||1:Millions made for America’s beaches and parks back then, because they suddenly had the means to do so: 1950 was the first year the average household owned a car.||2:The country’s two most famous bears, Smokey, a wildfire-orphaned cub who became a sensation in 1950, and Yogi, who hit televisions in 1958, were also alluring.||3:And whereas citizens of drearier rich countries have been liberated by foreign holidays, Americans’ vast backyard remains too wonderful to be supplanted.||4:Americans are much less likely to travel abroad than rich Asians or Europeans—not only, or mostly, because they are afraid to, but because they don’t need to.

||1:当时，数百万人前往美国的海滩和公园，这是因为他们突然有了做这件事情的途径：1950年，普通家庭第一年拥有汽车。||2:1950年轰动一时的防火护林熊Smokey和1958年上电视的Yogi，这两只美国最著名的熊也同样魅力四射。||3:尽管这些富裕但无聊的国家的民众们通过出国度假获得了解放，但是美国国内也十分美妙，无可取代。||4:相较于富裕的亚洲人或者欧洲人，美国人很少出国旅游，不仅因为他们害怕，而且他们也不需要。

||1:That puts a different spin on a trend most economists have seen in a drearier light.||2:They thought a lacklustre economy was suppressing participation by driving discouraged workers out of the labour market altogether, and that participation would rebound along with the economy.||3:Mr Krueger agrees that part of the drop is due to lack of demand for labour because of the recession, but thinks something else is at work: the underlying trend in participation in the past decade has already been falling because of an ageing work force and a downdrift in participation by women.||4:It may tick up in coming years as the young people now in college graduate.||5:When they do, Mr Krueger notes, they will have more human capital, which will, with luck, earn them higher wages and boost the economy’s overall potential.||6:Which would be all to the good, since they will have hefty student loans to repay.

||1:这转变了大多数经济学家在不明朗的情势下看到的趋势。||2:他们曾认为疲软的经济使得灰心丧气的劳动者退出劳动力市场，从而压制了参与率，经济复苏可以使得参与率回升。||3:克鲁格先生赞同这样的观点：经济衰退降低了劳动力需求从而降低了参与率，但他认为这后面另有玄机：过去的十年里参与率已经有潜在的下降的趋势，这时由于劳动力老龄化以及女性参与率下降造成的。||4:不过在接下来的几年里，参与率会由于现在读大学生毕业而再度上升。||5:克鲁格先生还指出当这些大学生毕业后会拥有更高的人力资本，如果一切顺利的话，他们将因此获得更高的薪资，并促进经济总体潜力的增长。||6:这样总得来说还是好的，因为他们须偿还巨额贷款。