        "与此同时，即使是在全球危机期间，布局多样化的机构也取得了卓越的表现，这是因为它们受单一地区衰退的影响很小。"
    ],
    [
        "But the limits of Abenomics’ first two arrows will soon be reached.",
        "但安倍经济学的前两支箭很快就将形成强弩之末之势。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, China is the one country that might be able to jump-start the sputtering global economy’s recovery; and yet its own economic growth is based on a foundation that is increasingly showing signs of strain.",
        "毕竟，中国是可能有能力让全球经济复苏全力启动的国家； 但其自身经济增长的基础正在日益表现出吃紧的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while we have seen financial panics since then, there have been no real shortages or productive breakdowns.",
        "但是，此后我们看到了金融恐慌，却没有看到任何真正的短缺或生产崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "The dividend would rise or fall as the success of Argentina’s economy is revealed through time.",
        "这些红利将随着一直被披露的阿根廷经济制度成功的信息而上下浮动"
    ],
    [
        "Obama should tap the expertise and energy in the Indian and American private sectors to foster public-private partnerships on complex global problems such as climate change, agricultural transformation, education and HIV/AIDS.",
        "奥巴马应当充分利用印美私有部门的专业知识和能力，在气候变化、农业转型、教育和艾滋病毒/艾滋病等复杂的全球问题上建立起公－私合作的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "It appears from press reports that the West finally gave the green light to the Egyptian military to overthrow Morsi, arrest the Muslim Brotherhood’s leadership, and repress the Islamist rank and file.",
        "媒体纷纷报道西方最终向埃及军队推翻穆尔西、逮捕穆斯林兄弟会领导层以及镇压伊斯兰教徒开了绿灯。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not the case in Venezuela.",
        "但委内瑞拉不是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "But Uganda’s international donors are not convinced; the United States has voiced strong concern, and Belgium has suspended development aid to Uganda’s health-care sector.",
        "但这一说辞无法让乌干达的国际赞助者满意； 美国已经表示严重关注，比利时也叫停了对乌干达医疗业的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Equity markets in other developing countries also witnessed similar dramatic increases during this period.",
        "在此期间，其他发展中国家的股市也出现了类似的大幅飙升。"
    ],
    [
        "The government has established a new agency, Central Hujin Investment Company, to manage and re-capitalize big state-owned banks before they are sold.",
        "政府已经建立了一个新的机构，中央汇金投资公司，在大型国有银行被售之前进行管理和资产重组。"
    ],
    [
        "One early test is likely to be Afghanistan, when a smiling but firm Obama turns to Europe and says directly: “You have backed me in immense numbers.",
        "先期考验可能事关阿富汗：奥巴马微笑而坚决地直接表示：“你们已经很支持我了。"
    ],
    [
        "In Iraq, America has unrivaled control of the air, but can’t hold the ground.",
        "在伊拉克，美国拥有绝对的制空权，但却不能控制地面。"
    ],
    [
        "Riding a wave of resentment against inequality and social tensions, Hu and his prime minister, Wen Jiabao, promised a “harmonious society,” without the stresses of Zhu’s agenda.",
        "面临对不平等性的怨恨和社会紧张局面的胡锦涛和他的总理温家宝提出了“和谐社会”。 不再强调朱镕基的日程。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, this lowers labor productivity and wage levels.",
        "在长期，这将拖累劳动生产率和工资水平。"
    ],
    [
        "That dark ambition has gained urgency, because the country is due to hold its first democratic presidential election since the transition began in 2011.",
        "这一黑暗野心已经相当紧迫，因为缅甸即将举行自2011年民主转型开始以来的第一次民主总统选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck signaled that he expected the European Commission to apply some sanctions to Germany: the credibility of the pact would, he said, be at stake if no action were taken.",
        "财政部长史坦布律克（Steinbrueck）表示，他预料到欧盟委员会对德国采取制裁措施：他说，如果不采取任何行动，协定的可信性将受到威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The historical accuracy of Padmavati’s story is dubious: no contemporary account of Khilji’s attack on Chittorgarh, including by historians accompanying his forces, mentions the queen.",
        "关于《帕德玛瓦蒂》的故事的历史真实性颇具争议：同时代关于希尔吉袭击奇陶尔加尔（Chittorgarh）的记载，包括希尔吉的随军史官的记载，都没有提到帕德玛瓦蒂女王。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Thaksin’s supporters did not abandon him.",
        "但他信的支持者并没有抛弃他。"
    ],
    [
        "The differences between the Fatah-led presidency of Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas’s Islamist government spilled into the streets.",
        "法塔赫派总统阿巴斯以及哈马斯伊斯兰政府之间的分歧扩散到街上。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if the eurozone does survive, it promises great advantages for member countries – and perhaps for the world.",
        "但是，如果欧元区存在，它可能带给欧元区成员国，甚至整个世界，无数好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of this pledge is a commitment to “expand international cooperation.”",
        "该承诺的部分内容是致力于“扩大国际合作”。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it would not be realistic to expect Assad and his henchmen to deliver themselves directly to prosecutors in The Hague.",
        "当然，指望巴沙尔及其亲信把自己送上海牙法庭是不现实的。"
    ],
    [
        "But most are followers of Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders, and other populist rabble-rousers, who promote plebiscites to undermine elected governments and abuse popular fears and resentments to clear their own paths to power.",
        "但大部分都是马琳·勒庞（Marine Le Pen）、吉尔特·怀尔德斯和其他民粹主义煽动家的追随者。 这些煽动家鼓吹全民公决来破坏民选政府，滥用群众恐惧和怨恨为他们自己的权力之路扫清障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Adult male mortality is much higher than in the rest of Europe, and it has not been improving.",
        "成年男子的死亡率比欧洲其他国家要高得多，并且一直没有得到改善。"
    ],
    [
        "One argument is that redundancy looks like waste in normal times, with cost-benefit calculations ruling out higher investment.",
        "一种论点是充足性在平常时候与浪费无异，成本-效益分析抑制了高投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Or people think about North Korea’s nuclear program, some terrorist incident, or the humanitarian consequences of the latest earthquake or tsunami.",
        "也可能有人会想到朝鲜的核计划、一些恐怖事件，或者最近的地震、海啸带来的人道主义后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Never had Ceausescu heard anything like it.",
        "齐奥塞斯库从未听到过类似的口号。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, when the eurozone was established, prices were increasing by less than 2%, and headline inflation was stuck at around 1%.",
        "事实上，欧元区成立时，价格涨幅不到2%，标题通胀率在1%左右徘徊。"
    ],
    [
        "It is up to the rest of the Muslim world to provide alternatives to the modern idea, championed by Saudi Wahhabis and other arch-conservatives, that Mecca is the inexorable and inevitable center of the Muslim world.",
        "此时需要其他穆斯林国家站出来挑战沙特瓦哈比教派和其他主要保守主义教派的现代理念，即麦加无可改变也无法避免地在穆斯林世界发挥核心作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Other examples are less trivial, and I am particularly worried about computers being used as “carers” or “companions” for elderly people.",
        "其他例子没有那么日常，而我特别担心用来当作老年人“看护者”或“陪伴者”的计算机。"
    ],
    [
        "Firms that succumb to such inertia will probably sink, rather than swim, in the new global economy.",
        "屈从于上述惯性的企业或许会在新全球经济中垮台，而不是发展壮大。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, collectively we must do a better job of anticipating problems rather than being in reactive mode in the face of crises.",
        "此外，我们一起必须更好地预期问题，而不是总以被动的模式面对危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Macartney refused to conform to Chinese imperial protocol by declining to kowtow to the emperor, because he was not required to do the same to his own sovereign.",
        "马戛尔尼拒绝按皇家礼仪向中国皇帝跪叩，因为他在自己君主面前无需遵守这样的礼仪。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be hard for Americans, who are neither very good at soccer, nor cursed by great historical hatreds, to share the joy of the Dutch, say, when the Germans were defeated in 1988, or that of the Koreans when they defeat Japan.",
        "既不擅长足球也没有背负沉重历史仇恨的美国人也许很难理解荷兰人在1988年击败德国人、或朝鲜人击败日本人时的那种喜悦。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, left to its own devices, the economy will most likely continue to sputter.",
        "不幸的是，放任自流的话，经济更有可能继续恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, the apostle of Serbian nationalism, has been trying in every way to undermine Kosovo’s interim government.",
        "实际上，塞尔维亚民族主义的鼓吹者、总理科什图尼察一直尽力试图削弱科索沃的临时政府。"
    ],
    [
        "That ambiguity was born of an unwillingness – or inability – to provide a clear description of how a multi-currency union will function in the long term.",
        "这样的模棱两可是因为不愿或不能清晰描述多货币联盟将如何发挥长期作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared to respondents in the other Middle Eastern countries, Saudis were less religious overall, and their attitudes toward democracy and arranged marriage also indicate a moderate undercurrent.",
        "与其它中东国家的答卷者相比，沙特人总体上没那么信奉宗教，他们对民主和包办婚姻的看法也显示出一股涌动的暗流。"
    ],
    [
        "Retail terrorists – individuals or small groups carrying out armed attacks against soft targets in open societies – are extremely difficult to deal with.",
        "零散恐怖分子——针对开放社会的软目标实施武装袭击的个体或小集团——最难对付。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact of such cuts on aggregate demand is almost always modest, and they are poorly suited for shifting expectations for recovery and growth in the post-financial-crisis downturn.",
        "这些减税措施对总需求的影响几乎总是聊胜于无，在后金融危机时期的衰退中，也无助于改变复苏和增长预期。"
    ],
    [
        "To save Pakistan, Jinnah’s spirit, his moth-eaten ideals, must be renewed, and Pakistanis must ask themselves what Pakistan really means.",
        "为了挽救巴基斯坦，真纳的精神和他那被遗弃了的理想，必须重新被发扬光大，而巴基斯坦人必须扪心自问，巴基斯坦到底意味着什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Its economy was one of the OECD’s worst in terms of productivity growth in the 1980’s; a decade later, Australia was in third place.",
        "20世纪80年代，澳大利亚经济的生产率增长在经合组织中垫底； 十年后，澳大利亚已经跃居第三。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, if an employer (particularly an exporter) fears future renminbi appreciation, he may hesitate to raise wages in line with productivity increases, in order to keep his costs under control.",
        "比如，如果雇主（特别是出口商）担心未来人民币升值，他可能会踌躇于让工资随生产率增长而增长，以此控制成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the next two decades, the state increasingly impeded Harvard’s functioning by, for example, refusing to release funds and obstructing the appointment of professors.",
        "在此后20年中，马萨诸塞州通过拒绝出资和阻挠教授任命等方式越来越多地影响哈佛大学的运转。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2002-2003, that bundle of raw materials was worth around $800, or about 5% of the value of a $16,000 car.",
        "2002—2003年，这些原材料价值大约800美元，或16,000美元汽车价值的5%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "On the one hand, the US government must invest more to promote economic competitiveness.",
        "一方面，美国政府必须加大投资推动经济竞争力的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Thousands of volunteers took their role seriously, producing the complaints that the Prosecutor is now investigating.",
        "成千上万名志愿者认真地完成了这项任务，还引发了对检察院调查的不少抱怨。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, many journalists have abandoned social media, and others have left the profession of journalism altogether.",
        "许多记者因此对社交媒体敬而远之，而其他人则彻底离开了新闻行业。"
    ],
    [
        "By identifying the evolution of real interest rates with saving and investment fundamentals, the implicit assumption is that the central bank and financial markets can roughly track the evolution of the equilibrium real rate over time.",
        "通过储蓄和投资基本面来定义实际利率的变化发展，一个明显的推断就是央行和金融市场都可以粗略地摸索到均衡实际利率随时间的变化规律。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – Tax cuts masquerading as tax reform are the best way to describe the thrust of Washington’s latest policy gambit.",
        "纽黑文—伪装成税收改革的减税，这是对华盛顿最新政策对局主旨的最佳写照。"
    ],
    [
        "Plunging debt service is largely an outgrowth of the Fed’s unprecedented zero-interest-rate policy.",
        "下降的债务维持成本基本上只是美联储前所未有的零利率政策的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, at some point, the natural cycles will shift; the oceans will cease to absorb the bulk of the planet’s warming; and surface temperatures will begin to climb again.",
        "尽管如此，在某个时刻，自然循环会发生变化； 海洋将停止吸收大部分地球升温；"
    ],
    [
        "The April 2010 WEO forecast a UK annual growth rate of nearly 3% in 2012-2013; instead, GDP is likely to contract this year and increase by roughly 1% next year.",
        "在2010年4月的《世界经济展望》中，IMF预测2012—2013年英国年经济增长率为近3%； 目前的预测是今年GDP可能出现下降，明年大约也只能增长1%。"
    ],
    [
        "As growth slows throughout the region, owing to falling commodity prices and the end of quantitative easing in the United States, Colombia’s economy is actually accelerating.",
        "拜大宗商品价格下跌和美国量化宽松结束所赐，整个地区的经济增长都有所下降，但哥伦比亚的经济实际上还有所加速。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond that point, an increase in income doesn’t make a lot of difference to people’s happiness.",
        "比这收入高的，收入的增加对于人们的幸福并没有多大区别。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, faced with the Chinese economic challenge, America would be happy to forge a united front – especially in matters of trade – with the continent that is still the world’s leading commercial power.",
        "当然，在面临中国经济挑战的环境下，美国乐于与欧洲大陆构筑统一战线——特别是在贸易问题上，而欧洲仍是世界领先的商业势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Spurring Private Investment for Development",
        "刺激私人发展投资"
    ],
    [
        "The Communist Party has based its legitimacy not only on a high rate of economic growth, but also on appeals to nationalism.",
        "中共的合法性基础不但来自高经济增长率，也来自民族主义诉求。"
    ],
    [
        "To rein in a housing bubble and preempt a rise in inflation, the People’s Bank of China tightened monetary policy in January 2010.",
        "为了遏制房地产泡沫和预防通胀上升，中国人民银行于2010年1月收紧了货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "On one occasion, he was dragged behind a speeding truck.",
        "有一次，他被绑在一辆不断加速的卡车后面。"
    ],
    [
        "It is true that China's bilateral trade surplus with the US is as big as ever.",
        "诚然，中国对美国的双边贸易盈余无比巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "But should it?",
        "但理应如此吗？"
    ],
    [
        "With the emergence of truly global world trade over the ensuing century and a half, Asia’s economic dominance withered.",
        "在随后的150年里，国际贸易兴起，亚洲的经济主导地位逐渐衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "If we can show that opportunity, fairness, safety, and security can be enhanced in Europe – and that we can be a proud leader of the EU’s reform agenda – a British consensus might begin to emerge.",
        "如果我们能证明欧洲可以强化机遇、公平、安全和防卫——证明我们能骄傲地领导欧盟改革议程——那么英国人的共识或许能够开始达成。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, that is probably what Osama bin Laden had in mind.",
        "没错，那也许正是奥萨马·本·拉登袭击美国的初衷。"
    ],
    [
        "This is one humanitarian response that would provide vast benefits worldwide, now and in the future.",
        "这项人道主义政策将使世界各国受益，无论是现在还是未来。"
    ],
    [
        "It is widely accepted that oil, not terror, was the original motivation of the war – a war planned by Mr. Bush’s senior advisors during the 1990’s, and made possible by their accession to power in 2001.",
        "人们普遍认为战争的原始动因是石油，而不是恐怖。 这场战争是布什的资深顾问们在1990年代就计划好，而在2001布什年掌权以后才得以发动的。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – For seven years, the United States has allowed its fixation on the renminbi’s exchange rate to deflect attention from far more important issues in its economic relationship with China.",
        "纽约—七年来，美国一直紧紧抓住人民币汇率不放，从而将人们的注意力从中美关系的其他重要得多的问题上移开。"
    ],
    [
        "That means increasing capital and human capital intensity across both the tradable and non-tradable sectors of the economy.",
        "这意味着增加经济的可贸易和不可贸易部门的资本和人力资本密集度。"
    ],
    [
        "While Greece’s public debt is undeniably high, and evidence abounds that high debt can hold back economic growth, the country faces even stronger drags on growth, including structural weaknesses and political brinkmanship, that must be addressed first.",
        "希腊公共债务水平毫无疑问很高，并且很多证据表明高债务可能制约经济增长，但希腊面临着更加严重的增长拖累因素，包括结构性弱点和政治边缘政策，这些因素必须首先解决。"
    ],
    [
        "If the underlying price trend is added to this, it is easily understandable why inflation rates are currently coming down everywhere.",
        "如果再加上潜在的价格趋势，就容易理解为什么现在各地的通货膨胀率都在下滑。 美国的年度通胀率从2008年7月的5."
    ],
    [
        "If Austria is to return to its previous growth path, it will have to become more attractive as a location for innovation.",
        "如果奥地利想恢复到以前的增长路径的话，就必须成为更具吸引力的创新产地。"
    ],
    [
        "Such freedom is not automatic, because even the Internet’s inherent openness can be largely defeated by assiduous government filtering and surveillance.",
        "这种自由不是自动到来的，因为即使是互联网与生俱来的开放性也可能因苛刻的政府过滤和监视而遭到极大的损害。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to highlight, not hide , different views, and see our parties less as “war headquarters” and more as bio-diverse think tanks or workshops.",
        "对于不同的观点意见，我们必须突出强调而不再是藏头露尾，应当视其他政党为提供多样化意见的智囊团和工作室，而非“战争总部”。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, Vogel has described Japan’s political system as “an absolute mess,” with prime ministers replaced almost every year and the youngest generation’s expectations sapped by years of deflation.",
        "傅高义不久前用“完完全全一团糟”来形容日本的政治制度，首相几乎年年更换，持续多年的通缩击垮了年轻一代的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Aspects of the next president’s foreign policy are there to see if observers read between the lines and take as much note of what is not said as what is.",
        "如果观察员能体会言外之意并大量观察那些没有按照本来面目表述的东西，下任美国总统外交策的观点可以看清楚了。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the industrial jobs that are missing in the US have also gone missing in Japan and Germany, and those jobs are not in Mexico.",
        "8%，但肯定没有流入墨西哥。 显然，美国所失去的工业就业在日本和德国也都失去了，并且这些就业也不在墨西哥。"
    ],
    [
        "Or ward the tulwar’s downward blow",
        "或者避开向下砍来的弯刀，"
    ],
    [
        "How about holding one of their bi-monthly meetings in hyperinflationary Zimbabwe?",
        "是不是可以把他们每两个月一度的会议放在超级通货膨胀的津巴布韦举办？"
    ],
    [
        "We need new experts, unadorned with despised acronyms like IMF, to explain the unpleasant facts of economic life to a highly suspicious public.",
        "我们需要一些新的专家——与国际货币基金组织这类被藐视的机构毫无关系的人——来向满腹狐疑的公众解释经济生活中的不愉快事实。"
    ],
    [
        "A significant equity-price correction could, in fact, be the force that in 2013 tips the US economy into outright contraction.",
        "事实上，股价的重大修正可能在2013年将美国经济拖入严重衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last fifty years, people in advanced countries have increasingly sought university education and specialized training to protect them from an unforgiving labor market.",
        "在过去的50年里，发达国家的人们日益重视通过大学教育和特别训练来确保自己不被残酷的劳力市场淘汰。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community that shuddered at the photograph of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian toddler who was found dead on a Turkish beach, must be made to remember that many more like him are dying every day in the cold waters of the Mediterranean and the Aegean.",
        "国际社会因为死于土耳其海滩三岁叙利亚男孩艾伦·库尔迪（Alan Kurdi）的照片而震惊，但国际社会必须记住，每天都有许多像库尔迪这样的人死于地中海和爱琴海冰冷的海水中。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the easy part.",
        "这且不说。"
    ],
    [
        "But an accurate comparison of Brazil’s experience with that of other emerging-market economies, where corruption is no less a problem, would, if anything, lead to an upgrade of Brazil’s standing among investors.",
        "但准确地对比巴西与其他新兴市场经济体（它们的腐败不逊于巴西）的经验应该会导致巴西在投资者心目中的地位提升。"
    ],
    [
        "As in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s great novel Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), changing everything could be just the way to keep it all the same.",
        "朱塞佩·托马西·兰佩杜萨（Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa）的名著《豹》（Il Gattopardo）中写道，改变一切最后只能让一切不变。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kremlin is no stranger to twisting the truth to fit its needs.",
        "克里姆林宫在根据自身需要扭曲事实方面可谓行家里手。"
    ],
    [
        "General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Pakistan’s army chief, cautioned the US against intervening in the terrorist bastion of North Waziristan.",
        "巴基斯坦人收到了警示。 巴基斯坦军队总司令卡亚尼提醒美国不要干预北瓦济里斯坦的反恐事务。"
    ],
    [
        "While the IPCC’s estimates and conclusions are grounded in careful study, Gore doesn’t seem to be similarly restrained.",
        "联合国政府间气候变化专家小组的预计和结论是以认真的研究为基础的，而戈尔似乎并没有受到类似的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 2008 US presidential election, the press told us that Obama won because he had “charisma” – the special power to inspire fascination and loyalty.",
        "在2008年美国总统大选上，媒体告诉我们奥巴马之所以获胜是因为他有“魅力”——某种能激发迷恋和忠诚的特殊力量。"
    ],
    [
        "No foreign government will gain a veto over any aspect of our internal decision-making.",
        "没有哪个外国政府能对我们任何方面的国内决策投否决票。"
    ],
    [
        "Recall that the Rwandan genocide was preceded by a similar lack of enthusiasm for financing the UN mission there.",
        "回想当年卢旺达种族灭绝发生之前，类似的对资助联合国行动缺乏热情的状况也曾经在那里出现。"
    ],
    [
        "As often as not, the trope is invented or encouraged by the particular indispensable figure.",
        "通常，这一比喻是由那个特定的不可或缺的人物发明或鼓励的。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, it was too much for the Business Roundtable, which sued the SEC to stop it.",
        "而商业圆桌会议的权力太大，他们提起诉讼，要求SEC停止这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, domestic tension in China – particularly the scandal surrounding the purge of former Chongqing Communist Party boss Bo Xilai and the country’s economic slowdown – has probably prompted the government to play the nationalist card more forcefully than usual.",
        "与此同时，中国国内的紧张局势——特别是前重庆市委书记薄熙来落马的相关丑闻以及经济增长的减速——可能迫使政府比以前更坚决地打出了民族主义的牌。"
    ],
    [
        "Such efforts will complement those of the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which does not currently include China, in shaping the global trade and investment environment.",
        "这些政策将形成对美国领导的跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（目前不包括中国）贸易协定的补充，影响并促进全球贸易和投资环境的改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Never before in modern history has the world’s leading economic power experienced a saving shortfall of such epic proportions.",
        "在现代历史中，还从未有哪个世界经济大国经历过如此规模的储蓄短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "More innovations like these will be needed to solve the country-specific issues that patients face.",
        "我们需要更多类似的创新来解决具体国家患者所面临的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "If the US and North Korea do get into a military confrontation, there is a real risk that nuclear weapons will be used. Even a conventional war would likely be catastrophic.",
        "一旦美国和朝鲜发生军事对抗就会引发动用核武器的真实危机，而即使是一场常规战争也可能是灾难性的。"
    ],
    [
        "But certitude has little to recommend itself when the price paid is distrust and condemnation from everyone else.",
        "但如果自信是以失去信任和遭到谴责为代价那就没有太大意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Driven by the one-child policy, the share of China’s population under the age of 20 fell from 51% in 1970 to 27% by 2010, while the share of people aged 60 and up rose from 7% to 14%.",
        "在独生子女政策驱动下，20岁以下中国人口比例从1970年的51%下降到2010年的27%，与此同时60岁及以上人口比例从7%上升到14%。"
    ],
    [
        "The trouble is that the so-called brain drain in Uganda and elsewhere is not the cause of this dearth of health-care workers.",
        "麻烦在于乌干达和其他地区所谓的人才流失并不是这一医疗工作者短缺的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Our pollution is disrupting the climate and poisoning the land, water, and air.",
        "我们的污染干扰气候、毒害土地、水和空气。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though unconventional measures have reduced financial instability, their effectiveness in countering widespread deflationary pressures or restoring growth remains dubious.",
        "此外，尽管非常规手段降低了金融不稳定性，但它们抵挡普遍的通缩压力或重塑增长的效果仍令人怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Chile, a middle-income country that has long had sound and responsible macroeconomic policies, does not favor currency manipulation.",
        "智利是宏观政策长期可靠的中等收入国家，不支持货币操纵。"
    ],
    [
        "While the language is complex – inviting costly lawsuits pitting powerful corporations against poorly financed governments – even regulations protecting the planet from greenhouse-gas emissions are vulnerable.",
        "由于条款极为复杂——令实力强大的公司可以对那些财政状况不佳的政府发起耗资巨大的诉讼——即使是那些保护地球免遭温室气体排放影响的法规都显得不堪一击。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, a dynamic Chinese economy is in the interest of many other countries, especially those that can export the goods and services that a more modern, consumer-driven China needs.",
        "毕竟一个充满活力的中国经济符合其他许多国家的利益，特别是那些可以输出一个更现代化且消费拉动型的中国所需的商品和服务的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Such efforts should be intensified.",
        "这些措施应该得到强化。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, we should push for partnerships between government and business to boost domestic resources for education, and eliminate illicit capital flows that deprive governments of the means to fund it, such as tax evasion and money laundering across national borders.",
        "特别是，我们应该推动政府和企业的合作以提振国内教育资源，清除阻碍政府融资途径的非法资本流，如逃税和跨境洗钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last two generations, as the world population has doubled to 7.3 billion, the amount of fish taken from the oceans each year has grown even faster, from 20 million metric tons in 1950 to 77 million in 2010.",
        "过去两代人时间里，随着世界人口总量翻番至73亿，每年海洋渔业捕捞增长进一步加速，从1950年的2000万吨增长至2010年的7700万吨之多。"
    ],
    [
        "According to this view, the total payment to a factor of production should not exceed its marginal productivity, so desirable outcomes should be promoted through tax incentives.",
        "根据这一观点，支付给某一生产力要素的总体工资不应当超过其边际生产率，这样，应当通过税收激励来推动所要达到的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Right-wing populists such as Trump engage in identity politics.",
        "特朗普等右翼民粹主义者采取身份政治。"
    ],
    [
        "The tougher problem will be how to raise revenue.",
        "更棘手的问题是如何开源。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign companies know that if they outsource any high-tech process to China, they might as well publish their blueprints on the Internet.",
        "外国公司知道，如果它们把任何高科技流程外包给中国，就等于在互联网上公布其蓝图。"
    ],
    [
        "I don’t believe it is.",
        "对此我的答案是否定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Using one candle for each switched-off bulb cancels out even the theoretical CO2 reduction; using two candles means that you emit more CO2.",
        "关一盏灯点亮一支蜡烛就会抵消理论上的二氧化碳减排； 而点亮两支蜡烛则意味着二氧化碳排放升高。"
    ],
    [
        "But other European leaders, faced with the rise of extremist, anti-immigrant parties, have not endorsed Merkel’s view; and the refugees still have to get to Germany through countries like Hungary, which are erecting walls and other border defenses to keep them out.",
        "”但其他欧洲领导人在反移民极端政党崛起的背景下并没有响应默克尔的观点； 难民人需要途经匈牙利等国家才能到达德国，而这些国家正在建设高墙和其他边境防卫装置阻止他们进入。"
    ],
    [
        "Though India had experienced annual real GDP growth of more than 8% for several years, growth has slowed since 2010, to less than 5% in 2013, owing to a populist shift in policies dictated by Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi.",
        "尽管印度多年来一直保持了8%以上的年实际GDP增长率，但从2010年以来增长有所放缓，到2013年已下降至不足5%，原因就在于国大党领袖索尼娅·甘地政策的民粹化。"
    ],
    [
        "With the evident failure of both leftist and rightist governments to stem the rising wave of unemployment, a growing part of the French and German electorates no longer seems to believe in traditional solutions.",
        "该党和由奥斯卡尔·拉方戴内领导的社会民主党异议人士结盟，鼓吹同样激进的提议。 由于左右两翼政府对失业大潮均无计可施，越来越多的法德两国选民似乎不再相信传统的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, with China such an influential driver of global demand (both directly and indirectly through important network effects), the outlook for the world’s second-largest economy has a disproportionate impact on projections of global corporate revenues.",
        "其次，中国已成为最主要的全球需求动力源（不管是直接需求还是通过重要的网络效应形成的间接需求），这个世界第二大经济体的前景对全球公司收入的影响巨大无比。"
    ],
    [
        "Improving global poverty estimates – the World Bank’s extend over three decades, beginning in 1981 – requires overcoming three major problems: insufficient survey data, flawed survey execution, and faulty PPP conversions.",
        "改善全球贫困估计——世行在这方面的工作始于1981年，已经进行了三十多年——要求克服三大问题：调查数据不充分、调查执行缺陷以及错误的PPP转换。"
    ],
    [
        "The linking of PC’s produced scares about the potential dangers of the new world.",
        "个人电脑的连接产生了有关新世界潜在危险的恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "Further research will doubtless provide more detailed and reliable information about the kinds of policies that add to people’s happiness.",
        "进一步研究无疑将为那些提升人民幸福感的政策提供更多的细节和可靠信息。"
    ],
    [
        "With its attention focused on macroeconomics, the EU neglected to take the measures that would have put economic growth back on track: freeing up markets, cutting spending (rather than raising taxes), and, above all, further developing its greatest asset, the single European market.",
        "由于聚焦于宏观经济，欧盟无暇采取那些让经济回到正轨的措施：开放市场，削减开支(而非增税)，而且最重要的是，进一步发展最大的资产：欧洲单一市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The Herzog-Livni alliance has tentatively named itself the “Zionist Camp.”",
        "赫尔佐格 - 利夫尼联盟已初步定名为“犹太复国主义阵营”。"
    ],
    [
        "During the Great Depression, such targets were not used on a large enough scale, merely fueling public despair that stimulus policies would ever work.",
        "这样才不会重导大萧条时代的覆辙。 仅仅依靠财政刺激方案是不可能获得成功的。"
    ],
    [
        "The bombing of Serbia by NATO in 1999 heavily damaged its economy, with serious consequences for neighboring countries.",
        "北约组织在1999年对塞尔维亚的轰炸，重创其经济，也给其邻国造成了严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But nothing would have a greater impact than Turkey deciding that it will no longer allow itself to be a conduit, and that it will enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 2178, which calls for stronger international cooperation against terrorism.",
        "但影响最大的还是土耳其决定不再充当前往伊斯兰国的通道并执行呼吁加强反恐国际合作的联合国安理会2178号决议。"
    ],
    [
        "A troubling proportion of the opposition forces are Islamic extremists, and there is no guarantee that weapons deliveries will stay out of their hands.",
        "叛军中不乏伊斯兰极端主义反对武装，没人能保证武器不会输送到他们手中。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinian officials say that there is no use in holding direct talks that are nothing more than a photo opportunity intended to create the impression of a peace process while avoiding any substantive commitments.",
        "但有巴勒斯坦官员却认为直接对话根本毫无用处，因为这种对话无法谈到任何实质性问题，只不过是大家聚在镁光灯前在一起摆摆样子，让人觉得和平进程依然存在罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "Emphasizing complexity brings me to a final factor affecting inequality – perhaps the most important of all: populist mobilizations.",
        "强调复杂性让我来到了影响不平等性的最后一个因素——也许是最重要的因素：民粹主义动员。"
    ],
    [
        "People who live longer while not being in employment want to enjoy their lives. A plethora of magazines tell pensioners what they can do.",
        "长寿而又无需工作的老年人希望能享受生活，于是大量面向退休人员，告诉他们该做些什么的杂志应运而生。"
    ],
    [
        "The first point to note is that an overwhelming majority of Americans agree with Francis’s call for climate action.",
        "第一个关注点是，绝大部分美国人同意方济各关于气候行动的呼吁。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is a continent saturated by history, and haunted by the specter of its repetition.",
        "欧洲是一个背负历史包袱的大洲，重复历史的幽灵在它头上飘荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics of forgiving odious debt argue that it risks discouraging future lending to some developing countries, given the uncertainty of being repaid.",
        "批评者认为免除所谓的“可憎债务”可能导致将来债主因为债务偿还的不确定性而不愿向某些发展中国家放债。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past decade, the international community has made important progress against NTDs.",
        "在过去十年中，国际社会在遏制NTD方面做出了重要进步。"
    ],
    [
        "This backlash was predictable.",
        "出现这样的反弹是可以预见的。"
    ],
    [
        "They are apparent in the growing army of child laborers picking vegetables in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley or working at garment factories in Turkey, where a half-million refugees are out of school.",
        "在黎巴嫩贝卡谷（Bekaa Valley）种蔬菜和在土耳其（那里由五十万难民辍学）服装厂工作的童工数量激增。"
    ],
    [
        "Was it true?",
        "果真如此吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Demand for biofuels, for example, has been linked to deforestation.",
        "比方说人们砍伐森林来满足对生物燃料的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Goldman Sachs could learn a lot from their tactics!",
        "我想高盛公司大概能从他们的做法中学到一点东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Shocked by the attacks of September 11, the US forced a new framework onto its still-unquestioned belief in the inexorable movement of history toward freedom.",
        "9·11袭击令美国震惊，于是强行在其仍未受质疑的通往自由的历史洪流思维上推出了新框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Iraq, the most divisive issue in American politics for the past five years.",
        "想想伊拉克，它是过去5年里美国政治中分歧最大的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A multitude of small steps could help – such as giving pro-democracy movements the technology needed to evade autocrats, presenting digital media in a balanced way, and making political parties more responsive to their members.",
        "一系列小步骤可以有所助益——如给予亲民主运动躲避专制所必须的工具、以平衡的方式呈现数字媒体，以及提高政党对其党员的响应度。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the Communists agreed that the elections to be held in four years would be entirely free.",
        "最终，波兰共产党同意四年之后在波兰进行完全自由的选举。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution is not to abolish markets, but to re-moralize wants.",
        "要解决问题并不能摧毁市场，而是要对需求重新道义化。"
    ],
    [
        "The revenues could support vulnerable countries’ efforts to develop long term plans to deal with climate change, as well as finance pilot projects aimed at minimizing loss and damage, sharing information, and replicating best practices.",
        "获得的收入可以支持脆弱国发展应对气候变化的长期计划，并为旨在最小化损失和伤害、共享信息和模仿最佳实践的实验项目提供融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel may be tempted to regard itself as some kind of latter-day Noah’s ark, but it is not.",
        "以色列或许以当代的诺亚方舟自诩，但实际情况并不是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "The SEC’s new rules for crowdfunding are complex, because they address a complicated problem.",
        "SEC的新众筹规则十分复杂，因为它们针对一个复杂的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Look more closely, however, and you will discover that these countries’ vaunted growth models cannot possibly be replicated everywhere, because they rely on large external surpluses to stimulate the tradable sector and the rest of the economy.",
        "但是，更仔细地考察一下你会发现，这些国家引以为傲的增长模式绝非放之四海而皆准，因为它们依赖巨额外部盈余刺激可贸易部门和经济的其他部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Just like Western baby boomers, Chinese urban consumers – who have grown up in post-reform China and have different views from their parents about saving versus spending – will make a generational break from the past.",
        "正如西方的婴儿潮一代，中国城镇消费者——他们生长于改革年代，与父辈有着不同的储蓄和消费观——与过去有着代际差异。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the country with the world’s most extensive system of price controls also has the highest inflation – as well as an ever-expanding police effort that jails retail managers for holding inventories and even closes the borders to prevent smuggling.",
        "结果，价格管制制度世界最全面的委内瑞拉，通货膨胀也是世界最高——并因此导致需要越来愈多的警力抓捕囤积居奇的零售经理甚至关闭边境以防走私。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s right: while almost every other European country (including Germany) is struggling to form a government, or has settled for an unstable ruling coalition, the provincial strongmenin Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary can guarantee stability.",
        "正是如此：其他欧洲国家（包括德国）为了组建政府而焦头烂额，或者只能形成不稳定的执政联盟，但波兰、斯洛伐克和匈牙利外乡强人却能够保证稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "In the real world, declarations of lofty principles mean a lot less than concrete actions.",
        "在现实世界中，高喊崇高原则的意义远远比不过脚踏实地的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Nigeria’s Resurgent Oil Diplomacy",
        "尼日利亚石油外交的复苏"
    ],
    [
        "There are undoubtedly “natural” barriers, such as language and national mentalities, which cannot be overcome swiftly.",
        "毫无疑问，这里有“自然”的障碍，比如语言和民族思维方式等不能很快克服的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The Siren Song of “Strongmania”",
        "“强人狂热”的迷魂曲"
    ],
    [
        "By making a virtue of its response to democratic pressures, the EU could regain Europe-wide support.",
        "通过如此应对民主压力，欧盟能够重新赢得泛欧洲支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The US should also continue to strengthen its security relations with Japan and South Korea, including by developing and deploying antiballistic missile systems.",
        "美国也应继续加强与日本和韩国的安全关系，包括研制和部署反弹道导弹系统。"
    ],
    [
        "VIRGINIA BEACH – Last year, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded for a discovery that took 44 years to develop, and involved two different research teams.",
        "弗吉尼亚海滩—去年的诺贝尔医学奖被授予一项耗时44年、牵涉两个研究团队的发现。"
    ],
    [
        "The politician who can figure out how to steer the revolution accordingly might never lose another election.",
        "能够领悟如何据此驾驭信息和通信技术革命的政客有望成为选举的常胜将军。"
    ],
    [
        "America has many people who do not set up 401(k) accounts, despite enormous incentives to do so.",
        "美国有许多人没有建立401(K)账户，尽管这样做有许多奖励。"
    ],
    [
        "“Anyone who gives even slight attention to the matter will easily see…the obvious advantages in the system….The various classes work together peacefully; socialist organizations and their activities are repressed.”",
        "“哪怕对这个问题有一点点关注的人也能轻松看出…这套制度的明显优势…社会各阶层共同和平努力； 社会主义组织及其活动因此受到抑制。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, international law should be designed to prevent, not just resolve, conflicts.",
        "最后，制定国际法的宗旨应当是预防、而非单纯地解决冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so would unite the world against US arrogance and the new US military threat.",
        "这样做将让全世界团结一致反对美国的傲慢和新的美国军事威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s future trajectory depends crucially on another group of leaders, who have received far less attention: the technocrats who will carry out the specific tasks associated with China’s economic reform and transformation.",
        "但是中国的未来发展轨迹其实在很大程度上取决于另外一批受关注较少的领导者：那些执行与中国经济改革和转型相关具体任务的技术官员们。"
    ],
    [
        "While Fukuda has made it clear that he will not visit the Yasukuni Shrine, 160 other parliamentarians paid homage at the site last month, an indication that conservative forces in Japan remain strong and that future prime ministers may not abstain from visiting Yasukuni.",
        "尽管福田明确了他将不再参拜敬国神社，仍然有160名议会成员在上个月到场表示了敬意。 这一现象表明日本的保守派势力仍然十分强大，因此未来的日本首相不一定会放弃参拜神社的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "While it persisted, expenditures swelled but were manageable – until, suddenly, energy prices collapsed.",
        "尽管当时支出持续膨胀，但还在控制范围内 —— 直到能源价格突然崩塌。"
    ],
    [
        "We could even wish them immortal...”",
        "我们甚至认为这是不道德的……”"
    ],
    [
        "That is why it is worth continuing to make every effort to dissuade Iran from “going nuclear.”",
        "这就是为什么为劝说伊朗放弃核武器所做的每个努力都是值得的。"
    ],
    [
        "Narrow policies like the government’s recent credit tightening will make it difficult to direct financial resources to the real economy – one of the primary objectives of “Likonomics.”",
        "类似政府最近收紧信贷这样的狭隘政策将使其难以将金融资源导入实体经济——而这正是李克强经济学的一个重要目标。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, we are all Thatcherites now.",
        "因此，我们都是撒切尔的门徒。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 40 other epigenetic drugs are being developed, not only for cancer, but also for obesity and even dementia.",
        "另有40多种发育遗传药物正在研发中，它们不仅针对癌症，也针对肥胖甚至痴呆。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it was the last time Italy’s GDP grew faster than the EMS average.",
        "事实上，这也是意大利GDP增度最后一次超过欧洲货币体系平均水平。"
    ],
    [
        "What the Wolfowitz debacle tells us most clearly is that the time for patience with the status quo is over.",
        "沃尔福威茨惨败告诉我们最为清楚的是，对现状的耐心已经结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this ignores a crucial fact: in today’s world, turning inward is not a viable option, especially for Western liberal democracies.",
        "所有这些都忽略了一个关键的事实：当今世界，尤其对西方自由民主国家来说，向内收缩的选择根本不可行。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly 18,000 children died daily as a direct or indirect consequence of malnutrition.",
        "每天大约有18000名儿童因为营养不良所造成的直接或间接的结果而死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "The transformation in China’s banking system is complex and difficult because it involves a change in its fundamental nature.",
        "中国银行系统的转变因为涉及到根本性质的变化而异常复杂和艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an almost embattled culture among many senior officials, who fear that fanning the flames of dissent among Europe’s voters could one day knock European unity off course.",
        "在许多高级官员中间存在一种几乎陷入困境的文化，他们担心在欧洲的选民中间煽动对欧盟持反对意见的火焰到头来会破坏欧洲的团结。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, South Korea, which has concluded FTAs with almost every important economic actor in the world – the US, the EU, ASEAN, India, and others – may be better prepared to conclude a trilateral FTA than Japan.",
        "最后，韩国这个几乎和全球所有重要经济参与者——美国、欧盟、东盟，印度等各方——都签订了自贸协定的国家，也比日本更好地做好了达成三方自贸协议的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "In areas like defense, the revolving door moves swiftly.",
        "在国防等领域，旋转门转得很快。"
    ],
    [
        "The tax break for “carried interest,” by which hedge-fund managers’ income is taxed at low capital-gains rates, should be abolished (as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton favors), and the exemption for the estate tax (originally expanded by George W. Bush) could be reduced.",
        "对于“附带权益”的税务豁免——比如以较低的资本利得税率向对冲基金经理的收入征税——应该取消（民主党总统候选人希拉里•克林顿正是如此主张），同时对房地产税的豁免（最初由小布什提出）可以减少。"
    ],
    [
        "So the question is not whether universal health coverage is valuable, but how to make it a reality.",
        "因此，问题不在于全民医疗覆盖是否有价值，而在于如何让它成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "The vetting process that Kenyans observed being applied to recent cabinet appointments should be extended throughout the public sector (and also to private entities that win state contracts).",
        "肯尼亚人所目睹的、用于最近内阁提名的审核程序应该扩大到整个公共部门（以及获得国有合同的私人实体）。"
    ],
    [
        "But here we should consider what is lost when we reduce the level of anarchy.",
        "但这里我们应当思考降低无秩序状态是否会有所失去。"
    ],
    [
        "Therefore, we urge Israel and all other countries involved to follow constructive and peaceful policies.",
        "因此我们敦促以色列和所有其他国家都参与到这个建设性的和平政策中来。"
    ],
    [
        "Médecins Sans Frontières, for example, had to close its Somali programs in 2013.",
        "比如，无国界医生组织被迫在2013年停止其索马里项目。"
    ],
    [
        "The memos that the Obama administration has disclosed teach us that anyone who complies with seemingly noble principles dictated by a “sense of duty” or by the necessary “defense of the homeland,” or who is urged by a basic fear for his own life and welfare, or the lives and welfare of his kin, can become a torturer.",
        "奥巴马政府公布的备忘录告诉我们，任何出于“责任感”或必要的“国防手段”而采纳貌似高尚的原则的人，或者因担心自身或同胞的生命与幸福而冲动的人，都有可能成为折磨别人的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Their perpetrators – in this case, the Islamic State (ISIS) – must be stopped.",
        "这些恐怖事件的肇事者——这次是伊斯兰国（ISIS）——必须被制止。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they emphasized harsh austerity, which was to be pursued everywhere.",
        "相反，它们强调严厉的紧缩政策，并将其推而广之。"
    ],
    [
        "But if we are to avoid winding up in another debt crisis, some, perhaps much, of the money will have to be given in grants.",
        "但是如果我们要避免卷入另一轮债务危机，一些钱，也许是很多钱，将被迫以补贴的形式来发放。"
    ],
    [
        "It has been a number of months since London was the UK’s top-performing region.",
        "伦敦不再是英国表现最好的地区已经好几个月了。"
    ],
    [
        "But soft power will play a crucial role in attracting moderates and denying the extremists new recruits.",
        "但软权力会在吸引理智者和防止恐怖新兵方面发挥至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, then, whatever de Coubertin might have hoped, cosmopolitanism and cross-cultural brotherhood comes less naturally to human beings than the raw emotions of the tribe.",
        "显而易见的是，无论顾拜旦曾抱有何种希望，世界主义和跨文化的兄弟情谊都不像原始的部族情绪那样唾手可得。"
    ],
    [
        "At some point, employers, who are interested in healthy, motivated employees and lower health costs (but demand a lower level of proof than insurance companies and governments), are likely to come in, based on these informal data-collection efforts and their own pilot programs.",
        "在某些方面，那些有志于员工健康，激励员工或者降低公司医疗费用（但比保险公司和政府对软件使用效果证明的要求更低）的雇主可能会基于这些非正式的数据搜集以及公司自身的指导计划而采用这些服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, flexible labor markets imply adversarial labor relations, particularly when compared to northern European countries.",
        "此外，灵活的劳动力市场意味着对立的劳动关系，这一点在与北欧国家作比较时最为明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the once gentlemanly game of cricket has been tainted by the infiltration of gambling networks and other crooked dealers.",
        "甚至曾经的绅士运动板球也被赌博网络和其他不法商人染指。"
    ],
    [
        "Without the threat of attack by the guerrillas, our brave soldiers, policemen, and civilian eradicators can do their job without the threat of snipers or landmines.",
        "没有了游击队袭击的威胁，我们的士兵、警察和文职缉毒人员能够在工作时免受狙击手和地雷威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Lee may have interpreted his brother’s arrest in July for accepting bribes as a prelude to such a fate.",
        "李明博可能会把7月其兄因受贿入罪视为自己悲惨命运的先兆。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why right-to-know laws are so important.",
        "那正是知情权如此重要的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Merkel has changed profoundly while in office.",
        "默克尔在任职期间发生了深刻的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "With oil exports accounting for nearly 90% of government revenue, the pressure on Saudi finances has been intense; the fiscal balance has swung from a small surplus in 2013 to a deficit of more than 21% of GDP in 2015, according to projections by the International Monetary Fund.",
        "因为石油出口占政府收入的将近90%，沙特政府承受的财政压力十分巨大； 据国际货币基金组织预测，财政平衡已经从2013年的小幅盈余下降到2015年赤字占GDP的21%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Decisions that go against Germany are possible.",
        "与德国意见针锋相对的决定并不是没有可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Is China Losing the Diplomatic Plot?",
        "中国正在失去外交方略吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In a manifesto published in April, economics students at the University of Manchester advocated an approach “that begins with economic phenomena and then gives students a toolkit to evaluate how well different perspectives can explain it,” rather than with mathematical models based on unreal assumptions.",
        "在4月发布的一份声明中，曼彻斯特大学经济学学生提出了“从经济现象开始，然后向学生传授如何评估不同的解释角度的工具”，而不要讲那些基于不现实假设的数学模型的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Before Deng Xiaoping launched the policy of “reform and opening up” in 1978, the country had relatively high levels of public-sector investment.",
        "1978年邓小平启动“改革开放”政策之前，中国公共部门投资相对较高。"
    ],
    [
        "But the narrow focus on the political and economic implications for Scotland and the UK – or, for that matter, the referendum’s decisive pro-union outcome – should not overshadow one of the more overlooked geopolitical trends of our time: the rise of small countries.",
        "但不管是着眼于对苏格兰和英国的政治和经济影响的狭义讨论，还是（就此事件而言）公投的支持统一的决定性结果，都不应该阻碍我们体会现时代的一个被更多地忽视的地缘政治趋势：小国的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "The British businessman’s body was allegedly cremated before any autopsy was conducted.",
        "那名英国商人的尸体据说未经解剖验尸就被送去了火化。"
    ],
    [
        "He has changed for the better, but only up to a point, and clearly not enough for a majority of the French, who, according to recent public-opinion polls, simply cannot stand the idea of having him on their television screens for another five years.",
        "他的变革改善了整体状况，但显然尚未达到令大多数法国人满意的程度。 据最近一项民调显示，这些民众已经无法忍受这么一个人在他们家的电视屏幕上再呆五年了。"
    ],
    [
        "The incident was not only a devastating blow to world heritage; it was also a reminder of Africa’s history as a center for cultural exchange, literacy, and learning, and a call to action.",
        "这一事件不仅是对世界文化遗产的一个沉重打击啊； 也提醒了人们非洲曾是一个文化交流，文学和教育的中心，且亟待行动去拯救。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the World Bank, which usually takes the donors’ point of view, recently acknowledged that except for debt cancellation, “promises of scaled up aid have not been delivered.”",
        "世界银行通常采纳援助国家的观点，但是它最近也承认说除了债务免除以外，“增加援助的诺言并未实现。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "He not only argued that Iran’s strategy should be offensive rather than defensive, but also threatened that Tel Aviv would be attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah if Israel went to war with the Islamic Republic.",
        "他不但声称伊朗的战略应该是进攻性的，而不是防御性的，还威胁说，如果以色列胆敢和伊朗伊斯兰共和国动武的话，哈马斯和黎巴嫩真主党将对特拉维夫发动袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed devotes considerable effort to ensuring that the public understands its monetary policy; officials should devote similar effort to communicating regulatory policy precisely.",
        "美联储花大力气确保公众理解其货币政策； 官员应该花同样大的力气精确传达监管政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy has shifted from manufacturing toward services, where there is less scope for productivity growth.",
        "经济已经从制造业向服务转型，而后者的生产率增长空间较小。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the same developments in politics and international law led to the creation of the International Court of Justice.",
        "最后，政治和国际法的发展引发了国际法庭的成立。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat that it does highlight is a less publicized one: the resurgence of discrimination and violence against Europe’s Jews.",
        "这次事件真正凸显的是一种不为人知的威胁：那就是针对欧洲犹太人的歧视和暴力正在死灰复燃。"
    ],
    [
        "In parallel, the ECB has announced an “outright monetary transactions” (OMT) program to purchase bonds already trading on the secondary market.",
        "与此同时，欧洲央行推出了“直接货币交易”（OMT）计划，用于购买二级市场交易的债券。"
    ],
    [
        "In his final speech, Morsi rallied his troops for the barricades and bloodshed rather than for the compromise that would have kept him in office.",
        "在最后一次讲话中，穆尔西号召部队设置路障、制造流血事件，而不是接受本来能让他继续执政的妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "The only possible framework for negotiations is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), concluded in 1968.",
        "唯一可能的谈判框架就是1968年达成的核不扩散条约。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Britain’s political institutions might be unable to cope.",
        "此外，英国政治制度也将无以为继。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottom line is that when interest rates rise, asset values will fall.",
        "最终情况是利率一旦升高，资产价值就会降低。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The abduction of more than 240 Nigerian girls has shocked the world.",
        "伦敦—240多名尼日利亚女孩被绑架事件震惊了全球。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Syrian opposition groups believe that they have been left to confront Assad’s brutal regime alone.",
        "结果，叙利亚反对派认为他们是在孤军与巴沙尔的苛政奋战。"
    ],
    [
        "Its conclusions will be presented at September’s summit; if accepted, the Commission’s work could mark a turning point, transforming the way in which climate policy is perceived by the world’s economic policymakers.",
        "他们将咋9月的峰会上呈现研究结果； 如果结果能被接受，将是一个转折点，改变气候政策在世界经济决策者眼中的分量。"
    ],
    [
        "There are thousands more projects like these, helping migrants and refugees to build new lives in their new communities.",
        "类似的计划由数千项之多，它们帮助移民和难民在新的社会中构建新生活。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF and the major central banks should take advantage of this newfound knowledge, and provide equity and liquidity against long-term lending for infrastructure investments.",
        "IMF和全球主要央行应该利用这一新发现的知识及规律，及时提供股本和流动性资源，以实现对全球紧缺的基础设施投资的长期融资。"
    ],
    [
        "People donate their blood to strangers, travel on humanitarian missions to places such as Haiti and the Sudan, and risk their lives to fight injustice elsewhere.",
        "人们捐血给素不相识的人，奔赴海地和苏丹等地实施人道主义救援，舍身忘死地与其他国家的不公正行为作斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic historians have shown how this can be done.",
        "经济史学家已经展示过这样做的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Some are calling for Fatah leaders to abstain from ministerial roles, whereas others see no reason why one can’t be a leader of a party and the government simultaneously.",
        "有人呼吁法塔赫领导人应主动回避在巴当局担任部长职位，然而其他人则无法理解一个人又当政党领导又当政府高官有何不妥。"
    ],
    [
        "Does Legalizing Prostitution Work?",
        "卖淫合法化有用吗？"
    ],
    [
        "For a normal country, the national income-tax system constitutes a huge automatic stabilizer across regions.",
        "在平常国家，国民所得税嫡系便是一个巨型地区级自动稳定器。"
    ],
    [
        "A crisis sufficient to threaten the entire financial system was required to precipitate the inevitable conglomeratization.",
        "需要一个足以威胁整个金融系统的危机来加速不可避免的混业经营。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine eliminating the costs of designing elaborate programs, conditions, monitoring systems, and training schemes for the poor.",
        "试想一下消除那些精心设计的复杂程序、条件、监管系统和穷人培训计划的高昂成本。"
    ],
    [
        "It will not reduce our need for arms or allies or programs of assistance to others.",
        "它不会减少我们对军备、盟友或对外援助计划的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe the figures for these outlier cities aren’t precise.",
        "些许关于这些异常（outlier）城市的数据不够准确。"
    ],
    [
        "It has also been a major factor behind the emergence of large and growing differences in the wages of workers with a college education or higher and those of workers with lower levels of educational attainment.",
        "这同时也是导致拥有高级文凭劳动者和低素质劳动者工资水平日趋分化拉大背后的主要因素"
    ],
    [
        "This would give more flexibility on budget deficits to countries that are making progress towards meeting the agenda's reform targets.",
        "这样，那些正在向达到《日程》目标努力的国家，在预算赤字方面就会有更大的灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "On the international-relations front, after 2010, as deposits from Europe left Cypriot banks, deposits from Russian businesses and individuals increased – and Russia has many reasons to use money as a way of buying political control.",
        "在国际关系的前沿上，2010年以后，当欧洲的存款自塞浦路斯银行业撤出之际，来自俄罗斯企业和个人的存款增加了——俄罗斯则有许多理由以金钱来购买政治控制力。"
    ],
    [
        "Conversely, some of China’s most disturbing moves can be chalked up to exaggerated feelings of insecurity.",
        "与此相反，中国某些最令人恼火的举动可以归结为其内心缺乏安全感的夸张表现。"
    ],
    [
        "A crucial feature of the debate is the official estimate of the number of individuals who would lose their health insurance under the various plans that have been proposed to repeal and replace the existing Affordable Care Act (better known as “Obamacare”).",
        "医改争论的核心之一，是对于已经提出的、用于取消和取代现有的平价医疗法（更出名的名称是“奥巴马医保”）的各种方案，官方估计会令多少个人失去医疗保险。"
    ],
    [
        "So there is no reason for despair in the Rhineland - or for gloating by the enemies of its economic model.",
        "因此，莱茵兰没有必要感到绝望，对手们也没必要沾沾自喜。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to managing a deep and complex crisis, indeed, European voters tend to prefer the experience of conservative politicians.",
        "因此，当问题涉及到解决一场严峻复杂的经济危机时，欧洲选民会更偏爱保守派政治家的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest entry into the Democratic race, Jim Webb – who has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy, and Senator from Virginia – has talent, but lacks steadiness.",
        "民主党选战的最新参与者吉姆·韦布才华横溢、但欠缺稳重，曾历任助理国防部长、海军部长和弗吉尼亚州参议员等职。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the papers, by Timothy J. Hatton of the University of Essex and Australian National University, examined refugee flows around the world, to see what drives them.",
        "埃塞克斯大学和澳大利亚国立大学的蒂莫西·哈顿（Timothy J. Hatton）的一篇文章考察了全球难民流以研究背后的驱动因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, an ideal scenario implies that the intervention “goes well,” and that it does not incite confusion or chaos in Libya or the wider region.",
        "当然，理想情况是指干涉行动“顺利进行”，而且没有在利比亚或非洲地区引起困惑和混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "India had handled American diplomats with a generosity of spirit that it felt the bilateral relationship deserved.",
        "印度以慷慨精神对待美国外交官，认为这是双边关系的应有之义。"
    ],
    [
        "But what they can do – and have done – is emphasize risk reduction and strengthen preparedness, thereby saving lives and building greater resilience.",
        "但他们可以做的——也确实做了的——是强调降低风险和强化预防，从而拯救无数人的生命、构建更强的恢复力。"
    ],
    [
        "Of those who said they wouldn’t be voting in this year’s European elections, 64% cited “lack of information” as the reason, with 62% complaining that their vote “wouldn’t change anything.”",
        "在那些表示不会在今年的欧洲议会选举中投票的人中，有64 ％的人认为，“缺少信息”是他们做出此决定的原因，而有62 ％抱怨说他们的投票“不会促成任何改变 ”。"
    ],
    [
        "It is natural to suppose that it could not.",
        "自然，那是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Potential leaders, in turn, can learn more about the sources and limits of the soft-power skills of emotional IQ, vision, and communication, as well as hard-power political and organizational skills.",
        "反之，潜在的领导者可以学会更多软实力技巧的来源与局限性，这些技巧涉及情商、预见力和交流能力； 他们还可习得硬实力层面的政治与组织技巧。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, the problem of judging austerity programs is that economists cannot run fully controlled experiments.",
        "最终，评判紧缩政策的问题在于经济学家无法运行一个完全受控实验。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is not over.",
        "而且这还不是全部的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "If there is less money to go around later, when the opposition party gets its turn in power, well, that’s just too bad.",
        "如果后继乏钱，那么轮到反对党上台执政时，呃，一切都太糟糕了。"
    ],
    [
        "Where is NATO’s front line?",
        "北约的前沿阵地在哪里？"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, a surprisingly strong showing by the far-right Alternative für Deutschland in recent state elections already appears to be affecting the government’s behavior.",
        "在德国，极右翼的德国另类党（Alternative für Deutschland）在最近的州选举中表现出人意料的强势，它已经开始影响德国政府的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever since the original UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed in 1992, countries’ obligations have been defined according to their level of development in that year.",
        "自1992年签署联合国气候变化框架公约以来，各国的义务一直根据当年发展水平决定。"
    ],
    [
        "There were, of course, many reasons why 52% of those who voted backed the “Leave” campaign.",
        "52%的人投票支持“脱欧”阵营，原因当然有很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, teams of doctors worldwide have an additional tool, enabling them to work together toward more accurate diagnoses and enhanced treatment plans for individual patients.",
        "如今，全球医生团队有了新工具，让他们能够合作进行更准确的诊断和强化对个体患者的医疗计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, there is a need to address the Middle East’s trust deficit.",
        "消除中东的信任赤字显然很有必要。"
    ],
    [
        "A recently launched initiative, called the Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER), collects and shares comparative data on educational policies and institutions from countries around the world.",
        "最新推出的改善教育的系统方法（Systems Approach for Better Education Results ，SABER）计划收集和共享各国教育政策和机构的可比数据。"
    ],
    [
        "Models of Madness",
        "疯狂的模式"
    ],
    [
        "This struggle will ultimately define the political structure of Iraq.",
        "这一斗争将会最终确定伊拉克的政治结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Israeli policymakers refuse to talk about the subject.",
        "以色列的决策者拒绝就此话题发表评论。"
    ],
    [
        "For many in the West, and especially for the political right in the US, the futility of attempting to negotiate with the North is hardly a revelation.",
        "对许多西方人来说——特别是美国的政治右翼——任何与朝鲜谈判的尝试必然是徒劳。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Google is not merely avoiding evil; it actively fights against it.",
        "同时，谷歌不仅仅是避免邪恶;他还积极地对抗邪恶。"
    ],
    [
        "But then fortunes rapidly diverged, with a few Western industrialized countries quickly achieving political and economic dominance worldwide.",
        "但是从那以后，随着一些西方工业化国家在政治和经济方面迅速统治世界，各国财富急速分化。"
    ],
    [
        "Regimes that systematically violate human rights have been quick to seize on every episode of US wrongdoing.",
        "每一次令人发指的暴行背后，都隐藏着对人权进行系统性破坏的政治制度。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other side of the continent, Kenya and Uganda are watching their hopes of becoming oil exporters evaporate.",
        "在非洲大陆的另一端，肯尼亚和乌干达眼睁睁看着成为石油出口国的希望破碎。"
    ],
    [
        "We have written a memo that spells out some of the essential elements of what a grand bargain for peace in Sudan could look like.",
        "为此我们草拟了一份备忘录，列出几个在苏丹和平谈判中不可或缺的要素。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of for-profit goods and services, customers and payers are the same people; they monitor the quality themselves.",
        "在盈利性商品和服务领域，客户和金主是同一批人； 他们会监督质量。"
    ],
    [
        "This has spurred doubts about America’s ability to provide strategic heft to its “pivot” by sustaining a higher level of commitment in the Asia-Pacific region, where it already maintains 320,000 troops.",
        "这激起了关于美国是否有能力通过更高层次的亚太地区承诺（美国在该地区已有320 000驻军）支持这一战略“重心”的能力的质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Put more simply: they were supposed to make it up as they went along.",
        "简单地说，他们应当在前进的同时弥补造成的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency has verified that there has been no diversion of Iran’s civil nuclear program to weapons development.",
        "国际原子能委员会的最新一份报告已经证实伊朗的民用核计划没有向武器发展转变。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they had enough fiscal space to relax such policies when the 2008-2009 crisis hit.",
        "结果，当2008—2009年危机爆发时，它们有足够的空间放松财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The criticisms of this attitude boil down to a simple question: “Who is better equipped than I am to make choices about my welfare?”",
        "对这种态度的批评可以归结为一个简单的问题：“对我的社会福利，谁有比我更好的条件作出选择呢？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "Developing countries, indigenous peoples, and local communities must be given a prominent voice, so that all risks can be fully considered before any geoengineering technology is tested or implemented.",
        "发展中国家、原住民和本地社区必须获得发出声音的权利，从而让所有风险都能够在地球工程技术被测试或实施之前得到充分考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "If the EU wants to be taken seriously and have a tangible impact, it needs to learn that talking about the right things is no substitute for taking the right kind of action.",
        "而倘若欧盟想要得到别人的重视并发挥显著影响的话，它就得明白，正确的空谈是无法取代正确的行动的。"
    ],
    [
        "This increase would be above what microprudential supervision – assessing the risks to individual institutions – might dictate. In this way, the new Basel rules allow for requiring banks to maintain a so-called countercyclical buffer of extra capital.",
        "但这一增加措施将超出宏观审慎监管——只评估单个机构的风险——的规定，因此新的巴塞尔规则也允许要求银行维持一笔额外的所谓反周期缓冲资金。"
    ],
    [
        "That principle, unanimously agreed by the UN General Assembly in 2005, has been successfully invoked elsewhere, including in support of diplomatic intervention in Kenya in 2008.",
        "这一在2005年联合国大会一致通过的原则在其他地区都能良好地贯彻，包括支持2008年对肯尼亚的外交干预。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now clear that the French government will follow Sarkozy’s presidential program to the letter. The program’s flagship measure is the wholesale exemption of overtime hours from social security and income taxes.",
        "现在很清楚，法国政府将不折不扣地执行萨科奇的总统大选纲领，其中标志性的措施是大规模地免除加班收入的社会保障税和所得税。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the protests erupted last March, there have been an estimated 2,700 deaths, more than 10,000 people displaced to Turkey, and thousands more arrested.",
        "去年3月游行活动爆发以来，据估计已有2 700人丧生，超过10 000人流亡到了土耳其，另有数千人被捕。"
    ],
    [
        "But the decentralized, dispersed nature of many industries, the absence of an effective regulatory infrastructure, and the lack of firm-level inducements undermine the effectiveness of this approach.",
        "但行业分散、缺乏有效监管制度及欠缺企业层面的诱因严重影响了这种方式的有效性。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no excuse for delay.",
        "继续拖延找不到任何借口。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the whole investment world on Prozac?",
        "难道整个投资界都服了缓解焦虑的百忧解了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Across Europe, calls for “affordable energy” are fast becoming a euphemism for increased fossil-fuel subsidies and a rollback of commitments on green energy.",
        "放眼欧洲，对“可负担能源”的吁求正在快速变为增加化石燃料补贴、收回绿色能源承诺的委婉说法。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the objective should be for democratic powers to reach a broad strategic understanding, based on shared values.",
        "相反，其目标应该是让民主力量之间在共同价值观的基础上形成广泛的战略性谅解。"
    ],
    [
        "Pro-revolution, non-Islamist, and non-MB candidates received almost 9.7 million votes in the first round of the presidential election.",
        "革命派非伊斯兰非MB候选人在第一轮总统选举中赢得了970万张选票。"
    ],
    [
        "But these two types of mismeasurement, the report continues, explain only a relatively small share of the slowdown in economic gains.",
        "但报告继续指出，这两类衡量指标问题之能解释经济收益放缓的相对较小的部分。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – In my experience, if you are attacked for your diplomacy from both left and right, by doves and hawks, and by internationalists and isolationists, you probably have it just right.",
        "纽约——以我的经验，如果左右翼势力、鸽派和鹰派、国际主义者和孤立主义者同时攻击你的外交政策，那么你的政策可能恰到好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, as the friction of recent years has amply attested, China continues to nurture the bitterness of its people, and those of other Asian countries, toward Japan.",
        "相反，近年来的摩擦已充分证明中国继续滋长民众的仇日情绪，同样的情况也出现在其他亚洲国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Some might suspect that Greece’s debt is sustainable, since the Greek government has to pay less in interest than Portugal or Italy, both of which have much lower debt levels.",
        "有些人可能会怀疑希腊的债务其实是可持续的，因为该国政府所以支付的利息比葡萄牙和意大利这两个债务水平远低于希腊的国家所需支付的更少。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rupee’s Wake-Up Call",
        "印度卢比的警钟"
    ],
    [
        "It is impossible to take in at once all of the innumerable symphonic or jazz concerts, or parades celebrating ethnic or sexual minorities.",
        "同时吸纳所有不计其数的交响乐或爵士乐会、或赞美种族和性别弱势群体的游行绝无可能。"
    ],
    [
        "There is, of course, a vigorous ongoing debate about China’s exchange-rate policy.",
        "当然，有关中国的汇率政策一直争论不休。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, a dilemma arises: the presence of US/NATO forces in Afghanistan is not in harmony with the natural urges and balance of the region.",
        "因此一个困境逐渐浮现：在阿富汗的美国/北约部队与自然主张和区域平衡无法和谐一致。"
    ],
    [
        "But we should also be planning for a substantial rise in financial and economic uncertainty.",
        "但我们也应该为金融和经济不确定性的激增做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in 2010, the science writer Nicholas Wade lamented that, a decade after the project was launched, geneticists were “almost back to square one in knowing where to look for the roots of common disease.”",
        "事实上，2010年，科学作家瓦德（Nicholas Wade）哀叹，在人类基因组计划启动十年后，遗传学家“几乎回到了原点，明白了往哪里寻找常见疾病的根源。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "They come to mark the start of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly, to give speeches that tend to receive more attention at home than they do in the hall, and – in the diplomatic equivalent of speed dating – to pack as many meetings as is humanly possible into their schedules.",
        "他们是为了参加联合国大会年会开幕式而来，在开幕式上发表演讲，以期在国内获得比在大厅中演讲更多的关注，并且——在这个外交“速配约会”中——在精力所及范围内将尽可能多的会晤装进日程表。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the government’s success in clamping down on corruption, especially at sub-national levels, will be a litmus test of its legitimacy.",
        "事实上，政府打击腐败的成功，特别是国家级以下的腐败，是对其的试金石。"
    ],
    [
        "Until then, wasting enormous sums of money at the expense of the world’s poor is no solution at all.",
        "在此之前，以损害穷人利益为代价浪费巨额财富根本不可能解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, it is at most a very modest move in that direction.",
        "如果这样的话，这几乎是朝着一方向迈进的非常轻微的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 2000 general election, as the ruling center-right coalition imploded, the PRM received about 20% of the popular vote, becoming the second-largest party in parliament.",
        "在2000年的大选中，由于执政的中间派-右翼联盟破裂，大罗马尼亚党获得了20%的选票从而成为国会中的第二大党派。"
    ],
    [
        "Amid this gloomy outlook, we anxiously look for encouraging signs.",
        "在这令人沮丧的展望中，我们急切地寻找鼓舞人心的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy may become more aggressive in response to challenges to his power at home, while Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey are all being destabilized by Syria’s ongoing meltdown.",
        "为了应对国内权力挑战，俄罗斯总统普京的外交政策可能变得更加激进，而约旦、黎巴嫩和土耳其都因为叙利亚的崩溃而正在受到冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "The only safe option is a radical realignment of the Party with the general interest.",
        "唯一安全的选择是彻底治党，使之与一般利益一致。"
    ],
    [
        "So, at September’s summit, leaders will be asked to re-boot the diplomatic process.",
        "因此，在9月的峰会上，领导人们将被要求重启外交程序。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether they can cope with these changes will depend on whether they have taken out enough insurance against the right risks.",
        "而这些国家能否可以应付这些变化将取决于能否针对相应的风险采取足够的保障措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when its energy dependence on the Middle East was at its peak, the US rarely altered its policy of support for Israel.",
        "即使其对中东能源的依赖已经过了顶峰期，美国也不会改变支持以色列的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though some football games have provoked violence, and in one case even a war, they might have served the positive purpose of containing our more savage impulses by deflecting them onto a mere sport.",
        "尽管某些足球比赛曾经激起暴力，甚至有一次引发了战争，但它们可能已经通过转移注意力，抑制了我们更加野蛮的冲动。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s youthful population – a product of the massive post-revolution baby boom – is increasingly frustrated and depressed; not surprisingly, young Iranians are having fewer children than ever.",
        "年轻一代的伊朗人是后革命时期大规模婴儿潮的产物，他们正感到越来越沮丧，越来越没有信心，还有一点不出人们所料，那就是年轻的伊朗人生育子女的数量少于以往任何时候。"
    ],
    [
        "· Keep track of your progress towards your goal, for example by keeping a journal or putting a chart on the fridge door.",
        "· 记录自己向目标前进的过程，比如写日记或者在冰箱门上贴张进度表"
    ],
    [
        "And in all but two African countries, girls remain less likely than boys to complete a primary education.",
        "只有两个非洲国家，女孩完成小学教育的可能性不低于男孩。"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, one would not think so.",
        "从表面上看不可行。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Bush’s strategy of democracy promotion has mainly contributed to unease around the world and alienation from Western goals.",
        "不幸的是，布什的促进民主的战略让世界不得安宁，而且也偏离了西方的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The OSCE could play a pivotal role, serving, like the Helsinki conference 40 years ago, as a platform to overcome the existing divide, restore trust, and rebuild a cooperative approach to common security concerns.",
        "欧安组织可以扮演中心角色，就像四十年前的赫尔辛基会议那样提供一个平台克服现有分歧，重塑信任，重新构建针对共同安全问题的合作性方针。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS -- The EU has no coherent strategy on many issues.",
        "布鲁塞尔——欧盟在许多问题上都缺乏统一的战略。 它在俄罗斯的问题上只有粗略的经济政策；"
    ],
    [
        "If the new Congress in 2015 refrains from standoffs, sequesters, and shutdowns, there is no reason why the economy cannot continue to do well.",
        "如果2015年的新国会仍能避免僵局、自动减赤和政府关门，就没有理由怀疑经济能继续表现抢眼。"
    ],
    [
        "The decisions taken by Europe in the next several days will determine Greece’s fate; wittingly or not, they will determine the EU’s fate as well.",
        "未来几天欧洲所做的决定将决定希腊的命运； 在有意和无意间，也将决定欧盟的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "And it certainly does not mean more efforts to police women’s behavior.",
        "这也绝非意味着采取更多措施监控妇女的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The price will never drop, because Microsoft will just roll out a new system, again at high profit margins.",
        "价格永远也不会下降，因为微软只需推出一个全新系统，就可以再度获得丰厚的利润空间。"
    ],
    [
        "By providing free and balanced nutrition to schoolchildren, it has provided a powerful incentive to poor families to send their kids to school and, equally important, to keep them there throughout the day.",
        "2亿学生提供免费的营养均衡的膳食，对贫穷家庭来说，这是让他们把孩子送到学校并（这一点同样重要）让他们在学校里呆一整天的强大激励。"
    ],
    [
        "If Brazil is to regain its credibility swiftly, it will need the support of the international community.",
        "如果巴西想要迅速重新赢回信誉，就需要来自国际社会的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Taking advantage of this lending, ordinary people, from taxi drivers to hairdressers, can become millionaires by playing the market on the side.",
        "）利用按揭贷款，普通人——从出租车司机到发型师——都可以通过单边下注市场成为百万富翁。"
    ],
    [
        "“The Earth is green and beautiful, and Allah has appointed you his stewards over it.",
        "“地球浓绿美丽，安拉任命你当它的管家。"
    ],
    [
        "Man-made climate change is, of course, real, and constitutes a serious problem.",
        "当然，人为的气候变化是实实在在的，而且也会造成严重的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "If they were, we wouldn’t need to subsidize them.",
        "如果它们是有成本效益的，我们也不需要为它们提供补贴了。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of America’s foreign-policy folly, Iran became the central geo-political player in the entire region, linking the western and eastern part of this long belt of instability.",
        "美国对外政策上的昏招令伊朗成为整个区域的地缘政治核心力量，成为连结起该区域东西地带不稳定因素的桥梁。"
    ],
    [
        "As I started to answer “Yes,” he interjected: “If your answer is ‘yes,’ think about the fact that no one will believe you.”",
        "正当我张嘴说“可以”之时，他又插了一句：“如果你的回答是‘能’的话，试问谁又会相信你呢？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "A fossil-free economy can happen by design or by default.",
        "摆脱化石燃料的经济可以通过设计实现，也可以自然形成。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – “Every country gets the leaders it deserves,” the French counter-revolutionary Joseph de Maistre quipped.",
        "圣地亚哥—“什么样的国家配什么样的领导人，”法国反革命分子约瑟夫·德梅斯特尔（Joseph de Maistre）嘲讽道。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with the worst effects of spending cuts potentially still to come, gridlock – and Republican spite – may mean that the Obama administration’s payroll-tax cut will not be extended, weakening household consumption.",
        "此外，支出削减的负面影响还没有完全展开，在此背景下，僵局——以及共和党的刁难——可能意味着奥巴马政府的收入税削减不会展期，这将削弱家庭消费。"
    ],
    [
        "When the US has confronted a “negative watershed” – a lethal threat to the country – it committed meaningful financial and human resources in order to address the risks.",
        "当美国面临“消极分水岭”——即致命国家安全威胁——时，它应该动员财政和人力资源来消除风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Some southern African countries argue that they should be allowed to sell their ivory in CITES-permitted, one-off sales to fund conservation efforts aimed at maintaining healthy elephant populations.",
        "南部非洲某些国家认为应当允许他们按照《濒临绝种野生动植物国际贸易公约》的规定从事一次性的象牙销售活动，从而为保护健康象群的工作提供资金支持。"
    ],
    [
        "In the story, Julie is already on the Pill, but Mark uses a condom, just to be safe.",
        "故事中的朱莉已经在服用避孕药，但马克为了安全起见仍旧使用了避孕套。"
    ],
    [
        "On January 15, the index closed at 2,901 – very close to the trough of last summer’s stock-market crash.",
        "1月15日，该指数收于2,901点——接近去年夏天股市大幅波动的低点。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, ASEAN’s erstwhile communist enemies – Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam – decided to join the bloc.",
        "事实上，东盟此前的共产主义敌人——柬埔寨、老挝和越南都决定加入其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet such a partnership is far from certain.",
        "但这样一种伙伴关系距离确定还相去甚远。"
    ],
    [
        "As Greece and its creditors (now mainly sovereign lenders and multilateral institutions) deliberate about how to address the country’s looming cash crunch, they should recognize these differences and learn from the mistakes of their past approach.",
        "在希腊及其债权人（现在主要是主权贷款人和多边机构）思考如何解决即将到来的现金危机时，它们应该认识到这些区别，并从过去的方针的错误中汲取教训。"
    ],
    [
        "So why is it that central bankers would rather look at external issues than focus on their own area of responsibility?",
        "因此，央行行长为什么要去关注外部问题，而不将注意力集中在自己的三分三上？"
    ],
    [
        "That is understandable: the rise of new powers has always disrupted the established international order.",
        "这种情况也可以理解： 历史上新的大国崛起一定会冲击既有国际秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, Putin has begun work on dismantling the EU.",
        "目前，普京已开始着手分解欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Policy discussions at many high-level summits sought to strengthen other features of industrial policy, including public financing of airports, highways, ports, electricity grids, telecommunications, and other infrastructure, improvements in institutional effectiveness, an emphasis on education and skills, and a clearer legal framework.",
        "在许多高规格峰会上的政策讨论都趋向于加强产业政策的其他方面，包括对机场、高速公路、码头、输电网，电信及其他基础设施建设的财政支持，提高行政效率，强调人才教育和技能，以及构建一个更加清晰透明的法律体制。"
    ],
    [
        "China provides a telling example.",
        "中国就是一个绝佳的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that ever since the end of the 1970’s, China has become convinced that peace and stability are the most important preconditions for its development.",
        "事实上，自从20世纪70年代末以后，中国一直坚信和平与稳定是发展的最重要的前提。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an entirely responsible and sensible agenda.",
        "这是一个非常负责任和明智的日程。"
    ],
    [
        "One of two things will happen: either tighter containment of Iran through sanctions on oil exports will produce positive results and weaken Iran, or containment will fail, leading the US inexorably toward a new war in the Middle East.",
        "对以石油出口制裁为手段牵制伊朗将产生积极效果并削弱伊朗，或者牵制手段失败，让美国不得不在中东开展，两者必居其一。"
    ],
    [
        "There are other reasons why R2P has not been a success in the Syrian case.",
        "而保护责任之所以无法在叙利亚实行还有其他的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Not every weapon is right for every occasion or every economy.",
        "不是所有武器都适合所有经济体的所有情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Others believe that there are some things that money should not be able to buy.",
        "其他人则相信有些东西是不应该被投入金钱交易的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the problems of usability and interoperability persist.",
        "但可用性和互操作性问题仍然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran tried that, and failed.",
        "伊朗试图这样做，但是失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "They focused on buying assets, repackaging them, and selling them, while establishing a record of incompetence in assessing risk and screening for creditworthiness. Hundreds of billions have been spent to preserve these dysfunctional institutions.",
        "它们把业务的重心放在购买资产、对它们进行重新包装然后再出售上，与此同时却在评估风险和进行筛选以确保信用的可靠上的低能达到了前所未有的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "From Trump, we should expect not just a continued Twitter barrage, but also the use of TV, including talk shows, and other channels to speak directly to the people.",
        "从特朗普身上，我们不仅会看到持续密集的推特攻势，还会看到他利用电视、包括脱口秀和其他渠道直接向民众发表谈话。"
    ],
    [
        "A priority review during the budgetary term would enable the EU to adapt its annual budgets to changing circumstances and reallocate unspent money where it is needed most.",
        "预算期间的优先事项检视将能使欧盟令其年度预算适应变化的环境，将未支出资金重新配置到最需要的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "However, my curiosity was piqued when I noticed a missing attachment outlining the firm’s planned investment strategy.",
        "然而当我留意到有一份概述该公司所计划的投资战略的附件没有随信发来时，我的好奇心被激发了起来。"
    ],
    [
        "In any US presidential election campaign, you can be sure that protectionism will break in, as it has.",
        "在任何一届美国总统竞选期间，保护主义都会一如既往地乘虚而入。"
    ],
    [
        "ATHENS – Months of negotiations between our government and the International Monetary Fund, the European Union, and the European Central Bank have produced little progress.",
        "雅典—我国政府与国际货币基金组织（IMF）、欧盟和欧洲央行的谈判几乎毫无进展。"
    ],
    [
        "So do China’s neighbors and global partners – and for reasons that have as much to do with self-interest as political values.",
        "中国的邻邦和国际伙伴也是如此——这与其说是出于政治价值观，不如说是为了自身利益。"
    ],
    [
        "China then simply threatened to abandon or never to conclude trade deals with these EU members.",
        "中国那时就威胁要撤销或停止与这些欧盟国家的贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider this: for all of the attention the Ebola virus has received in recent months, coal is a far deadlier killer.",
        "考虑以下事实：近几个月来，埃博拉病毒吸引了巨大的关注，但煤炭是比埃博拉凶险得多的杀手。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to intergovernmental transfers and guarantees, the Bundesbank’s claims against peripheral countries’ central banks within the Target2 clearing system totaled €644 billion ($804 billion) on April 30, and the amount is growing exponentially, owing to capital flight.",
        "4月30日，除了政府间的转移和担保，德国央行在Target2清算系统中对外围国央行的总债权已高达6440亿欧元，且资本外逃的推动下，该数字还在以指数速度增长。"
    ],
    [
        "To support ASEAN countries in safeguarding the seas, Japan will combine various options, including official development assistance, capacity building by the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF), and provision of defense equipment and technology.",
        "为了支持东盟国家的海洋防卫力量，日本将结合多种选择，包括官方发展援助、通过日本自卫队进行的能力建设，以及提供防务设备和技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil has schemes that pay for protecting watercourses.",
        "巴西出台了为保护河道而支付的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "It is incumbent upon governments to prioritize people’s right to food and nutrition above private economic interests.",
        "政府有责任将人民的食物和营养权利置于私人经济利益之前。"
    ],
    [
        "Systemic risk raises doubts about the solvency of over-indebted countries, which means that these countries’ efforts to consolidate their fiscal position and promote reform do not lead to improvement in financial conditions, which is essential for overcoming the crisis and promoting recovery.",
        "系统风险产生了对过度负债国偿债能力的质疑，这意味着这些国家整合财政并推进改革的努力并不会让财政状况有所改善，而财政状况的改善是克服危机、促进复苏的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland’s authorities have conducted similar recent operations, exchanging short-maturity paper for longer-term debt.",
        "爱尔兰当局最近也宣布了类似的计划，用短期票据替换长期债券。"
    ],
    [
        "The efforts that richer countries promised should be – and generally are – greater than the efforts of poor countries. The richer a country is, the earlier the date at which its emissions should peak.",
        "较富裕国家所承诺的措施应该——总体而言也确实如此——比贫穷国家更大更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Lebanon’s experience reveals the discord between the psychology of crowds and the goals of the political elites who rally behind them – a conflict that can also be seen in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, Tunisia’s Sidi Bouzid, and Tripoli, Libya, where crowds have stormed the parliament building several times in the last few months.",
        "黎巴嫩的经验揭示了群众心理和鼓动群众的政治精英的目标之间的分歧——在埃及解放广场、突尼斯西迪布济德（Side Bouzid）和利比亚的黎波里也可以见到这一现象，群众在过去几个月中数度洗劫议会大楼。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is also important to ensure that valuable assets and practices built up by the GPEI over time are not squandered once polio is gone.",
        "但随着时间一点一滴过去，确保全球根除脊髓灰质炎行动所累积的宝贵资产和形成的惯例在消灭脊髓灰质炎后不会被白白浪费也很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Under these circumstances, he will have to emphasize putting America’s own house in order.",
        "在这种情况下，他必须先以整肃美国国内秩序为重。"
    ],
    [
        "Tocqueville despised the elites of his time for their complacency in the face of the deracinating force of mass democracy.",
        "托克维尔时代的精英在大众民主釜底抽薪的力量面前自满，他对此嗤之以鼻。"
    ],
    [
        "But Abe comes into office with a reputation as a stronger nationalist than his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, whose insistence on visiting the controversial Yasukuni Shrine (where Class A war criminals from World War II are buried) helped sour relations with China.",
        "但是安倍入主首相府时被认为是一个比他的前任小泉纯一郎更加强硬的民族主义者，后者对于有争议的供奉着二战甲级战犯的靖国神社的持续参拜恶化了中日关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Competition, contrary to what many on the right believe, is not always good.",
        "与许多右翼人士所认为的相反，竞争并不总是好事。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking back, I have no regrets.",
        "回头看，我并不后悔。"
    ],
    [
        "China, too, is developing in ways that will be far easier to assess in retrospect than they are today.",
        "中国自己的发展事后评估起来也远比今天更加容易。"
    ],
    [
        "During the early stages of the Cultural Revolution, she played a dual role: daughter of a Chinese field marshal and leader of the rebels at the School of Art in the capital.",
        "在文化大革命初期，她有着双重身份：中国陆军元帅的女儿和首都艺术学校造反派的领导。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – In response to climate change, land is key.",
        "牛津—在应对气候变化的问题上，土地是关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Self and the City",
        "个人与城市"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the potential beggar-thy-neighbor effects of the spike in currency crashes in the past two years are not unique to China.",
        "当然，过去两年间，货币突然崩溃的潜在以邻为壑效应并非中国所独有。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic arguments advanced against renewable sources of energy – that they can be expensive, intermittent, or not sufficiently concentrated – are easily rebutted.",
        "昂贵、不连续或不够集中等反对可再生能源的经济论据很容易驳斥。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, there is the assumption running through the report that automation is not just desirable, but irreversible.",
        "最后，报告全文贯穿着一个假设，即自动化不仅值得可求，并且不可逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "Since taking over, Hu Jintao has arrested a number of outspoken journalists in an effort to rein in the media.",
        "胡锦涛自接管以来，拘捕了数位直言的记者以控制传媒。"
    ],
    [
        "It was only in the last year of his second term that Clinton made a serious effort to respond to Khatami.",
        "在他第二个任期的最后一年，克林顿才认真地回应了了哈塔米。"
    ],
    [
        "Only measures that ensure that companies reward true merit will be considered legitimate by employees, shareholders, and the public.",
        "雇员、股东以及公众只会把确保公司奖励真实功劳业绩的措施视为是合法的。"
    ],
    [
        "Gilded Age inequality was significantly reversed during the period of social democracy in the global north, between 1930 and 1980, when higher taxes on the wealthy helped pay for new government benefits and programs.",
        "镀金时代的不平等性在全球北方的社会民主时期，即1930年到1980年间大幅扭转，其间对富人课税的增加帮助支付了政府福利和计划。"
    ],
    [
        "All other expenses “lie where they fall”: the more troops and equipment a country contributes to a mission, the more it ends up paying.",
        "所有其他的费用都是“自行承担”：一个国家为军事行动派出的军队和提供的装备越多，它最后的支出就越多。"
    ],
    [
        "The second pillar of an effective crisis-response strategy is an emergency reserve workforce – established by the WHO, in cooperation with national governments – comprising well-trained health professionals who are prepared for rapid deployment in low-resource settings.",
        "有效危机应对策略的另一根支柱是由世卫组织牵头领导各国政府建立应急储备的医疗队伍，招募训练有素的医务人员，随时准备在资源稀缺的条件下实施快速部署。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, this finding is at odds with all of the eulogies for globalization that one hears these days, and Donald Trump’s decidedly protectionist administration in the US could now send global trade into a long retreat.",
        "诚然，这一情况与最近全球化哀声一片形成了鲜明反差，而铁了心要采取贸易保护主义的美国特朗普政府可能让全球贸易陷入长期衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "While that may seem like a lot of money, it is the equivalent of only 1% of global GDP, and less than 0.3% of global financial assets.",
        "尽管这看起来是一笔巨款，但其实只相当于全球GDP的1%和不到全球金融资产的0. 3%。"
    ],
    [
        "But the skepticism could yield positive results, especially if it prompts Western powers to reevaluate their foreign aid retreat.",
        "但这样的怀疑也可能产生积极效果，尤其如果它能促使西方强国重新评估他们撤出援外工作的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "The beneficiaries of this state of mind are anti-establishment candidates who espouse policies in opposition to free trade and immigration reform and who call for a radical overhaul of current tax and spending policies.",
        "这一思维状态的受益者是反建制候选人，他们力挺反对自由贸易和移民改革，要求彻底改变当前税收和支出政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In the nearly six months since Hurricane Katrina destroyed half of New Orleans, many storm victims’ expectations of help have been dashed, creating a legacy of bitterness.",
        "在卡特里娜飓风毁掉半个新奥尔良的半年后，很多飓风受害者的求助希望彻底破灭，从而引发了颇为痛苦的遗留问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This unfulfilled desire for community may be felt particularly acutely by young people – including, for example, young jihadists.",
        "这一对社会的未满足的渴望也许在年轻人中间最能得到尖锐的认识——包括（比如）年轻的圣战者。"
    ],
    [
        "They regularly needed to resolve the delicate issue of whether to invite to their embassy celebrations various Charter 77 signatories, human rights activists, critics of the communist regime, displaced politicians, or even banned writers, scholars, and journalists – people with whom the diplomats were generally friends.",
        "他们经常会碰到是否要邀请77宪章缔约方、人权民主人士、共产党政府的批评者、流离失所的政治家、甚至是被禁作家、学者和记者来参加使馆庆祝活动的敏感问题¾这些人一般都是外交官们的朋友。"
    ],
    [
        "Both countries have many reasons to pursue this goal, considering North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs, terrorism, and the numerous challenges to stability around the world.",
        "考虑到朝鲜的导弹和核计划、恐怖主义以及威胁世界稳定的诸多挑战，两国都有太多的理由来实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "All regional and local actors should be involved.",
        "所有地区和当地势力都应该参与其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Could the center left, which she represents, lose control of the party?",
        "她所代表的中左翼可能失去对民主党的控制吗？"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, it is much more likely that Syria’s disintegration would call the entire post-World War I (or post-Ottoman) Middle Eastern state system – also called the “Sykes-Picot” system – into question.",
        "因此，更有可能的是叙利亚的分崩离析导致一战后（或奥斯曼帝国后）的中东国家体系——亦称“赛克斯-皮科”（Sykes-Picot）体系——陷入危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the end of the Second World War, more land has been converted to agricultural use than in the previous two centuries.",
        "从第二次世界大战结束以来，土地被转换到农业使用的数量超过以往的两个世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, he posted on Twitter a video of his granddaughter reciting a poem in Mandarin – an instant hit in China.",
        "相反，他在Twitter上发布了一则视频，由他的外孙女用普通话朗诵中国古诗——此举立刻打动了中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the greatest natural disasters of our time – including, for example, the Fukushima catastrophe in 2011 – have been water-related.",
        "许多现时代最严重的自然灾害——包括2011年福岛灾难——都和水有关。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as we now know, they did not.",
        "但我们知道，他们并没有这么做。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, his rivals, most notably Yulia Tymoshenko, emphasized a rapid shift toward NATO and the European Union.",
        "相反，他的竞争对手，特别是季莫申科（Yulia Tymoshenko），强调快速倒向北约和欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, however, every Malaysian must declare a religious affiliation, which is registered with the government – a requirement that has made it difficult for a Muslim to leave Islam without formalizing the change of status through the legal process.",
        "但是如今，每个马来西亚人都必须申报宗教归属并在政府登记。 这一要求使得穆斯林在不通过法律手续完成现状的改变而脱离伊斯兰非常困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Vaccinating children against rotavirus, for example, can protect them from a pathogen that is responsible for 37% of all diarrhea deaths in children under five, thus saving 450,000 lives every year.",
        "比如，接种轮状病毒疫苗的儿童可以抵抗一种导致5岁以下儿童37%的痢疾死亡的病原体，从而每年能可以拯救450000条生命。"
    ],
    [
        "After so many broken ceasefires, the two countries clearly lack mutual trust.",
        "在经历了多次停火破产后，两国显然缺少互信。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s scheme to rehabilitate the rail line from its territory into the secessionist Georgian province of Abkhazia similarly mixes economics with neo-imperial aspirations.",
        "俄罗斯计划重振从其领土到分裂主义的格鲁吉亚阿布哈兹省的铁路同样也把新帝国主义野心混合在经济事务里。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s demographic advantage is diminishing quickly, owing to low fertility rates and population aging.",
        "但中国的人口优势正在快速消失，主要原因是低生育率和人口老龄化。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporate strategies are increasingly falling into line with these findings.",
        "公司战略日益与这些发现一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then can he hope not only to meet his commitments for the first 100 days in office, but also – and more important – to begin easing the fear and anger that his campaign has brought to fever pitch.",
        "然后，他才能寄望于在兑现执政100天时的承诺，并且——这一点更加重要——开始缓解他的选战所造成的巨大的恐慌和愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, the UK was playing with fiscal fire and needed some commitment to earlier austerity.",
        "当然，英国在财政政策领域玩火，需要采取某些早期的紧缩政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But could it have been otherwise?",
        "但可能有其它结果吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Like any country, Ukraine’s relations with the world are determined by four interlocking factors: history, patriotism, national interests, and geography.",
        "同任何国家一样，乌克兰与世界的关系由历史、地理、爱国精神和国家利益等四个相互影响的因素共同决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries will benefit from US growth (if Trump does not simultaneously erect trade barriers).",
        "许多国家将受益于美国的增长（如果特朗普没有同时提高贸易壁垒）。"
    ],
    [
        "For insurance to be effective as a risk-management device, weather must be measured at a finely-detailed local level, and the correct measurements must be taken at the correct time.",
        "如果想让保险成为有效的风险管理工具，那么就必须在小范围内对天气进行非常细致的测量，并在恰当的时间采取恰当的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it is not just Arabs or Muslims who support the Palestinians’ just demands for a fair peace agreement.",
        "但支持巴勒斯坦人民对公平和平协议的正义要求的不仅仅是阿拉伯人和穆斯林。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bretton Woods institutions have a key role to play.",
        "布雷顿森林体系机构应当发挥关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Blood Quest",
        "血液探秘"
    ],
    [
        "A 10% depreciation of the Turkish lira, for example, would raise cumulative CPI inflation by 1.65-2.03 percentage points, over two years, all else being equal.",
        "比如，保持其他情况一致，土耳其里拉升值10%将导致土耳其CPI通胀在两年中累计增加1. 65-2."
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, by contrast, easy access to the local printing presses before and after the foundation of the ECB, together with the new fiscal rescue mechanisms, ensure that investors start to become nervous only when debt ratios are 10-20 times as high.",
        "相反，在欧洲，欧洲央行成立前后本国印钞机随时待命，更有新的财政救援机制确保投资者只有在债务比率比美国高出10倍20倍时才会开始担心。"
    ],
    [
        "We need research to develop better treatments for brain disorders in general, and for mental illnesses in particular.",
        "我们需要研究支持，以开发治疗脑部疾病，特别是精神疾病的更好的治疗方法。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1979, an international conference was held to respond to the refugee crisis that arose from the end of the Vietnam War and the mayhem of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia; over the next two years, more than 620,000 refugees were resettled in 20 countries.",
        "1979年举行了一次国际会议讨论应对越南战争结束和柬埔寨红色高棉种族灭绝所产生的难民危机问题； 在接下来的两年中，620,000 多难民被20个国家收容。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether for mutual security or shared prosperity, genuine partnerships are not built overnight.",
        "不管是为了共同安全还是共同繁荣，真正的伙伴关系都不是一夜建成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, there are environmental drawbacks from the use of coal as an energy resource, and these concerns are far too important to overlook.",
        "很明显，使用煤炭作为一种能源会产生环境倒退，而且人们不能忽视这些巨大的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sunni clerics who have just declared a jihad against “the Iranian regime, Hezbollah, and its sectarian allies” are the voice of millions across the Muslim world.",
        "逊尼派神职人员刚刚宣布要对“伊朗政权、真主党及其宗派盟军”开战圣战，这是穆斯林世界几百万人民的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "Biden concluded with a flourish.",
        "拜登的结论非常吸引眼球。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s economic ties to Burma’s rulers are strategically important for both sides.",
        "中国与缅甸统治者之间的经济纽带对双方而言都具有重要的战略意义。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because there was no escape, the women, once ensnared in the system, were effectively slaves.",
        "但因为无处可逃，进入系统的女性实际相当于奴隶身份。"
    ],
    [
        "If that rate can be sustained - and if the Chinese economy becomes and remains integrated enough for us to be able to speak of it as a single entity - China's labor productivity will be comparable to today's America sometime before 2050.",
        "如果保持这样的增长速度，如果中国经济能最终融合为一个整体－那么在2050年之前，中国的劳动生产率将能和今天的美国相提并论。"
    ],
    [
        "If the latter interpretation is correct, Europe’s monetary union, though still deeply flawed, has become more cohesive.",
        "如果后一种解读正确，那么欧洲货币联盟尽管漏洞百出，但比以前更有凝聚力了。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, what may threaten the stability of the region, and above all that of China, is not an excess of Chinese ambitions or a failure to democratize, but the Chinese regime’s inability to establish the rule of law.",
        "真正会威胁到这个地区，尤其是中国的稳定的因素不是中国过分的野心或者没能民主化，而是中国的统治集团无法建立法治。"
    ],
    [
        "The desert cities of Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu quickly fell to them.",
        "加奥（Gao）、基达尔（Kidal）和廷巴克图（Timbuktu）等沙漠城市很快沦陷。"
    ],
    [
        "A key opportunity presents itself with the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Barcelona Declaration to define a common position to support democratic change in the Mediterranean by ceasing to back the political status quo there.",
        "巴塞罗那宣言十周年纪念为他们提供了一个重要机会来达成对统一立场的共识，即通过停止支持地中海地区的政治现状来支持当地的民主改革。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, real-estate speculation has become another important source of demand for underground loans.",
        "近几年来，房地产投机已成为地下贷款的有一大重要需求源。"
    ],
    [
        "Public-opinion polls have consistently shown that the majority of Israelis and Palestinians want peace (not a peace process) based on a two-state solution.",
        "长期以来的民意调查都表明大多数以色列和巴勒斯坦人都渴望实现一个基于两国方案的和平（而不仅仅是一个和平进程）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rising Wealth of Nations",
        "不断增长的国家财富"
    ],
    [
        "Having already been humiliated by China, such an apology would be politically suicidal for the Japanese government.",
        "对于已经遭到了羞辱的日本政府来说，做出这样的道歉无异于政治自杀。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is beefing up its relations with emerging giants like Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, and Turkey.",
        "而且日本与巴西、墨西哥、尼日利亚和土耳其等新兴大国的关系也正在不断巩固。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sixth Fatah Congress, the first in sixteen years, will take place in August 2005 and will seek to reconcile the conflict between the Old and Young Guard.",
        "第六届法塔赫议会将于2005年8月举行，旨在寻求解决这场斗争的良方。 这也是巴勒斯坦十六年以来第一次召开议会。"
    ],
    [
        "The struggling economies need lower borrowing costs, or they will suffocate economically (and political support for eurozone membership will evaporate).",
        "陷入困境的经济体需要更低的借贷成本，否则它们的经济就难以为继（欧元区成员国地位的政治基础也将因此失去）。"
    ],
    [
        "Last but not least, people should be empowered.",
        "最后，人民应该得到赋权。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Among the fundamental principles of any functioning justice system is the following: Don’t lie to a judge or falsify documents submitted to a court, or you will go to jail.",
        "华盛顿—运转良好的司法体系无不具有以下基本原则：不要对法官撒谎，也不要在呈堂证供上耍猫腻，要不然你就会被丢进监狱。"
    ],
    [
        "He announced a program of energy research that would reduce American oil imports from the Middle East by 75% over the next two decades.",
        "他宣布了一项在未来二十年内将美国从中东的石油进口减少75％的能源研究规划。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s fourth policy mistake is its apparent withdrawal of support for the ECB.",
        "德国人的第四个政策错误是其公开拒绝支持欧洲央行的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the seizure of Shalit deepened the rift between Hamas and Fatah, which believes that the abduction was staged in order to sabotage discussions about a national unity government.",
        "确实，绑架沙利特加深了哈马斯和法塔赫之间的不合。 法塔赫相信绑架士兵是为了破坏民族联合政府的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "These links raise the question of the real objective of the Japanese police, a bureaucratic behemoth, in their investigation of the Sumo circle.",
        "人们也不禁质疑这会不会妨碍了警方针对相扑界的调查行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese President Xi Jinping has positioned science-based innovation near the top of the national agenda, with the government’s 13th Five-Year Plan prioritizing complex projects in emerging fields like brain research, gene science, big data, and medical robotics.",
        "中国国家主席习近平将科技创新列为国家计划的首要任务。 中国政府的第13个5年计划将重点放在大脑研究、基因科学、大数据和医疗机器人等新兴领域的复杂项目。"
    ],
    [
        "As a novelist, when writing in Turkish I can encounter more than eight different words to stand for the headscarf. Yemeni, türban, eşarp, çarşaf,… Each is different.",
        "作为一个小说家，我在用土耳其语写作的时候会遇到八个不同表示头巾的词汇，各个都不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "But this a reason to make change, not to pander to parochialism.",
        "但这是做出变革的理由，而不是回归狭隘的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with negotiations at an impasse, settlement building continuing unabated, no end in sight to the never-ending humiliation of occupation, and all other forms of leverage evidently exhausted, the Palestinians are going to the United Nations to seek recognition in some form of their statehood.",
        "如今，谈判已经陷入了僵局，犹太人定居点建设方兴未艾，以色列仍在不断地用强占来羞辱巴勒斯坦，巴勒斯坦被逼上了绝路，不得不寻求联合国承认其某种形式的国家地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if you don’t believe in Palestinians’ real desire for peace, their capacity to hold terrorist organizations at bay, or their renunciation of the alleged right of return, you can always protect your security with a military presence in Palestinian territories rather than prejudicing the future peace and the two-state solution by expanding useless settlements.”",
        "即便你们不相信巴勒斯坦人渴望和平的真实愿望，不相信他们能够消灭恐怖组织，不相信他们放弃所谓回归权的承诺，你们也一定可以依靠在巴勒斯坦领地驻军来保卫自己的安全，而不是拓展毫无意义的移民定居点，对未来的和平以及两国分治的解决方案造成威胁。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, to secure that promise of peace and stability, Europeans must recognize that the Union is not and cannot be perceived as a work set in stone.",
        "然而，要兑现和平与稳定的承诺，欧洲人必须意识到欧盟并不是也不能被当作是一纸空文。"
    ],
    [
        "(In the non-medical area, think of business organizations that regulate trade or educational commissions that accredit schools).",
        "（在非医药行业，则想想那些管理贸易的商业组织或对学校进行资格认证的教育委员会）。"
    ],
    [
        "But the transparency and vigilance that a free and independent press provides are critical not only to democracy; they also serve as powerful weapons against forces, ranging from corruption to bad business practices, that undermine economic prosperity.",
        "但自由而独立的新闻所提供的透明性和警惕性不但对民主至关重要； 也是对抗从腐败到企业恶行的破坏经济繁荣的力量的强大武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Several factors contributed to the deterioration of prospects for lasting peace.",
        "几大原因破坏了持续和平的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Western Europe enjoys a massively disproportionate level of representation, and emerging economies, despite their increasing systemic importance, barely have a voice.",
        "结果，西欧享有不成比例的代表权，而新兴经济体尽管系统重要性日益突出，却仍然难以发声。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though the SDGs will thus stand on solid legal ground, that ground must be developed further.",
        "但是，尽管可持续发展目标将因此拥有可靠的法律基础，但这一基础必须得到进一步发展。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, according to a recent US Department of Energy report, the number of jobs in the wind and solar industries increased by 32% and 25%, respectively, in 2016 alone.",
        "此外，据美国能源部的最新报告，风能和太阳能行业就业数量光是在2016年就分别增加了32%和25%。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe would then not just tolerate Islam, but actually embrace it as an integral part of itself.",
        "那样欧洲就不仅要容忍伊斯兰教，而且还要在实际上接受它作为自身的有机组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as it turned out, the mutualization model – used again in 1813 during the second war against the British – fueled a credit bubble, which collapsed in 1837 and thrust nine of the 29 US states and territories into bankruptcy.",
        "但是，事实是共同化模式——在1813年第二次独立战争期间再次使用——助长了信用泡沫，该泡沫在1837年破裂，导致美国29个州和领地中的九个陷入破产。"
    ],
    [
        "To the Dutch their whispers are most likely about Philips.",
        "对荷兰人，耳语中很可能有飞利浦的名字。"
    ],
    [
        "No terrorist organization is as powerful as a state, and few terrorist movements have succeeded in overthrowing one.",
        "没有恐怖组织像国家一样强大，也没有几个恐怖运动成功推翻了政府。"
    ],
    [
        "But even where the European Commission had the legislative tools and political mandate to impose sanctions – for example, to punish non-compliance with the Stability and Growth Pact – member states managed to avoid punishment by “reforming” the requirements.",
        "但即便欧盟委员会掌握了实施制裁的相关法律工具和政治授权——比如用《稳定与增长公约》的相关条文来制裁不服从者——各成员国依然可以用“改革”相关规定的方式来逃避制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the function of every fragment of DNA is known, nothing will stand in the way of routine sequencing.",
        "一旦我们获知每个DNA片段的功能，常规测序之路就能畅行无阻了。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, the regulatory environment remains a free-for-all.",
        "目前，监管环境仍然非常自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Brexit, they pledged, would return Britain to a safer and more prosperous past.",
        "”他们承诺脱欧会让英国重温更加安全、繁荣的过去时光。"
    ],
    [
        "In an optimal world, the surpluses of countries pursuing export-led growth would be willingly matched by the deficits of those pursuing debt-led growth.",
        "在最优世界中，追求贸易拉动型增长的盈余国家应该有追求债务拉动型增长的国家的赤字与之匹配。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it seems that some people voted for Brexit specifically because so many experts spoke out against it.",
        "事实上，似乎有些人正是因为很多专家公开反对才投票选择脱欧的。"
    ],
    [
        "We have long understood that it is not income that matters, but consumption.",
        "我们早已知道，消费而不是收入才是关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also toothless, as many women in the region do not have access to contraception or safe abortions.",
        "这也是无能的表现，因为该地区许多妇女根本无法获得避孕和安全堕胎。"
    ],
    [
        "Since taking office last August, Ahmadinejad has installed Hojatieh devotees in his cabinet and throughout the bureaucracy.",
        "艾哈迈迪内贾德自8月份就职以来已将Hojatieh信徒安插进了总统内阁和整个官僚机构。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – In 2014, the world economy remained stuck in the same rut that it has been in since emerging from the 2008 global financial crisis.",
        "纽约—2014年， 世界经济依然在2008年全球金融危机后形成的陷阱中挣扎。"
    ],
    [
        "As all but the most belligerent critics of US President George W Bush will acknowledge, America has taken an important lead in trying to make things marginally better.",
        "除了美国总统乔治·W·布什最疯狂的批评者，恐怕所有人都承认美国在改变现状方面起了重要的带头作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But it does seem to surprise not only a great many observers today, but also a large number of policymakers.",
        "但令人震惊的是，当今许多观察家和政策制定者却对此一无所知。"
    ],
    [
        "I am one of several dozen of the Guantánamo who cannot return to our native countries because we would likely be tortured and abused.",
        "因为从关塔那摩释放后回国可能遭受拷问和虐待，有几十个被关押在关塔那摩的人不能回到自己的国家，我就是他们中的一员。"
    ],
    [
        "We have the benefit of hindsight today, but even now most discussions of the issue are predicated on the logic of Limits to Growth .",
        "虽然我们现今有了后见之明，但即便是现在有关这些问题的大多数讨论还是在“增长的极限”的逻辑下进行预测的。"
    ],
    [
        "Low interest rates eventually jump-started the expansion through a house price bubble that supported a debt-financed consumer-spending binge and triggered a construction boom.",
        "低利率最终猛然通过住房价格泡沫启动了扩张，这一泡沫支撑了通过债务融资的消费者狂购并且引发了建筑业繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "It helps to have traditional enemies, old hurts, and humiliations that need to be redressed, if only symbolically.",
        "即使只具备象征意义，但足球可以洗清过去的耻辱和伤害，并让传统的仇敌屈服。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, according to the plaintiffs, although the liability of any country vis-à-vis external partners is limited to that country’s share of capital, this limitation does not apply to other signatory states.",
        "更糟糕的是，根据原告所诉，尽管任何国家对外部伙伴的债务被限制在该国资本权重之内，但这一限制并不适用于其他签署国。"
    ],
    [
        "Coal has historically played a crucial role as a source of energy worldwide, and has several important advantages over other fossil fuels. First is its relative abundance.",
        "在历史上，煤炭作为全世界的能源来源发挥了关键作用，而且对于其他矿物燃料拥有几个重要的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "While Gauck made clear that he remains decidedly pro-Europe, he highlighted the need for closer reflection about Europe’s future – and especially that of the eurozone.",
        "尽管高克断然表示他仍是坚决的欧洲支持者，但他也强调了深刻思考欧洲未来的需要，特别是欧元区的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Judging by his accusations against China, it seems that Trump is simply stirring the pot and riling up his supporters – not advancing any kind of constructive agenda.",
        "从他对中国的诘难看，特朗普简直就是一根搅屎棍，正在激怒他的支持者——他没有推进任何建设性日程。"
    ],
    [
        "BUENOS AIRES – Colombia’s presidential election at the end of May will be unique in many ways.",
        "布宜诺斯艾利斯——定于五月末举行的哥伦比亚总统大选在很多方面都独具特色。"
    ],
    [
        "Two questions arise.",
        "这里又会产生两个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It remains to be seen, however, whether he will be progressive enough.",
        "然而，他是否足够进步还需拭目以待。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s hope that Americans really are smarter than the greedy corporate CEOs and their cynical Republican servants believe.",
        "让我们期望美国人民真的比贪婪的企业CEO和他们悲观的共和党仆人所相信的更为明智。"
    ],
    [
        "But the economics we need is of the “seminar room” variety, not the “rule-of-thumb” kind.",
        "但是，我们需要的经济学是“讨论班”式的，不是“经验法则”式的。"
    ],
    [
        "The aim is not only to help calm a suspicious neighbor, but also to slow the development of India's strategic ties with the US and Japan.",
        "中国的目标不仅是安抚狐疑的邻国，还包括减缓印度与美国和日本的战略关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond threatening lives, NCDs can destabilize economies, especially in countries with limited health-care infrastructure.",
        "除了威胁生命，NCD也有可能破坏经济，特别是对卫生基础设施薄弱的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the state must improve the quality and delivery of education, health care, and security, while minimizing corruption and administrative abuses.",
        "与此同时，政府应提高教育、医疗及社保的质量，并尽可能抑制腐败和行政权力滥用。"
    ],
    [
        "And the same is true, albeit to a lesser degree, for other heavily indebted sovereigns.",
        "）对于其他重债国来说，情况也是一样的，只不过程度上稍轻点罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only would it no longer receive budget rebates or special treatment on social regulations; it might even be forced to join the euro.",
        "英国不但无法获得预算回款或社会监管方面的特殊待遇； 还有可能被迫加入欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Mubarak’s relationship with the Saudis usually determined his foreign policy. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and threatened to attack Saudi Arabia, Mubarak quickly dispatched troops to defend the kingdom. He was keen to support the Saudis and their Persian Gulf allies, who provided him with a steady flow of aid and an outlet for surplus Egyptian labor.",
        "与此相反的是，穆巴拉克与沙特的关系却常常会决定其外交政策。 当伊拉克在1990年入侵科威特并威胁要进攻沙特时，穆巴拉克迅速派兵前去保卫。"
    ],
    [
        "In his first speech after the story broke, he made no reference to it, most likely expecting the president to make a statement.",
        "但他在事发后的首场演说中并未做出任何评论，很可能是在等总统表态，但等来的却是内贾德方面长达两天的刻意沉默。"
    ],
    [
        "Islam, Faith, and Climate Change",
        "伊斯兰教、信仰和气候变化"
    ],
    [
        "International summits are too often conducted in a way that is remote and alienating for people outside the conference hall.",
        "国际峰会对会场外的民众一向显得遥远而陌生。"
    ],
    [
        "And, yes, Venezuela – a country blessed, or quite possibly cursed, with the largest hydrocarbon reserves in the world – is in far worse shape.",
        "而委内瑞拉也诚然每况愈下。 委内瑞拉拥有全世界最大的碳氢化合物储量，这是它的幸运，很可能也是诅咒。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, roughly 65 countries have such laws.",
        "今天，大约有65个国家通过了该法案。"
    ],
    [
        "Indians, after all, manage to live in that rare combination of modernity and superstition that defines them as a breed apart.",
        "归根结底，只有印度人能够将现代化和令他们与众不同的迷信完美结合。"
    ],
    [
        "American leadership – globally and in Asia – can no longer be presumed. It must be earned.",
        "美国的全球和亚洲领导力必须要靠实干，而不能再靠假设。"
    ],
    [
        "So the solutions are bound to look similar as well.",
        "因此，解决方案无疑也会有众多相似之处。"
    ],
    [
        "Our ultimate goal is to provide models and inspiration for other, larger communities over time.",
        "我们的最终目标是，随着时间的推移，可以为其他更大的社区提供模式和启发。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – It’s a dollar to a cent that Pope Francis’s visit to the United States in September will be one of the biggest news stories of 2015.",
        "伦敦—毋庸置疑，9月教皇方济各访问美国将是2015年最重磅的新闻之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was a somewhat scripted exchange in which China and the US would accomplish little more than professing denuclearization as a shared goal.",
        "结果中美照本宣科地声称去核化是两国的共同目标，除此之外再无建树。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – The argument began when the Algerian novelist and journalist Kamel Daoud wrote an article for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica about a spate of sexual assaults in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve, 2015.",
        "巴黎——这场辩论是从阿尔及利亚小说家兼记者卡迈勒·达乌德为意大利《共和国报》撰写的一篇关于发生在2015年新年前夜德国科隆的一系列性侵事件的文章开始的。"
    ],
    [
        "To secure lasting peace, the key is to develop political mechanisms that allow space for moderation and democracy.",
        "为保证持续和平，关键在于建立一个可以给温和派和民主派提供空间的政治机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless governments cut their deficits, the bond vigilantes will put the screws to them by forcing up interest rates.",
        "除非政府削减赤字，否则债券纠察队将通过推高利率迫使它们就范。"
    ],
    [
        "We should distinguish carefully between different kinds of Islam, and not confuse violent revolutionary movements with mere religious orthodoxy.",
        "我们应该仔细区分不同的伊斯兰教派，不要将暴力的革命运动和一般的宗教正统混为一谈。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, as jobs go, so will tax revenues; and it is unlikely that the companies profiting from AI will willingly step in to support adequate social-welfare programs for their former employees.",
        "与此同时，随着工作岗位的流失，税收收入也将流失，从AI中获利的公司亦不可能甘愿为它们的前雇员们提供充分的社会福利。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the social audits used by India’s Right to Food Campaign to assess compliance with court-mandated policies, such as the delivery of school meals, will be essential in the coming years.",
        "在这方面，印度粮食权运动（Right to Food Campaign）用社会审计来评估是否遵守法院指定政策（比如提供校园餐）的做法将在未来多年中起到关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there is a deep divide between left-leaning “blue” cities and the right-leaning “red” states where many are located.",
        "事实上，许多左倾的“蓝色”城市与其所在的右倾“红色”州之间存在着深刻的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes, creditors agree to exchange the old bonds for new ones, which have either a lower face value or lower interest payments.",
        "有时债务国会同意用票面价值或者利率较低的新债来交换旧债。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, complex models can be useful for illustrating special cases and reminding us that the world is a messy place.",
        "与此同时，复杂模型在说明特殊情况、提醒我们世界是一个混乱场所方面很有用。"
    ],
    [
        "About 80% of the world’s primary energy comes from carbon-based sources: coal, oil, and gas.",
        "世界主要能源约80%均来自碳基能源：包括煤、石油和天然气。"
    ],
    [
        "It found not only that white men backed Trump by a margin of 40 percentage points, but also that their support for Trump was 13 points higher that it was for Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee.",
        "调查发现，白人支持特朗普的比例比不支持高40个百分点，并且在2012年的大选中，支持共和党提名人米特·罗姆尼（Mitt Romney）的白人男性比例也要比不支持高出13个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "These pooled funds would enable farmers in poor countries to obtain the fertilizer, improved seed varieties, and small-scale irrigation equipment that they urgently need.",
        "这些集中起来的资金能让贫穷国家的农民获得急需的化肥、良种和小型灌溉设备。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires a lifestyle change – one that governments should begin encouraging employers and workers to embrace.",
        "这需要我们生活方式的改变—一种政府应该鼓励雇主和雇员都接受的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, in the UK and elsewhere, the predictable MFF chest-thumping that is now underway threatens to dispatch this kind of opportunity to the bin beneath the negotiating table.",
        "相反，在英国和其他地方，可预见的MFF空头承诺（现在正在发生）有可能使这类机会无法登上谈判桌。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – More than 130,000 people are said to have died in Syria’s civil war.",
        "美国剑桥—据说已有130,000多人在叙利亚内战中丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "No country will talk openly about its military capacity in anything but the broadest terms.",
        "没有哪个国家愿意详细谈论自己的军力。"
    ],
    [
        "Yields on Spanish and Italian bonds, which had risen to unsustainable heights over fears of a eurozone breakup, fell sharply after the announcement. They have remained at lower levels ever since, despite little visible improvement in the European economy.",
        "曾经因为担忧欧元区崩溃而升高到不可持续水平的西班牙和意大利债券收益率在欧洲央行宣布OMT后大幅下降，并在此后持续走低，尽管欧洲经济并未出现可见的改善。"
    ],
    [
        "The promise of being recognized at the airline counter, ushered to the front of the line, and, yes, looking like a big shot at the airport bar.",
        "一旦出示会员卡，立享专用通道，无须跟那些倒霉蛋一起排队，还能安坐在机场贵宾酒吧中，一副商务精英的派头，感觉真好！"
    ],
    [
        "Those expectations turned out to be illusory.",
        "最终，这一期望被证明只是镜花水月。"
    ],
    [
        "There is little or no discussion of where Europe is heading and what sort of Europe its people want.",
        "在欧洲何去何从及欧洲人需要什么样的欧洲的问题上鲜有讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, more than 97% of our DNA contains no information for the synthesis of proteins – that is, it contains no genes – but nonetheless interacts with our genes to increase, decrease, or inhibit the production of proteins.",
        "比如，在我们的DNA中，97%以上不包含蛋白质合成信息——也就是说，不含基因——但可以与我们的基因产生互动以增加、减少或抑制蛋白质的产生。"
    ],
    [
        "Their way of dominating the more sophisticated urban elites was to oppress them violently and rebuild the cities according to their own grandiose dreams.",
        "他们都用暴力压迫的方式主宰世故的城市精英，并按照自己宏大的梦想来改造城市环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a pragmatic approach to improving governance would be neither dogmatic nor pretend to universality.",
        "这一改善治理的务实方针既不教条，也不会装作是万灵丹。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon, Glushko offered his services to other Soviet rocket designers, Mikhail Yangel and Vladimir Chelomei – Korolev's rivals.",
        "马上，格鲁什科向其他苏联火箭设计师、也是科罗廖夫的对手杨格尔和切罗梅伊提供服务。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, 10,000 Malaysian public schools should get 4G access this year through a collaboration with a local telecom provider.",
        "比如，10 000所马来西亚公立学校今年将可以通过与本地通信服务商合作获得4G接入。"
    ],
    [
        "A new initiative called the Green Corps includes 300 forest rangers charged with stopping illegal logging, and the ministry hopes to boost their numbers within a year. But the initiative is unlikely to have much effect.",
        "一项新的称之为绿色团体（Green Corps）的计划包括了300名负责阻止非法伐木的森林巡逻员，并且政府希望在一年内增加巡逻员人数。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Political Stress Tests",
        "欧洲的政治压力测试"
    ],
    [
        "A growing body of evidence shows that vaccines’ benefits extend beyond preventing illness and death.",
        "越来越多的证据表明，疫苗的好处不仅局限于预防疾病和死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Measured against these principles, Reagan failed on (2) and (4) and adopted (1) only by default – Paul Volcker’s anti-inflation policy in the 1980’s dismayed many of Reagan’s close aides.",
        "用这些原则来衡量，里根在第2和第4项上是失败的，并也只是在默认的情况下采取了第1项—Paul Volcker在1980年代的反通胀政策让里根及其亲信们深感沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "The agenda appears straightforward, but “Paris III” has acquired a barely concealed political purpose: to bolster the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora in the face of a powerful domestic challenge led by Hezbollah, and by extension to curb the influence of Hezbollah’s regional backers, Syria and Iran.",
        "会议议程看上去直截了当，但“第三次巴黎会议”其实还有一个难以掩盖的政治目的：支持面临国内真主党强力挑战的黎巴嫩首相Fouad Siniora的政府，并遏制真主党的地区支持者叙利亚和伊朗的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the pay-for-success model is still in its infancy, dozens of projects are now underway.",
        "尽管成功后买单模式仍处于初级阶段，但已有数十个项目正在实施。"
    ],
    [
        "PSDB-allied diplomats and former senior officials strongly have opposed the PT’s support for Latin America’s authoritarian regimes (particularly in Cuba and Venezuela), its futile insistence on a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, and its excessive embrace of non-aligned, anti-imperialist positions.",
        "社会民主党阵营的外交官和前高级官员强烈反对工党对拉丁美洲极权政权（特别是古巴和委内瑞拉）的支持、对联合国安理会常任理事国席位徒劳无益的执着以及对不结盟反帝国主义立场的过分坚守。"
    ],
    [
        "He has also taken a page from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s book, not only demonizing the demonstrators, but also going after the medical personnel who care for them and the hoteliers who shelter them.",
        "他还援引叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德的书中的某页，不但把示威者妖魔化，也不放过为他们提供治疗和住宿的医务人员和旅馆经营者。"
    ],
    [
        "Many parents see chess as an attractive alternative to mindless video games.",
        "许多家长把下象棋视为脑残电子游戏的很好的替代品。"
    ],
    [
        "Its internal debates highlighted two problems of the potential monetary union.",
        "而其内部讨论则突出了这个潜在货币联盟的两大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the recommendations that emerged from that conference are straightforward and concrete.",
        "会上提出了一些明确而切实的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the US has effectively joined the “currency war” to prevent further dollar appreciation.",
        "结果，美国实际上已经加入了阻止美元进一步升值的 “货币战争”。"
    ],
    [
        "KHARKIV, UKRAINE – Prison is always a place of mourning.",
        "哈尔科夫，乌克兰—监狱永远是令人哀伤的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "Its deployed forces are extremely small, accounting for 4% of all military personnel worldwide, versus 14% for the US.",
        "其军队部署规模极小，只占世界军队总规模的4%，而美国是14%。"
    ],
    [
        "Piñera has said that he will emphasize technical competence in his cabinet appointments, with a bias towards the young.",
        "皮涅拉已经表态要在任命内阁官员时强调技术能力，将更多机会留给年轻人。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, a cyber-security data-sharing platform could prove vital to understanding, preventing, and responding to cyber attacks.",
        "类似地，网络安全数据共享平台能在认识、防止、和应对网络攻击方面起到关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Exposure to environmental and occupational factors – including pesticides, heavy metals, and solvents – probably play an important causal role, either independently or in tandem with a genetic predisposition to the disease.",
        "环境和职业因素——包括农药、重金属和溶剂——也许是重要诱因，既可能是独立因素，也可能与遗传因素共同作用导致患病。"
    ],
    [
        "No country can deal with any of these challenges by itself.",
        "任何一个国家都不可能独自应对这一挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, China’s corporate debt is already the highest in the world, both in absolute terms and relative to GDP.",
        "更糟糕的是，中国的公司债务已是世界最高，不管以绝对值衡量还是以相对GDP衡量都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "And we need to invest in collecting the data that are so essential to ensuring that they are.",
        "而我们需要投资于收集对确保他们健康至关重要的数据。"
    ],
    [
        "“If the rich were all powerful, their taxes would be much lower,” he wrote.",
        "”他还写道，“穷人和中产阶级都具备强大的宣传力量。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, any attempt at decisive military intervention would be not only difficult, but also extremely risky.",
        "结果，任何决定性的军事干预不但更加困难，而且风险极大。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us begin in Europe.",
        "首先我们从欧洲开始。"
    ],
    [
        "The country is also home to thriving communities of scientists and engineers specializing in nuclear and solar energy, software encryption, coal-to-oil conversion and even electric cars.",
        "这里还聚集着大批核能及太阳能、软件加密、煤制油项目甚至是电动汽车领域生机勃勃的科学家和工程师。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Häagen-Dazs confirmed that it will not use vanilla flavor produced through synthetic biology in its ice cream.",
        "同样，哈根达斯也确认不在冰激凌中使用以合成化学方式生产的香草香精。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, to do so would be in China’s own interest as a key stake-holder in Europe’s economic stability.",
        "事实上，作为欧洲经济稳定的相关利益者，对欧洲施以援手是符合中国自身利益的。"
    ],
    [
        "“An eye for an eye” asks that the culprit should be the sole target, and not others, whose only crime was to be related to him.",
        "“以眼还眼”要求只把犯罪者本人作为目标，而不要波及无辜，如果说那些无辜者有罪，那么他们唯一的过错就是与罪犯沾亲带故。"
    ],
    [
        "For many years now, they have increased global security and certainly global prosperity, with hundreds of millions of people lifted out of poverty, both in the developed and the developing world.",
        "多年来，我们增进了全球安全，当然也增进了全球繁荣，发达和发展中国家的数亿人摆脱了贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the crisis has brought to light two important truths.",
        "但这场危机让我们看到了两个重要事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Careful and deft management by both Republican and Democratic administrations has helped maintain the fragile peace between China and Taiwan.",
        "共和党和民主党政府在这个问题上如履薄冰，好歹维持着中国与台湾之间的脆弱和平。"
    ],
    [
        "First, corruption takes many forms, so a war on corruption has to be fought on many fronts.",
        "首先，腐败形式多样，所以，反腐战争应当在众多的战线开展。"
    ],
    [
        "It is doubtful that the ECB would raise interest rates to curb excess liquidity so long as economic recovery remains in question.",
        "只要经济复苏还是个未知数，欧洲央行就不一定会提高利率，来控制过剩的清偿能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Experts agree that it will require a national plan for locating generators across Chile’s mountainous territory, a revamped regime for the transmission of power, more intensive use of natural gas, and a concerted effort to promote renewables, particularly wind and solar.",
        "专家们都同意这需要国家规划部署智利山区的发电厂，修订输电机制，更集约地使用天然气，以及多管齐下促进可再生能源，特别是风能和太阳能的利用。"
    ],
    [
        "Even for ordinary citizens, any indication that the EU is not simply going to fall apart would carry major benefits, offering some semblance of assurance in a highly uncertain environment.",
        "即使对普通公民而言，任何欧盟并没有走向分裂的信号都将带来巨大的好处，为高度不确定的环境营造安全感。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab world, too, with its ongoing revolution, may also be joining the game, overcoming the humiliation that had been its peoples’ animating emotional force.",
        "而非洲或许正缓慢发展。 目前阿拉伯国家正进行改革，而阿拉伯可能也会参与进来，以洗刷其民众长期饱受的屈辱感。"
    ],
    [
        "We, the presidents of the three affected countries, met in Conakry, Guinea, in February, joined by Côte d’Ivoire, to adopt a common strategy to end the epidemic and guide post-Ebola socioeconomic recovery.",
        "作为三个受影响国的总统，2月份我们三人在几内亚科纳克里（Conakry）举行了会晤。 我们与科特迪瓦一道采取了一项共同战略消灭埃博拉和疫后经济社会恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a tall order, however, given that Iran’s labor groups, while deeply discontented, are just as amorphous as the Green Movement itself.",
        "但这只是个奢望，伊朗的劳工团体虽然对政府不满，但也和绿色运动一样缺乏有效的组织。"
    ],
    [
        "But even in these countries, there is room for improvement.",
        "但即使在这些国家，也存在改善空间。"
    ],
    [
        "No country is frictionless in this regard, but there are substantial differences.",
        "在这方面，没有哪个国家是无摩擦的，但国与国之间存在重大差异。"
    ],
    [
        "To dismiss the FMLN’s historical achievement as simply an act of justice or a foreseeable event in a tiny backwater would be reckless.",
        "如果把马解阵线的历史性的成就不当回事，以为那只是个公正的选举或是一桩发生在无关紧要的小地区的可预见的事件，那将是有欠认真考虑的。"
    ],
    [
        "The report breaks down the issue in a compelling way: by countries (producers, transit states, consumers, or all of these); by substances (marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and synthetic drugs); by links among these illicit substances; and by the consequences of consumption, production, or trade of each drug for societies, institutions, and international relations.",
        "报告用一种吸引眼球的方式将问题予以分解：按国家分类（制造国、运输国、消费国，或兼而有之国）、按物质分类（大麻、可卡因、海洛因和合成毒品）、按这些非法物质的联系分、按每种毒品的消费、制造或交易对社会、制度和国际关系的影响分。"
    ],
    [
        "In that respect, their interests correspond with the interests of the City of London, where some of those jobs are to be found.",
        "从这个角度讲，他们的利益与伦敦金融城的利益是一致的，而伦敦金融城颇提供了一些高薪工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Most glaring is QE supporters’ tendency to ascribe any decline in interest rates before the policy was announced to market participants’ expectations that QE would be coming.",
        "最令人关注的是，量化宽松支持者总是将任何政策宣布前的利率下降归结为市场参与者预期量化宽松即将来临。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – US President-elect Donald Trump is filling his cabinet with rich people.",
        "华盛顿—美国当选总统唐纳德·特朗普正在用富人填充他的内阁。"
    ],
    [
        "About 10 million mortgages are estimated to be “underwater” (the house is worth less than the loan).",
        "大约1 000万笔抵押贷款被认为处于“资不抵债”状态（即房屋价值低于贷款数额）。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared with the small Jewish state, Turkey has an expanding population and a deep awareness of its historical, religious, and cultural affinities with its neighbors.",
        "和犹太小国相比，土耳其人口增长、对与邻国的历史、宗教和文化共鸣有着深入的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "Where a euro is held would become a relevant question.",
        "在哪里持有欧元将成为一个重大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, on the other hand, continues to dominate militarily, while its economic influence is waning.",
        "而另一方面，美国则在经济实力萎缩的同时继续在军事上占据主导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "ISIS is not battling for Sunni orthodoxy, but for a revolutionary caliphate.",
        "伊斯兰国不是在为逊尼派正统而战，而是在为革命的哈里发而战。"
    ],
    [
        "But success will require striking a balance between maintaining systemic stability and allowing the country’s massive economy to adapt and grow – a challenge with which China has struggled for centuries.",
        "但成功需要在维持系统稳定和允许中国这个庞大经济体不断适应及成长之间保持平衡——这正是中国几百年以来面临的巨大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s financial system is failing in that respect, owing to frequent administrative and political intervention.",
        "中国由于金融领域的行政和政治色彩浓厚，中国的金融体系一直落后。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the reason, unless coverage for all three doses increases, cervical cancer and pre-cancer rates will increase.",
        "不管出于什么原因，除非打满三针的人数增加，否则宫颈癌及癌前病变率将持续攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, this is the scenario that everyone – with the possible exception of some speculators – wants to avoid.",
        "很显然，这个情景是每个人都不愿意看到的（当然某些投机者除外）。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has attracted many supporters whose views on race, for example, are indeed deplorable.",
        "特朗普吸引了许多支持者，他们的有些观点确实可悲，比如种族观点。"
    ],
    [
        "The stress tests were meant to signal to the public that there was no immediate threat of bank failures.",
        "压力测试本来是要告诉公众，银行没有迫在眉睫的破产威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "To what extent has uncertainty about the US commitment in Asia stoked tension between China and America’s Asian allies?",
        "美国的亚洲承诺的不确定性如何助长了中国和美国的亚洲盟国之间的紧张？"
    ],
    [
        "Counter-terrorism against groups such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (which now calls itself simply the “Islamic State”) – whether by drones, small raids, or the training and arming of local partners – must become a staple of policy.",
        "针对伊拉克和叙利亚伊斯兰国（现已自称为“伊斯兰国”）等组织的反恐行动必须成为常规动作，不管通过无人机、小型突袭还是训练和武装本地合作伙伴实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Two examples of this are the WEF’s Global Competitiveness Index and its new Inclusive Growth and Development Index.",
        "这方面的两个例子是世界经济论坛的全球竞争力指数和新的包容性增长和发展指数。"
    ],
    [
        "So does Park Geun-hye.",
        "朴槿惠的状况也非常相似。"
    ],
    [
        "An international protectorate for the area to protect the Palestinians from their own more dangerous elements, the Palestinians from the Israelis, and perhaps even the Israelis from themselves, has been proposed, but has received scant acknowledgement.",
        "已经有人提议在这一地区建立一个国际保护区来保护巴勒斯坦人不受他们中间危险份子和以色列人的影响，甚至也许保护以色列人不受他们自身的影响，但是却几乎无人对此作出响应。"
    ],
    [
        "This summer, the Bush administration offered Iran direct talks.",
        "今年夏天，布什政府提出愿意与伊朗进行直接对话。"
    ],
    [
        "The carbon dissolved in the ocean has altered its chemistry, driving up acidity by 30% since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.",
        "海洋中溶解的碳已经改变其化学属性，自工业革命开始以来，海洋酸度上升了30%。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite Putin's so far unsuccessful fight against terrorism, his popularity remains high, so he has the political capital to make tough internal reforms.",
        "尽管普京的反恐战争现在还没有取得成功，但他的声望依然高涨，因此它拥有进行强硬的内部改革的政治资本。"
    ],
    [
        "Only in a city like New York could he find the Rat Pack.",
        "只有在像纽约这样的城市，他才可以找到鼠帮乐队（Rat Pack）。"
    ],
    [
        "If China proves itself willing to help shore up Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s administration, it will not seek to gain any immediate advantage from the withdrawal of US forces.",
        "如果中国想表明自己对阿富汗卡尔扎伊政府的支持，那它将不会试图从美国撤军中攫取任何短期利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, their main qualities should be resistance – the ability to hold out – and the psychological resilience to deal successfully with an “intense” situation and to respond to it by exerting the best possible control.",
        "不仅如此，他们还应具备防御的主要品质——在逆境中的坚持能力——以及成功化解“紧张局势”的心理弹性和在可能的条件下最卓越的控制能力。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, even if biopharmed plants were to contaminate food crops, the likelihood that consumers would end up with harmful amounts of prescription drugs in their corn flakes, pasta, or tofu is very small.",
        "事实上，即使生物制药作物污染粮食作物，消费者通过玉米片、意大利面或豆腐摄入有害量处方药的可能性也非常低。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, we can improve critical-thinking skills so that citizens know how to pick trustworthy sources, and resist their own biases.",
        "即便如此，我们仍然能够通过改善批判性思维来让公民知道如何遴选有价值的新闻源，克服自身的偏见。"
    ],
    [
        "Or they think that one set of models works better “on average” than another.",
        "或者他们认为某些模型“平均而言”比另一些更有效。"
    ],
    [
        "Donbas risks becoming a tar baby for which no one wants to take responsibility.",
        "顿巴斯可能令各路势力避之惟恐不及。"
    ],
    [
        "High-income countries might find that reason enough to want out.",
        "高收入国家可能会发现这个理由对退出欧洲经济与货币联盟来说，已经足够了。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the world faces many serious challenges, ranging from the need to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction, fight climate change, and maintain a functioning world economic order that promotes trade and investment to regulating practices in cyberspace, improving global health, and preventing armed conflicts.",
        "最后，世界面临诸多严峻挑战，从需要阻止大规模杀伤性武器扩散、气候变化斗争和维持世界经济秩序运转以促进贸易和投资，到监管网络空间行为、改善全球卫生和阻止武装冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Only its own citizens could do that, but Herzen’s package deal seems to prevent that: just like the Tibetans, the Uighurs elicit not Han solidarity, but a braying for their blood – somewhat understandable, given that ordinary Han in Lhasa and Urumqi were made to pay with their own for China’s misdeeds.",
        "只有中国公民能挑战之，但赫尔岑的“一揽子交易”理论似乎防止了这一状况的发生：跟西藏人一样，维吾尔人的行动换来的并不是汉族的团结政策，而是镇压和复仇的叫嚣——这可以理解，因为许多在拉萨和乌鲁木齐的无辜汉人为中国政府的恶行付出了生命的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Tarullo rightly does not regard limiting bank size as a panacea – his speech made it clear that there are many potential risks to any financial system.",
        "塔鲁罗正确地没有将限制银行规模视为万灵丹——他在演讲中清楚地指出，任何金融系统都会有各种潜在风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But when I was born there, in 1952, the island was poorer than almost every country in Africa.",
        "但在1952年我出生时，台湾岛比非洲几乎所有国家都要穷。"
    ],
    [
        "But neither the employer mandate nor the personal requirement is likely to prove effective.",
        "但不论是雇主强制购买还是个人要求购买都不可能有效。"
    ],
    [
        "In his new book The End of Alchemy, former BoE Governor Mervyn King argues that direct intervention in the mortgage market by restraining credit should be subject to political decision.",
        "在新书《炼金术的终结》（The End of Alchemy）中英格兰银行前行长默文·金（Mervyn King）指出，用抑制信用直接干预按揭市场应该接受政治决定的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the many factors that have decreased the share of consumption in China’s economy, declining household disposable income has been central.",
        "在造成消费市场在中国经济增长比例下降的诸多因素中，家庭可支配收入长期下降是一个主要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "At times of serious economic distress, policymakers thrash about seeking solutions, and some people lose confidence in the economic system itself.",
        "遭遇几次严重的经济危机后，决策者开始寻求解决办法，有些人则会对经济制度本身失去信心。"
    ],
    [
        "While North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is much smaller, persistent doubts about the regime’s sustainability make it a matter of grave concern.",
        "虽然北朝鲜核武库规模很小，但对政权可持续性的疑虑却引发了人们强烈的忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "So, taxes must be reframed to remedy income inequality induced by robotization.",
        "因此，税制必须重组以弥补机器人所引发的收入不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk now is a relapse into reform fatigue.",
        "当前的风险在于重新陷入改革疲劳之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as sex criminals – and the leaders who directed the use of rape and sexual abuse as a military strategy – were tried and sentenced after the wars in Bosnia and Sierra Leone, so Americans must hold accountable those who committed, or authorized, sex crimes in US-operated prisons.",
        "像性罪犯一样－那些指挥使用强奸和性虐待作为军事策略的领导人－在波斯尼亚和塞拉利昂的战争过后都受到了审判并被判刑，所以美国人必须使那些从事性犯罪，或授权在美国掌管的监狱进行性犯罪的人承担责任。"
    ],
    [
        "He has not. And there’s no sign he will...”",
        "可是他没有这么做，也没有任何迹象表明他会这么做…”"
    ],
    [
        "While Italy was once a staunchly pro-EU country, many Italians may now support less integration, especially after the high-profile example set by the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum in June.",
        "尽管意大利曾经是坚定的欧盟支持者，但如今许多意大利人支持退出一体化，特别是在6月的英国退欧公投树立了高调的榜样之后。"
    ],
    [
        "Poor farmers will feel the sting of these changes at the same time the world needs their help to feed a growing population.",
        "贫穷农民将感受到这些变化的痛处，而与此同时，世界需要他们养活日益增长的人口。"
    ],
    [
        "This disparity in attitudes toward the future could determine what eventually happens in Iraq.",
        "对未来态度上的分歧将最终决定伊拉克的形势。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese producers’ unit labor costs are less than one fifth those of America’s other major foreign suppliers. By diverting US demand away from Chinese trade, the costs of imported goods would undoubtedly rise sharply.",
        "由于中国生产者的单位劳动成本还不到美国其他主要外国供应商的1/5，一旦将美国需求从对华贸易中转移出来，进口货物的成本无疑将大幅上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "But, either way, the minister is ultimately and uniquely responsible for what happened under his command.",
        "但无论如何，部长都要为领导下的错误勇敢地承担责任。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the slide was halted, and the rebound was faster than forecasters expected.",
        "结果，形势得到了控制，并出现了比预期更猛的反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "The fallout with Turkey was a minor tremor.",
        "与土耳其的争端只是一个微小的先兆。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the world needs coalition diplomacy.",
        "因此，世界需要联盟外交（coalition diplomacy）。"
    ],
    [
        "These paradoxes are both perplexing and revealing. For starters, they reflect an economic-growth problem.",
        "这些悖论既令人费解，又具有启发性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Russian authorities are bizarrely continuing to prosecute him posthumously, as well as continuing to carry out the tax scams that he exposed.",
        "奇怪的是，俄罗斯当局在他死后仍继续起诉他，继续开展他暴露的税收诈骗。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially true of intervention in civil wars, where the sides cannot easily be divided into victims and aggressors, good and evil.",
        "这一点在对内战的干涉上尤其应验，因为交战各方都无法被简单定义为受害者或施暴者，好人或坏人。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Trump, Berlusconi is a businessman who made his first fortune in real estate.",
        "像特朗普一样，贝卢斯科尼是在房地产领域掘到第一桶金的商界巨子。"
    ],
    [
        "Inflation may be dormant, but it is certainly not dead.",
        "通货膨胀可能处于休眠状态，但它肯定并未消亡。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, recovery cannot be left to the Fed, the European Central Bank, or the Bank of England.",
        "简言之，复苏不可能来自美联储、欧洲央行或英格兰银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Suddenly, the single European market is forgotten, and a return to fragmented markets is taking root.",
        "突然间，所有人都忘记了欧洲统一市场的存在，回归分裂市场的潮流正在慢慢扎根。"
    ],
    [
        "The oil that the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf have in abundance also works against democracy, for it creates an incentive for the rulers to retain power indefinitely.",
        "波斯湾阿拉伯国家手中丰富的石油也经常成为民主的障碍，因为它会诱使统治者无限期地维护自己的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "But something is missing in the usual Russian way - proper utensils.",
        "但依据正常的俄罗斯方式，有些东西被省略了――合适的餐具。"
    ],
    [
        "“Europe’s universities, taken as a group, are failing to provide the intellectual and creative energy that is required to improve the continent’s poor economic performance.”",
        "“从整体上讲，欧洲的大学没有能够为改善这片大陆糟糕的经济状况提供必须的知识和创新能量。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe the national highway system was more inspirational than the kinds of things that Roosevelt tried to stimulate the US out of the Great Depression.",
        "也许国家高速公路系统比罗斯福试图刺激美国走出大萧条的计划更加鼓舞人心。"
    ],
    [
        "This is obviously the case in France, where, contrary to what the French historian François Furet thought in the immediate aftermath of communism’s collapse 20 years ago, the French Revolution is neither over nor a closed chapter in history.",
        "法国的情况显然就是这样，与法国历史学家佛朗西斯• 傅雷在20年前共产主义刚刚崩溃时所预计的情况相反，法国大革命既没有结束也没有成为尘封的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "The term was coined by Harvard’s Joseph S. Nye in 1990 to account for the influence a country – and, in particular, the US – wields, beyond its military (or “hard”) power.",
        "软实力一词由哈佛大学的约瑟夫·奈（Joseph S. Nye）提出，用来评估一国——特别是美国——在其军事（或“硬”）实力之外的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, the post-Baker-Hamilton debate in Washington is largely irrelevant to the future of Iraq – though it continues to be crucial to the future of US power, prestige, and standing in the world.",
        "在这些情形下，华盛顿的贝克-汉米尔顿报告发表后的辩论对于美国的势力、声望以及在全世界的地位而言仍然十分关键，但是对于伊拉克的未来而言也就不得要领了。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, social power, which provides the oxygen for democratic legitimacy, has been marginalized and disillusioned, and is increasingly turning away from the traditional transmission belts of politics.",
        "与此同时，为民主合法性输送氧气的社会权力在遭遇边缘化的同时发生了幻灭，并逐渐从传统的政治传送带上脱离开去。"
    ],
    [
        "World Bank President Robert Zoellick has rightly warned that all this massive temporary fiscal stimulus is a “sugar high” that will ultimately pass without deeper reforms.",
        "世界银行行长罗伯特•佐利克最近警告说，如果没有深层次的改革方案跟进，目前的财政刺激方案就象是吃了“棒棒糖”那样，只能是短暂的兴奋。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, arrived in Caracas hoping to rouse support in her fight against the so-called vulture funds that bought her country’s sovereign bonds on the cheap and have successfully sued for payment in full.",
        "阿根廷总统克里斯蒂娜·费尔南德斯·基什内尔飞抵加拉加斯寄希望外界支持她打击所谓秃鹫基金低价购买该国主权债券并成功起诉要求全额支付的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The optimism created by their peaceful return to a free and democratic Europe has been shattered to a degree that none of us could have foreseen.",
        "经济危机对由于它们和平回归自由民主的欧洲所建立起来的乐观情绪造成的破坏，已经超出了我们能够预见的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Reforming centuries-old social and political structures will be as difficult as it is necessary.",
        "改革已有数百年历史的社会和政治架构既是必须完成的任务，但同时又困难重重。"
    ],
    [
        "These incidents are reminiscent of past NATO operations in Afghanistan, in which there was manifestly less care taken to safeguard the lives of local civilians than there would have been if the lives of NATO troops, or their civilian compatriots, had been at risk.",
        "这些事件让人想起了过去北约在阿富汗的行动——很显然，对保护本地平民生命的关注远远小于有危险的北约将士或平民同胞。"
    ],
    [
        "Even US President Franklin Roosevelt jovially slapped his thigh when Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht told him that Nazi Germany would default on its external loans, including those owed to American banks, exclaiming, “Serves the Wall Street bankers right!”",
        "当德意志帝国银行行长沙赫特（Hjalmar Schacht）对富兰克林·罗斯福说，纳粹德国将要对外债违约，包括欠美国一些银行的债务时，这位美国总统竟然一拍大腿，笑着说：“华尔街银行家罪有应得！"
    ],
    [
        "China Confronts the Global Meltdown",
        "中国面临的全球性危机"
    ],
    [
        "It is clear what is needed: more intrusive monitoring and institutional arrangements for conditional assistance. Moreover, a well-organized eurobond market would be desirable.",
        "目前，我们需要做的事情很清楚：加强风险监管和制度建设，一个更有组织的欧元债券也必不可少。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates view Qatar’s efforts to aid Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood as an existential threat, even as their own wealth has fueled the spread of Salafi jihadism and Al Qaeda ideology.",
        "沙特阿拉伯和阿拉伯联合酋长国将卡塔尔对穆斯林兄弟会这样的伊斯兰教众的支持视为生存威胁，虽然它们自身的财富也助长了沙拉菲派圣战主义和基地组织意识形态的传播。"
    ],
    [
        "If the local administration or the scientists knew the real impact of the disaster, they would not have risked doing this.",
        "如果地方当局或科学家们知道灾难的实际影响，他们就不会冒这样的风险了。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout this process, universally shared and consistently reinforced values – both critical in getting disparate actors to work together to resolve problems and challenges – must provide a moral compass and common ground for action.",
        "在整个过程中，必须通过不断得到加强的形成普遍共识的价值观——这既是让众多行动方和衷共济的关键，也是解决问题和挑战的关键——提供道德指南和共同行动基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Profit-seeking employers, using and promoting human talents, would bring us as close to a free society of associated producers as is attainable in this fallen sublunary sphere.",
        "追求利润的雇主会启用和提拔人才，将我们引向人世间所能达到的最为自由的生产者联合社会。"
    ],
    [
        "These facilities and networks – along with the broadband networks on which telecommunications companies spend billions – form the foundations of the Internet.",
        "这些设施和网络——以及通信公司花数十亿美元建设的宽带网络——构成了互联网的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – US President Barack Obama has been much criticized for the way he has handled revolutionary changes in North Africa and the Middle East.",
        "纽约——美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马因其对北非和中东革命性变化的处置方式而倍受诘难。"
    ],
    [
        "Abbas’s son, Mazen, runs a local advertising agency.",
        "阿巴斯的儿子，马曾，经营一家本地的广告公司。"
    ],
    [
        "In the climate of scarcity that characterizes debt deflations, the specificity of bailout operations inevitably leads to intense political debate.",
        "在以稀缺为特征的债务通缩背景下，援救操作的具体性不可避免地导致了激烈的政治争论。"
    ],
    [
        "In Zambia, research conducted by local governments, in collaboration with the anti-poverty charity Concern Worldwide, found that new hybrid seeds produced roughly four to five tons of maize per hectare, compared to Africa’s average of one ton per hectare.",
        "在赞比亚，当地政府与私人扶贫慈善组织关爱世界（Concern Worldwide）一起开发了新的杂交种子，可以使每公顷玉米产量达到四五吨，而非洲的平均公顷产量只有一吨。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukrainians must perceive that the pain of adjustment is being shared fairly, which means that the country’s oligarchs must become subject, at long last, to the rule of law.",
        "乌克兰人必须觉得调整的痛苦被公平地分担，而这意味着至少该国的寡头最终需要接受法律的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "I would have hoped that these people had learned from Schumann and Monnet what really matters for Europe and its future; sadly, this does not seem to be the case.",
        "我真希望这些人已经从舒曼和莫奈那里学会什么才是对欧洲和欧洲未来真正重要的，可惜，事情看来并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "While this has become more difficult, countries can still choose – at least to some degree – how open they are to capital inflows.",
        "当这一点变得越来越困难，各国还可以至少在某种程度上选择对资本流入开放的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "But now the ECB is attempting to break the impasse through quantitative easing (QE).",
        "但如今欧洲央行正在尝试通过量化宽松打破僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "It was not that long ago that experts were predicting that our skyrocketing human population would outstrip its food supply, leading directly to mass famine.",
        "就在不久前，专家们还在预测，快速上涨的人口将超过粮食供应的增长速度，从而直接导致大规模饥荒的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "For more than a thousand years, the Islamic world has been riven by the Sunni-Shia conflict.",
        "一千多年来，伊斯兰世界一直被逊尼派-什叶派割裂。"
    ],
    [
        "But that has not stopped the authorities from trying.",
        "但这并没有阻止当局继续尝试。"
    ],
    [
        "But the most important steps to address birthplace injustice probably will not target immigration.",
        "但解决出生地不公的最重要举措可能不会针对移民。"
    ],
    [
        "Every bribe that is taken has a payer, and too often the bribe payer is a corporation from an advanced industrial country or someone acting on its behalf.",
        "每个行贿总有行贿者，而在很多情况下，行贿者是来自发达工业化国家的企业或其代理人。"
    ],
    [
        "But the stimulus measures transformed a banking crisis into a fiscal and sovereign-debt crisis.",
        "但刺激措施将银行危机转换为了财政和主权债务危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Some evidence suggests that there is a link between the level of dopamine, addiction, and greedy behavior.",
        "一些证据显示，在多巴胺荷尔蒙，上瘾和贪婪行为之间会有一些联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Spaniards in general, and particularly their political leaders, must rediscover what it takes to succeed.",
        "西班牙人民，特别是西班牙领导人，应该从西班牙国家队在2012年欧锦赛的胜利中得到启发，重新发现成功的秘诀。"
    ],
    [
        "The cry from the “Leave” campaign was “We want our country back.”",
        "“脱欧”运动的口号是“要重新夺回国家的控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this narrow remit, the distributional consequences of central banks’ decisions were limited.",
        "鉴于其职权范围较为狭窄，央行决策所产生的分配性结果相对有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, most established parties are so busy playing defense that they have little inclination to engage in the type of forward-looking strategic thinking that is needed to re-energize exhausted growth models, anchor financial stability, and ensure that technological innovation enables broad-based prosperity.",
        "事实上，大部分老牌政党忙于防守，都不愿采取前瞻性战略思维，而这种思维正是重新启动动力不足的增长模式、锚定金融稳定、确保技术创新带来更广泛的繁荣的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, NAFTA boosted all three signatories’ economies and became the template for hundreds of subsequent free-trade agreements.",
        "相反，NAFTA提振了所有三个签署国的经济，并且成为数以百计的后续自由贸易协定的样板。"
    ],
    [
        "China has been a leader in this regard, demonstrating how to strike a balance between innovation and risk.",
        "中国是这方面的领导者，为我们树立了如何在创新和风险之间达到平衡的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the official Chinese publication Global Times, altering its previous stance, recently called for putting a stop to India’s energy plans in the region. “Reasoning may be used first, but if India is persistent in this, China should try every means possible to stop this…from happening.”",
        "事实上，中国官方报纸《环球时报》最近改变了一贯立场，提出阻止印度在南中国海地区的能源计划：“首先当然是讲道理，但如果印度一意孤行，中国应该动用一切可能的办法阻止……这一幕发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor do the Arab revolutions counsel Israel’s strategic planners to take security risks.",
        "阿拉伯革命也告诉以色列战略规划者不要拿安全冒险。"
    ],
    [
        "But, ultimately, her passion for the ideas to which she was devoted splashed bright colors across a political world usually painted in shades of grey.",
        "但是，说到底，她对自己所拥护的思想的热情为总是灰蒙蒙的政治界带来不少鲜明的色彩。"
    ],
    [
        "And burning fossil fuels remains, in most economic activities, cheaper than using cleaner energy (when one does not account for the relevant environmental damage).",
        "而燃烧化石燃料在大部分经济活动中仍然比利用清洁能源更为廉价（如果不考虑相关环境破坏损失的话）。"
    ],
    [
        "From the Industrial Revolution until very recently, the West’s development was free of any environmental restrictions, and the emerging countries believe that they should not have to bear the adjustment cost.",
        "从工业革命到现在，西方的发展一直没有受到任何环境方面的约束，因此新兴国家认为，调整成本不应该由它们来承担。"
    ],
    [
        "For physical goods, there are costs associated with logistics and lead times, owing to inventories and poor forecasts of the market.",
        "对实体商品来说，拜存货和拙劣的市场预测所赐，存在与物流和交货时间相关的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Story Time for the World Economy",
        "为世界经济讲故事的时间到了"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Trump’s fiscal policies would also weaken the dollar over time – after an initial significant appreciation – as the substantially higher deficit spending would be financed either with easy money or bond issues that increase US sovereign risk.",
        "类似地，特朗普的财政政策也将逐渐让美元贬值——在此之前则会出现显著升值——因为大幅增加的赤字支出要么通过宽松的货币融资，要么通过导致美国主权风险上升的债券发行融资。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the United States’ financial system – indeed, global finance – is in a mess.",
        "纽约——不需要多有天才就能看出美国金融体系——实际上是全球金融体系——陷入了危机。"
    ],
    [
        "With only around €10 billion ($10.8 billion), these countries could have provided better housing, food, and education for refugees, thereby reducing the incentive to flee to Europe.",
        "只需要花费大约100亿欧元，这些国家就可以为难民提供更好的住宿、食物和教育，从而降低他们涌向欧洲的渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Russia has signed an agreement that will ensure that its own firms remain the dominant foreign players in Iran’s civil nuclear-energy sector, even if a nuclear deal leads Western powers to ease sanctions on Iran.",
        "此外，俄罗斯还签订了一份能确保本国企业保持伊朗民用核能业主要外国行动方地位的协议，虽然核协议让西方列强放松了对伊朗的制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Most large US banks – Citi is an exception – passed US Federal Reserve stress tests recently, with enough capital to withstand a hypothetical deep recession (13% unemployment, a 21% further fall in home prices, and a 50% stock-market decline).",
        "大部分美国大银行（花旗是个例外）都通过了最近的美联储压力测试，有足够的资本抵御假设的深度衰退（失业率13%、房价继续下跌21%、股票继续下跌50%）。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither Leviathan, the Russian film nominated for the best Foreign Language Film, nor American Sniper, nominated for Best Picture, won.",
        "俄罗斯影片《利维坦》（Leviathan）没有获得最佳外语片，《美国狙击手》（American Sniper）也没有获得最佳影片。"
    ],
    [
        "He heads a broad coalition that includes his own liberal-minded Republican Proposal Party, the center-left Radical Civic Union, and other centrist groupings.",
        "他所领导的广泛政治联盟包括他自己所在的开明的共和提案党、中左翼激进公民联盟和其他中间派机构。"
    ],
    [
        "The war ended up making the US an active participant in China’s affairs.",
        "日俄战争让美国成了中国事务的活跃参与者。"
    ],
    [
        "What many trade negotiators and other policymakers do not seem to have recognized yet, though Prebisch would have realized it instantly, is that this dramatic turn of events carries huge implications for the global balance of power.",
        "许多贸易谈判代表和其他决策者并未认识到、而普里比时会立即意识到的情况是，对于全球权力平衡而言，这一局势巨变影响巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from its implementation difficulties, there are good reasons not to introduce the Volcker rule, rather than the ICB/Liikanen proposals, in the UK and Europe.",
        "除了实施困难，还有其他理由在英国和欧洲不引入沃克尔规则，而是使用ICB/利卡宁方案。"
    ],
    [
        "They also want a more liberal social environment that would loosen restrictions on their dress, broaden access to cultural products like film and music, and enlarge press freedoms.",
        "他们更需要社会给他们有一个更为宽松的环境，让他们自由着装，更加自由地消费电影，音乐等文化产品。 他们需要更多的新闻自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearing A Path Through the Brain",
        "寻找穿越大脑之路"
    ],
    [
        "The natural consequence was to support government austerity programs, which can only make the situation worse.",
        "后果自然就是对政府紧缩政策予以支持，而该政策只能令事情雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "In July 2010, a total of 439 nuclear power plants with a net installed capacity of 373.038 GW(e) were connected to various national electricity grids, about 1.2 GW(e) more than at the beginning of 2006.",
        "截止到2010年7月，全球总共有439座核电站投入运作，净装机容量达373. 038吉瓦（GW(e)，电力学单位，1吉瓦=10亿瓦）并实现了联网，较2006初又增加了1."
    ],
    [
        "Instability in the Middle East will continue to limit oil supplies, discouraging the expansion of production.",
        "中东的不稳定局势会持续影响原油供给，阻碍生产扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "We may have the upper hand over plague today, despite the headlines in East Africa.",
        "尽管媒体报导了东非的头条新闻，但面对瘟疫我们今天或许还能占据上风。"
    ],
    [
        "By making vaccines available through national immunization programs, governments can protect all children from the diseases that are most likely to harm or kill them.",
        "政府要通过国家免疫计划推广疫苗，这样就可以保护所有儿童免受最有可能伤害或杀害他们的疾病的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot prove that a wave of environmental innovation will have a similar effect, but the studies of the parts make such an outcome highly plausible.",
        "我们无法证明一股环境革新的浪潮会产生类似的效应，但针对不同部分的研究使得这样一个结果更有说服力。"
    ],
    [
        "FAWE Rwanda also works with teachers to develop gender-responsive pedagogical methods.",
        "卢旺达非洲女性教育人士论坛还与教师合作开发以性别特点为基础的教学方式。"
    ],
    [
        "In essence, dialectic of attraction and rejection is embedded in our collective conscience as Jews and Europeans.",
        "本质上，吸引和排斥的辩证关系植根于作为犹太人和欧洲人的集体良知之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone has cancer cells every day, but usually the body deals with them, using strength gained from eating right, exercise, and social engagement.",
        "每个人每天都携带着癌细胞，但身体一般会消灭它，原动力则来自于合理的饮食，运动以及社会交往。"
    ],
    [
        "Opportunities exist, but they cannot be seized or realized.",
        "机会存在，但是无法把握或实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The fiscal deficit will continue to flirt with the 10%-of-GDP level, adding to worries about the country’s medium-term debt dynamics.",
        "财政赤字将继续在10%GDP的水平上徘徊，令人对美国中期债务动态愈加担心了。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of its citizens are hungry.",
        "许多希腊公民处于饥饿状态。"
    ],
    [
        "This keeps too many Nigerians in low-skill, low-paying jobs and deprives the economy of the dynamism that competitive small and medium-size enterprises create.",
        "这种现状使众多尼日利亚人在低技术、低工资的岗位就业，具有很强竞争力的中小企业带来的经济活力被剥夺。"
    ],
    [
        "The same disregard for reality has been the hallmark not only of the Republican campaign but of the entire Republican Party in recent times.",
        "类似的否认事实不仅成了共和党阵营的标志，也是近几年来整个共和党的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "Sagan took a similar view.",
        "萨根也持有相似的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "The other 97 deficits did not magically appear.",
        "其他97项逆差也并未凭空消失。"
    ],
    [
        "TEL AVIV – France’s initiative to hold an international conference to re-launch direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians, aimed at the ever elusive “two-state solution,” is the child of a resilient fantasy.",
        "特拉维夫—法国计划举行一场国际会议重启以巴直接对话，目标直指万难的“两国方案”，这是对一个坚强的幻想的幼稚尝试。"
    ],
    [
        "By establishing a common “welfare floor” throughout the EU, providing an effective safety net to native workers whose jobs are threatened by integration, and adopting a coordinated policy on immigration, European citizens would be reassured.",
        "通过在整个欧盟建立一个共同的“最低福利标准”，为其工作受到移民威胁的本国工人提供一个有效的安全网络，并且对移民采用一个协同的政策，那么欧洲的公民就会感到放心。"
    ],
    [
        "OPEC can regain control in one of two ways: use its “claimed” excess capacity to flush out speculators, or use its financial surpluses to overtake them.",
        "OPEC可以用下面两种方法中的一种来重新取得控制权：使用其“被声称”的超额产能来对付投机者，或者使用其财政盈余来超过他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Feelings of lost control are.",
        "感觉失去控制才是。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, it is not hard to imagine scenarios in which the dollar collapses.",
        "但不论如何也不难想象美元崩溃的情景。"
    ],
    [
        "As globalization intensifies and accelerates economic change, it affects the lives of ordinary citizens like never before, stoking popular fear.",
        "在全球化强化和加速了经济转变的时候，它也前所未有地影响了普通民众的生活，并且引起了广泛的恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, “global citizenship” will always be a metaphor, because there will never be a world government administering a worldwide political community.",
        "当然，“全球公民身份”往往只会是一种比喻，因为永远也不会有一个世界政府来管理世界性的政治共同体。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, some countries – especially Germany – are likely to resist this approach by marshaling arguments about prudence and responsibility.",
        "诚然，一些国家——特别是德国——可能通过审慎和责任主张抵制这一方针。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires building and maintaining fair and efficient input and output markets that connect them – as well as larger-scale farmers – physically and virtually to opportunities to increase their incomes.",
        "这要求建立和维持公平、高效的投入和产出市场，让他们有机会和大农一样进入实体和虚拟市场，从而增加收入。"
    ],
    [
        "When they are asked if they would like a reformed Turkey as a partner – a Turkey that lives up fully to the conditions for membership described in the Copenhagen Criteria (democracy, rule of law, respect for human rights, and an effective market economy) – many more are inclined to say yes.",
        "如果问他们，他们是否想要一个改革后的土耳其作为伙伴，有更多的人倾向于说是的。 所谓改革后的土耳其，就是完全符合哥本哈根标准指定的入盟条件，也就是民主、法治、尊重人权以及有效的市场经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Cheap credit and perverse incentives – such as promotions for officials who contribute most to GDP growth – have led to massive but redundant investment, which, in turn, has contributed to excess capacity in manufacturing and infrastructure.",
        "廉价信贷和错误的激励机制（例如提拔对GDP增长贡献最大的官员等）引发大规模的重复投资，进而导致制造业和基础设施行业的产能过剩。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s world, even large states cannot establish and enforce international frameworks on their own.",
        "当今世界，即使是大国也无法单枪匹马建立和执行国际框架。 国家群体仍然可以。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, felonious servicemen have largely escaped justice.",
        "结果犯了重罪的美国军人在很大程度上没有受到法律制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "This gives them the right to opt out of the Greek rescue, raising the prospect that the package may unravel.",
        "这给了它们不参加希腊救助计划的权利，而这样一来，救助计划功败垂成的风险就会大大增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing nothing would mean Syria’s disintegration, divided in blood, with the countries around it destabilized and waves of terrorism rolling over the region.",
        "坐视不理意味着叙利亚解体、在流血事件中四分五裂、威胁到所有周边国家的安全、让恐怖主义浪潮席卷整个区域。"
    ],
    [
        "If the government were truly becoming more responsive, why have we not seen similar responses to other disputes over the theft of farmland, compromised investors’ rights, or high-level corruption?",
        "如果政府果真更为积极，那么为什么我们没有见到对其他争议，例如盗取农田、投资者权利受损或者高层腐败等的类似的反应呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Though there clearly is a link between currency areas and political communities (consider the dissolution of the ruble zone at the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse), it is political community that creates the solidarity needed to foster currency linkages, not vice versa.",
        "尽管在货币区和政治共同体之间显然存在着联系（苏联解体导致卢布区崩溃就是明证），但是政治共同体创造了货币联系所需要的团结，而不是相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Needless to say, government mishandling of such disturbances, or a decision to repress them with force, would only fuel further social discontent.",
        "勿庸置疑，如果政府对这些事件处理不当或决定用武力镇压，只会引起更大的社会不满。"
    ],
    [
        "They haven’t fallen out of love with football.",
        "他们并没有失去对足球的热爱。"
    ],
    [
        "As I argue in my book The Future of Power, one of the great power shifts of this global information age is the strengthening of non-state actors.",
        "正如笔者在拙作《权力的未来》一书中所论证的那样，信息时代其中一个最重大的权力转换就是非国家参与者的实力增强。"
    ],
    [
        "Is this logic at work in Argentina?",
        "这样的逻辑在阿根廷能否适用？"
    ],
    [
        "Instability is a threat to those interests, and with Europe becoming a cosmopolitan continent with a huge Muslim population, the Arab-Israeli conflict has, for Europeans, an undeniable domestic dimension as well.",
        "动荡对这些利益来说是一个威胁，并且，随着欧洲成为一个拥有大量穆斯林人口的世界性大陆，对欧洲人来说，阿拉伯－以色列冲突也是一个不可否认的内部问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Pessimists fear that today’s liberal democracies will be no match for the external challenges mounted by illiberal states like China and Russia, which are guided only by hardnosed realpolitik.",
        "悲观者担心今天的自由民主无法应对中国和俄罗斯等以蛮横的现实政治为指导原则的不自由国家所造成的外部挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "While the current yield on 10-year Polish government bonds of 4.7% appears to be at the edge of meeting the Maastricht long-term interest-rate benchmark, sustainability will depend on the fiscal policy outlook and on the overall credit risk.",
        "波兰政府10年期国债当前的收益率为4. 7%，尽管似乎已经濒临马斯特里赫特长期利率基准，但可持续性还要取决于财政政策的前景，取决于整体信用风险。"
    ],
    [
        "A more precise understanding of the distinct problems facing Europe is vital to resolving them.",
        "更准确地理解欧洲所面临的不同问题对于解决这些问题至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, emissions have increased markedly; as a consequence, last year was the hottest year on record.",
        "相反，排放大幅增加； 结果是去年成为有记录以来最热的一年。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s Foreign Admirers",
        "特朗普的外国仰慕者"
    ],
    [
        "Another third, at the opposite end of the political spectrum, saw former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan as the villain.",
        "另有三分之一的学生的政治立场正好相反，他们认为美联储前主席艾伦·格林斯潘（Alan Greenspan）是罪魁祸首。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea, however, is not a member of any international financial institution.",
        "但朝鲜没有加入任何国际金融机构。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no theory in economics that provides a reason to think that prices in these markets can only go up.",
        "经济学中没有理论为这些市场的价格只能上涨的观点提供根据。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rich countries have instead adopted failed strategies.",
        "但富国却偏偏采取了失败的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, accepting the right of non-violent Islamists to participate in public life does not mean giving up on the political and ideological struggle to defeat ultra-conservative, and in some cases totalitarian, conceptions of society.",
        "同样地，接受非暴力的伊斯兰主义者参与公共生活的权利并不意味着放弃挫败极端保守主义、以及在某些情况下的极权主义社会观念的政治和意识形态斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "But policymakers cannot simply assume that Africa’s rise will continue.",
        "但决策者不能想当然地认为非洲能持续崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "A key instrument is the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Created in 2002 as a partnership between governments and civil society, the Global Fund is unique in the way it aims to deliver assistance.",
        "成立于2002年、由政府和民间合作的全球艾滋病、结核和疟疾基金拥有独一无二的提供援助手段，起到了关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – More than a half-century ago, John Kenneth Galbraith presented a definitive depiction of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 in a slim, elegantly written volume.",
        "伦敦—半个多世纪前，约翰·肯尼斯·加尔布雷斯（John Kenneth Galbraith）用一部言简意赅的作品描写了1929年华尔街大崩盘。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine, for example, how different the world and the opinions of Bush’s presidency might have been if he had chosen Colin Powell or John McCain as his running mate?",
        "比如，想象一下如果布什选择了柯林·鲍威尔或约翰·麦凯恩作为竞选伙伴，那么世界事务和布什任期的主张将会发生多么大的不同？"
    ],
    [
        "There is good reason for the spike in interest.",
        "利益冲突其来有自。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the questionable deal Uribe cut with the right-wing paramilitary AUC groups, pardoning up to 30,000 of their members for often horrendous crimes in exchange for their disarmament, appeared successful.",
        "即使是乌里韦与右翼准军事化的哥伦比亚联合自卫队（AUC）达成的协议（赦免了30,000名联合自卫队战士犯下的可怕罪行，以换取他们放下武器）似乎也取得了成功。"
    ],
    [
        "There are four basic approaches to cleaning up a banking system that is facing a systemic crisis: recapitalization of the banks, together with a purchase of their toxic assets by a government “bad bank”; recapitalization, together with government guarantees – after a first loss by the banks – of the toxic assets; private purchase of toxic assets with a government guarantee (the current US government plan); and outright nationalization (or call it “government receivership” if you don’t like the dirty N-word) of insolvent banks and their resale to the private sector after being cleaned.",
        "一般而言，人们有四种途经来清理面临体制危机的银行系统。 它们是：给银行重新注资外加政府“坏帐银行”购买其有毒资产、重新注资外加政府担保有毒资产(银行首先要承担亏损)、政府担保下的私人购买有毒资产(也是美国政府目前的方案)以及直接国有化(如果不喜欢国有化这个说法，就叫它“政府破产管理”)资不抵债的银行并且在清理之后重新卖给私营部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Those are fighting words, creating resentment and division just when unity and burden-sharing are most needed.",
        "那些只是攻击性的说话，只在需要团结和分担责任是才会说出，以产生对对方的憎恨和分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "And when the sacred takes over politics, compromise becomes almost impossible.",
        "而当神圣在政治领域占据主导地位时，妥协几乎就成为不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "That possibility is difficult even to consider today, after Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea (apparently carried out in response to fears that Ukraine would deepen its ties with the European Union and NATO).",
        "如今，随着俄罗斯入侵乌克兰、吞并克里米亚（显然是因为害怕乌克兰深化其与欧盟和北约的联系），这一可能性甚至想都难以想象。"
    ],
    [
        "The US television program 60 Minutes recently reported that several current members of Congress allegedly used confidential information that they acquired on the job for personal gain.",
        "美国电视栏目《60分钟时事杂志（60 minutes）》最近报道了数名国会议员利用议员身份所接触到的机密信息牟取私利。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments could also relax regulations for small remittance transactions.",
        "政府还可以放松对小额资金转移的监管。"
    ],
    [
        "A hungry man will take food from a murderer’s hand.”",
        "一个饥饿的男子肯定会接受来自杀人犯手里的粮食。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Two leaders who will remain in power for the foreseeable future are Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping – both of whose countries have generated instability in their respective regions.",
        "两位在可以预见的未来将继续执政的领导人是俄罗斯总统普京和中国国家主席习近平——而这两个国家在各自地区都制造了动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Fighting Biopiracy",
        "与生物剽窃作斗争"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps he should have taken that as a sign that he should rethink his position.",
        "也许他应该将这作为反思其立场的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "But what is meant by unacceptable varies greatly from country to country.",
        "但什么是“不可接受”，国与国之间标准大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs indicated that 67% of Americans believe that the Iraq war was not worthwhile.",
        "芝加哥全球事务理事会近来的一次调查表明，67%的美国人认为伊拉克战争得不偿失。"
    ],
    [
        "Government employment is falling at the fastest rate since the 1940’s, and is now at its 2006 level.",
        "政府就业正以1940年后的最快速度下降，现已跌落至2006年的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The cycle in which political models are torn up appears to be accelerating.",
        "一个个政治模式从兴起走向没落的循环周期似乎也变得越来越短。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations acknowledged better results from the “Plan 600” in El Salvador than from programs for lower-ranking combatants, which lacked such support.",
        "联合国在萨尔瓦多推行的“600计划”就因为提供了这类协助而取得了比普通低级战士项目更好的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether manufacturers will manage to exploit the growth potential that lies in front of them.",
        "问题在于制造企业能否充分利用摆在他们面前的增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "In such cases, private losses inevitably become a costly public concern, with market jitters rapidly spreading across borders as governments bail out creditors in order to prevent economic collapse.",
        "在这样的情形中，私人损失难免成为代价高昂的公共问题，随着政府出手援助债权人以防止经济崩溃，市场波动很快就会跨国传播。"
    ],
    [
        "The islanders say that the refinery then followed up its petition by destroying their homes and small farms – and threatening further violence to those who did not leave.",
        "岛民说，炼糖厂在提出要求后就破坏了他们的家园和小农场，并威胁没有离开的岛民进一步使用暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "So a key goal of Clinton’s visit must be to pull together with the Asian leaders present at the ASEAN Regional Forum.",
        "因此克林顿访问的一个关键目标必须是与参加东盟地区论坛的亚洲领袖达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "This combination of rigidity and plasticity enables democratic regimes to adapt to shifts in citizens’ preferences.",
        "这一刚性和弹性的组合让民主制度能够适应公民偏好的变迁。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, because unconventional easing was a strategy designed for an emergency that no longer exists, it leaves the Fed with no ammunition to fight the inevitable next downturn and crisis.",
        "此外，由于非常规宽松政策是为了一个不再存在的紧急状态而制定的战略，因此也使得美联储没有弹药来应对不可避免的下一轮衰退和危机。"
    ],
    [
        "As always, Kaczyński’s top concern is to consolidate his own power.",
        "与往常一样，卡钦斯基最关心的是巩固自己的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "They have shown that the major capital inflows were not from emerging markets, but from Europe, where there was no net balance-of-payments surplus.",
        "他们证明，流入资本主要并非来自新兴市场，而是来自不存在国际收支净盈余的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, on February 9, he had to reverse his position, losing face just a couple of weeks after his inauguration and setting a bad precedent for future deal-making with the strategically savvy Chinese.",
        "无论如何他不得不在随后的2月9日扭转自己的立场，刚就职后几个礼拜就丢了面子，并为未来跟战略上精明老道的中国人做交易开了个坏头。"
    ],
    [
        "An agreement of this nature could be the new Kyoto treaty for the world – the principal difference being that this protocol would actually make a difference and stand a good chance of global acceptance.",
        "这样全球总开支将会比目前的替代能源研究开支高出15倍，即便如此依然比《京都议定书》低6倍之多。 如此性质的一份协议将成为全世界新的《京都议定书》——主要的不同是这份协议会真正发挥作用，得到全世界认可的机会也更高。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, he engineered an agreement to merge Citi with a large insurer – illegal at the time under Glass-Steagall – and then pushed for the law’s repeal, so that the merger could proceed.",
        "事实上，当年维尔先促成了花旗和某大型保险商的合并意向——当时，根据格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法案，这是非法的——然后设法推动了该法案的废除，从而让合并得以成行。"
    ],
    [
        "Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the founders of The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, believes that singularity will lead to an “intelligence explosion” as super-intelligent machines design even more intelligent machines, with each generation repeating this process.",
        "对此人工智能奇点研究所的其中一位发起人艾列泽·尤多斯基（Eliezer Yudkowsky）相信，奇点的到来将引发一场“智能大爆炸”，超级智能机器会设计出更为高级的下一代，并把这个进程一代一代传下去。"
    ],
    [
        "If we distill the spirit that we have infused into international law over the ages and reformulate it as three principles, the rule of law at sea becomes a matter of common sense.",
        "如果我们提取千百年来我们在国际法中所注入的精神病总结出三条原则，那么海洋法治精神就成为了常识问题。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, science and technology have enabled us to anticipate risks and identify additional unknowns.",
        "与此同时，科学和技术使我们能够预测风险，认识更多的未知。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, ISIS’s foray into cyberspace creates opportunities for Western law enforcement and intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance, if they can develop the capacity to do so.",
        "可以肯定，伊斯兰国进军网络空间为西方执法和情报机构进行监视（如果他们具备上述能力）提供了机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The best remedy is a subsidy for low-wage employment, paid to employers for every full-time low-wage worker they hire and calibrated to the employee’s wage cost to the firm.",
        "最佳的补救措施就是为低工资就业提供补贴给雇佣全职低工资工人的雇主，并就该雇员的公司工资成本加以调整。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s 7% growth target, while subject to a number of challenges, is based on maintaining private consumption growth of around 8% (while recognizing that exports and investment will not grow as strongly as before), thereby allowing the consumption share of GDP to rise.",
        "中国7%的增长目标虽然会受到一些挑战，但却是以保持民间消费8%左右的增长（同时意识到出口和投资不会像从前那样强劲增长）为基础的，因而允许GDP中消费所占的份额有所上升。"
    ],
    [
        "If there is a new Washington consensus, it is that the rulebook must be written at home, not in Washington.",
        "如果有一个新华盛顿共识，那就是规则手册应该在具体的国家写成，而不是在华盛顿。"
    ],
    [
        "The oil sheikhs would likely be inclined to postpone extraction only if they could reasonably assume that the demand reductions of the signing countries and the comparative price reduction that this implies are stronger today than they will be in the future.",
        "石油酋长们只有在合理地假定参加协议各国减少的要求和相对价格降低现在要比以后要强才会推迟开采。"
    ],
    [
        "Returning the eurozone’s peripheral economies to the path of growth requires more than structural reforms and fiscal consolidation.",
        "要让欧元区外围国回归增长之路，光有结构性改革和财政整合是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "The country is undergoing a construction boom not seen since reunification.",
        "该国正经历自两德统一以来前所未有的建设热潮。"
    ],
    [
        "China is devoting so much to medical research in part because the country has significant unmet medical needs.",
        "中国医疗科研投资如此之巨部分原因是该国有着尚未满足的巨大的医疗需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, the Zionist leaders never really abandoned wider territorial dreams; but they would never have considered delaying the establishment of the Jewish state for the sole reason that it would not have access to the Western Wall or the Temple Mount.",
        "诚然，锡安主义领袖从来没有真正放弃领土梦想； 但他们永远不会仅仅因为无法到达哭墙和圣殿山而考虑推迟建立犹太国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been an island of violence and turmoil in a relatively stable (if oppressed) region, now the tables are turned.",
        "鉴于巴以冲突一直是相对稳定（如果说受到压迫）区域中暴力和动荡的孤岛，现在整体局势已经扭转。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, although a true synaptome of the mammalian brain is a chimerical quest, it is possible that in the near future we will be able to construct a “silicon cortex,” a computerized machine based on a realistic model of the complete anatomical, physiological, and molecular design of the cortical circuit.",
        "因此，尽管真正的哺乳动物大脑突触连接体仍处于空想阶段，但很有可能在不远的未来我们能够构造“硅皮质”——基于皮质回路的完整的解剖、生理和分子设计的现实模型的计算机化机器。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – There is understandable consternation over Uganda’s plan to send almost 300 health workers to Trinidad and Tobago.",
        "牛津—不难理解，乌干达派遣近300名健康工人前往特立尼达和多巴哥的计划引起了人们的惊恐。"
    ],
    [
        "North observed that institutional change is extremely difficult, as it requires overcoming not only vested interests, but also outdated belief systems and mental models.",
        "诺斯观察到，制度变化是非常困难的，因为这不但要克服既得利益，还必须克服陈旧的信仰体系和思维模式。"
    ],
    [
        "An increase in monitoring may reduce, but still not eliminate the problem.",
        "加强监管可以缓和、但无法彻底解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the cases identified so far may be only the tip of the iceberg, with a much larger number of asymptomatic infections posing a risk to public health through secondary transmission.",
        "恰恰相反，目前发现的病例也许只是冰山的一角，而有大量无任何症状的感染正通过二次传播对公众健康造成危害。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the most conservative estimates paint a grim picture.",
        "即使是最保守的估计也相当惨淡。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there has also been a surge of bankruptcies in the eurozone’s periphery.",
        "当然，欧元区外围也出现了大量破产。"
    ],
    [
        "That poses important challenges for development policy, which further trade liberalization can alleviate only marginally.",
        "这对发展政策的制定提出了严峻的挑战，而进一步的贸易自由化只是杯水车薪而已。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development must match American support.",
        "欧盟、世界银行、国际货币基金组织、欧洲复兴和发展银行都必须响应美国，给予同样的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "The global economy – a few trouble spots aside – is finally moving beyond the financial crisis.",
        "全球经济虽然还有一些麻烦点，但终于开始走出金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "But the post-war international economic order was built for the pre-globalization age, and we cannot put the genie back in the bottle, even if it were possible to do so.",
        "但战后国际经济秩序建立于前全球化时期，我们无法让精灵回到瓶子中去，即使有这样的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Entrepreneurs of dubious quality no doubt entered as well, thanks to the generosity of the state.",
        "多亏了国家的慷慨计划，素质可疑的创业者们当然也大量涌入。"
    ],
    [
        "It is easy to see how terrorism can lead to torture.",
        "我们很容易看到恐怖主义将如何导致人身折磨。"
    ],
    [
        "It centers on whether China is best understood as a strong country, with a promising future despite some short-term difficulties, or as a country facing serious structural problems and uncertain long-term prospects.",
        "其核心是中国应该被理解为一个强国，尽管存在一些短期困难但前途光明，还是应该被理解为一个面临严重结构问题、长期前景不确定的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "So it has devised a new strategy, aimed at creating a sense of transition: the constitution will be revised to designate a vice president as the president’s legitimate successor.",
        "因此，政权采取了新战略，旨在营造转型的氛围：宪法将作出修订，增加一名副总统作为总统的合法继任者。"
    ],
    [
        "The relatively small turnout at his funeral confirmed that only a minority of Serbs considers him a national hero.",
        "他葬礼上的冷清也说明只有少数塞尔维亚人还认为他是民族英雄。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic stakes encourage everyone to make the best of their circumstances.",
        "经济赌注使每个人都充分利用环境让利益最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "And so now is the ideal moment for the world to renew its commitment to education.",
        "但是没有。 因此，过社会更新教育承诺正逢其时。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracies require real debate.",
        "民主需要真正的争论。"
    ],
    [
        "This would only further weaken the project of integration that has safeguarded peace and prosperity in Europe for decades.",
        "这只会进一步削弱已经捍卫欧洲和平繁荣几十年的整合项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Current indications, albeit incomplete, suggest that the three will continue to anchor the global economy in 2013.",
        "目前的迹象表明（尽管并不完全），这三个国家将在2013年继续引领全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, everyone would like to stop wars and violence, just as we would like to end poverty, hunger, and global warming, while providing education to all.",
        "显然，每个人都愿意制止战争和暴力，就像我们想要消除贫困、饥饿和全球变暖，并为所有人提供教育资源。"
    ],
    [
        "This is often the first question I ask when I visit the site of a cholera outbreak anywhere in the world.",
        "”每当我访问霍乱爆发地区，这常常是我问的第一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And even investment in the pre-crisis period was unimpressive, given low prevailing interest rates.",
        "但即便是在危机之前，就算利率普遍低下，投资也不见起色。"
    ],
    [
        "And if it will be worth an enormous amount in 10 or 20 years, then it should be worth a lot today, too, since real interest rates – used to discount future values to today’s values – are still low in China.",
        "而如果它在10或20年内会成为一笔可观的财富，那么今天自然也就奇货可居，因为用于将未来价值折算成现在价值的实质利率在中国仍然很低。"
    ],
    [
        "On a number of issues, notably wages, liberalization of employment rules, and reform of the judiciary and of secondary education, programs announced with tremendous fanfare have had to be delayed or withdrawn.",
        "在许多事务上，尤其是工资，雇用条例的自由化，司法系统和中等教育的改革，那些大肆宣传的项目已经被迫延缓或撤销了。"
    ],
    [
        "So, in both cultures, sexuality channeled into marriage and family life is seen as a source of great blessing, sanctioned by God.",
        "所以，在后两种文化里，被引导进入婚姻和家庭生活的性行为被视为是上帝授权的和重大福祉的源泉。"
    ],
    [
        "There is now broad consensus among China’s senior leadership in favor of such a rebalancing.",
        "中国高层领导已经形成了广泛的一致，将促进再平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "They resist assimilation, fearing that it will rob them of their identity without offering a new one.",
        "他们拒绝同化，害怕文化的融合不仅带不来新的归属感，还会把原来的身份也无情地夺走。"
    ],
    [
        "The principal contradiction, while typically elliptical and ambiguous, frames a rich discussion of risks and opportunities, strategy and tactics, reforms and governance – all of which will shape China’s prospects for the foreseeable future.",
        "这一主要矛盾的表述虽然通常是隐晦且模凌两可的，但却会构成对关于风险/机遇、战略/手段和改革/治理的丰富讨论，所有这些都将在可预见的未来塑造中国的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Japan after the 1980s or South Korea in 1997-1998, China has depended significantly on investment and debt financing during its high-growth phase, raising the risk that excess capacity could lead to financial crisis as the economy slows.",
        "跟日本在1980年代和韩国在1997~1998年的情况类似，中国在其高速增长阶段主要依赖投资和债务融资，提高了经济增长放缓后产能过剩导致金融危机的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Universities, too, will have global classes, with students joining lectures, discussion groups, and research teams from a dozen or more universities at a time.",
        "大学也能在全球范围内开课，十几个甚至更多的大学学生们同时参与听课、讨论和小组研究活动。"
    ],
    [
        "It is, instead, the eurozone governments that must act.",
        "反之，欧元区政府必须行动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Political leaders may lead a broad reform movement, as with Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal.",
        "政治领导人也可能引领广泛的改革运动，比如富兰克林·罗斯福和他的新政。"
    ],
    [
        "So why isn’t Obama speaking up about an issue on which he has so much more first-hand experience than his opponent, and better policies, too?",
        "在贫困问题上，奥巴马比麦凯恩更有切身体会和更好的政策。 那么，为何奥巴马没有大声疾呼呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, for example, the NDRC produced a list of plants that were required to cease operations by the end of the following year.",
        "例如国家发改委在 2006 年就拿出了一份要求在 2007 年年末必须关停的钢铁企业名单。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of this progress reflects surging exports, which grew at an annual rate of 5.2% in 2013, outperforming Germany.",
        "其中大部分进展都体现了出口的增长上，2013年5. 2%的出口年增长率超越了德国。"
    ],
    [
        "At this point, any improvement in consumer balance sheets would directly stimulate the economy and create jobs.",
        "这样一来，消费者的资产负债表就能得到改善，从而直接刺激经济、创造就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes Moldova the only post-Soviet state (aside from the Baltic countries) with an uninterrupted cycle of transfers of power through elections since 1991.",
        "这令到摩尔多瓦成为自1991年苏联解体以来唯一一个通过选举成功实现政权更替的前苏联加盟共和国（除波罗的海三国之外）。"
    ],
    [
        "“Each year, we are already consuming about one-and-a-half planets’ worth of resources,” the authors explained.",
        "“我们每年所消耗的资源总量已经达到了地球能力的1."
    ],
    [
        "When I first visited Duch’s house of horrors in 1990, I was 15 and full of wonder about the country where I was born but had never lived.",
        "当我在1990年第一次参观杜赫的恐怖之屋时年仅15岁，对这个随生于此但却未长于此的国度充满了好奇。"
    ],
    [
        "The central ambition is bold: the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030.",
        "核心目标是宏大的：2030年结束极端贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "And soon enough voice recognition software will replace the call centers of Bangalore and Manila.",
        "要不了多久，语音识别软件也将取代班加罗尔和马尼拉的所有呼叫中心。"
    ],
    [
        "That, together with increased access to capital, will help to accelerate the development of the services sector, which is needed to create urban employment.",
        "这些再与不断增加的资本获取渠道相结合，将有助于加速服务行业的发展，并以此创造更多的城镇就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "The overall budget deficit is still predicted to be 4.1% of Greece’s GDP in 2013 – a substantial improvement compared to 2010 but still far from fiscal balance.",
        "2013年希腊总预算赤字预计仍将高达GDP的4. 1%——与2010年相比进步很大，但远远称不上财政平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Valentina Tereshkova, the first female Soviet cosmonaut – indeed, the first woman to go into space – recently celebrated her 70th birthday.",
        "苏联首位女宇航员瓦莲京娜捷列什科娃的确是进入太空的第一位妇女，她最近刚刚庆祝了她的70岁生日。"
    ],
    [
        "I don’t oppose these services or their provision by the state; but they do not add up to philosophers’ concept of the “good life.”",
        "我不反对这些服务或由国家来提供这些服务； 但它们并不添加在哲学家的“好生活”概念中。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentina has particularly high potential for production of non-conventional gas resources as well, given that it holds the world’s third-highest level of such reserves, after China and the United States.",
        "阿根廷也拥有生产非常规天然气资源的无穷潜力，因为它拥有仅次于中国和美国的世界第三大储量。"
    ],
    [
        "All treaty provisions have constitutional status; indeed, they can be changed only by unanimous agreement.",
        "所有条约条款都具有宪法地位； 事实上，只有全体一致同意才能修改。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sense, central banks have begun to resemble medieval philosophical faculties, with discussions addressing the issues underlying policy decisions, rather than just the policies themselves.",
        "从某种程度上讲，中央银行已开始模仿中世纪哲学学派，用讨论而不仅是政策本身解决作为政策决定基础的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "To recover the confidence of the international business community and the world’s mining giants, who were enraged in recent years by forced renegotiations of existing deals by governments in Congo, Mongolia and Guinea, Camara was also wise to retreat from his threat to renegotiate existing mining concessions.",
        "为恢复国际商界和矿业巨头们的信心，卡马拉也明智地宣布将不会重新谈判现有的采矿权，近年来刚果、蒙古和几内亚等国强制重新谈判现有交易的行为深深激怒了国际商界和矿业巨头。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, misogyny and hate speech have continued to flow freely on the site.",
        "但是，“直男癌”和仇恨言论仍然在Reddit网站上自由传播。"
    ],
    [
        "But OBOR takes China’s ambitions a large step further.",
        "但一带一路让中国的野心大大地进了一步。"
    ],
    [
        "One is that spending and growth are now under less pressure from fiscal consolidation.",
        "其中一个就是如今财政巩固政策对支出和增长的压力有所减少。"
    ],
    [
        "MDBs already help, individually and collectively, to leverage scarce official assistance to attract enough capital to finance development projects.",
        "MDB已经开始以个别和集体的方式起作用，利用稀缺的官方援助吸引足够资本为发展项目提供融资。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, structural unemployment in France and Southern Europe would persist.",
        "结果，法国和南欧的结构性失业将永久化。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, lending by both institutions contracted dramatically, even though they have increasingly become the exclusive lenders to the world’s poorest countries.",
        "最近几年，虽然国际货币基金组织和世界银行逐渐成为世界上最贫穷国家的唯一贷款人，但是，它们的贷款数量却都在急剧减少。"
    ],
    [
        "For instance, as the Arctic ice cap melts, less sunlight is reflected.",
        "举例来讲，随着极地冰盖的融化，被反射的太阳光也越来越少。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia and the Kosovo Card",
        "俄罗斯和科索牌"
    ],
    [
        "And Iran will have to keep its stock of 3.67%-enriched uranium to below 300 kilograms.",
        "伊朗还必须将浓度为3. 67%的铀保有量保持在300千克以下。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Italy’s almost perfect bicameralism, this means that the new government will find it very difficult to function even under ideal circumstances.",
        "如果意大利实施最完善的两院制，这就意味着新政府会发现甚至在理想情况下也难以发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The main house-price indices measure only asking prices and not actual sales prices.",
        "主要房价指数只衡量要价，而不衡量实际销售价格。"
    ],
    [
        "They have succeeded in making global warming a central moral test of our time.",
        "他们成功地使全球变暖成为我们这个时代的中心道德议题。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Airpocalypse",
        "欧洲空气启示录"
    ],
    [
        "And if H1N1 becomes more severe, people (and communities) who have prepared for that possibility will probably fare better than those who have not.",
        "如果H1N1变得更严重，可能做过准备的比没有准备的人处理能力更强。"
    ],
    [
        "Though privatization plans lagged, the Greeks won high marks for doubling down on fiscal austerity.",
        "尽管私有化计划停滞不前，但希腊在大幅推行财政紧缩方面赢得了很高的分数。"
    ],
    [
        "That this has not happened, at least on a large scale, is not to say that it cannot happen at all.",
        "人们所期待的融合没有大规模发生，但这并不是说永远不会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "But the EU cannot change what it represents.",
        "但欧盟不能改变其代表性。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama is also right that, despite Israel’s arguments, the agreement will reduce the possibility of Iran ever becoming a nuclear state.",
        "奥巴马还说，尽管以色列反对，但协议将降低伊朗成为有核国家的可能性，这也是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "High oil prices are set to dampen economic performance in the rest of the world as well, although growth prospects look better than in the US.",
        "世界其它地方的增长前景看起来虽然比美国好，但高油价也很有可能会抑制这些地方的经济表现。"
    ],
    [
        "While the ECB has bought the eurozone some time, the calming effect on markets may be a mixed blessing.",
        "当欧洲央行为欧元区争取了一点时间的时候，市场的镇定效应可能会带来好坏参半的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission’s plan, the signature initiative of President Jean-Claude Juncker at the start of his term, comes as no surprise.",
        "作为主席容克的新官上任三把火之一，欧盟委员会的计划在意料之中。"
    ],
    [
        "In a society where human worth is measured by individual success, symbolized by celebrity and money, it is easy to feel humiliated by a relative lack of it, of being just another face in the crowd.",
        "在以名望和金钱为代表的个人成功为人类价值衡量标准的社会里，这些元素的相对缺乏、或仅仅成为普通人中的一员很容易令人感到耻辱。"
    ],
    [
        "Occasionally, NAM provides a useful counterweight to Western pressure – say, regarding Iran, with which India remains eager to build trade and energy relationships.",
        "有时不结盟运动能提供抵抗西方压力的有效的砝码，比如在伊朗问题上，印度仍然迫切希望与伊朗建立贸易和能源关系。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the Western emphasis on reform and democracy in recent years has been used more often than not as a threat, a typical message being: “Help us in Iraq or we will press for democracy and human rights in your own country.”",
        "比如说，西方这些年来对改革和民主的强调简直就是某种威胁，常用的典型口吻如下：“帮我们搞定伊拉克，否则我们就在你家里推广民主人权！"
    ],
    [
        "After his brush with Communists in Spain, George Orwell captured the essence of the narrative’s importance in his novel 1984: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present, controls the past.”",
        "在与西班牙共产主义者发生摩擦后，乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell）在其小说《1984》中抓住了叙事重要性的本质：“控制了过去就控制了未来； 控制了现在就控制了过去。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, if China’s private firms sell to Western multinationals, such as Wal-Mart, Target, or Home Depot, they do not have to worry about getting paid.",
        "与此形成对比的是，如果中国民营企业把东西卖给沃尔玛、塔吉特（Target）、家得宝（Home Depot）这样的西方跨国公司根本不用担心收不回货款。"
    ],
    [
        "The US federal government could emulate this example by compensating the states more generously for their Short-Term Compensation programs.",
        "美国联邦政府可以通过对各州的短时补偿项目发放更加慷慨的补贴来效仿上述例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumption levels will begin to recover.",
        "消费水平将开始复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Women’s bodies are used to sell everything from cars to pop music, of course.",
        "当然，女人的身体被用来销售从汽车到流行音乐的所有东西。"
    ],
    [
        "No single mechanism, it seems, can be studied in isolation; at a very basic level, factors like selection, drift, and epigenetics work together and become inseparable.",
        "看起来不能孤立地研究某项单一结构； 选择、漂变和试验胚胎学等因素在非常基础的水平上共同作用、密不可分。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers in China seem to be unaware that many major cities have not had the luck to become financial centers.",
        "中国的决策者似乎并不知道，没有幸运地成为金融中心的大都市还有很多很多。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the first claim, both The Economist and the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa were right to put Chávez’s achievement in perspective.",
        "对第一个看法，《经济学人》（Economist）和诺贝尔奖获得者略萨（Mario Vargas Llosa）正确地指出，查韦斯的成就应该放到长远框架来看待。"
    ],
    [
        "It means that good news about earnings growth in the past decade is (slightly) bad news about earnings growth in the future.",
        "这意味着过去十年中的盈利增长利好消息对于未来盈利增长是（小）利空。"
    ],
    [
        "Being subservient to American power, as Japan has been since 1945, was the inevitable consequence of a catastrophic war.",
        "1945年后日本屈服于美国强权是一场灾难性战争的必然结果。"
    ],
    [
        "White particles, however, reflect some of the incoming sunlight back into space, producing a cooling effect on Earth’s climate.",
        "但白色颗粒能将射入的部分阳光反射回宇宙，因此对地球气候会产生冷却的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Another Slow Year for the Global Economy",
        "全球经济缓慢增长又一年"
    ],
    [
        "Performance enhancing drugs affect the individual athlete's integrity in two ways.",
        "服用兴奋剂会从两个方面影响到运动员正直的品行。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Europe?",
        "为什么是欧洲？"
    ],
    [
        "The idea is an old one, expressed during the Great Depression of the 1930s; but it was not measured well, at least until recently.",
        "这是一个很古老的概念，在20世纪30年代大萧条期间提出； 但这一概念没有得到很好的度量，至少直到最近是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider, for example, regulations regarding money market funds, which, according to the FSB, only a few countries have developed since 2008.",
        "比如，以对货币市场基金的监管为例。 据FSB的数据，自2008年以来，只有少数国家制定了这项监管。"
    ],
    [
        "The second lead centers on Zhou Yongkang’s former lieutenants.",
        "第二条线集中于周永康的前下属。"
    ],
    [
        "If the government had not taken action to slow, if not halt, the process of capital-account liberalization in 2016, the results could have been truly devastating.",
        "如果政府不在2016年采取行动阻止或者延缓资本账户自由化进程，结果将是真正的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "This blithe attitude is ultimately behind real estate bubbles where they are occurring.",
        "正是这种盲目乐观的态度造成了房地产泡沫的出现。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a promising step forward, reflecting the tremendous momentum that efforts to protect the ocean have gained in recent years.",
        "这是向前迈出的可喜一步，反映出保护海洋的众多努力在最近几年已经产生了巨大的推动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The list includes not only royalty, celebrities, and other VIPs, but also the families of servicemen killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, and those of victims of the July 2005 terrorist attack in London.",
        "其中不但包括王室成员，社会名流和其他重要人物，还包括阿富汗和伊拉克阵亡英军的家属以及2005年7月伦敦恐怖袭击遇难者的亲人。"
    ],
    [
        "But in India, a 2011 study of 112 rural districts across the country found that “less than 20% of mothers had heard the word for malnutrition in their local language.”",
        "但是，在印度，一份2011年关于全国112个农村区域的研究发现“不到20%的母亲知道她们的方言中还有营养不良一说。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "At the height of the Soviet-Afghanistan war in the 1980’s, Pakistan was the covert conduit for Filipino Muslim militants passing to and from Afghanistan and back to the island of Mindanao, which has long been a stronghold of Muslim rebels.",
        "八十年代苏联在阿富汗战争最猛烈的时候，巴基斯坦是菲律宾穆斯林武装份子来往于阿富汗和棉兰老岛的秘密渠道。 棉兰老岛一直是穆斯林反叛者的据点。"
    ],
    [
        "This situation may briefly persist, even though the EU deal has now been agreed, because Cameron has no wish to antagonize his party’s implacable euroskeptics until it is absolutely necessary; but as the referendum approaches, this political imbalance will abruptly reverse.",
        "这一局面可能会短暂地持续一段时间，即使如今欧盟协议已经达成，因为卡梅伦不到万不得已不会触怒其所在政党的死硬派欧洲怀疑者； 但随着公决的临近，这一政治不平衡将迅速逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "My government is also pushing hard to realize an EPA with the European Union.",
        "我的政府还在努力实现与欧盟的贸易合作协议。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Soviet Union, they helped Vladimir Lenin consolidate power, with disastrous consequences that were surpassed only by the horrors of Nazism, which also came to power on a populist wave.",
        "在苏联，民粹主义动员帮助列宁巩固了权力，其所造成的可怕后果只有纳粹恐怖方有过之，而纳粹掌权也是凭借民粹主义浪潮。"
    ],
    [
        "They subsided after 1995 largely because the Russian separatists were divided, and Moscow, facing separatist pressures in Chechnya, showed little inclination to support them.",
        "这种紧张在1995年后得到了缓解，主要是因为俄裔分裂势力内部出现了分化，而莫斯科当时也面临着车臣出现分裂的紧张局势而顾不上支持他们。"
    ],
    [
        "The ESM has limited firepower, and, along with the ECB, will buy only the bonds of governments that ask, something that proud leaders are reluctant to do.",
        "ESM火力有限，并且只能跟在欧洲央行屁股后头购买开口要求的国家的政府债券，而开口求助这种事情，自负的领导人是不会干的。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, senior Chinese officials have taken to enforcing political discipline within the Chinese Communist Party.",
        "与此同时，中国高级官员开始在中共内部执行政治纪律。"
    ],
    [
        "As countries become richer, non-traded services constitute a greater share of output, causing GDP to grow faster than trade, while global overcapacity has restrained trade growth further.",
        "随着各国变得日益富裕，非贸易服务构成了产出的更大份额，导致GDP增长快于贸易，同时全球产能过剩进一步遏制了贸易增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Such dialogue is vital if Myanmar is to be prevented from possibly pursuing nuclear weapons and rigging elections, à la Iran.",
        "这样的对话对防止缅甸发展核武器和像伊朗一样操纵选举至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Lagos – There has been considerable progress on achieving the Millennium Development Goals since their inception in 2000.",
        "拉各斯—自2000年启动以来，“千年发展目标”在实现方面已经取得了长足的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Assuming that China does not approve of this unholy alliance, it has a responsibility to call a halt to these exchanges.",
        "如果中国反对这一邪恶联盟的话，那么他就有责任去阻止这些交流。"
    ],
    [
        "The Russian invasion of Georgia has sent shock waves throughout the West and the former Soviet space - especially Ukraine.",
        "俄罗斯对格鲁吉亚的入侵在西方和前苏联地区造成了冲击波，尤其是在乌克兰。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of gains, one US government study on the topic projected that, by 2025, the TPP would augment its member countries’ GDP growth by a meager 0.1% at most.",
        "说到收益，一项美国政府对该问题的研究预测，到2025年，TPP最多只能让其成员国GDP增长提高0. 1%。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why European banks are now reluctant to lend to each other. They could be lending to an institution that is in serious financial trouble.",
        "这正是为什么欧洲的银行现在不太愿意互相进行拆借的原因，因为它们可能会把钱借给一家正陷入严重财政困难的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the unprecedented ease of access to information liberate people from thought control, or will it strengthen it to such an extent that democracy simply drowns in a sea of manipulation?",
        "前所未有的信息获取便利是会将民众从思想控制下解放出来，还是会强化思想控制，导致民主彻底淹没在信息控制之中？"
    ],
    [
        "Given how bad wage compression has been for Germany’s economy, foisting wage cuts on the rest of the eurozone would be disastrous.",
        "考虑到压抑工资对德国经济造成了如此恶劣的影响，强制要求欧元区其他国家实施工资削减将是灾难性的。"
    ],
    [
        "While some commentators were hopeful that the agreement meant that Hamas would give its tacit support to Abbas’s negotiating strategy, this is doubtful.",
        "一些观察者寄希望于这一协议意味着哈马斯将心照不宣地支持阿巴斯的谈判策略，但是否果真如此值得怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be a daunting task for any leader, but it is especially so for one who will spend only two years in power and does not enjoy widespread popular support.",
        "这对于任何领导人来说都是艰巨的任务，但对于智能掌权两年、民众支持率也不高的领导人来说尤其艰巨。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it may seek to use this precedent to re-establish its authority over the nations and territories that were once part of the Soviet Union.",
        "的确，它可能会试图用这一先例来重建对那些曾是前苏联一部分的国家和地区的权威。"
    ],
    [
        "The basic idea is that people can post items they have to rent, with a broad variety of descriptions and conditions.",
        "公司运营的基本构思是人们可以把自己用有的东西贴到网站上并出租，不管这个东西的描述和状况如何。"
    ],
    [
        "There was a collective sigh of relief, financial markets stabilized, and industrial-production rebounded.",
        "人们集体舒了口气，金融市场稳定了下来，工业产出也开始反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "While these issues are modern, the underlying political dynamic is not new.",
        "虽然这些问题才刚刚出现，但背后的政治动态实际却由来已久。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Russia, and the United States are working at cross-purposes more often than not further suggests a messy future without legal foundation.",
        "土耳其、伊朗、沙特阿拉伯、以色列、俄罗斯和美国往往各有各的算盘，这一事实更加意味着可能出现没有法律基础的混乱未来。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a high-risk move, one that is probably not justified by the effort to bring price increases a few dozen basis points closer to the ECB’s target.",
        "这是一个高风险的举动，可能会与使价格向着欧洲央行的目标增加几十个基点的努力背道而驰。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence Buchanan’s disdain for romanticizing government action.",
        "无怪乎布坎南批评政府行为天真烂漫。"
    ],
    [
        "The “liberal” view of international relations recommends three ingredients: political democratization, deeper economic interdependence, and viable institutions through which East Asia’s states can conduct their affairs in a multilateral way.",
        "对此国际关系上的“自由主义”理念提出了三个要素：政治民主化，更深层次的经济依存度，并建立一系列机构，使各国得以通过多边方式处理相关事务。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s backing of an administration dominated by the minority Alawites (a Shia sect) has clearly unnerved Sunni Arab states, especially Saudi Arabia, which regards with great concern this “Shia crescent” just across its northern frontier.",
        "伊朗支持由少数阿拉维派（某什叶部落）所主导的政府显然令逊尼派阿拉伯国家感到紧张，尤其是沙特阿拉伯，该国忧心忡忡地关注着其北部边境外“什叶派新月带”的一举一动。"
    ],
    [
        "When companies go bankrupt, a debt-equity swap is a fair and efficient solution.",
        "当公司破产时，债务-股本交换是一个公平高效的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us orient ourselves by considering what the economic-policy moon looks like today, particularly with respect to growth and inequality.",
        "让我们这样引导我们自己：想一想经济政策之月现在是怎么一副模样，特别是从增长和不平等的角度看。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palin Charade",
        "佩林之谜"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its flaws, the banking union helped to keep financial markets calm in the first half of 2015, even as Greece’s new government, led by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, challenged a basic feature of Europe’s approach to national financial crises: that recipients of support must engage in belt-tightening.",
        "尽管有各种缺陷，但银行联盟在2015年上半年帮助金融市场保持平稳，即使总理齐普拉斯领导的希腊新政府叫板欧洲处理国家金融危机的基本原则：接受支持的国家必须勒紧裤腰带。"
    ],
    [
        "Only decisive progress on these fronts will unlock the trillions of corporate dollars that, rather than being invested in new plants and equipment, remain stranded on companies’ balance sheets or are handed over to shareholders via higher dividends and share buybacks.",
        "只有上述这些方面的决定性进展能够释放出囤积在企业中的数万亿美元。 这些钱没能投资于新工厂和设备，而是滞留在公司资产负债表上或是通过高分红和股票回购发给了股东。"
    ],
    [
        "Hostility on the football pitch merely reflects the existing tense relations between the two countries, which carry the weight of a painful history.",
        "球场上的敌对仅仅反映了两国之间已经存在的紧张关系，上面还压着一段苦痛历史的重量。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, firms based in the coastal provinces that have to move their production (and see no need to diversify away from China) can choose to relocate to China’s interior, rather than going abroad.",
        "结果，需要迁移生产线、又不想通过“走出去”实现多元化的沿海省份公司可以选择迁往中国内陆。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot and will not allow this in our country.",
        "我们不能也不会允许这种情况发生。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, to meet the challenge of restructuring China’s economy away from exports and resource-intensive goods, China must stimulate consumption.",
        "实际上，中国为了迎接重组经济、从出口和资源密集型产品中转移开来的挑战，就必须刺激消费。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally worrisome is the prospect of deep, across-the-board cuts in the US defense budget at a time when many rising powers are increasing their defense spending.",
        "在许多新崛起国家加大国防开支的同时全面深度削减美国防预算的前景同样令人担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the US can increase its own power both by connecting to other NATO members (and then ensuring that NATO is connected to as many other countries and organizations as possible) and by increasing the connectedness of those other countries and organizations.",
        "换句话讲，美国可以通过两种方式增强其自身的实力：与其他北约国家建立联系（而后确保北约尽可能多地与其他国家和组织联系）和强化其他国家和组织间的联系状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Even after panicked claims that vaccines cause visible conditions like autism were proved to be nonsense, they remain more compelling than the threat of a disease that people have never seen or do not remember.",
        "尽管关于疫苗导致孤独症等可见症状的恐慌性说法被证明是毫无根据的，但它们仍是比人们从未见过或已失去记忆的疾病更加紧迫的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Roma found a classy place for himself.\"",
        "罗马为自己找到了一个上等的归宿。 \""
    ],
    [
        "Although the resulting outflow of gold caused monetary debasement in the Roman Empire, Indo-Roman trade remained the backbone of the global economy.",
        "尽管由此造成的黄金外流导致罗马帝国货币贬值，但印度-罗马贸易仍是全球经济的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not hard to see why growth has picked up.",
        "我们其实不难发现这种增长是如何实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, when institutions are too weak to offer predictable and acceptable settlements, or to protect existing shares, everyone has an incentive to jockey for a larger slice of the pie.",
        "相反，如果体制过于薄弱无法提供可以接受的常规解决方法或保护现有利益，人人都按捺不住多分一杯羹的冲动。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea’s divorce rate has doubled, fertility rates have fallen to the fourth lowest among advanced economies, and the suicide rate is the highest in the OECD.",
        "韩国的离婚率翻了一倍，生育率在发达国家中位列倒数第四，而自杀率却是经合组织成员国中最高的。"
    ],
    [
        "Our population bomb has already claimed its first casualties.",
        "我们的人口炸弹已经造成了第一批受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Assuming that it can find willing partners, populism may preclude any trade deal that appears to serve “international elites.”",
        "就算它可以找到有意合作的伙伴，民粹主义仍会将任何貌似为“国际精英”服务的贸易协议排除在外。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, the sharp rise in bloodshed has made it increasingly unlikely, or even impossible, that Assad’s opponents would consent to any arrangement that kept him in power.",
        "自此以后，流血事件的陡然增加让和平谈判的希望更加渺茫了，甚至说已经完全扼杀了谈判希望，巴沙尔的反对者不会接受任何让巴沙尔不下台的安排。"
    ],
    [
        "And why should government should pay the costs anyway?",
        "再说，为什么政府要为此买单呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, America is defined in terms of a set of values that everyone can share, not as a lineage, a specific history, and a geographical area.",
        "第四，美国的一整套价值观念每个人都可以分享，而非某一血统、特殊的历史以及地理区域。"
    ],
    [
        "The New Normal in China’s Cities",
        "中国城市的新常态"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the case of China’s ham-handedness in the South China Sea, domestic constituencies decrying “weakness” and demanding toughness from political leaders are a key factor.",
        "但是中国之所以在南中国海问题上进退失当，关键因素是国内民众公开谴责“政府示弱”并要求领导人表现强硬。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern terrorism is too destructive to be tolerated, much less supported.",
        "现代恐怖主义太具破坏性以至于我们已经不能容忍，不能再对它有任何支持了。"
    ],
    [
        "That should certainly include vastly enhanced expenditures on public education; but I suspect that a long-term solution will have to involve more direct regulation, and it is not too soon to start discussing the modalities.",
        "这当然应该包括大幅增加对公共教育的支出； 但我怀疑长期解决方案注定会涉及更多的直接规范，而且现在开始讨论具体形式恰逢其时。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, as a step toward making the renminbi a reserve currency, China signed currency-swap agreements with the Philippines, South Korea, Japan, and Australia.",
        "最后，作为把人民币变成储备货币这个过程中的其中一步，中国与菲律宾，韩国，日本和澳大利亚签订了货币互换协议。"
    ],
    [
        "But embracing cosmopolitanism also means that once a society admits new members, those members are obliged to open themselves to their new society.",
        "但是拥护世界主义同时也意味着一旦一个社会接纳了新的成员，那么那些新成员必须向他们的新社会开放他们自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Mousavi’s campaign, and its aftermath, showed clearly that those who professed to see no difference between the candidates, except in style and presentation, were wrong: even if the election was rigged, the voices of opposition to clerical authoritarianism were heard.",
        "穆萨维的竞选及其后果清楚地显示出：那些只表示看出候选人之间在风格和陈述上的差别，而对其他不同视而不见的人错了——即使存在选举舞弊，反对神职威权主义的声音也被世界听到了。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that monetary policy is approaching exhaustion.",
        "问题在于货币政策正在耗尽。"
    ],
    [
        "Many public expenditures and budget deficits have no justification other than populism, and the big political loser of the crisis has been European social democracy, Keynesian economics’ political counterpart.",
        "许多公共支出和预算赤字根本没有合理理由，纯粹是民粹主义使然，而在政治上，这场危机最大的输家之一便是欧洲的社会民主主义，即政治学版凯恩斯主义经济学。"
    ],
    [
        "The bankers of the Italian Renaissance also bought works of art because they reminded them of timeless values that transcended quotidian transactions.",
        "意大利文艺复兴时期的银行家们也收藏艺术作品，因为它们让他们记住超越日常交易的永恒的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Transforming the dollar standard into an SDR-based system would be a major break with a policy that has lasted more than 60 years.",
        "如果将特别提款权取代美元作为世界主要的货币，这将是60多年来一次最重要的金融改革之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Three decades ago, many erred in the opposite direction in their assessments of Japan.",
        "三十年前，许多人都在评价日本时犯了严重的错误。 在日本人均收入超过美国后，许多美国人担心美国会被日本拉下。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the ECB would be unable to respond to an economic downturn by lowering interest rates and buying long-term bonds.",
        "简言之，欧洲央行无法再通过降低利率和购买长期债券来应对经济衰退了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Other Half of the Peace Process",
        "和平进程的另一半"
    ],
    [
        "It is opening again and should be taken advantage of before it is too late.",
        "现在这个窗户在一次开启，就应当在过于后迟之前加以利用。"
    ],
    [
        "Singapore is leading the way in another area as well: production and distribution of potable recycled water.",
        "在另外一个领域新加坡也一马当先：那就是再生饮用水的生产和销售。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe still has a long way to go, which is apparent from the fact that only a minority of European citizens followed the campaign.",
        "但欧洲仍有很长的路要走，这一点从只有少数欧洲公民跟进了竞选活动这一事实便可一览无余。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared to previous global downturns triggered by a financial crisis, the global economy bounced back robustly.",
        "与前几次金融危机触发的全球衰退相比，此次全球经济反弹得相当强劲。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt and Tunisia need immediate cash deposits and grants, and their newly elected leaderships should not be forced to resort to begging.",
        "埃及和突尼斯需要的即刻的存款和原著，新当选的领导人不能被迫向国外摇尾乞怜。"
    ],
    [
        "One big change is in education.",
        "一个大的变化是在教育上。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump could give Russia freer rein in Ukraine and Syria in exchange for restraint in Central Europe and the Baltics.",
        "特朗普可以让俄罗斯在乌克兰和叙利亚更加“任性”，以换取后者在中欧和巴尔干半岛保持克制。"
    ],
    [
        "But the presidency of the World Bank is a rare presidential plum – an appointment that is not subject even to Congressional hearings.",
        "但对总统来说，世界银行行长的任命却是一桩少有的美事，任命甚至不必通过国会听证会。"
    ],
    [
        "The global dimension of this crisis surprisingly also has a positive side.",
        "令人惊奇的是， 这场危机的全球影响有积极的一面。"
    ],
    [
        "And repeated attacks could sharply reduce business and consumer confidence and stall Europe’s fragile economic recovery.",
        "而且反复爆发的袭击将严重打击企业和消费者的信心，令欧洲脆弱的经济复苏陷入停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "But Lugovoi’s face, too, has also changed markedly over the last eight months of press conferences.",
        "但Lugovoi的面容在过去八个月来的无数新闻发布会的历练中也有了明显的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that all of the current candidates vying for the US presidency will be up to the challenges – both perennial and unanticipated – that they will face.",
        "人们希望竞争美国总统的所有候选人都有迎接他们将要面临的（无论长期还是意外）挑战的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Sunstein and Thaler would have the employer choose a default option that works for most people, such as 60% in equities, 30% in bonds, and 10% in money-market funds.",
        "桑斯坦和泰勒让雇主选择适用大部分人的默认选项，比如60%配置于股票、30%配置于债券、另10%配置于货币基金。"
    ],
    [
        "More troubling still is that Libya’s violence reveals certain features of the Middle East that had been forgotten after the heady success in Tunis and Cairo.",
        "更令人不安的是利比亚暴力事件揭示了中东地区的某些特点，这些特点在突尼斯和开罗令人兴奋的成功之后被忘得一干二净。"
    ],
    [
        "Cameron’s government must recognize that there is only one good reason to wonder whether the UK might be better off leaving the EU: the risk that remaining outside of the eurozone would leave Britain at a serious disadvantage in EU decision-making, even about rules affecting the single market.",
        "卡梅伦政府必须认识到，质疑英国是否离开欧盟才会变得更好的好理由只有一个：不加入欧元区可能导致英国在欧盟决策中处于重大劣势，即使是关于影响单一市场的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s policies could also endanger the long-term commitments that the US made when it signed onto the Paris agreement, even if the immediate effects of his policies are limited by market factors.",
        "特朗普的政策还可能影响到美国在签署巴黎协定时所许下的长期承诺，即使其政策的短期效应受到市场因素的遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "That must be firmly rejected.",
        "这必须严词拒绝。"
    ],
    [
        "Varoufakis had no control over the economic mess that Syriza inherited when it came to power, including an unemployment rate hovering around 25% and youth joblessness that had been running at more than 50% for a considerable period.",
        "瓦鲁法基斯对于左翼联盟上台执政时所面临的经济乱局无能为力，包括长期徘徊在25%的失业率和高达50%以上的年轻人失业率。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, anxiety, hopelessness, and anger are spreading, as what was a financial crisis becomes an economic and human crisis.",
        "结果，人们的担忧、无望以及愤怒波及开来，原本一场金融危机变成了经济和人力危机。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the shantytowns where developing countries’ urban poor live, there are few varieties of skill that people can mix with their own to make things productively.",
        "但发展中国家城市贫困人口棚户区急缺拼凑起来即可实现高效生产的各类技巧。"
    ],
    [
        "For his part, with respect to inequality, Eichengreen has identified six first-order processes at work over the past 250 years.",
        "对艾肯格林来说，在不平等性这个话题上，他发现在过去250年中有六大主要（first-order）过程在起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Campos’s running mate, Marina Silva, was then nominated to take his place.",
        "随后，坎波斯的竞选搭档玛琳娜·席尔瓦（Marina Silva）被提名为候选人顶替坎波斯。"
    ],
    [
        "The last thing that a still-fragile global economy needs is more uncertainty.",
        "对于仍然十分脆弱的全球经济来说，最不需要的就是更多的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "The melting of arctic ice is one example.",
        "北极冰层的融化就是一个例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Candidates include Suharto himself (he certainly had some foreknowledge of events), acting with or without United States support, and even the British Foreign Office.",
        "潜在的责任人包括苏哈托本人（他显然预先就知道了此事件），行动也许有美国甚至英国外交部的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Too much of our country’s wealth has been damaged by war, taken flight abroad, or been siphoned off through corruption.",
        "我们有太多的国家资产已经被战争破坏、偷运出境，或者被腐败抽走。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is one crucial difference: Italy is part of a select club that does not need outside rescue funds.",
        "但有一个关键不同点：意大利是不需要外部援助资金的精英俱乐部的一员。"
    ],
    [
        "One prominent example is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the trade pact signed in October by 12 Pacific Rim countries in Asia and the Americas.",
        "一个显著的例子是跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP），该贸易契约由12个太平洋周边亚洲和美洲国家在10月12日签署。"
    ],
    [
        "And that is, at least partly, a result of the government’s effort to moderate real-estate investment, which has caused the sector’s annual growth to tank, plunging from 38% in 2010 to 1% at the end of 2015.",
        "而这又至少部分源自政府给房地产投资降温的措施，这些措施导致房地产业年增长暴跌，从2010年的38%降低到2015年底的1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s defense industry will not be able to make progress without a well-functioning market – open, transparent, and with equal opportunities for all European suppliers.",
        "没有运转良好的市场——公开、透明、让所有欧洲供应商获得平等机会——欧洲的防务行业就不可能取得进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Less dramatic but more likely is that the Fed will someday find a way to push up inflation expectations, which, as in most advanced economies, have been drifting inexorably downward.",
        "比较平稳但可能性更大的是美联储有一天找到办法推高通胀预期，和大部分发达经济体一样，美国的通胀预期始终顽固地在低位徘徊。"
    ],
    [
        "Government debt will no longer be backed up by taxpayers’ assets.",
        "纳税人的资产将无法支持政府负债。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is how hard the global economy's addiction to partial monetary-policy fixes will be to break – and whether a slide into a currency war could accelerate the timetable.",
        "问题在于全球经济所依赖的局部货币政策疗法会以多么迅猛的势头打破——以及货币战争的爆发会不会加速这一时间表。"
    ],
    [
        "These are just a few examples; far more can be done.",
        "这些只是一些例子；"
    ],
    [
        "For Europe, the election of Barack Obama is a crucial test.",
        "对于欧洲而言，巴拉克·奥巴马当选是一场至关重要的考验。"
    ],
    [
        "If the rule of law is to be upheld, democratic self-defense must not appear ad hoc or arbitrary.",
        "如果要支持法律规则，那么民主自卫就不能是权宜的或是武断的。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, program-related spending still represents only 1% of capital deployed by foundations, with just 0.05% of that going toward equity investments.",
        "不幸的是，与项目有关的支出仍只占基金会资本配置的1%，流向股权投资的部分更是只有0. 05%。"
    ],
    [
        "There are immediate reasons why this is so: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s government is weak and unpopular, mainly due to the botched 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.",
        "造成这个局面的直接原因是：主要由于2006年针对黎巴嫩真主党的糟糕的战争，以色列总理埃胡德·奥尔默特领导的政府很无力并且不受欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "One promising area of investigation is CRISPR – a cutting-edge tool that could allow us to delete, repair, or replace the genes that cause disease.",
        "一个大有前途的研究领域是CRISPR——一种尖端工具，能让我们探测、修复或取代致病基因。"
    ],
    [
        "The cause is not some particularly exciting test match.",
        "获得如此关注的并不是特别精彩的对抗赛。"
    ],
    [
        "But when terrorism results in torture of prisoners, ever more police surveillance, and official threats to US citizens’ legal rights – or, for that matter, when a crime committed by two young immigrants causes an entire city to be shut down – Americans’ government is harming their freedom more than any terrorist could ever hope to do.",
        "但当恐怖主义导致对犯人施暴、警方加强监视和美国公民合法权益受到官方威胁——或者就本案而言，两名年轻移民所犯的罪行导致波士顿全城陷入瘫痪时——美国政府对于自由的伤害远远超乎任何恐怖份子的想象。"
    ],
    [
        "A far more critical group in any society are those who have begun to move forward to new conditions, but then find their path blocked.",
        "那些已经开始朝着新的环境转变、但是发现其转变之路被封死的人们是社会中远更为决定性的团体。"
    ],
    [
        "That way, both Germans and other Europeans can trust Germany to be a positive force for change.",
        "这样，德国人和其他欧洲人都可以相信德国成为改变局面的积极力量。"
    ],
    [
        "These governments already spend tax money on direct foreign aid.",
        "这些政府已经利用税金开展直接对外援助。"
    ],
    [
        "It will focus on the injustice that follows from the fact that, entirely by chance, some are born in poor countries and others in rich countries.",
        "这场革命将聚焦于不公，而不公源自一个事实，即一些人完全是因为运气而生在穷国，而另一些人生在富国。"
    ],
    [
        "Having become a target of popular anger, journalism will need to “disrupt” itself to regain credibility and restore audiences’ trust.",
        "新闻成为汹涌民意的对象，需要自我“破坏”以重获信誉、重建受众的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "For Western governments, coming to the aid of Ukraine is a gamble, but one that is surely worth taking.",
        "对西方政府来说，援助乌克兰是一场赌博，但显然是值得冒险的赌博。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot be sure about how much further house prices will fall.",
        "我们不能确定房价还会跌多少。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro was supposed to bring about economic convergence, but it produced divergences instead, because its architects did not realize that imbalances may emerge not only in the public sector, but in the private sector as well.",
        "欧元本应实现经济的集约效应，但它却反过来造成了割裂，因为它的设计者们并未意识到不仅公共部门会出现不平衡，连私人部门也无法置身事外。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, not much weight, in my judgment, should be given to the IMF’s statistical studies of the impact of foreign aid on growth, partly because the results do not appear to be very robust.",
        "我认为在任何情况下，我们都不应该太看重国际货币基金组织关于外援对经济增长的作用的统计性研究。 部分原因是其结果似乎不那么积极健康。"
    ],
    [
        "This assumes that it can obtain sufficient documentary evidence of the allegations from, say, Snowden or Der Spiegel.",
        "其前提是欧盟可以从（比如）斯诺登或《明镜》处获得关于指控的充分的书面证据。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, the entire continent will follow events in Sudan over the next few months with the greatest interest.",
        "因此整个大陆都将在未来几个月内聚精会神地注视着苏丹的一举一动。"
    ],
    [
        "The West should not reject Russia’s wish for new negotiations on a European security system.",
        "西方不应该拒绝俄罗斯对欧洲安全体系进行新的谈判的期望。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the financial cycle is much more drawn out than the business cycle, typical policy horizons may not allow the authorities to account adequately for the impact of their decisions on future economic outcomes.",
        "考虑到金融周期比商业周期更为漫长，典型的政策视野无法让当局恰当地评估自身决策对未来经济状况的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "It looks like both sides are ready to fight “to the last Ukrainian.”",
        "看起来双方都誓将战斗到“最后一个乌克兰人”。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary subsidies to consumption are also often granted in developed countries for a variety of purposes, not least of which is fighting tax evasion.",
        "发达国家也经常出于各种目的对消费提供现金补贴，其中很重要的一个目的就是打击逃税。"
    ],
    [
        "The message sounded fair and it did, for a short time, appeal to some policymakers and investors not fully apprised of the situation.",
        "这种说法乍听上去不失公正，而且在一段很短的时间内，它的确获得了不完全了解情况的执政者和投资者的认同。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time I was released, there was only one, used mostly for weddings.",
        "而我被释放时，影院只剩下一家，而且主要是作为婚礼之用。"
    ],
    [
        "Interacting public psychology is likely to play a role as well.",
        "相互作用的公众心理在其中也扮演着一部分角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Only after the Civil War did the US decide to operate the federation according to the liability model – an approach that has underpinned stability and limited individual states’ debt levels ever since.",
        "直到南北战争后，美国才决定依照责任模式操作联邦——此后，该方针巩固了稳定，也限制了个体州的债务水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the adjustment programs themselves must be carefully re-calibrated.",
        "最后，调整计划本身必须经过仔细的验证。"
    ],
    [
        "And one option stands out: online learning.",
        "结果有一种方案脱颖而出：那就是在线教育。"
    ],
    [
        "They include internal conflicts that make children inaccessible to public-health professionals, opposition by some religious leaders, and public mistrust of national governments and international initiatives.",
        "其中包括导致儿童无法接触公共卫生专业人士的内部冲突、某些宗教领袖的反对，以及公众对国家政府和国际卫生计划持不信任态度。"
    ],
    [
        "So it was on to Bangladesh for Clinton.",
        "克林顿下一站是孟加拉。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU has lately become a prime target for populists.",
        "欧盟近来成为了民粹主义者的主要目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that the industry’s safety record is second to none when measured against those of its rivals.",
        "事实上，就安全记录而言，如果核电自称第二，就没有哪种电敢称第一。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic welfare is not the same as social wellbeing.",
        "经济福祉和社会福利并不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Because of continuing increases in life expectancy, the number of eligible retirees is rising more rapidly than the tax revenue available to finance benefits.",
        "由于寿命预期不断增加，在世退休者增加的速度要快于可以为退休金提供资金来源的税收收入。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades, India suffered from what some called the “Hindu rate of economic growth”: a little more than 1% per year.",
        "几十年来，印度饱受一些人所谓的“印度经济增长率”（每年只有1%略高）的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "A few central bankers struggle to keep the world economy upright.",
        "美国则陷入了政治瘫痪。 一些央行行长竭尽全力让世界经济保持增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Barro assumes that higher spending in 2009-2010 will have to be offset by higher taxes later, claiming that “the timing of future taxes does not matter.”",
        "最后，巴罗假设 2009-10 年的高支出会导致随后的税收增加，宣称：“未来的征税时机没什么大不了。"
    ],
    [
        "They did not, but I will.”",
        "并没有。 但我会。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, supposing Uribe is on the verge of victory, what should he do with it?",
        "最后，假设乌里韦就要取得胜利，那么他应该对这个胜利做些什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "According to World Bank data, from 1995 to 2015, merchandise trade as a percentage of total GDP has increased by 4.8 percentage points.",
        "据世界银行数据，从1995年到2015年，商品贸易战总GDP的百分比增加了4. 8个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "But expectations created by pre-crisis growth patterns adjust slowly.",
        "但产生于危机前增长模式的预期的调整速度并没有那么快。"
    ],
    [
        "This question highlights the problematic relationship of international humanitarian law to the use of force.",
        "这一问题凸现了国际人道主义法律和使用权力之间悬而未决的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "By ruling out exchange-rate adjustment to address differences in competitiveness, the euro has forced less competitive countries to pursue painful and slow “internal devaluation” (suppressing real wages).",
        "通过排除汇率调整来解决竞争力差异，欧元已迫使缺乏竞争力的国家进行痛苦而缓慢的“内部贬值”(压低实际工资)。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Chinese nationalists can’t wait to see the back of America’s Afghan military presence.",
        "因此他们也迫切希望美国早日撤军。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, modern tools like maps and satellite navigation contribute to annual savings of up to 3.5 billion liters of gasoline and more than one billion hours of travel time.",
        "事实上，地图和卫星导航等现代化工具每年可以节约高达35亿升汽油和超过10亿小时的旅行耗时。"
    ],
    [
        "Refusing to prioritize is unjust, wastes resources, and costs lives.",
        "拒绝给予优先权是不公的、浪费资源且付出生命代价的。"
    ],
    [
        "One might ask why anyone but the private global investors taking the risk should care about roll-overs, reversals, debt management, and workouts.",
        "你或许会问，为何偏偏是承担风险的私人全球投资者要担心延期、流向逆转、债务管理和债务解决方案风险。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, for example, the sense of “us” initially included only white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, not Irish, Italian, or Polish Catholics or Jews – and especially not African-Americans.",
        "比如，在美国，“我们”的感觉最初只包括盎格鲁-萨克逊新教徒，而不包括爱尔兰人、意大利人或波兰天主教徒和犹太人——尤其不包括非洲裔美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "The payoff is still too uncertain.",
        "报酬仍然过于不确定。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the first orders of business for Poland’s far-right government, led unofficially by Jarosław Kaczyński, was to adopt a new media law allowing it to hire and fire the heads of public broadcasting networks.",
        "以卡钦斯基（Jarosław Kaczyński）非正式领导的波兰极右翼政府的第一批动作之一，就是实施了新的媒体法，允许政府聘用和解雇公共广电网络的负责人。"
    ],
    [
        "Regling has a lot of experience, but none in central banking and monetary policy.",
        "雷格林经验甚丰，但在央行事务和货币政策方面则一片空白。"
    ],
    [
        "With the end of Ahmadinejad’s second and final term fast approaching, it seems unlikely that the disgraced, unpopular president will abandon his efforts to destabilize Iran’s ruling establishment.",
        "随着内贾德第二也是最后一任任期临近结束，这位灰头土脸、不受欢迎的总统看似不会放弃他动摇伊朗执政制度的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "But it must navigate a difficult path, because both points of view have significant public support.",
        "但政府必须经受严峻的考验，因为两种观点都有强大的公众支持。"
    ],
    [
        "But British beef was not safe.",
        "但英国牛肉是不安全的。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of clinging to Enlightenment rhetoric and dogmas, we must recognize the limits of our world, and shift our attention from conquering it toward preserving it.",
        "我们不能再执着于启蒙运动的修辞和教条，而必须承认我们的世界的极限，将我们的注意力从征服世界转向保护世界。"
    ],
    [
        "If we do, why should provisions that make the constitution so difficult to amend bind a majority of the electorate?",
        "如果我们有这一权力和权利，那么为何还要让修宪变得如此困难的条款约束绝大部分选民？"
    ],
    [
        "The current crisis of the conservative cycle reflects the massive build-up of bad debt that became apparent with the sub-prime crisis, which started in June 2007 and has now spread to the whole credit market, sinking Lehman Brothers.",
        "当前保守主义周期的危机反映了在次级抵押贷款危机下变得明显的巨额坏账积累的事实，该次贷危机始于2007年6月，现在已经扩散到整个信贷市场，并使雷曼兄弟陷入破产境地。"
    ],
    [
        "All the religions that descend from Abraham have internal mechanisms for change that allow them to reckon with new circumstances in ways that the confessional community can respect.",
        "所有从亚伯拉罕传承下来的宗教信仰都有为了获得宗派社会的尊重而考虑新的环境因素从而做出改变的内在机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Low real long-term rates mean that any long-term asset that pays, say, $100 a year in real terms would have been worth a real $1,429 in 1984, when it yielded 7%, but would have to be worth a real $5,000 now, when it yields just 2%.",
        "低实际利率意味着任何长期资产，如果年实际收益为100美金，那么在1984年按收益率7%计算的实际价值是1429美金，但同样的收益按今天仅2%的收益率计算，则其实际价值必须是5000美金。"
    ],
    [
        "There are more than 100 prescribed uses for 2,4-D, including the control of invasive weeds on lawns, in forestry, and to enhance safety along highways, power line corridors, and rail lines.",
        "2,4-D有100多种指定用途，包括控制侵入草坪、森林的杂草和强化高速路、电力走廊和铁路沿线的安全控制。"
    ],
    [
        "The scenario is not altogether unlikely.",
        "这种情况的出现并不是完全不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "But there may be a group of four countries – South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia, and Turkey – whose combined experience is relevant and would resonate among many segments of the Egyptian population when it comes to orderly economic and political transitions.",
        "但也许有四个国家——南非、巴西、印度尼西亚和土耳其——的经验结合起来与埃及相关，而当涉及到有序政治和经济转型时，它们会在许多方面与埃及许多阶层的人产生共鸣。"
    ],
    [
        "The cynical, and increasingly popular, view is that they were again voting their pocketbooks – all financial legislation in the run-up to the 2008 crisis was supposedly driven by the financial sector’s appetite for more customers to devour with teaser loans and dubious mortgages.",
        "愤世嫉俗（但越来越普遍）的观点是立法者仍然是在为支票投票——2008年危机爆发前的金融立法无不是为了满足金融部门的胃口，让更多的客户去吞下不良贷款和可以按揭。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s Governing Council comprises the six members of the Executive Board plus the governors/presidents of the 16 national central banks of the eurozone countries.",
        "欧洲央行委员会由6名执行董事会成员和16个欧元国的央行行长共同组成。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the US is now self-sufficient in energy, it needs to export fewer manufactured goods than industrialized countries with no domestic energy resources.",
        "由于美国现在能源上实现了自给，因此无须像那些缺乏国内能源供应的工业国家那样出口那么多的制成品。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given that most major economies operate under a flexible exchange-rate regime, these concerns are largely unwarranted.",
        "但是，大部分主要经济体是在浮动汇率制度下运转的，这些担忧基本上都是无稽之谈。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, they have shown little awareness of the urgency.",
        "但迄今为止，这些人似乎都并未意识到这些行动的紧迫性。"
    ],
    [
        "The scale of the Boston attack was, of course, much smaller than that of September 11, 2001.",
        "当然，波士顿袭击的规模远小于2001年9月11日。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Oil prices have plummeted 40% since June – good news for oil-importing countries, but bad news for Russia, Venezuela, Nigeria, and other oil exporters.",
        "美国剑桥—6月以来，石油价格暴跌40%——这对石油进口国来说是好消息，但对俄罗斯、委内瑞拉、尼日利亚和其他石油出口国来说是坏消息。"
    ],
    [
        "Political Islam’s opponents regard it as inherently anti-democratic.",
        "政治伊斯兰教的反对者认为宗教从本质上与民主水火不容。"
    ],
    [
        "This is America's declared goal. But getting there requires American policies that are consistent with the comprehensive approach that democratic transformation requires.",
        "这是美国明确的既定目标，但要真的实现需要美国政策符合民主改革提出的全面要求。"
    ],
    [
        "What precisely should those strategies entail?",
        "这些战略应该包括哪些详细内容？"
    ],
    [
        "The TPP initiative should be viewed against this background, and not just in the context of the collapse of the Doha Round.",
        "TPP必须从其背景出发进行观察，而不仅是将其置于多哈回合崩溃的环境中。"
    ],
    [
        "But Nord Stream 2 would make those troubles inevitable.",
        "但北溪二期会使那些烦恼变得无可难免。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a question we all must ask ourselves, too.",
        "这个问题，值得我们每个人去扪心自问。"
    ],
    [
        "While massive liquidity injections were effective in unfreezing credit markets and arrested the worst of the crisis – witness the role of the Fed’s first round of QE in 2009-2010 – subsequent efforts have not sparked anything close to a normal cyclical recovery.",
        "大量流动性的注入的确在解冻信贷市场上取得成效并阻止了危机深度恶化——这在美联储2009-2010年度首轮量化宽松政策中得到了证明——然而随后的措施都未能催生任何常见的周期性复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "The size of this downturn is so large that unemployment will rise sharply in all major regions of the world economy, perhaps reaching 9-10% in the US.",
        "这次衰退的规模如此巨大，以至于世界经济所有主要地区的失业率都将大幅度攀升，美国的失业率可能会达到9%—10%。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Commission’s recent decision to grant member states some flexibility for productive public investment linked to EU structural funds is a welcome step in this direction.",
        "欧盟委员会最近决定授予成员国在与欧洲结构性资金有关的富有成效的公共投资方面一定的自由，这是方向正确的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Americans understand little about the social and political complexities of the countries there.",
        "首先，美国人对中东国家的社会和政治复杂性所知甚少。"
    ],
    [
        "While technology has always been transformative, its impact is now ubiquitous, with digital and mobile technologies being adopted at an unprecedented rate.",
        "尽管技术一直是变革的推动力，但现在随着数字和移动技术前所未有的普及，技术的影响力简直是无处不在的。"
    ],
    [
        "One of these species, orange roughy, has been caught commercially for only around a quarter-century, but already is being fished to the point of collapse.",
        "其中的一个物种叫做橙连鳍鲑，被用于商业捕捞不过大约25年的时间，但是已经被捕捞得处于崩溃的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "So a second reason for revamping the EU’s Pakistan policy is to be able to help shape US policy rather than be a passive by-stander.",
        "因此，修改欧盟的巴基斯坦政策的第二个原因是为了能够主动协助美国制定相应的政策，而不是单纯袖手旁观。"
    ],
    [
        "But on other issues, Ban has failed to live up to the critically important precedent set by his predecessor as Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, who transformed the position to promote human rights and assumed the role of the \"world's conscience\" when necessary.",
        "但是在其他问题上，潘基文没能实践其前任科菲安南在担任联合国秘书长时期创设的重要的先例，科菲安南把这一职位的任务变成推进人权以及在必要时起到“世界良心”的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The Price of 9/11",
        "9·11的代价"
    ],
    [
        "Illiberal democratic policies and practices are present almost everywhere in Latin America: a distortive electoral system in Chile, persistent violence in Mexico and Colombia, and endemic corruption among lawmakers in Brazil all limit citizens’ ability to express their views effectively and shape policy.",
        "不自由民主政策和行为在拉丁美洲随处可见：智利的扭曲选举制度、墨西哥和哥伦比亚的持续暴力，以及巴西的腐败顽疾都制约着公民有效表达观点、影响政策的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative is to embrace a “transfer union” that ensures a better balance between solidarity and responsibility.",
        "替代方案是采取“转移支付联盟”，以更好地平衡团结和责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Employment objectives have been formulated for all EU member states since 1997 in the so-called European Employment Strategy (EES), now part of the “Lisbon Agenda,” the set of goals established to boost EU productivity.",
        "1997年制定“里斯本议程”中的欧洲就业战略以来，已经为欧盟的所有国家确定了就业目标。 “里斯本议程”为提高欧洲的生产效率确立了一整套目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, the Maastricht rules were never designed for a perfect storm like the one triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.",
        "2008 年 9 月雷曼兄弟崩溃所引发的是一场“完美风暴”，马斯特里赫特规则压根儿不是为应付这样的风暴而设计的。"
    ],
    [
        "AMSTERDAM – Amid the horrifying news from Japan, the establishment of new standards of political leadership there is easy to miss – in part because the Japanese media follow old habits of automatically criticizing how officials are dealing with the calamity, and many foreign reporters who lack perspective simply copy that critical tone.",
        "发自阿姆斯特丹——在日本传来的众多骇人听闻的新闻中，新政治领导标准建立的消息往往会被忽略——这在某种程度上是因为日本媒体还是一如既往地批评官员在灾难面前应对不力，而许多缺乏主见的外国记者则简单照搬了这种批评式口吻。"
    ],
    [
        "But the vast majority of the issues in world trade and finance that preoccupy policymakers are not of this kind.",
        "但困扰决策者的绝大多数世界贸易和金融问题并不属于此类。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the world, the number of companies facing legal problems for various types of fraud is growing dramatically.",
        "在全世界，企业面临各种欺诈而带来的法律问题，其数量大幅度增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic policy is like gardening: pulling on plants will not make them grow faster, but a successful gardener can provide them with the right environment in which to flourish.",
        "经济政策就像是园艺：揠苗并不能助长，但成功的园丁能够为它们提供正确的环境，让它们枝繁叶茂。"
    ],
    [
        "Several figures from the “free officers” – the group that plotted the 1969 coup against the monarchy – are leading the INC.",
        "“自由军官组织”的几位人物正在把持临时全国委员会， 1969年推翻君主统治的政变正是上述组织的杰作。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the OECD should put Russia’s accession process on hold.",
        "类似地，经合组织也把接受俄罗斯的进程冻结了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, as it stands, the choice is frustratingly impossible to predict.",
        "相反，从目前的情况看，选择令人沮丧地无法预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia has also launched a large-scale air attack against civilians in northern Syria.",
        "俄罗斯还大规模空袭叙利亚北部民众。"
    ],
    [
        "They should work to uphold that record, using the strong renminbi as an incentive to redouble efforts at reform and rebalancing, rather than as an excuse to backtrack.",
        "他们应该继续努力保持这一纪录，用强势人民币作为一种激励让改革和再平衡措施如虎添翼，而不是将它作为倒退的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "Success does not come easy.",
        "但成功无法一蹴而就。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite coming under relentless attack for decades, it remains indispensable for providing the public goods that markets cannot supply efficiently, equitably, or in sufficient quantity.",
        "尽管几十年来饱受攻讦，社会民主仍然是提供市场无法高效、公平、充足地提供的公共品的不可或缺的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "And individuals and corporations can declare bankruptcy.",
        "个人和公司可以宣布破产。"
    ],
    [
        "The AKP’s parliamentary majority would allow the party to draft a new constitution unilaterally and put it to a referendum within a year.",
        "正义与发展党的议会多数将允许其单方面起草新宪法，并在一年内将其付诸公投。"
    ],
    [
        "Being an “awkward partner” may offer Russia its best hope of reconciling its yearning for independence with the realities of the modern world.",
        "作为一个“尴尬的夥伴”给予俄国在渴望独立与现代世界现实之间调和的最佳希望。"
    ],
    [
        "In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, financial institutions appear both as dangerous weapons of mass economic destruction, but also as potential instruments for the application of national power.",
        "在2008年那场金融危机的余波中，金融机构似乎既是大规模经济破坏的危险武器，又是国家权力应用的潜在工具。"
    ],
    [
        "But suddenly the system collapses, the creation of value turns into destruction and parallel universes collide.",
        "但这个体系突然间崩溃了，价值的创造变成了毁灭，平行世界发生了冲撞。"
    ],
    [
        "The neat divide based on income is muddled by the elderly.",
        "收入带来的分歧是明确的，但年龄则否。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of wasting months begging for aid, such a reserve fund would be capable of delivering it immediately.",
        "这样的储备基金能立即提供所需援助，而不必在灾难发生后耗费几个月的时间四处筹集。"
    ],
    [
        "The key question is this: Is Russia taking giant steps in the “wrong direction” while China is taking “minuscule” steps in the “right direction”?",
        "关键问题是：俄国是否在“错误的道路”上一意孤行，而中国在“正确的道路”上步履姗姗？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, China is working to restore the last stretch of the old Silk Road to reach the ports of the Mediterranean.",
        "比如，中国正致力于重建古丝绸之路直达地中海港口。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Health Organization has warned that the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating TB by 2035 will not be achieved unless new drugs, better diagnostics, and improved vaccines are developed.",
        "世卫组织警告2035年根除结核病的可持续发展目标可能无法实现，除非成功研制出新药、更先进的诊断方法和改进型疫苗。"
    ],
    [
        "Hunting Tigers in China",
        "中国打老虎"
    ],
    [
        "The bear was tagged before it was released, to show that it had been causing trouble.",
        "这头熊被放走前身上做上了标记，表明它曾经找过麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a far-reaching innovation.",
        "这是一项影响深远的创举。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kurdish problem preoccupies Turks, as does their growing sense that they are losing control of two essential issues – the Syrian and Iranian crises.",
        "库尔德问题困扰着土耳其，除此之外，越来越多的土耳其人感到他们正在失去对两大关键问题的控制，即叙利亚和伊朗危机。"
    ],
    [
        "And more is expected to come: in November 2008, the Ecofin Council increased the ceiling for possible balance-of-payment loans to non-EMU countries to €25 billion.",
        "而且还会有更多帮助：2008年11月，欧盟经济与财政部长委员会将非欧盟成员国的国际收支差额贷款上限提高到了250亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "It says a great deal about the gullibility of financial markets that they took this argument seriously.",
        "金融市场信以为真，这充分说明了金融市场何等容易上当受骗。"
    ],
    [
        "The cyber domain of computers and related electronic activities is a complex man-made environment, and human adversaries are purposeful and intelligent.",
        "电脑及相关电子活动的网络域名构成了纯粹人造的复杂环境，上述环境中的人类对手高度智能化而且有针对性。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a world would almost certainly be characterized by chronic crisis and conflict.",
        "这样一个世界几乎必然会陷入没完没了的危机和冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "But to endanger this process here and now, in full awareness of the possible costs, is an act of very costly stupidity on the part of the Europeans – and stupidity is the worst sin in politics.",
        "然而，如果欧洲人在充分了解可能付出的代价情况下在此时此刻将土耳其的入盟进程置于险境，那将是代价惨重的愚蠢行为——而在政治上愚蠢是最严重的罪过。"
    ],
    [
        "Even without the risk fee for large banks, the Dodd-Frank legislation was a step in the right direction.",
        "即使没有大银行风险费，多德-弗兰克立法也是正确的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Consultation can minimize surprises.",
        "协商能让意外最小化。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese and Indian texts from 1000 BC appear to describe a similar affliction.",
        "公元前1000年的中国和印度文档就描述了类似的症状。"
    ],
    [
        "He expected regime change in Baghdad to lead to a democratic Iraq, a development that would in turn transform the region when people elsewhere in the Arab world saw this example and forced their own governments to follow suit.",
        "他希望通过对巴格达政权的改变可以将伊拉克民主化，从而使得周边的阿拉伯国家受到影响，迫使他们也向民主转型。"
    ],
    [
        "The Meaning of Cyprus",
        "塞浦路斯危机的意义"
    ],
    [
        "Unconventional monetary policies like quantitative easing may inflate a new generation of asset bubbles, but the underlying problem – negative returns to new investment – will not have been solved by the time the next crash comes.",
        "量化宽松等非常规货币政策可能带来新一波资产泡沫，但根本问题——新投资的负回报——无法在下一次大崩盘前得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the Chinese authorities seem not to have learned the lessons of either episode.",
        "然而，中国当局似乎没有从这两个事件中吸取教训。"
    ],
    [
        "But policy inevitably changes, and the shifts in asset prices would create enormous dislocation when it does.",
        "但政策难免会改变，此时，资产价格的变化将造成巨大的混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the justice of the distribution of risks and benefits is questionable when research subjects are concentrated on a vulnerable segment of our society.",
        "而且，当人体研究对象集中于我们社会中的弱势群体之时，风险和利益分配的正义性就是值得怀疑了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even as countries have recognized the need for a more comprehensive understanding of development, they have largely retained GDP growth as their central objective.",
        "但是，尽管各国已经认识到需要更全面地理解发展，但大体上它们仍将GDP增长作为核心目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas inward investment reached $20 billion in 2008, capital outflows totaled $20 billion in 2009.",
        "在 2008 年，国内投资额达到 200 亿美元，而在 2009 年，资本外逃总量也达到了 200 亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Mikoyan, as one joke had it, left the Kremlin one day in heavy rain and refused to share a colleague’s umbrella.",
        "有段笑话说米高扬某天在暴雨中离开克里姆林时拒绝与同事一起打伞。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of American homes that were purchased with subprime mortgages have been foreclosed in recent years, forcing their owners, unable to service their debt, to leave.",
        "近几年来，数百万通过次级按揭购买的美国住房被收回了赎回权，强迫无法维持债务的屋主离开。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Over the last 35 years, China’s strong and sustained output growth – averaging more than 9.5% annually – has driven the miraculous transformation of a rural, command economy into a global economic superpower.",
        "北京—过去35年中，中国取得了持续的强劲产出增长，平均每年高达9%以上，这让中国这个指令性农业经济转变为全球经济超级大国。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, though the document calls for strengthening local legislatures, it proposes no concrete plan to curb local governments’ role in economic activities, which is one of the sources of distortions in the Chinese economy.",
        "类似地，尽管文件要求加强地方立法机构，但并没有拿出具体的计划限制地方政府在经济活动中的角色，而这是中国经济扭曲的来源之一。"
    ],
    [
        "· Call for an amnesty for all political prisoners.",
        "· 呼吁对所有政治犯实施大赦。"
    ],
    [
        "Some developing countries in Asia work differently.",
        "一些亚洲发展中国家运作方式有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "But, again, his administration’s faltering moves will almost surely make matters worse in the immediate future.",
        "但是，其政府再度的犹豫和暧昧几乎肯定会使接下来的情况更糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "So what could possibly be wrong with such a technocratically sound idea?",
        "那么这样一个技术上严丝合缝的想法可能会出现哪些谬误？"
    ],
    [
        "Since then firms like Microsoft and Intel exploited software and hardware revolutions that IBM and others had missed, and left IBM in the dust.",
        "从那时起，像微软和英特尔这样的公司在IBM和其他公司所忽略的软件和硬件上发起革命，从而把IBM远远地抛在了身后。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing to write home about, but a lot to write about.",
        "虽然没有哪份电报值得大书特书，但值得一提的却有不少。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it would be puzzling if this were not the case, given that nationalism is the cultural foundation of modernity – the framework of its social consciousness.",
        "事实上，如果事情不是这样，那倒反而令人奇怪了。 这是因为民族主义是现代性的文化基础，社会意识的框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Why the Fed Will Go Faster",
        "为何美联储将加快步伐"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the fungus seemed to have a greater effect on people with serious long-term conditions.",
        "事实上该真菌似乎对患有严重长期症状的人有更大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for the next few years, the priorities of fiscal policy should be jobs, investment, and growth.",
        "但是，在未来几年中，财政政策的额当务之急是就业、投资和增长。"
    ],
    [
        "A Better Year for Migrants?",
        "移民境况改善的一年？"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, there is explicit cooperation with Israel.",
        "有些政府甚至与以色列进行明确的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if the EU and NATO were to “punish” a newly independent Scotland by excluding it, real disaster could ensue, not only for Scotland and the UK, but also for European democracy and security.",
        "但是，如果欧盟和北约要通过排斥它来“惩罚”新独立的苏格兰，真正的灾难就会随之而来，不仅对苏格兰和英国是如此，对欧洲的民主和安全也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the large price drop caused massive supply destruction, as some energy producers, from both the traditional and non-traditional sectors, became unprofitable.",
        "首先，价格大跌导致大规模减产，因为一些传统和非传统部门的能源生产商无法盈利。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Yellen’s historic responsibility is to increase inflation and prevent it from ever falling again to dangerously low levels.",
        "如今，耶伦的历史责任是提高通胀，阻止它再次下降到危险的低水平。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The United States government is now permitting ten of America’s biggest banks to repay about $70 billion of the capital injected into them last fall.",
        "剑桥——美国政府同意，美国最大的银行中的10家可以逐步偿还去年秋天政府注资的700亿美元，原因是这些银行通过美国财政部要求的“压力测试”。"
    ],
    [
        "For 30 years, center-right or center-left parties with a broadly shared vision of Europe have governed most EU countries.",
        "30年来，在大部分欧盟国家执政的中右翼或中左翼政党都持有广泛取得共识的欧洲观。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Lebanon, following the collapse of Najib Mikati’s government, is already on the brink of civil war, as direct intervention in Syria by Hezbollah, Iran’s Lebanese proxy, to prevent Assad’s overthrow has exacerbated the country’s own longstanding sectarian tensions.",
        "事实上，在米卡提（Najib Mikati）政府倒台后，黎巴嫩已经处于内战边缘，伊朗的黎巴嫩代理人真主党直接干预叙利亚以防止巴沙尔倒台，这让黎巴嫩自身由来已久的宗派紧张局势进一步恶化了。"
    ],
    [
        "I can also understand (though I disagree with) opponents who believe that the short-run stimulus effect of the plan will be small, while America’s weak fiscal position implies a large long-run drag on the economy from the costs of servicing the resulting debt.",
        "虽然我不同意，但我可以理解，短期的经济刺激计划效果有限，因为庞大的债务是导致的美国经济大幅衰退的原因，美国现在经济形势相当羸弱，财政政策的效果甚是有限。"
    ],
    [
        "But when the economy was growing, corruption was less politically explosive.",
        "但当巴西经济增长时，腐败的政治炸弹作用就不那么显著了。"
    ],
    [
        "When no side in a war has a reason to stop fighting, a peace conference cannot succeed.",
        "战争任何一方都没有理由停战的情况下根本不可能有和平会议。"
    ],
    [
        "NEWPORT BEACH – It is not often that one can confidently claim that a single remedy could make billions of people around the world significantly better off; do so in a durable and mutually supportive manner; and thus improve the well-being of both current and future generations.",
        "发自纽波特滩——很少有人可以充满信心地宣布某种单一措施可以显著改善全球数十亿人的生活； 以持久和双方互相拥护支持的方式去实践；"
    ],
    [
        "The new Egypt will not allow this.",
        "然而新的埃及不会允许为这种行为。"
    ],
    [
        "But stimulus cannot be seen as a universal remedy.",
        "但刺激不能视为万灵丹。"
    ],
    [
        "As consumption of meat and processed foods rises around the Mediterranean, a renewed focus on the region’s culinary heritage could help lighten the load on the world’s natural resources – and boost people’s health.",
        "而且能对环境起到保护作用。 随着地中海地区肉类和加工食品消费量上升，重新关注地区饮食传统有助于减轻自然资源负担——并促进民众健康。"
    ],
    [
        "And it has been getting better at consulting more widely and debating issues more openly.",
        "安理会在广泛征询意见和公开辩论方面也已经有所改进。"
    ],
    [
        "How many have the courage to learn from Roosevelt’s approach?",
        "究竟有多少人有勇气学习罗斯福的做法？"
    ],
    [
        "Given the size of the US population, this is already a problem.",
        "如果世界其他国家都向美国看齐——美国每人每年的肉类消费量平均达125."
