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The foreign countries have no right to hold back returning the items.

外国无权拒不归还这些物品。

I would ask that the foreign nations and the original country discuss the terms of transfer.

我希望外国与原属国商讨移交的条件。

Yes, there is the risk that the original country will not have as good security as do the foreign countries.

诚然，存在原属国的安保不如外国的风险。

Yes, there is the risk that the original country will not have as good security as do the foreign countries.

诚然，存在原属国的安保不如外国的风险。

To those of you in the comments section who are having strong feelings about artifacts being removed from cities in the US and Britain and returned to their countries of origin, I would ask you to consider: why do you think Americans have more of a right to easily access the Benin Bronzes than the people of Nigeria?

对于评论区里那些对文物从美国和英国的城市移走、归还原属国反应强烈的人，我想请你们思考一下：为什么你们认为美国人比尼日利亚人更有权利便捷地看到贝宁青铜器？

What intrinsic factors make the West a suitable home for these artifacts but preclude them from being preserved and displayed by their countries of origin?

是什么内在因素让西方成为这些文物的合适归宿，却使它们不能由其原属国保存和展出？

It is clear that the countries of origin have never been compensated for the stolen artifacts.

显然，原属国从未因被盗文物而获得赔偿。

It is a flawed line of reasoning to argue against returning artifacts to their countries of origin.

反对将文物归还原属国的论证思路是有缺陷的。

The real value of artifacts can only be recognized in their countries of origin rather than anywhere else.

文物的真正价值只有在其原属国才能得到认可，在其他任何地方都不行。

Ways to get artifacts from other countries must be decent and lawful.

从其他国家获取文物的方式必须正当合法。

Concern over security is no excuse for refusing to return artifacts to their countries of origin.

对安全的担忧不能成为拒绝将文物归还原属国的借口。

The African savanna elephant, also known as the African bush elephant, is distributed across 37 African countries.

非洲草原象，又称非洲灌丛象，分布在37个非洲国家。

A more immediate response is to broaden our digital imaginations to conceive of AI technologies that don’t simply replace jobs but expand opportunities in the sectors that different parts of the country care most about, like health care, education, and manufacturing.

一个更直接的应对办法是拓宽我们的数字想象力，构想出不只是取代工作、而是在全国各地最关心的行业（如医疗保健、教育和制造业）中扩大机会的人工智能技术。

The forestry and wood trade body has called for urgent action to reduce the country’s reliance on timber imports and provide a stable supply of wood for future generations.

这个林业和木材行业组织呼吁采取紧急行动，减少英国对进口木材的依赖，并为子孙后代提供稳定的木材供应。

A study last year by the National Center for Science Education, a non-profit group of scientists and teachers, looking at how state public schools across the country address climate change in science classes, gave barely half of US states a grade B+ or higher.

由科学家和教师组成的非营利团体——美国国家科学教育中心去年开展了一项研究，考察全国各州公立学校如何在科学课上讲授气候变化，结果只有勉强一半的州获得了B+或更高的评级。

Glenn Branch, the center’s deputy director, cautions that setting state-level science standards is only one limited benchmark in a country that decentralises decisions to local school boards.

该中心副主任格伦·布兰奇提醒说，在一个把决策权下放给地方学校董事会的国家，制定州级科学标准只是一个作用有限的基准。

In the quest for the perfect lawn, homeowners across the country are taking a shortcut — and it is the environment that is paying the price.

为了追求完美的草坪，全国各地的房主都在走捷径——而为此付出代价的是环境。

The parks also help keep America’s past alive, working with thousands of local jurisdictions around the country to protect historical sites — including Ellis Island and Gettysburg — and to bring the stories of these places to life.

这些公园还帮助让美国的历史鲜活地延续下去，它们与全国数以千计的地方辖区合作，保护包括埃利斯岛和葛底斯堡在内的历史遗址，并让这些地方的故事重现生机。

Today, 28 percent of graduates in the UK are in non-graduate roles, a percentage which is double the average among OECD countries.

如今，英国28%的大学毕业生从事的是无需大学学历的工作，这一比例是经合组织国家平均水平的两倍。

Indeed, in “An International Perspective on New Zealand’s Productivity Paradox” (2014), the Productivity Commission singled out the low quality of managerial capabilities as a cause of the country’s poor productivity growth record.

