《经济学人》迷信的市长们：风水师的诅咒 [C1]

发布于 2026-08-25 · 时长 4:29

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时间	英文	中文
0:02	China	中国
0:06	Superstitious mares	迷信的母马
0:09	The geomancer's curse	地质学家的诅咒
0:11	Supernatural beliefs lead to a lower economic growth	超自然信仰导致经济增长下降
0:16	Feng Shui, China's ancient practice of geomancy, is all about auspicious surroundings, meaning wind, water.	凤水,中国古代的地理习惯,都指吉祥的环境,意为风,水.
0:26	It holds that the arrangement of landscapes, buildings, rooms, and even objects around you, brings about either good or bad fortune.	它认为,风景,建筑,房间,甚至你周围的物体的安排,带来好或坏的财富.
0:35	Mirrors, for instance, should never face the bed, for that will reflect malign energy onto the sleeper.	例如,镜像永远不应面对床,因为这将反映睡眠者的恶性能量。
0:42	Bedroom doors directly facing the main entrance are a big taboo, since it is a quick route for all the qi, or vital life force, to escape.	直接面对主入口的寝室门是一个很大的禁忌,因为它是所有qi,或生命力的快速通道,可以逃脱.
0:52	Roughly half of all Chinese say they believe in Feng Shui.	大约一半的中国人说他们相信凤水.
0:57	It is one thing to organise your home around Feng Shui, but plenty of officials in China appear to organise the cities they run around it too.	但中国许多官员似乎也组织他们所经营的城市。

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序号	英文	中文
1	China	中国
2	Superstitious mares	迷信的母马
3	The geomancer's curse	地质学家的诅咒
4	Supernatural beliefs lead to a lower economic growth	超自然信仰导致经济增长下降
5	Feng Shui, China's ancient practice of geomancy, is all about auspicious surroundings, meaning wind, water.	凤水,中国古代的地理习惯,都指吉祥的环境,意为风,水.
6	It holds that the arrangement of landscapes, buildings, rooms, and even objects around you, brings about either good or bad fortune.	它认为,风景,建筑,房间,甚至你周围的物体的安排,带来好或坏的财富.
7	Mirrors, for instance, should never face the bed, for that will reflect malign energy onto the sleeper.	例如,镜像永远不应面对床,因为这将反映睡眠者的恶性能量。
8	Bedroom doors directly facing the main entrance are a big taboo, since it is a quick route for all the qi, or vital life force, to escape.	直接面对主入口的寝室门是一个很大的禁忌,因为它是所有qi,或生命力的快速通道,可以逃脱.
9	Roughly half of all Chinese say they believe in Feng Shui.	大约一半的中国人说他们相信凤水.
10	It is one thing to organise your home around Feng Shui, but plenty of officials in China appear to organise the cities they run around it too.	但中国许多官员似乎也组织他们所经营的城市。
11	And that is despite the party's stated abhorrence of religion and superstition.	尽管该党宣称憎恶宗教和迷信,
12	In 2014, the party's secretary of Hainan in Anhui province blew up a five-star hotel under construction because it was harmful to his Feng Shui.	2014年,安徽省海南市党委书记因对其凤水有害,炸毁正在建设中的五星级酒店.
13	In another case from 2015, an official in Guangdong wrestled land from villagers to develop a favourable burial site for himself and his family.	在2015年的另一起案件中,一名广东官员从村民那里摔跤出土,为他本人和家人开发一个有利的埋葬地点.
14	Officials spend public funds to reorient office buildings, consult Feng Shui masters, and, by chance, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's internal watchdog, complains.	官员将公款花在调整办公楼方向上,咨询冯水主,偶然,中央纪检监察委员会,党内监察人员抱怨.
15	Offences related to superstition made up the biggest share of its punishments last year, according to a recent tally by the Wall Street Journal.	根据华尔街日报最近统计, 与迷信有关的犯罪在去年的处罚中占最大份额。
16	A working paper by Justin Jihao Hong of Boston University and Yuheng Zhou of Renmin University of China shines light on the deleterious effects of superstitious thinking.	波士顿大学的贾斯汀·吉豪洪和中国任民大学的俞亨周编写的工作文件,揭露了迷信思想的有害影响.
17	The researchers find that Feng Shui beliefs lead mayors to deny investment to parts of their domain they consider to be unlucky, so lowering those areas' GDP.	研究者发现,冯水的信仰导致市长拒绝投资他们认为不吉利的部分领域,因此降低了这些地区的GDP.
18	The more superstitious the mayor, the bigger the effect.	市长越迷信,效果就越大.
19	Feng Shui holds that certain directions of the compass are considered unfavourable depending on the timing of one's birth.	冯水认为,罗盘的某些方向根据一个人的出生时间而被认为不利.
20	For their analysis, Mr. Hong and Mr. Zhou recruited professional astrologers to assess the unfavourable directions of all mayors in China in power between 2000 and 2018.	为分析,洪先生和周先生聘请了专业的占星学家,评估2000年至2018年间中国所有执政市长的不利方向.
21	With that assessment, they worked out which of the counties that fall under the mayor's sway would be considered inauspicious in relation to the mayor's residence.	通过这一评估,他们确定了哪些属于市长管辖的县被认为与市长住所无关。
22	They then measured economic performance in those counties.	然后,他们衡量了这些县的经济业绩。
23	The results make for uncanny reading.	结果让人无法想象
24	All else equal, counties that lay in mayors' unfavourable directions on average experienced 2.3% lower GDP relative to those that lay in other directions.	在所有其他方面,市长不利方向的县平均国内总产值比其他方向低2.3%。
25	Mayors reduced policy support and investment in those counties with the effect magnified by firms who hired fewer employees and households who relocated away.	市长们减少了在这些县的政策支持和投资,其影响因雇用雇员较少的公司和搬迁的家庭而扩大。
26	Counties' local economies caught up eventually, usually about three years after the departure of the offending mayor.	各州的地方经济最终陷入困境,通常是在违法市长离开三年之后。
27	Still, the overall effect amounted to a loss of 0.1% of GDP a year to China's economy.	尽管如此,总体影响仍相当于中国经济每年损失GDP的0.1%.
28	Since the geomancy-driven decisions hurt the local economy, they would logically also hurt mayors' chances of promotion.	由于地理因素驱动的决定伤害了当地经济,因此从逻辑上讲也会损害市长晋升的机会。
29	But perhaps, Mr. Hong suggests, Feng Shui helps to soothe the stressful uncertainty that mayors face about both future policy directions and their own political fates.	但也许洪先生认为,冯水帮助平息了市长们对未来政策方向和他们自己的政治命运所面临的压力的不确定性.

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