    ],
    [
        "One Egyptian actor was boycotted at home for merely appearing in Cannes with an Israeli actress.",
        "一位埃及男演员仅仅因为和一位以色列女演员共同出席嘎纳电影节就在本国遭到非议。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is also considerable evidence that the drugs being provided are of varying quality and are frequently taken unnecessarily.",
        "但也有相当多证据表明所提供药品质量参差不齐，并且也经常出现滥用。"
    ],
    [
        "Complicating matters even more, these inflows have become less and less connected to the recipient countries’ economic and financial fundamentals.",
        "让事情更加复杂的是，这些资金流入与接受国的经济及金融基本面越来越不相关。"
    ],
    [
        "So, the US banking system is effectively insolvent in the aggregate; most of the British banking system looks insolvent, too, as do many continental European banks.",
        "所以在整体上，美国的银行体系已经实际上资不抵债了。 英国的银行体系大体上也是资不抵债，而且许多欧洲大陆的银行也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "SINGAPORE – When the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy last week, it became the largest such filing in United States history.",
        "发自新加坡——上星期底特律市政府提交的破产申请堪称美国有史以来最庞大的一起破产事件。"
    ],
    [
        "When we asked Paul Mwangi Kigaa, another small-scale farmer, what Cargill’s use of synthetic biology would mean for him and his neighbors, he answered that “growing stevia in their factories will affect our lives!”",
        "当我们问另一位小农Paul Mwangi Kigaa嘉吉使用合成生物技术会对他和他的邻居造成何种影响，他回答说“在他们工厂里种植甜叶菊会影响我们的生活！ ”"
    ],
    [
        "In Sweden, just as in similarly liberal Holland and Denmark, right-wing populists have profited from liberals’ failure to stand up for their values.",
        "瑞典的自由主义者不敢捍卫自己的价值观致使右翼民粹份子的阴谋得逞，这种情况与同样信奉自由的荷兰和丹麦何其相似。"
    ],
    [
        "The real danger of the new stimulus package is not ideological but environmental.",
        "中国新推出的刺激经济一揽子计划的真正危险不是意识形态方面的，而是环境方面的。"
    ],
    [
        "There are more specialized applications of computing and information technology in smart machines and mobile telephones, whose defining characteristic is that they communicate with each other.",
        "现在，灵巧的机器和手机中有了专业化的计算程序以及信息技术，它们与众不同的特点是可以相互交流。"
    ],
    [
        "One answer may be to use arrangements that depend in a limited way on the legal system for enforcement.",
        "一种方法是执行有限依赖法律制度的解决之道。"
    ],
    [
        "This strategy will exact a heavy price, just as it did in Japan twenty years ago.",
        "但是，这一战略的代价昂贵，正如二十年前的日本一样。"
    ],
    [
        "In September 1938, before all of these advances, a hurricane devastated much of New England.",
        "1938年9月在取得所有这些进展之前，一场飓风摧毁了绝大部分新英格兰。"
    ],
    [
        "To make matters worse, unlike their Asian counterparts, Latin America’s economies are not integrated into regional and global value chains.",
        "更糟糕的是，与亚洲新兴经济体不同，拉美国家并未融入地区和全球价值链。"
    ],
    [
        "PRISTINA – Hundreds of people disappeared ten years ago in Kosovo, the former Serbian province that is now the world’s newest state.",
        "普里什蒂纳——10年前有数百人在科索沃失踪，这个曾经的塞尔维亚省已经是全世界最新成立的一个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, there is “no global tax mechanism to ensure the provision of global public goods,” and “no global monetary or welfare policies to maintain price stability and social peace.”",
        "毕竟，“不存在一个全球税收机制确保全球公共品的供给”，也“不存在全球货币和福利政策来维持价格稳定和社会和平”。"
    ],
    [
        "Micro-credits, for example, are much more efficient when women receive and repay them.",
        "以小额贷款为例，由女性获取并偿付的贷款一般都更有效率。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, “mechanistic solidarity” grows stronger at the expense of “organic solidarity.”",
        "结果导致“机械团结”战胜“有机团结”而成为社会的主流现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, it hopes to divert public attention from still non-existent basic services, continuing sectarianism, weak oil production, scant infrastructure investment, and rampant corruption and cronyism.",
        "这样，它希望把公众注意力从依旧没有的基础服务、持续的部落主义、脆弱的石油生产、微不足道的基础设施投资以及泛滥的腐败和任人唯亲上转移开来。"
    ],
    [
        "Other feedback loops pose a similar danger.",
        "而另一个循环则昭示了类似的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Another, conducted in the US, showed no evidence that PSA screening improved prostate-cancer survival rates.",
        "另一项来自美国的研究表明，没有证据能证明PSA改善了前列腺癌的存活率。"
    ],
    [
        "Continued fighting in Iraq could also lead to regional war.",
        "伊拉克的持续战斗也有可能导致地区性战争。"
    ],
    [
        "People increasingly tune in to cable channels or websites that reinforce their views and ideologies.",
        "人们越来越只愿意看加强自身观点和意识形态的有线电视频道和网站。"
    ],
    [
        "Marketing experts call this “stepping on your own message.”",
        "营销专家称之为“自己打自己的脸”。"
    ],
    [
        "That warning made sense in the 1970’s, when even young parliamentarians in his Social Democratic Party dreamed of revolution.",
        "这样的警告在20世纪70年代显得合情合理，当时就连社会民主党的年轻议员都对革命梦寐以求。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a rich lode of information, confirmations, reflections, and teachings that the region will be mining for insight for years to come.",
        "但已经发布的消息中所蕴含的丰富的信息、证明、思考和讲授已经足以供我们在今后几年作细心研究之用。"
    ],
    [
        "So it should be no surprise that ideological cacophony has severely diluted the group’s founding impulse of avoiding entanglement in the disputes of the world’s superpowers.",
        "因此难怪意识形态领域的不和谐言论严重破坏了该组织不卷入世界超级大国纷争的初衷。"
    ],
    [
        "But it didn’t.",
        "但并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "This then leads to more bad assets and non-performing loans, more excessive investment in real estate, infrastructure, and industrial capacity, and more public and private debt.",
        "而这会造成更多的坏账和不良贷款、房地产、基础设施和工业产能的过度投资以及更多的公私债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Later this year, we may find out how resilient the American founders’ framework for power and leadership really is.",
        "今年晚些时候，我们或许可以看到美国开国元勋所涉及的权力和领导力框架到底有多大的韧性。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor should they have to.",
        "这也不应该由他们来承担。"
    ],
    [
        "But he later endorsed their actions, and made anti-Americanism a pillar of Iran’s foreign policy.",
        "但事后他宣布支持他们的行动，并将反美作为伊朗外交政策的旗帜。"
    ],
    [
        "Absent such confidence, Iraq’s oil output will not approach its potential, which will only widen the gap between global supply and demand.",
        "没有这样的信心，伊拉克的石油产量就无法接近其潜力，这就会扩大全球供应和需求之间的差距。"
    ],
    [
        "During his 30-year political career, Dorda held numerous cabinet portfolios, ranging from agriculture to economics to municipalities. Dorda later served as Speaker of Parliament, Prime Minister, and Ambassador to the United Nations.",
        "在30年的政治生涯中多尔达曾就任过包括农业，经济以及地方自治当局在内的各类内阁职位，后来还先后晋身为国会议长，总理和驻联合国特使。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, tellingly, the US has not carried out a single drone, air, or ground strike in or around Quetta.",
        "美国从未在基达周围进行过无人机轰炸，也没有进行过陆空袭击，这很能说明问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Gross enrollment rates at the primary level have surpassed 100% since the 1990’s, while secondary and tertiary enrollment rates reached 87% and 24%, respectively, in 2012.",
        "小学毛入学率在20世纪90年代就超过了100%，2012年中学和大学入学率分别达到了87%和24%。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, of course, his stance became untenable when his own misdeeds came to light.",
        "具有讽刺意味的是，当他自己的不良行为曝光后，他的立场则变得站不住脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Non-tradable sectors tend to account for a growing share of employment and economic activity.",
        "非贸易部门在就业和经济活动中占据的份额越来越大。"
    ],
    [
        "The Return of Public Investment",
        "公共投资的回归"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, however, the SCO is often used as a forum to campaign against supposed American unilateralism and to provide a united front – especially between China and Russia – against the US with respect to security and arms-reduction issues in the region.",
        "但是目前，上合组织经常被用来作为反对想象中的美国的单边主义的论坛，并为在该地区的安全和军控问题上反对美国而提供统一战线，特别是在中国和俄罗斯之间。"
    ],
    [
        "Cuba needs to return to the regional concert of powers, but it must accept this concert’s rules.",
        "古巴需要回归到地区强国的圈子，但是它必须接受该圈子的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "The Geography of Elections",
        "选举地理学"
    ],
    [
        "If AIG is systemically vital, its inability to collect the full $100 million could cause it to fail.",
        "如果AIG具有系统重要性，无法全额收回1亿美元将导致它破产。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, no such national measures are anywhere in sight.",
        "而在美国，这样的全国性举措迄今仍遥不可及。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, Australia has sought to avoid having to choose between its security ally, the US, and its main economic partner, China.",
        "到目前为止，澳大利亚都避免在其安全盟友美国和主要经济伙伴中国之间选择站边。"
    ],
    [
        "The Maoists, former rebels who until two years ago were waging a brutal “people’s” war, will soon lead the next government in Nepal.",
        "毛派主义者在两年前还在发动残酷的“人民战争”，这些前反叛者马上就要领导尼泊尔的下一个政府。"
    ],
    [
        "There was a housing bubble, and loans were made on the basis of inflated prices.",
        "当时出现了住房泡沫，而这些贷款正是基于被抬高以后的住房价格。"
    ],
    [
        "In their eyes, governments are inefficient and self-interested at best, and dictatorial and oppressive at worst.",
        "在他们看来，政府效率低下、自私自利，甚至可以说独裁和高压。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these abuses are raised repeatedly at EU-China summits, to little or no avail.",
        "在欧盟-中国的峰会上，这些弊端被一再提及，但结果却石沉大海，收效甚微。"
    ],
    [
        "Because Iran views the political order in the Arab world as serving its enemies’ interests, it has continuously sought to upend it, promoting terrorist groups and deploying proxies in order to establish and expand its influence in the region.",
        "因为伊朗认定阿拉伯世界政治秩序是在为敌人的利益服务，因此它不断尝试颠覆这一秩序，为建立和扩大其地区影响而发展恐怖组织并部署代理势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Many news outlets finally used the word “lie” in their coverage of Trump, who had gone essentially unchallenged on past fabrications.",
        "许多新闻媒体最后都用“说谎”一词来报道特朗普，他过去的诸多信口开河基本上都没有受到过挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "It is simply good.",
        "它根本就是件大好事。"
    ],
    [
        "But job number two– developing economic theories to guide societies in an age of abundance – is no less complicated.",
        "但第二重要的任务——发展经济理论指导丰裕时代的社会——也同样复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while Western analysts and Iran’s neighbors raise the alarm, the regime’s authority is in fact built on insecure foundations.",
        "然而，尽管伊朗的强盛引起了西方分析家和邻国的高度警惕，但事实上伊朗政权赖以存在的根基一点也不稳固。"
    ],
    [
        "He argues that democracy, national sovereignty, and global economic integration are mutually incompatible; at least one must be sacrificed.",
        "他指出，民主、国家主权和全球经济一体化互不相容； 至少必须牺牲其中一个。"
    ],
    [
        "And on June 11, the capital, Rabat, was the site of the largest popular protest since the outbreak of the Arab Spring.",
        "6月11日，首都拉巴特爆发了自阿拉伯之春以来最大规模的群众示威。"
    ],
    [
        "Those agendas are certainly making a political comeback.",
        "这些日程显然正在制造政治倒流。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, investments in bonds issued by their home governments require no buffer, regardless of the rating.",
        "此外，投资母国政府发行的债券也不要求缓冲资金，不管评级如何。"
    ],
    [
        "Ostensibly, North Korea is a weak country with a disastrous economic system.",
        "表面上，朝鲜是个经济上一塌糊涂的贫穷国家。"
    ],
    [
        "It can be given shape by, for example, training imams in Europe, by encouraging mosques to promote social cohesion in their neighborhoods, and by more active participation by Muslims in the public debate.",
        "实现愿望现实的方法是：训练欧洲自己的伊斯兰教领袖，提高清真寺对周边地区的凝聚力，鼓励穆斯林积极参与公众辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "But the recent military muscle-flexing with rocket tests and the rejection of a compromise by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and his foreign minister show that the country’s leadership is seriously divided over the strategic line that Iran should pursue.",
        "但是，伊朗最近举行军事演习试射火箭，而且伊朗总统内贾德及其外长拒绝接受妥协建议。 这些都说明该国的领导阶层在伊朗应该采取何种战略方针上存在严重分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even more important, it should improve conditions for corporate investment at home, rather than watch German businesses move their capital expenditures abroad.",
        "但是，更重要的是，政府应该改善国内公司投资环境，而不是关注德国企业将资本支出投向国外。"
    ],
    [
        "But the tit-for-tat retaliation that has followed the raid reflects deeper sources of mistrust and mutual suspicion.",
        "但袭击后针锋相对的报复行动反应了双方之间更深层次的猜疑和不信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Netanyahu’s effort is succeeding only in turning Israel into an increasingly divisive partisan issue in US politics.",
        "事实上，内塔尼亚胡的这一动作正在成功地让以色列日益成为美国政坛上的分裂性党派问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The market prices of most RMBS rebounded as losses due to homeowners simply abandoning their properties were much lower than had been feared at the height of the crisis.",
        "大部分RMBS的市场价格出现了反弹，因为业主放弃物业所造成的损失远比危机高峰期人们担忧的要小。"
    ],
    [
        "Such measures may ultimately be necessary, but they will not help Georgia survive as an independent democracy.",
        "采取这样的措施可能最终确有必要，但它们却丝毫无助于格鲁吉亚作为独立民主政体的生存。"
    ],
    [
        "Mortgage-backed securities were urged onto investors for whom they were too risky.",
        "抵押支持证券被推销给对于他们来说有点冒险的投资者。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, the government effectively protected nuclear weapons sites threatened by Revolutionary Guards during the Cultural Revolution.",
        "在中国，政府在文化大革命期间有效保护了核武器基地免受红卫兵的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, African-Americans do not fully support him.",
        "事实上，非洲裔的美国人也不全都支持他。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was a simulacrum of the old Obama, as if he were acting the part of himself.",
        "结果，旧奥巴马只剩下一个空壳，好像他正在扮演自己似的。"
    ],
    [
        "But European support for the Afghan mission is in fact limited, and cooperation between the biggest EU donor governments and the European Commission remains inadequate.",
        "但是事实上欧洲对阿富汗的支持却是非常有限的，而最大的欧盟捐助国与欧盟委员会之间的合作也相当不够。"
    ],
    [
        "In so quickly forgetting that the profession’s dignity requires freedom of expression, a renowned university appears to have succumbed to instinct.",
        "这么快就忘记职业尊严要以言论自由为前提，这间著名的大学似乎在向本能低头。"
    ],
    [
        "A second insight from the case of the eurozone, advanced by the economist Paul de Grauwe, is that currency unions can be prone to self-reinforcing liquidity crises, because some vulnerable parts (Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy at various points) lack their own currencies.",
        "关于欧元区危机的第二项洞察——来自经济学家格劳维（Paul de Grauwe）——是货币联盟易受自我加强的流动性危机的冲击，因为脆弱部分（不同时点的希腊、西班牙、葡萄牙和意大利）缺少自己的货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, no one in Southeast Asia is ignoring China’s strategic designs.",
        "当然，东南亚没有人忽视中国的战略设计。"
    ],
    [
        "But is too much trading really a critical economic problem?",
        "但是，交易过多真的是关键性的经济问题吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, their latest actions reinforce a deepening commitment to an increasingly insidious transmission mechanism between monetary policy, financial markets, and asset-dependent economies.",
        "此外，它们的最新动作更深一步地坐实了货币政策、金融市场和依赖资产的经济之间的日益狡猾的传递机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet MSF was able to collect only €650,000 in two months of soliciting funds for Darfur, while it received €40 million for the tsunami victims in just eight days.",
        "然而，“医生无国界”组织在为达尔福尔求助的两个月里仅筹到65万英镑的救济金，在短短的8天时间里收到救助海啸灾民的资金却高达4000万英镑。"
    ],
    [
        "It was not globalization that caused incomes to stagnate.",
        "不是全球化导致收入停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "Bureaucracy, corruption, and poor infrastructure continue to hold back India’s economy.",
        "官僚主义、腐败和拙劣的基础设施仍然制约着印度经济。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to place principle back at the forefront of policy.",
        "现在是时候把原则放在政策之前考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Italian case, following the corruption scandals that have nearly sunk Il Calcio, Italy’s premier football league, the national team had to rehabilitate the game in the eyes of their fellow citizens.",
        "对于意大利而言，在几乎将意大利超级足球联赛毁于一旦的腐败丑闻之后，意大利国家队不得不在同胞们的心目中为这一运动平反。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply stated, preparing for the next pandemic means not only building global capacity, but also paying for it.",
        "简言之，为下一场传染病做好准备不但意味着构建全球能力，要需要为它掏钱。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a choice not to stop at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and to build the much more ambitious – and intrusive – WTO.",
        "他们选择不止步于关贸总协定（GATT），而是建立更加雄心勃勃——也更具攻击性的世界贸易组织（WTO）。"
    ],
    [
        "A 20-year loan from the World Bank has an interest rate of about 4%, and the poorest countries can borrow for less than 1% (“International Development Association loans”).",
        "20年期世界银行贷款利率大约在4%，最贫穷国家可以以不到1%的利率获得贷款（“国际发展援助贷款”，IDA）。"
    ],
    [
        "(Since it began revaluing its exchange rate in July 2005, the adjustment has been half or more of what most experts think is required.)",
        "（自从2005年7月，中国开始上调汇率以来，大多数专家认为，调整的额度要么是需要值的一半，要么超出。"
    ],
    [
        "Dagan’s dovish position has a long tradition in Israel’s defense establishment.",
        "德甘的鸽派立场是以色列国防界的老传统。"
    ],
    [
        "Incredibly, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York decided that this meant that if Argentina paid in full what it owed those who had accepted debt restructuring, it had to pay in full what it owed to the vultures.",
        "令人难以置信的是，美国纽约第二巡回上诉法院判决这意味着如果阿根廷十足偿付欠接受债务重组者的债务，那么它也必须十足偿付欠兀鹫基金的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Would he have said that about a man?)",
        "他会这样评论男候选人吗？ ）"
    ],
    [
        "Tsunami is originally a Japanese word.",
        "海啸最初是个日文单词。"
    ],
    [
        "Convening diverse voices from business, industry, labor, government, academia, and civil society – and doing so as frequently as possible – is exactly what is needed right now.",
        "集合来自商界、业界、劳工、政府、学者和公民社会的声音——并且尽可能频繁地集合这些声音——正是我们现在所需要做的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Rico doesn’t need a bailout.",
        "波多黎各必须要援助。"
    ],
    [
        "This phenomenon applies even to trade transactions that do not include the US.",
        "这种现象甚至适用于跟美国无关的其他贸易交易。"
    ],
    [
        "It is against this background that the budget plans submitted by eurozone governments on October 15 will have to be assessed.",
        "在这样的背景下，10月15日递交的欧元区政府预算必须进行评估。"
    ],
    [
        "A major Russian military maneuver, Caucasus 2009, is underway. The last such maneuver, Caucasus 2008, was followed by the invasion of Georgia.",
        "而代号“高加索2009”一个重大的俄罗斯军事调动行动也正在进行当中，须知上一年的“高加索2008”行动则直接催生了俄方入侵格鲁吉亚的事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a fortunate few, especially those who combine innovative thinking with financial acumen, have fully captured the monetary profits of the ICT revolution, becoming its poster children in the process.",
        "只有少数幸运儿——特别是那些将创新思维与金融敏感性结合起来的人——充分捕获了信息和通信技术革命带来的货币利润，成为时代弄潮儿。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Americans keep two million of their fellow citizens in jail: the cost of building the prisons and paying the jailers is also included in GDP.",
        "同样，美国将两百万人关在监狱里：建造监狱的成本和狱警的薪酬也被计入GDP。"
    ],
    [
        "While the more moderate Hillary Clinton is likely to defeat the recklessly isolationist Donald Trump, the backlash against openness that has fueled Trump’s rise will not dissipate on its own.",
        "尽管较为温和的希拉里·克林顿有望击败鲁莽的孤立主义者唐纳德·特朗普，但支持特朗普崛起的对开放的抵制不会凭空消散。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, this upheaval will have a massive impact on Europe and its relations with Russia, for it will determine whether Europeans live by twenty-first-century rules.",
        "结果，乌克兰剧变将对欧洲及其对俄关系造成巨大影响，因为它将决定欧洲是否能生活在二十一世纪的规则下。"
    ],
    [
        "Our vision is to develop Hong Kong as Asia’s world city.",
        "我们对未来的展望是使香港发展成为亚洲的国际都会。"
    ],
    [
        "Has the country been put on a sustainable debt path?",
        "国家走上可持续债务之路了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The “New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States,” which builds on a series of international commitments regarding aid and development, and was endorsed at the at the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea in 2011, proposes just such a model.",
        "《帮助脆弱国家新政》（New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States）建立在一系列关于援助和发展的国际承诺上，并在2011年韩国釜山第四届援助效率高规格峰会（High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness）获得了支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The Software of Life",
        "生命的软件"
    ],
    [
        "China has countered that its historic and per capita emissions remain well below US levels, and that to cap aggregate national emissions at the same level as the US would imply a personal carbon budget in San Francisco five times greater than in Shanghai.",
        "中国则反击说它的历史和人均排放量都远远低于美国水平； 就算把国家的总排放水平和美国拉平，旧金山的人均碳预算也比上海高出五倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, Europe is also wrestling with an aging population.",
        "是的，欧洲还在与人口老龄化角力。"
    ],
    [
        "The aim of the NPT, signed in 1968, is the universal elimination of nuclear weapons: non-nuclear-weapon states commit not to acquire them, and the five states that officially possess them (the US, the United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia) commit to disarmament negotiations.",
        "1968年签署的核不扩散条约的目标是彻底消除核武器：无核武器国家承诺不尝试获得核武器，而已经正式拥有核武器的五个国家（美国、英国、法国、中国和俄罗斯）承诺进行裁军谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Collectively, however, their explanatory power is relatively large.",
        "但是，合在一起，它们的解释力就会相对增加。"
    ],
    [
        "This is hard for Islamist parties to accept.",
        "这在伊斯兰政党看来很难接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the cost of a single month of western military spending in Iraq or Afghanistan would be enough to triple total aid for education in the Middle East.",
        "事实上，西方在伊拉克或阿富汗一个月所花的军费就等于中东地区教育总援助金额的三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, creditors arguably are more responsible: typically, they are sophisticated financial institutions, whereas borrowers frequently are far less attuned to market vicissitudes and the risks associated with different contractual arrangements.",
        "事实上，债权人理应承担更大的责任：通常它们是成熟的金融机构，而借款人常常不太适应市场的变幻莫测以及与不同契约安排有关的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the current-account balance is the difference between the investment and savings rates, the decline in investment will generate large surpluses unless savings also decline.",
        "经常项目余额无非是投资和储蓄率之差，因此投资下降将形成大量盈余，除非储蓄也跟着下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there are talks centered on debt, with some creditors interested in the mechanics of capitalization.",
        "事实上他们已经举行了一系列与负债有关的会谈，也有一些借贷人对资本化的运作机制表示了兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposal, furthermore, focuses exclusively on raw ores and metals, and excludes products that contain the relevant minerals, such as mobile phones, vehicles, and medical equipment.",
        "此外，该计划的注意力完全放在了原矿石和金属上，而排除了包含相关矿产的产品如移动电话、汽车和医疗器械。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that employers have new tools for recruitment and assessment, they may find low-skilled workers easier to replace, potentially worsening income inequality in the short run.",
        "雇主们也有了招工和评估劳动者的新工具，让他们可以轻易替换那些低技能劳动者，因此可能在短期内让收入不均状况进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "To build a curing machine, we would need a way for computers to assemble concepts so that unexpected arrangements could emerge.",
        "为了建造治疗仪，我们需要为计算机设计一种收集概念的方法，从而让出乎预料的安排浮出水面。"
    ],
    [
        "Global warming is real.",
        "全球变暖无可置疑。"
    ],
    [
        "But will there be a next time?",
        "但还会有下一次吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Three years into the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover was trounced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.",
        "大萧条爆发三年后，胡佛被富兰克林·罗斯福取而代之。"
    ],
    [
        "And then there has been the creation of something akin to a political fifth column across Europe.",
        "然后是欧洲遍地开花的政治第五纵队。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, US policy must create an environment in which a rising China is never tempted to use its growing power coercively – within or outside the region.",
        "此外，美国的政策还必须创造一种环境，能够防止中国永远不会利用其崛起的实力在亚太地区内外大行压迫之能事。"
    ],
    [
        "Technological progress is occurring within a complex and deeply integrated ecosystem, meaning that it simultaneously affects economic structures, governments, security arrangements, and people's daily lives.",
        "技术进步在一个复杂而深度一体化的生态系统赵红发生，这意味着它同时影响着经济结构、政府、安全安排和人们的日常生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the idea that Asian countries must choose between a Chinese or American future is false.",
        "事实上，亚洲国家必须选择中国未来还是美国未来的观点是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, it is likely that world population will peak at nine billion in the 2050’s, a half-century sooner than generally anticipated, followed by a sharp decline.",
        "如此看来，世界人口将在21世纪50年代达到90亿的顶峰，比普遍的预测早半个世纪，此后将大幅下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The human-rights situation could undoubtedly be improved – in particular, the treatment of the political opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa – but Isaias Afwerki’s regime in neighboring Eritrea is worse by orders of magnitude.",
        "人权状况无疑仍有改进的空间——特别是对待反对派政治领袖米迪克莎的方式——但邻国厄立特里亚伊萨亚斯·阿费沃尔基的政权比起埃塞俄比亚还要差很多。"
    ],
    [
        "The next major battle will be fought in Idlib province; the only question is when.",
        "下一场重大战役预计将在伊德利卜省展开； 唯一的问题仅仅是何时开打而已。"
    ],
    [
        "A more benign interpretation, based on the collective-action principle, envisages the court as instrumental in attaining a superior welfare equilibrium.",
        "而另一个更温和的解读则基于集体行为原则，将法庭假设为一个为了实现更高层次福利均衡的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "For Erdoğan, the stakes could not be higher.",
        "对埃尔多安来说，可谓成败在此一举。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Health Organization estimates that 5% to 10% of all transplants performed annually – perhaps 63,000 in all – take place in the clinical netherworlds of China, Pakistan, Egypt, Colombia, and Eastern Europe.",
        "国际卫生组织估计每年大约总计为63000的移植手术中，有5%到10%发生在中国、巴基斯坦、埃及、哥伦比亚和东欧最下层的诊所里。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, prices in Venezuela rise in one month more than they do in two years in neighboring Colombia.",
        "因此毫无意外，委内瑞拉一个月的价格上涨就超过其邻国哥伦比亚两年的上涨量。"
    ],
    [
        "But Netanyahu has said that once negotiations start, “we will surprise everyone,” and the Palestinians have gone further than ever before in building the institutions needed for national independence.",
        "但内塔尼亚胡已经声明一旦谈判开始，“我们将给所有人带来惊喜，”而巴勒斯坦人也在独立建国方面进行了更多的制度建设。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea of financial singularity may seem inspiring; but it is no less illusory than the rational Utopia that inspired generations of central planners.",
        "金融奇点的理论似乎除非常振奋人心，但是这也并不比那些鼓舞了数代中央计划者的理性乌托帮一样虚幻。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – In Britain these days, one can’t avoid hearing and seeing more and more about the wretched campaign to spit in the face of the world (and of reality) and quit the European Union.",
        "伦敦—这些天，在英国，你无法避免听到或看到越来越多的向世界（和现实）脸上吐口唾沫然后退出欧盟的令人不快的运动。"
    ],
    [
        "To prevent this, they opted for yet another economic dead end: currency and price controls.",
        "而为了防止这种情况，他们又选择了实行货币和价格管制这另一条经济死胡同。"
    ],
    [
        "In September, Schäuble distributed to his Eurogroup colleagues an outline of three proposals for preventing a new euro crisis.",
        "九月，朔伊布勒分发给他欧元集团的同事们一份防止新欧元危机的三项提案大纲。"
    ],
    [
        "ISTANBUL – According to conventional wisdom, if Iran develops nuclear weapons, then Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and perhaps Egypt will try to follow suit.",
        "伊斯坦布尔—根据传统智慧，如果伊朗发展核武器，沙特阿拉伯、土耳其、也许还有埃及也会紧随其后。"
    ],
    [
        "Would it be possible to detect in advance clandestine activity aimed at producing one, and, if so, what would Iran have to pledge in the matter of inspections and checks, and how might such pledges be obtained?",
        "如果能的话，在监察问题上，伊朗会承诺什么呢？ 而这样的承诺如何获得呢？"
    ],
    [
        "China’s rise is fueling a wide range of territorial disputes in Asia and challenging America’s strategic leadership in the region.",
        "中国的崛起正催生大范围的亚洲领土争端，并挑战美国在该地区的战略领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference between what the French call laicité and secularism is more than a linguistic nuance for Turkey, which adopted its Kemalist system not long after France entrenched its secular republic.",
        "法国人所称的政教分离和世俗主义的区别对于土耳其而言要超过语言上的微妙不同。 在法国巩固了世俗共和国之后不久，土耳其也采纳了基马尔体制。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits of Cyprus’s adoption of the euro may never be clear.",
        "塞浦路斯使用欧元到底有什么好处，一直让人迷糊。"
    ],
    [
        "At the least, prudence should give the reformer pause.",
        "至少，出于审慎，改革者应该暂停。"
    ],
    [
        "The Russian proposal forced the West to choose prohibition of chemical weapons as its immediate goal.",
        "俄国的建议迫使西方将禁止化学武器作为其直接目的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Muslim Brotherhood, and primarily President Mohamed Morsi, is banking on the assumption that the strength of Egypt’s Islamist vote will earn him enough support among “regular Egyptians,” and that the opposition will have little impact on the referendum’s outcome.",
        "穆斯林兄弟会及首席主席默罕默德﹒莫尔西则指望着埃及伊斯兰教徒的投票可以使他在“平常的埃及人”中赢得更多的支持。 同时，反对派也会对公投结果产生些许影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Technological progress has also been skill-biased: it has increased the relative demand for workers with the human capital to fill occupations that involve cognitive and abstract tasks, while eliminating middle-skill routine occupations.",
        "科技进步同时也是基于一定技能的：一方面对拥有特定技能的劳动者的需求相对增加，让他们从事与认知和抽象理论相关的工作，同时消灭那些中等技术的常规岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Through effective land-use management, they can provide reliable and affordable access to basic services, education, housing, transport, and health care to growing urban populations, while minimizing the carbon footprint.",
        "他们可以借有效的土地使用管理让日益增长的城市人口以低廉的价格享受教育、住房和医疗等基础服务，同时将碳排放降至最低。"
    ],
    [
        "Less than 24 hours after the doormat crisis erupted, the matter was defused.",
        "门垫危机爆发不到24小时，事件便已经解决。"
    ],
    [
        "The US currently collects the lowest ratio of taxes to national income among rich nations.",
        "美国现在在富裕国家中，对国民收入的征税比例最低。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the ECB’s support is not obvious.",
        "甚至欧洲央行的支持也不是板上钉钉。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not easy to attribute this rise to improved education, because the aspects of the tests on which scores have risen the most do not require a good vocabulary, or even mathematical ability, but instead assess powers of abstract reasoning.",
        "我们不能轻易地把分数的提升归因于教育水平的提高，因为该项测试中分数提升最多的部分并不需要对词汇量的良好掌握或甚至是数学能力，而是抽象思维中的评估能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps this particular attack can be justified on those grounds.",
        "这一特定的袭击可能以这样的理由而站住脚。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Europe’s performance continues to decline, would this perception survive?",
        "但如果欧洲的表现持续低迷，那么这种观念还能延续下去吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The failures of economic development in the Andes, Central Asia, and Africa contribute to global instability, local insurrections and violence, drug trafficking, and bases for terrorism.",
        "安弟斯山区，亚洲中部和非洲的经济萧条会导致全球的不稳定、地区反抗和暴力事件、毒品走私、以及成为恐怖分子的基地。"
    ],
    [
        "If the latter, the best course of action would be to save the additional income or use it, as a second-best option, to reduce the national debt.",
        "如果是后者，那么最好的选择莫过于把这笔额外收入积攒起来，或者退而求其次，用它来偿还国家债务。"
    ],
    [
        "This would not be enough for Bayrou in ordinary times, but today, on both sides of the political divide, opponents of the main candidates seem ready to join forces with him and betray their respective camps.",
        "在平常时候这对于贝鲁是不够的，但是今天，在政治派别的两端，主要候选人的对手们看起来准备加入他的势力并且背叛他们各自的阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "Previously, the SDR had been defined as a weighted average of the dollar, euro, British pound, and Japanese yen. Now that the renminbi has been added, it can claim to be one of just five truly global currencies.",
        "而在此之前SDR仅被定义为美元、欧元、英镑和日元的加权平均值，现在人民币加入并终于可以称自为五大全球性货币之一了。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese leaders’ constant effort to expand economic cooperation stands in stark contrast to America’s approach to the region.",
        "中国领导人不断努力扩大经济合作与美国的做法形成了鲜明的对比。"
    ],
    [
        "Their cynicism – reflected, for example, in the Sykes-Picot Agreement – established a lasting pattern of destructive outside meddling.",
        "它们的猜忌——体现于赛克斯-皮科协定（Sykes-Picot Agreement）中——造成了持续不断的破坏性外部干预。"
    ],
    [
        "The next revolution will not abolish the consequences of place of birth, but the privileges of nationhood will be tempered.",
        "下一场革命不会消除出生地的影响，单民族成分特权将得到遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "That scare was contained when the G-7 committed to increase guarantees of bank deposits and to backstop the financial system.",
        "直到七国集团承诺增强存款担保力度并为金融体系担保之后，那种恐慌才有所缓解。"
    ],
    [
        "Non-state actors control important parts of the two river basins.",
        "非国家组织控制着两河流域的重要部分。"
    ],
    [
        "He might argue that he has to be. There are so many issues, from health-care reform to the Middle East, that need his attention.",
        "也许奥巴马会说他不得不这样做，因为摆在面前的议题如此之多，从医疗改革到中东问题，都需要他去关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared to 2007 and 2008, foreign investors’ holdings in emerging markets are much higher, owing to these countries’ relative economic strength in recent years and rock-bottom returns on developed-market financial assets.",
        "与2007年和2008年相比，外国投资者所持有的新兴市场资产大大增加了，因为这些国家在近几年经济相对较为坚挺，而发达市场金融资产回报率又实在太低。"
    ],
    [
        "The renminbi has, in fact, appreciated by 30% relative to the US dollar since mid-2005.",
        "事实上，自2005年以来，人民币已对美元升值了30%。"
    ],
    [
        "And Japan has been on the ropes for a quarter-century.",
        "而日本更是已经衰退了四分之一个世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the case for expanding world trade is compelling, the prospects for actually doing so are clouded, owing to a simple but nonetheless fundamental political reality: those who gain from trade, which is almost everyone, are not always aware of it. The benefits of freer trade, such as job creation, lower inflation, and greater consumer choice, are often invisible or only partly visible.",
        "但若扩大世界贸易是迫不得已的，那么这样做的前景就十分暗淡，这是因为一个简单但却十分基本的政治事实：那些从贸易中获利的人，几乎是每个人，从来没有意识到这一点，即更为自由的贸易所带来的益处，诸如产生就业岗位、更低的通货膨胀率以及更宽广的消费者选择范围，经常不被他们看到，或者只看到了一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "But the IMF also hinted at a willingness to be flexible, conceding that, because the SDR is fundamentally a reserve asset, the currencies that underpin it need only to be available in “sufficiently liquid and deep markets.”",
        "但IMF也暗示可以灵活调整，它让步说，因为SDR从根本上说是一种储备资产，因此其基础货币只需要在“充分流动和深化的市场”中可以获得就行。"
    ],
    [
        "Many international assistance programs fail because they are badly designed and/or too complicated.",
        "许多国际援助计划都以失败告终，其原因在于它们的设计不当并且/或者过于复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Are to be let; . . . .",
        "都要转手； ……"
    ],
    [
        "Already, the flow of foreign would-be jihadists crossing from Turkey into Syria to join ISIS has plunged, from 2,000 per month to about 50.",
        "目前，穿越土耳其进入叙利亚加入伊斯兰国的外国潜在圣战分子数量暴跌，从每月2,000人减少到50人左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Documenting a pattern of systematic and targeted attacks, including killing, rape, and forced recruitment into armed groups, Machel concluded: “This is a space devoid of the most basic human values….There are few further depths to which humanity can sink.”",
        "这份报告记录了系统及有针对性的袭击模式，包括杀人、强奸和强制招募儿童进入武装组织，马谢尔总结道：“这里缺乏最基本的人类价值. ."
    ],
    [
        "But no one knows what will happen in the “red states,” where the Republican political infrastructure is digging in its heels.",
        "但没人知道在“红州”会发生什么，在这些州，共和党的政治基础设施牢不可破。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone who stands in their way, according to the report, can be thrown into prison on false charges of drug dealing.",
        "任何妨碍他们行动的人都会被安上子虚乌有的贩毒罪名投进监狱。"
    ],
    [
        "More than a year later, in July 2010, prosecutor Fabio Picuti charged the Commission members with manslaughter and negligence for failing to warn the public of the impending risk.",
        "在此次地震发生一年多之后的2010年7月，检查官法比奥·皮库迪（Fabio Picuti）以误杀和玩忽职守罪对委员会成员提起公诉，认为他们未能将如此迫近的危险告知公众。"
    ],
    [
        "Five months later, in Paris, the world’s governments will sign a new global agreement to control human-induced climate change and channel funds toward climate-safe energy, building on the progress achieved earlier this month in negotiations in Lima, Peru.",
        "5个月后，全世界政府将在巴黎签署新的关于控制人为气候变化和引导资金流向气候安全能源的新全球协定。 这一协定建立在本月秘鲁利马谈判所达成的早期进展的基础上。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, things are looking good for Berlusconi so far.",
        "尽管如此，目前的形式对贝卢斯科尼有利。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the 14 indicators of progress associated with the primary gender equity goal, SDG 5, most countries are measuring just three.",
        "在与主要性别平等目标（可持续发展目标第5条）相关的14个评估指标中，多数国家仅评估其中的三个指标。"
    ],
    [
        "With better-directed incentives (more research dollars spent on more important diseases, less money spent on wasteful and distorted marketing), we could have better health at lower cost.",
        "通过更有针对性的激励机制，即把钱更多地花在更重要的疾病的研究上，而不是花在浪费的和扭曲的市场营销上，我们可以用更低的代价来获取更佳的健康。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though Chinese government always was authoritarian, it was not always as corrupt as it is now.",
        "但是，尽管中国政府从古至今无不集权，但并非总是像现在那样腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "Burma’s leadership should respond by releasing all remaining political prisoners and opening up the entire political process.",
        "缅甸的领导应该释放剩下的政治犯，开放所有的政治程序。"
    ],
    [
        "The two tectonic shifts in the global economy – slower GDP growth and increased emerging-market competition – have created a fault line that runs through Europe.",
        "全球经济的两大构造变迁——GDP增长放缓和新兴市场竞争加剧——形成了一条贯穿欧洲的断层线。"
    ],
    [
        "Without the skills that a secondary education provides, the children who leave school early are condemned to poverty.",
        "如果缺乏中等教育所提供的技能，过早辍学的儿童就会被贫穷所困。"
    ],
    [
        "The BDS movement has met significant resistance in many parts of the world, owing to the belief that its tactics are unnecessary and unhelpful.",
        "BDS运动在世界许多地区遭到了强烈反对，因为人们认为这一策略既不必要，也无助益。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1999, operators loading spent fuel into dry-storage at the Trojan Reactor in Oregon found that the protective zinc-carbon coating had started to produce hydrogen, which caused a small explosion.",
        "在1999年的美国俄勒冈州特洛伊反应堆，正在将核废料进行干储藏的操作人员发现由锌碳材料制成的保护罩开始产生氢气，并随后引发了一场小型爆炸。"
    ],
    [
        "Realpolitik might mean that there will be senior people from both China and the US in the top management team, but the presumption that the number two position should be filled by an American also has to go.",
        "权力政治可能意味着在最高管理层将同时有中美两国的高层人物跻身其中，而二把手位置将依然由美国人来担任的推测也必须被抛弃。"
    ],
    [
        "His friends in the US Senate have already introduced a bill, which currently has 59 cosponsors, that would impose new sanctions on Iran; this is tantamount to torpedoing the entire Iran deal.",
        "他在美国参议院的朋友已经炮制了一项法案，目前已争取到59人支持，这一法案将对伊朗实施新制裁——与撕毁整个伊朗协议没有什么区别。"
    ],
    [
        "This can be measured in public opinion polls, in newspaper editorials, congressional resolutions, summit declarations, and street demonstrations.",
        "这在当地的民意测验、新闻评论、议会决议、峰会宣言和街头游行中都有所反映。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the Iraqi Kurds also appear to appreciate how much they need a friendly Turkey.",
        "与此同时，伊拉克库尔德人似乎也极为看重一个态度友好的土耳其。"
    ],
    [
        "But fiscal stimulus is constrained within the eurozone, where member countries no longer issue their own currency and “sovereign” debt therefore carries a default risk.",
        "但财政刺激却在欧元区受到了限制，欧元区成员国不再发行本国货币，因此“主权”债务有了违约风险。"
    ],
    [
        "And the new post-war system provided the foundation for capitalism’s finest hour – until America lost its surplus and White’s arrangement collapsed.",
        "新的战后体系奠定了资本主义全盛时代的基础——直到美国失去了盈余、怀特的安排崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "For them, to say “Russia is back” means that the humiliating Yeltsin years are over, and that they now must be treated as equals, particularly by the United States.",
        "对于他们而言，说“俄国回来了”意味着令人羞辱的叶利钦年代已经结束，而且他们必须特别是与美国平起平坐。"
    ],
    [
        "Participants in this year’s Astana Club were as high-profile as they were diverse.",
        "其中包括来自欧洲、亚洲、美国和中东的领先智库代表； 一些前国家首脑，如土耳其的居尔和斯洛文尼亚的图尔克；"
    ],
    [
        "If the Chinese government fails to reverse this trend, a financial crisis – in one form or another – will become inevitable.",
        "如果中国政府不能扭转这一趋势，金融危机——不管以何种形式——就将难以避免。"
    ],
    [
        "Another, more uncertain assumption underpinning the bet on more inclusive growth is that the eurozone and Japan will be able to escape the mire of low growth and avoid deflation, which, by impelling households and businesses to postpone purchasing decisions, would undermine already weak economic performance.",
        "下注于更包容的增长的另一个更加不确定的假设是欧元区和日本将能够摆脱低增长、避免通缩。 低增长和通缩迫使家庭和企业推迟购买决定，从而制约已然十分疲软的经济表现。"
    ],
    [
        "While official interest rates are only 1%, solvent sovereigns such as Spain pay more than 5% to borrow for ten years, while creditworthy businesses in Italy can borrow only at punitive rates, if at all.",
        "尽管官方利率只有1%，但并无偿债问题的西班牙等国家，其十年期债务利率高达5%，而在意大利，信誉卓著的企业也不得不以极高的利率借钱（如果借得到的话）。 因此，欧洲央行应该出手疏通货币政策的传递机制；"
    ],
    [
        "But are these newfound wealth effects really all that they are made out to be?",
        "但这些新出现的财富效应真的就是我们想要的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not a valid reason to become a host city; it is merely a consolation prize.",
        "但这并不是主办奥运会的合理理由； 而只是一个安慰性的奖励。"
    ],
    [
        "In retrospect, three successive British prime ministers – Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron – were on overly familiar terms with a manipulative business leader.",
        "今天回头来看，连续三任英国首相——布莱尔、布朗和卡梅伦同这位长袖善舞的商业巨子过从甚密。"
    ],
    [
        "But this difference may have less impact than meets the eye.",
        "但是，这种差异的影响要比表面上看起来小得多。"
    ],
    [
        "And where unemployment is preferred to universal job insecurity, it has become impossible to suppress.",
        "在那些失业情况比普遍的工作不安全感更为严重的地方，这种动荡已经难以平息了。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Denmark and the United States.",
        "以丹麦和美国为例。"
    ],
    [
        "And governments must implement measures to redistribute income, improve the provision of basic services, and equip the labor force to take advantage of ongoing shifts in the economic structure.",
        "政府必须实施措施重新分配收入、改善基本服务的供给，并训练劳动力大军抓住经济结构变化的良机。"
    ],
    [
        "And he has promised to impose a 45% tariff on Chinese goods.",
        "他还承诺对中国商品征收45%的关税。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Saudi Arabia’s breach with Hezbollah is not a one-time occurrence.",
        "而且，沙特阿拉伯与真主党的交恶并非一时。"
    ],
    [
        "Explain yourself: In the aftermath of a default, it may seem that no one is listening to even the most rational of explanations.",
        "自我解释：违约发生后，即使是最合理的解释，也有可能没人愿意听。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, Italy’s economy has been stagnant for years.",
        "更糟糕的是，意大利经济已经停滞多年。"
    ],
    [
        "Many observers will remain mystified; few will be bored.",
        "本次竞选显然不可能沉闷乏味。"
    ],
    [
        "Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election earlier this month constitutes just such a change.",
        "唐纳德·特朗普月初在总统竞选中获胜就是这样一种变化。"
    ],
    [
        "These include our legal system, which is underpinned by an independent judiciary, our legislature, and our civil service.",
        "其中包括我们立法、司法、行政分开的法律制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Muted wage growth increases competitiveness, and underutilized labor and capital are redeployed.",
        "工资增长停滞增加了竞争力，原本未被充分利用劳动力和资本也得到了重新部署。"
    ],
    [
        "When a fiscal crisis hit Greece, the financial world suddenly discovered that eurozone members had put themselves in the position of developing countries.",
        "财政危机重创希腊时，金融界突然发现欧元区成员国的位置已经等同于发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the trial, Bo flatly denied most of the corruption charges, often professed ignorance of the facts, and claimed to be unable to recall any details of the matters in question.",
        "庭审过程自始至终，薄熙来常常以不知情、想不起细节为由断然否认绝大多数腐败指控。"
    ],
    [
        "The hope that many placed in the UN Charter was soon dashed by the onset of the Cold War.",
        "许多人寄托在联合国宪章上的希望很快就因为冷战的爆发而破灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Tunisia’s politicians will be able to draw on existing work.",
        "突尼斯的政治家们将可以利用现有的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, civil wars are erupting along Myanmar’s borders, and gangs and other radical groups are slaughtering Muslims in the country’s west.",
        "此外，缅甸边境地区爆发内战，其西部则有黑帮和其他激进组织屠杀穆斯林。"
    ],
    [
        "Generating the political will would require a Plan B for the EU itself.",
        "要产生政治意愿要求欧盟本身也采取B计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Le Défi Chinois",
        "中国威胁"
    ],
    [
        "The aim is to fix Europe’s long-term fiscal problem, which has been exacerbated by three factors: the failure, since the euro’s inception, of the eurozone-wide Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) to enforce deficit and debt limits; the crisis that erupted in Greece and other countries on the eurozone periphery in 2010; and the various bailouts that have followed.",
        "此举的目的是为了解决欧洲的长期财政问题，且该财政问题已在以下三个因素的作用下加速恶化：自欧元诞生后覆盖欧元区的《稳定与增长公约》已经无法有效实施赤字与债务限制； 2010年在希腊和一些欧元区外围国家爆发的经济危机；"
    ],
    [
        "An Even More Dismal Science",
        "更加沉闷的科学"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama administration’s failure in re-launching the India-Pakistan peace talks over Kashmir is one of the gravest weaknesses of its “AfPak” strategy.",
        "奥巴马政府无法重启印巴就克什米尔问题的和平谈判暴露了其“阿富巴”（ AfPak ）战略最严重的弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "In that respect, it may be argued that his power is more wide-ranging than that of his predecessors, but in fairness it must also be noted that the patterns of corruption that his predecessors faced were not as acute and widespread as they have become in recent years.",
        "从这个角度讲，或许可以说他的权力范围比他的前任们更广，但在公正方面，你还必须注意到，他的前任所面临的腐败方式没有最近几年那样赤裸裸和普遍。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, this might have happened via tax spillovers.",
        "在过去，这可以通过税收溢出效应（tax spillover）实现。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the only way back onto the path of sustained global economic health.",
        "这是回归可全球经济持续健康的唯一办法。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – With the world mesmerized by the United States’ presidential race this year, the race for control of the US House of Representatives and the Senate has been largely overlooked.",
        "华盛顿——随着世人瞩目今年的美国总统竞选，控制美国众议院和参议院的争夺很大程度上被人们忽视了。"
    ],
    [
        "Each country asks itself, “How do I do the least and get the other countries to do the most?,” when they should be asking instead, “How do we cooperate to achieve our shared goals at minimum cost and maximum benefit?”",
        "每一个本应自问“该如何合作以最低成本和最大收益实来现共同目标”的国家，却反而在算计“该如何让自己承担最少而让其他国家做的更多？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that there has been no major nuclear terrorist attack should not lull us into a fall sense of security.",
        "从未发生过核恐怖主义袭击这一事实不能让我们沾沾自喜，疏于防范。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto and Peru’s Ollanta Humala, who have otherwise seemed to be perceptive leaders, failed to sense the gathering storm.",
        "类似地，墨西哥的涅托和秘鲁的乌马拉——他们曾表现得相当敏锐——也没有察觉到风暴的降临。"
    ],
    [
        "But there can be problems when a president chooses to disregard his chief economic adviser.",
        "但一个总统如果选择忽视他的首席经济顾问的话，就会产生问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But still, last Friday the EU took a decisive step in the right direction.",
        "但是尽管这样，欧盟再上星期五还是在正确的方向上采取了一个决定性的步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "This provocative behavior lost Greece all potential allies in France and Italy.",
        "这一挑衅性行为让希腊失去了所有法国和意大利盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time of the Great Depression in the 1930’s, there was no equivalent power.",
        "而在1930年代的大萧条中，却没有同等的中坚力量。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the way Europe, in the process of its enlargement, has projected its power to achieve lasting peace across the whole continent, and fostered development by integrating entire economies, states, and societies within its institutional framework, could become a model for shaping a cooperative world order in the twenty-first century.",
        "特别是欧洲在扩大的过程中运用其实力实现整个大陆的持久和平，通过所有经济体、国家和社会在其制度框架内的一体化来促进发展的做法，更可以成为二十一世纪建立合作的国际秩序的样板。"
    ],
    [
        "We must do more for ourselves and work together more, while relying less on the US.",
        "我们必须更多地自力更生、更多地精诚合作，而更少地依赖美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Darwin provided the profound understanding that evolution has influenced the shape of our minds as strongly as it has the shape of our bodies.",
        "达尔文提出了深刻的洞见——进化对我们观念的影响与对我们身体的影响一样大。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments and multilateral bodies like the UN have gradually been discredited, along with the value systems on which they are based.",
        "各国政府和联合国等多边机构已逐渐丧失信誉，他们赖以立足的价值体系也逐步坍塌。"
    ],
    [
        "Adidas, for example, is already building a factory in Germany, where robots will produce high-end athletic shoes, and is planning a second one in the United States.",
        "比如阿迪达斯就已经在德国建厂并安装生产高档运动鞋的机器人生产线，同时计划在美国开设第二家。"
    ],
    [
        "While the role that outside powers like the US can play in affecting political reform in Iran is limited, the Obama administration faces two fundamental challenges in its Iran policy.",
        "虽然像美国这样的国外势力对伊朗国内政治改革的影响十分有限，但是在制定对伊政策这个问题上，奥巴马政府仍然面临着两个根本挑战："
    ],
    [
        "Such a move would strengthen bilateral relations, generate goodwill in Egypt, and increase Israel’s confidence in the Muslim Brotherhood’s commitment to peace.",
        "这一步将加强双边关系，赢得埃及的好感，并增强以色列对穆斯林兄弟会和平承诺的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "But this approach brought China no benefits; on the contrary, it damaged China’s reputation in South Korea.",
        "但这一方针对中国无利； 相反，这伤害了中国在韩国的名声。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why Jeffrey Sachs’s Millennium Villages project has faltered, as the journalist Nina Munk’s recent book shows.",
        "这就是记者妮娜·芒克（Nina Munk）的新书所指出的杰弗里·萨克斯（Jeffrey Sachs）的千年村（Millennium Village）计划失败的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "He is ideally positioned to lead a technocratic cabinet of last resort.",
        "他是领导最后技术官僚内阁的理想人选。"
    ],
    [
        "But Buddhism has been a religion in different parts of Asia for many centuries, and, like any other belief, it can be used to justify violent acts.",
        "但是数百年来佛教一直是亚洲不同国家的宗教，而且，像其他信仰一样，佛教可以被以来为暴力行为提供理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the world’s top economists – including three Nobel Laureates – answered this question at the Copenhagen Consensus last May.",
        "一些世界顶尖的经济学家—包括诺贝尔奖获得者—在去年5月的“哥本哈根共识”（Copenhagen Consensus）上回答了这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Many developing countries, however, are well on their way to achieving these preconditions.",
        "但是，许多发展中国家正在实现这些前提条件的过程之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, banks, households, and small and medium-size enterprises are still excessively leveraged, and need time to pay down their debts.",
        "与此同时，银行、 家庭和中小型企业仍在高杠杆经营，并需要一段时间来偿还其债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, we must view the green transformation as a political task.",
        "相反，我们必须将绿色转型视为政治任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Kim knows very well that a war against the United States would probably mean the destruction of his own country, which is one of the world’s poorest.",
        "金正恩十分明白，对美国的战争可能意味着亡掉自己的国家——全世界最穷的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The use of development aid as a political stick merely deepens the suffering of impoverished and unstable countries, without producing the political objectives sought by donors.",
        "把发展援助作为一种政治武器只会加深不稳定的贫困国家所受的痛苦，而无法实现援助国希望实现的政治目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Inflation!",
        "通货膨胀！"
    ],
    [
        "Each of these four “great disruptions” is transformational on its own, and all are amplifying the effects of the others, producing fundamental and unpredictable changes on a scale the world has never seen – and that will prove our intuitions wrong.",
        "所谓四大“破坏力”本身都是转型性力量，它们无时无刻不在放大着各自的效果，为世界带来前所未有且不可预知的根本性变化——这些变化会证明我们的直觉错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Hazare, egged on by a flag-waving and indignant urban middle class and sensation-seeking media, tries mightily to claim Mahatma Gandhi’s mantle; he is good at mimicking Gandhi’s piety, but lacks his root wisdom.",
        "赫扎尔在义愤填膺地挥舞着旗帜的城市中产阶级和以感性为追求目标的媒体怂恿下，用尽一切手段夺取圣雄甘地的衣钵，他善于模仿甘地的虔诚，但却不具备甘地赖以为本的智慧。"
    ],
    [
        "The radical loser is the kind of young man who feels victimized by an unfeeling, uncaring world.",
        "激进失败者是指那些感觉被绝情、冷漠的世界抛弃的年轻人。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1980 on, nominal interest rates fell dramatically.",
        "从1980年开始，名义利率急剧下降。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Long viewed as an economic basket case, Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing its best growth performance since the immediate post-independence years.",
        "普林斯顿—长期被视为经济不健全者的撒哈拉以南非洲地区正在经历自独立后的几年以来的最强的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "After more than five years of negotiations with the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), we can say that we have reached an irreversible phase that will put an end to more than 50 years of a cruel and costly war.",
        "在与FARC（哥伦比亚革命武装力量）进行了五年多的谈判后，我们可以说木已成舟，50多年代价高昂的残酷战争行将结束。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – When Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) defied pundits and pollsters by regaining a parliamentary majority in the country’s general election on November 1, financial markets cheered.",
        "坎布里奇——当土耳其正义与发展党（AKP）11月1日在大选中重获议会多数推翻了专家和民意调查机构的预测，金融市场欢呼雀跃。"
    ],
    [
        "But the primary objective for intervention would remain unequivocally humanitarian, and as such would be much less susceptible to anti-Western blowback than any other mission.",
        "但干预的首要目标仍必须是旗帜鲜明的人道主义，这样能使干预任务受到的反西方制约最少。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia is generating it, but the process will take time.",
        "俄罗斯正在形成民主，但这一过程需要时间。"
    ],
    [
        "And how about stock market declines that are accompanied by a steep and persistent collapse in earnings – by depressions?",
        "但那些伴随着收益急剧崩溃、一蹶不振（萧条）的股市下跌又会怎样呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The Dublin Regulation, according to which the first EU country that a migrant reaches is obliged to register and process the migrant’s application, has long been disregarded.",
        "根据《都柏林公约》（Dublin Regulation），移民所抵达的第一个欧盟国家有义务注册并处理移民的申请。 这一规定早已名存实亡。"
    ],
    [
        "But once government intervenes on this scale, it usually stays for a long time.",
        "但是，一旦政府介入达到这个规模，它通常就会在停留很长一段时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Beleaguered US businesses, goes the argument, are being squeezed by confiscatory taxes and onerous regulations – strangling corporate earnings and putting unrelenting pressure on capital spending, job creation, and productivity, while sapping America’s competitive vitality.",
        "该政策的支持者认为，那些举步维艰的美国企业在没收性赋税及繁重法规的挤压下苦苦坚持——企业收益被锁死，资本支出，创造就业机会和生产力都遭受无情重压，还削弱了美国的竞争活力。"
    ],
    [
        "Global imbalances did not continue indefinitely.",
        "全球失衡并没有无限持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "This process, established at the outset 60 years ago, is framed by an agreement that an American would lead the World Bank and a European would lead the IMF.",
        "这一选举程序始于60年前，并受制于一项协议。 该协议规定世界银行行长只能由美国人来担任，而国际货币基金组织的领袖则非欧洲人莫属。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher real interest rates, in turn, depress business investment and residential construction.",
        "更高的真实利率反过来抑制企业投资和住宅建设。"
    ],
    [
        "Weakness in the periphery has led to capital flowing back to Germany as a regional safe haven, lowering German borrowing costs.",
        "外围国的疲软导致资本流回作为安全港的德国，降低了德国的借贷成本。"
    ],
    [
        "But all of that helped only a little.",
        "但所有这一切都是效果寥寥。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Macron is by no means an obsessive fiscal hawk, he wants to narrow the French government deficit from 3.4% to 3% of GDP, in line with the ceiling set by the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact.",
        "马克龙从任何方面看都不是死硬财政鹰派，但他希望将法国政府赤字从GDP的3. 4%减少到3%，以符合欧盟稳定与增长公约制定的上限。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, the discussion has shifted toward a seemingly more credible cause: the proliferation of margin financing since 2010.",
        "最近，套阿伦又转向了似乎更加可信的原因：2010年以来保证金融资的大幅增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The second arrow of Abenomics – monetary easing – intensified these effects.",
        "而安倍经济学的第二支箭——货币宽松——则强化了这一效应。"
    ],
    [
        "All three candidates support Chirac’s opposition to the Iraq War, will protect French agriculture in global trade negotiations, and will promote French leadership in Europe.",
        "所有这三位候选人都支持希拉克对伊拉克战争的反对立场，都将在全球贸易谈判中保护法国的农业，并且将推进法国在欧洲的领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Global growth is projected at just 3.3% in 2014 and 3.8% in 2015.",
        "预计2014年全球增长只有3. 3%，2015年只有3."
    ],
    [
        "Today, the risk is that the new Keynesian doctrines will be used and abused to serve some of the same interests.",
        "今天，我们所面临的风险在于新的凯恩斯主义教义将被运用和滥用来服务过去那帮人的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, by seizing control over water – a resource vital to millions of lives and livelihoods – China can hold another country hostage without firing a single shot.",
        "如今，通过牢牢控制水——数百万人生命和生计的不可或缺的来源——中国就能不费一枪一弹绑架另一个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But such institutions are largely perceived as inaccessible, inefficient, and opaque, leading national governments to neglect them.",
        "但总体而言这些机构被认为是高高在上、效率低下而不透明的，这导致许多国家的政府忽视它们的存在。"
    ],
    [
        "The more successful they are, the more individualistic they will become and the more they will expect the respect and consideration of those who govern them.",
        "他们取得的成功越大，他们就会越发变得个人主义，就会期望从管理他们的人的身上得到更多的尊敬和照顾。"
    ],
    [
        "And that would be the case even if German Chancellor Angela Merkel had managed to forge a coalition between her Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Bavaria-based Christian Social Union (CSU), the Free Democrats (FDP), and the Greens.",
        "而即使德国总统默克尔成功地让她的基督教民主联盟（CDU）、巴伐利亚姊妹党基督教社会联盟（CSU）、自由民主党（FDP）和绿党结成联合政府，这一点也无法改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Open-source reporting and commentary by the media were not doing much to fill the gaps, because resource shortages, particularly in the quality print media, have long been dumbing down international coverage of sensitive and difficult situations.",
        "媒体开源报告和评论对于填补这方面空白贡献甚微，以为内资源短缺，特别是高质量印刷媒体的短缺，长期以来都在制约对敏感和困难局面的国际报道。"
    ],
    [
        "Two decades ago, Donald Langevoort, now a law professor at Georgetown, showed that major bankers – indeed, the leaders of First National City, the predecessor to Weill’s Citibank – proposed Glass-Steagall in lieu of deposit insurance.",
        "二十年前，如今已成为乔治敦大学法学教授的唐纳德·兰芝福尔特（Donald Langevoort）指出，大银行家——事实上，正是维尔的花旗银行的前身第一国民城市银行的领导人——正是格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法案的始作俑者，他们试图用它来代替存款保险。"
    ],
    [
        "The percentage of foreign-born residents in several European countries – including Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, and Greece – is similar to that in the US.",
        "在不少欧洲国家（包括西班牙、英国、德国、荷兰和希腊），外国出生居民比重与美国不相上下。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 1,200 French citizens are estimated to have joined the jihadi cause in Syria, along with 600 from the United Kingdom, 550 from Germany, and 400 from Belgium.",
        "估计已有超过1200名法国公民加入了叙利亚圣战组织，600名英国人、550名德国人和400名比利时人也是一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, no one – not Russia, the US, Iran, Saudi Arabia, or other external patrons of either the regime or the opposition – can guarantee that Geneva II will succeed.",
        "事实上，没有人——不论是俄罗斯、美国、伊朗、沙特还是其他任何支持政权或叛军的赞助者——能保证日内瓦II可以成功。"
    ],
    [
        "My foreign interlocutors replied that, with the affair now exposed, the blackmail threat has been removed, so Petraeus should stay in office.",
        "我的外国评论者回复说，现在婚外情已经曝光了，勒索威胁也就随之烟消云散了，因此彼得雷乌斯应该继续任职。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides, the share of assisted deaths in Dutch mortality is nowhere near 10%.",
        "另外，协助死亡占荷兰总死亡人口的比例远远低于10%。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an approach would not just address the NPL problem; by giving the private sector a stake in the SOEs, it would also help to spur performance-enhancing reforms.",
        "这一方针不仅将解决不良贷款问题； 它还能通过让民营部门持有国有企业股份有助于刺激加强绩效的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül abruptly cancelled a recent press conference in Copenhagen when he spied a Kurdish journalist in the audience and the Danes refused to evict him.",
        "当土耳其外长Abdullah Gül在最近一次记者招待会上发现一名库尔德人记者，并要求丹麦方面将其驱逐出去，而被拒绝的情况下，他竟然立刻取消了此次记者招待会。"
    ],
    [
        "The muted response of the Arab states to Israel’s recent mysterious air raid on its territory reflects its isolation within the Arab world – an isolation with which the Syrians are extremely uncomfortable.",
        "阿拉伯各国对以色列最近对叙利亚领土实施的神秘空袭保持缄默反映了该国在阿拉伯世界被孤立的状态―这种孤立让叙利亚人极不舒服。"
    ],
    [
        "Football?",
        "是足球比赛？"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Europe’s crisis presents an attractive opportunity for China to expand its direct investment there.",
        "最后，欧洲的危机对中国来说也是一次扩大对欧直接投资的良机。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, the epicenter of democracy’s collapse, radicals on both the right and the left raged against the postwar peace settlement and the Versailles Treaty.",
        "在德国这个民主制大地震的震中，右翼和左翼的激进分子都对凡尔赛合约确立的战后和平体制怒火中烧。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain’s benefit system operates in a similar fashion; it is a voracious consumer of bandwidth.",
        "英国的福利制度也是以类似的方式运作； 它是一个贪婪的带宽消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "Taxes are about 80% of the street price of cigarettes in Toronto, but less than 30% in Beijing or Delhi.",
        "税收大约相当于多伦多街头香烟价格的80%，但是在北京或者德里只有30%。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Obama’s administration, for all its lofty rhetoric, appears too willing to perpetuate it.",
        "但不幸的是，奥巴马政府的人，在他们那一套故作高尚的花言巧语之下，似乎非常乐意将这个恶行延续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "For more than 20 years, the Sudanese government fought a war against the South, in which more than two million people died. It has committed genocide and other atrocities in Darfur, where about 400,000 people have died.",
        "在近20年以来，苏丹政府对南部的镇压已经导致200多万人丧命，在达尔富尔地区实施的种族灭绝及其他暴行夺去了40万人的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Europe and China have also come to recognize the geostrategic advantages that renewable-energy sources confer – specifically, increased energy security, as vulnerability to natural disasters, and the threat of terrorism, decreases.",
        "欧洲和中国也都意识到可再生能源资源所提供的地缘战略优势——即增加能源安全，因为有了可再生能源资源，自然灾害的影响和恐怖主义的威胁就会降低。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it possible to ensure an adequate supply of safe blood once and for all?",
        "有没有希望保证随时随地都有安全血液的充足供应？"
    ],
    [
        "India’s latest round of elections included five state assemblies.",
        "印度最近一轮选举包括五个州的议会。"
    ],
    [
        "When the police use ethnic profiling, they project an image of being tough on crime and terrorism.",
        "当警察采用这种方式的时候，他们展现给公众的是一种对犯罪和恐怖主义表现强硬的姿态。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the government’s immediate idea for relieving exchange-rate pressure is to peg the renminbi to a basket of 13 currencies, instead of just to the US dollar.",
        "另外政府为缓解紧迫汇率压力的一个替代方案是让人民币和一揽子共13种货币挂钩，而不仅仅针对美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps, but the packages are, first and foremost, a consequence of the constraints to which Europeans were (and still are) subject.",
        "或许如此，但这些计划首先是欧洲曾经受到（现在仍受到）的约束的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "An alternative might be a dialogue between the EU and the EEU, but that would be tricky as the EEU pursues a closer relationship with China and its Silk Road allies.",
        "替代方案也许是欧盟和欧亚经济联盟之间的对话，但这一对话绝不容易，因为欧亚经济联盟追求拉近与中国及其丝绸之路盟友的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "There are safeguards to prevent expensive care from being given to someone who does not really need it.",
        "有防范措施防止并不直接需要的人获得昂贵的看护。 并且一切都是透明的；"
    ],
    [
        "In their words, “a President must be disciplined, control emotions, and act only after reflection and careful deliberation.”",
        "用他们的话说，“一位总统必须懂得自律和控制情绪，在言行之前必定深思熟虑。"
    ],
    [
        "To make matters worse for Park, many of her predecessors are perceived as failures.",
        "众多前任被认定为执政失败，更是令朴槿惠的境况雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "Put differently, in a winner-take-all world, raising the average level of skills or education does nothing to alter the skewed distribution of income.",
        "换句话说，在一个赢者通吃的世界，提高技能或教育的平均水平对改变倾斜的收入分配一点作用都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, political factions in Tunisia have set a good example by often compromising with one another in order to create a viable governance structure; but domestic social and sectarian grievances are still very much a part of Tunisian politics.",
        "可以肯定，突尼斯各派政治势力为打造可行的治理结构而时常相互妥协树立了一个好的榜样； 但国内社会和宗派矛盾却依然在很大程度上困扰着突尼斯政治。"
    ],
    [
        "But these schemes make firms more profitable by making their suppliers, workers, and customers poorer.",
        "但通过这些机制增加企业的盈利能力导致它们的供应商、工人和客户日子更加难过。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – When too many Italians voted late last month for either a louche and discredited business tycoon or a comedian, European stock markets plummeted.",
        "纽约——上月底，太多意大利人投票选举一位声名狼藉的商业大亨和一名喜剧演员导致欧洲股市出现暴跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the necessary legal and regulatory framework is already in place. There is no need for treaty changes or complex new legislation.",
        "发展这类项目所需的大部分法律和监管框架都已经就位，无需修改条约或者纷繁复杂的新立法。"
    ],
    [
        "The total value of cross-border capital flows has shrunk by 65% over the last ten years, a decline that reflects, in particular, the sharp reduction in international banking activities.",
        "跨境资本流动总额相比过去十年减少了65%，资本流动总额的下降尤其反映了国际银行业务的急剧萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Rise of the Planet of the Apes, however, portrays Rodman as, in Franco’s words, “a cold, isolated person.”",
        "而《人猿星球的崛起》这部影片却借弗朗科的台词将罗德曼描绘成一个“冷漠，孤立的人”。"
    ],
    [
        "Such events are daily warnings to the world: wake up before it is too late.",
        "这些事件无不在警告世界：再不警醒，悔之晚矣。"
    ],
    [
        "I had long predicted that this stagnation would eventually have political consequences.",
        "我早就预测，这一停止最终将导致政治后果。"
    ],
    [
        "What European nation, indeed, dares to put at risk a Chinese order for several billion euros?",
        "的确，哪一个欧洲国家敢对数十亿欧元的中国定单等闲视之呢？"
    ],
    [
        "These factors – together with the lack of trade data for regions within countries – have led economists only rarely to consider countries’ internal surpluses or deficits.",
        "这些因素——以及缺少国家内地区的贸易数据——导致经济学家很少考虑国家内部的盈余或赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "As in Ukraine and China, Venezuela’s government has been trying to collectivize production.",
        "步乌克兰和中国的后尘，委内瑞拉政府一直不遗余力地推动生产集体化进程。"
    ],
    [
        "But the recent report of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change broke that rule.",
        "但是最近的一份联合国改革问题高级别名人小组起草的有关威胁、挑战和变革的报告却是一个例外。"
    ],
    [
        "After only 15 months on the job as COO, De Castro walked away with $109 million.",
        "在担任首席运营官仅15个月后，德·卡斯特罗带走了1. 09亿美元的薪酬。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporatist subsidiarity lets the top of the hierarchy determine its own powers, while banishing competition and lauding private property generates inequality and inefficiency simultaneously.",
        "社团原则让等级结构的最高层决定其自身权力，而废除竞争和颂扬私有财产能同时产生不平等和低效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the details of the meeting are not public, its relative success is clear, as the parties are to reconvene on November 7-8.",
        "尽管会谈的细节尚未公布，但其相对成功已显而易见，各方将在11月7—8日再次会晤。"
    ],
    [
        "Framing the issue in this way makes sense for two reasons.",
        "关于犹太国家的概念，存在着两个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This might be wishful thinking, however.",
        "但这可能是一厢情愿。"
    ],
    [
        "But the decisions that Scotland would have to make about its monetary arrangements in the months following a vote for independence are at least as likely to be confronted by some eurozone countries over the next couple of years.",
        "但苏格兰在决定独立后几个月内就要决定其货币安排，一些欧元区国家也将在未来几年中面临相同的货币决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Many analysts had extrapolated rapid growth in countries such as Brazil, Russia, Turkey, and India into the indefinite future, calling them the new engines of the world economy.",
        "许多分析人士曾预测巴西、俄罗斯、土耳其和印度等国未来将维持快速增长，并将其赞誉为世界经济的新引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, let us suppose that Trump will carry through on his budget promises.",
        "类似地，让我们假设特朗普将贯彻其预算承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The attention of US President Barack Obama is centered on matters of great importance, such as the Middle East, his evolving strategy in Afghanistan, and the struggling American economy.",
        "美国总统奥巴马的注意力都放在了许多重要的事务上，比如中东问题，阿富汗干涉战略以及拯救美国经济。"
    ],
    [
        "But reorienting their businesses toward the Chinese domestic market requires far more than government policies that put more money in consumers' pockets.",
        "但把业务导向转向中国国内市场需要政府采取措施让消费者的腰包鼓起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Public-opinion surveys reveal an interesting dualism: the French want maximum freedom in the private sphere and maximum protection in the public sphere.",
        "民调显示了一个有趣的二元性：法国人希望私人空间自由的最大化和公共空间保护的最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "They choose their subordinates, so it is their responsibility to ask the hard questions about what is going on under their watch.",
        "他们选择了自己的部下，因此有责任思考部下们管理状况如何的难题。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Final Report of its 2004 mission to observe the Belarusian parliamentary elections clearly stated, the vote “fell significantly short of OSCE commitments.”",
        "2004年白俄罗斯议会选举观察团的最终报告明确指出，投票数“大大低于欧洲安全与合作组织的规定。"
    ],
    [
        "They argued the case for skill against cheapness.",
        "他们的论点是有利于技能，不利于工资。"
    ],
    [
        "To that end, Republicans in the US Congress have just unveiled a bill that, if enacted, could vastly widen the deficit and increase the public debt by as much as $4 trillion over the next decade.",
        "在这方面，国会共和党刚刚提出了一项法案，如果实施的话，将大幅扩大赤字，在未来十年增加高达4万亿美元的公共债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The holdouts claimed that, if the new bonds were being serviced in full (as they were), equal treatment required that the holdouts should receive the full amount owed to them (including not only interest but also principal).",
        "反对者的诉求是，如果新债券都能（像曾经那样）得到全额偿付，同等的待遇也意味着反对者应该收回所有欠款（不仅包括利息，还有本金）。"
    ],
    [
        "And if trends from the last 10-15 years continue, China could soon supplant Canada and Mexico as America’s most important export market.",
        "如果过去10~15年的趋势得以持续的话，中国很快将取代加拿大和墨西哥成为美国最重要的出口市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The result, perversely, would be a decline in policy transparency.",
        "其结果将适得其反，让政策透明度进一步下降。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea’s announcement that it possesses nuclear weapons has fuelled a diplomatic frenzy.",
        "北朝鲜宣布自己拥有核武器的申明引起了外交恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "But since his Law and Justice Party (PiS) returned to power in 2015, Kaczyński’s flagship policy has been monthly cash payments of €115 ($138) to Polish families for each child after the first.",
        "但自从他的法律和正义党（PiS）于2015年重获权力以来，卡钦斯基的旗舰政策是每个月向所有波兰家庭从第二个开始的每个孩子发放115欧元现金。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, the EU’s aspiration for a common foreign and security policy must be addressed.",
        "第四点，必须着手实现欧盟对一个拥有共同外交和安全政策的期望。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal should be clear: as a town’s “export” industries are disrupted, new “export” activities must take their place, lest the town shrink and become impoverished.",
        "目标应该明确：在城镇的“出口”行业受到打击时，新的“出口”活动必须顶上来，否则城镇就会衰落致穷。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, democracy is a long-term task.",
        "恰恰相反，民主是一项长期的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given the divergent interests of lenders and borrowers, it has never been used – not even in 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis.",
        "但由于贷款人和借款人的利益分歧，清迈倡议从未付诸实施——就连2008年全球金融危机达到顶峰时都从未实施过。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, it remains the world’s eighth-largest economy, with a per capita income of roughly €26,000 ($29,300) and a relatively high gross savings rate of 18% of GDP.",
        "诚然，它仍是世界第八大经济体，人均收入大约为26,000欧元，毛储蓄率也较高，为GDP的18%。"
    ],
    [
        "He also worked to expunge young members of the Freedom and Justice Party that he deemed to hold dissenting views.",
        "他同时也致力于排除一些自由正义党年轻党员，因为在他看来这些年轻人属于异己分子。"
    ],
    [
        "So meager growth in the coming years would be a return to Latin America’s historical pattern, not a deviation from it.",
        "因此未来几年增长率下降只不过是回到了拉美的老路上去，而不是脱离历史轨迹。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Spain, which is on track to lose more than a half-million residents by 2020.",
        "拿西班牙来说，到2020年，其居民将减少50多万。"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiations with the Israelis was one area where Abbas, who led the Oslo process that saw the creation of the Palestinian Authority, thought he could do well.",
        "作为领导奥斯陆进程，见证巴勒斯坦权力机构创建的人，阿巴斯认为在与以色列人谈判方面自己应该驾轻就熟。"
    ],
    [
        "We are about to see what stake China really has in the survival of the globalized world economy. As in 1931, the political arguments are all against such an operation. Only the far-sighted will see that the economic case for a rescue is compelling.",
        "我们就会发现在全球化的世界经济存亡中中国究竟持有何种悠关利益。 正如在1931年那样，政治观点都是反对采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as debt burdens become heavier, public spending must be cut further and taxes increased to service the government’s debt and that of its wards, like the banks.",
        "债务负担越重，就越是得削减公共开支、增加税收，才能应付政府及其拱卫者（譬如银行）的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the IMF’s current lending framework, if it is “highly probable” that a borrower’s debt is sustainable, the Fund will extend a conditional loan, even for large amounts, to tide it over.",
        "根据IMF的现行借贷框架，如果借款人债务可持续的“概率很高”，则IMF将扩展有条件贷款期限，即使这笔贷款数量很大。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe will enter an extended period of competitive deterrence, during which it will gradually abandon its old social values.",
        "欧洲会进入一段竞争性阻滞期，并在此期间逐渐放弃旧的社会价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "Can it identify ways to cooperate with this difficult, undemocratic state, in order to address issues of mutual concern?",
        "为了解决共同关注的问题，美国能否和这个难以相处的非民主国家合作？"
    ],
    [
        "Macron’s Labor Gambit",
        "马克龙的劳工改革开局"
    ],
    [
        "Through alumni networks, board members can acquire information quickly and act upon it without delay.",
        "通过校友网络，董事会成员能够迅速收集信息，及时作出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, regulatory opacity – and, more broadly, uncertainty about the direction of economic policy – has discouraged investment.",
        "类似地，监管不透明性——或更广义的经济政策方向的不确定性——也阻碍了投资。"
    ],
    [
        "But today its survival depends on showing that it can protect citizens from the very forces it has promoted.",
        "但如今，其生存取决于它能否证明有能力保护公民免受它所推动的力量的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this is what is at stake.",
        "但这一局面近在眼前。"
    ],
    [
        "To put it simply: the future of Ukraine will decide the future of Russia, and the future of Russia will have a substantial impact on the future of Europe.",
        "简言之，乌克兰的未来将决定俄罗斯的未来，而俄罗斯的未来将对欧洲未来造成重大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "For Europe, Syria’s meltdown should serve as a wakeup call.",
        "对欧洲来说，叙利亚的崩溃应该成为警世钟。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be a relief to Republican Party leaders, who recently obtained Trump’s vow (easily undone) not to mount an independent presidential campaign should he fail to win the party’s nomination.",
        "对于共和党领导人来说，这令人松一口气。 最近特朗普已经承诺（很容易推翻），如果竞争共和党内候选人失败，他不会作为独立候选人参选。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment protection would limit this kind of abuse.",
        "投资保护能限制这种权力滥用。"
    ],
    [
        "Known as “biopharming,” the great promise of this technology emerged about 15 years ago, with clinical trials of vaccines and drugs produced in bananas, tomatoes, and tobacco.",
        "这一技术的远大前景被称为“生物制药”，出现在大约15年前，始于从香蕉、番茄和烟草中生产的疫苗和药物的临床试验。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets learn from a current crisis which principles will be applied in the next one.",
        "市场从一场危机中学习可用于下一场危机的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, leading Scottish-based banks and many large businesses have said they would relocate some of their operations to London.",
        "此外，位于苏格兰的主要银行和许多大企业都表示它们会将一些业务迁移到伦敦。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community, and the US in particular, is dreadful at the third stage.",
        "国际社会，特别是美国，在第三阶段的表现简直糟糕透顶。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, the main argument for not removing the debt overhang came from bankers, who claimed that it would create havoc in financial markets for two reasons.",
        "不论是美国家庭还是欧洲政府，无法消除债务宿醉的主要障碍来自银行家，他们说，出于两个原因，这样会造成金融市场浩劫。"
    ],
    [
        "As Wadsworth points out, past research has shown that it is not absolute income levels that determine happiness, but rather income levels relative to those around you – the colleagues, neighbors, former classmates, and others who form your reference group.",
        "华斯沃夫指出，过去的研究表明，确定幸福感的不是绝对收入水平，而是相对于你周围的人的收入水平——同事、邻居，前同学和其他构成你参考组的人。"
    ],
    [
        "There are more United Nations resolutions devoted to human rights abuses committed by Israel than to abuses by all other countries combined.",
        "谴责以色列侵犯人权的联合国决议比其他所有国家加起来还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "On October 24, you can stand up against this injustice.",
        "但在10月24日这天，你可以对这种不公正的现象说一声“不”。"
    ],
    [
        "Zanzibar’s attitude toward health records is not unique.",
        "桑给巴尔对卫生记录的态度并非独此一家。"
    ],
    [
        "What Euro Crisis?",
        "什么是欧元危机？"
    ],
    [
        "This obsession with tactics has affected governance at all levels, from local administrations to supranational institutions, allowing major actors to operate within uncoordinated realities, without any shared goals guiding their decision-making.",
        "沉迷于策略影响了各级别政府，从地方当局一直到超国家机构，致使主要行动方在不合作的现实中运行，不再有任何共同目标指引决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Four bridges and innumerable tunnels and drainage canals connect Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas.",
        "华雷斯市和得克萨斯州的艾尔帕索县通过四座桥梁和难以数计的隧道和排水沟连接在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "This stance vindicates the skeptics, spurring Saudi Arabia to continue its efforts to build a “Sunni coalition” to contain Iranian influence and uphold the fight against what it views as Iranian proxies in countries like Syria and Yemen.",
        "这一立场将证明怀疑派是正确的，刺激沙特阿拉伯继续致力于构建一个“逊尼派联盟”以遏制伊朗的影响力、坚持与其视为伊朗在叙利亚和也门等国家的代理人的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a central part of Israel’s policy, in flat defiance of international law and customary norms of civilized behavior.",
        "这就是以色列政策的核心，公然无视国际法和文明行为的惯例。"
    ],
    [
        "This has now come to pass in what the MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee call The Second Machine Age.",
        "这一幕在麻省理工学院经济学家埃里克·布莱恩约尔弗森（Erik Brynjolfsson）和安德鲁·麦克菲（Andrew McAfee）所谓的《第二机器时代》（The Second Machine Age）中已经发生。"
    ],
    [
        "They would smile and wave and throw us whatever gifts they happened to have – playing cards, chewing gum, lifesaver candies….For us they were like heroes from another world.”",
        "而他们会面带微笑、招手致意，并把身上碰巧带着的小礼物扔给我们－纸牌啦、口香糖啦、救急的糖果啦…在我们眼里，他们简直就是来自另一个世界的英雄。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, in terms of monetary policy, the major issue for the world over the next year is when and how much the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates.",
        "类似地，在货币政策上，明年世界所面临的主要问题是美联储何时升息、升息多少。"
    ],
    [
        "Our objective – supported by eminent economists, lawyers, and social activists with tremendous first-hand experience – was to distribute the fruits of this growth more equitably.",
        "我们的目标——这一目标获得了拥有大量第一手经验的著名经济学家、律师、社会活动家的支持——是让高增长的果实获得更加平等的分配。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Ichizo Miyamoto, a former senior finance-ministry official, claims that, accounting for the government’s assets, Japan’s net debt/GDP ratio is below 100%, similar to that of the United States.",
        "比如，前财务省高级官员宫本一三（Ichizo Miyamoto）表示，计入政府资产，日本的净债务/GDP比率不到100%，与美国相当。"
    ],
    [
        "We are simply too interconnected; the problems, challenges, and opportunities we face have no regard for national borders.",
        "我们的联系已经太过紧密； 我们所面临的问题、挑战和机遇都不会被国家边境所阻隔。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary policy needs to look beyond its core focus on low and stable inflation and pay much greater attention to financial stability.",
        "货币政策必须超越自身对低速和稳定通胀的关心，转而对金融稳定给予更多关注。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world of globalization, however, many people belong to multiple imagined communities.",
        "但是，在一个组织的世界中，许多人同时属于很多想象的共同体。"
    ],
    [
        "May hoped that her promise would win over European leaders – especially the biggest contributor, Germany, and the big net recipients, such as Poland and Portugal.",
        "梅希望她的承诺能够赢得欧洲领导人——特别是最大的预算贡献者德国，以及主要预算受益者波兰和葡萄牙。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, default became inevitable.",
        "最终，违约不可避免。"
    ],
    [
        "And that means that I’m left to deal with outputs.”",
        "这也意味着产出的责任就由我来承担。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Species move out of their areas of origin and ecosystems change.",
        "物种离开了他们原本生存的地区，生态系统因此发生改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But one thing is clear: the more traditional foreign ministries tend to be, the more difficult it is for them and their diplomats to grasp change.",
        "但有一点可以肯定： 外交部门越传统，他们和他们的外交官把握变化的难度就越大。"
    ],
    [
        "With public perception a crucial factor in winning the war, and the Taliban poised to launch a large military initiative next spring, failure to adopt a successful local strategy could signify the last chance the international community will have to build a secure and stable Afghanistan.",
        "在民意成为制胜的关键因素，而塔利班又做足准备在明年春季发动一场大规模军事行动的情况下，如果不能采取成功的本地战略，那么就意味着国际社会将失去在阿富汗建立安全和稳定的最后机会。"
    ],
    [
        "And, so far, the answer seems to be no.",
        "到目前为止，答案似乎是否定的。"
    ],
    [
        "The desire to avoid substantial tax increases (and to sustain consumption levels) will almost surely be reflected in a continuing shortfall of public-sector investment, in turn undermining long-term growth.",
        "避免大幅增税（和维持消费水平）的愿望几乎肯定将反映在公共部门持续短缺中，而这反过来会阻碍长期增长。"
    ],
    [
        "In demanding change, freedom, and democracy – right on Russia’s doorstep, no less – the protesters challenged Putin’s model of “sovereign democracy,” in which the president eliminates all opposition, restricts media freedom, and then tells citizens that they can choose their leaders.",
        "乌克兰示威者在俄罗斯大门口要求变革、自由和民主，这挑战了普京的“主权民主”（sovereign democracy）模式。 在普京的模式中，总统消灭一切反对，控制言论自由，然后告诉公民他们可以选择他们的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "But the information from such visits is usually not collected, and even if it is put on paper, it is never used again.",
        "但上述诊疗信息通常不会被收集，即使被记录在纸面上，也永远不会被再次利用。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – While discussions about economic “green shoots” continue unabated in the United States, in many countries, and especially in the developing world, matters are getting worse.",
        "发自纽约——当经济是否正迸发“新芽”的讨论在美国国内不绝于耳之时，在许多国家，特别是那些发展中国家的形势却在不断恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "The West has no choice but to strike a better balance – between capital and labor, between current and future generations, and between the financial sector and the real economy.",
        "西方无路可走，只能努力在资本和劳动力，在这一代和下一代人之间，在金融部门和实体经济之间保持更佳的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Bilateral tensions flared when Thai politics heated up after the September 2006 military coup that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, on charges of corruption and disloyalty to the monarchy.",
        "然而双边关系在2006年9月之后骤然紧张，当时泰国军方发动政变推翻了民选总理他信·西那瓦，指控他贪污腐败并对王室不忠。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, caution has costs: financial openness may itself catalyze improvements in fundamentals that enhance the benefits of globalization.",
        "其次是谨慎是有代价的。 金融开放从其自身而言可以促进基础建设的完善从而强化全球化所带来的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "A net Democratic gain of four Senate seats would produce a 50-50 split, in which case, if Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wins, her vice president, Tim Kaine, would be on hand to break tie votes.",
        "民主党净获4个参议院席位将形成五五开的局面，在这样的情况下，如果民主党总统候选人希拉里·克林顿获胜，她的副总统蒂姆·凯恩就有机会打破投票僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "While killings have declined sharply in recent years, hardly a day passes without some form of violence, often against civilians – including children.",
        "尽管杀戮在近几年有了大幅减少，但暴力活动几乎没有一天不存在，且通常针对包括儿童在内的平民。"
    ],
    [
        "The Court must rule on German plaintiffs’ claim that legislation to establish the ESM would violate Germany’s Grundgesetz (Basic Law).",
        "德国宪法法院必须就德国原告提出的成立ESM的立法决定违反了德国基本法的意见作出裁决。"
    ],
    [
        "The stakes of this war are much higher and much more dangerous than America’s proxy warriors imagine.",
        "这场战争的赌注要比美国代理战士所想象的高得多，也危险得多。"
    ],
    [
        "(A state-controlled autopsy implied that she had committed suicide.)",
        "（国家控制的尸检显示她是自杀。"
    ],
    [
        "Far better, proponents of wage insurance argue, for the training to be carried out by an employer who wants a job done and knows what the employee needs to learn.",
        "工资保险的倡议者辩论说，培训如果由想让员工完成某一工作的雇主来进行，情况会好得多，因为雇主了解到底员工需要学习什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Before Poland joins the eurozone, its economic policy should be directed toward these three criteria of long-term economic success.",
        "在波兰加入欧元区之前，其经济政策应该导向这三大经济长期成功的标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, eurozone politicians have obtained a mandate to take bolder action only as the markets have made the costs of inaction more salient.",
        "同样，欧元区的政治家们只有在市场更加关注不作为成本时才能获得授权。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign-owned firms in the US account for 5% of private-sector employment, 17% of manufacturing jobs, 21% of exports, 14% of research and development, and 17% of corporate-income taxes.",
        "在美国，外国所有企业贡献了5%的私人部门就业，17%的制造业就业，21%的出口，14%的研发和17%的公司所得税。"
    ],
    [
        "A new development bank is clearly needed.",
        "新开发银行的必要性是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "The plan must recognize that, during this protracted period of monetary expansion, both financial markets and resource-allocation have been distorted, worsening wealth inequality.",
        "特朗普团队的计划必须认识到，在这一漫长的货币扩张期内，金融市场和资源配置都被扭曲了，这恶化了财富不平等程度。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Palestinians’ future at stake – not to mention the future of Israel and the Middle East – no one can say if Hamas is up to the task.",
        "巴勒斯坦未来受到威胁，更不用说以色列和中东的未来，哈马斯是否能够担当任务无人可以断言。"
    ],
    [
        "A commitment by Xi, Modi, and Jokowi to do what is needed would bring rapid, far-reaching progress to their respective countries, Asia, and the global order.",
        "习近平、莫迪和佐科维致力于应做之事将为各自国家、亚洲和全球秩序带来迅速的、影响深远的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "The single most important issue for banks and other businesses to focus on in 2012 is economic growth and job creation.",
        "银行和其他企业在2012年必须关注的唯一一个重中之重就是经济增长以及创造就业。"
    ],
    [
        "My answer is a straightforward no, but that the recent episode of global financial market turmoil is likely to be more serious than any period of volatility and risk-off behavior since 2009.",
        "我的回答直截了当：不。 但最近的全球金融市场动荡可能比2009年以来的所有波动和避险时期都要大。"
    ],
    [
        "How important a role was played by fraud?",
        "欺诈在其中起了什么作用？"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – The world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, seem to be enduring secular slowdowns.",
        "米兰—世界最大的两个经济体——美国和中国似乎再忍受长期减速。"
    ],
    [
        "For its part, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch, seeks to consolidate its control over Gaza and use it as a base from which to take control of the West Bank and the Palestinian national movement.",
        "在穆斯林兄弟会巴勒斯坦分支机构哈马斯则在寻求巩固其对加沙的控制，并将其用作控制约旦河西岸和巴勒斯坦民族运动的基地。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, a catchphrase in economic-policy debates nowadays is “secular stagnation,” the idea that excess savings chronically dampen demand.",
        "不出意外，如今经济政策的辩论的一个标题就是“长期停滞”，认为过度的储蓄会长期压抑需求。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, bipartisan proposals for premium support, with seniors receiving subsidies to purchase private health insurance, should be implemented.",
        "首先，应该实施跨党派保费支持方案，给予年长者补贴用于购买私人医疗保险。"
    ],
    [
        "Our maladies are largely random, and even if our doctors cannot tell us which ones we will have in the next year, or eliminate all of our suffering when we have them, we are happy for the help that they can provide.",
        "我们的发病大部分是随机的，即使我们的医生无法告诉我们未来几年我们会得什么病，或者无法在我们得病时消除我们的所有痛苦，但我们仍乐于接受他们所能提供的帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that it wakes up in a safer place than it has in the past.",
        "我们希望它能够在比上一次更安全的地方醒过来。"
    ],
    [
        "From Good Intentions to Deep Decarbonization",
        "从美好愿望到深度脱碳"
    ],
    [
        "Where is Apple in that company life cycle?",
        "苹果公司现在位于生命周期的哪个位置？"
    ],
    [
        "As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today’s education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.",
        "技术正在日益接管基于知识的工作，作为当下教育体系核心的认知技能将仍然十分重要； 但合作、创新和决绝问题所需要的行为和非认知技能也将是必不可少的。"
    ],
    [
        "At the start of Koizumi’s government, 8.4% of bank loans in Japan were non-performing.",
        "小泉政府就职时，日本有8. 4%的不良贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The failure to mobilize consumer interests in favor of European integration is particularly disappointing for the new member states, which had expected to reap some of the benefits.",
        "欧盟新成员国打算从动员消费者对欧洲联合的兴趣来获得利益。 但是，无法做到这一点对于他们来说特别令人失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Then again, no opinion polls predicted that the general election would result in a majority Conservative government.",
        "但是，没有一项民调预测大选会以保守党政府大获全胜告终。"
    ],
    [
        "Any weakening of these two institutions would cause severe damage to common European interests.",
        "任何对这两个机构的作用的削弱，都会对欧洲的共同利益造成严重损害。"
    ],
    [
        "Pessimism understandably comes easy these days – perhaps too easy.",
        "悲观情绪在这段时期非常容易出现——也许是太容易了。"
    ],
    [
        "Continuing budget deficits have visibly failed to deliver what die-hard Keynesians had promised.",
        "持续不断的财政赤字显然未能兑现顽固的凯恩思主义者做出的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "But the growth rate of investment is too high.",
        "但投资增长率显得太高了。"
    ],
    [
        "Existing parties urgently need to recapture the support of citizens.",
        "现有的党派急切需要重新获得民众的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Two years ago, when shockwaves from the collapse of the US housing bubble crashed onto European shores, these political leaders reacted with apparent vigor, making themselves rather popular for a while.",
        "就在两年前，当美国地产泡沫爆破的冲击波及欧洲之时，上述几位领导人都做出了积极反应，博得了民众一片叫好之声。"
    ],
    [
        "It is tragic that countries like China and India, as they become more prosperous, are copying Western methods and putting animals in huge industrial farms to supply more meat and eggs for their growing middle classes.",
        "像中国和印度这些国家在走向繁荣的过程中照抄西方的模式，将动物放在工业化农场中，以便为日益增多的中产阶级提供更多的肉和蛋，这无异于一场悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "If anything, too rapid a democratic transition may destabilize governments and enhance the extremists’ opportunities to wreak havoc.",
        "如果硬要找出有什么不同，那就是民主过渡太快会威胁政府的稳定，为极端分子进行破坏提供更好的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "I, for one, believe that the death penalty radically negates the doctrine of human rights, which is founded on respect for life and the dignity of human beings.",
        "比如我就认定死刑从根本上破坏了以尊重生命和人类尊严为基础的人权学说。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not. If you want to join the UK Conservative Party or the German Christian Democrats or America’s Democratic Party, you can do so easily, and they will welcome you with open arms.",
        "如果想加入英国保守党、德国基督教民主党或美国民主党，你可以非常轻易地这样做，因为他们将敞开胸怀欢迎你的加入。"
    ],
    [
        "The Humanities Crisis",
        "人文科学危机"
    ],
    [
        "For what Kim is now offering is not peace, but a “peace offensive” – a tactic used by the North repeatedly since the armistice of 1953 in order to sow division whenever the regime’s adversaries have demonstrated unity and resolve.",
        "因为金正日真正想要的并非和平，而是所谓“和平攻势”——某种自1953年停战以来就屡试不爽的伎俩，目的就是为了破坏和瓦解对方阵营的团结。"
    ],
    [
        "Since humans evolved from the same primate ancestor as modern chimpanzees or gorillas, he suggested one could learn more by comparing human instincts, emotions, and behaviors to those of animals than one can surmise from subjective speculation.",
        "他认为，既然人类是从与现代黑猩猩和大猩猩共有的始祖进化而来的，那么将人类的本能、情感和行为与那些动物相比较应该能比主观猜测学到更多东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Most developing countries, and many rich ones, define their housing deficit according to the number of families living in units deemed socially unacceptable.",
        "大部分发展中国家以及许多发达国家用居住在被认为从社会角度不可接受的单元中的家庭的数量来定义住房赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "From the late 1980’s until 2000, many observers presented the Party as being on its last legs, certain to succumb to the “Leninist extinction” that began with communism’s collapse in Europe.",
        "从1990年代末到2000年，许多观察家都认为共产党的统治已经是强弩之末，肯定会走上由东欧剧变作为开端的“列宁主义灭亡”之路。"
    ],
    [
        "It may also be that notice has been taken of the precedent, and that those authorities that intend to use it to justify future moves are loathe to criticize it.",
        "也许是因为瑞行注意到了先前危机的危害，而且那些打算使用这些信息对未来行动进行支持的当局不愿对此提出评论意见。"
    ],
    [
        "Though progress has been made in reducing disaster-related mortality – according to the Center for Research into the Epidemiology of Disasters, the number of disaster-related deaths has not increased significantly in the last decade, despite the uptick in disasters – this figure remains far too high.",
        "尽管在降低灾难致命性方面已经取得了一些进展——根据灾难导致流行病研究中心（Center for Research into the Epidemiology of Disasters）的数据，灾难呈现升级之势，但灾难相关死亡人数在过去十年中没有增长——但死亡人数仍然太高了。"
    ],
    [
        "And while there have been encouraging signs of reform in some countries’ industrial-scale fisheries, the problem remains widespread, discouraging others from following suit and impeding the reform of small-scale fisheries that supply food and livelihoods for millions of families.",
        "尽管某些国家显现出工业规模捕捞改革的迹象，但问题仍然十分普遍，让其他国家不愿跟进，也制约了为数百万家庭提供食物和生计的小规模捕捞的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "And if these measures do not satisfy his base, Trump will still have one last option, long used by Roman emperors and other assorted dictators during times of domestic difficulty.",
        "如果这些措施不能满足他的选民，特朗普还有最后一招，也是罗马皇帝和其他独裁者在国内困难时期经常动用的选项。"
    ],
    [
        "However, it seems obvious that whatever happens, the Iranians will fight an asymmetric war not only on their own territory, but also in the neighboring region for years to come.",
        "但无论如何，伊朗人似乎都会把这场不对等的战争继续下去，他们的战争将不仅局限在自己的领土，还将波及到邻国的土地，这场战争可能要持续数年才会平息。"
    ],
    [
        "In September 2000, the world seemed very different.",
        "2000年9月的世界似乎与现在非常不同。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s obvious that Trump and his strong allies in Congress – he has more than one might expect – are determined to torpedo what’s supposed to be an independent legal inquiry into whether Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia in its efforts to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.",
        "显然，特朗普和他的强大的国会盟友们——他的盟友要比你想象得更多——决定要打破理应独立进行的关于他是否在2016年的选战中与俄罗斯勾结击败希拉里·克林顿（Hillary Clinton）的调查。"
    ],
    [
        "Academic studies suggest that the top tenth percentile of income distribution in the US, and elsewhere, is also moving farther away from the median earner.",
        "学术研究表明，美国和其他地区收入最高的10%与中位收入者的差距也在拉大。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, Hong Kong’s people will get what they want, despite China’s objections; freedom invariably wins in the end.",
        "最终，香港人民会得到他们所想要的，即使有中国的反对； 最后的胜利永远属于自由。"
    ],
    [
        "For the Syrians, a democratic Iraq friendly to the US was always far worse than Saddam Hussein, the enemy they knew – and later profitably traded with – during the years of international sanctions against Iraq.",
        "对叙利亚人来讲，亲美国的民主伊拉克远比不上萨达姆·侯赛因，他们了解这个老对手，后来还在伊拉克遭到国际制裁时从双边贸易中获利颇丰。"
    ],
    [
        "The danger is that overpriced assets and high-risk loans could lose value and cause an economic downturn.",
        "其风险在于定价过高的资产和高风险贷款可能出现价值损失，引起经济衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the Bureau has arranged for the return of almost $12 billion to 29 million consumers.",
        "到目前为止，署方已经安排将120多亿美元退回给了2900万名消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments find it more politically rewarding to pursue security by erecting administrative or physical barriers.",
        "而各国政府则发现在边境上加强行政或实体管制在政治上更加有利可图。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, for example, a national study that tracks student performance in various subjects found that only a quarter of America’s 12th graders were proficient in civics.",
        "比如，2006年的一项全国性调查跟踪了各学科的学生成绩，结果发现，只有四分之一的美国12年级学生精通公民课。"
    ],
    [
        "The new government needs to convince the middle class to accept a cutback in energy subsidies, which now consume 30% of public expenditures, and ensure better regulation of competition and democratization of credit.",
        "新政府需要说服中产阶级接受目前占公共开支30%的能源补贴的削减，并确保更好的竞争监管和信用民主化。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an explosion in slow motion.",
        "我们来还原一下目标信用大爆炸的慢镜头。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while Germany is abandoning domestic production of nuclear energy for political reasons, we can bet that it will nonetheless continue to import electricity from France’s nuclear plants.",
        "9千克。 由于德国出于政治原因放弃了国内核能生产，我们可以打赌它将继续从法国核电厂进口电。"
    ],
    [
        "Polarization may have proved functional to winning an election, but Humala will have to broaden his support in order to forge the consensus he needs in order to govern.",
        "两极化可能是在选举中获胜的有效方法，但乌马拉必须扩大自己的支持范围，才能达成执政所需要的共识。"
    ],
    [
        "Durably stabilizing today’s markets is important, especially for a system that has already assumed too much financial risk.",
        "持久稳定当前的市场是极为重要的，尤其是对于一个已经承担过多财务风险的系统来说。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits of tax evasion may far outweigh the risk of getting caught, but imagine if everyone decided to evade taxes at the same time.",
        "逃税的好处可能远远超过了被抓住的风险，但是想象一下，如果每个人都同时决定逃税会是什么结果。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the near-constant focus on fake news has distracted many in the industry from more serious challenges confronting professional journalism.",
        "但几乎一直关注着假新闻，这让许多业内人士不再主义专业新闻学所面临的严峻挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, Congress passed the Kerry-Lugar bill, which promised $7.5 billion in economic aid from 2009-2014.",
        "此外，国会还通过一项克里－卢格法案，承诺从2009－2014年间提供75亿美元的经济援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Once slow to respond, the world is now acting.",
        "曾经反应缓慢的现在正在采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The full details are expected to be announced in January, but it is already clear that the kingdom – the world’s nineteenth-largest economy – is in desperate need of far-reaching reform.",
        "完整的规定细节预计将于明年1月公布，但显而易见身为世界第十九大经济体的沙特王国迫切需要一次意义深远的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, I hope that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will help to carry out the detailed, independently supervised survey work needed for a full evaluation of this complex project.",
        "事实上，我希望比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会（Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation）能协助组织独立监督的详细调查工作，以满足充分评估这一复杂项目的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "In his 1922 essay “The Dismal Science,” H.L. Mencken suggested why economists would ignore the negative social effects that globalization can have on an advanced economy such as the US.",
        "在1922年的论文《沉闷的科学》（The Dismal Science）中，蒙肯（H. L."
    ],
    [
        "No particular country or group created international maritime law as it now exists.",
        "现在所形成的国际海洋法不是由一国或一个集团制定的。"
    ],
    [
        "As the number of asylum-seekers increases, so does the time it takes to process their applications, making the system all the more tempting for economic migrants.",
        "随着避难申请者数量的增加，处理申请的时间也随之延长，避难制度对经济移民的诱惑力也更大了。"
    ],
    [
        "Asking this question, and debating it politically, is more important than ever.",
        "询问这一问题并在政治上进行讨论的重要性已经变得前所未有的紧迫。"
    ],
    [
        "Our programs to purchase asset-backed securities and covered bonds were tailored to help lubricate further the transmission of lower funding costs from banks to customers.",
        "而另一个收购有资产担保股票/债券的项目则是为了进一步促进更低利率融资从银行到消费者的转移而专门设计。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, some companies pay the unemployed to stand in line for free public tickets to congressional hearings.",
        "在美国，一些公司花钱雇失业者排队抢过会听证的公共入场券。"
    ],
    [
        "We can foresee the power that will shape its geopolitics, but what values will underlie the exercise of that power?",
        "可以预期这股势力将塑造自己的地缘政治格局，但在这些行为背后又会是一种什么样的价值观在支撑着一切？"
    ],
    [
        "Shifting the entire adjustment burden onto peripheral countries with current-account deficits, while core countries continue to run surpluses, obstructs adjustment.",
        "把整个调整负担推给存在经常项目赤字的外围国，而核心国继续保持盈余会对调整形成阻碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Drug use there is a third of the European average – the result of decades of consistent policies (irrespective of changes in government) that combine tough punishment of dealers and comprehensive treatment for users.",
        "该国的毒品使用量只有欧洲平均水平的三分之一—这是实行几十年严惩毒贩与为吸毒者提供综合脱毒治疗的连续政策（不论政府如何更替）的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Last Guerrillas",
        "最后的游击队"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, there is a bust of Stalin at the National D-Day Memorial in Virginia. In New York, I recently dined at a Russian restaurant that featured Soviet paraphernalia, waitresses in Soviet uniforms, and a painting of Soviet leaders in which Stalin was prominent.",
        "在美国，弗吉尼亚州国家D日纪念仪式上也出现了斯大林半身像在纽约，我最近在一家以苏联时代为卖点的俄罗斯餐馆吃饭，侍者身穿苏联制服，还挂着以斯大林为核心的苏联领导人集体画。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments should consider gender quotas at the local level of politics.",
        "政府应该考虑地方政治中的性别配额。"
    ],
    [
        "Plagiarism is one of the few acts that can bring a glittering academic career to a halt.",
        "剽窃是极少数可以辉煌的学术生涯戛然而止的行为之一。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of Zimbabwe, it is extremely difficult to obtain such information.",
        "在津巴布韦的问题上，要获得这样的信息显得特别困难。"
    ],
    [
        "In a weak economy, moreover, banks have little ability to pass on their costs via higher lending rates.",
        "此外，在经济疲软时，银行没有能力通过提高贷款利率转嫁成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest differences between Arab countries and the rest of the world can be found among the educated.",
        "阿拉伯国家和世界其他地区最大的差异可以在受教育人群中找到。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, other forms of borrowing – such as trade finance, which is skewed toward shorter maturities – are not included in these figures.",
        "此外，其他形式的借贷——比如期限较短的贸易融资——未包含在这些数字中。"
    ],
    [
        "If one dates the cyber-security problem not from the beginning of the Internet in the 1970s, but from the late 1990s, when burgeoning participation made the Internet the substrate for economic and military interdependence (and thus increased our vulnerability), cooperation is now at about the two-decade mark.",
        "如果我们将和安全问题的源头从20世纪90年代末上网人数迅速膨胀让互联网成为经济和军事互相依存的基础（从而也让我们越来越脆弱）算起，而不是20世纪70年代互联网诞生时算起，那么现在合作也已经到了二十年的门槛。"
    ],
    [
        "In Fayyad’s vision, Palestinians, who bear the brunt of the occupation and are in a greater hurry than the Israelis are to be free of it, are to accept a peace strategy that aims at realizing statehood.",
        "在法耶兹的预期中，遭受占领且比以色列人更渴望结束占领的巴勒斯坦人将接受一个旨在实现建国的和平战略。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given a global economic environment that promises scant sustainable growth in the coming years, things could otherwise get very tough very soon.",
        "但是，根据全球经济环境预测，未来几年都将是增长乏力，有鉴于此，如果现在不赶紧行动，局面很快会变得更糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, only the Fed’s interest-rate instrument, Stein and Tarullo argue, can get into all of the financial system’s cracks.",
        "斯坦因和塔鲁洛认为，只有美联储的利率工具才能渗入一切金融系统的缝隙。"
    ],
    [
        "For instance, while it is recognized that almost all countries need to undertake stimulus measures (we’re all Keynesians now), many developing countries do not have the resources to do so.",
        "例如，尽管人们认识到几乎所有国家都需要采取刺激措施（我们现在都是凯恩斯主义者），但许多发展中国家没有资源来这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "But they do not want Santos to be able to claim credit for bringing peace to Colombia.",
        "但他们不想让桑托斯占据给哥伦比亚带来和平的功劳。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan is making the same tragic mistake he made in 2009-2010: using his vast popularity to undermine democracy and the rule of law rather than restoring them – and thus rendering moderation and political reconciliation all the more difficult in the future.",
        "埃尔多安犯下了跟2009~2010年同样的悲剧性错误：利用自身的民望破坏而非重振民主和法治——从而令温和主义和政治和解在未来变得更加难以实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the extension of ECB monetary support to Greece will transform financial conditions: interest rates will plummet, banks will recapitalize, and private credit will gradually become available for the first time since 2010.",
        "此外，延长欧洲央行对希腊的货币支持将转变金融环境：利率将下降，银行将资本重组，私人信用将逐渐可得（这是2010年以来没有发生过的事）。"
    ],
    [
        "Although fully liberalizing China’s domestic financial markets and “internationalizing” the renminbi may be possible one day, that day is far off.",
        "尽管中国国内金融市场的完全自由化和人民币的“国际化”有朝一日可能实现，但这一天还远得很。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s success in retaining its industrial base contradicts rich countries’ standard practice of outsourcing manufacturing to locations with lower labor costs.",
        "德国成功保留了其工业基础，这与富裕国家的标准做法——将制造业外包给劳动力成本更低的地区形成了鲜明对比。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine asking a Kantian to add just a bit of utilitarian calculation to the categorical imperative.",
        "你可以想象一下要求康德学派给绝对命令（categorical imperative）添加一点功利主义。"
    ],
    [
        "As Angela Merkel said at the United Nations in 2007: “The world does not need to prove to Iran that Iran is building an atomic bomb.",
        "正如默克尔2007年在联合国所说的那样：“世界并不需要向伊朗证明伊朗正在制造原子弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Police fired tear gas into the compound, standing by as those outside the cathedral launched petrol bombs, hurled rocks, and shot at those inside.",
        "葬礼最后演化成了暴乱，数千名送行者在葬礼结束离开途中被袭。 警方向人群发射了催泪弹，严阵以待教堂外人群投掷汽油瓶、石块袭击教堂内人员。"
    ],
    [
        "There had been a prior attempt to create an institution that would deal with short-term support mechanisms for member states: the European Monetary Cooperation Fund, launched in 1973 and governed by a board of central bank governors.",
        "为成员国处理短期支持机制，之前曾试图创建一个机构：欧洲货币合作基金，成立于1973年，由各成员国央行行长组成的董事会管理。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, having never had to take “no” for an answer – and after receiving a series of nods and winks that hinted that membership might one day come – Turkey’s expectation of eventual EU integration became increasingly palpable.",
        "与此同时，土耳其从未把欧盟的答复视为拒绝，而且在收到一系列将来总有一天会入盟的暗示之后，其最终融入欧盟的期望变得愈发明显。"
    ],
    [
        "As he demonstrated with his election victories in 1994, 2001, and 2008, Berlusconi’s greatest strength has always been building coalitions.",
        "他在1994年、2001年和2008年的选举胜利表明，贝卢斯科尼最大的优势一向是构建同盟。"
    ],
    [
        "On the Palestinian side, this is part of a deeper phenomenon: a longstanding failure to create the institutional structures necessary for nation building.",
        "在巴勒斯坦一方，这是更深层次现象的一部分：长期以来没能建立起来建国需要的体制结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is depressingly far from the level of unity needed to assume a major global role.",
        "欧洲距离承担重要全球角色所需的团结水平还相去甚远。"
    ],
    [
        "The dangers of a centralizing approach can also be seen in the relationship between the 17 current eurozone members and the 11 non-eurozone EU states.",
        "集中化观点的危险还可以见于目前17个欧元区成员国和11个非欧元区成员国欧盟国家之间的关系中。"
    ],
    [
        "Abu Bakar Ba’asyir is a radical Muslim cleric who was convicted of blessing the original 2002 Bali bombing, and suspected by some of providing much more.",
        "激进的穆斯林教士阿布·巴卡尔·巴希尔因为公开赞颂2002年巴厘岛爆炸案，并被怀疑可能有更多的不法行为而被判刑。"
    ],
    [
        "But analogies are not always wrong, and those that were wrong in the past could prove correct today. One of the arguments for the Vietnam War was the so-called domino theory. If South Vietnam was to fall to the Communists, other countries in South-East Asia would tumble before Communist insurgency.",
        "但这类比喻也并不总是错的，而且以前一些被认为是谬误的如今也被证明有理。 其中一个支持发动越战的论点就是所谓的多米诺骨牌效应，认为如果南越落到了共产分子手里，那么随后其他东南亚国家也会纷纷被共产主义运动所颠覆。"
    ],
    [
        "For Trump, who is first and foremost a businessman, letting a competitor take care of his enemies appears good for the bottom line.",
        "对首先是一位商人的特朗普来说，让竞争对手来看管敌人看上去颇有利可图。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the debate on Libya has focused on what steps its government should take next.",
        "美国国内就利比亚问题的辩论集中在该国政府接下来应该采取哪些措施。"
    ],
    [
        "On the left, Royal, the Socialist president of the region of Poitou-Charentes, has scant government experience, serving brief stints as environment minister, family minister, and education minister.",
        "左派方面，普瓦图·夏朗德省的社会党领袖罗亚尔没有多少从政经验，只是临时就任过环境、家庭和教育部长。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world’s population ages, the incidence of NCDs is expected to rise, accounting for 52 million deaths annually by 2030.",
        "随着世界人口的老龄化，NCD发病率预计将不断上升，到2030年每年造成5,200万人死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama is not a failed president.",
        "奥巴马不是一个失败的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "But the stunting of early childhood growth as a result of malnutrition remains high, dropping by only about 1% over the same period.",
        "但营养不良导致的幼儿生长发育障碍依然严重，同期仅有约1%的降幅。"
    ],
    [
        "The vote for a president is a sort of private contract directly between each voter and his or her preferred choice.",
        "总统投票是每位选民和他或她所喜爱的领导人之间一份直接的私人合同。"
    ],
    [
        "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for example, has called for global public investment in clean energy.",
        "比如，印度总理莫迪呼吁增加清洁能源的全球公共投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a system can generate a self-reinforcing set of popular beliefs, which may explain why countries like Argentina and Venezuela repeatedly drive down dead-end streets.",
        "这样的系统可以生成一套自我强化的民众观念，也许可以解释为什么像阿根廷和委内瑞拉这样的国家一再拐进了死胡同。"
    ],
    [
        "A more plausible explanation is that institutional differences in the ability to borrow dictate to some extent the disparity in savings rates across countries.",
        "而另一个更能令人信服的解释就是在借贷能力上的制度差异在某种程度上决定着各国之间储蓄率的不一致性。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these tactics are in Trump’s inventory.",
        "所有这些战术都进入了特朗普的武器库。"
    ],
    [
        "Something new is called for, and cash transfers directly to poor people could be an alternative − but only as a part of a longer-term vision of partner countries’ welfare systems.",
        "人们要求有新的东西，而向贫困人们直接转移现金可以成为一种选择。 但是这一做法只能是伙伴国家福利制度长久愿景的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Excessive fiscal deficits in many Western countries must be reduced.",
        "许多西欧国家过度的财政赤字必须削减。"
    ],
    [
        "John Kerry's great virtue has been to resist confusing the demand for security and peace with the hegemonic impulses of America the hyper-power.",
        "约翰·凯利最大的优点就是拒绝把对和平安全的需求与希望美国扮演超级大国的霸权冲动混为一谈。"
    ],
    [
        "European leaders are already meeting with their Indian and Chinese counterparts to find areas where they can cooperate on developing clean energy and green infrastructure.",
        "欧洲领导人已经同印度和中国领导人会晤，寻找可以合作开发清洁能源和绿色基础设施的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has accused Russia of orchestrating similar attacks on German government computer systems.",
        "德国联邦宪法维护局指责俄罗斯精心策划了针对德国政府计算机系统的类似袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also requires fiscal stimulus, especially public investment in productive infrastructure projects, which yield higher returns than the bonds used to finance them.",
        "但这还需要财政刺激，特别是生产性基础设施工程方面的公共投资，以产生比作为融资手段的债券更高的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the loss of the city of Palmyra to the Islamic State, families of Russian advisers began to be repatriated.",
        "继巴尔米拉市被伊斯兰国攻陷后，俄罗斯顾问家属的撤离工作正式开始。"
    ],
    [
        "It alerts us to randomness in the physical and social world, and to the role that uncertainty plays in our communities and personal lives.",
        "它让我们警觉实体和社会世界中的随机性，警惕不确定性在我们的社区和个人生活中所扮演的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "This “genuine American method,” as Charles William Eliot, Harvard’s longest-serving president, called it, became the norm not only for private universities, but also for public institutions, such as the University of Michigan and Purdue University, and even religious institutions like the University of Notre Dame and Duke University.",
        "这一长期担任哈佛校长的查尔斯·威廉·艾略特（Charles William Eliot）口中的“正宗美国做法”不但成为私立大学的标准模式，也为密歇根大学、普渡大学等院校所效仿，甚至圣母大学（University of Notre Dame）和杜克大学也采取了这一做法。"
    ],
    [
        "But, Rebecca adds, “It was cool being a science student.”",
        "”但丽贝卡补充道，“学习理科是一件很酷的事。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In a new book, The Curse of Cash, Kenneth Rogoff champions the elimination of high-denomination notes in order to fight tax evasion and criminal activity.",
        "在新书《现金的诅咒》（The Curse of Cash）中肯尼斯·罗格夫（Kenneth Rogoff）主张取消高面额钞票以打击逃税和犯罪行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The credibility and independence of monetary authorities are essential to the effectiveness of their policies.",
        "货币当局的信誉和独立性是其货币政策效果的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians and activists portray these issues as social struggles or morality plays: big businesses against small farmers, oppressors versus liberators, or conspirators seeking to deceive innocent citizens.",
        "政客和活动家将这些问题包装成社会斗争或道德表演：大公司与小农民之争、镇压者与解放者之争，或者用阴谋论蒙骗天真的公民。"
    ],
    [
        "The next step in this process – a parliamentary election – should occur as soon as possible.",
        "这一过程的下一步——议会选举——将尽快进行。"
    ],
    [
        "An invasion of Iraq would bring that process to a grinding halt.",
        "而入侵伊拉克会使这一进程嘎然而止。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the system lacked effective arrangements to align fiscal and other economic policies.",
        "首先，相关制度缺乏整合财政和其他经济政策的有效机制。"
    ],
    [
        "It is therefore a good time to introduce carbon taxes, so that the oil windfall is not simply gobbled up at the gas station.",
        "因此，现在是开征碳税的好时机，这样才能避免石油暴利由加油站所独享。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, sky-high US interest rates produced by a general expectation of a massive ongoing dollar decline is a macroeconomic problem without a solution.",
        "而恰恰相反，大规模持续性美元贬值的普遍预期所带来的居高不下的美元利率却是没有办法解决的宏观经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But there won't be any more water.",
        "但是印度已经没有更多的水了。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s world, too, there is much that is not working well.",
        "在当今世界，很多事情都不尽如人意。"
    ],
    [
        "This would result in fewer asylum-seekers making life-threatening voyages that leave their families deeply indebted – human traffickers charge as much as €15,000 ($19,700) to cross the Mediterranean – only to be turned away.",
        "这样可以减少寻求庇护者冒着生命危险踏上欧洲之旅、致使家人债台高筑的状况——人贩子横渡地中海收费高达15,000欧元（合19,700美元）——而难民抵达后却根本无法进入。"
    ],
    [
        "The response to Hezbollah’s initial aggression, as well as Israel’s military response in Gaza, is disproportionate.",
        "对于真主党首先发动进攻的回应，跟以色列在加沙的军事回应是过度的。"
    ],
    [
        "When we first introduced the 1.5°C target back in 2009, we met substantial resistance.",
        "2009年当我们首次提出1. 5°C的目标时，我们遇到的阻力很大。"
    ],
    [
        "That evening, my father dined with the Ukrainian leaders.",
        "那天晚上，我的父亲和乌克兰领导人共进晚餐。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s pursuit of territorial claims in the East and South China Seas, and its policies in East Asia more generally, is fueling regional uncertainty.",
        "中国在东海和南海的领土主张及其在大东亚的政策正在增加地区不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it is the liquidity of US Treasury bonds that makes them the world’s leading reserve asset.",
        "毕竟正是美国国库债券的流动性使其成为世界上最主要的储备资产。"
    ],
    [
        "It was in those US counties, too, that local businesses cut employment most aggressively.",
        "地方企业削减人工最猛的也是这些县。"
    ],
    [
        "And here the contrast between Egypt and Tunisia may turn out to be an object lesson in what makes the difference between success and failure.",
        "而埃及和突尼斯之间的差别就成为了定义成功和失败国家之间区别的真实课程。"
    ],
    [
        "Shortly after that decision, German Chancellor Angela Merkel reversed her previous opposition to Turkish membership in the EU, calling it an “open-ended issue” during a visit to Istanbul.",
        "这项决策做出后不久，德国总理默克尔改变了之前反对土耳其加入欧盟的态度，在出访伊斯坦布尔时将其称之为“开放性事件”。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the United States’s military and political presence ensures regional stability.",
        "幸好有美国的军事和政治部署保证着地区稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "The German fascination with gold is a red herring.",
        "德国的黄金疯魔症没有现实基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise in housing prices, relative to income, is unlikely to be sudden, not least because speculators, anticipating the change, may bid up prices in advance.",
        "房价相对收入的上涨不可能是突然发生的，因为预料到价格变化的投机客会抢先抬价。"
    ],
    [
        "President Mahmoud Abbas’s failure to convene the Palestinian Legislative Assembly, due to a Hamas boycott, may lead inexorably to the final breakdown of the political structures created under the Oslo Accords.",
        "因为哈马斯抵制，阿巴斯主席未能召集巴勒斯坦立法会开会，这也许会不可避免地导致根据奥斯陆协议建立的政治结构的最终失败。"
    ],
    [
        "No one in a more established democratic state is surprised if one’s own side does not win.",
        "生活在老牌民主国家的人们绝不会因为自己支持的一方没有获胜而感到意外。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, a “hard” Brexit would come at a high economic cost for the UK.",
        "可以肯定，硬脱欧或令英国付出重大的经济代价。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Images from the refugee crisis in Europe have juxtaposed smiling crowds in Vienna and Munich with grim, unwelcoming faces in Budapest.",
        "巴黎——维也纳和慕尼黑的微笑人群以及布达佩斯不友好的面孔共同组成了欧洲难民危机的典型景象。"
    ],
    [
        "Harvard’s Kenneth Rogoff holds a different view: Bernanke’s cardinal error was to focus too narrowly on the money supply.",
        "哈佛大学的肯尼斯·罗格夫（Kenneth Rogoff）持不同看法：伯南克的主要错误是过于狭隘地关注货币供给。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than modifying a policy framework that had failed for five years to deliver on its stated objectives, they dug in their heels, eventually resorting to the economic equivalent of gunboat diplomacy.",
        "他们没有去修补五年来从未实现预定目标的政策框架，而是挖他的墙角，最终形成了经济版炮舰外交的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s Terrorist Aid",
        "以色列对恐怖分子的援助"
    ],
    [
        "After the passage of Brexit, the same journal warned, “Britain is sailing into a storm with no one at the wheel.”",
        "”英国退出公投通过后，《经济学人》警告“英国驶入风暴，船上无人掌舵。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Seventy years ago, Japan had been reduced to ashes, and each and every month, citizens of the United States sent and brought gifts like milk for our children, warm sweaters, and even goats.",
        "七十年前，日本被夷为平地，每个月，美国公民都会给我们的孩子们寄送或带来儿童牛奶、温暖的毛衣甚至山羊等礼物。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Incarcerated Economy",
        "身陷囹圄的美国经济"
    ],
    [
        "Although Europe is unlikely to become poorer as a consequence of this demographic shift, it may experience a prolonged period of slower growth.",
        "尽管欧洲不大可能由于这一人口变迁而变得相对贫困，但是，它却可能会经历长时间放缓的增长时期。"
    ],
    [
        "Many foreign commentators described the presidential and parliamentary elections as a contest between Turkey’s secular past and a putative Islamist future.",
        "许多外国评论家都将这次的总统和国会大选看作是土耳其世俗的过去和可能的伊斯兰主义未来之间的较量。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a logical thread that explains these apparent inconsistencies, one that centers on a potentially high-stakes Fed gamble.",
        "但有一个逻辑线条可以解释这些显而易见的不一致，其核心是一个潜在后果巨大的美联储赌注。"
    ],
    [
        "And China’s dam building inside Burma to generate power for export to Chinese provinces has contributed to renewed bloody fighting recently, ending a 17-year ceasefire between the Kachin Independence Army and the government.",
        "而中国为满足其国内省份电力需求而在缅甸境内修建的水坝最近又重新引发了血腥冲突，打破了克钦独立军和缅甸政府之间长达17年的停火状态"
    ],
    [
        "However, for political reasons, the changes were always justified in an almost apologetic way.",
        "但是，出于政治原因，这些变化总是需要通过致歉后补偿的方式实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than being regulated by a contract, the value of labor is being subjected to the same market forces buffeting any other commodity, as services vary in price depending on supply and demand. Labor becomes marked to market.",
        "劳动力价值不再受制于一纸合同，而是随服务价格决定于供需变化，受制于控制其他商品的同样的市场力量。"
    ],
    [
        "And France and Germany differ on priorities.",
        "法国和德国的重点也有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "This leads to a “chilling effect” among those serving in the military public affairs field, who conclude that there is no tolerance for innovation.",
        "这导致在美军公共事务部门服务的人的“激冷效应”，他们得出结论说人们不容忍创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Lower down the economic scale, most people, though enjoying easy access to technology and low prices, have lost ground, with real wages falling for many years.",
        "在他们之下，大部分人尽管享受着便捷而廉价的技术，却在节节败退，真实工资下降之势已经持续多年。"
    ],
    [
        "Euroskeptics claim that leaving the EU would enable the UK to dictate terms in trade negotiations with other members by virtue of the fact that Britain runs a trade deficit with them.",
        "欧盟怀疑论者宣称英国退出欧盟后可以主宰与其他成员国贸易谈判达成的条款，因为英国与其他成员国贸易呈赤字关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they have focused on strategies for preventing the kidneys from filtering the infused hemoglobin; the hemoglobin from leaking through the blood-vessel walls; and synthetic hemoglobin from destroying nitric oxide (a gas produced in blood vessels that helps them to dilate and increase blood flow).",
        "防止血红蛋白漏出血管壁； 以及防止合成血红蛋白破坏一氧化氮上（一氧化氮是血管内产生的气体，它有助于血管膨胀，增加血流）。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early 1990s, the US considered using military force to nip the North Korean program in the bud, but held off for fear of triggering a second Korean War.",
        "20世纪90年代初，美国就考虑对尚处于萌芽状态的朝鲜核计划予以军事摧毁，但因为担心引发第二次朝鲜战争而作罢。"
    ],
    [
        "And we can encourage and facilitate apprenticeships that provide technical skills and opportunities for civic education.",
        "我们还应当鼓励并推动为公民教育提供技能和机会的学徒岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments certainly have a role to play in supporting the development of new technologies, such as fracking; but, once the technology has been developed, there is no reason why one form of gas production should be subsidized via tax breaks.",
        "政府显然应该在支持新技术的开发中扮演角色，液压致裂法就是一例； 但是，当技术已经成熟时，就没有理由要求某种天然气的生产方式应该通过税收减免的形式予以补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "Little more than a decade ago, European leaders announced to great fanfare the “Lisbon Agenda,” a policy blueprint to make Europe “the most competitive, knowledge-based economy in the world.” The new “Competitiveness Pact,” proposed at the EU summit by France and Germany, did not make the same pretensions to global grandeur, but was instead sold as a step required to ensure the survival of the euro.",
        "就在10年多以前，欧洲各国领导人隆重推出了《里斯本议程》——一份旨在将欧洲建成为“世界上最具竞争力知识经济体”的政治蓝图，而由英法两国在本次欧盟峰会上提出的《竞争力协议》却缺乏如斯宏图大志，仅仅是确保欧元能继续生存下去的一步棋而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Across the continent, but especially in southern Europe, taxes and strict labor-market regulations keep unemployment high, at 11% of the labor force, and dissuade Europeans from investing in their education.",
        "整个欧洲大陆，尤其南欧，税收和严苛的劳动力市场使得失业率居高不下，占劳动力总量的11%，也因此阻碍了欧洲人对教育的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "There is much more to come.",
        "远远不止这些。"
    ],
    [
        "They are finding themselves forced to shift their own rhetoric and attitude in order to dampen their defense of policies viewed as pro-American or US-inspired, and to stiffen their resistance to Washington's demands and desires.",
        "他们被迫改变自己的说辞和态度，以免被贴上亲美或美国授意的标签，加大力度抵制华盛顿的要求和希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the Islamists are unlikely to interfere in the post-Arafat power struggle, they will not sit idly by if the new leadership moves in what they consider the wrong direction.",
        "尽管伊斯兰教徒不太可能卷入后阿拉法特时代的权力斗争，但如果新领袖在他们看来犯了方向性的错误，那他们也绝不会坐视不管。"
    ],
    [
        "The typical bank is capitalized with equity, long-term debt, short-term debt, and deposits.",
        "一个典型的银行是由股权，长期债券，短期债券和存款组成的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the devil is in the details, and, even in the most optimistic scenario, the trade-off between competition and stability will remain.",
        "但如何设置细节成了一场噩梦，即使是在最乐观的情景中，竞争-稳定权衡问题也无法消除。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires that we hone our tools and develop new ones, ranging from early-warning mechanisms to enhanced means of international cooperation.",
        "这要求我们锤炼旧工具、开发新工具，比如早期预警机制、强化国际合作的手段等。"
    ],
    [
        "But, without a broadly consistent approach, the authorities risk creating a legal patchwork that would make cross-border banking less efficient, more expensive, and more difficult to conduct.",
        "但是，如果没有广泛的一致方法，可能会出现各国监管各自为政的局面，跨国银行业务将因此变得效率更低、价格更高、也更难以驾驭。"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of their citizens, the global trading system, and the world’s poor, it is time to get back to business.",
        "为了它们的民众，为了全球贸易体系和世界上贫穷的人，是到了重回多哈谈判桌的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "Creating a marketplace where such uncertainties are traded and hedged would be a fundamental step toward managing the risks involved.",
        "建立一个能够交易并隔离这种不确定性因素的市场，将是迈向解决相关风险的关键一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Both the US and Russia benefit from higher oil prices, whereas countries like China and Japan suffer.",
        "美国和俄罗斯都可以从油价上涨中获益，而中国和日本等国家将受损。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 30 years since the Reagan tax cuts were enacted, tax rates have increased substantially, particularly for higher-income taxpayers.",
        "里根减税实施30年来，税率大幅提高，特别是对高收入纳税人而言。"
    ],
    [
        "What ever else it may be, Earth Hour is surely one of the most successful publicity stunts ever dreamed up.",
        "姑且不论其他意义，“地球一小时”肯定是人类能想象出来的最成功的大众行为艺术之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s economy had been stagnating for almost two decades when the 2008 crisis erupted.",
        "2008年危机爆发时，日本经济已经停滞了近20年。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, China’s leaders seem to believe that the 2008 economic crisis and the high costs of two foreign wars have left the US in no position to exercise international leadership.",
        "比如，中国领导人似乎认为2008年经济危机和两场海外战争的巨大代价意味着美国已不再能够行使国际领导力。"
    ],
    [
        "Peraturan-peraturan ini memberikan perlindungan khusus kepada investor asing yang sering bertentangan dengan peraturan kesehatan masyarakat atau lingkungan.",
        "这些规则为时常与公共卫生或环境监管出现冲突的外国投资者提供特殊保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the gap between Greece and Albania, at three to one, was narrower than it is now.",
        "5比1。 即使是希腊和阿尔巴尼亚之间的差异当时是3比1，也要比现在低。"
    ],
    [
        "But to place the blame for this on immigrants is wrong, and exacerbates the problem.",
        "但把这一现象归咎于移民并不正确，只能让问题扩大化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the UN report lists 29 economies that are likely to be badly affected by China’s slowdown.",
        "事实上，联合国报告指出有29个经济体可能会受到中国经济放缓的严重影响。"
    ],
    [
        "When Chernobyl exploded, it was not Ukraine alone that inherited generations of radioactive effects.",
        "但切尔诺贝利核电站爆炸时，并不是只有乌克兰才遭受几代人的辐射影响。"
    ],
    [
        "A good place to start would be the formation of a Red Sea Trade Agreement, similar to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, outlining specific measures to reduce the costs of cross-border trade and mechanisms to settle disputes between investors and governments.",
        "一个很好的入手点是签订红海贸易协议，效仿跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP），列出具体措施降低跨境贸易成本、制定解决投资者和政府间纠纷的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, the term was an effort to communicate to Americans, accustomed to waging war with speed and decisiveness (and insistent on it since Vietnam), the long-term sacrifice and commitment needed to win a war of survival.",
        "无论如何，这个词是说给美国人听的，美国人习惯于发动决定性速决战（自越战以来这就是美军所坚持的方针），为事关存亡的战争作出长期牺牲和奋斗。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Oscar Wilde said that experience is the name we give to our mistakes.",
        "发自巴黎——王尔德曾说过：所谓经验，只不过是我们给错误所取的名字而已。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s purpose, however, remains unclear.",
        "但美国并没有明确的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Blind Alley of Monetary Populism",
        "货币民粹主义死路一条"
    ],
    [
        "The new lineup eliminated the most powerful voice on the left (Bo) and relegated the “extreme reformers” on the right (Li Yuanchao and Wang Yang) to the second tier.",
        "新阵容排除了最强硬的左派（薄熙来），而右派“极端改革者”（李源潮和汪洋）只能位居次等。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Obama’s strategy toward the Islamic State seeks merely to limit the reach of a barbaric medieval order.",
        "类似地，奥巴马的伊斯兰国战略也只是意图限制野蛮中世纪秩序的蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "In the real world, however, if Italy and Spain are viewed as being solvent, or too big to fail, official funding should be structured so that it gives these countries their best chance to regain market confidence.",
        "但是，在现实世界中如果意大利和西班牙被认定破了产（或太大而不能倒），就必须组织官方融资，以便这些国家能尽可能地赢回市场信心。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, China’s reaction to all of this new activity has been to dig in its heels and insist on addressing its territorial disputes with ASEAN’s militarily inferior members on a bilateral basis.",
        "迄今为止，中国对所有新情况的反应是毫不妥协，坚持与在军事上远逊于自己的东盟成员国在双边基础上解决领土争端。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, the authorities have been deploying every piece of policy artillery they can muster in a vain attempt to moderate this summer’s plunge in equity prices.",
        "最近，当局拿出了所有政策手段，徒劳地试图缓和今年夏天的股价暴跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the alarmingly high level of youth joblessness increases the risk of relatively new entrants into the labor force becoming unemployable.",
        "类似地，年轻人失业率水平已达到了足以引起警觉的程度，职场的相对新人刚进入劳动力市场就得面临失业的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "But the reality is that, if two sides willingly trade, it can be assumed that both are better off; otherwise, one of them would refuse to trade.",
        "但现实是，如果双方自愿贸易，那么可以认为双方都受益了，否则，其中一方将拒绝贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, exactly the same debate raged then.",
        "事实上，同样的争论在当时也曾经闹得不可开交。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, higher private consumption implies an end to China’s surplus saving – and thus to the seemingly open-ended recycling of that surplus into dollar-based assets such as US Treasury bills.",
        "毕竟更高的私人消费意味着中国的储蓄盈余时代走向终结——从而也不能再无限循环利用这种盈余转化为美元资产，比如美国国库券。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that the rate of innovation will depend, at least in part, on the size and interconnectedness of the pool of minds contributing to the cultural evolutionary process.",
        "这意味着创新的速度将取决于（至少部分如此）促进文化演进过程的人类思想的数量多寡和联系程度。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because the regulator had pronounced them safe, far too many banks overloaded on them, rendering them even more risky when the banks tried to sell them at the same time.",
        "而由于监管者曾宣称它们是安全的，因此太多的银行过多地持有了这些工具，当所有银行同时开始抛售时，更增加了它们的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they waited too long.",
        "结果，它们等待了太长时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, SDG 14 commits world leaders to end overfishing, eliminate illegal fishing, establish more marine protected areas, reduce plastic litter and other sources of marine pollution, and increase ocean resilience to acidification.",
        "具体来说，第14号可持续发展目标协议要求世界各国领导人结束过度捕捞，杜绝非法捕捞，建立更多的海洋保护区，减少塑料垃圾以及其他海洋污染来源，并增强海洋对酸化现象的抵抗力。"
    ],
    [
        "We will need to shift to no- or low-carbon energy by mid-century.",
        "我们需要在本世纪中叶转向非碳或低碳能源。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in a tradition that spans centuries of European missionary zeal, his opportunism has been cloaked in moral terms: “We don’t imprison women behind fabric.”",
        "但在持续几个世纪的欧洲传教热情的感召下，萨科奇的机会主义却被披上了道德的外衣：“我们不允许用布料来禁锢妇女。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "If clinicians and health-care workers do not receive multidisciplinary training, they will be unequipped to recognize and address local public-health needs throughout the region.",
        "如果临床医生和医疗工作者不接受多学科培训，就无法认识和解决整个地区的地方公共卫生需求。"
    ],
    [
        "But is he any more so now than he was when the American people elected him?",
        "但他现在是不是比美国民众选他的时候情况更糟？"
    ],
    [
        "The Brexit Balance Sheet",
        "英国退欧的资产负债表"
    ],
    [
        "Realistically, it will be difficult to forge agreement on what specific sovereign obligations states have and how they should be enforced.",
        "实际上，各国很难达成一致国家具有哪些具体的主权义务及其该以什么样的方式加以执行。"
    ],
    [
        "There have been several legal fights recently between city governments and state legislatures over the principle of preemption, which holds that state laws override local laws.",
        "最近各市政府和州立法机关之间就围绕法律优先适用原则展开了几场法律斗争——该原则认为地方法律应服从于州法律。"
    ],
    [
        "This year marks the centenary of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, and on August 15 many countries will commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the end of WWII in the Pacific.",
        "今年正值1905年日俄战争发生一百年，而许多国家将于8月15日纪念二次世界大战太平洋战争结束六十周年。"
    ],
    [
        "Wars have beginnings and ends.",
        "战争有始有终。"
    ],
    [
        "But numbers alone will not be enough to stop the Taliban, which already ruled the country once, despite being a small minority force.",
        "但光是数字并不足以阻止曾一度控制过这个国家的塔利班，尽管塔利班军队规模已经很小。"
    ],
    [
        "All debts imply a commitment by the borrower to repay what was borrowed, with interest.",
        "一切债务都隐含着借款人偿还所借款项并支付利息的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Myanmar’s transition is in some ways quieter, without the fanfare of Twitter and Facebook, but it is no less real – and no less deserving of support.",
        "缅甸的转型从某种程度上来说称得上悄无声息，没有在Twitter和Facebook上引起热烈关注，但其真实程度并不亚于阿拉伯之春，也和阿拉伯之春一样值得国际社会予以支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Redefining Business Competence",
        "重新定义商业胜任力"
    ],
    [
        "The West is, of course, limited in its ability to shape the transition process.",
        "当然，西方在决定埃及转型过程方面只能起到有限作用。"
    ],
    [
        "So, with its domestic economy basically secure, is there anything China can do to help the world economy?",
        "因此，中国国内的经济基本上是安全的，那么中国还能做些什么来帮助世界经济呢？"
    ],
    [
        "As Trump ordered the review of Dodd-Frank, he also suspended implementation, pending review, of the so-called fiduciary rule, adopted, after extensive preparation, by President Barack Obama’s administration.",
        "在特朗普下令对多德-弗兰克进行审查的同时，他还暂停了在长期准备后由奥巴马政府通过的所谓受托规则（fiduciary rule）的执行，并将其放入等待审查的队列中。"
    ],
    [
        "As the figure below shows, inflation in nearly half of all countries (advanced and emerging, large and small) is now at or below 2% (which is how most central bankers define price stability).",
        "下面的数据显示，目前近一半的国家（发达国家和新兴国家、大国和小国）通胀没有超过2%（大部分央行定义物价稳定的数字）。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Iran’s creeping de facto annexation of parts of Iraq – astonishingly, with American acceptance – continues because no one except the so-called “Islamic State” has the stomach to stand up to it.",
        "此外，伊朗继续偷偷摸摸地事实吞并部分伊拉克领土——令人惊讶的是这种做法得到了美国的认可——因为除所谓“伊斯兰国”以外没有人愿意站出来和伊朗对抗。"
    ],
    [
        "In other areas, traditional not-for-profit colleges perform better, with higher completion rates and superior labor-market outcomes.",
        "在其他领域，传统非盈利大学表现更好，毕业率更高，就业情况也更好。"
    ],
    [
        "The weaker the civilian leadership has become, the more China has been inclined to discard Deng Xiaoping’s dictum tao guang yang hui (hide brightness, nourish obscurity).",
        "文职领导层越软弱，中国就越有背离邓小平韬光养晦遗训的倾向。"
    ],
    [
        "There are two reasons why international law is tolerant of the use of all, or nearly all, necessary force.",
        "国际法容忍适用所有、或者几乎所有的必要武力有两个原因。"
    ],
    [
        "There are serious risks.",
        "但不丹也面对某些严重的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Given low tariffs in the EU and the US – less than 5%, on average – further preferential reductions will not seriously handicap outsiders.",
        "欧盟和美国关税很低——平均不到5%——因此进一步的优惠降税并不会严重影响其他国家。"
    ],
    [
        "We need not become too alarmed yet.",
        "我们现在尚无需惊慌。"
    ],
    [
        "During the winter of 1976, when Premier Zhou Enlai (viewed as a relative liberal in the Maoist hierarchy) died, tens of thousands of people spontaneously flooded Tiananmen Square, giving the Party a tremendous fright.",
        "1976年冬周恩来总理（毛体制下相对的自由主义者）去世时，成千上万人自发地涌向天安门广场，令当时的领导人感到巨大的恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "But Keynesians have to face the uncomfortable truth that the success of stabilization policies may depend on the business community having Keynesian expectations.",
        "但凯恩斯主义者必须直面一个令人不快的事实，即稳定政策的成功可能取决于企业界具有凯恩斯主义的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Golden worked under Swensen at Yale from 1988 until 1993.",
        "6%。 实际上，戈登在1988年至1993年期间在斯文森手下工作。"
    ],
    [
        "In economic terms, high commodity prices fueled strong growth in South America in 2011, and the modest US recovery benefited nearby countries.",
        "在经济方面，2011年，大宗商品的高价格促使拉丁美洲强劲增长，美国经济适度复苏也让邻近的国家受益。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in much of the West, states adhere to models of welfare provision that increasingly disappoint their citizens and are often unaffordable.",
        "而在西方，许多国家所采取的福利提供模式日益令公民失望，并且常常不堪重负。"
    ],
    [
        "When economics clashes with an institution’s rules, policymakers must either find creative ways to amend the rules or watch their creation collapse.",
        "当经济考量与一套制度的规则冲突时，决策者必须要么找出创新方法修改规则，要么眼睁睁看着他们创造出来的东西轰然倒塌。"
    ],
    [
        "In the advanced countries, the market for first-time purchases of mass-market goods like cars, refrigerators, and televisions is saturated, while the secondary market for used and reconditioned goods has become much less dynamic, undermining employment in repairs and renovations.",
        "在发达国家，汽车、冰箱、电视等大众市场商品的首次购买市场已经饱和，二手和翻新商品的二级市场早已没有了活力，这破坏了修理和翻新方面的就业。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that the UK has a strong interest in retaining full access to the EU market – the eurozone accounts for half of its exports of goods and services – but seems unwilling to submit to any obligation.",
        "问题在于，完全进入欧盟市场对英国来说利益重大——欧元区占据其商品和服务出口的一半——但英国不愿意承担任何义务。"
    ],
    [
        "Clinton was able to combine a sense of theater with narrative stories and an overall ability to convey an argument.",
        "克林顿则能够实现戏剧效果和叙事故事以及表达观点总体能力的有机的结合。"
    ],
    [
        "I arrived in Britain from Hungary in 1947 as a refugee.",
        "1947年，我以一名难民的身份从匈牙利抵达英国。"
    ],
    [
        "Publication of that list in January 1933 led to a crisis of confidence in banks that were revealed to have borrowed from the government.",
        "这份名单在1933年1月一经发布，公众立刻对那些被披露曾向政府借款的银行爆发了信任危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea is to keep expenditure below what the government can raise in taxes in the long run (thereby ensuring sustainability), while allowing deficits whenever the economy is operating below potential and tax revenue is abnormally low (thereby guaranteeing flexibility and contributing to macroeconomic stabilization).",
        "原则是确保开销低于政府所能收取的长期税收（从而确保可持续发展），并在经济低于潜在水平且税收异常低迷时容忍出现赤字（从而在确保灵活的同时促进宏观经济稳定） 。"
    ],
    [
        "But the announcement of this policy change at the February meeting also did not go smoothly.",
        "但这一政策变化在二月会议上的宣布也并非一帆风顺。"
    ],
    [
        "Different products and categories enter the “hot zone” at different moments: those with low price points, such as snacks and beverages, typically take off relatively early; beauty products somewhat later; and luxury goods, such as branded fashion, later still.",
        "不同的产品和品类会在不同时刻进入“热销期”：那些消费者心理价位较低的，例如小食和饮料，一般会较早启动； 而美容化妆产品会迟一点；"
    ],
    [
        "In an already fragile region, a major Arab country like Iraq would most likely prompt interventions by its nervous neighbors - of which there is no shortage - if it turns into a failed state.",
        "在已经非常脆弱的阿拉伯地区，像伊拉克这样的主要国家如果陷入内乱，就很可能招来邻国的不安和干预，这样的邻居可谓比比皆是。"
    ],
    [
        "If central banks had not acted decisively to inject liquidity into their economies, the world could have faced a much worse outcome.",
        "如果当年各大央行没能果断向经济中注入流动性，全球都将面对一个更加恶劣的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Employment is increasingly precariousness.",
        "就业问题越来越成为一个不安定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The region is home to most of the world’s poorest states or territories in terms of water resources, including Bahrain, Djibouti, Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.",
        "该地区也是世界上大部分水资源最贫乏国家或领地所在地，包括巴林、吉布提、加沙、约旦、科威特、利比亚、卡塔尔、沙特阿拉伯和阿联酋。"
    ],
    [
        "Another wrong turn is the proposal recently embraced by two American presidential candidates to temporarily scrap taxes on gasoline.",
        "两位美国总统侯选人最近提议暂时取消汽油税，这也是一个错误之举。"
    ],
    [
        "Central Banking’s New Face",
        "中央银行业务的新面孔"
    ],
    [
        "The tourism industry has been directly hit by people refraining from travel, and the abundant hot springs in the Tohoku region, normally popular with tourists and totally unaffected by the earthquake or tsunami, have become a victim of the disaster.",
        "人们暂停出游直接打击了旅游业，平常深受游客喜爱的东北地区丰富的温泉资源虽然根本未受地震或海啸影响，但仍然沦为了这场灾难的牺牲品。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps more robust military intervention will provoke further atrocities.",
        "也许更强硬的军事干预会引来更多的暴行。"
    ],
    [
        "The BBC’s Nepalese service, which used to be relayed through a network of 12 FM stations all over the country, has been stopped.",
        "曾经通过一个由12个FM频道组成的广播网在全国范围内转播的BBC尼泊尔台已经被停止。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the CIA was designed to avoid genuine democratic oversight and provide presidents with “plausible deniability.”",
        "事实上，CIA就是为了避免真正的民主监督、为总统提供“合理否认”（plausible deniability）的。"
    ],
    [
        "The integration of the two high-tech aviation and avionics leaders had looked like an EU-inspired blueprint for industrial success.",
        "这两家航空和航空电子技术领导企业的合并曾视作为欧盟工业腾飞的创意蓝图。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, increasing demand by prolonging easy monetary policy or expanding fiscal spending is likely to result in rising inflation rather than rising employment.",
        "相反，通过延长宽松货币政策或扩张性财政政策增加需求有可能导致通胀抬头而非就业增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, erratic US trade threats are not the way to convince China to apply pressure on its troublesome ally.",
        "在这种背景下，反复无常的美国贸易威胁可没法说服中国去对自己那个爱惹麻烦的盟友施加压力。"
    ],
    [
        "A right-leaning president, Santos won reelection in 2014 by emphasizing these peace efforts, which garnered him strong support from the left.",
        "作为一名右倾总统，2014年桑托斯凭借强调和平——这让他获得了来自左翼的强烈支持——实现连任。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, some workers in Europe do migrate. In the absence of the high degree of mobility seen in the US, however, overall unemployment can be lowered only if high-unemployment countries can ease monetary policy, an option precluded by the single currency.",
        "虽然某些欧洲劳动者确实能在各国间迁徙，但由于缺乏美国劳动者所拥有的高度流动性，欧洲的总体失业率只有在高失业率国家实行宽松货币政策之后才能有所下降，但这条路已经被单一货币堵死了。"
    ],
    [
        "Gingrich and the other Republicans have an even more aggressive agenda of cutting taxes and reducing the size and scope of government.",
        "金里奇和其他共和党人的减税和缩小政府规模与范围的计划比罗姆尼还要激进。"
    ],
    [
        "In a 2015 survey conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics, 93% of Israeli Jews expressed trust in the army, compared to only 40% in the government, and only 22% in Israeli political parties.",
        "据中央统计局（Central Bureau of Statistics）2015年的一份调查，93%的以色列犹太人表示信任军方，而只有40%表示信任政府，更只有22%表示信任以色列政治党派。"
    ],
    [
        "This partly reflects the failure of public policy to ameliorate the distributive consequences of rapid economic growth.",
        "这部分反映出公共政策没能解决快速经济增长的分配问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Obesity and agricultural efficiency in rich countries are certainly important.",
        "富裕国家的肥胖和农业效率问题当然重要。"
    ],
    [
        "As Michael Klag and his colleagues showed a decade ago, in general, the darker one's skin color, the higher the rate of hypertension for American blacks, even within the African American community.",
        "正如Michael Klag及其同事10年前所说的那样，一般来讲，美国黑人群体肤色越黑，高血压的患病比率越高，即便在非洲裔美国人团体内部也莫不如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The West should facilitate this change in his calculus.",
        "西方应当竭力促成这样的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "However, all external observers know very well that this is not the case, even if Abbas can undoubtedly succeed in reducing the level and number of attacks.",
        "但是，所有外部的观察家们都清楚地知道即便阿巴斯确实能够降低恐怖活动的数量和水平，事实也并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Nepal’s earlier experiments with democratic governance were not very successful; democratically elected governments (in the late 1950’s and the 1990’s) were unceremoniously replaced by prolonged autocratic rule.",
        "尼泊尔早先试验进行民主制度都不成功。 五十年代和九十年代经过民主选举上台的政府被漫长的专制统治悄无声息地取而代之。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they often see buying trendy shoes or a great haircut – rather than giving some money each month to a broker – as an “investment” in their romantic futures.",
        "结果，她们经常把花钱购买时髦的鞋子或者发型上，并把这看作是对她们浪漫未来的一种“投资” —— 而不是每月留出一些钱交给自己的投资经纪人。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, the pre-crisis boom in real-estate investment was fueled by reckless credit flows from Northern to Southern Europe.",
        "在欧洲，危机前的房地产投资繁荣受到从北欧往南欧的欠审慎信用流的推动。"
    ],
    [
        "Are those not sufficiently powerful advertisements for liberal democracy?",
        "难道这些还不足以作为自由民主最有力的宣传？"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Time to Learn",
        "欧洲参加主权债务危机补习班"
    ],
    [
        "Transmission in the US was nearly impossible, owing to the strength of the US health system, it was thought.",
        "人们想当然地以为由于美国医疗系统的实力雄厚，病毒在美国传播几乎是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Conditionality has plainly failed to deliver the intended results, because, ultimately, its success depends on countries’ willingness to accept the European agenda.",
        "条件性（conditionality）根本不能带来合意结果，因为说到底，其成功取决于各国接受欧洲日程的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "The rising oil prices that accompanied the adoption of these policies initially muted their impact, as imports could make up for the fall in output.",
        "伴随上述政策的油价上涨最初屏蔽了其负面影响，因为进口可以弥补产能的不足。"
    ],
    [
        "It is urgent that the CTBT take full legal effect around the world as soon as possible.",
        "该条约尽快在全球范围内全面生效的紧迫性无需赘述。"
    ],
    [
        "And now it is systematically lying about the causes of the mess it created and inventing scapegoats.",
        "而如今，政府又在系统性地撒谎，给他们所创造的乱象捏造替罪羊。"
    ],
    [
        "Malaysia’s Opposition Reborn",
        "马来西亚反对派的重生"
    ],
    [
        "Their inadequacies – embodied in a cumbersome system of governance, and in endless, inconclusive summitry – and their lack of democratic legitimacy are being repudiated by millions of voters throughout the continent.",
        "它们的失职——具体体现在臃肿的治理系统和迟迟拿不出结果的没完没了的峰会中——以及缺乏民主合法性正在受到欧洲大陆千百万选民的唾弃。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than confirming the paradigm of gradual and steady improvement, these disaggregated numbers attest to a highly segmented, multi-speed labor market – one with features that could become more deeply embedded in the structure of the economy.",
        "这些分散的数据告诉我们，劳动力市场的状况绝不是缓慢而稳健的改善，而是处于分裂、速度各异的状态——其特征更能体现经济的结构。"
    ],
    [
        "The islands, claimed by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei, are valuable because of their oil reserves and commercial fishing industry.",
        "中国、台湾、越南、菲律宾、马来西亚和文莱都宣称对南沙岛屿拥有主权，这些小岛因其石油储量和商业渔业价值而显得弥足珍贵。"
    ],
    [
        "Examples include the oil and gas sector, the health sector, and the humanitarian sector, including aid agencies and United Nations peacekeepers.",
        "这样的例子包括石油和天然气行业、卫生部门和人道主义部门，包括援助机构和联合国维和部队。"
    ],
    [
        "I condemned these attacks as abominable and an act of terrorism, since most of the thirteen victims during the past seven years have been non-combatants.",
        "我谴责这些袭击为可恶和恐怖行为，因为过去七年间的13位牺牲者大多数是非武装人员。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, returns on assets are likely to decline compared to the recent past; with prices already widely believed to be in bubble territory, a downward correction seems likely.",
        "因此，资产回报相较于不久前可能出现下滑； 资产价格已普遍认为存在泡沫，修正走势一触即发。"
    ],
    [
        "MacArthur’s rhetoric is stirring; some would say overblown.",
        "麦克阿瑟的演讲是激动人心的；"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the Iroquois tell the story of a great warrior and skilled orator named Hiawatha, who, traveling with the mystic Deganawidah, negotiated the treaties that established their confederation.",
        "比如，易洛魁人中间流传着一个关于伟大勇士和演说家海华沙（Hiawatha）的传说，他与神秘的德甘纳威达（Deganawidah）一起穿行于美洲大陆，谈判确定了易洛魁部落联盟的相关条约。"
    ],
    [
        "This strategy emphasizes the maintenance of an extensive law enforcement apparatus designed to eliminate any incipient organized opposition.",
        "这一策略强调维持庞大的执法力量，目的在于消灭任何早期的有组织反对势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Lviv is a deeply anti-Russian and pro-European city; but, for five days each summer, it hosts the Alpha Jazz Festival, sponsored by a Russian bank.",
        "利沃夫是一座根深蒂固的反俄亲欧城市； 但每年夏天，这里都会举行为期5天的由俄罗斯银行赞助的阿尔法爵士乐节。"
    ],
    [
        "So a majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives voted for the bill, expecting, with reasonable confidence, that it would be blocked in the 100-member Senate, where fewer than 40 of the 52 Republicans actually wanted it to pass.",
        "因此，众议院的共和党多数给该法案投了赞成票，他们有信心法案会被有100个席位、但其中52个共和党中只有不到40人真的希望该法案通过的参议院会将它“枪毙”。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – As the first wave of America’s baby boomers begins to retire, the retirement system is revealing its flaws.",
        "伯克利—随着美国首波婴儿潮开始退休，退休制度的漏洞正在显现。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is another side to the coin.",
        "但还有硬币的另外一面。"
    ],
    [
        "While Europeans chew on that, they should also reflect on what the Cairo speech could mean for their own position in the Middle East.",
        "因此当欧洲人思考这种可能性的时候，他们也要开始回想奥巴马开罗讲话对于自己在中东的地位究竟有何意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan insists – with good reason – that there were more kidnappings.",
        "但日本坚持认为——而且理由非常充分——有更多的绑架事件。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s crisis, we have seen some agile and creative reactions from central bankers in advanced economies.",
        "在当前的危机中，我们已经看到一些发达经济体的中央银行官员作出了灵活而具有创造性的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Elites will not willingly reform education if doing so puts their survival at risk.",
        "精英不会愿意进行教育改革，如果这样做会让他们的生存受到威胁的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Equality means different things to different people – and at different times.",
        "平等在不同的时代对不同的人意味着不同的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "One of their priorities is to attack the central bank and slander its governor, Leszek Balcerowicz, the iconic father of Poland’s economic transformation, with accusations that echo those of the Stalinist era.",
        "他们的重要议程之一就是攻击中央银行并用斯大林时代式的指控中伤其行长，被称为波兰经济转型之父的Leszek Balcerowicz。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it would be wrong to view this as a purely regional phenomenon limited to the so-called Arab Spring.",
        "此外，不应认为这纯属地区现象，所谓阿拉伯之春。"
    ],
    [
        "The letter accuses the government, controlled by the Law and Justice (PiS) party, of restricting civil liberties and undermining the judiciary.",
        "该信件指责由法律与正义党（PiS）所控制的政府限制公民自由并破坏司法体系。"
    ],
    [
        "When violence erupts in water-starved regions such as Darfur, Sudan, political leaders tend to view the problems in narrow political terms.",
        "当缺水地区，诸如达尔富尔和苏丹，爆发暴力活动时，政治领导人从狭隘的政治角度来看待问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A Fair Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance",
        "对耐药性的公平之战"
    ],
    [
        "A central bank’s job is to uphold in practice Say’s Law – the principle that output is balanced by demand, with neither too little demand to purchase what is produced (which would cause unemployment) nor too much (which would cause inflation) – because Say’s Law certainly does not hold in theory.",
        "中央银行的责任是支持萨伊定律的实践——即产出由需求来平衡，使需求既不能太少以至于无法买走生产出来的东西（这会造成失业），也不能太多（这会造成通胀）——因为萨伊定律在理论上肯定是无法维持的。"
    ],
    [
        "Those rules and structures have delivered unprecedented economic growth, benefiting all (though the US has reaped the greatest rewards).",
        "这些规则与结果带来了前所未有的经济增长，惠及所有人（尽管美国拿走了最大的果实）。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though Africa can be described as the continent of hope, it is unlikely to become the “New Asia” – that is, a long-term dynamo of global growth – for a combination of cultural, political, geopolitical, and perhaps psychological reasons.",
        "但是，尽管非洲可以被认为是希望之洲，它却不可能成为“新亚洲”，即全球增长的长期发动机，这是文化、政治、地缘政治也许还有心理因素共同作用的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Both try desperately to keep immigrants at bay, whether through cultural segregation in the UK or, in Japan’s case, by mere rejection.",
        "两国均竭尽全力阻挠移民进入，英国的办法是文化隔离，而日本则是断然拒绝。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, virtually every developing country in the world is ahead of the US in at least requiring paid maternity leave.",
        "事实上，世界几乎所有发展中国家都至少在规定带薪产假方面领先于美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel may have become, more than ever, a key strategic partner for some Arab regimes, or a de facto ally against Iran (as it is for Saudi Arabia).",
        "以色列对某些阿拉伯政权而言或许已成为比以往任何时候都更重要的战略合作伙伴，或者成为事实上反对伊朗的盟国（比方说沙特阿拉伯）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there is a great diversity of narratives on the green economy – and their proliferation is likely to grow.",
        "此外，对绿色经济的不同故事描述之间也大相径庭，而且这些分歧还有不断加大之势。"
    ],
    [
        "Other health metrics are equally disappointing, with data indicating poorer health outcomes for Americans throughout their lives.",
        "其他健康指标也同样令人失望，数据表明，美国人终其一生的健康结果都比其他发达国家差。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short term, this might dampen China’s own growth, but, given China’s mammoth trade surplus with the EU ($230 billion in 2010), this is both long overdue and reasonable.",
        "从短期看，这会影响中国自己的经济增长，但中国对欧盟有着巨大的贸易顺差（2010年为2300亿欧元），因此这是早就应该实施的应有之义。"
    ],
    [
        "What they failed to recognize was the extent of economic anxiety felt by working-class families in key states, owing to the dislocations caused by technology and globalization.",
        "他们低估了那些位于关键州的工人阶级家庭因技术和全球化造成的错位而产生的经济焦虑程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Confident that his plan can unfold as intended, he has set ambitious targets, including GDP growth approaching 4% per year.",
        "他信心满满地认定他的计划可以如愿展开，因此制定了雄心勃勃的目标，包括GDP增长要达到每年4%。"
    ],
    [
        "Mubarak’s first internal war was with Islamic militants during his early years in power, but he now finds himself caught in three more domestic wars.",
        "穆巴拉克早年执政期间，曾与伊斯兰好战分子展开第一场内战，如今他又陷入了另外两场内战的泥潭。"
    ],
    [
        "The value of improvisation in the face of novel threats does not imply that existing rules should be peremptorily discarded.",
        "在新的威胁下灵活处理的价值并不意味着应当一股脑儿地抛弃现有的规则，这一点几乎为世人皆知。"
    ],
    [
        "Australia should be saying to the US that it will have none of this.",
        "澳大利亚应该提醒美国，它将不会达成它的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "None of that applies to Newman or Warhol.",
        "纽曼和沃霍尔则并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But with whose resources, and under whose authority?",
        "但此举应当由谁出钱，又该听谁的指挥呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Germany’s broad political center continues to hold.",
        "但德国泛政治中间派依然坚挺。"
    ],
    [
        "The external environment is not favorable.",
        "外部环境相当不利。"
    ],
    [
        "The second level of cyber threat is against chosen individuals.",
        "第二层威胁则针对特定的个体。"
    ],
    [
        "These social differences have little to do with the yuan-dollar exchange rate, although that matters, too.",
        "这些社会习惯的不同与人民币—美元汇率几乎不相干，虽然汇率也非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is that government pushed for it.",
        "其中一个原因是有政府在背后推动这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "No one speaks for the Syrian people in the Oval Office every morning.",
        "每天早晨，没有人会在椭圆办公室为叙利亚人民说话。"
    ],
    [
        "But the issue of enrichment has been blown up into such a symbol of national sovereignty in Iran that no government there, not only the current Achmadinejad administration, will climb down.",
        "但是浓缩问题在伊朗已经被抬高到如此一个国家主权的象征，乃至不仅仅是当前的内贾德政府，而是伊朗的任何政府都不会后退。"
    ],
    [
        "Once these legal changes – the most sweeping in our post-war history – are in place by this summer, Japan will be better able to provide a seamless response for all levels of crisis.",
        "一旦这些法律变化——将是日本战后以来规模最大的法律变化——在今年夏天落实，日本将能更好地无缝响应各个层次的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria once boasted universal education.",
        "叙利亚以前曾夸口实现了普及教育。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kurdish Regional Government in the north is a de facto state, with its own army, border authorities, and control (up to a point) of the natural resources located on its territory.",
        "北部的库尔德地区政府（Kurdish Regional Government，KRG）已是一个事实国家，在国土上部署了自己的军队和出入境当局，并（一定程度上）控制了领土内的自然资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly half of the increase was the result of urban-rural earnings gaps, which also acted as the engine of growth.",
        "不平等程度增加的大约一半来自城乡收入差距，而这也是经济增长的引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by mobilizing pressure outside the party-state can these insiders be forced to accept some of the decentralizing and liberalizing reforms that China’s economy needs.",
        "只有动员党国之外的压力才能迫使这些内部人士接受中国经济所需要的一些分散化和自由化改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Another undercover report by CBS News interviewed a 12-year-old girl who obtained a factory job using a certificate that falsified her age.",
        "CBS新闻的另一则秘密报道采访了一位年仅十二岁的女孩，她用一张伪造的年龄证书得到了一份制衣厂的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the EU needs to improve burden sharing – ideally among all countries, but perhaps among a smaller group at first – in providing shelter for those who gain asylum.",
        "其次，欧盟需要改进负担共担机制——在理想情况下应由所有国家一起承担，但首先也许只能在较少数国家实现——为获得避难权的人提供住所。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2030, MGI estimates, 400-800 million individuals will need to find new occupations, some of which don’t yet exist.",
        "墨西哥13%。 到2030年，有4亿到8亿个人需要寻找新工作，其中一些工作现在还不知道在哪里。"
    ],
    [
        "With inequality reaching such extremes, it is not surprising that its effects are manifest in every public decision, from the conduct of monetary policy to budgetary allocations.",
        "不平等程度是如此之高，要是你发现所有公共决策——从货币政策到预算分配——都受着不平等性的掣肘，一点都不用奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s President Hu Jintao sent his likely successor, Vice President Xi Jinping, to greet Obama at Beijing Airport, going well beyond the usual protocol.",
        "中国国家主席胡锦涛专门派出了其最可能的接班人，副主席习近平到机场迎接奥巴马，这个规格已经比一般外交礼仪要高出许多了。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 2004 and 2006, the number of Iraqis who said it was “very good to have an Islamic government where religious leaders have absolute power” fell from 30% to 22%.",
        "在2004到2006年之间，非常认同“让宗教领袖拥有绝对权威的伊斯兰政府”的观点的伊拉克人数从30%下降到22%。"
    ],
    [
        "In every US presidential election in modern times, America’s friends and allies have had their private preferences.",
        "近代历次美国总统选举，美国的友邦和盟国都有其自身的偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly notable because the recent pause in emissions growth, unlike the other three that have occurred in the last 40 years, occurred amid economic expansion at a respectable annual rate of 3%.",
        "这一点尤其令人瞩目，因为最近的排放停止增长与过去40年中所发生过的三次不同，它是在经济扩张仍能达到相当出色的3%的年率的情况下实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries like South Korea and Japan, for example, have curtailed their imports of Iranian oil only reluctantly; countries like China and Russia rarely play straight on sanctions in the first place.",
        "比方说，韩日等国仅仅是勉强压缩从伊朗的原油进口，而中俄等国则从一开始就极少对制裁投赞成票。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s argument is similar to advising a man with a gangrenous leg that paying $50,000 for an aspirin is a good deal because the cost compares favorably to the cost of inaction, which is losing the leg.",
        "欧盟的论点就像是向一个腿坏疽的人推销一种五万美元的阿斯匹林，并且说与无所作为、断腿相比较这还是很值得。"
    ],
    [
        "Special interests hold undue sway over official decision-makers in many countries, and regulators are always prone to see the world through the eyes of the people whose activities they are supposed to oversee.",
        "在许多国家，特殊利益对决策官员有着过度的影响力，监管者也常常通过所作所为应该受其监督的人的眼睛看世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that QE managed to sustain near-zero interest rates for almost seven years, it should have encouraged governments in developed countries to borrow and invest in infrastructure, education, and social sectors. Increasing social transfers during the post-crisis period would have boosted aggregate demand and smoothed out consumption patterns.",
        "由于量化宽松在接近七年间维持了近零利率，它本应鼓励各发达国家政府借贷并投资于基础设施，教育和社会部门，在后危机时期增加社会转移支付，提振总需求并将原本扭曲的消费模式理顺过来。"
    ],
    [
        "As the economic and political situation deteriorates, they are most likely pulling more money out.",
        "随着政治和经济局势的恶化，他们极有可能将更多的钱转移。"
    ],
    [
        "And, to be sustainable, a successful vision must also be an effective diagnosis of the situation that a group faces.",
        "同时一个历久弥坚的成功远景必须奠基于对群体所面临状况的深刻理解。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, they are right.",
        "这次，它们是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "And a final group rode China’s coattails.",
        "而最后这一组以中国为先锋。"
    ],
    [
        "Congressional proposals to include currency provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the mega-regional free-trade agreement currently in the final stage of negotiations, presumably target Japan (as China is not included in the TPP).",
        "国会建议在跨太平洋伙伴关系（Trans-Pacific Partnership，简称TTP，目前已进入最后谈判阶段的大型地区自由贸易协定）中加入货币条款，目标显然是日本（因为中国不在TTP中）。"
    ],
    [
        "The cost of a global effort to raise awareness of the threat of antimicrobial resistance would be miniscule compared to the amount being spent to develop new drugs and technologies, which in any case will take years to become available.",
        "提高对耐药性威胁的认识的全球方案所需要付出的成本与花在开发新药和新技术的成本比起来只是九牛一毛。 而新药和新技术的开发动辄需要多年时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology takes CO2 out of emissions from coal- and gas-powered generating plants and sequesters it underground.",
        "碳捕获和封存（CCS）技术将二氧化碳从燃煤及天然气发电厂的排放物中滤出并封存在地下。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian oligarchs may have saved Trump from personal bankruptcy, and one reportedly traveled to a number of Trump’s campaign stops, perhaps acting as a go-between with the Kremlin.",
        "而且特朗普团队的诸多成员——包括其首任竞选经理保罗·马纳福特； 最近被逐出政府的国家安全顾问迈克尔·弗林；"
    ],
    [
        "Kagan may be right in thinking that a precipitous US retreat from East Asia could have dangerous consequences.",
        "卡甘认为美国急匆匆地从东亚撤出可能带来危险后果，这是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the World Bank Group is examining what more can be done to help put economies on a sustainable path.",
        "世界银行集团因此正全力研究协助经济可持续发展还要做哪些工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who had long lamented France’s economic decline could not believe the miracle taking shape before their eyes.",
        "那些长期以来一直唱空法国经济的人难以置信地看着奇迹在眼前展开。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these problems were to some extent hidden due to the external pressure of EU accession, and have now erupted into full view.",
        "所有这些问题在欧盟东扩的外部压力下被一定程度地掩盖了。 而现在完全地暴露了出来。"
    ],
    [
        "The role of government is to create an environment in which people can achieve their dreams and ambitions, not to create an environment that government can control.",
        "政府的作用是要创造环境让民众实现梦想和抱负，而不是创造政府可以控制的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the new regulatory philosophy replaces the illusion that banks can safely be left to manage their risks with the illusion that regulators will do it for them.",
        "简言之，新的监管哲学是在用幻觉替代幻觉：既然银行不能安全地管理它们的风险，那么就由监管者代劳吧。"
    ],
    [
        "KIGALI – There is no greater hindrance to a country’s long-term economic development than childhood undernourishment.",
        "基加利—没有什么能比儿童营养不良给一国的长期经济发展带来更大拖累的了。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet US emissions have continued to fall, while EU emissions began to rise again after 2009.",
        "然而美国的碳排放却持续下降，而欧盟碳排放则在2009年后再次回升。"
    ],
    [
        "If the G-8 leaders are serious about helping poor countries, finding a reliable way to support grant aid and promote accountability for donors and recipients, not debt relief, is the place to start.",
        "如果八国集团领袖真的想对贫困国家施以援手，就应该找到支持无偿赠款的可靠方法，提高捐助国和受援国的责任感，而不是减免什么债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless we collectively address the roots of the problem by ending that support, as well as financial support for radicalism in all forms, we will not defeat terrorism.",
        "除非我们共同从根源上解决问题，即铲除他们的支持力量以及对一切形式的激进主义的财政支持，否则，我们是打败不了恐怖主义的。"
    ],
    [
        "Smoot-Hawley and foreign retaliation made exporting more difficult.",
        "史穆特-哈雷关税和外国的下佛昂政策让出口变得更加困难。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, based on Darwin’s assumptions, most anthropologists claim that modern humans were simply descended from Cro-Magnons, who had exterminated their less-fit adversaries.",
        "事实上，基于达尔文的假设，大多数人类学家声称现代人类仅仅是克鲁马努人的后裔，因为后者消灭了其它更不适应竞争的对手。"
    ],
    [
        "That AU agenda provides guidance for improving macroeconomic, business, and financial frameworks across the continent.",
        "这一非盟日程为改善整个非洲的宏观经济、企业和金融框架提供了指导。"
    ],
    [
        "Beginning in 2003, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, a Social Democrat, launched a series of reforms aimed at increasing labor-market flexibility and, more generally, laying the foundations for long-term prosperity.",
        "2003年起，社会民主党总理施罗德启动了一系列改革措施，目的是提高劳动力市场灵活性，为经济领域的长期繁荣打下基础。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, failure of management reform would fuel demands by the US Congress to withhold America’s contributions to the UN budget – a policy that would greatly undermine America’s own interests, such as the planned expansion of the mission to stop genocide in Darfur.",
        "例如，管理改革失败，美国国会将会增加扣留美国给联合国预算贡献的要求，而这一政策将会极大地损害美国的自身利益，例如计划中的扩大停止达尔富尔种族灭绝大屠杀的使命。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this is intended to suggest that the internationalization of the renminbi should not take place in the foreseeable future.",
        "上述例子并不是建议人民币的国际化不应在可见的将来实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, enlightened leaders in Berlin – and there are more than a few of them, despite perceptions to the contrary – know that Germany’s future depends on a strong and more integrated Europe.",
        "幸运的是，柏林的开明领导人——其实为数绝不少，尽管人们的感觉与此相反——明白德国的未来系于更加强大、更加一体化的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "These steps could bring more than $1 trillion into the US economy, creating jobs and economic opportunities in the process.",
        "这些措施可以为美国经济带来超过1万亿美元的投资，并在此过程中创造就业和经济机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Can We Have Too Much Sex?",
        "多频繁的性爱能令我们快乐？"
    ],
    [
        "At the summit’s end, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Singapore joined with Aquino in demanding that Hun Sen’s statement be amended.",
        "峰会结束时，越南、马来西亚、印尼、文莱和新加坡都加入了阿基诺的行列，要求洪森改口。"
    ],
    [
        "Where there is no suggestion that a matter of personal morality has had an impact on the performance of a business executive or government official, we should respect that person’s privacy.",
        "如果无法证明个人道德问题影响到企业执行官或政府官员业绩的时候，我们应当尊重那个人的隐私。"
    ],
    [
        "Incoming governments – particularly those led by non-traditional movements, which had risen to power on the back of domestic unease and frustration with mainstream parties – sometimes disagreed with the appropriateness and relevance of the Washington Consensus.",
        "即将上任的新政府——特别是那些由非传统运动的政府，它们之所以能够掌权，依靠的是国内的焦虑情绪和对主流政党的失望——有时华盛顿共识的适当性和重要性有不同意见。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the medium-term benefits that emerging economies could receive from faster growth in the US are now being swamped by short-term risks generated by the “capital tsunami,” as Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called it.",
        "简言之，新兴经济体可以从美国增长加速中获得中期好处正在被“资本海啸”（巴西总统罗塞夫语）所造成短期风险压过。"
    ],
    [
        "As the tragedy unfolded, however, scientists gained a greater understanding of the disease.",
        "不过，随着悲剧的展开，科学家对这种病有了更多的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "In our village, there used to be two of every shop – butcher’s shop, bakery, hardware store.",
        "在我们村，从前每种商店都有一两个——肉店，面包店，五金店。"
    ],
    [
        "This is easily explained by their geographic segregation, higher levels of unemployment, higher school dropout rates, and disproportionately frequent interactions with the criminal justice system.",
        "他们在地理上隔离，失业率和辍学率高于他人，而且经常落入犯罪司法体系，其比例奇高无比。"
    ],
    [
        "Drought risk also increases with warming: even where rainfall does not decline, increased evaporation dries out the soils.",
        "干旱也是同理，即便当地降雨量不变，但持续的蒸发作用依然会夺走土地里的水分。"
    ],
    [
        "But can a few dozen basis points in (poorly measured) long-term inflation expectations justify the need for massive quantitative easing and a policy rate 250 points lower than it was at a time of weaker market fundamentals?",
        "但（衡量不准的）长期通胀预期变动区区几十个基点就足以需要实施大规模量化宽松并让政策利率比市场基本面更加疲软的时候还要低250个基点吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Recent debate about income inequality in the US and other developed countries has focused on the rapid surge in incomes for the few.",
        "美国和其他发达国家最近的有关收入不平等性的争论聚焦于极少数人收入的迅速增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, by denying the obvious fact that the eurozone’s viability depends on substantial restraints on sovereignty, Europe’s leaders are misleading their voters, delaying the Europeanization of democratic politics, and raising the political and economic costs of the ultimate reckoning.",
        "但是，否认欧元区之生存严重依赖于对主权的约束这一事实表明，欧洲领导人正在误导选民，民主政治的欧洲化进程将因此延迟，最终醒悟的政治和经济成本也会因此提高。"
    ],
    [
        "The Charter’s 12 precepts to guide stakeholders’ decision-making should be integrated into relevant legislation and regulations by the Lebanese government, Parliament, applicable regulatory agencies, and civil-society actors such as the Lebanon Oil and Gas Initiative.",
        "黎巴嫩政府、议会、相关监管机构和黎巴嫩石油及天然气计划等民间团体应该将宪章有关指导利益相关者决策的12条规则写入相关的立法方案和规章。"
    ],
    [
        "Who Killed the Nokia Phone?",
        "谁杀死了诺基亚手机？"
    ],
    [
        "High borrowing costs are needed to focus minds and instill discipline.",
        "高借贷成本有助于引起重视、巩固纪律。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach also has serious financial-market consequences.",
        "该方针还带来了严重的金融市场后果。"
    ],
    [
        "This raises the big question of whether the best escape from poverty comes from general economic growth or from a direct attack on poverty.",
        "这就向我们提出了一个大问题：摆脱贫困的最佳手段究竟是追求总体经济发展，还是直接消灭具体的贫困现象？"
    ],
    [
        "The 5.3 million workers in the environmental industry outnumber pharmaceutical workers ten to one.",
        "有530万人在环保行业工作，这一数字是医药行业就业人数的10倍。"
    ],
    [
        "But if one sees our current problems in less apocalyptic terms, then another kind of trahison des clercs comes into view: the blind cheering on of a sometimes foolish military power embarked on unnecessary wars that cost more lives than they were intended to save.",
        "但是，如果人们并不使用这种大难临头的观点看待当前的问题的话，那么就会看到另一种教士的背叛，也就是说，某些时候愚蠢的军事强国进行不必要的战争，造成人的死亡要比战争想要挽救的人还要多，对此却不问原味地喝彩。"
    ],
    [
        "If the administration takes these entirely reasonable demands on board, the resulting agreement would have considerable bipartisan support.",
        "如果奥巴马政府在谈判中提出这些完全合理的要求，那么协定将获得两党的大力支持。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Internet age, is it time for the legal pendulum to swing back toward the offense of criminal libel?",
        "在互联网时代里，法律的钟摆再次回归刑事诽谤罪的时机是否已经成熟？"
    ],
    [
        "The Western Balkans − a term used only since 1999 − comprises Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia (FYROM), Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo, with a combined population of roughly 22 million.",
        "西巴尔干地区这个自1999年起开始使用的名词包含了阿尔巴尼亚、波斯尼亚、黑塞哥维那、克罗地亚、马其顿、黑山、塞尔维亚和科索沃，总人口大约为2200万。"
    ],
    [
        "Prior to the revolution, Khamenei translated three of Qutb’s books into Farsi.",
        "革命爆发前，哈梅内伊曾将三部库特卜的著作翻译成波斯语。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, Italian-Style",
        "意大利式的欧洲"
    ],
    [
        "Money that could have been used to save thousands of lives was spent to win votes.",
        "本可以挽救成千上万条性命的钱财却被用来赢得选票。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not the only recent case in which Germany has distanced itself from its allies and partners.",
        "这并非最近得多与其盟友和伙伴拉开距离的唯一例子。"
    ],
    [
        "As helium prices rise, nitrogen-rich sources are becoming economical.",
        "随着氦价格的上涨，富氮资源将变得有利可图。"
    ],
    [
        "Controlling Chinese Television",
        "中国的电视管制"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, concerns about the future of clean tech have made new projects more difficult to finance.",
        "尽管如此，关于清洁技术未来的担忧仍让新项目难以得到融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the fight against climate change must be carried out across a wide variety of fronts.",
        "事实上，反对气候变化的斗争涉及各条战线。"
    ],
    [
        "Stress testing and resolution preparedness – the sector’s so-called living wills – have created significant disincentives to complexity.",
        "被称为银行业生存意愿的压力测试和清算准备已经严重影响了人们对复杂状况的接受程度。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, Zakaev maintained rather friendly relations with Kadyrov, whose achievements – making Chechnya practically independent – he implicitly acknowledged.",
        "但与此同时，扎卡耶夫却一直与卡德罗夫保持着相当良好的关系，并公开称赞了卡德罗夫所取得的成就——使车臣获得实质独立。"
    ],
    [
        "A technology boom was revolutionizing, indeed globalizing, the world economy.",
        "一场技术革新热也正在掀起，而且正在全球化，形成世界经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than estimate the economic value of banks’ assets – what the assets would fetch in a well-functioning market – and the extent to which they exceed liabilities, the stress tests merely sought to verify that the banks’ accounting losses over the next two years will not exhaust their capital as recorded in their books.",
        "本次压力测试忽视了银行资产的经济价值——也就是资产是否能在有效的市场环境中运行——和他们可以承受的程度，它仅仅测试银行在未来的两年中，如果继续亏损，能否顺利渡过难关而存活下来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the bloody irony is that the strategy is utterly counter-productive; the people of the tribal areas, with their warrior past, end up joining the militants, justifying their actions as jihad against the forces occupying Afghanistan and their helpers in Pakistan.",
        "其实极具讽刺意味的是，这种政策起到了完全相反的效果； 部落地区的民众过去都曾参与战斗，他们最终却选择加入恐怖份子，并将自己的行为视为打击阿富汗占领军及其巴基斯坦帮凶的圣战。"
    ],
    [
        "Efficient companies are punished for their success by being held to a special standard that expects them to cuddle their competitors, instead of continuing to out-price and outsell them, to the benefit of consumers.",
        "富有成效的公司因为它们的成功而受到惩罚，它们被设定了一个特殊标准以期望它们能培育它们的竞争对手，而不是让广大消费者受益，在价格和销量上继续击败这些竞争对手。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the proven success of such methods, the use of synthetic fertilizers has increased by a factor of more than five over the past 50 years, and many African governments spend up to 60% of their agricultural budgets to subsidize them.",
        "尽管这些方法已经证明是成功的，但合成肥料的使用在过去50年里仍增加了五倍有余，而许多非洲国家政府将多达60%的农业预算用于合成肥料补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, companies increasingly augment standard wage packages with stock options, even for rank-and-file employees.",
        "举例来说，公司会把股票期权纳入报酬计划中，借此逐步增长员工的工资，即便是普通员工也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "However tough things looked in the past, I have never felt such a sense of despair about Palestine and Israel.",
        "无论过去看来多么困难，我都没有对巴以问题感到绝望。"
    ],
    [
        "Demonstrations begin in major cities, calling for an end to corruption among party officials.",
        "一些大城市已经开始了示威活动，要求遏制政府官员中的腐败行为。"
    ],
    [
        "And the UN has condemned militant groups – which now form the majority of fighters in Syria – for murder, kidnap, torture, assault, corruption, and reliance on child soldiers.",
        "联合国谴责军事集团——目前叙利亚的主要战斗者——犯有谋杀、绑架、虐待、攻击、腐败和使用童兵等罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "Needless to say, that comment attracted considerable derision.",
        "”不消说，这一评论令人哭笑不得。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a longstanding method of conflict frequently defined as deliberate attack on the innocent with the objective of spreading fear.",
        "通常情况下，它被定义为故意袭击无辜百姓，目的是传播恐怖情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "But the French state does what it has to do to repress and contain anti-Semitism.",
        "但法国做了必须做的事镇压和遏制反犹主义。"
    ],
    [
        "That is important because low metabolizers clear certain drugs slowly and have more medication in their systems for longer periods of time than high metabolizers.",
        "这一点非常重要，因为新陈代谢能力较低者与能力较高者相比，其清除某些药物的速度较慢，生理系统中药物残存量较大。"
    ],
    [
        "What the West Owes Ukraine",
        "西方欠乌克兰什么"
    ],
    [
        "Examples of such ambiguity arise in fields as diverse as nuclear power, GM food, and the Iraq War.",
        "这些模糊性的例子出现在包括核能，转基因食品和伊拉克战争等不同领域。"
    ],
    [
        "According to her account, a woman can be killed for “laughing at a joke in the street, wearing makeup or a short skirt…or being raped by a brother.”",
        "按照拉娜的解释，一个女人因类似“在大街上被逗笑，化妆，身着短裙”，或者“被某个兄弟强奸”的理由就能被置于死地！"
    ],
    [
        "As John Maynard Keynes recognized, trade restrictions can protect or generate employment during economic recessions.",
        "正如凯恩斯所言，贸易限制措施在经济萧条期可以保护，甚至提供工作机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The dispossessed minorities who have the strongest stake in civil rights play no role during the democratic transition for the simple reason that they cannot normally bring anything to the bargaining table.",
        "受公民权影响最大的无依无靠的少数民族在民主过渡中不起任何作用，就因为他们往往缺少可用于谈判的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "To secure places for all refugee children, we are seeking $195 million dollars a year for UNICEF and UNHCR, with the plan to be implemented on the ground by NGOs and the Lebanese authorities.",
        "为了保证所有难民儿童都能有地方上学，我们在为UNICEF和UNHCR筹得每年1,950万美元的资金。 计划的具体实施由非政府组织和黎巴嫩当局负责。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, even without lower interest rates, the deficit limits that the Pact imposes have proved to be non-binding, exemplified by France’s flouting of them since 2009.",
        "事实上，即使没有更低的利率，该条约规定的赤字限制也已被证明是不具约束力的，法国自2009年以来对此限制的无视就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "As Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Singapore have shown, immigration can soften the blow from rapid aging.",
        "澳大利亚、香港、新西兰和新加坡的经验表明，移民可以缓冲迅速老龄化的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "When Xi held a regional conference to promote the BRI in May, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not attend, much to Chinese leaders’ chagrin.",
        "当习近平在5月召开区域性会议推动“一带一路”倡议时，印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪的缺席多少让中国领导人有点懊恼。"
    ],
    [
        "In Argentina and Venezuela, what plausibly mattered most in the end was voters’ desire to live in what one might call a normal country.",
        "在阿根廷和委内瑞拉，最有可能最终起作用的或许还是选民对于生活在可称之为正常国家中的渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "The right balance today requires creating jobs partly through additional fiscal stimulus aimed at productive infrastructure investment.",
        "今日的合理均衡包含以下几点：制定新的财政刺激计划，投资于基础设施，创造就业岗位； 提高税收的累进率；"
    ],
    [
        "The temptation of communitarianism, which the French have debated for at least a decade, comes from the wish to turn the failure of genuine equality into something positive. It offers integration by default within the differentiated space of various communities – a sort of imprisonment by civilization, Sen would say.",
        "法国人至少争论了十年的对于社群主义的向往来自人们把在真正的平等上的失败转换为某种积极的东西的希望，因为它为各个群体存在很大差异的空间提供了一种缺席融合——一种文明所带来的禁闭，Sen会这样说。"
    ],
    [
        "The best solution is private capital – from retained earnings, new entrants, new ownership, and new investment.",
        "最好的解决办法是私人资本——来自留存利润、新市场进入者、新所有者以及新投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment in these areas would improve and expand land use – whether by unlocking unused land or equipping areas to support more inhabitants – thereby helping to reduce housing costs.",
        "这些地区的投资能改善和扩大土地利用——不管是通过释放未使用土地还是开发区块以支持更多居民——从而有助于降低住房成本。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world has learned, credibility and reliability are the ECB’s two most important attributes.",
        "正如世界各国所了解的那样，可信度和可靠度是欧洲央行两个最为重要的特色。"
    ],
    [
        "Fulfilling four key commitments will make this goal achievable.",
        "兑现四项关键承诺能够助我们实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Asia’s growing middle class will transform a region known as a global manufacturing hub into a consumption powerhouse.",
        "事实上，亚洲不断壮大的中产阶级将把这座全球著名的制造业中心转变为消费重地。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, rumors are rife that he is now being attacked for his behavior by members of his own party.",
        "此外，有谣言盛传他因为自己的所作所为受到党内成员的攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important that they act soon.",
        "而重要的是，它们得尽快行动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the sheer magnitude of the task of reviving these economies is not overwhelming.",
        "因此，振兴这些欧盟新成员国经济的任务的难度，不是令人无法承受的。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Chinese intervention is just a one-off event, and there are no expectations of it continuing, then this second channel shouldn’t be operative, and the impact will be smaller than that of QE.",
        "但如果中国的干预只是暂时事件，无人预期会持续进行下去，那么第二渠道就没有操作性，其影响也将小于量化宽松。"
    ],
    [
        "When demonetization is particularly dramatic and disruptive, it is often a signpost on the road to hyperinflation.",
        "当废止货币流通尤其具有戏剧性和破坏力的时候，它往往构成通往恶性通胀的路标。"
    ],
    [
        "But the study revealed no automatic correlation between Islamist sympathies and condoning the use of violence.",
        "但是，研究显示对伊斯兰的同情和对使用暴力的宽恕之间没有必然的相互联系。"
    ],
    [
        "None of these proposals, it seems, will be implemented anytime soon.",
        "但似乎上述几个提议中没有几个能在近期推行。"
    ],
    [
        "China balks at interfering in the “internal affairs” of a neighbor from whom it gets precious natural gas and potential access to the sea.",
        "中国不太愿意干涉一个它可以从中获得宝贵的天然气并且将来有希望获得入海通道的邻国的“内政”。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowhere is this clearer than in the “mixed ownership system” envisaged by the Third Plenary of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.",
        "最能表明这一问题的莫过于中共十八大三中全会所提出的“混合所有制”。"
    ],
    [
        "Soviet Lessons for Chinese Purges",
        "中国清洗的苏联教训"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, because Italy will still be in recession next year, its actual deficit is expected to be 1.8% of GDP, adding to the national debt.",
        "不幸的是，由于意大利明年仍将处于衰退，其实际赤字预计将达到GDP的1. 8%，这笔赤字将加到国民债务头上。"
    ],
    [
        "If America can move from a culture of fear to one of hope – and again incarnate hope for the world – it will require a leader who embodies the American dream: modern and armed with a humanistic religious message, in contrast to the anxious irrationalism of the Christian conservative movement that fueled Bush’s political base.",
        "如果美国能从恐惧的文化迈进到希望的文化—并再一次为世界而继承这种希望—这就需要一位承载着美国梦想的领导人：既现代而又深得人文主义的宗教真谛，这与充斥着布什执政基础的焦虑的非理性主义和基督教保守运动形成鲜明的对比。"
    ],
    [
        "The most critical issue facing Brown is whether he chooses to distance himself from Blair’s self-satisfied and delusional claim that the invasion of Iraq was “the right thing to do.”",
        "这一战争严重地损害了美国和英国的道德地位。 布朗面临的最为重大的问题就是他是否与布莱尔自我满足以及错觉般宣称入侵伊拉克是“正确的事情”拉开距离。"
    ],
    [
        "Claiming that Davis was a bona fide diplomat with its Lahore consulate, and thus enjoyed immunity from prosecution, the US accused Pakistan of “illegally detaining” him, with President Barack Obama defending him as “our diplomat in Pakistan.”",
        "美国声称戴维斯是其拉合尔领事馆事实上的外交官，指控巴基斯坦对其进行“非法拘禁”，美国总统奥巴马称戴维斯为“驻巴基斯坦的我方外交官。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Ending poverty and reducing emissions, including by effectively managing land use and halting deforestation, will go a long way toward stopping the trend and reversing the damage.",
        "结束贫困和减少排放，包括有效管理土地应用和制止森林砍伐，将在很长一段时间内阻止这一趋势、扭转破坏效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Popular elections do not translate into representation in a system designed by China to ensure that its allies win a majority every time.",
        "因为普选并不意味着能在一个中国设计用来保证其拥护者每次都能稳获多数票的体制中获得代表性。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eurozone, it is hoped that this year’s asset quality review (AQR) and stress tests will finally dispel concerns about bank solvency and free up credit supply.",
        "在欧元区，人们希望今年的资产质量检查（asset quality review）和压力测试最终能够打消关于银行偿债能力的疑虑，解放信用供给。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, investing to protect a watershed can also protect biodiversity and improve water quality in associated rivers, thereby benefiting human health.",
        "比如，投资于保护分水岭同时也有利于保护生物多样性，改善相关河流的水质，从而有利于人类健康。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – If Donald Trump loses the US election, will the tide of populism that threatened to overwhelm the world after the Brexit vote in June begin to wane?",
        "纽约—如果唐纳德·特朗普输掉美国大选，在6月英国退欧公投后眼看就要席卷全世界的民粹主义浪潮会不会开始消退？"
    ],
    [
        "With fewer trades, the information content of prices is arguably reduced.",
        "随着交易量的萎缩，价格的信息含量可能会有所减少。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – In the wake of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the world’s central banks played a critical role in rescuing the global financial system.",
        "纽约—2007—2008年金融危机爆发时，全球央行在捍卫全球金融系统方面起到了关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "What is true for family planning is true for a very wide range of topics, especially those that are difficult to speak about, like homosexuality and domestic violence.",
        "计划生育方面的经验可以推广到大量主题，特别是那些难以启齿的主题，比如同性恋和家庭暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Chinese banks, the main problem appears to be exposure to ballooning local-government debt, which, according to the government, totaled $1.7 trillion (roughly 30% of GDP) at the end of 2010.",
        "至于中国的银行，主要问题似乎是地方政府债务膨胀带来的，根据政府数据，截止2010年底的地方政府债务总值达1. 7万亿美元（约占GDP30%的份额）。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding a modest firming of global economic growth, inflation in the advanced economies is expected to average slightly less than 2% in 2017-2018.",
        "尽管全球经济将实现温和增长，但发达经济体在2017~18年的通胀水平预计将略低于2％。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the former Google executive Wael Ghonim, who was active in the country’s 2011 uprising, publicly criticized the verdict against Naji.",
        "此外，在2011年埃及暴乱中表现积极的前谷歌高管戈尼姆（Wael Ghonim）公开批评将纳吉定罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, automatic enrollment, unless workers opt out, has proved effective, boosting employee participation to more than 90%.",
        "在这里，自动注册（除非员工选择退出）已证明是有效的，把员工参与率提升到了90%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Other categories include business (with entities such as employers, industries, and employees), biology, space flight, and many more, and include representations – such as graphs, timelines, and tables – of how they are connected.",
        "其他相关类别包括商业（含雇主、行业和雇员等实体）、生物、航天和其他很多领域，还包括阐明其相互关系的描述——如图示、时间安排和表格。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the chemical manufacturer Kureha (¥130 billion in annual sales) has a 70% share of the global market for adhesive materials for lithium-ion batteries – a small but essential component of cell phones.",
        "同样，Kureha这个年销售额1300亿日元的化工企业负责供应全球70%的锂电池黏性材料——锂电池虽小，却是手机不可或缺的部件。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the United States has not been playing much of a leadership role on many of these issues recently, it is worth taking a look at what happens when no one country exercises effective leadership.",
        "鉴于美国最近在这些问题上并未发挥多大的领导作用，现在就值得观察一下在没有任何一个国家实施有效领导作用之际局面会是如何。"
    ],
    [
        "If Iraq is to keep the best of its next generation at home, cultural openness will be critically important.",
        "如果伊拉克想要留住年轻一代中的精英，那么确保文化开放就具有至关重要的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "But agricultural subsidies have consequences for China and other developing countries.",
        "但农业补贴却对中国和其他发展中国家造成了影响。"
    ],
    [
        "There is another dimension to profit-sharing that has received little attention, related to monopolies and competition.",
        "还有另外一个利润分享方面的问题，它与垄断和竞争有关但很少受到关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Your local bank offers you what is certified to be a teaser loan – a prescription product.",
        "当地银行向你推销某个被定义为“钓鱼”（利率增长型）贷款的金融产品——一个处方产品。"
    ],
    [
        "While CO2 can remain in the atmosphere for centuries, other pollutants, including black carbon and ozone, remain for relatively periods – days, weeks, months, or years – so that reducing or ending emissions promises almost immediate climate benefits.",
        "而虽然二氧化碳可以在大气中存在数百年，但包括炭黑和臭氧在内其他污染物却只能存在一段时间——数天，数周，数月或者是几年——因此减少或者终止这类物质的排放所获得的好处几乎是立竿见影的。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil, the Latin American country hit hardest by the virus so far, is emblematic of the problem: Abortion is allowed only in cases of rape, danger to the woman’s life, or in the case of fetal anencephaly (the absence of a major portion of the brain).",
        "目前，拉丁美洲受寨卡病毒影响最大的国家是巴西，它也成为这一问题的象征：堕胎只有在遭遇强奸、危及妇女生命或致命无脑儿（缺少大脑的主要部分）等情况才被允许。"
    ],
    [
        "Commercial banks loaded with weaker countries’ government bonds became potentially insolvent.",
        "大量持有弱国政府债的商业银行随时可能破产。"
    ],
    [
        "About one million Haitians now live in the Dominican Republic, but only about 10% of the Haitian laborers in the country are there legally, a condition that invites their exploitation by greedy employers.",
        "约有一百万海地民众现在生活在多米尼加，但只有约10%拥有合法的劳工资格，他们也因此成为贪婪雇主的剥削对象。"
    ],
    [
        "The figures in Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea are even more remarkable than those in Catholic European countries like Spain, Italy, and Poland.",
        "香港、新加坡和韩国的数字要比西班牙、意大利和波兰这些欧洲天主教国家还要显著。"
    ],
    [
        "What the US needs now is progress in the right direction.",
        "如今美国需要的是朝正确方向的改进。"
    ],
    [
        "Carl Bosch, a young genius working for a chemical company, quickly ramped up Haber’s process to industrial levels.",
        "卡尔·博世是一位在化学企业工作的年轻天才，他迅速将哈伯的研究成果提升至工业应用级别。"
    ],
    [
        "Except in large cities, people can now freely choose their hukou after three years of residency.",
        "除大城市外，你只要在一地居住满三年，就可以自由选择是否将户籍迁入。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rapid run-up in equity prices also carries considerable risks – namely, the possibility that the financial sector will misuse the newfound liquidity to finance more speculative investment in asset bubbles, while supporting old industries with excess capacity.",
        "但股价的飙升也带来了大量风险。 金融行业可能会滥用新出现的流动性，为创造资产泡沫的投机性行为融资，并支持产能过剩的旧行业。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the mere threat of military action may be sufficient to bring about Ukraine’s economic collapse.",
        "结果，仅仅是军事行动的威胁就有可能足以让乌克兰经济崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, there are exceptions to Trump’s support for free-market policies.",
        "尽管如此，特朗普对自由市场政策的支持仍有例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries lack the resources to install, operate, and maintain equipment that has not been designed locally.",
        "很多国家缺少安装、操作和维护海外设备所需的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "The banker wants last year’s bonds to be paid (creating an incentive to safeguard stability) but wants a high payment this year (creating an incentive to maximize profit, which usually entails risk-taking).",
        "银行家希望去年的债券得到偿付（产生捍卫稳定的激励），但又希望今年获得高薪（产生利润最大化的激励，而利润最大化常常包含着冒险）。"
    ],
    [
        "Central and Eastern Europe will inevitably be in the global spotlight this year.",
        "中东欧必将成为今年全球关注焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "For Israel, a future as a bi-national state entails a high long-term risk, unless the option of a West Bank-Jordan confederation, lost in the 1980’s, is rediscovered.",
        "对以色列来说，两国状态意味着长期高风险，除非在20世纪80年代失去的约旦河西岸联邦选择权能够重新恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "Such tweaks enable New Keynesian models to generate temporary real effects from nominal shocks, and thus justify quite radical intervention in times of emergency.",
        "这种微调使得新凯恩斯主义模型能够通过名义货币上的冲击产生暂时性的真实作用，从而证明在紧急情况下实施相当激进的干预手段是合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN - “It’s when the tide goes out that you find out who has been swimming naked,” the legendary investor Warren Buffett aptly remarked when the global economic crisis hit.",
        "“只有退潮时，才知道谁在裸泳。 ”传奇投资家沃伦·巴菲特的这句名言是全球经济危机的生动写照。"
    ],
    [
        "One highly promising option would be to create a full-on Marshall Plan for the Arab world.",
        "为阿拉伯世界制定一项全面的马歇尔计划应当是一种很有希望的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The volume of trade increased rapidly, owing partly to NAFTA in 1994 and the establishment in 1995 of the World Trade Organization as the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.",
        "贸易量迅速增长，部分是因为1994年签署了NAFTA和1995年成立世界贸易组织取代关贸总协定。"
    ],
    [
        "The world has undergone massive economic deregulation, prescribed by the monetarist doctrine supported by the conservative forces dominant in the developed countries of North America, Europe, and the Far East.",
        "全世界已经根据北美、欧洲和远东地区的发达国家中占主导地位的保守力量所支持的货币主义理论进行了大规模经济管制放松。"
    ],
    [
        "Silvio Berlusconi, another real-estate billionaire, who began his career as a crooner on a cruise ship, was even more outrageous than Trump, as well as a master of the mass media – literally so, as he owned most of it in his country.",
        "同样是房地产界亿万富翁的贝卢斯科尼甚至比特朗普更加离经叛道，而且同是操纵大众媒体的高手（从字面上看确实如此，因为意大利多数大众媒体都归贝卢斯科尼所有）。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, Western leaders must comprehend the danger of picking sides.",
        "更重要的是，西方领导人必须理解站边的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "The Millennium Development Goals commit the international community to achieve the target of universal primary education by the end of 2015.",
        "联合国千年发展目标 承诺国际社会在2015年实现小学完全普及的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Another, far more credible explanation is that Europeans’ interpretations of “a more active and stronger security policy” differ widely.",
        "另外一种更为可信的解释是欧洲人对于“更积极强势安全政策”的看法大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe this is important, but it is an outlier – the most extreme difference between Moscow and New York in our entire survey.",
        "这也许是很重要的，但它是一个异常值——在我们的整个调查中莫斯科和纽约之间最极端的差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, Reinhart and Rogoff broadly agree with this recommendation (at least for the US), and they even support heterodox policies such as writing down mortgages and targeting a higher inflation rate.",
        "有趣的是，莱因哈特和罗格夫大致上赞同这一建议（至少对美国是如此），他们甚至支持非正规政策，比如减记按揭和提高通胀目标。"
    ],
    [
        "They are serving their sentence in Chita on the Chinese border, although Russian law prescribes that, for the crimes with which they were charged, they were entitled to be imprisoned near their place of domicile, i.e., in Moscow.",
        "他们被关押在俄中边界的赤塔，但俄罗斯法律规定，按他们被起诉的罪行，他们是可以被监禁在他们的居住地即莫斯科的附近。"
    ],
    [
        "For that reason, leaders must not reject globalization, but work to guide it, so that it advances their citizens’ interests and wellbeing.",
        "领导人因此不必抗拒全球化，而应努力对其加以引导，以使其对民众的利益和福祉起到推动作用。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the world’s scientists have re-jigged their estimates about how much sea levels will rise.",
        "首先，世界上的科学家们重新预估海平面将会上升多快。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the presence of the ECC, particularly its international commissioners, and the hope that it would ensure at least some fairness into the process prevented the electoral controversy from erupting into open conflict.",
        "选举监督委员会的存在保证了选举过程上某种程度的公平，阻止选民潜在的公开冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "It is much easier to reform subsidy programs when the economy is expanding.",
        "一旦经济开始扩张，改革补贴计划就会容易得多。"
    ],
    [
        "That need not be the case.",
        "但这绝不是必须的。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither the authorities nor the markets recognized this prior to the crisis, attesting to the fallibility of both.",
        "当局和市场在危机前都没有意识到这一点，这表明这两者都具有易错性（fallibility）。"
    ],
    [
        "But in many parts of the world, mobility is a matter of life and death; it is dirty, unsafe, and chaotic.",
        "但在世界许多地方，从一处移动到另一处就像是在玩命：道路肮脏, 充满危险且极为混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "It also reassures the French business community, which was shocked by Dominique de Villepin’s flamboyant opposition to the United States when he was Chirac’s foreign minister.",
        "萨尔柯齐的立场还给法国企业界人士吃下了定心丸，这些企业家被多米尼克·德维尔潘担任希拉克外长时与美国的公然对抗吓出一身冷汗。"
    ],
    [
        "The environmental degradation is obvious even to casual observers.",
        "对最不经意的观察者而言，环境的恶化也是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "On the Democrats’ side, the battle between Senator Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State (and US Senator) Hillary Clinton is nowhere near as grubby.",
        "在民主党方面，伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）参议员和希拉里·克林顿前国务卿（和参议员）的斗争远远没有那么肮脏。"
    ],
    [
        "Poland, which is not yet part of the eurozone, sees no alternative to the EU.",
        "而波兰，虽然还不是欧元区的一部分，将欧盟认定为唯一的前途。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, education is one of the most powerful tools for reducing poverty and generating sustainable, inclusive economic growth.",
        "最后，教育是消除贫困、产生可持续的包容性经济增长的最有力的武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Concerned that the Arab rebellions would radicalize their own repressed minorities, they refuse to allow the UN Security Council to be used to promote revolutionary changes in the Arab world.",
        "由于担心阿拉伯起义会刺激本国被压迫的少数民族，他们拒绝接受通过联合国安理会促进阿拉伯世界的革命性变革。"
    ],
    [
        "Conservatives demand fiscal adjustment up front, whatever the consequences.",
        "保守派要求将财政调整放在首位，不管结果如何。"
    ],
    [
        "Many developing countries have made progress since the 1990’s in shifting from dollar-denominated debt toward foreign direct investment and other types of capital inflows, or in paying down their liabilities altogether.",
        "20世纪90年代以来，许多发展中国家在将美元债务转换为外国直接投资和其他形式的资本流入或削减总债务方面取得了相当的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, at present, despite unprecedented economic integration and new opportunities for cooperation, our social interactions remain atomized.",
        "事实上，从目前看，尽管经济一体化前所未有，新的合作机会层出不穷，但我们的社会互动依然呈现出原子化（atomized）的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "Developed-economy central banks should overcome their irrational fear of a deflationary spiral, and stop trying desperately to stimulate demand.",
        "发达经济体央行应该克服它们对通缩螺旋的不理性的恐慌，停止不顾一切地刺激需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberalism and the international order that it has sustained are a product of the Enlightenment.",
        "自由主义及其所维持的国际秩序是启蒙运动的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "There is something of a consensus, for example, emerging around the notion that the US should remain in Iraq for some time to come, albeit with a reduced level of military forces.",
        "比如说，大家对美军应该在伊拉克停留相当长一段时间有某种共识，尽管他们对于应该削减多少兵力意见也许不尽一致。"
    ],
    [
        "In either of the most probable scenarios, continuity or prudent change, or even if the “outsider” candidate wins, Chile will in all likelihood remain a beacon of democratic stability, economic dynamism, and international engagement in a region too often characterized by political and economic turbulence.",
        "无论发生哪一种可能的情况：政策延续或者审慎变化，甚至于“外部”候选人在大选中获胜，智利十有八九都会在这个经常发生政治和经济动荡的地区内，继续充当民主稳定、经济活力和国际友谊的灯塔。"
    ],
    [
        "DR-CAFTA does neither.",
        "DR-CAFTA却一条也不具备。"
    ],
    [
        "Contributing factors include a shortage of aggregate demand, high levels of uncertainty about policies and regulatory agendas, and growing doubts about key drivers of global growth like China.",
        "造成现状的因素包括总需求不足、政策及法规议程高度不确定和对中国等全球增长关键动力越来越普遍的怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "What makes these economies function is not a policeman protecting every shop window, but rather people’s trust, fairness, and fellow-feeling to honor promises and obey the prevailing rules.",
        "让这些经济运转起来的不是保护商店窗户不被砸的警察，而是人们的信任、公正，以及对荣誉承诺的归属感和对通行规则的遵守。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab Spring uprisings, which led to violence and instability in most affected countries, were fueled largely by desperate young people demanding rights and opportunities.",
        "阿拉伯之春暴乱导致了大部分受影响国家陷入暴力和动荡，其背后的主要推动力正是绝望的年轻人要求权利和机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The political consequences of the US economy’s renewed strength will reverberate worldwide.",
        "美国经济重获优势的政治后果将在全世界引起连锁反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Biden spent more than twice as much time in discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping as he did with Abe.",
        "拜登与中国国家主席习近平对话讨论的时间是比与安倍多一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "On my way home from Bard College, where I teach, I am greeted by the George Washington Bridge majestically suspended over the Hudson River.",
        "从我教书的巴德学院回家的路上，迎面而来的是横跨哈得逊河的壮观的乔治·华盛顿大桥。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s success so far reflects his shrewdness at reading the times and pleasing a crowd.",
        "特朗普迄今为止的成功反应了他精于把握时机、取悦民众。"
    ],
    [
        "Globally, the type 2 diabetes epidemic has been growing in lockstep with rising obesity levels.",
        "从全球范围来看，二型糖尿病的增长是与肥胖水平的增长相一致的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Britain, a government heading for its third term in office has said more than once that it wants the country to be “meritocratic.”",
        "英国政府即将实现三届连任，他们不只一次地重申：希望国家实行精英统治。"
    ],
    [
        "In Japan, outsiders recently got a rare glimpse into the BOJ’s activities when minutes of a policy meeting were leaked.",
        "在日本，日本银行流出的某次政策会议的记录罕见地让人们得以一窥其活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in withdrawing from the six-party talks, North Korea did not completely abandon the possibility of resolving the nuclear standoff through dialogue.",
        "事实上，尽管退出了六方会谈，但北朝鲜并没有完全否认通过对话来打破核僵局的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "We had to reject first a convention on the exploitation of mineral resources that had already been negotiated and signed in Wellington in 1988, thus risking reopening very uncertain negotiations.",
        "我们首先必须拒绝一个已经讨论过并已于1988年在惠灵顿签署了的开采矿产资源公约，从而冒了重开极不确定的谈判的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "If we want real action, we need to pick smarter solutions that will cost less and do more.",
        "如果我们真的想采取行动，那就需要我们挑选出更明智的，低成本高回报的解决方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Will we cut off some of our contacts with Russia, reconsider its membership of the G8, or delay its entry to the WTO and OECD?",
        "我们是否应该切断和俄国的一些接触并重新考虑其八国集团成员资格，或是拖延它加入世界贸易组织和经合组织的进程呢？"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a macroeconomic element to the decline in productivity growth, rooted in deficient aggregate demand.",
        "生产率增长放缓还有宏观层面的原因，其根源在于总需求不振。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond government action, the private sector and civil-society organizations should step up their efforts to verify whether online news stories are accurate, balanced, and credible.",
        "除了政府行动，私人部门和公民社会组织也应该采取行动证实网络新闻报道是否准确、平衡和可信。"
    ],
    [
        "The past few weeks have seemed like a contest to see who in Labour would go the farthest down the path of Islamo-leftism, which is, alas, a strong tendency within the European left and among Britain’s Labourites in particular.",
        "过去几周似乎在竞相比拼工党内部谁在伊斯兰-左翼主义道路上走得最远。 唉，这在欧洲左翼已经形成了难以扭转的趋势，而且最严重的就是英国工党。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, generic drugs from India often provide the lowest-cost option in the US market once patent terms have expired.",
        "毕竟，专利有效期一过，来自印度的仿制药往往提供了美国市场上最廉价的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey also showed its good will over Cyprus, removing a nagging political obstacle to EU membership.",
        "此外，土政府在塞浦路斯问题上也表达了诚意，去掉了加入欧盟过程中一个令人心烦的政治障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "But an increase in government outlays often means wasteful spending that produces less value than consumers would get from those same dollars.",
        "但是，增加政府的支出往往意味着浪费，其产生的价值比不上消费者从同样的钱中所能获得的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "If the European Parliament and the European Council were to take steps to make direct EU trade with northern Cyprus subject to qualified majority voting rather than consensus (and hence veto by Cyprus), the EU would be able to begin trading with northern Cyprus, and Turkey could begin trading with Cyprus as a whole.",
        "如果欧洲国会和欧洲理事会准备采取行动让欧盟和遵循多数投票方式而非讨论达成一致（因此被塞浦路斯否决）的北塞浦路斯交易，欧盟将可以和北塞浦路斯开始通商贸易，土耳其总体上也会跟塞浦路斯开展贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "People sometimes say of charisma that “we know it when we see it,” but we are also looking in a mirror.",
        "有时人们会认为魅力是一种“看到了就能感知到的东西”，但我们其实也是在看一面镜子。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a significant moment in the nuclear age.",
        "这是核时代的重大时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "This reality is reflected in Turkish public opinion, with support for the EU rising from a low of 34% in 2009 to 53% last year.",
        "这一现实反映在土耳其的公共观点中，欧盟支持率从2009年的最低点34%增加到 去年的53%。"
    ],
    [
        "Development thinking then shifted to the neoliberal Washington Consensus: privatization, liberalization, and stabilization would introduce to developing countries the idealized market institutions that had been established in advanced countries.",
        "从“发展思想”转变成新自由主义华盛顿共识，即私有化，自由化，稳定化，这些将会给发展中国家带去理想化的市场体系，这些体系在发达国家已经建立起来了。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Dutch had their revenge in 1988 and beat Germany to go on to become European champions, more people danced in the streets in Holland than on the day that the real war ended in May 1945.",
        "” 当荷兰1988年得报一箭之仇，击败德国队成为欧洲杯冠军时，上街跳舞欢庆的荷兰人比1945年真正的战争结束日还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "We believe that the European Parliament should commemorate her sacrifice by hanging a poster of her image on the external wall of the Parliament’s premises in Brussels, beside the poster of Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma’s democratic opposition.",
        "我们认为欧洲议会应该把印有索乌坦照片的海报张贴于议会在布鲁塞尔的办公场所的外墙上，贴在缅甸民主反对派领袖昂山素季的海报旁边，来纪念她所做出的牺牲。"
    ],
    [
        "American tax rates will revert overnight to their Clinton-era levels.",
        "一夜之间，美国将恢复克林顿时代的税率。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s trade-to-GDP ratio exceeds 40% – substantially higher than that of the US – owing partly to underdeveloped infrastructure and inadequate economic diversification among China’s trading partners.",
        "而中国之所以拥有超过40％的贸易额相对GDP比率（远高于美国），部分原因是其贸易伙伴国的基建发展不足和经济多样化不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Consequently, shares in coal companies have fallen by as much as 90%, leaving asset owners scrambling to divest.",
        "因此，煤炭企业的股价已经下跌了90%，导致资产所有者争先恐后地撤出投资。"
    ],
    [
        "In dropping that half of Wilson’s approach, they stepped on their own message, reducing its effectiveness.",
        "在摒弃了威尔逊的这一半方略后，布什们在一定程度上践踏了自己的主张，使其效果大打折扣。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as Bengali demands for autonomy gained momentum, the response became more repressive.",
        "并且随着孟加拉自治要求愈演愈烈，只换来当权者越来越残酷的压制。"
    ],
    [
        "For as long as we’ve had public regulatory institutions, corporate interests have sought to co-opt them.",
        "只要我们有公共监管机构，公司利益就会试图操纵它们。"
    ],
    [
        "The hawks also suffer from what can be called a “catch up” complex.",
        "鹰派人物们还受到所谓的“追赶”情结之苦。"
    ],
    [
        "In July, Robert W. Merry wrote that Trump had “yet to score anything approaching a serious legislative victory – or to demonstrate any serious political momentum.”",
        "7月，罗伯特·梅里（Robert W. Merry）写道，特朗普“在取得重大立法胜利方面还没有任何得分——也没有表现出任何重大政治动能。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Saudi Arabia, despite its vast oil and financial reserves, has come under strain, owing to a rapidly rising population and higher military spending associated with conflicts in the Middle East.",
        "就连拥有巨量石油和金融储备的沙特阿拉伯也承受了巨大的压力——其人口迅速增加，中东冲突相关的军事支出也水涨船高。"
    ],
    [
        "But it will take committed leadership to transcend the history wars and tap the full potential of Japanese-Korean cooperation, something that both countries’ key ally, the United States, strongly desires, as it seeks to draw China into a lasting and peaceful Asian order.",
        "但只有有决心的领导层才能超越历史战争，充分激发日韩合作潜力，两国的关键盟友美国强烈支持日韩合作，以便让中国也加入持续的和平亚洲秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "It has not always been comfortable for those in government, and there is still a tug-of-war over sensitive documents.",
        "这对于政府官员来说并不总是一件也让人舒服的事情，并且在公开敏感材料的问题上还存在着激烈的斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "And, unlike many equally poor countries, India already has a very strong entrepreneurial class, a reasonably large and well-educated middle class, and a number of world-class corporations that can be enlisted in the effort to provide these public goods.",
        "与其他差不多穷的国家不同，印度已经拥有了强大的创业家阶层、规模足够大且教育程度高者的中产阶级以及众多可以动员起来提供公共品的世界级企业。"
    ],
    [
        "The investors then invested the proceeds in Germany, buying shares, bonds, and other assets.",
        "接着，投资者在把钱投资于德国，买入股票、债券和其他资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Gülen lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, where he presides over a huge informal network of schools, think tanks, businesses, and media across five continents.",
        "葛兰自我流放地生活在宾夕法尼亚州，并在宾夕法尼亚主持着一个由跨越五大洲的学校、智库、企业和媒体组成的巨大的地下网络。"
    ],
    [
        "His “decisive struggle against dictatorship” – and determined opposition to any deal with Bhutto that excludes him – will intensify.",
        "他的“与独裁者决定性的斗争”以及坚决反对任何把他排斥在外的与贝布托的协议的势头会越来越猛。"
    ],
    [
        "In just seven years, from 2006 to 2013, the world’s installed capacity for wind power quadrupled, while use of photovoltaic systems grew almost 20-fold.",
        "在从2006到2013年的短短七年间，全球安装完毕的风力发电容量翻了两番，而光伏系统的应用也出现近20倍的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wanted to solve the problem by withdrawing Italy from the eurozone and devaluing the new currency.",
        "前总理贝卢斯科尼试图通过让意大利退出欧元区然后贬值新货币解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And now, with the technological armory and plethora of data currently available, science can go far beyond any previous expectation and extrapolation. Indeed, in coming decades, everything will be susceptible to major revision as new cross-disciplines – and undisciplined threads of study – emerge.",
        "如今，有了先进的技术和海量数据，随着交叉科学的兴起——并且研究不设边界——任何东西都有可能做出重大修正。"
    ],
    [
        "Conversely, whenever politics gets in the way of a decision, bureaucrats lose credibility.",
        "相反，一旦决策参杂了政治因素，官僚都会失去信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "One piece of news reported by Russian media but curiously unheeded in the West is that the missile cruiser Moskva, with its dozens of anti-aircraft ordnance, has been deployed to Latakia.",
        "俄罗斯媒体报道、但奇怪地被西方所忽略的一份新闻报道说，携带数十枚防空武器的导弹巡洋舰莫斯科号（Moskva）已经部署到拉塔基亚。"
    ],
    [
        "We in this region can, and I believe should, call for a non-aligned Caucasus, free of security blocs and adversarial alliances.",
        "我相信，本地区国家应该而且能够呼吁建立不结盟的高加索地区，没有安全结盟或者敌对联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Tasks like maneuvering small blood vessels that are 1-2 millimeters in diameter, or removing a brain tumor without damaging the surrounding tissue, require technologies, such as the operating microscope and multimodal imaging tools, that complement surgeons’ skills and augment their abilities.",
        "摆弄直径一二毫米的小血管，或在不伤害组织的情况下切除脑部肿瘤，这样的任务需要手术显微镜和多态成像工具（multimodal imaging tool）等技术，以补充完善外科医生的技能、增强他们的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "A social and political correction was necessary, and it has occurred with a vengeance unique to France.",
        "因此，有必要进行社会和政治修正，而且这在法国尤其的明显。"
    ],
    [
        "I lean slightly toward the optimistic scenario, but investors and policymakers alike need to understand the ramifications of a return to more normal volatility levels.",
        "我表示谨慎乐观，但是投资者以及决策者需要理解回复到更为正常的波动水平所带来的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In the post-WWII period, the more successful episodes of democratic transitions have been preceded by widespread economic reforms that extended the scope of the market and facilitated international integration.",
        "在二战结束后，更为成功的民主转型都是以广泛的经济改革为先导的。 这些改革延伸了市场范围，从而有利于经济的国际融合。"
    ],
    [
        "If America treats China as an enemy today, it will ensure future enmity.",
        "如果今天美国把中国以敌人对待，那么今后就会有敌对。"
    ],
    [
        "But can anyone claim an advantage?",
        "但哪一方可以声称占优？"
    ],
    [
        "The authorities' task now is to determine how to support continued growth on the better performing track (the private sector and the first- and second-tier cities), while eliminating overcapacity and boosting productivity on the weaker track (SOEs and third- and fourth-tier cities).",
        "政府目前的任务是一方面如何针对表现较好的民营企业和一二线城市出台可以巩固及持续其增长的措施，另一方面如何针对表现较差的国有企业和三四线城市出台可以消除过剩产能和提高生产率的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Not long after Chen left the US embassy for Beijing’s Chaoyang hospital, China’s government issued its usual denunciation of US interference in its internal affairs.",
        "陈光诚离开美国大使馆，前往北京朝阳医院后没多久，中国政府发布了其一贯谴责美国干涉其内政的公告。"
    ],
    [
        "That, together with her avowed combativeness, has impaired coherent policymaking on critical issues like the Syrian crisis.",
        "再加上她公开的好斗个性，导致叙利亚危机等关键问题上无法形成一致决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, engaged in a war driven by fury and vengeance, the Israelis are now focused again on a manhunt for gang chieftains, targeted killings of Hamas squads, and the arrest of its political leaders, not on peace overtures.",
        "然而，置身于一场由愤怒和复仇驱动的战争之中，以色列现在又开始致力于追捕帮派头领，锁定并歼灭哈马斯的军事组织并逮捕其政治领导人，而不是热衷于谱写和平的序曲。"
    ],
    [
        "That represents a profound change in Europe’s financial environment, which Greek politicians, along with many economic analysts, still fail to understand.",
        "这代表着欧洲金融环境的一个深远变化，而希腊政客以及诸多经济分析师都没有意识到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Facebook had six million users in 2006; today, it has 1.4 billion.",
        "2006年Facebook还只有600万用户； 但今天已经达到14亿之多。"
    ],
    [
        "As General Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser for President George H.W. Bush, observed recently, the UN Charter originally envisioned a standing military force to enforce Security Council resolutions – a vision that the NATO partner model might ultimately realize.",
        "正如布什总统国家安全顾问斯考克罗夫特将军不久前所说的那样，“联合国宪章”最初设想由一支常设军事力量来执行安理会决议，这样的愿景有可能借助北约伙伴模式最终变成现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Though a small group of collectors invests speculatively in antique or specialty cars, the idea of speculating in automobiles just is not in the public consciousness.",
        "尽管一小群收藏爱好者对古董或特制汽车情有独钟，但投机汽车的想法根本没有被公众所广泛接受。"
    ],
    [
        "And Denmark’s claim is massive.",
        "丹麦的主张非同小可。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that Lucas’s statement is true only for models of economic growth that are specified in such a way that the return on “embodied” capital drops to zero as capital accumulates.",
        "问题在于卢卡斯的说法只适合一些经济增长模型，这些模型有严格的假设，即“包含的”资本回报会随着资本的积累趋近于零。"
    ],
    [
        "But their failure may have reinforced the shift to a new phase of distributed global economic governance.",
        "但他们的失败也许加强了向分布式全球经济治理的新阶段的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, they are considered central to the operation of the financial system.",
        "如今，它们已是金融体系运行的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "His problem is simple: He is recognizably a normal human being.",
        "他的问题很简单：他显然是一个正常人。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem with the emergence of these new growth engines is that it enabled China’s leaders to delay important structural reforms.",
        "伴随新增长引擎出现而出现的问题是它让中国领导人推迟了重要的结构改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Because natural-gas combustion produces fewer greenhouse gases than other hydrocarbons, such as coal or oil, it can be a bridge to a less carbon-intensive future.",
        "天然气燃烧所产生的温室气体要小于煤和石油等化石燃料，因此页岩气称得上通往减少碳密集程度的捷径。"
    ],
    [
        "This shift will naturally bring about a decline in demand for energy-intensive raw materials like iron, steel, and cement; at the same time, it will better equip China for the next stages of its development.",
        "这一转变将自然带来铁、钢、水泥等能源密集型原材料需求的下降； 与此同时，中国也能更好地位下一阶段的发展做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite their great promise, however, superconductors have limits, the primary one being that most superconduct at very low temperatures – indeed, near absolute zero (-273 ºC).",
        "虽然拥有巨大的前景，但超导体也存在自身的限制，其中最主要的一点就是大多数超导现象只有在极低温环境下才能实现——事实上就是接近绝对零度（-273摄氏度）。"
    ],
    [
        "But coordinating and sharing capacities can help both partners deal with the new nature of conflicts.",
        "但合作和分享将有助于双方应对新形式的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "If a CAC required, say, 75% of the holders of each bond class, vultures could buy 26% of only one bond class and block the entire restructuring.",
        "如果集体行动条款要求（比如）每种债券级别都有75%多数的持有者，那么兀鹫只要买入一种债券类别的26%，就可以阻挠整个重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the most severe financial and economic crisis in almost a century, the Finnish national debt actually decreased by 2009, to 39.7%.",
        "芬兰虽然经历了近一个世纪以来最为严重的金融和经济危机，但截至 2009 年，其国债事实上却减少了 39. 7% 。"
    ],
    [
        "But IMF staff knew otherwise.",
        "但IMF员工知道并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "To strengthen high-seas governance, the Global Ocean Commission is joining the call for a new agreement under UNCLOS to protect biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction.",
        "为了强化公海治理，全球海洋委员会呼吁形成一个基于UNCLOS的新协议以保护国家法律管辖区之外区域的生物多样性。"
    ],
    [
        "You can reduce the burden to some extent by creating a community of your customers (and prospects) so that they can listen to one another.",
        "而其中一个减轻工作量的方法，就是你可以为自己的客户（或潜在客户）创建一个社区圈子，这样他们就可以在里面相互倾听彼此的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "Like a long-married couple who habitually bicker and fight, the two can’t seem to live together – but they can’t live apart, either.",
        "就像一对经常掐架的夫妻，看似没法儿再过，却谁也离不开谁。"
    ],
    [
        "Because Russia claims the status of a world power, it is expected to show restraint and responsibility.",
        "既然宣称自己是世界强国，俄国就理应能够表现出克制，并勇于承担责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Tradable Prosperity",
        "可贸易繁荣"
    ],
    [
        "But, above all, he needs to cooperate with Congress, just as Reagan and Clinton did.",
        "但最重要的是，他需要与国会合作，一如此前的里根和克林顿。"
    ],
    [
        "If, instead, private debts are excessively socialized, the advanced economies will face a grim future: serious sustainability problems with their public, private, and foreign debt, together with crippled prospects for economic growth.",
        "如果私人债务被过分分摊到全民头上，发达经济体的前景堪忧：一边是公私债务和外债同时陷入严重的不可持续状态，另一边是可怜的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Diseases Without Borders",
        "无国界疾病"
    ],
    [
        "And the Chinese government will be able to expand the provision of health services without having to pay for them, because consumers’ insurance will be available to pick up the tab.",
        "中国政府可以在不必买单的情况下扩大医疗服务供给，因为消费者可以用保险付账。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN successfully resisted the powerful pressures of the US to condone a war with Iraq despite repeated US claims, now known to be false, that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction.",
        "尽管美国一再申请，联合国还是成功抵制了来自美国的强大压力，没有宽恕对伊战争。 现在我们知道美国污蔑伊拉克拥有大规模杀伤性武器的借口根本不成立。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – Solutions to the climate crisis are often associated with big conferences, and the next two weeks will no doubt bring many “answers.”",
        "日内瓦—气候危机的解决方案常常诞生于大会中，接下来的两周毫无疑问将产生很多“答案”。"
    ],
    [
        "There were also his reported contacts with unsavory characters.",
        "此外还有传说中他与讨厌人物的接触。"
    ],
    [
        "But people have a way of objecting to being manipulated like that. They like to be treated as individuals, not to be put into buckets.",
        "但人们从来都不喜欢这样被操纵，他们喜欢被作为独立的个体来对待，而不是被分门别类放在一个篮子里。"
    ],
    [
        "The second critical intervention is improved water, sanitation, and hygiene in homes and communities.",
        "第二项关键性干预是改善社区和家中的水、环境卫生和卫生情况。"
    ],
    [
        "And the political environment is amenable to their plans: India now conducts more joint military exercises with the US than with any other country.",
        "政治环境也有利于它们的算盘：印度与美国进行的联合军演次数超过了其他任何一个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Time after time, the EU rejected and denigrated common-sense policies.",
        "一次又一次，欧盟拒绝并诋毁常识性政策。"
    ],
    [
        "This allowed skeptics and opponents of missile defense to gain the upper hand in the internal debates in both countries.",
        "这使得那些怀疑和反对导弹防御系统的人在两国的内部争论中占据了上风。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it is not even the highest sale price paid this year.",
        "但这甚至不是今年的最高价格。"
    ],
    [
        "In developed countries, most industries are advanced, which suggests that upgrading requires innovation.",
        "在发达国家，许多产业都已经发展到了极致，这意味着继续升级必须依靠创新。"
    ],
    [
        "This seems highly unlikely.",
        "似乎可能性相当小。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, many of those who don’t believe that immigrants take natives’ jobs still worry that newcomers do not contribute enough in taxes.",
        "当然，很多不相信移民抢走本地工作机会的人仍然担忧新来者无法贡献足够的税收。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of North Korea, the regime is seeking a nuclear arsenal to deter a US-led attempt at regime change.",
        "在朝鲜问题上，金氏政权试图用核武器来威慑美国领导的颠覆行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Then another gene therapy experiment in France generated leukemia in several patients - and the protocols were stopped immediately.",
        "而后法国进行的试验又导致若干病人患上了白血病，于是试验许可协议遭到了即刻中止的厄运。"
    ],
    [
        "Not anymore: currently, Congo’s eastern province of North Kivu is in the headlines almost every day.",
        "现在情形已经发生了变化：当前，刚果的东部省份北基伍省（North Kivu）几乎天天都上头条新闻了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, such a bailout could undermine the ECB’s trustworthiness as guardian of the euro’s stability, particularly in light of the new political power that it would obtain.",
        "此外，这样的援助还有损于欧洲央行捍卫欧元稳定性的信誉，特别是考虑到它所须应对的新政治势力。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the term jihad, commonly translated as “holy war,” has become nearly ubiquitous.",
        "例如，“jihad”一词，通常被译作“圣战”，现在已经可说是无处不在了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while Japan’s tense relationship with China dominates headlines worldwide, the strategic rivalry between China and India is more likely to shape Asian power dynamics in the coming decades.",
        "但是，在日本与中国的紧张关系占据了全球媒体焦点的同时，中国和印度之间的战略对峙才更有可能决定未来几十年中的亚洲实力动态。"
    ],
    [
        "Many analysts hope that ISIS will finally be eliminated from Iraq and Syria in the next few months.",
        "许多分析家希望今后几个月能将伊斯兰国从伊拉克和叙利亚消灭掉。"
    ],
    [
        "A powerful rebalancing strategy offers the structural and cyclical support that will allow it to avoid a hard landing.",
        "有力的再平衡战略提供了避免硬着陆所需要的结构性和周期性支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The fence was designed to prevent intrusion from the human population and degradation of the park’s habitat.",
        "这条电网是为了防止人类闯入保护区和国家公园栖息地的退化。"
    ],
    [
        "There is, however, another aspect of the encyclical that has received much less attention.",
        "但是，方济各的通谕还有一个角度受到的关注要少得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Such pay structures gave executives excessive incentives to seek short-term gains – say, by making lending and investment decisions that would improve short-term earnings – even when doing so would increase the risks of an implosion later on.",
        "这种薪酬结构激励高管们追求短期收益– 例如，通过做出提高短期收益贷款和投资决策–即使这样做会增加公司未来的 风险也在所不顾。"
    ],
    [
        "Heavy-handed diplomatic pressure – such as threats to exclude Russia from the G8 – must be a weapon of last resort.",
        "强硬的外交压力—例如威胁将俄罗斯排除在8国集团之外—必须是最后的杀手锏。"
    ],
    [
        "We know that enormous public and private investment is required for the transition toward a low-carbon economy, to win the global fight against poverty and disease, and to provide high-quality education and physical infrastructure worldwide.",
        "我们知道，向低碳经济的转型、赢得与贫困和疾病的全球战争、在全球范围提供高质量教育和实体基础设施需要巨大的公共和私人投资。"
    ],
    [
        "They may even overshoot, temporarily pushing the ratios even higher than necessary, creating a bubble and causing unnecessary angst among residents.",
        "他们可能会漫天要价，导致房价-收入比率暂时升高到比必要程度还要高，形成房价泡沫，在居民中间造成不必要的焦虑。"
    ],
    [
        "As the following graph shows, China has benefited so much from FDI that it is now increasing its own ODI.",
        "下图显示，中国从FDI中获益良多，所以如今其自身ODI也在增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-Trade America?",
        "反贸易的美国?"
    ],
    [
        "Another example is the creation of hybridomas, hybrid cells created in the laboratory by fusing normal white blood cells that produce antibodies with a cancer cell.",
        "另一个例子是杂交瘤的创造，杂交瘤是一种实验室中产生的杂交细胞，它由产生抗体的普通白细胞和癌细胞溶合而成。"
    ],
    [
        "There has been much discussion of how to cut government spending, but too little attention has been devoted to how to make government spending more effective.",
        "当前已经有许多关于如何减少政府开支的议论，但其中只有很少能将焦点放在如何使政府支出变得更有效上。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that around most of the world, inflation – and eventually inflation expectations – will keep climbing unless central banks start tightening their monetary policies.",
        "事实是在全球大多数地区，通货膨胀并且最终是通货膨胀预期将会继续上升，除非各国中央银行开始紧缩其货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "It never occurred to the ruling communists (or to Solidarity) that they might lose.",
        "执政的共产党人做梦也没有想到过他们会输（这一点团结工会同样没有想到）。"
    ],
    [
        "Will this be enough to revitalize the moribund peace process and reach a settlement with the Palestinians?",
        "这足以让濒临绝境的和平进程起死回生，与巴勒斯坦达成和解吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the EU must prepare to impose enhanced economic sanctions on Russia.",
        "其次，欧洲必须准备好加强对俄经济制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "It will be interesting to see how these classical stereotypes play out in the American presidential competition this year.",
        "看看这些经典的老套在今年的美国总统竞选中破灭，是很有趣的。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary policy must therefore focus solely on hitting inflation targets, and central bankers should be exonerated of any blame for unemployment.",
        "因此货币政策必须只关注如何达到通胀目标，而央行应免遭任何关于失业率的指责。"
    ],
    [
        "Nationalism promises an escape from the discipline of “sensible” alternatives that turn out to offer no alternative.",
        "民主只是挂羊头卖狗肉。 民族主义许下一个摆脱根本不是替代方案的“明智”替代方案的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, agencies such as Europol and Eurojust will be similarly subject to greater parliamentary scrutiny, and the budgetary procedure will be simpler and more democratic.",
        "此外，欧洲刑警组织以及欧洲司法组织等机构也同样要更多地接受议会的监督，而且预算制定的程序将会更加简洁，同时也更加民主。"
    ],
    [
        "Osborne and the British Tories got it completely wrong.",
        "奥斯本和英国保守党完全搞反了。"
    ],
    [
        "That was the privilege of having the largest, most dynamic economy – and one that acted as a world creditor.",
        "这就是拥有规模最大、活力最旺盛的经济所带来的特权——美国当时扮演了全世界债主的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, these numbers show that the American dream is a myth.",
        "如今，统计数字显示，美国梦只是一个传说。"
    ],
    [
        "But a newly appointed president likely won’t end Poland’s constitutional crisis, because with valid court judgments from this summer remaining unpublished, there is now a black hole in Poland’s constitutional order.",
        "但新任命主席可能无法结束波兰的宪政危机，因为由于今年夏天的那宗有法律效力的裁决不公布，波兰宪政秩序中产生了一个黑洞。"
    ],
    [
        "Most economists failed to foresee the economic dynamics that actually led to the crisis, because they failed to pay enough attention to the rapid increase in US total debt.",
        "而大多数经济学家之所以无法预见到危机背后的真正经济驱动力，是因为他们对美国总债务的快速增长缺乏足够的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "In the developed world, mechanical ventilators provide the respiratory support of bubble CPAP.",
        "在发达国家，持续气道正压通气这样的呼吸支持主要由机械式呼吸机负责提供。"
    ],
    [
        "Many economists and some foreign observers are puzzled by the emphasis Sarkozy has placed on this expensive provision.",
        "许多经济学家和部分外国观察家对萨科奇强调这项代价高昂的规定感到迷惑。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, one’s income is a dark secret that one might not reveal even to one’s own spouse.",
        "在美国，个人收入被看作绝对隐私，即使配偶也未必知情。"
    ],
    [
        "But few of these economies are prepared to embark on the type of internal reforms that promise sustained high growth rates and a substantial reduction in unemployment, which has been at alarming levels for young people and in terms of duration.",
        "但只有为数不多的经济体准备好去实施那种可以确保可持续高增长率以及切实减少失业率——对年轻人以及就业持续时间来说已经处于警报水平——的内部改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a higher inflation target remains unthinkable, and the German government argues that defaults on sovereign debt are illegal within the eurozone.",
        "此外，提高通胀目标仍然无法想象，而德国政府指出，主权债务违约在欧元区是不合法的。"
    ],
    [
        "To avoid such an outcome, China should lower its growth target to about 6% in the coming years.",
        "要避免这一结果，中国应该在未来几年将增长目标降至6%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "But maternal and infant mortality is not confined to the past, much less to fiction.",
        "但产妇和婴儿死亡不仅发生在过去，更不止发生在小说当中。"
    ],
    [
        "At the heart of resolving the crisis lies the certainty that the euro – and with it the EU as a whole – will not survive without greater European political unification.",
        "化解危机确定的核心问题是：如果不实现欧洲政治统一，欧元和作为整体的欧盟就无法继续存在。"
    ],
    [
        "But the current Bush administration has been hacking away at these 1970’s laws from all directions.",
        "但是目前的布什政府从所有的方向都偏离这些七十年代的法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a new European debate that embodies the common action of European citizens and institutions can combat “alter-Europeanism” effectively.",
        "只有一个全新的、能代表欧洲公民及组织行动的欧洲辩论才能有效抵御“改变欧洲主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "It would strengthen Israel’s relations with Egypt, help to stabilize Jordan (a vital and friendly buffer state), and remove a major source of tension with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist government.",
        "它能强化以色列与埃及的关系，帮助稳定约旦（关键的、友好的缓冲国），并移除与土耳其总理埃尔多安的伊斯兰政府的一大主要冲突源。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain’s unique resistance to right-wing populist forces may also reflect the nature of Spain’s transition to democracy after Franco’s death.",
        "西班牙对右倾民粹主义力量的独特的抵抗力也许也体现在弗朗哥死后西班牙民主转型的性质中。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, many women with a high level of mutated BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes face the tragic choice of having their breasts and ovaries surgically removed to pre-empt cancer.",
        "结果，那些携带高度变异BRCA1 或BRCA2基因的妇女不得不痛苦地选择手术割除她们的胸部和卵巢以抵抗癌症。"
    ],
    [
        "When the millennium opened, world leaders pledged to seek peace, the end of poverty, and a cleaner environment.",
        "新千年伊始之际，世界各国领导者们庄重许诺，将致力于寻求和平方案、解决贫困问题，创造一个更为清洁的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "They could thus guarantee – also on behalf of other creditors – that the state’s finances were solid, and that debts would be repaid.",
        "他们督促国家保持财政稳健并偿还债务，也连带着保护了外国债权人的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "As Europe attempts to build a sustainable, stable, and prosperous union, it should look to successful unions like the US and Switzerland for guidance.",
        "在欧洲尝试建立一个可持续、稳定、繁荣的联盟时，它需要着眼于美国和瑞士等成功的联盟作为榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Chances are that the Greek government and its creditors will be back at the negotiating table again.",
        "极有可能，希腊政府及其债权人将再次回到谈判桌。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early 1980’s, they fell under the spell of monetarism, a simplistic economic theory promoted by Milton Friedman.",
        "在八十年代早期，他们深受弗里德曼鼓吹的货币主义简单化经济理论的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The shortsightedness of socialist Prime Minister José Zapatero of Spain has prevailed.",
        "西班牙社会党首相萨帕特罗的短视行为如今却风行一时。"
    ],
    [
        "Direct but shadowy information tends to lead to “disease mongering” – the creation of diseases in order to boost prescriptions.",
        "目的直接但却形式隐蔽的信息往往导致“贩卖疾病”—为了增加处方而创造疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "They also appreciate the need to build a social safety net and strengthen rural property rights.",
        "他们还明白需要建立社会安全网、强化农村产权。"
    ],
    [
        "Pundits have been saying last rites for the dollar’s global dominance since the 1960s – that is, for more than a half-century now.",
        "专家们一直在谈论美元的全球主宰地位的最后仪式——从20世纪60年代，也就是大半个世纪以前开始，美国一直享有这一地位。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as urban areas are socially and economically deprived, communitarianism will only serve to mask the violation of the principle of equality.",
        "只要农村地区还是在社会和经济上无法享受权利的，那么社群主义就只能掩盖对平等原则的颠覆。"
    ],
    [
        "But Ramey could be right.",
        "当然拉梅也可能是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Democratization in the Arab world is not only about toppling dictators; it is also about redressing the politico-ethnic map of the region, which has kept too many minority groups dissatisfied.",
        "阿拉伯世界的民主化不但事关推翻独裁者，也事关重画地区政治-种族地图，这个地区有太多的心存不满的少数群体。"
    ],
    [
        "On average, many college graduates will search for months before they find a job – often only after having taken one or two unpaid internships.",
        "平均而言，许多大学毕业生需要好几个月才能找到一份工作——常常必须先干一到两份无薪实习工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Support for far-right and far-left parties was based on citizens’ frustrations with Europe’s flaws, rather than on any realistic, thoughtful agenda.",
        "对极右翼和极左翼政党的支持背后是公民对欧洲的缺陷的不满，而不是对任何深思熟虑的现实日程的不满。"
    ],
    [
        "Life events are relegated to mere triggers of an underlying biological time bomb.",
        "生活经历被归结为仅仅是引爆上述生物定时炸弹的触发因素。"
    ],
    [
        "As China’s economy becomes more complex, the absence of transparent and accountable governance processes, combined with frequent crackdowns on civil society and efforts to enforce conformity and discipline, will ultimately stifle entrepreneurship and innovation.",
        "随着中国经济变得越来越复杂，透明的可问责的治理程序的缺位，加上频繁镇压公民社会和加强一致性和纪律，将最终扼杀企业家精神和创新。"
    ],
    [
        "This means, first and foremost, establishing clear and predictable community rules and cost-sensitive policies for the energy union.",
        "这首先意味着为能源联盟建立明确且可预测的共同规则和成本敏感型政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, as policymakers seek new paradigms for managing the economy in 2011 and beyond, a better understanding of these linkages will be essential to promoting economic growth and reducing the risk of crises. Equally important is the realization that by working together, we can build a more successful and more stable global economy, for the benefit of all countries.",
        "时至今日，随着政策制定者们都在寻求一种在2011年及以后进行经济管理的新范式，我们有必要加深对这些联系的理解，并以此促进经济增长并降低危机的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "By my calculations, the dollar still needs to go down another 15% if the US trade deficit is to go back towards balance.",
        "依照我的计算，如果要使美国贸易逆差达到平衡，美元还需进一步贬值15%。"
    ],
    [
        "It is only within this kind of renewed UN that NATO or other military alliances can obtain legitimized effectiveness .",
        "只有改革后的联合国才能赋予北约或其它军事联盟合法的效力。"
    ],
    [
        "Many are now calling for the inclusion of enforceable provisions prohibiting so-called “currency manipulation.”",
        "如今，许多人要求将可执行的禁止所谓“货币操纵”条款纳入协定中。"
    ],
    [
        "More eurozone countries will be forced to restructure their debts, and eventually some will decide to exit the monetary union.",
        "更多的欧元区国家将被迫重组其债务，最终，将有一些国家选择退出货币联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "The world can increasingly focus aid on the main environmental problems – indoor and outdoor air pollution, along with lead and ozone pollution – that cause almost all environment-related deaths.",
        "世界能够日益将援助集中于主要环境问题——室内和室外空气污染以及铅和臭氧污染——几乎所有与环境有关的死亡都是由这些问题造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "As a member of the World Trade Organization, the US has ample opportunity to use that body’s dispute-resolution mechanism to adjudicate major problems with its trading partners.",
        "作为世界贸易组织成员国，美国有的是机会用高机构的纠纷解决机制裁决与其贸易伙伴的重大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to achieve price stability; but it is just as important to maintain it, by continually managing monetary policy to target a low rate of inflation.",
        "实现物价稳定非常重要，但通过管理货币政策、盯住低通货膨胀率目标来维持物价稳定同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a sorry tale of poor global governance.",
        "这是一个不幸的全球管理不善事件。"
    ],
    [
        "But rising temperatures are far from the only threat posed by climate change.",
        "气温升高还远不是气候变化所造成的唯一风险。"
    ],
    [
        "One such rule is the Maastricht Treaty’s cap on member states’ public debt at 60% of GDP.",
        "规则之一是马斯特里赫特条约将成员国的公共债务水平限定在GDP的60%以下。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it was frightening.",
        "事实上，这令人害怕。"
    ],
    [
        "What Merkel has lacked in economic-policy achievements, she has made up for in bringing about social change.",
        "默克尔缺少经济政策方面的成就，就用社会变革来弥补。"
    ],
    [
        "The tone of ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet’s comments in the Q & A section of the press conference following the October meeting was unusually hawkish.",
        "欧洲央行行长让·克洛德·特里谢在10月会议后的新闻发布会上回答问题时态度少有的强硬。"
    ],
    [
        "History suggests as much.",
        "历史经验亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "The AIIB would complement China’s rapidly increasing bilateral development financing, with the added benefit of a multilateral structure that ensures better governance and higher operating standards.",
        "而且可以以一种更加契合受资助国需要的方式行事，相比其他建立已久的国际组织来说官僚主义条条框框更少，也更为灵活。"
    ],
    [
        "The cost may seem significant in a world of rising unemployment rates, with many countries still struggling with ongoing financial and economic crises, and others staring bankruptcy in the face.",
        "在全球失业率高企、众多国家仍在持续发酵的金融和经济危机中挣扎、更有不少国家已经陷入破产状态的时期，这看起来是笔巨大的数字。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to deny that some of the 1% have contributed a great deal.",
        "我并不是否认这1%中有一部分人确实对社会贡献卓越。"
    ],
    [
        "The lynchpin of the new European Commission’s economic strategy is its recently unveiled plan to increase investment by €315 billion ($390 billion) over the next three years.",
        "新欧盟委员会的经济战略核心是其正在开展的计划——在未来三年增加3,150亿欧元投资。"
    ],
    [
        "In extreme cases, desperate individuals will assassinate a president or a rock star just to get into the news.",
        "在极端情况下，绝望的人们会暗杀总统或摇滚明星来登上新闻头条。"
    ],
    [
        "In March, the US Presidential Task Force on Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing and Seafood Fraud released an “all of government” action plan.",
        "3月份，美国非法、不报告和不受监管捕捞行为和海鲜欺诈总统特别任务小组公布了一份“全体政府”行动计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Investor protection is important, of course, but as the Nobel laureate Eugene Fama put it, “the primary role of the capital market is allocation of ownership of the economy’s capital stock.”",
        "保护投资者固然应当，但正如诺贝尔经济学奖获得者尤金·法马（Eugene Fama）指出的那样：“资本市场的主要作用就是分配经济资本存量的所有权。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Increased openness has, in fact, greatly benefited Iran.",
        "加强开放确实给伊朗带来了巨大的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither of these responses to populism is likely to boost democracy.",
        "上面提到的民粹主义反应不太可能推动民主。"
    ],
    [
        "Frankly, the functioning of the EU and its institutions during the crisis has been a part of the problem.",
        "坦白说，危机期间，欧盟的功能及其机构乃是问题的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is simple: It should muddle through.",
        "答案再简单不过：它应当蒙混过关。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, there were some things that could and should have been done differently.",
        "是的，总有些问题可以而且应当采取不同的处理方式。"
    ],
    [
        "The majority of Arabs may not support al-Qaeda, but they do not oppose it with all their heart.",
        "大多数阿拉伯人可能不支持基地组织，但他们不完全反对。"
    ],
    [
        "I was so sure that Muslim women should be allowed to speak for themselves because of the faces of Muslim feminism I encountered in recent travels – notably in Jordan, a country fascinatingly poised between tradition and innovation, developing under a forward-looking monarchy that is seeking to modernize and, to an extent, democratize. For those Westerners who worry about Islamic fundamentalism in the Arab world, surely Jordan is a worthy model to understand, support, and engage.",
        "而我之所以对穆斯林女性应拥有为自己说话的权利如此肯定，是缘自于我在最近旅行中遇到的几位穆斯林女权主义者——尤其是在约旦这个在传统与创新中取得完美平衡，并在高瞻远瞩的君主政体领导下走向现代化以及在某种程度上的民主化的国度。 对于那些担忧阿拉伯世界原教旨主义的西方人来说，约旦无疑是一个值得我们理解、支持和加强交往的典型。"
    ],
    [
        "But other jurisdictions should not act to undercut the restrictions imposed by home authorities.",
        "但东道国不应该助金融机构逃脱母国规则所施加的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "For a quarter-century, Europe has benefited from the post-Cold War peace dividend and irresponsibly allowed member states’ average defense expenditure to slip to a paltry 1.4% of GDP.",
        "四分之一世纪以来，欧盟得益于后冷战期的和平红利，不负责任地允许成员国将平均国防开支降低到微不足道的GDP的1."