事实上，生产力委员会在《新西兰生产率悖论的国际视角》（2014年）中，特别指出管理能力低下是该国生产率增长记录不佳的原因之一。

One reason for the turnaround may be the country’s antipoverty program.

这一转变的原因之一可能是该国的扶贫计划。

They’re already used in dozens of countries worldwide.

它们已在全球数十个国家得到采用。

it will benefit other Asian countries.

它将惠及其他亚洲国家。

There was first the rate of growth: (48) in many countries of Western Europe, the numbers of students in higher education doubled within five-year periods during the 1960s and doubled again in seven, eight, or 10 years by the middle of the 1970s.

首先是增长速度：(48) 在许多西欧国家，20世纪60年代高等教育的学生人数在五年内翻了一番，到70年代中期又在七年、八年或十年内再次翻番。

The country produces only about 60 percent of the food it eats, down from almost three-quarters in the late 1980s.

英国自产的食品只占其消费量的约60%，而在20世纪80年代末这一比例接近四分之三。

According to a report on UK food production from the University of Leeds, UK, 85 percent of the country’s total land area is associated with meat and dairy production.

根据英国利兹大学一份关于英国粮食生产的报告，该国85%的土地总面积与肉类和奶制品生产有关。

That supplies 80 percent of what is consumed, so even covering the whole country in livestock farms wouldn’t allow us to cover all our meat and dairy needs.

这满足了80%的消费量，所以即使全国都变成畜牧场，也无法满足我们对肉类和奶制品的全部需求。

Just 25 percent of the country’s land is suitable for crop-growing, most of which is already occupied by arable fields.

该国仅有25%的土地适合种植农作物，而其中大部分已被耕地占用。

The French tax is not just a unilateral move by one country in need of revenue.

法国的这项税收不仅仅是一个需要财政收入的国家采取的单边举措。

Instead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions.

相反，数字服务税是一个更大趋势的一部分：过去几年里，各国纷纷提出或实施了一大堆名目繁多的新国际税收条款。

At the same time, the European Union, Spain, Britain and several other countries have all seriously contemplated digital services taxes.

与此同时，欧盟、西班牙、英国和其他几个国家都在认真考虑征收数字服务税。

These unilateral developments differ in their specifics, but they are all designed to tax multinationals on income and revenue that countries believe they should have a right to tax, even if international tax rules do not grant them that right.

这些单边举措在具体细节上各不相同，但它们的目的都是对跨国公司的收入和营收征税——各国认为自己应有权对这些收入征税，即使国际税收规则并未赋予它们这项权利。

In response to these many unilateral measures, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is currently working with 131 countries to reach a consensus by the end of 2020 on an international solution.

为应对这些众多的单边措施，经济合作与发展组织（OECD）目前正与131个国家合作，力争在2020年底前就国际解决方案达成共识。

The countries adopting the unilateral measures share the opinion that ____

采取单边措施的国家都认为____

all countries ought to enjoy equal taxing rights.

所有国家都应享有平等的征税权。

needs to involve more countries.

需要更多国家参与。

Then there’s the fact that large American companies are much more globalized than ever before, with supply chains spread across a larger number of countries.

此外，美国大公司比以往任何时候都更加全球化，其供应链遍布更多的国家。

brought prosperity to the country.

给国家带来了繁荣。

As fewer such workers enter the country, the characteristics of the agricultural workforce are changing.

随着入境的这类工人越来越少，农业劳动力的特征正在发生变化。

India has just announced it will "eliminate all single-use plastic in the country by 2022."

印度刚刚宣布将“在2022年前消除国内所有一次性塑料”。

The Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) commands a unique position in both the national history and the architectural heritage of the United States. Designed by Supervising Architect of the Treasury, Alfred B. Mullett, it was built from 1871 to 1888 to house the growing staffs of the State, War, and Navy Departments, and is considered one of the best examples of French Second Empire architecture in the country.

艾森豪威尔行政办公大楼（EEOB）在美国的国家历史和建筑遗产中都占据着独特的地位。它由财政部监督建筑师阿尔弗雷德·B·马利特设计，于1871年至1888年间建造，用以容纳国务院、陆军部和海军部日益增多的工作人员，被认为是美国法国第二帝国风格建筑的最佳范例之一。

But even now, 54 percent of the jobs in the country are middle-skill jobs, such as construction and high-skill manufacturing.

