We do not try to fine-tune the economy on the basis of short-term predictions.

我们不会根据短期预测而试图对经济作微调。

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As a portion of a large economy, those budgets provided a basis for some progress.

鉴于是大经济体中的一部分，这些预算为取得某些进展奠定了基础。

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On that basis, the size of China's economy is already close to America's and is likely to overtake it by 2016.

按这个方法计算，中国经济的规模已经接近美国，且有可能在2016年超过美国。

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The basis of their economy was livestock, its primary currency cattle.

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On a dollars-per mile basis, the price of an economy car has gone up by about a factor of two, not five as the CPI would suggest.

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But turning one-sixth of our economy over to the federal government on the basis of these personal stories, however wrenching, is very dangerous indeed.

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