But those countries also provide a reminder that popularity does not always translate into business success.
但是两国的遭遇也给予了提示:受欢迎程度不一定能与赚钱相挂钩。
In those countries, women and girls spend several hours collecting water, but often polluted, far away from their families.
在这些国家,妇女和女孩要花几个小时去离家很远的地方打水,但水往往是受到污染的。
Money may not quite buy happiness, but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones.
金钱也许不能买到幸福,但富裕国家的人通常比贫穷国家的人更幸福。
Such moves may eliminate the fears of those living in the exporting countries, but they are creating panic in importing countries that must rely on what is then left for export.
这些举措可能会消除那些生活在出口国的人的恐惧,但它们正引起进口国的恐慌,因为这些国家必须依赖剩下的出口物资。
Those countries try to regulate oil production via OPEC, but they often fail to stick to predetermined targets.
那些国家试图通过石油输出国组织控制石油产量,但是他们常常很难坚持预定的目标。
But he said those events could well prove a turning point in attitudes and how the two countries deal with each other.
但他说,这些事件可以证明在两国相互交往的方式和态度上是一个转折点。
At first glance, countries like Angola look as if they have thriving private sectors, but those firms are really loose cartels run by the oil-rich elite.
乍一看,类似安哥拉的国家看起来私营企业欣欣向荣,但实际上这些企业只是因石油致富的精英管理下的松散卡特尔。
The disease could have been there for weeks, but the true nature of the spread in those countries may take some time to emerge.
也许猪流感已经在那些地区传播了数周,但我们可能要等上一段时间才能获悉那些国家疾病流行的真实情况。
Asia's export sector relies heavily on demand from Europe, the United States and Japan. But slow growth in those countries means smaller markets for Asian goods.
亚洲的出口非常依赖欧洲、美国和日本的需求,但这些国家的缓慢增长意味着亚洲商品的市场变小了。
All sorts of factors may be involved; but one obvious candidate is the efforts those countries have made to ease the business of being a working parent.
很多因素可能都有关;但一个明显的候选因素是这些国家做出了很多努力来减轻在职父母的压力。
This is largely due to China; but although production in the region's smaller economies is still well down on a year ago, it is rebounding in those countries too.
这主要要归功于中国,不过尽管该地区小型经济体的产出还是低于一年前的水平,但这些国家也处在反弹阶段。
America spends more on health care than other countries, but those expenditures don't seem to produce uniformly superior results.
美国在医疗上比别的国家花费更多,但是这些更多的开销似乎并没有带来对应的、更好的结果。
But alarmist comparisons with other countries whose challenges are quite different from those of the United States don't help.
但是,和那些与美国的国情根本不同的国家相比对美国没有任何帮助。
But wouldn't that just mean that traders would shift their operating bases to those countries which did not charge the tax?
但是这难道不是意味着让商人们将他们的基地转移到那些免税的国家吗?
Addis Ababa, Accra, Luanda, may be fetid in parts—shockingly so for those coming from richer countries—but they have low fertility.
亚的斯亚贝巴,阿克拉,罗安达,也许部分地方恶臭难闻——那些富有国家的人对之难以容忍——但他们的生育率很低。
But those who do drink in countries with high abstention rates consume alcohol at high levels.
但在不饮酒比率较高的国家中,饮酒者消费酒精的水平很高。
But airport officials in those countries say fuel is available to Iranian airplanes and none has been refused.
但这些国家的机场官员说,伊朗航班可以加油,没有伊朗航班被拒。
But some countries, including the us and the UK, worry it's premature to end some of those efforts - particularly economic stimulus.
但包括美、英在内的一些国家则担心,终止部分此类举措可能还为时过早,特别是经济刺激措施。
But do you think any of those big countries were going to risk losing this beautiful port?
你真以为那些世界大国会冒险丢掉这个美丽的港口?
But in between the countries that will profit from the freshwater crisis, and those that will buy their way out of it, are the countries that have neither water to sell nor money with which to buy it.
除了那些从淡水危机中获利的国家和那些买水度过危机的国家,剩下的是那些既没水又没钱买的国家。
But India's and Brazil's emissions are low, and comparable to those of the world's poorest countries.
但印度和巴西的确很低,和那些世界上最贫穷国家差不多。
The lesson for the EU, thus, is not that expansion should stop, but that it needs to discriminate between those countries that are ready for membership and those that aren’t.
欧盟需要学到的并不是应该停止扩张,而是需要区分那些已经做好准备的准成员国,和那些还没做好准备的。
The lesson for the EU, thus, is not that expansion should stop, but that it needs to discriminate between those countries that are ready for membership and those that aren’t.
欧盟需要学到的并不是应该停止扩张,而是需要区分那些已经做好准备的准成员国,和那些还没做好准备的。
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