At the start of 2020, private equity firms held $1.45tn in what they call " dry powder" , and what the rest of us call " cash" : piles of money sitting around awaiting investment. Just imagine what you could do with it.

2020年初，私人股本公司持有1.45万亿美元“干粉”，以及我其余人所称“现金”：有成堆闲置资金等待投资，想象一下你能用它来做什么。

Savings stashed away as idle gold could be put to more productive use elsewhere.

用来存储闲置黄金储蓄本可以有其他更有成效用途。

That of course includes, on top of your car keys, your phone, and your dangly necklace, all other small objects laying around your house - like LEGO bricks!

当然，这包括你车钥匙、你手机还有你吊坠项链，还包括所有家里闲置小物件，比如乐高积木！

I did, to go with the spare one I bought last month.

是，和我上个月买来闲置那辆相配。

The roads cannot handle that much heavy traffic; the alternative ports have limited spare capacity.

道路无法承受那么大交通流量；替代闲置容量有限。

'All those rooms empty! ' said Tess, 'and we have no shelter! '

“所有房间都是闲置着！” 苔说，“而我连个可以遮蔽地方都没有！”

We built the fences to stop thieves and idling animals from entering the farm.

我栅栏以防小偷和闲置动物进入农场。

We were able to salvage 80% of the original concrete structure, which amounts to approximately 24,000 cubic metres. As Shenzhen continues to expand there isn't room for these old buildings to sit there and become disused.

我抢救出了 80% 原有混凝土结构，约 24,000 立方米。随着深圳不断扩容，这些老旧建已经没有被闲置空间了。

Anyway, it had to be done, because so much of the shopfloor was empty.

无论如何，这是必须要做事情，因为太多车间是闲置。

A middle class is emerging with more money to spend on items that were once considered a luxury.

现在拥有大量闲置资金中产阶级涌现在曾被认为奢侈品上花费大把金钱。

And don't forget that idle minds create the poverty consciousness.

别忘了，闲置头脑会造成贫困意识。

Much of it is buried in unused sites at Cape Canaveral.

其中大部分被埋在卡纳维拉尔角闲置地点。

Half of the trucks are idle and half of them are permanent.

一半卡车被闲置这中间一半根本就没动过。

Their economic inactivity and unemployment puts them at a greater risk of insufficient social protection, making them more vulnerable to extreme poverty.

他经济闲置以及失业让他有更高风险会无法得到足够社会保护，使他更可能陷入极度贫困。

So rather than fill the space with potentially empty desks, of which I still saw plenty, new furniture was added based on something called the postures matrix.

因此，与其用可能闲置办公桌将空间填满，我选择了添加基于所谓姿势矩阵设计新家具。

Since the maintenance of even the idle public sports venues is a heavy burden on the government budget, it does not make sense to continue to allow that to happen while the people are in a dire need of sports venues.

由于即使是闲置公共体育场馆维修工作，也需要政府出资进行维持，因此，在市民急需体育场馆情况下，开发综合体育场馆具有一定难度。

Many existing coal plants are now running below capacity, several are idle, and new energy efficiency standards could slow down demand to the point where there may be a glut of costly coal-fired plants.

许多现有燃煤电厂目前都是在低负荷运转，还有几家已经闲置，新能效标准可能会将需求放缓到成本高昂燃煤电厂供过于求地步。

Google workers, already rattled by the largest layoff in the search giant's history, now face another indignity as the company ends some of its leases on unused office space: desk-sharing.

谷歌员工已经被这家搜索巨头历史上最大规模裁员搞得焦头烂额，现在又面临着另一种屈辱，因为该公司终止了一些闲置办公空间租约：办公桌共享。

Whichever way you look at it, living together in the same city would be both bizarre and leave an enormous amount of empty space left in the world.

无论从哪个角度看，世界上所有人同住在一个城市，既怪异，又会在地球上会空出大量闲置空间。

In its purest form, the " sharing economy" leverages technology to facilitate transactions between people with idle goods and resources, and people willing to pay for them.

纯粹地说，" 共享经济" 利用科技将有闲置商品和资源一方，与愿意付费借用一方联系来，促进双方达成交易。