    ],
    [
        "She deserved what was coming to her.",
        "她完全是自作自受。"
    ],
    [
        "The danger, of course, was that Iran would move from developing civil nuclear power to making its own weapons.",
        "当然，危险在于伊朗可能会将发展民用核能转变为制造核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the G-20 finance ministers and central-bank governors to whom these entreaties were directed failed to agree any such action at their recent meeting in Shanghai.",
        "但作为吁求对象的G-20财政部长和央行行长们并没能在上海的最新会议上达成任何行动协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term interest rates almost certainly will eventually start to rise – and “eventually” increasingly looks like next year.",
        "几乎可以肯定，长期利率“终于”要开始上涨了—“终于”看起来可能发生在明年。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission is trying to find ways to protect the rights of the non-eurozone countries.",
        "委员会尝试去维护非欧元区国家的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – A winter election is not to Italian tastes.",
        "米兰——意大利人一向不喜欢冬季选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Nixon’s defiance was direct, and the result was disastrous.",
        "尼克松的反抗直截了当，而且结果是灾难性的。"
    ],
    [
        "What needs to be done also has been well known since 20 years ago, when a nonpartisan report by a cross-party group of big-city mayors unanimously agreed on measures to be taken: efficient repression, highly developed social prevention, a permanent local police presence, and a renewed effort at reintegrating delinquents.",
        "同样，早在20年前，人们就非常清楚要采取哪些措施。 当时，各大城市市长组成的跨党派团体在报告中就需要采取的措施达成一致：那就是有效实施镇压、积极开展社会防治、长期部署地方警力和重新接纳违法人员。"
    ],
    [
        "An elected president has a stronger mandate to be controversial, especially in areas of thought and culture that lie beyond the domain of quotidian politics but shape the quality of the public space in which politics plays out.",
        "当选总统有更大的引起争议的权力，特别是在日常政治范围之外但又决定着作为政治施展舞台的公共空间的质量的思想和文化领域。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic agenda – dubbed “Abenomics” – seems to be working for his country.",
        "首尔—日本首相安倍晋三的经济日程——即所谓的“安倍经济学”——似乎会在日本起效。"
    ],
    [
        "The political atmosphere in Egypt remains volatile.",
        "埃及的政治氛围仍然极不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, nearly a half-billion Chinese lack access to clean drinking water, and the number of terminally polluted rivers and lakes grows daily.",
        "事实上，几乎有近五亿中国人无法获得干净的饮用水，而遭到严重污染的江河湖泊的数量每天都在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s war on terror now risks becoming a permanent war against an expanding list of enemies – often inadvertently created by its own policies.",
        "如今，美国的反恐战争有可能演变为一场持久战争，对手的名单越来越长——并且往往来自其自身政策的副作用。"
    ],
    [
        "They have three years to do so, before CITES next meets in Thailand.",
        "在下一次濒危物种国际贸易公约会议召开之前，他们有三年时间证明自己的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe ’s relations with the Islamic world are a lot trickier.",
        "而欧洲与伊斯兰世界的关系则更为棘手。"
    ],
    [
        "The heroes of the second group are reformist finance or economy ministers such as India’s Manmohan Singh or Brazil’s Fernando Henrique Cardoso.",
        "第二种观点的偶像则是具有改革精神的财政和经济部长，如印度的曼莫汉·辛格（Manmohan Singh）和巴西的卡多佐。"
    ],
    [
        "Pessimists would immediately point out that Europe has struggled to come together even on far less complex and more controllable issues, such as the protracted economic and financial crisis in Greece.",
        "悲观派马上会说，欧洲在复杂程度更低、可控性更高的问题上都难以形成一致，如持续的希腊经济和金融危机问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they pushed for policies that restructured markets in ways that increased inequality and undermined overall economic performance; growth actually slowed as the rules of the game were rewritten to advance the interests of banks and corporations – the rich and powerful – at the expense of everyone else.",
        "相反，它们用一些增加不平等且破坏整体经济表现的政策来重新塑造市场； 实际上增长放缓，因为游戏规则遭到了改写，牺牲其他人的利益去让本已有钱有势的银行和大型企业得利。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, despite the high likelihood that China’s economic growth will slow significantly in 2012, a hard landing is unlikely.",
        "因此，尽管中国经济增长很有可能在2012年大幅减速，但硬着陆的可能性很小。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s that time again – Russia’s pre-election season when prime ministers are changed as in a game of musical chairs.",
        "在俄罗斯又一次面临大选的时候，总理宝座像换椅子游戏那样不断地变换着人选。"
    ],
    [
        "If Kim’s bombast and nuclear threats lead to China-US bonding over a joint North Korea settlement, the entire world will be the safer for it.",
        "如果金正恩夸大的核威胁导致中美联手推出朝鲜解决方案，那么整个世界都将因此变得更加安全。"
    ],
    [
        "They blame globalization for damaging their livelihoods and economic prospects, and they seek an enemy – some “other” – whom they can vilify for the uncertainty and downward mobility they have experienced.",
        "他们指责全球化伤害了他们的生计和经济前景，并寻找敌人——某种“他者”——来为不确定性和他们所遭遇的向下流动“背锅”。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly the same proportion (74%) said that if nothing is done to reduce global warming, future generations would be hurt “a moderate amount,” “a lot,” or “a great deal.”",
        "相当比例（74%）的受访者说，如果不采取任何行动遏制全球变暖，子孙后代将受到“一些程度”、“相当程度”和“严重程度”的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Had governments listened to their advice and not responded to their constituents, they would have possibly made things worse.",
        "如果政府听取了他们的建议，没有理会当时的选民，他们可能会使局势进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "As recently as 2000, China owned only about $60 billion in US Treasuries, or roughly 2% of the outstanding US debt of $3.3 trillion held by the public.",
        "在2000年时中国只拥有价值约600亿美元的美国国债，约占美国3. 3万亿美元超额公共债务的2%。"
    ],
    [
        "But the ability to manage downside risk comprehensively is still limited by incomplete longer-term markets and public-private partnerships that cannot be sufficiently leveraged.",
        "但综合管理下行风险的能力仍受到不完整的长期市场和无法充分利用的公私合作的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "The sharp contrast between this lack of achievement and Iran’s recent declarations about reaching a final deal by July raises important questions about Iran’s strategy and goals – questions that negotiators must consider carefully when determining the best approach.",
        "成果寥寥与伊朗最近宣布将在7月达成最终协议之间的鲜明反差产生了关于伊朗战略和目标的重要问题——在决定最佳方针时，谈判者必须小心对待这些问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But what happens to scientists and other scholars, such as those in the Middle East, who have different research concerns from – and scant connections to – the professional journals that can make or break an academic/scientific career?",
        "但那些研究重点迥异且与今天能造就或毁灭学术/科研生涯的专业期刊鲜有联系的科学家和其他学者（比方说中东学者）又该怎么办？"
    ],
    [
        "As part of this new deal, Bolivia should also get a larger share when prices increase. (Bolivia may, of course, not want to bear the risk of a fall in the price, so it may strike a deal to transfer some of the downside risk to foreign companies, giving them in exchange more of the upside potential.)",
        "作为这一合约的一部分，玻利维亚还应该在价格提高的时候得到更大的份额（当然，玻利维亚并不想承担降价时的风险，因此它可能签署协议，把某些价格下跌的风险转移给外国公司，作为交换，也给它们更多的提价潜力）。"
    ],
    [
        "They all outdid men at their own game and had little time for what came to be called feminism.",
        "她们在她们各自的竞赛中都战胜了男人，但是却很少有时间去关注所谓的争取女权运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Until last year, policymakers could always produce a new rabbit from their hat to reflate asset prices and trigger economic recovery.",
        "直到去年，政策制定者还能从帽子里继续变出兔子，靠推高资产价格启动经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is no excuse to dismiss longer-term considerations.",
        "但这绝不是放弃长期整合的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "What resources will produce power?",
        "哪些资源能够带来权力？"
    ],
    [
        "He has made clear his intention that the UN should implement the commitments that the world community has made.",
        "他明确表示联合国应该执行世界组织所做出的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "This is partly because much of world trade and finance is indexed to the dollar, leading many countries to try to mimic Fed policies to stabilize their exchange rates.",
        "这部分是因为世界贸易和金融大部分与美元挂钩，导致许多国家要跟在美联储的政策后亦步亦趋以稳定汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the aggregate size of the BRIC economies is now around $18 trillion, which is larger than the European Union and almost as big as the US.",
        "结果是金砖经济体的经济总量现在约为18万亿美元，这一数字超过了欧盟，几乎和美国一样大。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the risk of tyranny, turmoil, and war within the so-called “post-Soviet space” is large, leaving Ukraine keen to limit its vulnerability.",
        "当然，所谓“后苏联空间”里存在着巨大的专治、动乱和战争风险，这使得乌克兰急切地寻求自我保护。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-20 should fill that gap urgently.",
        "G20应当加紧弥合这一差距。"
    ],
    [
        "Many projects, from airports to university campuses, benefit from returns over decades, which implies that weak demand in the short term will have only a limited impact on their overall viability.",
        "从机场到大学校园，许多工程的回报期超过几十年，这意味着疲弱的短期需求对其长期可行性的影响甚微。"
    ],
    [
        "The $1.5 trillion corporate tax cut will go directly to US companies, and the stock of corporate capital will grow further because of the inflow of funds from the rest of the world.",
        "1. 5万亿美元的企业减税将直接进入美国企业，同时由于世界其他地区的资金流入，企业资本存量将进一步增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Separate studies in Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States have concluded that ethnic profiling wastes time and resources.",
        "在英国、荷兰、瑞典和美国开展的研究也表明，“以种族相貌取人”的判断方式只能是浪费时间和资源。"
    ],
    [
        "“If somebody absolutely, desperately wants to die because they’re a burden to their family, or the state,” she argued, “then I think they too should be allowed to die.”",
        "她说，“如果有人因为成为家人或国家的负担而坚决、义无反顾地想要结束生命，那我认为他们也应该拥有死亡的权利。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But, unlike most dreams, this one is achievable.",
        "但是，和大部分梦想不同的是，这是一个可以实现的梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this should be complemented by a rebalancing of global demand toward dynamic markets, including emerging economies.",
        "采取改革措施以提高生产率和增长潜能。 所有这些必须辅之以重新平衡全球需求转向新兴经济体等充满活力的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The past two and a half years have been a disaster for peace, stability, and our sense of common humanity.",
        "过去两年半堪称和平、稳定和人道主义的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Putting pressure on Israel to stop building settlements and come to terms with a viable Palestinian state will be very difficult.",
        "向以色列施压，敦促其停止建设定居点、与巴勒斯坦就后者的建国问题达成妥协是一件非常困难的事。"
    ],
    [
        "And the new mechanism will not be operative until September at the earliest.",
        "此外，新机制至少要到9月份才能生效。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet fiscal prudence is one of the most frequently attacked principles of economic orthodoxy.",
        "但财政审慎却是正统经济学原理中最常受到抨击的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Wall Street’s chieftains and the Obama administration already knew the truth.",
        "华尔街的巨头们和奥巴马政府都已经知道了问题的真相。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the ECB estimates that the eurozone unemployment rate will still be 9.9% in 2017 – well above the 7.2% average prior to the global financial crisis seven years ago.",
        "就连欧洲央行也估计，2017年欧元区失业率仍将高达9. 9%——远高于七年前全球金融危机爆发前的平均水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The enthusiasm with which the international community welcomed those changes now seems all but forgotten, which is also true of recent elections in Palestine – another longstanding international demand.",
        "这在最近的巴勒斯坦选举中也同样显现。 这样的选举是国际社会的长期要求。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – It’s official.",
        "美国剑桥—正式宣布了。"
    ],
    [
        "This recalls a familiar historical pattern.",
        "这让人想起了似曾相识的历史模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Namun untuk menerapkan penalaran diatas dalam praktek perjanjian dagang yang ada adalah perkara yang sulit dilakukan.",
        "但在真正的贸易协定中，这样的逻辑难觅其踪。"
    ],
    [
        "Deepening economic interdependence in the wake of Asia’s 1997 financial crisis has not generated political momentum for peace and cooperation.",
        "1997年亚洲金融危机所带来的经济相互依存深化并未产生和平与合作的政治动力。"
    ],
    [
        "London is a favorite destination for wealthy Russians, and the British government is now considering whether to support such an initiative, although there are indications that it will maintain an unofficial and unpublished list of the banned individuals in order to forestall legal challenges.",
        "伦敦是俄罗斯富翁最钟爱的地方，英国政府正在考虑是否支持这种倡议，尽管有迹象表明，为防止法律上的挑战，它会持有一份非官方的和未公布的被禁止的个人名单。"
    ],
    [
        "Restoring the credibility of the Stability and Growth Pact should be a top priority, but the larger challenge requires greater stability for long-term public financing.",
        "重塑《稳定与增长协定》的公信力是当务之急，但应对更大的挑战需要长期公共财政的更高稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when China was rapidly accumulating both economic and military strength, Obama seemed committed to containing its rise as best he could, including by involving the US in territorial disputes in the South China Sea.",
        "在中国快速积累经济和军事优势的同时，奥巴马似乎在竭尽全力遏制中国崛起，其手段包括让美国介入南海领土纠纷。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, that is becoming impossible: we are creating societies in which the sheep and the goats are marked for life in their teens.",
        "而今天，这种可能性已不复存在：在我们正在缔造的社会，从十几岁开始就决定了孩子的终生。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, they are as important as ever – and not only in academia.",
        "事实上，这些错误和过去一样重要——并且不仅仅是学术界才是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "One may criticize the cynicism of the Chinese, but it is China that has contributed more than any other country to the transformation of Africa’s self-image.",
        "你可以批评中国人的愤世嫉俗，但在非洲自我形象的转变方面，中国起到的作用比其他任何国家都要大。"
    ],
    [
        "An impressive 42% of all of the world’s cocaine was seized in 2005.",
        "2005年全世界42%的可卡因都被查获，着实战绩斐然。"
    ],
    [
        "And, after more than two decades of political turmoil and economic decline, the Japanese public has become skeptical of official promises of economic revival.",
        "而在经历了二十多年的政治混乱和经济停滞后，日本公众对官员关于经济复兴的承诺已经不太信任。"
    ],
    [
        "This opposition is not coming only from politicians who are calculating that opposition to whatever is proposed may yield electoral benefits; indeed, it does not even reflect any coherent right-wing or indeed left-wing political position.",
        "这种反对的声音不仅仅是来自政客们，因为他们知道“抵制任何提案”都会给他们带来选票的好处； 实际上，这也不能完全归咎于一贯的“行右实左”政治立场。"
    ],
    [
        "But hints of new fiscal imprudence or of backsliding on long-term debt consolidation and reduction can drive up borrowing costs dramatically.",
        "但财政不稳健的新苗头和长期债务安全性的下滑可能会迅速推高借债成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Hong Kong ’s government, led by the HKMA, launched an unprecedented intervention, buying up local shares to “defeat” the speculators, but failed to stop the stampede by global investors, including conservative pension and mutual funds.",
        "香港政府在金管局的领导下，发起了前所未有的干预行动，大量买进当地股票来‘击败’投机商人，但终于未能阻止全球投资者，包括保守的养老基金和共同基金各自四散逃命。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the invasion of Iraq, they wanted America to go to the UN, and today they recognize that America alone cannot maintain order in the Middle East.",
        "在入侵伊拉克之前，他们希望美国将此事提交联合国处理，现在他们也承认美国没有单独维持中东秩序的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the party grouping that will benefit the most from the current electoral system will be the only one that has managed to forge a pre-election pact with other parties: the Berlusconi-led center right.",
        "事实上，在现行选举制度下，最有利的政党类型只能是与其他政党达成选举前契约的政党，即贝卢斯科尼领导的中右翼。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East has been more difficult to leave behind, despite America’s best efforts, and remains wracked by conflict and shaken by shifting alliances.",
        "相比之下，尽管美国已经尽了全力，中东但更加难以一走了之，并且仍然饱受冲突困扰和联盟变幻的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Simplistic endorsement of democracy by George W. Bush’s administration was costly both in Iraq and in Gaza, where elections gave rise to a hostile Hamas-led government.",
        "小布什政府过分简单粗暴的民主实践在伊拉克和加沙地区都造成了恶果，加沙地区的选举甚至导致了敌对的哈马斯政府上台。"
    ],
    [
        "While an appreciating currency might eventually drive labor-intensive manufacturers out of business, if Japan’s economic history is any guide, they are likely to be replaced by producers of things like ships, machine tools, semiconductors, and doubtless new products yet to be invented.",
        "尽管货币的升值可能最终将劳动密集型的制造商挤出市场，如果我们可以将日本的经济发展史作为参考的话，它们很可能会被船舶、机械工具、半导体以及无疑今后将被发明的产品的制造商所取代。"
    ],
    [
        "(A more extensive military commitment is scarcely possible, given how overstretched US ground forces already are.)",
        "（鉴于美国地面部队的战线已经拉得过长，实施更广泛的军事打击的可能性很小。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Despite many decades of intense research and development efforts, with more than 20 possible vaccines currently being evaluated, there is still no commercially available inoculation against malaria.",
        "多年来，人们进行了大量研究和发展方面的努力，目前有20多种可用疫苗正在接受评估，但对于疟疾，我们仍然没有平价疫苗可用。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite a global economy plagued by weak growth, persistently high unemployment, and heavy debt loads, the region’s emerging and developing economies grew at an average annual rate of 6.8% from 2000-2010, propping up global output and buttressing recovery efforts.",
        "尽管全球经济受着增长疲软、失业居高不下以及债务负担沉重的困扰，2000—2010年间亚洲新兴和发展中经济体的平均年增长率仍达到了6. 8%，提振了全球产出，支持了全球经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as with malaria, all of the evidence shows that direct policies are much more effective than carbon cuts.",
        "但是，如同疟疾的例子一样，所有的证据都显示直接的治理政策比削减碳排放要有效得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s regime, by contrast, is animated by money, not ideology.",
        "与伊朗不同的是，金钱、而非意识形态，才是俄国政治制度的驱动力量。"
    ],
    [
        "To speak of a bilateral “trust deficit” might be an understatement.",
        "所以现在说两国“缺乏互信”都可能是对两国关系的一个掩饰。"
    ],
    [
        "At last week’s White House Christmas party for the press, reporters speculated about whether this might be the last such party for years to come.",
        "在上周的白宫媒体圣诞派对上，记者们纷纷猜测这兴许是未来几年最后一次这样的派对了。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, as banks continue their enormous deleveraging, almost all of their new money remains at the Fed in the form of excess reserves.",
        "然而，由于银行仍处于去杠杆化阶段，这些新增货币几乎全部被用作超额储备存在美联储那里。"
    ],
    [
        "Out-of-pocket costs skyrocketed, infant mortality rates stopped declining, and the disease surveillance system was weakened, which may have contributed to the SARS epidemic in 2002-2003, which took more than 900 lives worldwide and caused economic losses worth an estimated $60 billion.",
        "非预算款项开支暴涨，婴儿死亡率停止下降，疾病监测系统削弱，这可能在一定程度上导致了2002-2003年SARS疫情爆发，全球超过900人死亡，经济损失估计约60亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Will it embrace a new Islamic authoritarianism, or build the democracy that Egyptians have risked their lives to secure?",
        "它会接受一个新的伊斯兰专制,还是建设埃及人誓死捍卫的民主政治？"
    ],
    [
        "Is another downswing in their fortunes and reputations now starting?",
        "如今，它们的运气和名声是否又开始走下坡了？"
    ],
    [
        "The Operating System that Stole Christmas",
        "偷走圣诞的操作系统"
    ],
    [
        "And that increasingly bizarre behavior came even before the news broke, on December 1, that Trump’s first national security adviser and close campaign aide, retired General Michael Flynn, had agreed to plead guilty to one count of lying to the FBI in exchange for his cooperation with the investigation.",
        "）特朗普行为越来越怪异甚至是发生在12月1日有消息确认特朗普首位国家安全顾问兼亲密竞选助理退休将军迈克尔·弗林同意向法庭承认曾向联邦调查局说谎，以换取他配合调查之前的事。"
    ],
    [
        "But that does not mean that we must become literally obsessed with terrorism at the expense of losing sight of broader historical challenges.",
        "但是那并不意味着我们必须沉迷应对恐怖组织，而忽视更广泛的历史性挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly relevant today, as the world's 193 national governments work to establish the Sustainable Development Goals to guide global development efforts for the next 15 years.",
        "这在今天尤其重要。 全世界193个国家的政府正在制定可持续发展目标（SDG）指导未来15年的全球发展政策。"
    ],
    [
        "They are part of a people of whom another 1.3 million live in Israel, and another two million in the West Bank.",
        "在他们所属的那个民族中，有130万人居住在以色列，另有200万人居住在约旦河西岸。"
    ],
    [
        "Elections are normally won and lost along political lines, and Iran’s recent vote is no exception.",
        "选举通常因为政治原因决出胜负，伊朗的最新选举也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an attack would trigger sharp increases in oil prices – to well above $200 a barrel.",
        "这样的袭击可以导致油价的暴涨－稳稳地站在每桶200美元之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Thailand’s political impasse, amid massive anti-democracy demonstrations, has hit world headlines, and elections have also been violently contested in Bangladesh.",
        "泰国的政治僵局和大规模反民主游行充斥着世界媒体标题，孟加拉国的选举也变成了暴力冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus was born the concept of an “operon,” a cluster of genes whose expression is regulated by an adjacent regulatory gene.",
        "”“操纵子”（operon）的概念就是这样产生的。 操纵子是基因簇，其表达受临近的调解基因控制。"
    ],
    [
        "To the PiS and the Polish right, the new Poland’s foundations do not lie in the non-violent Solidarity movement’s struggle for freedom in the 1980’s, which caught the imagination of the West; it lies in Poles’ heroic fight against the Asian Bolsheviks and the German hordes during WWII.",
        "对PiS和波兰右翼来说，新波兰的基础不在于20世纪80年代非暴力团结运动（Solidarity movement）的自由斗争（这抓住了西方的想象力）； 而在于波兰在二战期间与亚洲布尔什维克和日耳曼游牧民族的英勇斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "The magazine Time had even put the bespectacled wizard on its cover.",
        "《时代》周刊甚至把这位戴眼镜的巫师印上了封面。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, cryptocurrencies function based on the willingness of people engaged in transactions to treat them as valuable.",
        "相反，私密货币的功能是基于人们参与交易、接受它们的价值的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "A truly modern economy will be a service economy that combines high-productivity knowledge activities with indispensable personal service jobs.",
        "真正意义上的现代经济将是一种结合了高效率知识活动和必不可少的个人服务内容的服务型经济。"
    ],
    [
        "The US federal deficit is an alarming 12% of GDP, and public debt as a share of national income is already projected to double, to 80% of GDP.",
        "美国联邦赤字已达到GDP的12%，值得警惕； 公债的GDP占比预计将翻倍，达到80%。"
    ],
    [
        "What may be particularly relevant to the Weinstein case, whatever the outcome, is that Hollywood is itself a bubble of narcissistic power.",
        "无论最终结果如何，与韦恩斯坦案尤其相关的或许是好莱坞本身就是一种自恋的泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, in the highly indebted peripheral countries, there was room for interest rates to fall and for credit supply to grow – and they have, leading governments and households to increase their spending.",
        "当然，那些债台高筑的外围国家是有足够的空间去下调利率和增加信贷供应——而它们已经在引导政府和家庭增加支出。"
    ],
    [
        "After World War II, students and policymakers internalized the lessons of the 1930’s.",
        "在二战后，学生和政策制定者都吸收了1930年代的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "While it remains unclear what role plague played in the failure of those societies, it is reasonable to assume that the disease has long influenced human history.",
        "尽管瘟疫在这些社会失败中所起的作用尚不明确，但我们有理由认为这种疾病早已影响到人类历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, more than 100 economists, half from Germany, half from abroad, have signed a letter in support of the program.",
        "如今，100多名经济学家（其中一半来自德国，一半来自海外）签署了支持该计划的公开信。"
    ],
    [
        "New Zealand may be a beautiful country, but it does not have an especially large economy, and it is a very long way from the UK.",
        "新西兰或许风景如画，但它缺乏一个特别庞大的经济，而且距离英国极为遥远。"
    ],
    [
        "If we do not change course soon, subsequent generations will confront self-reinforcing economic, financial, and political tendencies that burden them with too little growth, too much debt, artificially inflated asset prices, and alarming levels of inequality and partisan political polarization.",
        "如果我们不能迅速改变，我们的后代将被迫面对自我强化的经济、金融和政治趋势，他们将被迫背负低增长、高债务、人为抬高资产价格、惊人不平等及党派政治两极分化所带来的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Fed can congratulate itself on the mostly unobserved way that the large banks have used taxpayers’ money.",
        "可以支付股票红利和奖金。 而美联储也可以暗自庆幸，大银行用难以看到的方式用了纳税人的钱。"
    ],
    [
        "A wall – phantasmagorical or not – would keep out the “bad people” Mexico was “sending us.”",
        "一堵墙——无论是幻想还是真实——会阻止墨西哥把“坏人”“送到我们这边”。"
    ],
    [
        "Catholicism has had mad popes and bad popes and occasionally good popes.",
        "天主教有过许多疯子教皇和坏教皇，间或也有好教皇。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as Brazil hardens its soft power, it remains deeply committed to the path of dialogue, conflict prevention, and the negotiated settlement of disputes.",
        "即使在巴西硬化软实力的过程中，它仍然坚定致力于通过对话预防冲突和谈判解决争端的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Arab citizens of Israel and Jewish citizens of Israel interact with each other as equals when they are placed in a situation in which they can and must.",
        "在被放置在一个可以且必须的情境下之时，以色列的阿拉伯裔公民和犹太裔公民是可以进行平等互动的。"
    ],
    [
        "Like many Indians, I found the Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling antithetical to India’s commitment to pluralism and democracy, which provides for the embrace of a multitude of identities, including those based on sexual orientation.",
        "和许多印度人一样，我认为最高法院2013年的裁决与印度对多元化和民主的承诺相悖，多元化和民主意味着接受多重身份，包括基于性取向的身份。"
    ],
    [
        "This militarized approach is leading the world into a downward spiral of violence and conflict.",
        "这种军事化的手段正将世界引入无止境的暴力与冲突之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixteen years after the crisis, the unemployment rate was 6.2% – more than triple the rate in 1990.",
        "这场危机过后16年，失业率达到6. 2%——是1990年的三倍还多。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach has, it must be said, yielded the occasional breakthrough – sometimes good, sometimes bad.",
        "必须说，这一方针偶尔也会产生突破——有好也有坏。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, many resent welfare recipients and fear competition for jobs – a sentiment that is fueling the rise of populist, anti-EU, and anti-immigrant parties across Europe.",
        "结果，许多人开始怨恨福利享受者、害怕饭碗之争——这一情绪正在全欧洲助长民粹主义、反欧盟和反移民政党。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rise of interactive social networking has made financial innovation more bottom-up.",
        "但互动社交网络化的兴起已使得金融创新开始转变为自下而上了。"
    ],
    [
        "But that will not be forthcoming until the NAFTA issue is laid to rest and new trade and investment rules are clarified and codified.",
        "但在北美自由贸易协定问题一天未能尘埃落定，新的贸易和投资规则也就一天没法理清和编纂，自然也无力实现投资和经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "This provoked a brain drain as experienced FEMA personnel moved into the private sector",
        "这一举措导致了人才的大量流失，很多经验丰富的联邦紧急措施署雇员纷纷转入了私有部门。"
    ],
    [
        "To take another African example, when the people of eastern Nigeria decided to secede and form the state of Biafra in the 1960s, other Nigerians resisted, in part because Biafra included most of Nigeria’s oil.",
        "再举一个非洲的例子。 20世纪60年代，尼日利亚东部决定脱离比夫拉（Biafra），而其他尼日利亚人拒绝答应，部分原因就在于比夫拉拥有尼日利亚石油储量的绝大部分。"
    ],
    [
        "But democracies owe themselves a proper debate, so that they make such choices consciously and deliberately.",
        "但民主国家应该对此有一个更恰当的讨论，并以此做出有意识且更加深思熟虑的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, these experts concede that the fact that the United States has not signed the Law of the Sea, the international convention determining who has access to offshore oil and other maritime mineral rights, presents a risk of international conflict.",
        "同样，这些专家们承认美国没有签署《海洋法公约》（Law of the Sea），这部决定谁有权开采近海石油和其它海洋矿产权归属的国际公约，从而造成了国际冲突发生的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, they have moved to the forefront of the green-finance movement.",
        "事实上，他们已经站在了绿色金融运动前列。"
    ],
    [
        "More unfortunate still was his implication that this was the cause of a series of gang rapes in Sydney in 2000, in which the attackers’ legal defense was that they thought the women were sexually available because they wore Western clothes.",
        "因为这些言论，他登上了澳大利亚各大报纸的头版头条。 更令人遗憾的是，他暗示是由于女人的不庄重导致了2000年悉尼的一系列群奸案件，这些案件的肇事者辩护说因为受害者穿着西方服饰，导致他们认为可以与之性交。"
    ],
    [
        "With the exception of the Caracazo – a wave of protests against free-market reforms in 1989 that resulted in an estimated 3,000 deaths – there were only minor bouts of repression.",
        "除了加拉加索事件外（Caracazo，1989年的反自由市场改革的抗议潮，造成约3000人死亡），只发生过零星小规模镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "He has all but declared his intention to abandon the nuclear agreement with Iran, signed not only by the US but also by the other four permanent Security Council members (China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom) and Germany.",
        "他一上来就宣布要抛弃与伊朗签订的核协议。 该协议不仅包括美国，也包括其他四个联合国安理会常任理事国（中国、法国、俄罗斯和英国）以及德国。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure of the current proposal would mean an effective end to all efforts to reform the UN, with disastrous consequences for people across the world who depend on the aid provided by the UN Development Program, the security provided by the UN’s numerous peacekeeping operations, or the myriad other services rendered by UN agencies.",
        "当前的提议如果失败将意味着所有联合国改革努力的终结。 这将给世界各地依赖于由联合国发展计划署提供的援助、联合国为数众多的维和任务提供的安全或者由联合国机构提供的难以计数的其他服务的人们带来灾难性的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "With few foreigners watching Russian films, and only one Russian university ranked in the global top 100, Russia has few options for regaining its appeal.",
        "俄罗斯电影没有多少外国观众； 进入世界大学排名100强的俄罗斯大学也只有一所，这令俄罗斯很难重新赢得吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Following a benign period of a positive global supply shock, a positive global demand shock has led to global overheating and rising inflationary pressures.",
        "在一个良性的正向全球供应冲击时期之后，一个正向的全球需求冲击已经导致全球经济过热和通货膨胀压力的加大。"
    ],
    [
        "The Swiss franc is not the only currency that has appreciated in recent months.",
        "最近几个月以来，瑞士法郎并不是唯一升值的货币。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, unless the Karzai government changes course there is no justification for NATO member countries to risk the lives of their soldiers and commit other valuable resources to the struggle in Afghanistan if the Afghan government’s corruption and legitimacy deficit make current progress unsustainable and achievement of NATO’s goals impossible.",
        "所以，除非卡尔扎伊作出改变，积极反腐，否则，北约盟国没有必要让自己的士兵冒险和向阿提高宝贵的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "The GGE process has limitations.",
        "GGE流程有其局限性。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, small, strategically oriented states have wielded global power.",
        "从历史上说，战略导向的小国也可以成为列强。"
    ],
    [
        "Comparing these interest rates with the yields on government inflation-protected bonds shows that the corresponding implied inflation rates are 0.9% for five years, 1.3% for 10 years and 1.7% for 30 years.",
        "将其与政府的通胀保护债券相比显示出相应的预期通胀率为五年期0. 9%，十年期1."
    ],
    [
        "Between now and his inauguration on January 20, he will need to hone his policies.",
        "从现在起到明年1月20日就职，他需要磨砺他的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Property rights and political rights both have powerful beneficiaries.",
        "财产权和政治权的受益者都很有势力。"
    ],
    [
        "And opposition to immigration, including the idea of building a wall and making Mexico pay for it, was an early plank in his nativist platform.",
        "而反对移民，包括让墨西哥出钱筑墙的主张是其本土论的早期核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Not one incident of Greek Cypriot terrorism or violence against Turkish occupation has occurred in more than a quarter of a century.",
        "四分之一个世纪过去了，没有发生一起希腊塞浦路斯人针对土耳其占领者的恐怖活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is an obesity rate of 33.7%, the highest by far in the OECD, with enormous adverse consequences for non-communicable diseases.",
        "7%，毫无疑问位居经合组织国家榜首，并由此带来非传染性疾病等巨大的不良后果。 美国的“健康寿命”（无病年龄）仅为69."
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, they would help us considerably, not just by working for us, but also by showing us how we need to behave if we are to survive as a species.",
        "相反，它们将在很大程度上帮助我们，不但为我们工作，还向我们展示，要作为一个物种生存下去，我们人类应该如何行为。"
    ],
    [
        "As proof of this new realism, the government has been trumpeting its response to the set of policy recommendations that an expert panel led by the business executive Louis Gallois presented two weeks before the downgrade.",
        "作为这一新现实主义的例证，法国政府大肆吹嘘其对企业高管加洛瓦（Louis Gallois）领导的一个专家小组在降级发生两周前所给出的一组政策措施的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Other factors in America’s favor include 30 of the top 100 universities in the world, a risk-taking, entrepreneurial culture, and its companies’ heavy exposure to market forces.",
        "美国的其他优势是它拥有全球100所顶尖高校中的30所，拥有一个勇于冒险的企业家文化，并且美国公司要时刻面对严酷的市场竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires placing some sand in the wheels of globalization.",
        "这需要对高速运转的全球化车轮设置一点阻碍。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s G-Zero Moment",
        "美国的G0时刻"
    ],
    [
        "The judges demanded the National Assembly consider impeachment.",
        "法官要求国民大会考虑弹劾。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the completion of the ECB’s comprehensive assessment of banks’ balance sheets and the start of Europe-wide banking supervision will help revitalize sluggish lending in the euro area.",
        "这也是为何欧洲央行对各银行资产负债表的综合评估和全欧银行监督计划的启动能有助于活化欧元区的不良贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is indispensable if the ECB is really to be independent, and if one expects that all members of the Governing Board, particularly the governors of national central banks, base their decisions only on the interests of the entire euro area (and not of their home country).",
        "但如果欧洲央行真能独立的话，并且如果人们期望所有委员会成员，尤其各国央行行长，把他们的决议只建立在整个欧盟利益上的话，它就是绝对必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the ENP comes second to co-operation with NATO as a priority for Georgia, in part because Georgians, feeling threatened by Russia, crave security above all.",
        "事实上，欧洲邻国政策在其重要性上被格鲁吉亚排在与北约合作的后面，这部分是因为格鲁吉亚感觉受到俄罗斯的威胁，而把安全问题放在首要的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy rapidly rebalances itself and thus returns to full employment – and does so with a configuration of employment and production that is better adapted to current consumer preferences.",
        "因此经济很快会再度恢复平衡，同时就业也全面复苏——并最终使就业和生产都朝着更适应消费者需要的方向发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the same industrialists, convinced that India can compete with the best, support Singh’s reforms.",
        "但如今，同样是工商业者，他们都认为印度的经济在全球化中不会输给其他国家，因此完全支持辛格的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The first issue concerns not just the immediate question of the terms on which the Chief Executive will be elected in 2017, but also how the Legislative Council should be elected in 2016 and after.",
        "第一个问题不但事关2017年特首如何选举的紧迫问题，也事关2016年及以后如何遴选立法会的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US today, as in the Weimar Republic, the resentful and the fearful have so little trust in prevailing political and economic institutions that they follow a leader who promises maximum disruption.",
        "当今美国就像魏玛共和国，仇恨者和恐惧者对主流政治和经济机构毫无信任可言，因此追随承诺最大程度破坏的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time that Angell wrote, some people argued that war was an important means to promote national prosperity; that commercial prosperity was the fruit of military power.",
        "就在安格尔撰写著作的同时，有人主张战争是促进国家繁荣的重要手段，商业繁荣是军事力量结出的硕果。"
    ],
    [
        "Observed real interest rates are measured by deducting expected inflation from these nominal rates.",
        "而观察得来的实际利率则通过从这些名义利率中减去预期通胀来计算。"
    ],
    [
        "The interim agreement reached last November in Geneva reflected the West’s de facto acceptance that Iran is entitled to carry out limited low-grade uranium enrichment within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).",
        "去年十一月在日内瓦达成临时协议，这表明西方在事实上承认了伊朗在核不扩散条约（NPT）框架内进行有限度低级铀浓缩的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The gender gap in enrollment in both secondary and higher education is very small; and women’s access to elite positions in law, medicine, and the civil service has increased considerably in recent years.",
        "中学和高等教育中的性别差异以已经非常小； 女性获得法律、医药和公民社会等领域的顶级职位的容易程度在近几年也有了很大提升。"
    ],
    [
        "The changing climate on climate change provides political leaders in Europe and other potential members of this “coalition of the willing” an unprecedented opportunity to move beyond mere rhetoric.",
        "人类对气候变化问题的认识改变为欧洲和其他“自愿联盟”潜在成员国的执政者提供了摒弃夸夸其谈的最佳时机。"
    ],
    [
        "But she never attempted to pinpoint particular policies to explain the performance gap.",
        "但她从未试图通过特定的政策来解释表现差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to this the congenital French mistrust of liberalism – indeed, French is one of the rare languages in which the word “liberalism” has a pejorative connotation – joined to an equally deep-rooted perception of the state (again, on both the right and the left) as the defender of the general interest par excellence.",
        "此外，法国民众天生对自由主义不信任，实际上，法语是少数对“自由主义”含有贬义的语言之一。 加之对国家作为整体利益卓越捍卫者的观念同样根深蒂固（左右两翼又如出一辙）。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community must therefore accept the need for a fundamental link between such military action and the UN.",
        "正因如此，国际社会必须意识到：上述军事行动和联合国之间需要建立起根本的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China faces tremendous challenges in maintaining macroeconomic stability under conditions of export-led growth, with huge repercussions for the rest of the world.",
        "确实，中国在出口拉动增长的条件下面临维持宏观经济稳定的艰巨挑战，其对世界其他地方有着巨大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Its sheer scale will be increasingly important not only to the global economy, but also to balancing China’s influence in Asia and managing global issues such as climate change, public health, and cyber security.",
        "如此大规模不但对全球经济日益重要，也日益有利于制衡中国在亚洲的影响力以及管理气候变化、公共卫生和网络安全等全球性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF, however, argues that, despite these low interest payments, the refinancing needs of Greece will surpass 15% of GDP (an arbitrary threshold, to be sure) at some point – perhaps as soon as 15 years.",
        "但国际货币基金组织则认定尽管只需支付较低利息，希腊的再融资需求会在某个时刻超过GDP的15％（当然这个阈值的设定过于武断）——这个时刻最快可能在15年后到来。"
    ],
    [
        "The changes are badly needed.",
        "改革要求实在太紧迫了。"
    ],
    [
        "Not so long ago, the trend was toward peace, not war.",
        "不久前，世界趋势还是和平而非战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Coming on the heels of Yushchenko's alleged poisoning, the timing of the move against Tymoshenko appears to be anything but coincidental.",
        "在尤什申科宣称食物中毒后接踵而来的提莫申科事件可以说绝对不是一个巧合。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Walmart is a leading commercial solar and on-site renewable-energy user, deriving about 25% of its global energy consumption from renewable sources.",
        "如今，沃尔玛是商业太阳能和现场可再生能源的领先用户，其全球总能源消费中有25%来自可再生资源。"
    ],
    [
        "The current exchange-rate regime, which links the RMB to a basket of currencies, was designed to give the PBC leeway to control the pace of RMB appreciation, while creating two-way fluctuations in the exchange rate against the US dollar in order to discourage speculators from making one-way bets on the RMB.",
        "而目前这种将人民币与一揽子货币挂钩的汇率管理措施，就是为了让中国人民银行能够灵活控制人民币升值过程而设计的，通过制造对美元汇率的双向波动来遏制投机者赌人民币升值的单向交易行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the technologies are not yet ready, and we can’t simply wait for the market to deliver them, because they require complex changes in public policy to ensure that they are safe, reliable, and acceptable to the broad public.",
        "但是这些技术还没有成形，而且我们不能单纯地等待市场来实现这些技术，因为它们要求公共政策上复杂的改变来确保它们安全可靠以及可以为大众所接受。"
    ],
    [
        "The best hope for most North Koreans is the subterranean market economy that fills the gaps in the state’s planned economy and public distribution system.",
        "对于大部分朝鲜人而言，最大的希望来自于地下市场经济，这种经济活动填补了该国计划经济与公共分配体系之间的缺口；"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, this has led to an overwrought response from them and their lobbyists: the ruling, they allege, destroys the incentive to innovate, and thus will deal a serious blow to public health globally.",
        "毫不奇怪，这引起了制药巨头及其游说集团的强烈反弹：他们指出，该项判决破坏了创新激励，将给全球公共卫生造成严重打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Investing in R&D of non-carbon-emitting energy technologies would leave future generations able to make serious and yet economically feasible and advantageous cuts.",
        "投资于非碳排放技术方面的研发能够让我们的子孙后代有能力进行实质性的并且具有经济可行性的便利减排。"
    ],
    [
        "In just a few 140-character messages, Swaraj denounced the company and threatened to cancel its employees’ visas and refuse visas to its executives in the future.",
        "斯瓦拉伊谴责亚马逊公司，并威胁要吊销其员工的签证，拒绝日后为其高管签发签证。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that the policy has also caused the yen to depreciate, leading nearby countries to accuse Japan of adopting “beggar-thy-neighbor” policies.",
        "问题在于该政策还造成了日元贬值，让周边国家指责日本“以邻为壑”。"
    ],
    [
        "So we must hope that the World Cup in South Africa in 2010 will finally bring greater global parity.",
        "所以，我们必须希望2010年的南非世界杯将最终带来更大的全球性的强手林立。"
    ],
    [
        "Air-Sea Battle recalls the AirLand Battle idea that NATO adopted in the late 1970s and early 1980s to counter the growing Soviet threat to Europe.",
        "海空战让人想起北约在20世纪70年代末、80年代初所采取的空陆战（AirLand Battle）方针。 空陆战是为了抵抗日益增加的苏联对欧威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Because it can be sold in very large markets, with scalable production chains and still-maturing technologies, the transition to cleaner power is happening faster than many experts predicted it would.",
        "它们可以在所有大型市场中出售，具备可扩展生产链和仍在不断成熟中的技术，因此，向更加清洁的电力的转型的速度比许多专家的预测都要快。"
    ],
    [
        "Unsurprisingly, White’s scheme, founded on the United States’ post-war trade surplus, which it deployed to dollarize Europe and Japan in exchange for their acquiescence to full monetary-policy discretion for the US, prevailed.",
        "怀特提出的机制基于战后美国的贸易盈余，美国用这一盈余让欧洲和日本美元化，作为交换，欧洲和日本默认美国货币政策的完全自由裁量权。 毫不奇怪，这一机制取得了胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "An end to NATO combat operations will not mean the end of the war, because the enemy will target Western interests wherever they may be.",
        "北约的作战行动结束并不意味着战争的结束，因为敌人总是会针对西方的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But a monopoly of production need not mean a monopoly of income, as long as the shares in each company are widely held.",
        "但垄断生产其实并不一定意味着垄断收入——解决方案是将每个企业的股份广泛分散持有。"
    ],
    [
        "Or it could also mean that economists’ baseline model of the international economy – especially the assumption of “uncovered interest parity,” which holds that foreign interest income expressed in the domestic currency should equal the domestic interest rate – is simply wrong.",
        "或者它也可能意味着经济学家们所坚持的国际经济的基线模式—特别是“抛补利率平价说”的假设（即用本地货币表示的国外利息收入应该和本地利率相等）--根本就是错的。"
    ],
    [
        "Concessions to British voters on immigration would inspire the southern countries to demand fiscal and banking reforms, eastern countries would seek budget changes, and non-euro countries would demand an end to their second-class status.",
        "就移民问题向英国选民让步可能鼓励南欧国家要求进行财政和银行改革、东欧国家可能要求改革预算、而非欧元国家可能要求自己的二等公民地位就此结束。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a deeper level of concern, however, which relates to Japan’s fear of being marginalized as the US turns toward a rising China.",
        "然而还存在更深层次的担忧，就是日本担心美国转向崛起的中国而把自己边缘化。"
    ],
    [
        "US Marines repeatedly occupied Cuba thereafter, and Americans quickly took ownership of most of Cuba’s lucrative sugar plantations, the economic aim of America’s intervention.",
        "此后美国海军反复占领古巴，美国人迅速攫取了大部分获利丰厚的古巴糖种植园的所有权——这也是美国干涉古巴的经济目的。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, market participants suddenly want to add a premium to the price of oil.",
        "不出所料，市场参与者们一时间都觉得有必要给油价上点保险。"
    ],
    [
        "China simply cannot afford to continue to kick the reform can down the road.",
        "中国绝不可继续回避改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with a strong sense of purpose, a united approach, and perhaps a positive gesture or two, it can be accomplished.",
        "但是，如果有明确的目标、统一的方法，或许再加上一两个积极的姿态，这个任务是可以完成的。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – In the United States, just three out of ten workers are needed to produce and deliver the goods we consume.",
        "伯克利—在美国，生产和递送我们所消费的商品只需要十分之三的工人。"
    ],
    [
        "As trade minister of Sweden for most of this period, I never hindered or postponed import competition.",
        "作为在这一时期的大部分时间里担任瑞典贸易部长的人，我从来不阻碍或延缓进口竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is no reason to assume that Kim is bent on mass suicide.",
        "但也没有理由假设金正日会选择把自己逼上绝路。"
    ],
    [
        "In Greenspan’s summary of Schumpeter’s thinking, a “market economy will incessantly revitalize itself from within by scrapping old and failing businesses and then reallocating resources to newer, more productive ones.”",
        "格林斯潘对熊彼得的思路总结道，“市场经济将会通过淘汰陈旧破产的企业并且把资源重新分配给更新更有效率企业而不断从内部重振自我”。"
    ],
    [
        "A child born in a low-income country is 18 times more likely to die before reaching the age of five than a child in a high-income country.",
        "生于低收入国家的孩子在5岁前夭折的可能性比高收入国家孩子高18倍。"
    ],
    [
        "So, given the new conventional wisdom in leadership studies that entering the information age means entering a woman’s world, why are women not doing better?",
        "那么，既然领导力研究中的新传统智慧表明进入信息时代等于进入女性时代，那么为什么女性的表现没有起色呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The Hispanic approach emphasizes migrants’ involvement in banking by offering a range of banking services in both the country of origin and the host country, products of specific interest to migrants, and low commissions on foreign transfers.",
        "西班牙语国家则通过在移民原籍及其所在国提供各种银行服务、推出与移民利益有特殊关系的产品和手续费低廉的跨国汇款服务来吸引移民参与银行业务。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe on Holiday",
        "假日中的欧洲"
    ],
    [
        "The other problem with the conventional wisdom’s simplistic link between globalization and populism is that it gets the timing wrong.",
        "传统智慧所秉持全球化和民粹主义简化关系的另一个问题是时机不对。"
    ],
    [
        "By addressing these weaknesses, China’s Belt and Road investments can lead to a substantial increase in participant countries’ and China’s own trade volumes, benefiting firms and workers substantially.",
        "通过解决这些弱点，中国的一带一路投资可以大大提升本国和参与国贸易量，为企业和劳动者带来相当大的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Researchers are also learning a great deal from the responses of three groups of patients.",
        "对三组患者的研究也让研究人员学到了很多东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier this month, Pakistani authorities aided a large public rally by Saeed in Lahore, including by running special trains to ferry in participants, so that the architect of the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack (among many others) could project himself as some sort of messiah of the Pakistani people.",
        "本月早些时候，巴基斯坦当局在拉合尔协助赛义德举办大型公众集会，包括开行特别专列运送参与者，从而使2008年11月孟买恐怖袭击事件（还有其他恐怖袭击事件）的策划者可以在巴基斯坦民众面前享受救世主一般的待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Water scarcity is hitting virtually every major economic center, from North America to Europe, Africa, India, and China.",
        "水资源的缺乏问题几乎困扰着每个主要的经济中心，且范围涉及颇广，从北美到欧洲、非洲、印度以及中国。"
    ],
    [
        "We're paying a lot of money.",
        "我们按时付钱。"
    ],
    [
        "The “Second Republic” is yet to be born.",
        "“第二共和国”依然没有诞生。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the same period, South Korea’s share of global exports jumped from 0.3% to 3% – very close to Japan’s 3.6%.",
        "在此期间，韩国占全球出口之比从0. 3%上升到3%——十分接近于日本的3."
    ],
    [
        "As John Lennon sang in 1968, “if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.”",
        "正如约翰·列农在1968年所唱的那样：“如果你高举毛主席画像，你在哪里也不会成功”。"
    ],
    [
        "The report estimates that restoring US infrastructure to “a state of good repair” would cost $4.6 trillion between 2016 and 2025.",
        "报告估计，让美国基础设施恢复“修缮良好状态”需要在2016—2025年间投入4."
    ],
    [
        "Nor does the experience of constantly inhaling foul-smelling air, or forcing your child to wear a face mask just to play outside.",
        "长期吸入难闻空气，或迫使你的孩子出门就要戴面具的体验也没有市场定价。"
    ],
    [
        "This may be mostly delusional (outside the EU, Britain may actually have less power over its fate than if it stays in), but the crisis of confidence needs to be taken seriously.",
        "上述想法可能大都是痴心妄想（如果退出欧盟，英国的实力可能比留在欧盟更弱），但我们必须认真对待目前的信任危机。"
    ],
    [
        "From the perspective of national interest, that makes no sense at all, given the global-commons nature of the problem.",
        "考虑到这个问题全球共同分担的本质，再从国家利益的角度上看，此举根本是说不通的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China will not equal US military “hard power” or its “soft power” of attraction.",
        "此外，中国的军事“硬实力”和吸引力“软实力”也无法与美国并驾齐驱。"
    ],
    [
        "(There are, as always, technical issues to be resolved, concerning monitoring and measurement, but these can be overcome easily with modern technologies.)",
        "（通常会遇到与监测和衡量标准有关的技术性问题，但是运用现代技术这些问题都可以迎刃而解。"
    ],
    [
        "That brings us to the main reason for ignoring current opinion polls: Only when Britain starts seriously debating the costs and benefits of leaving the EU – and this may not happen until a few weeks before the referendum – will voters realize that Brexit would mean huge economic costs for Britain and no political benefits whatsoever.",
        "这就引出了忽视最近民调结果的主要原因：只有当英国人开始认真讨论离开欧盟的成本和收益时——而这一刻要到公决前几周才会到来——选民才会认识到英国退出将给英国带来巨大的经济成本但毫无政治利益可言。"
    ],
    [
        "How can we ensure that technology meets the needs of the poor and does not simply increase the divide between laptop-owning, Blackberry-using Westerners like me and the poor in India or China?",
        "我们如何确保科技能满足穷人的需要，而不是进一步拉大我这些拥有手提电脑和黑莓手机的西方人和印度与中国穷人之间的鸿沟？"
    ],
    [
        "When “new economy” issues such as e-commerce come up at the WTO, India, the EU and the United States often find themselves on the same side.",
        "当世贸组织讨论电子商务等“新经济”问题时，印度、欧盟以及美国时常持相同立场。"
    ],
    [
        "We must all seize this moment.",
        "我们所有人都必须把握时机。"
    ],
    [
        "Coal, like solar energy, is widely available.",
        "煤和太阳能一样，也是到处都有。"
    ],
    [
        "With higher incomes, rising meat consumption requires more grain for animal feed.",
        "随着人们收入水平的提高，对肉类消费的越来越高的需求使得需要将更多的粮食用于动物饲料。"
    ],
    [
        "If community centers, schools, and public locations are places where people of different religions, cultures, and race meet, xenophobia is less likely to take root.",
        "如果社区中心、学校和公共场所是不同宗教、文化和种族者的相聚之所，那么仇外心理就不太可能生根。"
    ],
    [
        "As the EU revises both its energy and foreign affairs policies, it should not miss the chance to integrate an open energy policy dialogue into its planning.",
        "因此在修改能源和外交政策时，欧盟应当抓住机会将公开能源政策对话纳入到规划当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, nitrogen – a gas that can be vented without consequences – always coexists with helium.",
        "此外，氮气——可以排放到大气中而不会产生后果的气体——也是氦气的伴生物。"
    ],
    [
        "They become soulless bodies, and the moral circle closes in to exclude them.",
        "他们就成为了行尸走肉，被排除在道德循环之外。"
    ],
    [
        "To steer rates in the right direction, central banks typically rely on estimates of unobserved variables, including the equilibrium real rate itself, potential output, and trend unemployment.",
        "为了将利率向正确的方向调整，央行通常依赖于对那些不可观察变量（包括均衡实际利率自身，潜在产量，以及失业率趋势）的估算。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite this understanding, the major central banks continue to maintain extremely low interest rates as a way to increase demand and, with it, the rate of inflation.",
        "但是，尽管有这样的理解，主要央行仍然保持极端低利率，以此增加需求和通胀率。"
    ],
    [
        "They couldn’t make him bend when, as Governor, he successfully defended the independence of the Bank of France, and they won’t make him bend now.",
        "在当法国央行行长时，他没有屈服于法国政府的压力，捍卫了银行的独立地位，同样，现在的法国领导人不能使他屈服。"
    ],
    [
        "Several European countries also became too dependent on domestic demand and need to rebalance toward the tradable side.",
        "一些欧洲国家还变得过度依赖于内需，需要偏向可贸易部门的再平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders on both sides ignore strong majorities that crave peace, allowing extremist-led violence to preempt all opportunities for building a political consensus.",
        "双方的领导人忽视渴望和平的绝大多数人，允许极端分子领导的暴力先发制人，扼杀所有建立政治共识的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why economists of all stripes, whether or not they supported the introduction of the common currency, have spent the last five years developing and promoting a package of institutional reforms and policy changes that would make the eurozone less dysfunctional.",
        "因此，各派别经济学家，不管是否支持共同货币，在过去五年中纷纷设计和推出降低欧元区功能失调情况的机构改革和政治变革方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The broader question is whether women have the same opportunities as men to participate in labor markets in the first place.",
        "更大的问题是女性一开始是否和男性拥有一样的机会参与劳动力市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Should we be surprised?",
        "我们是否应该感到惊讶呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas these groups have a territorial base and are preoccupied with national aims, Islamic terrorism appears to be the work of a very small number of individuals who seek to avenge the centuries-long “humiliation” of the Muslim world, brought about by colonization, absence of economic development, and political weakness.",
        "这些组织都有一个地区性的基地，并专注于民族目标的实现，而伊斯兰恐怖主义却似乎是由一小撮试图为穆斯林世界在若干世纪以来由于殖民化、经济发展缺失和政治羸弱所造成的“屈辱”实施报复而来。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, worsening overcapacity, together with all the many types of price distortions still in place, may push Chinese enterprises to boost production for export markets, like the United States, where protectionist tendencies are likely to intensify in 2010 and onwards.",
        "实际上进一步恶化的产能过剩问题，加上其他许多依然存在的价格扭曲问题将导致中国企业进一步扩大针对出口市场（比如美国）的生产，更何况这些出口目的地的贸易保护主义形势将在 2010 年以后继续加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Lukashenko’s regime has rested on three pillars: a social contract that promises national independence and a guaranteed low income in exchange for tacit consent to dictatorial rule; a propaganda machine that reinforces the value and necessity of this deal; and a massive security apparatus to enforce it.",
        "卢卡申科的政权是构筑在三大基础之上的：首先是政府承诺维护民族独立并确保民众至少能拥有一份低收入，而“交易”的筹码则是要民众默许独裁统治； 其次是一个不断灌输这种价值观和“交易”必要性的宣传机器；"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the impact of online talent platforms stems from the use of technology to bridge information asymmetries that impair labor-market performance.",
        "在线人才平台的大部分影响都来自于利用科技来消除那些削弱劳动市场表现的信息不对称现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Denying Democracy in Hong Kong",
        "拒绝香港的民主"
    ],
    [
        "First, the global significance of US President Barack Obama’s reelection is clear: the world has escaped a disaster for international cooperation.",
        "首先，美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马再度当选发出了明确的信号：世界已经躲过了一场国际合作劫难。"
    ],
    [
        "The shipments caught by customs authorities mostly originate from free industrial zones, also called export-processing zones, in China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Egypt.",
        "被海关当局查获的货物大国来自中国、越南、泰国和埃及的自由工业区，也称为加工出口区。"
    ],
    [
        "A country subject to rocket attacks from across its border has a right to defend itself, even if its own actions can be construed as having provoked the attacks, and the attacks themselves are relatively ineffective.",
        "一个受到来自境外的火箭弹袭击的国家有权采取自卫，即使可以说是它自己的行为招致了火箭弹袭击，并且袭击相对来说毫无效果。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s quite common to see these farmers double or triple their harvests and their incomes when they have access to the advances farmers in the rich world take for granted.",
        "如果能够拥有发达世界农民习以为常的进步，这些农民常常可以实现收成和收入翻一倍或两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Economics does not have an ideology, he retorted.",
        "他反驳说，经济学并不存在意识形态。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, when governance models are judged solely through the lens of the Washington Consensus, there is very little alternative.",
        "但是，当治理模式完全以华盛顿共识的标准来评判时，就几乎别无选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Hitler’s plans for the reconstruction of Berlin reflected the same neoclassical gigantism.",
        "希特勒的柏林重建计划体现出一模一样的新古典巨型主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Ordinary Americans are asking themselves the same questions that people around the world are asking: how should America's global supremacy be used?",
        "全世界各国人民都在问的问题，现在普普通通的美国人也在问：那就是美国的全球霸权到底该如何使用？"
    ],
    [
        "Psychologists have shown that people display an “affect heuristic,” or a tendency to tag memories with emotions and to let those emotions affect decision-making, even when the decision is unrelated to what caused the emotions.",
        "经济学家证明，人会表现出一种“情绪启发式”（affect heuristic），即用情感给记忆贴标签并让这些情绪影响决策的倾向，即使决策与引起情绪的原因没有关系。"
    ],
    [
        "On many occasions, Modi has voiced suspicions about China’s growing footprint in disputed border areas.",
        "莫迪曾多次质疑中国在争议边界地区活动日益频繁。"
    ],
    [
        "These include opening diplomatic and official channels in order to improve mutual understanding and the general climate for exchanges; promoting US-North Korea economic dialogues and workshops; encouraging US universities, research institutes, and non-governmental organizations with expertise in economic transition and development to initiate and develop contacts with North Korean counterparts; and permitting the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank to increase North Korean participation, with the ultimate goal of membership.",
        "鼓励美国大学、研究所以及在经济转型与发展问题上具有专业知识的非政府组织，与朝鲜同行建立并发展联系； 此外，允许国际货币基金组织、世界银行以及亚洲开发银行以朝鲜获得这些组织的成员身份为最终目标，增加该国在这些组织中的参与程度。"
    ],
    [
        "But no solution is possible until we abandon the savings shortage and savings glut hypotheses and connect today’s global financial imbalances with global production patterns and inadequate demand in developing countries.",
        "但在我们摒弃储蓄不足与储蓄过剩的假定并将当今全球金融不平衡与全球生产模式和发展中国家的内需不足联系起来之前，任何解决方案都是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "In May, I went to the site of the Tunisian protests; in July, I talked to Spain’s indignados; from there, I went to meet the young Egyptian revolutionaries in Cairo’s Tahrir Square; and, a few weeks ago, I talked with Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York.",
        "7月，我和西班牙的“愤怒者”们交谈； 接着，我从西班牙启程前往埃及，与开罗解放广场上的年轻革命者面对面；"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the space vehicle carrying the weapon might malfunction, and the nuclear warhead could land (and perhaps detonate) somewhere on Earth.",
        "此外，万一要是运载核弹的火箭出故障，栽到地球上来并且发生爆炸怎么办？"
    ],
    [
        "All businesses need manufactured products, transportation, information and communications technology (ICT), logistics, real estate, finance, insurance, and more.",
        "所有的商业活动都需要制造、运输、信息和通信技术、物流、地产、金融、保险等行业配套。"
    ],
    [
        "Using chemical weapons is indeed a breach of international conventions, including the Chemical Weapons Convention, which Syria has never signed, and the Geneva Protocol, to which it is a party.",
        "使用化学武器的确违反了包括《禁止化学武器公约》在内的国际公约（但叙利亚从未签署这一公约），以及叙利亚曾经签署的《日内瓦议定书》。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond Europe's borders, governments and businesses are already forging ahead.",
        "在欧洲之外，政府和企业已经开始起头并进了。"
    ],
    [
        "Pregnant HIV-infected IDUs transmit the virus to their babies, and sometimes – shockingly often in Russia – abandon their newborns, relinquishing them to the state.",
        "那些怀孕的艾滋病患者将病毒传染给了自己的胎儿，有时甚至（尤其是在俄罗斯）直接将这些新生儿遗弃在路边，把包袱甩给国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But multilateralism is much easier to advocate than to design and implement.",
        "但多边主义说起来容易，设计和实施起来就难了。"
    ],
    [
        "Government parties were also hurt by the nationalistic rhetoric of center-right parties, which repeatedly warned against a betrayal of national interests.",
        "政府党派也受到中右翼党派的国家主义言辞的伤害。 中右翼党派不断重复发出反对背叛国家利益的警告。"
    ],
    [
        "Cultural messages can also be conveyed by the way that sports teams or stars conduct themselves, or in the multiple images purveyed by television or cinema.",
        "文化信息也可以像体育队伍或明星一样，或者由电视或电影传播的多种多样的图象来传播。"
    ],
    [
        "As it helped to sustain peace and boost prosperity in much of the world, its approaches and principles attracted millions of followers.",
        "因为这套体系有助于维护世界多数国家的和平并促进繁荣，其中的方法和原则吸引了成百上千万的追随者。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, misconceptions are rampant, with residents of many EU countries believing, for example, that they host three times as many foreigners as they actually do.",
        "现状是误解随处可见，比方说许多欧盟国家认为他们容纳的外国人是实际数量的三倍还多。"
    ],
    [
        "When they became lending institutions, their earliest rule was to keep almost 100% of cash reserves against their loans, so that they would not be caught short if most of their depositors decided to withdraw their money at the same time.",
        "而当这些人演变成借贷机构时，最早的规章就是要保证有100%的现金储备，以便在大多数客户同时决定取出存款时不至于无款可付。"
    ],
    [
        "This treatment goes far beyond documentaries like Michael Moore’s polemical Fahrenheit 9/11 or The Corporation , an earnest if somewhat paranoid portrayal of multinational companies’ role in globalization.",
        "这种“待遇”远远超过了迈克·穆尔备受争议的《华氏9/11》和《大公司》（The Corporation）,等纪录片里，对跨国公司在全球化中的角色严肃却又有些偏执的描绘。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, there are now numerous overlapping protections for pharmaceutical companies that are very difficult for most developing countries to contest, and that often pit their global obligations against their domestic obligations to protect their citizens’ lives and health.",
        "结果，现在制药公司获得了重重保护，大部分发展中国家根本难以挑战，也经常让它们的全球责任与其保护公民生命和健康的国内责任相冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Rocky Mountain Institute’s Reinventing Fire analysis shows that such a future is possible, offering market-driven strategies for powering a US economy that is 158% larger in 2050 – without reliance on oil, coal, or nuclear energy.",
        "落基山研究所的《革新之火》分析报告表明在不依赖石油、煤炭或核能的情况下，为2050年增长达158%的美国经济提供市场化能源战略是完全可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "The authorities are committing at least two mistakes.",
        "欧盟金融管理机构至少犯下了两个错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as was true during the 2008 financial crisis, simply being able to take interest rates 2% lower probably might not be enough.",
        "此外，与2008年金融危机期间一样，只是能够让利率下降2%也许并不足够。"
    ],
    [
        "Along with many other states in the global South, however, Russia and China tend to defend the principle of non-interference, and they are generally reluctant to support any US or European attempts to project democracy or defend human rights in other countries.",
        "但是，俄罗斯和中国与众多南方国家一道捍卫着不干涉的原则，一般而言，它们对任何美国或欧洲在别国推进民主、捍卫人权的行动都不支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations Convention on Torture explicitly forbids “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment,” so their use must be denied.",
        "联合国酷刑问题公约（The United Nations Convention on Torture）明文禁止“残忍、非人道和有失体面的对待和惩罚”，因此这是必须否认的。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, as we have become aware of these problems, we have learned much about what can be done about them.",
        "幸运的是，我们对这些问题有所意识的同时，也学会了很多方法去处理这些问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The group was brought together by Gwyn Prins, a well-regarded expert in security policy and international relations who heads LSE’s Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events.",
        "这个研究小组的召集人是格温·普林斯（Gwyn Prins），一位在安全政策和国际关系方面享誉盛名的专家，同时也是伦敦经济学院麦克金德长波事务研究项目（Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events）的带头人。"
    ],
    [
        "Loans from the China Development Bank carry higher interest rates than the West’s traditional lending mechanisms, but they also come with fewer restrictions on policy, and allowed Venezuela to escape the worst of the bondholders’ wrath – at least so far.",
        "中国国家开发银行的贷款利率比西方传统借贷机制更高，但政策限制更少，也使委内瑞拉避免了债权人的暴怒——至少到目前是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "McCain has given no details of his plans.",
        "麦凯恩尚未给出他的计划的细节。"
    ],
    [
        "But only governments with access to market finance can use expansionary fiscal policy to boost demand.",
        "但只有能获得市场融资的政府才能使用扩张性财政政策提振需求。"
    ],
    [
        "As Argentina showed after its default and devaluation in the winter of 2001/2002, such a move can reignite exports and economic growth.",
        "就像阿根廷在2001/2002年冬季发生违约和贬值后显现出来的那样， 这一举措能够再度点燃出口和经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the European welfare state will cushion the impact of the economic crash, at least for some time.",
        "此外，欧洲福利国家可以缓冲经济崩溃的影响，至少在一段时间内能够如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The Two Faces of Vladimir Putin",
        "弗拉基米尔·普京的两面派性"
    ],
    [
        "Iran seeks to project its influence in support of the region’s historically dominant Shia populations, while Saudi Arabia pushes back by arming rebel factions opposing Syria’s Iranian-backed president, Bashar al-Assad, and by fighting what it views as an Iranian presence in its own backyard, in Yemen.",
        "伊朗试图投射影响力，支持该地区历史上曾占主导地位的什叶派人口，而沙特则通过武装反对受伊朗支持的叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德的叛军派别及反抗伊朗在自己卧榻边（即也门）酣睡来予以回击。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the KRG has already established a relatively open and pluralistic society.",
        "此外，库尔德斯坦地区政府已经建立起一个相对开放和多元化的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "The main difference between the progressive vision of a society underpinned by these “citizen accounts” and the conservative idea that individual citizens should create personal retirement accounts, take out student loans, or cover their own health insurance is the public sector’s role.",
        "以这些“公民账户”（citizen accounts）为基础的社会的进步愿景与个体公民应该自己构建个人退休金账户、自己承担学生贷款、自己解决健康保险的保守观念之间的主要区别是公共部门的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "But public subsidies to “national champions” may prove to be as destabilizing for the climate of international cooperation as tariff barriers were in the past.",
        "但是向“龙头产业”提供公众援助可能被证实会对国际合作氛围造成破坏，就像关税壁垒过去所做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Until about a decade ago, the Space Telescope Science Institute adopted a similar policy for allocating observation time for the Hubble Space Telescope.",
        "直到大约十年前，空间望远镜科学研究所（Space Telescope Science Institute）才采取了类似的政策分配哈勃空间望远镜的观测时间。"
    ],
    [
        "In turn, millions would have the opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty.",
        "反过来，成百上千万人或许有机会摆脱贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Abbas is presumably also still waiting for the United Kingdom to apologize for the 1917 Balfour declaration, the centenary of which Israel recently celebrated.",
        "阿巴斯想必也仍然在等待英国就1917年巴尔弗决定进行道歉。 以色列刚刚庆祝了该决定一百周年。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the current debate about the global epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer – has ignored this advice.",
        "”但当下关于全球性爆发的非传染性疾病（NCD，即心脏病、中风、糖尿病、癌症等慢性病）显然没有把这句话当回事。"
    ],
    [
        "The analogy is all too apt today.",
        "这一比方在今天再合适不过了。"
    ],
    [
        "Private businesses are providing their workers with less and less in the form of defined-benefit pensions, health insurance, and other forms of insurance against life’s economic risks.",
        "私人企业正在通过不断减少其员工的固定福利，如养老金、健康保险及其他形式的保险，以减低经济风险。"
    ],
    [
        "All this may lead some to wonder why time-consuming international negotiations and UN climate summits are needed at all.",
        "所有这些可能都会引发某些人的疑虑，耗时费力的国际谈判和联合国气候峰会究竟意义何在？"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – In February, while returning from a book fair at Dhaka University, Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-American blogger known for his atheism, and his wife were dragged from their rickshaw and hacked with machetes.",
        "新德里—2月，孟加拉裔美国人、著名的无神论博客主阿维吉特·罗伊（Avijit Roy）在达卡大学书展回家途中与妻子一起被拉下乘坐的人力车并遭遇大刀砍杀。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because we are unsure that you are a good Muslim, it is easier to forbid owning songbirds, so that they cannot jeopardize your salvation.",
        "但是，因为我们不能确定你是不是虔诚，因此干脆禁止养鸟，这样就不会给救赎带来威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "These leaders – as well as those in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, who are moving in a similar nationalist direction – must address major structural-reform challenges if they are to revive falling economic growth and, in the case of emerging markets, avoid a middle-income trap.",
        "这些国家的领导人——以及正在向类似的民族主义倾斜的泰国、马来西亚和印尼领导人——如果想要让回落的经济增长重新获得动力并且（对新兴市场而言）避免中等收入陷阱，就必须解决重大结构性改革挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Farce quickly turned to tragedy in the face of the dictator’s rage.",
        "在独裁者的怒火面前闹剧迅速演变成为一场悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – Without anyone quite noticing, Europe’s internal balance of power has been shifting.",
        "布鲁塞尔—不知不觉间，欧洲内部实力平衡一直在发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But curiosity must not be limited too severely, lest science’s ability to produce new knowledge be lost.",
        "但是好奇心不应该受到过于严苛的限制，否则科学就会丧失创造新知的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust sharply rejected divestment in 2013; the purpose of Harvard’s endowment, she argued, is to finance the university’s academic activities.",
        "比如，2013年哈佛大学校长德鲁·吉尔平·福斯特（Drew Gilpin Faust）断然拒绝取消投资； 她说，哈佛捐赠基金的目的是为哈佛的学术活动筹集资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, Iran has responded to incremental tightening of international sanctions by building more centrifuges.",
        "自此以后，伊朗对日渐紧迫的国际制裁的应对措施是建设更多的离心机。"
    ],
    [
        "But when bad things happen and there is pressure on financial markets, with fear of insolvency in the air, it matters a great deal if you have a claim on an insured bank in the United States or on an essentially unregulated offshore subsidiary.",
        "但当坏事发生、金融市场承压时，空气中将弥漫着对破产的恐惧气息，如果你持有美国的不安全银行或者某实际上不受监管的离岸分支的债权，这将会给你带来大麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "She will also confront these challenges with the added disadvantage of being female.",
        "她还要带着身为女性的弱势来面对这些挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "No one knows.",
        "没有人知道答案。"
    ],
    [
        "If globalization has acquired a lousy reputation in the US, the external deficit deserves much of the blame.",
        "如果全球化已经在美国名声不佳，那么，外债就要负主要责任。"
    ],
    [
        "While some researchers are looking for statistical correlations, others are studying how the individual genes interact.",
        "在有些研究人员寻找统计关系的同时，还有些人在研究基因之间的相互作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Boycotts of sweated college t-shirts in the United States led to fairer manufacturing practices, and boycotts of coffee and produce, led mostly by women consumers, resulted in fair-trade purchases by major supermarkets.",
        "事实上，美国人曾经对来自血汗工厂的大学T恤衫予以声讨，迫使生产商采用更为公平的生产方式，而主要由女性消费者主导的针对咖啡制品的声讨，则促成了各大超市的“公平贸易”采购行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Environment Agency’s Scientific Committee has called it a “mistaken assumption” based on “a serious accounting error,” because if a forest is cut down to burn wood, it will take a long time for new growth to absorb the CO2 emissions.",
        "欧洲环境署科学委员会已将其定性为“严重计算错误”所导致的“假设错误”，因为如果以烧柴为目的而砍伐树木，要等很久新栽树木才能吸收二氧化碳排放。"
    ],
    [
        "The puzzle of the global savings glut may live on for several years to come.",
        "全球储蓄过剩之谜或许还得在维持几年。"
    ],
    [
        "First, stop crying over the fact that the diaspora is not returning home. Instead, nurture the loyalty of professionals settling abroad, so that they assist their home countries in a variety of ways.",
        "首先，停止抱怨外流人才不回国的现象，而代之以培育海外专业人士侨民的忠诚度，让他们在诸多方面为祖国效力。"
    ],
    [
        "A victory for the National Front in 2017 or 2022, which is no longer unthinkable, would destroy the European project.",
        "国民阵线在2017年或2022年的大选中获胜已不再是不可想象的事情，果真如此的话，将摧毁欧洲工程。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the US, where members of the same sex can marry in 35 states (as I did in New York last April), in 29 states it is still legal to fire someone solely on the basis of their sexual orientation.",
        "美国已有35个州承认同性婚姻（我也于去年4月在纽约结婚），但仍有29个州，光凭性取向原因就可以合法地解雇员工。"
    ],
    [
        "A critical part of its role must be to consider with care the limits that should be placed on a punitive strike.",
        "这一角色的一个关键部分是谨慎考虑惩罚性打击的界线。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is not entirely untrue that China’s overcapacity reflects a shortfall of effective demand.",
        "当然，说中国的产能过剩反映的是有效需求的不足也不是完全错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "And international trade in services has tended to expand more rapidly than trade in goods.",
        "国际服务贸易扩张也要快于商品贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the United States Food and Drug Administration employs 4,000 reviewers, and the European Medicines Agency has 3,000.",
        "相反，美国食品和药品监督局（Food and Drug Administration）雇用了4,000名评审员，欧洲药品局（European Medicines Agency）有3,000人。"
    ],
    [
        "Shi remains in jail to this day.",
        "直到今天他仍在狱中服刑。"
    ],
    [
        "The pace of reform has slowed in many countries – and reversed in a few.",
        "许多国家放慢了改革的速度，此后几乎再也没有恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "Special economic zones that benefit from preferred trade status with the EU and the United States should be created, in order to generate investment, economic opportunities, and jobs for refugees and locals alike.",
        "应该建立获得欧盟和美国最惠贸易待遇的特别经济区，为难民和本地居民形成投资、经济机会和就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is like looking for one’s lost keys under the lamppost because the light is better there.",
        "但这就像在路灯下找寻一个人丢失的钥匙，因为那里更亮一些。"
    ],
    [
        "From a strictly economic standpoint, pricing below costs is not a problem for the importing economy as long as the firms that engage in the strategy have little prospect of monopolizing the market.",
        "从严格的经济学角度，定价低于成本对进口经济体来说不是问题，只要参与这一策略的企业没有垄断市场的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "The Negative Rates Club",
        "负利率俱乐部"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, addressing the underlying security concerns that fuel nuclear competition in regional trouble spots is more important to the credibility of Global Zero’s goal of “a world without nuclear weapons” than is encouraging exemplary behavior by the two major nuclear powers.",
        "事实上，对于《全球零核》的“无核武的世界”目标的信誉来说，解决刺激敏感地区核竞赛背后的基本安全问题要比鼓励两大主要核大国做出榜样更加重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a reliable regional counterweight, that is exactly what China seems eager to do.",
        "在没有可靠的地区制衡力量的情况下，中国恰恰表现出这一急切意图。"
    ],
    [
        "The twists and turns in some of the programs, most notably in the United States, have left markets confused, and have led private investors to stay on the sidelines, waiting for policy clarification before taking a stake in financial institutions.",
        "这些计划的一波三折（在美国尤为明显）令市场迷惑，并让私人投资者持币观望，在介入金融机构之前等待政策变得明晰。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the decisions to scale back American involvement decisively in Iraq, and gradually in Afghanistan, will ultimately have significant consequences for the US – many of them welcome. One is financial.",
        "不过，这些减少介入（对伊拉克是果断退出，对阿富汉则是逐步减少）的决策将对美国产生重大的后续影响——其中许多是值得欢迎的。"
    ],
    [
        "Until Afghanistan’s leaders begin to address this problem seriously, our country will continue to bear the scar of violence against women on its face.",
        "除非阿富汗领导人们开始认真处理这个问题，否则我们这个国家将继续因虐待妇女的罪行而蒙羞。"
    ],
    [
        "In emphasizing the Palestinians’ plight, Sanders has highlighted not only his own morality-focused worldview – one that can tip into idealism, to be sure – but also his understanding of the mood of an important constituency.",
        "通过强调巴勒斯坦人所处的困境，桑德斯不仅凸显了自身以道德为重的世界观——这样的观点当然很有可能演变为理想主义——同时凸显了他理解一种重要的选民情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "But the market itself will be Trump’s biggest constraint.",
        "但市场本身才是特朗普最大的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot postpone the pain of adjustment forever by printing money.",
        "我们不能通过印钞的方式永远推迟承担适应变革所带来的阵痛。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in the broader context of Sino-American relations, even “victory” in such an encounter might be costly, because it could trigger a Chinese military buildup designed to ensure a different outcome in any subsequent skirmish.",
        "事实上，在中美关系的大背景下，升值在小规模冲突中的“胜利”有可能代价高昂，因为这可能引起中国增强军备以确保在下一场小规模冲突中实现不同结果。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – When Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, recently announced their plan to devote some $45 billion in Facebook shares toward making the world a better place, some critics wrote off the move as a public-relations ploy.",
        "伯克利—Facebook创始人扎克伯格和他的夫人普莉希拉·陈最近宣布计划将大约450亿美元Facebook股票用于改善世界。 一些批评者称他们的这一举动为公关花招。"
    ],
    [
        "Complementarity produces mutually reinforcing dynamics that improve outcomes across the board.",
        "互补性产生互相强化的动态，全面改善多领域结果。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that financing conditions are as favorable as they were at the peak of the credit boom in 2007, and much better than they have been at any other point in the last 20 years.",
        "这意味着融资环境与2007年信用繁荣顶峰时一样有利，也远比过去20年中的任何时点更好。"
    ],
    [
        "The Climate Countdown",
        "气候倒计时"
    ],
    [
        "But the recently House-passed Waxman-Markey bill proposes that the US only cut emissions by 3.6% of 1990 baseline levels.",
        "但近期美国众议院通过的《瓦克斯曼-马凯气候变化议案》仅仅要求美国减少1990年排放水平的3. 6%。"
    ],
    [
        "But mortgage lenders’ criminal activities are another matter.",
        "但按揭贷款人的犯罪行为是另一码事。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while globalization has created unprecedented opportunity, it has also unleashed a new form of systemic risk – one that threatens to devastate political institutions and national economies.",
        "但是，尽管全球化创造了前所未有的机会，但也引发了新形式的系统危机——这一危机有可能摧毁政治制度和国家经济。"
    ],
    [
        "But they missed the point: Iraq policy had divided allied democracies, and, with its universal membership, the UN remained an important source of legitimacy in the eyes of most of the world.",
        "但是他们忽略了一点：伊拉克政策已经分化了原本联合的民主国家，而因为联合国是一个由所有国家参与的组织，在全世界绝大部分人的心目中它依然是合法性的一个重要来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Cheap energy provides a powerful incentive for energy-intensive industries – from steel and glass to chemicals and pharmaceuticals – to locate in the US.",
        "廉价能源是美国能源密集性产业的有力强心剂——钢铁、玻璃、化工、制药等行业均在此列。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that it has been running an investment-income deficit, a trade surplus, and current-account surplus, it seems that it should be classified as a “debtor-repayer.”",
        "考虑到该国已经出现了投资账户逆差，贸易顺差以及经常账户顺差，似乎应该将其归入到“债务国-偿还国”的行列。"
    ],
    [
        "Each wanted to take French society in radically different directions, but both never ceased being critical of the status quo.",
        "他们都想激进地把法国社会带到不同的方向，但两人都从未停止对现状的批判。"
    ],
    [
        "Efforts over the last three years to curtail the power of the security and intelligence services – in September, Mohamed Mediene, who had been chief of the intelligence services since 1990, was forced to retire – are just one source and manifestation of domestic political tension.",
        "过去三年来削减安全和情报部门权力的努力——9月，1990年以来一直担任情报部门主管的梅德尼（Mohamed Mediene）被迫退休——只是问题之一，彰显出国内政治的紧张局面。"
    ],
    [
        "In Japan, the Financial Services Agency enacted a Stewardship Code in 2014, with a Corporate Governance Code from the Tokyo Stock Exchange entering into force this June.",
        "日本金融厅在2014年实施了一项管理办法（Stewardship Code），今年6月，东京证交所的公司治理办法（Corporate Governance Code）开始生效。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is also true that Park – who has refused to meet formally with Abe until he addresses lingering issues over Japan’s annexation of Korea – has used history to pander to domestic nationalist sentiment.",
        "但朴槿惠用历史迎合国内民族主义情绪也是事实。 她一直拒绝与安倍进行正式会晤，除非安倍就日本吞并韩国的历史问题作出表态。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is one other British prime minister who may come close: Margaret Thatcher, a highly contentious figure, who was loved by some and loathed by others.",
        "但还有一位英国首相能与之媲美：她就是玛格丽特•撒切尔，一位非常有争议的人物，喜欢她的人和讨厌她的人一样多。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, confronted with her lead, both Jospin and Hollande have dropped out of the race.",
        "实际上，在她的领先面前，若斯潘和奥朗德都推出了竞选。"
    ],
    [
        "Two of these downturns – Western Europe in the 1980’s and Japan in the 1990’s – cast a long and dark shadow on future economic performance.",
        "而其中较近的两次经济萧条都对此后的经济产生了漫长且深远的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the threat worked.",
        "显然，威胁起了作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1990, Tudor set up a weekly magazine through which he incited vicious and reactionary campaigns.",
        "在1990年，都铎创办了一份周刊，并用其煽动恶意和反动的政治运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the euro – a currency without a country – lacks a long track record of credibility.",
        "如今，欧元这一没有国度的货币缺乏长久的信誉历史记录。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Global Militarization Index of the Bonn International Center for Conversion, Russia is among the most militarized countries in the world.",
        "根据波恩国际军事设施向民用转化研究中心（Bonn International Center for Conversion）发布的全球军事化指数，俄罗斯是全球最军事化程度最高的国家之一。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other side, Robert Mundell, Myron Scholes, and Reinhard Selten have called for “draconian measures” to tame debt levels.",
        "另一方面，罗伯特·蒙代尔（Robert Mundell）、迈仑·斯科尔斯（Myron Scholes）和莱茵哈德·泽尔腾（Reinhard Selten）认为应该采取“严厉措施”来控制债务水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The odious debt idea was revived in an influential 2006 article by Seema Jayachandran and Michael Kremer, and in a 2010 report by the Center for Global Development (CGD), which proposed that economic sanctions include a mechanism aimed at preventing the accumulation of odious obligations.",
        "可恶债务的概念因为2006年西马·贾雅昌德兰（Seema Jayachandran）和迈克尔·克里莫（Michael Kremer）的一篇很有影响力的文章，以及2010年全球发展中心（CGD）的一份报告而复兴。 文章和报告认为，经济制裁应该包括一个旨在防止可恶债务累积的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the UK and the US may be adopting approaches that differ with respect to protecting commercial banks from more speculative, proprietary trading, but the policy concerns are broadly similar – and may not be so pressing elsewhere, where banking traditions are different and trading is more restrained.",
        "比如，在保护商业银行免受投机性自营交易伤害方面，英国和美国可以采取不同的方针，但政策目标应该是广泛一致的，而在其他国家，这一问题也许并不迫切，因为那里的银行传统有所不同，交易活动的限制也更多。"
    ],
    [
        "This fossil-fuel levy would be entirely compatible with the norms established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and with the “polluter pays” and “do no harm” principles of international law, according to which organizations are required to pay for the damage that they cause.",
        "这一化石燃料税与联合国气候变化框架公约（United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change）所制定的规范完全相容，也与国际法的“谁污染谁承担”和“无伤害”原则相符，根据国际法原则，组织需要赔偿其所造成的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "If so many senior Chinese officials openly flaunt fraudulent or dubious academic degrees without consequences, one can imagine how widespread other forms of corruption must be.",
        "如果那么多的中国高级官员都能公然捞取可疑的文凭且无需承担任何后果，可想而知其他形式的腐败该有多么广泛。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a move promises to help prevent damaging obstructionism by the authorities.",
        "这样做能有助于预防有关部门的从中作梗。"
    ],
    [
        "Peace can be achieved only with a withdrawal of foreign troops, and the arrival of jobs, productive farms and factories, tourism, health care, and schools.",
        "只有撤出外国军队、创造工作机会、建设高效率的农场、企业、发展旅游、医疗和教育，才能最终实现和平。"
    ],
    [
        "Horrific images of women and children dying in agony mobilized international consensus against the use of these types of weapons.",
        "许多妇女和儿童在极度痛苦中死去，这些令人毛骨悚然的影像让国际社会形成了反对使用这类武器的共识。"
    ],
    [
        "The case points to several changes in the way data are collected and released that are urgently needed to determine definitively whether SSRI’s are safe and effective for treating pediatric depression.",
        "这一案例其实发出了这样一个信号：改变收集和公布实验数据的方式亟需改变，以确定SSRI’s用于抑郁症治疗是否安全。"
    ],
    [
        "In a perfectly competitive market, with full information, models of the market show that all the factors of production receive rewards equal to their marginal products, i.e., all are paid what they are worth.",
        "在一个充分竞争、信息铺天盖地的市场，市场的模型表明生产的所有因素会得到与它们的边际产量等值的回报，即所有的商品都得到符合它们价值的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "The second, which culminated in World War I, was driven by massed firepower, and is expressed in the saying, reportedly coined at the Battle of Verdun in 1916, “artillery conquers, infantry occupies.”",
        "第二代现代战争在一战时发展到顶峰，由大规模火力推动，用起源于1916年凡尔登战役的说法说，就是“大炮征服，步兵占领”。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, today’s Congress is plagued by low legislative capacity.",
        "尽管如此，今天的国会仍饱受立法能力不足的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike their cousin the Volcker Rule, neither Liikanen nor the UK approach attempts to draw a line between types of trading.",
        "与它们的表兄弟——沃克尔规则（Volcker Rule）不同，利卡宁和英国方案都不准备给交易类型划线。"
    ],
    [
        "On the French, English, and Portuguese teams, too, it is the young players that have shone – despite the continuing presence of Zidane, Beckham, and Figo.",
        "尽管齐达内、贝克汉姆以及菲哥仍在场上，法国、英国以及葡萄牙队的年轻队员也夺人耳目。"
    ],
    [
        "Evidently, China’s population has more than responded to such admonitions.",
        "很明显，中国的人口已经超出了对这些警告的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Until we do, we will make little headway in reversing an imminent medical and economic disaster.",
        "但惟其如此，我们才能在阻止即将到来的卫生和经济灾难方面有所作为。"
    ],
    [
        "This disincentive disappears if the corporate tax base is decoupled from current profits and linked to some broad measure of activity.",
        "如果公司税基不与目前的利润挂钩，而是和某些更广泛的衡量标准联系，那么这种挫伤因素就会消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade is declining.",
        "贸易额大幅下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Thaksin’s days appear numbered, for Thailand seems poised to eject a popularly elected prime minister.",
        "泰国看起来准备撤换一名经过普选上台的总理，他信的统治恐怕来日无多。"
    ],
    [
        "A growing number of businesses recognize that today’s formula for success includes a focus on pressing societal needs.",
        "越来越多的企业认识到，当今的成功秘诀之一是注重推动社会需要。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fresno Bridge Academy, founded by Weber in 2010, has received statewide and national acclaim for its results – not only its success with individuals in need, but also its cost effectiveness.",
        "2010年，韦伯创建了弗雷斯诺桥学院（Fresno Bridge Academy）。 该学院的成果赢得了全州和全国的赞誉——不仅因为在个体需要方面的成功，也因为其高超的性价比。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps even more important, it could change public perceptions of migrants, so that they are viewed as a blessing rather than a scourge.",
        "也许更重要的是它能够改变对移民的公众认识，让他们被视为一种祝福，而不是洪水猛兽。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 80% of the 140 countries surveyed in UNEP’s “Inclusive Wealth” report registered a deterioration in their stock of natural capital.",
        "在UNEP “包容性财富”报告所调查的140个国家中，超过80%表示其自然资本存量遭到了破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "This bleak forecast marks the end of Colombia’s longest cycle of growth in three decades, leaving the country in the same fragile situation as that of many other developing economies.",
        "这一暗淡的预测标志着哥伦比亚三十年以来最长的一个增长周期的结束，并陷入和许多其他发展中经济体一样脆弱的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s preference by individual EU members to act unilaterally on energy must be replaced by a common energy policy based on solidarity among member states and unity in defending EU interests vis-à-vis external partners. After all, such solidarity is what allowed Europe to prosper and integrate over the past 50 years.",
        "今天欧盟的成员国倾向于在能源问题上单独行动的现象必须由共同的能源政策所取代，这种共同的能源政策应该是基于成员国的团结一致并且联合起来保护欧盟相对于外部合作伙伴的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the potential economic payoff in 2025 would be 6-8 times the spending required.",
        "换句话说，2025年潜在经济收益将是所需支出的6—8倍。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, politicians are lulled into a false sense of complacency that undermines their incentive to confront the structural challenges they face.",
        "与此同时，政客陷入了错误的自负，这破坏了他们直面眼前的结构性挑战的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other side, at least for the past nine months, we’ve had the younger of us, Michael DeLong, serving as the Director of the Coalition to Protect Patient Choice (CPPC), funded by the Service Employees International Union to collects facts and figures about health-insurer mergers for state and local consumer groups.",
        "另一方面，至少在过去九个月中，我们由年轻的迈克尔·德隆来担任保护患者选择联盟（CPPC）的主任职务。 该组织的资金来源于服务业雇员国际工会，承担着为各州和地方消费者团体搜集有关医疗险企兼并的数据与事实的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a strong need for supporting long-term capital flows to emerging economies to stimulate investment further, particularly in their infrastructure sectors, thereby injecting much-needed additional demand into the global economy.",
        "与此同时，我们也迫切需要长期资本流入新兴经济体以进一步刺激投资，尤其是基础设施部门，并以此向全球经济注入急需的额外需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Authoritarian governments are more concerned about information security – the ability to control what is available on the Internet in order to maintain political and social stability.",
        "专制政府更关心信息安全——控制在互联网上获得什么信息的能力，以维护政治和社会稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Replacing today’s substandard housing and building the additional units needed by 2025 would require an investment of an estimated $16 trillion – a daunting figure, to say the least.",
        "取代现有劣质住房、建造2025年所需要的新单位需要大约16万亿美元的投资——堪称天文数字。"
    ],
    [
        "This faith is sadly – and dangerously – misplaced.",
        "这种理念很可悲——并且很危险——因为他们显然将主次颠倒了。"
    ],
    [
        "As China shifts its economic model away from heavy infrastructure investment and bulk manufacturing, many of these small industrial cities will lose their core industry.",
        "随着中国将自身经济模式由大幅基础建设投资和大型制造业转向其他方面，许多小型工业城市开始失去其核心产业。"
    ],
    [
        "“Each of us,” noted Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female member of the US Supreme Court, who was renowned for not wanting to be perceived as a “female” justice, “brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.”",
        "“我们每个人，”因为不愿意被认为是“女性”正义的化身而闻名的美国最高法院第一位女法官桑德拉·奥康纳（Sandra Day O’Connor）指出，“都会在职业生涯中带上我们的生活经验和我们的价值观，不管这些东西是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan is held back by its declining population, domestic political and economic constraints, and its neighbors’ suspicions.",
        "日本则因为人口下降、国内政治和经济约束以及邻国的怀疑而难以施展。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson is not that capitalism is dead. It is that we need to reinvent it for a new century in which the forces of economic globalization are much more powerful than before.",
        "人们得出的教训并不是资本主义已经死了，而是我们应该重新塑造适应新世纪的资本主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, oil is the most important and valuable internationally traded commodity, and its significance to our civilization is underscored by the recurrent worry that we are running out of it.",
        "现今，石油是最重要和最有价值的国际贸易商品。 它对我们文明的重要性由于我们对其消耗殆尽的担忧而更加凸显。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest threats to the legal wildlife trade are poaching, smuggling, improper trade permitting, and animal abuse, all of which must be addressed by regulators and rural community stakeholders at the local level.",
        "偷猎、走私、不正当贸易许可和动物虐待是对合法野生动物贸易最大的威胁，所有这些都必须由监管机构和农村群体的利益相关者在当地层面加以解决。"
    ],
    [
        "But foreign policy must not focus exclusively on crises.",
        "但外交政策不可只关注危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a strategy means focusing more attention on ordinary Afghans, gradually expanding NATO’s security presence outward from population centers, and working hand-in-glove with state and local authorities.",
        "这种战略意味着更多地关注普通的阿富汗百姓，将北约安全部队从人口聚居的中心逐渐向外围扩展，并且与中央和地方政府共同合作。"
    ],
    [
        "As we move away from demonstration projects toward a more efficient and cost-effective system of phased national scale-ups, we should gain a better sense of what to expect.",
        "围着我们从试点项目转向更高效、性价比更高的阶段性全国推广系统，应该能够更好地了解合理的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it may be premature to draw such broad conclusions.",
        "事实上，下如此宽泛的结论可能为时尚早。"
    ],
    [
        "But, rather than rely on the IMF to fulfill its mandate of protecting them from liquidity crises, they self-insure by accumulating large stockpiles of international reserves.",
        "对此它们通过积累大量国际储备来自我保障，而非等待IMF出手履行其保护各国免遭流动性危机的使命。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the possibility that five tense, exciting, hotly-contested, and occasionally meandering days of cricketing could still end in a draw seems derived from ancient Indian philosophy, which accepts that in life the journey is as important as the destination.",
        "5天非常紧张、兴奋和竞争激励并且有时候曲折的板球比赛依然有以平局结束的可能性，即使这种可能性也好像是源自接受这样一种观点的印度哲学：在生命中，过程与结果同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s trade surplus might shrink by half of that amount (with cuts in trade surpluses also spread over other global regions), meaning a shift in Chinese GNP toward internal demand and away from net exports equal to between 5% and 10% of China’s GNP.",
        "中国的贸易顺差可能会减少上述数字的一半（贸易顺差的减少也会蔓延到世界其他地区），这意味着中国国民生产总值向国内需求的转移，以及净出口占中国国民生产总值5%到10%的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "MANILA – Imagine that you are a farmer.",
        "马尼拉—想象你是一位农民。"
    ],
    [
        "The Soviet Union was an unsustainable empire; if it could not survive at a time when isolation and bipolarity were the order of the day, it certainly could not be recreated within today’s interconnected multipolar global system.",
        "苏联是一个不可持续的帝国； 既然它无法在孤立主义和两极政治作为世界秩序的时期存在，那么显然也无法在当今互联多极的全球体系中重建。"
    ],
    [
        "The current crisis is already unwinding some of the imbalances that drive both countries’ energy and environment challenges.",
        "目前的危机已经化解了部分不均衡，这些不均衡刺激了两国能源和环境方面的提出的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The Horseman of the Jewish Apocalypse",
        "犹太启示录的骑士"
    ],
    [
        "The military prosecutor investigating the case soon found himself in jail on trumped-up charges, while the perpetrator was reinstated.",
        "军事检察官很快因捏造证据被捕，而犯案者则官复原职。"
    ],
    [
        "But, again, this will not last forever.",
        "可我还要说，这也不是长久之计。"
    ],
    [
        "If they succeed, the UK may even eventually want to rejoin.",
        "如果成功，英国最终还会想要重新加入。"
    ],
    [
        "These are the kind of people who sport comb-overs, insisting to everyone – including themselves – that they are not balding.",
        "有些人想方设法把两侧头发梳到头顶，坚持向所有人——包括自身——表现自己没有秃顶。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to prevent this, and to create a liberal legal framework fit for a modern democratic country, homosexuality and adultery must be decriminalized, and sedition must be approached from a far more liberal perspective.",
        "为了防止这一点，并建立适合现代民主国家的自有法律框架，同性恋和通奸必须脱罪，暴动必须从更加自由的角度看待。"
    ],
    [
        "A number of attendees, in a clear attempt to sabotage his speech, booed and heckled relentlessly.",
        "一些听众显然是为了捣乱，不断地发出嘘声和刁难。"
    ],
    [
        "But to think that markets alone can manage its transformative impact is pure folly – a fact that the recent global economic crisis, which was rooted in unbridled financial innovation, made clear.",
        "但如果认为仅靠市场就可以管理其革命性影响是纯粹的荒唐事——事实上，这一点在最近发生的植根于肆无忌惮金融创新的全球经济危机中已经得到了证实。"
    ],
    [
        "After the oil glut, with oil below $20 a barrel, interest in developing energy from biomass ebbed, attractive only to “green” militants and those interested in fundamental science.",
        "在石油供应量极大的情况下，由于每桶价格低于20美金，使得人们开发生物能源的兴趣也随之消退。"
    ],
    [
        "In Italy, the bourgeoisie of Milan and Rome have made a point of spending winter days dressed in characteristically German Loden overcoats.",
        "意大利米兰和罗马的资产阶级明确表示要穿上典型的德国罗登呢大衣抵御经济的严冬。"
    ],
    [
        "Draghi’s intervention marked the start of a new cycle: the doom loop reversed, and became a benign credit cycle in which lower risk premia allowed both banks and governments to refinance at lower rates, making more credit available to the economy and thereby fueling a recovery that increased government revenue.",
        "德拉吉的干预标志着一个新周期的开始：厄运循环逆转并形成一个良性的信贷周期，低风险溢价令银行和政府可以以较低的利率实施再融资，为经济提供更多的信贷，从而推动经济复苏增加政府收入。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are to close the global gap in personal security and economic well-being, the community of nations will need to cultivate a new ethos of mutual responsibility.",
        "如果想缩小个人安全和经济福利之间的差距，所有国家需要树立新的相互负责的风气。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, after one generation of economic and demographic stagnation, the welfare state can be financed only by issuing more public debt. Financial markets, awakened by the global crisis, will no longer support today’s Potemkin-like situation, in which welfare benefits have become a façade propped up by deficits.",
        "全球危机动荡下的金融市场已经无法再支撑这种“波将金”式——当年俄国女皇的情夫波将金为了向女皇展示自己的富足，特地建起了一批富丽堂皇的假村庄，因此得名——的景象，而那些福利待遇也变成了赤字支撑下的假象而已。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the United Nations refugee agency, more than two million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries.",
        "据联合国难民机构的数据，超过两百万叙利亚人曾经逃往邻国。"
    ],
    [
        "Dozens of their mutations are associated with an increased risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Women who have an abnormal BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene run a lifetime risk of up to 85% of developing breast cancer, while the increased risk of developing ovarian cancer is about 55% for women with BRCA1 mutations and about 25% for women with BRCA2 mutations.",
        "上述基因的数十种变异形态增加了罹患遗传性乳腺癌和卵巢癌的可能性。 BRCA1 或 BRCA2 异常的女性罹患乳腺癌的终生风险高达 85% ，且 BRCA1 变异的女性罹患卵巢癌的概率约为 55% ， BRCA2 变异的女性患病比率约为 25% 。"
    ],
    [
        "The Assembly could constitutionally appoint a new government, which in turn could request military assistance from a coalition of the willing, including Latin American, North American, and European countries.",
        "国民议会可以按照宪法规定任命新一届政府，而新政府反过来又可以邀请包括拉美、北美和欧洲国家在内的自愿联盟提供军事协作。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as natural-resource insecurity can cause displacement and vulnerability, effective natural-resource management can support conflict resolution and sustainable economic development.",
        "就像自然资源不安全可能导致脆弱和流离失所一样，有效的自然资源管理可以支持可持续经济发展和冲突的解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Pollute Sacred Arabia, and proclaim",
        "绑起我的双手然后宣布建立所谓安全。"
    ],
    [
        "What Happened to India?",
        "印度发生了什么？"
    ],
    [
        "We all intuitively know, for example, that hiring someone to act like a friend is not the same as having a friend.",
        "比如，直觉上我们都知道，雇一个人假扮朋友和真正拥有一位朋友是不同的。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries lack the resources and often the will to manage most of the world’s problems.",
        "那些国家缺乏充分的资源，也通常缺少足够的动力来参与和处理大部分全球性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But with the US economy now enjoying a solid recovery, the best approach may be to move faster toward normalizing debt policy, and not to assume that foreign lenders will be patient, regardless of the direction of US politics.",
        "但美国经济现在正在经历扎实的复苏，最佳方针也许是更快实现债务政策正常化，而不是认定外国贷款人不管美国政治方向如何始终会保持耐心。"
    ],
    [
        "The term “global village” was first popularized in the late 1960’s by Canadian communications maven Marshall McLuhan in response to the already powerful communications media of that day.",
        "“地球村”这一词汇是20世纪60年代末加拿大通信大王麦克·卢汉（Marshall McLuhan）最先倡导的，他是针对当时已经很强大的通信媒体而言的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet policymakers continue to focus on short-term demand management in the hope of resurrecting the heady growth rates enjoyed before the 2008-09 financial crisis.",
        "但决策者的注意力仍集中在短期需求管理，希望能够重现2008—09年金融危机之前的告诉增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinians want an independent state, but on the condition that they secure Jerusalem as its capital, and that Israel ceases to expand settlements on territory that it has occupied since the 1967 Six-Day War.",
        "巴勒斯坦人希望建立独立的国家，且必须以耶路撒冷作为首都，同时以色列必须停止在自1967年“六日战争”以来所占领的土地上扩大定居点建设。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – It has been a tough year for Nigeria.",
        "日内瓦——对尼日利亚来讲这是艰难的一年。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s long-term refinancing operation enabled Spanish and Italian banks to buy their own countries’ bonds and earn a large spread.",
        "欧洲央行的长期再融资操作使得西班牙和意大利银行得以购买本国债券、赚取丰厚的利差。"
    ],
    [
        "The net impact of all these factors on the dollar will all depend on how loose fiscal policy becomes, and on how tight monetary policy becomes.",
        "所有这些因素对美元的净影响将完全取决于财政政策会变得多么宽松，以及货币政策会变得多么紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "But even achieving the Paris agreement’s goals will not be enough to avert a catastrophic rise in global temperature.",
        "但即便实现巴黎协议制定的目标也不足以避免全球温度的灾难性升高。"
    ],
    [
        "By last month, the minimum wage had fallen to just 2,740 calories a day.",
        "截止上个月，最低工资已经骤降至每天仅能提供 2,740卡路里。"
    ],
    [
        "Should Mousavi persuade Khamenei to reconsider his position, the Supreme Leader’s hold on power will be shaken.",
        "如果穆萨维能成功说服哈梅内伊去接受他的立场的话，最高领袖对权力的掌控就会被动摇。"
    ],
    [
        "From time to time, Mohammed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has attempted to reintroduce reason and remind everyone that the focus must remain on capabilities, not intentions.",
        "国际原子能机构（ IAEA ）的总干事穆罕默德·巴拉迪不时地试图重新把理智带回到这个问题上，并提醒大家关注的重点必须放在伊朗的能力上，而不是意图上。 这就提出了一个实际问题，即目前伊朗到底有着怎样的核弹制造能力？"
    ],
    [
        "While revolutions in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s were directed against totalitarian communist regimes, nowadays they aim to get rid of this mafia-type post-communism.",
        "二十世纪八十年代末期以及九十年代早期的革命针对的是专制的共产政权，现在这些革命的目的是要消除这种类似黑手党似的后共产主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet soon after Putin was in power, Berezovsky lost his business empire and was forced to emigrate to England, where he ultimately died under suspicious circumstances.",
        "但普京掌权后不久，别列佐夫斯基就失去了他的商业帝国，并被迫移民英国，最终不明不白地死在那里。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world where private capital flows dwarf the resources at its disposal, the IMF had come to seem an anachronism.",
        "当这个世界的私人资金流阻碍了该组织对各种资源的处理时，货币基金组织就看似一个时代错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Congress can justifiably argue that it helped build on the economic structures of Nehru’s day while liberating them from excessive restrictions.",
        "国大党可以理直气壮地反驳，是它帮助印度建立了尼赫鲁时代的经济结构，同时将他们解放出过度限制的掣肘。"
    ],
    [
        "This has become all the more true in light of the revolutionary changes in the Arab world, and is at the root of Erdoğan’s foreign-policy reorientation.",
        "而根据目前阿拉伯世界所发生的革命性变化来看这个判断显然更加正确，也是埃尔多安外交政策转向的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "Our decision more than a decade ago to surrender Ukraine’s status as a nuclear nation is the clearest sign of our good neighborly intentions and political maturity.",
        "10多年前，我们决定主动放弃有核国家的地位，这样的举措最清楚不过地表明了我们对邻国的善意，以及我们在政治上的成熟。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the Center for International Media Assistance has just released a new report shining a spotlight on the phenomenon – and calling for solutions.",
        "因此，国际媒体协助中心（Center for International Media Assistance）刚刚发布的一份新报告重点阐述了这一现象——并呼吁采取办法解决这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "He has stoked a sense of common grievance by maligning minorities and, like all populists, portraying the majority group as persecuted victims.",
        "他通过中伤少数群体以及——与所有民粹主义这一样——将多数群体描绘成被逼迫的受害者来煽动共同的仇恨。"
    ],
    [
        "And here, the relationship between climate change and birth control needs to be brought into focus.",
        "在这方面，气候变化和生育控制的关系应该重点关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Many commentators claim that Americans Elect will simply take votes from the incumbents but have no lasting impact.",
        "许多评论员认为“让美国人来选”运动只能从当前的竞选者手中夺走一些票数，毫无长期影响可言。"
    ],
    [
        "The larger question concerns the long-term future of American power.",
        "更大的问题影响着将来很长时期内的美国实力。"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, such thinking may seem reasonable.",
        "表面上看，这一观点似乎很合理。"
    ],
    [
        "These two countries are also home to the major platforms for economic and social interaction, which benefit from network effects, closure of informational gaps, and, perhaps most important, artificial-intelligence capabilities and applications that use and generate massive sets of valuable data.",
        "这两个国家也是主要经济和社会互动平台的“主场”，它们得益于网络效应、信息差距的填补，以及——也许这才是最重要的——利用和产生大量有价值的数据集的人工智能能力和应用。"
    ],
    [
        "The governments of the Concertación in Chile, Alan García in Peru, and Fernando Henrique Cardoso in Brazil all derived inspiration from the Blair-Clinton-Schröder agenda.",
        "智利民主联盟（Concertación）、秘鲁加西亚、巴西卡多佐政府都从布莱尔-克林顿-施罗德日程中汲取了灵感。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea behind FedEx was simple and compelling: The cost of complexity was higher than the cost of air transport, so the company would ship all its packages overnight to Memphis, Tennessee.",
        "联邦快递的理念既简单又令人信服：复杂的成本高于空运，因此这家公司把所有包裹连夜运往田纳西州的孟菲斯。"
    ],
    [
        "The Other Financial Crisis",
        "另一种金融危机"
    ],
    [
        "Because it normally takes a year or more for the full effects of monetary policy to be felt, central banks need to act preemptively, not reactively.",
        "因为货币政策的全面效果至少要过一年或者更长时间才能感觉到，中央银行需要预先采取行动，而不是出现问题才做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "This has brought the region much needed stability.",
        "此外，企业家和投资者已经开始以更长远的目光对待自己的投资行为，这就为本地区带来了非常必要的金融和投资市场稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "The most likely outcome is that Syriza will soon admit defeat, like every other eurozone government supposedly elected on a reform mandate, and revert to a troika-style program, sweetened only by dropping the name “troika.”",
        "最有可能的结果是左翼联盟（Syriza）很快认输——就像其他所有被选来承担改革使命的欧元区政府一样，然后回归三驾马车式的计划，只是把“三驾马车”的名头去掉。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan does not have border agreements with either India, with whom it disputes the incorporation of Kashmir, or Afghanistan, which has never explicitly recognized the Durand Line, the frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan.",
        "巴基斯坦与印度没有边界协定，两国在克什米尔归属问题上有争议。 巴基斯坦也没有与阿富汗有边界协定，后者从未明确承认作为巴基斯坦和阿富汗边界线的杜兰德线。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders added 112 new mental disorders to its third edition ( DSM-III ).",
        "在1980年，《精神疾病诊断及统计手册》第三版( DSM-III )中新增了112种疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the World Bank has pointed out, negative rates can have undesirable effects.",
        "但是，世界银行指出，负利率可能带来不利后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, human genomes could be sequenced for as little as $1,000 in the next few years.",
        "事实上，不出几年，你只要花1000美元出头，就能获得人类基因组序列。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, at the level of individual programs, there is now a great deal of strong evidence.",
        "相比之下，涉及到具体项目有着大量有力的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "In Banda Aceh, the tsunami killed more than half the city’s population.",
        "在班达亚齐，海啸夺去了多半城市居民的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "But their heavy reliance on international trade and capital flows means that they remain vulnerable to severe financial spillovers from the United States.",
        "但它们对国际贸易和资本流动的依赖意味着自身仍然容易受到美国严重金融溢出效应的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – This week, Kurds in northern Iraq voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence for the country’s Kurdistan Region.",
        "坎布里奇—本周，伊拉克北部的库尔德人以压倒多数投票支持伊拉克库尔德地区独立。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse yet, even this triple disaster often did not fit the definition of the seismic event defined by the bond indentures.",
        "更糟糕的是，即便是那三大连环灾害也往往无法符合债券对地震相关灾害所做的定义。"
    ],
    [
        "But Diamond was a banker supposedly at the top of his game.",
        "可博达文是银行家中的翘楚。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, a proven technology exists that could go a long way toward reducing the impact of drought: genetic engineering (GE).",
        "但事实上已经存在成熟的基因工程（GE）技术，可以在很大程度上缓解干旱的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "And, after a review of the Rwanda debacle, 400 NGOs and UN organizations working in 80 countries got together in the Sphere Project to develop a common humanitarian mandate and handbook of standards outlining the minimum performance required of any NGO working in a disaster zone.",
        "此外，在对卢旺达的灾难进行评估之后，在80个国家运作的400多家NGO和联合国组织聚拢在“全球计划（Sphere Project）”中，制定一部共同的人道主义要求和标准手册，对在灾区工作的所有NGO的最起码绩效做出规定。"
    ],
    [
        "Count to ten before you respond.",
        "在你做出反应前先数十下。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico has a good chance to realize its impressive structural-reform agenda.",
        "墨西哥有很大的机会实现其令人印象深刻的结构改革日程。"
    ],
    [
        "So will Germany revert to nationalism?",
        "那么德国会重归国家主义么？"
    ],
    [
        "But if Asia is to move beyond its past, the victims of Japan’s wartime aggression must recognize that the Japan of 2015 is not the Japan of 1931, 1941, or even 1945, and that, as many Asian leaders have realized over the years, forgiveness benefits everyone.",
        "但如果亚洲要超越历史恩怨，日本战时侵略的受害者就必须承认2015年的日本不是1931、1941乃至1945年的日本，并且，如许多亚洲领导人在过去几年中所认识到的，原谅可以给所有人带来好处。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, China might have done so within the Bretton Woods institutions, were the distribution of voting rights within them not skewed so heavily toward the incumbents, who still enjoy veto power.",
        "事实上，中国本可以在布雷顿森林机构内填补这一空白，但这些机构内部的投票权太过倾向于目前当权的发达国家，它们仍享有否决权。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, Harvard requested that it be placed “out of the reach of ordinary political strife and change” and into the “hands of alumni who have the interests of education most at heart.”",
        "哈佛大学对此的反应是要求被置于“常规政治冲突和变化之外”，交给“真心实意心系教育的校友手中”。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments can play a critical role in collecting the data needed to determine which skills are in demand and what kind of training is effective.",
        "政府可以在收集确定哪些技能需求大、哪种培训有效果所需要的数据方面起到关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Will it be able to put together an effective governmental authority to rule the Gaza Strip, or will that area dissolve into bloody battles among Palestinian factions and a staging area for attacks into Israel that will bring reprisal raids?",
        "他们有能力组建一个政府性的机构去管理加沙地带吗？ 抑或该地区会陷入巴勒斯坦血腥的派系斗争之中并成为发动会招致以色列报复性打击的恐怖袭击的基地呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The constitution of liberty requires both, and the rule of law is the more difficult of the two to establish and maintain, for it requires not just a constitution but, almost more importantly, an independent judiciary that is sensitive to violations of constitutional and other legitimate rules.",
        "这两种因素在自由的宪法中缺一不可，而两者之中建立和维护法治则更有难度，因为它所需要的不仅仅是一部宪法，它更需要能对违反宪法和其它法律规定的行为做出发应的独立的司法体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Left unexamined, the push toward megaprojects risks – in the words of the authors of the letter to the G-20 – “doubling down on a dangerous vision.” It is critical that we ensure that any transformation of development finance be crafted in a way that upholds human rights and protects the earth.",
        "推进巨型工程的做法没有接受过考验，有可能——用致信G-20的作者的话说——“对危险的愿景加倍下注，”我们必须确保任何发展金融方式的转变都必须严守人权和保护地球这一前提，这一点至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if true, there may be nothing legally wrong with such an arrangement.",
        "就算事实果真如此，这样的安排在法律上也无可指责。"
    ],
    [
        "My grandchildren offer a ray of sunshine; all Star Wars fans, they can just about convince me that, like Princess Leia’s dissident forces, the good guys will eventually win.",
        "他们全都是星战迷，他们大概能让我相信，像莉亚公主领导的持不同政见者部队一样，好人最终能够战胜坏人。"
    ],
    [
        "The list of insured services can always grow in step with incomes and government revenues.",
        "保险服务的数量可以总是与增加居民收入和政府收入状况保持一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, the French and Dutch referendums confirmed that politics in the Union is now conducted “on the street,” and that it is no longer possible to “construct” Europe at a distance and by stealth.",
        "首先，法国和荷兰的公投证实了欧盟内的政治现在是“在大街上”进行的，再也不可能保持一定距离暗暗“建造”欧洲了。"
    ],
    [
        "Flags are flown in hope of victory, but also serve to dry the tears of defeat.",
        "挥舞国旗是为了报有胜利的希望，也是为了摸去国家队被击败的泪水。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Coming Growth Tests",
        "中国的未来增长考验"
    ],
    [
        "What strikes me the most is that she sees, even then, the beginnings of the tribal conflicts and the coming contest among Islamists to outdo one another in fundamentalist purity.",
        "最令我动容的是她在那时就已经预见到部落冲突的开始和伊斯兰主义者在原教旨主义纯洁性领域压倒彼此的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "How do we measure aggregate poverty in view of the varying predicaments and miseries of the diverse people who comprise the society?",
        "我们如何在度量总贫困水平时顾及组成社会的不同的人所经历的不同窘况和苦难？"
    ],
    [
        "In 2016, US companies exported a total of $515 billion worth of goods and services to Latin America and the Caribbean – nearly three times as much as they exported to China.",
        "2016年，美国公司总共出口了价值5,150亿美元的商品和服务到拉美和加勒比地区——是其对华出口的近三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "At the height of the eurozone crisis, the IMF, the EC, and the ECB (not to mention financial markets) warmly welcomed the economists Mario Monti and Lucas Papademos as highly respected “technocratic” prime ministers for Italy and Greece, respectively.",
        "在欧元区危机最严重的时候，国际货币基金组织、欧盟委员会和欧洲央行（更不用说金融市场）热烈欢迎经济学家马里奥·蒙蒂（Mario Monti）和卢卡斯·巴帕德莫斯（Lucas Papademos ）分别担任意大利和希腊两国备受尊崇的“技术型”总理。"
    ],
    [
        "Flexible currencies, more transparent monetary frameworks, and sound long-term fiscal policies can serve as buffers against capital-flow volatility.",
        "弹性的货币、更透明的货币框架和可靠的长期财政政策可以作为资本流波动的缓冲器。"
    ],
    [
        "In October 2015, India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, under pressure from the country’s Supreme Court, declared that international commercial surrogacy was unconstitutional.",
        "2015年10月，印度卫生和家庭福利部在最高法院施压下宣布国际商业代孕行为违反宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "Smaller member states, notably Finland and Ireland (as well as Spain) and the two non-euro area countries Denmark and Sweden, have stuck to the principle of fiscal balance or small – though diminishing – surpluses. But the largest European Union members, including the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, have been unable or unwilling to play by the rules.",
        "虽然芬兰和爱尔兰等面积较小的成员国（其中也包括西班牙）和丹麦、瑞典两个非欧元区国家一直坚持财政平衡或小有盈余（尽管盈余量日渐减少）的预算原则，但英、法、德等欧盟最大的成员都不愿或无力遵守这项规则。"
    ],
    [
        "But “treatment” does not mean helping existing sufferers.",
        "但“治疗”并不意味着帮助现有患者。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, the US is the leading developer and user of drones, with a fleet of 7,500.",
        "毫不奇怪，美国是无非人际的领先开发者和使用者，拥有一支7 500架规模的无人飞机队伍。"
    ],
    [
        "The new arrangement will require commitments from all countries that are commensurate with their level of development.",
        "新安排将要求所有国家作出与其发展水平相应的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an alternative strategy that could produce significantly more rapid growth.",
        "有一个替代战略能够带来显著更快的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "So now Putin’s image as the hard man of politics has been lost forever.",
        "因此，如今，普京在政治方面的强人形象已经一去不复返。"
    ],
    [
        "Redressing past injustice and building an economy that offers opportunity to all are major challenges as well, fraught with volatility, uncertainty, and the dangers of political opportunism.",
        "纠正既往不公和建设机会均等的经济也是一项充满波动、变数和政治机会主义风险的严峻挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "How low men can sink in our inhumanity!",
        "”人性竟然可以沉沦到如此的地步！"
    ],
    [
        "They recognized that perfection is unattainable; so they set limited objectives and firm timelines – and then mobilized the political will for a small step forward, knowing full well that when they achieved it, its inadequacy would become apparent, requiring further steps.",
        "他们清楚不可能尽善尽美，因此制定了有限度的目标和确定的时间表——籍此来调动进一步采取行动的政治意愿。 他们清楚地知道目标实现后其不足之处必定会很快暴露，进而敦促采取进一步的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Others consider the relationship less a matter of exploitation than a simple function of capitalism’s free-market principles, according to which those without a strong negotiating position must accept tough terms.",
        "另一些人认为，这种关系更多的是一个资本主义自由市场原则的简单作用，而不是剥削。 因为根据资本主义自由市场原则，没有强势谈判地位的一方自当忍受严苛的条款。"
    ],
    [
        "The only European hostage reported to have been executed directly by the Islamic State appears to have been a Russian, Sergey Gorbunov, but little is known about him.",
        "唯一一个据报道被伊斯兰国直接触觉的欧洲人质是一名俄罗斯人，名叫谢尔盖·戈尔巴诺夫（ergey Gorbunov），但关于此人的信息我们了解甚少。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, we understand past crises very well.",
        "与此相比，我们对已经过去的危机了解得非常清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "Oman is keeping its distance from the situation, while Kuwait has attempted to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.",
        "阿曼一直与此局面保持距离，而科威特试图在沙特阿拉伯和卡塔尔之间调停。"
    ],
    [
        "While their use of a range of unconventional monetary-policy tools has had benefits, it has also generated significant uncertainty, without fully stabilizing the world economy.",
        "它们对一系列非常规货币政策工具的使用取得了一些效果，也带来了严重的不确定性，世界经济也没有获得充分稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "To build a more inclusive workplace, management must craft narratives that support the changes their employees are demanding.",
        "为建设更具包容性的工作环境，管理层必须迅速制定能支持员工所要求变化的陈述和规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the US counties with a high proportion of vacation homes are seeing price increases that rival, if not outstrip, the booming metropolitan areas.",
        "度假住宅高度集中的地区房价迅速上涨，即便没有超过飞速发展的城市区域也已经相差无几。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether he is seeking to weaken Ukraine or to enlarge Russia’s territory, Europe’s response must be firm.",
        "不论普京试图削弱乌克兰还是扩大俄罗斯的领土，欧洲的反应都必须坚定。"
    ],
    [
        "The next US president should be able to capitalize on Americans’ fundamental optimism, pragmatism, and activism.",
        "下一任美国总统应该能够充分调动起美国人最根本的乐观主义、实用主义和积极行动的精神。"
    ],
    [
        "The US and the Soviet Union perceived both agreements as positive-sum games, because they involved nature or third parties.",
        "因为上述两份协议都涉及自然界和第三方，美苏两国将这两份协议均视为正和博弈。"
    ],
    [
        "Greenspan’s point is even closer to the mark today than it was back then.",
        "时至今日，格林斯潘的观点比当时还要正确。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine that a government established a number of professionally managed public venture funds, which would take equity stakes in a large cross-section of new technologies, raising the necessary funds by issuing bonds in financial markets.",
        "想象一下，政府建立大量专业化管理的公共创投基金，它们将在大量跨部门新技术中拥有股权，通过在金融市场中发行债券筹集必须的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "To be fully French, it seems, women must, like Marianne, bare their breasts.",
        "似乎要充分发扬法国精神，女性必须像玛丽安那样袒露自己的乳房。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Economy in 2018",
        "2018年的全球经济"
    ],
    [
        "The Russian government now spends more on new Russian-made conventional weapons than do foreign purchasers.",
        "俄国政府现在用于新的国产常规武器的费用要超过外国购买者。"
    ],
    [
        "Do you think the World Bank should do more to encourage countries to adopt core labor standards?",
        "你是否认为世界银行应当在鼓励各国采纳核心劳工标准上做更多的工作？"
    ],
    [
        "Was there really no way to counter the club of bad neighbors who refuse to countenance any discussion of Kurdish sovereignty?",
        "真的没有办法对付拒绝讨论库尔德主权问题的邪恶邻居了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But market participants eventually realize that there are not enough savings to complete all the investment projects. At that point, boom turns to bust.",
        "虽然在中央银行的货币注入下还能继续维持一段时间，但市场参与者最终会意识到没有足够的储蓄去完成所有投资，于是泡沫开始破灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel's disengagement plan presents the evacuation of Gaza settlements as an end to 37 years of occupation.",
        "以色列分离计划将从加沙定居点撤退作为37年占领的终结。"
    ],
    [
        "He expressed understanding for Iran’s desire to acquire nuclear weapons because, as he said, the Iranians are surrounded by nuclear powers such as Pakistan, India, Russia, and Israel.",
        "在这之中，盖茨表达了对伊朗获取核武器之愿的理解，之所以如此，按他的说法是因为伊朗人身处巴基斯坦、印度、俄罗斯和以色列等核大国的包围之中。"
    ],
    [
        "The rapid increase thus appears to be mostly the result of speculative momentum that occurred before the interest-rate cuts.",
        "于是房价的快速上升看起来很可能是利率降低前投机冲动的表现。"
    ],
    [
        "And a slowdown in productivity growth, together with excessive leverage and persistent public-sector underinvestment, may be undermining medium-term potential economic growth.",
        "而生产率增长的放缓，以及过度负债和公共部门投资持续不足，可能阻碍中期潜在经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Either way, May should recognize that EU budget payments will be inevitable for many years after Brexit.",
        "无论如何，梅应该认识到，支付欧盟预算是退欧后多年之内都无法避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "While the US has had bitter partisan differences over disastrous interventions in developing countries such as Vietnam and Iraq, there is a bedrock of consensus on its alliance system – and not just among those who make and think about foreign policy.",
        "虽然美国在灾难性干预越南和伊拉克等发展中国家的问题上一直存在严重的两党分歧，但支持联盟体系的基础一直存在——况且这样的共识不仅限于外交政策制定者和智囊团。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the disruption took the form of yet another fiscal mini-drama.",
        "而在美国，这种破坏效应正在以另一种财政闹剧的形式出现。"
    ],
    [
        "But the jailing of Liu also demonstrates in the starkest terms that China’s neglect of human rights is flowing to the rest of world alongside the mass of Chinese goods.",
        "但刘晓波的入狱也毫不掩饰地表明随中国商品传播到世界各地的还有中国对人权的忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "Kelleher has been an effective critic of the administration in recent years, pushing long and hard to address all potential conflicts of interest in finance.",
        "科勒赫是近年来奥巴马政府的有力批评者，长期以来一直致力于解决金融业中的潜在利益冲突问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In America, after more than seven million home foreclosures in recent years, we have empty homes and homeless people.",
        "在美国，近几年有数百万房子被取消了按揭赎回权，我们有大量的空房，同时又有大量无家可归者。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, one-third of French voters are now attracted to candidates with extreme ideologies that share an anti-liberal rejection of the euro, capitalism, and globalization.",
        "换句话说，1/3的法国选民都被持有极端意识形态，共同反对欧元，资本主义和全球化等自由主义理念的候选人所吸引。"
    ],
    [
        "Lackner is a world leader in new CCS strategies.",
        "莱克纳便是新碳捕存战略的世界领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "And by then, America’s trade account may have been rebalanced.",
        "到那时候美国的贸易账户可能早就实现重新平衡了。"
    ],
    [
        "But establishing a unified strategy is only the first step.",
        "但建立统一战略只是第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "That deal quickly fell apart, but it could be time to try again.",
        "那场交易虽然很快破裂了，但如今却迎来再次尝试的时机。"
    ],
    [
        "UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, for example, had little trouble identifying critical issues, from specific humanitarian crises in countries like Haiti, Myanmar, and Pakistan to broader challenges like climate change and global poverty. But his success in spurring countries to work together to address those issues is dubious.",
        "例如联合国秘书长潘基文在界定关键问题方面的能力无可指摘——从海地、缅甸、巴基斯坦等国的人道主义危机到气候变化和全球贫困这类更广泛挑战等等，但他在促进各国共同努力解决这些问题方面的成效是让人生疑的。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether US foreign policy will come to reflect this fact, only the future will tell.",
        "美国的外交政策是否会遵循这一事实，还有待时间观察。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, even if he was largely forgotten after the Rose Revolution of 2003, when he was ousted by his one-time protégé, Mikheil Saakashvili, his cunning and skill at manipulating political forces still enabled him to manage his legacy to his advantage.",
        "但即便在2003年玫瑰革命后开始逐渐淡出公众视线，当他被过去的门生米哈伊尔·萨卡什维利驱逐时，他的狡猾和政治手腕依然使他成功地将过去的经历转化为优势。"
    ],
    [
        "As with the slow, sure movement of the earth’s plates, this deep, broad, underlying transformation is manifesting itself in local, destructive eruptions.",
        "正如地球板块缓慢而稳定的移动，这一深刻、广泛、根本的变化正在以局部的破坏性爆发的形式表现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s Data of Discrimination",
        "印度的歧视数据"
    ],
    [
        "Is it plausible that the Serbian authorities remained in the dark while the killing was in progress and reported in the press all over the world?",
        "说塞尔维亚当局在屠杀发生时、并且全世界都对此进行了报道的过程中却一直蒙在鼓里能让人信服吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But it can help obfuscate reality.",
        "但形式却可以混淆现实。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – In March 2011, the catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that hit Japan halted production of key components on which many global supply chains depend.",
        "香港—2011年3月席卷日本的地震、海啸和核灾难中断了全球供应链所依赖的一大关键节点。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world where borders are more porous than ever to everything from drugs to infectious diseases to terrorism, America must help build international coalitions and institutions to address shared threats and challenges.",
        "在边境面对毒品、传染病和恐怖主义变得漏洞百出的世界里，美国必须协助成立国际联盟和机构，应对共同面临的挑战和威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Complicated lines of transport using transit countries are often used.",
        "走私经常使用过境国的复杂路线。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a result would be a boon not just for efforts to limit climate change, but also for addressing other global challenges.",
        "若能实现这样的结果，将不仅是限制气候变化努力的福音，也将极大地有利于解决其他全球挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Exactly how the latter will be consulted on the calibration of risk weights in the Basel accord is not spelled out.",
        "至于如何征求后者对巴塞尔协议风险权重调整的意见，文章没有提及。"
    ],
    [
        "To aim an anti-dumping measure against an Asian manufacturer may inflict most of the damage on a European producer.",
        "针对一个亚洲制造商的反倾销措施所造成的损失，可能绝大部分由一个欧洲生产商来承担。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem of “moral hazard” – which posits that actors will take excessive risks if they do not expect to bear fully the consequences of their actions – is commonly cited as a reason not to protect shareholders of bailed-out firms.",
        "“道德风险”（认为当行为人预期到自己不用承担所有自己行为的后果时，行为人将会冒更大的风险）问题通常都被视为不保护受助企业股东的缘由所在。"
    ],
    [
        "He declared that he is for the continuation of resistance in all forms.",
        "他宣称他支持继续进行所有形式的抵抗。"
    ],
    [
        "If, as seems likely, these basic steps were not taken, even an accidental strike on MH17 would constitute a war crime.",
        "如果看似并未采取这些基本措施，那么即使误中MH17也有可能划入战争罪的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "The argument that “tough love” was necessary in southern Europe, because nothing there would ever have changed otherwise, has been settled.",
        "对待南欧地区“严是爱、宽是害”，否则那里永远无法进步的说法已经深入人心。"
    ],
    [
        "Heated debate immediately erupted, with some experienced practitioners questioning the feasibility of such a goal.",
        "随后立即爆发了激烈的争论，一些经验丰富的医生质疑实现这一目标的可行性。"
    ],
    [
        "But we found that mitigation",
        "但是我们发现"
    ],
    [
        "The West has established the economic model of the twenty-first century, with its hitherto unheard of standard of living, and almost all nations and regions are trying to equal it, no matter what the cost.",
        "西方已经建立了二十一世纪的经济模式，其生活水准前所未闻，而且几乎所有国家和地区都在不计代价试图追赶。"
    ],
    [
        "In this case, the price of loanable funds is the real interest rate.",
        "在这种情况下，信贷资金价格就等于实际利率。"
    ],
    [
        "What I do is not very sophisticated: I watch the bookmakers’ odds.",
        "我的做法并不十分复杂：我观察博彩公司的赔率。"
    ],
    [
        "When these factors are weighed against the benefits in monetary terms, each dollar spent ending extreme poverty with cash transfers would achieve about $5 worth of social value.",
        "权衡这些因素和在货币方面产生的效益，以现金支付形式每花一美元结束极端贫困都将产生5美元的社会价值。"
    ],
    [
        "The ensuing tit-for-tat will hinder global economic growth, and damage economies and markets everywhere.",
        "由此导致的持续的以牙还牙将拖累全球经济增长，伤及所有经济体和市场。"
    ],
    [
        "This is also why we are unlikely to see the return of military regimes in southern Europe or anywhere else; the suffering that they caused is too vivid in the collective memory.",
        "这也是我们不大可能看到南欧或其他任何地方回归军政府统治的原因； 这类政权所引发的苦难在人们的集体记忆中太过深刻了。"
    ],
    [
        "Central to fairness is the ability to pay.",
        "而公平的核心则在于支付能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The NBU’s leadership understands that it must act to contain inflation, but its insistence on the dollar peg ties their hands, because it prevents them from raising interest rates sufficiently.",
        "乌克兰国家银行的领导层理解，该行必须采取行动来遏制通货膨胀，但是其坚持与美元挂钩限制了他们的行动，因为这不让他们有效地提高利率。"
    ],
    [
        "The tragedy in Paris sidelined Turkey at its own summit, derailing Erdoğan’s international comeback.",
        "巴黎悲剧夺走了土耳其在本国举办峰会上的风头，阻碍了埃尔多安再次登上国际舞台。"
    ],
    [
        "In Bosnia, new programs generated just 8,300 jobs, while 450,000 people were demobilized; 20 years after the end of the conflict, the unemployment rate stood at 44%.",
        "而在波斯尼亚，新计划仅仅创造了8，300个就业机会，而复原人数则高达450，000之多； 冲突结束20年后，失业率仍在44%的位置居高不下。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Afghanistan is now at risk of becoming partitioned along ethnic and tribal lines, with militia- or warlord-controlled enclaves proliferating.",
        "结果，阿富汗现在极有可能陷入种族和部族分裂，割据势力或军阀控制的飞地将遍地开花。"
    ],
    [
        "Territorial disputes over unimportant islands could be laid to rest.",
        "次要岛礁等区域冲突可以按下不表。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian media and officials portray the episode as, at best, a terrible mistake, and, at worst, an American plot to undermine support for the rebels.",
        "俄罗斯媒体和官员充其量把此次事件说成是可怕的错误，甚至说成是美国人削弱对叛军支持的阴谋。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s New Progressive Era?",
        "美国的新进步时代？"
    ],
    [
        "They foresee years and even decades of slow growth in Europe.",
        "他们预测，未来几年甚至几十年欧洲都将经历低增长。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this is happening not in some remote country, far removed from civilization.",
        "所有这一切都不是什么人类文明之外的异域奇闻，而是一个欧盟成员国内的现状。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because Japan has such a high saving rate – averaging 24% of GDP since 2007 – it basically owes its debt to itself. That means it is not vulnerable to the capital flight of foreign investors that often triggers crises.",
        "但由于日本拥有极高的储蓄率 ——自2007年以来平均相当于GDP的24％，意味着这些债务基本上都是停留在日本国内，因此该国也较少受到外国投资者资本外逃的冲击，而资本外逃往往是危机爆发的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference between the two reform efforts is that Xi must also address the shortcomings of Deng’s work.",
        "两人改革的不同之处在于，习近平必须处理邓小平改革初期没有预料到的新问题 。"
    ],
    [
        "Duwe found that 60% of the perpetrators had either been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder or exhibited signs of serious mental disturbance before the attack.",
        "杜威发现，60%的罪犯在作案前辈诊断为精神障碍或表现出严重精神异常的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Once they develop a taste for bacon and beer, you can't keep them away.”",
        "一旦尝到了咸肉和啤酒的滋味，就没法再把它赶走了。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, she seemed likely to muddle through to the end of her four-year term in 2018, if only because opposition parties were reluctant to clean up the economic mess her government created.",
        "直到最近，她也许可以得过且过地熬到2018年四年任期结束，不过这只是因为反对党不愿给她的政府所创造的经济烂摊子擦屁股。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the 2009 stimulus package enacted by the Obama administration had many billions of dollars devoted to cancer research, though such research employs few people directly and is spent over a long time horizon – far beyond that of even a prolonged recovery.",
        "比如奥巴马政府在2009年推出的一揽子刺激计划将数百亿美元投向了癌症研究计划，即便这些研究根本雇用不了多少人，且财政支付的时间跨度很长——甚至比一个长期复苏所持续的时间还要长。"
    ],
    [
        "A major theme of the underlying political debate in the United States is the role of the state and the need for collective action.",
        "美国悬而未决的政治争论的一大主要议题是国家的角色和集体行动的必要。"
    ],
    [
        "A tax on oil, however, does not entail excess burdens.",
        "而对石油征税却不会带来额外负担。"
    ],
    [
        "This pattern has recurred throughout history, from the French Revolution all the way to the fall of the Berlin Wall.",
        "这一模式在历史上屡试不爽，从法国大革命到柏林墙倒塌无一不是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In Defense of Varoufakis",
        "为瓦鲁法基斯辩护"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, if one were to imagine reasons why Germany might not approve a request by Italy to trigger the OMT, political turmoil would top the list.",
        "事实上，如果你思考一下德国不批准意大利触发OMT的要求的原因，那么政治乱象肯定是首先冒出来的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "A dramatic manifestation of the mechanistic pattern of solidarity is now emerging in Syria, as well.",
        "戏剧性的机械团结模式目前同样也在叙利亚出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Cochrane accuses Krugman of misleading his readers about the efficient market theory, which asserts that, given the available information, financial markets always get asset prices right.",
        "克鲁格曼不断抨击芝加哥学派的经济学家“愤怒”的科克伦，科克伦是经济学教授，他在自己任教大学网站上不断地对克鲁格曼提出挑战，甚至质疑他的学术操守。"
    ],
    [
        "When the “European project” was thriving, only a few visionaries saw the need for centralizing more powers.",
        "“欧洲计划”一枝独秀的时候，只有少数远见卓识者认为有必要集中更多的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "One concerns how states emerge from years of repression to build institutions capable of responding to the needs of the modern world.",
        "其中一条线索涉及到国家如何摆脱多年的压制，建设能够响应现代社会需求的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, coordinating mechanisms should be – to the extent possible – objectives-based processes measured against international commitments and best practices.",
        "此外，协调机制应该尽可能地设计成基于目标的程序，以国际承诺和最佳实践来衡量。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2017, they will need to reappraise how the global economy works, and recalibrate accordingly their assessment of every stock or bond on sale, because even if some market fundamentals remain the same, many others have clearly changed.",
        "在2017年，他们需要重新评估全球经济的运作模式，并以此重新校准其对每只在售股票或债券的评估，因为即使某些市场基本面保持不变，许多其他因素也会有所改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking ahead, Arabs should recognize that domestic reform is the best way to prevent foreign interference and defend national interests.",
        "展望未来，阿拉伯人应当认识到防止外国干预和维护国家利益的最佳途径是推行国内改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last eight years, China’s economy has grown by an average of 10% annually – a total increase of around 115% – leading to a 53% increase in CO2 emissions.",
        "在过去八年中，中国经济年均增长率为10%——总增长幅度在115%左右——这导致二氧化碳排放量增加了53%。"
    ],
    [
        "The bill created a more educated workforce and ushered in a period of rising incomes for most Americans.",
        "该法案创建了一支受过良好教育的劳动力队伍，为大多数美国人迎来了一个收入增长的年代。"
    ],
    [
        "This problem is not limited to China; of the 7.2% of GDP that Asian countries spend, on average, on infrastructure development, only about 0.2% is privately funded.",
        "平均而言，亚洲国家将GDP的7. 2%花在了基础设施开发上，其中只有0."
    ],
    [
        "And because no one would lend to Argentina after it defaulted in the early 2000s, the government has relatively little debt.",
        "而且因为没有人愿意在21世纪初债务违约后借钱给阿根廷，政府相对来讲没有多少债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Little discussion has focused on the promotion of private risk management institutions, notably insurance.",
        "很少有讨论关注个人风险管理制度，特别是保险制度。"
    ],
    [
        "It had, most likely, never been realizable.",
        "它也许从来就未曾实现。"
    ],
    [
        "In all these areas and more, traditional textbook arguments about the gains from trade apply: new export opportunities lead to higher wages and a lower cost of living.",
        "在所有这些和其他领域，关于贸易的益处的传统教科书观点都适用：新的进口机会带来更高的工资和更低的生活成本。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, isn’t the human brain just a very complex machine?",
        "毕竟我们的大脑也只是一个十分复杂的机器而已。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Japanese invasion five years later subjugated Burma and its people to colonial rule once again, with the conquering sweep of the Imperial Japanese Army checked only at Imphal, in India’s Manipur state.",
        "但5年之后的日本入侵又把缅甸及其人民压制在殖民统治之下，而日军的扫荡也最终被遏制在当今印度曼尼普尔区首府英帕尔一线。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it would help improve access to information.",
        "首先，这将有助于改善获取信息的渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, historians have counted as many as 25 such cycles since the reign of Tsar Ivan III.",
        "确实，历史学家计算出，从沙皇伊凡三世统治以来，这样的循环多达25次。"
    ],
    [
        "People who share health data are likely to be much more adept at managing it than they would have been just a few years ago. They will also be fairly skeptical about the companies they entrust it to.",
        "那些分享健康数据的人会比几年前更加熟练地管理那些数据，也会对托管这类数据的公司怀有一份合理的戒心。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not a novel thought.",
        "这并不是什么新的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "Both King Abdullah and President Salih understand the problem; they need to stop using the old tactics and grasp the strategic need for change.",
        "阿卜杜拉国王和萨利赫总统都明白这个问题； 他们要做的是停止使用过时的策略，抓住变革的战略需要。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when we do, let us remember that hindsight is 20-20.",
        "但是当我们知道的时候，那已经是事后诸葛亮了。"
    ],
    [
        "Although high oil prices look like a tax on business activity that depresses aggregate demand, they also raise inflation, both directly and indirectly.",
        "尽管高油价似乎是企业活动的额外赋税，同样抑制了总体需求，但同时也直接或间接地提高了通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "To take one example, while Bill Clinton speaks with warmth, wit, and great eloquence in the flesh, his autobiography is not worth reading.",
        "举个例子，尽管比尔·克林顿本人的演讲充满热情、智慧和雄辩，但他的自传却根本不值一读。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon after the ECB began buying Italian bonds last August, then-Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government backtracked on its commitments to tax reform.",
        "就在欧洲央行于去年八月开始购买意大利债券的时候，时任意大利总理的贝卢斯科尼却突然放弃了推行税收改革的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe the authorities will be able to hold on in 2016; but it is more likely that the renminbi will continue its rocky ride – taking global markets along with it.",
        "也许当局将能够在 2016 年控制住局面； 但更有可能的是人民币将继续其震荡之路——也让全球市场随之上下翻飞。"
    ],
    [
        "Though they are often viral, rather than bacterial, they are frequently treated with antibiotics – an approach that not only is ineffective, but also fuels AMR.",
        "它通常由病毒而非细菌引起，但仍频繁使用抗生素治疗——这样做不但效率很低，还助长了AMR。"
    ],
    [
        "Seldom do democratic elections give as clear a message as that in Greece.",
        "民主选举很少能像希腊的例子那样给出如此明确的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "Lo and behold, for the first time in a generation, deaths from malaria in Africa began to fall (steeply in some places).",
        "令人惊叹地，在这一代人的时间中，非洲的疟疾死亡人数首次出现了下降（尤其是在某些地区）。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush’s America has forfeited that influence– in the Middle East, in Asia and Africa, and in much of Europe.",
        "布什治下的美国丧失了这样的影响力——在中东、亚洲和非洲，以及欧洲的大部分地区。"
    ],
    [
        "This strain further reduces the risk of having US troops stationed on the Korean side of China’s border.",
        "这就进一步降低了美军驻扎在中朝边境朝鲜一侧的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the market can establish the necessary interest differential only if interest rates on yuan assets fall below their dollar equivalents.",
        "因此，只有人民币资产的利率低于其美元等价物时，市场才能够建立必要的息差（interest differential）。"
    ],
    [
        "“We must not play into their hands,” he intoned gravely.",
        "“我们决不能中敌人的计。 ”严肃地说。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, it seems, underestimated Russia's determination to uphold what it considers a core interest in Ukraine.",
        "现在看来，欧洲似乎对俄罗斯在乌克兰捍卫所谓核心利益的决心估计不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Although CAFTA represents an important opportunity in the region's quest to expand its access to the US market, it is unclear whether the new rules will strengthen or weaken Central American producers.",
        "虽然CAFTA代表着该地区寻求扩大美国市场准入的过程中的一个重要机会，但新规则究竟是会加强还是会削弱中美洲生产者的实力现在还是个未知数。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite promises to the contrary, this is far from a level playing field.",
        "虽然竞选承诺公平，但事实却并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, given their decades of experience with the management and mismanagement of capital flows, emerging-market policymakers have been watching the IMF’s “rethink” on these issues very closely.",
        "毫不奇怪，新兴市场决策者在其几十年来管理资本流的经验和教训中一直在近距离目睹IMF对这些问题的“反思”。"
    ],
    [
        "They now stand again at a crossroads, and whether they will be able to transcend their tragic heritage depends on them.",
        "现在他们再一次站到了十字路口，而他们是否能超越他们的悲剧遗产完全取决于他们自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Even before the crisis, it was clear that citizens and governments alike regarded (wrongly) the euro as a mere practicality.",
        "即便在危机前，显然公民和政府都（错误地）认为欧元只不过是一种便利。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this approach seldom works.",
        "不幸的是，这一政策总是适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic theory does not say that everyone will win from globalization, but only that the net gains will be positive, and that the winners can therefore compensate the losers and still come out ahead.",
        "经济学理论并不认为每个人都可以从全球化中受益，而只是说总体收益将会是肯定的，而且获益者因此可以补偿失败者而又出人头地。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is Myanmar.",
        "还有缅甸。"
    ],
    [
        "In this respect, Europe is not much better, although its current restrictive immigration policies will likely be eased over the next decade or so.",
        "欧洲在这方面也没好到哪去，但它现行的限制移民政策有望在今后10年得到改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite this reform push, some British Euroskeptics have criticized Cameron for being too soft.",
        "尽管力推上述改革，但英国某些欧盟怀疑论者仍然批评卡梅伦太过软弱。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is essential that the EU, which finances and maintains Palestine’s provisional institutions, not relent in its determination to make them permanent.",
        "但至关重要的是为巴勒斯坦临时机构提供资金和支持的欧盟让其永久化的决心不动摇。"
    ],
    [
        "In the twentieth century, Perón and Vargas, plus Alan García in Perú (at least during his first term), Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Salvador Allende in Chile, and many others, engaged in trade protectionism, ran large budget deficits, overheated their economies, allowed inflation to rise, and eventually suffered currency crises.",
        "20世纪，庇隆和瓦加斯，再加上秘鲁的阿兰·加西亚（至少在他的首个任期）、尼加拉瓜的丹尼尔·奥尔特加以及智利的萨尔瓦多·阿连德，还有其他很多人都奉行贸易保护主义，从而催生大量预算赤字，导致经济过热，容忍通胀上升并最终引发了目前的货币危机。"
    ],
    [
        "“Giving confidence” to this sort of customer requires the capacity to provide quick, automatic, meaningful, and front-loaded financial support; otherwise, accumulating reserves and pooling them in regional agreements will still look like a more reliable option.",
        "“给予信心”给这种国家需要提供迅速、自动、有价值的以及前载型（front-loaded）的金融援助的能力； 否则，积累储备资金并用区域协议加以汇集仍然看起来像是一个更可靠的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is an increase in the cost of capital to firms, which lowers investment and exacerbates the crisis.",
        "结果就是注入公司的资本费用也会增加，这会降低投资，并使危机恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "The Internet now connects nearly half the world’s population, and another billion people – as well as some 20 billion devices – are forecast to be connected in the next five years.",
        "互联网现在联接全球近半数人口，据估计今后5年将另有10亿人——以及约200亿台设备——加入连接。"
    ],
    [
        "Events are showing that to be so.",
        "一些列事件正在表明，这确实是个迷思。"
    ],
    [
        "That is certainly true, for the time being, of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.",
        "眼下，从以色列-巴勒斯坦争端看，这显然是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Differentiation should not mean division, but rather progress at variable speeds.",
        "观点不同并不意味着分裂，而是以不同的速度向前迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese regard Japan’s seizure of Taiwan in 1895 and the ensuing 50-year occupation as one of the most humiliating events in the country’s modern history.",
        "1895年日本占领台湾，继而在那里进行了50年统治，中国人将此看作是该国现代历史中最为羞辱的事件之一。"
    ],
    [
        "But Tudor didn't stop with prolix apologies.",
        "但都铎并不仅仅满足于冗长的道歉。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, a loss of computer records would make the euro equally suspect.",
        "毕竟，丢失计算机记录也会让欧元也一样可疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Any future commitments are conditional on keeping a majority of the committee in line.",
        "任何未来承诺都必须以获得委员会多数同意为前提。"
    ],
    [
        "Go to his Web site, click on “The Issues” and then on “Poverty.”",
        "到他的网站上，点击“议题”，然后再点击“贫困”。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to note that the Holocaust does not give Israel immunity from criticism, nor can every attack on Israel’s policies be dismissed as anti-Semitism.",
        "很重要的一点是认识到大屠杀并不意味着以色列不可批评，也不意味着一切对以色列政策的抨击都可以归为反犹主义。"
    ],
    [
        "We talk about leaders being more energetic, more risk-taking, more optimistic, more persuasive, and more empathetic than other people.",
        "我们讨论领导人比其他人精力更充沛，更敢于冒险，更乐观，更善于说服人以及更能移情。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the multiplier effect can even be negative during economic expansions when central banks maintain zero-interest rates and households expect taxes to rise when interest rates do.",
        "事实上在央行维持零利率且人们预期税率和利率将同步上升的经济扩张期间，这一乘数效应甚至可能是负的。"
    ],
    [
        "Demand reduction aims to weaken the market for the product by changing consumer tastes.",
        "消费削减活动的目标是通过改变消费者的口味来削弱产品市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The Court’s president, Jean-Paul Costa, expressed a similar view, without questioning the legitimacy of the decision, although Judge Cabral Barreto wrote a dissenting opinion.",
        "虽然法官巴罗托提出了书面异议，法庭庭长科斯塔在未置疑其决定的合法性的情况下也表明了类似的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, Trump’s presidency will not benefit the dollar, because it won’t benefit the US economy.",
        "随着时间的推移，特朗普总统任期将不利于美元，因为他不利于美国经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon enough, the US drones arrive to exacerbate the underlying instability.",
        "很快，美国无人机就将到来，加剧动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Commitments to resolve the future of the Maoist combatants, along with what the peace agreements call the “democratization” of the state army, must now be implemented.",
        "承诺解决毛主义武装人员的前途问题，以及和平协议声称的国家军队的“民主化”，尼泊尔现在都必须加以实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Improving Governance in the Arab World",
        "阿拉伯世界治理改善"
    ],
    [
        "After all, human knowledge is increasing.",
        "毕竟，人类知识在进步。"
    ],
    [
        "As for why buyers pay these outlandish sums, my guess is that they think that owning original works by well-known artists will enhance their own status.",
        "至于买家为何要花这么多钱，我的猜测是他们认为拥有著名艺术家的原创作品能够提高他们自身的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Precautionary Absurdity",
        "盲目预防的谬论"
    ],
    [
        "That, too, is “productive” – until these overworked people quit or burn out.",
        "这也是“多产的”——直到这些工作过度的人们辞职或者工作能力枯竭。"
    ],
    [
        "But this will only make mass protests inevitable, ultimately jeopardizing the democratic transition in Georgia that Saakashvili claims to represent.",
        "但这样的努力只会导致公众抗议不可避免，最终致使萨卡什维利声称代表的格鲁吉亚民主转型陷入危险之中。"
    ],
    [
        "The West could (and should) have known better: Ever since his first term in office as Russian president, Putin’s strategic objective has been to rebuild Russia’s status as a global power.",
        "西方本可以（也应该）更好地知道，自第一次任俄罗斯总统以来，普京的战略目标就一直是重塑俄罗斯全球霸权的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifty years later, this is the lesson for us of the Schuman’s declaration.",
        "这是舒曼宣言发表五十年后给我们的一个启示。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s constructive engagement with the EU creates a sense of trust in the West – among Western leaders at least, if not yet the general population -- for its regional initiatives.",
        "土耳其与欧盟的建设性接触带来了西方—如果说争取西方广大民众还有待时日，那么至少在西方领导人之中—对其区域性努力的信任感。"
    ],
    [
        "These revenues could be used to manage the overall fiscal burden of climate action, as well as to finance cuts in taxes on labor and capital that distort economic activity and harm growth, or to reduce deficits where needed.",
        "这笔收入可以用于管理气候行动的总体财政负担，也可以用来降低扭曲经济活动和妨碍增长的劳动和资本税或者用于在需要的时候降低赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "These fundamental rights are part and parcel of democratic government.",
        "这些根本的权力是民主政府的细胞。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, too, Europe has led the way, providing more assistance to developing countries than anyone else (and at a markedly higher fraction of its GDP than the US).",
        "欧洲在这一点上也是领先的，它比其他地方给发展中国家提供更多的援助(其援助占GDP的份额远远高于美国)。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way to thrive is to keep pace with this transformation.",
        "唯一的繁荣之道是跟上转型的步伐。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most interesting example is Rupert Murdoch – the son of an Australian news baron – who recently split his family-controlled News Corporation, into the TV and film company 21st Century Fox and the less profitable new News Corp, which retains the news and publishing operations.",
        "最耐人寻味的例子也许是澳大利亚新闻巨头的儿子鲁珀特·默多克，默多克不久前将其家族控制的新闻集团一分为二，形成了21世纪福克斯电视电影公司和保留新闻出版业务的利润不那么丰厚的新闻集团两块业务。"
    ],
    [
        "The cumulative effect of previous decades of emissions means that there will be no chance for a last-minute solution.",
        "前几十年排放的累积效应意味着最后一分钟才开始行动将追悔莫及。"
    ],
    [
        "He sought to expose the bankruptcy of ascendant ideological nostrums: laissez-faire, spontaneous order, collective cooperation, central planning.",
        "他尝试暴露如日中天的思想的必然失败性：自由放任、自发秩序、集体合作、中央计划等。"
    ],
    [
        "A critic who made the same claim that economics allows only one theoretical approach would be dismissed as paranoid, whereas Rodrik’s standing creates an opportunity for a debate that would not otherwise be possible.",
        "提出发展只有一种理论方法的经济学家会被当作偏执狂一样不屑一顾，而罗德里克的立场却创造了讨论的机会，如果没有他的贡献，这种机会本来是不可能存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Bernie Sanders would prefer to break up the banks.",
        "伯尼·桑德斯则倾向于分拆银行。"
    ],
    [
        "By its blatant rebellion against German-dictated austerity, and by making Greek withdrawal from the euro a credible possibility, Syriza is bringing closer than ever the euro’s chaotic collapse in Europe’s periphery, if not beyond.",
        "激进左翼联盟公然反对德国一言堂紧缩政策，并让希腊退出欧元区成为可信的威胁，从而将欧元在欧洲外围推向了前所未有的混乱崩溃边缘（如果说还不至于越界的话）。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s exciting news to retailers looking for new markets.",
        "这对零售商来说应该是一个好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, with or without children, the French citizen’s annual tax payment would be smaller than that of the Italian taxpayer with no additional wealth.",
        "换言之，无论有没有子女，法国公民的年纳税额均小于拥有同等财产的意大利纳税人。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the potent Pakistani and Indian nuclear arsenals, the war could be very short indeed.",
        "考虑到印巴双方的核武器库，这场战争将非常漫长。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, Suu Kyi has circumvented this booby trap with the verbal evasiveness that one would expect of an ordinary politician, rather than someone of her courage and standing.",
        "目前，昂山素季用闪烁其词躲避这个陷阱，这是平常政客惯用的手段，不符合她的勇气和立场。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the neocon quest for US hegemony through regime change is not only bloody-minded arrogance; it is classic imperial overreach.",
        "首先，新保守主义要求通过颠覆政权实现美国霸权不但是血腥思维的无知； 更是经典的帝国主义不自量力。"
    ],
    [
        "Behind its exalted name lay an innovation of great diplomatic significance: the introduction of an element of calculated moral restraint into international relations.",
        "在其崇高的名分之后是一个具有巨大外交意义的创新，也就是把经过算计的道德限制因素引入国际政治之中。"
    ],
    [
        "But what would an appreciation of the renminbi do to China’s inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI)?",
        "但人民币升值会给中国对内对外直接投资带来些什么？"
    ],
    [
        "The term “cyber war” is used very loosely for a wide range of behaviors, ranging from simple probes, website defacement, and denial of service to espionage and destruction.",
        "“网络战”一词的使用非常随意，可以适用于从简单探查、网站涂改、服务切断到间谍及破坏等各式行为。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, despite the significant increases in asset values traceable to QE over the past several years – residential property as well as financial assets – there has been little to show for it in terms of a wealth-generated recovery in the US economy.",
        "然而，尽管量化宽松政策在过去几年间令资产价值显着增加——包括住宅以及金融资产——但几乎没有什么证据显示财富增长推动了美国经济的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "When the recession hit, unemployment rates for workers at all education levels jumped, and they have yet to fall back to pre-recession levels.",
        "当衰退来袭时，所有教育水平工人的失业率都出现了剧增，并且至今没有降回衰退前水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The ratio, which the PBOC has changed 42 times since 1998, currently stands at 20% – double the ratio for large banks in the United States.",
        "在人民银行自1998年以来修改了42次之后，该比率目前维持在20%——比美国大型银行高一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, arms exports to third countries remain a contentious issue within the EU.",
        "于是对第三国的武器出口问题就一直困扰着欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Mission: Save the Environment",
        "任务：拯救环境"
    ],
    [
        "While governments issue orders to cut off Internet access, only telecommunications companies have the ability to hit the “kill switch.”",
        "政府固然可以下令断网，但只有通讯公司有能力按下“死亡开关”。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite the gray and chill of March in Central Europe, Berlin exudes confidence.",
        "虽然早春三月的中欧阴沉而寒冷，但柏林仍然散发出自信的气息。"
    ],
    [
        "But whereas Europe supports a kind of “offensive multilateralism” that seeks to beef up existing institutions’ rules and enforcement mechanisms, China resists changes to existing standards, especially if they strengthen enforcement of rules that might constrain its ability to maximize its own advantages.",
        "虽然欧洲支持一种旨在加强现有机构规则和执法机制的“进攻性多边主义”，但中国却拒绝改变现有标准，尤其如果这种改变有可能强化执行限制发挥其自身能力优势的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "But how will China wield its increasing economic power?",
        "但中国将如何发挥其日益增长的经济实力？"
    ],
    [
        "Again, it is ironic that this is now occurring in a part of the country where government and collective action are so frequently rebuked.",
        "讽刺之处又发生了：这样的事情，发生在这个国家中政府和集体行动受到的诘难最多的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "First, as with all systems that preceded it, it puts the burden of adjustment on deficit countries, not on surplus countries.",
        "首先，与之前所有的制度一样，美元本位制度是让国际收支逆差的国家承担调节收支平衡的责任，而不是让国际收支顺差的国家承担这个责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest stumbling block is immigration, which motivated so many Leave voters.",
        "最大的绊脚石是移民问题，正是移民问题促使那么多英国民众投票脱欧。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, those who use cosmetics known to be expensive often seem healthier, more vibrant, and more attractive than those who do not.",
        "比方说，选用人所共知的昂贵化妆品的人往往看起来更健康、更有活力，比那些不用的人吸引力更强。"
    ],
    [
        "Papandreou’s move also exposes the fatal flaw of grand plans for a political or fiscal union to support the euro: the “people,” not governments, remain the real sovereign.",
        "帕潘德里欧的举动还暴露了以政治或财政联盟支持欧元的宏伟计划的致命弱点：“人民”，而不是政府，才是真正的主导者。"
    ],
    [
        "The most likely is that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Indian National Congress, currently leading the government, emerges once again as the largest single party and assembles a new ruling coalition.",
        "最有可能出现的结果是印度现任总理辛格领导的印度国大党再次当选，组成新的执政联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Evidence of this surfaced when Frank Luntz, a leading Republican political consultant, sent a strategy memo to his clients in 2002.",
        "当Frank Luntz，一位著名的共和党政治顾问在2002年将一份战略备忘录交给他的客户时，这种攻势的证据就浮出水面了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Syrian opposition, a crucible of widely different groups and currents – including Al Qaeda – will most likely become even more radical following Morsi’s ouster.",
        "叙利亚反对派是由众多大相径庭的集团和势力组成的乌合之众，基地组织也在其中。 穆尔西下台后，他们极有可能变得更加极端。"
    ],
    [
        "The saddest thing about the global warming debate is that nearly all of the key protagonists – politicians, campaigners, and pundits – already know that the old-style agreement that is on the table for Copenhagen this December will have a negligible effect on temperatures.",
        "全球变暖争论最不可救药的问题是几乎所有的主要倡导人物——政治家、竞选者和学者权威——都已经知道今年12月哥本哈根谈判桌上的旧式协议对温度可以产生忽略不计的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "In the developing world, too, parties with well-established pedigrees, such as the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa, are now widely regarded as corrupt.",
        "发展中世界也是如此，历史悠久的老牌政党如南非的非洲国大党（ANC）被广泛认为腐败不堪。"
    ],
    [
        "But things turned around a year later: GDP growth soared to 11.3%, and government-led reforms made progress toward addressing structural weaknesses, including an under-supervised financial system and an over-leveraged corporate sector.",
        "但情况在一年后开始好转：GDP大幅上扬11. 3%，政府领导的改革在解决结构性弱点方面效果显著，包括监督不力的金融体系和过度举债的公司部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the central government’s well-known inability to enforce its policies at the local level and the prevalence of tight-knit patronage networks in Chinese provinces and cities, it is unrealistic to expect that the current anti-corruption drive will produce significantly better results than in the past.",
        "众所周知，中国中央政府无力在地方层面强行推行政策，而中国各省市之间普遍存在紧密的互助互惠关系，因此期待当前的反腐运动产生比过去好得多的效果是不现实的。"
    ],
    [
        "Politically and economically, it came with the best intentions. The single-market principle was supposed to promote the efficient allocation of capital and labor.",
        "虽然在政治上和经济上它本来都怀着良好的意愿，并且单一市场的原则也都是为了促进资本和劳动力的有效分配。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel, in this scenario, would benefit from gaining an interlocutor that is an orderly state with a tradition of – and interest in – negotiation and compliance with agreements.",
        "在这一情形中，以色列的好处是有了一个作为有序国家、具备谈判和遵守协定传统——以及利益——的谈判方。"
    ],
    [
        "Don’t Lend to Your Euro Friends",
        "不要借钱给你的欧元朋友"
    ],
    [
        "But nowadays, such writers are hard to find, and their work is received by readers with mockery and sarcasm.",
        "但现在，很难看再看到这类写手的身影，他们的作品只会受到读者的讥笑与嘲讽。"
    ],
    [
        "And why, then, is sustaining close ties to the US so desirable, while refusing to dismiss Russia as a partner is regarded as being an agent of the Kremlin?",
        "为什么与美国保持密切关系就那么令人期待，而拒绝排斥与俄国的合作就成了克里姆林的代言人？"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this is true only so long as the nominal interest rate is not too negative; otherwise, switching to cash – despite the storage and safety costs – starts to make more sense.",
        "当然，只有在名义利率不至于负得太离谱时这一点才成立； 否者的话，持有现金——尽管会带来储存和安全成本——就会更有意义。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, all Western countries combined took a half-century to build a total of 6,500 kilometers.",
        "与此形成对照的是，西方国家花了半个世纪的时间才建造了6500公里高铁线路。"
    ],
    [
        "Adolescents sent to sea by the Marine Society to be officer’s servants were half a foot (15 centimeters) shorter than the sons of the gentry.",
        "被皇家海洋协会（Marine Society）派去船上为官员服务的青少年要比上流人士的孩子矮15厘米。"
    ],
    [
        "The fickleness of capital markets poses once again the paradox of thrift.",
        "资本市场的易变性再次造成了节俭悖论。"
    ],
    [
        "If freedom of movement within Europe is to be maintained – and if high inflows of non-EU citizens continue – European welfare states face a stark choice: adjust or collapse.",
        "要想保持欧洲内部的自由迁徙——以及保持大量非欧盟公民流入——欧洲福利国家将面临艰难的选择：调整还是崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "None of the Guantánamo inmates has been granted these rights.",
        "”而却没有一个关塔纳摩的囚犯被给予了这样的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "In the earlier rounds of European integration, from the 1950’s to the 1980’s, the big states received very obvious gains, which their politicians could easily present as such to voters.",
        "从1950年代到1980年代所进行的早期欧洲一体化使大国获得了显著得可以让政治家们轻易展现给选民看的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, by embedding Turkey within the European family, such measures would counter the country's dangerous drift away from our common European values.",
        "最重要的是，这些措施有望将土耳其纳入欧洲大家庭，从而阻止它朝远离我们的共同欧洲价值的方向越滑越远。"
    ],
    [
        "Brilliant Blunders",
        "杰出的错误"
    ],
    [
        "No strategy to undermine holdouts can also mean no restructuring at all, which could mean chaos or even a failed state.",
        "没有对付抵制重组者的策略也就意味着不可能重组，这可能带来混乱，甚至威胁到政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The great unanswered question is how long Putin will be able to rely on nationalist kitsch to overwhelm Russians’ rational calculation of their interests.",
        "唯一待解的问题是普京能在多长时间内依靠庸俗的民族主义来压制俄罗斯人理性的利益算计。"
    ],
    [
        "Nature’s water-replenishment capacity is fixed, limiting the world’s usable freshwater resources to about 200,000 cubic kilometers.",
        "大自然的水补充能力是固定的，世界可用淡水资源总量只有200 000立方千米。"
    ],
    [
        "Quite a few are members of political parties with a profoundly anti-Semitic provenance, such as Austria’s Freedom Party, whose early members included former Nazis.",
        "他们中不乏有着深刻反犹传统的政党的党员，如奥地利自由党（Freedom Party，早期党员中包括不少前纳粹分子）。"
    ],
    [
        "Global scientific processes like the IPCC are critical, because they offer our best hope of forging a consensus based on the scientific evidence.",
        "如IPCC这样的全球科学程序是至关重要的，因为它们在最大程度上给了我们期望，那就是在科学证据的基础上铸造共识。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the World Bank has shown that a 10% increase in broadband penetration increased GDP growth by 1.4% in low- to medium-income countries.",
        "类似地，世界银行指出，宽带渗透率提高10%可以让中低收入国家GDP增长提高1. 4%。"
    ],
    [
        "Disturbing signals for the world economy have also come from recent surveys of economic activity.",
        "对世界经济的扰动信号也来自最近对经济活动的调查。"
    ],
    [
        "Although it is clear that a return to the old Soviet Union is not possible, some blame Russian influence for the disillusion in Ukraine.",
        "回到苏联时代是不可能的，尽管这一点很清楚，但是，有些人把乌克兰民众的理想破灭归咎于俄国的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But genetic testing alone is unlikely to be an accurate predictor, because around half of Alzheimer’s sufferers do not carry ε4, and probably half of those with ε4 do not develop the disease.",
        "但光靠基因测试无法作为准确的指标，因为大约一半的阿尔茨海默症患者不携带ε4，并且可能有一半的ε4携带者不会发生阿尔茨海默症。"
    ],
    [
        "It is based on culture, political ideals, and policies.",
        "它是一种基于文化、政治理想和政策的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The financial crisis that started in 2007 shrunk the world economy by 6% in two years, doubling unemployment.",
        "伦敦——始于2007年的金融危机在2年时间里让世界经济收缩了6%，让失业人数翻了一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Afghan policy also has its pitfalls.",
        "而中国的阿富汗政策也存在缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "NASA itself is a typical large organization. Most of its people would welcome a more entrepreneurial environment, but they have been beaten down by years of criticism, constraints, regulations, and arbitrary budget cuts.",
        "作为一个典型大型组织的NASA来说，当中绝大多数人都会喜欢一个更具有创业精神的环境，但他们已经被数年以来的批评，规定，管制和武断的预算削减压得抬不起头来。"
    ],
    [
        "One case concerns 18 Roma children from the northeastern city of Ostrava in the Czech Republic who were placed in “special” schools for those deemed mentally deficient, where they receive a markedly inferior education.",
        "案件之一涉及到捷克共和国东北部城市俄斯特拉发的18名罗马族儿童，他们被指派到接收智障儿童的一所“特种”学校，在那里接受明显低劣的教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Though LGFVs carry some intrinsic risks, stemming from relatively low levels of transparency and government supervision, they have been integral to China’s industrialization process so far.",
        "尽管地方政府融资平台由于透明度低和政府监管不力而具有一些内在风险，但到目前为止，它们已经融入了中国现代化进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure to increase the price of carbon would result either in higher public debt or, in the case of monetization, inflation.",
        "不能提高碳定价要么导致公共债务负担增加，要么导致通货膨胀（如果货币化的话）。"
    ],
    [
        "If they do, the doors to prosperity will open.",
        "这样做就能打开繁荣之门。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the credibility associated with pursuing only an inflation target builds on itself.",
        "相反，与仅追求通胀目标有关的信誉可以自动产生。"
    ],
    [
        "To attract it, the government must improve transparency, simplify rules and regulations, introduce performance bonds (to guarantee the completion of projects), and abolish the cap on return on investment.",
        "要吸引外部资本，政府必须改进透明度、简化规则和监管，引入履约保证（保证项目的完成），并取消投资回报限制。"
    ],
    [
        "But seldom will it be the case that the best response is simply to walk away.",
        "但是，视而不见很少就是最佳的对应之策。"
    ],
    [
        "In exchange for financing and building the infrastructure that poorer countries need, China demands favorable access to their natural assets, from mineral resources to ports.",
        "中国为穷国提供基础设施融资和建设，作为交换，中国要求优先获得它们的自然资产，如矿产和港口等。"
    ],
    [
        "IDF officials argue that some level of human rights violation is inevitable during occupation, and that the IDF’s record is not much worse than any other occupation army.",
        "有国防军军官辩称在占领过程中发生的某些人权侵害是不可避免的，而且他们的人权纪录也不比其他占领军更差。"
    ],
    [
        "On May 22, the Senate avoided it, by narrowly defeating – 51 to 48 – a proposed “currency manipulation” amendment to a bill that gives Obama so-called “fast-track” authority to negotiate the TPP.",
        "5月22日，参议院以微弱多数——51比48——避免了这一障碍成为现实——在授予奥巴马所谓的“快车道”TPP谈判权的立法中不加入“货币操纵”修正条款。"
    ],
    [
        "If it chooses to discard the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement negotiated by the Obama administration with 12 Asia-Pacific economies, those countries, perhaps led by Japan or Australia, must be ready to carry on the deal, or something like it, among themselves.",
        "如果他选择放弃由奥巴马内阁与亚太12经济体谈成的跨太平洋伙伴关系（TPP）协议，那么这些国家，或许在日本或澳大利亚的领导下，必须准备在它们之间落实TPP协议，或与TPP协议相似的替代物。"
    ],
    [
        "Bulgaria, Romania, and possibly Croatia are supposed to join in 2007.",
        "保加利亚、罗马尼亚，还可能有克罗地亚原定于2007年加入欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "In Tocqueville’s imagination, at least, the old order’s subjects had been eager to protect their particular liberties and jealous of their spheres of independence.",
        "至少在托克维尔的想象中，旧秩序的国民狂热地保护非同寻常的自由，唯恐失去独立性。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that repeatedly ignore recommendations for reducing excessive deficits, and those that manipulate official statistics, should have their EU funds frozen and their voting rights suspended.",
        "那些一再无视削减过量赤字建议或是捏造官方统计的政府，他们的欧盟基金都将被冻结，同时还将剥夺他们的投票权。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the worst abuses have surfaced in Texas, America's death penalty capital and home to more prisoners than Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands combined.",
        "一些最为严重的虐待行为在德克萨斯被曝光。 这里是美国的死刑之都，关押的犯人总数超过了德国、法国、比利时和荷兰犯人总和。"
    ],
    [
        "Very often, the news cycle is driven by assumptions about what viewers or readers might like, rather than what they actually want.",
        "通常发生的情况是，新闻圈根据先入为主地认定观众和读者喜欢什么，而不是根据他们实际喜欢什么来采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "This “predetermined equilibrium” thinking – reflected in the view that markets always self-correct – led to policy paralysis until the Great Depression, when John Maynard Keynes’s argument for government intervention to address unemployment and output gaps gained traction.",
        "这一“预先设定的均衡”理念——认为市场总能自我纠正——导致了政策瘫痪，直到大萧条来袭，而约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯（John Maynard Keynes）则因此提出政府应当出手干涉失业问题，而产出与消费之间的差距问题也得到了重视。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in South Africa it can take up to five years for new medicines to reach the market, owing to that country’s drug-registration and labeling regulations.",
        "举例来讲，由于南非的药品注册和标签规定，可能导致新药需要花费长达五年时间才能进入该国市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, new capital ratios with multiple and decreasing capital thresholds, which trigger increasingly intrusive corrective action, should serve as the basis for a new system of mandated supervisory action.",
        "其次，新资本比率要求应设置多个递减的资本阈值，各阈值触发递增的严厉纠正动作，以此作为新的指令性监督行动系统。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, regions or communities have achieved statehood almost exclusively after a struggle against colonial subjection and oppression, galvanized by an appeal to a distinctive religious, cultural, or ethnic identity.",
        "在过去，地区或社会建国成功几乎清一色是依靠反殖民统治和压迫的斗争，推动力量往往是独特的宗教、文化或种族身份诉求。"
    ],
    [
        "These do generate growth – and indeed are ultimately indispensable to it.",
        "这些确实会带来经济增长，并且实际上是增长不可或缺的要素。"
    ],
    [
        "Radical losers are mostly young men who are so enraged by their own lack of social, economic, and sexual self-esteem and the indifference of the world around them, that they long for a suicidal act of mass destruction.",
        "所谓激进失败者就是那些在社会，经济和性方面缺乏自信且对周围世界的冷漠恼怒不已的年轻人，这些人长期幻想着制造一场破坏巨大的自杀式行为。"
    ],
    [
        "But political tactics also play a role.",
        "但是政治技巧也能够发挥一定的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, the ECB’s marginal lending facility is an indirect means of monetizing sovereign debt.",
        "从更广的角度看，欧洲央行的边际贷款便利在间接将主权债务货币化。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the war broke out in 431 BC, the balance of power had begun to stabilize.",
        "在公元前431年战争爆发前，力量平衡已经开始趋于稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, France should be one of the leaders of that effort, adding its voice and centrality as a country halfway between Europe’s north and south and acting as a model for many other countries on social issues.",
        "相反，法国应该是这一方向的领导者之一，作为位于北欧和南欧之间的国家发出声音，增加欧洲政治统一的确定性，并未其他多个国家树立社会问题的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Some would go further and either nationalize the banks or break them up.",
        "有些人会进一步将这些商业银行国有化或解散这些银行。"
    ],
    [
        "And the rebound is not over, with business investment finally picking up after a decade of slack, thereby laying a foundation for faster growth and higher productivity gains in the future.",
        "而且这波反弹还未结束，企业投资在经历了十年的萧条之后终于回暖，为未来更快的增长和更高的生产效率提升奠定了基础。"
    ],
    [
        "As renewable energy becomes increasingly cost-competitive with fossil fuels and energy consumption becomes more efficient, China will become better able to reduce emissions without undermining economic growth.",
        "随着可再生能源相对于化石燃料的成本竞争力的增加以及能源消费效率的提高，中国将能够更好地降低排放而不破坏经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "All of that was grammar-school stuff compared to efforts to decipher the regime in North Korea, where the truth is far more opaque.",
        "所有这些与解密朝鲜政权比起来都是小儿科。 朝鲜政坛的真相远比苏联更加波诡云谲。"
    ],
    [
        "These financial networks provided the information that enabled the British government to discover the sensitive strategic vulnerabilities of the opposing alliance.",
        "上述金融网络提供的信息使英国政府能够发现敌对联盟战略上敏感的薄弱环节。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout Iran’s long history, Shiite seminaries exercised great influence on Iranian society and politics, but they had been considered civil institutions.",
        "在伊朗历史上，虽然什叶派神学院对伊朗社会和政治有着巨大的影响，但它们仍然属于民间组织。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, a French taxpayer with the same income pays only €9,000; with two children, the tax bill plummets to €3,000, and a €1.5 million fortune would mean an additional wealth tax of only €4,230.",
        "相比之下，法国一名同等收入的纳税人仅需缴纳9,000欧元所得税； 有两个孩子的纳税人税额则骤降至3,000欧元，也就是说在法国拥有150万欧元财产仅需额外缴纳4,230欧元的财产税。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month alone, 13 boats and 26 bodies (most already largely decomposed) were found.",
        "仅上月一个月就发现了13艘这样的小船和26具尸体（其中多数都已大体腐烂）。"
    ],
    [
        "Tighter credit rationing will then further hamper the ability of households and firms to borrow, spend, invest, and sustain economic growth.",
        "更严厉的信用评级将进一步阻碍家庭和公司进行借贷、消费、投资和持续经济增长的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia may have caught up with the West; Latin America may be on track to do so; and Africa may be slowly positioning itself to grow.",
        "也许亚洲已赶上了西方； 拉丁美洲可能正在努力；"
    ],
    [
        "These trends look set to continue.",
        "这些趋势肯定将会延续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "That path, as we have seen, leads only to chaos, from which no country benefits.",
        "这条路，正如我们所当前见，只会造成混乱而无人得益。"
    ],
    [
        "Not long ago, Europe was the world leader in openness.",
        "不久前，欧洲还是世界开放的领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "What is needed is broad and effective oversight of public procurement, fuller transparency regarding budgets and routines, and substantially upgraded, multi-agency monitoring of national borders to dismantle illicit networks involving the security sector.",
        "而如今需要的则是针对公共采购广泛而有效监督，提高预算和日常运作的透明度，以及对国家边界地区的大幅度监控系统升级以及多部门监控，以最终拔除涉及安全部门的非法行动网络。"
    ],
    [
        "The explanation at that time was usually found in the predictable timing of the international payments mechanism.",
        "当时的解释通常可以从国际支付机制的时间可预测性中寻找。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s problem is not its so-called “constitutional crisis,” but rather its lack of a recognizable political identity.",
        "欧盟的问题不是所谓的“宪法危机”，而是缺少一种可识别的政治身份。"
    ],
    [
        "The BJP rode to power on a wave of expectations after a decade in opposition to the United Progressive Alliance government, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of the Congress party.",
        "印度人民党反对国大党总理辛格（Manmohan Singh）领导的联合进步联盟（United Progressive Alliance）政府达十年之久。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1957, when legal segregation seemed entrenched in the US, Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, used the occasion of his country’s independence from Britain to highlight the injustices experienced daily by black Americans.",
        "1957年，当种族隔离政策在美国法律中根深蒂固的时候，加纳的第一位总统克瓦米·恩克鲁玛利用本国从英国独立的机缘呼吁人们关注美国黑人每天都在经历的不平等现象。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – Go to see a movie in India nowadays, and despite the elaborate musical numbers and extravagant sets, you may well find the content pretty bland.",
        "新德里—现在你去看印度电影，尽管配乐精美，服饰华丽，但内容却空洞无物。"
    ],
    [
        "Their crime was to call for a constitutional monarchy.",
        "他们的罪行是提倡鼓动宪法君主体制。"
    ],
    [
        "In these cynical times, that is encouraging.",
        "在这个愤世嫉俗的时代，这一点令人鼓舞。"
    ],
    [
        "Some solutions, it is clear, do work very well.",
        "显而易见，某些解决方法很有效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Increases in standards of living, for example, are the result of technological innovation, which in turn depends on basic research.",
        "比如，生活水平的提高来自技术创新，而技术创新反过来又依靠基础研究。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece returned to primary surpluses (which exclude interest payments) in 2014, whereas the UK government consolidated much more gradually and has yet to return to surplus.",
        "希腊在2014年恢复初级盈余（不含利息支付），而英国政府的财政整合更加缓慢，至今仍没有恢复盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise of non-state actors also must be managed.",
        "国际社会也应该应对非国家势力的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "What happens in Iraq will show how an elected Islamist-type government wields power.",
        "发生在伊拉克的事件展现了一个选举产生的伊斯兰主义政府是如何掌握大权的。"
    ],
    [
        "This process will probably carry the cost of prolonging the emergence of a single European political loyalty (if one ever does emerge).",
        "但这个过程很可能会延长一个单一欧洲政治体的出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a major part of the socialist legacy in both countries is the cumulative effect of the state’s active role in technological development.",
        "而政府在科技发展中担任主要角色的累积效应则是这两国的另一个主要社会主义遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "The success of a place is very much related to its people’s ability to accomplish this transformation, as exemplified by places such as Singapore, Turkey, and Israel.",
        "就像新加坡、 土耳其和以色列等国所表明的那样，某个地域的成功与其民众实现转型的能力有着重要的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The world has yet to achieve the macroeconomic policy coordination that will be needed to restore economic growth following the Great Crash of 2008.",
        "纽约—2008年的大衰退之后，为了恢复经济增长，世界需要协调宏观经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of Iraq’s neighbors has its own interests, but none will benefit from chaotic violence there, which would increase Iran’s influence, encourage Kurdish separatism to the worry of Turkey, and support Sunni terrorist movements that could spill back into Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.",
        "伊拉克的各个邻国各有自己的私利，但是，没有一个国家会从伊拉克的混乱暴力中受益。 这将增强伊朗的影响力，鼓励让土耳其担忧的库尔德分裂主义，并且支持有可能渗入回到约旦、科威特、叙利亚以及沙特的逊尼派恐怖主义运动。"
    ],
    [
        "In the original plan for the European Central Bank, the proposed institution would have had overall supervisory and regulatory powers.",
        "在欧洲中央银行的原计划中，这个货币联盟机构原本应该有实施全面总体性监督和监管的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "My new book, The Most Good You Can Do, discusses the emerging new movement called Effective Altruism, and, in doing interviews about the book, I am surprised by how often that question is asked.",
        "我的新书《你能做的最大善事》（The Most Good You Can Do）讨论了被称为“有效利他主义”（Effective Altruism）的新出现的运动，在关于这本书的访谈中，我惊奇地发现这个问题是如此频繁地提及。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ghana, for example, poor and rural children are unlikely to reap the full benefits of their new access to secondary education.",
        "就算在加纳，贫穷和农村的孩子依然难以从新的中学教育政策中得益。"
    ],
    [
        "Fears of a Chinese devaluation that has not happened (and probably never will) are having the same chilling effect on credit in emerging markets.",
        "中国贬值（尚未发生，可能永远不会发生）的担忧正在新兴市场造成同样的信用影响。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require changes in corporate governance generally, and in non-financial corporations’ incentive structures, including preferential tax treatment for retained profits and equity finance, and special depreciation allowances for reinvested profits.",
        "这将需要对公司的总体治理以及非金融性公司的激励机制进行变革，包括对留存利润和股权融资的优惠税收待遇，以及利润再投资特别折旧免税额。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when communism collapsed in its Eurasian heartland, the West’s rich, believing that they had nothing more to fear, pressed to roll back the welfare state, causing inequality to rise rapidly.",
        "可随着共产主义在欧亚心脏地带的溃败，西方富裕阶层认为自己不再需要诚惶诚恐，他们施压终止福利国家政策，从而导致不平等现象迅速崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "Each country’s banking system is backed by its own government; if the government’s ability to support the banks erodes, so will confidence in the banks.",
        "每个国家的银行系统都有其政府做后盾，但如果政府支持银行的能力受到削弱，银行的信心也随之减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is overcoming state nationalism, while Russia is building a nation state.",
        "欧洲正在克服国家民族主义，而俄罗斯却在构建一个民族国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Conversely, the developed countries’ view of the diseases of the developing world is that only three are important: AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.",
        "但是在发达国家看来，发展中国家的疾病只有三种值得重视：艾滋病、肺结核和疟疾。"
    ],
    [
        "These strategies typically involve far more risk – and sophistication – than the activities of traditional commercial banks.",
        "这些战略通常涉及比传统的商业银行的风险和复杂程度大得多的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "An independent monetary policy requires a flexible exchange rate, not a revaluation.",
        "独立的货币政策要求灵活的汇率，而非重新估价。"
    ],
    [
        "But Erdoğan’s brutal response to the coup attempt – which may include show trials, in addition to the “cleansing” of public institutions of both remnants of the secularist establishment and his former allies in the Gülen movement – will only deepen the chasms within Turkish society.",
        "但埃尔多安对政变企图的残酷回应——其中可能包括公开审判以及对世俗主义制度及其前葛兰运动盟友残余公共机构的“清洗”行为——只会导致土耳其社会的分歧进一步深化。"
    ],
    [
        "The capacity for continuing this policy will soon be depleted, as the central-bank money flowing from the GIPS countries to the core countries of the eurozone increasingly crowds out the money created through refinancing operations there.",
        "这一政策持续实施的空间已经快要告罄了，因为从四猪国流向欧元区核心国的欧洲央行货币流正在挤出通过在四猪国进行的再融资操作所创造的货币。"
    ],
    [
        "For Bersani, creating a coalition with Monti may well be the key to gaining control of the upper house and, in turn, of the government.",
        "对贝尔萨尼而言，与蒙蒂结成联盟很可能是取得上议院控制权、并藉此控制政府的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the declaration merely reiterates America’s position that it supports India’s “full membership” in the four US-led technology-control regimes: the Wassenaar Arrangement, the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Missile Technology Control Regime, and the Australia Group.",
        "类似地，声明仅仅反复强调美国的立场——支持印度在美国领导的四大技术控制机制——瓦森纳协定（Wassenaar Arrangement）、核供应国集团（Nuclear Suppliers Group）、导弹技术控制制度（Missile Technology Control Regime）和澳大利亚集团（Australia Group）中的“完全成员”地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Shirk’s title still captures a significant phenomenon that bedevils diplomatic affairs. Outsiders are increasingly convinced that China is a superpower, and that it needs to show that it can be a responsible one.",
        "舍克的书名还包含着一个困扰着外交事务的重要现象：外国人日渐确信中国就是一个超级大国，并以此认为中国有必要负担起相应的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "In this case, too-big-to-fail financial institutions had perverse incentives: if they gambled and succeeded, they walked off with the profits; if they lost, the taxpayer would pay.",
        "这一回是，扭曲的激励鼓励一些“大到不能倒”的金融机构冒险赌博：如果它们侥幸赌赢了，大把利润就落入它们囊中； 如果赌输了，还可以等着纳税人来擦屁股。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because the outcome is unknowable, and depends on politics as much as on economics, let us leave that frightening prospect to one side and look instead at what we know about the underlying performance of the European Union economy.",
        "但是，由于结果不可知，且取决于政治不亚于取决于经济，因此我们姑且将耸人听闻的前景放一放，看看我们究竟对欧盟经济基本表现知道多少。"
    ],
    [
        "As European history since 1945 has demonstrated, shared economic interests can provide a solid foundation for building both regional security, and ushering in historic reconciliations.",
        "1945年以后的欧洲历史证明，共同的经济利益为实现区域安全和历史性和解奠定了的坚实基础。"
    ],
    [
        "And, perhaps most ominous, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of trying to “Ukrainize” the education system, in violation of the country’s constitution and international agreements.",
        "而也许最恶劣的是，俄罗斯外长拉夫罗夫（Russi Lavrov）指责乌克兰试图将教育体制“乌克兰化”，违反了该国宪法和国际协议。"
    ],
    [
        "France, by contrast, has a small current-account deficit.",
        "相反，法国却有着小规模经常账户赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "What the EU achieves through integrating markets – or even eliminating passport controls – underscores the benefits of its “delegated democracy.”",
        "而欧盟通过统一市场——甚至取消护照管制——所取得的成就也突出了这种“委托民主”的优点。"
    ],
    [
        "Related to this is a debate about whether Shanghai can become a first-tier international financial center (1-IFC) like London and New York.",
        "与此有关的一场争论是上海是否能够成为顶级国际金融中心（first-tier international financial center ，1-IFC），与伦敦和纽约相抗衡。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, while the application procedure allows for third parties to submit to the patent office their observations on the claimed invention’s patentability, it is unlikely to spur a genuine assessment of an application’s moral implications.",
        "因此，尽管申请程序允许第三方向专利局提交其对申请专利发明的观察结果，但不太可能真正引发评估某专利申请的道德含义。"
    ],
    [
        "Although an important trade partner, China’s growing power makes Japan nervous.",
        "虽然是日本重要的贸易伙伴，但中国日渐强大的力量令日本感到不安。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in order to encourage infrequent e-commerce users, innovators and investors are exploring ways to combine the evaluation databases of separate, even rival, platforms.",
        "事实上，为了鼓励那些低频电子商务用户，创新者和投资者正在探索方法对独立甚至竞争对手的数据平台进行整合。"
    ],
    [
        "Training animals to perform tricks often involves starvation and cruelty.",
        "而为了训练动物表演节目，他们又经常让动物吃不饱并虐待它们。"
    ],
    [
        "Who can forget Margaret Thatcher’s tears when her “friends” told her that her time was up?",
        "谁能忘记，当撒切尔夫人的“朋友们”告诉她气数已尽的时候她所流下的眼泪呢？"
    ],
    [
        "We are emerging from a period when companies, under pressure to meet shareholder expectations, favored profitability and growth, even if it meant taking undue risks and losing public confidence.",
        "我们曾遇到这样的情形，企业面对满足股东期望的压力，要支持盈利能力和增长，却面临承担过度风险和失去公众信心。"
    ],
    [
        "What comes next is anyone’s guess, but we can be certain that it won’t be the final destination.",
        "下一步会怎样还只能猜测，但可以肯定这不会是重终点。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, data related to issues that directly affect the wellbeing of people and the planet are essential for effective policymaking.",
        "显然，与直接影响人类福利和地球的问题相关的数据对有效决策来说至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The economics of what an Afghanistan at peace would look like must be a critical part of any negotiations.",
        "但一个和平的阿富汗在经济学上究竟是何种状态必须成为任何谈判的一个关键部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Now these heavily indebted households cannot borrow and spend any more.",
        "如今，这些负债累累的家庭不再能够通过借钱来应付开支了。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlocking human creativity and ingenuity is lifting millions out of poverty and helping improve national infrastructure.",
        "释放人类创造力及聪明才智正在帮助成百上千万人摆脱贫困，并协助改善国家的基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Look where we are, and in what position they are now.”",
        "’看看我们，在看看他们现在的状况。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But, as their efforts over the last several months have highlighted, they are uncertain as to how to go about fixing it – a fact that is generating significant anxiety in financial markets and among the general public.",
        "但正如他们在过去几个月的举动所体现的那样，他们并不知道如何下手去解决这些问题——这在金融市场和人民群众之中造成了极大的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "The two world wars led to such catastrophic carnage that \"never again\" was interpreted as \"welfare at home, non-intervention abroad.\"",
        "两次世界大战造成了灾难性的流血，以至于\"历史再也不能重演\"被演绎成了\"安享国内幸福，不管国际事务。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, receivers are paid unreasonably poorly in cases of limited assets; furthermore, the random, indiscriminate appointment of receivers sometimes leaves cases over- or understaffed.",
        "例如，在有限资产公司的案例中，破产受益人只获得了很不合理的少量补偿。 而且，随意地，不加选择地任命破产案产业管理人造成了有时组织臃肿，有时又人手不足的困境。"
    ],
    [
        "If the proximity talks are replaced with direct talks in which the US is not physically inside the negotiating room, there is no guarantee that the stronger partner will not try to bully the weaker one.",
        "但如果这种代理谈判变成了直接会谈，而美国方面又不能亲身参与谈判的话，那就无法保证强大的一方不会去威吓弱小的一方。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Mazowiecki government faced a nearly impossible task: building democratic political institutions while resuscitating the country’s torpid economy.",
        "但马佐维耶茨基政府面临着一项几乎不可能完成的任务：建立民主的政治制度，并重振国家毫无生气的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Tigo, for example, now serves more than 56 million customers in 14 countries in Latin America and Africa with products such as cross-border mobile payments and cashless services for sales agents.",
        "比如，Tigo公司目前为14个拉丁美洲和非洲国家的5,600万客户提供跨境移动支付和经销商无现金服务等产品。"
    ],
    [
        "While the rate of NPLs is, according to official data, lower than 2%, many economists estimate that it is actually more like 3-5%.",
        "据官方数据，不良贷款率不到2%，但许多经济学家估算实际可能高达3—5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Until the uprising in Tunisia, we thought that political change would be led either by Islamist forces or by a coup by a group of military officers – not by disorganized, youth-led masses.",
        "直至突尼斯起义之前，我们都认为伊斯兰势力或某场政变或某群军官，而不是由年轻人领导的缺乏组织的群众将左右中东的政治变局。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, low-carbon energy solutions are prohibitively expensive.",
        "当前，低炭能源解决方案极其昂贵。"
    ],
    [
        "UNCLOS – now generally accepted as customary international law even by countries that have not joined it, like the US – is the only acceptable framework for resolving these issues.",
        "即使美国等从未加入的国家现在也普遍将《联合国海洋法公约》视为习惯国际法，而且是解决上述问题唯一可以接受的框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet investment has been disappointing.",
        "但投资一直令人失望。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB should be empowered to buy any amount of Greek, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese government bonds needed to drive down their yield to near the German rate.",
        "欧洲央行应当被授权购买足够数额的希腊、意大利，西班牙和葡萄牙政府债券，最终使得这些债券的收益能与德国政府债券相近。"
    ],
    [
        "The new interpretation would allow Japan to use military force in support of an ally if Japanese security is under threat.",
        "重新解释后，日本将能够在日本人安全受到威胁时使用武力支持盟国。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a weakened democracy mired in an economic and social crisis so deep that it verges on becoming an identity crisis.",
        "法国是一个削弱了的民主国家，困于深刻的经济和社会危机，站在身份危机的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "Or in positive terms: Deal honestly and fairly!",
        "或者用肯定语气表达的： 诚实公正地交易！"
    ],
    [
        "But learning from experience is much trickier than it seems.",
        "但从经验中汲取教训比乍看上去棘手得多。"
    ],
    [
        "So far there is little sign that they do.",
        "但到目前为止似乎还很少有人明白这个道理。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic warfare, if implemented in full, would wreck Germany’s financial system and force it out of any military conflict.",
        "经济战计划全面实施将破坏德国的金融体系，迫使其退出任何军事冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "The third – and perhaps most important – reason why cross-border mergers might be the key to saving Europe’s banking sector is that they would signal to market participants and European citizens alike that political leaders are committed to European integration.",
        "跨国合并可以成为拯救欧洲银行业的关键的第三个也许也是最重要的原因是这将向市场参与者和欧洲公民释放出信号，政治领导人仍将致力于欧洲一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "Because high oil prices both lower demand and raise inflation, central banks respond by doing little or nothing.",
        "由于高油价既减少需求，也提高通胀，各国央行只好什么都不做。"
    ],
    [
        "So we know what we need to do, and we have tools available to achieve our goals.",
        "如此看来，我们已经知道了我们该做什么，我们有现成的工具来帮助我们实现目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Being able to converse directly with the Council’s members, mostly in English, might be the biggest immediate challenge, as he admitted immediately.",
        "而正如他爽快承认的，能够与理事会委员（大部分说英语）直接对话也许才是当下最大的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The future of Europe now depends on something apparently impossible: Greece and Germany must strike a deal.",
        "伦敦—如今，欧洲的未来取决于显然不现实的东西：希腊和德国必须达成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Malnutrition in all of its forms reduces global economic welfare by about 5% annually, through foregone output and additional costs incurred.",
        "各种形式的营养不良每年通过减少产量及增加开支致使全球经济福利下降约5%。"
    ],
    [
        "The media also reported the development of the Dong Feng 21D ballistic missile, described as an “aircraft carrier killer.”",
        "官方媒体还报道了东风21D弹道导弹的研发进展，称之为“航母杀手”。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Saudi Arabia’s nemesis Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s senior counselor, Ali Akbar Velayati, was in Moscow in February.",
        "至于沙特的死对头伊朗，哈梅内伊的高级顾问阿里·阿克巴尔·韦拉亚提早在二月已经到过莫斯科。"
    ],
    [
        "The Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, brought one – and only one – religion.",
        "先知穆罕默德建立了一个——且是唯一的一个——宗教。"
    ],
    [
        "So it would seem that the EU’s top priority should be to protect itself and help stabilize its environment.",
        "因此，看起来欧盟最重要的重点应该是保护自身和帮助稳定其环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Never would the law in its current form have passed through the old State Duma.",
        "这种法律在从前绝对不可能以目前的这种形式获得国家杜马的通过。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, the future of an independent Iraq itself will be called into question.",
        "届时，伊拉克将来的独立本身将会受到质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "But this gesture will come just ten days after Abe hosts Putin in his Yamaguchi prefecture hometown; and theirs will be a rather different sort of reconciliation.",
        "但在做出这个姿态前十天，普京将在山口县家乡招待普京； 而安倍和普京的妥协与安倍和奥巴马截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because the Kremlin does not trust its own stocks and bonds, the Stabilization Fund invests in Western securities.",
        "但是，由于克里姆林宫并不信任俄国自己的股票和债券，因此稳定基金投资于西方证券之中。"
    ],
    [
        "But the announcement of a $2 billion loss in that setting of economic turmoil would have made JPM’s counterparties jittery.",
        "但在2008年经济动荡的环境中宣布20亿美元损失将让JPM的交易对手大惊失色。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, in a real-life situation, there may be several ethically relevant features and corresponding duties – and they may conflict with one another.",
        "当然，在现实生活中，可能会出现多重伦理相关方面和相应的责任——并且彼此之间可能互相冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments that had been suspicious of international interference were eager for tougher global rules to prevent banking crises from spilling across borders and infecting others, like bouts of Asian flu.",
        "被质疑进行国际干预的政府急切地渴望更加严格的全球规则以防止银行危机溢出国界，像亚洲流感一样传染给其他国家。"
    ],
    [
        "As we saw in 2008, when Irish referendum voters refused to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon, there is a potential anti-immigrant voting bloc in the poorer parts of Dublin.",
        "2008年，爱尔兰公投拒绝里斯本条约草案，都柏林的贫困地区成为强大的反移民票仓。"
    ],
    [
        "That narrative would be far more powerful than a few tweaks to welfare rights for immigrants.",
        "这个故事远比在移民福利权问题上纠缠不清更有力。"
    ],
    [
        "The advantages of pooling sovereignty and resources ring increasingly hollow to ordinary Europeans.",
        "整合国家主权和资源的好处日渐难以得到普通欧洲人的认同。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, China will probably face some short-term headwinds, so the positive effects of this shift will take some time to emerge.",
        "当然，中国可能会面临一些短期调整的冲击，因此这一政策转变的积极效果需要一些时间才能显现。"
    ],
    [
        "With a global recession looming and high oil and food prices undermining the living standards of the Western middle class, it is becoming ever harder to sell the high-cost, inefficient Kyoto-style solution of drastic carbon cuts.",
        "研究结果表明，在下个十年中期以前气温不会再次上升。 当今全球经济面临衰退，高昂的油价和食品价格破坏了西方国家中产阶级的生活水平，因此也就越发难以推销代价巨大、没有什么效率的京都议定书风格的大幅度减少二氧化碳排放措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, globalization is inescapable.",
        "如今，全球化已经是人人都逃脱不了的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond heart disease, that extra weight raises the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and more.",
        "除了心脏病，超重也升高了糖尿病、高血压、中风和其他疾病的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "It took a while for the Pakistani Army to move against the region’s rising violence and chaos, but its campaign in South Waziristan is making progress.",
        "虽然巴基斯坦军队花了很长一段时间才平定了当地不断爆发的暴力和骚乱活动，但巴军在南瓦齐里斯坦地区的行动也确实取得了成效。"
    ],
    [
        "For most stakeholders, the often dire consequences gave rise to a whole set of solutions, all based on one general strategy: if we are short of organs, then let us get more of them.",
        "多数利益相关者为避免悲惨结果而采取了一系列解决办法，这些办法的目的只有一个：如果器官不够用，我们就找更多器官来满足需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Biomedicine in Reverse",
        "生物医学逆风飞扬"
    ],
    [
        "In China's rural areas, with more than 800 million people, NDC's account for more than 80% of deaths.",
        "中国农村有8亿多人，非传染性疾病占了死亡人数的80%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to favoring a long-term perspective, this governance structure would also answer some of the questions that arise with increased flexibility.",
        "除了有利的长期前景，这一治理结构还能解决一些随灵活性的增加而出现的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this backdrop, the wealthiest Americans are unlikely to enjoy substantial further profits from their financial investments in the near term.",
        "在这一背景下，短期内最富有的美国人已无法从金融投资中获得利润的进一步大幅提升。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is also important to preserve the core principle underlying these prosecutions: the concept of universal jurisdiction.",
        "但捍卫作为这些起诉基础的核心原则也很重要，即普遍管辖权（universal jurisdiction）的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, financial assets went from being virtually non-existent to well over 300% of GDP during this period.",
        "在同一时期内，中国的金融资产则从一无所有上升至GDP的300%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is Brexit, which is undeniably causing problems for the British – and in turn causing most Europeans to begin to understand the extent to which their economies and societies are intertwined.",
        "首先是英国脱欧，这无疑给英国人带来了问题——而且反过来又促使绝大多数欧洲人开始理解其经济和社会交织的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "And demographic differences (small, low-density populations) may have hindered Neanderthals’ cultural evolution, compared with the wider networks established by early modern human groups, initially in Africa, and subsequently worldwide.",
        "而人口分布差异（人口少、密度低）大概是制约尼安德特人文化进步的原因，与之相比，早期现代人群体——最初是在非洲，随后在全世界——建立了更广的网络。"
    ],
    [
        "Apparently for that reason the child-sex-ring accusations focused on the pizza restaurant and used the hashtag #pizzagate.",
        "显然因为这个原因，儿童性团伙的指控就聚焦这座比萨饼餐厅，并采用了#比萨门的主题标签。"
    ],
    [
        "British and American negotiators secretly met with Libyan counterparts to resolve the case of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and other terrorism issues.",
        "英国和美国谈判员秘密会晤了利比亚人员，商讨如何解决1988年泛美航空103航班在苏格兰洛克比上空的爆炸事件以及其他恐怖主义事件。"
    ],
    [
        "The people of the Middle East deserve peace and justice, and we in the international community owe them our strong leadership and support.",
        "中东人民理应得到和平和正义，而我们国际社会欠他们强大的领导和支持。"
    ],
    [
        "We trust that the US and Russian presidents, and leaders of all other nuclear powers, will show statesmanlike wisdom and courage and begin the process of freeing the world from the nuclear menace.",
        "我们相信美国和俄罗斯的总统，加上其他拥有核武器的国家领袖，运用他们政治家的智慧和勇气，让我们摆脱核武器的阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Labour Party’s trade spokesman has aptly put it, a semi-permanent transition period based on the “Norway model” would turn Britain into a “vassal state.”",
        "工党贸易发言人正确地指出，基于“挪威模式”的准永久性过渡期，将让英国沦为“附庸国”。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the importance of reliable data, collecting it must be a high priority.",
        "可靠的数据无比重要，因此收集数据必须作为重中之重。"
    ],
    [
        "A crucial dimension of globalization has been trade liberalization.",
        "全球化的一个重要方面是贸易自由化。"
    ],
    [
        "Our only defenses against a hostile world were primitive stone tools and fire - a minimal kind of protection at best.",
        "我们面对地对世界的唯一防卫就是原始的石器和火-最多也只是一种极有限的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last 12 months, thousands of lives were saved in India, the Philippines, and elsewhere by improved weather forecasting, early-warning systems, and evacuation plans.",
        "在过去12个月中，印度、菲律宾和其他地区通过改善天气预报、早期预警系统和疏散计划拯救了数千生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Industrial cooperation, which could constitute an economic and military asset, is also weakening, as demonstrated by Germany’s successful opposition to the proposed EADS/BAE merger, which was officially canceled in October.",
        "能形成经济和军事资产的产业合作也在弱化，德国成功地反对了EADS/BAE合并计划便是明证，10月，该计划被正式取消。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for all would-be permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – namely, Germany, India, Japan, Brazil, and Egypt – to step up.",
        "现在是联合国安理会所有准常任理事国——德国、印度、日本、巴西和埃及——站出来的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "But let me focus on Bernanke’s fourth statement.",
        "但让我把关注点集中在伯南克的第四个观点上。"
    ],
    [
        "With no progress toward trying Qaddafi for war crimes, the NTC is holding him on the innocuous charge of failure to possess a camel license.",
        "”若在对卡扎菲的战争罪行所作的审判不能取得进展，NTC的指控将不会对他产生任何威胁，这也说明NTC无力处理刑事案件。"
    ],
    [
        "The developing countries, therefore, have an interest in calling for multilateral dialogue on investment conditions in order to obtain certain collective guarantees.",
        "因此，发展中国家呼吁就投资条件开展多边对话，以便得到一些适用于所有国家的保证。"
    ],
    [
        "Radical Islamists targeted us because our people generally hold secular views of politics and society, with women, for example, playing a prominent role in public and professional life.",
        "激进伊斯兰分子以我们为敌是因为我们的民众普遍对政治和社会抱有世俗的态度，比方说在妇女问题上，我们认为女性应该在公共和专业生活中发出突出的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether a cyber operation is treated as an armed attack depends on its consequences, rather than on the instruments used.",
        "一场网络行动是否被视为武装攻击并非取决于使用何种工具，而是其所造成的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The price will first be paid in the Balkans, and then by Turkey.",
        "巴尔干半岛将会首先付出代价，接下来是土耳其。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the notion of returning to the pre-EU world is fundamentally flawed, owing to the simple fact that individual European countries cannot compete in the modern global economy.",
        "民粹主义者和欧洲怀疑派助长了认为自己被欧盟机构忽视的人的不满，这些人现在相信，欧洲工程带来的好处（如迁徙自由）已不再大于负担（如移民涌入和紧缩）。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the Commission, its only real action in recent months was to appoint Michel Barnier in July as its chief representative in the Brexit negotiations.",
        "委员会在最近几个月的唯一实际行动就是在七月任命米歇尔·巴尼耶（Michel Barnier）为英国脱欧谈判首席代表。"
    ],
    [
        "When growth is weak, people ask incredulously how climate policy advocates could consider making things worse.",
        "）而当增长乏力时，人们却难以置信地质问气候政策倡导者怎么可以在这样的时候让局面更糟。"
    ],
    [
        "In an unprecedented move, the government replaced a large number of bureaucrats on the boards of these companies with independent directors (including a couple of foreigners).",
        "在一个前所未有的行动中，俄罗斯政府用独立董事（包括一些外国人）取代了许多国有公司董事会中的官僚。"
    ],
    [
        "But stock market declines that are not accompanied by steep and persistent collapses in earnings are by their nature temporary: they are provoked by steep rises in perceived risk, and if those risks turn out to be overblown, stocks rebound when the perception of risk falls.",
        "但没有伴随着收益急剧崩溃、一蹶不振的股市下跌从本质上讲是暂时的：它们是由感知到的风险急剧升高而引发的。 如果最后证实那些风险是被夸大了，那么当所感知的风险回落时，股票就会反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse yet, the military remains outside civilian control.",
        "更糟糕的是，军队仍然不接受文人控制。"
    ],
    [
        "When a Republican politician compares US property taxes with the Holocaust, as one Senate candidate did in 2014, the mass murder of Jews is trivialized to the extent of becoming meaningless.",
        "当2014年一位共和党参议员候选人将美国财产税比作大屠杀，对犹太人的大规模谋杀被轻视到几乎毫无意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Open-Source Pharmaceuticals?",
        "信息开放的医药？"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the euro would be the equivalent of the gold standard.",
        "与此同时，欧元相当于今天的金本位。"
    ],
    [
        "So there may be something in this \"cultural\" explanation.",
        "因此这种\"文化\"解释也许包含了部分原因。"
    ],
    [
        "To some extent, other EU member states have also shifted their goods exports away from Europe, but the effect has been most pronounced in the UK.",
        "从某种程度上讲，其他欧盟成员国的商品出口也在逐渐流出欧盟，但这一效应在英国身上最为明显。"
    ],
    [
        "There was a time, not long ago, when Americans talked of ending poverty at home and abroad.",
        "但就在不久之前的一个时期，美国人其实非常热衷于在国内外谈论消除贫困问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea that the Arab-Israeli peace process requires choosing between a Syrian or a Palestinian track has proved to be a dangerous fallacy.",
        "那种认为阿－以和平进程需要在叙利亚道路和巴勒斯坦途径之间选择的观点是一种危险的谬论。"
    ],
    [
        "Sweden and Germany have taken in the majority of asylum seekers from Syria and elsewhere, while most other EU member states have admitted few or none.",
        "瑞典和德国接纳了大部分来自叙利亚和其他地方的寻求庇护者，而其他大部分欧盟成员国只接纳了极少数或一个人都没有接纳。"
    ],
    [
        "This was not simply a matter of shrinking the overall balance sheet; domestic assets grew by 70% during the same period.",
        "这绝不仅仅是收缩整体资产负债表的问题； 因为同期国内资产增长了70%。"
    ],
    [
        "I have never been heavily involved in partisan politics, but these are not normal times.",
        "我从来没热衷参与过党派政治，但现在已经是非正常时期了。"
    ],
    [
        "Many commentators, indeed, were stunned by the rapidity with which tensions returned to the international system.",
        "确实，许多评论家都被紧张局势重返国际体系的速度所震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – As the eurozone crisis continues to deepen, the International Monetary Fund may finally be acknowledging the need to reassess its approach.",
        "坎布里奇——随着欧元区危机的继续深化，IMF或将不得不承认有必要反思其作为了。"
    ],
    [
        "Few economists today work on these and related problems without building on Becker’s foundations or laboring under his strong influence.",
        "如今，极少有经济学家能够在研究这些和相关问题时绕过贝克尔的成果或不受他的强烈影响。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s not the “Trump effect,” or the effect of the recent cut in the US corporate tax rate.",
        "不是“特朗普效应”，也不是最近的美国公司税率下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The villain in this drama is Vladimir Putin, who has thrived on eight years of rapid growth generated by the market reforms of his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin.",
        "这出戏中的恶棍就是弗拉季米尔·普京。 他在前任叶利钦实施的市场改革所带来的经济快速成长之上风光了8年。"
    ],
    [
        "They find that an insult to their intelligence, and young women in particular are largely supporting Sanders; they prefer his platform and are troubled by questions about her integrity.",
        "她们认为这是在侮辱她们的智商，特别是，年轻女性大多支持桑德斯； 她们更喜欢他的竞选平台，质疑她的诚信。"
    ],
    [
        "To ensure that new investment is oriented toward sustainable infrastructure, policymakers must also adjust market incentives.",
        "为了确保新投资进入可持续基础设施，决策者还必须调整市场激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Though regarded by many as one of the safest and least corrupt societies in the world, Rwanda faces a great shortage of doctors and nurses.",
        "尽管卢旺达被许多人认为是全世界最安全、腐败程度最低的社会之一，但它仍面临医护人员的严重短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea has challenged the world; the question is how the world responds.",
        "北朝鲜向世界发出了挑战； 现在的问题是世界将作出怎样的回应。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone countries would form a more deeply integrated “Europe A,” while another group of countries would comprise a more diverse and loosely connected “Europe B.”",
        "欧元区国家将形成一个更深入一体化的“欧洲A”，而另一个国家集团将涵盖那些更为多样化和松散联结的“欧洲B”。"
    ],
    [
        "Genocide’s stringent requirements mean that it is – and should be – difficult to convict a defendant.",
        "种族灭绝的严格规定意味着它很难，而且也应当很难给被告定罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, many human molecular geneticists have abdicated any responsibility for trying to decrease the overall burden of such diseases.",
        "不幸的是，很多人类分子遗传学家完全没有承担起任何减轻此类疾病总体负担的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "There will be no Palestinian state this spring; nor will there be a global climate change pact or a new trade accord or an end to poverty or genocide or disease anytime soon.",
        "今年春天将不会出现巴勒斯坦国;全球气候变化协议或新的贸易协定也不会达成； 贫困、种族灭绝的行为或疾病的流行也不会马上结束。"
    ],
    [
        "These entire female population was excluded, and only one-quarter of the male population was eligible to vote.",
        "所有女性被排除在投票选举之外，并且只有四分之一的男性具有投票权。"
    ],
    [
        "Parents can then make contributions to their child’s trust fund which can grow tax-free, and can choose how to allocate the Fund among investments.",
        "父母到时可以向该免税增长的基金缴款，还可以选择如何分配这笔资金来进行投资。"
    ],
    [
        "When recommending an Indian mathematician to a Harvard colleague, Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote that: “scientific geniuses generally have one great idea in their life; he has had two.”",
        "在介绍一位印度数学家进入哈佛大学时，Ludwig Wittgenstein这样写道：“科学方面的天才通常在其一生中能有一个伟大的观点； 他有两个。"
    ],
    [
        "As young Kenyans repeated during the recent election campaign, “If you are not at the table, you are on the menu.”",
        "就像肯尼亚年轻人在最近的选战中一再强调的，“不入庙堂，便为鱼肉。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty years later, I remain mystified.",
        "20年后的今天，我仍然感到迷惑。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was disastrous.",
        "结果是灾难性的。"
    ],
    [
        "And, finally, politicians generally defend their policies in terms of how they affect the middle class or the poor, not the arithmetic average of incomes across an economy – which gives equal weight to a $1 increase in the income of a poor person and that of a billionaire.",
        "最后，政治家通常为自身政策辩护时都是从政策如何影响中产阶级或穷人的角度出发，而不是一个经济体的收入算术平均值——该值对所有人的收入增加都给予同样的权重，无论他是个穷人还是亿万富翁。"
    ],
    [
        "There is plenty of time for the Fed to signal that its policy stance has shifted, and the conclave in Jackson Hole is an excellent opportunity to start that communication.",
        "美联储有充足的时间释放信号表明其政策立场的转变，而杰克森霍尔会议便是一次开始释放这一信号的良机。"
    ],
    [
        "But the vast majority of young people use the Internet for social media, rather than for economic or educational purposes.",
        "但绝大多数年轻人将互联网用于社交媒体、而非用于经济或教育目的。"
    ],
    [
        "To get the G-8 to agree on priorities is a complicated enough; building consensus within the G-20 is exponentially more difficult, not simply because of the larger number of players involved, but because many of them don’t agree on the most basic rules of the global economic game.",
        "在随后的8国峰会上也是争论不断。 20国峰会上各国不可能达成共识的理由很多，不仅是由于如此众多的参会国家，更因为许多国家对国际经济的基本游戏规则都不认可。"
    ],
    [
        "In the light of this history, how should Japan's stance in Iraq be viewed?",
        "从历史的角度来看，这一次日本在伊拉克的态度又会被如何评价呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, emerging-market countries’ representation in global governance did not keep pace with the increasingly significant role of their economies and currencies.",
        "此外，新兴市场国家在全球治理中的代表力与它们的经济和货币的日益重要的角色并不匹配。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics point to weak budget institutions, muddled accounting, and rampant fiscal populism among island politicians.",
        "批评人士将问题归咎于疲弱的预算制度、混乱的会计核算和岛上政治家狂热的财政民粹主义思想。"
    ],
    [
        "The world needs a concerted push to adopt to low-carbon electricity, not another “us-versus-them” negotiation.",
        "世界需要集中力量推动低碳电的普及，而不需要另一场“我们和他们”的谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Start, Lustig argues in a recent paper, with the fact that world income inequality is not rising.",
        "首先，卢斯蒂格在一篇最新文章中指出，世界收入不平等没有在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s behavior clearly shows its determination to become a regional power – indeed, the only military power in the region.",
        "如此动作清楚地标明，中国已下定决心成为区域军事强国——事实上，是成为该地区唯一的军事力量。"
    ],
    [
        "It is at this point where the tale goes from fact to fiction.",
        "这就是这个故事从事实变成虚妄之处。"
    ],
    [
        "The US faces two distinct fiscal challenges: the tax increases and spending cuts that threaten to derail the economy in 2013; and a long-term structural deficit that is likely to mean higher interest rates, less investment, and slower growth once the economy has recovered and the output gap has disappeared.",
        "美国要面对两个独特财政挑战:一是有可能危及美国2013年经济的增税和开支削减； 二是一个结构性的长期赤字很可能意味着更高的利率，更少的投资，以及一旦经济恢复增长及产出缺口消失就会减速的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "It fails to distinguish between Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda or the Sunni insurrection and the Mahdi militia in Iraq.",
        "它未能区分哈马斯、真主党、基地组织或者是在伊拉克的逊尼派起义和马赫迪民兵。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s not as if Obama has no policies for helping the poor.",
        "这并非是奥巴马没有扶贫规划。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach represents a 1950’s view of economic development, which has long been superseded by a more variegated perspective that recognizes a multiplicity of constraints – everything from poor governance to market failures – of varying importance in different countries.",
        "这一看法代表着20世纪50年代的经济发展观，它早已被更多样化的视角所取代。 现在的经济发展观关注约束的多重性——从贫困治理到市场失灵无所不包——和对不同国家的不同重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Most recently that debate has focused on encryption: whether technology companies should be able to develop programs that encrypt their users’ messages so securely that no one but their intended recipients – not even governments – can read them.",
        "这场争论最新的焦点是加密技术：科技公司是否应该开发加密用户信息的程序，让除了传送对象之外的所有人——哪怕是政府——都无法读取这些信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Differences in luck and talent among those equally prepared will ensure that the quality of software firms’ products lies on a bell curve, with only a few Googles and Facebooks and many more bored, moderately paid computer technicians helping the average confused person deal with malware.",
        "由于运气与才能的差别，即使各种条件类似，也注定了各个软件公司的产品质量会呈现出钟形曲线分布，一端是谷歌和Facebook这样的少数大公司，一端则存在着大量很多工作乏味、收入普通的电脑技术员，只能帮助一般人解决一下恶意软件的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Seldom do they note the disastrous consequences when the Party applies its power in stubborn pursuit of a brutal and destructive objective.",
        "他们很少注意到当中共将其权力用在固执地追求野蛮和破坏性目标时所导致的灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, according to McKinsey & Company, Africa was the third-largest contributor to world economic growth in 2009, after China and India.",
        "事实上，根据麦肯锡公司的统计，非洲是 2009 年世界经济增长的第三大贡献者，非洲的贡献仅次于中国和印度。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, in the Greater Middle East, the fall of one secular dictatorship after another, coupled with the loosening of external control, has incited new – and rekindled old – suspicions, religious disagreements, and mistrust of outsiders in general and the West in particular.",
        "此外，在大中东，世俗独裁政权接二连三倒台，这与外部控制的放松一起，带来了新的（也重燃了旧的）怀疑、宗教分歧和对外部人（尤其是西方人）的不信任。"
    ],
    [
        "True, European growth was dragged down by meager growth in Germany, but Italy grew marginally less than Germany.",
        "确切地说，德国经济增长乏力拖了欧洲经济增长的后腿，但是意大利的经济增长更是微乎其微，甚至不如德国。"
    ],
    [
        "This will pose challenges to US-Korea relations, which should work to China’s advantage.",
        "这将对美国与新政权之间的关系提出了挑战，却对中国有利。"
    ],
    [
        "It is legitimate to criticize individual policymakers who exercised poor judgment, and they should have a mark on their record.",
        "批评个别判断力差的决策者很合理，而且他们也应该被批评。"
    ],
    [
        "Reform is nonetheless clearly possible.",
        "但是，改革毫无疑问是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Vietnam, for example, has reported that natural disasters, some of them exacerbated by climate change, have caused annual losses equivalent to 2% of its GDP.",
        "比如，越南报告说，一些自然灾害因为气候变化而加剧，而自然灾害每年造成的损失相当于其GDP的2%。"
    ],
    [
        "BRIGHTON – Existing anti-microbial drugs are becoming ineffective.",
        "布莱顿——现有抗菌药的效果正在逐渐丧失。"
    ],
    [
        "The reasons were always the same: politico-religious fanaticism and the blunder of challenging the prevailing world powers – hence modern Zionism’s obsessive quest for a binding alliance with a superpower.",
        "原因永远是相似的：政治-宗教狂热以及不自量力地挑战现有世界列强——于是现代锡安主义（犹太复国主义）沉迷于寻求与超级大国的紧密联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Our era is probably much more religious than the eighteenth century ever was.",
        "我们的时代也许比十八世纪以来的任何时候都更加讲宗教。"
    ],
    [
        "This idea is embedded in Article 5.3 of the FCTC.",
        "上述理念就反映在烟草控制框架公约第五条第三款当中。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a tough road ahead if we are to turn optimism into reality.",
        "我们要做很多努力才能把乐观变为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "And for that we need fiscal stimulus – ideally, the debt-friendly stimulus that raises taxes and expenditures equally.",
        "因此我们需要财政刺激——理想状况是同步提高税收和支出的债务友好型财政刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposed Union of South American Nations (Unasur), like the South American Defense Council, is part of a Brazilian regional strategy to encourage cooperation within Latin America in order to counterbalance the power of the United States and act as a mediator in regional disagreements.",
        "正在探讨的南美国家联盟（Unasur）像南美国防委员会一样，是巴西为了抗衡美国力量和调解地区分歧，鼓励拉美合作的地区性战略的组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, some three-quarters of known al-Qaeda leaders have been killed or captured, and others are on the run.",
        "结果就是，四分之三的已知基地组织领导人被杀或被捕，其余的在逃。"
    ],
    [
        "Gazprom's erratic behavior is not a matter of minor concern for Europe.",
        "俄天然气的古怪行为绝不容欧洲小觑。"
    ],
    [
        "Extrapolating Europe’s modest growth from 1980 onwards, my calculations show that output in the eurozone today is more than 15% below where it would have been had the 2008 financial crisis not occurred, implying a loss of some $1.6 trillion this year alone, and a cumulative loss of more than $6.5 trillion.",
        "从1980年以来欧洲温和增长出发，我测算今天的欧元区产出比2008年不发生金融危机的情形要低15%以上，这意味着光是在今年，损失就高达1. 6万亿美元，累计损失则超过6."
    ],
    [
        "The fiscal and debt position of many emerging economies (though not of Argentina, Venezuela, and other poster children for mismanagement) is much stronger than it once was.",
        "许多新兴经济体（即使不包括阿根廷、委内瑞拉和其他以管理不善闻名的国家）的财政和债务情况比以往好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Bolivia’s Evo Morales rose to prominence as leader of the country’s coca growers during a brutal campaign to wipe out their crops, the so-called Dignity Plan.",
        "玻利维亚总统埃沃·莫拉莱斯在一场消灭古柯作物的残酷运动中崛起为这个国家古柯种植者的领袖，这场运动就是所谓的尊严计划。"
    ],
    [
        "And many homeowners, eager to participate even more in the boom and feel like savvy capitalists, bought more expensive houses than they normally would.",
        "而许多屋主急切地想更深地参与繁荣，更多地表现出精明的资本主义者的风貌，他们买下了比通常更贵的房子。"
    ],
    [
        "The Future Global Economy",
        "未来的全球经济"
    ],
    [
        "But the obesity epidemic hardly looks like a growth killer.",
        "但肥胖的蔓延对经济增长却鲜有坏处。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, balance-of-payments equilibrium would be reached at a certain exchange-rate level, but a current-account surplus (albeit smaller) would still exist.",
        "结果是，贸易支付差额将在某个汇率水平上达到均衡，但经常账户的顺差（虽然变得更小）依然会继续存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Some critics argue that the 2005 poverty line of $1.25 was too low.",
        "一些批评指出，2005年的贫困线（1. 25美元）太低了。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, religion has lost its authority over law, legislation, education, morals, and business life.",
        "在欧洲，宗教已经失去了凌驾于法律、立法、教育、道德和商业之上的权威。"
    ],
    [
        "The clumsy Jerusalem declaration cannot save Netanyahu’s current coalition government from massive corruption scandals and irreconcilable internal conflicts.",
        "拙劣的耶路撒冷决定无法拯救内塔尼亚胡的现任联合政府于大面积腐败丑闻和不可调和的内讧。"
    ],
    [
        "The West has supported in a variety of ways democratic movements in the post-Soviet region, hardly hiding its enthusiasm for the various “color” revolutions that have replaced long-standing dictators with more responsive leaders – though not all have turned out to be the committed democrats they pretended to be.",
        "西方以各种手段支持前苏联地区的民主运动，毫不掩饰对各种“颜色”革命的热忱，让盘踞多年的独裁者让位给那些更能为人民负责的领导人——虽然不是所有人都能被最终证实为坚定的民主主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision came only three months after the company abandoned investment in two new units in North Carolina.",
        "此前三个月，该公司刚刚宣布放弃北卡罗来纳州的两座核反应堆投资。"
    ],
    [
        "In Iceland and Ireland, banks outgrew their governments’ ability to support them when needed.",
        "在爱尔兰和冰岛，银行规模超出了政府在有必要时的支持能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The GCC is now the only region open to global labor, ensuring that its businesses have the world’s lowest wages-to-skill ratio.",
        "，目前，GCC是唯一的劳动力市场开放的地区，以其企业拥有世界最低的工资-技能比。"
    ],
    [
        "South African companies are not the only ones to struggle in this area.",
        "在这方面，遭遇困难的不止于南非公司。"
    ],
    [
        "As those policies fail, global financial markets are reacting negatively, adding uncertainty to the world economy, and there is little relief in sight, because America is entering a period of prolonged political infighting and stalemate.",
        "随着这些政策的失败，全球金融市场反应消极，增加了世界经济的不稳定性。 这种情况不会在可见的未来缓和，因为美国正在进入漫长的政治内讧和僵持的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "Great intellectuals like Abelard, Erasmus, Galileo, Voltaire, Zola, and Russell each challenged the pieties of his era, and we now regard their success as a good thing.",
        "伟大的智者像阿伯拉德、伊拉兹马斯、伽利略、伏尔泰、左拉以及拉塞尔都对他们各人所处时代的虔行提出挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "What is to be expected on the positive side?",
        "所有这些都是负面的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The annual budget deficit projected for 2026 is 5% of GDP.",
        "2026年年预算赤字预计将达到GDP的5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi seized the opportunity to drive a wedge between America’s two main Asian allies, and built a memorial to Ahn.",
        "习近平抓住机会离间美国的两大主要亚洲盟友，并未安重根树立纪念碑。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps fearing even greater social unrest, Sisi has yet to meet the conditions set last November by the International Monetary Fund as part of a $12 billion bailout.",
        "也许是担心导致更大的社会动荡，因此西西至今仍未满足去年11月国际货币基金组织（IMF）所提出的作为其120亿美元援助计划的一部分的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Most recently, gunmen attacked an undercover security minibus in Cairo's Helwan suburb last May, killed all eight armed security agents, and vanished into the working-class cement jungle.",
        "最近一次袭击是开罗赫尔旺（Helwan）郊区发生的抢手袭击便衣安全车事件，八名武装保安全部丧生，抢手随后消失在工人阶级的水泥丛林中。"
    ],
    [
        "It would enable leaders to focus on representing the people, instead of on staying in power.",
        "它能让领导人专心代表民众，而不是把精力耗费在保住权力。"
    ],
    [
        "The interrogation of the one surviving terrorist, and evidence from satellite telephone intercepts and other intelligence, has led to an emerging international consensus that the attacks were masterminded by the Wahhabi-inspired Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terrorist group once patronized, protected and trained by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as a useful instrument in their country’s proxy war against India in Kashmir.",
        "对一个被活捉的恐怖分子的审讯，以及来自卫星电话拦截和其他情报的证据，已经使国际社会达成初步共识，恐怖袭击是由信奉瓦哈比教派的虔诚军策划的——巴基斯坦的国内情报局(ISI) 曾资助、保护和训练虔诚军，将其作为该国在克什米尔和印度的代理战争中的有利工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Civilians have become the main victims of a strategy aimed at undermining the guerrillas, which has resulted in forced labor, the use of human minesweepers, and massive relocations of entire villages.",
        "平民成为削弱游击队战略的主要受害者，结果造成强制劳工、使用人体扫雷以及大规模的整座村庄的迁徙。"
    ],
    [
        "They agreed to the Washington Communiqué, which urges development partners, g7+ countries, and civil-society organizations to intensify their efforts to use the New Deal to deliver concrete results on the ground, and calls for a post-2015 development agenda that recognizes the universal importance of peace- and state-building.",
        "它们通过了《华盛顿公告》（Washington Communiqué），敦促发展伙伴、g7+国家和公民社会组织进一步根据《新政》赢取扎实进展，并呼吁为后2015年时代制定考虑和平和国家建设普世重要性的发展日程。"
    ],
    [
        "My former student Allan Weiss and I have been campaigning since 1990 for better risk management institutions for real estate.",
        "我从前的学生Allan Weiss和我自1999年以来就一直在为建立更好的不动产风险管理机构而奔波。"
    ],
    [
        "It raised the death toll of Iran’s recent earthquake, owing to substandard housing construction ten years ago.",
        "它让伊朗因为十年前建造的劣质住房而导致更多的百姓在最近的地震中死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, despite its problems, China’s economy remains in good condition – at least so far.",
        "事实上，尽管存在诸多问题，但中国经济依然状况良好，至少从目前来看是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "If climate change were on the agenda for Hu’s upcoming trip, the meeting, whether or not it is designated a “state visit,” could be one of historic consequence.",
        "如果气候变化在胡锦涛即将进行的美国之旅议题表上，那么此次会议无论是否将其定位为“国事访问”，都将会产生重大的历史意义，具有重要的历史地位。 可惜这一切都是假设。"
    ],
    [
        "Not so fast, said Filipino President Benigno S. Aquino III.",
        "没有这么快，菲律宾总统阿基诺三世说。"
    ],
    [
        "The anti-globalization protests in Seattle in 1999, at what was supposed to be the inauguration of a new round of trade talks, called attention to the failures of globalization and the international institutions and agreements that govern it.",
        "1999年的西雅图反全球化抗议后把人们的关注点吸引到了全球化及治理全球化的国际机构和协定的失灵之处，并成为新一轮贸易谈判的起始点。"
    ],
    [
        "Researchers have recently discovered subtle structural variations occurring in orthologs from species that diverged from each other billions of years ago.",
        "研究者最近发现了在几十亿年的漫长进化中变得逐渐不同的物种体内的同源体所发生的微小的结构变化。"
    ],
    [
        "So is the Brexiteers’ lack of any plan whatsoever for how to proceed after the referendum.",
        "英国脱欧派完全没有处理公投后果的计划亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Friends of Germany and Europe around the world have been breathing a sigh of relief at the newfound willingness of Germany’s Christian Democrats and Social Democrats (SPD) to discuss reprising their grand coalition government.",
        "纽约—方言全球，德国和欧洲的朋友们都为德国基督教民主党和社会民主党（SPD）重新拿出讨论恢复执政大联盟的意愿而大舒一口气。"
    ],
    [
        "The spirit was captured by one participant who suggested that we had gone from “boom and bust” to “boom and Armageddon.”",
        "一位把握了会议精神的演讲者者提出，我们已经从“繁荣与衰退”阶段进入了“繁荣与大决战”阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, while real wages fell by about 6% for the bottom 10% of the income distribution and grew by a paltry 5-6% for the median worker, they soared by more than 150% for the top 1%.",
        "事实上，收入分布最底层10%的人实际工资下降了余额6%，中位员工的实际工资仅仅增长了5—6%，而最顶尖1%员工的实际工资飙升150%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "The Meiji Restoration created a powerful military under the slogan “Enrich the country and strengthen the military.” The military eventually became so strong that it could dictate terms to the civilian government.",
        "当年明治维新在“富国强兵”的口号下创造了一支强大的军队，终于造成了尾大不掉之局，文职政府不得不受军队摆布。"
    ],
    [
        "Nixon Then, China Now",
        "过去的尼克松，现在的中国"
    ],
    [
        "If not managed well, Italy’s constitutional referendum in December – a risky bid by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to consolidate support – could backfire, just like Cameron’s referendum did, causing political disruption and undermining effective action to address the country’s economic challenges.",
        "如果管理不当，12月的意大利宪政公投——总理伦齐为巩固其支持而兵行险招——将适得其反，一如卡梅伦的公投方案，导致政治干扰，阻碍解决意大利经济挑战的有效行动。"
    ],
    [
        "New York – Every September, the world’s leaders gather at the United Nations to reaffirm our founding Charter – our faith in fundamental principles of peace, justice, human rights, and equal opportunity for all.",
        "纽约——每年九月，各国领导人都会汇集联合国，重申我们的成立宪章——我们对和平、公正、人权和人人机会平等的信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "To address these issues emerging-market cities should practice anticipatory planning, based on realistic demographic forecasts; develop city and nationwide patient registers and health-information systems; and seek to integrate health and health-care planning with overall city planning.",
        "为了解决这些问题，新兴市场城市应实行可预见的规划，以现实人口评估为基础，发展城市和全国性的病人注册和卫生信息系统，并谋求医疗和卫生保健规划与城市总体规划的融合。"
    ],
    [
        "If the NTP is to deliver greater economic diversification, Saudi Arabia will need to harness high value-added, export-led growth and, eventually, greater regional and international integration.",
        "如果国家转型计划想要实现更大程度的经济多元化，沙特阿拉伯有必要利用出口导向的高附加值增长，并最终实现更深层次的地区和国际融合。"
    ],
    [
        "What is now done in the sky over Libya – sanctioned by international law and, unlike in Iraq in 2003, with the ambivalent political support of the Arab League – is fundamental if the Arab revolutionaries are to take a positive view of the West.",
        "目前的利比亚空袭对阿拉伯革命者积极看待西方至关重要，利比亚不仅受到国际法律的制裁，而且和2003年伊拉克不同的是，阿拉伯联盟对它的政治支持也充满了矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "Every TV news show and front-page headline in the world ran the same headline: “New Mexican President inaugurated in chaos and fisticuffs.”",
        "全世界电视新闻和报纸的头版头条都惊人地一致：“墨西哥新总统在混乱和争斗之中宣誓就职。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, countries can import fossil fuels, mineral ores, and resources from the biosphere like fish and timber; but they cannot import water, which is essentially local, on a large scale and on a prolonged – much less permanent – basis.",
        "类似地，国家可以进口化石燃料、矿石和其他诸如鱼和木材等生物资源； 但国家不能进口水，从根本上说，水是大规模、长时间（尽管远非持久）的立国之本。"
    ],
    [
        "Global trade wars are rare.",
        "全球贸易战十分罕见。"
    ],
    [
        "A few months later, in the autumn of 2013, a second recapitalization was orchestrated, with a new share issue.",
        "几个月后，在2013年秋又精心策划了第二次注资，并发行新股。"
    ],
    [
        "They adopt a “your success is my success” mentality.",
        "他们采取“你成功就是我成功”思维。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, financial markets underpriced private and sovereign credit risks, in the implicit belief that no one would fail, and that all debts would somehow be made whole, implying weak market discipline on borrowers.",
        "此外，金融市场低估了私人以及主权信用风险，其中隐含的理念是所有人都不会违约，而且所有债务将以某种形式全部偿还，也就是说对借方的市场约束非常薄弱。"
    ],
    [
        "A serious restructuring effort – including stricter budget constraints and an end to lending to non-viable firms and government guarantees on debt, along with other supply-side reforms already underway – will create space for more dynamic companies to emerge and contribute to growth.",
        "认真的重组 — — 包括更严格的预算限制，停止向无挽救希望的企业贷款以及政府债务担保，再加上其他正在进行的供给侧改革 — — 这将为那些更具活力的公司腾出成长空间并促进发展。"
    ],
    [
        "When a colonel recently asked NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel-Jalil why he has not moved to merge the militias into a national army, Abdel-Jalil replied, “I head the legislative branch.",
        "最近一名上校问NTC主席穆斯塔法·阿卜杜勒-加里尔为什么不将广大民兵合并成一支国家军队，阿卜杜勒-加里尔答道：“我可以负责立法部门。"
    ],
    [
        "But that doesn’t mean that Trump skeptics can just sit back and wait for him to be proven wrong, because it is possible that, in the first year, the reported trade deficit will narrow, even as the true trade deficit widens.",
        "但这并不意味着质疑特朗普的人可以高枕无忧地坐等他的错误坐实，因为有可能在第一年里，报告贸易赤字将有所收窄，尽管真实贸易赤字有所扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "The world stands at a crossroads.",
        "世界现在正处在十字路口。"
    ],
    [
        "Four global trends are reshaping the world of work, helping to resolve contradictions and overcome dysfunction in the labor market as companies, workers, and governments adapt to a new demographic, technological, and economic environment.",
        "四大全球趋势正在改变工作形势，随着公司、工人和政府适应新的人口、科技和经济环境，这些趋势有助于解决矛盾、克服劳动力市场功能失调的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "That danger underlies the view, still operative in the US, that opinions, however obnoxious, should be freely expressible, so that they can be opposed by counter-arguments.",
        "这一危险导致了至今在美国仍有市场的看法，即观点不管多么令人讨厌，都应该可以自由表达，因此可以被反对观点驳斥。"
    ],
    [
        "But hold the applause.",
        "但暂且不要鼓掌。"
    ],
    [
        "Is there something in their DNA that makes them prefer the status quo so much that, more often than not, they are taken aback by rapid changes, neither foreseeing them nor knowing how to respond once they begin?",
        "他们的DNA中是否存在某种物质，让他们如此留恋现状，多半会因为变起突然而出其不意，而且既不能预见变化也不知道在变化发生时该如何应对。"
    ],
    [
        "As opposed to a 100- or 200-meter sprint, both organizations need to think more in terms of a much longer race, perhaps a marathon.",
        "对两个组织来讲，这都不是什么100或200米短跑，而需要付出长期、甚至是马拉松般的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "It is very difficult for schools, law enforcement agencies, soccer clubs, and telephone, electricity, and water companies to cooperate across the Green Line.",
        "学校、执法机构、足球俱乐部和电话、电力和自来水公司都很难跨过军事分界线进行合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But has the IMF’s reconsideration of financial globalization gone far enough?",
        "但IMF关于金融全球化的反思是不是有点过犹不及？"
    ],
    [
        "The new underclass is the other side of the meritocratic elite.",
        "新生的底层百姓是精英阶层的对立面。"
    ],
    [
        "All peace efforts since the Oslo accords of 1993 have been based on the “two-state solution,” according to which Israel is supposed to turn over the occupied territories to a Palestinian state, the Palestinians are supposed to renounce any claims on the Jewish state, and everyone is supposed to live happily ever after.",
        "1993年《奥斯陆协议》后所有的和平努力都以“两国制”为前提，在这样的前提下，以色列应该向巴勒斯坦国归还被占领土，而巴勒斯坦国则应承认犹太国家的主权，而后双方应该从此过上幸福的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "To believe that any country issuing debt in its own currency is risk-free as long as the exchange rate is flexible is astonishingly naive.",
        "相信只要汇率具有弹性，一国以本国货币发行债务就是无风险的，这一观点是非常幼稚的。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet modern checks and balances slow down any response.",
        "但现代的制衡体系拖慢了采取对策的速度。"
    ],
    [
        "The candidates’ statements on Iran do suggest two different philosophies of diplomacy.",
        "两位总统候选人对伊朗的申明确实显示了两种不同的外交哲学。"
    ],
    [
        "A range of institutions has echoed his warning.",
        "一系列机构也对他的警告做出了响应。"
    ],
    [
        "A period of consolidation (which included the introduction of euro banknotes and coins in 2002) followed.",
        "之后是一段时间的整合（包括2002年欧元纸币和硬币开始流通）。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as a recent study shows, because China’s coal-fired power plants are so dirty, electric cars make the local air worse.",
        "最新研究表明，由于中国火电厂污染严重，电力汽车的使用会让当地空气质量恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "But an unsustainable debt burden may also result from borrowing to spend too much, failure to collect sufficient taxes, and other policies that undermine the economy’s growth potential.",
        "但不可持续的债务负担也可能来自过度借钱消费、没能征得足够税收，或其他削弱经济增长潜力的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the vast list of unforeseen consequences springing from the US fiasco in Iraq is the vital fact that, across Latin America, anti-Americanism is on the rise and is rapidly generating myriad grim effects on the region's politics.",
        "对伊战争惨败会带来很多不可预知的后果，但最重要的是整个拉美地区的反美情绪日益高涨，并且很快对地区政治造成了复杂的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU most likely would have collapsed early on had it not been for what The Economist has described as its “spirit of grubby compromise.”",
        "如果不是靠被《经济学家》誉为“肮脏的妥协精神”的支撑，欧盟很有可能早已陷入崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "It is useful to look at the numbers from the oft-cited Danish and Swedish examples.",
        "看一看经常被提及的丹麦和瑞典的范例的数字是有裨益的。"
    ],
    [
        "But America is paying a high price as well: other countries, even poor developing countries, like Haiti and Ecuador, seem to have learned (often at great expense and only after some huge calamities) how to manage natural disasters better.",
        "但美国也在付出沉重代价：其他国家，哪怕是海地和厄瓜多尔等贫穷的发展中国家，都已经学会了如何更好地管理自然灾害（常常要在为某个巨灾付出巨大代价之后）。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf – a political party led by the former cricketer Imran Khan – provided just the platform for that rebellion.",
        "由前板球运动员伊姆兰·汗所领导的政党巴基斯坦正义运动党恰好为那次反叛运动提供了场所。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be deeply unjust and outright foolish if the EU Commission’s report holds Turkey responsible for its refusal to make further concessions to Greek Cyprus (now an EU member), while refusing to blame the government in Nicosia, which is the real cause of the blockage.",
        "如果欧盟委员会的报告因土耳其拒绝向希腊族塞浦路斯（现任欧盟成员国）作进一步的退让而将责任推到他们身上，而不肯批评尼科西亚政府这个真正的障碍，那将是非常不公平的，而且绝对是愚蠢的。"
    ],
    [
        "Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush have both said that they’ll stay out of this race.",
        "乔治·H·W·布什总统和乔治·W·布什总统双双表示他们不会插手这次竞选事务。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s New Emperor",
        "中国的新皇帝"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so might have facilitated the sharing of the burden between debtors and creditors and prevented the emergence of the us-versus-them attitude that poisoned the relationship between Greece and the institutions of the eurozone.",
        "这样做也许可以促使债务人和债权人共担负担，阻止“我们与他们”的对立情绪的出现——后者正是恶化希腊与欧元区机构关系的罪魁。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time, I wrote that if he did not change course, “the country will descend deeper into authoritarianism, political divisions will become irreconcilable, and yet another political rupture may become inevitable.”",
        "当时，我写道，如果他不改变现状，“土耳其将朝着集权主义越滑越深，政治分歧将变得不可调和，新的政治决裂可能将不可避免。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Turkey’s export potential has been negatively affected by the rising stringency of the sanctions regime against Iran, with trade losses estimated at $6 billion for the first nine months of 2013.",
        "因此，土耳其的出口潜力因为对伊制裁的收紧而大受影响，据估计，2013年前九个月的贸易损失高达60亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "With the US intent on shifting its attention from Europe’s sphere of vital interests, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, to Asia and the Pacific, it can no longer be expected to take the lead in resolving crises in Europe’s backyard.",
        "美国意在将注意力从欧洲关键利益区——地中海和中东地区——转向亚太地区，不用指望它会继续担当解决欧洲后院危机的领导角色。"
    ],
    [
        "We remember having seen the left govern without drama.",
        "我们记得左派曾经的统治。"
    ],
    [
        "Who Will Suffer Most from Climate Change?",
        "气候变化啊，谁最遭罪？"
    ],
    [
        "All of this puts Ireland in the middle of three important issues raised in the austerity debates: whether orthodox policy, with its heavy emphasis on immediate budget cuts, can restore conditions for growth, employment gains, and financial stability; whether the benefits of eurozone membership still outweigh the costs for countries that must restructure their economies; and how a small, open economy should strategically position itself in today’s world.",
        "所有这些让爱尔兰处于紧缩争论所引出的三个重要问题的中间地带：正统政策——非常强调马上削减预算——是否能为增长、就业改善和金融稳定重新创造条件？ 对一些国家来说，欧元区成员国的好处是否仍能压倒经济重组的成本？"
    ],
    [
        "And your management – of finance, personnel, and governance – has to be sustained at the level of global best practices.",
        "而你的管理——财务、人事和治理方面——必须保持全球最佳水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the Fed may struggle just to get its base interest rate up to 2% over the coming year, there will be very little room to cut if a recession hits.",
        "在未来一年中，美联储可能最多只能让基准利率提高到2%，如果发生衰退，降低利率的空间将非常小。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the Japanese view his recent demands for apologies, money, and recognition of Korean sovereignty over the islands in the Sea of Japan as a kind of betrayal.",
        "因此，日本视李明博近期的行为——要求日本对战争进行道歉，对被迫做慰安妇的朝鲜妇女进行经济补偿，以及要求日本承认韩国对日本海洋面各岛屿的所有权——为一种背叛。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while history suggests that countries that welcome newcomers’ energy and vibrancy compete best internationally, Europe is taking the opposite tack by tightening its borders.",
        "历史表明，欢迎新公民能量和活力的国家最能获得最强的国际竞争力，但欧洲却在反其道而行之——收紧边境线。"
    ],
    [
        "The success of Europe’s newly established science centers and festivals in reaching their potential audiences reflects their invention of a new way of teaching and learning.",
        "欧洲新近设立和开展的科学中心和节日在吸引潜在观众群方面的成功反映了教与学方面的创新。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Today’s world hunger crisis is unprecedentedly severe and requires urgent measures.",
        "纽约—当今世界饥饿危机的严重程度前所未有，已是当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "That, together with large-scale quantitative easing, has injected a massive $32 trillion into the global economy over the last nine years.",
        "这，再加上大规模量化宽松，在过去九年中为全球经济注入了32万亿美元巨资。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, large-scale displacement of people and unspeakable human suffering are occurring in many African countries (not to mention in Syria and elsewhere), threatening to reverse the continent’s unprecedented economic progress during the last decade.",
        "事实上，大规模的人民流离失所和深重的人道灾难正在许多非洲国家上演（更不用说叙利亚和其他地方了），威胁着非洲大陆过去十年来前所未有的经济进步过程。"
    ],
    [
        "And if growth decelerates further – the annual rate has already dropped from 10% to 7.5% – social unrest may increase.",
        "而如果增长进一步减速——年增长率已从10%降至7. 5%——社会动荡可能还会加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "The second, broadly that of the Democratic Party, was somewhat more complicated, and was based on four observations:",
        "另一大派系则由民主党担纲，其理念也更为复杂，主要基于以下四点观察："
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the achievements of Israel’s superior army and its anti-missile systems, and however appalling the devastation of Gaza, Hamas will survive, if only because Israel wants it to.",
        "不管以色列占绝对优势的军队和反导系统取得了什么战果，也不论加沙的状况是多么惨烈，哈马斯都会活下来，因为以色列希望这样。"
    ],
    [
        "The global economic collapse of 2007-2008 discredited “rational expectations” economics (though its high priests have yet to recognize this) and brought both Keynes and Hayek back into posthumous contention.",
        "虽然某些领军人物依然不愿承认，但2007~2008年的全球金融危机已经使“理性预期”经济学颜面尽失，并使凯恩斯和哈耶克这两大理论重新回到了后发制人的擂台上。"
    ],
    [
        "Even respecting the idiosyncrasies of each context, there is still sufficient common ground for more precision in the agreements.",
        "尽管各方都理解每项协议条款的内在涵义，但依然缺乏足够的共同基础来继续细化这个协议。"
    ],
    [
        "As in Cambodia, many of Asia’s strongest supporters of democratic change are young men and women.",
        "就像在柬埔寨一样，亚洲的青年男女是民主变革最有力的支持者 。"
    ],
    [
        "At the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro it was agreed that, “efforts should be undertaken towards the greening of the world.”",
        "正像里约热内卢的联合国环境与发展会议所一致同意的：“必须采取措施加强世界的绿化”。"
    ],
    [
        "Conversely, a system based on population would have gone too far in favoring the big ones.",
        "而反过来，以人口为基础的系统却又太过倾向于大国力量的发挥。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, Gazprom has evolved into the dominant market-maker in gas for Europe, and its actions have made a mockery of EU efforts at greater collaboration with Russia.",
        "与此同时，俄罗斯天然气工业公司成为了欧洲天然气市场统治者，它的行为使欧盟谋求与俄罗斯进行更大协作的努力成为笑柄。"
    ],
    [
        "On December 16, the Pakistanis signed the instrument of surrender in Dacca.",
        "12月6日，巴基斯坦在达卡签署投降文件。"
    ],
    [
        "We have put research participants in experiments where powerful situational forces – anonymity, group pressures, or diffusion of personal responsibility – led them blindly to obey authority and to aggress against innocent others after dehumanizing them.",
        "我们让参加研究的人接受实验，在实验中强大的情境力量，也就是匿名、群体压力或个人责任的传播会使他们盲目地听从当权者的指令，在丧失人性后会恶毒地攻击无辜的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Since a country’s currency can be a reserve currency only if others are willing to accept it as such, time may be running out for the dollar.",
        "当其他国家不再被迫将一个国家的货币作为自己的储备时，美元的好日子就快到头了。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if public debt is not growing as fast as before, the huge volume of existing debt must be repaid.",
        "即便公债增长不如从前那样快，巨大的存量债务也必须偿还。"
    ],
    [
        "A crucial test of universal jurisdiction is now moving forward in Senegal, where one of Africa’s cruelest dictators, Hissène Habré, who ruled Chad from 1982 to 1990, is set to be prosecuted.",
        "眼下，普遍管辖权正在塞内加尔经受一次关键考验，非洲残暴独裁者之一、1982—1990年乍得统治者侯赛因·哈布雷（Hissène Habré）即将被起诉。"
    ],
    [
        "Purchases of these relatively low-cost items can be regarded as the withdrawal symptoms of the world’s consumer binge.",
        "购买这些相对低价的消费品可以被认为是世界性购买狂热消退的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "While a Brazilian orange admitted for sale in Portugal can be sold throughout the EU, a Brazilian engineer or accountant licensed in Portugal must fulfill separate licensing requirements to work elsewhere in the EU, hampering much-needed labor mobility by forcing non-European workers to endure costly and inefficient bureaucratic procedures.",
        "尽管获准在葡萄牙出售的巴西橙可以在整个欧盟出售，但获得葡萄牙执照的巴西工程师和会计师仍必须满足欧盟其他地区各自的执业要求，这迫使非欧洲工人忍受费时费力的官僚主义流程，不利于急需的劳动力流动。"
    ],
    [
        "Shockingly, he declared that he did not know who really won.",
        "更令人震惊的是，他宣布不知道到底谁获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, given that most investment is financed by debt, and that interest payments are tax-deductible, the level of corporate taxation has little effect on investment.",
        "事实上，由于大部分投资通过债务融资，而利息偿付可以抵扣应税项目，因此公司税水平对投资几乎没有影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important differences between the two candidates can be summarized as follows:",
        "两大总统候选人的主要差别可以总结如下："
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Russia’s ability to meet future gas demand from commercially viable reserves suggests that Nord Stream could be used to cut off gas sales to unfavored clients.",
        "此外俄罗斯足以满足未来需求的天然气商业开采储量也意味着北溪管道可以被用来切段对那些“不讨俄罗斯喜欢”的国家的供应。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to far-reaching political and economic cooperation, the offer promises cooperation on nuclear matters, including the construction and supply of the newest light-water reactors in Iran, as well as Iranian access to nuclear research and development – provided that there is a negotiated settlement.",
        "这一提议除了范围广泛的政治经济合作以外，还许诺在核子问题合作，包括在伊朗建造和提供最新的轻水反应堆。 同时，还允许伊朗接触核子研发材料，但是其前提条件是谈判解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Better nutrition makes economic sense.",
        "加强营养能够带来经济效益。"
    ],
    [
        "To see why, it is worth recalling that the SGP’s original rules were judged “stupid” by one former Commission president (Romano Prodi), because the single-minded pursuit of a deficit below 3 % of GDP could be inappropriate during recessions.",
        "要想明白原因，不妨回忆一下，SGP的最初规则被一位前主席（罗曼诺·普罗迪（Romano Prodi））称为“愚蠢”，因为一根筋地追求赤字低于GDP的3%可能在衰退时期并不合适。"
    ],
    [
        "The ex-minister's charge is disingenuous.",
        "这位前部长的指控并无诚信可言。"
    ],
    [
        "During much of the 1970s and 1980s, Indonesia’s low level of income inequality helped raise living standards and reduce poverty.",
        "在20世纪七八十年代的大部分时间里，印尼收入不平等性很低，这帮助其提高了生活水平，减少了贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, pioneers of “lovenomics,” cite the tax code as a reason for not marrying.",
        "类似地，“爱情经济学”先驱贝西·史蒂文森（Betsey Stevenson）和贾斯汀·沃尔夫斯（Justin Wolfers）把税法当作不结婚的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, a study by the China Center for Economic Research has found that a 20% appreciation against the dollar would entail a 3% drop in employment – more than 20 million jobs.",
        "此外，中国经济研究中心的研究表明，人民币对美元升值20%将导致就业人口下降3%，相当于2000万人。"
    ],
    [
        "Since he became president in 2003, Hu Jintao has repeatedly warned that China’s economy is overheating, and his government has recently acted accordingly, raising interest rates last October, imposing a new tax on home sales in June, and revaluing the Yuan in July.",
        "2003年当选总统后，胡锦涛一再警告中国经济有过热的迹象，政府最近采取了相应的措施，于去年10月提高了利率，6月又开始征收新的国内销售税，7月批准了人民币升值。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal policy must, therefore, play a central role.",
        "因此，财政政策必须扮演关键的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Global financial markets in 2008 experienced their worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930’s.",
        "纽约—2008年的全球金融市场经历了自从二十世纪三十年代大萧条以来最严重的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Chess is about total victory, a Clausewitzian battle for the “center of gravity” and the eventual elimination of the enemy, whereas weiqi is a quest for relative advantage through a strategy of encirclement that avoids direct conflict.",
        "象棋的目标是完全胜利，争夺的是克劳塞维茨所谓的“重心”，旨在最终完全消灭敌人，而围棋追求的是通过避免直接冲突的包围战略获得相对优势。"
    ],
    [
        "The Indian soldiers who died in WWI could make no such claim.",
        "死于一战的印度士兵却不能这样讲。"
    ],
    [
        "Undoubtedly, international institutions and countries in the global South have far more urgent goals than to spend resources suing greedy companies.",
        "无疑，南方国家和国际机构有比耗费资源起诉贪婪的企业更为急迫的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Iran’s main Arab ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has been given a reprieve as the conflict in his country drags on without conclusion.",
        "不仅如此，伊朗主要的阿拉伯盟国叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德已经得到了喘息之机，而叙利亚冲突则一拖再拖没有结果。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, powerful predators might be lurking around the nearest water cooler right now.",
        "事实上，强大的捕食者现在可能就藏在冷饮水箱之后。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, squeezing the “blue” (Democratic) states, including California and New York, by including provisions in the tax bill aimed specifically at them, not only further widens America’s political divide; it’s also bad economics.",
        "此外，通过借助税收法案中的针对性条款来压榨包括加利福尼亚州和纽约州在内的“蓝色”（民主党主导）州，不仅进一步扩大了美国的政治分歧，而在经济学上也是败笔。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists at the Bank for International Settlements – an organization of central banks – were laying out the risks very starkly.",
        "国际清算银行——央行的组织——的经济学家们非常尖锐地指出了风险。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, money spent on the war could have been spent elsewhere.",
        "同时，花在战争上的钱可以用在别处。"
    ],
    [
        "That model has broken down, and will not be replaced soon.",
        "这个模式已经崩溃，而且短期内无可替代。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to look at development more holistically, acknowledging that rural development and urban development are not mutually exclusive – each needs the other.",
        "现在，应该以更多的历史眼光看待发展，认识到农村发展和城市发展并不互相矛盾，而是相辅相成。"
    ],
    [
        "Integrating a biomedical approach with an emphasis on the importance of good nutrition, decent housing, and human welfare will be necessary if the disease is to be brought to heel.",
        "只有将生物医学方法与注重良好营养、舒适居所和人类福祉相结合才能实现战胜结核病的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this is to dismiss Rwanda’s progress in reducing poverty, which reflects reforms in health, education, and the general policy environment.",
        "所有这些都不能抹杀卢旺达在减贫方面的进步，这些进步体现在健康、教育和总体政策环境方面的改革中。"
    ],
    [
        "In the poorest region, the North and Northeast, the numbers fall to 8.6% and 8.3%.",
        "在最贫困的北部和东北部地区，这一数字下降到8. 6%和8."