但即使在现在，美国54%的工作仍是中等技能工作，比如建筑业和高技能制造业。

In other words, at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head, frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing, one obvious solution is staring us in the face.

换句话说，在工人阶级因曾经代表美国的机遇正在消失而沮丧、并在政治上把这个国家搅得天翻地覆之际，一个显而易见的解决办法就摆在我们面前。

will bring the US closer to other countries.

将使美国与其他国家走得更近。

Robert F. Kennedy once said that a country’s GDP measures “everything except that which makes life worthwhile.”

罗伯特·F·肯尼迪曾说过，一个国家的GDP衡量的是“除了让生活有价值的东西以外的一切”。

If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country’s economic prospects?

如果一切都进展得如此顺利，那么为什么还有1700多万人投票支持脱欧，尽管有人警告说脱欧可能会对国家的经济前景造成影响？

A recent annual study of countries and their ability to convert growth into well-being sheds some light on that question.

最近一项关于各国及其将经济增长转化为福祉之能力的年度研究，为这个问题提供了一些启示。

Across the 163 countries measured, the UK is one of the poorest performers in ensuring that economic growth is translated into meaningful improvements for its citizens.

在接受评估的163个国家中，英国在确保经济增长转化为公民生活的实质性改善方面，是表现最差的国家之一。

Rather than just focusing on GDP, over 40 different sets of criteria from health, education and civil society engagement have been measured to get a more rounded assessment of how countries are performing.

该研究没有只关注GDP，而是衡量了来自健康、教育和公民社会参与等方面的40多套不同标准，以便对各国的表现做出更全面的评估。

While all of these countries face their own challenges, there are a number of consistent themes.

虽然这些国家都面临着各自的挑战，但也存在一些共同的主题。

Yet this isn’t the case with all countries.

然而，并非所有国家都是如此。

Some relatively poor European countries have seen huge improvements across measures including civil society, income equality and environment.

一些相对贫穷的欧洲国家在公民社会、收入平等和环境等各项指标上都取得了巨大进步。

This is a lesson that rich countries can learn: When GDP is no longer regarded as the sole measure of a country’s success, the world looks very different.

这是富裕国家可以借鉴的一个教训：当GDP不再被视为衡量一个国家成功的唯一标准时，世界看起来就大不相同了。

This is a lesson that rich countries can learn: When GDP is no longer regarded as the sole measure of a country’s success, the world looks very different.

这是富裕国家可以借鉴的一个教训：当GDP不再被视为衡量一个国家成功的唯一标准时，世界看起来就大不相同了。

It is sponsored by 163 countries.

它由163个国家资助。

David Graddol concludes that monoglot English graduates face a bleak economic future as qualified multilingual youngsters from other countries are proving to have a competitive advantage over their British counterparts in global companies and organisations.

戴维·格拉多尔的结论是，只会说英语的毕业生面临着黯淡的经济前景，因为事实证明，来自其他国家、能力合格且会说多种语言的年轻人在跨国公司和组织中比英国同龄人更具竞争优势。

Alongside that, (48) many countries are introducing English into the primary-school curriculum but British schoolchildren and students do not appear to be gaining greater encouragement to achieve fluency in other languages.

与此同时，(48) 许多国家正在把英语引入小学课程，但英国的中小学生和大学生似乎并没有得到更多鼓励去流利掌握其他语言。

(49) The changes identified by David Graddol all present clear and major challenges to the UK’s providers of English language teaching to people of other countries and to broader education business sectors.

(49) 戴维·格拉多尔所指出的这些变化，都给英国面向其他国家民众的英语教学机构以及更广泛的教育行业带来了明显而重大的挑战。

As the international education market expands, the recent slowdown in the number of international students studying in the main English-speaking countries is likely to continue, especially if there are no effective strategic policies to prevent such slippage.

随着国际教育市场的扩大，近来在主要英语国家学习的国际学生人数增长放缓的情况可能会持续下去，尤其是在没有有效的战略政策来防止这种下滑的情况下。

“It’s already a huge problem from a public expenditure perspective for the whole country,” he says.

“从公共支出的角度来看，这对整个国家来说已经是一个大问题，”他说。

Across the country, factory owners are now grappling with a new challenge: Instead of having too many workers, they may end up with too few.

