Short-time work schemes introduce distortions: they could impede growth and productivity once recovery begins by discouraging workers from moving from firms in declining industries to growing ones.

短期工作计划会造成失衡：一旦经济复苏开始，需要劳动者停止从衰落行业向兴起行业转移，该计划就会阻碍经济增长和生产率。

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Even when we are physically distant from our groups they can still impede creativity through the unconscious standards they impose on their members.

已经远离群体，他们仍然可以通过强加于我们的无意识准则来妨碍我们的创造性。

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Nature distributes excess fat tissue as far from the body's vital organs as possible so as to not impede their effective operation.

大自然把人体多余的脂肪组织尽可能分布在远离重要器官的地方，以便不影响后者的有效运行。

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Rather than being keen on taxes and public spending, European liberals are often derided (notably in France) for seeking minimal government in fact, for denying that government has any useful role at all, aside from pruning vital regulation and subverting the norms of decency that impede the poor from being ground down.

ECONOMIST: And we want it back

The Argentinians included a transitory clause in their new constitution to impede Carlos Menem from running again.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The security services try to impede foreign journalists from visiting leaders who have been released from jail, and keep the two most senior figures under lock and key.

ECONOMIST: Bouteflika��s bid for concord