We kind of meet together and we say, if anyone's cabin burns down we'll all come over and help.

我们会聚在一起商定，如果有人的房子烧毁了,我们都会来帮忙。

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Arthur Burns, chairman of the Fed, There's a big inflation run up to Richard Nixon's reelection in 1972.

亚瑟·伯恩斯，前美联储主席，当时出现了严重的通货膨胀,一直持续到1972年,理查德·尼克松连任总统。

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It's when I'm weary of considerations And life is too much like a pathless wood ; Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open.

那是每逢我厌倦于操心世事,而人生太像一片没有小径的森林,在里面摸索，一头撞在蛛网上，只感到验上又热辣，又痒痒，忽然，一根嫩枝迎面打来,那一只给打中了的眼睛疼得直掉泪。

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When they send this guy called the Duke of Alba up to the Netherlands, he burns people to the stake and all this kind of stuff.

当时西班牙派遣阿尔瓦公爵到荷兰,他实行暴政,把人用火刑处死

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And you can use this tissue engineered skin to treat a patient who's had severe burns, for example, or a diabetic who's developed ulcers that won't heal.

人们能够用这种组织工程学意义上的皮肤,来治疗严重烧伤的病人,或那些溃疡久治不愈的糖尿病病人

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So, the probability that the whole city burns down is infinitesimally small, right?

在这样的假设下,整个城市都被烧掉的概率,是非常非常小的

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None other than Shelby the star of Ken Burns' film series on the Civil War, that lovely, lovely, lovely geriatric in a blue shirt that American women fell in love with in a documentary film.

谢尔比,即肯·伯恩斯的内战系列影片里的谢尔比,那个可爱到爆的穿蓝衬衫的老头,那个仅因纪录片就俘获了美国女人心的人

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There's the weird diets but hard to classify: Detox Diet, The Rave Diet, so if you're into raves you can go do that, and The Negative Calorie Diet, so these -the Negative Calorie Diet are ones that- where you eat food that have negative calories, so you consume it but it burns off more calories than it actually has.

这些是难以归类的减肥法,排毒法,锐舞减肥法,如果你对锐舞感兴趣,就可以照着做,还有负热量减肥法,负热量减肥法是指,吃具有负热量效应的食物,当你吃它的时候,消耗掉的热量比食物本身所含热量还多

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The classic moral hazard problem is the problem that you give fire insurance on a house and someone burns down the house in order to collect the insurance.

有个经典的道德风险的例子就是,给一栋房子投保了火险,有人就可能会烧了这栋房子,以获得保险赔付

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But you know, you kind of wonder if that's a good example for fire insurance because if the whole city burns down, then insurance companies would go bankrupt anyway, right?

但是你也许会疑惑,对于阐述火险来说,这是不是个好例子,因为如果整个城市被烧毁,那么保险公司就会破产,对吧

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If the probability is 1 in 1,000 that a house burns down and there are 1,000 houses, then the probability that they all burn down is 1/1000 to the 1000th power, which is virtually zero.

如果一栋房子着火的概率是千分之一,然后假设有1000栋房子,那么这一千栋房子全都着火被烧掉的概率,就等于千分之一的一千次方,基本上就是0了

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And then there would be the butchering of the animal, there would be the securing the crops from the fields, and then bringing it to wherever you were going to eat it, which burns more calories and requires more physical effort, compared to the person on the right that really doesn't have to do much at all.

然后,他们要屠宰动物,要看护好地里的庄稼,还要把食物带到进食的地方,与右边的人相比,他们消耗更多卡路里,需要更强的体力,后者根本不必需付出那么多

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