Researchers have found that grip strength is a leading health indicator.

研究人员发现，握力是一个主要的健康指标。

This is a classic example of politicians being lagging, not leading, indicators.

这是一个政客引起拖累 而不是引导作用的典型例子。

Its index of leading economic indicators jumped a half percent in December.

它的领先经济指标指数在去年12月增长了一半。

Business confidence had soured and the housing market, so often a leading indicator of economic trouble, had sagged.

商业信心已下降，住房市场（通常是经济问题的先行指标）也已下跌。

And, you know, the unemployment insurance claims are a better leading indicator. And so based upon that, they need to be talking.

失业保险索赔是更优的领先指标。基于此，他们需要对话。

A very good leading indicator is usually housing starts or housing permits.

一个非常好的领先指标通常是新屋开工或住房许可。

It isn't a leading indicator, I mean, essentially.

它不是一个领先指标， 我的意思是， 本质上。

If a change in the jet stream really is a leading indicator of solar activity, then no new cycle is on the horizon.

如果高速气流的变化真地是太阳活动最重要的指示物，那么新的太阳活动周期还未露端倪。

Immigration to Europe has slowed. Some studies also suggest that increased inflows of migrants are a leading indicator of a pickup in growth.

欧洲的移民量也在减缓。一些研究还表明移入居民的增加是经济增长好转的先行指标。

At the current juncture, when many think America is on the brink of recession, this oft-cited but fallible leading indicator merits closer inspection.

在当前的关键时刻，许多人认为美国正处于衰退的边缘，这个时候这一经常被引用，但又容易出错的主导性指标就值得被更仔细地审视一番了。

I didn't realise that Scottish politics was in some ways a leading indicator of how politics was gonna change more broadly.

我没有意识到苏格兰政治在某些方面是政治将如何发生更广泛变化的领先指标。

The main explanation for why sentiment has been more of a misleading than a leading economic indicator is that inflation has outweighed much else in consumers' minds.

消费者情绪之所以更像误导性而非主导性经济指标，主要是因为通胀在消费者心目中的重要性远远超过了其他因素。

So when economists are looking for signs of a potential recession, they're analysing all different kinds of data that are known as leading indicators.

因此，当经济学家寻找潜在衰退的迹象时，他们正在分析所有不同类型的数据， 这些数据被称为领先指标。

All the things you would look to as a leading indicator that we might have a recession or even just a downturn, those aren't showing up in the data so far.

所有这些，你认为会是我们陷入衰退甚至只是经济下行的主要指标，目前都没有出现。

A political scientist once said to me that a leading indicator that climate change is starting to hit home, psychologically, would be an increase in the rate of informed women deciding to not have children.

一位政治学家曾经对我说，气候变化开始影响家庭心理的一个主要指标是知情女性决定不生育的比例增​​加。

And so the reason this is good leading indicator is before a company that is feeling particularly good hires another worker, they will tell their current batch of workers to put in a few more hours.

因此，这是一个好的领先指标的原因是， 在一家感觉特别好的公司雇用另一名工人之前，他们会告诉他们目前的工人再投入几个小时。

You know, it's not only one of the nation's leading economic indicators that we've actually been researching since 1946. It's also a unique opportunity for you to make sure that your concerns are being heard by policymakers.

您知道，这不仅是我们自 1946 年以来实际上一直在研究的国家领先经济指标之一。这也是您确保政策制定者能够听到您的担忧的独特机会。

But as Zachary Karabell wrote in a book about leading indicators in 2014, the conclusion is a more frustrating one: " Sentiment gauges are right just often enough to make them compelling and wrong far too frequently to make them reliable."

但正如扎克里·卡拉贝尔在2014年的一本关于主导性指标的书中所写的那样，他的结论更令人沮丧：" 情绪指标正确的频率恰好足够使其具有说服力，而情绪指标错误的频率却高到让其失去了可靠性。"