" 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。

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。

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。