The most disputed part of the bill is a "public option" for individuals and small businesses.
VOA: special.2009.11.13
Bentham tells us happiness, or more precisely, utility maximizing utility as a principle not only for individuals but also for communities and for legislators.
边沁说,应最大化幸福,或更精确来说,最大化功利,功利最大化原则,不只针对个人,也适用于共同体及立法者。
Robert Nozick, one of the libertarian philosophers we read for this course, puts it this way: Individuals have rights.
罗伯特·诺齐克,本课涉及到的一位自由主义哲学家,是这样说的:,个人有权利。
For individuals, the poverty rate was 21%, almost 8 points higher than the rate nationally.
VOA: special.2009.01.12
There is no protection for the freedom of weaker individuals, or those who question the authority of the most powerful.
这对于弱者是没有任何保护的,对于那种不畏强权的人也是一样
A third step is to increase the availability of credit for individuals and businesses.
VOA: special.2009.02.13
Shouldn't individuals be free ? to choose for themselves their own plans of life ? wherever it may take them?
难道不应让个人自由选择,他们自己的人生计划吗,无论结果会如何?
About 1/3 is tax cuts for individuals and businesses and 2/3 is government spending.
VOA: special.2009.01.31
It makes big mistakes by individuals and they should be accountable for it No question about it.
投机者个人犯的错也不小,他们也应当为此承担责任,这一点毋庸置疑。
But there is pressure on the House to accept Senate provisions that would increase Medicare payroll taxes for individuals earning more than $200,000 annually, and families earning more than so-called high-value insurance plans.
VOA: standard.2009.12.25
Things that are high in fat and then high in sugar too like ice cream, become very appealing to individuals and so these foods become incredibly powerful for people.
这些高脂肪,高热量的食物,比如冰淇淋,人们就无法拒绝它的诱惑,这些食物有着不可估量的吸引力
Individuals must provide fifty thousand dollars or more to the trading company to pay for the stocks they buy.
VOA: special.2010.10.10
It means we really haven't done anything-- that's an exaggeration-- we've done very little to manage risks that individuals or that countries face, for that matter, or even individuals face.
这意味着我们面对冲击无动于衷-,这有点夸张-,我们只做了很少努力,来管理个人,或国家面临的风险。
The Saudi government told the country's three mobile phone operators to stop BlackBerry service for businesses and individuals this Friday.
VOA: special.2010.08.06
And if we also ask the positive question, then some new possibilities,new quests open up, just like they did for the researchers when they started to ask ?" no longer "why do so many individuals fail?"
如果我们也问积极问题,那就会出现新的可能性,新的探索,就像他们对研究学者所问的一样,不再问“为什么有这么多人堕落“
This is money from wealthy individuals or investment companies for the purpose of building new businesses.
VOA: special.2009.06.26
And what is true of individuals is also true for collective entities, collective nouns like states and cities.
适用于个人的真理,也同样适用于集体的实体,集体的名词,像是城与邦。
For privacy reasons, Census Bureau information on individuals is not made public for seventy-two years.
VOA: special.2010.06.28
And he argues that indigent citizens, who are unable to provide for themselves, should not be forced to rely simply upon the private charity of individuals but should be maintained at public expense.
对于那些因贫困而无法养活自己的人,他却认为不能让他们,完全依靠私人的慈善救济过活,而应当用国家公共支出,建立相应的保障来维持他们的生活。
Individuals,businesses and foundations are responsible for more than ninety percent of all charitable giving.
VOA: special.2009.11.02
Changing the diet of populations is a pretty good idea and it's the kind of thing that could help individuals certainly lead healthier, happier lives, but also could change things like healthcare costs for a whole country, so these are big, big factors.
改变大众的饮食是个很好的想法,它不仅可以让人们过上更健康幸福的生活,还可以改变整个国家的医保费用,所以饮食是个非常非常重要的因素
It was revived in 1963 as a way to honor individuals for distinguished service from all walks of life.
VOA: standard.2009.08.12
It is only in the state of nature, he tells us, that individuals have the right to determine just and unjust, right and wrong for themselves.
他认为,只有在自然社会中,个人才有权力决定,什么是公正,不公正,什么是对什么是错。
"Several individuals who were encountered during those searches have been taken into federal custody for alleged immigration violations.
VOA: standard.2010.05.14
Individuals of heterodox belief but whose own views may stimulate others to question and think for themselves, all to the good, Milton, John Locke, people like Voltaire argued something like this.
如苏格拉底持非正统信念的个体,他们的观点,可能激励其它人反省,及内思,所有的好人,米尔顿,洛克及像伏尔泰等人,都做过类似的申辩。
He says security forces should become stricter in how they check individuals and search vehicles for explosives.
VOA: standard.2009.12.09
He taught the priority of rights over duties and he argued that the sovereign should serve the lowly interest or the lowly ends of providing peace and security, leaving it to individuals to determine for themselves how best to live their lives.
他主张权力应优先于义务,主张君主应当,尽最大可能缔造和平,以保证人民的安全,主张让给人民自由,让他们决定自己的生活方式。
As governments debate who is to shoulder greater responsibility for slowing climate change and paying for the damage, profound change,says Dr.Anond, should come from individuals.
VOA: standard.2009.12.21
So but the diary is a way to get more sophisticated information on individuals for dietary counseling purposes and the like, but it's pretty labor intensive and then it requires either a computer to analyze the diet or some human being who is trained in this to sit down and make sense of the data.
日记这个办法,可获得更加精确的个体信息,用以进行饮食咨询等,但这更像是劳动密集型工作,然后还需要一台电脑,来分析食物数据,有些人学的就是,坐在电脑前弄明白这些数据
They are for the most part relatively anonymous individuals unless, you know, they get into trouble like Ken Lay or someone like that or do something amazing like Bill Gates.
因为他们通常只是些,不知名的人罢了,除非他们惹上了像Ken,Lay一样的麻烦,又或者是像比尔·盖茨一样,做过疯狂事的人。
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