Bankers' fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.
银行家们丰厚的薪酬包已经引起了大量批评，但一个不奖励高成就者的公共部门体系可能对美国来说是一个更大的问题。
At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending.
至少，它让我们从全国性的、追求轻松致富和更大住房的狂热梦中醒来，并结束了不负责任的个人消费时代，这是必要的。
In their eagerness to build bigger telescopes, they forgot that science is not the only way of understanding the world.
他们在急于建造更大望远镜的过程中，忘记了科学并不是理解世界的唯一方式。
They could even be detrimental, satisfying a need to have “done our bit” without ever progressing onto bigger, bolder, more effective actions – a kind of “moral licensing” that allays our concerns and stops us doing more and asking more of those in charge.
它们甚至可能适得其反，满足了我们‘已经尽了一份力’的心理需求，却从未推动我们采取更大胆、更有效的行动——这类似于一种‘道德授权’，减轻了我们的担忧，阻止我们做更多事或对掌权者提出更高要求。
Britain's towns, it is true, are not prevented from applying, but they generally lack the resources to put together a bid to beat their bigger competitors.
确实，英国的城镇并不被禁止申请，但它们通常缺乏足够的资源来组织一个能击败更大竞争对手的申办方案。
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。