Wonks had plenty of reason to worry.

书呆子们有充分的理由担心。

Policy wonks have long dreamed of simplifying America's tax code.

制定政策的学院派们长期以来一直梦想着能简化美国的免税代码。

I like to cut them on the wonk, a little bit slanted.

我喜欢把它们摆在圆盘上，稍微有点倾斜。

Although wonks are betting on a recession, many punters still hope one can be avoided.

尽管书呆子们押注于经济衰退，但许多投机者仍希望经济衰退能够避免。

Hence an idea popular among policy wonks: to improve vocational schools and government training schemes.

改进职业学校和政计划。

Today, free trade is promoted by stale policy wonks and rapacious executives, nothing like the broad, energetic coalition of the past.

如今，自由贸易与过去广泛而积极的联盟不同，相反是由陈腐的政策书呆子和贪婪的高管推动的。

Maybe you're… that part of my brain could be a wonk.

也许… … 我大脑的那部分可能是个书呆子。

" Alex, you're the family wonk, " she says, taking a bite.

“亚历克斯， 是家里的书呆子， ” 她咬了一口说道。

In early 1984, with inflation at 3.5%, New Zealand's wonks thought they had slain the monster.

1984 年初，通货膨胀率 3.5%，西兰的书呆子们认他们已经杀死了这个怪物。

So he and his colleagues built a fantastical new world for wonks to explore.

因此，他和他的同事们建造了一个奇幻的世界，供书呆子们探索。

The White House chief of staff must be a policy wonk, legislative mastermind, political guru, management whiz and trusted presidential adviser all rolled into one.

白宫办公厅主任必须身兼政策专家、立法策划者、政治大师、管理能手和可信赖的总统顾问等多种职位于一身。

An idea that has captured the imagination of many wonks, owing to its novelty, is a trillion-dollar coin.

一个由于其颖性而引起许多书呆子想象力的想法是一万亿美元的硬币。

A host of Republican grandees, from Haley Barbour, a former governor of Mississippi, to Paul Ryan, the party's leading budget wonk, rushed to denounce the Heritage report.

一群共和党政要，从密西西比州前州长哈雷巴博(HaleyBarbour)，到共和党首席预算专家保罗•雷恩（Paul Ryan），旋即批评传统基金会的报告。

For wonks, a " soft landing" occurs when heat is taken out of the economy without causing it to veer into recession.

对于书呆子来说，“软着陆”发生在从经济中带走热量而不导致经济陷入衰退的情况下。

I'd say, I'm not even a candy wonk.

我想说，我什至不是一个糖果迷。

Scholars are often greatly excited by " natural experiments" , events that end up separating two groups of people, allowing wonks to compare their subsequent behaviour.

学者们通常醉心于“自然实验”，这种实验最后会把实验人员分开，让书呆子们能够对比他们接下来的行。

By contrast, Mr Biden's CEA-an advisory body of wonks that aims to ground the president's policies in sound economics-may be the most progressive in recent memory.

相比之下，拜登的经济顾问委员会——一个旨在使总统的政策在稳健的经济中得到贯彻的专家顾问机构——可能是近年来最进步的。

Monetary wonks see a clear distinction: quantitative tightening is an enduring change to the Fed's balance-sheet, whereas the emergency credit will vanish when things normalise.

货币专家看到了一个明显的区别：量化紧缩是美联储资产负债表的持久变化，而当情况正常化时，紧急信贷将消失。

They align it and they take a big old hammer and they go wonk, wonk, wonk, wonk, wonk until it's all the way in there.

他们把它对齐，拿起一把旧锤子，不停地敲，敲，敲，敲，直到它进入那里。

During this campaign Mr Gingrich has consistently claimed that he frightens, and is running against, “the Washington establishment”, which is of course laughable; he served ten terms in Congress before becoming a “consultant”, think-tanker and free-floating policy wonk.

竞选中金里奇一直宣称，他害怕，但又将反对”华盛顿权贵“们到底，这一说法显然十分 可笑。早在金里奇成一名”顾问“，智囊团成员和随波逐流的政策专家之前，他就已经 连任十届国会成员。