[2011.06.02] IMF领导人选战领先者可以从对手身上学到些什么

引用 yannanchen 2011-6-9 11:21

who are central bankers as well as practitioners of the dismal science:
dismal science=economics
不但是经济科学的实践者，也是......

引用 yannanchen 2011-6-9 11:23

Political prowess is not to be sniffed at, nor is Ms Lagarde’s record as a lawyer,
=Ms Lagarde’s political prowess is not to be underestimated, nor is Ms Lagarde’s record as a lawyer to be underestimated.

引用 yannanchen 2011-6-9 11:28

policymakers are “right to go far to avoid default”. But how far is too far?
为避免违约决策者竭力苦撑是对的， 但是苦撑到什么程度才不算过分？

引用 yannanchen 2011-6-9 11:32

August loan had a “non-negligible” chance of success—one worth taking to avoid the catastrophe that followed. 8月的贷款有“不小”的成功机会——大可藉此避免随后的崩盘。

8月贷款有“不小”的成功机会——为了避免随后的崩盘这个险值得冒。

take a chance 冒险

引用 yannanchen 2011-6-9 11:35

本帖最后由 yannanchen 于 2011-6-9 22:56 编辑

as tough as they come 何义？

一般公式：
as something as they come = as much of a particular characteristic as is possible

e.g.
Eric is as competitive as they come and always trying to win.

引用 yannanchen 2011-6-9 11:35

be as [crazy/rich etc.] as they come
to be very rich, crazy etc. Jenny's as crazy as they come.

引用 yannanchen 2011-6-9 11:42

The quick answer is no
简（单明）快的回答是否定的。
The longer answer, he says, is that it might have some indirect benefits.
啰嗦一点说， 也许有可能有某些间接的好处。

引用 kool 2011-6-9 13:13

不管谁获胜，都将接手一个790亿欧元（1140亿美元）的贷款承诺，相当于总贷款承诺的三分之二，对象是正在债务负担中苦苦挣扎同时又忙于在无法贬值货币的情况下实现经济复苏的三个欧元区国家。
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语序改一下，拆成几个句子比较好理解。中文没有合适的插入语句式。
IMF 承诺将×××贷款给三个欧元区国家。这笔贷款相当于IMF总贷款额×××，

引用 dinw 2011-6-9 17:46

IMF给了阿根廷一笔巨额“最后机会”贷款
一笔巨大的“最后机会”贷款

引用 dinw 2011-6-9 17:57

a very last resort，视为“最后机会”
最最后的手段，resort译为手段为好，因为有action的概念在里面。两个最强调very last

引用 sunisthetime 2011-6-9 19:00

本帖最后由 sunisthetime 于 2011-6-9 19:01 编辑

Repairs take time. But that is no reason for delay,
恢复需要时间，但拖拉没有道理。

says that Mr Marchenko “prides himself on having closed 80 banks”. He is “as tough as they come”.
据称Marchenko先生夸耀自己意志坚定，曾关闭过80家银行。

Non-Resident 非常住人口
What Does It Mean?
What Does Non-Resident Mean?
An individual who mainly resides in one region or jurisdiction but has interests in another region. In the region where he or she does not mainly reside, he or she will be classified by government authorities as a non-resident. The classification itself will be determined in each region based on set circumstances such as the amount of time spent within the region during the calendar year. This classification is focused on where the person resides and does not focus on citizenship.
Investopedia Says
Investopedia explains Non-Resident
For example, many individuals live in one state but have business in another region and derive income from sources within that region. If a non-resident generates taxable income within another region, he or she will have to file a separate tax return within the region compared to residents of that region. In other cases, a non-resident may have to pay more to go to college in a state where he or she does not primarily reside.




