Firepower of up to $1 trillion may sound a lot, but much more than that amount is in danger of souring in America as consumer credit deteriorates and more companies default.
1万亿美元听起来很多，但是，在美国信用卡消费持续下跌以及越来越多公司面临倒闭的形势下，需要的款额比1万亿要多得多。
But there's a more immediate risk to companies in the U.S., something that is much closer to home and independent of whatever the public sentiment happens to be on climate change.
但对美国的公司来说还有一个更直接的危险，更多的麻烦而且与公众对气候变化恰好是怎样的情绪无关。
But you can see that drug companies tend to spend more than those in the tech sector. Google spends half as much as a big pharmaceutical firm.
但你可以看到，制药公司的研发投入往往比科技公司更多，谷歌公司在这方面的支出只及大型制药公司的一半。
The puzzle isn't why companies spend as much as they do but why they don't spend more.
让人困惑的不是那些公司为什么尽可能的出高价进行游说，而是为什么他们不需要再多花点儿呢。
Investors who acquire stock in a new company are taking more of a risk than buying shares of well-established companies but the potential gain is much greater.
投资者购买新公司的股票的风险比购买一家大型企业股票的风险要大，但是收益也大。
But companies that mine the stream of tweets for marketing and other purposes (see article in this week's issue of the Economist) get much more information.
不过出于市场或其他目的(参看本周《经济学人》的议题)挖掘推特流的公司获取的信息要多得多。
But I think that has been watered down, that tax, so it is now a much more favorable tax to Australian companies.
但我认为这个障碍已经开始被冲淡了，因为现在这个资源税正得到越来越多的澳大利亚公司的认可。
But at a time when CEO salaries have soared to more than 300 times that of their companies' average employees, there's not too much servant leadership going on.
他的本意是好的。但如今CEO的薪水往往已经超过普通员工300倍以上，实在难说哪家公司真正实行的是“仆人式领导”。
There are a lot of reasons American car companies have been doing so much worse than Japanese car companies, but at least one of them is a cause for optimism: American graduates have more options.
2美国汽车公司的表现一直不如日本汽车公司，其中有很多原因，但至少有一个原因是：美国毕业生有更多选择。
There are a lot of reasons American car companies have been doing so much worse than Japanese car companies, but at least one of them is a cause for optimism: American graduates have more options.
2美国汽车公司的表现一直不如日本汽车公司，其中有很多原因，但至少有一个原因是：美国毕业生有更多选择。
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