如果他们不惜任何代价想要一笔生意，他们将得面对其后果。

If they wanted a deal at any price, they would have to face the consequences.

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他惟一的不良习惯就是在成功做成一笔生意之后喝香槟酒至大醉。

His only vice is to get drunk on champagne after concluding a successful piece of business.

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我们所有人都在某些事情上花费了金钱和时间——也许是一段关系、一笔生意，也许是一份工作——有时，即使我们知道事情没有希望改变，我们还是会继续做下去。

All of us have spent money and time on something—maybe a relationship, or a business, or a job—and sometimes, even if we know there's no hope that things will change, we still continue with it.

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He anticipated this power much as his father, a reasonably well-to-do banker, might have anticipated long-term earnings from a particularly risky business venture.

他预测到他的力量，正如他的父亲，一个相当富有的银行家，能够预测到从一笔风险高的生意中,能获得多少长期利益一样。

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For example, they might-- paterfamilias would often put a slave up in business, give a slave enough money to run a business.

比如，他们可能。。。,家长通常会让奴隶参与生意，给他一笔钱做生意。

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Suppose you are starting a business with somebody-- it could be at any time in history-- Babylonia or something--this must have happened.

假设你要和某人一起做一笔生意...,可以在任何一个时代...,例如古巴比伦或者其他时代...肯定发生过这种事

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