    ],
    [
        "Again, consensual debate is required.",
        "但也不能一味否定，而是应该开展一致的辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "The current IP regime is not sustainable. The twenty-first-century global economy will differ from that of the twentieth in at least two critical ways.",
        "目前的知识产权制度是不可持续的，因为二十一世纪的全球经济至少在两个关键方面与二十世纪经济有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "In January, Greece’s citizens voted for a government committed to ending austerity.",
        "1月，希腊选民选出了一个承诺结束紧缩的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Up to now, some 2,520 agencies and 388 individuals have been included on the list of receivers.",
        "直到目前为止，有 2520 间机构和 388 位个人拥有成为 破产案产业管理人的资格 。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though these people have French passports, they are treated as unwanted foreigners.",
        "即便这些人都拥有法国护照，他们依然被视为不受欢迎的外国人。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the sports at which Britain has done particularly well, like cycling and rowing, are most highly influenced by income and host effects.",
        "一些英国人玩得最溜的运动，如自行车和赛艇，正是收入和东道主效应最明显的运动。"
    ],
    [
        "They feel that they cannot claim to be out of tools.",
        "他们感到他们不能宣布已经用尽了一切方法。"
    ],
    [
        "While Royal has been critical of Sarkozy, she, too, has appealed to nationalism, calling for a “re-conquest of the symbols of the nation” from the right.",
        "”尽管罗雅尔对萨尔科齐的观点表示了批评，但是她同样有民族主义的倾向，呼吁从右派手中“夺回对国家象征的掌握”。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s leaders will have to contend with other countries’ reactions, as well as with the constraints implied by the need for external markets and resources in order to meet their economic-growth objectives.",
        "但中国领导人也将为此面对其他国家的相关反应，以及为实现其经济增长目标而产生的对国外市场和资源进口的需求所隐含的限制性因素。"
    ],
    [
        "A universal definition of sexual health and sexual rights is sorely needed.",
        "我们急需放之四海而皆准的性健康和性权利定义。"
    ],
    [
        "To boost productivity in the future, Asian governments will have to implement well-targeted structural reforms today.",
        "要提振未来生产率，亚洲各国政府需要在今天实施精准定向的结构性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s banking system does face risks stemming from a maturity mismatch between loans and deposits.",
        "中国银行系统确实面临存贷款期限不匹配问题所产生的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar pattern holds for public debt.",
        "公共债务方面模式也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Its post-2008 recovery has slowed, and some observers fear that Europe’s financial problems could tip the American and world economy into a second recession.",
        "2008年后的复苏已经放缓，有些观察员甚至担心欧洲爆发的金融问题将令美国和世界经济陷入二次衰退之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Reducing individual tax rates and taxes on savings and investment at best fosters modest increases in employment, work effort, and income.",
        "降低个人税率和储蓄和投资方面的税负充其量只能使就业、工作投入度和收入略有增长。"
    ],
    [
        "For a half-century, the US-Japan alliance has been a cornerstone of Asian and global peace, security, and stability – and Japan has been an outstanding global citizen.",
        "半个世纪以来，美日同盟一直是亚洲及世界和平、安全和稳定的基石，日本也一直是全球公民的表率。 其他亚洲国家成功仿效了由日本开创的经济增长模式；"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits would have included a massive devaluation, which would have restored some dynamism to what was once a fast-growing economy.",
        "好处将包括剧烈贬值，这将重塑一些这个曾经高速增长的经济体的活力。"
    ],
    [
        "These economies’ combined size is now approximately that of the US economy, with total annual output reaching $15-16 trillion, or roughly 25% of global GDP.",
        "这些经济体的总体规模与美国相近，其年度产出达到15~16万亿美元，或者说约占全球GDP的25%。"
    ],
    [
        "The Romanian Defense Ministry, for example, disclosed the number of armed forces personnel who died in 2003, as well as the causes of death (including 13 suicides, two shootings, and two combat deaths in Afghanistan).",
        "比如说，罗马尼亚国防部就公布了2003年死亡的军人的数目以及死亡的原因（其中有13起自杀、2起枪击案、以及2起在阿富汗的战斗死亡）。"
    ],
    [
        "But, overall, signs of greater resilience and increased stability are everywhere.",
        "但总体而言，适应性和稳定性增强的迹象无处不在。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the Nazis were not defeated by carpet bombing.",
        "就连纳粹也不是被地毯式轰炸打败的。"
    ],
    [
        "Stalin is yet another cherished role model.",
        "斯大林是另外一个值得珍惜的角色范例。"
    ],
    [
        "Principles, solidarity, and vision are nowhere to be found.",
        "原则、团结和愿景都是细枝末节。"
    ],
    [
        "But the problem with the ancient alchemists and their search for the philosopher’s stone was not that they were stupid or selfish people.",
        "但古代炼金术士及他们寻找点金石的问题并不在于他们是愚蠢或者自私的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Though actual trade volumes are recovering from the post-crisis recession and drop in commodity prices, “globalization” has become increasingly contentious, as exemplified by the election of US President Donald Trump on the back of a promise to rip up international agreements and get tough on trade partners.",
        "尽管实际贸易量正在从危机后的衰退中复苏，大宗商品的价格也逐步下降，但是围绕“全球化”的争议却日益喧嚣，对此美国总统特朗普的当选就是明证——此人的口号就是要撕毁国际协定并强硬对待贸易伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that taxes on the rich cannot be increased at all; but such increases cannot be the primary way of balancing the budget.",
        "这并不是说完全不能对富人增税； 但增税不应该作为平衡预算的首选方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Any boom generated in this way is likely to end badly – not just financial ruin for millions of individuals, but also a long and difficult recovery.",
        "用这种方式制造的繁荣，最终都有可能以悲剧收场——不仅仅是数百万个人惨遭财务灾难，复苏之路也有可能漫长而艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "He hopes that with a few months, he can then withdraw American troops to the periphery of Baghdad and leave the policing of the capital to Iraqi forces.",
        "他希望，再经过几个月，他就可以将美国士兵撤到巴格达城边，并且把在首都执行警卫的任务交给伊拉克军队。"
    ],
    [
        "Following China’s announced moratorium on new coal-fired power plants at the end of last year, Peabody, the world’s largest coal company, recently filed for bankruptcy protection in the US, after it could no longer make its debt payments, partly because of waning demand for coal.",
        "在中国于去年底宣布新建燃煤电厂的禁令后，世界规模最大的石油公司皮博迪最近部分因为煤炭需求减少导致无力偿还债务而在美国申请了破产保护。"
    ],
    [
        "The rolling stock for China’s CRH380A bullet train is based on technology from Kawasaki Heavy Industries, whereas the German company Siemens provided the technology for the CRH380B.",
        "而这款CRH380A型机车的技术正是源自于日本川崎重工，而德国西门子则为另外一款CRH380B型机车提供技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, by pushing for a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Trump is taking a risk similar to that of the Brexiteers.",
        "最后，通过推动《北美自由贸易协定》的重新谈判，特朗普正在冒类似于脱欧者的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "To obtain a patent, an applicant must demonstrate that an invention meets three criteria: newness, non-obviousness (that there is an inventive step), and utility (the invention does what it claims to do).",
        "为获取专利，申请人必须证明某一项发明符合新面世、非显见（其中涉及发明步骤）和具备实用价值（即发明能起到所称的作用）等项条件。"
    ],
    [
        "In the third quarter of 2013, Germany’s export growth slowed and French exports fell.",
        "在2013年第三季度德国的出口增长放缓而法国出口下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan remains the world’s third-largest economy, the fourth-largest trader, and the third-largest export market for neighboring China and South Korea, which thus stand to benefit if “Abenomics” revitalizes Japanese domestic demand.",
        "日本仍是世界第三大经济体，第四大贸易体，和邻国中国和韩国的第三大出口市场，中韩两国都将因“安倍经济学”重振日本内需而获益。"
    ],
    [
        "The effectiveness of available options is limited, and all of them are pregnant with unpredictable political and military consequences.",
        "可用的有效选项不多，而且这些选项都含有无法预估的政治和军事后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that much of the so-called “blind” and “redundant” investment that Beijing would like to eliminate has the strong support of local governments, whose primary concern is with generating GDP growth in their jurisdictions, regardless of whether the means of achieving it make any economic sense.",
        "而问题的症结则在许多北京明令禁止的“盲目”和“多余”投资项目背后都有地方政府撑腰。 这些地方政府主要把眼光放在如何拉动当地 GDP 的增长之上，根本不管这些项目在经济上是否具有可行性。"
    ],
    [
        "An even more dramatic example of neglect of low-probability/high-cost risks is the danger of an asteroid strike, which is analytically similar to the menace of tsunamis.",
        "忽视较低可能性以及高成本风险的更为极端的例子是小行星撞击地球的危险。 这从分析角度而言与大海啸的危险相似。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, economic self-interest has forced the government of South Sudan to cooperate with Sudan, from which it gained independence, following a brutal civil war, in 2011.",
        "类似地，经济自利迫使南苏丹与苏丹进行合作。 2011年，南苏丹通过残酷的内战从苏丹脱离并独立。"
    ],
    [
        "No mainstream European leader, including Hollande, even mentions this new division.",
        "没有一个主流的欧洲领袖，包括奥朗德，提到过这种新的分化。"
    ],
    [
        "This will prove more difficult than it first sounds.",
        "这做起来可比第一次听到的时候难多了。"
    ],
    [
        "But this quickly tapered off, most notably in the House of Representatives.",
        "但情况很快就起了变化，特别是在众议院。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus far, the government has demonstrated some flexibility while trying to manage this new challenge with traditional means.",
        "迄今为止，政府在用传统手段应对新的挑战方面，已经显示出一定的灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "The second major obstacle is the intellectual demise of what could be called “the science of economics.”",
        "第二项主要障碍是所谓 “经济学知识” 的灭亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Forestry has always been a problem in Afghanistan.",
        "阿富汗的森林一直是一个棘手问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But do they have equal claims to being moral emotions?",
        "但他们对道德情感的作用相同吗？"
    ],
    [
        "That gap – between actual and potential output – is estimated at more than 7% of GDP (more than $1 trillion).",
        "其中的缺口——即实际产出和潜在产出之差——大约在GDP的7%（1万亿美元）以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Viable units will emerge that are less than ideal but at least capable of creating legitimate government - meaning a government that is both effective and acceptable.",
        "能被多数人接受的组织会应运而生，虽然它们并不完美，却至少能产生合法的政府－这样的政府不仅有效，也能被大多数人所接受。"
    ],
    [
        "A new report from McKinsey Global Institute addresses these questions by analyzing the inflows and outflows of goods, services, finance, people, and data and communications for 195 countries over the past 20 years.",
        "新的麦肯锡全球研究所（McKinsey Global Institute）报告通过分析195个国家在过去20年中的商品、服务、金融、人员和数据与通信流入流出量回答了这些问题。"
    ],
    [
        "To that end, all members must stand on an equal footing.",
        "最终来说，所有的成员国都应该平等地被对待。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to look beyond these figures to determine who really is responsible for fomenting a political climate where blatant lies and explicit racism and bigotry have entered the mainstream of public discourse.",
        "我们的目光要超过这些人，找出谁应该真正为赤裸裸的谎言和不加掩饰的种族主义和偏执狂营造政治气氛、让他们进入到主流政治领域负责。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, the state-owned development bank is offering billions of dollars in loans to some of the country’s most innovative companies, including Huawei and Yingli Solar.",
        "芬兰公共创新基金Sitra也为诺基亚公司提供过早期融资。 在中国，国有开发银行为华为和天威英利等中国最具创新性的公司提供数十亿美元贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is more nuanced and complex.",
        "事实要更加微妙、更加复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "In partnership with the World Bank, the WHO, UNICEF, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, it has used innovative financing tools to raise funds for global immunization programs, while working with industry to lower the prices of vaccines.",
        "在与世界银行、世卫组织、联合国儿童基金会和比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会的合作中，GAVI联盟使用创新性融资工具筹集全球免疫项目资金，同时与产业界合作以降低疫苗价格。"
    ],
    [
        "A sitting senator has, for the first time, been arrested on corruption charges.",
        "首次有在任参议员因为腐败指控而被捕。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the UN forecasts that world population will rise to 9.3 billion in 2050 and surpass 10 billion by the end of this century.",
        "毕竟，据联合国预测，世界人口将在2050年达到93亿，在本世纪末超过100亿。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea was that the commission could make unbiased recommendations about contentious issues like the contents of history textbooks and even the Yasukuni shrine, a nationalist pilgrimage site where the remains of Japanese war criminals, among others, are interred.",
        "其初衷是该委员会能就历史教科书内容甚至靖国神社（供奉日本战犯的民族主义朝圣地）等争议问题给出无偏颇的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe spoke repeatedly in the Australian Parliament earlier this month of Japan’s new “special relationship” with Australia – terminology normally associated only with the strongest of alliance partnerships – and followed his address by signing an agreement for the transfer of defense equipment and technology.",
        "本月早些时候，安倍在澳大利亚议会重申，日本将与澳大利亚建立新的“特殊关系”——这样说的意思通常是建立最紧密的盟友关系——并在演讲后签署了一项国防设备和技术的转让协议。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue could not be more urgent.",
        "这是个极其紧迫的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "India must find other drivers of economic modernization than new information technologies (as welcome as these are).",
        "印度则要找到除了新信息科技（虽然依然欢迎）之外的经济现代化驱动力。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires data upon which to base the rise in mortality, usually derived by conducting a household survey on a random sample of the population.",
        "这需要了解死亡率上升的数据，而这样的数据一般通过对现存人口进行随机的家庭抽样调查来取得。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike in Egypt, the vacuum resulting from Saleh’s departure can be quickly filled, so the country need not fall back on a military oligarchy.",
        "跟埃及不同，萨利赫下台所导致的权力真空将很快被填补，因此也门也不太可能会退回到军政府独裁的年代。"
    ],
    [
        "People turn on their televisions and watch in disbelief as their elected representatives shout slogans, wave placards, scream abuse, and provoke adjournments – indeed, do almost anything but what they were elected to do.",
        "人们打开电视，然后不可思议地看到他们选出来的代表高喊口号、挥动标语、尖叫怒骂、煽动休会——他们什么都干，就是不干应该干的事。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ireland, last autumn’s financial crisis provoked a turnaround in public opinion about the EU, and even in Iceland, although it lies on the periphery of our continent, membership of the EU and the euro have become a priority.",
        "在爱尔兰，去年夏天的金融危机让人们对欧盟的态度发生了180度的转向，甚至连一向游离于欧洲大陆之外的冰岛，欧盟成员国资格和欧元也被放在了首位。"
    ],
    [
        "And the incomes of the moderately educated middle class failed to benefit from deregulation-led growth (though it improved their lot as consumers).",
        "而教育程度适中的中产阶级在去监管化带来的增长中并没有获得好处（尽管作为消费者，他们获益良多）。"
    ],
    [
        "(Central bankers usually define the ideal “temperature” of the economy as annual inflation of about 2%.)",
        "（央行通常将理想的经济“温度”定义为年通胀率在2%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "As of now, Europe’s Tobin tax proposals are not well targeted.",
        "到目前为止，欧洲托宾税方案不具有很好的定向性。"
    ],
    [
        "But this triumph should not invite complacency.",
        "但绝不能因为这一胜利而自满。"
    ],
    [
        "What the G-20 agriculture ministers have agreed is to forge a system to improve transparency in agricultural markets, including information about production, stocks, and prices.",
        "G20农业部长们已经同意打造能够增进农产品市场透明度的体系，包括对产量、存货和价格信息的发布。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, dictatorship of any kind can readily be seen to be a terrible way to govern a society.",
        "更重要的是，任何类型的独裁都天生被视为恐怖的治理社会方式。"
    ],
    [
        "State-sponsored violence against the MDC and its supporters has escalated as the June 27 run-off vote draws near. Just weeks ago, Biti described the discovery of the mutilated body of Tonderai Ndira, an MDC youth leader.",
        "随着6月27日再次投票的临近，针对民主变革运动及其支持者的由国家支持的暴力行为升级了。 仅仅在几个星期以前，彼迪讲述发现了民主变革运动青年领导人尼拉被肢解的尸体。"
    ],
    [
        "Attribution, however, is a matter of degree.",
        "但追踪可以达到一定的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, failure to implement policies based on genuine respect for this perspective plunged Sudan into its second costly North-South war, fueled the violent conflicts in Western and Eastern Sudan, and created the possibility of the South’s secession.",
        "不幸的是，苏丹却没能将体现这一观点的政策认真地推行下去，于是整个国家便陷入了建国以来耗资第二巨大的南北战争，还分别在东部和西部地区引发了冲突，甚至导致了南部分裂的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this would have increased the IMF’s already-large exposure to Greece; but this would have been a worthwhile trade-off, because it would have served a strategy that would have had a much better chance of success.",
        "当然，这将增加IMF已然相当高的希腊风险敞口； 但这将是一个值得的权衡，因为它有利于一个成功几率高得多的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "The other extreme is very unequal access, made more unequal because the wealthy have the time to help their kids with homework and the money to arrange for tuitions, while the poor leave their children watching TV while they work a second job.",
        "另外一种极端就是非常不平等的机会，之所以会变得很不公平是因为富人有时间为自家小孩辅导作业，也有钱支付学费，而穷人在为生计打第二份兼职时只能让自己的孩子看电视。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is also possible that checks and balances will hold until the next election, enabling America’s existing political parties to rebuild and new parties to emerge.",
        "但也有可能，制衡能够维持到下一次选举，让美国现有政党获得重建、新的政党得到涌现。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, China has become more uncoordinated, or fragmented, as its income disparities have continued to widen.",
        "同样地，中国也变得更加不协调，或者说碎片化，这是因为其收入差距一直在扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "As recently as a year ago, anyone who visited FMLN headquarters in San Salvador to interview, for example, Ceren, its Secretary General, would be struck by the overwhelming presence of Chávez: red shirts, red berets, pictures of the Venezuelan caudillo, quotations from his teachings and musings.",
        "近在一年前，若谁去马解阵线设在圣萨尔瓦多的总部去采访总书记塞伦，他将为那里的无处不在的查韦斯的影响而头晕目眩：红色衬衣和红色贝雷帽、这位委内瑞拉领袖的画像以及他的语录和思想的标语。"
    ],
    [
        "Cash, voters, and lobbies aside, something fundamental has changed in recent years, and this scares the Democrats: Israel’s conflict with Palestine is now being used by the American right as a cudgel to beat up liberals.",
        "除了现金、选民以及游说集团，近几年来还发生了一些根本性变化让民主党感到恐慌：以色列与巴勒斯坦的冲突如今被美国右翼用来作为打击自由派的利器。"
    ],
    [
        "Save the Children, obviously, is most concerned about the 53% of Gaza population that is under 18.",
        "显然，拯救儿童组织最关心的是不满18岁的53%加沙人口。"
    ],
    [
        "And, even on foreign policy, Obama’s critics complain that he has failed to implement the transformational initiatives that he promised four years ago.",
        "而即使在外交政策方面，奥巴马的批评者也指出他没能推行四年前做出的转型承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The first industrial revolution so reduced the cost of textiles that it led to a boom in demand, production, and employment.",
        "第一次工业革命大幅降低了纺织品的成本，从而创造了需求、生产和就业的极度繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "For the SDR to become a true international currency, in other words, the IMF would have to become more like a global central bank and international lender of last resort.",
        "如果特别提款权要成为真正意义上的国际货币的话，那么IMF就要成为类似一个全球的中央银行和国际借贷的最终提供者。"
    ],
    [
        "In North Korea, Russian diplomacy has made even more progress.",
        "在朝鲜，俄罗斯的外交进展更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in their first few decades of modern growth, China has been ruled by a single party.",
        "与新加坡、日本、韩国和台湾省在现代增长的最初几十年一样，中国也是一党执政。"
    ],
    [
        "It probably will create asset-price bubbles.",
        "它可能造成资产价格泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries that traded a great deal with Britain, or were in the orbit of British imperial rule, continued to hold reserves in pounds after 1931.",
        "一些与英国有巨额贸易的国家或一些英联邦国家在1931年后继续以英镑作为其主要外汇储备。"
    ],
    [
        "From what we can surmise from this case – and many others like it – they are the semi-urbanized products of a highly conventional rural society where the roles of men, and especially women, are tightly regulated.",
        "我们可以从这宗案件（和其他多宗类似案件）中推断的是他们是高度传统的农村社会半城市化的产物，在这样的社会中，人，特别是女人的角色是严格限制的。"
    ],
    [
        "What is certain is that both options – living with a nuclear Iran or attacking it – involve serious risks and costs.",
        "我们可以肯定的是这两种方案不管是与拥有核武器的伊朗共存还是对它实施打击都将面临巨大的风险及付出沉重的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Several products that could revolutionize transfusion medicine have already been developed in the pursuit of shelf-stable, portable, one-type-fits-all blood substitutes, which could replace standard blood transfusions in extreme situations, such as on the battlefield.",
        "在寻找储藏稳定、携带便捷、普遍是用的血液替代品（以便在战场等极端环境中代替标准输血操作）的过程中，一些可能引起输血医学革命的产品已经被开发出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Unger argues that all of today’s democracies “are flawed, low-energy democracies,” in which “no trauma” – in the form of economic ruin or military conflict – means “no transformation.” He is right.",
        "然而昂格尔认为，今天所有的民主国家都是“有缺陷的，低能量的民主”，除非遇到（以经济毁灭或军事冲突为形式的）“挫折”否则“无法实现转型”，确实如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The new governments will face the immediate challenge of creating jobs, for which the only available recipe is investment in large-scale public-works projects.",
        "新政府面临的紧迫挑战包括创造就业岗位——在这方面，唯一可开出的药方是大规模公共设施项目投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas and Fatah at the Crossroads",
        "处在十字路口的哈马斯和法塔赫"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of reducing tax evasion, the results have been mixed.",
        "在减少逃税现象方面，各地的成效不尽相同。"
    ],
    [
        "The Israelis refused; another impasse was reached.",
        "以色列拒绝合作，谈判再度陷入僵持局面。"
    ],
    [
        "The time has come to discard the clichéd image of refugees as passive recipients of aid, sitting idly with outstretched hands.",
        "彻底摒弃老套难民形象的时机已经成熟，难民不应再被视为无所事事、伸手乞讨的被动的援助接受者。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientists have proposed various ways to deflect an asteroid away from the Earth.",
        "让小行星避开地球，科学家提出过几种办法。"
    ],
    [
        "His relations with fellow Republicans in Congress are in free fall, as are his chances of passing any serious legislation.",
        "他与国会共和党同僚的关系开始自由落体，他通过任何严肃法案的机会也是一样。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the long-term pattern that we’ve seen: the share of the workforce in goods production has declined over time, while the cost of goods has fallen relative to that of services.",
        "我们已经见证了这个长期模式：商品生产者占劳动者总量的比例不断减少，同时商品成本相对于服务成本也有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever protective of his position as sole leader of the Palestinian people, Arafat sought to block any means by which a potential rival could challenge him. But in protecting his position, Arafat also blocked the appointment of a successor in his lifetime.",
        "作为巴勒斯坦人民的最高领袖，他曾为了维护他的绝对领导地位而试图封死任何来自潜在竞争对手的挑战，但这也使他在有生之年找到一名接班人变得困难重重。"
    ],
    [
        "If necessary, the US Central Intelligence Agency should be asked to assist in identifying how these funds are transferred.",
        "如有必要，应该要求美国中央情报局协助辨别这些资金是如何转入的。"
    ],
    [
        "Many generations of Ukrainians were also deprived of a right to their own country, language, and culture.",
        "几代乌克兰人的国籍、语言和文化权利也被无情地剥夺。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s use of OMT satisfies both criteria.",
        "而欧洲央行对直接货币交易手段的使用也符合这两项条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The Catalonia crisis is a strong hint from history that Europe needs to develop a new type of sovereignty, one that strengthens cities and regions, dissolves national particularism, and upholds democratic norms.",
        "加泰罗尼亚为机是一次强烈的历史暗示，表明欧洲需要制定新的主权类型，这种主权类型强化城市和地区，淡化国家忠诚，坚持民主规范。"
    ],
    [
        "Two years ago, a team of geophysicists led by Eric Calais of Purdue University predicted that the fault that produced the recent Haitian earthquake was at high risk of doing exactly what it did.",
        "早在两年之前，一个由普渡大学埃里克·卡莱斯教授所率领的地球物理学团队就预测到海地发生地震并造成如此破坏的可能性很大。"
    ],
    [
        "The latter leads to the full implementation of Deng’s policy, enshrined in the Basic Law, of “one country, two systems,” while the former turns the Basic Law into a worthless piece of paper.",
        "后者会实现作为《基本法》精髓的，邓小平“一国两制”政策的完全实施，而前者则只会将《基本法》变成一纸空文。"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, the fierce popular backlash against Western media was partially motivated by nationalist ardor, which played into the government’s hands.",
        "无疑，民族主义热情尤其推动了大众反对西方媒体的强烈反弹，这正中政府的下怀。"
    ],
    [
        "All of the presidential candidates had made wild promises; but the absence of significant achievement, such as resolving the country’s chronic shortages of gas and electricity, helped to fuel the massive anti-Morsi mobilization.",
        "所有总统候选人都做出了大胆的承诺。 但在承诺兑现方面（比方说解决该国长期以来的天然气及电力短缺）缺乏明显进展助长了大规模的反穆尔西运动。"
    ],
    [
        "The bust still stands in the White House Residence, where it always did, except for a short time under President George W. Bush when it was being repaired.",
        "丘吉尔铜像仍然矗立在在总统官邸，和往常一样，只不过在小布什期间因为修复需要而离开了一小段时间。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that this month in Addis Ababa, they take credible steps in that direction.",
        "我们希望，在本月的亚的斯亚贝巴，他们能够朝这一方向迈出可信的步伐。"
    ],
    [
        "The clear loser in the first round is the leader of the extreme-right Jean-Marie Le Pen.",
        "第一轮投票中明显的失败者就是极右翼领导人勒庞。"
    ],
    [
        "The tough-minded Iraqi leader, Nouri al-Maliki, who won three terms as prime minister, may not have engaged in sufficient outreach to the country’s Sunnis, but that is only one reason why Sunni radicalism persists in Iraq.",
        "坚定的伊拉克领导人、三次连任总理的马利基也许没有采取足够的措施与伊拉克逊尼派接触，但这只是逊尼派激进化在伊拉克持久存在的一个原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is flourishing.",
        "事实上，这一正在20多个非洲国家展开的发展项目可谓方兴未艾。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, some analysts have suggested that the Chinese renminbi may rival the dollar as the leading international currency by the end of the decade.",
        "事实上，一些分析师指出，到这个十年结束时，人民币可能挑战美元作为领先国际货币的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The game, however, may now be changing.",
        "但游戏规则可能正在发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "An Optimistic Case for the Euro",
        "欧元的乐观情景"
    ],
    [
        "By doing so, they will push prices close to fundamentals today.",
        "如此一来，他们就能驱使价格接近今天的基点。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, Padoan has started to implement fiscal stimulus by cutting taxes and maintaining public spending plans, in defiance of German and EU Commission demands to tighten his budget.",
        "更重要的是，帕多安已开始实施财政政策——降低税收并维持公共支出计划，丝毫不顾德国和欧盟委员会收紧预算的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "China challenges Japanese control over more than seven square kilometers of islets – called the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and the Diaoyu Islands in China – in the East China Sea.",
        "中国挑战日本对一座7个多平方公里小岛的控制权——这座小岛地处中国东海，日本称之为尖阁列岛，而中国则称之为钓鱼岛。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States gave the world the doctrine of liberal, rule-based multilateralism – a regime whose many blemishes highlight the lofty principles according to which the system has generally functioned.",
        "美国为世界带来了自由、规则基础下的多边主义思想——这一机制的缺点凸显出该体系运行所依据的傲慢原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Wilbur Ross, a legendary investor with great experience in the financial services sector, nicely articulated the informed private-sector view on this issue.",
        "传奇投资者威尔伯·罗斯（Wilbur Ross）在金融服务也有着丰富的经验，他通俗地讲出了消息灵通私人部门对此问题的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "For some, that is a price worth paying; for others, the costs seem too high.",
        "对有些人来讲，付出这种代价还算值得，但对另外一些人来讲，这样的代价似乎就有些太高了。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment, above 12% on average, is at a record high.",
        "平均12%以上的失业率处于历史最高值。"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-austerity anger swept away the reform agenda of Mario Monti’s previous technocratic government, leaving Italy, its future uncertain, to continue muddling through.",
        "反紧缩愤怒扫荡了蒙蒂的前技术官僚政府的改革日程，未来充满不确定性的意大利走回了得过且过的老路。"
    ],
    [
        "Malaysia’s political parties use anti-Shia animus to spread fear, helping to attract votes and consolidate power.",
        "马来西亚政党以反什叶派为目标散布恐惧，以此吸引选票、巩固权力。"
    ],
    [
        "In Indonesia, we used various innovations to work around such dilemmas.",
        "在印尼，我们采取各式各样的创新措施来解决这种两难局面。"
    ],
    [
        "MEXICO CITY – Supporters of Hugo Chávez, the recently deceased Venezuelan president, and even many of his critics, have repeatedly emphasized two supposed achievements that will burnish his legacy.",
        "墨西哥城—刚刚去世的委内瑞拉总统查韦斯的支持者，甚至还有许多他的批评者，都一再强调他身前的两大成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Another bit of conventional wisdom is that creating the right incentive structure and securing the necessary know-how to run state-owned enterprises is very difficult.",
        "另一个传统智慧是，创造正确的激励结构并确保必要的知识运营国有企业是十分困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "Many TPP countries are already among the world’s most open economies, with most merchandise trade among them having already been liberalized by earlier agreements and unilateral initiatives.",
        "许多TPP国家已经位居世界最开放的经济体之列，它们之间所贸易的大部分商品已经通过早先的宪定和单边行动而实现了自由化。"
    ],
    [
        "Close, but here Trump is on the “right” side of the electorate.",
        "比例很接近，但特朗普站在了选民中的“正确”一方。"
    ],
    [
        "It was not supposed to be like this.",
        "但是这并不是人们所希望出现的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most important, steps will need to be taken to reassure Iran’s neighbors so that they are not tempted to proceed with their own nuclear programs.",
        "也许最重要的是，需要采取措施让伊朗的邻国放心，让它们不必启动自身的核计划。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the public is increasingly aware that urgent and straightforward policies are desperately needed in the areas of pension and healthcare payments, and in state organization.",
        "但如果经济增幅度上升及失业率下降，政坛丑闻就会成为一个小插曲。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, people are already rating their own doctors at sites such as RateMDs.com and vitals.com; third-party doctor and hospital ratings are available at HealthGrades.com.",
        "com等网站为自己的医生打分，HealthGrades. com还提供医生和医院的第三方评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Apple expects its suppliers to treat their workers humanely.",
        "苹果希望它的供应商人道地对待工人。"
    ],
    [
        "As Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War, all wars entail deception.",
        "正如《孙子兵法》所云，欺骗是所有战争的必然结果。"
    ],
    [
        "A few months ago, the Russian government came up with a proposal to negotiate a new European order within the framework of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.",
        "几个月前，俄罗斯政府提出了一个在欧洲安全与合作组织框架内谈判新欧洲秩序的提议。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Azerbaijan Next?",
        "阿塞拜疆是否会成为下一个？"
    ],
    [
        "But he does not go far enough.",
        "但他走得还不够远。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be unfortunate – indeed, dangerous – if the pendulum now swung back to old-fashioned nationalism.",
        "但如果钟摆再次退回到老式的民族主义，那么就不仅令人遗憾，而且非常危险了。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, openly anti-European political programs are not the norm, at least not yet.",
        "幸运的是，公开反对欧洲政治的计划还没有形成潮流，至少现在还没有。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial inclusion is about providing an opportunity for the world’s 2.5 billion unbanked and financially underserved to participate in the formal financial system, thereby helping to lift them out of poverty and enter the economic mainstream.",
        "全球有25亿人得不到周到的银行和金融服务，金融包容正是向他们提供参与正式金融系统的机会、从而帮助他们走出贫困、进入经济主流。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way that banks will win back the public’s trust is to become better citizens.",
        "银行重新赢得公众信任的唯一方式就是成为一个更加良好的公民。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s departure from this great tradition did not begin with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.",
        "美国偏离这一伟大的传统并非始于2001年9月11日恐怖分子的袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are to take climate change predictions seriously, the international community should strengthen these initiatives.",
        "若我们严肃对待气候变化预言，国际社会需加强这些措施。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, what developing country with its citizens’ long-term interests in mind will be prepared to issue bonds through the US financial system, when America’s courts – as so many other parts of its political system – seem to allow financial interests to trump the public interest?",
        "毕竟，考虑人民长期利益的发展中国在准备通过美国金融系统发行债券时应该准备些什么？ 而美国法院——及其政治体系内的其他许多部分——似乎将坐视金融利益压倒公共利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But this year, for the first time since 2007, every advanced economy in the world is growing – including America’s.",
        "但就在今年，也就是2007年以来首次，全球所有发达经济体都同时出现了增长——包括美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing would be gained by breaking with Russia and engaging in confrontation with it, but there is no reason not to respond to Realpolitik with Realpolitik.",
        "与俄罗斯破裂，并与之对抗不会有什么好处，但也没有任何理由不以强权政治来回应强权政治。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, Chile’s export basket has remained unchanged.",
        "相反，智利的出口篮子一成不变。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists working on the macro economy, its micro foundations, exogenous and endogenous growth theory, the formation of expectations and problems of information and discrimination all refer back to Phelps.",
        "经济学家在研究宏观经济、微观基础、外生和内生增长理论、预期的形成以及信息和差别待遇的问题时都会引用到菲尔普斯的理论。"
    ],
    [
        "In an ideal world, both Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping should want to keep US-China relations stable.",
        "在理想世界里，特朗普和中国国家主席习近平都希望美中关系保持稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it is the sophisticated mouthpiece of the state of Qatar and its ambitious Emir, Hamad Al Thani.",
        "确切的说它是卡塔尔国家及其雄心勃勃的埃米尔哈马德·阿勒萨尼见多识广的喉舌。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – It is said that good things come to those who wait.",
        "马德里—据说好事总是降临到耐心等待的人头上。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless governments wake up to this blinding reality, they are going to have to deal with far more than a few extremists.”",
        "除非政府意识到这样的现实，否则他们要面对的远远不止是少数几个极端分子。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s difficulty in devising a concrete financial commitment stems from its dearth of financial means.",
        "欧盟之所以难以做出实质性金融承诺，是因为它自身金融状况也不佳。"
    ],
    [
        "For talks to be successful, however, China and the US – which have plenty of disagreements of their own – must work together, and the other members of the UN Security Council must facilitate such cooperation.",
        "但是，要成功地进行对话，中国和美国——它们自身仍然存在诸多分歧——必须精诚合作，安理会的其他成员国也必须协助这一合作。"
    ],
    [
        "One example of this was the citizen-based movement that fought WTO intellectual-property rules, adopted at the behest of the US and other rich countries, that were sustaining high prices for anti-AIDS drugs in Africa.",
        "其中一个例子就是一项公民运动，该运动反对美国以及其他富裕国家所制定的WTO知识产权规则，因为这一规则令非洲地区的抗艾滋病药物价格高昂。"
    ],
    [
        "There is, however, a solution to this problem: Governments and parliaments can delay action without postponing decision.",
        "但是，对于这一问题有一个解决办法：政府和议会可以推迟行动而不暂停决定。"
    ],
    [
        "While we seem not to notice that we also become perpetrators in the process, much of the rest of the world does notice – a gap in perception that has severely weakened America’s international credibility and standing.",
        "然而，尽管我们好像还没有注意到在此过程中我们也变成了作恶的罪犯，世界上其它大部分人却已经注意到了。 这是一个认知差异，它已经严重削弱了美国的国际信誉和声望。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone’s path to genuine economic union will be fraught with political and institutional challenges – from determining substantive areas of cooperation to protecting the rights and interests of all EU countries and safeguarding the unity of both the internal market and foreign relations.",
        "欧元区迈向真正经济联盟之路布满了政治和制度挑战——从决定真正的合作领域到保护所有欧盟国家的权利和利益并捍卫内部市场和对外关系上的团结。"
    ],
    [
        "In China’s case, the government hoped that broader stock-market participation – achieved through efforts to bolster equity prices and promote lending for investment – would make citizens more open to pro-market reforms.",
        "在中国的例子中，政府希望更多的人参与股市——其手段是提振股价、促进贷款投资——能让公民更容易接受市场改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor has Thatcherite policy succeeded in one of its chief aims – to reduce the share of government spending in national income.",
        "撒切尔时期的政策也没有解决当时的主要问题——如何减少政府支出在国民收入中的比例。"
    ],
    [
        "As we have seen time and again, Britain’s approach to the Brexit negotiations seems to be nothing more than a mix of wishful thinking, back-peddling, and plaintive requests that the EU bend over backward to help British leaders get out of the mess they have made.",
        "就像我们所反复看到的那样，英国的退欧谈判策略似乎不过是妄想、退缩和恳请欧盟开倒车以帮助英国领导人摆脱其所制造的混乱局面的可悲要求。"
    ],
    [
        "A cheaper currency could, in principle, reverse the effects of austerity.",
        "理论上，货币贬值能够扭转紧缩的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, all of this excess liquidity is flowing to the financial sector rather than the real economy.",
        "结果，所有这一切使得过剩的流动性都流向了金融部门而非实体经济。"
    ],
    [
        "A second reason to believe in Europe is that with statesmanship comes progress in governance.",
        "第二个相信欧洲的理由是治理方面政治家风度的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "If anyone does not like them, there are all the instruments of public debate and of critical discourse that an enlightened community has at its disposal.",
        "不喜欢它们的人完全可以通过文明社会公开辩论和批评演说的方式来表达自己的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Paris, in case anyone had any lingering doubts, remains the capital of the world – or so it seemed for a night.",
        "不管你是谁，心存何疑虑，在那个晚上，巴黎仍是世界之都。"
    ],
    [
        "Politically, Rwanda is strong, disciplined, and organized, but it is not liberal.",
        "从政治上看，卢旺达强大、有组织、有纪律，但不自由。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is becoming clear that sustained flows of development aid will not be enough to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 and implement the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which are to be agreed upon later this year.",
        "但人们已经清楚地看到持续的发展援助并不足以到2030年消除极端贫困，落实将在今年下半年达成的联合国新的可持续发展目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Because of these risks, they regard increased integration, openness, and innovation as more of a threat than an opportunity.",
        "因为上述风险，他们更多地把加强融合、开放和创新视为一种风险而不是一次机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Rage against the political establishment has become a global phenomenon.",
        "对政治体制的怒火在世界各地随处可见。"
    ],
    [
        "A political system’s clarity and comprehensibility, together with its voluntary nature, are essential to democratic legitimacy.",
        "政治制度的明确性和全面性，及其自愿性质，是民主合法性的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Our Last Chance for a Safe Planet",
        "拯救地球的最后机会"
    ],
    [
        "Jika kita tidak mengambil tindakan, krisis tersebut akan memburuk. WHO memperkirakan bahwa dalam kurun waktu 2010 hingga 2020, kematian akibat PTM akan naik 15% dan mayoritas akan terjadi di negara-negara berpendapatan rendah dan menengah.",
        "如果不采取行动，这场危机将更加严重，世卫组织预计，从2010年到2020年，非传染性疾病死亡人数将增加15%，其中大部分发生在中低收入国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The possible trade-off could be that the existing principles and institutions of the post-Soviet European order, including NATO, remain unchanged and are accepted and implemented by Russia, which would get a significantly enhanced role within NATO, including the perspective of full membership.",
        "西方和俄罗斯可能进行的交易可以是，包括北约在内的现存的后苏联欧洲秩序的原则和机制不变，并且这些原则和机制为俄罗斯所接受和施行，而俄罗斯在北约内部发挥的作用得到极大地增强，包括未来取得北约完全成员国地位的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "A Slovak prime minister who rejects refugees on the grounds that “Slovakia is built for Slovaks, not for minorities” is hard to buy off.",
        "斯洛伐克总理拒绝难民的理由是“斯洛伐克是为斯洛伐克人而建，不是为少数群体而建，”这一理由难以服众。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the DSM currently distinguishes substance dependence – essentially addiction (a disorder) – from substance abuse, a weaker category that includes dubious criteria such as driving while intoxicated or arguing with others about substance use.",
        "比如手册目前将物质依赖（恋物癖）——就是物质成瘾（一种失调症）——和物质滥用区分开来，后者（一个较为弱势的门类）包含了一些模糊的条件，比如酒后驾车或者因为物品的使用而跟他人发生争吵。"
    ],
    [
        "Providing Vitamin A and zinc to 80% of the 140 million or so undernourished children in the world would require a commitment of just $60 million annually.",
        "每年只需花6000万美元就能向全球1亿4千万营养不良儿童中的80％提供足够的维他命A和锌。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment in research and development is vital.",
        "研究和开发投资至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Again and again, the true recipients or beneficial owners of companies and trusts are shielded from disclosure by laws and regulations that inadvertently protect criminals.",
        "根据无意中保护了犯罪分子的法律和规则，真正的收款人或这些公司和信托的受益所有者不必披露。"
    ],
    [
        "For Great Britain, Europe-wide defense is a nonstarter.",
        "对英国来说，泛欧洲防务根本毫无意义。"
    ],
    [
        "What we should do now is what democrats should have done in 1930 to prevent a catastrophe that is now becoming imaginable once again.",
        "我们现在必须完成民主人士本该在1930年完成的任务，才有可能防止再次遭受灾难袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon enough, it was no longer clear what IBM was contributing to the arrangement.",
        "不久，IBM在整个安排中的作用已经微乎其微。"
    ],
    [
        "In May 1968, in France, the students – or some of them, at least – who took to the streets to invent a new world were dreaming of Maoist China, a China in the midst of the brutal and senseless Cultural Revolution.",
        "1968年5月，法国的学生们¾¾至少是其中的一部分人¾¾他们走上街头打算创建一个新世界。 他们梦想着毛泽东时代的中国，那个处在残酷且失去理智的文化大革命中的中国。"
    ],
    [
        "This opacity means that no one knows who is holding what, which saps confidence. When the repricing of risk finally occurred in September, investors panicked causing a liquidity run and a credit strike.",
        "这种不透明意味着没有人知道谁在持有什么样的金融工具，从而损害了人们的信心。 当九月份最终重新给风险定价时，投资者为引发流动性危机和信用危机而感到惊慌。"
    ],
    [
        "Lightly regulated “fund matching” companies, for example, would distribute margin loans to virtually anyone, resulting in about CN¥2.3 trillion in online private fund matching and CN¥1 trillion in offline private fund matching, with a leverage ratio of up to 5:1 for the latter.",
        "比如，监管薄弱的“配资”公司可以让几乎所有人都获得保证金贷款，这带来了2. 3万亿元人民的在线私募配资和1万亿人民币的线下私募配资，后者的杠杆率高达5:1。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands.",
        "几十年来，包括壳牌、埃克森美孚和雪弗龙在内的各大石油公司一直在尼日尔三角洲开采石油。 尼日尔三角洲是一个拥有淡水沼泽森林、红树林、低地雨林和沿海屏障岛屿的脆弱生态环境。"
    ],
    [
        "But Peru boasts another impressive characteristic: it is among Latin America’s fastest-growing economies, with GDP up by 4.8% year on year in the first quarter of 2014.",
        "但秘鲁人引以为豪的是另一件事：秘鲁是拉丁美洲增长最快的经济体之一，2014年第一季度 GDP同比增长了 4. 8%。"
    ],
    [
        "This process includes social innovation .",
        "这一进程包括社会创新。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a party with no coherent program, but rather a compendium of popular and nationalist slogans.",
        "实际上，社会民主党就是一个没有连贯性政策，只有一些充斥着民粹主义和国家主义口号的纲领的政党。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite a limited agenda, the participants were unable to produce a joint statement.",
        "尽管议程有限，但与会者仍未能达成联合声明。"
    ],
    [
        "Conventional wisdom says that stopping Brexit is impossible.",
        "传统智慧说，停止退欧是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "When the peat ignites, the fire can creep beneath the surface and erupt somewhere else, days or weeks later.",
        "当泥炭被点燃时，火焰在地表以下蔓延，几天乃至几周后才从另一处喷出。"
    ],
    [
        "After the financial crisis, we have become wiser.",
        "在这次金融危机之后，我们学乖了。"
    ],
    [
        "The government has used its INDC to set several ambitious goals, including commitments to zero deforestation by the year 2030 and to restoring forest ecosystems in the country’s watersheds.",
        "政府已利用国家决定计划推出了几项雄心勃勃的目标，包括承诺到2030年实现零砍伐，并恢复该国流域的森林生态系统。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2007, the United States had a savings rate of 14.6% of GDP, but an investment rate of 19.6%, generating a current-account deficit.",
        "6%，故会产生经常项目盈余。 与此相反，中国的固定投资率为GDP的41."
    ],
    [
        "There is considerable transnational movement of goods and services, and billions of dollars of cross-border investment, across the Gulf – economic activity that would be endangered by the GCC’s further disintegration.",
        "海湾国家之间有大量跨国商品和服务流动和数十亿美元的跨境投资——GCC的进一步分裂将威胁到这些经济活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Industrialized countries like the US and Japan also have so-called “reserve funds.”",
        "美国和日本这样的工业化国家也有所谓的“储备基金”。"
    ],
    [
        "Does this mean that government must decide which capital flows – say into real-estate investment, for example – are bad, and so must be taxed or otherwise curbed?",
        "而这是否又意味着政府必须决定这其中哪一种资金流是不良的（如，投资房产的资金），从而这种投资是否应缴纳税款或者被限制呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Much now depends on whether the same is true of the other major outcome, which is that Yukos’s principal asset – Yuganskneftegaz – is now in state hands, while its remaining units appear doomed to nationalization.",
        "现在具有关键性意义的是正在政府掌控下的尤科斯集团的核心资产¾尤甘斯克公司¾是否会遭受同样的结局，尤甘斯克的剩余资产看来必将被收归国有。"
    ],
    [
        "Recall that Lehman Brothers was not a commercial bank, and AIG was an insurance company.",
        "想一想，雷曼兄弟可不是商业银行，而AIG则是保险公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, DNA has acquired a certain mystique in popular culture.",
        "此外，DNA还引发了一些流行文化的神秘元素。"
    ],
    [
        "When I ask friends and colleagues why they buy the bars, they say: “Because I know they are healthy and I don’t care how they taste.”",
        "当我问朋友和同事为什么要买这样的食品时，他们说：“因为我知道它们是健康的，所以就不在乎口感如何。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent oil-price fluctuations resemble the classic cobweb model of microeconomic theory.",
        "近期石油价格的波动类似于微观经济理论中的经典蛛网模型。"
    ],
    [
        "But these countries’ education systems, which were strained even before the crisis, cannot handle the burden that they are being forced to shoulder.",
        "但这些国家的教育体系在危机前便捉襟见肘，根本无法承担它们如今被迫承担的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Back then, against a backdrop of government reluctance to force debt write-downs, along with massively over-valued real housing prices and excessive real wages in some sectors, moderate inflation would have been extremely helpful.",
        "在当时的大背景下，政府不愿去强制减轻债务，房地产价格大幅高估而某些领域的实际工资过高，当时如果能有适当的通货膨胀，应该是帮助极大的。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Chinese policymakers have been waiting to see whether the recovery in the US is real.",
        "所以，中国的决策者需要审时度势，观察美国的经济复苏是否能持续。"
    ],
    [
        "Personally, I rejoice in this.",
        "我个人是很喜欢这一点的。"
    ],
    [
        "Where, one might wonder, does this leave Europe?",
        "那么在这张图上面，奥巴马又给欧洲留了个什么位置？"
    ],
    [
        "Employment in the US is growing, but the rate of workforce participation remains subdued and the economy has yet to attain the 6-7% growth rates usually recorded in a post-recession rebound.",
        "美国的就业正在增加，但劳动力参与率仍然不高，经济也没有达到衰退后反弹通常可以达到的6—7%。"
    ],
    [
        "Revolution and Reaction in Biopharming",
        "生物制药的革命和反动"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, bad loans can be purchased by asset-management companies, which can package them up and sell them off to other investors.",
        "没错，不良贷款可以由资产管理公司收购并打包并打折出售给其他投资者。"
    ],
    [
        "Total personal taxes are mildly progressive, increasing steadily as a share of income from 14% at the 10th percentile to 28% at the 90th percentile, but then falling off sharply to 22% at the top, owing to the favorable treatment of capital gains and investment income, the wage cap on social security taxes, and the sharp regressivity of sales taxes.",
        "总的个人税是温和地累进的，纳税额所占收入的比例从在第10百分位的14 ％直到在90百分位的28 ％不断增加； 但到了最顶级收入的时候，锐减至22 ％，这是由于对资本收益和投资收入的优惠措施和社会保障税的工资封顶，以及大幅度递减的销售税。"
    ],
    [
        "Their feeling of belonging to a great and unified family was reinforced by the common aristocratic origins of their diplomats.",
        "它们感觉属于一个伟大、团结的家庭，这种感觉因为外交官员的共同贵族血统而得到了加强。"
    ],
    [
        "The case of postwar Germany is quite straightforward.",
        "战后的德国就是非常直观的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Government can promote the democratization of such institutions so that they protect people from the very risks that they are worrying most about.",
        "政府可以推动这些制度的民主化从而让其能够帮助人们防范最为担心的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, what happens mentally is as important as what happens physically.",
        "同时，精神上收到的影响与肉体上的同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "More precisely, the forward earnings yield – that is, the inverse of the P/E ratio – is equal to the risk-free rate plus the equity premium, minus the growth rate of earnings.",
        "更准确地说，前瞻盈利收益率——即市盈率的倒数——等于无风险利率加上股票风险溢价再减去盈利增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "Innovations in packaging, perhaps providing full courses of appropriate combinations of drugs, could simplify treatment decisions.",
        "推出全疗程组合药物创新包装可以简化治疗决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, we have turned away from advocacy of selfishness, but we have not recovered an independent moral language.",
        "此后，我们开始远离自私论，但尚未重新找到新的独立道德规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Alas, next year is an election year in South Korea and the US.",
        "可叹的是明年韩美两国即将举行大选。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the next two decades were a honeymoon for Sino-American relations.",
        "尼克松访华后的20年里，中美关系大体上处于蜜月期。"
    ],
    [
        "If this continued for a few years, a euro breakup would become possible without a meltdown, but it would leave the creditor countries with large claims against debtor countries, which would be difficult to collect.",
        "如果这一趋势持续几年，欧元崩溃或许能够不引发灾难，但仍会让债权国拥有大量债务国债权，而债务国偿还起来困难重重。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last 66 years, politicians have maintained a strong commitment to affirmative action.",
        "在过去66年中，政客一直致力于平权运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumer price inflation in the eurozone has been below target for 22 consecutive months – long before the price of oil started collapsing.",
        "欧元区消费物价通胀已经连续22个月低于目标值——远远先于油价开始崩溃。 廉价石油是增长的助推剂；"
    ],
    [
        "There can be no middle way; on the contrary, searching for consensus or accommodation is tantamount to treachery.",
        "没有中间道路； 相反，追求共识或妥协就是背叛。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as consumers can rate products, parents and students should be able to rate and provide feedback on the performance of individual teachers.",
        "正像消费者可以对产品进行评分，家长和学生也可以对各个老师的表现进行评分然后提供反馈信息。"
    ],
    [
        "If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster – just look at what we are doing to our planet’s climate.",
        "如果每个人都只盯着自己的利益，那我们就将面临集体性危机——看看当今应对全球气候问题时的乱象就知道了。"
    ],
    [
        "Their vision is a “Christian Europe” of “sovereign nation-states” that opposes the existing materialist, decadent, permissive, and supra-national model.",
        "他们的目标是建立由“主权民族国家”组成的“基督教欧洲”，实现与现存的唯物主义者、颓废主义者、放任主义者和超民族主义者彻底决裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Suppose John had driven Nicholas out of business by importing higher-quality inputs from Germany?",
        "如果约翰是通过从德国进口高质量产品的方式把尼古拉斯挤出市场？"
    ],
    [
        "And the evidence confirms that the euro crisis is not really about sovereign debt, but about foreign debt.",
        "而事实证明欧元危机其实并不是主权危机，而是外债危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The February elections will put those assumptions to their severest test in decades.",
        "明年二月的选举将把这些假设付诸几十年来最为严峻的考验。"
    ],
    [
        "We may regret that Milosevic’s own trial ended without a conclusion.",
        "我们可能对米洛舍维奇的审判不了了之而感到遗憾。"
    ],
    [
        "He made a beeline to Riyadh, where he participated in a summit with 54 Muslim-majority countries and delivered an inflammatory speech vilifying Iran, which he asserted should be shunned by the international community.",
        "他径直飞去了利雅得，在那里和54个穆斯林多数国家召开峰会，发表了一篇诋毁伊朗的煽动性演说，说国际社会应该对伊朗唯恐避之不及。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is a series of enormous blind spots that deprive us of the key insights and early warnings that we need to mount an effective response.",
        "结果形成了一系列巨大的盲点，让我们无法做出有效响应所需要的关键性洞察和早期警告。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1945, more than 500 cases of amnesty in post-conflict transitions have been recorded; since the 1970’s, at least 14 states – including Spain, Mozambique, and Brazil – have given amnesty to regimes guilty of serious human-rights violations.",
        "1945年以来，记录在案的后冲突过渡期大赦就有500多起； 自1970年代以来，至少14个国家——包括西班牙、莫桑比克和巴西——对犯有严重侵犯人权罪行的当局实行了特赦。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, whenever the world looks unstable, investors want to hold more dollar assets – even when the US is the cause of the instability.",
        "事实上，每当世界不太稳定的时候，投资者就会愿意持有更多的美元——即使不稳定的根源正是来自美国。"
    ],
    [
        "I recently co-authored a study (with Tim Dyson, Leela Visaria and others) that concludes, with modest optimism, that while India can manage its population growth, it also faces a number of major difficulties.",
        "我最近和蒂姆·戴森（Tim Dyson）、里拉·维萨里阿（Leela Visaria）以及其他一些人在合作搞一个研究，其中的结论是，即使我们乐观地假设印度可以解决人口增长问题，印度仍然面临一连串的主要困难。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, in most regions, it should be embraced.",
        "相反，大多数地区的人们应该乐于接受这种通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, an active surveillance program could be the best way to address the most serious consequence of excessive screening: premature, overly aggressive treatment.",
        "出于此，积极的监督措施也许是纠正过度筛查最严重后果——过早、过于激进的治疗——的最佳方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Although eliminating any of these major tax expenditures might be politically impossible, limiting the amount by which a taxpayer could reduce his or her tax liability by using these provisions could raise substantial revenue.",
        "尽管消除这些大项税收开支的任何一项在政治上都几乎不可能，但通过这些条款限制纳税人能够减除的应税数额可以大幅提高收入。"
    ],
    [
        "China provided cheap goods that enabled income-constrained American consumers to make ends meet, and the US provided the external demand that underpinned Deng Xiaoping’s export-led growth strategy.",
        "中国提供廉价商品，让囊中羞涩的美国消费者实现收支相抵，而美国提供的外部需求成为邓小平出口拉动增长战略的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also has encountered charges of politicization, and it is still learning, as an institution, how to exercise effectively its jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.",
        "但它同时也遭到了指责，认为其背后实际上受政治操纵的。 而作为一个机构，法院一直在努力学习如何有效地在对种族灭绝，反人类罪和战争罪方面行使管辖权。"
    ],
    [
        "Orchestrated by Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan, the principal architect of the spectacular Pudong development project in Shanghai, the goal is to transform the Liangjiang area of Chongqing into China’s first inland urban development zone.",
        "重庆计划由市长黄奇帆谱写，他也是上海浦东开发项目的主要缔造者。 重庆计划的目标是将重庆两江地区打造为中国首个内陆城市开发区。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is that some countries get more aid than they need, while others don’t get enough.",
        "结果是一些国家得到了比需要的更多的援助，而其他国家则得不到足够的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Yushchenko can yet secure an honorable place in history if, instead of undermining and obstructing Tymoshenko at every turn, he supports her anti-corruption initiatives and constitutional reform, the latter aimed at bringing Ukraine’s political system closer to Europe’s parliamentary democracies as well as to facilitate Ukraine’s European integration.",
        "这样尤先科就可以在历史上保留住一个荣耀的位置，如果他能够放弃在处处损害和阻挠季莫申科的做法，转而支持她反腐败的倡议以及宪法改革方案的话。 季莫申科的宪法改革方案将使乌克兰的政治体制而接近欧洲的议会制民主体制，并且使乌克兰能够更快地融入欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "An equilibrium in which Scots vote on English laws but the English have no vote on Scottish laws will not remain an equilibrium for long.",
        "苏格兰人可以投票表决英格兰法律，而英格兰人不可以投票表决苏格兰法律，这样的平衡无法长久维持。"
    ],
    [
        "Massive investments are also needed in education to eradicate deep pockets of illiteracy, raise overall skill levels, and better match skills to the demands of the market.",
        "过多的繁文缛节和效率低下的竞争政策推行和治理规则正在摧毁该地区的企业家精神。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro crisis is a complex mixture of banking and sovereign-debt problems, as well as divergences in economic performance that have given rise to balance-of-payments imbalances within the eurozone.",
        "欧元危机综合了银行及主权债务问题，还有因经济表现落差造成的欧元区国际收支失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine’s government has the right – indeed, the duty – to ensure that all of its citizens are proficient in it.",
        "对此乌克兰政府有权利——也有责任——确保每一个公民都精通乌克兰语。"
    ],
    [
        "What Failed in 2008?",
        "2008年败在何处？"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, now is the perfect time to decouple aviation emissions from air-travel growth.",
        "幸运的是，现在是让航空排放与航空旅行增长脱钩的理想时机。"
    ],
    [
        "If taken seriously, these rules will accomplish nothing, except to force migrants and their prospective employers to find other ways to each other.",
        "认真审视起来，除了迫使移民及其可能的雇主令谋它法来逃避执行规定，这些规则不会有任何实际的用处。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many causes for the decline of the EU’s global position and prestige, one of which has been the way in which the Union has evolved as an aloof and bureaucratic citadel.",
        "导致欧盟国际地位和声誉下滑的原因很多，其中一个原因就是欧盟正逐渐退化成一座偏远而又官僚气息浓厚的孤城。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by equivocating about the relocation plan could Kan appease both the governor and US President Barack Obama, who is scheduled to meet Kan in Tokyo the same month.",
        "菅直人只有不对迁移计划表态才可能让县长和奥巴马总统都不发作，后者计划在十一月到访东京同菅会谈。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly true with respect to eurozone institutions, which almost everyone agrees are in urgent need of reform.",
        "对欧元区机构而言，这一点尤其正确。 几乎所有人都同意，欧元区需要立刻改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to advances in recent years, scientists can now identify epigenetic modification enzymes that regulate gene activities.",
        "多亏近年来所取得的进展，科学家们现在可以确定调节基因活动的表观遗传修饰酶。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – On March 11, a year will have passed since Japan was struck by the triple tragedy of an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident.",
        "东京—3月11日是日本遭受地震、海啸和核事故三重打击的一周年纪念日。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet much remains to bring the Chinese consumer to life.",
        "但要让中国消费者拥有活力还有很多事要做。"
    ],
    [
        "European plans for a Common Foreign and Security Policy and for closer defense cooperation seemed brutally discredited.",
        "而欧洲旨在加强防卫合作的共同外交与安全政策计划的基础似乎也根本不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "But the plan’s limited scope undermines this impression.",
        "但计划的有限性不足以形成这样的印象。"
    ],
    [
        "Few governments refuse to pay at all in any form.",
        "很少政府会完全拒绝以任何形式来偿还借款。"
    ],
    [
        "Merkel’s Panglossian campaign was much more in tune with the sentiment of the German electorate than the opposing parties’ tristesse about working-class distress, which was rightly seen as a ploy for raising taxes.",
        "默克尔的选战主题——乐观更符合德国选民的情绪，而反对党却选择了对工作阶级饱受压抑表示悲愤，这被正确地视作是为了增税造势。"
    ],
    [
        "As much as pundits like to predict the collapse of the Saudi Arabian monarchy, they are likely to be disappointed once again.",
        "虽然很多专家预测说沙特阿拉伯君主制行将崩溃，但他们很可能会再次失望了。"
    ],
    [
        "The damage their products are causing is no secret.",
        "其产品造成的损害早已不是什么秘密。"
    ],
    [
        "We also must plan to change for the long term.",
        "我们还必须做好长期变化规划。"
    ],
    [
        "In annexing Crimea and stoking separatist violence in Donbas, the Kremlin’s aim has clearly been to destabilize Ukraine in order to bring it under Russia’s thumb.",
        "克里姆林宫吞并克里米亚，煽动顿巴斯的分裂主义暴力，其目标显然是动摇乌克兰使之屈服于俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are the real implications of Governor Zhou’s remarks.",
        "但周行长的讲话的内涵值得引起大家的深思。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of the effect on GDP and jobs, the cost of increasing revenue from this source would be as much as one-third less than that of raising the same amount via income taxes or VAT.",
        "说到对于国内生产总值和就业产生的影响，通过这种渠道来增加财政收入所投入的成本比通过提高所得税和附加税来增加财政收入的方式低1/3。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, elsewhere in Europe, reason seems to prevail nowadays and the resort to violence has been curtailed.",
        "值得庆幸的是，在欧洲其他地区，理性如今似乎占据了优势，而暴力行动也得到了遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when we should be scaling up to meet the AIDS challenge, we are dialing back.",
        "眼下正是一鼓作气击败艾滋病的时候，我们却自己打了退堂鼓。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time of the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum in June, experts had already been deemed dispensable.",
        "在6月份英国退欧公投上，专家便已经被认为可有可无。"
    ],
    [
        "The linguistic dominance of Arabic throughout the Middle East and North Africa, together with pan-Arabism, reinforced weak national identities.",
        "中东和北非地区阿拉伯语的主导地位和泛阿拉伯主义一道，进一步削弱了各国自身的民族特征。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a real risk that it will become entangled as a partisan actor in Lebanese domestic politics.",
        "因为它面临着在黎巴嫩国内政治中扮演一个派系角色的真正风险。"
    ],
    [
        "One view holds that long-term growth risks have been on the rise, raising the premium on assets that are perceived to be relatively safe, and raising precautionary saving in general.",
        "一种观点是长期增长风险在上升，提高了被认为相对安全的资产的溢价，也提高了总体预防性储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "Many in the Japanese Army initially regarded the Soviet Union as the main threat facing the country.",
        "日本皇军有许多人把苏联视为国家面临的主要威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Population change happens slowly, but its effects can be forecast early.",
        "人口变化缓慢发生，但是其效果却可以提早预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a last-minute shift in voting intentions is possible, but the time for it is running out.",
        "发生最后一分钟选举倾向改变时可能的，但时间正在耗尽。"
    ],
    [
        "The politics is not so simple, but we need cooperation between countries to reduce these risks, and we need it now.",
        "政治并不是如此简单，但是我们需要各国加强合作以降低这些风险，我们现在就需要这样的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "We are told that global warming will wipe out this majestic creature.",
        "我们被告知全球变暖会最终使这种相貌威严的动物走向灭绝。"
    ],
    [
        "There are of course concerns about freedom of speech and a lack of media diversity, but conditions in Kazakhstan are no worse than in, say, Azerbaijan, its ethnic Turkic cousin, which is fully in the ENP.",
        "当然，人们担心言论自由以及缺乏媒体的多样性，但是哈萨克斯坦的情况并不比其土耳其兄弟的阿塞拜疆差，而阿塞拜疆则是这一政策完全成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea of permanently raising inflation targets to 4% was first proposed in an interesting and insightful paper led by IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard, and has been endorsed by a number of other academics, including, most recently, Paul Krugman.",
        "将通胀目标永久提高到4%的方案首先由IMF首席经济学家奥利佛·布兰查德（Olivier Blanchard）在一篇有趣又深邃的论文中提出，并获得了其他许多学者的支持，包括最近的保罗·克鲁格曼（Paul Krugman）。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the wake of the global economic crisis, Colombia’s economy has been growing at an average rate of close to 5%, while benefiting from unprecedented inflows of foreign investment.",
        "即使在全球经济危机后，哥伦比亚的经济也以近5%的平均速度快速增长，并受益于前所未有的外国资金流入。"
    ],
    [
        "Ivan the Terrible is not the only medieval vestige being revived in Russia.",
        "恐怖的伊凡并非俄罗斯复兴的唯一中世纪遗迹。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s rise to global power, I believe, will not, owing to its massive population of 1.2 billion people, which threatens to overstretch the structures of any kind of government system and its decision makers. This is all the more true in times of rapid fundamental change, as is occurring in China now.",
        "这种认知模式在二十世纪尤为盛行，特别是在两次世界大战之后，美苏取代欧洲占据强势，冷战以及之后美国全球霸主地位的确立，其间许多事件都因国际影响促成。"
    ],
    [
        "The banks can report record profits without much risk, rebuild capital, and pay dividends and bonuses.",
        "银行可以报告利润，有不同承担高风险； 可以冲减资本；"
    ],
    [
        "But both have fallen, and in continental Europe unemployment is higher.",
        "但是相反，工作时间却减少了，退休年龄也被提前，欧洲大陆的失业率反而更高了。"
    ],
    [
        "Populists in both countries campaigned successfully on non-issues.",
        "两国的民粹主义者成功地用无关痛痒的问题进行选战宣传。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though Ebola has focused the world’s attention on systemic shortcomings, the goal must be to combat the abiding epidemics that are quietly inflicting suffering and death on populations worldwide.",
        "但是，尽管埃博拉吸引了全世界对系统缺陷的关注，但目标必须放在消灭持久流行病上，这些疾病正在悄然在全世界人口中间传播痛苦和死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s politicians are by and large proud of the EU and the way it has both grown and deepened.",
        "欧洲的政治家们对欧盟及其扩展和深化的方式基本上是感到自豪的。"
    ],
    [
        "Not all nurses’ aides will have to become software engineers.",
        "并非所有的护士助理都得成为软件工程师。"
    ],
    [
        "A third potential explanation is that intelligence is about good decision-making.",
        "第三个可能的解释是，所谓智力就是良好的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "This contrasts sharply with Asia’s experience in 1997.",
        "这与1997年的亚洲的情况形成了鲜明对比。"
    ],
    [
        "A simple thought experiment might help: go back four decades and assume that France had vetoed UK membership in the EU, and that the UK had joined the EEA instead.",
        "一个简单的逻辑推演可以帮助我们理解：试想四十年前法国否决了英国的欧盟成员国资格，而英国转而加入欧洲经济区。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, the Beijing municipal authorities’ plan to fine smokers up to CN¥200 ($32) for lighting up in public places appears unpromising at best.",
        "）在这样的背景下，北京市政当局对公共场所吸烟高达200人民币（相当于32美元）的罚款计划似乎充其量也没有太大意义。"
    ],
    [
        "The next government, whether of the left or the right, will also face the unenviable task of reforming the acquired-rights system to make social benefits more flexible and affordable.",
        "下一任政府不论是左翼还是右翼当选，还将面临另一个不可避免的任务——改革争得权利制度以使社会福利更灵活、更平价。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the goal is to pressure Israel to conclude a peace deal with the Palestinians, which surely is worth a little accommodation with Qatar.",
        "或许目标是向以色列施压与巴勒斯坦人签订和平协议，如果是这种情况卡塔尔的细枝末节当然值得包容。"
    ],
    [
        "But the European economic recovery plan that was recently reaffirmed by the European Council of Ministers is mainly focused on national measures to support domestic demand.",
        "但最近得到欧盟部长理事会重新确认的欧洲经济复苏计划也主要以支持内需的国家手段为核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than seeing shame as an unfortunate byproduct of living in poverty, human development planners should consider how poverty undermines human dignity.",
        "人类发展计划人员不可将羞耻视为生而贫困的不幸的副产品，而应该思考贫困是如何损害人的尊严的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Reference Policy Rule is essentially the rule first proposed in 1993 by John Taylor of Stanford University, based on his statistical estimate of what the Fed appeared to have been doing under Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan during a period of both low inflation and low unemployment.",
        "参考政策规则本质上是由斯坦福大学的约翰·泰勒（John Taylor）根据美联储在保罗•沃尔克（Paul Volcker）和艾伦•格林斯潘（Alan Greenspan）在任期间的低通货膨胀和低失业率的统计估算，于1993年首次提出。"
    ],
    [
        "But, too often, even if a court ruling is made, it is not enforced as a result of intimidation.",
        "但太常见的是法庭判决由于暴力的威胁而无法真正执行。"
    ],
    [
        "Although it pledged to adhere to a code of conduct negotiated by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in 2002, it used its superior military might in disputes with the Philippines and Vietnam.",
        "尽管中国承诺遵守2002年由东盟谈判确定的准则，但它在于菲律宾和越南的纠纷中使用了强大的军事力量。"
    ],
    [
        "So other factors must be at work.",
        "因此肯定还有其他因素在起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "This was the problem in Iraq: a nation state had become a disturber of peace in the region and beyond.",
        "这就是伊拉克的问题所在：这个民族国家已经成为破坏地区乃至世界和平的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The most serious problem today is that the country’s ethnic tensions and recriminations threaten to undermine the cohesion of the fledgling, multiethnic Afghan Army.",
        "今天最严重的问题是紧张的种族关系和相互指责可能破坏新生多民族阿富汗军队的凝聚力。"
    ],
    [
        "Most economics students are not required to study psychology, philosophy, history, or politics.",
        "大部分经济学学生不要求学习心理学、哲学、历史学和政治学。"
    ],
    [
        "Major multinational pharmaceutical companies have long been working to block competition from generics.",
        "各大跨国药企一直竭力阻止来自仿制药的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Although no outcome was formally agreed or made public, several themes emerged from the Beijing meeting.",
        "北京的会议尽管未达成正式一致或公开的结果，但仍有几大主题浮出了水面。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Schroeder, all these people are not economically disinterested.",
        "像施罗德一样，这些人在经济利益方面并非没有私心。"
    ],
    [
        "Brutality and indifference to “just war” principles of discrimination and proportionality can also destroy legitimacy.",
        "残酷无情和对“正义战争”分清青红皂白以及适度的原则置之不理同样也可以摧毁合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "How can one pair electrons without ions holding them together, thereby enabling higher-temperature superconductors?",
        "如何能在缺少离子的情况下让电子对互相连结在一起，并以此实现高温超导体？"
    ],
    [
        "While Assad has secured the Alawite community’s renewed support, he has done so at the cost of increasing the very real danger that the rebels will punish all Alawites for the regime’s crimes.",
        "巴沙尔成功地确保了阿拉维派重新支持他，但为此付出的代价是叛军可能会惩罚整个阿拉维派。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, we could expect xenophobia to wane worldwide as access to foreign workers became more privileged.",
        "事实上，可以预期，随着获得外籍工人成为一种特权，全世界的仇外情绪都将消退。"
    ],
    [
        "We now have copies of desperate cables sent by diplomat Archer Blood and his colleagues at the US consulate in Dacca (now Dhaka) pleading with the US government to stop supporting a military regime that was carrying out genocide.",
        "我们现在掌握了时任美国驻达卡领事阿彻·布莱德外交官及其同事发给美国政府的绝望的电报，恳求美国政府停止支持实施种族屠杀的军政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The Economist magazine estimates that of the world’s 150 largest countries, nearly 100 lean toward the US, while 21 lean against it.",
        "《经济学人》杂志估计在全世界150个最大国家中，有近100个对国家美国友好，仅有21个反对美国。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short term, Brazil arouses the most worry, given its large public debt and its vast budget deficit.",
        "在短期，巴西的情况最令人担忧，其外债和预算赤字规模巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Doing Business adjusts its indicators every year based on feedback and review.",
        "这正是《营商环境报告》根据反馈和批评每年调整指标的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Without their involvement, Assad’s regime would most likely have remained repressive; with their involvement, Syria has become a site of mass death and destruction.",
        "没有它们的介入，巴沙尔政权极有可能仍然会采取高压政策； 有了它们的参与，叙利亚变成了大规模死亡和毁灭之地。"
    ],
    [
        "Initially, fascism was a nationalist, anti-capitalist movement.",
        "一开始，法西斯是一场民族主义反资本主义运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Both resources and mobility are costly.",
        "资源和流动性都非常昂贵。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.",
        "或许在这里，我们看到了美国政府值得信任的一些东西：它已拒绝这一建议。"
    ],
    [
        "Tucker is the founder and president of GeoHazards International, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce death and suffering due to earthquakes in the world’s most vulnerable communities.",
        "塔克是地质灾害国际的创始人兼领导者，地质灾害国际是一家非营利性机构，其目标是减轻世界最弱势群体在地震中遭受的伤亡和痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "True, while the global financial crisis erupted more than four years ago, and the Dodd-Frank financial reforms were adopted in the United States back in 2010, not much has changed about how Wall Street operates – except that the large firms have become bigger and more powerful.",
        "诚然，尽管全球金融危机爆发已逾四年，美国的多德-弗兰克金融改革也在2010年便被通过，但华尔街的运作方式并没有什么变化——除了大公司变得更大、更有权势之外。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, banks and other lenders have extended loans bearing interest rates that do not reflect the riskiness of the borrowers.",
        "与此同时，银行和其他贷款人发放了很多利率无法反映借款人风险程度的贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Everything else is left to patriarchal discretion. Here, no one will intervene except to reinforce the application of the patriarch's rights – say, in stoning a supposedly wayward girl, or turning a blind eye to so-called “honor killings” of women.",
        "所有事务的生杀大权均由族长们掌握。 除巩固族长权利外任何人无权干涉 —— 比方说用石块砸死一个任性胡为的女孩，或者对女性所谓的“荣誉杀戮”熟视无睹。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, while Russia has finally joined the World Trade Organization, doubts about the country’s human-rights record persist.",
        "此外，尽管俄罗斯最终加入了世贸组织，但对俄罗斯人权纪录的质疑并未停止。"
    ],
    [
        "If the make-up of a community is changed too fast, it cuts people adrift from their own history, rendering them rootless.",
        "如果一个社区的构成变化得过于迅速，就会让人们与自己的历史割裂，让他们成为无根之人。"
    ],
    [
        "And here, Tunisia is a good candidate.",
        "突尼斯在这方面可以发挥积极作用。"
    ],
    [
        "So, what will the New Year bring for exchange rates?",
        "那么，明年的汇率将会是怎样？"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, few countries strike the right balance, with country averages ranging from 6.9 (in Niger) to 0.8 (in Singapore).",
        "遗憾的是，鲜有国家能恰到好处地实现平衡，各国的平均产子数从尼日尔的6. 9人到新加坡的0."
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the unfolding tragedy in Japan will finally be enough to stop the nuclear renaissance from materializing.",
        "或许日本当前这场灾难将足以阻止核能的复兴。"
    ],
    [
        "In light of the statements by the IMF and the OECD, this distinct failure to agree on monetary and fiscal policy seems highly dangerous.",
        "从IMF和经合组织的陈述看，这一货币和财政政策的深刻分析是非常危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "But China is treading carefully enough that it can continue to advance its goals, without spooking its intended quarry.",
        "但中国小心翼翼，以使其能够继续推进其目标而不打草惊蛇。"
    ],
    [
        "But the eurozone is not only replicating other unions’ mistakes; it is repeating its own.",
        "但欧元区不但在重复其他联盟的错误，还在重复其自身的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the fiscal stimulus package that President Obama recently signed will give a temporary boost to activity sometime this summer, the common forecast that a sustained recovery will begin in the second half of 2009 will almost certainly prove to be overly optimistic.",
        "虽然奥巴马总统在近期推出了经济刺激方案，美国经济也许会在今年夏天暂时有所好转，但如果认为09年第二季度经济将会持续好转的话，那就显得过于乐观了。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt, which seemed to be establishing democracy in the wake of the Arab Spring revolutions, is the poster child for this trap.",
        "而在阿拉伯之春革命刚刚发生时看似正在建立民主制度的埃及其实是落入上述陷阱的典型形象。"
    ],
    [
        "They are domestic in nature and cannot be fixed by rule making through international institutions, which are easily overwhelmed by the same vested interests that undermine domestic policy.",
        "今天的问题本质上是国内问题，因此不能通过国际机构制定规则来加以解决，更何况破坏国内政策的那些既得利益能够轻易影响所谓的国际体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the protest exposed the dramatic polarization between Islamists and secularists since Mubarak’s ouster.",
        "但这次示威表明，伊斯兰主义者和世俗派之间在穆巴拉克被废黜后出现了深刻分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the Social Democrats’ popular support hovers at around 30%, and the last two elections yielded the worst results in a century.",
        "如今，社会民主党的民众支持率在30%左右，前两次选举更是创造了一个世纪以来的最差结果。"
    ],
    [
        "There was some increase in the number of Shiites who thought that there should be a strong religious element in national laws, the majority still opposed this.",
        "什叶派中认为国家法律中应该包含相当程度的宗教元素的人数有所增加，但大多数人仍对此持反对意见。"
    ],
    [
        "Still others will argue that the charges she faces in connection with a financial scandal in France will distract her from IMF business.",
        "还有人会指出，她面临与法国的金融丑闻有涉的指控，这将让她从IMF的工作中分心。"
    ],
    [
        "If it is handled quickly enough, some €4 billion could still be saved.",
        "如果处理速度足够快的话，还能省下40亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Taiwan, too, may elect a woman president, Tsai Ing-wen, the leader of the opposition Democratic Peoples’ Party, next year.",
        "台湾明年也可能选出第一位女总统，蔡英文，反对派台湾民主进步党的领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "This narrative seemed plausible to casual observers, because it was tied to millions of little human-interest stories about the obvious successes of those – friends, neighbors, and family members – who had the vision to participate enthusiastically in the new environment.",
        "这种故事对一般人来说貌似是真实的，因为它和几百万有关朋友、邻居和家庭成员——这些人具有在新环境中热情参与的远见——取得了明显的成功的富有感染力的小故事，连在了一起。"
    ],
    [
        "But much more than that can - and should - be done to persuade young men and women not to become terrorists in the first place.",
        "但是，从一开始就劝戒年轻男女不要成为恐怖分子就需要做更多的工作，而且也可以这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the 17.2 million people that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (the UN Refugee Agency) is responsible for protecting, roughly half are under the age of 18, meaning that an entire generation of young people, already robbed of their childhood, could lose out on a future as well.",
        "联合国难民高级代表（联合国难民署）需要负责保护1,720万人，其中大约一半不到18岁，这意味着整整一代年轻人，在已经被剥夺了童年的情况下，还面临着失去未来的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Many nations, large and small, are now well on the way to meeting this projection.",
        "现在很多国家都在朝着这个模式发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial markets can be fragile, and they provide little capacity for sharing risk related to labor income, which constitutes the largest part of income in any advanced economy.",
        "金融市场可能非常脆弱，所提供的分担劳动收入相关风险能力几乎为零，而劳动收入是发达国家收入的最大来源。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer has both proximate and underlying causes.",
        "引起这些问题的原因既有近因，也有潜在的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "But Brexiteers should realize that there is no guarantee that this would happen again – and, in any case, there would be complications.",
        "但脱盟论者应该认识到：没人能保证上述状况必定重演——而且无论怎样总会出点状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Last week, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan raised the stakes dramatically with talk of having “many options,” and by adding: “Also, NATO has responsibilities to do with Turkey’s borders, according to Article 5.”",
        "上周，土耳其总理埃尔多安口气硬了很多，说土耳其有“多种选择”，还说“此外，根据第五条，北约有责任与土耳其并肩作战。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Freedom cannot be absolute, whether online or offline.",
        "自由永远不是绝对的，不管在线上还是在线下。"
    ],
    [
        "But how much does that explain the impression that the division between cosmopolitans and locals is so much wider now?",
        "但如何解释现在的国际人士和当地人士会有越来越大的区别？"
    ],
    [
        "One heartening exception is a recent agreement between the United Kingdom and France to forge a manufacturing alliance between Rolls Royce and Areva in nuclear technology.",
        "最近英国和法国就劳斯莱斯公司和阿海珐集团在核能技术方买组成制造联盟的一项决议是一个鼓舞人心的例外。"
    ],
    [
        "What Should Bretton Woods II Look Like?",
        "布雷顿森林体系II看起来应该是什么样子？"
    ],
    [
        "In September 2015, they will meet again to approve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to guide national and global policies to 2030.",
        "2015年9月，他们将再次齐聚一堂批准指导2030年前国家和全球政策的可持续发展目标（Sustainable Development Goals，SDG）。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that the preferences of the refugees – who, after risking everything to get to Europe, have strong feelings about where they would like to settle – and the policy challenges are enormous, particularly in the short run.",
        "除此之外还有难民的偏好问题——他们在历尽千辛万苦到达欧洲后，有各自强烈认定的目的地——而政策挑战也十分艰巨，短期尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, the Committee on Scientific Dishonesty was itself reorganized.",
        "最后，科学不诚实委员会本身被重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, its northern region, Somaliland, exists as a de facto independent state, though it lacks international recognition or United Nations membership.",
        "如今，其北部地区索马里兰（Somaliland）是事实独立的国家，尽管没有获得国际承认，也没有联合国成员资格。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan versus India is a devastating conflict-in-waiting, and North Korea and Iran remain volatile sources of concern.",
        "巴基斯坦和印度矛盾随时有可能升级为破坏性冲突，而北朝鲜和伊朗的不稳定局势仍然令人关切。"
    ],
    [
        "This new approach stressed three major components: a shift to services to boost job creation; accelerated urbanization to raise real wages; and a more robust social safety net to provide Chinese families with the security needed to channel their newfound income from fear-driven precautionary saving into discretionary consumption.",
        "加速城市化以提高真实工资； 以及更加坚挺的社会安全网向中国家庭提供安全保证从而让他们将从出于恐惧而进行的预防性储蓄中获得的收入用于自由裁量支出。"
    ],
    [
        "In the next five years, Gavi and its partners are positioned to immunize another 300 million people, helping millions more children and young people survive and thrive – and thereby boosting developing-country economies.",
        "今后五年，免疫全球联盟及其合伙人确定要为另外3，000万人提供免疫接种，帮助成百上千万儿童和年轻人生存和发展——从而促进发展中国家的经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "As a new order takes shape, the roles countries have played for the last 25 years are likely to be reversed.",
        "随着新秩序的形成，过去25年来各国所扮演的角色可能颠倒。"
    ],
    [
        "At this crucial moment, we call on Europe to open itself toward Ukraine, a great European country whose needs and aspirations cannot be forgotten in the process of constructing the new Europe.",
        "在这关键时刻，我们呼吁欧洲向乌克兰这个伟大的国家张开双臂，建设新欧洲的过程中，我们不能忘记它的需求和渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "Poor governance has undoubtedly contributed to this disappointing situation, which falls short of what Mandela envisioned for the country he loved.",
        "毫无疑问，拙劣的治理是造成这一令人失望的状况的原因之一，曼德拉为这个他所热爱的国家所制定的愿景没有实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasingly, adaptation at the national level will be recognized as a major issue that will require appropriate funding.",
        "国家对此计划的应用将日益成为一个需要充足资金的主要项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is always very hard for leaders to relinquish power.",
        "当然，领导人放弃权利总是非常困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is cause enough for cheer.",
        "这足以令人欢呼。"
    ],
    [
        "Central Banking’s New Club Class",
        "央行的新俱乐部阶层"
    ],
    [
        "The increasingly visible effects of climate change, rising geopolitical tensions, state crisis and collapse, inadequate or unequal economic opportunities, and the spread of infectious diseases – to name just some of the highest-profile threats – have created an environment of great uncertainty.",
        "气候变化的影响日益明显，地缘政治紧张局势日益升级，国家危机和崩溃频发，经济机会不充分也不平等，还有传染病的肆意蔓延——而这只是其中一些最严重的威胁——它们给我们带来了极大的不确定环境。"
    ],
    [
        "But that does not change the fact that parties’ need to address their electoral fears is causing serious damage to national policymaking.",
        "但这没有改变一个事实，即政党解决选民担忧的需要正在给国家决策带来严重伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Calderón’s policies echo this momentum: by some estimates, he is transforming his country into the world’s fastest-growing wind-power market.",
        "卡尔德隆的政策从侧面反映了这种势头： 有人估计他正将墨西哥建设成世界增长最快的风电市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The promise of a regional settlement that offers Israel the needed security guarantee – not to mention a considerable boost to its international standing – would make the painful concessions, including compromises on borders and Jerusalem, which are critical to the creation of a Palestinian state, more digestible for Israeli leaders.",
        "为以色列提供和平保障、更不要说显著提高其国际地位的区域解决办法——会使得对建立巴勒斯坦国关键的痛苦让步，包括在边界和耶路撒冷问题上的妥协，对以色列领导人而言更容易接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Human trafficking rings tend to avoid Sweden, because business has gone sour.",
        "因为生意不景气了，人口贩卖犯罪集团倾向于避开瑞典。"
    ],
    [
        "He thought that Ronald Reagan had shown that fiscal deficits don’t matter.",
        "他认为罗纳德·里根已经表明财政赤字无关紧要。"
    ],
    [
        "And they want to do it on a country-by-country basis, rather than on the basis of the eurozone as a whole.",
        "此外，他们准备在国家层面，而不是在整个欧元区层面做这件事。"
    ],
    [
        "And the perception can be far removed from reality, which means that the more the prevailing political wisdom assigns decisive electoral importance to the economy, the greater the temptation to view monetary policy’s impact on asset prices, and not on long-term growth, as crucial.",
        "而感觉可以和现实相去甚远，这意味着流行的政治智慧越是强调经济对选举结果的决定性影响，人们就越关注货币政策对资产价格而不是长期经济增长的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "History has shown how risky it is to miss some opportunities.",
        "历史已经向我们表明，错过机会是多么危险的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "America should now try to form a different kind of coalition – one aimed at achieving peace.",
        "美国目前的当务之急是成立新的联盟——该联盟以实现和平为目标。"
    ],
    [
        "As recently as 2001, Europe’s top 20 banks still generated more than half of their revenues at home.",
        "2001年，欧洲最大20家银行的年营收额有一大半来自国内。"
    ],
    [
        "We hope that other countries will show the same commitment.",
        "我们希望其他国家也拿出同样的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan is ahead of the curve in curbing population growth, and productivity has been increasing.",
        "日本在遏制人口增长方面一直世界领先，生产率也一直在提高。"
    ],
    [
        "The moment when Europe truly believes in itself, the way Germany does, and combines strategic long-term planning with well allocated R&D investments, will make all the difference.",
        "只要欧洲像德国那样对自己坚信不疑，将长期战略规划和科学研发投资配置相结合，情况就会大为改观。"
    ],
    [
        "There are still challenges ahead.",
        "但未来依然存在着挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences are already starting to show: according to the 2016 Bloomberg Innovation Index, the US is now the world’s eighth most innovative country, having fallen two spots since 2015.",
        "其后果已经开始显露：据2016年彭博创新指数，美国现在是世界上创新力第八的国家，比2015年的排名下降了两位。"
    ],
    [
        "Federalist zealots hate the idea of a two-track Europe.",
        "狂热联邦派憎恨双轨欧洲的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "A second is the Bush administration’s ideological hostility to the modest amount of wealth redistribution implied by the public system.",
        "原因之二是布什政府对公共体系所包含的财富重新分配充满意识形态上的敌意，尽管这笔财富数目平平。"
    ],
    [
        "Because bubbles are essentially social-psychological phenomena, they are, by their very nature, difficult to control.",
        "因为泡沫从本质上说是一种社会心理学现象，因此天生难以控制。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the flags of many nations fly alongside German.",
        "实际上，许多国家的旗帜与德国国旗一同飘扬。"
    ],
    [
        "This ideology does not represent Islam.",
        "这一意识形态并不代表伊斯兰教。"
    ],
    [
        "Hasn’t the start of the twenty-first century marked the death of all other ideologies, with China’s raw capitalism putting pressure on gentler forms in Europe and elsewhere?",
        "二十一世纪伊始，随着中国原始资本主义给欧洲和其他地方更为柔和的制度施加压力，是否标志着其他所有意识形态的死亡呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Goto, a journalist who traveled to Syria last October to try to secure Yukawa’s release, will supposedly be spared if Japan secures Jordan’s release of a convicted terrorist.",
        "后藤是一名记者，去年10月前往叙利亚试图确保汤川的释放，据称如果日本能确保约旦释放一名被定罪的恐怖分子，他将重获自由。"
    ],
    [
        "The argument against European structures depends on hostility to a transfer union that might lead to some redistribution of resources.",
        "反对欧洲结构的观点依赖于对可能导致资源再分配的转移联盟的敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "In the face of such complexity, it is not surprising that genuine policy disagreements lead to extended debate and relatively little action.",
        "面对如此复杂性，毫不奇怪实实在在的政策分歧会导致没完没了的争论和相对极少的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent law is a milestone in this process, but by no means the end point.",
        "最近的法律是这一过程中的一座里程碑，但绝不是终点。"
    ],
    [
        "Sweden and Germany receive the largest inflows of immigrants by far – and Germany is nearly ten times the size of Sweden.",
        "目前，瑞典和德国接收的移民数量是最多的——而德国的面积是瑞典的近十倍。"
    ],
    [
        "We have a long way to go, probably in a climate that will not turn favorable to immigration for many years.",
        "我们还有很长的路要走，国际环境也可能在未来多年内不利于移民。"
    ],
    [
        "But such reforms are occurring at suboptimal rates in both advanced and emerging economies, because all of the costs and dislocations are frontloaded, while the benefits occur over the medium and long term.",
        "但发达国家和新兴经济体的结构改革都远低于最优水平，因为结构改革的成本和混乱是前置的，而收益要到中期和长期才能显现。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe can take other steps to redress or adapt to the looming demographic imbalance.",
        "但是，欧洲可以采取其他步骤来解决或者适应迫在眉睫的人口不平衡问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Hope always seemed to outweigh the country’s accomplishments, but it was always viewed in Western circles as a reliable partner and ally.",
        "这个国家似乎总是希望比成就更大，但它在西方国家眼中一直被视为可靠的盟友和伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, techniques of deception have undergone enormous improvements since Orwell’s time.",
        "确实，自从奥威尔的时代以来，欺骗伎俩经历了巨大的改进。"
    ],
    [
        "When Greece imploded, the investments turned sour, and the Cypriot banks that had engaged in this strategy became insolvent.",
        "希腊经济崩溃后，这些投资也就打了水漂，而采用这种策略的塞浦路斯银行则破产了。"
    ],
    [
        "“Pawn Sacrifice” recalls the world in which Fischer’s feats were possible.",
        "《弃卒》则回忆了一个费舍尔有可能建功立业的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan lies in a dangerous region, in which deep-rooted tensions threaten to erupt at any moment.",
        "日本位于一个危险的地区，该地区有着根深蒂固的紧张局势，随时可能爆发冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "But how many NATO leaders or European Union presidents and prime ministers have ever taken the time to visit the battle site, and perhaps lay a wreath to those whose sacrifice saved their civilization?",
        "但有多少北约领导人和欧盟主席和首相曾经花时间去参观过战场、向牺牲生命拯救他们的文明的战士们敬献过花圈？"
    ],
    [
        "Despite requiring resources to produce, plastic is so cheap that it often is used for disposable – often single-use – products.",
        "生产塑料需要消耗资源，但其成本非常低廉，因此常被用于制造一次性产品。"
    ],
    [
        "To prevent superbugs from claiming an estimated ten million lives a year by 2050, we will need to invent new types of antimicrobial drugs and develop rapid diagnostic tests to avoid unnecessary treatment and cut our massive overuse of antibiotics.",
        "为了防止超级病菌在2050年夺走预计一千万人的生命，我们需要发明新型抗生素，开发快速诊断测试以避免不必要的治疗和减少抗生素的大规模滥用。"
    ],
    [
        "I was national coordinator of Ebola burials for Sierra Leone at the height of the epidemic.",
        "在疫情高峰期，我曾负责协调塞拉利昂埃博拉致死者的埋葬工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Robots are capable of performing repetitive tasks with a higher degree of precision and accuracy than are humans, and without muscle fatigue.",
        "机器人能以比人类更高的精度和准确度完成重复工作，且不会出现肌肉疲劳。"
    ],
    [
        "Mikhail Gorbachev’s liberalizing policies of glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union emerged at one of the Cold War’s darkest hours, with US President Ronald Reagan pushing for strategic missile defense and the two sides fighting proxy wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere.",
        "在冷战正酣的时候，戈尔巴乔夫在苏联推出了改革与新思维的自由化政策，而美国总统里根推出了战略导弹防御系统，并在阿富汗和其他地区的实施双边战争代理人战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Yahya Rahim Safavi, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s military adviser and a former commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guard, appealed to Iranian officials not to confine their threats to words, but rather to respond with military action.",
        "类似地，最高领袖哈梅内伊的军事顾问兼革命卫队前最高指挥官萨法伊（Yahya Rahim Safavi）呼吁伊朗官员不要将威胁停留在口头，而是应该采取军事行动作为回应。"
    ],
    [
        "While such demand will surely not offset the drop in advanced-country demand completely, it can help to soften the blow.",
        "虽然这种需求肯定无法完全抵消先进国家的需求下降，但却有助于减轻对经济的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they are an attempt to establish a new deterrent against Israel that would force it to agree to a cease-fire ( Tahdiye) .",
        "相反，他们是为了拥有对以色列的新的威慑力量，从而迫使它同意停火（Tahdiye）。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, defusing both Brexit and the refugee crisis will require some modest changes in immigration and welfare rules.",
        "首先，解决英国退欧和难民危机需要移民和福利规则方面的些许微调。"
    ],
    [
        "So, rather than feeling exploited and condemned indefinitely to the fringes of a Northern European society – and thus vulnerable to the stirrings of demagogues and extremists – these women’s children grow up fully familiar with Danish civil society, well informed about higher education and professional opportunities, and hopeful rather than cynical.",
        "因此，这些妇女的后代就不会在一个北欧国家的社会边缘中感到无尽的剥夺和不幸，并因此易于受到煽动者和极端分子的蛊惑，而是在对丹麦市民社会的充分理解中成长，被赋予更高的教育水平和职业机会，对生活充满希望而不是愤世嫉俗。"
    ],
    [
        "The philosopher Slavoj Žižek, a DiEM25 signatory, recently quipped that socialist nationalism is not a good defense against the postmodern national socialism that the EU’s disintegration would bring.",
        "DiEM25的签署者、哲学家齐泽克（Slavoj Žižek）最近戏谑道，社会主义民族主义不是针对欧盟解体将要带来的后现代民族主义社会主义的好防御办法。"
    ],
    [
        "The French Rally to the Republic",
        "法国人回归共和"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, while Erdoğan may appear to be at the pinnacle of power, it is his government’s “Gülenist” allies who have grown increasingly powerful.",
        "而当厄尔多安似乎登临权力之巅时，其政府的“谷兰主义者”盟友也已日渐强大。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Anglo-Saxon media world, Rupert Murdoch, owner of far too many newspapers, TV stations, and movie studios, is a typical populist tycoon.",
        "盎格鲁－撒克逊世界的传媒大亨鲁珀特·默多克拥有数不清的报纸、电视台和电影制片厂，可谓是民粹主义大亨的典型。"
    ],
    [
        "As for fiscal measures, the empirical evidence suggests that three-quarters of consumption is based on longer-term economic prospects, not short-run disposable income.",
        "对于财政手段，经验表明，四分之三的消费是基于长期的经济前景，而不是短期的可支配收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Arctic sea ice is melting, and rising sea levels are threatening to inundate low-lying densely populated coastal regions in several countries.",
        "北冰洋冰盖正在融化，上升的海平面有可能吞没一些国家低海拔沿海地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Most are for sums of only $100-$300, and they normally go towards immediate household consumption.",
        "汇款金额多数仅在100到300美元之间，它们几乎立即进入到家庭日常消费环节。"
    ],
    [
        "Marine resources cannot be overexploited indefinitely.",
        "对海洋资源的过度开发不能无限期继续。"
    ],
    [
        "Meeting in Calgary last month, the Inter-American Development Bank reported that $266 billion entered Latin America’s seven largest economies in 2010, compared to less than $50 billion a year, on average, between 2000 and 2005.",
        "在上月卡尔加里会议上发布的一份美洲开发银行报告显示，2010年有2660亿美元资金流入拉美七个最大的经济体，而2000-2005年间的年平均值还只有500亿。"
    ],
    [
        "Computer enthusiasts are excited by things like the blockchain used by Bitcoin (covered on an education website called Singularity University, in a section dramatically titled Exponential Finance).",
        "电脑爱好者们会为比特币所用的阻断链欢呼雀跃（由一个叫基点大学的教育网站中戏剧化地命名为指数金融的部分所描述)。"
    ],
    [
        "With his lack of a military background, he seems not to have understood that external forces need to work closely with the local army, and that a sophisticated support network must be in place to avoid logistical disruptions resulting from enemy action or corruption.",
        "由于缺乏军方背景，他似乎不明白外部力量需要与本地军队密切合作，而且必须有成熟的支持网络以避免地方行动或腐败干扰物流。"
    ],
    [
        "If Greece can’t do better than this, he argues, then it should leave.",
        "如果希腊没有比这更好的办法，那么它理应离开。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Syrian case, with one caveat, Israel decided to dispense with the preliminaries and simply destroy the reactor.",
        "在叙利亚问题上警告过一次后，以色列决定跳过预备步骤，直接摧毁反应堆。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, just 100 years ago, women were roughly 100 times more likely to die in childbirth than they are today.",
        "而在100年前的美国，妇女难产死亡的概率是今天的100倍。"
    ],
    [
        "But, until it develops a mature foreign policy that matches its economic aspirations – a foreign policy based on principled leadership, not heedless Third World solidarity – its global influence will be constrained.",
        "但是如果没有与其经济规划相符的更为成熟的外交策略——要讲求基本原则，不盲目和第三世界结盟——谋求更大国际影响的巴西必难突围。"
    ],
    [
        "The US will find it equally urgent to come to grips with a very different China.",
        "美国也会发现与一个截然不同的中国携手是件同样紧迫的事。"
    ],
    [
        "But the revived inter-war gold standard ultimately fell apart, in no small part because it was impossible to rebuild public trust.",
        "但两次大战间的金本位复辟最终还是崩溃了，很大程度上是因为无法重新建立公共信任。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, while food hygiene, traceability, and labeling are improving, any amount of negligence when it comes to food safety could have far-reaching consequences in the complex and interconnected global food chain.",
        "此外，尽管食品卫生、食品溯源和标签在改善，但任何食品安全方面的疏忽都可能在复杂而互相关联的全球粮食链中引起深远的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "A forlorn job application on a large signpost reads, “Nice girl, gentle without bad habits, will sell cement.”",
        "放眼望去，一排毫无特征的公寓楼延伸到远处。 在一个大布告板上孤零零地贴着一张求职意向书，上面写着“年轻女性，性格温和无不良嗜好，愿意承担水泥销售工作”。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexicans make up more than half of the flow and stock – legal or not – of all immigrants in the US, but a point of view attempting to reflect their interests and aspirations has been largely absent from the American discussion.",
        "墨西哥人在美国的所有合法或非法移民移动和总量上占据一半以上，但是在美国人的辩论中却基本上一直没有试图反映墨西哥人利益以及渴求的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "But the trend toward normalcy among European leaders coincides with a remarkable absence of vision and strategy.",
        "但欧洲领导人中这股向平常化发展的趋势同时也伴随着显而易见的远见和战略缺失。"
    ],
    [
        "During the last tightening cycle between 2004 and 2006, households’ interest income rose 29%.",
        "在2004—2006年的紧缩周期中，家庭利息收入增加了29%。"
    ],
    [
        "Kosovo was left as a United Nations protectorate whose “final status” was uncertain.",
        "科索沃需要联合国的保护，它的“最终地位”还没有确定。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, compliance with the law is not enough.",
        "”换句话说，光遵守法律是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Bush wrong?",
        "布什错了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "With South Africa as its only industrialized country, Sub-Saharan Africa is the least industrialized region in the world.",
        "6%。 因为只有南非一个工业化国家，撒哈拉以南非洲成为全世界工业化程度最低的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the world is working to reduce its dependence on volatile or unsavory energy suppliers by adopting new technologies such as hydraulic fracturing and increasing purchases from places like Australia, Norway, Qatar, and the United States, which has eased restrictions on the export of natural resources.",
        "世界大部正在努力采取液压致裂法等新技术和增加澳大利亚、挪威、卡塔尔和美国（已经放松对出口自然资源的限制）的采购量，以此减少依赖于高波动或令人讨厌的能源供应者。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine's integration into NATO, by contrast, would have far-reaching strategic consequences, ending any residual Russian hopes of forming a ampquot;Slavic Unionampquot; composed of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine - a dream that still beats in the breast of many Russians.",
        "相反，若乌克兰加入北约，将会产生深远的战略影响，这会让俄罗斯人心中那一丝建立一个由俄罗斯、白俄罗斯和乌克兰组成的“斯拉夫联盟”的梦想成为泡影。 现在这个梦想仍然存于俄罗斯人心中。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe should stand with Iran's civil society, and the European Parliament has already paid tribute to the courage of all those Iranian men and women who are defending their basic freedoms and democratic principles.",
        "欧洲应该与伊朗市民社会站在一起，欧洲议会已经高度赞扬了伊朗人民为捍卫基本自由和民主原则而奋斗的勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorist groups would undoubtedly like to get their hands on one.",
        "而那些恐怖组织也肯定很想搞到其中的一两枚。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more worrisome are larger immutable realities – like a rapidly aging and shrinking population – that will limit Japan’s economic growth in the coming decades.",
        "更令人担忧的是难以改变的现实——如快速老龄化且不断减少的人口，这些现实将成为未来几十年中日本经济增长的制约因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Cutting hours by 20% allowed millions of additional workers to stay on the job. They continued to earn an income.",
        "减少20%的工作时间可以额外令数百万劳动者得以留在工作岗位上。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain’s victory was one of the rare occasions that Catalonians, Castillians, Basques, and Andalusians erupted together in an explosion of patriotic delight.",
        "西班牙的胜利是少有的加泰罗尼亚人、卡斯蒂利亚人、巴斯克人和安达卢西亚人走到一起共同沉浸在爱国主义的狂热中的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "There is merit, I also believe, in Putin’s contention that a multipolar world is better than a unipolar world for advancing the cause of human flourishing.",
        "我还相信，普京争辩说多极世界比单极世界更有利于推动人类繁荣进程不无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "For some, particularly in southern Europe, it is seen as a means of shifting the burden of supporting their indigent banks to those with deeper pockets.",
        "一些人（特别是南欧人）将此视为让资金充裕国承担支持其资金短缺银行负担的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "We now believe that inter-Korean relations should conform to principles and standards that any member of the international community should respect.",
        "我们现在相信两朝关系应符合国际社会任何成员应当尊重的原则和标准。"
    ],
    [
        "If the aid arrives, Egypt could begin to address some of its financing problems, but it is still in need of a long-term strategy to spur sustainable growth.",
        "有了援助，埃及就可以开始修正一些融资问题，但仍需要长期战略来刺激可持续增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, if the US government cannot safeguard the value its securities, it should compensate China in one way or another.",
        "最后，如果美国政府不能保证其政府债券的价值，它就应该以某种形式来弥补中国为此承受的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Disappointingly, many Europeans have responded to this humanitarian crisis, which closely resembles the one that Europe endured a century ago, by opposing their countries’ acceptance of any more refugees.",
        "令人失望的是，许多欧洲人对于这场与一个世纪前欧洲所遭遇的情况十分相似的人道危机的反应是反对国家接受更多难民。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world of diverse and changing circumstances, social scientists can do real harm by applying the wrong model.",
        "在这个存在多种变化情况的世界上，如果社会科学家使用了错误的模型可能会产生严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But the idea that these activities can be halted at will is naïve.",
        "但认为这样的行动可以随意停止未免有些太过天真。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, some leveraging of the budget could be allowed, although this would spark controversy, given that EU treaties require that the budget remains balanced at all times.",
        "比如，可以允许预算使用杠杆，尽管这会引起激烈的争论，因为欧盟条约要求预算随时保持平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "With a better understanding of people’s relationships to each other – from the impact that one’s lifestyle could have on the health of future generations to the corrosive effects of existing inequalities and the concomitant risk of a new genetic divide – a healthier, more equal society could be created.",
        "有了对人与人关系的更好的理解——从个人生活方式对子孙后代健康的影响，到现存不平等性腐蚀性作用和新的遗传分化所伴随的风险——我们才可以创造更健康、更公平的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, some institutions, both formal and informal, already govern the basic functioning of the Internet.",
        "尽管如此，某些机构，包括正式和非正式机构，已经对互联网的基本功能构成了制约。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran will become more acute in the years ahead, emerging as the main destabilizing factor in the region.",
        "果真如此的话，沙特阿拉伯和伊朗之间的紧张局势将会在未来几年中进一步加剧，成为地区主要不稳定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iranian economy is a wreck after years of international sanctions, and the government has not yet managed to take advantage of the nuclear deal it struck with the US to rebuild it.",
        "伊朗经济因为国际制裁而多年萎靡不振，政府也没有成功利用与美国达成核协议的机会重建经济。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Donald Trump has finally put out a detailed economic plan.",
        "华盛顿—唐纳德·特朗普终于拿出了详细的经济计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The early leaders in the United States’ presidential campaign, both the Republican Donald Trump and the Democrat Hillary Clinton, have expressed opposition to the TPP, though as Secretary of State, Clinton called it the “the gold standard of trade deals.”",
        "美国总统选战初期的领先者，不管是共和党的唐纳德·特朗普还是民主党的希拉里·克林顿，都表示反对TPP，尽管作为国务卿的克林顿称之为“贸易协议的金本位”。"
    ],
    [
        "The irony is that Congress took up the big banks’ offer to separate commercial and investment banking, but then enacted deposit insurance anyway.",
        "讽刺之处在于国会接受了大银行的动议，对商业银行和投资银行实行了分业，但随后还是出台了存款保险。"
    ],
    [
        "One possible explanation is that China is a little drunk on its new great-power status.",
        "一种解释是中国面对其新获得的大国地位有点昏了头。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the recent abrupt – and at times overly ambitious – measures to tax the industry or redistribute the burden of foreign-currency loans have undermined capital cushions and set back recovery in credit and growth.",
        "最近有一些关于金融业税收政策和外汇贷款负担再分配政策的突然变动（往往颇为激进）大大恶化了资本缓冲，也影响到了信用和经济增长的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Most economists agree on what is needed to avoid another round of lost growth opportunities, inadequate employment, financial instability, and worsening inequality.",
        "多数经济学家已就所应采取的措施达成一致，以避免再次丧失增长机会、影响就业、破坏金融稳定和导致不平等现象进一步加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Expansionary fiscal policy and accommodative monetary policy also have an important role to play in placing China on a more stable and sustainable growth path.",
        "扩张性的财政政策和宽松的货币政策也会对中国迈向更稳定且可持续的增长道路发挥重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that there is a firm consensus, governments must act on it.",
        "如今，我们已经有了一个扎实的共识，政府必须据此行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the G-20, only two states – China and Saudi Arabia – explicitly do not want to be liberal democracies, while a third, Russia, has developed into an autocracy with a democratic façade.",
        "在G20中，只有中国和沙特两个国家明确不希望走自由民主道路，而俄罗斯实行的是独裁为体、民主为表。"
    ],
    [
        "Cancer cells pay a price when they evolve resistance to chemotherapy.",
        "在对化疗产生抗药性的过程中癌细胞会遭受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, no matter how critical the moderate Arabs may be of the Hamas coup in Gaza, the Arab leaders cannot afford the domestic fallout of shunning Hamas.",
        "此外，不管阿拉伯温和派能够对哈马斯在加沙的政变产生多关键的作用，阿拉伯的领导人是绝对无法承受撇开哈马斯会给他们国内带来的负面影响的。"
    ],
    [
        "But we also know that the political space that we have secured is too precious to be squandered.",
        "但我们也知道，我们所确保的政治空间十分宝贵，不能白白浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "How much trouble will ultimately depend on factors that are very hard to forecast, including markets’ responses to Fed tightening and political shocks (say, the scandal enveloping Petrobras in Brazil) that shake investors’ faith in local policies and markets.",
        "困难有多大最终取决于它们难以预测的因素，包括市场对美联储紧缩和影响投资者对本地政策和市场新型的政治冲击（比如与巴西石油公司有关的丑闻）如何反应。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, a policy regime that sets aside its only goal during a crisis seems to lack the ability to cope with unexpected challenges.",
        "毕竟，在危机期间放弃其唯一目标的政策机制似乎没有能力处理意外挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "HELSINKI – It seems to be a law in the technology industry that leading companies eventually lose their positions – often quickly and brutally.",
        "赫尔辛基——领导企业最终丧失领导地位似乎是科技行业的法则——而且其过程往往迅速而又残酷。"
    ],
    [
        "For my part, I believe the Polish people should heed the message that Piotr conveyed in his letter.",
        "我个人认为，皮奥特在公开信中所表达的内容应当引起波兰民众的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing and rewarding employees who possess such skills will be an additional, but welcome, challenge. By doing this the pharmaceutical industry might not become open source, but will become more open for innovation.",
        "对掌握这些技能的员工进行重用和奖励也将是一项额外的、但却受欢迎的挑战，藉此，制药行业不仅能成为开放的信息源，而且其创新的方式也更加开放。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU can accept Ukraine’s foreign-policy constraints, while concentrating on helping it transform its economic and social structures, and preserving its democracy.",
        "欧盟可以接受乌克兰的外交政策限制，而集中帮助它改造经济和社会结构，并维护其民主。"
    ],
    [
        "The murder of Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s bravest and best journalists, a woman who dared to expose the brutal murders committed by Russian troops in Chechnya, is final proof that President Putin has delivered nothing more than a run of the mill dictatorship with the usual contempt for law.",
        "波利特科夫卡娅是俄罗斯最勇敢和最好的记者之一，一个敢于揭露俄罗斯军队在车臣进行残暴杀戮的女人被谋杀，是对普京总统除了以对法律惯有的蔑视而推行的、平庸的独裁统治的新证明。"
    ],
    [
        "The choice will depend on the characteristics of the country.",
        "如何选择由具体国家的特点决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The more that they have focused on policies to put people back to work in the short run, the better their economies have done.",
        "政府越是推出能在短期内促进就业的政策，经济的表现越好。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, export expectations for German manufacturing are heading south.",
        "此外，对德国制造业出口的预期也在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "New, hotter technologies come along, and the firm no longer attracts the best people to work for it, because, well, it’s no longer the next new thing.",
        "新的、更火爆的技术会随之出现，企业无法吸引最优秀的人才为其工作，因为它已不再是伟大的新新事物。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last third of a century, the rules of America’s economic system have been rewritten in ways that serve a few at the top, while harming the economy as a whole, and especially the bottom 80%.",
        "在过去三分之一世纪中，美国经济制度的规则被改写，它有利于顶层，有害于整体经济，特别有害于底层80%。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, none of these countries, except Egypt, had ever been a discrete political entity.",
        "换言之，这些国家，除了埃及之外，没有一个曾是独立政治体。"
    ],
    [
        "It can flinch while pretending not to; it can carry on more or less as before, hoping for some positive new development; or it can try to decouple Syria from Iran and Hezbollah.",
        "依旧我行我素，并寄望于事态向着积极的方向发展； 或试图将叙利亚同伊朗和真主党剥离开来。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The US presidential election is still more than half a year away, and it is impossible to know with any certainty who will be nominated to represent the major parties, much less who will be the 45th occupant of the White House.",
        "纽约—美国总统竞选尚未过半，还不可能笃定知道哪位能获得两大党的提名，更不用说谁能成为白宫第45位主人了。"
    ],
    [
        "But the region’s “history problem” has been intensifying lately, with growing nationalism among major actors like China, Japan, and South Korea fueling disputes over everything from territory and natural resources to war memorials and textbooks.",
        "但该地区的“历史问题”最近有升级之势，中国、日本和韩国等主要行动方日益增加的民族主义情绪助长了包括从领土和自然资源到战争纪念和教科书在内的一切争议。"
    ],
    [
        "The Monetarist Mistake",
        "货币主义错误"
    ],
    [
        "To do the same thing with bank debt could pull hitherto sound economies into the abyss, because bank’s balance sheets are much larger than the volume of government debt.",
        "对银行债务也如法炮制将把目前仍然坚挺的经济体推向深渊，因为银行资产负债表规模比国债大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Some Republican strategists say that even Ronald Reagan could not be nominated by today's Republicans.",
        "一些共和党战略家说，甚至罗纳德·里根也无法获得今天的共和党的提名。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments must create the right policy environment to allow for appropriate investments in research and development to enhance productivity and increase production.",
        "政府必须创造出合适的政策环境，允许在研究和发展领域的恰当投资提高生产率并增加产量。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is that the world suffers from a shortage of aggregate demand relative to supply; the second is that monetary and fiscal stimulus will close the gap.",
        "其一，相对于总供给，全球总需求短缺； 其二，货币和财政刺激将填补此一缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "We know what we need to deliver: the solutions to many of our most pressing problems already exist.",
        "我们知道我们需要实现什么：大部分紧迫问题已经有了解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "But they must try to ensure that they do not destroy incentives by doing too much. And they must offset the distortions created by intervention in other ways.",
        "但他们必须努力确保不会因为过度作为而损害了市场的内在动力，同时也必须补偿由其他干涉行为而导致的市场扭曲。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of these proposals – full employment, cash transfers, broadband rollout, freer migration, and lower trade barriers – is covered by at least one of the UN’s 169 development targets.",
        "所有计划——全民就业、现金转移支付、宽带推广、放宽移民和降低贸易壁垒——全部包含在联合国169项发展目标之中。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no overarching explanation for Obama’s successive Middle East failures, but there are a few factors worth considering: the increase in the number of asymmetrical conflicts, in which the traditional use of force is largely ineffective; increasingly blurred lines between difficult allies and intransigent adversaries; and major political differences between a centrist US president and a Congress that is dominated more than ever by extreme ideas.",
        "奥巴马在中东问题上一再失策，其原因不一而足，但其中有几个因素值得关注：不对称冲突数量上升，传统军事干预已不再奏效； 盟友越来越难对付，敌人越来越强硬，两者之间的界线越来越模糊；"
    ],
    [
        "TEL AVIV – It is remarkable that a stern warning about the scale of the threat posed to the United States by Syria’s civil war has gone practically unnoticed.",
        "特拉维夫——叙利亚内战对美国威胁的严厉警告几乎没有引起任何重视，这不能不令人感到惊诧。"
    ],
    [
        "That should have ended the argument.",
        "争论应该到这里就结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to make peace.",
        "现在应该做的是缔结和平。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with the eurozone running a current-account surplus of nearly $350 billion – which the euro’s recent decline will bolster further – there is no risk of a eurozone-wide balance-of-payments crisis.",
        "此外，欧元区经常项目盈余接近3,500亿美元——最近欧元对美元贬值还会进一步提振经常项目盈余——因此不存在泛欧元区的收支平衡危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The ideal exchange rate for India is neither strong nor weak; it is the “Goldilocks rate” produced by market forces, with the RBI focusing on attracting long-term capital inflows and intervening only to maintain orderly movement of the rupee versus other currencies.",
        "对印度来，理想的汇率是既不强也不弱； 即由市场力量形成的“金发姑娘率”（Goldilocks rate），而RBI则着重于吸引长期资本流入，只在出于维持卢比对其他货币的有序波动的必要时干预。"
    ],
    [
        "For years, both the US and Europe engaged in a monumental exercise in political hypocrisy, preaching the gospel of democratic change while supporting Arab tyrants.",
        "多年来，美国和欧洲在政治舞台上极尽伪善之能事，一边散布民主变革福音，一边支持阿拉伯暴君。"
    ],
    [
        "But it failed to point out that the feebleness of such coordination, linked to an absence of cabinet-centered policymaking, was precisely the main weakness of Japan’s political system that the founders of the DPJ set out to overcome.",
        "但该报却没有指出这种协作之所以扭曲，恰恰是因为日本缺乏以内阁为中心的政策制定体制，而这也正是民主党领导人致力于克服的日本政治系统重大弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet none of those held during Putin’s long tenure has been assessed as free or fair by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.",
        "但普京漫长任期内所举行的任何一次选举都不符合欧洲安全与合作组织自由或公正的标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Europe’s facility at creative accounting, some way will be found to keep Greece on life support.",
        "欧洲可谓会计伎俩的温床，一定能找到维持希腊生命的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Separatism, Italian-Style",
        "意大利式分离主义"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, the trend has accelerated since the recession of 2009.",
        "事实上，这一趋势在2009年衰退以来有所加速。"
    ],
    [
        "China cannot create such an environment quickly.",
        "中国不可能很快地建立起这样的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Worldwide, far less than 20% of fossil-fuel subsidies benefit the poorest 20% of the population.",
        "就全世界而言，只有远不足 20%的化石燃料补贴给了最贫困的20%人口。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been said many times, but repetition does not diminish its importance.",
        "这已经被说了很多次了，但是重复并不减弱其重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Donations for the purchase from the people of Japan now exceed ¥700 million ($8.4 million).",
        "日本人民对此项活动的捐款额已经超过了7亿日元。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, naming military veterans as Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense will provide him with valuable domestic political cover for an agreement that would inevitably require lifting sanctions on Iran and almost certainly recognizing its right to enrich uranium at a low level of concentration.",
        "特别是任命退伍军人担任国务卿和国防部长将为达成协议提供宝贵的国内政治掩护，因为协议签署将不可避免地需要解除对伊朗的制裁，并几乎肯定要承认伊朗提取低纯度浓缩铀的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, “Liberalism leads to excesses: to unemployment, anarchy.",
        "”同样，自由主义很容易引发失业和无政府状态等过激行为。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be hard to overestimate the importance of such a declaration.",
        "上述声明的重要性的确不可低估。"
    ],
    [
        "The votes for Brexit and Trump are often described today as an ineluctable result of deep socioeconomic factors like inequality or globalization.",
        "投票给英国退欧和特朗普，这样的现象在今天常常被描述为是不平等和全球化等深刻社会经济因素的不可避免的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Even as the squeeze in interbank lending has started to ease after the rescue of financial systems across the advanced countries, falling economic indicators have sent stock markets tumbling.",
        "华盛顿-即便在发达国家出手拯救金融体系使银行间借款的萎缩开始缓解后，不断下滑的经济指数还是使股票市场持续下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, about 3,500 hectares have been planted with trees or put under improved soil-management practices.",
        "到目前为止，已经有3，500公顷土地种植了树木，或者实行了经过改良的土壤管理措施。"
    ],
    [
        "There were many reasons not to have expected Malaysia to be a success.",
        "有许多原因让我们预期不到马来西亚的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether the US and other reserve-currency countries will share the burden of maintaining global currency stability, through an agreement resembling the 1985 Plaza Accord, in which five major economies agreed to depreciate the US dollar against the Japanese yen and the German Deutsche Mark.",
        "全球各大经济体需要签订类似于1985年广场协定的全球货币稳定互助协议吗？ 当时，五大主要经济体一致同意美元兑日元和德国马克贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, nobody would display a symbol of wealth if it were too common.",
        "同样，没有人会去炫耀司空见惯的财富象征。"
    ],
    [
        "A major effort will be required to transfer materials to where they are needed, and to coordinate surveillance and laboratory operations.",
        "需要付出大量努力将材料转移到需要的地方，并协调监测及实验室操作。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, under her leadership, the IMF has also addressed the broader question of income inequality.",
        "其次，在她的领导下，IMF还解决了收入不平等这一更广大的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Those divisions are now history, and American reservations about a European security pillar cannot trump America’s pressing needs for allied support.",
        "这种分化现已成为历史，美国对欧洲安全支柱的迟疑远不如其对盟友支持的需求来得急迫。"
    ],
    [
        "Whither Africa’s “Frontier Markets”?",
        "非洲“前沿市场”的凋谢"
    ],
    [
        "The April agreement goes further by establishing a power-sharing arrangement in northern Kosovo that is designed to bolster local self-government through an association of Serb-majority municipalities while providing new arrangements for policing and the judiciary.",
        "4月协议更进一步，建立了科索沃北部的权力共享安排，该安排的初衷是为了通过塞族多数城市联合体增强地方自治，同时提供新的治理和司法安排。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe, too, has stoked tensions, particularly by visiting Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine – a controversial memorial that honors, among others, Class A war criminals from World War II.",
        "安倍也在给紧张局面火上浇油，特别是其惨败靖国神社的举动。 靖国神社因为供奉二战甲级战犯牌位而饱受争议。"
    ],
    [
        "To one degree or another, all depend on access to foreign markets to sell their manufactured goods, agricultural products, resources, or services – or to supply them.",
        "各国或多或少都依赖外国市场出售或提供制造品、农产品、资源和服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite a doubling of its balance sheet, to a little more than €3 trillion ($4 trillion), Europe has slipped back into recession for the second time in four years.",
        "尽管它的资产翻了倍，达到3万多亿欧元（折合约4万亿美元），欧洲已经在四年中第二次回落到衰退状态。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Strategy defines clear objectives, considers the mistakes of the past, and is deeply anchored in the EU’s present-day reality.",
        "全球战略制定了明确目标、吸取了过去错误的教训并深深植根于欧盟当今的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "When the IARC, which restricts its panels to consider only a narrow spectrum of selected publications, makes a mistaken decision, the effects are harmful.",
        "当国际癌症研究机构限制其专家组仅考虑很小范围内的特定刊物并因此得出错误结论时，会造成非常有害的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe’s case, the European Union’s fiscal rules are at issue, and the Commission – in principle the EU’s watchdog – should bark loudly when they are flouted.",
        "在欧洲，欧盟的财政规则是问题所在，而欧盟委员会——原则上它是欧盟的看门狗——应该在问题没有得到重视时大声吠叫。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab Spring’s Crowd Psychology",
        "阿拉伯之春的群体心理"
    ],
    [
        "But what, exactly, is a fair, democratic process for making irreversible, nation-defining decisions?",
        "但对于不可撤销的、给予国家定义的决定，什么才是民主程序？"
    ],
    [
        "Summers’s Keynesian argument is that the problem is a chronic aggregate-demand shortfall: Desired investment lags behind desired savings, even at near-zero nominal interest rates, resulting in a chronic liquidity trap.",
        "萨默斯的凯恩斯主义观点是，问题出在长期总需求不足上：即使名义利率接近于零，期望的投资仍落后于期望的储蓄，导致长期流动性陷阱。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the program would boost significantly the interest-rate spread between Maastricht-compliant debt and the debt that remains in the member states’ hands (which they previously were not permitted to accumulate).",
        "毕竟，该计划将极大地增加与马约相容的债务和留在成员国手中的债务（此前这些债务是不允许积累的）之间的利率差。"
    ],
    [
        "Wolfensohn’s insistence that corruption be confronted as part of the development process was another valuable step forward. It used to be that even mentioning corruption in some official circles was considered taboo.",
        "沃尔芬森认为腐败是发展进程的组成部分，又向前迈出了有价值的一步，因为过去在某些官僚圈子里，即使提一下“腐败”这个词似乎都是很忌讳的。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the second referendum campaign has brought back into play the economic dimension of Ireland’s EU membership, which was largely absent from the 2008 debate on the Treaty.",
        "因此第二次公投活动就引出了爱尔兰欧盟成员国资格在经济方面的议题，而这方面在2008年第一次公投时却是被忽略的。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the uprisings in Europe in 1848, in which citizens protested against authoritarian, feudal systems and the lack of economic opportunity.",
        "以1848年欧洲起义为例，那次起义中民众反抗独裁、封建制度和缺乏经济机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kremlin must know this already.",
        "克里姆林宫肯定已经明白了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Most recently, a Washington Post analysis damningly depicted the chasm between the earnings of the executives who run the show and the athletes who make it.",
        "最近由《华盛顿邮报》发表的一篇分析文章则令人沮丧地展现了奥委会高管们和运动员之间的收入鸿沟。"
    ],
    [
        "Two months after the bloodiest coup attempt in Turkish history, Turks still talk incessantly about the surreal bombardments, the televised images of tanks in the street, and the ferocious government response, which has included tens of thousands of arrests.",
        "在土耳其历史上最血腥的政变企图结束两个月后，土耳其人仍在不停地谈论超现实轰炸，坦克开上街头的电视画面和包括数万人被捕在内的残忍的政府对策。"
    ],
    [
        "The implementation of the NTP, by contrast, will be a race against time and a fight against the external headwinds of low oil prices, a weaker global economy, and retreat from globalization.",
        "相比之下，国家转型计划的实施将意味着与时间赛跑，需要顶住低油价、全球经济疲软和全球化后退等来自外部的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Brexit – the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union – is just the latest case in point.",
        "英国退出——英国脱离欧盟——这是这方面最近的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Why can’t the US current-account deficit remain at its 2006 value indefinitely?",
        "为什么美国经常账户赤字不能无限期地保持在2006年的数额呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Again, the world shrugs.",
        "世界再一次不为所动。"
    ],
    [
        "Those opposed to such rampant use of drugs note that diagnostic rates for bipolar disorder, in particular, have skyrocketed by 4,000% and that overmedication is impossible without over-diagnosis.",
        "而那些反对如此普遍使用药物的人则特别指出狂躁抑郁症的诊断率爆增了40倍，没有过度诊断也就不可能有过度用药。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a common problem in many developing countries, and has prevented hundreds of millions of people from signing up for financial services.",
        "这是许多发展中国家所面临的共同问题，也阻止了数亿人开立金融账户、获得金融服务。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, we must transform our education system, so that younger generations acquire the skills they need to secure the high-paying digital jobs of the future.",
        "与此同时，我们必须改变我们的教育系统，以使年轻一代获得确保在未来拥有高薪数字就业岗位的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "It will be essential, after Bali, to reflect seriously on the next phase for the WTO and its role in the international trading system.",
        "巴厘岛协议签署后，我们必须认真反思下一阶段世贸组织及其在国际贸易体系中所起的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – If you ask Google to find the text of the International Monetary Fund’s Global Financial Stability Report for April 2006, it helpfully asks whether you are really looking for the April 2016 version.",
        "伦敦—如果你通过谷歌寻找2006年4月的国际货币基金组织（IMF）的全球金融稳定报告，谷歌会很贴心地询问你要找的是否是2016年4月的版本。"
    ],
    [
        "An armed attack could also cause the Iranian public to rally around the government, reducing the chances that a more responsible leadership might emerge.",
        "军事袭击也可能导致伊朗人民团结在政府的周围，降低出现更富责任领导层的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "What Russia needs is a political response to terror that takes into account its international dimension.",
        "俄罗斯所要做的就是在充分考虑到国际形势的前提下的一种政治回应。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that are willing and able to pay their quota increases would be allowed to do so, increasing the IMF’s resources and boosting their relative voting power.",
        "愿意并且能够支付配额增加的国家可以这样做，从而增加IMF的资源和它们的相对投票权。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is no more arbitrary than the accident of birth, which determines the right of kings and queens to reign over their countries.",
        "但这总比生而为统治万民的国王和王后强多了。"
    ],
    [
        "For our 2015 survey, Boycko and I decided to examine attitudes toward democracy itself.",
        "对于我们2015年的调查，博科和我决定研究民众对民主本身的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, some observers – and not just chronic pessimists – have countered that the evidence remains anecdotal, and that it is impossible to predict how long the current economic moment will last.",
        "但是，一些观察者——而不仅仅是一贯的悲观派——反驳说证据仍然只是偶然的，无法预测当前经济状况会持续多久。"
    ],
    [
        "The tariff proposal – contained in the central piece of global warming legislation now before Congress – would impose emission controls on domestic industries starting in 2012.",
        "这一关税提议是国会正在考虑的一项全球变暖法案的中心部分，它将从2012年开始对国内行业实施排放控制。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, most heroes are ordinary people who engage in extra-ordinary moral actions.",
        "不管怎样，大多数英雄只不过是做了一些超乎寻常的道德行为的普通人而已。"
    ],
    [
        "This partly reflects training in foreign affiliates, but the main reason has been the Chinese government’s sustained effort to foster education and training, encourage technology transfers from foreign to domestic firms, and, in particular, to build up research and development capabilities.",
        "这部分地反映了外国子公司的培训成果，但主要原因还是中国政府在不懈地推进教育和培训，鼓励从外国公司向国内公司的技术转移，特别是培育自身的研发实力。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the inclusion of the renminbi in the SDR basket does matter, and not just symbolically.",
        "简言之，将人民币纳入SDR篮子确实重要，绝不是象征性动作。"
    ],
    [
        "In their view, markets and private initiative require no significant regulation.",
        "他们认为市场和私企的主动性并不需要什么监管。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, there is no real precedent – Greenland’s departure from the EEC can hardly be considered a comparable situation – and negotiating the details of the withdrawal alone could take up to two years.",
        "毕竟，历史上没有实际先例——格陵兰脱离EEC很难作为可比的情况——光是退欧细节谈判就可能消耗高达两年时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Modi’s Hypocrisy",
        "莫迪的伪善"
    ],
    [
        "To demonstrate that it is wrong to associate Islam with terrorism, the OIC might begin to compile statistics on the religious affiliations of those who engage in terrorism.",
        "为证明把伊斯兰教与恐怖主义联系在一起的看法有误，伊斯兰会议组织或许可以搜集参与恐怖活动者宗教信仰的统计数据。"
    ],
    [
        "European institutions' legitimacy is down, and neo-fascist movements are up.",
        "欧洲机构合法性在节节下降，新法西斯运动风生水起。"
    ],
    [
        "But the bond purchases are just the tip of the iceberg.",
        "但债券购买行为只是冰山一角。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent paper in the journal Science, Venter and his colleagues announced that they had created the smallest living and reproducing organism.",
        "在《科学》杂志最近的一篇论文中，文特尔及其同事宣布他们已经创造了有生殖功能的最小的活的有机体。 这个称之为JCVI-syn3."
    ],
    [
        "The package centralizes some responsibilities, such as managing resistance from vested interests, while expanding local-government autonomy in other areas, including procedures for licensing and planning approval.",
        "改革计划将一些责任集中到中央，例如应对既得利益的阻力； 同时在另一些领域扩大地方政府自主权，包括执照发放流程和计划批准流程。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s leaders, though, would be unwise to proceed with an unconstrained nuclear program and discount the possibility of US military action.",
        "但是，伊朗领导人如果继续进行不受管制的核子项目并且对美国军事行动的可能性置之不理，那就大为不智了。"
    ],
    [
        "So what should be done to bring this about?",
        "那么，为了实现这一点要做些什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "If so, the banking sector – and the wider economy – could suffer considerably.",
        "果真如此的话，银行部门——以及整体经济——可能会遭受重创。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Khamenei thought so, too, and made sure that Ahmadinejad held onto his presidency.",
        "不幸的是，哈梅内伊也这样想，同时确保艾哈迈迪·内贾德保住了他的总统席位。"
    ],
    [
        "He is already working to eliminate graft, restrict the scope of administrative approvals, reduce the state-owned sector’s advantages, clarify property rights in land, and simplify welfare, tax, and financial regulations.",
        "他已开始着手根除贪污、限制行政审批权、削减国有部门的权力、明确土地的产权、提升福利、税收和金融监管的透明度及公平性等改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Support of human rights and democracy in Iran is not only a matter of morality. It should be a strategic priority for the West.",
        "至此，支持伊朗的人权和民主已经不仅仅是一个道德问题，而应该是西方一个优先的战略着眼点。"
    ],
    [
        "Does Macron think that his luck will continue, bringing, say, a stronger economic recovery than currently foreseen?",
        "马克龙是认为他的好运会一直保持下去，为法国带来（比如）比目前的预期更加强劲的经济复苏吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Fifteen years later, Chechen extremists are fighting alongside the Islamic State.",
        "15年后，车臣极端分子和伊斯兰国势力同流合污。"
    ],
    [
        "Having already officially hit the ceiling, the Treasury is moving money around and tapping various pots of unused funds to pay its bills.",
        "在借债总额已经到达上限的情况下，财政部当前正在东挪西凑地动用各种闲置资金还债。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many difficult trade-offs to consider, including the consequences for others around the world who may be made significantly poorer than those hurt at home.",
        "对此还有许多利弊需要艰难权衡，包括全球化可能对其他地方的人们造成比美国本国受害者更严重的财富剥夺。"
    ],
    [
        "With such measures, governments are prioritizing people’s health over the industry’s profits.",
        "通过这些措施，政府正在将民众健康置于烟草业的利润之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the 375,000 students from the continent who study abroad each year, many will establish businesses and find their own place in a globalized economy upon graduation.",
        "每年有375,000非洲学生出国留学，其中很多人毕业后将会创业并在全球化的经济中找到一席之地。"
    ],
    [
        "In the wake of the Arab Spring, however, these numbers changed dramatically: those defining themselves as Egyptians rose to 50%, 2% more than those who defined themselves as Muslims. Among Iraqis, primary self-identification in national terms jumped from 23% of respondents in 2004 to 57% in 2011.",
        "然而，阿拉伯之春之后，这些数字发生了巨大的变化：自认为是埃及人的数量上升到了50%，比自认为是穆斯林人的数量多2%。 在伊拉克人中，主要自认为是伊拉克人的数量占到了2004年回复者中的23%，2011年飙升到了57%。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that the alienation of close allies, many of which doubt the ability and willingness of an Asia-fixated US to stand by them, and Obama’s suggestion that the US should not be focused on the Middle East is shocking.",
        "许多原本的亲密盟友本来就怀疑将目光转向亚洲的美国是否有为它们撑腰的能力和意愿，并因此日愈疏远，如今奥巴马认为美国不应关注中东的说法更是令它们感到震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent decision by French bank BNP Paribas to stop financing and investing in tobacco companies – including producers, wholesalers, and traders – is just the latest sign that public health is finally being put ahead of commercial interests.",
        "法国巴黎银行最近决定停止对包括生产商、批发商和贸易商在内的烟草企业进行融资和投资——这不过是公众健康终于超越商业利益的最新的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "The absence of such knowledge invites trouble, often disaster.",
        "”不具备这样的头脑就会遇到麻烦，而且通常是灾难性的麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent decision by the European Court of First Instance to uphold the fine and sanctions the European Commission imposed upon Microsoft in 2004 appears to have justified the Commission’s interventionist approach to competition policy.",
        "欧洲初审法院最近裁定维持欧盟委员会在2004年对微软公司实施罚款和惩罚措施的决定，似乎是在表明欧盟委员会对竞争政策进行干涉的做法是正当的。"
    ],
    [
        "In a period of great economic uncertainty, it may seem inappropriate to question the growth imperative.",
        "在面临重大经济不确定的时代，质疑增长的必要性似乎有些不合时宜。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, deciding what to delete is costly.",
        "相形之下，决定删除什么才是昂贵的。"
    ],
    [
        "They have lost faith that they can really influence political developments, much less influence the direction in which our civilization is evolving.",
        "他们已失去信心，不相信自己能对政治的发展产生现实的影响，更不用说影响我们的文明演进的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "As such, it dominates the program launched by President Bill Clinton to provide cash assistance with significant restrictions.",
        "照此，它成为比尔·克林顿总统实施的、以严格限制提供现金补助的计划的主要组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Spending a large amount of money up front would be far more effective than spending the same amount over several years.",
        "提前动用大量资金将比把同样金额分成几年支付有效得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has made many more false statements than any of his opponents, and few (if any) could pass the test of not being self-serving.",
        "特朗普的错误言论比他的所有反对者都要多，并且其中鲜有可以通过自利动机排除测试的。"
    ],
    [
        "But early clinical studies revealed no compelling results, and an FDA advisory panel voted 9 to 3 against the drug's approval.",
        "但早期临床研究发现效果并不明显，因此以9票比3票遭到了食品药品管理局顾问委员会的否决。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, it is important to pursue international efforts to develop rules of the road that can limit conflict.",
        "与此同时，追求制定防止冲突的国际规则十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent days, US President Barack Obama’s administration has done well to encourage countries big and small to speak out.",
        "近几天，美国总统奥巴马政府已经成功地鼓励大小国家表达自己的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "But the pro-democratic policies of glasnost and perestroika that I unveiled in the mid-1980's did not appear out of thin air. They arose from Nikita Khrushchev's reforms of the 1950's and 1960's, and from Alexei Kosygin's reforms later on.",
        "但20世纪80年代中期我所倡导的改革和开放的民主政策也绝非凭空而来，其根源就在于20世纪五六十年代尼基塔赫鲁晓夫、还有后来柯西金所做的改革努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Falling asset prices in other financial market segments, following the sub-prime mortgage meltdown in the United States, may be more important for explaining the recent surge in food prices than supply constraints or other factors underlying longer-term gradual upward price trends.",
        "在美国次贷危机后金融市场上其他门类资产价格的下跌也许比供应量的短缺或造成食品价格长期缓慢上涨的其他因素能够更好地解释最近食品价格的暴涨。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF must change this.",
        "国际货币基金组织必须改变这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "So, ultimately, the material achievements of Russian development always come with a body count.",
        "因此，最终而言，俄罗斯发展取得的重要成就无一不是以累累白骨为代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, his address was a thoughtful review of the key issues involved in promoting happiness as a national policy.",
        "相反，他在讲话中对以增强幸福感为国策所涉及的重要问题进行了深刻的反思。"
    ],
    [
        "This prideful interpretation amounted to the siren song of an extremely accommodative monetary policy.",
        "这一骄傲的解释成为极度宽松的货币政策的引诱剂。"
    ],
    [
        "The exemption for secured debt undoubtedly concerns mainly the refinancing loans that the ECB has extended to commercial banks against increasingly weak collateral.",
        "有担保债务的豁免毫无疑问主要事关欧洲央行以日益劣质的抵押条件贷给商业银行的再融资贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The proximate cause of price growth since mid-2007 is the appearance of production bottlenecks as domestic demand exceeds supply in an increasing number of sectors, such as power generation, transportation, and intermediate-goods industries.",
        "5%。 2007年中以来价格上涨的直接原因是，随着国内越来越多的部门，例如发电、交通以及中间产品产业需求超出供应，从而出现了生产瓶颈。"
    ],
    [
        "With gross overall government debt already at 238% of GDP, some worry that Japan would face the threat of economic and financial dislocation were a failed policy experiment to lead its private sector – which traditionally has displayed an enormous home bias – to disinvest from Japan.",
        "日本政府的总负债高达GDP的238%，有人担心日本会面临经济和金融动荡的威胁，从而成为一个导致私营企业——它们一直显示出高度的“本土偏好”——削减投资的失败政策实验。"
    ],
    [
        "By reaffirming the US-Japan security relationship in the Clinton-Hashimoto declaration of 1996, the US helped structure a favorable regional balance.",
        "凭借1996年克林顿和桥本龙太郎发表的联合声明重新确定了美日安全关系，美国帮助建立了一种有益的地区平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, there is little indication so far that the two reform laggards are up to the challenge.",
        "但现在却没有迹象表明这两个改革落后国家正在接受挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Understanding how the robot had been programmed would provide a clue – did the designers write the code to provide only the appearance of consciousness?",
        "了解机器人程序的编写过程可能会给我们提供一个线索——设计者编写的程序是否仅仅只提供了意识的表象？"
    ],
    [
        "In the middle of the Brexit campaign in May, it was reported that the UK had net immigration of 333,000 persons in 2015, more than triple the government’s previously announced target of 100,000.",
        "5月英国退出选战期间，有报道说2015年英国净移民流入为333,000人，是此前政府宣布的100,000人目标的三倍多。"
    ],
    [
        "It is equally unlikely for the foreseeable future that any one club of countries, such as the G-7 or G-8, will again assume a quasi-hegemonic position.",
        "同样，在可以预见的未来，形成由一组国家——比如G7和G8——占据准霸权的局面也是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "No country progresses unerringly, but India cannot afford another politically and economically torpid year like 2011.",
        "没有哪个国家可以在一帆风顺之间一直进步，但对于印度来说，已经无法承受又一个如2011年般在政治和经济上都如此不堪的年头了。"
    ],
    [
        "What’s Left of Confucianism?",
        "儒家复兴"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Since 2008, global trade has grown slightly more slowly than global GDP.",
        "发自伦敦——自2008年以来，全球贸易的增长幅度稍微落后于全球GDP的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "So, as Pakistan negotiated its political transition, it experienced significant economic decline.",
        "因此在巴基斯坦政治转型的过程中就经历了严重的经济衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "You are unsure about what to do.",
        "你不知如何是好。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither country always sees eye to eye with the West.",
        "这两个国家都不可能总是与西方看法一致。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Plenum Test",
        "三中全会考验"
    ],
    [
        "Paying for Productivity",
        "把钱花在生产率上"
    ],
    [
        "Many toxic substances are released into the environment, even some that are not toxic but nonetheless are highly damaging – for example, the chlorofluorocarbons that caused the Antarctic ozone hole (and which are now regulated).",
        "8 °C，很多有毒物质被释放在环境中，即便一些非有毒的物质，对大自然也是有危害的——例如氯氟碳导致南极臭氧层空洞。 （目前，我们已经采取行动来治理这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the increase in market power is the result of changes in technology and economic structure: consider network economies and the growth of locally provided service-sector industries.",
        "市场权力的增加部分来自技术和经济结构的变化：网络经济和本地提供的服务业的增长就是一个例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States and Europe are on track to have thrown away 10% of their potential wealth, while the failure to strengthen financial-sector regulation has left the world economy exposed to the risk of another major crisis.",
        "美国和欧洲损失了10%的潜在财富，而没有强化金融部门监管让世界经济随时可能迎来新一场大危机。"
    ],
    [
        "We are sharing the infosphere with artificial agents that are increasingly smart, autonomous, and even social.",
        "我们与日益智能、自动甚至社会化的人造物（artificial agents）共享着信息域。"
    ],
    [
        "If that happens, the crucial question for the future of civilization is: Will the super-intelligent computers be friendly?",
        "如果以上所说的真的发生了，那么未来文明所面对的一个严峻问题就是：这种超级智能计算机对人类是否友善？"
    ],
    [
        "The Eurasian Union – Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan – is to be its heartland.",
        "帝国的核心领土是由俄罗斯、白俄罗斯和哈萨克斯坦组成的欧亚联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "So what does explain India’s thriving newspaper market?",
        "那么，怎么解释印度报纸市场的兴旺发达？"
    ],
    [
        "This makes it all the more important for Europe to wake up to where its real security interests lie, and to take responsibility for asserting them.",
        "这很重要，因为这将令欧洲真正醒悟到自己的安全利益究竟在哪里，并且承担起维护它的重任。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kingdom’s leadership has become convinced that the Obama administration no longer has its back, calling into question a decades-old relationship in which America guaranteed Saudi Arabia’s security in exchange for economic and political support.",
        "王国领导人已经确信奥巴马政府不再给予其支持，从而导致长达数十年的美国保障沙特安全以换取经济和政治支持的旧有关系陷入质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "And, even when they do not doctor the numbers, local officials can game the system in another way.",
        "而即便他们没有对数字做手脚，地方官员也可以用另一种方式来钻系统的空子。"
    ],
    [
        "Do We Want Powerful Leaders?",
        "我们想要强力领导人吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest question is whether the war will alter Hamas’ political goals.",
        "最大的问题是，此次战争是否会改变哈马斯的政治目标。"
    ],
    [
        "LIMA – Across Latin America, voters who, until recently, were enthusiastic about their leftist governments seem to be having a change of heart.",
        "利马——在拉美各国，直到不久前还对左翼政府充满热情的选民心意似乎正在悄然变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if that is true, we have yet to determine at what point reforestation becomes a better investment than improving sanitation, let alone increases the returns of other health interventions by the highest possible amount.",
        "但果真如此的话，我们仍需要确定重造森林在什么情况下是比改善卫生设施更好的投资方案，更不用说尽力提高其他健康干预的回报了。"
    ],
    [
        "Do events like the Paris attacks show that forecasting them is impossible?",
        "巴黎袭击这样的事件是否表明预测它们是不可能的任务？"
    ],
    [
        "Recruitment and retention of highly skilled individuals in the US armed forces will increase as the level of effort in the two conflicts winds down, and a great deal of deferred military modernization will occur.",
        "而对美军高技术人才的招募和挽留情况也将随着对两场冲突的介入力度减弱而有所上升，一再推迟的军事现代化进程也将重新启动。"
    ],
    [
        "The dispute over the wisdom of holding the summit in Iran’s capital revived the core debate about what “non-aligned” means in the post-Cold War world.",
        "在伊朗首都举行首脑会议是否明智的争议重新激发了有关冷战后世界“不结盟”涵义的核心辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom and Italy, it almost doubled.",
        "在英国和意大利，这一比例接近翻番。"
    ],
    [
        "The second part of Sarkozy’s wager concerns reforming and renewing the alliance.",
        "萨科奇的第二重赌注则与联盟的改革有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Some unifying characters – such as an Arab- Israeli girl who explains each “side” to the other – would create a measure of continuity.",
        "而另外两个国家的团队也将如此。 某些共有的角色——比如一个代表了双方的阿拉伯裔以色列女孩——将为节目带来共性和延续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Religion, or creed, is among history’s most common motives for war, and the twenty-first century is no exception.",
        "首先，信仰及宗教是历史上最常见的战争动机之一，二十一世纪也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "The Europeans who conquered and colonized the Americas after 1492 did not find vast empty lands, as they sometimes proclaimed, but rather lands populated by communities dating back thousands of years.",
        "1492年征服美洲并实行殖民统治的欧洲人找到的并不是荒无人烟的广阔土地，这与他们自己的说法并不一致，相反，这里的土地上原来已经住着很多人，有些已经在这里生活了几千年之久。"
    ],
    [
        "The second reason for Bayrou’s spectacular rise has less to do with personalities and more with France’s national mood.",
        "贝鲁大幅上升的第二个原因与个性联系不大，而与法国当前的情绪更为有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Many people, including myself, have long complained about the leadership selection process at the World Bank and the IMF.",
        "包括我本人在内的许多人一直抱怨世界银行和国际货币基金组织的领导人遴选过程。"
    ],
    [
        "We are likely to hear of delay after delay in the coming days, as various sides try to choose their representatives.",
        "因为各方都力争选定代表，和平会议的日程可能一推再推。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, which are now attempting to institutionalize change, Turkey is their most active partner, sharing our own experience and providing tangible assistance in the form of economic cooperation and political capacity building.",
        "事实上，在突尼斯、埃及、利比亚和也门等国，土耳其是助其将变革制度化的最活跃伙伴。 我们与之共享自己的经验，并以经济合作和政治能力建设的形式提供有形援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Securitization, with all of its advantages in sharing risk, has three problems that were not adequately anticipated.",
        "证券化在分担风险方面虽然有其优势，但也存在三个让人没有充分认识到的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence the fierce (albeit arcane and polite) dispute between the two sides at the International Monetary Fund’s recent meeting in Lima, Peru.",
        "对此两派人马在国际货币基金组织近日于秘鲁首都利马召开的会议上展开了激烈（但隐晦而礼貌）的交锋。"
    ],
    [
        "A corollary to Stein’s law is that the longer it goes on, the more likely it will end badly.",
        "”斯特恩定律的一个推论是它继续得越久， 以悲剧收场的可能性更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the UK does not have to fear huge changes in its ability to export services to the EU, which currently accounts for about 40% of the UK total, because the EU’s internal services market already is far from open.",
        "类似地，英国不必担心其向欧盟出口服务的能力发生巨大的变化——目前对欧服务出口占英国出口总量的40%左右——因为欧盟内部服务市场开放性已经非常低。"
    ],
    [
        "And now, several Sunni powers are forcefully trying to compel one of their own, Qatar, to abandon a regional strategy it has pursued for decades.",
        "而现在五个逊尼派国家开始攻击同属逊尼派阵营的卡塔尔，因为卡塔尔一代人以来一直在推行其自己的地区议程。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a move by South Korea, in particular, really would be the start of a new Cold War, or worse.",
        "特别对韩国来说，一旦拥核，真的就意味着一场新冷战的启动（或者更糟糕）。"
    ],
    [
        "What adults choose to do in the bedroom, many thoughtful people believe, is their own business, and the state ought not to pry into it.",
        "许多有思想的人认为，成年人选择在寝室里做什么是他们自己的事，国家不应干预。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be far better to persuade China to intervene to bring Kim’s regime to heel.",
        "更好的办法是说服中国干预，让金氏王朝屈服。"
    ],
    [
        "Among Colau’s commitments to the people of Barcelona was a local tax cut for small businesses and households, assistance to the poor, and the construction of housing for 15,000 refugees – a large share of the total number that Spain was meant to absorb from frontline states like Greece and Italy.",
        "卡洛许诺巴塞罗那人民要为小企业和家庭减税、支持穷人，并为15,000难民建造住房——占西班牙需要从希腊和意大利等前沿国家接收的难民总量的很大一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 50,000 Soviets – writers, journalists, officials, musicians, dancers, athletes, and academics – visited the United States between 1958 and 1988.",
        "1958年到1985年期间，大约5万名苏联作家、记者、官员、音乐家、舞蹈家、运动员和学者访问了美国。"
    ],
    [
        "But pro-fracking critics of the European Union miss a second point: the EU has no authority over the development of shale gas in Europe.",
        "但支持欧盟进行页岩气开采的批评还忽略了第二点：欧盟没有权力在欧洲开发页岩气。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, with a fiscal outlay of €21 billion ($23.3 billion), the European Investment Bank is set to finance investments worth at least €315 billion by 2017.",
        "比如，在财政支出只有210亿欧元的情况下，到2017年，欧洲投资银行需要为至少3,150亿欧元的投资项目融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet I am reluctant to believe that things will turn out the same way this time.",
        "但我并不认为这一回历史会重演。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s Political Clerics",
        "伊朗的政治教士"
    ],
    [
        "While only about 49% of manufacturing startups and 37% of information startups survive for four or more years, those that do have managed to produce breakthrough innovations.",
        "只有49%的制造业创业企业和37%的信息产业制造企业能活过四年，但越过了这个门槛的企业都能推出突破性创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Because it persists after spraying, DDT works far better than many pesticides now in use, some of which are toxic to fish and other aquatic organisms.",
        "因为喷洒后的持久性，DDT的效果比许多现在使用的杀虫剂要好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The not-so-good news is that these new democratic powers do not necessarily share the Old West’s political agenda.",
        "不太妙的消息是这些新的民主强国并不与旧西方政治日程天然相容。"
    ],
    [
        "The loans would be repaid once the job began.",
        "贷款从工作后开始偿还。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, American policies typically inflame the situation rather than solve it.",
        "相反，美国的政策通常是给当前的局势火上浇油。"
    ],
    [
        "And now, having underinvested in energy efficiency and security when the costs of doing so were lower, America is poorly positioned to face the prospect of rising real prices.",
        "此外，由于当初在成本较低时对节能和能源安全投资不足，如今美国在面临油价真实价格上涨的局面时显得尤为被动。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, thanks to improvements in the tax system, state revenues increased by 30% year on year in the first half of 2017, outpacing growth in expenditures. As a result, the government had a balanced budget in January-June.",
        "此外得益于税制体系改善，国家收入在2017年上半年同比增长了30％，超过了支出的增长，政府也因此在1至6月实现了预算平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed has given ordinary banks direct access to its credit facilities, and the ECB no longer rations the supply of base money, instead providing as much liquidity as banks demand.",
        "美联储已经授权普通银行直接动用它的信贷工具，而欧洲央行（ECB）也不再限制基础货币的供应，反而是银行要求多少流动性，它就提供多少。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the issue has been much debated, until now there has been only modest progress in developing fuel-supply assurance arrangements that would meet this concern.",
        "尽管这一问题经过了大量争论，但到目前为止，在制定燃料供给保障安排以解决这一担忧方面，进展十分有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Inequality would widen, with great wealth for the few and low wages for the many, followed by a traumatic bust – in which the wealthy again do fine, the middle class is ground down to poverty, and the social safety net is ripped to shreds.",
        "不平等性将扩大，极少数人暴富，大多数人工资低下，随后是破坏性萧条——富人依旧逍遥，但中产阶级将回到贫困，社会安全网支离破碎。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB would not be facilitating additional borrowing by member countries; it would merely allow them to refinance their debt at a lower cost.",
        "欧洲央行不会助长成员国增加借贷，只允许它们以较低的成本为其债务重新融资。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also the troubling prospect that such a showy initiative would, by creating the impression that the EU is taking action, enable the EU and its members to avoid the long-term commitment and politically unpopular measures that an effective crisis response would demand.",
        "此外令人不安的是如此华而不实的举措将给人留下欧盟正在行动的印象，从而使欧盟及其成员国逃避有效应对危机所需的长期承诺和政治上不受欢迎的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Very few among them (notable exceptions including Nouriel Roubini and Robert Shiller) raised alarm bells about the crisis to come.",
        "除了鲁里埃尔·鲁比尼和罗伯特·希勒之外，很少有经济学家对即将到来的金融危机发出预警。"
    ],
    [
        "Mass education, progressive taxation, and social-welfare benefits have not prevented increasing inequality.",
        "大众教育、累进税制和社会福利没能阻止不平等性加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that industry structures are still developing in many of these countries, e-tail is set to shape not only the retail landscape, but also the manufacturing and financial-services industries – and even the urban landscape itself.",
        "许多国家的工业结构仍在发展之中，因此电子零售不但能决定零售业图景，也能决定制造业和金融服务业的格局——甚至是城市面貌本身。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time, North Korea had agreed to blow up the Yongbyon reactor’s cooling tower, to reciprocate the US’s symbolic act with one of its own.",
        "当时，朝鲜同意炸毁宁边核反应堆的冷却塔，作为美国象征性举动的回应。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, if countries want to make their own fiscal decisions independent of their eurozone partners, they cannot expect those partners to step in and save them later.",
        "换句话说，如果各国想独立于欧元区伙伴国独立进行财政决策，那么就不能指望日后伙伴国站出来救它们。"
    ],
    [
        "We could win the war against hunger, end conflicts, stop communicable diseases, provide clean drinking water, improve education and halt climate change.",
        "我们能够战胜贫困，解决争端，根除传染性疾病，提供清洁的饮水，改善教育并防止气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider this: we tend to retain our rough drafts, years of e-mail traffic, and thousands of ghastly digital snapshots on our hard drives, not because we have decided that they are worth remembering, but because keeping them is now the default way of doing things.",
        "想想吧：我们总是将各种草稿、经年的电子邮件和无数鬼魅般的快照存在电脑硬盘里，并不是因为它们值得保存，而是因为保存它们是一种默认的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "The starting point for the West in trying to assist Egypt’s transition must be recognition that patient, long-term engagement will be required.",
        "西方援助埃及转型的起点应该是认识到这是一项需要耐心和长期参与的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "The top 1% of US households have enjoyed a 50% gain in their financial wealth, while the bottom 90% have registered only a 12% profit.",
        "”美国顶尖1%家庭的金融财富上涨了50%，而底层90%家庭只获得12%的利润。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the US has no good first-strike options.",
        "与此同时美国手里也没有好的首先攻击选项。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses, and for misrepresenting the cost of the venture, there is no excuse for how he chose to finance it.",
        "即使我们可以原谅布什将美国（以及世界大部分国家）拖入了没有对手的战争，原谅他在战争成本上的不诚实，他为战争融资的办法也找不到任何开脱的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "We can have at most two at one time.",
        "我们最多能同时实行两种制度。"
    ],
    [
        "No new tax, no complications in the tax code, and no effect on the existing funding of the welfare state.",
        "不需要新税种，不需要让税法更加复杂，也不会对已有的福利国家融资造成影响。"
    ],
    [
        "He also points out that less than 5% of total trade in Africa is undertaken between African countries.",
        "易卜拉辛同时也指出非洲各国之间的贸易额只占全非洲贸易总额不到 5% 。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that are especially experienced in protecting their workers abroad offer a blueprint for action.",
        "在保护本国海外工人方面经验丰富的国家提供了行动蓝本。"
    ],
    [
        "Could it even, as Obama suggests, make us more aware of the needs of those who are living in real poverty and are far worse off than we will ever be, financial crisis or no financial crisis?",
        "它甚至是否可以如奥巴马所提出的那样，让我们更清楚地意识到那些生活在真正的贫困中的人们的需求，他们不管有没有金融危机，都比我们将来所面临的情况要更糟糕得多？"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – For decades, rapid urbanization in China created clusters of knowledge, manufacturing, and distribution in areas that benefited from well-established connections to the global economy.",
        "香港—几十年来，城市化的快速发展使中国出现了一批知识和制造业集中的大都会，它们大多坐落在能很好地与全球经济相连的区域。"
    ],
    [
        "Self-confidence among the governed and caution among the rulers: these are the psychological springs of democracy and true freedom, and they can never again be diverted in our homeland.",
        "民众们充满自信，执政者们小心谨慎：民主制度和真正的自由终于迎来了精神上的春天，它们再也不会在我们的故乡上消失了。"
    ],
    [
        "But countries such as Jordan and Lebanon (among others) are now educating workers to compete as high-skilled expatriates, too.",
        "但约旦和黎巴嫩等国家正在教育工人，让他们不但可以从事家政，也可以成为高技能外来工作者。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be more accurate to say that there is global investment shortfall, with investment trending downwards despite the upward trend in global growth.",
        "但更为准确的说法是全球投资不足，虽然全球经济增长趋向放慢，但投资却趋向提升。"
    ],
    [
        "Risk premiums continue to fall across the board, and two countries – Ireland and Portugal – have already exited their adjustment programs.",
        "风险溢价在全面下降，两个国家——爱尔兰和葡萄牙——已经退出了调整计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when it comes to the banks, I am afraid that the eurozone’s leaders are contemplating some inappropriate steps.",
        "但是，当事情牵涉到银行时，我怀疑欧元区领导人正在考虑实施一些不适当的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "So, in which areas must Germany lead?",
        "那么，在哪些领域德国必须担起领导之责？"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal responsibility in the eurozone would be fatally undermined.",
        "欧元区的财政责任将遭到致命打击。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Over the last decade or so, productivity growth has slowed considerably in most major developed economies, even as impressive advances have been made in areas like computing, mobile telephony, and robotics.",
        "华盛顿—过去十年中，大部分发达经济体的生产率增长显著放缓，虽然在计算、移动技术和机器人方面取得了令人印象深刻的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "The ever-vigilant Chinese authorities are cracking down on money laundering; but, given the huge incentives on the other side, this is like playing whack-a-mole.",
        "向来警惕性很高的中国当局正在打击洗钱； 但是，由于打击对象资本外逃的动机非常强，打击洗钱就像是一场“打地鼠”游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "These three cases are doubly inexplicable, because none of the three brothers has been accused of actually criticizing China, opposing the Communist Party, or even talking about politics.",
        "这三起案件都疑点重重，因为这三兄弟都从未被指控有批评国家，反对共产党甚至谈论政治的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever mistakes Europe may have made vis-à-vis the region’s authoritarian regimes in the past, it can now correct them by providing decisive help.",
        "无论欧洲过去曾经对该地区独裁政权犯下什么样的错误，现在都可以通过提供决定性的帮助来加以纠正。"
    ],
    [
        "Abbas says that if a coalition government is not agreed upon within the next two weeks, he will dissolve the current government, a move Hamas will not tolerate.",
        "阿巴斯说，如果未来两周内无法就联合政府达成一致，他将解散当前的政府。 而这是哈马斯所不会容忍的。"
    ],
    [
        "And Syria, the last Russian outpost of the Cold War, is an asset the Kremlin will do its utmost to maintain.",
        "而叙利亚作为俄罗斯最后的冷战前哨战，将受到克里姆林宫不惜一切的捍卫。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, they could take an easy, emissions-intensive path to industrialization and wealth.",
        "毕竟，它们可以走一条容易的、排放密集型的道路实现工业化、聚敛财富。"
    ],
    [
        "My head ached.",
        "这是一段可怕的体验。"
    ],
    [
        "Genuine equality in the public sphere – which differs according to the values and history of each country – implies a minimal level of acceptance of a country’s history and values.",
        "在公共领域真正的平等——这因为各个国家的价值观和历史而各不相同——意味着对一个国家的历史和价值观最低水平的接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Leviathan shows a Russia caught in the throes of a political nightmare, American Sniper shows a country trapped by its heroic mythology – defined in countless Western movies – of rugged individualism at home and defense of freedom and order abroad.",
        "正如《利维坦》表现出一个在政治噩梦中苦苦挣扎的俄罗斯，《美国狙击手》表现出深陷英雄神话（由数不清的西方电影构造）泥潭的国家——在国内坚定奉行个人主义，在国外捍卫自由和秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment in public infrastructure, an improved investment climate, and social safety nets could all help to spur higher private-sector investment and household expenditure.",
        "公共基础设施投资、改善的投资气候以及社会安全网都有助于刺激私人部门投资和家庭支出。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly true with regard to President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly attacked the media – often wrongly, to be sure – for its coverage of his administration.",
        "总统特朗普尤其如此，他一再抨击媒体对其政府的报道——平心而论，常常是错误的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, wage flexibility meant that substantially slower wage growth in the states that lost industries helped to attract and retain other industries. And the US fiscal system collects roughly two-thirds of all taxes at the national level, which implies an automatic and substantial net fiscal transfer to states with temporarily falling incomes.",
        "有三个关键的经济因素——这些在欧洲都不存在——允许多元化的美国实行单一货币：劳动力的流动性、工资的弹性，以及中央财政体系"
    ],
    [
        "In 2007, during his first presidential campaign, he wrote that America “can neither retreat from the world nor try to bully it into submission.",
        "2007年，在第一次竞选总统期间，他写道，美国“不能从世界中抽身，也不能让世界屈膝于己。"
    ],
    [
        "As such, what began as a laissez-faire attitude of benign neglect– largely a result of ignorance and inattention – is evolving into something more forceful.",
        "因此政府一开始的那种放任自流的轻松态度——主要是出于无知和疏忽——正在演变成一些更具强制性的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "The state’s role is to protect, enforce, and regulate these contracts and related property rights, as well as to intervene to prevent systemic failure.",
        "国家的作用正是保护、强制执行并规范这些合约以及相关的财产权利，并适时干预以防系统性失灵。"
    ],
    [
        "If countries meet their commitments under the Paris climate agreement, the total sea-level rise could be halved, with more ambitious schemes promising even greater reductions.",
        "6英尺），可能导致诸多国家丧失超过总面积10%的领土。 如果各国履行其在巴黎气候协定下所作出的承诺，海平面的上升幅度有可能被控制在一半左右，更雄心勃勃的计划甚至可能实现更高的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "They obviously should.",
        "它们绝对应该如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The long-term concern is that fishing is intended to be selective; fishermen aim to harvest the most profitable species and the most profitable sizes within species.",
        "我们长期关注的问题是捕渔应该具有选择性。 渔民的目的在于收获利润最大的鱼种和该鱼种中利润最大的个体。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is a lot to fear in modern global finance.",
        "当然，现代全球金融着实让人恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt’s economy, bruised by the outflow of foreign investment and a dearth of tourists, is on life support.",
        "资本外流和游客锐减让埃及经济遭受重创，已在垂死挣扎。"
    ],
    [
        "But, to the extent that a misplaced focus on country rankings becomes a barrier to sensible policy, it can do real damage.",
        "但是，由于错误地把注意力放在国家排名上已成为明智决策的一大障碍，这完全可能造成真正的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Cynics may argue that the new member countries could afford to make such concessions because they would end up with hefty EU subsidies anyway.",
        "批评家也许会说，新成员可以承受这种让步，因为他们无论如何将会在欧盟获得丰厚的补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "They must continue to deepen the foundations of democracy and ensure the political stability that is so critical to economic growth.",
        "他们必须继续深化民主的基础，并确保对经济增长起关键作用的政治稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is the real professional challenge ahead of you, and you should embrace it as an opportunity.",
        "是十四行，这正是你们所面临的职业挑战，你们应该将这视为一次良机。"
    ],
    [
        "By 1989’s end, the post-Yalta Europe was free.",
        "到1989年年底，后雅尔塔欧洲完全自由了。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe must find more effective policies that reduce production costs toward German levels.",
        "欧洲必须找到更高效的政策压低生产成本，向德国水平靠拢。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s debt crisis was a clear warning that European policymakers must not allow public debt to pile up indefinitely.",
        "希腊债务危机已经向欧洲的政策制定者发出了明确警告：不能让债务无限堆积下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Another reason why the environment should be at the center of economic debates is its role as the world’s single largest employer.",
        "环境理应成为经济辩论核心的另一个原因是农业一直是全球唯一的最大雇主。"
    ],
    [
        "Nigeria endured almost 15 years of it, despite repeated pledges – by three successive dictators – to restore democracy.",
        "尼日利亚就忍受了15年的军事统治，尽管前后三位独裁者全都反复承诺要恢复民主制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Guards are everywhere, on all the streets, around the pagodas and residential areas.",
        "到处都是卫兵，所有的大街上，寺庙的宝塔和居民区的四周，他们无处不在。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, population aging, which has been evident in the developed world for some time, is now spreading to China and soon will reach Latin America.",
        "事实上，人口老龄化趋势在发达国家已经非常明显，现在已经蔓延到中国，并将很快波及拉丁美洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite China’s greater weight in world affairs, Xi faces internal strains that make China more fragile than is generally understood.",
        "尽管中国在世界事务中拥有更多话语权，但习不得不面对致使中国比一般人认识中更加脆弱的内部压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Late last year, computer and network security researchers revealed, to little surprise or fanfare, that ISIS was active on the so-called dark web.",
        "去年年底，计算机和网络研究人员透露伊斯兰国在所谓的黑暗网络上表现得异常活跃，这条消息既不令人吃惊也没有夸大其词。"
    ],
    [
        "Without growth, it will be difficult to stabilize public and private debts and deficits as a share of GDP – the most important indicator of fiscal sustainability.",
        "没有增长，就难以稳定公私债务和赤字的GDP占比——财政稳定性的首要指标。"
    ],
    [
        "There is therefore a danger that excessive focus on “too big to fail” could become a new form of the belief that if only we could identify and correct some crucial market failure, we would, at last, achieve a stable and self-equilibrating system.",
        "同样，过度关注那些“不死巨兽”将引发一种新的危险思维，认为只要我们能找到并纠正一些关键的市场失灵行为，那么我们就至少能维持一个稳定而且能够自我平衡的系统。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s as if we reacted to Fukushima by better handling gas emissions in oil-shale projects.",
        "这令情况变得很荒谬，就像用更严格监管油页岩开采项目的气体排放来应对福岛危机那样。"
    ],
    [
        "If Trump governs in accordance with the campaign that got him elected, we can expect market scares in the United States and around the world, as well as potentially significant economic damage.",
        "如果特朗普根据让他赢得大选的竞选纲领治国，那么可以预期美国和全世界将爆发市场恐慌，甚至有可能引起重大经济损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Or a huge growth breakthrough?",
        "或者大幅增长突破？"
    ],
    [
        "Fifty-two of the 53 died in a median of just 16 days from the time of sputum collection.",
        "从采集唾液那天算起，这53例患者中的52例存活天数的中值只有短短16天。"
    ],
    [
        "His brother, Jaroslaw, has always evoked popular mistrust.",
        "他的弟弟，雅罗斯瓦夫，是个总是会引发公众不信任的人。"
    ],
    [
        "That mission’s highlight was my dialogue with Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, who stressed the importance of connecting Taiwan to the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) in the light of warmer relations developing between the Mainland and Taiwan.",
        "此行的目的是加强和台湾总统马英九的对话。 马英九表示台湾和中国东盟自由贸易区交流在海峡两岸关系中起着重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, house prices collapsed, leaving a trail of zombie banks (whose liabilities far exceeded their assets) and ruined borrowers.",
        "）结果，房价崩盘了，留下的是一大批僵尸银行（负债远超资产）和遭受重创的借款人。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while each of these episodes was characterized by macroeconomic distortions caused by the imbalances, they lasted for years, or even decades.",
        "但是，每一次失衡都会导致宏观经济扭曲，并将持续好几年甚至几十年。"
    ],
    [
        "The ability to criticize the government freely is the core difference between democracy and dictatorship.",
        "自由批评政府的能力是民主与独裁的核心区别。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there are some signs that the authorities are doing just this in the South China Sea.",
        "事实上，一些信号表明中国当局已经在南海这么做了。"
    ],
    [
        "The very rise of that specter over the past two years has been a setback for Africa’s democratic development.",
        "两年来政变幽灵再次浮现本身就意味着非洲民主发展的一种倒退。"
    ],
    [
        "As he put it, “The Party needs to govern itself.”",
        "这一概念被他概括为“党要管党”。"
    ],
    [
        "Exports increased by 6.2% in 2005 and are expected to increase by 7.4% in 2006.",
        "2005年出口增长6. 2%，预计2006年可达7."
    ],
    [
        "In its programs with Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, however, the IMF and the central bank demanded conditions of the government.",
        "不过在与希腊，爱尔兰和葡萄牙的援助方案中，基金组织和欧洲央行也会要求当地政府服从一些条件。"
    ],
    [
        "GDP in some transition countries is below its level at the beginning of the transition.",
        "一些转型国家的GDP甚至依然低于转型开始时的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Only after being re-elected did they begin to explain that large budget deficits, caused mainly by lower tax revenues, would require sharp cuts in social security, health care spending, and other areas.",
        "直到再次当选之后，他们才开始解释那些主要由税收的减少引起的大规模预算赤字，要求大幅度削减社会保障、医疗保健和其他领域的开支。"
    ],
    [
        "In the event of the regime’s collapse – a distinct possibility – it would be difficult to prevent the diversion of its assets, or even the use of its weapons.",
        "如果北朝鲜政权崩溃——这种可能性并不小——人们很难阻止转移核资产，甚至使用核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "The flawed assumption that the post-crisis world's challenges were only temporary has underpinned policies that have yielded only lackluster recoveries, while failing to address key problems like high unemployment and rising inequality.",
        "危机后的世界挑战只是暂时的，这一错误假设导致了只带来平庸复苏的政策，同时也没有解决高失业和不平等性加剧等关键问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Countering Islamic Extremism",
        "打击伊斯兰极端主义"
    ],
    [
        "Dialogue on political reform, and euros to support it, helped further the process in some countries, notably Morocco and Jordan.",
        "在政治改革和欧元支持上的对话帮助在一些国家——特别是摩洛哥和约旦——深入了这一进程。"
    ],
    [
        "We are likely to see a recovery in some of these areas from the bottoms reached at the end of 2008 and the beginning of this year. But examine the fundamentals: in America, real estate prices continue to fall, millions of homes are underwater, with the value of mortgages exceeding the market price, and unemployment is increasing, with hundreds of thousands reaching the end of their 39 weeks of unemployment insurance.",
        "上述部分领域在2008年底和今年初探底之后可能会有所回升，但仔细考虑一下基本的问题：美国房价持续下降，数百万的住宅价格潜水，致使按揭价值高于市场价格，而且失业率仍在上升，数十万人的39周失业保险行将结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifteen of the world’s 20 biggest trade fairs (measured by indoor exhibition space) are held in Germany, and the country tops the list in world commodity exports.",
        "全世界最大的20个交易会（由室内展出面积衡量）有25个在德国举办，而且德国也在自然资源出口商位居首位。"
    ],
    [
        "With regard to the environment, the fight against global warming has come to a standstill, with the United Nations’ last three annual climate-change conferences, in Copenhagen, Cancún, and Durban, failing to renew the Kyoto Protocol.",
        "随着联合国过去三年在哥本哈根、坎昆和德班举行的气候变化会议未能续签《京都议定书》，环境领域反对全球变暖的斗争已经陷入停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "What is Italy Saying?",
        "意大利想表达些什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, these and other countries’ modernization activities cannot be reconciled with their professed support for a world free of nuclear weapons.",
        "此外，上述及其他国家核现代化行为与它们自称支持无核世界的许诺并不相符。"
    ],
    [
        "For two and a half years, ever since I became Secretary-General, we have worked to put climate change at the top of the global agenda.",
        "在我就任联合国秘书长的两年半以来，我们一直齐心协力，让气候变化成为一项首要的全球议程。"
    ],
    [
        "Within national income accounts, trade deficits represent the excess of a country’s consumption over production.",
        "在国民收入账目中，贸易逆差到代表着一个国家的消费超过了生产。"
    ],
    [
        "After more than a decade of attempts to establish strict limits on emissions, the top-down approach has clearly failed to deliver.",
        "经过十多年对排放进行严格限制的努力，自上而下的方法显然未能实现目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the rice grown in Pakistan, Vietnam, and especially America is stimulated by subsidies, and then dumped into African markets at low prices – sometimes below the cost of production.",
        "在巴基斯坦、越南和（特别是）美国种植的稻米是补贴刺激的结果。 这些大米又以低价向非洲市场倾销—有时甚至低于生产成本。"
    ],
    [
        "After Obama took office, he sought to introduce a gentler, subtler tone.",
        "奥巴马上台后，选择了更温和、更微妙的基调。"
    ],
    [
        "Central Europe has found itself in a completely new situation. Crisis management measures undertaken in the Western world are practically cutting our countries off from the EU market.",
        "而事实上，中欧人发现自己已经处于一种全新的形势之下：西方世界的危机处理方式几乎将我们国家与欧盟市场的联系完全切断。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the Poor Die Young",
        "只有穷人才会早逝"
    ],
    [
        "He warned that, “if you let inflation expectations drift too far away from the target, you can end up in quite serious difficulty with a costly process to bring them back again.”",
        "他警告说“如果你坐视通胀预期远超（通胀控制）目标，最后等着你的肯定是相当棘手的难题，还要经历一个耗资巨大的过程才能使其降回到原先的目标水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Serbia and Kosovo, Georgia should be encouraged, if not to forget about its rebel provinces, then to abandon the kind of manifest-destiny politics that subordinates everything to the recovery of sacred lands, leaving the country free to concentrate on internal reform.",
        "与塞尔维亚和科索沃一样，如果没有忘记格鲁吉亚叛乱的省份，应该鼓励格鲁吉亚放弃那种上天注定，一切为恢复圣地服务的政治，让国家自己集中精力进行内部改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Business leaders, long afraid to participate in such a polarized debate, have finally entered the fray, arguing forcefully that immigration is critical to American competitiveness.",
        "一直害怕参与这一极端化争论的商业领袖最终也加入了战团，强烈支持移民对美国竞争力起着关键作用的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Achieving that could be harder, because pacifism runs deep in the only country to have been attacked with atomic bombs.",
        "实现这一目标可能比较困难，因为在这个唯一一个受过核弹攻击的国家，和平主义深入人心。"
    ],
    [
        "This may seem an odd time to praise the EU, given the economic crises in Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland.",
        "在希腊、西班牙，葡萄牙和爱尔兰经济危机的背景下去夸奖欧盟似乎有点不合时宜。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Financial markets are starting to get rattled by the winding down of unconventional monetary policies in many advanced economies.",
        "纽约—金融市场正在开始因为许多发达经济体逐渐退出非常规货币政策而陷入慌乱。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 70 years ago, during the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes formulated his theory of unemployment, which described how government action could help restore full employment.",
        "大约70年前，也就是大萧条时期，凯恩斯提出了他的失业理论。 这一理论讲述政府行为如何可以帮助恢复充分就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, a substantial number of them don’t even recognize the Israeli state’s legal authority.",
        "事实上，很多定居点里的以色列居民甚至对以色列国家的司法权威不予认可。"
    ],
    [
        "It is self-deceiving to assume that those on the Palestinian side involved throughout the discredited Oslo process can still muster the necessary popular legitimacy to win support for a compromise with Israel that would require painful concessions on issues central to the Palestinian national ethos.",
        "巴勒斯坦这面全程参与了信誉扫地的奥斯陆和平进程的那些人依然能够获得在公众眼里必要的合法性，从而赢得与以色列达成妥协所需要的在巴勒斯坦民族精神问题上做出痛苦让步。 这种想法绝对是在自欺欺人。"
    ],
    [
        "The goals must have measurable, achievable objectives that extend beyond national policy; they must inspire regional and local administrations, businesses, civil society, and individuals everywhere to change their behavior.",
        "可持续发展目标必须具有可测量、可实现的目标，并且超越国家政策层面； 它们必须能够启发地区和地方政府、企业、公民社会和世界各地的个人改变他们的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "For refugees, life is very different.",
        "对难民来说，生活与此天差地别。"
    ],
    [
        "Rare-earth mines are found throughout the world.",
        "稀土矿遍布全世界。"
    ],
    [
        "The construction of a major egalitarian, free, and democratic society that respects and works with the international institutions is the best thing that Brazil can give to the world right now.",
        "建设尊重国际体系并与之合作的平等、自由和民主的社会是巴西能够献给世界的最好的礼物。"
    ],
    [
        "Water, fertilizer, and pesticides should be used more efficiently.",
        "水、肥料和杀虫剂应该得到更有效的使用。"
    ],
    [
        "In such cases, drug companies gain a powerful incentive to mislead doctors and the public about their products’ safety and effectiveness, and even to promote their drugs for inappropriate uses, often using innovative side-payments to persuade doctors to prescribe them.",
        "在这种情况下，制药公司有很强的动机误导医生和公众对产品安全性和有效性的认识，甚至往往采用 创新性的补偿支付手段来鼓励医生开药，以此来推广药物的不当使用。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in order to reach that point, China must confront significant risks.",
        "但是，为了实现这一点，中国必须面对巨大的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, countries that had increased their education from 2.8 years of schooling in 1960 to 8.3 years of schooling in 2010 were only 167% richer.",
        "相比之下，1960年只有2. 8年而到2010年增加到8."
    ],
    [
        "Rather than using the oil windfall to pay for long-overdue reforms in health care, education, and utilities – and thus helping to ensure the macroeconomic stability needed to sustain rapid long-term growth – President Vladimir Putin has chosen large spending increases for public wages and pensions.",
        "弗拉基米尔·普京总统没有利用石油带来的意外之财推进卫生保健、教育和公用事业方面早就应该实施的改革——从而促进宏观经济稳定，以利于保持快速的长期经济增长——反而选择在公众工资和养老金上增加大量开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Not one Iranian soldier has ever shed his blood for our people the way the soldiers of Egypt and Jordan did, yet their governments later signed peace agreements with Israel.”",
        "没有一名伊朗士兵像埃及和约旦士兵那样为我们的人民洒下热血，但他们的政府后来与以色列签订了和平协议。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "That certainly seems true of the connection between Chávez (who died in 2013) and Trump.",
        "查韦斯（2013年逝世）和特朗普之间的联系显然是真的。"
    ],
    [
        "But that antagonism reflected the personalization of politics achieved by Berlusconi, as well as an institutional feature that he abolished.",
        "但是，那种敌对态度反映了贝卢斯科尼所实现的政治个人化，以及他废除的体制特征。"
    ],
    [
        "Citing a long-standing doctrine in international law, advocates of a write-off claimed that Iraq’s debt was “odious.”",
        "免债鼓吹者们援引长期形成的国际法理论，宣称伊拉克债务是“可憎”的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the same scenario might well be repeated with the euro in a few years.",
        "但在几年以后，欧元也很可能重蹈美元覆辙。"
    ],
    [
        "But navigating that path is the EU’s only option.",
        "但克服这些挑战完成这一旅途是欧盟的唯一选择。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short run, Merrill, like the other investment banks, was allowed to double up its bets.",
        "在短期内，美林和其他投资银行一样，被允许并到其他机构内。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, two fascinating recent papers by researchers at Harvard and MIT explain the emergence of populism in terms of politicians’ efforts to signal to voters that they are not beholden to powerful interests.",
        "事实上，哈佛大学和麻省理工学院研究人员最近发表的两篇引人入胜的论文从政客试图向选民证明他们并未受制于权势影响的角度解释了民粹主义的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "The most obvious reason for the IMF’s actions is that Europe was failing to address its own problems, and had the power and influence to drag in the Fund.",
        "IMF采取行动的最显而易见的理由是欧洲无法解决其自身的问题，并且它有将IMF拖下水的力量和影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "The silver lining is that there are many highly distinguished current and former policymakers out there, particularly from emerging market countries, who have seen this movie before.",
        "令人欣慰的是，有许多特别是来自新兴市场国家的在任和前任杰出的决策者们已经看到了这一局面。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no genuine attempt at politically mainstreaming the troubled areas, no understanding of what democracy entails.",
        "既没有在政治上将动荡地区纳入主流的真正尝试，也没有对民主制度所附要求的理解领悟；"
    ],
    [
        "Comments in January that the country was helpless against an ‘avalanche’ of drug-trafficking from the north were aimed at securing international support, but do little to inspire confidence in his leadership.",
        "1月有关危地马拉面对北方贩毒‘雪崩’束手无策的评论目的是争取国际支持，但对于激发对其领导能力的信心却鲜有作用。"
    ],
    [
        "So Trump’s dream scenario – in which Saudi Arabia sides with Israel to pressure the Palestinians to make peace – is not going to materialize.",
        "因此，特朗普的梦想情景——沙特阿拉伯与以色列一起施压巴勒斯坦人来创造和平——不会实现。"
    ],
    [
        "But I am an optimist, so instead of moaning I will leave you with some more good news.",
        "但我是个乐观主义者，因此我不会抱怨，而且还有好消息要告诉诸位。"
    ],
    [
        "Wide disparities in educational quality, often measured by student achievement on international examinations, are evident within and across countries.",
        "教育质量的巨大差距（往往以学生在国际考试中的成绩来衡量）在国内各地和各国间显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "But Chinese officials viewed the move as proof that Japan was trying to disrupt the status quo.",
        "但中国官员认为此举恰恰证明日本企图破坏现状。"
    ],
    [
        "But can a Kerry-led US get a fresh start in Europe?",
        "但凯利领导的美国真的能在欧洲重新开始吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Those books are not just academic discourse, but mirror real developments.",
        "那些书并不仅仅是学术上的论述，而是反映了真实的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "As Fred Bergsten has reminded us, the mechanism is already available in the form of the “substitution account” that was negotiated in the IMF in 1980.",
        "正如弗雷德·伯格斯坦提醒我们的那样，这一机制已经以1980年国际货币基金组织谈判过的“替换账户”的形式存在了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Keynesian remedy, the argument went, ignored the effect of fiscal policy on expectations.",
        "这一观点认为，凯恩斯主义药方忽视了财政政策对预期的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "If older leaders do not produce the right answers soon, younger generations will reap the whirlwind – sometimes literally.",
        "如果老一代领导人无法马上提出正确的答案，那么年轻一代就会自食其果。 有时果真如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In Washington recently, the United Nations rolled out an action plan that should dramatically accelerate progress on maternal and child health, including HIV.",
        "最近，联合国在华盛顿推出了一项旨在大幅加强母婴健康的行动计划， 其中就包括了艾滋病防治。"
    ],
    [
        "Owing to its huge subsidies, America exports cotton, and it would import little even if formal barriers are removed.",
        "由于巨额补贴的存在，美国的棉花大量出口，即使取消官方壁垒，美国也根本不需要进口棉花。"
    ],
    [
        "How to Boost Foreign Investment",
        "怎样提振外国投资"
    ],
    [
        "Even in Europe, where populism is on the rise, citizens are more enlightened than their leaders: 69% of Europeans say that they are not worried about legal migration, and 62% do not believe that migrants take jobs from locals.",
        "即使在民粹主义日盛的欧洲，公民也比领导人更开明：69%的欧洲人表示不担心合法移民，62%不认为移民会夺走本地人的饭碗。"
    ],
    [
        "As we now know, this is a recipe for disaster.",
        "我们现在知道，这个问题是灾难性的。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent ABC News-Washington Post poll showed that 39% of Americans now say that protecting privacy is more important than investigating terrorist threats, up from only 18% in 2002.",
        "最新的ABC新闻台-《华盛顿邮报》民调显示，39%的美国人目前认为保护隐私比调查恐怖威胁更重要，而2002年只有18%。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, publicly financing health could increase overall employment.",
        "第三，公开医疗融资可以提高整体就业率。"
    ],
    [
        "Kosovo was a stalking horse for Iraq, as the doctrine of humanitarian intervention morphed into President George W. Bush’s doctrine of “pre-emptive war,” by which the US claimed the right to attack any state that it deemed a threat to its national security.",
        "科索沃是入侵伊拉克的借口。 布什总统“先发制人战争”中加入了人道主义干预原则，美国根据这一原则宣布有权利攻击任何它认为对其国家安全造成威胁的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the country’s many political transformations in the last half-century, the MILF’s campaign to achieve independence for the Bangsamoro nation – whose territory, they claim, covers the islands of Mindanao, Palawan, Sulu, and Sabah – remained constant, until President Benigno Aquino III resolved to change it.",
        "尽管在过去五十年中，菲律宾发生了许多政治变化，但追求邦萨摩洛（Bangsamoro）国家独立的MILF运动一直在继续进行——其领土主张包括苏禄、棉兰老、巴拉望和沙巴诸岛——直到总统阿基诺三世决心改变这一情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization has meant that we are increasingly interdependent.",
        "全球化还意味着我们越发相互依存。"
    ],
    [
        "By identifying the law with their vested rights, the oligarchs who have (for now!) derailed the ideals of the Orange Revolution sought to shield their own interests from challenge.",
        "通过用法律来保护自己的既得利益，背叛了“橙色革命”理想的政治寡头们力求保护自己的利益不受挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world’s physical resources grow scarcer, we must increasingly rely on the best and most proven renewable resource available – human ingenuity.",
        "随着世界实物资源的日益稀缺，我们必须逐渐依赖最优质、最可靠的可获得再生资源——人类智慧。"
    ],
    [
        "People with strong support networks have a significantly better chance of recovery than those whose problems go undetected or are ignored or minimized.",
        "有强大支持网的人比问题未被发现或被忽略或不受重视的人恢复的机会大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s quantitative easing policy can probably achieve higher inflation only through the increase in import prices resulting from a decline in the value of the euro.",
        "欧洲央行的量化宽松政策也许只能通过提高进口品价格（因为欧元贬值）实现更高的通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Other criminologists argue that this finding, if well-founded, should then apply to any criminal law: every day, criminal prohibitions are infringed; yet if we did not have such prohibitions, crimes would be even more rampant.",
        "其他犯罪学家认为上述发现如果理由充分，就应该适用于所有的刑事规则：刑法设立的禁区时时都在被人打破。 但如果根本没有这些禁区，犯罪行为就会更为猖獗。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – The same type of populist discontent that fueled Brexit in the United Kingdom is on the rise throughout Europe, suggesting that policymakers have lost sight of the European project’s central objective: to ensure the wellbeing of all Europeans.",
        "发自巴黎——推动了英国脱欧的那股民粹主义不满情绪正弥漫在整个欧洲上空，让人们意识到政策制定者们早已偏离了欧洲计划的核心宗旨：为全体欧洲人造福。"
    ],
    [
        "By the 1970’s, however, the IMF and Western powers began to dismantle the theory and practice of regulating global capital flows.",
        "但是，到了20世纪70年代，IMF和西方列强开始推翻这一理论，实践全球资本流监管。"
    ],
    [
        "China will thus be joining the ranks of the advanced countries in providing an export market (and jobs) for countries at earlier stages of economic development.",
        "中国将为处于经济发展更早期阶段的国家提供出口市场（和就业），在此过程中跻身发达国家行列。"
    ],
    [
        "More than a century later, one might have thought that by now we would have overcome the belief that women are not suited to the highest levels of education, in any area of study.",
        "一百多年过去了，你可能会认为，我们早已克服了女人不适合某个研究领域的最高等教育的陈腐观念。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a wide range of views about the future of the GGE process.",
        "对于GGE流程的未来，人们众说纷纭。"
    ],
    [
        "A letter from an old colleague in Southeast Asia with whom you’ve corresponded for years, attached to a manuscript that lays out your whole theory of natural selection in a nutshell.",
        "你的一个在南亚的与你通信多年的老同事给你写了一封信。 信里附上了一个手稿。"
    ],
    [
        "Backing the creation of a “Community of Latin American and Caribbean States,” according to the cable, is logical for a would-be regional hegemon like Brazil, but somewhat absurd for Mexico, which does 90% of everything (trade, investment, tourism, immigration) with the US and Canada, and depends on US support in fighting the country’s drug cartels.",
        "电报认为上述支持成立“拉美和加勒比国家联盟”的做法对巴西这种未来的区域霸主或许顺理成章，但对墨西哥而言却显得有些荒唐，因为墨西哥一切联系的90%来自美国和加拿大，而且全靠美国的支持才能与国内的贩毒集团斗争下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Another Look at Tax Reform and Economic Growth",
        "税收改革和经济增长的另一种视角"
    ],
    [
        "Balancing the Technocrats",
        "与技术专家之间的平衡"
    ],
    [
        "They were not happy when, in the 1970s, their older sons became communists, strongly opposing the brutal regime of Hafez al-Assad, President Bashar al-Assad’s father.",
        "因此，20世纪70年代，当他们的长子成为共产主义者，强烈反对巴沙尔·阿萨德总统的父亲哈菲兹·阿萨德的野蛮政权时我的父母非常难过。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar challenge now faces North Africa and the Middle East, where most Arab countries are experiencing massive upheavals.",
        "而如今随着一系列阿拉伯国家先后爆发大规模动荡，北非和中东地区也面临着同样的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "His only agenda was to protect or advance his own business interests.",
        "保护和促进自身的商业利益才是他唯一的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But even in Iran, where the ruling mullahs describe America as “the great Satan,” the young want to watch American videos in the privacy of their homes.",
        "伊朗的统治毛拉们把美国描绘为“邪恶撒旦”。 但是，即使在那里，年轻人仍然想在家里偷偷地观看美国电影录像。"
    ],
    [
        "So, as rumors fly of secret marriage ceremonies either already concluded or in the works, could the trouble brewing in India over the French president’s very public love life be behind the rush to have the couple legally wed?",
        "因此，当秘密婚礼已经完成或者正在准备的传言飞散之际，印度对于法国总统公共恋情满城风雨是否推动了二人结婚呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that are willing to borrow couldn’t get access to credit before the ECB went negative, and they can’t now.",
        "愿意借钱的中小企业在欧洲央行实施负利率前得不到信用，现在也同样得不到信用。"
    ],
    [
        "But my analysis should serve as a warning against complacency.",
        "但我的分析应该成为对市场高涨情绪的一个警告。"
    ],
    [
        "The fundamental assumption here is that the untested, unconventional policies adopted by central banks, particularly in advanced countries, to repress financial volatility and maintain economic stability will buy enough time for governments to design and deliver a more suitable and comprehensive policy response.",
        "这里的基本假设是中央银行（特别是发达国家中央银行）能够采取未经检验的非常规政策抑制金融波动、维持经济稳定，从而为政府赢得足够时间设计和实施更合理、更全面的政策反应。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an even greater silent force which may produce a new generation of political leaders: the rapidly growing army of Christian believers, now estimated at 20 million.",
        "还有一个更大的默默无闻的力量，或许会产生新一代的政治领导人，也就是快速增长的基督教信徒。 现在估计他们有两千万人。"
    ],
    [
        "I suspect that the answer to each of these questions is a resounding “no.”",
        "我想对上述问题的答案是一个响亮的“不”。"
    ],
    [
        "And even the French Prime minister, Francois Fillar, noted that Britain had higher debt and larger deficits than France.",
        "”甚至法国总理菲永也指出，英国的债务和赤字都高于法国。"
    ],
    [
        "Why investigate and report this scandal?",
        "为何调查及报道这一丑闻？"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of total lifecycle costs, these vehicles are three to six times more energy-efficient than their petroleum counterparts.",
        "在整车使用寿命成本上计算，这类汽车比汽油/柴油动力汽车节能4到6倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Central Banks’ Outdated Independence",
        "过时的央行独立性"
    ],
    [
        "Joy over the election’s outcome, however, should not blind us to its failure to meet a series of ethical benchmarks for democratic choice.",
        "但是，别让令人欣喜的选举结果蒙蔽了我们的双眼，它并没有满足民主选择的一系列伦理基准。"
    ],
    [
        "As I pointed out in recent Congressional testimony, poor education leads to poor job prospects, poor families, and back to poor education – if not with a detour through incarceration, which makes it even harder to break the cycle.",
        "正如笔者在近期的国会证词中指出的一样，教育程度低导致工作前景差，家庭收入低，反过来又导致教育程度低——如果再加上犯罪入狱的话，要打破这种循环就更难了。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent massive fine of $13 billion imposed by the US government on JPMorgan Chase fits this mode of financial regulation.",
        "最近，美国政府对摩根大通（JPMorgan Chase）课以130亿美元巨额罚款，这一做法就符合这一金融监管模式。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps the cautionary tale from the Asian crises is that gradualism on this front carries its own risks.",
        "但也许亚洲危机的教训告诉我们，在这方面采取渐进主义同样有风险。"
    ],
    [
        "He knows what needs to be done – and is pushing his political colleagues to do it.",
        "他知道需要做什么，也在推动政治同僚这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, across North Africa, millions of people are demanding a voice in their own destiny.",
        "如今纵观整个北非地区，数百万人民都在争取掌握自己的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "A year ago, the euro zone’s most important challenge was anemic economic growth.",
        "一年前，经济发展疲软是欧元区所面临的最重要的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "We must re-examine and, if possible, redress what the Italian democratic theorist Norberto Bobbio called the “broken promises of democracy.”",
        "我们必须重新审视，如果可能的话，彻底解决意大利民主，也就是理论家诺贝尔托·博比奥所谓的“被破坏的民主承诺。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But, as a 2003 EPA report noted, the agency “did not have sufficient data and analyses to make such a blanket statement” at that time.",
        "但EPA在2003年的报告中指出该机构在那个时期“没有足够的数据和分析来做出这样的声明”。"
    ],
    [
        "A heightened security agenda since the attacks on the United States in September 2001 has included attempts to legitimize the use of “extraordinary rendition” (the movement between countries of prisoners and suspects without due process of law) and torture.",
        "2001年9月针对美国的袭击事件发生后安全措施越来越严厉，其中也包括让“特别引渡”（即在不履行相应法律手续的情况下在国家间押解犯人和嫌疑人）和“酷刑折磨”合法化的企图。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization and democracy, without the nation-state, is also possible, though Rodrik is skeptical about whether democratic institutions could function on a global scale.",
        "在没有民族国家的前提下实现全球化和民主也有可能，尽管罗德里克对民主制度能否在全球范围内发挥作用持怀疑态度。"
    ],
    [
        "The dominant mood in the United States today is one of considerable anxiety, if not outright anger.",
        "今天，美国的主流情绪是非常焦虑的，甚至可以说是出离愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, according to Jon Cox, an analyst at Kepler Capital Markets, “it’s no longer acceptable to have a big chunky watch on your wrist.”",
        "结果，根据Kepler Capital Markets的乔恩·考克斯（Jon Cox）的说法，“不容你在手腕上戴又大又粗的手表。"
    ],
    [
        "Competitiveness gains and rebalancing would fail to materialize, and, after an initial flash in the pan, the eurozone would return to permanent crisis.",
        "竞争力的提高和再平衡将无法实现，欧元区在经历最初的回光返照后将回归持久危机模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Together with job training and opportunities for workers to participate in problem-solving and decision-making, such programs have been shown to foster employee engagement and loyalty, reduce turnover, and boost productivity and profitability.",
        "这一计划与职业培训和让员工获得参与解决问题和决策一道，已经证明可以提高雇员参与度和忠诚度、降低跳槽率、提振生产率和利润。"
    ],
    [
        "Even then, the international community would not have long to act.",
        "即使那样，国际社会也没有多少时间可用了。"
    ],
    [
        "During the Korean War, however, it fell under the control of the North Korean and Chinese armies; after the armistice, it became North Korea’s southernmost city.",
        "但是，朝鲜战争期间，开城落入朝鲜和中国军队之手，停战协议后成为朝鲜最南端的城市。"
    ],
    [
        "But, almost a year into the negotiations, the government is still not ready to commit to concrete action.",
        "但谈判一年之后，政府仍然没有采取任何具体行动。"
    ],
    [
        "In many EU member states, criminal law has been strengthened and is being used to prevent attacks.",
        "许多欧盟成员国的刑法被加强并用以防止恐怖袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the candidate drugs in this R&D “valley of death” are riskier than anything in which Royalty Pharma invests, an even larger portfolio of compounds would be needed to yield levels of risk and rates of return that are acceptable to typical investors.",
        "由于这一研发“死亡谷”的潜在候选药物风险远大于所有特许费制药公司的投资项目，因此需要比之大得多的投资组合才能获得普通投资者可接受的风险和回报率水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Iraq was devastated by looting.",
        "但事实上，伊拉克几乎被洗劫一空。"
    ],
    [
        "Some viewers are not persuaded of the film’s accuracy, or are troubled by the occasionally surreal character of the film-within-a-film structure adopted by the director.",
        "一些观看者不相信该片的准确性，或者难以接受导演所采取的偶尔光怪陆离的片中片（film-within-a-film）结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Past experience suggests that there are five guidelines to follow if we want a more effective European presence on the world stage whenever foreign and security policy are at the top of the agenda.",
        "过去的经验显示，如果我们希望欧盟能够以一个更有效率的形象出现在以外交和安全政策为最优先议程的世界舞台上，那就得遵循以下这五条方针。"
    ],
    [
        "He will face the most difficult opening-day agenda of any president since – and I say this in all seriousness – the man who saved the Union, Abraham Lincoln.",
        "我可以严肃的讲，他将面临着自挽救联邦的亚伯拉罕·林肯总统以后最艰巨的就职任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The most striking example is India, one of the least sports-oriented countries in the world, given its demographics: six medals for more than 1.2 billion inhabitants – the same number as Croatia, which has a population of just 4.3 million!",
        "最令人吃惊的例子是印度，从人口统计角度看，它算得上是全世界最不爱体育的国家：12亿人口只获得了6块奖牌，和只有430万人的克罗地亚等量齐观！"
    ],
    [
        "Financial markets have proven unequal to the task of recycling savings from places where incomes exceed consumption to places where investment is needed.",
        "而事实也证明，金融市场无力完成从那些收入高于消费地区回收储蓄，再投向急需投资地区的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "This difference reflects the political position of Pashtuns in the two countries.",
        "上述差异反映了普什图人在两国的政治地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Transparency will have to be improved, through better corporate reporting and enhanced disclosure from financial institutions.",
        "透明度必须改善，可以通过更好的公司报告制度和强化金融机构的披露实现。"
    ],
    [
        "For the 20 years that the patent lasts, they will have a monopoly on the drug’s sale and be able to command a high price.",
        "在20年的专利期限中，他们会垄断药品的销售，保证了药品高价。"
    ],
    [
        "China has been struggling to balance centralization and fragmentation – that is, control and uncertainty – throughout its long history of rising and falling dynasties, domestic decay, and foreign invasion.",
        "在不断的改朝换代、内部衰退和外族入侵的漫漫历史上，中国一直在努力平衡中央集权与地方分治——也就是控制与动荡之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "France Stratégie, which advises the French government, and the American entrepreneur Nick Hanauer have proposed social-policy reforms that share a similar conceptual foundation.",
        "法国政府顾问法国战略公司（France Stratégie）和美国企业家尼克·哈瑙尔（Nick Hanauer）提出了概念基础相同的社会政策改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the impact of automatic stabilizers – which enable the government to mobilize more or less fiscal resources, depending on economic conditions – is more powerful in Western Europe than in most of the Anglo-Saxon countries.",
        "此外，社会经济的自动稳定性（依照经济的状态，能让政府多少地动员财政资源）在西欧的影响力比英联邦的多数国家的影响力要大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Research published this month concluded that consuming all remaining hydrocarbons would result in the melting of the entire Antarctic ice sheet, potentially raising sea levels by 58 meters.",
        "本月发表的研究结论认为消耗所有剩余的碳氢化合物会导致整个南极冰盖融化，有可能让海平面上升58米。"
    ],
    [
        "This would have been a fitting topic for the National Petroleum Council’s Arctic study.",
        "这本应成为美国石油委员会北极报告的合适主题。"
    ],
    [
        "But we need this wall to tumble if we do not want to miss today’s revolution, which is delivering societies based on knowledge, technology, and information.",
        "但如果我们不愿错过今天这场以知识、技术和信息为基础的革命，就需要将面前的这堵高墙拆毁。"
    ],
    [
        "As President George W. Bush argued about the war in Iraq, US President Lyndon Johnson predicted that defeat in Vietnam “would be renewed in one country and then another.”",
        "就像乔治·W·布什为伊拉克战争所做的辩护一样，美国总统林登·约翰逊预测说在越南的失败“将在一个国家，然后又一个国家里重现”。"
    ],
    [
        "The memo cites a female interrogator rubbing lotion on a shackled detainee and whispering in his ear – during Ramadan when sexual contact with a strange woman would be most offensive – then suddenly bending back his thumbs until he grimaced in pain, and violently grabbing his genitals.",
        "该备忘录引用了一个女性审讯人员在一个戴着脚镣手铐的被押人员身上涂抹乳液并在他耳边低语的例子－在斋月，与一个陌生女人的性接触是非常犯忌的－然后突然将他的拇指往后掰直到他因疼痛而面部表情扭曲，并猛烈地抓他的生殖器。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, running at under 14 minutes, it never fails to move and inspire everyone in the audience, including that half of the graduates and their families who hail from other countries, near and far.",
        "但是，在不到14分钟的时间里，这份就职演说每一次都能打动和鼓励观众席上的每一个人，包括来自世界各地的那一半毕业生和他们的家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "For the next few years, the EU should view them as independent buffer states rather than as member-states-in-waiting.",
        "未来几年中，欧盟应该将它们视为独立的缓冲国家，而不是候选成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "Electricity, the new technology studied by the eminent Stanford University economic historian Paul David, is a classic case in point.",
        "根据斯坦福大学知名经济史学家保罗·戴维（Paul David）的研究，当年作为新技术的电力就是个典型的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "They cast doubt on the official orthodoxy, and thus on the legitimacy of the state.",
        "这些观点为官方正统思想打上了问号，也由此对国家政权的合法性提出了质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, impugning populists’ intelligence and seriousness only plays into their hands: See how the arrogant, entrenched elites, they will counter, dismiss the common sense of the people.",
        "此外，责难民粹主义者的智慧和态度只会给他们以可乘之机：看看这些根深蒂固的狂妄的精英，他们怎样对普通民众的常识不屑一顾。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Fed is to maintain the confidence of markets, it will need not only to communicate its key objectives; it will also have to make clear which considerations have priority and how officials will respond if policy prescriptions required to meet various objectives conflict with one another.",
        "如果美联储要维持市场信心，不但需要沟通其关键目标； 还必须明确它优先考虑哪些因素以及如果满足不同目标所需要的政策药方彼此冲突官员将如何响应。"
    ],
    [
        "This perceived decline in “natural” interest rates is viewed as a key obstacle to economic recovery, because it impedes monetary policy’s capacity to provide sufficient stimulus by pushing real rates below the equilibrium level, owing to the zero lower bound on nominal rates.",
        "“自然”利率的下跌被视为经济复苏的一个关键障碍，因为名义利率不能低于0，所以这种下跌抑制了货币政策通过将实际利率压至均衡水平以下来供应足量刺激措施的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Which takes us back to structure.",
        "这使我们又回到了结构问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a new approach could break the mold of conventional wisdom.",
        "只有新的方法才能打破传统的旧模式思维。"
    ],
    [
        "But sometimes the line really is crossed, all relevant players know it, and the consequences are potentially profound.",
        "但有时这条线真的会被越过，所有相关方都知道这一点，而且后果可能影响深远。"
    ],
    [
        "India is also considered creditworthy, giving it access to international capital markets.",
        "印度也被认为是有信誉的，因此能够进入国际资本市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Others argued just the opposite: unless the Party ceded more economic control, it would lose political power, as the economy’s contradictions multiplied and development became less sustainable.",
        "另一派认为正好相反：如果党不让出更多的经济控制权，就有可能失去政治权力，因为经济矛盾将成倍放大，发展也将不可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "Barbers, clothes shops, fruit stalls. And a good deal of traffic – with new cars smuggled in through tunnels beneath the “Philadelphi Route” that runs along the Egyptian border.",
        "这就是真实生活：西方男孩常见的印有梅西头像的足球T恤、俯瞰地中海的餐厅、随处可见的戴着头巾的女学生、理发店、服装店、水果铺，还有繁忙的交通——其中不乏通过埃及边境的费拉德尔菲路（Philadelphi Route）的地下隧道走私而来的新车。"
    ],
    [
        "But the outlook for 2007 is for weakening global economic growth.",
        "但是2007年的全球经济增长可能会放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1990’s, these ex-communist countries had to face temporary income slumps as most of their industrial production became virtually made obsolete overnight.",
        "在二十世纪九十年代，这些前共产主义国家不得不面临短暂的收入下降，因为它们的工业生产在一夜之间变得过时了。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe capitalism works better when skeptics restrain its excesses than when true believers are writing, interpreting, judging, and executing the rules of the game.",
        "或许，在对资本主义笃信不疑的人制定、解释、评判以及执行游戏规则的时候资本主义的表现就比怀疑者限制资本主义过度膨胀的时候要差。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – Simón Bolívar, the South American independence hero who hoped to weave the continent into a single nation, would shudder at the disintegration that prevails today in the continent’s energy sector.",
        "圣地亚哥—希望将整个南美大陆统一为一个国家的南美独立英雄玻利瓦尔一定会对如今南美大陆能源部门各自为战的情景痛心疾首。"
    ],
    [
        "Avoiding Algeria in Egypt",
        "防止埃及重蹈阿尔及利亚覆辙"
    ],
    [
        "Many of Japan's neighbors were understandably reassured by the Cold War arrangement whereby America promised to defend Japan, relieving the country of the need for a powerful military.",
        "可以理解的是日本的许多邻国都对美日之间在冷战中的安排感到放心。 在这种安排下，美国承诺保护日本从而使日本不需要一支强大的军队。"
    ],
    [
        "The details of what they advocate may well differ, but their platforms share a promise of radical departure from the status quo.",
        "他们所鼓吹的具体细节可能大不相同，但他们的平台都承诺彻底远离现状。"
    ],
    [
        "What is most needed nowadays is clear thinking about how to live with an expanding club of nuclear states while keeping the world relatively stable.",
        "如今最需要的就是形成一个清醒的认识，明白如何在一个核武俱乐部不断扩大的世界上求得生存并保持相对稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "For countries that are following agreed reform programs, the ECB should commit itself to bringing down interest rates to levels compatible with projected inflation and growth rates, and announce how long (say, nine months) this will continue.",
        "对那些执行既定改革方案的国家，欧洲央行应当致力于使利率下降至与预期通胀率和增长率相配套的水平，而且必须公布实现上述目标的期限（比方说九个月）。"
    ],
    [
        "But are such writers making a valid point?",
        "那么这些作家的观点经得起推敲吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Fear that the US would abandon the gold standard sent the dollar plummeting on world markets.",
        "人们担心美国将会放弃金本位制，美元在世界市场上暴跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Putting Qaddafi on trial probably would not have satisfied every Libyan’s feeling of injustice, but it might have helped to instill in Libyans greater respect for the rule of law.",
        "将卡扎菲诉诸法庭无法满足所有利比亚人的公正感，但能给利比亚人带来更光明的法治精神前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Counter-insurgency and counter-narcotics are two sides of the same coin.",
        "反叛乱和反毒品是一个问题的两个方面。"
    ],
    [
        "The great challenge for cities is to provide this access inclusively and sustainably.",
        "城市所面临的重大挑战是包容地、可持续地提供这些服务便利。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that China and Russia joined the most recent round of sanctions had made the radicals’ position less tenable.",
        "中国和俄罗斯也加入到最新的制裁中，这一事实让激进派的立场更加站不住脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the premiums are intimately interconnected with the banks’ capital deficiencies, half a solution is not good enough.",
        "由于风险溢价基与银行资本不足问题密切相关，顾此失彼的政策是不足以解决问题的。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is not going to happen.",
        "但这相当于痴人说梦。"
    ],
    [
        "For proof, look no further than the success of right-wing parties in the last German and Austrian elections.",
        "如果你想要证明的话，只需要看一看极右翼政党在最近的德国和奥地利选举中所取得的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet indicated at his July press conference that the bank plans to raise interest rates by 25 basis points on August 3, not August 31, as expected.",
        "欧洲央行行长特里谢在七月份的新闻发布会上指出，该行计划在8月3日，而不是预期的8月31日将利率提高25个基点。"
    ],
    [
        "There was still some of that at Davos.",
        "在达沃斯还是有一些这样的人。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s recent relaxation of macroeconomic policy, despite ongoing market volatility, is an important step toward breaking unnecessary barriers to implementing the reforms needed to mitigate systemic risks.",
        "最近，尽管金融市场持续波动，但中国经济金融的决策部门仍放宽了宏观经济政策，这为明年落实大量制度性改革奠定了基础。 制度性改革是为了降低系统性风险，是确保中国未来可持续发展所必须做的。"
    ],
    [
        "Many expected Xi’s anti-corruption campaign to be a temporary initiative, intended to pave the way for implementation of the aggressive economic reforms announced at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee in 2013.",
        "许多人都认为习近平的反腐运动只是昙花一现，不过要为2013年第十八届三中全会宣布的积极经济改革铺平道路。"
    ],
    [
        "The paradox here is that European regulators, including German regulators, have in fact been arguing for looser application of those regulations in negotiations with the United States.",
        "这里的自相矛盾之处在于，欧洲监管机构（包括德国监管机构）实际上一直在与美国的谈判中要求放宽这些监管规定的应用。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Dajokan, Japan’s highest decision-making body in 1868-1885, denied any claims of sovereignty over Dokdo through its Order of 1877.",
        "此外，在1877年政令中，太政官（1868—1885年间日本最高决策机构）否认任何关于独岛的主权主张。"
    ],
    [
        "In his protracted moment of death, Yasir Arafat performed his last act of duty to the Palestinian cause to which he devoted his entire life.",
        "在长时间的死亡过程中，亚西尔·阿拉法特为巴勒斯坦解放事业尽了最后一份力量，这是他终身为之奋斗的事业。"
    ],
    [
        "It is pivotal in both steel and cement production.",
        "它是钢铁和水泥生产的关键要素。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many good reasons for the attention lavished on monetary policymakers, including the rise of central-bank independence, public acceptance of the need to appoint highly competent technocrats to oversee the money supply, and the deepening of financial markets.",
        "而之所以对货币政策制定者有过多的关注其实有许多理由：包括中央银行独立性的风险。 公众对于指派精明强干的技术官僚去监管货币供应的接受度，以及金融市场的不断深化。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, a child may be used for agricultural labor or for janitorial work.",
        "在此情况下，儿童可以被用作农业劳力或是从事看门一类的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, what should really matter about a country’s public-debt burden is the expected annual cost of servicing it.",
        "此外，真正影响一国公债负担的是预期年债务维持成本。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom, Education Secretary Michael Gove recently issued a polemic against historians who emphasized the futility of the war, calling it a “just war” directed against the “ruthless social Darwinism of the German elites.”",
        "在英国，教育达成迈克尔·戈夫（Michael Gove）最近引发了一场针对认为一战是徒劳的历史学家，称一战是为对抗“德国精英的一根筋的社会达尔文主义”的“正义的战争”。"
    ],
    [
        "Modi also argued for a new economic-growth model based on export-oriented manufacturing.",
        "莫迪还提出了一个基于出口导向型制造业的经济增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "But the global financial crisis threatens to undo this progress by reducing investment, exports and aid just as they should be expanding to build on these successes.",
        "然而这一进程如今却因全球经济危机而面临中断，因为本应不断扩大以实现上述发展的投资，出口和援助额都残遭削减。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this suggests that Europe must look inward to address homegrown jihadism effectively.",
        "所有这些表明，欧洲必须自我审视才能有效解决内生性的圣战主义问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The New Old Year",
        "旧事重演"
    ],
    [
        "Rural roads, truck transport, and electricity could bring new economic opportunities to remote villages in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.",
        "乡村道路、卡车运输和电力建设可以给拉丁美洲、非洲和亚洲的偏远乡村创造新的经济机会。"
    ],
    [
        "This, too, was guided by political considerations: it would have been more efficient to inject new equity into the banks, but Obama feared accusations of nationalization and socialism.",
        "这一措施也是出于政治考虑：向银行注入新股本应是更加有效之法，但奥巴马担忧此举会招致国有化和社会主义化的谴责。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-run considerations, not short-run financial exigencies, should determine which activities occur in the private sector.",
        "长期考虑而不是短期金融之急才是决定私人部门行为的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The Federal Reserve is under attack.",
        "剑桥—美联储正在遭到攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, for a given increment of domestic demand, China is far more predisposed toward foreign sourcing.",
        "因此，在国内需求增量给定的情况下，中国偏向外部资源的倾向要强得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The new unilateralists who dominated Bush’s first administration made the mistake of thinking that the unipolar distribution of power in the military context was sufficient to guide foreign policy.",
        "主导布什第一届政府的新单边主义者们错误地认为在军事环境中的实力单极化分配足以引导对外政策。"
    ],
    [
        "There is enormous scope for America’s global services companies to expand in China, especially in transactions-intensive distribution sectors – wholesale and retail trade, domestic transportation, and supply-chain logistics – as well as in the processing segments of finance, health care, and data warehousing.",
        "美国的全球服务公司在中国的扩张前景无限，特别是交易密集型物流部门——批发和零售贸易、国内运输、供应链物流等——以及金融、医疗和数据仓储方面的处理细分市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Deciding the disposition of the world’s cultural patrimony is not like buying a toaster.",
        "决定世界文化遗产的归属不像买面包机那样简单。"
    ],
    [
        "That outcome seemed highly likely six months ago, when global financial markets nearly collapsed.",
        "这样的结果就在六个月以前似乎还非常可能，当时全球金融市场陷入到近乎崩溃的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "Education is increasingly online as well, and will soon enable students everywhere to receive first-rate instruction at almost a zero “marginal” cost for enrolling another student.",
        "教育也越来越在线化了，很快，各地的学生就能以几乎为零的（增加学生人数的）“边际成本”获得一流的教学服务。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the use of big data is not confined to governments and corporations; anonymous criminal groups can easily abuse the information, too.",
        "毕竟，大数据的运用不受政府和公司的约束； 匿名犯罪团伙也可以轻易地滥用信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Two independent reviews of the Bank of England published in the wake of the global financial crisis found a similar lack of intellectual diversity and robust debate.",
        "全球金融危机之后，两个关于英国央行的独立评论也发现了类似的知识多样性和活跃辩论的缺乏。"
    ],
    [
        "Ross and many others in the private sector fully understand what needs to be done.",
        "罗斯和私人部门的许多人完全明白什么才是需要做的。"
    ],
    [
        "Will China be welcomed, or humiliatingly rebuffed, in its effort to persuade the International Monetary Fund to include the renminbi in its unit of account, Special Drawing Rights (SDR)?",
        "中国说服国际货币基金组织（IMF）将人民币纳入其账户单位——特别提款权（SDR）的尝试会获得欢迎，还是被耻辱性地拒绝？"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, as we saw at Davos, the global climate debate is polluted with myths and wishful thinking.",
        "遗憾的是，我们在达沃斯看到全球气候辩论充斥着虚构和一厢情愿。"
    ],
    [
        "These concerns remain acute, even in the aftermath of the decision by the Czech Constitutional Court on November 26 that the Lisbon Treaty is compatible with the Czech constitution and can be ratified in the normal way by the Czech Parliament.",
        "即使是捷克宪法法院11月26日作出的决定也依然未能缓和人们的这种担心。 该决定的内容是：《里斯本条约》可以和捷克宪法相提并论，能够通过正常的途径由捷克议会来批准通过。"
    ],
    [
        "This prospect may seem surprising, given that Japan has already lost two decades since its economy’s bubble burst in the early 1990’s.",
        "这一前景看起来令人惊奇，因为自20世纪90年代初经济泡沫破裂以来，日本已经经历了失去的二十年。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, AIPAC should have known that its attempt, in close cooperation with Obama’s Republican opponents, to block the Iran nuclear deal (one of Obama’s most important achievements) would fail.",
        "在此背景下，委员会应该知道它企图联手奥巴马的共和党反对者阻止达成伊朗核协议（奥巴马最重要的成就之一）将不会成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The labor movement responded by demanding “work or maintenance.” Acceptance of maintenance in lieu of work was reflected in the creation of a system of social security: “welfare capitalism.”",
        "劳工运动对此的诉求是“要么工作要么保障”，并因此创立了社会保障体系：“福利资本主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – For better or worse, economic-policy debates in the United States are often echoed elsewhere, regardless of whether they are relevant.",
        "纽约—不管是好是坏，美国经济政策争论常常在未必有关系的别国引起回响。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Israel now sees its security as relying not so much on a US guarantee, but on Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey (which is seeking regional influence in fear of rejection by the European Union) restraining Iran and its paid proxies.",
        "实际上，以色列现在认为，其安全并不如此依赖于美国的保证，而是埃及、约旦、沙特以及土耳其(该国因害怕被欧盟拒绝入盟而正在寻求地区影响力)限制伊朗及其受雇的代理人。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy’s new leadership must sustain this progress.",
        "意大利的新领导必须保持着这种进步态势。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, such a government CIO couldn’t make all that happen alone.",
        "当然，这样一位政府的首席信息官孤掌难鸣。"
    ],
    [
        "But neither president can guarantee that recrimination and reproach will not take on a life of its own.",
        "但双方的领导人都无法保证在此过程中就不会出现指责和批评。"
    ],
    [
        "An intriguing sidelight on the relationship between Congress and business is provided in a study by Ahmed Tahoun of the London School of Economics on “The role of stock ownership by US members of Congress on the market for political favors.”",
        "不过我这里有一个关于国会与商界之间关系的有趣注脚，来自于伦敦经济学院学者艾哈迈德·塔霍针对“美国国会议员所持股份在政治偏好市场中所扮演的角色”所做的研究。"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, writers, directors, and performers seem free to plan and produce their shows with little or no supervision or monitoring.",
        "在表面上看，文案、导演和演员似乎可以自由地策划和制作他们的节目，而几乎不会受到监控。"
    ],
    [
        "For Sino-Russian relations, such fundamental uncertainties may be a blessing.",
        "对中俄关系来说，这一根本性不确定性或许是个好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "A more globalized world needs global financial institutions, but ones that focus on coordination, supervision and technical advice, not redundant lending mechanisms.",
        "全球化程度更高的世界需要全球金融机构，但只有关注协调、监督和技术建议的机构、而不是沉闷繁冗的信贷机制才会有利于经济的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, humanity faces such a life-threatening problem: How are we to provide adequate nutrition and a decent quality of life to a global population that is set to surpass nine billion by 2050, without irreparably damaging our planetary life-support system?",
        "如今，人类就面临着这样的生死攸关的问题：如何在不破坏地球生命支持系统的情况下为全世界人口提供足够的营养和体面的生活？ 到2050年，全球人口将突破90亿。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, China will need to cultivate micro-level competition, by developing exchange platforms and related financial services for small and medium-size enterprises.",
        "与此同时，中国需要培育微观层面的竞争，这可以通过发展面向中小企业的资产交易平台和相关金融服务来实现。"
    ],
    [
        "And transfers would have been needed to recapitalize the periphery banks.",
        "而重组外围国银行则需要转移支付。"
    ],
    [
        "There was no similar love for the second paper, which languishes almost unknown, despite its important insights.",
        "而后一篇文章就没有类似的惊喜之处，因此默默无闻地堙没了，尽管其中不乏重要洞见。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The latest data on employment in the United States confirm that the American economy continues to recover from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, despite the slowdown engulfing the other G-20 nations.",
        "伯克利—最新的美国就业数据确认了美国经济正继续从2008—2009年的大衰退中复苏，尽管其他G20国家仍在减速中挣扎。"
    ],
    [
        "And the ruling elite opens a number of parliamentary seats to a popular vote, only to be shocked by a landslide opposition win.",
        "但是深受大家喜欢的领导却对此表示反对。"
    ],
    [
        "But that dual objective requires structural change in the Chinese and US economies.",
        "但这两个目标都要求中美两国经济实施结构性的革新。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s leaders must do what it takes to ensure that such a slowdown is not viewed as secular trend – a perception that could undermine the consumption and investment that the economy so badly needs.",
        "中国领导人必须不惜一切代价确保这一减速不被视为长期趋势——否则，经济所急需的消费和投资可能遭到破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies’ ability to minimize their global tax burden, while boosting their earnings per share through buybacks – in some cases financed with debt – does not strike me as a stable trend.",
        "公司通过股票回购——有时用债务融资进行——最小化其全球税负、同时刺激每股收益的能力作为一个稳定的趋势，并不让我惊讶。"
    ],
    [
        "With such rhetoric from their candidates, it is no wonder that, according to a recent poll, some 30% of Republican voters (and 41% of Trump supporters) favored bombing Agrabah, the central (and fictional) location of the Disney film Aladdin.",
        "总统候选人说出这样的话来，无怪乎最新民调表明30%左右的共和党选民（以及41%的特朗普支持者）支持轰炸阿格拉巴（Agrabah，迪士尼电影《阿拉丁》中虚构的中央地区）。"
    ],
    [
        "There are no less than five reasons not to assume the deal will enter into force or have the desired impact.",
        "有不下五个理由认为该协议未必能得到执行或达到预期效果。"
    ],
    [
        "But for countries that provide a decent social safety net, the opposite is true.",
        "但对于提供体面的社会安全网的国家，情况正好相反。"
    ],
    [
        "But this does not diminish the gravity of what is happening in Syria, or lessen the seriousness of Morell’s warning.",
        "但这样做缓和不了叙利亚的紧张局势，也无助于解决莫雷尔的严重警告。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s seniority is an unwritten principle, sustained in a delicate equilibrium, and high-volume lending is testing the limit.",
        "IMF的优先地位并没有写成白纸黑字，只能在微妙的均衡中得以维持，大额贷款在考验它的极限。"
    ],
    [
        "SYDNEY – On a recent 14.5-hour flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, I had time to read the columnist Charles Krauthammer’s collection of essays, Things that Matter.",
        "悉尼——最近在从洛杉矶到悉尼的一次14个半小时的飞行中，我抽时间拜读了专栏作家查尔斯·克劳萨默的散文集《最重要的事》。"
    ],
    [
        "Private companies that trade in personal data have incited the launch of a “reclaim privacy” movement.",
        "交易个人资料的私人公司激起了“隐私恢复”运动。"
    ],
    [
        "For several thousand years, the free market was comprised of individuals: craftsmen, traders, and consumers.",
        "几千年来，自由市场就是由若干独立个体组成：手工业者，商人，消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "But in Tasmania, groups of hunter-gatherers began to lose – or failed to develop – a wide range of useful technologies: bone tools, fitted cold-weather clothing, boomerangs, spear-throwers, and durable boats.",
        "但在塔斯马尼亚，那里的狩猎和采集群体开始失去——或未能发明——一系列有用的技术：包括骨质工具、御寒衣物、飞镖、投矛器以及耐用船只。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is certain that he has recognized the ethical dimension of the current economic crisis: “It amounts to one of values: do we assign a value only to wealth or the work which creates it?”",
        "但是，他肯定已经认识到当前经济危机中的道德问题：“它实际上是我们的一个价值：我们只对财富赋予价值还是对创造财富的工作赋予价值？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "In early 2018, we will open an online registry, and by the end of next year, we aim to have 100 public and private organizations on board.",
        "在2018年初，我们将开设一个网上注册平台，目标是到明年年底得到100家公共和私人机构的签署。"
    ],
    [
        "As social bonds fray, they feel increasingly vulnerable.",
        "随着社会契约的腐蚀，她们感到越来越无助。"
    ],
    [
        "America has made too many policy mistakes, US forces are too closely associated with an unpopular and incompetent occupation, and, until recently, their tactics have been too thuggish to permit talk of a permanent presence.",
        "美国已经犯下了太多的政策错误，美国军队与饱受责难、混乱不堪的占领过多地联系在一起。 而且直到最近，他们的战术还是过于杀人，难以谈论永久性驻军。"
    ],
    [
        "The relatively tight labor market is causing wages to rise at an accelerating rate, because employers must pay more to attract and retain employees.",
        "相对较紧的劳动力市场正在让工资加速增长，因为雇主必须提高待遇吸引和留住雇员。"
    ],
    [
        "If government officials in London had demanded absolute certainty, the epidemic might have continued for another 30 years until the cholera bacterium was identified.",
        "如果伦敦的政府官员执意要绝对的确定性，那么这场疾病可能会继续肆虐30年，直到霍乱病菌被发现识别为止。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this interconnectedness also offers important opportunities; but an implicit bias toward the familiar is impeding the ability of workers, firms, and even governments to take full advantage of them.",
        "当然，这样的联系也能带来重要的机遇； 但人们内心所隐藏的对于熟悉的偏爱会妨碍工人、企业甚至政府利用这样的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Television in the Arab world has for years been the mouthpiece used by ruling presidents, kings, and emirs to propagate their official opinions and nothing else.",
        "多少年来，阿拉伯电视台都仅仅是现任总统、国王和埃米尔宣传政策观点的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, EU membership entails having to accept incisive measures that deeply affect a state’s internal affairs.",
        "简而言之，欧盟成员国资格要求成员国必须接受某些会给其国内事务管理带来巨大影响的尖锐措施。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Capital flows to emerging-market economies have been on a boom-bust merry-go-round for decades.",
        "纽约——几十年来，流入新兴市场经济体的资本潮起潮落，循环往复。"
    ],
    [
        "For all the dire warnings that the window for a two-state solution is rapidly closing (or has already closed), it is the solution itself that is the problem.",
        "两国方案的窗口正在迅速关闭（获悉已经关闭），之所以有这样的警告，是因为这一方案本是就是问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This can be explained partly by the fact that, when it comes to credit provision, capital markets do far less of the heavy lifting in the eurozone (where banks matter more) than in the United States.",
        "这部分可归因于一个事实：对信用供给问题，欧元区（银行更加重要）资本市场的承重能力远远比不上美国。"
    ],
    [
        "When even allies are treated with disrespect – recall George W. Bush’s infamous shout of “Yo, Blair,” as if then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair were some cowhand – people naturally wonder whether their country, too, is deemed subservient.",
        "当盟友都得不到基本的尊重——记得乔治·W·布什臭名昭著地称呼“哟，布莱尔”，仿佛时任国首相托尼·布莱尔是个什么牧童——人们自然会怀疑自己的国家是否也被美国当作仆从。"
    ],
    [
        "Many leading health researchers, including Kelly Brownell, David Ludwig, and Walter Willett, have documented these problems.",
        "许多尖端健康研究者，包括布朗尼尔（Kelly Brownell）、路德维格（David Ludwig）、维莱特（Walter Willett），都提出了这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Amazingly, the richest 1% of American households now has a higher net worth than the bottom 90%.",
        "令人吃惊地是，最富有的那1%美国家庭所拥有的资本比位于底层的90%家庭还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "Votes will be cast in 828,804 polling stations scattered throughout the country for over 5000 candidates from seven national political parties and several state and other parties.",
        "印度选民要在分布在全国的828804个投票站中，为来自七个全国性政党和几个地方性政党的超过5000名候选人投票；"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, it does not appeal only to developing Asian countries.",
        "事实上，亚投行不仅吸引了发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But how can savings patterns be so different – often opposite – in globalized economies that are well integrated into world capital markets?",
        "但在这些完全融入世界资本市场的全球化经济体之间为何会出现如此显著——往往相反的——储蓄模式差异呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Financial analysts almost universally ridiculed these policies and castigated Chinese leaders for abandoning their earlier pretenses of market-oriented reforms.",
        "金融分析师几乎一边倒地揶揄这些政策，抨击中国领导人放弃了早前装模作样的市场改革。"
    ],
    [
        "They were weaned on Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s pan-Arab nationalism, and the crucial political event for them was the Arab defeat in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.",
        "他们是在加麦尔·阿卜杜勒·纳赛的泛阿拉伯民族主义教育下长大的。 对他们来说，最重要的政治事件是1967年阿以战争中阿拉伯的失利。"
    ],
    [
        "That was never a good way to persuade a teenage boy to keep his room tidy.",
        "这绝不是说服十几岁的男孩将房间收拾得井井有条的好办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, if Xi remains confident enough in his control of the PLA and truly follows China’s official policy of “peaceful development,” he will be able to take the kind of prudent approach that Deng advocated.",
        "类似地，如果习近平对其控制解放军和名符其实地追求中国官方的“和平发展”政策有足够信心，他可以采取邓小平所提出的审慎方针。"
    ],
    [
        "People still remembered how the US stock market had fallen 90% during the early years of the Great Depression.",
        "人们仍然记得美国股市如何在大萧条的开头几年跌去90%。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, Florian Philippot, one of Le Pen’s deputies, is openly gay, and Le Pen has been careful not to take a strong position on social issues.",
        "首先，勒庞的副手之一菲利波是位公开的同性恋，而且勒庞一直对在社会问题上表达强硬立场持谨慎态度。"
    ],
    [
        "But Putin is making a big mistake here, because all these aims are unacceptable for the West, and the Kremlin still doesn’t seem to understand that the best and most effective guarantee of NATO’s existence was, is, and will continue to be an aggressive Russian foreign policy.",
        "但是，普京在此犯了一个大错误，因为所有这些目标对西方来说都是无法接受的，而且克里姆林宫似乎仍不明白，北约存在最好并且最有效的保证，在过去，在现在和在将来，都是具有攻击性的俄罗斯外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet when the Wall tumbled down, experts and world leaders alike were unanimous.",
        "但当柏林墙倒塌的时候，专家和世界领袖们却异口同声。"
    ],
    [
        "In the complex global economy of the twenty-first century, sustained good economic performance requires a panoply of well-functioning institutions that do not fall within a single leader’s purview.",
        "在21世纪的复杂全球经济下，长期持续的良好经济成效取决于一整套运作良好的机制，不可被一个单一领导人所左右。"
    ],
    [
        "The regime in Pyongyang is seeking to ensure that power passes to a third generation of Kims, represented by the pudgy and well-fed “Dear Young General,” Kim Jong-un, and appears to believe that provocations such as its bombardment of a South Korean island earlier this year are the way to secure the succession.",
        "当前，平壤政府正竭力确保政权能顺利移交给金氏家族的第三代——以那位脑满肠肥，被称为“敬爱的年轻将军”的金正银为核心的一代。 朝鲜方面似乎认为挑衅示威就是确保权力顺利交接的最有效办法，就像今年早些时候他们对韩国某小岛的狂轰滥炸那样。"
    ],
    [
        "But the proof has been almost entirely negative: Today, America’s importance has become apparent from the absence of US leadership in one crisis after another – an absence that is most immediately obvious in Syria.",
        "但当前的事态发展却几乎全部是反面证明：今天，一次又一次危机中美国领导作用的缺失彰显出美国的重要性——最显而易见的例子是叙利亚危机。"
    ],
    [
        "I am personally sympathetic to Scotland’s independence as a way to bolster Scottish democracy and cultural identity.",
        "我个人对苏格兰以独立作为刺激苏格兰民主和文化身份的方式持同情态度。"
    ],
    [
        "On most evenings, at six o’clock, men gathered to listen at the homes of the few, like my father, who had radios.",
        "每到晚上6点的时候，男人们就聚在那几个有电台的人家——比如我家——来收听节目。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi’s desire to become China’s next great reformer may well be why his government has been investing so much energy in lauding Deng’s achievements.",
        "习近平渴望成为中国的下一位伟大改革家，这或许正是其政府花如此大的力气宣扬邓小平的成就的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The war on terror is real enough, and not just a pretext, but so are the civilian casualties that have been occurring for years.",
        "反恐战争当然是实实在在的，而不只是一个幌子，但平民伤亡多年来来持续不断也是事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s Asian Vision",
        "奥巴马的亚洲观"
    ],
    [
        "The timing of the meeting, which coincided with a heated debate in France about the innovative ride-sharing service Uber, could not have been more apt.",
        "此次会议的召开正值法国国内就打车共享软件Uber展开热烈的讨论，真可谓天衣无缝地契合主题。"
    ],
    [
        "In East Asia, the world’s most dynamic and dominant region in terms of future global economic development, confrontation is escalating between the key powers – China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan – over border issues, territorial claims, prestige, and unfinished historical business.",
        "在东亚，世界最有活力、也是未来全球经济发展的主导地区，主要势力——中国、日本、韩国和中国台湾——关于边界问题、领土主张、声望和未解决历史遗留问题的冲突已呈爆发之势。"
    ],
    [
        "We have no interest in merely executing US policy, or in basing Georgia’s foreign and domestic policy solely on distancing the country from Russia, as Saakashvili has done.",
        "我们对单纯执行美国的政策不感兴趣，也不愿像萨卡什维利那样，把疏远俄国作为格鲁吉亚的外交和内政的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "In Britain, for example, the greatest waste is in salads, vegetables, and fruits – luxuries when compared with the cheap calories contained in the grains and tubers consumed throughout the developing world.",
        "比方说在英国，沙拉、蔬菜、水果等构成最大的浪费——相比整个发展中世界所消费的谷物及薯类所含的廉价热量堪称奢华。"
    ],
    [
        "For Greece, higher spending would have to be financed by lending from one or more official institutions.",
        "对希腊来说，增加支出只能通过从一家或多家机构更多地借入贷款实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, Obama is under political pressure.",
        "奥巴马政府在财政问题上一直端正无瑕，不过这并非出于财政需要，而是出于政治考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "While some are critical of the disparity between what these “altruistic” companies spend on advertising and the amount of money that they actually raise, such “cause marketing” could prove to be an effective mechanism for generating additional development finance.",
        "尽管有人批评这些“利他”公司的广告支出和实际筹资额之间存在差距，但此类“公益营销”可以是有效的创造更多发展资金的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Huge demonstrations took place in Hong Kong to protest the massacre, and massive commemorations of the event are held every June, keeping alive a memory that is repressed and fading in the rest of China.",
        "香港爆发了大规模示威活动反对大屠杀，每年6月香港都要举行大规模纪念仪式，保持在中国其余部分受到压制、正在逝去的鲜活记忆。"
    ],
    [
        "If a Sunni-controlled government replaces the current leadership, its decision to protect minorities’ rights would be particularly encouraging.",
        "如果由逊尼派控制的政府取代目前的政府，其保护少数族裔权利的决策必将特别鼓舞人心。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem for Trump is that the citizens he was wooing have never added up to a near-majority of voters.",
        "特朗普的问题在于他所吸引的公民从未接近选民的多数。"
    ],
    [
        "In a similar vein, last fall’s explosion of violence in the suburbs reflected the frustrations of disoriented young people facing the grim prospects that a modern economy offers to those who lack proper training and education.",
        "类似地，去年秋天郊区暴力事件的爆发则反映了面对现代经济给那些缺乏适当培训以及教育的人所带来的严峻前景，无所适从的年轻人的沮丧和失意。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the OECD has warned that countries must move “urgently” and “collectively” to boost global growth prospects.",
        "类似地，经合组织警告说，各国必须“迅速”且“集体”地行动起来以提振全球增长前景。"
    ],
    [
        "But because the tribe brooks no dissent, tribal parties tend to degenerate quickly into competing factions.",
        "但由于部落容不下异见，部落中的各方很快便退化为互相竞争的派系。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these phenomena form a part of the dark side of the globalized world: contamination, contagion, instability, interconnection, turbulence, shared fragility, universal effects, and overexposure.",
        "所有现象组成了全球化世界阴暗的一面：污染、传染病、动荡、互联、混乱、共同弱点和普遍影响，以及过于频繁的接触。"
    ],
    [
        "Why would a company give away its hard-earned designs and technology to its rivals?",
        "为何一家公司要向竞争对手拱手让出艰苦得来的设计和技术？"
    ],
    [
        "When his quest for power and participation in policymaking ended in 2007, he reached the pinnacle of his public career, serving as President until 2014.",
        "2007年，当他不再追求权力和参与决策时，他也达到了公职生涯的顶峰，成为以色列总统并一直履任至2014年。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in 1980, the IMF came close to adopting a so-called SDR Substitution Account.",
        "早在1980年时候，IMF几乎采用了所谓的SDR替代帐户。"
    ],
    [
        "Central bankers in Europe have always resented the narrow monetary-policy mandate given to the ECB under the Maastricht Treaty.",
        "欧洲的中央银行家们总是对马斯特里赫特条约只授予欧洲央行狭窄的货币政策管理权耿耿于怀。"
    ],
    [
        "The “surge” also opens, perhaps for the first time, a serious possibility of pouring water on the insurgent fires in Anbar province, the heartland of the Sunni insurgency.",
        "美国的大幅增兵还有可能第一次确实扑灭安巴尔省，即逊尼派叛乱的中心地带的叛乱之火。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, when the Fed even hints at tightening monetary policy, other countries suffer. Depending on just how much the FOMC decides to tighten at a future meeting, we foresee negative effects on world GDP in the medium term, not only for emerging markets but also for industrialized economies.",
        "换言之，就算美联储只是暗示会在未来的会议中收紧政策，人们也会预期会对世界GDP产生中期负面效应，无论是新兴经济体还是发达工业国都概莫能外。"
    ],
    [
        "Through the soap opera, viewers get a sense of how the Chinese dream has begun to center around property ownership rather than education or love, and how this change has been transforming Chinese society, sometimes in startling ways.",
        "通过这部剧集，观众能感受到中国人的梦想是如何从求学和爱情向物质转化的，而这一切又是如何（有时以某种惊人的方式）在改变中国社会的。"
    ],
    [
        "Preparedness requires coordination among agencies and funders to build networks that enable quick deployment of and access to vaccines, drugs, and protocols that limit a disease’s transmission.",
        "准备工作需要各个机构和出资人之间的协调，构建能够迅速部署和推广疫苗、药品和协议的网络，从而限制疾病的传播。"
    ],
    [
        "The current patchwork of 28 separate asylum systems does not work: it is expensive, inefficient, and produces wildly inconsistent results in determining who qualifies for asylum.",
        "目前欧盟的庇护体系由28个独立的庇护制度拼接而成，它成本高昂、效率低下，在决定谁有资格获得庇护方面造成巨大的不一致结果，根本无法有效运行。 新机构将逐渐理顺流程；"
    ],
    [
        "The logical answer to that problem, one might think, is to interrogate the models closely, to see what is driving the differences, and demand calibration changes where the resultant asset reductions are deemed excessive.",
        "人们可能会认为对这个问题的逻辑应对方式是仔细考察各个模型，看看是哪些部分促成了这种差异，并对导致资产过度减少的部分进行校准。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – which the US views as a Chinese tool for challenging the existing international order – continues to attract such faraway prospective members as Canada, which applied to join in August.",
        "同样，中国主导的亚洲基础设施投资银行（美国认为该行是中国挑战现有国际秩序的工具）继续吸引加拿大等遥远的潜在成员，后者于今年8月时申请加入。"
    ],
    [
        "Inquisitors must be invested with the power to cut off funding to transgressors, perhaps even excommunicating them, by barring a scientist from practicing or publishing in the future.",
        "必须赋予调查者权力，可以切断对违规者的供资，也许甚至将其开除，即禁止该科学工作者将来从事诸如此类的工作或发表论文。"
    ],
    [
        "Multi-drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, E. coli, and salmonella are now commonplace.",
        "结核菌、大肠杆菌、和沙门氏菌的多抗药性菌株已经司空见惯。"
    ],
    [
        "Quantitative easing is a case in point.",
        "量化宽松就是其中之一。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the future real value of our homes is fundamentally uncertain.",
        "相反，从根本上讲，我们房产的未来真正价值还是未知数。"
    ],
    [
        "In my book The Growth Map, I describe my unforgettable first visit to Gurgaon, a municipality near Delhi that serves as a regional financial and industrial hub.",
        "在我的书《增长地图》（The Growth Map）中，我描述了让我永生难忘的第一次吉尔刚（Gurgaon）之行。 吉尔刚是德里附近的一座都市，是地区金融和工业枢纽。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more disturbing, on the second day of the trial, the Chinese police formally arrested Xu Zhiyong, a human-rights lawyer who was leading a campaign to force mandatory disclosure of the wealth of senior officials and their family members.",
        "更令人不安的是，审判第二天，中国警方正式逮捕了人权律师许志永，许在被捕前是强制公开高官及其家属财产运动的领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the enormous economic burden and widespread human suffering caused by TB, a comprehensive effort to tackle the disease is urgently needed.",
        "鉴于结核病造成的巨大的经济负担和大面积人类痛苦，急需开展全面工作应对结核病。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the world’s greatest power is the US, and the greatest emerging power is China.",
        "”当今世界的霸主当属美国，而中国则是最大的新兴势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Looming over everything is the impending demographic crisis of Western Europe's social-insurance state as its population ages.",
        "而笼罩一切的阴云则是随着人口老龄化而日渐逼近的西欧社会保险的人口统计危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Around the turn of the century, the first sequencing of the human genome led to “reverse vaccinology.”",
        "在世纪之交，人类基因组的首次测序带来了“逆向疫苗学”（reverse vaccinology）。"
    ],
    [
        "What would convince Chinese leaders that they must rapidly reinforce the open global economy that enabled China’s export-driven economic rise?",
        "怎样让中国领导人确信他们必须快速推动全球经济开放、成就中国的出口推动型经济崛起？"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the formation of a China-Japan-South Korea FTA would most likely trigger a chain-reaction.",
        "此外，中日韩自贸协议将很可能引发一个连锁反应。"
    ],
    [
        "If Britain leaves the EU, America’s closest ally would be marginalized….and the whole European project at risk of unraveling at precisely the time new economic and security threats confront the West.”",
        "如果英国脱离欧盟，美国的最紧密盟友将被边缘化……并且整个欧洲工程也可能分崩离析，而与此同时，西方正在面临新的经济和安全威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of playing the “Great Power Game” in Africa, the EU can support Africans’ own efforts and allow them to benefit from the Union’s experience.",
        "欧盟可以支持非洲人自己的努力，让他们从欧盟的经验中获益，而不是在非洲玩“大国游戏”。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet it would be too simple to ascribe the current dispute entirely to the open wounds of the last world war.",
        "然而如果把当前的纠纷完全归咎于上一次世界大战遗留的创伤，那就未免太过简单了。"
    ],
    [
        "A moment of seeming political disunity, such as exists today, may not seem the right one to initiate such a project.",
        "当前存在着表面上的政治不团结，因此现在可能并不是开始这一工程的正确时机。"
    ],
    [
        "As Mohamed A. El-Erian has noted, many investors regard central banks as “the only game in town,” and they are willing to overlook a lot of political noise as long as monetary-policy independence is upheld.",
        "El-Erian）指出的那样，许多投资者认为中央银行是“唯一的选择”，只要货币政策独立能得到维护，其他政治噪音就是小意思而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian tanks are less than 25 miles away, and the wheat fields along the main road to Gori were ablaze, set on fire by Russian troops, as I drove through Russian checkpoints to get to that deserted, occupied city.",
        "俄国坦克就在距离戈里不到25英里的地方。 在我驾车穿过俄军检查站前往被俄军占领、已经是空城的戈里的时候看到交通要道两旁的麦田被俄国士兵放火焚烧。"
    ],
    [
        "In an extreme form, luxury hotels are now organizing service in local community projects as a way of engaging the passions of their wealthy patrons.",
        "昂贵的酒店正在以一种极端的形式在本地的社区工程中组织服务，以此来引发富有赞助人的热情。"
    ],
    [
        "Dry China",
        "干涸的中国"
    ],
    [
        "Today, by contrast, Africa is in the process of returning as a subject of history.",
        "与此形成对比的是，如今非洲正在走向重回历史主体（subject of history）之路。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, we used to quote Ortega y Gasset: “If Spain is the problem, Europe is the solution.”",
        "实际上，我们曾经引用奥尔特加·伊·加塞特的名言：“如果西班牙有了问题，欧洲可以解决。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The lack of order in the international order is greatly complicating the task of bringing these conflicts to an end.",
        "国际秩序中的秩序缺位大大加深了结束冲突这一任务的复杂性。"
    ],
    [
        "The credibility of both the WTO and the newly adopted SDGs will be on the line in Nairobi.",
        "世贸组织和新实施的SDG的信誉悬于内罗毕会议。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe or China are unlikely to overtake the Americans in the next two decades.",
        "欧洲和中国难以在今后二十年内赶超美国。"
    ],
    [
        "The development approach that dominates global thinking today emphasizes economic growth and state-building over social progress.",
        "今天主导全球思维的发展理念强调经济增长及政府建设高于社会进步。"
    ],
    [
        "It also tends to be the least corrupt of institutions in regions where that is a problem.",
        "即便在腐败问题最严重的地方，它也通常是腐败程度最轻的一个机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Cow Belt, where cow vigilantism is most rampant, is also a hub of atrocities against Dalits, 63% of which occur in just four states: Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan.",
        "事实上，牛纠察行动维持最猖獗的神牛带状区域，也是对达利特的暴行最为集中的区域，其中63％的暴行都发生在四个州：北方邦，比哈尔邦，中央邦，拉贾斯坦邦。"
    ],
    [
        "Such hyperbole must be firmly rejected, for it offends the memory of those who suffered as a result of Vichy France’s collaboration with Nazi Germany.",
        "如此夸张的比较必须严词拒绝，因为这违背了因为维希政府向纳粹德国投降而饱受摧残的犹太人的记忆。"
    ],
    [
        "The scale of the challenge is immense, with the flow of refugees extremely difficult to monitor and channel, let alone limit.",
        "挑战的规模是巨大的，难民流极难监控和引导，更不用说限制了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dutch case is the most surprising, because, unlike Belgium, the Netherlands has no significant tradition of right-wing populism.",
        "荷兰的情况最为令人惊讶，这是由于荷兰不同于比利时，没有突出的右翼民粹主义传统。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s economic transformation began with the introduction in the 1980s of market incentives in the agricultural sector.",
        "中国的经济转型起始于20世纪80年代在农业部门中引入市场激励。"
    ],
    [
        "This will help China to attract more investors seeking to diversify their portfolios.",
        "这将有助于中国吸引更多的寻求投资组合多样化的投资者。"
    ],
    [
        "The typical American employer is no longer General Motors.",
        "通用汽车公司已不再代表典型的美国雇主。"
    ],
    [
        "A beneficial Islamic doctrine is the Koranic injunction that \"there shall be no compulsion in matters of religion.\"",
        "有益的伊斯兰教义包括可兰经禁令\"在宗教事务上不得实行强迫\"。"
    ],
    [
        "Member countries’ central banks would hold their residual euro balances in accounts with a European Clearing Bank.",
        "成员国央行通过欧洲清算银行账户持有欧元差额。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, banks failed to understand the first principle of risk management: diversification only works when risks are not correlated, and macro-shocks (such as those that affect housing prices or borrowers’ ability to repay) affect the probability of default for all mortgages.",
        "更糟糕的是，银行没有理解风险管理的第一原则，也就是分散风险只有在这些风险相互没有关联时才有效，而大规模的冲击（比如影响房价或借贷者还款能力的那些冲击）可能会使所有的抵押贷款都出现不履行债务的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "A majority of French who voted for him, did it, according to reliable exit poll studies, above all because of his personality.",
        "根据投票后可靠的民意调查，大多数把票投给他的法国人之所以这样投票首先是因为他的个性。"
    ],
    [
        "In many Asian countries, formal education is often overly academic or simply low-quality, undermining not only graduates’ employability, but also their capacity to reap the benefits of further TVET.",
        "在许多亚洲国家，正规教育往往过于学术或低质，这不仅损害了毕业生的就业能力，还有他们从进一步职业教育与培训中受益的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the countries hurt by that crisis, Malaysia chose not to ask for the Fund’s help and emerged at least as well as others that did seek IMF assistance.",
        "在受危机冲击的国家中，马来西亚没有向IMF求助，最后的结果并不比求助IMF的国家差。"
    ],
    [
        "A renewed renminbi appreciation would boost China’s outward FDI growth even further by lowering the cost of overseas assets for Chinese firms, which operate in a fairly competitive market and have strong cash reserves from both retained earnings and large-scale state credit allocations.",
        "人民币再度升值会降低中国公司收购国外资产的成本，进一步推高中国企业对外直接投资的增速。 这些中国企业的经营环境竞争相对密集，其现金储备也因留存收益和国家授予的大规模信用额度而相对充足。"
    ],
    [
        "Restructuring Debt Restructuring",
        "重组债务重组"
    ],
    [
        "The Stability and Growth Pact is not – or is not yet – working anywhere near the way it was intended to work.",
        "《稳定和增长协定》不能—至少现在还不能—起到人们预期中应有的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The past three months, however, have seen a significant slowdown in China’s exports, domestic investment, industrial output, and tax revenues.",
        "然而，过去的三个月里，中国的出口、国内投资、工业产值和税收都有相当的放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Suharto’s action marked the beginning of the end of the Sukarno era, and the birth of his “New Order”: the pro-Western, business-friendly regime that would govern Indonesia for the next three decades.",
        "苏哈托的行动标志着苏加诺时代终局的开始，以及他的“新秩序”的到来：一个亲西方、亲商界的政权将统治印尼三十年。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the security of the familiar world is challenged, and its inner sanctums have been invaded and shaken, a space may be cleared for occupation.",
        "一旦熟悉的世界的安全受到挑战，其私密性被入侵和震撼，就能为占领开辟一片空间。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s crisis, muddling through would be a recipe for a continuation of the crisis and secular stagnation of the type once described by Alvin Hansen, a contemporary of Keynes.",
        "面对当下的经济危机，采取“混”下去的方式将使危机继续，经济长期停滞不前。 这正是凯恩斯同时代的经济学家埃尔文·汉森所描述的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "But the course of history may change rapidly.",
        "但历史的进程可能突然改变。"
    ],
    [
        "This summer, with wildfires raging outside Moscow, the elite’s isolation took on a menacing nature.",
        "今年夏天随着莫斯科城外的山林大火，政治精英们的高高在上越来越显示出其危险性。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the separation of the IMF’s SDR account from its general account made it impossible to use SDRs to finance IMF lending.",
        "首先，IMF的SDR与其总账是隔离的，这意味着SDR不能用于为IMF贷款提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Devolution is coming, and its appeal is undeniable.",
        "分权即将到来，其吸引力是不可否认的。"
    ],
    [
        "Led by Nora Lustig, a professor of economics who specializes in Latin America, a team at Tulane University’s Commitment to Equity Institute created comprehensive databases on both the state of income distribution and the effects of government policies on that distribution.",
        "在专长研究拉美的经济学教授诺拉·卢斯蒂格（Nora Lustig）的领导下，杜兰大学平等性承诺研究所（Commitment to Equity Institute）的团队构建了涵盖收入分配状况和政府政策对收入分配影响情况的完整的数据库。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentina’s per capita income has risen, albeit slowly, during this period, but the country was never far from a full-blown macroeconomic crisis that could reduce household incomes sharply.",
        "在此期间，阿根廷人均收入有所上升（尽管十分缓慢），但该国从未远离可能大幅降低家庭收入的全面宏观经济危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, some proposals entail no additional funds.",
        "此外，一些项目还包含额外的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it has plenty of both.",
        "相反，问题和挑战多得是。"
    ],
    [
        "More important is how much stronger, more capable, and more resilient we help our colleagues, partners, children, and fellow citizens become.",
        "更重要的是我们帮助同侪、伙伴、儿童和同胞变得多强壮、多有能力、多有韧性。"
    ],
    [
        "When Prevention is Better than Relief",
        "当防灾胜于救灾"
    ],
    [
        "One particularly promising area is regenerative medicine, which has many potential applications – including for preventing or reversing hearing loss.",
        "能够有众多潜在应用领域的再生医学是其中一个特别有前途的领域——其中包括预防或逆转听力的丧失。"
    ],
    [
        "In the strategy of the ECB this is the role of crosschecking.",
        "在欧洲央行的战略中反复核对就扮演了这样的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is what will have become of American democracy by then.",
        "问题是到那时美国的民主会变成什么样。"
    ],
    [
        "But growth in the advanced economies will almost certainly remain weak in 2010.",
        "然而， 2010 年，发达经济体的增长一定还是很弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The lack of progress on this front during the last two Commissions was rooted mainly in Germany’s Russian modernization project, which has shaped its approach to energy security.",
        "这方面在过去两届委员会中迟迟得不到进展，这主要是拜德国的俄罗斯现代化工程所赐——这决定了它的能源安全方针。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, Saudi Arabia and Iran established diplomatic relations.",
        "尽管如此，沙特阿拉伯和伊朗仍建立了外交关系。"
    ],
    [
        "While Asian countries are largely willing to maintain and even expand their economic ties with China, none (except North Korea, which depends on Chinese aid) is prepared to accept it as the region’s primary power.",
        "虽然亚洲国家大都愿意保持甚至扩大与中国的经济关系，但除了依赖中国援助的朝鲜之外，都不准备接其作为该地区的主要势力。"
    ],
    [
        "The American people strongly – and rightly – supported Kennedy over the warmongers.",
        "美国人民强烈——也正确地——支持肯尼迪对战争贩子的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "These mysterious instruments vary widely in size and complexity, but they all share a few wondrous capabilities.",
        "这些神秘的设备大小及精密程度各异，但他们共有一些神奇的功能。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Japan, once the initial economic panic subsides, bipartisan agreement will be necessary to design and approve a budget aimed at bringing about the quickest possible recovery.",
        "具体到日本，最初的经济恐慌一旦退去，两党必须齐心协力，设计并批准实现最快重建的财政预算案。"
    ],
    [
        "Having recently consolidated his power at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi will probably assume a more proactive role in international conflict resolution, especially in areas that affect China directly.",
        "习近平最近在中共十九大中巩固了自己的权力，有望在解决国际冲突，特别是直接影响中国的国际冲突中扮演更加积极主动的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Most observers now agree that Germany needs something like the American earned-income tax credit.",
        "大多数观察家现在都认为，德国需要类似美国那样的所得税抵扣。"
    ],
    [
        "For the creditor countries’ leaders, a write-down would mean breaking the promise that their taxpayers would not foot the bill – a pledge that also formed the legal basis for supporting Greece.",
        "对于债权国领导人，撇减债务将意味着打破本国纳税人不会埋单的承诺，同时也形成了支持希腊的法律依据。"
    ],
    [
        "If the data are cherry-picked to support the modeler’s desired conclusions, or if the algorithm is flawed, the results will be inaccurate.",
        "如果数据经过挑选以支持建模者想要的推论，或者如果算法有缺陷呢，那么结果就不准确。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, what especially grates on the agreements’ critics is the secrecy of the negotiations.",
        "最后，尤其让这些协定招致批评的是谈判的隐秘性。"
    ],
    [
        "It may have a population of less than one million, but it has a proud, heroic history and a rich culture built up over centuries of diverse ethnic and colonial influences.",
        "虽然它的人口不到一百万，但却拥有着令人自豪的、英勇的历史和数个世纪以来在多种族和殖民主义影响下的丰富文化积淀。"
    ],
    [
        "National sovereignty is deemed too important to be subordinated to international tax laws.",
        "国家主权太重要，不容屈服于国际税法。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the law serve all, or only the elites?",
        "法律是为大众服务，还是沦为当权者欺压民众的工具？"
    ],
    [
        "Besides the general devastation that modern warfare brings, impoverished and angry Russian soldiers were wreaking havoc on civilians by stealing belongings left behind and raping women.",
        "除了现代战争所带来的创伤，贫穷和愤怒的俄罗斯士兵对平民进行了大肆蹂躏，他们偷窃平民留下的财物，他们强奸妇女。"
    ],
    [
        "With the property market booming, prospective capital gains promised untold wealth.",
        "随着房地产市场的蓬勃发展，预期的资本收益预示着数不清的财富。"
    ],
    [
        "Although individual taxes on corporate income reduce the after-tax return to savings, they have less distorting effects on investment location than corporate taxes do, and they are more likely to fall on owners of capital than on workers.",
        "尽管公司收入的个人税收降低了储蓄的税后回报，但与公司税相比，它们具有更小的对投资目的地选择的扭曲效应，也更容易落在资本所有者而不是工人头上。"
    ],
    [
        "Advice ranges from sex in old age to tourism.",
        "其中的建议可谓五花八门，从老年性生活到老年旅游无所不包。"
    ],
    [
        "In a study published in January, the economists Claude Erb and Campbell Harvey consider several possible models of gold’s fundamental price, and find that gold is at best only loosely tethered to any of them.",
        "一月份发表的一份研究中，经济学家克劳德·厄尔布（Claude Erb）和坎贝尔·哈维（Campbell Harvey）考虑了黄金基本价格的几种可能模型，并发现黄金是充其量只是松散地绑在其中任何一个之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, the tables have turned, with American leaders on the receiving end of such calls.",
        "如今反过来是美国领导人接到了这样的电话。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentina’s Griesafault",
        "阿根廷的葛里萨违约"
    ],
    [
        "Once we do that, we must devote ourselves to identifying, untangling, and exposing the networks of Islamic hate and terror with the same energy and ingenuity that are now being applied to unraveling the global schemes of tax evaders.",
        "一旦这样做了，我们必须致力于辨别、厘清和曝光伊斯兰仇恨和恐怖网络，倾注与曝光的全球逃税机制一样的能量和才智。"
    ],
    [
        "That reflects the small probability that the market is assigning to the occurrence of a full-blown financial crisis with bankruptcies and bank failures.",
        "这表明市场爆发破产和银行倒闭这样的全面金融危机的可能性很小。"
    ],
    [
        "A Raisin in the Israeli Sun",
        "以色列阳光下的葡萄干"
    ],
    [
        "A Presidential Truthfulness Oath",
        "总统竞选的诚实性宣誓"
    ],
    [
        "Around the world, indigenous people are being threatened, murdered, and driven from their homelands.",
        "世界各地的土著居民被迫背井离乡，并且遭到威胁和杀戮。"
    ],
    [
        "But not all of the eurozone’s current members may be there a year from now.",
        "但一年后很可能会有一些国家退出欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with technological development and the multiplication of economic and cultural synapses, it is not a chimera.",
        "但随着技术进步和经济及文化接触的快速增加，这个目标并不是不可实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "The region continues to breed only losers.",
        "中东地区所有的仍旧是一串输家。"
    ],
    [
        "This would require more funding in the long run for the European Fund for Strategic Investments, to which the German government should contribute directly.",
        "这需要增加欧洲战略投资基金（European Fund for Strategic Investments）的长期资金，而德国政府应该为此做出直接贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan crossed that line in the 1990’s, as its corporate zombies prevented the painful but necessary adjustments in its post-bubble economy. That could happen in the US if Washington continues to favor policies that condone the reckless excesses of the recent past and inhibit the deleveraging and balance-sheet repair that America’s zombie consumers now need for post-crisis healing.",
        "美国政府将社会保险网扩大至房屋赎回权不扩大化项目，其他形式的的债务免除，以及特殊的货币，财政刺激，这些政策已经大大的超出了失业保险救济的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the scientific community must use its capacity for self-correction – based on new information, discoveries, experiences, and ideas (the stuff of scientific progress for centuries) – to address these threats.",
        "如今科学界必须用其自我修正能力——基于新信息、发现、实验和思想（几个世纪以来的科学进步积累）——解决这些威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, though, the consequences for Florida and Mexico could be graver than before.",
        "但这一次，佛罗里达和墨西哥将受到比以往更大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Public research should be funded in a way that gives taxpayers a stake in profitable outcomes.",
        "公共研究拨款应该让纳税人能够从可盈利的结果中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "This would allow her to write down the value of her mortgage by the average house-price depreciation in her postal zone since the borrowing date, in exchange for giving the lender a share of the future house-price appreciation.",
        "这样，他们就能够减记按揭债务，减记幅度为所在邮区平均住房价格降幅（从按揭生效日起算），作为交换，他们必须向贷款人让渡一部分未来房价升值收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, there are solutions that can help to tackle some of these problems very cost-effectively.",
        "其次，针对上述问题存在经济实用的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "An IMF We Can Love?",
        "我们钟爱的国际货币基金组织？"
    ],
    [
        "And vendetta is by definition not so much immoral, or even unjust, as it is lawless.",
        "而世仇顾名思义是不道德的，甚至也是不公正的，因为它是非法的。"
    ],
    [
        "Back to Utopia?",
        "回归乌托邦?"
    ],
    [
        "But only one and a half arrows have been launched so far.",
        "但到目前为止只射出了一支半。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Next week, governments will gather in Warsaw, Poland, for a crucial round of climate negotiations, with both expectation and ambition running at an all-time low.",
        "伦敦—下周，各国政府将汇聚在波兰华沙展开气候变化谈判的关键轮次，而期望和雄心都处于历史最低点。"
    ],
    [
        "I don’t pretend to possess journalism’s Holy Grail: a sustainable business plan for the newspaper of the future.",
        "而我也不愿意假装自己拥有新闻业的“圣杯”：比如一个关于未来新闻业的可持续商业计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Key interest rates have remained close to zero for six years now.",
        "如今，关键利率保持近零水平已有六年。"
    ],
    [
        "Support by the United States for de Mistura's initiative symbolizes a quiet – and constructive – shift by President Barack Obama's administration from its demand that Assad step down immediately.",
        "美国对德米斯图拉计划的支持象征着总统奥巴马政府的悄然的建设性变化——不再要求巴沙尔立即下台。"
    ],
    [
        "Pursuing a “Watershed Doctrine” might provide the right answer.",
        "“分水岭主义”可能可以为美国提供正确的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "But it has long been recognized that subsidies can be just as destructive as tariffs – and even less fair, since rich countries can better afford them.",
        "然而，长久以来，人们已经认识到，补贴可能和关税一样具有毁灭性，甚至还不如关税公平，因为富裕国家更有能力提供补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, many central bankers have sought to marginalize the BIS rather than engage with it.",
        "不幸的是，许多央行行长选择边缘化而不是鼓励国际清算银行。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, most men in that city would not beat a young couple with metal pipes and rape the woman to death.",
        "毕竟，这个城市的绝大部分人并没有用金属管子袭击年轻情侣，并将女方强奸致死。"
    ],
    [
        "If such a consensus cannot be reached, at least Western powers and like-minded states must agree, as in Kosovo in 1999, for example.",
        "如果无法达成全球共识，至少西方大国以及有相近思想的国家必须达成一致，比如1999年的科索沃战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Some Albanians claim that these allegations are Serbian propaganda.",
        "一些阿尔巴尼亚人宣称这种指控是塞族人的烟幕。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes pendulums continue to oscillate wildly unless there is some friction to slow them down, and sometimes they get stuck.",
        "有时侯钟摆会继续剧烈地摇摆不定，除非有某种摩擦使其能慢下来，而有时它们会被卡住。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the Fed goes that route, it needs to say clearly that it is deliberately risking an inflation overshoot.",
        "但如果美联储最终走上了这条路线，就需要向外界表明这是有意识地冒着通胀飙升的风险来运作。"
    ],
    [
        "They take care of the household and children themselves.",
        "她们自己料理家务和照看儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "Voluntary self-restraint, a voluntary sharing of our own rights and privileges with a wider collective, is paramount here.",
        "最重要的一种品质就是主动的自我约束-一种自发与更广泛的集体分享权利和待遇的品质。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, when nuclear punishment seemed too draconian to be credible, the US adopted a conventional flexible response to add an element of denial in its effort to deter a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.",
        "毕竟，在核惩罚因太过严厉而缺乏可信度的情况下，美国采取了常规的灵活策略，在遏制苏联入侵西欧的行动中加入了防卫的元素。"
    ],
    [
        "Kadyrov was able to create a strong force that could fight the guerrillas, basically on its own.",
        "卡德罗夫以自己之力成功建立了一支可以和游击队抗衡的强大部队。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, Silva will not be able to win the run-off without an enthusiastic and persuasive endorsement from Neves and the PSDB.",
        "与此同时，如果没有尼维斯和社会民主党的既热情又有说服力的支持，席尔瓦也无法胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, leaders like Boris Johnson, now Britain’s foreign secretary, declared that the £350 million ($465 million) supposedly paid weekly to the EU (a deeply flawed figure that fails to take into account the benefits received) would be redirected to the National Health Services.",
        "例如，像现任英国外交大臣鲍里斯·约翰逊（Boris Johnson）这样的脱欧带头人宣称，要将英国每周支付给欧盟的3. 5亿欧元（ 折和4."
