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“If you don’t look at the soil at the start, you can spend a lot of money and time putting in species that aren’t going to survive there.”
“如果一开始不考察土壤,你可能会花费大量金钱和时间去种植那些在那里无法存活的物种。”
Their interests as stewards of the land need to be better integrated with those who have the money to support restoration.
他们作为土地守护者的利益,需要与那些有钱支持恢复工作的人的利益更好地结合起来。
Shoppers also benefit from seeing exactly where — and to who — their money is going.
购物者也能从中受益,因为他们可以清楚地看到自己的钱流向了哪里——以及流向了谁。
If it’s their vacation home anyway, and it’s just empty, why can’t you make money off it?” Horn said.
如果那反正是他们的度假屋,而且就那么空着,为什么不能用它赚钱呢?”霍恩说。
The peer-reviewed economic survey of 700 U.S. taxpayers, conducted by mail and internet, also found that people would be willing to pay a significant amount of money to make sure the parks and their programs are kept intact.
这项经同行评审、通过邮件和网络对700名美国纳税人进行的经济调查还发现,人们愿意支付一大笔钱,以确保这些公园及其项目完好无损。
Zoos should have been closed down as they prioritize money making over animals’ wellbeing.
动物园早就该关闭了,因为它们把赚钱置于动物的福祉之上。
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Even more surprising is that more than half of “unretires” — those who plan to work in retirement or went back to work after retiring — said they would be employed in their later years even if they had enough money to settle down, the survey showed.
调查显示,更令人惊讶的是,超过一半的“不退休者”——那些计划在退休后工作或退休后重返工作岗位的人——表示,即使他们有足够的钱安顿下来,晚年也还会去工作。
About 20% of people 65 and older were in the workforce in February, up from an all-time low of 10% in January 1985, according to money manager United Income.
根据理财机构United Income的数据,今年2月,65岁及以上的人中约有20%在工作,而1985年1月这一比例为历史最低的10%。
In 2007, Indonesia started phasing in a program that gives money to its poorest residents under certain conditions, such as requiring people to keep kids in school or get regular medical care.
2007年,印度尼西亚开始逐步推行一项计划,在一定条件下向最贫困的居民发放资金,比如要求人们让孩子继续上学或定期接受医疗护理。
There, as people got more money, some of them may have more cleared land for cattle to raise for meat, Ferraro says.
费拉罗说,在那里,随着人们的钱变多,其中一些人可能开垦了更多土地来养肉牛。
That’s likely because the rural poor are using the money as makeshift insurance policies against inclement weather, Ferraro says.
费拉罗说,这很可能是因为农村贫困人口把这笔钱当作应对恶劣天气的临时保险。
With the CCTs, individuals instead can use the money to supplement their harvests.
有了CCT,人们转而可以用这笔钱来弥补收成的不足。
Saving customers money
为客户省钱
Energy companies can use AI to help customers reduce their electricity bills, saving them money while helping the environment.
能源公司可以利用人工智能帮助客户减少电费,在为他们省钱的同时也有益于环境。
Before, they might not insure the ones who felt like a high risk or charge them too much, or they would charge them too little and then it would cost the company money.
以前,他们可能不给那些看起来高风险的人投保,或者向他们收取过高的保费;又或者收费过低,结果让公司赔钱。
All good targets should have multiple criteria [relating to] critical factors such as time, money, quality and customer feedback.
所有好的目标都应该有多重标准,涉及时间、金钱、质量和客户反馈等关键因素。
allow publishers some room to make money.
给出版商留下了一些赚钱的空间。
For public institutions, state funds are sometimes tied partly to their success on metrics such as graduation rates and student retention — so better grades can, by boosting figures like those, mean more money.
对公立院校来说,州政府的拨款有时部分取决于它们在毕业率和学生保留率等指标上的表现——因此,更好的成绩可以通过提升这类数据而带来更多资金。
With that mindset change come some serious money consequences."
随着这种观念的转变,也带来了一些严重的经济后果。”
Scientists have found that exposure [to] this hormone puts us in a trusting [mood]: In a Swiss study, researchers sprayed oxytocin into the noses of half the subjects; those subjects were ready to lend significantly higher amounts of money to strangers than were their [counterparts] who inhaled something else.
科学家发现,接触{{8}}这种激素会让我们处于一种信任的{{9}}之中:在瑞士的一项研究中,研究人员将催产素喷入一半受试者的鼻腔;与吸入其他物质的{{10}}相比,这些受试者愿意借给陌生人的钱要多得多。
Most of the money would come from a penny-per-letter permanent rate increase and from shifting postal retirees into Medicare.
这笔钱大部分将来自每封信永久性涨价一美分,以及将邮政退休人员转入联邦医疗保险。
If there is a role for government, it should really be getting involved in providing common goods — making sure there is space for playing fields and the money to pave tennis and netball courts, and encouraging the provision of all these activities in schools.
如果说政府有什么作用的话,那应该是参与提供公共产品——确保有修建运动场的空间和铺设网球场、无挡板篮球场的资金,并鼓励学校开展所有这些活动。
But successive governments have presided over selling green spaces, squeezing money from local authorities and declining attention on sport in education.
但历届政府却主导了出售绿地、压缩地方政府资金以及在教育中日益忽视体育。
Taking a gap year to figure things out initially can help prevent stress and save money later on.
