quaint

🧩 词形变化

💬 双语例句

1. But, for many of those who imagine relaxing in a place that offers a quaint life of undisturbed beauty, there is a strong risk that prices will rise out of reach in future decades. No economic strategy can change that, even if it produces spectacular GDP growth.

   而对于很多偏好在不受打扰的美景中放松身心的人们来说，未来几十年中价格的变化很可能会让他们无法承受。 没有任何经济对策能改变这种状况，即便这种政策能带来可观的GDP增长。

2. It might not be so bad if there were even a grain of truth to trickle-down economics – the quaint notion that everyone benefits from enriching those at the top. But most Americans today are worse off – with lower real (inflation-adjusted) incomes – than they were in 1997, a decade and a half ago.

   如果滴漏经济学（trickle-down economics，一种所有人都能从顶层人士的发迹中获益的奇谈怪论）中含有那么一丝真理的话，这或许称不上大坏事。 但如今大部分美国人的境况比15年前的1997年还不如 — — 真实（经通胀调整的）收入下降了。 增长所带来的好处全被顶层攫走了。

🔗 常用搭配