1:This month those pleading banners will return—but with many sets of eyes.2:Backing up the earnest Mr Wales in the attempt to raise $25m by the year-end will be Brandon Harris, a long-haired programmer wearing a full-sleeved T-shirt and a surly expression, who says he quit his job building “some crappy thing that’s designed to steal money from some kid who doesn’t know it” to work with Wikipedia.3:400m unique users every month make it the world’s fifth-biggest website, according to Alexa, an internet research company.4:It also has a good claim to be the world’s most important provider of non-entertainment content.

1:本月，那些筹款横幅广告又要回归了-这次关注的人却更多了。2:支持诚恳的威尔士完成到年底筹得2500万美元的目标的是程序员布兰登?哈里斯（Brandon Harris），哈里斯一头长发，身着一件大T恤，一副胸有成竹的表情。3:他称他上一份工作是做出“一些没用的东西”专门去骗不明真相的孩子的钱，辞职后他加入维基百科。4:互联网研究公司Alexa称每个月都有4亿用户访问并成就了这个世界第五大网站，同时它也是世界上最重要的非娱乐性信息的提供者。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-维基百科集资 Wikipedia's Fund-r

1:When he encounters such a withdrawal of collaboration, the theory goes, the malefactor will learn the error of his ways and become a more co-operative individual.2:And there is experimental evidence, based on specially designed games, that tit-for-tat does work for pairs of people.3:Human societies, though, are more complex than mere dyads.4:And until recently, it has been difficult to model that complexity in the laboratory.5:But a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Nicholas Christakis and his colleagues at Harvard has changed that.6:Dr Christakis arranged for a collaboration-testing game to be played over the web, with many participants.7:As a result, he and his team have gained a more sophisticated insight into the way co-operation develops.

1:根据这个理论，一旦作恶的一方得不到对方的合作，他将会从自己的错误中吸取教训，并变成一个更具有合作精神的人。2:根据从特别设计的游戏中取得的实验证据，投桃报李的原则确实适用于成对的研究对象。3:不过人类社会要比成对的研究对象复杂得多。4:直到最近为止，研究人员都很难在实验室中模拟出社会生活中的复杂情景。5:不过哈佛大学的尼古拉斯?克里斯塔（Nicholas Christakis）和他的同事们本周在《美国国家科学院院刊》上发表的论文改变了这个现实。6:克里斯塔博士设计了一个能够在互联网上供多人参与的合作测试游戏。7:根据这个游戏，克里斯塔博士和他的团队获得更多的资料，得以了解合作关系的演变规律。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-人们在谎言诱惑下会怎样进行合作

1:“YOU have got to go home tonight, Friday evening, and you have got to fire yourself,” a management coach once told Andrea Jung, the boss of Avon, an American beauty firm.2:The idea was for her to come back to work the following Monday as if starting her job anew.3:Alas, this brilliant tip was not enough.4:As Avon’s share price has wilted like mascara under a sunlamp, Ms Jung is being pushed out for real.5:On December 13th the firm announced that she will be replaced as chief executive.

1:美国化妆品公司雅芳的一位经理曾对老板钟彬娴女士（Andrea Jung）说道：“你今晚必须回家，周五晚上，而且你必须辞职。2:”该想法是为了让她能在下周一犹如重新开始工作一样重返办公室上班。3:唉，这个聪明绝顶的小建议并不能起到明显作用。4:当雅芳公司股价像日光灯下的睫毛膏一样萎缩时，钟彬娴女士确实被推到风口浪尖。5:12月13日，公司宣布钟彬娴将只担任首席执行官一职。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-雅芳把老板钟彬娴给炒了

1: If demography is indeed destiny, perhaps this figure should not be surprising. 2: More soldiers are male than female, and the male jobless rate exceeds women’s. 3: Since so many soldiers lack a college degree, the fact that the recession has been particularly hard on the less educated hits veterans disproportionately. 4: Large numbers of young veterans work—or worked—in stricken industries such as manufacturing and construction. 5: Whatever the cause, this bleak trend is occurring as the last American troops leave Iraq at the end of this year, and as more than 1m new veterans are expected to join the civilian labour force over the next four years.