    ],
    [
        "By using economic means to pursue its foreign-policy ends, Germany is gradually turning its back on its European partners.",
        "用其经济手段来实现外交政策目的，德国正逐渐背向其欧洲伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "The ESS’s emphasis on soft power is also in urgent need of reassessment.",
        "ESS对软实力的强调也迫切地需要重估。"
    ],
    [
        "The question for Israel and its friends to address is what the downside risks of that outcome really are, and to calibrate their reaction accordingly.",
        "以色列及其盟友所要解决的问题是，这一结果到底有什么不利影响，并据此决定如何反应。"
    ],
    [
        "At the war’s end, they thought of a new way of using their reserves: spend them.",
        "大战结束时，他们想到了使用这笔储备的新方法：花掉它们。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even sharply reduced demand for tobacco would not mean unemployment in most countries.",
        "确实，在大多数国家，即使是烟草需求大幅度降低也并不意味着失业。"
    ],
    [
        "It would also help if the advanced developed countries fulfilled their commitments to helping the world’s poorest by increasing their foreign-aid budgets to 0.7% of GDP.",
        "如果先进的发达国家履行其承诺以帮助世界上最贫穷的人，增加其对外援助预算到占国内生产总值的0. 7 ％，这也将起一定作用。"
    ],
    [
        "We have gained personal knowledge of the unspeakable misery that has innocently befallen 100,000 inhabitants of Austria.”",
        "我们感受到了无辜降临在100,000奥地利居民头上的莫可名状的痛苦。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The conflict in Northern Ireland was always territorial: not even the most radical Irish Republican group ever denied the legitimacy of Great Britain – only its rule over the six northern provinces of what they consider United Ireland. The crux of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, by contrast, only partly concerns Israel’s borders.",
        "北爱尔兰的冲突从来都是地域性的：即便是最极端的爱尔兰共和组织也没有否定过大不列颠政府的合法性——而只是否定该政府对爱尔兰北方6省（所谓“联合爱尔兰”）的统治。"
    ],
    [
        "The fog of war cannot be allowed to create a fog of responsibility.",
        "绝不容战争迷雾制造责任迷雾。"
    ],
    [
        "Becker, declared Friedman, was “the greatest social scientist who has lived and worked in the last half-century.”",
        "弗里德曼说，贝克尔是“过去五十年在世和活跃的最伟大的社会科学家。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "How concerned should the world be?",
        "我们应该对此予以多大程度关注呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This is a point made by international inspectors operating under United Nations auspices, as well as by senior US officials, including Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.",
        "这是国际调查员在联合国的主持所做出的结论，并获得包括美国国防部长吉姆·马蒂斯（Jim Mattis）在内的美国高官的承认。"
    ],
    [
        "But it does not follow that the inverse is also true.",
        "但反之未必就是民主。"
    ],
    [
        "As technology continues to improve and environmental restrictions tighten, it seems inevitable that much of the world’s proven oil reserves will be left where they are, like most of the world’s coal.",
        "随着技术的继续进步和环境限制的收紧，大量世界探明石油储量不可避免地要留在原地，就像大部分煤炭。"
    ],
    [
        "The technology corporations that signed this letter understand that while they may be incorporated in the US, they are global players and have global responsibilities.",
        "联署致信奥巴马的科技公司明白，尽管它们是美国的公司，但它们的业务遍及全球，因此负有全球责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinians will need help if things are to turn out right in Gaza.",
        "若加沙地带的形势要走上正轨，巴勒斯坦人民还需要各方援助。"
    ],
    [
        "The country made the safe acceleration of the approval process a high priority, and tremendous progress has followed.",
        "日本将安全提高批准程序作为高级别当务之急，并取得了巨大的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "All too often, the path to easy influence is to impugn the other side’s motives and methods, rather than recognizing and challenging an opposing argument’s points.",
        "通常最简单的影响力之路时攻讦另一方的动机和方法，而不是承认和挑战相反理论的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "If we look at what Piketty does – rather than what he writes – it seems evident that he believes we can collectively make our own destiny, even if the circumstances are not what he, or we, would choose.",
        "如果我们看看皮凯蒂做了些什么——而不是看他写了些什么——似乎很明显他认为我们能够集体决定我们自身的命运，即便环境非他（或我们）所能选择。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why China – which appears to be faring well in the crisis, meeting its 8% growth target in 2009 – became an economic powerhouse only after instituting market-oriented reforms in the 1980s.",
        "这便解释了为何中国只有在上世纪八十年代进行以市场为导向的改革之后，方才成为了一大经济增长点（中国在本次危机中的表现很好，在2009年实现了8%的增长目标）。"
    ],
    [
        "Such programs must recognize and tackle the acute challenges the continent faces.",
        "这些计划必须承认和解决非洲所面临的尖锐挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Translation from RNA creates three-dimensional proteins from combinations of 22 essential amino acids – essential only because our bodies are not able to make them, so they must be obtained from our diet instead.",
        "来自RNA的“翻译”从22种必需氨基酸中制造出了三维蛋白质——之所以必需是因为我们的身体无法制造它们，而必须从我们的饮食中摄取。"
    ],
    [
        "In an era when some of the world’s most influential countries are turning inward, talking about erecting trade barriers and constructing border walls, the world needs initiatives focused on building bridges and roads, both literal and figurative – initiatives like the Belt and Road strategy.",
        "在这个某些世界上最具影响力的国家都向内转向，大谈树立贸易壁垒和边界围墙的时代，我们的世界更一些需要专注于建立桥梁和道路的举措——无论是在路桥本身还是其寓意上——而一带一路战略这样的倡议正是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, as Kevin Folta, the head of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida, explained, systems biology can be a useful approach if employed properly.",
        "诚然，佛罗里达大学园艺系主任富尔塔（Kevin Folta）解释说，如果使用得当，系统生物学可以是有用的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "No one would gain from a new Cold War.",
        "掀起新冷战对任何人都没有好处。"
    ],
    [
        "And youth now comprise a large share of those people – 18% of the world’s population, to be precise.",
        "”如今，青年构成了这些人民中的很大一部分——准确地说，他们占据了世界人口的18%。"
    ],
    [
        "He and Premier Wen Jiabao – often called a latter-day Zhou Enlai for his administrative abilities and willingness to play second fiddle – rolled out one impressive slogan after another: “Put people first,” “Run the country according to law,” “Render the media closer to the people,” and “Make government transparent.”",
        "他和总理温家宝一个接一个地推出令人印象深刻的口号，什么“以民为本”，“依法治国”，“媒体贴近群众”以及“政务透明”。 温家宝常常由于他的行政能力和甘当配角而被称为当今的周恩来。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier this month, a court dominated by CPP allies dissolved the CNRP.",
        "本月早些时候，一家由柬埔寨人民党主导的法庭解散了柬埔寨国家救助党。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, though, this report had a definite sense of déjà vu .",
        "除此之外，这一报告给人以似曾相识的感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a change would acknowledge what humans have always recognized: intense sadness after loss is a painful and perhaps inevitable aspect of the human condition, but it is not necessarily a mental disorder.",
        "这样的变化不过认可了人类一直以来就承认的事实：在遭受打击后出现剧烈的悲伤情绪虽然痛苦，但却是人类不可避免会出现的状况，而不一定是一种精神疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, much will depend on whether trade momentum can be maintained.",
        "当然，很多事情将取决于贸易势头能否得到保持。"
    ],
    [
        "As Venter’s work shows, we do not yet have a sufficient grasp of the essentials of basic biology to design and build a cell.",
        "文特尔的成果显示我们尚不具备对基础生物核心因素的充分把握，来设计和构建细胞单元。"
    ],
    [
        "Surely, elements of corporatist thinking persist today.",
        "诚然，社团主义思维的要素至今仍在。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, this bittersweet Israeli action was neither a clear result of military defeat nor a consequence of political negotiations.",
        "毕竟，以色列实施这项苦乐参半的行动并非军事失败和政治谈判的明确结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey, for example, was, until recently, at loggerheads with Russia over Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane near its border with Syria last November.",
        "比如，土耳其最近才刚刚与俄罗斯因为去年11月土军击落土叙边境的俄战机而关系紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s Democratic Dusk",
        "土耳其民主的黄昏"
    ],
    [
        "With the world’s most successful democracies obsessed with recent failures, international politics has drifted toward more dangerous potential outcomes.",
        "全球最成功的民主国家纷纷被目前的失败所困扰，国际政治正在转向更加危险的潜在结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Five years ago, Britain broke the international mold by enacting legislation mandating an 80% cut in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050.",
        "五年前，英国打破国际常规，立法要求到2050年削减80%的温室气体排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, we are brought back to the central issue in this process: technical questions, though important, are still only an expression of the underlying political conflicts and animosities.",
        "这里我们又重新回到整个过程的核心：技术问题无论多重要，仍始终不过是表达了潜在的仇恨和政治冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "American officials have likened this strategy to negotiating with terrorists, and point to a previous round of negotiations that did nothing to stop violence in the tribal areas.",
        "美国官员已经把这个策略比作和恐怖分子谈判，并且指出前一轮的谈判对停止部族地区的暴力活动没有起到任何作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But another Fed faction – led by Governors Jeremy Stein and Daniel Tarullo – argues that macro-prudential tools are untested, and that limiting leverage in one part of the financial market simply drives liquidity elsewhere.",
        "但以杰里米·斯坦因和丹尼尔·塔鲁洛理事为首的另一派联储官员认为宏观审慎工具从未经过实际检验，限制金融市场某部分的杠杆只能把流动性赶到别处。"
    ],
    [
        "Latin America will witness two important elections in 2012, in Venezuela and Mexico, and one non-election, in Cuba.",
        "2012年，拉丁美洲将有两场重要的选举——在委内瑞拉和墨西哥——和一场不进行选举的领导人换班——在古巴。"
    ],
    [
        "Others have mused that Peña Nieto’s administration sometimes seems intent on announcing reforms, regardless of their content, the time necessary to implement them, or their actual impact on Mexican society.",
        "还有人认为佩尼亚·涅托内阁有时似乎着意于宣布改革，但却忽略了改革内容、推进时间或改革对墨西哥社会的实际影响。"
    ],
    [
        "As Gauck proclaimed, Germany’s “overriding strategic objective” must be the “preservation and continued adaptation” of this order.",
        "正如高克所指出的，德国的“最高战略目标”必须是“保护和持续调整”这一秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a modern-day variant of the classic prescription to start tightening before inflation sets in too deeply, even if employment has not fully recovered.",
        "这是在通胀过度深入之前开始实施收紧的经典手段的当代变体，即便此时就业尚未完全恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also ample scope for monetary easing; unlike central banks in the West, the People’s Bank of China has plenty of ammunition in reserve.",
        "货币宽松的空间也很充足：与西方央行不同，中国人民银行的弹药库相当充盈。"
    ],
    [
        "Needless to say, Easterlin’s result seems less plausible for very poor countries, where rapidly rising incomes often allow societies to enjoy large life improvements, which presumably strongly correlate with any reasonable measure of overall well-being.",
        "不消说，伊斯特林的结果对贫穷国家来说并不成立，在这些国家，收入的快速增长通常会使社会享受到较大的生活改善，而生活的改善被认为与任何总体福利（不管用什么标准衡量）密切相关。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, according to the World Bank’s most recent calculation of the purchasing power of aggregate income, China is about to overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy.",
        "事实上，根据世界银行最新的购买力平价总收入计算，中国即将取代美国成为世界第一大经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the US government has coddled too many brutal dictators over the last half-century.",
        "可以肯定，美国政府在过去半个世纪已经纵容了太多残暴的独裁政权。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, because the US exists and is at the forefront of the information revolution, there is a degree of Americanization, but that is likely to diminish over the course of the twenty-first century as technology spreads and local cultures modernize in their own ways.",
        "当然，因为美国存在并处于信息革命的最前沿，因此存在一定程度的美国化。 但这可能只会减少21世纪的课程，因为科技的传播和地方文化的现代化有着各自不同的方法或途径。"
    ],
    [
        "In the private sector, the market mechanism provides the elements of a self-organizing system, thanks to three interconnected structures: the price system, the profit motive, and capital markets.",
        "在私人部门，拜三种互相交织的结构所赐，市场机制提供了自组织系统的要素：价格系统、利润动机和资本市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iranians feel out-numbered by diverse participants with varying agendas.",
        "伊朗人觉得对方人数太多，安排变数太大，颇有孤立之感。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, economic reform has not been abandoned.",
        "与此同时，经济改革也没有放弃。"
    ],
    [
        "This type of branding is common among dictators.",
        "此类标志性打扮在独裁者中十分常见。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Abe can get away with appointing cronies to the board of NHK, the national broadcasting company, who openly claim that the military brothels were an entirely private enterprise and that the Nanking Massacre was a foreign fabrication.",
        "安倍因此得以任用亲信操纵日本全国广播公司NHK董事会，此人公开宣扬军队妓院是彻头彻尾的私营企业，而南京大屠杀是外国的虚假宣传。"
    ],
    [
        "By the early 1990’s, official development assistance was still around 0.33% of donor GNP, and by the early 2000’s, it had declined to around 0.22% of GNP.",
        "到上世纪90年代初，官方发展援助仍然在捐赠国GNP的0. 33%处徘徊，到2000年初为止，降到了0."
    ],
    [
        "The overthrow of the first Muslim dynasty, the staunchly anti-Shia Umayyads, in the year 750, by the Abbasids, who traced their lineage to the Prophet Muhammad’s uncle, raised hopes, albeit short-lived, of a Sunni-Shia rapprochement.",
        "顽固反什叶派的第一个穆斯林王朝——倭马亚王朝（白衣大食）在公元750年被自称是先知穆罕默德叔父的后裔阿巴斯王朝（黑衣大食）推翻。"
    ],
    [
        "Infrastructure is slowly improving, but roads, ports, water access, and the electricity grid are still horrific across large parts of the country.",
        "基础设施正在缓慢改善，但道路、港口、水供应以及电网在印度的大部分地区仍然严重不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Western and Iranian support for Nouri al-Maliki’s government, which is controlled by Iran’s Basij militia, must be withdrawn, enabling the Iraqi people to determine freely their own destiny.",
        "西方和伊朗对被伊朗巴斯基（Basij）民兵控制的马利基政府的支持必须收回，让伊拉克人民自由决定自己的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "But, judging from the past, this is not how French politics works.",
        "但过去的经验告诉我们，这并不是法国政治所遵循的运行轨迹。"
    ],
    [
        "But these hopes were dashed as international lending dried up and trade collapsed, sending developing countries down the same spiral that industrial nations took.",
        "但这希望在国际贷款枯竭和贸易崩溃之后迅速化为了泡影，而发展中国家也与发达国家一道坠入了深渊。"
    ],
    [
        "At issue is the oldest debate in the social sciences.",
        "这就引出了最古老的社会学争论。"
    ],
    [
        "In my view, New Keynesian economists turned a blind eye to instabilities building up in the banking system, because their models told them that financial institutions could accurately price risk.",
        "在我看来，新凯恩斯主义经济学家们对银行系统的不稳定性视而不见，因为他们的模型告诉他们金融机构可以准确地为风险定价。"
    ],
    [
        "There was no indication of a slowdown in President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, though some private conversations suggested that the campaign has resulted in decision-making delays that are hurting productivity and growth.",
        "中国国家主席习近平的反腐运动没有减弱迹象，尽管私下里的一些对话认为反腐运动已经造成了决策延迟，对生产率和增长造成了副作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But federation has been made less, not more, likely by a crisis that tragically set one proud nation against another.",
        "但一场地让一个骄傲的国家与另一个骄傲的国家对立起来的悲剧让联邦方案的可能性变得更小而不是更大。"
    ],
    [
        "In Hungary the budget deficit is widening again, after narrowing to 4% of GDP in 2001.",
        "在匈牙利，预算赤字也在2001年达到占GDP的4%之后开始新一轮的攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "The program has caused a tsunami of online reflection.",
        "这部剧集同时也引发了网上的热烈讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "First, in many of the poorest African and Asian countries, oil imports account for a significantly higher share of national expenditure than in industrialized countries, which means that economic growth and social development are being imperiled, while new debt crises loom.",
        "首先，许多最穷的亚非国家与工业化国家相比，石油进口在国民支出上占据明显更高的比重。 这就意味着，它们的经济增长以及社会发展受到阻碍，而新的债务危机则呼之欲来。"
    ],
    [
        "Claims of prior inability to remember imply that they had attempted unsuccessfully to recall their abuse, only to remember it much later.",
        "声称先前有记忆障碍意味着他们曾经试图回忆起所受的虐待但却没有成功，所以只有在相当一段时间之后才能回忆起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Remembering the Gulag",
        "追忆古拉格"
    ],
    [
        "It seems that Latin America has abandoned the principles, commitments, and foundations of full regional integration.",
        "拉丁美洲似乎已经放弃了全面地区融合的原则、目标和基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s New Jewish Question",
        "欧洲的新犹太问题"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to distinguish such problems from those that cannot, in principle, be solved.",
        "把这些问题与那些基本无法解决的问题区分开来是很有必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is jubilant about its success in expanding the IMF’s role, because it thought that doing so would ratchet up pressure on China.",
        "美国对于国际货币基金组织角色的扩展而沾沾自喜，以为这样会给中国施压。"
    ],
    [
        "I mean developing our human capital, which is our greatest resource; encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship, which are the only truly eternal resources we have on hand; investing in science and technology, which will open up unsuspected opportunities in the future; and promoting more dynamic and flexible markets and societies that will put us ahead, and at the helm, of change, rather than always lagging behind and trying to comprehend and adapt to change.",
        "这里我指的是发展最宝贵的人力资本，鼓励发展我们掌握的真正永久性资源（即创新和企业家精神），投资将在未来带来未知机遇的科学技术，推动将会帮我们占据领先地位的更加健康灵活的市场社会，以积极主动的姿态掌控变革，而不是总被甩在后面，对各种变化只是疲于理解和应对。"
    ],
    [
        "There are also the unfulfilled national aspirations of the Kurds (large numbers of whom live in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran) and the unresolved matter of how to reconcile the reality of Israel with the Palestinians’ political goals.",
        "此外还有库尔德人尚未得偿所愿的建国野心（他们中有大量生活在土耳其、斯拉克、叙利亚和伊朗）以及如何调和以色列的现实和巴勒斯坦人的政治目标这一悬而未决的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Other signers have been interrogated and harassed.",
        "其他签署人也遭到了盘查和骚扰。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not realistic, given the lack of an adequate system for global governance.",
        "但是，鉴于缺乏全球治理的恰当体系，这并不现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, to the extent that we continue to rely on fossil fuels, we must capture the resulting CO2 emissions at power plants before they escape into the atmosphere.",
        "最后，由于我们要继续依赖化石燃料，因此我们必须捕捉发电厂产生的二氧化碳而不让它们逃逸到大气中。"
    ],
    [
        "More capital is always good.",
        "更多的资本永远是好事。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, Swedish politicians must speak out when minorities become the target of hate crimes.",
        "总而言之，在少数群体成为仇视犯罪的对象之时，瑞典政治家必须站出来说句公道话。"
    ],
    [
        "By obsessively filtering their conflict through the nightmare of the Holocaust and the Nakbah, Israelis and Palestinians have doomed the chances of a peaceful settlement of their dispute.",
        "如果过分地将以巴冲突与大屠杀和灾难日的梦魇联系在一起，以色列和巴勒斯坦人将很难有机会和平解决以巴之间的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Why is this happening, and is there anything we can do about it?",
        "这是怎么发生的呢？ 我们又能对此做些什么？"
    ],
    [
        "The answer can only be of a type that economists loathe: philosophical, political, and thus irreducible to neat positivist explanation.",
        "答案只能在经济学家所憎恨的角度寻找：哲学的、政治的、因此不能归纳为简洁的实证解释的角度。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences are not just economic.",
        "其影响不仅在于经济上。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the US is also pressing ahead with preparations for an air strike.",
        "显然，美国也在加紧进行空袭的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "With all the talk of “green shoots” of economic recovery, America’s banks are pushing back on efforts to regulate them.",
        "正当人们谈论金融危机复苏之际，美国的银行业同时在重新考虑如何加强监管。"
    ],
    [
        "But most smallholder farmers still operate without many of the basic conditions needed to grow their businesses and invest in their communities, such as finance, infrastructure, market access, secure land ownership, and rights to resources.",
        "但大部分小农仍然缺乏许多发展生计和投资社区所需要的基本条件，比如金融、基础设施、市场、有保障的土地所有权以及资源权利等。"
    ],
    [
        "Around 50 years ago, it was proposed to study the strong forces by firing protons at each other at very high energies.",
        "大概在50年前，研究强相互作用力的方式就是使两个质子在极高能的情况下相互对撞。"
    ],
    [
        "Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was one example; so, in a much more sinister way, was the fascist state.",
        "罗斯福新政便是一例； 而法西斯国家无非是更罪恶的计划形式。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, it would be difficult – but not impossible – to reduce the incentives, created by almost all countries’ tax regimes, for corporate leverage.",
        "同样，几乎所有国家的税收制度均为企业加杠杆创造方便，减少这种刺激虽然困难，但并不是完全不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel has seen both the legitimacy of its \"security wall,\" as well as the wall's proposed path through Palestinian territory, called into question - differently, but in a parallel manner - by both its own Supreme Court and by the International Court of Justice in The Hague.",
        "以色列的\"安全墙\"和其穿越巴勒斯坦领土的计划路线的合法性受到了来自本国最高法院和海牙国际法庭的不同方式的同时质询。"
    ],
    [
        "To wonder, as many have, why the Chinese regime refused to negotiate with the students in 1989 – or to find some accommodation with its critics today – is to misunderstand the nature of religious politics.",
        "许多人对于中国政府为何拒绝在 1989 年与学生进行谈判、或对如今的批判者做出一些迁就而感到惊讶，这恰恰是误解了宗教式政治的本质。"
    ],
    [
        "Political leaders in Thailand and Malaysia, and in other countries in the region, frequently tout the model pioneered by Singapore’s founder and longtime leader Lee Kuan Yew, who died this month.",
        "泰国和马来西亚，以及该地区其他国家的政治领导人常常标榜新加坡国父和长期领导人、本月刚刚逝世的李光耀所创立的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "With increased transaction costs, worsening solvency for the system, increased budget deficits, and decreasing benefits and security for retirees, why the drive for privatization?",
        "随着交易成本上升，体系偿付能力恶化，预算赤字增加，以及退休者福利保障不断下降，为什么还要实施私有化呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But policies, procedures, and institutions are what matter.",
        "但是，重要的还是政策、程序以及体制。"
    ],
    [
        "The People’s Corporations",
        "大众的公司"
    ],
    [
        "That moral hazard – a subsidy for fiscal irresponsibility – was among the origins of the Greek crisis in the first place.",
        "这一道德风险——对不负责任的财政的补贴——正是当初希腊危机的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "China is now the Arab world’s second-largest trading partner, and the largest trading partner for nine Arab countries.",
        "如今，中国是阿拉伯世界第二大贸易伙伴，也是九个阿拉伯国家最大的贸易伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "The delegation of monetary policy to an independent central bank is the archetypal example: in the service of price stability, daily management of monetary policy is insulated from politics.",
        "将货币政策授权给独立央行就是原生的例子：在维持价格稳定这个问题上，货币政策的日常管理从政治中独立出来了。"
    ],
    [
        "Because modern media tell us who is the best dentist in town or the best movie actor in the world, relatively small differences in abilities win far bigger differences in income than they used to.",
        "由于现代传媒会告诉我们谁是城里最好的牙医或是世上最好的演员，在能力上相对小的差异却能产生比过去大得多的收入差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Low oil prices will hit Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Oman, and war-torn Libya and Yemen before the richer countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.",
        "低油价将冲击阿尔及利亚、巴林、伊拉克、伊朗、阿曼以及饱受战争摧残的利比亚和也门，然后是比较富裕的海湾合作组织成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "In this tradition, trade liberalization is a microeconomic “shock” that affects the composition of employment, but not its overall level.",
        "根据这一传统，贸易自由化是一个微观经济学“冲击”，影响就业的成分而不影响其总体水平。"
    ],
    [
        "We Israelis have no power to extirpate the Hamas government from Gaza, much as we did not have the power to eliminate the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the voice of the Palestinian people’s national aspirations, or Hezbollah from Lebanon in the war of 2006.",
        "我们以色列人没有权力将哈马斯政府从加沙铲除，正如我们没有权力消灭代表巴勒斯坦人民民族理想的巴解组织(PLO)，也没有权力在2006年的战争中根除黎巴嫩真主党一样。"
    ],
    [
        "It is known that Chinese leaders had hoped that Kim Jong-il would survive long enough to consolidate support among the country’s various factions for the succession of his son, Kim Jong-un.",
        "众所周知，中国领导人希望金正日活得更长一些，以便理顺国内派系，为其子金正恩的接班赢得足够支持。"
    ],
    [
        "That goal is reflected in the European Union’s current focus on creating a “fiscal compact,” which would constitutionalize member states’ commitment to supposedly inviolable deficit ceilings.",
        "这一目标体现于欧盟最近所致力甚深的“财政契约”上，根据该契约，成员国对不可违背的赤字上限的承诺将写入宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "All told, humans emit roughly 30 billion tons of CO2 per year into the atmosphere, enough to change the climate sharply within a few decades.",
        "总的来说，人类每年要向大气层排放300亿吨二氧化碳，足以在短短几十年间让气候发生急剧变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan’s Taliban government, which provided access and support to al-Qaeda, was removed from power.",
        "阿富汗的塔利班政府由于为基地组织提供藏匿和支持而被剥夺了权力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Road to Car Safety",
        "汽车安全之路"
    ],
    [
        "The pro-growth rationale for reducing the US corporate tax rate is compelling, and explains why Obama has proposed cutting it from 35% to 28% (roughly the weighted average rate of the other developed countries).",
        "用有利于增长来论证降低美国公司税的必要性十分有力，这也解释了为何奥巴马建议将税率从35%减至28%（大约相当于其他发达国家的加权平均水平）。"
    ],
    [
        "Competing for influence among radical Islamist leaders in northwestern Bangladesh is Bangla Bhai, who in 2004 attempted an Islamist revolution in several provinces bordering India.",
        "2004年，在为获得激进伊斯兰领导人中最大影响力而竞争的Bangla Bhai在几个与印度接壤的地区发起伊斯兰革命。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, sometimes it leads to results that are inefficient, “nasty,” or both.",
        "事实上，它有时会导致低效率或者“糟糕”的结果，或者是两者兼而有之的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The decline has occurred because, relative to population growth, fixed-capital investment, knowledge and skills, and improvements in institutions have not compensated for the degradation of natural capital.",
        "其原因是与人口增长相应的固定资本投资、知识和技能以及制度的进步没有能够补偿自然资本的衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "But students of economics will no doubt remember an early encounter with “Giffen goods,” which violate the usual pattern.",
        "但经济学学生毫无疑问在学习生涯伊始就会遇到“吉芬商品”，这种商品就不符合这一规律。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, Israel is India’s second-largest supplier of military technology.",
        "目前，以色列已经是印度第二大军事科技供应国。"
    ],
    [
        "The fair-trade movement, launched in the 1980’s, has been growing rapidly.",
        "发端于1980年代的公平贸易运动正在迅速发展。"
    ],
    [
        "For much of Africa, this turn of events should mark a decisive break with endemic poverty.",
        "对大多数非洲国家来说，这意味着一个解决典型非洲式贫困问题的决定性契机已经到来。"
    ],
    [
        "And what they want – unfortunately for the coal industry – is clean, affordable energy that powers their present, without costing them their future.",
        "他们要的是——对煤炭业来说，这是个不行的消息——清洁、廉价的能源，让他们能够在不破坏未来的情况下现在就获得电力。"
    ],
    [
        "And the entry of big-box stores into a community crushes long-established retailers, often traumatically transforming their character.",
        "而且，巨型零售店进军某个社区，就会冲垮经营已久的零售者，经常痛楚地改变它们的性质。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the government’s policies to tackle corruption, overcapacity, excess local-government debt, and pollution have put downward pressure on investment, consumption, and the government’s capacity to deliver its promised growth rate.",
        "与此同时，政府在治理腐败、产能过剩、地方过度负债和污染等问题的措施也给投资、消费以及增长造成了压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the undertow of Euro-skepticism in British politics has never diminished and was evident in Cameron’s speech.",
        "但欧洲怀疑论的暗流在英国政坛从未减弱，并且表露在卡梅伦的演讲之中。"
    ],
    [
        "These companies are implementing the stakeholder concept on a micro and macro level, answering to the demands of their employees, customers, and communities, and thus strengthening their brands.",
        "这些公司正在微观和宏观层面上实施利益相关者的概念，回应员工、客户、社区的要求，从而强化它们自身的品牌。"
    ],
    [
        "But Russian memory is also subject to Western-style postmodernist mockery.",
        "但俄国的记忆也逃不过西方后现代主义的嘲讽。"
    ],
    [
        "Carson has said, for example, that people enter prison as heterosexuals and come out gay; that America is like Nazi Germany in suppressing ideas and opponents; and that the president need not enforce the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision legalizing gay marriage.",
        "美国在镇压思想和反对派方面就像纳粹德国； 总统不需要执行最高法院宣布同性婚姻合法的最近的里程碑式裁决。"
    ],
    [
        "An assessment would also galvanize public debate on the issues being discussed.",
        "评估还将引发对正在探讨问题的公开辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s oppression, the killings and the humiliations of Muslims, occurs because we are weak, unlike the Muslims of the past.",
        "今天穆斯林受到的压迫、屠杀和侮辱之所以发生正是因为我们的软弱，不像过去的穆斯林。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the Fukushima Daiichi plant’s problems have brought the worldwide rush toward nuclear-power generation to a screeching halt.",
        "结果是福岛第一核电站事故令全球核电热嘎然而止。"
    ],
    [
        "But comparing current developments in the two countries yields lessons that resonate across the Middle East and North Africa.",
        "但比较两国的最新形势所得出的教训放之整个中东和北非地区而皆准。"
    ],
    [
        "It refers to how a bank (or other firm) finances its activities, not to how it uses the funds that it has available.",
        "它是指银行（或其他企业）如何为其活动融资，而不是指如何使用能获得的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Examples include high-speed trains (41% of global revenue), wind turbines (20%), and communications equipment (18%).",
        "这方面的例子包括高铁（站全球收入的41%）、风涡轮（20%）和通讯设备（18%）。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the model is fair in a number of ways, it implies that parts of the human body can give rise to financial gain.",
        "但尽管这种模式在很多方面体现了 公平 的原则，它同时也承认了人体的某些部分可以带来经济收益。"
    ],
    [
        "They are, in theory, allowed to act as impact investors to make “program-related investments” in projects consistent with their stated missions; in practice, however, they face strict fiduciary rules that make them reluctant to do so.",
        "理论上，它们被允许作为影响力投资者，在于它们的规定职责相符的项目中做一些“项目相关投资”； 但是，在实践中，它们面临着严格的信托规则，使它们根本不愿意去做这样的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "After Rabin’s assassination, the notion has been gaining ground that any Israeli-Palestinian accord would be the “peace of the exhausted,” not Rabin’s “peace of the brave.”",
        "在拉宾被暗杀后，人们越来越相信巴以和平协议将会是“精疲力尽之人的和平”，而不是拉宾说的“勇敢者的和平”。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, a number of important EU members remain outside the euro, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Romania, and Sweden.",
        "事实上，一些重要的欧盟成员国仍游离于欧元体系之外，包括波兰、捷克共和国、丹麦、罗马尼亚和瑞典。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Supporting the millions of newly displaced people of the Middle East demands resources far beyond the capacity of the United Nations, and is a continuous humanitarian-aid challenge for companies, foundations, and public-sector donors.",
        "伦敦——支持数百万最近流离失所的中东民众需要远超联合国提供能力的资源，为企业、基金和公共部门捐助者提出了持续的人道主义援助难题。"
    ],
    [
        "The famously thin-skinned Trump has shown that, when provoked or insulted, he can be counted on to retaliate.",
        "以神经过敏而闻名于世的特朗普已经向世人表明在遭到挑衅或侮辱的情况下，他一定会展开报复。"
    ],
    [
        "One problem is architectural: any banking union is only as strong as its weakest component.",
        "其中之一是结构设计问题：银行联盟的强度取决于最弱的一环。"
    ],
    [
        "It needs to accept that globalization is above all an opportunity, one that must be grasped by confident, innovative, and entrepreneurial people.",
        "它必须接受全球化首先是一个机遇，一个必须由自信、富于创新精神和企业家精神的人来把握的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that limits on our consumption of fossil fuels cannot be measured only by the availability of supplies, but must also take account of the environmental costs.",
        "这意味着不能只用供应量来衡量人类消费化石燃料的极限，而必须将环境成本也纳入到考虑的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "Israeli officials’ claims that barring the movement of people and goods is required for security reasons do not withstand scrutiny.",
        "以色列官员们对于禁止人员和货物流动是出于安全需要的说法经不起推敲。"
    ],
    [
        "Others are more mundane, involving long-term experiments and observation of smaller ecosystems, such as plots of prairie grass or swamplands.",
        "另外一些则更为现实和具体，包括了对草原和沼泽地一类的较小型生态系统的长期试验和观察。"
    ],
    [
        "But unilateral action would certainly not be the best option.",
        "但单方面行动显然不是最佳选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Providing them with access to contraception would help them plan their lives as they wish, weaken demand for abortion, reduce maternal deaths, give children a better start in life, and contribute to slowing population growth and greenhouse-gas emissions, thus benefiting us all.",
        "让她们获得避孕手段有助于她们按自己意愿规划生活，降低堕胎需求，减少产妇死亡，让孩子获得更好的生命起点，也能降低人口增长和温室气体排放，因此有利于所有人。"
    ],
    [
        "Even today, most information on patient care is transmitted between clinics and hospitals, and between generalists and specialists, by fax and telephone.",
        "即便今时今日，大部分信息的病人诊疗信息依然是在诊所和医院之间，以及全科医生与专科医生之间，通过传真和电话进行传输。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s experience with hyperinflation in the 1920s and its subsequent embrace of “ordoliberalism,” in which the government avoids interfering in the economy, has “rendered Germans allergic to macroeconomics,” Eichengreen writes.",
        "德国20世纪20年代恶性通胀及随后采取“秩序自由主义”（ordoliberalism，政府避免干预经济）的经验“致使德国人对宏观经济学避之不及，”艾肯格林写道。"
    ],
    [
        "The world's poorest countries will ask themselves why they should vote for Germany and Japan to have permanent seats on the Security Council if they can't keep their promises.",
        "最贫穷的国家就会问：若德国和日本不能信守承诺，为什么还要投票支持他们获得常任理事国的席位呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Intelligence analysts operate like scientists, in the sense that they develop theories, then measure and test them.",
        "情报分析人员与科学家非常相似，他们先提出理论，再设法进行测试和验证。"
    ],
    [
        "The fundamental difficulty in planning for enhanced longevity is that we do not know whether it will really happen.",
        "寿命延长计划中的主要困难是我们不知道我们是否真的会长寿。"
    ],
    [
        "Seen from this perspective, North Korea’s recent announcement that it will open another 14 special economic zones is a positive development – one that is underpinned by significant financial incentives.",
        "从这个角度看，朝鲜最近宣布将开设其他14个特别经济区是一个积极的信号——其背后有重要的金融动机支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "With its previous export strategy, the government’s main priority was to integrate domestic manufacturing operations into global production chains.",
        "以前的出口战略中，政府优先考虑的是将国内制造业与全球生产链进行整合。"
    ],
    [
        "Even some of Israel’s staunchest supporters in Congress were unlikely to deal a potentially devastating blow to America’s international credibility, and the idea that the negotiating countries would all agree to reopen the talks to produce a “better deal” was sheer fantasy.",
        "即使国会中某些以色列最坚定的支持者也不太可能对美国的国际信誉发起毁灭性的打击，认为谈判国家会一致同意重开会谈达成“更好协议”的想法纯属幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "While China’s government should make greater efforts to rebalance the economy by conventional measures, it also should focus more attention on adjusting the currency structure of the country’s gross assets and gross liabilities.",
        "中国政府需要更努力地通过常规手段实现经济再平衡，但与此同时也应该更关注调整总资产和总负债的货币结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Our trajectory as a species is hardwired to this four-billion-year-old bio-geo-chemical system that has profoundly worked and reworked the planetary environment, all the way from bacteria to city planners, atmospheric oxygen to paper mills.",
        "人类物种轨迹与拥有四十亿年历史的生物地球化学系统紧密相连，上述系统反复影响着从细菌、城市规划、大气含氧量到造纸厂在内的星球环境。"
    ],
    [
        "This group is eligible for Social Security (pensions) and Medicare (health insurance), and the majority are retired.",
        "该群体有资格获得社会保障（退休金）和医疗保险（Medicare），其中大部分人都已经退休。"
    ],
    [
        "The Brexit referendum, followed by Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, signaled the rise of populism in the West.",
        "英国退欧公投、而后是唐纳德·特朗普在美国总统大选中的获胜标志着西方民粹主义势力抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, whether or not its leaders acknowledge it, the European Union is now in direct conflict with Russia over its enlargement policy since the end of the Cold War.",
        "事实上，不管其领导人是否承认，如今欧盟自冷战结束以来的扩大政策已经与俄罗斯形成了直接冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "The Court was referred to 18 cases of girls and boys who, between 1996 and 1999, were placed in special schools for children with learning difficulties, either directly or after a period of time in primary schools.",
        "及他人诉捷克共和国一案中涉及到的第三项问题。 向法庭提起了18个案例，其中的男孩和女孩们在1996至1999年之间被直接或在小学就读一段时间后被排在学习困难特殊学校。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan ranked 105th out of 136 countries in the World Economic Forum’s “Global Gender Gap Report 2013,” down from 101st place in 2012.",
        "在世界经济论坛（World Economic Forum）的《2013年全球性别差异报告》（Global Gender Gap Report 2013）中，日本名列136个国家的第150位，较2012年的第101位有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Other leadership skills are more important than the usual distinction between transformational and “transactional” leaders.",
        "就变革型领导人和“维持型”领导人的区别而言，其他领导技能更加重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Some misguided Hindutva elements have already been caught trying to perform a Shiva puja (a rite to worship Lord Shiva) there.",
        "Oak）声称这座纪念碑最初是一个名为“泰茹马哈拉亚”的湿婆神庙。 为此还抓了一批被误导的印度教分子，因为他们试图（在泰姬陵）举行湿婆神崇拜仪式。"
    ],
    [
        "California’s extreme drought forced the governor to declare a state of emergency.",
        "加州极度干旱迫使州长宣布进入紧急状态。"
    ],
    [
        "These political heirs of deeply racist traditions are the new champions of a Jewish state, whose policies now owe more to nineteenth-century ethnic chauvinism than to Zionism’s socialist roots.",
        "这些纳粹传统的政治传承者如今是犹太国家的执政者，其政策根源与十九世纪的种族沙文主义的渊源比以色列复国运动的社会主义背景更深。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush said no, since the tariff is congressionally mandated, and thus greatly diluted the importance of the bio-fuel cooperation agreement the two governments signed.",
        "但是布什没有答应，因为关税是国会决定的，而这大大削弱了两国签订的生物燃料合作协议的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "One of Tilly’s offspring, sold to an amusement park in Spain, has also killed a trainer, as have orcas in other parks.",
        "而 Tilly 的后代也都被卖到其他游乐园，其中被卖到了西班牙游乐园的一条也杀死过一位训练员。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite these errors, in the past few years, the IAEA has demonstrated its worth as an effective nuclear sleuth.",
        "尽管存在这些错误，但是在过去几年中，该机构还是展现出其作为有效核子探警的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU today operates something like the US under the Articles of Confederation, which defined the US’s ineffectual governing structure after independence from Britain in 1781 but prior to the adoption of the Constitution in 1787.",
        "现在的欧盟就像是十三州联邦宪法（Articles of Confederation）治下的美国。 十三州联邦宪法定义了1781年脱离英国独立至1787年宪法生效前的失败的美国治理结构。"
    ],
    [
        "ASEAN as a whole, with a population of 580 million, is not significantly bigger than the EU (with 500 million), yet it encompasses an infinitely greater degree of ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and religious diversity.",
        "8 亿）上并不比欧盟（ 5 亿）多多少，但前者在民族，语言，文化和宗教方面的多样性却比后者大了几乎无限倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Nature doesn’t care about our political machinations.",
        "大自然不会在意我们的政治阴谋。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors holding high-yielding bonds – many of them bought at heavy discounts after Russia’s annexation of Crimea last year – are demanding to be paid in full.",
        "那些持有高息债券——其中许多都是在去年俄罗斯吞并克里米亚之后大幅折价购入——的投资者都在要求连本带息全额支付。"
    ],
    [
        "The right interest rate for the French and Italians is too low for the Germans.",
        "而如果法国和意大利感觉合适，德国就会感到利率太低。"
    ],
    [
        "So perhaps the best that could be hoped for is a Russian-style experiment with liberalization that is quickly called off by the regime’s nervous Old Guard.",
        "因此，我们可能希望的最好结局也就是一个俄罗斯似的自由化试验，并很快就会被该政权紧张不安的保守势力叫停。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason, therefore, why it should have a first-order impact on the bilateral current-account balance, or, for that matter, on unemployment, which depends on the same saving and investment behavior.",
        "因此，看不出这个调整能对双方经常账户的平衡起到什么显著作用，换言之，对美国的失业也不会有什么作用，因为后者也是储蓄和投资行为的一种反映。"
    ],
    [
        "It is reasonable behavior in the face of uncertainty.",
        "而是面对不确定性的一种理性行为。"
    ],
    [
        "One objective for Copenhagen should be to create a well-endowed global fund to support policies that discourage the cutting and burning of trees, help countries such as Brazil and Indonesia protect their rain forests, and provide alternative livelihoods to those who currently benefit from destroying them.",
        "而哥本哈根会议的一个目标则是创设一个捐款充裕的国际基金来资助那些限制砍伐和焚烧树木的政策，协助巴西和印尼这类国家保护其雨林，并协助那些靠毁林为生的人们寻找其他生计。"
    ],
    [
        "The significance of the merger’s collapse is now becoming clear to observers across Europe, especially in Germany, where the media have been extremely critical of how “negative politics” sealed the proposed merger’s fate.",
        "欧洲各国（特别是德国）观察家现在已经意识到合并失败将会产生的重大后果。 德国媒体一直对“消极政治”如何决定合并提案的命运持有极端批评的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not a matter only for the world’s largest economies.",
        "这并不是世界最大经济体独有的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This community is a “person” that has a past and a future that transcend us as individuals.",
        "这一共同体是一个“人”，它具有超越作为个体的我们的过去和未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Conservatives will hammer away on the economy, as they did in 1992, the last time that they won an election outright.",
        "保守党将与他们上一次在选举中大获全胜的1992年一样苦心钻研经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "If the oil price stays at $40 a barrel, expect it to have next to no effect on short-term world GDP growth.",
        "如果油价保持在每桶40美元的水平，那么短期内对各国国内生产总值的影响可以忽略不计。"
    ],
    [
        "The current crisis of Islam might not be congenital, but Islam’s predicament is acute.",
        "伊斯兰社会目前的危机也许并不是先天性的，但是伊斯兰社会确实面临着巨大的困境。"
    ],
    [
        "The size of their arsenals, their fissile material stocks, their force-modernization plans, their stated doctrine, and their known deployment practices all point in the same direction.",
        "其核武库的规模、其可裂变物质储量、其军队现代化计划、其阐明的主张以及其已知的部署动作都指向同一个方向。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, nearly one in five poor American children are diagnosed with asthma, a rate 60% higher than non-poor children.",
        "事实上，近五分之一的美国贫穷儿童被诊断出哮喘，比非贫穷儿童高出60%。"
    ],
    [
        "But I was alone in paying attention to him.",
        "但我是唯一一个专心听他讲话的人。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve this, viable instruments are needed.",
        "为了达到这一目的，我们需要可行的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "But achieving faster, more resilient growth will require China to eliminate the biases, protections, and implicit guarantees favoring SOEs in the marketplace and in the financial system.",
        "但实现更快、更富有韧性的增长需要中国取消有利于国有企业的市场和金融体系的偏袒、保护和隐性担保。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the combined GDP of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference nations – now only about 13% of global output – will easily double in the coming decades.",
        "届时57个伊斯兰会议组织成员国的GDP总量（目前只占全球的13%）将在未来几十年内轻易翻一番。"
    ],
    [
        "That's the equivalent of adding productive power equal to a quarter of the economy of India - and adding it every year.",
        "这相当于每年为世界增加等同于1/4个印度的生产力。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately for the eurozone, it will enter this period of high employment and slow growth on sound footing – thanks, in part, to that controversial austerity.",
        "对欧元区来说，幸运的是它进入这一高就业、慢增长的时期时步履很稳——这部分要归功于充满争议的紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "In Bolivia, voters rejected President Evo Morales’s effort to amend the constitution so that he could seek another presidential term.",
        "在玻利维亚，选民否决了莫拉莱斯总统修改宪法寻求连任的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this was inevitable.",
        "所有这些都不是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "As corporate power rises, holding companies to account becomes increasingly important.",
        "随着企业实力的上升，让公司为自身的行为负责变得越来越重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Entitled “Kamel Daoud’s Fantasies,” it accused him of “recycling much worn-out Orientalist clichés” and “feeding the Islamophobic fantasies of a growing segment of the European public.”",
        "这篇题为《卡迈勒·达乌德的幻想》的文章指责他“重新翻出早已过时的东方主义陈词滥调”并“以此来迎合欧洲大众不断滋生的仇视伊斯兰教的幻想。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "After all, if Russia’s government really wanted to achieve a change in the post-Soviet status quo, it should, first and foremost, pursue a policy vis-à-vis its neighbors that reduces rather than increases fears.",
        "毕竟，如果俄罗斯政府真正想要对苏联后的现状进行改变，首要的是，它 应该追求在与邻国相关的政策中，减少它们担忧，而不是增加它们的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "An increase on that scale is associated in their model with a 0.3-percentage-point reduction in annual growth, and twice that in a housing-market crisis, given the high proportion of mortgage lending on EU banks’ balance sheets.",
        "根据他们的模型，如此规模的上升伴随着年GDP增长下降0. 3个百分点，而在住房市场危机期间，影响会翻番，因为按揭贷款在欧盟银行资产负债表中占比很高。"
    ],
    [
        "If the EU’s entire development budget was similarly maximized, we could mobilize about €300 billion of capital, which, if spent on acquiring equipment, plant, and technology from Europe, could give an enormous boost to the current sluggish growth of the European economies.",
        "如果欧盟的整体发展预算也能类似地实现最大化，我们将可以动员大约3,000亿欧元资本，如果用于从欧洲购买设备、厂房和技术，将极大地提振目前陷入增长停滞的欧洲经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, it must take necessary measures to ensure public safety and political stability, while paving the way for free and fair elections.",
        "第二，它必须采取必要措施确保公共安全和政治稳定，同时为自由公正的选举开辟道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite an unprecedented global recession, India remained the second fastest growing economy in the world.",
        "虽然全球正遭遇着前所未有的衰退，但印度依然成功保持着世界第二快的增长态势。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, Europe’s navies and maritime agencies should merge their capabilities, especially those related to defense and security missions.",
        "为了实现这一目标，各国海军和海军机构必须将各自的力量——尤其是与国防和安全任务相关的力量——合并在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Cowen was pessimistic about unemployment in the United States, so he bet Caplan that the rate would not fall below 5% during the following 20 years.",
        "科文对美国的失业擒故康感到失望，因此他和卡普兰打赌失业率在未来20年里不会低于5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, if peace is to come to Ukraine – and if Putin is to be prevented from using the same strategy elsewhere – the world must let him know that some lines may never be crossed.",
        "事实上，乌克兰要想实现和平——防止普京把同样的招数用到其他区域——世界各国就必须让他明白有些界限永远不能越过。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, the backlog of such projects is now wreaking havoc with the world economy.",
        "这些基建项目的积压现在仍对世界经济造成非常严重的危害。"
    ],
    [
        "The real economy of the eurozone is declining, while Germany is booming.",
        "欧元区实体经济正在衰退，但德国享受着繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, in countries like Germany, where households’ bank and saving deposits far outweigh their debt, lower interest rates reduce total household spending.",
        "最后，在德国等国家，家庭的银行和储蓄存款远远多于债务，降低利率会减少家庭总支出。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent months, the Obama administration has begun to restore links with Thailand that were put on ice after the May 2014 coup, including by resuming a high-level strategic dialogue.",
        "最近几个月来，奥巴马政府开始重建与泰国的联系，包括重启高层战略对话。 美泰关系自2014年5月政变后陷入冰点。"
    ],
    [
        "YAOUNDÉ – Africa’s policymakers understand that strong economic and political leadership is essential to growth and stability.",
        "雅温得—非洲决策者明白，强大的经济和政治领导是增长和稳定的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, restricting commercial banks’ role as financial intermediaries and encouraging the growth of unregulated shadow banking has generated even more risks for China’s economy.",
        "更糟糕的是，限制商业银行作为金融媒介的角色、鼓励不受监管的影子银行的增长已经给中国经济带来了更大的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while Iran’s direct involvement in Syria – where its own Revolutionary Guards, along with its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, are fighting in support of Assad – is part of the problem, a long-term solution is virtually impossible without Iranian participation.",
        "但尽管伊朗通过其自身武装革命卫队及黎巴嫩代理真主党直接介入叙利亚危机支持阿萨德的确是部分问题的始作俑者，但没有伊朗的参与要想达成长期解决方案几乎是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is what brings the balance-of-payments and trade deficits directly into the debate over fiscal policy.",
        "因此，国际收支平衡和贸易赤字问题也被直接引入了关于财政政策的争论中。"
    ],
    [
        "Never before in the post-World War II era have American consumers been so weak for so long.",
        "自二战结束以来，美国消费者还从未在如此长的时间里如此不给力。"
    ],
    [
        "Many emerging-country exporters, struggling to retain customers in the wobbly US and European markets, feel otherwise.",
        "但对那些在欧美市场挣扎求存的新兴国家出口商而言，这可是另一番滋味。"
    ],
    [
        "At first, Saudi Arabia took aim at the shale industry.",
        "沙特阿拉伯的目标首先是页岩行业。"
    ],
    [
        "The problems in the US economy and financial system have been apparent for years.",
        "几年来，美国的经济和金融体系一直存在问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This concept now appears in the toolbox of every economist, is taught in all classes on growth, and serves as a reference in all works on the macro economy.",
        "这一概念现在出现在每个经济学家的工具盒里，所有有关经济增长的课程都讲授这一概念，而且所有有关宏观经济的研究工作都引用这一理论。"
    ],
    [
        "And earlier this year, Macierewicz fired 90% of the military’s General Staff and 82% of its General Command, and formed a new military force whose leadership consists of pro-Kremlin activists and NATO critics.",
        "今年初，麦克瑞维奇解雇了90%的军队参谋人员以及82%的军队指挥人员，组建了一支由亲克里姆林分子和北约批评人士组成的新的军事力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, however, I suspect that competition and innovation will survive the forthcoming regulations.",
        "但我觉得竞争和创新还是可以在即将到来的法规监管中找到生存空间。"
    ],
    [
        "They also note that Mexico’s impressive accomplishments in terms of macroeconomic stabilization, while necessary, have not proved sufficient to unleash the country’s growth potential.",
        "他们还指出，墨西哥在宏观经济稳定方面的令人印象深刻的成就虽然必要，但并不足以释放该国的增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "His fight against poverty and social exclusion would be undertaken as part of that effort.",
        "他将在推动经济增长的同时战胜贫困和社会排斥问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Though today’s biomedical science claims to search for repairs of nature’s defects, too many of its practitioners behave as if their real purpose were only to gain the mythical immortality of precedence, at whatever cost to themselves or others.",
        "虽然当今的生物医学号称是在寻求对自然缺陷的修复之道，但其众多从业者的所作所为却似乎表明他们了解自然的真正目的只是为了优先获得神话般的永生，而不管自己或他人要为此付出多大的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the West accepted the view that globalization would result (as with trade) in mutual gain, embracing what I called in 1997 the notion of “benign neglect.”",
        "事实上，西方普遍认为全球化会带来（比方说贸易领域）双赢的结果，我在1997年提出的“善意忽视”观点成为当时的主流。"
    ],
    [
        "The rapid development of smart software over the last few decades has been perhaps the most important force shaping the coming manufacturing revolution.",
        "过去几十年来，智能软件的快速发展也许是决定即将到来的制造业革命的最重要力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, such behavior undermines the employment contract as a basic social institution and makes a number of its associated features, such as annual income taxation, suboptimal.",
        "上述行为再度破坏了劳动合同这一基本的社会制度，导致按年收入征税等一系列相关功能适用性变差。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this has eroded Erdoğan’s support at home, while the United States and the European Union found themselves supporting him, albeit through clenched teeth, against the latest coup attempt.",
        "所有这些都没有对埃尔多安的国内支持率造成影响，美国和欧盟虽然咬紧牙关，但仍然在最近爆发的政变企图中对埃尔多安表达了支持的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "But, just as those regions have been improving their public and corporate governance – Hong Kong just witnessed a breakthrough court decision against a telecom tycoon who is the son of the province’s richest and most powerful man – crony capitalism is taking root in the United States, a country that the world long considered the gold standard of a level playing field in business.",
        "然而，就在这些受到美国抨击的地区一直在改善其政府和公司治理的时候——香港法院刚刚作出了一个对当地电信巨头不利的具有突破性的判决，该电信巨头是香港地区最富有和最有权势的人的儿子——裙带资本主义却在美国这样一个长期以来被世界看作是公平商业竞争环境卓越典范的国家，生根发芽了。"
    ],
    [
        "Rio de Janeiro is where soccer belongs.",
        "里约热内卢是足球的家园。"
    ],
    [
        "The vast majority of countries have called for the creation of a framework for sovereign-debt restructuring.",
        "极大多数国家呼吁建立一套主权债务重组框架。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, to avoid the kind of obstructionism that prevailed in the last eight years, the next president must engage Congress directly and actively.",
        "首先，为了避免过去八年中所出现的阻挠一切的情况，下一位美国总统必须直接、积极地参与国会。"
    ],
    [
        "Typhoon Hagupit is just the latest event to showcase this.",
        "黑格比台风就是最新证明。"
    ],
    [
        "US dominance is clearly on the wane, but a multipolar order implies that several emerging powers hold competing views about how the world should be run, and that they are prepared to act to advance their global agendas.",
        "美国的统治地位显然是在减弱，但一个多极秩序是意味着，一些新兴大国在对世界应该如何运转的看法上互相竞争，而且他们也准备好采取行动，以推进其全球范围的议程。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, politicians have looked for other, quicker ways to mollify their constituents.",
        "政客们只好寻找其他捷径来安抚选民。"
    ],
    [
        "It can stifle public debate.",
        "它可能扼杀公共争论。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies spend a lot of time watching customers, trying to figure them out, but so little time listening to them.",
        "许多公司花费了大量的时间去监测顾客，尝试去识别他们，但花在顾客倾听方面的时间却少得可怜。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the pressure for fundamental change – particularly of Article 9, which putatively pledges that Japan will never maintain armed forces – is such that there is a real chance that these obstacles can and will be overcome.",
        "然而，重大改革的压力——尤其是对公开宣称日本永远放弃使用武力的第九条进行改革的压力——如此巨大，使得这些障碍能够并且将被克服的真正机会已经来临。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as important, former Remainers must continue to explain to the English why the free exchange of goods, services, and people with Europe is good for Britain.",
        "同样重要的是，前留欧派必须继续向英国人解释为何与欧洲进行商品、服务和人的自由交换有利于英国。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also mounting evidence that policy interventions in schools to promote resilience or empathy can have a positive impact on wellbeing.",
        "越来越多的证据表明借助政策干预在学校促进坚韧或同情可以对幸福产生积极的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine remains under partial occupation by Russian-backed separatists, with intermittent fighting still taking place, despite the Minsk II ceasefire agreement.",
        "尽管签署了明斯克 II停火协议，乌克兰依然被俄国支持的分离主义分子所部分占领， 间歇性的战斗仍在进行中。"
    ],
    [
        "Next week, they shouldn’t be surprised if they see a mirror of each other, because both men have exemplified the arrogance of power.",
        "下周，如果他们发现彼此互为镜像也不必惊奇，因为两人都是权力傲慢的例证。"
    ],
    [
        "So the emphasis on restoring Chinese commercial interests is accepted reluctantly if not completely understood.",
        "因此强调恢复中国的商业利益即使得不到完全的理解，也可以被勉强接受。"
    ],
    [
        "The country is respected by developed and developing countries alike, often bridging the interests of both, and is widely viewed as an honest broker.",
        "澳大利亚深受发达及发展中国家的尊敬，往往会成为两者之间的利益桥梁，并广泛树立起诚实可靠的中间人形象。"
    ],
    [
        "The highest costs currently stem from espionage and crime; but, over the next decade or so, cyber war and cyber terrorism may become greater threats than they are today.",
        "目前，最大的成本来自间谍和犯罪； 但是，在未来十年中，网络战和网络恐怖主义有可能成为比今天更大的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "But this trip will be trickier.",
        "但这次访问更需要技巧。"
    ],
    [
        "A sharper rise in the number of newcomers could help ameliorate the situation; but higher immigration is not, on its own, an adequate solution to the EU economy’s long-term problems.",
        "新输入人口数量的更快速上升可以帮助改善这种情况； 但更多的移民在根本上也不是对欧盟经济长期问题的适当解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, high oil prices in a country that imports all of its oil needs, together with falling business profitability and confidence, are pushing Japan into a recession.",
        "而且，对一个所有石油需求都依靠进口的国家，高油价以及商业利润和信心的下降也在将日本推入衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Padoan has more recently created an imaginative public-private partnership to finance a desperately needed recapitalization of Italy’s banks.",
        "帕多安最近构思了一套想象的公私合作方案 为意大利急需的银行资本重组提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps spurred by the recent appreciation of the dollar and the first signs that it is eroding net exports, congressional Democrats and Republicans are once again considering legislation to counter what they view as unfair currency undervaluation.",
        "也许是受最近美元升值及其影响净出口的首批信号的刺激，国会中的民主党和共和党正在再次考虑采取立法对付它们眼中的不公平货币贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Cuba would not be pressured to abandon state-financed health care or to open the health sector to private American investors.",
        "古巴不会受到放弃公费医疗或向美国私人投资者开放医疗部门的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Ad hoc decisions have replaced a feasible and principled medium-term strategy.",
        "临时决定取代了可行、审慎的中期战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Namibia shows that even countries that start with serious disadvantages – extremes of racism, colonialism, inequality, and underdevelopment – can chart a path toward shared prosperity.",
        "纳米比亚证明了，即使从严重的劣势起步的国家——极端种族主义、殖民主义、不平等和欠发达——也可以走向共同繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "They began by using their knowledge of biology to deduce the minimum set of genes that would be required for life.",
        "开始时他们利用生物知识推断出生命所需的最小的基因集合。"
    ],
    [
        "The US can do a lot, in part because of the dollar’s status as the main international reserve currency.",
        "美国可以大有作为，部分是由于美元作为国际主要储备货币的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have suggested that the Iraq war proved the UN’s irrelevance.",
        "有人说伊拉克战争证明联合国无足轻重。"
    ],
    [
        "The reforms proposed by Volcker would impose restrictions on banks similar to those contained in the Glass-Steagall Act, the depression-era legislation that separated commercial banking and investment banking.",
        "但是，最终，在马萨诸塞州选举之后，一些重要的改变出现了。 由沃尔克提出的改革方案将给银行增加新的限制措施，类似于大萧条时期的格拉斯 - 斯蒂格尔法案，将商业银行和投行区分开来。"
    ],
    [
        "This creates room to address one of the economy’s two main challenges: low productivity in services.",
        "这有助于应对经济的两大主要挑战：服务业的低生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "Numerous as-yet-undisclosed emails with the potential to damage Clinton may well be released before the election.",
        "）为数巨大的尚未披露邮件可能在选举前公之于众，危及克林顿的选情。"
    ],
    [
        "And they must undertake rigorous cost-benefit analyses, in order to ensure that any intervention translates into private investment that promotes productivity growth.",
        "以及达不到标准的技术。 它们还必须进行严格的成本-效益分析，以确保干预能够转化为促进生产率增长的私人投资。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this means that we will not still face significant obstacles.",
        "所有这些都不意味着我们不再会面临重大障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Targets must be clearly defined, measurable, and actionable, and they must be supported by effective monitoring, evaluation, and shared frameworks of accountability.",
        "目标必须明确定义、可以测量、可以实施，并且必须得到有效监督、评估和共同问责框架的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting seed and fertilizer to smallholder farmers at highly subsidized prices (or even free in some cases) will make a lasting difference.",
        "向小农家庭发放含有大量补贴的种子和化肥（有时甚至是免费发放）将产生持续性效果。"
    ],
    [
        "After the shock of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, his son, George W. Bush, developed a far more ambitious vision.",
        "而在2001年9·11恐怖袭击后，他的儿子则小布什构建了一个更为雄心勃勃的远景。"
    ],
    [
        "We now have the technological infrastructure to bring most job-related information to workers while allowing them to collaborate closely.",
        "我们现有的技术设施能够将绝大部分与工作有关的信息传递给工人，并使他们能够紧密协作。"
    ],
    [
        "I see another role for intelligence: to inform political action.",
        "我还发现情报的另一个作用：为政治行动提供信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The plan envisaged an investment program of 3-4 years, resulting in “additional spending of 5% of GDP per annum,” with current macroeconomic conditions implying “a positive growth multiplier above 1.5,” which “should boost nominal GDP growth to a level above 5% for several years.”",
        "该计划着眼于3—4年的投资项目，带来“每年提高5%的GDP的支出，”在现有宏观经济条件下这意味着“1. 5以上的正投资乘数”，应能“在多年中将名义GDP增长水平提高到5%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "But even in cases where the targets seem random, the logic usually emerges eventually, even if it is a matter of punishing an entire community or society.",
        "但即使在目标貌似随机的案件中，这一逻辑最终也会浮现，即使是惩罚整个社区或社会的案子也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so would require significant investment, which in turn would require international confidence in Iraq’s future stability.",
        "这要求巨额投资，而这反过来要求国际社会对伊拉克未来的稳定抱有信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Renzi’s message, while skillfully crafted and optimistic, cannot mask the harsh economic reality in Italy today.",
        "伦齐的承诺尽管组织精巧，也很乐观，但仍无法掩盖眼下意大利严峻的经济现实。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for governments to stop fussing about the costs of efforts to limit air pollution and start worrying about the much larger costs of allowing it to continue unchecked.",
        "政府应该停止纠结于遏制空气污染的措施的成本，转而担心放任空气污染而不治理所带来的远远更大的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the decentralized nature of the system, would national interests distort the conduct of monetary policy?",
        "在如此分散的体系中，国家利益会不会扭曲货币政策？"
    ],
    [
        "Vladimir Putin, who has now returned to the presidency, may be the same person as before, but Russia has changed.",
        "重新担任总统职务的弗拉基米尔·普京或许和以前一样，但俄罗斯已经发生了变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indians have been waiting in long lines at banks, only to discover that the banks had not received enough new bills.",
        "印度人在银行门口排起长队，却发现银行并没有拿到足够的新钞。"
    ],
    [
        "Leftists once understood that the good society is to be won by entering the prevailing institutions in order to overcome their regressive function.",
        "左派曾经理解，好社会需要通过加入通行机构以克服它们的退步作用才能赢得。"
    ],
    [
        "During the nomination campaign, he managed to pull her somewhat to the left on trade, the minimum wage, and mass incarceration.",
        "争取提名期间，他在某种程度上成功地迫使克林顿接受了贸易、最低工资和大规模监禁等问题上倾向左翼的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why its adoption is often associated with an increase in value-added tax rates (as has occurred throughout Eastern Europe).",
        "这也解释了为什么在实行统一税率的同时往往会调高增值税率（几乎所有东欧国家都是如此）。"
    ],
    [
        "Were concerns mounting at the Fed as well in the summer of 2008?",
        "在2008年的那个夏天美联储的担忧也在逐渐上升吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians like this because it increases demand for their services.",
        "政客们喜欢这样，因为它可以提升人们对他们的服务需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Islamic fundamentalists define jihad as a war of terror against the West and call for an Islamic caliphate from the Atlantic to the Pacific.",
        "伊斯兰原教旨主义者将针对西方世界的恐怖主义定义为圣战，呼吁建立从大西洋到太平洋的伊斯兰王国。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, for the financial industry, the appeal of Paulson’s proposal is precisely that it taxes the many and benefits the few.",
        "事实上，对金融业来说，保尔森的建议吸引人的地方其实是它用征税来的钱为少数人谋利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Clinton, meanwhile, shamefully abandoned Somalia after the deaths of American soldiers in Mogadishu – and did nothing in the face of Rwanda’s genocide.",
        "而克林顿则在摩加迪沙美军死难事件后可耻地抛弃了索马里——在面对卢旺达的种族屠杀时也束手无策。"
    ],
    [
        "That failure was epitomized by the inability to impose a peace agreement on Palestinians and Israelis in 2000.",
        "克林顿的失败集中体现在未能促使巴勒斯坦和以色列在2000年达成和平协议。"
    ],
    [
        "These privileges – including full-fledged diplomatic ID cards, access to the restricted customs areas of airports, tax-free shipments of items for personal consumption, and no questions asked about the terms of their employment of local domestic staff – were swiftly withdrawn.",
        "这些特权——包括全功能外交身份证、进出机场限制通关区、个人消费品免税运输、免于责问对当地人员的雇用情况等——马上就被取消。"
    ],
    [
        "British Prime Minister David Cameron has raised the possibility of a “Brexit,” a British exit from the European Union.",
        "英国首相卡梅伦已经提出了“英国退出”（欧盟）的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Until then, the lonely battle for its abolition must continue.",
        "在那一天到来之前，我还要继续孤独地争取废除死刑。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, two decades after communism ended and Ukraine gained its independence, does the country remain mired in economic torpor and an authoritarian politics that has aroused such ire in Europe?",
        "从乌克兰终结共产主义并赢得独立迄今已有20多年了，为何这个国家依然深陷经济泥潭，并依然运行着一套在欧洲激起众怒的专制政治？"
    ],
    [
        "Hence, we should simplify and strengthen them.",
        "因此，我们需要简化和强化它们。"
    ],
    [
        "By way of reference, the assumption of a 5% export downturn pales in comparison with the precipitous 13.6% decline in real exports that occurred in 2008-2009.",
        "作为参考，5%出口下降的假设与2008—2009年期间所发生的真实出口猛降13. 6%一比只能算小巫见大巫。"
    ],
    [
        "The Meaty Side of Climate Change",
        "气候变化的肉制品因素"
    ],
    [
        "For example, to speed up the 15-year process of taking a new drug from the lab to market, Chinese pharmaceutical companies are implementing industrial-style approaches.",
        "比如，为了加快需要15年之久的新药上市过程，中国制药公司正在实施工业风格（industrial-style）方法。"
    ],
    [
        "And, under Kim Jong-un’s leadership, the situation escalated further when the regime began making significant progress toward developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the US mainland.",
        "而政权在金正恩领导下开始大力发展射程到达美国大陆本土的洲际弹道导弹时，形势进一步升级。"
    ],
    [
        "So, how will the Republicans fudge these fiscal rules?",
        "那么，共和党将如何回避这些财政规则？"
    ],
    [
        "But it is unlikely to smooth the divisions among Iran’s elite, much less convince hardliners to stop backing Assad, leaving the visit’s significance uncertain, at best.",
        "但这不可能缓和伊朗精英之间的分歧，更不能说服强硬派支持巴沙尔，其访问德黑兰的重要性也颇可商榷。"
    ],
    [
        "But a more fundamental question is why Russia’s politicians, journalists, and analysts (and even some in the West) happily engage in this ruse.",
        "但是一个更为根本的问题是为什么俄国的政坛人物、记者以及分析家们(而且甚至连西方的某些人)对这一策略乐此不疲。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost 27 million Europeans are unemployed.",
        "有2700万欧洲人找不到工作。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2015, the United States had trade deficits with 101 countries – a multilateral trade deficit in the jargon of economics.",
        "在2015年，美国对101个国家拥有贸易赤字——即经济学术语中的所谓多边贸易赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "But they have merely ensured the country’s decline.",
        "但事实上它们只能确保俄罗斯的衰落。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Europe remains mired in crisis and existential self-doubt, and Japan is still finding its feet after two decades of economic stagnation, the US is as relevant as ever.",
        "尽管欧洲深陷危机和对自身存在价值充满怀疑、日本经历二十年经济停滞后仍在试图站稳脚跟，但美国的影响力仍然和过去一样。"
    ],
    [
        "While inequality has remained stable or declined in Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, it is rising in many parts of the region, most notably in India and China (as well as other parts of East Asia).",
        "虽然马来西亚、泰国和菲律宾的收入不平等状况已经稳定或有所下降，但在该地区的许多地方，特别是在印度和中国（以及东亚其他国家），收入不平等正在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson is that in some circumstances, we should prefer leadership by good transactional managers like George H. W. Bush (or Dwight Eisenhower before him), rather than by more flashy and inspirational transformers.",
        "这表明，在某些环境中，我们应该看好作为优秀事务性管理者的领导人，比如老布什（以及他之前的艾森豪威尔），而不是更犀利、更能激发人心的转型领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "But the opposite has happened.",
        "但事实正好相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Chinese seem to believe that market discipline will bring fair competition and contribute to closing the widening gap between rich and poor.",
        "许多中国人认为市场纪律可以带来公平竞争，有助于弥合日渐扩大的贫富差距。"
    ],
    [
        "What is at stake is in part a moral issue, a matter of global social justice.",
        "部分问题牵扯到道德层面，涉及到全球社会是否公平。"
    ],
    [
        "It worked.",
        "世俗派的努力收到了成效。"
    ],
    [
        "As with malaria drugs, millions of people would benefit from such an idea, but their ability to pay is limited.",
        "就像疟疾药一样，这种观点会让千百万人受益，但却很难获得回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it at all clear to what degree the Iraqis retain a stake in the idea of a united Iraqi state worth fighting for.",
        "伊拉克人为一个统一的伊拉克国家而战的信念究竟在多大程度上还存在也不得而知。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – After long years of failed international efforts to end Iran’s cunning drive to develop nuclear weapons, the question today is no longer whether the West can prevent the nuclearization of Iran’s military arsenal, but whether the Islamic regime collapses first.",
        "马德里 — 在国际社会终结伊朗秘密开发核武器的努力失败后，今天的问题已不再是西方能否阻止伊朗军火核武器化，而是这个伊斯兰政权是否会先垮台。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush’s war against Saddam did radically change the Middle East, though not as he envisaged.",
        "布什对萨达姆的战争的确从根本上改变了中东局势，尽管这种改变完全出乎他自己的预料。"
    ],
    [
        "Systemic reform requires recognizing and atoning for two original sins: not only that of bureaucrats who made money by abusing their power, but also that of capitalists who made money by breaking the rules.",
        "系统性制度改革需要承认和弥补两类原罪：一类是官员的以权谋利； 另一类是资本家及既得利益团体通过违反、破坏、或改变公平规则来谋利 。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, China’s desire to prevent drug trafficking in its southern province of Yunnan means that its police and security forces are taking a keen interest in what happens in Myanmar, a country that is also of special interest to India.",
        "比方说，中国的警察及安全部队因希望制止其南部省份云南的贩毒行为而对缅甸局势有着浓厚的兴趣，而印度也同样关注缅甸的局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Disagreements are increasingly depicted as being rooted in an East-West divide, as a struggle between believers and apostates.",
        "人们越发将观点不同视为植根于东西方之间的分歧以及信仰者和改换信仰者之间的斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "It was naive to believe that neither would respond.",
        "认为伊朗和俄罗斯不会有所反应是幼稚的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Italy, the upcoming plebiscite has become a popular confidence vote in Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who has said he will resign if the reforms are rejected.",
        "在意大利，即将到来的公决已经成为对总理伦齐的群众信心投票。 伦齐已经表示，如果改革遭拒，他将辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "Understanding why so many doctors struggle with it is the first step toward raising the standards of consent.",
        "理解为何如此多的医生为此烦恼是提高同意标准的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "True to the legacy of Friedrich List, the father of German economics, who wrote in 1841, “the power of producing wealth is therefore infinitely more important than wealth itself,” Germany has retained its manufacturing edge through a relentless commitment to process innovation, backed by a network of research institutes.",
        "德国经济学之父弗雷德里希·李斯特（Friedrich List）在1841年写道，“因此，创造财富的力量要比财富本身不知道重要多少倍，”确实如此，德国通过不懈地创新，以研究所网络为基础，保持着制造业优势。"
    ],
    [
        "New technologies are wiping out routine manual and cognitive middle-skill jobs, and exacerbating labor-income inequalities, the most important source of overall income inequalities.",
        "新技术正逐步消灭那些常规性的手工和中等认知技能工作，加剧了劳动收入的不平等，也是总体收入不平等的最重要来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, in 2000, Prime Minister Ehud Barak endorsed the Clinton Parameters, which called for Jerusalem’s division into two capitals along ethnic lines.",
        "类似地，2000年，巴拉克总理也赞同克林顿参数（Clinton Parameters），设想将耶路撒冷根据种族成分划分为两个首都。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a state of being beyond satisfaction, a flourishing and ambient joy.",
        "它的层次比满意更高，代表着一种蓬勃向上、无所不在的快乐。"
    ],
    [
        "Time to Bring Mahatma Gandhi Back",
        "是将圣雄甘地请回来的时候了"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, more often than not, the banks that failed or had to be rescued in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis had solvency ratios higher than those of banks that remained standing without assistance.",
        "事实上，在2008年金融危机中接受援助的银行中不乏偿债能力比率好于不需援助银行者。"
    ],
    [
        "The savagery and wanton cruelty of the attack shocked the country to its core.",
        "这一轻薄而野蛮的袭击恶行震入了印度的骨髓。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year alone the size of the world carbon market tripled to over $30 billion, of which about 20 percent went to projects in the developing world.",
        "仅仅去年一年，全世界的二氧化碳交易市场的规模就扩大了三倍，超过300亿美元，这其中的20％用于发展中国家的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU was based on a mechanical idea that interdependence would reduce conflict.",
        "欧盟是基于一个机械的概念——互相依存能减少冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Improved aquaculture, in which fish are grown at manmade fishponds and reservoirs is still far from being a perfect technology, mainly for environmental reasons, yet it is enormously promising.",
        "经过改良的水产养殖业可以将鱼类饲养在人工管理的池塘和水库，但这种技术目前还有待完善，特别是在环境保护领域还存在不少问题。 尽管存在种种缺点，但水产养殖技术的前景一片光明。"
    ],
    [
        "In the same period, doomsters performed even more poorly, exaggerating the chances of negative changes in all the same places where boomsters accentuated the positive, plus several more (I still await the impending disintegration of Canada, Nigeria, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Belgium, and Sudan).",
        "与此同时，悲观主义者的成绩更不容乐观，他们在乐观主义者强调积极因素的所有领域夸大了消极变化的机会，而且还不只于此（我还在静候加拿大、尼日利亚、印度、印尼、南非、比利时和苏丹的四分五裂）。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, they seem like fishing boats, not military vessels, though North Korean soldiers are frequently also fishermen.",
        "毕竟，尽管朝鲜士兵往往同时是渔民，这些船似乎并非军舰而仅仅是渔船。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, similar scandals removed liberal politicians from power in Hungary and Slovakia, which are now ruled by the most pro-Russian governments in the EU.",
        "与此同时，类似的丑闻也导致匈牙利和斯洛伐克自由政治家下台，上述两国现在均由欧盟内部最为亲俄的政府实际掌控。"
    ],
    [
        "For the search for law has an irresistible energy. No human obstruction can long withstand it.",
        "因为对法治的追求有着无法抗拒的力量，任何人为的障碍都无法阻挡它前进的步伐。"
    ],
    [
        "Under her leadership, Congress has pursued a populist agenda that increased transfer payments and reduced India’s annual economic-growth rate to less than 4% in 2013.",
        "在她的领导下，国大党追求民粹主义日程，增加转移支付，导致印度年经济增长率在2013年下跌至4%以下。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no recent example, however, of a major central bank setting a numerical employment target.",
        "但是，近年来从未有主要国家的央行设定就业数字目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Romer grounds his case in an ongoing debate in his field about the role that ideas play in promoting economic growth.",
        "罗默的观点十分契合他所属领域的一场未完的争论——思想在促进经济增长中的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the means, governments are striving to interfere with the work of political, social, and environmental activists to an extent not seen since before communism collapsed in Europe a quarter-century ago.",
        "不管采取什么措施，政府都是在竭尽全力干扰政治、社会和环境活动家的工作，其程度之深为四分之一世纪前欧洲共产主义倒台以来所未见。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Lee is no longer with us.",
        "不幸的是，李光耀已经永远离开了我们。"
    ],
    [
        "This pattern of behavior conforms to some of the worst undertakings of Africa’s elite.",
        "而这种行为模式恰恰源自于非洲统治精英的某些最恶劣的作为。"
    ],
    [
        "Heeding History in East Asia",
        "留心东亚历史细节"
    ],
    [
        "The message was clear: not everyone begins life with the same chance of success.",
        "潜台词显而易见：并非所有人生而具有平等的成功机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The third arrow of Abenomics – structural policies aimed at boosting potential growth – has barely been launched.",
        "安倍经济学的第三支箭——旨在提高潜在增长的结构性政策——至今都尚未发出。"
    ],
    [
        "But here, too, realism should prevail.",
        "但在这方面，也应该持有现实主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Damage to the power supply reduced a third of Manhattan to a pre-modern state of darkness.",
        "断电将三分之一曼哈顿陷入了前现代的黑暗状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Scholars speak of “the empire striking back,” referring to former colonized peoples, such as immigrants from Africa and India, settling in Europe and North America and then challenging norms of race and identity.",
        "这就是学者们所说的“帝国反击战”，也就是曾经的殖民地民众，比如来自非洲和印度的移民在欧洲和北美站稳脚跟后，对种族和身份的标准发起挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s financial good behavior was rewarded as recently as April of this year when Standard & Poor’s raised its credit rating to investment-grade. (South Korea has been investment-grade for years.)",
        "巴西在财政上的良好表现使标准普尔甚至在今年四月将它的信用评级提高到了投资级（而韩国多年来一直被评为投资级）。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the argument that the UK could negotiate favorable terms for selling its goods in the EU makes little sense, as Europe’s single market matters far more to British exporters than the UK market matters to European businesses.",
        "首先，英国可以谈判以优惠条件在欧盟内部出售其商品的提法就没有什么意义，因为欧洲统一市场对英国出口企业的意义远大于英国市场之于欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "So other pressure will need to be applied, primarily by the European Union and the United States.",
        "因此，乌克兰需要其他方面的压力，主要来自欧盟和美国。"
    ],
    [
        "More than anything else, Hamas’s success in the coming months will be measured by its response to these issues.",
        "哈马斯如何应对这些问题将比其他东西更能够衡量其在未来几个月中的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The example of Greece before and during the eurozone crisis shows that it is often hard for countries to be tough on their neighbors.",
        "在欧元区危机之前和期间的希腊就表明让各国对邻国采取强硬往往都是非常困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "When dealing with the EU, member states usually aim for arrangements and regulations that ensure cooperation within agreed-upon frameworks.",
        "在处理涉及到欧盟的问题时，各成员国通常的目标是达成确保能在协议框架内进行合作的协议和法令。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, two small studies of blood tests seemed to predict Alzheimer’s 1-3 years before it occurred, but the tests are complicated and require the measurement of ten or more substances.",
        "今年，两项小型血液测试研究似乎可以在阿尔茨海默症出现前1—3年作出预测，但测试很复杂，需要测量十种或以上物质。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 80% of Dutch children report their classmates to be “kind and helpful,” compared to just 56% of American children.",
        "80%的荷兰孩子报告他们的同班同学是“淳朴益友”，而美国孩子的这一比例只有56%。"
    ],
    [
        "Most policymakers would draw the conclusion that strengthening and cleaning up government and promoting economic growth will improve the status of women.",
        "大多数决策者的结论是强化清理政府和促进经济增长能够提升女性地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the more Israel gave, the more slander and hostility it faced in many sectors.",
        "事实上，以色列付出的越多，它在许多领域面临的诋毁和敌意就越是沸沸扬扬。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, students value their degree by the first job it gets them rather than the life it prepares them for over the next half-century.",
        "毫不奇怪，学生们通过他们得到的第一份工作来确定他们的学位的价值，而不是它为他们在接下来的半个多世纪的生活所做的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "One is the decision by the United States to reconsider its policy of sanctions, becoming more flexible while remaining true to its values and interests.",
        "其一是美国决意重新考虑其制裁政策，目标是在坚持核心价值观和利益的同时处事更加灵活。"
    ],
    [
        "The nature of capitalist growth requires us to take a more holistic view and work out how we can achieve sustainable development.",
        "资本主义的发展特性要求我们从全局出发思考如何取得可持续发展。"
    ],
    [
        "It is already inexpensive, but it is a solid rather than a liquid, a major pollutant, and a source of greenhouse gas emissions.",
        "煤价已经很低，不过煤是固体而非液体，污染严重，是温室效应气体的排放源。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the third engine, Japan, is running out of fuel after a year of fiscal and monetary stimulus.",
        "类似地，第三个引擎——日本在一年的财政和货币刺激后也失去了动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of whether Gates lives up to his promise, are people like him the exception that proves the rule?",
        "无论盖茨是否履行诺言，像他这样的人们是否证明这一规则的例外呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In China, by contrast, officials can exchange favors while in office for higher-paying jobs or benefits after retirement.",
        "而在中国，一些官员往往为了离职后得到回馈来帮助利益集团获利。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the G-7 governments should intensify their efforts to address AMR.",
        "因此，G-7政府应该加紧解决AMR。"
    ],
    [
        "Myanmar’s democratic transition remains fragile, with civil-military relations, poverty, economic growth, and governance competing for attention.",
        "缅甸的民主过渡进程仍然非常脆弱，有限的资源根本无法覆盖军民关系、贫困、经济增长和政府治理。"
    ],
    [
        "How will the American and Asian countries that have largely ignored ratification respond?",
        "大多对该公约生效视而不见的美洲和亚洲国家会如何应对？"
    ],
    [
        "Though nationalist politics was long suppressed after World War II by economic prosperity and memories of pre-war horrors, Europe offers fertile ground for its revival.",
        "尽管自二战以来，民族主义政治就一直被经济繁荣和战前恐怖的记忆所抑制，但欧洲为其复苏提供了温床。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, despite more than three decades of legal reform in China, Chen had precious little recourse to fight harassment and house arrest at the hands of the Chinese authorities.",
        "但是，即使找到了此次外交惨败的出路，该案件仍有许多麻烦，特别是在中国当局手中，陈光诚几乎没有珍贵的追索权来对抗骚扰和软禁，虽然中国的法律改革已经进行了三十多年。"
    ],
    [
        "It is in times of crisis that Utopian ideas about ways of guaranteeing human happiness flourish, often claiming some scientific basis.",
        "在危机发生的时代，保证人类幸福的乌托邦理念会盛行，而且往往会引用一些科学的依据。"
    ],
    [
        "Brigadier General Kyaw Hsan, a representative of the military, recently told UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari that the marchers in the streets were “bogus monks.”",
        "作为军方代表的觉山准将最近告诉联合国特使甘巴里说大街上的游行者是“冒牌的僧侣”。"
    ],
    [
        "There is now a whole industry of such products, as well as health foods classified as “natural,” “organic,” and “functional.”",
        "这种食品及那些被归类为“天然”、“有机”和“功能性”的食品现在已成为了一个完整的产业。"
    ],
    [
        "What is moderately bad news at the moment will become terrible news only if economic distress in the advanced countries – especially the US – is allowed to morph into xenophobia and all-out protectionism; if large emerging markets such as China, India, and Brazil fail to realize that they have become too important to free ride on global economic governance; and if, as a consequence, others overreact by turning their back on the world economy and pursue autarkic policies.",
        "现在稍微不妙的消息只有发生以下情况才会成为变得糟糕透顶，也就是任凭发达国家、特别是美国的经济困难演变成为排外和全面的保护主义，中国、印度和巴西等新兴经济大国无法认识到其经济已经变得十分重要而忽视全球经济管治以及因此其他国家回避世界经济转而实行封闭的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But the region has struggled to regain momentum since the global financial crisis and subsequent recession.",
        "但自全球金融危机及其后的衰退以来，该地区一直难以重获动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The countries represented must show a generous spirit and make the world economy work for all people.",
        "参加的国家代表必须有着宽阔的胸襟，目的是为了整个人类的经济而努力。"
    ],
    [
        "This is fueling tremendous anxiety in the region and has contributed to the overthrow of existing alliances and the search for new ones.",
        "美国撤军助长了该地区的焦虑情绪，加速了原有联盟的解体和新联盟的构成。"
    ],
    [
        "Is there any mechanism within the US Constitution, or other constitutions, to prevent this?",
        "美国或其他国家宪法有防止这一幕发生的机制吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In a highly complex and diverse world, the EU stands out for its homogeneity.",
        "此外，在这个高度复杂和多样性的世界上，欧盟却依然在努力维护其单一性。"
    ],
    [
        "The surplus has narrowed because investment has been ramped up even higher, to roughly 49% of GDP.",
        "其盈余之所以减少，是因为投资增加得更快，达到了GDP的49%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumers who are forced to pay higher prices for energy will have less money to spend on other things.",
        "被迫为能源付出高价的消费者花在其他东西上的钱将会减少。"
    ],
    [
        "The education of the world’s youth offers the surest path – indeed, the only path – to global sustainable development.",
        "教育全世界年轻人是全球可持续发展最可靠的道路——事实上，也是唯一的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy, on the other hand, might wish for a zero-nuclear risk environment, as it does not produce electricity from nuclear power but is surrounded (within about 100 miles) by one Slovene, one Swiss, and six French nuclear-power plants.",
        "相反意大利可能会寻求实现一个零核风险环境，因为该国本身并不生产核电，电都是从其国土附近100英里内的各国核电站（其中法国6座，斯洛文尼亚和瑞士各一座）买来的。"
    ],
    [
        "Essentially, the concept has served to justify collectivist-authoritarian rule by aligning it with local tradition and culture, with autonomy defined in terms of otherness – that is, differentiation from the West and its values.",
        "从本质上，这一概念就是为了证明某种集体主义专制统治是源于当地传统和文化的正当产物，而自治则被定义为是一种外来物——换句话说，这就是一种与西方及其价值观完全不相同的事物。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is worth looking back to the hopes that were linked to those wonderfully expectant days and nights on Maidan Square in the center of Kiev, and to Yushchenko’s electoral victory.",
        "所以，现在值得回顾一下，想当年，基辅市中心的独立广场那些激动人心的日日夜夜、尤先科的最终当选，牵出了多少 憧憬 和希望。"
    ],
    [
        "And a female UN Secretary-General would have placed women at the helm of two of the world’s three biggest international organizations (France’s Christine Lagarde already runs the International Monetary Fund).",
        "而女联合国秘书长将让女性拥有世界三大国际组织中两个的最高职位。"
    ],
    [
        "It should do so by setting a concrete goal for a workable development framework with a clear timeline for reaching specific milestones.",
        "中国的做法，应该是为可行发展框架制定一个切实目标，这个目标要带有实现具体里程碑的明确时间表。"
    ],
    [
        "They have become victims only because the estimated $125 million in ransom money paid to such groups over the past six years has enabled them to arm more militants to carry out lethal attacks.",
        "他们之所以成为受害者，完全是因为过去六年所支付的大约1. 25亿美元赎金让伊斯兰国能够武装更多的军人实施致命袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, the electorate includes 714 million voters, an increase of 43 million over the previous general election in 2004.",
        "本次的印度选举，选民人数高达7. 14亿人，比2004年的前一次普选增加了4300万人。"
    ],
    [
        "As one senior commander told me, “the Taliban are better equipped and have more fire power.”",
        "正如一位高级指挥官告诉我的那样，“塔利班的武器装备更好并且火力更足。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans remained divided on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (though to a lesser degree than in previous years), and failed to have an impact on the United Nations vote in November to upgrade Palestine’s status.",
        "在以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突问题上（尽管较前几年相比有所收敛），欧洲未形成一致，也没有在11月联合国投票表决升级巴勒斯坦地位中起到作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Morsi seems as besieged as Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.",
        "今天，穆尔西似乎面临叙利亚总统巴沙尔•阿萨德一样的困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Perversely, some provincial governors and government officials are themselves major players in the drug trade.",
        "某些省长以及政府官员竟然也是毒品贸易的主要经营者。"
    ],
    [
        "This expectation was reinforced by the assumption that more competition could lead to higher-quality news.",
        "这一预期因为增加竞争能够带来更高质量的新闻的假设而强化。"
    ],
    [
        "What that means needs little clarification.",
        "这些说辞的用意不言而喻。"
    ],
    [
        "Automation is set to sustain, and even accelerate, change on the demand side of labor markets, in areas ranging from manufacturing and logistics to medicine and law, while supply-side responses will be much slower.",
        "自动化有可能将保持乃至加快劳动力市场需求侧的变化，从制造、物流到医药、法律都是如此，而供给侧的反应会慢得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia and the United States have each deployed more than 1,800 strategic warheads on several hundred submarines, bombers, and missiles – far more than is necessary to deter a nuclear attack.",
        "俄罗斯和美国各自通过数百部潜艇、轰炸机和导弹部署了超过1,800枚战略弹头——远远多于核打击威慑所需要的量。"
    ],
    [
        "Or is such a goal necessary because a financial center can determine the fate of a great metropolis?",
        "或者是一个金融中心可以决定一个大都市的命运，就必须有这样的一个目标呢？"
    ],
    [
        "No social or political organization in human history has come closer than liberal democracy to realizing the ideal of equal opportunity for all.",
        "在人类历史上，没有任何社会或政治组织比自由民主更加接近于实现人人机会平等的理想。"
    ],
    [
        "The Irrelevant German Consumer",
        "不相干的德国消费者"
    ],
    [
        "The UNHCR has been doing an important job in protecting refugees, but it cannot possibly address their needs alone.",
        "联合国难民署在保护难民方面起着重要作用，但它不可能满足难民的全部需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Public policy is defined by the public’s interest in the policy, not who made it.",
        "公共政策的定义由政策中的公共利益，而非它的制定者来决定。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – According to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters, his overwhelming victory in India’s general elections was a sweeping repudiation of everything for which the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, led by the Indian National Congress, stood.",
        "新德里—根据总理纳兰德拉·莫迪的支持者的说法，他在印度大选中的压倒性胜利表明印度人民全盘否定由印度国大党领导的前团结进步联盟（United Progressive Alliance，UPA）政府的一切。"
    ],
    [
        "It was his ambition to subject the country to truly far-reaching social and political reforms that sealed his downfall and also brought about this new trial, which appears intended to silence him for good.",
        "正是他的这种让国家进行真正影响深远的社会和政治改革的雄心，带来了他跨掉的命运和这次新的审判，而这次审判的目的似乎是让他永远闭口。"
    ],
    [
        "This hasn’t deterred outsiders from speculating, but there is not much point in playing that guessing game.",
        "这并没有阻止外部人士的猜测，但这场猜谜游戏没有什么玩的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Prior to his appointment, Bannon was the executive chairman of Breitbart News, a far-right, hyper-nationalist – indeed white supremacist – online publication.",
        "在接受任命前，班农曾出任布莱巴特新闻的执行主席，他是一位极右翼超民族主义者——实际是奉行白人至上的——在线刊物主席。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian President Vladimir Putin has intentionally exacerbated at least four of these crises.",
        "俄罗斯总统普京有意识地加剧了其中至少四场危机。"
    ],
    [
        "A Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, adjusted by agreement through mutual land swaps.",
        "通过协商互换领土调整在1967年边境内建立巴勒斯坦国；"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond tourism, no smart business makes investment or trade decisions simply because a city has hosted the Olympics.",
        "除了旅游业，聪明的企业都不会仅仅因为一座城市主办奥运会而做出投资或贸易决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottom line, however, is that even the domestic issues that loomed so large in the election can never be addressed effectively without regard for the colossal sums that Netanyahu and his allies have been pouring into the occupation system in Palestinian lands.",
        "不过，最根本的问题在于即使国内问题，对选举的影响也很大，且无法在不考虑内塔尼亚胡及其盟友为巴勒斯坦土地占领体系的巨额投入的情况下得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, he enlisted former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton to lead a private fundraising effort.",
        "而且，他还请求前总统乔治·布什和比尔·克林顿加盟，开展民间募捐活动。"
    ],
    [
        "At a minimum, a thorough reexamination and full public debate must precede the construction of any new nuclear plant.",
        "至少，新核电站动工之前必须进行彻底的复查和充分的公开辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "But TPP advocates have largely ignored these results, preferring to cite two studies by the Peterson Institute of International Economics, a well-known cheerleader for economic globalization.",
        "但TPP支持者基本无视这些结果，而更喜欢援引彼得森国际经济学研究所（PIIE）的两项研究。 众所周知，PIIE是经济全球化的支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "While the UK could negotiate new agreements with these partners, that would take time, and, acting alone, its negotiating power would presumably be weaker.",
        "英国可以与这些合作伙伴谈判新的协定，但这需要时间，并且单独行动的话，其谈判力必将受到削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Extricating Britain (the EU’s second-largest economy, with a population of 64 million) would be far more complex.",
        "而英国这个拥有6400万人口的欧盟第二大经济体如果要退出，情况肯定会更为复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "America is and always will be a Pacific nation.",
        "不管现在还是将来，美国将永远是一个太平洋国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Not coincidentally, mainstream leaders, from German Chancellor Angela Merkel to British Prime Minister David Cameron, have caught up with the current mood by deeming European multiculturalism a failure.",
        "而德国总理默克尔和英国首相卡梅隆等一众大国领导人都受到了当前这种情绪的影响，认定欧洲多元文化主义即将破产了。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it has triggered a sharp rise in China’s stock markets.",
        "相反，货币政策的调整导致了中国股市大涨。"
    ],
    [
        "To compensate for the negative impact on GDP growth, and with export growth constrained by weak global demand, consumption must rise even more sharply, which is hard to imagine.",
        "为了补偿由此产生的对GDP增长的不利冲击，在出口增长仍受全球需求萎靡约束的情况下，消费必须出现迅速增加，而这一点很难实现。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, a breakdown of TTIP talks would give considerable ammunition to those in the United Kingdom who advocate withdrawal from the EU; conversely, if the TTIP were implemented, the UK would be unwise – and thus unlikely – to leave.",
        "首先，TTIP谈判的破裂将极大地加强英国鼓吹离开欧盟阵营的力量； 反之，如果TTIP获得实施，英国离开欧盟将是不明智之举，因此也不会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, periods of low rainfall over the last 20 years have often been followed by spikes in violence, civil wars, and regime change.",
        "例如在撒哈拉以南非洲地区，过去20年中降雨量稀少期过后往往伴随着内战、政权更迭和暴力活动抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "In the run-up to this year’s G20 summit in Hamburg, I started to worry that Germany would fall short of these expectations.",
        "随着今年G20汉堡峰会的临近，我开始担心德国无法达到人们的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "I suggest the creation of a new institutional post of Special Representative on foreign energy policy, which would facilitate the coordination of all policies related to the external aspects of energy security.",
        "我提议创立一个新的对外能源政策特别代表的职位，以协调与对外能源安全相关的所有政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only will finding the staff to care for an aging population become more difficult; obtaining sufficient revenue to fund social security systems will also become harder as the dependency ratio rises.",
        "不但照顾日已老化的人口将变得更加困难； 获取足够收入来为社会保障体系提供资金也将随着赡养比的上升而日益艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "We allocated $50 billion to research into greener technology, so that only $750 billion could be absorbed by the economic cost of adaptation and mitigation.",
        "我们假定为更环保的技术的研究投入500亿美元，因而减弱和适应气候变化的经济成本就只有7500亿美元可供利用。"
    ],
    [
        "As oil prices fall, households' real (inflation-adjusted) income should rise, because they do not have to spend as much on fuel and heating.",
        "随着油价下跌，家庭的实际（排除通胀因素）收入应当有所上升，因为油费和供暖费用减少了。"
    ],
    [
        "As Karzai’s statement shows, the problems have not gone away.",
        "”卡尔扎伊的声明表明，这一问题从未消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Taking them seriously means considering long historical intervals, because institutions change slowly and vary significantly only over time.",
        "认真处理这些因素意味着考察长期历史时期，因为制度的演变十分缓慢，并且只能随着时间的推移发生重大变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The trip also heralds a dramatic shift in Israel’s relationship with Obama, who has been criticized throughout his presidency for supposedly failing to provide sufficient support to America’s strongest ally in the Middle East.",
        "以色列之行还预示着以色列与奥巴马关系的重大变局，在其总统生涯中，奥巴马一直被批评故意不为美国中东最强盟国提供足够支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Public investment is a complement to private investment; if designed and targeted well, it can trigger more private investment, rather than crowding it out.",
        "公共投资是私人投资的补充； 如能精心规划和定向，公共投资能带来而不是挤出更多私人投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Any chance for people to voice their views, even in rigged elections, is a good thing.",
        "任何能够表达自己观点的机会，即使是在作弊的选举中，对于人民而言都是一件好事。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – George W. Bush has started work on his memoirs.",
        "伦敦——乔治·W·布什已经开始撰写回忆录。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not surprising, because state revenues expand with rising prices, while expenditures are largely fixed.",
        "这并不令人惊讶，因为国家财政收入与物价一起上升，而开支则大体上固定。"
    ],
    [
        "They began to study religion alone, insisting that only those who study religion – particularly Islamic jurisprudence – gain merit in the afterlife. The result was intellectual regression at the very moment that Europe began embracing scientific and mathematical knowledge.",
        "他们开始专攻宗教，坚持认为只有学习宗教——特别是伊斯兰宗教法学——的人才能为死后积累功德，结果造成理性的衰退，而欧洲却在这个时刻开始飞速发展自然科学和数学知识。"
    ],
    [
        "In just a few years, the Union built a framework for managing civilian and military crises, however imperfect or incomplete these tools may still be.",
        "在仅仅的几年时间内，欧盟就建立一个处理民事和军事危机的框架，尽管这个框架尚未完善，也难言完整。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic and cultural backlashes against globalization do not always overlap.",
        "反对全球化的经济和文化力量并不总是冲合在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "The outcome of the climate talks in Copenhagen is a third reason for concern.",
        "而第三个要关注的理由则是哥本哈根气候会谈的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "They might also hope for a housing program that finally addresses America’s foreclosure crisis.",
        "美国人或许还希望能有一个可以最终解决美国止赎危机的住房计划。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first six months of 2004, there were already 1208 stories.",
        "而在2004年的前6个月就已经有1208篇相关报道。"
    ],
    [
        "He has not attended any Republican National Conventions since leaving office, and he may wish that he had he never sent James Baker to Florida in November 2000 to secure his victory over Al Gore.",
        "他自离任以来就没有出席过任何一届共和党全国会议，或许他一直在悔恨，后悔不该在2000年11月派自己的总法律顾问詹姆斯·贝克（James Baker）去佛罗里达州运作重新计票，这样当总统的人就会是阿尔·戈尔了。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the right framework, there is no reason for it to remain in the shadows.",
        "只要有了正确的框架，那么产业政策的应用将更为广阔。"
    ],
    [
        "The concept of “native advertising” (paid advertising masquerading as editorial content) is distressingly applicable at sponsored events.",
        "“原生广告” （即伪装成评论内容的付费广告）理念非常适合主办会议。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, cure-focused studies of elite controllers are yielding clues about regions of the virus that mutate less, which could hold important lessons for vaccine researchers.",
        "此外，精英控制组以治疗为重点的研究已经找到了病毒变异较小区域的线索，该结果可以在很大程度上帮助疫苗研究者。"
    ],
    [
        "The sources of those tensions are clear: North Korea’s shelling of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island and its flaunting of a modern, previously unknown, nuclear plant; the US-led armada now cruising through the South China and Yellow Sea; and China’s claim that the South China Sea is an area of vital national interest akin to Tibet.",
        "这些紧张局势的根源其实很清晰：朝鲜一方面对韩国延坪岛进行炮击，另一方面又明目张胆地披露自己的现代化核设施； 以美国为首的舰队在南中国海和黄海横冲直撞；"
    ],
    [
        "The Iran negotiations were vital to ensuring the integrity of the system.",
        "伊朗谈判对于保证这一体系的完整性至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that world leaders now increasingly talk about this imperative suggests that the lesson of Chernobyl is finally being understood.",
        "世界领导人们加大谈论这一迫切问题这一事实就表明世界终于开始理解切尔诺贝利的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Having apparently failed in their seven-year campaign to deprive millions of Americans of health insurance, they dare not fail in their Scrooge-like campaign to transfer billions of dollars from the middle class to the ultra-rich.",
        "他们用七年时间运作剥夺数百万美国人民的医保，结果遭到了彻底的失败，因此，对于他们的吝啬鬼式的将数十亿美元从中产阶级转移到巨富阶层手中的计划，不容有任何闪失。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason to suppose that the region could not have found its own path to peace, prosperity, and democracy.",
        "没有理由认为亚洲地区无法找到其自身的和平、繁荣和民主之路。"
    ],
    [
        "A state becomes a world power when its strategic significance and potential give it global reach.",
        "当战略重要性和潜力令一个国家可以将自己的势力延伸到全球的时候，它就变成了一个全球势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Job protection benefits the employed at the expense of the unemployed, and some unions, notably the most militant, are strongly opposed to greater flexibility, and have already threatened to block liberalizing measures in the streets.",
        "就业保护对已就业人员有益，但却以失业者为代价。 某些工会，特别是那些最好战的工会，强烈反对提高灵活性，并已威胁要走上街头阻挠自由化措施的实施。"
    ],
    [
        "This tax-favored employee saving plan is a good substitute for more comprehensive social-security pensions, but it has had the undesirable effect of increasing household saving, rather than increasing consumer spending.",
        "这一有税收优惠的雇员储蓄计划是更全面的社会保障退休金的优质替代品，但也有增加家庭储蓄而非消费支出的副作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for many companies entering Africa or seeking to expand there from a local base, the challenge now is to obtain a better understanding of the market and its consumers.",
        "但对许多正在进入非洲或者试图在当地实现扩张的企业来说，如今的挑战在于能否更好地了解这个市场及其消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "And the man whom US voters choose to lead their country will affect the lives of everyone, not just Americans.",
        "而美国选民选出的国家领导人将影响每个人的生活——不只是美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, there is a gnawing fear that the US may yet choose the “G-2” option: a grand bargain with China for the two countries to decide Asia’s fate by themselves and over our heads.",
        "特别是，亚洲十分担心美国会选择“G2”战略：与中国做一笔大交易，中美凌驾于我们其他国家之上，决定亚洲的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "Along with strong prudential supervision, this should help manage the vulnerabilities of capital-account volatility and credit booms, and lay the groundwork for the eventual adoption of the euro.",
        "和强大而谨慎的监管结合之后，这将会有利于管理资本账户和信贷繁荣的弱点，从而为最终采用欧元铺平道路。"
    ],
    [
        "If resumption of political violence and property destruction is to be avoided, a new internal security policy will be needed.",
        "如果要避免政治暴力和摧毁财产卷土重来就需要一个新的内部安全政策。"
    ],
    [
        "For 18 months after 9/11, he managed to suppress all dissent. That is how he led America in the wrong direction.",
        "9/11以后长达18个月，他成功地压制了所有的不同意见，他就是这样把美国引入了歧途。"
    ],
    [
        "In a panic, acting President Dioncounda Traoré, a colonel from the south, called upon the French authorities to enforce a bilateral defense agreement, though he had contributed to the coup that drove the legally elected former president, Amadou Toumani Touré, into exile, causing the state to collapse and straining relations with France.",
        "在恐慌中，来自南方的代理总统特劳雷上校求助于法国当局派兵履行双边防务协定，尽管他也参与了推翻合法当选的前总统图雷迫使其流亡的政变。 这场政变导致了国家的崩溃，也恶化了与法国的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "High public-debt levels would still have to be reduced to create fiscal space and keep interest rates low enough to restore long-term confidence.",
        "高公债水平仍必须有所削减，以创造财政空间并保持利率水平足够低从而重塑长期信心。"
    ],
    [
        "The family lived in penury. The father died from ill-treatment during the Cultural Revolution.",
        "一家人生活在贫困之中，而父亲则死于”文革“期间的虐待。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a shared responsibility, and member states have to play their part.",
        "这是一项共同的责任，成员国都应该各尽其责。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon afterwards, many friends and I formed the International Committee for Democracy in Cuba.",
        "此后不久，我和许多朋友成立了“古巴民主国际委员会”。"
    ],
    [
        "The theoretical ideal occurs when financial contracts spread the risks all over the world, so that billions of willing investors each own a tiny share, and no one is over-exposed.",
        "这条理论假设伴随着金融合同向全世界分散风险而推而广之，于是数十亿投资者每人都分担了一点风险，也没人会被暴露在过高风险之下。"
    ],
    [
        "Left unchecked, global warming will threaten the health and safety of our people, damage the ecosystems on which we all depend, and – through rising sea levels – put the very existence of some countries in jeopardy.",
        "因为如果放任其发展的话，全球变暖将威胁我国民众的健康和安全，破坏对我们赖以生存的生态系统，同时——通过海平面的提升——令一些国家的生存岌岌可危。"
    ],
    [
        "In September, the reservoirs in China’s Henan province dried up, leaving crops to shrivel and forcing some residents to drink from puddles on the ground.",
        "9月，中国河南省水库干涸，导致庄稼枯萎并迫使部分居民从水坑里取水。"
    ],
    [
        "His conviction on sodomy charges will effectively ban him from politics for five years, at a moment when the opposition is posing the most serious challenge to Malaysia’s ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) since the country gained its independence from the British Empire in 1958.",
        "他因鸡奸而被定罪，五年内无法从政，而这正逢1958年马来西亚从大英帝国独立以来反对派对执政党马来民族统一组织（United Malays National Organization，UMNO）构成最严重的挑战之时。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these programs can be based on pay-for-performance contracts, such as social impact bonds, in which the federal and state governments share risk with private-sector actors.",
        "这些计划中有许多可以基于按表现付酬合同，如社会影响债券（social impact bonds，由联邦和州政府与私人部门行动方共同承担风险）。"
    ],
    [
        "Vietnam’s Chinese Lessons",
        "中国留给越南的教训"
    ],
    [
        "And Worktopia is an online marketplace for business meeting rooms.",
        "）。 而Worktopia这个在线市场则专门提供商务会议室服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Then again, part of our unease probably has to do with what we perceive as an unequal exchange.",
        "再一次，我们的不安可能部分来自我们对不公平交换的定义。"
    ],
    [
        "The subject was barely discussed in the country’s recent election campaign.",
        "欧元危机在最近的德国大选中几乎无人提及。"
    ],
    [
        "That applies to Russia, too.",
        "这同样对俄罗斯适用。"
    ],
    [
        "According to fisheries economists, subsidies by some of the world’s richest countries are the only reason large-scale industrial fishing in areas beyond coastal countries’ 200-mile exclusive economic zones is profitable.",
        "据渔业经济学家的数据，一些世界最富裕国家的补贴是在沿海国家200英里专属经济区外进行大规模工业捕捞有利可图的唯一原因。"
    ],
    [
        "At the very moment when negotiations were beginning in Geneva, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) that the possibility of a pre-emptive attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could not yet be ruled out.",
        "就在日内瓦谈判开始举行的时候，以色列总理内塔尼亚胡在以色列议会说，不能排除对伊朗核设施采取先发制人打击的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Burma is suffering the impact of decades of civil war.",
        "缅甸正在遭受数十年之久的内战影响。"
    ],
    [
        "If Europeans are to overcome their fear of giving up sovereignty in order to achieve political union, a civic sense of attachment to Europe and its institutions must be regained and nurtured.",
        "如果欧洲人想要克服对放弃主权以实现政治联盟的恐惧，一种归依欧洲和欧洲机构的公民意识必须重新树立并成长起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Industrialized and urbanized countries, with relatively small agricultural sectors, such as the Czech Republic, Slovenia, or Slovakia, have different concerns than Poland, where farmers form 20% of the population.",
        "在工业化和城市化（程度较高）而农业所占比重相对较小的国家，如捷克共和国、斯洛文尼亚或斯洛伐克，其所关注的重点与农业人口占20%的波兰就有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "To speed the process, a new long-term strategy aimed at the underlying factors at work in North Korea – and in relations with its rulers – is needed.",
        "为了加快这一进程，人们需要制定一种新的长期战略，这一战略将以那些对朝鲜（以及与该国领导人的关系）起作用的内在因素为目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Ramaphosa will now almost certainly be elected South Africa’s president in 2019 – if not before.",
        "拉马福萨几乎肯定会在2019年当选为南非总统——只会更早，不会更迟。"
    ],
    [
        "Their needs can be different from those of the rich.",
        "他们的需求与富人不同。"
    ],
    [
        "This acceptance of collective responsibility should come with abandoning US veto power in the IMF by lowering required voting majorities, as well as abandoning Europe’s prerogative of appointing the Managing Director.",
        "随着美国对集体责任的接受，也就是意味着放弃美国在IMF的一票否决权，对其他大多数的国家来说是一件好事。 同样欧洲也应该放弃在IMF任命执行总裁的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "More interestingly still: why do some not resign although there seem to be compelling reasons for some to do so?",
        "更有趣的是：为什么尽管有人早该辞职，却没有这么做？"
    ],
    [
        "Evidently, investors were supposed to infer that for all practical purposes they should think of Spanish and German debt as identical – the old hubris of the eurozone.",
        "显然，他们认为务实的投资者会因此推断，西班牙和德国债务完全等价——此乃欧元区固有的傲慢。"
    ],
    [
        "This year’s dramatic events in North Africa and the Middle East inspired people around the globe.",
        "今年在北非和中东所发生的重大事件鼓舞着全球人民。"
    ],
    [
        "What cuisine is to the French, soccer is to Brazilians: a matter of the highest national pride.",
        "足球之于巴西，正如烹饪之于法国，乃国之瑰宝也。"
    ],
    [
        "The remaining 20,000 tons came from so-called secondary uranium sources – mainly inventories held by utilities and governments, re-processed nuclear fuel, and stockpiles of depleted uranium.",
        "而剩下的2万当量吨缺口就由所谓的“二次铀资源”来满足——主要是一些公营机构和政府的库存，再加工的核燃料以及贫化铀储藏。"
    ],
    [
        "This would hinder negotiations, and could ultimately damage public support for EU membership.",
        "这会阻碍谈判，并最终破坏欧盟成员资格的公众支持。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – The G-20’s decision in November 2008 not to let any systemically relevant bank perish may have seemed wise at the time, given the threat of a global financial meltdown.",
        "柏林—2008年，G20决心不让一家具系统重要性的银行倒闭，从当时看，这一决定是明智的，因为当时全球金融系统面临崩溃风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Political preferences, not scientific or ecological necessity, explain the appeal of geoengineering.",
        "政治偏好，而不是科学或生态必要性，才是地球工程吸引力的来源。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the Bank’s recent study The Many Faces of Corruption estimates, that illegal logging causes annual losses of about $10 billion in the forestry sector.",
        "例如，世行在最近的研究报告《腐败面面观》中估计，非法砍伐每年给森林工业造成的损失达100亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The figures are striking.",
        "这些数字令人触目惊心。"
    ],
    [
        "And just three companies – ExxonMobil, General Electric, and Microsoft – made the top ten in terms of market capitalization in both 2006 and 2015.",
        "而只有三家公司——埃克森美孚、通用电气和微软——的市值在2006年和2015年都跻身前十。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past two decades, government outlays for skills training and labor-market adjustment have fallen in most OECD countries.",
        "在过去20年中，绝大多数经合组织国家政府的技能培训和劳动力市场调整支出均呈下降趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "The war on terror’s emphasis on military action merely increases the terrorist threat and makes the task of the intelligence agencies more difficult.",
        "反恐战争强调军事行动仅仅增加了恐怖威胁并使得情报部分的任务更加艰巨。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is possible for too large of an increase to put pressure on real interest rates, thereby crowding out potential private investment.",
        "当然，有可能增量太大以至于对实际利率产生压力，从而挤出潜在私人投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Resolving these semi-dormant wars requires stepped-up political involvement, economic engagement, and a willingness to provide Western peacekeeping forces and monitors if and when they are needed.",
        "我们需要在政治上更多介入、在经济上更多支持和在必要时派出西方维和部队进行监管，才能使这场处于半休眠状态的战争消弭于无形。"
    ],
    [
        "He has indicated that, if elected, he would re-negotiate the fiscal treaty and seek to alter the statutes of the European Central Bank – perhaps as an early sign of willingness to break with European orthodoxy.",
        "他声称，如若当选，将重启财政条约谈判，并寻求改变欧洲央行的地位——这或许是他准备与欧洲正统决裂的先声。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, for some low-income countries, increased manufacturing and service-sector automation of the sort described by Brynjolfsson and McAfee, whether within advanced economies or within China’s established industrial clusters, will make the path to middle- and high-income status more difficult to achieve.",
        "与此同时，对某些低收入国家来说，布伦乔尔森和麦卡菲所提出的那种制造业和服务业自动化，无论是在发达经济体还是中国已经成型的产业集群之中，都将令它们迈向中等/高收入国家的路径更加坎坷。"
    ],
    [
        "The thought of pushing the stranger off the footbridge elicits these responses.",
        "将陌生人推下天桥的念头会引起这样的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "It may have inserted computer worms into Iran’s atomic infrastructure.",
        "美国还可能在伊朗的原子能基础设施中植入了电脑蠕虫。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party will be unable to offer much opposition – all the more so in view of Hamas’s break with Iran (despite ongoing arms deliveries) a year ago.",
        "巴勒斯坦权力机构主席阿巴斯及其法塔赫党将无法与之对抗——特别是考虑到一年前哈马斯与伊朗的决裂（尽管仍进行着大规模武器贸易）。"
    ],
    [
        "Until the 1980s, this made sense.",
        "20世纪80年代前，这种选择自有其道理。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the IMF pinned significant blame for global financial instability on this policy.",
        "但IMF认为，该政策是造成全球金融动荡的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In presenting the United Kingdom’s 2015 budget in March, Osborne claimed that austerity had made Britain “walk tall” again.",
        "今年3月，在公布英国2015年预算时，奥斯本宣称紧缩让英国再一次“站了起来”。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, in less than a decade, GDP has tripled, making Turkey the world’s 16th largest economy.",
        "在不到十年的时间，国内生产总值已经翻了两番，使土耳其成为世界第16大经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "So my Foundation has a university program – now underway in nine countries – that is designed to take religion out of the sole preserve of divinity schools and start analyzing its role in the world today.",
        "因此我的基金会拥有一个大学项目——目前在九个国家的院校中推行——目的就是将宗教从神学院的高墙背后解放出来，并开始研究其在当今世界上所扮演的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "More than three years passed before new US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady set out a more satisfactory program, in which banks would be given a menu of options that included lower interest rates on the debt and a hefty discount on the principal.",
        "又过了三年多，新一任美国财长布雷迪（Nicholas Brady）制定了一个更令人满意的计划：让持有债权的银行选择，要么收取更低的利息，要么给本金打个大折扣。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ethiopia, for example, public investments in irrigation, transport, and power have produced a significant increase in agricultural productivity and incomes. This results in growth-promoting structural change, as increased demand spills over to non-agricultural sectors.",
        "以埃塞俄比亚为例，灌溉，运输和电力方面的公共投资显着提高了农业生产力和收入，并因此催生了促进增长的结构性变化，因为需求会外溢到非农业部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ initiative to unite the Palestinian leadership may lead to greater moderation on the part of Hamas and create real prospects for the negotiation of a two-state solution.",
        "巴勒斯坦总统阿巴斯联合巴勒斯坦领导层的倡议也许会使哈马斯方面变得更加温和，并且为双方的和解创造真正的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the short-term challenges ahead, we all have a duty to profoundly change the way we prepare our children to cope with today’s new world.",
        "除了眼前的短期挑战，我们所有人都有责任彻底改变我们为子孙后代准备的应对当今新世界的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "The 147 students killed in an attack by the extremist group Al-Shabab at a college close to Kenya’s border with Somalia are only the latest victims in a succession of outrages in which educational institutions have been singled out for attack.",
        "极端组织青年党（Al-Shabab）最近袭击了一所肯尼亚靠近索马里边境地区的学院、杀戮147名学生。 这只是一连串以教育机构为袭击目标的暴行中的最新一次。"
    ],
    [
        "The increase in the number of retirement years put Social Security in financial trouble.",
        "退休岁月的增长让社会保障计划陷入了财务困境。"
    ],
    [
        "When his staff presented carefully researched reasons for not joining the euro, many Europeans sneered.",
        "当布朗团队拿出经仔细研究的理由拒绝加入欧元区时，许多欧洲人对他们嗤之以鼻。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though the pools of workers may be somewhat segmented, there is enough overlap that it forces service-intensive industries to pay higher wages, at least in the long run.",
        "尽管这些市场的劳动力可能会被分割成不的领域，但是中间依然有足够的重叠迫使服务密集型行业不得不支付更高的工资来雇佣员工——至少从长远来看是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "However, a retrospective study of abnormal prion protein accumulation in appendix and tonsil samples from over 12,600 people in the UK has yielded three more cases, which suggests that the level of BSE infection in the UK population is much higher than the actual number of confirmed variant CJD cases indicates.",
        "但对异常朊蛋白在12，600名英国人阑尾和扁桃体样本中的累积所进行的追溯性研究又查出了三起病例，表明英国人口中牛海绵状脑病的实际感染水平比确认为变异型克雅氏病例的数字要高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank has the potential to be a catalyst of progress in key areas that will shape the world’s future.",
        "世行具有成为催化决定世界未来的关键领域进步的潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "A writer for the Times of India expressed Indians’ sensitivity succinctly: “The sad truth is that India is now viewed abroad as a third-rate banana republic.”",
        "印度时报一位作者直言不讳地表达了印度在这个问题上的敏感：“可悲的现实是印度现在在国外被看做一个三流的香蕉共和国”。"
    ],
    [
        "In Praise of Euroskepticism",
        "为欧洲统一怀疑论唱赞歌"
    ],
    [
        "As one Chinese military official put it, “the first rule of unrestricted warfare is that there are no rules.”",
        "一位中国军官曾说，“超限战的首要规则是没有规则。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "His choice to run as a populist was tactical, and does not necessarily reflect deep-seated beliefs.",
        "他选择以民粹主义的面貌出现是一种策略，未必反映了他的内心深处。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, improved communications technology plays a role.",
        "很显然，日益发达的通信技术起到了重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The same applies when China does not behave like a good international citizen on the UN Security Council, or should it commit egregious human-rights violations at home.",
        "当中国没有在联合国安理会上起到国际好公民的作用，或当中国国内出现骇人听闻的违反人权行为时，我们也应该这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "The sense of accountability that PISA fosters among governments and education ministers has helped to spur them into action.",
        "PISA给政府和教育部长造成了问责，这有助于刺激他们行动起来。 他们日益开始互相取经如何应用课程、教学和数字资源方面的创新；"
    ],
    [
        "Short of this, the forces of globalization can turn cooperation into conflict.",
        "少了这个条件，全球化的力量就可能化合作为冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "One in five admitted to having raped a woman, while four out of five said that going to prostitutes was an addiction.",
        "他们中每五人就有一人承认强奸过一名妇女，而每五人中就有四人说嫖娼成瘾。"
    ],
    [
        "No one claims that meeting all of these challenges will be easy.",
        "没有人认为应对这些挑战是轻而易举的事。"
    ],
    [
        "That won’t be easy to achieve.",
        "这绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Ukraine is to continue on the road to recovery, it will have to demonstrate that no one – not even the president – is above the law.",
        "但是，如果乌克兰继续走上复苏的道路，就必须证明没有人 - 甚至总统 - 都不在法律之上。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if structural reforms have not paid off in Greece, it is not because Greek governments have slacked off.",
        "因此，如果结构改革未内在希腊收到回报，不是因为希腊政府懈怠了。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a difference between assertive promotion and more gentle support of democratization.",
        "武断地推进和较为温和地支持民主化之间是有区别的。"
    ],
    [
        "Before long, she is cheating on her boyfriend and swooning into Song’s arms and bed.",
        "不久之后，她就背叛了自己的男友并投入了宋思明的怀抱。"
    ],
    [
        "A consummate politician, Renzi knows that this is a short path to electoral disaster.",
        "作为一个老练的政治家，伦齐知道这是一场通往选举惨败的高速公路。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe on the Sidelines",
        "冷眼旁观的欧洲"
    ],
    [
        "This guidance remains, but what we meant by manipulation is now clearer.",
        "这一指导依旧保留，但是我们对于操控的解释现在更为明确了。"
    ],
    [
        "There was the alienation of smallholders’ property, in what was known as the “enclosure movement.”",
        "家庭产权保护极为不力，发生了所谓的“圈地运动”。"
    ],
    [
        "With this pledge, the World Bank joined an expanding list of international bodies, including the UN, the IMF, and the OECD, that are calling for an end to such subsidies.",
        "在此承诺之下，世界银行加入到了一个包含联合国、国际货币基金组织和经合组织在内的不断扩大的国际组织群体之中，共同呼吁中止这类补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "Should such irrational exuberance force the government, willy-nilly, to curtail public investment?",
        "而受这种非理性繁荣的影响，政府是否应被迫削减公共投资呢？"
    ],
    [
        "It only masks their effects.",
        "它只是抵消了温室气体的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist, inspires enthusiasm.",
        "自诩为社会主义者的伯尼·桑德斯能够激发热情。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Danubian lands of Hungary, Austria, and Bavaria, nationalism is on the rise.",
        "在匈牙利、奥地利和巴伐利亚等多瑙河地区，民族主义正在呈现上升的势头。"
    ],
    [
        "And, although that growth could not be sustained when commodity prices weakened, as they have now, it, together with enhanced social policies, did lift family incomes, reduce poverty, and sharply enlarge the middle class.",
        "此外，尽管这一增长在大宗商品价格下跌时无法维持（现在就是如此），但它与强化的社会政策一道，确实增加了家庭收入，减少了贫困，也大大扩大的中产阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "But convincing skeptical observers that they are committed to this strategy will take time, given recent missteps.",
        "但考虑到最近的失误，让持怀疑态度的观察者相信他们将坚决执行这一战略需要时间。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries’ mutual hatred and suspicion was no less bitter and deep-seated than that afflicting the Eastern Mediterranean.",
        "这些国家之间的相互憎恨和猜疑绝不逊于折磨东地中海的国家憎恨和猜疑。"
    ],
    [
        "In his July 8 budget announcement, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne proposed to cut £12 billion ($18.6 billion) from the welfare bill over the next four years as part of his deficit-cutting plan.",
        "在7月8日的预算公告中，英国财政大臣奥斯本（George Osborne）提出要在未来四年削减120英镑福利支出，作为其削减赤字计划的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "A “spaghetti bowl” of different à la carte arrangements would not work for a continent of more than 30 small and medium-size countries and more than 500 million people.",
        "在这块拥有超过30个中小规模国家和5亿人口的大陆上是无法通行好几套左右逢源的“意大利面碗”式协定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Thousands will be sacked from their positions in the military and elsewhere, detained, and prosecuted with little regard for the rule of law or the presumption of innocence.",
        "成千上万人将失去他们在军中和其他岗位的位置、被逮捕、被起诉，丝毫不顾法治或无罪推定原则。"
    ],
    [
        "But the latest crisis was sparked by China’s use of direct military means in a strategic border area close to the Karakoram Pass linking China to India.",
        "但最近的危机的引发方式是中国直接在毗邻连接中银的喀喇昆仑山口的战略边境地区直接使用军队。"
    ],
    [
        "When you are poor, you are more likely to slash and burn rain forest or fish atop coral reefs with dynamite.",
        "如果你是穷人，你更有可能砍伐并烧毁热带雨林或者为了捕鱼在珊瑚礁上使用炸药。"
    ],
    [
        "It would mean spending too much time and resources on lower-return priorities, instead of focusing on the targets that promise the biggest impact on the world’s poorest.",
        "这意味着在低效目标上浪费过多时间和金钱，而不是全力实现对全球穷人产生最大影响的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin may be guaranteed another presidential term, but a regime that cannot satisfy even its rulers is hardly sustainable.",
        "普京也许肯定能够赢得新一个总统任期，但一个连统治者都无法满足的政权，是很难维持的。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is much more to the internationalization of a currency, not least large and liquid domestic financial markets and the establishment of trust and confidence.",
        "当然，货币国际化有许多条件，包括庞大的高流动性国内金融市场和建立信任和信心。"
    ],
    [
        "So our approach at HICCup will be to help people figure out for themselves what works.",
        "因此，我们在HICCup的方法是帮助人们为自己找到行之有效的方法。 也许这种方法是使用小一号的晚餐餐盘；"
    ],
    [
        "Promisingly, the program also improved girls’ education levels: daughters of recipients were up to 22% more likely to remain in school.",
        "令人激动的是，该计划还改善了女孩的教育水平：参与者的女儿不辍学的可能性要高22%。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so will require national governments, industry, aid organizations, and other NGOs to make the most of their investments.",
        "这样做要求国家政府、产业界、援助组织和其他非政府组织来负责大部分投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The message from the media was one of constant nagging and blame, such as the famous Newsweek cover that asserted (wrongly) that an older single woman had more likelihood of being in a terrorist attack than of finding a husband.",
        "媒体上永远充斥着唠叨和埋怨，比如著名的新闻周刊封面，竟然荒谬地声称单身老女人遇到恐怖袭击的概率大于找到丈夫的概率。"
    ],
    [
        "Paradoxically, then, the very conditions that made it impossible for the nuclear industry to deliver full power in Europe in 2003 and 2006 created peak demand for electricity, owing to the increased use of air conditioning.",
        "矛盾的是，使得欧洲核电站无法全力发电的2003年和2006年酷热却同时引发了用电高峰，因为人人都开动了空调。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in many countries, large majorities of Muslims say Sharia should be the official law.",
        "此外，在许多国家，绝大多数穆斯林认为伊斯兰教法应该成为官方法律。"
    ],
    [
        "It is certainly a wake-up call for governments everywhere to rebuild and strengthen public health systems, and to guarantee all women and girls access to contraceptives and safe abortions.",
        "它毫无疑问是所有国家的警钟：必须重建和强化公共卫生系统，并保证所有妇女和女孩获得避孕和安全堕胎。"
    ],
    [
        "The cycles in economic fashion show how far economics is from being a science.",
        "经济模式的周期说明了经济学离一门科学的距离有多远。"
    ],
    [
        "Because they train together, NATO countries can operate effectively even when not all members of the organization are officially involved.",
        "由于他们共同训练，北约国家即使在并非集团内所有成员都正式参与的情况下亦可以高效运作。"
    ],
    [
        "Several factors converge to create this illusion of knowledge.",
        "几个因素造成了这一错觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Access to secondary schools can also boost enrollment in primary schools, reducing the likelihood that parents will keep their children at home to work or, as is often the case with girls, to help with domestic chores.",
        "升中学还可以提高小学入学率，减少家长让孩子在家干活或女孩在家帮忙做家务的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, both Indonesia (after the Asian financial crisis of 1997) and Turkey (after its 2001 crisis) are recent examples of Muslim-majority countries that decisively overcame economic mishaps while dealing with major domestic political transitions.",
        "最后，印度尼西亚（在1997年亚洲金融危机之后）和土耳其（在2001年危机后）都是近期穆斯林人口占多数国家的例子，它们在处理重要的国内政治过渡时果断地克服了经济灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as I have noted previously, people are not only paying greater attention; they also have more power than ever before to make their voices heard.",
        "此外，正如我此前所指出的，人们不但更加关注，也拥有了比以往更大的力量让他们的声音被听到。"
    ],
    [
        "Education holds the key not only to better jobs and stronger GDP growth, but also to the cultural, political, and social development that is needed to ensure that citizens are well-rounded and grounded enough to lead at the local, national, and international levels.",
        "教育不仅是更好的工作和更强的GDP增长的关键，也是文化、政治和社会发展的关键，而这些方面的发展优势确保人民团结、便于地方、国家和国际层面领导的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Our leaders talk obsessively of Russia’s industrial modernization, of their support for innovations such as nanotechnology, so that Russia can catch up with the developed counties.",
        "我们的领导人大谈俄罗斯的工业现代化，大谈他们对纳米技术这类创新产业的支持，以便让俄罗斯能赶上发达国家的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, the recent increases in food prices are likely to drive the number of people vulnerable to food stress even higher.",
        "显然，最近食品价格的上涨会使更多的人面临沉重的食品压力。"
    ],
    [
        "First, if “soft power” means exercising influence because “others want what you want,” as Joseph Nye puts it, then women the world over want what American feminists began fighting for three generations ago.",
        "首先，如果“软实力”意味着因“他人欲你之所欲”（约瑟夫·奈（Joseph Nye）语）而施加影响，那么全世界女性之所欲乃美国女权主义者已为之奋斗了三代人的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "So many leading cyclists have tested positive for drugs, or have admitted, from the safety of retirement, that they used them, that one can plausibly doubt that it is possible to be competitive in this event otherwise.",
        "如此之多的顶尖自行车运动员都被药检为阳性，或在退役以后的安全情况下承认他们曾使用过违禁药物，以至于人们真的要怀疑要在这一运动项目中保持竞争力除了服药可能就别无他法了。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, China is rising alongside other important Asian countries, including South Korea, Vietnam, India, and Indonesia.",
        "如今，中国正在与其他重要亚洲国家一同崛起，包括韩国、越南、印度和印尼。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, the Taliban are on the run, some with shaved beards and some in burqas , to avoid being recognized and thrashed.",
        "而该地区的塔利班则在四处逃窜，他们剃光了胡须并裹着女式长袍，以免被人认出并痛打一顿。"
    ],
    [
        "Young companies represent the future of job creation – they are the primary source of new jobs in the US – and technological disruption.",
        "年轻的公司代表着就业创造——它们是美国新就业岗位的主要源泉——和技术性破坏的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Tymoshenko is prepared to offer Yushchenko a compromise that Europe’s leaders should urge him to accept. Her proposals for constitutional reform would make Ukraine a pure parliamentary republic, while retaining a president as head of state and commander in chief of the armed forces.",
        "季莫申科已经准备向尤先科提出一份妥协方案，而欧洲的领导人将敦促他接受这份提案，即通过宪法改革使乌克兰成为一个纯粹的议会制共和国，同时保留总统作为国家元首和武装部队的最高统帅。"
    ],
    [
        "Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain, in particular, perceive Iran as inciting unrest among their own substantial Shia populations.",
        "而科威特，沙特阿拉伯和巴林等国家则把伊朗视为引发国内什叶派骚乱的元凶。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, under the single-seat constituency system, minor parties in Japan are at a distinct disadvantage.",
        "当然，在单席位选区制度下，日本的少数党处于绝对劣势。"
    ],
    [
        "An infection such as the coronavirus is currently countered with a vaccine tailored to block it.",
        "冠状病毒感染等疾病现在遇到了专门针对它的疫苗。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet common themes run through all of them: economic nationalism, social protection, anti-Europeanism, anti-globalization, and hostility not just to the political establishment, but to politics itself.",
        "但所有这些运动都有共同主题：经济民族主义、社会保护、反欧主义、反全球化，以及敌视政治建制甚至政治本身。"
    ],
    [
        "Historical memories die hard.",
        "历史记忆很难消磨。"
    ],
    [
        "His 1966 book Parades and Politics at Vichy describes how Philippe Pétain, as Chief of State of Vichy France, used pageantry, reactionary politics, and, of course, a partnership with Adolf Hitler to dupe his defeated country into believing that it still mattered in the world.",
        "他1996年的著作《维希的游行和政治》讲述了担任法国维希政府首脑的菲利普·贝当用华丽、反动的政治策略，当然还有与希特勒的联盟来欺骗战败的祖国，让其相信自己在世界事务中仍有一席之地。"
    ],
    [
        "For epidemiology (e.g. studies on vitamins, diet, or hormones in terms of their association with health outcomes in the general population), four-fifths of the most prestigious findings were rapidly contradicted.",
        "而在流行病学上（比如研究维他命、日常饮食或荷尔蒙与普通人群的健康的联系），五分之四最有威信的研究成果很快就被否定了。"
    ],
    [
        "Top politicians from all parties in the United Kingdom were united in condemning Barclays’ actions, particularly with regard to its systemic cheating on the reporting of interest rates, exposed in the Libor scandal.",
        "英国各党派的顶尖政治家都众口一词谴责巴克莱的行径，尤其是谴责其在Libor丑闻中被暴露出来的系统性虚报利率一事。"
    ],
    [
        "HAARLEM – In 1899, the German-American scientist Jacques Loeb engineered the asexual reproduction of sea urchins through artificial parthenogenesis (the manipulation of egg cells to enable embryonic development without fertilization).",
        "哈勒姆——1899年，德裔美籍科学家雅克·勒布通过人工单性生殖（即在未受精情况下操控卵子细胞以促成胚胎发育）实现了海胆的无性繁殖。"
    ],
    [
        "In September of that year, sterling was again devalued, as it had been 18 years before, by 30%.",
        "在同年9月英镑又像18年前那样暴跌了30%。"
    ],
    [
        "On Wicksell’s definition – the best, and, in fact, the only definition I know of – the market interest rate was, if anything, above the natural interest rate in the early 2000’s: the threat was deflation, not accelerating inflation.",
        "依据维克塞尔的定义，（这个定义是最好的，实际上也是我唯一所知的。 ）在本世纪早期，市场利率只能算是高于自然利率水平：当时的威胁是通货紧缩，而不是不断加速的通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "The impulse to put things off for a later day is understandable, given current economic and political troubles; but when it comes to public pensions, procrastination comes at a high cost – even more so than in the case of global warming.",
        "考虑到当前的经济和政治困局，这种拖延症式的冲动是可以理解的； 可这一旦涉及公共养老金，拖延所付出的代价就会极高——甚至比全球变暖的后果更为严重。"
    ],
    [
        "But that has not made a real difference; at the end of the day, America is also losing interest in NATO, which turned in a not-fully-convincing performance in Libya and a downright poor one in Afghanistan.",
        "时至今日，美国对北约的兴趣也在减退，这导致美国在利比亚事件中并未全力投入，对阿富汗也显然心不在焉。"
    ],
    [
        "The Root of All Sovereign-Debt Crises",
        "所有主权债务危机的根源"
    ],
    [
        "Many now routinely monitor and report on their environmental impact.",
        "很多企业现在对环境影响进行定期检测和报告。"
    ],
    [
        "Its impressive military strength is of limited use as an instrument of power, and its political clout has been overestimated, particularly in Syria.",
        "其令人印象深刻的军事优势作为展示实力的工具作用有限，而其政治影响力被高估，特别是在叙利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "From the moment investors stopped panicking about China, in the second week of January, stock markets around the world started falling (and occasionally rebounding) in lockstep with the price of oil.",
        "从投资者们不再担心中国的那一刻开始（在1月的第二周），全球股市便与石油价格同步下跌（偶尔还有反弹）。"
    ],
    [
        "As with inflation today, central bankers then had no credible way even to measure the quantity of money, let alone deliver desired monetary-policy outcomes.",
        "以今天的通胀水平看，当时的央行连衡量货币数量的可信方法都没有，更不用说实现合意的货币政策结果了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no longer a question of choices, but an obligation to prevent catastrophe.",
        "这已不再是选择题，而是必须防止灾难的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The French president loves crises, with their concomitant surge of adrenaline.",
        "这位法国总统热爱危机，以及随之而来的激增的肾上腺素。"
    ],
    [
        "The best government that money can buy is no longer good enough.",
        "能用金钱收买的最佳政府早已无法担此重责了。"
    ],
    [
        "In principle, he is right.",
        "原则上他是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Will compromise and mutual accommodation – extremely rare in recent years, enable Thailand to reshape its contested political order – currently underpinned by an elite-driven, monarchy-centered hierarchy – to reflect better the principles of electoral democracy?",
        "近年来极为罕见的相互妥协和适应能否令泰国重塑目前由精英推动、以君主制为核心的官僚体系支撑的充满争议的政治秩序，从而体现选举制民主的优秀原则？"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s children did not play a role in any of these policy mistakes.",
        "今天的儿童并未参与制定这些错误政策。"
    ],
    [
        "For the world as a whole, population is expected to continue to grow by another 2.5 billion people from 2005 to 2050.",
        "全世界总的来说，到2050年，人口数量将在2005年数量的基础上再增加25亿。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that other countries, both in Europe and Asia, will join as well, helping to fulfill the ambition that infrastructure improvements can raise living standards in other parts of the region, as they have already done in China.",
        "我们也希望其他国家，无论在欧洲还是亚洲，都应该加入，一同协助实现通过改善基础设施来提高其他地区生活水平的宏图壮志，正如中国所展现的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "And no military trompe l’œil can revive it.",
        "没有任何一种军事错觉可以让其复活。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is being implemented mainly at the community level through partnerships among local governments, community groups, philanthropic organizations, and for-profit investors.",
        "但其实施主要是在社区层面，通过地方政府、社区组织、慈善组织和逐利投资者的合作进行。"
    ],
    [
        "When the US created its Social Security program in the 1930’s, the legislation specified that benefits would be paid to retirees at age 65.",
        "当美国在20世纪30年代创立其社会保障计划时，立法部门具体规定了退休福利从退休者65岁时开始支付。"
    ],
    [
        "Medvedev obviously hopes to reach out and improve Russia’s and his own standing in the world.",
        "很显然，梅德韦杰夫是想寻求国际合作并力图改善俄罗斯以及他本人的国际地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, economic growth has been flat on average in the UK over the last couple of quarters, with front-loaded fiscal austerity coming at a time when rising inflation is preventing the Bank of England from easing monetary policy.",
        "第三，近几个季度，英国经济增长相当缓慢，大刀阔斧的财政瘦身政策生不逢时，上扬的通胀令英格兰银行不敢出台宽松的货币政策来加以配合。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not clear that interest rates can be depressed much further.",
        "不清楚利率是否还能进一步大幅抑制。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, more accurately (though more cumbersomely): “It’s the perception of future living standards, stupid, and the perception of fairness surrounding those prospects.”",
        "”或者更准确地说（虽然更拗口）：“笨蛋，对未来生活水平的预期，以及围绕实现这一预期的公平感才是关键”。"
    ],
    [
        "From the German perspective, the best timing for such a program would be the autumn of next year.",
        "从德国的观点来看，经济刺激最好的时机就是明年秋天。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the real loser of the 2006 Lebanon war was neither Israel nor Hezbollah, but, at least for the time being, the peace process.",
        "确实，2006年黎巴嫩战争中真正的失败者既不是以色列也不是真主党，而是中东和平进程，至少目前如此。"
    ],
    [
        "“Because,” replied one of the gunmen, “they were not wearing the hijab.”",
        "“因为，”一位恐怖分子说，“她们没有穿戴头巾。"
    ],
    [
        "The changing mood in Europe over the past year has been influenced by three factors in particular.",
        "尤其有三大因素已经影响了过去一年欧洲的情绪变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The US drone program’s legal basis is entirely unclear, however.",
        "但美军无人机计划的法律基础完全不明确。"
    ],
    [
        "The global economy’s downturn increases countries’ political risk to varying degrees, depending on the severity of the shock and the nature of the implied social contract.",
        "根据动荡的烈度和暗含的社会契约的性质，全球的经济衰退在不同程度上加剧了各国的政治风险。"
    ],
    [
        "There, she defines the new region of US strategic engagement as “stretching from the Indian subcontinent to the western shores of the Americas.”",
        "在这篇文章中，希拉里将这一新的美国战略版图定义为“从印度次大陆到美国西海岸”。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation in Yemen is similarly grim.",
        "也门的情况也同样糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "The answers to a global problem of this kind cannot be found on a European level.",
        "这类全球性问题局限于欧洲层面是无解的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is where the $100 billion Global Climate Change Fund, promised at the Cancún COP-16 conference, comes in.",
        "这正是坎昆的COP16决定成立1000亿美元全球气候变化基金的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Human rights advocates began court action to demand his return.",
        "人权倡议者开始提起诉讼，要求戴维回到自己的祖国。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the lesson of Elie Wiesel.",
        "这就是埃利·维瑟尔的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "The basic idea of sovereignty, which still provides a useful constraint on violence between states, needs to be preserved.",
        "主权的基本理念仍然能有效地防止国家间的纷争，因此它仍然具有存在的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Some big banks have struggled, but others have risen to take their place.",
        "一些大银行陷入了困境，而其他一些则取而代之。"
    ],
    [
        "Hard to be Easing",
        "难以宽松"
    ],
    [
        "Both parties to the transaction would be better off.",
        "须知在这场交易中双方都会得益啊。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if the FDP survives the next election (which is by no means certain), the current coalition is unlikely to retain its parliamentary majority, leaving Merkel increasingly dependent on the Social Democrats (SPD).",
        "即使自由民族党能够维持统一到下一次大选（这种情况绝不可能出现），现在的联合党也不太可能保住议会的绝大多数席位。 这使得默克尔越来越依赖社会民主党。"
    ],
    [
        "Many will be similarly slow to accept that when it comes to the most conscience-shocking classes of violence – genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other mass atrocities – dramatic progress has been made recently.",
        "很多人同样不愿承认在制止最令人震惊的暴力活动——种族灭绝、种族清洗和其他大规模暴行上，近年来也取得了重大的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "In the squares of both Tunisia and Egypt, demonstrators who had felt alienated and isolated under repressive regimes were overjoyed to discover that they were not alone.",
        "在突尼斯和埃及的广场，在专制政权下饱受孤立和疏离之苦的示威者喜出望外地发现自己并不孤独。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the “cultural-behavioral” approach explains health inequalities in terms of differences in individual behaviors, asserting that poorer people have worse health outcomes, owing to a higher propensity to smoke, drink alcohol, and eat less healthy foods.",
        "比如，“社会-文化”论用个体行为的不同解释健康不平等性，主张穷人之所以健康状况更差，是因为他们吸烟饮酒的倾向更明显，饮食也比较不健康。"
    ],
    [
        "The court declared the PiS’s judicial rule changes unconstitutional, but the PiS-led government refused to publish the court’s decision, thereby blocking it from taking effect.",
        "宪法法庭宣布PiS的司法规则修订违宪，但PiS领导的政府拒绝公布法庭裁决，从而阻止了它的生效。"
    ],
    [
        "As uninspiring as this might sound, we must now consider the prospect of the end of the European Monetary Union and the EU as we have known it.",
        "听起来也许令人沮丧，但现在我们必须考虑我们所熟悉的欧洲货币联盟和欧盟的末日。"
    ],
    [
        "The carbon emissions created by so many people flying to Denmark was real, while the emissions targets that the conference sought remained beyond reach.",
        "这么多人飞到丹麦所产生的碳排放可是实实在在的，而会议所追求的排放目标到现在还没个影子。"
    ],
    [
        "Since last October, Western countries’ rescue packages for banks have reached about $4.3 trillion.",
        "从去年10月以来，西方国家为银行提供的救助资金已经达到了约4. 3万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Amazingly, global financial markets ignored the credit risks of this sovereign debt, requiring only very small differences between interest rates on German bonds and those of Greece and other peripheral countries.",
        "令人惊奇的是，全球金融市场完全无视这类主权债务的信用风险，希腊和其他外围国债券的利率与德国债券差别极小。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s approach is another example of the kind of shell games that got America into its mess.",
        "恰恰相反，美国财长亨利·保尔森的办法是使美国陷入危机的骗局的又一个实例。"
    ],
    [
        "But Santos nonetheless has a fair chance of burying, once and for all, the specious mystique of violent revolutionary change that has held back Latin America’s political and economic modernization for so long.",
        "尽管如此，桑托斯仍然大有机会一劳永逸地解决长期以来阻碍拉丁美洲迈向政治和经济一体化的看似神秘无比的暴力革命变化。"
    ],
    [
        "“If the cow is your mother,” they challenged upper-caste Hindus, “why don’t you bury her?”",
        "“如果你真把牛当娘来孝敬，”他们质疑那些上等种姓的印度教徒，“你为啥不亲手不把她埋了？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "The TTIP undoubtedly has considerable potential to boost economic performance on both sides of the Atlantic.",
        "跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系无疑在提高大西洋两岸经济表现方面颇具潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright famously chided Colin Powell for his reluctance to involve the US military in the Balkans in the 1990s, in part because of her own family’s experience as Czech refugees from Communism.",
        "前美国国务卿奥尔布赖特（Madeleine Albright）对科林·鲍威尔（Colin Powell）提出过著名的批评，指责他在20世纪90年代不肯让美军介入巴尔干冲突，这部分是因为她身为捷克共产主义难民的亲身家庭经验。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, other types of digital platforms are emerging, linking workers with customers or companies for specific tasks or services.",
        "同时，其他类型的数字平台不断涌现，联系着劳动者与客户或企业的特定任务或服务。"
    ],
    [
        "The point is not whether Santorum is right or wrong factually. What he says “feels” right to his followers, because it conforms to their prejudices.",
        "关键不在于桑托勒姆的言论在事实上的对错，而是他所说的能使其追随者们“感觉”良好—因为这符合他们的偏见。"
    ],
    [
        "By any standard of justice, it is also just plain wrong.",
        "以任何的司法标准来看这都是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "But this rising Beijing Consensus offers no guarantee of stability.",
        "然而这种处于上升趋势的北京共识无法确保稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a small handful of international bonds are denominated in SDRs, because banks and firms do not find this option particularly attractive.",
        "因为银行和公司没有发现这个选项特别有吸引力，所以只有少数国际债券会用特别提款权来发行。"
    ],
    [
        "But as soon as we accept the premise that to be rational is to seek to maximize one’s utility – defined in terms of consumption, with money the way to maximize it – the economist’s logic wins.",
        "但只要他们接受一个前提，即理性是为了最大化你的效用——用消费衡量，而金钱则是消费最大化的手段，那么经济学家的逻辑就会胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "If South Asia is to begin to build a future of peace and prosperity, the latter option is the only viable way forward.",
        "以及协调各方利益的外交手段。 如果南亚想踏上未来的和平和繁荣之路，最后一种方式是唯一可行的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "A peculiar but perhaps instructive example comes from the world of professional chess.",
        "一个特别但具有说明性的例子是职业象棋。"
    ],
    [
        "Kaesong is a bit of George Orwell’s 1984, with added elements of nineteenth-century paternalism.",
        "开城工业园区让人想起了乔治·奥威尔的《1984》，但还要加上十九世纪家长作风的元素。"
    ],
    [
        "When it does, some will suffer more than others; but, with a few exceptions lacking systemic importance, widespread distress and crises need not occur.",
        "当美联储真的开始升息时，一些经济体将比其他经济体受到更大的冲击； 但是，除了少数不具备系统重要性的例外，大面积灾难和危机不一定会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq’s vast reserves, went the argument, could not be developed safely until Saddam was deposed.",
        "这种观点认为，伊拉克巨大的石油储量在萨达姆掌权的情况下得不到安全的开发。"
    ],
    [
        "Both are important issues, but they are secondary to the problems of joblessness and poverty.",
        "这两个问题无疑都很重要，但与失业和贫困相比却只能相形见绌。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, France can expect popular protest, as well as a further increase in support for more extreme parties – above all, Le Pen’s National Front.",
        "因此法国预计将爆发持续不断的民众抗议，以及更极端党派——首先是勒庞的国民阵线——的支持率攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the political winds shift to reinvigorate economic liberalization, with politicians reminiscent of Britain’s Margaret Thatcher or the US’s Ronald Reagan coming to the fore, breathing the fire of change?",
        "政治之风的朝向能否改变，为经济自由化重新注入活力，让那些怀念英国首相玛格丽特·撒切尔或美国总统罗纳德·里根的政治家们走上前台，为改革呼风唤雨？"
    ],
    [
        "They recognize inequality as a problem, and in principle they support government policies that provide high-quality education and health-care services, but they do not trust politicians or bureaucrats.",
        "他们承认不平等性是一个问题，并且在原则上他们支持提供高质量教育和医疗服务的政府政策，但他们不信任政客或官僚。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite their shared contempt for expressions of the popular will, China’s President Xi Jinping and Putin struggled, during Putin’s two-day visit to Shanghai, to agree on a new gas deal that the Kremlin desperately needs.",
        "但是，尽管都对汹涌的群情嗤之以鼻，但中国国家主席习近平和普京仍在普京的两日上海之行中就克里姆林宫所急需的天然气合同展开了一番明争暗斗。"
    ],
    [
        "And North Korean propaganda continues to reiterate the view that the Korean Peninsula consists of one people, sharing one language and one culture, indivisible – except by outsiders like the US.",
        "朝鲜宣传机器一直在反复强调，朝鲜半岛只有一个民族，共用一种语言和一个文化，朝鲜半岛是不可分割的——除非美国这样的局外人插手。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not difficult to imagine what would have happened during the recent financial-market crisis if the euro-area countries still had all their national currencies: immense speculation against some currencies, heavy interventions by central banks, and finally a collapse of the parity system.",
        "如果欧元区的国家仍然各自使用本国货币的话，是不难想象在近来的金融市场危机中会发生什么样的情况的：对一些币种的巨大的投机，央行重大的干预，以及平衡机制最后垮台。"
    ],
    [
        "Research shows that people are more likely to donate to a charity helping the hungry if they are given a photo and told the name and age of a girl like those the charity is aiding.",
        "研究表明，在看到照片或被告知慈善对象的姓名和年龄的情况下，人们为减少饥饿的慈善事业慷慨解囊的可能性就会增加。"
    ],
    [
        "There would never be enough male wasps to pollinate an entire crop; and if there were, they would soon tire or wise up.",
        "不可能有足够多的雄性胡蜂来给所有作物授粉； 如果真有那么多，它们也很快就会疲劳或者看穿兰花的伪装。"
    ],
    [
        "For those of us with long memories, it is impossible not to draw comparisons with past rulers – the Assad regime and ISIS.",
        "对于我们这些有着长久记忆的人来说，很难不对阿萨德政权和伊斯兰国这些过去的统治者进行比较。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if large-scale investment and reform programs were initiated as complements to unconventional monetary-policy measures, the economy could move onto a more resilient growth path.",
        "但是，如果大规模投资和改革计划作为非常规货币政策的补充手段实施，经济可能走上恢复力更强的增长路径。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems that Hu Jintao is more skillful than the polished Obama at maximizing his gains at little cost.",
        "而这似乎是因为胡锦涛在“用最小代价换最大收益”方面的政治技巧，要比光鲜的奥巴马强上许多。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the problem is that expectations had been distorted by a metaphor that described events in short-run terms.",
        "问题的一部分在于预期被一个描述短期事件的隐喻扭曲了。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s once-proud carmakers are fighting for survival.",
        "法国曾经引以为豪的汽车公司正在为生存挣扎。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans may find their (old) European allies less pliable than before – but they can at least count on the absence of any serious alternatives for what NATO should become, or what it should do.",
        "美国发现其欧洲老盟友们不再像以往一般顺从，但是至少可以放心北约不会的确变得不伦不类。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting revenue could then be invested into new forms of greener power.",
        "由此获得的收入可以投资于新型绿色电力。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision to recommend the renminbi’s inclusion, far from having been made on sound economic grounds, can only be understood as political.",
        "建议纳入人民币并没有可靠的经济理由，只能视之为政治动作。"
    ],
    [
        "Far from being an ethical mode of remembering – a source of cultural continuity and consolation – hijra has been turned into a call to arms by this new self-proclaimed Caliphate, which the vast majority of Muslims today do not recognize as part of their religion.",
        "迁徙已距离作为文化持续性和慰藉之源的记忆的道德模式渐行渐远，而蜕变为这个自封的哈里发的征讨檄文，今天绝大多数穆斯林并不承认这是他们宗教的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "If a country’s terms of trade (the price of its exports) deteriorate and a large recession persists for a long time, its government’s revenue base may shrink and its debt burden may become excessive.",
        "如果一国的贸易条件（出口品价格）恶化，并且陷入了长期大规模衰退，其政府收入基础就有可能被削弱，其债务负担就会变得过高。"
    ],
    [
        "For a PIA to work, it must weigh privacy against other imperatives, such as efficient aid provision.",
        "隐私影响评估要想充分发挥作用，就必须在隐私和提供援助的效率等其他必要条件之间进行权衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Metaphors, it turns out, are not just words.",
        "事实证明比喻不光是说说而已。"
    ],
    [
        "But, again, JPM’s shareholders have little cause for concern.",
        "但是，摩根大通股东们也没有什么好担心的。"
    ],
    [
        "While outdoor air pollution is partly caused by incipient industrialization, this represents a temporary tradeoff for the poor – escaping hunger, infectious disease, and indoor air pollution to be better able to afford food, health care, and education.",
        "尽管室外空气污染部分原因在于不成熟的工业化，但这对穷人来说是一个临时性的权衡问题——摆脱贫困、传染病和室内空气污染，从而能够更好地负担食品、医疗和教育成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the team is in place, its members will need to figure out how to make Trump’s plans work for an economy that has – by necessity, not choice – been excessively reliant on unconventional monetary policies.",
        "一旦这一团队就位，其成员需要找出如何让特朗普的计划在经济中取得成效的方法，美国经济无奈地——而不是出于主动选择——过度依赖于非常规货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "This was a sickening blow to all Iranians who crave the dignity of democratic politics.",
        "对于所有渴望民主政治尊严的伊朗人而言，这是一次痛苦的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "That approach is not only morally wrong; it is also doomed financially.",
        "这一方针不但在道德上是错误的，在财务上也是灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "The simplicity of the Cold War left little need for explanation.",
        "冷战的单一性几乎不需要任何解释工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The QE program seems to be symmetrical, because each central bank repurchases its own government debt in proportion to the size of the country.",
        "量化宽松计划貌似对称，因为各央行都根据国家规模依照比例回购本国政府债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the Bank must do everything that it can to ensure that its money is well spent, which means fighting both corruption and incompetence.",
        "当然，世行必须竭力确保它的钱用在了实处，也就是既要反腐，也要同不称职做斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so would broaden discussions of macroeconomic policy to include employment issues – specifically, the potential impact of large foreign-trade surpluses on domestic jobs.",
        "这样做可以拓宽宏观经济政策的讨论，将就业问题包括进来——具体而言，就是巨额对外贸易盈余对国内就业的潜在影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But we must be clear about what we are not willing to accept – beginning with the quashing of political dissent.",
        "但我们必须明确能够接受的底线——就从镇压政治分歧开始。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Supreme Court's rulings affirm the fundamental principle that even grave dangers do not warrant the sort of blanket deference to which the Bush Administration believes it is entitled whenever it utters the words \"war\" and \"terrorism.\"",
        "布什政府认为只要一提起\"战争\"和\"恐怖主义\"这样的字眼，它就有权要求全国上下对其言听计从。 但最高法院的裁决确认了这样一个根本原则：即便是最严重的危险也不能成为布什政府要求如此特权的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet ten-year bonds yield little more than 1%.",
        "但其十年期收益率只有1%上下。"
    ],
    [
        "Once such a cycle starts, it can be very difficult to stop.",
        "这一循环一旦开始，就难以结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Elites in emerging and developing countries are using the SDG negotiations primarily as a platform to call for international aid transfers.",
        "新兴和发展中国家精英将可持续发展目标谈判主要视为要求国际援助转移支付的平台。"
    ],
    [
        "This key difference between the US and (continental) Europe explains the resilience of the US economy to the collapse of its credit boom.",
        "这一美国和（大陆）欧洲的关键差异解释了为何美国经济在信用繁荣崩溃面前有如此强大的恢复力。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, African business has made great strides in recent years.",
        "可以肯定，非洲企业在近年来取得了长足的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "And how can we agree on any answer, given our different interests, dispositions, and cultural backgrounds?",
        "在我们的利益、配置和文化背景各不相同的情况下，如何就某个答案形成一致？"
    ],
    [
        "Newcomers, most notably China, have become a ready alternative source of cheap finance.",
        "新来者——最令人注目的要数中国——已成为现成的廉价融资新来源。"
    ],
    [
        "As the drive to divest from fossil fuels picks up speed, such panicky responses are becoming increasingly common.",
        "随着远离化石燃料的呼声日涨，如此恐慌的反应也变得越来越平常。"
    ],
    [
        "GARRISON, NEW YORK – Imagine for a moment that you have come across a trove of marvelous devices left by an ancient civilization.",
        "纽约加里森——想象一下你发现了一座古老文明遗留下来的神奇设备宝库。"
    ],
    [
        "The catalyst for what came to be known as “Barricades Week” was an interview published in the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung with the parachute general Jacques Massu, in which he said that part of the army regretted having called de Gaulle back to power, did not understand his policy, and was disappointed that he had become “a man of the left.”",
        "催生著名“路障周”的是在德国报纸《南德意志报》上发表的对伞兵部队将领雅克·马苏的访问，马苏在访问中说军队中的部分人士后悔要求戴高乐重新上台，无法理解他的政策，并为他成为“左翼人士”而感到失望。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was economic stagnation from 2010 to 2013, undermining Osborne’s ability to meet his deficit-reduction targets.",
        "结果是2010—2013年的经济停滞，这又减弱了奥斯本实现其赤字削减目标的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Bank of Canada (BOC) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) have both signaled that interest-rate hikes will be forthcoming.",
        "加拿大银行和澳大利亚储备银行都释放出即将提高利率的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – American elections usually produce a brief euphoria; the public sense of renewal, of future possibilities, acts as a shot of adrenaline.",
        "纽约——美国大选总能创造出一种短暂的欣快情绪，一种公众新鲜感、一种对未来机会的期盼，作用有点类似于注射肾上腺素。"
    ],
    [
        "This meant that the experts would meet regularly and have an expanded mandate that went beyond merely updating a model double-taxation treaty.",
        "这意味着专家们将定期召开会议，其权限也将得到扩展，而不仅仅是更新双税条约（double-taxation treaty）样板。"
    ],
    [
        "Another billion or so are engaged in subsistence farming, and therefore don’t register in formal wage statistics.",
        "还有十亿人左右从事自给自足的农业，因此并未被记入正式的工资统计数据。"
    ],
    [
        "The government’s mistakes in so-called “risk communication” regarding the Fukushima nuclear plant, and its slowness in getting necessary aid to people displaced by the disaster, have once again put the stereotype on full display.",
        "政府在福岛核电站事故中的所谓“危机沟通”中所犯的错误以及在救助灾民时的迟钝表现都一再印证了这个老观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider low-income housing.",
        "就拿低收入住房问题来说吧。"
    ],
    [
        "A newly created Minister of Social Cohesion has begun to commission studies documenting discrimination.",
        "新近成立的社会凝聚部已经开始委托进行有关歧视的研究。"
    ],
    [
        "It was supposed to allow us not only to shop, stay in touch with former classmates, and find a new sushi restaurant; it was also supposed to empower us politically by allowing the disenfranchised to make their voices heard, help activists mobilize supporters, and enable ordinary citizens to publicize evidence of official corruption or police brutality.",
        "互联网不但可以让我们购物、和老同学取得联系、找到新开的寿司店，还能让被剥夺公民权的人发出声音从而让我们得到更多的政治力量、帮助活动家动员支持者、让普通民众能够公布官员腐败或警察暴力行为的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "The KGB knew that there was really no need to keep his name secret, but, as KGB chief Ivan Serov told me, the enemy’s resources were limited, so let them waste their efforts trying to uncover “non-secret” secrets.",
        "克格勃知道确实没有必要为名字保密，但是，正如克格勃首脑谢罗夫所告诉我的，敌人的资源有限，所以就让他们浪费精力去发现“非机密”的秘密吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, more than 30 countries – including the European Union’s members, Gabon, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, and the United States – submitted their post-2020 plans to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "上个月，30多个国家——包括欧元区成员国、加蓬、墨西哥、挪威、俄罗斯、瑞士和美国——递交了2020年后温室气体减排计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The crucial point is that this imaginary war ended up being the rationale for government decisions.",
        "其关键点是这场想象的战争最后成为政府决策的出发点。"
    ],
    [
        "Standing in the way is the prized sovereignty of 28 countries with very different political cultures and a host of conflicting national and regional interests.",
        "起阻碍作用的是政治文化迥异的28个国家所珍视的主权和一系列相互冲突的国家和地区利益。"
    ],
    [
        "To avoid past mistakes, we studied why previous peace negotiations in Colombia had failed, as well as lessons from peace negotiations elsewhere.",
        "为了避免过去的错误，我们研究了此前哥伦比亚和平谈判为何失败，以及其他地区的成功和平谈判的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "KUALA LUMPUR – The link between economic growth and human wellbeing seems obvious.",
        "吉隆坡—经济增长和人类幸福之间的联系似乎是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, by communicating ex ante its willingness to provide emergency funds, the IMF would reduce the stigma against countries that turn to it for assistance – a stigma that has led countries to delay requesting support until it is too late to mitigate domestic political damage.",
        "此外，通过事前公布准备提供紧急资金，IMF可以减少向其求助的国家的耻辱感——这一耻辱感让各国迟迟不愿求助，直到为时过晚、造成不可消除的国内政治伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, that $11 billion could be used to address even more pressing issues.",
        "此外，这110亿美元可以用于解决更加紧迫的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the EU should commit to mutually beneficial employment schemes that maximize the strengths of people and cultures on both continents, notably through skills transfer.",
        "相反，欧洲应该致力于互惠共赢的就业机制，从而实现两大洲人员和文化优势最大化，最主要的就是要通过技能转移实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy’s 39-year-old socialist prime minister, Matteo Renzi, is often described as his country’s last hope.",
        "39岁的意大利社会主义者总理伦齐常常被称为意大利最后的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Humbled by its inability to control United States military operations, including the one that killed Osama bin Laden, the army is struggling to play a hand in the country’s evolving relations with India and the US.",
        "由于无法控制美国军队的行动——包括击毙本·拉登——巴基斯坦军队正在竭力试图插手该国与印度和美国的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps for precisely this reason, the abstention rate (an average of 57%), was the highest since the first vote in 1979, while the composition of the Parliament, with its right-wing majority, underwent no significant changes.",
        "而或许恰恰因为这样，本次选举的弃权率平均高达57%，创下了自1979年首次选举以来的新高，与此同时，整个议会被右派阵营把持的现状，也没多大变化。"
    ],
    [
        "A sympathetic press would amplify their heart-rending stories of lost jobs and homes, making those counseling against intervention appear callous.",
        "一个同情心泛滥的媒体将大肆渲染那些失业和无家可归者的辛酸故事，使得那些反对干涉的意见显得残忍且麻木不仁。"
    ],
    [
        "With Trump poised to make such imprudent decisions, will US voters hold him accountable?",
        "在特朗普准备做出这种不明智决定的情况下，美国选民还会觉得他可靠吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The costs of the operation, including the fees of the surgeons – licensed in the United States, Great Britain, or the Philippines – would be included in the price.",
        "org上找到，该网站肾源标价从80，000－11，000美元不等。 此报价包含手术费用，负责手术的外科医生在美、英或菲律宾有行医执照。"
    ],
    [
        "Small innovations are often introduced into the style of hospitality to suggest the personality of the host.",
        "而且，小创新经常会被引进到茶道主人待客的方式中，以此来展现主人的人格。"
    ],
    [
        "And Kuwait is considering following in Jordan’s footsteps by reintroducing conscription, which is already in place in most Sunni states (and Iran).",
        "科威特正在考虑步约旦的后尘重新引入征兵制度，而大部分逊尼派国家（以及伊朗）已经采取了这一制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the best-case scenario for maximizing existing prevention and treatment, at least a half-million new HIV infections would occur annually in low- and middle-income countries by 2050.",
        "即便现有的预防和治疗措施效果达到最好，到2050年中低收入国家每年至少还会新增50万人感染艾滋病毒。"
    ],
    [
        "But technological progress is now eating up the better jobs, too.",
        "但技术进步现在已经开始侵蚀更高级的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 40% of the largest companies quoted on the Paris stock exchange are in foreign hands.",
        "巴黎证券交易所挂牌的最大公司中超过40%是外国公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Taxing the Internet, like other taxes and tariffs on ICT goods and services, has the opposite effect.",
        "对互联网征税和对ICT产品和服务征收税收和关税一样，只能起到反作用。"
    ],
    [
        "After being hunted down in a dirty drainpipe, he was displayed like a bloody trophy before being battered and shot by a lynch mob.",
        "卡扎菲在一条干涸的下水道中被擒获，保守私刑折磨——先是虐揍，然后被枪杀，尸体鲜血淋漓。"
    ],
    [
        "Finance needs to be directed more rapidly and decisively away from natural-resource-intensive and polluting investments and toward green opportunities.",
        "需要更迅速、更果断地将融资从自然资源密集型和污染性投资引向绿色机会。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, women professionals do not have to choose between a career and children, but can enjoy both.",
        "毕竟，女性专业人士并非必需在事业和孩子们之间作出选择，而是可以兼顾。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, has proved a reluctant partner in this area.",
        "就连默克尔所在的基督教民主联盟（Christian Democratic Union）的姊妹政党、巴伐利亚基督社会联盟（Christian Social Union）在难民问题上也是态度冷淡。"
    ],
    [
        "An estimated $1.7 billion of agricultural production is lost annually due to poor water management.",
        "每年由于低效水利管理造成的农业生产损失达到17亿美元以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Population growth was boosted by a war-induced baby boom and mass immigration into the US and Western Europe.",
        "人口增长因为战争带来的婴儿潮和大量西欧人移民美国而得到了提振。"
    ],
    [
        "The BBC located graves of some of the missing in Albania.",
        "BBC在阿尔巴尼亚找到了一些失踪者的坟墓。"
    ],
    [
        "As real-time information about customers’ needs and vendors’ offers combines with a new concern for efficiency and optimization, there is a widespread shift to make use of the opportunities to personalize offers around location and time.",
        "随着有关顾客需求和卖方报价的实时信息与追求高效和优化的新思维相结合，利用此机会来实现根据时间地点转换的个人化报价也成为了业界广泛使用的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent survey data by the Pew Foundation found that while 58% of Democrats believe that human beings are causing global warming, only 28% of Republicans do.",
        "近来由PEW基金会进行的调查的数据发现，58%的民主党人相信人类正在造成全球变暖，而只有28%的共和党人这么认为。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem was that the Europeans did not understand what marriage really meant and why they should want to get married.",
        "问题在于欧洲人并不理解婚姻的真正含义，也不明白为什么他们应该渴望结婚。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, a country whose currency represents a significant proportion of world reserves can gain international power from that position, thanks to easier terms for economic adjustment and the ability to influence other countries.",
        "明显地，一个国家的货币如果在世界外汇储备中占据相当大的比例，它就会因为这样的地位而获得国际权力，这要归功于针对经济调整的宽松条款和影响其它国家的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten of 21 branches of Dutch agribusiness, including horticultural seeds, ornamentals, seed potatoes, and veal, are among the top contributors to the national economy and the country’s trade balance.",
        "荷兰农业综合企业21个分支中的10个（包括园艺育种、观赏植物、种用马铃薯与小牛肉）位列对该国经济与贸易收支平衡贡献最大的产业之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestic and foreign investors would scrutinize more closely whether an asset's value would be affected by a breakup of the monetary union.",
        "本国和外国投资者将更仔细地检查某资产的价值是否会因为货币联盟的解体而受到影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain and Greece, for example, have each accepted only about 4,000 – a meager amount, when compared to Jordan or Lebanon.",
        "比如，西班牙和希腊各自只接受了4,000人左右）——和约旦和黎巴嫩相比实在不值一提。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than trying to control millions of bourgeoisie, the state can deploy secret police to manage just a few dozen oligarchs.",
        "国家不必试图控制千百万资产阶级，可以只部署秘密警察管理几十位寡头。"
    ],
    [
        "Borders will become harder to cross for both people and goods.",
        "那时人员和商品跨越国境会变得更加困难。"
    ],
    [
        "What is preventing the market from working its magic and making everyone better off?",
        "是什么让市场失去了魔力，无法改善人们的生活水平？"
    ],
    [
        "SINGAPORE – Can ten countries with different cultures, traditions, languages, political systems, and levels of economic development act in concert to expand their collective potential?",
        "新加坡—十个文化、传统、语言、政治制度和经济发展水平各异的国家能够齐心协力提升它们的集体潜力吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But, even if all such programs succeeded, their benefits would not add up to a fraction of the documented gains that have accrued from trade and other macro-level policies in which the US has lost interest.",
        "但是，即使这些计划化都获得了成功，它们的好处也无法弥补美国在得自贸易和其他宏观层面政策的好处上损失的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Post-referendum polls show voters giving priority to single-market access over immigration restrictions by a two-to-one margin or more.",
        "后公投期民调显示选民关注单一市场准入相对移民限制的优势比例为2:1或者更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Declines occurred in all three leading ethnic communities: from 39% to 35% among Shiites, from 20% to 6% among Sunnis, and from 11% to 5% among Kurds.",
        "这种下降在三个主要的族群之中都有发生：在什叶派中，从39%下降到35%，在逊尼派中从20%下降到6%，在库尔德人中从11%下降到5%。"
    ],
    [
        "If no deal to raise the debt ceiling is reached by August 3, interest rates on United States Treasury bonds could spike, or they could remain stable, as investors decide they have other problems to worry about.",
        "如果到8月3日还不能就债务上限问题达成一致，那么美国国债利率可能会飙升，但也可能维持稳定（因为投资者会认为还有其他更加值得担忧的东西）。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, in the midst of the political transition, Musharraf embarked on a week-long visit to China to lobby for construction of an oil and gas pipeline between China and the Persian Gulf that would be routed through Pakistan.",
        "有趣的是，在政治过渡的过程中，穆沙拉夫对中国进行了为期一周的访问，游说中国在中国和波斯湾之间建造一条通过巴基斯坦的石油和天然气管道。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, after roughly 50 million preventable deaths, the United Nations’ World Health Organization reversed course and endorsed the use of DDT to kill and repel Anopheles mosquitoes.",
        "2006年，在付出了5000万宗本可预防的疟疾死亡的代价之后，联合国所属世界卫生组织逆转禁令，批准将DDT用于杀灭和驱赶疟蚊。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists feel confident in opposing commodity subsidies because agricultural and energy markets tend to approach the ideal of perfect competition, with a large number of consumers on the demand side and producers on the supply side.",
        "经济学家信心十足地反对商品补贴，因为农业和能源市场接近于完美竞争，需求端有大量消费者，供给端有大量生产者。"
    ],
    [
        "He even seized the relic of the tooth of Buddha, a symbol of Sri Lankan political sovereignty.",
        "他甚至抢夺象征斯里兰卡政治主权的佛陀牙齿舍利。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – Last December’s fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi triggered an unprecedented public outcry in India.",
        "新德里—去年12月新德里23岁女性惨遭轮奸致死的案件在印度引发了前所未有的公众抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "But to omit a neighbor like Israel, a Syrian client like Lebanon, or a patron like Iran would be peculiar – and inviting all of them would be a formula for chaos.",
        "但撇开以色列这样的邻邦、黎巴嫩这样的叙利亚代理人以及伊朗这样的幕后推手将让会议显得颇为奇怪，而把它们都请来又会造成混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – In public policy, peace talks, election campaigns, or corporate strategy, laying out intentions, promises, and commitments is never enough.",
        "纽约——在公共政策、和平谈判、竞选活动或公司战略中，仅仅说明目标、约定和承诺还远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Another is the capacity for price discrimination by new electronic market makers like Uber, which thus appropriate every penny of the old “consumer surplus” of microeconomic theory.",
        "另一个例子是Uber等新电子做市商的价格歧视能力，它们能够榨取微观经济理论中的每一分钱“消费者剩余”。"
    ],
    [
        "These ex-communist countries have a unique opportunity to become global leaders in Internet freedom.",
        "上述前共产主义国家有独一无二的机会引领互联网自由。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, Europe is not to be held together by its benefits, which far exceed the costs.",
        "换句话说，欧洲不再通过收益凝聚在一起——这一收益要远远高于成本。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – The world’s task in addressing North Korea’s saber rattling is made no easier by the fact that it confronts an impoverished and effectively defeated country.",
        "柏林——尽管朝鲜贫困而一败涂地，但世界并不能因此而更从容地面对它的武力威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it fair to force low-income children to bear the burden of fiscal adjustment?",
        "让低收入家庭的儿童来承担财政调整的负担，这公平吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Is it because they don’t appreciate having single-digit inflation, down from a regional average of more than 300% 12 years ago?",
        "难道他们不赞赏现在单位数的通货膨胀率，相比该地区过去12年的超过300%的平均通货膨胀率？"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal policy should ideally focus on tax cuts and infrastructure spending.",
        "最理想的财政政策应该是集中在减税和基础设施建设开支上。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though mass killings are not rare in history, Hitler’s extermination plan was, if not unique, certainly highly unusual.",
        "虽然大屠杀在历史上并不鲜见，但希特勒的灭绝计划即便不是特例，也是极不寻常的。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, running a foundation may well require studying social problems or the arts and sciences – activities that may not accord with former capitalists’ inclinations and talents.",
        "同样地，管理一个慈善机构可能会要求研究社会问题或者艺术和科学，这些活动可能与前任资本家的意向和才能并不吻合。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – It is amazing how the “one percent” epithet, a reference to the top 1% of earners, has caught on in the United States and elsewhere in the developed world.",
        "芝加哥——美国和其他发达国家的“百分之一”——即收入最高的1%人群——正沦为千夫之所指，这实在有些令人吃惊。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason for this is the distraction caused by the EU’s economic problems since 2008.",
        "原因之一是2008年来欧盟经济问题所造成的注意力分散。"
    ],
    [
        "Could they be possible marketing partners?",
        "他们有可能成为你的营销伙伴吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Then Merkel will be in a key position to add weight to a new effort for moving the EU forward.",
        "那时，默克尔会在增加推动欧盟发展的新举措的权重方面发挥重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In theory, the “Remain” campaign stands for a different Britain: outward-looking, engaged, and internationally minded.",
        "理论上，“留欧”运动代表着一个不同的英国：外向、积极参与、同时拥有国际眼光。"
    ],
    [
        "The fall-out from this scenario, however, would be largely confined to Asia.",
        "然而，这种情况所产生的后果主要还是局限于亚洲。"
    ],
    [
        "“They arrived in our country with a certain innocence,” said the respected Iranian historian Kaveh Bayat, “and without any colonial pretenses.”",
        "“可以说他们进入我国时是清白的，”倍受尊重的伊朗历史学家Kaveh Bayat说，“他们没有任何殖民企图。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, high-income countries must continue to invest adequately in global disease surveillance, the WHO’s outreach capacities, and life-saving biomedical research, which has consistently delivered massive benefits for humanity during the past century.",
        "最后，高收入国家必须继续投入充足资金用于全球疾病监控、增加世卫组织的能力、救命的生物医学研究。 在过去一百年中，生物医学一直在为人类提供大量好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, there are signs of disagreement on important matters between the government and the army.",
        "然而，有迹象表明在政府和军队之间在一些重大问题上存在分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the West has relegated support for the creation and strengthening of regional frameworks for cooperation in key areas like security to secondary importance.",
        "此外，西方将对建立和强化安全等重要领域的地区合作框架列为次要事务。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of economic output, today’s EU is on par with the US.",
        "在经济产值上，如今的欧盟与美国并驾齐驱。"
    ],
    [
        "To our surprise, Sadat told us that he, in fact, had respect for the US.",
        "让我们惊讶的是，萨达特告诉我们说，他实际上对美国报有尊敬。"
    ],
    [
        "One thing is clear: economists no longer dare to assume that trend is trend and cycle is cycle, and that their reciprocal interactions are small enough to neglect on the first pass.",
        "有一点是肯定的：经济学家不再敢认为趋势就是趋势，周期就是周期，它们发生交错的情况很少，可以忽略不计。"
    ],
    [
        "In some areas, there is not only a backlash against American cultural imports, but an effort to change American culture itself.",
        "在一些地区，不仅仅是有人反对进口美国文化，还有人想努力改变美国文化。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s Way Out",
        "巴西的出路"
    ],
    [
        "The philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously distinguished between two styles of thinking, which he identified with the hedgehog and the fox.",
        "哲学家以赛亚•柏林（Isaiah Berlin）的著名理论是对两种思维方式进行区分，并比喻为刺猬和狐狸。"
    ],
    [
        "Statistical evidence suggests that this relationship will weaken once the real-estate market recovers, but this remains a long-run prospect.",
        "虽然统计数据显示这个关联将会房地产市场复苏后被弱化，但后者的复苏还需要很长的一段时间才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The harder and more futile the activity, the better and more sexually attractive is the performer.",
        "活动越艰难、越无效，表演者便越优秀，越具有性别魅力。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU has certainly been a great success as a trade area, but less so as an integrated labor market and currency union; and it has altogether failed as a banking and fiscal area.",
        "欧盟作为贸易区域无疑取得了巨大的成功，但作为劳动力市场和货币联盟就差强人意，作为银行和财政区域则是完完全全的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "The same could be said today, seven years after the 2008 global financial crisis, about the world economy’s many remaining weak spots.",
        "今天也是如此，在2008年全球金融融危机过去七年后，世界经济依然千疮百孔。"
    ],
    [
        "If, for example, an agency working to reduce poverty in Africa cuts staff with expert knowledge, it is more likely to end up funding projects that fail.",
        "例如，如果一家为减少非洲贫困的机构削减具有专业知识的人员，它就更有可能资助失败的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, former FBI Director James Comey’s memo on his interactions with Trump, which led to the hiring of a special prosecutor to investigate the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia, was leaked to The New York Times.",
        "比如，前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米（James Comey）关于其与特朗普之间的互动备忘录便是由《纽约时报》所曝光，该备忘录导致最高法院任命了应为特别检察官调查特朗普选举阵营与俄罗斯的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps we should all care at least a little, for what is happening in Belgium is unusual, but not at all unique.",
        "但是或许我们应该至少都关心一下，因为比利时发生的事件尽管并非独一无二，也是不同寻常。"
    ],
    [
        "Giddy Markets and Grim Politics",
        "飘忽的市场和糟糕的政治"
    ],
    [
        "Collectively, we would all be a little wiser.",
        "集体而言，我们都会变得更聪明一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Iran’s leaders seem to assume that the country is too big and too strong to be subdued by sanctions or air strikes.",
        "此外伊朗领导人似乎也确信自己的国家足够强大，根本不会在制裁或者空中打击面前屈服。"
    ],
    [
        "Per capita GDP at constant prices was 140% higher in Britain in 1960 than in Brazil in 2010.",
        "1960年英国按不变价格计算的人均GDP比2010年的巴西高140%。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Chinese are not doing that anymore.",
        "但中国的“操纵”仅限于此。"
    ],
    [
        "From 2007 to October 2009, the United States lost nearly eight million jobs, which reduced the employment-population ratio from 63% to 58.5%.",
        "从2007年到2009年10月，美国失去了近800万个工作岗位，就业人口率从63%下降到58. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Increased world trade can be an important part of that alliance-building process.",
        "世界贸易的增长可以成为建立同盟进程中的一个重要步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "The vitality of international society depends on dialogue.",
        "国际社会的活力取决于对话的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "If EU institutions are to regain trust and relevance, they need to articulate concrete policies and deliver on issues that bear directly on citizens’ interests – youth unemployment, urban planning, health care, bio-tech research, energy conservation, transport, and aging.",
        "如果欧盟制度要重新赢得信任和关联，就必须出台具体政策，对与欧洲公民利益直接相关的问题——青年人失业、城市规划、卫生、生物技术研究、节能、运输和老龄化等——给出答案。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2001, France’s gross national income per capita overtook that of Germany, and is now 4% higher.",
        "6％，接近老欧盟国家平均水平24. 3％。"
    ],
    [
        "REYKJAVIK – No one yet has any real idea about when the global financial crisis will end, but one thing is certain: government budget deficits are headed into the stratosphere.",
        "雷克亚未克—— 没有人知道全球金融危机什么时候才会结束。 但有一点是肯定的：政府的财政赤字将达到一个惊人的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Lebanon has a population of just four million people, it is now host to more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees. The result is a growing sense of refugee fatigue, which is threatening to destabilize the country’s fragile multi-confessional power-sharing arrangement.",
        "该国只有四百万人口，却容纳了超过150万叙利亚难民，以致对难民日益感到厌倦，甚至可能破坏该国脆弱的多党权力分享安排。"
    ],
    [
        "In northern Europe, the transformation of the welfare state started in Denmark in 1982.",
        "在北欧，福利国家的转型始自1982年的丹麦。"
    ],
    [
        "So, the more we know, the more we comprehend what we do not know.",
        "因此，我们知道的越多，就越理解我们不知道什么。"
    ],
    [
        "In our research, we exploit this requirement to specifically target the BRCA1 or BRCA2-defective cancer cells with inhibitors of PARP.",
        "在我们的研究中，我们探寻了使用PARP抑制剂的必备条件，尤其针对具有BRCA1或BRCA2缺陷的癌细胞。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, effective migration governance requires institutional and legal frameworks that can reconcile sometimes-conflicting considerations.",
        "最后，有效的移民治理需要制度和法律框架来调和有时甚至相互冲突的考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "This indifference mirrors similar reactions to other recent global appeals, such as for schooling for Syrian refugees in Lebanon.",
        "如此冷漠还体现在最近的其他全球诉求中，如让在黎巴嫩的叙利亚难民上学。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Much has been written about Donald Trump’s peculiar hairstyle, the kind of puffy, dyed comb-over one would associate with a downmarket nightclub manager rather than a presidential candidate.",
        "纽约——唐纳德·特朗普的独特发型引起了人们的热烈争论，那种染过色的用来遮盖秃顶的蓬松侧分发更像是一位低端夜总会经理，而不是一位总统候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, while Clark’s paltry fine presumably at least comes out of his own pocket, the penalty levied on JPM is to be paid largely by its shareholders.",
        "事实上，克拉克的罚款尽管微不足道，好歹还得从他自己的腰包中出，而摩根大通的罚款大部分由股东买单。"
    ],
    [
        "When a dire threat to peace arises, such as the current standoff between the US and North Korea, it is the UN’s Department of Political Affairs that often facilitates vital, behind-the-scenes diplomacy.",
        "当和平面临严重威胁时，比如眼下的美朝僵局，联合国政治事务局通常会站出来为重要的幕后外交斡旋提供便利。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, following a violently contested parliamentary election in 2005, in which more than 30 parties participated, Meles demonstrated open contempt for democratic pluralism and press freedom, jailing several journalists in recent years.",
        "尽管如此，在2005年经历了有30多个政党参与的竞争惨烈的议会选举之后，泽纳维公开对民主多元论和言论自由表示鄙夷，并在最近几年囚禁了多位记者。"
    ],
    [
        "This is exactly the malady of young democracies.",
        "这就是年轻民主国家的通病。"
    ],
    [
        "“America-bashing is popular and easy,” he surmised.",
        "“抨击美国既流行又轻松”，他这样推测。"
    ],
    [
        "And now that the restructuring is almost complete, lending is set to take off.",
        "而今重组几乎完成，银行贷款也要放开了。"
    ],
    [
        "Numerous researchers, inspired by the late Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s pioneering work on the relationship between economic processes and physics, tried – not very successfully – to formulate an “entropic” theory of economy and society, especially during the 1970’s.",
        "在已故经济学家尼古拉斯·乔治斯库·洛根（Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen）对经济过程和自然环境关系探索性研究的启发下，特别是在20世纪70年代，几位研究人员曾尝试制定适用于经济和社会的“能量扩散”理论，但他们的努力似乎并没有取得多大成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1981 legislation was not true tax reform, but a rushed and poorly coordinated frenzy of fiscally irresponsible cuts to both corporate and personal income taxes.",
        "1981年的立法不是真正的税收改革，而只是匆忙推出、协调拙劣、财政上极不负责任的疯狂的公司和个人所得税减税政策。"
    ],
    [
        "It is both a beginning – an origin story – and a denouement to trauma.",
        "它既是一个原创故事的开始，也是一个伤痕累累的结局。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no disagreement between the models on the trade effects.",
        "这些模型对于贸易的影响没有分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "An article published late last year in the official media by a prominent retired People’s Liberation Army general describes the North Korean regime as terminal.",
        "去年年底，中国官方媒体发表解放军退休高级将领的文章，将朝鲜政权形容为“晚期”。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – When I visited the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan earlier this year, I met with children who told me what education means to them.",
        "伦敦—今年早些时候，我访问了位于约旦的扎塔里（Zaatari）难民营。 我遇见了一些儿童，他们告诉我教育对他们意味着什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia's Naked Public Space",
        "俄罗斯赤裸的公众空间"
    ],
    [
        "Because so many businesses make money from the rents created by the rationing of foreign exchange, rather than by creating value, it is easy to believe that markets do not work, that entrepreneurs are speculators, and that governments need to control them and impose “fair” prices.",
        "因为很多企业通过外汇配给创造的寻租机会赚钱而不是去创造价值，这容易使民众相信市场是无效的，企业家都是些投机者，所以政府需要管制和实施“公平”的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "The US-led Marshall Plan was aimed not just at supporting the reconstruction of Western Europe after World War II, but also at reviving markets for US exports and containing the Soviet Union.",
        "比如美国主导的马歇尔计划的目的不仅仅是支援二战后西欧重建，同时也是为了恢复美国的出口市场并抗衡苏联。"
    ],
    [
        "But that potential will be realized only if governments actively pursue green industrial policies.",
        "但要实现这一潜力，政府必须积极地追求绿色产业政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The first scandal occurred last year, after a tractor filled with green onions scraped the side of a BMW in Harbin.",
        "第一桩丑闻发生在去年的哈尔滨，其起因是一辆满载着大葱的拖拉机与一辆BMW擦挂。"
    ],
    [
        "The perpetrators of these attacks must be identified and brought to justice.",
        "这类袭击的罪犯必须抓住并绳之以法。"
    ],
    [
        "They are standing in plain sight as they destroy Syria’s most cosmopolitan, wondrously alive city, doing nothing to hide their acts.",
        "他们公然摧毁叙利亚最国际化的生机勃勃的城市，从不掩饰自己的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, civil unrest is already on the rise across the developing world.",
        "事实上，国内动荡已经在发展中世界愈演愈烈。"
    ],
    [
        "But the link certainly is plausible.",
        "但这种联系从道理上肯定说得通。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the country’s leaders have sometimes complained about the heavy burden of subsidizing North Korea; but, until now, they had never shown such open disgust with the North’s performance.",
        "是的，中国领导人有时抱怨援助朝鲜负担太重； 但是此前从未有中国领导人如此公开地表示对朝鲜表现的不满。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar problems arise in prevention.",
        "预防也有类似的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin is in no hurry, but he clearly knows what he wants.",
        "普京并不急躁，但他十分清楚想要什么。"
    ],
    [
        "So he finds it unconceivable that anybody can feel otherwise or even that rules should stand in his way.",
        "因此如果任何人有其它想法，他都觉得不可思议，甚至法规都不应对他构成限制和阻挡。"
    ],
    [
        "A country’s soft power rests on three main resources: an appealing culture, political values that it reliably upholds, and foreign policy that is imbued with moral authority.",
        "一国的软实力有三个主要来源：动人的文化、踏实坚守的政治价值，以及充满道德权威的外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Customers will have to change their payment orders and habits just because harmonization has become an end in itself for many in the EU.",
        "消费者必须改变自己的付款委托方式以及使用习惯，仅仅是为了在全欧盟达到一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin and his KGB friends from St. Petersburg sit safely on all this wealth, thanks to their authoritarian governance and control over all security organs.",
        "普京和他来自圣彼得堡的克格勃朋友安安稳稳地享受着这巨大的财富，而这多亏了他们的独裁统治和对安全机构的强力控制。"
    ],
    [
        "The disagreement concerns what must be done to finish this important piece of Dodd-Frank business.",
        "不一致的地方在于必须怎样未完成多德-弗兰克立法的这一重要部分。"
    ],
    [
        "We believe there are lessons to be learned from AIDS activists.",
        "我们相信，艾滋病活动家的很多经验可以借鉴。"
    ],
    [
        "Mandatory laboratory reporting of HbA1c results (along with basic demographic data) for a defined population (New York City residents) allowed New York’s Department of Health to monitor trends in diabetes prevalence, assess testing coverage, and examine health-care use and glycemic control of residents living with diabetes.",
        "这些针对某一特定人口（纽约市居民）的监测报告（加上基本的人口统计学数据）使卫生委员会得以监测糖尿病流行趋势，评估检测覆盖情况并考察患糖尿病居民的卫生系统使用状况和血糖控制水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Each case has elicited a different response, owing either to the constraints of international power politics, as is now the case with respect to Syria, or to economic and strategic considerations, as in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.",
        "每场革命都引发了不同的应对措施，要么根据国际实力政治约束做出（如现在的叙利亚），要么根据经济和战略条件做出（如沙特和巴林）。"
    ],
    [
        "This “boot-strap” approach is based on the use of photovoltaics – a simple, universal, and scalable technology that is easy to maintain.",
        "这种“自给自足”的方法基于光伏技术的应用——这是一种简单、普遍、容易维护和拓展的技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, when he loses the key or needs a spare, he can get a new copy at any location with a kiosk – of which there will soon be many, the company hopes.",
        "接着，如果他弄丢了要是或需要一把备用钥匙，他可以在任何有KeyMe销售终端的地方得到新的复制品——该公司希望，KeyMe销售终端会很快大量铺开。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Since 1976, the US dollar’s role as an international currency has been slowly waning.",
        "美国剑桥—1976年以来，美元作为国际货币的角色一直在缓慢减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "We freely admit to not knowing everything about how a helicopter flies or a printing press prints, but we are not nearly modest enough about our ignorance.",
        "我们爽快地承认，我们对于直升飞机如何飞翔或者印刷机如何印刷一窍不通，但是对于我们的无知却并不足够谦虚。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of these shifts might be subject to international coordination, in order to avoid adverse competitive consequences, whether real or perceived.",
        "一些变革需要国际合作，以避免不利的现实上或感觉上的竞争性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Donors and their partners agree on a way forward that could, in theory, tackle these challenges.",
        "援助国家以及伙伴国家就前进道路达成一致意见，这样就会在理论上处理这些挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "In Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez’s opponents will unite behind a single candidate for October’s presidential election.",
        "在委内瑞拉，乌戈•查韦斯的反对派将团结起来支持一位候选人参加明年10月的总统选举。"
    ],
    [
        "The two accidents and the spills they caused have a number of similar features, although marine oil spills in general have profoundly changed in character in the three decades between the two events.",
        "虽然这两次事故相距的三十年间海上石油泄漏的一般特点发生了重大变化，但这两次事故及其引发的泄漏却有若干特点是极其相似的。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, the European Commission has requested that all EU member states develop and implement strategies to promote Roma social inclusion in these areas.",
        "今年，欧盟委员会要求所有欧盟成员国发展并实施促进罗姆人融入当地社会的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "In the middle of the twentieth century, Josef Stalin scornfully asked how many divisions the Pope had, but four decades later, the Papacy was still intact while Stalin’s empire had collapsed.",
        "二十世纪中期，约瑟夫·斯大林曾轻蔑地询问教皇管辖几个师，而四十年后，教皇制度依然完好无损，而斯大林的帝国却已经分崩离析。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed’s Dollar Distraction",
        "美联储为美元分心"
    ],
    [
        "With the threat of unsustainably high interest rates in the countries of the eurozone periphery having disappeared, the path to moderate recovery was supposedly open, to be followed by some acceleration in growth in 2015.",
        "欧元区外围高得不可持续的利率开始下降，人们因此认为温和复苏的大门已经打开，增长将在2015年出现加速。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadat would, of course, continue to champion the Palestinian cause as the heart of an Arab consensus and sometimes as a fig leaf for his own Egypt-focused foreign policy.",
        "当然，萨达特依然会继续支持巴勒斯坦的事业，因为这是阿拉伯人内心的共识，并且有时可以作为他自己以埃及为中心的外交政策的遮羞布。"
    ],
    [
        "Still the talk does not stop, nor does the fall in consumer confidence.",
        "然而讨论还在继续，消费者信心也随之继续下滑。"
    ],
    [
        "A functioning private sector that creates adequate jobs, and schools that educate the large young population for today’s inter-connected world, are prerequisites of progress.",
        "民主进步的前提是正常运转的私营部门创造出充分的就业机会，而学校教育则使大批年轻人适应当今相互联系的开放社会。"
    ],
    [
        "When buyers find it difficult to finance home purchases, sellers have to cut the asking price.",
        "当买房的人发现很难为买房筹到钱时，卖房的人就不得不降低要价了。"
    ],
    [
        "Its decision to maintain output at current levels – effectively neutering the OPEC cartel – has already had a dampening effect on competing supplies; nearly $400 billion of fossil-fuel investments have been shelved.",
        "沙特决定保持目前的生产水平——这在事实上导致石油输出国组织名存实亡——已经起到了打击竞争者士气的效果； 近4000亿美元的化石燃料投资被搁置了。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been done in the US, where taxes have become less progressive, with tax cuts given to the winners – those who benefit from both globalization and technological changes.",
        "美国已经这样做了。 美国的税收累进程度变得更低，减税给了受益者，他们从全球化和技术革新中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Experimental schemes have been implemented in Latin America in which child allowances are conditional on school attendance and vaccination.",
        "在拉丁美洲国家已经进行了试验，也就是把上学和接种疫苗作为儿童津贴的条件。 在人道主义危机发生的时候，有时候就用现金援助取代食品援助。"
    ],
    [
        "But proposals to coordinate policies internationally for mutual benefit are fair.",
        "但为了共同利益进行国际政策协调的方案也是公平的。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, great advances have been made – and should continue to be made – toward reform and regulation of the financial system.",
        "自从2009年实施《里斯本条约》以来，金融制度的改革和监管取得了巨大的进展，不过还应该进一步努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Another reason to admire Switzerland is its astonishing railway system, which crisscrosses every nook and cranny of the country.",
        "欣赏瑞士的另一个原因是其令人赞叹的铁路系统，基本覆盖了这个国家的角角落落。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that the 13th Five-Year Plan (covering the 2016-2020 period), which is to be enacted in March 2016, appears likely to address these concerns explicitly.",
        "好消息是，将于2016年3月出台的十三五规划（2016—2020年）可能会直接解决这些顾虑。"
    ],
    [
        "In the most extreme cases, the education system itself is segregated: isolated schools in remote camps; special classes for Roma children in mainstream schools; and an over-representation of Roma children in classes for children with learning difficulties.",
        "在大多数极端案例中，教育系统本身就实行了种族隔离政策，也就是说，偏僻地区孤立的学校、主流学校罗姆孩子特殊班级以及为具有学习困难孩子所设的班级中罗姆儿童过多。"
    ],
    [
        "If the dollar falls 20% more against the euro sometime in the next ten years, US long-term interest rates should be two percentage points higher than euro rates.",
        "如果在未来十年的某一天，美元与欧元的汇率再下跌20%，美国的长期利率就会比欧元高出2个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the deficit for 2014-2015 is expected to be £97 billion.",
        "但是，如今2014—2015年赤字预计将达到970亿英镑。"
    ],
    [
        "If Newtonian mechanics is at the bottom of everything, then one should be able to derive the second law of thermodynamics from Newtonian physics.",
        "如果牛顿力学是一切的基础，那么就必然能从其中推导出热力学第二定律。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though this approach works in some circumstances, it is poorly suited for cases of genuine uncertainty like Ukraine.",
        "但是，尽管这一方法在一些环境中起到了作用，但对于乌克兰这样的名符其实的不安全环境，它并不适用。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the US Federal Reserve has essentially guaranteed the financial sector that if it gets into trouble, ultra-low interest rates will be maintained (at the expense of savers) until the sector recovers.",
        "比如说，美国联邦储备委员会（简称美联储）就向金融部门保证，一旦后者陷入麻烦就将维持极低利率直到该部门复苏为止。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the West is defending common values, such as freedom, respect for human life, and the rule of law.",
        "相反，西方维护的是共同价值观，比如自由、法治和对生命的尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "Does a majority in Parliament have to support Brexit?",
        "需要议会多数支持英国退出吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But, as with the global economy, there is reason to hope that the discipline is on the mend.",
        "但是，与全球经济一样，有理由相信这门学科正在逐渐进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists are now busy devising new feats of monetary wizardry for when the latest policy fails: taxing cash holdings, or even abolishing cash altogether; or, at the other extreme, showering the population with “helicopter drops” of freshly printed money.",
        "如今，经济学家热衷于炮制新货币巫术来接替最新的失败政策：现金持有税，或干脆取消现金； 或者，在另一个极端，用“直升机撒钱”把新印出来的钞票分配给群众。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – Donald Trump took office promising a raft of sweeping economic-policy changes for the United States.",
        "首尔—特朗普上台时承诺要全盘改革美国的经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps one answer lies in listening more to the communities directly affected by major health conditions.",
        "也许一个答案在于更多地聆听来自直接受重大健康问题的群体的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s bizarre decision-making structure has allowed domestic German politics to prevail over all other considerations.",
        "欧洲的怪异的决策结构让德国国内政治凌驾于其他所有考量之上。"
    ],
    [
        "In the future, new information and communication technologies are expected to stimulate the expansion of educational opportunities and to improve educational quality at the national and global level, by offering a variety of innovative learning channels.",
        "未来全新信息和通信技术有望通过提供各种创新学习渠道来刺激教育机会扩大并改善国家和全球层面的教育质量。"
    ],
    [
        "The dream of peace, the nationalist fervor, and the purported religious redemption that animated Israel’s political combatants for a half-century are gone, replaced by a resigned pragmatism.",
        "半个多世纪来支持以色列政治斗士的和平之梦、民族主义狂热和传说中的宗教救赎都已经幻灭，取而代之的是一种实用主义的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "When corruption hurts partners with that level of clout, it hurts you, too.",
        "当腐败借助其势力伤害着这些生意伙伴的时候，别不记得，它同时也在伤害你自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Although globalization and immigration can be political pressure points, the roots of voting behavior today lie in three interrelated developments.",
        "尽管全球化和移民可能成为政治压力点，但当今选举行为的根源是三大互相关联的发展趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Eight hundred years ago this month, it offered a colorful spectacle, dotted with the tents of barons and knights, and the larger pavilion of King John of England, looking like a circus top with the royal standard fluttering above.",
        "八百年前的这个月，这片草地色彩斑斓，遍布着男爵和骑士的帐篷，更有规模更大的英格兰约翰王（King John）的王帐，看上去像是飘荡着王旗的马戏团。"
    ],
    [
        "Rules for Calamity and Crisis",
        "处理灾难和危机的规则"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – How will the eurozone crisis play out in the next few weeks?",
        "芝加哥——未来几周，欧元区危机会如何发展？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, when asked if there are too many immigrants in their country, 38% of the Americans surveyed agreed.",
        "比如，在被问及美国移民是否过多时，38%的美国人表示同意。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – In her brilliant book, “The Uses and Abuses of History” the historian Margaret Macmillan tells a story about two Americans discussing the atrocities of September 11, 2001. One draws an analogy with Pearl Harbor, Japan’s attack on the US in 1941.",
        "发自伦敦——在历史学家玛格列特·麦克米兰才华横溢的著作《被滥用和利用的历史》一书中，讲述了一个关于两个美国人讨论“9·11”事件暴行的故事：当其中一人用1941年珍珠港事件来比喻“9·11”的时候，他的同伴却对珍珠港事件一无所知，于是前者就解释说：“你知道么，这就跟越南人轰炸美国舰队并挑起越战一样。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is the ECB’s credibility problem, not that of member states, that is the principal reason for unsustainably high borrowing costs in Italy, Spain, and other distressed eurozone countries.",
        "而造成意大利、西班牙和其他受困欧元区国家借贷成本畸高的主要原因不是成员国，而是欧洲央行的信誉问题。"
    ],
    [
        "You would have distilled from these agonized noises that the report concluded that global warming is worse than we had imagined, and that we need to take swift and strong action right now.",
        "你可能会从这些痛苦的噪音中分辨出报告总结说全球气候变暖要比我们想象得要严重，而且我们现在就要采取快速有力的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu were recaptured; Bamako was saved.",
        "加奥、基达尔和廷巴克图相继收复；"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, it could allow for conscientious objection to participation in certain research.",
        "最后，这样也能为对那些诚恳反对参与某些研究的意见留出余地。"
    ],
    [
        "Pivotal to sparking this investment is the mitigation of associated political risks, especially through an enhanced role for the Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency.",
        "点燃这一投资之火的关键是降低相关政治风险，特别是通过加强世界银行的多边投资担保局（Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency）实现这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Excessive regulation that protects incumbent firms and other vested interests undermines market competitiveness and limits prospects for improved productivity and efficiency.",
        "保护现有企业和其他既得利益者的过度规管有损市场竞争力并限制了生产率及效率的提高。"
    ],
    [
        "And, faced with today’s tight budget constraints, the inclination to favor projects that have demonstrable short-term returns is arguably stronger now than in the past.",
        "而在当今预算约束吃紧的情况下，偏袒能产生可见短期回报的项目的倾向可以说比以往更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Did the whale, an orca named Tilikum and nicknamed Tilly, act out of stress at being held captive in a sterile concrete tank?",
        "这条名叫 Tilikum ，大家都昵称叫 Tilly 的逆戟鲸是否是由于长期被囚禁在一个空荡荡的水泥池子里，承受不了巨大的压力才做出了这种行为？"
    ],
    [
        "And, given the stakes, any international agreement with Iran must come with an assured response to cheating, including military action.",
        "此外，考虑到兹事体大，与伊朗的国际协定必须有白纸黑字的作弊应对措施，包括采取军事行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate about how to respond is complicated by the fact that the Cheonan’s sinking does not seem to be a stand-alone event, but was, instead, part of a change in North Korea’s general pattern of behavior.",
        "天安号的沉没似乎并不是一个孤立事件，而是北朝鲜整体行为模式所发生的变化，这些因素也使围绕应对之策所展开的争论变得更加复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the wealthy can use their money to amplify their views, back on the street, police wouldn’t allow me to address the OWS protesters through a megaphone.",
        "但是，富人可以动用手里的金钱来放大自己的声音，可警察却不允许我在街上用高音喇叭宣扬“占领华尔街”抗议者的口号。"
    ],
    [
        "Sanders is temperamentally unsuited for the role of subordinate, and their policy disagreements reflect deeply held views about the role of the federal government.",
        "桑德斯的气质并不适合担任下属，并且他们之间的政策分歧反映出对联邦政府作用的看法根本不同。"
    ],
    [
        "A first draft of a new report existed at the beginning of this year, and the able German chairman argued that the group should not rewrite the 2015 report, but try to say more about the steps that states should take in peacetime.",
        "今年年初，新报已经有了的第一份草稿，有为的专家团德国主席认为专家团不应该重写2015年报告，而是要试图阐述更多关于各国在和平年代应该采取哪些措施的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "If greed dominates, the engine of economic growth will deplete our resources, push the poor aside, and drive us into a deep social, political, and economic crisis.",
        "如果坐视贪婪统治了一切的话，经济增长的驱动力就将挖空我们的资源，将穷人抛在一边，并把我们拖进一场深重的社会，政治和经济危机中。"
    ],
    [
        "If I buy a hybrid car, install a solar panel at my home, or upgrade to a more efficient water heater, I get a tax credit.",
        "如果我买了一辆混合动力汽车，为我家安装太阳能面板，或是升级更为高效的热水器，那我就能得到税收优惠。"
    ],
    [
        "No Muslim, it seems, is prepared to forget that Jerusalem is home to the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third most sacred site in Islam.",
        "看起来，没有穆斯林会忘记耶路撒冷是伊斯兰教第三圣地阿克萨（Al-Aqsa）清真寺所在地。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of its measures had enjoyed bipartisan support in the past; tax cuts comprised about 56% of the total cost; and the package was paid for in Obama’s long-term deficit reduction plan.",
        "其中减税约占支出总额的56%； 并在奥巴马的长期赤字削减计划下逐渐列支。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, in the laboratory, scientists use animals in controlled experimental conditions to investigate the workings of toxic agents.",
        "确切地说，在实验室里，科学家们用受控试验状态下的动物来探究毒性介质的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Technologies now in development could even eliminate auto-related fatalities altogether.",
        "目前正在开发阶段的技术甚至可以根除与汽车相关的死亡事故。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the higher the average age of marriage for women, the faster literacy spreads.",
        "此外，妇女平均结婚年龄越高，识字率的提升就越快。"
    ],
    [
        "So why shouldn’t it support its partners with financial help to overcome the crisis?",
        "那么为何它不应该用金融援助支持伙伴国克服危机呢？"
    ],
    [
        "DiEM25 is imbued with this spirit of defiance: we will not be forced by the prospect of the EU’s disintegration to acquiesce to an EU of the establishment’s choosing.",
        "DiEM25充满了这一反抗精神：我们不会手迫于欧盟解体前景而默许建制所选择的欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, at every step during the past decade – and still today – a chorus of aid skeptics has argued against the needed help.",
        "不幸的是，在过去十年所采取的每一个步骤中（现在也不例外），总有一群援助怀疑者对必要的援助指手画脚。 他们一再声称援助根本没什么效果；"
    ],
    [
        "That money ultimately comes from individuals and employers who pay it in taxes, insurance premiums, or direct payments, and should be intercepted somewhere between the payers and the health-care delivery system.",
        "）这笔钱最终来自个人和雇主所支付的税收、健康保险金或直接支付，并应该在支付者和卫生服务提供系统之间抽取。"
    ],
    [
        "Leading bankers were initially the most obvious culprits.",
        "大银行家首当其冲，成了最显眼的被告。"
    ],
    [
        "A decent pan-European economic recovery, and successful gradual fiscal consolidation, would allow the distressed sovereign bonds to rise in value over time.",
        "一个体面的泛欧洲经济复苏以及成功的财政逐步巩固将使危机受灾国主权债券的价值随时间不断升高。"
    ],
    [
        "If they were to create their own country, it would be the size of France.",
        "如果他们建立自己的国家，其规模与法国相当。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – This year began with a series of reports providing tantalizing evidence that economic recovery in the United States is strengthening.",
        "伯克利——新年伊始的一系列报告都在令人兴奋地表明，美国经济复苏得到了提振。"
    ],
    [
        "Wars always have unintended consequences and cruel ironies.",
        "战争总是产生意想不到的后果和残忍的讽刺。"
    ],
    [
        "The spread of the Ebola virus has been facilitated by our countries’ shared history and culture, which has enabled the disease to cross borders easily and move quickly from remote rural areas to urban centers.",
        "埃博拉病毒的传播因为我们三国的共同历史和文化变得更加方便——疾病轻易地跨境传播，迅速地从偏远农村地区向城市中心地区蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund, among others, has recently warned that slow growth and populism might lead to an outbreak of protectionism.",
        "国际货币基金组织最近警告缓慢增长和民粹主义可能导致保护主义爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the most important principle to which the international community has given its assent is respect for sovereign immunity: There are limits beyond which markets – and governments – cannot go.",
        "然而，国际社会同意的最重要原则是对主权豁免原则的尊重：有些限制是市场和政府不能跨越的。"
    ],
    [
        "“Collaboration” implies free will and choice; even primate males do not succeed by dominating or controlling females.",
        "“合作”隐含着自由意愿和选择，就连灵长类动物中的雄性也无法通过占有或者控制雌性来取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "But if a country is effectively insolvent rather than just illiquid, such “bailouts” cannot prevent eventual default and devaluation (or exit from a monetary union) because the international lender of last resort eventually will stop financing an unsustainable debt dynamic, as occurred Argentina (and in Russia in 1998).",
        "但如果一个国家处于事实上的破产状态，而不仅仅是一时周转不灵，这样的“救助”到头来还是不能防止违约和货币贬值（也不能防止退出货币联盟），因为国际上的最终贷款人不会一直为不可持续的债务动态提供融资，就像阿根廷和 1998 年俄罗斯所遭遇的情形一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, corporations’ growing share of income has been a major driver behind the long, if uneven, bull market in stocks that began in the early 1990’s.",
        "的确，大公司收入份额的不断增加是1990年代初期以来，长期但不平衡的股票牛市背后的主要驱动力。"
    ],
    [
        "It is about representation – who gets to speak for the people and how.",
        "它的本质是代表权——谁能以何种形式代表民众说话。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing the need, the last Ecofin meeting has, for the first time, committed itself “to safeguard financial stability in the euro area as a whole.”",
        "认识到这个问题后，近期的欧盟财长会议上首次提出了“保卫欧盟整体金融稳定”的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "Blair also lost his ministers of foreign affairs and of development assistance, Robin Cook and Clare Short, respectively.",
        "布莱尔同样失去了外交大臣Robin Cook和发展援助大臣Clare Short。"
    ],
    [
        "The desire for referendums is not only a sign of internal national divisions; it is yet another symptom of a global populist demand to “take back our country.”",
        "对公投的渴望不仅是国家内部分裂的表现； 而且是全球民粹主义者要求“夺回国家”的另一种表象而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Here the G-20 could play a particularly constructive role, especially when it comes to the revival of the Doha Trade Round, the reduction of duties, tariffs and quotas on exports from the least-developed countries, and the gradual elimination of domestic subsidies.",
        "在此G20可以扮演一个特别有建设性的角色，尤其是当世贸多哈回合谈判重新启动，削减针对最不发达国家的出口特别税，关税和配额，并逐步取消组织各国的国内补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "Direct delivery of medical help is one of the best options, but it still can be a huge drain on already-scarce local resources – hospitals, doctors, and nurses.",
        "直接医疗援助是最好的选择之一，但它也可能吞咽掉本已稀缺的当地资源——医院，医生和护士。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the outcome, the IMF, the World Bank, and the international community need to reaffirm their commitment to an open and transparent process – and ask how that process can be improved.",
        "但不管最后人选是谁，IMF，世界银行和国际社会都必须重申他们对公开透明程序的承诺——并思考如何改善这一程序。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, Sweden will attach particular importance to energy efficiency programs, which will serve not only the purposes of enhancing energy security and reducing costs, but will also be an important contribution to the fight against climate change.",
        "瑞典将特别关注能效计划，因为类似计划不仅能改善能源安全，降低成本，而且能为应对气候变化做出重要贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "But our average age was over 65, and the limits of our effectiveness were neatly described by former British Defence Minister Des Browne: “People who used to be something really want to tackle this issue.",
        "但我们的平均年龄超过65岁，前英国国防部长德斯·布朗准确形容了我们影响力的有限性：“曾经掌权的人确实想解决核问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A high-value inter-bank funds-transfer system settles transactions in real time, eliminates credit risk between system participants, increases circulation of funds, and enhances monetary-policy implementation.",
        "一套具有极高价值的银行间资金转移系统负责进行实时交易结算、消除系统参与者之间的信用风险、加速资金周转，以及改善货币政策的实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Well into the twentieth century, indigenous groups were effectively deprived of a vote and a voice.",
        "二十世纪很长一段时间，土著人实际上被剥夺了投票权和发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "Sympathizers acknowledged the contradictions of a system in which a national unit is used internationally.",
        "支持者认为一个国家的货币作为全球货币系统的流通货币本身就有点矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "But, once the crisis has passed, EU institutional reform will be a critical element in restoring trust.",
        "但是，一旦危机过去，欧盟制度性改革将是重塑信任的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Minorities suffer stigma, discrimination, and violence in developed and developing countries.",
        "生活在发达和发展中国家的少数族裔不得不忍受耻辱、歧视和暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "As governments and citizens around the world become aware of the influence that China can buy with its deep pockets, is an anti-Chinese backlash inevitable?",
        "随着世界各国政府和人民越来越意识到中国可以用自己巨大的财富买来影响力之时，一场反华运动是否已经无法避免？"
    ],
    [
        "The objective should thus be to find new, more efficient modes of cooperation that avoid the issues and conflicts that have impeded accession negotiations.",
        "因此，应该将目标定在寻找更新、更有效的合作模式，避免阻碍入盟谈判的问题和冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "US Vice President Joseph Biden has put counterattacks against Russian computer networks on the table, but that could trigger an escalation, while ceding the moral high ground.",
        "美国副总统约瑟夫·拜登曾提出对俄罗斯计算机网络发起反击，但这不仅可能导致事态升级，而且也等于放弃道德高地。"
    ],
    [
        "The innovations that drive economic advances – information technology, biotech, and nanotech – can boost living standards in both the developing and the developed world.",
        "推动经济进步的发明——信息技术、生物科技和纳米技术——对发展中和发达国家的生活水平均有提升作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, in the 35 years since Deng Xiaoping initiated his program of “reform and opening up,” China has recorded 9.7% average annual growth.",
        "尽管如此，自邓小平启动他的“改革开放”政策以来，中国平均年增长率高达9. 7%。"
    ],
    [
        "These would be the silver currencies.",
        "这就是今天的银币。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s high-quality infrastructure could easily be extended to the West Bank and Gaza if security could be assured, and a young generation of entrepreneurs and technologists has grown up on both sides of the border.",
        "一旦安全得到保证，以色列的高质量基础设施可以轻松拓展到约旦河西岸和加沙地带，年轻一代的技术人才和企业家已经在边境两侧成长起来。"
    ],
    [
        "This may translate into military adventures abroad and repression at home.",
        "这可能体现为在海外的军事冒险以及国内的经济萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Chinese student movement broke out in 1989, I was pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of California-Berkeley. I traveled to Beijing to participate as an activist in Tiananmen Square, where I narrowly escaped the massacre and was able to make my way back to the US.",
        "1989年学生运动爆发时，当时正在加州大学伯克利分校攻读数学博士学位的我回到北京参加了天安门广场上的运动，最终也在屠杀之下侥幸逃生并重回美国。"
    ],
    [
        "According to our recent report, “Voices of the Vulnerable,” the near-poor are becoming the new poor.",
        "根据我们最新报告“弱者之声”，近乎于穷人的人正在加入穷人的行列。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the January 2005 election there was a positive step for the region.",
        "显而易见，2005年1月的地区选举迈出了积极的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this backdrop of relatively improved conditions, Lebanon stands out as an exception.",
        "但黎巴嫩则是这种形势相对好转背景下的一个例外。"
    ],
    [
        "The Japanese fear that the credibility of American extended deterrence will be weakened if the US decreases its nuclear forces to parity with China.",
        "日本人害怕如果美国将核力量降低到与中国对等，美国延伸威慑的可信度将会减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – As it braces for its upcoming presidential election, Afghanistan finds itself at another critical juncture, with its unity and territorial integrity at stake after 35 years of relentless war.",
        "新德里—在即将迎来总统大选之际，阿富汗再一次面临关键时刻，在经历了35年的残酷战争后，它的统一和领土完整正处于紧要关头。"
    ],
    [
        "This includes policies aimed at restructuring the economy, improving productivity, and increasing labor-force participation, especially by women.",
        "这包括旨在重组经济、改善生产率和增加劳动力参与率（特别是妇女）的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, net foreign capital inflows are likely to dwindle for several quarters at least, affecting domestic monetary conditions while aggregate demand is weak.",
        "此外，净外国资本流入至少将在未来几个季度内有所减少，在总需求不足之时，这将影响国内货币条件。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, there is far less direct investment between China and the EU than there is between China and its other large trading partners, including the US and Brazil.",
        "目前，中国与欧盟之间的直接投资远少于中国与其他主要贸易伙伴（包括美国和巴西）之间。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s go back to basics for a moment. The government guarantees bank deposits because a banking failure could hurt the entire economy.",
        "让我们先回到一些基本问题上：政府之所以会为银行存款做担保，是因为银行破产可能会损害整个经济。"
    ],
    [
        "And China’s banks pumped massive amounts of credit into the country’s economy, enabling it to sustain import demand, which was critical to the global recovery.",
        "中国的银行注入了大量的信贷进入该国经济，使其维持进口需求，这是全球经济复苏的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "But the real risk for the global economy is in Europe.",
        "然而对全球经济来说，真正的风险存在于欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Affluent Gulf Cooperation Council countries would be mistaken to assume that they are exempt from their neighbors’ public-health problems.",
        "丰裕的海湾合作委员会（GCC）国家如果认为自己能够独善其身于周边公共卫生问题，将大错特错。"
    ],
    [
        "Information released by the government of Brazil indicates that deforestation of the irreplaceable forests of the Amazon, due to factors such as agricultural conversion, reached 2.6 million hectares (roughly 10,000 square miles) in the past year, bringing the total deforested area of the Amazon to 17%.",
        "巴西政府发布的信息指出：在过去一年里，由于农业改造等因素对亚马逊河流域不可再生林木的采伐多达260万公顷（大约一万平方英里），这使亚马逊地区的采伐总面积达到17%。"
    ],
    [
        "Prosecutors have revealed a wide-ranging kickback scheme centered on the state-owned oil company Petrobras and involving executives, parliamentarians, and government officials.",
        "检察官已经揭露了以国有石油公司巴西石油为核心的涉及面极广的回扣计划，高管、国会议员和政府官员全都参与其中。"
    ],
    [
        "As a NATO member, Turkey aims to become a full member of the European Union and establish cordial relations with all of its southern and eastern neighbors.",
        "作为北约成员国，土耳其致力于成为欧盟正式成员国并与本国西南部邻邦建立了良好关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, the European Commission is jeopardizing the government’s special relationship with Apple by demanding that it claw back €13 billion ($14.6 billion) in taxes from the company.",
        "而如今欧盟委员会让爱尔兰从苹果公司收回130亿欧元（折和146亿美元）税额的要求则危及到该国政府与苹果公司之间的特殊关系。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as he is learning, to his displeasure, that means postponing the day when the books will be balanced.",
        "而他也正在领教——尽管不情不愿——这意味着延长预算实现平衡的日期。"
    ],
    [
        "Worldwide, one in four children under the age of five is stunted, meaning that chronic under-nutrition has caused serious and often irreversible physical and cognitive damage.",
        "全世界，每四名五岁以下儿童就有一人发育不良，这表明长期营养不良造成了常常是不可逆转的生理和认知伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The global economy ends 2010 more divided than it was at the beginning of the year.",
        "发自纽约——相对于2010年初，今年年末的全球经济更为分化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is hard for most of us to imagine the scale of suffering and devastation inflicted on the Armenian people and their ancestral homelands.",
        "事实上，我们中大部分人都难以想象亚美尼亚人民和他们世代相传的家园所遭受的苦难之深、浩劫之重。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing extraordinary has been revealed, but the cables now available allow readers and analysts to draw some preliminary conclusions about the Obama administration’s views of the region; about Latin American leaders’ attitudes toward the United States; and about the quality of US diplomatic and intelligence-gathering activities in the hemisphere.",
        "目前公布的消息并没有什么特别，但已经解密的电报内容使读者和分析家能初步总结奥巴马政府的地区观念、拉美领导人对美国的态度、以及美国在西半球外交和情报搜集工作的进展状况。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be a grave mistake, for such an outcome would most likely pave the way for extreme alternatives.",
        "这肯定会诱发严重的错误，因为这样的结果只会让极端情况变为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "For one thing, it would be impossible to do so under the auspices of the United Nations, owing to Russian and Chinese obstructionism in the Security Council.",
        "一方面，由于俄罗斯和中国在安理会中作梗，不可能在联合国的批准下采取军事干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, program-related investments still represent only 1% of the capital deployed by foundations, with just 0.05% of that going toward equity investments.",
        "不幸的是，项目相关投资仍只占基金会资本配置的1%，而其中又只有0. 05%投向了股权投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on per capita GDP, China is more than 40 years behind Japan and about 20 years behind South Korea.",
        "按人均GDP计，中国落后日本超过40年，落后韩国20年左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Jaitley is also known as a strategic thinker who is sympathetic to business interests.",
        "杰特里还以同情商业利益的战略思想家的身份闻名于世。"
    ],
    [
        "World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has faced substantial criticism for his handling of his flagship initiative: an internal restructuring.",
        "世界银行行长金勇（Jim Yong Kim）就因为在处理其核心举措——世行内部重组项目——方面表现不力而饱受批评。"
    ],
    [
        "But these calculations failed to take into account Pakistani security considerations – in particular, the military’s renewed fears about India’s intentions.",
        "但这些算计并未纳入巴基斯坦人在安全方面的考虑——尤其是军方对印度意图重新出现的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "He quotes one person saying, “Stop calling us racists.",
        "他引用一位谈话者的话说，“不要再称我们是种族主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the ECB is the least independent central bank in the developed world.",
        "然而欧洲央行却是发达经济体中独立性最低的中央银行。"
    ],
    [
        "But that could well divide NAM even further: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, invited to sit next to Iran’s leadership, used the occasion to denounce publicly his hosts’ policy in Syria.",
        "但这可能促成不结盟运动进一步分裂：应邀在伊朗领导人身边落座的埃及总统穆罕默德·穆尔西利用这次机会公开谴责东道主的叙利亚政策。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no less important to address the causes of economic alienation, which means, for starters, providing better public services for disadvantaged communities, and investing in education, technology, and high-wage, high-skill jobs.",
        "同样重要的是解决经济疏离的根源，这意味着首先要为弱势社区提供更好的公共服务，并投资于教育、技术和高薪高技能岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, if a Muslim decided to renounce his faith, the matter would be handled outside the legal system, or conversion records would be sealed.",
        "例如，如果一个穆斯林决定放弃其信仰，那么，这一问题将会在法律体系外得到处理，否则转变信仰的记录将会被封存。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s Fascist Temptation",
        "俄罗斯面临的法西斯主义诱惑"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, the ECB must continue to provide unlimited resources to banks under liquidity stress.",
        "同时，欧洲央行必须继续向面临周转压力的银行无限度提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "NATO should discuss concrete steps to protect its members.",
        "北约必须讨论采取保护其成员国的具体步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries will need funding to implement such plans, and, encouragingly, the 2015 Paris climate agreement established a taskforce to address climate-related displacement.",
        "许多国家需要资金支持这些计划的实施，令人鼓舞的是，2015年巴黎气候协定成立了一个工作组解决气候相关的流离失所问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the movement in some cities, such as Singapore and Tokyo, toward driverless subways or cars will demand substantial labor to build and manage the relevant systems.",
        "就连新加坡和东京等某些城市的无人驾驶地铁或汽车项目也需要大量人力建设和管理相关系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Binyam Mohamed told the Associated Press that al-Hanashi was a positive person (and, one can assume, a natural leader) who would never consider suicide.",
        "宾亚姆·莫哈迈德告诉美联社，哈纳什是一个乐观积极的人，（可以想象，他也是一位天生的领导者）一个永远都不会想要自杀的人。"
    ],
    [
        "But, where oppressive regimes are using foreign credit to postpone needed domestic political and economic reforms, that may be a good outcome.",
        "但是，如果压迫政权利用外国贷款来延缓国内需要的政治和经济改革，不愿放债也许是一种好的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "We think it is time to take them up on the offer.",
        "我们认为是时候接受他们的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "He was rewarded with an aid package that averaged more than $2 billion per year.",
        "他因此获得了每年超过20亿美元的援助奖励。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics slammed the shot as “disaster porn,” calling it yet another example of how the international media sensationalize African problems.",
        "批评者抨击这张照片兜售“灾难色情”，称这是国际媒体炒作非洲问题的又一个例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent capital-spending boom produced a burst of speculative lending in 2003 and 2004 because the banking system was still state-owned and responsive to political pressure—until the government itself imposed credit controls in April 2004 to prevent a sharp upsurge in non-performing loans.",
        "因为银行系统仍归国有，要响应政策压力，上次的资本投资狂潮引起了2003和2004年投机性放贷的爆发——直到2004年4月政府实施了信用管理来防止不良贷款的飙升。"
    ],
    [
        "These important assets make Turkey an “indispensable nation” in the region.",
        "这些重要的优势让土耳其成为地区内“不可或缺”的一份子。"
    ],
    [
        "Finding that the pottery has been damaged in transit, they demand compensation from the airline.",
        "他们发现陶器在运输过程中被损坏了，于是要求航空公司赔偿。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, China has lately been showing greater interest in gradually internationalizing its financial system.",
        "诚然，中国最近表现出逐渐实现其金融体系国际化的兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "The release of Anwar Ibrahim soon afterwards raised the new premier’s prestige further as a leader who could heal intra-Malay, and intra-Muslim, conflicts.",
        "不久后安瓦尔·伊伯拉罕的释放令新总理声名雀起，人们把他看作能够修复马来人和穆斯林内部冲突的杰出领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2012, was right when he called Trump “a phony, a fraud,” a candidate whose promises are “worthless.”",
        "2012年共和党总统提名人米特·罗姆尼（Mitt Romney）正确地将特朗普称为“大话精、骗子”，承诺“毫无价值”的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, there is excess capacity in global oil markets.",
        "相反，全球石油市场处于产能过剩状态。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is very likely that Trump, who attacked the US Federal Reserve’s easy monetary policy during his campaign, will quickly reverse that position and press the Fed not to raise interest rates.",
        "并且很有可能，在选战中抨击美联储宽松货币政策的特朗普将马上改变立场，敦促美联储不要升息。"
    ],
    [
        "We also need to identify the best policies for dealing with them – keeping in mind the impact of these policies on the global economy as a whole.",
        "我们同样也需要定义究竟什么样的政策才是最好的应对政策——请记住要将全球经济是为一个整体来评估这些政策的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, rather than nominations from governments, which often are reluctant to support excellent candidates from opposition parties, an international nominating committee could put forward names.",
        "与其由各国政府提名候选人（它们往往不愿提名来自反对派的绝佳人选），不如由一个国际提名委员会来进行提名。"
    ],
    [
        "A first step would be to give all of a country’s residents the right to a certain share of the economy’s profits.",
        "第一步是让一国的所有居民能享有一定比例的经济利益。"
    ],
    [
        "American enthusiasm for intervention in Africa has greatly diminished since the operation in Somalia in 1992-1993 – and more globally following the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
        "自1992—1993年的索马里以来，特别是在伊拉克和阿富汗打了两场旷日持久的战争之后，美国干预非洲的热情有所消退。"
    ],
    [
        "We do not know whether superstorms like Sandy are harbingers of a “new normal” in the uneasy and unpredictable relationship between climate change and extreme weather events.",
        "我们不清楚像桑迪这样的超级风暴是否预示着气候变化和极端天气事件之间令人不安且不可预测关系的“全新常态”。"
    ],
    [
        "In both the US and Europe it seems that prices went 20-30% above their longer-term average values.",
        "美国和欧洲的房地产价格超过了长期平均价值的20%到30%。"
    ],
    [
        "With around 420 million African kids of school age, total aid amounted to roughly $3 per child per year.",
        "2亿非洲学龄儿童身上的话，总援助大约相当于大约每个孩子每年3美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Though such alternatives are less efficient, they are again the operative regime.",
        "虽然这些备选方案效率不高，却依然占据主流地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The blogger who dismissed The Washington Post’s corrections of Santorum’s fictional portrayal of the Netherlands expressed himself like a perfect post-modernist.",
        "那位博主虽然对《华盛顿邮报》对桑托勒姆虚构荷兰故事的批驳嗤之以鼻，但他自己的表达方式也正如一个完美的后现代主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "To date, over $1 billion dollars in Global Environment Facility (GEF) grants, together with about $8 billion in co-financing, have been committed to programs related to climate change.",
        "迄今为止，来自全球环境基金（GEF）的十亿多美元资金，与80亿美元的联合资金一起，已承诺将用于气候变化相关的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, many of these countries have adopted more flexible exchange-rate regimes, and quite a few retain adequate reserve holdings.",
        "如今，许多新兴国家采取了更加灵活的汇率制度，其中不少还囤积了充足的外汇储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Each country along the “belt and road” faces a unique combination of risks and challenges.",
        "“一带一路”沿线各国都存在独特的风险与挑战组合。"
    ],
    [
        "But securing this financing is becoming more complicated.",
        "但要保证这种融资顺利实现则变得越来越困难。"
    ],
    [
        "The unemployment rate at the end of 2009 was above 10%, duration of joblessness was the longest since the Great Depression, millions had had their working hours cut, and millions more were too discouraged by a lack of jobs to seek work.",
        "2009年底的失业率超过10%，失业状态的持续时间是大萧条以来的最长，数百万人的工作时间缩短，更有数百万人因工作机会的缺乏而失去找工作的勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, the biggest threat to the IMF has been irrelevance.",
        "从历史上看，对IMF最大的威胁是遭到冷落。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, there was no adequately functioning market that differentiated among risks.",
        "在法国，不存在运转充分良好的市场可以区分不同的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaving the EU will not shield the UK from the vagaries of the global economy.",
        "脱离欧盟无法将英国隔离在全球经济的变幻莫测之外。"
    ],
    [
        "An Accidental Currency War?",
        "偶发货币战争？"
    ],
    [
        "But in this case, a second, non-standard factor comes into play.",
        "但在这个例子中，还有一个非标准因素起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "This gives opponents of reform a political advantage.",
        "这就让反对改革者占了政治上风。"
    ],
    [
        "If these skills also render them perceptive observers of real societies and provide them with sound judgment, it is hardly by design.",
        "如果这些雕虫小技碰巧让他们对真实社会做出有见地的观察和正确的判断，这恐怕也并非他们的本意。"
    ],
    [
        "Early this year, Abe announced his intention to use the 70th anniversary statement to communicate Japan’s remorse for the war, describe the progress the country has made in upholding peace, and describe the contributions that Japan can make to Asia and the rest of the world in the coming decades.",
        "今年年初，安倍宣布他将在70周年讲话中表达日本对战争的忏悔，描述日本在支持和平方面所取得的进步，并表达日本可以在未来几十年对亚洲和世界其他地区的和平所做的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, despite some doubts, the UK government has announced efforts to kick-start some of the necessary transport links, with the goal of shortening the Leeds-Manchester train journey to 30 minutes.",
        "幸运的是，尽管受到了一些质疑，英国政府已经宣布开始启动一些必要的交通线路，目标是将利兹-曼彻斯特的火车运行时间缩短到30分钟。"
    ],
    [
        "Like all human endeavors, science gets some things wrong.",
        "像一切人类努力一样，科学也有可能铸成错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Changing the tax structure will also help. At present, industry is the primary source of tax revenue for the government, particularly at the local level, giving the state too little incentive to foster a service economy.",
        "它也将有力地激励企业发展服务业经济，并为中国消费者提供更多的工作岗位和更多的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "But it took only a couple of days for the public to learn that Trump had saved far fewer jobs than he had claimed.",
        "但不出几日，公众就看穿特朗普所拯救的岗位远远少于他所吹嘘的。"
    ],
    [
        "Set against the impressive body of science underpinning the Chernobyl Forum, such responses reflect the tenacity not only of myths and misconceptions, but also of vested interests.",
        "构成切尔诺贝利论坛的科学依据众多，因此，这些反应反映的不仅是谎言和误解挥之不去，而且是既得利益。"
    ],
    [
        "If the answer is yes, international policy coordination would seem to be a necessary precondition for progress.",
        "如果答案是肯定的，那么国际政策合作就似乎是遏制气候变化方面进步的必要前提。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, in 2008, the entire financial system was overextended, owing to a combination of weak internal risk management and inadequate government regulation and supervision.",
        "同样，在2008年时由于内部风险管理薄弱且政府规管和监督不足，整个金融体系过度扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality, though, is that US politicians reflect the views of the American electorate – views that are fundamentally inconsistent. The absence of broad consensus is no wonder.",
        "然而，现实是美国政客所代表的正是美国全体选民的意见，而全体选民的意见注定不会一致，这丝毫都不令人奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "When it does, the lessons of the Great Inflation will suddenly be all too pertinent.",
        "果真如此的话，大通胀的教训实在是太有意义了。"
    ],
    [
        "In a classical Left-Right contest she can only lose.",
        "在一场传统的左右对峙竞赛中，她只会败北。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is no doubt that, by mid-century, the world can build a cost-effective zero-carbon electricity system.",
        "但毫无疑问，到本世纪中叶，世界能够建立起高性价比的零碳电力系统。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – Nowadays, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is no longer much of a movement.",
        "新德里——如今的不结盟运动（NAM）已经算不上一个真正意义上的运动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dangerous Delusion of Price Stability",
        "危险的物价稳定错觉"
    ],
    [
        "But there will also be winners, as new technologies create new business opportunities.",
        "但同样会有人因此成功，因为新技术创造新商机。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Turkey's Army Will Stay Home",
        "为什么土耳其的军队会呆在国内"
    ],
    [
        "At home, Merkel recently sent out a clear message to her critics that Germany must pay a price for eurozone leadership.",
        "在国内，默克尔最近向批评者放出了明确的信号——德国必须为欧元区领导者地位付出一定代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet there is perhaps a silver lining in the clouds over New Orleans.",
        "但在笼罩新奥尔良的阴云中也许还有一线希望。"
    ],
    [
        "The Environmental Effect of Tsunamis",
        "海啸对环境的影响"
    ],
    [
        "What has changed is our increased assertiveness in our efforts to ensure greater stability and human welfare in our region, evident in our advocacy of freedom, democracy, and accountability not only for ourselves, but also for others.",
        "变化的只是我们更为确信，土耳其应为确保本地区更大的稳定和人类的福祉而做出努力。 这在我们对自由、民主和问责的倡导中明显可以看到。"
    ],
    [
        "No woman should have to pay with her life for giving life.",
        "任何女性都不应为了缔造新生命而付出生命的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe that we have entered a period of weakening across the different parts of the global economic system, and that this may lead to a global recession.",
        "我相信，我们已经进入了遍布全球经济体系不同部分的衰弱时期，而且这可能导致全球衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "It thereby inadvertently confirmed the jihadists’ vilest propaganda, suggesting that Muslims worldwide can, for no apparent reason, become targets of America’s lethal fury.",
        "这样，它也就无意间确认了圣战者最为邪恶的宣传，也就是，穆斯林世界会毫无理由地成为美国致命性愤怒的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "International action is also crucial.",
        "国际行动也很关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Restriction on firing employees, for example, may protect people who have jobs, but often at the expense of the unemployed, thus increasing social exclusion.",
        "例如，限制解雇员工有可能保护有工作的人，但是以失业者为代价的，从而增加了社会排斥。"
    ],
    [
        "It is those views that could end up getting us all killed.",
        "就是那些观点，有可能把我们全都推向毁灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Normalization of the bilateral relationship will pose opportunities and perils for Cuba, and a giant test of maturity for the United States.",
        "美古双边关系正常化将给古巴带来机遇和风险，也给美国带来巨大的成熟度考验。"
    ],
    [
        "For centuries, Japanese minds, and Japanese borders, were distinctly closed.",
        "几百年来，日本人的思想，以及日本的国界都是断然封闭的。"
    ],
    [
        "At a single stroke, Buffett has given purpose to his life.",
        "一个简单的举动，巴菲特给他的人生注入了目的。"
    ],
    [
        "Absent the initial push from France and Great Britain, the US would most likely have remained passive, which was what the State and Defense Departments advised.",
        "若不是法国和英国在一开始的行动，美国极有可能会保持消极观望，这也正是其国务院和国防部所建议的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Central Asian leaders are eager to maintain NATO’s presence in Eurasia as a way to balance China and Russia.",
        "此外，中亚领导人热切地希望将北约的身影留在欧亚大陆，以平衡中国和俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "The Politics of Revolutionary Surprise",
        "突发革命背后的政治"
    ],
    [
        "“The analysis suggests a strong and causal relationship between equipment investment and economic growth,” according to Summers and DeLong.",
        "“分析表明设备投资与经济增长之间存在着强有力的因果关系，”萨默斯和德隆在论文中写道。"
    ],
    [
        "European taxpayers would effectively take over the Greek banking system, but this would be partial compensation for the losses imposed on creditors by drachmatization.",
        "欧洲纳税人将在事实上拥有希腊银行系统，但这是对债权人所承受的德拉克马化损失的部分补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "Latin America, however, will likely converge only very slowly in the absence of major structural reforms that increase its ability to invest and improve the quality of education.",
        "但是，拉美若无法通过重大结构性改革增强器投资能力、改善其教育质量，其趋同速度可能将相当缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "However, when the episode has passed, and medication ceases, depression tends to return, and at least 50% of those who experienced an initial episode of depression find that depression comes back, despite appearing to have made a full recovery.",
        "但症状缓解后，药物治疗停止，抑郁又会重新发作，而且至少50%有过首次发作史的病人会再次患上抑郁症，尽管他们看上去已经完全康复了。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a very bad idea.",
        "这真是一个坏主意。"
    ],
    [
        "These states can play this role, however, only if first they transform this geographic space into a genuinely inclusive and vibrant security community.",
        "不过，这些国家只有先把自己所在的地理区域建设成为真正兼容并蓄而充满活力的安全共同体，这样的作用才能够充分发挥。"
    ],
    [
        "Such developments would encourage industry to re-use or recycle more parts.",
        "这样的发展将鼓励产业界循环和再利用更多的部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of my work is to make sense of all these global warnings.",
        "我的大部分工作就是要弄清楚所有这些全球性的警告。"
    ],
    [
        "The next G-20 meeting in London in early April is a crucial opportunity for timely action.",
        "将于四月早期在伦敦举行的下一届20国集团会议将是采取及时行动的重要机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "The key word here is “should.”",
        "然而，在上述种种情况的描述中，我们当强调的是 “应该”一词。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea has what I call “the power of weakness.”",
        "朝鲜具有我所谓的“弱实力”。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even in the US, policy-setting officials, such as Thomas Hoenig, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, express concern that inflation expectations may become unanchored, owing to the massive expansion of government debt and the Fed’s balance sheet since the financial crash in 2008.",
        "但即便是在美国，类似堪萨斯城联邦储备银行主席汤玛斯·赫尼希这样负责政策制定的官员也表达了对通胀预期可能失控的关注，他的理由则是自2008年金融危机以来政府负债的大规模扩张以及逐渐失衡的联邦资产负债表。"
    ],
    [
        "And, most important, the workers themselves would be empowered to reclaim their dignity in a system that has long stripped them of it.",
        "此外，更重要的是，工人本身也将获得找回尊严的能力，在当前体系中，他们的这一权利被长期剥夺。"
    ],
    [
        "This told us that the new neurons were not born by division of existing neurons, but were born elsewhere in the brain and went through a migratory stage during which they were not recognized as neurons.",
        "这表明新的神经细胞不是通过已有的细胞的分裂产生的，而是在大脑的其他地方产生，然后迁徙过来的，而在迁徙过程中，它们并没有表现出是神经细胞。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, when antibiotics are used, health-care providers should confirm that they are truly needed and prescribe responsible doses.",
        "最后，在使用抗生素时，医疗服务机构应当确保抗生素使用的必要性，并在处方中开具负责任的剂量。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the tabulation that Carmen Reinhart and I compiled in our 2009 book This Time is Different, Argentina has defaulted on seven previous occasions – in 1827, 1890, 1951, 1956, 1982, 1989, and 2001.",
        "卡门·莱因哈特（Carmen Reinhart）和我在2009年的书《这次不一样》（This Time is Different）总结过一张表格，阿根廷此前已有七次违约记录——分别在1827年、1890年、1951年、1956年、1982年、1989年和2001年。"
    ],
    [
        "What the Finnish story indicates is that the more promising paths to development do not involve adding value to your raw materials – but adding capabilities to your capabilities.",
        "芬兰的故事告诉我们，更有前途的发展道路并非提高你的原材料的附加值，而是提高你自己的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "2008 began with devastating snowstorms that paralyzed most of central and southern China’s transport system, interrupting lives and causing severe material damage.",
        "2008年伊始的破坏性暴风雪致使中国中南部多数交通系统陷入瘫痪、人们的生活陷入中断并导致了严重的物质损失。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, in the 1960’s, official overseas development assistance accounted for 70% of capital flows into developing countries.",
        "相反，在20世纪60年代，官方海外发展援助占据流向发展中国资本流的70%。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not so much their self-interest that stands in the way of greater equality and social inclusion.",
        "但他们的自私并非挡在更平等、社会更包容面前的主要障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "And if it’s too late for the wedding, there’s always the reception.",
        "而且，如果没有赶上婚礼，还有婚宴呢。"
    ],
    [
        "The Grand Strategy of Xi Jinping",
        "习近平的大战略"
    ],
    [
        "In this fragile context, the European Union must focus on education in order to nurture people’s talents and potential, and thus to spur economic and social recovery.",
        "在如此严峻的环境下，欧盟必须专注于教育，从而发展人民的才能和潜力，并借此刺激经济和社会复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither neo-Keynesians nor supply-siders focus on the true remedies for this persistent drop in investment spending.",
        "凯恩斯主义和供给学派都没有将注意力集中在这一投资支出持续下降趋势的真正解决办法上。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet today, the Bush administration oversees a cumbersome visa program that has cut the number of such exchanges, particularly with Muslim countries.",
        "”但是今天，布什当局却实施烦琐的签证制度，削减了此类交流，特别是同穆斯林国家交流的数量。"
    ],
    [
        "Eliminating the subsidies would not only stimulate investment in energy efficiency and solar power, but would also generate substantial environmental and public-health benefits.",
        "并增加了面对波动的国际能源价格的脆弱性。 取消补贴不但能够刺激能源效率和太阳能方面的投资，还能带来巨大的环境和公共健康好处。"
    ],
    [
        "In South Sudan, since the eruption of conflict in 2013, government and rebel forces have killed, raped, and recruited children into armed groups.",
        "在南苏丹，自从2013年冲突爆发后，政府和反政府武装杀害、强奸和招募儿童加入武装集团。"
    ],
    [
        "But have we stopped asking fundamental questions, both of ourselves and of the companies we entrust to do all of these things?",
        "但我们是否不再向自己和做这一切的公司提出根本性的问题？"
    ],
    [
        "At its 18th ministerial conference last year, ARF entered the second phase, preventive diplomacy, while continuing to strengthen confidence-building measures.",
        "在去年的18届部长级会议上已经进入了预防性外交的第二阶段，同时也继续在信心构建措施方面不断强化。"
    ],
    [
        "This confusion was evident two months ago, when the International Monetary Fund published a piece that was greeted as the final nail in the coffin of “neoliberalism” (an empty label that can encompass whatever bugbear a critic wants to rail against on that particular day).",
        "这样的杂乱无章在两个月前显而易见，当时国际货币基金组织发表了一篇被誉为“新自由主义”（几乎能容下批评家当天想要攻击的一切问题的空洞的标签）棺材上最后一颗钉子的文章。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, with long-term joblessness at 5.4 million and the average duration of unemployment at 2.5 times the historical norm, workers are less able to regain productive employment quickly at anywhere near their previous wages and salaries.",
        "比如，长期失业人口高达540万，平均失业期也达到了历史平均水平的2. 5倍，工人很难快速找到新的工资和薪水与前一份工作相当的生产性岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "It is up to political leaders – and especially the president – to figure out how to make a compelling case about what is at stake.",
        "政治领导人——尤其是总统——的责任就是找到如何将让最重要的事情显得刻不容缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, Russia has refrained from selling advanced military equipment to Pakistan, in order to avoid damaging its relationship with India.",
        "此前，俄罗斯一直没有向巴基斯坦出售先进军事装备，以防破坏与印度的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The OECD’s latest forecast for eurozone GDP in 2012 is 2.3% lower than its projection in 2010.",
        "此外世界经济合作与发展组织对欧元区2012年GDP的最新预测也比其2010的推测要低2. 3%。"
    ],
    [
        "Behind her elevated falsehood",
        "在她虚伪的煞有介事背后"
    ],
    [
        "But, beyond failing to support Australia, Trump’s antics are actually undermining Turnbull’s effort.",
        "但是，特朗普的滑稽动作非但无法支持澳大利亚，实际上还会掣肘特恩布尔的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The public should appreciate the dirty nature of the CIA-led fight.",
        "公众应该认识到中央情报局领导的战斗的肮脏性质。"
    ],
    [
        "Pfizer exited TB research in 2012, followed by AstraZeneca in 2013 and Novartis last year.",
        "辉瑞在2012年退出了结核病研究，2013年阿斯利康退出，今年则是诺华。"
    ],
    [
        "The struggle for influence in Ukraine is a game that Putin cannot afford to lose.",
        "普京输不起这场在乌克兰争夺影响力之战。"
    ],
    [
        "Government has a long pro-growth to-do list heading into 2014.",
        "2014年，政府的促增长待办清单很长。"
    ],
    [
        "Everything else – different training structures, better equipment, and so forth – is pretty much noise.",
        "所有其他因素——不同的训练结构、更好的训练设备等等，都可以归于噪音。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, she claimed that there had been vote rigging “on both sides,” and suggested that the true election results were very close and that perhaps Kibaki had won.",
        "其次，她宣称当事“双方”都有选票舞弊行为，并暗示真正的选举结果是非常接近的，Kibaki很可能赢得了大选。"
    ],
    [
        "Experimental China",
        "中国改革的新实践"
    ],
    [
        "Employees are required to contribute 10% of their wages to a private pension company of their choice and can then select one of the investment strategies offered by that company.",
        "员工必须拿出自身工资的10％，任选一家私人养老金公司并投入该公司提供的其中一种投资策略中。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s slowing growth and political backlash is not some “new normal.”",
        "今天的增长减速和政治反动不是什么“新常态”。"
    ],
    [
        "Unilateralism rarely works.",
        "单边主义很少有效。"
    ],
    [
        "At the top of the list is the announcement of a US-China bilateral climate deal, which helps to smooth the path toward the crucial United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP21) in Paris next year.",
        "最重要的包括美中双边气候协议，这有助于为关键的明年巴黎联合国气候变化峰会（COP21）铺平道路。"
    ],
    [
        "There are at least three alternatives for financing and incentivizing research.",
        "至少有三种备选手段可以去资助和激励研究。"
    ],
    [
        "One such subsidy is permitting deduction of a fixed percentage of certain expenses from income tax.",
        "一种这样的补贴是允许从所得税中扣除固定百分比的某些费用。"
    ],
    [
        "KOLKATA – The year 2011 will be remembered as the time when many ever-optimistic Americans began to give up hope.",
        "加尔各答——许多美国人都会铭记2011年这一年，因为在这一年里许多曾经乐观的美国人都开始放弃了希望。"
    ],
    [
        "For that, we will need a new way of thinking that spurs active engagement to reclaim and conserve the spaces where alternative approaches can grow and flourish.",
        "为了实现这一目标，我们必须树立一种全新思维方法，积极夺回并保护替代方法的繁荣发展空间。"
    ],
    [
        "But it might end up being his greatest achievement.",
        "但最终也许会成为他的最大成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Reforming Japan’s Constitution",
        "改革日本的宪法"
    ],
    [
        "But in countries where the Church’s influence remains strong, IVF’s opponents are fighting back.",
        "但是，在教会影响力依然强大的国家中，体外受精的反对者正在卷土重来。"
    ],
    [
        "And Israelis and Palestinians themselves, with actual or potential civil war on three of their four borders, need no reminders of what could happen if they do not start spreading peace from the inside out.",
        "而以色列和巴勒斯坦自身四条边境线中的三条都面临着实际或者潜在的内战，应该不需要别人提醒如果不开始由内而外地传播和平将会产生什么样的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term interest rates on any given date could be explained quite well as a certain weighted average of the last 18 quarters of inflation and the last 18 quarters of short-term real interest rates.",
        "任意给定日期的长期利率可以用过去18个季度通货膨胀和过去18个季度的短期真实利率的加权平均很好地解释。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the end, the challenge is to find the right fit between people and environment.",
        "但是，最终，挑战在于找到人与环境的正确契合点。"
    ],
    [
        "In considering the risks, the emphasis has shifted over the last decade from preventing additional states from acquiring nuclear weapons to preventing terrorist groups and other non-state actors from acquiring them (or critical components).",
        "过去十年来，考虑风险时的重点从阻止新的国家获得核武器转变为阻止恐怖组织和其他非国家行动方获得核武器（或其关键成分）。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also easy to fall into the trap of thinking of the tax cuts as a way to boost aggregate demand.",
        "并且这很容易陷入将减税视为提振总需求之道的思维陷阱。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, while the state has no role in managing cryptocurrencies, it will be responsible for cleaning up any mess left by a burst bubble.",
        "此外，尽管国家在管理私密货币方面还没有什么作用，但它却需要负责为可能的泡沫破裂收拾残局。"
    ],
    [
        "One possible line of criticism of this kind of thinking is simply to claim the superiority of Western values.",
        "对于这种思想的一种可能的批评方式就是西方自以为其价值观优越。"
    ],
    [
        "In the opening panel on “The Euro Crisis and the Future of the EU,” cautious optimism prevailed.",
        "在开场专家讨论组“欧元危机和欧盟未来”中，谨慎乐观随处可见。"
    ],
    [
        "“Totalitarianism” finally disintegrated in 1989, and globalization prevailed.",
        "随着1989年“极权主义”的瓦解，全球化开始大行其道。"
    ],
    [
        "And now our industrial model for meat production is being exported to the global south – especially India and China – where meat consumption is rising among these countries’ emerging middle classes.",
        "而目前我们的肉食生产产业模式正在输出到南方国家——特别是印度和中国——这些国家的新兴中产阶级肉食消费日益增加。"
    ],
    [
        "The second narrative starts with the 1950’s and 1960’s, an era of rapid growth in the West and Japan.",
        "第二种观点的着眼点始于20世纪五六十年代，当时正是西方和日本的高速增长期。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, for example, social housing organizations have rapidly deployed €320 million of EU money in the last few years to improve energy efficiency in existing housing stock.",
        "比如，过去几年中，在法国，社会家庭组织迅速地将3. 2亿欧元的欧盟资金用于改善建成住房的能源效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon singles out technological innovation for contributing less to economic growth than did previous breakthroughs such as electricity, locomotion, aviation, and computing.",
        "西北大学经济学家罗伯特·戈登（Robert Gordon）提出技术创新对经济增长的贡献已步入此前的技术突破（如电力、动力、航空和计算）。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a relatively modest prediction.",
        "这是相对温和的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "So his recent exercise in speculative future history, which asks whether economic growth in the United States has come to an end, has attracted much favorable attention.",
        "因此近期戈登在推测未来历史上的研究——关于美国的经济增长期是否已经结束了——引发了众多关注。"
    ],
    [
        "The West overlooked the fundamental importance of this while it was fighting communism.",
        "西方在与共产主义作斗争时忽视了这一点的基础重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the government accompanied effective demand-side measures with active labor-market policies, at least the employment problem could be effectively addressed, and optimal – or at least reasonable – policies for economic restructuring could be designed.",
        "但如果政府能把有效的需求侧措施和积极劳动力市场政策相结合，那么至少就业问题能得到有效解决，还可以设计出最优的——或者至少是合理的——经济结构调整政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Having published our own work on “fiscal devaluations,” we believe that a border-adjustment tax would have minimal prospects for success, and that it could significantly undermine America’s net foreign-asset position.",
        "在共同发表了关于“财政贬值”的论文之后，我们认为边境调整税的效果极为有限，并可能严重损害美国的国外资产净头寸。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s destabilization of Ukraine cannot be separated from his dream of leading a “Eurasian Union” – a thinly disguised effort to recreate the former Soviet Union.",
        "在这样的背景下，必须将俄罗斯总统普京动摇乌克兰的行为置于他领导“欧亚联盟”的梦想中加以考察。 “欧亚联盟”是略加掩饰的再建前苏联的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The question now is whether the Brothers will prevail, both in the streets and by means of Egypt’s new constitution (which they largely wrote).",
        "现在的问题是，穆斯林兄弟会能不能在街头和埃及新宪法（大部分已经写好）中获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Sleepwalking in the Balkans",
        "巴尔干半岛梦游"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the new IMF needs governance structures that better reflect today’s new global realities.",
        "最后，新的IMF的监管结构应该更加反映出如今的全球现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Sales of ballistic missiles and missile parts to Iran are banned for no more than eight years.",
        "对伊弹道导弹和导弹部件销售禁令不超过八年。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Middle East includes Dubai, the Gulf emirates, and Israel, as well as Hezbollah, Hamas, and jihadi terrorism – and, partly, Iran and Saudi Arabia.",
        "新的中东则包括迪拜、海湾各酋长国和以色列，以及真主党、哈马斯和圣战恐怖主义—以及一定程度上的伊朗和沙特阿拉伯。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Chinese President Hu Jintao’s recent trip to Washington was seen by many – particularly many Chinese – as the passing of the torch.",
        "事实上，中国国家主席胡锦涛最近对美国的访问在许多人（尤其是许多中国人）眼中就是前来接过世界霸主的权杖了。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial institutions that have come to doubt their borrowers’ ability to repay sell the debt to third parties at knock-down prices, often for as little as five cents on the dollar.",
        "怀疑借款人偿付能力的金融机构以跳楼价将债务卖给第三方，有时候出售价格只有面值的5%。"
    ],
    [
        "China does not yet appear ready to change its approach.",
        "中国尚未表现出转变方针的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Rationality versus Intelligence",
        "理性对阵智力"
    ],
    [
        "Its restaurants are run with precision, and it boasts some of the world’s best hotels.",
        "它的餐馆经营十分精准，并且拥有全世界最好的饭店。"
    ],
    [
        "This rise was clearly connected with the melting of the continental ice sheets at the end of the last ice age – that is, it had nothing to do with human activities.",
        "因此海平面上升显然同上个冰川时代末期大型陆上冰原的融化有关——那就意味着，海平面上升同人类活动无关。"
    ],
    [
        "The stock markets’ rebound since March seems not to be built around any inspirational story, but rather the mere absence of more really bad news and the knowledge that all previous recessions have come to an end.",
        "今年三月份以来股票市场的反弹，似乎不是围绕什么鼓舞人心的故事展开的，而仅仅是因为市场上没有更多真正的坏消息，以及人们认为以前的衰退都结束了而已。"
    ],
    [
        "As it spread, it carried the seeds of democracy everywhere.",
        "它的传播把民主的种子撒向世界各地。"
    ],
    [
        "Armed with the promise of powerful new computer-driven technology, scientific attention is becoming riveted to that remaining 0.1% of genetic difference.",
        "运用无比强大的最新电脑技术，科学家们将注意力集中到剩下0. 1%的基因差异之中。"
    ],
    [
        "The share of total profits of companies in the United States represented by financial firms rocketed from 10% in 1980 to 40% in 2006.",
        "金融公司所获利润占美国各公司全部利润总额的比重从1980年的10%窜升至2006年的40%。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the challenges some African countries face, the continent’s economic potential remains massive, thanks to favorable demographic dynamics, fast-growing cities, burgeoning domestic markets, and a digital revolution.",
        "尽管非洲国家面临诸多挑战，但多亏乐观的人口趋势、快速发展的城市、蓬勃发展的国内市场和数字革命，非洲大陆仍然拥有巨大的经济发展潜能。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the flaws of Wolfowitz’s anti-corruption agenda that expansion or continuation of aid for countries favored by the Bush administration, like Iraq or Pakistan, was pushed, regardless of how corrupt they were, while there was little tolerance elsewhere.",
        "沃尔福威茨反腐议程的漏洞之一就是扩大或继续给获得布什政府青睐的国家，例如伊拉克或巴基斯坦予以援助而无论它们有多么腐败，而对其他国家则毫不留情。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinians’ basic failure at nation-building makes any meaningful peace talks with Israel – let alone an agreement – almost impossible at the moment.",
        "巴勒斯坦在基础建国问题上的一无所成导致目前几乎不可能与以色列进行任何有意义的和平谈判——更不要说签订协议了。"
    ],
    [
        "That outcome may have put the EU out of the treaty-making business altogether, meaning that hopes of future integration may well be dashed.",
        "这一结果可能让欧盟彻底告别了条约签订，这意味着未来一体化的希望大为渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a disconcerting undertone to this new round of criticism that needs to be made explicit – and rejected.",
        "但对于这轮新批判，有一些令人不安的潜台词需要澄清——并且拒绝。"
    ],
    [
        "These are violent times.",
        "现在是暴力频发时期。"
    ],
    [
        "A “cyber 9/11” may be more likely than the often-mentioned “cyber Pearl Harbor.”",
        "“网络911”的可能性要大于经常被提及的“网络珍珠港”。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, Gordon’s gloomy assessment of America’s growth prospects deserves to be taken seriously.",
        "显然，戈登对美国增长前景的悲观态度值得认真对待。"
    ],
    [
        "Even before the recent food price spikes, an estimated billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food-insecure people to around three billion, or almost half the world’s population.",
        "即便在最近食品价格出现暴涨前，全世界估计也有10亿人常年挨饿，还有另外20亿人营养不良，也就是说有大约30亿人约占世界人口的一半处于食品不安全的状况，约占世界人口的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "First, they create deeper human engagement, using data about an individual to create more fully human interactions.",
        "首先，它们创造了更深度的人类参与，使用关于个体的数据创造更加完整的人类互动。"
    ],
    [
        "There are few areas in which government intervention is known to create value: reducing the devastating effects of a bank run is one.",
        "其实政府介入在某些领域还是有用的：比如减少银行挤提所造成的灾难性影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Junk public bonds are no safer for them than junk private bonds.",
        "对它们来说，垃圾公债并不比垃圾私债更安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixteen cities have already crossed the World Bank’s threshold for high-income status, with annual per capita incomes of more than $12,616, and four – Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen – have global reach.",
        "其中有十六个人口超过三百万的城市已经跨越世界银行的高收入门槛（年人均收入超过12,616美元），更有四个城市——北京、上海、广州和深圳——已跻身全球大都市行列。"
    ],
    [
        "Children worldwide face a lethal combination of inequality, injustice, and gender discrimination.",
        "全世界儿童面临不平等性、不公和性别歧视的致命组合。"
    ],
    [
        "The insurgents in Iraq, as the British admit, were able in just three years to cope with their enemies’ technological superiority in a way that the IRA in Northern Ireland was unable to do in 30 years.",
        "伊拉克的叛乱分子，正如英国人所承认的，仅用了三年的时间就能应对它们敌方的技术优势，而同样的应对能力北爱的爱尔兰共和军花了30年都没做到。"
    ],
    [
        "The US financial system, already practiced at exploiting poor Americans, has extended its efforts globally.",
        "大肆掠夺美国穷人的美国金融体系要把触手伸向全球。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, gaining admission to the SDR club is a poor excuse for wrong-footing the markets.",
        "在任何情况下，声称为了获取特别提款权都不是出手扰乱市场的好借口。"
    ],
    [
        "(The latter goals are clear; the challenge is how to achieve them.)",
        "（前者目标较为明确； 挑战在于如何实现它们。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US and many other developed countries, the average cost of bringing a new drug to market has skyrocketed, even as patents on some of the industry’s most profitable drugs have expired.",
        "在美国和其他许多发达国家，虽然一些利润最大的药物专利已经过期，但向市场推出新药的平均成本仍然水涨船高。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, all the trials performed before June 1995 in China, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan were deemed positive by the British researchers.",
        "事实上， 英国的研究者们认为1995年前在中国、日本、香港和台湾所进行的所有试验其结果都是肯定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Many environmental lobbyists oppose even researching climate engineering.",
        "许多环保政治说客甚至反对气候工程学的研究。"
    ],
    [
        "We don’t know the full extent of US actions in Syria after that.",
        "我们不知道此后美国在叙利亚行动的全貌。"
    ],
    [
        "The labor market is now in its best shape in many years, with an unemployment rate of just over 3% and a high vacancy-to-applicant ratio.",
        "劳动力市场目前处于多年来的最佳状态，失业率略高于3%，职位-申请比也相当高。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Putin has breached one of the most fundamental principles of international law: that national borders may not be changed by force.",
        "事实上，普京违反了国际法最基本的原则之一：不可用武力改变国界。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who argue that America is in decline have a difficult case to make in economic terms.",
        "那些认为美国正在走向衰落的人很难从经济角度解释自己的说法。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in 2000, the rich countries were not taking adequate steps to fight AIDS, TB, and malaria. Aid flows were tiny.",
        "而在2000年时，发达国家也没有采取足够的步骤去对抗这三大疾病，援助金额也不大。"
    ],
    [
        "The price would rise today because everyone had become convinced that it would rise even further tomorrow.",
        "因为所有人都曾确信明天的黄金价格一定会比今天涨得更高，所以黄金价格一路高歌猛进。"
    ],
    [
        "Security, too, remains a serious concern.",
        "安全同样也还是令人忧心。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be a mistake to dismiss anxiety about immigration as mere bigotry or apprehension about the globalized economy as simply reactionary.",
        "将移民问题所引发的焦虑仅仅视为对全球化经济的偏见和忧虑并归结为反动情绪而置之不理无疑是一种错失。"
    ],
    [
        "Even we economists who believe that global financial innovation yields huge net benefits must admit that today’s hedge fund boom is becoming like the tech bubble.",
        "即便是我们这些相信全球金融创新带来了巨额净利润的经济学家也必须承认，今天的对冲基金繁荣开始有点像高科技泡沫了。"
    ],
    [
        "If Japan’s status quo is to change, the country’s oddly skewed relationship with the US is one key factor.",
        "而如果要改变日本现状的话，该国与美国之间那种不对等的关系将是一个关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Salt water came streaming into open subways.",
        "海水灌入了开放的地铁。"
    ],
    [
        "The main justification for a monetary union cannot be the possibly disastrous consequences of its falling apart.",
        "货币联盟的存在理由不能仅仅是崩溃所可能造成的灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But JBS achieved its position with assistance from the Brazilian Development Bank, and apparently, by bribing more than 1,800 politicians.",
        "但JBS赢得这一地位受到了巴西开发银行的支持，显然，其所贿赂的1,800多位政客也提供了便利。"
    ],
    [
        "But does that mean that other news outlets and individuals should republish it?",
        "但这意味着其他新闻机构和个人应该转载它吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Typically, these minions are threatened with long prison sentences, or even the death penalty, unless they cooperate.",
        "通常这些低级官员会受到重刑甚至死刑威胁，除非他们选择合作。"
    ],
    [
        "This means improving access to health care and education.",
        "这意味着改善医疗和教育的普及度。"
    ],
    [
        "In much of the world, we now take these conveniences for granted; indeed, we regard them as necessities.",
        "而在当今世界大部，这些东西已是理所当然； 事实上，我们已经把它们当成了必需品。"
    ],
    [
        "Or were they?",
        "事实真是这样吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The need for economic growth could intrinsically push policymakers toward market-oriented economic policies (sensitive to considerations of “social justice”) and an open investment environment.",
        "经济增长的需要将成为推动政客采取市场导向的经济政策（这对“社会公正”十分重要）和开放的投资环境的内因。"
    ],
    [
        "In the future, I suggest, the traditionalists and the communitarians will form the precautionary pole of the political spectrum, while the libertarians and technocrats will form the proactionary pole.",
        "我猜将来传统主义者和公有社会论者会形成政治光谱中预防性的那一极，而自由论者和专家政治论者则化身成为主动性的另一极。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, using World Bank data on the depreciation of a number of natural resources at the national level, economists estimate that, although GNP per capita has increased in the Indian sub-continent over the past three decades, wealth per capita has declined somewhat.",
        "例如，采用世界银行对国家层面上的几种自然资源的贬值数据，经济学家们估算虽然印度次大陆的人均GNP在过去30年里有所上升，但其人均财富水平却有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the existence of a secondary debt market that enables Rolling Jubilee to buy debt so cheaply.",
        "滚动禧年运动之所以能够如此廉价地买下债务，是因为存在二级债务市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The “new normal” that results will likely include scarcer, more expensive long-term bank lending.",
        "由此产生的“新常态”可能包括长期银行贷款更稀缺、更昂贵。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – During the four decades since the Watergate affair engulfed US President Richard Nixon, politicians have repeatedly ignored the scandal’s main lesson: the cover-up is worse than the crime.",
        "发自纽约——在水门事件将美国总统理查德·尼克松拉下马后近40年来，政治家们一再忽视了事件所留下的最深刻教训：掩盖罪行的行为往往比罪行本身更加恶劣。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, China is now hemorrhaging foreign-exchange reserves and desperately trying to prop up the renminbi’s value in the face of capital flight.",
        "在现实中，中国正在流失外汇储备，面对资本外逃，中国急切地想要支持人民币汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if the United States does decide to withdraw from it completely, none of the other parties – not China or Russia or even the Europeans (France, Germany, and the United Kingdom) – will follow suit.",
        "即便美国真的决定完全退出伊核协议，该协议的其他缔约方——中国、俄罗斯甚至包括欧洲（法国、德国和英国）——都不会仿效美国的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who stand to lose from them might even move to defend the status quo, as the Council of Trent did in 1546, when it banned the printing and sale of any Bible versions other than the official Latin Vulgate, without Church approval.",
        "而那些将被新技术击败的人甚至会开始捍卫现状，正如1546年的特伦托会议那样，宣布除非经过教会批准，否则禁止印刷和出售任何官方《圣经》通俗拉丁语版本之外的圣经版本。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, chloroquine has basically disappeared from our medical arsenal.",
        "如今，氯喹已经基本从我们的药品清单中消失。"
    ],
    [
        "That will do for Karadžić, when judgment comes: he is still on trial, and we can still name his crimes.",
        "这在卡拉季奇审判的时候就会产生效果：他仍在接受审判，而且我们仍然可以列举他的罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "The response to these failings, however, was a demand for greater economic integration, including such intermediate steps as the creation of a “European finance minister” or an EU commissioner with sweeping powers to facilitate closer integration.",
        "但是，对这些失败的反应是要求更大的经济一体化，包括成立“欧洲财政部”或由一名欧盟委员总览促进一体化大权等中间步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "This represents a sea change from the last several years, during which Poland emerged as the poster child for the EU’s eastern expansion.",
        "这体现了过去几年所出现的剧烈变化。 在此期间，波兰成为欧盟东扩的典范。"
    ],
    [
        "It should be remembered that America and its allies, faced with strategic fears of a similar type during the Cold War, also supported repugnant and oppressive regimes in places like Zaire, Chile, and Indonesia.",
        "我们应该记得在冷战时期面临着同样战略担忧的美国及其盟国也支持了扎伊尔、智利和硬度尼西亚等国的暴虐政权。"
    ],
    [
        "MNCs headquartered in countries that employ a worldwide tax system are at a disadvantage when they compete in third-country markets with MNCs headquartered in territorial systems.",
        "总部设在采用全球税收制度的跨国公司在第三国市场上与总部设在采用领地税收制度的跨国公司竞争时处于劣势。"
    ],
    [
        "This idea is reflected in the words on the country’s seal: E Pluribus Unum (from many, one).",
        "这一思想体现在美国的国徽上：合众为一。"
    ],
    [
        "“That was the investigation,” he replied.",
        "“这就是调查。 ” 他回答道。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, the country has been experimenting with an alternative, holistic approach to development that emphasizes not only economic growth, but also culture, mental health, compassion, and community.",
        "从那以后，这个国家就不懈地试验全局性的替代发展方针，在强调经济发展的同时突出文化、心理健康、同情和群体等因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, the Tarfaya Wind Farm, positioned on Morocco’s Southern Atlantic Coast, is Africa’s biggest.",
        "目前，坐落于摩洛哥西南大西洋沿岸的塔法雅（Tarfaya）风电场已是非洲最大。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing this, Abe condemned the annexation of Crimea, calling it “a violation of Ukraine’s integrity and the integrity of its sovereignty and territory.”",
        "认识到这一点，安倍谴责了对克里米亚的吞并，称之“破坏了乌克兰统一和主权和领土完整”。"
    ],
    [
        "Many youngsters now see politics as a kind of computer game.",
        "很多年轻人把政治看成一场电脑游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, many potential solutions stem from opportunities for innovation created by the physical concentration of people and economic activity.",
        "事实上，许多潜在的解决方案源于人口集中和经济活动创造的创新机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Apart from electoral reform, outlets for political participation and expression of public grievances must be balanced by institutions and procedures that are partly insulated from the rough-and-tumble of politics.",
        "除选举改革外，政治参与渠道和民怨表达都必须遵守制度和程序，而相关制度应当至少可以免受政治混乱的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "So there is a structural failure in coping with complex private activities that risk leading to large societal damage.",
        "这其实是一种结构性失误，反映出对可能造成巨额社会损失的复杂私人活动的应对无力。"
    ],
    [
        "Free capital mobility allowed surpluses from large savers such as Germany to flow to capital importers such as Spain, while the perceived elimination of currency risk served to aggravate such flows.",
        "资本的自由流动让盈余从德国等大储蓄国流向西班牙等资本进口国，而货币风险不再的感觉会放大这种资本流。"
    ],
    [
        "This would enable it to identify macroeconomic threats to stability and encourage best practices for supervisors and regulators.",
        "这将会使得其确认宏观经济中对稳定的威胁并且鼓励监管机关采取最佳实务。"
    ],
    [
        "He has said that his Recovery Act stopped the unemployment rate from soaring to 30% – five points higher than what it was at the peak of the Great Depression.",
        "他说他的复苏法（Recovery Act）阻止了失业率朝30%迈进——比大萧条顶峰时期还要高五个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "Until the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, the CDC was forced to abstain from conducting any such research.",
        "CDC被迫放弃所有这方面的研究，直到2012年发生桑迪胡克（Sandy Hook）枪击案。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Conservatives came to power in 2010, many doubted that he would serve a full term as Prime Minister.",
        "2010年保守党上台时，许多人怀疑他没法呆够一个完整的总理任期。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given that the largest enterprises are either state-owned or local-government entities, their debts are essentially domestic sovereign obligations.",
        "但是，由于中国的大企业多为国有企业，或为地方政府实体，因此它们的债务实际上都是国内主权债务。"
    ],
    [
        "This view seems well founded, because the government was then propping up the big banks in a concerted effort to overcome the financial crisis.",
        "这一观点似乎颇有道理，因为随后政府集中对大银行予以了扶持以克服金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Some, pointing to the historical record, warn of the “Thucydides Trap”: a rising power will eventually try to challenge an established one.",
        "有些人拿出历史记录，警告说“修西狄底斯陷阱（Thucydides Trap）”即将再现：任何崛起的势力最终都将试图挑战现有的霸主。"
    ],
    [
        "Mussolini established the first Corporatist economy, albeit substituting “Fascist” for “Catholic” throughout.",
        "墨索里尼建成首个社团经济，但所有的“天主教”元素都用“法西斯”代替。"
    ],
    [
        "The most likely explanation is that Netanyahu wants to reassure the Israeli public that no act of terrorism will be tolerated – even if that means a vindictive and cruel response.",
        "最有可能的解释是内塔尼亚胡希望向以色列公众证明即使被迫采取残酷的报复手段，也绝不容忍任何恐怖行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans should ponder why the inflationary 1920’s, rather than the politically catastrophic 1930’s, have become the historical lodestar for current monetary policy.",
        "欧洲人应该好好想想为什么是通胀的1920年代而非充满政治灾难的1930年代成为了当前货币政策的历史指南。"
    ],
    [
        "The project, located on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, is now under construction.",
        "该工程位于土耳其地中海沿岸，目前已在建设中。"
    ],
    [
        "How the West Was Re-Won",
        "西方是如何再次获胜的"
    ],
    [
        "As an ethnic Sindhi, I feel an affinity to both.",
        "作为少数族裔的信德族人，我对两者都有感情。"
    ],
    [
        "The July summit will seek to elicit from the world’s governments a commitment to allocate more funds to social needs.",
        "7月的峰会将试图让世界各国政府承诺配置更多资金用于社会需要。"
    ],
    [
        "CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – China’s “princelings” – the offspring of senior Chinese officials who benefit from lavish privileges in education, employment, and business – are coming under scrutiny as never before.",
        "加州克莱尔蒙特——中国的“太子党”，那些在教育、就业和商务方面享尽特权的人，正前所未有地经受着外界审视的目光。"
    ],
    [
        "Judging by the criticism, one might consider zero inflation a blessing.",
        "从批评看，你也许会认为零通胀是一种幸福。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve that, the European Union has made the inevitable, almost ridiculous proposal of bribing developing nations to take part – at a cost of €175 billion annually by 2020.",
        "为了将中国和印度纳入进来，欧盟提出了不可避免近乎荒谬的向发展中国家行贿以使它们参加的建议——到2020年，每年为此付出的代价为1750亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Deng, who risked his authority and that of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to break with Maoist convention and launch China’s economic revolution, died in 1997.",
        "邓小平拿其个人和中共的权威冒险打破毛泽东思想传统，发动了中国的经济革命。 作为一个伟大的改革家，邓已于1997年逝世。"
    ],
    [
        "But where substantial corruption can unambiguously be found, as it often can, one must recognize that it is not a cultural given.",
        "但在那些腐败大量明显存在地方，人们也不能因此而认为这是一个文化特色。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past week, Abe created for himself considerably more political space to act as a strategic partner, not only to India, but also to Japan’s other allies, particularly the United States.",
        "在过去一周里，安倍为自己创造很大的以战略合作伙伴身份施展的政治空间——不仅是对印度，也包括日本的其他盟国，特别是美国。"
    ],
    [
        "With world oil production close to full capacity and prices already more than double their pre-Iraq War level, this portends still higher prices, and still higher profits for the oil industry – the only clear winner in Bush’s Middle East policy.",
        "随着世界石油产能接近极限，油价已经比伊拉克战争之前涨了一倍多。 而这样的政策预示着更高的油价，和石油工业的更高利润—该行业是布什中东政策中唯一清楚的赢家。"
    ],
    [
        "That election, however, was won by Tymoshenko, who has parlayed her return to power into a commanding lead in the polls for the coming presidential election.",
        "然而赢得那次大选的是季莫申科，她成功地利用重新回到权力中心的机会在对即将到来的总统大选的民意调查中一直遥遥领先。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of advising Japan and China to raise their consumption rates, macroeconomists would be wiser to encourage these economies to use their high savings to fund not only domestic but also overseas investments.",
        "宏观经济学家不应该建议日本和中国提高消费率，更聪明的做法是鼓励这些经济体利用其高储蓄为投资项目融资——不仅包括国内投资，也包括海外投资。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now likely smaller than it has been for at least a millennium and a half.",
        "冰盖面积萎缩至少已经持续1500年了。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, German legal scholars interpret the ECB’s activities as being incompatible with European treaty provisions that prohibit bailouts and monetary financing of the debt of eurozone members.",
        "类似地，德国法律学者认为欧洲央行的行动与禁止援助和向欧元区成员国债务提供货币融资的欧洲条约内容不相容。"
    ],
    [
        "The Third Plenum’s decisions follow the launch in September of the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, which will open new sectors to foreign investment and permit largely market-based financial transactions and capital flows.",
        "在三中全会的决定之前，9月份在上海成立了自由贸易区，自贸区将向外国投资开放新部门，允许基本由市场决定的金融交易和资本流。"
    ],
    [
        "In his prime, he not only talked and behaved like a thug, but he also looked like one – the kind of bull-necked, pale-eyed, snarling psychopath who would gladly pull out your fingernails just for fun.",
        "在他得势的那些年头，此人不但言行举止像极了一个恶棍，连长相都颇为神似——就是那种脸红脖子粗，眼仁白多黑少的狂躁症患者，一个仅仅为了取乐能把人指甲活活拔掉的恶魔。"
    ],
    [
        "Its delegations scoured the world for ideas in science, technology, and industry.",
        "其代表团在全世界搜寻科学、技术和工业的理念。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece and Turkey also worked together to prevent the war in Iraq from spilling over into neighboring countries.",
        "无庸置疑，良好的双边关系对于希腊的经济和安全都是大有好处的。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, when will we agree to assign real costs to the energy we use, especially carbon-based resources?",
        "最要紧的是，我们什么时候才能同意去计算能源（尤其是碳）消耗的真正成本？"
    ],
    [
        "From this perspective, the proposal to use the IMF as a conduit for ECB resources (thereby circumventing restrictions imposed by European Union’s treaties), while providing the ECB with preferred-creditor status, would exacerbate the Fund’s exposure to risky borrowers.",
        "从这一点看，将IMF用作欧洲央行资源管道（从而绕过欧盟条约的限制），同时给予欧洲央行有限债权人地位，将增加IMF对高风险借款人的风险暴露。"
    ],
    [
        "If that happens, the Bank can still do justice to the bold vision of a world of shared prosperity that prompted its creation after World War II.",
        "如果这样做了，那么世界银行仍然可以在这个二战后促成了其存在的共享繁荣的世界里发挥自己的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, women and girls will be at the heart of our endeavors.",
        "其次，妇女和女童将是我们工作的核心受益者。"
    ],
    [
        "New information technologies have been adopted at an unusually rapid rate.",
        "新信息技术以罕见的高速被采用。"
    ],
    [
        "Which countries were stuck for the longest period in the upper-middle-income category before moving to high income?",
        "哪些国家在步入高收入行列前在中上收入类别中呆的时间最久？"
    ],
    [
        "He planted the beans, selected seeds from the same plants, and planted them again, repeating the procedure two more times.",
        "他种植这种豆，从同一种植物上选种，而后再次种植，并重复这一过程两次以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Will an attack on such a symbol reinforce the prevalence of fear in an American society that was once defined by hope?",
        "这样一次具有象征意义的袭击会在曾经以希望为标志的美国社会中扩散恐惧吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Placing ideology above pragmatism is a formula for failure in any crisis.",
        "将理想放在实用主义之上在任何危机中都必输无疑。"
    ],
    [
        "This cohort views economics as the study of models, in which agents’ expectations can be assumed to be rational and consistent with the model.",
        "这批人将经济学视为模型的研究，假定经济学主体的期望是理性并与模型一致的。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when four powerful forces are disrupting the global economy, upending most of our assumptions, such pronouncements on the future, shaped by intuitions based on the past, are even more likely to be wrong.",
        "值此四大力量破坏全球经济、颠覆我们绝大多数假设时，像这样从过去经历中总结出来的直觉其错误的可能性甚至更大。"
    ],
    [
        "The rebirth of Africa’s private sector – a critical missing ingredient in past development efforts – has played a significant role in driving this performance, and it can fill the investment gap while generating returns in the process.",
        "非洲私营部门的重生—在过去的发展方略当中所缺失的关键元素—在驱动这一发展态势方面发挥了巨大作用。 它可以弥补投资的欠缺，并在此过程中产生回报。"
    ],
    [
        "The Luddites were wrong on many points; but perhaps they deserve more than a footnote.",
        "勒德分子在很多方面都是错的； 但也许他们并不只是一个注脚而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Young children, in particular, could benefit considerably from such training programs, which could enable them to use mental skills and compassion to regulate stress and emotions.",
        "特别是年幼的孩子能在很大程度上受益于上述培训项目——他们可以用心理技巧和同情心来管理压力和情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "As was true three years ago, many hope for an Asian “decoupling” – that this high-flying region will be immune to global shocks.",
        "与3年前一样，许多人希望亚洲来一次“脱钩”，让这一腾飞中的地区免于全球震荡的干扰。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether this new system is actually good for workers, employers, and economies, however, will depend on how all of the relevant actors address the challenges inherent in the transition.",
        "但是，这一新体系是否真的有利于工作者、雇主和经济取决于所有相关行动方如何解决转型阶段固有的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "They created a closed culture, impervious to contradictory facts, a culture in which civil rights have been given short shrift and some people have been deemed not to deserve any rights protection at all.",
        "他们全然不顾相反的事实依据，营造了完全封闭的气氛，这样的文化蔑视公民权利，而且认定有些人根本不配受到任何保护。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, he concluded, wasn’t Marianne, the female symbol of the French Republic, usually depicted with her breasts exposed?",
        "毕竟，他总结道，法兰西共和国最具象征意义的女性玛丽安难道在绘画作品中不是永远袒露着胸部？"
    ],
    [
        "China has become one of the most polluted countries in the world.",
        "中国已经成为全世界污染最严重的国家之一。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if Khamenei really was unaware of the plot, it means that some elements in the government or the Revolutionary Guards are acting on their own, which is deeply troubling in its own right.",
        "倘若哈梅内伊事前确不知情，那就意味着政府或革命自卫队内部某些感到权力受威胁的团体已经单独开始了行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Arm some of these manufactured minority structures so that they can demand autonomy at the barrel of a gun, and you get the kind of chaos the Kremlin can use to reassert its control.",
        "经历了足够的分裂活动，目睹着仇恨步步累积，一个国家就这样变成了一个满目疮痍的社会，其所拥有的仅仅是一个地理领土范围。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, while the SDGs target decent jobs for all (SDG 8), American workers are nearly the only ones in the OECD that lack guaranteed paid sick leave, family leave, and vacation days.",
        "同样，尽管可持续发展目标要求人人拥有体面的工作（可持续发展目标第8条），但经合组织中几乎唯一不享有有保障的带薪病假、家庭假和休假的就是美国劳工。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2014, 86% of children were immunized against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis, compared to less than 5% in 1974.",
        "2014年，86%的儿童接受了白喉，破伤风，百日咳免疫，而1974年还不到5%。"
    ],
    [
        "And politics, as former US House Speaker Tip O’Neill liked to say, is always local.",
        "而正如美国前众议院议长蒂普·奥尼尔所说的那样，政治始终摆脱不了地域性。"
    ],
    [
        "How Kenya and Zimbabwe navigate their future relationships with China remains to be seen.",
        "肯尼亚和津巴布韦如何驾驭未来的对华关系依然有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, since 2011, some $1.3 trillion of China’s foreign assets has disappeared.",
        "换句话说，中国外国资产蒸发了大约1. 3万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "First, I recommend that the Greek people give a resounding “No” to the creditors in the referendum on their demands this weekend.",
        "首先，我建议希腊人民在本周末公投中对债权人坚决说“不”。"
    ],
    [
        "Western students should think occasionally about their counterparts in Hong Kong and China who must fight for freedoms that they take for granted – and too often abuse.",
        "西方学生应时时想起他们在香港和中国的同伴，这些人仍在争取他们所熟视无睹——甚至往往随意滥用的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bush appointed in the person of Harvey Pitt a fox to guard the chickens - until public outrage forced Pitt's resignation.",
        "与此相似，布什任命哈维·皮特担任证监会主席，就好比让狐狸去保护雏鸡－直到惹起众怒，皮特才被迫辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Many people find economic growth to be a morally ambiguous goal – palatable, they would argue, only if it is broadly shared and environmentally sustainable.",
        "美国剑桥—许多人发现经济增长是一个道德上模棱两可的目标——他们认为，只有在增长获得广泛分享并且具备环境可持续性时才是值得赞美的。"
    ],
    [
        "Another lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, died in prison after being refused medical treatment.",
        "另外一位律师谢尔盖·马格尼特斯基则因为得不到救治而死在狱中。"
    ],
    [
        "Crucially, we are also a member of the second-largest currency area in the world.",
        "关键是，我们也是全球第二大货币区的成员之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Is there a Chinese or a Muslim Montaigne ready to write that the “Indian savages” may be wiser than us, as Montaigne did in 16th century France?",
        "中国或者穆斯林世界中有没有人像16世纪法国的蒙田那样那样说“印第安野人”或许比我们更加明智呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Recent figures show that we are making progress in helping women throughout the world.",
        "最近公布的数据显示，在妇女援助问题上，我们正在全球范围内取得进步。"
    ],
    [
        "The West’s Other Trump",
        "西方的另一个特朗普"
    ],
    [
        "Once euro deposits are imprisoned within a national banking system, the currency essentially splits in two: bank euros (BE) and paper, or free, euros (FE).",
        "一旦欧元存款被囚禁在全国银行系统内，货币基本上会一分为二：银行欧元（下文简称银行欧）和现钞，或所谓自由欧元（简称自由欧）。"
    ],
    [
        "Some people love their work, and never want to retire; for them, saving is less important.",
        "有些人喜欢他们的工作，而且永远不想退休； 对于他们而言，储蓄并不如此重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The true test of this interim agreement, therefore, is whether both sides can secure the domestic space to continue negotiating.",
        "因此，对于这一过渡协议的真正考验是双方能否确保继续谈判的国内空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Offering Africa’s children basic reading, writing, and technology skills, as well as vocational, technical, and entrepreneurial training, must be a top priority.",
        "让非洲儿童拥有基本的阅读、写作和技术技能并获得职业、技术和创业培训必须成为重中之重。"
    ],
    [
        "The two current leaders in Korea must not repeat the mistake of their predecessors in the latter part of the nineteenth century.",
        "朝鲜半岛现在的两位领袖不能在重蹈其前任在十九世纪末所犯的覆辙。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, they express no remorse toward their victims.",
        "更糟糕的是，他们至今没有对遭受自己迫害的人表示出一点点歉意。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite escalating geopolitical tensions, most countries in the region have maintained their economic momentum.",
        "尽管地缘政治紧张升级，但大部分域内国家都保持了经济动力。"
    ],
    [
        "When the inevitable British devaluation came on September 20-21, 1931, many foreign central banks were badly hit and were blamed for mismanaging their reserves.",
        "当英镑贬值不可避免地在1931年9月20-21日发生时，许多外国的央行损失惨重并被斥责为对外汇储备处置不当。"
    ],
    [
        "This remains my style at the United Nations.",
        "这还是我在联合国的风格。"
    ],
    [
        "The safety improvements seen in the past 12 months can only be a start.",
        "过去12个月以来所实现的安全性改进只是个开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumer demand is essentially autonomous, too, because the so-called induced part is yoked to autonomous investment through the “propensity to consume.”",
        "消费者的需求在本质上也是自发的，因为这个所谓被诱导的部分会通过“消费倾向”与自发的投资联系起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Not since the 1930’s has popular disgust with politicians in Europe, the US, as well as Japan, run so high.",
        "自上世纪30年代以来，欧洲、美国以及日本对政客的厌恶情绪甚嚣尘上。"
    ],
    [
        "In the TTIP, the reduction of so-called non-tariff barriers to trade between the US and Europe will almost certainly restrict the space for domestic regulatory action.",
        "在泛大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系协定方面，对美欧双边贸易中所谓非关税壁垒的削减几乎肯定会限制国内监管行为的运作空间。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, it is tough to argue that the UK would receive a net economic boost – or even that it will not suffer considerably – by leaving the EU.",
        "因此，很难认为退出欧盟的英国可以获得净经济提振——甚至可以不受到重大打击。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, critics point out that the world today is poor: average annual GDP per capita at purchasing power parity is roughly $7,000.",
        "而另一方面，批评家们指出今天的世界是贫穷的：年平均人均GDP按购买力平价是约7000美金。"
    ],
    [
        "That will reverse some of the dollar’s recent gains and shield growth and inflation from downside risks.",
        "这将逆转部分最近的美元涨幅，阻止增长和通胀的下降风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But at what price?",
        "但代价是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "And I fear that we will continue to have no idea.",
        "25％的“重大“飞跃，市场仍想知道在此之后将是如何走向，而我担心的是大家还将继续蒙在鼓里。"
    ],
    [
        "I myself was born at home, in a small village in the Korean countryside.",
        "我自己就在韩国农村的家里呱呱落地的。"
    ],
    [
        "By last autumn, Saudi leaders apparently decided that this was a losing strategy – and they were right.",
        "去年秋天，沙特领导人显然认为这是个输家战略——正是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "And all working children are vulnerable to malnutrition, as their diet typically lacks the items necessary to build body tissues.",
        "所有的童工都由于饮食中缺乏人体组织必须的营养成分从而容易发生营养不良的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Fats, carbohydrates, fructose, and glucose are all metabolized differently in the body.",
        "脂肪、碳水化合物、果糖和葡萄糖在人体内的新陈代谢是不同的。"
    ],
    [
        "An outside view is especially important when a free-trade and investment agreement is, as the Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz has noted, more of a “managed trade regime that puts corporate interests first.”",
        "当自由贸易和投资协议如贝尔经济学奖得主约瑟夫•斯蒂格利茨所言更像“企业利益至上的管理贸易制度”时，听取外界看法是尤其重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "What would be the strength of such a system if and when it is developed, and how will it compare with that of the US?",
        "当这一系统建立之时，应该具有何种实力、以及如何与美国相比呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The US has thus painted itself into a corner.",
        "美国就这样把自己逼进了死胡同。"
    ],
    [
        "The world now waits to see if last year’s impressive domestic demand growth can be sustained, and if China can, in the words of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, “give full play to the leading role of…consumer demand in driving economic growth.”",
        "现在，让世界翘首以望的是，中国去年令人印象深刻的内需表现能否持续，以及能否“充分发挥…消费需求在促进经济增长方面的主导作用” [1] 。"
    ],
    [
        "If the eurozone crisis continues to spiral out of control, the US should expect to see Lehman or near-Lehman-type collapses among exposed financial institutions.",
        "如果欧元区危机继续发展直至失控，那么美国就得准备好看到金融机构中再次出现雷曼或近似雷曼倒闭的事件。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – From China to India, Asian countries’ rapid economic expansion has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in recent decades.",
        "首尔—从中国到印度，近几十年来亚洲国家的高速经济扩张让数亿人摆脱了贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Such intellectual leadership should be a major function of all titular (non-executive) heads of state, an important way for them to “earn their keep.”",
        "知识领导力应该成为所有名义（非执行）国家首脑的主要功能、令他们“名副其实”的主要方式。"
    ],
    [
        "As growth in the real economy continued to stagnate, angry populism surged, resulting in Brexit and President-elect Trump.",
        "实体经济增长继续停滞，导致愤怒民粹主义崛起，其结果是英国退欧和特朗普当选总统。"
    ],
    [
        "In many matters pertaining to the Lisbon Strategy, the EU cannot avoid member states’ concerns.",
        "在属于里斯本战略的很多领域，欧盟都无法回避成员国的忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Three years after the start of their revolutions, neither country has been able to draft a broadly acceptable constitution.",
        "在革命爆发按年后，这两个国家仍没能起草被广泛接受的宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "Signs of progress are everywhere.",
        "进步的迹象随处可见。"
    ],
    [
        "Partnering with leading domestic sectors to promote innovation is one thing; doing so through price controls (as with fuels), indiscriminate subsidies, and protectionism is another.",
        "和国内主导行业合作推进创新是一回事； 通过价格控制（如能源）、歧视性补贴和保护主义这样做是另一回事。"
    ],
    [
        "Whoever is against the leader is automatically against the people.",
        "反对领袖就是反对人民。"
    ],
    [
        "As Bernanke pointed out, 45% of US farms were behind on mortgage payments in 1933, and in 1934, default rates on home mortgages exceeded 38% in half of US cities.",
        "正像贝南克所指出的那样，1933年45%的美国农场主都拖欠按揭还款，而1934年，住宅按揭的拖欠比率在半数以上的美国城市超过了38%。"
    ],
    [
        "After being lone believers through 2002, Brazilian stock market participants are now finding that investors from all over the world want to join the party.",
        "在经历了2002年的孤军奋战以后，巴西股市参与者们如今发现，来自世界各国的投资者都愿意加入到这场盛宴。"
    ],
    [
        "Its growth model, based largely on exporting cheap manufactured goods to developed countries, is running out of steam.",
        "它的增长模式主要建立在向发达国家出口廉价制造品的基础上，如今已颓势尽显。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rationale behind Iran’s policy of economic, social and military engagement seems to be first and foremost, defensive.",
        "但是伊朗的经济、社会以及军事接触政策的基本理论首先是防御性的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the wake of the euro’s performance during this year’s global financial crisis, even its strongest critics cannot deny that the euro is an astounding success.",
        "对于欧元在今年全球金融危机中的表现，即使是其最强烈的批评者也不能否认欧元获得了令人吃惊的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "To call the Israeli government clumsy is to miss the point.",
        "说以色列政府愚钝显然不适合。"
    ],
    [
        "Once a country eliminated convertibility into gold, it was free to pursue monetary expansion, and deflation tended to end.",
        "一旦彻底放弃货币与黄金之间的兑换，国家就能够自由自在地进行货币扩张，而此时的通货紧缩也有了结束的趋向。"
    ],
    [
        "What lies at the wellsprings of democratic life?",
        "民主生活的源泉是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "There is no sign of a crisis narrowly averted.",
        "我们看不到危机已经擦边而过的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "The final step is to establish transparent oversight of the data being collected.",
        "最后一步是建立透明的数据收集监督。"
    ],
    [
        "That proved to be the case in Turkey and Pakistan in the 1990’s and early 2000’s, and later in much of the Arab world.",
        "这一推论在1990年代的土耳其以及2000年代初的巴基斯坦都成为了现实，并随后在阿拉伯世界应验了。"
    ],
    [
        "Now its leaders maintain that they would welcome democratic changes in the region as a guarantor of peace and common values, though they express skepticism about whether such developments are actually imminent.",
        "如今其领导人都对该区域的民主变革表示欢迎，并将其视为以确保和平与共同价值观的基石，但他们同时也怀疑这些状况能否真正到来实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The top-ranked countries, where children are best off, are the social democracies of Western Europe.",
        "排名最高的国家，即儿童福祉最高者，是西欧社会民主国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump agreed with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and her Senate counterpart, Chuck Schumer, on how to increase the federal debt limit, which Congress must raise each year as spending increases, and extend appropriations to keep the government running (because Congress routinely fails to write appropriations bills on time).",
        "特朗普与众议院少数党领袖南希·佩洛西（Nancy Pelosi）和参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer）就如何提高联邦债务上限的问题形成了一致，国会必须根据支出的增加，每年提高债务上限，并增加拨款以保持政府运转（因为国会总是无法及时通过拨款法案）。"
    ],
    [
        "Can the summit reverse the downward spiral in US-China relations that began with Xi’s accession to power in 2013?",
        "许多观察者正在期待他随后与美国总统奥巴马的会面。 两人的峰会是否能够扭转2013年习近平上台以来中美关系恶化的趋势？"
    ],
    [
        "But that is not true of the US or the UK, which both have large fiscal deficits.",
        "但对有着巨额财政赤字的美国和英国来说并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial crisis of 2008 came close, but it was precisely the Fed’s readiness to step in as an emergency lender that prevented the worst.",
        "2008年金融危机比较接近，但正是美联储时刻准备着作为紧急贷款人出手干预，才防止了最坏情形的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "But a year ago, the figures were already dire: 60,000 dead, 700,000 international refugees, and two million internally displaced.",
        "但一年前这个数字其实已经非常可怕：60,000人死亡、700,000名难民以及200万国内民众流离失所。"
    ],
    [
        "Should this now be read as an unwitting confession that he has lost his own moral bearings?",
        "”这是否现在应当被视为其下意识的内心独白，承认自己已经失去了道德原则？"
    ],
    [
        "Canada also benefited.",
        "加拿大也从中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting policy inertia lay at the heart of many of the region’s emerging economic troubles.",
        "由此带来的政策惯性构成了该地区诸多新见经济问题的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "But he is unlikely to be chastened.",
        "但他不太可能因此受到惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that household debt is coming down through a combination of repayments and write-offs.",
        "好消息是，在偿还和减记的双重作用下，家庭债务正在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "How to Waste a Crisis",
        "如何浪费一场危机"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the policy calculus in Northern Europe greatly underestimates the economic losses due to the disruptions imposed on the South by excessive austerity and wage deflation.",
        "事实上，北欧的政策算盘大大地低估了过度紧缩和工资通缩给南欧造成的影响以及由此产生的经济损失。"
    ],
    [
        "A Japanese flag was burned outside the foreign students’ dorm.",
        "”的口号，并在留学生宿舍门口焚烧日本国旗。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, substantive and remarkable progress has been made, all in the last few years.",
        "尽管如此，短短几年来已经取得了实质性的显著进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that we have seen the footage of the tsunami that hit Japan, the demands on our imagination have been lessened – except that we have to imagine away the sea walls that Japan had built to reduce the impact of the tsunami.",
        "看过日本海啸的镜头之后，想像的难度已经大大降低——只有一点，我们必须想像没有日本修建的海啸防波堤会是什么样子。"
    ],
    [
        "In other political unions, cohesion is maintained through a strong common identity, but often also through permanent fiscal transfers between richer and poorer regions that even out incomes ex post.",
        "在其他政治联盟，凝聚力通过强大的共同身份维持，但往往也通过富裕地区和贫穷地区持久的财政转移从而在事后实现收入平均来维持。"
    ],
    [
        "Some insist that refugees take jobs from natives, which implies that refugees are hard workers; others complain that refugees rely on welfare benefits, which suggests that they work too little.",
        "有些人坚称难民从本土居民那里抢走了工作岗位，暗指难民工作勤奋； 而有人却抱怨难民依赖福利，暗指他们几乎不怎么工作。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the challenge facing American public intellectuals today.",
        "这就是美国公共知识分子今天面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "In this eyeball-to-eyeball situation, the other five parties in the talks – China, Japan, Russia, the United States, and South Korea – must not give in first to North Korea.",
        "在此次对峙中，六方会谈的其它参与国——中日俄美韩——都不能首先屈服于朝鲜。"
    ],
    [
        "They have somehow concluded that America will be spared from the droughts already destroying farms in California’s Central Valley, the rising sea levels already flooding coastal cities, the storms and wildfires routinely ravaging vast swathes of the American countryside, and the water- and food-supply disruptions that threaten us all.",
        "在某种意义上，他们认定美国不会因为已在破坏加利福尼亚中央河谷的农场的旱灾、已经开始倒灌沿海城市的海平面升高、时不时将美国农村的广袤区域焚为焦土的风暴和野火，以及威胁到我们所有人的水和粮食供应中断而蒙难。"
    ],
    [
        "The local political culture confuses democracy with majoritarianism, with elections used as vehicles to consolidate power, not share it.",
        "而国家边界日益模糊。 地方政治文化分不清民主和多数人统治，选举沦为巩固而不是分享权力的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The rules of the game would be changed and a whole variety of strategic goals could be achieved – European security, neighborhood conflicts, energy security, arms reduction, anti-proliferation, etc.",
        "如果这样，游戏的规则就会发生变化，各种各样的战略目标——欧洲安全，邻国间的冲突，能源安全，裁减军备，防止核扩散，等等——都可以实现。"
    ],
    [
        "A sense of alienation towards the West is spreading, and Turkey’s diplomatic relations with Russia have reached a hitherto unknown intimacy.",
        "一种对西方的疏离感正在传播，而土耳其与俄罗斯的外交关系已达到空前的亲密程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s challenge to the JCPOA will most likely encourage other egregious behavior as well.",
        "特朗普对JCOPA的挑战极有可能还会引起其他糟糕的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s companies fall roughly into two categories.",
        "希腊的企业大致可分为两类。"
    ],
    [
        "They should ask whether aid for Georgia contributes to peace and stability or, on the contrary, whether it will impede a political solution to the conflict and keep investors away.",
        "他们应该问一下对格鲁吉亚的援助是否有助于和平与稳定，还是与此相反，会阻碍冲突的政治解决并让投资者望而却步。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice though, as investors make money on their trades, they bring in yet more money, forcing further currency appreciation.",
        "但在实际中，随着投资者交易的获利，他们投入了更多的资金，迫使货币进一步升值。"
    ],
    [
        "President Lyndon Johnson, when deciding to escalate US intervention in Vietnam, drew an analogy with Munich, when the failure to respond to Hitler’s aggression had catastrophic consequences.",
        "当年林登·约翰逊（Lyndon Johnson）总统决定升级美国对越南的干预时，就引用了慕尼黑的例子——后者因坐视希特勒的恶行而导致了灾难性的后果。 四分之一个世纪后，乔治·H·W·布什（George H."
