People mutter about nation-building beginning at home : why , many wonder , should american children do worse at reading than polish ones and at maths than lithuanians ?

人们开始在家中抱怨国家建设：很多人想知道，为什么美国小孩的阅读水平不如波兰小孩，而且数学成绩不如立陶宛小孩？

After all , they mutter , if washington could produce fatca and then impose it in an imperial manner on businesses across the world what other capricious surprises loom next ?

他们抱怨称，说到底，如果华盛顿可以出台fatca，并以一种专横的方式强迫全世界的企业接受，那么下一个莫名其妙的意外又会是什么？

Many people in the accounting profession mutter that it would have been wiser for the government to take longer , as many other countries that are better able to make the change have done .

会计行业不少人抱怨，因为其它能很好应对（国际财务报告准则）的国家已经完成转变，中国实行更长的过渡期可能更为明智。

If she feels uncomfortable in any way , she is to mutter out loud the phrase , " I hope I 'm not getting a cold . "

只要她感到有一丝不自在，她可以大声咕哝一句话来示警“我希望我不会得感冒。”

Professional advisers sometimes mutter a damning phrase after first meeting an aspirant chief executive who got a job , along with his dna , from dad " clogs to clogs in three generations " .

有时候，在首次与一位不仅从老爸那里得到dna、还从老爸那里得到工作的野心勃勃的首席执行官见面之后，专业顾问会低声咕哝一句：“富不过三代”。