Even if true, this evidence does not refute the contention that editors should bear some of the blame for the reductions, unless editors are merely passive instruments responding to reader interest.

即使这是真的，这一证据也不能反驳编辑应该承担部分责任的论点，除非编辑只是被动地回应读者的兴趣。

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Most OFCs do not levy capital-gains or inheritance taxes, nor taxes on passive income such as interest.

绝大多数的离岸金融中心都免收资本利得税和遗产税，也不对诸如利息一类的被动收入进行征税。

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The study without interest is passive, not creative at all.

没有兴趣的学习是被动的，毫无创造性的。

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There is nothing like equity to assure that outside directors will take more than a passive interest in the decisions they make about a company's future.

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The tracing rule, which has some really complicated regulations, will have you divide your interest expense into trade or business, investment interest, interest associated with passive activities and personal interest.

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As I explained in a book I co-authored some time ago, in an environment like this bankers have grown up as abacus bankers, record keepers of money flows who derive income from seigniorage, from the passive creation of money through interest bearing-loans and government-backed securities rather than from true banking, and from active risk management.

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