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, pulling the plug on the euro could unleash the dark forces of nationalism and protectionism.",
        "此外，废除欧元可能释放民族主义和保护主义的黑暗力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The labor market is at full employment, the inflation rate is rising, and households are optimistic.",
        "劳动力市场实现了充分就业，通货膨胀率上升，家庭态度乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq’s voters have spoken.",
        "伊拉克的选民们终于发出了自己的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "The main factor underlying this shift in public attitudes is that many citizens have lost faith in progress.",
        "导致公众态度转变的主要因素是许多民众已经对进步失去了信心。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also vital to ensure that vaccines get to the right place, at the right time, and in the right condition.",
        "确保疫苗在正确的时间、正确的环境中出现在正确的地点也很关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most notable, it recently led the establishment of the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which will serve largely as a vehicle for Chinese foreign investment.",
        "最引人瞩目的也许要数最近在北京成立的亚洲基础设施投资银行（亚投行）。 亚投行将作为中国对外投资的主要载体之一。"
    ],
    [
        "While some of the criticism might have merit, what gives politicians the moral authority to criticize?",
        "虽然有些批评有一定道理，但政治家凭什么掌握批评的道德权力？"
    ],
    [
        "Whenever a firm chooses to evade, it becomes increasingly difficult to find a vendor willing to engage in legal transactions.",
        "任何时候当一家企业选择逃税时，要找到一家愿意进行合法交易的卖主就会变得越来越困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Syrian intelligence and troops – present in Lebanon since 1976 – were forced out in 2005 only under enormous international pressure and $1billion were lost in smuggling revenue last year much of which previously flowed to the Syrian military.",
        "叙利亚的情报机构和军队—自1976年以来就驻扎在黎巴嫩—完全是在国际社会的巨大压力下才于2005年被迫撤离。 因此，走私收入在去年损失了10亿美金，而这其中的相当一部分从前都被叙利亚军方收入囊中。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Federal Reserve may respond to such an increase by hiking its policy rate, a move that would ultimately lead to a rise in long-term interest rates and place further upward pressure on the dollar’s exchange rate.",
        "美联储可能因此提高政策利率，而这最终又将导致长期利率的升高，给美元汇率造成进一步升值压力。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why financial theory prescribes spreading risks as evenly as possible around the world, rather than around only one country, as plans for a national catastrophe fund envision.",
        "这就是为什么金融理论中认为应该在全世界范围内均摊风险，而不该像国家灾难基金所想像的，由一国承担风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fact that 9% of British citizens live abroad demonstrates that people move regardless of their home country’s wealth.",
        "但9%的英国人生活在国外这一事实证明人们移民未必是因为祖国的财富。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because China has ratified UNCLOS and the US respects it as customary international law, there is a basis for serious direct negotiation over clarification of the ambiguous nine-dashed line and the preservation of freedom of the seas.",
        "但是，由于中国批准了UNCLOS并且美国也尊重其作为习惯国际法的地位，因此美国有基础要求与中国展开严肃的直接讨论澄清含义模糊的九段线、保护海洋自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Such demands escalated dramatically after Hariri’s death, as tens of thousands of the former prime minister’s partisans, who previously sat on the fence when it came to Syria, shouted “Syria out.”",
        "哈里里之死使上述要求更加强烈，因为前总理的数万名党内支持者从前涉及到叙利亚问题都严守中立，现在却大声疾呼“叙利亚滚出去。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "For instance, Austrian and Italian banks are heavily exposed in Eastern Europe; the Royal Bank of Scotland which is now majority owned by the British government does the bulk of its business abroad while a significant portion of UK housing is financed by foreign banks.",
        "比如，奥地利和意大利的银行在东欧涉足颇深； 现在由英国政府控股的苏格兰皇家银行的主要业务是在海外，另一方面，英国相当大一部分的住房的资金来自于外国银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Debates about the nature and benefits of science are not confined to the US and Europe.",
        "关于科学的性质与利益之争并不是仅限于美国和欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "But the reality is that maintaining the livelihood and well-being of this area’s population and those in other rural parts of China is a serious challenge.",
        "但现实是，维持新疆人民和中国其他农村地区人民的生活水平和福利是一项艰巨的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "And that is precisely what countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia are doing, having established a joint Arab military force to fight Iranian influence in the region, as well as discreet security links with Israel, another self-declared victim of the framework agreement.",
        "而这正是埃及和沙特阿拉伯等国家正在做的，它们成立了一支阿拉伯联军对抗伊朗的地区影响，并谨慎地与以色列——另一个自称为框架协议受害者的国家——建立安全联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Fearing “an excess of democracy,” they interposed institutional buffers between the popular will and government decisions.",
        "”由于担心“民主过度”，他们在普遍民意和政府决策之间设置了制度缓冲。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community’s objective should be restricted to a peaceful outcome that allows Burma’s people to work out their own solution.",
        "国际社会的目标应该被限定在让缅甸人民能够制定他们自己的解决方案这一和平结果上。"
    ],
    [
        "In some analyses, malign impact turned into a more sinister “malign intent.”",
        "” 某些分析甚至将有害影响升级为更为阴险的“邪恶企图。"
    ],
    [
        "Notably, all six of the underground nuclear tests that North Korea has conducted since 2006 have been consistent with plutonium harvested from the reactor before the six-party talks.",
        "值得注意的是，2006年以来朝鲜所进行的所有六次地下核试验都与六方会谈前从核反应堆中获得的钚一致。"
    ],
    [
        "The authors emphasised that causality could not be established from a retrospective study of this design due to the numerous potential biases that may confound the association. For example, it is known that viral respiratory tract infections in infancy such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are associated with an increased risk of asthma in later childhood and that paracetamol use for such episodes could have caused confounding in the study.",
        "作者强调由于存在很多可能混淆这种关联性的潜在偏差，所以无法从对回顾性研究中确定其因果关系。 比如，大家都知道婴儿时期的病毒性呼吸道感染，如呼吸道合胞病毒（RSV）会增加该婴儿在儿童时期感染哮喘的可能性；"
    ],
    [
        "Not all football games are fraught with negative feeling and violence.",
        "并不是所有的足球比赛都充斥着负面感情和暴力行动。"
    ],
    [
        "This ambivalence can largely be explained by Western and Arab concern with the weakness and opacity of the Syrian opposition’s political leadership.",
        "这种举棋不定的状况在很大程度上可以从西方和阿拉伯国家担心叙利亚反对派政治领导层的软弱无能和暗箱操作中得到解释。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s appeal is growing in the Western world as well.",
        "中国的吸引力在西方世界也变得越来越大。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent volatility in global capital markets should give pause to those who say German leaders, who have been arguing for greater transparency in global hedge funds, are just sore losers US and UK policymakers, in particular, say the German whining is nonsense, and that hedge funds, along with other new age financial entities such as private equity firms are key innovators in today’s, global economy.",
        "德国的领导人最近在呼吁全球对冲基金要有更大的透明度。 美英政策制定者认为对冲基金和其他像私募股权投资公司等新兴金融实体是当今全球经济的主要创新者。"
    ],
    [
        "And Treasury bonds are secure: the federal government has not fallen into arrears on its debt since the disastrous War of 1812.",
        "美国国债也非常安全：自灾难性的1812年战争以来，联邦政府从未对其债务逾期。"
    ],
    [
        "And now his analysis and recommendations are being echoed in a new report issued by the Council of Economic Advisers. “Such fee structures,\" the CEA warns, “generate acute conflicts of interest: the best recommendation for the saver may not be the best recommendation for the adviser's bottom line.\"",
        "如今，他的分析和建议得到了总统经济顾问委员会（CEA）最新报告的回应：“这种收费结构，”CEA警告说，“制造了尖锐的利益冲突：对储户最优的建议与对顾问收益最优的建议不是同一个建议。"
    ],
    [
        "PRAGUE – We are all brought up to recycle paper to save trees.",
        "布拉格——我们从小就被教育要拯救树木。"
    ],
    [
        "Freshwater-types believed that budgets deficits were always bad, whereas the saltwater camp believed that deficits were beneficial in a slump.",
        "淡水派认为预算赤字总是不好的，而咸水阵营相信赤字在经济处于低谷时是有益的。"
    ],
    [
        "There would be no attractive options, and the result – regardless of how much goodwill both sides bring to the talks – would leave both the UK and the EU visibly diminished, not least on the world stage.",
        "其中将不存在有吸引力的选项，而结果——不论双方带着多大的谈判诚意——将让英国和欧盟到遭到国际地位的显著削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, retains control of Iraq’s largely ceremonial presidency.",
        "库尔德人贾拉勒·塔拉巴尼保持着对伊拉克礼仪性总统职位的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Subsequently, we were able to take the first steps toward arms control and disarmament.",
        "随后，我们就迈出了通向核武器控制和去核化的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, an Olympic boycott will become more likely if scenes of murdered or brutalized Buddhist monks are flashed around the world.",
        "的确，如果被谋杀或摧残的僧人的图像被传送到全世界，那么就很可能引发对奥运会的抵制。"
    ],
    [
        "Aid for child and maternal health has grown dramatically since 2000, and now stands at some $12 billion annually.",
        "母婴健康援助自2000年以来大幅增加，现在每年高达120美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In old-style family firms, there is a clear rule of succession that the oldest son takes over.",
        "老派家族企业的继承有一条明确的规矩——长子继位。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, another important reason to characterize the downing of MH17 publicly as a war crime is that it may prove beneficial in apprehending the perpetrators.",
        "事实上，将击落MH17公开定性为战争罪的另一重要原因是这样做或许有利于逮捕肇事者。"
    ],
    [
        "The amounts involved are large enough to be of macroeconomic significance, especially as they would be spent almost immediately and produce a multiplier effect.",
        "涉及的金额将大到足以影响宏观经济，尤其是这笔钱会被立刻花掉并产生乘数效应。"
    ],
    [
        "But the party never debated or theorized this choice, simply accepting former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin’s claim that the fiscal stability and financial modernization resulting from the decision was but a “parenthesis.”",
        "但是社会党从未为这一决定进行辩论，或使之理论化，仅仅是接受了前社会主义党总理莱昂内尔·若斯潘的主张，他声称这一决定所产生的财政稳定和金融现代化仅是一个插曲。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to determine the extent to which the Fed’s QE1 during the crisis owed its success in bringing interest rates down to the fact that it was being reinforced by what foreign central banks worldwide – notably in Asia – were doing simultaneously.",
        "很难确定金融危机期间美联储QE1在推低利率方面所取得的成功在多大程度上要归因于全世界外国央行（主要是亚洲央行）被迫也同时这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as US monetary policy follows the path of interest-rate normalization, there could well be knock-on effects, both economic and financial, especially in the form of currency volatility and destabilizing outflows from emerging economies.",
        "但是，随着美国货币政策继续向利率正常化迈进，极有可能产生经济和金融连锁反应，特别是货币波动和破坏性流出新兴经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Fiscal austerity has become such a staple of conventional wisdom in the United Kingdom that anyone in public life who challenges it is written off as a dangerous leftist.",
        "伦敦—在英国，财政紧缩已成为传统智慧的一大标志，任何敢于在公开挑战这一智慧的人都会被扣上危险的左派的帽子。"
    ],
    [
        "But they can reduce interest rates by eliminating the perceived risk of sovereign default. Banks will be able to borrow from one another for less, and thus able to lend to firms for less.",
        "但它们可以消除主权违约风险，从而使利率下降。 银行间拆借成本降低之后，才能以更低的利率放款给企业。"
    ],
    [
        "That looks like a really smart investment.",
        "这看上去绝对是聪明的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "With the possible exception of Madagascar, they play only a limited role on the continent.",
        "除马达加斯加外，它们对非洲大陆的影响并不太大。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, at the end of the London summit, the assembled leaders will agree on a joint statement, because nobody can afford failure.",
        "当然，伦敦峰会结束时，因为没有人能够承受失败的代价，聚在一起的领袖们将发表一份联合声明。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe and Japan have shown their commitment to reduce global warming by imposing costs on themselves and their producers, even if it places them at a competitive disadvantage.",
        "欧洲和日本明确表示了宁愿给本国政府和制造企业增加成本，也要缓解全球变暖的燃眉之急，即使这样做会损失自己在竞争中的优势地位也在所不惜。"
    ],
    [
        "No side has a yearning for war, which is why compromise solutions are possible.",
        "各方都不想要战争，因此妥协方案是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Who, with hindsight, has prophesied correctly?",
        "试问这些擅长马后炮的人中又有谁曾经做出过准确预测？"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the world’s gold reserves ended up in the hands of the US.",
        "全球大部分黄金储备最后也都集中到了美国人手里。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s Muddled Presidential Politics",
        "乱作一团的伊朗总统政治"
    ],
    [
        "With Modi too busy to keep up with all of the decisions he – and only he – can make, the government is adrift.",
        "莫迪疲于做出他——也只有他——可以做的决定，而政府被架空。"
    ],
    [
        "As British voters prepare to cast their ballots, they should weigh carefully the consequences of international irrelevance.",
        "在英国选民准备投票之际，他们应该仔细掂量国际边缘化的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "While much of the rest of the developing world, following the Washington Consensus, has been directed at a quixotic quest for higher GDP, China has once again made clear that it seeks sustainable and more equitable increases in real living standards.",
        "达成《华盛顿共识》后，在其它发展中国家都对提高国内生产总值情有独钟时，中国再次重申人民生活水平的持续、均衡提高才是它所追求的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "This is no reason to support Erdoğan and his shopping-mall builders against the protesters in Turkey, either.",
        "这同样不是支持埃尔多安及其购物中心建造者、打压土耳其示威群众的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, establishment opinion-makers, who scornfully rejected the pertinence of social class, have contributed to a political environment in which class politics was never more pertinent, toxic, and less discussed.",
        "如今，建制派舆情引导者轻蔑地拒绝接受符合现实的社会阶级论，创造了一个阶级政治无比重要、无比“有毒”和绝少被讨论政治环境。"
    ],
    [
        "One such feature is that Islamic finance emphasizes asset-backing, thereby ensuring a direct link between financial transactions and real economic activities.",
        "其中之一是伊斯兰金融强调资产支持，从而确保了金融交易和实体经济活动之间的直接联系。"
    ],
    [
        "All the while, we know of the terrible conditions that still face the majority of the world’s population, with more than a billion poor, two billion without electricity, and three billion without clean drinking water and sanitation.",
        "与此同时，我们清楚世界上很大一部分人口依然生活在非常恶劣的条件下，有超过10亿人生活在贫困之中，20亿人没有电，还有30亿人喝不到干净的水以及没有很好的卫生条件。"
    ],
    [
        "They claimed that they had developed a technique whereby new, perfect stem cells could be cloned from ordinary ones.",
        "他们宣称，他们已经开发了一项新的技术，可以从普通的干细胞中克隆出完美的干细胞。"
    ],
    [
        "This is what happened for two decades from 1985 to 2004, and, as the chart below shows, trading in the spot market during the past 18 months has been consistent with this idea.",
        "1985—2004年这二十年便是如此，而如下图所示，过去18个月的现货市场交易情况也与这一观点相符。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, comparative advantage – determined by the relative abundance of labor, natural resources, and capital endowments – is the foundation for competitiveness, which in turn underpins dynamic growth and strong fiscal and external positions.",
        "事实上，由劳动力、自然资源和资本等要素禀赋的相对丰富程度所决定的比较优势正是竞争力的基础，而竞争力又支撑了强劲的经济增长和稳健的财政收支与国际收支。"
    ],
    [
        "The Debt Delusion",
        "债务错觉"
    ],
    [
        "Closer international cooperation and economic integration is the only way forward.",
        "更紧密的国际合作和经济一体化是唯一的前进之道。"
    ],
    [
        "A second reality is that there is an unavoidable trade-off between negotiations and implementation.",
        "第二个现实是，谈判和实施之间存在一个不可避免的权衡。"
    ],
    [
        "What is news is that American power might also be losing its ability to intimidate them.",
        "令人感到新奇的是美国的实力或许正在失去恐吓他们的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The likely result of this trend will be a shift from the old model of business organization – in which most workers carry out specialized functions for a single employer within a rigid hierarchy – to one centered on lean core organizations that rely on a loose network of external providers for many tasks.",
        "这一趋势的可能结果是旧企业组织模式——大部分工作者在僵化的层级制中为一位雇主提供专业技能——转向以精益核心组织为核心的模式，依靠松散的外部提供者网络完成诸多任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Disbursing more than 20% of the credits available to a country still requires that it first reach an agreement with the IMF, and 20% of a country’s entitlement is actually less than it contributes to the pool.",
        "清迈倡议规定，当一国需提取的资金超过其可用信贷额度的20%，就必须经过IMF同意，20%只不过是各国出资的一小部分而已。"
    ],
    [
        "New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks.",
        "新领导人还必须预想并管理各种困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Another New York Times story (November 12), citing “military officials,” dutifully reported that, “Since the assault began on Monday, about 600 rebels have been killed, along with 18 American and 5 Iraqi soldiers.”",
        "11月12日《纽约时报》的另一篇报道则恪尽职守地引用了军方发言人的话，“自周一发动攻势以来，约600名抵抗分子被击毙，美军阵亡18人，伊拉克士兵死亡5人。"
    ],
    [
        "But a large number of small banks in the aggregate are systemically significant – especially if one is concerned about restoring investment, employment, and growth.",
        "但大量小银行加起来也具有系统重要性——特别是你关心重塑投资、就业和增长的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most important, they knew that they had to focus on generating employment, particularly in urban areas and modernizing sectors, and on inclusiveness more broadly.",
        "也许最重要的是，它们知道必须把重点放在创造就业机会——尤其是在城市地区以及现代化部门，以及更广泛的包容性发展方面。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Forex Follies",
        "中国的汇率愚行"
    ],
    [
        "Sub-Saharan Africa faces a shortfall of some 2.5 million engineers, technologists, mathematicians, and scientists.",
        "撒哈拉以南非洲面临高达250万名工程师、技术人员、数学家和科学家的短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, we are only beginning to come to terms with the national-security implications of this.",
        "与此同时，我们对国家安全影响的了解才刚刚开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, caution dictates direct regulation of cross-border flows.",
        "类似地，谨慎决定了对跨境流的直接监管。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, investors holding derivatives and repo contracts with a weakened financial institution can grab the firm’s assets ahead of – and at the expense of – its regular creditors, possibly sealing its fate, when, with a little extra time, the firm might have survived.",
        "比如说，如果投资者持有与一个被削弱的金融机构签订的衍生品或者再购协议合约，那么他就能抢在该机构的一般债权人之前——或者牺牲债权人利益的情况下——夺取机构资产，甚至很可能因此左右该机构的命运：或许只要再争取多一点时间，那家机构就能生存下来。"
    ],
    [
        "Khamenei’s political standing is closely associated with the current nuclear policy, and he lacks the charisma and authority necessary to move the political and religious elite toward compromise.",
        "而哈梅内伊的政治地位与目前的核政策息息相关，他也缺乏带领政治和宗教精英接受妥协所必须的魅力和权威。"
    ],
    [
        "The just-collapsed credit bubble, fueled by so-called special investment vehicles, derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, and phony triple-A ratings, was built on the illusions of mathematical modeling.",
        "刚刚破灭的由所谓的特别投资工具、衍生品、债务抵押债券以及虚假的3A评级助长的信贷泡沫，是建立在数学模型的幻想之上的。"
    ],
    [
        "Risky projects are at a steep discount today, because the private-sector financial market’s risk tolerance has collapsed.",
        "有风险的项目如今大为贬值，因为私营部门金融市场的风险容忍程度已经崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "When Putin questioned Kazakhstan’s independence last year, China was quick to support the country’s sovereignty.",
        "去年，普京质疑哈萨克斯坦的独立性，中国立刻宣布支持和萨克斯坦主权。"
    ],
    [
        "The integration of sourcing with logistics and retail will become the third leg of the stool.",
        "将采购和物流与零售相结合将成为第三只脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Smith showed, in particular, that money should not be confused for wealth.",
        "史密斯特别指出，不应该把钱和财富混淆起来。"
    ],
    [
        "But as it looks for ways to improve its tax regime, it must not allow certain sectors – not least those with heavily digitalized business models – to evade taxation entirely.",
        "但在它设法改善税收制度时，决不能让某些部门——包括商业模式严重数字化的部门——完全规避税收。"
    ],
    [
        "But reducing employment protection scares every worker in the private sector.",
        "但减少就业保护会令私有部门的所有员工惶恐不安。"
    ],
    [
        "The grassroots revolt will, of course, continue.",
        "这场草根革命无疑将继续延续下去，该区域任何国家都无法置身事外。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1814, the British were able to burn down the White House (and most other official buildings in Washington, DC) because American politicians had almost completely undermined the central government’s fiscal capacity.",
        "1814年，英国人能够火烧白宫（以及华盛顿的大部分官方建筑）的原因正在于美国政客几乎完全破坏了中央政府的财政能力。"
    ],
    [
        "That history is important, not only because it justifies treating them with suspicion.",
        "这段历史很重要，不仅是因为这是带着狐疑眼光对待他们的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, most of the world believes that Germany should adopt a more expansive fiscal policy.",
        "事实上，世界上大部分人认为德国应该采取更为扩张的财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Western observers, focusing on recent public statements by Xi and Li, highlight a dearth of comments in favor of economic or political reforms.",
        "西方观察者专注于习近平和李克强最近的公开讲话，强调他们缺少对经济和政治改革的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Slowly but surely, sea levels are inching up once again.",
        "如今，海平面正在缓慢但毋庸置疑地再次升高。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, in what is perhaps the most remarkable diplomatic turnaround, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has become a key facilitator in the resolution of the Colombian conflict.",
        "事实上，或许最令人瞩目的外交变化是委内瑞拉总统查韦斯已经变身为哥伦比亚冲突解决方案的关键促进者。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, they are missing out on a major opportunity, especially given the strides that have been made in improving the effectiveness and appeal of online learning.",
        "从这个意义上讲，他们正在错失一次重大的机遇，尤其考虑到在提高在线教育效率和吸引力方面已经取得了长足的进步就更是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Saakashvili is evidently mesmerized by the US, and the West in general, but what is the point if there is no independent and democratic political process in Georgia today?",
        "萨卡什维利显然对美国和西方世界有着异乎寻常的迷恋，但如果今天的格鲁吉亚没有独立和民主的政治程序，单纯的迷恋美国又有什么意义？"
    ],
    [
        "But the focus of debate was a €8 million exceptional bonus that he requested after successfully executing a financial operation at the end of his tenure.",
        "但是争论的焦点是他在任期结束前成功地进行了一项金融运作，要求8百万欧元的额外奖金。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared to his military predecessor, Musharraf, who touts the catch-phrase of \"enlightened moderation,\" is conveniently progressive.",
        "与其军界前任相比，提出\"开明温和\"路线的穆沙拉夫显得颇为进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Great buildings and works of art are lost.",
        "伟大的建筑和艺术作品随之毁于一旦。"
    ],
    [
        "Where he might make some changes is in foreign policy; but those changes may be more likely to please China than to aggravate it.",
        "他可能在外交政策方面做出一些改变； 但这些变化更有可能是为了取悦而不是刺激中国。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that President-elect Obama’s all-star economic team will at least adopt a coherent and consistent policy.",
        "人们希望当选总统奥巴马的全明星经济团队至少会采取连贯一致的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The increased flow of capital to the corporate sector will raise productivity and real wages.",
        "流入企业部门的资金增量将提升生产力和实际工资。"
    ],
    [
        "The KRG hopes that a deal with Turkey would allow it to obtain more regular and predictable hydrocarbon revenues.",
        "KRG希望与土耳其的交易能让其获得更稳定、更可预计的油气收入。"
    ],
    [
        "In any democratic system of checks and balances, leaders usually require coalitions in order to get what they want done.",
        "任何民主的制衡制度，领导人通常需要形成联盟以完成他们想要做的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Competing narratives matter, and terrorism is about narrative and political drama.",
        "各执一词的述事题材以及恐怖主义都会涉及到述事和政治表演。"
    ],
    [
        "What has people outraged is the notion that Facebook is manipulating its unwitting users to advance its own agenda, with many citing the secrecy surrounding the research to illustrate the company’s misconduct (though the company published the results with no apparent sense of unease).",
        "让人们愤怒的是Facebook利用不知情的用户来推进自己的计划，很多人都列举了研究的保密性来证明公司的行为不当（虽然公司发布结果时并没有明显不安的感觉）。"
    ],
    [
        "One Youth Courage award winner, Razia, who at the age of nine was forced to stitch footballs when she should have been in school, started her civil-rights work after Satyarthi rescued her.",
        "青年勇气奖获得者拉齐亚（Razia）在九岁应该上学的年纪被迫从事缝制足球的工作，在获得塞蒂亚尔西的拯救后，她开始从事公民权利工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, whatever the short-term outcome of any judicial appeals, we should expect key people to be forced out of the agency, procedures to break down, and consumers to receive less redress.",
        "无论司法上诉的短期结果如何，随着时间的推移我们都应该预计会有一些关键人物被迫离开该机构，一些程序遭到破坏，消费者也只能获得较少的赔偿。"
    ],
    [
        "Campaigns were launched against discrimination in workplaces, schools, and health centers.",
        "艾滋病活跃分子发动了反对职场、校园和医院的歧视的运动。"
    ],
    [
        "In the current crisis, China, India, and certain other emerging-market countries are coping fairly well.",
        "在当前这轮危机之中，中国、印度和某些其他新兴市场国家的应对颇为出色。"
    ],
    [
        "Jordan, with Israeli collaboration and European Union aid, is creating a Red Sea-Dead Sea pipeline, a conduit that would desalinate Red Sea water, in order to provide potable water to Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories, and then funnel the brine to the dying Dead Sea.",
        "约旦在以色列的合作和欧盟的帮助下，正在建设一条红海-死海管道，该管道可以淡化红海海水，从而为约旦、以色列和巴勒斯坦领地提供饮用水，然后将盐卤引入濒死的死海。"
    ],
    [
        "France, obviously in the limelight, remained silent, again leaving Germany to feel abandoned by its partners.",
        "而作为众人焦点的法国继续沉默是金，使德国感到自己已经被伙伴所抛弃了。"
    ],
    [
        "Genocide requires “special intent.”",
        "种族灭绝要求具有“特别的意图”。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, CERES, a non-profit organization, has combined Aqueduct’s water-stress maps with hydraulic fracturing data (from FracFocus.org) to find that nearly one-half of shale oil and gas wells in the US are located in areas with high water stress.",
        "比如，非营利组织CERES将沟渠的水压地图与液压致裂数据（来自FracFocus. org）结合起来，发现美国近一半的页岩油和页岩气井位于高水压地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, there is a fourth view, championed most prominently by Larry Summers and Paul Krugman.",
        "最后，是第四种观点，以拉里·萨默斯（Larry Summers）和保罗·克鲁格曼（Paul Krugman）为首。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also unclear whether Abe will be able to meet with South Korean President Park Geun-hye.",
        "安倍是否能与韩国总统朴槿惠会晤也是个疑问。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Obama did not openly criticize the Chinese government’s notorious human rights record, nor did he use his influence to persuade China to release any prisoner of conscience, as his US predecessors always did when visiting the country.",
        "首先，奥巴马并没有公开批评中国政府恶劣的人权纪录，也没有利用自己的影响力去劝告中国释放在押的政治犯，而这两点都是他的前任到访中国时常有的举动。"
    ],
    [
        "But this identity must be open.",
        "但是这种身份必须是开放的。"
    ],
    [
        "But both men, on finding themselves in positions of authority, ruled from their default positions: Bush as an evangelical convinced that God was on America’s side, and Putin as a KGB graduate convinced that all power comes from intimidation and threats.",
        "但这两位，一旦大权在握，就从各自默认的定位开始了统治：布什作为一个福音派信徒深信上帝站在美国一边，而普京作为克格勃的毕业生则坚信权力来自于恐吓与威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Most displaced people rent accommodation, stay with family or friends, or squat, while a smaller number take refuge in camps.",
        "大多数流离失所的人租房子、与家人或朋友住在一起或者擅自居住在别人留下的空房子里，还有一小部分人住在难民营里。"
    ],
    [
        "As the ocean continues to absorb heat from the atmosphere, large-scale coral bleaching like that which has decimated the Great Barrier Reef – not to mention other destructive phenomena spurred by rising temperatures – is likely to become even more frequent and devastating.",
        "随着海洋继续从大气中吸收热量，重创大堡礁级别的大规模珊瑚漂白频率可能进步增加，后果也可能更加严重——更不用说其他因温度升高引起的毁灭现象了。"
    ],
    [
        "The EEU is seen by its advocates as a step toward re-establishing the old Soviet frontiers in the form of a voluntary economic and political union, modeled on the EU – a project to take the sting out of the West’s “victory” in the Cold War.",
        "在支持者眼中，EEU是以自愿的经济和政治联盟为形式重建昔日苏联边界的一步。 EEU以欧盟为样板，是对西方在冷战中的“胜利”的刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "The children’s parents or guardians completed written questionnaires about current symptoms of asthma, rhinitis (hayfever), and eczema, and about several risk factors, including use of paracetamol for fever in the child’s first year of life and frequency of paracetamol use in the past 12 months.",
        "这些儿童的父母或监护人都完成了一份书面问卷调查。 该问卷询问了有关哮喘、鼻炎（花粉病）和湿疹的当前症状以及几个危险因素，包括在孩子一周岁以前使用扑热息痛治疗发热的情况以及在过去12个月中使用扑热息痛的频率。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet neither individuals nor communities seem to act on the basis of this knowledge.",
        "但个人和社会均很少有根据这一认识行动者。"
    ],
    [
        "DALIAN, CHINA – Last week, a company called Complete Genomics announced 10 new customers for its genome-sequencing service.",
        "中国，大连——上周，一家名叫Complete Genomics的公司公布了基因组排序服务的10名新客户。"
    ],
    [
        "The regime response is to say that any outside monitoring is an infringement on Egyptian sovereignty, and that domestic monitors are an affront to the integrity of the judges.",
        "政府的反应则是说任何外来的监督都是对埃及主权的侵犯，而国内的监督员则是对法官操守的公然侮辱。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s parliamentary elections augment the uncertainty.",
        "伊朗议会选举更是增加了不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "The emerging political class must improve its understanding of iCrowd politics, and learn to harness the power of tools like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs, apps, and text messages.",
        "新出现的政治阶级必须强化他们对iCrowd政治的认识，学会驾驭Facebook、Twitter、YouTube、博客、应用和手机短信等社交媒体的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "We have a large foreign population and one of the world’s largest consular corps.",
        "我们有大量的外籍人口，并拥有全球最大的领事使团。"
    ],
    [
        "The pope’s historic visit to the US came at an important time.",
        "教皇对美国的历史性访问正逢一个重要时机。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia’s leaders must do better if they are to realize the true promise of “growth with equity.”",
        "如果亚洲领导人想要实现真正的“平等的增长”的承诺，就必须做得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – Of the myriad challenges the world faces today, perhaps the most overwhelming is how to shape the Fourth Industrial Revolution that began at the turn of the century.",
        "日内瓦—在当今世界所面临的诸多挑战中，也许最艰巨的要数如何塑造始于世纪之交的第四次工业革命。"
    ],
    [
        "Normal financing is not forthcoming. Only grants from the US will reduce output volatility.",
        "正常融资的可能性不大，只有美国的无偿赠款才有可能稳定产量。"
    ],
    [
        "Farther east, Afghanistan is suffering its second decade of violent conflict, while Pakistan seems to be chronically on the brink of war, civil war, or social breakdown.",
        "在更远的东方，阿富汗的暴力冲突进入了第二个十年，而巴基斯坦也在慢慢地滑向战争、内战或社会分裂的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "The NKVD, the precursor to the KGB, orchestrated the assassination on Stalin's order, but the inquiry gave the Soviet dictator a pretext for eliminating other opponents.",
        "克格勃的前身内务部根据斯大林的指令实施了这次暗杀，但调查给了这位苏联独裁者一个借口清洗反对派。"
    ],
    [
        "The number of people with access to safe drinking water has increased by 15%, to 1.9 billion.",
        "36亿，下降了33%之多，其中大部分进步在千年发展目标生效之后取得。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe's Solidarity With Ukraine",
        "欧洲与乌克兰的团结"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the chickens of Obama’s first term have already come home to roost.",
        "不幸的是，奥巴马必须收拾好第一个任期留下的烂摊子。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, in order to lay the foundations for future economic growth, the EU should nurture new, sustainable industries and innovative small and medium-size enterprises – not cut funding for important research programs like Horizon 2020.",
        "类似地，为了给未来经济增长打好基础，欧盟应该培养新的可持续产业和创新性中小企业——而不是削减诸如Horizon 2020这样的重要研究计划的投入。"
    ],
    [
        "And the United Arab Emirates recently pledged $2.5 billion to Bahrain.",
        "阿联酋最近也承诺向巴林提供25亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who fail to adapt will fail to survive – and soon.",
        "不能适应的企业很快就将无法生存。"
    ],
    [
        "As we know from other contexts, adjustment to newcomers is not easy: compare, say, the reaction to the tie-up between France’s Alcatel and America’s Lucent to the bids by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation for Chevron or Mittal for Acelor.",
        "正如我们在很多情况下所领悟到的，适应新的变化并不容易：只要对比一下法国阿尔卡特和美国朗讯合并与中海油收购雪佛龙或者米塔尔收购阿赛洛所引起的截然不同的反应，这一点就再清楚不过了。"
    ],
    [
        "One approach will blame lax regulation, accommodating monetary policy, and inadequate savings in the United States.",
        "历史书籍两种归责方式中的一种，会将当前的金融和经济危机归咎于美国松懈的监管、没有原则的货币政策以及储蓄不足；"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, even though the United States and Japan will not be raising interest rates anytime soon, lower foreign rates still make the dollar and yen relatively more attractive.",
        "因此，尽管美国和日本短期内将不会提高利率，更低的外国利率仍使美元和日元相对更具吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "WARWICK, UK – Is academic freedom affordable in a time of economic crisis?",
        "英国沃里克——经济危机期间，人们是否还能负担得起学术自由？"
    ],
    [
        "Many “privacy” concerns are based on concrete interests, such as preserving financial security or obscuring information that could compromise one’s employment or ability to qualify for affordable health insurance.",
        "许多对“私隐”的关注其实是基于切实的利益考虑，比如保护财务安全或者掩盖一些可能对个人就业或申请廉价健康保险不利的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "He committed to freeing up the famously ossified labor market and alleviating an excessive and entrepreneurship-stifling tax burden.",
        "他承诺要解放以僵化闻名于世的法国劳动力市场，减轻抑制了企业家精神的过重的税收负担。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the French economist Thomas Piketty highlights the striking contrasts in North America and Europe between the Gilded Age that preceded World War I and the decades following World War II.",
        "伯克利—在《二十一世纪资本论》（Capital in the Twenty-First Century）中，法国经济学家托马斯·皮凯蒂（Thomas Piketty）强调了北美和欧洲在一战之前的镀金时代和二战后的几十年之间的向明对比。"
    ],
    [
        "My parents were illiterate, and none of my sisters attended school beyond the primary level.",
        "我的父母亲是文盲，我的姐妹们也没上过初中。"
    ],
    [
        "The argument for free trade is an argument for welfare, but welfare defined exclusively in terms of money.",
        "自由贸易的支持者的理论点是福利，但福利完全用金钱来衡量。"
    ],
    [
        "A worst-case outcome there could set back the fight against polio by decades.",
        "若发生最坏情形，可能将数十年来的小儿麻痹症斗争成果毁于一旦。"
    ],
    [
        "When push comes to shove, domestic politics trumps foreign creditors.",
        "当需要我们当机立断作出决策时，国外债权人却被国内政治所打败。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s unwillingness or inability to ratify the package – which includes doubling the IMF’s funding quota and shifting 6% of the new total, together with two directorships, to developing countries – undoubtedly contributed to the decision by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) to establish their own development bank.",
        "毫无疑问，美国不愿或不能批准IMF改革方案——包括IMF融资配额扩大一倍，并将新总量的6%和两个董事职位分配给发展中国家——刺激了金砖国家（巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非）决定成立自己的开发银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Somalia still rarely gets into the headlines.",
        "可索马里仍然很少成为新闻的头条。"
    ],
    [
        "Two recent papers raise further doubts.",
        "两篇最新文章进一步提出了质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "The American Way of Debt",
        "美国的负债方式"
    ],
    [
        "If this diagnosis is correct, advanced countries need to focus on reviving innovation and productivity growth over the medium term, and on realigning welfare promises with revenue capacity, while alleviating the pain of the truly destitute in the short run.",
        "如果这一诊断正确，那么发达国家就需要将注意力集中于重塑中期创新和生产率增长，同时根据收入能力重新定义福利承诺，在短期则致力于减轻真正赤贫者的痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor do they indicate that they will.",
        "他们也没有表示将来会离开。"
    ],
    [
        "Tom Paine, the great American revolutionary and author of The Rights of Man, wrote: “He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.”",
        "汤姆•佩恩，这位伟大的美国革命者和《人类的权利》一书的作者写道：“想确保自身自由的人甚至必须保卫他的敌人也不受压迫； 因为如果他违反了这项义务，就建立了一个会使他自己承受同样后果的先例。"
    ],
    [
        "It would also offer potential funding to countries that might deploy forces but face short-term financial difficulties in meeting the cost.",
        "这也可以为那些可能部署军队，但是在军事行动所需开支上面临短期财政困难的国家提供潜在的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Support for Trump is based, at least partly, on the widespread anger stemming from that loss of trust in government.",
        "对特朗普的支持至少在部分程度上是基于对政府失去信任而产生的广泛愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "This also shows that crises in globalization do not a priori balance out, but perhaps get progressively worse.”",
        "这也显示了全球化危机不是一个先验平衡，而是或许变得日益糟糕了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The big problem facing the world in 2015 is not economic.",
        "2015年世界所面临的问题不是经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "That dynamic goes some way toward explaining why China’s leaders, despite having proclaimed their support for the multilateral rules-based trading system, haven’t taken concrete action to reinforce it.",
        "这种动态有助于解释为何中国领导人虽然宣称支持以多边规则为基础的贸易体系，却一直未能采取具体行动来对其加以强化。"
    ],
    [
        "Death in Lhasa",
        "拉萨死亡事件"
    ],
    [
        "Recent discoveries in paleontology, archaeology, and especially genetics of striking similarities between extant humans and some ancient populations are further complicating assessments of modern humans’ origins.",
        "古生物学、考古学以及（尤其是）遗传学的最新发现表明，现在的人类和一些古代人具有惊人的相似之处，这让评估现代人起源的工作更加复杂了。"
    ],
    [
        "So, after a varying mix of tolerance and “heterodox” responses, officials are pulled into loosening their own monetary policy in order to weaken their countries’ currencies or, at a minimum, limit the pace of appreciation.",
        "因此，在各种宽容及“异端”反应之后，官员们被迫放松其货币政策，以削弱本国货币的价值，或者至少限制货币升值的速率。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost immediately, China became the world’s top patent filer.",
        "而中国几乎马上就成为世界顶尖的专利申请国。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, they have betrayed the people.",
        "是的，他们背叛了民众。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, 27 countries with different interests and perspectives are pulling in different directions, without enough solidarity to compensate.",
        "在欧洲，27个国家都有着不同的利益诉求和观点，危机之下各自突围，连足够的凝聚力都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "My office worked closely with the state to assure that, in most cases, juries are used.",
        "我的办公室和国家密切合作，保证陪审员能够审理绝大多数案件。"
    ],
    [
        "But even that is a larger population base than a hundred countries that do better than India at the Olympics.",
        "但是，即使只有这些人，这也比100个比印度在奥运会中表现好的国家的人口基数大。"
    ],
    [
        "After spending all that money, we would not even be able to tell the difference.",
        "投入如此巨额资金后，造成的差异我们甚至都察觉不到。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Russia, like Saakashvili, is playing with fire: its strategy of encouraging separatist forces in the two Georgian provinces may inflame separatist tendencies in other parts of the Russian Federation (remember Chechnya?).",
        "但是俄国如同萨卡什维利一样也在玩火。 它鼓励格鲁吉亚两个省分裂主义势力的战略有可能点燃俄国其他部分的分裂主义倾向(还记得车臣吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It is against this bitter backdrop that a new Afghan president will be elected and the withdrawal of forces carried out.",
        "在如此苦涩的背景下，阿富汗将选出新总统，美国和北约军队将撤出。"
    ],
    [
        "Why we need a global effort to convince developing countries to do what is good for them is not clear.",
        "为什么我们需要全球措施来使发展中国家相信怎样做才是最好的？"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to issues like climate change, there is also a sense that other players are flexing their muscles.",
        "此外还有比如气候变化一类的问题，必须意识到还有其他的一些国家正在摩拳擦掌。"
    ],
    [
        "No matter how good a leader is, success is not assured and pure chance plays a larger role than many care to admit.",
        "不管一个领袖多么优秀，成功都不是板上钉钉，纯粹的运气所起的作用比许多人愿意承认的大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "But Carney argues that, on the contrary, the rest of the British economy benefits from having a global financial center in its midst.",
        "但卡尼认为正好相反，英国经济的其余部分可以因为身处全球金融中心而获益。"
    ],
    [
        "We hope to encourage further global collaboration this week, as Abu Dhabi convenes more than 200 leaders in disease eradication at a forum called Reaching the Last Mile.",
        "本周，阿布扎比将召开抵达最后一英里（Reaching the Last Mile）论坛，200多位疾病防治方面的领导者将齐聚一堂。 我们希望借此可以进一步推动全球合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The system protects not only the unemployed, who can continue to pay their mortgages and interest, but also indirectly the banks, because their loans to households are repaid even in times of recession.",
        "这种社会福利系统不仅保护那些失业的人可以继续支付他们的抵押贷款和利息，而且也间接地保护了银行，因为它们给瑞典家庭提供的贷款，即使是在经济不景气的时候，也会得到偿还。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of forming partnerships with smaller companies that suit their current business model, major firms should work with inventive startups with disruptive potential.",
        "它们应选择与具有颠覆潜力的创新企业合作，而不是与符合其目前商业模式的企业联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the world’s largest emitters have shown little commitment to the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund.",
        "但不幸的是，世界最大的碳排放国表示对联合国绿色气候基金不承担任何义务。"
    ],
    [
        "They will establish contacts with international buyers and investors.",
        "他们将与国际买家和投资者签订合同。"
    ],
    [
        "So why do we need to move brains instead of letting those brains stay put and just sending them bytes?",
        "那么，为何我们还需要移动大脑，而不是让这些大脑留在原地，而只是传输大脑中的数据？"
    ],
    [
        "We have gone from a world where power resided in hierarchies to one where it inhabits networks.",
        "我们已经从权力呈现层级分布的世界来到了权力呈现网络分布的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why Europe’s mayors call upon European institutions to focus on social cohesion with the same commitment that has been invested until now in asylum and border controls.",
        "这也就是为什么欧洲的市长们呼吁欧洲机构用目前为止处理难民和边境检查一样的承诺来集中处理社会协调问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the UN has been working on disarmament since 1946, two treaties negotiated under UN auspices are now commanding the world’s attention.",
        "尽管联合国从1946年起就开始从事核裁军工作，但其发起谈判的两个条约现在正引起全世界的热议。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, however, such tycoon politicians have their own interests and gratifications to pursue.",
        "但是，在实践中，这类大亨政客有自己的利益和目的需要追求。"
    ],
    [
        "German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s response to the crisis two years ago was to throw out the rulebook and open her country’s borders.",
        "德国总理默克尔对这场两年前的危机的反应是打破常规，打开国门。"
    ],
    [
        "Even China, the largest and most dynamic emerging economy, recorded its lowest growth rate since 1990 (6.9%) last year, and the slowdown is forecast to accelerate this year.",
        "甚至连最大、最有活力的新兴经济体中国，去年增长率也达到了1990年（6. 9%）以来的最低水平，预计今年减速之势还会加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, look at the United States and the United Kingdom: despite high deficits and rising debt, inflation remains subdued and long-term interest rates are at historic lows.",
        "毕竟，以美国和英国为例，高赤字和增长得债务并未使通胀抬头，长期利率也徘徊在历史低点。"
    ],
    [
        "It should encourage and support China in taking the lead over Burma, so long as China commits itself to finding a peaceful solution.",
        "它应该鼓励和支持中国主导缅甸问题的解决，只要中国致力于寻找一条和平的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the elder Bush turned out to have had the better foreign policy.",
        "然而，两相对比之下，我们会发现老布什的外交政策更胜一筹。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, since 2006, the price of rotavirus vaccine has fallen by 67%, to just $2.50 per dose, while the price of a dose of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has plummeted by 90%, to $3.50.",
        "事实上，自2006年以来，轮状病毒一秒价格下降了67%，每针价格已在2. 5美元之下，而肺炎球菌结合疫苗的每针价格已经下降了90%至3."
    ],
    [
        "They hold different religions and backgrounds but common dreams and aspirations.",
        "他们的信仰和背景各不相同，但梦想和愿望是一样的。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, senior US officials might well arrive in a country, offer advice, and find that nobody is bothering to listen.",
        "真到了这一步，可能会是这样：美国高官抵达某个国家，给出一些建议，结果发现根本没人理他。"
    ],
    [
        "But those who make these forecasts are implying real declines, from peak to trough, of more than 50% in some places.",
        "但是，做出这些预测的人暗示，在有些地区，房价从最高点到谷底有超过50％的真正下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, NATO already has three members - Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey - bordering the Black Sea.",
        "举例来讲，北约已经有保加利亚、罗马尼亚和土耳其三个成员国临近黑海。"
    ],
    [
        "The departments that we spent our careers serving – the US State Department and the US Department of Defense – set great store by building relationships.",
        "我们所供职的部门——美国国务院和美国国防部——非常重视关系构建。"
    ],
    [
        "How will our inner lives and ties to those around us change?",
        "我们的内心以及我们与周边人群的关系会怎样变化？"
    ],
    [
        "Still, I am not complacent.",
        "然而，我仍不自满。"
    ],
    [
        "Mandela epitomized this rare gift.",
        "曼德拉身上汇聚了这种难得的天赋。"
    ],
    [
        "Why we would want to provide such differential protection to non-domestic companies is a mystery.",
        "我们为什么想给非本国公司提供不同的保护是一个谜。"
    ],
    [
        "But to focus on this single fact risks overlooking a notable trend.",
        "但只看到这一点就可能忽视一种值得关注的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Having been properly recapitalized, banks could absorb this, and two obvious mistakes that condemn the EU to a bleak future would be remedied.",
        "在获得充足资本后，银行可以吸收这些债务，而将把欧盟引向绝路的两大明显错误也将得到纠正。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the US at least, Trump’s ideology – which has little to do with traditional Republican conservatism – frames the axis of division not as the many versus the few, but as nationalists versus globalists.",
        "但至少在美国，特朗普的意识形态——与传统共和党保守主义几乎没有关系——所勾勒的分歧并非是多数人与极少数人，而是民族主义者与全球主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "Cameron is right: “key values” like “democracy and tolerance” are fine things, and they ought to be defended.",
        "卡梅伦说得没错：像“民主和宽容”这样的“重要价值观”是美好的事物，必须尽一切力量来捍卫它。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Social Security program has been so successful in reducing poverty because the poor get back a little more than they contribute, and the rich get back a little less.",
        "美国的社会保障计划已经成功减少了贫穷人数，因为贫穷人口的所得多于付出，而富人所得却减少了一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The region is already a net exporter of “knowledge-intensive” goods such as automobiles and aerospace products.",
        "中东欧地区已经成为“知识密集型”商品（如汽车和宇航产品）的净出口地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy is thus caught in a trap, forcing the ECB to engage in ever more radical monetary-policy measures.",
        "经济因此陷入了陷阱，迫使欧洲央行采取更加激进的货币政策措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet ultimately, the construction of a transnational democracy is the most viable response to political polarization in Europe.",
        "但最终，构建一个跨国民主政体是应对欧洲政治极化的最可行的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "That whiff of careening, heedless adolescent fecklessness is part of what makes the archetypal American male presence alarming when he is equipped with a global cudgel.",
        "青年人的这种摇摆不定，漫不经心，不负责任的特征都能典型美国男人身上看到，而当他们拥有在全球范围内使用暴力的能力时，这种特征使他们变得令人十分担心。"
    ],
    [
        "We Asians inhabit the world’s largest continent, with the world’s largest population and its fastest-growing economies.",
        "我们亚洲人居住在世界上最大的大陆，拥有世界最多的人口以及增长最快的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "A few months later, newly elected President George W. Bush reversed Clinton’s North Korea policy.",
        "几个月后，新当选总统乔治·W·布什推翻了克林顿的朝鲜政策。"
    ],
    [
        "This situation is now close to being reversed.",
        "这一状况目前已几近逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, noncompliance with medication regimes is a major problem in treating NCDs.",
        "目前，不遵守医药效果机制是治疗NCD所面临的主要问题。"
    ],
    [
        "South Asia’s worst problems – poverty, conflict, hunger, and gender inequalities – are largely concentrated in its lagging regions, where there are limits to growth, because geography, institutions, and globalization will continue to favor the concentration of economic activity in the leading regions.",
        "南亚面临的几个最深重问题——贫困，冲突，饥饿以及性别歧视——几乎都集中落后地区。 由于地理因素，制度因素以及全球化都将继续向经济活动较为集中的发达地区倾斜，落后地区的发展还将受到诸多限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments can offer a menu of new bonds worth some fraction of the value of their existing obligations.",
        "政府可以发行一批债权，其面值在现有债务面值上按一定比例打折。"
    ],
    [
        "While this certainly impedes long-term economic growth and causes great structural problems, it also means that the state reacts extremely counter-cyclically and stabilizes the economy to a great extent, which benefits the entire world.",
        "虽然这肯定会阻碍德国经济的长期增长，并造成重大的结构性问题，但是，这也意味着，德国在采取极强的抗周期行动，并在很大程度上稳定了经济，而这对全世界都是有利的。"
    ],
    [
        "They pay for the expensive campaigns of presidents and congressmen, so presidents and congressmen help the rich – often at the expense of the rest of society. The same syndrome – in which the rich have gained control of the political system (or strengthened their control of it) – now afflicts many other countries.",
        "他们资助那些总统和议员候选人的昂贵竞选活动，于是总统和国会议员们都为富人出力——往往以牺牲其他社会成员为代价。 同样的社会综合症如今也蔓延到了世界其他国家——整个政治系统都沦为富人的玩物（或者被富人进一步控制）。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, time and again, the UN has shown itself to be incompetent in this role.",
        "然而，联合国却屡次证明自己担负不起这样的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there were Poles who helped Jews during the war.",
        "当然，有些波兰人在战时帮助过犹太人。"
    ],
    [
        "Rhetorical flourishes have always been an important signaling mechanism for major policy changes – think of Deng Xiaoping’s “reforms and opening up” of the late 1970’s.",
        "用词永远是重大政策变化的重要信号——比如20世纪70年代末邓小平所提出的的“改革开放”。"
    ],
    [
        "And that, of course, causes the dollar value of the collateral to fall yet again.",
        "当然，抵押品的美元价值也会随之进一步下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "One Jewish professor at a Munich university actually compared Müntefering’s language to Nazi slogans.",
        "有一位慕尼黑大学的犹太教授还将明特费林的话比作纳粹口号。"
    ],
    [
        "During a visit of Turkey’s Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul to Israel in early January, there was serious discussion about Turkey assuming a mediating role between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as in future Syrian-Israeli talks.",
        "在土耳其外长阿卜杜拉·居尔今年一月的早些时候出访以色列时，双方就土耳其担任巴以之间及未来叙以会谈的斡旋者的问题进行了严肃的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, a revolution in Saudi Arabia or a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could still inflict damage on the US and its allies.",
        "换句话说，沙特革命或是封锁霍尔木兹海峡之类的事件仍旧可能对美国及其盟友造成严重伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "The surge in debt-enabled demand drove up real-estate prices, while banks’ greater willingness to lend led many people to purchase homes they couldn’t afford.",
        "债务驱动的需求抬高了房地产价格，而银行更愿意贷款导致许多人买了根本负担不起的房子。"
    ],
    [
        "And water shortages have aggravated the region’s refugee crisis (itself the apotheosis of poor governance).",
        "水资源短缺已导致该地区难民危机进一步恶化（其实这场危机本身就是管理不善的典范）。"
    ],
    [
        "But within a decade, its asset-price bubble had burst, and its economy had essentially flat-lined in nominal terms.",
        "然而不过十年，其资产价格泡沫就宣告爆破，其名义经济增长基本上如一潭死水。"
    ],
    [
        "Business decides for itself where to invest and grow.",
        "企业自主决策在哪里投资和发展。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, in a rare overseas trip, are scheduled to begin a tour of the Indian cities of New Delhi and Chennai on November 30.",
        "新德里—日本明仁天皇和皇后美智子将罕见地出国访问，于11月30日来到印度城市新德里和金奈。"
    ],
    [
        "India and China are notorious for the legal and bureaucratic obstacles they place in front of Western universities that want to set up satellite campuses catering to local students.",
        "印度和中国都在西方大学设立分校的问题上设置了重重法律和行政障碍，并因此落下了坏名声。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Palestinians themselves have always agreed to absorb refugees in their future state, but this was conditional on granting refugees the right to choose.",
        "实际上，巴勒斯坦人自己一直同意在未来国家中接纳难民，但前提是赋予难民自由选择的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The graduating classes of top American universities are packed with foreign students, and 27% of physicians practicing in the US today come from abroad.",
        "美国顶尖大学毕业生中充满了外国学生，如今在美国行医的医生中有27%来自外国。"
    ],
    [
        "The smile was rare and constrained.",
        "他的微笑只是偶尔浮现，而且显得扭扭捏捏。"
    ],
    [
        "Faced with such uncertainty, a wise policy combines realism with liberalism.",
        "面对这些不确定因素，聪明的策略应该是将现实主义与自由主义融合在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, diplomacy can work in Syria only if it accepts the reality on the ground (including the survival of the Assad regime for the foreseeable future), rather than seeking to transform it.",
        "类似地，只有在接受叙利亚的现实（包括巴沙尔政权在可预见的未来继续存在）而非试图改变它的情况下，外交才有可能在叙利亚起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Virus protection and virus development constitute an uneven arms race.",
        "病毒防护和病毒开发构成了一场不平衡的军备竞赛。"
    ],
    [
        "That experience nurtured a strong pacifist sentiment among the Spanish public, which endures to this day.",
        "这场实验在西班牙公众中间种下了强烈的和平主义情绪，延续至今。"
    ],
    [
        "Anwar's real crime was that his opposition coalition of conservative Muslim, secular, and Chinese parties was seriously challenging the six-decade supremacy of Najib's United Malays National Organization (UMNO), losing the 2013 election only because of a transparent gerrymander.",
        "安瓦尔的真正罪名是其反对由保守派穆斯林、世俗派和华人政党的执政联盟，这严重威胁到纳吉布的马来民族统一机构（United Malays National Organization，UMNO）六十年的主宰，2013年，他完全是因为公然改变选区的政策而输掉了选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Greek public debt today stands at nearly 160% of the country’s official GDP. Suppose Greece took 25 years to bring it down to the Maastricht ceiling of 60%.",
        "希腊的公共债务总额已经相当于该国官方GDP的160%，如果要下降到《马斯特里赫特条约》中公共债务不得超过GDP60%的限制条件估计得花上25年。"
    ],
    [
        "Absent a clear path to a much tighter fiscal and political union, which can lead only through constitutional change, the current halfway house of the euro system appears increasingly untenable.",
        "在缺乏形成更紧密的财政和政治联盟的明确道路的背景下——这一点只有通过修宪才能实现——当前的欧元体系只是半吊子工程，且正在变得越来越难以为继。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so would require the growth rate of labor productivity to more than double, but this is an attainable goal.",
        "这样做要求劳动力生产率翻一番以上，但仍是可实现的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, in both 1954 and 2005, did the French – in one case the National Assembly, in the other the electorate – reject proposals that France itself had conceived?",
        "为什么，在1954年和2005年，法国—一次是国民会议，一次是选民—否决了法国自己构想的提案呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt, the army will be the victor, at least in the medium term.",
        "在埃及，军队将是胜出者，至少在中期是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "While the emergence of another North Korea is not in the cards, the growing momentum of nationalism and illiberalism is troubling, to say the least.",
        "尽管另一个朝鲜的崛起暂时还不太可能，但至少可以说不断发展的民族主义和反自由主义势头是令人不安的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank of England’s own commissioned quarterly surveys of public attitudes reveal that the credibility of its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has now been impaired.",
        "据英格兰银行自己主持的季度公众态度调查显示，其下属货币政策委员会（Monetary Policy Committee, MPC）的信誉已经受到了损害。"
    ],
    [
        "The debates across Europe on new security laws to fight terrorism have sometimes created the false image that states threaten rather than protect their citizens’ freedom.",
        "欧洲各国就新出台的反恐怖安全法展开的辩论有时会给人造成国家威胁、而不是保护民众自由的错觉。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest Greek bank bailout constitutes a cautionary tale about how politics – in this case, Europe’s – is geared toward maximizing public losses for questionable private benefits.",
        "而最新的希腊银行救助则给我们讲述了一个值得警醒的故事，有关政治操纵——此处特指欧洲政治——是如何为了值得质疑的私人利益而最大化公众损失的。"
    ],
    [
        "If it does, will global imbalances disappear sooner?",
        "如果是的话，全球贸易不平衡是否又会很快消失？"
    ],
    [
        "NAIROBI – With unemployment soaring, bankruptcies climbing, and stock markets in free-fall, it may at first glance seem sensible to ditch the fight against climate change and put environmental investments on hold.",
        "内罗毕--目前，全球失业率窜升，破产上升而且股市大跌。 猛地一看，放弃应付气候变化以及暂缓环境投资或许是有道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "No other modern issue has appropriated as many UN resolutions or as much international diplomacy.",
        "还没有任何现代事务能引来这么多联合国决议和国际外交的广泛关注。"
    ],
    [
        "And inward-looking policies in Russia and Turkey, driven largely by their leaders’ egos, are unlikely to produce anything but harm.",
        "受累于各自领导人强烈的自我意识，俄国和土耳其实行的内向政策很可能只会带来损失。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time of peril, people rally around the flag, and Bush exploited this by fostering a sense of danger.",
        "在危机时刻，人们集结在共同的旗帜下，而布什通过让他们相信身处险境而充分利用了这种大敌当前的团结。"
    ],
    [
        "Georgia was the first post-Soviet country to stage a “color revolution,” and thus to demonstrate, with dignity and maturity, its people’s choice for democracy and European values.",
        "格鲁吉亚是后苏联第一个发动“颜色革命”的国家，因而表明了其人民在有尊严的条件下以及成熟地选择民主和欧洲价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "The Philippines Joins the Asian Race",
        "重回亚洲竞赛的菲律宾"
    ],
    [
        "The Economic Benefits of Disease Control",
        "疾病控制的经济利益"
    ],
    [
        "A small shift of funds from wasteful US military spending, or a very small levy on tax havens’ deposits – or similar measures to make the super-rich pay their way – could quickly and dramatically improve poor children’s life chances and make the world vastly fairer, safer, and more productive.",
        "从巨额浪费的美国军事开支中划拨一小部分、或者对避税天堂存款小额征税——再或者采取类似的方法让超级富豪拿出钱来——都可以迅速并显著地改善贫困儿童的生存机会，并使世界更公平、更安全和更高效。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the challenges and possibilities for the US in Asia, that is an unambitious goal.",
        "考虑到美国在亚洲所面临的挑战和可能性，这个目标显得毫无进取之意。"
    ],
    [
        "This issue was evident in the hostile takeover of China’s top real-estate developer, Vanke.",
        "对中国顶级房地产开发商万科公司的敌意收购很能说明这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem, then, is how to determine exactly when risk premiums are too low.",
        "于是，问题就变味如何确定风险溢价太低。"
    ],
    [
        "At first glance, a new “paramount leader” appears to be emerging.",
        "咋一看，一位“最高领袖”（paramount leader）正在冉冉升起。"
    ],
    [
        "What is the modern equivalent of branding with a scarlet “A,” which was the penalty for adultery in colonial New England?",
        "现代版“红字”——新英格兰地区殖民地时代对通奸的惩罚——会是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "But whoever is elected will confront difficult choices if a nuclear-armed Pakistan remains unable or unwilling to act as an American partner and meet its responsibilities in the effort against terrorism.",
        "但是，不管谁当选，都将会面临如果拥有核武器的巴基斯坦不能或不愿意当美国的合作伙伴，以及不能或不愿意承担其在打击恐怖主义活动中的责任时的困难选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany, Britain, and France, as the EU’s three major powers, form a crucial balance.",
        "德、英、法作为欧盟三大强国构成一种关键的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Populists at the Gate",
        "民粹主义兵临欧洲城下"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot give up on anybody.",
        "我们不能放弃对任何人进行拯救。"
    ],
    [
        "When Greece lost access to financial markets, several months were needed to engineer a response, which took great care not to rely on EU funds and to limit each country’s financial commitment.",
        "当希腊无法进入金融市场时，欧洲花了几个月才出台了应对措施，并且唯恐要依赖欧洲资金，小心翼翼地限制了每个国家的金融义务。"
    ],
    [
        "To the scientific community, the evidence on climate change has, of course, been overwhelming for more than a decade and a half.",
        "在科学家们看来，气候变化当然从15年前开始就已经再明显不过。"
    ],
    [
        "After an unconscionably long delay of seven days, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh finally broke his incomprehensible silence about the rape.",
        "在经历了冷漠无情的七天后，总理辛格终于打破了令人费解的沉默。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in the IMF’s estimates at least, the opposite is the case.",
        "事实上，至少在IMF的估计中，情况正好相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Militias, terrorist organizations, foreign fighters, and other armed groups have asserted varying degrees of local authority.",
        "军阀、恐怖组织、外国军人和其他武装集团以不同程度把持着地方权威。"
    ],
    [
        "The summit took place against a background of scant progress in negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program and growing pressure from Israel for the international community to establish a “trigger” – a line that the Islamic Republic must not cross.",
        "这是伊朗第一次主持不结盟运动峰会。 此次峰会举行的背景是伊朗核计划谈判进展缓慢、以色列向国际社会不断施压，要求设置一条伊朗不可跨越的“触发”线。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Global problems are rarely straightforward.",
        "巴黎——全球问题很少能一眼看透。"
    ],
    [
        "Long gone are the days when the country was booming economically and advancing toward true democracy, a source of inspiration to many in the region.",
        "土耳其经济繁荣、迈向真正民主国家、成为该地区许多人的希望源泉的日子早已不再。"
    ],
    [
        "Evidence that the US recovery will be sustained is mounting.",
        "有越来越多的证据表明，美国经济复苏的确是可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – The window of opportunity to complete the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union is closing quickly.",
        "柏林—完成美国与欧盟之间跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系（TTIP）的机会窗口正在快速流失。"
    ],
    [
        "There are serious problems with this approach.",
        "这种方法存在一系列严重问题。"
    ],
    [
        "From the European Union to China, economies are vowing to reduce their energy intensity with the help of technological innovations and legislative changes.",
        "从欧盟到中国，各主要经济体正在发誓通过技术创新和立法改革来降低国内能源强度。"
    ],
    [
        "So how much sex is enough?",
        "那么究竟多频繁的性爱才算足够？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, global growth has decelerated.",
        "事实上，全球增长出现了减速。"
    ],
    [
        "Schooling and Social Change in Pakistan",
        "学校教育与巴基斯坦社会变革"
    ],
    [
        "But one group’s voice has been conspicuous by its absence: business.",
        "但有一个团体寂然无声非常引人注目：那就是商界。"
    ],
    [
        "Both parties therefore cater to their wishes.",
        "因此两党无不以满足他们的愿望为第一要著。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no coincidence that the Caribbean and Africa do not have a presence in these disciplines at the highest levels of competition.",
        "加勒比地区和非中在这些运动的高水平赛事中难觅踪影并不是巧合。"
    ],
    [
        "Officially known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the plan entailed government spending of more than $800 billion on infrastructure, education, health, and energy, tax incentives, and various social programs.",
        "这一正式名为2009年美国复苏和再投资法（American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009）的计划包括政府投入8,000多亿美元用于基础设施、教育、卫生、能源领域； 税收激励；"
    ],
    [
        "Could they have a stand-alone Palestinian Sesame Street? No funding for that, came the reply.",
        "”并提出能否独立制作一套《芝麻街》，而他们得到的答案是这并非资助者的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "But the TAD approach is incomplete.",
        "但TAD方针并不完整。"
    ],
    [
        "So how much energy do Americans use in their homes today?",
        "那么美国人的家庭能耗状况究竟如何？"
    ],
    [
        "A leader is only as good as the people who work for him, so organizations must make it a high priority to attract and retain good staff and rid themselves of those who lack professional integrity or competence.",
        "领导人不会比为他工作的人更加优秀，因此组织必须把吸引和留住优秀人才、避开缺乏职业操守或胜任能力者作为重中之重。"
    ],
    [
        "Expansions usually start collapsing when labor gets too scarce and too expensive.",
        "一般来说，当劳动力变得过于缺乏并且非常昂贵时，扩张就会开始终止。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems clear that the European Central Bank will be forced to buy far greater quantities of eurozone sovereign (junk) bonds.",
        "显然，欧洲央行将被迫购买数量甚巨的欧元区主权（垃圾）债券。"
    ],
    [
        "As they leave the clinic and head home, they have already taken steps to improve not just their child’s health, but also his or her educational prospects and long-term future.",
        "他们离开诊所回家时，他们不但改善了孩子的健康，自己也接受了健康教育，朝着美好的长期未来迈进了一步。"
    ],
    [
        "I insist that quality universal primary education must be one of the SDGs’ top priorities.",
        "我坚持认为可持续发展目标必须优先涵盖高质量的初等普及教育。"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, data-collection technology is outpacing our ability to decide how it should be collected, stored, and shared.",
        "在一些情形中，数据收集技术已经超越了我们确定数据应该如何收集、储存和共享的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "This effort rests on four pillars.The first is America’s longstanding commitment to a set of principles that helped to advance peace and security in the region in the twentieth century.",
        "四大支柱支撑着亚太战略调整的努力。 首先是美国对20世纪成功推动该地区和平安全的一整套处事原则的长期坚持。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, out of crisis can come opportunity: an Iranian role in resolving the Syrian conflict could bring a measure of cooperation that ultimately leads to progress in the moribund talks on Iran’s nuclear program.",
        "事实上，危机可以转化为机遇：伊朗在解决叙利亚冲突中发挥作用可以促成合作，最终推动停滞不前的伊朗核计划谈判取得进展。"
    ],
    [
        "But these problems are not new.",
        "但这些问题都不是新问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama can build on this in reconstructing the international financial system, but it will require great tact and foresight on both sides.",
        "奥巴马可以利用这一点来重新建构国际金融体系，但是这要求中美双方娴熟的技巧和高瞻远瞩。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Dubai has done a good job of branding itself to attract the foreign investment and labor needed to achieve its growth ambitions.",
        "此外，迪拜成功建立了自主品牌，成功吸引了实现其增长目标所需的外资和劳动力大量流入。"
    ],
    [
        "Innovation in government is not an intellectual luxury, a topic confined to seminars and panel discussions, or a matter only of administrative reforms.",
        "政府的创新并非一种知识奢侈、一个仅限于研讨会和委员会讨论的话题，或一个仅仅事关行政改革的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The end of communist autocracies in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and even Czechoslovakia brought about a dramatic wave of state creation.",
        "共产党专政在苏联、南斯拉夫甚至捷克斯洛伐克的终结引发了一波新国家成立的潮流。"
    ],
    [
        "And funding to Lebanon has been cut almost completely.",
        "而对黎巴嫩的资金援助几乎已经完全取消。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments also want to improve the effectiveness of their intelligence gathering – and isolating themselves from the US would be no way to achieve that.",
        "政府也希望改善情报收集的效率——而自绝于美国绝不是实现这一目标的好办法。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1944 Bretton Woods conference marked another swing back toward the market, but this time allowed for some degree of national autonomy.",
        "1944年的布雷顿森林会议标志着钟摆再次摆向市场，但这一次仍保留了一些国家自主权。"
    ],
    [
        "The US and others, including Russia, have agreed that the laws of armed conflict apply in cyberspace.",
        "美国以及包括俄罗斯在内的其他国家都已同意将武装冲突的相关法则适用于网络空间。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, with the oil and gas industry accounting for fully 97% of Algeria’s export income, the sharp decline in oil prices since June 2014 has underscored the unsustainability of the country’s economic model.",
        "特别是，石油天然气行业占阿尔及利亚出口收入的97%，2014年6月以来的油价暴跌让阿尔及利亚经济模式难以为继。"
    ],
    [
        "In one contribution, Shanta Devarajan criticizes the view that education is an essential public good that governments should finance and deliver, arguing that it should instead be considered a private good, delivered through markets to customers – that is, parents and children – seeking private returns.",
        "在其中一块“砖”中，尚塔·德瓦拉詹（Shanta Devarajan）批评了教育是应该由政府资助和提供的基本公共品的观点，他指出，教育应该被视为私有品，通过市场提供给寻求私人回报的客户（即家长和儿童）。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider China’s service sector.",
        "以中国的服务业为例。"
    ],
    [
        "But many of those bodies were not picked up, because the naval ships had no facilities to accommodate corpses, and the defense ministry was still “in the process of procuring” mobile mortuaries.",
        "但许多浮尸并没有得到打捞，因为海军舰艇并没有安装能容纳尸体的设备，而国防部的移动停尸房则“仍然在采购”。"
    ],
    [
        "On June 14, the 2016 Global Nutrition Report will launch globally.",
        "6月14日，2016年《全球营养报告》（Global Nutrition Report）将进行全球发布。"
    ],
    [
        "The other key lesson from Singapore is that single-party rule has retained popular legitimacy by delivering inclusive growth and equality of opportunity in a multi-ethnic society, and by eliminating corruption of all kinds, including cronyism and excessive influence for vested interests.",
        "新加坡的另一个关键教训是一党执政的民众合法性来自包容性增长和为多民族社会提供平等机会，以及消灭包括裙带关系和利益集团影响力过大的各种腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "Harvard and many other universities (including our own, Columbia University) have long been committed to acting as responsible investors.",
        "哈佛和其他许多大学（包括我所在的哥伦比亚大学）早已承诺要像负责任的投资者那样行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The first two industrial revolutions were built on machines produced by great inventors in glorified barns and bought by cunning entrepreneurs who demanded property rights over the income stream “their” machines generated.",
        "前两次工业革命的基础是伟大发明家灵光一现制造的机器，它们被狡猾的企业家买下，并要求获得“他们的”机器所产生的收入流的产权。"
    ],
    [
        "The Internet, one of the great inventions of the modern Western world, has shown itself to be a weapon that can be used to incite and train those who wish to cause harm to that world.",
        "互联网，这一现代西方世界的伟大发明，也被当成武器，激励并训练那些试图危害这个世界的人。"
    ],
    [
        "The pace and scale of the current economic transformation is undoubtedly daunting.",
        "当前经济转型的速度和规模无疑令人胆怯。"
    ],
    [
        "It took decades to develop techniques to classify and derive new solutions.",
        "科学界花了几十年时间才发展出归类和推导新解的技术。"
    ],
    [
        "ISLAMABAD – Last month, Oxford University’s Green Templeton College held its annual Emerging Markets Symposium at Egrove Park.",
        "伊斯兰堡—上个月，牛津大学格林坦普顿学院（GTC）在艾格洛夫公园（Egrove Park）召开了一年一度的新兴市场研讨会。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, we hear concern that tropical forests are being stripped.",
        "同样，很多人担忧热带雨林的消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Signing the Declaration amounts to a political commitment to protect education, even during the most savage conflicts – which is to say that it is a commitment to protect the world’s children.",
        "签署宣言即做出了政治承诺保护教育，即使是在最残酷的冲突中也是如此——也就是说，这是一个保护全世界儿童的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "And the rapid spread of digital technologies is improving access to finance and work opportunities in completely new ways.",
        "而数字技术的迅速扩张正在以全新的方式改善金融和工作机会的普及。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, because East Asian politics remains highly dynastic, a biographical explanation might be just as useful.",
        "但由于东亚政治仍高度王朝化，从身世领域解读同样可能取得良好的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "As soon as he was re-elected, Bush started to propose cuts in popular government programs, but his own party is rejecting those cuts.",
        "甫一当选，布什就提议削减大众化的政府计划，但却遭到他自己所在党派的反对。"
    ],
    [
        "Most now are refugees in Jordan and Syria, and they are unlikely to be welcomed home anytime soon by the new Shiite elite running the country.",
        "现在他们大部分成了约旦和叙利亚的难民。 近期内，在国内掌权的什叶派新精英分子不会欢迎他们回去。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever since he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the Peoples’ Republic of China four years ago, Hu Jintao has remained infuriatingly wooden-faced and opaque.",
        "自四年前胡锦涛成为中共总书记和国家主席以来一直僵硬呆板、捉摸不定，令人厌恶。 但是去年，神秘的外罩开始脱落。"
    ],
    [
        "Although these actions cannot be undone, further bloodshed and targeted evictions can and should cease.",
        "尽管这些行动造成的恶果无法消失，但进一步流血和针对性的驱逐行动可以而且必须停止。"
    ],
    [
        "Little wonder, then, that political leaders consistently personalize international conflicts.",
        "难怪政治领导人一直力图将国际冲突个人化。"
    ],
    [
        "The Great Depression of the 1930s, which followed the Wall Street crash of 1929, is the most obvious and worrying example that comes to mind, but the trend can be observed even in the Scandinavian countries, following banking crises there in the early 1990s.",
        "1929年华尔街崩盘后发生的20世纪30年代的大萧条是最显著、最令人担忧的例子，但这一趋势即便在斯堪的纳维亚国家也有迹可循，比如20世纪90年代银行危机之后。"
    ],
    [
        "Should this awakening fail, the result will be a radicalization throughout the region.",
        "而假如这场觉醒最终破产的话，后果就会是整个区域的极端主义化。"
    ],
    [
        "Displaced children are more likely to become the youngest laborers in the factory, the youngest brides at the altar, and the youngest soldiers in the trench.",
        "流离失所儿童很可能会成为工厂里最年轻的劳动者、祭坛上最年轻的新娘和战壕里最年轻的战士。"
    ],
    [
        "LOS ANGELES – A strange sense of déjà vu is gripping Washington these days, as the debate over ratification by the United States Senate of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia heats up.",
        "发自洛杉矶——随着美国参议院就是否批准美俄新《削减战略武器条约》（Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty）的辩论日渐升温，某种似曾相识的奇异感觉又开始笼罩在华盛顿上空了。"
    ],
    [
        "Dubai, for example, set out more than three decades ago to prepare for a future without oil.",
        "比如，迪拜三十多年前就开始为没有石油的未来做准备。"
    ],
    [
        "That sparked discussion not only about whether it is true (the Saudis purchase huge amounts of military hardware from the US), but also about whether it should have been said out loud.",
        "这不但引起了关于此话是否正确的讨论（沙特人购买了大量美国军事装备），也引起了关于是否应该把它大声说出来的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "But bioenergy is not carbon neutral, and the surge in European demand for biomass has led to rising food commodity prices and land grabs in developing countries.",
        "但生物能不是碳中性的，而欧洲生物质需求的激增导致了粮食商品价格上涨和发展中国家的土地掠夺。"
    ],
    [
        "An economic slowdown in the US and Europe could substantially slow this infusion of cash, because immigrants are often the first to lose their jobs when recession fears take hold.",
        "美国和欧洲经济放缓可能会减缓这一现金流入，因为在衰退担忧立足的时候，移民往往是首先丢掉工作。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the shadow of the future suggests that a moderate strategy is best.",
        "换句话说，未来的阴影表明，温和战略最为可取。"
    ],
    [
        "One positive development for Cowen is that a second referendum would most likely bring back into play the significant economic dimension of Ireland’s EU membership.",
        "对于科恩来说，一个积极的进展就是第二轮公民复决很有可能将会唤起人们记住爱尔兰加入欧盟以来在经济领域获得的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also does not mean supporting sanctions that would hurt the Palestinian people after they have expressed their will democratically.",
        "但是，这也并不意味着在巴勒斯坦人民以民主的方式表达意愿后支持可能损害他们的制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "A strong fiscal framework is indispensable to achieve this, and protects countries from contagion.",
        "强大的财政框架对于实现这一目标、阻止国家间传染来说是不可或缺的。"
    ],
    [
        "For Americans, the so-called “Sputnik moment” was a wake-up call that pushed the United States to increase investment in technology and science education.",
        "对美国而言，所谓的“卫星时刻”是一记当头棒喝，促使美国增加在科学和技术领域的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "For all the finger pointing at Wilders, just because Breivik professed to admire him, the acts of a deranged killer, others caution, should not be used to discredit what he stands for.",
        "因为所有人都指责怀德斯，因为布雷维克公开表示仰慕他，而其他人则警告说这么一个精神错乱者的暴行不应该被用来攻击怀德斯的理念。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, Abe showed that he may be thinking along these lines when he announced a Japanese plan to invest $110 billion in infrastructure projects in Asia over the next five years.",
        "上个月，安倍在宣布一项未来五年对亚洲基础设施1，100亿美元的投资计划时显示他可能接受了上述思路。"
    ],
    [
        "This time around, they have not heard much from the President-elect, who is a Democrat, on trade with Asia, and what they have heard about his position on the North American Free Trade Agreement – an alleged desire to rewrite that trade pact unilaterally – does not inspire confidence.",
        "这一次，他们还没有从当选总统、一位民主党人那里听到很多有关与亚洲贸易的谈话。 而且，他们所听到的其有关北美自由贸易协定的立场、也就是单方面修改这一贸易协定并不激发信心。"
    ],
    [
        "At a British Bankers Association Conference in London this month, he said: “It may be time for a gentle reminder that central-bank independence is not debatable,” Dombret suggested. “Politicians are well-advised to not exert influence in the wrong places.”",
        "在本月的伦敦英国银行家协会会议上，他说：“也许是时候礼貌地提醒了：央行独立性是不容争辩的，”多姆布雷特表示，“政客不在错误的地方施加影响力是明智的。"
    ],
    [
        "Although China was already the world’s largest exporting country, its financial markets were primitive, and its currency plainly fell far short of being freely usable.",
        "虽然中国已经是世界上最大的出口国，但其金融市场却相当原始，其货币远未实现自由使用。"
    ],
    [
        "The working-age population has peaked, and the share of retirement-age population is rising fast – not least because of the country’s 35-year-long one-child policy, which was only recently rescinded.",
        "劳动年龄人口数量已经达到顶峰，同时退休年龄人口的比重迅速上升——这主要源自于该国延续35年之久，直到最近才宣告取消的独生子女政策。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, spending generally occurs well into the future, when economic conditions are projected to be better.",
        "首先，一般来说，支出策略通常应该被放在经济前景预测向好的遥远未来去执行。"
    ],
    [
        "If you get aroused by having your adult partner dress up as a schoolchild before you have sex, and he or she is happy to enter into that fantasy, your behavior may be abhorrent to most people, but as long as it is done in private, few would think that it makes you a criminal.",
        "如果你让你的成年伴侣打扮成中小学生的样子和你做爱，而他或她也愿意满足你的幻。 ，这样的行为可能会让大多数人感到厌恶，但只要你们是在私下里，没人会认为你在犯罪。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Never-Ending War",
        "美国从未结束的战争"
    ],
    [
        "Unchecked, it could become a security crisis.",
        "如果不加以限制，就会成为一场安全危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Both instruments could be subject to conditions designed to ensure that the funds do not sustain rampant corruption, but flow instead to where they are needed most.",
        "两大工具都可以具备一些约束条件，以确保资金不会用来维持横行的腐败，而是流向最需要资金的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "It helps that these services often can be provided as seamlessly abroad as they are within their country of origin, to the point that the very concept of “abroad” has become rather elastic.",
        "它们经常可以在企业所属国家的国内和国外同样流畅地提供服务，让“国外”这个概念变得相当具有灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the tech sector itself still seems to underestimate its growing systemic importance.",
        "然而科技行业本身似乎仍然低估了其日益增加的系统重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "As the debate unfolds, we need to consider whether it makes sense, legally or as a matter of policy, for everyone – law enforcement, hackers, and terrorists – to be able to possess or access information.",
        "随着辩论的展开，我们需要思考在法律或政策层面，让所有人——包括执法机构、黑客和恐怖分子——都能掌握或获取信息是否讲得通。"
    ],
    [
        "Strongly anti-inflationary monetary policy.",
        "强有力的反通胀货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine again that Italy had its own currency instead of the euro.",
        "再次想象一下，如果意大利有自己的货币而不是欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal is for Myanmar’s Government to release all detained students and demonstrators, engage with the opposition, move toward a more democratic society, and rejoin the international community.",
        "目标就是让缅甸政府释放所有遭到逮捕的学生和示威者，与反对派接触，向民主社会转变并且重新加入国际社会。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while shareholders have clearly benefited from companies’ unwillingness to invest their ample cash, the bulk of the injected money has been circulating only in the financial sector.",
        "但是，尽管股东显然因为公司不愿将充足的现金用于投资而蝴蝶了好处，但注入资金大部分只是在金融部门中流动。"
    ],
    [
        "In death, Vemula has achieved something he could not have imagined: He has become a national hero, his tragedy emblematic of the toxic durability of caste in India’s development narrative.",
        "维穆拉的死让他取得了无法想象的成就：他成为国家英雄，他的悲剧成为最好的写照，证明了种姓在印度发展叙事中的挥之不去的遗毒。"
    ],
    [
        "When governments failed to cooperate in the 1930s, globalization came to a crashing halt.",
        "当政府未能在20世纪30年代达成合作，全球化陷入到崩溃式的停滞当中。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, some of the fixes that result from the sub-prime crisis will probably take the form of still more innovation, further increasing the sophistication of our financial markets.",
        "恰恰相反，次贷危机的某些补救措施也许仍会采取进一步创新的形式，金融市场的复杂性也将由此进一步增强。"
    ],
    [
        "These traces used to disperse and disappear over time after someone’s death.",
        "从前这些痕迹会在人去世之后随着时间的流逝逐渐消散并泯灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Advocates of this position see EU voters as terrified by the consequences of the May 2004 enlargement of the EU, when eight formerly communist states joined, and angry that they were not consulted about it.",
        "这个观点的鼓吹者认为欧盟选民已经被2004年5月八个前共产主义国家加入欧盟的扩张结果给吓坏了，并对他们未被征求意见而感到愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "Their aim should be a new development model that frees them from dependence on hydrocarbons.",
        "它们的目标应该放在新的发展模式上，从对碳氢化合物的依赖中解脱出来。"
    ],
    [
        "US President Barack Obama is right to call for more regulation of financial markets.",
        "在监管金融市场的问题上，美国总统奥巴马做的就很好。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, it was not shocking that Greece, unable to come up with €1.5 billion at the end of June, became the first developed country to miss a payment to the IMF.",
        "在这一背景下，毫不奇怪希腊在6月底连15亿欧元都拿不出来，成为第一个无力偿还IMF的发达国家。"
    ],
    [
        "For one thing, some populist leaders may not accept the result of the next elections.",
        "一方面，某些民粹主义领导人可能不会承认下届选举的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "It is worth recalling the outcome of President George W. Bush’s analogous decision to tear up Bill Clinton’s “framework agreement” with North Korea: the Kim regime promptly and predictably developed a nuclear bomb.",
        "有必要回忆一下小布什总统也做出过类似的撕毁克林顿与朝鲜的“框架协议”的决定：金氏政权可以预测地立即开发出核弹。"
    ],
    [
        "There are, of course, crucial differences.",
        "当然，这其中有着关键性的差别。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s geopolitical preoccupations could be accommodated by sensibly preserving state ownership of pipeline infrastructure in the hydrocarbons sector, while allowing private companies to extract, process, and sell Russia’s oil and gas.",
        "普京地缘政治的当务之急本可以通过保留碳氢工业管道建设的国家所有权和允许私有企业提炼、加工、出售俄罗斯的石油和天然气来实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Safe blood substitutes and new therapeutic options that make blood transfusion more effective would significantly improve treatment in challenging situations.",
        "让输血更有效的安全血液替代品和新治疗选择将显著改进挑战性状况的治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, independence and professional expertise should be decisive.",
        "相反，独立性和专家意见应该起决定作用。"
    ],
    [
        "There may indeed be situations where we would approve a political leader telling us a lie, but such cases should remain rare and subject to careful scrutiny.",
        "确实有这样的情况：我们允许政治领导人对我们撒谎，但这样的情形应该十分罕见，并接受仔细的审查。"
    ],
    [
        "This is one reason why Russia has become so aggressive with its neighbors, Ukraine and Georgia, and seeks to maintain a military presence in places like Transdniestria, the breakaway region of Moldova.",
        "这也是俄国对乌克兰和格鲁吉亚等邻国态度强硬，并力求在分裂出摩尔多瓦的德涅斯特河左岸等地保留驻军的原因之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration knew what it was doing when it declared war on terror and used that pretext for invading Iraq.",
        "布什政府宣布反恐战争开始时就对自己的行为了如指掌，这不过是为入侵伊拉克找到了借口。"
    ],
    [
        "Walter Shaub, Director of the independent Office of Government Ethics, which was established after Watergate, spoke out on the subject.",
        "水门事件后成立的独立的政府道德办公室主任沃尔特·肖博（Walter Shaub）就该问题发声。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, even as the number of vehicles has doubled, the number of road deaths has been halved.",
        "在欧洲，虽然汽车数量翻番，但道路死亡降低了一半。"
    ],
    [
        "A man I interviewed recently for a study of Swedes who had been on the waiting list, but who decided to purchase kidneys abroad, described to me his trip to Pakistan for the transplant: “I’m not the kind of man who uses other people, but I had to.",
        "在一项针对候诊瑞典人的研究中一位男子刚刚接受了我的采访，他最终决定到国外购买器官，并向我讲述了到巴基斯坦接受移植的经过：“我并不愿意利用别人，但我别无选择。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is still reason to believe that, at least in the first half of this century, the US will retain its primacy in power resources and continue to play the central role in the global balance of power.",
        "但仍有理由相信，至少在本世纪上半叶，美国将仍然拥有实力源的主导地位，并继续在全球实力平衡中扮演核心角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe it just sags",
        "也许它只是下垂"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, this will mean choosing political figures who have credibility among both Syria’s Sunni majority and the Alawite and other minorities whose members have largely turned to Assad for protection.",
        "在实践中，这意味着需要选择在叙利亚逊尼派多数和阿拉维派和其他少数群体（他们大多仰仗巴沙尔的保护）中都信誉卓著的政治人物。"
    ],
    [
        "The bad news is that the prospects for just about every other sort of conflict are high and the international agenda is both crowded and demanding.",
        "而坏消息是，其他各种冲突发生的可能性非常之高，国际性议程纷乱无章而且急迫。"
    ],
    [
        "No one wanted to endure protracted talks – or the associated political pain.",
        "没人想让谈判长久拖延——或忍受因此带来的政治痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Too many big investors can no longer meet their margin calls, while borrowing costs have risen sharply.",
        "许多大投资者无法再追加保证金，而贷款成本已经大幅上升。"
    ],
    [
        "In the policy jargon increasingly heard in today’s political discourse, tax reform will be “revenue neutral” – meaning that it will not worsen the budget deficit or drive up the national debt.",
        "用当今政治讨论中越来越流行的政策术语讲，税收改革将是“收入中性”的，也就是说，它不会让预算赤字恶化或增加国民债务。"
    ],
    [
        "“South Africa is the jewel of African astronomy,” says Charles McGruder, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Western Kentucky University.",
        "西肯塔基大学物理与天文学系教授查尔斯·麦格德说，“南非是非洲天文领域的一颗明珠。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The escalation of warfare and sectarian violence, which are becoming chronic, endanger both Turkey and Europe.",
        "战争和宗派暴力的升级和长期化对土耳其和欧洲来说都是危险。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has argued that more troops are needed to dominate the terrain, lambasting EU governments for failing to step up their efforts as the US commits 3500 additional marines to the fray.",
        "美国提出需要更多的兵力来控制该地区，并且指责欧盟国家没有跟随美国增派3500名海军陆战队士兵到争议地区的行动做出它们自己的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Political and social turmoil across southern Europe holds several lessons for austerity’s proponents – especially for Germany.",
        "遍及南欧的政治和社会动荡给紧缩支持者提供了不少教训，特别是德国。"
    ],
    [
        "For Japan’s neighbors, the International Atomic Energy Agency is not enough; their urgent worries are creating pressure to establish a regional mechanism.",
        "对于日本的邻国来说，国际原子能组织的作用是不够的； 各国当前的极度担忧更加有助于建立这样一个区域性机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil and India are particularly striking in this regard.",
        "这情况在巴西和印度尤其令人触目惊心。"
    ],
    [
        "A shift to external demand is not there for the asking. It must be earned by hard work, sheer determination, and a long overdue competitive revival.",
        "向外部需求转型也并非招之即来，必须依靠勤奋、毅力和迟到的竞争力复苏来努力争取。"
    ],
    [
        "And, given that he was not to be sentenced until October, one cannot argue that he faced draconian punishment (a key concern for America’s founders).",
        "而且鉴于他要等到10月才会宣判，所以不能认为他已经面临严厉的惩戒（这是美国开国元勋们所担心的关键问题）。"
    ],
    [
        "Woodrow Wilson thought it would solve problems in central Europe in 1919, but it created as many as it solved.",
        "在1919年，伍德罗·威尔逊认为这一原则可以解决中欧的问题，但是，它制造的问题和解决的问题一样多。"
    ],
    [
        "But, by exploiting the same popular sentiments, they are contributing to a poisonous climate, which could bring political violence into the mainstream once again.",
        "但通过利用相同的民众情绪，他们正在营造一种有毒的氛围，并有可能因此令政治暴力再次成为社会主流。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, Africa’s youth merit special attention: the survey found that the 16-34 age group already accounts for 53% of income in urban centers.",
        "在此非洲的年轻人应该受到特别关注：调查发现16-34岁年龄组的人已经占据了中心城镇人群收入的53%。"
    ],
    [
        "In his resignation letter, Mousavi complained that the “government’s authority on foreign policy was taken away.” He charged that",
        "在离职信中穆萨维抱怨“政府制定外交政策的权力被剥夺了”，他控诉说："
    ],
    [
        "This requires, first and foremost, agreement by more countries to accept refugees.",
        "这首先需要更多国家同意接受难民。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a preponderance of power cannot be healthy in the long run, as it will fuel resentment of Germany and likely leave the EU less willing and able to act together on the world scene.",
        "从长期看，如此实力优势绝非好事，它将助长对德国的敌对情绪，并可能让欧盟不再那么愿意在世界舞台上统一行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Climate Change Is an Education Issue",
        "为何气候变化是一个教育问题"
    ],
    [
        "By that point, a great deal of unemployment had become long-term unemployment, which had two consequences.",
        "当是时，大量失业已转变为长期失业，造成了两个后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone knows that errors and omissions are large, especially when it comes to financial transactions.",
        "所有人都知道错误和遗漏很大，特别是金融交易。"
    ],
    [
        "Resource rich but sparsely populated Siberia is bordered by resource-deficient but teeming and rising China.",
        "西伯利亚资源丰富但是人口稀少，它与资源短缺但是蓬勃发展的中国交界。"
    ],
    [
        "If there is $120 of collateral guaranteeing a $100 bond, the bond is safer, no doubt.",
        "如果用价值120美元的抵押品担保面值100美元的债券，则该债券毫无疑问更具安全性。"
    ],
    [
        "If governments are sincere about delivering on the SDGs’ promise on child mortality, they must get serious about ensuring equity in health care.",
        "如果政府认真对待它们在儿童致死率方面的承诺，它们就必须认真确保医疗平等。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even today, economists can provide no clear explanation of why the private sector could not find ways to employ the long-term unemployed in the near-decade from the winter of 1933 to full war mobilization.",
        "但是，直到今日，经济学家仍无法清楚地解释，为什么在1933年到全面战争动员开始的近十年时间里私人部门无法找到雇用长期失业者之道。"
    ],
    [
        "As large as the size of Brazil’s government is, there is no magic ratio of spending to GDP that would ensure sustained growth.",
        "规模大如巴西政府，根本不存在能够确保持续增长的政府支出-GDP之比的魔法数字。"
    ],
    [
        "Inspired by American leadership since World War II’s end, Europe, then Japan, then much of Asia and the world rose to new levels of prosperity; the world economy globalized upon the foundation of international institutions, norms, and standards; and foreign students educated in American universities returned home with new ideas about free markets, entrepreneurship, and democracy.",
        "欧洲、日本和亚洲和世界其他大部分地区受到美国战后领导地位的鼓舞相继实现了繁荣。 世界经济在国际体制、规则以及标准的基础上实现了全球化。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, private banks could increase their use of this monetary unit, just as some European banks used the so-called European Currency Unit, helping to pave the way for the euro.",
        "此外私人银行也可以增加对这一货币单位的使用，就像当年一些欧洲银行使用所谓欧洲货币单位来为欧元铺平道路那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, US President Barack Obama extended the maritime boundary of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument from 50 miles to the 200-mile limit, effectively merging the region’s national parks into one massive protected area, in which commercial fishing is prohibited.",
        "去年，美国总统奥巴马批准将太平洋偏远岛屿海洋国家纪念碑的海上边界从20英里拓展至200英里的上限，实际将该地区的国家公园有效连成了一片禁止商业捕鱼行为的巨大的保护区。"
    ],
    [
        "Learning About Growth from Austerity",
        "从紧缩中学懂增长"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, almost 40% of all child deaths occur in the neonatal period, with Africa and South Asia accounting for two-thirds of the total.",
        "而且，几乎40％的儿童死亡发生在新生儿阶段，非洲和南亚占总数的三分之二。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s neighbors have been overwhelmed by calls for help.",
        "叙利亚的邻国几乎被求救声淹没。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, a genuine hukou reform strategy remains elusive.",
        "结果一场切实的户口改革依然迟迟无法来临。"
    ],
    [
        "Some are paying health-insurance premiums that they previously had avoided because of mandates in the reform enacted under Obama.",
        "由于奥巴马所实施的改革要求，一些人需要支付此前免于支付的健康保险费。"
    ],
    [
        "Drug companies spend far more money on advertising and marketing than they do on research, far more on research for lifestyle drugs (for conditions like impotence and hair loss) than for lifesaving drugs, and almost no money on diseases that afflict hundreds of millions of poor people, such as malaria.",
        "制药公司把远高于它们花在研究上的钱花在了广告和产品推销上，它们花在研究迎合消费者生活方式上的药物（比如治疗阳萎和脱发的药物）钱要远高于花在研究挽救生命的药物上的钱，而它们几乎没有花钱去研究治疗像疟疾这种折磨着数以千万计的穷人的药物。"
    ],
    [
        "President Jimmy Carter used it to conclude the 1978 Camp David Accords, establishing diplomatic relations between Egypt and Israel.",
        "吉米·卡特总统据此签订了1978年戴维营协议，确立了埃及和以色列间的外交关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Their successors continued to perceive the world – and their countries’ role in it – in ways that constrained rational discussion and distorted decision-making for years.",
        "他们的继任者多年后仍以制约理性探讨和扭曲决策的方式来看待世界——以及本国所发挥的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Good central bankers wouldn’t heed such politicized criticism either way.",
        "好的央行行长不会理会这种政治化的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "In April, at the World Bank’s annual meeting, I will call for action by the assembled government ministers, and I hope to announce the establishment of such a fund at the Oslo Summit on Education for Development on July 6-7.",
        "在4月的世界银行年会上，我将呼吁与会的政府部长们采取行动，我希望能在6月6—7日的奥斯陆发展教育峰会上宣布成立这样一个基金。"
    ],
    [
        "And TPP will also confer special status on foreign investors, allowing them to sue for financial judgments against host-country regulations.",
        "TPP还给予外国投资者特殊待遇，允许他们 起诉 东道国监管要求金融裁决。"
    ],
    [
        "But the issue of political correctness (“gays”) plays a so-far underrated part in Europe as well.",
        "但是主体意识正确（“同性恋”）问题目前为止在欧洲也同样是个被低估的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk to home prices in the aftermath of a bubble is real and substantial.",
        "经历了泡沫之后的房价风险是实实在在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, an already unsustainable US fiscal path, with budget deficits above 10% of GDP and public debt expected to double as a share of GDP by 2014, becomes even worse.",
        "这是给已经不堪重负的美国财政雪上加霜，美国的预算赤字已超GDP的10%，公共债务到2014年预计达到GDP的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with their economies on course to overtake those of the G-7 before 2050, looks can be deceiving.",
        "但是，金砖国家的经济有望在2050年超越G-7，目前的外表也许具有欺骗性。"
    ],
    [
        "If you announce that you intend to balance the books over five years and pencil in a lot of spending cuts, consumers, relieved of their fears of future tax increases, will start spending more freely.",
        "如果你宣布你想在五年后平衡预算，并列出各种支出削减项，消费者就会不再担心未来增税，会开始更加自由地花钱。"
    ],
    [
        "This will, of course, require compromises from all sides.",
        "当然，这一意愿需要协调各方。"
    ],
    [
        "The urge to destroy can be contagious.",
        "破坏的冲动是可以传染的。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision should be based on where activities are carried out most efficiently, serving the interests of most citizens the best.",
        "决策应该基于哪些活动效率最高、最能符合大多数人民的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "This will not be easy.",
        "这并非轻而易举之事。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they must join their peers in building the future.",
        "相反，它们应该与其他强国一起建设未来。"
    ],
    [
        "The rebels took their name, and inspiration, from the apocryphal Ned Ludd, supposedly an apprentice weaver who smashed two knitting frames in 1779 in a “fit of passion.”",
        "叛乱的名字和源头来自内德·勒德（Ned Ludd），据说他是一位纺织学徒工，在1779年的一次“狂躁发作”中砸毁了两台针织机。 这个人物很可能是杜撰的。"
    ],
    [
        "Fighting Terrorism Democratically",
        "以民主对抗恐怖主义"
    ],
    [
        "In 2012, Greece was offered hundreds of billions of euros in financial support, and its creditors, including Greek commercial banks, were pushed to accept substantial “voluntary” haircuts.",
        "2012年，希腊获得了数千亿美元的金融支持，其包括希腊商业银行在内的债权人被迫接受巨额“自愿”剃头（haircuts）。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that the ITC will provide a more complete and granular analysis – including of potential downsides for various sectors – than is currently available.",
        "我们希望ITC能带来比当前分析更完整、更具体的分析——包括给不同部门带来的潜在风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The number of inefficient workers protected by these measures is offset by the number of efficient workers laid off by foreign multinationals responding to political pressures in their home country.",
        "如此这般地恶性循环。 由于此项政策，外国银行不得不在压力下，裁减自身的员工来保留低效率的所在国员工。"
    ],
    [
        "After strong representation under Boris Yeltsin, the level of Russia’s participants had slipped since Vladimir Putin became president.",
        "在叶利钦时期高级别的与会后，俄罗斯与会代表的级别在普京就任总统后被降低了很多。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama even announced last week the appointment of an “Ebola Czar” to manage the detection, isolation, and control of the virus in the US.",
        "美国总统奥巴马甚至在上周宣布任命“埃博拉沙皇”来负责管理病毒在美国的检测、隔离和控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Efforts to move backward to the time of independent nation-states will therefore carry massive costs.",
        "因此，退回到独立民族国家的时代将要付出巨大的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Four countries – Bhutan, the Maldives, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom – were all declared measles-free last year.",
        "四个国家——不丹、马尔代夫、新西兰和英国都在去年宣布消灭了麻疹。"
    ],
    [
        "Generals, diplomats, national-security officials, and development professionals are approaching a consensus in favor of a no-fly “safe zone” along one of Syria’s borders.",
        "将军、外交官、国家安全官员和发展专业人士正在形成一个共识，要沿着叙利亚的一段边界设置禁飞的“安全区”。"
    ],
    [
        "How can one compare cost-of-living indices in different periods when new goods are constantly upending traditional consumption models?",
        "在新商品不断颠覆传统消费模式的情况下，你该如何比较不同时期的生活成本指数？"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the real question is why the increase in stock prices has not outpaced growth in corporate earnings.",
        "恰恰相反，真正的问题是股价的增长为什么没能超过企业收入的增幅。"
    ],
    [
        "Publicizing fine-particulate (so-called PM2.5) levels was critical to mobilizing widespread Chinese public support for addressing air pollution.",
        "在中国，公布PM2. 5水平在动员公众支持解决空气污染问题上起到了关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The hope is that refocusing financial activities in this way will revive other types of lending.",
        "这个思路希望重新界定金融活动的重点，修剪枝蔓，从而促进核心领域的放贷。"
    ],
    [
        "But we are committed to doing so while remaining true to our political convictions, and without jeopardizing what makes France both strong and special: a highly redistributive social model.",
        "但我们的责任在于改革经济的同时保持我们的政治信仰，不损害让法国变得强大又特别的元素：高度再分配的社会模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Unable to find common ground with the Republican opposition, he cut deals with the other powers that immediately surround the presidency: the military and security apparatus, big pharmaceutical companies, big banks, and big media.",
        "由于无法与共和党反对派找到共同点，他与立刻包围其总统生涯的其他势力达成了一致：军事和安全机关、大型制药公司、大银行、大媒体。"
    ],
    [
        "What, then, is the danger of GM foods?",
        "至于环境破坏，到目前为止也尚未检测到。"
    ],
    [
        "The Internet has opened a window on all of the royal family’s plots, ambitions, and double-dealings.",
        "互联网打开了一扇窗，让人们得以一窥皇室的阴谋、野心和口是心非。"
    ],
    [
        "The “one belt, one road” initiative aims to re-create the ancient overland and maritime Silk Roads that carried goods and ideas from Asia to Europe.",
        "“一带一路”计划的目标是重建将亚洲商品和思想传播到欧洲的古代陆上和海上丝绸之路。"
    ],
    [
        "More generally, the Internet gives a sense of vastness to the world’s economic activity that was never available before.",
        "更多的是，互联网使人们意识到世界经济活动达到前所未有的巨大规模。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the world is very different from what some might have imagined at the end of the last century, a decade after the Berlin Wall came down.",
        "当今世界与上个世纪末、柏林墙倒塌十周年时人们所想象的世界大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Romney may not be a tax evader; only a thorough investigation by the US Internal Revenue Service could reach that conclusion.",
        "或许罗姆尼并不是逃税者； 只有美国国税局通过彻底调查才能知道他是不是。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the Communist Party’s leader, Gennadi Zyuganov, and the Liberal Democrats’ Vladimir Zhirinovsky are running – in contrast to 2004, when they fielded stand-ins – neither will get more than 15% of the vote.",
        "共产党领导人久加诺夫和自由民主党的日里诺夫斯基还在积极地投入竞选。 与2004年不同，当时他们是让他们的副手参加的竞选，但是他们没有哪个能获得15%以上的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Actually, we would save less than one-tenth of a polar bear.",
        "事实上，我们能拯救的数目不到十分之一只北极熊。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, there are 20,000 soldiers – not accountable to the people, but only to the executive – on our streets.",
        "今天，我们的街道上有20000名士兵，他们不是向民众负责而仅仅是向行政当局负责。"
    ],
    [
        "With their old imperial ambitions and widespread distaste for the great continents from which the narrowest of seas divide them, both the British and the Japanese are vulnerable to the siren song of isolationism.",
        "它们都曾经有过帝国雄心，都对隔海相望的古老大陆怀着深刻的厌恶，都对孤立主义的塞壬之歌毫无抵抗力。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, because LNG is favored by the transport sector (particularly freight and maritime shippers) for environmental reasons, the ability to use oil as a geopolitical weapon has disappeared.",
        "不仅如此，因为液化天然气出于环境原因而更被运输部门（尤其是货运和海运托运企业）所青睐，利用石油作为地缘政治武器的可能性已经消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Who Are Tomorrow’s Consumers?",
        "谁是明天的消费者?"
    ],
    [
        "It lacks the sort of civil society that could have led the uprising and planted the seeds for post-authoritarian politics, as was the case in Tunisia and (more problematically) Egypt.",
        "利比亚缺少能够担起起义领导重任、种下后独裁时期政治根基的公民社会，这一问题在突尼斯和埃及（更加严重）也出现过。"
    ],
    [
        "As governments learn to collaborate with one another and with other actors, such as businesses and civil-society groups, faith in the power of international cooperation would be restored.",
        "随着各国政府尝试彼此以及与其他行东方（如企业和公民社会团体）合作，对全球合作力量的信任将重新建立起来。"
    ],
    [
        "In this environment, the full economic, banking, fiscal, and political union that a stable monetary union eventually requires is not viable: The eurozone core opposes more risk sharing, solidarity, and faster integration.",
        "在这样的环境下，根本无法形成一个稳定的货币联盟最终必须具备的完整的经济、银行、财政和货币联盟：欧元区核心国反对进一步风险共担、凝聚和加快一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "What has changed, however, is the context.",
        "但是，变化的是环境。"
    ],
    [
        "No one believed it, and the ECB not only withdrew its clumsy threat the next month, but it adopted a policy of interest-rate neutrality.",
        "没人相信这一套。 ECB不但在二月份收回了这一笨拙的威胁，还采取了利率中立的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that engage in free trade will find new channels for growth in the long run, the thinking goes, and workers who lose their jobs in one industry will find employment in another.",
        "这一思想认为，长期而言，参与自由贸易的国家将发现新的增长渠道，失去了某个产业的工作的工人将在另一个产业找到新工作。"
    ],
    [
        "And we ask our international partners to support a common economic stimulus plan, with an emphasis on practical solutions that can enhance growth and increase employment.",
        "我们也呼吁我们的国际伙伴支持共同经济刺激计划，并以可以强化增长、增加就业的务实方案为重点。"
    ],
    [
        "And that's the trickiest question of all.",
        "而这是最棘手的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Grandiloquent as it might sound, the disintegration of the euro and the disarray that would engulf the European project, not to speak of the global repercussions, would unleash comparable devastation.",
        "听起来或许有些夸张，欧元的瓦解和可能让欧洲工程中途夭折的失序——姑且不论由此引起的国际反响——将引发不逊于任何历史先例的灾难。 实际上，如果欧元像美元那样有一个座右铭的话，那将是：“我们不相信欧洲”。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not his area of specialization.",
        "这超出了他的专业范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "In most countries, such charges would seem like paranoid delusions.",
        "在大多数国家，这种指控可能看上去象天方夜谭，但在乌克兰，却不是空穴来风。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, however, the impact of the nuclear agreement will depend on political dynamics in Iran.",
        "但是，说到底，核协议的影响取决于伊朗的政治动态。"
    ],
    [
        "The equity capital of banks urgently needs to be substantially increased.",
        "银行股权资本急需大幅提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, no developing country ever seems to vote against a big bailout for one of its brethren, no matter how ill conceived.",
        "诚然，不论计划有多糟糕，似乎也没有一个发展中国家会对其兄弟国家的援助投否决票。"
    ],
    [
        "This question can be answered by studying a very sad ongoing natural experiment: the massive emigration from Venezuela, owing to the country’s catastrophic economic and social implosion.",
        "这个问题可以通过研究一项正在进行中的非常可悲的实验回答：大量人口因为灾难性的经济和社会崩溃而从委内瑞拉移民。"
    ],
    [
        "This November, a second IWR will be released, with many more countries represented and a stronger focus on human capital in national-account indicators.",
        "今年11月将发布第二份包容性财富报告，报告将增加很多国家的数据，并更关注国民账户指标中的人力资本。"
    ],
    [
        "How can one unite member countries with such different emotional calendars?",
        "为何一个联盟内的成员国会有如此不同的情感区别？"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, after the dust has settled, numbers play a role in evaluating the costs and benefits (if any), of a war.",
        "当然，一切尘埃落定之后，数字在估算战争的成本和收益（如果有）时能够起到一定的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland, after all, is a tiny, highly open economy whose booming export sector is benefiting from existing strengths – including low business taxes, a skilled workforce, and a flexible economy – and favorable external conditions, especially the strong recovery in its main markets, the US and Britain.",
        "毕竟这个国家是一个规模较小且高度开放的经济体，其出口部门的蓬勃增长源自于其中一些已有的优点——包括较低的商业税赋，拥有较强技能的劳动力大军，以及灵活的经济结构——再加上有利的外部条件，尤其是英美等主要出口目的地的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "At a minimum, proprietary trading ought to be financed by banks’ own capital.",
        "至少，银行只能用自有资金进行职业式证券交易（proprietary trading）。"
    ],
    [
        "As always, those seats will be hotly contested, but, with more at stake than ever, the fight for them could be fiercer than it would otherwise.",
        "与往常一样，这两个职位将引发激烈争论，角逐之惨烈将胜于以往。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when India is considering a sort of matchmaking service for Western couples seeking to hire Indian surrogate mothers, the UK government has announced the abolition of two leading medical regulatory agencies.",
        "就在印度考虑设立婚介机构为西方夫妇寻找印度代孕母亲时，英国政府宣布取消了两家最大的医疗管理机构。"
    ],
    [
        "And they served to convince young, discontented Muslims that extremism was the only possible solution to their societies’ weakness and lack of opportunity.",
        "信仰还有助于说服不满现状的年轻穆斯林，让他们相信极端主义是解决社会孱弱和缺少机会的唯一的可能办法。"
    ],
    [
        "But on the contrary, the Internet allows dispersed customers to come together in a way that encourages niche markets, including hundreds of Web sites dedicated only to cheese.",
        "事实正相反，因特网用某种方式将分散的用户集中起来，形成特定市场，其中包括几百家只钟情于奶酪的网站。"
    ],
    [
        "He somehow lulled Italians into believing that all was well in their economy and society, even in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis, when plainly it was not.",
        "他莫名其妙地哄骗意大利人相信他们的经济和社会一切都好，即使在2008年全球经济危机爆发初期局势明显很糟时也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor, following the fastest five-year period of economic growth in human history, are collapsing prices endangering the financial system, as they did during the Great Depression.",
        "而且，在经历了人类历史上经济发展最快的五年之后，金融体系也并没有像大萧条时期那样因价格崩溃而受到致命威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Germany’s net investment as a share of GNP remains one of the lowest in the developed world, the additional investment implies more jobs in the construction and machine tool industries, followed by rising employment wherever the investment is placed.",
        "尽管德国作为GNP一部分的净投资依旧是发达国家中最低的一个，增加的投资意味着建筑和机器产业出现了更多的就业机会，投资继而会带动就业率的提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Most commentators appear to think that Bush’s latest prescription – a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the militias in Baghdad – will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq.",
        "大多数评论家似乎认为，布什的最新药方，也就是大幅增兵20000人来镇压巴格达的民兵将最多只是推迟建立民主的伊拉克的梦想不可避免的灭亡。"
    ],
    [
        "(Twitter does share data with researchers, but it remains an exception.)",
        "（Twitter确实与研究人员分享数据，但迄今为止，这样做的仍只有Twitter一家）。"
    ],
    [
        "The smugglers had tried to evade detection by building a shielded container – a worrisome level of sophistication on their part.",
        "走私者制造了屏蔽容器来躲避检测，对他们来说，这是值得担忧的技术水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But labor-market participation averages just 10% among teenagers in Europe.",
        "但平均而言，欧洲十几岁人群的劳动力参与率只有10%。"
    ],
    [
        "To assess the candidates fairly and effectively, five key criteria should be used.",
        "而为了能公正有效地评估候选人，应推行下列五个关键标准。"
    ],
    [
        "And a new report from the International Vaccine Access Center shows that nearly three-quarters of pneumonia and diarrhea deaths occur in just 15 countries.",
        "国际疫苗接踵中心（International Vaccine Access Center）的一份最新报告显示，近四分之三的肺炎和腹泻死亡病例发生在15个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Economy’s Impossible Demand",
        "世界经济的不可能需求"
    ],
    [
        "Even if every one of China’s current sovereignty claims to particular habitable islands were to be accepted, the 12 nautical miles of territorial waters, and the 200 nautical miles of EEZ associated with each of them, would not begin to add up to the 80% of the South China Sea now encompassed by China’s nine-dash line.",
        "即使中国目前对每个可居住岛屿所提的主权要求都被接受，12海里领海和与之相关的200海里专属经济区加起来也不可能达到中国九段线所涵盖的南中国海80%的水域规模。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees recognized a right of asylum for those unable to return to their country of origin owing to a “well founded” fear of persecution.",
        "1951年《联合国难民公约》承认由于“理由充分”地担心迫害而无法回归祖国的人拥有避难权。"
    ],
    [
        "Actually, it is exactly what Europe needs.",
        "实际上，它正是欧洲所需要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the nature of market turmoil, an early-warning system for financial tsunamis may be difficult to create; but the world needs one today more than ever.",
        "从市场动荡的性质看，金融海啸早期预警系统也许很难构建； 但如今世界比任何其他时候都更加需要这样一套系统。"
    ],
    [
        "The first nationwide poll in nearly a decade passed off relatively well and was endorsed by Nepali officials as well as the hundreds of international election observers.",
        "这次十年来首次全国性投票进展相对顺利，尼泊尔的官员和几百名国际选举观察员都认可了这一选举。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Chinese state television canceled a broadcast scheduled for August.",
        "结果中国国营电视台为此取消了该动画片8月的档期。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution to the Syrian crisis, including the growing refugee crisis in Europe, must run through the United Nations Security Council.",
        "叙利亚危机，包括欧洲日益严重的难民危机的解决办法必须通过联合国安理会进行。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Democratic-controlled “blue” states, where 60% of the US population lives – and which account for 70% of national income and 80% of its wealth – implementation of the ACA is likely to be like that of RomneyCare in Massachusetts: a somewhat bumpy ride, but a clear success that nobody will wish to repeal after the fact.",
        "在民主党控制的“蓝”州——60%的美国人口（以及70%的国民收入和80%的财富）来自这些地区——ACA的实施可能类似于马萨诸塞州的罗姆尼医保：道路是曲折的，但事实证明这是个巨大的成功，并且没人愿意废除它。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, most economists devote their efforts to issues far removed from establishing a consensus outlook for the stock market or the unemployment rate.",
        "类似地，大部分经经济学家致力于问题，而不是构建对股市或失业率前景的共识。"
    ],
    [
        "But the economic transformation that has occurred over the last several decades has reached a crossroads.",
        "但过去几十年来的经济转型来到了十字路口。"
    ],
    [
        "Was this, in hindsight, all in vain?",
        "这一切，如今全是徒劳吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Our Children’s Economics",
        "我们后代的经济学"
    ],
    [
        "The question is simple: Can China sustain rapid GDP growth within the confines of the current global order, including its trade rules, or must the current US-dominated order change drastically to accommodate China’s continued economic rise?",
        "问题很简单：中国可以在当前全球秩序（包括其贸易规则）的约束下维持告诉GDP增长吗？ 还是当前由美国主导的秩序必须做出彻底改变以适应中国经济的持续崛起？"
    ],
    [
        "And the influence that great left-of-center newspapers, like The New York Times, once had has long been eclipsed by radio talk-show hosts, rightwing cable TV stations, tabloid newspapers (largely owned by Rupert Murdoch in the English-speaking world), and social media.",
        "像纽约时报这样伟大的中左翼报纸其影响早已被广播脱口秀主持人、右翼有线电视台、写满花边新闻的小报（在英语世界主要由鲁伯特·默多克所拥有）以及社交媒体所侵蚀了。"
    ],
    [
        "If German leaders are serious about instituting a “culture of responsibility,” they are obliged to act accordingly, even if doing so entails economic costs.",
        "如果德国领导人所谓树立“责任文化”是认真的，那么他们就有义务据此行动起来，即便这样做会到来经济代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Last but not least, the Bank needs to play a much bigger role in environmental issues and, in general, in promoting good international citizenship by both rich and poor countries.",
        "最后一点但不是最次要的一点就是，世行需要在环境问题和在总体上来说在穷国和富国中促进良好的国际公民项目上发挥更大的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The ongoing exodus from Syria and other war-torn countries was long in the making, easy to foresee, and eminently manageable.",
        "逃脱叙利亚和其他饱受战争摧残国家的难民潮酝酿时间漫长，很容易预见，也绝对是可以管理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, doubts about the Chinese economy’s long-term prospects are rattling stock markets worldwide (including in the US).",
        "如今，关于中国经济长期前景的怀疑正在冲击全球股市（包括美国）。"
    ],
    [
        "Women account for more than 80% of those who use childcare leave in Japan; in reality, more than 60% of Japanese women leave the workplace and don’t come back when they have children.",
        "在日本，请育儿假的人群中80%是女性； 在现实中，超过60%的日本女性生孩子之后不会回来工作。"
    ],
    [
        "While most in the West applauded Lee’s visit, the reaction in Korea was significantly more negative.",
        "虽然西方的大多数人对李明博的访问表示欢迎，但是在韩国，人们对此次出访的反应非常负面。"
    ],
    [
        "When its young people are healthy and well educated, they can find gainful employment, achieve dignity, and succeed in adjusting to the fluctuations of the global labor market.",
        "当一国年轻人身体健康、受到良好教育时，他们就能找到高薪工作，赢得尊严并成功地调整渡过全球劳动力市场的波动期。"
    ],
    [
        "What about ethnic reconciliation?",
        "种族和解又会怎样？"
    ],
    [
        "The use of the CIA as a secret army of destabilization has a long, tragic history of failure, all hidden from public view under the agency’s cloak of secrecy.",
        "利用中情局作为破坏稳定的秘密部队有着漫长、悲惨的失败史，但这些失败在中情局的秘密外衣掩盖下不为公众所知。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, there is little reason to believe such dire predictions, or that the market gyrations that have been driving recent headlines represent anything more than short-term volatility.",
        "幸运的是，没有理由表明应该相信这些末日预言，也没有理由相信最近屡屡成为新闻焦点的市场轮动比短期波动更严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the countries affected by China’s actions in the South and East China Seas have security treaties with the US, which has been the major maritime power in the Pacific region since World War II.",
        "在南海和东海受到中国行为影响的国家大多与美国签订了安全条约。 自二战以来，美国一直是太平洋地区最主要的海上力量。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, unilaterally announcing the withdrawal - and then unilaterally implementing it - may harm the very purpose that the remaining US troops in Asia are intended to serve: assuring deterrence, stability, and nonproliferation in Korea and Asia.",
        "恰恰相反，单方面宣布撤军后再单方面执行，可能会损害留亚美军的根本使命：那就是确保朝鲜和整个亚洲地区的威慑力、稳定及核不扩散。"
    ],
    [
        "Canadian researchers have discovered a vast Chinese surveillance system called “GhostNet,” which can compromise computers in organizations abroad through booby-trapped e-mail messages that automatically scan and transfer documents to a digital storage facility in China. This is what happened when computers of the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, India, were attacked last year.",
        "加拿大研究者已经发现了中国的一个巨型监控系统 —— “幽灵网络”，该系统可以通过内含恶意代码的电子邮件侵入外国组织的计算机中，这些邮件可以自动进行扫描、并将文件传回位于中国的一个数字存储设施。 这便是去年位于印度达兰萨拉地区的西藏流亡政府的计算机受到攻击时所上演的一幕。"
    ],
    [
        "If such a right were recognized, there would be a Palestinian majority instead of a Jewish majority, which would mean the end of the Jewish state.",
        "如果接受这种权利，巴勒斯坦人就会取代犹太人成为多数，而这意味着犹太国家的终结。"
    ],
    [
        "Should the EU consider the accession criteria as having been fulfilled, it must decide to open negotiations in early 2005.",
        "如果欧盟认为达到了准入条件，就必须在2005年初开始谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "With an aging and shrinking population, Japan’s government must find ways to encourage more women to work, entice older Japanese to remain in the labor force, and develop more family-friendly labor policies.",
        "在老龄化且不断减少的人口条件下，日本政府必须找到办法鼓励更多妇女去工作，引导日本老人留在工作岗位，并发展更有利于家庭的劳动力政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In most cases, however, the ingredients of an effective “growth model” are well known, and the problem is a lack of political or social consensus about how to implement it.",
        "但在大部分情况下，有效“增长模式”的要素是众所周知的，问题在于缺少关于如何实施的政治或社会共识。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, most British voters already disagree with its negotiating priorities.",
        "事实上，多数英国选民已经不赞同确定的谈判优先事项。"
    ],
    [
        "Democratic ennui creates the conditions for radicalization, and the extreme Islamist movements know very well how to exploit it.",
        "”民主延误创造了极端化的条件，而极端伊斯兰运动十分了解如何利用这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Canada’s top environmentalist, David Suzuki, stated earlier this year that politicians “complicit in climate change” should be thrown in jail.",
        "加拿大最为著名的环保主义者铃木在今年初说过，那些“在气候变化问题上成为从犯”的政坛人物应当被送入监狱。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, on the contrary, is there something odd in the way that the European fringes obsessively resort to historical milestones?",
        "或者，反之，是不是存在某种神奇之物让欧洲必须寻找历史里程碑？"
    ],
    [
        "But the decision by many developing countries to accept Chinese loans was, in many ways, understandable.",
        "但许多发展中国家接受中国贷款的决定在很大程度上也是可以理解的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Euro’s Latest Reprieve",
        "欧元区的最新缓刑"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, unemployment benefits are not as important as is often assumed.",
        "此外，失业救济并不像通常认为的那样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The market economy and the profit motive have led to extremely high living standards in many places.",
        "市场经济和利润驱动在许多地方带来了相当高的生活水准。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, politicians, eager to look good in the eyes of angry voters, are often more interested in setting limits to total compensation than they are in designing the optimal form of compensation.",
        "实际上，为了获取那些愤怒选民的支持，政客对制定这样的限制措施非常感兴趣，这比设计最优的薪酬架构要简单的多。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine the immense potential we would have to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges if business leaders adopted this strategy.",
        "想象一下，如果商业领袖采取这一战略，我们就可以在解决当今世界最棘手挑战等方面获得巨大潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "But other CDR approaches are gaining support.",
        "但其他CDR方法赢得了支持。"
    ],
    [
        "And how much control will US investors ultimately find that they have given up?",
        "美国的投资者们最终会发现他们到底放弃了多大的控制权？"
    ],
    [
        "But they are not only turning away from mainstream political parties and following populists who promise to clean out the corrupt elites from the centers of power; they also share a taste for political entertainers, or clowns if you like.",
        "但他们不仅远离主流政党转而追随那些信誓旦旦要将腐败精英清理出权力中心者； 他们还喜欢政治娱乐者，如果你愿意也可以称之为小丑。"
    ],
    [
        "Examples include the development of garments in Bangladesh, software outsourcing in India, and light manufacturing in China.",
        "这方面的案例包括：孟加拉国服装产业、印度软件外包业以及中国轻工业的发展等。"
    ],
    [
        "One answer is that immigration has overshadowed other globalization “shocks.”",
        "答案之一是其他全球化“冲击”被移民问题掩盖了。"
    ],
    [
        "Students are especially keen to study issues like inequality, the role of ethics and fairness in economics (as opposed to the prevailing focus on profit maximization), and the economic consequences of climate change.",
        "学生特别热衷于研究不平等性、道德和公平在经济学中的角色（而不是主流关注点利润最大化）以及气候变化的经济后果等问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Assad enables Iran to support two paramilitary foes of Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas.",
        "阿萨德让伊朗得以支持以色列的两大准军事对手——真主党和哈马斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, don’t punish Britain.",
        "第三，不要惩罚英国。"
    ],
    [
        "With their share of global GDP increasing, developing countries would sustain relative demand for commodities, thereby preventing prices from reverting to the low levels that prevailed in the 1980’s and 1990’s.",
        "随着它们的全球全球GDP份额的升高，发展中国家将保持对商品的上对需求，从而阻止价格跌回20世纪八九十年代的低位。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the tax would better align financial firms’ incentives with the goal of minimizing the risk of systemic crises.",
        "尽管如此，税收能更好地协调金融企业的激励与系统性危机风险最小化目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the fate of one courageous exception to this rule.",
        "以这一规则的一个勇敢的挑战者的命运为例。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, no one really knows.",
        "事实上，没人知道到底会怎样。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, the government has branded its opponents as enemies, and sought to promulgate new laws undermining the independence of the judiciary and restricting freedom of expression – including shutdowns of Twitter and YouTube.",
        "土耳其政府的应对措施是将反对者列为敌人，试图通过颁布新法律破坏司法独立性，限制言论自由——包括关闭Twitter和YouTube。"
    ],
    [
        "To finance development projects, poor and lower-middle-income countries must devise and implement tax strategies to increase domestic revenue.",
        "为了给发展项目融资，穷国和中低收入国家必须设计和实施增加国内收入的税收战略。"
    ],
    [
        "President Xi’s Singapore Lessons",
        "习主席的新加坡教训"
    ],
    [
        "It is to be hoped that the other TPP countries also come to understand that the agreement is more likely to work if it strongly discourages currency manipulation.",
        "但愿其他TPP国家也能明白，如果TPP协定强烈反对货币操纵，就更有可能发生作用。"
    ],
    [
        "And, if so, why not, reductio ad absurdum, begin monthly mammograms at age 15?",
        "如果这也可行的话，按照逻辑上的归缪法，干脆从15岁开始每月照一张X光片好了。"
    ],
    [
        "What the economist’s study in 1930 showed is that tradicines accounted for 98% of the cases that were successfully treated.",
        "这位1930年的经济学家的研究表明了传统药物在98%的被治愈疾病中起了作用。"
    ],
    [
        "(Most memorable sight: drunken Russian soldiers in stolen Georgian uniforms – “because they are better than ours.”)",
        "(最为难忘的景象是喝得醉醺醺的俄军穿着偷来的格鲁吉亚军服，他们说那是因为他们军服的要比我们的好。 )"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the IMF’s main responsibility is to fight crises, most of which have been in developing countries – more than a hundred since the disastrous policies of financial deregulation and liberalization began some 30 years ago. There were many heroes of these battles in the emerging markets.",
        "毕竟IMF的主要任务就是应对危机，而大部分危机都发生在发展中国家——自从在30多年前启动取消金融管制和经济自由化的乱政后已经有超过100个国家遇险，并因此涌现出许多风云人物。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world industrialized and filled up with people, the flow of people from developed to developing areas reversed.",
        "随着世界的工业化和人类足迹的遍布，移民从发达地区向发展中地区的流向发生了逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "(Admittedly, the Spanish labor market reforms enacted earlier this year may start to lift employment and improve competitiveness and growth on the economy’s tradable side, which is constrained largely by low productivity, not weak demand.)",
        "（平心而论，今年上半年开始实施的西班牙劳动力市场改革或已开始提振就业、改善经济的可贸易部门的增长——它主要约束是生产率过低，而不是需求不足。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences of such failures are far-reaching.",
        "如此失败的后果影响深远。"
    ],
    [
        "During 2012, the US increased both the size and the number of bilateral and multilateral exercises across the Asia-Pacific region.",
        "2012年，美国增加了整个亚太地区双边和多边演习的规模和数量。"
    ],
    [
        "If history rhymes, here’s what we may expect in the months ahead: industry-sponsored economic “studies,” flashy online content, think tank reports, and polished front groups posing as grassroots organizations.",
        "如果历史重演，下面的事件会在今后几个月内发生：行业赞助的经济“研究”、华而不实的在线内容、智囊报告、以及经过粉饰的合法组织假扮基层机构。"
    ],
    [
        "At this point, President Jimmy Carter – who initially opposed the process – invited both sides to Camp David to hammer out a peace treaty.",
        "在这个时候，吉米·卡特总统－他开始是反对这个进程－邀请双方到戴维营制定出了一个和平条约。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, establishing accurate asset-price levels is essential to a well-functioning market.",
        "但是，一个好的资本市场不仅需要好的产权基础设施，还需要一个好的资本价格发现机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Stricter rules are needed to improve corporate governance and prevent unfair practices by those affiliated with the chaebols.",
        "必须制定更严格的规则来改善公司治理及防止财阀下属公司的不公平做法。"
    ],
    [
        "As climate change exacerbates the effects of storms, flooding, and erosion, the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of those people will be at risk.",
        "随着气候变化加剧了风暴、洪水和侵蚀的影响，数亿人的生活和生计受到了威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "All these suggestions highlight what might be any secretary general’s most important asset: his voice.",
        "所有这些建议明确表明，作为一个联合国秘书长最最重要的资本是他的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "Thirty years ago, Australian vessels, with the government’s blessing, killed sperm whales off the West Australian coast.",
        "三十年前，澳大利亚的船只在政府的支持下在澳大利亚的西海岸捕杀抹香鲸。"
    ],
    [
        "It will also require reinvigorating aggregate demand by targeting fiscal policy to support the emerging economic sectors that will underpin the new growth model.",
        "此外，还需要通过财政政策支持将成为新增长模式基石的新兴经济部门，从而重振总需求。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, the shuttered factories dotting America’s Midwestern “Rust Belt” are real.",
        "但是，美国中西部“锈带”上星罗棋布的废弃工厂是实实在在的。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is broader than that.",
        "但这其实只是冰山一角。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, appeals to “stability” are nothing new from authoritarian governments.",
        "当然，“稳定”诉求决非独裁政府的新鲜事。"
    ],
    [
        "Centuries of being part of the Russian and Soviet empires have, in different ways, shaped how Ukrainians view their country and its interests.",
        "几百年来俄罗斯和苏联帝国成员的地位已经以不同的方式决定了乌克兰人对国家和利益的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, DVDs are a convenient, commodity-like object to start with: once you specify which title, there’s no variation in quality (unlike with houses or other goods) or terms and conditions.",
        "就目前来说，作为起步业务，DVD是一个方便而具有商品属性的选择：你只需确定DVD的名称，此外在质量（不像房子或其他物品），使用条款和碟片成色方面都不存在差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, if ideas were important, a leftist party like the DAP would have found it difficult to cooperate with the PAS.",
        "的确，如果政治理念重要的话，像DAP这样一个左翼政党会发现自己很难和PAS合作。"
    ],
    [
        "It is their recruitment strategy by which to stoke the fires of East-West hatred and render them significant players.”",
        "他们的招募策略煽动了东方-西方怨恨，也给了他们一手好牌。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In the last two years, more than 1.7 billion barrels of oil have been discovered in the Lokichar basin.",
        "在过去两年中，在洛基查（Lokichar）盆地中发现了超过17亿桶的石油。"
    ],
    [
        "That is an incredible claim.",
        "这真是令人难以置信的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "UNIDO’s PCP provides countries with technical assistance, policy advice, and investments to help them design and implement industrialization strategies.",
        "联合国工业发展组织的国家伙伴关系项目为各国提供协助其设计并推行工业化战略的技术援助、政策咨询和投资。"
    ],
    [
        "They observed the treatment of cholera patients in our hospital, an experience that provided hands-on training for case management and assessing dehydration status.",
        "他们在我们的医院中观察霍乱病人的治疗情况，这一经验为他们提供了第一手关于病例管理和评估脱水情况的训练。"
    ],
    [
        "The vote, if it takes place, will be close, and the stakes are high, as failure to ratify the TPP would raise fundamental questions about America’s political effectiveness and ability to be a reliable partner to its allies.",
        "如果进行投票，结果将十分接近，而赌注非常高，因为不能批准TPP将对美国的政治效率和作为其盟友的可靠伙伴的能力造成根本性的质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the average holding period for America’s core shareholders, like Fidelity and Vanguard, has increased in recent decades.",
        "事实上，美国核心股东——如富达基金公司和先锋基金公司——在最近几十年里平均持有期有所增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Since much of the money-market funds’ assets are IOUs from the world’s biggest banks, the withdrawals weakened the already-shaky global banking system.",
        "由于大多数货币市场基金的资产都是那些来自各大银行的金融要求权，赎回行动削弱了本已摇摇欲坠的全球银行系统。"
    ],
    [
        "While the West is losing its appetite for intervention – particularly involving ground troops – countries like Russia, China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are increasingly intervening in their neighbors’ affairs.",
        "西方正在失去干涉的兴趣——特别是派遣地面部队干涉——而俄罗斯、中国、伊朗和沙特阿拉伯正在越来越多地干涉邻国事务。"
    ],
    [
        "When first elected, none of these women had any serious professional or political qualifications.",
        "在第一次当选时，这些女性中无一人拥有任何过硬的专业或者政治资历。"
    ],
    [
        "Interpol’s credibility is at stake.",
        "国际刑警组织的信誉正处在危急关头。"
    ],
    [
        "That implies a potential boon to Russia’s main gas producers, especially as Europe’s energy-diversification campaign weakens export demand.",
        "这对于俄罗斯主要天然气生产商来说是一件好事，特别是在欧洲能源多样化运动减少了出口需求时。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1992, immediately after the Cold War’s end, the United States and the former Soviet Union’s “Unified Team” won a quarter of the medals in Barcelona.",
        "1992年，冷战刚刚结束，美国和前苏联国家组成的“独联体”在巴塞罗那奥运会上夺走了四分之一的奖牌。"
    ],
    [
        "But can an emerging economy invest too much?",
        "但新兴经济存在投资过多的问题吗？"
    ],
    [
        "This is all the more reason to make sure that the energy and courage of Talat and Christofias are not squandered.",
        "因此我们有更多理由确保塔拉特和赫里斯托菲亚斯的勇气和努力不会被白白地浪费掉。"
    ],
    [
        "In a matter of hours, more than 3,000 innocent people, mostly Americans, but also people from 115 other countries, had their lives suddenly and violently taken from them.",
        "只不过几个小时，3000多无辜平民被突如其来的暴行夺去了生命，其中大多是美国人，但也有来自其他115个国家的人。"
    ],
    [
        "With everything from massive disinformation to tanks and soldiers thrown against the Eastern Partnership since 2013, just staying the course is a powerful sign of success.",
        "自2013年以来，东方合作伙伴受到过各种威胁，从大量虚假情报到坦克和士兵，因此，坚守现状已是强有力的成功信号。"
    ],
    [
        "A superpower that has earned only frustration in its abortive efforts – whether war or regional diplomacy – in the dysfunctional Middle East, the US faces the Iran crisis in the midst of its epochal strategic shift to Asia and the Pacific.",
        "作为一个超级大国，美国在瘫痪的中东所做的一系列动作都没有取得成功（不管是战争还是地区外交），伊朗危机又发生在其欲进行将重点移到亚太地区的划时代的战略大转移的当口。"
    ],
    [
        "Khan was tortured, Dixon said, though “the government would say that what happened to him is an ‘intelligence source or method.’”",
        "迪克松说，尽管玛吉德受到虐待，政府也只会宣称他的遭遇是一种“情报来源或获取方式。"
    ],
    [
        "One does not have to look back a century to see how dangerous the consequences of such rhetoric can be.",
        "只要稍稍回顾一个世纪前的情况，你就能发现这一论调的后果有多严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the SPD-led opposition will be beset by deep divisions.",
        "类似地，SPD领导的反对派也将陷入深度分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Viewed from this perspective, countering terrorism includes rebutting terrorist propaganda with a strategic communications campaign.",
        "从这个角度看，反恐就必须涵盖一个驳斥恐怖分子宣传的战略性沟通交流行动。"
    ],
    [
        "This increase in liquidity caused both an economic boom and inflation across Europe.",
        "此次流动性剧增在全欧洲造成了经济繁荣和通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Stern Review on the economics of climate change was published seven years ago, the subject was largely theoretical.",
        "七年前关于气候变化经济学的《斯特恩报告》（Stern Review）发布时，这个主题基本上还停留在理论阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was increased US spending and the descent of measured household savings into negative territory.",
        "这些政策的结果是美国开支的增加和标准家庭储蓄由减少变成了负增长。"
    ],
    [
        "We work to create conditions in which poor rural women and men can grow and sell more food, increase their incomes, and determine the direction of their own lives.",
        "我们致力于营造一种环境，让农村贫困男女可以种植和出售更多的粮食，增加他们的收入并决定自己生活的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "But they want to follow up their tactical victory – which postpones the restoration of pre-Bush tax rates for a couple of years – with a longer-term victory next spring.",
        "但他们还想乘胜追击——将恢复小布什上任前税率的提案再推迟几年——再在明年春天取得一个长期胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "And if years of schooling do not translate into greater cognitive skills, then much of the economic justification for investing in higher education falls apart.",
        "而如果多年的学校教育不能转化为更好的认知技能，那么投资高等教育的经济理由就站不住脚了。"
    ],
    [
        "Talk of human rights and democracy is nothing but a smoke screen for demonizing China.",
        "所有对人权和民主的讨论都是妄图妖魔化中国的烟雾弹。"
    ],
    [
        "This much was evident at the just-completed Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group – three intense days of talks that brought together finance ministers, central bankers, and other policymakers.",
        "这在刚刚闭幕的国际货币基金组织和世界银行集团春季会议中表现得尤为明显——各国财政部长、中央银行家和其他政策制定者们都被议程密集的三天会谈聚到了一起。"
    ],
    [
        "This constitutes a default on Venezuelans’ most basic freedoms, which Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua – three ideologically kindred countries that have a single exchange rate and single-digit inflation – have managed to preserve.",
        "这构成了对委内瑞拉人民最基本自由的违约，而意识形态相似的玻利维亚、厄瓜多尔和尼加拉瓜只有一个汇率和一位数的通胀，并且没有产生这些现象。"
    ],
    [
        "I wake her up in the morning, assist her in toileting, bathing, and dressing, make us breakfast, and help her feed herself.",
        "每天早晨，我将妻子叫醒，帮助她上厕所，洗澡，穿衣服，准备我们的早餐并帮她进餐。"
    ],
    [
        "Cartoonists, artists, bloggers, activists, and comedians sometimes like to challenge the consensus of respectability.",
        "漫画家、艺术家、博客写手、活动家和喜剧演员有时喜欢挑战关于可尊重性的共识。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – One of the great mysteries of today’s global markets is their irrepressible enthusiasm, even as the world around them appears on the verge of chaos or collapse.",
        "华盛顿—当今全球市场的最大的谜题之一是无法抑制的热忱，即便周围的世界正处在混乱或崩溃的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "The Trauma of France’s Jews",
        "法国犹太人之伤"
    ],
    [
        "There may be a silver lining to this infuriating story: the recent investigation that exposed Exxon’s deceit could end up catalyzing the action needed to address the looming climate crisis.",
        "这个令人义愤的故事背后可能尚存一线希望：最近揭露埃克森骗局的调查可能最终对应对迫在眉睫的气候危机起到催化作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Observers seize upon every new piece of economic data to forecast QE’s continuation or an acceleration of its decline.",
        "观察者们也不放过任何一条新发布的经济数据来预测该政策的延续或加速规模缩减。"
    ],
    [
        "(Some of these doubts are, of course, politically or financially self-serving; a certain model of financial capitalism perceives the euro as a threat, and its adherents will do everything they can to bring about its demise.)",
        "某些金融资本主义模式将欧元视为一种威胁，这种模式的追随者将竭尽全力让欧元消失。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "They respectively refer to “Heil Hitler,” critics of the so-called alt-right, Trump supporters, and, of course, Trump himself.",
        "它们的意思分别是“嘿希特勒”、所谓的另类右翼的批评者、特朗普支持者，当然，最后一个就是指特朗普本人。"
    ],
    [
        "Can greater “transparency” – the new political mantra of civic activists and an increasing number of democratic governments – reverse this trend?",
        "更大的“透明度”——公民活动家和越来越多的民主国家政府的新政治口号——能扭转这一趋势吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Today, people like Noé are spearheading a second golden age of cartography, which promises to bring equally significant economic and social benefits.",
        "今天，诺伊等人正积极推进地图测绘的第二个黄金年代，由此所带来的经济和社会效益同样可观。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is bad and getting worse almost everywhere.",
        "各国问题都很严重，并且还在恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "The renminbi offshore market, which has strengthened considerably over the last few years, would lose value, forcing the People’s Bank of China to channel foreign-exchange reserves toward that market to offset the decline.",
        "在过去几年中大大增强的人民币离岸市场将失去价值，迫使中国人民银行向其投入外汇储备以阻止下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Intact soils are an invaluable and irreplaceable resource, one that performs myriad functions in achieving the international community’s main development and environmental goals.",
        "完好的土壤是不可替代的无价资源，对于实现国际社会的主要发展和环境目标起着无比巨大的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Last week, Russia and China held joint military maneuvers in the presence of both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao.",
        "上周，在俄国总统普京和中国主席胡锦涛的观摩下，中俄两国举行了联合军事演习。"
    ],
    [
        "And could a weakened Europe cope with an oil shock at all? A regional and global security shock caused by asymmetric warfare could add still further to the world economy’s troubles, causing exports to slump even more.",
        "而衰弱的欧洲能应对石油危机吗？ 由非对称战争引起的区域和全球安全冲击会进一步加剧世界经济的困境，导致出口进一步暴跌。"
    ],
    [
        "China recently demanded that the US reduce its emissions by 40% from its 1990 baseline levels and subsidize emission reduction efforts in China and other developing countries to the tune of .05-1% of America’s GDP.",
        "中国近期要求美国将碳排放量减少1990年排放水平的40%的同时，利用美国0. 5-1%的GDP来资助中国以及其他发展中国家减排。"
    ],
    [
        "Bear Hunting in Romania",
        "在罗马尼亚猎熊"
    ],
    [
        "Some American senators complained that when President Barack Obama’s Commerce Department handed its oversight of the IANA functions to ICANN, it was “giving away the Internet.”",
        "某些美国参议员抱怨当奥巴马政府商务部将IANA功能监管权移交给ICANN时，相当于“将互联网控制权拱手让出”。"
    ],
    [
        "It is, of course, possible to trace the concept of universal rights at least as far back as seventeenth-century English thinking about natural law.",
        "当然，人们可以把普世人权的概念最早追溯到十七世纪英国自然法思想。 1789年的法国人权宣言部分地包含了这一概念。"
    ],
    [
        "Technology can help create new – perhaps better – jobs to replace those that are lost, but only if India’s education and training systems prepare workers adequately.",
        "技术有助于创造新的——也许也是更好的——工作岗位取代失去的就岗位，但这只有在印度的教育和培训提供能够让工人做好充分准备的情况下才会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia is rich, but Russians, at least most of them, remain poor, with a life expectancy that is closer to Africa than to Western Europe.",
        "俄国的确富有，但俄国人，至少他们当中的绝大多数，仍然十分贫穷，民众的总体寿命与非洲，而不是西欧国家相当。"
    ],
    [
        "European leaders are arguing, with some justification, that their exporters are paying the price for America’s huge trade imbalance with Asian and oil-exporting countries.",
        "欧洲的领导人正争辩说——其中不无道理——他们的出口商正在为美国与亚洲和石油出口国之间巨大的贸易不平衡付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Asians themselves encourage this temptation, with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) openly aiming to become increasingly like the European Union.",
        "事实上，亚洲人自己也鼓励这种引诱，东盟就公开宣称他们的目标是越发类似欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "However much military hardware a superpower owns, decay of the will to use it is the same thing as a decay of effective power.",
        "不管超级大国拥有多少军事实力，缺乏使用军事实力的意愿和缺乏有效力量是一回事。"
    ],
    [
        "Independent thinking is an underestimated factor.",
        "独立思考的作用常常被低估。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer the US remains in a state of denial, the more damage it will do to its interests and its global influence, which remains substantial, if more constrained than before.",
        "美国越是否认这一点，对其利益以及全球影响力的伤害就越大。 目前美国的全球影响力依然强大，尽管受到了前所未有的制约。"
    ],
    [
        "Providing such support systems for pastoralists could prove to be an effective strategy for advancing economic development, enhancing food security, and reducing dependence on food aid in Somalia and elsewhere.",
        "向游牧民提供这类支持系统将是推进经济发展、增强粮食安全、减少索马里和其他地区粮食援助依赖的有效战略。"
    ],
    [
        "But the real similarities between the two conflicts are to be found in the behavior of the international community’s main actors, which have again taken opposite sides.",
        "但这两个冲突真正的相似之处在于国际社会主要成员的行为：它们再度分裂成了两大阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "Judicial challenges to executive actions, fights with the media, tensions stemming from rising budget deficits, and new revelations regarding Trump and Russia, will keep the pot boiling – and Trump’s public support could evaporate.",
        "对行政行为的司法挑战、与媒体的斗争、因预算赤字增加而导致的紧张局势以及有关特朗普和俄罗斯全新披露的事实都会维持这种紧张度——并因此造成特朗普的公众支持消失得无影无踪。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, clinical trials are not intended to demonstrate the effectiveness of a treatment (drug, medical device, or other intervention) in a completely random sample from the general population. Rather, researchers “enrich” the study population by using a characteristic, such as age or laboratory-test results, to select a subset of patients in whom the intervention’s effects will likely be easier to detect than they would be in an unfiltered population.",
        "事实上，临床试验的宗旨并不是显示某种治疗（包括药物、医疗设备或其他干预方法）对普通人群中完全随机抽取的样本是否有效，相反，科研人员以年龄或实验室检查结果等某些特点来“浓缩”被研究群体，并从中筛选出比未经过滤人员更容易显示疗效的那部分患者。"
    ],
    [
        "Important improvements have been made over the past year to expand the pension system’s coverage, move toward universal health care, and provide public funding for basic education.",
        "过去一年来在扩大养老金覆盖范围、实行普遍医保和为基础教育提供财政资金方面取得了重大进展。"
    ],
    [
        "I do not know the right approach for each person; the point is to liberate people to find their own path, not to chain them to some new “healthy” protocol that may or may not suit them.",
        "我不知道具体哪个人适合哪种方法； 要点在于让人们自由寻找自己的办法，而不是把他们束缚于某种新的“健康”协议，而不管是否适合。"
    ],
    [
        "Those at the top include a disproportionate number of monopolists who increase their income by restricting production and engaging in anti-competitive practices; CEOs who exploit deficiencies in corporate-governance laws to grab a larger share of corporate revenues for themselves (leaving less for workers); and bankers who have engaged in predatory lending and abusive credit-card practices (often targeting poor and middle-class households).",
        "这些顶层人士包括大量通过限制产量和进行反竞争活动提高收入的垄断者、利用公司治理法漏洞攫取公司收入更大份额（从而吞噬工人所应获得的份额）的CEO、进行掠夺性放贷和滥发信用卡（通常以穷人和中产阶级家庭为对象）的银行家。"
    ],
    [
        "It is good that the Court’s decisions cannot be forecast, and even better that the Court cannot be lobbied or petitioned.",
        "裁决结果无法预测，这是件好事，特别是考虑到德国宪法法院不为游说和请愿所动。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the reality in emerging economies today.",
        "这就是当今新兴经济体中的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, when Japan provided relief to the countries hit by the Sumatra earthquake in 2004, which claimed 250,000 lives, it was keenest to promote an early warning system for tsunamis.",
        "事实上，日本参与夺去250，000条生命的2004年苏门答腊地震救援时，它最急于要做的就是建立海啸早期预警系统。"
    ],
    [
        "But determined governments, like those of Brazil and India, have negotiated programs in the past that set them on the path to sustained growth.",
        "但果断的政府（如巴西和印度）在过去便已有过让它们重回持续增长之路的谈判计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Their leaders can scarcely hold their tongues, so badly do they want a Kerry victory.",
        "他们的领袖很少保持沉默，他们迫切地希望凯利能够获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "The government partially redistributes profits by collecting taxes and paying salaries.",
        "政府通过征税和支付工资来部分地重新分配利润。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously not.",
        "显然不是。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this new consensus could be as wrong now as the defenders of the V-shaped scenario were for the past three years.",
        "如果美国危机（很有可能在）在今年年底结束，那么和前两次的危机相比，此次危机持续的时间有3倍之长，如果以衰退的产值来计算的话，衰退的程度有5倍之深。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the kind of leadership Latin America does indeed deserve.",
        "这才是真正配得上拉丁美洲的领导力类型。"
    ],
    [
        "But when house prices fell and mortgage-backed securities (and derivatives based on them) became illiquid, Citigroup took the liabilities back onto its balance sheet – and then needed to be rescued through massive, repeated bailouts.",
        "但当房价开始下跌、按揭支持证券（以及以此为基础的衍生品）失去流动性时，花旗集团又将负债挪回到资产负债表上——于是需要反复的大手笔援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s political elite could have framed the Greek financial crisis as a tale of economic interdependence – you cannot have bad borrowers, after all, without careless lenders – instead of a morality tale pitting frugal, hard-working Germans against profligate, carefree Greeks.",
        "欧洲政治精英本可以将希腊金融危机写成经济互相依存的故事——毕竟，如果贷款人足够谨慎，就不会存在坏借款人——而不是勤俭节约的德国人与铺张恣睢的希腊人相对立的道德故事。"
    ],
    [
        "If this were simply a sign of a new, tighter focus on viable long-term strategies, it might be regarded it as a benign development.",
        "如果这仅仅表明欧洲银行转向更专注的可靠长期战略的新动向，那么倒是可以被视为良性发展。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, though central banks’ creation of macro liquidity may keep bond yields low and reduce volatility, it has also led to crowded trades (herding on market trends, exacerbated by HFTs) and more investment in illiquid bond funds, while tighter regulation means that market makers are missing in action.",
        "简言之，尽管央行创造的宏观流动性或许可以维持债券收益率低水平并降低波动，但也导致了拥挤式交易（对市场趋势趋之若鹜，高频交易放大了这一效应）和低流动性债券基金投资增加，而监管规则趋紧意味着市场做市商不再积极行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, private-private coordination has been the essence of economics for the past 250 years.",
        "当然，公私协作一直是过去250年中经济学的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Scores of texts are appearing in the Muslim world on jihadi strategic studies. The best known in the West is The Management of Savagery , but only because it was translated and made public.",
        "穆斯林世界中出现了数十篇研究杰哈德战略的文本，其中在西方名气最大的当数《野性的管理》，究其原因只是因为这篇文章被译成英文并被公开发表。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither Uranium-238, which is roughly 100 times more abundant than U-235, nor Thorium, which is even more accessible, is used to produce energy on a large scale.",
        "但不管是储量比铀235丰富一百倍的铀238还是更容易从自然界中获取的钍都无法被大规模地用于生产能量。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kremlin intends to remove Ukraine from a gas-delivery system that has been in place since the 1980s, routing supplies instead through a new and untried network to a market that may not even exist.",
        "克里姆林宫想把乌克兰逐出自20世纪80年代就存在的天然气供应体系，转而使用从未使用过的新网络向也许根本就不存在的市场输气。"
    ],
    [
        "Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes is the seventh film in a series based on Pierre Boule’s 1963 novel, Planet of the Apes, about a world populated by highly intelligent simians. Publicity for the new film claims that it is “the first live-action film in the history of movies to star, and be told from the point of view of, a sentient animal.”",
        "鲁伯特·怀亚特执导的这部《人猿星球的崛起》是根据皮埃尔·布尔1963年发表的小说《人猿星球》——讲述一个居住着高智商类人猿的世界——改编的第七部电影，并将其宣传为“电影史上第一部由有知觉的动物担任主角，并通过其角度来讲述的实景拍摄电影。"
    ],
    [
        "It smacks of usurpation and is inciting many of the French to vote their anger.",
        "这话带有侵犯之意，引得许多法国人把愤怒发泄在投票上。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, the number of child refugees cut off from school – in places like Nepal, Myanmar, and Yemen – is increasing at an alarming rate.",
        "更糟的是，尼泊尔、缅甸和也门等地的失学儿童数量以惊人的速度增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The two key arrangements that most economists emphasized were fiscal transfers, which could cushion shocks in badly affected regions, and labor mobility, which would allow workers from such regions to move to less affected ones.",
        "大部分经济学家强调两大关键安排，一是财政转移，它能缓冲受冲击重创的地区； 而是劳动力流动性，它让重创地区工人能够迁往受创较轻地区。"
    ],
    [
        "My audience included business leaders who hope to profit from cap-and-trade policies and from subsidies for renewable energy and “green” jobs.",
        "听众中包括希望从配额贸易政策、可再生能源补贴和“绿色”就业机会中获利的企业领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "The more important reason, though, is that even $4.3 billion is small change when compared to the total fines and litigation costs incurred by the major banks over the last five years.",
        "但是，更重要的原因是，即使罚金高达43亿美元，与大银行在过去五年来所支付的总罚金和诉讼成本来说也只是九牛一毛。"
    ],
    [
        "The door to dialogue with Hamas should remain open.",
        "和哈马斯对话的大门不应该关闭。"
    ],
    [
        "The last time that happened in Ireland, it cost more than €60 billion ($67 billion), or about 40% of GDP.",
        "爱尔兰上一次发生这一情况的时候造成了600亿欧元以上的损失，相当于其GDP的40%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "IBGYBG, they say – I’ll be gone, you’ll be gone.",
        "他们的口号是IGBYBG——什么都是浮云（I’ll be gone, you’ll be gone）。"
    ],
    [
        "But there you can read very pessimistic estimates of the country’s economic future.",
        "然而，在互联网上，你能读到的却是关于俄罗斯未来经济情况十分悲观的估计。"
    ],
    [
        "Davos Man’s Depression",
        "达沃斯人的沮丧"
    ],
    [
        "Nationalism, Madness, and Terrorism",
        "民族主义、疯狂行为和恐怖主义"
    ],
    [
        "The inequities are obvious.",
        "不均衡是明显的。"
    ],
    [
        "Another recently ruled that the president may call anyone anywhere an “enemy combatant” and detain him or her indefinitely.",
        "另一个联邦法庭裁决总统可以在任何地方称呼任何人为“敌方武装人员”并视情况拘留他或她。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent increase in the rhetoric of democracy in the Middle East, may have changed frames of reference about the status quo.",
        "”换句话说，入侵伊拉克，以及中东地区随之而来的对民主的关注，也许已经改变了现状赖以存在的基本框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Last but not least, we implemented a radical change in our foreign policy, which led to an improvement in our relations with our neighbors and the rest of the region.",
        "最后，我们大大改变了我们的外交政策，改善了我们与邻国以及地区内其他国家的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In just two days last year, Kenya’s government distributed more than two million bed nets.",
        "去年在仅仅两天时间里，肯尼亚政府发放了2百多万顶帐篷。"
    ],
    [
        "It has the world’s largest market, represents 17% of world trade, and dispenses half of the world’s foreign assistance.",
        "它拥有世界上最大的市场，占世界贸易的17%，贡献世界对外援助的半壁江山。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s Alternative Ethical Universe",
        "特朗普的另类道德世界"
    ],
    [
        "Where Europe Still Lives",
        "欧洲依然活在这里"
    ],
    [
        "Membership talks can’t help but be long and arduous, if only because adopting the acquis communautaire (the body of EU law) requires that Turkey integrate around 10,000 pages of texts into its legislation.",
        "如果仅仅是因为采纳欧盟既成法律而要求土耳其将大约10,000页的法律文本吸纳到其国内立法之中，入盟谈判无可避免地艰苦漫长。"
    ],
    [
        "Epigenetics is crucial for comprehending the link between the genetic composition, or genotype, and the traits we can actually observe.",
        "试验胚胎学的关键是要理解遗传组成、基因型和我们实际观察到的特征之间的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the refugee crisis has revealed that the EU’s western and eastern members do not share the same concept of a nation.",
        "然而难民危机揭示出，欧盟的西部和东部成员对国家（nation）的概念并不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, two things are already clear.",
        "尽管如此，有两个问题已经非常明确。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, states must be prepared to cede some sovereignty to world bodies if the international system is to function.",
        "此外，如果希望国际系统正常运转，国家就必须向世界组织牺牲某些主权。"
    ],
    [
        "Only if the new draft constitution is upheld in a popular referendum on December 15 will these provisions be annulled.",
        "只有在新宪法草案于12月15日的公投中获得群众支持，这些权力才会被取消。"
    ],
    [
        "Global intercourse is broader, faster, and more ubiquitous than ever before.",
        "全球互动比以往任何时候都要更加广泛、更加迅速、更加普遍。"
    ],
    [
        "By displacing traditional centers of power, development can nurture collective resentment.",
        "通过传统权力中心的转移，发展会在一些群体中造成怨恨的情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "This is part of a long-term trend that explains why household incomes in the middle of the distribution are lower than they were a quarter-century ago.",
        "这是一个长期趋势的一部分，而这个长期趋势解释了为何位于收入分布中段的家庭的收入比四分之一个世纪前更少了。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – After the economic disaster of 2008-2009, people are understandably wary of the devastation that yet another financial crisis can wreak.",
        "纽约——不难理解，在经历了2008—2009年的经济灾难后，人们担心还会再来一场金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The memory of August 1914 should remind us how the world stumbled into catastrophe.",
        "1914年8月的经验应该提醒我们，世界灾难是如何产生的。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of us have proposed expanded equations that unify the different forces.",
        "有些物理学家曾经提出过一些扩展方程组，试图把 4 种基本力中的几种统一起来。"
    ],
    [
        "The new view on Chernobyl threatens the existence of charities – such as those offering health “respites” abroad for children – that depend for their fund-raising on graphic footage of deformed babies.",
        "有关切尔诺贝利的新的观点威胁到慈善组织的生存。 某些外国的慈善组织为儿童提供医疗“缓解”，它们的筹款依靠那些的有关先天缺陷儿童活灵活现的电视画面。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the war didn't change the quality of Iraqi fields, which are still among the richest in the world and can produce oil with relatively little effort and investment.",
        "此外，战争并未改变伊拉克油田的质量，伊拉克仍拥有全球最富饶的石油资源，能够以相对较少的代价和投入生产原油。"
    ],
    [
        "As Keynes pointed out, if everyone – households, firms, and governments – all started trying to increase their saving simultaneously, there would be no way to stop the economy from running down until people became too poor to save.",
        "而是正如凯恩斯所指出的那样，如果所有社会成员——家庭，企业和政府——同时开始尝试储蓄，那么除非人们到了穷得连钱都存不起的地步，否则根本没有任何办法能阻止经济下滑。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, the so-called peace camp, now in opposition, is in complete disarray.",
        "不幸的是，所谓的和平阵营（现在的反对党）完全是一盘散沙。"
    ],
    [
        "Far from moving toward disarmament, the intention seems to be to maintain and enhance every component of America’s current land, sea, and airborne nuclear capability.",
        "在3月份华盛顿举行的有800名核专家参加的会议上，娱乐的气氛比警戒更加浓厚，一位空军高级将领反常地提到了《奇爱博士》（Dr."
    ],
    [
        "And Russia’s refusal to hand over Snowden, under the pretext of strict adherence to the law, has allowed Putin to poke Obama in the eye once again – this time while posing as a defender of legality and human rights.",
        "俄罗斯以依法为由拒绝交出斯诺登让普京再次与奥巴马争锋相对——这一回，作为合法性和人权捍卫者的是俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "It undertook a small revaluation in 1969 and then let its currency float in May 1971.",
        "它先让马克在1969年小幅升值，然后在1971年5月转向浮动汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "The escalation of the war in Vietnam under Presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson produced the inward-looking turn of the 1970s.",
        "越南战争在肯尼迪和约翰逊总统期间的升级催生了20世纪90年代的向内转。"
    ],
    [
        "Democrats want an active government that solves tough social problems, whereas Republicans want private-sector investment and innovation to do the job.",
        "民主党想要一个能解决棘手社会问题的活跃的政府，而共和党想要私人部门投资和创新来做这件事。"
    ],
    [
        "CAPE CANAVERAL – More than 50 years ago (1957), the Soviets launched the world’s first orbiting satellite, beating the US into space.",
        "卡纳维埃拉尔角——50多年前（1957年），苏联发射了全世界第一颗轨道卫星，击败美国进入了太空。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, our hopes were frustrated.",
        "最终，我们的希望受挫了。"
    ],
    [
        "It considered proposals from popular assemblies around the country, and it maintained transparency throughout the process.",
        "它认真听取了全国各地人民议会的提案，并在整个过程中成功地保持了透明。"
    ],
    [
        "As my book Has Globalization Gone Too Far? went to press nearly two decades ago, I approached a well-known economist to ask him if he would provide an endorsement for the back cover.",
        "我在近二十年前写作《全球化是否过犹不及》（Has Globalization Gone Too Far? ）一书时曾经请一位著名经济学家撰写推荐跋。"
    ],
    [
        "The sooner this happens, the sooner one more scourge of financial instability will be behind us.",
        "这种情况出现越早，我们就越早脱离另一场金融危机的祸害。"
    ],
    [
        "Time for America to Turn South",
        "到美国关注南美洲的时候了"
    ],
    [
        "A Russian public anxious about its status; a Chinese people concerned about rampant corruption; a Turkish population divided over ethnicity and religion: All create enabling environments for leaders who feel a psychological need for power.",
        "关注横行的腐败的中国人民； 在种族和宗教上陷入分裂的土耳其人口：这些因素形成了有利于具备权力需求心理的领导人的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Such “structural flexibility” is better adapted to enabling the broad changes that rapidly evolving technological and global economic forces require.",
        "这一“结构性灵活度”能更好地适应剧变，这也是日新月异的技术和全球经济力量演化所要求的。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, despite the difficulties of rooting out the very last cases, the progress made against polio has been historic.",
        "然而，尽管根除最后的病例有困难，诊治小儿麻痹症却由来已久了。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, prospectors in the United States – the world’s largest helium exporter – are exploring fields in search of helium exclusively.",
        "如今，美国（世界最大氦出口国）勘探者正在勘察专门生产氦的矿藏。"
    ],
    [
        "In brief, the introduction of a tissue tax would be both a fair and a wise way to redress the double standard that currently governs the collaborative biomedical research enterprise.",
        "简言之，引入组织标本税不失为纠正目前生物医药合作研究事业中双重标准的一个公平、明智的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult now to discern a coherent pattern.",
        "现在考虑一致模式是很困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "This can be remedied through better financing, more effective recruitment and compensation policies, and more decentralized decision-making in school administrations.",
        "这可以通过更好的资金支持、更有效的招聘和薪酬政策以及更分散化的学校管理决策实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU budget should become a main theme in European Parliament election campaigns, increasing voter interest and thus turnout.",
        "欧盟预算应当成为欧洲议会选举活动中的一个重要话题，增加投票者的兴趣继而提高投票率。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be naive, of course, to believe that religious or political extremists are interested in an exchange of views.",
        "当然，认为宗教或政治极端主义者有兴趣交换观点实属天真。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, before making the final decision, he turns on the radio, watches a bit of TV, browses the Internet, and finds out what Russia is like.",
        "但在最后下定决心之前，他打开收音机，电视和网页，希望看看俄罗斯的现状。"
    ],
    [
        "And America’s military superiority has not proved all that useful in accomplishing American ends.",
        "而美国军事优势在实现美国的目标上也并不奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, Hurricane Sandy was like gun violence.",
        "从这个角度看，飓风桑迪就像是枪支暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "For states to voluntarily limit themselves is unique in human history.",
        "国家主动限制自身的行为在人类历史上是绝无仅有的。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the most moderate leaders on both sides could not agree on the core issues of the conflict: borders, settlements, Jerusalem, and the fate of 1947-1948 Palestinian refugees and their descendants.",
        "即便是双方最温和的领导人都无法就冲突的一连串核心问题达成和解：边界、定居点、耶路撒冷，还有1947~1948年间的巴勒斯坦难民以及后裔的安置问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The captured CO2 would then be injected underground or under the ocean floor for safe long-term storage.",
        "捕捉到的二氧化碳可以注入地下或海地，做长期的安全储藏。"
    ],
    [
        "Along with Angelina Jolie, Bono, George Soros, and many others, Raising Malawi is assisting Millennium Promise ( www.millenniumpromise.org ), an organization founded by the prominent Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs.",
        "millenniumpromise. org )项目提供帮助，而千年承诺项目的发起者是哥伦比亚大学著名的经济学家杰佛里·萨克斯（Jeffrey Sachs）。"
    ],
    [
        "This was a tactical move that allowed Obama to address the conflict without having to put any additional skin in the game, while advancing his visit’s underlying objective of reducing Israel’s ability to distract from his domestic goals.",
        "这是一个战术性动作，使奥巴马能够在不牵涉其中的情况下解决巴以冲突，同时推进了他此次访问的根本目的——削弱以色列让他从国内目标分心的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "If the sheikhs are stubborn and continue to extract as much as they had planned to extract without the G8’s restraint, the price of fuels will fall sufficiently to induce so much extra consumption among the non-participating countries that the net effect on aggregate CO2 emissions will be nil.",
        "如果这些酋长国家固执己见并且继续在没有八国集团限制的情况下开采其计划的石油，那么，燃料价格将会大为下降，从而怂恿没有参加的国家们额外消费，进而让二氧化碳的总体排放净效果化为乌有。"
    ],
    [
        "Hariri’s assassination makes that far more difficult, and Syria must prepare for a strong backlash from the US and France.",
        "哈里里被刺事件大大增加了这样做的难度，叙利亚还必须为由此引发的美法强烈反应做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Europe can choose its own musical accompaniment to its latest crisis.",
        "普林斯顿——如果要为欧洲经济危机配上音乐，可以有大把选择。"
    ],
    [
        "We are at risk of losing our collective understanding of why the multilateral system and international cooperation matter.",
        "我们所面临的风险是集体忘记多边体系和国际合作的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Once again, the continued uncertainty weighs most heavily not only on Cuba, but on potential investors, who must assume the worst.",
        "值得再次强调的是，这种持续的不确定性不仅影响古巴，还会极大作用于那些潜在投资者，因为他们必须承担最坏的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "One way or the other, the financial crisis is likely to slow medium-term Chinese growth significantly.",
        "不论如何，金融危机也很可能大幅地降低中国中期的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, it counsels Chinese technocrats against dogma-driven economic policies.",
        "最后，它告诫中国的专家管理者反对以教条为导向的经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The MDGs helped millions of people escape illiteracy, disease, and hunger, and placed development at the heart of the global political agenda.",
        "千年发展目标协助数百万人摆脱了文盲、疾病和饥饿，并使发展成为全球政治议程的核心议题。"
    ],
    [
        "MacAskill acknowledged that Megrahi himself showed no compassion, but rightly points out that this alone is not a reason to deny him compassion in his final days.",
        "麦克阿斯基尔承认梅格拉希本人至今对空难都还毫无忏悔，但认为这并不是人们因此拒绝怜悯一个病入膏肓，时日无多的老人的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "But, to the extent that the funds contributed to internal repression, or to the personal enrichment of the regime’s leaders, lenders may bear some responsibility, at least for relieving taxpayers of the burden of debt contracted against, or with indifference towards, their interests.",
        "可是，如果这笔资金用于国内压迫或流入到独裁领袖个人的腰包，那么借款人就需要承担一定的责任，至少应保证纳税人免于偿还损害或无视其自身利益的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, in a deflationary environment, it is more difficult to repay debt, so companies will tend to postpone investment.",
        "因为在通货紧缩的环境中偿付债务愈发艰难，所以企业会倾向于推迟投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries will work with the US government to counter the next recession only if they trust its judgment and intentions.",
        "要想让其他国家和美国政府共同抵抗下一次衰退，唯有让它们相信它的判断和意图。"
    ],
    [
        "World leaders should recognize this – and establish adaptation as an integral part of the global climate-change agreement to be reached in Paris.",
        "世界领导人应该认识到这一点——并将适应作为欲在巴黎达成的全球气候变化协议的重要部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The time for playing with fire is over.",
        "现在绝不是玩火的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "These are just a few examples of the value that can be extracted from the government-procurement goldmine.",
        "这些只是体现政府采购金矿价值的少数例子。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, reducing them can yield economic benefits, owing to the significant energy-efficiency improvements afforded by newer air-conditioning and refrigeration systems.",
        "首先，减少氢氟碳化物的使用可以产生经济效益，因为新的空调和制冷系统可以使能效显著提高。"
    ],
    [
        "The list of potential policy actions that could benefit the United States – trade liberalization, comprehensive regulatory reform, and immigration and education reform, among others – is long.",
        "有利于美国的潜在政策行动很多，包括贸易自由化、全面监管改革、移民和教育改革等。"
    ],
    [
        "The deep conviction that reform can only lead to revolution and chaos results in a stultification of reality that can lead to immobility and despair – and thus become a dangerous and self-fulfilling prophecy.",
        "深信改革只会导致革命和混乱造成对现实愚蠢的理解，导致万马齐喑和绝望，因而成为一个危险而又自我实现的预言。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge, for this group, lies in finding the financial resources to import these technologies.",
        "上述团体的难题在于如何寻找财政资源引进这些技术。"
    ],
    [
        "World oil prices had fallen by almost half since mid-June, and the ruble plummeted in December, finishing the year down by a similar margin.",
        "6月以来，世界油价下跌了近一半，12月卢布暴跌，到年底跌幅与石油相当。"
    ],
    [
        "I have also argued, based on a model of mine, that as the return of a strong dollar by early 2015 threatened to inundate American markets with imports, firms became scared to supply more output at the same price.",
        "我还指出，根据我的模型，随着2015年初美元回归强势、从而进口商品有可能大量涌入美国，企业不敢以相同的价格提供更多产出。"
    ],
    [
        "But more telecommunications companies and hardware manufacturers should join Internet companies and privacy rights advocates to build a broad reform coalition.",
        "但更多电信和硬件制造企业应当与互联网企业及隐私维权人士携手，建立具有广泛基础的改革联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "If he wins the presidency, he has said, he will seek to control media criticism.",
        "他曾表示如果他赢得总统宝座，他将试图控制媒体的批评声。"
    ],
    [
        "Strike hard who cares – shoot straight who can –",
        "那些对此表示反对的人会被痛击——那些逞能的人会被直接命中——"
    ],
    [
        "Here, Argentina offers both a good and a bad example.",
        "这里，阿根廷就是一个正反面的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "In the face of this asymmetry, America’s opponents – both state and non-state actors – began to emphasize unconventional tactics.",
        "1991年美军只损失了148人，而1999年没有美国无一人死亡。 面临如此实力不对称，美国的反对者——不管是国家还是非国家行动方——开始强调非传统战术。"
    ],
    [
        "But those consequences have become impossible to ignore.",
        "但这些后果现在已经无法忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "Let me explain. For all of our lives, my generation has defined success in terms of rising GDP growth: more money in more pockets, more resources for public programs, and more jobs.",
        "容我解释一下，在老一辈人的一生中，成功地定义就是不断增长的GDP，更多的人能赚到更多的钱，更多的资源来资助公共项目，还有更多的工作机会。"
    ],
    [
        "It needs to build substantially on its leadership on climate change by adopting much tougher EU goals, and then use its international economic and trade clout to champion new global emissions standards that scientific opinion can accept as meaningful.",
        "它需要通过实施更为严格的欧盟目标来大幅提升在气候变化方面的领导力，然后运用其国际经济与贸易的影响力来引领新的全球排放标准。 这些标准应该被科学界认定为有意义的。"
    ],
    [
        "The whole point of economic development is, surely, to reduce the cost of inefficiency.",
        "毫无疑问，经济发展的全部意义就在于降低无效率的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Squaring Asia’s Nuclear Triangle",
        "尚缺一角的亚洲四方核机制"
    ],
    [
        "Europe pretends to itself that this crime against humanity is no one’s fault.",
        "欧洲假装这场人道犯罪并不是谁的错。"
    ],
    [
        "As the US contemplated a possible nuclear attack on China, Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies quietly told US President Dwight Eisenhower, “If there is a war over Taiwan, it is your affair and not ours.”",
        "在美国考虑对中国发动核打击时，澳大利亚总理罗伯特·孟席斯悄悄对美国总统艾森豪威尔说，“如果目的是争夺台湾，这场战争和我们无关，只是你们自己的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Many medical advances, from ulcer therapies to joint replacement, have evolved through clinician curiosity, not as a result of trials.",
        "从溃疡治疗到关节置换术在内的大量医学进步都来自临床发现而不是试验成果。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe is not alone in its estrangement from the United States under President George W. Bush's leadership.",
        "但在乔治·W·布什总统的领导下，对美国日益疏远的还不仅仅限于欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, in a panicked effort to deter arrivals, the European Union – the birthplace of the international protection system – jeopardized its tradition of human rights and the basic standards of asylum law.",
        "之后，在阻止难民入境的恐慌性努力中，身为国际保护制度发源地的欧盟危及了庇护法的基本标准和人权传统。"
    ],
    [
        "Karachi, a multi-ethnic metropolis, could erupt into full-scale chaos. During the 1990’s, violence there between Bhutto’s party and a local ethnic party – now allied with Musharraf – took thousands of lives.",
        "卡拉奇这个多民族聚居的都市很可能要陷入全面的无政府状态，上世纪90年代，发生在该城市的贝•布托的政党和一个当地少数民族政党——该政党现已是穆沙拉夫的同盟——之间的暴力冲突曾使数千人丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "In the coming years, superconductors are expected to play a growing role in technology.",
        "超导体预计将在未来科技中扮演日渐重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "With such an approach, South Africa has made considerable progress from institutionalized segregation toward an ideal of a “rainbow nation” in just two decades.",
        "南非在这一方针的指导下，在短短二十年的时间里就在从制度性隔离转向“彩虹国”方面取得了极大的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The world faces a major dilemma.",
        "伯克利——世界正面临一个重大难题。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet post-conflict employment policies almost always neglect so-called “horizontal inequalities.”",
        "但后冲突阶段的就业政策几乎总是忽视所谓的“横向不平等”。"
    ],
    [
        "And, to the extent that there is even an informal price target associated with the ECB’s commitment to purchase bonds, foreign outflows, at least from the sovereign-bond market, are automatically replaced, in full, with ECB cash.",
        "此外，由于欧洲央行的债券购买承诺包括了一个非正式的价格目标，因此外国资本外流——至少是从主权债券市场上的外流+——可以自动、完全地被欧洲央行的现金代替。"
    ],
    [
        "Tragically, genocide is happening again, this time in Sudan.",
        "充满悲剧色彩的是，种族灭绝的暴行却再次出现，这一次是在苏丹。"
    ],
    [
        "(Kelantan state, however, was always expected to continue to be held by PAS.)",
        "（然而Kelantan州却一直被认为是PAS的势力范围。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "But its renaissance is in danger of running out of steam.",
        "但南非的复兴有失去动力的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Few people have direct experience of the other members of the community with which they identify.",
        "很少有人拥有其所认同的社会的其他成员所拥有的直接经验。"
    ],
    [
        "Not long after, the dollar was detached from the gold standard.",
        "不久之后，美元脱离了金本位制。"
    ],
    [
        "This would narrow the fiscal gap, a widely used measure of long-term budgetary imbalance, by almost one-third.",
        "这将让财政缺口——广泛使用的长期预算失衡指标——缩小近三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia will be the first to be exposed.",
        "非洲、中东及中亚将是首批发生冲突的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "From War of Choice to War Without End",
        "从选择的战争到无尽的战争"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless it is widely believed that Thaksin committed “lèse majesté” by attempting to undermine the moral authority of the crown, a cornerstone of the kingdom, perhaps replacing it with a republic that he would control. Lèse majesté is a grave crime in Thailand.",
        "然而，人们普遍认为，他信试图通过破坏王权的道德权威——它是泰王国的一个基石——的方式，来亵渎君主，或许他还打算用他可以控制的共和制来取代君主制。 亵渎君主在泰国是一个严重罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the rule-of-law approach to fighting terrorism must be a pillar of European cooperation with third countries, namely with those of the Mediterranean, or with Pakistan, thereby contributing to a security culture that is conducive to democratization.",
        "与此同时，通过法治途径对抗恐怖主义必须成为欧洲与第三方，特别是地中海各国、或巴基斯坦合作的基石，以此来营造一种有利于民主的安全文化。"
    ],
    [
        "In that context, the legitimacy of the CCP, already challenged by China’s economic slowdown, could erode further.",
        "在这样的情况下，已经因为中国经济减速而受到挑战的中共合法性将进一步减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Europe is falling into a stagnation trap.",
        "巴黎—欧洲正在陷入停滞陷阱。"
    ],
    [
        "Another question is whether any sanctions will be enough to persuade Iran’s leaders to accept verifiable limits on their nuclear program.",
        "另一个问题是制裁是否足以说服伊朗领导人接受可作证的限制条件，限制其核计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so risks putting investors in the same position as the last shareholders in Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private coal company, which is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.",
        "这样做会可能让投资者处于和皮博迪能源公司（Peabody Energy）最后的股东相同的境地。 皮博迪能源公司是世界上最大的私有煤炭公司，目前正处于破产边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the rising risk of conflict in Asia – owing to a toxic combination of rapid GDP growth, an arms race, historical resentments, rampant chauvinism, territorial disputes, and a lack of effective institutional arrangements for conflict resolution – Europe should welcome a stronger US presence in the region.",
        "目前亚洲呈现出快速GDP增长、军备竞赛、历史仇恨、普遍的沙文主义、领土纠纷的危险组合，又缺少有效的制度性安排来解决冲突，因此发生冲突的风险很大，在这样的环境下，欧洲应该欢迎美国在该地区起到更大作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But a little self-examination should lead any thinking person to recognize that we all are nationalists – we feel, think, and react to the world as nationalism prescribes.",
        "但只要你还有点思考力，稍稍自我审视一下就能发现我们所有人都是民族主义者——我们像民族主义所描述的那样感受和思考世界并对世界做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the relationship between Turkey and the EU needs its own “reset.”",
        "显然，土耳其和欧盟的关系需要自我“重置”。"
    ],
    [
        "The predictable initial response is to dismiss the possibility out of hand.",
        "不难预见，对该议案的最初反应是排除了它的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Both processes leave toxic residues and somewhat less oily dirt.",
        "这两种方法在降低土壤油性的同时，都无法避免有毒物质残留问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The CIA’s role has never been explained or justified.",
        "中央情报局的角色从未得到解释或论证。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, the two regions represent nearly a third of the 195 parties that have signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and account for roughly 20% of global greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "欧盟和CELAC加起来占据联合国气候变化框架公约195个签约方的近三分之一和全球温室气体排放量的约20%。"
    ],
    [
        "And Japan has so far failed to live up to its treaty obligations to clean up between 700,000 and two million chemical weapons that were abandoned in China by the Japanese army at the end of World War II, another potential flash point if any of these weapons causes casualties in China.",
        "而且日本到目前为止未能履行条约中所应承担的义务，清理二次大战末期日军遗弃在中国的700，000到2百万件化学武器。 如果这些武器在中国造成人员伤亡，可能提醒中国民众再次回忆起那段痛苦的经历。"
    ],
    [
        "Running on very small budgets, these ruthless truth-tellers regularly force their institutions’ leaders to have honest discussions about organizational effectiveness and possible reforms.",
        "这些真相的无情揭露者不需多少运行经费，却能经常迫使本机构的领导层就组织效率和可能实施的改革开展诚恳的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "By sharing the treatment data of a large patient population, for example, care providers can better identify practices that could save $180 billion annually.",
        "比如，通过共享大患者总体的医疗数据，看护服务提供商就能更好地提供服务，每年节省1,800亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the 12th Five-Year Plan, the minimum wage should grow by 13% per year.",
        "根据“十二五”计划，最低工资的年增长率为13%。"
    ],
    [
        "Many historical periods have been named after imperial hegemons: Pax Romana, Pax Britannica, Pax Americana.",
        "罗马和平、不列颠和平、美式和平等诸多历史时期均以帝国霸权来命名。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if Putin has found a way to retain power without amending the constitution – a possibility that was endlessly speculated about by Russia’s dwindling band of democrats – the undemocratic nature of his strategy is glaringly obvious.",
        "即便普京找到一条无需修改宪法就能保留权力的途径。 这种可能性已经被俄罗斯势力越来越小的民主人士做过无限的猜测了，他的策略的非民主性质已经昭然若揭了。"
    ],
    [
        "The fine is indeed much higher than those levied before.",
        "但这项罚款确实比以往的都要高昂许多。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes we may indeed think deeply about the pros and cons of each argument, actively seeking information and data that would support one view over another; in other cases, however, we rely on a “quick and dirty” evaluation of the arguments, focusing not on evidence, but rather on an advocate’s expertise or popularity.",
        "有时我们的确会深入思考各种观点孰优孰劣，并积极搜寻一种观点胜过其他观点的事实和证据； 但也有时我们迅速对观点做出不负责任的判断，我们真正关注的并不是证据，而是观点倡导者的专业性或受欢迎度。"
    ],
    [
        "But is the problem unique to the financial industry, or does it exemplify a deeper flaw in Western capitalism?",
        "需要讨论的是，这个问题仅限于金融行业，还是代表了西方资本主义制度更深层次的缺陷？"
    ],
    [
        "The slow recovery following the 2008 financial crisis has obscured the long-term reality that developed countries now face.",
        "2008年金融危机后的缓慢复苏掩盖了发达国家当前面临的长期现实。"
    ],
    [
        "In addressing its medium- to long-term consequences, a focus on women – especially poor women – is needed.",
        "要解决它的中长期影响，就必须以妇女特别是贫穷妇女为焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "The prevailing Chinese mindset is that the US is intent on isolating, containing, and undermining it.",
        "中国人普遍认为，美国想要孤立、遏制和破坏中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Professors (I have long been one) would like to think that we do our job because of our love of learning and teaching, and that our effort and dedication is not something money can easily buy.",
        "教授（我很久之前便已经成为教授）愿意这样想：我们做这行是因为我们热爱学习和教学，并且我们的努力和奉献不是钱可以轻易买到的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Trump’s plans to increase protectionism and sharply reduce immigration, if realized, would both have significant adverse effects on growth (though, to be fair, the proposal to have the composition of immigration more closely match the economy’s needs is what most countries, including Canada and Australia, already do).",
        "此外，特朗普加强保护主义和大幅减少移民的计划如果实现，都将给增长带来巨大的负面作用（尽管平心而论，让移民的成分更加契合经济的需要的方案，正是包括加拿大和澳大利亚在内的大部分国家正在做的）。"
    ],
    [
        "But that requires them to be engaged and active.",
        "但这需要他们参与和活跃。"
    ],
    [
        "And they see a president with a vision of a country that can rebuild its infrastructure, reform its health care, strengthen its educational system, and boost its economic prosperity in ways that require all citizens to contribute – and that will, in turn, allow all citizens to flourish.",
        "他们认为这个国家能够以要求所有公民都做出贡献——反过来也让所有公民共享其繁荣——的方法重建基础设施、改革医保系统、增强教育系统、提振经济繁荣。 他们对奥巴马的看法也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "One mystery is why Trump was so anxious to protect Flynn.",
        "人们很难理解，为什么特朗普如此急迫地向弗林提供保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, one thermal kick was enough to initiate an internal dynamic that will now continue under its own momentum, regardless of any action that humans might take to prevent it.",
        "简言之，只消外部温度的一次剧烈变化就足以启动冰川内部的应激机制，到那时即便人类想要阻止也已经难上加难。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas most developed countries will experience a shortage of people as the century progresses, America is one of the few that may avoid demographic decline and maintain its share of world population.",
        "随着21世纪的深入，大部分发达国家都将经历人口短缺，但美国是其中少数可能避免人口下降、维持其世界人口比例的国家之一。"
    ],
    [
        "A company’s legal residence and geographic sources of income can be and are manipulated for such purposes, and the incentives and scope for such manipulation are especially large in sectors where competitive advantage depends on intangible capital and knowledge – sectors that play a major role in the US economy’s competitiveness.",
        "公司可以操纵其法律登记地和收入的地理源来达到此种目的，这样做的激励和空间在竞争优势取决于无形资本和知识的部门尤其强烈和广大，而这些部门正是美国经济竞争力之主要所在。"
    ],
    [
        "In the process, ideas are disseminated and used less than they would be otherwise.",
        "在上述过程中，创意的传播速度和利用率都大打折扣。"
    ],
    [
        "Who gets to pocket this “team surplus”?",
        "谁能获得这一“团队剩余”？"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Ever since the Al Saud clan established in 1932 the kingdom to which they gave their name, the exercise of power in Saudi Arabia has been shaped by the intrigues and intricacies of royal politics.",
        "伦敦—自沙特（Al Saud）家族1932年建立由家族名字命名的王国以来，沙特阿拉伯的权力便一直由波诡云谲的宫廷政治左右着。"
    ],
    [
        "With the pace of IT innovation increasing, monopoly power is also rising.",
        "随着IT创新节奏的加快，垄断力也不断提高。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this economic and social system that is usually identified as the “Swedish model.”",
        "这种经济和社会体制通常被人称为“瑞典模式”。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Russian economic policymaking is fragmented and dysfunctional.",
        "结果，俄罗斯经济决策支离破碎并且功能失调。"
    ],
    [
        "The amount of financing per student is the same, and schools that receive vouchers cannot charge additional fees.",
        "每个学生获得的资金是相同的，得到教育凭证的学校不得再收取额外的费用。"
    ],
    [
        "Selecting Our Children",
        "筛选我们的孩子"
    ],
    [
        "Based on these building blocks, the world could agree on allocating the costs for speeding the development and spread of new low-emission technologies.",
        "基于这些讨论模块，世界各国将讨论决定具体哪些国家将分担某种低排放技术的研发推广成本。"
    ],
    [
        "If we intend to abolish the gallows, we should also fight for the prevention of crime and against the inhumanity of many prisons.",
        "如果我们要废除绞刑，那么也该为预防犯罪和反对监狱虐待犯人努力进行斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "The upside of all this political turmoil is that it demonstrates the vigor of Korean democracy.",
        "这场政治混乱最重要的方面是，它显示了韩国民主的活力。"
    ],
    [
        "A move by army officers in Tripoli against Qaddafi and his sons might end the conflict, with military commanders getting the credit – and the political capital.",
        "由的黎波里的军官对卡扎菲及其子采取军事行动可能结束冲突，但功劳和政治资本可能都会落入军事指挥官的腰包。"
    ],
    [
        "If the world is to succeed in quickly reducing global emissions to prevent climate change from reaching catastrophic levels, reducing HFCs is a sensible – perhaps the most sensible – first step.",
        "如果世界想迅速降低全球排放以防止发生灾难性的气候变化，减少氢氟碳化物排放是明智——也许是最明智的——第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Partly as a result of the damage at Renesas, Toyota’s capacity-utilization rate dropped to 50% at the beginning of May.",
        "由于该企业受灾，丰田汽车5月初的产能利用率下降了超过50%。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Italian naval forces were instructed to avoid the waters off the coast of Tripoli, and Spanish tanker aircraft were forbidden to refuel fighter jets.",
        "比如，意大利海军接到的命令是防止海水倒灌的黎波里海岸，西班牙空中加油机则被禁止为战斗机加油。"
    ],
    [
        "The study examined the effect of our raw-material usage; the impact of car exhaust on public health, especially in congested urban areas; and the contribution to overall greenhouse-gas emissions – 23% of which come from the auto industry worldwide.",
        "这项研究考察了我们的原材料使用的影响、汽车尾气对公共健康的影响（特别是在拥堵的城市地区）以及对总体温室气体排放的影响——全世界有23%的温室气体来自汽车业。"
    ],
    [
        "This top-level governance architecture is analogous to a computer’s operating system, which orchestrates the other software and hardware components to form a holistic unity.",
        "顶层设计类似于计算机操作系统，需要合理安排所有软硬组件，达到系统兼容及完整。 许多现代经济体都已经拥有这种顶层治理结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the world’s largest nuclear operator – the French state-controlled utility Électricité de France – announced its impending withdrawal from nuclear power in the US, after having sunk roughly $2 billion into aborted projects.",
        "类似地，世界上最大的核电公司——法国国家控股的法国电力公司（EDF）——宣布即将退出美国核电市场。 该公司有20亿美元因为项目遭弃而打了水漂。"
    ],
    [
        "The “baby boomers” are the generation that grew up in the United States, in particular, but also in Europe, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere, after World War II, when rapid economic growth was accompanied by rising birth rates.",
        "“婴儿潮一代”特指二战后生长在美国的一代人，但同期生长在欧洲、加拿大、澳大利亚和其他地方的人同样也属于婴儿潮一代。 战后经济快速发展和出生率大幅飙升是这个时代的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "DUBLIN – Europe’s needs and Europeans’ desires are at odds.",
        "都柏林—欧洲的需要和欧洲人的渴望之间是矛盾的。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – In 2015, around 5.9 million children under the age of five, almost all in developing countries, died from easily preventable or treatable causes.",
        "纽约——2015年，几乎全部来自发展中国家的约590万5岁以下儿童死于可以轻松预防或治疗的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "That was especially so in China, which, together with other developing economies, accounts for nearly half of the debt incurred since 2008.",
        "中国的情况尤其如此，中国连同其他发展中经济体占到2008年后累积债务的将近一半左右。"
    ],
    [
        "This focus on material improvement aimed at meeting basic needs makes sense for a country at Bhutan’s relatively low income level.",
        "而考虑到不丹国内相对较低的收入水平，这类旨在满足基本需要的物质改善是切实可行的。"
    ],
    [
        "They feed on their own atrocities or on those of their opponents to win support through fear rather than conviction – using videos to raise funds and recruit new members.",
        "他们从自己和对手的暴行中得到滋养，利用恐惧而不是信念来获得支持——还利用视频筹资和招募新成员。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for Greece’s government to recognize this imperative and expand the scope of negotiations with its creditors to include not just the budget, but also strategies for stimulating exports.",
        "希腊政府也是时候意识到这一要点并扩大与其债权人的谈判范围，不仅关于预算，还要包括刺激出口的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "The Web site of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has a comprehensive database that shows how many trucks, containing different kinds of supplies, have been allowed in by the Israeli authorities.",
        "联合国人道主义事务协调办公室网站上有一个完整的数据库，列出了以色列允许开入加沙地带的满载各种供给物资的卡车数量。"
    ],
    [
        "With more income at their disposal, people begin to consume more of their food basket in the form of animal products.",
        "在人们可支配收入不断增加的情况下，动物类产品的消费也逐步上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-immigrant sentiment cuts across the old left-right divide.",
        "反移民情绪不受传统左右翼分界的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "The Nigerian economy, just to take one example, is expected to contract by 1.7% this year.",
        "随便举个例子，尼日利亚经济预计今年将收缩1. 7%。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet consistent implementation is crucial to avoiding another regulatory “race to the bottom.”",
        "但一致的执行效果也是避免各国争相降低管制标准的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "This confluence of economic incentives to take on risk makes bank managers poor guardians of financial safety.",
        "冒险的经济激励让银行管理者不再是金融安全的守护者。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Our Economic Future Behind Us?",
        "我们的经济未来已经落后了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, political parties and movements criticizing or opposing the EU have gained considerable traction, particularly in Western Europe.",
        "在这样的背景下，批评或反对欧盟的政党和运动获得了极大的推动力，特别是在西欧。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Federal Reserve, that increase reflected a $2 trillion increase in the value of homes and an $8 trillion rise in the value of shares, unincorporated businesses, and other net financial assets.",
        "根据美联储的数据，其中2万亿美元来自住房价值升高，8万亿美元来自股票、非公司企业和其他净金融资产的升值。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many such people, tens of millions, but they are not always politically engaged and united.",
        "这样的人数量众多，有几千万之多，但是他们并不总是积极参与政治并团结一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the cost of the annual treatment recommended by the World Health Organization is often less than $0.50, and much less in Asia, with delivery carried out by communities or through schools.",
        "世界卫生组织推荐的年度治疗费用一般低于0. 50美元，而在亚洲则更低，药品通过社区或学校发放。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Dorothy Nelkin and Susan Lindee, it has become a sacred entity – the modern equivalent of the Christian soul, an individual’s essence.",
        "根据内尔金（Dorothy Nelkin）和林迪（Susan Lindee）的说法，DNA已经成为神圣实体（sacred entity）——基督灵魂的现代等价物、个体生命的本质。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, according to the recently released World Inequality Report 2018, the share of national income claimed by the top 1% of the population rose from 11% in 1980 to 20% in 2014, compared to just 13% for the entire bottom half of the population.",
        "在美国，根据最近发布的《2018年世界不平等状况报告》，最顶层那1％的人口占国民收入的份额从1980年的11％上升到了2014年的20％，而位于社会收入层级底部那50%的人口只得到了总收入的13%。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s also that she believes that God set her legislative agenda in Alaska, and that she has failed to venture much beyond the Discovery Channel when it comes to foreign travel.",
        "还有她认为是上帝在安排她在阿拉斯加的立法议程，而在对外国的了解方面她的知识恐怕仅来自于探索频道。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s interest in a new North Korea policy is not entirely new.",
        "中国对新朝鲜政策的兴趣算不上全新。"
    ],
    [
        "For 70 years, the PRI had a complete lock on Mexican politics; now three parties do, and no one else can enter the political arena or gain access to the enormous public subsidies – more than $500 million last year – handed out to these parties without their consent.",
        "70年来，一直由革命制度党把持着的墨西哥政治，现在则由三个政党共同把持，其他人不可能进入到政治领域，也不可能染指巨额公共补贴，公共补贴的数额之巨在去年就超过了5亿美元，而现在却不费吹灰之力就落入了执政党手中。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there are also examples of countries that have used countercyclical fiscal policy to their advantage since 2000.",
        "诚然，也有一些国家在2000年后采取了反周期政策并取得优势。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in line with his role as a national leader, his was an inter-governmental, not a community perspective.",
        "与其国家领导人的身份一致，他采用了政府间视角，而不是共同体视角。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, this has become a sine qua non of democratic government throughout the world.",
        "事实上，这是世界上要成为民主政府的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "How to Become an Oligarch",
        "怎样成为寡头"
    ],
    [
        "Matters came to a head after the 1997 financial crisis, when Anwar, the deputy prime minister, adopted an even more economically liberal approach than Mahathir.",
        "1997年金融危机后问题发展到了顶点，当时担任副首相的安瓦尔推行比马哈蒂尔更为自由的经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union and Canada have signed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), providing a glimmer of hope that progress can still be made on prosperity-enhancing trade and investment pacts.",
        "欧盟和加拿大已经签署的全面经济和贸易协定（CETA）为在促进繁荣的贸易和投资协定方面取得进展提供了一线生机。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also the favorite of many of my students.",
        "我的许多学生也最喜欢这本书。"
    ],
    [
        "Serious problems confronting humanity are tackled only when stakeholders become full participants.",
        "只有当利益相关者成为充分的参与者时，才能解决人类面临的严峻问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel has simply stopped seeking to reconcile its Jewish identity with its commitment to democracy, for it has stopped addressing the contradiction that the Israeli-Palestinian question represents.",
        "因为不再解决以巴问题所代表的矛盾，以色列已完全停止了其犹太身份与民主理想之间的调和。"
    ],
    [
        "As they establish and implement such principles, the resulting momentum has been changing corporate governance and behavior across industries and regions.",
        "随着他们树立并实施这些原则，由此产生的动能在改变各行业、各地区的公司治理行为。"
    ],
    [
        "It would take only a few noncompliant banks to render financial sanctions ineffective.",
        "证明金融制裁的无效性只需要一些不服从的银行就够了。"
    ],
    [
        "How many more will be in intensive care before a banking union becomes a reality?",
        "在银行联盟变成现实之前还有多少国家的银行系统需要急救才能生存下去？"
    ],
    [
        "This may take time.",
        "这可能需要一些时间。"
    ],
    [
        "If one treats so-called “hacktivism” by ideological groups as mostly a disruptive nuisance at this stage, there remain four major categories of cyber threats to national security, each with a different time horizon: cyber war and economic espionage are largely associated with states, and cyber crime and cyber terrorism are mostly associated with non-state actors.",
        "如果您认为现阶段意识形态组织所谓的“黑客行动主义”多半属于破坏性滋扰，依然有四类主要危险因素对国家安全构成威胁。 每种危险因素涉及不同的时间跨度：网络战争和经济谍报活动大多与国家相关，而网络犯罪和网络恐怖主义则大多涉及非国家参与者。"
    ],
    [
        "The success of the war must surely be measured by whether its goals – particularly the establishment of a constitutional democracy and the country’s economic reconstruction – have been achieved.",
        "战争成功与否当然要看建立宪政民主和重建国内经济的目标是否达到。"
    ],
    [
        "There is even a debate – and indeed some evidence – concerning the question of whether involvement in the “war against terrorism” has actually increased the threat of terrorist acts.",
        "甚至还有人辩论，而且确实还有证据表明，参与到“反恐战争”之中是否实际上增加了恐怖主义行动的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite that – or, perhaps, because of his disregard for multilateralism in all forms – US President Donald Trump has called it the “stupidest deal of all time,” and predicted that it would “lead to a nuclear holocaust.”",
        "尽管如此——或者，正因为他蔑视任何形式的多边主义——美国总统特朗普称之为“有史以来最愚蠢的协议”，并预言它将“导致核毁灭”。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaving EMU would be a costly option for weak-performing countries.",
        "对于表现不佳的国家来说，选择脱离欧洲货币联盟代价高昂。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, the IMF’s new investment mantra ultimately leads back to large global imbalances.",
        "讽刺的是，IMF的新投资咒语最终又绕回到严重的全球失衡上。"
    ],
    [
        "Barring that, there is the risk that we will find out what caused this crisis after the next one.",
        "对数据遮遮掩掩将让我们暴露于风险之中——我们很可能只有在下一场危机之后才能弄清楚这场危机的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "It enters this end game facing diminished resources and waning political will within the international community.",
        "这场审判在进入尾声的时候，却面临着国际社会日益缩减的资源分配和日益削弱的政治意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "In a current case, a Spanish judge is seeking arrest warrants against Jiang Zemin, the former president of China, and Li Peng, a former Chinese prime minister, for alleged crimes committed in Tibet.",
        "在最近的一个案例中，一名西班牙法官要求获得针对中国前国家主席蒋泽明和前国务院总理李鹏的逮捕令，指控后两者在西藏犯有罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "Genocide, after all, is a matter of intent, of killing or persecuting people on the grounds of their race, ethnicity, or creed.",
        "种族灭绝归根结底是一种目的，是基于种族、民族或信仰而对民众展开杀戮或迫害。"
    ],
    [
        "The “Putin Center” can be displaced.",
        "“普京中心”有可能会被取代。"
    ],
    [
        "The paradoxical finding here is that one great trick to being happy is to forget about being happy and instead try to increase the happiness of others.",
        "而最矛盾的发现则在于：如果你想快乐，最好的窍门就是忘记自己的快乐，并将快乐带给别人。"
    ],
    [
        "It has been said that presidential democracy only strengthens Russian political culture’s tendency to favor rulers with a “strong hand,” whereas a parliamentary system would allow for a more “horizontal” distribution of power.",
        "人们曾说总统制民主只会强化俄罗斯政治文化中赐予掌权者“铁腕”的倾向，而议会制度将会带来权力更加“水平”的分配。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, multiculturalism’s more thoughtful advocates never imagined that a cultural community could or should substitute for a political community.",
        "诚然，考虑得更周全的多元文化主义的倡导者们从未想象过一个文化族群能够或应该取代政治族群。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, not only was Zhen Xiaouyu executed, but Cao Wenzhuang, who was in charge of drug registration at the SFDA, was sentenced to death for accepting roughly $300,000 in bribes from drug manufacturers.",
        "此外，不仅仅是郑筱萸一个人被处决了，药品注册司原司长曹文庄因为从药品生产厂家那儿收受了大约30万美元的贿赂也被判处了死刑。"
    ],
    [
        "Would these three types of initiatives add up to €300 billion?",
        "这三大杠杆可以加在3,000亿欧元之上吗？"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, reality can sometimes be forced to converge towards market expectations, not vice versa.",
        "因此，有时现实会被迫向市场预期趋近，而不是相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Most journalists, like national electorates, have little understanding of the significant shift in Europe’s political decision-making over the last 20 years.",
        "和国内选民一样，大多数新闻工作者根本不知道在过去的20年中欧洲的政治决策发生了重大改变。"
    ],
    [
        "On both counts, the disconnects are striking, adding a new dimension of risk to the impact of the “China factor” on a fragile world.",
        "在国外，美国采取了冷战式策略遏制中国崛起。 不论在国内还是国外，分离（disconnect）的现象严重，这给“中国因素”对脆弱世界的影响增加了新的风险维度。"
    ],
    [
        "In Italy, the referendum is required by the constitution – it did not come about through political machinations – and it is not a vote on EU membership, even if the EU or the eurozone will be on voters’ minds.",
        "在意大利，公投是宪法本身的要求——不是政治运作的结果——即便选民会考虑到欧盟或欧元区的问题，投票本身也并非关于欧盟成员国资格。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising food and energy prices pushed inflation up to 9.7% in May, from 8.2% in April.",
        "上涨的食品和能源价格使通货膨胀率从四月份的8. 2%上升到五月份的9."
