He might fool some people for a little while through misleading advertising. He will not do so for long, for mercifully the public has the good sense not to buy the inferior article more than once.

他们或许能通过误导性的广告暂时愚弄一些人，但时间不会太长，因为庆幸的是，公众有良好的意识，他们不会一而再地去购买劣质商品。

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That is good for some lawyers, but bad for justice (and, when public bodies are sued, for the taxpayer).

这对律师来说是件好事，但不利于法律制裁(当被告是公共机构时，纳税人也会吃亏)。

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It follows that public policy that does not take the importance of good and bad relationships into account may be blind to some of the connections between policy and happiness.

因此，没有考虑关系好坏之重要性的公共政策也许对政策与幸福之间的联系就会在某种程度上表现得盲目。

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If you know the secrets of a company, if you know some good news about the company before the public does, you could buy the shares of the company and experience the profit when the price goes up.

如果你掌握了公司内幕信息,你能比公众更早得知,公司的利好消息,那你就会去购买公司的股票,然后从股票升值中获利

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His liberal critics retort that the state has a duty to protect minorities, rather than sacrifice them to some supposed public good.

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These pose the question of whether people working in the White House should serve only the president, or also some distinct concept of the public good.

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While domestic strengthening of institutional frameworks for the financial and corporate sectors is no doubt required, there is also a need for an architecture -- some sort of international "public good" -- to maximize the advantages of international capital market integration while mitigating its risks.

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