来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：环境政治与法律 第2集 第2集》

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  try to judge the reasonableness of a proposed regulation.
  尝试判断拟议的规定的合理性
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  Generally, the system of environmental law that we've got
  其实我们的环境法系统一般
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  is utilitarian.
  都很功利
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  It's balancing of costs and benefits or risks or the
  都是些成本和收益或风险或与损失的估计
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  estimate of damages and what the economic benefits might be.
  和可能的经济效益之间的平衡
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  And inherent in that decision standard is this problem.
  那个决策标准固有的问题是
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  You've got costs that are pretty easy to quantify.
  成本很容易量化
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  And if you've got a firm that's making a product,
  而且如果你的公司在生产一件产品
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  they're going to tell you with pretty good accuracy their
  他们会精确地告诉你
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  opinion about what they would lose if you took that right away
  他们会失去什么 如果你
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  from them to produce that product.
  从他们那拿走那个权利来生产那件产品
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  Now, by contrast, if you think about the damage
  相比之下 如果你考虑下