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考研英語雙語閱讀材料：衡量生命價值

he(Trump) was raising an issue that economists have long grappled with: How can a society assess the trade-off between economic well-being and health?

他(特朗普)提出了經(jīng)濟學(xué)家長久以來努力解決的問題：一個社會如何評估經(jīng)濟福祉和健康之間的取舍?

President Trump and leading business figures are increasingly questioning the wisdom of a prolonged shutdown of the American economy — already putting millions out of work — to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

特朗普總統(tǒng)和商界領(lǐng)袖們越來越多地質(zhì)疑，為遏制新型冠狀病毒的蔓延而讓美國經(jīng)濟長期停擺是否明智——這種停滯已經(jīng)讓數(shù)百萬人失去了工作。

however, a widespread consensus among economists and public health experts that lifting the restrictions would impose huge costs in additional lives lost to the virus — and deliver little lasting benefit to the economy.

經(jīng)濟學(xué)家和公共衛(wèi)生家倒是普遍認(rèn)為，取消這些限制將使更多的人死于這種病毒，付出巨大的代價，而且?guī)缀醪粫o經(jīng)濟帶來什么長期的好處。

Weighing economic costs against human lives will inevitably seem crass. But societies also value things like jobs, food and money to pay the bills