    ],
    [
        "He declared a popular former president to be a “rapist,” flipped his position on one policy after another, bragged that his running mate could be “anyone” who supported him, and told the National Rifle Association that Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, would “release violent criminals from jail.”",
        "他公然宣称一位颇受欢迎的前总统是“强奸犯”、在一项又一项政策上出尔反尔、并吹嘘他的竞选搭档可以是支持他的“任何人”。 特朗普还告知全国步枪协会可能的民主党提名人希拉里·克林顿将会“从监狱里释放暴力犯”。"
    ],
    [
        "ISTANBUL – Following the recent safe return of 46 Turkish hostages held by the Islamic State, hopes were raised in the United States that Turkey would finally commit to joining the US-led coalition now fighting the group.",
        "伊斯坦布尔—最近，46名被伊斯兰国劫持的土耳其人质安全返回，美国开始希望土耳其最终能够加入其所领导的对抗伊斯兰国(IS)的联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, EU chemical companies specialize in high-value products, and Europe exports much more of them than it imports.",
        "今天，欧盟化学品公司专门生产高附加值产品，欧洲化学品的出口量要比进口量多得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The other road is a lot less attractive.",
        "另一条路就要差一些。"
    ],
    [
        "Substantial public rescue funds have reportedly been siphoned off to foreign banks, Goldman Sachs, and staff bonuses for purposes unrelated to protecting public interests.",
        "据报道，美国有大量的公共援救资金，不是为了保护公共利益的目的而被转移到了外国银行、高盛手中或者被当作金融机构员工的奖金。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent era of global finance – maybe we can already possibly speak of it as being past – differed from the financial surge of a century ago. Its cultural manifestations also appeared to be novel.",
        "最近的全球金融时代 - 也许我们可以说它已成为过去时了 - 不同于一个世纪以前的金融浪潮，其文化表现形式也似乎是新颖的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is very strong evidence that these tend to correlate with wellbeing, and probably cause it, and there are obvious reasons why this should be the case.",
        "有充分证据表明上述因素往往不仅关乎福祉，而且是幸福感的源头，个中原因也是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "If the demagogues making nonsensical claims about trade are now getting a hearing – and, in the US and elsewhere, actually winning power – it is trade’s academic boosters who deserve at least part of the blame.",
        "如果产生荒谬的贸易论点的煽动正在被接受——在美国和其他国家，这些实际上已经开始得势——那么贸易学术界至少必须承担部分责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it is China’s economic renaissance – some of whose effects so disturbed this patriotic old woman – which has been the most remarkable event in recent world history.",
        "而这仍是中国经济“文艺复兴“般的巨大繁荣——尽管某些其中的效应是如此困扰这位年老的女爱国者——中国的经济复苏是当今世界史上最非凡的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "OK, so maybe it is too soon for the world to start toasting America’s insane consumption patterns.",
        "好了，如此说来全世界要现在就举杯欢庆美国的疯狂消费模式还为时尚早。"
    ],
    [
        "The countries likely to bear the brunt of such massive diversion of waters are those located farthest downstream on rivers like the Brahmaputra and Mekong – Bangladesh, whose very future is threatened by climate and environmental change, and Vietnam, a rice bowl of Asia.",
        "而首先受到这种大规模截水工程危害的则是那些位于雅鲁藏布江或者湄公河最下游位置的国家——比如国家前途正在受到气候和环境变化威胁的孟加拉，或者亚洲的稻米大国越南。"
    ],
    [
        "America is now in the midst of such a struggle, and how we manage it will inform how other countries handle similar struggles of their own.",
        "美国现在就处在这一斗争之中，我们如何应对这一局面将给其他面对类似斗争的国家提供案例。"
    ],
    [
        "It was probably inevitable that Kadyrov’s increasing power would worry the Kremlin, especially after the Kremlin itself created a precedent for secession by recognizing the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia of the war with Georgia of 2008.",
        "卡德罗夫力量的不断壮大将不可避免地引起克里姆林宫的忧虑，尤其是在克里姆林宫自己为加盟共和国独立运动开创了先例之后——俄罗斯在2008年格（鲁吉亚）俄（罗斯）战争之后公开承认阿布哈兹和南奥塞梯两个共和国从格鲁吉亚独立就是前车之鉴。"
    ],
    [
        "But tech CEOs have not tweeted about restoring that resource, because, at the moment, they see no viable business model for saving trees.",
        "但科技公司的首席执行官们却并没有在推特上表示要恢复森林资源，因为到目前为止，他们还看不到有什么可行的商业模式可以拯救树木。"
    ],
    [
        "Caffeine also appears to be associated with a modest reduction in Parkinson’s risk.",
        "咖啡因也可以略微降低帕金森病风险。"
    ],
    [
        "No wonder that fringe political movements are gaining traction throughout the eurozone.",
        "毫无疑问，边缘政治运动正在整个欧元区赢得动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The group's power grab has frightened its adversaries, leading them to seek new alliances that could imperil the state's security.",
        "该集团的得势令其对手大感恐惧，促使它们结成新的联盟，以至于危及国家安全。"
    ],
    [
        "In a globalized world, capital flows have accelerated and extended their reach.",
        "在全球化的世界中，资本流速度更快、覆盖面更广。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as invasive species adapt to pesticides, most cancer cells adapt to therapies.",
        "就像入侵性物种会适应杀虫剂一样，多数癌细胞也会适应治疗措施。"
    ],
    [
        "We take pride in that the Sudan of the Revolution has become the exemplary essence of this new hope. The Sudan is the biggest country in Africa.",
        "对此我们也为革命后的苏丹能成为这一新希望的优秀楷模而感到骄傲。"
    ],
    [
        "It also meant that each country’s exchange rate could no longer respond to the cumulative effects of differences in productivity and global demand trends.",
        "在平稳运行了11年之后，欧元制度的基本问题已显露无疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps more importantly, the law indirectly consolidates, at least in theory, the concept of a private sphere in Chinese society: a physical and legal area protected from arbitrary state intervention that could potentially serve as a basis for demanding greater political participation.",
        "也许更重要的是，这部法律至少是在理论上间接地巩固了中国社会中私有阶层的概念，即实际存在的、合法的领域，它不受政府随心所欲的干涉，将来可能成为诉求更大政治参与的一个基础。"
    ],
    [
        "So legitimacy is more than legality. It rests on what the people concerned believe to be real.",
        "合法性不仅仅是符合法定程序那么简单，它还取决于相关人员认可什么是真实有效的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the increased supply of high-quality female labor will not incur additional healthcare and pension costs, unlike labor immigration.",
        "而且，高质量女性劳力供应的增加不会像劳工移民那样引发额外的医疗和养老金成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout most of human history, they had their way.",
        "纵观绝大部分人类历史，他们一直在这个问题上在一意孤行。"
    ],
    [
        "Diplomats have always represented the face of their country, but their own faces have changed.",
        "外交官始终代表自己国家的颜面，但他们自己却发生了变化。"
    ],
    [
        "How China and the US avoid what Harvard’s Graham Allison has termed the “Thucydides Trap” is of great concern to the world, as is ensuring that geostrategic disputes elsewhere don’t lead to violence.",
        "”中国和美国该如何避免哈佛大学教授格雷厄姆·艾里逊（Graham Allison）所说的“修昔底德陷阱”是全球非常关心的问题，同时有助于确保其他地方的地缘战略冲突不会升级为暴力斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan must take this view seriously, regardless of Bush’s motivations.",
        "不管布什的动机是什么，巴基斯坦都必须认真对待这个观点。"
    ],
    [
        "When I was a European Commissioner, we provided funds from European taxpayers to pay for these things.",
        "在我担任欧盟委员会专员的时候，我们从欧洲纳税人那里提供资金来支付这些东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists look at the impact on sustainable growth.",
        "经济学家关注对可持续发展的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Early-childhood education, preventive medicine, libraries, physical infrastructure, and basic scientific research, for example, all cost money – and studies show that they are worthwhile.",
        "举例来讲，早期儿童教育、预防医学、图书馆、基础设施和基础科学研究都需要资金支持——而且研究显示这些钱花得很值。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, roughly 1% of the labor force is able to grow enough food to supply the entire population with sufficient calories and essential nutrients, which are transported and distributed by another 1% of the labor force.",
        "在美国，大约1%的劳动力就能生产足够多的食品为全国人口提供足够的卡路里和必要营养素，而运输和分销这些食品则需要另外1%的劳动力即可。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this would have been possible without Shevardnadze’s decades-long career of cunning, yet brave, political triangulation.",
        "没有谢瓦尔德纳泽数十年的狡猾、勇敢的三角政治生涯，这些都将是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany has always been the motor of European integration, in accordance with its political and economic interests.",
        "德国一向是欧洲一体化的发动机，这也符合它的政治、经济利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only has the expansion of primary and secondary education been linked to accelerated economic growth, poverty eradication, and improved income equality, but education also appears to be closely associated with social enrichment and inclusion, the upgrading of human capital, increased opportunities, and enhanced freedom and welfare.",
        "中小学教育的普及与加快经济增长、减少贫困和增强收入平等直接相关，而教育更是与社会的多样化和包容性、人力资本的升级、机会的增加以及自由与福利的巩固紧密相关。"
    ],
    [
        "The less-well-off ultimately became even worse off as they lost their jobs and homes.",
        "由于丢掉了工作和房子，后进者终于变成了后退者。"
    ],
    [
        "But German officials preferred to maintain national primacy – and thus a confederational approach to Europe.",
        "但德国官员更愿意将国家利益置于首位，他们只把欧洲看成是国家联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "In a malaria-infested country, mosquito eradication programs can boost production and even increase effective land usage, as acres that were almost uninhabitable become livable.",
        "在疟疾肆虐的国家，灭蚊计划可以提高产量，甚至还可以提高土地有效使用率，使那些不适于人居住的耕地变得可居住。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in continuing the fundamental problems besetting the crippled Kyoto Protocol, the EU has essentially gone and made a worse deal.",
        "此外，由于欧盟继续坚持一些让《京都议定书》不能正常产生实效的根本性问题，它所迈出的新步伐可能更是不智。"
    ],
    [
        "As unlikely as it may seem in the wake of the crisis over Gül’s candidacy, so far Turkey is managing this challenge well.",
        "虽然在居尔的候选人危机之后有点令人难以置信，但到目前为止土耳其在应对这一挑战方面还是表现不错的。"
    ],
    [
        "Boosting exports is also essential.",
        "提振增长也很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Most experts agree, and Deaton concurs, that at least a billion people on the planet live in desperate circumstances resembling conditions that prevailed hundreds of years ago.",
        "大多数专家认定而迪顿也赞成的是，地球上至少有十亿人生活在跟前几个世纪类似的悲惨境地之中。"
    ],
    [
        "On industrial policy, the PT has the right intuition but the wrong tools.",
        "在产业政策方面，劳工党直觉正确，但手段错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Because Burma’s generals say almost nothing in public, it is difficult to fathom why they allowed elections that elevated Thein Sein to power, or to explain their willingness to embrace dialogue with the long-suppressed opposition.",
        "由于缅甸的将军们在公开场合几乎总是缄口不言，因此很难看出他们为何会容许把登盛推上权力宝座的选举发生，也很难解释为什么他们愿意与被长期镇压的反对派展开对话。"
    ],
    [
        "Will it be enough?",
        "这样就足够了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Nor should Israelis ignore what former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described as “megalomaniacal preparations” for an attack on Iran “that would never happen.”",
        "以色列也不应该忽视前总理奥尔默特所谓的对“永远不可能发生”的打击伊朗的“远大准备”。"
    ],
    [
        "The reforms that Turkey has already implemented in a very short period of time, thanks to its EU candidate status, are impressive.",
        "由于其加入欧盟的候选国地位，土耳其已经在很短的时间内进行了改革，这令人印象深刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, we must be realists.",
        "当然，我们必须保持现实。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is that what goes on inside a country can no longer be the concern of that country alone.",
        "结果是一个国家内部发生的事务不再仅限于该国自身需要关注的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A democratic tide seems to be sweeping across the Arab world.",
        "一股民主浪潮正在席卷阿拉伯世界。"
    ],
    [
        "For the Chinese leadership, this means that a growth rate of about 10% per year will be essential for a long time.",
        "因此，将经济增长速度维持在年均10%的高水平对中国政府而言意义重大。"
    ],
    [
        "Working around existing treaties just looks like more of the same old recipe – a denial of a massive problem that everyone sees.",
        "围绕现有条约开展工作看上去就像是照着旧菜谱做菜，不啻于否认所有人都看得到的大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But why would others seek to emulate an economic model by which a large proportion – even a majority – of the population has seen their income stagnate while incomes at the top have soared?",
        "但其他国家为何要模仿这个大量人口——甚至可以说是大部分人口——收入停滞不前、眼睁睁看着顶层收入狂飙突进的经济模式呢？"
    ],
    [
        "If ideas like negative interest rates and higher inflation targets sound dangerously radical, well, radical is relative.",
        "如果负利率和提高通胀目标这样的概念听起来过于激进，那么，好吧，激进也是相对的。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach, which secures growth and cuts unemployment without raising the deficit, is needed to energize the private sector and mobilize some of the capital that has accumulated on corporate balance sheets in recent years.",
        "我们需要这一既能确保增长和削减失业，又不会提高赤字的手段来激活私人部门，并调动起近年来沉积在企业内部的资本。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s poorest would be able to feed and educate their children better and become healthier.",
        "26美元？ 这样全世界最贫困民众就能更好地抚养教育子女及改善健康。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama has remained silent about reform of Medicare and Social Security, whose long-run deficits are several times the national debt.",
        "奥巴马在医疗保险和社会保障方面的改革一直缄口不言，这些计划的长期赤字是国民债务的数倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Renzi and Valls – along with Pedro Sánchez of Spain’s Socialist Party – are part of a broader trend.",
        "伦齐和瓦尔斯——以及西班牙社会党（Socialist Party）的桑切斯（Pedro Sánchez）——是更广泛的趋势的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it has neighboring Turkey on its side.",
        "另外，它还得到了邻国土耳其的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Northern Europe must hold up its side of the bargain.",
        "北欧也必须做出让步。"
    ],
    [
        "Japanese companies will also need to improve their capabilities in areas such as marketing, pricing, and talent development.",
        "日本公司还需要提高营销、定价和人才开发等领域的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, there is no reason to be optimistic.",
        "不幸的是，没有理由乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is unclear whether AMRO has sufficient capacity and expertise to monitor 13 countries effectively.",
        "但还尚不清楚该研究室拥有足够的能力和专业水平去有效监测13个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the US cannot be compared with a Union that is nowhere near becoming a United States of Europe.",
        "当然，美国与不可能成为欧洲合众国的欧盟不可同日而语。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to the treaty to reform the Union’s institutions, which will be finalized in November, recent events suggest that amnesia does play a central role.",
        "在有关将于11月份最终签订的改革欧盟机构的条约的问题上，最近的事态表明遗忘症确实扮演了一个中心的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Acquisition of this technology was, even then, a national priority.",
        "即使在那时，获得这项技术也是国家重要的优先事项。"
    ],
    [
        "He spent another year at MIT, where he taught with Robert Solow and met Samuelson and Franco Modigliani.",
        "他在麻省理工学院呆了一年，在那里他和Robert Solow一起执教并且遇到了萨缪尔森和Franco Modigliani。"
    ],
    [
        "So, on one side of the divide we have the major health insurers, which all maintain well-funded, national lobbying operations.",
        "因此在分歧的一面我们有大型医疗保险企业，他们都积极开展资金来源充裕的全国性游说活动。"
    ],
    [
        "But the daily news about migrants dying in the Mediterranean, the war in Ukraine, Greece’s possible default, the turmoil in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, and Gaza, Iran’s nuclear program, and more heighten voters’ awareness that their country needs to be defended robustly, by a government with a coherent foreign policy.",
        "但媒体每天连篇累牍地报道偷渡者死在地中海上，乌克兰战争，希腊的潜在违约，叙利亚、伊拉克、也门，利比亚和加沙地区的乱局以及伊朗核项目都在不断提高选民的意识，认为自己的国家应当由一个拥有长期一致性外交政策的政府来奋力守护。"
    ],
    [
        "Colombia’s Gift to the World",
        "哥伦比亚送给世界的礼物"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, however, it is up to Russia to change its ways.",
        "但是，最终，必须由俄罗斯做出改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a project has worked before in bringing Europe together; it can do so again.",
        "类似的工程曾经在团结欧洲方面祈祷过重要作用；"
    ],
    [
        "The experience of the first Palestinian prime minister, who resigned largely because of his inability to deliver any improvements to his people – particularly personal and collective security, the rule of law, and an end to chaos in Palestinian areas – remains fresh in the public’s memory.",
        "第一位巴总理的前车之鉴至今仍令巴勒斯坦公众们记忆犹新，由于未能改善人民的生存状况－特别是个人和群体的安全、法治状况，结束巴勒斯坦地区的动荡，这位总理最终被迫辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "An earlier assault on India’s Parliament in December 2001 by the Pakistan-based militant organization Jaish-e-Muhammad, nearly triggered a full-scale war between the two countries. In the end India pulled back its deployment on the border.",
        "由基地设在巴基斯坦的拉什卡民兵组织和穆哈迈德圣战组织，早在2001年12月对印度议会大厦进行的一次袭击，几乎引发了两国的全面战争。 最后以印度撤回了其在两国边境的军事部署告终。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, economists get stuck with the charge of being narrowly ideological, because they are their own worst enemy when it comes to applying their theories to the real world.",
        "尽管如此，经济学家仍陷入了意识形态狭隘的指责之中，这是因为在将理论应用到真实世界中时，他们本身是自己最大的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "Black markets exist any time there is a profit to be made.",
        "只要有利可图，就会存在黑市。"
    ],
    [
        "Rwanda’s government has already pledged $43 million to UGHE in land and infrastructure support.",
        "卢旺达政府承诺向UGHE提供4,300万美元的土地和基础设施支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The comfortable role of criticizing the government fell into the hands of leftist populists, for a change.",
        "批评政府、要求改革这一轻松的工作落在了左翼平民主义者身上。"
    ],
    [
        "In one way, this benefits the US by helping to keep interest rates lower than they would be otherwise.",
        "从某种程度上说，这有利于美国，帮助美国维持了低利率。"
    ],
    [
        "China was so eager to provide space technology to Africa’s most populous country that it beat out 21 other bidders for a contract worth $300 million.",
        "中国是如此渴望为非洲这个人口最多的国家提供空间技术，以致它以合同总价3亿美元击败了其他21个竞标者。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe it is unreasonable for investors to expect positive rates on safe assets in the future.",
        "也许对于投资者来说，期待未来安全资产还能有正利率已不再合理。"
    ],
    [
        "The gray, dead silence of night (guards peer in voyeuristically through a slot in the door), the sudden, disembodied shrieks of prisoners, shrieks of distress and rage, the distant rattles and clangs of prison bolts: all make sleep impossible, or so restless as to be a torment.",
        "那些黯淡而死寂的夜（看守们还不时会透过铁门上的小孔窥视你），有时囚犯们会突然发出尖啸，似乎要奋力挣脱自己的肉体，再加上那些郁闷而狂躁的狂吼，不知来自何处的窃窃私语和铁门的叮当声——一切都让人难以入眠，或者焦躁不安，形同折磨。"
    ],
    [
        "In Yaoundé, Cameroon, the AfDB helped to protect some 300,000 people and their property by reducing the frequency of floods from 15 incidents per year to just three.",
        "在喀麦隆首都雅温得，非洲开发银行通过将每年发生洪灾的频率从15次降低到仅仅3次来为 300,000民众及其财产提供保护。"
    ],
    [
        "He has been criticized for the fact that the research was funded by Synthetic Genomics, a company that he cofounded, which will hold the intellectual property rights resulting from the research – and has already filed for 13 patents related to it.",
        "不过外界对他也有诸多批评，因为资助该小组的正是他参与创立的一家名为“人造基因”的公司，而且还掌握着这项研究的知识产权——并已提交了13份相关专利。"
    ],
    [
        "But at least there are enough engineering colleges in India to meet demand.",
        "但至少印度有足够的工学院满足需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The newly elected prime minister, Narendra Modi, campaigned on a platform that promises to deliver to India as a whole the rapid growth in employment and income that the state of Gujarat achieved when he was its chief minister.",
        "新当选总理纳兰德拉·莫迪在竞选中承诺给全印度带来就业和收入的快速增长，就像他出任首席部长的古吉拉特邦那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists have long studied the economics of superstars in fields where a company can lever enormously the decisions of a small number of individuals, making them valuable in a way that someone who can, say, chop down trees like the legendary Paul Bunyan, is not.",
        "经济学家们一直都在研究那些经济界巨子，在某些领域中一个企业可以将一小批人的决策极度放大，并使之取得一种即便是传说中的伐木巨人保罗·班扬（Paul Bunyan）这样的个体都无法实现的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "While many economists judge Germany’s strategy the worst and America’s the best, the Scandinavian strategy can be considered a second-best strategy.",
        "许多经济学家认为德国的策略最差而美国的最好，斯堪的那维亚国家的战略可以被认为是次佳策略。"
    ],
    [
        "Allah goes on to argue that these revolutions did more than just topple regimes like Mubarak’s.",
        "Allah 接着提出上述革命不仅推翻了像穆巴拉克这样的政权。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone who looks little more than a mile north, south, east, or west of Manchester’s Albert Square – never mind slightly less adjacent parts such as Oldham and Rochdale – can see that much needs to be improved, including education, skills training, and inclusiveness, in order to ensure long-term success.",
        "任何目睹曼彻斯特阿尔伯特广场北部、南部、东部或西部超过一英里（更不要说像奥尔德姆和洛奇代尔等距离稍远一些的地区）的人都能看到还有许多地方需要改进，包括教育、技能培训和包容性，才能确保长期成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary interest rates have increased steadily, owing to rampant regulatory arbitrage (whereby banks find loopholes that enable them to avoid unfavorable rules) and the fragmentation of the credit market, while return on capital has fallen rapidly because of overcapacity.",
        "由于监管套利肆虐（银行借此寻找漏洞规避不利规则）和信用市场分裂，货币利率稳步上升，与此同时，产能过剩却让资本回报快速下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The bargain has survived remarkably well, despite the tough times that South African democracy has experienced since then.",
        "虽然南非民主其后经历了诸多困难，但那次谈判的结果却一直没有改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the current upheaval in Europe evokes Edmund Burke’s repudiation in 1790 of the French Revolution as the product of a misguided faith in ideas that defied people’s attachment to history and tradition.",
        "欧洲目前绝大多数动荡令人联想起1790年埃德蒙·伯克驳斥法国大革命，将其称之为藐视民众对历史和传统依恋之情的被误导的信仰产物。"
    ],
    [
        "Wrong economic decisions, such as in the 1970’s, when Robert McNamara pushed grandiose, but environmentally devastating, infrastructure projects, have haunted the Bank for decades.",
        "在七十年代，麦克拉马拉推动了许多规模宏大但造成环境灾难的基础设施项目。 这样的错误经济决定几十年来一直困扰着世行。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, when Western countries discouraged their oil companies from dealing with Sudan’s government because of its inadequate response to the genocide in Darfur, China was quick to buy up the country’s oil.",
        "例如，当西方国家由于苏丹对发生在达尔福尔的种族灭绝反应不利而阻止它们的石油公司同苏丹政府打交道时，中国当即购买了该国的石油。"
    ],
    [
        "One representative was named to the Council because he defected with his MIG fighter plane 20 years ago.",
        "一名代表可能因为曾在20年前驾驶米格战斗机叛逃而入选。"
    ],
    [
        "As in the 1930’s, when the Great Depression gave rise to authoritarian governments in Italy, Germany, and Spain, a similar trend now may be underway.",
        "正如20世纪30年代大萧条为意大利、德国和西班牙的集权政府崛起铺平了道路，今天我们也看到了相同的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "The precautionary principle is hard to dislodge.",
        "最后，某些人，尤其是欧洲人害怕一切新的不熟悉的技术；"
    ],
    [
        "Adding to the problem is an imbalance of commitment and compassion within the EU itself.",
        "让问题更加严重的是欧盟本身内部承诺与同情的不平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "In November, Dubai announced the construction of a solar energy park that will produce electricity for less than $0.06 per kilowatt-hour – undercutting the cost of the alternative investment option, a gas or coal-fired power plant.",
        "11月，迪拜宣布将建设一个太阳能工场，以不到每千瓦时0. 06美元的价格发电，低于其他投资选择——天然气或煤电的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Leon Mba, the first Gabonese president, was such a Francophile that he bequeathed his personal fortune to France in order to finance the construction of a hospital in Paris.",
        "” 第一位加蓬总统莱昂·姆巴对法国的感情如此深厚，以致于他把个人财产遗赠给法国，用于在巴黎修建医院。"
    ],
    [
        "Facing stresses on both systems simultaneously is like losing both engines on an airplane in mid-flight.",
        "同时面临两大系统的压力就好比是飞机在飞行途中遭遇两大引擎同时熄火。"
    ],
    [
        "The plague is spread principally by the bite of fleas, and a few thousand years ago, the bacterium acquired a genetic mutation that made it ferociously effective at spreading.",
        "瘟疫主要通过跳蚤的叮咬传播，而且几千年前，这种细菌获得了一种基因突变，使其在传播的过程中效果异常显著。"
    ],
    [
        "They would be wise to remember that having Stiglitz as a cheerleader and Podemos as advisers did not save Venezuela from its current hyper-inflationary catastrophe.",
        "他们最好想一想，以斯蒂格利茨为吹鼓手、社会民主党为顾问的委内瑞拉并没有逃脱目前的恶性通胀灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "But we learned an enormous amount.",
        "但我们从中学到了很多。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe should be doing better.",
        "但欧洲应该做得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Paul Ehrlich’s bestseller The Population Bomb exerted an influence that lasts to this day.",
        "美国的环保运动马上波及到欧洲以及世界其他地方。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, for example, no politician is anxious to say that home-mortgage deductions should be eliminated, or that dividend payments should be tax-free.",
        "比如说在美国，没有政治家乐意宣称房屋抵押贷款减税政策应该被取消，或是分红所得应该免税。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet many US refineries are still geared toward the heavier and more sour types of crude that the country imports from the Middle East.",
        "但许多美国炼油商仍更加偏好美国进口自中东的较重和含硫量较高的原油（酸油）。"
    ],
    [
        "Decades ago, her grandmother fled to the Hagadera refugee camp to escape the brutal conflict in Somalia.",
        "数十年前，她的祖母逃到哈加德拉难民营以躲避索马里爆发的残酷冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s abandonment of the yuan’s “traditional parity” in July 2005 rules out a new, credibly fixed exchange-rate strategy for some time.",
        "但中国在2005年7月放弃人民币的“传统平衡”，其实就是在一段时间内排除了一种新的、可靠的固定汇率战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Here the experience of countries fighting against deforestation is helpful.",
        "在这方面，具有治理森林退化经验的国家可以起到很大帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "The collapse of world oil and gas prices has wounded Russia’s budget, and lack of investment in the country’s energy sector over the years is now causing the declining production that economists have long predicted.",
        "国际石油和天然气价格大跌损害了俄国的预算，而且俄国能源部门多年来投资不足正在造成经济学家们长久以来就预言的产量下降。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to progress toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the US placed 42nd out of 157 countries in a recent ranking of the SDG Index that I help to lead, far below almost all other high-income countries.",
        "在涉及联合国可持续发展目标进展的问题上，美国在157个国家当中排名第42，这是我近期参与主导的一次可持续发展目标指数排名的结果。 美国在这方面几乎落后于所有其他高收入国家。"
    ],
    [
        "From the left, the emphasis has been on the megabanks’ abuse of power and the great rip-off of the middle class.",
        "在左翼看来，重点是巨型银行对权力的滥用以及对中产阶级的大压榨。"
    ],
    [
        "In its 2011 forecast, the International Monetary Fund predicted that the European economy would grow by 2.1% in 2012.",
        "但事实上，今年欧洲经济萎缩0. 2%似乎已成定局。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is clear to me that this moment in Myanmar’s history represents a real opportunity for permanent change – an opportunity that the international community must not miss.",
        "但在我看来，显然，缅甸现在正处于永久变革的良机，国际社会不能坐视这次机会溜走。"
    ],
    [
        "SINGAPORE – It is unwise to underestimate the near-metaphysical significance of the recent Indian elections.",
        "新加坡——如果我们低估印度近期选举所取得的成果，那就非常的不明智了。"
    ],
    [
        "Taking the lectures seriously – even adopting tight budget frameworks – can be counterproductive.",
        "把这一点当真，甚至采取严厉的预算框架只能适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "In Nigeria, astonishing economic growth, averaging 7% per year since 2000, may well have reduced poverty in the southwest of the country; but in the northeast (where the extremist group Boko Haram is most active), shocking levels of wealth inequality and poverty have emerged.",
        "2000年来尼日利亚年均7%的惊人经济增长很有可能减少了该国西南地区的贫困； 但在该国东北部地区（极端组织博科圣地最活跃的地区），令人震惊的财富不平等和贫困水平已经出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Some military analysts saw this as the beginning, at long last, of serious reforms, as the army was capable only of executing military operations in Russia's traditional way, i.e., using overwhelming force, as in WWII.",
        "有些军事分析家把这作为重大改革的开始，这场改革旷日持久，因为俄国军队只能执行传统意义上的军事任务，像二战时那样依靠人数的绝对优势取胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Tax expenditures – which include all deductions, credits, and loopholes – account for about 8% of GDP.",
        "包括所有扣除额、信贷额及漏洞在内的税收支出约占国内生产总值的8%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "But was this decision really motivated by concern for animal welfare?",
        "但这一决定果然是因为关心动物福利才做出的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, actions speak louder than words: only 28% of Saudis said that they participate in weekly religious services, compared to 27% of Iranians, 44% of Jordanians, 42% of Egyptians, and 45% of Americans.",
        "实际上，听其言不如观其行：只有28%的沙特人说自己参加每周的宗教仪式，而在伊朗、约旦和埃及，这一比率分别达到了27%、44%和42%，美国人的比例则是45%。"
    ],
    [
        "Down the ages, the appearance of those with the disease, and the absence of a known cure, contributed to the fear that it caused – and thus to the stigmatization of its sufferers.",
        "自古以来，麻风患者的外貌和没有已知的治疗方法加重了人们对麻风病的恐惧，进而令麻风病患者蒙受耻辱。"
    ],
    [
        "Unusual or undesirable behaviors are called “symptoms” and the labels are “diagnoses.”",
        "非常态的、不合时宜的行为被称作“症状”，而这些疾病的名称标签就是“诊断”。"
    ],
    [
        "Then came the “taper tantrum” in the spring of 2013, when US long-term interest rates shot up by 100 basis points after then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted at an end to the Fed’s monthly purchases of long-term securities.",
        "接着是2013年春的“锥形暴涨”，美国长期利率在时任美联储主席伯南克（Ben Bernanke）暗示将结束月度长期证券购买操作后应声走高100个基点。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the consequences of a myopic policy unmoored from values can already be seen, most outrageously in Syria.",
        "事实上，脱离价值观的近视政策的后果就在眼前，最令人发指的便是叙利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason why Bretton Woods 3 should not experience similar imbalances.",
        "没有理由表明布雷顿森林3不能重现这一失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, rich countries have not risen to the challenge; despite commitments made at Kyoto, Bali, and elsewhere, the resources committed for climate-change mitigation – let alone adaptation – in developing countries have been paltry and poorly targeted.",
        "到目前为止，虽然在京都、巴厘和其他地方都做出了承诺，但富裕国家并没有主动迎接挑战，而发展中国家用于缓解、更不用说顺应气候变化的资源一直严重不足，而且在集中使用方面也做得不够。"
    ],
    [
        "A defeat for Renzi will be read as a victory for Italy’s two major populist parties: the Lega Nord and the larger Five Star Movement, led by the comedian Beppe Grillo.",
        "伦齐如果失败，将被解读为意大利两大民粹主义政党的胜利：北方联盟（Lega Nord）和由滑稽演员贝佩·格里洛（Beppe Grillo）领导的规模更大的五星运动（Five Star Movement）。"
    ],
    [
        "And, if South Korea’s own recent past can be any guide, China’s economic transformation is likely to be followed by political and social changes of equally dramatic proportions.",
        "而且如果韩国近代史具有任何指导作用，那么中国经济转型引发的政治和社会变化很可能同样具有戏剧性。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics who worry about the cost of the energy tax have not thought about tax substitutions.",
        "担心能源税费用的批评者们并没有考虑税收替代。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – It was a decade ago that 19 terrorists took control of four planes, flew two into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, hit the Pentagon with a third, and crashed the fourth in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers resisted and made it impossible for the terrorists to complete their malevolent mission.",
        "纽约——十年前，19名恐怖分子劫持了四架民航客机，其中两架撞上世贸中心双子塔，第三架撞击了五角大楼，第四架在乘客的反抗下无法完成袭击，坠毁于宾夕法尼亚旷野。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that the official growth rate does not reflect the rise in real incomes that came with air conditioning, anti-cancer drugs, new surgical procedures, and the many more mundane innovations.",
        "这意味着官方增长率没有反映与空调、抗癌药物、新手术流程以及其他许多普通创新一起到来的真实收入的提高。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why the Lisbon Treaty is so important.",
        "这也解释了为什么《里斯本条约》会如此重要。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the International Energy Agency, for example, a ten-year delay in deploying CCS would increase the cost of decarburizing the power sector by €750 billion ($880 billion).",
        "比如，根据国际能源署的数据,，CCS部署推迟十年将让电力部门增加7,500亿欧元的去碳化成本。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not just Trump’s proposed tax changes that plausibly affect market psychology.",
        "但貌似合理地影响市场心理的不只有特朗普的税收改革方案。"
    ],
    [
        "You can argue that the corporate executives have expertise and knowledge that allows them to commit the funds they control to higher-return projects than are available in the stock market.",
        "你可能会认为公司的高管们有能力和知识将他们所掌控的资金投入比股市回报更高的项目中。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, it is McCain whom the Democrats should attack.",
        "其次，民主党要攻击的人应该是麦凯恩。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than making the difficult changes that would enable strong recovery, Europe’s policymakers have weighed down the economy with more spending and debt.",
        "相比通过艰难的改变来实现强劲复苏，欧洲的政策制定者却因为增加支出和债务而拖累了经济。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative, principled action is that action which, if emulated by all others, would create a world in which we all want to live.",
        "按照伊曼纽尔·康德的绝对律令，符合原则的行为如果被其他人所模仿，将会创造一个我们都愿意在其中生活的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "The globally disruptive effects of US monetary tightening – a rapidly rising dollar, capital outflows from emerging markets, financial distress for international dollar borrowers, and chaotic currency devaluations in Asia and Latin America – may loom less large in next year’s economic outlook than in a rear-view glimpse of 2015.",
        "美国货币紧缩的全球破坏影响——急剧升值的美元、新兴市场资本外流、国际美元借款人财务恶化、亚洲和拉美混乱的货币贬值等——在明年经济展望中也许还不如后视镜中的2015年。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, the English took on the role of what philosophers and social scientists call the “other,” an alien threatening force, in the pro-independence campaign.",
        "总体而言，在亲独立运动中，英国扮演了哲学家和社会学家所谓的“他者”，一种外部威胁势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Free market capitalism has proved itself to be the best system for driving income growth and creating a large economic surplus.",
        "自由市场资本主义已经证明它是驱动经济增长、创造巨大经济盈余的最佳制度。"
    ],
    [
        "The short-term situation for France is more worrying.",
        "从短期来看，德国的情况好于法国。 贸易顺差，国债也不如其他国家那么高。"
    ],
    [
        "China, he went on, is in fact moving away from its once single-minded emphasis on growth targeting.",
        "他接着说，中国实际上正在摆脱单一的增长目标值思维。"
    ],
    [
        "But, until she walks through it, I will refrain from congratulating her.",
        "但是，在默克尔取得成功后，我才会祝贺她。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite persistent and even rising anti-immigrant sentiment in much of the world, promising signs of a more enlightened approach to migration are emerging.",
        "英国政府粗暴无情地号召驱逐移民。 但是，尽管世界上很多地方反移民情绪持久而高涨，我们仍看到了更加光明的对待移民的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "But it’s not morning in America.",
        "但这不是美国之晨。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the African model appears to be underpinned by positive aggregate demand shocks generated either by transfers from abroad or by productivity growth in agriculture.",
        "尤其是非洲模式显然由国外侨汇或者农业生产率提升所产生的正面总需求冲击的支撑起来的。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, suddenly serious, and accompanied by a man whom I notice for the first time and who turns out to be J. Christopher Stevens, the young US ambassador to Libya who will be murdered a little more than a year later, she leads Jibril to her suite for an interview.",
        "之后，她的表情突然变得严肃，身边站着我初次见面的克里斯多夫·史蒂文斯，这位年轻的美国驻利比亚大使一年后被人谋杀。 她领着贾布里勒到她的套间接受访问。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, one of the major arguments against a “carbon tax” has been that it would make energy more expensive.",
        "毕竟，反对“碳税”的一大理由是这会让能源变得更加昂贵。"
    ],
    [
        "But efficiency in shipping is unlikely to continue to improve faster than efficiency in the production of what is being shipped.",
        "但船运效率的改进不可能一直快于装船货物的生产效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, does my friend have a right to their time?",
        "事实上，我朋友有权利要求他们的时间吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the change may be driven by a rapidly trading minority, and not by major stockholders shortening their holding periods.",
        "事实上，这一变化可能是由一小撮快速交易者导致的，而不是因大股东缩短持有期造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, Poland simply combines low costs (including wages) and high-quality production.",
        "相反，波兰只是提供了低结合了（包括工资）和高质量产品。"
    ],
    [
        "But opposition to the agreement may be the only issue that the remaining US presidential candidates can agree on, and Canada’s trade minister has expressed serious reservations about it.",
        "但反对该协定也许是目前剩下的美国总统候选人唯一达成共识的问题，而加拿大贸易部长也对该协定表示严重保留。"
    ],
    [
        "What Is Plan B for Greece?",
        "希腊的B计划是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "The electorate focused almost entirely on the question of electoral districts.",
        "选民几乎全都非常关注选区问题。"
    ],
    [
        "If China doesn’t allow the renminbi to strengthen, other emerging markets will remain wary of letting their currencies appreciate too much and lose competitiveness.",
        "只要中国不允许人民币走强，其他新兴市场经济体也将保持警惕，不让其本币过多升值，以免丧失出口竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news here is that the plan is not particularly high on Clinton’s agenda, leaving a chance that she might not feel compelled to implement it when elected.",
        "好消息是这个提案在希拉里的议程中并不是特别优先，令她并不急于在当选后当即实施。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not enough for the Europeans to act while the Americans continue to look on as the diplomatic initiatives unfold, partaking in discussion only behind the scenes and ultimately letting the Europeans do what they will.",
        "如果随着外交倡议的进展，美国继续采取旁观态度，只在幕后参与讨论并最终任由欧洲为所欲为的话，那么欧洲没有足够的实力采取进一步的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that demand factors drive an oil-price drop, one would not expect a major positive impact; the oil price is more of an automatic stabilizer than an exogenous force driving the global economy.",
        "对于需求因素引起的油价下跌，我们不可能预期会带来重大积极影响； 石油价格与其说是驱动全球经济的外生力量，不如说是一个自动稳定器。"
    ],
    [
        "That way, shareholders rather than regulators would play the leading role in making banks behave sensibly.",
        "这样一来，股东们就会代替监管机构来主导银行的理性操作。"
    ],
    [
        "Twitter, which lets people send bite-size messages to large groups, allows Chinese to quickly disseminate urgent news or even uncomfortable facts.",
        "推特允许人们将小段信息发送给海量人群，使中国人可以快速传播紧急新闻甚至是令人不安的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States and elsewhere, there is a sense that the long-foreseen implosion of news publishing is accelerating, having reached a kind of critical mass.",
        "康泰纳什出版公司大幅裁员——8位在《Glamour》杂志任职的资深编辑丢掉了饭碗。 不管是美国国内还是国外，人们都能感到先期预见的新闻出版界内部动乱正在加剧，甚至已经达到某种临界值了。"
    ],
    [
        "Some central banks may decide to follow suit, adding renminbi-denominated assets to their reserves to match the composition of the basket.",
        "一些央行也许会跟进，将人民币计价资产纳入其储备，以匹配SDR货币篮的组成。"
    ],
    [
        "Studies show there is no way to reduce poverty, improve nutrition, or achieve other key development goals without strengthening land rights, especially for women.",
        "研究表明，如果不能强化土地权利，特别是女性的土地权利，就无法减少贫困，改善营养，或实现其他关键发展目标。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa’s cities are creditworthy. They have excellent universities and capable financial institutions.",
        "南非的各个城市还是相当靠谱，拥有优秀的大学和实力雄厚的金融机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Farmers and ranchers should be at the top of the engagement list.",
        "合作清单上排名最靠前的应当是农牧民。"
    ],
    [
        "But recently, a fifth element, information, has entered the debate.",
        "但不久前，信息作为第五种要素进入了讨论的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "Signs of decline in China’s economy, which has racked up double-digit growth for decades, would affect all of its Taiwan policies.",
        "在经历了数十年的两位数增长之后，中国经济放缓的迹象将影响其全面对台政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the discipline of the market is not perfect: the bond market does not “see” implicit future liabilities (like promised pension payments) to any great degree.",
        "诚然，市场控制尚不完善：债券市场未“预见”大量的隐性远期负债（如承诺支付退休金）。"
    ],
    [
        "The key is cooperative efforts that exploit each country’s respective comparative advantage, be it capital, technological know-how, logistical or construction capabilities, raw materials, or even industrial goods.",
        "而其关键则是充分利用各国各自拥有的比较优势——无论是资本、技术、物流或施工能力，原材料乃至于工业产品——展开合作努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Why haven’t the stories of corruption caused a crisis, as similar scandals did in Korea and Malaysia during the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98?",
        "为什么巴西没有像1997－1998年亚洲金融危机中的韩国和马来西亚那样，由于种种腐败报道而陷入重重危机？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet markets acted as if risk was low, driving down the VIX and US Treasury bill rates, and driving up prices of stocks, junk bonds, and emerging-market securities.",
        "但市场表现得好像风险很低一样，让VIX和美国国债利率节节下跌，而股票、垃圾债券和新兴市场证券节节走高。"
    ],
    [
        "Adding to the complexity of the situation are the Islamists, who have so far kept a low profile.",
        "令复杂程度进一步加剧的还有至今保持低调的伊斯兰教主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "Cyprus, and its neighbors, must now pull together to reach it.",
        "塞浦路斯及其邻国必须齐心协力实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s comments may have cost him some of his commercial ties, but anyone who thinks he doesn’t know what he’s doing should think again.",
        "特朗普的评论可能会使其失去某些商业关系，但任何认为他不知所云的人都应该重新考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because hospitals are paid a fee for each service they provide, and better care meant that the babies needed fewer services, the change cost the hospital network $329,000 a year.",
        "因此，例如，病人濒临死亡时的苏醒，对医生最有利的判断是，因为他们没有明确地表示，他们不希望在这种情况下苏醒。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, under the treaty, India forfeited all of the extraterritorial rights and privileges in Tibet that it had inherited from imperial Britain.",
        "事实上，根据该条约，印度丧失了一切其从大英帝国那里所继承的西藏治外法权和特权。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a step not only demonstrates that the minister in question is fully aware of the burden of his responsibility, but also that he puts the integrity of democratic institutions above his personal interest, let alone the electoral prospects of those whom he served.",
        "这种做法不仅表明这位部长已经认识到自己肩负的责任，而且表明他将民主制度的完整性置于个人利益之上，更不用说他为之服务的选民的期望了。"
    ],
    [
        "With more than18% of the votes he tripled his score of 2002.",
        "他获得18%的选票，是他2002年所获选票的三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The struggle to mold our future, to stave off the humanitarian disasters of war, disease, and starvation leaves little room to be philosophical about our place on this crumb of cosmic dust.",
        "创造未来、避免战争、饥饿、疾病等人道主义灾难的艰苦斗争往往令我们鲜有余力从哲学的角度思考我们在这微不足道的宇宙尘埃上起什么作用。"
    ],
    [
        "As N.B. Sarojini and Aastha Sharma wrote in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, “The Bill actively promotes medical tourism in India for reproductive purposes.”",
        "正如萨罗吉尼和阿丝莎·夏尔马在《印度医学伦理杂志》上所写的那样，“该法案会对以生殖为目的的印度游起推动作用。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Plato held that moral progress is essentially an intellectual process, driven by reasoned arguments – a stance that many of the most influential moral philosophers, from Baruch Spinoza and Immanuel Kant to John Rawls and Peter Singer, have supported.",
        "柏拉图认为道德进步本质上是一个知识过程，由理性辩论推动——这一立场受到了许多最有影响力的哲学家的支持，从斯宾诺莎和康德到罗尔斯（John Rawls）到辛格（Peter Singer）都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the main provisions of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act could be included in the new NAFTA, in order to raise Mexican standards of compliance.",
        "比如，美国海外腐败行为法（Foreign Corrupt Practices Act）的主要条款可能被纳入新的NAFTA中，以提高墨西哥的合规标准。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s the hard part.",
        "这项任务非常不容易完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Ntege was severely beaten by police for his coverage, and held in jail for more than ten days.",
        "恩特因为这篇报道而遭到警方的残酷殴打，并被投入监狱监禁了十多天。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – No one yet knows when the United Kingdom will present an agenda for negotiating its withdrawal from the European Union.",
        "巴黎——没有人知道英国准备何时提交其脱欧谈判的议程。"
    ],
    [
        "We urge them to take the necessary steps in Brussels next week to achieve that goal.",
        "从下周的布鲁塞尔开始，我们将敦促他们采取必要的措施实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But the third plenum also provided surprises, including the creation of a leading group within the CCP to steer reform.",
        "但此次三中全会还带来了惊喜，包括在党内成立全面深化改革领导小组。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that the economy is experiencing a bumpy deceleration, not a meltdown, and that moderate growth can reasonably be expected in the medium term – that is, unless the financial system’s problems intensify.",
        "这表明中国经济正在经历一段“颠簸减速”，而非崩溃，中期看极有可能增长保持温和状态——除非金融体系问题加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "But the decimated SPD says that it is determined to remain in opposition, in order to recover from its crushing defeat at the polls.",
        "但铩羽而归的SPD说它已决定要做反对党，以期从大选的惨败中恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "During the past century, the post-Confucian states have accustomed themselves to a pluralistic world of theoretically equal nation states.",
        "在过去的一个世纪里，后儒教国家已经习惯了一个由理论上平等的民族国家所组成的多元世界。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is entirely political: partisan polarization has reached levels never before seen, threatening to send the US economy tumbling over the “fiscal cliff” – the automatic tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect at the beginning of 2013 unless Democrats and Republicans agree otherwise.",
        "原因完全是政治上的：党派两极分化达到了前所未有的程度，眼看就把美国经济逼下“财政悬崖”——2013年开始自动增税减支，除非民主党和共和党达成其他一致方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Activist investors can write open letters that may not be picked up by mainstream media outlets, but that can go viral on Twitter or Reddit.",
        "活跃投资者可以发表公开信，虽然他们的观点无法登上主流媒体，但可能在推特或Reddit上疯狂传播。"
    ],
    [
        "An appropriately sized helicopter-money program might also raise inflation in a measured way, heading off the possibility of a Japanese-style deflationary trap.",
        "规模合理的直升机撒钱计划还可以可控地提高通胀，避免日本式通缩陷阱的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise of Islamic fundamentalism poses another historic challenge, though one that is far more inchoate than any that the US has faced before.",
        "伊斯兰原教旨主义的崛起代表着有一大历史挑战，虽然这一挑战与美国历史上所面临的那些挑战相比还只能说是萌而未发。"
    ],
    [
        "More and more, populist leaders regard their election by the majority of voters as a license to crush all political and cultural dissent.",
        "民粹主义领导人越来越把多数人选择了他们作为碾压一切政治和文化异见的通行证。"
    ],
    [
        "It sends a clear message: Ivory belongs to elephants and to no one else.",
        "它向外界传递了一个明确的信号：象牙只属于大象，而不属于任何人。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe that it is important that the EU carries out such monitoring in non-EU states. But what about elections in EU member states?",
        "我相信欧盟在非欧盟国家执行这类监察活动是有其重要意义的。 但问题是这是否也应该应用到欧盟内部成员国的选举之上？"
    ],
    [
        "But, above all, it is an honor and a privilege to play such a role in our society, and I know that the vast majority of officials, legislators, judges, and civil servants with whom I’ve worked would agree.",
        "但是，最重要的是，能够在社会里扮演这样一个角色是我们的荣幸。 我知道绝大多数曾与我共事的政府官员、议员、法官和公务员都会同意这一看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, he has said that subsequent investigations by the Israeli authorities have made him change his judgment.",
        "他反而说是以色列当局的后续调查改变了他的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "It was the first inaugural address of its kind since Reagan turned America away from government in 1981.",
        "这是自1981年里根让美国原理政府以来第一个这样说的总统就职演说。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran and Russia, by contrast, need a barrel of oil to be worth at least $70.",
        "”相比之下，伊朗和俄罗斯则需要每桶油售价至少在70美元以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Future workers from Gaza, having a moral right to earn their living in Israel, will become natural supporters of the maintenance of the truce.",
        "将来来自加沙的工人，有道德上的权利在以色列谋生，他们将会自然地成为维护停战协定的支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also becomes less feasible as the violence mounts.",
        "但随着暴力的愈演愈烈，这一结果的可能性也越来越小。"
    ],
    [
        "As the old African proverb goes, if you educate a girl, you educate an entire nation.",
        "非洲古谚有云，教育女孩等于教育整个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Sales of conventional arms to Iran are prohibited for no more than five years.",
        "对伊常规武器销售禁令不超过五年。"
    ],
    [
        "The country was living the “Mexican Moment,” as his handlers labeled it, and appeared to be on the verge of fulfilling, at long last, its great promise.",
        "国家则处在管理者所谓的“墨西哥时刻”，似乎马上就要最终实现光明的前途。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the public's faith in glamorous international cities has increased with the explosive growth in global communications due to the Internet and the cell phone.",
        "第二，随着因特网和手机问世，全球通讯以爆炸性的速度增长，公众对充满魅力的国际大都市也日渐神往。"
    ],
    [
        "In education, enrollment in K-12 schools across the GCC rose from 2.7 million in 2003 to 10.7 million in 2012, a compound annual growth rate of 16.5%.",
        "在教育方面，GCC国家K-12学校入学人数从2003年的270万增加到2012年的1,070万，年复合增长率为16."
    ],
    [
        "Adhering to the gold standard during the Great Depression implied a deflationary monetary-policy bias, since it required keeping interest rates relatively high to encourage investors to hold deposits in banks rather than demanding the gold that backed them.",
        "在经济大萧条时期坚持金本位制实际隐含着紧缩货币政策倾向，因为这样就需要保持较高的利率，才能鼓励投资者将款项存入银行而不是要求把货币兑换成黄金。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps no one exemplified the tradition of the intellectuel engagé better than Jean-Paul Sartre.",
        "不过最能为知识分子参政传统做出榜样的也许莫过于让·保罗·萨特。"
    ],
    [
        "Maintaining Growth in a Fast-Aging Asia",
        "在迅速老龄化的亚洲保持增长"
    ],
    [
        "Schuman proposed putting Franco-German coal and steel production under a common High Authority, thereby preventing the two sides from using the raw materials of war against each other, and powering a common industrial economy.",
        "舒曼提议法德煤矿和钢铁生产都在共同高级公署的管理下开展，借此阻止双方利用原材料相互发起战争，并借此让两国的共同工业经济体繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Most spokespersons of the Green protest movement advocate civil disobedience instead of revolution.",
        "即便如此，伊朗绿色抗议运动的大部分发言人倡导的都是公民不服从（ civil disobedience ）而不是革命。"
    ],
    [
        "Mehsud was reported killed by an airstrike from a US drone in August 2009.",
        "迈赫苏德据报道于2009年的8月死于一次美国无人机实施的轰炸。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors take all kinds of risks.",
        "投资者冒着各种各样的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "While the 1988, 1992, and 2000 elections were also quite consequential, the policy shifts were not nearly as large as in 1980 and 2008.",
        "1988、1992和2000年的选举也发生在政策转向之后，但转向之彻底远远不能和1980和2008年相提并论。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why it is even more important that we continue to improve the EMU’s functioning.",
        "这就是为什么说更重要的是我们要继续改善欧洲“经济与货币联盟”的功能 。"
    ],
    [
        "Here are some economic resolutions that could bring good cheer in the new year and beyond.",
        "而下面就是有可能在新的一年以及未来带来希望一些经济解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that the in situ cancers – early-stage cancers that have not spread to neighboring tissue – and the number rises to 50%.",
        "再加上原位癌——即尚未扩散到邻近组织的早期癌症——该比例增长至50%。"
    ],
    [
        "The explanation for our expanded morality comes from intelligence, imagination, and culture.",
        "而这种道德扩张的原因则来自智力，想象力和文化。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, because eight countries, including the US and China, have failed to ratify it, the CTBT occupies a legal netherworld: it may be said to be in operation, but not in force.",
        "但是，由于包括美国和中国在内的八国没有签署全面禁止核试验条约，该条约只是可有可无的法律：可以说它执行了，但没什么效力。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1991, the principle that only a politically negotiated division of Yugoslavia would be recognized was abandoned.",
        "1991年，只有通过政治谈判划分的南斯拉夫才能得到承认的原则被摒弃。"
    ],
    [
        "Being a woman need not and should not be among the greatest challenges of life.",
        "身为女性不需要也不应该成为生活中最大的挑战之一。"
    ],
    [
        "With regard to parliament, there is no need to follow Lebanon’s rigid apportionment of seats according to confessional identity.",
        "至于议会，没有必要照搬黎巴嫩根据宗教身份强行委派席位的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially true in India, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Indonesia, all of which suffer from multiple macroeconomic and policy weaknesses – large current-account deficits, wide fiscal deficits, slowing growth, and above-target inflation – as well as growing social protest and political uncertainty ahead of elections in the next 12-18 months.",
        "印度、巴西、土耳其、南非和印尼尤其如此，它们都经受着多重宏观和政策疲软——巨额经常项目赤字、大量财政赤字、增长放缓、通胀超标——而在大选之前的未来12—18个月中，它们还需要面对日渐升级的社会动荡和政治不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "The discovery that the link between negative moods and negative thoughts remains ready to be reactivated even when people feel well is hugely important: it means that preventing future crises depends on learning how to keep mild upsets from spiraling out of control.",
        "负面情绪和负面想法之间的联系随时可能再度激发，即便人感觉良好时也不会例外，这一发现的确至关重要：它告诉我们，防止未来危机的关键在于学会如何阻止轻微的不快最终变得无法控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Liquidity remains limited in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the legacy of which includes a regulatory regime that is not conducive to long-term investment.",
        "由于2008年金融危机，流动性仍然受限，其后果包括不利于长期投资的监管机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Social security is a paternalistic form of forced savings for old age, preventing individuals from consuming and saving as they please.",
        "社会保险就是一种家长式作风，它强迫人们为衰老储蓄，防止个人随心所欲地消费和储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, the money gained through natural resources must be used to promote development.",
        "同样重要的是，从自然资源中赚得的钱必须用于促进发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Car dealerships are being closed.",
        "汽车经销商纷纷停业；"
    ],
    [
        "Enhanced labor mobility has been another great benefit brought about by the EU.",
        "劳动力流动性的增强是成立欧盟所带来的另一个巨大的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a disgraceful snub for donor nations that had invested time and capital in supporting Ethiopia’s democratic transition.",
        "这对于那些为了埃塞俄比亚民主转型而耗费大量时间和资金的捐助国家来说，无疑是一个响亮的耳光。"
    ],
    [
        "For many years, this question was framed according to the “lean versus clean” debate: Should central banks “lean” against bubbles, damping down asset prices that create risks to financial stability, or just clean up the mess after bubbles burst?",
        "多年来，这一问题引起了一场“遏制还是清理”的争论：央行应该“遏制”泡沫，打压引起金融稳定风险的资产价格，还是等到泡沫破裂后清理混乱局面？"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Britain’s non-EU exports account for about 7% of GDP.",
        "与此同时，英国的非欧盟出口占GDP之比大约为7%。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Saudis and other OPEC governments now seem to recognize that output restrictions merely cede market share to American frackers and other higher-cost producers, while environmental pressures and advances in clean energy transform much of their oil into a worthless “stranded asset” that can never be used or sold.",
        "但沙特和其他欧佩克政府现在似乎认识到，限产只能导致市场份额遭美国液压致裂生产者和其他高成本生产者的侵蚀，而环境压力和清洁能源的进步将它们的许多石油沦为毫无价值的“套牢资产”，用不了也卖不掉。"
    ],
    [
        "But the UN is not yet prepared to go beyond words.",
        "但联合国还没有纸面以外的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, you can read about jewelry and custom can openers, much as three decades ago you could have read that the personal computer would enable people to keep their recipes organized.",
        "如今，你可以读到珠宝和定制开罐器，一如三十年前你可以读到个人电脑将帮你组织食谱。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is not because banks prepared themselves by raising more capital.",
        "但这并不是因为银行未雨绸缪留好了更多资本。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, for example, the Standard and Poor’s 500 index in July recorded six days of declines and only three days of increases amounting to more than 1%.",
        "比如说，美国7月份的标准普尔指数涨跌幅超过1%的天数中，下跌的有6天，而上涨的只有3天。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatively, if Europe is unable to resolve the Ukraine crisis with diplomacy, its global influence, and that of Russia, will surely fade.",
        "或者，如果欧洲无力用外交手段解决乌克兰危机，其（以及俄罗斯的）全球影响力将必然有所损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past decade, the world has experienced a pattern of untrammeled burning – what some observers have termed “megafires.”",
        "在过去十年中，世界经历了难以遏制的燃烧过程——一些观察者称之为“超级大火”。"
    ],
    [
        "Delhi is already the world’s second most populous city, and it is expected to close the gap with Tokyo, the world’s largest city, almost entirely by 2030.",
        "德里已经是世界人口数量排名第二的城市，并且预计将在2030年赶上目前的全球最大城市东京。"
    ],
    [
        "Inhabitants of densely packed urban areas in emerging economies often face both indoor and outdoor pollution, and are less likely to have access to adequate nutrition.",
        "新兴经济体密集城市住宅区的居民往往要面对室内室外污染，而且很难摄取到充足的营养。"
    ],
    [
        "The expected one-year increase in the Dow in 2005 averages 4.8% for institutional investors and 4.3% for individual investors.",
        "投资机构希望道琼斯工业指数在2005年会提高4. 8%，而个人投资者则期待4."
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The lack of democracy in the Arab world results from an unholy alliance between Western interests and local autocrats, justified by what both sides claim to be the region’s “cultural specificity.”",
        "发自剑桥——阿拉伯世界之所以缺乏民主，其实就是西方利益和当地独裁者结成的邪恶联盟所种下的恶果，而为了自证清白，双方还异口同声地宣称这是该地区的“文化特色”。"
    ],
    [
        "But as policymakers across the continent seek to secure adequate supplies of clean energy to ensure rapid, inclusive economic growth and environmental sustainability, they are likely to find that there is no alternative.",
        "但在全非洲的决策者寻找确保清洁能源的充足供给，以保证高速、包容的经济增长和环境可持续性之际，他们也许会发现除此之外别无选择。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when inflation is already close to 2% or higher, depending on how it is measured, the real federal funds rate would be at zero at the end of 2015.",
        "通胀已经接近甚至超出2%（取决于不同的度量方法），因此2015年底实际联邦基金利率将为零。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the EU needs to find sufficient funds to finance a comprehensive migration policy.",
        "第三，欧盟需要筹措足够资金以资助全面的移民政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally ominous, the banning of hundreds of candidates for alleged ties to the Baath Party signals a return to sectarian politics, which could reignite a sectarian civil war.",
        "同样不祥的是，以牵涉阿拉伯复兴社会党（前总统萨达姆所在政党，已被取缔）为由禁止数百名候选人参选则预示着派系政治的死灰复燃，而此举可能令各派系再次爆发内战。"
    ],
    [
        "The Belgians were particularly brutal in Congo.",
        "比利时人在刚果暴行累累。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – China’s stock market has been a hot topic since the summer, when a rapid rise gave way to a major plunge, triggering a global equities sell-off.",
        "北京—今年夏天以来，中国股市成为一个热门话题。 急速上涨变成大崩盘，引发了全球股市大甩卖。"
    ],
    [
        "While there are skeptics, broad support for the AIIB suggests that the benefits outweigh the risks, and that China’s initiatives may help build a network that is open to everyone.",
        "尽管存在质疑者，但对亚投行的普遍支持表明收益大于风险，并且中国的措施有助于构建一个向所有人开放的网络。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan now sees threats elsewhere in the world in the context of its own security, and will react appropriately.",
        "现在，日本在其自身安全环境中看到了来自世界其他地方的威胁，并将采取相应行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The era of “easy\" GDP growth driven by a massive army of young workers is ending.",
        "那个简单通过大量年轻劳动者来推动的“简单”GDP增长时代已经走向终结。"
    ],
    [
        "What then helped produce a boom in consumer prices now contributed to a boom in home prices.",
        "当时导致消费品价格上涨的情况现在引发了房屋价格的上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "The “Catalan differential fact” is a historical reality; and it deserves to be addressed properly.",
        "“加泰罗尼亚的差别现实”在历史上是真实存在的； 这个问题应当得到恰当的解决。"
    ],
    [
        "In the textiles industry, profits declined for the first time in ten years in 2008.",
        "2008年，纺织行业在10年以来首次出现盈利下降的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "He helped to save his family and friends and many others.",
        "他挽救了家人、朋友和其他很多人。"
    ],
    [
        "The choices that Turkey makes in establishing a new government will not only be pivotal to shaping the future of democracy there; the next administration could also play a decisive role in a series of peace processes vital to restoring stability in the wider Middle East.",
        "土耳其如何组建型政府不但将成为决定土耳其民主未来的关键； 其下一任政府还有可能在一系列对重塑大中东稳定至关重要的和平进程中起到决定性作用。"
    ],
    [
        "People with assets have got richer.",
        "拥有资产的人更加富有了。"
    ],
    [
        "Until that investment shortfall is made up, the missing capital will serve to depress the level of real GDP in the US by two full percentage points.",
        "除非该投资不足被弥补，否则资本缺失将把美国真实GDP增长率压低整整2个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "That ASEAN debacle has had serious consequences.",
        "东盟此次崩溃造成了严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the only way to give developing countries a voice.",
        "这是让发展中国家拥有发言权的唯一途径。"
    ],
    [
        "To date, PPPs have played only a minor role in infrastructure development in the US.",
        "目前，PPP在美国基础设施开发方面只起到了次要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In the late 1980’s, for example, then-European Commission President Jacques Delors, raising the prospect of a two-speed Europe, suggested that one or two countries might need a “different kind of marriage contract.”",
        "比如，20世纪80年代末，时任欧盟委员会主席德洛尔提出了两速欧洲的观点，指出有一两个国家或许需要“不同类型的婚约”。"
    ],
    [
        "With the world’s sixth-largest economy, a population of nearly 40 million that looks like the future of America, and a united and responsible Democratic government, California is a model of what progressive federalism can accomplish.",
        "作为世界第六大经济体、拥有4,000万人口、堪称美国未来的化身、由团结负责的民主党政府执政的加利福尼亚州是进步联邦主义能够取得什么成就的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "NILE DELTA – About 60 miles north of Cairo’s Tahrir Square – the epicenter of the Egyptian uprising in 2011 – there is a secondary school students call “the prison.”",
        "尼罗河三角洲—在埃及解放广场，也就是2011年埃及骚乱的震中以北大约60英里的地方，有一所被学生们称为“监狱”的中学。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an alliance would also enable a new foreign policy for Europe, one that promotes peace and sustainable development, underpinned by new security arrangements that do not depend so heavily on the US.",
        "这样一个联盟还能给欧洲带来新的外交政策，促进和平和可持续发展。 其基础是不再过于依赖美国的安全安排。"
    ],
    [
        "The global economic crisis that began in 2008 is similar to the Great Depression of the 1930’s not only in terms of its depth and duration, but also in view of advanced countries’ policy errors and hesitation.",
        "2008年开始的全球经济危机类似于20世纪30年代的大萧条，这么说不仅是因为深度和持续时间，也是因为发达国家面对危机的政策错误和犹豫。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy’s Broken Promises",
        "被破坏的民主承诺"
    ],
    [
        "But neither the 2008 crisis nor the subsequent euro crisis, which was caused by excessive public debt, led to significant deleveraging or Schumpeterian creative destruction in the affected countries.",
        "但不论是2008年金融危机，还是随后的欧元危机（因公共债务过多引起），都没有导致受影响国家出现大规模去杠杆化或熊彼特式创造性破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "As support for President George W. Bush in the United States has crumbled over the past year, perhaps the most surprising element is the revolt of economists and observers of economic policy.",
        "去年，随着美国公众对乔治·W·布什总统的支持率几近崩溃，最出人意表的或许莫过于经济学家和观察家对布什经济政策的反感。"
    ],
    [
        "By acting to invigorate an Asian order that rejects hegemonic dominance, even to the extent of improving its military ties with the US, Vietnam has shown that it has learned its own lessons from the blood and treasure that it lost in its long wars of independence.",
        "通过积极参与重建亚洲秩序以抵制霸权统治，甚至增加与美国的军事联系，越南正在向世界表明：它已经吸取了在漫长的独立战争中用鲜血和财富换来的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”",
        "要到哪里去寻找迷失在信息中的知识？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "Distinctive Welsh institutions, apart from those concerned with the Welsh language, are difficult to identify.",
        "除了那些关心威尔士语言的人外，很难确认独特的威尔士机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the world’s richest nation, the United States, struggles to implement much needed reforms for some of its most important social institutions – including its health and education systems.",
        "就连全世界最富有的国家美国也竭力落实针对某些最重要社会机构的急迫的改革措施——其中包括美国的医疗和教育体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Evidently, he is trying to redefine the relationship, probably with a view to enhancing Japan’s freedom of maneuver in foreign and security policy.",
        "他似乎倾向于重新定义美日关系以扩大日本在外交和防务领域的回旋余地。"
    ],
    [
        "Macri took over the presidency with a bang, launching an audacious – and highly risky – strategy that places aggressive price liberalization and the removal of quantitative controls front and center, ahead of the five measures relating to demand management and financial assistance.",
        "马克里就任总统后的第一炮打得很响，抛出了一个大胆——风险也很高——的战略，将价格自由化和消除量化控制列为核心，位于与需求管理和金融协助有关的五项措施之前。"
    ],
    [
        "Farther to the west, US economic performance is weakening, with first-quarter growth a miserly 1.9% – well below potential.",
        "在更远的西方，美国经济表现也在萎靡，一季度增长率只有区区1. 9%，远低于潜在增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "To respond to inflation by increasing interest rates would simply compound the difficulties of high prices with high unemployment and an even less competitive exchange rate.",
        "通过提高利率来应对通胀将直接使高物价，高失业率以及一个竞争力更弱的汇率状况更加恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Except for where all 24 hours of the day are filled with shift work, increasing the daily working time of people extends daily capital utilization.",
        "除了全天24小时轮班的地方，延长人们白天的工作时间能提高资本利用率。"
    ],
    [
        "My interlocutor thought I was joking.",
        "我的谈判对手认为我是在说笑。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, the single resolution mechanism is a mirage, because national governments retain a veto over closing down any bank.",
        "最重要的是，所有的单一解决方案机制都是一个假象，因为各国政府都对关闭任何银行保留有一个否定权。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, blockage of the multilateral process will trigger an even more pronounced shift toward bilateral or regional free trade agreements (FTA’s).",
        "最后，妨碍多边进程会造成成员国更显著地朝着双边或区域性自由贸易协定(FTA)的方向努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The power of the center is being restored, following its partial disintegration after the end of the Soviet Union.",
        "苏联解体后中央权威也随之分解了一部分，现在正在恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "Trouble in the Sudan would, by necessity, spill over its frontiers, and vice versa.",
        "因此苏丹出现的任何问题也必然会扩散到国境之外，反之亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Growing up in a poor neighborhood has been shown to reduce a person’s life prospects dramatically, even when earnings remain constant.",
        "证据表明，在贫困社区中长大会大幅恶化个人生活前景，即使收入保持不变。"
    ],
    [
        "How else could one explain that Britain and France, but not Germany, Japan, or India, are permanent, veto-wielding members?",
        "要不然如何解释英国和法国，而不是德国、日本或印度拥有永久否决权？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, he has strengthened the National Guard’s position by raising its status to that of a ministry, led by his eldest son, Mit’ib.",
        "比如，他将国民卫队的地位提高到部级，并任命长子米特易卜（Mit’ib）率领。"
    ],
    [
        "What was announced was an interim framework; a formal, comprehensive accord is supposed to be completed by the end of June.",
        "公布的协议只是一个过渡性框架； 正式的全面协议应该在6月底达成。"
    ],
    [
        "Romney is apparently taken with the idea that many Americans, the so-called 47%, do not pay federal income tax.",
        "罗姆尼显然认定许多美国人——所谓的47%——不用支付联邦所得税。"
    ],
    [
        "Massive privacy violations by companies and governments, and cyber attacks on civilian infrastructure such as power grids (as recently happened in Ukraine), could create insecurity that undercuts the Internet’s potential.",
        "企业和政府大规模侵犯隐私以及对电网等民用设施发动网络攻击（就像不久前乌克兰发生的那样）可能带来削弱互联网发展潜力的不安全因素。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be unrealistic to think that the FSB could direct countries to strengthen their regulation, but it should have some form of arbitration power analogous to that held by the World Trade Organization.",
        "要求金融监管委员会直接指导各国去加强监管的想法是不现实的，但它也应当拥有某些类似世界贸易组织那样的裁判权。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond building sanctions coalitions, the US must ensure that it is using its disproportionate influence in the global financial system to advance truly global interests.",
        "除建立制裁联盟外，美国必须确保利用其在全球金融体系中的超强影响力来推动全球利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The similarities don’t end there.",
        "相似之处还不止于此。"
    ],
    [
        "Environment ministers will not be able to cope with the pressures on oceans and forests, or the consequences of increasing extreme weather events like last year’s Hurricane Katrina or this year’s Typhoon Saomai – China’s worst in many decades.",
        "仅靠环境部长个人的力量也无法缓解海洋和森林所受到的压力，以及像去年的卡特里那飓风或今年的桑美台风那样愈演愈烈的极端气候事件所造成的严重后果。 台风桑美是近几十年来中国发生的最为严重的台风灾害。"
    ],
    [
        "The summit’s concluding statement declared that countries with ample finances are prepared to provide economic stimulus if growth weakens.",
        "会后发表的声明表明那些资金充裕的国家已经准备好在增长疲弱的情况下提供经济刺激手段。"
    ],
    [
        "And that is why the US government’s public-relations machine calls what is in fact a discriminatory plurilateral FTA, a “partnership” invoking a false aura of cooperation and cosmopolitanism.",
        "而这也是为何美国政府的公关机器把这个实际上歧视性的多边贸易协定称之为“伙伴关系”，试图为其安上一个似乎体现合作与世界性的虚伪光环。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as temperatures have risen, heat-related deaths have decreased, owing to improved health care, access to medical facilities, and air-conditioning.",
        "即便气温上升了，但是因为健康护理水平的提高、医疗设施的便利以及空调而使因为天气热而死亡的人数反而下降了。"
    ],
    [
        "This definition is all too reflective of traits that Trump regularly exhibits.",
        "这个定义完全贴合特朗普经常展示的人格特征。"
    ],
    [
        "It rarely is.",
        "政府的意图常常很难得以实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer probably lies in new public infrastructure challenges – the kind that the advanced economies are already facing – including issues related to information security and competition.",
        "国企改革的答案也许就在应对新经济环境下新的公共基础设施挑战——发达经济体已在面临这一挑战——包括与信息安全及公平竞争相关的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The economies of Europe and North America are roughly 6% smaller than we would have expected them to be had there been no crisis.",
        "欧洲及北美各经济体比预期无危机的情况萎缩了6%。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet right now NASA is spending $475 million on a program that has already been canceled instead of on the space center.",
        "但现在宇航局正将4亿7500万美元投入一个已经取消的项目，而不是用来修缮航天中心。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout history, other measures, including debt rescheduling, inflation, and various forms of wealth taxation (such as financial repression), have typically played a significant role.",
        "纵观历史，其他措施，包括债务期限重排、通胀和各种形式的财富税（如金融抑制），通常都会起到显著作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether it does will depend to a large degree on how the West responds now, because what is at stake is not just the ousting of tyrants, but also the profound transformation and modernization of entire societies and economies. It is a staggering task.",
        "自由的到来在很大程度上将取决于西方目前的反应，因为最重要的不仅仅是推翻暴政，还有整个社会经济的深刻转型和现代化，而后者将是一个无比艰巨的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumers already encounter AI on a daily basis.",
        "消费者已经每天都在与人工智能打交道。"
    ],
    [
        "A fifth report will address the state of land degradation and restoration at regional and global levels.",
        "第五份报告则将针对土地退化和地区和全球层面的重建问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And this will create a virtuous cycle.",
        "这将形成一个良性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "The vulnerability caused by higher public debt over the next few decades is simply ignored.",
        "而未来数十年公债增加所引起的脆弱性完全不在他们的考虑范围内。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, there are no subprime mortgages, and the down payment on the purchase price required to qualify for financing can exceed 50%.",
        "中国不存在次贷，要获得按揭，首付比例可能超过50%。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with no action at all, the planet could even heat up by 5-7º Celsius by the end of this century – and more thereafter.",
        "而倘若不采取任何行动的话，地球温度甚至将在本世纪末上升5~7摄氏度——接着还会进一步上升。"
    ],
    [
        "With the job security of schoolmasters at risk, most are sure to implement the program.",
        "因为各校校长都可能因此丢掉饭碗，大部分学校肯定会推行这一科目。"
    ],
    [
        "People give to identifiable victims.",
        "人们愿意为明确的受害者提供帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the rapidly growing need for global cooperation, the UN simply cannot get by on its current budget.",
        "鉴于全球合作需求快速增长，联合国目前的预算根本不够。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a great danger that the new Iraq’s sectarian politics will benefit those who promise their constituents the most – at the expense of the central government and the country’s other factions.",
        "有一个巨大的危险就是伊拉克新的宗派主义政治会使那些以中央政府和国内其他派别为代价给与选民最多承诺的人获益。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations' Arab Human Development Report is frank in its criticism of the region's economic and social progress.",
        "联合国的《阿拉伯发展报告》直言不讳地批评了该地区的经济和社会发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The greater the number of countries that have the power to block or veto international initiatives, the more difficult multilateralism becomes – and the less motivated dominant countries are to cooperate.",
        "有能力阻止或否决国际倡议的国家越多，多边主义就越难以实现——主要国家也越不愿意展开合作。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Salehs retain control of the air force, which remains under the control of Saleh’s half-brother, employing it against defecting military divisions would likely lead to a bloodbath.",
        "如果萨利赫家族还维持着对空军的控制力——指挥权目前还在萨利赫的另一个兄弟手里——并利用其对反对派部队发动进攻的话，那么结果将是一场血战。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, even if Donald Trump’s presidential campaign fails to put a Republican back in the White House (as appears increasingly likely, given that, in the latest twist of this highly unusual campaign, many Republican leaders have now renounced their party’s nominee), his candidacy will likely leave a lasting impact on American politics.",
        "在美国，即使唐纳德·特朗普的竞选不能让共和党重新问鼎白宫（这一可能性日益增加，因为这出相当反常的总统选战最近又曝出新转折，许多共和党领导人宣布不再支持本党提名人），他成为候选人这一事实也可能给美国政治带来持续影响。"
    ],
    [
        "External powers are extremely foolish to allow themselves to be manipulated into taking sides in bitter national or sectarian conflicts that can be resolved only by compromise.",
        "外部力量被操纵在唯有通过妥协才能解决的激烈的国家或宗派冲突上站边，这是极其愚蠢的。"
    ],
    [
        "During his stay in New York, Abe also discussed “womenomics” with Hillary Clinton, who had made empowering women in the economy a key policy goal during her tenure as US Secretary of State.",
        "在纽约之行期间，安倍也与希拉里·克林顿讨论了“妇女经济学”。 在担任美国国务卿期间，希拉里·克林顿将加强妇女在经济中的地位作为一项重要政策目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, many developed countries will have to consider how to keep people working productively well into their seventies.",
        "因此，许多发达国家将不得不考虑如何让其国民高效地工作到70岁。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet average years of schooling are 12.5 for the first group and six for the second.",
        "但前面一组平均受教育年限为12. 5年，而后面一组则仅有6年。"
    ],
    [
        "No nation threatens China’s land borders.",
        "没有一个国家威胁中国的陆地边界。"
    ],
    [
        "It can be observed in surveys of the surface of the sea and in satellite measurements of the troposphere.",
        "海洋表面和对流层卫星测量结果观察到了这一现象。 但为何如此？"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it’s a two-way street.",
        "当然，这也是礼尚往来。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly a decade after succeeding Fahd, Abdullah is using his absolute power in other ways as well.",
        "阿卜杜拉继承法赫德已经将近十年，他已经获得了绝对的权力，也在使用这一权力。"
    ],
    [
        "India needs a detailed official inquiry into the various elements of disaster prediction, management, and relief, guided by the experience of Ockhi.",
        "印度需要在抗击飓风奥基积累的宝贵经验的指导下对灾害预测、管理和救援工作的各方面要素进行细致的官方调查。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gates Foundation and the GAVI Alliance have spent more than $2.5 billion and promised another $10 billion for vaccines.",
        "盖茨基金会和GAVI联盟已经出资25亿多美元用于疫苗事业，并承诺还将追加100亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as a weak China was not able to count on Wilson’s protection, a strong China will not be able to count on Trump to get out of its way – at least not without throwing a few elbows.",
        "正如孱弱的中国不能指望威尔逊的保护，强大的中国也不能指望特朗普走开——至少在不给他点颜色的情况下是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike our policymakers, ISIS is not waiting for more data. It actively exploits gender inequality to aid recruitment and operations.",
        "与决策者不同的是，伊斯兰国不会等待更多数据，而是利用性别不平等来协助自身的招募和运营工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The destabilizing consequences of this obstinate failure to reform sufficiently multilateral governance have been compounded by China’s own struggle to reconcile its domestic priorities with its global economic responsibilities as the world’s second-largest economy.",
        "顽固地不肯充改革多边治理所造成的动摇性后果，因为中国难以调和其国内重点和身为世界第二大经济体的全球经济责任而加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "So was Robert Theobald, who, in his 1963 book Free Men and Free Markets questioned the public’s repugnance toward high unemployment.",
        "提奥巴德（Robert Theobald）的预测亦然——在其1963年的著作《自由的人和自由市场》（Free Men and Free Markets），他质疑了公众对高失业的厌恶之情。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, there was a wage and price freeze, an end to the Federal Reserve’s swap network of support for other central banks, and a limitation of gold transactions, implying a reduction in the value of the American currency.",
        "”与此同时，当局还下令冷冻工资和物价、终止了美联储向其他央行提供支持的货币互换、限制黄金交易，这意味着美元的贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Two hundred years ago, Washington DC was captured by the British – who then proceeded to set fire to official buildings, including the White House, Treasury Department, and Congress.",
        "华盛顿—两百年前，华盛顿被英国人攻陷，入城的英国人随后放火烧了包括白宫、财政部和国会在内的公共建筑。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, capitalism in the post-WWII decades maintained full employment, with unemployment often hovering around 2% in Europe, North America, and Japan.",
        "而且，二战以后几十年来的资本主义维持了全民就业，欧洲、北美和日本的失业率经常在2%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Soft-Power Offensive in Taiwan",
        "中国大陆对台湾的软实力攻势"
    ],
    [
        "As central banks’ key role in the recovery from the post-2008 global economic crisis demonstrated, monetary policy must be flexible and innovative.",
        "由于央行在2008年后全球经济危机复苏中展示了关键作用，因此货币政策必须灵活和创新。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is coming to an end.",
        "但这一情况马上就要结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that international organizations and the EU are of no help.",
        "这并不是说国际组织和欧盟无济于事。"
    ],
    [
        "By using Fundación Paraguaya’s self-evaluation on poverty, she was able to understand her own needs better and address them one at time.",
        "通过使用巴拉圭基金会的贫困自我评估，她得以逐一认识和解决自身需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Incompetence during a political transition has a high price.",
        "政治转型期的无能往往需要付出高昂的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "In a financial system that has become so demented, only institutions with more or less infinite resources can stem the tide. Such institutions can conceivably be self-help organizations, such as pools of powerful banks. The US Treasury indeed tried to put together such a pool on Sunday, September 14th.",
        "金融体系已经疯狂，只有拥有无限资源的公司才能够平安无事。 而它们只能是一些自助性的组织，像规模庞大的连锁银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while annual US output per hour grew by 6.2% during this period, Swedish productivity rose by 8%.",
        "事实上，美国在这段时间的每小时年产出增长了6. 2％，而瑞典的生产力增加了8％。"
    ],
    [
        "Preventive measures to protect people and property were not carried out despite FEMA’s own conclusion in 2001 that a major hurricane hitting New Orleans was one of the three “likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing this country.”",
        "保护居民和财产的预防性措施根本没能落到实处，尽管联邦紧急措施署曾经在2001年亲自认定：袭击新奥尔良的飓风将是美国所面临的三大“最现实、最悲惨的灾难”之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey cannot remain indifferent to this geography, for it stands at the center of it.",
        "位处这广大区域的中心，土耳其自然也不可能无视自身所处的地理现实。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because people derive satisfaction from behaving in accordance with the ideal, they behave not just to acquire, but also to become.",
        "由于人从根据理想行动中获得满足，他们的行为不仅仅是为了获取（acquire），也是为了成为（become）。"
    ],
    [
        "First, countries should be cautious about external financial liberalization when financial sector development and institutional quality are below key thresholds.",
        "首先是，如果某个国家的金融部门的发展和机构质量低于重要门槛，就应该对外部的金融自由化保持谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "What China wants and what it gets may be different things.",
        "中国想要的东西和得到的东西可能是不同的。"
    ],
    [
        "That option should be supported.",
        "这种选择方案才应该得到支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Poetically, he attacks Muslim men’s masculinity and sense of honor for not defending Islam.",
        "他采用诗歌的形式攻击那些不为伊斯兰奋战的穆斯林男子的男子气概和荣誉感。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies a ray of hope for a bilateral relationship – the most important in Asia – that over the past two decades has been battered by Japan’s reluctance to face its past, which has become a lightning rod for over-heated nationalist sentiment on both sides.",
        "这使人们对于这一亚洲最重要的双边关系看到了一丝曙光，过去二十年间这一关系因为日本拒绝面对它的过去而遭到了严重损害，并且成了双方头脑发热的民族主义者情感发泄的避雷针。"
    ],
    [
        "The Right Fight Against Terrorism",
        "正确地打击恐怖主义"
    ],
    [
        "If they volunteered to act collectively at these forums, Europe would free up much-needed space for other important countries at the top table of world economic discussions, which would foster greater respect for global policymakers.",
        "如果它们自愿在这些论坛中统一行动，那么欧洲就能在最高级别的国际经济讨论中为其他重要的国家腾出必要的空间，而此举将会赢得全球政策制定者们的更多尊敬。"
    ],
    [
        "The new agency would gradually streamline procedures; establish common rules for employment and entrepreneurship, as well as consistent benefits; and develop an effective, rights-respecting return policy for migrants who do not qualify for asylum.",
        "为就业和企业家精神以及一致利益制定共同规则； 并制定有效的、尊重权利的不合庇护标准移民的遣返政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The first point of that agenda should be to fast-track infrastructure investment.",
        "第一点应该是快车道基础设施投资。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2000, only 5.9% of the National Assembly’s 299 members were women.",
        "2000年，国民议会的299名代表中女性只占5. 9%。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany finances 20% of the EU budget but receives only 12% of EU spending.",
        "德国提供欧盟资金的20%，而只得到12%的欧盟开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing countries are also at fault.",
        "发展中国家也有错误。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, increased NIH funding, extended market exclusivity, and relaxed regulatory hurdles in the US resulted in a renaissance in antibiotic drug development.",
        "比如，NIH拨款的增加、广阔的专属市场以及宽松的监管让美国的抗生素药物开发迎来了第二春。"
    ],
    [
        "The report proposes two alternatives. One would add six new permanent members – such as India, Brazil, Egypt, South Africa, Japan, and Germany – as well as three two-year members.",
        "报告提出两个方案，一是增加六个新常任理事国，如印度、巴西、埃及、南非、日本和德国，以及三个两年制临时成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "Up to 50% of existing jobs may be at risk in the next 20 years.",
        "最高有50%的现有工作可能在未来20年内告急。"
    ],
    [
        "No one can imagine hiring a worker, but allowing him not to inform his employer about what he is doing on the job.",
        "我们无法想象，雇用一个工人，但却允许他不必向他的老板汇报他正在做什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Religion remains a compulsory subject throughout university programs, while inquisitiveness, critical thinking, and objective analysis are all widely discouraged.",
        "宗教仍然是所有大学规定的必修课，而求知欲、批判思维和客观分析精神则普遍受到压制。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK has decided to take action before any Europe-wide solution is agreed.",
        "英国决定在泛欧洲方案敲定前采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Both sides would benefit from building strong reciprocal ties, with employers telling educators what they need (and even helping to design curricula and offering their employees as faculty) and educators providing students with practical experience and hands-on learning.",
        "建立更紧密的互动关系能让双方都受益——雇主告知教育者他们需要什么（甚至帮助设计课程和派遣员工担任教员），教育者向学生提供实践经验和实习。"
    ],
    [
        "Putting in place infrastructure to support growth – notably power generation, which currently lags demand – will also be crucial.",
        "用基础设施支持增长——特别是目前落后于需求的发电——也很关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Thiel’s argument may be correct. But it is far from airtight.",
        "提尔的观点也许是对的，但绝不是无懈可击的。"
    ],
    [
        "Without more fundamental reforms, even an impeccable macroeconomic policy mix would not work.",
        "如果不进行更多的基本面改革，即使是完美无瑕的宏观经政策组合也无法奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s economic strength relative to the rest of the world may therefore diminish, perhaps sharply.",
        "欧洲的经济实力相对于世界其他地方而言因此会下降，可能还是剧烈下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia does not do itself justice.",
        "亚洲没有充分发挥自身的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "So even security interests can serve to foster greater cooperation, if the countries’ leaders discuss and develop a common approach.",
        "因此如果三国领导人讨论并制定共同方案，安全利益同样可以促进合作。"
    ],
    [
        "It is unfair to give ever more power to a Scottish parliament while continuing to give Labour, which controls 41 Scottish constituencies in the House of Commons, disproportionate say over what happens in England.",
        "在给予苏格兰议会更大权力的同时继续让控制着下议院41个苏格兰选区的工党拥有英格兰事务的优势发言权是不公平的。"
    ],
    [
        "In only a very few cases had any machinery actually been removed.",
        "只有极少的一部分企业真正拆除了设备。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the international pressure is muted.",
        "但国际压力还是失声了。"
    ],
    [
        "Although reports have so far not implicated Annan directly, his management failures are abundantly clear.",
        "尽管目前为止相关报道并没有直接暗示安南，但是他的管理失策却显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "In his words, companies should “make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of the society, both those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical custom.”",
        "弗里德曼说，公司应该“赚尽可能多的钱，与此同时要遵守社会的基本规则，既包括法律中写的规则，也包括世俗伦理规则。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge for Russia’s leaders is to use its oil wealth to educate Russia’s people and rebuild Russia’s infrastructure, thereby ensuring global competitiveness and employment growth.",
        "俄罗斯领导人面临的挑战是利用其石油财富教育人民和重建基础设施，从而确保其全球竞争力和就业增长。"
    ],
    [
        "MANILA – Every year, forest fires ravage Indonesia, causing massive environmental, social, and economic devastation.",
        "马尼拉—每年，森林火灾都会肆虐印尼，造成巨大的环境、社会和经济破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "But the age of worrying about it just might.",
        "而终结的很可能是这个担忧石油耗尽的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "These trials are, in fact, often staged to serve Gülenist ends specifically.",
        "但事实上这些审判最终都是专门为谷兰主义者的目的服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Zucman, for his part, favors a single global registry – a publicly accessible database detailing the ownership of financial instruments.",
        "”祖克曼支持建立统一的全球注册制——建立一个公共可访问的数据库，详细披露金融工具的所有权状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Among developed countries, only Romania has a higher rate of child poverty.",
        "在发达国家中，只有罗马尼亚的儿童贫困率更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Indian defense officials have reported a rising number of Chinese military incursions across the 4,057-kilometer Himalayan border.",
        "据印度国防官员报告，中国正在这条长达4057公里的边境线上不断增加军队部署。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither of those things has happened.",
        "这两种情况都没有发生。"
    ],
    [
        "From sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll to the civil rights movements to the dot-com and housing bubbles, for better or worse, the boomer generation has shaped modern society.",
        "从性、毒品、摇滚、民权运动到互联网和房地产泡沫，无论好坏，婴儿潮一代奠定了现代社会的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The most immediate is financial distress emanating mainly, but not exclusively, from the US and spilling out to hit all sectors of the global economy.",
        "最直接的是，主要从美国、但又不完全是从美国产生的金融危机，其向美国之外蔓延，打击了全球经济的所有领域。"
    ],
    [
        "These largely intangible production processes before and after the physical manufacturing sometimes constituted 80% of the value added.",
        "有时候，在真正制造以前和以后的大量无形的生产过程构成了附加值的80%。"
    ],
    [
        "Does the vote have to be repeated after a year to be sure?",
        "需要一年后再进行一次投票以确认结果吗？"
    ],
    [
        "If foreign holders of dollar bonds become concerned that the unsustainability of America’s situation will lead to higher interest rates and a weaker dollar, they will want to sell dollar bonds.",
        "如果外国美元债券持有者担心美国状况的持续性会导致利率上升、美元贬值，他们就会想卖掉美元债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing once famously complained about America’s “exorbitant privilege.”",
        "法国前总统德斯坦曾经引人注目地抱怨美国的“嚣张特权”。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Twenty-four years ago, in the midst of an ugly US presidential campaign, Bill Clinton’s campaign manager neatly summed up his candidate’s message: “It’s the economy, stupid.”",
        "伦敦—二十四年前，在一场艰苦的美国总统选举中，比尔·克林顿阵营管理者言简意赅地总结出他的竞选口号：“这是经济，笨蛋。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s New Model Political Leadership",
        "日本的新领导模式"
    ],
    [
        "Under the Japanese name of Takagi Masao, he served as an officer in the Japanese Imperial Army.",
        "他曾用高木正雄这个日本名字担任日本皇军军官。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite this, countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands, which are not expected to meet their Kyoto commitments, are being allowed to increase their emissions.",
        "6%。 尽管如此，比利时和荷兰等预计无法实现京都目标的国家，还获准增加排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS – Equating war with individual evil has become ubiquitous – if not universal – in contemporary international politics.",
        "德克萨斯州大学城——将战争和个人罪恶混为一谈如果不是现代国际政治中人们的共同选择，也无疑已经成为一种普遍现象。"
    ],
    [
        "At the margin, the market will put a premium on companies that can quibble with governments and navigate contradictory regulations, rather than those that can boost productivity and open new markets.",
        "在这种情况演变到极致的时候，市场将给予那些善于与政府周旋并在相互矛盾的法规之间游刃有余的企业更高的溢价，而不是青睐那些可以提高生产力和开拓新市场的公司。"
    ],
    [
        "This debt was incurred during the 30-year reign of the deposed president, Hosni Mubarak.",
        "这笔债务是下台总统穆巴拉克在其30年的统治生涯中积累下来的。"
    ],
    [
        "There are no policies to reduce risks in shadow banks, insurance companies, or mutual funds.",
        "没有政策降低影子银行、保险公司或共同基金的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Chávez turned PDVSA into a personal fiefdom and used it as a cash cow; many of his social programs were funded directly from the company’s budget.",
        "查韦斯将PDVSA变为私人禁脔和现金奶牛； 他的众多社会事业直接从公司预算中获得资金。"
    ],
    [
        "The direct impact of lowering tax rates on personal income and corporate profits will be to reduce tax revenue and increase the budget deficit.",
        "降低个人所得税率和公司利润税率的直接影响将是降低税收收入，增加预算赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "But this lead is being eroded.",
        "但这一领先地位正在被追上。"
    ],
    [
        "Those of us who believe in a multidimensional culture will be grateful to him for his enormous efforts, thus for his “catholicism” in the original sense of the word, his all-embracing concerns.",
        "对于那些像我们这样信仰多维文化的人来说，我们对他所作的巨大努力、对他对“天主教教义”所作的原意阐述及其兼容并包的挂念关心深表感激。"
    ],
    [
        "Could Russia and China really have used it to veto Security Council resolutions on Myanmar and Zimbabwe in, respectively, 2007 and 2008?",
        "俄罗斯和中国真的会利用该条款分别在2007年和2008年否决安理会对缅甸和津巴布韦的决议吗？"
    ],
    [
        "No one can watch the ongoing violence in Syria without a sense of horror at the armed attacks on largely unarmed civilians, overwhelmingly by groups that support President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.",
        "没人可以毫无恐惧感地坐视那些目前持续发生在叙利亚国内的，对手无寸铁平民的武装袭击——且主要是由总统阿萨德的支持者发动的。"
    ],
    [
        "There was considerable sentimental attachment toward Aboriginal sportsmen and women, and indeed toward Australia’s indigenous people generally – apparent in the outpouring of emotion, remarked worldwide, that accompanied Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s moving “Apology to the Stolen Generation” in 2008.",
        "事实上这一政策主要是与澳大利亚男女土著运动员，与所有澳大利亚土著居民有着相当大的情感联系——这在陆克文担任澳大利亚总理时感人的“向被盗的一代道歉”行动在全球引发的强烈情感反响中可见一斑。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require massive investments in new technologies and resources, not a “fight to the finish” over Middle East oil.",
        "这需要对新技术和资源进行大规模的投资，而不是为了中东的石油“一战到底”。"
    ],
    [
        "For a long time, Europe has underestimated its weight and importance.",
        "长期以来，欧洲都低估了自己的份量和重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "In the wake of Russia’s apparent departure from democratization during Vladimir Putin’s presidency, and of the wars in Chechnya and Georgia, the EU has adopted increasingly cautious language, sounding less optimistic about the prospects of a real partnership.",
        "缔约双方都意欲打造更加紧密的“战略合作伙伴”关系。 但从法国总统萨科齐和德国总理默克尔与俄罗斯总统梅德韦杰夫在多维尔（Deauville）的会面中不难看出，俄罗斯对于这一诞生没多久的关系已经发生了态度转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Blaming the Fed",
        "对美联储的谴责"
    ],
    [
        "This places India in a strong position to push Iran to put pressure on Assad.",
        "这使得印度有能力推动伊朗向阿萨德施压。"
    ],
    [
        "The question alone makes clear what this crisis is about: the future of the European project.",
        "单单这个问题就表明了本轮危机的深刻意义：它关系着欧洲一体化方案的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "But the oil destined for the US and the Netherlands was shifted to other countries like Japan, while oil destined for other countries found its way to the US and the Netherlands.",
        "但是，运往美国以及荷兰的石油被转移到了日本，而运往其他国家的石油则被运往美国和荷兰。"
    ],
    [
        "But achieving diplomatic deterrence will depend on China’s cooperation, and this requires that China’s vital national-security interests be recognized.",
        "但中国的合作是实现外交威慑的必要条件，前提是必须承认中国的关键国家安全利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But after China established the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank with the support of Europe, the US agreed to drop its objections.",
        "但中国在欧洲的支持下成立亚洲基础设施投资银行后，美国同意取消反对。"
    ],
    [
        "Such fundamental issues cannot be relegated to technocrats, particularly when those technocrats place the interests of one segment of society above others.",
        "这样根本性的问题不能降格交给技术官僚处理，特别是当这些技术官僚把社会某一部分的利益置于他人之上时尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Ross and Navarro were also co-authors of an economic-policy position paper published on the Trump campaign website that stretched any semblance of credibility.",
        "罗斯和纳瓦罗也是特朗普竞选网站上发布的经济政策立场书的作者，该立场书毫无可信度可言。"
    ],
    [
        "The authorities also tout the One Belt, One Road project, which will use Chinese financial assistance and resources to develop ports, railroads, and highways linking China with other parts of Asia, central Asia, and potentially even Europe.",
        "当局还提出了一带一路计划，该计划将通过中国的金融援助和资源开发连接中国和亚洲、中亚乃至欧洲各部分的港口、铁路和高速公路。"
    ],
    [
        "As a senior member of Blair’s government throughout its tenure, he shares responsibility for everything that Blair has done.",
        "作为整个布莱尔政府任期内的重要成员，布朗要对布莱尔的所作所为分担责任。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a little bit like buying a house.",
        "这有点像买房子。"
    ],
    [
        "Edmonton – Chinese President Hu Jintao will make a high-profile visit to Japan from May 6-10, making him the second Chinese head of state ever to travel there.",
        "埃德蒙顿——中国主席胡锦涛将于5月6日至10日高调访问日本，这次访问令他成为有史以来第二位访日的中国国家主席。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it would be best for everyone - France and Germany included - if the current US-led coalition were to succeed and Iraq could turn into a pillar of Middle East stability and modernization.",
        "当然，如果当前美国领导的联盟能旗开得胜，伊拉克能够成为中东稳定和现代化的支柱，这对各方来讲都是最好的结果，法德两国也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "As the industry and European regulators now reflect on this dismal state of affairs and search for solutions, they should consider banks’ revenue distribution – including employee bonuses and shareholder dividends – as part of the problem.",
        "欧洲银行业和监管者目前正在反思这一窘况、寻找解决之道，它们应该考虑银行的收入（revenue）分配——包括员工奖金和股东红利——也是问题的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "They are similarly ineffective from a military perspective.",
        "从军事角度，边境墙同样无效。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most important change is the shift in the region’s political and military center of gravity.",
        "可能最重要的变化是该地区政治和军事重心的转移。"
    ],
    [
        "Another new tool is the laser.",
        "另一个新工具是激光。"
    ],
    [
        "She is deliberately, coolly signaling that secretaries are just as good and important as policy makers, if not more so.",
        "米歇尔·奥巴马刻意冷静地表明，各部部长如果不是比政策制定者更好更重要的话，也是一样的好，一样的重要。"
    ],
    [
        "One does not have to be a “productivity pessimist” (arguing, for example, that the indoor toilet was the last great human invention) to acknowledge that many new technologies deliver less than promised or reward investors only with long lags.",
        "一个人不一定非要是“生产力悲观主义者”(比如认定室内坐便器是人类最后一个伟大发明) 才能承认许多新技术并未带来原本所承诺的效果，或者把投资者拖死了。"
    ],
    [
        "I am told that there is much more Argentinian investment wealth in the US than in Argentina.",
        "有人告诉我，投资美国的阿根廷财富比投资阿根廷的都多。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the bill wraps into one package all that is wrong with the Republican Party, and to some extent, the debased state of American democracy.",
        "相反，这个法案是共和党的一切错误之处，甚至在一定程度上美国恶劣民主状况的集大成体。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s trade and currency battles would then become a Kulturkampf.",
        "今天的贸易和货币之争就会因此变成一场文化之战。"
    ],
    [
        "So a return of economic, social, or political nationalism is simply not an option.",
        "所以我们决不能回到经济、社会或政治民族主义的老路上去。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU, on the other hand, demanded – and imposed – increases in all three tax rates.",
        "另一方面，欧盟要求增加所有这三项税的税率——并且实施了。"
    ],
    [
        "And wouldn’t it be preposterous for any rule or regulation to prevent me from finding out?",
        "阻止我了解这一点的任何法规难道不都是荒谬可笑的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Most recently, the Saudis threatened to sell off its US financial assets should Congress enact a proposed law exposing its leadership to lawsuits for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.",
        "最近，沙特人威胁如果美国国会通过拟议法案追究其领导人在2001年911恐怖袭击事件中可能的责任它将对在美国的金融资产进行抛售。"
    ],
    [
        "So, do such practices constitute a real threat to the conventions for protecting the stratospheric ozone, or are they “only” a factor that will delay the final phase-out of CFC’s within years or a decade?",
        "因此，这些行为是给为保护平流层臭氧的公约制造了一个真正的威胁，还是“仅仅”只是一个延迟CFC’s在几年或十年中被逐渐停止使用的一个因素？"
    ],
    [
        "And that is what the Greek electorate has done.",
        "而这正是希腊选民所做的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Saving in China is in part a virtuous circle: rapid economic growth leads to high saving, which in turn sustains rapid growth.",
        "中国的储蓄在很大程度上是良性循环：快速的经济增长带来了高额储蓄，而高额储蓄反过来又支持了快速发展。"
    ],
    [
        "It will also be a government without the Greens, who continue to have a devoted, if limited, clientele, but are now regarded by many as a luxury that Germany can no longer afford.",
        "它也不会给绿党一席之地。 虽然绿党拥有一支规模有限但却忠诚的追随者，但它现在已经被许多人看作是德国再也负担不起的奢侈。"
    ],
    [
        "China may not be able to achieve all of its goals next year.",
        "明年，中国也许无法实现所有目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Compensating the developing countries for providing these environmental services would be one way of substantially increasing aid – and at the same time, providing these countries with the right market incentives.",
        "为发展中国家提供的这些环境服务进行补偿可以成为一种切实增加援助的方式—而同时，也为这些国家提供了适宜的市场激励机制。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past 30 years, the global economy added 1.5 billion new connected workers in developing countries, with three billion new consumers in sight.",
        "在过去3年中，全球经济在发展中国家增加了15亿个连接在一起的工人（connected worker），更带来了三十亿新消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "That conclusion, if valid, stands as a stern warning to policymakers today.",
        "这个结论如果是正确的话，那么政策制定者们就要小心了。"
    ],
    [
        "One need look no further than Israel, with its penchant for overreaction on security matters, or Iran, with its insistence on enriching uranium, to see what can happen when an isolated power bases its actions on a sense of existential vulnerability.",
        "不用想得太远，从以色列在安全问题上的过度反应，或是伊朗在铀浓缩问题上的坚持，就能看到一个孤立的政权在刚愎自用的基础上行动可能会导致何种状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Peace Now, a nongovernmental organization that represents Israelis who support a political resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was founded in 1978 when 348 IDF reservists sent a letter to then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin urging him to conclude the peace process with Egypt.",
        "非政府组织“现在的和平”（Peace Now）代表着支持政治解决以巴冲突的以色列人，它成立于1978年348位以色列国防军预备役给时任总理贝京写信敦促他完成于埃及的和平进程。"
    ],
    [
        "They have done this 14 times since India gained its independence.",
        "自印度独立以来，印度人已经进行了14次选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the staff had received threats clearly meant to stop them from reporting on specific, sensitive stories.",
        "此外，网站工作人员收到过一些威胁，其目的显然是要阻止他们报道具体的敏感事件。"
    ],
    [
        "The race to appropriate water resources in Asia is straining agriculture and fisheries, damaging ecosystems, and fostering dangerous distrust and discord across the region.",
        "亚洲占用水资源的竞争正在给农业和渔业施加压力，破坏生态系统，并且造成整个地区的不和谐与不信任。"
    ],
    [
        "In Poland, the Democratic Left Alliance fell apart shortly before accession, while the Czech Social Democrats came close to a similar split.",
        "在波兰，民主左翼联盟在波兰成为欧盟成员国之前不久被分裂。 与此同时，捷克社会民主党也遭遇了同样的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "The ODA target of 0.7% of GDP – agreed in 2002 at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico – should motivate countries to increase their contributions.",
        "2002年墨西哥蒙特雷国际发展融资会议（International Conference on Financing for Development）为ODA设定了GDP的0. 7%的目标值，这应该能够刺激各国增加各自的贡献力度。"
    ],
    [
        "European Central Bank President Mario Draghi provided such a narrative to the financial markets last July.",
        "去年7月，欧洲中央银行行长德拉吉就为金融市场提供了这样一种故事。"
    ],
    [
        "At this year’s annual World Bank and IMF meetings, world leaders sought policies to spur faster, more inclusive growth.",
        "在今年的世界银行和IMF年会上，世界领导人试图找出刺激更快、更包容的增长的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Karl Rove was “Bush’s Brain”; Harry Hopkins held Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s prolific White House team together; Bill Moyers appeared on a magazine cover as “Johnson’s Good Angel.”",
        "哈里·霍普金斯（Harry Hopkins）帮助富兰克林·德拉诺·罗斯福（Franklin Delano Roosevelt）打点其规模庞大的白宫团队； 比尔·莫耶斯（Bill Moyers）在杂志封面上的称号是“约翰逊总统的天使”。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s hope they are right.",
        "但愿他们说得对。"
    ],
    [
        "The Security Council would judge the legitimacy of such action by whether it met the age-old criteria of just war: the seriousness of the threat, the purpose of the response, whether force is a last resort, whether it is used in a proportionate way, and whether there is a reasonable balance of good and bad consequences.",
        "安理会将根据长期以来正义战争的标准来判定这种行动是否合法，包括：威胁严重程度、反抗目的，以及除武力外是否别无选择，武力运用是否恰如其分，所导致的结果是否好坏平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "In a fiercely contested battle between Thaksin and his opponents, King Bhumibol is the fundamental difference between Thailand and the Philippines, where “people power” revolts regularly undermine and sometimes overthrow presidents.",
        "在他信与其反对派之间激烈的斗争中，普密蓬国王是泰国与菲律宾之间的关键性区别。 在菲律宾，“人民权力”叛乱定期削弱、有时推翻总统的职位。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Vienna agreement deserves wide support, and not just because the alternatives – continuation of acute regional tension at best, and catastrophic military conflict at worst – are so unappealing.",
        "但维也纳协议理应获得广泛支持，因为其他办法——最好情况是继续尖锐地区对立，最坏情况是军事冲突——更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "A more extreme version of the theory asserts that there is no lasting tradeoff between inflation and unemployment. All efforts to stimulate job creation or economic growth with easy money will merely boost price growth, offsetting any effect on unemployment.",
        "该理论还有一个更极端的版本推断说通货膨胀和失业率之间不存在持久的权衡，所有以“快钱（easy money）”刺激就业和经济增长的努力只会助推物价上涨，抵消在降低失业率上所做的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The official Western doctrine is that Israel’s long-term security depends on the success of the “peace process.”",
        "主流的西方理论仍然是以色列的长期安全取决于“和平进程”能否成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, books by economics professors about the Great Depression hardly a summer holiday make.",
        "当然，经济学家关于大萧条的著作不是一个短短的暑期读得完的。"
    ],
    [
        "With the abrupt end of the boom in 2006, that ego-boosting story also ended.",
        "2006年，房地产繁荣戛然而止，让参与者自我膨胀的故事也完结了。"
    ],
    [
        "A third argument is that if speculation were to blame for price increases, there should have been an increase in oil inventories, because speculators do not consume oil but instead store it for later sale.",
        "第三个论点是如果投机应该对价格上涨负责，那么石油库存也应该有增加，因为投机者并不消费石油而是将其储存起来日后销售。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush’s military commissions were found to fall below this standard.",
        "调查发现，布什的军事法庭没有达到这个标准。"
    ],
    [
        "This will help to secure a major role for the sector in the Chinese economy.",
        "这有助于确保该行业在中国经济中扮演重要角色。"
    ],
    [
        "It is like describing how one could bake a delicious wedding cake using only honey, bicarbonate of soda, and raw eggplant.",
        "这就像一个人不可能仅仅使用蜂蜜，苏打水和茄子就可以烘烤出一个美味的婚礼蛋糕来那样。"
    ],
    [
        "What if, instead of spending trillions of dollars trying to build an impossible number of power plants – or, more likely, condemning billions of people around the world to continued poverty by trying to make carbon-emitting fuels too expensive to use – we devoted ourselves to making green energy cheaper?",
        "与其花费数千亿美元兴建无数的发电站——或者刻意提高碳排放燃料的费用，不惜令全球数十亿人生活在贫困当中——不如让我们一起努力，令绿色能源变得更加廉价。"
    ],
    [
        "Less official corruption, more trust in the law, and greater freedom of thought would make China a more stable, more creative, and even more prosperous society.",
        "更少的官员腐败、更信任法律、更多思想自由能让中国成为更稳定、更有创造力、甚至更繁荣的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, as the US extricates itself from its Afghan quagmire, its own national interests will continue to trump all other considerations.",
        "毕竟，随着美国从阿富汗泥沼中脱身而出，其自身国家利益将继续压倒其他一切考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "After the Gu rains, the gully became a deep triangular cleft cut into the ground, filled with muddy water.",
        "每逢大雨过后，这条小沟就会成为一个很深的三角形地裂，里面全是浑浊的雨水。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s perfect storm of declining oil prices and closed political systems, a new wave of protest could well emerge, particularly where governments have not recognized that the end of rentierism marks the end of the old social contract.",
        "在今天油价下跌和政治体系封闭的完美风暴中，新一轮抗议浪潮可能会随时涌现，尤其如果政府仍未意识到食利主义的终结标志着社会契约的结束。"
    ],
    [
        "So Sarkozy shouldn’t be lashing out against “speculative capitalism.”",
        "因此，Sarkozy不应该鞭笞“投机资本主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of engaging in preemptive military actions, the US should pursue preventive actions of a constructive nature, creating a better balance between carrots and sticks in the prevailing world order.",
        "美国应该采取建设性的防范行动，寻找现有秩序在胡萝卜和大棒间的最佳平衡，而不是先发制人地采取军事行动。"
    ],
    [
        "With many of these newer clients favoring “self-directed” lives, providers of financial services will be pressed to switch from a product-push mindset to offering more holistic solutions that allow for greater individual customization.",
        "许多这些新客户喜欢“自我导向”的生活，金融服务提供者也将被迫从产品推广思维转换为提供更具个性化的全套解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "What can the US learn from what works?",
        "美国可以从有用的政策中学到什么？"
    ],
    [
        "And without the UK, Denmark and Sweden, which aren’t planning to join the eurozone, may fear that they will become second-class members of the EU, thus leading them to consider leaving as well.",
        "而没有了英国，不准备加入欧元区的丹麦和瑞典可能担心自己沦为欧盟二等成员，因此导致它们也考虑脱欧。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that countries will come prepared to make tangible, enduring commitments.",
        "我们希望各国做好准备采取切实持久的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Real average weekly earnings have fallen in recent months, and are now lower than they were 18 months ago.",
        "在最近几周中，真实平均周薪出现了下降，跌至18个月前的水平之下。"
    ],
    [
        "BUDAPEST – Today, millions of Europeans are afraid and frustrated as they face unemployment, loss of savings and pensions, radically reduced social benefits, and other economic hardships.",
        "布达佩斯——如今，数百万欧洲人又担心又沮丧——他们面临着失业、失去储蓄和养老金、社会福利大幅削减以及其他经济困境。"
    ],
    [
        "But you cannot argue that these groups did not increase their spending, and that their increased spending did not pull large numbers of Americans – roughly two million in each case – into productive and valued employment.",
        "但你不能认为，这些人没有促进消费，没有增加大量美国人的——粗略估计是200万人——就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In this respect, Scotland differs from Wales, which was forcibly incorporated into England more than 400 years before the Scots signed the voluntary Act of Union in 1707.",
        "在这一方面，苏格兰有别于威尔士。 在1707年苏格兰签署自愿联盟法案之前400多年，威尔士被迫并入英格兰。"
    ],
    [
        "Big deal.",
        "变化实在太大了。"
    ],
    [
        "Regrettably, however, the inequality debate has focused so intensely on domestic inequality that the far larger issue of global inequality has been overshadowed.",
        "但是，遗憾的是，不平等性争论一直聚焦于国内不平等，而严重性远远过之的全球不平等性问题一直没有得到关注。"
    ],
    [
        "As individuals in such regimes ascend the hierarchy, patronage and risk-aversion become the most critical factors in determining their chances for promotion.",
        "个人要想在这样的政权中更进一步，寻求庇护和规避风险成为决定他们升迁机会的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "If such military clashes left China with so much as a bloodied nose, as happened in the same area in 1967, it could spell serious trouble for Xi at the upcoming National Congress.",
        "如果这些军事冲突让中国碰了个鼻青脸肿，就像1967年在同一地区所发生的那样，那么习近平在即将召开的十九大上将遇到很大的麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as with all gambles, it is not necessarily a winning one.",
        "跟其它赌博一样，赌黄金不一定赌得赢。"
    ],
    [
        "Profound economic and technological changes in recent decades – together with privatization, deregulation, digitization, and financialization – have further empowered elites and enabled them to hone their use of political influencing via think tanks and philanthropies; shadow lobbying, workarounds that subvert standard processes; the media; campaign finance; and stints in “public service” to advance their interests.",
        "近几十年来深刻的经济和技术变革——加之私有化、放松管制、数字化和金融化——让精英阶层掌握了更多权力，导致其政治影响力通过利用智囊和慈善机构、影子游说、颠覆标准程序的变通办法、媒体、竞选融资和在“公共服务”中推进其利益的紧缩措施进一步增强。"
    ],
    [
        "One indicator of this is the old-age dependency ratio: the share of the population that is 65 and older.",
        "一个指标是老龄赡养比：即65岁及以上人口占比。"
    ],
    [
        "Next up was 1980s Japan, with its innovative management practices and well-run companies.",
        "接下来是20世纪80年代的日本，其凭借的是创新管理实践和经营出色的公司。"
    ],
    [
        "We risk a world of suffocating heat waves, severe droughts, disastrous floods, and devastating wildfires.",
        "我们有可能面对令人窒息的热浪、严重旱灾、灾难性水患和毁灭性森林大火的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The picture is somewhat bleak.",
        "情况可谓糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting vulnerability needs to be addressed urgently.",
        "由此带来的脆弱性急需得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, what is being offered isn’t nearly enough.",
        "但不幸的是，现在所提供的比起真正需要的还差得很远。"
    ],
    [
        "Iranian intervention in Iraq must stop.",
        "伊朗对伊拉克的干预必须阻止。"
    ],
    [
        "Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone company, conducts direct online polling of consumers to find out what innovations they would like to see.",
        "中国智能手机厂商小米直接利用消费者在线调查来研究他们希望看到怎样的创新。"
    ],
    [
        "But another, less widely discussed social determinant – maternal nutrition – could be.",
        "但另一个讨论较少的社会决定因素——母亲的营养可以。"
    ],
    [
        "Great as they are, the costs are trivial in comparison to the expense of humanitarian aid, international military intervention, and reconstruction assistance.",
        "尽管这些要求很高，但是同人道主义援助、国际军事干预以及重建援助相比，它们就微不足道了。"
    ],
    [
        "According to President Xi Jinping, the aim is to ensure annual economic growth of around 7%, driven by new opportunities in value-added manufacturing, information technologies, and modernized agricultural production.",
        "国家主席习近平指出，新常态的目标是确保年经济增长在7%左右，以高附加值制造、信息技术和现代化农业生产的新机遇为增长驱动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, not all countries are pluralistic democracies.",
        "当然，不是所有国家都是多元化民主国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Far from helping to control Japan’s budget deficit and huge public debt, the tax hike probably would have reduced revenues.",
        "该加税计划对于控制日本预算赤字和巨大的公共债务毫无助益，倒是可能带来收入减少。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when we are confronted by Russian expansionism and the extremism of messianic thugs, the lessons from the Congress of Vienna may seem distant and irrelevant.",
        "在这个面临着俄罗斯扩张主义和救世派暴徒的恐怖主义的今天，维也纳会议的教训似乎遥远又不相干。"
    ],
    [
        "Both opponents and supporters of the bill concede that marriage has changed in various ways over time.",
        "该法案的反对者和支持者都承认，随着时间的推移，婚姻也出现了大量变化。"
    ],
    [
        "And, America’s is the only for-profit health system of the entire bunch.",
        "美国是这些国家中惟一拥有营利性医疗系统的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Though scientists have traditionally tended to focus on either prevention or cure, defeating the HIV/AIDS virus will require researchers – and their funders – to collaborate to address the challenge from both directions.",
        "虽然科学家们传统上往往侧重于预防或治疗两者之一，征服艾滋病毒/艾滋病却需要研究人员——及其资助者——合作解决来自双方面的难题。"
    ],
    [
        "But who can control the legions of cyber warriors on the dark web?",
        "但谁能控制暗网空间里大批的网络战士呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Dissatisfied by their performance, politicians are seeking to reassert control.",
        "而那些不满央行表现的政治家们正在试图重夺控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the size of many R&D organizations is bound to be reduced by such reforms, the complexities of managing and maximizing the impact of this external web of relationships will demand new skills and capabilities over and above those of excellent science.",
        "尽管上述改革注定会缩小许多研发机构的规模，但要对外部关系网络进行管理，最大化地扩展其影响，其复杂性对员工技术和能力的要求将超过对其科研能力的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that Abe’s Japan will become an ally like France under Jacques Chirac, spurning US leadership for the sake of it; instead, Abe seeks a policy of cooperation with the US that reflects the alliance's voluntary nature.",
        "这并不意味着安倍晋三的日本会变成像希拉克治下的法国那样的盟友并敦促美国为了它而担起领导之责； 相反，安倍晋三寻求反映自愿原则的与美国合作的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The gold-buying policy raised the official gold price from $20.67 an ounce in October 1933 to $35.00 an ounce in January 1934, when the experiment was discontinued.",
        "这项黄金购买政策将官方黄金价格从1933年的20. 67美元一盎司提高到1934年1月的35美元（实验随后终止了）。"
    ],
    [
        "As an angel investor in start-up companies and a sometime philanthropist, I have the luxury of traveling the world and talking with articulate people who give me an unofficial, clear-eyed view of how most countries actually work.",
        "作为一名天使投资者以及业余慈善家，我有幸能够环游世界，并因此从一些头脑清晰辩才无碍的人口中得知一些关于大多数国家究竟如何运行的非官方观点。"
    ],
    [
        "But substantial policy spillover across the EU justifies strengthened policy coordination for labor-market and welfare reform.",
        "但是，欧盟地区实质的政策效果证明了在劳动力市场和福利改革方面加强政策协调是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Does Europe Need Britain?",
        "欧洲需要英国吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It remains to be seen whether the Fed will resist the temptation of negative interest rates.",
        "美联储是否能抵御住负利率的诱惑仍有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "Community officials and voluntary organizations also need to sign on – or, indeed, they could drive the process and find the investors themselves.",
        "社区官员和志愿组织也需要加入进来——或者，事实上他们可以推动进程并自己发现投资者。 他们还能做出贡献：补充学校营养餐和体育课；"
    ],
    [
        "For years, there was little need to resolve this constitutional issue.",
        "多年来，没有什么必要来解决这一宪法问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, scientists are rewarded for how many papers they publish, and in which journals.",
        "如今，科学家因发表多少论文、在那些刊物上发论文论高下。"
    ],
    [
        "But the opposite has happened, with rates often increasing nearly exponentially from year to year – a phenomenon that can be explained largely by the growing number of taxonomists.",
        "但实际情况却恰恰相反，发现新物种的速度往往按指数方式逐年递增——对于这种现象的解释恐怕是分类学家越来越多。"
    ],
    [
        "· and establishing strategies and funding to support the research needed to meet these challenges.",
        "l 制定战略以及注入资金支持旨在应对这些挑战的研究。"
    ],
    [
        "So what does Facebook mean in the face of death?",
        "那么究竟在死亡面前， Facebook 有什么意义？"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries responded by doing nothing, but many, including industrialized countries like Japan and Switzerland, intervened heavily in currency markets.",
        "一些国家的对策是以不变应万变，但许多国家——包括日本和瑞士等工业化国家——积极地干预了货币市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Abe’s growth strategy demands a corporate-tax reduction – a powerful tool for increasing the tax base in a world in which countries are competing to attract multinational companies.",
        "最后，安倍的增长战略需要降低公司税——在各国竞相吸引跨国公司的背景下，这是扩大税基的有力武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, it is perhaps unsurprising that central-bank independence – de jure or de facto – is once again up for debate.",
        "在这种背景下，中央银行的独立性——无论法律上还是事实上——再次出现争议就毫不奇怪了。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem, of course, has been the disproportionate use of force by the military, which retaliated against ARSA strikes by launching a scorched-earth campaign that has killed as many as 3,000.",
        "当然，问题是军方一直以来不合理地使用武力对阿拉贡罗兴亚救世军发起报复性袭击，军方实行的焦土政策已经导致多达3000人丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "Mao’s revolution fueled countless rectification movements and campaigns that inverted the once-inviolate primacy of ruler over ruled, scholar over worker, husband over wife, father over son, and family over individual.",
        "毛的革命催生了无数修正运动，逆转了从前从未受到过侵犯的统治者对被统治者、学者对工人、丈夫对妻子、父亲对儿子和家庭对个人的主导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "One option would be a small access-to-market fee that could be collected by pharmaceutical regulators in large markets.",
        "方案之一是大型市场的药品监管部门可以收取小额的市场准入费用。"
    ],
    [
        "America cannot get the outcomes it wants in trade, antitrust, or other areas without the cooperation of the European Union, China, Japan, and others.",
        "没有欧盟、中国、日本和其它国家的合作，美国无法在贸易、反托拉斯和其它的领域内得到其想要的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The East Asian tigers that pushed themselves onto the world economy’s center stage were small units, and in some cases – Singapore, Taiwan, or Hong Kong – were not even treated as states.",
        "将自身推到世界经济中心舞台的东亚猛虎也是些小国家，某些国家例如新加坡、台湾或者香港干脆都不被视为国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, Europe has a key role to play.",
        "在此背景下，欧洲将起到关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The same dynamic can be seen elsewhere: for all its power, the US has failed to resolve the conflicts in Cyprus, Bosnia, or Kosovo.",
        "同样的道理也可以在其他地方看到：尽管有实力，美国依然没能解决位于塞浦路斯，波斯尼亚或者是科索沃的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "China has much to lose.",
        "中国会损失很大。"
    ],
    [
        "Given how few scientists have recognized the extent to which a woman’s eggs shape her grandchildren’s prospects, it is not surprising that policymakers remain so oblivious to the long-term impact of women’s health.",
        "极少有科学家注意到女性卵子对她的孙辈前景有多大程度的影响，因此，毫不奇怪决策者会丝毫不顾女性健康的长期影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The assumption is that if news outlets were to report only the “facts,” readers and viewers would always reach the right conclusion about a given story.",
        "其中的假设是，如果新闻机构只报道“事实”，读者和评论者就永远能够从他们获得的故事中得出正确的结论。"
    ],
    [
        "After mitigating the downturn, central bankers must withdraw the immense infusion of liquidity before inflation takes off, a tricky maneuver.",
        "在危机衰退后，央行必须在通货膨胀结束前撤出巨大的之前所注入的流动资金。"
    ],
    [
        "At times, such an approach will be challenging; Hamas will undoubtedly prove to be a difficult counterpart.",
        "有时这样一种方式可能会极富挑战性；"
    ],
    [
        "Without defending Stalin, one must recognize the immense Soviet contribution – including the lives of 26 million citizens – to the Allied victory in WWII.",
        "即使一点不为斯大林辩护，人们也必须承认苏联对二战盟军胜利的巨大贡献——包括2，600万民众为此献出生命。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer, of course, is no.",
        "答案当然是否定的。"
    ],
    [
        "With underwriting on the trading side of the fence, the deposit bank could still supply the service to customers, but as a broker, not as a dealer.",
        "承销业务属于篱笆靠交易的一面，这使得存款银行仍旧能够为客户提供服务，不过不是以经纪人的角色，而是以承销商的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "There has been some progress in identifying the factors causing economic inclusiveness to decline in the last three decades.",
        "在辨别让经济不包容在过去三十年中有所减少的因素方面，我们取得了一些进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Great social thinkers almost always start out as polarizing figures, admired by some and scorned by others, until their radical challenge to how we understand the world finally prevails.",
        "伟大的社会思想家开始之初几乎总是一些引发争议的人物。 某些人崇拜他们，某些人挖苦他们，直到他们对我们理解世界的方式提出的激进挑战最后赢得胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "For the country’s first few years, debt service swallowed more than 80% of all federal revenues.",
        "在美国建国的最初几年中，债务利息吞噬了80%的联邦总岁入。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, it is not unsolvable, as significant reforms like the creation of the European Stability Mechanism and the launch of banking union show.",
        "幸运的是，这个问题不是无法解决的，成立欧洲稳定性机制（European Stability Mechanism）、启动银行联盟等重大改革已经证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Frontex, roughly a quarter of the migrants who crossed the Mediterranean in 2014 were Syrian families escaping the civil war there.",
        "据欧盟边防局统计，2014年偷渡地中海的移民约有四分之一是为逃避叙利亚内战。"
    ],
    [
        "McKinsey’s research confirms the role of such long-term factors in undermining incomes for the majority of households.",
        "麦肯锡的研究确认了这些长期因素是制约大部分家庭收入的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "This was especially true in Syria, where the Alawite-dominated Baath Party fostered ties to Christians and other small communities by presenting itself as a bulwark of secularism and stability in the face of a supposedly threatening Sunni majority.",
        "叙利亚尤其如此，阿拉维派主导的阿拉伯社会复兴党（Baath Party）与基督徒和其他少数群体建立了关系，把自己打造成抵挡住假想中的逊尼派多数威胁的世俗主义和稳定的捍卫者。"
    ],
    [
        "Many are shocked that the government collapsed and had to call a new election only two months after taking office.",
        "许多人震惊于政府崩溃、不得不在执政仅仅两个月后就举行新选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Social democracy is not as deeply theorized as economics.",
        "社会民主的理论化不如经济学深刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, the policies proposed by Sanders and Clinton would take the US closer to a European-style social-welfare state.",
        "总体而言，桑德斯和克林顿提出的政策方案会令美国更接近欧洲式的社会福利国家。"
    ],
    [
        "And even then, if the SOEs with which they are competing struggle too much, they are vulnerable to policy shifts that increase their disadvantage further.",
        "即便如此，如果与它们竞争的国企日子太难过，它们还有可能面临更加恶劣的政策环境变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem with the debate is that it has focused solely on the effectiveness of policies, without considering the need for prudence.",
        "这一争论的问题是它至关注政策的效果，而没有考虑审慎的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "We need not feel sorry for Mladić. There is no doubt that he is guilty of serious war crimes.",
        "我们无需为姆拉迪奇感到遗憾，因为他无疑犯下了严重的战争罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Labor Organization defines it as comprising firms that are small enough to fall outside the labor code.",
        "国际劳工组织的定义是不在劳动法管辖范围内的小型企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Regional development policies to promote so-called “equitable growth” are not a solution, for two reasons. First, empirical evidence shows that convergence of per capita income between lagging and leading regions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for achieving poverty reduction and social convergence.",
        "以促进所谓“平等发展”为核心的区域发展政策并不是一个好方法，原因有二：首先，减少落后地区和富裕地区的人均收入差距并不是实现减少贫困和社会融合目标的充要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "While identity theft is by no means exclusively a Chinese problem, such experiences create the impression that technological modernization in China may be outpacing regulation and data-security infrastructure.",
        "虽然身份盗窃绝非仅仅中国才有，但这样的经历给人的印象是中国的技术现代化可能超前于监管和数据安全基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "The fifth concern stems not so much from the accord as from everything else about Iran’s foreign and defense policies.",
        "第五个原因与协议的关系较小，而与伊朗其他外交和国防政策关系较大。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so would enable China’s leaders to advance their goal of developing the country’s vast inland regions. Specifically, western provinces like Ningxia and Qinghai, which have substantial Muslim communities, could benefit from deeper links with Arab economies.",
        "这能让中国领导人推进开发中国广袤内陆地区的目标，具体而言，新疆和青海等拥有众多穆斯林人口的西部省份能够从深化与阿拉伯经济的联系中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Independent observers from the European Union and elsewhere began to report serious irregularities in the Kibaki strongholds, where opposition party representatives were denied access to polling sites.",
        "欧盟和其他地方的独立观察家们开始报告Kibaki大本营出现的严重不规范情况。 当地的反对党代表被禁止进入投票地点。"
    ],
    [
        "Stressing the new Fed chief’s “professionalism” may only delay the moment when this lesson is learned again.",
        "强调新任美联储主席的“专业化”可以只会担搁汲取教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Omit buying just one apple every 20 years because you have gone organic, and your child is worse off.",
        "如果因为你选用有机产品而导致你在20年间哪怕少买了一只苹果，你的孩子夜会遭遇更大的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "In many vulnerable countries, the government health-care system cannot meet demand, and a variety of providers are attempting to bridge the gap. These range from medical specialists to informal providers, who work largely outside the regulatory framework.",
        "在很多容易感染传染病的国家，政府的医疗保健系统都无法满足需求，于是这当中的差距就由从医疗专家到非正规供应商的一系列游离于监管体系之外的供应商来负责弥补。"
    ],
    [
        "Many world leaders, particularly those in Europe, decry the Bush administration’s undermining of the UN, especially since 2003.",
        "许多世界领导人，尤其是欧洲领导人，都谴责布什政府削弱了联合国的力量，特别是在2003年以来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the currency of any country that is significantly dependent on commodity exports has suffered.",
        "实际上，每个在很大程度上依赖于商品出口国家的货币，都受到影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Government employees include teachers, policemen, trash collectors, and military personnel.",
        "政府雇员包括教师、警察、垃圾清洁工和军人。"
    ],
    [
        "Small players can then act in large markets, because – over time – they become known quantities.",
        "随着时间推移小参与者的数量逐渐得可观，并逐渐聚集成大型市场。"
    ],
    [
        "International Taxation and Global Development",
        "国际税收和全球发展"
    ],
    [
        "There is no market discipline.",
        "既然激励机制失灵了，哪里有什么市场游戏的规则可言？"
    ],
    [
        "If this principle prevails, no one would ever accept debt restructuring.",
        "如果这一原则推而广之，就不会有人接受重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s vacation-home boom of the 1980’s has largely fizzled with its collapsing stock market and urban land market.",
        "20世纪80年代日本的度假住宅市场已经由于股市和城市土地市场的崩溃而繁荣不再。"
    ],
    [
        "Across the northern part of Sub-Saharan Africa, there are now huge challenges from well-armed and well-financed terrorist groups that have imported toxic Islamist ideology from the Middle East.",
        "资金充足、武器精良的恐怖团体为撒哈拉以南非洲地区北部带来了巨大的挑战，这些人从中东舶来了有毒的伊斯兰思想。"
    ],
    [
        "Only this can make a withdrawal of US troops from Iraq realistic in the foreseeable future.",
        "只有这样，美国从伊拉克的撤军计划才会在可预见的未来成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is ample scope to make progress and spur faster economic growth.",
        "但取得进步、刺激更快经济增长的空间很大。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary union was always a risky bet, but it did not necessarily have to produce mass unemployment (more than half of all young people in Greece and Spain do not have a job).",
        "货币联盟永远是高风险赌博，但并不一定会造成大量失业（希腊和西班牙一大半年轻人没有工作）。"
    ],
    [
        "In the post-war period, the advanced economies used their position to set the rules for global economic activity.",
        "在战后时期，发达经济体利用自己的优势地位来为全球经济活动制定规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Diversity in a newsroom is vital to broadening the relevance of its coverage.",
        "新闻室的多样化对于拓宽报道的关联性至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, the broad public isn't anxious to get a better idea of how important government decisions are made.",
        "更糟糕的是，广大的公众并不渴望更好地了解政府决策有多重要。"
    ],
    [
        "According to critics, creating the “precondition” that the North stick to its original commitments amounts to a death blow to new talks.",
        "批评家认为，将朝鲜坚持原有承诺作为“先决条件”是对新谈判的一大打击。 但事实上，金正恩对恢复旨在实现朝鲜半岛无核化六方进程毫无兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, efficiency would be enhanced by a unified VAT rate, instead of creating distortions by charging different rates for different goods.",
        "在欧洲，可以用统一的增值税率来增进效率，而不应该通过对不同商品课以不同税率制造扭曲。"
    ],
    [
        "These places are bulging with people facing a tightening squeeze of insufficient rainfall and degraded pasturelands.",
        "这些地区的众多人口都面临着降雨不足和草场退化的严重威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "One can argue about the precise scale of the economic shock – short- and long-term – but it is difficult to imagine any circumstances in which the United Kingdom does not become poorer and less significant in the world.",
        "短期和长期经济冲击的准确规模有待探讨，但很难想象在哪种情况下英国不会变得更加无足轻重和贫穷。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of them have extremely elaborate flowers that have evolved to trick male bees or wasps into trying to copulate with them, thereby ensuring that they are regularly pollinated.",
        "许多兰花的花朵极为精致，演化为可以欺骗雄蜂或雄性胡蜂前来试图与它们交配的形态，从而确保得到定期授粉。"
    ],
    [
        "Here’s how.",
        "下面谈谈应该怎么做。"
    ],
    [
        "Just a couple of weeks before Memon’s execution, India’s Law Commission, a government body composed of retired judges and legal experts that works for legal reform, organized consultations to assess the effectiveness of the provisions governing the death penalty in India and the purpose of the penalty itself.",
        "就在梅蒙行刑前几个星期，由负责司法改革的退休法官和法律专家组成的政府机构印度法律委员会组织了针对印度死刑条款及死刑本身目的的有效性评估。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting rise in household wealth boosted consumer spending and revived residential construction.",
        "由此带来的家庭财富增长刺激了消费支出，重振了住宅建设。"
    ],
    [
        "Nature, it turns out, can play an important – and so far largely untapped – role in water delivery and treatment.",
        "事实证明，大自然可以在水资源运输及治理方面发挥重要作用，而这种作用现在基本没有发挥。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of rebalancing, any one of several potential tipping points could seriously compromise the economy’s ability to pull off another soft landing: deteriorating credit quality in the banking system; weakening export competitiveness as wages rise; key environmental, governance, and social problems (namely, pollution, corruption, and inequality); and, of course, foreign-policy missteps, as suggested by escalating problems with Japan.",
        "重要的环境、治理和社会问题（也就是，污染、腐败和贫富差距的问题）； 当然，还有外交政策失误，正如与日本之间不断升级的问题所显示出来的一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Russians, on the other hand, emphasize their “hard power,” including military force, because they know that they live in a dangerous world and have no one to hide behind.",
        "而俄国人正好相反，他们继续强调包括军事力量在内的“硬实力”，因为他们明白：自己身处一个危机四伏的世界之中，且没有靠山可供求助。"
    ],
    [
        "They do not see Israel the way Israel sees itself, as a nation under threat; instead, they see a government that has explicitly aligned itself with the Republican Party.",
        "他们看待以色列的方式与以色列看待自己的方式不用，他们不认为以色列是出于威胁中的国家； 相反，他们认为以色列政府显而易见把它自己与共和党相挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "Conservation organizations like mine have long been working to balance the interaction between people and nature.",
        "像我们这样的保护组织，长期以来一直致力于在人和自然之间形成互动平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "But the benefits of the Internet have come not just to those who work or play online.",
        "但互联网的好处并不局限于在线上工作或游戏的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet there is some emerging thinking – and statistics – about how the toxins we encounter in the modern world affect our immune system, which in turn affects our bodies’ ability to combat cancerous cells.",
        "最近有种理念——以及统计数据——正逐渐流行，其关注点就是我们在现代社会中日常接触到的毒素是如何影响自身免疫系统，也就是如何影响我们身体抵御癌细胞的能力的。"
    ],
    [
        "In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.",
        "在回忆录中，时任总统的赫尔伯特·胡佛估计有200万名劳动者因为他的这一政策而避免了失业。"
    ],
    [
        "As English-language empirical-research journals consolidate their hold on the channels that determine whether or not a scientist will have a successful career, developing countries will have to invest heavily in their own data infrastructure to place domestic researchers on a more competitive footing.",
        "因为英语实证研究期刊进一步增强了对科学家能否取得职业成功渠道的控制，发展中国家必须大量投资于国内数据基础设施，才能使国内研究人员处在更具竞争力的科研地位上。"
    ],
    [
        "If rich countries – in particular, the United States, the 25 members of the EU, and Japan – really want to help poor people, they will open their markets to what poor countries produce, especially textiles, apparel, agricultural products, and commodities.",
        "如果富有国家——特别是美国、欧盟的25个成员国和日本——真心诚意地想要帮助贫困人口，他们应该向贫困国家的产品开放他们的市场，尤其是纺织品、服装、农产品和日用品。"
    ],
    [
        "There are three reasons to believe that it is.",
        "有三个理由相信答案是肯定的。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – When the Bourbon monarchy was restored in 1815, the French diplomat Talleyrand is reported to have said of the Bourbons: “They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.”",
        "华盛顿—1815年波旁王朝复辟时，据说法国外交官塔列兰（Talleyrand）这样评论波旁家族：“他们什么也没有学会，什么也没有忘记。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee was established in 1997, only three women have been appointed as external members – and no woman has even been nominated since 2002.",
        "自英格兰银行货币政策委员会自1997年成立以来，只有三名女性被任命为外部成员，并且自2002年以来再无女性与该委员会发生关系。"
    ],
    [
        "These traits are much weaker among humanities and social sciences graduates.",
        "人文和社会科学毕业生的上述特点则要弱很多。"
    ],
    [
        "So, once again, Mahathir felt pressure to adopt a strategy aimed at preventing Islam from becoming a tool of opposition.",
        "就这样，马哈蒂尔再一次感到了采取措施，防止伊斯兰教成为反对派工具的巨大压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem lies elsewhere, in the way that economists and their research are used in public debate.",
        "问题不在这里，而在于在公众辩论中以何种方式运用经济学家及其研究成果。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, which was by far the world’s largest creditor, understandably refused to go along with Keynes’s proposal.",
        "当时全世界最大的债权国是美国，不难理解，它拒绝同意凯恩斯的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite this, we do not make the necessary investments to integrate newcomers into our schools and workplaces.",
        "但尽管如此，我们仍然没有投入足够的投资让新来者融入到我们的学校和工作单位中去。"
    ],
    [
        "Just four of the 54 senators who voted in favor of the bill were Republicans; only five of the 46 senators who voted against it were Democrats.",
        "在54名投票支持该法案的参议员中，只有四名是共和党； 在46名投票反对的参议员中，只有五名民主党。"
    ],
    [
        "There were no calls for a five-percent-growth-of-kilowatt-hours rule as there were calls for a five-percent-growth-of-M2 rule.",
        "有人呼吁制定M2百分之五的增长规则，但却没有人提出规定千瓦小时必须有百分之五的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Providing girls with secondary education also reduces family sizes, and, when they do become mothers, it improves their children’s health and chances of survival.",
        "让女孩上中学还能控制家庭规模，并且当她们成为母亲时，可以改善孩子的健康、提高存活率。"
    ],
    [
        "The distribution of competences between national and subnational levels, as well as the structure of taxation, was defined in a very different environment.",
        "国家和省级之间的能力分配，以及税收结构需要在截然不同的环境中制定。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the exact opposite of short-selling in equity markets, where being wrong means that the risk automatically increases.",
        "在股权市场上的卖空却是相反的运行方式。 违约意味着风险自动提升。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, Europe and the US account for more than 50% of global GDP, have the largest military force in the world by many multiples, and control a growing proportion of global energy reserves.",
        "欧洲和美国合起来占据世界GDP的一大半，拥有令其他势力望尘莫及的世界上最庞大的军队，还控制着不断上升的全球能源储备比重。"
    ],
    [
        "Just look at the US: where would America be if it had introduced barriers to entry to various waves of new immigrants and remained confined to Anglo Saxon settlers?",
        "再看美国：如果它设置壁垒阻止若干次新移民潮的涌入而仍然只接收盎格鲁-萨克森定居者，现在的美国又会是怎样一番景象？"
    ],
    [
        "A majority AKP government, investors apparently believed, would be much better than the likely alternative: a period of political uncertainty, followed by a weak and indecisive coalition or minority administration.",
        "投资人显然认为，正义与发展党占多数的政府应该比可能的替代选择要好得多：在一段时间的政治动荡之后，民众迎来软弱而优柔寡断的少数派政府联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "One can imagine that the financial behavior of these and other countries would change dramatically, with adverse implications for the dollar’s exchange rate and US borrowing costs, were America’s close military alliances with its allies to fray.",
        "可以想象，如果美国与其盟友之间紧密的军事联盟有所松懈，它们和其他国家的金融行为将会发生巨大的改变，对美元汇率和美国借贷成本造成不利影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Decades of American strategic thinking and diplomacy, initiated by Henry Kissinger in the 1970’s, aimed at weaning Egypt from its Russian alliance, now appear in danger of going down the drain because of Obama’s inability to make up his mind about Morsi’s overthrow.",
        "基辛格20世纪70年代创建几十年的美国战略思维和外交旨在切断埃俄联盟，现在都可能因为奥巴马无法在推翻穆尔西的问题上下定决心而彻底付诸东流。"
    ],
    [
        "The winner of this year’s Nobel prize for economics, Edmund Phelps, is a giant in the field.",
        "今年的诺贝尔经济学奖获得者菲尔普斯是经济学领域的一个巨人。"
    ],
    [
        "New sources of oil supply, however, have been at least as important.",
        "但是，石油供给新来源也起着至少同样重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing countries will also need to play their part, significantly slowing and peaking emissions growth in the coming decades.",
        "发展中国家要做出自己的贡献，在随后的几十年中他们的碳排放量将逐步达到峰值，随后就应该显著地减少。"
    ],
    [
        "The American forces invading Afghanistan were originally welcomed as liberators, but NATO got involved without a proper plan of engagement, and after eight years the presence of foreign troops is no longer welcome.",
        "美军入侵阿富汗时最初被当成解放者，但是北约在没有适当的参与计划情况下就参加进来，经过八年时间后，外国军队不再受到欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "The real cost of the crisis is not measured by the profit and loss statement of any central bank – or by whether or not the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), run by the Treasury Department, made or lost money on its various activities.",
        "事实上，那场危机的真正成本根本无法用任何中央银行的账面盈亏来衡量——也无法用美国财政部问题资产救助计划（Troubled Asset Relief Program）的一系列行动是赚是亏来进行评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the $2.9 billion subway line (originally budgeted at $1.6 billion) connecting the Games’ beachside event space to Barra da Tijuca, a wealthy suburb ten miles away.",
        "以连接奥运会海滩赛事场地和十英里外的市郊富人区Barra da Tijuca的地铁为例。 这条线路耗资29亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "One year after its implementation in March 2010, the reform has shown impressive results.",
        "自2010年3月实施一年后，改革取得了引人瞩目的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Policies governing gene transfer in sports must, therefore, be recognized as subservient to broader bio-ethical and bio-legal interests that recognize the changing role of genetics in society.",
        "因此，管理体育领域基因转移的政策必须得到公众的认可，对广泛的生物伦理和生物法律利益有所帮助，并充分考虑到遗传学社会作用的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The beating death of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American who was mistaken for a Japanese, also resonated historically, recalling a pseudo-scientific article on how to distinguish the Chinese from the Japanese that Life magazine published in December 1941.",
        "华裔美国人陈果仁（Vincent Chin）因被误认为日本人而遭殴打致死，这也可以说是历史的回音，让人想起了1941年12月号《生活》（Life）杂志上刊登的关于如何区分日本人和中国人的毫无科学根据的文章。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Iraq’s interim constitution gave the Assembly exclusive control over the drafting process, the Assembly wisely reached out beyond its membership in creating a constitutional drafting committee.",
        "尽管伊拉克过渡宪法授予国民会议独有的宪法起草控制权力，国民会议还是明智地超越其成员以外，建立了宪法起草委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "Step by step, the Erdoğan-Babacan strategy was to rebuild the banking sector, get the budget under control, and invest heavily and consistently where it counts: infrastructure, education, health, and technology.",
        "一步一步，埃尔多安－巴巴詹的策略是重建银行业、控制预算，并对基础设施、教育、卫生和技术等重要领域进行持续的大笔投入。"
    ],
    [
        "Citizens have the right to know how their money is being spent and who is being consulted to form policy.",
        "公民有权知道他们的钱何去何从，制定政策是在向谁咨询。"
    ],
    [
        "It should act with greater imagination to unleash more genuine economic freedom and competition, stop championing national enterprises, and start giving the European Central Bank more support.",
        "它应该采取更富想象力的举措，以释放更多真正的经济自由度和竞争，停止扶持国家企业，并开始给予欧洲央行更多的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Aquino’s success in bringing the decades-old MILF rebellion to a peaceful end highlights a courage and tenacity that will enable him to play a key role in reining in China’s regional ambitions.",
        "阿基诺三世成功地将维持了几十年的MILF起义引向和平结束，这充分表现出令他能够在遏制中国地区野心中扮演关键角色的勇气和韧性。"
    ],
    [
        "To top it off, throughout the Middle East (as well as Sub-Saharan Africa and most of South Asia), rapid population growth is fueling enormous demographic pressures.",
        "最后，整个中东地区（以及撒哈拉南部非洲以及南亚地区）人口数量的快速增长也带来了巨大的人口压力。"
    ],
    [
        "One can hardly say that every céntimo was well spent.",
        "当然，并不是每一分钱都花在了刀刃上。"
    ],
    [
        "A number of organizations have now emerged to strengthen the policy-making capacity of city governments including Michael Bloomberg’s Government Innovation Program, Fuse Corps, Results for America, Social Finance, Third Sector Capital Partners, and USAFacts.",
        "但目前已经出现了一些可以协助市政府强化其决策能力的组织，包括迈克尔·布隆伯格（Michael Bloomberg）旗下的政府创新项目，FUSE Corps，Results for America，Social Finance，Third Sector Capital Partners和USAFacts等等。"
    ],
    [
        "More than half of Pakistan’s population is under the age of 25; theirs is the generation with the potential to drive progress and prosperity in the country – if, of course, they receive the education they deserve.",
        "一半以上的巴基斯坦人口年龄不到25岁； 他们这一代人拥有推动巴基斯坦进步与繁荣的潜力——当然，如果他们能够获得应有的教育的话。"
    ],
    [
        "How can responsible governments simply look away when innocent people are being killed in large numbers?",
        "有责任心的政府怎么能对无辜民众遭受杀戮置之不理？"
    ],
    [
        "Local governments worry about how far from the coast new residential areas should be built, amplifying concerns about the future for people who are being forced to live with strangers in temporary housing in an unfamiliar area.",
        "当地政府对新居民区该建在离海岸多远的地方心存顾虑，这也加重了那些被迫与陌生人一起住在陌生地区的临时住所的灾民的担心。"
    ],
    [
        "Since oil prices began to drop in mid-2014, Saudi Arabia has experienced a sharp decline in GDP growth, as well as lower liquidity and credit growth.",
        "从2014年中石油价格开始下降后，沙特阿拉伯经历了GDP增长急剧下滑、以及流动性及信贷增长下降的阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "As a practical matter, Assad leads one of the conflict’s most powerful factions, one that must be represented at the negotiating table if peace is to be achieved.",
        "从务实角度看，巴沙尔领导者叙利亚冲突中力量最强大的一方，想要达成和平，就必须让这一方坐上谈判桌。"
    ],
    [
        "There may have been more savings opportunities for households and more diverse funding sources for firms, but the added value of asset-management activity was illusory.",
        "家庭或许得到了更多的储蓄机会，企业也或许能得到更多样的资金来源，但资产管理活动的增值是一个幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Our researchers are tracking the spread of the virus to understand how epidemics evolve, and we are working to empower local scientific and medical personnel.",
        "我们的研究人员通过追踪病毒传播了解疫情变化，我们正努力协助当地科研和医务人员开展抗击病毒的斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met with outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan in Fukushima, near the damaged plant – helping to ease neighboring countries’ concerns about radiation leakage.",
        "例如中国国家总理温家宝和韩国总统李明博最近都在福岛附近地区与时任日本首相菅直人进行了会晤——也有助于缓解邻近各国对核泄漏的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the new struggle of the twenty-first century.",
        "这是二十一世纪的新斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Germans helping to reconcile conflicting national interests by putting a little extra on the table, the process of European integration reached its apogee with the Maastricht Treaty and the introduction of the euro.",
        "德国人通过把蛋糕做大来调解国家间利益冲突，在德国的帮助下，欧洲一体化在马斯特里赫特条约的签署和欧元的诞生中达到了高峰。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, there is Germany’s firm commitment to price stability.",
        "最后，德国企业执着于稳定价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Within Iran, a powerful coalition of moderate forces – ranging from reformists and dissidents to civil-society actors – has long advocated for a more engaged foreign policy.",
        "在伊朗国内，温和力量——包括改革派、异见分子和公民社会活动家等——所组成的强大联盟长期以来一直要求采取积极参与的对外政策。"
    ],
    [
        "I had found the lump almost two weeks earlier, while at a conference in South Africa.",
        "事情发生在两星期前，那时我在南非开会，却意外发现了乳房中的肿块。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, with only 10% of the global population responsible for almost 50% of global CO2 emissions, there is a strong case to be made for implementing strategies that target the biggest emitters.",
        "此外，10%的全球人口制造了近50%全球二氧化碳排放，因此，实施以最大排放者为目标的战略是很有裨益的。"
    ],
    [
        "But both lines are porous, at best, given the harsh realities of Greece’s economic circumstances.",
        "但考虑到希腊经济环境的严酷状况，这两道防火墙即使最乐观地看也是漏洞百出。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the fact that most refugees come from Arab lands known for their anti-Semitism and anti-Israel stance, Jewish intellectuals in this camp have been unanimous in welcoming them with open arms.",
        "尽管大多数阿拉伯难民出了名地反犹和反以，上述阵营的犹太知识分子仍众口一词地张开双臂对他们表示欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "If the facts have changed, the policy implications must also change.",
        "如果事实发生了改变，政策也应该改变。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in the past, assistance has been accompanied by extensive “conditions,” some of which enforced contractionary monetary and fiscal policies – just the opposite of what is needed now – and imposed financial deregulation, which was among the root causes of the crisis.",
        "而且，过去的援助伴随着繁多的“条件”，其中一些实施互相矛盾的货币和财政政策——这和现在的需要背道而驰； 这些条件还迫使受惠国放松金融管制，而这正是导致危机的原因之一。"
    ],
    [
        "This would imply that prices will probably have to fall at least by 20-30 %, but possibly considerably more before they find a bottom.",
        "这将会意味着房地产价格可能会下降至少20%到30%，但是在探底之前可能会下降更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte defeated the anti-Islam candidate Geert Wilders, who has called for closing Dutch borders, shutting mosques, and banning the Koran.",
        "荷兰首相吕特击败了要求关闭荷兰边境、取缔清真寺、禁止古兰经的反伊斯兰候选人吉尔特·维尔德斯（Geert Wilders）。"
    ],
    [
        "By installing officials with strong policy credibility and the ability to handle market volatility deftly, China can complete its transition to a more market-oriented, innovation-driven economy – one that also supports stronger global growth.",
        "通过不断建立与维护政策的可信度及培养熟练应对市场变化的监管能力，中国能够一步一步走向更加市场化及创新驱动的经济发展模式——而这一转型也将支持更强劲的全球增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Some local museums display fascinating objects.",
        "当地有些博物馆摆放的展品非常引人入胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Several factors make predicting the outcome even more problematic.",
        "一些因素让预测结果变得难上加难。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be far better to bring China (and India) into the IEA, and encourage normal Chinese participation in world markets.",
        "更好的办法是把中国(以及印度) 带入国际能源机构之中，并且鼓励中国正常地参与世界市场。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time in history, terrorism gives insurgents the ability to strike directly at their enemies’ external allies.",
        "恐怖主义使叛乱分子有史以来第一次有能力对敌方的外部同盟实施直接的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, new technological advances could deliver immense economic gains.",
        "另一方面，新技术进步的巨大经济收益也不容忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "When Osborne became Chancellor in 2010, the budget deficit – spending minus revenue – was £153 billion ($239 billion), or 10.2% of GDP.",
        "奥斯本2010年出任财政大臣时，预算赤字——即支出减去收入——为1,530亿英镑或GDP的10. 2%。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a seemingly universal belief that America should absolutely refrain from military action, condemn the Islamic Republic’s human rights abuses, and express moral solidarity with the Iranian people.",
        "不过，有一点似乎是被公认的，那就是美国首先应避免军事干涉伊朗，其次要谴责伊斯兰共和国侵犯人权的行为，并在道义上与伊朗人民站在同一阵线上。"
    ],
    [
        "With a growing number of cancer survivors, we need to understand better the twin processes of tumor dormancy and metastatic cancer recurrence.",
        "随着癌症康复者的数量不断增多，我们需要进一步了解肿瘤休眠和转移性复发这两个过程。"
    ],
    [
        "In the nineteenth century, chronic disease was considered problematic in part because sufferers took up scarce beds in hospitals that were increasingly focused on treating acute, curable diseases.",
        "在十九世纪，慢性病之所以被视为问题，部分是因为患者占据了宝贵的医院病床，而医院日益专注于治疗可治愈的急性疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "This was particularly audacious, for it required us to abandon the supreme Hippocratic principle according to which it is unprofessional to injure a healthy person.",
        "这种作法尤其冒险，因为它致使我们放弃了希波克拉底的最高原则——伤害健康人有损职业道德。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given the large adjustment needs, it is not politically feasible to do everything, including painful fiscal tightening, immediately.",
        "但是，由于必须做出的调整规模太大，马上做好一切事情——包括痛苦的财政紧缩——在政治上并不可行。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth in both economies is now slowing significantly, especially in Brazil.",
        "这两个国家的增长均在显著放缓，特别是巴西。"
    ],
    [
        "Across the Pacific, the days of record-breaking economic growth in Asia – a key component of social and political stability – may be coming to an end.",
        "在大洋彼岸亚洲经济增长频创记录——社会和政治稳定的关键因素——的日子正在走向终结。"
    ],
    [
        "This watered-down gradualism has become his trademark.",
        "这种打折的渐进主义已经成了他的标志。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, few informed observers doubt that Sarkozy’s chief foreign policy adviser, Jean-David Levitte, has far more influence than France’s foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner.",
        "的确，很少有消息灵通的观察家会怀疑萨科奇的首席外交政策顾问让·大卫·列维特比起法国的外交部长贝尔纳·库什内更具影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Suggest new habits to replace old ones.",
        "用新习惯取代旧习惯。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, the idea of a nuclear phase-out has been gaining support ever since the Chernobyl disaster.",
        "切尔诺贝利事故发生后，德国逐步淘汰核能的想法就已经开始酝酿。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond these questions, there is nothing to debate.",
        "除上述问题外不存在其他的争议问题。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, Chile’s export basket is pretty much the same as it was in 1980.",
        "相反，智利的出口组合与1980年别无二致。"
    ],
    [
        "But the EFSF’s “more extensive interventions” recalls the “unlimited quantities” of foreign-exchange intervention proposed to rescue the ERM.",
        "但欧洲金融稳定基金的“更广泛干涉”令人不禁回想起当年为拯救汇率机制而提出的“无限数量”外汇干涉手段。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama’s proposed US budget acknowledges and addresses those choices and tradeoffs directly and fully for the first time in the post-crisis period.",
        "奥巴马总统的美国预算草案直接而全面地承认并列出了这些选择和权衡，这是危机后时期以来的首次。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a global event. Especially in a time of crisis that has caused so much suffering, its decisions must be explained to the public clearly and without cacophony.",
        "G20峰会不是一个能随便召开的会议，它是一个全球盛会，尤其是在这个危机造成了许多苦难的时期，因此必须向公众清楚阐述会议的决策内容，避免出现任何误解。"
    ],
    [
        "At some point, America will awaken from its geopolitical slumber; there are already signs that it has opened one eye.",
        "因为迟早有一天美国将从地缘政治的沉睡中觉醒； 种种也迹象表明：后者早已睁开了一只睡眼。"
    ],
    [
        "Others were forced to flee the country altogether.",
        "其他民族被迫离开了埃及。"
    ],
    [
        "Engagement is demanded elsewhere in the region as well.",
        "该地区其他地方也需要西方国家的参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Economics should not be divorced from psychology, politics, history, philosophy, and so on.",
        "经济学不应该与心理学、政治学、历史学、哲学等学科分离。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is no surprise that, when addressing the region, politicians, diplomats, and the donor and humanitarian community typically focus on the here and now.",
        "因此，在与该地区打交道时，政客、外交官、捐助者和人道团体往往都会关注当时当地，这一点都不稀奇。"
    ],
    [
        "If Merkel’s government believes that paying lip service to growth is enough, it is playing with fire: a euro collapse in which not only Germans would be badly burned.",
        "如果默克尔认为仅仅说说好听的话去刺激增长就足够了的话，这就相当于是在玩火，一旦这场大火烧垮整个欧洲，不仅仅是身在其中的德国人会被烧得遍体鳞伤。"
    ],
    [
        "African governments also must be willing to start small: expend a lot of effort to attract pilot projects in the hope of larger employment in the future.",
        "非洲各国政府必须要有从小处着手的意愿：为了将来更大量的工作机会而不遗余力地吸引试点项目。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, the global system that has secured peace, security, openness, and economic growth over the past six decades could be in grave danger.",
        "如果这样，在过去六十年中确保了和平、安全、开放以及经济增长的全球体制就会处于严重危险之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Nixon, they have paid a higher price for concealing their misdeeds than they would have for the misdeeds alone.",
        "而尼克松这伙人为掩盖自身恶行所付出的代价也比恶行本身更为高昂。"
    ],
    [
        "It was discussed at the June “shirt-sleeves summit” between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping, and the two governments agreed to create a special working group on the issue.",
        "今年6月的“习奥会”就讨论了这个问题，两国政府同意成立特别工作组处理这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Manafort was dropped from the Trump campaign last August, following embarrassing news stories about his work in Ukraine, Trump, acting against the advice of aides, continued to talk with Manafort into the early months of his presidency.",
        "尽管在其令人尴尬的乌克兰丑闻爆出后马纳福特于去年8月被解雇，但特朗普却不顾助手的反对继续在其总统任期之初与马纳福特保持接触。"
    ],
    [
        "It was expected to deliver three economic benefits.",
        "本来，人们期待欧元带来三大经济好处。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is no exaggeration to state that whenever Britain has perceived an opportunity to wage a war of attrition against the European supranational project, it has done so, opposing any substantial increase in the EU’s competences or resources.",
        "但英国也一直抓紧一切机会对欧盟超国家项目发起消耗战，反对欧盟资源实力的大幅增加，这样说也毫不夸张。"
    ],
    [
        "Churchill’s writings may be biased, but they offer remarkable inside information and details that are not readily inferred from memos and briefs, which usually are incomplete and guarded in style.",
        "丘吉尔的写作也许有失偏颇，但它们提供了可观的内幕信息和细节，这些信息和细节往往无法从不完整和谨小慎微的备忘和摘要中窥斑见豹。"
    ],
    [
        "In this respect, however, Germany would gain much from the opportunity to craft a proper foreign policy in the framework of the EU and the Western alliance that in recent years has had a dangerous void where Germany used to be – though this is more a vague hope than a concrete expectation.",
        "近几年来，西方联盟框架出现了此前由德国填补的危险的真空。 但这与其说是实在的期望，不如说是模糊的愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it feasible to generate power locally with a diesel unit, owing to high fuel costs and the need for substantial initial investment.",
        "因为燃油价格高、初始投资大，在当地安装柴油机组发电也不可能。"
    ],
    [
        "But that can happen only if the voting is free and the counting is fair.",
        "但只有投票自由、计票公正才有可能实现这样的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s creditors and partners, for their part, must provide the fiscal space needed for the reforms to work.",
        "希腊债权人和合作伙伴则必须提供改革起效所需要的财政空间。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, more is at stake in Pakistan’s upcoming election than just the future of Pakistan.",
        "换句话说，巴基斯坦即将到来的选举不仅仅事关巴基斯坦的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Olmert’s room for maneuver within his party, and particularly within his coalition, is very small.",
        "奥尔穆特在其党内、特别是其联合政府内的移动空间非常小。"
    ],
    [
        "But the private sector cannot realize this potential alone.",
        "但是私营部门无法单独实现这样的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "One key sign is the documented change in the character of oil trading, with speculators (i.e., financial institutions and hedge funds) now accounting for 70% of trades, up from 37% seven years ago.",
        "一个重要的迹象是有文件证明的石油交易性质的变化，投机者（例如，金融机构和对冲基金）现在占交易的70%，而七年前只有37％。"
    ],
    [
        "Initially, each member state’s reserve account with the ICU would be credited with a sum of bancors proportionate to its relative share of world trade.",
        "一开始，每个成员国在ICU的储备账户将被授予一笔班科信用，规模与该成员国占世界贸易的比重相符。"
    ],
    [
        "This is prudent policymaking.",
        "这是审慎决策。"
    ],
    [
        "That program was abandoned when South Korea signed on to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1975, but restarting it has become a subject of debate in Seoul.",
        "而如今是否重启该计划已经成为首尔内部的一个辩论议题。"
    ],
    [
        "But Abe is also pressing for change in medical research and the technology sector by embracing long-shunned innovations such as iPS cells (artificial stem cells).",
        "但安倍还在敦促医药研究和技术部门的改变，启动长期回避的人造干细胞等创新项目。"
    ],
    [
        "We must not tolerate a system of nuclear apartheid, in which it is considered legitimate for some states to possess nuclear arms but patently unacceptable for others to seek to acquire them.",
        "我们不应容忍核种族隔离制度，上述制度允许某些国家拥有核武器，但显然不接受其他国家获取核武器的意图。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the international community created frameworks for justice to deal with the consequences of violence, a move that was scarcely imaginable during the Cold War.",
        "此外，国际社会建立了司法框架处置暴力的后果，这在冷战期间是难以想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "These people are not “refugees,” because they have not crossed an international border, but their experiences are often equally devastating.",
        "这些人并不是“难民”，因为他们并没有跨越国境，但是他们的经历常常却是同等毁灭性的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is because the Chinese Communist Party’s monopoly on power can be justified only by continued rapid economic growth, without which workers and farmers will lose their jobs, and the urban middle classes their chance of increasing prosperity.",
        "这是因为只有中国经济持续快速增长才能够给中共权力垄断提供合法性。 没有了经济增长，工人和农民就会失业，城市中产阶级就会失去不断繁荣的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In just 272 words, Lincoln synthesized America as an ideal based on the proposition that all men are created equal.",
        "在这篇只有272个字的演讲中，林肯将美利坚提炼成一个理想，一个基于人人生而平等命题的理想。"
    ],
    [
        "One way to understand how this higher-level coherence emerges is to study it in a more accessible form.",
        "理解这种高水平一致性如何发生的一种办法是在更易接近的形式上研究它。"
    ],
    [
        "These questions may be outside McKinsey remit, but they should not be off limits to public discussion.",
        "这些问题，麦肯锡的报告都没有回答，但不能把它们排除在公共讨论的界限之外。"
    ],
    [
        "December 13 was fast approaching, and the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party wanted to avoid holding the vote on that date at all costs.",
        "12月13日即将到来，执政的法律与正义党希望不惜一切代价阻止在那天进行投票。"
    ],
    [
        "The image of “untrustworthy elites” is ideal fodder for populists, who claim that globalization has given the wealthy and powerful more money and power than ever.",
        "“不可信的精英”形象是民粹主义者的理想饲料，他们声称全球化赋予富人和权力阶层的金钱和权力比以往任何时候都多。"
    ],
    [
        "Blair ought to have known that politics is a pitiless business.",
        "布莱尔理应知道政治是无情的。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the grievances which populists like Farage and Trump manipulate are real.",
        "但法拉吉和特朗普这样的民粹主义者操纵的不满是切实存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Developed countries are thus morally obliged to pay partial compensation to poor and vulnerable countries and regions to cover part of the cost of the investments needed to adapt to climate change.",
        "因此，发达国家也有义务向贫困脆弱国家及地区支付部分弥补气候变化所需投资的相关赔偿。"
    ],
    [
        "That means pivoting away from bilateral deals, toward a multilateral approach that enables the country to rebalance and expand its trading arrangements around the world.",
        "这意味着不可以双边协议为主，而要转向多边方针，让英国能够实现再平衡和扩大其在全球范围内的贸易协议。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to international law, it is up to the world’s most powerful countries to lead by example.",
        "在国际法问题上，理应由全世界最强大的国家做出表率。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, several lines are operating beyond their capacity, creating long delays.",
        "）结果造成多条线路超负荷运行，并因此造成长时间延误。"
    ],
    [
        "At some point, the US may determine that diplomacy has a role in managing the North Korean nuclear and missile challenges.",
        "也许有一天，美国会认为外交能够对管理朝鲜核和导弹挑战起积极作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Park’s status as the daughter of former President Park Chung-hee, who put the chaebol at the center of South Korea’s economy, could give her the credibility needed to recast their economic role.",
        "朴槿惠的父亲、前总统朴正熙使财阀成为韩国经济的核心，这给了朴槿惠必要的信誉来改变财阀的经济作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was yet another paradox of the Arab Spring: a country that seemed to meet all of the conditions for an Islamist victory produced the sort of election results that liberals in Egypt and Tunisia could only dream about.",
        "结果产生了另一个阿拉伯之春悖论：在一个看似满足了伊斯兰教全面获胜的所有条件的国家，却产生了埃及和突尼斯自由派梦寐以求的选举结果。"
    ],
    [
        "At times, preventive action may be necessary.",
        "有些情况下，采取防范措施是非常必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "New EU membership applications confirm the desire of Balkan governments to engage seriously in internal reforms.",
        "新的入盟申请也显示出了巴尔干国家认真开展内部改革的愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "Bankruptcy, if it works, is a good way for a failing firm to restructure or shrink.",
        "能够见效的话，破产是实现倒闭企业重组或分解的好办法。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Coase, since the period of reform and opening up began in 1979, China has been a living experiment in institutional evolution, shaped simultaneously by the central government and by local governments and enterprises.",
        "在科斯看来，自1979年改革开放以来，中国就开始了由中央政府和地方政府与企业共同塑造影响的制度演进试验。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the overstatement of the threat posed by Iran is also being used as a convenient excuse for political inflexibility and stagnating reform processes throughout the region.",
        "而且，过度渲染伊朗构成的威胁也是被用来整个中东地区政治僵化和改革进程停滞的方便的借口而已。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially true of the WTO, where Washington and Brussels seem more concerned at settling old scores and protecting their respective turfs than in engaging with the new players.",
        "尤其是世贸组织，美国和比利时政府似乎更关心如何保护从前的成绩和他们各自的土地，而不是与新成员国的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "His presidency is just the latest act in a long-running political tragedy.",
        "他的总统生涯只是漫长的政治悲剧的最新一幕。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Bad Debtor",
        "中国的不良债务人"
    ],
    [
        "One of Yeltsin’s errors was his failure to put moral priorities at the head of his reform agenda.",
        "叶利钦的失误之一是没有把道德建设作为改革的一项首要任务。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time since the mid-nineteenth century, when the modern internal combustion engine was invented, its demise is within sight.",
        "自第十九世纪中叶现代内燃机问世以来，它的消亡第一次可能成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "The US wisely plans to strengthen the non-governmental Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) by having it supervise the Internet “address book.”",
        "美国明智地计划加强非政府机构“域名及号码分配互联网公司（ICANN）”的力量，并授权其对互联网“地址簿”进行管理。"
    ],
    [
        "He sets himself deadlines to balance the books, but when the date arrives, with the books still unbalanced, he simply sets another.",
        "他为自己制定了平衡预算的时间线，但在到了截止期时，预算仍未达到平衡，而他也只是延长截止期了事。"
    ],
    [
        "There was good news in this summit: Europe’s leaders have finally understood that the bootstrap operation by which Europe lends money to the banks to save the sovereigns, and to the sovereigns to save the banks, will not work.",
        "这次峰会带来了好消息：欧洲各国的领导人终于意识到欧洲借钱给银行来拯救主权国家，借钱给主权国家来拯救银行的措施毫无成效。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1971-1973, Japan’s per capita GDP fell to roughly 65% of that of the United States in purchasing-power-parity terms, while the Asian Tigers experienced economic downturns of varying degrees when they reached roughly the same income level relative to Japan.",
        "1971—1973年，按购买力平价计算的日本人均GDP落在美国的65%左右，而亚洲四小龙也在到达相对日本的类似收入水平时经历了不同程度的经济放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unless the US wants a Cold War-style confrontation in Asia, it must try harder to engage China in shaping a viable regional security structure.",
        "但是，除非美国想让亚洲回到冷战时期的对峙状态，否则它必须更加致力于将中国纳入可行的地区安全结构内。"
    ],
    [
        "LOS ANGELES – Revelations in former President George W. Bush’s recently published memoirs show that he declined an Israeli request to destroy Syria’s secret nuclear reactor in the spring of 2007.",
        "洛杉矶——前任总统乔治·W·布什不久前出版的回忆录披露2007年春他曾拒绝了以色列摧毁叙利亚秘密核反应堆的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Yuliya Tymoshenko was clearly the most stouthearted among the leaders of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, and no one has ever described Hillary Clinton as particularly “soft.”",
        "季莫申科显然是乌克兰橙色革命的领导人中最勇敢的一位，同样从来没有人把希拉里·克林顿描述为一个特别“软”的人。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a crucial fourth ingredient.",
        "这是第四个关键成分。"
    ],
    [
        "That means Japan should decisively abandon ultra-low interest rates, albeit gradually so as to allow an orderly unwinding of speculative positions.",
        "所以日本应该下决心放弃超低的利率，尽管这需要循序渐进，以便从投机中解套。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, although last year’s conference in Paris to review the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and subsequent nuclear-disarmament talks between US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in New York, made positive inroads, the results were a far cry from ensuring a future free of nuclear arms.",
        "同样，尽管去年巴黎《不扩散条约》的审议会议及美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马和俄罗斯总统德米特里·梅德韦杰夫其后在纽约举行的核裁军谈判取得了积极的进展，但结果还远不能确保未来没有核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "The Council is not ready to try senior Qaddafi officials, many of whom are now in the custody of militias, because the existing justice system was never tasked with prosecuting political cases.",
        "由于现有的司法系统从未有过起诉政治罪行的经验，因此委员会也没准备好去审判那些卡扎菲政府高官，只好让他们继续呆在民兵设置的监狱里。"
    ],
    [
        "The economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart have argued that the major financial crises of the last century typically lasted a half-decade or longer.",
        "经济学家肯•罗格夫和卡门•莱因哈特认为，上世纪主要的金融危机通常持续了5年或更久。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ukraine, by contrast, under-five child mortality rates have fallen only slightly, from 25 per 10,000 live births to 24, while life expectancy has declined from 70 years to 68.",
        "相比之下在乌克兰，5岁以下儿童死亡率仅有轻微下降，从万分之25变成了24，而预期寿命则从70岁下降到了68岁。"
    ],
    [
        "Regional and international cooperation is badly needed.",
        "中东和北非急需地区和国际合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Western Europe's growing need for labor in the years ahead, the question is not whether to have immigration, but only where that immigration is going to come from.",
        "如果西欧对劳力的需求在未来几年会持续增长，那么现在的问题就不是\"是否\"需要移民，而是移民应该从\"哪里\"来。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, China is the only country in history where a government has actually succeeded in using coercion to limit its people’s reproductive choices.",
        "事实上，中国是历史上唯一一个政府成功以强迫手段限制人民生育选择的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, the role of the SOEs was clear.",
        "在过去，国企的角色是明确的。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, new technologies are probably the most important reason why globalization is advancing at a rapid pace.",
        "实际上新技术很可能就是全球化急速行进的最重要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the Russian initiative is not without pitfalls, it could be a crucial launchpad for more serious and constructive engagement with Syria – and with the rest of the Middle East.",
        "尽管俄罗斯的倡议并非没有缺陷，但它可以成为与叙利亚（和中东其他地区）严肃、建设性接触的关键启动。"
    ],
    [
        "All three help to maintain, and in some cases even improve, metabolic health, because the liver has to deal with only one energy source at a time.",
        "以及奥尼什饮食（Ornish，大量纤维，更少脂肪和糖分）。 这三种食谱都有助于维持（有时甚至能改善）代谢健康，因为肝脏每次只需处理一种能源。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy has become a central target of complaints by the European elite.",
        "现行民主制度已经成了欧洲各国精英们抱怨的主要目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Much less positively, EU member states have been slow to act in concert.",
        "但欧盟各成员国在同心协力方面的反应迟缓则远没有那么积极了。"
    ],
    [
        "I am convinced that no development of a country, no success or ambitions, can be achieved through human grief and losses.",
        "我坚信没有任何一个国家的发展，没有任何的成功或雄心能够通过人类的痛苦和损失而实现。"
    ],
    [
        "When those bubbles burst, consumers were left with a massive overhang of excess debt and subpar saving.",
        "当这些泡沫破裂时，留给消费者的是大量积压的过多债务和过少储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "And Pakistan’s strategy of “bleeding India to death by a thousand cuts” through insurgency and terrorism has accomplished little, while making its military an enormously powerful domestic player and spawning terror outfits (some of which have turned against their sponsors).",
        "而巴基斯坦“用叛乱和恐怖活动让印度千疮百孔”的策略并没有奏效，反而培植了国内的军事势力和恐怖组织（其中某些势力已经公然开始反对发起者）。"
    ],
    [
        "And so it turned out.",
        "确实如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The men were not uneducated, but they were unable to cope with the freedoms of contemporary women.",
        "施害者并非未受过教育，但他们无法接受当代女性的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "To outsiders, the land of Molière is a country where political leaders’ extramarital relationships are tolerated, while badly needed economic reforms are not.",
        "在外国人看来，莫里哀的故乡对政治领袖的偷情容忍度颇高，而对急需的经济改革却正好相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in India – long thought to be among Asia’s most shock-resistant economies – annual export growth plunged from 44% in August 2011 to just 11% in October.",
        "即使是长期以来被认为亚洲最能抵御冲击的经济体——印度，年出口增长也从2011年8月的44%下降到了10月的11%。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, regulators should consider these innovations’ public-health costs and benefits, and expedite their review.",
        "换句话说，监管者应该考虑创新的公共卫生成本和效益，并加快审查。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea that the state should pursue economic growth without consideration for moral concerns was anathema to Confucius and his followers.",
        "但是，孔子及其追随者是唾弃为求经济发展而罔顾道义的治国理念的。"
    ],
    [
        "Ask the party strategists and they will tell you that the financial crisis is a topic for losers; voters want to hear something positive.",
        "政党战略家会告诉你金融危机是失败者的主题，而选民们则希望听到积极的评价。"
    ],
    [
        "And they are not entirely wrong.",
        "他们也并非完全没有道理。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent study in Bangladesh, for example, concluded that antibiotics provided by so-called “village doctors,” often operating from market stalls, contributed to declines in mortality from post-natal sepsis and childhood pneumonia.",
        "例如孟加拉国最近的一项研究表明由租摊经营的所谓“乡村医生”所提供的抗生素对降低产后败血症和儿童肺炎的死亡率都有帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "But the impact on poor countries is far more severe.",
        "但是金融危机对贫穷国家的影响远远更加剧烈。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the most interesting challenges in evolutionary biology is the attempt to identify the molecular mechanisms of gene expression that drive morphological evolution.",
        "确定驱动形态进化的基因表达的分子机制堪称进化生物学最有趣的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "If successful, the new revolution may lead to strategies that make us more responsive to our better angels.",
        "如果成功的话，新革命可能会带来让我们更积极地响应我们的天使的一面的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "Even after 2001, there were only a few anti-Muslim incidents.",
        "即便在2001年后，也只发生过很少几次反对穆斯林的事件。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, a new balance of strengths and weaknesses is emerging beneath the surface of events – and runs contrary to current mantras.",
        "换言之，在种种事件背后，强国和弱国之间正形成一种新的平衡关系，而且这种关系同目前人们所预想的截然相反。"
    ],
    [
        "If successful, the talks would have a major impact not only domestically, but also on the ongoing fight against the Islamic State.",
        "如果成功，谈判不但将产生巨大的国内影响，也将有利于继续打击伊斯兰国。"
    ],
    [
        "After Ixtoc, the blow to the Mexican fisheries became a blessing in disguise.",
        "在“伊克斯托克”事故后，墨西哥渔业遭受的打击却使人们因祸得福。"
    ],
    [
        "We do not begrudge Bill Gates or Warren Buffett their billions, even if some of their rivals have suffered along the way, presumably because they and their competitors operate according to the same ground rules and face pretty much the same opportunities and obstacles.",
        "我们不会对比尔·盖茨或者沃伦·巴菲特的巨额财富愤愤不平，即便他们的某些对手日子一直都不好过，这大概是因为他们及其竞争者们都依据同样的基本法则进行运作，也面对着极为相似的机遇和挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "More problematic, the declining share of the working-age population is set to cause per capita GDP to decline by more than 30% in some countries – most notably, Brazil, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia.",
        "1%。 令问题更加恶化的是，适龄劳动人口比例的下跌也将导致某些国家的人均GDP产值下跌超过30%——其中最为显著的莫过于巴西，墨西哥和沙特。"
    ],
    [
        "The lack of structural reform of Europe’s labor markets, competitive practices, and so on means that European potential economic growth – its growth ceiling – is lower than it should be.",
        "欧洲劳工市场、竞争规则以及其他方面因为没有进行结构改革而使得欧洲潜在的经济增长，即它的增长顶点将会比应有的水平要低。"
    ],
    [
        "That, obviously, is something that every patriotic American wants.",
        "显然，这也是爱国的美国人想听到的。"
    ],
    [
        "The truck left before the bomb hit, but 12 local villagers were killed and 14 were injured.",
        "卡车在轰炸之前就已经离开，但是12名当地村民被炸死，14人受伤。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Citigroup created so-called “special-purpose vehicles” to invest in mortgage-related securities prior to 2007.",
        "比如，2007年之前，花旗集团创造了所谓的“特殊目的实体”（special-purpose vehicle）来投资按揭相关证券。"
    ],
    [
        "The treasury need not be used to tax citizens on an everyday basis, but it needs to be available in times of crisis.",
        "财政部不是为日常纳税人服务的，而是为了危机而准备的。"
    ],
    [
        "European federalists should welcome this, because the more these heads of state and government turn into a government of the eurozone as a whole, the faster their current dual role as the EU’s executive and legislative branch will become obsolete.",
        "欧洲联邦主义者会欢迎这一点，因为随着越来越多政府首脑转变成为一个欧元区整体的政府，它们当前这种既是欧盟执行者又是立法者的双重角色就越快被废弃。"
    ],
    [
        "Although this proposal ultimately was discarded, it reveals both the erosion of US support and America’s determination to signal its non-assistance to Europeans who are in harm’s way.",
        "尽管这一方案最终被否决，但它表明，美国支持程度在下降，并且决定表示它不会再为危险中的欧洲人提供帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "The money being spent on aid today could have a substantially greater impact if it were used to mobilize domestic tax flows and private investment in aid-dependent countries.",
        "今天的援助款如果被用于动员国内税收和对援助依赖国进行私人投资，产生的影响将比现在大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "PRAGUE – On April 8, two Tibetans, Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak, were sentenced to death by the Municipal Intermediate People’s Court in Lhasa.",
        "布拉格—4月8日，两名藏人洛桑嘉参和洛亚被拉萨中级人民法院宣判死刑。 罪名是纵火燃烧中国人的商铺，导致人员死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "It worked, and Lee Hsien Loong has by all accounts done a good job as Prime Minister, whatever the explanation for his rise.",
        "李光耀的计划成功实现，无论如何解释李显龙的崛起，从各种角度而言他都出色完成了首相工作。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a parliamentary report, “the cost of developing such a supergrid could be very high...but it may bring a host of economic benefits – including tens of thousands of new jobs in the offshore renewable industry.\"",
        "据一份议会报告指出，“建设这样一个超级电网的成本将极为高昂……但将带来大量经济利益——包括在离岸可再生能源行业的数万新工作职位。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it has helped Iran to gain a regional ascendancy that the country could never have achieved on its own.",
        "这一结果仅靠其自身是无法实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe needs a clearer and more recognizable global agenda.",
        "欧洲需要一份更清晰和更能被认可的全球议程。"
    ],
    [
        "Kishore Mahbubani, a leading foreign-policy thinker from Singapore, recently proclaimed in Vienna, at a conference organized by my institute, that the next millennium would be Asian.",
        "新加坡权威外交政策思想家马凯硕不久前刚在我院在维也纳组织的一次会议上宣布下世纪将是属于亚洲的世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Brazil’s peaceful foreign policy has served it well.",
        "可以肯定，巴西的和平外交政策效果良好。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, that jobs strategy is unlikely to reduce the violence.",
        "不幸的是，这一就业战略不大可能减少暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "In cyberspace, the same practice, often dismissed as “trolling,” remains the backbone of Wikipedia ’s quality control.",
        "在网络空间中，同样的做法被指称为“托捕”，依旧是维基百科全书质量控制的筋骨。"
    ],
    [
        "Fixing the financial system is necessary, but not sufficient, for recovery.",
        "调整金融系统势在必行，但仅仅如此还不足以恢复经济。"
    ],
    [
        "And, unlike most countries, especially in Latin America and Asia, the US system ruthlessly prunes weak corporate leadership.",
        "此外，与拉丁美洲和亚洲的多数国家不同，美国的经济体系无情地剪除一切软弱的企业领导。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Modi rose to power at the head of a family of right-wing organizations that largely do not share his economic priorities, and that are obsessed with so-called “cultural nationalism” – which is essentially just repackaged Hindu chauvinism.",
        "事实上，莫迪能执掌大权，凭借的是一系列经济重点与他不同的右翼组织，这些组织沉溺于所谓的“文化民族主义”中——实质上是重新包装的印度教沙文主义。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, Putin has displayed an accurate sense of limits.",
        "迄今为止，普京准确无误地把握着限度。"
    ],
    [
        "The effects of the economic pain and dislocation that many Americans are experiencing are even showing up in health statistics.",
        "许多美国人在经济上的痛苦和迷失甚至在卫生统计上显示了出来。"
    ],
    [
        "This indicates that the US will not back Musharraf in any confrontation between him and Pakistan’s democratic forces.",
        "这表明在任何穆沙拉夫和巴基斯坦的民主力量的对抗中，美国都不会支持他。"
    ],
    [
        "The ancient Greeks had schools of rhetoric to hone their skills for the assembly.",
        "而古代希腊人专门开设辩论学校，磨练集会演讲能力。"
    ],
    [
        "To understand why, we need to go back to 2013, when Marek Falenta, a shady Polish businessman, hired two waiters to record private conversations in a restaurant frequented by politicians.",
        "要理解个中原因，我们需要回到2013年，当时一位臭名昭著的波兰商人马立克·法兰塔聘请了两名服务员，在政界人士经常光顾的一家餐馆录制私人对话。"
    ],
    [
        "But indulging the old political reflex of manipulating the exchange rate to create a competitive advantage will yield a short-term fix at best.",
        "但沉溺于操纵汇率创造竞争优势的旧政治反射充其量只能算是短期解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "ANKARA – As France and the world mourn the terrorist slaughter of innocents in Paris, the leaders of the G-20 are meeting in Antalya, Turkey.",
        "安卡拉—在法国和全世界为巴黎恐怖袭击的无辜遇难者哀悼的同时，G-20领导人将齐聚土耳其安塔利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "He demonstrated no enthusiasm for the European Union, but he appeared clearly less exercised by its supposed iniquities than many Tories are.",
        "他对欧盟并未表现出多大热情，但与众多保守党人相比他显然对欧盟的罪过认识不足。"
    ],
    [
        "NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS – On December 7, representatives from the World Trade Organization’s 159 member countries reached agreement on the first multilateral trade deal in the WTO’s 19-year history.",
        "发自马萨诸塞州牛顿市——12月7日，来自世界贸易组织159个成员国的代表达成了WTO 成立19年以来的第一个多边贸易协议。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is that the BRICs will look for compensating power, and military and strategic influence and prestige, as a way to solve internal problems.",
        "结果就是，巴西、俄国、印度和中国这些国家将会寻找补偿实力、军事和战略影响力以及威望来作为解决国内问题的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gates Foundation can fund action and research.",
        "盖茨基金会可以资助行动以及研究。"
    ],
    [
        "In local elections last month, even fewer bothered to participate, with Vladivostok reporting just 13% turnout.",
        "上个月举行的地方选举更是应者寥寥，符拉迪沃斯托克报告的投票率只要有13%。"
    ],
    [
        "From this standpoint, this year’s World Cup has not only witnessed the triumph of European nations – all semi-finalists were European for the first time since 1982 – but also the absence of even a glimmer of European emotions.",
        "根据这一观点，今年的世界杯不仅见证了欧洲国家的胜利，因为自从1982年以来第一次欧洲国家包揽全部半决赛队伍，而且，也没有哪怕一丝欧洲情感。"
    ],
    [
        "The strategy of using market forces and the Internet to open up a closed political system simply is not working. Indeed, the more economic power China has accumulated, the more adept it has become in extending censorship to cyberspace.",
        "利用市场力量与互联网，以使封闭的政治体系得以开放的战略，明显没有奏效。 事实上，中国所积累的经济力量越大，该国就越是变得擅长于将审查制度向网络空间进行推广。"
    ],
    [
        "Other areas of the economy require greater government oversight as well.",
        "其他经济领域也需要更多地政府监督。"
    ],
    [
        "The October 11 attack on Army Headquarters in Rawalpindi was the most daring of all – and sent shudders across the military command, because the terrorists knew the layout of the military and security buildings.",
        "而在最近10月11日发生的，针对拉瓦尔品第市巴基斯坦陆军总部的恐怖袭击无疑是其中最为胆大妄为的一起——这甚至在巴军高层都造成了恐慌，因为恐怖分子竟然对军队和安全部队大楼的内部布局都了如指掌。"
    ],
    [
        "The adjustments needed amount to a sizeable deficit-to-balance swing of around $700 billion in the US current account, or nearly 5% of US GNP.",
        "美国需要的调整相当于其经常账户大约7000亿美元的一个相当大的赤字－到－结余的转换，即约美国国民生产总值的5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Even a Communist member of Ukraine’s parliament, the Rada, was shown wearing a watch that retails for more than $6,000.",
        "即使是乌克兰议会的共产党议员，也被拍到戴了一只零售价6000多美元的手表。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sleeping Volcano of Global Finance",
        "全球财政的沉睡火山"
    ],
    [
        "But when the technology requires high skills – technological change is “skill-biased,” in economists’ terminology – its adoption and diffusion will tend to widen the gap between the earnings of low- and high-skill workers.",
        "但当技术需要高超的技能时——用经济学家的术语讲，技术变革是“技术偏向”的——它的采用和扩散往往会扩大低技能和高技能工人之间的收入差距。"
    ],
    [
        "The promotion of large-scale land investment is based on the belief that combating hunger requires boosting food production, and that supply has been lagging because of a lack of investment in agriculture.",
        "一直以来对于大规模土地投资的推广是基于这么一种理念，那就是对抗饥饿必须增加粮食产量，而供应的紧缺是因为缺乏对农业的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that some Venezuelans today cannot march peacefully on the streets without being shot at.",
        "问题在于如今一些委内瑞拉人无法上街进行和平游行而不被射杀。"
    ],
    [
        "If China doesn’t want to be seen as complicit in the crimes of its client regimes, then it is time for it to alter its concept of diplomatic interference.",
        "如果中国不想被视为其附庸政权的犯罪同夥，那么，它现在就应该改变其外交干涉的观念。"
    ],
    [
        "No organization in the world embodies as many dreams, yet provides so many frustrations, as the United Nations.",
        "世界上没有哪个组织能像联合国那样被寄予如此多的梦想，同时带来如此多的沮丧。 在联合国安理会的历史上，大部分时间里它都是超级大国角力的工具；"
    ],
    [
        "This helps explain why the Greek and Argentine governments are perennially in deficit (until borrowing options dry up and adjustment is inevitable), or why prices – and profits – are high in sectors (for example, transportation and telecoms) that provide would-be entrepreneurs with crucial (but often unaffordable) inputs.",
        "这有助于解释为何希腊和阿根廷政府永远处于赤字状态（直到借钱途径用尽，不得不接受调整），或为何为潜在企业家提供关键（但常常负担不起的）投入品的部门（如交通业和通讯业）的价格——和利润——十分高企。"
    ],
    [
        "The CIO would operate more like a “virus,” spreading everywhere, rather than being an additional appendage grafted onto the government.",
        "首席信息官更多地是像四处传播“病毒”那样去运作，而不是被嫁接到政府的又一个附件。"
    ],
    [
        "All emerging countries answer “yes.” That is also the answer of a large majority in the US and in Europe.",
        "第二，在最近几十年的民意调查中，当被问及幸福感和对未来的看法时，法国民众的反应要比其他国家悲观10-20%。"
    ],
    [
        "The way ahead is a minefield.",
        "前面的道路危机四伏。"
    ],
    [
        "But Medvedev, today’s front-office guy, is more of a junior partner than a simple salesperson. He may yet grow in stature and influence, and eventually inherit the store.",
        "但梅德韦杰夫这个当今的政府首脑，则更像是一个年轻的合伙人而不仅仅只是一个推销员，而且将继续增加自己的才干和影响力，以便有朝一日接管整间商店。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with headwinds from Europe and a synchronized global slowdown, the candidates will have no choice but to pursue, at least initially, similar economic policies to restore dynamic job creation and financial stability.",
        "而在欧洲危机和世界各国同时放缓的压力下，两位候选人别无选择，只能采取相似的经济政策重建就业创造活力和金融稳定，至少在任期开始时是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s not a completely crazy idea, but I just don’t see it.",
        "这并不是十足的疯狂观念，但我没有看到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel is determined not to act against terrorist groups and infrastructure on Egypt’s territory.",
        "以色列决定不对埃及领土上的恐怖主义集团和基础设施发动袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "For pregnant women, this lack of reliable electricity poses a significant risk to their own lives and those of their babies.",
        "对孕妇来说，缺少可靠电源会给她们自身和腹中胎儿带来重大风险。"
    ],
    [
        "While this time was no different, there are growing signs of a thaw in relations.",
        "而本次年会也不例外，各种迹象表明，两国关系正日渐升温。"
    ],
    [
        "Even heads of state have not escaped these bodies.",
        "即使是国家元首也没能逃脱这些机构的审判。"
    ],
    [
        "Wars are mostly fought with arms on battlefields between soldiers of opposing countries.",
        "绝大多数战争发生在敌对国家间，士兵们在战场上兵戎相见。"
    ],
    [
        "While the future of China is unpredictable, the durability of its post-totalitarian regime can be estimated with some confidence.",
        "尽管中国的未来不可预测，但在一定程度上却可以准确预测其后极权主义政权的寿命。"
    ],
    [
        "Each time such horrible stories were published, we had to remind ourselves that, yes indeed, the acts were demonic, but the perpetrators remained each a child of God.",
        "每次这样的恐怖事件公诸于众，我们都不得不提醒自己：是的，这些罪行比魔鬼还要可怕，但它们的制造者却仍然是上帝的子孙。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, in asymmetrical conflicts, Israel finds its military superiority vitiated.",
        "结果，在不对称冲突中，以色列发现其军事绝对优势被抵消了。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, it is only in the last couple of centuries – not long enough to have any evolutionary significance – that we have been able to harm anyone by throwing a switch that diverts a train.",
        "而在另一方面，仅仅是在过去的两百年里—时间短得毫无进化意义—我们才能够通过扳道岔而加害于人。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, both party establishments have reason to be nervous.",
        "与此同时，两党的老牌势力都有理由感到紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that attract and motivate skilled public managers outperform their peers.",
        "吸引和动员高技能公共管理者的国家能过获得傲视同侪的表现。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is mounting evidence that the real competitive challenge for Europe will come from the East, especially China, which is taking a protectionist and expansionist approach to securing its future digital dominance.",
        "但大量证据表明，对欧洲来说，真正的竞争挑战将来自东方特别是中国。 中国正在采取保护主义和扩张主义方针确保其未来数字主宰力。"
    ],
    [
        "The modest reforms we propose are the right place to start.",
        "我们所建议的温和改革是正确的起点。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear feeds on itself, and the prediction that stocks will lose value becomes self-fulfilling.",
        "恐惧是一种自强化过程，股票价值会下跌将成为自我实现的预言。"
    ],
    [
        "Its largest supplier is its stable neighbor, Canada.",
        "其最大的供应方是政局稳定的邻国加拿大。"
    ],
    [
        "The core idea is that Israelis and Palestinians would be citizens of two separate states and thus would identify with two separate political authorities.",
        "其核心观点是以色列人和巴勒斯坦人将是两个独立国家的公民，从而属于两个独立的正值当局。"
    ],
    [
        "Academics who move from data-rich countries in Europe and North America to data-poor countries in the Middle East and elsewhere often face this problem.",
        "从欧洲和北美等数据丰富国家迁往中东等数据贫乏国家的学者往往面临着这样的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no magic bullet for controlling XDR-TB.",
        "控制严重耐药型结核病根本没有特效药。"
    ],
    [
        "Regional conflict, involving all of the region’s states and increasing numbers of non-state actors, has produced large numbers of trained fighters, waiting for the call to glory.",
        "涉及南亚所有国家和越来越多非国家组织的地区冲突产生了大批训练有素的战士，只要一声召唤，他们就会义无反顾地为事业献身。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Dani Rodrik of Harvard University has found that the countries that experienced the sharpest declines in growth after 1975 had divided societies and weak conflict-management institutions.",
        "同样，美国哈佛大学的丹尼•罗德里克研究发现1975年后增长大幅下降的国家其共同问题是社会分裂和冲突管理制度不健全。"
    ],
    [
        "The fear is that weakening Assad will strengthen ISIS, and that a Syria overrun by ISIS would be worse for the West, for other countries in the Middle East, and arguably for Syrians.",
        "人们担忧削弱阿萨德将强化伊斯兰国，而由伊斯兰国控制叙利亚将对西方、中东其他国家甚至叙利亚民众造成更加不利的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The cost of such events in terms of destroyed property and economic disruption has been rising steadily.",
        "虽然这些情况导致的财产破坏和经济紊乱的损失一直持续增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Facing this prospect, businesses on both sides of the English Channel would be impelled to campaign openly for Britain to keep full EU membership, instead of quietly lobbying for special deals for their own sectors.",
        "面临这一前景，英吉利海峡两岸的企业将有动力公开支持英国保留完全欧盟成员地位，而不是静悄悄地游说自身所在部门的特殊协议。"
    ],
    [
        "“It was left to other parties with less worthy overall agendas – Hitler, for example – to step in and say that if the rules of the game led to prolonged spells of mass unemployment, then the rules of the game had to be changed.”",
        "“这让拿下总体日程价值更低的政党——比如希特勒——站出来说，既然游戏规则导致长期大面积失业，那么就应该改变游戏规则。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "By accelerating the clean-energy transition that is underway, it is possible to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions below what would be expected under current consumption patterns.",
        "通过加快已经开始的清洁能源转型，有望将温室气体排放量降低到当前消费模式所隐含的水平之下。"
    ],
    [
        "Westernize the Black Sea Region",
        "黑海地区的西化"
    ],
    [
        "Continuing down the investment-led growth path will exacerbate the visible glut of capacity in manufacturing, real estate, and infrastructure, and thus will intensify the coming economic slowdown once further fixed-investment growth becomes impossible.",
        "继续沿着这条投资导向的道路走下去将使已经暴露出来的制造业，房地产和基础设施产能饱和现象进一步恶化，并将在固定资产投资增长无法继续扩大的情况下加剧未来的经济放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "The winds began to change that December, when the US announced that it was withdrawing from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, in order to build an antimissile defense system to protect itself from a potentially nuclearized Iran.",
        "那年12月，风向开始转变，美国宣布它将退出反弹道导弹条约，目的是为了建设反导弹防御系统保护自己免受潜在核力量伊朗的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The first SPZs must demonstrate that a marriage of economics and politics can induce collaboration that would not be possible otherwise.",
        "第一个政治特区必须证明经济政治的联姻可诱发其他手段无法实现的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "We now know that some of these market emperors had no clothes, and that their activities, far from benign, could result in severe financial instability and generate serious losses for taxpayers, not to mention precipitating a global recession.",
        "如今我们明白某些市场霸主其实都像《皇帝的新衣》中那样一丝不挂，而他们的行为也极为危险，足以导致极大的金融动荡并给纳税人带来极大损失，更别说突如其来的全球性衰退了。"
    ],
    [
        "If Brexit were to occur, other dominos would fall.",
        "如果“英退”发生，其他的骨牌会随之倒下。"
    ],
    [
        "Disengagement from the California polity also is true of the state’s economic engines.",
        "脱离加州政体的情况在加州的经济引擎里也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "That promise was not a matter of charity; the Balkans would add value to the EU.",
        "那个承诺并不是什么施舍行为； 巴尔干国家可以为欧盟增添价值。"
    ],
    [
        "After a heart attack, for example, the prognosis depends on the presence or absence of depression more than on virtually any measure of cardiac function.",
        "比如心脏病发作后，对预后的判断与其说取决于对心功能的实际监测还不如说取决于是否患有抑郁症。"
    ],
    [
        "Should one invest more in advanced or emerging economies?",
        "你应该更多地投资于发达经济体还是新兴经济体？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, if the advanced economies were to suffer from secular stagnation, a world with negative interest rates on both short- and long-term bonds could become the new normal.",
        "事实上，如果发达经济体因长期停滞而受损，短期和长期债券利率均为负也许将成为新常态。"
    ],
    [
        "Such platforms may have reduced the cost of political organizing, and thus candidates’ overall dependence on money, while providing an efficient alternative fund-raising channel.",
        "这些平台可能已经降低了政治组织的成本，从而降低候选人对钱的总依赖程度，同时也提供了有效的替代筹资渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, the latest resolution’s most important implication is that it has dispelled any doubt about the new leadership’s commitment to the market-oriented reform that Deng initiated in 1978.",
        "基于此，最新的《决定》的最大影响在于打消了任何关于新领导层是否会遵循邓小平在1978年开始实施的市场改革的疑虑。"
    ],
    [
        "The repercussions of a genuine end to the Colombian armed conflict would be felt far beyond the country’s borders.",
        "哥伦比亚武装冲突若能真正结束，其反响将绝不会仅限于国内。"
    ],
    [
        "They need to remember that their global responsibilities are formidable; their overwhelming obligation is to find cooperative common ground; and there is limited tolerance for the naked pursuit of narrow self-interest.",
        "他们最大的任务是找到合作共同点； 国际社会不能容忍赤裸裸地追逐狭隘的自我利益。"
    ],
    [
        "I always find the question somewhat irritating, perhaps revealing the persistence of an arrogant imperial mindset.",
        "这个问题总让我感到相当懊恼，这或许是顽固的帝国主义无知心态吧。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason for this contrast is simple: the US has Obama, and Europe has the welfare state.",
        "原因也很简单：美国出了个奥巴马，而欧洲则是一个高福利的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "So the most likely outcome is more of the same: continued drift in a state of semi-stagnation.",
        "因此最有可能的结果大概是老方一帖：在半停滞状态中继续漂泊。"
    ],
    [
        "Such platforms have been created for land auctions and foreclosures, as well as private transactions.",
        "为土地拍卖、收回抵押品赎回权以及私人交易而设计的平台已经出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Many view the development of an individualistic outlook as the greatest threat to solidarity nowadays. But this is closely linked to a diminishing sense of common identity.",
        "在许多人看来，当今个人主义的发展是对团结的最大威胁，但这种观点其实是拘泥于一种逐渐走向没落的共同身份定义。"
    ],
    [
        "So Putin’s views about NATO are clear.",
        "因此普京对于北约的观点是明确的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Abe government has presented a set of forward-looking reforms – and appears determined to follow through on implementing them, even if doing so means confronting those with a vested interest in their failure.",
        "安倍政府提出了一系列前瞻性改革——并表现出不惜对抗既得利益坚定实施改革的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "(The other two manufacturers are based in Brazil and Russia.)",
        "（另两家生产商位于巴西和俄罗斯）。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, however, the focus of the discussion has shifted, as unsavory – and sometimes bizarre – aspects of the trade have come to light.",
        "但从那以后，讨论的焦点却发生了改变——因为代孕贸易令人讨厌、有时甚至离奇古怪的一面逐渐显露出来。"
    ],
    [
        "The outlook for the US economy over the next few years hinges on what a deeply divided Congress decides.",
        "美国经济接下来几年的前景取决于其深度分裂的国会决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Only four months in office, his approval rating is down to single digits.",
        "只任职了四个月，他的支持率已经降到了个位数。"
    ],
    [
        "And they saw an economy growing considerably faster than North Atlantic economies had when they possessed the same absolute and relative economy-wide productivity levels.",
        "与处于相同绝对和相对全经济生产率水平阶段的北大西洋经济体相比，日本经济增长速度要快得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether it is desirable depends on the outlook for inflation.",
        "而这是否可取则取决于对通胀的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Trumponomics seems likely to exacerbate America’s saving shortfall in the years ahead.",
        "未来几年，特朗普经济学可能恶化美国的储蓄短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "He attracted the endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan and surrounded his campaign with the white nationalists of the so-called alt-right.",
        "他获得了3K党的支持，他的阵营充斥着白人民族主义这，即所谓的另类右派。"
    ],
    [
        "Current EU thinking, however, holds that Ukraine should be placed in the same framework as countries in North Africa and the Middle East.",
        "但欧盟目前却认为应该把乌克兰和北非及中东国家放在同一个框架内。"
    ],
    [
        "While there are many reasons for South Korea’s low fertility rate, two economic factors stand out.",
        "韩国的低出生率原因很多，但两大经济因素十分突出。"
    ],
    [
        "Out of Ammunition to Combat Recession?",
        "对抗衰退的手段穷尽了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "They insist that a broad agreement (in writing) must be reached before the talks.",
        "他们坚持在和谈进行之前必须达成一份框架协议（起草中）。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF lacks a clear idea about what to do in Argentina. It continues to pound on one theme alone: that Argentina's economic crisis is the result of fiscal profligacy, the result of a government living beyond its means.",
        "国际货币基金组织并不明确应该对阿根廷做什么，而只是一味地强调，阿根廷经济危机是由于政府对财政经费挥霍无度造成的，是政府不量入为出的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "That funding must pay off for both society and investors.",
        "这笔资金必须产生社会和投资两方面的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the new election law's assurance of equal coverage in the main media, government TV channels devoted more time to the pro-government parties.",
        "尽管新选举法规定主要媒体要对参选政党进行平等的报道，但官方电视频道还是给了政府支持者们更多的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "In the time it has taken to read this article, five children will have died from malaria.",
        "在读完这篇文章的很短的时间里，就有五个孩子因为疟疾而丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "This gives us an incentive to lead the global transition from gas-powered vehicles to electric cars, buses, and trains.",
        "这使我们有动力引领全球从汽油/柴油动力汽车转向电动汽车、公交车和火车的进程。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an important lesson in this for the EU at a time when it is seeking to become a global actor: we must reach an internal consensus while always bearing in mind what the external ramifications of our decision might be.",
        "欧盟正在寻求成为一个全球性力量。 在这一时候，欧盟有一个重要的经验教训，那就是我们必须达成内部一致，同时总是知道我们的决定所可能带来的外部影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of children are out of school or are receiving a substandard education because of who they are or where they live.",
        "数百万儿童因为出身家庭或地区而辍学或只能得到劣等教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Poland’s Catholics were cruelly victimized during the Nazi occupation, they could find little compassion for the fate of Nazism’s ultimate victims.",
        "尽管波兰天主教会在纳粹占领期间遭到了残酷迫害，但他们对纳粹主义的最终受害者的命运漠不关心。"
    ],
    [
        "Many investment advisers and brokers are motivated by conflicts of interest to recommend a stock, bond, or fund that is not quite as good as another.",
        "许多投资顾问和经纪人都会基于利益冲突去推荐一些并非最优的股票，债券或基金。"
    ],
    [
        "Many developed countries are also failing to invest in high-return assets, but for a different reason: Their tight budgets and rising debts are preventing them from investing much at all.",
        "许多发达国家也没有投资于高回报的资产，但用意则有所不同：这些国家紧绷的预算和不断上升的债务不允许其大量支出。"
    ],
    [
        "His reason for doing so was to explain male peacocks’ obviously hindering tail feathers and male lions’ apparently useless manes.",
        "他提出这一标准是为了解释雄孔雀的尾翎显然具有阻碍作用以及雄狮子的鬃毛明显无用。"
    ],
    [
        "In the UAE, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority has estimated capital assets of $875 billion, making it probably the world’s largest state-owned investment company.",
        "在阿联酋，阿布扎比投资局的资本资产估计达到8750亿美元，使其可能是全世界最大的国有投资公司。"
    ],
    [
        "While adopting a new treaty may look like an unwieldy process, ill-suited to managing a fast-moving modern financial crisis, it is the only way to generate legitimacy for the institutions that are needed to address that crisis – in particular to provide reassurance that transfers will not be indefinite and unlimited.",
        "接受新条约看起来会是个艰难的过程，不适合用来处理瞬息万变的现代金融危机，但这却是赋予解决危机所需制度的合法性的唯一途径，特别是在保证转移支付不会是个无底洞方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Its constructive stance derives from a worldview that accords pride of place to the values of democracy, social justice, economic development, and environmental protection.",
        "巴西将国家自豪感与民主制度、社会正义、经济发展和环境保护相融合的世界观造就了如此建设性的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this makes global-level responses more difficult.",
        "所有这些都令全球层面上的应对措施变得更加艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is true that the benefits of deficit reduction, if achieved too fast, will be more than offset by the negative effect on growth.",
        "与此同时，如果赤字削减太快，其好处将不及增长受挫带来的弊端。"
    ],
    [
        "When it does, it will be a major defeat for Iran, not only entailing the loss of its main Arab ally, but also jeopardizing the position of its client, Hezbollah, in Lebanon.",
        "巴沙尔的倒台将是对伊朗的重大打击，这不但意味着其主要阿拉伯盟友倒台，也将极大地削弱其代理人黎巴嫩真主党。"
    ],
    [
        "This is closely related to the fourth criterion: hiring (and retaining) the right staff.",
        "这就与第四条标准密切相关：雇用（和留住）合适的员工。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it took three weeks to grant the ECB only partial authorization to act, causing speculation to take hold and spread to Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian debt, thereby jeopardizing the euro’s survival.",
        "但这个过程却花费了3个星期时间，仅授予了部分的行动权，并因此危害了欧元的生存。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – Last week, Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, warned that if countries do not act together, the global economy could be derailed.",
        "牛津—上周，国际货币基金组织（IMF）总裁拉加德警告说，如果各国不能合作行动，全球经济可能脱轨。"
    ],
    [
        "But their calculation is based on a false premise.",
        "但他们的算计基于一个错误的前提。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s financial dramas bear a striking resemblance to this experience.",
        "今天的金融闹剧与这一经验十分相似。 阿根廷在技术上破了产；"
    ],
    [
        "There is plenty of incentive for action.",
        "环顾全球，好像有足够的激励因素去促使我们行动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "I prefaced my question by underscoring the inherent contradiction between a target and a forecast in framing China’s major economic objectives.",
        "在提问之前，我先讲述了在制定中国主要经济目标时，目标值和预测之间的内在矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "The road ahead is not free of difficulties, but the Strategy represents a decisive step towards solving the challenges of the twenty-first century and preparing us for the world of tomorrow.",
        "前面的路注定坎坷，但这一策略在应对这些21世纪的挑战方面已经迈出了决定性的一步，并有助于我们共同迎接未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Sarkozy regards an EU economic government as a way to preserve his leadership in the EU beyond France’s Council presidency, which is now ending.",
        "萨尔科奇把欧盟经济政府视为在法国的欧盟轮值主席结束之后保留其欧盟领导地位的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2008, it is likely that Latinos will make up 9% to 10% of the electorate, the highest share ever.",
        "在2008年，拉美族裔人口有可能占据选举人口的9%到10%，这是有史以来最高的。"
    ],
    [
        "A border-adjustment tax would treat domestically purchased inputs and imported inputs differently, and encourage exports.",
        "边境调整税会将国内采购的产出和进口产出区分对待，并鼓励出口。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, I (and others) have argued that growing inequality is one of the reasons for the economic slowdown, and is partly a consequence of the global economy’s deep, ongoing structural changes.",
        "确实，我（以及其他论者）曾经提到，不断加大的贫富差距是经济放缓的原因之一，在某种程度上也是当前全球经济深度结构性变革的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, greater knowledge enhances our capacity to act.",
        "很明显，伟大的知识能提高我们行动的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing away with this illusion requires the creation of a global emissions market – still a very distant goal.",
        "消除这一观念要求建立全球排放市场，这仍然是一个遥远的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat was real, and the response – in terms of many thousands of lives saved – was unquestionably effective.",
        "这种威胁是切实存在的，而从挽救了数千条生命的角度看，这次的反应行动无疑非常有效。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, China will have to make its currency convertible.",
        "第二，中国应该将它的货币可以自由兑换。"
    ],
    [
        "The BRICS’ most recent meeting has given me no reason to revise that assessment.",
        "”金砖国家的最新会晤并没有让我觉得有必要修正这一论断。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is today, to some degree, with Pax Americana – a kind of imperial world order that was never a formal empire.",
        "从某种程度上讲，今天的美式和平亦然，这是一种不以正式帝国面貌出现的帝国主义世界秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "True, advanced economies are relatively more stable, which means that the bonds would have a less distinctive risk-management advantage.",
        "诚然，先进经济体相对来说更为稳固，这意味着债券将具有一个不那么明显的风险管理优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, border guards and their equipment can be equally effective without a physical barrier.",
        "事实上，边境看守和他们的设备在没有实体隔离障的情况下同样有效。"
    ],
    [
        "The vote in Dubai was 89 to 55 against the “democratic” governments.",
        "迪拜投票的结果是“民主政府”以55对89票落败。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, their views are not represented in the US Congress, which defends Big Coal and Big Oil, not the American people.",
        "不幸的是，他们的观点没有在美国国会中得到代表。 美国国会捍卫大煤炭公司和大石油公司的利益，而不捍卫美国人民的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In this respect, much progress can still be made.",
        "从这个角度讲，仍有很大进步空间。"
    ],
    [
        "It is fitting that mayors, driven by their sense of responsibility to protect their citizens’ safety and welfare, take a keen interest in this cause.",
        "为了保护市民的福祉和安全，市长们理所当然地对这项事业表现出浓厚的兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, after Thomas Sargent won the Nobel Prize in Economics last year, he cited it as a precedent in his acceptance speech.",
        "事实上，托马斯·萨金特（Thomas Sargent）去年获得诺贝尔奖之后，在获奖演说中援引了汉密尔顿的举措作为先例。"
    ],
    [
        "If, like Japan in the late 1990’s and the US in 1937, they take the threat of large deficits seriously and raise taxes and cut spending too much too soon, their economies could fall back into recession.",
        "如果像20世纪90年代的日本或者1937年的美国那样，认为巨额赤字是个严重的威胁，从而过早且过大幅度地增加税收削减开支，那么其经济就可能重新滑入衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Commitments never to raise taxes have left the US dependent on debt finance – and, more frightening, on those who are ready to veto refinancing it.",
        "永不加税的承诺导致美国只能依赖债务融资——更可怕是的是，依赖于那些时刻准备否决再融资的人。"
    ],
    [
        "If Pakistan, nuclear weapons and all, was to fall to the extremists, the consequences in terms of encouraging the export of terrorism would be dire.",
        "试想一下，如果整个巴基斯坦，包括其核武器在内，落入了极端分子手中。"
    ],
    [
        "The shift to renewables has been particularly pronounced in the world’s major advanced economies.",
        "主要发达国家向可再生能源的转向尤为积极。"
    ],
    [
        "For most people in the industrialized world – and everyone at this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos – connectivity is a fact of life.",
        "对工业化世界的大部分人来说——以及出席今年世界经济论坛达沃斯年会的各位要人来说——连通性是生活中的既成事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Global Warming’s Technology Deficit",
        "站不住脚的反全球变暖技术"
    ],
    [
        "With good reason, parents everywhere were terrified that poliovirus would reach their doorstep – like a plague – striking a child and causing irreversible paralysis in a matter of hours, or, worse, death in a matter of days.",
        "不难理解，各家各户的父母都十分害怕小儿麻痹症病毒会像瘟疫一样前来敲门，几小时内让孩子终生残疾，或者（更糟糕地）几天之内夺走孩子的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "ANN ARBOR – It is June 15, 2030, and for Sam and Sue of Ann Arbor, Michigan, it is going to be a busy day.",
        "安纳伯—现在是2030年6月15日，来自密歇根州安纳伯市的山姆和苏准备迎来繁忙的一天。"
    ],
    [
        "The case of Belgium is particularly instructive, because the risk premium on Belgian sovereign debt has remained modest throughout most of the euro crisis, although the country’s debt/GDP ratio is above the eurozone average, at around 100%, and it went without a government for more than a year.",
        "比利时的情况就很有启发性，尽管该国的债务对GDP比率高于欧元区国家的平均水平——大概为100%，而且一年多以来都缺乏政府管理，但比利时主权债务的风险溢价在整个欧元危机期间都保持在适度的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "That was never realistic.",
        "但那是不现实的。"
    ],
    [
        "West European armies were embedded in NATO.",
        "西欧的武装力量都被纳入了北约体系。"
    ],
    [
        "There are also, of course, American voices – like that of the foreign-policy realist Stephen Walt – arguing for less to be done, on the ground that US interests are insufficiently engaged to justify any military intervention, however limited.",
        "当然，也有些像外交政策现实主义者斯蒂芬·沃尔特那样的美国人主张不要采取行动，理由是美国利益并未受到威胁，因此不需要采取哪怕是有限的军事行动。"
    ],
    [
        "High construction employment has been good for American workers in the past half-decade – a period that has not produced much good for them.",
        "建筑业的高就业率在过去五年以来对美国的工人而言是有利的—这一时期总体上并未给他们带来多收好处。"
    ],
    [
        "When President Jacques Chirac’s first government attempted such a reform in 1995, railroad workers, who can retire at age 50 or 55, spearheaded the resistance.",
        "当希拉克总统的第一届政府在1995年尝试这一改革的时候，可以在50或55岁退休的铁路工人带头抵制。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond its effects on GDP and productivity, the Internet can also boost transparency and trust.",
        "除了对GDP和生产率的作用，互联网还能提高透明度和信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Vision Free Leadership",
        "缺乏远见的欧洲领导人"
    ],
    [
        "These central banks offered their services primarily to domestic actors, but they also extended their largess to foreign private entities.",
        "这些央行主要为国内行为人提供服务，但它们的慷慨也惠及了外国私人实体。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, this type of model strongly implies that governments should do nothing in the face of such “shocks.”",
        "第二，这一模式有力表明政府在“冲击”面前应当什么也不做。"
    ],
    [
        "Little wonder, then, that half of them were not convinced that their post-secondary studies had improved their employment opportunities.",
        "因此，毫不奇怪他们中有一半的人不认为高等院校的学习改善了他们的就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is still much to digest in these new financing initiatives.",
        "当然，这些新融资计划还有很多东西要消化研究。"
    ],
    [
        "Elections have begun to play a greater role in Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman, but none uses free and fair elections to fill the most important and powerful political offices.",
        "选举的作用在卡塔尔、科威特、巴林和阿曼的作用日益增强，但上述没有哪个国家采用自由公正的选举来任命掌握实权的政治要职。"
    ],
    [
        "Reaction to Harvard psychologist Stephen Pinker’s majestic new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, is a case in point.",
        "哈佛心理学家斯蒂芬·平克宏伟的新著《人类本性中的善良天使》就是很好的例证。"
    ],
    [
        "The taboo is the companion to the sacred: that which we regard as sacred we protect with taboos.",
        "禁忌与神圣同在：我们认为神圣的东西，则以禁忌保护之。"
    ],
    [
        "With the US economy already operating at close to full capacity (unemployment is below 5%), higher imports – and a stronger US dollar – will be needed to meet that demand.",
        "由于美国经济已经接近满负荷运营（当前失业率低于5％），就需要更高的进口——以及更强的美元来满足这一需求。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why it was so important that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s first trip was to Asia, and her first stop in Japan.",
        "它解释了希拉里·克林顿国务卿上任后首访亚洲、而首访亚洲时又将首站定为日本为什么如此重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Only an inclusive international forum, in which complex ideas can be shared and debated, is likely to prove adequate to the task of navigating the new era of energy use, production, and consumption.",
        "只有可以分享和探讨复杂理念的包容性国际论坛才有可能完成引导新时代能源应用、生产和消费的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, biopiracy is rare – so rare that it can be dealt with directly.",
        "事实上，生物剽窃行为十分罕见——因为罕见所以可以直接处理。"
    ],
    [
        "They prepared for inclusion of eight former Communist countries (as well Cyprus and Malta) with almost quasi-religious fervor.",
        "他们以近乎宗教般的热情为八个前共产主义国家（以及塞浦路斯和马耳他）的加入做着准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the West Bank should be viewed as “an integrated urban region of independent but connected cities.”",
        "因此，西岸地区应被视为“独立但联系密切的城市综合区域”。"
    ],
    [
        "MOSCOW – Germany’s ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is a legend in Russia.",
        "莫斯科——德国前总理格哈德·施罗德在俄罗斯是个传奇人物。"
    ],
    [
        "The Climate-Change Fight Returns to Paris",
        "回归巴黎的气候变化斗争"
    ],
    [
        "First, the EU must take in a substantial number of refugees directly from front-line countries in a secure and orderly manner.",
        "首先，欧盟地区必须以安全有序的方式从前线国家直接接收大量难民。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, in this climate of fiscal stringency, he calls for increased contributions to international organizations, the Millennium Challenge Account to provide assistance to countries with a commitment to making progress in poverty reduction, and the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative.",
        "然而，在这种财政紧缩的大气候中，他却呼吁增加对国际组织、和世纪挑战账户（Millennium Challenge Account）的投入，对承诺竭力扶助贫困的国家和全球HIV/艾滋项目提供援助。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to ask citizens to be enthusiastic about aims that their leaders ignore.",
        "就连领导人都忽视的任务，很难要求民众付出热情。"
    ],
    [
        "Many top programs are in English, ensuring that Turkey will attract an increasing number of international students.",
        "很多顶尖课程都用英语教授，这保证了土耳其能吸引到越来越多的国际留学生。"
    ],
    [
        "In a monetary union, discrepancies in wage growth relative to productivity gains – that is, unit labor costs – will result in a chronic accumulation of trade surpluses or deficits.",
        "在一个货币联盟中，工资增长相对于生产率提高方面的差异——即单位成本差异——会造成长期的贸易盈余或赤字积累。"
    ],
    [
        "But NCDs are increasing for many other demographic and epidemiological reasons as well – and understanding these has implications for health policy, and even for economic development.",
        "但CND的增加同样也有人口和流行病因素在其中，弄清楚此中缘由将对卫生政策甚至经济发展都带来重大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The psychology has suddenly changed, creating widespread fear of sharp drops in US home prices.",
        "心理预期在眨眼之间发生了改变，人们普遍对美国房价骤跌充满了恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "Entrenched incumbent regimes everywhere are under severe stress from advances in information technology, shifts in demographics, rising expectations, and the obsolescence of Cold War exigencies.",
        "随着信息技术进步、人口结构转换，人民期望上升以及冷战理念的逐渐淡化，世界上那些看似无法撼动的政权纷纷摇摇欲坠。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many other groupings.",
        "还有其他各种组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Other changes, such as reducing the need for and the cost of private tutoring, would make a material difference in the lives of ordinary Egyptians.",
        "其他变化，比如降低私人教育的需求和成本，将给普通埃及人的生活带来实质性不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas the latter was saving too little, China was saving too much.",
        "美国存款过低，而中国却存款过高。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to recognize, once and for all, that governments, not central banks, are responsible for generating long-term employment and growth, by ensuring favorable investment conditions, a high-quality education system, and open, competitive markets.",
        "必须彻底认识到，政府，而不是央行，需要对创造长期就业和增长负责，实现这一目标的方法是确保有利的投资环境、高质量的教育系统和开放竞争的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Coalition Provisional Authority asked the employees of the Mishraq Sulfur Company to go back on the job in 2004, some of the workers lit $40 million worth of sulfur on fire and destroyed the facility.",
        "当联合部队临时权力机构在2004年要求米士拉硫公司的员工返回单位上班的时候，有些工人把价值4000万美元的硫付之一炬，并且捣毁了工厂。"
    ],
    [
        "Only China will decide that.",
        "只有中国能够决定着一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s French Roadblock",
        "非洲的法国障碍"
    ],
    [
        "The trick is to capture some of what is being spent on health care already.",
        "我们的打算是使用正在作为卫生开支的支出。"
    ],
    [
        "But we should be cautious about moving beyond taking stands to taking sides in the region to a greater extent than has been the norm for decades.",
        "但我们要小心不要让挑明立场演变为站队，超出几十年的范式之外。"
    ],
    [
        "Currency depreciation was driven by a website that reported on the exchange rate.",
        "货币贬值幕后黑手是一个报道汇率的网站。"
    ],
    [
        "If Greece had to borrow at the market interest rate on ten-year bonds, its deficit would rise by 6.5% of the Greek government debt or 11% of GDP.",
        "如果希腊必须按十年期债券的市场利率借钱，则其赤字将升至希腊政府债务的6. 5%或GDP的11%。"
    ],
    [
        "On March 21, at a mass rally attended by almost one million people in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, Ocalan delivered a message of peace from his prison cell.",
        "3月21日近一百万人在土耳其东南部城市迪亚巴克尔（Diyarbakir）举行群众集会，奥贾兰在狱中向集会人群传达了和平信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Energy Be Governed?",
        "能源能被管理么？"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to resolving a problem as urgent as climate change, Keynes’s famous dictum – “In the long run, we are all dead” – clearly applies.",
        "在解决气候变化这样紧迫的问题时，凯恩斯“从长远看，我们都死了”的名言显然适用。"
    ],
    [
        "Using an electronic currency, central banks could continue to stabilize inflation exactly as they do now.",
        "使用电子货币，央行能够如同现在所做的那样稳定通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Aleppo’s Sobering Lessons",
        "阿勒颇的警钟"
    ],
    [
        "It was the first step in the creation of the American system of public education – an institution that helped to propel the country’s rise to global prominence.",
        "这是美国公共教育制度创造的滥觞，而教育制度推动美国崛起成为全球最强国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Back then, North Korea was restarting its Yongbyon nuclear facility and producing plutonium, thus strengthening its bargaining position vis-à-vis the US.",
        "那时朝鲜重启宁边核设施进行钚生产，借此强化同美国的谈判能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that ASEAN states could choose to become independent players, rather than pawns in the US-China competition, implying that it is in China’s interest to maintain ambiguity in US-ASEAN relations.",
        "事实上，东盟国希望被当做独立的政治单位，而不是中美竞争的棋子。 中国为东盟国保留越大的模糊策略空间，越符合中国在东南亚的长远利益。"
    ],
    [
        "With most of the refugees originating in the Middle East – especially Syria, but also Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya – the fact that the region is shouldering the overwhelming share of the burden is not surprising.",
        "这些难民大部分来自中东——特别是叙利亚，也有的来自阿富汗、伊拉克、也门和利比亚——因此中东地区承担了绝大部分难民负担亦不足为奇。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, access to medicine matters.",
        "首先，能够就医很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Reforming Greek Reform",
        "改革希腊改革"
    ],
    [
        "This month, thousands of people from all over the world, including many heads of state, will gather in Copenhagen to try to forge an agreement to drastically cut atmospheric emissions of an invisible, odorless gas: carbon dioxide. Despite efforts by some leading countries to lower expectations ahead of the conference about what can and will be achieved, the meeting is still being called the most important conference since World War II. And at the conference’s heart are the results of Tyndall’s experiments.",
        "这个月，来自世界各地的数千人，包括众多国家首脑将汇集哥本哈根，力求达成大幅削减二氧化碳这种无色无味气体大气排放的相关协议。 尽管某些大国在会议召开前试图降低人们对于成果的期望值，但这次会议仍然被誉为二战结束后最重要的会议。"
    ],
    [
        "In this respect, there are three different strategies in place in Africa.",
        "在这方面，非洲目前存在三种不同的对策。"
    ],
    [
        "Why reject the improvements that human ingenuity has provided to us?",
        "为什么拒绝人类灵感带给我们的改善？"
    ],
    [
        "Developed countries should agree to channel considerable savings to developing countries to finance the scale-up of sustainable investments.",
        "发达国家应允诺向发展中国家提供相当大数量的储备资金，用于对他们可持续发展投资的加大提供财政援助。"
    ],
    [
        "All attempts to reduce Malay influence serve to mobilize this community – in both ethnic and religious terms.",
        "试图降低马来人影响的企图只会在种族和宗教方面调动起这一社区。"
    ],
    [
        "But other researchers have proposed a number of plausible mechanisms, primarily related to paracetamol’s negative effect on the body’s ability to withstand oxidant stress and its potential enhancement of the allergic immune response.",
        "但是其他研究人员已经提出了多个似乎有道理的机制，这些机制主要指出了扑热息痛对人体抵抗氧化压力的能力的负面影响以及它能够潜在增强过敏免疫反应。"
    ],
    [
        "MANILA – Eighty years ago this month, Ferdinand Pecora, the cigar-chomping former assistant district attorney for New York City, was appointed chief counsel for the US Senate Committee on Banking and Currency.",
        "马尼拉——八十年前的1月，爱叼雪茄的纽约市前地方检察官费迪南德·佩科拉（Ferdinand Pecora）被任命为美国参议院银行货币委员会总答辩人（Chief Counsel）。"
    ],
    [
        "No multilateral investment agreement will be able to address all of the institutional problems and market failures that prevent capital from flowing to developing countries.",
        "没有哪个多边投资协定能彻底解决阻碍资金流入发展中国家的制度问题、弥补市场缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2007, the results were roughly the same.",
        "2007年，结果基本相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment in education and skills training is imperative to facilitate successful and lasting industrialization.",
        "教育和技能培训投资是成功而持续的工业化的关进。"
    ],
    [
        "Cynics recall that a European recovery was supposed to take hold as early as the fourth quarter of 2010, and that every International Monetary Fund projection since then has predicted recovery “by the end of the year.”",
        "怀疑派还记得，关于欧洲复苏的预期早在2010年第四季度就已经出现，自此以后，IMF次次都会预测“年底”复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump genuinely wants to confront China and other countries with a potential trade war, ignoring completely the impact on the US (where exports account for around 14% of total economic activity).",
        "特朗普真正希望用潜在贸易战对付中国和其他国家，完全忽视对美国的影响（出口占美国经济活动总量的14%左右）。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that a major reason for underdevelopment may be that such institutions, which allow countries to cope with distress, are missing in poor economies.",
        "由此表明发展速度慢的主要原因或许是贫穷国家缺少应对困境的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if Hillary Clinton wins the election, they think that the American public has lost its appetite for internationalism and that the country will turn its back on free trade and foreign intervention.",
        "即使希拉里·克林顿赢得选举，他们也认为美国公众已经失去了对国际主义的偏好，美国将抛弃自由贸易和对外干预。"
    ],
    [
        "The result would not only directly benefit each country willing to engage in this process. It would also imply accelerated innovation in global governance, which we need more than ever for the sake of preserving the integrity of our most crucial systems.",
        "结果将不仅有利于愿意参与其中的各个国家，也将间接地加速全球治理创新，为了维持最关键系统的完整性，我们急切地需要全球治理创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Half a generation later, Britain’s Parliament debated whether the modifications of the Bank’s charter should give it explicit power to conduct lender-of-last-resort operations.",
        "多年后，英国议会就是否修订英格兰银行章程给予其明确的最后贷款人操作的权力展开了争论。"
    ],
    [
        "But the US employment and inflation reports are the real sources of clues about the future.",
        "但美国就业和通胀报告才是未来线索的真正来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics argue that the fundamentals were deteriorating in plain sight, and that the market (and economists) ignored it.",
        "有批评认为经济法则的失效显而易见，但市场（以及经济学家）却对此视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence the need for an agreement now on how to handle the potential collapse of the Kim regime and the reunification of the Korean Peninsula.",
        "因此，现在必须达成一个关于如何处理金氏政权可能的倒台、朝鲜半岛可能的统一的协议。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Shortly before taking office, US President Donald Trump took to Twitter to outline his vision for his country’s relationship with Russia.",
        "华盛顿——上任不久后，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普借助推特来概括美国与俄国的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Japan’s debt-to-GDP ratio is around 170% – much higher than in Greece, where the figure stands at around 110%.",
        "事实上，日本的政府债务总额已经是GDP的170%——比希腊的110%还要高出许多。"
    ],
    [
        "What the executive branch has relinquished, or been forced to give up, vested interests have seized.",
        "行政部门放弃或被迫放弃的一部分权力如今已被各既得利益集团所掌控。"
    ],
    [
        "There are a few areas where Fillon and Le Pen differ.",
        "菲永在若干领域和勒庞确有不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Since Gleneagles, a critical mass of public support to act decisively on climate change has developed.",
        "从格伦伊格尔斯峰会以来，对气候变化采取坚决措施的公众支持大为提高。"
    ],
    [
        "None is grandiose, but together they might help substantially.",
        "其中的理念都算不上宏大，但它们联合起作用的话却可能产生巨大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "This insecurity manifests itself in many ways: from the accumulation of liquid wealth as insurance against foreign and domestic uncertainties to the choice of many, if not most, to educate their children abroad.",
        "这种不安全感表现在诸多方面：当很多人，甚至是大多数人会选择让子女到国外接受教育的情况下，他们却忙于积累流动性财富来对抗国内外不确定局势。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Individual elections do not always enhance democracy – a useful reminder that the ballot box is only one part, albeit a central one, in any free, plural society.",
        "伦敦——个人参与投票的选举不一定就是代表着民主，所以说在一个自由多元的社会里，投票箱虽然很重要，但也不能代表全部的民意。"
    ],
    [
        "But studies tend to show that the majority of income transfers by government occur within the middle class, while only a relatively small proportion are from rich to poor.",
        "但是研究结果往往表明，政府收入转移的大部分都在中产阶级中进行，而只有一小部分是从富人流向穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the International Energy Agency, global investment in energy supply currently amounts to $1.6 trillion annually, and 70% of it is still based on oil, coal, or gas.",
        "据国际能源署的数据，目前全球能源供给投资总量为每年1. 6万亿美元，其中70%仍基于石油、煤炭或天然气。"
    ],
    [
        "There are four components to an effective strategy for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program: real negotiations, rather than a leisurely meeting once every few weeks; stiff sanctions on Iran, but without today’s gaping loopholes; a credible threat of military action; and a face-saving exit for the Iranian leadership.",
        "应对伊朗核计划的有效战略包括四个部分：真正的谈判（而不是每隔几周进行一次的休闲会议）、对伊朗施以严厉制裁（而非类似如今的漏洞百出的制裁）、可信的军事行动威胁，以及为伊朗领导层制造体面的台阶。"
    ],
    [
        "They are especially likely to join at the outset of such crises.",
        "这些人在危机一开始就加入激进组织的可能性尤其大。"
    ],
    [
        "Reibling is far from the only investor to harbor these fears; indeed, he was merely expressing what his fellow investors abroad have been discussing among themselves.",
        "雷布林绝不是唯一一个有次担忧的投资者； 事实上，他只不过表达了他的投资者同侪在相互讨论中所提出的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Herceptin can cost up to $40,000 annually, and newer cancer drugs cost even more, making them prohibitively expensive for most patients.",
        "赫赛汀每年的花费高达4万美元，新的癌症药物花费更高，大部分患者根本负担不起。"
    ],
    [
        "But, like military conflicts, they often start with accidental skirmishes or misunderstandings.",
        "但是，和军事冲突一样，它们常常因为偶发小事故或误解而开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Côte d’Ivoire, the franc zone’s leading economy, was a net rice exporter in the early 1970’s, until the country’s elite followed the advice of French expatriates to import rice rather than produce it.",
        "法郎区领先经济体科特迪瓦在20世纪70年代初是大米净出口国，直到该国精英采纳了法国人的建议，采取进口而不再生产大米。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true of US fiscal policy, with an event-driven debate that now has ever-shorter time horizons: the fiscal cliff on January 1, sequestration of expenditures on March 1, expiration of the continuing budget resolution on March 27, and the new May 18 debt-ceiling limit.",
        "美国财政政策也是如此，事件驱动争议的最后期限越来越紧迫：1月1日的财政支出悬崖、3月1日的支出封存、3月27日的持续预算决议到期、还有5月18日的新一轮债务上限。"
    ],
    [
        "We are uniting people.\"",
        "我们是在把人民团结起来。"
    ],
    [
        "And “independence” would deprive Britain of influence over future EU reforms – notably, the completion of the single market in services – from which it would benefit.",
        "此外“独立”还将剥夺英国对未来欧盟改革——包括单一服务业市场的最终构建——的影响力，这些都是英国本该从中受益的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Uganda’s success in expanding rice production is especially interesting given that the people of sub-Saharan Africa spend nearly $2 billion a year on rice grown outside of Africa.",
        "鉴于撒哈拉以南的非洲地区每年要为非洲以外的大米付出近20亿美金，乌干达在扩大大米生产方面的成功就有了特殊的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "One fundamental issue seems to be dwindling respect for established institutions, many of which are drowning in the noise of opinion.",
        "一个根本问题似乎是人们对现有机构越来越缺乏尊重，这些机构很多都被各种意见形成的噪声所吞没。"
    ],
    [
        "It may not yet be ready to embark on a full-fledged policy of “containment,” but in the wake of the dismemberment of Georgia – and with Russia claiming a zone of “privileged influence” throughout the former Soviet world – China clearly views Russia as an emerging strategic threat.",
        "中国可能还没有为开始成熟的“牵制”政策做好准备，但是，在格鲁吉亚被分裂之后——以及随着俄罗斯要求在前苏联国家拥有一个“特殊影响”区域之后——中国已经明确地将俄罗斯作为一个新兴的战略威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a second victory over Yanukovych can secure a future of freedom and hope for Ukraine’s people.",
        "只有再次战胜亚努科维奇才能够确保乌克兰人民自由和充满希望的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the gradualist approach is administratively practical, minimizes the collateral damage to the real economy and ensures that there is enough time to extend financial services and financial literacy to larger parts of India.",
        "此外，渐进方针在管理上可行，它能让实体经济的附带伤害最小化，并确保有足够的时间将金融服务和金融知识推广到印度大部。"
    ],
    [
        "It can lead in Syria as well, if the US will set aside its unilateral demand for regime change and work with the rest of the Council, including China and Russia, on a common approach.",
        "如果美国放弃其单方面的颠覆政权要求，与安理会其他成员（包括中俄）合作推进共同方针的话，安理会也可以在叙利亚问题上成为领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, a new United Nations report shows that annual investments in disaster-risk reduction of $6 billion can result in savings of up to $360 billion.",
        "与此同时，新联合国报告表明，每年投入60亿美元用于降低灾难风险可以省下最多3,600亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "And it will reconcile recovery in the US with the need to prevent global imbalances from again threatening financial stability.",
        "这一方面有助于美国经济复苏，另一方面也有助于节制全球收支不平衡，防止它再度威胁金融稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Australia’s reforms are reflected in the anti-racism policies adopted in the last decade by the international football governing bodies, FIFA and UEFA (though in many cases the translation of policy into effective, enforceable action at the national level has left much to be desired).",
        "比如澳大利亚的改革在过去十年间被国际足联和欧洲足联这样的国际足球管理机构所采用（虽然在许多国家将这些政策转化为有效且可实施的行动时还不能尽如人意。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the United States has built a mammoth financial bureaucracy to promote homeownership, and economists, bankers, politicians, and of course homeowners themselves keenly follow house-price indicators.",
        "如今美国建立了巨大的金融机构系统以促进房屋拥有，经济学家、银行家、政客，当然还有屋主本身，都热切地追踪者房价指标。"
    ],
    [
        "So, in my view, a re-launch of arms control must cover five areas.",
        "因此，在我看来，重启军备控制必须覆盖五个方面。"
    ],
    [
        "She was chosen, to borrow the commentators’ jargon, to energize the party base, which comprises hard-liners suspicious of McCain’s lack of enthusiasm for the causes that fire them up, such as creationism and a ban on abortion.",
        "选择她，借用评论家的行话，是为了给共和党的基础注入活力，其中有对麦凯恩存有疑虑的强硬派，他们觉得麦凯恩对激起他们热情的议题如上帝创造人类灵魂论和禁止堕胎缺乏兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "But what if we adopted a new approach, in which local-level democracy and sovereignty were strengthened instead?",
        "但如果我们采取强化地方民主和主权的新方法又将如何？"
    ],
    [
        "Can privately-issued obligations – high-grade corporate bonds, for example – supplement official forms of international liquidity?",
        "那么私人债权——例如高等级的公司债券——可否作为官方形式国际流动性的补充？"
    ],
    [
        "There is a widespread suspicion that the US is deliberately pursuing dollar depreciation (or “currency wars,” in the words of Brazil’s finance minister).",
        "如今，到处有人怀疑美国刻意追求美元贬值，或者——用巴西财长的话说——美国发动了“货币战争”。"
    ],
    [
        "Environmental insecurity is a major, though often underestimated, contributor to global instability.",
        "尽管经常遭到低估，但环境不安全是导致全球动荡的一个主要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The former seems fairer, because all citizens seemingly start with equal endowments of time.",
        "前者比较公平，因为似乎所有公民的初始时间禀赋都是一样的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a man-made charter, and it should be treated – by the German Constitutional Court and others – as a living document that is to be interpreted in light of current events.",
        "这是一份人造的章程，因此应该（被德国最高法院和其他人）视为活的档案，根据当前事件进行解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Street sweepers in developing countries are arguably less threatened by automation than their counterparts in developed countries, because their jobs are less mechanized and lower paid.",
        "发展中国家的环卫工人面对的自动化威胁可能比发达国家要低，因为他们的工作机械化程度较低，而且工资也十分微薄。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters is selling the reserves and being rich now, not finding more for later.",
        "重要的是出售现有的储存，而不是为以后寻找更多。"
    ],
    [
        "By any measure, the pace and scope of innovation in China has begun to increase.",
        "不论从什么指标看，中国创新的节奏和范围都开始增加。"
    ],
    [
        "This is arguably genocide, a word used by the U.S. government but by few others to describe what is going on in Darfur.",
        "这甚至可以称得上是种族灭绝，美国政府就是这么定义达尔富尔事件的，但大多数国家并没有这么认为。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, social contracts based on formal long-term employer-employee relationships will need to be overhauled, with benefits such as retirement and health care made more portable and adapted to evolving work arrangements, including the expanding “gig” economy.",
        "此外，基于正式长期雇主与雇员关系的社会契约需要进行大改，退休和医疗保健福利的流转应该更为便利以适应不断发展的工作安排，包括不断扩大的“共享”经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Asian Footsteps in Africa",
        "亚洲人在非洲留下的足迹"
    ],
    [
        "Analysts who have worked their entire lives only on advanced economies have learned to bet on things going well, because for the couple of decades prior to the crisis, things mostly did go well – very well.",
        "一辈子都在研究发达经济体的分析师得到的经验是凡事朝好的方向看，因为从危机前的20年来看，一切都会好的——是大好不是小好。"
    ],
    [
        "The neo-Keynesian economist wants to boost demand generally.",
        "新凯恩斯主义经济学家想要一般地提振需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The conventional wisdom is that the euro was the political price Germany paid for French acquiescence to its reunification.",
        "传统智慧认为，欧元时德国为了重新统一而向法国支付的政治代价。"
    ],
    [
        "These patchwork systems do have benefits.",
        "这样的制度外安排确有好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment growth had depended on population growth, technological innovation, and westward expansion.",
        "投资增长已开始依赖人口增长、技术创新和西进运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s government just rolled out a $130 billion bailout plan for the country’s banking system; as a percentage of GDP this would be equivalent to about $1.3 trillion in the US – almost double the Paulson plan.",
        "俄罗斯政府刚刚推出了一个对其国内银行系统高达1300亿美元的援救计划； 如果按照GDP的百分比计算，这相当于美国的1."
    ],
    [
        "But with sufficient White House willpower, the administration can see this through.",
        "但只要白宫下定决心，政府可以坚持到底。"
    ],
    [
        "This week, Greece defaulted on its payments to the IMF, rightly choosing pensions over debt service.",
        "本周，希腊拖欠了对国际货币基金组织的还款，理所当然地选择支付养老金而非偿还债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the Federal Reserve should expand its quantitative easing and forward guidance programs.",
        "其次，美联储应扩大其量化宽松政策和前瞻性的指导方案。"
    ],
    [
        "This first generation of Moroccan feminists was guided by a key insight: the interactions of men and women were not dictated by religion, but by social practices that had often used religion as a means of reinforcement.",
        "摩洛哥第一代女权主义者受到的主要核心思想是，控制男女互动的不是宗教，而是社会传统。 社会传统常常利用宗教得到加强。"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Rico needs more than short-term assistance (although this is also urgent); it needs bipartisan support to rebuild, with an initial and essential focus on a more robust and cheaper supply of electricity.",
        "波多黎各所需要的不仅仅只有短期援助（尽管这也颇为紧急）； 还需要两党共同支持它重建，其中，首要的重点是建立更稳定、更廉价的电力供应。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a 0.6-percentage-point drop from a year earlier and less than half the 6.3% average that prevailed during the final three decades of the twentieth century.",
        "6个百分点，还不足上世纪最后三十年间6. 3％的平均水平的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments that go bust would have to restructure their debts rather than get bailouts from other EU states.",
        "破产的政府需要重组债务，而不是获得其他欧盟国家的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "But will the Harare-led protests deliver real change or merely media hyperbole?",
        "但哈拉雷所领导的游行真的能让局面有实质性的改善吗？ 还是说，这仅仅是媒体的夸大其词？"
    ],
    [
        "Progress in these areas would help governments to channel their spending more effectively toward those who would benefit the most.",
        "这些方面的进步有助于政府有效地将钱花在受益最大的人群上。"
    ],
    [
        "But the party’s propaganda arm had worked so hard to convince its base that Obamacare represented a clear and present danger to the country that its leaders had to act as if they were making a serious effort to fulfill their promise to repeal and replace it.",
        "但共和党的宣传部门竭尽全力要让它的票仓相信奥巴马医保是对美国的赤裸裸的紧迫威胁，美国领导人必须有所行动，好像他们正在认真地采取措施兑现取消和取代承诺一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Too many people think of economics as a zero-sum game, and that China’s success is coming at the expense of the rest of the world.",
        "太多的人认为经济学是一种零和游戏，中国的成功是以世界其他地方为代价的。"
    ],
    [
        "This proposal illustrates how the reform gap, and the unbalanced growth that results from it, can debilitate the European fabric by setting one partner against the other.",
        "这项提案说明改革差距和随之而来的发展不均衡能够如何削弱欧洲的团结，造成欧洲国家的内部争斗。"
    ],
    [
        "This mindset is also pervasive in Western governments, industry, business schools, and the media.",
        "这种思想在西方政府、工业、商学院和媒体也普遍深入人心。"
    ],
    [
        "This may be a humane thing to do, for it gives every individual a chance, irrespective of the genetic odds against their paying their way for the company.",
        "如果我们能给每个人以平等的机会，不管他们的基因差异而得以混口饭吃，这可能是件宅心仁厚的佳话。"
    ],
    [
        "The choice is stark: for a few hundred million dollars, we could help almost half of humanity now.",
        "这简直是想都不用想的选择：只用区区的几亿美元，我们就能救助全球过半的人口。"
    ],
    [
        "In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.",
        "而现实世界中，医学研究的90%的经费集中在仅10%的引起死亡和残疾的全球性疾病上。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the Chinese-made anti-malarial drug artesunate has become part of the standard treatment within just a few years.",
        "比如，中国生产的抗疟疾药青蒿琥酯仅仅在几年间就成为了标准治疗的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "So they elected one as President.",
        "于是他们选出了一位女总统。"
    ],
    [
        "The health ministry cited a 9.5% increase in deaths caused by infectious diseases from 2011 to 2012.",
        "卫生部的数据表明，2011—2012年传染病致死人数增加了9. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "The author, a BoE employee named Tobias Neumann, argued that incorporating more data into the models could lead them to pick up noise and mistake it for an important signal.",
        "帖子的作者是一位名叫托比亚斯·纽曼（Tobias Neumann）的英格兰银行员工，他认为，在模型中使用过多数据可能导致噪声增加，弄错重要的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "As some information lapses over time, the world becomes more comprehensible because we become free to focus on what is important.",
        "随着一些信息被逐渐淡忘，周遭的世界也变得更容易理解，因为我们可以重新关注重要的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "By enabling monetary expansion, and thus causing the US dollar to depreciate, the logic goes, a floating exchange rate allows the prices of US exports to decline relative to its imports.",
        "照逻辑推导下去，通过货币扩张从而令美元贬值，浮动汇率使得美国出口价格相对于其进口价格下降。"
    ],
    [
        "When Daimler-Chrysler increased work hours from 35 to 40 hours in its research and development center, the dam broke and other bargaining agreements fell into line.",
        "戴姆勒-克莱斯勒将其研究和发展中心的工作时间从35小时提高至40小时，此先河一开，其他的谈判协议纷至沓来。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly 50,000 North Korean workers are employed in 123 factories that produce about $450 million worth of goods (mainly textiles, shoes, and household goods).",
        "在开城工业园区，大约5万名朝鲜工人在123加工厂工作，生产了大约4500亿美元的商品（主要是纺织品、鞋和家用物品）。"
    ],
    [
        "For human rights activists, it is ironic that an elected (but basically military-led) government that they oppose in principle should be undertaking reforms they have long advocated, but that elected civilian governments ignored.",
        "对于人权活动家们来说，具有讽刺意味的是一个他们在原则上反对的获选（但实质上是军方主导的）政府会实行他们长期倡导的改革，而一个获选的文官政府却对此置若罔闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Training for Gender Equality",
        "性别平等培训"
    ],
    [
        "Taking advantage of their ability to mass-produce and instantly disseminate ancient religious texts and Western-originating literature, the two camps battle for the hearts and minds of otherwise traditional societies.",
        "这两大阵营凭借它们大量制作并迅速传播古代宗教典籍和源自西方的文学的能力争夺者原本传统的社会的人心和思维。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where the US risks falling short.",
        "美国在这方面可能存在不足。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, doubts focus on the willingness of the Federal Reserve to remain “unconventional”; elsewhere, however, doubts about effectiveness concern central banks’ ability to formulate, communicate, and implement policy decisions.",
        "在美国，质疑集中在美联储保持“非常规（货币政策）”的意愿上； 而在其他地方，人们对有效性的怀疑集中在央行制定，沟通和执行政策决策的能力上。"
    ],
    [
        "The Holocaust was not the main issue at stake in the Nuremberg Trials.",
        "犹太人大屠杀并不是纽伦堡审判中最具争议的主要议题。"
    ],
    [
        "The result can only be deeper – and ultimately more painful – isolation.",
        "结果只能陷入更深——最终也更痛苦的孤立状态。"
    ],
    [
        "There has certainly been a lot of hype.",
        "毫无疑问，这其中宣传的成分很大。"
    ],
    [
        "His research programme consisted of introducing the imperfection of information and knowledge into economic theory, which he then reformulated, giving serious consideration to agents’ expectations.",
        "他的研究课题包括把信息和知识的不完整性引入经济理论，他对此又再次进行了系统论述，以及对于经纪人的预期给予高度重视。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB succeeded in this, with the euro’s value falling by some 25% – from $1.40 in the summer of 2014 to $1.06 by the fall of 2015.",
        "在这一点上，欧洲央行取得了成功，欧元贬值了25%左右——从2014年夏天的1欧元对1. 40美元下降到2015年秋天的1."
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the network provides power to achieve preferred outcomes with other players rather than over them.",
        "换句话说，。 只有在联合，而不是凌驾于其他参与者时，这些网络才能有能力实现意想中的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Not all the news is bleak.",
        "并非所有消息都是坏消息。"
    ],
    [
        "These changes are likely to make today’s attempts to find an equilibrium yuan-dollar exchange rate seem just as chimerical in hindsight as previous calculations of the yen-dollar equilibrium rate.",
        "这些转变可能使今天人们寻求平衡的人民币兑美元汇率的努力在事后看起来也许像以前对人民币兑美元平衡汇率的计算一样完全是一种妄想。"
    ],
    [
        "This appears to satisfy everyone, but it puts you in panic mode.",
        "这好像让大家都满意，但是却让你坐立不安。"
    ],
    [
        "Globally, some 200 million people are unemployed, up 27 million since 2008.",
        "全球而言，约有2亿人没有工作，2008年以来增加了2 700万。"
    ],
    [
        "So should we expect $50 to be the floor or the ceiling of the new trading range for oil?",
        "那么，50美元的价格将成为油价新波动区间的底部还是顶部？"
    ],
    [
        "Alpha, Beta, and Beyond",
        "阿尔法、贝塔以及兼得"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that the Greek debt overhang was acknowledged only after negotiations had collapsed exposes the deep systemic failures that have brought Greece and Europe to this point.",
        "希腊债务积压在谈判崩溃之后才获得承认，这一事实暴露出一个深刻的系统性缺陷，正是这一缺陷导致希腊和欧洲走到了今天这一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the Obama administration has made no effort to explain what it is doing and why, engaging instead in public handwringing over the complexities of the problem.",
        "与此同时，奥巴马政府没有进行任何努力解释它正在做什么、为什么要这样做，而是任由公众对问题的复杂性抓狂。"
    ],
    [
        "Restoring sustained growth requires real currency depreciation.",
        "要恢复经济的增长势头，就得让本币在实际上贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "If the US did not adjust, knowledgeable forecasters intoned, it would go from being the world’s largest creditor to its largest debtor.",
        "学富五车的预测者指出，如果美国不调整，它将从世界最大债权国变为最大债务国。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries (like Spain) have their own real estate crises.",
        "其他国家（例如西班牙）也各有各的地产危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Experience from successful health campaigns, such as eradicating polio or controlling Ebola, shows that while early progress can be achieved relatively easily, lasting results require enormous efforts and very accurate surveillance data.",
        "根除脊髓灰质炎和控制埃博拉等成功的卫生工作经验表明，尽管取得早期进展相对容易，但持续成果需要巨大的付出和非常准确的监控数据。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 20 years since Khomeini’s death, the composition of this political class has changed drastically.",
        "但在哈梅内伊去世 20 年后，这一政治阶级的组成成分已经发生了剧变。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, these countries can put in place the institutions, policies, and laws needed to ensure that the resources benefit all of their citizens.",
        "与此同时，这些国家可以实施所需的制度、政策和法律以确保资源的好处能被所有公民分享。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is probably yes, but the question lacks precision, and thus has limited utility.",
        "答案也许是肯定的，但这个问题问得不精确，因此意义有限。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Shrinking Trade Surplus",
        "收缩中的中国贸易顺差"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, either the regime will resort to brute force to suppress the protests, thus abandoning any pretense of democratic legitimacy in favor of de facto military dictatorship, or it will find it impossible to beat the subversive genie of democracy back into its bottle, and Iran will increasingly open up and reform itself.",
        "实际上伊朗政权或者借助暴力镇压抗议群众，并自此撕下民主合法性的伪装露出军事独裁的本来面目，若非如此，它将不可能降服颠覆性的民主妖怪，重新把它装回到瓶子里，伊朗也会慢慢走向开放和改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Kremlin-driven crisis would not be over.",
        "但克里姆林主导的危机绝不会就此结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The best way to make that point would be to revive the dormant debate about adopting narrow guidelines for military intervention, as recommended by my commission and Secretary-General Annan prior to the UN vote in 2005.",
        "明确这一点的最佳方式是重启陷入停滞的辩论，探讨2005年联合国投票前我所领导的委员会和秘书长安南共同提出的实行限制性军事干预行动的指导原则。"
    ],
    [
        "The Latin word for this ability was povertas, or “poverty” in English.",
        "这种能力在拉丁语中写作povertas，在英语中则对应“贫困”一词。"
    ],
    [
        "An Economic Agenda for Italy",
        "适合意大利的经济议程"
    ],
    [
        "And the SPD has thrown in the towel, vowing to spend the coming electoral term in opposition.",
        "SPD承认失败，宣布将在这个选举周期中成为反对党。"
    ],
    [
        "On the left side of the German political spectrum, the proposition that 8 May 1945 was a day of liberation remains unchallenged.",
        "在德国政坛的左派当中，关于把1945年5月8日看成解放日这一提法向来毋庸置疑。"
    ],
    [
        "For more than a year, the regime has been carrying out a purge of high-level officials, beginning with the execution of Kim’s uncle, Jang Song Taek, in 2013.",
        "一年多来，朝鲜政权一直在清洗高层官员，首先是2013年被清洗的金正恩的姑父张成泽。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, governments and non-governmental actors in the Arab world must sever all financial ties to terrorist groups.",
        "首先，阿拉伯世界的政府和非政府行动方必须切断一切与恐怖组织的财务关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Just this summer, India stood up to its muscle-flexing neighbor in a ten-week border standoff.",
        "今年夏天，印度与其耀武扬威的邻国进行了为期十周的边境对峙。"
    ],
    [
        "China might not agree, but such a move might at least return the issue to the back burner, while reinforcing Japan’s image as a peaceful power.",
        "中国可能不赞同这种做法，但此举可能至少能让领土争端回到次要位置，并同时巩固日本和平大国的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the labor problem is solvable, with millions of workers from former Soviet Central Asia – and perhaps from a gradually liberalizing North Korea – able to take part in the ambitious development that will be needed.",
        "即便是劳动力问题也是可以解决的，只要来自前苏联中亚地区——甚至可能逐渐自由化的朝鲜——的工人能够参与地区开发所需要的雄心勃勃的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "They argue, further, that it is too complicated to respect individuals’ preferences, too difficult to tell them how their data is being used, and pointless to treat them as individuals.",
        "他们还提出尊重个人偏好太过复杂、履行信息应用告知义务过于繁琐，以一对一方式处理个人隐私是毫无意义的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the impending shifts in Britain’s politics and its EU relations are bound to draw attention to the economy’s extreme dependence on foreign finance.",
        "但英国政坛及其与欧盟关系即将发生的改变必然会引起人们关注英国经济对外部融资的极端依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not just the new US leader who will inherit a changed world.",
        "但并非只有美国新领导人面临着变化的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Capital-account liberalization and renminbi internationalization invite potentially volatile cross-border capital flows, which could, for example, trigger rapid currency appreciation.",
        "资本账户自由化和人民币国际化会带来潜在波动剧烈的跨境资本流，可能（比如）引发货币迅速升值。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is the simple tactic of restricting your options in advance, when you have the strength.",
        "也可以使用简单的策略——限制你的未来选择，如果你足够强大的话。"
    ],
    [
        "And, after all, the World Bank is a donor institution.",
        "归根结底，世界银行是一个依赖捐赠的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "After walking several miles to get her count checked, she arrived at the clinic only to find its testing machine broken.",
        "她跋涉数英里去检查CD4 辅助性T细胞，到了才发现测试机器坏掉了。"
    ],
    [
        "The encyclical’s title refers to the Canticle of the Sun, St. Francis’s song of praise to God for all creation – the foremost expression of environmental holism within the Roman Catholic tradition.",
        "方济各通谕的标题参考了圣方济各歌颂创建一切的上帝的《太阳颂》（Canticle of the Sun）——这也是罗马天主教传统中最重要的环境整体论表述。"
    ],
    [
        "Would dispensing aid by making cash transfers directly to the poorest work better?",
        "直接向最贫困人口发钱来提供援助是否更好呢？"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, those that never earn – or fritter away – such a reputation can seriously endanger their own interests, jeopardizing trade, tourism, foreign investment, political support in international forums and negotiations, and the security of their own nationals abroad.",
        "相反，从未获得或者浪费这一形象的国家可能严重损害其自身利益，拖累贸易、旅游、外国投资、国际论坛和谈判中的政治支持以及本国国民的海外安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Our fixation with the future of global structures and systems is evident everywhere – in the news and at conferences, on bestseller lists, even in popular television shows.",
        "我们对全球结构和体系未来的执着随处可见——这种执着不仅存在于新闻会议、畅销书排行榜，甚至存在于热播的电视节目里。"
    ],
    [
        "Far from being a voluntary association, the eurozone is now held together by harsh discipline; far from being an association of equals it has become a hierarchical arrangement in which the center dictates policy while the periphery is increasingly subordinated; instead of fraternity and solidarity, hostile stereotypes proliferate.",
        "欧盟各国已经不再平等，相反却等级森严，核心国家任意决定政策，而外围国家只能俯首听命。 联盟各国已不再团结友爱，而是相互间充满了敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "The scope for fiscal stimulus is more limited than in 2009, but countries with sufficient fiscal room and available financing should maintain spending levels and preserve critical social and infrastructure programs.",
        "财政刺激余地比2009年更小了，但仍有充分空间并可以获得融资的国家应该维持支持水平，并坚持投资关键的社会和基础设施项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Unsurprisingly, high payroll taxes strained the capacity of working people and mounting non-wage labor costs eroded companies' international competitiveness.",
        "劳动者在高额所得税的压迫下不堪重负，日益增长的非薪成本也损害了企业的国际竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "Dreaming of a New Edo Era",
        "新江户时代之梦"
    ],
    [
        "But the economic-growth model that those reforms created was running out of steam.",
        "但江朱改革所形成的经济增长模式正在失去动力。"
    ],
    [
        "In this winner-take-all environment, only a small number of those who have taken programming courses will reap a majority of the rents.",
        "在这种赢者通吃的环境下，只有少数学了编程的人才会得到这种利润。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, unlike the World Trade Organization, whose dispute-settlement mechanism imposes penalties for abandoning negotiated reductions of trade barriers, the targets for emission reductions are not binding and enforceable commitments.",
        "比如，与世界贸易组织不同——世贸组织的争端解决机制可以对拒不执行商定的减少贸易壁垒措施的行为施以惩罚——排放削减并不具有约束性，也没有强制性义务。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, since the 1993 Oslo Accords the number of Jewish settlers in the occupied territories has doubled.",
        "事实上，自1993年奥斯陆协议签订以来，犹太定居者在被占领区的数目已经增加了一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Vital French Connection",
        "欧洲的关键性法国路线"
    ],
    [
        "Retreating into unilateralism, ultra-nationalism, or the politics of identity will produce nothing but a bitter, fragmented, parochial, and dangerous world.",
        "陷入单边主义、极端民族主义或身份政治只能让世界更苦涩、更分列、更狭隘、更危险。"
    ],
    [
        "The first hurdle has been overcome.",
        "第一个障碍已经被克服。"
    ],
    [
        "Ideally, the two governments would work together to negotiate mutually beneficial trade and investment agreements, with sensitivity to the challenges faced by both sides.",
        "理想的情况是两国政府合作协商双赢贸易和投资协定，对双方均面临的挑战保持敏锐。"
    ],
    [
        "The withdrawal of Britain’s Paddy Ashdown as a candidate for the post of UN envoy in Afghanistan means that the international community still has some way to go before it speaks with one voice in that country.",
        "撤回英国的阿什顿为联合国阿富汗特使侯选人的任命意味着国际社会在那个陷入黑暗的国家将开始用同一种声音说话还有待时日。"
    ],
    [
        "In becoming the poster girl for a re-branded continuation of the Bush administration, Palin is showing herself to have much in common with glossy faux-populists like Eva Peron or Denmark’s anti-immigrant leader Pia Kjærsgaard.",
        "在成为只不过是换上另一张标签的布什政府的延续的海报女郎时，佩林显示出她自己与贝隆夫人或者丹麦的反移民运动领袖柯丝高这些老于世故的伪民粹主义者有相当多的共同点。"
    ],
    [
        "With advanced economies struggling to avoid financial collapse, escape recession, reduce unemployment, and restore growth, central banks are being called upon to address, sometimes simultaneously, growing imbalances.",
        "发达国家挣扎着避免金融崩溃、摆脱衰退、降低失业和重塑增长，有时人们呼吁央行同时纠正日益严重的失衡问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The US economy’s distinctive features for at least a decade prior to the crisis that began in 2008 were an unsustainably high level of consumption, owing to an illusory wealth effect, under-investment (including in the public sector), and savings that fell short of the investment deficiency.",
        "在2008年危机爆发的前十年中，美国经济有一个显著特征，那就是消费水平达到了不可持续的高度，原因是财富效应幻觉、投资不足（包括公共部门投资）以及比投资不足还要严重的储蓄不足。"
    ],
    [
        "The first order of business is to boost investment, thereby restoring robust long-term growth.",
        "首要任务的提振投资，从而重塑强劲的长期增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Naturally, the Chinese companies that provide most of the tools used to create and host this content have censorship built into their software, management structure, and business models.",
        "很自然地，提供大多数用来制造这些内容并提供主机服务的中国公司们把审查内置到其软件、管理结构以及商业模式之内。"
    ],
    [
        "It is, in fact, pure stupidity to believe that France is trying to restore its defunct empire.",
        "事实上，相信法国试图利用这些事件重建其往日帝国是极端愚蠢的。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent panic over the renminbi’s depreciation highlights another compelling reason for collective action.",
        "近期对人民币贬值的恐慌也点出了另一个令人信服的集体行动理由。"
    ],
    [
        "But volatility has risen, as has cross-market contagion. Instability in one market carries over into others.",
        "光速的交易会带给我们自由市场的天堂吗？"
    ],
    [
        "And, without a return to growth, its debt burden will remain unsustainable.",
        "而不能重回增长之路，希腊的债务负担就不可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "The Lethal Deferral of Greek Debt Restructuring",
        "希腊债务重组的致命延迟"
    ],
    [
        "Gender inequality begins in the womb.",
        "性别不平等从子宫里就开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "The invasion of Afghanistan could be justified on the grounds that the Taliban provided Bin Laden and Al Qaeda with a secure training ground. Invading Iraq could not be similarly justified.",
        "塔利班为本·拉登和基地组织提供了安全的培训基地，美国能以此作为入侵阿富汗的理由，入侵伊拉克却并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The other is the 40th anniversary of Henry Kissinger’s secret mission to Beijing, a turning point in the Cold War and the first step on China’s road to modernization – but at the time a huge shock to Asia, particularly Japan.",
        "其次，亨利·基辛格秘密访华40周年纪念也即将到来，当年基辛格的访问成为了冷战的一个转折点，也是中国迈向现代化的第一步——同时也让整个亚洲，尤其是是日本，大为震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "Sub-Saharan Africa and the world’s other poorest regions have recorded significantly more than 2% annual population growth in recent years, whereas the demographic trend in the advanced economies of Europe and Asia has been flat or declining",
        "撒哈拉以南非洲地区和世界其他最贫困地区近年来已经实现超过2%的年人口增长，而欧洲和亚洲先进经济体的人口基本呈平稳或下降趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "But will the downturn also produce a deeper shift in the values of consumers?",
        "但经济低迷会让消费者的价值观也产生更深的变化吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In February, I participated in seminars in Yangon (Rangoon) and the recently constructed capital, Naypyidaw, organized by one of the country’s leading economists, U Myint.",
        "2月份，我参加了缅甸知名经济学家吴敏丹（U Myint）在仰光和新建首都内比都举行的讨论会。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – High inflation is threatening social stability in China, soaring from 3.3% in March 2007 to 8.3% in March 2008.",
        "华盛顿--中国的通货膨胀率从2007年三月的3. 3%上升到2008年三月的8."
    ],
    [
        "Globalization makes it easier for terrorists to acquire the tools of their trade and to move about.",
        "全球化让恐怖分子更为容易地获得恐怖工具以及转移。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments, companies, investors, and individuals all need to shake off complacency and take a more disciplined approach to borrowing and lending to prepare for the end – or continuation – of QE.",
        "政府，企业，投资者和个人都必须摆脱这种安于现状的自满情绪并采取一个更加规范的放贷借贷手段来应对量化宽松政策的终结——或者是延续。"
    ],
    [
        "• Second, natural resource prices are volatile, and managing this volatility is hard.",
        "l 其二，自然资源的价格具有波动性，而对于这种波动性的管理又十分困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan was supposed to return its colonial possessions, but the United States took over the Senkaku Islands along with Okinawa, before returning both to Japan in 1972.",
        "日本本应把殖民地物归原主，但美国把冲绳连带着钓鱼岛一起接管了过来，又在1972年把这两者移交给日本。"
    ],
    [
        "Some reforms were “conservative” (or “neo-liberal”) and might not have been possible under politicians of the right.",
        "一些改革是“保守”（或“新自由主义”）的，绝不可能在右派政客手中实行。"
    ],
    [
        "Runners can travel and train individually on the best tracks.",
        "跑步选手可以单枪匹马地在最好的赛道上跑步和训练。"
    ],
    [
        "With powers to monetize government debts similar to those exercised by the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and the Bank of England, the ECB can now guarantee the eurozone against financial contagion.",
        "如今，欧洲央行拥有类似于美联储、日本银行和英格兰银行那样的政府债务货币化权力，可以保护欧元区免受金融传染影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In one fell swoop, Modi announced the abolition of one of the most important of these institutions: the powerful Planning Commission, which had continued to churn out Soviet-style “Five-Year Plans” and remained at the heart of a centralized resource-allocation process.",
        "莫迪赫然宣布将抛弃这些机构中最重要的之一：炙手可热的计划委员会（Planning Commission），该机构一直负责苏联式的“五年计划”，同时也是集中资源配置程序的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "And, judging from the tone of the other candidates, standing up for globalization constitutes electoral suicide in the current political climate.",
        "而从其他候选人的宣传口径看来，在当前的政治气候下鼓吹全球化简直就是选举自杀。"
    ],
    [
        "But people were willing to give him a chance.",
        "但是人们还是愿意给他一次机会。"
    ],
    [
        "We have found that trust causes a spike in oxytocin and begets reciprocation – the sharing of money.",
        "我们发现信任引起后叶催产素分泌的峰值并由此引发回报行为—分享金钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Financing Education for All",
        "为全民教育融资"
    ],
    [
        "Without a strategic re-orientation of its own – to remain passive is a risky endeavor in a rapidly changing world order – Israel would further delegitimize and isolate itself internationally.",
        "由于其本身并未实施任何战略转向——在一个急速变化的世界秩序中持有消极态度实在是个危险之举——以色列将进一步失去其存在合法性并在国际上孤立自己。"
    ],
    [
        "This goal explains another policy reversal as well.",
        "这一目的还解释了另一项政策变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Taylor maintained that he tried to tell the truth in his historical writing, he was quite ready to spin the facts for a good cause.",
        "Taylor）。 尽管泰勒在其历史写作中坚持试图述说真相，但他随时准备出于好意采取春秋笔法。"
    ],
    [
        "And there was the 2008 agreement to trade nuclear material and technology with India, despite its unwillingness to accept serious new disarmament or non-proliferation commitments.",
        "还有2008年同意与印度交易核材料和技术，尽管后者不愿接受严肃的新削减核武器和核不扩散承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, these countries have taken measures to safeguard the stability of their financial systems against volatile external shocks, strengthen financial supervision and regulation, and develop more effective macroeconomic frameworks, including better macro-prudential regulation and capital-control measures.",
        "从那时起，这些新兴国家采取措施维护金融体系稳定以对抗动荡的外部冲击，加强金融监管，并制定更有效的宏观经济框架，包括更好的宏观审慎监管和资本控制措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite some weaknesses (notably complacency and corruption), China’s system ensures orderly governance and development.",
        "尽管的确存在缺陷（尤其是自满和腐败），中国的制度能够确保有序的执政和发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Does charisma originate in the individual, in that person’s followers, or in the situation?",
        "这些魅力是来自于其个人，追随者，还是当时的特定情况？"
    ],
    [
        "This said, a US preventive strike at Iran’s nuclear-related installations is not in the interest of either country.",
        "就此而言，美国预防性打击伊朗与核武器有关的设施不符合任何一国的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "If investing is foremost about discounting future cash flows, it’s important to focus precisely on what will and will not affect those calculations.",
        "如果投资首先是对未来现金流的贴现，那么精准关注什么会影响这一计算、什么不会非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Understanding the Productivity Puzzle",
        "破解生产力难题"
    ],
    [
        "To pay for that without raising the deficit would require doubling the personal income tax.",
        "要想支付如此巨大的数额而不增加赤字，必须将个人所得税提高一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the long run, clean energy will be the only way to bring economic growth without doing irreparable environmental damage.",
        "但是，从长远来看，清洁能源是在不造成无可挽回的环境破坏的情况下带来经济增长的唯一的途径。"
    ],
    [
        "BUDAPEST – This month marks the 20th anniversary of the reburial of Imre Nagy, the leader of Hungary’s failed anti-Soviet revolution of 1956.",
        "布达佩斯-本月是1956年被镇压的的匈牙利反苏运动领导人伊姆雷·纳吉被重新安葬的20周年纪念。"
    ],
    [
        "This was reflected in the decision to suspend the “set aside” rule that requires a proportion of agricultural land to lie fallow.",
        "这反映在其停止“闲置”规则决定之上。 这一规则要求一定比例的农田休耕。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, given Sechin’s role in entrapping Ulyukaev, logic dictates that he should have been the first witness called.",
        "当然，鉴于谢钦在诱骗乌卢卡耶夫过程中所扮演的角色，逻辑要求他应当成为接到传唤的第一个证人。"
    ],
    [
        "I do not know how much Alex Salmond, the now-resigned Scottish Nationalist Party leader who pressed for the referendum, is responsible for the surge in his own party’s support; but I suspect that he may, alas, have galvanized all too much nationalist sentiment in England.",
        "我不知道敦促举行公投、现已辞职的苏格兰民为族党（Scottish Nationalist Party）领导人阿莱克斯·萨尔蒙德（Alex Salmond）在其政党支持率上升中居功几何； 但我怀疑，唉，他给英格兰带来了太多的民族主义情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Judicial, police, and intelligence cooperation should be the focal point for action.",
        "司法、警方、情报部门之间的合作应该是行动的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "Islamic fundamentalism – Islamism – has spread to all countries in which there are significant numbers of Muslims.",
        "伊斯兰的原教旨主义即伊斯兰教已经传遍了所有其绝大部分国民是伊斯兰教徒的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Gaza Shrugs",
        "加沙不领情"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, unless the stars realign, Trump’s firing of Comey may mark the beginning of nothing, or at least of nothing bad for the president.",
        "相比之下，除非天上的星星重新列队，特朗普解雇科米也许不会标志着任何事情的开始，至少不是什么对总统有害的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, a growing number of companies are offering a new commercial service: direct-to-consumer analysis of DNA for genealogical or medical purposes.",
        "与此同时，越来越多的公司在提供一项新的商业服务：面向消费者的出于血统和医疗目的的DNA分析。"
    ],
    [
        "Stunted growth due to malnutrition affects one in four children under the age of five.",
        "有四分之一的五岁以下儿童因营养不良导致发育迟缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Cairo remains restless, and the government fears another outpouring of support for democracy, as the judges have called for renewed nationwide demonstrations.",
        "可是开罗仍不太平，政府害怕会引发新一轮支持民主的运动，因为法官们已经呼吁公众发起全国性的示威游行。"
    ],
    [
        "And in the US, even if President Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress agree on a budget plan that avoids the looming “fiscal cliff,” spending cuts and tax increases will invariably lead to some drag on growth in 2013 – at least 1% of GDP.",
        "而在美国，即使总统奥巴马和国会共和党在预算计划问题上达成一致，避免跌入“财政悬崖”，支出削减和税收增加也必将拖累2013年的增长至少1%的GDP。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, both the EFSF and the ECB ultimately rely on the same eurozone resources for their financial strength.",
        "最后，说到底，EFSF和欧洲央行都得依赖相同的欧元区资源来保证财政实力。"
    ],
    [
        "This inverted pyramid of debt collapsed when the Fed finally put a halt to the spending spree by hiking up interest rates.",
        "当美联储最终以升息的动作停止了支出狂欢后，债务的倒金字塔崩塌了。"
    ],
    [
        "They fear the future, because the future means either market-oriented reforms or further economic and political downgrading, both of which are seen as unacceptable, if only because they clash with French self-esteem.",
        "他们害怕未来，因为未来意味着不是以市场为导向的改革就是经济和政治地位继续下降，只要它们严重挫伤了法国人的自尊，这两者看来都是难以接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "Herbert Terrace, the Columbia University psychologist who was directing the project, decided to end it and sent Nim back to the primate facility in Oklahoma.",
        "当时主持这个项目的哥伦比亚大学心理学家赫尔伯特·特雷斯决定终止这个项目并将尼姆送回俄克拉荷马的庇护中心。"
    ],
    [
        "But the process points to a continuation of the tradition whereby most ministers are appointed on the basis of their loyalty to the Gandhi family rather than their merit and accomplishments.",
        "但这一过程延续了一个传统，即大部分部长被任命的原因并不是是否能够胜任和所取得的成就，而是他们是否对甘地家族忠诚。"
    ],
    [
        "Bargaining over the economic surplus is often open-ended, especially if competition is weak.",
        "对经济盈利的讨价还价不受限制，在竞争较弱的情况下更是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, governments must invest in nutrition through budgets, introduce mandatory fortification of staple foods, curb “junk food,” and improve quality control.",
        "特别是，政府必须通过预算、引入强制性的强化主食、抑制“垃圾食品”以及改善质量控制等方式投资于营养。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, from 2000 to 2014, by enacting a variety of energy policies – from broad climate action plans to mandated renewable-energy standards – 33 states cut carbon dioxide emissions while expanding their economies.",
        "类似地，从2000年到2014年，33个州实行了各自的能源政策——有的制定了广泛的气候行动计划，有的建立了可再生能源标准——既减少了二氧化碳排放，也扩张了经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Are Housing Prices a House of Cards?",
        "房屋价格是不是变化无常？"
    ],
    [
        "Stronger regulation means legally binding, globally applicable rules and standards.",
        "更严格的监管意味着具有法律约束力并且全球适用的规则和标准。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, most of us are woefully inadequate to practice the venerable and vital art of baloney detection (or, more politely, critical thinking), which is so necessary in modern society.",
        "而另一方面，绝大多数人都不具备施行谬论检验（更礼貌的说法是批判性思维）这门古老而重要艺术的能力，而这种能力在现代社会中是如此重要。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Port of Hamburg has a digital system to reduce water, rail, and ground traffic congestion.",
        "汉堡港也采用了一套数字系统以降低水路、铁路和地面交通的拥挤程度。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why we have appointed a Minister of State for Tolerance.",
        "我们因此任命了一位宽容部部长。"
    ],
    [
        "The end result can be collapse into a kind of anarchy, as in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Somalia.",
        "最终结果就是社会崩溃到无政府状态形式，就像利比里亚、塞拉利昂以及索马里那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Arab societies, particularly those in turmoil, are regressing to what another French social theorist, Émile Durkheim, called “mechanistic solidarity.”",
        "阿拉伯社会，尤其是动荡中的阿拉伯社会，正日渐回归到另一位法国社会理论家涂尔干所谓的“机械性团结”之中。"
    ],
    [
        "This, too, complicates the public-debt dynamics and impedes the restoration of public-debt sustainability.",
        "这也增加了公债动态（ public debt dynamics ）的复杂性，妨碍了重建公债可持续性的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, even as the country’s demographic dividend dissolves, its carrying capacity (the size of the population the environment can sustain) is being exhausted – a situation that high levels of pollution are certainly not helping.",
        "此外，即使人口红利消失，其承载力（环境可以维持的人口规模）正在耗竭——显然高污染进一步加剧了这一状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Suppressing consumption thus suffocates future growth, and the share of household consumption in GDP has declined from 67% in the mid-1990’s to below 50% in recent years, with most of the decline reflecting the distortions created by government policies.",
        "因此，压抑消费会拖累未来增长，家庭消费占GDP的比重从20世纪90年代中期的67%下降到了最近几年的不到50%，其中大部分可以用政府政策所导致的扭曲来解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Prebisch’s preferred policy response, protectionism, proved disastrous for the many Latin American and African countries that heeded him.",
        "普里比时所喜爱的政策对应是保护主义。 对于许多听取他的意见的拉美国家和非洲国家而言，这一政策危害不浅。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, like Nixon, he was tripped up only because his lies were recorded, in this case by the US intelligence agencies.",
        "但就像尼克松一样，只是因为谎言被录下来才导致他被扳倒，不过这一次扳倒他的是美国情报机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Historians and others who venture to break the silence are lambasted as traitors to the black cause.",
        "而那些试图打破沉默的历史学家和个人则被视为黑人种族的叛徒。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that a key motivation behind the official behavior that drove Rajan away was the ruling party’s opposition to his hawkish stance on inflation, it seems likely that investor confidence will eventually take a hit, though it may temporarily be masked by the announcement on relaxed foreign-investment norms.",
        "鉴于赶走拉詹之举背后的官方重要意图是执政党反对他对通胀的鹰派立场，由此看来尽管有放松外资管制公告的暂时掩盖，但投资者信心将很有可能最终遭受打击。"
    ],
    [
        "The drug trade exemplifies the far-reaching impact of domestic instability.",
        "毒品交易就是该国国内不稳定造成的深远影响的例证。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The United States continues to recover from its deepest economic slump since the Great Depression, but the pace of recovery remains frustratingly slow.",
        "伯克利—美国一直处在大萧条以来最深经济衰退之后的复苏中，但复苏的速度仍然低得令人沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the asteroid that exploded above Siberia in 1908 with the force of a hydrogen bomb might have killed millions of people had it exploded above a major city.",
        "例如，1908年在西伯利亚上空爆炸的小行星具有一颗氢弹的威力，如果在一座大城市上空爆炸，就有可能杀死数以百万计的人口。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – In the last year, we endured a remarkable experience; after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, financial markets actually collapsed and required artificial life support.",
        "纽约——去年，我们有了一段刻骨铭心的经历，随着2008年9月雷曼兄弟的破产，全球金融系统实际上已经崩盘，仅仅靠着人工输血才勉强维持。"
    ],
    [
        "It is impossible to meet all of the following EU goals: internal freedom of movement, a welfare state, and inclusion of migrants in host countries’ welfare systems.",
        "欧盟的以下目标不可能同时满足：内部迁徙自由、福利国家和让移民融入东道国福利体系。"
    ],
    [
        "The report shows that healthy fish stocks could provide significantly greater amounts of resources than they currently do.",
        "报告表明，健康的鱼种存量能够以远比目前更大的规模提供资源。 。"
    ],
    [
        "By attacking one Muslim country after another, the US and its allies have created the impression that Islam itself is the enemy, leading inexorably to the “clash of civilizations” that America says it wants to avoid.",
        "由于一个接一个地攻击穆斯林国家，美国及其盟友给世界造成了这样一种印象，即伊斯兰教本身是他们的敌人，从而无情地导致美国口口声声想要避免的“文明的冲突”。"
    ],
    [
        "Reducing trade barriers is said to promote economic efficiency and specialization; but it is also supposed to increase exports and create jobs by increasing access to trade partners’ markets.",
        "但同时也会通过来不断进占贸易伙伴的市场来增加出口和创造就业。"
    ],
    [
        "It should also be noted that an atmospheric weather pattern known as a “block,” a persistent area of high pressure that may have led to record melting in Greenland, was most likely the reason that Sandy moved inland rather than out to sea.",
        "还有一点需要提起注意，那就是名为“阻塞”（block）的持续性高压大气模式有可能导致格陵兰岛冰盖出现创纪录融化，也最有可能因此导致桑迪没有移向海平面，而是进入内陆。"
    ],
    [
        "As a recent FMLC paper showed, the wave of new regulations implemented since the global financial crisis – many of which were poorly planned or inconsistent across countries – has left a jumbled landscape of legal uncertainties.",
        "最新的FMLC论文表明，全球金融危机爆发以来所实施的新监管潮——其中许多措施根本没有经过很好的计划，或者在国与国之间不具备一致性——带来了非常混乱的法律不确定局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Even today, the leading Republican presidential candidates suggest that the rule of law is an unaffordable luxury in the battle with al-Qaeda.",
        "即使今天，主要的共和党总统候选人表示，在与基地组织的斗争中，法治是一个无法承受的奢侈品。"
    ],
    [
        "Many now believe that the recent broad-based growth slowdown in emerging economies is not cyclical, but a reflection of underlying structural flaws.",
        "如今，许多人相信最近的信心经济体广泛增长减速不是周期性的，而是基础性结构缺陷的反映。"
    ],
    [
        "If the United Kingdom does proceed in this unilateral way, what would the consequences be for London’s banking industry?",
        "如果英国确实单方面实施了这一措施，对伦敦金融业来说会有什么样的后果呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The Council for Medical Research sent out a notification to all clinics, instructing them not to “entertain” foreign couples – including non-resident Indian citizens and people of Indian origin.",
        "医学研究委员会向所有诊所发出通知，要求他们不要“接待”外国夫妇——包括没有居民身份的印度公民和印度裔民众。"
    ],
    [
        "Transcripts were not released in real time on subsequent days, and they omitted some crucial details (for example, Bo claimed that the Party’s representatives threatened to execute his wife and prosecute his son if he refused to cooperate).",
        "之后几天的庭审记录不再实时发布，并且省略掉某些关键的细节（比方说薄声称检方曾威胁如果他拒绝合作，就要判他的妻子死刑并起诉他的儿子）。"
    ],
    [
        "The question now is whether this strong performance will continue in 2018.",
        "而如今的问题这在于：这个强劲表现能否在2018年延续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "The Cultural Revolution tore China apart, but it returned Mao to supreme power and allowed him to purge the pragmatists.",
        "文化大革命造成中国分裂，但却让毛重新回到权力的顶峰，可以放手清洗实用主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial institutions that survived the crises went on to play a crucial role in pushing further development, and they had enhanced reputations because they withstood a crisis.",
        "成功度过这些危机的金融机构再接再厉，在推动进一步的发展中发挥了关键性的作用，并且因为经受住了危机的考验而获得了更高的声誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Their design for constitutional democracy ensured, in James Madison’s words, that ambition would counter ambition and “the interests of the man” would be “connected to the constitutional rights of the place.”",
        "用詹姆斯·麦迪逊的话来说，他们设计的宪政民主制度用野心来对抗野心，“人民的利益”将“与当地的宪法权利联系起来”。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, if the world does simply muddle through, as seems likely, it could, within three or four years, face a more bearish outlook.",
        "换句话说，如果世界只能做到差强人意——看起来可能性相当大——不出三四年也许就得面临利空情景。"
    ],
    [
        "But periods of global economic expansion have virtually always been characterized by symbiotic imbalances.",
        "但全球经济扩张期几乎总是伴随着失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "On all fronts, there has not been much progress.",
        "在各条战线上都没有什么进展。"
    ],
    [
        "With the US market close by, Haiti could achieve a remarkable recovery of exports of horticulture, fruits, and other agricultural products, as well as tourism and light manufactured goods.",
        "通过邻近的美国市场，海地有机会实现园艺、水果和其他农产品、以及旅游业和轻工业产品出口的极大复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor should we worry a great deal that some people are richer than others.",
        "我们也不应当担心某些人比其他人更为富有。"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, many German policymakers have been misguided in their obsession with fiscal austerity, and with their criticism of the European Central Bank’s monetary-policy approach.",
        "诚然，德国许多决策者都会被对财政紧缩的痴迷所误导，他们更愿意批评欧洲央行的货币政策措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the People’s Bank of China, was among the first to question the dollar’s role, some seven years ago, and China has been working steadily to internationalize the renminbi.",
        "中国人民银行行长周小川自己就是七年前质疑美元地位的第一批人之一，同时中国也不断致力于人民币国际化。"
    ],
    [
        "The title harks back to the book of Job and recalls Herman Melville's Moby Dick.",
        "片名让人想起《约伯记》和赫曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸记》。"
    ],
    [
        "And I think we in South Africa have not done badly; at least that is what the rest of the world seems to think of our transformation and the TRC process.",
        "而且我认为南非在这方面做得不坏，至少世界其它国家对我们的改造与和解努力都比较认同。"
    ],
    [
        "Put Up or Shut Up",
        "兑现承诺或闭嘴"
    ],
    [
        "Tax avoidance by multinational companies is draining developing-country incomes, limiting their ability to invest in education and infrastructure.",
        "跨国公司的避税行为正快速榨干发展中国家的收入，令发展中国家无力投资于教育和基础设施建设。"
    ],
    [
        "The AJA embodied some of what Sperling describes in his book: subsidies for hiring, wage insurance, and job training, as well as support for education and early learning.",
        "美国就业法案体现了一些斯珀林在他书描述的理念：提供雇佣津贴，工资保险和职业培训以及对教育和早期学习的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s rapid growth has been achieved at extremely high cost.",
        "中国为实现高速增长付出了昂贵的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare – one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled. The problem is that the debtor countries feel all the pain, while the creditors impose the misconceptions and taboos.",
        "我则称之为噩梦，它带来了巨大的痛苦和罪过，而若维持这一噩梦的误解和禁忌被破除，它本可以轻松避免。"
    ],
    [
        "Greater financial inclusiveness promises a more cohesive society and more balanced growth and development.",
        "金融包容度的增加有利于社会更加团结、增长和发展更加平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, Chinese aid is dispensed rather quickly and unceremoniously, lacking the burdensome fanfare of lengthy negotiations and voluminous project documents, a practice many scholars and practitioners term “checkbook diplomacy.”",
        "第三，中国的援助谈判较少繁文缛节，不像其他援助项目那样充斥着冗长的谈判和堆积如山的项目文件，而后者被许多学者和项目执行者讥之为“支票外交”。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK’s supplies and money were running low, but Roosevelt knew that the US Congress would never simply loan Britain the money it needed.",
        "英国的物资和钱正在快速耗尽，但罗斯福知道美国国会永远不会将所需的贷款提供给英国。"
    ],
    [
        "Ayatollah Khamenei, who is also the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, oversees the agencies that will run the election: the Guardian Council and the Ministry of Interior, which supervise the electoral process, and the Basij militia and Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), which unofficially control the ballot-boxes and the vote-counting process.",
        "担任军事力量总司令的阿亚图拉·哈梅内伊同时还监督着举行选举的机构：监护委员会和内政部 （它们监督选举的程序），还有“巴西吉”民兵部队和革命卫队（IRGC）(它们非官方地控制着票箱和计票程序)。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is this characteristic of the Chinese system that should give other countries the greatest pause.",
        "事实上，这一中国制度的特征正是其他国家最应该避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "The second, however, is probably still beyond its reach.",
        "但是，第二个条件仍无法满足。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that stronger economic – and, thus, employment – growth would reduce the number of workers engaged in independent work.",
        "这表明，经济增长——从而就业走强将减少参与独立工作的人数。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Khamenei might well demand that this guarantee cover Farsi broadcasts, financial and political support to opposition groups, and censorship of the Internet.",
        "事实上，哈梅内伊可能还会要求同样的保证适用于波斯语广播、对反对派团体的经济和政治支持以及对互联网的审查。"
    ],
    [
        "They saw their current leaders as part of the problem, not part of the solution.",
        "他们认为现任领导者是问题的一部分，而不是解决方案的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a fundamental turnaround in American political consciousness, the unilateralist amnesia of US foreign policy will have far-reaching consequences and leave a huge vacuum in the global system.",
        "如果美国的政治意识不能产生一个根本的转变，美国外交政策的单边主义的遗忘症会产生一个深远的后果，并且给全球体系带来一个巨大的真空。"
    ],
    [
        "While the gap varies considerably among regions, it is particularly wide in Africa and Asia.",
        "尽管不同区域差异很大，但非洲及亚洲地区的资金缺口尤为严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though Bitcoin transactions require an exorbitant amount of electricity, with some improvements, Bitcoin might still beat the 2% fees the big banks charge on credit and debit cards.",
        "即使比特币交易需要大量电力，但只要稍加改进，比特币就能击败大银行对信用卡和借记卡所收的2%的费用。"
    ],
    [
        "Don’t go there in the first place: avoid whatever it is – whether external pressure under the gold standard, asset-price bubbles, or leverage-and-panic cycles such as that of 2003-2009 – that creates the desire to deleverage.",
        "首先要免于不如萧条：不管是什么萧条——不管是金本位下的外部压力、资产泡沫，还是类似2003—2009年的杠杆-恐慌循环——只要它会造成去杠杆化的渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "This would not solve the CO2 problem in the long run, but at least it would postpone the catastrophe.",
        "这在长远上不会解决二氧化碳问题，但是至少会推迟灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "And what about the Third Way?",
        "那么第三条道路呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Since China reformed its exchange-rate regime in July 2005, the renminbi has risen 32% relative to the dollar and about 30% in inflation-adjusted terms against a broad basket of currencies.",
        "自从中国在2005年7月实施汇率调控机制改革以来，人民币兑美国升值了32%，并在去除通胀因素后对一揽子货币升值了约30%。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – Despite the impression given by massive unity rallies throughout France, the recent attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo does not mean that freedom of expression is under any serious threat in Western Europe.",
        "马德里——尽管法国各地大规模团结集会给人留下了相反的印象，但最近针对讽刺杂志《查理周刊》的袭击并不意味着西欧的言论自由正面临任何严重威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "These deficiencies became accentuated by the decline in the price of oil.",
        "这些缺点随着石油价格的下跌而越发严重。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinians seem to recognize Netanyahu’s variety of sumud for what it is.",
        "巴勒斯坦人似乎认清了内塔尼亚胡各种持久战策略的本质是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Historical precedents played a part in the Iraq decision, not least because President Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, cited them often.",
        "历史的先例在伊拉克问题的决策中起了很大作用，一个重要原因就是布什总统的国家安全顾问康多莉扎·赖斯不停地向人们灌输。"
    ],
    [
        "It even began to tax exports in order to reduce the trade surplus.",
        "国家甚至开始征收出口税，以减少贸易顺差。"
    ],
    [
        "The post-referendum turmoil has highlighted for people in Britain just what they stand to lose by leaving the EU.",
        "公投后的乱象向英国人民突出地显示了脱离欧盟将失去什么。"
    ],
    [
        "This will not be easy or quick, but it beats having corrosively high levels of inequality of opportunity, as well as a large segment of the population dependent on transfers.",
        "这样做不容易，更需要花费时间，但总比让机会不平等性高到十分危险的程度或让一大部分人口需要依赖转移支付过活强。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe it will.",
        "我相信会。"
    ],
    [
        "A new MGI report finds that under a moderate scenario for the speed and breadth of automation, about 15% of the global workforce, or 400 million workers, could be displaced between now and 2030.",
        "一份新的麦肯锡全球研究报告发现在自动化发展速度和广度相对温和的情况下，从现在起到2030年，全球大约15%的劳动力（约4亿人）可能会失去工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to this a 30% increase in prices for prescription drugs, and it is easy to see why Greek society is unraveling.",
        "再加上处方药价格上升了30%，使得希腊社会解体的原因变得显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "The last key indicator is the monthly Ifo Business Climate Index in Germany, which contains useful cyclical data for Europe overall, owing to Germany’s centrality in the continent’s economy.",
        "最后一个关键指标是每月公布的德国Ifo商业气候指数，它是体现欧洲整体情况的有用的周期性数据，因为德国欧洲经济当之无愧的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "It has been said – without exaggeration – that Pakistan faces an existential threat.",
        "有人说巴基斯坦正面临着现实威胁，此言一点不虚。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, America’s current-account position strengthened despite the dollar’s appreciation in the face of safe-haven demand.",
        "事实上尽管美元在避险需求下升值，美国经常账户状况却得到了巩固。"
    ],
    [
        "The car-sharing service Uber, for example, has not only changed how people get around; it also appears to be leading a retail revolution in which goods and services are “Uberized\" – customers pay to use them, not own them.",
        "比如，租车服务商Uber不但改变了人们的出行方式； 也在引领一场零售业革命，商品和服务可以“Uber化”——客户花钱使用而不拥有它们。"
    ],
    [
        "Creative thinking among cyber attackers demands creative thinking among those of us fending them off.",
        "网络攻击者的创新思维要求我们这些网络捍卫者也必须具备创新思维。"
    ],
    [
        "The aftermath has seen a new round of soul searching, with Europeans mulling over the European Union’s institutional failures and sheer incompetence, not to mention the existential challenge it currently faces.",
        "结果引发了欧洲人新一轮自我反省，他们认真思索欧盟的制度缺陷和能力不足，更不用说它目前正在面临的生存挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "This seemingly endless tension has been frustrating – and worrying – American leaders for years, especially as it has undermined the United States’ strategic “pivot” toward Asia.",
        "多年来，这一看似没完没了的紧张态势令美国领导人感到沮丧，也感到担心，特别是这破坏了美国的亚洲战略“支点”。"
    ],
    [
        "Political leaders need not be economic geniuses to understand the advice that they hear, and many are both intelligent and well-read.",
        "政治家们无需具备经济学家的头脑就能理解他们所听到的建议，更可况其中许多人还是博学多才，饱读诗书之辈。"
    ],
    [
        "Medical colleges must be recognized by the MCI, which has seen fit to permit only 381 to exist.",
        "医学院必须获得印度医学委员会承认，而该委员会只承认381家医学院。"
    ],
    [
        "To help these most vulnerable communities, it is essential for the world to devise a plan of action to limit the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs).",
        "为了帮助受灾最严重的地区，全世界必须制定一套行动计划来限制温室气体（GHG）的排放。 IPCC对几种情况做了评估，其中一种可以把未来气温的升高限制在2."
