The government pays for public goods like roads and bridges and public services like firefighters and teachers.

政府支付公共物品，如道路、桥梁和消防员和教师之类的公共服务。

The problem in economic terms is that a town square falls into the category of public goods such as parks and clean water.

用经济语言描述这个问题就是，城市广场属于公共财产的范畴，如公园和干净的水。

This destruction of public goods was replicated across the country in towns not just in the South.

这种对公共物品的破坏在全国各地的城镇中复制，而不仅仅是在南方。

Although public goods can be privately owned, it is notoriously hard to extract profits from them given that, by definition, it is difficult to charge people for all the benefits they confer.

尽管公共财产可以为私人所有，但从公共财产中获取利润是出了名的困难，因为从本质上讲，很难向人们收取享用公共财产的费用。

During the ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja in late July, which was attended by Nigerian Minister of Agriculture Audu Ogbeh, U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission Maria Brewer, described the partnership as a co-investment in public goods.

7月末，尼日利亚农业部部长奥杜、国际开发署副署长玛利亚均出席于美国驻阿布贾大使馆举行的开幕式。双方均表示，此举是对互利共赢的共同投资。

But what we often forget is that the opposition to these foundational public goods that we don't give a second thought to today was once fierce and imaginative, but in all the wrong ways.

但我们经常忘记的是，我们今天不加思索地反对这些基础性公共物品，曾经是激烈而富有想象力的，但却以完全错误的方式出现。