在全国各地，工厂主们正在应对一个新的挑战：他们面临的可能不是工人太多，而是最终工人太少。

In Denmark, the United States, and a few other countries, it is trying to set voluntary standards for models and fashion images that rely more on peer pressure for enforcement.

在丹麦、美国和其他一些国家，时尚业正努力为模特和时尚形象制定自愿性标准，这些标准更多依靠同行压力来执行。

While polls show Britons rate “the countryside” alongside the royal family, Shakespeare and the National Health Service (NHS) as what makes them proudest of their country, this has limited political support.

尽管民意调查显示，英国人把“乡村”与王室、莎士比亚和国民医疗服务体系（NHS）并列为最让他们为祖国感到自豪的事物，但这种情感在政治上得到的支持却很有限。

After the Netherlands, Britain is Europe’s most crowded country.

英国是仅次于荷兰的欧洲人口最稠密的国家。

(47) The United States is the product of two principal forces — the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits.

(47) 美国是两种主要力量的产物——一是带着各种各样思想、习俗和民族特征的欧洲移民，二是改变了这些特性的新国家所产生的影响。

After all, other countries, such as Australia and Britain, have started liberalizing their legal professions.

毕竟，澳大利亚和英国等其他国家已经开始放开各自的法律行业。

Money may not quite buy happiness, but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones.

金钱或许买不到幸福，但富裕国家的人通常比贫穷国家的人更幸福。

leave their home countries for good.

永久离开祖国

stay in a foreign country temporarily.

暂时待在外国

Quotas get action: they “open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling,” according to Reding, a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding provisions on placing women in top business positions.

配额制能促成行动：雷丁认为，它们“为平等开辟道路，并打破玻璃天花板”，这一效果已在法国以及其他对女性担任企业高层职位有法律约束性规定的国家中得到体现。

In many rich countries average wages in the state sector are higher than in the private one.

在许多富裕国家，国有部门的平均工资高于私营部门。

[To] Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G.I. Joe was any American soldier, [at that point] the most important person in their lives.

对于埃及、法国以及另外十几个国家来说，大兵乔就是任何一个美国士兵，在那个时候是他们生命中最重要的人。

School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on this educational ritual.

全国各地的学区，最近的是洛杉矶联合学区，都在重新思考这一教育惯例。

When people in developing countries worry about migration, they are usually concerned at the prospect of their best and brightest departure to Silicon Valley or to hospitals and universities in the developed world.

发展中国家的人们担忧人口迁移时，通常担心的是本国最优秀、最聪明的人才可能会流向硅谷，或流向发达国家的医院和大学。

These are the kind of workers that countries like Britain, Canada and Australia try to attract by using immigration rules that privilege college graduates.

这些正是英国、加拿大和澳大利亚等国家试图通过向大学毕业生倾斜的移民规定来吸引的人才。

Lots of studies have found that well-educated people from developing countries are particularly likely to emigrate.

许多研究发现，来自发展中国家的受过良好教育的人尤其倾向于移居国外。

This “brain drain” has long bothered policymakers in poor countries.

这种“人才流失”长期困扰着贫穷国家的决策者。

As well as those chronic problems, the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency.

除了这些长期问题，欧盟的经济核心——使用单一货币的16个国家——还面临着一场严重的危机。

These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU mega-projects, and even the suspension of a country's voting rights in EU ministerial councils.

这些制裁可能包括威胁冻结欧盟给较贫困地区的资金和欧盟大型项目资金，甚至暂停一国在欧盟部长理事会中的投票权。

At its best, the European project is remarkably liberal: built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries, its internal borders are far more open to goods, capital and labour than any comparable trading area.

在最好的状态下，欧洲一体化计划是非常开放自由的：它以由27个富国和穷国组成的单一市场为基础，其内部边界对商品、资本和劳动力的开放程度远远超过任何同类贸易区。

some of its member countries plan to abandon euro.

一些成员国打算放弃欧元。

poor countries are more likely to get funds.

贫穷国家更有可能获得资金。

strict monetary policy will be applied to poor countries.

将对贫穷国家实施严格的货币政策。

loans will be readily available to rich countries.

富裕国家将很容易获得贷款。

rich countries will basically control Eurobonds.

富裕国家将基本控制欧元债券。