If you earn more, you pay more in tax, so it's all swings and roundabouts.

赚的越多，缴的税也越多，所以有得必有失。

Roundabouts are fun, but not too much.

旋转木马很好玩，但别玩太多。

The arguments for roundabouts are strong.

关于环形路的争论一直很激烈。

In a variation of the game, drivers approach roundabouts at high speed and go around the wrong way.

该游戏还有一个变种，司机们需要以高速在非法的车道上绕行。

Though tens of thousands of roundabouts exist across Europe, America still has only 3, 000 of them.

虽然在整个欧洲地区建有上万个环形车道，但在美国却只有3000个。

Though tens of thousands of roundabouts exist across Europe, America still has only 3,000 of them.

虽然在整个欧洲地区建有上万个环形车道，但在美国却只有3000个。

Nowadays America is adding perhaps 150 to 250 new roundabouts a year, not counting mini-ones in suburbs.

目前，美国每年大约增建150—250条环形路，这还不包括郊区的小型环形路。

Most of the old roads are clotted with cars; others have been reconfigured with pace-slowing roundabouts.

大部分陈旧道路上塞满了汽车；有些老街道上增添了减速通过的大转盘。

A 2001 study by the IIHS found that roundabouts have 80% fewer crashes with injuries than ordinary intersections.

公路安全保险学会2001年的一份研究发现，在环形路上，致人受伤的交通事故发生率要比普通交叉道路低80%。

Instead they fly along motorways, turn at junctions and even go around roundabouts, adding miles to their journeys.

相反，它们是沿着汽车路线飞行的。他们在路口处转弯，甚至还绕行环岛，多飞很长的路程。

“We lose far more roundabouts that could have been built, because of city councils or a trucking company, ” says Mr Walsh.

维尔士说，“要不是因为市议会和汽车货运公司，我们的环形路数量会比现在的多。”

Even the Alaskan town of North Pole is building three new roundabouts, one at the corner of Santa Claus Lane and St Nicholas Drive.

甚至位于北极圈内的阿拉斯基小镇都在新建3条环形路，其中一条就位于圣诞老人大道和圣尼古拉斯大道的转角。

What locals like, though, is that it is on average far quicker to traverse a series of roundabouts than a similar number of stop lights.

当地人之所以喜欢这种车道是因为，在这种环形车道上行驶要比等一连串的红绿灯快得多。

European companies are also grappling with the iron law of currency movements: that what you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabouts.

欧洲企业还要应对货币走势的铁律：有所得也可能有所失。

Avenue roundabouts have been added, available under a new menu button that also contains the other avenue intersections, such as the avenue Y-Stack.

增加了环形路，出现在包含有其他大街交会(例如“大街Y形交会”)的新菜单按钮下。

The research on the capacity of roundabouts is a complicated process. Capacity research must be connected with the appraising methods of traffic quality.

交叉口通行能力研究必须与交通运行质量的评价方法结合起来。

Washington started building roundabouts in 1997. By 2001 there were 17; now there are over 100, according to Brian Walsh of the state's transport department.

据华盛顿州交通运输局的布莱恩•维尔士统计，华盛顿于1997年开始修建环形路；到2001年，总共建成17条；目前，总数已超过100条。

(Modern designs include mechanisms for slowing traffic down as it nears the roundabouts, for example, and do not allow pedestrians onto the centre of the circle).

它们甚至比以往的交通环道（如曼哈顿市区建于上世纪的哥伦布环道）更加高效和安全（现代设计包括使靠近环形路的车辆减速的系统，以及禁止行人进入环形的中心区域）。

Officials in Florence cannot now persuade local residents' committees to accept the Chinese statues, even if they are tucked away by roundabouts on the outskirts of town.

佛罗伦莎的官员们无法说服当地居民委员会接受来自中国的雕像，就算放在郊区道路交叉口的环形圈也不行。

The firm will not produce its first prototype until 2009, but sceptics already worry that what it gains on the swings, it will lose on the roundabouts—or, in this case, on the turbines.

这家公司将于2009年生产出其原型产品，但怀疑论者已开始担忧这将是“收之桑榆，失之东隅（更确切的说是汽轮机）”。

Whatever the outcome of all these swings and roundabouts along with many more, the reason that deciding what to do with your life is so difficult is that it involves predicting the future.

不管上述列举事情的结果如何，不管这些事情周围还有多少其它事情，让你决定生活中应该做什么事情很困难的原因，是因为你必须去预测未来。