At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm – double the figure five years earlier.
据研究公司Arts Economics的创始人克莱尔·麦克安德鲁估算，2007年该市场达到顶峰时价值约为650亿美元，是五年前数字的两倍。
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"。
Regenerative products could be a hard sell, because the concept is tough to define quickly, says Julie Stanton, associate professor of agricultural economics at Pennsylvania State University Brandywine.
宾夕法尼亚州立大学布兰迪葡萄酒分校的农业经济学副教授朱莉·斯坦顿表示，再生产品可能难以推销，因为这一概念很难迅速明确定义。
In her new book Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be, Diane Coyle, an economist at Cambridge University, argues that the digital economy requires new ways of thinking about progress.
在她的新书《齿轮与怪物：经济学是什么，以及它应该是什么》中，剑桥大学的经济学家黛安·科伊尔认为，数字经济需要新的思维方式来衡量进步。
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。