This means capital assets – like land, machinery and buildings – can be purchased by private individuals or businesses. Companies get you to work for them by offering wages.

这意味着资本资产——如土地、机器和建筑物——可以由个人或企业购买。公司通过提供工资让你为他们工作。

These are the property of Sierra International, which is part of the powerful mining empire of Afric International, which in turn is a rich capital asset of the British Commonwealth.

这些是 Sierra International 的财产，Sierra International 是强大的 Afric International 矿业帝国的一部分，而 Afric International 又是英联邦的一笔丰富的资本资产。

But, of course, a lowering of the marginal efficiency of particular capital assets, and hence a lowering of the schedule of the marginal efficiency of capital in general, has exactly the opposite effect to what the above argument assumes.

但是，当然，降低特定资本资产的边际效率，从而降低一般资本边际效率的时间表，与上述论点所假设的效果完全相反。