It is difficult, under even the most benign conditions, to change people's minds. So why make it harder? Why handicap yourself?

即便是在最温和有利的情况下，要改变人的思想依旧是十分困难的。 所以何必让情况更糟呢？何必为难自己呢？

And after a decade of unpleasantly benign financial conditions, excitement in the industry is building.

在经历了 10 年令人不快的良好财务状况之后，该行业的兴奋情绪正在增强。

Then, on May 15, the White House announced that Melania was at a Washington-area hospital for a procedure to treat a " benign kidney condition."

5月15日，白宫却宣布，梅拉尼娅正在华盛顿一家医院接受“良性肾脏疾病”的治疗。

The phenomenon is commonly attributed to better monetary policy, but also to benign global conditions relative to those which confronted central banks in the 1960s and 1970s—namely, spend-happy governments and energy shocks—when economies were battered by falling productivity growth.

这种现象通常归因于更好的货币政策，但也归因于相对于 1960 年代和 70 年代中央银行所面临的那些有利的全球条件——即乐于支出的政府和能源冲击——当时经济受到生产率增长下降的打击。