“The quick answer is no,” says Mr Carstens. It is, after all, only a bundle of national currencies—no more than the sum of its parts. The longer answer, he says, is that it might have some indirect benefits. If the Chinese want the yuan included in the SDR, they will probably have to liberalise their capital account first. That would be welcome in itself—as a shrewd lawyer would no doubt be as quick to point out as a sharp economist.
“简单地说，当然不行”，Carstens先生回答。因为特别提款权的数额并不是所有列为储备的货币的总和，而只不过是这些货币的总量的一小部分而已。“详细地说，特别提款权的存在还是有些间接好处的。比如说，人民币要想成为储备货币之一，中国就必须先让人民币资本账户自由化。" 不管是律师还是经济学者，只要他不傻，都会欢迎中国的举措的。

引用 sunisthetime 2011-6-9 19:07

chief firefighter 救火队长
标题翻译成：
急招消防队队长一名，有经验者优先。
副标题：准队长任重道远

引用 dahuaer 2011-6-9 19:08

dismal science   沉闷[枯燥]的科学(资本主义社会中讽刺政治经济学)

引用 dahuaer 2011-6-9 19:22

哦，我上网查了查，经济学在东西方世界中也有不同的称呼，在西方资本主义世界中称为经济学而在东方的社会主义世界中称为政治经济学

引用 yannanchen 2011-6-9 19:37

本帖最后由 yannanchen 于 2011-6-9 19:39 编辑

Political economyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy. It developed in the 18th century as the study of the economies of states, polities, hence political economy.

In the late nineteenth century, the term 'economics' came to replace 'political economy', coinciding with publication of an influential textbook by Alfred Marshall in 1890.[1] Earlier, William Stanley Jevons, a proponent of mathematical methods applied to the subject, advocated 'economics' for brevity and with the hope of the term becoming "the recognised name of a science."[2][3]

Today, political economy, where it is not used as a synonym for economics, may refer to very different things, including Marxian analysis, applied public-choice approaches emanating from the Chicago school and the Virginia School, or simply the advice given by economists to the government or public on general economic policy or on specific proposals.[3] A rapidly-growing mainstream literature from the 1970s has expanded beyond the model of economic policy in which planners maximize utility of a representative individual toward examining how political forces affect the choice of policies, especially as to distributional conflicts and political institutions.[4] It is available as an area of study in certain colleges and universities.

引用 yannanchen 2011-6-9 19:42

"The dismal science" is a derogatory alternative name for economics devised by the Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle in the 19th century. The term is an inversion of the phrase "gay science," meaning "life-enhancing knowledge", a reference to the technical skills of song and verse writing. This was a familiar expression at the time, and was later adopted as the title of a book by Nietzsche (see The Gay Science).

It is often stated that Carlyle gave economics the nickname "the dismal science" as a response to the late 18th century writings of The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus, who grimly predicted that starvation would result as projected population growth exceeded the rate of increase in the food supply.[1][2] Carlyle did indeed use the word 'dismal' in relation to Malthus' theory in his essay Chartism (1839):

The controversies on Malthus and the 'Population Principle', 'Preventive Check' and so forth, with which the public ear has been deafened for a long while, are indeed sufficiently mournful. Dreary, stolid, dismal, without hope for this world or the next, is all that of the preventive check and the denial of the preventive check.
However, the full phrase "the dismal science" first occurs in Carlyle's 1849 tract entitled Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, in which he was arguing for the reintroduction of slavery as a means to regulate the labor market in the West Indies:

Not a "gay science," I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.
Carlyle argued that slavery was actually morally superior to the market forces of supply and demand promoted by economists, since, in his view, the freeing up of the labor market by the liberation of slaves had actually led to a moral and economic decline in the lives of the former slaves themselves.

Carlyle's view was attacked by John Stuart Mill and other liberal economists.

The teachings of Malthus eventually became known under the umbrella phrase "Malthus' Dismal Theorem". His predictions were forestalled by dramatic improvements in the efficiency of food production in the 20th century during the Green Revolution; yet the bleak end he proposed remains as a disputed future possibility.

引用 vajoy 2011-6-9 21:42

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引用 dahuaer 2011-6-9 21:58

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