    ],
    [
        "International affairs and international organizations largely operate under mid-twentieth-century arrangements, which has two serious shortcomings.",
        "国际事务和国际组织大多按照二十世纪中叶的安排在运转，这里存在两大严重缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "In general, trade rules and agreements compound these problems by putting the interests of investors over those of ordinary citizens.",
        "总体而言，贸易规则和协定将投资者的利益置于普通公民之前，这进一步复杂化了这些问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Yanukovych, failing to crush them with his security forces, simply fled.",
        "亚努科维奇用安全部队镇压示威，但以失败告终，于是便一走了之。"
    ],
    [
        "This reasoning is strange, at best.",
        "这其中的逻辑可谓怪异。"
    ],
    [
        "The son of a Dutch father and an Italian mother, born in Italy’s German-speaking South Tyrol, Jongen spoke near-perfect English.",
        "琼根有一位荷兰籍的父亲和一位意大利籍的母亲，讲着几乎无懈可击的英语，出生在意大利讲德语的南蒂罗尔州。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, in 2006 Jules Pretty of the University of Essex found that this mode of production can increase harvest yields by 79%.",
        "事实上，2016年，埃塞克斯大学的朱尔斯·普里蒂（Jules Pretty）发现该生产模式能够让产量提高79%。"
    ],
    [
        "The state collects additional VAT from Micro (at a loss of corporate taxes that Micro cannot pay anyway); Macro enjoys the benefits of seemingly higher turnover; and the gas-station owner reduces his losses from converting FE into BE.",
        "国家从微小企业身上征收额外的增值税（以损失企业营业税为代价，反正微小企业也无力支付）； 大型企业享受看似较高的营业额所带来的好处；"
    ],
    [
        "According to Kamran Shafi, a retired Pakistani army officer, Pakistan “has lost the trust of most, if not all of our friends.” Indeed, even Pakistan’s “brotherly” Saudi Arabia has extradited to India the man blamed by the Indians as one of the masterminds of the horrific terror attacks on Mumbai in November 2008.",
        "据退役巴基斯坦高级军官卡姆兰·沙菲（Kamran Shafi）说，巴基斯坦“即便没有彻底名誉扫地，但至少已经失去了绝大多数友邦的信任，”事实上，即便是巴基斯坦的“兄弟国家”沙特阿拉伯都将被指控策划了2008年11月孟买恐怖袭击的嫌疑人引渡到了印度。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasing the number of insured by 35 million and broadening protection for some who are now insured implies increased demand for health care, which could raise the cost of care paid for by the government as well as by private health-care buyers.",
        "增加3500万被保险人并扩大某些现有被保险人的保障范围意味着增大对医疗服务的需求，这可能增加政府和私人医疗服务购买者为医疗服务所支付的费用。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the crisis will be severe, not only because prices for the major Russian export commodities – oil, gas, and metal – have plummeted, but also because the government, which believed in its boundless force and wisdom, now seems inadequate to the challenges that Russia faces.",
        "但是，当前危机的严重不仅是因为俄罗斯主要出口商品——石油，天然气以及金属——的价格大幅下跌，而且是因为相信自己具有无穷力量和智慧的政府，现在似乎也无力应对俄罗斯所面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the current constitution, local governments have the right to exploit (and profit directly from) oil extracted from new sites beneath their territory, while only a share of the income from existing sites must go to Iraq’s central government.",
        "按照目前的宪法，地方政府有权享受所辖领土上发现新油田带来的收益，与此同时，只有现存油田的一部分收入必须上缴伊拉克中央政府。"
    ],
    [
        "At the London Conference, world leaders should support the counter-narcotics strategy recently approved by the Afghan government, which would reduce economic dependence on opium production, punish traffickers and dealers, and provide sustainable economic alternatives for poppy farmers.",
        "世界领导人在伦敦会议上应当支持由阿富汗政府最近批准的反毒品战略。 这一战略将减少对鸦片生产的经济依赖，惩罚毒贩和经销人，并且为罂粟种植农提供可持续的经济性替代。"
    ],
    [
        "Preventing demagogues from ranting about Muslims or multi-culturalists will not deter a future Anders Breivik.",
        "防止政治煽动家攻击穆斯林或者多文化主义者无法阻止下一个安德斯·布雷维克行凶。"
    ],
    [
        "Most glaringly, the question of how to allocate the costs of some member countries’ unsustainable debt overhang has not been adequately addressed.",
        "尤其突出的是，为了治理某些成员国的过高债务，其成本如何分摊这个问题没有得到妥善解决。"
    ],
    [
        "He did not even receive a trial, but was given a 21-month sentence by local officials for the same offense as Rinchen – endangering state security by unofficially organizing litter-collection, tree-planting, and nature patrols to stop the hunting of endangered species.",
        "甚至在未经审判的情况下，他就被当地官员判处21月的劳改，罪名跟仁青桑珠一样——“威胁国家安全”，未经批准组织垃圾收集和植树活动，组织巡逻队阻止对珍稀野生动物的偷猎行为。"
    ],
    [
        "By denying the problem, the authorities have aggravated the lack of confidence.",
        "由于有关当局否认这一问题，致使（市场）信心不足的情况进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s merchant class, one of the pillars of the clerical establishment that has ruled the country since the 1979 revolution, is grumbling as well.",
        "伊朗商界——1979年革命以来主宰这个国家的支柱之一——也开始动摇。"
    ],
    [
        "It does not help much to sing pop songs or opera arias in the bathroom.",
        "在浴室唱流行歌曲或歌剧选段毫无用处。"
    ],
    [
        "Farmers make up 70% of Africa’s workforce.",
        "农民占非洲工作人口的70%。"
    ],
    [
        "Lahoud has become irrelevant.",
        "拉胡德已经出局。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the low base, and the Fed’s obvious caution, nominal interest rates are unlikely to climb too far by the next US recession.",
        "考虑到较低的基数，以及美联储显而易见的谨慎态度，到美国下一次衰退前，名义利率不太可能有很大的提升。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, however, GDP has become a source of widespread frustration, as it fails to reflect the realities of people’s lives.",
        "但今天，GDP已经成为民众失望的普遍来源，因为它反应不了现实的民众生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Kissinger’s hope is that these countries and rising powers like India and presumably Brazil (he leaves Latin America out of his account of world orders) will be able to forge agreement on a set of rules that all will regard as legitimate, thereby maintaining a stable global balance of power.",
        "基辛格希望上述国家和印度巴西这样的新兴大国（他所谓的世界秩序不包含拉丁美洲）能够就所有人都认为合法的规则达成一致，从而实现稳定的全球权力平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "This idea is lost in today’s cost accounting for universities, which treats what transpires between teacher and student in the classroom as akin to what happens between producer and consumer in the market.",
        "在当今大学的成本会计中，它把在教室里老师和学生之间发生的事情看作在市场上生产者和消费者之间发生的事情一样。"
    ],
    [
        "To capitalize on the opportunities of digitization and the shift to knowledge-intensive trade, countries must invest in talent and infrastructure; reduce barriers to cross-border flows of people and information, without jeopardizing their citizens’ privacy and security; and expose their producers to robust foreign competition while ameliorating the resulting costs of disruption for their communities and workers.",
        "要抓住数字化和知识密集型贸易变迁的机会，各国必须投资于人才和基础设施、在降低人员和信息的跨境流壁垒的同时保护好公民的隐私和安全，并让生产商参与激烈的外国竞争，同时减轻由此造成的社会和工人饱受干扰的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Tensions between the two countries were already high.",
        "当时两国间的局势已经是一触即发。"
    ],
    [
        "Most politicians try to avoid telling outright lies; they bob and weave like prizefighters when faced with questions that might ensnare them in outright mendacity.",
        "多数政治家尽量避免直接撒谎； 他们像职业拳手那样躲闪可能让自己陷入到说谎境地的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a positive step, but it is outweighed by repeated instances of Israeli airstrikes and shelling that appear to have needlessly killed civilians, from the four boys killed on a beach on July 16 to the 20 Palestinian civilians killed while taking refuge in a United Nations school on July 30.",
        "这是一个积极动作，但在无谓杀戮平民的以色列空袭和炮击面前显得苍白无力：7月16日，四名男孩在海边被杀； 7月30日，20名巴勒斯坦平民在一所联合国学校避难时被杀。"
    ],
    [
        "To secure a positive, open, and prosperous future for Europe, it is critical that the forces that come out on top are those that recognize the huge benefits of politically and economically open societies, as well as the need for national and global public policies to promote more inclusion.",
        "为了确保欧洲能拥有一个积极，开放和繁荣的未来，就必须确保上台执政的势力这么一批人：既认识到政治上和经济上开放的社会所带来的巨大利益，又明白我们急需能够推动更多包容性的国家和全球公共政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But they cannot prevent the worst of global warming, particularly if they result in coal and oil simply being sold elsewhere.",
        "但它们无法防止最糟糕的全球变暖，特别是如果煤炭和石油公司只是换一个地方出售产品的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Picked up off the coast of Lesbos, he was brought to the Moria camp.",
        "他在莱斯博斯沿岸被救上岸，送入了莫利亚（Moria）难民营。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey will continue to work toward a just and equitable global order in 2011 and beyond.",
        "土耳其将在2011年及未来继续推动一个公平合理的全球秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "But appearances proved to be deceptive.",
        "但事实证明表象并不可靠。"
    ],
    [
        "But, from a political or military standpoint, the world was bipolar, with the Soviet Union balancing America’s power.",
        "事实上，在此期间，美国常常无法捍卫它的利益：苏联拥有了核武器； 共产党在中国、古巴和半个越南建立了政权；"
    ],
    [
        "But it is precisely the lack of economic reform at home that has made Italy one of the least competitive states in the euro-zone economy.",
        "然而，正是国内经济改革的匮乏使得意大利沦为了欧元区内最缺乏竞争力的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In many cases, post-conflict aid can reach extraordinarily high levels after the conflicts ends, both in per capita terms and relative to the size of the recipient economies.",
        "在许多情况下，冲突后的援助在冲突结束后会达到非常高的水平，对于人均和受援经济规模而言都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "At first glance, this might seem like a serious disadvantage, because the HPV vaccine cannot simply be incorporated into other vaccine initiatives.",
        "乍一看，这似乎是一个严重的劣势，因为HPV疫苗根本无法纳入其他疫苗计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Aid for education remains too low and too fragmented.",
        "教育援助仍然太少，也太分散。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, around Gilgit in Kashmir, China’s People’s Liberation Army has greatly enhanced its troop presence.",
        "事实上，中国人民解放军已经大幅增加在该地区的军事存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, 73% said they had never experienced discrimination while living in America. Moreover, 85% said suicide bombing is rarely or never justified, and only 1% said violence to defend Islam was “often” permissible.",
        "而且，85%的人说难以或者根本无法为自杀式爆炸辩护，而且只有1%的人说使用暴力来捍卫伊斯兰是“经常”可以允许的。"
    ],
    [
        "Kosovo’s Albanians do not want a state tainted by such allegations.",
        "科索沃的阿尔巴尼亚人要的不是被指控污染的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "As this capital cascades through the global financial system, it will re-inflate the economy.",
        "随着这股资本流进入全球金融体系，经济将重新获得繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "In that fishing village of 6,000, the “power of the powerless” that Havel promoted as a means to undermine totalitarian rule was demonstrated anew, and with such enormous dignity and discipline that it has galvanized China like no protest since those in Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989.",
        "在这个只有6000名村民的渔村里，“无权者的权力”——哈维尔所大力宣扬的反对极权统治的利器——正在发出新的光芒，那里的村民显示出了中国自1989年春天安门广场示威以来从未体现过的尊严与纪律。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the disaster, Japan issued about $1.5 billion in earthquake-related catastrophe bonds as a risk-management device: the debt is canceled if a precisely defined seismic event occurs.",
        "在灾难发生之前，日本发行了大概15亿美元地震相关灾难债券作为其风险管理机制：他们对地震相关灾难进行了精确界定，一旦这样的灾难发生，这些债券就不能被兑现。"
    ],
    [
        "The success of parcel-delivery companies, for example, depends on imports, which must be brought from the borders inland, as well as on exports.",
        "比如，快递公司的成功取决于进口——需要从边境运输到内陆的进口——的程度不逊于出口。"
    ],
    [
        "She has received death threats from Muslim extremists ever since she renounced – indeed, denounced – her Muslim faith, and was forced to live as a virtual fugitive, albeit under the protection of the Dutch state.",
        "自从她放弃乃至谴责其穆斯林信仰以来，她收到了来自穆斯林极端份子的死亡威胁，被迫在荷兰政府的保护下过着逃犯般的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, national labor markets are effectively separated by barriers of language, culture, religion, union membership, and social-insurance systems.",
        "而在欧洲，各国劳动力市场实际上被语言，文化，宗教，欧盟成员国资格和社保系统等各类障碍割裂开来。"
    ],
    [
        "So why do the statistics tell a different story?",
        "那么，为何统计数据显示并非如此？"
    ],
    [
        "The most profound consequences will, of course, depend on the European Union’s response to the UK’s withdrawal.",
        "当然，影响最为深远的后果取决于欧盟如何响应英国的退出。"
    ],
    [
        "But the evidence suggests that the growth rates brought about recently by rapid structural change are exceptional and may not last.",
        "但有证据表明，最近这种由快速结构性变化所带来的增长率是一个例外，也可能无法长久持续。"
    ],
    [
        "(Never mind that this cost estimate is probably wildly overestimated – most models show about 3% damages.)",
        "(他们从来就没有注意这一估计本身就大大偏高； 大多数的模式估计损失为大约3%)。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the US falls below Greece and Slovakia, countries that people do not typically regard as role models or as competitors with the US at the top of the league tables.",
        "事实上，美国将跌至希腊和斯洛伐克等国家之下，而这些国家从未被视为榜样或可以与美国一决高下的竞争对手。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news about the Bush project, so far title-free, is that it is apparently going to be different from the usual reputation polishing.",
        "关于目前还没有定名的布什自传有个好消息，那就是这本自传显然将会与一般的沽名钓誉之作有很大不同。"
    ],
    [
        "This is what leaders of the Labour party like Alistair Darling, Gordon Brown’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, are now saying. But they seem to have had no influence on the two architects of Labour’s election strategy, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, both now removed from front-line politics.",
        "因此，如果苏格兰民族党依靠“凯恩斯主义”财政扩张计划取得如此出色的成绩，那么，认为工党若更有力地为其自身执政记录辩护、更积极地攻讦奥斯本的财政政策就会收到更好的效果岂非有理？"
    ],
    [
        "It comes at a time when the Agency has assumed increasing responsibility for nuclear security.",
        "这一时机正是发生在该机构对核子安全承担了越来越大责任的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "The terrorism threat ten years from now probably will be even more diverse and unpredictable.",
        "9·11事件至今已历十年，恐怖主义威胁或许也因此变得更加多样化和不可预测。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – Last month – just a few days before the European Central Bank announced its intention to initiate quantitative easing (QE) – I attended a seminar in Geneva with international journalists, policymakers, and investors.",
        "东京—上个月——就在欧洲央行宣布有意采取量化宽松政策前几天——我与国际记者、决策者和投资者一起出席了一次日内瓦讨论会。"
    ],
    [
        "This stagnation in policymaking has been heavily criticized by the media and the influential Wirtschaftsrat (Economic Council), an association of entrepreneurs who sympathize with the CDU.",
        "这种政治上的停滞受到了来自媒体和同情默克尔所领导的基督教民主党的，极具影响力的德国企业家协会“德国经济委员会”（Wirtschaftsrat）的强烈批评。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat is only implicit; most Greeks do not want Grexit, and Varoufakis and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras have shied away of late from stating such intentions.",
        "这一威胁只是间接的； 大部分下来人不愿意希腊退出，而瓦罗法基斯和总理齐普拉斯最近也终于没有说出这一意图。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – In August, Europeans head for the beach.",
        "伯克利—8月份，欧洲人纷纷涌向海滩度假。"
    ],
    [
        "If that compromise holds, stability will take hold, markets will function, Tunisia will attract investment, and tourism will thrive again.",
        "如果这一妥协能维持下去，国家就将实现稳定，市场恢复运作，突尼斯也将在再次成为投资和旅游热点。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the countries most affected by the financial crisis, only a few – the United States, Germany, and Sweden – have rediscovered the path to sustained growth.",
        "在受金融危机影响最大的国家中，只有少数几个——美国、德国和瑞典——重新回到了持续复苏之路。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern populism is often described as a new class war between the beneficiaries of a globalized world and those who feel left behind.",
        "现代民粹主义往往被描述为全球化世界受益者与被抛弃者之间的全新阶级战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The ARF’s effort to build a more predictable and constructive pattern of relations for the Asia-Pacific region is based on three stages: confidence-building, preventive diplomacy, and conflict resolution.",
        "其中部长级会议为构建一个更具可预见性和建设性的亚太地区关系模式所做出的努力基于三个阶段：信心构建，预防性外交和冲突解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Labour leaders, who had also sought the Murdochs’ favor, have vowed to block News Corporation’s bid for full ownership of Britain’s largest pay-television broadcaster.",
        "与此同时，原本不断向默多克靠拢的工党领袖也呼吁阻止新闻集团全资控股英国最大的付费电视网的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "They are not always as manifest as they are in the protruding ribs of ghostly children hooked up to feeding tubes, like those I used to see in hospital wards in Tanzania.",
        "饥饿对人的摧残并不总像我曾在坦桑尼亚医院病房中看到的插着鼻饲管的幽灵般儿童根根突出的肋骨那么明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these warnings have come from anonymous bloggers, with IP addresses traceable to the president’s associates.",
        "其中不少警告来自匿名博客，其IP地址可以追踪到总统的同僚。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the US government has tried virtually everything to prevent consumers from adjusting.",
        "然而，美国的消费者将成为受此次经济危机影响最为严重的群体，他们正沦为典型的“消费僵尸”。"
    ],
    [
        "The sources of uncertainty are many: tension between South and North Korea; anxiety over nuclear proliferation posed by cooperation between North Korea and Iran; managing the rise of China and India; and continued Islamist extremism on the Indian sub-continent, particularly Pakistan, as well as in Southeast Asia, where Al-Qaeda has established a second front through Indonesia’s Jemaah Islamiyah .",
        "不确定性的来源有很多：紧张的南北韩关系，伊朗和朝鲜的合作而引起的对核扩散的忧虑，怎样应对中国和印度的崛起，印度次大陆上继续存在的伊斯兰极端主义，特别是巴基斯坦以及基地组织已经通过印尼的伊斯兰祈祷团建立了第二战线的东南亚地区。"
    ],
    [
        "But what about the impact on actual development, the likelihood that individual citizens of poor countries will live richer, healthier, more educated lives?",
        "但对实际发展，即穷国个体公民过上更富有、更健康、教育程度更高的生活的可能性会有什么影响？"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, Japan joined other G-7 countries in agreeing to a proposal by the US Treasury to refrain from foreign-exchange intervention.",
        "2013N年，日本与其他G-7国家一起同意了美国财政部提出的不干预晚会的动议。"
    ],
    [
        "If one party exhibits cooperative behavior, its rival may feel forced to reciprocate, leading to a spiral of cooperation instead of retaliation, and of trust instead of suspicion.",
        "如果一方表现出合作行为，其对手可能感受到回报的压力，从而导致一系列合作而非报复，以及信任而非怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Public frustration is now mounting, because the government has failed to meet the demand for new printed notes.",
        "如今，公众越来越失望，因为政府无法满足新钞需求。"
    ],
    [
        "We live in an increasingly multipolar world, in which major emerging economies and their populous societies are transforming the international landscape.",
        "我们生活的世界日益多极化，主要新兴经济体及其众多的社会人口正在改变国际格局。"
    ],
    [
        "Prevention is better than repression.",
        "预防比镇压更加有效。"
    ],
    [
        "The tragedy is that most Venezuelans (and many citizens of other countries) believe that the IMF is there to hurt, not help.",
        "悲剧的是，大部分委内瑞拉人（以及其他国家的许多公民）认为IMF做得坏事比好事多。"
    ],
    [
        "The history of our relations with the only nonhuman sentient beings we have encountered so far – animals – gives no ground for confidence that we would recognize sentient robots not just as items of property, but as beings with moral standing and interests that deserve consideration.",
        "而到目前为止，就我们与自身所遇到唯一非人类却有感情的东西——动物——的关系来看，并没有多少证据可以证明我们会承认有感情的机器人不仅仅是一项资产，而是一种值得考虑其道德立场和利益的存在。"
    ],
    [
        "On paper, wealth redistribution through high taxes and state transfers, reflecting Republican ideals of equality and social cohesion ( fraternité ), has brought good results.",
        "从统计数据上看，通过高税收和国家调剂实现的财富再分配体现了共和党平等与社会团结（友善）的美好理想，产生了良好的社会效果。"
    ],
    [
        "But, rather than focus on real solutions, today’s populists are often appealing to people’s basest instincts.",
        "但今天的民粹主义者并不关注真正的解决办法，却往往在吸引人们最低级的本能方面做文章。"
    ],
    [
        "While inflation is undershooting the 2% target by a similar amount, the labor market appears to be in much better shape.",
        "通胀和2%的目标之间的距离和1999年时差不多，但劳动力市场的情况要好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "What is clear is that the experience of countries that have implemented the treaty has not been particularly positive, unless those countries have a high tolerance for bureaucratic regulatory regimes that stifle innovation and development in the name of lofty aspirations.",
        "显而易见的是，执行条约的国家取得的经验并不十分积极，除非它们高度容忍那些以崇高目标为名压制创新和发展的官僚监管制度。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, they face political resistance from short-run losers, including the companies and sectors that existing rigidities protect.",
        "首先，它们面临来自短期输家的政治抵制，包括得到现有僵化结构保护的公司和部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Syria’s civil war does not appear to be winding down, and the de facto implosion of Syria as a coherent state will continue to challenge Turkish politics and social cohesion, with more and more refugees trying to cross into Turkey.",
        "但叙利亚内战似乎没有平静下来的趋势，而叙利亚作为统一国家事实上的内爆将继续挑战土耳其政治及社会凝聚力，造成试图涌入土耳其的难民越来越多。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – East Asia could learn two valuable lessons from the eurozone crisis.",
        "发自首尔——东亚可以从欧元危机中学到两个宝贵的教益。"
    ],
    [
        "The launch of the Dragon spacecraft was in fact a US achievement, in a traditionally American spirit.",
        "“龙”飞船的发射实际上是美国的骄傲，它反映着传统的美国精神。"
    ],
    [
        "A Chinese Monroe Doctrine?",
        "中国门罗主义？"
    ],
    [
        "Those who took to the streets to demand a replay – largely secular, liberal, educated Egyptians – were driven not just by political and economic grievances, but also, like restive middle classes elsewhere, by aspirations for freedom and inclusiveness.",
        "走上街头要求重修宪法的大多是受过教育的世俗自由主义埃及人，他们的动机不仅有政治和经济不平，也包括对自由和包容的诉求（这一点与其他地方的桀骜不驯的中产阶级别无二致）。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade, investment, and production chains now link China, Japan, and South Korea in ways that no one could have imagined 20 years ago.",
        "贸易、投资和生产链正在以20年前人们无法想象的方式将中、日、韩三国联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, though courted by all sides in the struggle to maintain stability in Northeast Asia, South Korea now runs the risk of becoming isolated.",
        "但是，尽管在保持东北亚稳定的斗争中，韩国是各方争取的对象，但如今它却面临被孤立的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Just a few months ago, for example, a Chinese company approached my firm asking for advice about how to enter Zimbabwe’s health-care market.",
        "例如短短几个月前，一家中国企业曾向我的公司咨询如何进入津巴布韦医疗市场的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "Massive investments will be made in these areas, and the European Central Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and many other institutions are devising mechanisms to finance them.",
        "这些领域将迎来大手笔投资，欧洲央行、亚洲基础设施投资银行和其他许多机构都在制定融资机制。"
    ],
    [
        "In Guinea, despite 24 previous years of authoritarian military rule, the population largely supported the December 2008 bloodless coup staged by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara’s immediately following President Lansana Conté’s death.",
        "尽管经历了24年的独裁军事统治，但大多数几内亚民众仍然对兰萨纳·孔戴总统死后穆萨·达迪斯·卡马拉上校于2008年12月发动的不流血的政变持支持态度。"
    ],
    [
        "However, statistical estimates of its depletion hide much more than they reveal.",
        "然而，消耗预测的统计数据只为我们展现了冰山的一角。"
    ],
    [
        "And so it is that the price of money falls, even as the supply of it burgeons.",
        "于是，货币价格下跌，尽管货币供给大增。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, include Greece in the ECB’s program of quantitative easing, which would let it return to the markets.",
        "第三，将希腊纳入欧洲央行的量化宽松计划，这能让希腊回归市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The Basel 3 Accord, adherence to which increased the liquidity of all banks and decreased their leverage, is viewed as a firm standard in some parts of the world.",
        "巴塞尔3协议能让所有银行增加流动性、降低杠杆，它在一些地区被视为可靠的标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Hope has not, after all, become a redundant virtue in the twenty-first century.",
        "这毕竟说明希望这玩意儿还是存在于21世纪的。"
    ],
    [
        "His stance reflects no consideration of whether their individual cases might justify clemency, as well as apparent indifference to mounting evidence that sentencing in capital cases might have owed less to a case's merits than to the presence or absence of bribes.",
        "他的立场表明他根本不考虑这些个体案例是否能证明仁慈，也显然对日益增加的关于死刑案件的判决与案件本身的性质关联较少而与是否行贿关联较多的证据无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the most potent social norms harness aspects of our evolved psychology.",
        "第三，最有效的社会规则利用人类进化心理的方方面面。"
    ],
    [
        "When Yair Lapid – the ambitious but inept finance minister, who leads the centrist Yesh Atid party – proposed waiving the value-added tax on first apartment purchases by young couples, Netanyahu failed to respond decisively, giving the impression that he lacked control over his own cabinet.",
        "当无能而又雄心勃勃的财政部长、中间派未来党领袖亚伊尔·拉皮德提出要免去购买首套房的年轻夫妇缴纳增值税时，内塔尼亚胡未能做出决断，给人的印象是他对自己的内阁都缺乏控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Stayed tuned.",
        "请您一定继续关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Nexus will increasingly be incorporated within the harvester, making it impossible to tax the robotic element separately from the dumb parts that do the harvesting.",
        "Nexus就日益集成在收割机中，使得税收当局无法将机器人要素与从事收割作业的机械部分分离进行征税。"
    ],
    [
        "One might say that the same variables, including hostility to high taxes and a weak labor movement, have operated in the US for the past 200 years - and can thus be expected to continue operating in the future, producing high stock market returns and attracting huge inflows of foreign investment.",
        "可以说，对高额税收的抵触和工人运动的疲软在美国已经持续了200多年，未来也还将持续下去，带来高额的股市回报并吸引巨额的国外资本。"
    ],
    [
        "Such merit is usually understood to be academic achievement, a combination of talent and training.",
        "这种成就通常来自学术方面，既靠先天的资质也靠后天的训练。"
    ],
    [
        "Abdullah guaranteed his son Mitaeb’s position as head of the National Guard.",
        "阿卜杜拉则保证其子米塔伊布（Mitaeb）国民预备役司令的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "That means moving away from both the Anglo-Saxon model of laissez-faire and voodoo economics and the continental European model of deficit-driven welfare states.",
        "也就是说，既要远离英美的自由放任模式和里根教义，也要远离欧洲大陆的赤字福利国家模式。"
    ],
    [
        "But many countries have large trade surpluses or weak currencies.",
        "但许多国家都存在巨大的贸易赤字或弱势货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Crucially, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls – not to mention the new Commission – must also step in to offer genuine support for the project.",
        "关键是德国总理默克尔和法国总理瓦尔斯——更不用说新欧盟委员会了——也必须站出来为该计划提供真正的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1962, Friedman proposed a “negative income tax,” whereby people earning below a certain threshold would receive supplemental income from the government, rather than paying taxes to it.",
        "1962年，弗里德曼提出实施一种“负所得税”，收入低于一定阈值的人从政府获得补偿性收入而无需为缴纳所得税。"
    ],
    [
        "France, perhaps more than most European countries, is faced with serious internal security problems and violence linked to the failures of previous immigration policies, which have turned the dreams of the 1960’s into the nightmares of the present.",
        "相对于很多欧洲国家，法国正面对着非常严重的，由过往移民政策的失败所导致的内部治安和暴力问题，将一个1960年代的梦想之国变成了如今这幅噩梦般的景象。"
    ],
    [
        "In this difficult international context, Cristina Kirchner will need to rebuild relations with the United States and Europe, which have been impaired since the default in 2001.",
        "在如此困难的国际环境下，赫尔南需要重塑因2001年违约而遭到破坏的与美国和欧洲的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Business can be the common thread that weaves positive change throughout the world.",
        "商业可以成为给全世界带来积极变化的共同主线。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Treaty of Versailles, the victorious Allies insisted that Germany should pay for “the cost of the war.”",
        "在《凡尔赛和约》中，获胜的协约国坚持，德国应该偿付“战争成本”。"
    ],
    [
        "Artificial Intelligence and Globalization",
        "人工智能和全球化"
    ],
    [
        "Their direct motive is to help others, and their giving makes them happier only as a consequence of the fact that it does help others.",
        "他们的直接动机是帮助他人，他们的奉献给让他们更快乐，这只是奉献确实帮助了他人的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "On the first day of 2012, keeping hens in such cages became illegal, not only in the United Kingdom, but in all 27 countries of the European Union.",
        "从2012年1月1日起，在这种笼子里饲养母鸡就是违法行为，不仅在英国，还包括全部27个欧盟国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments now face the difficult task of implementing reforms that will hit the majority of voters hardest.",
        "政府现在面临着改革的艰巨任务，而改革会沉重地打击多数选民的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Revising Article 9 has long been part of Abe’s agenda, but whether he pushes ahead with it will depend in large part on the kind of advice he gets from close friends in the US.",
        "修订宪法第九条一直是安倍想要做的事情，但是他是否真的会付诸实施很大程度上依赖于他从他的美国亲密朋友那里得到怎样的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "The agreement comprises voluntary pledges by governments that amount to no more than promises to do their best.",
        "该协定由政府的自愿承诺构成，无非就是承诺尽力而已。"
    ],
    [
        "The military had developed an entrenched distrust of her, given her position as a popularly supported pro-Western leader who wanted peace with India.",
        "鉴于她是一位受到民众支持的亲西方领导人，又想和印度修好，所以军方对她的不信任由来已久。"
    ],
    [
        "The political scientist Ivan Krastev believes that “Putin seems to have dug in for a long-term policy of sapping Turkey’s economy and undermining Erdoğan politically.”",
        "政治学家伊凡·克雷斯特夫（Ivan Krastev）相信“普京似乎制定了一个长期政策，破坏土耳其经济，并从政治上削弱埃尔多安。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The rich so-called “Annex 1” countries have had compulsory obligations, while poorer “non-Annex 1” countries merely have been required to make voluntary efforts.",
        "富裕国家，即所谓的“附件1”国家有强制性义务，而较穷的“非附件1”国家只要求采取自愿措施。"
    ],
    [
        "It was only when the rout was in full swing that the PBOC recognized what was happening – the CSRC had been unable to turn the tide alone – and declared that it would step in to capitalize the market.",
        "直到崩盘已成不可收拾之势，人民银行才认识到正在发生什么——证监会无法独力扭转局面——并宣布将采取措施稳定市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump seems intent on turning up the pressure on the FBI, the intelligence agencies, the courts, and the media to back off.",
        "特朗普似乎执意要加大对联邦调查局、情报机构、法院和媒体的压力，迫使他们在斗争中退缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, many states are exploring the possibility of making disclosure rules permanent through constitutional amendments.",
        "此外，许多州都在探索通过修宪让披露规则永久化的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "But the US also has depressed areas.",
        "但美国国内也有特别困难的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The long-term sustainability of Russia’s military revival is also unclear.",
        "俄罗斯军事复兴的长期可持续性也不确定。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1990, 67% of the Muscovites agreed, and 76% agreed in 2015, while in New York in 2015 only 36% agreed.",
        "”1990年时表示同意的莫斯科人有67％，2015年则有76％，而在2015年的调查中只有36％的纽约人表示赞同。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing good ever came from that.",
        "这样做就不会有好结果。"
    ],
    [
        "BRIGHTON – Being poor is a highly shameful experience, degrading one’s dignity and sense of self-worth.",
        "布莱顿—贫穷是非常可耻的经历，它吞噬人的尊严和自我价值感。"
    ],
    [
        "“Totalitarianism” began its conceptual life in 1923 as a criticism or parody by the liberal writer Giovanni Amendola of the megalomaniacal pretensions of Benito Mussolini’s new regime.",
        "“极权主义”最早出现在1923年，自由派作家阿门多拉（Giovanni Amendola）用它来批评和讽刺墨索里尼新政权那种妄自尊大的自吹自擂。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence, as he put it in 1932, there may be “no escape from prolonged and perhaps interminable depression except by direct state intervention to promote and subsidize new investment” – which is what the Obama administration is rightly doing.",
        "如果基于这种判断，那么政府的经济救助无异于错误地鼓励人们休假。 他们认为唯一有效的方法就是多印钞票，这会降低利率，经济从而得以复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, according to the Hungarian economist Zsolt Darvas, in terms of purchasing power parity, all three cities surpassed Vienna in 2008.",
        "事实上匈牙利经济学家佐尔特·达瓦斯（Zsolt Darvas）的研究表明，以购买力平价计算，这三个城市都在2008年超过了维也纳。"
    ],
    [
        "If it manages to get these structural reforms right, China – and the rest of the world – will be able to avoid the consequences of a hard economic landing.",
        "如果中国能顺利地完成结构性改革，那么它——以及世界其它地区——将能够避免经济硬着陆的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "During a triumphal surprise visit to Baghdad on May 22, he said he expected Iraqi forces to take responsibility for “territorial security” in much of the country by the end of the year.",
        "在5月22日突然造访巴格达时，布莱尔说他希望伊拉克军队到年底就能承担该国大部分国土的“领土安全”责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The action taken by the EU in the course of the Georgian crisis proved that Europeans have such an aspiration and are willing to fulfill their role as a global player, which will become increasingly apparent in the coming years.",
        "欧盟在格鲁吉亚危机过程中所采取的行动证明欧洲人有这样的愿望并愿意担负起他们全球性的责任。 这一点在未来若干年将会更加明朗。"
    ],
    [
        "This outcome is not, however, very different from natural conception, for the majority of embryos conceived by sexual intercourse also fail to implant in the uterine wall, with the woman often not even knowing that she was ever “pregnant.”",
        "但是，这个结果和自然受孕并没有什么大不相同，大多数因性交而受孕的胚胎也并未能成功地植入子宫壁，往往造成一些妇女甚至更本没有意识到她曾“怀孕 ”过"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization’s Political Fault Lines",
        "全球化的政治断层"
    ],
    [
        "The lessons of history are clear.",
        "历史的教训显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that Trump would feel quite at home almost anywhere on the continent, it is imperative to respond to the pan-Western anti-establishment rage that he represents.",
        "眼下，特朗普在欧洲将有一种宾至如归的感觉，应对他所代表的泛欧洲反建制愤怒是当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "Answering Iran",
        "回应伊朗"
    ],
    [
        "For 25 years, the world has experienced a huge financial crisis every five years, each seemingly with its own cause.",
        "在过去的25年以来，世界每五年就要经历一次巨大的金融危机，而每次爆发都有各自的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s natural gas reserves amount to about 8% of global reserves.",
        "非洲的天然气占全球总储量的8%。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Trump’s planned border wall with Mexico remains stuck in the planning stage, with no funding from the US Congress.",
        "就连特朗普计划中的墨美边境隔离墙也仍然处在规划阶段，没有得到美国国会的拨款资助。"
    ],
    [
        "The Prophet and the Commissars",
        "先知和人民委员"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, however desirable its ability to produce the unexpected and unforeseeable, science today cannot claim that it is not accountable to society.",
        "同样，不论科学创造超出人预期和不可预知的结果的能力多么令人向往，它也不能宣称自己不对社会负责。"
    ],
    [
        "A free-trade agreement that includes financial services will minimize the damage from Brexit for all parties involved, because European firms will still rely on London as the region’s only global financial center.",
        "包括金融服务在内的自由贸易协议将最大限度地减少脱欧对各方的伤害，因为欧洲企业仍然得依赖伦敦作为该地区唯一的全球金融中心。"
    ],
    [
        "They go from north to south, south to north, south to south, and north to north.",
        "人们从北方迁移到南方，从南方迁移到北方，从南方迁移到南方，从北方迁移到北方。"
    ],
    [
        "Believing that markets always know best, they dismissed warnings by a few mere mortals (including me) about overpricing of equities and housing.",
        "他们认为市场永远是消息最灵通的，忽视来自少数凡人（包括我）关于股市和房产价格过热的警告。"
    ],
    [
        "Of India’s 600 districts, those that remain the most specialized are Kavaratti (water transport), Darjiling (paper products), Panchkula (office accounting and computing machinery), and Wokha (wood products).",
        "在印度的600个地区中，仍然在专业化方面名列前茅的包括Kavaratti （水运）、Darjiling （纸制品）、Panchkula （办公会计和计算机）以及Wokha （木制品）等领域。"
    ],
    [
        "The Trump administration will not inherit a strong and sound US economy.",
        "特朗普政策无法从前任手中获得一个强大而可靠的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "An incinerated car is a small price to pay in the battle for freedom.",
        "一辆烧毁的汽车远比不上自由之战的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "While all leaders – including North Korea’s Kim Jong Il – remain committed to denuclearization in public, none appears ready to risk much in terms of domestic politics to achieve that end.",
        "尽管包括朝鲜最高领袖——金正日在内的各国领导人，都继续在公开场合对无核化施以承诺，但看起来却没有人愿意为了实现这一目标、而在国内政治方面冒上巨大的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The IAEA’s tenacity also has smoked out much of Iran’s nuclear program, albeit only after an Iranian dissident group disclosed the existence of some of the regime’s secret facilities.",
        "该机构坚持不懈，还发现了伊朗的核子项目，尽管这是伊朗的异议团体揭发伊朗政权的某些秘密设施之后才发现的。"
    ],
    [
        "Bangladesh is a country rich with human potential, but that potential can only be realized by making poor people’s needs – which Islamists around the world have previously made their own political territory – the new government’s top priority.",
        "孟加拉国是一个拥有丰富人力资源潜力的国家，但只有当新政府把贫困人口的需求作为头等大事的时候，这种潜力才能释放，而世界各地的伊斯兰教徒过去是把他们自己的政治领土作为头等大事的。"
    ],
    [
        "The perpetrators of chemical attacks must be held to account, whoever they are.",
        "化学袭击的罪犯必须绳之以法，不管是谁。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not surprising, then, that ten years later, there has been no fundamental reform.",
        "因此，十年以后还是没有根本性的改革也就不足为奇了。"
    ],
    [
        "The island of Lesbos was, and remains, its epicenter.",
        "莱斯博斯（Lesbos）曾经是，现在也依然是这场危机的震中。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the public can and should be included through a national referendum in assessing the results once the talks have reached fruition and a comprehensive settlement is reached that both leaders say they can live with.",
        "当然，一旦谈判取得了成果并达成了一个综合性实施方案，而双方领导人也表示认可的话，公众就可以并且应当通过公投的形式来评价这一成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, poor countries' development would arguably have been set back if they had acquiesced in some of the demands.",
        "实际上，如果发展中国家对其中某些条款勉强默许，它们的发展甚至可能因此蒙受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s China Card?",
        "奥巴马的中国牌？"
    ],
    [
        "MANILA/SAN JOSÉ – On April 22, dignitaries representing no fewer than 175 parties signed the global climate change agreement concluded in Paris in December, setting a record for the adoption of an international accord.",
        "发自马尼拉/圣何塞——截至4月22日，已经有代表不下175个缔约方的政要签署了去年十二月在巴黎完稿的全球气候变化协议，创下了一项国际协定的签约纪录。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump claims that he will deliver the “ultimate deal” to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict.",
        "特朗普声称他将签署解决巴以冲突的“最终协议”。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, aside from rainfall patterns, climate change is upsetting the flow of rivers, as glaciers, which provide a huge amount of water for irrigation and household use, are rapidly receding due to global warming.",
        "不仅如此，除了降雨模式外，气候变化也影响了河流水量，因为全球变暖正在导致提供了大量灌溉和生活用水的冰川快速后退。"
    ],
    [
        "The target was General Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali” because of his use of chemical weapons against Iraqis.",
        "目标是因使用化学武器对付伊拉克人而著称的马基德将军，也叫“化学阿里”。"
    ],
    [
        "This could rekindle security dilemmas and degenerate into uncontrolled conflicts.",
        "这可能重新凸显安全困境，并最终蜕变为无法控制的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "One thing is certain: these three problem areas – reform and recapitalization of the banking system, a eurobond regime, and an exit mechanism – need to be resolved to make the euro a viable currency.",
        "有一件事是确定的：这三大问题——改革和银行体系资本结构调整、欧元债券机制以及退出机制——不解决，欧元就走不出死胡同。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is little cause for comfort.",
        "但并没有理由因此而感到安慰。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only does it work, but, above all, in some cases, it is the only way of moving forward.",
        "它不仅可以奏效，而且在某些情况下，它是前进的唯一途径。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is in women’s treatment, deliberately and accidentally, by the financial sector that the most damage is done.",
        "无论有意还是无意，金融行业对待女性的态度造成了最为严重的损伤。"
    ],
    [
        "The direct effect of the $1.5 trillion deficit implied by the tax reform would be to raise that to 97%.",
        "而税制改革所隐含的那1. 5万亿美元赤字的直接影响会将这个数字提高到97％。"
    ],
    [
        "Precious time was squandered before North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006.",
        "2006年朝鲜首次核试之前的宝贵时间就这样被白白浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "But economic migration from non-EU countries, under carefully managed conditions, is both legitimate and imperative.",
        "但在审慎监管下从非欧盟国家引进经济移民既合理合法也十分必要。"
    ],
    [
        "So we need to assess national resilience by regularly evaluating critical subsystems within countries.",
        "因此我们需要通过定期评估国家内部的关键次级系统来确认国家的抗灾力。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, he should press America’s next president to pursue the implementation of the TPP in a way that protects NAFTA; to maintain a sound monetary policy; and to reverse President Barack Obama’s veto of the Keystone Pipeline.",
        "保持稳健合理的货币政策； 并尝试将奥巴马总统对基石输油管（Keystone Pipeline）的否决扭转过来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, issues of taxation were at the heart of the creation of modern democratic parliaments.",
        "事实上，税收问题是建立现代民主议会的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, they will have no major accomplishment to show for an entire year during which they have controlled the legislative and executive branches of government.",
        "否则，共和党就会在控制了政府立法和行政两大机关的情况下，整整一年无法取得一项重要成就。"
    ],
    [
        "In his 1968 work Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, Swedish economist and Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal considered the words “Asian” and “poor” to be synonymous.",
        "在1968年的著作《亚洲的戏剧：国穷论》（Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations）中，瑞典经济学家、诺贝尔奖得主贡纳尔·缪尔达尔（Gunnar Myrdal）认为“亚洲”和“穷”是同义词。"
    ],
    [
        "To improve nutrition outcomes for girls and women, we need to scale up proven nutrition interventions and ensure that other development programs take nutrition into account.",
        "要改善女孩和妇女的营养状况，我们需要加大可靠营养干预的规模，确保其他发展计划将营养问题考虑在内。"
    ],
    [
        "Should we ever expect to see wild gyrations in China’s exchange rate of the sort one routinely sees in, say, the Australian dollar or the South African rand?",
        "我们会不会终有一天看到中国的汇率大幅度地上下浮动，就像平时看到的澳大利亚元和南非兰特那样？"
    ],
    [
        "That process is long in the best of times; in developing countries with weak institutional capabilities, it is often drawn out substantially, creating massive additional costs.",
        "即便在最有利的情况下，整个建设进程依然需时较长； 而建设工期在体制动员能力薄弱的发展中国家中更是旷日持久，导致大量的额外费用。"
    ],
    [
        "It is normal for a plutocratic elite, once it has formed, to use its political power to shape the economy in a way that enables its members to capture a large chunk of a society’s income.",
        "财阀精英一旦形成就将利用其政治权力影响经济，使其成员攫取社会收入的大部分，这是常态。 经济增长开始放缓也是常态；"
    ],
    [
        "Why did the Greek government concede to terms that not only controverted its own promises, but also closely resembled those that voters had overwhelmingly rejected in a popular referendum barely a week earlier?",
        "为何希腊政府要屈服于这些条件？ 它们不但有悖于希腊政府自身的承诺，也与选民们在不到一周前的全民公决中一边倒地拒绝了的条件别无二致。"
    ],
    [
        "The notion that capital markets could self-regulate was decisively rejected.",
        "资本市场可以自我规范的观念基本上遭到了否定。"
    ],
    [
        "Global problems have declined dramatically relative to the resources available to tackle them.",
        "全球问题相对于可用于解决问题的资源大幅下降。"
    ],
    [
        "This would cause Greece’s debt to snowball, given that its GDP growth is highly unlikely to achieve such a rate in the foreseeable future.",
        "这将导致希腊的债务越滚越大，因为该国的GDP在可预见的将来都不太可能达到这样的增速。"
    ],
    [
        "But I have also had some exhilarating experiences of the UN at its best.",
        "但我也有过一些关于最佳联合国的愉快体验。"
    ],
    [
        "But Trump’s several earlier efforts to steer prosecutors away from Flynn were strong signals that Flynn knows something that Trump desperately hopes that prosecutors won’t find out.",
        "但特朗普之前曾数次努力让检查人员放过弗林的事实已经发出强烈的信号，弗林知道特朗普拼命想要向检查人员掩盖的一些事。"
    ],
    [
        "Five steps are particularly important:",
        "五个步骤特别重要："
    ],
    [
        "He thinks that Europe is in peril of being “Islamized.”",
        "他认为，欧洲有被“伊斯兰化”的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "People have become weary of the word reform, because for most it means a reduction in entitlements and living standards.",
        "人们已经厌倦了空喊口号，因为多数口头改革都意味着权利的减少和生活水平的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s reaction to Turkey’s rapprochement with its erstwhile ally Israel – with which it had been at loggerheads since 2010, when Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish ship that was part of a flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza – reflects this rivalry.",
        "俄罗斯对于土耳其重建与其昔日盟友以色列的外交关系的反应证明了两国的对立关系。 土耳其和以色列2010年因为以色列特种部队突袭一艘参与向加沙运送物资的船队的土耳其船只而断交。"
    ],
    [
        "The two wars that Obama inherited were intractable. But he made the difficult decisions that led to the elimination of the instigator of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Osama bin Laden – a goal that his predecessor, George W. Bush, in his eagerness to invade Iraq, had lost interest in pursuing.",
        "而奧巴马继承的这两场战争也极为棘手，但他作出了一系列艰难的决定，成功击杀了2001 年 “9·11”恐怖袭击的幕后主使者奥萨马·本拉登——而他的前任，热衷于入侵伊拉克的小布什则早已将这一目标抛诸脑后了。"
    ],
    [
        "Attacks on children and schools often draw international condemnation, but words alone are clearly not an effective deterrent.",
        "袭击儿童和学校常常会遭到国际谴责，但光靠言语显然无法形成有效威慑。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – According to a YouGov opinion poll conducted on the day of the referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union, migration was the single most important issue for “Leave” supporters, second only to a general preference for independence itself.",
        "慕尼黑—据YouGov在英国欧盟成员资格公投当天进行的民调数据，移民是“脱欧”支持者认为的最重要的问题，仅次于对独立本身的普遍偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "When Italy joined the European Monetary Union, its primary budget surplus (tax receipts in excess of government spending, excluding interest payments) was about 5% of national income.",
        "意大利加入欧洲货币联盟之时，其主要预算盈余（除利息支付外超过政府开支的纳税收入）只占国民收入的5%。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s pursuit of an IVC and a 1-IFC city would serve not only its own interests.",
        "中国对IVC和1-IFC的追求不仅符合其自身利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Freedom of movement of workers is undoubtedly integral to the EU.",
        "人员自由流动无疑是欧盟不可或缺的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "That confidence has now dissipated: inflation expectations have caught up with the actual inflation rate of 4%.",
        "但如今这种信心也已消失殆尽：人们的通胀预期已经跟4%的实际通胀率相当接近了。"
    ],
    [
        "Orphans, whose number has increased sharply over the past quarter-century as a result of wars, economic sanctions, and terrorism, are especially vulnerable to the cruelest type of physical and psychological violence.",
        "由于过去25年来的战争、经济制裁和恐怖主义而数量激增的孤儿特别容易受到最残酷的身体和精神暴力侵害。"
    ],
    [
        "Now consider free speech.",
        "现在来看看言论自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, such a system is within reach if we invest appropriately.",
        "幸运的是，只要我们投资得当，这样一个体系是可以获得的。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe is not the only region that has been burdened by today’s migration flows – or even the most affected.",
        "但欧洲并非唯一一个需要承担当今移民流的地区——甚至不是受影响最大的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no simple return to a pre-crisis normalcy. Something changes permanently.",
        "我们不会简单回到危机前的常态，有些事情永远改变了。"
    ],
    [
        "But the key question concerning the future of the country remains: will Shia, Sunnis, and Kurds will unite behind a functioning central authority?",
        "但关乎这个国家未来的核心问题仍然是：什叶派、逊尼派和库尔德人是否能够联合起来组建一个能发挥作用的中央政权?"
    ],
    [
        "Is the US-Japan alliance coming to an end?",
        "美日同盟是否正面临解体之厄？"
    ],
    [
        "Abusive employers exploit their labor.",
        "雇主不把他们的劳动力榨干不罢休。"
    ],
    [
        "Israeli Arabs would then be required to transfer their citizenship, national identity, and national voting rights – but not their residence – to the new Palestinian state.",
        "以色列阿拉伯人将被要求将国籍、国民身份和投票权——但不包括敌据点——转换至新的巴勒斯坦国。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, and perhaps most importantly, Bush has to finally achieve the immigration reform he has promised for so long.",
        "第三，也许是最重要的，布什必须完成他很早就承诺过的移民改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Another global fiscal stimulus – focused on public investment in infrastructure and education – would deliver the adrenaline shot needed for a robust recovery.",
        "另一项全球财政刺激——集中在基础设施和教育方面——将为强劲复苏提供所需的刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "For Canada, the figure is 25%.",
        "加拿大的这一数字为25%。"
    ],
    [
        "Granted, the term sounds archaic; but the Torah is the first systematic legislation that forbids cruelty to animals and mandates that they be treated with consideration and respect.",
        "乍一看，这个词是那么古老； 但摩西五经乃是第一部禁止虐待动物、规定必须关心和尊重动物的系统性立法。"
    ],
    [
        "What’s missing in the debate is the Latin American context.",
        "这一辩论缺乏的是考虑到拉美大环境。"
    ],
    [
        "ANKARA – Last week, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan intensified his government’s response to the corruption investigations that have been roiling the country since December, restructuring the leadership of the judiciary and police.",
        "安卡拉—上周，土耳其总理埃尔多安加强了政府对反腐调查的反应。 自12月以来，反腐调查席卷全国，重构了司法和警察部门领导层。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the price of gold often seems to drift far above or far below its fundamental long-term value for extended periods.",
        "相反,黄金的价格似乎常常远高于或低于其一段时间的长期基本价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Conversely, capital's share of profits has been rising, which of course raises the value of equities (though, stock prices have continued to rise in countries like the US and the UK where labor shares have begun at least a cyclical recovery, and where interest-rate hikes may soon be on the horizon).",
        "反之，资本利润份额持续上行当然引发股价上涨（但股价在英美等劳动力收入占比至少开始周期性复苏且加息渐行渐近的国家依然保持了上升态势）。"
    ],
    [
        "Industries and activities such as fisheries, shipping, and seabed mining are all regulated separately.",
        "渔业、航运和海底采掘等行业和活动的监管是各自独立的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it appears that the typical northern European taxpayer supports the typical stakeholder in northern European banks that are over-exposed to southern European debtors.",
        "那么，到底援助了谁？ 事实上，典型的北欧纳税人似乎支持过度持有南欧债务的典型的北欧银行相关利益方。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so would also eliminate the uncertainty surrounding the program itself and its implementation mechanisms.",
        "如此还能消除围绕在OMT计划本身及其实施机制的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "I have no idea what that conclusion is actually based on — am I just regurgitating the company line?”",
        "我不知道这个结论究竟是基于什么——难道我只是在重复企业的宣传词？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "But, rather than folding their cards, European leaders doubled down.",
        "然而，欧盟各国领导人没有选择亮牌，而是加倍下注。"
    ],
    [
        "Even within the traditional conference structure, diversity of perspectives is critical.",
        "观点的多样性即使在传统的会议构架内也同样至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Another highlight was the historic approval of a sophisticated cancer treatment, CAR T-cell therapy, which uses a patient’s own immune cells to attack tumors.",
        "另一个亮点是复杂癌症疗法CAR T细胞疗法历史性获批，这种疗法利用患者自身的免疫细胞去攻击肿瘤。"
    ],
    [
        "Tolerance becomes the cardinal European virtue in this vision, and the EU’s character as an entity with federal law but without federal statehood is viewed as a strength, not a weakness.",
        "在这一愿景中，宽容成为基本的欧洲美德，而欧盟的特性作为具有联邦法律而无联邦国体的实体被认为是一种优势，而非弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "“I enjoy doing lots of things that do not maximize my earning power,” they might protest.",
        "“我就喜欢干很多不能让我的赚钱能力最大化的事情，”他们也许会如此抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "The worry is that in a low-interest-rate environment, investors’ irrational “search for yield” fuels financial-sector distortions.",
        "令人担忧的是，在低利率环境中，投资者不理性的“寻找收益率”会加剧金融部门扭曲。"
    ],
    [
        "The implicit message from the new non-aligned is straightforward: Why should we care about a territorial conflict in Europe when you Europeans fail to act decisively on Palestine, Kashmir, or territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas?",
        "新不结盟运动的潜台词是显而易见的：你们欧洲人在巴勒斯坦、克什米尔和中国东海和南海的领土纠纷中都没有采取决定性行动，我们为什么要关心欧洲的领土冲突？"
    ],
    [
        "To that end, I recently established an Open Society Initiative for Europe (OSIFE).",
        "为此我最新成立了欧洲开放社会计划（OSIFE）。"
    ],
    [
        "People unburdened themselves to strangers.",
        "人们面对陌生人发泄和倾诉不满。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly every observer forecasts that this will continue over the coming years.",
        "几乎所有观察家都认为这一局面会在未来多年中持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared with the rest of the region, the country’s key sectors – including education, transport, communications, agriculture, and tourism – are professionally managed and the envy of much of East Africa.",
        "与地区其他国家相比，肯尼亚的关键部门——包括教育、交通、通信、农业和旅游——管理相当专业，令许多东非国家艳羡不已。"
    ],
    [
        "Analysis in Bangladesh by economists from Duke University and MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab suggests that providing financial incentives to delay marriage could be the most effective strategy.",
        "杜克大学和麻省理工大学的阿卜杜勒·拉提夫·贾米尔贫困行动实验室（Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab）的经济学家在孟加拉国的分析表明，提供财务激励推迟结婚是最有效的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "If the negotiations succeed, he will be remembered for his historic role in bringing peace, and will likely stand a better chance of realizing his presidential ambition, having gained parliamentary support for revising the constitution from the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party.",
        "如果谈判成功，他将因带来和平而被历史铭记，也将更有可能实现其总统野心，赢得库尔德和平民主党（Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party）的议会支持。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the only way to change the perception of rules as a source of oppression, rather than protection.",
        "这是改变规则是压迫而不是保护的源泉这一认知的唯一办法。"
    ],
    [
        "The most controversial issue, within the committee and in Germany, relates to financing infrastructure via public-private partnerships, a seemingly promising solution that nonetheless has proved to be far from a panacea.",
        "在委员会和德国最具争议的问题是通过公私合作为基础设施融资，这一方案似乎大有可为，但效果远未得到证明。"
    ],
    [
        "A successful Chinese rebalancing scenario has the potential to jump-start global demand with a new and important source of aggregate demand – a powerful antidote to an otherwise sluggish world.",
        "中国成功再平衡的情形有望以新的重要总需求源提振全球需求——这对于停滞的世界来说是一针强心剂。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Finland’s difficult domestic political situation, its citizens may look to Denmark and Sweden – which boast rapid growth and low national debt, and do not pay into the European Financial Stability Facility or the European Stability Mechanism – and decide that eurozone membership costs too much and is no longer worthwhile.",
        "由于国内政局陷入了困境，芬兰人民可能会向丹麦和瑞典看齐——这两个国家均保持着高增长和低国民债务，且不用为欧洲金融稳定机制和欧洲稳定机制出资——认为欧元区成员国地位成本太高，不值得留在其中。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are numerous ways in which governments can work with non-profits, investors, businesses, and citizens to find the best ways to achieve these goals – and thus restore public trust in government itself.",
        "但政府可以通过多种方式与非营利组织、投资者、企业和公民合作寻找实现这些目标的最佳办法——从而重塑公众对政府的信任本身。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, global problems demand global solutions.",
        "毕竟，应对全球性问题还得有全球性的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an intriguing anomaly, for, notwithstanding Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vile anti-Semitic rhetoric, the implications of Iran’s emerging power extend far beyond the Jewish state.",
        "这是一个令人感兴趣的异常现象，这是因为，尽管有伊朗总统默罕默德·艾哈迈德内贾德无耻的反犹言论，伊朗显现的军事实力的意义远远超过了以色列这个犹太国家的范围。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-20 in London was responsive to the concerns and special circumstances of the developing world, which resulted in some big thinking.",
        "G20组织的伦敦峰会对发展中国家所关心的问题和特殊状况作出了响应，并随之催生了许多伟大的构想。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu’s intention was essentially to force the Palestinians into admitting that the right of return of refugees applies only to the Palestinian state, not Israel.",
        "内塔尼亚胡的目的是迫使巴勒斯坦人承认难民回归权只适用于巴勒斯坦国，而对以色列不适用。"
    ],
    [
        "The third hurdle is the danger that the Extraordinary Chambers will be regarded as the end rather than the beginning of a long-term search for accountability and legal reform.",
        "第三个障碍是将\"特别司法机构\"当作是一个寻求责任和司法改革的长期过程的结束而不是开始的危险认识。"
    ],
    [
        "Monopoly’s New Era",
        "垄断的新时代"
    ],
    [
        "Together, they would go a long way toward mitigating a serious impediment to the economic and social wellbeing of current and future generations.",
        "合在一起，它们可以极大地助益于减轻我们和子孙后代的经济和社会福祉的巨大阻力。"
    ],
    [
        "As the EU reaches its 50th birthday, many Europeans are entering middle age with it.",
        "正值欧盟成立50周年之际，许多欧洲人也与欧盟一道步入中年。"
    ],
    [
        "Such apples are already on the market, and are not considered genetically modified organisms.",
        "这类苹果已经上市，并不被认为是转基因产品。"
    ],
    [
        "The economist Stefan Kawalec has explicitly referred to the current policy mix in the eurozone as “currency manipulation.”",
        "经济学家斯特凡·卡瓦莱克（Stefan Kawalec）将当前欧元区政策组合直接称为“货币操纵”。"
    ],
    [
        "An agreement in this area would provide a major boost to the already warm bilateral relationship, not least by bolstering Bangladesh’s position in the region.",
        "关于该地区的协议将进一步改善已经回暖的双边关系，也将巩固孟加拉国的地区地位。"
    ],
    [
        "But the coalition negotiated by David Cameron’s Conservatives with the third-place Liberal Democrats (which should give the government a comfortable majority in Parliament) is not so novel as some people think.",
        "但是，由大卫·卡梅隆所率领的保守党和得票数排名第三的自由民主党所组成的联盟（这也确保政府拥有了议会大多数）并不像某些人想象的那么新奇。"
    ],
    [
        "She evokes her interview with Jibril, a conversation at the White House or the Elysée Palace.",
        "她回忆起与贾布里勒的会面，谈话地点在白宫或爱丽舍宫。"
    ],
    [
        "This combination of insecurity and natural disasters has displaced huge numbers of people and caused suffering on a scale painful to behold.",
        "在不安全的局势和自然灾害的夹击下大量的人流离失所，其状惨不忍睹。"
    ],
    [
        "The voting system used by the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee makes it harder for the governor to know when a majority for tightening will emerge, and some members’ views have been oscillating in recent months.",
        "英格兰银行货币政策委员会的投票制度决定了其行长比较难以获知什么时候会出现大部分人支持紧缩的情况，而一些成员的观点，在最近几个月中左右摇摆。"
    ],
    [
        "In the coming months, highly consequential policy decisions (or their absence) in systemically critical parts of the global economy will be revealed, with significant effects on growth rates, asset prices, and overall confidence.",
        "在未来几个月中，在全球经济中起着系统性关键作用部分的一系列政策决策（或不采取它们）将依次宣布，这将对增长率、资产价格和总体信心产生重大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the lack of progress in peace negotiations, American leaders continued to believe in Israel’s democracy and willingness to pursue a two-state solution.",
        "尽管和平进程毫无进展，但美国领导人仍然相信以色列的民主和追求两国方案的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "The war on terror is an aberration. America must defend itself against terrorist attacks, but that cannot be allowed to become the overarching objective of its existence.",
        "反恐战争有悖常理，美国必须保护自己不受恐怖袭击之害，但绝不能将自身利益作为至高无上的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the arguments about the wisdom of this treaty, this agreement seems certain to raise the probability of a negative internationalization of Colombia‘s problems.",
        "即便对该协定是否明智的质疑声不予理会，该协定似乎肯定会扩大哥伦比亚问题消极国际化的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "He spews incitements in a line like horseshoes,",
        "他喷吐出一串煽动性语句，就像那马蹄印，"
    ],
    [
        "Another area I started thinking about involved creating new polymer materials.",
        "我又开始考虑发明新高分子材料的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar to the way world leaders adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration in September 2000, and embraced the resulting Millennium Development Goals, today’s climate negotiators will have to commit themselves to creating a basis of shared fundamental ethical principles.",
        "只有大家深深感到，对社会责任拥有共同承担的义务，气候问题才能解决。 人类已经走到了一个历史关键时刻，所有的国家和民众必须团结起来"
    ],
    [
        "But it will also deliver broader lessons.",
        "但它也将带来含义更加广泛的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "This only allows populists to score more political points by saying, in effect: “See, elites really do hate you, just as we said, and now they are bad losers.”",
        "这只能让民粹主义者有效地散布“看，精英真的讨厌你，我们早就说了。 并且现在他们是糟糕的输家”这样的话，从而得到更高的政治分数。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, part of international investors’ attraction to countries like Vietnam and China is not simply that wages are low, but that the absence of democratic rights promises to lock in cheap labor for years to come.",
        "事实上，国际投资者被越南和中国等国家吸引的部分原因并不是工资低，而是民主权利的缺失保证了劳动力廉价的状态可以维持多年。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, Blatter has finally resigned, but only after he and dozens of Federation members once again showed their scorn for honesty and the law.",
        "是的，布拉特最终辞职了，但却是在他和数十名足联官员再次表达了对诚信和法律的蔑视之后。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, though, without US-China cooperation, a global climate agreement will be held hostage.",
        "但若美中最终不合作，全球气候协议将受到挟制。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1960s and early 1970s, their security and political cooperation deepened, owing to a shared interest in confronting radical movements that threatened their monarchies.",
        "20世纪60年代和70年代初，由于在对抗威胁到君主制度的激进运动方面存在共同利益，双方安全和政治合作有所加深。"
    ],
    [
        "Happiness is not something that is bestowed from on high; we all must work to achieve it.",
        "幸福并不是高高在上的赐予； 我们都必须努力去实现它。"
    ],
    [
        "If the cost and financing estimates are accurate, and if Congress does not change any of these provisions in the future, the CBO’s calculations imply that the Senate Finance Committee plan would reduce fiscal deficits between now and 2019 by $49 billion, less than 1% of the projected deficits of more than $7 trillion.",
        "如果费用和融资的测算大体准确，且国会在未来不修改任何相关规定，那么国会预算局的计算结果意味着参议院财政委员会计划将从现在到2019年减少财政赤字490亿美元，也就是7万多亿美元预测赤字的不到1%。"
    ],
    [
        "In conflict situations, preventing displacement primarily requires political will.",
        "在冲突情况下，防止流离失所问题的发生主要依靠政治意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite lofty rhetoric from Paris, all the best intentions on the planet will count for little if it turns out that our climate “solution” was just another policy that cost the planet far more than it gained.",
        "尽管巴黎传来各种各样的高尚议论，但如果事实证明我们的气候“方案”仅仅是让地球付出远大于收益的另一项政策，那么这个星球上哪怕再好的意愿都没有多大意义。"
    ],
    [
        "A demented person could be “comforted” by such words, but at what cost to their human dignity?",
        "一个焦躁不安的人可能被这些语句“安抚”，但他们的人格尊严会付出怎样的代价？"
    ],
    [
        "Such a scheme facilitates lower drug pricing, while overcoming the effect of Eroom’s law on investment in treatments for many diseases.",
        "这一制度有助于降低药价，同时克服许多疾病治疗投资上逆摩尔定律。"
    ],
    [
        "It is only in more sluggish industrial economies, where wages are assumed to be inflexible, that policymakers advocate exchange-rate movements as a means to overcome wage stickiness.",
        "只有在更僵化的工业经济体——那里的工资总是缺乏灵活性——决策者才会把汇率运动用作克服工资刚性的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike television, print, and radio, social-media platforms like Facebook or Twitter are self-regulating – and are not very good at it.",
        "与电视、报纸和广播不同，像Facebook或Twitter这样的社交媒体平台实行自我管制——而且管治水平并不是很高。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the answer concerns regulation.",
        "部分答案与监管有关。"
    ],
    [
        "By resisting protectionist barriers at home and abroad, by continuing to recruit and welcome the world’s best students, by sending more students overseas, by fostering cross-national research collaboration, and by strengthening its own research universities, the US can sustain its well-established academic excellence while continuing to expand the sum total of global knowledge and prosperity.",
        "通过与国内外的保护主义壁垒进行抗争，继续招募和欢迎全世界最优秀的学生，将更多的学生送到海外，培育跨国研究合作，以及增强本国研究型大学的实力，美国将在能够继续维持其世界学术先锋的地位，并为全球知识和繁荣的增长作出自己的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that the dollar has dropped 43% from its high against the euro, the process of global financial rebalancing is seriously underway.",
        "既然美元相对欧元已经从高位贬值43%，就说明全球金融再平衡的过程已经开始。"
    ],
    [
        "There are two possible reasons for the discrepancy between forecast and outcome.",
        "预测和实际结果不符，可能的原因有二。"
    ],
    [
        "China has long kept tight control over its main banks.",
        "长期以来，中国一直紧紧地控制着其主要银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, governments should undertake additional measures to boost financial asset prices, and so make it easier for those firms that ought to be expanding and hiring to obtain finance on terms that allow them to expand and hire.",
        "最后，政府应该承诺采取额外措施来促进金融资产价格的上升，这样才能让那么本应当扩展业务并招募新人才的企业能以优惠的条件获取金融支持来扩展业务并招募人才。"
    ],
    [
        "The forces of inertia are always strong, and when it comes to resources the current economic crisis favors neither ambitious reforms of the alliance nor serious intensification of ESDP.",
        "惯性的力量总是那么强大，而谈到资源方面，当前的经济危机既不利于对联盟开展雄心勃勃的改革，也不利于强化欧洲防务和安全政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Such enclaves would require local support from Kurdish forces or select Arab tribes, with military backing by the US and others.",
        "实现这一目标需要得到库尔德军或特定阿拉伯部落的地方支持，还有美国和其他国家的军事保护。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the right to peaceful protest is critically important in a democracy, electoral minorities should not use endless demonstrations to take the political system hostage.",
        "但是，尽管和平示威权是民主的关键重要部分，少数派选民也不应该利用无限制的示威来绑架政治制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Bankers, by contrast, point to the high cost of equity and argue that forcing banks to raise even more will increase the cost and decrease the availability of credit.",
        "相反，银行家则指出净资产成本已经很高，并认为强迫银行进一步筹资将增加该成本进而减少可用信贷。"
    ],
    [
        "After a decade of government by slogan, the Chinese public wants substance.",
        "在经历了十年的口号统治之后，中国民众想要一些实质性的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Federal Reserve has added more than $2 trillion to the base money supply since 2008 – an incredible and unprecedented number that is basically a gift to banks intended to cover their deep losses and spur lending and investment.",
        "自2008年以来，美联储已经增加了超过2万亿美元的基础货币供应，这是前所未有的不可思议的巨额数字，实际上无异于给银行的大礼包，让它们覆盖巨额亏损、刺激借贷和投资。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, people are living longer, so that in a generation the number of elderly dependents in some countries will outgrow that of the young.",
        "与此同时，人们的寿命更长了。 因此，在一代人的时间里，某些国家需要供养的老年人数量将会超过年轻人。"
    ],
    [
        "That theory sounds as general and fundamental as the theory that global warming is melting glaciers and raising sea levels around the world.",
        "这种理论听上去像是与全球变暖正在溶化全世界的冰川和导致海平面的上升的理论一样的整体和基本的理论。"
    ],
    [
        "The psychiatrist Arnold M. Ludwig, for example, argues that just as male monkeys, chimps, or apes automatically begin to assume more responsibility for their particular community once they attain the dominant status of alpha male, human rulers do so as well.",
        "例如，精神病学家阿诺德·M·路德维格（Arnold M. Ludwig）认为像雄性猴子、猩猩或者猿一旦取得头号雄性地位之后就会自动开始对其所在的团体承担更多的责任那样，人类中的统治者也是这样的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of Greece, the interest payments apply to government debt held by Greek individuals and institutions, as well as to government debt held by the IMF, the European Central Bank, and other foreign lenders.",
        "对希腊来说，需要支付利息的包括希腊个人和机构持有的政府债务以及IMF、欧洲央行和其他外国债权人持有的政府债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Atomic Energy Agency just reported that Iran may well reach this point in 2009.",
        "国际原子能机构刚刚报告说伊朗将在2009年拥有这一能力。"
    ],
    [
        "If so stimulated, the domestic energy market for cheap, low-carbon energy would be a massive force multiplier in the US – or any – economy.",
        "若进行如此激励，则廉价低碳能源的国内能源市场，将是美国或任何国家经济中的一个巨大力量，会令收益倍增。"
    ],
    [
        "The essential responsibility for this state of affairs lies with Europe’s ruling class and policymakers.",
        "欧洲的统治阶级和决策者要为这种状况负起责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Do the authorities recognize the need to act decisively and aggressively?",
        "当局是否认识到了采取果断有力的反应的需要？"
    ],
    [
        "What Next After the Likud Referendum?",
        "利库德公决之后的巴以局势"
    ],
    [
        "These countries have experienced unprecedented levels of sustained economic growth that may well enable them to replace the “Affluents” as engines of the world economy.",
        "这些国家经历着前所未有的持续经济增长，从而很可能使它们替代“富裕国家”成为世界经济的引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "However, in practice, Brown has remained in the shadows, skillfully managing the economy, but remaining silent and enigmatic on vital political issues, and apparently endorsing everything Blair did.",
        "但是实际上，布朗一直躲在幕后，娴熟地管理着经济，但是在重大政治问题上保持缄默和深不可测，而且明显地支持布莱尔所做的所有事情。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given limited resources and few teachers, too many children are being left behind.",
        "但是，由于教育和教师资源的局限，太多儿童输在了起跑线上。"
    ],
    [
        "He previously served not only as minister of economics and finance, but also of agriculture – a critically important qualification, given that the vast majority of the developing countries’ poor depend on farming.",
        "他以前不但是经济和财政部长，也当过农业部长——考虑到发展中国家的大部分穷人都得依靠务农生活，这是相当重要的资历。"
    ],
    [
        "From the point of view of developing countries in need of capital, competing banks probably look like a good thing.",
        "从发展中国资本需求的角度看，银行间的竞争也许是件好事。"
    ],
    [
        "On the Republican side, Donald Trump’s precise intentions are less clear, though he proudly calls himself the “king of debt,” which is not particularly encouraging.",
        "共和党方面，唐纳德·特朗普的确切意图不那么明确，尽管他自豪地自称为“债务之王”，这可不是什么激动人心的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not an incurable disease.",
        "这可不是不治之症。"
    ],
    [
        "Even from banks’ narrow standpoint, higher equity requirements would cost less than other proposed regulations.",
        "即使从银行狭隘的立场出发，更高的股本要求所产生的成本也低于其他法规方案。"
    ],
    [
        "For a world beset by seemingly endemic financial instability, this could prove to be the most destructive development of all.",
        "在世界正被地方性金融不稳定困扰的时候，这将是最危险的情景。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, as oil prices have fallen, emerging-market governments have taken advantage of the opportunity to reduce the fiscal subsidies.",
        "因此，随着油价的下降，新兴市场政府利用这一机会削减财政补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "This bias is beginning to break down in information-based societies, but it is a mistake to identify the new type of leadership we need in an information age simply as “a woman’s world.”",
        "这一歧视在基于信息的社会中正开始被打破，但把我们在信息时代所需要的新的领导风格简单地归为“女性世界”是不对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Exactly 150 years ago, in 1862, Abraham Lincoln created America’s “land-grant” universities to help local communities to improve farming and the quality of life through science.",
        "150年前的1862年，亚伯拉罕·林肯创造了“政府授地”（land-grant）大学，以帮助当地社区通过科学改善农业和生活质量。"
    ],
    [
        "First, fracking’s opponents worry that shale gas will displace renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.",
        "首先，液压裂解技术的反对者们担心页岩气会取代风能及太阳能等可再生能源。"
    ],
    [
        "The excess of savings over investment flows abroad as capital exports.",
        "多于投资的过度储蓄作为资本输出流向外国。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless the struggle is won, the endgame could be similar.",
        "要么改革成功，要么落得和日本一样的结局。"
    ],
    [
        "We are spontaneously drawn to the view defended by René Descartes: We are natural-born dualists, so we see bodies and souls as separate.",
        "我们本能地接受笛卡尔所捍卫的观点：我们是天生的二元论者，所以在我们看来肉体和灵魂是分离的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is inclusion of the renminbi in the SDR basket likely to provide as big a boost to the currency’s internationalization as many believe.",
        "加入SDR篮子是否能给人民币国际化带来巨大的提振也不像许多人认为的那样确定。"
    ],
    [
        "But within countries, inequality has risen sharply.",
        "但在国内，不平等现象却急剧上升。"
    ],
    [
        "The CMIM could help East Asian countries to reduce their reliance on accumulating, as a form of self-insurance, costly reserves that fuel global imbalances.",
        "清迈协议可以帮助东亚国家减少对积累的依赖，而这种积累其实是一种助长全球不平衡的自保式且成本巨大的储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "Not one more euro of German taxpayer money, she vowed, would be contributed for this purpose.",
        "她坚定地宣称，德国纳税人不会再为此多花一个子儿。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), that election pushed South Korea from 101st to 62nd place worldwide in terms of the proportion of female MPs , well ahead of 121st-ranked Japan.",
        "根据国际议会联盟（Inter-Parliamentary Union）的数据，2004年的选举将韩国的女性议员比例世界排名从101位提升到了62位，远高于排名121位的日本。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, a specialized network of actors would be needed to ensure that intermediation of infrastructure transactions is efficient and cost-effective, instead of fragmented and slow, as it is now.",
        "类似地，还需要行动方的专业化网络以确保基础设施交易中介效率高、成本低，而不是想现在那样分散且行动缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – For many people around the world this year, the weather has become anything but a topic for small talk.",
        "伦敦—对全世界的很多人来说，今年的天气已经成为一个不小的话题。"
    ],
    [
        "A deliberative approach to engaging the public on other aspects of migration also could help quell anti-migrant sentiment.",
        "审慎地引导公众参与移民问题的其他发面也有助于减少反移民情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "The Novo Mercado dealt with this problem by subjecting disputes involving its newly-listed companies to arbitration.",
        "诺梅尔卡多交易平台通过将涉及这些新入市公司的争端转交至仲裁来解决这个难题，而仲裁和法院并不是一个体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, the gap between expected returns on low-risk assets like government or investment-grade bonds and high-risk assets like stocks and real estate has been very high.",
        "从历史上说，像政府或者投资级别的债券等那样的低风险资产以及类似股票和房地产等那样的高风险资产之间的预期回报率差异非常高。"
    ],
    [
        "That may seem like marginal progress, but it is actually quite rapid relative to the normally glacial pace of structural change – a process that began in China only in 2011 with the enactment of the 12th Five-Year Plan.",
        "这看上去也是只是边际进步，但实际上相对于通常十分缓慢的结构变化速度已是相当迅速——中国的结构变化直到2011年才根据十二五规划开始实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Such sentiments often spread and capture the public imagination at times of rapidly rising oil demand, sharp spikes in energy prices, and geo-political uncertainty.",
        "这种情绪还常常四处传播，不时占据公众对于石油需求剧增，能源价格飙升以及由此而来的地缘政治不稳定的想象。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Tax time in the United States – the dreaded mid-April deadline for filing annual income-tax forms – has come and gone.",
        "华盛顿—美国的税收时刻——令人不寒而栗的每年四月中旬所得税申报截止期——来了又走了。"
    ],
    [
        "Income and class cleavages, in contrast to identity cleavages based on race, ethnicity, or religion, have traditionally strengthened the political left.",
        "收入和阶级分化，相对于以种族、民族或宗教身份为基础的分化，传统上会强化左翼政治势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Cold War Lessons for George W. Bush",
        "冷战经验布什可资汲取"
    ],
    [
        "Quite simply, many believed that the system was “rigged” against them, and global trade agreements were singled out for being particularly unfair.",
        "很简单，许多国家认为这个制度是被“操纵”来对付它们的，而且还把全球贸易协定专门提出来作为体现特别不公平状况的事例。"
    ],
    [
        "If you have enough money, your Web page can be ranked higher than many others that are more credible or higher quality.amp#160;Since the emergence of Google, quality information has never been so vulnerable to the power of commercialism.",
        "如果你有足够的钱，你的网页排名可以高于许多更可信的或更高的质量的网页。 自从出现了谷歌，高质量的信息从未在商业威力面前如此脆弱过。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica is waging a tireless and remarkably effective diplomatic campaign denouncing both Ahtisaari and his proposal.",
        "与此同时，塞尔维亚总理科什图尼察正在发动一场不知疲倦而又十分有效的外交战役，指责阿赫蒂萨里及其建议。"
    ],
    [
        "With insufficient endogenous healing and no economic escape velocity, the effectiveness of central banks’ policies wanes and political dysfunction increases, leading to financial losses, volatility spikes, and huge risk-management challenges.",
        "内生复苏不足以及经济达不到逃逸速度将使央行政策的效应消失殆尽，让政治僵局恶化，导致金融损失、波动性激增和大规模风险管理风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, it is about keeping the door open to deal with unsavory governments.",
        "归根结底，外交是要与令人厌恶的政府保持沟通。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, hard power without soft power means only destruction.",
        "另一方面，如果没有软性力量的补充，硬性力量也只能意味着毁灭。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the combination of Trump and a succession of new asset-price records – call it Trump-squared – has been sustaining the illusion underpinning current market optimism.",
        "在美国，特朗普和资产价格频创新高的组合——称之为“特朗普平方”（Trump-squared）——持续了支撑当前市场乐观情绪的幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "For the foreseeable future, they will depend on local manufacturers to create the jobs that protect both China’s development goals and the Communist Party’s monopoly on domestic political power.",
        "在可预见的未来，他们将依靠国内生产者来创造就业，以维护其发展目标以及共产党对国内政权的垄断。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike North Korea, Iran is more likely to care about its international standing.",
        "和朝鲜不同，伊朗可能会比较在意自己的国际声誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Secularization is not inevitable.",
        "世俗化不是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a question of balance, competence, and respect.",
        "这是一个与权衡，技能和尊重有关的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, with US defense spending finally set to decline after a decade of debt-financed war in Iraq and Afghanistan, America has little fiscal room for an unforeseen military entanglement.",
        "事实上，在举债进行了十年伊拉克和阿富汗战争后，美国的国防开支终于下降，美国已经没有财政余力陷入不可预见的军事冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "They are contained in three concepts: freedom, solidarity, and mutual respect.",
        "它们包含在三个概念之中：自由、团结和相互尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "Mueller’s team is poring over Manafort’s business dealings – projects around the world, debts, funds stashed in foreign tax shelters, suspected money laundering, and more.",
        "米勒的调查团队正在全面调查马纳福特的各种交易——包括其在世界各地的项目、债务、藏在国外避税场所的资金、涉嫌洗钱活动以及更多。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of close and broad international cooperation, the US must join the race and lower its corporate-tax rate.",
        "如果没有紧密广泛的国际合作，美国就必须加入减税竞赛，降低公司税率。"
    ],
    [
        "The assumptions needed to do so are not standard and require many arbitrary short cuts.",
        "建模所需要的假设不标准，需要做许多自由发挥的捷径处理。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Unlike some in Britain’s Conservative Party, Prime Minister David Cameron has not previously given the impression of being obsessed with Europe.",
        "伦敦——与英国某些保守党人不同，首相戴维·卡梅伦以前给人的印象是并不沉湎于欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "A smaller number are waiting to enter Lebanon.",
        "还有少部分人等候进入黎巴嫩。"
    ],
    [
        "The US trade deficit is a multilateral imbalance with many countries – 102 in all – not a bilateral problem with China.",
        "美国贸易赤字是对多个国家（102个）的多边失衡，而不是对中国的双边问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But if we are to sustain growth in air travel without aggravating global warming, we must quickly reduce aviation-related CO2 emissions, which are substantial and not covered by the Paris climate agreement that more than 190 countries agreed to last December.",
        "但如果想要保持航空旅行增长又不加剧全球变暖，就必须迅速降低与航空有关的二氧化碳排放。 与航空有关二氧化碳排放量巨大，并且没有写入去年12月190多个国家达成一致的巴黎气候协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy, Spain, Portugal, and even Ireland face the same issues, but are at an earlier stage in the backlash.",
        "意大利，西班牙，葡萄牙，甚至爱尔兰也面临着同样的问题，只是依然处于反抗的早期。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent study by the IMF’s research department, using data from the past 30 years to assess the effects of financial globalization, conveys two messages.",
        "最近由国际货币基金组织研究部门进行的一项研究用过去30年的数据来评估金融全球化的影响，传达了两条信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s children may be great consumers of technology, but rarely are they truly tech literate.",
        "今天的孩子或许是完美的技术消费者，但却极少有人真正懂得技术知识。"
    ],
    [
        "Austrians nearly closed the door on that option.",
        "但问题是奥地利人差点就关闭了通往该选项的大门。"
    ],
    [
        "A look at Venezuela or Nicaragua reminds us that the demagogues and the populists are not yet gone.",
        "委内瑞拉和尼加拉瓜的情况提醒我们，煽动家和民促主义者没有消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes, I am more motivated to leave early, anticipating extra sleep points in the morning!",
        "有时我会有意识地提前离场，只希望能在早上醒来时看到MyZeo显示更高的睡眠指数！"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, banks could offer only simple savings accounts.",
        "直到最近，银行还只能提供简单的储蓄账户。"
    ],
    [
        "They also underpin the myriad examples of policy innovation and civic engagement at the local level described by James Fallows in a recent article and upcoming book.",
        "它们也是詹姆斯·法洛斯（James Fallows）在最近的文章和即将出版的新书中所描述的大量地方层面政策创新和公民参与的例子的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as the world’s advanced countries over-consumed through leveraging from derivative finance, four billion of the world’s seven billion people began moving to middle-income status, making huge demands on global resources and raising the issue of ecological sustainability.",
        "随着全球发达国家通过金融衍生品提供的杠杆来实现过度消费，世界70亿人口中有40亿开始进入中等收入状态，不但对全球资源造成了巨大需求，也催生了环境生态的可持续发展问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless we can establish a global socio-political space, we cannot legitimately deliberate over the provision of global public goods, let alone deliver them successfully.",
        "除非能够建立起全球性的社会政治空间，否则就无法正常思考、更不用说成功制定全球公共利益规则。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the World Health Organization, in developing countries, 76-85% of people with severe mental disorders are not treated.",
        "据世界卫生组织统计，发展中国家76-85％ 的严重精神障碍患者并未得到治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "Al-Qaeda lost its central organizational capacity, but it became a symbol and focal point around which like-minded imitators could rally.",
        "基地组织失去了核心组织能力，却成了号召思想极端的模仿者们的旗帜和焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "In Burma, we see another model – a bold attempt after decades of military rule to move in a controlled but purposeful way toward a new, inclusive form of government. Here there are striking similarities to what happened in Poland as communism ended.",
        "在缅甸，我们看到了另外一种模式-几十年来，他们以一种既受控制同时又带有目的性的方式进行军事运动，现在是一种大胆的尝试，力图建立一个包容性的新政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, the NTC was unable to impose discipline on the myriad militias that formed to fight Qaddafi’s troops, or even to direct foreign weapons efficiently to the fledgling Libyan National Army.",
        "大量民兵都参与进来同卡扎菲军队进行作战。 之后，NTC无法向这些民兵施加纪律，甚至无法将外国武器有效地运用于刚刚成立的利比亚国家军队。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Ask anyone with a basic knowledge of Africa which country is more poised for success – Zimbabwe or Kenya – and he or she will undoubtedly answer “Kenya.”",
        "北京——如果询问一个对非洲有基本知识的人哪个国家更有可能取得成功——津巴布韦还是肯尼亚——他或她会毫不犹豫的回答“肯尼亚”。"
    ],
    [
        "This bold economic vision is not without risks.",
        "这一大胆的经济愿景当然拖离不了风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as regional tensions continue to rise, the chances of an Egypt-Iran détente are likely to deteriorate.",
        "但随着地区紧张局势的不断升级，埃及和伊朗关系缓和的机会有可能不断恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "With a growth rate of 2.7%, the German economy clawed its way back to the average of the old EU countries in 2006, and it can be expected to grow at 2.4% in 2007 and 2008, far faster than France.",
        "7％，在2006年回到了老欧盟国家的平均水平，而且预计可以在2007年和2008年增长2. 4％，远远快于法国。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe needs to make the likes of Microsoft and Intel feel at home in Brussels, Paris, or Berlin, not to become a political market leader in supplying sympathetic verdicts to market losers.",
        "欧洲需要让微软和英特尔这样的公司在布鲁塞尔、巴黎或者柏林都有一种在家里的感觉，而不是成为向市场竞争中的失败者提供富有同情心的裁决的一个政治市场领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "To be fair, the first woman leader in a male-dominated culture must often outman the men.",
        "公平地说，在男性主导的世界中的第一位女性领导人往往必须比男人还男人。"
    ],
    [
        "Musharraf flits effortlessly between personae.",
        "穆沙拉夫从容自若地周旋在不同角色之间。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is certainly possible to describe how the road to hell is paved, whatever the intentions.",
        "但它肯定可以描述出通向地狱之路是如何铺就的，无论其最初意图是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, perhaps, these transitions took place amidst a wider network of legitimate institutions – the European Union, OSCE, NATO, and the Council of Europe – championing the rule of law.",
        "最重要的是，或许这些转变是在一个更加广泛的合法网络体系之下完成的-欧盟，欧洲安全与合作组织，北约以及欧洲理事会-他们都支持法律规则。"
    ],
    [
        "·A study prepared for the German Ministry of Environment estimates that employment in the German environmental technology industries will surpass employment in the automobile industry by 2020.",
        "lamp#160;amp#160;amp#160;amp#160;amp#160;amp#160;amp#160; 一份呈交给德国环境部的研究预计到2020年德国环境技术行业的就业人数将超过汽车工业。"
    ],
    [
        "During the global financial crisis, even the safety of bank deposits and government bonds was in doubt for some investors.",
        "在全球金融危机期间，投资者们甚至对银行储蓄和政府债券的安全性都满腹狐疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Both parade their fiscal virtue and insist that deficit countries stop their irresponsible spending.",
        "它们都对其财政优点大谈特谈，认为逆差国家必须停止不负责任的无度挥霍。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – As Italy approaches what promises to be one of its most contentious general elections since 1945, banks are the elephant in the room.",
        "伦敦—意大利正在接近很有可能是自1945年以来最有争议的大选，而银行就是“屋子里的大象”。"
    ],
    [
        "At what point will commentators stop gushing that Trump has finally become “presidential” every time he sticks to a script?",
        "什么时候评论员才能在每一次特朗普照章办事时不再说特朗普终于变得更像总统？"
    ],
    [
        "This would be a democracy-enhancing rather than globalization-enhancing model of global governance.",
        "这是一种侧重于强化民主国家而非全球化的全球治理模式。"
    ],
    [
        "For the last 15 years, the International News Safety Institute has been collating a list of journalists who have died on the job. What we have found is shocking: for every ten reporters killed, nine died while on assignment in their home country.",
        "在过去15年中，国际新闻安全研究所一直在整理因工遇难的记者名单，并因此得出了令人震惊的发现：每十名遇难记者中往往有九名是在本国执行采访任务时身亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Capping emissions means, effectively, ending this success story for hundreds of millions of people.",
        "限制排放因此意味着为数亿人的成功故事画上句号。"
    ],
    [
        "The downfall of many business leaders in recent years has been greed and selfish ambition.",
        "近几年来，许多商业领袖的坠落都是拜贪婪和自私野心所赐。"
    ],
    [
        "Product-market deregulation and falling trade barriers belong to what academics call microeconomics.",
        "产品市场放松管制和破除贸易壁垒属于学者们口中的微观经济学范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "We now have abundant evidence linking the perception of economic insecurity in the West with anti-elite sentiment, political radicalization, and attacks on minorities.",
        "大量证据表明，西方的经济不安全感与反精英情绪、政治激进化和攻击少数群体有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Its banking system is large and concentrated, though new entrants and new financing channels are changing that.",
        "其银行体系庞大且集中，尽管新进入者和新融资渠道正在改变这一局面。"
    ],
    [
        "These newly empowered and educated girls could then become agents for broader positive change within their communities.",
        "这些新获得权利、受过教育的女孩还能成为所在社区更广泛的积极变化的推动者。"
    ],
    [
        "Four out of 29 Indian states (Bihar, Gujarat, Manipur, and Nagaland) and one union territory (Lakshadweep or the Laccadive Islands) are currently attempting to enforce total prohibition.",
        "印度29个邦中的四个（比哈尔、古吉拉特、曼尼普尔和那加兰）以及一个直辖区（拉克沙威或拉克代夫群岛）目前都在尝试强制性禁酒令。"
    ],
    [
        "When pay is driven by strict adherence to targets set 12 months before, CEOs look back, instead of focusing on the present and on what comes next.",
        "因为薪酬受12个月前制定目标的严格驱动，导致CEO们总是回首过去，而不是关注现在和未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet not all of the HO-SS theory’s predictions have come true.",
        "然而并非所有的HO-SS理论的预测都已经实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Journalists are killed, scientists are accused of espionage, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky remains unjustly imprisoned.",
        "他看到记者被杀，科学家被控间谍罪，米哈伊尔·科多尔科夫斯基依然遭到非法的囚禁。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamists must have representation in order to ensure that they do not renounce the ballot box as a means of pursuing their objectives.",
        "伊斯兰必须拥有代表，以确保他们放弃通过投票箱追求自己的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not require privatization, but rather that assets could yield a reasonable return, freeing more resources than most cities currently have on hand.",
        "这并不需要进行私有化，而是要求资产可以产生合理的回报，从而释放出比目前多数城市所拥有的更多的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, will governments and institutions be able to adapt fast enough to harness change, or will they be overwhelmed by it?",
        "同样，政府和机构能否迅速适应变化并为我所用，还是会被淹没在应接不暇的变化之中？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, so-called quantitative easing involves having the Fed issue short-term debt to buy up long-term government debt.",
        "比如，所谓的量化宽松就是让美联储发行短期债务去买长期政府债务。"
    ],
    [
        "For many developing countries, high oil and food prices represent a triple threat: not only do importing countries have to pay more for grain, they have to pay more to bring it to their countries and still more to deliver it to consumers who may live a long distance from ports.",
        "对于许多发展中国家而言，高昂的油价和食品价格构成了三重威胁，也就是不仅进口国家不得不为农作物付出更高的价钱，而且要支付更高的运费并且在交付给那些远离港口的消费者的时候还要付出更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Citizenship comes with a set of rights and responsibilities that we do not share with those in other countries.",
        "公民地位包含着我们不与其他国家的国民共享的各种权利和责任。"
    ],
    [
        "A signatory of the Business Backs Low Carbon letter, Mars is working to eliminate its greenhouse-gas emissions entirely by 2040, through greater efficiency and investment in renewable energy projects like wind turbines.",
        "玛氏是《商界支持低碳》公开信的联署公司之一，正致力于通过提高效率和进行风能的可再生能源项目的投资，实现到2040年完全停止温室气体排放的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even in the US and Britain, where capital markets play a much larger role in corporate finance, asset-price inflation did little to encourage consumers to spend or companies to invest.",
        "但即便是资本市场在企业融资中扮演着更重要角色的英美两国，资产价格的膨胀也无力去鼓励消费者消费或企业投资。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, African countries need to put their political and economic houses in order.",
        "从更广义的角度讲，非洲国家需要规范自己的政治和经济秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that when everyone supposedly already agrees on where they are going, there seems to be no need for extensive democratic deliberation.",
        "问题在于当所有人都被认为已经同意了方向时，便似乎不再有高度政治自由化的必要。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, we can be amazed at the foolishness of America’s president and the corruption of the US Republican Party.",
        "归根结底，我们可以为美国总统的愚蠢和美国共和党的腐败而感到惊讶。"
    ],
    [
        "And only such a new institutional structure could respond to that deep cry for dignity.",
        "也只有这样崭新的制度架构才能够顺应人们内心深处对于自尊的渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "The terrible timing of the US-Colombia military agreement also gave Chávez and his allies a reason to build up their armies against the “evil imperialist ianque .”",
        "美国--哥伦比亚军事协议的糟糕时机还为查韦斯及其盟友壮大军力对抗“邪恶的帝国主义美国佬” 提供了理由。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these changes were rammed through the Congress as constitutional amendments, exempting them from appeals to the courts.",
        "所有这些改变都以宪法修正案的形式在国会强行推动，从而避免了可能引发的法庭诉讼。"
    ],
    [
        "Or fester like a sore—",
        "还是像一处溃疡——"
    ],
    [
        "Two million Iraqi refugees are scattered around the region, the great majority of them in Jordan and Syria, with smaller numbers in Turkey, Lebanon, and Egypt.",
        "200万伊拉克难民分散到中东各地，大部分人在约旦和叙利亚，少部分人在土耳其、黎巴嫩和埃及。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, at least one of his pre-crisis columns flatly contradicts his view today that current – or even higher – levels of federal debt carry no risk whatsoever.",
        "此外，在他在危机前所撰写的专栏文章中，至少有一篇与他现今的观点完全相悖。 他最近指出，当前——甚至更高的——联邦债务水平根本不会带来风险。"
    ],
    [
        "True, some Chinese scholars remain inclined to argue that the entire R2P enterprise – particularly its sanction of military action in exceptional cases– is just “old neo-interventionist wine in a new bottle.”",
        "诚然，一些中国学者仍习惯性地指出整个R2P思想——特别是其在极端情形下的军事行动制裁——无非是“新瓶装旧酒的新干预主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "In Hungary’s 2010 parliamentary election, Orbán’s Fidesz party won 53% of the vote, and 263 of the National Assembly’s 386 seats.",
        "在2010年举行的匈牙利议会选举中，欧尔班的青年民主主义者联盟党（简称民盟）赢得了53%的选票以及国民议会386席位中的263个。"
    ],
    [
        "To help the most vulnerable communities become more resilient to the effects of climate change, financial institutions should support small and medium-size enterprises.",
        "要想帮助最弱势群体适应气候变化的影响，金融机构必须对中小企业给予支持。"
    ],
    [
        "A regional initiative would also allow Prime Minister David Cameron to accommodate opposition within his party to onshore renewable energy plants.",
        "”一个区域性动议也将让首相戴维·卡梅伦得以安抚本党内那些反对建设内陆可再生能源发电站的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – Asian countries have been watching the Greek crisis unfold with a mixture of envy and schadenfreude.",
        "首尔—亚洲国家以一种混杂着嫉妒和幸灾乐祸的心情看待希腊危机。"
    ],
    [
        "But, by playing a positive role in bringing about a successful and peaceful transfer of power, China can secure a friendly neighbor in Burma more effectively than with its current policy, which merely incurs the hatred of the Burmese people.",
        "但是，通过在引导权力成功和和平的更迭中扮演积极的角色，中国可以比它现行的政策更有效地让缅甸成为一个友好的邻国，因为它现在的政策只会引发缅甸人民的仇恨。"
    ],
    [
        "The absence of a lender of last resort in today’s world only magnifies the threat involved in each crisis.",
        "最后贷款人在当今全世界的缺失只会加深每个危机的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "China today is a contradiction.",
        "当今的中国是一个矛盾体。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the important thing was not to nationalize the capital stock, but to socialize investment. Industry could be safely left in private hands, provided the state guaranteed enough spending power in the economy to maintain a full-employment level of investment.",
        "凯恩斯告诉我们，严重失业现象产生的原因不是劳工受到资本家的剥削，而是在未知世界中的私人投资不确定的投资前景。"
    ],
    [
        "There is another vicious circle: Economic inequality translates into political inequality, which in turn reinforces the former, including through a tax system that allows people like Romney – who insists that he has been subject to an income-tax rate of “at least 13%” for the last ten years – not to pay their fair share.",
        "还有另一个恶性循环：经济不平等性转化为政治不平等性，而后者又反过来强化前者，反馈渠道就包括允许向罗姆尼这样的人——他坚持认为自己过去十年中经受着“至少13%”所得税税率的折磨——不用缴纳公平税负的税收制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran is expected to stay young until after 2020, but could then become super-aged less than 30 years later.",
        "伊朗在2020年前或许仍能保持年轻，但之后可能只用不到30年就成为超高龄国家。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be hard to imagine Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan accepting a similar relative position.",
        "难以想象罗斯福或者里根会接受这样类似的居于人下的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "The main differences, though, are political.",
        "但最重要的差异是在政治领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite all the differences that might exist between the two countries – differences that are likely to grow – there is no alternative to their alliance.",
        "尽管两国之间存有分歧而且有可能扩大，但是它们两国除了联盟别无选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the plausible passengers are southern European firms. They understand that their countries’ fiscal positions are unsustainable.",
        "如今，南欧的众多企业就好比车上的乘客，它们明白，它们所在国家的财政状况是不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "Prenatal testing of fetuses (or of in vitro embryos before transfer to the uterus) is now well established throughout the developed world.",
        "胎儿（或者对尚未植入子宫的试管婴儿胚胎）出生以前的检测在发达国家已经非常完善。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither democracy nor markets are seen by most Russians as absolute values, because they have failed to deliver either prosperity or security.",
        "在大多数俄罗斯人眼里，民主和市场都不是绝对价值，因为民主和市场并没有带来繁荣与稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "It is worth recalling that 50 years ago, the largest immigrant populations in northern Europe hailed from Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Spain.",
        "回想50年前，北欧地区最大的移民群体都来自于意大利、希腊，葡萄牙和西班牙。"
    ],
    [
        "And we refuse to learn the lesson of the black swan even when the next one is already visible for all to see!",
        "甚至下一个黑天鹅已然清晰可见的时候，我们仍拒绝吸取已经发生的黑天鹅事件的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "I was fortunate to meet Fu, who is now Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress.",
        "很幸运能与傅莹会晤，现在她是中国人大外事委员会主任委员。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment is certainly a politically appealing theme.",
        "毫无疑问，投资是一个在政治上颇为讨好的主题。"
    ],
    [
        "But, without compromise, a democracy becomes ungovernable.",
        "但没有妥协的民主根本无法管理。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eurozone, growth in the latest quarter was underwhelming.",
        "在欧元区，最近一个季度的增长令人失望。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent paper, the International Monetary Fund’s Emine Boz, Princeton’s Mikkel Plagborg-Møller, and I construct bilateral export- and import-price indices for 2,500 country pairs, covering 91% of world trade for the period 1989-2015.",
        "在最近发表的一篇论文中，国际货币基金组织的艾敏·博兹（Emine Boz），普林斯顿大学的米盖尔·普拉博-穆勒（Mikkel Plagborg-Møller）和笔者构建了涵盖1989 ~2015年间全球91%贸易额的2500个国家的双边进出口价格配对指数。"
    ],
    [
        "They developed the airport, to support the local private airline COPA as it became a regional player.",
        "他们开发机场以支持根底私营航空公司COPA成为地区性企业。"
    ],
    [
        "ExxonMobil, Chevron, the US Chamber of Commerce, and Koch Industries are all major players, and almost all of the Republican members of Congress are implicated in this disgraceful behavior.",
        "埃克森美孚、雪弗龙、美国商会和科赫工业都是主要的参与者，几乎所有共和党国会议员都参与了这种可耻的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation is complicated by the “Noah’s Ark” effect: while a small total area can house many species, it may not be able to ensure their long-term sustainability.",
        "“诺亚方舟”效应使得局面变得更为复杂：尽管一小片面积可以容纳很多物种，但却可能无法满足这些物种长期繁衍的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate estimates that such cities could reduce capital requirements for urban infrastructure by more than $3 trillion over the next 15 years.",
        "此外，全球经济和气候委员会估计这样的城市可以在今后15年减少对城市基础建设的资金需求超过3万亿。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider a population of ten people (say, a factory) in which the managing director earns $150,000 a year and the other nine, all workers, earn $10,000 each.",
        "考虑一个十人社会（比如一家工厂），董事每年赚15万美元，其他九名工人每人赚1万美元。 他们的平均收入是2."
    ],
    [
        "The left, which would strongly influence any “third front” government, are staunchly opposed to economic liberalization and wish to strengthen, rather than dilute, India’s large public sector.",
        "而国大党主要是通过社会改革计划，倾向于将财富分配给一般的穷人。 而最后一种组阁方式，也就是被称为“第三阵线”政府，他们强烈反对经济的自由化，主张加强，而不是分化国有企业的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Joseph Stalin famously quipped when told to be mindful of the Vatican.",
        "”在被告知当心梵蒂冈时，斯大林讽刺道。"
    ],
    [
        "The cautious steps toward wage subsidies that her government has taken are mere window dressing and cannot be taken seriously.",
        "其政府在实施工资补贴上的谨小慎微的做法也仅仅是装饰门面而已，不可当真。"
    ],
    [
        "Creating real and lasting change will require helping men and women work together.",
        "男女必须竭诚合作才能实现真正的永久性变化。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, efforts to curb public debt have centered on painful austerity measures, including substantial cuts in the supply of public goods, especially health care and education.",
        "目前为止，抑制公共负债的举措都集中在痛苦的紧缩措施之上，包括对公共产品供应（尤其是医疗教育）的持续削减。"
    ],
    [
        "But while all countries must deal with the challenges of globalization and technological change, important elements of governance in the EU are beyond the reach of democratic institutions, at least those that people understand and relate to.",
        "即便所有国家都必须应对全球化和技术变革的挑战，但欧盟的重要治理元素却是超出民主体制之外的，至少那些人们理解和接触的方面就是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, while America’s early-twentieth-century race laws are gone, it still has the same overheated democratic order and common-law flexibility that it had back then.",
        "毕竟，尽管美国20世纪初的种族法律已经不复存在，但它仍拥有当时那样过热的民主秩序和普通法的灵活裁量；"
    ],
    [
        "(Indeed, stricter banking regulation has been endorsed by all.)",
        "（事实上，加强银行监管是所有人都同意的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "But a resumption of progress in the region is impossible without political solutions that reduce violence and social unrest.",
        "但如果没有减少暴力和社会动荡的政治解决方案，该地区就不可能恢复曾经有过的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Barclays has total assets of around $2.5 trillion – roughly the size of the UK’s annual GDP – and is either the fifth- or eighth-largest bank in the world, depending on how one measures balance sheets.",
        "巴克莱的总资产约有2. 5万亿美元，同英国的年均GDP规模相近，以不同的方式衡量，是世界第五大或第八大银行。"
    ],
    [
        "An effective non-proliferation regime will not be possible unless the major nuclear powers, especially the United States and Russia, take urgent steps toward nuclear disarmament.",
        "美国和俄罗斯拥有25,000个核子弹头，占世界核武器的96%。"
    ],
    [
        "By that is meant essentially a public interest in allowing the economy to evolve flexibly, so that resources move from uses that have become unprofitable to ones that have a higher potential.",
        "这本质上意味着公共利益：让经济灵活演化，从而让资源从无法盈利的用途流向潜力更大的用途。"
    ],
    [
        "This would be different from applying sanctions, which would risk triggering a “ Masada Complex” that might push Israel to further extremes.",
        "这个举措和实施制裁不同，因为制裁将有可能触发以色列的“马撒达复杂心理”并将这个国家推向极端。"
    ],
    [
        "The Scarecrow of National Debt",
        "国债纸老虎"
    ],
    [
        "Northeast Asia contains the last remnants of the Cold War: the divided Korean Peninsula and hostile glares across the Taiwan Straits.",
        "东北亚仍存在着冷战的最后遗迹：分裂的朝鲜半岛和台湾海峡两端的敌对形势。"
    ],
    [
        "So what happens now?",
        "那么，现在发生了什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, the evidence suggests that societies spend ever-larger fractions of their income on health over time, in contrast to food expenditures, for example, which fall as countries become wealthier.",
        "最终，证据表明社会随着时间的推移在医疗上花费越来越多的收入部分。 随着各国变得富有，相对食品花费就会下降。"
    ],
    [
        "But other important indicators – like retail sales and housing – show upticks.",
        "但其他重要指标——如零售额和住房——表现出上升势头。"
    ],
    [
        "Political pluralism cannot be imposed.",
        "政治多元主义是无法强加的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US invasion and occupation of Iraq, for example, created a major opening for Al Qaeda, whose affiliates now represent the Sunni struggle against the Shia-dominated government.",
        "比如，美国对伊拉克的入侵和占领给基地组织敞开了大门，其附属组织目前代表着逊尼派与什叶派控制的政府作对。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher education in Puerto Rico remains strong, but more than 80,000 people leave every year (and only 20,000 move in).",
        "波多黎各高等教育依然强大，但每年有 80,000多人离开（而只有20,000人迁入）。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet these countries have so far played a rather unimaginative and timid role in international forums such as the G-20 or the World Trade Organization.",
        "但到目前为止，这些国家在G20和世贸组织等国际舞台上既无足轻重，又畏首畏尾。"
    ],
    [
        "Each country would have to agree to a combination of tax cuts and increases in government spending scaled to the size of the economic downturn.",
        "各国必须达成一致，根据经济衰退的规模采取联合减税和增加政府支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite policy differences, Sarkozy would be for France what Margaret Thatcher was for Britain: someone who would lead the country out of its impasse, conserving the best aspects of dirigisme but finally giving entrepreneurs room to grow, cracking down on crime, and reforming education.",
        "尽管存在着政策上的差异，但萨科奇之于法国，就如同玛格丽特·撒切尔之于英国：他/她将会领导国家走出困境，保留统制政策中的最佳方面，但最后也会给企业家们提供成长空间，严厉打击犯罪，实施教育改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But since when does one pay taxes on embezzled funds?",
        "然而，从何时起人们开始对贪污的钱纳税了？"
    ],
    [
        "Ending these subsidies would reduce CO2 emissions, air pollution, and automobile congestion.",
        "终止这些补贴可以减少二氧化碳排放、空气污染和交通拥堵。"
    ],
    [
        "His is a rather sober reading of reality: the austerity plan has become a highway to social hell for his countrymen, and would likely condemn Greece to long years of ruinous depression within a permanent debt trap, and possibly to a breakdown of democracy.",
        "他的口号可谓对现实有着清醒的认识：对他的同胞来说，紧缩计划不啻通往社会地狱的高速公路，可能会让希腊陷入多年的破坏性衰退，在甩不掉的债务陷阱中苦苦挣扎，甚至可能导致民主制度崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "These demographic differences underscore the potential benefits of rethinking economic and political relations.",
        "这些人口差异意味着重新思考经济和政治关系具有很大的潜在收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Obesity rates tend to explode in countries where food was once scarce and suddenly becomes plentiful.",
        "粮食曾经稀缺、猛然间又充足的国家，肥胖率总是会出现飙升。"
    ],
    [
        "So, Germans and others, are you listening carefully to these voices? Aren’t you afraid?",
        "那么对于在这方面尤为突出的德国人或其他人来说，难道不应感到汗颜吗？"
    ],
    [
        "At last, Japan would become a fully functioning democracy, and not a de facto one-party state run by bureaucrats.",
        "最终日本的民主制度将充分运转起来，不再是像以前那样虽号称民主，实际上却是一个在官僚手中运转着的一党专政国家。"
    ],
    [
        "These unsustainable high rates are transmitting major risks to the real economy.",
        "这一不可持续的高利率正在把巨大的风险转移给实体经济。"
    ],
    [
        "At the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, experts named water risk as one of the top four risks facing business in the twenty-first century.",
        "在本年度的达沃斯世界经济论坛上，专家将水风险列为21世纪企业面临的四大风险之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the Ministry of Economics recognizes that Russia has entered a recession that will last at least six months.",
        "连俄罗斯经济部都承认，俄罗斯已经进入了一个至少要持续六个月的衰退期。"
    ],
    [
        "In the run-up to the 2008 crisis, the largest US banks had around 4% equity relative to their assets.",
        "在迈向2008年危机的过程中，美国几家大银行的净值/资产比率约为4％。"
    ],
    [
        "In American eyes, the Kosovo war in 1999 demonstrated NATO’s glaring and myriad shortcomings, while the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, moved America still further away from the Alliance, particularly after President George W. Bush disparagingly rejected NATO’s offer of help.",
        "在美国人的眼中，1999年的科索沃战争反映了北约的种种软肋，而2001年9月11日的恐怖袭击更使得美国与北约渐行渐远，特别是在布什总统轻蔑地拒绝了北约的援助之后。"
    ],
    [
        "The North Pole turned into a lake for the first time in 2000.",
        "北极在2000年首次变成了一个湖。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump promises to boost US growth immediately to 4-5%, but this is pure fantasy.",
        "特朗普承诺立即将美国增长提高到4—5%，但这纯粹是痴人说梦。"
    ],
    [
        "But the scale of the challenges facing the region should impel all of SAARC’s members toward greater cooperation.",
        "但该地区所面临的挑战规模之大应该促使所有SAARC成员国进行更深层次的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The Old World’s New Roles",
        "旧世界的新角色"
    ],
    [
        "More prosaically, leaders with contextual intelligence, like surfers, have the ability to judge and adjust to new waves and ride them successfully.",
        "更平白点说，有肆应商的领袖与冲浪者一样，具有判断和驾驭新潮流的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "If a future government deviated from the policy, capital flight would bring it to its knees.",
        "如果未来政府抛弃这一政策，则资本外逃将迫使他们就范。"
    ],
    [
        "One lesson than can be drawn from these data is the potential value of social media, which, despite being constrained in many countries during elections, remains a potent tool to facilitate youth political engagement.",
        "从这些数据中，我们可以总结一个经验，即，尽管社交媒体在许多国家的选举期间饱受遏制，它仍然是便利青年参与政治的有力工具。"
    ],
    [
        "France is also in desperate need of a reality check on the nature of its current cultural diversity.",
        "法国同时也迫切需要认真检视他们目前的文化多元性。"
    ],
    [
        "This, along with widening income inequality, helps explain how voters can be swayed by a candidate like Trump, especially when they live, as many increasingly do, in their own information universes.",
        "这种现象在收入不平等持续扩大的助推下可以部分解释像特朗普这样的候选人何以能够打动投票者，尤其当越来越多的投票者生活在他们自己与世隔绝的信息领域之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Failing to make progress is one thing; dismantling the rules-based order that has underpinned relative peace and prosperity for seven decades is quite another.",
        "无法取得进步是一回事； 但摧毁七十年来支撑相对和平与繁荣的以规则为基础的秩序则完全不同。"
    ],
    [
        "STOCKHOLM – The next 18-24 months are likely to decide the shape of Europe for decades to come, and the United Kingdom has now started the clock on that process.",
        "斯托克霍姆—未来18—24个月可能将决定欧洲未来几十年的格局，而英国已经开启了这一过程的发条。"
    ],
    [
        "Having lost Syrian backing, it is hoping that the Egyptian Brothers will provide its kindred movement with political and logistical support.",
        "在失去了叙利亚的支持后，哈马斯希望埃及穆斯林兄弟会能向志同道合的自己提供政治和物流支持。"
    ],
    [
        "When you sell more to the world than you buy, you accumulate claims on the rest of the world – and you need to decide the form in which you want to hold those claims.",
        "当你向世界卖出的东西小于买进的东西时，你就会累积对世界其他部分的债权，并且你需要决定以何种形式持有这一债权。"
    ],
    [
        "GDP in Holland and Italy shrank in the last quarter, and France’s barely budged.",
        "上个季度荷兰和意大利GDP呈现收缩之势，法国则勉强持平。"
    ],
    [
        "The first objection is surely no longer true of the advanced economies, while the second is irrelevant, given that the goal is not to strengthen the incentive to work, but to enable people to live without work.",
        "第一个局限显然已经不适用于发达经济体，而第二个局限无关紧要，因为目标不是激励人们去工作，而是让人们可以脱离工作生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Although industry incumbents may be slow to shift gears, developing countries creating next-generation biopharma hubs have a unique opportunity to adopt and benefit from alternative models.",
        "行业巨头也许需要很长时间才能改变方针，但正在打造新一代生物制药枢纽的发展中国家有很好的机会实施这些另类模式并从中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "This could trigger a vicious circle of mounting debt and uncontrollable inflation, with devastating consequences.",
        "这将引发一个债务不断堆积且通胀失控的恶性循环，并带来极其恶劣的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But there would nonetheless be some reason to hope for moral progress.",
        "但即便如此，也有理由去期望更多的道德进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, my perspective is heavily colored by events in the world of chess, a game I once played at a professional level and still follow from a distance.",
        "随着全球经济艰难走出过去的十年而迈向2010开始的新十年，全球增长的下一个动力将会是什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Some supermarkets have already begun relaxing standards on fruit appearance, selling “misshapen” items at reduced prices and helping to raise awareness that ugly does not mean bad.",
        "一些超级市场已开始放松对水果外观的标准，以折扣价售卖“畸形”水果，这有助于让人们了解丑并不意味着差。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, the Kurds - who are distinct in language, culture, and historical consciousness from Arabs - never had their day in court.",
        "历史上看，虽然库尔德人在语言、文化和历史观念上与阿拉伯人有着很大差距，但却从未在法庭上取得过发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s demographic trends hold several adverse implications for its economy.",
        "中国的人口趋势对其经济会带来很多负面的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The fiscal deficit is higher than 6% of GDP, the trade balance is negative, and public debt – albeit lower than in all other European countries except Germany and the Netherlands – is nonetheless 80% of GDP. France urgently needs structural reforms – and thus a strong government.",
        "虽然失业率居高和经济增幅较低，德国在短期内的宏观经济稳定还没有受到威胁，但随着人口老龄化和出生率持续下降，未来几十年的情况堪忧。"
    ],
    [
        "At this point, there is likely to be some downward instability in prices, because enthusiasm for investing in houses is likely to wane in line with declining price growth.",
        "而眼下，对于房地产业的投资热情很可能会随着房价上涨速度的减弱而衰退，这样一来，房价便有向下回落的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "There is little time to act.",
        "采取行动的时间已经不多了。"
    ],
    [
        "The real culprit is the euro.",
        "真正的罪魁是欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "With the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, however, the chickens came home to roost.",
        "然而，2001年9. 11事件发生后，美国开始自食其果。"
    ],
    [
        "Several years ago, Greek exports of goods and services were equal to those of Portugal.",
        "几年前，希腊商品和服务出口与葡萄牙相当。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, there is a positive feedback loop between scientific and technological progress.",
        "换句话说，科学与技术进步之间存在正反馈环。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not so strong as to leave those who would fight it with only the politics of the lesser of two evils.",
        "但它还没有强大到让自己的对手只能采取两害相权取其轻的对策。"
    ],
    [
        "Western investment banks and multinationals can use princelings’ elite academic credentials to justify hiring them, even if the real reason is the hope that putting a princeling on the payroll will give the company a rainmaker in China.",
        "西方投资银行和跨国公司可以凭借太子党的精英学历雇佣他们，即便真正的原因是希望工资单上的太子党能帮助公司在中国呼风唤雨。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Ten or 20 years ago, the existential question facing the European Union was whether it still had a purpose in a globalized world.",
        "巴黎—十年或二十年前，欧盟所面临的生存问题是，在一个全球化的世界里，它是否仍有意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Lessons from the Anti-Globalists",
        "来自反全球化者的教训"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, press freedom in Ukraine has come under increasing attack in the year Sheremet was murdered.",
        "事实上，在谢里梅特被杀以来的一年中，乌克兰言论自由受到的攻击日益严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, an equilibrium of sorts between constitutional review and a concern not to cause excessive legal instability has been found.",
        "这样，我们就在合宪性审议和避免法律过度动荡之间达到了平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "In Russia, unlike in most other countries, the central bank does not retain the exclusive right to intervene.",
        "与大部分其他国家不同，在俄罗斯，中央银行没有独家干预权。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia has also been enforcing a complete trade embargo on Georgia in the hope of weakening the resolve of its pro-Western president, Mikhail Saakashvili.",
        "俄罗斯也一直在强化对格鲁吉亚的全面贸易禁运以期削弱亲西方的总统Mikhail Saakashvili的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the latter requires delivering the former; but it also means going beyond statistics, to comprehend that we are all individuals with our own hopes, fears, and aspirations.",
        "当然，后者需要以前者为基础； 但同时也意味着要超越统计数据的羁绊，从有希望、有恐惧和有抱负的鲜活的人的角度来理解民众的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "It creates a story for each member of the nation, a story about what he or she can do as part of a successful country.",
        "民族主义构成了对全体国民的故事，一个关于他或她在一个成功的国家可以做些什么的故事。"
    ],
    [
        "Here are some ways to reduce the overhang.",
        "在这里有一些减少威胁（overhang）的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Productivity also matters.",
        "生产率也很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The lower marginal tax rates induced individuals to work more and to receive more of their potential income in taxable cash rather than in fringe benefits and other forms of compensation that are not subject to tax.",
        "更低的边际税率诱导个人工作更长时间，让他们的潜在所得更多地以应税现金的形式而不是补贴福利和其他非应税报酬的形式获得。"
    ],
    [
        "The dollar’s continued climb will exacerbate these problems.",
        "美元继续升值将恶化这一系列问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The six governments that are currently considering the next steps to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb – the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany – should heed that advice.",
        "”六国政府，也就是联合国安理会五个常任理事国和德国目前正在考虑下一步的步骤来防止伊朗发展原子弹。"
    ],
    [
        "With fallow soil and a poor climate inhibiting agriculture, North Korea’s government has indeed apparently been encouraging a growing number of fishing boats to go farther out in search of bigger catches.",
        "由于土地撂荒和恶劣气候限制农业发展，朝鲜政府其实一直在鼓励更多渔船为提高产量而驶向远海。"
    ],
    [
        "Such talks – “dialogue” as the Chinese often call it – would most likely bring with it a general acceptance of North Korea as a nuclear-weapons state.",
        "这样的会谈——中国人往往称之为“对话”——很可能带来普遍接受朝鲜为有核国家的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, as Holmes might say, Trump has been disqualified by his second-class temperament.",
        "”或者也许霍姆斯会说，特朗普就败在了他二流的气质上。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic balm applied to old social and cultural wounds is losing its effectiveness.",
        "治疗社会和文化老伤口的经济药方正在失效。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Bush administration politicized the delivery of aid by channeling it through private religious groups that are part of the administration’s political coalition.",
        "而且，布什政府通过以私营宗教团体来派发援助的做法而将提供援助政治化了。 这些宗教团体是布什政府政治联盟的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, alcoholic-beverage producers are leading sponsors of men’s professional sports, but rarely sponsor women’s sporting events.",
        "比如，酒精饮料厂商是男子职业体育的领先赞助者，但极少赞助女子体育赛事。"
    ],
    [
        "By contributing to a shutdown of federal-government operations and repeatedly raising the threat of a technical default, it risked undermining an already-fragile US economic recovery.",
        "它导致联邦政府运转“停车”并一再造成技术违约威胁，有可能破坏已然十分脆弱的美国经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to the GBIRd project, for example, one might ask whether the “daughterless mouse” could escape the specific ecosystem into which it has been introduced, just as GMO crops and farmed salmon do, and what would happen if it did.",
        "比如，在GBIRd工程上，我们可以问问“生不出女儿的老鼠”是否会从引入它们的生态系统中逃逸——转基因庄稼和养殖三文鱼就发生过这种情况——以及如果逃逸会发生什么。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now widely accepted that financial assistance alone will not bring about effective poverty reduction.",
        "现在被普遍接受的观点是：单纯的经济援助并不能有效遏制贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "The faster you run, the more scenery you see – so you have some incentive to run fast.",
        "你跑得越快，看到的风景就越多，于是你就有了快跑的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, economic deficiencies still abound in Mexico.",
        "说的更准确一些，墨西哥的经济其实还是存在很多问题的。"
    ],
    [
        "Diplomatic ripening sometimes requires the mediator to be a manipulator and an arm-twister.",
        "成熟的外交有时需要调解人对被调解人进行操纵，迫使被调解人违反自己的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "To enable progress, confidentiality was vital (despite US negotiators’ claims that the discussions were wholly transparent).",
        "为了取得进展，保密性至关重要（尽管美国谈判员声称讨论是完全透明的）。"
    ],
    [
        "So the short-run situation remains precarious.",
        "因此短期形势仍然严峻。"
    ],
    [
        "Poland is an excellent example of a successful economic and political transition.",
        "波兰是经济和政治转型成功的显著例子。"
    ],
    [
        "In issuing contingent capital, banks would have to pay a higher interest rate than they would on ordinary long-term debt, because debt investors will face the true cost of capital, not the government-subsidized cost.",
        "在发行后备资金之时，银行将支付比长期债券更高的利率，因为债权人将承担发行资本的成本，而不是政府来承担救助费用。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, I think that the EU is leading the way in developing countries with development policies that promote broad-based rural economic growth by boosting primary production and increasing its efficiency. Indeed, by promoting agricultural practices and technologies that are environmentally sustainable and raise rural incomes, these policies also stimulate rural non-farm activities.",
        "另一方面，我认为欧洲在这方面是起表率作用的，因为他们协助发展中国家推行开发政策，而该政策恰好就是通过增加基本农作物产量并提高效率的方式来促进基础更加广泛的农村经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "He suggested that I produce a typed copy, and provided me with the office of a general who was away.",
        "他建议我打出来，并把当时暂时空着的一间将军办公室借给我用。"
    ],
    [
        "But that agreement did not create a functional Bosnian central government with the capacity to undertake the reforms needed to meet the terms of accession to the European Union.",
        "但这一协定并没有产生一个用实际作用的，有足够能力推动符合加入欧盟条件的改革的波斯尼亚中央政府。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, we must strike the right balance between reinforcing indispensable structures and organizations like the UN and developing new norms and institutional means of minimizing long-term risks.",
        "因此，我们必须在强化不可或缺的结构和组织（如联合国）以及制定让长期风险最小化的新范式和机构手段之间找到正确的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Predictably, as truth commissions have become established components of transitional justice, former fighters have become increasingly worried that their reputations and political credibility could be on the line should past crimes ever come to light.",
        "可以想见，随着真相委员会成为过渡正义的组成部分，曾经的武装份子越来越担心曝光过去的罪行会影响他们的声誉和政治可信度。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Arab Spring demonstrated, the Internet can quickly transform local incidents into national flashpoints – turning the new connectivity into a potential source of political instability and turmoil.",
        "正如阿拉伯之春所显示的那样，互联网能将本地事件迅速转化为全国性的爆点——将新的互联性转化成引发政治不稳定和混乱的潜在源头。"
    ],
    [
        "The first component is the classic French Republican prohibition on gathering data in the official census – or by government agencies or public or private enterprises – on ethnicity, religion, and even social class.",
        "第一个要素是，法兰西共和国素来禁止在官方人口普查中，或者由政府机构或私营企业收集有关种族、宗教甚至是社会阶层的数据。"
    ],
    [
        "The great reforms of the past, including the liberation of the serfs in 1861, followed many years of discussions among westerners, slavophiles, and others.",
        "过去经历过的伟大改革，包括1861年的农奴解放，都是在西方人、亲斯拉夫人和其它种族多年讨论后形成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as the world has made tremendous progress with the MDGs, we can find our way to achieving the SDGs.",
        "世界已经在ＭＤＧ的指导下取得了巨大的进步，同理，我们可以找到实现SDG之路。"
    ],
    [
        "All the same, Iraq’s parliamentary electoral law should be drawn up to take two important factors into account:",
        "同样地，草拟伊拉克议会选举法时应该考虑以下两个重要的因素："
    ],
    [
        "The real problem is the lack of political will to implement and scale up those innovations opposed by vested economic interests.",
        "真正的问题在于缺乏政治意愿实施和扩大这些被既得经济利益反对的创新。"
    ],
    [
        "The American-led coalition can help by taking more steps that would reinforce a message of hope and optimism for the exhausted and demoralized Sunnis of Iraq.",
        "通过采取更多的措施，美国领导的联军能为精疲力竭、士气低落的伊拉克逊尼派带来更多的希望之光和乐观精神。"
    ],
    [
        "So, despite the Iraq war and the seeming impotence of world institutions, the beginning of the twenty-first century could well bring faster global improvement in political ethics than at any time in the past.",
        "因此，虽然有伊拉克战争和国际机构的无能，21世纪的开端可能会在政治伦理方面带来比在以往任何时候都要迅速的全球性进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Portuguese workers are fleeing to booming former colonies such as Brazil and Macau.",
        "事实上，葡萄牙工人正在逃向繁荣的昔日殖民地，比如巴西和澳门。"
    ],
    [
        "The feature of the proposed pact that elicits the most excitement – its focus on regulatory barriers like mandatory product standards – should actually incite the greatest concern.",
        "计划中的契约引起最多兴奋情绪的部分——其对强制性产品标准等监管壁垒的强调——实际上最应该引起关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, the worry at Davos was that there would be a retreat from even our flawed globalization, and that poor countries would suffer the most.",
        "即便如此，出现在达沃斯的忧虑仍然是各国将退出我们有缺陷的全球化进程，而且贫穷国家将蒙受最大损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, however, development does play a significant role.",
        "但是，显然，发展确实起到了重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not true of the perpetrators of the Cambodian genocide of the 1970's.",
        "然而对于上世纪70年代在柬埔寨制造有计划的种族大屠杀的人，情况却完全不同。"
    ],
    [
        "But European decisions are still made by sovereign – and, more important, elected – national governments after endless deliberation.",
        "但欧洲的决定仍由主权——更重要的是民选——国家政府在经过没完没了的审议之后做出。"
    ],
    [
        "Historical experience incites this suspicion.",
        "但是历史事实引发了这个疑问。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the coming months, however, leaders must work together to set the world on the right course to realize this vision.",
        "但是，在未来几个月中，领导人必须齐心协力，让世界走向实现这一愿景的正确道路。"
    ],
    [
        "The price to be paid for this political squeamishness is exacted in blood.",
        "这种政治神经质所要付出的代价已经融化在血液之中。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite being the EU’s third poorest country, the European Commission’s rulings mean that it must purchase emission quotas from richer and more polluting EU members that have done little to meet their Kyoto commitments.",
        "但是，尽管拉脱维亚是欧盟第三贫困的国家，欧盟委员会的裁决还是意味着该国必须从更加富有、污染更大、而且在履行京都责任方面毫无建树的欧盟成员国那里购买排放配额。"
    ],
    [
        "The increasing demand for more organs has driven us to legitimize this category as well.",
        "越来越迫切的器官需求已经驱使我们将这一领域合法化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, with the ability to make reliable predictions, we can put people and things into categories, whether market segments, disease risks, likely loan defaulters, potential purchasers, and so on.",
        "其实，可以按照可靠预测对细分市场、疾病风险、可能的贷款拖欠及潜在购买者等人和事物进行分类。"
    ],
    [
        "How would the veil of ignorance work in a boardroom?",
        "无知之幕理论如何在董事会中起作用？"
    ],
    [
        "Odinga worked hard to help elect Kibaki in 2002, only to see Kibaki renege on a similar pledge.",
        "奥廷加在2002年尽力帮助齐贝吉当选，而齐氏则随后食言。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynesian demand management was thus displaced by a new understanding – which we owe largely to Friedman – that pursuing fiscal discipline and price stability is the best guarantee of macroeconomic sustainability.",
        "这一理论认为，奉行财政纪律以及价格稳定是宏观经济长治久安的最佳保证。 这一理论在很大程度上药归功于弗里德曼。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial leverage drove global growth onward for almost another 30 years.",
        "金融杠杆推动了全球经济近30年的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The US also developed a particular populist belief that gun ownership constitutes a vital protection against government tyranny.",
        "美国还形成了一种带浓厚民粹主义色彩的信念：拥有枪支是抵抗暴政的关键手段。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, units of the People’s Liberation Army are engaged in dam and other strategic projects in the restive, Shia-majority region of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan-held Kashmir.",
        "比如在巴控克什米尔以什叶派穆斯林为主的吉尔吉特-巴尔蒂斯坦地区，中国人民解放军的某些相关单位就参与了水坝建造以及相关战略项目。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to achieve growth targets, the government thus must depend on exports and investment – an approach that leads to the accumulation of massive reserves, which subsequently need to be sterilized.",
        "为了实现增长目标，政府不得不依靠出口和投资——从而积累起巨额储备，而储备必须予以冲销。"
    ],
    [
        "Chávez continues to invite foreign oil companies to drill in the Orinoco basin, Lula maintains hefty budget surpluses, Kirchner ultimately accepts IMF conditionality, and Lagos maintains unmatched relations with Chile’s highly conservative private sector.",
        "查韦斯继续邀请国外石油公司在奥里诺科盆地采油，卢拉继续保持着巨大的预算盈余，基什内尔最终接受了国际货币基金组织的限制政策，拉戈斯也与智利高度保守的私有经济保持着千丝万缕的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the future, which always has been uncertain and always will be.",
        "以未来为例。 未来从来都是不确定的，也永远如此。"
    ],
    [
        "We do not underestimate the magnitude of the reforms that Europe has achieved in recent years.",
        "我们并没有低估欧洲在近几年来所取得的改革成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Until these difficult and controversial decisions are made, periods of relative tranquility in Europe are likely to be interrupted by the recurrent eruption of financial instability and bouts of political bickering and dithering.",
        "在这些困难而争议重重的选择做出之前，反复发作的财政失稳以及没完没了的政治争论和犹豫将打破欧洲的相对平静期。"
    ],
    [
        "While this severely weakened Japan’s defenses, the US ensured East Asia’s security by deploying an aircraft carrier and cruisers, and American forces also searched for missing victims together with the JSDF.",
        "而此举虽然严重削弱了日本的防御能力，但美国专门派遣了一艘航空母舰和巡洋舰来维护东亚安全局势，同时美军也与自卫队一道搜索灾难失踪者。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the three standard arguments for a green economy: climate change, energy security, and jobs.",
        "就拿关于绿色经济的三个基本论点来说吧。 它们是气候变化、能源安全和就业。"
    ],
    [
        "The result of these persistent conditions can be called “secular stagnation one” (SS1).",
        "这些持久性状况可称之为“长期停滞一”（SS1）。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, digital protectionism should be as suspect as any other form of protectionism, albeit with exceptions for health, safety, and social solidarity.",
        "首先，数字保护主义与其他任何类型的保护主义一样值得怀疑——卫生、安全和社会团结问题除外。"
    ],
    [
        "And that is why the [Israel] Lobby must keep constant pressure on US politicians to confront Tehran.”",
        "如果华盛顿能与拥核的苏联、中国甚至朝鲜共存，那么也能于拥核的伊朗共存。 这就是（以色列）游说团必须不断向美国政客施压对抗伊朗的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, if Medvedev actually meant what he says, he would be leading the opposition to the Russian state that Putin has built.",
        "当然，如果这真是梅德韦杰夫的肺腑之言，他本来会领导起普京一手打造的这个俄罗斯国家的反对派。"
    ],
    [
        "Ideally, such funding would help persuade more countries to follow Germany’s example.",
        "理想情况下，上述资金可能有助于说服更多国家效法德国。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is precisely the EU’s desire to look more and more like a nation-state that has pushed its position on the Arab-Israeli conflict in the wrong direction.",
        "但把欧洲在阿拉伯 - 以色列冲突中一步步往错误方向推的，恰恰就是欧盟试图逐渐表现得像一个单一国家的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "It just doesn’t work!",
        "这根本就没用！"
    ],
    [
        "So what really happened was that $850 billion of China’s foreign-exchange reserves had gone missing.",
        "因此，真正发生的情况是8,500亿美元的中国外汇储备灰飞烟灭。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to the one-time increase in the IMF’s resources, there ought to be substantial annual SDR issues, say, $250 billion, as long as the global recession lasts.",
        "国际货币基金组织财力除了过去的增长之外，只要全球经济衰退持续下去，就应该有大量的年度特别提款权收益，大约2500亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "But we need to pay as much attention to the people living in the mountain’s shadow.",
        "但实际上，更需要我们关注的，其实就是这些生活在山脚下的人们。"
    ],
    [
        "Hang Seav Heang, 28, described the defendant as a gentle man, a good father.",
        "28岁的Hang Seav Heang将被告描述为一位绅士，一个好父亲。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a dramatic discrepancy between the courage and tenacity of the demonstrators and fighters in Homs, Idlib, and Deraa, and the Syrian National Front, whose people and factions have failed to formulate a coherent political program, build an identity, and obtain name and face recognition.",
        "霍姆斯、伊德利卜和德拉等地战士和示威群众的勇猛和顽强与叙利亚国民阵线的态度有着很大的差别，国民阵线的民众和派别无法成功制定连贯的政治计划，在确立自己身份的同时逐渐为人所知。"
    ],
    [
        "Pure science, as the name suggests, is presented as the “real thing,” untainted by practical considerations and rooted in properly conducted empirical and theoretical investigation of nature.",
        "纯科学就像这个名称所表现的那样，被人们理解为“核心问题”，它没有被有关实际的考量所沾染，以来自自然的正确的经验和理论调查为根基。"
    ],
    [
        "When that protection disappears, we will all end up losing the freedoms that democracy was supposed to defend.",
        "当这一保护消失时，我们最终将失去作为民主应有之义的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "In a country with large fiscal deficits, the central bank may have to keep interest rates high to control inflation.",
        "如果一国有着巨大的财政赤字，那么其中央银行可能不得不维持高利率以控制通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Gradual fiscal consolidation – reducing the projected future size of government spending, and hence future tax rates – will have to be at the center of the effort.",
        "逐步财政整合——降低未来政府支出规模预期，从而降低税率——必须成为核心措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Such claims have persisted, despite the ongoing monetary-policy-driven, low-inflation recoveries in the United States, Europe, and Japan.",
        "这样的论调由来已久，尽管货币政策驱动的低通胀复苏在美国、欧洲和日本进行的十分良好。"
    ],
    [
        "Bannon, on the other hand, wrapped himself in what might be loosely termed a philosophy, which consisted of a nihilistic anger toward any “establishment.”",
        "另一方面，班农则把自己包装成一种不太严谨的所谓哲学，其中包括对任何“体制”的无政府主义抵制。"
    ],
    [
        "When government officials travel abroad to encourage economic cooperation, CEOs of some of the country’s biggest companies should go along.",
        "当政府官员出访外国以鼓励经济合作时，本国一些最大公司的CEO也应该随同出访。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia cannot afford more economic pain and suffering.",
        "俄罗斯无法再承受更多的经济痛苦和灾难了。"
    ],
    [
        "Their main effect will be psychological if widespread support for them creates a sense in Iran that it has isolated itself.",
        "这些惩罚的主要作用是心理上的，通过人们的普遍支持使伊朗觉得自己被孤立起来了。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth therefore must rely on the much slower accumulation of economy-wide capabilities in the form of human capital and institutions.",
        "因此，增长不得不依赖速度缓慢得多的全经济产能——人力资本和制度的积累。"
    ],
    [
        "It is highly unlikely that the US will react after Iraq as it did after Vietnam.",
        "美国在伊拉克战争之后做出类似越战后的反应的可能性微乎其微。"
    ],
    [
        "That is unlikely to change unless something is done to stop it.",
        "除非我们做些什么阻止这一点，否则情况不可能改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Jika perjanjian perdagangan sebagian besar adalah tentang tarif impor, maka perundingan pertukaran atas akses pasar biasanya menghasilkan hambatan impor yang lebih rendah. Ini adalah contoh manfaat keadaan dimana kelompok-kelompok lobi saling mengimbangi satu dengan lainnya.",
        "当贸易协定的主要内容是进口关税时，用市场准入作为交换条件一般总能让进口壁垒降低——这是游说集团的利益互相制衡的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The Eastern Partnership is based on the profound values of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.",
        "民主价值观、人权和法治是东部伙伴关系赖以建立的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Food may never cure any particular disease, but diets rich in fruits and vegetables, cereals and plant-sourced oils offer protection from many cancers, cardiovascular disease, and other illnesses associated with old age.",
        "食物无法治疗某一种疾病，但是大量摄入水果、蔬菜、谷类和植物油能有效防止多种癌症、心血管疾病和其他老年病。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, investors are expecting to receive only about half of what they are owed.",
        "换句话说，投资者预期，债务人只能偿还一半的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time of the Boxer Rebellion, Japan fully understood that to contribute to the world for the \"emergency protection of foreign residents\" was a \"matter of national importance.\"",
        "在义和团起义期间，日本深刻领悟了和世界一起\"紧急保护外国公民\"是\"一件国家大事\"。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet they tend to pluralize world politics by calling attention to issues that governments prefer to ignore, and by acting as pressure groups across borders.",
        "但它们通过让人们关注政府不愿关注的问题和作为跨国界的压力集团而使世界政治多元化。"
    ],
    [
        "Helmut Schmidt’s World",
        "赫尔穆特·施密特的世界"
    ],
    [
        "But, without vastly improved screening practices, prostate cancer screening is unlikely to help – and can even do serious harm.",
        "但是，除非筛查能够有重大进步，否则前列腺癌筛查称不上有益，甚至可能有害。"
    ],
    [
        "Nixon got that right.",
        "在这一点上，尼克松是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bookies and the British Election",
        "博彩公司和英国选举"
    ],
    [
        "After the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in 1923, two nation-states (Iran and Turkey) emerged, while the Arabs were distributed among 22 new countries, generally under British or French colonial domination.",
        "1923年奥斯曼帝国解体后崛起了两个民族国家（伊朗和土耳其），而阿拉伯人组成了22个新国家，这些国家大体上是根据英国和法国的殖民地划分的。"
    ],
    [
        "The political system also remains unsettled.",
        "政治体系同样充满动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The fiscal and economic arguments for a more liberal approach to migration have shaped the American debate.",
        "在美国的争论中，起主导作用的是更自由的移民政策带来的财政和经济好处。"
    ],
    [
        "No European leader risks antagonizing the Saudis by raising the issue of democracy and human rights.",
        "没有任何欧洲领导人敢于用民主人权这些议题来激怒沙特人。"
    ],
    [
        "The False Promise of Negative Interest Rates",
        "负利率的假前途"
    ],
    [
        "At the close of the Cold War, Central and Eastern Europe’s economies were burdened by pervasive state ownership and concentrated investments in heavy industry.",
        "冷战结束时，中欧和东欧经济背负着沉重的国家所有制和集中投资于重工业的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "The movement also raised the bar sexually: Shere Hite let women know in 1973 that if they could not reach orgasm through intercourse alone, they weren’t aberrant – they could ask for more and subtler sexual attention.",
        "这场运动甚至在性的方面也设下了标杆：在1973年，希尔·海特就告诉她的女性同胞们，如果无法通过性交达到性高潮，千万不要认为自己不正常——女性可以在性方面要求更多更细致的关心。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only did reckless monetary accommodation set the stage for Japan’s demise; the country’s central bank compounded the problem by taking policy rates to the zero bound (and even lower), embracing quantitative easing, and manipulating long-term interest rates in the hopes of reviving the economy.",
        "不仅使用鲁莽的货币宽松政策为日本的衰亡奠定了基础； 该国央行还将政策利率归零（甚至更低），实施量化宽松政策和操纵长期利率以期复兴经济，却令问题变得更为复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "What would it take to essentially eliminate Iran’s uranium enrichment effort?",
        "怎样才能从根本上使伊朗放弃它的铀浓缩计划呢？"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it was the youth of North Africa, both at home and abroad, whose notions of freedom helped bring down dictators in Egypt and Tunisia. Their talents and energy should now be cultivated and harnessed to help rebuild their societies.",
        "毕竟正是国内外的北非年轻人对自由的渴望将埃及和突尼斯的独裁者赶了下台，而他们的才干和活力也应当被培养和引导去帮助重建本国社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Then the IDF occupied the TV station itself and destroyed it, along with the team’s computers and cameras.",
        "以色列国防军随后占领并破坏了电视台，随之遭难的还有巴方团队的电脑和摄像机。"
    ],
    [
        "With independence in 1961, these rules were codified in a constitution.",
        "1961年独立后，这些法则写进了宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "For athletes who want to compete clean, the threat that they may be beaten by a competitor who is not faster, stronger, or more dedicated, but who takes a drug to gain the edge, is profoundly personal.",
        "对那些想凭实力参加比赛的运动员来说，他们便面临着被不比他们更快、更强或更努力，但因服用兴奋剂而赢得体能的选手打败的可能，这对于运动员个人来说有着深刻的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "· Competition is spiritually demeaning.",
        "· 竞争是一种精神上的贬损。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require that both sides focus on the issue at hand – a challenge especially for the Americans, whose official discussions with the Chinese inevitably become an effort to plow through a laundry list of issues often advanced by single-issue constituencies.",
        "这需要双方集中力量解决手头的问题，这对美国而言似乎尤其困难，因为与中国人的正式谈判肯定会分解为由单一问题选区推进的一系列事务。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, my prediction gained bold front-page headlines in many major newspapers throughout the world.",
        "然而，我的预言却在全世界的许多重要报纸上以粗体字上了头条。"
    ],
    [
        "But the country has instead moved in exactly the opposite direction.",
        "但南非却反其道而行之。"
    ],
    [
        "Further Russian interference in Ukraine – directly and/or through separatist proxies in Donbas – would present the West with a stark choice.",
        "俄罗斯进一步干预乌克兰——直接和/或通过顿巴斯分裂主义代理人干预——将让西方面临艰难的抉择。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the US Commerce Department statistics are not as helpful in pinpointing the source of the impetus, because only a partial country list is published.",
        "在欧洲问题上，美国商务部的统计数字在描绘动力源方面的效能要差一些，因为只有部分国家的数字被公布了。"
    ],
    [
        "This will occur precisely at a time when Latin America is swerving left, with country after country drifting back to anti-American, populist stances: Venezuela in 1999, Bolivia last year, perhaps Mexico, Peru, and Nicaragua later this year.",
        "而这一情况恰恰发生在拉美向左转，一个接着一个回到反美主义和民粹主义的立场。 先是1999年的委内瑞拉，然后是去年的玻利维亚，今年晚些时候可能还有墨西哥、秘鲁和尼加拉瓜。"
    ],
    [
        "Such proposals, if accepted, would help resolve the current dispute to everyone’s satisfaction.",
        "此类建议如果得到接受，将会帮助解决目前的争议，各方都满意。"
    ],
    [
        "Several key factors are driving the region’s political dynamics.",
        "该地区政治动态受几个重要因素推动。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Chinese in Australia, some of whom regard their new home as a haven from repression and corruption, have become enthusiastic Australians with a proud Chinese heritage.",
        "大部分在澳华人——其中一些将新家园视为逃离压迫和腐败的避难所——成为有着骄傲中国遗产的铁杆澳大利亚人。"
    ],
    [
        "In the preaching of Islamists seeking recruits, he notes, are “descriptions of a paradise more similar to a bordello than the reward for pious individuals, fantasies of virgins for suicide bombers, morality police chasing down women showing too much skin, the puritanism of dictatorship, veils, and burqas.”",
        "他指出在招募伊斯兰教徒的布道中，“对天堂的描绘不像是对虔诚者的奖励而更像是一所妓院，自杀式炸弹袭击者对于处女的幻想、道德警察追捕肌肤裸露过多的妇女以及专政、蒙面和掀开面纱的清教徒习俗。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Would Harry fade from memory?",
        "哈利会不会从记忆中消失？"
    ],
    [
        "Like the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the Zika outbreak in Central and South America in 2015 hit vulnerable social groups – women and children, ethnic minorities, and the poor – the hardest.",
        "和2014年西非埃博拉爆发一样，2015年寨卡在中南美洲的爆发，首当其冲的也是社会弱势群体——妇女和儿童、少数民族以及穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, its resilience has been impressive – the first to recover, as Chinese leaders always want to remind the rest of the world.",
        "表面上，中国的经济韧性令人印象深刻——正如中国领导人一直对全世界强调的一样，它是第一个复苏的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "For him, all of these problems boil down to a simple question: “What type of society do we wish to live in?”",
        "对他来说，所有这些问题可以归结为一个简单问题：“我们希望生活在怎样的社会？"
    ],
    [
        "After the Raba‘a Square massacre, however, he joined ISIS, under whose flag he was ultimately killed.",
        "拉巴广场大屠杀发生后，他加入了伊斯兰国，并最终为伊斯兰国死去。"
    ],
    [
        "The Peace Treaty between the two German states and the four victorious Allies was signed in Moscow on the same day, and reunification was officially proclaimed on October 3.",
        "就在通过的同一天，东西德和美苏英法四占领国代表在莫斯科签署和平条约，而德国也在10月3日正式宣布统一。"
    ],
    [
        "Saez and Diamond argue that the right marginal tax rate for North Atlantic societies to impose on their richest citizens is 70%.",
        "萨伊兹和戴蒙德指出，正确的北大西洋社会最富公民的边际税率应该是70%。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the US has selected Wall Street bankers and politicians, presumably to ensure that the Bank’s policies are suitably friendly to US commercial and political interests.",
        "相反，美国总是选择华尔街银行家和政客来担任这一职务，大概是为了保证世行政策能够符合美国商业和政治利益吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the riots last spring, China’s government has taken many pro-active measures, even adopting a “Serf Liberation Day,” to defend its record in Tibet of the past 50 years, while continuing to talk with the Dalai Lama’s representatives.",
        "去年春天的暴乱以后，中国政府已经采取了许多积极的措施，甚至设立了一个“农奴解放日”，以捍卫过去50年中其在西藏的记录，并继续与达赖喇嘛的代表进行谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "But which one will prevail?",
        "但哪一个会成为现实？"
    ],
    [
        "Being labeled a rootless globalist is always dangerous, as the Jewish people know all too well.",
        "被贴上无根的全球主义者的标签永远是危险的，犹太人太了解这一点了。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is how long this can last, given southern Europe’s growth and employment challenges (and an apparent lack of understanding among policymakers and the public that there are no short-term solutions).",
        "问题是在南欧增长和就业挑战下（以及决策者和公众显然不能理解没有短期解决方案）德国的支持会延续多久。"
    ],
    [
        "But soon doubt sweeps back in.",
        "但怀疑情绪迅速卷土重来。"
    ],
    [
        "That makes some sense.",
        "这种说法有一定的道理。"
    ],
    [
        "By exiting the EU, the UK would severely damage its economic interests, losing both the single market and London’s role as a financial center.",
        "退出欧盟会严重损害英国的经济利益，既失去了单一市场，也丢掉了伦敦的金融中心地位。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also the danger that Iran will fail to comply with parts of the agreement and undertake prohibited work.",
        "另一个危险是伊朗可能不会遵守协议的某些部分，从事被禁的活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The time has come for a sensible, humane, and professional new approach that would scale up investment in education while scaling back expenditures on wars, coups, and weaponry.",
        "现在，它们应该采取明智、人道、专业的新方针，扩大教育投资，同时缩减战争、政变和军备支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s new millionaires can easily live in far-flung settlements in “Judea and Samaria” and commute daily to their coastal startups.",
        "以色列新生的百万富翁可以轻松住在遥远“朱迪亚和撒马利亚”定居点，每天到沿海的初创企业去工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The transatlantic difference in hours worked can be explained in part by comparing the labor input of European women to the input of American women.",
        "大洋两岸工作时间的差异有一部分可以通过比较欧洲妇女和美国妇女的工作量来解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, by the 1970’s the pre-Thatcher political economy was in crisis. The most notorious symptom of this was the emergence of “stagflation” – simultaneously rising inflation and unemployment.",
        "然后，在1970年代，撒切尔时代之前的经济正处于危机之中，最明显的症状就是“停滞型膨胀”——通货膨胀和高失业率并行。"
    ],
    [
        "And governments must forswear changes in these policies, lest the uncertainty itself act as a transaction cost.",
        "各国政府还不能对这方面的政策朝令夕改，因为不确定性本身会就会形成交易成本。"
    ],
    [
        "If you do find yourself there, stop the desire to deleverage by having the central bank buy bonds for cash, thereby pushing down interest rates, so that holding debt becomes more attractive than holding cash.",
        "如果你发现已经步入了萧条，通过让央行以现金买入债券，从而压低利率来停止去杠杆化的渴望，让持有债券比持有现金更有利。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, creating such a market is the most important step we can take to address longevity risk, for we could then discover its true price, allowing myriad business decisions involving longevity to be made more efficiently.",
        "实际上，创造这样一个市场是我们能为分析长寿风险所做的最重要的一步，因为通过它我们能够发现长寿风险的真实价格，使大量有关长寿的商业决定更具效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Chua’s focus is unrelentingly on solitary activities in the home, with no encouragement of group activities, or of concern for others, either in school or in the wider community.",
        "蔡美儿的焦点全部固定在家中的独自练习，不鼓励参加任何集体活动或者其他活动，不管是学校还是社区范围内的。"
    ],
    [
        "As we mark this anniversary, the question is how to protect the inherent dignity and equal rights of all people.",
        "在庆祝《人权宣言》纪念日的时刻，如何保护所有人与生俱来的尊严和平等权利是我们应该关注的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Conditions in Libya, Russia, Venezuela, and Nigeria are already so bad that further damage to their oil output is hard to imagine.",
        "利比亚、俄罗斯、委内瑞拉和尼日利亚等国的条件十分糟糕，很难想象它们的石油产量还会受到什么影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The Papandreou government is determined to do whatever is necessary to correct the abuses of the past, and it enjoys a remarkable degree of public support.",
        "帕潘德里欧政府决心为过去的错误付出代价，因此赢得公众一定程度的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Drone rotors are essentially big fans, pushing air down to create upward propulsion.",
        "无人机水平旋翼实际就是大型风扇，向下挤压空气才能实现飞行器向上抬升。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the economy has at least stabilized, and the fighting in the east has receded.",
        "首先，乌克兰经济至少已趋于稳定，而且东部的战斗已经逐渐退去。"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt, the treaty is even more clearly under threat.",
        "在埃及，双边条约更明显地处于危险之中。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a debate that is already mired in controversy.",
        "这一争论已经迷失在争议之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Shortages of critical items have already cost many lives, not to mention the devastating effects on production.",
        "重要物品短缺已经造成很多委内瑞拉人死亡，更不用说严重破坏了生产活动。"
    ],
    [
        "A second approach would focus on building a consensus around soft-law principles to guide restructuring efforts.",
        "第二个方法着重于围绕软法律原则构建共识以指导重组措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence a shutdown during the twenty-first century is regarded as unlikely.”",
        "因此，（北大西洋暖流）在21世纪的停滞看来不会发生。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "These hybrid wars are fought using a wide variety of weapons – not all of which have firepower.",
        "这些混合战争使用各种武器——不光光是火力。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, they should start thinking differently.",
        "果真如此的话，他们应该转换思维。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, Singapore’s cadre of talented and experienced officials and ministers is deep.",
        "当然，新加坡有才干、经验丰富的官员和部长储备深厚。"
    ],
    [
        "How, then, did his victory help to fuel the financial growth of the subsequent decade?",
        "那么，他的胜选是如何在随后的十年间帮助巴西推动经济增长的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially true of our flawed heroes, as we see today with the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of Mao Zedong.",
        "这条道理对于我们的那些有缺陷的英雄来说尤其正确，就像如今我们所看到的中国共产党对于毛泽东的评价一样。"
    ],
    [
        "This resonates with what former US President Bill Clinton told Charlie Rose in 2005: Iran is the only country with elections “where the liberals, or the progressives, have won two-thirds to 70% of the vote in six elections….There is no other country in the world I can say that about, certainly not my own.”",
        "这与美国前总统克林顿2005年对查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）说的话异曲同工：伊朗是唯一一个“自由派或进步派在六场选举中赢得三分之二到70%席位”的国家……“我找不出世界上还有其他这样的国家，我国显然不是。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Japan will now likely face a hung Diet for a year or two.",
        "日本议会可能在一两年内面临各党势均力敌的情况，但是最终必须决定到底让自民党还是日本民主党执掌。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to reducing mortality, new medical techniques can also have a huge effect on the quality of life.",
        "除了减少死亡率，新的医疗技术还可以对生活质量产生巨大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "If there is local scrutiny, and national reinforcement and recognition of the value of that scrutiny, then most members of the uniformed forces are likely to behave appropriately –and can be more easily identified and dealt with if they don’t.",
        "只有建立国家认可并强制推行的基层审查制度，那么军警部队的多数成员才可能做到依法行事¾万一没有做到，识别和处理起来也会更加容易。"
    ],
    [
        "Guns, like capital flows, have their legitimate uses, but they can also produce catastrophic consequences when used accidentally or placed in the wrong hands.",
        "枪支和资本流一样，有其合法用途，但在意外情况或落入坏人之手时，也会造成灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Myanmar, its neighbors and fellow ASEAN members – Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand – are also concerned about Suu Kyi’s continued prosecution.",
        "在缅甸问题上，其邻国和印尼、新加坡、马来西亚和泰国等东盟伙伴也对继续起诉素姬忧心重重。"
    ],
    [
        "Only US exports have maintained some traction, thanks to the weaker dollar.",
        "只有美国的出口在美元的疲软下保持了一定的动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, amid widespread ignorance and apathy, government and law enforcement have lacked the motivation to administer existing laws adequately.",
        "相反，在普遍的愚昧和冷漠中，政府和执法者缺乏动机不折不扣地执行已有法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Lecturers from Rwanda’s Ministry of Health, Harvard Medical School, Yale University, and Tufts University taught Rwandan students everything from epidemiology to budget management.",
        "来自卢旺达卫生部、哈佛医学院、耶鲁大学和塔夫茨大学的教师向卢旺达学生教授流行病学、预算管理等一系列课程。"
    ],
    [
        "Global institutions already use disciplines of this type to some extent.",
        "全球机构已经在某种程度上采纳了这种类型的纪律。"
    ],
    [
        "For Morsi, the dilemma was that the Constitutional Court could strike down the law, rendering the effort meaningless.",
        "对穆尔西来说，困难在于宪法法院可以宣布法律无效，让其努力泡汤。"
    ],
    [
        "Another area where there is less international community than meets the eye is human suffering.",
        "另一个国际社会中看不中用的领域是人道灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia had supported the losing side in Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” a year ago, and it was time for payback.",
        "俄罗斯在一年前乌克兰“橙色革命”时支持失败的一方，现在是报复的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the Czech Republic reached its historic maximum nuclear share last year.",
        "只有捷克去年的核电比例达到了历史最高值。"
    ],
    [
        "If government investment has to be the main vehicle, then it would be far better to build desperately needed schools and hospitals than “bridges to nowhere,” as Japan famously did when it went down a similar path in the 1990’s.",
        "如果政府投资不得不成为主要的拉动力，那么修建急需的学校和医院也比修筑“偏远的桥梁”要好得多。 （就像日本在1990年代遭遇类似状况时所做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, each winter there is a repeated threat of “problems” with oil and gas deliveries to Europe.",
        "它在格鲁吉亚爆炸了一枚“偏离方向”的导弹，警告第比利斯政府及其西方盟友。 它用侦察飞机监视美国在太平洋岛屿关岛上的军事基地。"
    ],
    [
        "Cooperation between old and new energy industries may be the only engine that is capable of powering Africa forward.",
        "新旧能源业的合作可能是能够推动非洲向前的唯一引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – North Korea’s launch of a long-range missile in mid-December was followed by a flurry of global condemnation that was almost comical in its predictability and impotence.",
        "纽黑文—12月中旬，朝鲜发射了远程导弹，此举引起了全球的谴责，这些无关痛痒的谴责闭着眼睛都能想到，显得颇为滑稽。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the surge in China’s outward FDI is good for China and for host countries.",
        "同样，中国对外直接投资的激增对中国和投资所在国双方均有好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Global stock markets have, overall, reached new highs.",
        "总体而言，全球股票市场创出了新的高度。"
    ],
    [
        "It is equally silly to argue that Maduro’s actions must be legitimate because he came to power through an election.",
        "认为马杜罗的行动必然是合法的，因为他是通过选举掌权的，这一观点也同样大错特错。"
    ],
    [
        "It was purely coincidental that the extremist Tamil Tigers leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was killed and his movement decimated at the same time as India was voting. But the significance should not be missed.",
        "正当印度开始投票大选的时候，极端组织泰米尔猛虎组织的首领韦卢皮莱·普拉巴卡兰被击毙，他所领导的组织被瓦解，虽然是时间上的巧合，但这个事实还是不能被忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the annual real interest rate on the 30-year TIPS is only 0.63% – and you run a large risk that its value will decline at some point over the next generation, implying a big loss if you need to sell it before maturity.",
        "甚至30年TIPS的实质性年利率只是0. 63%，它的价值会在下一年度有某种程度的减少而让你承受颇大的风险，暗示着若你在股票成熟前将其抛售将会面临巨大损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The government can no longer do what it wants, for better or for worse.",
        "无论如何，政府再也不能为所欲为了。"
    ],
    [
        "Those opponents, on both the right and the left, are focusing on the everyday living conditions of European citizens – those who feel threatened by migrants and those who are suffering as a result of austerity.",
        "那些反对者无论隶属左翼还是右翼，都全力关注欧洲民众的日常生活——有人感觉遭受移民威胁，还有人苦于现行的紧缩政策。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, firms can lag in recognizing the need to update their operations, resources, and mindsets to reflect their shift from small disruptor to powerful incumbent.",
        "因此企业可能会疏于认识到需要更新其运营，资源和思维模式以反映自身从小型搅局者到强大在位者的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "More specifically, oil producers have an investment choice: They can increase production now, selling the additional oil at today’s price and investing the proceeds at the existing long-term interest rate, or they can leave the oil in the ground as an investment.",
        "更具体地说，石油生产商面临投资选择：它们可以现在提高产量，以今天的价格出售增加的石油并将获得的资金按现有长期利率投资； 它们也可以让石油留在地下作为一种投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Then the bubble bursts.",
        "然后，泡沫破裂。 投资崩溃，房地产价格下跌；"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, governments must recognize that central banks, however well they have served their economies, cannot go it alone.",
        "首先，政府必须认识到，决不能让央行独力支持经济，不管它们在这方面做得多么出色。"
    ],
    [
        "Action in these three areas would help to create a multilateral institution with the authority and expertise to advise countries on supervisory and regulatory issues of systemic importance.",
        "在这三个方面采取行动将会帮助建立一个多边的机构，该机制具有在向各国提供体制上重要的监管问题上提供建议的权力和专长。"
    ],
    [
        "When wealth turns into unchecked power, something must be done to restrict it.",
        "当财富成为为所欲为的权利时，必须予以限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it may also indicate that America's political elites are in the process of facing up to new realities and adjusting their view of China accordingly.",
        "但这也可能预示着美国的政界精英们正开始面对新的现实，并相应地调整自己的对华看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Brazil, which experienced negative growth in 2016, is likely to exceed the IMF’s forecast of 1.5% growth in 2018.",
        "就连2016年出现负增长的巴西，也有望在2018年超过IMF所预测的1. 5%的增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest players in these sectors have been buying out their smaller competitors for years.",
        "多年来，这些行业中的最大牌公司一直在收购规模较小的竞争对手。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestic support for EU accession was 70% at the start of the negotiations, but is now closer to 40%.",
        "在谈判初期，国内对加入欧盟的支持率达70 ％在，但现在已接近40 ％ 。"
    ],
    [
        "Under outright autocracy, public intellectuals, liberal parties, and the institutions of civil society are crushed; under illiberal democracy, they are harassed, but mostly survive.",
        "在完全独裁的制度下，公共知识分子、自由派政党和公民社会机构都被镇压； 而在不自由民主中，它们只是受到干扰，但大多仍然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "A number of extensive catches have been made by national customs agencies, the largest in Japan, in recent years.",
        "近几年来，各国海关总署开展了大量的广泛搜捕行动，最大规模的搜博行动发生在日本。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientists are therefore still searching for an accurate predictive test that is cheaper, quicker, and less invasive than PET scans or lumbar punctures.",
        "因此，科学家仍在寻找比PET扫描或腰椎穿刺更廉价、更快速、更加不痛苦的准确预测测试方法。"
    ],
    [
        "When multiple ceasefire agreements fail in South Sudan and eastern Ukraine, or a humanitarian truce in Yemen collapses within hours, one or more of the parties is said to lack “credible commitment.”",
        "当南苏丹和东乌克兰多边停火协议失败时，当也门人道主义停火在几小时内便宣告失败时，有一方或多方被称为没有“可信的承诺”。"
    ],
    [
        "Repairing them requires nothing less than pressing ahead, at long last, toward a strong, united Europe.",
        "修复这两大基石无异于要求欧洲人至少在长期能够向前看，迈向强大、统一的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "But that search for long historical continuity is facile, for it misses one of the key determinants of debt sustainability: the identity of the state’s creditor.",
        "但追溯这么漫长的历史连贯性有些想当然，因为忽略了决定某国是否能保持债务稳健的一个关键因素：谁是债主。"
    ],
    [
        "We must bring global emissions to a peak in the next decade, drive them down rapidly thereafter, and establish a balance between emissions and the planet’s natural absorptive capacity by the second half of the century.",
        "今后十年我们必须让全球排放量达到峰值，之后快速加以削减，并在本世纪下半叶建立起排放和地球自然吸收能力之间的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Berlusconi",
        "美国的贝卢斯科尼"
    ],
    [
        "It is equally imperative to establish the rule of law, exercised by an independent and respected judiciary.",
        "此外，由一个独立的、被尊重的司法机构确立的法律规则同样是必须的。"
    ],
    [
        "Leadership is a combination of leaders’ traits, followers’ demands, and the context in which they interact.",
        "领导力是领导人的个性、追随者的要求以及它们之间的互动环境的结合。 担心国家地位的俄罗斯群众；"
    ],
    [
        "This would mean, at a minimum, legalizing organized political opposition, introducing competitive elections at regular intervals, and creating an independent judiciary.",
        "这将意味着至少要合法化有组织政治反对，引入定期举行的竞争性选举，并建立独立的司法制度。"
    ],
    [
        "In Cambodia, China contributed $260 million in assistance in 2009, replacing Japan as the country’s largest aid provider and overtaking both the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank’s lending portfolios.",
        "在柬埔寨，中国援助金额于2009年达到2. 6亿美元，取代日本成为该国最大的援助国，同时也令世界银行和亚洲开发银行相形见拙。"
    ],
    [
        "If managers are only loosely tied to shareholders, they could more willingly give up a bigger share of the pie to labor.",
        "如果管理者与股东的联系不那么紧密，他们就可能乐意将更大的蛋糕分给劳动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the global prevalence of electronic money transfers, most migrant workers are excluded from the convenience of modern banking services, dependent on costly cash transfers that often require rural recipients to travel significant distances.",
        "尽管电子汇款已在全球普及，但大部分赴外工人被排除在外，无法享受现代银行服务的便利，他们只能依靠成本高昂的汇款方式，收款人往往需要到很远的地方去取汇款。"
    ],
    [
        "A woman retiring at age 60 today can expect to reach 90.",
        "今天60岁退休的女性其预期寿命可以达到90岁。"
    ],
    [
        "SOUTHAMPTON – Outbreaks of communicable diseases in the developing world are bad enough from a health perspective.",
        "南安普顿—从卫生角度讲，发展中世界传染病爆发已经足够糟糕了。"
    ],
    [
        "And as the Fed has shown once again, the ever-elusive normalization of policy interest rates continues to be put off for yet another day.",
        "而美联储再次证明，永远令人难以揣摩的政策利率正常化再一次被推迟了。"
    ],
    [
        "London’s eight million inhabitants regularly connect with almost twice the number of people as Cambridge’s 100,000 residents.",
        "伦敦八百万居民的定期联系对象数量比剑桥居民的10万居民多出近一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Of all the forms of adjustment that can lead to deleveraging (growth, savings, orderly debt restructuring, or taxation of wealth), debt monetization (and eventually higher inflation) is the least democratic, and it seriously damages savers and creditors, including pensioners and pension funds.",
        "在去杠杆化的所有形式中（经济增长、储蓄增加、有序债务重组、征收财富税等等），债务货币化（最终是高通胀）是最不民主的一种，它会沉重打击储蓄者和债权人，包括退休人员和养老基金。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, even after these recent efforts, Somalia’s fate hangs in the balance.",
        "但是，即使做了这些努力，索马里仍然命悬一线。 早期预警系统表明2018年仍有可能爆发饥荒。"
    ],
    [
        "When cost-cutting efforts produce drinking water that fails to meet basic health standards, “government for the people” has been seriously eroded.",
        "降成本导致饮用水满足不了基本的卫生标准严重侵蚀了政府的“民享原则”。"
    ],
    [
        "And make no mistake: Such engagement is indispensable.",
        "不要搞错了：这一参与是不可或缺的。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps a time bomb has been planted under the thrones of Arab potentates - kings, emirs and presidents.",
        "也许一颗定时炸弹已经被安置在了阿拉伯君主们——国王、酋长和总统们的权力宝座下。"
    ],
    [
        "Does Europe Have a Death Wish?",
        "欧洲是否有意求死？"
    ],
    [
        "He thought that the American president should operate beyond the checks and balances applied by the US Constitution, just as his country should not be constrained by any international rules.",
        "他认为美国总统应当不受美国宪法规定的平衡和限制措施的束缚，就好比他的国家也不应受到任何国际规则的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "One possible way to resolve the problem would be to add at least four Asian seats: one permanent seat for India, one shared by Japan and South Korea (perhaps in a two-year, one-year rotation), one for the ASEAN countries (representing the group as a single constituency), and a fourth rotating among the other Asian countries.",
        "一个可能的解决办法是至少增加4个亚洲席位：一个常任理事国席位给印度、一个给日本和韩国（也许可以采取两年、一年轮换制）、一个给东盟国家（将东盟作为单一区划）、还有第四个轮值席位给亚洲其他国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The Muslim Brotherhood is not a violent organization, and it has not engaged in illegal activities in the Gulf countries.",
        "穆斯林兄弟会不是一个暴力组织，也没有参与海湾国家的非法行动。"
    ],
    [
        "But the critics have been right about one thing: unless the structure of the eurozone is reformed, and austerity reversed, Europe will not recover.",
        "但是批评者有一点是正确的：除非改革欧元区的结构并扭转紧缩政策，否则欧洲不会复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever since 2009, most of us have just been waiting for some story to turn our hearts aglow with hope and confidence – and to reinvigorate our economies.",
        "自2009年以来，我们大部分人一直都在等待让我们的心里重燃希望和信心——并重振我们的经济——的故事。"
    ],
    [
        "So, how can such a scenario be prevented?",
        "那么，如何防止这一情景发生？"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the economies of the Arab countries in crisis are too small to succeed on their own; even if everything goes well, they cannot offer their large and young populations hope of a positive future.",
        "危机中的阿拉伯国家太小，不可能单枪匹马获得成功； 即使所有方面都进展良好，它们也无法给广大年轻人带来积极未来的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, the National Security Council proposes “scaling down the size of defense forces,” implying mitigation of the will to defend.",
        "另一方面，国家安全委员会提议“削减防卫部队的规模”，暗中降低了自卫的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "The real struggle is about ideas.",
        "真正的斗争发生在思想领域。"
    ],
    [
        "China is currently encircled by US military installations and allies.",
        "中国目前处于美国军事基地和盟友的包围之下。"
    ],
    [
        "The degree of financial repression in a country can be estimated by calculating the gap between the average nominal GDP growth rate and the average long-term interest rate, with a larger gap indicating more severe repression.",
        "平均名义GDP增长率与长期平均利率之间的差额可以用来估算一个国家金融抑制的程度，差额越大表示抑制越严重。"
    ],
    [
        "But Microsoft’s money could not save Nokia; it is not possible to build an industrial ecosystem with money alone.",
        "但微软的钱救不了诺基亚； 只靠钱也不可能建立完整的行业生态系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the worst of the taper tantrum proved temporary.",
        "幸运的是，削减恐慌的高潮是短暂的。"
    ],
    [
        "They don’t.",
        "他们没有。"
    ],
    [
        "To do that requires deliberate political intervention on at least two fronts.",
        "这样需要在至少两个方面进行有意识的政治干预。"
    ],
    [
        "So, how should collective decision-making be carried out?",
        "那么，集体决策应该如何进行？"
    ],
    [
        "A world without political strife seemed like a recipe for bliss.",
        "没有政治冲突的世界就像是极乐世界。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s stance lacks meaningful bite, because its leaders fail to recognize that they no longer need to succumb to their unruly neighbor’s blackmail.",
        "但这一立场却并未造成任何重大影响，因为中国领导人依然未能意识到：他们已经没必要再继续屈从于这个恶邻居的讹诈了。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Is Exporting Obesity",
        "输出肥胖的美国"
    ],
    [
        "This lack of progress is less a reflection of Gambari's capabilities than of the fact that he has not been empowered by the countries that hold the most leverage over Burma’s rulers, including China, India, and Burma's ASEAN neighbors.",
        "这种没有进展的情况与其说反映了甘巴里的能力，还不如说他还没有取得对缅甸统治者有重大影响的国家的授权，这些国家包括中国，印度和缅甸的东盟邻国。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as they got the recent past right, so they are the ones most likely to get the distribution of possible futures right.",
        "他们说准了刚刚过去的形势，也最有可能掌握正确的未来概率分布。"
    ],
    [
        "But we have an opportunity to act.",
        "但是我们有机会采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – With all the protectionist talk coming from US President Donald Trump’s administration, it is surprising that no one has mentioned, much less sought to invoke, an obvious tool for addressing persistent external imbalances: the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement’s “scarce-currency clause.”",
        "伦敦—美国总统特朗普政府大谈保护主义，但令人惊奇的是，没有人提到，更没有人引用一个显而易见的解决顽固性外部失衡的工具：1944年布雷顿森林协议的“稀缺货币条款”。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, while Royal carefully maintains the distinction between nation and nationalism, she is drifting away from the Socialist Party’s old embrace of The Internationale , instead defending La Marseillaise and suggesting that all citizens should display a French flag on the National Day.",
        "同样，虽然罗亚尔谨慎地保持着民族和民族主义之间的泾渭分明，但她也正与社会党唱诵的“国际歌”渐行渐远，反而捍卫起“马赛曲”，并建议所有的公民都应该在国庆日悬挂法国国旗。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixty regional and local governments, responsible for 15% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, are also taking action.",
        "占全球温室气体排放15%的六十个区域和地方政府也在积极采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, immediately after Jaber al-Sabah’s death, the succession became a national concern.",
        "这样，贾比尔死后不久，继位问题成了全国关心的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for decades, workers gained few of the benefits of rising productivity.",
        "但是，在几十年的时间里，工人几乎没有得到任何生产率提高所带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Regarded as the sick man of Europe as recently as 1999, today the country boasts the continent's strongest economy, accounting for roughly a quarter of its exports.",
        "虽然1999年还戴着欧洲病夫的帽子，但今天的德国拥有欧洲大陆最强势经济，以及约占欧洲四分之一的出口份额。"
    ],
    [
        "The narrative of the Palestinian tragedy is certainly no less central in defining his view of the Middle East.",
        "巴勒斯坦人的苦难故事也不能左右他在中东问题上的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Capitalism advanced the human condition, said Schumpeter, through a “perennial gale of creative destruction,” which he likened to a Darwinian process of natural selection to secure the “survival of the fittest.”",
        "熊彼得说，资本主义通过“创新性破坏不停的飓风”推进了人类的状况。 他把这比喻成为达尔文主义式的物竞天择来确保“适者生存”。"
    ],
    [
        "As climate change continues to take its terrible toll, Pakistan cannot allow the billions of dollars in damages it suffers at the hands of the world’s largest polluters to go uncompensated.",
        "气候变化继续摧残着巴基斯坦，而巴基斯坦决不能允许它因为世界最大污染国蒙受数十亿美元的损失而得不到补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2001, US officials threatened to use their influence to stop previously approved IDB funding unless Haiti’s majority political party submitted to political demands to accept a particular apportionment of seats in a Haitian electoral oversight body.",
        "2001年，美国官员威胁道，除非海地的主要政党接受一家海地选举观察机构中席位分摊的特别的政治要求，否则他们就会使用他们的影响力来阻止事先已经获得批准的泛美开发银行对海地的资助。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is the ultimate irony that money is now flowing from poor and well-managed economies to the US, the source of the global problems.",
        "金钱正在从贫穷而又管理有方的经济体流向全球问题策源地的美国，这的确是最大的讽刺。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, many central bankers are now recommending the use of “macroprudential” instruments to manage systemic risks in the economy – which, in turn, will allow them to keep interest rates “lower for longer.”",
        "比如，许多央行现在推荐运用“宏观审慎”工具来管理经济中的系统风险——这反过来让它们能够保持利率“更低水平更长时间”。"
    ],
    [
        "Diplomats say Kim brazenly plays on Chinese fears.",
        "外交界都说金正日一直无耻地玩弄着中国的恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "Following an impressive election victory by his Syriza party in January, Greece’s prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, appointed Varoufakis to lead the delicate negotiations with the country’s creditors.",
        "他的左翼联盟党（Syriza）在1月的大选中大获全胜，随后希腊总理齐普拉斯任命瓦鲁法基斯领衔与希腊债权人进行如履薄冰的谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "But change will not happen overnight, so Mexico needs short-term solutions to its travails.",
        "但是，变化不会突如其来，所以，墨西哥需要某些分娩阵痛的权宜之计。"
    ],
    [
        "Community colleges are a classic example of how US states operate as “laboratories of democracy.”",
        "社区大学是一个美国各州作为“民主实验室”的经典例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, the country would have much less to fear from an overnight run on debt.",
        "当然，这个国家不用太担心一夜之间产生的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "In Afghanistan, for example, national systems for friendly-force tracking, which are vital to preventing accidental attacks on one’s own forces or allies, are not compatible.",
        "例如，在阿富汗，对防止意外攻击自己或同盟的军队极其重要的国家友好军队跟踪系统都不兼容。"
    ],
    [
        "Only one in seven countries submit compliance reports on time, and one-third do not submit even a year late.",
        "只有七分之一的国家及时递交遵守情况报告，三分之一的国家迟交一年以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Israeli settlements have amounted to de facto Israeli annexation of territory into which Palestinians seek to expand their state.",
        "事实上，以色列定居点实际上是以色列在巴勒斯坦意欲扩为领土的领地上的扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "It also needs a higher inflation target (to reduce the need for nominal wage and price reductions); debt relief, where appropriate; a proper banking union with an adequate, centralized fiscal backstop; and a “safe” eurozone asset that national banks could hold, thereby breaking the sovereign-bank doom loop.",
        "它还需要提高通胀目标（以降低名义工资和物价下降的需要）、恰当的债务纾困、有充足的中央财政支持的合理银行联盟，以及一种各国银行可以持有的“安全”的欧元区资产，从而打破主权-银行恶性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from seeking to defend their own interests in the region, both countries understandably rejected the idea of US-led regime change in Syria.",
        "不难理解，中俄两国除了寻求捍卫其自身在中东的利益外，还 否决了由美国领导叙利亚体制变革的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "This is already the case in some areas: consider the EU-wide Ecofin and the eurozone-only Eurogroup of Finance Ministers.",
        "在某些领域，这样的情景已经发生了：比如泛欧盟的欧洲经济金融委员会和只针对欧元区的财政部长欧元集团。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – We are in the midst of a boom in popular economics: books, articles, blogs, public lectures, all followed closely by the general public.",
        "发自纽黑文——我们正置身于一场通俗经济学的大潮之中：一切关于经济学的书籍、文章，博客和演讲无不受到普罗大众的热烈追捧。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the assorted “headwinds” that he cites, the enormous increase in inequality and the plateau reached in educational attainment represent threats that differentiate America’s position from that of other advanced countries.",
        "在他所引用的各种“逆风”因素中，不平等状况的大幅恶化以及教育成就的停滞代表了那些将美国的地位与其他发达国家区分开来的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "With the dollar’s hegemony unlikely to be seriously undermined by market forces, at least in the short and medium-term, the only way to bring about a major reduction in its role as a reserve currency is by international agreement. The Chinese proposal falls into this category.",
        "既然美元的霸主地位不可能被市场的因素而动摇，从中短期来看，美元的地位只能被国际新的协议而降低，中国的提议正是归于此类。"
    ],
    [
        "This month, China torpedoed, for the fifth time in two years, proposed UN sanctions on Masood Azhar, the Pakistan-based head of Jaish-e-Mohammed, which the UN designated as a terrorist outfit years ago.",
        "本月，中国两年内第五次否决了联合国制裁位于巴基斯坦的穆罕默德军头目阿扎尔（Masood Azhar）的制裁提案。 联合国在多年前便已将巴基斯坦军列为恐怖组织。"
    ],
    [
        "But a webcast of a meeting with a live audience would be the ideal combination.",
        "但网络直播加现场听众才是理想的组合。"
    ],
    [
        "This unusually assertive stance reflects rising frustration among Christians, as well as the secular and liberal opposition, with the Muslim Brotherhood’s power monopoly.",
        "这一不同寻常的断然立场体现了在穆斯林兄弟会的权力垄断下的基督徒的日益沮丧以及世俗和自由派的不满。"
    ],
    [
        "What is to be done when ex-KGB warriors turn their swords and bugs against one another?",
        "当以前的克格勃人马自相残杀的时候该怎么办呢？"
    ],
    [
        "They face death not only from starvation and exposure, but also from genocidal slaughter by the rapidly advancing IS forces, who regard the Yazidis as apostates and have already perpetrated atrocities unrivaled in their savagery.",
        "他们不仅可能死于饥饿和寒冷，而且可能死于快速推进的“伊斯兰国”势力的种族屠杀。 “伊斯兰国”势力将雅兹迪人视为变节者，而且已经犯下了前所未有的野蛮罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "It advances European interests and values in a world otherwise dominated by America and China.",
        "它将推动欧洲利益和价值观，否则世界就将由美国和中国主导。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate change is much more complicated, involving open, complex, and imperfectly understood systems.",
        "因为气候变化问题更加复杂，对这个问题的认知也是开放性，多层次和不完善的。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Putin’s governing pact with Medvedev, his trademark creation, is likely to remain in force.",
        "因此，普京与他的招牌产物 —— 梅德韦杰夫 —— 的治理合作将继续有效。"
    ],
    [
        "This might work, but the first wall of the blanket will need to be not only leak-proof and porous, but also sufficiently permeable to neutrons, which have to hit the lithium atoms beyond it.",
        "这可能会实现，但是隔热板材第一层墙面需要不但是放泄漏和多孔的，而且还要足够让中子渗透进来，因为后者必须要碰撞外面的锂原子。"
    ],
    [
        "At the last EU summit, Luxembourg’s prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, even suggested that the risk of a “social revolution” should not be excluded.",
        "在上一次欧盟峰会后，卢森堡首相容克（Jean-Claude Juncker）甚至表示应该排除“社会革命”风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Alas, India’s voice was drowned out, not by China’s attempts to provide medicine and education to Africa, but by the sheer magnitude of Chinese state-owned enterprises’ investments in physical infrastructure.",
        "唉，印度的声音显得有点微弱，原因倒不是中国对印度的医疗教育的服务。 而是来自中国国有企业在非洲的基础设施的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Its resources could be augmented by increasing governments’ capital subscriptions and expanding its ability to borrow.",
        "它的资源可以通过增加政府的资本认购和扩大其借贷能力来扩充。"
    ],
    [
        "Alas, other governments are threatening to impose similar forced data-localization requirements.",
        "可悲的是，其他国家政府正威胁实行类似的强制数据本地化政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, if foreign debt is the real problem, the escalating debate about the Reinhart/Rogoff results is irrelevant for the euro crisis.",
        "第二，如果外债成为严重的问题，对莱恩哈特和罗格夫结论的讨论升级与欧元危机就没有任何关联。"
    ],
    [
        "Although projections by the consultancy McKinsey anticipate that by 2040, Africa will have the world’s largest labor force, with more than 1.1 billion people of working age, more than 60% of Africa’s current population still survive on less than $2 a day.",
        "麦肯锡咨询公司预测，到2040年，非洲将拥有全世界最大规模的劳动力，工作年龄人扣将超11亿人，但在非洲当前人口中，超过60%的人生活水平仍然低于每天2美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracies endeavor to ensure by institutional means that the interests of politicians and voters are aligned.",
        "民主政体通过体制手段努力确保政客和选民的利益保持一致。"
    ],
    [
        "In Bush’s second term, some of the most extreme unilateralists have departed from the government, and the president has approached difficult problems like North Korea or Iran with a more multilateral approach than during his first term.",
        "在布什的第二任期，一些最极端的单边主义者离开了政府，而总统本人在处理北朝鲜或伊朗等更复杂的问题时也采用了比在第一个任期更为多边的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "In April, we hosted the inaugural round of revived talks between the international community and Iran.",
        "今年4月，我们举办了首轮国际社会和伊朗之间的新会谈。"
    ],
    [
        "The young candidate’s unexpected popular support is rooted within the ruling coalition: his adoptive father is a prominent Socialist senator (his biological father, a leader of the revolutionary left in the 1970’s, was killed by Pinochet’s political police).",
        "这位年轻候选人出人意料的公众支持仍然植根于执政联盟：他的养父是知名的社会党参议员（而他的生父则是20世纪70年代被皮诺切特政治警察杀害的一名革命左翼领袖）。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s unique aid model is one of the main pillars of what the Chinese scholar Sheng Ding calls the country’s “soft power” strategy.",
        "因此这种独特的援助模式也成为中国学者丁盛（音译）提出的所谓中国“软实力”战略的主要依据之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, the role of rating agencies needs to be rethought, with more regulation and competition introduced.",
        "第四，需要重新思考评级机构的角色，对它们引入更多的监管和竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite their strong fundamentals, emerging countries still feel vulnerable in the face of the West’s economic weakness, policy shortfalls, and political paralysis.",
        "新兴国家有着强劲的基本面，但在面临西方世界经济疲软、政策缺陷以及政治瘫痪时，它们依然不够强大。"
    ],
    [
        "ALGIERS – Since the United Nations Development Program began work on the Arab Human Development Reports (AHDR) in 2001, the situation in many Arab countries has gone from bad to worse.",
        "阿尔及尔——自从联合国发展计划署2001年开始编制阿拉伯人类发展报告（AHDR）以来，许多阿拉伯国家的状况可谓每况愈下。"
    ],
    [
        "But lately, more complex problems are beginning to arise from humanity’s sharing the atmosphere.",
        "但是最近，因为人类对环境的共享而引发了更多复杂的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Americans are not without sin.",
        "但美国也不无辜。"
    ],
    [
        "In the “recovery” of 2009-2010, the top 1% of US income earners captured 93% of the income growth.",
        "在2009—2010年的“复苏”中，收入最高的1%美国人获得了93%的收入增长量。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the US Institute of Medicine, one in three people suffer from chronic pain – more than from heart disease, cancer, and diabetes combined.",
        "据美国医学会（US Institute of Medicine）估计，三分之一的人饱受慢性疼痛的折磨——比心脏病、癌症和糖尿病加起来还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "This “new corruption,” though usually technically legal, is virtually nontransparent – and thus highly corrosive of public trust.",
        "这种“新形式腐败”虽然在技术上完全合法，但几乎不具备任何透明度——因此严重损害了公众信任度。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that the government has maintained a PPI-adjusted benchmark interest rate that exceeds 11%.",
        "问题在于政府将经PPI调整的基准利率保持在11%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, continued internal disunity continues to thwart reconstruction efforts in Gaza, which are urgently needed in the aftermath of Israel’s military offensive earlier this year.",
        "此外，持续不断的内部分裂继续阻碍加沙地区的重建努力，而在今年早些时候以色列发动军事袭击以后，人们又迫切需要这样的重建。"
    ],
    [
        "So the key to raising revenue is to reduce tax expenditures, use some of the resulting revenue to reduce tax rates, and devote the rest to reducing future deficits.",
        "因此，开源的关键是降低税收开支，用由此产生的收入中的一部分来降低税率，用其他部分来降低未来赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "The political difficulty of making peace with Iran is similar to that of JFK’s peacemaking with the Soviet Union in 1963.",
        "与伊朗缔结和平的政治困难与肯尼迪1963年与苏联和解不相上下。"
    ],
    [
        "To deal with new emerging political threats, such as the information revolution, the Chinese government has spent mightily on manpower and technology.",
        "为了应付类似信息革命等新涌现的政治威胁，中国政府花费巨资增强人员和技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Although nuclear power ranks as a “clean” source of energy, it is accompanied by the terrible shadow of nuclear war, which emerged from Japan’s last reckoning with nuclear catastrophe, 65 years ago at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and which lends it an automatic association with mass destruction and death.",
        "虽然核电被列为“清洁”能源，但却始终无法摆脱核战争的可怕阴影，这种阴影的源头可以追溯到65年前日本广岛和长崎上次面对核灾难的经历，那次经历让人们自然而然地将核与大规模毁灭死亡联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Europe and the US, combined, accounted for fully 38% of total Chinese exports in 2010 – easily its two largest foreign markets.",
        "事实上，欧洲和美国加起来占中国2010年出口总额的38%，是其最大的两个外国市场。"
    ],
    [
        "President Xi Jinping has been spearheading the effort to press ahead with reform and rebalancing.",
        "国家主席习近平一直承担着推进改革和再平衡的领导责任。"
    ],
    [
        "This could be addressed promptly; while eliminating inefficiencies and re-orienting institutions that were co-opted by the old system to serve the few rather than the many would increase potential output significantly.",
        "这个问题可以迅速得到解决； 那就是消除低效并重新定位那些由旧体系指派的，服务于少数人而不是多数人的机构则可以显著增加潜在产出。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time of its “Cedar Revolution” last year, Lebanon was held up as the best example so far of democratization in the Arab world.",
        "在去年进行“雪松革命”时，黎巴嫩被树为阿拉伯世界民主化的榜样。 国际社会当初欢迎这些变革的热情现在似乎已被人遗忘了。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, we will have to turn our gaze to other countries (such as Cyprus and Spain), and ensure that we maintain the momentum needed to build a banking union.",
        "2013年，我们将把注意力转向其他国家（如塞浦路斯和西班牙），并确保我们能够维持建立银行联盟所需要的势头。"
    ],
    [
        "American leadership buttressed it in the decades after World War II; but the United States no longer regards itself as the guardian of multilateral rules.",
        "二战战后几十年中，美国的领导支持着全球化； 但美国本身已不再是多边规则的捍卫者。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the ECB will have to continue to provide support to banks until confidence about their holdings returns.",
        "当然，欧洲央行将不得不继续向银行提供支持，直到市场对它们所持有的债券恢复信心。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer, in their notorious essay “The Israel Lobby,” asserted that AIPAC manufactured the Iraq War.",
        "比方说，沃尔特·史蒂夫和约翰·米尔斯海默在其臭名昭著的论文“以色列游说势力”中断言该委员会是伊拉克战争的始作俑者。"
    ],
    [
        "But Putin has just proved that a military intervention in the Middle East does not have to lead to a quagmire.",
        "而普京则刚刚证明对中东地区的军事干预并不一定会导致陷入泥潭。"
    ],
    [
        "The border where Operation Zarb-e-Azb is taking place highlights the importance of all three developments.",
        "实施Zarb-e-Azb行动的边界区凸显出所有这三个事件的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq’s Critical Election",
        "伊拉克的关键性选举"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, there has been no shortage of examples of governments abusing their powers to favor the ruling elite, their supporters, and a variety of special interests, with detrimental effects on regulation, public investment, the delivery of services, and growth.",
        "近几年来，政府滥用权力为执政精英、他们的支持者以及各种特殊利益牟利的例子层出不穷，给监管、公共投资、服务和增长造成消极影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Belatedly, the Fund acknowledged that its lending and policy advice had failed in Greece.",
        "IMF也终于承认其贷款和政策建议在希腊失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, we have to hope that some of the same old stories that propelled us in the past – the rise of capitalism and its internationalization throughout the world economy – can somehow be dusted off and revived yet again to invigorate the animal spirits that drive economic recovery.",
        "同样，我们应该希望，人们能够在某种程度上拂去那些过去激励过我们的老故事——资本主义的崛起和资本主义在世界经济中的国际化——上的尘埃，并让它们再次复活，以鼓舞驱动经济复苏的动物精神。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel and the United States failed resoundingly in their attempt to dislodge Hamas from Gaza, or in forcing it to accept conditions for an end to the international boycott.",
        "以色列和美国将哈马斯从加沙驱逐出去的努力以及迫使哈马斯接受条件以换取结束对其的国际封锁都彻底失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "Key US foreign policymakers now openly contradict conclusions reached last year by the Independent Task Force on Chinese Military Power headed by former defense secretary Harold Brown and retired admiral Joseph Prueher.",
        "美国外交政策的主要制定者现在公开反驳去年由前国防部部长哈罗德·布朗和退休海军上将约瑟夫·普理赫领导的“中国军力专案小组”独立课题研究组得出的结论。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, advanced economies borrow in their own currencies at near-zero (and sometimes negative) interest rates.",
        "今天，先进经济体以接近于零（甚至有时为负）的利率借贷本币债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Universal banks offer deposit accounts, credit cards, mortgages, business loans, and other products.",
        "全能银行提供存款账户、信用卡、按揭贷款、商业贷款和其他产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Other armed Islamist formations, including Salafi groups, accepted integration into Libya’s new state institutions, such as the Supreme Security Committee (interior ministry) and the Libyan Shield Force (defense ministry).",
        "其他伊斯兰武装组织——包括沙拉菲组织——都愿意被整合进利比亚新的国家机构，比如最高安全委员会（内政部）以及利比亚防御力量（国防部）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Oslo Accords divided the occupied territories into three regions.",
        "奥斯陆协定将被占领土分为三个地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, such moves would be dangerously close to favoring Palestine – a sure-fire way to turn Israel against cooperation.",
        "事实上，这些举动非常接近于偏袒巴勒斯坦——长此以往以色列肯定会停止合作。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early twentieth century, a large share of even advanced economies’ populations was still employed in agriculture.",
        "二十世纪早期，农业依然是发达经济体大部分民众的就业方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Some, including Pope Francis, would say that it is about greed – a system in which everybody cares only about herself.",
        "某些人，包括佛朗西斯教皇在内，认为市场经济的根本是贪婪——在市场经济体系中，人们只关心自己的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "This ultimately results in declining public revenue, which forces the government to look for other ways to finance basic public goods.",
        "这最终会导致公共收入下降，迫使政府寻找其他方式为基本公共品筹资。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, together with Singapore and Ireland, Spain represents the biggest economic success story of the last quarter of the twentieth century.",
        "事实上，西班牙和新加坡、爱尔兰一起，代表了20世纪最后25年中最灿烂的经济成功。"
    ],
    [
        "We need a comparable formula for the Middle East.",
        "现在我们也需要为中东制定出一套类似的公式。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, 80% of the risk will be borne by national central banks individually.",
        "此外，80%的风险将由国家央行分别承担。"
    ],
    [
        "What Magna Carta shows, therefore, is that “Who rules?” is one question, and “What, if any, are the limits to political power?” is another.",
        "因此，大宪章表明，“谁统治”是一个问题，“如有，政治权力的界限在哪里”是另一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In all countries – but especially in developing economies – a robust regulatory system is essential to building trust in the marketplace.",
        "不论在什么国家——发展中国家尤其如此——鲁棒的监管体系都是建立市场信心的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "People meet in laboratories and seminars, but also in common rooms and cafeterias.",
        "人们经常会面的地点不仅限于实验室和研讨会，还包括公共休息室和咖啡馆。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greening of Work",
        "绿色行动"
    ],
    [
        "Development costs have to be passed on in drug prices, which may be exceptionally high when a drug benefits only a relatively small number of patients.",
        "即使这种错误的激励措施都被避免，为了控制成本, 还有更棘手的问题需要面对。 其中之一就是新药物的花费。"
    ],
    [
        "How will Chile breach this wall?",
        "智利将要怎样获得突破？"
    ],
    [
        "Recent developments in Iraq allegedly point to a fundamental clash between Sunnis and Shiites in the region and bear witness to malevolent Iranian interferences.",
        "最近伊拉克的事态发展表明中东地区逊尼派和什叶派的基本冲突以及伊朗居心叵测的干预。"
    ],
    [
        "The deaths of Yasir Arafat and of Sheikh Zayd, the long-standing ruler of the United Arab Emirates, continues the generational change that began in 1999-2000, when the leaders of Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, and Syria died in quick succession.",
        "1999-2000年，约旦、摩洛哥、巴林和叙利亚的领导人在短时间内相继去世，开始了一场世代的交替，而亚瑟·阿拉法特和阿联酋长期以来的领导人谢赫·宰德之死正是这场交替的延续。"
    ],
    [
        "We can measure the discrepancy between what we think we know and what we actually know by simply asking people, after they have given their initial ratings, to tell us how some things work in as much detail as they can and then to rate their knowledge again in light of their attempt to explain.",
        "在人们给出他们的初始评级后，我们只要让他们尽可能详细地告诉我们某些事物的运作方式，然后再根据他们试图作的解释再次评定他们的知识，就可以衡量我们认为我们所知道的和我们所实际知道的差距了。"
    ],
    [
        "This spring, the State Environmental Protection Administration produced the country’s first official estimate of GDP adjusted downward for environmental losses.",
        "今年春天，国家环保总局发布了中国的第一个正式的由于环境损失造成的向下调整后的GDP估计。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor have these positive developments inspired much confidence that the Arab world will somehow pull itself back from the edge of the abyss.",
        "上述积极的事态发展也未能激发人们的信心，让民众相信阿拉伯世界能够摆脱坠入悬崖的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "Appropriate regulation – including regulation of rating agencies – would most likely make traditional banks popular again.",
        "恰当的监管—包括对评级机构的监管—极可能恢复公众对传统银行的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the Cold War has been over for fifteen years, and military conflict between France and Germany today seems as unlikely as military conflict between America and Canada.",
        "但冷战结束已经15年了，而法德两国冲突的可能性就像美加两国一样微乎其微。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who are committed to liberty must learn to appreciate and defend it now, lest they someday have to fight to get it back.",
        "那些忠于自由的人现在必须重视并保护它，否则有一天他们将不得不努力抗争以赢回自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Political pendulums often swing too far.",
        "政治的摇摆性有时候也会过度。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the Japanese and South Korean transitions from export to domestic demand-driven growth demonstrate, structural transformation is a slow and painful process.",
        "然而从日本和韩国从出口转向国内需求导向的增长经验来看，结构转型是一个缓慢而痛苦的过程。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, US taxes are chronically too low to support the level of government investment that is needed.",
        "而另一方面，美国长期过低的税收却又无法支持必需的政府投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Having already been condemned by a kangaroo court to death by musketry, my father refused to hoist a white flag. “The Filipino,” he insisted, “is worth dying for.”",
        "政府操纵下的法庭早已判决要枪毙我父亲，但他仍然拒绝屈服，因为在他心中“为菲律宾人民而死，死得其所”。"
    ],
    [
        "Simultaneously, through the diversification of supply sources, massive investments in liquified natural gas (LNG), and a strong push in favor of the Nabucco pipeline and inter-connectors between the Mediterranean rim countries, Europe can move closer toward energy security.",
        "与此同时，通过对供应源的多元化、对液化天然气的大规模投资以及大力推进Nabucco管道以及地中海沿岸国家之间管道的建设，欧洲在能源安全方面能够做得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "What Rwanda and other African countries lack are the modern, tradable industries that can turn the potential into reality by acting as the domestic engine of productivity growth.",
        "卢旺达和其他非洲国家缺少可以通过充当生产率增长的国内引擎将潜力转化为现实的现代可贸易行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt’s democratic transition can still succeed.",
        "埃及的民主转型仍然可能成功。"
    ],
    [
        "This affects all funded pension systems, regardless of whether they are defined-benefit or defined-contribution schemes.",
        "这种情况影响到所有出资养老金系统，无论是固定收益还是固定缴款计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But India’s democracy has opened new pathways to empowerment for its underclasses.",
        "但是，印度的民主已开辟了新途径以赋予下层阶级以力量。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short run, the yen and the dollar continue to benefit from a flight to safety, as panicked investors seek a place to hide.",
        "从短期来看，日元和美元继续受益于大众对风险的逃避，因为惊慌的投资者需要寻求藏身之地。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost immediately, in response to an already restive North Sinai, elite brigades from the Second and Third Field Armies, assisted by the air force, launched operation “Desert Storm” to quell the burgeoning rebellion.",
        "为了响应已然躁动不已的西奈半岛北部局势，第二和第三集团军的精英部队几乎马上在空军的配合下发动了“沙漠风暴”行动，将叛乱扼杀在萌芽状态。"
    ],
    [
        "But California is currently addressing the issue by financing programs that support mega-dairies, rather than small, sustainable operators.",
        "但加州目前是通过支持大型奶制品生产商，而非小型可持续生产商的融资计划解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The main challenge now is to continue using the “geometry of 20” to build instruments of world governance.",
        "如今最重要的挑战则是继续使用“20国框架”去建立全球治理架构。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia has hosted more senior North Korean leaders than any other country this year, including the reclusive leader Kim Jong-un’s special envoy, Choe Ryong-hae, a senior official in the ruling Workers’ Party, who spent an entire week meeting with Russian political and economic leaders.",
        "今年，俄罗斯接待朝鲜高级领导人的数量比其他任何国家都要多，包括近乎隐退的最高领袖金正恩的特使、朝鲜劳动党高级官员崔龙海，他花了整整一周时间与俄罗斯政治和经济领导人会晤。"
    ],
    [
        "While China is not a party to the current negotiations, the TPP is designed to allow additional countries to sign on in the future – and the Chinese, we can assume, will be courted assiduously.",
        "尽管中国不是TPP谈判的参与方，但TPP允许新增成员，我们大可以认为，中国会成为殷勤招徕的对象。"
    ],
    [
        "This is good news for mining, oil, and gas companies eyeing rich reserves under the Amazon rain forest and the Pacific shelf.",
        "这对于对亚马逊雨林和太平洋大陆架之下丰富储量馋涎欲滴的矿业、石油和天然气公司来说是一个好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "This display of weak-kneed diplomacy appalled many Japanese, and popular support for Kan’s administration has plummeted.",
        "这种软弱的外交态度使日本民众大为震惊，菅直人政府的民意支持率也因此一落千丈。"
    ],
    [
        "Many commentators have complained about institutional decay, while others point to changes – such as the advent of reality television and social media – that have coarsened the quality of public discourse.",
        "许多评论家抱怨制度的衰变，而其他人认为变革——比如真人秀和社交媒体的兴起——影响了公共讨论的质量。"
    ],
    [
        "There is, however, a lively debate about whether there was a fourth big mistake: Alan Greenspan’s decision in 2001-2004 to push and keep nominal interest rates on US Treasury securities very low in order to try to keep the economy near full employment.",
        "然而还存在另一场活跃的争论，也就是是否存在第四个重大错误：2001年至2004年期间，艾伦·格林斯潘决定下调并维持美国国债的名义利率，使其处在很低的水平，以此试图保持经济体的近乎充分就业状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Their best intellectual arguments derived from Milton Friedman, Friedrich von Hayek, and Robert Nozick, who sought to challenge collectivist theories of society in general and “socialism” in particular.",
        "他们最佳的论点都取自米尔顿·弗里德曼、弗里德里希·冯·哈耶克和罗伯特·诺齐克，这些人寻求在总体上挑战社会的集体主义理论，尤其是挑战“社会主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, widespread pumping lowers the level of the entire aquifer, potentially allowing salt water to encroach.",
        "与此同时，大量钻井降低了整个含水层，可能导致盐水入侵。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way to convince German voters that their money will not be misdirected would be to create separate political institutions and a separate budget for the eurozone.",
        "说服德国选民他们的钱并未被乱用的唯一方法是建立欧元区独立的政治机构和预算计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Council President Donald Tusk has been especially adamant on this point, criticizing “naive Euro-enthusiastic visions” and calling for a more modest Europe that promises less and delivers more.",
        "欧盟理事会主席唐纳德·图斯克（Donald Tusk）在这一点上尤其坚决，批评那些人脑子里都是一副“天真的大欧洲愿景”，并呼吁一个更温和的少说话多办事的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Giving Till it Heals",
        "捐赠直至复愈"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders must consider, design, and implement pragmatic and innovative alternatives, rather than continue to rely on ineffective policies and programs.",
        "领导者不能继续依赖低效的政策和计划，而必须改弦更张，思考、设计和执行更加创新务实的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "When we are faced with conflicting choices – burden-sharing through taxation, the organization of the public sector, the status of public employees, etc. – the member states are considered to be the only bodies entitled to decide.",
        "面对艰难抉择的时候－通过收税平衡负担、公共领域的组织形式、政府雇员的地位等－各成员国被视作有权决定的唯一实体。"
    ],
    [
        "Vicente Fox took office in 2000 with a broad mandate, but, like Calderón, without a majority in Congress.",
        "文森特·福克斯在2000年带着许多使命就职，但是，和卡尔德龙一样，他在议会中也不拥有多数席位。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it is driving the US away from Europe and further in the direction of China.",
        "此外，它还使美国在疏远欧洲的同时更加贴近中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless it introduces practical measures to support the countries at the periphery of the global financial system, global markets will suffer another round of decline, just as they did after United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s failure in February to produce practical measures to recapitalize America’s banking system.",
        "如果它不能为支援处于全球金融系统边缘的国家提出实际的解决方案，全球金融市场将会遭受另一轮的衰退，就像美国财政部长蒂莫西·盖特纳（Timothy Geithner）二月没有提出实际的措施来调整美国银行系统的资本结构导致的结果一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatively, it may be that the SNB mostly wishes to talk the franc down to break the safe-haven effect.",
        "或者，瑞行可能主要希望能让瑞士法郎稍作贬值来打破安全避风港效应。"
    ],
    [
        "The campaign started in the summer by flooding public spaces with posters featuring a close-up of my grinning visage with the words “Don’t let Soros have the last laugh.”",
        "此次运动从今年夏天开始，公共场合到处张贴着我咧嘴微笑的大幅招贴画，旁边写的是“不要让索罗斯笑到最后。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But questions abound as to whether the corruption charges being brought against the so-called “tigers” are a fig leaf for an old-fashioned purge of Xi’s rivals in the Party and the military.",
        "但很多人质疑对所谓的“老虎”所提起的腐败指控是否只是障眼法，其实质是对习近平在党内和军中的反对势力的老式清洗。"
    ],
    [
        "That does not mean more media coverage of the deformities associated with microcephaly or even of the difficulties faced by their mothers.",
        "这并不意味着媒体更多地报道与小头症有关的畸形甚至这些婴儿的母亲面临的困难。"
    ],
    [
        "In social psychological terms, precautionary policymakers set their regulatory focus on the prevention of worst outcomes, whereas proactionary policymakers seek the promotion of the best available opportunities.",
        "在社会心理学意义上，预防性政策制定者将自身的监管设定在预防最恶劣的结果上，而主动性政策制定者则试图把握住最可能获得的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "PRAGUE – A quarter-century ago, when the Berlin Wall fell and the Iron Curtain rose, the people of Central Europe chose capitalism over communism and democracy over dictatorship.",
        "布拉格——四分之一世纪以前，当柏林墙倒塌、铁幕升起，中欧人选择了资本主义和民主，抛弃了专制及共产主义。"
    ],
    [
        "First, to guarantee that Lebanon’s natural resources are prudently managed, the government should formally join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.",
        "首先，为确保黎巴嫩的自然资源得到审慎管理，政府应正式加入采掘业透明度行动。 采掘业透明度行动要求政府机构和企业披露碳氢化合物开采和生产的相关信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The fundamental problem in Iraq is not jobs.",
        "伊拉克的根本问题不是就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, the US and other powers need to pursue constructive economic engagement with North Korea to help the regime achieve “strength and prosperity” through economic transition and integration with the global economy.",
        "简而言之，美国以及其他大国需要与朝鲜进行建设性的经济接触，以帮助该国政权借经济转型与融入全球经济之力、实现“繁荣富强”的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Congress has been written off before: the article from The Economist was published in January 2003.",
        "但国大党此前并不是没有“被衰败”过：这篇《经济学人》的文章发表于2003年1月。"
    ],
    [
        "So we use the occasion of the New Year to try to change behavior that may be the most difficult to change. That makes failure a distinct possibility.",
        "也正因如此，我们才会利用新年这个特殊时刻来尝试改变那些对自己来说很难改变的行为，而这也意味着很有可能要吞下失败的苦果。"
    ],
    [
        "In Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh now has a charismatic leader whose massive electoral mandate augurs well for creating the type of strong, secular government that the country needs.",
        "孟加拉国现在有了一位充满魅力的领袖，总理谢赫·哈西娜，她的大规模的选民的认可度显然预兆着一个强大的非宗教的政府的成立，这是这个国家需要的。"
    ],
    [
        "So it goes, until the rules of the game change.",
        "这种情况持续下去，直到竞赛的规则改变。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 2000’s boom, as in the 1960’s, it looked as if everyone could live on the never-never.",
        "21世纪头十年的经济繁荣，同20世纪60年代一样，看上去人人都像活在童话里一般。"
    ],
    [
        "The fundamental issue is whether EU membership still yields large enough benefits to outweigh the loss of sovereignty that it entails.",
        "根本问题是欧盟成员资格是否仍然能够产生足够多的利益，压倒其所隐含的主权损失。"
    ],
    [
        "A moral relativism has spread, leading many to accept the taboos of all religious groups in the name of tolerance and multiculturalism.",
        "一种道义上的相对论在蔓延着，使得许多人在包容和多元文化的名义下接受了所有宗教团体的禁忌。"
    ],
    [
        "But the US did in fact act to topple Assad, albeit mostly covertly and through allies, especially Saudi Arabia and Turkey (though neither country needed much prodding to intervene).",
        "但美国确实行动起来推翻阿萨德，尽管大部分行动为秘密进行并且通过盟友完成，特别是沙特阿拉伯和土耳其（尽管两国不需要刺激就会干预叙利亚）。"
    ],
    [
        "Back then, Bush was widely praised for his response to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.",
        "2002年，小布什因为其在2001年9月11日恐怖袭击后的反应而饱受赞誉。"
    ],
    [
        "We are the top trading partner and foreign investor for almost every country in the world.",
        "我们是世界上几乎所有国家最大的贸易伙伴和外国投资者。"
    ],
    [
        "“Politically active women, those who did not follow a strict dress code, and women human rights defenders were increasingly at risk of abuse, including by armed groups and religious extremists,” Amnesty International said in its 2007 report.",
        "大赦国际在2007年的报告中说，那些并不遵从严格的穿衣规定的在政治上活跃的妇女以及女性人权捍卫者越发容易被欺凌，包括受到武装团伙以及宗教极端份子的欺凌。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, Krugman’s claim that a vastly larger fiscal stimulus would have generated a more rapid economic recovery in the US depends entirely on conjecture.",
        "其次，克鲁格曼所宣称的大大扩张财政刺激能让美国经济复苏得更快完全是推断。"
    ],
    [
        "Closing the funding gap and ending the scourge of TB will require the involvement of more – and more diverse – donors.",
        "解决资金缺口、结束结核病之灾需要更多——也更多样化——的出资者参与。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the end, Merkel agreed to a permanent bailout fund for the eurozone.",
        "但最终默克尔同意了永久性欧元区援助基金。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, it appears as though the West will back Ilham over the opposition.",
        "至少从目前的情况看，西方会支持伊尔哈姆，而不是反对派。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Kremlin is aggressively portraying the planned establishment of a modest US missile defense installation in Poland and the Czech Republic as a threat to Russia’s vital security interests.",
        "克里姆林宫将美国在波兰和捷克共和国建立小型导弹防御基地的计划渲染成对俄罗斯重大安全利益的威胁，态度咄咄逼人。"
    ],
    [
        "Its convoluted business was conducted largely out of sight.",
        "其复杂业务的展开过程大体上并不接受公众的监督。"
    ],
    [
        "It was the worst terrorist operation in the history of Egypt and Russia.",
        "这是埃及和俄罗斯历史上最严重的恐怖主义行为。"
    ],
    [
        "It happens in so many places and so regularly that we take it for granted and rarely even notice it.",
        "这种事在很多地方经常出现，以至于我们对此熟视无睹甚至毫无察觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Intelligence also falls into that category.",
        "智慧也属于这一类别。"
    ],
    [
        "Others pretend to worry about the moral-hazard implications of debt relief, despite the fact that the country’s private-sector debt has already been written off at EU insistence, and that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of precedents for restructuring the debts of insolvent sovereigns.",
        "其他人装作假装担心债务纾困的道德风险问题，尽管事实上希腊私人部门债务已经在欧盟的要求下被减记，而破产主权债务重组也有几十上百次先例。"
    ],
    [
        "Northwestern University’s Robert Gordon has argued that the economic impact of today’s innovations doesn’t hold a candle to that of plumbing or electricity.",
        "西北大学的戈登（Robert Gordon）指出，今天的创新的经济影响无法与管道系统或电力相提并论。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Albert Hirschman, who died at the end of last year, was a great economist with a gift for producing striking insights by focusing on an element of observable behavior as a way to transform our view of a whole range of particular problems.",
        "普林斯顿—去年底去世的阿尔伯特·赫希曼（Albert Hirschman）是一位伟大的经济学家，他擅长通过专注于可观察行为的某一要素，以此作为转变我们对一系列具体问题的看法的方式，并获得了令人瞩目的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "But, equally important, the dispute underscores their different objectives.",
        "但是，同样重要的是，这一争议体现了它们不同的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "These arguments were entirely convincing to Bismarck.",
        "这些观点让俾斯麦深信不疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Its “fierce but weak” rulers, however, cannot hope to make long-term progress by doubling down on despotism.",
        "但其国内“凶狠但虚弱”的统治阶级不能指望通过专制主义变本加厉来取得长期进步。"
    ],
    [
        "I was not arguing for protectionism, but rather sounding a cautionary note that we must be aware of the downside risks and be prepared to deal with them.",
        "我并不是主张保护主义，而是提出忠告，也就是我们必须清楚负面风险并且准备好应付它们。"
    ],
    [
        "The majority of young girls who are working in Bangladesh are from poor families.",
        "在孟加拉国工作的少女主要来自贫困家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "That seems rather odd.",
        "这看起来相当奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, a relatively small amount of overinvestment is responsible for some $1.8 trillion in lost production every year.",
        "换句话说，相对少量的过度投资竟然导致了每年约1. 8万亿美元的GDP损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Ahmadinejad confirmed sensing a similar presence.",
        "” 艾哈迈迪内贾德确定有类似的感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "The Istanbul meeting last month concluded on a positive note.",
        "上个月的伊斯坦布尔会议达成了积极意向。"
    ],
    [
        "The period immediately following a conflict is a delicate one.",
        "冲突刚刚结束的这段时期非常微妙。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, Congress and the executive branch are locked in a stalemate.",
        "美国国会和行政部门正陷入相持局面。"
    ],
    [
        "With their backs against the wall, I predict, poor and working-class Americans will begin to agitate for social justice.",
        "我预测，那些走投无路的穷人和工薪阶层开始奋起为社会公平而抗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, even larger and more sudden epidemics are possible, such as the 1918 influenza during World War I, which claimed 50-100 million lives (far more than the war itself).",
        "当然，还有可能爆发更大更突然的瘟疫，如爆发于1918年一战期间、夺走5,000万—1亿人生命（远远多于战争本身）的大流感。"
    ],
    [
        "The political obstacles to effective action will be stiff.",
        "有效行动的政治障碍代价高昂。"
    ],
    [
        "The sovereign right of the Irish people to decide their own future is unchallengeable.",
        "爱尔兰人民决定自己未来的主权无可辩驳。"
    ],
    [
        "That said, it is time to move on to a sensible endgame.",
        "尽管如此，应该开始让这场运动明智地结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "Most now have flexible exchange rates, which leave them less vulnerable to a disruptive collapse of currency pegs, as well as ample reserves to shield them against a run on their currencies, government debt, and bank deposits.",
        "而如今，大部分新兴经济体采取了浮动汇率，这意味着它们不会再轻易地受到盯住汇率崩溃的冲击； 并且它们也拥有足够的储备以抵御本币、政府债务和银行存款挤兑。"
    ],
    [
        "The Federal Reserve and the Bank of England lowered short-term interest-rate targets to near zero and are adopting “quantitative easing” – i.e., continuous infusions of money.",
        "美联储与英格兰银行都将短期存款利息指标降低到了几乎零利息，并在采纳“定量放松”，也就是说连续不断地进行现金注入。"
    ],
    [
        "If he harbored any doubt that the movement sits on troves of embarrassing – and possibly far worse – intelligence, the bugging revelation must surely have removed it.",
        "如果他怀疑葛兰运动发现了大量令其难堪——甚至比这还要糟糕得多——的情报，那么窃听装置的发现让他彻底打消了这一疑虑。"
    ],
    [
        "There are too many Iraqis ready to fight and die to oppose the American presence.",
        "有太多的伊拉克人准备好为反抗美国的存在而战斗、献身。"
    ],
    [
        "Thirty-three years ago, Havel helped initiate Charter 77, the landmark document that crystallized the ideals of all the dissidents – and many others – trapped behind the Iron Curtain.",
        "33 年前，在哈维尔的努力下，出台了代表所有持不同政见者及铁幕笼罩下其他民众理想的标志性文件《 77 宪章》。"
    ],
    [
        "But central banks have stated that they do not have the policy instruments to accelerate the pace of economic recovery.",
        "但是各国央行已经表明它们并没有用来加速经济复苏速度的政策工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, India’s infrastructure is inadequate for a modern economy.",
        "此外，印度的基础设施对于一个现代经济体来说也是不足够的。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet society’s trust in science has not wavered.",
        "而社会对科学的信任从未减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "You can see where this story is going.",
        "你可以看到这个故事的结局了。"
    ],
    [
        "The families on the move may not stop in Turkey.",
        "逃难家庭可能不会在土耳其止步。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the unit’s technical-sounding name, people in Chile seem to have learned to think in terms of the UF instead of the peso for important contracts.",
        "其他拉美国家也效仿。 尽管这一单位的名称听起来技术性很强，但是智利人民看起来已经学会用UF考虑重要的合同，而不是比索。"
    ],
    [
        "The second key development is the election in Afghanistan of President Ashraf Ghani.",
        "第二个关键事件是贾尼当选阿富汗总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Harvard’s Lawrence H. Summers got a lot of attention for his argument that the world risked sliding toward “secular stagnation,” because the interest rate needed to bring desired investment in line with desired savings was below zero.",
        "哈佛大学的劳伦斯·萨默斯（Lawrence H. Summers）因为提出世界有可能滑向“长期停滞”的观点而广受关注，他的理由是带来与合意储蓄相对应的合意投资所需要的利率为负值。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s stock-market crash has been attributed to a variety of factors.",
        "中国股市暴跌被归因于多重因素。"
    ],
    [
        "In recognition of its outsized historic and per capita emissions, the US should agree to economy-wide emissions reductions in line with domestic climate legislation currently being considered.",
        "意识到自身超大的历史排量和人均排量，美国应该同意就整个经济展开减排，这和和现在正在考虑的美国国内气候立法相一致。"
    ],
    [
        "But the assault on freedom is perceived as such only when it begins to apply to men.",
        "但是，对自由的攻击只有在当它开始实用于男人的时候才被认识到。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Cyril Ramaphosa’s victory in December’s contest to lead South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) was a resounding repudiation of President Jacob Zuma.",
        "华盛顿—拉马福萨（Cyril Ramaphosa）在12月的南非执政党非国大党领导人竞争中胜出，这是总统祖玛遭到否定的明确标志。"
    ],
    [
        "Managing Compromise in the Middle East",
        "在中东地区管理妥协"
    ],
    [
        "The G-7 economies – which, no surprise, have dictated international standards for the last 20 years – have rarely hesitated to name and shame emerging economies for their failure to comply with global norms.",
        "G-7经济体——毫不奇怪，它们在过去20年中决定着国际标准——在指名道姓指责新兴经济体没有遵守国际范式方面从来不会犹豫。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, undergraduate students struggle to understand even the abstracts of papers on the complex representations of microeconomic reality that fill research journals.",
        "以致面对那些研究期刊中大量关于微观经济现实复杂陈述的论文，一个本科学生甚至连摘要都难以理解。"
    ],
    [
        "And much larger cuts are in store for early-childhood nutrition programs and health care.",
        "与幼龄儿童营养项目和医疗保健相关的项目还将开始更大规模的开支削减。"
    ],
    [
        "As the economists Poonam Gupta and Arvind Panagariya have demonstrated, voters in most Indian states now support leaders and parties that deliver good economic outcomes, and turn out those who do not.",
        "经济学家古普塔（Poonam Gupta）和帕纳加里亚指出，印度大部分邦的选民如今支持能交出满意经济结果的领导人和党派，反对做不到这一点的领导人和党派。"
    ],
    [
        "That seems unfair, because it is.",
        "这看起来破不公平，因为的确如此。"
    ],
    [
        "To reduce public debt, which stands above 120% of GDP, while minimizing painful adjustments, Italy needs economic growth – something that has eluded policymakers in recent years.",
        "为了减少目前总额超过GDP120%的公共债务并尽量缩短痛苦的调整过程，意大利急需经济增长——这是近几年来一直迷惑着政策制定者的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, if President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has genuinely won by a margin of 2:1, there is nothing to fear.",
        "毕竟，如果马哈茂德•艾哈迈迪－内贾德总统真的以2：1的优势比例获胜，那就没什么值得害怕的。"
    ],
    [
        "The discontent generated by such disappointment may help to explain Ukrainian separatists’ anger, Russians’ discontent, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to annex Crimea and to support the separatists.",
        "3%。 失望所产生的不满也许有助于解释乌克兰分裂分子的愤怒、俄罗斯人的不满以及俄罗斯总统普京决定吞并克里米亚以支持分裂分子。"
    ],
    [
        "The invisible hand of the market does not always lead individually self-interested agents to a collectively desirable outcome.",
        "市场的看不见的手并不总是能让个体的自利动因转化为集体渴望的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Persuading the Germans that the French are willing and able to pay their fair share could make room for a lot of necessary compromises that until now have seemed impossible.",
        "如果法国能以自身愿意且有能力承担应有的份额来说服德国人，就足以为许多至今看来似乎不可能的必要妥协争取到空间。"
    ],
    [
        "But why shouldn’t America’s top diplomat have significant influence over military matters?",
        "”但为何美国首席外交官不能对军事问题产生重要影响？"
    ],
    [
        "The most recent value of the consumer price index was up 1.7% year on year, and the 12-month figure would have been even higher but for the anomalous decline in the most recent month.",
        "最新的消费物价指数同比上涨1. 7%，12个月数字应该还会更大，但其原因是最近一个月的异常下降。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it has long competed with Turkey for influence in the Black Sea and the Middle East.",
        "毕竟，长期以来俄罗斯一直与土耳其竞争对黑海和中东的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In his dramatic leap into the future, Sadat taught Arab leaders the realities of a changing world.",
        "在他戏剧性地向未来迈出的这一步中，萨达特告诉了阿拉伯的领导人一个变化中的世界的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "The French Cul de Sac",
        "法国死胡同"
    ],
    [
        "The Committee took that criticism to heart, and this time decorated an institution with a proud past, but a clouded future.",
        "委员会记住了这一点，于是这次把奖颁给了一个坐拥辉煌过去但前途尚不明朗的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "The future is inherently uncertain, which means that the present always could have turned out different than it has.",
        "未来天然不确定，这意味着现在原本可能以不同的面貌出现。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time of crisis, that cannot work.",
        "当危机来袭时，这种机制根本无法运转。"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, the basic idea is to slap a tax of, say, 20% on imports, and to provide tax breaks worth a similar amount on exports.",
        "表面上看，该计划的基本思路就是对进口征税，比如征个20％，并对出口提供类似幅度的税收优惠。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Nobel laureate Robert Lucas, an opponent of Keynes, admitted in 2008: “I guess everyone is a Keynesian in a foxhole.”",
        "诺贝尔奖获得者、凯恩斯的反对者罗伯特·卢卡斯（Robert Lucas）在2008年承认：“我猜每个人都是隐藏很深的凯恩斯主义者。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, as Denis de Rougemont put it in 1946, is “la patrie de la memoire,” a tormenting and tormented memory, one must admit.",
        "像丹尼·德·鲁格蒙在1946年所说的那样，欧洲是一个痛苦而饱受折磨的记忆，人们必须承认这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, NCD prevalence has increased, because improvements in survival have outpaced reductions in incidence.",
        "尽管如此，NCD的普遍性在上升，因为生存率的改善要更甚于发病率的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – For the past several centuries, the world has experienced a sequence of intellectual revolutions against oppression of one sort or another.",
        "纽黑文—过去几个世纪中，世界经历了一连串各式各样的反压迫知识革命。"
    ],
    [
        "We all come into the world curious, equipped with the psychological drive to explore the world and to expand the terrain that we think we master.",
        "我们都带着好奇心来到这个世界，具有探索世界的精神动力，并力图扩张我们自认为可以主宰的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "That means Polish civil-society advocates will have to fight many more battles in the coming months to contain and reverse the PiS’s lawlessness.",
        "这意味着波兰公民社会支持者必须在未来几个月中进行更多斗争以阻止和扭转PiS对法律的漠视。"
    ],
    [
        "The anti-democratic forces who tried to stop people from voting there were Sunni Muslim Arab terror groups, ranging from supporters of Saddam Hussein’s deposed dictatorship to followers of Osama bin Ladin’s extremist Islamism.",
        "作为伊拉克境内的反民主力量的阿拉伯穆斯林逊尼派恐怖集团，包括垮台的萨达姆·侯赛因政权的支持者和乌萨马·本拉登极端伊斯兰主义的追从者，都试图阻止人们前去投票。"
    ],
    [
        "Deleveraging has occurred faster than in other countries and, more important, resources and output have quickly shifted to the tradable sector to fill the gap created by persistently weak domestic demand.",
        "去杠杆化比其他国家更快，更重要的是，资源和产出快速向可贸易部门倾斜，从而填补了内需持续低迷造成的缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent months, D’Souza has made a point of debating prominent atheists, but he, too, struggled to find a convincing answer to the problem I outlined above.",
        "在最近的几个月里，杜泽在与一些卓越的无神论者辩论的时候有力的阐述了自己的观点，但是他也对为我上面列出的问题找一个令人信服的答案感到吃力。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, real exchange-rate appreciation will cause a shift in expenditure, making China’s rebalancing more apparent.",
        "久而久之，实际汇率升值会使支出发生转变，让中国的经济再平衡更加明显。"
    ],
    [
        "So the brief history of the ECB’s monetary policy is already a success story.",
        "因此欧洲央行短短的货币政策史已经成了成功的典范。"
    ],
    [
        "But the eurozone debt crisis has distinctive features.",
        "但欧元区债务危机具有鲜明的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro headed lower right from the beginning of 2009 and it was even outpaced by sterling.",
        "欧元从2009年初起掉头向下，而英镑的跌幅甚至更大。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis of 1907 was both immediately devastating, provoking a massive but short economic downturn, and, as it turned out, easily resolved.",
        "1907年的危机虽然迅速造成了破坏性的影响，引起了规模极大但时间不长的经济衰退，但是最后得以轻松化解。"
    ],
    [
        "But scientists occasionally “go rogue,” forsaking the scientific method – often for notoriety or economic gain – to produce propaganda and to sow fear in a public that lacks expertise but is hungry for information.",
        "科学家偶尔也会“流氓化”，放弃科学方法——常常引来臭名或为了追求经济利益——炮制宣传，在缺少专业知识又渴望知情的公众中间散播恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "President-elect Barack Obama is likely to follow suit.",
        "当选总统奥巴马很可能会效仿此政策。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, they make things worse.",
        "相反，情况可能进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Such is the deep pessimism in Europe about the economy that the better the economy does today, the worse people think it will do tomorrow.",
        "欧洲对于经济深度悲观主义就是今天经济形势越好，那么人们就会认为它明天就会变得越糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that total compensation did not go down in proportion to the shorter hours, thus leading to an increase in pay per hour.",
        "问题在于相对于缩短的工作时数，工资并没有按比例减少，导致单位时间的劳动报酬提高。"
    ],
    [
        "It will play into the hands of the terrorists.",
        "这正中了恐怖分子下怀。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of this investment has been initially funded by borrowing in developed countries.",
        "一些投资起初是由发达国家的借款所资助的。"
    ],
    [
        "Osborne talks about the need to cut spending, but his actions say otherwise.",
        "奥斯本大谈削减支出的必要，但他的行为却非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because China itself is ceasing to be a source of cheap labor, it is looking for potential subcontractors – like the V4.",
        "而由于中国本身不再是廉价劳动力的源泉，它也开始寻找潜在分包者——比如V4。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama wants to expand federal command-and-control regulation further (though the courts have stopped his extension of some regulatory powers).",
        "奥巴马希望进一步扩大联邦指令-控制（command-and-control）监管（尽管法院已经叫停了他的某些监管权力的扩张）。"
    ],
    [
        "The cap rate could be higher, or it could start higher and be gradually tightened, or it could vary with an individual’s income level.",
        "上限率可以定得高一些，也可以起点上限率较高而逐渐收紧，也可以随个人收入水平而定。"
    ],
    [
        "The sexualization of torture from the top basically turned Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay into an organized sex-crime ring in which the trafficked sex slaves were US-held prisoners.",
        "从美国上层来的折磨性趋势化将阿布格莱布和关塔那摩基地变成了一个有组织的性犯罪集团，其中被交易的性奴隶是美国控制的囚犯。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of focusing on securing a soft landing today, Chinese policymakers should be worrying about the brick wall that economic growth may hit in the second half of the quinquennium.",
        "可见中国的政策制定者应当关注的不是如何确保在当前实现软着陆，而是经济发展可能在五年计划后半段严重受阻的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And when Alesina’s cure failed to produce rapid recovery, there was an obvious excuse: it had not been applied with enough vigor to be “credible.”",
        "而如果阿莱西纳的办法没能产生快速复苏，也有一个显而易见的借口：实施力度不够以至于缺少“信誉”。"
    ],
    [
        "Holding gold can also make sense for middle-class and poor households in countries – for example, China and India – that significantly limit access to other financial investments.",
        "持有黄金对像中国和印度这些国家的中产阶级和贫困家庭来说也有意义，因为这些国家大大限制国内人民的其它金融投资渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "Acknowledging the limits of austerity, several initiatives attempt a European resolution.",
        "欧洲也认识到了紧缩的局限性，因此采取了不少欧洲解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Thankfully, there are diligent analysts, like Mohamed El-Erian, to whom sensible investors can turn.",
        "谢天谢地，勤勉的分析师还是有的，比如，穆罕默德·艾利安（Mohamed El-Erian）就是明智的投资者可以信赖的对象。"
    ],
    [
        "And therein lies one explanation for the apparent lack of right-wing populism in Japan.",
        "这也许能够部分解释日本右翼民粹主义显而易见的缺乏。"
    ],
    [
        "The magic of markets made possible an individualization of borrowing and consumption.",
        "金融市场的魔术使借债和消费的个人化得以可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Calderón has refused to touch these power structures, even though everyone, from the World Bank to left-wing rabble-rouser and former presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, agree that they are the main impediments to Mexico’s progress.",
        "即使从世界银行到左翼煽动者和前总统候选人安德森·曼纽尔（Andrés Manuel López Obrador）在内的所有人，都认为这些垄断是墨西哥发展的主要障碍，卡尔德龙还是拒绝触动这些权力结构。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, the world breathed a collective sigh of relief.",
        "这让全世界都大舒一口气。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, that may be unlikely in the year ahead.",
        "但不幸的是，这个外交解决方案不太可能在来年产生。"
    ],
    [
        "Greek Lessons for the World Economy",
        "希腊危机带给世界经济的教训"
    ],
    [
        "Curiosity is insatiable and, in research, it is inextricably tied to the unforeseeability of results.",
        "好奇心是永不满足的，在研究领域，它和结果的不可预知性密不可分。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps one day it will take place.",
        "或许有一天真能举行这样一场比赛。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether they are right or wrong becomes clear in retrospect, which is why errors are unavoidable (though they should not be left uncorrected for long).",
        "对与错只有在事后回忆时才会变得清晰，也就是说犯错误是不可避免的（虽然不能长时间不改正错误）。"
    ],
    [
        "For a variety of reasons – hangovers from balance-sheet recessions in Japan and the US, fear-driven precautionary saving in China, and anemic consumption in productivity-constrained Europe – the demand side of most major economies remains severely impaired.",
        "由于各种原因——日本和美国资产负债表的持续衰退，恐惧驱动下的中国国内预防性储蓄，以及欧洲生产力受限导致的消费疲软——大多数主要经济体的需求侧依然受损严重。"
    ],
    [
        "These changes might seem like bureaucratic minutiae, but the agreement’s impact – adding $1 trillion to global output and creating 21 million jobs worldwide – will be substantial.",
        "这些变化可能看起来有点官僚主义，但协议的影响——增加1000亿美元的全球产出，并世界各地创造2100万个职位——将是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "In a few weeks, this “flexibility” will be used up.",
        "而再过几个星期，这些“流动性”也将告罄。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK is far better placed to influence the global policy agenda from inside the EU than from outside it.",
        "对英国来说，从欧盟内部影响全球政策日程比从外部要有利得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump, like Nixon, may have feared that unless he fired the person in charge of investigating him, some terrible revelation would be forthcoming.",
        "特朗普像尼克松一样可能担心除非解雇负责调查他的人，否则某些可怕的真相将会遭到揭露。"
    ],
    [
        "We then synthesized these polymers and discovered that by changing their composition, we could make them last in the body for a period ranging from days to years.",
        "之后我们合成了高分子聚合物，并发现通过改变聚合物的构成，我们可以让它们在体内维持几天到几年不等的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Turkey’s friends should take this opportunity to remind the country’s leaders of what is at stake – for Turkey itself, as well as for peace in the region.",
        "因此，土耳其的友邦应该抓住这次机会提醒土耳其领导人什么问题最重要——对土耳其本身，也对地区和平而言。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, Turkey needs Europe as much as Europe needs Turkey.",
        "实际上，土耳其需要欧洲不亚于欧洲需要土耳其。"
    ],
    [
        "“The intention to live as long as possible isn’t one of the mind’s best intentions,” the author Deepak Chopra once observed, “because quantity isn’t the same as quality.”",
        "“尽可能地活得长的意图未必是最好的意图，”作家迪帕克·乔普拉（Deepak Chopra）曾经观察道，“因为数量和质量不是一回事。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But to no avail: Developed countries, led by the United States and the United Kingdom –home to many of the multinational corporations implicated in the “Lux Leaks” – succeeded in blocking this much-needed advance in global governance.",
        "然而没有什么用：以美国和英国——“卢森堡泄密”中所牵涉到的众多跨国公司的母国——为首的发达国家成功地阻挠了这一全球治理所急需的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "During her first trip abroad after becoming foreign minister, the BJP’s Sushma Swaraj traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, where she pledged to follow through on the land-boundary agreement, referring it to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs for review.",
        "印度人民党的斯瓦拉吉（Sushma Swaraj）在出任外交部长后的首次出访就来到了孟加拉国首都达卡。 在那里，她承诺要兑现土地边境协议，并提请议会外务常委会（Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs）审议。"
    ],
    [
        "As the late University of Chicago economist Sherwin Rosen postulated, globalization and changing communication technologies have increasingly made the economics of superstars important in a variety of fields.",
        "正如已故芝加哥大学经济学家舍温·罗森（Sherwin Rosen）所假设的那样，全球化和信息交流技术的变革逐渐令明星经济在许多领域变得重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The PPP remains popular in rural Sindh and among the country’s poor and lower middle class.",
        "信德省的农村地区以及巴基斯坦的中下阶层仍旧支持着巴基斯坦人民党。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, it would have been difficult to persuade other countries to join a coalition to contain China unless China resorted to bullying tactics, as the Soviets did after World War II.",
        "其次，除非中国采取类似苏联在二战后的那种恐吓策略，否则难以说服其他国家加入遏制中国的行列。"
    ],
    [
        "The senator from New York has become President Barack Obama’s secretary of state.",
        "这位纽约参议员已经在奥巴马内阁中任职国务卿。"
    ],
    [
        "Cross-border flows of finance are still 70% off their pre-recession peak, yet even at today’s depressed levels they account for more than one-third of all global financing.",
        "跨境金融流仍比危机前峰值低了70%，但即便以今天严重缩水的规模，也可以占到全球融资总额的三分之一强。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the BJP had opposed interaction with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, pending satisfactory progress on the prosecution and punishment of the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which killed 164 people and injured more than 300.",
        "此外，BJP此前反对与巴基斯坦总理沙里夫互动，叫停了起诉和惩罚2008年孟买袭击实施者的程序。 孟买袭击案造成164人死亡，300多人受伤，其起诉该案实施者是一件深得人心的事。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where the first miracle is needed – a benevolent but ultimately profit-driven billionaire or hedge fund, or a philanthropy that sees a way to do good while earning money for future goodness.",
        "这就需要第一个奇迹——一个慈善性质但最终受利益驱动的亿万富翁或一家对冲基金，或一家慈善基金会，它寻求在做善事的同时为未来福祉牟利。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason that rent control is disliked is that it forbids transactions that would benefit both the renter and the landlord.",
        "房租管制不受待见的原因是它禁止了能让租客和房东都获益的交易。"
    ],
    [
        "After Ahmadinejad",
        "后内贾德时代"
    ],
    [
        "We must, however, reach several objectives and give clear signs of a true collective ambition.",
        "然而，我们必须达到好几个目标，并清楚地传达共同努力的真正力量。"
    ],
    [
        "A repo, or repurchase agreement, is a sale of a security (often a US Treasury obligation) that the seller promises to buy back later – often the day following the original sale – at a slightly higher price.",
        "回购协议即卖方卖出一种证券（通常是美国国债），并承诺在不久后以略高的价格买回（通常在卖出交易后一天）。"
    ],
    [
        "Leading the world in technological prowess while leading it from behind in terms of combat forces on the ground, if not in the air, America’s shift of emphasis is impossible to ignore.",
        "领导世界技术威力、在地面战斗（如果不是空战的话）中充当幕后领袖，美国强调重点的改变是无法忽视的。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama has made it clear over and over (as has NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen) that he has no interest in intervening militarily in Syria.",
        "奥巴马（和北约秘书长拉斯穆森）反复表态他们没有兴趣军事干预叙利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "Successfully carrying out a large-scale operation in the middle of London beats a desk job in the GDR-USSR House of Friendship in Dresden in the years of perestroika and communist collapse.",
        "在伦敦的中心地带成功地执行了一项重大任务的经验比在改革和共产主义崩溃的时代在位于德累斯顿的民主德国—苏联友谊宫里的文职工作更具说服力。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the most obvious of the targets of August 1971, Japan, was badly hit by what the Japanese called the second “Nixon shokku” (the first being Nixon’s announcement the previous month that he would visit mainland China in 1972).",
        "只有日本，1971年8月战役的首要目标，遭受了沉重打击。 这被日本人称作第二次“尼克松休克”，第一次是几个月之前，尼克松突然宣布将于1972年访问中国大陆。"
    ],
    [
        "The home-country principle would usually be impossible to apply in these cases.",
        "母国原则在这些例子中常常不可能应用。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 2004 and 2006, the proportion who strongly agreed that life in Iraq is “unpredictable and dangerous” increased from 46% to 59%.",
        "在2004至2006年间，认为在伊拉克的生活“不可预测和危险”的被访者比例从46%上升到59%。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, a no-fly zone in Syria would immediately restrict the Syrian government’s means of delivery of weapons of mass destruction.",
        "类似地，在叙利亚设置禁飞区能立刻限制叙利亚政府运送大规模杀伤性武器的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, public opinion is starting to turn against what is increasingly perceived as plunder on a global scale.",
        "现在，公众舆论开始反对在全球范围内进行掠夺。"
    ],
    [
        "An Egyptian precedent would bring awareness and sobriety to an entire generation of lenders that is not accustomed to considering this type of risk, and that may even be unfamiliar with the doctrine of odious debt.",
        "埃及的例子能让整整一代贷款人警醒并冷静下来。 他们还不习惯于考虑这类风险，甚至可能没怎么听说过恶意债务的说法。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal velocity may be considerable – that is, deficits may be large – but there is no sign of a brick wall ahead.",
        "它们可以承受相当大的财政赤字——前方并没有主权违约的石墙挡路。"
    ],
    [
        "The policy instruments no longer work.",
        "政策工具再也不起作用了。"
    ],
    [
        "With the price/earnings ratio remaining stable and moderate, the stock-market boom does not appear to reflect merely investor psychology.",
        "由于市盈率保持稳定并相对合理，目前的股市繁荣似乎不只是投资者心理的反映。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this shift is partly a result of the secular factors that have driven China’s rapid growth and global expansion.",
        "当然，这一转变部分是推动中国高速增长和全球扩张的长期因素的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "That young man was born in the US but returned to Afghanistan four years ago.",
        "他儿子在美国出生，但四年前返回阿富汗。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 2009 election, the Kadima party, under his successor, Tzipi Livni, received one seat more than Likud, but was unable to form a government coalition.",
        "在2009年的选举中，前进党（Kadima party）在奥尔默特的继任者利夫尼（Tzipi Livni）的领导下比利库德集团多赢得一个席位，但无法组建联合俄政府。"
    ],
    [
        "But Abe’s revisionism is rooted in a nationalist ideology, which is prone to justifying historical atrocities instead of drawing lessons from them.",
        "但安倍的修正主义植根于民族主义思想，他更想证明日本的历史暴行的合理性，而不是从中汲取教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Through programs like these, development experts can advocate for digital solutions as a means of social and financial empowerment.",
        "通过类似于此的计划，发展专家能够宣传作为社会和金融赋权手段的数字方案。"
    ],
    [
        "And next year, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change begins publishing its latest assessment of the scientific evidence, the prospect of runaway climate change is bound to mobilize civil society.",
        "明年，当跨政府气候变化委员会（Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change）开始发布其最新的科学证据评估报告时，气候变化失控的迹象必定会在文明社会掀起波澜。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that companies cannot compete effectively in global markets without a sound domestic PRI, such firm-level competition has driven countries to improve the national PRI over the longer term.",
        "如果一个国家的国内产权基础设施不完善，其企业在全球市场的竞争力就会受到影响，这种企业层面的竞争会逐渐推动各国改善本国的产权基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "When that order was threatened, Western leaders felt authorized to intervene in the affairs of whatever “rogue state” was causing the problem.",
        "当这一秩序受到威胁时，西方领导人认为自己有权利干涉任何“流氓国家”所造成的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the view of America’s pharmaceutical industry, TRIPS did not go far enough.",
        "但在美国制药业看来，TRIPS所提供的保护还远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet renewed war in Sudan is not inevitable.",
        "然而苏丹内战的再度爆发并不是无法避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "The data show that China has built considerable strengths in industries fitting two of these archetypes: customer-focused and efficiency-driven.",
        "数据表明，中国在符合其中两个原型的产业中构建了强大的优势：专注客户和效率驱动。"
    ],
    [
        "With the exception of Tunisia, this can be seen to varying degrees in all of the affected countries.",
        "除了突尼斯，所有受影响国家都或多或少地具备这一特点。"
    ],
    [
        "Activist states around the world have funded basic science and served as early customers for the novel products that result.",
        "全世界的活跃的国家都为基础科学提供资金，并充当着由此产生的新奇产品的早期客户。"
    ],
    [
        "In the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and the subsequent refugee crisis and war in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa in the 1990’s, a combination of guilt, economic prosperity, and America’s unique international status led to interventions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and, unfortunately, Iraq. Today, we are in a completely different cycle, dominated by the ghosts of Iraq, the global economic crisis, and the (relative) decline of the West.",
        "在对卢旺达的种族大屠杀和随之而来的难民危机以及1990年的中非大湖区战争的反思之下，一个愧疚、经济繁荣和美国独特国际地位的结合体引发了对科索沃，阿富汗和伊拉克的干涉，而不幸的是，如今我们正处于一个完全不同的循环周期中，其中占主导地位的是伊拉克事件的阴影，全球经济危机和西方世界地位的（相对）衰落。"
    ],
    [
        "Children who work in the garbage dumps are prone to skin and respiratory problems, while those who work with paints eventually become addicted to the intoxicants that they inhale.",
        "在垃圾堆里工作的儿童容易发生皮肤和呼吸系统的问题，那些与油漆打交道的儿童最终会对他们吸入的有毒物质上瘾。"
    ],
    [
        "The outlines of a new WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement are already clear, but some technical differences remain on specific provisions.",
        "新的世贸组织贸易便利协定框架已经十分清晰，但在某些具体方面还存在技术分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "He has now joined the eCars – Now! movement, and his eSmart car will be upgraded with the open-source graphical user interface being developed for the eCorolla in Finland.",
        "他随后加入了eCars – Now! 的计划，经过开放的图形用户界面的开发，他的eSmart car被升级为eCorolla ，在芬兰得以使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet he governed in the style of the philosopher Isaiah Berlin’s liberal fox, who knows many things, as opposed to Berlin’s hedgehog, who knows one big thing.",
        "但他的治国风格属于哲学家以赛亚·柏林所谓的自由派狐狸（知道很多事），而不是柏林所谓的刺猬（知道一样大事）。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas proportional representation will determine two-thirds of seats in the lower house, one-third will be decided by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, where the M5S will likely lose out, because it is neither willing nor able to form the electoral alliances needed to secure majorities.",
        "比例代表将决定三分之二的下议院席位，其余三分之一将通过单一席位选区的简单多数投票决定，M5S可能在这些选区中失利，因为它既不想，也无法形成确保多数所需要的选举联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "As they dominated the world’s media for three gruesome days, the killers achieved a startling success for their cause, one that must have shaken anti-terrorist experts around the world, who now realize how easy it would be for ten men unafraid of death to hold any city in the world hostage.",
        "因为恐怖分子在可怕的三天时间内占据着世界新闻媒体报道的头条，这些杀人犯在其“事业”上取得了令人吃惊的成功，这一成功肯定会震惊全世界的反恐专家； 现在这些专家意识到，对10个不怕死的人来说，劫持世界上的任何一座城市是多么的容易。"
    ]
]