一开始就利用间隔年把事情想清楚,有助于避免日后的压力并节省开支。
A gap year may save money for students by helping them ____
间隔年可能通过帮助学生____而为他们省钱
avoid the redirection of federal money.
避免联邦资金的转移。
But even if you accept Friedman’s premise and regard corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies as a waste of shareholders’ money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.
但即便你接受弗里德曼的前提,认为企业社会责任(CSR)政策是在浪费股东的钱,事情也未必那么泾渭分明。
enable students to make big quick money.
让学生快速赚大钱。
At work, people pretty much know what they’re supposed to be doing: working, making money, doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income.
在工作中,人们基本清楚自己应该做什么:工作、赚钱、完成为获得收入而必须做的任务。
The best lawyers made skyscrapers-full of money, tempting ever more students to pile into law schools.
最优秀的律师赚得盆满钵满,吸引越来越多的学生涌入法学院。
There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.
行业内部存在要求变革的压力,但监管者中反对变革的人坚持认为,将外人挡在律所之外,能使律师免受只顾赚钱、而不合乎职业道德地为客户服务的压力。
The Nobels were, of course, themselves set up by a very rich individual who had decided what he wanted to do with his own money.
当然,诺贝尔奖本身也是由一位非常富有的人设立的,他决定了要如何使用自己的钱。
Second, it is surely a good thing that the money and attention come to science rather than go elsewhere.
第二,金钱和关注流向科学而不是别处,这无疑是件好事。
It is fair to criticize and question the mechanism — that is the culture of research, after all — but it is the prize-givers’ money to do with as they please.
批评和质疑这种机制是合理的——毕竟这就是科研文化——但那是颁奖者的钱,他们想怎么用就怎么用。
If she hopes her new-found fortune will yield lasting feelings of fulfillment, she could do worse than read Happy Money by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton.
如果她希望这笔新得的财富能带来持久的满足感,不妨读一读伊丽莎白·邓恩和迈克尔·诺顿合著的《快乐的金钱》。
These two academics use an array of behavioral research to show that the most rewarding ways to spend money can be counterintuitive.
这两位学者借助一系列行为研究表明,最能带来回报的花钱方式可能与直觉相悖。
It is far better to spend money on experiences, say Ms Dunn and Mr Norton, like interesting trips, unique meals or even going to the cinema.
邓恩女士和诺顿先生说,把钱花在体验上要好得多,比如有趣的旅行、独特的餐食,甚至是去看电影。
Readers of Happy Money are clearly a privileged lot, anxious about fulfillment, not hunger.
《快乐的金钱》的读者显然是优越的一群人,他们焦虑的是满足感,而不是温饱。
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。
Yet the link between feeling good and spending money on others can be seen among rich and poor people around the world, and scarcity enhances the pleasure of most things for most people.
然而,感觉良好与为他人花钱之间的联系在世界各地的富人和穷人身上都能看到,而且对大多数人来说,稀缺会增强大多数事物带来的愉悦。
But most people will come away from this book believing it was money well spent.
但大多数人读完这本书后都会觉得这钱花得值。
According to the last paragraph, Happy Money ____
根据最后一段,《快乐的金钱》____
balance feeling good and spending money.
在感觉良好与花钱之间取得平衡。
spend large sums of money won in lotteries.
花掉彩票赢来的巨款。
obtain lasting satisfaction from money spent.
从花出去的钱中获得持久的满足感。
Given the advantages of electronic money, you might think that we would move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made electronically.
鉴于电子货币的种种优势,你也许会认为我们会很快进入一个所有支付都以电子方式完成的无现金社会。
For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon “revolutionize the very [concept] of money itself,” only to [reverse] itself several years later.
例如,《商业周刊》在1975年曾预言电子支付手段很快就会“彻底变革货币这一概念本身”,结果几年后却推翻了自己的说法。
First, it is very [expensive] to set up the computer, card reader, and telecommunications networks necessary to make electronic money the [dominant] form of payment.
首先,要让电子货币成为主导的支付形式,就必须建立计算机、读卡器和电信网络,而这些设施的建设成本非常高昂。
factories are making much less money than before.
工厂的盈利比以前少得多。
Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay, and who would make some money and then go home.
与许多希望在美国永久安家的人一同到来的,还有一些无意留下的人,他们挣一些钱后就回家。
They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work, money and ideas.
他们是由工作、资金和思想的流动所驱动的全球经济中充满活力的参与者。
He’s feeling positive, but he’ll carry on blogging — not about eating as cheaply as you can — “there are so many people in a much worse state, with barely any money to spend on food” — but eating well on a budget.
他感觉很乐观,但他会继续写博客——写的不是如何吃得尽可能便宜——“有那么多人处境比我糟糕得多,几乎没钱买吃的”——而是如何在有限的预算内吃得好。
For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century.
为了争取热爱艺术的公众的时间、注意力和金钱,古典器乐演奏家不仅要与歌剧院、舞蹈团、剧团和博物馆竞争,还要与20世纪伟大古典音乐家的演出录音竞争。
The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.
用于学术研究的公共资金的增长加速了这一进程:1960年至1990年间,联邦研究经费增长了三倍,而由于研究占用了大量精力,教师的授课时间却减少了一半。
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Scientific publishing has long been a licence to print money.
长期以来,科学出版一直是一门稳赚不赔的生意。
Scientific publishing is seen as “a licence to print money” partly because ____
科学出版被视为“稳赚不赔的生意”,部分原因是____