||1:The FCC has long barred profanity and nudity during waking hours, although it used to take a laxer attitude towards isolated incidents.||2:The Supreme Court upheld its rules in 1978, despite their impingement on free speech, on the basis of a law banning smut on the radio.||3:But the broadcasters complain that the FCC’s drive for decency is inconsistent, unnecessary and increasingly quixotic.||4:Why, they ask, should swearing be permissible in some circumstances (broadcasts of “Saving Private Ryan”, a gritty war film) but not in others (awards shows populated by foul-mouthed celebrities)? Is it really necessary to protect the public from swear words, when viewers can so easily vote with their remotes? Above all, while the court allowed the airwaves to be policed in 1978 because they were a scarce, publicly owned resource, does that still make sense in an era of cable, satellite and YouTube? After all, some 85% of households in America now subscribe to some sort of pay television, and almost 70% have broadband and thus face constant exposure to cursing and smut.

||1:美国联邦通信委员会长久以来一直禁止在清醒的时候说脏话和裸露身体，虽然它过去经常对偶发性事件抱有宽容的态度。||2:最高法院在1978年根据一部禁止广播中出现淫秽内容的法律，表示支持该委员会的禁令，尽管这些禁令侵犯了言论自由。||3:但是广播公司抱怨称委员会对体面的追求前后矛盾，多余而且越来越不切实际。||4:为什么，他们质疑到，粗口在某些情况下（如《拯救大兵瑞恩》，一部坚毅的战争片）是被允许的，但在其他场合（多由满嘴脏话的名流参加的颁奖晚会）上是不被允许的？在观众有权利选择想看的频道的情况下，真的有这个必要使公众免受粗口的干扰么？尤其是，法院在1978年决定电视广播需要接受监管时，是因为他们是一种稀缺的，公有的资源，而如今在这种有线电视，卫星和YouTube充斥的时代，这些监管还有必要么？毕竟，美国大约85%的家庭现在都订阅了某种方式的付费电视；几乎70%的家庭拥有宽带，从而不断的接触粗口和淫秽内容。

The second is in Europe: using a laxer threshold—fewer than 100 new cases on the same basis—the bubble could reach from the Baltic to the Adriatic, and take in Germany.

第二个是在欧洲:采取较宽松的门槛——每100万居民新增病例少于100个——旅游圈可以从波罗的海到亚得里亚海，再延伸到德国。

The rules must be global, ideally in the form of a new Basel regime, to prevent activity migrating to laxer countries.

规定必须是全球性的，理想的方式是有一个新的巴塞尔准则来防止活动转移到资本规定宽松的国家。

What happens if they start to migrate to another country where power is cheaper or regulation laxer ?

假如它们也移民到电力便宜或管制松散的国家，后果会怎样？

The drop in arrests reflects not laxer enforcement, but stronger.

拘留者人数的下降反映的不是执行宽松，反而是执法更加强力的表现。

With all the liquidity have come laxer lending standards.

宽松的信贷标准因而带来了货币的流通性。

Laxer and more fragmented capital regimes allowed the balance-sheets of banks elsewhere to balloon (see chart 4).

宽松而零散的资本管理制度下，银行的资产负债表可以在其他地方膨胀起来。

Today they enjoy laxer accounting, loose collateral rules at central banks, explicit debt guarantees and asset-purchasing schemes.

如今，他们享受着较宽松的会计制度，央行宽松的抵押物规定，明确的债务保障以及资产购买方案。

He has managed to instil a discipline that evaded his laxer predecessors, awing the players and the media and banishing the WAGs.

他设法贯彻了他的松懈的前任没有贯彻的纪律，那就是对球员和媒体给予尊重个，对太太军团给予驱逐。

It also mandates a certain level of law-enforcement to prevent laxer jurisdictions from becoming cybercrime havens.

它同时要求采取一定的措施，以避免由于执行不严而使网络成为犯罪天堂。

Now it tends to be laxer but perpetually intrusive.

现在家长的教育往往宽松一些，但却是持续干预式的。

Small firms will enjoy laxer rules on writing off expenses, and ailing firms will get rebates for taxes already paid.

小企业则会享受到开支的减少，而已经出现问题的企业将得到退税优惠。

Many factories and storage facilities date back to communist times, when environmental and safety standards were laxer than today.

许多工厂及仓库可以追溯到环境和安全标准比今天宽松得多的共产主义时期。

Other critics said it was cynically designed to reassure German voters that Europe’s laxer economies would be held to account.

有批评者称此举在于安抚德国选民，把责任归咎于欧洲宽松的经济政策。

In contrast, secondary-school teachers can get a diploma from any one of 350 colleges, with laxer selection criteria.

与此不同的是，初中老师只要拿到350所高校中任意一所的毕业证即可，招聘的标准也不严格。

How to prevent banks shopping around for laxer rules abroad?

怎样防止银行“货比三家”后选择宽松的海外监管环境？

In return the EU would offer a laxer visa regime and let Russian energy companies expand westwards more easily.

作为交换条件，欧盟将启动一个更为宽松的对俄签证系统，使俄方能源公司西进更加容易。