Cash for Clunkers was designed to boost the sagging sales of American automakers and take vehicles with low fuel economy off the road.

旧车换现金方案的目标，是要刺激销售萎靡不振的美国汽车市场，并汰换掉路上低燃料效能的车辆。

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So if you take the drag off the economy by nonproductive implementation of capital what you're going to see is that capital is then going to be put to use in something that is productive.

因此，如果减少非生产性资本开支对经济的拖累，我们将会看到这笔资金将会被用在能够产生经济效益的方面。

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The stock of debt that banks and households still carry will take years to pay off. The hole in the balance-sheet must be sealed before the economy can regain its bounce.

银行和家庭的债务要花几年的时间才能偿完，资产负债表的大坑也要先填平了，经济才能重归反弹点。

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Even if military and commercial aviation aren't moving in tandem, sales here could indicate that at leastparts of the world economy might take off soon.

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One tool the Fed has created in recent years has the goal of slowing down the economy and slowing down the velocity of money should the economy all of sudden take off due to all the stimulus the Fed has put into the system.

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And so even as we were dealing with the economic crisis, we tried not, over the last three years, to take our eye off the larger purpose of rebuilding an economy that has a firmer foundation.

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Some of the more traditional energy producers say if you want the economy to do better, maybe take some of the regulations off in terms of making it easier to drill or to gather coal until you can develop those green energies.

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