“经济收益”唯一可以理解的含义是：各类活动对普通公民福祉的直接或间接贡献。

The only intelligible meaning of "benefit to the economy" is the contribution – direct or indirect – the activity makes to the welfare of ordinary citizens.

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美国媒体对这些问题虽有零星报道，但并不足以给那些若无自身原因就不会关注此事的普通公民留下太多印象。

There are sporadic accounts in the press of such problems, but not enough to make much of an impression on the ordinary citizen without a personal reason to pay attention to such matters.

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威廉布雷克斯顿爵士，这位写下著名的四卷英国法律历史的18世纪法学家，把公民接受其他普通公民对其审判的权利视为“我们自由最重要的堡垒”。

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, an 18th-century jurist who wrote a famous four-volume history of English law, described a man’s right to trial by his peers as “the principal bulwark of our liberties”.

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