Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
笑声越来越随意,毫无节制地倾泻出来,只要句笑话就会引起哄然大笑。
Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct. The whole, or almost the whole public revenue is, in most countries, employed in maintaining unproductive hands.
伟大的国家永远不会因私人而贫穷,尽管它们有时会因公共的挥霍和不当行为而贫穷。在大多数国家,全部或几乎全部公共收入都用于维持非生产性劳动力。
So far as it is employed in the first way, it promotes prodigality, increases expense and consumption, without increasing production, or establishing any permanent fund for supporting that expense, and is in every respect hurtful to the society.
就它以第种方式使用而言,它促进了挥霍,增加了开支和消费,却没有增加生产,也没有建立任何永久性基金来支持这种开支,并且在各个方面都对社会有害。