" We wish to go to the Emerald City, " said the child, " and we have lost our way."

“我们想去翡翠城，”女孩子说，“但我们迷了路。”

" We have lost our way, " said Dorothy. " Can you tell us where the Emerald City is? "

“我们迷失了路，请你告诉我，翡翠城怎么走？”

And I'm here as an economist to break it to you that we've kind of lost our way on this question.

作为经济学家，我来是想告诉你们我们在这个问题上迷失了方向。

" I hope we're not going to lose our way" !

“我希望我们不会迷路” ！

We lose our way, often when we are made to feel afraid.

我们迷失了方向， 通常是在我们感到害怕的时候。

On November 4, 1846, we entered the desert and soon lost our way.

1846 年 11 月 4 日，我们进入沙漠，很快就迷路了。

" We have surely lost our way, " he said, " and unless we find it again in time to reach the Emerald City, I shall never get my brains."

“我们一定走错了路。除非我们最后能找到一条出路，不然我将不会得到我的脑子了。”

To illustrate. Homer Croy and I once lost our way while motoring through the interior of France. Halting our old Model T, we asked a group of peasants how we could get to the next big town.

有一回，我和霍默·克罗伊在法国境内开车兜风时迷路了。 我们只好将老福特车停下来，向一群农民问路。

And what I want to argue is, we've kind of lost our way, and that has actually allowed this term, " wealth creation" and " value, " to become quite weak and lazy and also easily captured.

我想要争论的是，我们已经有些迷失了，也因此使得这些词，“财富创造”和“价值”变得越发脆弱、慵懒，以及容易标榜。

But you mustn't let that make you down-hearted. Very likely, what with enemies, and mountains, and rivers to cross, and losing our way, and next to nothing to eat, and sore feet, we'll hardly notice the weather.

不过你们不必为此垂头丧气。由于会碰到敌人，又要爬山，又要过河，又是迷路，又是几乎没东西可吃，又是脚痛，我们多半不大会注意天气。

What I want to do next is kind of ask ourselves how we lost our way, how it could be, actually, that a statement like that could almost go unnoticed, because it wasn't an after-dinner joke; it was said very seriously.

我接下来想做的是扪心自问，我们是如何迷失的，为什么会这样，这样的声明几乎无人注意，毕竟它不是个饭后玩笑，而是正儿八经说的。