He quotes a giant of classical economics, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like "children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.
他引用了古典经济学巨擘阿尔弗雷德·马歇尔的话，将这种金融上的急躁比作"孩子们把布丁里的李子挑出来立刻吃掉，而不是留到最后再吃"。
They are acting because national governments—Britain’s and others across Europe—have failed to do so.
他们之所以采取行动，是因为国家政府——英国的以及欧洲其他国家的——未能履行这一职责。
In one example, an individual—acting as author, editor, and consultant—was able to use at least 15 journals as citation providers to articles published by five scientists at three universities.
在其中一个例子中，某个人——同时担任作者、编辑和顾问——能够使用至少15种期刊作为引用来源，这些期刊引用了三位大学里五位科学家发表的文章。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。