To get a sense of current economist opinion, we turned to the experts at Economics by invitation.

为了获得当下经济学家们的观点，我们向经济学界的专家们发出了邀请。

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When given a list of 22 activities that contribute to their current sense of happiness, shopping for luxuries ranked 20th, barely beating smoking.

在从22种行为中选择哪种能在当前带来快乐时，购买奢侈品排在第20位，仅比吸烟好一点。

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About that misdiagnosis: What sense does it make to view our current woes as stemming from lack of competitiveness?

先说误诊的事情：认为我们当前的困难根源在缺乏竞争到底有什么意义？

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But General Sarnoff (or his broadcast-standards minions?) had even less of a sense of humor than current NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt has displayed in the face of Leno's recent jabs.

WSJ: Remembering a time before 'Tonight' left New York

The Oxford English Dictionary gives this sense of peculiarity as "the ordinary current objective sense".

BBC: Suffolk: The curious case of a rebranded county

Plans aired on April 16th to subsidise buyers of electric cars from 2011 make sense, despite the current limitations of that technology.

ECONOMIST: Manufacturers are vexed by half-baked offers of help