不知为何,我感觉有需要写写这些人,他们为了书籍而生,无论发生什么事都坚持做售书业,但我花了一段时间来让故事成形。
I felt a need to somehow acknowledge people like that, the ones who lived for books and kept selling books no matter what, but it took a while for the right story to develop.
我们选择租下这个地方而不是在其他地方买一个套房而我们业没什么好展示的。
We chose to rent this place instead of buying an apartment elsewhere and we don't have anything to show for it.
随着最近股票证券和固定收入债券市场的大动荡,金融业陷入沉思:接下来会发生什么变化?
And with the recent upheavals in equity and fixed income markets, the financial industry is left to ponder: What change is next?
拿但业对他说:“拿撒勒还能出什么好的吗?”腓力说:“你来看!”
Nazareth! Can anything good come from there? "Nathanael asked." come and see, "said Philip."
所以为什么不对于零售业或者实际上对经济增长产生巨大影响呢。
So why has there not been much effect on retail sales, or indeed on economic growth?
一方面,所有人都知道微软在个人电脑业发生了什么事情。
For one thing, everyone saw what happened with Microsoft in PCs.
这样完全可以克服的困境有力说明了为什么一个75%的人口都从事食品业的国家,却有70%的食品来自于进口。
Such curable woes help explain why a country where 75% of people work in the food business still has to import 70% of its food supply.
对于某些领域如银行、法律和投资业的人才来说,一个全球市场的出现也许可以解释为什么顶尖0.1%的人得到了如此可观的回报。
The emergence of a global market for talent in areas such as banking, the law and investment may explain why the top 0.1% have been so well rewarded.
为了真实的反映过去的一年都发生了什么,在本文中我会讨论一些塑造了2010年网页设计业的科技和趋势。
To reflect back in the year that has just passed, in this article, I will discuss some of the technologies and trends that shaped the web design industry in 2010.
例如,如果麦当劳推进这个口号几乎没有任何意义,因为人们很难想象快餐业能采用什么邪恶的行为。
For example, it would be meaningless if McDonalds promoted "Don" t be evil "as people can hardly imagine what malevolent actions a fast-food chain could take."
在零售业、地产业、餐厅还有律师事务所,很多员工正用忙碌工作来证明自己存在的必要性——虽然事实上,他们根本没什么可忙。
In retail and real estate, restaurants and law offices, many workers are working hard to look necessary - even when they don't have all that much to do.
我认为概率论的发明促使了保险业的诞生,这是我为什么认为理论对于金融非常重要。
I think it was the invention of probability theory that really started it and that's why I think theory is very important in finance.
拿但业对他说:“拿撒勒还能出什么好的吗?”
Nazareth! Can anything good come from there? "Nathanael asked."
与我们不同,当时的人不知道航空业和波浪发电机最终会变成什么样。
Unlike us, they didn't know how the story of aviation and wave motors turned out.
与意大利相比,西班牙几乎没有什么具有国际竞争力的小公司,西班牙过度依赖建筑业,“很享受”地产繁荣。
Compared with Italy, Spain has few internationally competitive small firms. It is overly dependent on construction and is "enjoying" a housing boom.
美国三大汽车业巨头中已有两家申请破产。为他们工作过的经理写本管理书,听起来可不是什么好主意。
AFTER two of America's "Big Three" car companies plunged into bankruptcy, the idea of a management book from an executive who worked for them all seems implausible.
例如零售业,由于有严格的区域划分规定,零售商们总是为在哪开新店,什么时候开新店而大伤脑筋。
Retailing, for instance, suffers from rules that make it difficult to open new stores when and where it makes the most sense.
这就是为什么欧洲套餐旅游业的合并可能并不会引起欧盟总部的警觉。
That is why the consolidation of Europe's package-holiday industry might not ring too many alarm bells in Brussels.
尽管医疗保健业一直以来在人们的观念中就是不会遭受什么困难的,但医院担心,如果金融危机导致了严重的经济衰退,他们也会受到重创。
Despite the stereotypical notion of health care as recession-proof, hospitals worry that if the financial crisis leads to a severe economic downturn they will feel deep pain.
从至上的神所得之分,从至高全能者所得之业,是什么呢。
For what portion of God is there from above? And what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
你从这种出版业的转变中发现什么机会了吗?
What ideas do you have, and what opportunities do you see in this shift in publishing?
这样的对比是不准确的,没有什么能像现在这么多资金投入到清洁能源的开发中,就像当初把钱投入电信业与互联网公司一样。
The comparison is inexact. Nothing like as much money is going into clean energy as went into telecoms and Internet firms.
美国在除了金融服务业以外的所有方面都落在后头,从这个层面上讲,难道问题不应该是为什么我们要继续这种趋势,还有我们是否应该继续维持这种趋势?
But to the extent that America has lagged in everything except financial services, shouldn't the question be why, and whether it's a trend we want to continue?
另一方面,我们也猜不到创意无限的商业模式会有什么新招——对于图书出版业来说,尚未出现杂志和报纸面临的网上阅读“畅通无阻”的趋势,而后两者已经针对这一现象建立起了阅读的付费系统。
And we haven't seen the end of creative business models - there is no "all access pass" in book publishing, as is the trend now for magazines and the newspapers which have put up paywalls.
美国的金融业在2009年有什么不同了吗?他们的钱能够更加安全吗?
What's changed in the U.S. financial system in 2009 so that their money is safer than it was last time around?
银行都管了,为什么不管汽车业?
在《诊治大脑:为什么精神病学家的治疗失败? 》一书中,他指责了当今的精神健康服务业,尤其是精神病学。
Now, in Doctoring The Mind: Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail, he criticises mental health services, and psychiatry in particular.
洛杉矶日报称,去年零售业就业情况几乎没什么增长,虽然一些大的零售店销售强劲。
Retail employment has barely budged over the last year despite stronger sales at major chains.
洛杉矶日报称,去年零售业就业情况几乎没什么增长,虽然一些大的零售店销售强劲。
Retail employment has barely budged over the last year despite stronger sales at major chains.
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