2017年翻譯資格考試catti高級(jí)口譯模擬試題（5）

　　【英譯中】

　　The effect of governmental expenditures on the total economy varies with both the level of utilization of labor and capital in the economy at the time of the expenditure, and the segment of the economy which receives the expenditure. If the economy as a whole or the segment of the economy which is the focus of the expenditure is operating at capacity or close to capacity, then the expenditure's major effects will tend to be inflationary, and will not generate much employment of capital and labor. If the economy or sector is operating at much less than full employment, the expenditure will produce a genuine (non-inflationary) rise in the GNP.

　　A true measure of the effect of governmental increase in the amount of money made available, then, is not the simple dollar value of the initial injection but the cumulative effect of this injection through spending and re-spending. In the optimum case the initial expansion of income flow could be great enough to produce tax revenues in excess of the original "deficit spending" or the "tax cut", so that deficits are not only smaller than the increased GNP but are recouped. In Keynesian economics the fundamental point of government policy clearly is not budget-balancing but spending in the event of unused productive capacity and unemployment. Spending increases productivity. This productivity resulting from federal spending has overwhelmed the older economic myths of the balanced budget where government is conceived of as just another business firm.

　　【參考譯文】

　　政府投資對(duì)于整個(gè)經(jīng)濟(jì)的影響作用，受到以下兩個(gè)因素的制約。第一，政府投資之時(shí)勞動(dòng)力和資本的利用情況;第二，接受投資的經(jīng)濟(jì)部分。如果整個(gè)經(jīng)濟(jì)或接受主要投資的經(jīng)濟(jì)部分充分或接近充分發(fā)揮效能，那么政府投資的效力不會(huì)很大，所以資本和勞動(dòng)力也不會(huì)得到充分利用。而如果經(jīng)濟(jì)潛能并未充分發(fā)揮，政府投資則會(huì)真正促進(jìn)GNP的增長(zhǎng)。

　　對(duì)于政府增加投資而產(chǎn)生的影響，衡量標(biāo)準(zhǔn)并非在于最初的投資數(shù)額，而在于這一投資經(jīng)過(guò)多次投入而產(chǎn)生的長(zhǎng)期影響。在理想的情況下，最初的收入增長(zhǎng)產(chǎn)生的稅收會(huì)超過(guò)最初的“負(fù)債投入”或“減免的稅收”。這樣，赤字不僅小于GNP的增長(zhǎng)，而且得到了補(bǔ)償。凱恩斯的經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)理論認(rèn)為，政府決策的重點(diǎn)并非在于平衡赤字，而在于生產(chǎn)力沒(méi)有得到充分發(fā)揮，失業(yè)率居高不下之時(shí)加大投入。傳統(tǒng)的經(jīng)濟(jì)理論錯(cuò)誤地認(rèn)為必須政府應(yīng)發(fā)揮類似公司的職能，盡力平衡赤字，而聯(lián)邦資金投入可以促進(jìn)生產(chǎn)能力，使傳統(tǒng)的理論不攻自破。