1:如果说年龄结构决定失业率高低的话，大概下面的数字应该不会让人惊奇。2:男性士兵的人数要大于女性士兵的人数。理所当然，男性退伍士兵的失业率也要比女性退伍士兵高。3:因为许多士兵并未获得过大学文凭，事实上，经济衰退对受教育程度较差的士兵打击非常大。4:很大一部分年轻的退伍士兵，现在或曾经在受到了严重的冲击的领域，如制造业和建筑业中工作。5:无论原因为何，受教育越少，在经济衰退中受打击越大，这一形势将伴随着最后一批美国参战士兵在今年年底离开伊拉克，回到美国。未来四年间，将有超过一百万的新退伍士兵将涌入民政劳动力市场。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-美国退役士兵归国后面临的困难

The cause of the boom is simple: growing demand in Vietnam and, especially, China. To meet the demand, a complex network of loggers has sprung up, with the riskiest work carried out by the poorest. Some are country men plucked out by ringleaders promising large sums for sawn planks. Others are villagers solicited by local soldiers.

交易增多的原因很简单：越南，尤其是中国对紫檀木需求持续增长。为了满足市场需求，一个复杂网络的砍伐团伙便产生了，最穷的人分工最危险。当地的头头向村民承诺伐木收入非常可观，其他一些村民被当地的士兵开出的诱惑条件而甘愿去冒险。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-柬埔寨乱砍滥伐树木

Whatever it is, actively moving toward an objective will make work much more interesting.

不论目标是什么，主动地朝一个目标前进会让工作有趣地多。

属类：中国大陆-bbs.chinadaily.com.cn-

And the pay of Cairo street-sweepers on make-work government programmes is so low that they often beg from passing cars.

而拿着政府就业计划工资的开罗街道清扫工人来说，工资是如此的低以至于他们不得不常常向过路的小车司机乞讨。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Job satisfaction: Strategies to make work more gratifying

工作满意度：如何使工作更满意。

属类：英汉句库-www.ebigear.com-

Make-work schemes mop up some of the jobless, but may blot a curriculum vitae.

即使就业计划解决了一些失业人员，但这将会给他们的履历留下污点。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Tearfully they related how they had been shown they could make work fit around raising children. Three had landed jobs already.

她们饱含热泪地讲述了她们是如何接受培训并相信自己能够靠工作养育孩子的。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

The answer is to make work more interesting, mix up your routine a bit - ie, don't take out work frustrations on your food.

解决办法是，让工作变得更有趣味，稍稍打乱一下你的“例行程序”——也就是说，别在用餐时想工作中的挫折。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

Mandatory quotas do more harm than good. But firms should make work more family-friendly

强制配额弊大于利。但是公司应该使工作更有利于家庭。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

And yet, there is one context in which economists talk about job scarcity in the same terms as an ordinary layman guilty of make-work bias.

然而，存在一个场合，在这里经济学家与犯有“造作工作成见”罪的普通门外汉从同一角度谈论岗位稀缺。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Here are 8 ways to make work seem like less of a chore and more like a gift

通过如下的8条途径，可以使我们的工作看起来不那么讨厌，并且

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

I call this the make-work bias, a tendency to underestimate the economic benefits of conserving labor.

我称之为“造作工作”（make-work）的成见，是一种低估节省劳力的经济收益的倾向。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

I worry that mainstream Keynesian macroeconomics is little more than fancy camouflage for make-work bias.

我担心主流凯恩斯主义宏观经济学不过是“造作工作成见”的花哨伪装。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Cash is pouring into rural areas through a make-work scheme, named after Gandhi.

现金通过以甘地命名的为提供就业机会而安排的工作计划注入农村地区。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Companies that want to attract the best talent must think hard about how to make work more family-friendly.

想吸引最优秀人才的公司必须想法设法使工作和生活更加和谐。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Ask employees to brainstorm ways to make work more fulfilling.

要求员工参与集体攻关将使工作得到更好的完成。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Or they make work even harder and more innovatively to grab the few good jobs on offer, or to move overseas.

抑或，他们会更加刻苦、更富创造性的学习，以求抢到为数不多的好工作、或者移居海外。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

Unemployment has been masked by job subsidies and make-work schemes, but it is likely to climb back above 4m next year.

在给予工作补贴和执行创造就业计划试图极力挽回就业率的情况下，明年的失业人口预期仍将超过400万。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

It falls short of his earlier ambitions, to be sure, and will not be easy to make work .

这和他之前的雄心壮志有点不符，不可否认的是，要做到这一点不容易。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

Unusual personalities shake things up, make work more fun, and turn a vanilla group into a team with flavor and flair.

这种不寻常的性格会让事情变得很不一样，使工作更有趣，让一个普通的团队变得有声有色。

属类：英汉句库-www.hjenglish.com-

Baskets are notoriously hard to make work , especially if they include an inconvertible currency.

众所周知，一篮子货币很难发挥作用，特别是如果其中包含不可兑换的货币的话。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-