If businessmen are taxed too much, they will no longer be motivated to work hard, with the result that incomes from taxation might actually shrink.

如果对商人征税过多，他们将不再有动力努力工作，其结果是税收收入实际上可能会减少。

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My problem is that if I have a list of things to do, no matter if they are high priority or personal projects for myself, I feel guilty if I am not working to shrink that list.

我的问题是，如果我有一个要做的事情的清单，无论他们是重要的事，还是我个人的小计划，只要我没在做那清单上的事情以减少项目，我就有罪恶感。

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The situation is no better in the Arctic north, where studies predict that polar bear populations will rapidly shrink over the coming decades, thanks again to warming.

北极北部的情况不见得有多好，研究表明在未来的几十年，那里北极熊的数量会急速下降，这还是“归功于”全球变暖。

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There are no welcome letters or flowers in our rooms, and we have shrink-wrapped plastic cups instead of proper glasses.

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Its vast current-account deficit has started to shrink, meaning that America is no longer pulling along the rest of the world.

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But it is faster than any major economy across the Channel - the eurozone is collectively expected to shrink in 2013, with little or no growth even in 2014.

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