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Interpret the following passages from English into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal and stop at the signal. You may tak
Interpret the following passages from English into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal and stop at the signal. You may tak
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2019-09-22
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Interpret the following passages from English into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal and stop at the signal. You may take notes while you are listening. You will hear each passage only once. Now, let’s begin.
For years, policy makers and economists have all used GDP to measure growth of countries. But this excessive focus on GDP can distort development incentives and lead to unintended consequences. Clearly, for a country to prosper, sufficient economic activity must be generated in order to employ greater numbers of people and to improve the overall standard of living. However, GDP was developed as a measure decades ago, and it has many shortcomings that can make it a poor measure of quality of life. Instead, economists and policy makers should focus on other indicators and develop new models for measuring a country’s development progress, and this is fully possible with today’s technology.
GDP records all the monetary transactions for products and services within a country. The first problem with this measure is that, with many companies operating in multiple countries, the profits that are created do not necessarily stay within a country’s borders. In fact, a majority of the profits of multinational firms flow back to the country of origin. For instance, Nike may hire Chinese workers to produce its shoes, have stores in China to sell its products, and have only Chinese customers buy from those stores. Over 90 percent of such economic activities happen in China and get recorded in China’s GDP. However, the majority of the profits of Nike go back to the owners in the United States even if none of these economic activities happens there. The national wealth measure is therefore distorted because it would seem that China is getting richer and the United States is getting poorer. But obviously, this is not the case.
Secondly, GDP does not show distribution of income. A company that creates a lot of income from production does not show how that income is being distributed. The majority of profits actually go to a few individuals. Another problem with GDP as a measure for economic progress is that it only captures monetary transactions. When a mother takes her kid to watch a movie, that activity is captured in GDP. But when she takes the same kid to play soccer in a park, that activity is not captured in GDP. However, going to the park to play soccer could create a better quality of life than going to the movies. This shows that if the focus becomes overwhelmingly on GDP growth, policy makers would have more incentives to build more movie theaters than public parks. As a result, the quality of life could drop.
The worst part about focusing on GDP is that it can actually create the conditions for a worse quality of life. The pollution that causes cancers, food poisoning, or birth defects actually adds to GDP growth because whenever people seek medical help and incur medical bills to pay for all these ailments, GDP grows. On the other hand, GDP doesn’t grow if people remain healthy and don’t seek medical help. Obviously, it is much better to have a healthier, cleaner society, but that will not create higher GDP growth.
In summary, GDP can be used as a guide, but it should be considered alongside other factors and indicators that are important to developing a sustainable society. Other measurements that should be adopted include the happiness index which measures satisfaction with life, air quality index, pollution index, and life expectancy. GDP has been relied upon because it provides a fast and easy way to gather growth data and make simple comparisons across countries. But because of its many shortcomings, policy makers would achieve their development goals faster if they also use other ways to measure their progress.
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多年来,政策制定者和经济学家一直都使用GDP来衡量各国经济的增长。但是,这种对GDP的过度偏重会扭曲发展动力,并导致难以预料的后果。显然,要使一个国家繁荣,就必须进行足够的经济活动,以雇用更多的人,并提高整体生活水平。但是,GDP是几十年前设定的一种衡量标准,缺点很多,难以有效地衡量生活质量。经济学家和政策制定者应转而考虑采用其他指数,并设计新的模式来衡量一个国家在发展中取得的进步。采用今天所掌握的技术,这是完全可以做到的。 GDP记录一个国家内所有产品和服务所产生的交易金额。这一衡量标准的首要问题是,由于许多公司在多个国家经营,它们所产生的利润并不一定被留在某个国家的境内。实际上,跨国公司大部分的利润都流回其原产国。比如,耐克公司雇用中国工人生产鞋,在中国开设商店出售其产品,而且只有中国顾客在这些商店购买其产品。这些经济活动的90%以上发生在中国,并计入中国的GDP。尽管这些经济活动没有一项发生在美国,但是,耐克的大部分利润回到了美国公司的所有者手中。国家财富的衡量因此被扭曲了,因为看来中国好像更富了,美国更穷了。但显然,情况并非如此。 第二,GDP并不显示收入分配状况。一家公司会通过生产而产生大量收入,但并不会说明这些收入是如何分配的。大部分收入被少数人所得。使用GDP作为一种手段衡量经济发展的另一个问题是它只记录了金钱交易。当妈妈带着自己的孩子去看电影,这一活动被计入GDP。但她带着这个孩子去公园踢球,这一活动却并未计入GDP。但是,去公园踢球可能会比看电影更能提高生活质量。这表明,如果政策制定者唯一偏重的只是GDP的增长,他们将有更多的动力去建更多的电影院,而不是公园,而这将会导致生活水平下降。 只偏重GDP最严重的问题在于,它实际上可能会创造导致生活质量变差的条件。污染会引发癌症,导致食品中毒,或造成生育缺陷,这些都实际上确使GDP增加。因为,人们为了治这些病就得看病并支付账单,GDP就会增加。而另一方面,如果人们身体健康,不去就医,GDP就不会增加。显然,拥有一个更健康、更清洁的社会要好得多,但这并不会使GDP增加。 总之,GDP可以作为一个指南,但应该把它和其他对于建设可持续社会具有重要意义的因素和指标放在一起考虑。其他应该使用的指标包括衡量生活满意度的幸福指数、空气质量指数、污染指数和预期寿命。人们对GDP的依赖在于它提供了一个快速、简易的方法,用以收集经济增长数据,并在各国之间进行简单的对比。但是鉴于GDP本身存在诸多缺陷,如果政策制定者同时使用其他方法衡量发展进程,将会更快实现自己的发展目标。
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